Patents by Inventor Atsushi Nishino

Atsushi Nishino 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: 20240094078
    Abstract: The pressure sensor 10 comprises: a bottomed cylindrical sensor module 11 having inside a pressure receiving chamber C1 communicating with a flow path and including a diaphragm 11a in contact with the pressure receiving chamber; a pressure detecting element 12 for outputting a strain of the diaphragm 11a as a pressure; a base ring 14 fixed at an outer edge of an open-side end part 11c of the sensor module and disposed on an outer peripheral side of the sensor module 11; a hermetic member 13 fixed to the base ring 14 for forming a sealed vacuum chamber C2 opposite to the pressure receiving chamber C1 across the diaphragm 11a; a gasket 18 sandwiched between the base ring 14 and a body 5; and a pressing flange 19 for pressing the base ring 14 to the body 5 through the gasket 18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED, NIDEC COPAL ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi HIDAKA, Takatoshi NAKATANI, Kaoru HIRATA, Kouji NISHINO, Nobukazu IKEDA, Masaki FUKASAWA
  • Patent number: 11906186
    Abstract: An environmental equipment control apparatus for controlling a plurality of types of environmental equipment includes a grasping unit that grasps current physical and mental state information of the user, environmental situation information, and target relationship information representing a relationship between a target physical and mental state and a current physical and mental state; learning control plan output means that outputs a control change plan for each of combinations of the plurality of types of environmental equipment in accordance with the current physical and mental state information, the environmental situation information, and the target relationship information; and a selection control unit that selects one control plan from among a plurality of control plans output by the learning control plan output means and executes the one control change plan. The learning control plan output means learns to update a method for specifying the control plan to be output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiori Emoto, Atsushi Nishino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Shouta Hori, Junya Nakase
  • Patent number: 11835247
    Abstract: An air conditioning control device controls an air conditioning apparatus capable of changing an air environment of a target space. The air conditioning control device includes a first information grasping unit and a control unit. The first information grasping unit grasps a predetermined comfort-related value relating to comfort of a subject. The control unit controls the air conditioning apparatus so as to satisfy a predetermined discomfort condition based on the comfort-related value grasped by the first information grasping unit. An air conditioning apparatus includes the air conditioning control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiori Emoto, Atsushi Nishino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Shouta Hori, Junya Nakase, Toshiyuki Maeda
  • Patent number: 11787363
    Abstract: In a vehicle emergency, a spool of a webbing take-up device is rotated in a pull-out direction such that a main lock is displaced toward a rotation-radial direction outside of the spool and engages with a clutch gear configuring a first rotation body. Rotation of the spool in the pull-out direction is thus restricted. Also in a vehicle emergency, the first rotation body is rotated in a take-up direction of the spool such that the main lock engages with the first rotation body, and rotation force of the first rotation body is transmitted to the spool through the main lock and the spool is rotated in the take-up direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Atsushi Nishino, Takuhiro Saito, Kazuhiro Yamada, Chihiro Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20230184454
    Abstract: A temperature estimation device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire environmental information, the environmental information being a value indicative of an environment experienced by a subject in the past; and a control unit configured to calculate out an estimated comfortable temperature on the basis of the environmental information, the estimated comfortable temperature being a temperature estimated to be a temperature comfortable for the subject. The environmental information preferably includes an experienced temperature, the experienced temperature being an air temperature of the environment experienced by the subject in the past.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shiori EMOTO, Atsushi NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20230141767
    Abstract: A comfort determination device (10) includes: an acquisition unit (11A) configured to acquire time series data on a blood flow of a target; a calculator (14A) configured to calculate an index of fluctuation indicating fluctuations in the blood flow of the target from the time series data on the blood flow acquired by the acquisition unit (11A); and a determiner (14B) configured to determine whether or not the target is comfortable, based on the index of fluctuation calculated by the calculator (14A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shiori EMOTO, Atsushi NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20220357064
    Abstract: An environmental equipment control apparatus controls environmental equipment. The environmental equipment control apparatus includes a grasping unit that grasps physical-and-mental-state information about a physical and mental state of a user, a control unit that changes a control state of the environmental equipment in a case in which the physical-and-mental-state information satisfies a predetermined state condition, and a storage unit that stores correspondence information in which changes in the control state of the environmental equipment are associated with changes in the physical-and-mental-state information of the user grasped by the grasping unit in accordance with the changes in the control state of the environmental equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi NISHINO, Satoshi HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11477870
