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).

  • Patent number: 10603470
    Abstract: A medical safety needle is comprised of a needle body having a needlepoint, a covering body having a detent portion slidable on the needle body to catch the needlepoint so as to cover the needlepoint, and a resilient cantilever supporting the detent portion, a sleeve following the covering body to cover a side face of the needle body, a collar portion slidably fitting on the covering body, which is configured to get in contact with the cantilever to press the cantilever radially inwardly, and a housing being formed in a unitary body with the collar portion or having an end face on which the collar portion is capable of being seated, the housing being configured to carry the covering body from a first position to have the needlepoint exposed to a second position to have the needlepoint covered by the covering body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: MEDIKIT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakajima, Hirokazu Ando
  • Patent number: 10452033
    Abstract: A process control system includes: a controller; at least one input and output module connected to the controller; and an allowable propagation delay value calculator in the controller, the allowable propagation delay value calculator being configured to calculate, based on the number of input and output modules connected to the controller, an allowable range for propagation delay time between the controller and the input and output module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakajima, Noriko Kase, Kiyotaka Kozakai, Atsushi Terayama
  • Publication number: 20190246331
    Abstract: A management apparatus (10) according to the present invention is a management apparatus for a communication system (100) configured to form redundant paths including an active path and a backup path while including a P2P (Point to Point) radio communication apparatus in the redundant paths. Further, the management apparatus (10) includes a communication unit (11) configured to receive a first transmission delay time of the active path and a plurality of second transmission delay times of a plurality of backup path candidates, and a setting unit (12) configured to select a backup path candidate from the plurality of backup path candidates based on differences between the plurality of second transmission delay times and the first transmission delay time, and set the selected backup path candidate as the backup path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 10316382
    Abstract: In the production of a non-oriented electrical stress sheet by hot rolling a steel slab containing, by mass %, C: not more than 0.005%, Si: not more than 8.0%, Mn: 0.03-3.0%, P: not more than 0.2%, S: not more than 0.005%, Al: not more than 3.0%, N: not more than 0.005%, Ni: not more than 3%, Cr: not more than 5%, Ti: not more than 0.005%, Nb: not more than 0.003%, As: not more than 0.005% and O: not more than 0.005%, subjecting to one cold rolling or two or more cold rollings interposing an intermediate annealing therebetween after conducting a hot band annealing or without conducting a hot band annealing and subjecting to a finish annealing, an average heating rate from 600° C. to 700° C. during the heating process in the finish annealing is set to not less than 50° C./sec.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Okubo, Kohei Kurihara, Yoshihiko Oda, Hiroaki Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20190024205
    Abstract: Iron loss is reduced by increasing magnetic flux density. A non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.0050% or less, Si: 1.50% or more and 4.00% or less, Al: 0.500% or less, Mn: 0.10% or more and 5.00% or less, S: 0.0200% or less, P: 0.200% or less, N: 0.0050% or less, and O: 0.0200% or less, with the balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, in which the steel sheet has an Ar3 transformation temperature of 700° C. or higher, a grain size of 80 ?m or more and 200 ?m or less, a Vickers hardness of 140 HV or more and 230 HV or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko ODA, Tadashi NAKANISHI, Tomoyuki OKUBO, Yoshiaki ZAIZEN, Hiroaki NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20190017138
    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: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Masanori Uesaka, Tadashi Nakanishi, Seiji Nabeshima, Tomoyuki Okubo, Yoshihiko Oda, Hiroaki Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20180340239
    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: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Okubo, Tatsuhiko Hiratani, Yoshihiko Oda, Hiroaki Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20180230564
    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: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakajima, Tomoyuki Okubo, Tadashi Nakanishi, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Publication number: 20180202021
    Abstract: Iron loss is reduced by increasing magnetic flux density. A non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.0050% or less, Si: 1.50% or more and 4.00% or less, Al: 0.500% or less, Mn: 0.10% or more and 5.00% or less, S: 0.0200% or less, P: 0.200% or less, N: 0.0050% or less, and O: 0.0200% or less, with the balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, in which the steel sheet has an Ar3 transformation temperature of 700° C. or higher, a grain size of 80 ?m or more and 200 ?m or less, a Vickers hardness of 140 HV or more and 230 HV or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko ODA, Tadashi NAKANISHI, Tomoyuki OKUBO, Yoshiaki ZAIZEN, Hiroaki NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20180066333
    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/PH2of 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: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakajima, Tomoyuki Okubo, Tadashi Nakanishi, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Publication number: 20180043137
    Abstract: A medical safety needle is comprised of a needle body having a needlepoint, a covering body having a detent portion slidable on the needle body to catch the needlepoint so as to cover the needlepoint, and a resilient cantilever supporting the detent portion, a sleeve following the covering body to cover a side face of the needle body, a collar portion slidably fitting on the covering body, which is configured to get in contact with the cantilever to press the cantilever radially inwardly, and a housing being formed in a unitary body with the collar portion or having an end face on which the collar portion is capable of being seated, the housing being configured to carry the covering body from a first position to have the needlepoint exposed to a second position to have the needlepoint covered by the covering body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: MEDIKIT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hiroaki NAKAJIMA, Hirokazu ANDO
