Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Nagai
Hiroaki Nagai 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: 20230191738Abstract: A bag processing apparatus includes: a defect detection unit which detects occurrence of a defect in processing of a bag; and an imaging unit which is separately provided from the defect detection unit and takes images of a location creating a cause of occurrence of the defect to acquires video data, the vide data being stored in association with the occurrence of the defect.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Hiroaki NAGAI, Takuya SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11348086Abstract: An electronic money server groups a parent who owns a parent mobile phone and children who own child mobile phones to be registered as a family, and credit information of the parent is also registered. When the child accesses the electronic money server by using the child mobile phone and specifies a money amount to request family charge, the electronic money server requests the parent mobile phone for permission of the family charge. When the parent grants the family charge, the electronic money server allows the parent mobile phone to decrease a value by the money amount specified by the child and to make the family settlement, and allows the child mobile phone to increase the value by this money amount and to effect the family charge. Further, the child mobile phone can accept issue of credit from a credit server on credit of the parent, thereby effecting the family charge.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Nagai, Yoshinobu Arisumi, Takeshi Shibata
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Publication number: 20220016215Abstract: The present disclosure provides GIF receptor agonist peptide compounds having an activating action on GIF receptors and use of the GIF receptor agonist peptide as a medicament for the treatment and/or prevention of emesis. Specifically, a GIF receptor agonist peptide containing a sequence represented by the formula (I) or a salt thereof, and a medicament comprising the same are N provided. Formula (I) P1-A1-A2-A3-A4-A5-A6-A7-A8-A9-A10-A11-A12-A13-A14-A15-A16-A17-A18-A19-A20-A21-A22-A23-A24-A25-A26-A27-A28-A29-A30-A31-A32-A33-A34-A35-A36-A37-A38-A39-A40-A41-A42-P2, wherein each symbol is as defined herein, with the proviso that the GIF receptor agonist peptide is not native human GIF having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Shiro TAKEKAWA, Tomoko MORIMOTO, Minoru MARUYAMA, Hiroaki NAGAI, Akira TANAKA, Hisanori MATSUI, Atsuko OBINATA, Derek Cecil COLE, Mack FLINSPACH, Nick SCORAH, Abhijit Suresh BHAT
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Publication number: 20210262967Abstract: A micro-hotplate comprises a Si substrate having a cavity and a support layer over the cavity; at least an electrode; and a heater, both provided on the support layer. The electrode surrounds the heater and the heater is disposed inside the electrode. The power efficiency of the micro-hotplate is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Yoshitaka TATARA, Masahito HONDA, Hiroaki NAGAI, Yoshiki ASHIHARA, Kuniyuki IZAWA, Masakazu SAI, Kenichi YOSHIOKA
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Patent number: 11019324Abstract: The present invention provides a highly reliable stereo camera in which it is possible to prevent the heat generated by an image processing element from contributing to an increase in the temperature of an image sensor, even if the stereo camera is made more compact and the heat density is thus increased inside the stereo camera.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Mieko Ishii, Atsushi Kazama, Seiichi Katou, Kengo Suzuki, Hidenori Shinohara, Hiroaki Nagai, Kenichi Takeuchi
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Patent number: 10931932Abstract: The present invention provides a stereo camera capable of mitigating thermal stress generated between members and reducing measurement error. In the present invention, a housing is provided with a high-rigidity support part and low-rigidity support part for supporting a circuit board, a high-rigidity support area including the high-rigidity support part, and a low-rigidity support area including the low-rigidity support part. The high-rigidity support part has greater rigidity in relation to force acting in a baseline direction (X-axis direction) following a baseline length of a pair of camera modules than the low-rigidity support part. The high-rigidity support area is provided in one location so as to be adjacent to the low-rigidity support area in the baseline direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Kazama, Hidenori Shinohara, Hiroaki Nagai, Kenichi Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20200314408Abstract: The present invention provides a stereo camera capable of mitigating thermal stress generated between members and reducing measurement error. In the present invention, a housing is provided with a high-rigidity support part and low-rigidity support part for supporting a circuit board, a high-rigidity support area including the high-rigidity support part, and a low-rigidity support area including the low-rigidity support part. The high-rigidity support part has greater rigidity in relation to force acting in a baseline direction (X-axis direction) following a baseline length of a pair of camera modules than the low-rigidity support part. The high-rigidity support area is provided in one location so as to be adjacent to the low-rigidity support area in the baseline direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2017Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Atsushi KAZAMA, Hidenori SHINOHARA, Hiroaki NAGAI, Kenichi TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20190320159Abstract: The present invention provides a highly reliable stereo camera in which it is possible to prevent the heat generated by an image processing element from contributing to an increase in the temperature of an image sensor, even if the stereo camera is made more compact and the heat density is thus increased inside the stereo camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Mieko ISHII, Atsushi KAZAMA, Seiichi KATOU, Kengo SUZUKI, Hidenori SHINOHARA, Hiroaki