Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Nakamura

Hiroshi 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: 20220148657
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell above the first memory cell, a first word line electrically connected to a gate of the first memory cell, a second word line electrically connected to a gate of the second memory cell, and a control unit that performs an erasing operation on the first and second memory cells. During the erasing operation, the control unit applies a first voltage to a first word line and a second voltage higher than the first voltage to a second word line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Masanobu SHIRAKAWA, Takuya FUTATSUYAMA, Kenichi ABE, Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Keisuke YONEHAMA, Atsuhiro SATO, Hiroshi SHINOHARA, Yasuyuki BABA, Toshifumi MINAMI
  • Patent number: 11328039
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: an input module configured to input an export instruction and an electronic apparatus identifier, the export instruction instructing to export an application, the electronic apparatus identifier corresponding to one different electronic apparatus; a controller module configured to generate an activation key on a basis of the electronic apparatus identifier where the export instruction is input, the activation key being for activating the application only in the one different electronic apparatus, control to output a package file including the application and the activation key, and inactivate the application after a certain replacement transition time period passes, the certain replacement transition time period starting from an output time point of the package file; and an output module configured to output the package file controlled by the controller module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Satoshi Imai, Aya Kamakura, Hiroshi Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 11295823
    Abstract: In a semiconductor integrated circuit, an internal circuit is capable of executing a first operation and a second operation concurrently, and an output circuit outputs to the outside of the semiconductor integrated circuit information indicating whether or not the first operation is being executed and information indicating whether or not the second operation is executable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Kenichi Imamiya, Toshio Yamamura, Koji Hosono, Koichi Kawai
  • Patent number: 11286051
    Abstract: An aerial vehicle safety apparatus includes an expandable object, an ejection apparatus, a bag-shaped member, and a gas generator. The expandable object is wound or folded in a non-expanded state and generates at least any of lift and buoyancy in an expanded state. The ejection apparatus is coupled to the expandable object by a coupling member and ejects the non-expanded expandable object into air. The bag-shaped member is provided in the expandable object and wound or folded together with or separately from the non-expanded expandable object, and expands the non-expanded expandable object by at least partially being inflated like a tube. The gas generator is provided in the expandable object and inflates the bag-shaped member by causing gas generated at the time of activation to flow into the bag-shaped member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Yagihashi, Hiroshi Nakamura, Koichi Sasamoto, Dairi Kubo, Takahiro Ooi
  • Publication number: 20220089849
    Abstract: Provided is a thermoplastic resin composition that reduces uneven distribution of inorganic substance particles and is suitable for producing a formed article having excellent appearance and mechanical properties even when the thermoplastic resin is highly filled with inorganic substance powder and a formed article using this thermoplastic resin composition. Provided are an inorganic substance powder-containing thermoplastic resin composition including a thermoplastic resin and inorganic substance powder in a mass ratio of 50:50 to 10:90, in which the inorganic substance powder is calcium carbonate particles, the calcium carbonate particles include at least two groups of particles having different average particle diameters, and any of the average particle diameters of the particle groups is within a range of 0.7 ?m or more and 6.0 ?m or less; and a formed article using this inorganic substance powder-containing thermoplastic resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Eiji MIZUNO, Taichi YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11281074
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus improved in the operability of an operation section. The image capturing apparatus includes an OTP, a sub electronic dial, and a grip portion that is provided at a location from where a finger can reach the OTP and the sub electronic dial. The sub electronic dial is arranged concentrically with the OTP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20220078346
    Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention, includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to: acquire an image by image sensing processing; set a part of the image as a specific region, wherein a position of the specific region can be changed; and detect a motion of an object included in the specific region; and perform control to display an indicator based on the detected motion of the object in a direction corresponding to a movement direction of the electronic device so that the indicator is superimposed and displayed at a position on the image based on the specific region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takeshi Kikkawa, Satoru Kobayashi, Hiroshi Nakamura, Akihiko Sato, Takeshi Nakata
  • Patent number: 11270773
