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).

  • VIBRATION CONTROL APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200122028
    Abstract: Provided is a vibration control apparatus that acquires pseudo force sensory vibration data descriptive of a pseudo force sensory vibration causing a user to feel a pseudo force sensation, acquires tactile sensory vibration data descriptive of a tactile sensory vibration causing the user to feel a tactile sensation, and causes a vibration mechanism to generate a vibration based on the pseudo force sensory vibration data and the tactile sensory vibration data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yukari Konishi, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Information processing apparatus and information processing method
    Patent number: 10623536
    Abstract: Controlling a direction in which a housing is to be vibrated causes a user to easily recognize that the housing is vibrating. An information processing apparatus includes a housing, a sensor, a vibration unit, and a control unit. The housing has a first direction, and a second direction different from the first direction. The sensor is provided in the housing. The vibration unit is capable of vibrating the housing in the first direction and the second direction. The control unit determines a current situation of the housing on a basis of output from the sensor, and controls, on a basis of the current situation of the housing, the vibration unit to vibrate the housing in one of the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano, Ayumi Kato
  • Vehicular collision avoidance control device and vehicular collision avoidance control method
    Patent number: 10611349
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Yosuke Ohmori, Wataru Ike
  • Vehicular driving assistance device
    Patent number: 10611351
    Abstract: When an engine speed is less than a safeguard speed while a vehicle downhill assist control is being executed, a target speed of the vehicle downhill assist control is increased. In addition, if the target speed is greater than a vehicle speed, braking force applied to the vehicle is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Yasuhito Ishida, Akitsugu Sakai
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20200086215
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a technology that enhances a user experience by appropriately setting vibration strength for each type of a sound output section. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a control section. The control section determines a type of a sound output section outputting a sound and changes vibration strength of a vibration section in accordance with the determined type of the sound output section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: AYUMI NAKAGAWA, YUSUKE NAKAGAWA, IKUO YAMANO
  • Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system
    Patent number: 10589169
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a control section 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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Komori, Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • VIBRATION CONTROL APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200070047
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a vibration control apparatus that receives a vibration instruction and vibrates a vibration device in accordance with content obtained by correcting the content of the received vibration instruction, wherein the vibration control apparatus determines the correction content for vibration in accordance with a user using the vibration device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano
  • VIBRATION CONTROL APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200061460
    Abstract: A vibration control apparatus accepts, from a user, correction information designating the content of correction in vibrating a vibration device, and vibrates the vibration device in accordance with the content of an accepted vibration instruction corrected to reflect the correction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano
  • VIBRATION CONTROL APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200061459
    Abstract: This vibration control apparatus receives a vibration instruction for vibrating a vibration device and vibrates the vibration device according to contents in which contents of the received vibration instruction are corrected in accordance with information regarding an operating condition of the vibration device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano
  • Endoscope
    Patent number: 10568491
    Abstract: An endoscope includes an insertion portion in which a rigid distal end portion, a bending portion, and a flexible portion are provided in a connected row arrangement, and an optical fiber that is inserted through the insertion portion. The endoscope has, in the rigid distal end portion, an optical transmission module in which an image pickup device, an optical device in which a light-emitting portion is formed, and a holding member that has a through hole. A length in the bending portion of the optical fiber whose distal end portion is inserted into and fixed in the through hole of the holding member is longer than a length L0 of the bending portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Nakagawa
  • VIBRATION CONTROL APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200051407
    Abstract: A vibration control apparatus that is connectable to plural types of vibrating device, that identifies the type of the vibrating device actually connected to the vibration control apparatus, of the plural types of vibrating device, that obtains property information relating to the vibration property of the identified type of vibrating device, that accepts a vibration instruction, and that causes the connected vibrating device to vibrate for the content produced by correcting the content of the accepted vibration instruction in accordance with the obtained property information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano
  • OPTICAL MODULE AND ENDOSCOPE
    Publication number: 20200049908
    Abstract: An optical module includes: an optical element including a light emitting section which emits a light signal and two external terminals on a light emitting surface; an optical fiber configured to transmit the light signal; a ferrule having an insertion hole into which the optical fiber is inserted; and a wiring board where two connection electrodes provided to a first main surface are respectively bonded to the two external terminals via bumps, and the ferrule is provided to a second main surface, wherein the light emitting surface of the light emitting element is inclined with respect to the first main surface at a predetermined inclination angle based on heights of the bumps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi IWAISAKO, Yusuke NAKAGAWA
  • Ozone generation system and method for operating same
    Patent number: 10544045
    Abstract: In an ozone generating system in which an intermittent operation is performed, in which an ozone generating operation period in which ozone is generated by discharging gas which contains oxygen in a discharge space of an ozone generating apparatus and an ozone generating operation standby period in which gas is sealed in an ozone generating apparatus and discharge is stopped so as not to generate ozone are performed repeatedly, an absorbent which absorbs at least one of nitric acid and nitrogen oxide is provided in an ozone generating apparatus other than the discharge space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Wada, Yusuke Nakagawa
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20200026355
    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: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo YAMANO, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Akihiro KOMORI, Takashi NOZAKI
  • ENDOSCOPE
    Publication number: 20200012085
    Abstract: An endoscope including an image pickup module in a distal end section, wherein the image pickup module including an image pickup unit including an image pickup device, a light emitting element configured to emit an optical signal from a light emission surface, and a ferrule disposed in the image pickup unit, in which the light emission surface is inclined at a first angle of not less than 35 degrees nor more than 55 degrees to the distal end section central axis, a fiber distal end portion is inclined at a second angle of not less than 35 degrees nor more than 55 degrees to the distal end section central axis, and the optical fiber extends toward the distal end section central axis, and is arranged along a bending section central axis in a bending section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideharu MIYAHARA, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Kosuke KAWAHARA
  • MOTOR AND COMPRESSOR PROVIDED WITH THE SAME
    Publication number: 20200007013
    Abstract: A motor includes an annular core formed by stacking a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets; end plates disposed at both ends of the core in an axial direction; a balance weight disposed on a side of one of the end plates, the side being opposite the core; and a spacer disposed between the one of the end plates and the balance weight, the spacer being configured to create a space between the one of the end plates and the balance weight. The motor is entirely fastened by allowing at least one of a plurality of rivets arranged in a circumferential direction of the core to pass through the core and the end plates in the axial direction, and allowing remaining at least one rivet to pass through the core, the end plates, the spacer, and the balance weight in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Ryohei UNO, Koji MASUMOTO, Yuki TAMURA, Kenjiro MOTOMURA, Yusuke NAKAGAWA, Kei IWATA
  • ENDOSCOPE
    Publication number: 20200000328
    Abstract: An endoscope includes an opto-electric composite module, an optical fiber, and a plurality of electric cables each including a core wire and a shielding wire. The opto-electric composite module includes a light emitting device, a wiring board including a plurality of bonding electrodes to which the plurality of core wires are bonded, a ferrule causing the optical fiber inserted into a first through hole to be optically coupled to the light emitting device, and a cable holder having grooves to which the plurality of core wires are fixed with the plurality of core wires so disposed as to be bonded to the plurality of respective bonding electrodes. The cable holder is a holder conductor electrically connected to a ground potential electrode of the image pickup device, and the shielding wires in the electric cables are bonded to the holder conductor of the cable holder via an electrically conductive member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youhei SAKAI, Keiichi KOBAYASHI, Yusuke NAKAGAWA
  • Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
    Patent number: 10514762
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Akihiro Komori
  • OPTICAL MODULE, ENDOSCOPE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL MODULE
    Publication number: 20190384013
    Abstract: An optical module includes: an optical fiber; a ferrule with an insertion hole where the optical fiber is inserted; a sleeve with a through hole where the ferrule is inserted; a light emitting element; and a wiring board having a first principle surface where the optical element is disposed and a second principle surface where the sleeve is disposed. The sleeve has a deformation range where an outer surface is concave and an inner surface defining the through hole is convex, the inner surface of the deformation range being in contact with the ferrule. The sleeve is a metal cylinder with a resin provided to fill a space between the metal cylinder and the ferrule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke NAKAGAWA
  • Optical transmitter and endoscope
    Patent number: 10470642
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Nakagawa