Patents by Inventor Yusuke Moriyama
Yusuke Moriyama 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: 20240405383Abstract: In a winding electrode group a separator and an electrode plate are stacked and wound. A first current collector plate includes a ring member and a partial ring member. The partial ring member is joined, in a first welded part (embodiment), to each of a plurality of first electrode core members arranged in a radial direction of the electrode group. Of a plurality of first welded parts (embodiment), two first welded parts (embodiment) adjacent in the radial direction are disposed at positions shifted in a winding direction intersecting the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2022Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Haruhisa YAGI, Yusuke MORIYAMA, Tomoaki SHINOBU, Takayuki HIROSE
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Publication number: 20240380010Abstract: A battery includes a winding electrode group formed by stacking and winding a separator and an electrode plate; and a current collector plate. The electrode group is configured in such a manner that ends of a plurality of electrode plates arranged in a radial direction are bent in the radial direction, and a plurality of bent ends are joined to the current collector plate. The bent end includes a first region bent toward one side in the radial direction and a second region bent from a leading edge of the first region toward the other side in the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2022Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Yusuke MORIYAMA, Tomoaki SHINOBU, Shunsuke UEGAKI, Takayuki HIROSE
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Patent number: 12085410Abstract: A distance measurement accuracy is improved. A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment includes a pixel array part in which a plurality of pixels is arranged in a matrix, in which each of the pixels includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units that each photoelectrically converts incident light to generate a charge, a floating diffusion region that accumulates the charge, a plurality of transfer circuits that transfer the charge generated in each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion units to the floating diffusion region, and a first transistor that causes a pixel signal of a voltage value corresponding to a charge amount of the charge accumulated in the floating diffusion region to appear in a signal line.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Sozo Yokogawa, Yusuke Moriyama, Nobuhiro Kawai, Yuhi Yorikado, Fumihiko Koga, Yoshiki Ebiko, Suzunori Endo, Hayato Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20240258550Abstract: A joining method for joining an electrode group of wound type in which a separator and an electrode plate are laminated and wound, and a current collector plate includes pressing a jig against multiple end parts of the electrode plate arranged in a radial direction of the electrode group, shifting the jig in a curved path such that the shifting amount in the direction toward the electrode group gradually increases and the shifting amount in the radial direction gradually decreases, bending the multiple end parts, and joining the multiple end parts thus bent and the current collector plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2022Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Yusuke MORIYAMA, Tomoaki SHINOBU, Shunsuke UEGAKI, Takayuki HIROSE
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Patent number: 11982769Abstract: There is provided a time of flight sensor. The time of flight sensor includes a light receiving element PD, a first signal line TRGO and a second signal line TRG180, a first transistor TGA in electrical communication with the light receiving element, the first transistor comprising a first gate in electrical communication with the first signal line TRGO, a second transistor TGB in electrical communication with the light receiving element, the second transistor comprising a second gate in electrical communication with the second signal line TRG180, and a control circuit P200 comprising at least one comparator 102A, 102B, wherein the control circuit is in electrical communication with the first and second signal lines TRGO, TRG180. The transistors TGA and TGB of the pixel circuit P100 are turned on and off so that any one of the transistors TGA and TGB is turned on, and the electric charges generated by the photodiode PD are selectively accumulated at the floating diffusion FDA and the floating diffusion FDB.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Yusuke Moriyama
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Patent number: 11892077Abstract: A vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus is equipped with an engine, an automatic transmission, and a controller which changes a shift stage by outputting a gear-shifting signal in accordance with the rotation speed of an input shaft to the automatic transmission. The controller executes a torque-regulating control of temporarily increasing or decreasing an input torque input to the input shaft during a shift-change, and when executing the control, determines whether or not a target increase/decrease amount of the input torque can be realized based on calculation results of a target output torque and a target gear-shifting time, executes the control to realize the target amount when it is determined that the target amount can be realized, and executes the control based on an allowable gear-shifting time set in advance to be longer than the target gear-shifting time when it is determined that the target amount cannot be realized.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Makoto Yamada, Yasunari Nakayama, Yusuke Moriyama, Wataru Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11828882Abstract: The present technology relates to a distance measuring device and a distance measuring method that can improve the accuracy of distance measurement. A control unit controls a light emitting operation by supplying a light emitting unit with a light emission timing signal for controlling the light emitting operation for emitting irradiation light and controls the light receiving operation by supplying a light receiving unit with a light reception timing signal for controlling the light receiving operation for receiving reflected light. A measuring unit measures a deviation time between the light emission timing at which the light emitting unit emits the irradiation light and the light reception timing at which the light receiving unit receives the reflected light, using the light emission timing signal and the light reception timing signal. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a case where distance measurement is performed by using the ToF method.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Keitarou Amagawa, Yusuke Moriyama