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell above the first memory cell, a first word line electrically connected to a gate of the first memory cell, a second word line electrically connected to a gate of the second memory cell, and a control unit that performs an erasing operation on the first and second memory cells. During the erasing operation, the control unit applies a first voltage to a first word line and a second voltage higher than the first voltage to a second word line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanobu Shirakawa, Takuya Futatsuyama, Kenichi Abe, Hiroshi Nakamura, Keisuke Yonehama, Atsuhiro Sato, Hiroshi Shinohara, Yasuyuki Baba, Toshifumi Minami
  • Publication number: 20220069799
    Abstract: An elastic wave device that excites main vibration of an SH mode includes a piezoelectric layer formed from a piezoelectric material, a carrier substrate, and an IDT electrode formed on the piezoelectric layer. When a wavelength of an elastic wave, which is determined by an electrode cycle P of the IDT electrode, is represented by ?, the piezoelectric layer has a thickness of 0.15? or more and 1.5? or less. The carrier substrate has an acoustic anisotropy, and is arranged in a crystal orientation that reduces unnecessary vibrations of an SV mode and a vertical L-mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Noriyuki WATANABE, Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Shoji KAKIO
  • Publication number: 20220049891
    Abstract: A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a main cabinet including a cooling device to generate cold air, a sub-cabinet detachably connected to the main cabinet, a cold air relay duct provided to connect the main cabinet and the sub-cabinet and having a cold air flow path to allow the cold air generated by the cooling device to be delivered to the sub-cabinet, and a heat blocking member provided in a portion of the cold air flow path at which the main cabinet and the cold air relay duct are connected and in a portion of the cold air flow path at which the sub-cabinet and the cold air relay duct are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Kentaro KAN, Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Makoto SHIBUYA, Manabu KIKUCHI, Ryota AOKI, Tomohiko MATSUNO
  • Patent number: 11233906
    Abstract: A storage device stores, for each of one or more function expansion applications, the hardware component necessary for operation of the function expansion application. A control circuit is configured to detect that there is a failure in any of the plurality of hardware components, determine whether or not there is the function expansion application that needs, for operation thereof, the hardware component from which a failure has been detected, and perform control so that an operation mode is switched to a first degeneracy mode in which the detected hardware component is not used where there is no function expansion application that needs the detected hardware component, and the other hardware components are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Imai, Hiroshi Nakamura, Aya Kamakura, Hiroshi Yoshimoto
  • Publication number: 20220009491
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle with respect to an intersection are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of controlling a vehicle with respect to an intersection, includes determining a distance of the vehicle with respect to the intersection, wherein the intersection includes a traffic light, determining a velocity of the vehicle, and receiving traffic light state information regarding the traffic light. The method also includes calculating, based on the distance of the vehicle to the intersection, the velocity of the vehicle, and the traffic light state information, a zone of interest with respect to the traffic light. The method further includes manipulating the velocity of the vehicle to modify a size of the zone of interest when a current trajectory of the vehicle will cause the vehicle to enter the zone of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka Taruoka, Ryan Marcotte, Hai Jin, Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210387718
    Abstract: To provide a flying object including a lift generating member deployment device that makes it easier than before to automatically avoid collision with an obstacle. A flying object 30 includes an obstacle detecting unit 5, a control unit 6, a battery 7, a storage unit 8 that stores information transmitted from the control unit 6, a transmitting/receiving unit 9 that receives an operation signal from a controller 40 and transmits information regarding the flying object 30 to the controller 40, and others. The obstacle detecting unit 5 is to detect the altitude of the flying object 30 and outputs an altitude detection signal, which represents the detected altitude information, to the control unit 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Yasuhiko YAGIHASHI, Akihiro TAMASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20210387224
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a periphery removal unit configured to remove a peripheral portion of a film formed on a surface of a substrate; a profile acquisition unit configured to acquire a removal width profile indicating a relationship between a position in a circumferential direction of the substrate and a width of a portion of the substrate from which the film is removed; and a factor estimation unit configured to output factor information indicating a factor of an error in the width based on the removal width profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Masahide Tadokoro, Masashi Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20210378859
