Patents by Inventor Kazunobu Nakamura

Kazunobu 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: 20240154347
    Abstract: A connector unit includes a connector housing that has a front plate portion and two or more through-holes penetrating the front plate portion and communicating with an inside of the connector housing, two through-holes of the two or more through-holes are separately positioned at two vertexes, opposed to each other, of a rectangular surrounding an opening portion in the front plate portion, and when the connector unit is disposed, one of the two through-holes is situated on an upper side from the opening portion and serves as a cap attachment hole, and the other of the two through-holes is situated on a lower side from the opening portion and serves as a drain hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Teng LI, Kazunobu NAKAMURA, Naoki IWAO
  • Publication number: 20240154348
    Abstract: A connector unit includes a cap that is attached to a connector housing and openably and closably covers an opening portion, the cap including an L-shaped arm made of an elastic material and having a support portion, a bent portion, and a hook portion, the cap being retained by the connector housing with the support portion being passed through a cap attachment hole of the connector housing, the support portion and the hook portion each have a thickness dimension smaller than a dimension of the cap attachment hole, a maximum dimension of the bent portion is larger than the dimension of the cap attachment hole, and the hook portion has a length dimension larger than the dimension of the cap attachment hole when viewed in a direction perpendicular to a plane including the support portion, the bent portion, and the hook portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Teng LI, Naoki IWAO, Kazunobu NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11938970
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: 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: 20220397947
    Abstract: Each of a feeding unit and a connector unit is provided with power supply ports and ground ports. In at least one of a connection of the power supply ports of the feeding unit and the power supply ports of the connector unit and a connection of the ground ports of the feeding unit and the ground ports of the connector unit, the number of parallel lines in at least a partial section is changed according to a length of the connection. In this way, a voltage drop between the feeding unit and the connector unit is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Kazunobu NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: D467653
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Inventors: Robin Scott, William R. Daws, Kazunobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: D470912
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Quality Products, Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Daws, Kazunobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: D417254
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Quality Products, Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Daws, Kazunobu Nakamura