Patents by Inventor Yusuke Nakagawa

Yusuke Nakagawa 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).

  • OPTICAL TRANSMISSION MODULE AND ENDOSCOPE
    Publication number: 20180368662
    Abstract: An optical transmission module includes: an optical device including a light-emitting unit configured to output light of an optical signal; a wiring board including a first principal surface, and a second principal surface, the second principal surface on which the optical device is disposed; a holding member having a lower surface fixed to the first principal surface of the wiring board, and having an optical fiber through hole perpendicular to the lower surface; and an optical fiber inserted into the optical fiber through hole, and configured to transmit the optical signal, wherein the first principal surface of the wiring board has a recessed portion, and the holding member is fixed to the wiring board with a bonding agent in the recessed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke NAKAGAWA
  • OPTICAL TRANSMITTER AND ENDOSCOPE
    Publication number: 20180368659
    Abstract: An optical transmitter includes an optical device, a wiring board including a first main surface and a second main surface, the optical device being mounted at a position closer to the second main surface than to the first main surface, a holding member fixed to the wiring board, at a position closer to the first main surface than to the second main surface, and an optical fiber inserted into a through hole of the holding member, where the wiring board includes a wiring pattern of a wiring layer sandwiched between an upper insulating layer and a lower insulating layer, and further includes an opening from which an upper surface and a lower surface of the wiring pattern are exposed, and an end surface of the optical fiber is in contact with the upper surface, and an external electrode of the optical device is bonded to the lower surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke NAKAGAWA
  • STEEL SHEET FOR CANS AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR STEEL SHEET FOR CANS
    Publication number: 20180363160
    Abstract: A steel sheet for cans has, on the surface thereof, in order from the steel sheet side, a chromium metal layer and a hydrous chromium oxide layer. The chromium metal layer is deposited in an amount of 50-200 mg/m2, and the hydrous chromium oxide layer is deposited in an amount of 3-15 mg/m2 in terms of chromium. The chromium metal layer includes: a flat chromium metal layer that has a thickness of at least 7 nm; and a granular chromium metal layer that includes granular protrusions that are formed on the surface of the flat chromium metal layer. The maximum grain size of the granular protrusions is 150 nm or smaller. The number density of the granular protrusions per unit area is 10/?m2 or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Takeshi Suzuki, Mikito Suto, Katsumi Kojima, Yuya Baba
  • IMAGE PICKUP MODULE AND ENDOSCOPE
    Publication number: 20180353060
    Abstract: An image pickup module includes: an optical waveguide plate that includes a first waveguide, a second waveguide, and a third waveguide optically coupled to the first waveguide and the second waveguide through a branch portion; an image pickup device; a first optical device and a second optical device both mounted on the optical waveguide plate; an optical fiber; a ferrule into which the optical fiber is inserted; and a plurality of conductive wires. The ferrule includes a notch on a front surface, and distal end portions of the conductive wires are held between the optical waveguide plate and a surface of the notch of the ferrule. The other components are disposed within a plane of projection of the image pickup device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideharu MIYAHARA, Youhei SAKAI, Yusuke NAKAGAWA
  • STEEL SHEET FOR CANS AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR STEEL SHEET FOR CANS
    Publication number: 20180355496
    Abstract: A steel sheet for cans has, on the surface thereof, in order from the steel sheet side, a chromium metal layer and a hydrous chromium oxide layer. The chromium metal layer is deposited in an amount of 65-200 mg/m2, and the hydrous chromium oxide layer is deposited in an amount of 3-15 mg/m2 in terms of chromium. The chromium metal layer includes: a flat chromium metal layer that has a thickness of at least 7 nm; and a granular chromium metal layer that includes granular protrusions that are formed on the surface of the flat chromium metal layer. The maximum grain size of the granular protrusions is 100 nm or smaller. The number density of the granular protrusions per unit area is 10/?m2 or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Takeshi Suzuki, Mikito Suto, Katsumi Kojima, Yuya Baba
  • Vibrating apparatus and vibrating method
    Patent number: 10150029
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a vibrating apparatus which can provide a favorable vibratory sense to the operator who operates electronic equipment. [Solution] Provided is a vibrating apparatus including: an equipment holding unit configured to hold electronic equipment; at least one gripped portion projecting from the equipment holding unit and gripped by an operator; and at least one vibrating unit configured to vibrate based on a sound signal acquired from the electronic equipment and vibrate the at least one gripped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Akihiro Komori, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Driving assistance device for vehicle
    Patent number: 10144423
    Abstract: This brake ECU executes vehicle downhill control for adjusting the braking force to be applied to a vehicle by actuating a brake actuator such that the vehicle body speed does not exceed a target speed. Also, in cases where the accelerator pedal is being operated in a state where the vehicle downhill control is being executed, the brake ECU changes the target speed such that, the longer the operation duration which is the duration for which the accelerator is operated, the higher the target speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Yasuhito Ishida
  • Steel sheet for can and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 10144985
    Abstract: A steel sheet exhibiting good drawability and excellent buckling strength of a can body portion against an external pressure, and a method for manufacturing the same. The steel sheet includes C: 0.0030% or more and 0.0100% or less, Si: 0.05% or less, Mn: 0.10% or more and 1.0% or less, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.020% or less, Al: 0.010% or more and 0.100% or less, N: 0.0050% or less, Nb: 0.010% or more and 0.050% or less, and incidental impurities. Contents of C and Nb satisfy 0.10?([Nb]/92.9)/([C]/12)<0.60, the HR30T hardness of the steel sheet is 56 or more, and the average Young's modulus of the steel sheet is 210 GPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Saito, Yusuke Nakagawa, Katsumi Kojima, Hiroki Nakamaru
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20180336008
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to further mitigate the effect of a delay associated with recognizing a gesture, the information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit that acquires, on a basis of first input information corresponding to a detection result of a gesture, a prediction result of an operation corresponding to the gesture that is input subsequently; and a control unit that controls a process related to an acquisition of second input information associated with the first input information, in accordance with the prediction result of the operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Shinichi KAWANO
  • Information processing apparatus and information processing method
    Patent number: 10088907
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an effect control unit configured to control an echo effect that is to be added to an output, a sound output control unit configured to control a sound output according to occurrence of an event in a virtual space, and a haptic output control unit configured to control a haptic output to which the echo effect controlled by the effect control unit is added according to the occurrence of the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Komori, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20180267616
