Patents by Inventor Wataru Nakamura

Wataru Nakamura 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: 20240133208
    Abstract: A locking mechanism includes a first member that is provided on one side to lock and is rotated about a rotating shaft, a second member that is provided on the other side to lock and comes into contact with the first member to rotate the first member, a rotation applying member that further applies a rotational force to the first member rotated by the second member, a restriction portion that restricts movement of the first member to be rotated in a direction in which the first member is released from a locked state, and an elastic portion that allows the first member and the restriction portion to be in elastic contact with each other and allows the first member and the restriction portion to start to be in elastic contact with each other before the first member rotated by the second member is further rotated by the rotation applying member in a release direction which is the direction in which the first member is released from the locked state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Keigo Shinoto, Shuichi Nishide, Michiaki Yoshida, Akira Ueshima, Akira Tanaka, Takahiro Iizuka, Wataru Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11967101
    Abstract: The present invention provides a motion capture with a high accuracy which can replace an optical motion capture technology, without attaching optical markers and sensors to a subject. A subject with an articulated structure has a plurality of feature points in the body of the subject including a plurality of joints wherein a distance between adjacent feature points is obtained as a constant. A spatial distribution of a likelihood of a position of each feature point is obtained based on a single input image or a plurality of input images taken at the same time. One or a plurality of position candidates corresponding to each feature point are obtained based on the spatial distribution of the likelihood of the position of each feature point. Each join angle is obtained by performing an optimization calculation based on inverse kinematics using the candidates and the articulated structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Nakamura, Wataru Takano, Yosuke Ikegami, Takuya Ohashi, Kazuki Yamamoto, Kentaro Takemoto
  • Publication number: 20240126202
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing, a cover that is opened and closed on the housing, a detection part that detects opening and closing of the cover using ON and OFF, a rotating part that is rotatably supported and turns on and off the detection part, a pushing portion that comes into contact with the rotating part to rotate the rotating part in a case where the cover is closed, and a rotation applying part that applies a rotational force to the rotating part rotated by the pushing portion in a direction in which the detection part is turned on in a case where the cover is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Keigo Shinoto, Shuichi Nishide, Michiaki Yoshida, Akira Ueshima, Takahiro IIzuka, Wataru Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11920398
    Abstract: An opening/closing mechanism includes a first inclined portion disposed in an opening/closing body that opens/closes while a first shaft serves as a fulcrum in a main body, a second inclined portion disposed in the opening/closing body, and a swing portion that swings between the first inclined portion and the second inclined portion while a second shaft disposed in the main body serves as a fulcrum, in which during a closing operation of the opening/closing body, the swing portion applies a force in a closing direction of the opening/closing body by coming into contact with the first inclined portion, after applying a force in an opening direction of the opening/closing body by coming into contact with the second inclined portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Akira Ueshima, Shuichi Nishide, Michiaki Yoshida, Keigo Shinoto, Wataru Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240072282
    Abstract: The present disclosure stabilizes power generation of a fuel cell stack in an environment in which an oxygen concentration in a fuel cell system readily decreases. In a case where it is detected that the oxygen concentration is lower than a predetermined concentration or where a phenomenon caused by the oxygen concentration being lower than the predetermined concentration is detected, processing to increase a flow rate of air supplied to the fuel cell stack or processing to ventilate the interior of the fuel cell stack by controlling an operation of a ventilation unit is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Naoya TOMIMOTO, Yosuke KAKIMI, Ken NAKAMURA, Katsuyuki TACHIKAWA, Wataru AKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240053702
    Abstract: A cover includes: a cover main body that is attached to an attachment target and that has an inner surface facing an attachment target side; a first projection portion that protrudes from the inner surface and that is formed along a first direction; an attachment portion that is attached to the inner surface of the cover main body and that has a facing surface facing the inner surface; and a second projection portion that protrudes from the facing surface, that is formed along the first direction, and that is in contact with the first projection portion in a second direction intersecting the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Wataru Nakamura, Akira Tanaka, Akira Ueshima, Riwako Miyauchi, Shuichi Nishide
  • Publication number: 20230327876
