Patents by Inventor Kenji Suzuki

Kenji Suzuki 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).

  • Publication number: 20220187910
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: acquire a moving image captured by an image capturing device attached to an operator; detect an eyeball movement of the operator using a sensor attached to the operator; and specify, from among the acquired moving image, a portion that was captured when a speed of the detected eyeball movement satisfied a predetermined condition as a boundary between actions of the operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kenji SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11360122
    Abstract: Provided is a current sensor for reducing heat generation caused by energization. The current sensor is provided, including: primary terminals; a first magnetic sensor; a primary conductor; and a signal processing IC; wherein the primary conductor has a bend section including: a first region that surrounds at least a part of the first magnetic sensor in planar view and at least a part of which does not face the signal processing IC; and a second region that faces the signal processing IC; wherein the height of the first region is lower than that of the primary terminal, the height of the second region is lower than that of the first region, and the first magnetic sensor is connected to the signal processing IC through conductive wires, on the opposite side from the plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Kenji Kai
  • Publication number: 20220181435
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes: a first conductivity-type silicon substrate including a cell part and a termination part surrounding the cell part in plan view; a first conductivity-type emitter layer provided on a front surface of the silicon substrate in the cell part; a second conductivity-type collector layer provided on a back surface of the silicon substrate in the cell part; a first conductivity-type drift layer provided between the emitter layer and the collector layer; a trench gate provided to reach the drift layer from a front surface of the emitter layer; and a second conductivity-type well layer provided on the front surface of the silicon substrate in the termination part. Vacancies included in a crystal defect in the cell part are less than vacancies included in a crystal defect in the termination part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji SUZUKI, Yuki HARAGUCHI, Haruhiko MINAMITAKE, Taiki HOSHI, Takuya YOSHIDA, Hidenori KOKETSU, Yusuke MIYATA, Akira KIYOI
  • Publication number: 20220173094
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, a diode trench gate, and an electrode layer. The first semiconductor layer is provided as a surface layer on the upper surface side of the semiconductor substrate. The second semiconductor layer is provided below the first semiconductor layer. The diode trench gate includes a diode trench insulation film formed along, out of the inner wall of the trench, a lower side wall and a bottom that are located below an upper side wall located on the upper end side of the trench. The diode trench gate includes a diode trench electrode provided inside the trench. The electrode layer covers the upper side wall of the trench. The first semiconductor layer is in contact with the electrode layer on the upper side wall of the trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya YOSHIDA, Kenji SUZUKI, Yuki HARAGUCHI, Hidenori KOKETSU
  • Publication number: 20220174520
    Abstract: An arrival rate estimation device includes an average received power calculation unit that calculates an average received power for each mesh that constitutes an area, with respect to each of a plurality of base stations and each of a plurality of antennas included in each of the base stations and an arrival rate estimation unit that calculates a communication arrival rate by substituting the average received power into a cumulative distribution function of an instantaneous received power value, and based on the calculated communication arrival rate, calculates a communication arrival rate while giving consideration to a site diversity effect and an antenna diversity effect, the cumulative distribution function being obtained from a probability density function of an amplitude that instantaneously changes due to Rayleigh fading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Kenji SUZUKI, Yohei KATAYAMA, Yosuke FUJINO, Hiroyuki FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220168070
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a mouthpiece includes manufacturing the mouthpiece that is to be placed within an oral cavity to cover teeth by an additive manufacturing device and laminating hardened layers not to form an annular lamination trace in a buccal portion that covers a buccal surface of a front tooth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: KURARAY NORITAKE DENTAL INC.
