Patents by Inventor Kazunori Nishimura
Kazunori 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: 20150168209Abstract: An acoustic wave element includes a piezoelectric substrate, an excitation electrode configured to excite and output a main acoustic wave on the piezoelectric substrate, a receiving electrode configured to receive the main acoustic wave, a propagation path configured to allow the main acoustic wave to propagate along the piezoelectric substrate between the excitation electrode and the receiving electrode, and a sensing portion configured to react to an object substance. The propagation path is configured to allow the main acoustic wave to pass plural times through the sensing portion along the propagation path. This acoustic wave element has high sensitivity to the object substance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., LtInventors: Shigeru Tsuzuki, Kazunori NISHIMURA, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Tomohiro Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20150162118Abstract: In a metal powder core constructed from soft magnetic material powder and a coil component employing this, a configuration suitable for reduction of a core loss is provided. The metal powder core constructed from soft magnetic material powder is characterized in that Cu is dispersed among the soft magnetic material powder. It is characterized in that, preferably, the soft magnetic material powder is pulverized powder of soft magnetic alloy ribbon and that Cu is dispersed among the pulverized powder of soft magnetic alloy ribbon. Further, it is characterized in that, preferably, the soft magnetic alloy ribbon is a Fe-based nano crystal alloy ribbon or a Fe-based alloy ribbon showing a Fe-based nano crystalline structure and that the pulverized powder has a nano crystalline structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Inventors: Tetsuro Kato, Shin Noguchi, Kazunori Nishimura
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Patent number: 9035725Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, an interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode provided on an upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate, a first dielectric film covering the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate to cover the IDT electrode, and a second dielectric film covering an upper surface of the first dielectric film. The second dielectric film includes a thin portion positioned in a tip region of electrode fingers of the IDT electrode and a thick portion which is positioned in a middle region of the IDT electrode and is thicker than the thin portion. The acoustic wave device suppresses spurious emission and has superior passband characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2014Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoya Komatsu, Tomohiro Iwasaki, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Masahiro Yasumi, Kazunori Nishimura
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Patent number: 8994472Abstract: An antenna duplexer includes first and second filters connected to an antenna terminal. The first filter has a passband of a low frequency band. The second filter has a passband of a high frequency band. The second filter is a ladder-type filter including series-arm resonators and parallel-arm resonators. At least one parallel-arm resonator out of the parallel-arm resonators has a main resonance and an auxiliary resonance. Attenuation poles caused by the main resonance and the auxiliary resonance are within the low frequency band. This antenna duplexer has a high attenuation characteristic and a high isolation characteristic while maintaining a low insertion loss.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Toru Yamaji, Kazunori Nishimura, Joji Fujiwara, Hiroyuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 8996259Abstract: An engine control device for a forklift that suppresses an increase in fuel consumption amount and noise by limiting an engine rotation speed when the forklift is driven without the need to increase the engine speed according to the accelerator operation even when the accelerator is depressed hard. Determining means in a controller determines whether all of the following conditions are satisfied: a neutral position of the traveling direction instructing means; a lift raising switch and first, second and third attachment switches are turned off. When all of the above conditions are satisfied, it is determined whether the forklift is driven in any of a plurality of states. An engine control means generates and outputs a control command to obtain the engine speed based on the accelerator pedal depression with the upper limit value of the engine speed set as an upper limit value of the engine speed.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Kaneko, Yoshitaka Onodera, Jun Hashimoto, Hideyuki Hiraiwa, Kazunori Nishimura
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Publication number: 20140285287Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, an interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode provided on an upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate, a first dielectric film covering the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate to cover the IDT electrode, and a second dielectric film covering an upper surface of the first dielectric film. The second dielectric film includes a thin portion positioned in a tip region of electrode fingers of the IDT electrode and a thick portion which is positioned in a middle region of the IDT electrode and is thicker than the thin portion. The acoustic wave device suppresses spurious emission and has superior passband characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: TOMOYA KOMATSU, TOMOHIRO IWASAKI, HIROYUKI NAKAMURA, MASAHIRO YASUMI, KAZUNORI NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 8788156Abstract: Predetermined torque characteristics are obtained by multiplying by a predetermined ratio that is less than 100%, the upper value of engine output torque from the engine output torque line, for at least part of the range of engine rotation speed. Torque upper value information defines the upper value of engine output torque that changes in conformance with vehicle speed and tractive farce. When predetermined conditions for determination are satisfied, an engine output torque control part controls engine output torque based on torque upper value information. The predetermined conditions for determination at the least include that a travel condition is forward travel, that a work condition is laden condition and that a raise operation is being performed by the working machine. When the predetermined conditions for determination are not satisfied the engine output torque control part controls engine output torque based on predetermined torque characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventor: Kazunori Nishimura
