Patents by Inventor Takashi Inoue

Takashi Inoue 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).

  • Control apparatus and control method for spatial light modulator
    Patent number: 9995923
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a lens, an SLM presenting a modulation pattern on a modulation plane and outputting modulated light L2 for forming light spots P1 and P2 on a pupil plane of the lens, an imaging device imaging a fringe pattern image formed on a focal plane of the lens and generating image data Da indicating the fringe pattern image, a calculation unit calculating at least one kind of parameter among an intensity amplitude, a phase shift amount, and an intensity average from the image data Da, an analysis unit obtaining a deviation in relative positions of an optical axis of the lens and a reference coordinate of the modulation plane based on the parameter, and a changing unit changing an origin position of the reference coordinate so that the deviation in the relative positions is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Koyo Watanabe, Takashi Inoue
  • VEHICLE POWER STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE VEHICLE POWER STORAGE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180156144
    Abstract: The objective of the invention is to cause a load for reducing the warm-up time of an exhaust gas purifying device to be generated efficiently, and to make effective use of the energy required to reduce the warm-up time of the exhaust gas purifying device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi INOUE, Atsutoshi INOUE, Masaaki SUMITA
  • SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180151377
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first nitride semiconductor layer formed over a substrate, a second nitride semiconductor layer formed over the first nitride semiconductor layer and having a band gap wider than a band gap of the first nitride semiconductor layer, a trench penetrating through the second nitride semiconductor layer and reaching an inside of the first nitride semiconductor layer, a gate electrode placed in the trench over a gate insulating film, and a first electrode and a second electrode formed over the second nitride semiconductor layer on both sides of the gate electrode, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi Inoue, Tatsuo Nakayama, Yasuhiro Okamoto, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Toshiyuki Takewaki, Nobuhiro Nagura, Takayuki Nagai, Yoshinao Miura, Hironobu Miyamoto
  • Method of manufacturing semiconductor device with a multi-layered gate dielectric
    Patent number: 9984884
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first nitride semiconductor layer, forming thereover a second nitride semiconductor layer having a band gap wider than that of the first nitride semiconductor layer, and thereby forming a stacked body, etching the stacked body with a first film placed over the stacked body and including a first opening portion as a mask to form a trench penetrating through the second nitride semiconductor layer and reaching an inside of the first nitride semiconductor layer, causing an end portion of the first film to retreat from an end portion of the trench, forming a second film over the first film including the inside of the trench, and forming a gate electrode over the second film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Inoue, Tatsuo Nakayama, Yasuhiro Okamoto, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Toshiyuki Takewaki, Nobuhiro Nagura, Takayuki Nagai, Yoshinao Miura, Hironobu Miyamoto
  • Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device including Al electrode formed on AlxGa(1-x)N layer
    Patent number: 9985108
    Abstract: An electrode comes in ohmic contact with an AlGaN layer. A semiconductor device SD has a nitride semiconductor layer GN2, and an AlxGa(1-x)N layer AGN (hereinafter referred to as “AlGaN layer AGN), and Al electrodes DE, SE. in the AlGaN layer AGN, 0<x?0.2 is satisfied. Also, both of a concentration of a p-type impurity and a concentration of an n-type impurity in the AlGaN layer AGN are 1×1016 cm?3 or lower. In this example, the p-type impurity is exemplified by, for example, Be, C, and Mg, and the n-type impurity is exemplified by Si, S, and Se. Also, the Al electrodes DE and SE are connected to the AlGaN layer AGN. Because a composition ratio of Al is limited to the above-mentioned range, the Al electrodes DE and SE are brought into ohmic contact with the AlGaN layer AGN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nakayama, Masaaki Kanazawa, Yasuhiro Okamoto, Takashi Inoue, Hironobu Miyamoto, Ryohei Nega
  • POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS, POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD
    Publication number: 20180145509
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus comprises a first communication unit configured to receive, from an external server, an output suppression message instructing output suppression of a dispersed power source; and a second communication unit configured to perform communication of a predetermined message having a predetermined format with a power management apparatus that manages power information of a consumer's facility. The predetermined format includes an information element capable of storing output suppression information related to the output suppression of the dispersed power source. The second communication unit is configured to transmit the predetermined message including the output suppression information as an information element to the power management apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Yuri SATO, Kazutaka NAKAMURA, Yuji KAKUDA, Yuki SUZUKI, Takashi INOUE, Kentaro KAMEI
  • Touch panel with injection molded housing
    Patent number: 9977533
