Patents by Inventor Takafumi Suzuki

Takafumi 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).

  • Patent number: 10617361
    Abstract: To allow an implantable device including an electronic circuit to be implanted in the head in a more preferable manner in terms of appearance and safely. This implantable device is used for a brain-machine interface or the like. A casing of an implantable device configured to be implanted in a human head has an outer convexity surface matching an external shape of a resected skull related to at least a craniotomy site of the artificial bone designed in accordance with a skull shape of each person in order to fill the craniotomy site. That is, the outer convexity surface of the artificial bone is provided with two functions: the original function of filling the craniotomy site as the artificial bone and a function of serving as the casing of the implantable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Osaka University
    Inventors: Masayuki Hirata, Toshiki Yoshimine, Kojiro Matsushita, Tetsu Goto, Takufumi Yanagisawa, Takafumi Suzuki, Shinichi Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 10620702
    Abstract: An internal device of a brain-machine interface system includes: an electrode group including N electrodes, N being 2 or more; an amplification element group including N amplification elements; a communicator communicating with an external device; and a controller selectively executing one of: a normal operation mode in which electroencephalogram signals acquired through the N electrodes are supplied to the amplification element group in a manner that each of the N electrodes corresponds to a respective one of the N amplification elements, and N amplified electroencephalogram signals are transmitted; and a noise-reduction operation mode in which an electroencephalogram signal acquired through an M electrode of the electrode group is supplied to the amplification element group in a manner that each M electrode corresponds to respective plural ones of the amplification elements, and an M amplified electroencephalogram signal is transmitted, M being smaller than N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kaoru Imajo, Katsuyoshi Suzuki, Masayuki Hirata, Seiji Kameda, Takafumi Suzuki, Hiroshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20200103839
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle control device and a vehicle control simulation device that enable, even for parallel processing with a plurality of arithmetic devices, approximation in act between at verification of simulation operation on a model base and at verification of operation on an actual vehicle. Provided are: control model information for control of a system; hardware information for operation of a control model; arithmetic-device allocation information as to which arithmetic device in hardware is allocated to perform arithmetic processing to a control program in the control model; delay time information regarding a case where the control model operates on the hardware; and a delay-time adding unit configured to create delay-inclusive control model information in which the delay time information is inserted in the control model, based on at least either the arithmetic-device allocation information or the hardware information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi FUKUDA, Toru IRIE, Takafumi SUZUKI, Takahiro IIDA
  • Patent number: 10592025
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a first substrate including a display area and a first detection electrode, and a second force sensing electrode opposing the display area and the first detection electrode with a gap therebetween. The second force sensing electrode includes a central portion opposing a central portion of the display region, a peripheral portion located to surround the central portion and a reinforcing structure which reinforces the peripheral portion, and the gap between the central portion and the first detection electrode is greater than a gap between the peripheral portion and the first detection electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Takafumi Suzuki, Michita Kudo
  • Patent number: 10579196
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a plurality of first electrodes, a second electrode, a third electrode, and a driver. The first electrodes are disposed in a display region of the first substrate. The second electrode faces the first electrodes in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the first substrate and forms capacitance between the second electrode and the first electrodes. The third electrode is provided in a peripheral region positioned on the outside of the display region and does not overlap the first electrodes in planar view. The driver supplies a drive signal to the third electrode and at least one of the first electrodes simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Michita Kudo, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takafumi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200054284
    Abstract: An internal device (1) is implanted in a living body (300). A control section (6) causes a communication section (5) to wirelessly transmit data corresponding to electroencephalogram signals of the living body (300) which are detected through a group of N (N is 2 or more) electrodes, to an external device (200). When the communication section (5) receives a designation signal designating a group of M electrode(s) (2a), M being smaller than N, the communication section (5) is caused to transmit data corresponding to electroencephalogram signals of the living body (300) which are detected through the group of M electrode(s) (2a), to the external device (200) in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicants: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, SPChange, LLC.
