Patents by Inventor Shinya Igarashi

Shinya Igarashi 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: 20240088332
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a substrate; a light emitting element; a wavelength conversion layer; and a wall surrounding the wavelength conversion layer, having an opening portion exposing at least a part of a top surface of the wavelength conversion layer, and containing a light reflective material. The surface of the wall includes a top surface provided at a higher position than the top surface of the wavelength conversion layer, and an inner surface forming the opening portion. The wall includes a first portion surrounding the wavelength conversion layer, and a second portion provided over the first portion and surrounding the first portion. The opening portion is hollow. An angle of a corner portion between the top surface and the inner surface of the wall is in a range of 90 degrees or greater and less than 180 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi MIYAIRI, Yoshimi KATSUMOTO, Takayuki IGARASHI, Yoshifumi HODONO, Shinya ENDO
  • Patent number: 11921241
    Abstract: An ultrasonic probe including: a plurality of transducers; a plurality of low-noise amplifier circuits individually corresponding to the plurality of transducers, the plurality of low-noise amplifier circuits having a variable resistor feedback unit making a resistance value variable by an electrical signal inputted to a control terminal; and a control circuit; wherein the control circuit has a dummy circuit generating a bias voltage of a feedback unit of the low-noise amplifier circuit, and an adding circuit outputting an added signal of a bias voltage by the dummy circuit and a control signal increasing or decreasing with a lapse of time; and the plurality of low-noise amplifier circuits input an output of the adding circuit to the control terminal of the variable resistor feedback unit to perform variable control on a gain of the low-noise amplifier circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Igarashi, Shinya Kajiyama, Kengo Imagawa
  • Publication number: 20240071584
    Abstract: A medical information system includes a processor on a side of a medical image diagnostic device. The processor acquires supplementary information as structured information associated with image data acquired using the medical image diagnostic device, the supplementary information being new information on a subject to be imaged. The processor notifies at least one management server that manages patient information of the supplementary information via a network in response to the acquisition of the supplementary information, the patient information being information unique to the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya OZAWA, Kensuke SHINODA, Junichiro ARAOKA, Tsutomu IGARASHI, Masato SHIBUYA
  • Patent number: 11823643
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus comprising pixels that each includes a light-emitting element and a drive transistor for supplying a current according to a luminance signal to the light-emitting element and a signal supply circuit supplying the luminance signal to the drive transistor. The apparatus operates display modes including a first display mode and a second display mode in which a maximum luminance is higher than in the first display mode. The signal supply circuit, in a case where the display data has a maximum luminance value, supplies to the drive transistor, as the luminance signal, different voltages in the first and second display modes, and in a case where the display data has a minimum luminance value, supplies to the drive transistor, as the luminance signal, different voltages in the first and second display modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromasa Tsuboi, Shinya Igarashi
  • Patent number: 11758296
    Abstract: Provided is a photoelectric conversion device including: a plurality of pixel circuits each including a photoelectric conversion unit configured to generate charges by photoelectric conversion and a transistor configured to transfer the charges from the photoelectric conversion unit; and a plurality of exposure control circuits each including a capacitor configured to hold a signal corresponding to an exposure period in the photoelectric conversion unit and a comparator circuit configured to compare a potential of a first terminal of two terminals of the capacitor with a threshold potential. Each of the plurality of exposure control circuits controls an exposure period of the photoelectric conversion unit by outputting a signal based on a comparison result caused by the comparator circuit to a control terminal of the transistor and driving the transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriyuki Shikina, Shinya Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20230122042
    Abstract: A device includes a pixel unit, a selection unit, and a first generation unit. The pixel unit has a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of rows. Each pixel includes a quenching circuit configured to receive a signal for determining start and end of an exposure period and a photodiode coupled to the quenching circuit. The selection unit is configured to simultaneously receive a plurality of clock signals of different periods and select a clock signal to be outputted from the plurality of clock signals. The first generation unit is configured to generate the signal by using the outputted clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Shinya Igarashi, Taichi Kasugai
  • Patent number: 11627264
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel unit having pixels arranged to form rows and columns, each including a transfer transistor that transfers charge in a photoelectric converter to an output unit, and a pixel control unit that controls the pixels. The pixel control unit is configured to supply a control signal in accordance with an exposure period individually defined for pixel blocks of the pixel unit to pixels of each pixel block and read out, from each pixel, a first signal obtained when the photoelectric converter is in a reset state and a second signal based on charge accumulated in the photoelectric converter during the exposure period. A period excluding both the exposure period and a readout period of the second signal corresponds to a reset period of the photoelectric converter. The transfer transistor is off in a readout period of the first and second signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Igarashi, Noriyuki Shikina
