Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Nakamura

Hiroshi Nakamura 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).

  • Publication number: 20230183460
    Abstract: Provided are an inorganic substance powder-filled resin composition having uniform dispersibility of inorganic substance powder and providing stable mechanical properties after forming even when the inorganic substance powder is highly filled and a formed article using the inorganic substance powder-filled resin composition. Provided is an inorganic substance powder-filled resin composition including a thermoplastic resin and inorganic substance powder in a mass ratio of 50:50 to 10:90, in which a neutralized product of a polymer made of 50% by mole to 100% by mole of an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid and 0% by mole to 50% by mole of another monomer as constitutional units is added. A formed body is prepared using this inorganic substance powder-filled resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Eiji MIZUNO, Taichi YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11659278
    Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention, includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to: acquire an image by image sensing processing; set a part of the image as a specific region, wherein a position of the specific region can be changed; and detect a motion of an object included in the specific region; and perform control to display an indicator based on the detected motion of the object in a direction corresponding to a movement direction of the electronic device so that the indicator is superimposed and displayed at a position on the image based on the specific region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takeshi Kikkawa, Satoru Kobayashi, Hiroshi Nakamura, Akihiko Sato, Takeshi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20230133306
    Abstract: An attachment includes an abutment plate portion and a retaining portion. The abutment plate portion cannot be inserted into a mounting hole. The abutment plate portion includes an insertion hole in a middle portion thereof. The retaining portion is disposed on a back side of the abutment plate portion. The attachment is mounted on the mounting hole by the retaining portion inserted into the mounting hole, the abutment plate portion abutted against a peripheral edge portion of the mounting hole from a front side and a lock portion of the retaining portion engaged with the peripheral edge portion of the mounting hole from a back side. A body portion of a solar radiation sensor is inserted into the insertion hole, a head portion of the solar radiation sensor is abutted against the abutment plate portion and at least one catch claw of the body portion of the solar radiation sensor is engaged with the lock portion of the retaining portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Minoru TOMIYAMA, Hiroshi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230137960
    Abstract: A register device includes a register body, a plurality of upstream fins, a single downstream fin and an operation knob. The plurality of upstream fins are supported by the register body so as to be rotatable about a rotation axis extending in a left-right direction. The plurality of upstream fins are arranged in a vertical direction. The downstream fin is disposed in an air passage on a blow outlet side with respect to the upstream fins. The downstream fin is supported by the register body so as to be rotatable about a rotation axis extending in the vertical direction. The downstream fin extending in the vertical direction includes a pair of flat plate portions extending in the vertical direction parallel to each other. The operation knob is supported by the downstream fin so as to be slidable in the vertical direction. The operation knob, as it is slid, rotatably operates the upstream fins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuaki HOSHI, Hiroshi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230116018
    Abstract: There is provided a safety apparatus including a push-up member in which an ejected object is hardly displaced even during transportation, and an aerial vehicle including the safety apparatus. A safety apparatus 100 includes a cylinder 14 that accommodates a piston member 10 and is provided with a bore 13 through which the piston member 10 protrudes to the outside (upward in FIG. 1) during operation, a push-up member 15 that is pushed up in one direction by the piston member 10, an ejected object 16 that is pushed up while being supported by the push-up member 15, a gas generator 17 as a power source that moves the piston member 10 in the cylinder 14, a container 18 that has a bottomed cylindrical shape and accommodates the piston member 10, the cylinder 14, the push-up member 15, the ejected object 16, and the gas generator 17, and a lid 21 that closes an opening end of the container 18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Dairi KUBO, Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Yasuhiko YAGIHASHI, Hideki OTSUBO
  • Publication number: 20230093952
    Abstract: An aerial vehicle safety apparatus includes a safety mechanism, a drive mechanism, an ejection mechanism, and a control mechanism. The safety mechanism is used for securing safety of at least one of an aerial vehicle and an object outside the aerial vehicle. The drive mechanism includes at least one drive unit serving as a drive source of the safety mechanism. The ejection mechanism ejects the drive mechanism together with the safety mechanism. The control mechanism controls operations of the drive mechanism for the drive mechanism to drive the safety mechanism after the ejection mechanism starts ejection of the safety mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiko YAGIHASHI, Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Koichi SASAMOTO, Dairi KUBO, Takahiro OOI
  • Publication number: 20230072685
