Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Nakao

Hitoshi Nakao 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: 20220166686
    Abstract: A display control system for displaying a GUI screen on a terminal of a user, the display control system includes: a setting GUI unit, wherein the setting GUI unit is configured to cause the terminal to display a screen depicting a network configuration including a plurality of selectable clouds, and wherein the setting GUI unit is configured to cause the terminal to display a parameter input screen for a connection between a specific cloud and a resource in a case where the specific cloud and the resource to connect to the specific cloud are selected at the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Daijiro IKEDA, Daisuke MAKINO, Yoshiharu ISHIYAMA, Soichiro ONO, Mami NAKAMURA, Hitoshi NAKAO, Naoya ISHITANI
  • Patent number: 10273668
    Abstract: An automatic water faucet device 1 for automatically discharging water when an object to be detected is detected has: a sensor 14 that detects the object; a first water discharge part 12 that performs foamy water discharge; a second water discharge part 13 that performs spray water discharge; and a controller 40 that performs control for switching between the foamy water discharge from the first water discharge part 12 and the spray water discharge from the second water discharge part 13, wherein the controller 40 performs the foamy water discharge from the first water discharge part 12 while the sensor 14 detects the object, and when the sensor 14 no longer detects the object, the controller 40 stops this foamy water discharge, and thereafter performs spray water discharge from the second water discharge part 13 for a predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Toto Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Murata, Hitoshi Nakao, Naoto Tomiyama, Tatsuya Fukutomi, Masanobu Kanashiro
  • Patent number: 10232805
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a heat insulator in a form of a plate, the heat insulator covering an exhaust component of an internal combustion engine; and a wire harness disposed on a side of the heat insulator. An end edge among end edges of the heat insulator has a shape that is protruding and recessed in a plate thickness direction in a side view of the end edge, the end edge being located on a side of the wire harness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hitoshi Nakao
  • Patent number: 10060107
    Abstract: An automatic water faucet device 1 includes: an electrolysis tank 37 that electrolyzes water to generate electrolyzed water; a second water discharge part 13 for discharging the electrolyzed water, a second flow path 18 that extends from the electrolysis tank 37 to the second water discharge part 13; a second solenoid valve 28 that switches between supply and blocking of normal water with respect to the electrolysis tank 37, and a controller 40 that controls the electrolysis tank 37 and the second solenoid valve 28. The controller 40 energizes the electrolysis tank 37 to discharge the electrolyzed water and thereafter stops the energization of the electrolysis tank 37 and maintains an open state of the second solenoid valve 28, to stop the supply of the electrolyzed water to the second flow path 18 and to supply normal water to the second flow path 18.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke Murata, Hitoshi Nakao, Hiroshi Mizoguchi, Naoto Tomiyama, Masanobu Kanashiro
  • Publication number: 20180170286
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a heat insulator in a form of a plate, the heat insulator covering an exhaust component of an internal combustion engine; and a wire harness disposed on a side of the heat insulator. An end edge among end edges of the heat insulator has a shape that is protruding and recessed in a plate thickness direction in a side view of the end edge, the end edge being located on a side of the wire harness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Hitoshi Nakao
  • Publication number: 20180172060
    Abstract: A case-nut includes a case welded to a body of a vehicle, a bolt insertion hole being formed in the case, a nut accommodated in the case and disposed to be movable in the case, and an insulating film laminated on an end face of the nut on the case side and an end face of the nut on the body side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hitoshi NAKAO
  • Publication number: 20180044898
    Abstract: A water discharging device 2 that is installed so as to secure a predetermined opened space between a bowl 3 and the water discharging device 2, and discharges water toward this bowl 3, the water discharging device having a water discharge part 13 that jets waterdrops so as to spread the waterdrops at a predetermined angle ? from a water discharge port 13a, and is set so as to discharge water at a predetermined flow rate, wherein an average flow speed X (m/sec) and an average particle size Y (?m) of the waterdrops jetted from the water discharge part 13 satisfy a conditional expression of “Y?9300×X(?1.5)”.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Yutaro OHARA, Kensuke MURATA, Masanobu KANASHIRO, Hitoshi NAKAO
  • Publication number: 20170328046
    Abstract: An automatic water faucet device 1 for automatically discharging water when an object to be detected is detected has: a sensor 14 that detects the object; a first water discharge part 12 that performs foamy water discharge; a second water discharge part 13 that performs spray water discharge; and a controller 40 that performs control for switching between the foamy water discharge from the first water discharge part 12 and the spray water discharge from the second water discharge part 13, wherein the controller 40 performs the foamy water discharge from the first water discharge part 12 while the sensor 14 detects the object, and when the sensor 14 no longer detects the object, the controller 40 stops this foamy water discharge, and thereafter performs spray water discharge from the second water discharge part 13 for a predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke MURATA, Hitoshi NAKAO, Naoto TOMIYAMA, Tatsuya FUKUTOMI, Masanobu KANASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20170328047
