Patents by Inventor Hiroki Nakayama

Hiroki Nakayama 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: 10875278
    Abstract: A heat ray shielding film is disclosed, including composite tungsten oxide particles; and an ionomer resin. The composite tungsten oxide particles are expressed by a general formula MxWOy (where M denotes one or more kinds of elements selected from Cs, Rb, K, Tl, In, Ba, Li, Ca, Sr, Fe, Sn, Al, Cu, and Na, and 0.1?x?0.5 and 2.2?y?3.0).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Machida, Hiroki Nakayama, Kenichi Fujita
  • Publication number: 20200390418
    Abstract: The attachment includes: a holder that has an opening portion provided at a position corresponding to an ultrasonic wave transmitting and receiving surface of the ultrasound probe and is attachably and detachably fixed to the ultrasound probe; and a protruding portion that draws and holds a sheet-shaped acoustic matching member provided between the opening portion and the ultrasound probe in a close contact direction in which the acoustic matching member is brought into close contact with the transmitting and receiving surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Takahisa ARAI, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20200375562
    Abstract: A compression plate of a mammography apparatus has an upper surface which is irradiated with radiation, a lower surface which is opposite to the upper surface and comes into contact with the breast, and a surface which is parallel to the upper surface between the upper surface and the lower surface. In the compression plate, a compression plate scale for identifying an in-plane position of each surface is given to any one of the surfaces. A first display control unit of a console performs control to display a radiographic image captured by the mammography apparatus on a display unit. A second display control unit of the console performs control to display an image scale which indicates a position on the radiographic image corresponding to the in-plane position of the compression plate on the radiographic image displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa ARAI, Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Patent number: 10836614
    Abstract: An upper turning body mounted on a lower body for a crane includes a turning frame mounted on the lower body to turn freely, and a boom provided to the turning frame to be raised and lowered freely. The turning frame includes a pair of attachment brackets to which a base end section of the boom is attached such that the boom is free to be raised and lowered, and a frame body to which the pair of attachment brackets are provided with an interval in a left-right direction of the upper turning body. The frame body is formed of a plurality of divided frames arranged side by side in the left-right direction of the upper turning body, adjacent divided frames of the plurality of divided frames being separably joined to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignees: KOBE STEEL, LTD., KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuto Kataoka, Takunori Yamaguchi, Hiromitsu Hamaguchi, Yasuhiro Nakashima, Yoji Hanawa, Hiroki Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20200353447
    Abstract: Provided is, for example, an exhaust gas-purifying three-way catalyst which is suppressed in particle growth due to sintering of a catalytically active component on a carrier in exposure to a high temperature and thus is enhanced in purification performance, and a method for producing the same, as well as an integral structure type exhaust gas-purifying catalyst using the same. The exhaust gas-purifying three-way catalyst of the present invention includes a composite particle which contains a base material particle having a pore size of 100 to 650 nm as measured by a mercury intrusion method and a catalytically active particle of a platinum group element supported on the base material particle, in which a content proportion of the catalytically active particle is 0.001 to 30% by mass in total in terms of metal of the platinum group element, based on a total amount of the composite particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: N.E. CHEMCAT Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HARA, Yuki TOYA, Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Takumi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200337662
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires a plurality of projection images corresponding to each of a plurality of radiation source positions which have been generated by directing an imaging apparatus to perform tomosynthesis imaging for an object compressed by a compression plate. An edge image detection unit detects an edge image caused by the edge of the compression plate in the plurality of projection images. A cutout unit cuts out the projection image according to a positional relationship between the edge image and an image of the object to generate a cut-out projection image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Tomoki INOUE, Tomonari SENDAI
  • Publication number: 20200337667
    Abstract: A control device including: a control unit that, in a case in which continuous imaging that irradiates a breast of a subject with radiation emitted from a radiation source to capture a radiographic image in a compressed state in which the breast is compressed against an imaging table by a compression member and then captures an ultrasound image of the breast in the compressed state is performed, performs control to locate the radiation source at a non-facing position where the radiation source and the imaging table do not face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa ARAI, Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20200322450
    Abstract: A agent device includes a plurality of agent function parts configured to provide a service including causing an output section to output a response by a voice in response to a speech of an occupant in a vehicle, the plurality of agent function parts includes a first agent function part and a second agent function part having less dependence on a network connection than that of the first agent function part, a network observation part configured to recognize or predict a change in communication environment of the network connection is further provided, and the second agent function part stores a speech of the occupant in the vehicle in a storage when the first agent function part is under operation and deterioration of the communication environment of the network connection is recognized or predicted by the network observation part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Hiroki Nakayama, Kengo Naiki, Yusuke Oi
  • Publication number: 20200319634
    Abstract: An agent device includes an in-vehicle agent function unit mounted in a vehicle and configured to provide a service including causing an output unit to output a voice response in accordance with speech of a user, an in-vehicle communication unit configured to cause the in-vehicle agent function unit to be connected to a network via an in-vehicle communication device, and a terminal communication unit configured to cause the in-vehicle agent function unit to be connected to the network via a general-purpose terminal. A state in which the in-vehicle agent function unit is connected to the network is selected from a first connection state implemented via the in-vehicle communication unit and a second connection state implemented via the terminal communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Mototsugu Kubota, Hiroki Nakayama, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
  • Publication number: 20200320996
    Abstract: An on-board agent system includes: a plurality of agent functional units, each of the plurality of agent functional units being configured to provide a service including outputting a response using voice to an output unit according to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle; and a common operator configured to be shared by the plurality of agent functional units and provided in the vehicle, wherein, when an operation is executed on the common operator with an operation pattern set to correspond to each of the plurality of agent functional units, an agent functional unit corresponding to the operation pattern of the executed operation is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Hiroki Nakayama, Kengo Naiki, Yusuke Oi
