Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Nakamura

Hirofumi Nakamura 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: 20240124389
    Abstract: An object of present invention is to provide a compound or a salt thereof constituting lipid particles that can achieve a high nucleic acid encapsulation rate and excellent delivery of nucleic acids, and to provide lipid particles and pharmaceutical composition using the compound or a salt thereof, which can achieve a high nucleic acid encapsulation rate and excellent delivery of nucleic acids. According to an aspect of the present invention, a compound represented by Formula (1) or a salt thereof is provided. In the formula, each symbol has a meaning defined in the present specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro TANABE, Tatsuya NITABARU, Mashiko YAMAMOTO, Hirofumi FUKUNAGA, Naoto NAKAMURA, Noriyuki KASAGI, Taisuke ENDO, Keiko SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11954312
    Abstract: An input device includes a touch panel having an operation surface and configured to receive a touch input and a hover input by an operation body; a display device configured to display a plurality of selection items; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to highlight a selection item, a selection of the selection item being made by the hover input from the plurality of selection items, confirm the selection of the selection item by the hover input in a case where a duration during which the selection item is selected by the hover input reaches a first predetermined threshold, and confirm a selection of the selection item by the touch input in a case where the touch input is detected on the selection item before the duration reaches the first predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiki Nakamura, Hiroshi Shigetaka, Hirofumi Kuga, Masahiro Takata, Yasuji Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20240103368
    Abstract: A negative photosensitive composition for forming a top plate portion of a hollow structure which contains an epoxy group-containing compound, a cationic polymerization initiator, a polyfunctional (meth)acrylate compound, and a photoradical polymerization initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kenichi Yamagata, Ryosuke Nakamura, Hirofumi Imai
  • Publication number: 20240071128
    Abstract: A detection device includes a plurality of optical sensors arranged in a detection area, a light source configured to emit light that is emitted to an object to be detected and is detected by the optical sensors, and a processor configured to perform processing based on outputs from the optical sensors. The processor is configured to determine, based on the outputs of the respective optical sensors obtained at a cycle of a predetermined period, an optical sensor an output of which is to be employed from among the optical sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Hirofumi KATO, Makoto UCHIDA, Takanori TSUNASHIMA, Takashi NAKAMURA, Akio TAKIMOTO, Takao SOMEYA, Tomoyuki YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20240048119
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a resonator formed on one surface of a device chip; a support layer formed so as to surround the resonator on the one surface; a cover layer formed on the support layer and cooperating with the device chip and the support layer to form a cavity for hermetically sealing the resonator; and the cover layer on the one cavity is curved so that a forming side of the resonator is a curved inner side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Sanan Japan Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Kadogawa, Hirofumi Nakamura, Koichi Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20230366382
    Abstract: An abnormality determination method for a wind power generation device includes: a measurement step (step S1) of measuring sound emitted by the wind power generation device and recording acoustic data; an analysis step (step S2) of performing a spectrogram analysis on the acoustic data recorded in the measurement step, on a frequency axis and in a temporal axis space as a temporal change in a frequency characteristic by using the short-time Fourier transform or the wavelet transform; a detection step (step S3) of detecting, from the analysis result in the analysis step, a signal component emitted from an abnormal portion of the wind power generation device in a time corresponding to rotation of the wind power generation device; and a determination step (step S5) of determining that the wind power generation device is abnormal when the signal component detected in the detection step is greater than or equal to a certain threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Iwao HONDA, Hirofumi NAKAMURA, Masami MATSUURA
  • Patent number: 11791188
    Abstract: A transport apparatus includes a transport unit configured to transport a protection material in each operation of a packing operation and an unpacking operation; a protection material placement portion on which the protection material is stacked; a container placement portion on which a container main body portion is placed; a control unit configured to control the transport unit in an operation mode selected from a plurality of operation modes corresponding to types of the protection material; an attachment determination unit configured to determine attachment/detachment of components that are selected in correspondence with the type of the protection material and form the transport unit, the protection material placement portion, and the container placement portion; and a consistency determination unit configured to determine consistency between the selected operation mode and a determination result of the attachment determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: HIRATA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirofumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20230059423
