Patents by Inventor Koji Nagaoka
Koji Nagaoka 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: 20190129126Abstract: An interchangeable lens is removably attached to a camera body including a body-side mount, an image sensor, body-side terminals and a first to fourth body-side claws. The interchangeable lens includes the lens-side mount, lens-side terminals which are in contact with body-side terminals, a first to fourth lens-side claws engaged with the first to fourth body-side claws once the interchangeable lens is attached to the camera body. The first and third lens-side claws are disposed on a third lens-side line intersecting with the first lens-side line at an optical axis with approximately 45 degrees. The first lens-side line passes through a center between opposite ends of the first lens-side claw to the optical axis. The second and fourth lens-side claws are disposed on a fourth lens-side line orthogonal to the third lens-side line at the optical axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Koji NAGAOKA, Noriyasu KOTANI
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Publication number: 20190129117Abstract: An interchangeable lens is removably attached to a camera body including a body-side mount, an image sensor, a plurality of body-side claws disposed outside of the image sensor and a plurality of elastic members respectively disposed on image sides of the body-side claws. The interchangeable lens includes the lens-side mount, first and third lens-side claws engaged with the plurality of body-side claws upon attachment to the camera body. The first and third lens-side claws project from the cylindrical portion in the outer periphery direction of the lens-side mount and extend in the circumferential direction around the optical axis. The first and third lens-side claws are in contact with the two elastic members opposite to each other across an optical axis in once upon attachment to the camera body.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Koji NAGAOKA, Noriyasu KOTANI
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Publication number: 20190129127Abstract: An accessory for a camera body including a plurality of camera-side terminals, a camera-side protruding portion, and an elastic member, the accessory includes: a first terminal that changes a voltage at the first camera-side terminal by contacting with a first camera-side terminal; an eighth terminal to which a first clock signal is input by contacting with a first camera-side clock terminal; a tenth terminal that outputs a second clock signal by contacting with a second camera-side clock terminal; and an accessory-side protruding portion that is to be pressed toward the camera body side by the elastic member, wherein a distance between the eighth terminal and the accessory-side protruding portion and a distance between the tenth terminal and the accessory-side protruding portion are shorter than a distance between the first terminal and the accessory-side protruding portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takao GOTO, Osamu KATSUDA, Koji NAGAOKA, Takayuki FUNAOKA
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Publication number: 20190129125Abstract: An interchangeable lens is removably attached to a camera body including a body-side mount, body-side terminal group above an upper side of an image sensor and a first to fourth body-side claws. The second body-side claw extends in circumferential direction with a center angle and is located outside the body-side terminal group. The interchangeable lens includes the lens-side mount, lens-side terminal group, a first to fourth lens-side claws engaged with the first to fourth body-side claws in proper attachment of the interchangeable lens. The four body-side claws are disposed in four regions divided by first and second body-side lines in relation to the arc-shaped body-side terminal group. The interchangeable lens is inserted to the camera body and rotated by a first angle for attaching and the terminals of the camera body and the interchangeable lens are connected. The center angle of the second body-side claw is smaller than the first.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Koji NAGAOKA, Noriyasu KOTANI
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Publication number: 20190099987Abstract: Provided is a strand board with improved strength and water resistance. Reduction in productivity is prevented and characteristics of the strand board can be varied as desired while achieving certain strength and water resistance of the strand board. A strand board B is formed by stacking and laminating five strand layers 1 each formed by a large number of strands 5. The strand board B has substantially constant density distribution in the lamination direction of the strand layers 1. Three of the five strand layers 1 of the strand board B are high-density strand layers 1a having a higher density than the other strand layers 1, and the other strand layers 1 are low-density strand layers 1b.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2017Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Katsuhito OSHIMA, Kazuki SAKAMOTO, Kazuhiro HIRATA, Koji NAGAOKA, Yasushi SUGIO
