Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Shimizu
Toshiyuki 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).
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Publication number: 20200110257Abstract: An imaging unit includes: an optical system including a plurality of lenses; a prism configured to reflect light condensed by the optical system; a semiconductor package including an image sensor configured to generate an electrical signal by receiving light incident from the prism and performing photoelectric conversion on the received light, and including a connection electrode on a back surface of the semiconductor package; and a multi-layer substrate including a connection terminal on a top surface of the multi-layer substrate, the connection electrode being connected to the connection electrode via a conductive member. A concave portion in which an electronic component is mounted is formed in a region on a back surface of the multi-layer substrate, the region corresponding to a region where the connection terminal is formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki MOTOHARA, Shinya ISHIKAWA, Toshiyuki SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 10543604Abstract: A failure diagnostic device for performing a failure diagnosis on a multi-axis robot includes a position detector that detects a movement position of each of joint shafts included in the multi-axis robot, a torque detector that detects a disturbance torque applied to the joint shaft, a routine-operation determination circuit that determines whether or not the multi-axis robot is executing a predefined routine operation, from the movement position detected by the position detector, a reference-value calculation circuit that calculates a disturbance-torque reference value from the disturbance torque detected during execution of the routine operation, a torque correction circuit that corrects the disturbance torque detected while the multi-axis robot executes an operation different from the routine operation by using the disturbance-torque reference value, calculated by the reference-value calculation circuit, to thereby acquire a corrected disturbance torque, and a failure diagnostic circuit that performs a faiType: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Shimizu, Masaki Kuno, Toru Takagi
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Patent number: 10430375Abstract: A parallel computing system includes a plurality of processors multi-dimensionally commented by an interconnection network, wherein each of the processors in the parallel computing system determines, in dimensional order, communication channels to other processors in the interconnection network, each of the processors sets, as relative coordinates of destination processors with respect to the plurality of processors in data communications performed at a same timing, relative coordinates common to all of the processors, and each of the processors performs data communications with destination processors having the set relative coordinates.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Yuichiro Ajima, Toshiyuki Shimizu, Hiroaki Ishihata
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Patent number: 10407555Abstract: To provide a furandicarboxylate unit-containing polyester film usable for industrial and packaging purposes. The film of the present invention is a polyester film, which is a biaxially oriented film of a polyester resin including a dicarboxylic acid component containing mainly a furandicarboxylic acid and a glycol component containing mainly ethylene glycol, wherein the film has a plane orientation coefficient ?P of not less than 0.005 and not more than 0.200 and a film thickness of not thinner than 1 micro meter and not thicker than 300 micro meters.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignees: TOYOBO CO., LTD., SYNVINA C.V.Inventors: Jun Inagaki, Katsuya Ito, Toshiyuki Shimizu, Shoichi Gyobu, Chikao Morishige, Jesper Gabriel Van Berkel
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Patent number: 10342143Abstract: A production method includes: preparing a metal clad laminate including a dielectric layer?30 ?m thick, a first metal foil on a first surface of the dielectric layer, a second metal foil on a second surface of the dielectric layer, first and second carriers on the metal foil via a releasable layer; arranging the pair of metal clad laminates on a resin substrate so the first carrier of each metal clad laminate faces the resin substrate on each surface of the resin substrate; releasing the second carrier from a laminated member to expose the second metal foil; forming a pattern on the second metal foil; arranging an insulating layer on the pattern and arranging a metal layer on the insulating layer; and separating the first carrier and the first metal foil from each other. The dielectric layer has a strain energy at break of 1.8 MJ or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: MITSUI MINNG & SMELTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiyuki Shimizu, Toshifumi Matsushima, Yoshihiro Yoneda
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Patent number: 10223323Abstract: First and second apparatuses are connected with each other through a communication path provided with a plurality of lanes used for data transfer that is performed between the first and second apparatuses. Prior to data transfer, transfer-control information is exchanged between the first and second apparatuses according to a predetermined communication protocol. Upon detecting transfer-control information, the first apparatus notifies the second apparatus of a lane-control instruction to increase a second lane-counter indicating a number of lanes used by the second apparatus, and increases a first lane-counter indicating a number of lanes used by the first apparatus so that the first lane-counter is greater than a number of lanes that have been used when detecting the transfer-control information.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Atsuyuki Nikami, Toshiyuki Shimizu, Tomohiro Inoue
