Patents by Inventor Ken A. Nishimura

Ken A. 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: 20240126935
    Abstract: A data processing system according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit and a production unit. The acquisition unit acquires on-site investigation data related to the space. The production unit changes, with respect to article data of the article to be placed in the space, at least one of a dimension, design, and a function on the basis of the on-site investigation data so as to achieve harmony with the space and produces article processing data for processing the article according to the article data after the change. The on-site investigation data includes space-related data related to the space. The production unit produces the article processing data on the basis of the space-related data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Youji URANO, Yoshinori NISHIMURA, Tomokazu KUSUNOKI, Kazuo NISHIMURA, Ken UENO, Tomohiro NAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20240096968
    Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to impart desired high frequency characteristics to a nitride semiconductor device including diamond as a substrate at a low cost. In the nitride semiconductor device according to the present disclosure, a via hole extends from a first main surface of a diamond layer through the diamond layer, an intermediate layer, and a nitride semiconductor layer to an electrode. The via hole has a multi-step structure including a large-diameter via hole being in contact with the first main surface of the diamond layer and a small-diameter via hole facing the electrode, having a smaller diameter than the large-diameter via hole, and being tapered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ken IMAMURA, Shuichi HIZA, Kunihiko NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11933913
    Abstract: A method of emulating echo signals reflected from an elongated target during radar testing includes identifying first and second end points do the target; acquiring a radar signal from a radar sensor that includes multiple receive elements; generating emulated echo signals, responsive to the acquired radar signal, corresponding to target points on the target, including the first and second end points and reference points located on a line connecting the first and second end points, by repeatedly identifying descriptive attributes corresponding to each of the target points during an integration period of the radar sensor, where the descriptive attributes are identified by interpolating between the corresponding descriptive attributes of the first and second end points; and applying the emulated echo signals to the receive elements of the radar sensor, respectively, during the integration period, where radar sensor calculates a relative position of the target using the descriptive attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Ken A. Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20230280382
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus is provided for measuring signals from a device under test (DUT). The measurement apparatus includes a time domain receiver configured to receive from the DUT a time domain signal in a time domain; a logic domain receiver configured to receive from the DUT a logical signal comprising logic levels over time; a frequency domain receiver configured to receive from the DUT a frequency domain signal in a frequency domain through frequency downconversion; and a controller coupled to the logic domain receiver, and configured to determine the logic levels over time of the logical signal and to control at least one parameter of the frequency domain signal in response to the determined logic levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: Ken A. Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11686750
    Abstract: An oscilloscope includes a time domain input, a logic domain input, and a frequency domain input. The time domain input provides a time domain input signal in a time domain as a first input signal. The logic domain input provides logic level input as a second input signal. The logic level input includes logic levels over time. The frequency domain input provides a third input signal through frequency downconversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Ken A. Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11674733
    Abstract: A cold insulation container includes: a cold insulation storage including a coolant vessel; a circulating air fan that causes cold air from the coolant vessel to circulate in the cold insulation storage; a thermoelectric generating module attached to an outer surface of the coolant vessel; and a temperature controller that adjusts a temperature in the cold insulation storage. A temperature difference between the coolant vessel and circulating cold air in the cold insulation storage causes the temperature controller and the circulating air fan to be driven by thermoelectric power generated by the thermoelectric generating module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: E-ThermoGentek Co., Ltd., All NIPPON AIRWAYS TRADING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko Ikemura, Michio Okajima, Keiichi Ohata, Shutaro Nambu, Ken Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20230040622
