Patents by Inventor Kenji Nishiyama
Kenji Nishiyama 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).
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Patent number: 11960076Abstract: A vibrating device includes a translucent cover, an ejector to eject a liquid onto the surface of the translucent cover, and a first vibrating portion to vibrate the translucent cover at a vibration acceleration of larger than about 8.0×105 m/s2 and equal to or smaller than about 21.0×105 m/s2.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenji Nishiyama
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Patent number: 11819888Abstract: An optical device includes a protective cover and a driver. An outer surface of the protective cover includes a first region having higher hydrophobicity than a second region. The first region is separated from the second region by a first boundary line extending from a starting point deviating from a center point of the protective cover in the direction toward an outer edge portion of the protective cover and a second boundary line extending from the starting point in the direction toward the outer edge portion of the protective cover, and which is located on a side where the center point is not included. Among angles defined by the first and second boundary lines, an angle on the side where the center point is not included is equal to or less than about 180°.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Nagata, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Kenji Nishiyama
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Publication number: 20230258924Abstract: A cleaning device includes a housing holding an imaging device, a protective cover located in a field of view of the imaging device, a vibrator to vibrate the protective cover, a piezoelectric driver to drive the vibrator, a cleaning liquid discharger to discharge, onto a surface of the protective cover, a cleaning liquid including an abrasive, and a signal processing circuit to control the piezoelectric driver and the cleaning liquid discharger. When causing the cleaning liquid discharger to discharge the cleaning liquid, the signal processing circuit can control the piezoelectric driver such that the protective cover is vibrated at a vibration acceleration of larger than about 8.0×105 m/s2 and equal to or less than about 21.0×105 m/s2.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Kenji NISHIYAMA, Takaaki MORI
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Patent number: 11552020Abstract: A semiconductor composite device is provided that includes a voltage regulator, a package board, and a load, and converts an input DC voltage into a different DC voltage to supply the converted DC voltage to the load. The VR includes a semiconductor active element. The package board includes a C layer in which a capacitor is formed, and an L layer in which an inductor is formed. A plurality of through holes penetrate the C layer and the L layer in a direction perpendicular to the mounting face in the package board. The capacitor is connected to the load through the through hole. The inductor is connected to the load through the through hole and to the VR through the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Koshi Himeda, Tatsuya Kitamura, Chiharu Sakaki, Shinya Kiyono, Sho Fujita, Atsushi Yamamoto, Takeshi Furukawa, Kenji Nishiyama, Tatsuya Funaki, Kinya Aoki
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Publication number: 20230004072Abstract: A vibration device includes a light-transmissive body, and a vibrator to vibrate the light-transmissive body at a vibration acceleration of equal to or more than about 1.5×105 m/s2 and equal to or less than about 8.0×105 m/s2.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Yuuki ISHII, Kenji NISHIYAMA, Noritaka KISHI, Takaaki MORI, Masaaki TAKATA, Takahide NAKADOI, Nobumasa KITAMORI
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Patent number: 11527352Abstract: An electronic component includes a single-layer glass plate, an outer-surface conductor that is disposed above an outer surface of the single-layer glass plate and that is at least a part of an electrical element, and a terminal electrode that is a terminal of the electrical element. The terminal electrode is disposed above the outer surface of the single-layer glass plate and being electrically connected to the outer-surface conductor.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiraku Kawai, Noboru Shiokawa, Yuichi Iida, Yoshitaka Matsuki, Masahiro Kubota, Kenji Nishiyama, Takaya Wada, Tadashi Washimori, Rikiya Sano, Chiharu Sakaki
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Patent number: 11511322Abstract: A cleaning device for an imaging unit includes a housing that holds an imaging section, a protection cover provided in the visual field of the imaging section, a vibrator section that vibrates the protection cover, and a cleaning nozzle that discharges a cleaning liquid. The cleaning liquid discharged by the discharge section reaches a surface of side of the protection cover that is opposite to the side thereof adjacent to or in a vicinity of the imaging section. According to the vibrator section vibrating the protection cover, a portion of surface of the protection cover exhibits an amount of displacement larger than that of a portion of surface of the protection cover that the discharged cleaning liquid has reached.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichiro Ichiguchi, Katsumi Fujimoto, Chikahiro Horiguchi, Kenji Nishiyama, Yasuhiro Kuratani
