Patents by Inventor Kazuya Maeda

Kazuya Maeda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11936718
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method that enable output of information using a more optimal output modal. Provided is an information processing device including a processing unit configured to perform processes of: acquiring apparatus information regarding an output modal for each electronic apparatus; selecting an electronic apparatus having an output modal that outputs information from among a plurality of electronic apparatuses on the basis of the acquired apparatus information; and outputting the information from an output modal of the selected electronic apparatus. The present technology can be applied to, for example, electronic apparatuses such as information apparatuses, video apparatuses, audio apparatuses, or household electrical appliances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriko Totsuka, Hiroaki Ogawa, Yuki Takeda, Kan Kuroda, Yoshinori Maeda, Yuichiro Koyama, Akira Takahashi, Kazuya Tateishi, Chie Kamada, Emiru Tsunoo, Akira Fukui, Hideaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230353853
    Abstract: An image pickup unit includes an image sensor, a first circuit board on which a first land is disposed around four first side surfaces, a second circuit board on which a second land is disposed around four second side surfaces, a movement detection sensor housed in a recess of the first circuit board, and a rectangular tube bonded to the first land and the second land and sealing the recess in an airtight manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Kazuya MAEDA, Yukiharu MAKINO
  • Patent number: 11592082
    Abstract: A work vehicle transmission includes a first transmission mechanism that changes input motive power to any one of multiple speeds, and a second transmission mechanism that changes the motive power changed by the first transmission mechanism to any one of multiple speeds, the number of speeds of the second transmission mechanism being smaller than that of the first transmission mechanism. Multiple speed change multi-disc clutches of the first transmission mechanism are arranged parallel with multiple deceleration multi-disc clutches of the second transmission mechanism so as to be adjacent in the diameter direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Hana, Tomonari Tsuchida, Noriaki Takewa, Satoshi Yoshikawa, Kazuya Maeda
  • Publication number: 20220404606
    Abstract: An optical unit includes a transparent first substrate, a transparent second substrate, a transparent first projection forming a part of an optical path, and a first aperture configured by black resin filled in a periphery of the first projection between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuya MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210396975
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an image pickup apparatus for endoscope includes: fabricating a first optical wafer and a second optical wafer including spacers; disposing walls made of a first resin, being greater in height than the spacers, and enclosing optical paths without any gap; clamping the first optical wafer and the second optical wafer with the walls being interposed between the first optical wafer and the second optical wafer; charging a second resin around the walls; performing curing treatment on the second resin to cause the second resin to shrink, and fix the first optical wafer and the second optical wafer in a state where an interval between the first optical wafer and the second optical wafer is defined by the spacers; and cutting a bonded wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuya MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210340500
    Abstract: As a method for producing enterocytes derived from pluripotent stem cells and having functions corresponding to those of actual enterocytes, a method for producing enterocytes using an enterocyte differentiation medium containing a GSK3 inhibitor, and at least one selected from the group consisting of an activator of a hepatocyte growth factor receptor, an adrenal cortex hormone, calcitriol, and dimethyl sulfoxide is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicants: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, KANTO KAGAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoen KUME, Nobuaki SHIRAKI, Kazuya MAEDA, Hiroyuki KUSUHARA, Masaya ISHIKAWA, Teruhiko WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210255451
    Abstract: An endoscope lens unit includes a first optical device which includes a first glass plate including a first side surface, a second optical device which includes a second glass plate including a second side surface having the same external dimension as an external dimension of the first side surface, a spacer which includes a third side surface and which defines a distance between the first glass plate and the second glass plate, and a light shielding resin which covers the first side surface, the second side surface, and the third side surface, at least part of the third side surface being located closer to an optical axis than the first side surface and the second side surface and constituting a bottom of a recess, the first glass plate and the second glass plate defining wall surfaces of the recess, the recess being filled with the light shielding resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuya MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210071740
    Abstract: A work vehicle transmission includes a first transmission mechanism that changes input motive power to any one of multiple speeds, and a second transmission mechanism that changes the motive power changed by the first transmission mechanism to any one of multiple speeds, the number of speeds of the second transmission mechanism being smaller than that of the first transmission mechanism. Multiple speed change multi-disc clutches of the first transmission mechanism are arranged parallel with multiple deceleration multi-disc clutches of the second transmission mechanism so as to be adjacent in the diameter direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Hana, Tomonari Tsuchida, Noriaki Takewa, Satoshi Yoshikawa, Kazuya Maeda
  • Publication number: 20210063724
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus for endoscope includes: an image pickup unit having a light receiving surface and a back surface; and a lens unit having a front surface and a rear surface. The light receiving surface of the image pickup unit is disposed adjacently to the rear surface of the lens unit. An entire outer surface of the lens unit except the front surface and a region of the rear surface to which the light receiving surface is disposed adjacently is covered by a light blocking layer. An entire surface of the light blocking layer is covered by a protective layer having lower moisture vapor transmission than the light blocking layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuya MAEDA
  • Patent number: 10935109
    Abstract: A work vehicle transmission includes a first transmission mechanism that changes input motive power to any one of multiple speeds, and a second transmission mechanism that changes the motive power changed by the first transmission mechanism to any one of multiple speeds, the number of speeds of the second transmission mechanism being smaller than that of the first transmission mechanism. Multiple speed change multi-disc clutches of the first transmission mechanism are arranged parallel with multiple deceleration multi-disc clutches of the second transmission mechanism so as to be adjacent in the diameter direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Hana, Tomonari Tsuchida, Noriaki Takewa, Satoshi Yoshikawa, Kazuya Maeda
  • Patent number: 10624527
