Patents by Inventor Takahiro Nakano

Takahiro 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).

  • Patent number: 10604369
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a carry-in path for guiding a sheet from a carry-in entrance, a shift roller provided in the carry-in path to relay and transport the sheet, a first transport path positioned on the downstream side of the relay roller to transport the sheet from the carry-in path to a first collection tray, and a second transport path branched off from the carry-in path to transport the transported sheet to a second collection tray. The relay roller shifts the sheet in the direction crossing the transport direction, while the shift by the relay roller is performed after the sheet front end enters the first transport path or second transport path. Thus, it is possible to provide a relatively compact sheet processing apparatus capable of shifting in sorting and shifting sheets, without increasing the carry-in path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.
    Inventor: Takahiro Nakano
  • Publication number: 20200070431
    Abstract: An ultrasonic bonding tool is used on a horn side or anvil side of an ultrasonic joining device in which two synthetic resin sheets that include a polyethylene layer, a polypropylene layer and a ceramic heat-resistant layer are superposed and joined together so that the heat-resistant layers face each other. The ultrasonic bonding tool includes a plurality of protrusions shaped as quadrangular pyramids having a flat top surface. Each of the protrusions has an apex angle formed by two mutually opposite side surfaces that is within a range of 110-130°. When two separators of a battery cell are joined together using the ultrasonic bonding device with the ultrasonic bonding tool, a force with which the separators adhere to the protrusions is weak. In this way, the separators do not adhere to the horn during ultrasonic bonding of the synthetic resin sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventor: Takahiro NAKANO
  • Patent number: 10562731
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus is provided with a carry-in path for guiding a sheet from a carry-in entrance, a shift roller provided in the carry-in path to transport the sheet, while shifting, a carry-in roller positioned on the downstream side of the shift roller to carry the sheet from the carry-in path toward a collection tray, and a punch shift unit provided on the upstream side of the carry-in roller to process an end portion of the sheet in a processing position. The punch shift unit shifts in the same direction as the shift roller, a shift amount of the punch shift unit is set to be equal to a shift amount of the shift roller or more, and the end portion processing unit is thereby already positioned in an end portion processing position or a position near the processing position after shifting the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Shoubu Kato
  • Patent number: 10554917
    Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
  • Patent number: 10523629
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a first control information setting unit configured to set first control information for forwarding packets between predetermined machines in relay apparatuses on a predetermined path on the basis of a first hierarchical address; and a second control information setting unit configured to set, when receiving a packet whose destination address is a second hierarchical address, which is a higher level address than the first hierarchical address, from one of the machines in which the first control information has already been set, via one of the relay apparatuses, second control information for converting a first hierarchical destination address of the packet whose destination address is the second hierarchical address into a first hierarchical address specified in the first control information and forwarding the converted packet, in the relay apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Nakano
  • Patent number: 10518513
    Abstract: An ultrasonic bonding device includes a processing member, a biasing member, a first moving unit and a second moving unit. The biasing member biases a pair of separators to the ultrasonic horn. A first moving unit separates the ultrasonic horn and the biasing member from each other with respect to a transport path of the separators. A second moving unit moves the separators and positions a bonding portion of the separators between the ultrasonic horn and the biasing member. The first moving unit has a coupling cam rotationally driven by a driving unit, a first connecting portion coupling the coupling cam and the processing member, and a second connecting portion coupling the coupling cam and the biasing member, and separating the processing member and the biasing member from each other with respect to the transport path by rotation of the coupling cam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Envision AESC Japan Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Oorui, Takahiro Nakano, Shinji Fujisawa, Shiro Takaki
  • Patent number: 10479636
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveying roller that conveys a sheet, a processing tray on which the sheet from the conveying roller is loaded, a reference stopper provided at one end of the processing tray, a return paddle having an elastic piece for transferring the sheet from the conveying roller to the reference member, and a roller arm that moves the return paddle in the sheet thickness direction at a predetermined moving rate according to the number of sheets loaded on the processing tray. The moving rate of the roller arm is reduced as the number of sheets loaded on the processing tray is increased. With this configuration, aligning property of even a wavy sheet can be suppressed from being deteriorated at sheet loading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.