    Abstract: A module includes a package substrate, an elastic wave device mounted on the package substrate, the elastic wave device includes a first main surface having a functional element, the first main surface faces the package substrate, a semiconductor device mounted on the package substrate, and a resin made from a single material, the resin covers the elastic wave device while leaving an air gap between the package substrate and the functional element, and the resin covers the semiconductor device while filling a space between the package substrate and the semiconductor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: Sanan Japan Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nakamura, Koichi Kumagai, Yutaka Kadogawa, Kanehisa Kimbara
  • Publication number: 20210319880
    Abstract: A diagnostic support system including a pre-acquired data storage unit for storing, as comparison images, two or more images of internal information of a subject, the two or more comparison images being acquired in advance and each comparison image including image data, label information indicating biological tissue information or shape information, and feature value information with which a degree of similarity among the two or more comparison images can be identified; a calculation unit for inputting image data of an examination image acquired from a subject as an examination target to a learned model that has learned the two or more comparison images, so as to calculate feature value information of the examination image; and a display unit displaying the similarity between the examination image and each of the two or more comparison images on the basis of the feature value information of the two or more comparison images and the feature value information of the examination image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Naoki Tomii, Hirofumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210204904
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic system includes elements that are arranged around a test object and perform at least one of emission and reception of ultrasound, a data collection unit that collects measurement data of reflected ultrasound that is ultrasound reflected from the test object through at least one of the elements while switching an element that emits ultrasound, and a first learner that learns using training data including a test-object model and simulation measurement data to output a tomographic image of the test object from the measurement data, which is input to the first learner, the test-object model being expressed by an acoustic feature distribution, the simulation measurement data being obtained by emitting ultrasound while switching an element that emits ultrasound and receiving reflected ultrasound from the test-object model using least one of the elements in a simulation space in which a size and an arrangement of the elements are simulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Naoki TOMII, Hirofumi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210028043
    Abstract: A transport apparatus includes a transport unit configured to transport a protection material in each operation of a packing operation and an unpacking operation; a protection material placement portion on which the protection material is stacked; a container placement portion on which a container main body portion is placed; a control unit configured to control the transport unit in an operation mode selected from a plurality of operation modes corresponding to types of the protection material; an attachment determination unit configured to determine attachment/detachment of components that are selected in correspondence with the type of the protection material and form the transport unit, the protection material placement portion, and the container placement portion; and a consistency determination unit configured to determine consistency between the selected operation mode and a determination result of the attachment determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: HIRATA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirofumi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10856852
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic system includes elements disposed around a subject to transmit and/or receive ultrasonic waves. A controller controls the elements so that some of the elements disposed in a first region transmit ultrasonic waves at a first angle to a diagnosis target in the subject, some of the elements disposed in a second region receive reflected waves of the ultrasonic waves, which are reflected from the diagnosis target at a second angle, and some of the elements disposed in a third region receive reflected waves of the ultrasonic waves, which are reflected from the diagnosis target at a third angle distinct from the second angle. An operator calculates a velocity vector of the diagnosis target using the reflected waves received by the some of the elements disposed in the second region and the reflected waves received by the some of the elements disposed in the third region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: The University of Tokyo, Lily Medtech, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Azuma, Hirofumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200337681
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic system includes a plurality of elements arranged around a test object and emitting and receiving ultrasound, a control unit controlling such that at least one of the elements emits ultrasound and at least some of the elements receive scattered waves, a collection unit collecting measurement data obtained from the elements, a calculation unit that calculates, for a plurality of division regions into which an imaging region is divided, a scattered sound pressure intensity of each division region based on a first factor and a second factor of the division region, the first factor being constituted by arrival times which are each a period from emission to reception of ultrasound that is emitted from a predetermined element, scattered by the test object in the division region, and received by a corresponding one of the plurality of elements, and an image generation unit that generates a scattering image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi AZUMA, Tianhan TANG, Ichiro SAKUMA, Hirofumi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10372049
