Patents by Inventor Koichi Nishimura
Koichi Nishimura 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: 20240152077Abstract: An intermediate transfer belt has metal oxide particles as a solid lubricant on a surface of the intermediate transfer belt, in which an average spacing between the metal oxide particles on the surface is 1,000 nm or less, and an average height of the metal oxide particles from the surface is 15 nm or more and 320 nm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.Inventors: Daisuke TANEMURA, Masato ONO, Shigeru FUKUDA, Masato FURUKAWA, Hiroaki TANAKA, Yosuke KUBO, Iori NISHIMURA, Masayuki SEKO, Koichi MATSUMOTO, Satoya SUGIURA
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Publication number: 20240133393Abstract: A turbo-type fluid machine includes a shaft configured to be rotationally driven, a compression mechanism having an impeller, and a coupling portion coupling an end portion of the shaft and the impeller with each other. The coupling portion is provided with a balance adjustment mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Arihiro IWATA, Kosuke NISHIMURA, Koichi TANAKA, Daigo FUKUDA, Yuki KAWACHIYA
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Patent number: 11964665Abstract: A vehicle speed calculating device includes a vehicle speed calculating unit configured to calculate a control vehicle speed that is acquired by estimating a vehicle body speed that is a speed at which a vehicle is actually traveling, as a state variable used to control an onboard device configured to operate to realize various functions provided in the vehicle. The vehicle speed calculating unit is configured to include an extraction function of extracting at least one wheel speed acquired from at least one wheel that is assumed to be rotating in a state in which an influence causing a difference from the vehicle body speed is likely to be small, out of wheel speeds of a plurality of wheels, and a calculation function of calculating the control vehicle speed based on the at least one wheel speed extracted by the extraction function.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Kodera, Toru Takashima, Koichi Nishimura, Takahito Ishino
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Publication number: 20240118647Abstract: An endless belt includes a resin and conductive particles, in which a content of the conductive particles with respect to the endless belt is 5% by volume or more and 20% by volume or less in terms of a volume ratio, a Young's modulus of the endless belt is 3,000 MPa or more, and the number of times of bending endurance of the endless belt measured by an MIT test specified in JIS P8115:2001 is 10,000 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yosuke KUBO, Hiroaki TANAKA, Shigeru FUKUDA, Daisuke TANEMURA, Masato ONO, Masato FURUKAWA, Masayuki SEKO, Koichi MATSUMOTO, Iori NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 11935697Abstract: A capacitor includes: a capacitor element; a pair of external electrodes provided at opposite ends of the capacitor element; and a pair of metal caps and or a metal foil, the pair of metal caps each covering a corresponding one of the pair of external electrodes, the metal foil covering at least part of the capacitor element.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichi Nishimura, Yukihiro Shimasaki, Hiroki Takeoka, Takafumi Okudo, Ritsuo Masaoka, Hiromasa Ozaki
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Publication number: 20230339537Abstract: A steering control device is configured to control a steering device that changes a transmission ratio between an operation angle of an operation member and a steering angle of a steerable wheel. The steering control device includes: communication lines for transmitting vehicle speed information; and calculators communicably connected to each other and individually connected to the communication lines. Each calculator calculates the transmission ratio based on the vehicle speed information received via a corresponding one of the communication lines and determines whether the received vehicle speed information is valid.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke YAMASHITA, Masaharu YAMASHITA, Kenji SHIBATA, Koichi NISHIMURA, Takahito ISHINO, Toru TAKASHIMA, Shintaro TAKAYAMA, Yuji FUJITA, Koji ANRAKU, Kenichi ABE
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Publication number: 20230319992Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a wiring layer that includes a first pad on which a first recess portion is formed and a second pad on which a second recess portion is formed; an insulating layer that includes a first opening portion penetrating to the first recess portion and a second opening portion penetrating to the second recess portion; a first metal layer filling each of the first opening portion and the second opening portion, extending on an upper surface of the insulating layer, and including a third recess portion and a fourth recess portion; and a second metal layer a part of which is stored in the third recess portion and the fourth recess portion, wherein the first metal layer has a uniform thickness at a portion extending on the upper surface, and the fourth recess portion is deeper than the third recess portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Koichi Nishimura, Kazuhiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11763811Abstract: Typical graphical user interfaces and predefined data fields limit the interaction between a person and a computing system. An oral communication device and a data enablement platform are provided for ingesting oral conversational data from people, and using machine learning to provide intelligence. At the front end, an oral conversational bot, or chatbot, interacts with a user. On the backend, the data enablement platform has a computing architecture that ingests data from various external data sources as well as data from internal applications and databases. These data and algorithms are applied to surface new data, identify trends, provide recommendations, infer new understanding, predict actions and events, and automatically act on this computed information. The chatbot then provides audio data that reflects the information computed by the data enablement platform. The system and the devices, for example, are adaptable to various industries.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: FACET LABS, LLCInventors: Stuart Ogawa, Lindsay Alexander Sparks, Koichi Nishimura, Wilfred P. So
