Patents by Inventor Nobuhiko Wakayama

Nobuhiko Wakayama 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: 9836429
    Abstract: The present invention aims to improve the signal transmission characteristics by shortening the length of the detour path of the return current. The present invention comprises a return current transmission path relative to a signal transmission path for transmitting signals. The signal transmission path includes a signal pad formed on a circuit board surface layer, and signal through-holes formed on the circuit board surface layer and a circuit board inner layer and connected to the signal pad. The return current transmission path includes a ground pad formed on the circuit board surface layer, and a plurality of ground through-holes formed on the circuit board surface layer and the circuit board inner layer and connected to the ground pad and a ground layer of the circuit board inner layer. Each of the ground through-holes is arranged by being separated on either side of the ground pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Wakayama, Akio Ikeya
  • Publication number: 20150370748
    Abstract: The present invention aims to improve the signal transmission characteristics by shortening the length of the detour path of the return current. The present invention comprises a return current transmission path relative to a signal transmission path for transmitting signals. The signal transmission path includes a signal pad formed on a circuit board surface layer, and signal through-holes formed on the circuit board surface layer and a circuit board inner layer and connected to the signal pad. The return current transmission path includes a ground pad formed on the circuit board surface layer, and a plurality of ground through-holes formed on the circuit board surface layer and the circuit board inner layer and connected to the ground pad and a ground layer of the circuit board inner layer. Each of the ground through-holes is arranged by being separated on either side of the ground pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko WAKAYAMA, Akio IKEYA
  • Patent number: 8514282
    Abstract: An imaging unit photographs an image of a periphery of the vehicle. An object detection unit obtains image information related to a brightness or a color of the image and position information on the obtained image from the image and detects object from the image information according to a specific feature of the image. A storing unit prestores a vehicle image and history data, which include the image information associated with the position information. A graphic unit overlaps the vehicle image and an image produced according to the history data and converts the overlapped image to be viewed from a predetermined viewpoint. A peripheral image display region indicates a present periphery of the vehicle. A history display region is adjacent to the peripheral image display region for indicating the converted image and the detected object at a position according to the position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Masayuki Imanishi, Nobuhiko Wakayama
  • Patent number: 8441536
    Abstract: A vehicle periphery displaying apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus includes: an imaging device for capturing a periphery image; a storage medium for storing history data comprising one of the periphery image and information on an object-in-periphery, the storage medium pre-storing a vehicle image; a display screen having a real-time displaying part for displaying thereon the periphery image with distortion of the periphery image being uncorrected, and a history displaying part for displaying thereon the vehicle image and a history image being produced based on the history data; and a drawing section configured to superimposingly draw the vehicle image and the history image provided with the distortion that the periphery image has, such that the object-in-periphery shown in the history image is continuously connected to that shown in the periphery image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Masayuki Imanishi, Nobuhiko Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20110066329
    Abstract: A driving support device includes: an in-vehicle camera for shooting an image toward a driving direction of the vehicle; a display device for displaying the image; a steering wheel angle detector for detecting a steering wheel angle of the vehicle; and a display controller for calculating an expected driving track corresponding to a vehicle width and the steering wheel angle and for controlling the display device to display the expected driving track overlapped on the image. The display controller calculates one steering wheel line, which has a curvature changeable in accordance with the steering wheel angle. The display controller controls the display device to display the one steering wheel line at a center of the expected driving track in a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, NIPPON SOKEN, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko WAKAYAMA, Masayuki Imanishi
  • Publication number: 20100245574
    Abstract: An imaging unit photographs an image of a periphery of the vehicle. An object detection unit obtains image information related to a brightness or a color of the image and position information on the obtained image from the image and detects object from the image information according to a specific feature of the image. A storing unit prestores a vehicle image and history data, which include the image information associated with the position information. A graphic unit overlaps the vehicle image and an image produced according to the history data and converts the overlapped image to be viewed from a predetermined viewpoint. A peripheral image display region indicates a present periphery of the vehicle. A history display region is adjacent to the peripheral image display region for indicating the converted image and the detected object at a position according to the position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Masayuki Imanishi, Nobuhiko Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20100201818
    Abstract: A vehicle periphery displaying apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus includes: an imaging device for capturing a periphery image; a storage medium for storing history data comprising one of the periphery image and information on an object-in-periphery, the storage medium pre-storing a vehicle image; a display screen having a real-time displaying part for displaying thereon the periphery image with distortion of the periphery image being uncorrected, and a history displaying part for displaying thereon the vehicle image and a history image being produced based on the history data; and a drawing section configured to superimposingly draw the vehicle image and the history image provided with the distortion that the periphery image has, such that the object-in-periphery shown in the history image is continuously connected to that shown in the periphery image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicants: Nippon Soken, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Imanishi, Nobuhiko Wakayama
  • Patent number: 6498442
    Abstract: In a control apparatus for a self-heating type cold-cathode discharge tube, a microcomputer determines boosting time based on a detected surrounding temperature of the cold-cathode discharge tube. The boosting time is increases as the detected temperature decreases. A switching circuit, powered from a direct current power supply, performs a switching operation based on a determination output from the microcomputer. An inverter circuit actuates the cold-cathode discharge tube based on the switching operation which is duty-controlled. The duty ratio is determined to be higher when the detected surrounding temperature is within a predetermined low temperature range than outside the predetermined low temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Hara, Masami Kataoka, Nobuhiko Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20020053886
    Abstract: In a control apparatus for a self-heating type cold-cathode discharge tube, a microcomputer determines boosting time based on a detected surrounding temperature of the cold-cathode discharge tube. The boosting time is increases as the detected temperature decreases. A switching circuit, powered from a direct current power supply, performs a switching operation based on a determination output from the microcomputer. An inverter circuit actuates the cold-cathode discharge tube based on the switching operation which is duty-controlled. The duty ratio is determined to be higher when the detected surrounding temperature is within a predetermined low temperature range than outside the predetermined low temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Hara, Masami Kataoka, Nobuhiko Wakayama