    Abstract: There is provided a mutant KLF protein that can induce reprogramming of a somatic cell at a higher efficiency than a KLF protein having a natural amino acid sequence. There is also provided a method for efficiently producing an iPS cell by using the mutant KLF protein. There is provided a mutant KLF protein having an amino acid substitution, or a peptide fragment thereof containing the amino acid substitution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicants: RIKEN, UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA
    Inventors: Yohei HAYASHI, Evgeniia BORISOVA, Koji HISATAKE, Ken NISHIMURA, Fumiaki YUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11329640
    Abstract: An analog delay line includes a clock generator, an analog sampling circuit, a bank of analog memory cells, a memory controller, an analog readout circuit, and an analog multiplexer. The clock generator is configured to output plural reception clock signals of different frequencies and plural transmission clock signals of different frequencies, the transmission clock signals offset in accumulated phase relative to the reception clock signals. The analog sampling circuit is controlled by at least one of the reception clock signals, and is configured to output a sequence of sampled voltages of an analog input signal. The memory controller is configured to control a write operation at a write frequency of at least one of the reception clock signals and a read operation at a read frequency of at least one of the transmission clock signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Keysight Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Wu, Ken A. Nishimura, Kenneth D. Poulton
  • Publication number: 20220018934
    Abstract: A system for testing vehicular radar is disclosed. The system includes a re-illumination element adapted to receive electromagnetic waves, and to transmit response signals. The re-illumination element includes: a plurality of miniature radar target simulators (MRTS's), each comprising: a receive antenna; a variable gain amplifier (VGA); an in-phase-quadrature (IQ) mixer; a variable attenuator; and a transmit antenna. The MRTS's are disposed in an array comprising rows and columns of the MRTS's, and each MRTS of the array is laterally spaced a distance px and vertically spaced a distance py from an adjacent MRTS. An incremental subtended azimuth angle (??) and an incremental subtended elevation (??) angle are finer than an azimuth resolution specification (?res) and an elevation resolution specification (?res) of a radar device under test (DUT).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Gregory S. Lee, Gregory Douglas Vanwiggeren, Ken A. Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20210132190
    Abstract: A method of emulating echo signals reflected from an elongated target during radar testing includes identifying first and second end points do the target; acquiring a radar signal from a radar sensor that includes multiple receive elements; generating emulated echo signals, responsive to the acquired radar signal, corresponding to target points on the target, including the first and second end points and reference points located on a line connecting the first and second end points, by repeatedly identifying descriptive attributes corresponding to each of the target points during an integration period of the radar sensor, where the descriptive attributes are identified by interpolating between the corresponding descriptive attributes of the first and second end points; and applying the emulated echo signals to the receive elements of the radar sensor, respectively, during the integration period, where radar sensor calculates a relative position of the target using the descriptive attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventor: Ken A. Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20200263915
    Abstract: A cold insulation container includes: a cold insulation storage including a coolant vessel; a circulating air fan that causes cold air from the coolant vessel to circulate in the cold insulation storage; a thermoelectric generating module attached to an outer surface of the coolant vessel; and a temperature controller that adjusts a temperature in the cold insulation storage. A temperature difference between the coolant vessel and circulating cold air in the cold insulation storage causes the temperature controller and the circulating air fan to be driven by thermoelectric power generated by the thermoelectric generating module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Akihiko IKEMURA, Michio OKAJIMA, Keiichi OHATA, Shutaro NAMBU, Ken NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 10696128
    Abstract: A cold storage heat exchanger includes: a plurality of refrigerant tubes disposed at intervals, each of the refrigerant tubes including a refrigerant passage that allows a refrigerant to flow therethrough; a cold storage material adjacent to the refrigerant tubes; and a heat transfer suppressor that suppresses heat transfer from the refrigerant tubes to the cold storage material in an overheated area of the refrigerant formed in the refrigerant passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Abei, Toshiya Nagasawa, Eiichi Torigoe, Naohisa Ishizaka, Norihide Kawachi, Yuusuke Kitou, Ken Nishimura, Masakazu Nagaya
  • Publication number: 20200132741
    Abstract: An oscilloscope includes a time domain input, a logic domain input, and a frequency domain input. The time domain input provides a time domain input signal in a time domain as a first input signal. The logic domain input provides logic level input as a second input signal. The logic level input includes logic levels over time. The frequency domain input provides a third input signal through frequency downconversion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: Ken A. Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10581162