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Patent number: 11800251Abstract: There is provided a light receiving device including: a pixel including a first tap configured to detect a charge photoelectrically converted by a photoelectric conversion unit, and a second tap configured to detect a charge photoelectrically converted by the photoelectric conversion unit; a first comparison circuit configured to compare a first detection signal detected by the first tap and a reference signal; a second comparison circuit configured to compare a second detection signal detected by the second tap and the reference signal; a first zero reset signal generation circuit configured to generate a first zero reset signal that is supplied to the first comparison circuit when the first comparison circuit performs an auto zero operation; and a second zero reset signal generation circuit configured to generate a second zero reset signal that is supplied to the second comparison circuit when the second comparison circuit performs an auto zero operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Yusuke Moriyama
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Publication number: 20230313883Abstract: A vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus is equipped with an engine, an automatic transmission, and a controller which changes a shift stage by outputting a gear-shifting signal in accordance with the rotation speed of an input shaft to the automatic transmission. The controller executes a torque-regulating control of temporarily increasing or decreasing an input torque input to the input shaft during a shift-change, and when executing the control, determines whether or not a target increase/decrease amount of the input torque can be realized based on calculation results of a target output torque and a target gear-shifting time, executes the control to realize the target amount when it is determined that the target amount can be realized, and executes the control based on an allowable gear-shifting time set in advance to be longer than the target gear-shifting time when it is determined that the target amount cannot be realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Makoto Yamada, Yasunari Nakayama, Yusuke Moriyama, Wataru Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11703573Abstract: The present technology relates to a distance measurement device and a distance measurement method that can easily suppress interference. A first frame being a period that a distance to a target object is calculated includes a plurality of subframes being periods that irradiation light is emitted, and the emission of the irradiation light is controlled so that timing of head subframes differs between a first frame and a second frame following the first frame, and intervals between the subframes become constant during the period of the first frame. The present technology can be applied to a case where distance measurement for measuring a distance is performed.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Kazuhide Namba, Yusuke Moriyama
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Publication number: 20220244046Abstract: A distance measurement accuracy is improved. A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment includes a pixel array part in which a plurality of pixels is arranged in a matrix, in which each of the pixels includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units that each photoelectrically converts incident light to generate a charge, a floating diffusion region that accumulates the charge, a plurality of transfer circuits that transfer the charge generated in each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion units to the floating diffusion region, and a first transistor that causes a pixel signal of a voltage value corresponding to a charge amount of the charge accumulated in the floating diffusion region to appear in a signal line.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Sozo YOKOGAWA, Yusuke MORIYAMA, Nobuhiro KAWAI, Yuhi YORIKADO, Fumihiko KOGA, Yoshiki EBIKO, Suzunori ENDO, Hayato WAKABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20210297614Abstract: There is provided a light receiving device including: a pixel including a first tap configured to detect a charge photoelectrically converted by a photoelectric conversion unit, and a second tap configured to detect a charge photoelectrically converted by the photoelectric conversion unit; a first comparison circuit configured to compare a first detection signal detected by the first tap and a reference signal; a second comparison circuit configured to compare a second detection signal detected by the second tap and the reference signal; a first zero reset signal generation circuit configured to generate a first zero reset signal that is supplied to the first comparison circuit when the first comparison circuit performs an auto zero operation; and a second zero reset signal generation circuit configured to generate a second zero reset signal that is supplied to the second comparison circuit when the second comparison circuit performs an auto zero operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Yusuke Moriyama
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Patent number: 11114498Abstract: An image signal output unit is controlled in accordance with a first control signal indicating either voltage state of an on voltage for causing a conductive state and an off voltage having a polarity different from that of the on voltage, and outputs an analog image signal corresponding to the electric charge held by an electric charge holding unit in the conductive state. A reset unit is controlled in accordance with a second control signal indicating either voltage state of the on voltage and the off voltage, resets the electric charge holding unit in the conductive state, transmits a fluctuation in the off voltage to the electric charge holding unit, and fluctuates the analog image signal. A reference signal generation unit generates a reference signal being a signal serving as a reference used when conversion from an analog image signal output from the image signal output unit into a digital image signal is performed.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuki Nishino, Yosuke Ueno, Yusuke Moriyama, Shizunori Matsumoto
