Patents by Inventor Akihiro Nakamura

Akihiro 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).

  • Patent number: 10923632
    Abstract: A light emitting element includes a semiconductor structure including a first layer including a first and a second regions, and a second layer above the second region, the first region including extending portions each extending into the second region from an outer peripheral region; a first insulating layer including first through-holes respectively located on the extending portions, and a second through-hole located above the second region; a second insulating layer including a third and a fourth through-holes; a first external electrode connected with the first layer via the first through-holes; and a second external electrode connected with the second layer via the second through-hole. The extending portions are each located in an area, on a top surface of the first layer, other than an area overlapping any of corner portions of the first external electrode and other than an area overlapping any of corner portions of the second external electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Nakamura, Keiji Emura
  • Patent number: 10888577
    Abstract: There is disclosed herein methods, uses and systems for the detection, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment or prevention of a disease or condition comprising cartilage degeneration in a subject that is in need thereof. The methods comprise the use, inhibition or measurement of at least one of miR-181 a-5p and miR-4454, in the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK
    Inventors: Mohit Kapoor, Akihiro Nakamura, Raja Rampersaud
  • Patent number: 10871769
    Abstract: A manufacturing system 10 is configured to include a driving device 4 configured to drive a manufacturing machine 5 in a step pertaining to product manufacture in a predetermined production management system, the driving device 4 driving the manufacturing machine 5 in the step in response to predetermined information obtained related to a state of the step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichiro Nagata, Akihiro Nakamura, Shuji Soga, Naohito Ikeda, Gen Tsuchida
  • Publication number: 20200392383
    Abstract: A method for producing a silicone-based adhesive is disclosed. The method comprises: (1) applying a silicone composition (I) to one surface of a peelable substrate, and then forming a silicone layer (I) by curing or drying the silicone composition (I); and (2) applying a silicone composition (II) to a surface of the silicone layer (I), and then forming the silicone-based adhesive by curing the silicone composition (II). The silicone composition (I) contains a silicone resin. The silicone composition (II) either does not contain the silicone resin or if contained, its content amount is lower than that in the silicone composition (I). The method is useful for producing a silicone-based adhesive with low peel resistance from a peelable substrate even with a low modulus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Takakazu HINO, Michitaka SUTO, Akihiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10857758
    Abstract: Provided is a silicone foam sheet that expresses excellent bubble removability, that has satisfactory adhesiveness with an adherend and satisfactory sealability, that maintains the expression of these effects even when its thickness is reduced, that preferably expresses a stable modulus of elasticity over a region from a low-temperature region to a high-temperature region, and that suppresses both of its compression set in the low-temperature region and its compression set in the high-temperature region to low levels. Also provided is a method of producing such silicone foam sheet. The silicone foam sheet comprises an open-cell structure having a thickness of from 10 ?m to 3,000 ?m, wherein an open-cell ratio is 90% or more, an average cell diameter of the silicone foam sheet is from 1 ?m to 50 ?m, and 90% or more of all cells therein each has a cell diameter of 80 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION, DOW TORAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Doi, Toru Iseki, Akihiro Nakamura, Syuji Endo
  • Publication number: 20200354615
    Abstract: A curing-reactive organopolysiloxane composition is provided. The composition generally forms a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer which is curable by a hydrosilylation reaction, has excellent adhesiveness and handleability, and is capable of maintaining high transparency over an extended period of time without developing problems such as discoloration or coloration, even when subjected to long-term aging at a high temperature and even when exposed to high-energy rays such as UV rays over an extended period of time. The curing-reactive organopolysiloxane composition can be cured via hydrosilylation reaction. A content of platinum-based metal among a solid content is in the range of from 0.1 to 50 ppm. An adhesive force of a cured layer with a thickness of 50 ?m obtained by curing the composition is not less than 0.02N/25 mm. A pressure-sensitive adhesive layer obtained by curing the composition, and an electronic part or a display device using the same, are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Maki ITOH, Hidefumi TANAKA, Akihiro NAKAMURA, Masahiro SAITO, Michitaka SUTO
  • Patent number: 10816402
    Abstract: A spectrometry device includes: an integrating sphere which includes an inner wall surface and an attachment hole; an adapter which includes a guide hole guiding the measurement target light and is disposed in the integrating sphere; a plate which includes a first surface covering the guide hole from the outside of the integrating sphere and allowing a sample to be mounted thereon and a second surface and through which the measurement target light is transmitted; a holder which includes a concave portion mounting the plate thereon and is attached to the attachment hole; and a spectral detector configured to detect the measurement target light. The concave portion includes a bottom surface facing the second surface and a side surface surrounding the periphery of the plate. The bottom surface and the side surface are coated with a reflective material reflecting the measurement target light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Ikemura, Kazuya Iguchi, Shigeru Eura, Akihiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200304701
