Patents by Inventor Akinobu Nakamura

Akinobu 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: 11961318
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to acquire a document image illustrating a document, acquire a related character string associated with a target character string included in the document image, and extract target information corresponding to the target character string from a region set with reference to a position of the related character string in the document image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Fumi Kosaka, Akinobu Yamaguchi, Junichi Shimizu, Shinya Nakamura, Jun Ando, Masanori Yoshizuka, Akane Abe
  • Patent number: 11386857
    Abstract: A display device performs a comparison process of comparing first adjusted image data and second adjusted image data. The first adjusted image data is adjusted image data obtained by a first image adjustment element performing an image adjustment process on image data to be processed. The second adjusted image data is adjusted image data obtained by a second image adjustment element performing the image adjustment process on the image data to be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Trivale Technologies
    Inventors: Yoshiya Saito, Akinobu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200342821
    Abstract: A display device performs a comparison process of comparing first adjusted image data and second adjusted image data. The first adjusted image data is adjusted image data obtained by a first image adjustment element performing an image adjustment process on image data to be processed. The second adjusted image data is adjusted image data obtained by a second image adjustment element performing the image adjustment process on the image data to be processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiya SAITO, Akinobu NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10749208
    Abstract: The object is to provide a lithium ion secondary battery which has an excellent cycle property even in high-temperature environment and which has small volume increase. An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a lithium ion secondary battery, comprising: a positive electrode, a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode active material, and an electrolyte liquid; wherein the electrolyte liquid comprises a chain-type fluorinated ester compound represented by a predetermined formula and a chain-type fluorinated ether compound represented by a predetermined formula; wherein the negative electrode active material comprises metal (a) that can be alloyed with lithium, metal oxide (b) that can absorb and desorb lithium ion, and carbon material (c) that can absorb and desorb lithium ion; and wherein metal (a) is silicon, and metal oxide (b) is silicon oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makiko Uehara, Daisuke Kawasaki, Takehiro Noguchi, Akinobu Nakamura, Kenichi Shimura, Yoko Hashizume
  • Patent number: 10408549
    Abstract: A fin has a plurality of insertion holes in an elliptical shape through which a heat transfer tube is inserted and contains stainless steel as a material. The plurality of insertion holes are disposed as being aligned in a single row in a first direction. The fin has a first slit extending from a first end portion toward a second end portion and a second slit extending from the second end portion toward the first end portion. The second slit has a first edge portion where a cut and raised wall portion is disposed and a second edge portion where no cut and raised wall portion is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Oohigashi, Satoshi Yoshida, Akinobu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20180164046
    Abstract: A fin has a plurality of insertion holes in an elliptical shape through which a heat transfer tube is inserted and contains stainless steel as a material. The plurality of insertion holes are disposed as being aligned in a single row in a first direction. The fin has a first slit extending from a first end portion toward a second end portion and a second slit extending from the second end portion toward the first end portion. The second slit has a first edge portion where a cut and raised wall portion is disposed and a second edge portion where no cut and raised wall portion is disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi OOHIGASHI, Satoshi YOSHIDA, Akinobu NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9905887
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a secondary battery cg a positive electrode capable of absorbing and releasing lithium, and a electrolyte solution containing a non-aqueous electrolytic solvent, wherein the positive electrode has a positive electrode active material which operates at 4.5 V or more relative to lithium, and wherein the non-aqueous electrolytic solvent contains a sulfone compound represented by a predetermined formula and a fluorinated ether compound represented by a predetermined formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Makiko Takahashi, Takehiro Noguchi, Hideaki Sasaki, Yuukou Katou, Akinobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9583789
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising a non-aqueous electrolyte solvent, a supporting salt, and a sulfonate represented by a predetermined formula, the non-aqueous electrolyte having a sulfonate concentration of 0.001 wt % or more and less than 0.2 wt % based on the total mass of the non-aqueous electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ishikawa, Akinobu Nakamura, Koji Utsugi