  • Publication number: 20180030558
    Abstract: In the production of a non-oriented electrical stress sheet by hot rolling a steel slab containing, by mass %, C: not more than 0.005%, Si: not more than 8.0%, Mn: 0.03-3.0%, P: not more than 0.2%, S: not more than 0.005%, Al: not more than 3.0%, N: not more than 0.005%, Ni: not more than 3%, Cr: not more than 5%, Ti: not more than 0.005%, Nb: not more than 0.003%, As: not more than 0.005% and O: not more than 0.005%, subjecting to one cold rolling or two or more cold rollings interposing an intermediate annealing therebetween after conducting a hot band annealing or without conducting a hot band annealing and subjecting to a finish annealing, an average heating rate from 600° C. to 700° C. during the heating process in the finish annealing is set to not less than 50° C./sec.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki OKUBO, Kohei KURIHARA, Yoshihiko ODA, Hiroaki NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 9869987
    Abstract: A process control system includes an I/O module configured to be connected to a field device which is installed in a plant in which an industrial process is controlled, the I/O module autonomously transmitting data received from the field device, and a higher-level device that comprises a memory which temporarily stores the data autonomously transmitted from the I/O module, the higher-level device reading the data stored in the memory at a predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakajima, Kuniharu Akabane, Shunsuke Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20180002789
    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: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakanishi, Hiroaki Nakajima, Tomoyuki Okubo, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Patent number: 9844648
    Abstract: A medical safety needle includes a needle body having a needlepoint, a covering body having a detent portion slidable on the needle body to catch the needlepoint so as to cover the needlepoint, and a resilient cantilever supporting the detent portion, a collar portion slidably fitting on the covering body, which is configured to get in contact with the cantilever to press the cantilever radially inwardly, and a housing being formed in a unitary body with the collar portion or having an end face on which the collar portion is capable of being seated, the housing being configured to carry the covering body from a first position to have the needlepoint exposed to a second position to have the needlepoint covered by the covering body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: MEDIKIT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakajima, Hirokazu Ando
  • Publication number: 20170274432
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet with lower iron loss than conventional non-oriented electrical steel sheets is provided. The non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, in mass %: C: 0.05% or less; Si: 0.1% or more and 7.0% or less; Al: 0.1% or more and 3.0% or less; Mn: 0.03% or more and 3.0% or less; P: 0.2% or less; S: 0.005% or less; N: 0.005% or less; and O: 0.01% or less, and further optionally containing a predetermined amount of one or more of Sn, Sb, Ca, Mg, REM, Cr, Ti, Nb, V, and Zr, with the balance consisting of Fe and incidental impurities, wherein a sheet thickness is less than 0.30 mm, and arithmetic mean roughness Ra of a steel substrate surface at cutoff wavelength ?c=20 ?m is 0.2 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Okubo, Yoshihiko Oda, Hiroaki Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20170241002
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet has excellent magnetic properties and a chemical composition including 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 % but preferably not more than 0.005 mass %, N: not more than 0.005 mass %, S: not more than 0.01 mass %, Ga: not more than 0.0005 mass % even if hot band annealing is omitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nakajima, Tomoyuki Okubo, Tadashi Nakanishi, Yoshihiko Oda
  • Publication number: 20170211161
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet with excellent recyclability whose magnetic property is prevented from becoming unstable in the case of reducing the Al content in order to reuse the non-oriented electrical steel sheet as iron scrap is provided. The non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, in mass %: C: 0.0050% or less; Si: 1.0% or more and 4.0% or less; Mn: 0.10% or more and 3.0% or less; Sol. Al: less than 0.0050%; P: more than 0.01% and 0.20% or less; S: 0.0050% or less; N: 0.0050% or less; Cu: 0.02% or more and less than 0.10%; and Ca: 0.0005% or more and 0.0100% or less, with a balance being Fe and incidental impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi NAKANISHI, Hiroaki NAKAJIMA, Tomoyuki OKUBO, Yoshihiko ODA
  • Publication number: 20170185055
    Abstract: A process control system includes: a controller; at least one input and output module connected to the controller; and an allowable propagation delay value calculator in the controller, the allowable propagation delay value calculator being configured to calculate, based on the number of input and output modules connected to the controller, an allowable range for propagation delay time between the controller and the input and output module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki NAKAJIMA, Noriko KASE, Kiyotaka KOZAKAI, Atsushi TERAYAMA
  • Patent number: 9379833
    Abstract: A transmitter is connected to a master device, and wirelessly transmits a timing packet, which is transmitted from the master device, to a receiver. The transmitter includes: an input unit for receiving an input of a timing packet from the master device; a delay compensation unit for obtaining a packet length of the timing packet and a modulation system used for radio transmission, calculating a device-specific delay value and a first propagation delay value based on the modulation system and the packet length, and calculating a delay compensation value based on the device-specific delay value and the first propagation delay value; a filter unit for adding the delay compensation value to a specific field of the timing packet; and an output unit for outputting the timing packet to the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Nakajima