Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Nishimura

Kazuhiro 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).

  • Publication number: 20240109503
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an attachment structure for attaching a wiring member to an instrument panel reinforcement, which is an attachment object, provided near an instrument panel. The wiring member includes a linear transmission member that transmits electricity or light, and a covering member that covers the linear transmission member. The wiring member attachment structure includes a rail member provided on the instrument panel reinforcement, and an insertion member that is provided on the covering member and inserted into the rail member. The wiring member is attached to the instrument panel reinforcement in a state in which the insertion member is inserted into the rail member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicants: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tatsumi SATO, Kazuhiro Nishimura, Hirozumi Okaniwa, Tomohiko Tateishi, Tatsuya Aida, Yuji Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 11933521
    Abstract: A hot water supply device includes a combustion part, a combustion fan, a heat exchange part, a water supply part, a hot water discharge part, and a control part. In the hot water supply device, in a pre-purge step of a heating operation, the presence or absence of a disturbance factor is determined based on rotational responsiveness and deviation of the combustion fan with respect to a scavenging rotation speed. When there is no disturbance factor, in an ignition step, detection of a failure sign is performed based on responsiveness and deviation of the combustion fan with respect to an ignition rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Hamagami, Hideyuki Okada, Kenta Yamanishi, Hisataka Hayase, Kazuhiro Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20240088813
    Abstract: An inverter in a power conversion apparatus has a series connection body of upper- and lower-arm switches. The series connection body connects in parallel to a series connection body of first and second power storage units. A rotating electric machine has a winding that is electrically connected to the inverter. A neutral-point wiring electrically connects a negative electrode side of the first power storage unit and a positive electrode side of the second power storage unit, and a neutral point of the winding. A control unit performs switching control of the upper- and lower-arm switches such that a current flows between the first power storage unit and the second power storage unit through the inverter, the winding, and the neutral-point wiring. A case houses at least the inverter and provides a shield function. At least a portion of the neutral-point wiring is housed inside the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Syusei NISHIMURA, Kazuhiro Shirakawa
  • Publication number: 20240071793
    Abstract: In a substrate processing apparatus according to the present invention, a heating mechanism for heating a substrate includes a gas discharge nozzle arranged in an internal space, a heater attached to an outer wall of a chamber, and a pipe feeding to the discharge nozzle. An observing mechanism includes a light source part and an image pickup part which are arranged at a separation position away from an attachment portion in the outer wall of the chamber. Thus, the light source part and the image pickup part become less susceptible to an effect of heat generated by the heater. In other words, it is possible to prevent the reduction in the observation accuracy due to an effect of temperature change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Shuhei NEMOTO, Kazuhiro SHOJI, Daisuke HISHITANI, Yusuke SATO, Tomomitsu NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11858352
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a case member, a stay member and a rib. The case member is supported by a frame of a vehicle body with a mount member being interposed. The stay member is suspended between a boss part of the case member and a member of a case member side in the mount member, a longitudinal direction of the stay member intersecting a longitudinal direction of the frame. The rib extends in the case member in a direction that is an extension of the longitudinal direction of the stay member at a root of the boss part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: Jatco Ltd, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Numata, Satoru Naruoka, Yusuke Ienaka, Kazuhiro Nishimura, Taku Maezono, Tatsuya Kumagai, Yutaka Okumura
  • Publication number: 20230420445
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device that enables reliable screening to be performed in a short amount of time. The semiconductor device includes a switching element, a control circuit, a Zener diode, a first terminal, and a second terminal. The switching element, the control circuit, and the Zener diode are formed in the semiconductor substrate. The control circuit controls the state of the switching element. The Zener diode includes a cathode connected to the power supply voltage line between the input terminal where the power supply voltage for driving the control circuit is inputted and the control circuit. The first terminal is provided on a main surface of the semiconductor substrate as an anode of the Zener diode. The second terminal is provided on the main surface as one of the emitter and the source of the switching element, and is insulated from the first terminal within the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto UENO, Kazuhiro NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11639799
    Abstract: A hot water supply device including an inlet pipe, an outlet pipe, a burner unit, a heat exchanger, an exhaust aperture, a first temperature sensor detecting a measured exhaust temperature of the exhaust gas, a second temperature sensor detecting a water temperature of water entering the inlet pipe, and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain an error between the measured exhaust temperature and an estimated exhaust temperature, and detects that scale clogging has occurred inside the heat exchange tubing based on an index which is generated using the error between the measured exhaust temperature and the estimated exhaust temperature. The estimated exhaust temperature is a first predetermined value that is determined using a numerical equation which has at least the water temperature of water entering the inlet pipe and a scale number of the hot water supply device as variables of the numerical equation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Iwai, Kazuhiro Nishimura, Masahiro Iguchi