    Inventor: Takahiro Nakano
  • Patent number: 10462403
    Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
  • Patent number: 10419232
    Abstract: A control apparatus comprises a path generation unit configured to logically generate a plurality of forwarding paths for forwarding a broadcast packet between a plurality of domains that each includes a plurality of communication nodes; a path determination unit configured to determine different communication nodes among the plurality of communication nodes included in each domain as representative nodes that forward the broadcast packet in each of the plurality of forwarding paths; and a path setting unit configured to set control information including information regarding the representative nodes in the communication nodes on the plurality of forwarding paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Otake, Mamio Hokazono, Yasushi Takeda, Takahiro Nakano, Shunji Motomura
  • Patent number: 10414100
    Abstract: A method is used for a pair of bonding composite materials that are each provided with a melting material and a heat-resistant material. Each heat-resistant material includes a heat-resistant member and a binder member. The ceramic separators have ceramic layers that face each other and that are bonded. An ultrasonic wave is applied to the composite materials while applying a pressure thereto with a processing member. Also heat is applied to the binder members with a heating member. Here, the heater heats the binder members to a temperature that is greater than or equal to the glass transition temperature of the binder members and less than the melting point of the binder members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Toshiaki Oorui, Shinji Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 10397507
    Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Ryuji Nishimura, Toshiro Kinugasa
  • Publication number: 20190226943
    Abstract: A facility condition monitoring device includes an abnormality-degree-calculation-model construction part which constructs an abnormality-degree-calculation model for calculating an abnormality degree of a monitoring feature group of a monitoring target facility, based on a normal feature group extracted from a state-quantity fluctuation data of the monitoring target facility, an abnormality degree calculation part which calculates the abnormality degree of the monitoring feature group with the abnormality-degree-calculation model, an abnormality determination part which determines whether the monitoring target facility is abnormal, based on the abnormality degree, an abnormality-contribution-rate calculation part which obtains a contribution rate of each feature constituting the monitoring feature group used for calculating the abnormality degree determined as abnormal by the abnormality determination part, and an abnormality cause identification part which identifies an abnormality cause of the monitoring t
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Kentaro HAYASHI, Takahiro NAKANO, Atsushi YUGE, Masaaki SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 10322902
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sheet processing apparatus comprising a sheet tray configured to hold a bundle composed of the sheets fed from conveyance rollers, a wait path configured to keep waiting following sheets upstream the conveyance rollers, an accumulating tray configured to hold a sheet bundle, delivery rollers configured to nip the sheet bundle mounted on the sheet tray and the following sheets, to set off from one another, and to deliver them to the accumulating tray, and to switch back the following sheets to the sheet tray, and a conveyance member configured to convey the following sheets from the sheet tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.
    Inventor: Takahiro Nakano
  • Patent number: 10315880
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet processing unit that processes a sheet placed on a placing tray, a discharge roller that discharges the sheet processed on the placing tray to a stacking tray, a conveyance roller that discharges a sheet to the placing tray or conveys a subsequent sheet from upstream to downstream of the discharge roller and switchback-conveys the subsequent sheet upstream again, and a standby path (branch path) that keeps the sheet switched back by the conveyance roller on standby. The subsequent sheet is conveyed to a downstream side of the discharge roller by the conveyance roller and then returned to an upstream side again by switchback conveyance. During the switchback conveyance, the discharge roller nips and discharges the sheets on the placing tray to the stacking tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.
