Patents by Inventor Hideaki Nakayama

Hideaki 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).

  • Patent number: 12262573
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other; and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and including a first organic semiconductor material, a second organic semiconductor material, and a third organic semiconductor material that have mother skeletons different from one another. The first organic semiconductor material is one of fullerenes and fullerene derivatives. The second organic semiconductor material in a form of a single-layer film has a higher linear absorption coefficient of a maximal light absorption wavelength in a visible light region than a single-layer film of the first organic semiconductor material and a single-layer film of the third organic semiconductor material. The third organic semiconductor material has a value equal to or higher than a HOMO level of the second organic semiconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Yoshiaki Obana, Ichiro Takemura, Norikazu Nakayama, Masami Shimokawa, Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Iwao Yagi, Hideaki Mogi
  • Patent number: 12233946
    Abstract: To sufficiently improve the distortion stiffness of a vehicle body in a case in which no floor tunnel largely bulging upward from a floor panel is provided. A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space including a seat on which a passenger is to sit, a cross member provided at a rear portion of the floor panel and extending in a vehicle width direction, a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, and a connecting member connecting the cross member and a rear portion of the center frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Takashi Hirakawa, Hideaki Hoshuyama, Tsuneki Shimanaka
  • Patent number: 12225922
    Abstract: A structural strengthening agent for food products, which agent moderates both cold stimuli and persistence of sweetness and oiliness in the mouth during eating of food products such as cold desserts is provided. The structural strengthening agent for food products includes a water-insoluble long-chain cellulose having a diameter of 3.5 ?m or less and an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more, and a water-insoluble short-chain cellulose having a diameter of 5.0 ?m or more and having an aspect ratio of 32.5 or less. The water-insoluble long-chain cellulose and the water-insoluble short-chain cellulose are contained in a mass ratio of 40:60 to 4:96.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Nakayama, Hideaki Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11171591
    Abstract: A control apparatus sets a value of the field current command and a value of the armature related command in accordance with drive information and the setting information stored in the storage unit; the value of the field current command and the value of the armature related command correspond to the obtained drive information. The control apparatus controls a field current flowing through the field winding to the set value of the field current command, and controls a current flowing through the armature winding or a voltage applied to the armature winding to the set value of the armature related command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akeru Ishikawa, Takuya Kawamura, Hideaki Nakayama, Koji Irie
  • Publication number: 20200235688
    Abstract: A control apparatus sets a value of the field current command and a value of the armature related command in accordance with drive information and the setting information stored in the storage unit; the value of the field current command and the value of the armature related command correspond to the obtained drive information. The control apparatus controls a field current flowing through the field winding to the set value of the field current command, and controls a current flowing through the armature winding or a voltage applied to the armature winding to the set value of the armature related command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akeru ISHIKAWA, Takuya KAWAMURA, Hideaki NAKAYAMA, Koji IRIE
  • Patent number: 10608566
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a rotary electric machine includes at least one of a first corrector and a second corrector. The first corrector corrects a first command voltage as a function of a deviation between a command value for a field current and an actual value of the field current. The second corrector corrects a second command voltage as a function of a deviation between a command value for a d-axis component of an armature current and an actual value of the d-axis component of the armature current. At least one of the first corrector and the second corrector makes the d-axis component of the armature current and the field current non-interfere with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Ishida, Hideaki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10378922
    Abstract: A rotation angle detection apparatus includes a magnet that is provided to a rotating shaft of a rotating body and rotates with the rotating shaft to generate magnetic flux and a magnetic sensor that is provided at a distance from the magnet and detects a magnetic flux interlinked with the magnetic sensor. The rotation angle detection apparatus has a magnet magnetic flux detection circuit that detects a magnet magnetic flux generated from the magnet, a disturbance magnetic flux detection circuit that detects a disturbance magnetic flux, which is a magnetic flux other than the magnet magnetic flux and is interlinked with the magnetic sensor, and a correction circuit that corrects a result of detection of the magnetic sensor based on a result of detection of the magnet magnetic flux detection circuit and a result of detection of the disturbance magnetic flux detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Kawamura, Hirofumi Kinjou, Toru Wakimoto, Hideaki Nakayama, Masataka Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20180219503
