Patents by Inventor Akira Nakano
Akira Nakano 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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Patent number: 10616058Abstract: [Problem] To smoothly update configuration data comprising: fixed data set to a server by an administrator; and data rewritable by a user at a terminal. [Solution] A terminal device having a storage unit that stores configuration data, and a first and a second provisioning server are connected over a network. The terminal device includes an operation unit for rewriting variable data, which is a part of the plurality of configuration data. The first provisioning server stores all the configuration data. The second provisioning server stores fixed data, which is the plurality of configuration data excluding the variable data. The terminal device accesses the first provisioning server in an initial state in order to obtain all the configuration data and store the same in the storage unit. The configured terminal device accesses the second provisioning server in order to obtain the fixed configuration data.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: ICOM INCORPORATEDInventors: Akira Nakano, Yuma Oda
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Patent number: 10584799Abstract: In a pressure reduction valve device, a valve body and a distal end portion of a support member are accommodated in a valve accommodation hole of a body. The distal end portion is inserted through an urging member accommodation hole. An inner introduction passage is formed between an outer peripheral surface of the distal end portion and an inner peripheral surface of the urging member accommodation hole. An outer introduction passage is formed between an outer surface of the valve body and an inner surface of the valve accommodation hole. The support member is provided with communication holes that establish communication between a gas inlet provided through the body and the valve accommodation hole in an axial direction. The inner introduction passage and the outer introduction passage are opposed, in an axial direction thereof, to the communication passage.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshikatsu Kubo, Masayuki Sekine, Akira Nakano, Shota Yamamoto, Yutaka Hotta, Akira Yamashita
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Patent number: 10534379Abstract: A pressure reducing valve includes a body, an annular valve seat, a valve element, and a pressing mechanism configured to press the valve element. The pressing mechanism includes a plug provided downstream of the valve seat and having a plug hole, and a pin including a sliding portion and an upstream end, the sliding portion having a shaft shape and being inserted in the plug hole such that a gap is provided between the sliding portion and an inner peripheral surface of the plug hole, and the upstream end being provided upstream of the sliding portion so as to contact the valve element. A fitting length of the sliding portion with respect to the plug hole and the gap between the sliding portion and the plug hole satisfy 0.0005 L<C<0.00908 L, where L indicates the fitting length, and C indicates the gap.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, SOKEN, INC.Inventors: Kazuhisa Sugiyama, Koji Nishi, Akira Nakano, Yutaka Hotta, Akira Yamashita, Shota Yamamoto, Yasushi Mitsuishi
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Publication number: 20190316698Abstract: A pressure reducing valve includes: a housing having an input port, an input channel connected to the input port, a pressure reducing chamber connected to the input channel, a delivery channel connected to the pressure reducing chamber, an output channel and an auxiliary channel branched off from the delivery channel, an output port connected to the output channel, and an auxiliary port connected to the auxiliary channel; and a valve mechanism which is provided inside the pressure reducing chamber connected to the delivery channel and of which the amount of opening is changed to regulate the pressure inside the pressure reducing chamber. Centerlines of the delivery channel, the output channel, and the auxiliary channel are arranged in the same plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Toshikatsu Kubo, Akira Nakano, Yuya Kihara, Yutaka Hotta, Akira Yamashita
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Patent number: 10397769Abstract: [Problem] To conduct a process of moving a designated communication terminal belonging to a first communication system so as to belong to a second communication system without errors. [Solution] A management device is provided, which deletes information on a communication terminal of a first configuration device and then adds information of the communication terminal to the second configuration device. The management device is provided with an interface unit and a control unit. The interface unit obtains a first configuration file which stores a configuration data on a communication terminal belonging to a first communication system, and a second configuration file which stores a configuration data on a communication terminal belonging to a second communication system. The control unit deletes a configuration data of a designated communication terminal from the obtained first configuration file, and adds a configuration data of the designated communication terminal to the obtained second configuration file.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: ICOM INCORPORATEDInventors: Akira Nakano, Yuma Oda
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Publication number: 20190191082Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to detect a positional shift amount of each of a plurality of images; select a composite target image from the plurality of images based on the detected positional shift amount; and obtain a composite image based on the positional shift amount and the selected composite target image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Hiroyasu Uehara, Masakazu Terauchi, Masashi Miyata, Hiroshi Kano, Akira Nakano, Takeyoshi Nishimura
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Publication number: 20190072988Abstract: A pressure reducing valve includes a body, an annular valve seat, a valve element, and a pressing mechanism configured to press the valve element. The pressing mechanism includes a plug provided downstream of the valve seat and having a plug hole, and a pin including a sliding portion and an upstream end, the sliding portion having a shaft shape and being inserted in the plug hole such that a gap is provided between the sliding portion and an inner peripheral surface of the plug hole, and the upstream end being provided upstream of the sliding portion so as to contact the valve element. A fitting length of the sliding portion with respect to the plug hole and the gap between the sliding portion and the plug hole satisfy 0.0005 L<C<0.00908 L, where L indicates the fitting length, and C indicates the gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicants: JTEKT Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Soken, Inc.Inventors: Kazuhisa SUGIYAMA, Koji Nishi, Akira Nakano, Yutaka Hotta, Akira Yamashita, Shota Yamamoto, Yasushi Mitsuishi