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Publication number: 20190021582Abstract: An imaging unit includes: a semiconductor package that includes a light receiver of an imaging element formed on a front surface of the semiconductor package, and a sensor electrode formed on a back surface of the semiconductor package; a circuit board that includes a connection electrode electrically and mechanically connected to the sensor electrode through a bump on a front surface of the circuit board; an enclosing member configured to enclose the semiconductor package; a first filler that is filled in space enclosed by the enclosing member; and a second filler that is filled on a joint surface between the semiconductor package and the circuit board, and that has a smaller linear expansion per unit length at sterilization temperature than that of the first filler.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiyuki SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20180332721Abstract: A production method includes: preparing a metal clad laminate including a dielectric layer ?30 ?m thick, a first metal foil on a first surface of the dielectric layer, a second metal foil on a second surface of the dielectric layer, first and second carriers on the metal foil via a releasable layer; arranging the pair of metal clad laminates on a resin substrate so the first carrier of each metal clad laminate faces the resin substrate on each surface of the resin substrate; releasing the second carrier from a laminated member to expose the second metal foil; forming a pattern on the second metal foil; arranging an insulating layer on the pattern and arranging a metal layer on the insulating layer; and separating the first carrier and the first metal foil from each other. The dielectric layer has a strain energy at break of 1.8 MJ or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Toshiyuki SHIMIZU, Toshifumi MATSUSHIMA, Yoshihiro YONEDA
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Patent number: 10093083Abstract: The present invention is to provide stable slipperiness in highly humid environments, further to provide suitability for printing and packaging with various design properties, stable bagmaking workability, and processability properties by simultaneously giving excellent transparency as same as that of common polyamide resin films, and still further to provide a biaxially oriented, laminated polyamide resin film producible at a low cost in the case of film production. A biaxially oriented, laminated polyamide resin film comprising at least one substrate layer and at least one slippery layer, wherein the substrate layer and the slippery layer contain polyamide resins and the biaxially oriented, laminated polyamide resin film has a static friction coefficient of 0.9 or lower in 65% RH environments and a haze value of 3.0% or lower.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2012Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Miyaguchi, Toshiyuki Shimizu, Hirokazu Ooki
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Publication number: 20180244878Abstract: To provide a furandicarboxylate unit-containing polyester film usable for industrial and packaging purposes. The film of the present invention is a polyester film, which is a biaxially oriented film of a polyester resin including a dicarboxylic acid component containing mainly a furandicarboxylic acid and a glycol component containing mainly ethylene glycol, wherein the film has a plane orientation coefficient AP of not less than 0.005 and not more than 0.200 and a film thickness of not thinner than 1 micro meter and not thicker than 300 micro meters.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicants: TOYOBO CO., LTD., SYNVINA C.V.Inventors: Jun INAGAKI, Katsuya ITO, Toshiyuki SHIMIZU, Shoichi GYOBU, Chikao MORISHIGE, Jesper Gabriel VAN BERKEL
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Publication number: 20180154529Abstract: A failure diagnostic device for performing a failure diagnosis on a multi-axis robot includes a position detector that detects a movement position of each of joint shafts included in the multi-axis robot, a torque detector that detects a disturbance torque applied to the joint shaft, a routine-operation determination circuit that determines whether or not the multi-axis robot is executing a predefined routine operation, from the movement position detected by the position detector, a reference-value calculation circuit that calculates a disturbance-torque reference value from the disturbance torque detected during execution of the routine operation, a torque correction circuit that corrects the disturbance torque detected while the multi-axis robot executes an operation different from the routine operation by using the disturbance-torque reference value, calculated by the reference-value calculation circuit, to thereby acquire a corrected disturbance torque, and a failure diagnostic circuit that performs a faiType: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2015Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiyuki Shimizu, Masaki Kuno, Toru Takagi
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Publication number: 20180133897Abstract: A failure diagnostic device includes a torque detector that detects disturbance torques applied to joint shafts included in a multi-axis robot, a torque grouping circuit that groups the disturbance torques according to a content of an operation executed by the multi-axis robot upon detection of each disturbance torque, a torque correction circuit that obtains a corrected disturbance torque standardized between a plurality of operations with different contents based on a representative value preliminarily set for each grouped disturbance torque and the disturbance torque detected by the torque detector, and a failure diagnostic circuit that performs a failure diagnosis on the multi-axis robot by comparing the corrected disturbance torque with a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2015Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Toshiyuki Shimizu
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Publication number: 20180022880Abstract: A film having high transparency, weather resistance, moist heat resistance, excellent tensile characteristics, a good hue and high surface hardness. The film comprises: (a) 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin (component a) containing a carbonate unit (A) represented by the following formula (A) and having a specific viscosity measured from a 20° C. methylene chloride solution of 0.2 to 0.5; (b) 0.03 to 2.5 parts by weight of at least one ultraviolet absorbent (component b) selected from the group consisting of an ultraviolet absorbent having a benzotriazole skeleton and an ultraviolet absorbent having a triazine skeleton; (c) 0.0001 to 0.02 part by weight of a coloring agent (component c); and (d) 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicant: TEIJIN LIMITEDInventors: Naoshi TAKAHASHI, Tetsuya MOTOYOSHI, Kenta IMAZATO, Toshiyuki SHIMIZU, Shoichi MAEKAWA, Katsuhiro YAMANAKA