    Abstract: An automatic water faucet device 1 includes: an electrolysis tank 37 that electrolyzes water to generate electrolyzed water; a second water discharge part 13 for discharging the electrolyzed water, a second flow path 18 that extends from the electrolysis tank 37 to the second water discharge part 13; a second solenoid valve 28 that switches between supply and blocking of normal water with respect to the electrolysis tank 37, and a controller 40 that controls the electrolysis tank 37 and the second solenoid valve 28. The controller 40 energizes the electrolysis tank 37 to discharge the electrolyzed water and thereafter stops the energization of the electrolysis tank 37 and maintains an open state of the second solenoid valve 28, to stop the supply of the electrolyzed water to the second flow path 18 and to supply normal water to the second flow path 18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke MURATA, Hitoshi NAKAO, Hiroshi MIZOGUCHI, Naoto TOMIYAMA, Masanobu KANASHIRO
  • Patent number: 7144130
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus for illumination of light by emitting light from LED for each of RGB colors capable of optionally setting a color temperature and controlling the brightness after the setting while maintaining the color temperature as it is, in which a light control circuit supplies a light control voltage for variably controlling the light quantity of the illumination light equally to each color setting circuit connected with LED of each color which is lit by a light quantity in proportion with a driving current and a color temperature setter of the color temperature setting circuit adjusts the light control voltage by a predetermined ratio to a control voltage, and a constant current circuit outputs a driving current in accordance with the control voltage to each LED for each of RGB colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Moritex Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Toyota, Hitoshi Nakao, Yasuhiko Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20060239413
    Abstract: There is provided a soft X-ray shielding structure of a soft X-ray irradiation static eliminating apparatus which irradiates air to be supplied with soft X-rays and ionizes the same, the soft X-ray shielding structure allowing the passing of the ionized air and shielding the soft X-rays and including: an accommodation body having a mesh-like inflow opening and a mesh-like outflow opening and made of a soft X-ray shielding material; and a plurality of massive members filled in the accommodation body and made of a substance shielding electromagnetic waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Kengo Honma, Hitoshi Nakao, Motoki Itoda, Osamu Gomi, Kazuhiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20060217056
    Abstract: A fan/filter unit includes a casing having formed an air outlet port on a front side thereof and an air inlet port on a rear side thereof; a fan housed in the casing so as to face the air inlet port; a filter housed in the casing so as to face the air outlet port such that the air discharged by the fan in a widthwise direction of the casing is blown forward through the filter. The fan/filter unit has a shielding plate disposed between the fan and the filter as seen in a depthwise direction of the casing so that the shielding plate shields an associated flow of air flowing in a direction from the filter to the fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Osamu Gomi, Hitoshi Nakao, Kengo Honma, Motoki Itoda, Takahiro Tanaka, Kazuhiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20040246742
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus for illumination of light by emitting light from LED for each of RGB colors capable of optionally setting a color temperature and controlling the brightness after the setting while maintaining the color temperature as it is, in which a light control circuit supplies a light control voltage for variably controlling the light quantity of the illumination light equally to each color setting circuit connected with LED of each color which is lit by a light quantity in proportion with a driving current and a color temperature setter of the color temperature setting circuit adjusts the light control voltage by a predetermined ratio to a control voltage, and a constant current circuit outputs a driving current in accordance with the control voltage to each LED for each of RGB colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Applicant: Moritex Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Toyota, Hitoshi Nakao, Yasuhiko Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 6691340
    Abstract: An automatic faucet has a closing valve, a controller of the closing valve, a discharging member connected to the closing valve through a pipe, an optical sensor connected to the controller through an electric wire and a cylindrical faucet body through which the conduit and the electric wire are passed. The discharging member and the optical sensor are directed in the same direction, assembled in a unit, and installed in a single space formed in the front end portion of the faucet body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Toto Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadahiro Honda, Takatoshi Kawabata, Hitoshi Nakao
  • Publication number: 20030213062
    Abstract: An automatic faucet has a closing valve, a controller of the closing valve, a discharging member connected to the closing valve through a pipe, an optical sensor connected to the controller through an electric wire and a cylindrical faucet body through which the conduit and the electric wire are passed. The discharging member and the optical sensor are directed in the same direction, assembled in a unit, and installed in a single space formed in the front end portion of the faucet body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: Tadahiro Honda, Takatoshi Kawabata, Hitoshi Nakao
  • Patent number: 6507003
    Abstract: The laser processing apparatus includes lasers for emitting a plurality of laser beams of different wavelengths, a common phase grating for splitting the laser beams of different wavelengths into diffraction beams shaped in designed arrays, and a condenser lens for condensing the diffraction beams. The layout of the focused diffraction beam spots of each wavelength is decided in accordance with the design of the phase grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Amako, Kazushige Umetsu, Hitoshi Nakao
  • Publication number: 20020021723
    Abstract: The laser processing apparatus includes lasers for emitting a plurality of laser beams of different wavelengths, a common phase grating for splitting the laser beams of different wavelengths into diffraction beams shaped in designed arrays, and a condenser lens for condensing the diffraction beams. The layout of the focused diffraction beam spots of each wavelength is decided in accordance with the design of the phase grating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Amako, Kazushige Umetsu, Hitoshi Nakao