Patents by Inventor Takayuki Kimura

Takayuki Kimura 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: 20220314774
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel and a rear floor panel provided at the rear of the front floor panel. The front floor panel is positioned higher than the rear floor panel. A front battery that supplies electric power to the traction motor is arranged below the front floor panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki KIMURA, Takehiro KAMEI, Hiroshi TANAKA, Haruo OHE, Masaya HIRAMATSU, Masanobu FUKUSHIMA, Takao FUKUDA, Hironobu HASHIGUCHI, Hiroyuki BABA
  • Publication number: 20220315128
    Abstract: The vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel, a rear floor panel positioned lower than the front floor panel, and a connection panel extending from a rear portion of the front floor panel to a front portion of the rear floor panel and inclined or curved so as to be positioned downward toward a rear side. At least the front portion of the connection panel is positioned at the front of the front portion of the front seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki Kimura, Takehiro Kamei, Hiroshi Tanaka, Haruo Ohe, Masaya Hiramatsu, Masanobu Fukushima, Takao Fukuda, Hironobu Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki Baba
  • Publication number: 20220314770
    Abstract: A vehicle structure includes side sills, pillars, a first battery arrangement portion provided inside the vicinity of the pillars in a vehicle width direction below a floor panel, and a second battery arrangement portion provided at a center portion in the vehicle width direction below the floor panel in a region inside an outer portion of the first battery arrangement portion in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki KIMURA, Takehiro KAMEI, Hiroshi TANAKA, Haruo OHE, Masaya HIRAMATSU, Masanobu FUKUSHIMA, Takao FUKUDA, Hironobu HASHIGUCHI, Hiroyuki BABA
  • Publication number: 20220315130
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel for placing a heel of a pedal operator, a rear floor panel attached to a rear seat, and a middle floor panel extending from the front floor panel to the rear floor panel. The front floor panel and the rear floor panel are positioned higher than the middle floor panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao TODA, Takayuki KIMURA, Takehiro KAMEI, Hiroshi TANAKA, Haruo OHE, Masaya HIRAMATSU, Masanobu FUKUSHIMA, Takao FUKUDA, Hironobu HASHIGUCHI, Hiroyuki BABA
  • Publication number: 20220305915
    Abstract: A bulge portion bulging rearward is provided at a dash panel. A reinforcement is fixed to an inner surface of the bulge portion. A rear end wall portion of the bulge portion is positioned at the rear of a center portion of a rear end portion of a cowl panel in a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki KIMURA, Takehiro KAMEI, Isao TODA, Haruo OHE, Hironobu HASHIGUCHI, Hiroshi TANAKA, Masaya HIRAMATSU, Masanobu FUKUSHIMA, Takao FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 11433450
    Abstract: A joined body includes: a first member having a pipe shape; and a second member including a wall portion having a plate shape, and a flange portion having a cylinder shape provided with an insertion hole through which the first member is inserted. In a state where the first member is inserted into the insertion hole of the flange portion of the second member, the first member and the second member are joined with the first member pipe-expanded. A material of the second member is larger than a material of the first member in a spring-back amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Maeda, Kenichi Watanabe, Takayuki Kimura, Toru Hashimura
  • Patent number: 11425337
    Abstract: To reduce complication of a configuration of a vehicle while suppressing an increase in weight of the vehicle, a camera system mounted on a vehicle includes an imaging unit to capture multiple frame images of an outside of the vehicle per cycle and an image processor to obtain the multiple frame images from the imaging unit and separate the multiple frame images into a first given number of frame images as a recognition target and a second given number of frame images as a storage target to be stored in an image recorder. The image processor separately outputs the first and second given numbers of frame images to be recognized and stored, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshikazu Murao, Kazuyoshi Akiba, Tetsuya Kimata, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Takayuki Kimura
  • Patent number: 11417575
    Abstract: A board in an aspect of the present invention includes a substrate, a first film, a first layer, and a second film. The substrate has a first elastic modulus. The first film is at an upper surface of the substrate. The first layer is at a lower surface of the substrate. The first layer has a second elastic modulus lower than the first elastic modulus and has a first thermal expansion coefficient. The second film is at a lower surface of the first layer. The second film includes the same material as the first film and has a second thermal expansion coefficient lower than the first thermal expansion coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Kimura, Hisaki Masuda, Takayuki Ohyama, Yuko Tanaka, Yoshihiro Uemura, Hiroyuki Miura
