Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Nakashima

Hiroshi Nakashima 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: 11979724
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm includes a mixed layer. The mixed layer includes cellulose nanofibers, and polyparaphenylenebenzobisoxazole fibers. An average length of the polyparaphenylenebenzobisoxazole fibers is 0.5 mm or more and 4.0 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakashima, Tsunenori Sano
  • Publication number: 20240145112
    Abstract: Conductive polymer fibers 10, in which a conductor 12 containing a conductive polymer impregnates and/or adheres to base fibers 11, and the aforementioned conductive polymer is PEDOT-PSS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Akiyoshi SHIMADA, Koji SUMITOMO, Keiichi TORIMITSU
  • Patent number: 11974110
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm includes a first polymer and a second polymer. The first polymer and the second polymer undergo phase separation. The first polymer is a polyolefin, and the second polymer is a thermoplastic resin being immiscible with the polyolefin. One of either the polyolefin or the thermoplastic resin constitutes a sea phase, and another one of either the polyolefin or the thermoplastic resin constitutes island phases being interspersed in the sea phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakashima, Eiji Abe, Kunio Hiyama
  • Patent number: 11927558
    Abstract: Provided is a microelectrode having a layered structure, including a layer containing a polymer compound having an aromatic ring (polymer compound layer) and a layer containing a conductive material (conductive layer), wherein a thickness of the polymer compound layer is 10 to 900 nm, a thickness of the conductive layer is 0.3 to 10 nm, and the microelectrode has a three-dimensional curved shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuhiko Teshima, Yuko Ueno, Yui Ogawa, Yoshiaki Kashimura, Satoshi Sasaki, Shengnan Wang, Makoto Takamura, Hiroshi Nakashima
  • Patent number: 11919366
    Abstract: A target thermal sensation setter sets target thermal sensations for a finite number of parts into which the occupant is virtually divided. A cabin temperature controller individually controls a cabin air-conditioning unit and an auxiliary heater so that the thermal sensations of the respective parts of the occupant estimated by an occupant thermal sensation estimator fall within a range of the target thermal sensations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., JAPAN CLIMATE SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensaku Saitou, Kou Komori, Mio Furui, Yu Nakashima, Hiroshi Hamamoto, Yoichi Miyazaki, Hideaki Nishii, Hiroaki Shigenaka
  • Patent number: 11866173
    Abstract: Provided is a G tolerance improvement device provided with: an estimation unit that estimates either or both of a body fluid volume in the head of a user and a change amount of the body fluid volume; and a pressurization unit that applies pressure to the user on the basis of either or both of the body fluid volume and the change amount estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima
  • Patent number: 11862359
    Abstract: Conductive polymer fibers 10, in which a conductor 12 containing a conductive polymer impregnates and/or adheres to base fibers 11, and the aforementioned conductive polymer is PEDOT-PSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima, Akiyoshi Shimada, Koji Sumitomo, Keiichi Torimitsu
  • Publication number: 20230416665
    Abstract: A three-dimensional structure including a polymer film having a plurality of layers, wherein a microparticle is encapsulated in an internal space of the three-dimensional structure and each layer of the polymer film having the plurality of layers has mechanical strengths different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuhiko TESHIMA, Yuko UENO, Satoshi SASAKI, Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Touichiro GOTO
  • Patent number: 11716570
    Abstract: A speaker diaphragm includes a first lamination region and a second lamination region. In the first lamination region, a plurality of layers are laminated in a thickness direction of the speaker diaphragm. In the second lamination region, a plurality of layers different in number from the plurality of layers in the first lamination region are laminated. The second lamination region is different from first lamination region in average density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakashima, Tsunenori Sano
  • Publication number: 20230197316
    Abstract: A composite wiring includes: elastic wiring comprising an elastic tube, a conductor wire disposed inside the tube, and fixing portions that fix the conductor wire and the tube together at both ends of the tube in the lengthwise direction thereof, the length of the conductor wire between the fixing portions when the tube is in an unextended state being longer than the length of the tube between the fixing portions; other wiring separate from the elastic wiring; and a connection member that connects the conductor wire of the elastic wiring and a conductor wire of the other wiring by caulking in a state of being brought into contact with each other, the connection member having an interior section sealed in a watertight manner with a sealing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11678827
    Abstract: A composite wiring includes a plurality of pieces of wiring accommodated and gathered together within an elastic sheath, wherein at least one of the pieces of wiring is elastic wiring including an elastic tube, a conductor wire arranged within the tube, and fixing portions for fixing the conductor wire and the tube at both ends of the tube in the lengthwise direction thereof, the length of the conductor wire between the fixing portions when the tube is in an unextended state being longer than the length of the tube between the fixing portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima
  • Patent number: 11666244
    Abstract: A foot sole pressure measurement instrument includes a measurement unit which is installed on a foot sole part of a subject and measures a pressure applied to the foot sole part of the subject, and an output unit configured to output data of the measured pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignees: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima, Nahoko Kasai, Hideo Hatta
  • Publication number: 20230131150
