Patents by Inventor Hiroki Nakamura

Hiroki 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: 20220340799
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-repellent film having frost resistance, including a hygroscopic layer provided on or above a substrate, and a water-repellent layer provided on or above the hygroscopic layer, in which the water-repellent layer contains a water-repellent layer substrate and a water-repellent component attached to the water-repellent layer substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Seimei SHIRATORI, Hiroki NAKAMURA, Shintaro OKAWA, Hiroaki ANDO, Miki KITAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11384013
    Abstract: An automotive laminated glass includes a thermoplastic interlayer film, a curved first glass sheet, and a curved second glass sheet. The thermoplastic interlayer film is disposed between the first and second glass sheets. The first glass sheet is a 0.7- to 3-mm thick non-chemically strengthened glass sheet including a convex-side first main surface and a concave-side second main surface facing the thermoplastic interlayer film. The second glass sheet is an ion-exchanged, 0.3- to 1.5-mm thick chemically strengthened glass sheet including a convex-side third main surface facing the thermoplastic interlayer film and a concave-side fourth main surface. The second glass sheet is thinner than the first glass sheet, and is adjusted to have a curvature equal to the curvature of the first glass sheet. A compressive stress layer on the concave-side fourth main surface is thicker than a compressive stress layer on the convex-side third main surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: CENTRAL GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Naoki Mitamura, Tatsuya Tsuzuki, Hiroki Nakamura, Naoya Hirata
  • Publication number: 20220160080
    Abstract: A shoe includes: an upper; a tightening tool disposed above an instep of a wearer and capable of applying, to the upper, tightening force for drawing portions and on the both sides in a foot width direction of the upper; and an arch support part provided such that tightening force applied to a first side portion in a foot width direction of the upper can be transmitted to the arch support part. The tightening force transmitter has stretchability in foot girth directions set higher than that of the arch support part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Seigo NAKAYA, Genki HATANO, Ayu BESSHO, Sho TAKAMASU, Keita OZAWA, Hiroki NAKAMURA, Yousuke ATARASHI
  • Publication number: 20220111446
    Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a tool body and a hard coating layer, where one TiAlCN layer ? (1) containing 70 area % or more of a wurtzite type hexagonal structure on a tool surface side (S) and one TiAlCN layer ? (2) containing 70 area % or more of a NaCl type face-centered cubic structure on the tool body side (B), when a composition of the TiAlCN layer ? (1) is represented by (Ti(1-x?)Alx?)(Cy?N(1-y?)) satisfying 0.70?x??0.95 and 0.000?y??0.010, when a composition of the TiAlCN layer ? (2) is represented by (Ti(1-x?)Alx?)(Cy?N(1-y?)) satisfying 0.65?x??0.95 and 0.000?y??0.010, and when average layer thicknesses of the TiAlCN layer ? (1) and the TiAlCN layer ? (2) are defined as L? and L? satisfying 0.5 ?m?L??10.0 ?m and 1.0 ?m?L??20.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya ISHIGAKI, Kousuke YANAGISAWA, Hiroki NAKAMURA, Hisashi HONMA
  • Publication number: 20220050289
    Abstract: A head-up display device that is to be mounted in a moving vehicle and enables an occupant in the moving vehicle to view a virtual image based on a reflected image of S-polarized light in a projection section, the head-up display device including: an image projector configured to apply projection light including S-polarized light; and the projection section on which the projection light is to be projected. The projection section includes laminated glass including a first glass plate defining a surface of the laminated glass on which the projection light is to be incident, a second glass plate defining a surface of the laminated glass from which the projection light is to be emitted, and a half-wave plate disposed between the first glass plate and the second glass plate. The first glass plate and the second glass plate each are formed from a glass composition containing silicon oxide, iron oxide, and an alkali metal oxide. At least one of the first glass plate or the second glass plate has a thickness of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: CENTRAL GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Naoya MORI, Kensuke IZUTANI, Hiroki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220015499
    Abstract: A shoe sole includes a body portion and a heel holding portion. The heel holding portion is located opposite to a ground contact surface of the body portion and holds a heel portion of a foot at least from a medial foot side. The body portion includes a low hardness portion and a high hardness portion. The high hardness portion is a foam material harder than a foam material of the low hardness portion. The heel holding portion is a resin harder than the foam material of the low hardness portion and the foam material of the high hardness portion. On the medial foot side in a rear foot portion, the low hardness portion is located between the heel holding portion and the high hardness portion in an up-down direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki NAKAMURA, Keishi KITAMOTO, Yuji TAMAKOSHI, Seiji YANO, Shingo MASUMOTO, Shuhei TAKEMURA, Hiroaki NISHIMURA, Naoki SAKAJO, Seigo NAKAYA, Kazunaga NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220006245
    Abstract: A signal contact member and a ground contact member to which a center conductor and an outer conductor of a coaxial cable are connected are supported by an insulating housing member. The ground contact member has an annular fitting portion that fits and connects to the ground contact portion of a mate connector device. The annular fitting portion is provided with an opening for disposing a center conductor connection portion of the signal contact member. A shell portion of a ground contact member or an insulating housing member is provided with a conductive member given a ground potential. The conductive member partially fills the opening in the annular fitting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki NAKAMURA, Takao YAMAUCHI, Ichiro SUGIURA, Li Yao LIN
