Patents by Inventor Akira Nakajima
Akira Nakajima 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).
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Publication number: 20210200194Abstract: A display system provided in production equipment having driving means and monitoring means with controllable features includes a control unit, a display unit, and a storage unit. The control unit obtains a feature output over time from at least one among the driving means and the monitoring means, and causes the storage unit to store the feature; constructs, in each prescribed time, a causal relationship model that indicates a causal factor selected from among the driving means and the monitoring means for at least one abnormality that can occur in the production equipment and that also indicates the relationship between causal factors on the basis of the obtained feature; and displays, on the display unit, a plurality of causal relationship models constructed in a plurality of times.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Toshifumi MINEMOTO, Reiko HATTORI, Yuya OTA, Shinsuke KAWANOUE, Akira NAKAJIMA
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Publication number: 20210191380Abstract: A display system includes a display device in production equipment. The display device includes a control unit, a display unit, a storage unit, and an input unit. The storage unit stores: schematic illustration data that represent a schematic illustration of the production equipment; and causal relationship model data in which one or more cause elements of one or more abnormalities that can occur in the production equipment are selected from driving means for driving the production equipment and monitoring means for monitoring the production, and the cause elements and the relationships between the cause elements are represented as a causal relationship model. The control unit displays the schematic illustration and the causal relationship model on the display unit such that the causal relationship model is superimposed on the schematic illustration so as to correspond to the schematic illustration.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Toshifumi MINEMOTO, Reiko HATTORI, Yuya OTA, Shinsuke KAWANOUE, Akira NAKAJIMA
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Publication number: 20210191374Abstract: A display system is provided in production equipment that has driving means and monitoring means, having controllable features. The display system includes a control unit, a display unit, a storage unit, and an input unit. The storage unit stores: the features output over time from one or more of the driving means and the monitoring means; and causal relationship model data in which one or more causal factors of one or more abnormalities that can occur in the production equipment are selected from among the driving means and the monitoring means and expressed as a causal relationship model in association with a relationship between the causal factors. The control unit displays, on the display unit, the causal factors of the individual abnormalities, the one or more features corresponding to the causal factors, and changes over time in the features.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Toshifumi MINEMOTO, Reiko HATTORI, Yuya OTA, Shinsuke KAWANOUE, Akira NAKAJIMA
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Patent number: 10926683Abstract: To secure both flexibility and rigidity of a pressure-receiving member, a pressure-receiving member capable of moving rearward in a state of receiving a load from a back of an occupant is included in a seat back of a conveyance seat for supporting the back of the occupant. The pressure-receiving member has a load-receiving portion which receives the load from the back of the occupant at a front face, and the load-receiving portion includes a load-receiving portion piece formed so that a length in a vertical direction of the seat back is shorter than a length in a seat width direction, and a rear reinforcement rib protruding along a thickness direction of the load-receiving portion from the load-receiving portion piece and extending along the seat width direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignees: TS TECH CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., LEGGETT & PLATT CANADA CO.Inventors: Koji Onuma, Ryuhei Abe, Taiji Misono, Toshimitsu Mizukoshi, Masaki Shimazu, Akira Nakajima, Yuki Fukuda, Hiromitsu Nagatomo, Rob Colja
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Patent number: 10906029Abstract: Provided is a photocatalyst including a photocatalyst in which part of calcium ions are substituted with titanium ions, and part of phosphoric acid ions are substituted with metal oxoacid ions in a calcium hydroxyapatite crystal structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignees: FUJITSU LIMITED, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Masato Wakamura, Akira Nakajima, Noppakhate Jiraborvornpongsa
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Patent number: 10858135Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a production or manufacturing apparatus that performs processing for sequentially producing an item to be produced through units arranged in a line, includes: a physical quantity acquirer that acquires a physical quantity representing a state of processing in a unit subjected to monitoring for each cycle, the cycle being defined as unit processing time of processing performed by each unit; an abnormality determiner that determines occurrence of an abnormality in the unit, based on the physical quantity or a feature value extracted from the physical quantity; and a control instructor that specifies, when it is determined that an abnormality occurs in the unit, a cycle during which a downstream unit performs processing on an item to be produced that is affected by the abnormality, and perform control so that abnormality handling processing is performed as processing in the specified cycle by the downstream unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Reiko Hattori, Akira Nakajima, Hiroki Koyama