    Inventors: Kaoru IMAJO, Katsuyoshi SUZUKI, Masayuki HIRATA, Seiji KAMEDA, Takafumi SUZUKI, Hiroshi ANDO, Takatsugu KAMATA
  • Patent number: 10564754
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a housing, a second electrode, and a driver. The display panel includes a substrate and a plurality of first electrodes arrayed in a display region of the substrate. The housing has at least a pair of walls facing each other in planar view and is provided with the display panel between the pair of walls. The second electrode is provided to the housing and positioned on the outer side than the display region in planar view and forms capacitance between the second electrode and the first electrodes. The driver supplies a drive signal to the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Michita Kudo, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takafumi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10558292
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, pixel electrodes, first electrodes, gate lines, signal lines, switching elements, a conductor, and a driver. The pixel electrodes are arrayed in a display region of the substrate. The first electrodes are separated from the pixel electrodes in a direction perpendicular to the substrate. The gate lines are disposed between the substrate and the first electrodes in the direction perpendicular to the substrate and extend in a plane parallel to the surface of the substrate. The signal lines intersect the gate lines in planar view. The switching elements are provided at the intersections of the gate lines and the signal lines. The conductor is provided opposite to the gate lines and the signal lines across the substrate in the direction perpendicular to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takafumi Suzuki, Yasuyuki Teranishi
  • Patent number: 10540038
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, at least one third electrode, and a drive circuit. The first electrodes are arrayed in an active area of the substrate. The second electrodes face the first electrodes and form capacitance between the first electrodes and the second electrodes. The third electrode is provided in a peripheral region positioned on the outside of the active area. The drive circuit supplies a drive signal having a phase determined based on a predetermined code to the first electrodes and the third electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takafumi Suzuki, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Michita Kudo
  • Publication number: 20200012381
    Abstract: A noise immunity of a detected capacitance is prevented or inhibited from lowering on a driving electrode different in width from the other driving electrodes, provided in an input device. A touch panel serving as an input device has a plurality of driving electrodes extending in an X-axis direction and arranged in a Y-axis direction intersecting with the X-axis direction, and a driving electrode arranged outside one side of an arrangement of the driving electrodes and extending in the X-axis direction. Further, the touch panel TP1 has a plurality of detecting electrodes extending in the Y-axis direction and arranged in the X-axis direction. The width of the driving electrode is smaller than the widths of the driving electrodes and the detecting electrode includes an expanding portion for expanding the area of the detecting electrode on the side opposite to the plurality of driving electrodes via the driving electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuyuki TERANISHI, Takafumi SUZUKI, Kohei AZUMI
  • Patent number: 10511945
    Abstract: A bicycle communication device includes a communicator and a memory. The communicator is communicable with a bicycle electric component and a bicycle operation unit. The bicycle electric component includes a drive unit. The memory stores information related to the bicycle operation unit. The communicator is configured to be able to input the information related to the bicycle operation unit to the bicycle electric component in a state where the communicator is located in a predetermined range that is within thirty centimeters from the bicycle electric component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Takaya Masuda, Takafumi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190369534
    Abstract: At least an electrode of a first electrode group and at least an electrode of a second electrode group are formed in a region nearer to one edge portion of a substrate than to a center of the substrate in a longer-side direction of the substrate, and the electrode that is nearest to the second electrode group in the longer-side direction among the first electrode group formed in the region nearer to the one edge portion and the second electrode group are provided with a space between the electrode and the second electrode group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Kazushi Nishikata, Ryota Ogura, Takafumi Suzuki, Seiji Obata, Koichi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20190359069
    Abstract: A human-powered vehicle control device includes an electronic controller and a first operating portion. The first operating portion operates a human-powered vehicle device. The electronic controller controls a supply of electric power from a battery to the human-powered vehicle device in a first mode. The electronic controller controls the electric power supplied from the battery to the human-powered vehicle device in a second mode to be less than the electric power supplied in the first mode. The electronic controller switches the first mode to the second mode upon determining the first operating portion has been operated by a first action while in the first mode. The electronic controller does not switch from the second mode to the first mode upon determining the first operating portion has been operated by the first action while in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto USUI, Takafumi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20190361567