    Abstract: Implemented is a configuration in which camera identification information is displayed on an electric paper display unit such that the identification information can be confirmed during a power-off time. An electric paper display unit on which camera identification information is displayed, and a control unit that executes displaying upon receiving an input of identification information to be displayed or information for designating the identification information, are included. The control unit receives an input of the identification information or information for designating the identification from an external apparatus, an external memory, or an inner memory of the camera, and displays, on the electric paper display unit, the identification information or synthesized information including the identification information and additional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: MASAKI AWAJI, AKIHIRO NAKAMURA, SHINGO NAKANO, SATOSHI TSUBAKI, TATSUYA OGIWARA
  • Publication number: 20200227593
    Abstract: A light emitting element includes a semiconductor structure including a first layer including a first and a second regions, and a second layer above the second region, the first region including extending portions each extending into the second region from an outer peripheral region; a first insulating layer including first through-holes respectively located on the extending portions, and a second through-hole located above the second region; a second insulating layer including a third and a fourth through-holes; a first external electrode connected with the first layer via the first through-holes; and a second external electrode connected with the second layer via the second through-hole. The extending portions are each located in an area, on a top surface of the first layer, other than an area overlapping any of corner portions of the first external electrode and other than an area overlapping any of corner portions of the second external electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro NAKAMURA, Keiji EMURA
  • Publication number: 20200224069
    Abstract: A curable organopolysiloxane composition with excellent handling workability and curability by a hydrosilylation reaction, which forms a pressure sensitive adhesive layer that firmly adheres to a base material of a display device or the like, is disclosed. An application thereof is also disclosed. The organopolysiloxane composition with pressure sensitive adhesive layer forming properties is a hydrosilylation reactive organopolysiloxane composition where a molar ratio (e.g. SiH/Vi ratio) of an SiH group in an organopolysiloxane (C) with regard to a sum of an amount of alkenyl groups in an organopolysiloxane (A) having an alkenyl group and an organopolysiloxane resin (B) is at an amount of 20 to 60.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Maki ITOH, Akihiro NAKAMURA, Michitaka SUTO
  • Patent number: 10704471
    Abstract: Provided is a dump truck that includes an engine (1) and an ECU (7) controlling the engine (1) and that performs a predetermined operation after arriving at a destination. The ECU (7) is configured to makes larger an engine power suppression amount on a route leading the dump truck to the destination as a work waiting time that is a prediction time elapsing from an arrival of the dump truck at the destination to a start of the operation by the dump truck is longer and as an engine load of the dump truck is lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Nakamura, Naokazu Oda, Masatsugu Arai
  • Patent number: 10656521
    Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition comprises: a resin having a phenolic hydroxyl group; a photosensitive acid generator; a compound having at least one selected from the group consisting of an aromatic ring, a heterocycle and an alicycle, and at least one selected from the group consisting of a methylol group and an alkoxyalkyl group; and an aliphatic compound having two or more functional groups, the functional groups being at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of an acryloyloxy group, a methacryloyloxy group, a glycidyloxy group, an oxetanyl alkyl ether group, a vinyl ether group and a hydroxyl group, wherein the photosensitive acid generator is a sulfonium salt containing an anion having at least one skeleton selected from the group consisting of a tetraphenylborate skeleton, an alkylsulfonate skeleton having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a phenylsulfonate skeleton and a 10-camphorsulfonate skeleton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kato, Kenichi Iwashita, Akihiro Nakamura, Akio Nakano, Hiroshi Ono
  • Patent number: 10644203
    Abstract: A light emitting element includes a semiconductor structure including a first layer including a first and a second regions, and a second layer above the second region, the first region including extending portions each extending into the second region from an outer peripheral region; a first insulating layer including first through-holes respectively located on the extending portions, and a second through-hole located above the second region; a second insulating layer including a third and a fourth through-holes; a first external electrode connected with the first layer via the first through-holes; and a second external electrode connected with the second layer via the second through-hole. The extending portions are each located in an area, on a top surface of the first layer, other than an area overlapping any of corner portions of the first external electrode and other than an area overlapping any of corner portions of the second external electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Nakamura, Keiji Emura
  • Publication number: 20200096389
    Abstract: A spectrometry device includes: an integrating sphere which includes an inner wall surface and an attachment hole; an adapter which includes a guide hole guiding the measurement target light and is disposed in the integrating sphere; a plate which includes a first surface covering the guide hole from the outside of the integrating sphere and allowing a sample to be mounted thereon and a second surface and through which the measurement target light is transmitted; a holder which includes a concave portion mounting the plate thereon and is attached to the attachment hole; and a spectral detector configured to detect the measurement target light. The concave portion includes a bottom surface facing the second surface and a side surface surrounding the periphery of the plate. The bottom surface and the side surface are coated with a reflective material reflecting the measurement target light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Kenichiro IKEMURA, Kazuya IGUCHI, Shigeru EURA, Akihiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10583743
