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).

  • AIRBAG SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200238942
    Abstract: An airbag system includes a front airbag device that is provided in front of an occupant and that includes a front bag body configured to be deployed by being inflated by a gas being supplied during input of an impact, a door-side guide device that is provided on a door, and that includes a door-side guide member which displaces laterally toward the occupant from an inner side surface of the door during input of the impact and which is configured to guide the occupant toward the front bag body in front, and a console-side guide device provided on a console, and that includes a console-side guide member which displaces upward from an upper surface of the console during input of the impact and which is configured to guide the occupant toward the front bag body in front.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Saso, Takayuki Shimizu
  • AIRBAG SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200238941
    Abstract: An airbag system includes a main airbag device provided in front of an occupant and having a first bag body deployed by being inflated by a gas being supplied during input of an impact, a seat airbag device provided in a seat back of a vehicle seat and having a second bag body deployed by being inflated in an area including a front of a torso of the occupant at behind the first bag body by a gas being supplied during input of an impact, and a screen airbag device having a third bag body deployed by being inflated in an area including behind the first bag body and above the second bag body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi Saso, Hiroyuki Ito, Takayuki Shimizu
  • CURABLE COMPOSITION, ACCOMMODATING UNIT, DEVICE FOR FORMING TWO OR THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE, METHOD OF FORMING TWO OR THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE, AND CURED MATTER
    Publication number: 20200231833
    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: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Satoshi KOJIMA, Takayuki SHIMIZU, Shin HASEGAWA, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Yuuki MATSUSHITA, Yukiko ISHIJIMA
  • CURABLE COMPOSITION, ACCOMMODATING UNIT, DEVICE FOR FORMING TWO OR THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE, METHOD OF FORMING TWO OR THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE, AND CURED MATTER
    Publication number: 20200231832
    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: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Takayuki SHIMIZU, Satoshi KOJIMA, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Shin HASEGAWA, Yuuki MATSUSHITA, Yukiko ISHIJIMA
  • CURABLE CLEAR INK COMPOSITION, STORING CONTAINER, INK SET, PRINTING METHOD, PRINTED MATTER, AND CURED MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20200231830
    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: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Satoshi KOJIMA, Takayuki SHIMIZU, Shin HASEGAWA, Yukiko ISHIJIMA, Yuuki MATSUSHITA
  • ACTIVE ENERGY RAY-CURABLE COMPOSITION, ACTIVE ENERGY RAY-CURABLE INKJET INK, COMPOSITION STORAGE CONTAINER, INKJET DISCHARGING APPARATUS, AND CURED PRODUCT
    Publication number: 20200231725
    Abstract: An active energy ray-curable composition is provided. The active energy ray-curable composition comprises a polymerizable compound and a polymerization initiator. The polymerizable compound comprises isobornyl acrylate. The active energy ray-curable composition gives, when centrifuged with a centrifugal force of 8×106 g, a supernatant with an absorbance at a wavelength of 700 nm of 0.02 or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yuuki MATSUSHITA, Satoshi KOJIMA, Takayuki SHIMIZU, Shin HASEGAWA, Hiroki KOBAYASHI, Yukiko ISHIJIMA
  • ADAPTIVE BEAMWIDTH CONTROL FOR MILLIMETER WAVE V2X COMMUNICATIONS
    Publication number: 20200235997
    Abstract: The disclosure includes embodiments for adaptively controlling a beamwidth setting for a millimeter wave (mmWave) communication between a first endpoint and a second endpoint. In some embodiments, a method for the first endpoint includes exchanging position data and position accuracy data with a second endpoint via a non-mmWave type channel of a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) radio. The method includes adjusting a beamwidth setting for a mmWave channel of the V2X radio based on the position data and the position accuracy data. The method includes performing a beam alignment for the mmWave channel of the V2X radio based on the beamwidth setting to modify an operation of the V2X radio so that the V2X radio exchanges a mmWave communication with the second endpoint using the beam alignment indicated by the beamwidth setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Gaurav Bansal
  • Curtain airbag
    Patent number: 10717403
