Patents by Inventor Yuji Shinkai
Yuji Shinkai 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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Patent number: 9886237Abstract: A text-reading device includes: a visual line direction detection device for a driver; a memory that stores the visual line direction when the driver looks at a display device; a gaze determination device that determines that the driver gazes the display device when a state that the detected visual line direction coincides with the stored visual line direction continues for predetermined time or longer; a voice conversion device that outputs text information of the display device as a voice signal based on an instruction; and a reading control device that inputs the instruction when the driver gazes the display device while the display device displays the text information, and the vehicle starts to move.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2013Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kensuke Suzuki, Yuji Shinkai
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Publication number: 20150293745Abstract: A text-reading device includes: a visual line direction detection device for a driver; a memory that stores the visual line direction when the driver looks at a display device; a gaze determination device that determines that the driver gazes the display device when a state that the detected visual line direction coincides with the stored visual line direction continues for predetermined time or longer; a voice conversion device that outputs text information of the display device as a voice signal based on an instruction; and a reading control device that inputs the instruction when the driver gazes the display device while the display device displays the text information, and the vehicle starts to move.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2013Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Kensuke Suzuki, Yuji Shinkai
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Patent number: 8538756Abstract: A storage unit stores a correspondence between a voice command and a display mode modification operation. When a control unit determines that a vehicle is traveling according to a traveling state of the vehicle obtained by a traveling state acquisition unit, when a voice recognition unit recognizes a voice, which is uttered by a user and received by a voice input unit, and when the control unit determines that the recognized voice corresponds to a voice command stored in the storage unit, the control unit performs a display mode change operation corresponding to the voice command and modifies a display mode of an icon indicated on an indication screen of an indication unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Fujii, Yuji Shinkai
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Patent number: 8345437Abstract: A connection structure for connecting a wiring board to a to-be-connected body having electric contacts, the wiring board including: a base having board-side contacts provided on its facing surface that is to face the to-be-connected body; and a cover film which covers the facing surface except the board-side contacts and a non-covered partial region of the facing surface, the connection structure including: conduction portions formed of electrically conductive resin, for bonding the electric contacts and the board-side contacts to permit electrical conduction therebetween; and a reinforcement portion formed of the same resin as the conduction portions and disposed at a position which is different from positions of the conductive portions and at which the reinforcement portion extends across both of a surface of the cover film and a surface of the non-covered partial region of the base, the reinforcement portion bonding the to-be-connected body and the wiring board for reinforcing connection therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoyuki Kubo, Yuji Shinkai
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Publication number: 20120067624Abstract: A connection structure for connecting a wiring board to a to-be-connected body having electric contacts, the wiring board including: a base having board-side contacts provided on its facing surface that is to face the to-be-connected body; and a cover film which covers the facing surface except the board-side contacts and a non-covered partial region of the facing surface, the connection structure including: conduction portions formed of electrically conductive resin, for bonding the electric contacts and the board-side contacts to permit electrical conduction therebetween; and a reinforcement portion formed of the same resin as the conduction portions and disposed at a position which is different from positions of the conductive portions and at which the reinforcement portion extends across both of a surface of the cover film and a surface of the non-covered partial region of the base, the reinforcement portion bonding the to-be-connected body and the wiring board for reinforcing connection therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyuki KUBO, Yuji SHINKAI
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Patent number: 8000754Abstract: When telephone directory data is transmitted from a cellular phone to a vehicular handsfree apparatus, only a portion of the telephone directory data that reflects call history data of outbound calls or inbound calls is selectively transmitted, for use as the telephone directory data in the apparatus, in a manner that associates registration names used in the cellular phone with telephone numbers in the call history data transmitted from the cellular phone, instead of transmitting all of registered telephone directory data.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2008Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Yuji Nakayama, Kenji Miyake, Yuji Shinkai
