Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Nakayama

Tomohiro Nakayama 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: 20240149890
    Abstract: An on-vehicle system includes: a control device; an in-vehicle sensor that detects whether there is a priority target among occupants in a vehicle; and a storage device that stores a learned model for feeling estimation. Further, the control device: determines whether there is a priority target among occupants in the vehicle based on a detection result of the in-vehicle sensor; acquires information on the priority target when determining that there is the priority target; estimates a feeling of the priority target based on the information that has been acquired by using the learned model; and executes vehicle control in accordance with a result of estimating the feeling of the target occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro KANEKO, Shigeki NAKAYAMA, Kotoru SATO
  • Patent number: 11979898
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of sets of base station devices and terminal station devices configured to perform communications in an equal frame length using a time division duplex scheme, the communications of the plurality of sets being simultaneously operated in adjacent areas, in which each of the base station devices includes a control unit configured to control a transmission timing of a downlink signal transmitted from the base station device itself based on a communication distance between the base station device and the terminal station device of each of the sets or a reception timing of a downlink signal in the terminal station device such that reception timings of downlink signals transmitted from the base station device itself and other base station devices in the terminal station devices of the sets fall within a predetermined range determined in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Hiroyuki Furuya, Hayato Fukuzono, Yu Ono, Tsutomu Tatsuta, Tomohiro Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20240140454
    Abstract: An on-vehicle system includes: a control device; a monitoring device that monitors whether each of a plurality of occupants in a vehicle has grasped a behavior of the vehicle; and a storage device that stores a learned model for feeling estimation. Further, the control device determines whether there is an occupant who has not grasped a behavior of the vehicle among the plurality of occupants based on a monitoring result of the monitoring device, specifies a target occupant whose feeling is to be estimated from the plurality of occupants based on the determination result, estimates feeling of the target occupant who has been specified by using the learned model, and executes vehicle control in accordance with a result of estimating the feeling of the target occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kaneko, Shigeki Nakayama, Kotoru Sato
  • Publication number: 20240131844
    Abstract: A printing device includes a head unit that includes a nozzle and that ejects liquid from the nozzle toward a medium; a heating section that heats the medium to which the liquid was applied; and a head unit moving section configured to move the head unit, wherein the head unit includes a gas guiding section that guides air flow generated by the movement of the head unit toward the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Tomohiro YODA, Hiroyuki NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240131895
    Abstract: An air-conditioning control device includes a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to execute: estimating an emotion of an occupant in a vehicle interior when a spot air conditioning is performed on the occupant; and controlling the spot air conditioning based on an estimation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeki NAKAYAMA, Tomohiro KANEKO, Kotoru SATO
  • Publication number: 20240132090
    Abstract: A vehicle controller for a vehicle includes a processor to: detect a driving state of the vehicle; determine whether a predetermined dangerous driving is included in the detected driving state; determine, when determining that the predetermined dangerous driving is included in the detected driving state, whether a mood of a driver of the vehicle is elevated; and perform, when determining that the mood of the driver is elevated, vehicle control to settle the mood of the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Nakayama, Tomohiro Kaneko, Kotoru Sato
  • Patent number: 11968324
    Abstract: In a signal transmission system for transmitting an analog signal, in which a billing signal is superposed on an audio signal, from a transmitting device to a receiving device, the transmitting device includes a separation unit configured to separate the audio signal from the analog signal, an AD conversion unit configured to perform AD conversion on the audio signal separated by the separation unit, a detection unit configured to detect the billing signal from the analog signal, a coding unit configured to encode the billing signal detected by the detection unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the audio signal subjected to the AD conversion by the AD conversion unit and the billing signal encoded by the coding unit to the receiving device, and the receiving device includes a reception unit configured to receive the audio signal and the billing signal transmitted by the transmission unit, a DA conversion unit configured to perform DA conversion on the audio signal received by the reception uni
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Furuya, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Hayato Fukuzono, Yu Ono, Tsutomu Tatsuta, Tomohiro Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11949303
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to efficiently cool a rotor coil even in a rotor provided with a wire connection plate. A stator of a rotating electric machine includes a stator core, a plurality of segment coils protruding from slots of the stator core and arranged in a radial direction, a connection conductor that connects the segment coils, and an insulating member that holds the connection conductor. The insulating member includes a through hole through which the segment coil penetrates and is accommodated. An opening through which a coolant can flow into the through hole is provided on an inner peripheral side of the insulating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Nakayama, Hiromitsu Okamoto, Satoshi Yamamura, Tomohiro Adachi