  • Publication number: 20230047907
    Abstract: A light emitting device has a structure in which a first substrate and a second substrate are stacked. The device includes a plurality of light emitting elements, and a driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of light emitting elements. Part of the driving circuit is arranged in the first substrate, and another part of the driving circuit is arranged in the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Daichi Seto, Shinya Igarashi, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230043411
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes pixel circuits arranged to form rows and columns and each including a light emitting element, signal lines each extending in a column direction and configured to supply a pixel signal to the pixel circuits, row selection lines each extending in a row direction and configured to supply a row selection signal to the pixel circuits, and column selection lines each extending in the column direction and configured to supply a column selection signal to the pixel circuits. At least one of the pixel circuits includes a light emission control circuit configured to allow the light emitting element of a pixel circuit indicated by the row selection signal and the column selection signal to emit light in a brightness according to the pixel signal that is being supplied to the pixel circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Shinya Igarashi, Hiromasa Tsuboi, Masahiko Mizoguchi, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220383808
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus includes a light emitting element, a temperature measurement device, a driving control unit, a calculation unit configured to calculate a correction value of a driving control parameter based on a measured temperature; and a change unit configured to change a coefficient of a function based on the measured temperature. The calculation unit calculates the correction value with respect to the measured temperature based on a function obtained by expressing a first function, which expresses a relationship between the measured temperature and the correction value, by a combined function of a plurality of third functions each generated by changing a coefficient of a second function, and the change unit changes, based on the measured temperature, the coefficient of the second function to generate the plurality of third functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Kohei Murayama, Shinya Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20220223120
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus comprising pixels that each includes a light-emitting element and a drive transistor for supplying a current according to a luminance signal to the light-emitting element and a signal supply circuit supplying the luminance signal to the drive transistor is provided. The apparatus operates display modes including a first display mode and a second display mode in which a maximum luminance is higher than in the first display mode. The signal supply circuit, in a case where the display data has a maximum luminance value, supplies to the drive transistor, as the luminance signal, different voltages in the first and second display modes, and in a case where the display data has a minimum luminance value, supplies to the drive transistor, as the luminance signal, different voltages in the first and second display modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Hiromasa Tsuboi, Shinya Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20210044766
    Abstract: Provided is a photoelectric conversion device including: a plurality of pixel circuits each including a photoelectric conversion unit configured to generate charges by photoelectric conversion and a transistor configured to transfer the charges from the photoelectric conversion unit; and a plurality of exposure control circuits each including a capacitor configured to hold a signal corresponding to an exposure period in the photoelectric conversion unit and a comparator circuit configured to compare a potential of a first terminal of two terminals of the capacitor with a threshold potential. Each of the plurality of exposure control circuits controls an exposure period of the photoelectric conversion unit by outputting a signal based on a comparison result caused by the comparator circuit to a control terminal of the transistor and driving the transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Noriyuki Shikina, Shinya Igarashi
  • Patent number: 10771775
    Abstract: An imaging device comprising a plurality of pixels and a processing unit. The plurality of pixels includes (i) a light-receiving pixel arranged to receive incident light and output a light signal based on the incident light, and (ii) a reference pixel arranged to output a pixel signal for configuring a failure detection signal. The processing unit is arranged to determine whether or not the failure detection signal is correct based on abnormality information indicating the abnormality of the reference pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Igarashi, Noriyuki Shikina, Yasushi Iwakura, Yoichi Wada
  • Publication number: 20200154067
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel unit having pixels arranged to form rows and columns, each including a transfer transistor that transfers charge in a photoelectric converter to an output unit, and a pixel control unit that controls the pixels. The pixel control unit is configured to supply a control signal in accordance with an exposure period individually defined for pixel blocks of the pixel unit to pixels of each pixel block and read out, from each pixel, a first signal obtained when the photoelectric converter is in a reset state and a second signal based on charge accumulated in the photoelectric converter during the exposure period. A period excluding both the exposure period and a readout period of the second signal corresponds to a reset period of the photoelectric converter. The transfer transistor is off in a readout period of the first and second signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Shinya Igarashi, Noriyuki Shikina