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Publication number: 20180307004Abstract: A lens barrel is removeably attachable to an image pickup unit, wherein a large amount of shake can be corrected. This lens barrel includes a mounting part that is removeably attachable to an image pickup unit, including: an image forming optical system that forms a subject image for the image pickup unit; a support unit that supports at least a portion of the image forming optical system; and a fixed unit that is disposed outside of the support unit and that is fixed to the mounting unit. The support part is relatively rotatable and moveable with respect to the fixed unit, about at least two axes which are substantially orthogonal to the light axis of the image forming optical system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2016Publication date: October 25, 2018Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Koji NAGAOKA, Kunihiko SHIMIZU, Teppei OKUYAMA, Noriyasu KOTANI, Hisanori TOGAWA
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Publication number: 20180243551Abstract: An electrical stimulation lead includes a body having distal and proximal end portions, a longitudinal length, at least one anchoring lumen, and at least one open slot spaced apart from each end of the lead body. Each anchoring lumen is open at a slot and extends both distally and proximally from the slot. The lead also includes electrodes; terminals; conductors electrically coupling the terminals to the electrodes; and at least one anchoring element at least partially disposed in an anchoring lumen. Each anchoring element includes at least one bent portion biased to extend an extension portion of the anchoring element out of a slot when the anchoring element is in a deployed position and can retract the extension portion into an anchoring lumen when the anchoring element is in a constrained position. The lead further includes an attachment member attached to each anchoring element and disposed proximal to each slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Eric Koji Nagaoka, Jacob B. Leven, Abraham Molina Ortega
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Publication number: 20170267178Abstract: An image capture device is mounted in a vehicle. The image capture device includes: an image capture unit; and a setting unit that sets an image capture condition for each region of the image capture unit each having a plurality of pixels, or for each pixel, based upon at least one of a state exterior to the vehicle and a state of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2015Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Akiko SHIGA, Toru MIYAKOSHI, Satoshi YAMAGUCHI, Akira KINOSHITA, Kaoru YOSHINO, Hitomi NAGANUMA, Takashi KURIYAMA, Kouichi FUKUDA, Yuki KITA, Koji NAGAOKA, Tomoya NAKAGAWA, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI, Takashi SHIONOYA
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Patent number: 8308378Abstract: A barrier apparatus of the present invention includes: a support section having an opening portion; a pair of support shaft sections provided around the opening portion; a pair of shielding members having a proximal end portion supported rotatably by the support shaft section, and a distal end movable into and out of the opening portion by the rotation; a pair of engaging sections provided on the pair of shielding members, respectively, each extending from the proximal end portion of the shielding member to a side closer to the center of the opening portion than the support shaft section, and spaced a predetermined distance apart from the distal end of the other shielding member in an optical axis direction of the optical path; and a driving section that engages the pair of engaging sections, and rotates the pair of shielding members by the rotation.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventors: Koji Nagaoka, Takeshi Hiroshima
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Patent number: 8116619Abstract: An image pickup apparatus of the present invention includes: a fixed frame; a zoom lens holding frame; a focus lens holding frame; a focus driving unit and a zoom driving unit; an image pickup device; a base plate that is coupled to the fixed frame and displaceably supports the image pickup device; an X driving unit that drives the image pickup device in an X direction; and a Y driving unit that drives the image pickup device in a Y direction, wherein the focus driving unit is placed in an upper left portion of the fixed frame, the zoom driving unit is placed in a right side portion, and further the Y driving unit is placed in an upper right corner of the base plate and the X driving unit is placed in a lower right corner.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2010Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventors: Kazunori Ishizuka, Koji Nagaoka, Shohei Uehara, Shohei Aoki
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Publication number: 20100296803Abstract: A barrier apparatus of the present invention includes: a support section having an opening portion; a pair of support shaft sections provided around the opening portion; a pair of shielding members having a proximal end portion supported rotatably by the support shaft section, and a distal end movable into and out of the opening portion by the rotation; a pair of engaging sections provided on the pair of shielding members, respectively, each extending from the proximal end portion of the shielding member to a side closer to the center of the opening portion than the support shaft section, and spaced a predetermined distance apart from the distal end of the other shielding member in an optical axis direction of the optical path; and a driving section that engages the pair of engaging sections, and rotates the pair of shielding members by the rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventors: Koji Nagaoka, Takeshi Hiroshima
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Publication number: 20100290770Abstract: An image pickup apparatus of the present invention includes: a fixed frame; a zoom lens holding frame; a focus lens holding frame; a focus driving unit and a zoom driving unit; an image pickup device; a base plate that is coupled to the fixed frame and displaceably supports the image pickup device; an X driving unit that drives the image pickup device in an X direction; and a Y driving unit that drives the image pickup device in a Y direction, wherein the focus driving unit is placed in an upper left portion of the fixed frame, the zoom driving unit is placed in a right side portion, and further the Y driving unit is placed in an upper right corner of the base plate and the X driving unit is placed in a lower right corner.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2010Publication date: November 18, 2010Inventors: Kazunori Ishizuka, Koji Nagaoka, Shohei Uehara, Shohei Aoki
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Patent number: 6745960Abstract: A centrifugal tumbling granulating apparatus 1 comprises a fixed wall 7 having a grain contact portion 7a which is in contact with powder grains 2 and of which a horizontal section is formed in a circular shape, and a rotating disk 5 provided a clearance 12 away from an inner side of the fixed wall 7 and rotating in a horizontal direction by a motor 13, wherein an air supply device 21 for supplying drying air 22 to an upper surface side of the rotating disk 5 is provided above the rotating disk 5. The air supply device 21 has a cylindrical straight tube portion 25, and an air supply port 23 formed in a cone shape, and is disposed in a centrifugal tumbling chamber 6 to be movable in an up-and-down direction. During a granulating step, the air supply device 21 stops to supply the dry air 22 and waits at an upper position H. After the granulation processing, the air supply device is lowered at a lower position L and supplies the dry air 22 onto the rotating disk 5 to dry granulated substances.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2001Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Freund Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nagayoshi Myo, Akira Iwasaki, Hiroshi Okada, Kuniaki Yamanaka, Koji Nagaoka, Mamoru Shiratori
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Patent number: 5391633Abstract: This invention relates to a curable resin composition comprising (a) grafted primary amino group-containing polymer and (b) a dialkyl oxalate which excels in workability and reactivity and features prominence in resistance to chemicals, weatherability, veratility, etc.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1993Date of Patent: February 21, 1995Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichiro Saeki, Koji Nagaoka, Ichimoto Akasaki
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Patent number: 5140057Abstract: The invention relates to a curable resin composition comprising (a) grafted primary amino group-containing polymer and (b) a dialkyl oxalate which excels in workability and reactivity and features prominence in resistance to chemicals, weatherability, versatility, etc.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1990Date of Patent: August 18, 1992Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichiro Saeki, Koji Nagaoka, Ichimoto Akasaki
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Patent number: 5082881Abstract: A two-component type adhesive agent, comprising a polyvalentepoxy compound and an aqueous liquid of an amino group-containing polymer obtained by modifying a carboxyl group-containing polymer with an alkylene imine and possessed of an activated hydrogen atom.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1990Date of Patent: January 21, 1992Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Kagaku Kogyo Co., LtdInventors: Koichiro Saeki, Koji Nagaoka, Ichimoto Akasaki
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Patent number: 4119761Abstract: A heat radiation element has a substrate and a heat radiation layer formed on the substrate by oxides of a chromium-containing alloy. The oxides contain at least 35% by weight of chromium based on the total weight of the metals constituting the oxides.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1976Date of Patent: October 10, 1978Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Kuze, Toshiharu Matsuki, Koji Nagaoka, Naoji Iwai