    Abstract: A force detection apparatus includes: a force detector that includes an electrode and a conductor facing the electrode across a first and a second layers and outputs a force signal value before correction; and a force detection controller outputting a force signal value after correction having a linear relationship with a force. In a first range of force in which the first layer is deformed and the second layer is not deformed, the force detection controller calculates the force signal value after correction, based on a product of the force and a first constant. In a second range of force in which the first and second layers are deformed, the force detection controller calculates the force signal value after correction, based on a sum of a product of a threshold and the first constant and a product of a difference between the force and the threshold and a second constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Takafumi SUZUKI, Shota HOSAKA, Koji NOGUCHI, Yasuyuki TERANISHI
  • Publication number: 20190346958
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a force detection apparatus includes: a first electrode facing an input surface to which an object to be detected applies a force; a second electrode facing the first electrode across a first layer deformable by the force; a conductor facing the second electrode across a second layer deformable by the force; and a force detection controller calculates a force signal value indicating the force, based on a first influence amount and a second influence amount, the first influence amount being an amount of influence added by the force to first capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the second influence amount being an amount of influence added by the force to second capacitance between the second electrode and the conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Takafumi SUZUKI, Shota HOSAKA, Yosuke NAKAMORI
  • Publication number: 20190339805
    Abstract: A force detection apparatus is provided and includes a first electrode facing an input surface to which an object to be detected applies force, and configured to be supplied with a reference potential; a second electrode and a third electrode facing the first electrode; a first conductor arranged between the first electrode, and the second and third electrodes, and configured to be supplied with a drive signal; a first dielectric layer arranged between the first electrode and the first conductor; and a second dielectric layer arranged between the first conductor, and the second and third electrodes, wherein the second electrode is configured to be supplied with the reference potential, and wherein a signal that is same as the drive signal is supplied in synchronization with the drive signal to the third electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Takafumi SUZUKI, Shota HOSAKA, Yosuke NAKAMORI
  • Patent number: 10447889
    Abstract: An image sensor module includes a first image reading chip and a second image reading chip. A first output circuit of the first image reading chip performs driving with multiple drive capabilities. A first output selection unit selects a first drive capability from the multiple drive capabilities and supplies a selection signal to the first output circuit. A second output circuit of the second image reading chip performs driving with one of the multiple drive capabilities. A second output selection unit selects a second drive capability from the multiple drive capabilities and supplies a selection signal to the second output circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takafumi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190308691
    Abstract: A bicycle electric component comprises a wireless communicator, a power source, and a switcher. The wireless communicator is configured to receive a wireless signal. The power source is configured to supply a first electric power to the wireless communicator. The switcher is configured to change an electric connection state between the wireless communicator and the power source. The switcher includes an electric generator configured to generate a second electric power by an external input to a bicycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Takafumi SUZUKI, Takaya MASUDA, Toshihiko TAKAHASHI, Masafumi TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10437379
    Abstract: A noise immunity of a detected capacitance is prevented or inhibited from lowering on a driving electrode different in width from the other driving electrodes, provided in an input device. A touch panel serving as an input device has a plurality of driving electrodes extending in an X-axis direction and arranged in a Y-axis direction intersecting with the X-axis direction, and a driving electrode arranged outside one side of an arrangement of the driving electrodes and extending in the X-axis direction. Further, the touch panel TP1 has a plurality of detecting electrodes extending in the Y-axis direction and arranged in the X-axis direction. The width of the driving electrode is smaller than the widths of the driving electrodes and the detecting electrode includes an expanding portion for expanding the area of the detecting electrode on the side opposite to the plurality of driving electrodes via the driving electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takafumi Suzuki, Kohei Azumi
  • Publication number: 20190294122
    Abstract: A device with buttons includes: a display unit that is configured to perform predetermined display; and a plurality of buttons that are positioned on a lower side of the display unit. An area of a button to be most frequently used is the largest among areas of the plurality of buttons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuyasu KOJIMA, Takafumi SUZUKI, Rei MORISAWA