  • Publication number: 20240066047
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a compound having a STING agonistic activity, which may be expected to be useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of STING-related diseases. The present disclosure relates to a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the description, or a salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: MASATO YOSHIKAWA, MORIHISA SAITOH, TAISUKE KATO, YAYOI NAKAYAMA, TOMOHIRO SEKI, YASUO NAKAGAWA, YUSUKE TOMINARI, MASAKI SETO, YUSUKE SASAKI, MASANORI OKANIWA, TSUNEO ODA, AKITO SHIBUYA, KOSUKE HIDAKA, ZENYU SHIOKAWA, SHUMPEI MURATA, ATSUTOSHI OKABE, YOSHIHISA NAKADA, MICHIYO MOCHIZUKI, BRIAN SCOTT FREEZE, TAISUKE TAWARAISHI, YASUFUMI WADA, PAUL D. GREENSPAN
  • Publication number: 20240014640
    Abstract: (Problem) To provide an electric cable connection method for joining terminal conductors in an assembled state and a joined electric cable. (Solution to the Problem) An electric cable connection method is a method for connecting exposed terminal conductors 21a of a plurality of covered electric cables 20 so as to be conductive. The electric cable connection method includes an assembly step s2 of assembling the covered electric cables 20; a fixing step s3 of fixing the terminal conductors 21a of the assembly of the plurality of electric cables 20 with a resin cover 50; and a joining step s4 of setting the plurality of covered electric cables having the plurality of terminal conductors 21a fixed with the resin cover 50 in an electric cable connection device 40, and joining the plurality of exposed terminal conductors 21a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Toshihiro NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro HIGUCHI, Yukihiro TORIMOTO, Tomohiro NAKAYAMA, Hiroshi TAKANO, Ryo NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11862915
    Abstract: [Object] The present invention provides a joined conductor and a method for manufacturing a joined conductor that can improve electrical conductivity between conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Nakamura, Tomohiro Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11838167
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system configured to accommodate a plurality of circuits to transmit a signal from a transmitter to a receiver, the system including a number-of-circuits observation unit configured to observe the number of circuits among the plurality of circuits through which communication is being performed; a quality observation unit configured to observe a quality of each of a plurality of communications; a determination unit configured to determine a modulation scheme for transmitting a signal based on the number of circuits observed by the number-of-circuits observation unit, the quality of each of the plurality of communications observed by the quality observation unit, and a required throughput of each of the plurality of circuits; and a modulation unit configured to modulate the signal using the modulation scheme determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Fukuzono, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Keita Kuriyama, Hiroyuki Furuya, Yu Ono, Tsutomu Tatsuta, Tomohiro Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20230348502
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel compound represented by formula (I) or formula (II) capable of reducing the color difference before and after post-baking. [In the formula (I), Y1 and Z1 each independently represent an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, and Z2 and Z3 each independently represent a single bond, an oxygen atom, or a sulfur atom, provided that at least one of Y1, Z1, Z2, and Z3 represents a sulfur atom, and in the formula (II), Y2 and Z4 each independently represent an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, and Z5 represents a single bond, an oxygen atom, or a sulfur atom, provided that at least one of Y2, Z4, and Z5 represents a sulfur atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takuma AOKI, Tomohiro NAKAYAMA, Tetsuo AKASAKA, Takahiro KUROGI
  • Publication number: 20230312869
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a colored resin composition containing an aluminum phthalocyanine pigment capable of forming a colored coating film with no foreign matter (preferably a colored coating film with no foreign matter and good adhesion). The colored resin composition of the present invention contains a colorant, a compound represented by formula (DA), a resin, and a solvent, wherein the colorant contains an aluminum phthalocyanine pigment. [In formula (DA), Rd1 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms and optionally having a substituent. When the hydrocarbon group has 2 to 12 carbon atoms and the hydrocarbon group has —CH2—, —CH2— may be substituted with —O—, —S—, or —CO—. Rd2 and Rd3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms and optionally having a substituent, or Rd2 and Rd3 are combined to form a ring together with —CO—NRd1—CO—.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takahiro KUROGI, Takuma AOKI, Tomohiro NAKAYAMA, Tetsuo AKASAKA, Manabu TOGAI
  • Publication number: 20230279034
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by formula (I) or formula (II) capable of reducing the color difference before and after post-baking. [In the formula (I), R1 represents a C2-C20 unsaturated hydrocarbon group optionally having a substituent; R2 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-C20 hydrocarbon group optionally having a substituent, or a single bond connecting Z2 and R1; and Z1 and Z2 each independently represent a single bond or an oxygen atom, and in the formula (II), R3 represents a C2-C20 unsaturated hydrocarbon group optionally having a substituent; and Z3 represents a single bond or an oxygen atom].