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel having superior impact resistance and good design on an operation face side without a decorative layer. The touch panel is manufactured by providing a cover member on an operation face of the substrate and at an inner side of a lead-out line wiring region so as to avoid lead-out lines of the first electrodes and the second electrodes, and forming a housing portion by insert injection molding using resin material to the step portion created by disposing the cover member, so as to make a front face of the housing portion flush with a front face of the cover member, and so as to sandwich an outer edge of the substrate from upper and lower sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Naito, Kiyoyuki Deguchi, Takashi Inoue, Tomohiro Ishii, Tsubasa Mitsuhashi
  • Control apparatus and control method
    Patent number: 9977449
    Abstract: This HEMS (200) is provided with a control unit (230) that, if an operation directive does not go through a server (600) provided externally to a customer's home (10), identifies said operation directive as having come from within the customer's home, and if the operation directive does go through the server (600) provided externally to the customer's home (10), identifies the operation directive as having come from outside the customer's home.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutaka Nakamura, Takashi Inoue, Daisuke Hoshi
  • Lamp device for vehicle and lighting device for vehicle
    Patent number: 9970624
    Abstract: An adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a reference position of an optical axis of a projection lens of a lens unit has a reference axis perpendicular to the optical axis and disposed in a plane which intersects with a focal point of the projection lens. The lens unit moves in an extension direction of the reference axis in accordance with rotation of a second screw. An acting point of a force to move the lens unit is disposed in a plane formed by the optical axis and the reference axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Shibata, Takeyuki Tachiiwa, Kazutami Oishi, Satoru Yashiki, Takashi Inoue
  • Touch panel with injection molded housing
    Patent number: 9971446
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel having superior impact resistance and good design on an operation face side without a decorative layer. The touch panel is manufactured by forming a cut out portion at an outer edge of a substrate on an operation face side of the substrate so as to cover a lead-out line wiring region of lead-out lines of first electrodes and second electrodes, and forming a housing portion by insert injection molding using resin material so as to sandwich the outer edge of the substrate from upper and lower sides with an operation region of a sensor unit being a front face side, and such that the cut out portion is covered and a front face of the housing portion is arranged flush with the operation face of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Naito, Kiyoyuki Deguchi, Takashi Inoue, Tsubasa Mitsuhashi
  • Field effect transistor, and multilayered epitaxial film for use in preparation of field effect transistor
    Patent number: 9954087
    Abstract: In a group III nitride-type field effect transistor, the present invention reduces a leak current component by conduction of residual carriers in a buffer layer, and achieves improvement in a break-down voltage, and enhances a carrier confinement effect (carrier confinement) of a channel to improve pinch-off characteristics (to suppress a short channel effect). For example, when applying the present invention to a GaN-type field effect transistor, besides GaN of a channel layer, a composition-modulated (composition-gradient) AlGaN layer in which aluminum composition reduces toward a top gradually or stepwise is used as a buffer layer (hetero buffer).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Inoue, Tatsuo Nakayama, Yuji Ando, Yasuhiro Murase, Kazuki Ota, Hironobu Miyamoto, Katsumi Yamanoguchi, Naotaka Kuroda, Akio Wakejima, Yasuhiro Okamoto
  • Correspondence relation specifying method for adaptive optics system, wavefront distortion compensation method, adaptive optics system, and storage medium storing program for adaptive optics system
    Patent number: 9927608
    Abstract: An adaptive optics system includes a spatial light modulator configured to spatially modulate a phase of an optical image incident on a modulation surface including N two-dimensionally arranged regions and a wavefront sensor including a lens array having N two-dimensionally arranged lenses corresponding to the N regions and an optical detection element for detecting a light intensity distribution including K converging spots formed by the lens array and configured to receive the optical image after the modulation from the spatial light modulator, wherein a correspondence relation between the region of the spatial light modulator and the converging spot formed in the wavefront sensor is specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Hongxin Huang, Takashi Inoue
  • VEHICLE SPEED LIMITER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180079412
    Abstract: A vehicle speed limiter system installed on a vehicle includes a detection unit to detect a speed limit value of a road while the vehicle is traveling; a setting unit to set the speed limit value; a limiter unit to limit the vehicle speed, based on the speed limit value; an obtainment unit to obtain a stepping amount on an accelerator pedal; a calculation unit to calculate a parameter depending on the stepping amount in a state where the vehicle speed is being limited by the limiter unit; and a display unit to display information based on the parameter, in a case where a speed limit value newly detected by the detection unit is greater than the speed limit value previously set by the setting unit, before the setting unit sets the speed limit value newly detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuyuki TOMATSU, Takashi INOUE, Sokfan YEE, Tetsuya TAIRA, Keiji YAMASHITA, Takato MASUDA
  • WAVELENGTH CONVERSION ELEMENT AND WAVELENGTH CONVERSION LIGHT PULSE WAVEFORM SHAPING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180067376
