Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Nishimura
Hitoshi Nishimura 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).
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Publication number: 20240126176Abstract: A spatial light modulation unit is used in an exposure apparatus that exposes an exposure pattern onto a photosensitive substrate while moving the photosensitive substrate in a scan direction. The spatial light modulation unit includes: a spatial light modulator having a plurality of elements; a controller that controls the plurality of elements in accordance with the exposure pattern; and a SLM substrate on which the spatial light modulator and the controller are provided. The controller is arranged side by side in the scan direction with respect to the spatial light modulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhito KUBOTA, Yasushi MIZUNO, Masaki KATO, Masaki NISHIMURA, Hitoshi MIZUNO
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Patent number: 11806812Abstract: A detector is configured to detect an output of a reflected beam from an exit end surface of a parallel plate. A determination unit is configured to determine that an abnormality occurs in the parallel plate when a detection value of the detector is smaller than a determination threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi Nishio, Jingbo Wang, Hitoshi Nishimura, Motoki Morioka
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Publication number: 20230256339Abstract: The specification relates to the generation of in-game animation data and the evaluation of in-game animations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2022Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: David Wong, Hitoshi Nishimura
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Publication number: 20230256340Abstract: The specification relates to the generation of in-game animation data and the evaluation of in-game animations. According to a first aspect of this specification, there is described a computer implemented method comprising: inputting, into an encoder neural network, input data comprising a plurality of input pose parameters indicative of one or more poses of an in-game object in an animation; generating, by the encoder neural network, one or more encoded representations of the one or more poses of the in-game object from the input data; and determining a quality score for a pose of the one or more poses of an in-game object based on the one or more encoded representations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2022Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Hitoshi Nishimura, Ryan Cardinal
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Patent number: 11565345Abstract: Laser processing device (1) includes: laser-beam switching apparatus (70) that switches between a first optical path and a second optical path as an optical path along which a laser beam is to travel, the first optical path including first fiber (11), the second optical path including second fiber (21) that has a core diameter that is larger than a core diameter of first fiber (11); and processing head (80) that illuminates a same processed point on workpiece (900) with a laser beam that has passed through the first optical path or the second optical path. When illumination with laser beam that has passed through the first optical path is performed for a predetermined period of time, laser-beam switching apparatus (70) switches from the first optical path to the second optical path.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Doukei Nagayasu, Hitoshi Nishimura, Jingbo Wang, Makoto Ryudo, Masatoshi Nishio, Hideaki Yamaguchi, Yoshiaki Takenaka, Kiyotaka Eizumi, Ryo Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11473582Abstract: A package-type compressor includes a body unit, a controller, a casing, a first cooling air inlet, a second cooling air inlet, a cooling air outlet, a fan duct, a cooling fan, an air cooling type heat exchanger, a machine chamber, and a cooling duct. The cooling duct is provided below the fan duct, the cooling duct causing the cooling air taken in at the second cooling air inlet to flow along the controller toward the suction port of the fan duct. A vertical projection plane of the cooling fan overlaps the machine chamber and the cooling duct.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kosuke Sadakata, Toshikazu Harashima, Hitoshi Nishimura, Kentaro Yamamoto, Masahiko Takano
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Publication number: 20220312732Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an animal garment and an animal biological information measurement apparatus that are excellently comfortable. The animal garment includes a knitted fabric, the knitted fabric containing 2 mass % or more and 100 mass % or less of antifungal fibers, and 30 mass % or more and 100 mass % or less of fibers having a single fiber fineness of 0.3 dtex or more and 1.1 dtex or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicants: TOYOBO CO., LTD., TOYOBO STC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoko KOMATSU, Hitoshi NISHIMURA, Daichi YAMAMOTO, Shohei TOCHINO, Masahiro KOBAYASHI, Nobuhiro KURODA, Hiroyuki MORII, Yuichiro OMOTE, Hideki KAWABATA
