Patents by Inventor Takayuki Nagai

Takayuki Nagai 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: 10508383
    Abstract: Disclosed is disclosure clothing treatment device capable of effectively preventing odour from reabsorbing to clothing. A clothing deodorizing device includes: a bag body for accommodating clothing; an ozone supply apparatus including an ozone generator and a blowing fan wherein the air supply fan operates to deliver the ozone generated by the ozone generator into the bag body by virtue of the flow of the air; and a control part for controlling operation of the ozone generator and the blowing fan. After performing deodorization operation that enables the ozone generator and the blowing fan to operate, the control part performs reabsorption preventing operation that enables the blowing fan to operate intermittently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: Aqua Co., Ltd., Qingdao Haier Washing Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nagai, Hazime Suzuki, Tomohiro Yamauchi, Katsuji Onishi, Osamu Tanikoshi
  • Publication number: 20190367689
    Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin composition includes a polyamide resin and a polyolefin resin, and when one resin between the polyamide resin and the polyolefin resin is set as a first resin, and the other resin is set as a second resin, the composition has a sea-island structure including a continuous phase C consisting of the first resin and a dispersed phase c consisting of the second resin dispersed in the continuous phase C, and in a resin phase separation cross-sectional structure, a total of cross-sectional areas of dispersed phases having a cross-sectional area equal to or smaller than an average cross-sectional area of the reinforcing fiber is 20% or less with respect to a total of cross-sectional areas of all dispersed phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Takayuki HIRAI, Kenzo FUKUMORI, Tetsuya ODA, Takayuki NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20190354966
    Abstract: A distributed ledger system has a configuration in which each of the distributed ledger subsystems includes a sub-ledger that holds ledger data shared in the distributed ledger subsystems, and a smart contract that interlocks between the distributed ledger subsystems having a common sub-ledger to perform a transaction processing related to an input and output of the ledger data, transmits a transaction request targeted for ledger data of another sub-ledger managed by another distributed ledger subsystem to another distributed ledger subsystem having the common sub-ledger by receiving a predetermined transaction request from a predetermined device and executing the smart contract, and replies with a transaction reply obtained from the other distributed ledger subsystem to the predetermined device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yosuke HIMURA, Tatsuya SATO, Yusuke ARAI, Takayuki NAGAI, Hironori EMARU
  • Patent number: 10469889
    Abstract: Provided are an information distribution device, system, program, and method that can increase the effectiveness of advertisements. The information distribution device selects advertisements to distribute based on viewer attributes collected while distributing content to a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Asai, Akira Inoue, Susumu Okuyama, Takeshi Kondo, Soichi Tsumura, Takayuki Nagai
  • Patent number: 10410868
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first nitride semiconductor layer formed over a substrate, a second nitride semiconductor layer formed over the first nitride semiconductor layer and having a band gap wider than a band gap of the first nitride semiconductor layer, a trench penetrating through the second nitride semiconductor layer and reaching an inside of the first nitride semiconductor layer, a gate electrode placed in the trench over a gate insulating film, and a first electrode and a second electrode formed over the second nitride semiconductor layer on both sides of the gate electrode, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Inoue, Tatsuo Nakayama, Yasuhiro Okamoto, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Toshiyuki Takewaki, Nobuhiro Nagura, Takayuki Nagai, Yoshinao Miura, Hironobu Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10379828
    Abstract: A computer is configured to generate a parallel program for a multi-core microcomputer from a single program for a single-core microcomputer, based on a dependency analysis of a bundle of unit processes in the single program. The computer obtains dependency information that enables dependency determination of dependency un-analyzable unit processes. Further, the computer performs a dependency analysis of dependency analyzable unit processes. Then, the computer assigns the dependency un-analyzable unit processes and the dependency analyzable unit processes respectively to multiple cores of the multi-core microcomputer, while fulfilling dependency among those processes, based on the obtained dependency information of the dependency un-analyzable unit processes and an analysis result of the dependency analyzable unit processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Mineda, Takayuki Nagai, Yu Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20190126992
    Abstract: A golf car includes a frame including main frames and cross members, an undercover that includes a front cover and a rear cover and is supported by the frame, and an engine room including an underside defined by the undercover. The front cover includes a rear end region provided with pawls. The rear cover includes a front end region provided with pawls. All of the pawls are engaged with the cross member. The front cover is fixed to the cross member and the main frames with fasteners, and the rear cover includes a rear end region fixed to the main frames with fasteners. The front cover and the rear cover include water drainage holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Takayuki NAGAI, Yoshiki TONOOKA, Masayuki KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190116185