    Abstract: An environmental control equipment control apparatus controls an environment of a target space using a plurality of environmental control equipment. The control apparatus includes a receiver and an electronic controller. The receiver may receive state information relating to states of a plurality of subject persons. In this case, the electronic controller controls a plurality of kinds of environmental control equipment such that the state information of the plurality of subject persons received by the state information receiver satisfies a predetermined target state condition. The receiver may receive a second environmental stimulus given to a subject person other than a first environmental stimulus caused by control of the environmental control equipment. In this case, the electronic controller controls the environmental control equipment such that an influence of the second environmental stimulus received by the environmental stimulus receiver on the subject person is cancelled or reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiori Emoto, Atsushi Nishino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Shouta Hori, Junya Nakase, Toshiyuki Maeda
  • Patent number: 11428431
    Abstract: An environmental equipment control apparatus controls environmental equipment. The environmental equipment control apparatus includes a grasping unit that grasps physical-and-mental-state information about a physical and mental state of a user, and a control unit that changes a control state of the environmental equipment in a case in which the physical-and-mental-state information satisfies a predetermined state condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Nishino, Satoshi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20220161755
    Abstract: Unnecessary locking of rotation of a spool is suppressed. A webbing take-up device is provided with a spool, a pawl and a small pawl. The pawl is displaceable between an allowing position and a locking position. When a rotation speed of the spool in a pull-out direction exceeds a predetermined speed, the pawl displaces from the allowing position to the locking position and locks rotation of the spool in the pull-out direction. The small pawl is displaceable between a pawl limiting position and a lock position. In a state in which the small pawl is disposed at the pawl limiting position, the small pawl limits displacement of the pawl to a locking position side thereof. In a state in which the small pawl is disposed at the lock position, the small pawl locks rotation of the spool in the pull-out direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Chihiro MATSUOKA, Atsushi NISHINO, Motoki SUGIYAMA, Kazuhiro YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11326801
    Abstract: An environmental apparatus controller performs control over multiple types of environmental apparatuses, and includes a grasping unit, learning control plan output means, and a selection control unit. The grasping unit grasps current mental and physical condition information of a user, environmental situation information, and target relationship information between a target mental and physical condition and a present mental and physical condition. The learning control plan output means outputs a control change plan for each combination of multiple types of the environmental apparatuses according to the current mental and physical condition information, the environmental situation information, and the target relationship information. The selection control unit selects one of a plurality of the control change plans output by the learning control plan output means and executes the plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: Daikin Industries, Ltd., NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shiori Emoto, Atsushi Nishino, Satoshi Hashimoto, Shouta Hori, Junya Nakase, Masanori Tsujikawa, Yukihiro Kiuchi, Toshinobu Ogatsu
  • Publication number: 20220137567
    Abstract: A arousal level control apparatus calculates, under a limitation related to a physical quantity that affects an arousal level of a subject, a setting value for controlling the arousal level of the subject by using a physical quantity prediction model for calculating the physical quantity based on a setting value of the physical quantity and an arousal level prediction model for calculating a prediction value of the arousal level based on the calculated physical quantity calculated, and sets the calculated setting value to a control target device that affects the physical quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuma KOGO, Atsushi NISHINO, Satoshi HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220042710
    Abstract: An air-conditioning system includes a temperature control unit configured to control an indoor temperature; a humidity control unit configured to control an indoor humidity; and a control unit configured to control the temperature control unit and the humidity control unit so that the indoor temperature approaches a target temperature, and the indoor humidity approaches a target humidity. The control unit is configured to perform an operation in a first mode where the target temperature and the target humidity are changed so as not to reduce a sensible temperature of a person in a target room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shiori EMOTO, Atsushi NISHINO, Satoshi HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220001833