    Inventors: Misaki ITO, Kenji SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11323450
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a client system, and a control method of the client system that can reduce labor of authentication by a user without reducing a security level of a settlement process. The user wears a wearable device that performs fingerprint authentication and that periodically transmits position information to a bank server. In addition, the user operates a client apparatus including a smartphone, a PC, or the like to execute a settlement process. The client apparatus transmits position information of the client apparatus to a bank server in the settlement process. The bank server reduces a risk score if the wearable device and the client apparatus are at the same position based on the position information of the wearable device and the position information of the client apparatus. The present disclosure can be applied to a settlement processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Qihong Wang
  • Publication number: 20220132357
    Abstract: A radio terminal accommodation determination device includes: an average received power calculation unit for calculating an average received power for each mesh constituting an area; an interfering signal power CDF creation unit for creating a cumulative distribution function of all interfering signal powers; an intended signal power PDF creation unit for creating a fourth probability density function indicating a probability density function of an intended signal power; and a communication success rate estimation unit for calculating, for each base station, a communication success rate of the intended terminal based on the cumulative distribution function and the fourth probability density function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Kenji SUZUKI, Yohei KATAYAMA, Yosuke FUJINO, Hiroyuki FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220131778
    Abstract: A monitoring system comprises a monitoring agent that keeps information related to a communication status of a low-power terminal that communicates under low power, and a monitoring device that monitors the status of the low-power terminal. The monitoring device includes a requesting unit that requests information related to the communication status of the low-power terminal. The monitoring agent includes a response generation unit that generates a response to the request from the monitoring device on a basis of the information related to the communication status of the low-power terminal, and a transmission unit that transmits the response to the monitoring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Yohei Katayama, Kenji Suzuki, Kazumitsu Sakamoto, Yosuke Fujino, Hiroyuki FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220059681
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an N-type drift layer provided between a first main surface and a second main surface of the semiconductor substrate and an N-type buffer layer provided between the N-type drift layer and the first main surface and having a higher impurity peak concentration than the N-type drift layer. The N-type buffer layer has a structure that a first buffer layer, a second buffer layer, a third buffer layer, and a fourth buffer layer are disposed in this order from a side of the first main surface. When a distance from an impurity peak position of the first buffer layer to an impurity peak position of the second buffer layer is L12 and a distance from an impurity peak position of the second buffer layer to an impurity peak position of the third buffer layer is L23, a relationship of L23/L12?3.5 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji SUZUKI, Koichi NISHI, Katsumi NAKAMURA, Ze CHEN, Koji TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220041777
    Abstract: A resin composition for optical shaping comprising: an ?,?-unsaturated double bond group-containing compound (A) having a ring structure (a) containing a nitrogen atom; a (meth)acrylic acid ester compound (B) having a boiling point of 280° C. or more at normal pressure, having a carbocyclic group, and having no nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group; a photopolymerization initiator (C); and optionally, a polyfunctional polymerizable monomer (E) having a molecular weight of 500 or less and not comprised in the ?,?-unsaturated double bond group-containing compound (A) and the (meth)acrylic acid ester compound (B), wherein the content of the polyfunctional polymerizable monomer (E) having a molecular weight of 500 or less is 20 mass % or less relative to the total amount of polymerizable compounds comprised in the resin composition for optical shaping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: KURARAY NORITAKE DENTAL INC.
    Inventors: Misaki ITO, Kenji SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11237597
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a casing and an elastic body. The casing includes: a first wall from which a display screen of a display device is exposed; a second wall that is positioned apart from the first wall in a first direction intersecting the display screen of the first wall; a third wall that extends between the first wall and the second wall; and a fourth wall that extends between the first wall and the second wall. The fourth wall intersects the third wall. The elastic body is disposed at a corner between the third wall and the fourth wall. The elastic body is provided to project out from surfaces of the first wall, the second wall, the third wall, and the fourth wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU CLIENT COMPUTING LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasufumi Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Sando, Kenji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11225079
    Abstract: There are provided a head chip and so on capable of improving the print image quality while suppressing the manufacturing cost. The head chip according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an actuator plate having a plurality of ejection grooves, a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzle holes, and a cover plate having a first through hole, a second through hole, and a wall part. The plurality of nozzle holes includes a plurality of first nozzle holes arranged so as to be shifted toward the first through hole, and a plurality of second nozzle holes arranged so as to be shifted toward the second through hole. In a first ejection groove communicated with the first nozzle hole, a first cross-sectional area of a part communicated with the first through hole is smaller than a second cross-sectional area of a part communicated with the second through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.