    Abstract: Provided is a biodegradable resin composition that exhibits excellent biodegradability even in a molded product having a large thickness, has excellent mechanical properties, and is economically advantageous, and a molded product using the same. The molded product is provided using an inorganic substance powder-containing biodegradable resin composition including: a biodegradable resin and an inorganic substance powder in a mass ratio of 10:90 to 70:30, in which the biodegradable resin is a cellulose acetate-based resin and the inorganic substance powder is heavy calcium carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Eiji MIZUNO, Gouki SASAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11593426
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that are capable of providing contents suitable for a user. The information processing apparatus includes an information generation section that refers to information related to an action history and an action schedule of a user acquired and a database of event content information regarding a plurality of events, and generates profile information of the user while tying together information of stay places in past and future of the user and information of artistes of the events, and an output section that sets a priority for each of the plurality of artistes on the basis of the generated profile information, and outputs a content corresponding to each of the artistes in accordance with the priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lyo Takaoka, Yoshinori Matsumoto, Hiroshi Nakamura, Piljong Kang, Takafumi Kuroki
  • Patent number: 11591110
    Abstract: An aerial vehicle safety apparatus includes an expandable object and an ejection apparatus. The ejection apparatus includes a container that accommodates the expandable object and has an opening provided on one end side, a moving member provided in the container, the moving member including an emission base carrying the expandable object on a side of the opening, the moving member being movable along an inner wall of the container, and a driver that ejects the expandable object by moving the moving member toward the opening. A space located opposite to the opening when viewed from the emission base and surrounded by the container and the moving member communicates with a space located outside the space through a communication portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Yasuhiko Yagihashi, Koichi Sasamoto, Takahiro Ooi
  • Publication number: 20230057576
    Abstract: Provided is a spunbond nonwoven fabric that is easy to produce due to excellent spinnability and has uniform and sufficient quality including mechanical properties while the spunbond nonwoven fabric is highly filled with an inorganic substance powder. An inorganic substance powder-blended spunbond nonwoven fabric is composed of a fiber, the fiber including: a thermoplastic resin and an inorganic substance powder in a mass ratio of 50:50 to 10:90, and an ethylene-based polymer wax having a weight average molecular weight of 400 or more and 5,000 or less in an amount of 0.1 part by mass or more and 3.0 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of a total amount of the thermoplastic resin and the inorganic substance powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Satoshi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20230051789
    Abstract: Provided is a circuit abnormality diagnosis device capable of simply and easily diagnosing a circuit abnormality, a current generating device including the circuit abnormality diagnosis device, a deployed object ejection device for a flight object including the current generating device, an airbag device for a flight object including the current generating device, and a cutting device for a flight object including the current generating device. A circuit abnormality diagnosis device 110 includes a calculation unit 1, an inspection power supply 2, a rectifier element 3, overcurrent preventing resistors 4 and 5, a voltage amplification unit 6, a voltage reading unit 7, and a light emitting unit 8, and performs a circuit abnormality diagnosis at a preset time (including the time of initial mounting) or every predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Takuto YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20230012473
    Abstract: Provided is an airbag device for a flying object sufficiently having a performance of protecting a battery. An airbag device 1 is an airbag device for a flying object including an upper cover member 19 and a lower cover member 20 as a housing, and a battery 24 provided inside the housing and includes an expandable member 2 which is provided inside the housing of the flying object 10 and is expandable inside the housing, a gas generator 3 which is connected to the expandable member 2 and receives a predetermined amount of current to make gas flow into the expandable member 2, and a current supply section which supplies current to the gas generator 3 according to collision of the flying object 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Yasuhiko YAGIHASHI, Kouichi SASAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11555691
    Abstract: A substrate inspection system includes an imaging unit provided in a substrate processing apparatus and configured to acquire image data by imaging a surface of a substrate for color information on which a film is formed; a film thickness measurement unit provided in the substrate processing apparatus and configured to measure a film thickness of a substrate for film thickness measurement on which a film is formed under same conditions as on the substrate for color information; and a model creation unit configured to create a film thickness model corresponding to a correlation between information about color change on the surface of the substrate for color information caused by forming the film, which is acquired based on the image data, and the film thickness of the substrate for film thickness measurement, which is measured by the film thickness measurement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Toyohisa Tsuruda, Yasuaki Noda
  • Patent number: 11549005
