Patents by Inventor Keiji Okada

Keiji Okada 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: 11863158
    Abstract: An acoustic wave resonator includes an IDT electrode that is on or above a piezoelectric plate and includes a periodic withdrawal weighted portion in each of a plurality of regions for at least two or more periods in an acoustic wave propagation direction. A periodic withdrawal weighted portion in at least one of the regions is different from a periodic withdrawal weighted portion in at least one of the other regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Ota, Akira Michigami, Keiji Okada
  • Publication number: 20230283262
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes an input end, an output end, and a series arm connecting the input end and the output end. The series arm includes n (n=3) acoustic wave resonators connected in series in an order of first, second, and third acoustic wave resonators. The first, second, and third acoustic wave resonators include multiple electrode fingers. The first, second, and third acoustic wave resonators include an mth acoustic wave resonator (m is a natural number of 1<m<n, where m=2). An electrode finger pitch of the second acoustic wave resonator is smallest among electrode finger pitches of the first, second, and third acoustic wave resonators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: Keiji OKADA
  • Publication number: 20230134299
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a package substrate including first and second principal surfaces, an acoustic wave element at the first principal surface, a sealing resin layer covering at least a portion of the acoustic wave element, and a metal shield film covering the sealing resin layer. The package substrate includes a ground connection electrode in the package substrate, electrically connected to the acoustic wave element, and connected to a ground potential. The package substrate includes a side surface and a connection portion connected to at least a portion of an end edge on a side with the second principal surface in the side surface and at least a portion of an outer peripheral edge in the second principal surface. The shield film reaches the side surface of the package substrate and does not reach the connection portion, and the shield film is connected to the ground connection electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventor: Keiji OKADA
  • Publication number: 20220200570
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes at least three segmented resonator devices connected in series to one another and aligned in a direction that crosses an acoustic wave propagation direction and each including an InterDigital Transducer (IDT) electrode, and centers of respective IDT electrodes of an adjacent pair of the at least three segmented resonator devices in the acoustic wave propagation direction are not aligned when seen from a direction orthogonal to the acoustic wave propagation direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Keiji OKADA
  • Patent number: 11321618
    Abstract: An image pickup system includes an input/output modeling section 24, the input/output modeling section 24 creating, as a population, an image group obtained when a specific target is photographed, (access image), and generating an inference model by using, as teacher data, sequential images selected from the image group created as the population, based on whether the specific target can be accessed, wherein each image of the image group is associated with date and time information and/or position information, and the input/output modeling section 24 generates an inference model for determining based on the date and time information and/or the position information whether a process to the specific target is good or bad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: OM DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Nonaka, Kazuhiko Osa, Yoichi Yoshida, Hirokazu Nozaki, Masahiro Fujimoto, Hidekazu Iwaki, Koji Sakai, Keiji Okada, Yoshihisa Ogata
  • Patent number: 11322770
    Abstract: A fuel cell includes a fuel cell stack, a casing, an application part, and a facilitating mechanism. The facilitating mechanism has a space that is provided between the casing and an upper current collector. The upper current collector and the casing are connected at inclined surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Okada, Keiji Ichihara
  • Patent number: 11277116
    Abstract: A multiplexer includes a transmit filter circuit, a receive filter circuit, and an additional circuit connected in parallel with a portion of the transmit filter circuit. The transmit filter circuit includes series resonators on a signal path connecting a common terminal and a first terminal, and parallel resonators on the signal path between a node and ground. The series resonator closest to the first terminal includes split resonators. The additional circuit includes a capacitor and a resonator group. The resonator group includes IDT electrodes side by side in the direction of acoustic wave propagation. A first end of the resonator group is connected to the common terminal with the capacitor interposed therebetween. A second end of the resonator group is connected to the signal path between two of the split resonators such that no capacitor is interposed between the second end and the signal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keiji Okada
  • Publication number: 20210057772
    Abstract: A fuel cell includes a fuel cell stack, a casing, an application part, and a facilitating mechanism. The facilitating mechanism has a space that is provided between the casing and an upper current collector. The upper current collector and the casing are connected at inclined surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Keiji OKADA, Keiji ICHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20210021256
    Abstract: A multiplexer includes a transmit filter circuit, a receive filter circuit, and an additional circuit connected in parallel with a portion of the transmit filter circuit. The transmit filter circuit includes series resonators on a signal path connecting a common terminal and a first terminal, and parallel resonators on the signal path between a node and ground. The series resonator closest to the first terminal includes split resonators. The additional circuit includes a capacitor and a resonator group. The resonator group includes IDT electrodes side by side in the direction of acoustic wave propagation. A first end of the resonator group is connected to the common terminal with the capacitor interposed therebetween. A second end of the resonator group is connected to the signal path between two of the split resonators such that no capacitor is interposed between the second end and the signal path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventor: Keiji OKADA
  • Publication number: 20200412327
    Abstract: An acoustic wave resonator includes an IDT electrode that is on or above a piezoelectric plate and includes a periodic withdrawal weighted portion in each of a plurality of regions for at least two or more periods in an acoustic wave propagation direction. A periodic withdrawal weighted portion in at least one of the regions is different from a periodic withdrawal weighted portion in at least one of the other regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Noriyoshi OTA, Akira MICHIGAMI, Keiji OKADA
  • Patent number: 10798291
