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: 20210266444
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus that has an image capturing device including polarization elements and sets a proper frame rate according to a situation when acquiring a video using polarization information. The image capturing device an image capturing device including polarization pixels that detect polarization information of a plurality of different directions. The polarization information of the polarization pixels is determined by performing first polarization calculation or second polarization calculation which is smaller in calculation load than the first polarization calculation, on video signals output from the polarization pixels. A polarization-processed image is generated by using the polarization information. The first polarization calculation and the second polarization calculation are switched according to a predetermined timing, a mode, or a result of detecting a predetermined state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuya KITAMURA, Tokuro NISHIDA, Hiroyuki HASEGAWA, Takenori KOBUSE, Yusuke YAMASHITA, Yoshikazu ISHIKAWA, Takayuki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210265226
    Abstract: Aboard 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: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki KIMURA, Hisaki MASUDA, Takayuki OHYAMA, Yuko TANAKA, Yoshihiro UEMURA, Hiroyuki MIURA
  • Publication number: 20210245225
    Abstract: A method for driving a piercing element includes: preparing a plate material, the piercing element, a preceding punch, and a die; arranging the plate material on a hole portion of the die; arranging the piercing element and the preceding punch in order downward from above on the plate material and on a position corresponding to the hole portion; punching the plate material via the preceding punch by pressing the piercing element downward; dropping a punched piece downward from the hole portion; following the punching of the plate material, driving the piercing element to be embedded in the plate material and causing the plate material to bite a constricted portion; and dropping the preceding punch downward from the hole portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventor: Takayuki KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11052448
    Abstract: The member joining device includes: a tubular unit including a tubular assembly that is fixed, a flange portion whose position in a first central axis direction is fixed with respect to the tubular assembly; a shaft unit that includes a shaft assembly inserted into the tubular assembly in a linearly movable manner, and a protrusion portion whose position in a second central axis direction is fixed with respect to the shaft assembly, wherein the protrusion portion is positioned radially outside the first central axis of the tubular assembly, the protrusion portion faces the flange portion in the central axis direction; a rubber member arranged radially outside the tubular assembly, between the protrusion portion and the flange portion in the central axis direction; and a motion mechanism that moves the shaft unit in the central axis direction with respect to the tubular unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Maeda, Toru Hashimura, Kenichi Watanabe, Takayuki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20210195080
    Abstract: An electronic device acquires polarization information of a subject based on a plurality of pieces of image data based on a first signal output from a first sensor. The first sensor can capture an optical image of the subject acquired via a polarizing filter provided with areas having different polarization angles. The device further acquires an evaluation value for controlling brightness of an image at the time of capturing the optical image of the subject, based on the plurality of pieces of image data. The plurality of pieces of image data have different polarization angles, by respectively being acquired via areas of the polarizing filter having the plurality of different polarization angles. A degree of weighting to be assigned to the plurality of pieces of image data at the time of acquiring the evaluation value based on the polarization information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Takenori Kobuse, Yoshikazu Ishikawa, Takayuki Kimura, Yusuke Yamashita, Tokuro Nishida
  • Publication number: 20210044087
    Abstract: A surface emitting laser according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an active layer, a first DBR layer and a second DBR layer sandwiching the active layer, and a dielectric layer and a reflection metal layer corresponding to a terminal end of a reflecting mirror on a side of the second DBR layer when viewed from the active layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Takahiro ARAKIDA, Takayuki KIMURA, Yuuta YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210009455
    Abstract: To treat organic sludge while keeping facility costs, cement production efficiency, and a reduction in clinker production amount to a minimum. An organic sludge treatment device includes: a fractionation device 7 that fractionates a preheated raw material R2 from a preheater cyclone 4C excluding a bottommost cyclone of a cement burning device 1; a mixing device 8 that mixes an organic sludge S with the fractionated preheated raw material, and that dries the organic sludge using sensible heat of the preheated raw material; and a supply device (mixture chute 12, double-flap damper 13, shut damper 14) that supplies a mixture M from the mixing device to a calciner furnace 5 of the cement burning device or to a duct disposed between a kiln inlet portion of a cement kiln 2 and the calciner furnace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Yasushi YAMAMOTO, Takayuki KIMURA, Kouji KAMADA, Kazushi IZUMI, Naoki UENO
  • Patent number: 10882290
    Abstract: Provided are a packaging sheet and a packaging container where it is unnecessary to paste a printed label and disappearance or color development due to friction or the like after thermal printing do not occur. The packaging sheet includes a heat seal layer 10 for thermally welding by heating, a heat-sensitive layer 40 including a color developing material that develops a color by heating, and a base material layer 70 that secures the strength and protects the heat-sensitive layer 40. The heat seal layer 10, the heat-sensitive layer 40, and the base material layer 70 are provided in this order from a back surface side in a thickness direction. The packaging sheet is transparent before the heat-sensitive layer 40 develops the color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Osaka Sealing Printing Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Ono, Takayuki Kimura, Hidenao Takeuchi, Masahiko Yoshida, Hidenobu Harima
  • Publication number: 20200406333
    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: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MAEDA, Kenichi WATANABE, Takayuki KIMURA, Toru HASHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200398376
