Patents by Inventor Kenji Makino

Kenji Makino 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: 12362525
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a connection structure for flexible printed board and a method for manufacturing a flexible printed board unit, which are hardly affected by dimensional tolerances between adjacent contacts and capable of preventing a size increase. A flexible printed board includes a first constituent portion having a plurality of first contacts arrayed along a lateral direction provided on a front surface and a second constituent portion disposed side by side with the first constituent portion in a front-rear direction and having a plurality of second contacts arrayed along the lateral direction provided on a front surface. A supporting portion supports the flexible printed board in a folded state such that a back surface of the first constituent portion and a back surface of the second constituent portion face each other. The first contacts and the second contacts are arranged in a staggered manner along the lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Nozaki, Kenji Makino
  • Patent number: 12247870
    Abstract: A photodetector device includes an avalanche photodiode array substrate formed from compound semiconductor. A plurality of avalanche photodiodes arranged to operate in a Geiger mode are two-dimensionally arranged on the avalanche photodiode array substrate. A circuit substrate includes a plurality of output units which are connected to each other in parallel to form at least one channel. Each of the output units includes a passive quenching element and a capacitative element. The passive quenching element is connected in series to at least one of the plurality of avalanche photodiodes. The capacitative element is connected in series to at least one of the avalanche photodiodes and is connected in parallel to the passive quenching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Takuya Fujita, Yusei Tamura, Kenji Makino, Takashi Baba, Koei Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12212085
    Abstract: It is aimed to prevent the damage of terminal fittings. A connector device (A) is provided with a case formed with an opening portion in a front surface and having an open lower surface, and a board connector including L-shaped terminal fittings and a housing to be mounted into the opening portion. The terminal fitting includes a penetrating portion extending in a front-rear direction and a board connecting portion extending downward from a rear end of the penetrating portion and to be accommodated into the case. The housing includes a terminal holding member for holding the penetrating portions penetrating therethrough, the terminal holding member being mounted into the opening portion from behind, and a protecting member separate from the terminal holding member, the protecting member surrounding front end parts of the penetrating portions by being mounted into the opening portion from front.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Makino, Toshikazu Sakurai
  • Patent number: 12175700
    Abstract: There are provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a guide system, and a guide method that can set optimum movement routes depending on a situation. The guide method includes: a step of taking an image; a step of detecting persons from the taken image; a step of digitizing and estimating states of the detected persons; a step of creating map data in which the states of the persons are shown on a map according to positions of the persons in the taken image; a first area estimation step that estimates a first area on the basis of the map data; a step of setting movement routes for persons of the first area and/or persons of a second area other than the first area; a step of transmitting information about the set movement routes; and a step of receiving the transmitted information about the movement routes and presenting the received information about the movement routes and/or guidance information about routes based on the information about the movement routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shunta Ego, Masahiro Terada, Daisuke Hayashi, Kenji Makino
  • Patent number: 12170417
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a connector capable of ensuring connection reliability with a circuit board. A connector includes a housing and a terminal fitting to be disposed in the housing. The terminal fitting includes a terminal connecting portion to be connected to a mating terminal fitting, a board connecting portion to be connected to a circuit board and a shaft portion located between the terminal connecting portion and the board connecting portion. The housing includes a supporting portion for rotatably supporting the terminal fitting by being engaged with the shaft portion. The terminal fitting has a center of gravity on a side closer to the board connecting portion than the shaft portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Makino, Yasunori Asano, Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240413562
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting and an upper housing and a lower housing slidable in a direction orthogonal to an overlapping direction while being overlapped to sandwich the terminal fitting. A resilient lock piece cantilevered in the overlapping direction with respect to the lower housing is formed on a side edge part of the upper housing. A lock projection to be locked by the resilient lock piece when the both housings are overlapped is formed on a side surface of the lower housing. A stopper for locking the resilient lock piece when the both housings are slid is formed on the side surface of the lower housing. The stopper is disposed at a position further separated from a base end portion of the resilient lock piece than the lock projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Pipatthana PHATIWUTTIPAT, Kenji MAKINO
  • Patent number: 12166307
