Patents by Inventor Koichi Nakagawa

Koichi 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).

  • Patent number: 10088730
    Abstract: There is provided an optical element which is an apodized filter capable of externally controlling an optical characteristic and stable over a long period. An optical element 100 is an optical element including: a transparent electrolyte layer 110; a pair of solid electrochromic layers which sandwiches the transparent electrolyte layer 110; and further a pair of transparent conductive films 140 which sandwiches a pair of the solid electrochromic layer, wherein a pair of the solid electrochromic layers is constituted by a reduction coloring-type solid electrochromic layer 120 and an oxidation coloring-type solid electrochromic layer 130 opposing each other, the optical element including: an apodized characteristic in which transmittance increases gradually from an outer periphery toward a center in a plane orthogonal to a thickness direction of the transparent electrolyte layer 110.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kumai, Shinya Tahara, Teppei Konishi, Koichi Nakagawa, Takuji Oyama, Satoshi Umeda
  • Publication number: 20180234884
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus, a wireless communication system and a wireless communication method which can effectively use surplus radio bands of a first link configured by bundling a plurality of radio links are provided. The wireless communication apparatus (1) includes a flow rate monitoring unit (2) and a detecting unit (4). The flow rate monitoring unit (2) monitors a traffic flow rate of the virtual circuit. The detecting unit (4) compares the monitored traffic flow rate with radio bands of the virtual circuit, and detects a surplus of radio bands of the virtual circuit relative to the traffic flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180233174
    Abstract: A display control apparatus capable of performing time-line display of a moving image including a section recorded at a different recording speed from the real-time recording speed, at time intervals designated by a user. Frames are extracted from a moving image at time intervals set by a user to display the extracted frames in a line. When a moving image includes a first section recorded at a recording frame rate which is the same as a reproduction frame rate, and a second section recorded at a frame rate different from the reproduction frame rate, frames are extracted from the first section at a first frame interval, and from the second section at a second frame interval different from the first frame interval. The frames extracted from the first section and the second section, respectively, are displayed in a line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventor: Koichi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10048726
    Abstract: A display control apparatus that enables a user to see an end portion of a displaying object easily even when an information device is in a rolled shape. An operation unit receives a scrolling operation for scrolling a displaying object displayed on a predetermined display area of a bendable display unit. A control unit controls to scroll the displaying object so that an end of the displaying object in a first direction does not scroll beyond a first position in a second direction opposite to the first direction within the predetermined display area when the display unit is in a first shape, and controls to scroll the displaying object so that the end of the displaying object in the first direction is able to scroll beyond the first position in the second direction when the display unit is in a second shape that bends more than the first shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20180143605
    Abstract: A control logic diagram analysis device that efficiently creates a control logic diagram, and a method thereof. The control logic diagram analysis device includes a control logic diagram analysis rule application unit, a control logic diagram template component generation unit, and a control logic diagram project-specific part extraction unit. The control logic diagram analysis rule application unit sequentially applies a control logic diagram analysis rule to the control logic diagram from a lower layer level. The control logic diagram template component generation unit acquires the control logic diagram analysis rule having an agreement section within the control logic diagram. The control logic diagram project-specific part extraction unit extracts an element in the control logic diagram corresponding to the control logic diagram analysis rule having the agreement section within the control logic diagram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki NAGATA, Koichi NAKAGAWA, Shinichiro TSUDAKA
  • Publication number: 20180095441
    Abstract: A load distribution device includes: a combining unit to create a plurality of combinations for cases where each of a plurality of execution object programs is assigned to any one of a plurality of control devices; an estimating unit to estimate an all programs' completion time, which is a delay time taken from delivery of the plurality of execution object programs until return of execution results of the plurality of execution object programs to a delivery source, for each of the plurality of combinations created; and a selecting unit to select one combination whose all programs' completion time is shorter than a reference time, from the plurality of combinations created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi NAKAGAWA, Hiroshi ASHIYA