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a loss-of-consciousness estimation apparatus including: a ventricular state estimation unit configured to estimate whether or not a ventricular state of an estimation target is normal in a predetermined repetition cycle, based on a cerebral blood flow correlation amount time series, which is a time series of an amount correlated with a cerebral blood flow rate of the estimation target; a measurement reliability estimation unit configured to estimate reliability of the cerebral blood flow correlation amount time series; and a loss-of-consciousness probability acquisition unit configured to, based on the reliability, the estimation result of the ventricular state estimation unit, and elapsed time after a probability acquisition start time, which is a time at which it is first determined by the ventricular state estimation unit that the ventricular state is not normal after an estimation start time, which is a time of starting the repetition cycle, acquire a loss-of-consciou
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Kentaro TANAKA, Toichiro GOTO
  • Publication number: 20230119323
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a loss-of-consciousness estimation apparatus including: an out-of-range data determination unit configured to execute out-of-range data determination processing for, using an amount correlated with a cerebral blood flow rate of an estimation target as a cerebral blood flow correlation amount, a time series of the cerebral blood flow correlation amount as a cerebral blood flow correlation amount time series, and a position in a time axis direction of data of the cerebral blood flow correlation amount time series as a time position, determining whether or not the cerebral blood flow correlation amount indicated by each piece of the data is out of range of a threshold region, which is a range corresponding to the time position of each piece of the data, based on the cerebral blood flow correlation amount time series; and a ventricular state estimation unit configured to estimate a ventricular state of the estimation target based on the determination result of the out-of-rang
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Kentaro TANAKA, Toichiro GOTO
  • Patent number: 11628336
    Abstract: An exercise rating and improvement system comprising: a feature amount extraction unit for extracting, from information obtained from a subject, a feature amount about exercise efficiency; an rating unit for rating exercise efficiency of the subject by comparing the extracted feature amount and a feature amount to be compared; and an improvement information providing unit for providing, on the basis of the rating result, information such that the feature amount of the subject approaches the feature amount to be compared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima, Tetsuomi Sogawa
  • Patent number: 11625603
    Abstract: A learning-type signal separation method performed using a model formulation unit, which performs learning processing based on a training-use signal including a specific component, and a training-use signal not including the specific component, the training-use signals including a common characteristic. The learning-type signal separation method includes: generating learned data by causing the model formulation unit to perform learning processing based on the training-use signal and information indicating whether or not the specific component is included in the training-use signal, to generate a data series signal in which the specific component has been separated and removed from a data series of the training-use signal; acquiring an arbitrary signal including the common characteristic; and generating, based on the acquired arbitrary signal and the generated learned data, a data series signal in which the specific component has been separated and removed from a data series of the arbitrary signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Kurasawa, Takayuki Ogasawara, Masumi Yamaguchi, Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima, Takahiro Hata, Nobuhiko Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11610701
    Abstract: A composite wiring includes: elastic wiring comprising an elastic tube, a conductor wire disposed inside the tube, and fixing portions that fix the conductor wire and the tube together at both ends of the tube in the lengthwise direction thereof, the length of the conductor wire between the fixing portions when the tube is in an unextended state being longer than the length of the tube between the fixing portions; other wiring separate from the elastic wiring; and a connection member that connects the conductor wire of the elastic wiring and a conductor wire of the other wiring by caulking in a state of being brought into contact with each other, the connection member having an interior section sealed in a watertight manner with a sealing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20230059586
    Abstract: This cooling apparatus includes a tube (10) having an opening portion (10a) in one end portion in a longitudinal direction thereof, a cap (30) capable of opening/closing the opening portion (10a), a non-freezing drinkable coolant (20) that fills the tube (10), and a container (50) that contains the tube (10) filled with the coolant (20). The tube has a constricted portion (10d) having a reduced inner diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Takayuki OGASAWARA, Kentaro TANAKA, Toichiro GOTO
  • Publication number: 20220379111
    Abstract: The present biological electrode includes a conductive fabric (2) formed of base fibers which are filled with a conductor and/or to which the conductor is adhered, a thin metallic wire (3) formed into a spiral shape and connected with the conductive fabric (2) at a distal end of the thin metallic wire, and a filling material (5) with which a gap between the conductive fabric (2) and the thin metallic wire (3) is filled and which supports the conductive fabric (2) and the thin metallic wire (3), the conductive fabric (2) is supported in a roll shape, and the conductor is electrically connected with the thin metallic wire (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Tetsuhiko TESHIMA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220355103
    Abstract: The present biological electrode includes a conductive fabric (2) formed of base fibers which are filled with a conductor and/or to which the conductor is adhered, a thin metallic wire (3) formed into a spiral shape and covered with the conductive fabric (2) from a side of a distal end in an axis direction, and a filling material (5) with which a gap between the conductive fabric (2) and the thin metallic wire (3) is filled and which supports the conductive fabric (2) and the thin metallic wire (3), and he conductor is electrically connected with the thin metallic wire (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Tetsuhiko TESHIMA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA