Patents by Inventor Yukihiro Takahashi

Yukihiro Takahashi 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: 11940347
    Abstract: A pressure sensor has a stem in which a pressure introduction hole into which a pressure medium is introduced and a diaphragm deformable according to the pressure of the pressure medium are formed, and a strain detecting element which is arranged on the diaphragm via an insulating film and being configured to output a detection signal according to the deformation of the diaphragm. The strain detecting element is configured to have a portion made of polysilicon. A low doping layer having a higher electrical resistivity than polysilicon and a higher crystallinity than the insulating film is arranged between the insulating film and the strain detecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, NAGANO KEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kodama, Naoki Yoshida, Kaori Miyashita, Eiji Takeda, Nobuaki Yamada, Yoshihiro Tomomatsu, Yasushi Yanagisawa, Yusuke Midorikawa, Shirou Kamanaru, Kenichi Yokoyama, Inao Toyoda, Hisayuki Takeuchi, Naohisa Niimi, Masao Takahashi, Yasutake Ura, Kouji Asano, Yukihiro Kamada
  • Patent number: 11768152
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a storage, an interface device, and a computing circuit. The storage stores a database, in which spectrum data concerning light from a light source and a measurement condition data at a time of measurement of the light are associated with a plant status data concerning growth of a plant and/or a harvest data concerning a harvest of the plant. The interface device receives an input of a user measurement condition which is to be applied at a time of measurement of the plant by a user and which includes data concerning angles at the time of measurement and data concerning a plant status and/or a harvest to be predicted. The computing circuit determines at least two wavelengths contained in the light from the light source to be measured under the user measurement condition by referring to the database based on the user measurement condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yukihiro Takahashi, Tatsuharu Ono, Nobuyasu Naruse, Yurino Ishida
  • Patent number: 11768109
    Abstract: The spectroscopic measuring instrument includes: a spectrometer to make measurement of a reflection spectrum of an object relative to a light source and output measurement information representing a result of the measurement; a shadow projector including obstacle(s) to allow light from the light source to cast shadow(s) on an object surface; an imaging device to output image information representing an image of an imaging area including the object surface; a storage interface removably connectable to a computer readable medium; and a processing device. The processing device is connected to the spectrometer, the imaging device and the storage interface, and performs a measurement process of storing the measurement information from the spectrometer and the image information from the imaging device in the computer readable medium connected to the storage interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yukihiro Takahashi, Youhei Moteki, Nobuyasu Naruse
  • Publication number: 20230251185
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a storage, an interface device, and a computing circuit. The storage stores a database, in which spectrum data concerning light from a light source and a measurement condition data at a time of measurement of the light are associated with a plant status data concerning growth of a plant and/or a harvest data concerning a harvest of the plant. The interface device receives an input of a user measurement condition which is to be applied at a time of measurement of the plant by a user and which includes data concerning angles at the time of measurement and data concerning a plant status and/or a harvest to be predicted. The computing circuit determines at least two wavelengths contained in the light from the light source to be measured under the user measurement condition by referring to the database based on the user measurement condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Yukihiro TAKAHASHI, Tatsuharu ONO, Nobuyasu NARUSE, Yurino ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230251129
    Abstract: The spectroscopic measuring instrument includes: a spectrometer to make measurement of a reflection spectrum of an object relative to a light source and output measurement information representing a result of the measurement; a shadow projector including obstacle(s) to allow light from the light source to cast shadow(s) on an object surface; an imaging device to output image information representing an image of an imaging area including the object surface; a storage interface removably connectable to a computer readable medium; and a processing device. The processing device is connected to the spectrometer, the imaging device and the storage interface, and performs a measurement process of storing the measurement information from the spectrometer and the image information from the imaging device in the computer readable medium connected to the storage interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Yukihiro TAKAHASHI, Youhei MOTEKI, Nobuyasu NARUSE
  • Patent number: 11573124
    Abstract: A spectral image capturing method using a spectral camera control device installed in aircraft, the method comprising: a) setting an exposure time of the spectral camera so that a current exposure time is determined (S2), b) determining whether or not either an amount of attitude change or an amount of position change of the spectral camera per exposure time exceeds a predetermined threshold based on a spatial resolution of the spectral camera (S4), c1) when exceeding the predetermined threshold, resetting the current exposure time to be shorter (S5), c2) when not exceeding the predetermined threshold, not resetting the current exposure time to be shorter, and d) capturing a spectral image in a snapshot mode with the spectral camera using the reset exposure time, wherein when the transmission wavelength of the liquid crystal tunable filter is switched while the aircraft is in a stationary flight, steps b) to d) are repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yukihiro Takahashi, Junichi Kurihara, Tetsuro Ishida