NAGAI, Kenichi TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20180137496Abstract: An electronic money server groups a parent who owns a parent mobile phone and children who own child mobile phones to be registered as a family, and credit information of the parent is also registered. When the child accesses the electronic money server by using the child mobile phone and specifies a money amount to request family charge, the electronic money server requests the parent mobile phone for permission of the family charge. When the parent grants the family charge, the electronic money server allows the parent mobile phone to decrease a value by the money amount specified by the child and to make the family settlement, and allows the child mobile phone to increase the value by this money amount and to effect the family charge. Further, the child mobile phone can accept issue of credit from a credit server on credit of the parent, thereby effecting the family charge.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2018Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Hiroaki Nagai, Yoshinobu Arisumi, Takeshi Shibata
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Patent number: 9911113Abstract: An electronic money server groups a parent who owns a parent mobile phone and children who own child mobile phones to be registered as a family, and credit information of the parent is also registered. When the child accesses the electronic money server by using the child mobile phone and specifies a money amount to request family charge, the electronic money server requests the parent mobile phone for permission of the family charge. When the parent grants the family charge, the electronic money server allows the parent mobile phone to decrease a value by the money amount specified by the child and to make the family settlement, and allows the child mobile phone to increase the value by this money amount and to effect the family charge. Further, the child mobile phone can accept issue of credit from a credit server on credit of the parent, thereby effecting the family charge.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2008Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Nagai, Yoshinobu Arisumi, Takeshi Shibata
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Patent number: 9638785Abstract: Ground stations 20, 21 receive any signal transmitted by a geostationary artificial satellite 10, and store the reception signal together with the reception time thereof. A difference ?t in reception time of a same signal between the ground station 20 and the ground station 21 is calculated by performing correlation processing of the reception signal of the ground station 20 and the reception signal of the ground station 21. A distance R20 between the ground station 20 and the geostationary artificial satellite 10 is measured by a distance measurement device. A distance R21 between the ground station 21 and the geostationary artificial satellite 10 is calculated on the basis of the distance R20 obtained by measurement and the difference ?t in reception times, as obtained by correlation processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2010Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: SKY Perfect JSAT CorporationInventors: Eiji Sato, Yasuhide Ichie, Hiroaki Nagai
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Patent number: 9611913Abstract: A dust cover assembly including: a dust cover made of resin and having a bellows tube portion; and an upper insulator made of rubber attached to a top end of the dust cover. An engaging tube portion is integrally formed with an upper part of the bellows tube portion of the dust cover. At least one engaging groove opens onto an outer peripheral face of the engaging tube portion and extends in a circumferential direction. At least one locking protrusion is formed on an inner peripheral face of the upper insulator having an annular shape and protrudes toward an inner peripheral side, while extending in the circumferential direction. The engaging tube portion of the dust cover is inserted into the upper insulator, while the locking protrusion is inserted into the engaging groove and is locked therein in an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2015Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Hiroaki Nagai, Hideo Yanagino, Kouichi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9514449Abstract: When an electronic money card is set to a reader/writer, an introducing site connection unit is activated to connect a user terminal to an introducing site. The introducing site connection unit stores manufacturer information and transmits an electronic money function unit ID and the manufacturer information read from the electronic money card to the introducing site. An introducing server connects the user terminal to an affiliated store server through the introducing site, and the affiliated store server transmits purchase information to the introducing server when a user purchases. The introducing server calculates a commission amount from the purchase information and transmits the calculated amount together with the electronic money function unit ID and the manufacturer information to a distributing server. The distributing server distributes the commission amount to the electronic money function unit ID and the manufacturer information based on a predetermined distribution ratio.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2008Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroaki Nagai