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a rotary electric machine includes at least one of a first corrector and a second corrector. The first corrector corrects a first command voltage as a function of a deviation between a command value for a field current and an actual value of the field current. The second corrector corrects a second command voltage as a function of a deviation between a command value for a d-axis component of an armature current and an actual value of the d-axis component of the armature current. At least one of the first corrector and the second corrector makes the d-axis component of the armature current and the field current non-interfere with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun ISHIDA, Hideaki NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10006784
    Abstract: A correction circuit stores data for obtaining coefficients of a relational expression indicating a relationship between a disturbance magnetic flux and a rotational angle error. Then, the coefficients are obtained from the data for obtaining the coefficients, and a detection result of a magnetic sensor is corrected based on the coefficients obtained, a relational expression, and a detection result of a disturbance magnetic flux detection circuit. Since it is possible to obtain the rotational angle error with respect to the disturbance magnetic flux from the coefficient obtained and the relational expression, it is not necessary to store the data indicating the relationship between the disturbance magnetic flux and the rotational angle error for all of the disturbance magnetic flux value in disturbance magnetic flux regions that may be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Kawamura, Hirofumi Kinjou, Toru Wakimoto, Hideaki Nakayama, Masataka Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 9979329
    Abstract: In a power converting device, a controller determines a combination pattern of a first energization pattern for the first set of the at least one-phase winding and a second energization pattern for the second set of the at least one-phase winding. The first and second energization patterns respectively include at least a first energization duration for the first set of the at least one-phase winding and a second energization duration for the second set of the at least one-phase winding. The controller supplies a drive pulse signal, whose on duration is based on the determined combination pattern, to the switch to thereby control on-off operations of the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Tago, Harumi Horihata, Hideaki Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20170363444
    Abstract: A rotation angle detection apparatus includes a magnet that is provided to a rotating shaft of a rotating body and rotates with the rotating shaft to generate magnetic flux and a magnetic sensor that is provided at a distance from the magnet and detects a magnetic flux interlinked with the magnetic sensor. The rotation angle detection apparatus has a magnet magnetic flux detection circuit that detects a magnet magnetic flux generated from the magnet, a disturbance magnetic flux detection circuit that detects a disturbance magnetic flux, which is a magnetic flux other than the magnet magnetic flux and is interlinked with the magnetic sensor, and a correction circuit that corrects a result of detection of the magnetic sensor based on a result of detection of the magnet magnetic flux detection circuit and a result of detection of the disturbance magnetic flux detection circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya KAWAMURA, Hirofumi KINJOU, Toru WAKIMOTO, Hideaki NAKAYAMA, Masataka YOSHIMURA
  • Patent number: 9847744
    Abstract: A control unit applied to a motor that includes a rotor having a field winding and a rotor having armature winding groups to control a field current passed through the field winding. Each of the armature winding groups is applied with a prescribed voltage. The field current is controlled so as to be a minimum field current value If_min with which a deviation between an amplitude of an induced voltage generated in the armature winding groups by rotation of the rotor, and an amplitude of the voltage applied to the armature winding groups becomes equal to or smaller than a prescribed value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Fujii, Hideaki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 9748883
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine has a rotor having a field winding and a stator having an armature winding. A control device adjusts a field current flowing in the field winding and an armature current flowing in the armature winding. The armature current flowing in the armature winding is expressed by using a current vector having a d-axis current and a q-axis current in a d-q coordinate system. In a case in which the control device increases the d-axis current to generate a magnetic flux in a direction which is opposite to a direction to generate a magnetic flux by a field current, the control device gradually reduces the d-axis current during a predetermined period of time after increasing the d-axis current in the direction opposite to the direction to generate the magnetic flux by the field current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Shiomi, Hideaki Nakayama, Kiyoshi Fujii
  • Publication number: 20160265942
    Abstract: A correction circuit stores data for obtaining coefficients of a relational expression indicating a relationship between a disturbance magnetic flux and a rotational angle error. Then, the coefficients are obtained from the data for obtaining the coefficients, and a detection result of a magnetic sensor is corrected based on the coefficients obtained, a relational expression, and a detection result of a disturbance magnetic flux detection circuit. Since it is possible to obtain the rotational angle error with respect to the disturbance magnetic flux from the coefficient obtained and the relational expression, it is not necessary to store the data indicating the relationship between the disturbance magnetic flux and the rotational angle error for all of the disturbance magnetic flux value in disturbance magnetic flux regions that may be applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya KAWAMURA, Hirofumi KINJOU, Toru WAKIMOTO, Hideaki NAKAYAMA, Masataka YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160248359