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Patent number: 11333833Abstract: There is provided an optical axis alignment mechanism between the laser oscillator and the optical fiber. The laser oscillator emits laser light, which then emerges from the emission end of the optical fiber via the axis alignment mechanism. Part of the laser light is received on the light-receiving surface of the CCD camera of a laser light evaluator. Thus, the laser light evaluator acquires a light intensity distribution. The light intensity distribution is used by the optical axis alignment mechanism to align the axis of the laser oscillator with the axis of the optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiyotaka Eizumi, Makoto Ryudo, Doukei Nagayasu, Hitoshi Nishimura, Jingbo Wang, Masatoshi Nishio, Hideaki Yamaguchi, Yoshiaki Takenaka, Ryo Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11285564Abstract: A laser processing head includes parallel plate (17) that shifts an optical axis of a laser beam to be emitted from a top to a bottom of body case (6) from a first optical axis to a second optical axis, parallel plate (19) that shift the optical axis of the laser beam from the second optical axis to a third optical axis, and body case (6) that accommodates holders (7 and 18) that respectively hold parallel plates (17 and 19). The laser processing head further includes a rotation mechanism that rotates holders (7 and 18) around a first rotary axis. Opening (7a) that a laser beam reflected by an incident surface of second parallel plate (19) passes through is formed in holder (7), and light receiving part (6a) that receives the laser beam having passed through opening (7a) is disposed in body case (6).Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Ryudo, Doukei Nagayasu, Hitoshi Nishimura, Jingbo Wang, Masatoshi Nishio, Hideaki Yamaguchi, Yoshiaki Takenaka, Kiyotaka Eizumi, Ryo Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20210388859Abstract: A joint structure includes a first metallic material having a first projection, a second metallic material similar to and weldable to the first metallic material, and a different material having a first penetrating part and sandwiched between the first and second metallic materials, the different material being difficult to weld to the first and second metallic materials. The first projection is smaller than the first penetrating part and is spaced from the rim of the first penetrating part. The first projection is positioned in the first penetrating part and spaced from the second metallic material by a gap. The gap has a size of a predetermined percentage of the thickness of the first projection to which arc welding is applied. The first and second metallic materials are melted and joined together inside the first penetrating part to compress and fix the different material, so all three are fixed together.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2021Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Junji FUJIWARA, Atsuhiro KAWAMOTO, Hitoshi NISHIMURA, Yasushi MUKAI, Shigeki YONEMORI
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Patent number: 11113860Abstract: The present disclosure provides embodiments of a particle-based inverse kinematic analysis system. The inverse kinematic system can utilize a neural network, also referred to as a deep neural network, which utilizes machine learning processes in order to create poses that are more life-like and realistic. The system can generate prediction models using motion capture data. The motion capture data can be aggregated and analyzed in order to train the neural network. The neural network can determine rules and constraints that govern how joints and connectors of a character model move in order to create realistic motion of the character model within the game application.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.Inventors: Paolo Rigiroli, Hitoshi Nishimura
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Patent number: 11060905Abstract: A laser device includes: a laser resonator for emitting a laser beam; a condenser lens for collecting the laser beam emitted from the laser resonator; an optical fiber for transmitting the laser beam collected by the condenser lens; at least one light sensor opposing a light receiving surface of the condenser lens and outside an optical path of the laser beam, the at least one light sensor detecting an amount of return light from the condenser lens; and a controller for determining a presence of an abnormality when a value of the amount detected by the at least one light sensor is greater than a predetermined maximum threshold.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Doukei Nagayasu, Yoshiaki Takenaka, Hitoshi Nishimura, Makoto Ryudo, Kiyotaka Eizumi, Hideaki Yamaguchi, Ryo Ishikawa, Masatoshi Nishio, Takasi Kakutani, Yasushi Mukai, Mitsuru Mukai, Hiroyuki Hayashikawa
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Publication number: 20210146481Abstract: A first detector detects an output of a reflected beam from an exit end surface of a first parallel plate. A determination unit determines that an abnormality occurs in the first parallel plate when the detection value of the first detector is smaller than a predetermined determination threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Masatoshi NISHIO, Jingbo WANG, Hitoshi NISHIMURA, Motoki MORIOKA