  • Patent number: 9889393
    Abstract: A plurality of hollow filter sheets have a suction pipe inserted therethrough to be stacked with a ring-shaped packing clamped therebetween. Therefore, a gap between the hollow filter sheet and the suction pipe is watertightly sealed. In the hollow filter sheet, a hollow portion is provided between two filters, and then a spacer with a surface having pits and projections is provided in the hollow portion. A narrow passage space allowing liquid to pass through is provided between the filter and the spacer by pressing the two filters against surfaces of the spacer with the packings and causing the filters to be deformed into a shape according to the surfaces of the spacer. The narrow passage space is smaller than a drainage space between the filters and the spacer that are not clamped by the packings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: AWA PAPER MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Nakagawa, Kosuke Tsuda
  • Patent number: 9888206
    Abstract: There is provided an image capturing control apparatus. A selection unit selects, as a setting relating to shooting of a moving image, any of a plurality of settings having respectively different ratios of a shooting time to a playback time. A display control unit performs control: such that a predetermined shooting time and a playback time that corresponds to the predetermined shooting time and is different for each setting are displayed for a setting in which a shooting time is shorter than a playback time, out of the plurality of settings; and such that a predetermined playback time and a shooting time that corresponds to the predetermined playback time and is different for each setting are displayed for a setting in which a shooting time is longer than a playback time, out of the plurality of settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20180030568
    Abstract: A hot-pressed member is formed using a tailored blank material obtained by butt joining respective ends of two or more coated steel sheets. The hot-pressed member has two or more sites formed by the respective coated steel sheets and at least one joining portion between the sites. Depending on a type of a coated layer of each of the coated steel sheets, tw/t0 is appropriately controlled where tw is a thickness of a thinnest portion in the joining portion and t0 is a thickness of a thinnest site of the sites. A tensile strength of each of the sites is 1180 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki OKITA, Rinsei IKEDA, Seiji NAKAJIMA, Koichi NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9864499
    Abstract: A user is notified with a tactile sensation in the case where a display position of a boundary preset in a display object passes through a predetermined position as a result of scrolling of the display object according to a command. The user is thereby more easily able to locate a desired item from among items that are scrolled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20170336766
    Abstract: A PLC, which is a control device includes a device memory that stores data acquired by an external sensor, a data extracting unit that periodically extracts data of predetermined types among the data stored in the device memory, a data distributing unit that stores the data extracted by the data extracting unit in an operation buffer corresponding to the data among a plurality of operation buffers provided according to the predetermined types, and a data tabulating unit that performs, when the operation buffer stores data equivalent to a predetermined period, arithmetic processing of the data stored in the operation buffer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi NAKAGAWA, Hiroshi ASHIYA, Hiroyuki MAKITA
  • Publication number: 20170306437
    Abstract: A high-strength hot-pressed part having a specified chemical composition, a microstructure including, in terms of volume fraction, 80% or more of a martensite phase, in a range of 3.0% to 20.0% of a retained austenite phase, a tensile strength TS of 1500 MPa or more, and a uniform elongation uEl of 6.0% or more. A method for manufacturing the high-strength hot-pressed part, the method comprising performing a heating process and a hot press forming process on a raw material steel sheet in order to obtain a hot-pressed part having a specified shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi NAKAGAWA, Takeshi YOKOTA, Kazuhiro SETO
  • Patent number: 9778812
    Abstract: A screen transition diagram creator that creates a screen transition diagram illustrating complicated transition relations in an easy-to-understand manner, including: a screen transition diagram editor providing the screen transition diagram in which transition relations among plural screens are illustrated by plural screen nodes and arrows between the screen nodes; a screen transition pattern applying unit applying a predetermined screen transition pattern to a target screen node group that includes at least part of the screen nodes illustrated in the screen transition diagram to provide a pattern-applied screen node group; and a screen transition structure diagram creator creating a screen transition structure diagram by abridgement processing on the pattern-applied screen node group according to a display layout corresponding to the screen transition pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kunio Matsumoto, Koichi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9740186
