Patents by Inventor Yusuke Arai
Yusuke Arai 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: 20240121530Abstract: A light detector is configured such that a light receiving portion having APDs and a peripheral portion are provided on a first principal surface of a p-type semiconductor substrate, and further includes a back electrode provided on a second principal surface of the semiconductor substrate and a p-type first separation portion provided between the light receiving portion and the peripheral portion. The APD has, on a first principal surface side, an n-type region and a p-epitaxial layer contacting the n-type region in a Z-direction. The peripheral portion has an n-type MISFET provided at a p-well and an n-well provided to surround entire side and bottom portions of the p-well.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Tatsuya KABE, Hideyuki ARAI, Hisashi AIKAWA, Yuki SUGIURA, Akito INOUE, Mitsuyoshi MORI, Kentaro NAKANISHI, Yusuke SAKATA
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Publication number: 20240100783Abstract: A fusion sheet includes: a base material layer including a first surface and a second surface; a fusion base part partially stacked to the first surface of the base material layer and fusible to a wire-like transmission member; and an adhesive base part partially stacked to the second surface of the base material layer and having larger adhesive strength with an adhesive member than the base material layer. A first section and a second section are provided along an extension direction of the base material layer. The first section is a section where the adhesive base part is stacked to the base material layer other than a laminated section where the adhesive base part is stacked. The second section is a section where the adhesive base part is stacked to the base material layer other than a laminated section where the fusion base part is stacked.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicants: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenta ARAI, Takuya KABA, Daisuke EBATA, Hirozumi OKANIWA, Yusuke MITANI, Itsuo WAKABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240084914Abstract: A stator unit includes a main circuit board parallel to an up-and-down direction, a sub circuit board at a right angle to the main circuit board, a magnetic sensor on the sub circuit board, and a housing including a sub circuit board space that is located adjacent to an inner space of the stator unit in which a can is disposed. The sub circuit board includes a first end connected to the main circuit board via a circuit board terminal and a second end located near the inner space in the sub circuit board space. The magnetic sensor is located closer to the inner space than the circuit board terminal is.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Tatsuya YOSHIDA, Yuta MATSUBARA, Yusuke ARAI
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Patent number: 11926067Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 11926216Abstract: A vibration damping device including a vibration-damping device main unit inserted into a mounting space of a bracket from a lateral side and securely supported by the bracket. The bracket includes engaging pieces on respective opposed inside faces of the mounting space, and engaging action of the engaging pieces with respect to respective detent engaging faces formed on a fixture member of the vibration-damping device main unit prevents the vibration-damping device main unit from becoming dislodged from the mounting space of the bracket. Opposed walls of the mounting space are each penetrated by an aperture window, and inspection flat surfaces are separately provided to an outside surface of each engaging piece visible from an outside through the aperture window and a corresponding external side surface of the bracket that is off the aperture window. The inspection flat surfaces are parallel to each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Oki, Shingo Tanaka, Hiroki Kondo, Yusuke Arai, Kozo Kubota
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Patent number: 11927234Abstract: A vibration proofing device includes a bracket having an internal space, and a vibration proofing member inserted into the internal space. The internal space is open on an outer surface of the bracket. At least a pair of facing-each-other surfaces, against which the vibration proofing member is pressed, is formed in an inner surface of the bracket. A distance between the pair of the facing-each-other surfaces on a far side in an insertion direction of the vibration proofing member is the same, in at least some regions of the bracket, as that on a near side in the insertion direction. This provides the vibration proofing device and the bracket to allow for compactly configuring the device as a whole, while sufficiently securing a retaining force between the bracket and the vibration proofing member.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: YAMASHITA RUBBER CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Kadowaki, Masataka Hirano, Yusuke Arai
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Patent number: 11924736Abstract: A wireless communication unit and a wireless network system enable a plurality of wireless communication units to be wirelessly cooperated with a simple structure, can easily realize cooperative operations, and can execute IP packet transfer control without acquiring communication path information from an external network. A relay wireless communication portion that is connectable to an upstream unit (upstream wireless base station portion) that is another upstream wireless communication unit via an upstream inter-unit wireless bearer is provided. A wireless base station portion is connectable to a downstream unit (downstream relay wireless communication portion) that is another downstream wireless communication unit via a downstream inter-unit wireless bearer.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Japan Radio Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiko Sato, Yusuke Egawa, Kunimitsu Arai, Satoshi Maeda, Sadayuki Katsumata