    Abstract: A curtain airbag device that allows easy recognition and correction of twisting of an airbag during attaching. The curtain airbag device can be stored in a compact manner during transportation. The curtain airbag device including an airbag that is disposed along a roof side rail of a vehicle interior, and that can deploy so as to cover a window portion on a side face of the vehicle interior, the curtain airbag device further including a cover that covers the airbag, at least, in a part of the folded or rolled airbag in the longitudinal direction. The cover is formed of a pliable fabric material of polymer fibers, and maintains the shape of the rolled-up airbag through mutual fusion of at least a part of the polymer fibers. A high stiffness portion harder than other portions and formed during the fusion of the cover is provided in the cover extending in the longitudinal direction of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Yuto Kobayashi, Mitsuo Nogami, Hiroyoshi Shimono
  • Optical sensor and electronic device
    Patent number: 10705212
    Abstract: An optical sensor includes a time difference extraction circuit for extracting a time difference based on the distance to a target on the basis of a first received light pulse signal from a first light receiving unit, a reference cycle, and a second received light pulse signal from a second light receiving unit, and a determination circuit for determining whether a crosstalk value can be calculated on the basis of the time difference extracted by the time difference extraction circuit and the reference cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Sato, Yoshiki Ikuta, Takayuki Shimizu, Takuma Hiramatsu
  • FLEXIBLE MANDREL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE MATERIAL PART
    Publication number: 20200198188
    Abstract: A flexible mandrel for molding a composite material containing a thermosetting resin includes: a body including a contact surface configured to come into contact with the composite material during molding and a non-contact surface configured not to come into contact with the composite material during molding; and at least one hole formed from the non-contact surface toward an inside of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Takayuki SHIMIZU, Akihisa OKUDA, Ryota OZAKI, Shoya MANO, Masahiko SHIMIZU
  • LIGHT SENSOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, COMPUTATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MEASURING DISTANCE BETWEEN LIGHT SENSOR AND SENSING OBJECT
    Publication number: 20200191958
    Abstract: A light sensor or the like that has an improved measurement speed is realized. A light sensor includes a computation unit that computes a distance between the light sensor and a sensing object on the basis of a difference between a center position of reflection light, which indicates a center position of distribution of light reception probability of a first light receiving unit in a first histogram, and a center position of reference light, which indicates a center position of distribution of light reception probability of a second light receiving unit in a second histogram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: YOSHIKI IKUTA, TAKUMA HIRAMATSU, TAKAYUKI SHIMIZU, HIDEKI SATO
  • FLEXIBLE MANDREL, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING COMPOSITE COMPONENT
    Publication number: 20200180244
    Abstract: This flexible mandrel for molding a composite material containing a thermosetting resin includes: a main body containing a first material; and a thermally conductive layer containing a second material having a higher thermal conductivity than the first material, the thermally conductive layer being formed so as to cover at least a portion of the main body. The thermally conductive layer extends from a contacting surface of the flexible mandrel, which comes into contact with the composite material during molding, to a non-contacting surface which does not come into contact with the composite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Takayuki SHIMIZU, Akihisa OKUDA, Ryota OZAKI, Shoya MANO, Masahiko SHIMIZU
  • Optical sensor and electronic device
    Patent number: 10677648
    Abstract: Whether an optical delay on a space optical path is within a light emission cycle is accurately determined without narrowing a range of a measurable distance in the light emission cycle. A DFF 1 that divides an output pulse of a first DLL (121) by two to provide a first time offset and a DFF 2 that divides an output pulse of a second DLL (122) by two to provide a second time offset are included, and at least following mathematical formulas (1) and (2) are satisfied: O1=m·T½??(1) 0<O1<(N?1)·T1??(2) (where, m?1), when a time corresponding to a difference between the first time offset and the second time offset is O1 and the first cycle is T1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiki Ikuta, Takuma Hiramatsu, Takayuki Shimizu, Hideki Sato
  • Vehicle seat with side airbag device
    Patent number: 10668887
