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).
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Publication number: 20210009050Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Satoshi Enomoto, Masashi Nakamura, Shinichi Tadokoro, Tomokazu Kato
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Publication number: 20200412918Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Junichi HAMADA, Shinichi MURATA, Yu JOJIMA, Noboru TAKADA, Masashi NAKAMURA, Koji TANIGUCHI
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Patent number: 10840562Abstract: An energy storage system includes an energy storage device; a current cutoff unit configured to cut off current of the energy storage device; a communication connector to be connected with an external communication connector; a detection terminal provided to the communication connector; and a control unit configured to control the current cutoff unit based on a connection state of the detection terminal of the communication connector when the communication connector is connected with the external communication connector. In a method of monitoring an energy storage device mounted on a vehicle, when a communication connector including a detecting terminal is connected with an external communication connector of the vehicle, current between the energy storage device and the vehicle is cut off based on a connection state of the detection terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventors: Takeyuki Shiraishi, Masashi Nakamura
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Patent number: 10833477Abstract: In a drive unit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, in each of a plurality of current pulses, a rising crest value is the largest, and after the rising, the crest value is damped. Further, a rising crest value of a pulse of an n+1-th wave is smaller than a rising crest value of a pulse of an n-th wave. Furthermore, rising crest values of the current pulses of a second wave and waves after the second wave are determined by a mathematical function expressed as an electric potential change caused by ON-OFF of an RC time constant circuit that is single-end grounded. Moreover, in the mathematical function, a time constant at an OFF time is larger than a time constant at an ON time.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Osamu Maeda, Masashi Nakamura, Satoru Fushimi, Yuji Furushima
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Publication number: 20200343598Abstract: A management device 50 for power storage elements is provided with a cause analysis unit 51 that, when the voltages of power storage elements B1-B4 are reduced to a prescribed level or physical quantities correlated with the voltages are reduced to prescribed values after the supply of power to the power storage elements B1-B4 has been stopped, analyzes the cause of the voltage reduction in power storage elements B1-B4 or the cause of the reduction in the physical quantities correlated with voltages to the prescribed values, on the basis of measurement data of the power storage elements B1-B4 measured after the supply of power has been stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Naoya WADA, Eiji HAYASHI, Masashi NAKAMURA, Yuki MATSUDA
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Patent number: 10819175Abstract: A unit coil includes: first, second, third, and fourth turn portions extending in a bent manner from first, second, third, and fourth slot accommodation portions and each connecting the slot accommodation portions to each other; and first, second, third, and fourth leg portions. Recesses are formed in surfaces opposed to each other at bent parts of the turn portions or bent parts of the turn portion and the leg portion, that extend in a bent manner toward the same side in the circumferential direction from the slot accommodation portions adjacent to each other in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuro Hino, Kohei Egashira, Tetsuya Yokogawa, Hiroyuki Akita, Akira Hashimoto, Masashi Nakamura
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Patent number: 10811947Abstract: Obtain a rotary electric machine in which attachment of a sensor stator to a case having a cylindrical shape is not required, and a stator is inserted to the case having a cylindrical shape, whereby the sensor stator can be easily arranged at the inside of the case having a cylindrical shape. The rotary electric machine includes a rotor and a sensor rotor, which are maintained to a rotary shaft and are arranged in a shaft direction of the rotary shaft; a stator which is faced to the rotor and is arranged at the inside of a case having a cylindrical shape; and a sensor stator which is supported to sensor supporting components which are provided at end portions in a shaft direction of the stator, and is faced to the sensor rotor and is arranged.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Ryuji Kitamura, Masashi Nakamura, Shogo Okamoto, Masaya Inoue
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Patent number: 10800361Abstract: A circuit body for a vehicle is wired on a vehicle body of the vehicle for performing supply of electric power to an electrical component and communication of various communication signals with the electrical component. The circuit body includes: a plurality of control boxes separately disposed on the circuit body and capable of controlling input and output of at least one of the electric power and the communication signal; a trunk line harness connecting one of the plurality of control boxes and another of the plurality of control boxes; and a branch line harness connecting the control box and the electrical component. The circuit body has a loop structure in which at least part of the plurality of control boxes are annularly connected via the trunk line harness.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Nakamura, Masahiro Furukawa, Satoshi Enomoto, Akiyoshi Kanazawa
