Patents by Inventor Yusuke Kataoka

Yusuke Kataoka 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: 20170098740
    Abstract: [Solving Means] A semiconductor unit includes a substrate, a semiconductor device, and a plating layer. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer and one or more electrodes, the one or more electrodes being connected to the semiconductor layer and including a platinum-group element as a main material. The plating layer bonds the substrate and the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: AKIRA OHMAE, YUSUKE KATAOKA, TATSUO OHASHI, IPPEI NISHINAKA, GOSHI BIWA
  • Publication number: 20160210519
    Abstract: A complex marking determining device includes a brightness state calculating portion configured to calculate a lane marking representative value indicative of a brightness state of a plurality of pixels that make up a lane marking display region, and calculate a road surface representative value indicative of a brightness state of a plurality of pixels that make up the road surface display region; and a complex marking determining portion configured to determine that the lane marking is a complex marking at least when a degree of deviation between the lane marking representative value and the road surface representative value is equal to or greater than a first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke KATAOKA, Naoki KAWASAKI, Tadashi SAKAI, Akihiro WATANABE
  • Patent number: 9317755
    Abstract: A travel lane boundary line detection apparatus includes: a determination unit configured to distinguish and determine a composite line region and a non-composite line region from a travel road surface image of a road surface; a calculation unit configured to calculate a candidate point of a central point of the composite line in a travel lane width direction; an extraction unit configured to detect a travel lane boundary line segment of the travel lane boundary line in the non-composite line region, and to extract a travel lane boundary point from the travel lane boundary line segment; an integration unit configured to create an integrated travel lane boundary point group based on the candidate point and on the travel lane boundary point; and an estimation unit configured to estimate a travel lane boundary line parameter representing the travel lane boundary line based on the integrated travel lane boundary point group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20160047418
    Abstract: A carrier is supported by a case via a bearing. The bearing comprises an inner race, an outer race, rollers, and a retainer. The inner race has a tapered outer peripheral surface, and is fixed to a carrier. The outer race has a tapered inner peripheral surface facing the outer peripheral surface of the inner race, and is fixed to the case. The rollers is disposed between the inner race and the outer race. An end part of the retainer having a larger diameter makes contact with the case via a first member. The larger diameter end part of the retainer makes contact with the case via a second member. By the retainer making contact with the case and the carrier via the first member and the second member, the retainer can reduce friction compared to when making direct contact with the case and the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Daisuke MATSUI, Yusuke KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20150262020
    Abstract: A marking line detection system includes an imaging device, a marking line candidate detection unit, a marking line correction unit, a center line determination unit and a validity determination unit. The marking line candidate detection unit detects first and second vehicle's marking line candidates. The marking line correction unit corrects a position of the second vehicle's marking line candidate based on a position of the first vehicle's marking line candidate. When the first vehicle's marking line candidate is the valid center line, the marking line correction unit performs a correction of the position of the second vehicle's marking line candidate based on the position of the first vehicle's marking line candidate. When the first vehicle's marking line candidate is not the valid center line, the marking line correction unit does not perform the correction based on the position of the first vehicle's marking line candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20150227799
    Abstract: A travel lane boundary line detection apparatus includes: a determination unit configured to distinguish and determine a composite line region and a non-composite line region from a travel road surface image of a road surface; a calculation unit configured to calculate a candidate point of a central point of the composite line in a travel lane width direction; an extraction unit configured to detect a travel lane boundary line segment of the travel lane boundary line in the non-composite line region, and to extract a travel lane boundary point from the travel lane boundary line segment; an integration unit configured to create an integrated travel lane boundary point group based on the candidate point and on the travel lane boundary point; and an estimation unit configured to estimate a travel lane boundary line parameter representing the travel lane boundary line based on the integrated travel lane boundary point group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20150091787
    Abstract: There is provided a light emitting apparatus, including a plurality of light emitting elements having biased light properties; and a mounting substrate where the light emitting elements are arranged such that the biased light properties are complemented within a group including at least two light emitting elements among a plurality of the light emitting elements. Also, there are provided a light emitting unit, a display apparatus, an electronic device and a light emitting element using a plurality of point light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Ohmae, Yusuke Kataoka, Ippei Nishinaka, Tatsuo Ohashi, Gen Sakoda, Goshi Biwa
  • Patent number: 8858383
    Abstract: A gear transmission includes an eccentric-oscillating-type first reduction gear unit having a first internal gear, a first crankshaft with at least one first eccentric body defined thereon, a first input gear fixed to the first crankshaft and a first output member, as well as an eccentric-oscillating-type second reduction gear unit disposed coaxially with the first reduction gear unit and surrounding the first reduction gear unit. The second reduction gear unit has a second internal gear, a second crankshaft with at least one second eccentric body defined thereon, a second input gear fixed to the second crankshaft and a second output member. The first output member is engaged with the second input gear. Further, the first internal gear is disposed, in the axial direction of the gear transmission, between the second input gear and the at least one second eccentric body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Nabtesco Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Nishioka, Yusuke Kataoka, Satoshi Tanaka, Shigeki Asano
  • Publication number: 20130102433
