Patents by Inventor Tatsuya Okamoto

Tatsuya Okamoto 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: 11975601
    Abstract: A floor structure of an electric vehicle floor structure includes a battery unit and an underfloor panel. The battery unit is arranged underneath a floor of a passenger compartment between front wheels and rear wheels. The underfloor panel covers an entire bottom surface of the battery unit from below. The underfloor panel is provided with a center panel and a surrounding panel. The center panel has a noise absorption material that arranged at a lateral-direction center and a longitudinal-direction center of the underfloor panel. The surrounding panel has a high-strength material arranged around the center panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Renault S.A.S.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nabuchi, Hiroki Eida, Yuji Okamoto, Shinya Akizuki, Tatsuya Imashioya, Ryuki Maeta
  • Publication number: 20240144421
    Abstract: A display apparatus that can display a high-resolution image can be provided. In the display apparatus, a first layer and a second layer are stacked. In the first layer, an arithmetic circuit and a data driver circuit and are provided, and in the second layer, a display portion is provided. In the arithmetic circuit, a neural network is configured. The display portion has a region overlapping with the data driver circuit. The arithmetic circuit has a function of performing arithmetic processing using the neural network on image data and supplying the arithmetically-processed image data to the data driver circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki OKAMOTO, Tatsuya ONUKI
  • Publication number: 20240147708
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a novel structure is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first substrate provided with a first peripheral circuit having a function of driving a first memory cell and a first memory cell layer including a second substrate and a first element layer including the first memory cell. The first memory cell includes a first transistor and a first capacitor. The first transistor includes a semiconductor layer including a metal oxide in its channel formation region. The first memory cell layer is provided to be stacked over the first substrate in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a surface of the first substrate. The second substrate includes a circuit for performing writing of data to or reading of data from the first memory cell. The first peripheral circuit and the first memory cell are electrically connected to each other through a first through electrode provided in the second substrate and the first element layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Takanori MATSUZAKI, Yuki OKAMOTO, Tatsuya ONUKI, Hitoshi KUNITAKE
  • Patent number: 11962972
    Abstract: To enhance a sound image localization effect and to ensure a good viewing state in which an image or video and audio have a sense of unity. Provided is a display in which an image is displayed in a display surface, a rear cover disposed on a rear side of the display, a first speaker disposed between the display and the rear cover, and a second speaker disposed between the display and the rear cover and positioned higher than the first speaker. The second speaker outputs audio according to operation of a piezoelectric element, and has a higher audio output band than the first speaker. This enables a user to feel as if the audio is being output from the display being viewed, which enhances the sound image localization effect and ensures a good viewing state in which an image or video and audio have a sense of unity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Tatsuya Sakata, Tetsuya Shiroishi, Shigemi Oguchi, Kazumasa Okamoto, Ryosuke Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20240118127
    Abstract: The present disclosure is an optical line test system that detects a distribution of loss points of an optical line in a longitudinal direction, using a coherent light measurement device, applies vibration to facility disposed on a path of the optical line, detects a vibration point of the optical line in a longitudinal direction upon applying the vibration, using the coherent light measurement device, and identifies the loss point based on correspondence between the detected loss point and vibration point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke IIDA, Yoshitaka ENOMOTO, Chihiro KITO, Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Yusuke KOSHIKIYA, Yoshifumi WAKISAKA, Nazuki HONDA
  • Publication number: 20240118126
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for remotely identifying a utility pole position and estimating a state of an overhead optical fiber cable. The present disclosure is a method for identifying a utility pole position including identifying a boundary region of a vibration distribution as a utility pole position, from a vibration distribution pattern obtained by measuring strain amounts with respect to distances of an optical fiber by an optical fiber vibration distribution measuring method at each time and sequentially stacking the strain amounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Daisuke IIDA, Yusuke KOSHIKIYA, Nazuki HONDA
  • Patent number: 11920974
    Abstract: A vibration distribution measurement system includes a frequency sweep light source that outputs frequency sweep light, an optical splitter that splits the frequency sweep light into probe light and local light, an optical mixer that mixes backscattered light from the sensing fiber as signal light with the local light, the backscattered light being obtained by causing the probe light to be incident on the sensing fiber, and an analysis unit that analyzes a beat signal obtained from output light of the optical mixer. The analysis unit estimates a distance offset from a measurement result obtained by measuring a distribution waveform of the signal light by measuring the beat signal at a measurement time sufficiently shorter than a cycle of the vibration of the sensing fiber, and measures a distribution of a vibration at any position by compensating for the distance offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Okamoto, Daisuke Iida, Kunihiro Toge, Tetsuya Manabe