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Patent number: 11057580Abstract: There is provided a light receiving device including: a pixel including a first tap configured to detect a charge photoelectrically converted by a photoelectric conversion unit, and a second tap configured to detect a charge photoelectrically converted by the photoelectric conversion unit; a first comparison circuit configured to compare a first detection signal detected by the first tap and a reference signal; a second comparison circuit configured to compare a second detection signal detected by the second tap and the reference signal; a first zero reset signal generation circuit configured to generate a first zero reset signal that is supplied to the first comparison circuit when the first comparison circuit performs an auto zero operation; and a second zero reset signal generation circuit configured to generate a second zero reset signal that is supplied to the second comparison circuit when the second comparison circuit performs an auto zero operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Yusuke Moriyama
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Publication number: 20210048513Abstract: There is provided a time of flight sensor. The time of flight sensor includes a light receiving element PD, a first signal line TRG0 and a second signal line TRG180, a first transistor TGA in electrical communication with the light receiving element, the first transistor comprising a first gate in electrical communication with the first signal line TRG0, a second transistor TGB in electrical communication with the light receiving element, the second transistor comprising a second gate in electrical communication with the second signal line TRG180, and a control circuit P200 comprising at least one comparator 102A, 102B, wherein the control circuit is in electrical communication with the first and second signal lines TRG0, TRG180. The transistors TGA and TGB of the pixel circuit P100 are turned on and off so that any one of the transistors TGA and TGB is turned on, and the electric charges generated by the photodiode PD are selectively accumulated at the floating diffusion FDA and the floating diffusion FDB.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Yusuke Moriyama
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Patent number: 10897588Abstract: Noise is suppressed in an electronic apparatus including a light emission section and a solid state imaging element. The electronic apparatus includes an imaging section, a prohibition period setting section, and a light emission section. In the electronic apparatus, the imaging section captures image data. The light emission section emits irradiation light. The prohibition period setting section sets, as a prohibition period, a period during which noise is generated in the imaging section due to start or stoppage of light emission of the irradiation light. A light emission control section controls the light emission section so as to prohibit start and stoppage of the light emission during the prohibition period.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Kumiko Mahara, Yusuke Moriyama
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Patent number: 10707264Abstract: To prevent a decline in image quality by reducing a fluctuation in an image signal that is based on a fluctuation in a voltage of a negative voltage power source. An image signal output unit is controlled in accordance with a first control signal indicating either voltage state of an on voltage for causing a conductive state and an off voltage having a polarity different from that of the on voltage, and outputs an analog image signal corresponding to the electric charge held by an electric charge holding unit in the conductive state. A reset unit is controlled in accordance with a second control signal indicating either voltage state of the on voltage and the off voltage, resets the electric charge holding unit in the conductive state, transmits a fluctuation in the off voltage to the electric charge holding unit, and fluctuates the analog image signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuki Nishino, Yosuke Ueno, Yusuke Moriyama, Shizunori Matsumoto
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Patent number: 10694124Abstract: The present technique relates to an image pickup element and an electronic apparatus which enable a higher-quality image to be obtained. An image pickup element includes an input sense portion configured to produce a noise correction signal portion includes a first transistor and a second transistor configuring a current mirror circuit, a switch provided between a gate of the first transistor and a gate of the second transistor, and a capacitive element one electrode of which is connected between the switch and the gate of the second transistor on an output side of the current mirror circuit, and the other electrode of which is connected to the predetermined power source.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuki Nishino, Yosuke Ueno, Yusuke Moriyama, Shizunori Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20200088854Abstract: The present technology relates to a distance measuring device and a distance measuring method that can improve the accuracy of distance measurement. A control unit controls a light emitting operation by supplying a light emitting unit with a light emission timing signal for controlling the light emitting operation for emitting irradiation light and controls the light receiving operation by supplying a light receiving unit with a light reception timing signal for controlling the light receiving operation for receiving reflected light. A measuring unit measures a deviation time between the light emission timing at which the light emitting unit emits the irradiation light and the light reception timing at which the light receiving unit receives the reflected light, using the light emission timing signal and the light reception timing signal. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a case where distance measurement is performed by using the ToF method.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2018Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Keitarou Amagawa, Yusuke Moriyama
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Publication number: 20200003874Abstract: There is provided a light receiving device including: a pixel including a first tap configured to detect a charge photoelectrically converted by a photoelectric conversion unit, and a second tap configured to detect a charge photoelectrically converted by the photoelectric conversion unit; a first comparison circuit configured to compare a first detection signal detected by the first tap and a reference signal; a second comparison circuit configured to compare a second detection signal detected by the second tap and the reference signal; a first zero reset signal generation circuit configured to generate a first zero reset signal that is supplied to the first comparison circuit when the first comparison circuit performs an auto zero operation; and a second zero reset signal generation circuit configured to generate a second zero reset signal that is supplied to the second comparison circuit when the second comparison circuit performs an auto zero operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Yusuke Moriyama