Patents by Inventor Hideaki Nagura

Hideaki Nagura 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: 20150326174
    Abstract: Provided is a cleaning device that does not cause degradation of cleaning performance even if there is an obstacle on a surface to be cleaned. A cleaning device includes a housing, blades used for cleaning, a cleaning liquid supply section for supplying cleaning liquid to a surface of a solar cell module, and a wheel for travelling on a solar photovoltaic power generation device. Moreover, the blades are arranged in such a manner that regions which pass through a fixation member are shifted and overlap each other in a front-rear direction with respect to an advancing direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryoji ISHIMURA, Hideaki NAGURA, Makoto HORIYAMA, Yasuhiro SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150306636
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a nozzle that discharges water toward a light-receiving surface, and a blade that wipes away the water on the light-receiving surface. A hole in the nozzle is arranged so as to face the surface to be cleaned or arranged so as to be inclined to a side of the blade with respect to a reference plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Hideaki NAGURA, Makoto HORIYAMA, Yasuhiro SAKAMOTO, Masaaki KODAMA, Ryoji ISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20120275192
    Abstract: Each light guide (21) has a fixed part (21b), formed at at least one side edge of a cross-section of the light guide (21) orthogonal to the length of the light guide (21), with which the light guide (21) is fixed to a chassis. The fixed part (21b) is thinner than the other side edge of the cross-section of the light guide (21) orthogonal to the length of the light guide (21) or a thick-walled part (21c) that is a central part of the cross-section of the light guide (21) orthogonal to the length of the light guide (21). Light scatterers (23) vary in density of arrangement between (i) a region where the light guide (21) varies in thickness between the thick-walled part (21c) and the fixed part (21b) and (ii) other regions along a direction orthogonal to the length of the light guide (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sayuri Wakamura, Fumio Kokubo, Hideaki Nagura
  • Publication number: 20120014133
    Abstract: According to a light source module of the present invention, a plurality of light guides (21) constituting a light guide plate are provided so as to extend, parallel with one another, in a long-side direction of the plurality of light guides (21) and so as to be separated from one another by gaps. Concavities and convexes are formed in an emission surface of each of the plurality of light guides (21) along the long-side direction of the plurality of light guides (21). Respective ridge lines of the convexes out of the concavities and convexes are substantially parallel with the long-side direction. With the arrangement, it is possible to provide (i) a light source module in which the rate of occurrence of luminance unevenness can be reduced and (ii) an electronic device including the light source module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumio Kokubo, Sayuri Wakamura, Hideaki Nagura, Takuya Ishizaka