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Patent number: 10804648Abstract: A connector housing includes a first side wall and a second side wall. The first side wall is to be pressed against a cylindrical member extending in a first direction. The second side wall is opposed to the first side wall in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second side wall is formed with a front-side rib at one end in the first direction and a rear-side rib at the other end in the first direction. The front-side rib protrudes in the second direction and extends in a third direction perpendicular to both the first direction and the second direction. The rear-side rib projects in the second direction and extends in the third direction. The front-side rib and the second side rib do not face to each other in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Urashima, Masashi Nakamura, Yoshiharu Ishii
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Patent number: 10770943Abstract: A rotary electric machine is installed such that a central axis of a rotating shaft is horizontal, and coolant suction apertures are formed at positions on a cylindrical portion of a frame that are vertically above first and second coil ends, and strip-shaped insulating papers are inserted such that a thickness direction is in a radial direction between radially adjacent conductor portions of portions of the conductor wire that constitute the first and second coil ends, and are disposed so as to extend circumferentially across positions that are vertically below the coolant suction apertures inside the first and second coil ends.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masashi Nakamura, Shogo Okamoto, Masaya Inoue, Atsushi Sakaue, Tatsuro Hino
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Patent number: 10764662Abstract: To provide an enclosure structure having relatively high rigidity to a speaker system mounted on a vehicle, and to improve frequency characteristics of sound pressure. The speaker system includes: a hollow framework member extending in a front-back direction of a vehicle; and a speaker unit installed such that an internal space of the framework member is usable as a back cavity. The framework member has a partition member at at least one end of the internal space, and spatial path lengths from the speaker unit to both longitudinal ends of the internal space are substantially the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignees: DENSO TEN Limited, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masashi Nakamura, Masahito Isayama, Takashi Moriki, Kazuhiko Hamada, Isamu Umegaki, Shunsuke Kobayashi, Koji Sagata
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Publication number: 20200274413Abstract: In a stator of the present invention, oblique-side portions of a pair of terminal wires to be welded to each other extend so as to approach each other and are located at different positions in a radial direction of a stator core, and straight portions of the pair of the terminal wires to be welded to each other are parallel to each other when viewed in the radial direction, and one of the straight portions is inclined in a direction toward another one of the straight portions through a boundary portion between the one straight portion and the oblique-side portion corresponding to the one straight portion as a bent portion in the radial direction so that a distal end portion of the one straight portion and a distal end portion of the another one of the straight portions overlap with each other when viewed in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2018Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kohei EGASHIRA, Tatsuro HINO, Masashi NAKAMURA, Shohei MATSUOKA
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Publication number: 20200251968Abstract: Provided is a segment-core coupled body, including a plurality of segment cores each including a core back and a tooth; and a plurality of coupling portions configured to couple the core backs to one another, wherein the plurality of segment cores and the plurality of coupling portions are each a laminated body of magnetic sheets, wherein the plurality of coupling portions each include: a posture holding portion adjacent to a gap defined between adjacent core backs; a first thin portion configured to couple one corner portion of the adjacent core backs and the posture holding portion; and a second thin portion configured to couple another corner portion of the adjacent core backs and the posture holding portion, and wherein, the posture holding portion projects toward a radially outer side with respect to the adjacent core backs.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tatsuro HINO, Akira HASHIMOTO, Yutaka HIROTA, Masashi NAKAMURA, Takatoshi MASUDA