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Publication number: 20110173002Abstract: A storage unit stores a correspondence between a voice command and a display mode modification operation. When a control unit determines that a vehicle is traveling according to a traveling state of the vehicle obtained by a traveling state acquisition unit, when a voice recognition unit recognizes a voice, which is uttered by a user and received by a voice input unit, and when the control unit determines that the recognized voice corresponds to a voice command stored in the storage unit, the control unit performs a display mode change operation corresponding to the voice command and modifies a display mode of an icon indicated on an indication screen of an indication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2011Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro FUJII, Yuji SHINKAI
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Patent number: 7782259Abstract: In an antenna formed by a substantially thin-plate state conductive member on a base material, a surface area expanding portion is provided at least substantially at a center part in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which an electric current flows. The surface area expanding portion is a projection portion provided in a projecting state with respect to a peripheral portion (or a concave portion arranged concaved than the peripheral portion). A width dimension of the projection portion (or the concave portion) in a cross-sectional face is twice or more of a skin depth of the electric current in the cross sectional face.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Takeshi Asano, Yuji Shinkai, Katsuo Minakata
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Patent number: 7766458Abstract: An inkjet head includes an ink passage unit, an actuator unit; a printed circuit board; a metallic bond for electrically connecting a land to a terminal, the metallic bond being disposed in at least one of a region between the land and the terminal and a region extending over the land and the terminal along the peripheries of the land and the terminal; and a protrusion disposed on the connecting portion between a main electrode portion and the land.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2007Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuji Shinkai
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Patent number: 7562428Abstract: A manufacturing method that includes the steps of forming an actuator unit, disposing a metallic bond and a thermosetting resin; pressing the land and the terminal; and heating the metallic bond and the thermosetting resin so that the land and the terminal are electrically connected to each other with the metallic bond being disposed in at least one of a region between the land and the terminal and a region extending over the land and the terminal along the peripheries of the land and the terminal, and a protrusion made of the thermosetting resin is formed at least in the connecting portion between the main electrode portion and the land.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2003Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuji Shinkai
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Patent number: 7560308Abstract: A method for manufacturing bonded substrates includes: forming the first terminals on the first substrate, the first terminals each having a metal core projecting from a surface of the first substrate, each metal core coated with a solder layer lower in a melting point than the metal core; forming the conductive second terminals on the second substrate; and electrically bonding the first terminals to the second terminals by heating the first and second substrates while applying pressure to the first substrate and the second substrate. In the forming of the first terminals, a ratio of a height of the metal core from the surface of the first substrate in a thickness direction of the first substrate to a thickness of the solder layer in the thickness direction of the first substrate is in a range of from 1:1 to 2:1.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2006Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takaaki Banno, Yuji Shinkai
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Patent number: 7536762Abstract: A method for manufacturing a board assembly comprises the steps of: tin-plating a first terminal and a copper-made second terminal that are formed on a circuit board; mounting an electronic component on the circuit board by means of gold-tin eutectic bonding between a gold electrode of the electronic component and the tin-plated first terminal; forming a copper-tin alloy on a surface of the second terminal by heating the circuit board after the mounting step; and bonding the second terminal having the copper-tin alloy formed on its surface to a terminal of another board by means of a thermosetting conductive adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2006Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Imai, Yuji Shinkai
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Publication number: 20090111530Abstract: When telephone directory data is transmitted from a cellular phone to a vehicular handsfree apparatus, only a portion of the telephone directory data that reflects call history data of outbound calls or inbound calls is selectively transmitted, for use as the telephone directory data in the apparatus, in a manner that associates registration names used in the cellular phone with telephone numbers in the call history data transmitted from the cellular phone, instead of transmitting all of registered telephone directory data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2008Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Nakayama, Kenji Miyake, Yuji Shinkai
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Publication number: 20080238784Abstract: In an antenna formed by a substantially thin-plate state conductive member on a base material, a surface area expanding portion is provided at least substantially at a center part in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which an electric current flows. The surface area expanding portion is a projection portion provided in a projecting state with respect to a peripheral portion (or a concave portion arranged concaved than the peripheral portion). A width dimension of the projection portion (or the concave portion) in a cross-sectional face is twice or more of a skin depth of the electric current in the cross sectional face.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohashi, Takeshi Asano, Yuji Shinkai, Katsuo Minakata