    Abstract: In an access authority management system constituting a business network by predetermined business entities, a predetermined node is configured to execute a predetermined smart contract in accordance with contents of a transaction issued along with execution of a predetermined process and stored in a distributed ledger; and execute a predetermined process related to authority management of data access in a distributed ledger by a predetermined node of a participant in the business network based on an execution result of the smart contract.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki NAGAI, Hironori EMARU
  • Patent number: 10184209
    Abstract: A clothing treatment apparatus capable of enabling an orientation of a bag body and an orientation of an ozone supply apparatus to keep a desired relationship is provided. A clothing deodorizing apparatus comprises a bag body for accommodating clothing; an ozone supply apparatus for supplying air into the bag body; an introduction pipe for guiding the air with the ozone exhausted from the ozone supply apparatus into the bag body; a cylindrical part formed on the bag body and fixed with one end part of the introduction pipe; and an inserting port part formed on the ozone supply apparatus and configured to detachably install the other end part of the introduction pipe in a specified orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignees: AQUA CO., LTD, QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeharu Nakamoto, Hazime Suzuki, Takayuki Nagai, Tomohiro Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 10172969
    Abstract: Disclosed is a clothes treating device. A clothes deodorizing device includes: a bag body for accommodating clothes; an ozone supply device to supply air with ozone into the bag body; an exhaust part arranged on the bag body and used for air exhausted outside the bag body to pass through; and an ozone removing filter arranged on the exhaust part and used for removing ozone in air passing through the exhaust part. The exhaust part is formed by material harder than material forming the bag body and is installed on a first opening part formed in the bag body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignees: Aqua Co., Ltd., Qingdao Haier Washing Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeharu Nakamoto, Hazime Suzuki, Takayuki Nagai, Tomohiro Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20190003099
    Abstract: A washing machine not only may properly suppress vibration of an outer drum, but also may be easier to assemble due to a simple structure, thereby realizing reduction of the manufacturing cost. A washing machine including elastic supporting units for elastically supporting the outer drum to a main body includes: a plurality of extension springs arranged between the outer drum and the main body and capable of applying a counteracting force to the outer drum to enable the outer drum to return to an original position when a displacement of the outer drum is transmitted to the extension springs; and a displacement transmission unit capable of transmitting the displacement of the outer drum to the extension springs only when the displacement of the outer drum is larger than a specified value. The extension springs have a preset initial tension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicants: Qingdao Haier Washing Machine Co., Ltd., Aqua Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Takayuki NAGAI, Toru HIROSE, Shigeharu NAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180371670
    Abstract: A drum-type washing machine includes an outer tub disposed inside a machine housing a drum disposed in the outer tub and capable of rotating about an axis inclined with respect to a horizontal direction as a center; a rotating body disposed in the drum and having a protruding portion on the surface; a driving portion including a driving motor and is configured to transmit a torque of the driving motor to the drum and the rotor so as to rotate the drum and the rotating body at different rotation speeds; and a controlling portion for controlling an operation of the driving portion. The controlling portion is configured to perform a reduction control for reducing a load when a magnitude of the load applied to the rotating body exceeds a predetermined magnitude in a washing process and/or a rinsing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Osamu TANIKOSHI, Shigeharu NAKAMOTO, Tomohiro YAMAUCHI, Takayuki NAGAI, Takeya MATSUSHITA, Hiroyuki KITAKAWA
  • Patent number: 10156471
    Abstract: A combination scale is provided that includes a combinatorial computation unit and two operation modes; a normal operation mode, and a corrective operation mode in which correction values are decided. The correction values are for use in correcting errors of measured weight values calculated from weight signals of weight sensors. In the normal operation mode, the combinatorial computation unit corrects the measured weight values using the correction values decided in the corrective operation mode. Then, the combinatorial computation unit executes combinatorial computations based on the corrected measured weight values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: YAMATO SCALE Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nagai, Masafumi Takimoto
  • Patent number: 10151624