  • Patent number: 11292046
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a press molded product includes forming a plurality of corner portions in a pressed portion of a pressed member, providing the pressed member between a first die and a second die, and press molding the pressed portion to decrease a height of the pressed portion. The press molding includes forming a pair of first bent portions in the pressed portion by means of the corner portions, the pair of first bent portions being bent to protrude toward the second die, forming a second bent portion in the pressed portion by means of the corner portions while holding the pair of first bent portions by a pair of holding portions, the second bent portion being bent to protrude toward the first die from a position between the pair of first bent portions, and pressing and deforming the second bent portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Sakamoto, Yasuhiro Hayashida, Kenichi Watanabe, Takayuki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20220095436
    Abstract: A spectrum control device includes a control unit that obtains spectrum information. The control unit controls at least one of a spectrum of light emitted by a light emitting device or a spectrum of image light that forms an image, on the basis of the spectrum information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi NAKAYAMA, Takayuki KIMURA, Hidetaka KATOU
  • Patent number: 11265458
    Abstract: When displaying a plurality of gain setting values on a setting screen, an apparatus performs control so as to display each of the gain setting values in a display style that makes identifiable a noise level generated as a result of amplification of a signal based on each of the gain setting values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Kimura, Genjiro Sano
  • Patent number: 11242013
    Abstract: To reduce discomfort of occupants caused by operation sound of a camera cooling system in a vehicle, a vehicle-mounted camera includes a camera cooler and a controller. The vehicle-mounted camera is installed inside of a windshield. The camera cooler cools the vehicle-mounted camera. The controller determines if the vehicle-mounted camera is in a high temperature state. If it is determined that the vehicle-mounted camera is in the high temperature state, the controller controls the camera cooler to operate. The controller controls an air conditioner to provide a sound generation process to generate concealing sound to conceal operation sound caused by the camera cooler when the air conditioner operates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Kazama, Takayuki Kimura, Nobuhisa Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20220010955
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus includes a light emitting element for emitting light specified by a spectrum having a peak wavelength in a wavelength range from 360 nm to 430 nm, and a wavelength conversion member for converting at least a portion of light emitted by the light emitting element into light specified by a spectrum having a peak wavelength in a wavelength range from 360 nm to 780 nm. The light emitting apparatus emits illumination light formed by a combination of light that is not converted by the wavelength conversion member, from among light emitted by the light emitting element, and light that is converted by the wavelength conversion member. A total energy of light having a wavelength in a range from 360 to 430 nm is between 3% and 18% of a total energy of light having a wavelength included in a range from 360 nm to 780 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetaka KATOU, Tamio KUSANO, Kouhei IKEDA, Takayuki KIMURA, Yoshiki ANDO, Takeshi NIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20210409589
    Abstract: When displaying a plurality of gain setting values on a setting screen, an apparatus performs control so as to display each of the gain setting values in a display style that makes identifiable a noise level generated as a result of amplification of a signal based on each of the gain setting values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Takayuki Kimura, Genjiro Sano
  • Publication number: 20210402854
    Abstract: A window glass system includes a window glass to be attached to a moveable body, an anti-fog film to be provided on a cabin-side surface of the window glass, a temperature sensor configured to detect a glass temperature of the vehicle cabin-side surface of the window glass, a temperature-and-humidity sensor configured to detect a temperature and a humidity of a cabin of the moveable body, drying means configured to vaporize water attached to the anti-fog film, and a processing circuitry configured to estimate a time duration Ts, based on the glass temperature detected by the temperature sensor and the temperature and the humidity of the cabin detected by the temperature-and-humidity sensor, the time duration Ts being a duration of time until fogging occurs on the anti-fog film, and activate the drying means based on the time duration Ts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi NODA, Tetsuji IRIE, Takayuki KIMURA, Shinya TANAKA, Sangmun LEE
