Patents by Inventor Akira Nishikawa

Akira Nishikawa 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).

  • Patent number: 11927125
    Abstract: A prediction device that predicts time for a reducing agent accommodated in a container mounted on a work vehicle to freeze includes a remaining amount information acquisition unit configured to acquire remaining amount information indicating a remaining amount of the reducing agent in the container, a wall surface temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire a detection result of a wall surface temperature of the container, a reducing agent temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire a detection result of a temperature of the reducing agent, and a time calculation unit configured to calculate the time for the reducing agent to freeze based on the wall surface temperature, the reducing agent temperature, and the remaining amount information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Oka, Tatsuya Yamakawa, Yohei Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20220181910
    Abstract: A power receiving device includes: a power receiving antenna to wirelessly receive AC power from a power transmitting antenna in the power transmitting device; a power receiving circuit to convert the AC power received by the power receiving antenna into DC power and to output the DC power; an impedance adjustment circuit disposed on a transmission path between a load that utilizes the DC power and the power receiving antenna, the impedance adjustment circuit being capable of causing a change in input impedance thereof; and a power reception control circuit to control the impedance adjustment circuit. The power reception control circuit consecutively changes a value of the input impedance of the impedance adjustment circuit to a value selected from among a plurality of values, determines from among the plurality of values a value at which power to be supplied to the load becomes largest, and sets and maintains the input impedance at an operating impedance value that is based on the determined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HOSOI, Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Satoru KIKUCHI, Toru MATSUGI, Masanori AKINAKA, Akira NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10895371
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lighting device in which a planar light-emitting panel is supported by, and can be easily attached to and detached from, a support member. The support member has a support side engagement part and covers a large part of a feeding wiring line. The lighting panel has a planar light-emitting panel and a mounting member. The planar light-emitting panel is attachable to the mounting member and has a panel side engagement part on its rear surface. The mounting member is fixable to the support member, and has first and second attaching side engagement parts. The first attaching side engagement part can engage the support side engagement part in a direction substantially orthogonal to the support member at a position overlapping with the planar light-emitting panel. The second attaching side engagement part can engage the panel side engagement part in the orthogonal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuniharu Matsuda, Youichi Yamaguchi, Akira Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 10836440
    Abstract: An instrument panel beam is the instrument panel beam that is arranged in the width direction of an automobile, and includes: a large-diameter hollow tube having a hollow cylindrical shape; and a small-diameter hollow tube which is joined to the large-diameter hollow tube in an axial direction, has a diameter that is smaller than that of the large-diameter hollow tube, and has a hollow cylindrical shape. The small-diameter hollow tube includes two flat plates that extend in a longitudinal direction and two bends that are curved in a circumferential direction, and the flat plates and the bends are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignees: UACJ CORPORATION, UACJ EXTRUSION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaro Konno, Akira Nishikawa, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Toshiaki Doi
  • Patent number: 10683976
    Abstract: The present invention provides an illumination device in which an organic EL panel is detachable from a mounting member; the panel has a panel body and a fixing member. The panel body has an emission surface on its front and a circuit board on its rear. The fixing member has a main body and a raised part that is disposed on a rear of the panel and raised with respect to the main body to circumvent the circuit board and to protect the circuit board. The raised part includes a raised-side engagement part protruding in a direction crossing a raised direction. The mounting member has an attachment side main body and an attachment side engagement part. The attachment side engagement part extends from the attachment side main body to form a step. The engagement parts engage together when the panel is attached to the mounting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignees: KILT PLANNING OFFICE INC., KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Fukushima, Shozo Toyohisa, Harunobu Izumo, Youichi Yamaguchi, Akira Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20200149719