    Abstract: A virtual weight value is set, and a dummy run mode is set and activated. Then, a zero point, reference value used to calculate the weight value of articles to be weighed in each weighing hopper, is corrected based on the virtual weight value. This enables a dummy run of a combination scale to be performed with the actually empty weighing hopper being assumed to contain the articles equivalent to the virtual weight value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Yamamoto Scale Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nagai, Masafumi Takimoto
  • Patent number: 10086103
    Abstract: A clothes deodorizing apparatus includes: a bag body for accommodating clothes; an ozone supply apparatus to supply air with the ozone into the bag body; a throwing inlet arranged on the bag body and opened and closed through a zipper; and a locking detection unit configured to detect that the throwing inlet is locked by the zipper. The locking detection unit includes: a detection lock connected with a slider of the zipper; and a lock detection part arranged on the ozone supply apparatus and configured to detect a lock inserting concave part that accepts the detection lock and the detection lock. The detection lock does not reach the lock inserting concave part in a state that the zipper is completely opened, and reaches the lock inserting concave part in a state that the zipper is completely closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Aqua Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeharu Nakamoto, Hazime Suzuki, Takayuki Nagai, Tomohiro Yamauchi, Osamu Tanikoshi, Katsuji Onishi
  • Publication number: 20180274969
    Abstract: A virtual weight value is set, and a dummy run mode is set and activated. Then, a zero point, reference value used to calculate the weight value of articles to be weighed in each weighing hopper, is corrected based on the virtual weight value. This enables a dummy run of a combination scale to be performed with the actually empty weighing hopper being assumed to contain the articles equivalent to the virtual weight value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Takayuki NAGAI, Masafumi TAKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180274970
    Abstract: A combination scale is provided that includes a combinatorial computation unit and two operation modes; a normal operation mode, and a corrective operation mode in which correction values are decided. The correction values are for use in correcting errors of measured weight values calculated from weight signals of weight sensors. In the normal operation mode, the combinatorial computation unit corrects the measured weight values using the correction values decided in the corrective operation mode. Then, the combinatorial computation unit executes combinatorial computations based on the corrected measured weight values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Takayuki NAGAI, Masafumi TAKIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10030304
    Abstract: An ion implantation apparatus in which a fluorine compound gas is used as a source gas of an ion source, includes a vacuum chamber into which the source gas is introduced; an introduction passage connected to the vacuum chamber and configured to introduce into the vacuum chamber a cleaning gas containing a component that reacts with the fluorine compound deposited inside the vacuum chamber so as to generate a reactant gas; a delivery device configured to forcibly introduce the cleaning gas into the introduction passage; a first adjustment device configured to adjust an amount of gas flow in the introduction passage; an exhausting passage connected to the vacuum chamber and configured to forcibly exhaust the reactant gas along with the cleaning gas; and a second adjustment device configured to adjust an amount of gas flow in the exhausting passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES ION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nagai, Masateru Sato
  • Publication number: 20180189109
    Abstract: This management system for a computer system including a plurality of resources receives designation of an app usage and refers to management information, which includes information about the plurality of resources. The management system determines, for a target virtual server (a virtual server that executes the app for the designated app usage), at least one of the specification of resources to be allocated for exclusive use and the specification of resources to be allocated for shared use, in accordance with app requirements associated with the designated app usage. The plurality of resources includes a plurality of logical volumes and a plurality of computer resources including a plurality of kinds of computer resources. The computer system includes a server system including two or more computer resources included among the plurality of computer resources. The resource specifications include the kinds of resources, app usages associated with resources, and/or the number of resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki NAGAI, Satoshi KANEKO, Hironori EMARU, Shinichi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180155865
    Abstract: Disclosed is disclosure clothing treatment device capable of effectively preventing odour from reabsorbing to clothing. A clothing deodorizing device includes: a bag body for accommodating clothing; an ozone supply apparatus including an ozone generator and a blowing fan wherein the air supply fan operates to deliver the ozone generated by the ozone generator into the bag body by virtue of the flow of the air; and a control part for controlling operation of the ozone generator and the blowing fan. After performing deodorization operation that enables the ozone generator and the blowing fan to operate, the control part performs reabsorption preventing operation that enables the blowing fan to operate intermittently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicants: AQUA CO., LTD., Qingdao Haier Washing Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nagai, Hazime Suzuki, Tomohiro Yamauchi, Katsuji Onishi, Osamu Tanikoshi