Patents by Inventor Akira Okumura
Akira Okumura 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: 20230408732Abstract: An optical product comprising a base member and an optical multilayer film formed directly on or indirectly above a film formation surface of the base member. The optical multilayer film reflects light on a short wavelength side and suppresses reflection of light on a longer wavelength side than the light on the short wavelength side, and has a first layer to an eighth layer counted from the base member side, the first layer is a first Al layer, the second layer is a first low-refractive-index layer, the third layer is a first high-refractive-index layer, the fourth layer is a second low-refractive-index layer, the fifth layer is a second Al layer, the sixth layer is a third low-refractive-index layer, the seventh layer is a second high-refractive-index layer, and the eighth layer is a fourth low-refractive-index layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicants: TOKAI OPTICAL CO. LTD., National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research SystemInventors: Akira OKUMURA, Keiji Nishimoto, Chiaki Inoue
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Publication number: 20230212722Abstract: An alloy particle contains: total content of Fe and Co: from 82.2 to 96.5 parts by mass; Co: 0 to 30.0 parts by mass; P: 0 to 4.5 parts by mass; B: more than 0 to 5.0 parts by mass; C: 0 to 3.0 parts by mass; Si: 0 to 6.7 parts by mass; Ni: more than 0 to 12.0 parts by mass; Cr: more than 0 to 4.2 parts by mass; total content of Mo, W, Zr, and Nb: 0 to 4.2 parts by mass; total content of P and Cr: 7.4 parts by mass or less; multiplication product of the parts by mass of Ni and Cr: 0.5 or more; and total content of Fe, Co, and Ni: 97.0 parts by mass or less. The alloy particle contains an amorphous phase, and a volume percentage of the amorphous phase is 70% or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2022Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicants: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tohoku Magnet Institute Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro HENMI, Tatsuya TOMITA, Akira OKUMURA, Katsutoshi UJI, Toru TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 10994625Abstract: An electric vehicle charging and discharging system according to the present invention includes: a charge and discharge unit capable of charging a battery mounted on an electric vehicle and discharging the battery; a first communication unit that acquires a vehicle identification number of the electric vehicle and a dischargeable capacity value indicating a dischargeable amount of power of the battery from the electric vehicle when the electric vehicle is connected with the charge and discharge unit; and a display unit that displays the vehicle identification number and the dischargeable capacity value acquired by the first communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Akira Okumura
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Publication number: 20200406771Abstract: An electric vehicle charging and discharging system according to the present invention includes: a charge and discharge unit capable of charging a battery mounted on an electric vehicle and discharging the battery; a first communication unit that acquires a vehicle identification number of the electric vehicle and a dischargeable capacity value indicating a dischargeable amount of power of the battery from the electric vehicle when the electric vehicle is connected with the charge and discharge unit; and a display unit that displays the vehicle identification number and the dischargeable capacity value acquired by the first communication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2018Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Akira OKUMURA
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Patent number: 10700524Abstract: A photovoltaic power conditioning system (PV-PCS) outputs power generated by a photovoltaic panel. An electric vehicle power conditioning system charges an electric vehicle with power supplied from a commercial power system or the power outputted from the PV-PCS. The PV-PCS directly or indirectly receives limitation information from a server. During a limitation period in which the power to be outputted from the PV-PCS is limited, a management device obtains a suppressed power generation amount on the basis of a readily estimated power generation amount of the PV panel, and controls the PV-PCS so that charging power increases by having the suppressed power generation amount as an upper limit.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaaki Yabe, Yuki Ogawa, Satoshi Minezawa, Takashi Arai, Akira Okumura
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Publication number: 20180254636Abstract: A photovoltaic power conditioning system (PV-PCS) outputs power generated by a photovoltaic panel. An electric vehicle power conditioning system charges an electric vehicle with power supplied from a commercial power system or the power outputted from the PV-PCS. The PV-PCS directly or indirectly receives limitation information from a server. During a limitation period in which the power to be outputted from the PV-PCS is limited, a management device obtains a suppressed power generation amount on the basis of a readily estimated power generation amount of the PV panel, and controls the PV-PCS so that charging power increases by having the suppressed power generation amount as an upper limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2016Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Masaaki YABE, Yuki OGAWA, Satoshi MINEZAWA, Takashi ARAI, Akira OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20130254789Abstract: At power-on of a television receiver, a selection part selects a channel most likely to be selected by a user among all channels over which the television receiver is capable of receiving programs, based on pieces of program history information of program history databases.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventor: Akira Okumura