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Patent number: 11914397Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of mobile robots that can autonomously move in a facility. The robot control system acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot, acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot, determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information, and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 11913565Abstract: In an electric valve, an upper surface of a main body portion of a valve body, a cylindrical portion of the valve body, and a flange member form a groove in an annular recess shape. A stator unit includes a tubular portion that surrounds the groove. A sealing member is disposed in the groove and held between the cylindrical portion of the valve body and the tubular portion of the sealing member.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: FUJIKOKI CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Hosoya, Yusuke Arai
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Patent number: 11914363Abstract: A mobile robot receives first transmission information transmitted from a server device to manage the mobile robot in a state where wireless communication with the server device is possible, directly executes wireless communication with another mobile robot among the mobile robots and executes a reception process of receiving the first transmission information transmitted from the server device to manage the mobile robot from the other mobile robot in a case where wireless communication with the server device is not possible.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
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Patent number: 11906064Abstract: An electric valve can be further miniaturized while reducing the number of manufacturing man-hours. The electric valve contains: a motor including a stator member and a rotor member that displace a valve body, and a housing for accommodating the motor. The housing is formed by joining a heat generation portion formed of a first material to a heat receiving portion formed of a second material. The light transmittance in the first material is lower than the light transmittance in the second material.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: FUJIKOKI CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Yoshida, Yusuke Arai, Satoshi Uehara, Takeshi Hosoya
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Patent number: 11906068Abstract: An electrically operated valve having excellent wear resistance while suppressing cost is provided. The electrically operated valve comprises a valve main body having a valve seat; a motor including a stator fixed to the valve main body and a rotor driven to rotate with respect to the stator, a planetary gear type deceleration mechanism configured to decelerate rotation of the rotor to transmit to an output gear, a valve member configured to be movable toward and away from the valve seat in an axial direction, and a feed screw mechanism configured to convert rotational movement of the output gear into movement of the valve member in the axial direction. The planetary gear type deceleration mechanism includes a sun gear coupled to the rotor, a planetary gear engaged with the sun gear, a carrier for rotatably supporting the planetary gear, an annular ring gear engaged with the planetary gear, and a sliding member abutting against an axial end of the sun gear.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: FUJIKOKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Arai, Takeshi Hosoya
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Publication number: 20240029478Abstract: A technique provided increases the possibility that a distribution destination is able to receive running-state information from a distribution source. A distribution control apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires the position of a vehicle included in the distribution source and running-state information including video information on the periphery of the vehicle, and a controller that performs control to distribute the running-state information from the distribution source to the distribution destination that has permitted distribution of the running-state information in advance, when the vehicle is determined to be positioned within a range corresponding to a set path that is preset by the distribution source, based on the position of the vehicle and the set path.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Mitsuo SHIMOTANI, Yoshinori UENO, Yusuke ARAI, Kunio FUNAKAWA
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Publication number: 20240026988Abstract: In an electric valve, an upper surface of a main body portion of a valve body, a cylindrical portion of the valve body, and a flange member form a groove in an annular recess shape. A stator unit includes a tubular portion that surrounds the groove. A sealing member is disposed in the groove and held between the cylindrical portion of the valve body and the tubular portion of the sealing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2020Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Takeshi HOSOYA, Yusuke ARAI
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Patent number: 11878515Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a head, a conveyer having a roller arranged at the downstream of the head according to a conveyance direction, and a controller. The controller is configured to carry out: a recording process, a first determining process to determine whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed since the recording process, a conveying process to convey a medium in if the first determining process determines that the predetermined time has elapsed, and a setting process to set a predetermined time based on a discharge amount of a liquid from a plurality of nozzles onto a recording area and a conveyance time for the conveyer to convey the medium from the recording area to the roller, before the first determining process.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoru Arakane, Shohei Ichikawa, Taichiro Kimoto, Yusuke Arai
