Patents by Inventor Takeshi Furukawa

Takeshi Furukawa 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: 12255958
    Abstract: A plurality of communication units of an on-board relay device include a remote communication unit to which a communication device outside a vehicle for communicating with an external server is connected, and a local communication unit to which a diagnostic device is connected, and a control unit of the on-board relay device performs lower layer side control for relay based on a lower side layered protocol in communication, and upper layer side control for relay based on an upper side layered protocol rather than the lower side layered protocol, and performs adjustment processing with respect to a conflict of a plurality of maintenance processings by the upper layer side control when information relevant to the plurality of maintenance processings with respect to any one on-board ECU of a plurality of on-board ECUs is input through the local communication unit and the remote communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Darmawan Go, Hideki Maeda, Takeshi Hagihara, Yosuke Shimizu, Tatsuya Izumi, Hirofumi Urayama, Masashi Amesara, Hisashi Furukawa, Shu Ishizuka, Hideki Goto
  • Publication number: 20250079090
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes: an anode plate including a core portion, a porous layer having pores on at least one main surface of the core portion, and a dielectric layer on a surface of the porous layer and extending into the pores of the porous layer; and a cathode layer that includes a solid electrolyte layer on a surface of the dielectric layer. The solid electrolyte layer includes a conductive polymer layer inside the pores of the porous layer, the conductive polymer layer comprising a mixture of a conductive polymer and an insulating material. The insulating material is a material which contains an OH group, a COOH group, a CO group, or an NH2 group in a molecule, has hygroscopicity, and does not have a function as a dopant for the above-described conductive polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Daiki HABU, Takeshi FURUKAWA
  • Patent number: 12243790
    Abstract: Provided are a semiconductor device and an inverter device with a decrease in yield being suppressed by preventing the adhesive from leaking into the inside of the semiconductor device. A heat sink, a wiring board provided on the heat sink, a semiconductor chip provided on the wiring board, a case housing provided on the heat sink so as to surround the wiring board and the semiconductor chip, an adhesive that adheres a lower surface joint portion of the case housing and an upper surface joint portion of the heat sink, a sealing material that fills the case housing and covers the wiring board and the semiconductor chip, and a convex portion provided on the lower surface joint portion of the case housing or the upper surface joint portion of the heat sink, that separates the adhesive from the sealing material are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Miyagi, Hideki Tsukamoto, Takuro Mori, Masaru Furukawa, Korehide Okamoto, Takamasa Oda, Seiji Saiki, Takeshi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12237118
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor element that includes: an anode plate having a first main surface and a second main surface which oppose each other in a thickness direction thereof, and made of a valve-action metal; a porous layer on at least one main surface of the anode plate; a dielectric layer on a surface of the porous layer; a cathode layer including a solid electrolyte layer on a surface of the dielectric layer; and a stress relaxation layer, wherein in a plan view of the first main surface, at least a portion of the stress relaxation layer overlaps with the anode plate, and the portion of the stress relaxation layer does not overlap with the cathode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Furukawa
  • Patent number: 12230463
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a support member, a first fixed terminal, a second fixed terminal, a movable contact piece, a movable member. The support member is made of an insulating material. The first fixed terminal includes a first fixed contact and is supported by the support member. The second fixed terminal includes the second fixed contact and is supported by the support member. The movable contact piece includes a first movable contact and a second movable contact. The movable member is connected to the movable contact piece and includes a first overlapping portion made of an insulating material. The first overlapping portion is disposed between the first fixed terminal and the second fixed terminal. The first overlapping portion overlaps with the support member when viewed from a longitudinal direction of the movable contact piece in an open state where the first movable contact is separated from the first fixed contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Tsukada, Takeshi Nishida, Kazuki Furukawa, Naoki Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20250037308
    Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more memories storing instructions, and one or more processors executing the instructions to: acquire subject information indicating a position of a subject, images of which are captured by a plurality of imaging apparatuses, in a virtual space that corresponds to a position in a real space, region information indicating a region in the virtual space, and interest position information indicating an interest position associated with the region, and in a case where the subject exists within the region, determine a position of a virtual viewpoint corresponding to a virtual viewpoint image and a line-of-sight direction from the virtual viewpoint based on the subject information and the interest position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: KAZUFUMI ONUMA, TAKESHI FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240420448