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Publication number: 20200204770Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yukinojo KITAKAMI, Masashi NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20200188510Abstract: The present invention provides novel antigens of an allergy to shrimp, methods and kits for diagnosing an allergy to shrimp, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such an antigen, shrimps or processed products of shrimp in which such an antigen is eliminated, and a tester composition for determining the presence or absence of a shrimp antigen in an object of interest. The present invention also relates to polypeptides comprising an epitope of an antigen, kits, compositions and methods for diagnosing an allergy, comprising such a polypeptide, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such a polypeptide, and raw materials or processed products in which an antigen comprising such a polypeptide is eliminated or reduced. The present invention further relates to a tester composition for determining the presence or absence of an antigen in an object of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Kayoko Matsunaga, Akiko Yagami, Masashi Nakamura, Naoshi Shimojo, Naya Sato, Yuji Aoki, Tomomi Sakai
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Publication number: 20200172033Abstract: An in-vehicle system includes a power supply box provided in a vehicle, and having a plurality of device connectors and a controller that supplies, to the plurality of device connectors, power received from a power supply, and a switch that switches between a cut off and a permission of power supplied to the plurality of device connectors in the power supply box. When power supplied to the device connectors is permitted by the switch, the controller performs a connection target validation process of identifying a type of a connection target device connected to each of the device connectors and a position of the device connector to which the connection target device is connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Katsuyuki Iwasaki, Masashi Nakamura, Satoshi Enomoto
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Publication number: 20200171815Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes circuitry and print heads each including nozzles arranged along a main scanning direction. The print heads are arranged in rows along a sub-scanning direction, with a print head in a first row overlapping a print head in a second row. The circuitry executes control to perform printing with at least one of the print head in the first row and the print head in the second row, executes control to eject recording liquid from nozzles in a non-overlapping area of the print head in the first row and the print head in the second row, selects an ejection area from an overlapping area of the print head in the first row and the print head in the second row, and executes control to eject the recording liquid from one of two nozzles adjacent in the sub-scanning direction in the ejection area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimichi KANDA, Yosuke FUKUDA, Masashi NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 10661729Abstract: A circuit body for a vehicle includes: a plurality of control boxes capable of controlling input and output of at least one of electric power and a communication signal; a trunk line harness connecting one of the plurality of control boxes and another of the plurality of control boxes; and a branch line harness connecting the control box and the electrical component. The control box includes: a trunk line connecting portion to which the trunk line harness is connected; and a branch line connecting portion to which the branch line harness is connected. At least one of the trunk line connecting portion and the branch line connecting portion includes a plurality of connectors which are classified into a plurality of groups according to an allowable current amount and in which a plurality of the connectors classified into the same group have connection compatibility.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Nakamura, Masahiro Furukawa, Satoshi Enomoto, Akiyoshi Kanazawa
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Patent number: 10661737Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes: an energy storage device which is connected to a vehicle load and a vehicle power generator; a current interrupt device that causes the energy storage device and the vehicle load as well as the energy storage device and the vehicle power generator to be in a conduction state or in an interruption state; a voltage detection unit that detects voltage of the energy storage device; and a control unit. The control unit executes: a switching instruction process in which, when determining that the electric storage device will reach an overcharge state on the basis of the voltage, the control unit issues an interruption switching instruction to the current interrupt device; and an interruption maintaining process in which, when the number of times of the switching instruction process exceeds a predetermined value, the control unit issues an instruction to maintain the interruption state.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventors: Takeyuki Shiraishi, Masashi Nakamura, Takeshi Nakamoto
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Patent number: 10654429Abstract: A circuit body for a vehicle includes: a plurality of control boxes dispersedly arranged on the circuit body; a trunk harness connecting one of the control boxes to another of the control boxes; and a branch harness connecting the control boxes to the electric component. The control boxes, the trunk harness and the branch harness are configured to ground a power circuit and a signal circuit through grounding routes different from each other. The power circuit supplies the electric power from a power source to the electric component through the control boxes. The signal circuit transmits a communication signal between the control boxes and the electric component and between one of the control boxes and another of the control boxes.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Masashi Nakamura, Masahiro Furukawa, Satoshi Enomoto, Akiyoshi Kanazawa