  • Patent number: 9945707
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a flow sensor that makes it possible to detect temperature abnormalities that the flow sensor has been exposed to and the time history of the flow sensor in a high-temperature environment from an externally visible cover material and that uses a cover material for which the laser welding quality can be guaranteed through visual inspection when the sensor is delivered as a product and even if the sensor is used in an abnormal state. A flow sensor provided with a housing, a cover, a circuit chamber that houses a wiring portion sealed between the housing and the cover, and an auxiliary passage through which the liquid to be sensed flows, wherein: a joint portion formed on the housing and a joint portion formed on the inner surface of the cover are joined together through the laser welding; the main material of the cover is a crystalline resin; the cover includes an amorphous alloy; and the cover is made to have a natural color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Arai, Shigeharu Tsunoda, Shinobu Tashiro, Akira Uenodan, Shinya Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20180098060
    Abstract: An imaging device comprising a plurality of pixels and a processing unit. The plurality of pixels includes (i) a light-receiving pixel arranged to receive incident light and output a light signal based on the incident light, and (ii) a reference pixel arranged to output a pixel signal for configuring a failure detection signal. The processing unit is arranged to determine whether or not the failure detection signal is correct based on abnormality information indicating the abnormality of the reference pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Shinya Igarashi, Noriyuki Shikina, Yasushi Iwakura, Yoichi Wada
  • Patent number: 9739676
    Abstract: A pressure detecting device is mounted in a measurement target and instrument includes a strain inducer to which pressure of a pressure medium is applied and which generates strain in accordance with the pressure and a strain detecting element that is bonded onto a surface opposite to a pressure receiving surface of the strain inducer, in which the strain detecting element includes one or multiple central strain resistant bridges which are arranged at a central portion of the strain detecting element in a bonded surface direction, and one or multiple outer peripheral strain resistant bridges which are arranged at an outer periphery, and in which, for example, deformation of the strain detecting element caused by an external force when being screw-fixed to the measurement target instrument is obtained through the multiple strain resistant bridges. An error of detection pressure caused by the deformation in a pressure value detected through the central strain resistant bridge is corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Hio, Shinya Igarashi, Shigenobu Komatsu, Junji Onozuka, Kentaro Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20160061642
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a flow sensor that makes it possible to detect temperature abnormalities that the flow sensor has been exposed to and the time history of the flow sensor in a high-temperature environment from an externally visible cover material and that uses a cover material for which the laser welding quality can be guaranteed through visual inspection when the sensor is delivered as a product and even if the sensor is used in an abnormal state. A flow sensor provided with a housing, a cover, a circuit chamber that houses a wiring portion sealed between the housing and the cover, and an auxiliary passage through which the liquid to be sensed flows, wherein: a joint portion formed on the housing and a joint portion formed on the inner surface of the cover are joined together through the laser welding; the main material of the cover is a crystalline resin; the cover includes an amorphous alloy; and the cover is made to have a natural color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Satoshi ARAI, Shigeharu TSUNODA, Shinobu TASHIRO, Akira UENODAN, Shinya IGARASHI
  • Publication number: 20150377729
    Abstract: A pressure detecting device is mounted in a measurement target and instrument includes a strain inducer to which pressure of a pressure medium is applied and which generates strain in accordance with the pressure and a strain detecting element that is bonded onto a surface opposite to a pressure receiving surface of the strain inducer, in which the strain detecting element includes one or multiple central strain resistant bridges which are arranged at a central portion of the strain detecting element in a bonded surface direction, and one or multiple outer peripheral strain resistant bridges which are arranged at an outer periphery, and in which, for example, deformation of the strain detecting element caused by an external force when being screw-fixed to the measurement target instrument is obtained through the multiple strain resistant bridges. An error of detection pressure caused by the deformation in a pressure value detected through the central strain resistant bridge is corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki HIO, Shinya IGARASHI, Shigenobu KOMATSU, Junji ONOZUKA, Kentaro MIYAJIMA
  • Patent number: 8573041
    Abstract: An arrangement of a mass intake air flow measurement device suitable for integrating a humidity sensing device as well as a temperature sensing device and a pressure sensing device is provided. A second bypass passage 501 bypassing a bypass passage 205 is formed and a humidity sensing device 500 is mounted in the second bypass passage 501. A second bypass passage inlet 502 and a second bypass passage outlet 503 formed in a wall surface of the bypass passage 205 are opened parallel to the direction of flow of air flowing in the bypass passage 205.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Saito, Takayuki Yogo, Shinya Igarashi, Hiromu Kikawa