Patents by Inventor Naoki Kitagawa

Naoki Kitagawa 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: 11946962
    Abstract: An analysis system includes inference processer circuitry configured to infer a corresponding classification by inputting part of frequency spectrum data corresponding to reference measurement data to a learned model having learned a relation between part of frequency spectrum data corresponding to sample measurement data and a classification related to noise corresponding to the part, causal component identification processer circuitry configured to identify causal component data of noise from a component data list based on the inferred classification, and a presentation information generator configured to generate presentation information for a user based on the causal component data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYO Corporation
    Inventors: Congbing Li, Kazu Kitagawa, Nozomu Miura, Tetsuya Nakamura, Naoki Azuma
  • Patent number: 11245211
    Abstract: A connector includes: an insulator that includes a first main surface being a surface that faces a cable, and a rear surface being a surface on an opposite side of the first main surface; a contact that electrically connects the cable and a substrate; and an actuator that is rotatable about a rotation axis parallel to the substrate. The actuator includes a plate-shaped side wall that intersects with the rotation axis. The side wall includes a base portion including a second main surface that is a surface that faces the first main surface when the actuator is rotated in a direction closer to the cable, and a recognition portion that protrudes from the base portion. A distance from the rotation axis to a leading end of the recognition portion in a direction orthogonal to the second main surface is larger than a distance from the rotation axis to the rear surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20200403339
    Abstract: A connector includes: an insulator that includes a first main surface being a surface that faces a cable, and a rear surface being a surface on an opposite side of the first main surface; a contact that electrically connects the cable and a substrate; and an actuator that is rotatable about a rotation axis parallel to the substrate. The actuator includes a plate-shaped side wall that intersects with the rotation axis. The side wall includes a base portion including a second main surface that is a surface that faces the first main surface when the actuator is rotated in a direction closer to the cable, and a recognition portion that protrudes from the base portion. A distance from the rotation axis to a leading end of the recognition portion in a direction orthogonal to the second main surface is larger than a distance from the rotation axis to the rear surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventor: Naoki KITAGAWA
  • Patent number: 10741948
    Abstract: A connector 10 according to the present disclosure comprises a contact 30; and an insulator 20 having an attaching groove 22 on an outer surface into which the contact 30 is inserted and attached, wherein the insulator 20 has a bottom wall 23 formed to be continuous with a bottom surface of the attaching groove 22 in a downward direction; and at least a part of the attaching groove 22 has a wide portion 24 wider in at least one direction than a groove width on the outer surface along a direction parallel to the bottom wall 23.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 10566721
    Abstract: A cable connector includes: a contact (45A, 45B) supported by an insulator (20) having a cable insertion groove (21); a lock member (65) rotatable about a rotation shaft (74), between a lock position where a lock portion (68) of the lock member faces a locked portion (98) of a sheet-like cable (93) inserted in the insulator and an unlock position where the lock portion does not face the locked portion; and a bias portion (80) for biasing the lock member to the lock position, wherein an inner surface of the cable insertion groove includes a reference surface (21a) which is an end surface in a movement direction of the lock portion from the lock position to the unlock position, and a rotation center G of the rotation shaft is located on a side opposite to the movement direction, with respect to the reference surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nakajima, Yoshiharu Fujii, Naoki Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 10393536
    Abstract: A probe information storing unit is provided to store therein probe information items of a vehicle, and a voxel storing unit is provided to store therein voxels, which are defined and later described, in association with position information of the respective voxels. The voxels are defined in a three-dimensional space based on map data. The voxel storing unit and the probe information storing unit are referred to, and the probe information items are given, as votes, to the voxels that correspond to position information of the respective probe information items. A statistical process is executed to the probe information items given to each of the voxels, and the process results are associated with the respective voxels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA MAPMASTER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Naoki Kitagawa, Yumiko Yamashita, Yoshihiro Ui
  • Publication number: 20190165504
    Abstract: A connector 10 according to the present disclosure comprises a contact 30; and an insulator 20 having an attaching groove 22 on an outer surface into which the contact 30 is inserted and attached, wherein the insulator 20 has a bottom wall 23 formed to be continuous with a bottom surface of the attaching groove 22 in a downward direction; and at least a part of the attaching groove 22 has a wide portion 24 wider in at least one direction than a groove width on the outer surface along a direction parallel to the bottom wall 23.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180216954