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for a joint body having a blank material plated with a metal material and a hoop material plated with a metal material joined together by placing the hoop material on the blank material and causing a laser oscillation system to irradiate a surface of the hoop material with laser light to form a joint portion including a line-shaped welded portion where the blank material and the hoop material are joined together. In this manufacturing method, the hoop material is supplied to be placed on the blank material and form a predetermined gap d between the blank material and the hoop material, and the hoop material is irradiated with a laser at a position where the predetermined gap d is located between the blank material and the hoop material to join the blank material and the hoop material together by laser welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Kenichi WATANABE, Takayuki KIMURA, Liang CHEN, Masao HADANO, Reiichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200376598
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a joint body having a first metal member and a second metal member joined together by causing a laser oscillation system to irradiate a surface of the second metal member placed on the first metal member with laser light to form a joint portion including a welded portion where the first metal member and the second metal member are joined together includes continuously supplying the second metal member while pressing the second metal member against the first metal member, the second metal member being a hoop material, and causing the laser oscillation system to emit the laser light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Kenichi WATANABE, Takayuki KIMURA, Liang CHEN, Masao HADANO, Reiichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200246914
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for a joint body having a first metal member and a second metal member joined together by welding. With a density of the welding set higher than a density of the welding of other portions, the second metal member is bent within a plane by changing a positional relation of the second metal member relative to the first metal member in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Kenichi WATANABE, Takayuki KIMURA, Liang CHEN, Masao HADANO, Reiichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200246860
    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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MAEDA, Toru HASHIMURA, Kenichi WATANABE, Takayuki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200238365
    Abstract: The member joining device includes: a tubular unit including a tubular assembly that is fixed, a flange portion whose position in a first central axis direction is fixed with respect to the tubular assembly; a shaft unit that includes a shaft assembly inserted into the tubular assembly in a linearly movable manner, and a protrusion portion whose position in a second central axis direction is fixed with respect to the shaft assembly, wherein the protrusion portion is positioned radially outside the first central axis of the tubular assembly, the protrusion portion faces the flange portion in the central axis direction; a rubber member arranged radially outside the tubular assembly, between the protrusion portion and the flange portion in the central axis direction; and a motion mechanism that moves the shaft unit in the central axis direction with respect to the tubular unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MAEDA, Toru HASHIMURA, Kenichi WATANABE, Takayuki KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10725264
    Abstract: The lens tube includes a cylindrical barrel, a holder, a cap, and a stress applying portion. The barrel houses at least one first lens. The holder houses an imaging element and is fixed to a substrate. The holder is configured to allow one end of the barrel in an axial direction to be screwed into the holder such that an optical axis of the first lens and an optical axis of the imaging element are aligned with each other. The cap is mountable to the barrel by allowing the other end of the barrel in the axial direction to be screwed into the cap. The stress applying portion is located between the holder and the cap when the barrel is screwed into the holder and the cap, and applies a stress in a direction in which the cap is separated from the holder. The first lens is held and fixed between a first stopper formed on the cap and a second stopper formed in the barrel when the cap is mounted to the barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Takama, Noboru Kawasaki, Takayuki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20200223748
    Abstract: An antifogging glass article includes a glass plate and a water absorption layer on at least a part of a surface of the glass plate. The water absorption layer includes a saturated water absorption amount of 200 mg/cm3 or more, a thickness of 2 to 50 ?m, and a moisture diffusion coefficient of 8×10?14 m2/s or more measured at a temperature of 0° C. by a method defined in JIS K 7209.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi NODA, Takayuki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200206798
    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: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Kazuki SAKAMOTO, Yasuhiro HAYASHIDA, Kenichi WATANABE, Takayuki KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10688942
    Abstract: In an imaging device mounted in the interior of a vehicle, a camera module is arranged so as to image the area ahead of the vehicle via a windshield. A processing substrate is provided integrally with the camera module and includes a processing part that controls the camera module. When the side on which an incident light receiving face exists in the camera module is defined as camera front and the side opposite to the camera front is defined as camera rear, the whole processing substrate is arranged at the camera rear with respect to the camera module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuki Furutake, Nobuhisa Shimizu, Takeshi Kazama, Takayuki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20200180007
    Abstract: In a method for joining members, a first tube, and a second tube capable of being inserted into the first tube are prepared. The second tube is inserted in a tube hole of the first tube in an axial direction of the first tube. The second tube is radially expanded toward the first tube so that the first tube and the second tube are joined by press-fitting. The first tube is made of a material having a spring back amount larger than a spring back amount of the second tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MAEDA, Kenichi WATANABE, Takayuki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200179256
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide an oily makeup cosmetic that is colorless in appearance but develops a color on application onto body surface, such as skin and lips. The present invention provides a colorless oily makeup cosmetic comprising (a) one or two dyes selected from Red No. 218 and Red No. 223, and (b) an oil agent, and a mixture of the component (a) and the component (b) at a mass ratio (a):(b) of 0.1:100 has a difference of 0.2 or less between the maximum absorbance and the minimum absorbance in a wavelength region of 500 to 600 nm. The oily makeup cosmetic may develop a color due to the component (a) on application onto body surface, such as skin and lips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: KOSE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuta AZUMA, Ryo KAKIMOTO, Takayuki KIMURA