Patents by Inventor Takayuki Shimizu

Takayuki Shimizu 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: 11525913
    Abstract: A first SPAD array on which at least one first light beam that is at least one pulse light beam is incident and which is operated in Geiger mode, a second SPAD array on which at least one second light beam resulting from the at least one first light beam reflected by a detection object is incident and which is operated in Geiger mode, a voltage generation unit that applies a reverse bias voltage to the first SPAD array and the second SPAD array, and a SPAD photon detection rate controller that adjusts and controls a SPAD photon detection rate in accordance with a first photon detection rate indicating a rate of the number of at least one pulse signal output by the second SPAD array upon incidence of the at least one second light beam relative to the number of the at least one pulse light beam are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Takuma Hiramatsu, Yoshiki Ikuta, Hideki Sato
  • Publication number: 20220391634
    Abstract: Systems and methods for scheduling environment perception-based data offloading for numerous connected vehicles are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for offloading data includes capturing an image of a view of interest from a vehicle, segmenting the image into a plurality of blocks, and determining a scheduling priority for each of one or more blocks among the plurality of blocks based on block values, wherein the block values relate to one or more objects of interest contained in each of the one or more blocks. The method further includes offloading, from the vehicle to a server, one or more blocks based on the scheduling priority of the one or more blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Haoxin Wang, Akila C. Ganlath, Nejib Ammar, Onur Altintas, Prashant Tiwari, Takayuki Shimizu, BaekGyu Kim
  • Patent number: 11518147
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for recycling an intermediate film for laminated glass, comprising a step of separating a layer comprising an A layer and a layer comprising a B layer from the intermediate film for laminated glass (1) comprising at least the A layer and the B layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: KURARAY EUROPE GMBH
    Inventors: Takuya Kobayashi, Masaaki Hirahara, Takayuki Shimizu, Tatsuya Ueda
  • Publication number: 20220379833
    Abstract: The present invention is an airbag device installed in a vehicle seat having a seat cushion forming the seat surface and a seatback forming the backrest, a pair of inflators stowed in the left and right side portions of said seatback and generating expansion gas, and an airbag stowed in said seatback in a rolled or folded state and deployed by the expansion gas released from said inflators. The airbag is configured to include a pair of left and right side chambers that deploy from the side of the seatback toward the front and restrain movement of at least the waist to the shoulders of an occupant, and a connection part that connects the pair of side chambers and is positioned above the head of the occupant when the airbag is deployed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Takayuki SHIMIZU, Atsushi NAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11516669
    Abstract: The disclosure includes embodiments for an ego vehicle to detect misbehavior. According to some embodiments, a method includes receiving a V2X message from an attacker. The V2X message includes V2X data describing a location of an object at a target time. The method includes receiving a set of CPMs from a set of remote devices. The set of CPMs include remote sensor data describing a free space region within the roadway environment. The method includes determining a relevant subset of the CPMs include remote sensor data that is relevant to detecting misbehavior. The method includes determining, based at least in part on the remote sensor data of the relevant subset, that the object is not located at the location at the target time. The method includes detecting the misbehavior by the attacker based on the determination that the object is not located at the location at the target time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, John Kenney, Michael Clifford, Hongsheng Lu
  • Publication number: 20220338214
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a processor configured to transmit a mmWave beacon signal during a probe phase of a first period; receive one or more mmWave beacon signals from one or more vehicles; generate a mmWave communication intention message for another period that is after the first period based on the received one or more mmWave beacon signals; and broadcast, during the first period, a packet including a mmWave transmission schedule for the another period generated based on the mmWave communication intention message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongsheng Lu, Chenyuan He, Bin Cheng, Takayuki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20220324241
    Abstract: A printing method includes discharging ink to a substrate, heating a non-ink-discharged side of the substrate at T1, and heating an ink-discharged side of the substrate at T2, wherein the ink contains an organic solvent A (boiling point lower than 250 degrees C.), an organic solvent B (boiling point of 250 degrees C.), and a resin, where 0 degrees C. C?T2?T1?90 degrees C. is satisfied, the proportion (organic solvent A/ink) is 30 percent by mass or less, the proportion (organic solvent B/ink) is 1 to 3 percent by mass, the proportion (resin/ink) is 5 to 15 percent by mass, the ink has a viscosity of 8.0 to 11.0 mPa-s at 25 degrees C. and 5.5 to 11.0 mPa-s at 36 degrees C., and a 2.5 ?L ink droplet discharged to the substrate shrinks to 0.1 ?L within 10.0 seconds at 25 degrees C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Naoto SHIMURA, Yuya HIROKAWA, Yuusuke KOIZUKA, Takayuki SHIMIZU, Itsuro SASAKI, Shunsuke HORIE, Nozomi TERAI, Kenta HAGIWARA
  • Patent number: 11453360
    Abstract: An air-bag apparatus includes: a frame member that is tiltable along a seat back of a vehicle seat; and a bag body that is embedded in the frame member, that is inflated and expanded to a front of an occupant seated on the vehicle seat at a time of an impact input, and that prevents a body of the occupant from being separated from the seat back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Saso
  • Publication number: 20220289134
    Abstract: An airbag device installed in a vehicle seat having a seat cushion forming the seat surface and a seatback forming the backrest, and an inflator that generates expansion gas and an airbag that is deployed by the expansion gas released from said inflator. The airbag includes a pair of left and right side chambers that deploy forward from the side of the seatback and primarily protect the occupant's waist to shoulders, and an upper chamber that is continuous with the side chambers, deploys forward above the side chambers, and mainly protects the occupant's neck and head. On the left and right sides of the seatback, the location on the side where the seatbelt crosses near the shoulder is the first side, and the side opposite to said first side is the second side. A recess is formed on the first side of the airbag where the seatbelt fits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Takayuki SHIMIZU, Atsushi NAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11420628
