Patents by Inventor Akira Nakayama

Akira Nakayama 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).

  • Publication number: 20210223726
    Abstract: A load controller includes a control device, a switching device, an arc suppression circuit, and a control section. The control device is provided on an electric power supply path between first and second terminals coupled to an alternating-current electric power source, and controls electric power supply to a load provided on the electric power supply path. The switching device is provided on the electric power supply path and is to be in an open state or a closed state. The arc suppression circuit is to suppress discharge at the switching device. The arc suppression circuit is to be set to an enabled state or a limited state. The control section controls operation of the control device, the switching device, and the arc suppression circuit. The control section varies the arc suppression circuit from the limited state to the enabled state after bringing the switching device into the closed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi FUJIKURA, Mitsuhiko KITAGAWA, Akira NAKAYAMA, Kazuya YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210064559
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a power-source controller, a data processing device, a physical-layer section, a communication controller, and a state controller. The power-source controller controls a first power-source setting and a second power-source setting. The second power-source setting causes less electric power consumption than the first power-source setting. The communication controller performs the communication with the data processing device through a predetermined communication path and the physical-layer section under the first power-source setting. The communication controller stops the communication with the data processing device through the communication path and the physical-layer section under the second power-source setting. The state controller maintains the second communication state with respect to the data processing device side of the communication path while electric power supply to the physical-layer section is reduced under the second power-source setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventors: Syuhei MITANI, Akira NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10781819
    Abstract: An impeller includes: a cylinder that includes a circular plate-shaped circular plate and a peripheral wall that extends from an outer peripheral edge of the circular plate along a rotation shaft of the impeller; and a blade mounted to an outer peripheral surface of the peripheral wall, the blade being configured to send air. The circular plate has a circular plate opening at a center, the circular plate opening penetrating the circular plate along the rotation shaft, and a sidewall opening is formed at the peripheral wall, the sidewall opening penetrating the peripheral wall along a direction different from a direction parallel to the rotation shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiro Watanabe, Masashi Miyazawa, Akira Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20200135119
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus including a driver capable of favorably suppressing image deterioration accompanying a voltage fluctuation even if the voltage fluctuation is generated in a display device is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD
    Inventor: Akira Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10488115
    Abstract: A multi-chamber heat treatment device according to the present disclosure in which heating chambers are disposed with an intermediate transport chamber interposed therebetween in a top view, and a treatment object is stored in a heating chamber via the intermediate transport chamber, wherein the multi-chamber heat treatment device includes a gas cooling chamber which cools the treatment object using a cooling gas; and a cooling gas circulation device which includes an gas inlet and a gas outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignees: IHI CORPORATION, IHI MACHINERY AND FURNACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Katsumata, Kaoru Isomoto, Akira Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20190291228
    Abstract: A machine tool includes a tool that machines a workpiece while being contact with the workpiece, a state-quantity-data acquisition unit that acquires state quantity data of the workpiece and of the tool, a state-quantity-estimation-data calculation unit that calculates state quantity estimation data from a simulation model including a device dynamic characteristic model indicating a dynamic characteristic of the tool and a workpiece model indicating a target shape of the workpiece, and a machining-state calculation unit that calculates machining state data indicating a machining state of the workpiece based on the state quantity data and the state quantity estimation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Kenichi Bandoh, Mohammad Munzir, Akira Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10392676