  • Patent number: 9246174
    Abstract: It is an object of this exemplary embodiment to provide a lithium ion battery using a lithium manganese complex oxide, in which the dissolution of manganese and resistance increase are inhibited, and which is excellent in life characteristics at high temperature. One aspect of this exemplary embodiment is a lithium ion battery comprising at least a positive electrode comprising a positive electrode active material, and an electrolytic solution, wherein the positive electrode active material is a lithium manganese complex oxide, the positive electrode comprises a bismuth oxide, and a metal compound attached to part of a surface of the lithium manganese complex oxide, and a dissolution rate of a metal of the metal compound in the electrolytic solution is lower than a dissolution rate of manganese of the lithium manganese complex oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Akinobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9106861
    Abstract: An image forming control device and an image forming control method control an image forming apparatus that forms an image at every scanning line. The image forming control device includes a pixel data generation controller and an image forming mechanism controller. The pixel data generation controller receives data of an image to be formed and an instruction for image formation, and generates image data to be input to an image forming mechanism that forms an image on a recording medium. The pixel data includes data of each pixel that makes up the image to be formed. The image forming mechanism controller controls image formation performed by the image forming mechanism according to the generated pixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Miyadera, Hideo Tanaka, Keita Yoshikawa, Akinobu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20150155597
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising a non-aqueous electrolyte solvent, a supporting salt, and a sulfonate represented by a predetermined formula, the non-aqueous electrolyte having a sulfonate concentration of 0.001 wt % or more and less than 0.2 wt % based on the total mass of the non-aqueous electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ishikawa, Akinobu Nakamura, Koji Utsugi
  • Publication number: 20150140443
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a secondary battery cg a positive electrode capable of absorbing and releasing lithium, and a electrolyte solution containing a non-aqueous electrolytic solvent, wherein the positive electrode has a positive electrode active material which operates at 4.5 V or more relative to lithium, and wherein the non-aqueous electrolytic solvent contains a sulfone compound represented by a predetermined formula and a fluorinated ether compound represented by a predetermined formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Makiko Takahashi, Takehiro Noguchi, Hideaki Sasaki, Yuukou Katou, Akinobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8983330
    Abstract: Disclosed is a power supply including a first voltage generating unit that generates a first voltage from an external power supply; a second voltage generating unit that generates a first predetermined voltage and supplies the generated first predetermined voltage to the load; a third voltage generating unit that generates the first predetermined voltage and supplies the generated first predetermined voltage to the load; and a controller that causes the first voltage to be greater than or equal to a second voltage during a first mode, and causes the first voltage to be less than the second voltage during a second mode. During the first mode, the power is supplied from the second voltage generating unit and the third voltage generating unit to the load, and during the second mode, the power is supplied from the third voltage generating unit to the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinobu Nakamura, Yutaka Aso, Fuminori Tsuchiya, Susumu Miyazaki, Keita Yoshikawa, Tatsuya Miyadera, Motohiro Kawanabe
  • Patent number: 8873988
    Abstract: A fixing device is operable through start-up and warm-up stages and has a rotatable fixing member to fix an unfixed toner image borne on a recording medium, an opposing member to press against the fixing member and form a nip on the fixing member, a temperature detector to detect temperature of the fixing member, and a heater controlled in accordance with the temperature of the fixing member to heat the fixing member. The heater is further controlled during the warm-up stage in accordance with at least one of if the fixing member is rotating and if the detected temperature has ever arrived at a prescribed target temperature in the warm-up stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: RICOH Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Ogiso, Kohichi Ono, Akinobu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140309379
    Abstract: Disclosed are a polysiloxane-modified polylactic acid resin, composition using same, molded article, and production method, whereby it is possible to produce a molded article via a simple method, and where said article may be used in applications demanding a high level of impact resistance as an alternative to ABS resin or the like, has a similar level of impact resistance as said substances, has superior flexibility with respect to rupture bending strain and tensile breaking strain, and has bleed resistance. The polysiloxane-modified polylactic acid resin has a segment which is a polylactic acid compound, and a segment which is an amino polysiloxane compound which has an amine group. With respect to the amino poly-siloxane compound, amine groups are on average contained in the range of 0.01 to 2.5% inclusive by mass, and with respect to the polylactic acid compound, are on average contained in the range of 3 to 300 ppm inclusive by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto SOYAMA, Akinobu NAKAMURA, Masatoshi IJI
