Patents by Inventor Masashi Nakamura

Masashi 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).

  • Patent number: 11496029
    Abstract: A laminated core manufacturing method according to the present invention is a manufacturing method for a laminated core including: a laminated body that is configured by laminating core strips that are made of a magnetic material, the laminated body including: a core back portion; and a tooth portion; and electrically insulating members that are disposed on two side portions of the tooth portion, wherein the laminated core manufacturing method includes a bonding step in which the insulating members are pressed onto each of the side surfaces of the tooth portion of the laminated body so as to integrate the laminated body and also so as to fix the insulating members to the laminated body, by means of at least one of an adhesive and a pressure-sensitive adhesive that is disposed between each of the side surfaces of the tooth portion and the insulating members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Akihito Mori, Naohiko Ayukawa, Kenichi Hirooka, Masashi Nakamura, Kohei Egashira, Shinichiro Yoshida, Daisuke Shijo
  • Patent number: 11485092
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with: an insulation holder formed of a thermoplastic resin material and having a first opening; a wire connection ring formed of a thermoplastic resin material and having a second opening; and a joining component inserted astride in the first opening and the second opening, the joining component being formed of a metal material having a higher melting point than those of the thermoplastic resin materials, the joining component having a higher stiffness than those of the insulation holder and the wire connection ring, wherein a welded part is formed by welding in at least a part of an area where each of the insulation holder and the wire connection ring has contact with the joining component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Kuwahara, Ryuichi Kitora, Akihiro Yamamura, Shogo Okamoto, Masashi Nakamura, Shinichiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11420482
    Abstract: A tire has at least two annular grooves which are formed at the buttress, which extend in a tire circumferential direction, which are ring-like in shape, and which also extend so as to be directed toward an interior in the tire width direction. The at least two annular grooves include a first annular groove which is nearest to the contact patch, and a second annular groove which is farther away from the contact patch than the first annular groove. The bottoms of the first annular groove and the second annular groove are formed so as to appear arcuate in shape as viewed in a tire meridional section. The radius of curvature of the bottom of the first annular groove is greater than radius of curvature of the bottom of the second annular groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11423749
    Abstract: A surveillance camera is equipped with a capturing unit to capture a subject; an illumination unit that applies illumination light to the subject; a main body that is approximately formed in a cuboid that is long in a top-bottom direction and has an internal housing space that is partitioned by a partition plate into a lower space that houses the capturing unit and an upper space that houses the illumination unit; a visor that projects from a front surface of the main body so as to be inclined forward and covers a light-receiving space formed in front of the capturing unit; and a water repelling portion that is formed in step form in a tip portion of the visor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akito Omata, Hirokazu Tasaka, Yusuke Mamiya, Masashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20220196345
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a first row of flat tubes, a second row of flat tubes, a first header causing first ends of the flat tubes in the first row in a first direction to communicate with each other, a second header causing first ends of the flat tubes in the second row in the first direction to communicate with each other, and a third header that causes the second ends to communicate with each other and connects the first and second rows to cause refrigerant to flow between the first header and the second header. The flat tubes are arranged outside a space between the segments of the third header. A stress-absorbing part is provided in at least a bending target portion of one of the first header and the second header subjected to larger stress from the bending than the other one of the first header and the second header.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Masashi NAKAMURA, Masaki OKADA, Ryohei KAWABATA
  • Patent number: 11368040
    Abstract: A power supply system includes a high voltage battery, a first DCDC converter connected to the high voltage battery, a low voltage lead battery configured to be charged from the high voltage battery via the first DCDC converter, a low voltage lithium battery connected to a low voltage power supply circuit, the low voltage lead battery, and a load, a second DCDC converter connected to the low voltage power supply circuit and disposed between the low voltage lead battery and the low voltage lithium battery, a bypass circuit connected to the low voltage power supply circuit to bypass the second DCDC converter, and a control device configured to watch the low voltage lithium battery and control on/off of a switch unit provided in the bypass circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Nakamura, Kazuki Kato, Akiyoshi Kanazawa, Satoshi Enomoto