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Patent number: 10129479Abstract: In a photographing apparatus, a low-pass selector controller (processor) is configured to perform a plurality of photographing operations including an LPF-ON photographing operation, which obtains an image signal from an image sensor in a state where the image sensor has been LPF driven by the image-shake correction device (driver) and obtains an optical low-pass filter effect, and an LPF-OFF photographing operation, which obtains an image signal from the image sensor in a state where the image sensor has not been LPF driven by the image-shake correction device (driver) and does not obtain an optical low-pass filter effect.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Koichi Muramatsu, Koichi Akiyama, Akira Nakano
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Publication number: 20180324037Abstract: [Problem] To smoothly update configuration data comprising: fixed data set to a server by an administrator; and data rewritable by a user at a terminal. [Solution] A terminal device having a storage unit that stores configuration data, and a first and a second provisioning server are connected over a network. The terminal device includes an operation unit for rewriting variable data, which is a part of the plurality of configuration data. The first provisioning server stores all the configuration data. The second provisioning server stores fixed data, which is the plurality of configuration data excluding the variable data. The terminal device accesses the first provisioning server in an initial state in order to obtain all the configuration data and store the same in the storage unit. The configured terminal device accesses the second provisioning server in order to obtain the fixed configuration data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2016Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: Akira NAKANO, Yuma ODA
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Publication number: 20180279114Abstract: [Problem] To conduct a process of moving a designated communication terminal belonging to a first communication system so as to belong to a second communication system without errors. [Solution] A management device is provided, which deletes information on a communication terminal of a first configuration device and then adds information of the communication terminal to the second configuration device. The management device is provided with an interface unit and a control unit. The interface unit obtains a first configuration file which stores a configuration data on a communication terminal belonging to a first communication system, and a second configuration file which stores a configuration data on a communication terminal belonging to a second communication system. The control unit deletes a configuration data of a designated communication terminal from the obtained first configuration file, and adds a configuration data of the designated communication terminal to the obtained second configuration file.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2016Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Akira NAKANO, Yuma ODA
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Publication number: 20180249309Abstract: [Problem] A data update system of the present invention allows a user to update a data of a server while security of the server is maintained. [Solution] The present invention is provided with a main server for storing a configuration data, a terminal device to which update data for updating a part of or whole of the configuration data is input, a remote configuration device for communicating with the terminal device for receiving and storing the update data input to the terminal device, and a communication server for communicating with the main server and the remote configuration device. The remote configuration device transmits the update data received from the terminal device to the communication server. The communication server updates the configuration data stored in the main server with the update data received from the remote configuration device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Akira NAKANO, Yuma ODA
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Patent number: 10006559Abstract: A valve device includes: a body including a gas passage through which gas flows and an accommodation recess that communicates with the gas passage; a valve mechanism that controls flow of the gas flowing through the gas passage; and a cover fixed to the body such that the cover covers the accommodation recess. In the valve device, the cover includes a cover recess that opens toward the accommodation recess, and the valve mechanism is assembled to the body such that the valve mechanism is accommodated in the accommodation recess with a portion of the valve mechanism protruding from the accommodation recess and the portion of the valve mechanism is accommodated in the cover recess.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshikatsu Kubo, Akira Nakano, Shusuke Inagi, Akira Yamashita
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Publication number: 20180136672Abstract: A pressure reducing valve device includes a first body; a second body; a valve mechanism accommodated in the first body, and including a valve seat and a valve element; and a piston that is accommodated in the second body, defines a pressure reducing chamber, and is configured to move in accordance with a pressure in the pressure reducing chamber so as to move the valve element. The first body is connected to an inner portion of a connection portion having a bottomed cylindrical shape. The connection portion is provided in the second bods to protrude outward. The valve seat is held between the first body and the second body in a direction in which the first body and the second body are attached to each other such that the valve seat is fixed in a flow passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira NAKANO, Toshikatsu KUBO, Shota YAMAMATO, Akira YAMASHITA, Yutaka HOTTA, Eiji OKAWACHI
