Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Nakajima

Hiroaki Nakajima 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: 20240133569
    Abstract: An air-conditioning lighting control system includes air-conditioning control circuitry configured to control an air-conditioning apparatus on the basis of an air-conditioning map indicating an air-conditioning target space and the air-conditioning apparatus provided in the air-conditioning target space, lighting control circuitry configured to control a lighting device on the basis of a lighting map indicating an illuminating target space and the lighting device provided in the illuminating target space, centralized control circuitry configured to communicate with the air-conditioning control circuitry and the lighting control circuitry and make the air-conditioning apparatus and the lighting device work in conjunction with each other on the basis of linkage information, which is set in advance, and in which the air-conditioning apparatus and the lighting device are linked with each other, and detection circuitry configured to detect that there is a setting error in the air-conditioning map, the lighting map
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshinori NAKAJIMA, Hiroaki SAKAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11956386
    Abstract: An emergency report can be made to a plurality of emergency services. Provided is a communication control device 2 housing a subscriber terminal 1, and the communication control device 2 includes: a call control unit 21 that connects an emergency call made from the subscriber terminal 1 to an emergency-call reception switchboard 5; and an outgoing/incoming call inhibition unit 22 that inhibits outgoing/incoming calls from/to the subscriber terminal 1 in a prescribed period, when the emergency call is disconnected by the subscriber terminal 1. The outgoing/incoming call inhibition unit 22: when a call is made from the subscriber terminal 1 in the prescribed period, determines whether the call is an emergency call or a general call; in a case of an emergency call, cancels inhibition for outgoing/incoming calls from/to the subscriber terminal 1 and connects the call by using the call control unit 21; and in a case of a general call, does not connect the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Daiki Nakajima, Taichi Osada, Mikio Isawa, Yasuhiro Seki, Hiroaki Matsumura, Shinya Narita
  • Patent number: 11946123
    Abstract: Provided is a method of easily producing a non-oriented electrical steel sheet that contains substantially no Al and contains large amounts of Si and Mn and has low iron loss, comprising hot rolling a slab having a specified chemical composition to obtain a hot-rolled sheet; coiling the hot-rolled sheet; cold rolling the hot-rolled sheet once or twice with intermediate annealing being performed therebetween, to obtain a cold-rolled sheet; and subjecting the cold-rolled sheet to final annealing, wherein the hot-rolled sheet after the hot rolling is cooled at an average cooling rate from 800° C. to 650° C. of 30° C./s or more, and thereafter the coiling is performed at 650° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Uesaka, Yoshiaki Zaizen, Tomoyuki Okubo, Hiroaki Nakajima, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Publication number: 20230315060
    Abstract: An information processing device keeps a plurality of sets of designing information each on a combination of a plurality of plant devices that execute an operation a plant and at least one control device that executes control on each of the plant devices, keeps operational past records with respect to each combination of a plurality of plant devices and a control device, extracts combinations of a plurality of plant devices and a control device that meet a designing condition on the plant based on the designing information, and outputs the extracted combinations of a plurality of plant devices and a control device based on the operational past records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Matsuda, Shin Okuyama, Hiroaki Nakajima, Hiroaki Zushi
  • Publication number: 20230257860
    Abstract: Provided is a method of easily producing a non-oriented electrical steel sheet that contains substantially no Al and contains large amounts of Si and Mn and has low iron loss, comprising hot rolling a slab having a specified chemical composition to obtain a hot-rolled sheet; coiling the hot-rolled sheet; cold rolling the hot-rolled sheet once or twice with intermediate annealing being performed therebetween, to obtain a cold-rolled sheet; and subjecting the cold-rolled sheet to final annealing, wherein the hot-rolled sheet after the hot rolling is cooled at an average cooling rate from 800° C. to 650° C. of 30° C./s or more, and thereafter the coiling is performed at 650° C. or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori UESAKA, Yoshiaki ZAIZEN, Tomoyuki OKUBO, Hiroaki NAKAJIMA, Yoshihiko ODA
  • Patent number: 11649532
    Abstract: Provided is a non-oriented electrical steel sheet that contains substantially no Al and contains large amounts of Si and Mn and has low iron loss, comprising a chemical composition containing C: 0.0050% or less, Si: 2.0% or more and 6.0% or less, Mn: 1.0% or more and 3.0% or less, P: 0.20% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, N: 0.0050% or less, Al: 0.0050% or less, and one or more selected from B: 0.0001% or more and 0.0050% or less, Nb: 0.0001% or more and 0.0050% or less, and V: 0.0005% or more and 0.0500% or less, with a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a number density of Si—Mn nitrides with an average diameter of 50 nm or more and 500 nm or less is 1 or less per ?m3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Uesaka, Yoshiaki Zaizen, Tomoyuki Okubo, Hiroaki Nakajima, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Publication number: 20220377004