    Abstract: A heat treatment device includes: a heating device that heats a treatment object; a cooling device including a cooling room that accommodates the treatment object heated by the heating device and into which a cooling medium used for cooling the treatment object is supplied; a pressurized gas supplier that supplies pressurized gas into the cooling room; a pressure relief valve that communicates internal and external areas of the cooling room with each other when the pressure relief valve is opened; a pressure sensor that measures the pressure inside the cooling room; and a controller that controls the pressure relief valve such that the pressure relief valve is opened when a measurement result of the pressure sensor is higher than or equal to a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignees: IHI CORPORATION, IHI MACHINERY AND FURNACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Katsumata, Kaoru Isomoto, Gen Nishitani, Akira Nakayama, Takahiro Nagata, Yuusuke Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10273553
    Abstract: A cooling device configured to cool an article to be processed by spraying a coolant includes a cooling chamber configured to accommodate the article to be processed, a header pipe having a connecting pipe protruding from a main body section to which a nozzle is attached and into which the coolant supplied into the main body section is supplied, and disposed in the cooling chamber, and an attachment section formed at the cooling chamber and into which the connecting pipe is inserted from an inside of the cooling chamber to an outside of the cooling chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: IHI CORPORATION, IHI MACHINERY AND FURNACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Katsumata, Kaoru Isomoto, Takahiro Nagata, Akira Nakayama, Yuusuke Shimizu, Gen Nishitani
  • Patent number: 10260814
    Abstract: A conveyance device for a heat treatment device presses a conveyed body to convey the conveyed body in a linear direction, and includes a cylinder mechanisms having a retractable rod that presses the conveyed body, in which: an abutting member is disposed at a tip part of the rod of the cylinder mechanism so that the abutting member abuts locations, which are different from each other in a circumferential direction, on an outer peripheral surface of the conveyed body; a guide rail configured to guide the abutting member is provided; and the abutting member is provided with a traveling roller that travels on the guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignees: IHI CORPORATION, IHI MACHINERY AND FURNACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Katsumata, Kaoru Isomoto, Gen Nishitani, Akira Nakayama, Takahiro Nagata, Yuusuke Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10096297
    Abstract: For each unit transmission block having a pixel data block including at least one pixel data piece, clock data is added contiguously to a head of the pixel data block. If no data transition has occurred at a boundary between the clock data and the pixel data block, logic inversion is performed on the pixel data piece. Thereafter, a transmission image data signal in which unit transmission blocks, each constituted by adding an inversion flag immediately before the clock data, are consecutively arranged is transmitted to a display panel driver. The driver generates a clock signal on the basis of the clock data included in the received signal and takes in the pixel data piece or the resultant obtained by inverting the logic level of this pixel data piece in accordance with the clock signal on the basis of the inversion flag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Nakayama, Atsushi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10060450
    Abstract: The energy efficiency is increased by reducing the throttle/relief loss in the delivery flow of the hydraulic pump caused by the bleed-off control, while also making it possible to control the delivery pressure of the hydraulic pump according to the operation amount of the control lever unit and improving the operational performance. A controller 6 includes a target pump pressure setting unit 32 which calculates a target pump delivery pressure which increases with the increase in an operation amount signal from an operation amount detector 20A/20B based on the operation amount signal and a pump flow rate upper limit setting unit 33 which calculates a pump flow rate upper limit which increases with the increase in the operation amount signal based on the operation amount signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Udagawa, Akira Nakayama, Ryohei Yamashita, Shiho Izumi, Manabu Edamura, Kouji Ishikawa, Hidetoshi Satake
  • Patent number: 9869321
    Abstract: A waterproof axial flow fan includes: a rotor having a rotating shaft pivotally supported by a bearing in a rotatable manner, an impeller provided to a tip of the rotating shaft and a rotor cover; a stator having a winding and a circuit board, a surface of which is coated with an electrically insulating synthetic resin; and at least one ring collection groove part formed in a resin surface opposing to the rotor cover at an apex of the stator so as to surround a tip of a bearing holding part for holding the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumichi Ishihara, Akira Nakayama, Tatsuya Midorikawa, Masato Kakeyama
  • Publication number: 20170307296
