Patents by Inventor Shinichi Niwa
Shinichi Niwa 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: 20240072093Abstract: A solid-state imaging element (200) according to the present disclosure includes a light receiving substrate (201) and a circuit board (202). The light receiving substrate (201) includes a plurality of light receiving circuits (211) in which photoelectric conversion elements are provided. The circuit board (202) is bonded to the light receiving substrate (201) and includes a plurality of address event detection circuits (231) that respectively detects voltage changes output from the photoelectric conversion elements of the plurality of light receiving circuits (211). The circuit board (202) includes a first element region (501) and a second element region (502). In the first element region (501), a first transistor (T1) driven by a first voltage (VDD1) is arranged. In the second element region (502), a second transistor (T2) driven by a second voltage (VDD2) lower than the first voltage (VDD1) is arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: SHINICHI MIYAKE, KAZUYUKI TOMIDA, ATSUMI NIWA
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Patent number: 11747225Abstract: A strain gauge includes a flexible substrate, and a resistor formed of material containing at least one from among chromium and nickel, on or above the substrate. The resistor includes a first layer that is a lowermost layer; and a second layer that is a surface layer laminated on or above the first layer. The second layer is a layer having a higher density than the first layer. The first layer has a first surface provided on a side where the flexible resin substrate is situated, the functional layer being laminated on the first surface. The first layer has a second surface on which the second layer is laminated.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Toshiaki Asakawa, Shinichi Niwa, Shintaro Takata, Shinya Toda
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Patent number: 11702730Abstract: A strain gauge includes a flexible substrate and a functional layer formed of a metal, an alloy, or a metal compound, the functional layer being directly on one surface of the substrate. The strain gauge includes a resistor formed of a film that includes Cr, CrN, and Cr2N and that is formed with ?-Cr as a main component. The functional layer includes a function of promoting crystal growth of ?-Cr and forming an ?-Cr based film.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Toshiaki Asakawa, Yuta Aizawa, Shinya Toda, Shintaro Takata, Shinichi Niwa
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Patent number: 11542590Abstract: A strain gauge includes a flexible substrate; a functional layer formed of a metal, an alloy, or a metal compound, on one surface of the substrate; and a resistor formed of material including at least one from among chromium and nickel, on one surface of the functional layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Toshiaki Asakawa, Yuta Aizawa, Shinya Toda, Shintaro Takata, Shinichi Niwa
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Publication number: 20220411915Abstract: A strain gauge includes a flexible substrate and a functional layer formed of a metal, an alloy, or a metal compound, the functional layer being directly on one surface of the substrate. The strain gauge includes a resistor formed of a film that includes Cr, CrN, and Cr2N and that is formed with ?-Cr as a main component. The functional layer includes a function of promoting crystal growth of ?-Cr and forming an ?-Cr based film.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Toshiaki ASAKAWA, Yuta AIZAWA, Shinya TODA, Shintaro TAKATA, Shinichi NIWA
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Patent number: 11454488Abstract: A strain gauge includes a flexible substrate and a functional layer formed of a metal, an alloy, or a metal compound, directly on one surface of the substrate. The strain gauge includes a resistor formed of a film including Cr, CrN, and Cr2N, on one surface of the functional layer. The substrate has an expansion coefficient in a range of from 7 ppm/K to 20 ppm/K.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Toshiaki Asakawa, Shinichi Niwa, Yuta Aizawa, Atsushi Kitamura
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Patent number: 11087905Abstract: The present strain gauge includes a substrate having flexibility; a resistor formed from a material containing at least one of chromium and nickel, on the substrate; and an oxidation impeding layer formed on a non-oxidized surface corresponding to an upper surface of the resistor.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Toshiaki Asakawa, Shinichi Niwa, Shintaro Takata
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Publication number: 20210018383Abstract: A strain gauge includes a flexible substrate, and a resistor formed of material containing at least one from among chromium and nickel, on or above the substrate. The resistor includes a first layer that is a lowermost layer; and a second layer that is a surface layer laminated on or: above the first layer. The second layer is a layer having a higher density than the first layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2019Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Toshiaki ASAKAWA, Shinichi NIWA, Shintaro TAKATA, Shinya TODA