    Abstract: A vehicle seat with a side airbag device includes: a gas generating device attached to an inner side of an outer side frame in a vehicle-width direction, which is disposed in a side portion on an outside of a seat back in the vehicle-width direction; a side airbag which inflates and deploys to expand over the outer side frame from a vehicle front side of the outer side frame in the vehicle-width direction by receiving gas from the gas generating device accommodated in the side airbag; and an inflation width expansion portion which is provided in the side airbag and causes an inflation width of the side airbag in the vehicle-width direction to be greater outside a side surface provided on an outside of the outer side frame in the vehicle-width direction than inside the side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Fukawatase, Takamichi Komura, Masato Kunisada, Hiroyuki Nagura, Takuma Kawai, Takayuki Shimizu
  • METHOD FOR RECYCLING INTERMEDIATE FILM FOR LAMINATED GLASS
    Publication number: 20200147933
    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: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya KOBAYASHI, Masaaki HIRAHARA, Takayuki SHIMIZU, Tatsuya UEDA
  • Crystal of monovalent cation salt of 3-hydroxyisovaleric acid and process for producing the crystal
    Patent number: 10647653
    Abstract: The present invention provides a crystal of a monovalent cation salt of 3-hydroxyisovaleric acid (hereinafter, referred to as HMB), which is excellent in solubility and easy to handle, and a process for producing the crystal. A crystal of a monovalent cation salt of HMB is precipitated in an aqueous HMB solution containing a monovalent cation-containing compound and having a pH of 4.0 to 9.0, and the crystal of a monovalent cation salt of HMB is thereafter collected from the aqueous solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: KYOWA HAKKO BIO CO., LTD., OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL FACTORY, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoya Yokoi, Hiroshi Nagano, Takayuki Shimizu
  • EFFICIENT BEAM TRACKING FOR VEHICULAR MILLIMETER WAVE COMMUNICATION
    Publication number: 20200128597
    Abstract: The disclosure includes embodiments for providing efficient beam tracking for millimeter wave (mmWave) communication beam alignment between a vehicle and another endpoint. In some embodiments, a method includes executing an initial beam alignment process to establish an initial mmWave link setup with an endpoint so that a first mmWave communication process is performed with the endpoint. The method includes determining whether a second mmWave link setup is needed to perform a second mmWave communication process with the endpoint. Responsive to determining that the second mmWave link setup is needed, the method includes executing a limited beam alignment process to establish the second mmWave link setup so that an amount of time needed to establish the second mmWave link setup is minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Gaurav Bansal
  • Reducing adjacent channel interference for wireless vehicular messages
    Patent number: 10630339
    Abstract: The disclosure describes embodiments for reducing adjacent channel interference for wireless vehicular messages. In some embodiments, a method includes monitoring, by an onboard vehicle computer, a channel of a Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) radio for a V2X message. The method includes determining waveform data describing a waveform that is measured on the channel by the onboard vehicle computer when monitoring the channel. The method includes determining interference data which describes an adjacent channel interference waveform which is measured on the channel by the onboard vehicle computer when monitoring the channel. The waveform includes the adjacent channel interference waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Inventors: Hongsheng Lu, Gaurav Bansal, John Kenney, Takayuki Shimizu, Yoshiharu Doi, Onur Altintas, Roger Melen
  • Composite material structure
    Patent number: 10596779
    Abstract: This composite material structure is provided with: a first composite member arranged facing a heating element , the first composite member including PAN-based carbon fibers; a second composite member arranged between the heating element and the first composite member, the second composite member including pitch-based carbon fibers; and a cushioning element provided between the first composite member and the second composite member, the cushioning element being joined to each of the first composite member and the second composite member, and having lower rigidity than those of the first composite member and the second composite member. The first composite member is provided so as to be linked to an adjacent structure, while the second composite member and the cushioning element are provided so as to be separated from the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takushi Sugiyama, Takayuki Shimizu, Toshio Abe
  • OPTICAL SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200088875
    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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: HIDEKI SATO, TAKUMA HIRAMATSU, TAKAYUKI SHIMIZU, YOSHIKI IKUTA