  • Patent number: 11319426
    Abstract: Provided is a novel magnesium carbonate. The magnesium carbonate has a zeta potential of 5 mV or more and a BET specific surface area of 25 m2/g or more. Such a magnesium carbonate can be used as a resin additive, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: KONOSHIMA CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11298419
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel antigens of an allergy to a quail egg, methods and kits for diagnosing an allergy to a quail egg, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such an antigen, and quail eggs or processed products of quail egg which are devoid of such an antigen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HOYU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kayoko Matsunaga, Akiko Yagami, Yasuto Kondo, Kazuhiro Hara, Masashi Nakamura, Yuji Aoki
  • Patent number: 11285890
    Abstract: A wire harness routing structure for a panel, includes: a panel member that includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a wire harness that is routed to the panel member. The first surface has a harness accommodating groove that accommodates a harness main body of the wire harness, the harness accommodating groove being recessed toward the second surface. A resin cured portion that holds the harness main body is formed in the harness accommodating groove. The resin cured portion is formed by a resin with which a predetermined range of the harness accommodating groove is filled and which is cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Enomoto, Masashi Nakamura, Shinichi Tadokoro, Tomokazu Kato
  • Patent number: 11258928
    Abstract: A wearable camera includes a capturing portion configured to capture a subject around a user, a control portion configured to control capturing processing of the capturing portion and charging processing of a battery, an upper housing that is mountable to the user and accommodates the capturing portion and the control portion, and a lower housing that accommodates the battery for supplying power to the upper housing, is detachably attached to the upper housing, and has a contact terminal which is exposed to an outside and is used for charging the battery, wherein the lower housing is configured to be connected to a charging stand via the contact terminal such that the battery is charged in a state where the lower housing is attached to the upper housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic I-PRO Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Hamada, Shinichi Murata, Yu Jojima, Noboru Takada, Masashi Nakamura, Koji Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11218079
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes a transformer, a plurality of converter cells, and a control circuit that controls semiconductor switching elements in each of the converter cells to be turned on and off. The transformer includes: a primary winding group being connected in multiple phases to an AC power supply including multiple phases; and a plurality of secondary winding groups. Each secondary winding group includes, in each of the multiple phases, secondary windings each formed of a single-phase open winding. Each converter cell converts a single-phase AC voltage between AC nodes connected to the respective secondary windings into a DC voltage by control of the semiconductor switching elements to be turned on and off, and outputs the converted DC voltage between a pair of DC nodes. The DC nodes of the plurality of converter cells are connected in series between a first DC terminal and a second DC terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoji Tsuruta, Hiromitsu Suzuki, Toshiaki Oka, Ritaka Nakamura, Masashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210408849
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine stator core according to the present invention includes: a laminated core in which a plurality of teeth are arranged circumferentially so as to each protrude radially inward from an inner circumferential surface of an annular back yoke; and a plurality of rib members that each have a bolt passage portion, that are joined to an outer circumferential surface of the laminated core such that a bolt insertion direction of the bolt passage portion is oriented in an axial direction, and that are disposed so as to be spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Egashira, Tatsuro Hino, Atsuki Hashiguchi, Masashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11177713
    Abstract: Provided is an excellent insulating rotating electric machine having a small axial size and a small number of components. In the rotating electric machine according to the present invention, radially outer-side terminals and radially inner-side terminals extend from slots while a circumferential bending direction is alternately changed for each group of n radially outer-side terminals or n radially inner-side terminals after the extension thereof from the slots. A first angle formed between at least one of an oblique-side portion of each of the n radially inner-side terminals, which are continuous in the circumferential direction of the stator core and are bent in the same circumferential bending direction, and an oblique-side portion of each of the n radially outer-side terminals, which are continuous in the circumferential direction and are bent the same circumferential bending direction, and an end surface of a stator core monotonously decreases in the circumferential bending direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Egashira, Masashi Nakamura, Tatsuro Hino