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Patent number: 9841973Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of arithmetic processing devices, a common timer unit configured to measure time in common among the plurality of arithmetic processing devices, a plurality of individual timer units to measure execution time of a program per plurality of arithmetic processing devices, a comparing unit configured to compare the program execution time of each of the plurality of arithmetic processing devices, the program execution time being measured by the plurality of individual timer units, with time measured by the common timer unit, and a control unit configured to control processing of the plurality of arithmetic processing devices on the basis of a result of the comparison made by the comparing unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Masaru Kase, Toshiyuki Shimizu
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Patent number: 9830195Abstract: An apparatus includes an arbiter and a plurality of arithmetic processors, each including an arithmetic circuit and a measuring circuit. The arithmetic circuit executes an arithmetic process, and the measuring circuit measures a progress level indicating a progress of the arithmetic process executed by the arithmetic circuit. Upon receiving access requests to an external device from first arithmetic processors included in the plurality of arithmetic processors, the arbiter arbitrates the access requests, based on a result of comparing the progress levels measured by the measuring circuits of the first arithmetic processors.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Yuki Yoshida, Masaru Kase, Toshiyuki Shimizu
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Patent number: 9718260Abstract: The invention provides a biaxially stretched multilayer polyamide resin film having 8 or more layers in total and using a same resin composition for 80% based on the ratio of the number of the layers. The film is stretched 2.5 to 5.0 times in the longitudinal direction of the film and has an in-plane orientation coefficient (?P) of 0.057 to 0.07 and a strain of 0.1 to 2.0% after boiling treatment.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Toyobo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Shimizu, Naofumi Kajita, Yasumasa Morimoto
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Patent number: 9688826Abstract: It is provided that a biaxially stretched polyester film suitable for uses for which nylon films and other flexible films have conventionally been used and a method for producing the film. A biaxially stretched polyester film made of a polyester resin composition (A) containing not less than 60 mass % of polybutylene terephthalate and having yield stress in a MD of not more than 70 MPa, yield stress in a TD of not more than 70 MPa, rupture strength in the MD of not less than 160 MPa, rupture strength in the TD of not less than 160 MPa, and rupture elongation in the MD and TD of not less than 100%.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Toyobo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takamichi Gotou, Toshiyuki Shimizu, Tadashi Nakaya, Yoshitomo Ikehata
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Publication number: 20170150875Abstract: An imaging module includes: a chip size package having an image sensor that has a light receiving unit on a front side of the image sensor, the chip size package having connection lands on a back side of the image sensor; a circuit board having connection electrodes being electrically and mechanically connected to the connection lands of the chip size package through bumps; and an underfill material filled into a gap between the chip size package and the circuit board. The circuit board and the underfill material are provided within a projection plane on which the chip size package is projected in an optical axis direction of the image sensor. The circuit board has a cutout portion on a side surface thereof orthogonal to a connection surface of the circuit board with the chip size package such that the cutout portion is open to at least the connection surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki MOTOHARA, Toshiyuki FUJII, Shinya ISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 9619873Abstract: An image processing device includes: a calculator that calculates a gray scale histogram for each color component of an image signal; a calculator that calculates, for each color component, a maximum and a minimum of classes having a frequency greater than zero in the gray scale histogram; a determiner that generates, for each color component, a histogram having classes each having an absolute difference value between the frequencies of adjacent classes in the gray scale histogram, and compares the absolute difference values in the histograms with a value to determine, from the presence or absence of an absolute difference value exceeding the value, an image type of the image; a generator that generates a gray scale correction curve from the calculated maximum and minimum for each color component; and a corrector that performs gray scale correction on the image signal using the gray scale correction curve.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2013Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuka Tsuda, Nobuhiko Yamagishi, Toshiyuki Shimizu, Takashi Hatakenaka, Junko Shinohara, Hironobu Yasui, Tomonori Fukuta, Isao Otsuka, Yoshiaki Kato
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Patent number: 9604298Abstract: The removal starting position (8S1) of a first removal process and the four removal starting positions (8S21-8S24) in a second removal process are established on an imaginary circle (7I) with a prescribed radius (R) that is inscribed in the apex (7C) of an incomplete thread part (7a). In each removal process, the tip of the screw thread cutting tool shaves off the apex (7C) of the incomplete thread part (7a) into respective recesses, contacting the imaginary inscribed circle (7I) from the outside (above). The multiple cutting surfaces of the apex (7C) are formed in parallel helices (that is, as mutually adjacent helical recesses) from the starting position to the ending position of the incomplete thread part. Points and burrs in the incomplete thread part can thereby be eliminated or reduced without loss of the ability to screw together with a partner threaded fastener (threaded portion).Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: RICOH ELEMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Shimizu, Masao Kobayashi, Kenji Nishikawa, Seiji Otani, Takaya Nishikawa, Manabu Takeda