  • Patent number: 11542035
    Abstract: A spectral camera control device, being installed, along with a spectral camera provided with a liquid crystal tunable filter, in an aircraft capable of stationary flight. The spectral camera control device causes the spectral camera to capture a spectral image in a snapshot mode each time a transmission wavelength of the liquid crystal tunable filter is switched while the aircraft is in stationary flight, and the spectral camera control device causes a plurality of spectral images to be captured in succession at a same transmission wavelength when an SN ratio of the captured spectral image is less than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yukihiro Takahashi, Junichi Kurihara, Tetsuro Ishida
  • Publication number: 20220282966
    Abstract: A thickness measurement device is provided for measuring a thickness of a first layer of an entire plant leaf including the first layer and a second layer, the first layer having an incident surface and an opposing surface opposing the incident surface, the second layer being in contact with the opposing surface of the first layer. The thickness measurement device includes: a light source that causes light of a predetermined wavelength ? to enter the incident surface as an incident light from an air layer at a predetermined incident angle ?i; a spectroscopic camera that receives a combined reflected light obtained by combining first and second reflected lights, and acquires a two-dimensional image including a light intensity of an S-polarized light component perpendicular to the incident surface among the combined reflected light; and a controller that calculates the thickness t of the first layer by using a predetermined equation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Yukihiro TAKAHASHI, Tumendemberel BEGZSUREN
  • Patent number: 11131583
    Abstract: An object state detection and transmission system includes a spectrometer configured to measure a reflectance spectrum based on reflected light reflected by a target object, a spectroscopic terminal apparatus integrally provided with an electronic device, the spectroscopic terminal apparatus being configured to receive a measured reflection spectrum; and a server apparatus connected to the spectroscopic terminal apparatus via a communication line. The electronic device includes a photographic camera configured to photograph the target object to capture a photographed image; a Global Positioning System (GPS) communication unit configured to measure a position of the target object; a sensor configured to measure an azimuth and an angle of the target object; a Central Processing Unit (CPU) configured to clock a current time of the photographing and the measurement; and a wireless communication unit configured to transmit resultant data to the server apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yukihiro Takahashi, Nobuyasu Naruse
  • Publication number: 20210114748
    Abstract: A spectral camera control device, being installed, along with a spectral camera provided with a liquid crystal tunable filter, in an aircraft capable of stationary flight. The spectral camera control device causes the spectral camera to capture a spectral image in a snapshot mode each time a transmission wavelength of the liquid crystal tunable filter is switched while the aircraft is in stationary flight, and the spectral camera control device causes a plurality of spectral images to be captured in succession at a same transmission wavelength when an SN ratio of the captured spectral image is less than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Yukihiro TAKAHASHI, Junichi KURIHARA, Tetsuro ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210072084
    Abstract: A spectral image capturing method using a spectral camera control device installed in aircraft, the method comprising: a) setting an exposure time of the spectral camera so that a current exposure time is determined (S2), b) determining whether or not either an amount of attitude change or an amount of position change of the spectral camera per exposure time exceeds a predetermined threshold based on a spatial resolution of the spectral camera (S4), c1) when exceeding the predetermined threshold, resetting the current exposure time to be shorter (S5), c2) when not exceeding the predetermined threshold, not resetting the current exposure time to be shorter, and d) capturing a spectral image in a snapshot mode with the spectral camera using the reset exposure time, wherein when the transmission wavelength of the liquid crystal tunable filter is switched while the aircraft is in a stationary flight, steps b) to d) are repeated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Yukihiro TAKAHASHI, Junichi KURIHARA, Tetsuro ISHIDA
  • Patent number: 10864998
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a spectral camera control device, a spectral camera control program, a spectral camera control system, an aircraft equipped with said system, and a spectral image capturing method, with which it is possible for each of a spatial resolution and an exposure time for spectral image capture to be set arbitrarily, and with which spatial distortion and displacement of the spectral image can be suppressed. [Solution] This spectral camera control device is installed together with a spectral camera 3 provided with a liquid crystal tunable filter 33 in an aircraft 1 capable of stationary flight, and causes the spectral camera 3 to capture an image in a snapshot mode each time the transmission wavelength of the liquid crystal tunable filter 33 is switched while the aircraft 1 is in stationary flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yukihiro Takahashi, Junichi Kurihara, Tetsuro Ishida
  • Publication number: 20200319024
