Patents by Inventor Takahiro Baba

Takahiro Baba 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: 11056808
    Abstract: A module includes a multilayer body that includes insulating-resin base members laminated together, first and second main surfaces, and first and second regions when viewed in plan view. A first conductor pattern and a protective film that covers the first conductor pattern are provided in the first region of the first main surface. Second conductor patterns and holes that extend to the second conductor patterns are provided in the second region of the multilayer body. The holes are provided with conductive joining materials, and connectors are connected to the second conductor patterns by the conductive joining materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Sasaki, Yoichi Saito, Takahiro Baba, Fumie Matsuda, Yoshitomo Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210204403
    Abstract: A multilayer board includes a laminated insulating body, signal conductors inside the laminated insulating body and extending in a transmission direction, and ground conductors sandwiching each of the signal conductors in a lamination direction via the insulating base material layers. The multilayer board includes a parallel extending portion in which the signal conductors extend parallel and that includes signal conductors arranged separately from each other in a direction orthogonal to the transmission direction in a planar view in the lamination direction, and a signal conductor overlapping with the signal conductor in a planar view in the lamination direction and arranged separately from the signal conductor in the lamination direction. The parallel extending portion includes first and second regions arranged separately in a direction orthogonal to the transmission direction in a planar view in the lamination direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Chu XU, Takahiro BABA
  • Patent number: 11037701
    Abstract: A transmission line substrate includes a stacked body that includes insulating base materials, first and second signal lines, and first and second ground conductors. The second signal line is provided on a layer different from the layer of the first signal line and extends in parallel with the first signal line. The first ground conductor is provided on the same layer as the layer of the second signal line and overlapped with the first signal line when viewed in the Z-axis direction. The second ground conductor is provided on the same layer as the layer of the first signal line and overlapped with the second signal line when viewed in the Z-axis direction. A first transmission line includes the first signal line, the first ground conductor, and an insulating base material, and a second transmission line includes the second signal line, the second ground conductor, and the insulating base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Baba, Lijun Zhao, Chu Xu, Hiromasa Koyama, Satoshi Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20210151845
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a substrate and an electrical element mounted on the substrate. The electrical element includes a base material including a first principal surface and a second principal surface that are deformable and flat or substantially flat surfaces and a conductor pattern included on the base material. The electrical element further includes a first connection portion and a second connection portion that connect to a circuit included on the substrate and a transmission line portion located in a position different from positions of the first connection portion and the second connection portion that electrically connects the first connection portion and the second connection portion. The conductor pattern includes a conductor pattern of the first connection portion, a conductor pattern of the second connection portion, a conductor pattern of the transmission line portion, and an electrical-element-side bonding pattern arranged in the transmission line portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Takahiro BABA, Akihiro KIKUCHI, Genro KATO, Kosuke NISHINO, Nobuo IKEMOTO
  • Patent number: 11004341
    Abstract: A vehicle collision avoidance supporting apparatus may include a situation determination unit configured to determine whether it is a situation that there exists no moving object proceeding in a direction crossing a traveling direction of the vehicle; a first sensor and configured to detect an object ahead of the vehicle; and an avoidance operation controller configured to cause the vehicle to perform a predetermined avoidance operation for avoiding a collision in accordance with a detection result of the first sensor in a determination region ahead of the vehicle. The avoidance operation controller uses a region which is narrower in a direction perpendicular to the travelling direction and parallel to a horizontal direction as the determination region when it is the situation that there exists no moving object than when it is not the situation that there exists no moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Baba, Takaharu Oguri, Yosuke Ito, Kei Kamiya
  • Patent number: 10996317
    Abstract: An object detection apparatus includes an object detecting unit, a temporary determination unit a speed acquiring unit, and a final determination unit. The object detecting unit detects a pedestrian or a two-wheeled vehicle as an object that is present in a periphery of an own vehicle by performing image processing on a captured image capturing an advancing direction of the own vehicle. The temporary determination unit temporarily determinates a type of the object detected by the object detecting unit by analyzing the captured image. The speed acquiring unit acquires a movement speed of the object using reflected waves of a carrier wave. The final determination unit finally determines the type of the object temporarily determined by the temporary determination unit using the movement speed acquired by the speed acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Baba
  • Patent number: 10986728
    Abstract: A multilayer board includes a laminated insulating body, signal conductors inside the laminated insulating body and extending in a transmission direction, and ground conductors sandwiching each of the signal conductors in a lamination direction via the insulating base material layers. The multilayer board includes a parallel extending portion in which the signal conductors extend parallel and that includes signal conductors arranged separately from each other in a direction orthogonal to the transmission direction in a planar view in the lamination direction, and a signal conductor overlapping with the signal conductor in a planar view in the lamination direction and arranged separately from the signal conductor in the lamination direction. The parallel extending portion includes first and second regions arranged separately in a direction orthogonal to the transmission direction in a planar view in the lamination direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chu Xu, Takahiro Baba