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an optical unit for endoscope includes: a process of fabricating a plurality of element wafers each including an optical element having an optical path portion and a spacer portion; a first adhesion process of fabricating a laminated wafer by adhering the element wafers with a first adhesive portion composed of a solid first adhesive disposed in a gap between the spacer portions; a second adhesion process of fabricating a bonded wafer by injecting a liquid second adhesive in the gap between the spacer portions; a curing process of performing curing treatment on the second adhesive; and a process of cutting the bonded wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuya Maeda
  • Patent number: 10275439
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, display method, and control program, which can improve usability for a user when the user utilizes a business form using the information processing device. The information processing device includes an operation module for receiving an input by a user, a display module, and a display control module for, according to an input by a user using the operation module, switching and displaying, on the display module, a first display image where item input fields are placed respectively at a plurality of item entry positions in an image that represents a business form and a second display image where the item input fields and information that indicates items to be input in the item input fields are placed alongside without displaying the image that represents the business form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yusuke Mizuno, Kazuya Maeda
  • Publication number: 20190090720
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an optical unit for endoscope includes: a process of fabricating a plurality of element wafers each including an optical element having an optical path portion and a spacer portion; a first adhesion process of fabricating a laminated wafer by adhering the element wafers with a first adhesive portion composed of a solid first adhesive disposed in a gap between the spacer portions; a second adhesion process of fabricating a bonded wafer by injecting a liquid second adhesive in the gap between the spacer portions; a curing process of performing curing treatment on the second adhesive; and a process of cutting the bonded wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuya MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20190079280
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of the optical unit for endoscope includes: a process of fabricating a bonded wafer by laminating a plurality of optical element wafers, each of the plurality of optical element wafers including a plurality of optical elements; a groove forming process of forming a groove on the bonded wafer along a cutting line for segmentation such that the groove has a bottom surface in the optical element wafer laminated at a lowermost part of the bonded wafer; and a cutting process of cutting the bonded wafer along the cutting line with a cutting margin narrower than a width of the groove and segmenting the bonded wafer, and the manufacturing method further includes a process of disposing a reinforcing member in the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro YOSHIDA, Takatoshi IGARASHI, Kazuya MAEDA
  • Patent number: 10217782
    Abstract: An image pickup module includes: an image pickup device provided with a plurality of electrode pads lined up on an inclined surface inclined at an acute first angle to a light receiving surface; and a flexible wiring board provided with a plurality of bond electrodes each bonded with each of the plurality of electrode pads of the image pickup device and lined up in parallel to an end side, and the image pickup module further includes a holding portion that is a triangular angle regulating portion extended from a side face of the wiring board, an angle of which formed by a first side and a second side is the first angle, and a resin member fixing the image pickup device and the wiring board, a relative angle of which is regulated to the first angle by the holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuya Maeda
  • Publication number: 20180372188
    Abstract: A work vehicle transmission includes a first transmission mechanism that changes input motive power to any one of multiple speeds, and a second transmission mechanism that changes the motive power changed by the first transmission mechanism to any one of multiple speeds, the number of speeds of the second transmission mechanism being smaller than that of the first transmission mechanism. Multiple speed change multi-disc clutches of the first transmission mechanism are arranged parallel with multiple deceleration multi-disc clutches of the second transmission mechanism so as to be adjacent in the diameter direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Hana, Tomonari Tsuchida, Noriaki Takewa, Satoshi Yoshikawa, Kazuya Maeda
  • Patent number: 10085627
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device configured such that a plurality of electrode pads are disposed in a row on an inclined surface; a wiring board configured such that a plurality of first bonded electrodes that are bonded to the plurality of electrode pads via first solder bumps, respectively, are disposed in a row on a first end portion, and a plurality of second bonded electrodes are disposed in a row on a second end portion; and a signal cable configured to be bonded to the plurality of second bonded electrodes via second solder bumps, respectively. The wiring board includes a first protective film which covers the first end portion, and a second protective film which covers the second end portion, and is of a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the first protective film and less than a height of the second solder bumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Maeda, Shoichiro Kawayoke
  • Publication number: 20180249049
    Abstract: An endoscope includes: a distal end rigid portion in which an image pickup device is disposed; a bending portion for changing a direction of the distal end rigid portion; and a flexible portion extended from the bending portion, and further includes a flexible wiring board including deformation portions that deform due to bending deformation of the bending portion and non-deformation portions that do not deform due to the bending deformation of the bending portion, the deformation portions and non-deformation portions being alternately provided in a continuous manner, the wiring board including a plurality of wirings connected with the image pickup device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuya MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20180040652
    Abstract: An image pickup module includes: an image pickup device provided with a plurality of electrode pads lined up on an inclined surface inclined at an acute first angle to a light receiving surface; and a flexible wiring board provided with a plurality of bond electrodes each bonded with each of the plurality of electrode pads of the image pickup device and lined up in parallel to an end side, and the image pickup module further includes a holding portion that is a triangular angle regulating portion extended from a side face of the wiring board, an angle of which formed by a first side and a second side is the first angle, and a resin member fixing the image pickup device and the wiring board, a relative angle of which is regulated to the first angle by the holding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuya MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20180027806
    Abstract: An oily suspension composition that can achieve improved long-term storage stability, improved water-dispersibility and suspensibility for use after dilution, and an improved pharmacological effect of a solid active ingredient, and includes a pulverized solid agrochemical active ingredient, and a provided method for efficiently producing such compositions. The oily suspension composition including a suspension including a pulverized active ingredient such as an agrochemical which is obtained by subjecting a solid active ingredient to wet grinding in water, an oily dispersion medium, and various emulsifiers and thickeners, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: NIHON NOHYAKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya MAEDA, Naohiko TAKATORI