  • Publication number: 20230085869
    Abstract: A hot water supplier monitoring system includes a monitoring server monitoring hot water suppliers via a communication network. The hot water supplier supplies hot water by adjusting temperature of hot water heated by a heat exchange unit using combustion heat from combustion operation. The monitoring server accumulates operation data of combustion operation transmitted from the suppliers, and predicts and notifies malfunction occurrence for each supplier based on trend of change in the data over time. The data includes number of flame quenchings of the combustion unit in combustion operation. The monitoring server divides the suppliers into groups according to installation areas, compares the number of quenchings of same period among the groups, compares with previous number of quenchings of same group, and, for a specific group determined having an abnormal number of quenchings, excludes the data determined having an abnormal number of quenchings and predicts malfunction occurrence for each supplier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Yoshida, Toshihiko Hamagami, Kazuhiro Nishimura, Hisataka Hayase
  • Publication number: 20230091101
    Abstract: A hot water supplier includes a combustion unit including multiple combustion stages; a combustion fan supplying combustion air; a fuel supply unit supplying fuel; a heat exchange unit; a water supply unit supplying hot water to heat exchange unit; a hot water tapping unit discharging hot water heated in heat exchange unit by using combustion heat obtained by burning fuel in combustion unit; and a control unit controlling heating operation. When reheating operation is allowed in which hot water from hot water tapping unit is returned to water supply unit and reheated by heat exchange unit, control unit stores heating time using only a combustion stage having minimum combustion capacity during reheating operation as time data. If this time data tends to increase over time, deterioration progress of a heat retaining material covering a hot water pipe to which hot water is supplied from hot water tapping unit is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Yoshida, Toshihiko Hamagami, Kazuhiro Nishimura, Hisataka Hayase
  • Publication number: 20230063387
    Abstract: An operation apparatus monitoring system includes an operation apparatus as a monitoring target. The operation apparatus includes a control part capable of executing control of acquiring multiple pieces of apparatus information associated with an operation status and periodically transmitting acquired data of the multiple pieces of apparatus information to a monitoring apparatus. In the control part, multiple groups are set, and data of the multiple pieces of apparatus information are grouped to belong to at least one of the multiple groups and are stored. Transmission of data of the multiple pieces of apparatus information to the monitoring apparatus is executed according to a sequence of data transmission to the monitoring apparatus determined for each group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro NISHIMURA, Kenichi NAKAYAMA, Toshihiko HAMAGAMI, Daisuke HIROTA, Hiroyuki KATSURAGAWA, Naoki TSUDA, Yoshifumi ATOBE, Michihiro KANBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11572943
    Abstract: A housing member for a power transmission device connected to a driving source via a torque converter housed in the housing member includes a torque converter side mating face closer to the torque converter. The torque converter side mating face has a single-wall structure and a double-wall structure, wherein two adjacent fastening regions are connected circumferentially by a wall in the single-wall structure, and wherein two adjacent fastening regions are connected circumferentially by each of two walls in the double-wall structure. The torque converter side mating face includes: an upper half region in which the double-wall structure has a greater proportion in area than the single-wall structure; and a lower half region in which the double-wall structure has a less proportion in area than the single-wall structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Numata, Yuuki Sakai, Yusuke Ienaka, Kazuhiro Nishimura, Tatsuya Kumagai, Masakazu Tamura
  • Publication number: 20230012134
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a metal block; a semiconductor element fixed to an upper surface of the block with a first joining material; a main terminal fixed to an upper surface of the element with a second joining material; a signal terminal electrically connected to the element; and a mold resin covers the element, the first and second joining materials, a part of the block, of the main and signal terminals. In the element, a current flows in a longitudinal direction. A lower surface of the block is exposed from the resin. The main and the signal terminals are exposed from a side surface of the resin. The main terminal has a first portion in the resin, a second portion continuous with the first portion and bent downward outside the resin, and a third portion continuous with the second portion and substantially parallel to a lower surface of the resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro ARAKI, Naoki YOSHIMATSU, Kazuhiro NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220196290
    Abstract: A hot water supply device includes a combustion part, a combustion fan, a heat exchange part, a water supply part, a hot water discharge part, and a control part. In the hot water supply device, in a pre-purge step of a heating operation, the presence or absence of a disturbance factor is determined based on rotational responsiveness and deviation of the combustion fan with respect to a scavenging rotation speed. When there is no disturbance factor, in an ignition step, detection of a failure sign is performed based on responsiveness and deviation of the combustion fan with respect to an ignition rotation speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko HAMAGAMI, Hideyuki OKADA, Kenta YAMANISHI, Hisataka HAYASE, Kazuhiro NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220196253
