Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Nakaya

Hiroshi Nakaya 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: 11562719
    Abstract: A bow hair material for a bow hair of a bow of a bowed string instrument. The bow hair material includes threads constructed from poly phenylene sulfide resin. The bow material may be formed into a hair bundle that includes a plurality of threads that are substantially parallel with each other. A mounting portion may be formed by welding an end portion of the hair bundle that mounts the hair bundle on a frog or stick of the bow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nakaya
  • Publication number: 20210151013
    Abstract: A bow hair material for a bow hair of a bow of a bowed string instrument. The bow hair material includes threads constructed from poly phenylene sulfide resin. The bow material may be formed into a hair bundle that includes a plurality of threads that are substantially parallel with each other. A mounting portion may be formed by welding an end portion of the hair bundle that mounts the hair bundle on a frog or stick of the bow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventor: Hiroshi NAKAYA
  • Patent number: 10964296
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a board for a stringed instrument that is used as a top plate or a back plate of an acoustic stringed instrument such as a violin, where the board has a purfling, includes forming, for instance, a groove with a depth that is 20% or more and less than 60% of a thickness of the board for a stringed instrument, filling the groove with a resin in which, for instance, colored particles having a diameter of 3 ?m or more and less than 70 ?m are dispersed and which has a degree of elongation of 20% or more, removing the resin that has flowed out of the groove, and curing the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Soga, Toshihisa Yamazaki, Hiroshi Nakaya, Kenichi Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 10789915
    Abstract: An acoustic string instrument includes a top plate, a back plate, and a body disposed between the top plate and the back plate. The body has a plurality of first positioning portions. At least one of the top plate or the back plate, or both has a plurality of second positioning portions. The first positioning portions are fixed to the second positioning portions corresponding to the first positioning portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Soga, Toshihisa Yamazaki, Yoshiro Yamauchi, Akio Matsushima, Hiroshi Nakaya
  • Publication number: 20190333482
    Abstract: An acoustic string instrument includes a top plate, a back plate, and a body disposed between the top plate and the back plate. The body has a plurality of first positioning portions. At least one of the top plate or the back plate, or both has a plurality of second positioning portions. The first positioning portions are fixed to the second positioning portions corresponding to the first positioning portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Soga KAZUKI, Toshihisa YAMAZAKI, Yoshiro YAMAUCHI, Akio MATSUSHIMA, Hiroshi NAKAYA
  • Publication number: 20190325850
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a board for a stringed instrument that is used as a top plate or a back plate of an acoustic stringed instrument such as a violin, where the board has a purfling, includes forming, for instance, a groove with a depth that is 20% or more and less than 60% of a thickness of the board for a stringed instrument, filling the groove with a resin in which, for instance, colored particles having a diameter of 3 ?m or more and less than 70 ?m are dispersed and which has a degree of elongation of 20% or more, removing the resin that has flowed out of the groove, and curing the resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuki SOGA, Toshihisa YAMAZAKI, Hiroshi NAKAYA, Kenichi MIYAZAWA
  • Patent number: 9666168
    Abstract: A board for a stringed instrument which forms a front plate or a back plate of a stringed instrument, includes: a laminated plate that is obtained by laminating a plurality of veneers having a uniform thickness by an adhesive, at least one of the veneers having a different planar shape than the other veneers, in which the laminated plate is curved to be convex toward one surface side and has a thin portion and a thick portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Soga, Toshihisa Yamazaki, Tatsuya Hiraku, Hiroshi Nakaya, Kenichi Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 9406285
    Abstract: A board for a stringed instrument which forms a front plate or a back plate of a stringed instrument, includes: a veneer that includes a concave portion for partially reducing the thickness of the veneer, in which the veneer is curved to be convex toward one surface side. In this board for a stringed instrument, fiber of the veneer may extend along the curved shape of the veneer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Soga, Toshihisa Yamazaki, Tatsuya Hiraku, Hiroshi Nakaya, Kenichi Miyazawa
  • Publication number: 20150107435
    Abstract: A board for a stringed instrument which forms a front plate or a back plate of a stringed instrument, includes: a laminated plate that is obtained by laminating a plurality of veneers having a uniform thickness by an adhesive, at least one of the veneers having a different planar shape than the other veneers, in which the laminated plate is curved to be convex toward one surface side and has a thin portion and a thick portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuki Soga, Toshihisa Yamazaki, Tatsuya Hiraku, Hiroshi Nakaya, Kenichi Miyazawa
  • Publication number: 20150107434
    Abstract: A board for a stringed instrument which forms a front plate or a back plate of a stringed instrument, includes: a veneer that includes a concave portion for partially reducing the thickness of the veneer, in which the veneer is curved to be convex toward one surface side. In this board for a stringed instrument, fiber of the veneer may extend along the curved shape of the veneer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: KAZUKI SOGA, Toshihisa Yamazaki, Tatsuya Hiraku, Hiroshi Nakaya, Kenichi Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 8383921
    Abstract: A stick of a string instrument bow includes a base material having an arched-rod shaped carbon fiber resin layer made of carbon fiber resin and a glass fiber resin layer which covers the outer surface of the carbon fiber resin layer and is made of glass fiber resin, and the glass fiber resin layer has a non-adhesion portion formed of an air layer present within the glass fiber resin layer and an adhesion portion which does not include the air layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Yamamoto, Hiroshi Nakaya, Tatsuya Hiraku, Toshiharu Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20110247475
    Abstract: A stick of a string instrument bow includes a base material having an arched-rod shaped carbon fiber resin layer made of carbon fiber resin and a glass fiber resin layer which covers the outer surface of the carbon fiber resin layer and is made of glass fiber resin, and the glass fiber resin layer has a non-adhesion portion formed of an air layer present within the glass fiber resin layer and an adhesion portion which does not include the air layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Yamamoto, Hiroshi Nakaya, Tatsuya Hiraku, Toshiharu Fukushima
  • Patent number: 6835651
    Abstract: After a wiring material layer (14) which is made of WSi2 or the like is formed on an insulation film covering a semiconductor substrate (10), a first antireflection coating film (16) which is made of TiON or TiN and a second antireflection coating film (18) which is made of an organic material are sequentially formed on the wiring material layer (14). Resist patterns (20a to 20c) are formed on the second antireflection coating film (18) by photolithography. The dry etching of the second antireflection coating film (18) is performed using the resist patterns (20a to 20c) as masks, after which the dry etching of the first antireflection coating film (16) is conducted using the resist patterns (20a to 20c) and patterns (18a to 18c) of the second antireflection coating film (18) as masks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Suguru Tabara, Hiroshi Nakaya
  • Patent number: 6791023
    Abstract: An electric violin has a combination of two sorts of vibration detectors for transverse vibration components and vertical vibration components, a low-pass filter connected to the vibration detector for the transverse vibration components and a high-pass filter connected to the vibration detector for the vertical vibration components, piezoelectric transducers connected in parallel to a signal processing system, or vibration detectors connected to filter circuits different in frequency characteristics for producing right-channel and left-channel signals so that the electric violin generate electric tones close to acoustic violin tones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nakaya
  • Publication number: 20030094094
    Abstract: An electric violin has a combination of two sorts of vibration detectors for transverse vibration components and vertical vibration components, a low-pass filter connected to the vibration detector for the transverse vibration components and a high-pass filter connected to the vibration detector for the vertical vibration components, piezoelectric transducers connected in parallel to a signal processing system, or vibration detectors connected to filter circuits different in frequency characteristics for producing right-channel and left-channel signals so that the electric violin generate electric tones close to acoustic violin tones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nakaya
  • Publication number: 20030029035
    Abstract: After a wiring material layer (14) which is made of WSi2 or the like is formed on an insulation film covering a semiconductor substrate (10), a first antireflection coating film (16) which is made of TiON or TiN and a second antireflection coating film (18) which is made of an organic material are sequentially formed on the wiring material layer (14). Resist patterns (20a to 20c) are formed on the second antireflection coating film (18) by photolithography. The dry etching of the second antireflection coating film (18) is performed using the resist patterns (20a to 20c) as masks, after which the dry etching of the first antireflection coating film (16) is conducted using the resist patterns (20a to 20c) and patterns (18a to 18c) of the second antireflection coating film (18) as masks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Applicant: Yamaha Corp.
    Inventors: Suguru Tabara, Hiroshi Nakaya
  • Patent number: 6509261
    Abstract: After a wiring material layer (14) which is made of WSi2 or the like is formed on an insulation film covering a semiconductor substrate (10), a first antireflection coating film (18) which is made of TiON or TiN and a second antireflection coating film (18) which is made of an organic material are sequentially formed on the wiring material layer (14). Resist patterns (20a to 20c) are formed on the second antireflection coating film (18) by photolithography. The dry etching of the second antireflection coating film (18) is performed using the resist patterns (20a to 20c) as masks, after which the dry etching of the first antireflection coating film (16) is conducted using the resist patterns (20a to 20c) and patterns (18a to 18c) of the second antireflection coating film (18) as masks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Suguru Tabara, Hiroshi Nakaya
  • Patent number: D810642
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakaya, Shinichi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: D950474
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Matsuo, Hiroshi Nakaya
  • Patent number: D963541
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Matsuo, Hiroshi Nakaya