Patents by Inventor Shintaro Nakano

Shintaro Nakano 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: 20240155736
    Abstract: A first data center includes a first virtual network that provides a communication service in cooperation with at least a part of a communication facility of a first communication operator and a first communication unit that is operable to communicate with a second data center. The second data center includes a second virtual network that provides a communication service in cooperation with at least a part of a communication facility of a second communication operator and a second communication unit that is operable to communicate with the first data center. The first communication unit is operable to transmit to the second communication unit, communication data to be transmitted from a first terminal connecting to the first virtual network via a communication facility of the first communication operator to a second terminal connecting via a communication facility of the second communication operator to the second virtual network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro NAKANO, Hideo HASEGAWA, Satoru ISHII
  • Publication number: 20240147846
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element including, an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode and including a light emitting zone. The organic layer includes a first layer containing a first compound and a second layer containing a second compound. The first layer and the second layer are different layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Shota TANAKA, Shintaro BAN, Satomi TASAKI, Hiroaki ITOI, Tasuku HAKETA, Yuki NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20240107601
    Abstract: A datacenter, a communication apparatus, a communication method, and a communication control method in a communication system are provided that can enhance the versatility of a datacenter and a virtual network constructed therein. A communication system includes: a plurality of wireless communication facilities owned by a plurality of network operators, respectively; and a datacenter in which a virtual core network is constructed, wherein the virtual core network implements mobile communication functions by using the plurality of wireless communication facilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro NAKANO, Hideo Hasegawa, Satoru Ishii
  • Publication number: 20240090329
    Abstract: A compound includes: at least one group represented by a formula (11) below; and a single benz[de]anthracene derivative skeleton represented by a formula (1000) below in a molecule, in which Ar1 is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group including at least four rings, at least one of R10 to R19 is a group represented by the formula (11), L1 is a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 6 to 15 ring carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted divalent heterocyclic group having 5 to 15 ring atoms, and mx is 1, 2, or 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki ITOI, Yuki NAKANO, Taro YAMAKI, Maiko IIDA, Takamoto MORITA, Shintaro BAN, Ryota TAKAHASHI, Yu KUDO, Yoshinao SHIRASAKI
  • Patent number: 11910492
    Abstract: A first data center includes a first virtual network that provides a communication service in cooperation with at least a part of a communication facility of a first communication operator and a first communication unit that is operable to communicate with a second data center. The second data center includes a second virtual network that provides a communication service in cooperation with at least a part of a communication facility of a second communication operator and a second communication unit that is operable to communicate with the first data center. The first communication unit is operable to transmit to the second communication unit, communication data to be transmitted from a first terminal connecting to the first virtual network via a communication facility of the first communication operator to a second terminal connecting via a communication facility of the second communication operator to the second virtual network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Nakano, Hideo Hasegawa, Satoru Ishii
  • Patent number: 11882608
    Abstract: A datacenter, a communication apparatus, a communication method, and a communication control method in a communication system are provided that can enhance the versatility of a datacenter and a virtual network constructed therein. A communication system includes: a plurality of wireless communication facilities owned by a plurality of network operators, respectively; and a datacenter in which a virtual core network is constructed, wherein the virtual core network implements mobile communication functions by using the plurality of wireless communication facilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Nakano, Hideo Hasegawa, Satoru Ishii
  • Patent number: 11868794
    Abstract: A management apparatus (10) includes: a storage (103) that stores information indicating a correspondence between at least one virtual network function (VNF) operating on a server and a programmable logic circuit (FPGA) capable of operating at least part of a virtual network function; and a controller (106) that causes first and second servers to perform migration of a virtual network function operating on a programmable logic circuit of the first server to the second server, on the basis of the correspondence information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo Hasegawa, Shintaro Nakano, Satoru Ishii, Seiya Shibata
  • Patent number: 11870604
    Abstract: A data center comprises a first gateway that connects with a terminal using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) through a wireless LAN and a first wide area network, a second gateway that connects to a second wide area network (WAN2), a virtual network connected to the first gateway and the second gateway; and a function block that is provided between the first gateway and the second gateway and that performs filtering of at least one of a packet input from the first wide area network side and a packet input from the second wide area network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPOATION
    Inventors: Satoru Ishii, Hideo Hasegawa, Shintaro Nakano
  • Patent number: 11792182
    Abstract: A system according to this invention is directed to a virtual network system that prevents unauthorized registration, alteration, or occurrence of erroneous registration when registering a virtual network function produced by a third party or system vender. The virtual network system includes an acceptor that accepts a virtual network function performing one of functions included in a virtual network service and information of a provider providing the virtual network function from the provider, a first authenticator that authenticates, based on the virtual network function and the provider information, that the provider is a valid provider, and a registration unit that registers the virtual network function when the first authenticator authenticates that the provider is a valid provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Nakano, Hideo Hasegawa, Satoru Ishii
  • Patent number: 11777739
