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).

  • Patent number: 10022988
    Abstract: 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, in conjunction with an opening and closing operation of the printing head portion of the printing unit, the damper portion opens and closes in a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hitoshi Onodera, Akira Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20180194584
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: Sato Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi KOKUTA, Akira NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20180178510
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventor: Akira NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 9989032
    Abstract: To alleviate or eliminate a problem of unburned fuel discharged to the outside of a cylinder in a case in which an air fuel mixture is insufficiently combusted in a combustion chamber. During the expansion stroke in which a high voltage is applied to an ignition plug via an ignition coil, and a spark discharge is caused to occur at the ignition plug, thereby the air fuel mixture in the combustion chamber is ignited and combusted, in a case in which deterioration of combustion state is detected, a microwave electric field is created in the combustion chamber prior to an opening timing of an exhaust valve at an end stage of the expansion stroke, thereby plasma is generated and enlarged in the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Inventors: Katsumi Uchida, Yuta Shima, Hiroaki Oi, Akira Nakajima, Takeshi Serizawa, Yuji Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20180147862
    Abstract: 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, in conjunction with an opening and closing operation of the printing head portion of the printing unit, the damper portion opens and closes in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hitoshi Onodera, Akira Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20180118068
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Koji Onuma, Ryuhei Abe, Taiji Misono, Toshimitsu Mizukoshi, Masaki Shimazu, Akira Nakajima, Yuki Fukuda, Hiromitsu Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 9908344
    Abstract: 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, in conjunction with an opening and closing operation of the printing head portion of the printing unit, the damper portion opens and closes in a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hitoshi Onodera, Akira Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9899326
    Abstract: The reliability of a copper wire is improved without inhibiting the wiring resistance of the copper wire. For example, another metallic element segregates in the boundary region between a copper film CUF1 and a copper film CUF2, and at the upper side face part of a wiring gutter leading to the boundary region. In a sectional view, a metallic element having a reducing power higher than copper segregates at the inner part of the copper wire apart from both the surface of the copper wire and the bottom face of the wiring gutter and at the side face part of the copper wire. In a sectional view, a metallic element different from copper segregates in the vicinity of the center part of the copper wire and at the side face part of the copper wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Nakajima, Yoshiaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9870987
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an insulator. The device further includes a plug provided in the insulator, the plug including a first barrier metal layer and a first conductive layer that is provided on the first barrier metal layer. The device further includes an interconnect provided outside the insulator, the interconnect being provided on the plug and the insulator and including the first barrier metal layer, the first conductive layer and a second conductive layer that is provided on the first conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Nakajima, Masaaki Hatano
  • Publication number: 20170305173
    Abstract: 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, in conjunction with an opening and closing operation of the printing head portion of the printing unit, the damper portion opens and closes in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hitoshi ONODERA, Akira NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 9792253
    Abstract: A sensor device has a difference calculation unit that calculates the difference between a predetermined threshold and a current measured value measured by a sensor unit that measures a measurement subject, a change amount recording unit that records the maximum amount of change of the measured value with respect to elapsed time on the basis of a plurality of measured value history records obtained by measuring the measurement subject, and a minimum time calculation unit that calculates the minimum arrival time that is the minimum time for the measurement subject to arrive at the predetermined threshold from the current measured value on the basis of the calculated difference and the recorded maximum amount of change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Soji Ohmae, Masahiro Ikumo, Akane Nakashima, Ryota Akai, Akira Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9774241
    Abstract: In a multilevel power conversion circuit, output harmonic waves and electromagnetic noise can be reduced as the number of output levels is increased. This, however, increases the number of elements constituting the circuit, causing the degree of difficulty in mounting to increase, cost to increase, and reliability to decrease. It is necessary to provide a circuit configuration, a design method, and a mounting method for obtaining, at low cost, a multilevel power conversion circuit using a large number of elements. A power conversion circuit is used as a unit module and is equipped with input and output terminals each mounted on the main circuit in an open state, wherein the input and output terminals have a mechanism by which the input and output terminals can be flexibly interconnected with the input and output terminals of another same module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yukihiko Sato, Hidemine Obara, Akira Nakajima, Hiromichi Oohashi, Shinichi Nishizawa
  • Publication number: 20170250131
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an insulator. The device further includes a plug provided in the insulator, the plug including a first barrier metal layer and a first conductive layer that is provided on the first barrier metal layer. The device further includes an interconnect provided outside the insulator, the interconnect being provided on the plug and the insulator and including the first barrier metal layer, the first conductive layer and a second conductive layer that is provided on the first conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akira NAKAJIMA, Masaaki HATANO
  • Patent number: 9636853
    Abstract: There is provided a molded body including a main portion and a bank portion each of which is formed by foaming and molding a foam material. The main portion is made of urethane material which is softer than the material for the bank portion. At a boundary portion between the main and bank portions, the main portion is formed in a continuous interlocking profile and the bank portion is also formed in another continuous interlocking profile. The interlocking profile and the another interlocking profile are mated to each other so as to prevent separation between the main portion and the bank portion in a direction of an arrow (vehicle width direction). The boundary portion is provided by partitioning the cavity in a single mold with a weir, introducing different foam materials into both sides of the weir and foaming the introduced materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Ishii, Hisato Oku, Mai Koizumi, Akira Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9580110
    Abstract: A vehicle body skeleton structure includes: a skeleton member bent to have a predetermined shape; and at least one reinforcement member welded to the skeleton member along a plurality of weld lines to be joined to a surface of the skeleton member, and bent along the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Haruyuki Imada, Akira Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9570436
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor device that prevents destruction due to an avalanche breakdown and that has a high tolerance against breakdown by configuring the device so as to have a punch-through breakdown function therein and such that the breakdown voltage of a punch-through breakdown is lower than an avalanche breakdown voltage so that an avalanche breakdown does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Akira Nakajima, Shinichi Nishizawa, Hiromichi Ohashi
  • Patent number: 9561673
    Abstract: 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 made of a transparent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kokuta, Akira Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20160372060
    Abstract: A display device includes an illumination unit that delivers a first light, a second light and a third light. The display also includes a driving circuit that supplies a pixel with a first data signal for displaying a first image by illuminating the first light, the driving circuit supplying the pixel with a second data signal for displaying a second image by illuminating the second light, the driving circuit supplying the pixel with a third data signal for displaying a third image by illuminating the third light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio ARAI, Akira NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20160318320
    Abstract: 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 made of a transparent material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi KOKUTA, Akira NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20160314751
    Abstract: A display device includes an illumination unit that delivers a first light, a second light and a third light. The display also includes a driving circuit that supplies a pixel with a first data signal for displaying a first image by illuminating the first light, the driving circuit supplying the pixel with a second data signal for displaying a second image by illuminating the second light, the driving circuit supplying the pixel with a third data signal for displaying a third image by illuminating the third light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio ARAI, Akira NAKAJIMA