  • Publication number: 20210402486
    Abstract: A surface coated cutting tool comprises a tool body. A TiAlCN layer having an average layer thickness of 2.0 to 20.0 ?m and represented by (Ti(1-x)Alx)(CyN(1-y)) is provided on the surface of the tool body and has an average content ratio xavg of Al and an average content ratio yavg of C that satisfy 0.60?xavg?0.95 and 0.00?yavg?0.05, an area ratio occupied by crystal grains having an NaCl-type face-centered cubic structure that satisfies 90 area % or more, and crystal grains satisfying 0.01 ?m<d?0.20 ?m in 10 to 40 area %. An average maximum length in a direction parallel to the surface of the tool body in each region in which the crystal grains having d of 0.01 ?m<d?0.20 ?m are adjacent and connected to each other in the upper layer side region is 5.0 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya ISHIGAKI, Kousuke YANAGISAWA, Hiroki NAKAMURA, Hisashi HONMA
  • Patent number: 11212287
    Abstract: Provided are a program execution control method capable of preventing a malicious third party from misappropriating a web application program, a program, a recording medium, a web page, a transmission server, a client, and a web system. In the program execution control method, the program, the recording medium, the web page, the transmission server, the client, and the web system, the web application program includes a list of identification information of authorized servers written by a low-level language, a determination program, and a processing program which are written by a low-level language. The determination program checks whether identification information of the transmission server extracted from a URI of a web page and identification information of an authorized server included in the list match each other, and limits execution of the processing program according to the check result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakamura, Hironori Yano
  • Publication number: 20210391675
    Abstract: In a plug connector, a ground contact conductor includes: a fitting portion to fit to a ground contact conductor of a mate connector; and a clamp portion to hold a second exposing portion of a coaxial cable (a portion of a terminal portion of the coaxial cable where a part of an insulating sheath has been removed) to contact a shield exposed at the second exposing portion, without the ground contact conductor overlapping an outer peripheral surface of the insulating sheath. The clamp portion is located at an end of the ground contact conductor farthest from the fitting portion. The second exposing portion is adjacent to a first exposing portion formed at the terminal portion where a signal line is exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki NAKAMURA, Adam Takuma NAGAO
  • Publication number: 20210323409
    Abstract: A head-up display device that is to be mounted in a moving vehicle and enables an occupant in the moving vehicle to view a virtual image based on a reflected image of projection light in a projection section, the projection section including an interlayer film, a first glass plate disposed closer to an outside of the moving vehicle, and a second glass plate disposed closer to an inside of the moving vehicle, the first glass plate and the second glass plate disposed opposite each other with the interlayer film therebetween, the first glass plate having a first main surface exposed to the outside and a second main surface opposite the first main surface, the second glass plate having a fourth main surface exposed to the inside and a third main surface opposite the fourth main surface, the first glass plate and the second glass plate each having a tin surface on which tin is detected and a non-tin surface whose tin concentration is lower than the tin concentration on the tin surface, the fourth main surface bein
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: CENTRAL GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kensuke IZUTANI, Naoya MORI, Hiroki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210273386
    Abstract: A receptacle connector 10 includes a ground contact 11 including a fitting portion 11a that has a tubular shape and is to be fitted to a ground contact 101 of a plug connector 100; a signal contact 12 that is to be electrically connected to a signal contact 102 of the plug connector 100; and an insulating housing 13 that holds the ground contact 11 and the signal contact 12 in an insulated state. The signal contact 12 includes a central conductor 12a, and a board connection portion 12b that extends so as to lead out from the central conductor 12a to be connected to a signal terminal portion 201 of the board 200. The board connection portion 12b is accommodated in a region surrounded by the fitting portion 11a, and at least a part of the board connection portion 12b is exposed to an outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventor: Hiroki NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10960648
    Abstract: An automotive laminated glass includes a thermoplastic interlayer film, a curved first glass sheet, and a curved second glass sheet. The thermoplastic interlayer film is disposed between the first and second glass sheets. The first glass sheet is a 0.7- to 3-mm thick non-chemically strengthened glass sheet including a convex-side first main surface and a concave-side second main surface facing the thermoplastic interlayer film. The second glass sheet is an ion-exchanged, 0.3- to 1.5-mm thick chemically strengthened glass sheet including a convex-side third main surface facing the thermoplastic interlayer film and a concave-side fourth main surface. The second glass sheet is thinner than the first glass sheet. The convex-side third main surface has a compressive stress layer thicker than that on the concave-side fourth main surface, and the second glass sheet is adjusted to fit the curvature of the first glass sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: CENTRAL GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Naoki Mitamura, Tatsuya Tsuzuki, Hiroki Nakamura, Naoya Hirata
  • Patent number: 10937902