  • Publication number: 20140227611
    Abstract: The object of the present exemplary embodiment is to provide a non-aqueous secondary battery effectively in which the decomposition of an electrolyte liquid is effectively reduced even under high-voltage and high-temperature condition, and which is excellent in the long-term cycle property. The present exemplary embodiment is a non-aqueous secondary battery including an electrolyte liquid including a supporting salt and a non-aqueous electrolyte solvent, wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte solvent includes a sulfone compound represented by a predetermined formula and a fluorine-containing ester compound represented by a predetermined formula; a content of the sulfone compound in the non-aqueous electrolyte solvent is 20 vol % or more and 70 vol % or less; and a content of the fluorine-containing ester compound in the non-aqueous electrolyte solvent is 20 vol % or more and 60 vol % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akinobu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140204429
    Abstract: An image forming control device and an image forming control method control an image forming apparatus that forms an image at every scanning line. The image forming control device includes a pixel data generation controller and an image forming mechanism controller. The pixel data generation controller receives data of an image to be formed and an instruction for image formation, and generates image data to be input to an image forming mechanism that forms an image on a recording medium. The pixel data includes data of each pixel that makes up the image to be formed. The image forming mechanism controller controls image formation performed by the image forming mechanism according to the generated pixel data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya MIYADERA, Hideo TANAKA, Keita YOSHIKAWA, Akinobu NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140170481
    Abstract: It is an object of this exemplary embodiment to provide a lithium ion battery using a lithium manganese complex oxide, in which the dissolution of manganese and resistance increase are inhibited, and which is excellent in life characteristics at high temperature. One aspect of this exemplary embodiment is a lithium ion battery comprising at least a positive electrode comprising a positive electrode active material, and an electrolytic solution, wherein the positive electrode active material is a lithium manganese complex oxide, the positive electrode comprises a bismuth oxide, and a metal compound attached to part of a surface of the lithium manganese complex oxide, and a dissolution rate of a metal of the metal compound in the electrolytic solution is lower than a dissolution rate of manganese of the lithium manganese complex oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventor: Akinobu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140017572
    Abstract: The object is to provide a lithium ion secondary battery which has an excellent cycle property even in high-temperature environment and which has small volume increase. An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a lithium ion secondary battery, comprising: a positive electrode, a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode active material, and an electrolyte liquid; wherein the electrolyte liquid comprises a chain-type fluorinated ester compound represented by a predetermined formula and a chain-type fluorinated ether compound represented by a predetermined formula; wherein the negative electrode active material comprises metal (a) that can be alloyed with lithium, metal oxide (b) that can absorb and desorb lithium ion, and carbon material (c) that can absorb and desorb lithium ion; and wherein metal (a) is silicon, and metal oxide (b) is silicon oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makiko Uehara, Daisuke Kawasaki, Takehiro Noguchi, Akinobu Nakamura, Kenichi Shimura, Yoko Hashizume
  • Publication number: 20130223867
    Abstract: Disclosed is a power supply including a first voltage generating unit that generates a first voltage from an external power supply; a second voltage generating unit that generates a first predetermined voltage and supplies the generated first predetermined voltage to the load; a third voltage generating unit that generates the first predetermined voltage and supplies the generated first predetermined voltage to the load; and a controller that causes the first voltage to be greater than or equal to a second voltage during a first mode, and causes the first voltage to be less than the second voltage during a second mode. During the first mode, the power is supplied from the second voltage generating unit and the third voltage generating unit to the load, and during the second mode, the power is supplied from the third voltage generating unit to the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventors: Akinobu NAKAMURA, Yutaka ASO, Fuminori TSUCHIYA, Susumu MIYAZAKI, Keita YOSHIKAWA, Tatsuya MIYADERA, Motohiro KAWANABE