Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Nakagawa

Hiroshi Nakagawa 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: 20220352024
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor structure that includes: forming a first metal layer over a wafer; forming a second metal layer over the first metal layer; forming a first porous structure in a first region of the second metal layer located above a circuit area of the wafer and a second porous structure in a second region of the second metal layer located above a dicing area of the wafer, wherein the first porous structure includes a first set of pores, and wherein the second porous structure includes a second set of pores; forming a metal-insulator-metal stack in the first set of pores of the first porous structure; and etching the second set of pores of the second porous structure to expose the dicing area of the silicon wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Frédéric VOIRON, Brigitte SOULIER, Hiroshi NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11488784
    Abstract: A capacitor that includes a substrate having a main surface with at least one of a recess or a projection, a dielectric film extending along the at least one of the recess or the projection and having an equivalent oxide thickness of 600 nm or more, and a conductor film covering at least part of the dielectric film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Murase, Tomoyuki Ashimine, Hiroshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11476056
    Abstract: A capacitor that includes a substrate, a dielectric portion, and a conductor layer. The dielectric portion includes a thick film portion and a thin film portion. The thick film portion has a thickness larger than the average thickness of the dielectric portion in a direction perpendicular to the first main surface. The thin film portion has a thickness smaller than the average thickness of the dielectric portion in the direction perpendicular to the first main surface. The thick film portion has a larger relative permittivity than the thin film portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Tomoyuki Ashimine, Yasuhiro Murase
  • Publication number: 20220317115
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, inter alia, compositions and methods for treating or ameliorating the effects of a tumor in a subject comprising a three-dimensional (3D) organoid system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAGAWA, Angela J. YOON, Anil K. RUSTGI
  • Publication number: 20220315751
    Abstract: A liquid crystal polyester resin composition includes a liquid crystal polyester resin (A); a solvent (B) in which the liquid crystal polyester resin (A) is dissolved; a fluorine resin (C); and an inorganic filler (D), wherein 100 to 5,000 parts by weight of the solvent (B), 5 to 300 parts by weight of the fluorine resin (C) and 1 to 300 parts by weight of the inorganic filler (D) are included relative to 100 parts by weight of the liquid crystal polyester resin (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Akito Konishi, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Hideyuki Umetsu
  • Publication number: 20220256030
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a motion sensor, a communication device, and a control device. The motion sensor detects a gesture of a user. The communication device makes communication with a terminal device on another end, through a predetermined communication network. The control device acts as a controller. The controller causes the communication device to dispatch a call to the terminal device, when the motion sensor detects a prespecified gesture, in a state where a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220234418
    Abstract: An HVAC system for a vehicle includes a control unit for controlling the HVAC system and an air recirculation unit controlled by the control unit that is operable in an automatic mode and a manual mode. In the automatic mode, the air control unit is operable to determine if a sunroof is applied to the vehicle, determine if the control unit can determine whether the sunroof is open or closed, determine if the sunroof is open or closed, and change an operating condition of the air recirculation unit in the automatic mode from a first operating level to a second operating level if the sunroof is determined to be open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Danny JIERIAN, Nigel Wynne WILLIAMS, Kyle E. CHRISTMAN, Daniel R. YELLES, Derek S. ADELMAN, Jason C. D. CHUANG, Trevor F. BURNS, Hiroshi NAKAGAWA, Veronick MARTINUZZI, Brock J. STULL
  • Publication number: 20220146993
    Abstract: A fault prediction system includes a machine learning device that learns conditions associated with a fault of an industrial machine. The machine learning device includes a state observation unit that, while the industrial machine is in operation or at rest, observes a state variable including, e.g., data output from a sensor, internal data of control software, or computational data obtained based on these data, a determination data obtaining unit that obtains determination data used to determine whether a fault has occurred in the industrial machine or the degree of fault, and a learning unit that learns the conditions associated with the fault of the industrial machine in accordance with a training data set generated based on a combination of the state variable and the determination data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Shougo INAGAKI, Hiroshi NAKAGAWA, Daisuke OKANOHARA, Ryosuke OKUTA, Eiichi MATSUMOTO, Keigo KAWAAI
  • Patent number: 11304752
    Abstract: A method, consisting of ablating tissue for a time period, measuring a contact force applied during the time period, and measuring a power used during the time period. The method further includes ceasing ablating the tissue when a desired size of a lesion produced in the tissue, as estimated using an integral over the time period of a product of the contact force raised to a first non-unity exponent and the power raised to a second non-unity exponent, is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd., University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
    Inventors: Meir Bar-Tal, Erez Silberschein, Assaf Rubissa, Garth Francis Constantine, Hiroshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11303201
    Abstract: A CR snubber element includes a first resistance part, a first capacitance part, a second resistance part, and a second capacitance part. The first capacitance part is connected in series to the first resistance part. The second resistance part is connected in series to the first resistance part and the first capacitance part and the second capacitance part is connected in parallel to the second resistance part. The CR snubber element is configured such that the second resistance part is disconnected when the first capacitance part is short-circuited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ashimine, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Yasuhiro Murase
  • Publication number: 20220093726
    Abstract: Three-dimensional capacitive structures may be produced by forming a capacitive stack conformally over pores in a region of porous anodic oxide. The porous anodic oxide region is provided on a stack of electrically-conductive layers including an anodization-resistant layer and an interconnection layer. In the pores there is a position having restricted diameter quite close to the pore bottom. In a first percentage of the pores in the region of anodic oxide, a functional portion of the capacitive stack is formed so as to extend into the pores no further than the restricted-diameter position. Cracks that may be present in the anodization-resistant layer have reduced effect on the properties of the capacitive structure. Increased thickness of the anodization-resistant layer can be tolerated, enabling equivalent series resistance of the overall capacitive structure to be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Frédéric Voiron, Julien El Sabahy, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Naoki Iwaji, Guy Parat
