Patents by Inventor Takashi Yoshikawa

Takashi Yoshikawa 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: 11950030
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus enables a user to suitably select sound to be collected in connection with moving image capturing. The electronic apparatus is communicable with a plurality of sound collection devices, and includes a display control unit that displays, for each of the plurality of sound collection devices, a display item corresponding to the each sound collection device, based on positional information for the respective each sound collection device, acquired by a position acquisition unit, and displays, with the plurality of displayed display items, an image acquired by an image acquisition unit, wherein the display control unit displays, for the each sound collection device, the corresponding display item, even if the display item corresponds to a sound collection device not located within a range of image capturing of the acquired image, and a control unit associates and records the acquired image and sound information in a recording device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Yoshikawa, Takashi Seki
  • Publication number: 20240103917
    Abstract: A computer system including: a memory configured to store instructions; and a processor configured to execute instructions to realize one service by combining services which are provided using a plurality of pods coupled via a control network which is a network for performing control and a data network which is a network for performing transmission and reception of data, wherein realizing the one service comprises adding a pod to an arbitrary smart resource as one part of the plurality of pods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11929589
    Abstract: A light-emitting component includes: a substrate; plural light-emitting elements that are disposed on the substrate and that emit light in a direction intersecting with a surface of the substrate; and plural thyristors that are stacked on the plural light-emitting elements and that are turned ON to drive the corresponding light-emitting elements so that the light-emitting elements emit light or an amount of light emitted from the light-emitting elements is increased. Each of the plural light-emitting elements includes a current confinement region which is oxidized via a hole provided in a multilayer structure. The multilayer structure is constituted by a corresponding light-emitting element and a corresponding thyristor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takashi Kondo, Michiaki Murata, Kenichi Ono, Masahiro Yoshikawa, Takehito Hikichi, Yuji Shirai
  • Publication number: 20240067197
    Abstract: A vehicle control device 1 incudes: a detection unit configured to detect an operation onto an accelerator pedal; a driving force limitation unit 21 configured to conduct driving force limitation control of limiting driving force of a vehicle in accordance with the operation onto the accelerator pedal; a limitation setting unit 22 configured to switch between activation and deactivation of the driving force limitation control for every electronic key 5 to be used when driving the vehicle, based on limitation setting information set for every electronic key 5 of the vehicle; and a notification unit 24 configured to give a notification to a driver when an abnormality related to conducting the driving force limitation control is detected, in which the notification unit 24 gives the notification to the driver, when the abnormality is detected, in a case where the driving force limitation control is deactivated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Fumiaki YOSHIKAWA, Hisanori YANAGIDA, Takashi WATANABE, Satoshi MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20240067198
    Abstract: A vehicle control system for controlling an output of a drive source in a vehicle includes: a drive operation member configured to receive an input regarding a driving force for the vehicle from a driver of the vehicle; and a control device configured to cause the drive source to output a driving force corresponding to the input to the drive operation member. When the control device determines that a predetermined enabling condition is satisfied, the control device enables drive restriction for limiting the output of the drive source. The enabling condition includes an input condition which is based on the input to the drive operation member acquired during a predetermined period before start of the drive source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Fumiaki YOSHIKAWA, Hisanori YANAGIDA, Takashi WATANABE, Satoshi MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20240067177
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: an accelerator pedal operation detecting unit, a state quantity acquiring devices, and a driving force limiting unit that limits a driving force based on an accelerator pedal operation and a vehicle state quantity. The driving force limiting unit executes acceleration suppression control for setting an upper limit value of the driving force to a first limit value when a sudden accelerator pedal operation is detected, executes limited acceleration suppression control for setting the upper limit to a second limit value larger than the first limit value when the accelerator pedal is continuously depressed or depressed again within a predetermined time after the accelerator pedal is returned during execution of the acceleration suppression control, and switches the upper limit value according to the abnormality-occurring state quantity acquiring device when the abnormality has occurred in the state quantity acquiring devices during execution of these controls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Fumiaki YOSHIKAWA, Hisanori YANAGIDA, Takashi WATANABE, Satoshi MATSUSHITA
  • Patent number: 11585595