  • Publication number: 20210397899
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that performs machine learning of a learning model for improving the accuracy of inference of an image even in a case where the characteristics of an image are changed by correction applied to the image. The image processing apparatus includes an image processor configured to perform image processing on a training image and a teacher image according to each of a plurality of correction conditions. Machine learning of the learning model is performed using the training image and the teacher image. A plurality of parameters obtained by performing the machine learning of the learning model are stored in association with the plurality of correction conditions, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Kento Watanabe, Takayuki Kimura, Taro Takita, Shunsuke Miyajima, Daisuke Higuchi, Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Shunsuke Kawahara, Masatoshi Otsubo
  • Patent number: 11198172
    Abstract: A method for joining members according to the present invention includes: providing a first member, a second member, a guide shaft member, a rubber member, a first plunger, a second plunger, and a drive mechanism; inserting the second member into a hole portion of the first member; inserting the guide shaft member into a through-hole of the rubber member; inserting the rubber member, into which the guide shaft member is inserted, inside the second member; arranging an assembly in which the first member, the second member, the rubber member, and the guide shaft member so as to horizontally extend; arranging the assembly so as to be sandwiched by the first plunger and the second plunger; and moving the second plunger toward the first plunger; compressing the rubber member by the first plunger and the second plunger in a direction where the guide shaft member extends, and expanding the rubber member radially outside the guide shaft member; and thus expanding and deforming at least a portion of the second member
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Maeda, Toru Hashimura, Kenichi Watanabe, Takayuki Kimura
  • Patent number: 11120527
    Abstract: In a vehicular camera, an image generation unit generates at least one image of a directional view from a vehicle, and an object recognition unit recognizes a target object in the at least one image. A region identification unit identifies, in the at least one image, a specific region in the target object recognized by the object recognition unit. A vehicle control unit performs a vehicle control task based on the recognized target object. A mosaic unit identifies a specific region in the at least one image corresponding to the specific region in the at least one image, and performs a mosaic task to thereby blur a mosaic region in the second image. The mosaic region includes at least the specific region in the at least one image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Kimura, Toshikazu Murao, Yuzuru Koshisaka, Tetsuya Kimata
  • Publication number: 20210280618
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that enables to quickly capture an image from which a predetermined reflected light component is removed with desired sensitivity. A polarizing filter two-dimensionally arranges a plurality of sets each of which includes polarizing filter elements having different polarization directions. A first image sensor has pixels that respectively correspond to polarizing filter elements of the polarizing filter. A polarization calculation unit detects a polarized component of light that enters into a region in which one set of polarizing filter elements are arranged based on signals output from pixels in the region of the first image sensor for each region. A correction unit corrects a pixel signal output from a pixel of a second image sensor corresponding to the region based on a calculation result by the polarization calculation unit for each pixel of the second image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Yusuke Yamashita, Tokuro Nishida, Kazuya Kitamura, Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Takenori Kobuse, Yoshikazu Ishikawa, Takayuki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20210276126
    Abstract: A joint structure is formed by joining a first plate-shaped member made of steel and a second plate-shaped member made of steel that is overlapped on the first plate-shaped member and that is formed in a long shape. A surface of the first plate-shaped member and both edge portions of the second plate-shaped member along a longitudinal direction are joined by a weld metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Liang CHEN, Kenichi WATANABE, Kazuya YASUI, Dongyong SHI, Masao HADANO, Takayuki KIMURA, Reiichi SUZUKI