    Abstract: A hot water supply device including an inlet pipe, an outlet pipe, a burner unit, a heat exchanger, an exhaust aperture, a first temperature sensor detecting a measured exhaust temperature of the exhaust gas, a second temperature sensor detecting a water temperature of water entering the inlet pipe, and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain an error between the measured exhaust temperature and an estimated exhaust temperature, and detects that scale clogging has occurred inside the heat exchange tubing based on an index which is generated using the error between the measured exhaust temperature and the estimated exhaust temperature. The estimated exhaust temperature is a first predetermined value that is determined using a numerical equation which has at least the water temperature of water entering the inlet pipe and a scale number of the hot water supply device as variables of the numerical equation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke IWAI, Kazuhiro NISHIMURA, Masahiro IGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220152504
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program that causes a computer to execute a process performed in an information processing apparatus. The process includes correcting a second motion of a second object that is riding a first object that moves based on a first motion, such that a predetermined position of the second object is arranged at a predetermined position of the first object; correcting the second motion such that a posture of the second object is based on a movement of the first object or an environment; and displaying an image of the second object that is riding the first object based on the corrected second motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Hidehiko NAKAJIMA, Kazuhiro NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11333123
    Abstract: A first clamp circuit (4) clamps a voltage between a gate and a first terminal of a switching device (Q1) to equal to or lower than a first clamp voltage. A control circuit (2) controls the switching device (Q1) and includes a driving unit (5) driving the switching device (Q1), an abnormality detecting unit (9) stopping the driving unit (5) upon detection of an abnormality in operation, and a second clamp circuit (10). The second clamp circuit (10) clamps the voltage between the gate and the first terminal to equal to or lower than a second clamp voltage which is lower than the first clamp voltage when the abnormality detecting unit (9) stops the driving unit (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Ueno, Kazuhiro Nishimura, Koji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220139794
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate having: an active region through which a main current flows; and a termination region around the active region; a polyimide film disposed in the active region and the termination region; and a passivation film disposed as a film underlying the polyimide film, wherein the termination region includes, in order from a side of the active region, a breakdown voltage holding region and an outermost peripheral region, the polyimide film is disposed except for a dicing remaining portion of the outermost peripheral region, and the passivation film is disposed, as the underlying film, at least in a region where the polyimide film is disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro NISHIMURA, Makoto UENO, Shintaro ARAKI, Atsunobu KAWAMOTO, Masanori TOMIOKA
  • Publication number: 20210348681
    Abstract: A housing member for a power transmission device connected to a driving source via a torque converter housed in the housing member includes a torque converter side mating face closer to the torque converter. The torque converter side mating face has a single-wall structure and a double-wall structure, wherein two adjacent fastening regions are connected circumferentially by a wall in the single-wall structure, and wherein two adjacent fastening regions are connected circumferentially by each of two walls in the double-wall structure. The torque converter side mating face includes: an upper half region in which the double-wall structure has a greater proportion in area than the single-wall structure; and a lower half region in which the double-wall structure has a less proportion in area than the single-wall structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya NUMATA, Yuuki SAKAI, Yusuke IENAKA, Kazuhiro NISHIMURA, Tatsuya KUMAGAI, Masakazu TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210331572
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a case member, a stay member and a rib. The case member is supported by a frame of a vehicle body with a mount member being interposed. The stay member is suspended between a boss part of the case member and a member of a case member side in the mount member, a longitudinal direction of the stay member intersecting a longitudinal direction of the frame. The rib extends in the case member in a direction that is an extension of the longitudinal direction of the stay member at a root of the boss part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuya NUMATA, Satoru NARUOKA, Yusuke IENAKA, Kazuhiro NISHIMURA, Taku MAEZONO, Tatsuya KUMAGAI, Yutaka OKUMURA
  • Patent number: 11060761
    Abstract: A plate heat exchanger includes a plurality of plates stacked so that a liquid flow passage is formed on the inside thereof, and a gas flow passage through which heating gas passes, the gas flow passage being formed between the plurality of plates and including a gas inflow opening portion and a gas outflow opening portion positioned on an opposite side to the gas inflow opening portion, wherein the gas outflow opening portion has a smaller opening area than the gas inflow opening portion. Thus, when the heating gas passes through the gas flow passage, even if the volumetric flow thereof decreases due to a reduction in temperature or condensation, a reduction in the flow velocity of the heating gas can be suppressed. Hence, a reduction in a heat transfer coefficient can be suppressed, leading to an improvement in heat transfer efficiency, and as a result, reductions in overall size, weight, and manufacturing cost can be achieved appropriately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: NORITZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nishimura, Shigeo Sugie, Kenichi Nakayama