  • Patent number: 11275345
    Abstract: A fault prediction system includes a machine learning device that learns conditions associated with a fault of an industrial machine. The machine learning device includes a state observation unit that, while the industrial machine is in operation or at rest, observes a state variable including, e.g., data output from a sensor, internal data of control software, or computational data obtained based on these data, a determination data obtaining unit that obtains determination data used to determine whether a fault has occurred in the industrial machine or the degree of fault, and a learning unit that learns the conditions associated with the fault of the industrial machine in accordance with a training data set generated based on a combination of the state variable and the determination data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignees: FANUC CORPORATION, PREFERRED NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Shougo Inagaki, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Daisuke Okanohara, Ryosuke Okuta, Eiichi Matsumoto, Keigo Kawaai
  • Patent number: 11270968
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electronic circuit connection method and an electronic circuit capable of improving the reliability of electrical connection. A connection method for an electronic circuit 100 includes: a process of forming a first metal bumps 30 and a second metal bump 40, each of which has a cone shape; and a process of joining a first electrode pad 12 and a third electrode pad 22 by the first metal bump 30 and joining a second electrode pad 13 and a fourth electrode pad 23 by the second metal bump 40, wherein at least one region of between a first region 11a and a second region 11b in a first connection surface 11 and between a third region 21a and a fourth region 21b in a second connection surface 21 has a step 11c, and the first metal bump 30 and the second metal bump 40 have different heights so as to correct a height H1 of the step 11c.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Masaru Hashino, Ying Ying Lim, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Masahiro Aoyagi, Katsuya Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11239226
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus that includes a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface, a first electrode opposing the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate, a dielectric layer between the semiconductor substrate and the first electrode, a second electrode opposing the second main surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a resistance control layer between the semiconductor substrate and the second electrode. The resistance control layer includes a first region having a first electrical resistivity and electrically connecting the semiconductor substrate and the second electrode, and a second region having a second electrical resistivity higher than the first electrical resistivity of the first region and adjacent to the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ashimine, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Yasuhiro Murase
  • Patent number: 11238387
    Abstract: A management system includes a storage unit that stores schedule information that indicates schedules of a plurality of tasks to be performed by the same flight vehicle. The schedule information includes types of the plurality of tasks, date/times of the plurality of tasks, and locations at which the plurality of tasks are to be performed. When the types, the date/times, and the locations that are included in the schedule information stored in the storage unit satisfy an integration condition, an integration unit integrates the schedules of the plurality of tasks. An output unit outputs integrated schedule information indicating the schedules of the integrated tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Youhei Oono, Yuichiro Segawa
  • Patent number: 11239159
    Abstract: A semiconductor device that includes a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface, a first electrode opposing the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate, a dielectric layer between the semiconductor substrate and the first electrode, a first resistance control layer on the first electrode, a wiring part on the first resistance control layer, and a second electrode opposing the second main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The first resistance control layer includes a first region that has a first electrical resistivity and that electrically connects the first electrode and the wiring part, and a second region that is aligned with the first region and has a second electrical resistivity higher than the first electrical resistivity of the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Murase, Tomoyuki Ashimine, Hiroshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11167846
    Abstract: Piloting assistance from a remote location is provided to a pilot of a flight vehicle. A server selects captured images. The captured images include flight vehicle viewpoint images that were captured by an image capturing function of the flight vehicle, or pilot viewpoint images that were captured by an image capturing apparatus and show the flight of the flight vehicle. The server provides selected captured images to an assister terminal with priority. The server determines the display with priority based on information related to the flight of the flight vehicle. For example, the server determines the captured images that are to be displayed with priority based on a state during the flight of the flight vehicle. States include, for example, the altitude, speed, orientation, battery amount, and motor rotation speeds of the flight vehicle, as well as the distance between the flight vehicle and a work object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 11145711
    Abstract: A capacitor that includes a substrate having a principal surface; a dielectric film on the principal surface of the substrate; and an electrode layer on the dielectric film. The substrate has a recess structure portion with at least one recess portion in a second region outside a first region where the electrode layer overlaps the dielectric layer when viewed in a plan view from a normal direction of the principal surface of the substrate, and the dielectric film is on the recess structure portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ashimine, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Yasuhiro Murase
  • Patent number: 11136447
    Abstract: A polyamide resin composition includes 100 parts by weight of a polyamide resin (A), 0.1 to 50 parts by weight of a fire retardant (B), 0.001 to 1 part by weight of a metal and/or salt thereof (C), and 0.001 to 1 part by weight of a compound (D) as represented by formula [I]: QX [I] wherein in formula [I], Q represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group or an alicyclic hydrocarbon group and X represents a 5-membered heterocyclic ring group, Q and X forming a covalent bond or a fused ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Tamai, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Masaru Akita, Hideyuki Umetsu
  • Publication number: 20210292475
    Abstract: A liquid crystal polyester resin for laminate, wherein, in a molecular weight distribution of an absolute molecular weight measured by a gel permeation chromatograph/light scattering method, an area fraction of a portion having an absolute molecular weight of 10,000 or less is 10 to 40%, and an area fraction of a portion having an absolute molecular weight of 50,000 or more is 3 to 20%, relative to 100% of the total peak area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Akito Konishi, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Hideyuki Umetsu