  • Publication number: 20210344241
    Abstract: The rotating electric machine includes: a rotor; and a stator, wherein the rotor includes: a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole group including a plurality of magnet insertion holes; and a permanent magnet group including a plurality of permanent magnets inserted in the plurality of magnet insertion holes of the magnet insertion hole group, respectively, wherein the plurality of magnet insertion holes are arranged side by side in a shape convex toward a center of the rotor from a radially-outer side surface of the rotor core, wherein the permanent magnet group forms one magnetic pole, wherein, in a part of the rotor core between the radially-outer side surface and the magnet insertion hole group, a magnetic slit is formed to extend in a shape convex toward the center of the rotor from the radially-outer side surface, and wherein the magnet insertion hole group includes three magnet insertion holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi MITSUDA, Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Masaya INOUE, Masashi NAKAMURA, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA
  • Patent number: 11164685
    Abstract: A wire harness includes: a harness main body. The harness main body includes a plurality of electric wires and a binding portion. The biding portion is configured to bind the plurality of electric wires. The binding portion is formed by a cured photocurable resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Enomoto, Masashi Nakamura, Shinichi Tadokoro, Tomokazu Kato
  • Publication number: 20210333541
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a projection apparatus that can improve brightness of a projected image while satisfying a safety standard for laser products. A saturation emphasis processing unit determines, in accordance with saturation of an image, a first emphasis coefficient that emphasizes luminance of the image, and converts a luminance signal of the image on the basis of the determined first emphasis coefficient. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a laser beam scanning type projection apparatus or the like that performs scanning with a laser beam as a light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventor: Masashi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210322543
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel antigen for an egg allergy, a method for diagnosing an egg allergy and a kit for diagnosing an egg allergy, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the antigen, an egg, a processed product of an egg, or a bird which lays or has hatched from the egg in which the antigen is eliminated or reduced, a method for producing a processed product of an egg in which the antigen is eliminated or reduced, and a tester for determining the presence or absence of an egg antigen in an object of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Kayoko Matsunaga, Akiko Yagami, Masashi Nakamura, Yuji Aoki, Erika Kondo
  • Patent number: 11153542
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a video projection control apparatus, a video projection control method, a program, and a video projection apparatus that enable a more effective countermeasure against a speckle noise. A calculating part calculates projection signal data to project video using a laser beam as a light source, from video signal data, a correcting part applies, to the projection signal data, a correction process of shifting a wavelength of the laser beam for, for example, each frame of the video for projection, and a converting part converts the projection signal data into a driving current supplied to the laser light source. In addition, the laser light source has a property that the wavelength shifts in accordance with an emission intensity employed when the laser light is emitted. The present technique is applicable to, for example, a video projection apparatus that uses a laser beam as its light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yukinojo Kitakami, Masashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210296975
    Abstract: A laminated core manufacturing method according to the present invention is a manufacturing method for a laminated core including: a laminated body that is configured by laminating core strips that are made of a magnetic material, the laminated body including: a core back portion; and a tooth portion; and electrically insulating members that are disposed on two side portions of the tooth portion, wherein the laminated core manufacturing method includes a bonding step in which the insulating members are pressed onto each of the side surfaces of the tooth portion of the laminated body so as to integrate the laminated body and also so as to fix the insulating members to the laminated body, by means of at least one of an adhesive and a pressure-sensitive adhesive that is disposed between each of the side surfaces of the tooth portion and the insulating members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Akihito Mori, Naohiko Ayukawa, Kenichi Hirooka, Masashi Nakamura, Kohei Egashira, Shinichiro Yoshida, Daisuke Shijo
  • Patent number: D947146
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takehito Katori, Masashi Nakamura, Yusuke Mamiya, Takahiro Fukamizu