  • Patent number: 11920377
    Abstract: Provided is a locking/unlocking device that accurately detects an opening/closing state of an opening/closing device and optimizes timing to lock or unlock. The locking/unlocking device includes a drive unit that drives a lock mechanism of the opening/closing device, a magnetic detection unit that detects a change in a magnetic field based on a change in the relative position between a movable section and a fixed section of the opening/closing device, and a control unit that determines an open/closed state of the opening/closing device on the basis of the change in the magnetic field detected by the magnetic detection unit and activates the drive unit to lock or unlock the lock mechanism on the basis of the open/closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotada Taniuchi, Tatsuhiro Iida, Manabu Onishi, Tatsuya Narahara, Hiroshige Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11906048
    Abstract: A sufficient sealing property of a through hole is ensured. A sealing structure includes a cylindrically-shaped body part inserted into the through hole, formed of a thin plate of a first thickness, one end of the body part being open and another end of the body part being closed, a tapered part connected to the opened one end of the body part and including a diameter gradually expanding outward as a distance from the body part increases, and a first bent part connected to the tapered part, formed of a thin plate thinner than the first thickness, and bent inward so that a protruding part protruding outward elastically abuts against an inner peripheral surface of the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Newfrey LLC
    Inventors: Tomohiro Takenaga, Keisuke Uchida, Tatsuya Okamoto, Satoru Ando, Toshio Narita, Hiroshi Imaizumi, Naoki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230400379
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a frequency modulation amount measuring device that measures an optical spectral shift of scattered light at a position in an optical transmission line, and calculates a frequency modulation amount at the position, using the measured optical spectral shift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Daisuke IIDA, Yusuke KOSHIKIYA, Nazuki HONDA
  • Publication number: 20230358599
    Abstract: An object is to provide a vibration detection apparatus and a vibration detection method which can avoid occurrence of a point where detection sensitivity deteriorates in vibration detection of a scattered light intensity monitor according to optical frequency multiplexing. The present invention conceives a multi-dimensional space having as many dimensions as the number of frequencies to be used, causes scattered light intensity change at each optical frequency to correspond to each axis, plots a scattered light signal as a vector on the space, performs linear approximation passing through an origin on the space having a plurality of plotted vector points as original data, and performs vibration detection using a direction vector of an approximate straight line obtained as a result of the approximation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi WAKISAKA, Daisuke IIDA, Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Nazuki HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230341245
    Abstract: The present disclosure aims to enable measurement of a long distance exceeding 1 km with a spatial resolution of 100 ?m or lower, and diagnosis of health of an optical device installed at a long distance. An apparatus according to the present disclosure is an optical frequency domain reflectivity measuring apparatus that includes: a local light delay fiber that delays local light; an optical 90-degree hybrid that receives an input of the local light delayed by the local light delay fiber and backscattered light from the measurement target, causes the local light and the backscattered light to interfere with each other, and generates an in-phase component and an orthogonal component of a beat signal generated by the interference; and a balance photodetector that detects the in-phase component and the orthogonal component of the beat signal. In the apparatus, an optical frequency response of the measurement target is measured with respect to a relative distance based on the local light delay fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Daisuke IIDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11788909
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a method and an apparatus for acquiring curvature and torsion using an inexpensive sensor medium. Disclosed is a measurement apparatus including a fiber ribbon including a plurality of coated fibers arranged in parallel, a strain measurement unit that measures strain amounts of the plurality of coated fibers, and an arithmetic processing unit that calculates curvature and torsion of the fiber ribbon using a strain amount of a coated fiber arranged in a middle portion of the plurality of coated fibers and a strain amount of a coated fiber arranged in a marginal portion of the plurality of coated fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Daisuke Iida, Hiroyuki Oshida, Tatsuya Okamoto, Tomokazu Oda, Yoshifumi Wakisaka
  • Publication number: 20230288231