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Patent number: 8194192Abstract: A projection display uses a light modulating device to modulate, in accordance with image data, light radiated from a light source, project the modulated light onto a screen, and display an image. The projection display separates a unit of time configuring the image data into an effective light time when the light modulating device can express the light as an image on the screen and an ineffective light time when the light modulating device cannot express the light as an image on the screen. The projection display increases the power supplied to the light source during the effective light time over the power supplied to the light source during the ineffective light time.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2007Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shigeki Harada, Takayoshi Nagai, Ikuro Suga, Akihiko Iwata, Yoshiteru Suzuki, Akira Okumura, Jun Someya, Kuniko Kojima
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Patent number: 8184123Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an image display apparatus, an image processing apparatus, and an image display method that are able to display images without motion blur without increasing the transmitted amount of image signal. An image display apparatus of the invention comprises an image reception unit that receives an image signal; a gray-level correction unit that corrects image signals each corresponding to sub-frames consisting of a plurality of pixel groups split from the received mage signal, using respective grayscale characteristics different from sub-frame to sub-frame; and an image display unit that displays the frame image by successively displaying the sub-frame images each having been gray-level-corrected.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2008Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akihiro Nagase, Jun Someya, Yoshiteru Suzuki, Akira Okumura
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Publication number: 20090309895Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an image display apparatus, an image processing apparatus, and an image display method that are able to display images without motion blur without increasing the transmitted amount of image signal. An image display apparatus of the invention comprises an image reception unit that receives an image signal; a gray-level correction unit that corrects image signals each corresponding to sub-frames consisting of a plurality of pixel groups split from the received mage signal, using respective grayscale characteristics different from sub-frame to sub-frame; and an image display unit that displays the frame image by successively displaying the sub-frame images each having been gray-level-corrected.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2008Publication date: December 17, 2009Inventors: Akihiro Nagase, Jun Someya, Yoshiteru Suzuki, Akira Okumura
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Patent number: 7624676Abstract: Frying ingredients are fry-cooked within a frying oil layer used for fry cooking, under the conditions meeting a relationship of HA/SA1/2=0.6 to 3.5, where SA denotes the surface area of the frying oil layer and HA denotes the height from the bottom to the surface of the frying oil layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2003Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Nisshin Oillo Group, Ltd.Inventors: Minoru Nishida, Akira Okumura, Toshiyuki Inui
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Publication number: 20080284763Abstract: An image signal representing consecutive video frames is resampled, using different sampling phases so that different subsets of pixels are taken from each frame in a consecutive set of frames. The resulting set of resampled frames is combined into a single frame and transferred to an image display unit that divides the single frame into subframes and displays the subframes sequentially with different pixel shifts. Each pixel in each subframe is displayed at its correct spatial and temporal position. Although the resampling process greatly reduces the pixel data transfer rate, the image display unit can reproduce still images without loss of definition and moving images without motion blur.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2008Publication date: November 20, 2008Inventors: Jun Someya, Akihiro Nagase, Yoshiteru Suzuki, Akira Okumura
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Publication number: 20080136977Abstract: A projection display uses a light modulating device to modulate, in accordance with image data, light radiated from a light source, project the modulated light onto a screen, and display an image. The projection display separates a unit of time configuring the image data into an effective light time when the light modulating device can express the light as an image on the screen and an ineffective light time when the light modulating device cannot express the light as an image on the screen. The projection display increases the power supplied to the light source during the effective light time over the power supplied to the light source during the ineffective light time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2007Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki HARADA, Takayoshi Nagai, Ikuro Suga, Akihiko Iwata, Yoshiteru Suzuki, Akira Okumura, Jun Someya, Kuniko Kojima
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Publication number: 20040213880Abstract: A frying ingredient is fried under the state that bubbles are contained in at least a region of the frying oil layer during the fry cooking stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2004Publication date: October 28, 2004Inventors: Minoru Nishida, Akira Okumura, Toshiyuki Inui