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to realize a function in accordance with an intention of a user. [Solution] There is provided an information processing apparatus comprising: an acquiring portion that acquires driving information for controlling a driving device that imparts movement to an object; and an identifying portion that identifies information for determining a dictated position dictated by the object, on the basis of detection information obtained on the basis of movement detection of the object and the driving information acquired by the acquiring portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: IKUO YAMANO, AKIHIRO KOMORI, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20180254038
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method performed by a processor, and a program causing a computer to realize a function of a control, thus enabling a sound collecting characteristic to be improved more reliably. The information processing device includes: a control unit configured to perform control related to a mode of a sound collecting unit related to a sound collecting characteristic and output to elicit a generation direction of a sound to be collected by the sound collecting unit on a basis of a positional relation between the sound collecting unit and a generation source of the sound to be collected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi KAWANO, Yusuke NAKAGAWA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180243647
    Abstract: [Object] Tactile feedback that a user can acquire is limited because a game controller includes only a specific vibrating device and game software supports only the specific vibrating device. [Solution] An information processing apparatus including: a control section configured to generate a control signal that controls an operation of a tactile feedback apparatus including a tactile feedback section. The control section changes control on the tactile feedback apparatus on the basis of a type of the tactile feedback section which is recognized by the control section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: AKIHIRO KOMORI, IKUO YAMANO, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA
  • DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE FOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20180215360
    Abstract: This driving assistance device includes a braking control unit and a target speed determination unit. The braking control unit executes driving assistance control for adjusting the braking force to be applied to a vehicle by actuating a brake actuator such that the vehicle body speed does not exceed a target speed. In cases where the accelerator pedal is being operated in a state where the braking control unit is executing the driving assistance control, the target speed determination unit determines the target speed depending on the larger value of either: the vehicle body speed that is correlated with at least one of the wheel speeds of the plurality of wheels provided to the vehicle; or the lower speed limit value that has been set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Yasuhito ISHIDA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20180203514
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a vibration signal that indicates a detected vibration of a prescribed real object and a sound signal that indicates a collected sound from the real object, a control unit configured to synchronize the acquired vibration signal with the acquired sound signal, and associate the vibration signal and the sound signal with each other, the vibration signal and the sound signal having been synchronized, and a recoding unit configured to record the vibration signal and the sound signal which have been associated with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Akihiro KOMORI
  • COLLISION AVOIDANCE CONTROL DEVICE AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20180201238
    Abstract: In a collision avoidance control device for a vehicle according to an embodiment, for example, when receiving a brake request from a driver while a brake device is given an operational instruction corresponding to a third deceleration, a brake controller controls at least the brake device to decelerate the vehicle at a deceleration calculated by adding the third deceleration and a fourth deceleration corresponding to the brake request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Yosuke OHMORI, Wataru IKE
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER
    Publication number: 20180203510
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to cause vibration to be generated suitable for a state between an information processing device including a vibrating device and a user, the information processing device including: corrected vibration data configured to generate corrected information for correcting a strength of vibration data for a vibrating device including a vibrator on a basis of information provided from a detecting unit configured to detect a contact state of the vibrating device; and an vibration signal generating unit configured to generate a vibration signal from the corrected vibration data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo YAMANO, Osamu ITO, Yosuke MATSUZAKI, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Shinsaku HIRANO, Yusuke NAKAGAWA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20180203509
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to allow a user to receive haptic feedback with a more sense of presence, the information processing device including: a virtual space data generating unit configured to generate data related to a virtual space including a virtual object having an attribute; a listener placing unit configured to place a listener for detecting a contact with the virtual object; a virtual object in which the listener is placed; and a haptic data generating unit configured to generate haptic data for causing a haptic device to be operated on a basis of at least one of attribute information of the virtual object and attribute information of another virtual object when the virtual object comes into contact with the other virtual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo YAMANO, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Akihiro KOMORI, Takashi NOZAKI
  • VEHICULAR COLLISION AVOIDANCE CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICULAR COLLISION AVOIDANCE CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20180201239
    Abstract: A vehicular collision avoidance control device includes: a collision avoidance control unit that receives a vehicle deceleration rate that is an actual deceleration rate of a traveling vehicle and obtains a first desired deceleration rate for avoiding collision with an obstacle based on the received vehicle deceleration rate, a relative distance to the obstacle, and a target relative distance; and a brake control unit that obtains a desired deceleration rate for controlling a brake device by performing first control based on the received vehicle deceleration rate and the first desired deceleration rate and performing second control based on the first desired deceleration rate and stops the first control upon detection of a brake operation performed by a driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Yosuke OHMORI, Wataru IKE
  • COLLISION AVOIDANCE CONTROL DEVICE AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20180194347
    Abstract: In a collision avoidance control device for a vehicle according to an embodiment, for example, when receiving a brake request from a driver in a certain period in which the vehicle decelerates at a first deceleration smaller than a second deceleration, a brake controller controls at least a brake device to decelerate the vehicle at a deceleration calculated by adding the first deceleration and a third deceleration corresponding to the brake request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicants: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Yosuke OHMORI, Wataru IKE