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Publication number: 20140144237Abstract: An acoustic wave sensor includes a piezoelectric substrate, a transmitting electrode configured to excite a main acoustic wave propagating through a propagation region of an upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate, a receiving electrode configured to receive the propagated main acoustic wave, a first insulating film provided on the propagation region of the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate, a second insulating film provided on the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate to cover the first insulating film, and a reaction section provided on the upper surface of the second insulating film above the propagation region. The reaction section is configured to react with an object. A velocity of a transverse wave propagating through the first insulating film is higher than a velocity of a transverse wave propagating through the second insulating film. The acoustic wave sensor described above has high detection sensitivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Inventors: Tomoya Komatsu, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Shigeru Tsuzuki, Tomohiro Iwasaki, Tetsuo Kawasaki, Kazunori Nishimura
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Patent number: 8723620Abstract: An antenna sharer with both low loss and sharp attenuation characteristic in a wide band is achieved. Antennal sharer 1 of the present invention includes first filter 3 for passing a signal in the first frequency band, and second filter 4 for passing a signal in the second frequency band higher than the first frequency band. First filter 3 includes a ladder filter that includes first series resonator 6 and second series resonator 7 with an antiresonant frequency point higher than antiresonant frequency of first series resonator. Electromechanical coupling coefficient of first series resonator 6 is smaller than electromechanical coupling coefficient of second series resonator 7.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2010Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kazunori Nishimura, Toru Jibu, Tetsuya Tsurunari
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Publication number: 20140129114Abstract: Predetermined torque characteristics are obtained by multiplying by a predetermined ratio that is less than 100%, the upper value of engine output torque from the engine output torque line, for at least part of the range of engine rotation speed. Torque upper value information defines the upper value of engine output torque that changes in conformance with vehicle speed and tractive farce. When predetermined conditions for determination are satisfied, an engine output torque control part controls engine output torque based on torque upper value information. The predetermined conditions for determination at the least include that a travel condition is forward travel, that a work condition is laden condition and that a raise operation is being performed by the working machine. When the predetermined conditions for determination are not satisfied the engine output torque control part controls engine output torque based on predetermined torque characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventor: Kazunori Nishimura
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Publication number: 20140113571Abstract: An electronic device includes a main circuit connected between an input terminal and an output terminal, and an auxiliary circuit connected in parallel to the main circuit between the input terminal and the output terminal. The main circuit includes a filter having a first passband and a stopband. The auxiliary circuit has a passing characteristic that allows a signal having a frequency in a certain frequency band inside the stopband to pass through the auxiliary circuit. The main circuit is configured to output a main signal in response to an input signal. The auxiliary circuit is configured to output an auxiliary signal in response to the input signal. The main signal and the auxiliary signal contain phase components opposite to each other in the certain frequency band inside the stopband. This electronic device has an attenuation amount in the stopband.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: JOJI FUJIWARA, TORU JIBU, TOMOYA KOMATSU, HIROYUKI NAKAMURA, TETSUYA TSURUNARI, KAZUNORI NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20140070906Abstract: An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a pair of reflectors disposed on the piezoelectric substrate along the propagation direction of an elastic wave, and first to fifth comb electrode pairs disposed in this order between the pair of reflectors. Ground comb electrodes of adjacent comb electrode pairs are connected by an even number of connection electrode fingers or by an odd number of connection electrode fingers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2012Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Ikeuchi, Kazunori Nishimura
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Publication number: 20140049341Abstract: A multimode elastic wave device includes a pair of reflectors, and a first interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode through a fifth IDT electrode arranged between the pair of reflectors. In this configuration, each of the average of electrode-finger pitches in the first IDT electrode and the average of electrode-finger pitches in the fifth IDT electrode is smaller than both of the average of electrode-finger pitches in the second IDT electrode and the average of electrode-finger pitches in the fourth IDT electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoya Komatsu, Joji Fujiwara, Tetsuya Tsurunari, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Kazunori Nishimura
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Publication number: 20130141189Abstract: An elastic wave device includes a first unbalanced terminal, a second unbalanced terminal, a first balanced terminal, a second balanced terminal, a first filter part, and a second filter part. A phase of an electric signal transmitted from first unbalanced terminal to the first balanced terminal in the first filter part is different from a phase of an electric signal transmitted from the second unbalanced terminal to the first balanced terminal in the second filter part. A phase of an electric signal transmitted from the first unbalanced terminal to the second balanced terminal in the first filter part is different from a phase of an electric signal transmitted from the second unbalanced terminal to the second balanced terminal in the second filter part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazunori Nishimura, Satoru Ikeuchi