    Abstract: A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a storeroom lifted when the storeroom is pulled out and giving a degree of freedom to a lifting method. The refrigerator includes a main body, a door arranged to be pulled out from the main body, a storeroom arranged to be pulled out from the main body along with the door, and a lift device arranged to lift or lower the storeroom in connection with pulling-out or pushing-in of the door, wherein the lift device includes a guide including a portion sloping upward or downward in a pull-out direction of the storeroom, and a guidee guided by the guide so that the storeroom is lifted when the guidee is moved along the guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Nakajima, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takashi Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20230018534
    Abstract: An inkjet recording device includes a first tray for supporting sheets, a storage body for storing ink, a head for ejecting ink, a platen positioned between the head and the first tray, and a first guide member. The platen is configured to support a first surface of the sheet conveyed rearward at a position below the head. The first guide member is positioned frontward of the head and has a first curved surface configured to guide the first surface of the sheet conveyed from the first tray toward the platen. The first guide member has a portion arranged in alignment with the storage body in a widthwise direction perpendicular to an up-down direction and a front-rear direction. The first guide member has a portion positioned at the same height as the storage body in the up-down direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumio NAKAZAWA, Yoshinori OSAKABE, Hirotaka AOKI, Takashi YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11280302
    Abstract: An intake device for an engine is provided which can inhibit excessive cooling of EGR gas. In the intake device including an intake passage, an EGR passage, and an EGR cooler, the intake passage is provided with a lateral-side intake passage portion provided on one side of an engine body in a vehicle width direction, the EGR passage is provided with a downstream-side EGR passage portion defining the EGR passage on a downstream side of the EGR cooler and provided on the one side of the engine body in the vehicle width direction, and the downstream-side EGR passage portion is disposed such that at least a portion thereof is positioned rearward of the lateral-side intake passage portion and overlaps with the lateral-side intake passage portion when seen from the front of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hamazume, Takashi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11280301
    Abstract: An intake device of an engine comprises an intercooler, an intake passage including a downstream-side intake passage, and an EGR passage recirculating exhaust gas to the downstream-side intake passage. An intake-air supply opening having an opening area smaller than an area of a downstream-side face of an intercooler core is provided at a downstream side wall of a chamber. The downstream-side intake passage includes an extension passage portion extending upwardly along the downstream side wall. The intake-air supply opening includes an upper edge portion which separates the intake air flowing from an inside wall face of the extension passage portion and forms flowing main streams of the intake air inside the extension passage portion. EGR introduction ports are arranged at positions capable of supplying the EGR gas toward the flowing main streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hamazume, Takashi Yoshikawa, Jiro Kato, Taketoshi Yamauchi, Hirofumi Shinohara, Kazuhiro Nakamura, Yoko Inami, Shouichi Aiga, Tomoaki Fujiyama, Kosuke Miyamoto, Takuya Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220018595
    Abstract: A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a storeroom lifted when the storeroom is pulled out and giving a degree of freedom to a lifting method. The refrigerator includes a main body, a door arranged to be pulled out from the main body, a storeroom arranged to be pulled out from the main body along with the door, and a lift device arranged to lift or lower the storeroom in connection with pulling-out or pushing-in of the door, wherein the lift device includes a guide including a portion sloping upward or downward in a pull-out direction of the storeroom, and a guidee guided by the guide so that the storeroom is lifted when the guidee is moved along the guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAJIMA, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Takashi YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210363947
    Abstract: An intake device for an engine is provided which can inhibit excessive cooling of EGR gas. In the intake device including an intake passage, an EGR passage, and an EGR cooler, the intake passage is provided with a lateral-side intake passage portion provided on one side of an engine body in a vehicle width direction, the EGR passage is provided with a downstream-side EGR passage portion defining the EGR passage on a downstream side of the EGR cooler and provided on the one side of the engine body in the vehicle width direction, and the downstream-side EGR passage portion is disposed such that at least a portion thereof is positioned rearward of the lateral-side intake passage portion and overlaps with the lateral-side intake passage portion when seen from the front of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hamazume, Takashi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11159541
    Abstract: The present invention provides a program, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing method which can effectively prevent malware attacks. A predetermined process is judged as a ransomware, when a first condition that a file read function for reading a file included in a same file path as a file path written by a file write function called from the predetermined process has been already called from the predetermined process; and a second condition that the file write function rewrites a header of a file of the file path: are satisfied. A predetermined process is judged as a ransomware, when a first condition that an actual file on a disk is mapped as a virtual file on a memory by the predetermined process; a second condition that the virtual file is unmapped by the predetermined process; and a third condition that a file structure of the actual file or the virtual file when unmapping is rewritten to inappropriate status: are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUI BUSSAN SECURE DIRECTIONS, INC
