Patents by Inventor Hideki Nagano
Hideki Nagano 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: 20240126020Abstract: A signal light transmission member includes an AR coated lens, a light transmission part, and an optical fiber. The refractive index of the light transmission part has a specific relationship with the refractive index of a core material of the optical fiber. An anti-reflective coating is formed at an interface portion between the lens of the AR coated lens and the light transmission part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Tamron Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideki NAGANO
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Patent number: 11731521Abstract: A foreign object detection device detects, during wireless power transfer from a power transmission unit of a power transmission device to a power reception unit of a power reception device, a foreign object on the power transmission unit, and comprises: a temperature sensitive body that is disposed at the power transmission unit and changes a color with temperature; and a detection unit that detects the foreign object by detecting a change in the color.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Eiichi Urushibata, Kenji Nishimura, Hideki Nagano
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Publication number: 20220396158Abstract: A foreign object detection device detects, during wireless power transfer from a power transmission unit of a power transmission device to a power reception unit of a power reception device, a foreign object on the power transmission unit, and comprises: a temperature sensitive body that is disposed at the power transmission unit and changes a color with temperature; and a detection unit that detects the foreign object by detecting a change in the color.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2019Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Eiichi URUSHIBATA, Kenji NISHIMURA, Hideki NAGANO
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Publication number: 20220055443Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning device (10; 10A; 10B) has a casing (20) configuring a temperature adjustment section (12; 12A; 12B). The casing (20) has provided in a position thereof opposed to an inflow surface (41) of a heat exchanger (40) a flow direction change section (30) which causes the flow direction of air led to the temperature adjustment section (12; 12A; 12B) from a duct section (13; 13A; 13B) to bend approximately 90 degrees and leads the air to the inflow surface (41). Guide portions (60, 70; 60A, 70A; 60B) smaller in area than the flow direction change section (30) as seen when directly facing the inflow surface (41) are provided in a heat exchanger upstream space (22) between the inner wall surface of the casing (20) and the inflow surface (41).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2020Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusaku Sakurai, Hideki Nagano, Shiro Izumikawa, Hisayoshi Yoshizaki
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Patent number: 10726989Abstract: A power transmission coil device includes a first helical coil having a first conductive wire forming a helical shape around an axis, and a second helical coil having a second conductive wire forming a helical shape around the axis, in which the first helical coil is electrically connected in parallel to the second helical coil, and the first conductive wire and the second conductive wire arranged along a direction of the axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Kentarou Furiya, Susumu Tokura, Kenji Nishimura, Jun Araki, Hideki Nagano
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Patent number: 10605268Abstract: A blower which uses a rotation prevention member in which a rotating shaft with circular cross section is press-fitted is disclosed. The blower includes a scroll housing, a resin-made stator which is press-fitted on a rotating shaft with circular cross section, and a centrifugal fan which has a boss inserted on the stator, a cone extending from the boss, and blades extending from the cone, in which the stator and boss are a tubular members. A stator engagement part is formed in a stator outer circumferential face. The stator has a first weld face which extends substantially perpendicular to an axial direction of the rotating shaft, and second and third weld faces which are arranged to extend in the axial direction. A boss engagement part is formed in an inner circumferential face of a boss through hole and engages with the stator.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Jitsukawa, Hideki Nagano, Naoto Hayashi
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Publication number: 20190170160Abstract: A blower which uses a rotation prevention member in which a rotating shaft with circular cross section is press-fitted is disclosed. The blower includes a scroll housing, a resin-made stator which is press-fitted on a rotating shaft with circular cross section, and a centrifugal fan which has a boss inserted on the stator, a cone extending from the boss, and blades extending from the cone, in which the stator and boss are a tubular members. A stator engagement part is formed in a stator outer circumferential face. The stator has a first weld face which extends substantially perpendicular to an axial direction of the rotating shaft, and second and third weld faces which are arranged to extend in the axial direction. A boss engagement part is formed in an inner circumferential face of a boss through hole and engages with the stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Jitsukawa, Hideki Nagano, Naoto Hayashi