  • Publication number: 20200308895
    Abstract: An agent device includes an agent functional controller configured to provide a service including causing an output device to output a response of voice in response to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle, and a controller configured to permit an operation of a power window of the vehicle when a speed of the vehicle is less than a first threshold value and limit the operation of the power window of the vehicle when the speed of the vehicle is equal to or greater than the first threshold value when the agent functional controller is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakayama, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Kengo Naiki
  • Publication number: 20200305836
    Abstract: An imaging member including: a pressing member that presses a breast of a subject; and an ultrasonography member that has a first surface on which an acoustic matching member having fluidity is provided, and is provided such that a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface is provided on a surface of the pressing member, which is on a side opposite to a surface that comes into contact with the breast, via a coupling material having lower fluidity than the acoustic matching member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Takahisa ARAI, Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20200305835
    Abstract: A control device including: a breast thickness acquisition unit that acquires a thickness of a breast in a pressed state by a pressing member; a depth information acquisition unit that, in a case where an ultrasound image of the breast in the pressed state is captured, acquires depth information indicating a depth to which imaging by an ultrasonography apparatus which captures the ultrasound image is possible; a deriving unit that derives imaging information indicating whether or not capture of an ultrasound image having predetermined accuracy or higher is possible by the ultrasonography apparatus on the basis of the thickness of the breast acquired by the breast thickness acquisition unit and the depth information acquired by the depth information acquisition unit; and an output unit that outputs the imaging information derived by the deriving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Takahisa ARAI, Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20200302937
    Abstract: In an agent system, a first server device transmits information associated with a speech of a first user acquired from a first terminal device to a second server device, and the second server device transmits information associated with the speech of the first user acquired from the first server device to a second terminal device or an on-vehicle agent device on the basis of existence of a second user recognized by the second terminal device or the on-vehicle agent device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Kengo Naiki, Hiroki Nakayama, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma
  • Publication number: 20200286452
    Abstract: There is provided an agent device, including an agent functional unit configured to provide a service including causing an output unit to output a response using a voice, in response to an utterance of an occupant in a vehicle; and a display controller configured to cause a display provided in the vehicle to display an animation related to an agent corresponding to the agent functional unit, wherein the display controller is configured to cause the display to display the animation in different types between a case where the animation is displayed in a first display area of the display, and a case where the animation is displayed in a second display area which is different from the first display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Mototsugu Kubota, Hiroki Nakayama, Sawako Furuya
  • Publication number: 20200275902
    Abstract: A radiography system includes a mammography apparatus and a control device including a compression control unit that, in a case of performing continuous imaging in which the simple imaging and the tomosynthesis imaging are continuously performed while the breast being compressed by the mammography apparatus, performs control to cause a compression member to compress the breast at a first force in a first imaging of the simple imaging or the tomosynthesis imaging that is performed first in the continuous imaging, to change a force of the compression member compressing the breast from the first force to a second force lower than the first force after the first imaging, and to cause the compression member to compress the breast at the second force in a second imaging that is performed later.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki INOUE, Hiroki NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10752512
    Abstract: A general-purpose composite tungsten oxide ultrafine particles capable of producing a dispersion liquid with high productivity while having properties such as good visible light transmittance and shielding light in a near-infrared region, and a composite tungsten oxide ultrafine particle dispersion liquid using the same, wherein a value of an XRD peak top intensity ratio of the composite tungsten oxide ultrafine particles is 0.13 or more when the XRD peak intensity is set to 1, with plane of a silicon powder standard sample (640 c produced by NIST) as a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Tsunematsu, Hiroki Nakayama, Takeshi Chonan
  • Publication number: 20200253572
    Abstract: A radiography system includes: a mammography apparatus that includes a radiation source, a radiation detector, and a compression member which compresses a breast disposed between the radiation source and the radiation detector and captures a radiographic image of the breast in a compressed state using the radiation detector; and a control device including an acquisition unit that acquires region information indicating a region of an object of interest in the breast on the basis of the radiographic image captured by the mammography apparatus and a display control unit that performs control to display the region of the object of interest on the compression member, which continues to compress the breast from the capture of the radiographic image, so as to be recognizable on the basis of the region information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroki NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10730272
    Abstract: There is provided a heat-ray shielding film including composite tungsten oxide particles; a thermoplastic resin; and a metal coupling agent, wherein the composite tungsten oxide particles are represented by a general formula MxWOy, where M is one or more elements selected from Cs, Rb, K, Tl, In, Ba, Li, Ca, Sr, Fe, Sn, Al, Cu, and Na, 0.1?x?0.5, and 2.2?y?3.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Machida, Hiroki Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20200184352
    Abstract: An information output system for leading a person in such a way as to rapidly achieve a predetermined state for investigation of crime using communication means is provided. An information output system 200 includes an identification unit 220, a storage unit 230, and an output unit 250. The identification unit 220 identifies an observed state, based on information indicating a message from a person. The storage unit 230 stores knowledge information to be used for reasoning of a target state being a predetermined state for investigation. The output unit 250 performs reasoning, based on observation information indicating the observed state and the knowledge information, and outputs information indicating a message to be spoken or sent by the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki NAKAYAMA