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Publication number: 20150240903Abstract: A dust cover assembly including: a dust cover made of resin and having a bellows tube portion; and an upper insulator made of rubber attached to a top end of the dust cover. An engaging tube portion is integrally formed with an upper part of the bellows tube portion of the dust cover. At least one engaging groove opens onto an outer peripheral face of the engaging tube portion and extends in a circumferential direction. At least one locking protrusion is formed on an inner peripheral face of the upper insulator having an annular shape and protrudes toward an inner peripheral side, while extending in the circumferential direction. The engaging tube portion of the dust cover is inserted into the upper insulator, while the locking protrusion is inserted into the engaging groove and is locked therein in an axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Hiroaki NAGAI, Hideo YANAGINO, Kouichi KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 8424891Abstract: Semi-tubular portions of two partition members partitioning a bushing body into an outer rubber portion and an inner rubber portion are asymmetrically arranged with respect to a reference plane containing a central axis of the bushing body and parallel to two attachment surfaces of a bracket. In addition, each of the semi-tubular portions is configured to have a length equal to or larger than a diameter of a stabilizer bar, the length being from one end to the other end in a circumferential direction of the semi-tubular portion in a projection view obtained by projecting the semi-tubular portion to a horizontal surface in a vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Nagai, Hideo Yanagino, Kouichi Kobayashi, Yuji Homma
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Publication number: 20130009812Abstract: Ground stations 20, 21 receive any signal transmitted by a geostationary artificial satellite 10, and store the reception signal together with the reception time thereof. A difference ?t in reception time of a same signal between the ground station 20 and the ground station 21 is calculated by performing correlation processing of the reception signal of the ground station 20 and the reception signal of the ground station 21. A distance R20 between the ground station 20 and the geostationary artificial satellite 10 is measured by a distance measurement device. A distance R21 between the ground station 21 and the geostationary artificial satellite 10 is calculated on the basis of the distance R20 obtained by measurement and the difference ?t in reception times, as obtained by correlation processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2010Publication date: January 10, 2013Inventors: Eiji Sato, Yasuhide Ichie, Hiroaki Nagai
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Publication number: 20120299261Abstract: Semi-tubular portions of two partition members partitioning a bushing body into an outer rubber portion and an inner rubber portion are asymmetrically arranged with respect to a reference plane containing a central axis of the bushing body and parallel to two attachment surfaces of a bracket. In addition, each of the semi-tubular portions is configured to have a length equal to or larger than a diameter of a stabilizer bar, the length being from one end to the other end in a circumferential direction of the semi-tubular portion in a projection view obtained by projecting the semi-tubular portion to a horizontal surface in a vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki NAGAI, Hideo YANAGINO, Kouichi KOBAYASHI, Yuji HOMMA
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Patent number: 8292312Abstract: A stabilizer bushing is provided which effectively reduces a torsional friction between a bushing body and a stabilizer bar. The stabilizer bushing includes a bushing body 16 made of a tubular elastic body, a sliding member 42 fixed to an inner circumferential surface of the tubular elastic body, and two partition members 26, 26 embedded in and bonded to a radially middle area of the bushing body 16. The partition members 26, 26 divide the bushing body 16 into an inner rubber portion 38 that is thin enough not to be elastically-deformed by a load applied thereto and an outer rubber portion 40 that is thicker than the inner rubber portion 38. Further, each of the partition members 26, 26 includes through holes 36a, 36b, 36c that are located so as to divide the partition member into a plurality of sections both in the axial and circumferential directions.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2011Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignees: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiko Kato, Hiroaki Nagai, Hideo Yanagino, Katsuzo Okada, Kouichi Kobayashi, Yuji Homma, Shinji Hayashi
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Publication number: 20110291377Abstract: A stabilizer bushing is provided which effectively reduces a torsional friction between a bushing body and a stabilizer bar. The stabilizer bushing includes a bushing body 16 made of a tubular elastic body, a sliding member 42 fixed to an inner circumferential surface of the tubular elastic body, and two partition members 26, 26 embedded in and bonded to a radially middle area of the bushing body 16. The partition members 26, 26 divide the bushing body 16 into an inner rubber portion 38 that is thin enough not to be elastically-deformed by a load applied thereto and an outer rubber portion 40 that is thicker than the inner rubber portion 38. Further, each of the partition members 26, 26 includes through holes 36a, 36b, 36c that are located so as to divide the partition member into a plurality of sections both in the axial and circumferential directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko KATO, Hiroaki NAGAI, Hideo YANAGINO, Katsuzo OKADA, Kouichi KOBAYASHI, Yuji HOMMA, Shinji HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20100145850Abstract: An electronic money server groups a parent who owns a parent mobile phone and children who own child mobile phones to be registered as a family, and credit information of the parent is also registered. When the child accesses the electronic money server by using the child mobile phone and specifies a money amount to request family charge, the electronic money server requests the parent mobile phone for permission of the family charge. When the parent grants the family charge, the electronic money server allows the parent mobile phone to decrease a value by the money amount specified by the child and to make the family settlement, and allows the child mobile phone to increase the value by this money amount and to effect the family charge. Further, the child mobile phone can accept issue of credit from a credit server on credit of the parent, thereby effecting the family charge.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2008Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Nagai, Yoshinobu Arisumi, Takeshi Shibata