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lighting device in which a planar light-emitting panel is supported by, and can be easily attached to and detached from, a support member. The support member has a support side engagement part and covers a large part of a feeding wiring line. The lighting panel has a planar light-emitting panel and a mounting member. The planar light-emitting panel is attachable to the mounting member and has a panel side engagement part on its rear surface. The mounting member is fixable to the support member, and has first and second attaching side engagement parts. The first attaching side engagement part can engage the support side engagement part in a direction substantially orthogonal to the support member at a position overlapping with the planar light-emitting panel. The second attaching side engagement part can engage the panel side engagement part in the orthogonal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Kuniharu Matsuda, Youichi Yamaguchi, Akira Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20190337573
    Abstract: An instrument panel beam is the instrument panel beam that is arranged in the width direction of an automobile, and includes: a large-diameter hollow tube having a hollow cylindrical shape; and a small-diameter hollow tube which is joined to the large-diameter hollow tube in an axial direction, has a diameter that is smaller than that of the large-diameter hollow tube, and has a hollow cylindrical shape. The small-diameter hollow tube includes two flat plates that extend in a longitudinal direction and two bends that are curved in a circumferential direction, and the flat plates and the bends are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Yutaro KONNO, Akira NISHIKAWA, Yasuyuki TANAKA, Toshiaki DOI
  • Patent number: 10304905
    Abstract: To provide, in a simple and cost-effective manner, a planar light-emitting module with reduced thickness as a whole, with its substrate end ensuring shock resistance and low risk of injury, and being excellent in transferring and dissipating heat. A light-emitting module of the present invention includes: a bezel having a leg part having an inner height H; a planar light-emitting tile; and a printed circuit board having a plurality of heat dissipating through holes. A heat dissipating interval is provided between the printed circuit board and the mounted surface. The printed circuit board includes a tile-side main surface being a soaking metal layer including through hole openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidemaro Saiki, Akira Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 10288263
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a planar light-emitting panel attached with a jacket to protect edges of a light-emitting tile, while the jacket is prevented from being peeled off or removed from the light-emitting tile. The planar light-emitting panel includes the light-emitting using a glass substrate as a base, and an elastic jacket covering end faces of the glass substrate. An emission surface is provided on a front face of the light-emitting tile. The elastic jacket has a rear face side opening, on a rear face side of the light-emitting tile. On opening edges of the rear face side opening, when viewed from rear, a plurality of jacket side protrusions protruding toward a center side of the rear face side opening are formed. The jacket side protrusions are separated at predetermined intervals along the opening edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Nishikawa, Yukinobu Hamada, Hidemaro Saiki, Tsukasa Sumiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20190104592
    Abstract: The present invention provides an illumination device in which an organic EL panel is detachable from a mounting member; the panel has a panel body and a fixing member. The panel body has an emission surface on its front and a circuit board on its rear. The fixing member has a main body and a raised part that is disposed on a rear of the panel and raised with respect to the main body to circumvent the circuit board and to protect the circuit board. The raised part includes a raised-side engagement part protruding in a direction crossing a raised direction. The mounting member has an attachment side main body and an attachment side engagement part. The attachment side engagement part extends from the attachment side main body to form a step. The engagement parts engage together when the panel is attached to the mounting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Koichi Fukushima, Shozo Toyohisa, Harunobu Izumo, Youichi Yamaguchi, Akira Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20190042695
    Abstract: A method for readily and accurately differentiating an esophageal cancer patient's tumor between basaloid squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus or another esophageal cancer is developed and provided. A method is provided for assisting differentiating contraction of basaloid squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus, including measuring the expression levels of markers for basaloid squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus in samples collected from a test subject and a healthy subject or a group of healthy subjects and determining whether the test subject is highly likely to be affected with basaloid squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus based on the obtained measurement values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Shinya WATANABE, Jun-ichi IMAI, Emi ITO, Gaku MORISAWA, Takeshi TADA, Mitsukazu GOTO, Michihiko KOGURE, Reiko TOGASHI, Akira NISHIKAWA, Susumu MATSUKURA
  • Patent number: 9862649
