Patents by Inventor Kentaro Arai
Kentaro Arai 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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Publication number: 20240121530Abstract: A light detector is configured such that a light receiving portion having APDs and a peripheral portion are provided on a first principal surface of a p-type semiconductor substrate, and further includes a back electrode provided on a second principal surface of the semiconductor substrate and a p-type first separation portion provided between the light receiving portion and the peripheral portion. The APD has, on a first principal surface side, an n-type region and a p-epitaxial layer contacting the n-type region in a Z-direction. The peripheral portion has an n-type MISFET provided at a p-well and an n-well provided to surround entire side and bottom portions of the p-well.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Tatsuya KABE, Hideyuki ARAI, Hisashi AIKAWA, Yuki SUGIURA, Akito INOUE, Mitsuyoshi MORI, Kentaro NAKANISHI, Yusuke SAKATA
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Publication number: 20240078358Abstract: By a tracking device, a tracking method, or a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium storing a tracking program, a state value of a mobile object is estimated to track the mobile object, the observation value of the mobile object observed at an observation time is acquired, a prediction state value is acquired, a true value of the state value at the observation time is estimated by nonlinear filtering.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventor: Kentaro ARAI
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Patent number: 11898263Abstract: There is provided an inexpensive plated product, which can prevent the increase of the contact resistance of a silver-plating film and the change of the color of the surface thereof after reflow-treating a plated product wherein the silver-plating film is formed on a portion of the surface thereof and wherein a tin-plating film is formed on a portion of the other portion of the surface thereof, and a method for producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: DOWA METALTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaro Hirai, Kentaro Arai, Shunsuke Ashidate
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Publication number: 20240026558Abstract: There is provided an Ag-plated material and a related technique, including: an Ag-plated layer on a substrate that comprises a conductive metal; and a plurality of two-layer plating structures on the substrate, the two-layer plating structures having a porous Ni-plated layer and an Ag-plated layer in this order from a substrate side.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: DOWA METALTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Yosuke SATO, Yutaro HIRAI, Kentaro ARAI
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Publication number: 20240018680Abstract: There is provided an Ag-coated material and its related technique, including a base material and an Ag film on the base material, the Ag film including alternately laminated at least three Ag layers with average crystal grain sizes different by three times or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: DOWA METALTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Yosuke SATO, Yutaro HIRAI, Kentaro ARAI
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Publication number: 20230313402Abstract: There are provided a silver-plated product having a more excellent wear resistance than that of conventional silver-plated products, and a method for producing the same. The method comprises the steps of: preparing a silver-plating solution which is an aqueous solution containing silver potassium cyanide or silver cyanide, potassium cyanide or sodium cyanide, and a benzothiazole or a derivative thereof; and forming a surface layer of silver on a base material by electroplating at a liquid temperature and at a current density in the silver-plating solution so as to satisfy (BC/A)2/D?10 (° C.2·dm2/A) assuming that a concentration of free cyanide in the silver-plating solution is A (g/L), that a concentration of a benzothiazole content of the benzothiazole or derivative thereof in the silver-plating solution is B (g/L), that the liquid temperature of the silver-plating solution is C (° C.) and that the current density during the electroplating is D (A/dm2).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: DOWA METALTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaro Hirai, Kentaro Arai, Yosuke Sato
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Patent number: 11695404Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first circuit, a first terminal, a second terminal, a conductor and a first switch element serially coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal, wherein the first circuit is configured to turn the first switch element to an OFF state when a first condition is satisfied, and the conductor is configured to physically break when a second condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Kentaro Arai, Toshifumi Ishimori, Yutaka Yadoumaru, Masayoshi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20230142395Abstract: The present invention provides a silver-plated member with a surface layer made of a silver-plating layer being formed on a base member, wherein a crystal plane of the surface layer has a {110} plane preferential orientation, and the orientation proportion of the {110} plane is 30% or more and 75% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: DOWA METALTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaro HIRAI, Kentaro ARAI, Yosuke SATO
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Publication number: 20230097787Abstract: A silver-plated product having a higher hardness and more excellent wear resistance than those of conventional silver-plated products, and a method for producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: DOWA METALTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaro Hirai, Kentaro Arai, Yosuke Sato
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Publication number: 20230093655Abstract: A silver-plated product which has more excellent minute sliding abrasion resistance property than that of conventional silver-plated products, and a method for producing the same. The silver-plated product is produced by electroplating a base material 10 of copper or a copper alloy to form an underlying plating layer 12 of nickel or a nickel alloy, a first silver-plating layer of silver (lower silver-plating layer) 14, a zinc-plating layer 16 of zinc serving as an intermediate plating layer, and a second silver-plating layer of silver (upper silver-plating layer) 18 serving as a surface layer, in this order from the base material 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: DOWA METALTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaro Hirai, Kentaro Arai, Yosuke Sato
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Publication number: 20230008310Abstract: A communication device may: send a change instruction including identification information to a server, wherein the server may store the identification information and target user information corresponding to a user of a terminal device in association with each other, and the change instruction may be a signal to instruct the server to send first authentication information to the terminal device by using the target user information, after the first authentication information has been sent from the server to the terminal device, accept input of the first authentication information, in a case where the input of the first authentication information is accepted, send the first authentication information to the server, in a case where the first authentication information is sent to the server, receive a change permission notification from the server, and in a case where the change permission notification is received from the server, change the password.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventor: Kentaro ARAI