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine has a rotor having a field winding and a stator having an armature winding. A control device adjusts a field current flowing in the field winding and an armature current flowing in the armature winding. The armature current flowing in the armature winding is expressed by using a current vector having a d-axis current and a q-axis current in a d-q coordinate system. In a case in which the control device increases the d-axis current to generate a magnetic flux in a direction which is opposite to a direction to generate a magnetic flux by a field current, the control device gradually reduces the d-axis current during a predetermined period of time after increasing the d-axis current in the direction opposite to the direction to generate the magnetic flux by the field current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoshi SHIOMI, Hideaki NAKAYAMA, Kiyoshi FUJII
  • Publication number: 20160204727
    Abstract: There is provided a control unit (40) applied to a motor (10) that includes a rotor (12) having a field winding (11) and a rotor (13) having armature winding groups (10a, 10b) to control a field current passed through the field winding. Each of the armature winding groups is applied with a prescribed voltage. The field current is controlled so as to be a minimum field current value If_min with which a deviation between an amplitude of an induced voltage generated in the armature winding groups by rotation of the rotor, and an amplitude of the voltage applied to the armature winding groups becomes equal to or smaller than a prescribed value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Kiyoshi FUJII, Hideaki NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 9325295
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes an interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode disposed on an upper surface of a piezoelectric substrate, a wiring electrode disposed on the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate and connected to the IDT electrode, and a first insulator layer disposed on the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate. The first insulator layer seals the IDT electrode and the wiring electrode and includes a first resin and a first filler. A resin layer including no filler is provided on an upper surface of the first insulator layer. An inductor electrode is disposed on an upper surface of the resin layer. A second insulator layer is disposed on the upper surface of the resin layer and covers the inductor electrode. A terminal electrode is disposed on an upper surface of the second insulator layer. A connecting electrode electrically connects the wiring electrode, the terminal electrode, and the inductor electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SKYWORKS PANASONIC FILTER SOLUTIONS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Nakayama, Atsushi Takano, Mitsuhiro Furukawa
  • Patent number: 9312683
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted electric rotating machine includes a field winding wound on a rotor for magnetizing a field pole of the rotor, a stator winding for generating an AC voltage in accordance with a rotating magnetic field generated by the field pole, a power converter for converting the AC voltage to a DC voltage and outputting the DC voltage through a first power supply line connected to an output terminal thereof, and a load dump handling section for performing a load dump protection operation when a voltage of the output terminal of the power converter exceeds a threshold voltage. The load dump handling section is supplied with operating power through a second power supply line provided separately from the first power supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Nakayama, Harumi Horihata
  • Publication number: 20160036416
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes an interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode disposed on an upper surface of a piezoelectric substrate, a wiring electrode disposed on the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate and connected to the IDT electrode, and a first insulator layer disposed on the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate. The first insulator layer seals the IDT electrode and the wiring electrode and includes a first resin and a first filler. A resin layer including no filler is provided on an upper surface of the first insulator layer. An inductor electrode is disposed on an upper to surface of the resin layer. A second insulator layer is disposed on the upper surface of the resin layer and covers the inductor electrode. A terminal electrode is disposed on an upper surface of the second insulator layer. A connecting electrode electrically connects the wiring electrode, the terminal electrode, and the inductor electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Hideaki Nakayama, Atsushi Takano, Mitsuhiro Furukawa
  • Patent number: 9160251
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, an on-timing setter sets on-timings of each of a high-side switching element and a low-side switching element for each of at least two three-phase stator windings. An off-timing setter sets off-timings of each of the high-side switching element and the low-side switching element. An off-timing fault determiner determines a fault of an off-timing of a target switching element as one of the high-side switching element and the low-side switching element set by the off-timing setter when a time interval from the off-timing of the target switching element set by the off-timing setter to time when a phase voltage corresponding to the target switching element reaches a threshold after the off-timing thereof is shorter than a preset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Harumi Horihata, Hideaki Nakayama