    Abstract: An authentication apparatus holds: a combination of a concealment template generated from a secret key and biometric information through use of biometric cryptography and encrypted identity verification information obtained by encrypting identity verification information through use of the secret key; and biometric information on a user, and is configured to: extract the secret key from the concealment template through use of the biometric information on the user; acquire the identity verification information by decrypting the encrypted identity verification information through use of the extracted secret key; and verify identity of the user based on the acquired identity verification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke KAGA, Kenta TAKAHASHI, Masakazu FUJIO, Wataru NAKAMURA, Yoshiko YASUMURA
  • Publication number: 20230314633
    Abstract: A radiation detection module includes an active matrix substrate and a scintillator. The active matrix substrate includes a support substrate including a first main surface, the first main surface including a first region and a second region surrounding the first region, and a plurality of pixels one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally arrayed in the first region of the first main surface, the plurality of pixels each of which includes a switching element and a photoelectric conversion element electrically connected to the switching element. The scintillator covers the photoelectric conversion elements of the plurality of pixels. A thickness of the support substrate in the first region is smaller than a thickness in the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Wataru NAKAMURA, Akinori KUBOTA, Yu NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230301845
    Abstract: A disposable wearable article has a top sheet having a skin-touching region that is brought into contact with skin of a wearer, in which the top sheet is made from nonwoven fabric having a fineness of 1 to 3 dtex, and a basis weight of 10 to 30 g/m2, and in which the skin-touching region has a glycerin-bearing zone bearing 0.7 to 2.7 g/m2 of glycerin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Wataru Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20230218450
    Abstract: A disposable wearing article has a top sheet including a skin-contacting region which is in contact with skin of a wearer. The top sheet is a perforated nonwoven fabric having a hole-arranging area in which the holes penetrating a front surface of the perforated nonwoven fabric and a back surface thereof are arranged in a predetermined pattern. The skin-contacting region has a liquid-containing area containing a hydrophilic skin care liquid, the hole-arranging area, and an overlapping area in which the liquid-containing area and the hole-arranging area are overlapped each other. The top sheet is, at least at the entire hole-arranging area of the top sheet, bonded to an intermediate sheet or the like located at a back surface side of the top sheet with a hydrophobic hot melt adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Daio Paper Corporation
    Inventor: Wataru Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20230203860
    Abstract: A latch mechanism of an opening/closing door, which is used in a device including an opening/closing door that opens/closes an opening of a device body by using the opening/closing door, restrains the opening/closing door at a closing position, and releases a restrained state when the opening/closing door is opened, the latch mechanism includes an elastic component provided in one of the opening/closing door and the device body facing the opening, having a spring member expanding/contracting to be elastically deformable in one predetermined direction, and holding both end positions of the spring member to be floatable via a holder, and a latch component provided in the other of the opening/closing door and the device body, coming into contact with the holder of the elastic component when the opening/closing door closes the opening, having a latch member restraining the elastic component in a state where the spring member is elastically deformed from an initial state, and moving the holder against a biasing fo
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Wataru NAKAMURA, Shuichi NISHIDE, Akira UESHIMA, Michiaki YOSHIDA, Keigo SHINOTO
  • Publication number: 20230203859
    Abstract: A latch mechanism includes a main body engagement unit arranged in a main body having an opening/closing body that opens/closes, and opening/closing body engagement unit arranged in the opening/closing body to engage with the main body engagement unit when the opening/closing body is closed, in which the main body engagement unit is configured to include a first engagement body having a pair of first top portions displaced in a direction orthogonal to a closing direction of the opening/closing body, the opening/closing body engagement unit is configured to include a second engagement body having a pair of second top portions respectively coming into contact with the pair of first top portions, and the second engagement body has a first slope that applies a force in a direction to open the opening/closing body to the second engagement body in a state where the other first top portion of the pair of first top portions is in contact with the second top portion, when one second top portion of the pair of second t
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Michiaki YOSHIDA, Wataru NAKAMURA, Keigo SHINOTO, Akira UESHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230203871
    Abstract: An opening/closing mechanism includes a first inclined portion disposed in an opening/closing body that opens/closes while a first shaft serves as a fulcrum in a main body, a second inclined portion disposed in the opening/closing body, and a swing portion that swings between the first inclined portion and the second inclined portion while a second shaft disposed in the main body serves as a fulcrum, in which during a closing operation of the opening/closing body, the swing portion applies a force in a closing direction of the opening/closing body by coming into contact with the first inclined portion, after applying a force in an opening direction of the opening/closing body by coming into contact with the second inclined portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Akira UESHIMA, Shuichi NISHIDE, Michiaki YOSHIDA, Keigo SHINOTO, Wataru NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230119436