    Abstract: An object state detection and transmission system includes a spectroscope that measures a reflectance spectrum based on reflected light reflected by a target object, a spectroscopic terminal apparatus integrally provided with an electronic device, the spectroscopic terminal apparatus receiving a measured reflection spectrum; and a server apparatus connected to the spectroscopic terminal device via a communication line. The electronic device includes photographing means that photographs a target object to capture a photographed image; GPS means that measures a position of the target object; sensor means that measures azimuth and angle of the target object; clock means that clocks current time of the photographing and measurement; and communication means that transmits the photographed image, the position of the target object, the azimuth and angle of the target object, and the photographing and measurement time together with the received reflection spectrum to the server apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Yukihiro TAKAHASHI, Nobuyasu NARUSE
  • Publication number: 20190118970
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a spectral camera control device, a spectral camera control program, a spectral camera control system, an aircraft equipped with said system, and a spectral image capturing method, with which it is possible for each of a spatial resolution and an exposure time for spectral image capture to be set arbitrarily, and with which spatial distortion and displacement of the spectral image can be suppressed. [Solution] This spectral camera control device is installed together with a spectral camera 3 provided with a liquid crystal tunable filter 33 in an aircraft 1 capable of stationary flight, and causes the spectral camera 3 to capture an image in a snapshot mode each time the transmission wavelength of the liquid crystal tunable filter 33 is switched while the aircraft 1 is in stationary flight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Yukihiro TAKAHASHI, Junichi KURIHARA, Tetsuro ISHIDA
  • Patent number: 10221464
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel wire rod with stable workability. The steel wire rod has steel components containing, by mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.60%, Si: 0.15 to 0.30%, Mn: 0.25 to 0.60%, P: ?0.020%, S: ?0.010%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and an internal microstructure including cementite, in which by number ratio, 80% or more of the cementite in a cross-section vertical to a longitudinal direction of the wire rod has a short axis of 0.1 ?m or less and a ratio of a long axis to the short axis, defined as an aspect ratio, of 2.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ooba, Yukihiro Takahashi, Yoshitaka Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 10022897
    Abstract: A die structure has a first die, a second die that comes in contact with and separate from the first die, a heating unit provided in at least one of the first and second dies, and a transfer member provided in at least one of the first and second dies that brings a resin sheet supplied between the first and second dies into contact with a transfer surface and carrying out transfer molding, and a recess site formed on the transfer member near the transfer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Makuta, Koichi Takemura, Tomofusa Shibata, Yoshihisa Yamanaka, Norikazu Kitamura, Masayuki Shinohara, Kazuhide Hirota, Toshikaga Taguchi, Masayuki Kojima, Yukihiro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170101696
    Abstract: The present invention provides a steel wire rod with stable workability. The steel wire rod has steel components containing, by mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.60%, Si: 0.15 to 0.30%, Mn: 0.25 to 0.60%, P: 0.020%, S: 0.010%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and an internal microstructure including cementite, in which by number ratio, 80% or more of the cementite in a cross-section vertical to a longitudinal direction of the wire rod has a short axis of 0.1 ?m or less and a ratio of a long axis to the short axis, defined as an aspect ratio, of 2.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi OOBA, Yukihiro TAKAHASHI, Yoshitaka NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160244858
    Abstract: A wire rod according to the present invention includes a predetermined chemical composition, wherein a metal structure includes 90 area % to 100 area % of bainite, wherein when eight test pieces having a length of 400 mm, which are obtained by dividing a wire rod having a length of 3200 mm into eight components having a same length, are manufactured, an average tensile strength TS of each test pieces satisfies a relation of “[TS]?810×[C]+475” by N/mm2, wherein a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the tensile strengths of each test pieces is 50 N/mm2 or less, and wherein an average reduction of area RA of each test pieces satisfies a relation of “[RA]??0.083×[TS]+154” by %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsusei TADA, Yukihiro TAKAHASHI, Yoshitaka NISHIKAWA, Daisuke HIRAKAMI, Toshiyuki MANABE
  • Publication number: 20150293264
    Abstract: Magnetic field measurement means measures a magnetic field generated by a lightning strike in a frequency band that includes frequencies of 200 Hz or less. Electric charge calculation means determines the electric current waveform of the lightning strike on the basis of the waveform of the magnetic field measured by the magnetic field measurement means, and integrates the electric current waveform to determine an electric charge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Noriyasu Honma, Yasuji Hongo, Yukihiro Takahashi, Mitsuteru Sato, Fuminori Tsuchiya, Daiki Tsurushima
  • Publication number: 20150251341
    Abstract: A die structure has a first die, a second die that comes in contact with and separate from the first die, a heating unit provided in at least one of the first and second dies, and a transfer member provided in at least one of the first and second dies that brings a resin sheet supplied between the first and second dies into contact with a transfer surface and carrying out transfer molding, and a recess site formed on the transfer member near the transfer surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Makuta, Koichi Takemura, Tomofusa Shibata, Yoshihisa Yamanaka, Norikazu Kitamura, Masayuki Shinohara, Kazuhide Hirota, Toshikaga Taguchi, Masayuki Kojima, Yukihiro Takahashi