  • Patent number: 10977944
    Abstract: A vehicle collision avoidance support apparatus includes a state determination unit configured to determine whether or not there is a state where a moving object proceeding in a direction intersecting with a traveling direction of a vehicle may exist; a first sensor configured to detect an object in front of the vehicle; and an avoidance operation control unit configured to cause the vehicle to perform a predetermined avoidance operation for avoiding a collision according to a detection result of the first sensor within a determination region in front of the vehicle. The avoidance operation control unit uses a region that is wider in a direction perpendicular and horizontal to the travelling direction as the determination region when it is determined that there is a state where the moving object may exist in comparison with when it is determined that there is no state where the moving object may exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Baba, Takaharu Oguri, Yosuke Ito, Kei Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20210080415
    Abstract: This physical property value measurement device irradiates a specimen with a heating beam arrived at through intensity-pulse modulation of output light of a heating laser and irradiates the specimen with a temperature probe beam that is output light from a temperature probe laser and is delayed relative to the heating beam. The component of a detection signal for the reflected light of the temperature probe beam that is synchronous with the frequency of the intensity-pulse modulation is amplified using a lock-in amplifier, and a computer that performs regression analysis on the thermoreflectance signal obtained from the lock-in amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Takahiro BABA, Tetsuya BABA
  • Publication number: 20210070287
    Abstract: A traveling assistance apparatus controls a safety apparatus for avoiding collision between an own vehicle and an object, based on detection information from an object detection apparatus. The assistance apparatus calculates a predicted time to collision of a target object and the own vehicle, and operates the safety apparatus in response to the predicted time to collision being equal to or less than a predetermined operation timing. In response to a steering operation by a driver for collision avoidance of the own vehicle being performed, the assistance apparatus performs operation-stop in which operation of the safety apparatus is stopped or operation-delay in which the operation timing is delayed. The assistance apparatus suppresses the operation-stop or the operation-delay in response to a target object serving as a collision avoidance target being recognized in a path of the own vehicle after the steering operation by the driver, based on the detection information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Toru TAKAHASHI, Yosuke ITO, Kei KAMIYA, Ryo TAKAKI, Shogo MATSUNAGA, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA
  • Patent number: 10944145
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a substrate and an electrical element mounted on the substrate. The electrical element includes a base material including a first principal surface and a second principal surface that are deformable and flat or substantially flat surfaces and a conductor pattern included on the base material. The electrical element further includes a first connection portion and a second connection portion that connect to a circuit included on the substrate and a transmission line portion located in a position different from positions of the first connection portion and the second connection portion that electrically connects the first connection portion and the second connection portion. The conductor pattern includes a conductor pattern of the first connection portion, a conductor pattern of the second connection portion, a conductor pattern of the transmission line portion, and an electrical-element-side bonding pattern arranged in the transmission line portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Baba, Akihiro Kikuchi, Genro Kato, Kosuke Nishino, Nobuo Ikemoto
  • Publication number: 20210039636
    Abstract: In a collision avoidance apparatus for a vehicle, a collision avoidance controller is configured to calculate a movement trajectory of a moving object moving on a road crossing a road that the vehicle is traveling on from a succession of locations of the moving object, calculate a movement trajectory of the vehicle using a speed of the vehicle, determine whether the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle, and in response to determining that the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle and that the moving object fails to be recognized by a camera due to a view of the moving object being obstructed, calculate a risk index for determining a collision avoidance measure and employ the collision avoidance measure in dependence upon the risk index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kei KAMIYA, Yosuke ITO, Toru TAKAHASHI, Shogo MATSUNAGA, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA, Ryo TAKAKI
  • Patent number: 10871565
    Abstract: An object detection apparatus includes a radar-region-setting-unit setting a detection region of an object as a radar search region based on a detected position of the object detected by a radar, an image-region-setting-unit setting the detection region of the object as an image search region based on the detected position of the object detected by a monocular camera, an object-determination-unit determining the object detected by a radar and the monocular camera as the same object under a condition that an overlapping portion of the radar search region and the image search region exists, and a two-wheeler-determination-unit determining whether an object type detected by the monocular camera is a two-wheeler. The image-region-setting-unit enlarges the image search region compared with a case where the object type is not the two-wheeler, under a condition that the object type is determined as the two-wheeler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Baba
  • Publication number: 20200396826