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takuma AOKI, Tomohiro NAKAYAMA, Tetsuo AKASAKA, Takahiro KUROGI, Hirofumi HAMAKI
  • Publication number: 20230130507
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a negative resist composition that is useful for producing a color filter with a high transmittance of light at a wavelength of 440 nm. A negative resist composition of the present invention comprises a colorant and a resin, wherein the colorant contains a xanthene dye, and a cured film formed from the negative resist composition exhibits a spectrum that satisfies the following condition 1: [condition 1] a maximum absorption wavelength is present in a wavelength range of 500 to 580 nm, and based on a transmittance at the maximum absorption wavelength being 5%, a transmittance at a wavelength of 440 nm is 80% or more and a transmittance at a wavelength of 620 nm is 80% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomohiro NAKAYAMA, Tetsuo AKASAKA, Takuma AOKI, Taku MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220321392
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system configured to accommodate a plurality of circuits to transmit a signal from a transmitter to a receiver, the system including a number-of-circuits observation unit configured to observe the number of circuits among the plurality of circuits through which communication is being performed; a quality observation unit configured to observe a quality of each of a plurality of communications; a determination unit configured to determine a modulation scheme for transmitting a signal based on the number of circuits observed by the number-of-circuits observation unit, the quality of each of the plurality of communications observed by the quality observation unit, and a required throughput of each of the plurality of circuits; and a modulation unit configured to modulate the signal using the modulation scheme determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato FUKUZONO, Tomohiro TOKUYASU, Keita KURIYAMA, Hiroyuki FURUYA, Yu ONO, Tsutomu TATSUTA, Tomohiro NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220279368
    Abstract: A wireless base station device includes a test request unit that, upon receipt of a line test request from a host station side, transmits an implementation request for a line test to a wireless terminal station device and a test response unit that transmits at least one of a terminal identification code returned from the wireless terminal station device and a terminal identification code and a line test result of the wireless base station device to the host station side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Yu ONO, Tomohiro TOKUYASU, Hiroyuki FURUYA, Hayato FUKUZONO, Tsutomu TATSUTA, Tomohiro NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220263948
    Abstract: In a signal transmission system for transmitting an analog signal, in which a billing signal is superposed on an audio signal, from a transmitting device to a receiving device, the transmitting device includes a separation unit configured to separate the audio signal from the analog signal, an AD conversion unit configured to perform AD conversion on the audio signal separated by the separation unit, a detection unit configured to detect the billing signal from the analog signal, a coding unit configured to encode the billing signal detected by the detection unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the audio signal subjected to the AD conversion by the AD conversion unit and the billing signal encoded by the coding unit to the receiving device, and the receiving device includes a reception unit configured to receive the audio signal and the billing signal transmitted by the transmission unit, a DA conversion unit configured to perform DA conversion on the audio signal received by the reception uni
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki FURUYA, Tomohiro TOKUYASU, Hayato FUKUZONO, Yu ONO, Tsutomu TATSUTA, Tomohiro NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220240272
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of sets of base station devices and terminal station devices configured to perform communications in an equal frame length using a time division duplex scheme, the communications of the plurality of sets being simultaneously operated in adjacent areas, in which each of the base station devices includes a control unit configured to control a transmission timing of a downlink signal transmitted from the base station device itself based on a communication distance between the base station device and the terminal station device of each of the sets or a reception timing of a downlink signal in the terminal station device such that reception timings of downlink signals transmitted from the base station device itself and other base station devices in the terminal station devices of the sets fall within a predetermined range determined in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro TOKUYASU, Hiroyuki FURUYA, Hayato FUKUZONO, Yu ONO, Tsutomu TATSUTA, Tomohiro NAKAYAMA