    Abstract: A probe information storing unit is provided to store therein probe information items of a vehicle, and a voxel storing unit is provided to store therein voxels, which are defined and later described, in association with position information of the respective voxels. The voxels are defined in a three-dimensional space based on map data. The voxel storing unit and the probe information storing unit are referred to, and the probe information items are given, as votes, to the voxels that correspond to position information of the respective probe information items. A statistical process is executed to the probe information items given to each of the voxels, and the process results are associated with the respective voxels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: NAOKI KITAGAWA, YUMIKO YAMASHITA, YOSHIHIRO UI
  • Publication number: 20170331211
    Abstract: A cable connector includes: a contact (45A, 45B) supported by an insulator (20) having a cable insertion groove (21); a lock member (65) rotatable about a rotation shaft (74), between a lock position where a lock portion (68) of the lock member faces a locked portion (98) of a sheet-like cable (93) inserted in the insulator and an unlock position where the lock portion does not face the locked portion; and a bias portion (80) for biasing the lock member to the lock position, wherein an inner surface of the cable insertion groove includes a reference surface (21a) which is an end surface in a movement direction of the lock portion from the lock position to the unlock position, and a rotation center G of the rotation shaft is located on a side opposite to the movement direction, with respect to the reference surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Connector Products Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki NAKAJIMA, Yoshiharu FUJII, Naoki KITAGAWA
  • Patent number: 8845358
    Abstract: A cable connector includes an insulator, signal contacts supported in the insulator, wherein the signal contacts come in contact with the cable when the cable is inserted into the insulator, a pair of lock members which are rotatable between a locked position and an unlocked position, and springs supported on the insulator, wherein the springs retain the locked position and allow rotation of the lock members to the unlocked position by elastic deformation of the springs. Each spring includes a base-plate portion supported on the insulator, an elastically deformable portion extending from the base-plate portion, an end-extending portion extending from an end of the elastically deformable portion, and an engaging portion which engages with an associated lock member to integrate the spring with the associated the lock member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Connector Products Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 6888956
    Abstract: A fingerprint authentication apparatus has a combined visible/infrared light source, which illuminates a finger placed on an optical image sensor with both infrared light and visible light. The optical image sensor has a block with infrared sensitivity and a block within infrared sensitivity, and generates a fingerprint image from light scattered by the finger. The infrared sensitivity of the infrared-sensitive block of the optical image sensor is such that a clear image is obtained from a living organism, and an unclear image is obtained from a replica. If the finger is an actual living finger, the fingerprint images from both blocks are clear, but in the case of a replica, the image from the block having infrared sensitivity is clear, and the image from the block without having infrared sensitivity is unclear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: NEC Electroncs Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Muramatsu, Naoki Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20020076089
    Abstract: A fingerprint authentication apparatus has a combined visible/infrared light source, which illuminates a finger placed on an optical image sensor with both infrared light and visible light. The optical image sensor has a block with infrared sensitivity and a block within infrared sensitivity, and generates a fingerprint image from light scattered by the finger. The infrared sensitivity of the infrared-sensitive block of the optical image sensor is such that a clear image is obtained from a living organism, and an unclear image is obtained from a replica. If the finger is an actual living finger, the fingerprint images from both blocks are clear, but in the case of a replica, the image from the block having infrared sensitivity is clear, and the image from the block without having infrared sensitivity is unclear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: Yoshinori Muramatsu, Naoki Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 5910331
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of quickly freezing vegetables, whose cells are broken and commercial value is lost when processed by a conventional freeze-preservation method, and stocking them in a freezing environment. The method according to the present invention comprises the first step of adding at least one selected from a group consisting of monosaccharide, disaccharide, oligosaccharide and sugar alcohol and polysaccharide, with or without salts, to vegetables to pickling them for several hours, the second step of quickly freezing the vegetables processed in the first step and the third step of storing the quickly frozen vegetables in a freezing environment. Polysaccharides surround cells of vegetables to remove water content of cells and protect them and monosaccharide, disaccharide, oligosaccharide and sugar alcohol and/or salts permeates into cells and is replaced with water content to prevent growth of water crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Inventors: Naoki Kitagawa, Ryoji Nakagawa
  • Patent number: D844567
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Kitagawa
  • Patent number: D845248
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Kitagawa