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Patent number: 11465677Abstract: A control device for a steer-by-wire type vehicle calculates a target turn angle being represented as a function of a steering angle of a steering wheel, and controls a turning device such that a turn angle of a wheel becomes the target turn angle. A variation range of the steering angle includes: an effective steering range in which the steering angle is an effective maximum steering angle or smaller; and an adjustment steering range in which the steering angle is between the effective maximum steering angle and a predetermined maximum steering angle. The target turn angle calculated according to the effective maximum steering angle is an effective maximum turn angle. The control device variably sets the function according to a road surface condition such that the effective maximum turn angle in a case of a low-? condition is smaller than that in a case of a high-? condition.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Junro Yamamoto, Yoshikazu Kameda, Koichi Nishimura
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Publication number: 20220289205Abstract: A vehicle speed calculating device includes a vehicle speed calculating unit configured to calculate a control vehicle speed that is acquired by estimating a vehicle body speed that is a speed at which a vehicle is actually traveling, as a state variable used to control an onboard device configured to operate to realize various functions provided in the vehicle. The vehicle speed calculating unit is configured to include an extraction function of extracting at least one wheel speed acquired from at least one wheel that is assumed to be rotating in a state in which an influence causing a difference from the vehicle body speed is likely to be small, out of wheel speeds of a plurality of wheels, and a calculation function of calculating the control vehicle speed based on the at least one wheel speed extracted by the extraction function.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi KODERA, Toru TAKASHIMA, Koichi NISHIMURA, Takahito ISHINO
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Publication number: 20220270162Abstract: Composing messages and receiving messages using text is time consuming and can lose meaning for recipients. Systems and methods are provided to generate a digital gift. A digital gift wrapper is used to precede the digital gift. A gift recipient interacts with the digital gift wrapper and the digital gift using a voice interface. The digital gift includes, for example, both audio and visual data. A physical gift is also generated and sent in a coordinated manner with the digital gift.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Lindsay SPARKS, Wilfred P. SO, Koichi NISHIMURA, Stuart OGAWA
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Patent number: 11386920Abstract: Assistive technologies are herein provided to assist leaders in engaging one or more group participants using a combination of private data specific to a participant and public data specific to a participant. The system includes: a group bot that has public group data and private group data, a first bot for a first participant that has private data and public data associated with the first participant, and a leader bot for a leader. The leader bot is data interactive with the group bot and the first bot, and can cause the first bot to appropriately serve private data on a permissioned private device of the first participant and to serve public data on a permissioned group output device.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: FACET LABS, LLCInventors: Stuart Ogawa, Lindsay Sparks, Koichi Nishimura, Wilfred P. So, Jane W. Chen
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Patent number: 11364206Abstract: The present invention addresses a problem of providing a high quality seamless capsule, with excellent uniformity of shell thickness and virtually no eyes in the shell. The problem can be solved by manufacturing a seamless capsule using a shell composition comprising at least one polysaccharide selected from the group consisting of agar, carrageenan and gellan gum, and a PVA copolymer comprising the following structural units: (i) polyvinyl alcohol, (ii) at least one unsaturated carboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, fumaric acid and maleic acid, and (iii) at least one unsaturated carboxylic acid ester selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formula [I]: H2C?C(R1)—COOR2??[I] (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms).Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignees: FUJI CAPSULE CO., LTD., NISSHIN KASEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichi Nishimura, Sergio Ishiba, Hitoshi Uruga, Hisayoshi Aoki, Yosuke Kondo, Yoshiyuki Shimokawa
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Publication number: 20220020390Abstract: Assistive technologies are herein provided to assist leaders in engaging one or more group participants using a combination of private data specific to a participant and public data specific to a participant. The system includes: a group bot that has public group data and private group data, a first bot for a first participant that has private data and public data associated with the first participant, and a leader bot for a leader. The leader bot is data interactive with the group bot and the first bot, and can cause the first bot to appropriately serve private data on a permissioned private device of the first participant and to serve public data on a permissioned group output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2019Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: STUART OGAWA, LINDSAY SPARKS, KOICHI NISHIMURA, WILFRED P. SO, JANE W. CHEN