    Abstract: A disposable wearable article including a top sheet having a skin-touching region that is brought into contact with skin of a wearer, wherein the top sheet is made from discontinuous fiber nonwoven fabric having a fineness of 1 to 3 dtex, a basis weight of 10 to 30 g/m2, and a thickness of 0.4 to 1.4 mm, wherein the skin-touching region has a lotion-bearing zone which bears a water-containing hydrophilic lotion, the lotion-bearing zone having a MD dimension of 30 mm or larger and a CD dimension of 5 mm or larger, and wherein an average coefficient of friction MIU of the lotion-bearing zone is 0.2 to 0.4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Nakamura, Masashi Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20230089492
    Abstract: A disposable wearable article including a top sheet having a skin-touching region that is brought into contact with skin of a wearer, the top sheet being made from nonwoven fabric, wherein the skin-touching region has a lotion-bearing zone which bears a hydrophilic lotion containing water and glycerin, the lotion-bearing zone having a MD dimension of 30 mm or larger and a CD dimension of 5 mm or larger, wherein the lotion-bearing zone has a surface moisture percentage of 3 to 10%, wherein the hydrophilic lotion has a water activity value of 0.8 or less, and wherein the hydrophilic lotion is free of preservatives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuto Fujiwara, Wataru Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11404588
    Abstract: An imaging panel includes an imaging element that is formed on a substrate. The imaging element includes a gate line, a source line, a switching element, a photoelectric conversion element, and a bias line. The gate line and the source line are formed in a layer in which a part of the switching element is formed, a layer in which a part of the photoelectric conversion element is formed, or a layer in which the bias line is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Rikiya Takita, Fumiki Nakano, Wataru Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11367965
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal panel of a scanning antenna including a transmission and/or reception region in which a plurality of antenna units are arrayed, and a non-transmission and/or reception region, the liquid crystal panel including: a TFT substrate provided with a first dielectric substrate, a TFT supported by the first dielectric substrate, a gate bus line, a source bus line, and a patch electrode; a slot substrate provided with a second dielectric substrate, and a slot electrode formed on a first main surface of the second dielectric substrate and including a slot arranged so as to correspond to the patch electrode; a liquid crystal layer provided between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate and including a plurality of liquid crystal regions; and a plurality of sealing portions that respectively surround the plurality of liquid crystal regions and bond the TFT substrate and the slot substrate together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadashi Ohtake, Takatoshi Orui, Wataru Nakamura, Kiyoshi Minoura, Masanobu Mizusaki
  • Publication number: 20210267822
    Abstract: An absorbent body having elasticity in a plurality of directions is provided. The absorbent body according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first elastic member, a second elastic member, and an absorbing member laminated between the first elastic member and the second elastic member, wherein the first elastic member forms, together with the second elastic member, a plurality of housing parts, and the plurality of housing parts are delimited from each other by a first delimiting part along a first direction and a second delimiting part along a second direction intersecting the first direction, and house the absorbing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventor: Wataru Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210184058
    Abstract: An imaging panel includes an imaging element that is formed on a substrate. The imaging element includes a gate line, a source line, a switching element, a photoelectric conversion element, and a bias line. The gate line and the source line are formed in a layer in which a part of the switching element is formed, a layer in which a part of the photoelectric conversion element is formed, or a layer in which the bias line is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Rikiya TAKITA, Fumiki NAKANO, Wataru NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11024960
    Abstract: A scanning antenna includes a TFT substrate including a plurality of TFTs supported by a first dielectric substrate and a plurality of patch electrodes, a slot substrate including a slot electrode supported by a second dielectric substrate, a liquid crystal layer provided between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate, and a reflective conductive plate disposed opposing the second dielectric substrate across a dielectric layer. The slot electrode includes a plurality of slots disposed corresponding to the plurality of patch electrodes, each patch electrode is connected to a drain of the corresponding TFT, the slot electrode includes Cu layers, and lower metal layers and/or an upper metal layer, and the lower metal layer and/or the upper metal layer decrease about a half or more of a tensile stress of the Cu layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takatoshi Orui, Tadashi Ohtake, Wataru Nakamura, Kiyoshi Minoura, Kenichi Kitoh