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Patent number: 10166843Abstract: A vehicle air-conditioning apparatus includes a case including an air passage therein and a filter arrangement area provided in the air passage for arranging a filter. The case includes: a drain port provided on a bottom portion of a downstream-side air passage in the filter arrangement area; an insertion port provided on a side surface of the case and configured to allow insertion of the filter into the filter arrangement area; a water receiving portion provided on a bottom portion of an upstream air passage in the filter arrangement area; a drain channel passing below the filter arrangement area and configured to introduce water from the water receiving portion to the drain port; and a waterproof wall that covers a lower corner portion on the insertion port side of an upstream-side boundary of the filter arrangement areas. The waterproof wall is increased in height toward the insertion port.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideki Nagano
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Publication number: 20180358168Abstract: A power transmission coil device includes a first helical coil having a first conductive wire forming a helical shape around an axis, and a second helical coil having a second conductive wire forming a helical shape around the axis, in which the first helical coil is electrically connected in parallel to the second helical coil, and the first conductive wire and the second conductive wire arranged along a direction of the axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2016Publication date: December 13, 2018Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Kentarou FURIYA, Susumu TOKURA, Kenji NISHIMURA, Jun ARAKI, Hideki NAGANO
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Patent number: 9899712Abstract: To provide a battery temperature adjustment unit capable of efficiently supplying air adjusted to an appropriate temperature to a battery. A unit provided in a module case accommodating a battery includes a unit case having an air inlet and an air outlet, a heat exchanger disposed in the unit case, and a blower disposed in the unit case, in which air in the module case is sucked through the air inlet by the blower while being blown out through the air outlet and circulates through the module case and the air blown out through the air outlet includes air that has passed through the heat exchanger and air that has not passed through the heat exchanger. The unit also includes a heater disposed in parallel with a heat exchanger for cooling or disposed closer to the air inlet than the heat exchanger for cooling.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2013Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: VALEO JAPAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Nagano, Osamu Takahashi
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Publication number: 20180009292Abstract: In a vehicular air conditioning device including an air conditioning case having an air passage therein, a cooling heat exchanger disposed in the air passage, the heat exchanger exchanging heat between blown air flowing through the air passage and a heat medium, a cooling medium supplying sub pipe and a cooling medium recovering sub pipe connected to the cooling heat exchanger, the cooling medium supplying sub pipe and the cooling medium recovering sub pipe supplying the heat medium to and recovering the heat medium from the outside, and an air filter disposed in the air passage, and the air filter being attachable to and detachable from the air conditioning case, in which the cooling medium supplying sub pipe and the cooling medium recovering sub pipe have overlapping sections, respectively, included in an attachment and detachment path of the air filter and the overlapping sections are disposed in parallel with an attachment and detachment direction of the air filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2016Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicant: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Suzuki, Hideki Nagano, Masayuki Murase, Naoto Hayashi
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Patent number: 9828663Abstract: Provided is a galvannealed steel sheet with excellent anti-powdering property when press forming is performed, without controlling the contents of chemical elements in steel which are effective for strengthening a steel sheet, such as Si and P, to be low in order to achieve required material properties and without increasing cost due to, for example, processes being complicated. A galvannealed steel sheet with excellent anti-powdering property has a coated layer taking in grains of a base steel sheet such that the grains constitute 2.0% or more and 15.0% or less of the coated layer in terms of cross section area ratio.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2013Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yoichi Makimizu, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Hideki Nagano, Yasunobu Nagataki
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Patent number: 9677163Abstract: A high strength galvanized steel sheet excellent in coating adhesiveness is made from a base material that is a high strength steel sheet containing Si, Mn, and Cr. A method includes performing an oxidation treatment on steel containing Si, Mn, and Cr in an oxidation furnace under the condition that a selected exit temperature T, reduction annealing and a galvanizing treatment, or optionally, further an alloying treatment under conditions that heating is performed at a temperature of 460° C. or higher and 600° C. or lower for an alloying treatment time of 10 seconds or more and 60 seconds or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2012Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yoichi Makimizu, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Hideki Nagano, Shinjiro Kaneko