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Publication number: 20200247270Abstract: A vehicle seat includes an internal support member for supporting a seat occupant. The internal support member includes a main body in plate or sheet form positioned within a seat cushion frame, a pair of inclined portions extending laterally from a part of either lateral side of the main body with an upward slant, and front and rear mounting portions engaged by front and rear cross members of the seat cushion frame. A pressure sensor is mounted on a part of an upper surface of the internal support member located ahead of the inclined portions. The main body of the internal support member is provided with a pair of openings located on either side of the pressure sensor, and a connecting portion connecting the pressure sensor with a part of the front mounting portion. The pressure sensor and the openings are spaced from the front edge of the main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Koji ONUMA, Soichiro KAMEI, Masaki SHIMAZU, Akira NAKAJIMA, Hiromitsu NAGATOMO, Yuki FUKUDA, Toshimitsu MIZUKOSHI, Taiji MISONO
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Publication number: 20200247292Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a frame provided in at least one of a seat cushion and a seat back; an internal support member for supporting an occupant, the internal support member including a main body in plate or sheet form positioned within the frame and extending substantially in parallel with the frame, and a pair of inclined portions extending laterally outward from at least a part of either lateral side of the main body with a slant away from the frame; a pad placed on a front side of the frame and the internal support member; a skin member covering the pad; and a clip securing another member to one of the inclined portions. The one inclined portion is formed with a tubular portion projecting from a back side thereof orthogonally to the main body, the tubular portion internally defining a mounting hole receiving the clip therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Koji ONUMA, Soichiro KAMEI, Masaki SHIMAZU, Akira NAKAJIMA, Hiromitsu NAGATOMO, Yuki FUKUDA, Toshimitsu MIZUKOSHI, Taiji MISONO, Kota YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 10661560Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a first substrate which includes a drive circuit which generates a drive signal and a first connector, a discharge head which includes greater than or equal to 300 nozzles per inch and a total of greater than or equal to 600 nozzles, which receives the drive signal and which discharges a liquid from the nozzles, and a second substrate which includes a second connector which is connected to the first connector, in which at least one of the first connector and the second connector includes a detection terminal for detecting a connection with the other of the first connector and the second connector.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Akira Nakajima, Kunihiro Kawada
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Patent number: 10549939Abstract: At a printer that feeds a continuous paper unwound from a paper sheet supply unit in a sheet-shape to a printing head portion side via a damper portion, and then prints on a label of the continuous paper, the damper portion is constituted of an outer damper portion and an inner damper portion, which is disposed at a downstream side of feed of the outer damper portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Kokuta, Akira Nakajima
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Patent number: 10457176Abstract: Provided is a conveyance seat configured for adjustment of a deflection amount of a seat forming the conveyance seat, i.e., cushion properties of the seat. The conveyance seat includes a seat frame and a buffering body bridged over the seat frame configured to elastically support a seated occupant. The buffering body has a wire having both end portions attached to the seat frame, and a back restriction member configured to support at least a portion of the wire to restrict deflection of the portion of the wire. The wire includes a first right-to-left extending portion and a second right-to-left extending portion that extend in a seat right-to-left direction, and a coupling portion coupling the first right-to-left extending portion and the second right-to-left extending portion. The back restriction member is made of a resin material, and supports the first right-to-left extending portion and the second right-to-left extending portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignees: TS Tech Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Onuma, Ryuhei Abe, Taiji Misono, Toshimitsu Mizukoshi, Masaki Shimazu, Akira Nakajima, Yuki Fukuda, Hiromitsu Nagatomo
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Publication number: 20190315255Abstract: To secure both flexibility and rigidity of a pressure-receiving member, a pressure-receiving member capable of moving rearward in a state of receiving a load from a back of an occupant is included in a seat back of a conveyance seat for supporting the back of the occupant. The pressure-receiving member has a load-receiving portion which receives the load from the back of the occupant at a front face, and the load-receiving portion includes a load-receiving portion piece formed so that a length in a vertical direction of the seat back is shorter than a length in a seat width direction, and a rear reinforcement rib protruding along a thickness direction of the load-receiving portion from the load-receiving portion piece and extending along the seat width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Koji ONUMA, Ryuhei Abe, Taiji MISONO, Toshimitsu MIZUKOSHI, Masaki SHIMAZU, Akira NAKAJIMA, Yuki FUKUDA, Hiromitsu NAGATOMO, Rob COLJA
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Publication number: 20190160811Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a first substrate which includes a drive circuit which generates a drive signal and a first connector, a discharge head which includes greater than or equal to 300 nozzles per inch and a total of greater than or equal to 600 nozzles, which receives the drive signal and which discharges a liquid from the nozzles, and a second substrate which includes a second connector which is connected to the first connector, in which at least one of the first connector and the second connector includes a detection terminal for detecting a connection with the other of the first connector and the second connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2018Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventors: Akira NAKAJIMA, Kunihiro KAWADA