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Patent number: 11504742Abstract: A vibration device includes a light-transmitting body that is located on a subject side of an imaging element, a cylindrical body that includes a first end portion, a second end portion on the opposite side from the first end portion, and an outer surface and an inner surface that connect the first end portion and the second end portion to each other, the cylindrical body being connected to the light-transmitting body and holding the light-transmitting body on the first end portion side thereof, and a piezoelectric element provided along a circumferential direction of the cylindrical body and that torsionally vibrates the cylindrical body.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsumi Fujimoto, Chikahiro Horiguchi, Kenji Nishiyama, Yasuhiro Kuratani, Shinichiro Ichiguchi
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Publication number: 20220336381Abstract: A package board that includes an inductor layer having: a first magnetic layer including first magnetic particles and a resin; an inductor wiring that functions as an inductor in the first magnetic layer; and a second magnetic layer on at least one surface of the first magnetic layer, including second magnetic particles that are higher in average flatness than the first magnetic particles and a resin, the second magnetic particles having a shape where the dimension in a direction along the main surface of the second magnetic layer is longer than the dimension in the thickness direction of the second magnetic layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Kenji NISHIYAMA, Koshi HIMEDA, Yoshimitsu USHIMI
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Patent number: 11467396Abstract: A cleaning device includes a casing holding an image capturing device, a protective cover disposed in a visual field of the image capturing device, a vibrator to vibrate the protective cover, a controller to control the vibrator, a monitor to detect an electrical characteristic value associated with a vibration of the vibrator, and a storage to store determination criteria based on which the controller evaluates the electrical characteristic value detected by the monitor. The controller is configured to evaluate the electrical characteristic value based on the plurality of determination criteria stored in the storage and clean a surface of the translucent body by controlling the vibrator according to the determination.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Kuratani, Katsumi Fujimoto, Kenji Nishiyama, Chikahiro Horiguchi, Shinichiro Ichiguchi, Masaaki Takata, Yuzo Mizushima, Yuuki Ishii
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Patent number: 11454807Abstract: A vibrating device includes a tubular vibrating body and a lens cover coupled to a first surface of the tubular vibrating body. The tubular vibrating body includes a tubular member and piezoelectric vibrators. The lens cover includes a mode changing coupler and a light transmitting body unit disposed in front of a lens of a camera. The mode changing coupler includes a thin portion having a thickness smaller than a thickness of the tubular member.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinsuke Ikeuchi, Katsumi Fujimoto, Masanobu Nomura, Kenji Nishiyama
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Patent number: 11434891Abstract: A vibration device includes a top plate elastic body, a cylindrical body that includes a first end portion and a second end portion and is coupled with the top plate elastic body to retain the top plate elastic body on a side of the first end portion. The cylindrical body includes on a side of the second end portion, a ring-shaped flange portion extended outward in a radial direction of the cylindrical body, and a piezoelectric element fixed to the ring-shaped flange portion to cause the cylindrical body to vibrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsumi Fujimoto, Chikahiro Horiguchi, Kenji Nishiyama, Yasuhiro Kuratani, Shinichiro Ichiguchi, Hitoshi Sakaguchi
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Publication number: 20210375841Abstract: A semiconductor composite device is provided that includes a voltage regulator, a package board, and a load, and converts an input DC voltage into a different DC voltage to supply the converted DC voltage to the load. The VR includes a semiconductor active element. The package board includes a C layer in which a capacitor is formed, and an L layer in which an inductor is formed. A plurality of through holes penetrate the C layer and the L layer in a direction perpendicular to the mounting face in the package board. The capacitor is connected to the load through the through hole. The inductor is connected to the load through the through hole and to the VR through the through hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Koshi Himeda, Tatsuya Kitamura, Chiharu Sakaki, Shinya Kiyono, Sho Fujita, Atsushi Yamamoto, Takeshi Furukawa, Kenji Nishiyama, Tatsuya Funaki, Kinya Aoki
