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).

  • Publication number: 20190363417
    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: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Chu XU, Takahiro BABA
  • Patent number: 10482332
    Abstract: In a pedestrian determining apparatus, an object detecting unit detects, based on waves reflected by an object, the object as a radar-based object. The reflected waves are generated based on reflection, by the object, of radar waves transmitted ahead of the own vehicle. A likelihood calculating unit calculates, for the radar-based object, a likelihood of the radar-based object being a pedestrian crossing ahead of the own vehicle. A pedestrian determining unit determines whether the likelihood is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold, and determines that the radar-based object is a pedestrian crossing ahead of the own vehicle if the likelihood is equal to or higher than the predetermined threshold. The likelihood calculating unit sets the likelihood for the radar-based object to be lower if the radar-based object is detected as a part of an object group arranged at regular intervals than otherwise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Baba
  • Publication number: 20190346557
    Abstract: An ECU determines that detected first and second objects are identical as an identical object based on a first position of the first object and a second position of the second object, and calculates the position of a target object that is determined as the identical object. The ECU determines whether a current situation is such that a reliability of the identicalness determination is at a predetermined level or higher. In a case of determining the current situation to be such that the reliability is at the predetermined level or higher, the ECU calculates the position of the target object based on a first distance and a second orientation. In a case of determining the current situation not to be such that the reliability is at the predetermined level or higher, the ECU calculates the position of the target object based on a second distance and the second orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventor: Takahiro BABA
  • Patent number: 10476123
    Abstract: A transmission line includes a dielectric base body including a first and second base bodies. Each of the first and second base bodies includes dielectric layers stacked on top of one another. The first base body includes a first signal conductor located between ground conductors in a stacking direction. The second base body includes a second signal conductor located between ground conductors in the stacking direction. The first and second base bodies are brought together so that one of the ground conductors of the first base body and one of the ground conductors of the second base body abut against or are adjacent to each other. Lead conductors defining both ends of the first signal conductor and lead conductors defining both ends of the second signal conductor are exposed on a mounting surface of the dielectric base body parallel or substantially parallel to the stacking direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Baba, Satoshi Sasaki, Kuniaki Yosui
  • Publication number: 20190341665
    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: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Takahiro BABA, Akihiro KIKUCHI, Genro KATO, Kosuke NISHINO, Nobuo IKEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190329745
    Abstract: A collision avoidance apparatus includes a travelling state calculation section, a target detection section, a target state calculation section, a lateral moving object determination section, a collision determination section, and a collision avoidance control section. The collision avoidance control section calculates, based on (i) a passing-through period of the lateral moving object in which the lateral moving object passes through an own vehicle course that is a moving course of the own vehicle and (ii) a reaching time of the own vehicle that is a period remaining before the own vehicle reaching a lateral moving object course that is a moving course of the lateral moving object, an operation timing of the brakes for the lateral moving object passing through the own vehicle course before the own vehicle reaches the lateral moving object course, and operates the brakes at the calculated operation timing of the brakes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Yosuke ITO, Kei KAMIYA, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA
  • Publication number: 20190334262
    Abstract: A resin multilayer substrate includes a substrate main body including first, second, and third wiring portions connected to one another by a connecting portion. First, second and third external connection terminals are respectively included in the first, second and third wiring portions. The first external connection terminal includes a conductor exposed at a surface of the substrate main body. The second and third external connection terminals include connectors mounted on conductors on the surface of the substrate main body. An auxiliary mounting conductor is disposed between the first external connection terminal and the second and third external connection terminals on the surface of the substrate main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Chu XU, Takahiro BABA
  • Patent number: 10442430
    Abstract: A collision avoidance assistance device includes: a target detection unit for detecting a target; a process execution unit for executing a collision avoidance assistance process in the case where it is determined that the target satisfies an execution condition; an image recognition unit for recognizing a target in an image; a position P acquisition unit for acquiring a position P, in a vertical direction, of the target; a size RS estimation unit for estimating an actual size RS of the target; and an execution condition setting unit for setting the execution condition to be stricter in the case where the following conditions J1 and J2 are satisfied or the following conditions J3 and J4 are satisfied than in other cases: (Condition J1) in the image, the position P is below a range ?; (Condition J2) the size RS is smaller than a range ?; (Condition J3) in the image, the position P is above the range ?; and (Condition J4) the size RS is larger than the range ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Baba
  • Patent number: 10438489
    Abstract: In an object detection apparatus, a first association unit associates, based on radar information and camera information, radar objects with at least one camera object that are estimated to be the same as each other. If camera objects are detected so that the camera information includes at least the detection point and the type of each of the camera objects, a determination unit determines whether the camera objects express a common object in accordance with the camera information. A second association unit defines, upon determination that the camera objects express the common object, the camera objects as a camera object group, and associates, if one of the camera objects constituting the camera object group is associated with a target radar object that is one of the radar objects, all the camera objects constituting the camera object group with the target radar object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Baba
  • Patent number: 10429502