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Patent number: 8447477Abstract: A control device of a forklift engine that secures operability by keeping down fuel consumption when the accelerator pedal is floored in an unloaded or lightly loaded state, and once a heavy cargo is loaded, by lifting the cargo at a maximum lifting speed and traveling with maximum travel performance without acceleration problems. At least two maximum torque curves of different magnitudes are set in advance on a torque curve diagram. Then, the weight the cargo loaded on an attachment is measured. A threshold value for selecting at least two maximum torque curves is determined. If the measured weight is less than the threshold value, the maximum torque curve with a smaller maximum torque value is selected. If the measured weight is not less than the threshold value, the maximum torque curve with a larger maximum torque value is selected. The engine is controlled using the selected maximum torque curve.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Harada, Yoshitaka Onodera, Jun Hashimoto, Hideyuki Hiraiwa, Kazunori Nishimura
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Publication number: 20130089399Abstract: An engine control device for a forklift that suppresses an increase in fuel consumption amount and noise by limiting an engine rotation speed when the forklift is driven without the need to increase the engine speed according to the accelerator operation even when the accelerator is depressed hard. Determining means in a controller determines whether all of the following conditions are satisfied: a neutral position of the traveling direction instructing means; a lift raising switch and first, second and third attachment switches are turned off. When all of the above conditions are satisfied, it is determined whether the forklift is driven in any of a plurality of states. An engine control means generates and outputs a control command to obtain the engine speed based on the accelerator pedal depression with the upper limit value of the engine speed set as an upper limit value of the engine speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2011Publication date: April 11, 2013Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Shinji Kaneko, Yoshitaka Onodera, Jun Hashimoto, Hideyuki Hiraiwa, Kazunori Nishimura
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Publication number: 20130073152Abstract: A control device of a forklift engine that secures operability by keeping down fuel consumption when the accelerator pedal is floored in an unloaded or lightly loaded state, and once a heavy cargo is loaded, by lifting the cargo at a maximum lifting speed and traveling with maximum travel performance without acceleration problems. At least two maximum torque curves of different magnitudes are set in advance on a torque curve diagram. Then, the weight the cargo loaded on an attachment is measured. A threshold value for selecting at least two maximum torque curves is determined. If the measured weight is less than the threshold value, the maximum torque curve with a smaller maximum torque value is selected. If the measured weight is not less than the threshold value, the maximum torque curve with a larger maximum torque value is selected. The engine is controlled using the selected maximum torque curve.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Yasuo Harada, Yoshitaka Onodera, Jun Hashimoto, Hideyuki Hiraiwa, Kazunori Nishimura
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Publication number: 20120188026Abstract: An antenna duplexer includes first and second filters connected to an antenna terminal. The first filter has a passband of a low frequency band. The second filter has a passband of a high frequency band. The second filter is a ladder-type filter including series-arm resonators and parallel-arm resonators. At least one parallel-arm resonator out of the parallel-arm resonators has a main resonance and an auxiliary resonance. Attenuation poles caused by the main resonance and the auxiliary resonance are within the low frequency band. This antenna duplexer has a high attenuation characteristic and a high isolation characteristic while maintaining a low insertion loss.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Inventors: Toru YAMAJI, Kazunori NISHIMURA, Joji FUJIWARA, Hiroyuki NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 8154171Abstract: A boundary acoustic wave device includes a first medium layer made of piezoelectric material, a second medium layer provided on the first medium layer, a third medium layer provided on the second medium layer, and an electrode provided at an interface between the second and third medium layers. The electrode drives the third medium layer to generate a transverse wave. A propagation speed of the transverse wave in the third medium layer is lower than a propagation speed of the transverse wave in the first medium layer. A propagation speed of the transverse wave in the second medium layer is lower than the propagation speed of the transverse wave in the first medium layer. This boundary acoustic wave device has a large electro-mechanical coupling coefficient.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kazunori Nishimura, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Hidekazu Nakanishi, Ryouichi Takayama, Takashi Inoue
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Publication number: 20120032753Abstract: An antenna sharer with both low loss and sharp attenuation characteristic in a wide band is achieved. Antennal sharer 1 of the present invention includes first filter 3 for passing a signal in the first frequency band, and second filter 4 for passing a signal in the second frequency band higher than the first frequency band. First filter 3 includes a ladder filter that includes first series resonator 6 and second series resonator 7 with an antiresonant frequency point higher than antiresonant frequency of first series resonator. Electromechanical coupling coefficient of first series resonator 6 is smaller than electromechanical coupling coefficient of second series resonator 7.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2010Publication date: February 9, 2012Inventors: Kazunori Nishimura, Toru Jibu, Tetsuya Tsurunari