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, an RF device includes a receiver and an antenna. The antenna is configured to receive a reflected radio-frequency signal containing a set of modulated signal segments. Each modulated signal segment has a unique modulation pattern that indicates a time-variant reflectivity characteristic of a respective signal reflecting tile of a radio-frequency signal reflector. The receiver can include a circuit to process the modulated signal segments and determine a spatial intensity distribution of the radio-frequency signal incident upon the radio-frequency signal reflector. The spatial intensity distribution can be used by the circuit to determine a spatial radiation characteristic of an RF signal that is transmitted by a transmitter in order to produce the reflected radio-frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Keysight Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ken A Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20180281553
    Abstract: A cold storage heat exchanger includes: a plurality of refrigerant tubes disposed at intervals, each of the refrigerant tubes including a refrigerant passage that allows a refrigerant to flow therethrough; a cold storage material adjacent to the refrigerant tubes; and a heat transfer suppressor that suppresses heat transfer from the refrigerant tubes to the cold storage material in an overheated area of the refrigerant formed in the refrigerant passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Jun ABEI, Toshiya NAGASAWA, Eiichi TORIGOE, Naohisa ISHIZAKA, Norihide KAWACHI, Yuusuke KITOU, Ken NISHIMURA, Masakazu NAGAYA
  • Publication number: 20180053996
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, an RF device includes a receiver and an antenna. The antenna is configured to receive a reflected radio-frequency signal containing a set of modulated signal segments. Each modulated signal segment has a unique modulation pattern that indicates a time-variant reflectivity characteristic of a respective signal reflecting tile of a radio-frequency signal reflector. The receiver can include a circuit to process the modulated signal segments and determine a spatial intensity distribution of the radio-frequency signal incident upon the radio-frequency signal reflector. The spatial intensity distribution can be used by the circuit to determine a spatial radiation characteristic of an RF signal that is transmitted by a transmitter in order to produce the reflected radio-frequency signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventor: Ken A Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9365866
    Abstract: A reprogramming gene-loaded Sendai viral vector comprising Sendai virus genes and reprogramming genes, wherein the Sendai virus genes include an NP gene, P/C gene, M gene, F gene, HN gene and L gene, wherein each of the M gene, the F gene and the FIN gene is from a Sendai virus strain Cl.151-derived gene and wherein at least one of the M gene, the F gene and the HN gene is functionally deleted and the L gene encodes the amino-acid sequence of the L protein in which the amino-acid residue at position 1618 is valine and a method of producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Mahito Nakanishi, Ken Nishimura, Masayuki Sano, Manami Ohtaka
  • Patent number: 9145564
    Abstract: A persistently infective virus vector is produced by using a gene so modified as to encode an amino acid sequence including a valine substituted for an amino acid residue at position-1618 in the amino acid sequence for an L protein of a persistently non-infective Sendai virus. A non-transmissible, persistently infective virus vector is also produced by defecting or deleting at least one of M gene, F gene, and HN gene. These virus vectors have no cytotoxicity, can achieve the sustained gene expression over a long period of time, is safe, and is therefore useful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Ken Nishimura, Hiroaki Segawa, Mahito Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 8849602
    Abstract: A method of calibrating a reconstructed signal from a plurality of sub-signals is provided. The method includes injecting a calibration signal having multiple tones into a received input signal; dividing the input signal into a first and second sub-signal, including an overlapping frequency band; performing a first frequency translation by converting frequency components of the second sub-signal; digitizing the first sub-signal and the frequency converted second sub-signal; performing a second frequency translation to reverse the first frequency translation to obtain a reconstructed second sub-signal; and quantifying impairments to the digital first sub-signal and reconstructed second sub-signal caused by differences in magnitude and phase of frequency components within the overlapping frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken A. Nishimura, Kenneth Rush
  • Patent number: 8682334
    Abstract: The area density of broadcast stations having respective service areas and broadcasting on the same channel is increased without exceeding a specified level of co-channel interference within the service areas by a method in which the field strength of the signal transmitted by the first broadcast station is monitored, and a field strength determining property of the first broadcast station is controlled in response to the monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken A Nishimura, Jayendra Das, Jogesh Warrior