    Abstract: A task-assistance control apparatus that assists an operator performing a task while viewing a captured task image includes: a task-image acquisition circuit that acquires the task image; and a task determination circuit that determines task details on the basis of the type of a tool detected in the task image and the movement of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiji Okada, Koji Sakai, Reisuke Osada, Mariko Ushio
  • Publication number: 20200311922
    Abstract: An cell observation system, comprising an image sensor capable of movement in a horizontal direction, and a processor, wherein the processor infers position where a colony will be generated or grown from position information or shape information of a plurality of cells within an image, based on the image of the cells that has been acquired by the image sensor, and controls position of the image sensor so as to perform imaging at the inferred position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi HARA, Jun SUGAWARA, Keiji OKADA, Mikako HORI, Takuma DEZAWA, Masaaki YAMAGISHI, Kazuhiko OSA, Osamu NONAKA
  • Patent number: 10566641
    Abstract: A fuel cell system including: a solid oxide type fuel cell that is supplied with an anode gas and a cathode gas to generate an electric power; a fuel tank that stores a water-containing fuel containing water; a fuel supply passage that couples the fuel cell to the fuel tank; a reformer disposed on the fuel supply passage, the reformer reforming the water-containing fuel into the anode gas; a separator disposed on the fuel supply passage in an upstream side with respect to the reformer, the separator separating the water contained in the water-containing fuel; a detector disposed in the upstream side with respect to the reformer, the detector detecting or estimating a moisture content contained in the water-containing fuel; and a control unit that controls the separator. The control unit controls the separator on the basis of the moisture content detected or estimated by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiji Okada, Kentarou Yajima
  • Patent number: 10554895
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a visual field determination section 122 that determines, for a predetermined subject distance and on the basis of two images with different parallaxes that have been captured by a plurality of imaging units that perform three-dimensional image shooting, a common visual field range of the two images with different parallaxes; and a display controller 138 that displays, on a display, information on the determined common visual field range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Yoshida, Hisayuki Harada, Toshikazu Hayashi, Keiji Okada, Osamu Nonaka, Yuichi Tsuchimochi
  • Patent number: 10506151
    Abstract: An information acquisition apparatus includes: a configuration information acquisition section that acquires configuration information that indicates a configuration of a plurality of portions to be photographed; a determination section that determines a photographing state of a portion indicated in the configuration information; and a photographing guide screen creation section that creates the photographing guide screen, wherein the photographing guide screen creation section includes the acquired configuration information in the photographing guide screen, and adds, to the portion indicated in the configuration information, state information that indicates a photographing state based on the determination performed by the determination section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Yoshida, Hisayuki Harada, Toshikazu Hayashi, Keiji Okada, Yuichi Tsuchimochi, Osamu Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20190373164
    Abstract: A task-assistance control apparatus that assists an operator performing a task while viewing a captured task image includes: a task-image acquisition circuit that acquires the task image; and a task determination circuit that determines task details on the basis of the type of a tool detected in the task image and the movement of the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiji OKADA, Koji SAKAI, Reisuke OSADA, Mariko USHIO
  • Patent number: 10469055
    Abstract: A filter device includes a longitudinally coupled resonator elastic wave filter that includes IDT electrodes including low acoustic velocity regions in outer side portions of center regions of the IDT electrodes and high acoustic velocity regions in outer side portions of the low acoustic velocity regions in a direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to an elastic wave propagation direction, and defines and functions as a first bandpass filter, and elastic wave resonators that are electrically connected to the longitudinally coupled resonator elastic wave filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Iwamoto, Keiji Okada, Yuichi Takamine, Tsutomu Takai
  • Publication number: 20190332952
    Abstract: An image pickup system includes an input/output modeling section 24, the input/output modeling section 24 creating, as a population, an image group obtained when a specific target is photographed, (access image), and generating an inference model by using, as teacher data, sequential images selected from the image group created as the population, based on whether the specific target can be accessed, wherein each image of the image group is associated with date and time information and/or position information, and the input/output modeling section 24 generates an inference model for determining based on the date and time information and/or the position information whether a process to the specific target is good or bad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu NONAKA, Kazuhiko OSA, Yoichi YOSHIDA, Hirokazu NOZAKI, Masahiro FUJIMOTO, Hidekazu IWAKI, Koji SAKAI, Keiji OKADA, Yoshihisa OGATA
  • Patent number: 10447240
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes IDT electrodes stacked on a piezoelectric thin film. The IDT electrode includes a plurality of first electrode fingers and a plurality of second electrode fingers. A line connecting the distal ends of the first electrode fingers or the distal ends of the second electrode fingers extends obliquely with respect to a propagation direction of an elastic wave at an oblique angle ?. The oblique angle ? is about 0.4° or more and about 10° or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamane, Hideki Iwamoto, Keiji Okada, Syunsuke Kido, Masanori Otagawa, Ippei Hatsuda, Korekiyo Ito
  • Publication number: 20190020047
    Abstract: A fuel cell system including: a solid oxide type fuel cell that is supplied with an anode gas and a cathode gas to generate an electric power; a fuel tank that stores a water-containing fuel containing water; a fuel supply passage that couples the fuel cell to the fuel tank; a reformer disposed on the fuel supply passage, the reformer reforming the water-containing fuel into the anode gas; a separator disposed on the fuel supply passage in an upstream side with respect to the reformer, the separator separating the water contained in the water-containing fuel; a detector disposed in the upstream side with respect to the reformer, the detector detecting or estimating a moisture content contained in the water-containing fuel; and a control unit that controls the separator. The control unit controls the separator on the basis of the moisture content detected or estimated by the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiji OKADA, Kentarou YAJIMA