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Patent number: 10981246Abstract: A laser welding method according to the present disclosure includes a step in which a third material is interposed between a first material and a second material, which are made of the same type of metal so as to be weldable to one another, and at least one of which is provided with a protruding portion, wherein the third material is difficult to weld to the first material and the second material and has a through-hole portion into which the protruding portion is inserted. The method also includes a step in which, when the third material is interposed between the first material and the second material, a region corresponding to the protruding portion is irradiated with a laser beam from the first material side, and the first material and the second material are welded via the through-hole portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsuhiro Kawamoto, Junji Fujiwara, Yasushi Mukai, Hitoshi Nishimura
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Publication number: 20210102540Abstract: A package-type compressor includes a body unit, a controller, a casing, a first cooling air inlet, a second cooling air inlet, a cooling air outlet, a fan duct, a cooling fan, an air cooling type heat exchanger, a machine chamber, and a cooling duct. The cooling duct is provided below the fan duct, the cooling duct causing the cooling air taken in at the second cooling air inlet to flow along the controller toward the suction port of the fan duct. A vertical projection plane of the cooling fan overlaps the machine chamber and the cooling duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Kosuke SADAKATA, Toshikazu HARASHIMA, Hitoshi NISHIMURA, Kentaro YAMAMOTO, Masahiko TAKANO
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Patent number: 10955618Abstract: A fiber coupling device (100) includes the following components: a wedge plate (102) for receiving light and refracting the light in a predetermined direction, a condenser lens (104) for collecting the light refracted by the wedge plate (102); and an optical fiber (107) having an incident surface for receiving the light collected by the condenser lens (104). The wedge plate (102) is held rotatable around the optical axis (200) of the light incident on the wedge plate (102). The light refracted by the wedge plate (102) and collected by the condenser lens (104) is incident on a different point on the incident surface depending on the rotation angle of the wedge plate (102).Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masatoshi Nishio, Hitoshi Nishimura, Jingbo Wang, Makoto Ryudo, Doukei Nagayasu, Hideaki Yamaguchi, Yoshiaki Takenaka, Kiyotaka Eizumi, Ryo Ishikawa, Yasushi Mukai
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Patent number: 10906868Abstract: A method for purifying an N-(?-alkoxyethyl)formamide contained in a mixture thereof with a plurality of distillation columns, the plurality of distillation columns being arranged serially, the method including condensing a distillate from the second or any later-stage distillation column to obtain a condensate and returning at least some of the condensate to the preceding distillation column.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Kouji Teramoto, Hitoshi Nishimura
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Patent number: 10907636Abstract: Provided is a package-type compressor that can improve cooling performance for cooling a body unit and a control panel. The package-type compressor includes: a cooling fan accommodated in a fan duct to induce a flow of cooling air taken in through inlets and discharged through an outlet; a machine chamber that causes the cooling air taken in at the inlet to flow along a body unit; and a cooling duct that causes the cooling air taken in at the inlet to flow along the control panel. A center position of the suction port of the fan duct is offset away from the inlet and toward the inlet with respect to a center position of a drive shaft of a motor of the body unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kosuke Sadakata, Toshikazu Harashima, Hitoshi Nishimura, Kentaro Yamamoto, Masahiko Takano
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Publication number: 20210024456Abstract: Provided is a production method for N-(?-alkoxyethylfrmamide, having a step (1) in which a basic catalyst stored in a catalyst supply device and formamide are mixed in a mixing tank; a step (2) in which the formamide mixed with the basic catalyst is brought in contact with acetaldehyde and N-(?-hydroxyethyl) formamide is obtained: and a step (3) in which the obtained N-(?-hydroxyethyl) formamide is brought into contact with an alcohol in presence of an acid catalyst and N-(?-alkoxyethyl)formamide is obtained. In step (1), at least part of the catalyst supply device is vibrated while the basic catalyst is supplied to the mixing tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Kouji TERAMOTO, Hitoshi NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 10899701Abstract: Provided are a method for producing N-(?-alkoxyethyl)formamide, comprising adding an acid catalyst to the mixed liquid within 3 hours from start of mixing after mixing of N-(?-hydroxyethyl)formamide with an alcohol has been started, by which the N-(?-alkoxyethyl)formamide can be produced at a high yield without additional investment in plant and equipment while suppressing an increase in the temperature of the mixed liquid and preventing corrosion of a pipe; and a method for producing N-(?-alkoxyethyl)formamide, comprising degassing carbon dioxide in the reaction of N-(?-hydroxyethyl)formamide with an alcohol, by which the N-(?-alkoxyethyl)formamide having a decreased carbonate concentration can be produced.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Kouji Teramoto, Yasuharu Mori, Hitoshi Nishimura