    Abstract: The target detecting device comprises a radar sensor, an imaging sensor, and an ECU. The target detected by the radar sensor is selected under certain conditions, for example, i) a reception intensity of the reflected radar waves is equal to or more than a predetermined value, or ii) the target is moving, to be outputted externally. When a stopped vehicle is detected on a road by the sensor, and a target, for example a pedestrian, present behind the stopped vehicle is detected from the image acquired by the imaging sensor by performing image recognition using predetermined patterns of a target, the ECU makes the selection condition less restrictive than the selection condition for targets other than the target present behind the stopped vehicle, or unconditionally selects the target present behind the stopped vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Baba
  • Patent number: 10429492
    Abstract: The misalignment quantity calculating apparatus determines whether a first object detected by a beam sensor is identical to a second object detected by an image sensor. Upon determining that the first object is identical to the second object, the misalignment quantity calculating apparatus calculates, as a misalignment quantity of the beam sensor, an angle between a first line segment and a second line segment; the first line segment connects a predetermined reference point of the misalignment quantity calculating apparatus and a first feature point of the first object, and the second line segment connects the predetermined reference point and a second feature point of the second object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Baba
  • Patent number: 10431088
    Abstract: In an object detection apparatus, a first region definition unit defines a first object region including a first detection point representing a relative position of a first object detected based on detection information from the radar. A second region definition unit defines a second object region including a second detection point representing a relative position of a second object detected based on a captured image from a monocular camera. A learning status acquisition unit acquires a learning progress status to estimate a position of FOE on the captured image. If there is an overlap of the first and second object regions, a determination unit determines that these objects are the same object. The second region definition unit sets a length of the second object region in a depthwise or vehicle-lengthwise direction representing a direction of the second detection point with respect to the reference point depending on the learning progress status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Baba
  • Publication number: 20190297727
    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: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: Takahiro BABA
  • Publication number: 20190297722
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a circuit board and an electric element mounted on the circuit board. The electric element includes a multilayer body made of electrically insulating base materials, a transmission line portion, and connection portions. The transmission line portion and the connection portions are provided in the multilayer body. Each of the connection portions is continuous with a corresponding portion of the transmission line portion, and is connected to the circuit board by an electrically conductive bonding material. The transmission line portion other than the connection portions is not electrically connected to an electronic component on the circuit board. The electronic component not electrically connected to the electric element is disposed between the transmission line portion of the electric element and the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Takahiro BABA, Kosuke NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20190291730
    Abstract: A collision avoidance device for a vehicle is provided. The collision avoidance device includes an object sensing unit for sensing an object, an attribute acquisition unit for using a sensing result from the object sensing unit to acquire an attribute of an oncoming vehicle, and a collision avoidance execution unit for executing at least one of a notification of a possibility of collision and a collision avoidance operation, if it is determined, based on the attribute acquired by the attribute acquisition unit, that the oncoming vehicle crosses a center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Kei KAMIYA, Yosuke ITO, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA
  • Publication number: 20190291729
    Abstract: A braking assistance device for a vehicle includes an object sensing unit for sensing an object, an intersection entry determination unit for determining entry of a host vehicle into an intersection, and a braking assistance execution unit for executing braking assistance by a braking device so as to avoid or mitigate collision with the object. If the host vehicle is determined to be entering the intersection, the braking assistance execution unit determines, based on a sensing result from the object sensing unit, a traffic environment at the intersection, and controls execution of the braking assistance in accordance with the determined traffic environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Kei KAMIYA, Yosuke ITO, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA
  • Patent number: 10424824
    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: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Baba, Akihiro Kikuchi, Genro Kato, Kosuke Nishino, Nobuo Ikemoto
  • Patent number: 10403989
    Abstract: A resin multilayer substrate includes a substrate main body including first, second, and third wiring portions connected to one another by a connecting portion. First, second and third external connection terminals are respectively included in the first, second and third wiring portions. The first external connection terminal includes a conductor exposed at a surface of the substrate main body. The second and third external connection terminals include connectors mounted on conductors on the surface of the substrate main body. An auxiliary mounting conductor is disposed between the first external connection terminal and the second and third external connection terminals on the surface of the substrate main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chu Xu, Takahiro Baba
  • Patent number: 10380893
    Abstract: In an object detection apparatus, a sameness determination unit determines whether or not a first object and a second object are a same object, where the first object is an object detected by an electromagnetic wave sensor and the second object is an object detected by an image sensor. A position determination unit determines a position of the same object that is an object for which the first object and the second object are determined to be the same, where a Y-coordinate of or a distance to the same object in an XY-plane is determined employing a result of the detection of the first object and an X-coordinate or an azimuth of the same object with respect to a reference direction in the XY-plane is determined employing a result of the detection of the second object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Baba
  • Publication number: 20190237841
    Abstract: In a transmission line, a first ground conductor pattern and a second ground conductor pattern are connected through a first interlayer connecting conductor, and the first ground conductor pattern and a third ground conductor pattern are connected through a second interlayer connecting conductor. A first signal conductor pattern includes a first bypassing pattern portion that bypasses the first interlayer connecting conductor, and a second signal conductor pattern includes a second bypassing pattern portion that bypasses the second interlayer connecting conductor. Bypassing directions of the first bypassing pattern portion and the second bypassing pattern portion are opposite to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Takahiro BABA, Yuya DOKAI