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion element includes a crystal having a periodically poled structure in which polarization is inverted with an inversion period ? along a z-axis which is an input axis of a light pulse. The wavelength conversion element is configured to generate an output light pulse converted to have an output frequency f(x) corresponding to the inversion period ?(x) at each position x by change of the inversion period ? according to the position x, and when a target frequency linearly changing with the position x is set to fT(x)=b+ax, a frequency width of the output frequency is set to ?f(x), and the output frequency is set to f(x)=fT(x)+?(x), the output frequency is set to coincide with the target frequency within a range satisfying a condition |?(x)|??f(x).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Hisanari TAKAHASHI, Yoichi KAWADA, Takashi INOUE, Koyo WATANABE, Koji TAKAHASHI, Hironori TAKAHASHI
  • Soft capsule shell
    Patent number: 9901547
    Abstract: Provided are a plant-derived soft capsule shell having a high shell sheet strength, a good adhesive property, and excellent shell performance, and a soft capsule. The soft capsule shell comprises: (A) iota carrageenan; and (B) a starch dispersion obtained by ultrasonically treating a starch paste solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI CAPSULE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kato, Kazuhiko Watanabe, Takashi Inoue, Yosuke Kondo
  • Vehicle speed limiter system
    Patent number: 9855949
    Abstract: A vehicle speed limiter system installed on a vehicle includes a detection unit to detect a speed limit value of a road while the vehicle is traveling; a setting unit to set the speed limit value; a limiter unit to limit the vehicle speed, based on the speed limit value; an obtainment unit to obtain a stepping amount on an accelerator pedal; a calculation unit to calculate a parameter depending on the stepping amount in a state where the vehicle speed is being limited by the limiter unit; and a display unit to display information based on the parameter, in a case where a speed limit value newly detected by the detection unit is greater than the speed limit value previously set by the setting unit, before the setting unit sets the speed limit value newly detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Tomatsu, Takashi Inoue, Sokfan Yee, Tetsuya Taira, Keiji Yamashita, Takato Masuda
  • Sample cooling device, and autosampler provided with the same
    Patent number: 9851282
    Abstract: There are provided a sample cooling device capable of preventing air containing moisture from flowing into an accommodating chamber from outside the accommodating chamber, and of desirably dehumidifying air inside the accommodating chamber, and an autosampler provided with the same. Air is sent into an accommodating chamber 11 by a blower section 100 from outside the accommodating chamber 11 and the air is cooled by a dehumidifier section 13 to thereby cause dehumidified air to be supplied into the accommodating chamber 11. With the air sent into the accommodating chamber 11 by the blower section 100 from outside the accommodating chamber 11, the inside of the accommodating chamber 11 may be placed in a pressurized state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Inoue
  • Vehicle speed limiting apparatus and vehicle speed control apparatus
    Patent number: 9845093
    Abstract: A vehicle speed limiting apparatus includes an opening detection unit to detect an opening of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle; an estimation unit to estimate whether the vehicle starts a lane change; and an ECU to implement an upper-limit setting unit to set an upper-limit speed of the vehicle, a vehicle speed control unit to control the traveling speed so as not to exceed the upper-limit speed even when the opening of the accelerator pedal becomes great enough to make the traveling speed exceed the upper-limit speed, and a permissible speed setting unit to set a permissible speed higher than the upper-limit speed. When the estimation unit estimates that the vehicle starts the lane change, the vehicle speed control unit permits the traveling speed to exceed the upper-limit speed, and controls the traveling speed so as not to exceed the permissible speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiji Yamashita, Takashi Inoue, Tetsuya Taira, Takato Masuda, Nobuyuki Tomatsu, Sokfan Yee
  • Semiconductor device
    Patent number: 9837519
    Abstract: The semiconductor device includes a trench that penetrates a barrier layer, and reaches a middle portion of a channel layer among an n+ layer, an n-type layer, a p-type layer, the channel layer, and the barrier layer which are formed above a substrate, a gate electrode arranged within the groove through a gate insulating film, and a source electrode and a drain electrode which are formed above the barrier layer on both sides of the gate electrode. The n-type layer and the drain electrode are electrically coupled by a connection portion that reaches the n+ layer. The p-type layer and the source electrode are electrically coupled by a connection portion that reaches the p-type layer. A diode including a p-type layer and an n-type layer is provided between the source electrode and the drain electrode, to thereby prevent the breaking of an element caused by an avalanche breakdown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nakayama, Hironobu Miyamoto, Yasuhiro Okamoto, Yoshinao Miura, Takashi Inoue
  • Touch Panel
    Publication number: 20170329434
    Abstract: A touch panel having a noise guiding member for guiding noise current such as static electricity generated during operating is provided. The noise guiding member is made of a metal material, and is arranged in a position that a front surface side end portion does not project from a front surface of a housing unit. In a state that a back surface side end portion is connected to the ground G, the noise guiding member passes through a back surface from the front surface of the housing unit. The touch panel can reduce manufacturing costs without design restriction, and control adverse effect subjecting by noise current due to external discharge such as static electricity generated when operating the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Naito, Kiyoyuki Deguchi, Takashi Inoue, Tomohiro Ishii