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Publication number: 20210003378Abstract: A strain gauge includes a flexible substrate, and a resistor formed of material including at least one from among chromium and nickel, on or above the substrate. The substrate has an expansion coefficient in a range of from 7 ppm/K to 20 ppm/K.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Toshiaki ASAKAWA, Shinichi NIWA, Yuta AIZAWA, Atsushi KITAMURA
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Publication number: 20200343027Abstract: The present strain gauge includes a substrate having flexibility; a resistor formed from a material containing at least one of chromium and nickel, on the substrate; and an oxidation impeding layer formed on a non-oxidized surface corresponding to an upper surface of the resistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Toshiaki ASAKAWA, Shinichi NIWA, Shintaro TAKATA
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Publication number: 20200325571Abstract: A strain gauge includes a flexible substrate; a functional layer formed of a metal, an alloy, or a metal compound, on one surface of the substrate; and a resistor formed of material including at least one from among chromium and nickel, on one surface of the functional layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Toshiaki ASAKAWA, Yuta AIZAWA, Shinya TODA, Shintaro TAKATA, Shinichi NIWA
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Patent number: 9604742Abstract: Provided is a method for packing a cable having a static friction coefficient of 0.15 or more and 0.50 or less, a dynamic friction coefficient of 0.10 or more and 0.40 or less and a bending rigidity of 60 gf or more and 350 gf or less. The method includes the steps of: (1) winding the cable into a figure-of-eight shape to form a cylindrical cable bundle, (2) winding a wrapping film as a restraining member, which restrains the cable bundle, around an outer circumferential portion of the cable bundle, (3) winding a wrapping film as a closing member which closes openings on both ends of the cable bundle, and (4) housing the cable bundle being wound with the restraining member and the closing member in a housing container.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Yasutomi, Masayoshi Tsukamoto, Noboru Okada, Shigeo Kimura, Shigeo Kihara, Keiichiro Sugimoto, Shinichi Niwa
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Patent number: 9470268Abstract: A ball bearing (rolling bearing) containing lubricant sealed therein is provided between a shaft and a sleeve. A labyrinth seal (seal gap) is provided at an end portion of the shaft or the sleeve in the axial direction. A permanent magnet is disposed such that a magnetic pole is located in proximity to the labyrinth seal. A magnetic seal effect that utilizes diamagnetism acting on evaporating oil is provided at the labyrinth seal.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignees: MINEBEA CO., LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Shinichi Niwa, Toshiaki Asakawa, Shigeyuki Adachi, Hiroshi Tani
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Publication number: 20150233426Abstract: A ball bearing (rolling bearing) containing lubricant sealed therein is provided between a shaft and a sleeve. A labyrinth seal (seal gap) is provided at an end portion of the shaft or the sleeve in the axial direction. A permanent magnet is disposed such that a magnetic pole is located in proximity to the labyrinth seal. A magnetic seal effect that utilizes diamagnetism acting on evaporating oil is provided at the labyrinth seal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventors: Shinichi NIWA, Toshiaki ASAKAWA, Shigeyuki ADACHI, Hiroshi TANI
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Patent number: 9068597Abstract: There is provided a sliding member including: a substrate; and a protective film provided on the substrate, wherein the protective film is composed only of a metal base layer provided on the substrate, a low-hardness diamond-like carbon layer provided as a single layer on the metal base layer, and a high-hardness diamond-like carbon layer provided as a single layer directly on the low-hardness diamond-like carbon layer. The sliding member has the protective film which has excellent frictional wear resistance property and satisfactory adhesion property to the substrate, regardless of having a simple structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Niwa, Eiji Fujimoto, Toshiaki Asakawa
