Patents by Inventor Tomoya Kawasaki

Tomoya Kawasaki 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: 20240099013
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, the array chip includes a three-dimensionally disposed plurality of memory cells and a memory-side interconnection layer connected to the memory cells. The circuit chip includes a substrate, a control circuit provided on the substrate, and a circuit-side interconnection layer provided on the control circuit and connected to the control circuit. The circuit chip is stuck to the array chip with the circuit-side interconnection layer facing to the memory-side interconnection layer. The bonding metal is provided between the memory-side interconnection layer and the circuit-side interconnection layer. The bonding metal is bonded to the memory-side interconnection layer and the circuit-side interconnection layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki FUKUZUMI, Hideaki AOCHI, Mie MATSUO, Kenichiro YOSHII, Koichiro SHINDO, Kazushige KAWASAKI, Tomoya SANUKI
  • Patent number: 10573175
    Abstract: A driver assistance system for a vehicle includes image obtaining unit configured to obtain data in proximity to the vehicle, determine a regulation value based on the data, and at least one sensor unit configured to provide state information related to a state of the vehicle. Processing unit also includes being configured to determine whether a zone condition applies based on the data, confirm a validity of the detected regulation value based on the state information, the determined regulation value, the zone condition, and an age of the data, the processing unit is configured to revoke the validity, and wherein, upon determination of a zone condition, the processing unit is configured to increase the predetermined threshold duration. The processing unit is also configured to cause the regulation value to be displayed when the validity is confirmed and to prevent display of the regulation value when the validity is revoked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE
    Inventors: Yuzo Kaneshige, Tomoya Kawasaki, Christophe Gillet, Tom Rycken, Tomoya Sano
  • Patent number: 10488112
    Abstract: A raw material supply apparatus that supplies a raw material into a flash smelting furnace and supplies a first gas contributing to a reaction of the raw material into the flash smelting furnace, includes: a raw material passage that is provided out of a lance through which the first gas passes, the raw material passing through the raw material passage; and an adjuster that adjusts a distribution of the raw material by blowing a second gas to the raw material passing through the raw material passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: PAN PACIFIC COPPER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Motomura, Eiji Tojima, Tomoya Kawasaki, Yutaka Yasuda
  • Patent number: 10443940
    Abstract: A raw material supply process that supplies a raw material into a flash smelting furnace and supplies a first gas contributing to a reaction of the raw material into the flash smelting furnace, includes: a raw material passage that is provided out of a lance through which the first gas passes, the raw material passing through the raw material passage; and an adjuster that adjusts a distribution of the raw material by blowing a second gas to the raw material passing through the raw material passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: PAN PACIFIC COPPER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Motomura, Eiji Tojima, Tomoya Kawasaki, Yutaka Yasuda
  • Patent number: 10380437
    Abstract: A traffic sign assistance system for a vehicle including optical recognition unit to obtain data regarding a regulation indicator in proximity to the vehicle, at least one sensor unit configured to monitor a vehicle travel direction, and processing unit. The processing unit are configured to determine a location of a location of a next road intersection based on the vehicle travel direction, measure a distance between a location of the regulation indicator and the location of the next road intersection, cause display of a regulation value associated with the regulation indicator on a display device to be maintained if the distance is less than a predetermined threshold value and a change in vehicle travel direction is detected, and hide the regulation value associated with the regulation indicator from the display device if the distance is greater than the predetermined threshold value and a change in vehicle travel direction is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE
    Inventors: Christophe Gillet, Tomoya Kawasaki, Yuzo Kaneshige, Tom Rycken, Tomoya Sano
  • Patent number: 10150407
    Abstract: Means to Solve the Problem A vehicle periphery alert device is installed in a vehicle that operates when the vehicle starts to reverse from a parked state. The vehicle periphery alert device includes a detecting unit configured to detect a position and a movement direction of another vehicle behind the vehicle; an alert operation activating unit configured to perform a predetermined alert operation in the vehicle; and a control unit configured to set a virtual alert area behind the vehicle according to an angle formed by a movement direction of the vehicle and the movement direction of the another vehicle, and to activate the alert operation activating unit when a condition, including that the position of the another vehicle is in the alert area that has been set, is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Takahashi, Tomoya Kawasaki, Tetsuya Komoguchi
  • Publication number: 20170308761