    Inventors: Masakazu Hirata, Kenji Suzuki, Masanori Tamura
  • Publication number: 20220013404
    Abstract: A method for example manufacturing a semiconductor device, which includes: forming a hole in a region of an insulating film laminated on a substrate; embedding a first conductive material in the hole to a position lower than a height of a sidewall of the hole; further embedding a second conductive material through a selective growth in the hole in which the first conductive material has been embedded; and etching the second conductive material to form a contact pad at a position above the hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuo KIBI, Toshitake TSUDA, Kenji SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11222428
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to determining golf swing characteristics. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a video of a person performing an action. The method further includes determining from the video a plurality of points associated with the person, where the determining of the plurality of points is performed for each frame of the video. The method further includes determining a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) coordinates for each point of the plurality of points, where the determining of the 3D coordinates is performed for each frame of the video. The method further includes determining a movement of the plurality of points based at least in part on the 3D coordinates. The method further includes determining one or more movement errors based at least in part on the movement of the plurality of points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Jong Hwa Lee, Brent Faust, Kenji Suzuki, Arun Chandrasekar, Joseph Moon, Xihe Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210394512
    Abstract: A stress caused in an actuator member with respect to input or output of heat is reduced. There is provided a liquid jet head including an actuator member having a pressure chamber, a low rigidity support part which is disposed at one side with respect to the actuator member, and is coupled to the actuator member, and a high rigidity support part which is disposed at the other side opposite to the one side with respect to the actuator member, and is coupled to the actuator member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventor: Kenji SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11203666
    Abstract: Provided are a continuous production method and a continuous production apparatus utilizing the solution polycondensation for aromatic cyclic oligomers, which achieve a good space-time yield and are inexpensive and simple. The continuous production method includes: (a) supplying a polymerization solvent and a reaction raw material to a continuous production apparatus; (b) performing a polymerization reaction in the reaction vessels to form a reaction mixture; (c) removing water in gas phase parts of the reaction vessels from the reaction vessels; and (d) successively moving the reaction mixture to each of the reaction vessels; the steps (a), (b), (c), and (d) being performed in parallel; wherein an amount of the polymerization solvent in the reaction vessel positioned furthest downstream in a movement direction of the reaction mixture is not less than 1 L and not greater than 50 L per 1 mol of arylene units in the reaction raw material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: KUREHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Michihisa Miyahara, Hiroshi Sakabe
  • Patent number: 11203665
    Abstract: The production method of the present invention includes a step of supplying an organic polar solvent, a sulfur source, and a dihalo aromatic compound as reaction raw materials to at least one of a plurality of reaction vessels mutually communicated via a gas phase; a step of removing at least a portion of the water present in the reaction vessels; and a step of performing a polymerization reaction. These steps are carried out in parallel, and the reaction mixture is sequentially moved between reaction vessels. At that time, the internal temperatures of the reaction vessels are all not less than 150° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: KUREHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michihisa Miyahara, Kenji Suzuki, Hiroshi Sakabe, Yoshikatsu Satake
  • Publication number: 20210390764
    Abstract: A joint image unfolding apparatus, a joint image unfolding method, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a joint image unfolding program are provided to make it possible to check information regarding the entire cartilage in a joint with high accuracy. An image obtaining unit (21) obtains a three-dimensional image of a joint having cartilage. An unfolding unit (23) unfolds the cartilage included in the three-dimensional image with reference to a specific reference axis in the joint to generate an unfolded image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro SEKIYA, Nobutake OZEKI, Akinobu HYODO, Hayato AOKI, Kenji SUZUKI, Jun MASUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11200919
    Abstract: Implementations generally provide a user interface for video annotation tools. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining at least one video of at least one object performing at least one action displaying one or more portions of the at least one video in a user interface. The method further includes displaying a plurality of annotation tracks in the user interface, where each annotation track of the plurality of annotation tracks is associated with one or more of the at least one object and the at least one action in the at least one video. The method further includes obtaining one or more annotations associated with the at least one video based on the plurality of annotation tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Lyons, Kenji Suzuki, Brent Faust, Kevin Barnes, Jong Hwa Lee