    Abstract: A semiconductor-device production method includes a first step of forming a fin-shaped semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate and forming a first insulating film around the fin-shaped semiconductor layer, and a second step of, after the first step, forming a second insulating film around the fin-shaped semiconductor layer, depositing a first polysilicon on the second insulating film to achieve planarization, forming, in a direction perpendicular to a direction of the fin-shaped semiconductor layer, a second resist for forming a first gate line and a first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer and a third resist for forming a first contact line and a second pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, and etching the first polysilicon, the second insulating film, and the fin-shaped semiconductor layer to form the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a first dummy gate formed from the first polysilicon, the second pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, and a second dummy gate formed from the first polysilicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Unisantis Electronics Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Fujio Masuoka, Hiroki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10923591
    Abstract: A method for producing an SGT employs a gate-last process that includes forming a fin-shaped semiconductor layer, a pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, and a gate line by self-alignment. The gate line and the pillar-shaped semiconductor layer are formed in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the fin-shaped semiconductor layer extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: UNISANTIS ELECTRONICS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Fujio Masuoka, Hiroki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10825822
    Abstract: In an SRAM cell circuit, an N+ layer 12a and a P+ layer 13a, which are present between first gate connection W layers 22a and 22b connecting to gate TiN layers 23a and 23b in plan view, which connect to the bottom portions of Si pillars 11a and 11b, and which extend in the horizontal direction, connect through a second gate connection W layer 29a to a first gate connection W layer 22c, which connects to the gate TiN layers 23a and 23b and extend in the horizontal direction. The second gate connection W layer 29a has a bottom portion within the first gate connection W layer 22c, and has an upper surface positioned lower than the upper surfaces of the gate TiN layers 23a to 23f and the first gate connection W layers 22a to 22d.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: UNISANTIS ELECTRONICS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Fujio Masuoka, Nozomu Harada, Hiroki Nakamura, Min Soo Kim, Zheng Tao
  • Patent number: 10811535
    Abstract: An SGT production method includes a first step of forming a fin-shaped semiconductor layer and a first insulating film; a second step of forming a second insulating film, depositing a first polysilicon, planarizing the first polysilicon, forming a third insulating film, forming a second resist, and etching the third insulating film, the first polysilicon, the second insulating film, and the fin-shaped semiconductor layer to form a pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a first dummy gate, and a first hard mask; and a third step of forming a fourth insulating film, depositing a second polysilicon, planarizing the second polysilicon, subjecting the second polysilicon to etch back to expose the first hard mask, depositing a sixth insulating film, etching the sixth insulating film to form a second hard mask on a side wall of the first hard mask, and etching the second polysilicon to form a second dummy gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: UNISANTIS ELECTRONICS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Fujio Masuoka, Hiroki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10804397
    Abstract: An SGT production method includes a first step of forming a fin-shaped semiconductor layer and a first insulating film; a second step of forming a second insulating film, depositing a first polysilicon, planarizing the first polysilicon, forming a third insulating film, forming a second resist, and etching the third insulating film, the first polysilicon, the second insulating film, and the fin-shaped semiconductor layer to form a pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a first dummy gate, and a first hard mask; and a third step of forming a fourth insulating film, depositing a second polysilicon, planarizing the second polysilicon, subjecting the second polysilicon to etch back to expose the first hard mask, depositing a sixth insulating film, etching the sixth insulating film to form a second hard mask on a side wall of the first hard mask, and etching the second polysilicon to form a second dummy gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: UNISANTIS ELECTRONICS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Fujio Masuoka, Hiroki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200282706
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laminated glass for an automotive vehicle in which a curved first (exterior-side) glass sheet and a curved second (interior-side) glass sheet are opposed to each other with a thermoplastic intermediate film interposed therebetween, wherein a difference in annealing point temperature between the first and second glass sheets is in the range of ±5° C., wherein a difference in softening point temperature between the first and second glass sheets is in the range of ±5° C., wherein the first glass sheet has a glass composition with a FeO content of 0.1 mass % to 0.5 mass %, wherein the second glass sheet has a glass composition with a FeO content of 0 mass % to 0.05 mass %, wherein a thickness of the second glass sheet is 0.5 mm to 1.8 mm, and wherein a thickness of the first glass sheet is 1.1 times to 1.4 times the thickness of the second glass sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki NAKAMURA, Naoki MITAMURA, Takuma NAITO
  • Patent number: D959557
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Bandai Namco Amusement Inc.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sakai, Takafumi Shirai, Hiroki Nakamura, Yasuji Fukutomi, Yumeto Tsukada