    Abstract: Provided is acquiring communication information via communication or directly from an engineering DB (corresponding to one example “database”) in which the communication information related to communication devices constituting a plant network is defined; storing the acquired communication information; calculating, based on the stored communication information, a total communication amount of each of the communication devices supposed in communication executed in corresponding one of the communication devices; estimating, based on the total communication amount, an actual communication amount of each of the communication devices according to an arbitrary estimation condition specified by a user; determining at least presence/absence of a communication device whose actual communication amount exceeds communication capability of the communication device; and outputting a determined determination result to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroya Enomoto, Takeshi Hongo, Hiroaki Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11483419
    Abstract: A protocol converter is configured to be connectable between a field device and a device control apparatus and includes a converter controller and a converter storage. The converter controller acquires field data from the field device, writes the field data to the converter storage as a data set formed by a plurality of pieces of data and changes the value of a first counter controlled by the converter controller when the value of the first counter and the value of a second counter controlled by the device control apparatus are equal, and stops an operation to write the field data to the converter storage when the value of the first counter and the value of the second counter are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei Toriumi, Koji Nagatomi, Hiroaki Nakajima, Hiroyuki Saito
  • Patent number: 11299070
    Abstract: A screw shaft attached to the upper rail is screwed into a nut member attached to the lower rail. When the screw shaft is rotated with respect to the nut member by a drive unit, the screw shaft is moved rearward and forward with respect to the nut member, and the upper rail is also moved rearward and forward with respect to the lower rail. A fixing nut is fixed to an inner surface of the lower rail behind the nut member, and a stopper bolt is fastened to the fixing nut from below the lower rail. When the upper rail moves forward, a stopper portion provided at a tip of the stopper bolt contacts the stopper plate to restrict an excessive forward movement of the upper rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: TF-METAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kimata, Hiroaki Nakajima, John Newberry, Madhusudana Darinayakanapalya Sudheendra
  • Publication number: 20210332464
    Abstract: Provided is a non-oriented electrical steel sheet that contains substantially no Al and contains large amounts of Si and Mn and has low iron loss, comprising a chemical composition containing C: 0.0050% or less, Si: 2.0% or more and 6.0% or less, Mn: 1.0% or more and 3.0% or less, P: 0.20% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, N: 0.0050% or less, Al: 0.0050% or less, and one or more selected from B: 0.0001% or more and 0.0050% or less, Nb: 0.0001% or more and 0.0050% or less, and V: 0.0005% or more and 0.0500% or less, with a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a number density of Si—Mn nitrides with an average diameter of 50 nm or more and 500 nm or less is 1 or less per ?m3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori UESAKA, Yoshiaki ZAIZEN, Tomoyuki OKUBO, Hiroaki NAKAJIMA, Yoshihiko ODA
  • Patent number: 11142813
    Abstract: Disclosed is a non-oriented electrical steel sheet low in iron loss that is substantially free of Al and contains large amounts of Si and Mn. The disclosed non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a chemical composition containing C: 0.0050% or less, Si: 2.0% to 6.0%, Mn: 1.0% to 3.0%, P: 0.20% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, N: 0.0050% or less, and Al: 0.0050 % or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which Si—Mn nitrides having an average diameter of 50 nm to 500 nm has a number density of 1/?m3 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakajima, Masanori Uesaka, Yoshiaki Zaizen, Tomoyuki Okubo, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Patent number: 11008633
    Abstract: A steel containing C: not more than 0.0050%, Si: 0.1-5.0%, Mn: 0.02-3.0%, sol. Al: not more than 0.0050%, P: not more than 0.2%, S: not more than 0.0050%, N: not more than 0.0040%, T. Ca: 0.0010-0.0080%, T. O: not more than 0.0100% and having (T. Ca/T. O) of not less than 0.50 but not more than 2.0 by decarburizing to a C content of not more than 0.0050%, adding Si, decreasing Al as much as possible, and adding Ca is melted to form a slab. The slab is subjected to a hot rolling at a coiling temperature of not lower than 550° C., a cold rolling and a finish annealing, or the slab is subjected to a hot rolling, a hot band annealing at a temperature of 900-1150° C., a cold rolling and a finish annealing to thereby produce a non-oriented electrical steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Uesaka, Tadashi Nakanishi, Seiji Nabeshima, Tomoyuki Okubo, Yoshihiko Oda, Hiroaki Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10975451
    Abstract: Methods for producing non-oriented electrical steel sheets comprising steps including hot rolling a slab having a chemical composition comprising C: not more than 0.01 mass %, Si: not more than 6 mass %, Mn: 0.05-3 mass %, P: not more than 0.2 mass %, Al: not more than 2 mass %, N: not more than 0.005 mass %, S: not more than 0.01 mass %, Ga: not more than 0.0005 mass %, and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, pickling without conducting hot band annealing or after conducting hot band annealing or self-annealing, subjecting to one or more cold rollings including an intermediate annealing therebetween and a finish annealing, and forming an insulation coating, an average heating rate from 500 to 800° C. in the heating process of the finish annealing is not less than 50° C./s, whereby a non-oriented electrical steel sheet having excellent magnetic properties is obtained even if hot band annealing is omitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakajima, Tomoyuki Okubo, Tadashi Nakanishi, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Publication number: 20210089926
