Patents by Inventor Hideki Nishimura

Hideki Nishimura 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: 20240424695
    Abstract: A cable life prediction method, includes: acquiring resistance value data indicating chronological change in a resistance value of a cable based on an operation of a managed device and an operating data, by a cable status management device, from a device user-side data management device, thereby, in the cable status management device, estimating wire-break progress in the cable based on at least one of the acquired resistance value data and the acquired operating data; and in the cable status management device, predicting a life of the cable based on a wire-break progress data and the operating data, and storing the predicted life of the cable as cable life prediction data. At least a device manufacturer terminal of a device manufacturer that manufactures the managed device or a cable manufacturer terminal of a cable manufacturer that manufactures the cable is configured to be accessible with the stored cable life prediction data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Hideki NONEN, Izumi FUKASAKU, Ayano KATO, Kei NISHIMURA, Takahiro SUGIYAMA, Noriyuki IMAI, Takahiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20240401178
    Abstract: A martensitic stainless steel round bar of the present disclosure contains, in mass %, C: 0.030% or less, Cr: 10.00 to 14.00%, Ni: 5.00 to 7.50%, Mo: 1.50 to 4.00%, Cu: 1.00 to 3.50%, W: 0.01 to 2.00%, and Co: 0.010 to 0.500%, and has a yield strength of 862 MPa or more. When, at the center position of a cross section perpendicular to the axial direction of the martensitic stainless steel round bar, a dissolved Mo concentration is defined as [Mo]C, a dissolved W concentration is defined as [W]C, an Mo concentration in a residue obtained by constant-current electrolysis is defined as [Mo]R, and a W concentration in the residue is defined as [W]R, Formula (1) and Formula (2) are satisfied. F ? 1 = [ Mo ] C + 0.5 [ W ] C ? 2.45 ( 1 ) F ? 2 = F ? 1 / ( [ Mo ] R + [ W ] R ) ? 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Kyohei KANKI, Daisuke MATSUO, Hideki TAKABE, Toshiya NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 12155643
    Abstract: Information processing system includes equipment and server that communicates with equipment. Equipment includes first board that is replaceable and configured to store equipment information unique to equipment, second board that is replaceable and configured to store a digital certificate, and second controller that transmits, to server, equipment information and certificate information that is unique to the digital certificate. Server includes server controller that receives equipment information and certificate information that are transmitted from equipment, and server storage that stores equipment information and certificate information that are received by server controller, in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideki Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20240387820
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material is provided and includes a lithium nickel composite oxide. The lithium nickel composite oxide has a composition formula represented by LiaNixCoyAl1-x-yO2, x is 0.8 or more and 1 or less, y is 0 or more and 0.2 or less, and a is 0.8 or more and 1.05 or less. Lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate are contained in a supernatant of a stirred product of the positive electrode active material and pure water in a total amount of 1.0 mass % or less with respect to the positive electrode active material, when measured by a potentiometric titration method. In the positive electrode active material, an intensity ratio of a peak top in 850 eV or more and 854 eV or less to a peak top in 854 eV or more and 860 eV or less is 1.05 or more and 1.45 or less in an X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectrum for an L-absorption edge of nickel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Yukihiro KATOU, Hitoshi NISHIMURA, Shota FUJINAKA, Akiko NAGAHARA, Gerile NAREN, Hideki NAKAI
  • Patent number: 12146456
    Abstract: The fuel vapor treatment apparatus includes a fuel tank, a canister, a vapor passage, a purge passage, a sealing valve, a purge valve, an outside air introduction passage, a switching valve, and a differential pressure detector. A processing device of the fuel vapor treatment apparatus includes a purge control unit and a purge diagnosis unit. The purge control unit performs a purge process by opening the purge valve in a state where the purge valve and the sealing valve are closed and the switching valve is opened. The purge diagnosis unit diagnoses whether or not the purge process is normal based on the amount of change in the differential pressure between before and after the opening of the purge valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuusaku Nishimura, Hideki Miyahara, Keita Fukui
  • Patent number: 12131024
    Abstract: A memory system including: a nonvolatile memory; first and second decoders configured to execute first and second error correction for correcting data read from the nonvolatile memory; and a controller configured to receive a first command issued by a host device, the first command being a command that requests neither reading nor writing data from or to the nonvolatile memory and that includes information indicative of acceptable latency of error correction, in response to receiving the first command, select one of the first decoder and the second decoder based on the received first command, and after receiving the first command, output data read from the nonvolatile memory through the selected one of the first decoder and the second decoder to the host device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Kanno, Hiroshi Nishimura, Hideki Yoshida, Hiroshi Murayama
  • Publication number: 20240350236
    Abstract: A data-generating apparatus includes: input processing circuitry configured to receive upper-jaw tooth row data showing a three-dimensional shape of a row of teeth in an upper jaw, lower-jaw tooth row data showing a three-dimensional shape of a row of teeth in a lower jaw, and jaw motion data showing a jaw motion; and generation processing circuitry configured to generate, based on the upper-jaw tooth row data, the lower-jaw tooth row data, and the jaw motion data, video data of at least one of the upper-jaw tooth row data and the lower-jaw tooth row data to which an indicator is added, the indicator indicating a positional relation between the row of teeth in the upper jaw and the row of teeth in the lower jaw, the positional relation changing in accordance with the jaw motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: J. MORITA MFG. CORP.