    Abstract: A traffic sign assistance system for a vehicle including optical recognition unit to obtain data regarding a regulation indicator in proximity to the vehicle, at least one sensor unit configured to monitor a vehicle travel direction, and processing unit. The processing unit are configured to determine a location of a location of a next road intersection based on the vehicle travel direction, measure a distance between a location of the regulation indicator and the location of the next road intersection, cause display of a regulation value associated with the regulation indicator on a display device to be maintained if the distance is less than a predetermined threshold value and a change in vehicle travel direction is detected, and hide the regulation value associated with the regulation indicator from the display device if the distance is greater than the predetermined threshold value and a change in vehicle travel direction is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE
    Inventors: Christophe GILLET, Tomoya KAWASAKI, Yuzo KANESHIGE, Tom RYCKEN, Tomoya SANO
  • Publication number: 20170243483
    Abstract: A driver assistance system for a vehicle includes image obtaining unit configured to obtain data in proximity to the vehicle, determine a regulation value based on the data, and at least one sensor unit configured to provide state information related to a state of the vehicle. Processing unit also includes being configured to determine whether a zone condition applies based on the data, confirm a validity of the detected regulation value based on the state information, the determined regulation value, the zone condition, and an age of the data, the processing unit is configured to revoke the validity, and wherein, upon determination of a zone condition, the processing unit is configured to increase the predetermined threshold duration. The processing unit is also configured to cause the regulation value to be displayed when the validity is confirmed and to prevent display of the regulation value when the validity is revoked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE
    Inventors: Yuzo KANESHIGE, Tomoya KAWASAKI, Christophe GILLET, Tom RYCKEN, Tomoya SANO
  • Patent number: 9689610
    Abstract: A raw material supply apparatus that supplies a raw material into a flash smelting furnace and supplies a first gas contributing to a reaction of the raw material into the flash smelting furnace, includes: a raw material passage that is provided out of a lance through which the first gas passes, the raw material passing through the raw material passage; and an adjuster that adjusts a distribution of the raw material by blowing a second gas to the raw material passing through the raw material passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: PAN PACIFIC COPPER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Motomura, Eiji Tojima, Tomoya Kawasaki, Yutaka Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20170138668
    Abstract: A raw material supply apparatus that supplies a raw material into a flash smelting furnace and supplies a first gas contributing to a reaction of the raw material into the flash smelting furnace, includes: a raw material passage that is provided out of a lance through which the first gas passes, the raw material passing through the raw material passage; and an adjuster that adjusts a distribution of the raw material by blowing a second gas to the raw material passing through the raw material passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: PAN PACIFIC COPPER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya MOTOMURA, Eiji TOJIMA, Tomoya KAWASAKI, Yutaka YASUDA
  • Patent number: 9493114
    Abstract: A warning device for a vehicle to start a warning at an optimum timing depending on a position at which an object passes near the vehicle. The warning device has a warning part for warning a driver of a presence of the object that will pass near the vehicle. The warning device has a timing changing part for changing a timing of starting the warning via the warning part according to a size of an allowance space from the vehicle to an expected passing position at which the object is expected to pass near the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Takahashi, Tomoya Kawasaki, Tetsuya Komoguchi
  • Publication number: 20160320126
    Abstract: A raw material supply apparatus that supplies a raw material into a flash smelting furnace and supplies a first gas contributing to a reaction of the raw material into the flash smelting furnace, includes: a raw material passage that is provided out of a lance through which the first gas passes, the raw material passing through the raw material passage; and an adjuster that adjusts a distribution of the raw material by blowing a second gas to the raw material passing through the raw material passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: PAN PACIFIC COPPER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya MOTOMURA, Eiji TOJIMA, Tomoya KAWASAKI, Yutaka YASUDA
  • Patent number: 9139147
    Abstract: In order to provide a front structure, of a vehicle, which prevents reduction in efficiency in cooling an auxiliary component, by using intake air, and suppresses damage to the auxiliary component, which are caused by a millimeter-wave radar in the event of collision, a front structure of the vehicle includes a front right side radar for transmitting and receiving a radio wave to detect obstacles to a front right side of the vehicle, a front left side radar for transmitting and receiving a radio wave to detect obstacles to a front left side of the vehicle, a bumper reinforcement, crash boxes at the left and the right, and a condenser which is cooled by intake air. The front right side radar is arranged to a side farther out than a right end of the condenser, and the front left side radar is arranged to a side farther out than a right end of the condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Kawasaki, Hitoshi Mitsumata, Takashi Ogitani
  • Patent number: 9123248