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Publication number: 20210313112Abstract: A capacitor includes: a capacitor element; a pair of external electrodes provided at opposite ends of the capacitor element; and a pair of metal caps and or a metal foil, the pair of metal caps each covering a corresponding one of the pair of external electrodes, the metal foil covering at least part of the capacitor element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Koichi NISHIMURA, Yukihiro SHIMASAKI, Hiroki TAKEOKA, Takafumi OKUDO, Ritsuo MASAOKA, Hiromasa OZAKI
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Publication number: 20210232577Abstract: Devices, systems and computing processes are provided that can ingest human creativity using human inputs (e.g. oral data, text, pictures, musical riffs, white board drawings, gestures, dances, haptic inputs, brain waves, biological inputs, etc.), process and organize these creative inputs using data science, perform real time, autonomous searching, apply data science to search results for supporting and contrasting results related to each topic, subtopic, etc., and provide results and recommendations to the human in real time. As a result, the human is not encumbered with the labor and time intensive research that might already be answered, solved, experimented, written, painted, etc. These efficient tools eliminate research time so that the person focuses on unique theories, thought works, and new artistic works (e.g. what humans do very well). Furthermore, contextually relevant “shadow results” are presented or outputted to the user, which spurs more creative ideas and thoughts.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2019Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Stuart OGAWA, Lindsay SPARKS, Koichi NISHIMURA, Wilfred P. SO
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Patent number: 11061972Abstract: The amount and variety of data being generated is becoming too extreme for many computing systems to process, and is even more difficult for information systems to provide relevant data to users. A distributed computing system is provided that includes server machines that form a data enablement platform. The platform includes: a plurality of data collectors that stream data over a message bus to a streaming analytics and machine learning engine; a data lake and a massive indexing repository for respectively storing and indexing data; a behavioral analytics and machine learning module; and multiple application programming interfaces (APIs) to interact with the data lake and the massive indexing repository, and to interact with multiple applications. The multiple applications are command cards, and each command card includes a directive module, a memory module, search bots, and behavior bots that operate at least within the data enablement platform.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: FACET LABS, LLCInventors: Stuart Ogawa, Lindsay Alexander Sparks, Koichi Nishimura, Wilfred P. So
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Patent number: 11063838Abstract: A system and related methods for making distributed, autonomous decisions on the management of network traffic and data are provided. The disclosed system and methods increasingly become smarter and faster over time based on the accumulated data across the network, and any data science or decision science associated with the system can be updated or modified via remote, autonomous updates. The system can comprise computing devices and systems across multiple layers of the network, wherein each layer of the network can comprise a plurality of nodes. Each node of the network can be enhanced or embedded with the Smart Distributed system, and the Smart Distributed system can provide each node of the network the ability to apply data or decision science to any data in real or near real-time.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: FACET LABS, LLCInventors: Stuart Ogawa, Lindsay Sparks, Koichi Nishimura, Wilfred P. So
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Interactive personal assistive devices and systems with artificial intelligence, and related methods
Patent number: 11037545Abstract: A smart and scalable dementia assistant device is provided that converses with a patient in voices familiar with the patient. It utilizes content learned from the patient and content provided by family, friends, caregivers, and doctors, and autonomously adjusts conversations based on the changing state of the patient's dementia state. The device autonomously controls IoT devices (e.g. doors, elevators, tvs, medical dispensers) to help and assist the dementia patient using oral and IoT sensors.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: FACET LABS, LLCInventors: Stuart Ogawa, Lindsay Sparks, Koichi Nishimura, Wilfred P. So, Jane Chen -
Publication number: 20210168044Abstract: A system and related methods for making distributed, autonomous decisions on the management of network traffic and data are provided. The disclosed system and methods increasingly become smarter and faster over time based on the accumulated data across the network, and any data science or decision science associated with the system can be updated or modified via remote, autonomous updates. The system can comprise computing devices and systems across multiple layers of the network, wherein each layer of the network can comprise a plurality of nodes. Each node of the network can be enhanced or embedded with the Smart Distributed system, and the Smart Distributed system can provide each node of the network the ability to apply data or decision science to any data in real or near real-time.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: STUART OGAWA, LINDSAY SPARKS, KOICHI NISHIMURA, WILFRED P. SO