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).

  • Publication number: 20240072093
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: SHINICHI MIYAKE, KAZUYUKI TOMIDA, ATSUMI NIWA
  • Patent number: 11747225
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Asakawa, Shinichi Niwa, Shintaro Takata, Shinya Toda
  • Patent number: 11702730
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Asakawa, Yuta Aizawa, Shinya Toda, Shintaro Takata, Shinichi Niwa
  • Patent number: 11542590
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Asakawa, Yuta Aizawa, Shinya Toda, Shintaro Takata, Shinichi Niwa
  • Publication number: 20220411915
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Toshiaki ASAKAWA, Yuta AIZAWA, Shinya TODA, Shintaro TAKATA, Shinichi NIWA
  • Patent number: 11454488
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Asakawa, Shinichi Niwa, Yuta Aizawa, Atsushi Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11087905
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Asakawa, Shinichi Niwa, Shintaro Takata
  • Publication number: 20210018383
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Toshiaki ASAKAWA, Shinichi NIWA, Shintaro TAKATA, Shinya TODA
  • Publication number: 20210003378
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Toshiaki ASAKAWA, Shinichi NIWA, Yuta AIZAWA, Atsushi KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200343027
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Toshiaki ASAKAWA, Shinichi NIWA, Shintaro TAKATA
  • Publication number: 20200325571
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Toshiaki ASAKAWA, Yuta AIZAWA, Shinya TODA, Shintaro TAKATA, Shinichi NIWA
  • Patent number: 9604742
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yasutomi, Masayoshi Tsukamoto, Noboru Okada, Shigeo Kimura, Shigeo Kihara, Keiichiro Sugimoto, Shinichi Niwa
  • Patent number: 9470268
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignees: MINEBEA CO., LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shinichi Niwa, Toshiaki Asakawa, Shigeyuki Adachi, Hiroshi Tani
  • Publication number: 20150233426
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Shinichi NIWA, Toshiaki ASAKAWA, Shigeyuki ADACHI, Hiroshi TANI
  • Patent number: 9068597
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Niwa, Eiji Fujimoto, Toshiaki Asakawa
  • Patent number: 8837886
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignees: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Hoshino, Masayoshi Tsukamoto, Koichi Mizuno, Eiji Konda, Keiichiro Sugimoto, Shinichi Niwa
  • Publication number: 20140230375
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicants: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.
    Inventors: Tetsuya YASUTOMI, Masayoshi TSUKAMOTO, Noboru OKADA, Shigeo KIMURA, Shigeo KIHARA, Keiichiro SUGIMOTO, Shinichi NIWA
  • Patent number: 8593744
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Nidec Sankyo Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Niwa, Masao Takemura, Hiromitsu Takei, Akira Mori
  • Patent number: 8478095
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignees: Fujikura Ltd., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Daiki Takeda, Naoki Okada, Satoru Shiobara, Tadayoshi Sayama, Shimei Tanaka, Katsuyoshi Endoh, Keiichiro Sugimoto, Shinichi Niwa
  • Patent number: 8478100
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Toda, Daizo Nishioka, Takayasu Yamauchi, Yukihiro Yokomachi, Kenichiro Ohtsuka, Keiichiro Sugimoto, Shinichi Niwa