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Publication number: 20040107957Abstract: Frying ingredients are fry-cooked within a frying oil layer used for fry cooking, under the conditions meeting a relationship of HA/SA1/2=0.6 to 3.5, where SA denotes the surface area of the frying oil layer and HA denotes the height from the bottom to the surface of the frying oil layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2003Publication date: June 10, 2004Applicants: The Nisshin OilliO, Ltd., NISSHIN PLANT ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Minoru Nishida, Akira Okumura, Toshiyuki Inui
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Patent number: 6693676Abstract: A motion detecting apparatus for detecting the motion of the picture without error and realizing the motion YC separation or the motion adaptive scan-line interpolation with high accuracy is realized by correcting the motion amount of the pixel which is too much or too small in comparison with the peripheral pixels for the signal obtained by subtracting the output of the vertical edge detecting circuit for detecting the slow motion of the picture signal in the vertical direction from the combined outputs from the first detecting circuit for detecting motion information of the luminance signal low-pass component and from the second detecting circuit for detecting motion information of the color signal in the picture signal, and then adding the output of the horizontal edge detecting circuit for detecting the slow motion of the picture signal in the horizontal direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2001Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Noriyuki Yamaguchi, Masaaki Hanai, Akira Okumura
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Publication number: 20020008785Abstract: A motion detecting apparatus for detecting the motion of the picture without error and realizing the motion YC separation or the motion adaptive scan-line interpolation with high accuracy is realized by correcting the motion amount of the pixel which is too much or too small in comparison with the peripheral pixels for the signal obtained by subtracting the output of the vertical edge detecting circuit for detecting the slow motion of the picture signal in the vertical direction from the combined outputs from the first detecting circuit for detecting motion information of the luminance signal low-pass component and from the second detecting circuit for detecting motion information of the color signal in the picture signal, and then adding the output of the horizontal edge detecting circuit for detecting the slow motion of the picture signal in the horizontal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2001Publication date: January 24, 2002Inventors: Noriyuki Yamaguchi, Masaaki Hanai, Akira Okumura
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Patent number: 6123119Abstract: A method for safely, reliably and continuously feeding a liquid specimen such as human blood in one container on a centrifugal rotor into another container on the same rotor without the need to touch the specimen as well as any part of the device while completely preventing contamination due to mixing of microorganisms. A liquid is injected into a pressurizing or a depressurizing container on a rotor from outside to pressurize or depressurize a first container on the rotor, thereby feeding under pressure a specimen in the first container into a second container on the same rotor, or sucking a specimen in the second container into the first container.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1999Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: Fumiko UozumiInventor: Akira Okumura
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Patent number: 5845686Abstract: An apparatus for loading a powdered or granular material comprises a cylindrical chute, which is mounted in a manner to be movable in a vertical direction and through which passes the loading material, a screw type extruder for extruding the loading material from inside the chute, the extruder being mounted to a lower open end portion of the chute and capable of closing the lower open end of the chute, driving means for driving the extruder, a wire having one end fixed to the tip of the chute and having the other end fixed to a wind-up device through pulleys, and a load cell for detecting an amount of change in the thrust received by the extruder from the powdery or granular loading material. The wind-up device is operated on the basis of the value detected by the load cell.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1997Date of Patent: December 8, 1998Assignee: Nisshin Plant Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Okumura, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Kazuyoshi Yoshimura
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Patent number: 5402525Abstract: Membership functions are capable of being created with ease even by a person who is not an expert or skilled individual. Data Ai.about.Bi sensed by sensors 11.about.13 and synthesized data Mi are stored in a memory device 31 in correlation with identification codes Di of objects. The results of comparing the "tastiness" of an object Di with that of an object Dj are entered from an input unit 15 and stored in the memory device 31. An evaluating unit 32 arrays the results of comparison in accordance with inequality symbols and assigns evaluation values to these results in the order of the array. A histogram creating unit 33 generates a histogram by plotting each item of input data Ai.about.Mi along a horizontal axis and plotting the corresponding evaluation values along a vertical axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1993Date of Patent: March 28, 1995Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Akira Okumura, Tsutomu Ishida