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus identifies each of the plurality of objects based on a feature of a first type until a distance between the plurality of objects becomes smaller than a threshold; and identifies each of the plurality of objects based on a feature of a second type, in a case where the distance between the plurality of objects becomes the threshold or larger than the threshold after the distance between the plurality of objects becomes smaller than the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventor: TAKESHI FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240412927
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte capacitor includes at least one capacitor element including an anode part and a cathode part, an anode terminal electrically connected to the anode part, a cathode terminal electrically connected to the cathode part, and an outer packaging resin covering the at least one capacitor element, the anode terminal, and the cathode terminal. Each of the anode terminal and the cathode terminal includes an exposed part that is exposed from the outer packaging resin. The outer packaging resin includes a mounting surface and four side surfaces each intersecting the mounting surface. The exposed part of each of the anode terminal and the cathode terminal includes a first part disposed along the mounting surface, and the first part includes a hollow part that opens toward an outside of the outer packaging resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: TAKESHI FURUKAWA, TAKAYUKI MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240395470
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor including: an anode plate having a porous layer on at least one main surface thereof; a dielectric layer on the porous layer; a cathode layer on the dielectric layer, the cathode layer including a solid electrolyte layer on the surface of the dielectric layer, and a conductor layer on a surface of the solid electrolyte layer, and the solid electrolyte layer including a first solid electrolyte layer in a region including an inside of pores of the dielectric layer, and a second solid electrolyte layer covering the first solid electrolyte layer; a mask layer made of an insulating material and located in a region surrounding the cathode layer at a peripheral edge of the porous layer; and a columnar layer made of an insulating material and located at a distance from the mask layer in a region surrounded by the cathode layer in the porous layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Daiki HABU, Takeshi FURUKAWA
  • Patent number: 12131871
    Abstract: An electronic component that includes an electronic component body including a first internal electrode exposed at a first end surface and a second internal electrode exposed at a second end surface; a first external electrode on the first end surface and a bottom surface of the electronic component body; and a second external electrode on the second end surface and the bottom surface of the electronic component body, wherein the first external electrode comprises a first end surface electrode and a first bottom surface electrode that are integrated, and a thickness of the first end surface electrode is smaller than a thickness of the first bottom surface electrode, and the second external electrode comprises a second end surface electrode and a second bottom surface electrode that are integrated, and a thickness of the second end surface electrode is smaller than a thickness of the second bottom surface electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tamatani, Kazuya Kusuda, Takeshi Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20240334591
    Abstract: A device may include a capacitor array that is configured with a plurality of capacitor portions disposed in a plane. A device may include a through-hole conductor that is provided to penetrate the capacitor portions in a thickness direction of the capacitor array and is used for electrical connection between the capacitor portions and at least one of the voltage regulator and the load. A device may include a connection terminal layer that is electrically connected to the through-hole conductor and is used for electrical connection between the capacitor portions and at least one of the voltage regulator and the load. A device may include the capacitor array includes at least a first and second capacitor array, and, when viewed from a mounting surface of the connection terminal layer, at least a part of the first and the second capacitor array overlap each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Takeshi FURUKAWA, Tomoki KATO
  • Publication number: 20240242892
    Abstract: A capacitor element that includes: a capacitor portion including an anode plate having a porous portion on a core portion, a dielectric layer on the porous portion, and a cathode layer on the dielectric layer; a first cathode through conductor and a second cathode through conductor each penetrating the dielectric layer and the anode plate in a thickness direction and electrically connected to the cathode layer; and an anode through conductor penetrating the dielectric layer and the anode plate in the thickness direction and electrically connected to the anode plate, wherein, in a plan view from a thickness direction of the anode plate, a first center-to-center distance between the first anode through conductor and the first cathode through conductor is equivalent to a second center-to-center distance between the first anode through conductor and the second cathode through conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Akitomo TAKAHASHI, Takeshi FURUKAWA, Koshi HIMEDA
  • Publication number: 20240186072
    Abstract: A capacitor element having a cathode region and an anode region in a plan view thereof, the capacitor element including: an anode plate in at least the anode region; a porous portion composed of a valve metal in the cathode region and not in the anode region; a dielectric layer on a surface of the porous portion in the cathode region; and a cathode layer on a surface of the dielectric layer in the cathode region, the cathode layer including a solid-electrolyte layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Masanori YOSHIKAWA, Takeshi FURUKAWA