    Abstract: Provided is a thermoplastic resin composition that reduces uneven distribution of inorganic substance particles and is suitable for producing a formed article having excellent appearance and mechanical properties even when the thermoplastic resin is highly filled with inorganic substance powder and a formed article using this thermoplastic resin composition. Provided are an inorganic substance powder-containing thermoplastic resin composition including a thermoplastic resin and inorganic substance powder in a mass ratio of 50:50 to 10:90, in which the inorganic substance powder is calcium carbonate particles, the calcium carbonate particles include at least two groups of particles having different average particle diameters, and any of the average particle diameters of the particle groups is within a range of 0.7 ?m or more and 6.0 ?m or less; and a formed article using this inorganic substance powder-containing thermoplastic resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TBM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Eiji Mizuno, Taichi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220416748
    Abstract: A bandpass filter circuit includes a fourth element that is a capacitor having one end connected to a first node, a fifth element that is a capacitor having one end connected to a second node, a sixth element that is a capacitor connected between other end of the fourth element and other end of the fifth element, a seventh element that is an inductor having one end connected to a fourth node to which the fourth element and the sixth element are connected, other end of the seventh element is connected to a ground terminal, and an eighth element that is an inductor having one end connected to a fifth node to which the fifth element and the sixth element are connected, other end of the eighth element is connected to the ground terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Sanan Japan Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11530046
    Abstract: An aerial vehicle safety apparatus includes a safety mechanism, a drive mechanism, an ejection mechanism, and a control mechanism. The safety mechanism is used for securing safety of at least one of an aerial vehicle and an object outside the aerial vehicle. The drive mechanism includes at least one drive unit serving as a drive source of the safety mechanism. The ejection mechanism ejects the drive mechanism together with the safety mechanism. The control mechanism controls operations of the drive mechanism for the drive mechanism to drive the safety mechanism after the ejection mechanism starts ejection of the safety mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Yagihashi, Hiroshi Nakamura, Koichi Sasamoto, Dairi Kubo, Takahiro Ooi
  • Publication number: 20220365279
    Abstract: A coating removal tool removes a resin coating positioned at a distal end portion of a coated optical fiber. The coating removal tool includes a first holding part holding the resin coating positioned at the distal end portion, a second holding part configured to hold a base end portion of the coated optical fiber adjacent to the distal end portion, and a pedestal part configured to support the first holding part and the second holding part. The first holding part includes a heater for heating the resin coating positioned at the distal end portion and a blade for making a notch in the resin coating, and is provided to be slidable relative to the pedestal part. The second holding part is fixed relative to the pedestal part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC OPTIFRONTIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu TODA, Hiroshi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220368316
    Abstract: An integrated circuit for controlling an ignition system including a coil. The integrated circuit includes a transistor configured to control a current flowing through the coil, a first line coupled to a control electrode of the transistor, a second line coupled to an electrode of the transistor on the ground side thereof, a control circuit configured to control on and off of the transistor based on a voltage level of the first line, and a Zener diode having a cathode coupled to the first line and an anode coupled to the second line. The Zener diode has such a capacitance that, when a first signal, and a second signal of a higher frequency, are inputted to the first line, the control circuit controls the on and off of the transistor in response to the first signal irrespective of the second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Hiroyuki NAKAJIMA, Takanori KOHAMA, Yuya ABE
  • Patent number: 11435529
    Abstract: Provided is an optical fiber holder comprising a holder body and a cover. The holder body has an accommodation section capable of accommodating a plurality of optical fibers. The holder body or the cover has at least one ridge which can be disposed within the accommodation section. When the cover is closed over the holder body, a plurality of sections which can parallelly accommodate the plurality of optical fibers are parallelly formed by the inner surface of the accommodation section, the lower surface of the cover, and the ridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SEI OPTIFRONTIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichiro Sato, Hiroshi Takayanagi, Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20220255586
    Abstract: Electric field communication that adopts a metal as a communication medium is performed. An electric field communication system communicating through an electric field, includes: a communication medium made of a material capable of transmitting the electric field; a first transmitter that generates an electric field dependent on a potential difference between a first electrode, which is disposed on a side of the communication medium and is connected to the communication medium via a coupling capacitance, and a second electrode connected to an earth ground via a coupling capacitance, with the first electrode being connected on a signal side of the transmitter, and the second electrode being connected on a ground side of the transmitter; and a first receiver disposed in contact with the communication medium, wherein the first transmitter and the first receiver communicate with each other through the electric field via the communication medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Mitsuru SHINAGAWA, Kohei HAMAMURA, Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Naohiro SHIMIZU