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Patent number: 10300821Abstract: A cushion pan includes a front and rear support part that extends from the front end to the rear end of a seat cushion and faces the lower face of the femoral region of an occupant and side support parts that extend obliquely upward from both right and left side edges of the front and rear support part and face side faces of the buttocks of the occupant. In addition, the front and rear support part and the side support parts may be integrally formed to reduce the number of components and assembling steps.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Taiji Misono, Masaki Shimazu, Toshimitsu Mizukoshi, Akira Nakajima, Yuki Fukuda, Hiromitsu Nagatomo, Kota Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10283692Abstract: A power generation system includes: a heat source having a temperature being changed over time; a flow passage through which a heat medium heated by the heat source passes; a power generation device including a power generation element and a first electrode, the power generation element being electrically polarized by temperature change thereof depending on temperature change of the heat medium, the first electrode extracting electric power from the power generation element; a temperature detection device being disposed on an upstream side relative to the power generation device in the flow passage and detecting the temperature of the heat medium; a voltage application device that applies voltage to the power generation element; and a control device that activates the voltage application device when the temperature increase of the heat medium has been detected and deactivates the voltage application unit when the temperature decrease of the heat medium has been detected.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignees: DAIHATSU MOTOR CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Satoru Yamanaka, Yoonho Kim, Takashi Ogawa, Akira Nakajima, Juyoung Kim, Hirohisa Tanaka, Tadachika Nakayama, Masatoshi Takeda, Noboru Yamada, Koichi Niihara
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Patent number: 10160201Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharging apparatus including a head unit that has a first driving element and discharges a first liquid based on a first drive signal for driving the first driving element and a first control signal for controlling application of the first drive signal to the first driving element and a circuit substrate. First drive signal transmitting wiring through which the first drive signal is transmitted. The shortest distance between a first side of the circuit substrate and the first drive signal transmitting wiring is shorter than the shortest distance between the first drive signal transmitting wiring and the first control signal transmitting wiring. The shortest distance between a second side opposing the first side of the circuit substrate and the first control signal transmitting wiring is shorter than the shortest distance between the first drive signal transmitting wiring and the first control signal transmitting wiring.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Akira Nakajima
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Publication number: 20180348728Abstract: A process analysis apparatus according to an aspect may include a first acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of pieces of state data related to states of a plurality of mechanisms that constitute a manufacturing line, a second acquisition unit that acquires a control program for controlling an operation of the manufacturing line, a first analyzer that analyzes the acquired plurality of pieces of state data so as to identify a connection state between the plurality of mechanisms, a second analyzer that analyzes the acquired control program so as to identify an order relationship between the plurality of mechanisms, and a relationship identifying unit that identifies a causal relationship between the plurality of mechanisms in a process that is carried out on the manufacturing line, based on the identified connection state and order relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yuya OTA, Kosuke TSURUTA, Shinsuke KAWANOUE, Gaku SHIRAMIZU, Yasuaki ABE, Akira NAKAJIMA, Reiko HATTORI, Toshifumi MINEMOTO, Yuki HIROHASHI
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Publication number: 20180333707Abstract: Provided is a photocatalyst including a photocatalyst in which part of calcium ions are substituted with titanium ions, and part of phosphoric acid ions are substituted with metal oxoacid ions in a calcium hydroxyapatite crystal structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicants: FUJITSU LIMITED, Tokyo Institute of TechnologyInventors: MASATO WAKAMURA, AKIRA NAKAJIMA, NOPPAKHATE JIRABORVORNPONGSA
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Publication number: 20180297731Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a production or manufacturing apparatus that performs processing for sequentially producing an item to be produced through units arranged in a line, includes: a physical quantity acquirer that acquires a physical quantity representing a state of processing in a unit subjected to monitoring for each cycle, the cycle being defined as unit processing time of processing performed by each unit; an abnormality determiner that determines occurrence of an abnormality in the unit, based on the physical quantity or a feature value extracted from the physical quantity; and a control instructor that specifies, when it is determined that an abnormality occurs in the unit, a cycle during which a downstream unit performs processing on an item to be produced that is affected by the abnormality, and perform control so that abnormality handling processing is performed as processing in the specified cycle by the downstream unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Reiko HATTORI, Akira NAKAJIMA, Hiroki KOYAMA
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Publication number: 20180272909Abstract: A cushion pan includes a front and rear support part that extends from the front end to the rear end of a seat cushion and faces the lower face of the femoral region of an occupant and side support parts that extend obliquely upward from both right and left side edges of the front and rear support part and face side faces of the buttocks of the occupant. In addition, the front and rear support part and the side support parts may be integrally formed to reduce the number of components and assembling steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Taiji Misono, Masaki Shimazu, Toshimitsu Mizukoshi, Akira Nakajima, Yuki Fukuda, Hiromitsu Nagatomo, Kota Yamamoto