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting and an upper housing and a lower housing slidable in a direction orthogonal to an overlapping direction while being overlapped to sandwich the terminal fitting. A resilient lock piece cantilevered in the overlapping direction with respect to the lower housing is formed on a side edge part of the upper housing. A lock projection to be locked by the resilient lock piece when the both housings are overlapped is formed on a side surface of the lower housing. A stopper for locking the resilient lock piece when the both housings are slid is formed on the side surface of the lower housing. The stopper is disposed at a position further separated from a base end portion of the resilient lock piece than the lock projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Pipatthana Phatiwuttipat, Kenji Makino
  • Patent number: 12140715
    Abstract: A radiation detector includes a substrate including a first electrode portion, a radiation absorption layer disposed on one side with respect to the substrate and configured of a plurality of perovskite crystals, and a second electrode portion disposed on the one side with respect to the radiation absorption layer and being opposite to the first electrode portion with the radiation absorption layer interposed therebetween. Each of the plurality of perovskite crystals is formed to extend with a first direction in which the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion are opposite to each other as a longitudinal direction in a region between the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion in the radiation absorption layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: Kyoto University, HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Keiji Abe, Toshiyuki Izawa, Kenji Makino, Seiichiro Mizuno, Takumi Ikenoue, Yuki Haruta, Masao Miyake, Tetsuji Hirato
  • Publication number: 20240364053
    Abstract: A connector is provided with a male housing including a receptacle, a female housing and a resiliently deformable lock arm formed on the female housing. The lock arm includes a pair of lock portions arranged in a width direction. The lock arm is resiliently deformed by the interference of the pair of lock portions and the receptacle in a connection process of the both housings. The lock arm resiliently returns to lock the both housings in a connected state when the both housings reach a properly connected state. The lock arm and the receptacle are formed with collision surfaces for producing a connection sound by colliding when the lock arm resiliently returns. The collision surfaces are arranged only at one location including a region between the pair of lock portions in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro NISHITANI, Kenji MAKINO
  • Patent number: 12119586
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal connected to a front end portion of an electric wire and a housing in which the terminal is arranged. The housing includes a base portion and cover members. The electric wire extending rearward from a portion of the housing that has the terminal therein is disposed on the base portion. The cover members that are movable between a position in which the cover members cover the base portion and a position in which the cover members are away from the base portion. The cover members include a wire pressing portion that presses the electric wire disposed on the base portion toward the base portion when the cover members are in the position in which the cover members cover the base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Teruo Hara, Masaaki Tabata, Hajime Kawase, Hajime Matsui, Hiroki Kobayashi, Kenji Makino, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Takeshi Amakawa
  • Patent number: 12119575
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a connector and a connector mounting body capable of ensuring good workability at the time of manufacturing and connection reliability with a circuit board. A connector includes a connector housing and a flexible cable arranged in the connector housing and including conductive paths. The flexible cable includes terminal connecting portions to be connected to mating terminals on one end sides of the conductive paths and board connecting portions to be connected to a circuit board on the other end sides of the conductive paths. The connector includes a reinforcement plate for reinforcing a region of the flexible cable on the side of the terminal connecting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Nishitani, Kenji Makino, Takashi Natsume, Shunya Takeuchi, Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12087090
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing system and an information processing method which can easily grasp a state of a person in a predetermined area. The information processing system includes a first imaging unit that images a performer, a second imaging unit that images a person in a predetermined area, a first recognition unit that recognizes a scene based on an image captured by the first imaging unit, a second recognition unit that recognizes expression of the person based on an image captured by the second imaging unit, a calculation unit that calculates a state index of the person according to the scene based on a recognition result of the scene and a recognition result of the expression of the person, a heat map creation unit that creates a heat map representing the state index of the person in association with a position of the person in the predetermined area, and an output unit that outputs the heat map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Hayashi, Kenji Makino, Masahiro Terada, Shunta Ego
  • Patent number: 12083881
    Abstract: A vehicle driving system to be provided in a vehicle includes a touch sensor and a control unit. The touch sensor is to be provided in the steering operation device and configured to measure a fluctuation in electrostatic capacitance. The control unit determines, based on information from the touch sensor, whether a driver of the vehicle is in a steering-holding state or in a non-steering-holding state. After a detection of a first fluctuation that is a fluctuation in the electrostatic capacitance occurring before a malfunction of the touch sensor, the control unit determines that the driver is in the non-steering-holding state even if the information from the touch sensor to the control unit indicates that the driver is in the steering-holding state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignees: SUBARU CORPORATION, AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB, PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tsukada, Ryosuke Kubo, Masahito Sekine, Syunsuke Kanagami, Osamu Takahashi, Takateru Sawada, Kenji Makino, Shogo Maenaka