    Abstract: A system according to this invention is directed to a virtual network system that prevents unauthorized registration, alteration, or occurrence of erroneous registration even if an operator is to create a network system including a virtual network function produced by a third party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Nakano, Hideo Hasegawa, Satoru Ishii
  • Patent number: 11743810
    Abstract: A data center adapted to connect via a first wide area network to a core network connected with a base station and to a wireless LAN, variably controls service provided in a virtual core network of the data center to a terminal enabled to select connection to either a wireless LAN or a base station and connect to the data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Ishii, Hideo Hasegawa, Shintaro Nakano
  • Publication number: 20230269621
    Abstract: Traffic is allocated to a dedicated apparatus that performs a predetermined network function or a predetermined virtual network function corresponding to the predetermined network function of the dedicated apparatus, according to a service level set in correspondence with information relating to the traffic, and the traffic is forwarded to the dedicated apparatus or the predetermined virtual network function, based on a result of the allocation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro NAKANO, Hideo HASEGAWA, Satoru ISHII
  • Patent number: 11716000
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor for a rotating electric machine. The rotor includes a rotor core and at least one magnet fixed in at least one magnet fixing portion provided in the rotor core. The method includes: (a) placing the at least one magnet and at least one fixing member in the at least one magnet fixing portion such that each of the at least one fixing member is positioned between a corresponding one of the at least one magnet fixing portion and a corresponding one of the at least one magnet; and (b) applying an electric current to the at least one magnet to heat the at least one fixing member by heat generated by an electrical resistance of the at least one magnet, and fixing the at least one magnet to the at least one magnet fixing portion through the heated at least one fixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta Takeshima, Shintaro Nakano, Ayumu Yageta, Shuzaburo Kita
  • Patent number: 11683716
    Abstract: Traffic is allocated to a dedicated apparatus that performs a predetermined network function or a predetermined virtual network function corresponding to the predetermined network function of the dedicated apparatus, according to a service level set in correspondence with information relating to the traffic, and the traffic is forwarded to the dedicated apparatus or the predetermined virtual network function, based on a result of the allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Nakano, Hideo Hasegawa, Satoru Ishii
  • Patent number: 11665061
    Abstract: A system according to this invention is directed to a virtual network system that selects a virtual network function of an appropriate version and prevents a malfunction of a virtual network when an operator is to provide a virtual network service based on virtual network functions. The virtual network system includes an instructor that instructs activation or change of a virtual network function preregistered and providing one of functions included in a virtual network service, a confirmation unit that confirms that the virtual network function instructed to be activated or changed is appropriate, based on version information added at a time of registering the virtual network function, and a setting unit that sets, when the confirmation unit confirms that the virtual network function instructed to be activated or changed is appropriate, the instructed virtual network function as the one of the functions included in the virtual network service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Nakano, Hideo Hasegawa, Satoru Ishii
  • Publication number: 20230118579
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of improving light utilization efficiency, without stacking a plurality of microlenses having a three-dimensional shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: SHINTARO NAKANO, TSUYOSHI OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220390783
    Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to dispose an optical element on a lower surface side of transistors without being influenced by heat treatment in a transistor forming process such that peeling, displacement, and the like do not easily occur. A transistor array substrate includes: a first substrate (110) including transistors (113) arranged in an array; and a second substrate (120) including an optical element (122), in which the transistors are arranged on a front surface side of the first substrate, and the second substrate is bonded to a back surface of the first substrate by plasma bonding treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: KOICHI AMARI, KOICHI NAGASAWA, HITOSHI TSUNO, YOSHIHIKO KAJIYA, SHINTARO NAKANO, TSUYOSHI OKAZAKI, AKIKO TORIYAMA, YOSHITAKA YAGI, KEIICHI MAEDA, TAKASHI SAKAIRI, TSUTOMU TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220382091
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device includes a pair of substrates, a liquid-crystal material layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates, and an optical compensation element having an optical compensation layer, the optical compensation layer including a stack group in which high-refractive-index obliquely deposited films and low-refractive-index obliquely deposited films are alternately deposited, the high-refractive-index obliquely deposited films and the low-refractive-index obliquely deposited films having a same tilt direction with respect to a normal line of a surface on which the films are deposited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventor: SHINTARO NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220326580
    Abstract: A transistor array substrate includes a capacitor structure and a transistor formed on a support substrate. The capacitor structure includes a relay electrode, a lower electrode that has a bottom surface disposed on the relay electrode and has a wall surface extending obliquely with respect to the bottom surface, a dielectric film that is formed on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode that is formed on the dielectric film. The dielectric film and the upper electrode are formed in accordance with the lower electrode. A conductive material is embedded in a recess portion in the upper electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventor: SHINTARO NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220217576
    Abstract: Traffic is allocated to a dedicated apparatus that performs a predetermined network function or a predetermined virtual network function corresponding to the predetermined network function of the dedicated apparatus, according to a service level set in correspondence with information relating to the traffic, and the traffic is forwarded to the dedicated apparatus or the predetermined virtual network function, based on a result of the allocation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro Nakano, Hideo Hasegawa, Satoru Ishii