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Publication number: 20180087682Abstract: In a pressure reduction valve device, a valve body and a distal end portion of a support member are accommodated in a valve accommodation hole of a body. The distal end portion is inserted through an urging member accommodation hole. An inner introduction passage is formed between an outer peripheral surface of the distal end portion and an inner peripheral surface of the urging member accommodation hole. An outer introduction passage is formed between an outer surface of the valve body and an inner surface of the valve accommodation hole. The support member is provided with communication holes that establish communication between a gas inlet provided through the body and the valve accommodation hole in an axial direction. The inner introduction passage and the outer introduction passage are opposed, in an axial direction thereof, to the communication passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshikatsu KUBO, Masayuki SEKINE, Akira NAKANO, Shota YAMAMOTO, Yutaka HOTTA, Akira YAMASHITA
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Patent number: 9927817Abstract: A throttle valve includes a throttle valve element; a support member that supports the throttle valve element, the support member including a valve element support portion, and a shaft portion that is connected to the valve element support portion, the shaft portion having a gas passage and an inlet port; a mounting member that mounts the support member in a throttle valve flow passage; a filter that is disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion to cover the inlet port, in a space whose axial length is defined by the shaft portion and the mounting member; and gaskets that are respectively disposed between one axial end of the filter and the mounting member and between the other axial end of the filter and the shaft portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akio Nakamura, Akira Nakano, Shusuke Inagi, Akira Yamashita, Masaaki Kondo
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Patent number: 9745973Abstract: A hermetic compressor includes a closed vessel for storing lubricating oil, an electric-driving element, and a compressing element driven by the electric-driving element. The compressing element includes a cylinder block forming a compression chamber, a piton that reciprocates inside the compression chamber, and an oiling device for supplying the lubricating oil to an outer circumference of the piston. A first oil groove is concavely formed on the outer circumference of the piston, and a second oil groove is concavely formed on a side opposite to the compression chamber relative to the first oil groove. The second oil groove has a spatial volume same or greater than that of the first oil groove. An expanded clearance portion is provided such that a clearance between the piston and the cylindrical hole portion broadens from a top dead point to a bottom dead point.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Ko Inagaki, Akira Nakano, Yoshinori Ishida, Ichiro Morita
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Patent number: 9670879Abstract: A valve apparatus includes a body with a supply passage for gas and a solenoid valve housed in the body. The solenoid valve includes a tubular sleeve internally having a flow passage leading to the supply passage, and a valve element and a valve seat that open and close the flow passage. The solenoid valve includes a driving portion that opens and closes the valve element. A seal member is disposed between an outer wall of the sleeve and an inner wall of the body. A tip of the sleeve on a downstream side of the valve element is exposed from the body.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Nakano, Toshihiko Shima, Akio Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Takeuchi, Tomoya Noda, Mutsuo Henmi
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Publication number: 20170019599Abstract: In a photographing apparatus, a low-pass selector controller (processor) is configured to perform a plurality of photographing operations including an LPF-ON photographing operation, which obtains an image signal from an image sensor in a state where the image sensor has been LPF driven by the image-shake correction device (driver) and obtains an optical low-pass filter effect, and an LPF-OFF photographing operation, which obtains an image signal from the image sensor in a state where the image sensor has not been LPF driven by the image-shake correction device (driver) and does not obtain an optical low-pass filter effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2014Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicant: RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Koichi MURAMATSU, Koichi AKIYAMA, Akira NAKANO
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Patent number: 9512504Abstract: Provided are a method for producing sodium tungstate by supplying an oxidant made of sodium nitrate or sodium nitrite to bring a tungsten containing material and the oxidant into contact with each other in an atmosphere containing oxygen to thereby continuously produce a reaction product; a method for collecting tungsten using the method; and an apparatus for producing sodium tungstate. Also provided are a method for producing a sodium tungstate aqueous solution in which a reductant is introduced into a melt containing the above-described reaction product which is then dissolved in water; and a method for collecting tungsten using the method.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignees: A.L.M.T Corp., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP., Sumitomo ELectric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Yamamoto, Kazuo Sasaya, Takayuki Fudo, Akira Nakano, Syunsuke Yamanaka, Takahisa Iguchi, Fumiatsu Sato, Akihiko Ikegaya
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Publication number: 20160116918Abstract: A throttle valve includes a throttle valve element; a support member that supports the throttle valve element, the support member including a valve element support portion, and a shaft portion that is connected to the valve element support portion, the shaft portion having a gas passage and an inlet port; a mounting member that mounts the support member in a throttle valve flow passage; a filter that is disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion to cover the inlet port, in a space whose axial length is defined by the shaft portion and the mounting member; and gaskets that are respectively disposed between one axial end of the filter and the mounting member and between the other axial end of the filter and the shaft portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2015Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Akio NAKAMURA, Akira NAKANO, Shusuke INAGI, Akira YAMASHITA, Masaaki KONDO