  • Patent number: 12073652
    Abstract: An image data processing device and an image data processing system are provided. An image data processing device performs a process of inputting a plurality of image data items in which imaging ranges at least partially overlap, detecting a face of a person in an image indicated by the image data, and recognizing a personal attribute of the person on the basis of the detected face for each of the image data items, a process of generating map data, in which the recognized personal attribute has been recorded in association with a position of the person in the image indicated by the image data, for each of the image data items, a process of interpolating the personal attribute of the person who overlaps between a plurality of the map data items, and a process of combining the plurality of map data items after the interpolation to generate composite map data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Makino, Masahiro Terada, Daisuke Hayashi, Shunta Ego
  • Publication number: 20240258724
    Abstract: It is aimed to suppress the application of a tensile force to a connected part of a terminal fitting and a flexible printed board. A terminal fitting (10) is provided with a connecting portion (14) to be connected to a front end part (24) of a flexible printed wiring plate (20) and a fixing portion (16) located rearward of the connecting portion (14) in a rear end part (10A) and fixed to the flexible printed wiring plate (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Pipatthana PHATIWUTTIPAT, Kenji MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20240145954
    Abstract: It is aimed to prevent water intrusion into a housing. A connector is provided with a housing and a sheet-like flexible conductive path formed by fixing a terminal fitting to a front end part of a sheet-like conductive path. The housing is formed with a draw-out portion for causing the sheet-like conductive path to be drawn out downward to outside of the housing with the terminal fitting accommodated in the housing. Since the sheet-like conductive path is drawn out downward from the housing, liquids such as dew condensation water and adhering water do not intrude into the housing even if dew condensation occurs on a surface of the sheet-like conductive path or moisture adheres to the surface of the sheet-like conductive path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Pipatthana PHATIWUTTIPAT, Kenji MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20240118458
    Abstract: A cemented lens includes a first optical element, a second optical element, a third optical element sandwiched between the first optical element and the second optical element and containing resin, a light shielding layer covering a surface of the third optical element that is in contact with neither the first optical element nor the second optical element, and a porous layer covering at least a part of the light shielding layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Masanobu Ogane, Kenji Makino, Norihiko Ochi
  • Publication number: 20240120677
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to secure a long creepage distance between adjoining male terminal fittings. The connector (A) is provided with a housing (10) having a wall-like terminal holding section (11), multiple press-fit holes (13) formed in the terminal holding section (11), and multiple male terminal fittings (20) individually press-fitted in the multiple press-fit holes (13) and protruding from a rear surface (11R) of the terminal holding section (11) to the outside. Protrusions (16) are formed on the terminal holding section (11) so as to protrude from the rear surface (11R) of the terminal holding section (11) and arranged to separate adjoining press-fit holes (13) from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Pipatthana PHATIWUTTIPAT, Kenji MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20240106149
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting and an upper housing and a lower housing slidable in a direction orthogonal to an overlapping direction while being overlapped to sandwich the terminal fitting. A resilient lock piece cantilevered in the overlapping direction with respect to the lower housing is formed on a side edge part of the upper housing. A lock projection to be locked by the resilient lock piece when the both housings are overlapped is formed on a side surface of the lower housing. A stopper for locking the resilient lock piece when the both housings are slid is formed on the side surface of the lower housing. The stopper is disposed at a position further separated from a base end portion of the resilient lock piece than the lock projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Pipatthana PHATIWUTTIPAT, Kenji MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20240063563
    Abstract: It is aimed to enable a plurality of terminal fittings to be fixed to a sheet-like flexible conductive member while being positioned. A sheet-like conductive path is provided with a plurality of first terminal fittings (20), a plurality of second terminal fittings (30), a sheet-like flexible conductive member (11) to be fixed to the plurality of first terminal fittings (20) and the plurality of second terminal fittings (30), a positioning portion (41) for positioning the plurality of first terminal fittings (20) and the plurality of second terminal fittings (30) in a state where the plurality of first terminal fittings (20) and the plurality of second terminal fittings (30) are not fixed to the sheet-like flexible conductive member (11), and a housing (50) for accommodating the plurality of first terminal fittings (20) and the plurality of second terminal fittings (30) fixed to the sheet-like flexible conductive member (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Pipatthana PHATIWUTTIPAT, Kenji MAKINO