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Patent number: 11161148Abstract: A vibrating device includes a tubular body including a first end, a second end, and a plurality of side surfaces that connect the first and second ends, piezoelectric vibrators that are fixed to the tubular body and vibrate the tubular body, and a light transmitting body unit that is directly or indirectly connected to the second end of the tubular body.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsumi Fujimoto, Chikahiro Horiguchi, Kenji Nishiyama, Yasuhiro Kuratani, Shinichiro Ichiguchi
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Publication number: 20210294095Abstract: A vibrating device includes a translucent cover, an ejector to eject a liquid onto the surface of the translucent cover, and a first vibrating portion to vibrate the translucent cover at a vibration acceleration of larger than about 8.0×105 m/s2 and equal to or smaller than about 21.0×105 m/s2.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventor: Kenji NISHIYAMA
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Patent number: 11121123Abstract: A semiconductor composite device is provided that includes a voltage regulator, a package board, and a load, and converts an input DC voltage into a different DC voltage to supply the converted DC voltage to the load. The VR includes a semiconductor active element. The package board includes a C layer in which a capacitor is formed, and an L layer in which an inductor is formed. A plurality of through holes penetrate the C layer and the L layer in a direction perpendicular to the mounting face in the package board. The capacitor is connected to the load through the through hole. The inductor is connected to the load through the through hole and to the VR through the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Koshi Himeda, Tatsuya Kitamura, Chiharu Sakaki, Shinya Kiyono, Sho Fujita, Atsushi Yamamoto, Takeshi Furukawa, Kenji Nishiyama, Tatsuya Funaki, Kinya Aoki
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Patent number: 11077464Abstract: A vibrating device includes a tubular body including first and second end surfaces, and a side wall portion that connects the first and second end surfaces, a piezoelectric vibrator provided on the first end surface of the tubular body, and a light transmitting body that is directly or indirectly connected to the second end surface and covers an opening in the second end surface of the tubular body. A connecting portion is connected to the first end surface of the tubular body inside or outside an opening in the first end surface. A tubular bent portion is connected to a surface of the connecting portion that faces toward the second end surface of the tubular body. The tubular bent portion extends in a direction from the first end surface toward the second end surface of the tubular body.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsumi Fujimoto, Chikahiro Horiguchi, Kenji Nishiyama, Yasuhiro Kuratani, Shinichiro Ichiguchi
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Patent number: 11002954Abstract: A cleaning device includes a casing holding an image capturing device, a protective cover disposed in a visual field of the image capturing device, a vibrator to vibrate the protective cover, a controller to control the vibrator, a monitor to detect an electrical characteristic value associated with a vibration of the vibrator, and a storage to store determination criteria based on which the controller evaluates the electrical characteristic value detected by the monitor. The controller is configured to evaluate the electrical characteristic value based on the plurality of determination criteria stored in the storage and clean a surface of the translucent body by controlling the vibrator according to the determination.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Kuratani, Katsumi Fujimoto, Kenji Nishiyama, Chikahiro Horiguchi, Shinichiro Ichiguchi, Masaaki Takata, Yuzo Mizushima, Yuuki Ishii
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Publication number: 20210132372Abstract: A cleaning device includes a casing holding an image capturing device, a protective cover disposed in a visual field of the image capturing device, a vibrator to vibrate the protective cover, a controller to control the vibrator, a monitor to detect an electrical characteristic value associated with a vibration of the vibrator, and a storage to store determination criteria based on which the controller evaluates the electrical characteristic value detected by the monitor. The controller is configured to evaluate the electrical characteristic value based on the plurality of determination criteria stored in the storage and clean a surface of the translucent body by controlling the vibrator according to the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2021Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Yasuhiro KURATANI, Katsumi FUJIMOTO, Kenji NISHIYAMA, Chikahiro HORIGUCHI, Shinichiro ICHIGUCHI, Masaaki TAKATA, Yuzo MIZUSHIMA, Yuuki ISHII
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Publication number: 20210116785Abstract: A vibrating device includes a tubular vibrating body and a lens cover coupled to a first surface of the tubular vibrating body. The tubular vibrating body includes a tubular member and piezoelectric vibrators. The lens cover includes a mode changing coupler and a light transmitting body unit disposed in front of a lens of a camera. The mode changing coupler includes a thin portion having a thickness smaller than a thickness of the tubular member.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Shinsuke IKEUCHI, Katsumi FUJIMOTO, Masanobu NOMURA, Kenji NISHIYAMA