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to enable vibration analysis using a spectral shift under appropriate conditions depending on a measurement object. According to the present disclosure, there is provided a vibration distribution measuring apparatus which measures backscattered light in an optical fiber to be measured a plurality of times at different times, extracts an optical spectrum of a window section determined from a plurality of backscattered light waveforms obtained by the measurement, and measures a vibration distribution in the optical fiber to be measured using optical spectra of the plurality of extracted backscattered light waveforms, in which the optical spectrum of the window section is calculated using the window section in which the vibration amplitude in the window section in the optical fiber to be measured is larger than a threshold value defined in the window section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Daisuke IIDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11750283
    Abstract: An object is to provide an optical fiber route search method, an optical fiber route search device, and a program that can efficiently confirm a path of an optical fiber that is installed over a long distance or across a large range. The optical fiber route search method according to the present invention carries out optical measurement that performs distributed measurement of the state of an optical fiber while applying a disturbance to the optical fiber in a portion in which wires of the optical fiber are parallel to each other, branch out, or intersect with each other (a proximity portion), and determines that the position in which the number of singularities (peaks or intensity fluctuations) fluctuates (becomes plural) is the position of the proximity portion from a distribution diagram obtained through the optical measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Iida, Nazuki Honda, Tatsuya Okamoto, Yoshifumi Wakisaka, Hiroyuki Oshida
  • Publication number: 20230152170
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a method and an apparatus for acquiring curvature and torsion using an inexpensive sensor medium. Disclosed is a measurement apparatus including a fiber ribbon including a plurality of coated fibers arranged in parallel, a strain measurement unit that measures strain amounts of the plurality of coated fibers, and an arithmetic processing unit that calculates curvature and torsion of the fiber ribbon using a strain amount of a coated fiber arranged in a middle portion of the plurality of coated fibers and a strain amount of a coated fiber arranged in a marginal portion of the plurality of coated fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi NAKAMURA, Daisuke IIDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA, Tatsuya OKAMOTO, Tomokazu ODA, Yoshifumi WAKISAKA
  • Patent number: 11644347
    Abstract: A manhole position identification method of the present invention includes: measuring, from an end of an optical fiber, a temporal variation in scattering light from the optical fiber when an impact blow is applied to a cover of a manhole located on a path of the optical fiber, so as to obtain temporal variations in a scattering light intensity distribution in a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber; determining an occurrence of vibration due to the impact blow based on the temporal variations at positions in the scattering light intensity distribution, so as to identify an impact blow position on the optical fiber; and associating the impact blow position on the optical fiber with a map position of the manhole whose cover has received the impact blow, so as to identify a position of the manhole expressed in terms of optical fiber length from the end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Okamoto, Daisuke Iida, Hiroyuki Oshida, Tetsuya Manabe
  • Publication number: 20220364644
    Abstract: A sufficient sealing property of a through hole is ensured. A sealing structure includes a cylindrically-shaped body part inserted into the through hole, formed of a thin plate of a first thickness, one end of the body part being open and another end of the body part being closed, a tapered part connected to the opened one end of the body part and including a diameter gradually expanding outward as a distance from the body part increases, and a first bent part connected to the tapered part, formed of a thin plate thinner than the first thickness, and bent inward so that a protruding part protruding outward elastically abuts against an inner peripheral surface of the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Newfrey LLC
    Inventors: Tomohiro TAKENAGA, Keisuke Uchida, Tatsuya Okamoto, Satoru Ando, Toshio Narita, Hiroshi Imaizumi, Naoki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220326005
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device that accurately measures vibration at a designated position of a sensing fiber without using digital signal processing to compensate for distance fluctuation. Digital signal processing for correcting fluctuation of a measurement distance due to a frequency offset of a beat signal due to vibration, which is a measurement target, is simplified. In the present disclosure, vibration at a designated position of the sensing fiber is accurately measured without using the digital signal processing to compensate for the distance fluctuation. A spectrum analysis length of an electrical field E(?n) of backscattered light is set to be larger than a delay deviation Nd due to frequency modulation caused by dynamic strain. An index of tolerance of vibration distribution measurement to the delay deviation Nd is also clarified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Tatsuya Okamoto, Daisuke Iida, Hiroyuki Oshida
  • Patent number: 11463163
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a device for optical frequency domain reflectometry and a method thereof that can measure a reflectance distribution with less spatial resolution degradation due to a phase noise, without using a wideband receiving system even when a long-distance measurement is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Okamoto, Daisuke Iida, Hiroyuki Oshida