    Inventors: Ryosuke KAJI, Hideki YOSHIKAWA, Mikinori NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 12115660
    Abstract: A cable status management system for managing a wire-break progress of a cable used in a managed device is provided with a cable status management device having a cable status storage unit that stores a wire-break progress data indicating the wire-break progress in the cable, a device user-side data management device that belongs to a device user that uses the managed device, a device manufacturer terminal that belongs to a device manufacturer that manufactures the managed device, and a cable manufacturer terminal that belongs to a cable manufacturer that manufactures the cable. At least the device manufacturer terminal and the cable manufacturer terminal are configured to be accessible with the wire-break progress data stored in the cable status storage unit via a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Nonen, Izumi Fukasaku, Ayano Kato, Kei Nishimura, Takahiro Sugiyama, Noriyuki Imai, Takahiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20240310236
    Abstract: A leak diagnosis apparatus for performing leak diagnosis of a fuel tank mounted on a vehicle, includes a calculation unit configured to calculate an amount of change in a pressure in the fuel tank and an amount of change in a temperature of a fuel in the fuel tank while an ignition is turned off, and a determination unit configured to determine whether a leak in the fuel tank is absent or present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keita FUKUI, Yuusaku NISHIMURA, Hideki MIYAHARA, Yoshiyuki HATANO, Takayuki YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20240287277
    Abstract: Provided is a separation and recovery method that is method of separating and recovering, from a mixture containing at least a resin layer 1 containing a hydrolyzable polymer A as a main component and a resin layer 2 containing a nonhydrolyzable polymer B as a main component, a hydrolytic component a of the hydrolyzable polymer A and the nonhydrolyzable polymer B, the method including a decomposition and separation step of subjecting the mixture to a hydrothermal reaction treatment to hydrolyze and separate the hydrolyzable polymer A, and to separate the nonhydrolyzable polymer B while a molecular weight of thereof is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicants: UBE Corporation, Keiwa Kogyo Co., Ltd., TOPPAN INC.
    Inventors: Masaru WATANABE, Aritomo YAMAGUCHI, Osamu SATO, Yuuma IRISA, Akira TAKAMA, Kousuke NISHIMURA, Hiroki KUJIRAOKA, Hideki MIYAZAKI, Keita AKIMOTO, Takuya TAKAHATA, Daisuke KUGIMOTO, Shingo KOUDA, Satoshi HAMURA, Takahiro IMAI, Yumiko OMORI, Manabu KAWA
  • Publication number: 20240252105
    Abstract: A support apparatus includes an input interface that receives input of image data showing a three-dimensional geometry of a biological tissue and a computing device that derives support information including information on positions of at least the tooth and the gingiva relative to each other, by using the image data inputted from the input interface and an estimation model for support of diagnosis of the state of disease in the biological tissue based on the image data, the estimation model being trained by machine learning to derive the support information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: J. MORITA MFG. CORP.