    Abstract: Provided is an instrument for applying heat stimulus to a target site in a human body in a convenient and efficient manner without causing trauma in a subject. A heat stimulation instrument includes a handle and a body unit, and the body unit includes an electric heater. The handle includes a vapor switch for controlling discharge of vapor, the body unit further includes a vaporizing chamber and a vapor chamber in fluid communication with the vaporizing chamber, the vapor chamber is provided with a steam expelling port passing through a bottom surface of the body unit, and the vapor switch controls such that steam passes through the vapor chamber and is discharged from the steam expelling port, the steam being formed from liquid introduced into the vaporizing chamber by being heated by the electric heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210371114
    Abstract: [Summary] [Problem] Provided are a flying object operating device, a malfunction preventing method for a flying object operating device, a flying object thrust generating device, a parachute or paraglider deploying device, and an airbag device, each capable of improving reliability in terms of safety. [Solution] A flying object igniter includes an ignition unit 11, an ignition abnormality detection unit 21 which detects an operating state of the ignition unit 11, a flight state detection unit 22 which detects a flight state of a flying object, an energizing circuit 25 which has an energizing circuit switch 25a for operating the ignition unit 11, and a calculation unit 23 which compares a detection result obtained by the ignition abnormality detection unit 21 and a detection result obtained by the flight state detection unit 22 with respective thresholds set beforehand, and turns on the energizing circuit switch 25a in accordance with the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuhiko YAGIHASHI, Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Koichi SASAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210349457
    Abstract: A vehicle controller of the automated driving vehicle capable of driverless transportation is connected with a user terminal via a communication network. The user terminal includes a terminal camera which a user who is at a desired dispatch location possesses. The automated driving vehicle includes an in-vehicle camera to capture a surrounding situation. The vehicle controller receives, from the user terminal via the communication network, a terminal camera image captured by the terminal camera from the desired dispatch location. Then, the vehicle controller identifies an image area that matches the terminal camera image from an in-vehicle camera image captured by the in-vehicle camera, and determines a pickup position capable of stopping based on positional coordinates information of the image area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kentaro Ichikawa, Akihide Tachibana, Hiroshi Nakamura, Taisuke Sugaiwa, Katsuhiro Sakai
  • Publication number: 20210347385
    Abstract: Automated drive system comprises a control device. The control device executes run control processing of the automated drive vehicle provided to a driverless transportation service. The run control processing includes carriage porch control processing. The carriage porch control processing is performed when a PUDO position of a user corresponds to a carriage porch of a facility including a zone for run and a zone for PUDO. In the carriage porch control processing, it is judged whether or not there is an empty space in the zone for PUDO. If it is judged that there is no empty space, it is judged whether or not a quick PUDO of the user in the carriage porch is expected. If it is judged that the quick PUDO is expected, a target PUDO position to perform a PUDO action of the automated drive vehicle is set to any position in the zone for run.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Akihide Tachibana, Katsuhiro Sakai, Kentaro Ichikawa, Taisuke Sugaiwa
  • Publication number: 20210331697
    Abstract: A travel control device controls traveling of a vehicle of which a traveling function can be switched between an autonomous traveling function and a following traveling function. The travel control device includes a control unit configured to detect, when the vehicle is traveling by the autonomous traveling function, another vehicle present within a predetermined range of the vehicle and of which any part or all of a planned travel route is partially or wholly the same as a planned travel route of the vehicle, and switch the traveling function of the vehicle from the autonomous traveling function to the following traveling function such that the vehicle autonomously follows the other vehicle detected as a leading vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro HARADA, Teppei NISHIGUCHI, Kazuki KOMORIYA, Tomoaki IHARA, Miyu HIGASHIMURA, Toshihiro NAKAICHI, Kazunobu OKASAKA, Ryo HATTORI, Yohei TANIGAWA, Ryohei KIMBARA, Hiroshi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210331705
    Abstract: A control device that is mounted in a second vehicle which a first vehicle having a following travel function is detachably connected to or loaded on is provided. The control device includes a control unit configured to perform: detecting another vehicle that is within a predetermined range from the second vehicle in a state in which the second vehicle has the first vehicle connected thereto or loaded thereon and of which some or all of a scheduled travel route is the same as some or all of a scheduled travel route of the first vehicle after the first vehicle has been disconnected from the second vehicle; and transmitting following instruction information to the first vehicle and disconnecting the first vehicle from the second vehicle such that the first vehicle travels with the detected other vehicle as a preceding vehicle by the following travel function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro HARADA, Teppei NISHIGUCHI, Kazuki KOMORIYA, Tomoaki IHARA, Miyu HIGASHIMURA, Toshihiro NAKAICHI, Kazunobu OKASAKA, Ryo HATTORI, Yohei TANIGAWA, Ryohei KIMBARA, Hiroshi NAKAMURA