    Abstract: A raw setter has a plate shape, is made of the same material as in a honeycomb formed body, and has a chamfered portion in which a circumferential portion of one end face is chamfered in an oblique direction and whose has a tapered cross-sectional shape by reducing a diameter of an end face portion to an outer diameter, a ratio of an area of a flat portion to an end face area is from 10 to 85%, an angle formed between the flat portion and the chambered portion is from 3 to 50°, a flatness of each of the flat portion of the one end face and a flat portion of the other end face is 0.3 mm or less, and a thickness of cell partition walls is 0.1 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiko Watanabe, Akira Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 9832893
    Abstract: A first roof extends over and covers an area above an aperture through which an input connector is accessible, so as to receive water drops flowing down along a side surface of a case. A first reinforcement reinforces a fixture by which the case is fixed to a fixed surface. The first roof and the first reinforcement are a single piece of material. Thus, since the first roof and the first reinforcement are the single piece of material, if the first roof is provided to the case, there is no need to form the first roof and the first reinforcement separately. Therefore, it is possible to prevent generation of additional mold production cost and material cost for the first roof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Shimpei Yamada, Takashi Ogitani, Akira Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20170338283
    Abstract: To provide, in a simple and cost-effective manner, a planar light-emitting module with reduced thickness as a whole, with its substrate end ensuring shock resistance and low risk of injury, and being excellent in transferring and dissipating heat. A light-emitting module of the present invention includes: a bezel having a leg part having an inner height H; a planar light-emitting tile; and a printed circuit board having a plurality of heat dissipating through holes. A heat dissipating interval is provided between the printed circuit board and the mounted surface. The printed circuit board includes a tile-side main surface being a soaking metal layer including through hole openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Hidemaro Saiki, Akira Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20170276317
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a planar light-emitting panel attached with a jacket to protect edges of a light-emitting tile, while the jacket is prevented from being peeled off or removed from the light-emitting tile. The planar light-emitting panel includes the light-emitting using a glass substrate as a base, and an elastic jacket covering end faces of the glass substrate. An emission surface is provided on a front face of the light-emitting tile. The elastic jacket has a rear face side opening, on a rear face side of the light-emitting tile. On opening edges of the rear face side opening, when viewed from rear, a plurality of jacket side protrusions protruding toward a center side of the rear face side opening are formed. The jacket side protrusions are separated at predetermined intervals along the opening edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Akira Nishikawa, Yukinobu Hamada, Hidemaro Saiki, Tsukasa Sumiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20170086318
    Abstract: A first roof extends over and covers an area above an aperture through which an input connector is accessible, so as to receive water drops flowing down along a side surface of a case. A first reinforcement reinforces a fixture by which the case is fixed to a fixed surface. The first roof and the first reinforcement are a single piece of material. Thus, since the first roof and the first reinforcement are the single piece of material, if the first roof is provided to the case, there is no need to form the first roof and the first reinforcement separately. Therefore, it is possible to prevent generation of additional mold production cost and material cost for the first roof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Shimpei YAMADA, Takashi OGITANI, Akira NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: D762519
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignees: NIPPON SHARYO CO. LTD, CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Masahiro Sugesawa, Tomoyuki Fukunaga, Yoshikazu Sumi, Masayuki Hattori, Kuniharu Matsuda, Akira Nishikawa, Hiroki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Ishikura
  • Patent number: D762898
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignees: Nippon Sharyo, Ltd, Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Masahiro Sugesawa, Tomoyuki Fukunaga, Yoshikazu Sumi, Masayuki Hattori, Kuniharu Matsuda, Akira Nishikawa, Hiroki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Ishikura
  • Patent number: D764086
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignees: NIPPON SHARYO, LTD., CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Masahiro Sugesawa, Tomoyuki Fukunaga, Yoshikazu Sumi, Masayuki Hattori, Kuniharu Matsuda, Akira Nishikawa, Hiroki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Ishikura
  • Patent number: D764351
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignees: NIPPON SHARYO, LTD., CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Masahiro Sugesawa, Tomoyuki Fukunaga, Yoshikazu Sumi, Masayuki Hattori, Kuniharu Matsuda, Akira Nishikawa, Hiroki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Ishikura