    Abstract: A multi-chamber heat treatment device according to the present disclosure in which heating chambers are disposed with an intermediate transport chamber interposed therebetween in a top view, and a treatment object is stored in a heating chamber via the intermediate transport chamber, wherein the multi-chamber heat treatment device includes a gas cooling chamber which cools the treatment object using a cooling gas; and a cooling gas circulation device which includes an gas inlet and a gas outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Akira NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170175214
    Abstract: A heat treatment device includes: a heating device that heats a treatment object; a cooling device including a cooling room that accommodates the treatment object heated by the heating device and into which a cooling medium used for cooling the treatment object is supplied; a pressurized gas supplier that supplies pressurized gas into the cooling room; a pressure relief valve that communicates internal and external areas of the cooling room with each other when the pressure relief valve is opened; a pressure sensor that measures the pressure inside the cooling room; and a controller that controls the pressure relief valve such that the pressure relief valve is opened when a measurement result of the pressure sensor is higher than or equal to a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Gen NISHITANI, Akira NAKAYAMA, Takahiro NAGATA, Yuusuke SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20170081737
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes: cooling nozzles which are disposed around an object to be treated accommodated inside a cooling room and spray a cooling medium onto the object to be treated; a header pipe communicating with the cooling nozzles; and a cooling pump which supplies the cooling medium to the header pipe. The cooling nozzles are divided into groups. The header pipe is provided in each of the groups of the cooling nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Takahiro NAGATA, Akira NAKAYAMA, Yuusuke SHIMIZU, Gen NISHITANI
  • Publication number: 20170073787
    Abstract: A cooling device configured to cool an article to be processed by spraying a coolant includes a cooling chamber configured to accommodate the article to be processed, a header pipe having a connecting pipe protruding from a main body section to which a nozzle is attached and into which the coolant supplied into the main body section is supplied, and disposed in the cooling chamber, and an attachment section formed at the cooling chamber and into which the connecting pipe is inserted from an inside of the cooling chamber to an outside of the cooling chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Takahiro NAGATA, Akira NAKAYAMA, Yuusuke SHIMIZU, Gen NISHITANI
  • Publication number: 20170073786
    Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus includes: a heat treatment chamber that performs heating treatment for a treatment object thereinside; and a thermal insulator disposed inside the heat treatment chamber and surrounding a receiving area for the treatment object. The heat treatment chamber includes a side wall portion and a lid portion configured to be attachable to and detachable from the side wall portion. The thermal insulator includes a ceiling disposed on the inside of the lid portion. The ceiling includes a thermal insulator lid that is at least part of the ceiling and is united to the lid portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Takahiro NAGATA, Akira NAKAYAMA, Yuusuke SHIMIZU, Gen NISHITANI
  • Publication number: 20170059247
    Abstract: A heat treatment device includes: a heating chamber inside which a treatment object is contained; a lower heater that heats the lower section of a receiving area that is an area inside the heating chamber in which the treatment object is contained; and an upper heater that heats the upper section of the receiving area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Takahiro NAGATA, Akira Nakayama, Yuusuke SHIMIZU, Gen Nishitani
  • Publication number: 20170022579
    Abstract: A cooling device configured to cool an article to be treated by immersing the article to be treated in coolant includes a cooling chamber configured to accommodate the article to be treated and store the coolant therein, a supply nozzle configured to supply the coolant into the cooling chamber from below the article to be treated, a recovery pipeline configured to collect the coolant stored in the cooling chamber from above the article to be treated, and a pump configured to pump the coolant collected by the recovery pipeline to the supply nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Takahiro NAGATA, Akira NAKAYAMA, Yuusuke SHIMIZU, Gen NISHITANI
  • Publication number: 20170023304
    Abstract: A conveyance device for a heat treatment device presses a conveyed body to convey the conveyed body in a linear direction, and includes a cylinder mechanisms having a retractable rod that presses the conveyed body, in which: an abutting member is disposed at a tip part of the rod of the cylinder mechanism so that the abutting member abuts locations, which are different from each other in a circumferential direction, on an outer peripheral surface of the conveyed body; a guide rail configured to guide the abutting member is provided; and the abutting member is provided with a traveling roller that travels on the guide rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI Machinery and Furnace Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko KATSUMATA, Kaoru ISOMOTO, Gen NISHITANI, Akira NAKAYAMA, Takahiro NAGATA, Yuusuke SHIMIZU