    Abstract: A monitoring control system includes a control device that performs a device control process, and a high-order system that monitors the device control process. The control device includes a control CPU that performs the device control process, and an information CPU that is connected to the control CPU via an internal bus. The control CPU includes a device memory that stores therein device data to be used for the device control process, the device data being related to the device. The information CPU includes a built-in database and a data collection unit. The data collection unit performs a data collection process of reading the device data from the device memory via the internal bus, and storing the read device data in the built-in database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Nakagawa, Kunio Matsumoto, Noriyasu Fukatsu, Hiroshi Ashiya
  • Publication number: 20170219901
    Abstract: There is provided an optical element which is an apodized filter capable of externally controlling an optical characteristic and stable over a long period. An optical element 100 is an optical element including: a transparent electrolyte layer 110; a pair of solid electrochromic layers which sandwiches the transparent electrolyte layer 110; and further a pair of transparent conductive films 140 which sandwiches a pair of the solid electrochromic layer, wherein a pair of the solid electrochromic layers is constituted by a reduction coloring-type solid electrochromic layer 120 and an oxidation coloring-type solid electrochromic layer 130 opposing each other, the optical element including: an apodized characteristic in which transmittance increases gradually from an outer periphery toward a center in a plane orthogonal to a thickness direction of the transparent electrolyte layer 110.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi KUMAI, Shinya TAHARA, Teppei KONISHI, Koichi NAKAGAWA, Takuji OYAMA, Satoshi UMEDA
  • Publication number: 20170155826
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch detection unit detecting a touch operation on a touch surface, a selection unit selecting a position on a display unit according to a touch movement, and a control unit performing control so that a specific process based on a selected position is performed, where when, subsequent to a first movement, a touch is released from a predetermined region of the touch surface, the specific process based on a position selected according to the first movement is not performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventor: Koichi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20170149997
    Abstract: One or more image processing apparatuses, one or more control methods therefor, and one or more storage mediums for use with same are provided herein. In at least one embodiment provided herein, an image processing apparatus includes a determining unit configured to selectively determine from a plurality of data formats a data format of still image data generated from un-development moving image data which may have a readjustable focal position, an instructing unit configured to instruct to output the still image data, and a generating unit configured to generate from the un-development moving image data the still image data in the data format determined by the determining unit in a case where the instructing unit instructs to output the still image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventor: Koichi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20170134642
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display a first type of image captured with a first gradation characteristic and a second type of image captured with a second gradation characteristic having a higher gradation quality on a high-luminance side than the first gradation characteristic, and a control unit configured to perform control such that luminance of a display unit is set to second luminance higher than first luminance of a case where the first type of image is displayed, in a case where the second type of image is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Akio Yoshikawa, Satoshi Ishimaru, Koichi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9559751
    Abstract: A communication system includes a radio transmission apparatus that terminates a radio communication line, a radio transmission apparatus that terminates a radio communication line, and a line control apparatus that performs data communication with the radio transmission apparatuses. The radio transmission apparatuses and monitor the line states of the radio communication lines and notify the line control apparatus of the line states. The line control apparatus controls data to be output to the radio transmission apparatuses and according to the line states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koichi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9550674
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce costs while maintaining safety in exhausting hydrogen sulfide gas. In exhaust facilities of a plant for manufacturing hydrogen sulfide gas, the concentrations of hydrogen sulfide gas leaking from a reaction facility, a cooling facility, and a sulfur removal facility, respectively, are measured by a measuring apparatus, and when a detected concentration is less than a predetermined concentration, a valve is controlled to exhaust hydrogen sulfide gas from a first exhaust pipe into the air, on the contrary, when a detected concentration is not less than a predetermined concentration, the valve is controlled to exhaust hydrogen sulfide gas from a second exhaust pipe to a gas treatment facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Nakai, Satoshi Matsubara, Tomoyuki Hirose, Koichi Nakagawa