    Inventor: Takahiro Nakano
  • Publication number: 20190146465
    Abstract: A product design and process design device includes: a storage unit that stores design specification information containing the tolerance of a dimensional variation at any site of an assembly product, part dimension error information, assembly facility error information, assembly tolerance information, the part dimension error information, and the assembly facility error information, part manufacturing cost information, and facility investment cost information with respect to the assembly facility error information; a tolerance distribution processing unit that uses the assembly tolerance information to generate proposed tolerance distributions that differ in distributional combination with respect to each error, and calculates part manufacturing costs and facility investment costs; a facility planning processing unit that determines a proposed tolerance distribution, with, as an evaluation index, total production costs respectively including the sums of the part manufacturing costs and the facility investmen
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Daisuke TSUTSUMI, Yumiko UENO, Youichi NONAKA, Takahiro NAKANO, József VÁNCZA, Gábor ERDÓS, Dávid GYULAI, András KOVÁCS, Bence TIPARY
  • Patent number: 10259673
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a transport path to transport a sheet to a first tray, a branch path branched off from the transport path to transport a sheet to a second tray, a first transport roller positioned in the transport path on a downstream side of a branch position of the transport path and the branch path to transport a sheet in either direction of the first tray or the branch path, a second transport roller positioned on the branch path to transport a sheet in either direction of the second tray or the transport path, and a control section recognizing a transport length of the sheet transported by the first transport roller and the second transport roller, and controlling the first transport roller and the second transport roller. The control section performs first and second transports for switchback-transporting a sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Takashi Saito, Isao Kondo
  • Patent number: 10160249
    Abstract: A sheet post-processing device includes a conveying section that conveys a paper sheet; a punch section that punches punch holes in the paper sheet conveyed by the conveying section; a stacker section that stores the paper sheet in which the punch holes are punched by the punch section; a binding section that binds a paper sheet bundle stored in the stacker section with a binding member; and a controller that controls the above sections. The controller selectively performs a ring binding mode and a direct binding mode. The ring binding mode is a mode in which punch holes are punched in the paper sheet by the punch section and then the binding member is made to penetrate the punch holes for binding. The direct binding mode is a mode in which the binding member is directly driven into the paper sheet bundle without punching the punch holes in the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kubota, Eiji Fukasawa, Ichitaro Kubota, Hideyuki Kubota, Hisashi Osada, Takahiro Nakano, Hiroyuki Sorita, Junya Nakajima, Takuma Kobayashi, Takashi Saito, Isao Kondo
  • Patent number: 10138090
    Abstract: An elevator car rolling suppression device capable of suppressing rolling of an elevator car includes a drive unit configured to press a guide unit against a guide rail. The device also includes a position detecting unit configured to detect a position of an elevator car within a shaft, a storage unit configured to store the position of the elevator car within the shaft and an acceleration of the elevator car in association with each other. The device also includes a control unit configured to extract the acceleration in the lateral direction of the elevator car detected by the position detecting unit from the storage unit. The control unit also controls the drive unit so as to adjust the pressing force of the guide unit against the guide rail to a pressing force that is derived from at least the extracted acceleration in the lateral direction of the elevator car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Motoki Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20180331998
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes: a first control information setting unit configured to set first control information for forwarding packets between predetermined machines in relay apparatuses on a predetermined path on the basis of a first hierarchical address; and a second control information setting unit configured to set, when receiving a packet whose destination address is a second hierarchical address, which is a higher level address than the first hierarchical address, from one of the machines in which the first control information has already been set, via one of the relay apparatuses, second control information for converting a first hierarchical destination address of the packet whose destination address is the second hierarchical address into a first hierarchical address specified in the first control information and forwarding the converted packet, in the relay apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventor: Takahiro NAKANO
  • Patent number: 10114910
    Abstract: In order to automatically determine a structural member that is included in a structure and has flat surfaces, an input unit is configured to input three-dimensional point group data of the structure, a flat surface extraction unit is configured to extract the flat surfaces of the structure based on the three-dimensional point group data, a grouping unit is configured to group the flat surfaces into flat surface groups based on an angle of each of the flat surfaces with respect to a reference direction and a distance between the flat surfaces, a connection relationship extraction unit is configured to extract a connection relationship between the grouped flat surface groups, and a determination unit is configured to determine the structural member that the structure is constructed from based on the extracted connection relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignees: HITACHI, LTD., COMPUTER AND AUTOMATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE, HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakano, Youichi Nonaka, Gabor Erdos, Jozsef Vancza, Laszlo Monostori