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive support and a single-layer photosensitive layer. The conductive support has an outer peripheral surface with a maximum surface roughness height (Rmax) of about 4.0 ?m or less, and the outer peripheral surface has a recess with a depth-to-aperture size ratio (depth/aperture size) of about 0.03 or more and about 0.12 or less. The single-layer photosensitive layer is disposed on the conductive support and has a thickness of about 20 ?m or more and a modulus of elasticity of about 4.5 GPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Kawasaki, Hirofumi Nakamura, Yohei Saito, Keisuke Kusano
  • Patent number: 10095134
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor which includes an electroconductive substrate, an undercoat layer which is provided on the electroconductive substrate, contains a binder resin and a metal oxide particle, and has an electrostatic capacitance per unit area of from 10 pF/cm2 to 100 pF/cm2, and a photosensitive layer provided on the undercoat layer; an electrostatic latent image forming unit that forms an electrostatic latent image on a charged surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor; and a developing unit that stores a developer containing a toner which contains toner particles of which a volume average particle diameter is from 3.0 ?m to 5.5 ?m, and develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor by using the developer, so as to form a toner image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Hashimoto, Hirofumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20180275538
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive support and a single-layer photosensitive layer. The conductive support has an outer peripheral surface with a maximum surface roughness height (Rmax) of about 4.0 ?m or less, and the outer peripheral surface has a recess with a depth-to-aperture size ratio (depth/aperture size) of about 0.03 or more and about 0.12 or less. The single-layer photosensitive layer is disposed on the conductive support and has a thickness of about 20 ?m or more and a modulus of elasticity of about 4.5 GPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro KAWASAKI, Hirofumi NAKAMURA, Yohei SAITO, Keisuke KUSANO
  • Patent number: 10073490
    Abstract: There are provided a display in which a sealing section is prevented from being spread and the sealing section is allowed to be provided in a desired region, and an electronic unit including the display. The display includes: a substrate including a sealing region and a step section, the sealing region surrounding a display region, and the step section surrounding the sealing region from outside; a display layer provided in the display region; and a sealing section provided in the sealing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nakamura, Nobuhide Yoneya, Toru Tanikawa, Shota Nishi, Shin Akasaka, Satoshi Kumon
  • Patent number: 10073405
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an electrophotographic photoreceptor that includes an electroconductive substrate, an undercoat layer which is provided on the electroconductive substrate and has electrostatic capacitance per unit area of from 2.5×10?11 F/cm2 to 2.5×10?10 F/cm2, and a photosensitive layer provided on the undercoat layer; a charging unit; an electrostatic latent image forming unit; a developing unit; an intermediate transfer member; a primary transfer unit that primarily transfers the toner image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, onto the surface of an intermediate transfer member, while providing a primary transfer current value of from 80 ?A to 160 ?A; and a secondary transfer unit that secondarily transfers the toner image transferred onto the surface of the intermediate transfer member, onto a surface of a recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Kawasaki, Hirofumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10046383
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing Cu—Sn coexisting steel produces a good quality surface even after hot rolling. The steel is manufactured by continuous casting a molten steel that contains C: 0.04 to 0.20%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.20 to 2.50%, P: no more than 0.05%, S: no more than 0.02%, Cu: 0.20 to 1.50%, Sn: 0.06 to 0.50%, Al: 0.06 to 1.00% and Ni: 0.05 to 1.00% by mass, and Fe and impurities as the remainder. The composition of the molten steel is defined as [Al]/(3[Si]+[Mn])?0.050, [Ni]/([Cu]+5[Sn])?0.10 and [Al]/[Ni]?0.20 if the content of an element X in the molten steel is represented as [X], an internal oxidation layer is formed in a process of cooling a slab, and Al2O3 is contained by the internal oxidation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotsugu Yoshida, Hirofumi Nakamura, Takayuki Kamimura, Nobuo Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20180206827
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic system includes elements disposed around a subject to transmit and/or receive ultrasonic waves. A controller controls the elements so that some of the elements disposed in a first region transmit ultrasonic waves at a first angle to a diagnosis target in the subject, some of the elements disposed in a second region receive reflected waves of the ultrasonic waves, which are reflected from the diagnosis target at a second angle, and some of the elements disposed in a third region receive reflected waves of the ultrasonic waves, which are reflected from the diagnosis target at a third angle distinct from the second angle. An operator calculates a velocity vector of the diagnosis target using the reflected waves received by the some of the elements disposed in the second region and the reflected waves received by the some of the elements disposed in the third region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi Azuma, Hirofumi NAKAMURA