Patents by Inventor Kouichi Bairin
Kouichi Bairin 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: 11933897Abstract: A distance measurement device includes: a mirror disposed so as to be tilted relative to a rotation center axis; a drive unit configured to rotate the mirror about the rotation center axis; a photodetector configured to detect reflected light, of laser light, reflected in a distance measurement region; and a condensing lens disposed on the rotation center axis and configured to condense the reflected light reflected by the mirror, on the photodetector. The mirror has a shape elongated in one direction and is disposed such that a short axis thereof is tilted relative to the rotation center axis in a direction parallel to a plane including the rotation center axis. A width in a short-axis direction of the mirror is smaller than a width of a lens portion of the condensing lens as viewed in a direction parallel to the rotation center axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhisa Ide, Masaomi Inoue, Hirotaka Ueno, Kouichi Kumamaru, Masahiro Shiihara, Kouichi Bairin, Takashi Haruguchi, Kiyoshi Hibino
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Patent number: 11474241Abstract: There is provided a distance measurement device that can appropriately detect a distance to an object regardless of the distance. The distance measurement device includes a laser light source, a photodetector, and a controller. The controller performs a long-distance routine that detects timing for receiving light when an object is at a long distance, and a short-distance routine that detects the timing for receiving light when the object is at a short distance, based on a detection signal output from the photodetector during one distance measurement operation. The controller then selects one of a detection result of the timing for receiving light by the long-distance routine and a detection result of the timing for receiving light by the short-distance routine, and calculates the distance to the object irradiated with projection light based on the selected detection result.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshihiro Koga, Kiyoshi Hibino, Takashi Haruguchi, Kazuhisa Ide, Masaomi Inoue, Masahiro Shiihara, Kouichi Bairin, Kouichi Kumamaru
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Publication number: 20210141062Abstract: A distance measurement device for measuring a distance to an object that exists in a distance measurement region includes: a light source configured to emit laser light; a lens configured to converge the laser light emitted from the light source, into substantially parallel light; a tubular light blocking member disposed on an optical path of the laser light emitted from the light source and surrounding the optical path; a photodetector configured to detect reflected light, of the laser light, reflected at the distance measurement region; and a condensing lens configured to condense the reflected light passing through the outside of the light blocking member, onto the photodetector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2021Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Kiyoshi Hibino, Takashi HARUGUCHI, Masaomi INOUE, Kazuhisa IDE, Masahiro SHIIHARA, Kouichi BAIRIN, Kouichi KUMAMARU, Hirotaka UENO, Hideo YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210018625Abstract: A distance measurement device includes: a mirror disposed so as to be tilted relative to a rotation center axis; a drive unit configured to rotate the mirror about the rotation center axis; a photodetector configured to detect reflected light, of laser light, reflected in a distance measurement region; and a condensing lens disposed on the rotation center axis and configured to condense the reflected light reflected by the mirror, on the photodetector. The mirror has a shape elongated in one direction and is disposed such that a short axis thereof is tilted relative to the rotation center axis in a direction parallel to a plane including the rotation center axis. A width in a short-axis direction of the mirror is smaller than a width of a lens portion of the condensing lens as viewed in a direction parallel to the rotation center axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Kazuhisa Ide, Masaomi Inoue, Hirotaka Ueno, Kouichi KUMAMARU, Masahiro SHIIHARA, Kouichi BAIRIN, Takashi HARUGUCHI, Kiyoshi HIBINO
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Publication number: 20190120960Abstract: There is provided a distance measurement device that can appropriately detect a distance to an object regardless of the distance. The distance measurement device includes a laser light source, a photodetector, and a controller. The controller performs a long-distance routine that detects timing for receiving light when an object is at a long distance, and a short-distance routine that detects the timing for receiving light when the object is at a short distance, based on a detection signal output from the photodetector during one distance measurement operation. The controller then selects one of a detection result of the timing for receiving light by the long-distance routine and a detection result of the timing for receiving light by the short-distance routine, and calculates the distance to the object irradiated with projection light based on the selected detection result.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: TOSHIHIRO KOGA, KIYOSHI HIBINO, TAKASHI HARUGUCHI, KAZUHISA IDE, MASAOMI INOUE, MASAHIRO SHIIHARA, KOUICHI BAIRIN, KOUICHI KUMAMARU
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Patent number: 8139461Abstract: A plate body 2, multiple hologram layers 3 are provided in the thickness direction of the plate body 2, and at least one of the multiple hologram layers 3 is formed of spirally continuous hologram bands 4. Erasure areas 4A and 4B and non-erasure areas 4C and 4D of the hologram band 4 are provided in the length direction of the hologram band 4. Non-erasure areas 4E and 4F of the hologram band 4 are formed on both sides in the direction orthogonal to the length direction of the hologram band 4 in the erasure areas 4A and 4B.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2009Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shohei Inoue, Hideaki Horio, Taiichi Mori, Tetsuya Araki, Kouichi Bairin
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Publication number: 20100149945Abstract: A plate body 2, multiple hologram layers 3 are provided in the thickness direction of the plate body 2, and at least one of the multiple hologram layers 3 is formed of spirally continuous hologram bands 4. Erasure areas 4A and 4B and non-erasure areas 4C and 4D of the hologram band 4 are provided in the length direction of the hologram band 4. Non-erasure areas 4E and 4F of the hologram band 4 are formed on both sides in the direction orthogonal to the length direction of the hologram band 4 in the erasure areas 4A and 4B.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2009Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shohei Inoue, Hideaki Horio, Taiichi Mori, Tetsuya Araki, Kouichi Bairin
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Publication number: 20100142353Abstract: To accomplish the object, the invention provides a record medium including a plate body 2; multiple hologram layers 3 formed in the thickness direction of the plate body 2; and hologram bands 4 formed in at least one of the multiple hologram layers 3. The hologram band 4 is formed with erasure areas 4A and 4B of the hologram band 4 with no hologram band 4 in the direction orthogonal to the length direction of the hologram band 4.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2009Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shohei Inoue, Hideaki Horio, Taiichi Mori, Tetsuya Araki, Kouichi Bairin