    Abstract: A machine learning apparatus includes a memory storing instructions and a processor that implements the stored instructions to execute a plurality of tasks. The tasks include an obtaining task that obtains a mixture signal containing a first component and a second component, a first generating task that generates a first signal that emphasize the first component inputting a mixture signal to a neural network, a second generating task that generates a second signal by modifying the first signal, a calculating task that calculates an evaluation index from the second signal, and a training task that trains the neural network with the evaluation index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroaki NAKAJIMA, Yu TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10941458
    Abstract: In the production of a non-oriented electrical stress sheet by hot rolling a slab having a chemical composition comprising, by mass %, C: not more than 0.005, Si: 1.5-6.0, Mn: 0.05-2.0 and P: 0.03-0.15, subjecting to a hot band annealing, if necessary, cold rolling, finish annealing, and forming an insulation coating, the cooling from 700° C. to 500° C. in the finish annealing is conducted in an oxidizing atmosphere with an oxygen potential PH2O/PH2 of not less than 0.001 for 1-300 seconds, whereby P is segregated into the surface of the steel sheet after the finish annealing to obtain a non-oriented electrical steel sheet enhancing a crystal grain growth properties in the stress relief annealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakajima, Tomoyuki Okubo, Tadashi Nakanishi, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Publication number: 20210061136
    Abstract: A screw shaft attached to the upper rail is screwed into a nut member attached to the lower rail. When the screw shaft is rotated with respect to the nut member by a drive unit, the screw shaft is moved rearward and forward with respect to the nut member, and the upper rail is also moved rearward and forward with respect to the lower rail. A fixing nut is fixed to an inner surface of the lower rail behind the nut member, and a stopper bolt is fastened to the fixing nut from below the lower rail. When the upper rail moves forward, a stopper portion provided at a tip of the stopper bolt contacts the stopper plate to restrict an excessive forward movement of the upper rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Toshihiro KIMATA, Hiroaki NAKAJIMA, John NEWBERRY, Madhusudana Darinayakanapalya SUDHEENDRA
  • Publication number: 20210044677
    Abstract: A protocol converter is configured to be connectable between a field device and a device control apparatus and includes a converter controller and a converter storage. The converter controller acquires field data from the field device, writes the field data to the converter storage as a data set formed by a plurality of pieces of data and changes the value of a first counter controlled by the converter controller when the value of the first counter and the value of a second counter controlled by the device control apparatus are equal, and stops an operation to write the field data to the converter storage when the value of the first counter and the value of the second counter are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei Toriumi, Koji Nagatomi, Hiroaki Nakajima, Hiroyuki Saito
  • Patent number: 10822678
    Abstract: When a non-oriented electrical steel sheet is produced by hot rolling a slab containing, by mass %, C: not more than 0.0050%, Si: 1.5-5.0%, Mn: 0.20-3.0%, sol. Al: not more than 0.0050%, P: not more than 0.2%, S: not more than 0.0050% and N: not more than 0.0040% to form a hot rolled sheet, cold rolling the hot rolled sheet without conducting a hot band annealing and then subjecting to a finish annealing, a compositional ratio of CaO in oxide-based inclusions existing in the slab defined by CaO/(SiO2+Al2O3+CaO) is set to not less than 0.4 and/or a compositional ratio of Al2O3 defined by Al2O3/(SiO2+Al2O3+CaO) is set to not less than 0.3, and a coiling temperature in the hot rolling is set to not lower than 650° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakanishi, Hiroaki Nakajima, Tomoyuki Okubo, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Patent number: 10760143
    Abstract: A high-silicon steel sheet is excellent in terms of punching workability and magnetic property. The high-silicon steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.02% or less, P: 0.02% or less, Si: 4.5% or more and 7.0% or less, Mn: 0.01% or more and 1.0% or less, Al: 1.0% or less, O: 0.01% or less, N: 0.01% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, a grain-boundary oxygen concentration (oxygen concentration with respect to chemical elements segregated at grain boundaries) of 30 at % or less, and a microstructure in which a degree of integration P(211) of a {211}-plane of ?-Fe on a surface of the steel sheet is 15% or more P(211)=p(211)/S×100(%), wherein S=p(110)/100+p(200)/14.93+p(211)/25.88+p(310)/7.68+p(222)/1.59+p(321)/6.27+p(411)/1.55, and p(hkl): integrated intensity of a peak of X-ray diffraction of an {hkl}-plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Okubo, Tatsuhiko Hiratani, Yoshihiko Oda, Hiroaki Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20200190639
    Abstract: Disclosed is a non-oriented electrical steel sheet low in iron loss that is substantially free of Al and contains large amounts of Si and Mn. The disclosed non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a chemical composition containing C: 0.0050% or less, Si: 2.0% to 6.0%, Mn: 1.0% to 3.0%, P: 0.20% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, N: 0.0050% or less, and Al: 0.0050 % or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which Si—Mn nitrides having an average diameter of 50 nm to 500 nm has a number density of 1/?m3 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki NAKAJIMA, Masanori UESAKA, Yoshiaki ZAIZEN, Tomoyuki OKUBO, Yoshihiko ODA