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Patent number: 7351649Abstract: A method of producing a recording head unit including: (A) a recording head including: a plurality of recording elements; and an actuator unit including a plurality of individual electrodes which respectively correspond to the recording elements; and (B) a printed wiring board which includes conductive leads respectively having terminal portions, which is electrically connected to the individual electrodes, and through which an operating signal for operating the recording elements is supplied to the individual electrodes, the method including: forming a plurality of conductive bumps on a surface of the actuator unit such that the bumps protrude from the surface of the actuator unit, so as to be electrically connected to the individual electrodes, respectively; coating a surface of the printed wiring board with an uncured synthetic resin to form an uncured synthetic-resin layer covering the conductive leads of the printed wiring board; bringing the bumps and the terminal portions of the conductive leads into cType: GrantFiled: April 21, 2005Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuji Shinkai
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Patent number: 7270402Abstract: An ink-jet head includes a passage unit including a plurality of pressure chambers, and a plurality of actuator units attached to a surface of the passage unit for changing the volume of each of the plurality of pressure chambers. The actuator unit has a layered structure laminated with four piezoelectric sheets to. In the actuator unit, individual electrodes are formed at positions respectively corresponding to each of the pressure chambers, only on a face of the uppermost piezoelectric sheet opposite to an attached face of the actuator unit to the passage unit. A common electrode kept at a constant potential is provided on a face of the uppermost piezoelectric sheet at the side facing the passage unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2003Date of Patent: September 18, 2007Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsuo Sakaida, Yuji Shinkai, Takeshi Asano, Atsushi Hirota
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Patent number: 7263752Abstract: A method for manufacturing an ink-jet head, including forming a mark for indicating the positions of pressure chambers on a surface of a passage unit; preparing a member containing a piezoelectric sheet on which a common electrode is supported; attaching the member to the surface of the passage unit; and forming individual electrodes, based on the mark, on a face of the member facing the direction opposite to the attached face thereof to the passage unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsuo Sakaida, Yuji Shinkai, Takeshi Asano, Atsushi Hirota
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Publication number: 20070159511Abstract: A manufacturing method that includes the steps of forming an actuator unit, disposing a metallic bond and a thermosetting resin; pressing the land and the terminal; and heating the metallic bond and the thermosetting resin so that the land and the terminal are electrically connected to each other with the metallic bond being disposed in at least one of a region between the land and the terminal and a region extending over the land and the terminal along the peripheries of the land and the terminal, and a protrusion made of the thermosetting resin is formed at least in the connecting portion between the main electrode portion and the land.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2007Publication date: July 12, 2007Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuji Shinkai
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Patent number: 7166529Abstract: A method of electrically connecting a wiring member to a plurality of electrodes which respectively correspond to a plurality of recording elements of a recording head, the wiring member including a plurality of wire portions and a plurality of terminal portions each of which is connected to the corresponding wire portion, the method including: forming convex bumps by using a conductive solder, respectively on the plurality of terminal portions; and connecting the plurality of terminal portions and the plurality of electrodes respectively to one another via the respective convex bumps by heating and melting the convex bumps at a predetermined temperature with the convex bumps pressed respectively onto the plurality of electrodes with a predetermined load, wherein the connecting the plurality of terminal portions and the plurality of electrodes is carried out such that the predetermined load and the predetermined temperature are decreased with an increase in a height of the convex bumps.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2005Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Imai, Yuji Shinkai
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Publication number: 20060226200Abstract: A method for manufacturing bonded substrates includes: forming the first terminals on the first substrate, the first terminals each having a metal core projecting from a surface of the first substrate, each metal core coated with a solder layer lower in a melting point than the metal core; forming the conductive second terminals on the second substrate; and electrically bonding the first terminals to the second terminals by heating the first and second substrates while applying pressure to the first substrate and the second substrate. In the forming of the first terminals, a ratio of a height of the metal core from the surface of the first substrate in a thickness direction of the first substrate to a thickness of the solder layer in the thickness direction of the first substrate is in a range of from 1:1 to 2:1.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2006Publication date: October 12, 2006Inventors: Takaaki Banno, Yuji Shinkai