    Inventors: Hideki YOSHIKAWA, Yu NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20240257774
    Abstract: In each of unit circuits that constitute a shift register, a first conduction terminal of a second thin-film transistor that controls the output of an output signal serving as a scanning signal is given a second input clock signal having a amplitude larger than the amplitude of a first input clock signal that is given to a first conduction terminal of a first thin-film transistor that controls the output of an output signal serving as a control signal for controlling another unit circuit. The channel length of the second thin-film transistor is set to be greater than the channel length of the first thin-film transistor, so that the breakdown voltage of the second thin-film transistor is higher than the breakdown voltage of the first thin-film transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Jun NISHIMURA, Yoshihito Hara, Masaki Maeda, Yoshiharu Hirata, Hideki Kitagawa, Masamitsu Yamanaka, Tohru Daitoh
  • Publication number: 20240258195
    Abstract: This bonded body (10) comprising a mosaic diamond wafer and a semiconductor of a different type is a bonded body in which a mosaic diamond wafer (1) having a coalescence boundary (B1) between a plurality of single-crystal diamond substrates (1A and 1B) and a semiconductor of a different type (2) are bonded together, in which a maximum level difference on a bonding surface (1aa) of the mosaic diamond wafer (1) with the semiconductor of a different type (2) is 10 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Hideaki YAMADA, Akiyoshi CHAYAHARA, Yoshiaki MOKUNO, Takashi MATSUMAE, Yuuichi KURASHIMA, Eiji HIGURASHI, Hideki TAKAGI, Shuichi HIZA, Ken IMAMURA, Yusuke SHIRAYANAGI, Koji YOSHITSUGU, Kunihiko NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11914913
    Abstract: A control system includes a terminal device including a first communication unit configured to perform first Bluetooth communication and second Bluetooth communication, and a printing apparatus including a second communication unit that is connected by pairing to the terminal device to perform the second Bluetooth communication with the first communication unit, wherein the terminal device performs the first Bluetooth communication in a state where no pairing connection is made with the printing apparatus, and transmits a notification instruction command to the printing apparatus through the first communication unit, and wherein the printing apparatus performs a notification operation based on the notification instruction command when receiving the notification instruction command through the second communication unit based on the first Bluetooth communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Taniguchi, Hideki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11843307
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a bearing. The stator includes a shaft that extends in a vertical direction. The rotor is rotatable around the shaft. The bearing supports the rotor in a rotatable manner. The rotor includes a magnet, a case, and a tooth groove. The magnet is radially outward of the stator and opposes the stator in a radial direction. The case covers a radially outer end of the magnet. The tooth groove is provided in a radially outer surface of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Nishimura, Tomohiro Hasegawa, Hiroaki Hirano, Yoichi Sekii
  • Patent number: 11804753
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a bearing. The stator includes a shaft that extends in a vertical direction. The rotor is rotatable around the shaft. The bearing supports the rotor in a rotatable manner. The rotor includes a magnet, a case, and a tooth groove. The magnet is radially outward of the stator and opposes the stator in a radial direction. The case covers a radially outer end of the magnet. The tooth groove is provided in a radially outer surface of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Nishimura, Tomohiro Hasegawa, Hiroaki Hirano, Yoichi Sekii
  • Publication number: 20230325136
    Abstract: A control system includes a terminal device including a first communication unit configured to perform first Bluetooth communication and second Bluetooth communication, and a printing apparatus including a second communication unit that is connected by pairing to the terminal device to perform the second Bluetooth communication with the first communication unit, wherein the terminal device performs the first Bluetooth communication in a state where no pairing connection is made with the printing apparatus, and transmits a notification instruction command to the printing apparatus through the first communication unit, and wherein the printing apparatus performs a notification operation based on the notification instruction command when receiving the notification instruction command through the second communication unit based on the first Bluetooth communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Takaaki TANIGUCHI, Hideki NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230317953
    Abstract: Coated negative electrode active material particles for lithium ion batteries in which at least a part of the surface of negative electrode active material particles is covered with a coating layer containing a polymer compound and a compound (A), the polymer compound is a polymer including (meth)acrylic acid as a constituent monomer, the weight proportion of (meth)acrylic acid in the polymer based on the weight of the polymer is 70 to 95 wt %, and the compound (A) is at least one selected from the group consisting of tetrahydrothiophene 1,1-dioxide, ethylene carbonate and vinylene carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: APB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki HORIE, Toshiaki YAMAGUCHI, Hideki NISHIMURA, Kenichi KAWAKITA, Kazuya MINAMI
  • Patent number: 11704083
    Abstract: A control system includes a terminal device including a first communication unit configured to perform first Bluetooth communication and second Bluetooth communication, and a printing apparatus including a second communication unit that is connected by pairing to the terminal device to perform the second Bluetooth communication with the first communication unit, wherein the terminal device performs the first Bluetooth communication in a state where no pairing connection is made with the printing apparatus, and transmits a notification instruction command to the printing apparatus through the first communication unit, and wherein the printing apparatus performs a notification operation based on the notification instruction command when receiving the notification instruction command through the second communication unit based on the first Bluetooth communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Taniguchi, Hideki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11670997
    Abstract: A vibration motor includes a stationary part, and a movable element which has a magnet and can vibrate in one direction. The stationary part includes a coil which applies a driving force to the magnet due to energization, a housing which houses the movable element and the coil therein, a first lid part which closes an end portion of the housing on one side in the one direction, and a first bearing part. The first bearing part is disposed inside the housing on the other side in the one direction from the first lid part. The first bearing part includes a bearing inner circumferential surface disposed with a gap therebetween with respect to an outer circumferential surface of a portion of the movable element on one side in the one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsunori Hirata, Tomohiro Hasegawa, Daisuke Adachi, Hiroaki Hirano, Hideki Nishimura