    Inventors: Takashi Yoshikawa, Kei Sugawara, Masaru Sekihara
  • Publication number: 20210222653
    Abstract: An intake device of an engine comprises an intercooler, an intake passage including a downstream-side intake passage, and an EGR passage recirculating exhaust gas to the downstream-side intake passage. An intake-air supply opening having an opening area smaller than an area of a downstream-side face of an intercooler core is provided at a downstream side wall of a chamber. The downstream-side intake passage includes an extension passage portion extending upwardly along the downstream side wall. The intake-air supply opening includes an upper edge portion which separates the intake air flowing from an inside wall face of the extension passage portion and forms flowing main streams of the intake air inside the extension passage portion. EGR introduction ports are arranged at positions capable of supplying the EGR gas toward the flowing main streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro HAMAZUME, Takashi YOSHIKAWA, Jiro KATO, Taketoshi YAMAUCHI, Hirofumi SHINOHARA, Kazuhiro NAKAMURA, Yoko INAMI, Shouichi AIGA, Tomoaki FUJIYAMA, Kosuke MIYAMOTO, Takuya YAMADA
  • Patent number: 10894471
    Abstract: A mounting structure for a power conversion device includes: a vehicle body component extending in a front-rear direction of a vehicle; a mounting component provided on the vehicle body component; a drive unit held by the vehicle body component via the mounting component; and a power conversion device attached to the mounting component. A stiffness of the mounting component is greater than a stiffness of the vehicle body component. The power conversion device is arranged between a front end and a rear end of the drive unit in a side view of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Yokoyama, Mikio Nozaki, Hiroki Wada, Takahiro Kurosawa, Takeshi Hamamoto, Anna Hayashi, Tomoya Kamada, Takashi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 10803683
    Abstract: An information processing device according to an embodiment includes a storage device and one or more processors configured to function as a setting unit and a record control unit. The setting unit sets a record level of history information according to a reliability of derivative information derived from output information of a sensor. The record control unit performs control to store the history information in the storage device according to the record level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Junichi Segawa, Tatsunori Kanai, Takashi Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20200293434
    Abstract: An OS difference information acquisition unit 11 acquires difference information indicating information of a changed program in programs of an OS. A difference correspondence part identification unit 16 identifies a part corresponding to the difference information in an application program. A test selection unit 18 acquires test item information including a part which is executed in the application program in each test and selects a test in which the part of the application program included in the acquired test item information corresponds to the part identified by the difference correspondence part identification unit 16.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinya MASUDA, Takashi YOSHIKAWA, Koichi ASANO
  • Patent number: 10675870
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus is disclosed. One apparatus includes a piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element includes an upper electrode and a lower electrode. The lower electrode has a partial overlapping portion and a non-overlapping portion. The partial overlapping portion at least partially overlaps the pressure chamber. The partial overlapping portion of the lower electrode has two ends in the transverse direction. The upper electrode has two ends in the transverse direction. A distance from the center of the pressure chamber in the transverse direction to one of the two ends of the upper electrode in the transverse direction is smaller than a distance from the center of the pressure chamber in the transverse direction to a corresponding one of the two ends of the partial overlapping portion in the transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiki Tanaka, Takashi Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20200156373
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus is disclosed. One apparatus includes a piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element includes an upper electrode and a lower electrode. The lower electrode has a partial overlapping portion and a non-overlapping portion. The partial overlapping portion at least partially overlaps the pressure chamber. The partial overlapping portion of the lower electrode has two ends in the transverse direction. The upper electrode has two ends in the transverse direction. A distance from the center of the pressure chamber in the transverse direction to one of the two ends of the upper electrode in the transverse direction is smaller than a distance from the center of the pressure chamber in the transverse direction to a corresponding one of the two ends of the partial overlapping portion in the transverse direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Taiki TANAKA, Takashi YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10583654
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus is disclosed. One apparatus includes a piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element includes an upper electrode and a lower electrode. The lower electrode has a partial overlapping portion and a non-overlapping portion. The partial overlapping portion at least partially overlaps the pressure chamber. The partial overlapping portion of the lower electrode has two ends in the transverse direction. The upper electrode has two ends in the transverse direction. A distance from the center of the pressure chamber in the transverse direction to one of the two ends of the upper electrode in the transverse direction is smaller than a distance from the center of the pressure chamber in the transverse direction to a corresponding one of the two ends of the partial overlapping portion in the transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiki Tanaka, Takashi Yoshikawa