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Patent number: 8837886Abstract: An optical fiber cable which is suitably set in a conduit by pushing the optical fiber cable into the conduit so as to insert the optical fiber cable through the conduit and which does not reduce the ease of manufacture and the mechanical characteristics of the optical fiber cable. The optical fiber cable includes an optical fiber cable core wire and a sheath covering the optical fiber cable core wire, wherein a dynamic friction coefficient between a surface of the sheath of the optical fiber cable and a surface of a sheath of another optical fiber cable is 0.17 to 0.34, and a dynamic friction coefficient between the surface of the sheath of the optical fiber cable and a surface of a sheet composed of polyvinyl chloride is 0.30 to 0.40.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2009Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignees: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Yutaka Hoshino, Masayoshi Tsukamoto, Koichi Mizuno, Eiji Konda, Keiichiro Sugimoto, Shinichi Niwa
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Publication number: 20140230375Abstract: Provided is a method for packing a cable having a static friction coefficient of 0.15 or more and 0.50 or less, a dynamic friction coefficient of 0.10 or more and 0.40 or less and a bending rigidity of 60 gf or more and 350 gf or less. The method includes the steps of: (1) winding the cable into a figure-of-eight shape to form a cylindrical cable bundle, (2) winding a wrapping film as a restraining member, which restrains the cable bundle, around an outer circumferential portion of the cable bundle, (3) winding a wrapping film as a closing member which closes openings on both ends of the cable bundle, and (4) housing the cable bundle being wound with the restraining member and the closing member in a housing container.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicants: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.Inventors: Tetsuya YASUTOMI, Masayoshi TSUKAMOTO, Noboru OKADA, Shigeo KIMURA, Shigeo KIHARA, Keiichiro SUGIMOTO, Shinichi NIWA
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Patent number: 8593744Abstract: An optical device may include a movable body holding a lens, a fixed body movably holding the movable body, a drive magnet and a drive coil for relatively moving the movable body with respect to the fixed body, and a metal member fixed to the drive magnet. The drive magnet is fixed to one of the movable body and the fixed body and the drive coil is fixed to the other of the movable body and the fixed body. A nickel plating layer containing at least nickel is formed on a surface of the drive magnet and a surface of the metal member, and the drive magnet and the metal member are joined to each other by a joining layer which is made of tin-based metal containing at least tin and is disposed between the drive magnet and the metal member.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Nidec Sankyo CorporationInventors: Shinichi Niwa, Masao Takemura, Hiromitsu Takei, Akira Mori
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Patent number: 8478095Abstract: This optical fiber cable is provided with a covering resin including an outermost layer. The outermost layer is formed by a resin composition including: (a) a base resin prepared by adding at least one copolymer selected from an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer and an ethylene-ethyl acrylate copolymer to a high density polyethylene; (b) 25 to 90 parts by weight of a phosphate salt with respect to 100 parts by weight of the base resin; and (c) 0.75 to 15 parts by weight of either a silicone dispersed polyethylene or a silicone grafted polyethylene with respect to 100 parts by weight of the base resin.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2011Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignees: Fujikura Ltd., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Daiki Takeda, Naoki Okada, Satoru Shiobara, Tadayoshi Sayama, Shimei Tanaka, Katsuyoshi Endoh, Keiichiro Sugimoto, Shinichi Niwa
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Patent number: 8478100Abstract: An optical cable gripping member which prevents the kinds of splicing devices from being diversified, thereby enabling reduction of the labor of component management and lowering of the production cost to be realized is obtained. In a cable gripping member 5 which is to be attached to a splicing device 1 to hold an optical fiber cable 121 from its outer sheath, a spacer 17 which fills a gap between one inner wall surface 15a of a tubular space 15 through which the optical fiber cable 121 is to be passed, and the spacer 17 in the tubular space 15 is formed monolithically with one end of the one inner wall surface 15a in a manner that the spacer 17 is attachable to and detachable from the one inner wall surface 15a. The spacer 17 is attached to or detached from the one inner wall surface 15a, thereby enabling a plurality of optical fiber cables of different sizes to be held.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2009Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Yoshinobu Toda, Daizo Nishioka, Takayasu Yamauchi, Yukihiro Yokomachi, Kenichiro Ohtsuka, Keiichiro Sugimoto, Shinichi Niwa