    Abstract: A control unit of an alarm device suppresses the activation of an alarm for a second another vehicle when a self-vehicle is reversing from a parked state, in a case where after one of a first detection unit, which is configured to detect another vehicle approaching from the back right of the self-vehicle, or the second detection unit, which is configured to detect another vehicle approaching from the back left of the self-vehicle, detects a first another vehicle, another one of the first detection unit or the second detection unit detects the second another vehicle, in a case where a distance difference between a first distance between the first another vehicle and the self-vehicle and a second distance between the second another vehicle and the self-vehicle is less than or equal to a predetermined distance, in a case where a speed difference between a first speed of the first another vehicle and a second speed of the second another vehicle is less than or equal to a predetermined speed, or in a case where a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Takahashi, Tetsuya Komoguchi, Tomoya Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20150175063
    Abstract: Means to Solve the Problem A vehicle periphery alert device is installed in a vehicle that operates when the vehicle starts to reverse from a parked state. The vehicle periphery alert device includes a detecting unit configured to detect a position and a movement direction of another vehicle behind the vehicle; an alert operation activating unit configured to perform a predetermined alert operation in the vehicle; and a control unit configured to set a virtual alert area behind the vehicle according to an angle formed by a movement direction of the vehicle and the movement direction of the another vehicle, and to activate the alert operation activating unit when a condition, including that the position of the another vehicle is in the alert area that has been set, is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko TAKAHASHI, Tomoya KAWASAKI, Tetsuya KOMOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9064408
    Abstract: Provided is a rear cross traffic alert device that allows a driver to understand that notification of the presence of an object (another vehicle, etc.) in an area directly behind the vehicle cannot be notified. The rear cross traffic alert device provided on a vehicle includes: an object detection section configured to detect the presence of an object laterally behind the vehicle; a movement determination section configured to determine whether or not the object has entered a predetermined area in a detection area in which the object detection section can detect the presence of the object; and a notification control section configured to stop notification when the movement determination section has determined that the object has entered the predetermined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Komoguchi, Tomoya Kawasaki, Yoshihiko Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150091224
    Abstract: A raw material supply apparatus that supplies a raw material into a flash smelting furnace and supplies a first gas contributing to a reaction of the raw material into the flash smelting furnace, includes: a raw material passage that is provided out of a lance through which the first gas passes, the raw material passing through the raw material passage; and an adjuster that adjusts a distribution of the raw material by blowing a second gas to the raw material passing through the raw material passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: PAN PACIFIC COPPER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya MOTOMURA, Eiji TOJIMA, Tomoya KAWASAKI, Yutaka YASUDA
  • Publication number: 20140354450
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a warning device, usability of which is improved. The warning device includes: a first detection section for detecting another vehicle that approaches from right rear of a host vehicle; a second detection section for detecting another vehicle that approaches from left rear of the host vehicle; a warning section for issuing a warning to inform a driver of the host vehicle of approach of another vehicle; and a control section for ordering the warning section to issue the warning when another vehicle is detected by the first detection section or the second detection section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Takahashi, Tomoya Kawasaki, Tetsuya Komoguchi
  • Publication number: 20140292560
    Abstract: A pedestrian detecting device mounted on a vehicle includes: a transmission unit that irradiates an electromagnetic wave to an area around a vehicle; a receiving unit that receives a reflected wave caused by reflection of the electromagnetic wave from an obstacle; a storage unit that stores data of the reflected wave received by the receiving unit; and a control unit that reads the data of the reflected wave, stored in the storage unit, and that calculates a variance of an intensity of the reflected wave, wherein the control unit determines that the obstacle is a pedestrian when the calculated variance of the intensity of the reflected wave is larger than or equal to a reference value, and, after the control unit determines that the obstacle is a pedestrian, the control unit identifies that the same obstacle is a pedestrian and outputs information regarding a position of the pedestrian.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Kawasaki, Makoto Nakai
  • Publication number: 20140232587
    Abstract: In order to provide a front structure, of a vehicle, which prevents reduction in efficiency in cooling an auxiliary component, by using intake air, and suppresses damage to the auxiliary component, which are caused by a millimeter-wave radar in the event of collision, a front structure of the vehicle includes a front right side radar for transmitting and receiving a radio wave to detect obstacles to a front right side of the vehicle, a front left side radar for transmitting and receiving a radio wave to detect obstacles to a front left side of the vehicle, a bumper reinforcement, crash boxes at the left and the right, and a condenser which is cooled by intake air. The front right side radar is arranged to a side farther out than a right end of the condenser, and the front left side radar is arranged to a side farther out than a right end of the condenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya KAWASAKI, Hitoshi MITSUMATA, Takashi KOBIKI