    Abstract: In a regenerative braking device of a dump truck comprising an engine, a first generator and a second generator driven by the engine, at least one travel motor driven by generated electric power of the first generator and at least one fan motor to which generated electric power of the second generator is inputted via a first rectifier circuit, the regenerative braking device comprises: a resistive element to which regenerating electric power from the at least one travel motor in regenerative braking is supplied and which is cooled by at least one fan driven by the at least one fan motor and converts electric energy into heat energy and dissipates heat; and a DC/DC converter that inputs a part of the regenerating electric power which is supplied to the resistive element to an output line of the first rectifier circuit via a second rectifier circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomonori Takada, Takanobu Ikari, Takashi Ikimi, Akihiro Nakamura, Masatsugu Arai, Naoki Fukuda, Takaaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10550747
    Abstract: A combustion system for ships operated at low cost is provided. A combustion system 1 for ships includes an internal combustion engine 20 that burns fuel, an exhaust line L2 through which exhaust gas flows, the exhaust gas being generated through combustion of the fuel in the internal combustion engine 20, an exhaust heat recovery device 40 that is disposed in the exhaust line L2 and that recovers exhaust heat from the exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine 20, and a denitration device 50 that is disposed in the exhaust line L2 and that removes nitrogen oxide from the exhaust gas using a denitration catalyst. The denitration device 50 is disposed downstream from the exhaust heat recovery device 40 in the exhaust line L2. The denitration catalyst contains 43 wt % or more of vanadium pentoxide and has a BET specific surface area of 30 m2/g or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Tokyo Metropolitan University
    Inventors: Eiji Kiyonaga, Kenji Hikino, Keiichiro Morita, Akihiro Nakamura, Masatake Haruta, Toru Murayama, Makoto Mino
  • Publication number: 20190391379
    Abstract: The solid immersion lens unit includes: a solid immersion lens having a contact surface allowed to be in contact with an inspection object and a spherical surface allowed to be opposite to an objective lens; a holder holding the solid immersion lens; a magnet provided to the holder; and a spherical body rotatably held by a magnetic force of the magnet at a position opposite to the spherical surface. The holder swingably holds the solid immersion lens in a state where the spherical surface is in contact with the spherical body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Tomonori NAKAMURA, Akihiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10494484
    Abstract: The present invention provides a release control agent for producing a release agent composition that has sufficient releasability from a silicone-based adhesive agent and that exhibits excellent releasability even when pressure is applied to a cured product; a silicone release agent composition containing such a release control agent; a release sheet having a cured layer formed from the cured product of the silicone release agent composition; and a laminated body having the release sheet and an adhesive layer. The present invention includes a release control agent containing from 15 to 29 mol % of a fluorine atom-containing organic group in each molecule, and an organopolysiloxane having no hydrosilylation reactive group; a silicone release agent composition containing such a release control agent; a release sheet; and a laminated body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Dow Toray Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Hori, Haruna Mizuno, Akihiro Nakamura, Hidefumi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20190259915
    Abstract: A light emitting element includes a semiconductor structure including a first layer including a first and a second regions, and a second layer above the second region, the first region including extending portions each extending into the second region from an outer peripheral region; a first insulating layer including first through-holes respectively located on the extending portions, and a second through-hole located above the second region; a second insulating layer including a third and a fourth through-holes; a first external electrode connected with the first layer via the first through-holes; and a second external electrode connected with the second layer via the second through-hole. The extending portions are each located in an area, on a top surface of the first layer, other than an area overlapping any of corner portions of the first external electrode and other than an area overlapping any of corner portions of the second external electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro NAKAMURA, Keiji EMURA
  • Patent number: 10276408
    Abstract: A flow-rate regulator device for controlling a flow rate of a liquid includes a first flow-rate regulator component positioned on an upstream side of a liquid line, and a second flow-rate regulator component positioned on a downstream side of the liquid line and connected in series to the first flow-rate regulator component. The first flow-rate regulator component adjusts a degree of opening such that a flow rate of liquid flowing through the liquid line is set a specified number of times greater than a target flow rate when the second flow-rate regulator component has a full opening, and the second flow-rate regulator component adjusts a degree of opening such that the flow rate of the liquid flowing through the liquid line is to be at the target flow rate when the first flow-rate regulator component is adjusted to have the degree of opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Michitaka Amiya, Takami Satoh, Kazuyoshi Eshima, Akihiro Nakamura, Koji Tanaka, Kazuki Kosai