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Publication number: 20230008132Abstract: A server may receive, from a terminal device, a change instruction for changing a password of a communication device different from the server and the terminal device. The server may, in a case where the change instruction is received from the terminal device, send first authentication information to the terminal device. The first authentication information may be inputted to the communication device by a user of the terminal device after the first authentication information has been sent to the terminal device. The server may, in a case where the first authentication information is inputted to the communication device, receive the first authentication information from the communication device. The server may, in a case where the first authentication information is received from the communication device, send a change permission notification to the communication device. The change permission notification may be a notification to permit the communication device to change the password.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventor: Kentaro ARAI
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Publication number: 20220311430Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first circuit, a first terminal, a second terminal, a conductor and a first switch element serially coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal, wherein the first circuit is configured to turn the first switch element to an OFF state when a first condition is satisfied, and the conductor is configured to physically break when a second condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2021Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Kentaro ARAI, Toshifumi ISHIMORI, Yutaka YADOUMARU, Masayoshi TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220136122Abstract: There is provided an inexpensive plated product, which can prevent the increase of the contact resistance of a silver-plating film and the change of the color of the surface thereof after reflow-treating a plated product wherein the silver-plating film is formed on a portion of the surface thereof and wherein a tin-plating film is formed on a portion of the other portion of the surface thereof, and a method for producing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: DOWA METALTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaro Hirai, Kentaro Arai, Shunsuke Ashidate
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Patent number: 11214277Abstract: A control device for a vehicle capable of switching between an automated driving mode in which driving force of a vehicle having a transmission is automatically controlled and a manual driving mode in which the driving force of the vehicle is controlled on the basis of a driver's operation on the vehicle includes: an operation element to which the driver's operation is input; and a travel control unit that outputs a command value for selecting a gear range of the transmission. The travel control unit selects which of ordinary gear change control and gear change restricting control is to be performed on the basis of an operation performed on the operation element when there is an automated driving release request in which the automated driving mode is released and the automated driving mode is switched to the manual driving mode during traveling of the vehicle in the automated driving mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Adachi, Kentaro Arai, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Hisashi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11014573Abstract: A vehicle control device performs a drive mode switching control including switching a drive mode, when a request for switching to a manual drive control is made during execution of an automated drive control, to one of a plurality of drive modes that allows a driving force to accord with a required driving force based on an operation of the driver of the vehicle, over a wide range.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kentaro Arai, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Hisashi Ishikawa, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
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Patent number: 11009872Abstract: If the driver operates the operation tool while the vehicle is traveling under the automated drive control, override control is performed in which the acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle is controlled according to the operation of the operation tool, when an automated drive target gear position selected based on automatic control of the acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle equals a manual drive target gear position determined according to the operation of the operation tool by the driver.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hisashi Ishikawa, Kentaro Arai, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
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Patent number: 10994768Abstract: A control device for a vehicle capable of operating in an automated driving mode for automatically controlling at least the accelerating/decelerating control of the steering control and the accelerating/decelerating control of a vehicle includes: a route information acquisition unit; and an automated driving control unit that decides an action plan on a basis of map information, the action plan includes a target vehicle speed sequence that defines a target vehicle speed at the respective predetermined points at least on a road along which the vehicle will travel next, and the automated driving control unit calculates requested braking force that is braking force for decelerating the vehicle to target vehicle speed when the target vehicle speed is achieved by deceleration, calculates a predicted temperature of a brake device when the requested braking force is achieved, and decides a utilization proportion of the brake device for the requested braking force.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Adachi, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Tomoyuki Noguchi, Hisashi Ishikawa, Kentaro Arai
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Patent number: 10793153Abstract: The vehicle controller performs gear position switch control in which a gear position of an automatic transmission set based on the automated drive control is changed to an upper-level gear position if the driver operates the accelerator pedal under the automated drive control.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hisashi Ishikawa, Kentaro Arai, Masayuki Sadakiyo, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi
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Patent number: 10691124Abstract: A control apparatus includes a switching control unit that switches a traveling mode of a vehicle from an automated driving mode to a manual driving mode if an automated drive canceling request to cancel the automated driving mode to switch to the manual driving mode is submitted while the vehicle is traveling in the automated driving mode. The switching control unit performs transmission gear setting control in which a transmission gear of an automatic transmission is set to a highest transmission gear among transmission gears within a range of a predetermined allowable driving force in the switching from the automated driving mode to the manual driving mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Sadakiyo, Kentaro Arai, Hisashi Ishikawa, Takashi Adachi, Tomoyuki Noguchi