    Abstract: A transmission line includes connecting portion connected to the outside and a main body connected to the connecting portion. The connecting portion includes a terminal electrode connected to an external electrode, a signal conductor, and a ground conductor. The main body includes the signal conductor and the ground conductor. The connecting portion includes a first region including the terminal electrode, a second region adjacent to the first region along a signal transmission path, and a third region located between the second region and the main body. Impedance matching at the at least one of the connecting portions is achieved by the first region, the second region, and the third region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Kuniaki YOSUI, Keiichi HIROSE, Takahiro BABA
  • Patent number: 10850729
    Abstract: A collision determination device for determining the probability of a collision between an own vehicle and a target in the predetermined determination area surrounding the own vehicle includes an orientation detection unit for detecting the orientation of the target relative to the own vehicle, an image sensor for capturing images surrounding the own vehicle, an angle calculation unit for calculating an angle ?0 formed by the movement direction of the own vehicle and the movement direction of the target, and a collision determination unit which uses image data acquired from the image sensor to calculate the state of a lane compartment line, and determines the probability of a collision between the own vehicle and the target based on the angle ?0 and the calculation result of the lane compartment line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaharu Oguri, Yosuke Ito, Kei Kamiya, Takahiro Baba, Kouichi Masuda
  • Patent number: 10850730
    Abstract: A crossing determination apparatus includes: an object detection unit which detects an object moving in a direction perpendicular to a traveling path of an own vehicle; a crossing speed calculation unit which calculates a crossing speed that is a speed at which the object detected by the objection detection unit is crossing a current traveling path of the own vehicle; a crossing determination unit which, when the crossing speed calculated by the crossing speed calculation unit is higher than a predetermined speed, determines that the object is crossing the traveling path of the own vehicle; and a yaw rate detection unit which detects a yaw rate of the own vehicle. The crossing determination unit corrects the crossing speed of the object or the predetermined speed based on the yaw rate detected by the yaw rate detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Baba, Wataru Ike, Masayuki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20200361454
    Abstract: A collision avoidance assistance device includes a first determination section that determines a probability that a vehicle changes course, by using a recognition result of a road structure and a detection result by internal field sensors, a second determination section that determines a probability that the vehicle changes course, by using information related to a traveling situation output, a decision section that decides an operation mode of collision avoidance assistance using a collision avoidance assistance mechanism, by using a combination of a determination result of the first determination section and a determination result of the second determination section, and an assistance section that performs a process for controlling the collision avoidance assistance mechanism in the operation mode that has been decided by the decision section, upon detection of a collision probability with an obstacle using the information output by information output devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Ryo TAKAKI, Yosuke ITO, Kei KAMIYA, Toru TAKAHASHI, Shogo MATSUNAGA, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA
  • Patent number: 10806033
    Abstract: An interposer includes a stacked body including first and second mounting surfaces that face each other, a first electrode on the first mounting surface, and a second electrode on the second mounting surface. The stacked body includes flexible insulating layers stacked on each other, and a folded portion. The first and second electrodes are electrically connected to each other. The stacked body includes an upright portion between the first and second mounting surfaces and in which a stacking direction in which the insulating layers are stacked is parallel to the first and second mounting surfaces, and a bent portion bent in a plan view of the first and second mounting surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanto Iida, Shinichi Araki, Ryosuke Takada, Takahiro Baba
  • Patent number: 10772204
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a circuit board, and first and second elements. The first element includes a first connection portion including a recess portion, and first connection portion side electrodes exposed to the first connection portion. The second element includes a second connection portion and second connection portion side electrodes exposed to the second connection portion. The circuit board includes first and second board side electrodes respectively disposed at positions opposed to each other in plan view. The first connection portion side electrode and the second connection portion side electrode are joined to the first board side electrode and the second connection portion side electrode connected to each other. The first connection portion side electrode and the first board side electrode are disposed along the recess portion in plan view of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Baba
  • Patent number: 10770773
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first substrate and a second substrate mounted on the first substrate and having a smaller area than the first substrate. The second substrate extends in a longitudinal direction and has a planar or substantially planar shape with a uniform or substantially uniform width across all portions of the second substrate in the longitudinal direction. The second substrate includes a signal line, and a high-frequency transmission line including the signal line, and further includes an input/output pad electrically connected to the signal line, and an auxiliary pad arranged between two input/output pads, on the mounting surface of the second substrate. The first substrate includes lands each connected to the input/output pad and the auxiliary pad. The input/output pad and the auxiliary pad are each soldered on each of the lands of the first substrate and, thus, the second substrate is surface-mounted on the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Baba, Nobuo Ikemoto, Kosuke Nishino, Jun Sasaki