  • Patent number: 11972909
    Abstract: A capacitor disposed inside a multilayer substrate that includes a conductive pattern on a surface thereof and an anode portion having a first conductive metal member and a porous portion disposed on a surface of the first conductive metal member, a cathode portion, and a dielectric layer disposed between the anode portion and the cathode portion. Moreover, the anode portion is led out to a surface side of the multilayer substrate by a connection electrode including an alloy layer containing a metal forming the first conductive metal member and a conductive layer disposed on the alloy layer, and in which the connection electrode is connected to the conductive pattern formed on the surface of the multilayer substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Nakamura, Kohei Shimada, Takeshi Furukawa, Shinji Otani, Akitomo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240128028
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes: an anode plate made of a valve metal; a porous layer on at least one of principal surface of the anode plate; a dielectric layer on a surface of the porous layer; a cathode layer that includes a solid electrolyte layer on the dielectric layer, the cathode layer including two or more cathode portions; a first insulating layer that surrounds at least one of the cathode portions as viewed in a thickness direction of the solid electrolytic capacitor, wherein a material of the first insulating layer fills a portion of the porous layer and is also present on a surface of the filled portion of the porous layer; and a first piercing section that pierces through both of the porous layer and the first insulating layer in the thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventor: Takeshi FURUKAWA
  • Patent number: 11875493
    Abstract: A vibrator unit comprises a vibrating plate having a first surface on which a target object is arranged and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface, a base arranged with a certain interval from the vibrating plate, a speaker having a vibrating portion opposed to the second surface and a frame connected to the base, and a transfer member transferring vibration of the speaker to the vibrating plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventors: Vincent So, Takeshi Furukawa, Cosmos Chong
  • Patent number: 11875950
    Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor that includes a resin molded body having opposed first and second end surfaces, the body including a stack that includes a capacitor element with an anode exposed at the first end surface, a dielectric layer on a surface of the anode, and a cathode opposite to the anode and exposed at the second end surface, and a sealing resin that encloses the stack; a first external electrode on the first end surface of the resin molded body and electrically connected to the anode; and a second external electrode on a second end surface of the resin molded body and electrically connected to the cathode, wherein the first external electrode and the second external electrode each include a resin electrode layer containing a conductive component and a resin component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tamatani, Kazuya Kusuda, Kazutoyo Horio, Takeshi Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20230328214
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus displays a virtual viewpoint video generated using a plurality of video data generated by a plurality of image capture apparatuses and first video data that is stored in a storage medium and different from the plurality of video data, identifies a position of an object relating to the first video data in the plurality of video data, generates second video data which is a virtual viewpoint video, on the basis of the identified position of the object, and controls to display the first video data following a display of the second video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: Takeshi FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230260718
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor element that includes: an anode plate having a first main surface and a second main surface which oppose each other in a thickness direction thereof, and made of a valve-action metal; a porous layer on at least one main surface of the anode plate; a dielectric layer on a surface of the porous layer; a cathode layer including a solid electrolyte layer on a surface of the dielectric layer; and a stress relaxation layer, wherein in a plan view of the first main surface, at least a portion of the stress relaxation layer overlaps with the anode plate, and the portion of the stress relaxation layer does not overlap with the cathode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventor: Takeshi FURUKAWA
  • Patent number: 11670462
    Abstract: A capacitor array that includes a solid electrolytic capacitor element including an anode plate made of a valve-action metal, a porous layer on at least one main surface of the anode plate, a dielectric layer on a surface of the porous layer, and a cathode layer including a solid electrolyte layer on a surface of the dielectric layer; a first anodic through-electrode electrically connected to the anode plate; a second anodic through-electrode electrically connected to the anode plate; and a first cathodic through-electrode electrically connected to the cathode layer, wherein a distance between the first cathodic through-electrode and the first anodic through-electrode is the same or substantially the same as a distance between the first cathodic through-electrode and the second anodic through-electrode in a plane view from a thickness direction of the anode plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Furukawa