    Abstract: A gear transmission includes an eccentric-oscillating-type first reduction gear unit having a first internal gear, a first crankshaft with at least one first eccentric body defined thereon, a first input gear fixed to the first crankshaft and a first output member, as well as an eccentric-oscillating-type second reduction gear unit disposed coaxially with the first reduction gear unit and surrounding the first reduction gear unit. The second reduction gear unit has a second internal gear, a second crankshaft with at least one second eccentric body defined thereon, a second input gear fixed to the second crankshaft and a second output member. The first output member is engaged with the second input gear. Further, the first internal gear is disposed, in the axial direction of the gear transmission, between the second input gear and the at least one second eccentric body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Nishioka, Yusuke Kataoka, Satoshi Tanaka, Shigeki Asano
  • Patent number: 7791868
    Abstract: A display panel stand holding portion for supporting the display panel in the standing position is formed at the upper end portion of the back cabinet as a part of the casing of the display device. The display panel stand holding portion includes the display panel stand mount portion, and the display panel support members. This makes it possible to support the display panel vertically when it is mounted on the display panel stand mount portion. The connector cables extending from the power supply circuit board is clamped to the temporary holding portion to be formed on the back cabinet before assembly of the display panel to be inclined at the predetermined position. The deterioration in the working efficiency caused by entanglement of the connector cables may be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Orion Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kataoka, Hidenobu Mukougawa, Tamotsu Mitamura, Takanori Maeno, Yoshikazu Saga
  • Publication number: 20090168321
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device that facilitates product inspection and maintenance. A button section is mounted to a back cabinet, and a power-source circuit board is fitted into a circuit-board fitting slit. Furthermore, the power-source circuit board is locked and fixed by a first circuit-board locking claw, and a main circuit board is locked and fixed by a second circuit-board locking claw. A speaker integrally assembled in a speaker holder is locked and fixed by a speaker locking claw, and thereafter a display panel is caused to be held by a display panel standing holding portion in a standing manner. The wire connection work of a display panel, each of the circuit boards, and the like is performed, the display panel is brought down and placed on a display panel placement portion, a front cabinet is mounted, and a leg portion is mounted to a leg-portion mounting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: ORION ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke KATAOKA, Hidenobu MUKOUGAWA, Masahide MOROISHI, Seigo OHKUBO, Shinichi TANIKAWA, Takanori MAENO, Yoshikazu SAGA, Kenji TSUBOTA, Tamotsu MITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20090168320
    Abstract: A display panel stand holding portion for supporting the display panel in the standing position is formed at the upper end portion of the back cabinet as a part of the casing of the display device. The display panel stand holding portion includes the display panel stand mount portion, and the display panel support members. This makes it possible to support the display panel vertically when it is mounted on the display panel stand mount portion. The connector cables extending from the power supply circuit board is clamped to the temporary holding portion to be formed on the back cabinet before assembly of the display panel to be inclined at the predetermined position. The deterioration in the working efficiency caused by entanglement of the connector cables may be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: ORION ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke KATAOKA, Hidenobu MUKOUGAWA, Tamotsu MITAMURA, Takanori MAENO, Yoshikazu SAGA
  • Publication number: 20090161307
    Abstract: A cabinet-fixing locking nail and a locking stopper are formed at a fixing unit which is integrally attached to a button portion. The button portion is fixed to a back cabinet through the fixing unit, by locking the cabinet-fixing locking nail and the locking stopper to the back cabinet. A power circuit board is clipped to circuit board engagement slits which are guide grooves formed at the fixing unit and the button portion, and the power circuit board is locked by a first circuit board locking nail which is formed at the back cabinet to be fixed. The power circuit board and the button portion can be readily fixed only by a locking unit such as the cabinet-fixing locking nail, the locking stopper, the circuit board engagement slits the first circuit board locking nail and the like without using screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: ORION ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke KATAOKA, Shinichi TANIKAWA, Takanori MAENO
  • Publication number: 20070089976
    Abstract: Damage to a part when assembling a substrate from behind a casing mounted with push buttons is prevented. When a circuit substrate is mounted in a casing to which a push button is attached, a circuit substrate is inserted along a guide groove of the push button. At this time, the contact section is pushed by the circuit substrate and the circuit substrate is engaged with the contact section with a second hinge section deflected. This causes the circuit substrate to be parallel with a pushing section with a tiny gap in between and a pushing operation of an operation button deforms a first hinge section and the pushing section turns ON/OFF a switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Applicant: ORION ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takato Oda, Seigo Ohkubo, Yusuke Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20070077910
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a digital broadcast receiving unit capable of restraining the influence of a noise generated in a digital signal processing circuit to be exerted upon a turner unit, and of arranging a digital signal processing circuit board close to the tuner unit while restraining the influence exerted upon a peripheral circuit thereof and so forth even if the tuner unit is laid out on any location of a main circuit board. Both the tuner unit and the digital signal processing circuit board substantially stand upright on the main circuit board, respectively. The digital signal processing circuit board is disposed close to the tuner unit along the longitudinal direction thereof, and the digital signal processing circuit board has a mounting face on which electronic components such as ICs and so forth are mounted at a side facing tuner unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Imadate, Yusuke Kataoka, Yuji Umeda, Takashi Shimasaki
  • Patent number: D682902
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Nabtesco Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Daisuke Matsui, Yusuke Kataoka