    Abstract: A vehicle control device controls a vehicle including a drive motor connected to a rotation shaft of wheels, a battery that supplies electricity to the drive motor, and an internal combustion engine connected to the drive motor. The vehicle is equipped with, as traveling modes, a normal mode, and an eco-mode having a larger regenerative braking force than the normal mode obtained such that rotational energy of the wheels is converted into electrical energy. A controller stops the internal combustion engine and switches from the normal mode to the eco-mode when detecting at least an abnormality in the internal combustion engine during traveling of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Hoshi, Naoki Nakada, Kenichi Gotou, Takayuki Shimizu, Yohei Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11415696
    Abstract: An optical sensor for appropriately updating a crosstalk value is provided with: a photon-counting type of first light-receiving unit for receiving target object reflected light and cover panel reflected light; and a determination circuit that determines whether or not the target object reflected light is received by the first light-receiving unit, on the basis of a first received light pulse signal that is based on at least one of the target object reflected light and the cover panel reflected light, and a reference pulse signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Sato, Takuma Hiramatsu, Takayuki Shimizu, Yoshiki Ikuta
  • Publication number: 20220248196
    Abstract: The disclosure includes embodiments for processing a set of wireless messages by an ego vehicle. A method includes determining a location of an object of interest in a roadway environment that includes the ego vehicle and a set of remote connected vehicles. The method includes segmenting the roadway environment into a plurality of segments. The method includes assigning priority scores to each of the segments based on (1) whether the forward-facing sensors of the remote connected vehicles present in the segment are capable of measuring the object of interest and (2) proximity of the remote connected vehicles in the segment to the object of interest, wherein segments have higher priority scores if the remote connected vehicles present in the segment have forward-facing sensors that are capable of measuring the object of interest and the remote connected vehicles present in the segment are closer to the object of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Sergei Avedisov, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Takayuki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11401432
    Abstract: A curable composition contains a polymerizable compound and a polymerization initiator containing pheylbis(2,4,6-trimethyl benzoyl)phosphine oxide and diphenyl(2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl)phosphine oxide in a mass ratio of pheylbis(2,4,6-trimethyl benzoyl)phosphine oxide:diphenyl(2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl)phosphine oxide from 1:6 to 1:160, wherein supernatant obtained after the curable composition is centrifuged for 30 minutes at 70,000 rotation per minute has an absorbance of 0.02 or less at a wavelength of 700 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Satoshi Kojima, Hiroki Kobayashi, Shin Hasegawa, Yuuki Matsushita, Yukiko Ishijima
  • Patent number: 11397249
    Abstract: A light detection devices includes a SPAD bias control block that adjusts a reverse bias voltage in accordance with a pulse number of a pulse signal which is output by a SPAD array upon incidence of first light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takayuki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20220212264
    Abstract: Provided is a three-dimensional powder bed fusion additive manufacturing apparatus which includes a chamber provided inside with a stage for forming a three-dimensional build object, a window provided in the chamber for observation of the inside of the chamber, and a shutter arranged inside the chamber to open and close the window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventor: Takayuki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11370932
    Abstract: A curable composition contains a polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator, and a fluorescent whitener comprising a benzoxazole derivative, wherein the proportion of the fluorescent whitener is from 0.10 to 0.3 percent by mass and the proportion of the polymerization initiator is from 5 to 15 percent by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kojima, Takayuki Shimizu, Shin Hasegawa, Hiroki Kobayashi, Yuuki Matsushita, Yukiko Ishijima
  • Patent number: 11366205
    Abstract: A selection circuit selects one of digital values respectively output from a TDC 1 and a TDC 2. A histogram generation circuit generates a histogram indicating a relationship between a bin number and a frequency by counting up the frequency of the bin number according to the digital value selected by the selection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiki Ikuta, Takuma Hiramatsu, Takayuki Shimizu, Hideki Sato
  • Publication number: 20220184941
    Abstract: There are provided a characteristic table generation system and so on capable of enhancing the convenience of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Takayuki SHIMIZU, Masakazu HIRATA
  • Patent number: 11338759
    Abstract: [Problem] To expand and deploy a hood-shaped airbag in a reliably sandwiched condition between the top of a shoulder of a seated occupant and a seatbelt in a normal set condition during a collision, and reduce injury to the occupant by a device other than an airbag such as a seatbelt or the like. [Resolution Means] An airbag device 11 contains an airbag 12 and inflator 13 integrally covering the head 2a and a side portion of a seated occupant 2. The airbag 12 in a flat condition prior to folding has a plurality of chambers 12c demarcated in a longitudinal direction. The chamber 12c has a head protecting chamber 12ca stored in an upper portion of a backrest portion 1b of a seat 1 and a pair of side protecting chambers 12cb stored in opposing positions separated in a vehicle width direction on both left and right sides of the backrest portion 1b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Yutaka Nakajima, Atsushi Nakashima, Takayuki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11332629
    Abstract: A curable clear ink composition is provided. The curable clear ink composition comprises a surfactant, a monofunctional polymerizable compound having a static surface tension of 33 mN/m or less at 25 degrees C. in an amount of 10% by mass or more but 30% by mass or less, an oligomer having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 1,000 or more, and an acylphosphine oxide polymerization initiator in an amount of 8% by mass or more but 12% by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Satoshi Kojima, Takayuki Shimizu, Shin Hasegawa, Yukiko Ishijima, Yuuki Matsushita