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Publication number: 20170001491Abstract: To provide a vehicular air conditioner provided with a partition portion splitting blowing sir absorbed into a casing into plural air flows and a door capable of abutting on the partition portion, in which an air volume from an air blow-off port is secured end generation of noise is reduced, and a vehicle equipped with the vehicular air conditioner. The vehicular air conditioner according to the present invention has the partition portion splitting the blowing air into plural air flows and having a cross-sectional shape which is smaller in an upstream side than in a downstream side of the blowing air.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Suzuki, Hideki Nagano, Masayuki Murase
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Publication number: 20160288622Abstract: A vehicle air-conditioning apparatus includes a case including an air passage therein and a filter arrangement area provided in the air passage for arranging a filter. The case includes a drain port provided on a bottom portion of a downstream-side air passage in the filter arrangement area; an insertion port provided on a side surface of the case and configured to allow insertion of the filter into the filter arrangement area a water receiving portion provided on a bottom portion of an upstream air passage in the filter arrangement area; a drain channel passing below the filter arrangement area and configured to introduce water from the water receiving portion to the drain port; and a waterproof wall that covers a lower corner portion on the insertion port side of an upstream-side boundary of the filter arrangement areas. The waterproof wall is increased in height toward the insertion port.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideki Nagano
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Publication number: 20160137027Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a vehicle air-conditioning apparatus, in which measures to reduce a noise in an intake unit are implemented.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2015Publication date: May 19, 2016Applicant: VALEO JAPAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Nagano, Naoto Hayashi
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Publication number: 20150280292Abstract: To provide a battery temperature adjustment unit capable of efficiently supplying air adjusted to an appropriate temperature to a battery. A unit provided in a module case accommodating a battery includes a unit case having an air inlet and an air outlet, a heat exchanger disposed in the unit case, and a blower disposed in the unit case, in which air in the module case is sucked through the air inlet by the blower while being blown out through the air outlet and circulates through the module case and the air blown out through the air outlet includes air that has passed through the heat exchanger and air that has not passed through the heat exchanger. The unit also includes a heater disposed in parallel with a heat exchanger for cooling or disposed closer to the air inlet than the heat exchanger for cooling.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2013Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Hideki Nagano, Osamu Takahashi
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Patent number: 9090952Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet having high chemical convertibility and a tensile strength of 590 MPa or more and a method for producing such a steel sheet are provided. The steel sheet contains, in terms of percent by mass, C: 0.05 to 0.3%, Si: 0.6 to 3.0%, Mn: 1.0 to 3.0%, P: 0.1% or less, S: 0.05% or less, Al: 0.01 to 1%, N: 0.01% or less, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities. The coverage ratio of reduced iron on a steel sheet surface is 40% or more. In order to produce such a steel sheet, an oxidation treatment is performed after cold rolling. Subsequently, annealing is conducted in a furnace in a 1 to 10 vol % H2+balance N2 gas atmosphere with a dew point of ?25° C. or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2010Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yoichi Makimizu, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Mai Miyata, Naoto Yoshimi, Junichiro Hirasawa, Shinji Otsuka, Hideki Nagano, Kohei Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20150184273Abstract: Provided is a galvannealed steel sheet with excellent anti-powdering property when press forming is performed, without controlling the contents of chemical elements in steel which are effective for strengthening a steel sheet, such as Si and P, to be low in order to achieve required material properties and without increasing cost due to, for example, processes being complicated. A galvannealed steel sheet with excellent anti-powdering property has a coated layer taking in grains of a base steel sheet such that the grains constitute 2.0% or more and 15.0% or less of the coated layer in terms of cross section area ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2013Publication date: July 2, 2015Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Makimizu, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Hideki Nagano, Yasunobu Nagataki
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Publication number: 20150030902Abstract: A sealing member is provided in a wall portion of a module case that accommodates a storage battery in an internal space, and blocks the internal space of the module case from an external space with the wall portion. External tubes are fixed to an external space side of a path through which a heating medium flows by an external fixing member (bolt), and internal tubes are fixed to an internal space side of the path by an internal fixing member (bolt). The sealing member is formed with an external mounting hole for mounting the external fixing member (bolt), and an internal mounting hole for mounting the internal fixing member (bolt). The mounting holes are formed as bottomed holes, that is, holes that are not penetrated or blind holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2014Publication date: January 29, 2015Inventors: Hideki Nagano, Osamu Takahashi, Naoto Hayashi