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Publication number: 20240001575Abstract: There is provided a sheet cutting apparatus including: a cutter including first and second blades and a shifter including an actuator; a signal outputter; and a controller. The controller is configured to execute: a first cutting processing of moving the first blade in a cutting direction by setting a power value of the actuator to be a first power value; a first determining processing of determining whether abnormality in a moving state of the first blade exists; a first stopping processing of stopping the first blade at a first stop position, in a case that the abnormality is determined to exist; a first returning processing of moving the first blade upstream in the cutting direction; and a second cutting processing of moving the first blade in the cutting direction by setting the power value of the actuator to be a second power value greater than the first power value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Yusuke ARAI, Isao KOBAYASHI, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230331009Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a divider disposed downstream of a print engine in a conveyance direction, and a controller. The controller causes a conveyor to convey a print medium until a planned dividing position of the print medium reaches a dividing position of the divider, when a first conveyance amount is larger than a second conveyance amount. The first conveyance amount corresponds to a print width for a printing process by the print engine. The second conveyance amount is calculated using a distance between a reference position and the dividing position and a distance between the reference position and the planned dividing position. After the planned dividing position of the print medium reaches the dividing position, the controller causes the divider to divide the print medium into first and second print media. The controller causes the conveyor to convey the second sheet to a printing position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Yusuke ARAI, Isao KOBAYASHI, Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230323198Abstract: A wavelength conversion member includes a support, and a wavelength conversion layer that includes a phosphor particle group and a sealing member to seal the phosphor particle group and that is provided directly or through an other layer on the support. A predetermined region, in which a cross-sectional area rate of the phosphor particle group is not less than 50%, is included in an arbitrary cross section of the wavelength conversion layer taken parallel to a thickness direction thereof. The predetermined region includes a rectangular region with a width of 700 ?m and a thickness of 50 ?m from a bottom surface of the wavelength conversion layer when a thickness of the wavelength conversion layer is not less than 50 ?m, or a rectangular region with a width of 700 ?m and a thickness equal to the thickness of the wavelength conversion layer when it is less than 50 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicants: TAMURA CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Daisuke INOMATA, Rikiya SUZUKI, Yusuke ARAI, Yoshihiro YAMASHITA, Hiroyuki SAWANO, Kiyoshi SHIMAMURA, Encarnacion Antonia GARCIA VILLORA
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Publication number: 20230202214Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveying unit which conveys a printing medium in a conveying direction; a printing unit which prints an image on the printing medium conveyed by the conveying unit; a processing unit which includes a processing member and which executes a processing action for processing the printing medium by moving the processing member while causing the processing member to contact the printing medium; and a controller. The controller executes a processing process for causing the processing unit to execute the processing action with respect to the printing medium by moving the processing unit from a first position to a second position in an intersecting direction; a first conveying process for causing the conveying unit to convey a processed printing medium in the conveying direction; and a first moving process for moving the processing unit from the second position to the first position after the first conveying process.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Kosuke INUZUKA, Yusuke ARAI, Isao KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230202215Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a conveying unit configured to convey a printing medium in a conveying direction; a printing unit configured to print an image on the printing medium based on print data included in a print job; a processing unit including a processing member and configured to process the printing medium by moving the processing member in a state that the processing member contacts the printing medium; and a controller configured to execute no processing process for the printing medium by the processing unit, in a case that the controller determines that a first length in the conveying direction of the printing medium conveyed by the conveying unit is shorter than a predetermined second length, during a printing process in which the image is printed on the printing medium based on the print data by the printing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Yoshimitsu TANIGUCHI, Yusuke ARAI