    Abstract: A webbing retractor includes: a take-up shaft on which a webbing that is applied to a vehicle occupant can be taken-up, and on which the webbing is taken-up due to the take-up shaft being rotated in a take-up direction, and that is rotated in a pull-out direction due to the webbing being pulled-out; a restricting member that, by being operated, restricts rotation of the take-up shaft in the pull-out direction; a sensing section that senses a pulled-out state of the webbing; and a control section that, in a case in which the sensed pulled-out state corresponds to a state in which the webbing is pulled-out to a predetermined position, operates the restricting member and restricts rotation of the take-up shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoya OWAKI, Takuhiro SAITO, Kazuhiro YAMADA, Atsushi NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20210394708
    Abstract: In a vehicle emergency, a spool of a webbing take-up device is rotated in a pull-out direction such that a main lock is displaced toward a rotation-radial direction outside of the spool and engages with a clutch gear configuring a first rotation body. Rotation of the spool in the pull-out direction is thus restricted. Also in a vehicle emergency, the first rotation body is rotated in a take-up direction of the spool such that the main lock engages with the first rotation body, and rotation force of the first rotation body is transmitted to the spool through the main lock and the spool is rotated in the take-up direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi NISHINO, Takuhiro SAITO, Kazuhiro YAMADA, Chihiro MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20210341166
    Abstract: An air conditioning control device controls an air conditioning apparatus capable of changing an air environment of a target space. The air conditioning control device includes a first information grasping unit and a control unit. The first information grasping unit grasps a predetermined comfort-related value relating to comfort of a subject. The control unit controls the air conditioning apparatus so as to satisfy a predetermined discomfort condition based on the comfort-related value grasped by the first information grasping unit. An air conditioning apparatus includes the air conditioning control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Shiori EMOTO, Atsushi NISHINO, Satoshi HASHIMOTO, Shouta HORI, Junya NAKASE, Toshiyuki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210318015
    Abstract: An environmental equipment control apparatus controls environmental equipment. The environmental equipment control apparatus includes a grasping unit that grasps physical-and-mental-state information about a physical and mental state of a user, and a control unit that changes a control state of the environmental equipment in a case in which the physical-and-mental-state information satisfies a predetermined state condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi NISHINO, Satoshi HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11097687
    Abstract: A webbing retractor includes a spool, a motor, a force limiter mechanism, a first rotating body, a second rotating body, a ratchet gear, a pawl body and a control section. The ratchet gear is provided at one of the first rotating body or the second rotating body. The pawl body is provided at another of the first rotating body or the second rotating body. The pawl body can engage with the ratchet gear in a case in which the first rotating body rotates toward one side, and engagement of the pawl body with the ratchet gear being cancelled in a case in which the first rotating body rotates toward another side. The control section drives the motor to rotate in reverse, such that the first rotating body rotates toward another side in a case in which a physical amount relating to load of the passenger exceeds a predetermined value during forward rotational driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Tomoya Owaki, Takuhiro Saito, Kazuhiro Yamada, Atsushi Nishino
  • Publication number: 20200224916
    Abstract: An environmental apparatus controller performs control over multiple types of environmental apparatuses, and includes a grasping unit, learning control plan output means, and a selection control unit. The grasping unit grasps current mental and physical condition information of a user, environmental situation information, and target relationship information between a target mental and physical condition and a present mental and physical condition. The learning control plan output means outputs a control change plan for each combination of multiple types of the environmental apparatuses according to the current mental and physical condition information, the environmental situation information, and the target relationship information. The selection control unit selects one of a plurality of the control change plans output by the learning control plan output means and executes the plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Shiori EMOTO, Atsushi NISHINO, Satoshi HASHIMOTO, Shouta HORI, Junya NAKASE, Masanori TSUJIKAWA, Yukihiro KIUCHI, Toshinobu OGATSU
  • Publication number: 20200224914
    Abstract: An environment-control-means control apparatus controls an environment of a target space using a plurality of environment control means. The control apparatus includes a grasping unit and a control unit. The grasping unit may grasp state information relating to states of a plurality of subject persons. In this case, the control unit controls a plurality of kinds of environment control means such that the state information of the plurality of subject persons grasped by the state information grasping unit satisfies a predetermined target state condition. The grasping unit may grasp a second environmental stimulus given to a subject person other than a first environmental stimulus caused by control of the environment control means. In this case, the control unit controls the environment control means such that an influence of the second environmental stimulus grasped by the environmental stimulus grasping unit on the subject person is cancelled or reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Shiori EMOTO, Atsushi NISHINO, Satoshi HASHIMOTO, Shouta HORI, Junya NAKASE, Toshiyuki MAEDA