Patents by Inventor Kenichi Nakamura

Kenichi 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: 20250149616
    Abstract: A battery manufacturing system manufactures a battery material by sequentially subjecting a predetermined raw material to a plurality of different processing steps and includes a plurality of processing blocks and a connecting block. The processing blocks each include a processing space which is cut off from outside air, a receiving port which receives a predetermined material into the processing space, and a sending port which sends out a product having been produced by subjecting the material received from the receiving port to predetermined processing. A connecting block includes at least an intermediate unit which cuts off a space from the sending port included in the processing block on an upstream side to the receiving port included in the processing block on a downstream side from outside air and which is flexible enough to follow a change in relative positions of the sending port and the receiving port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki UEDA, Satoru NAKAMURA, Kenichi FURUKI
  • Patent number: 12293620
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a user database that stores information obtained by associating first information that specifies a station with second information that indicates an entrance and exit authentication scheme available in a ticket examination system of the station; an information extraction unit that extracts, from the user database, the second information associated with input first information; and an output unit that outputs the second information extracted by the information extraction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yamaoka, Keito Tachizaki, Kenichi Oosawa, Junya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12286166
    Abstract: The vehicle body lower structure includes an airflow guiding plate that is arranged on the vehicle body of a vehicle and is movable between a receiving position covering the lower part of the vehicle body and a deploying position protruding downward. Specifically, the airflow guiding plate includes a front airflow guiding plate and a rear airflow guiding plate. The front airflow guiding plate is rotatably arranged on the vehicle body with its front end, and the rear airflow guiding plate is rotatably arranged with its front end on the rear end of the front airflow guiding plate, and its rear end is slidably arranged on the vehicle body in the front-rear direction of the vehicle. Moreover, the orientation of the front airflow guiding plate is different from the orientation of the rear airflow guiding plate in the deploying position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ando, Yoshiteru Hoshida, Kei Ambo, Yuki Nakamura, Hidefumi Nihei
  • Patent number: 12280835
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a vehicle body lower structure, which may improve aerodynamic performance and inhibit the airflow guiding plate from being over-expanded or detached. The vehicle body lower structure includes an airflow guiding plate that is arranged on the vehicle body of a vehicle and is movable between a receiving position covering the lower part of the vehicle body and a deploying position protruding downward. The vehicle body lower structure further includes: a hook member, which is provided on the upper surface of the airflow guiding plate. When the airflow guiding plate is in the deploying position, the hook member is locked onto the buckle part of the vehicle body. When the airflow guiding plate is located at the receiving position, the hook member is separated from the buckle part of the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ando, Kei Ambo, Yuki Nakamura, Yoshiteru Hoshida, Hidefumi Nihei, Yasunari Miyauchi
  • Patent number: 12280836
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a vehicle body lower structure. The vehicle body lower structure includes: a deflector, disposed on a vehicle body and movable between a stowed position covering a lower part of the vehicle body and a deployed position protruding downward; and a shaft member, extending in a vehicle left-right direction and rotatably connecting a front end of the deflector to the vehicle body. The deflector is maintained in the deployed position protruding downward by its own weight, and receiving an impact load from below, the deflector moves from the deployed position to the stowed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ando, Kei Ambo, Yuki Nakamura, Yoshiteru Hoshida
  • Publication number: 20250124731
    Abstract: The acquisition means acquires reader information and content information. The prompt generation means generates a prompt based on the reader information and the content information. The content editing means inputs the prompt into a large language model and acquire an output from the large language model as edited content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki KOBAYASHI, Tsuyoshi NAKAMURA, Yoshikazu ARAI, Kenichi UEDA, Shinnosuke NiSHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 12276207
    Abstract: A high-temperature part of the present disclosure includes: a high-temperature part body which includes a base and a coating layer formed on a part of a surface of the base; and a protective layer which is formed on at least a part of a surface of the coating layer. The protective layer is formed of a material which is allowed to disappear from a surface of the coating layer under an operation environment of a gas turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Watanabe, Taiki Kinoshita, Kiyoshi Fujimoto, Sosuke Nakamura, Norihiko Motoyama, Kenichi Hashimoto, Akito Kira
  • Patent number: 12270188
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl including a waste receiving surface, a rim and a well portion; a water spouting part that spouts flush water toward the bowl; and a water discharge trap including an inlet connected to a lower part of the well portion, the water discharge trap discharging waste in the bowl, the well portion includes a bottom wall formed above and in front of the inlet of the water discharge trap, a side wall formed to surround a periphery of the bottom wall, and a joining portion that joins an outer edge of the bottom wall and a bottom edge of the side wall with a surface having a curvature, and the bottom wall of the well portion includes a concave portion formed to recess downward on left and right sides with respect to a center axis in a left-right direction in a front sectional view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Kenichi Nakamura, Shinichi Urata, Kazunari Yasui, Isami Sakaba, Yuichi Tsubone, Shigeru Okada, Satoshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 12254695
    Abstract: Provided are an image capturing device for capturing an image in a target area, transmission parts through which an outside can be visually observed from inside of the target area and polarizing filters on an light path from the transmission parts to the image capturing device. The front- and depth-side polarizing filters relative to the image capturing device are arranged so as to have polarizing directions crossing each other. A foreign matter in the target area is detected on the basis of the image acquired by the image capturing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Hamaguchi, Hiroaki Imaizumi, Jingyu Hu, Takanori Nishimura, Kenichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12254929
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell above the first memory cell, a first word line electrically connected to a gate of the first memory cell, a second word line electrically connected to a gate of the second memory cell, and a control unit that performs an erasing operation on the first and second memory cells. During the erasing operation, the control unit applies a first voltage to a first word line and a second voltage higher than the first voltage to a second word line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Masanobu Shirakawa, Takuya Futatsuyama, Kenichi Abe, Hiroshi Nakamura, Keisuke Yonehama, Atsuhiro Sato, Hiroshi Shinohara, Yasuyuki Baba, Toshifumi Minami
  • Publication number: 20250087368
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to process an image of a target region, and thereby compute a proximity index being an index relating to a proximity state of a plurality of persons captured in the image, and cause a predetermined apparatus to execute predetermined control, when the proximity index satisfies a criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Gaku NAKANO, Shoji NISHIMURA, Yoshitaka HIGETA, Youtarou NODA, Shigeki SHINODA, Yuzo SENDA, Shin TOMINAGA, Masumi ISHIKAWA, Daisuke IKEFUJI, Kana TAKIZAWA, Kenichi ISHII, Yoshiyuki SATOU, Eishi ARITA, Shota YAMAMOTO, Shinya YAMASAKI, Narumitsu NOTOMI, Aki NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 12245602
    Abstract: A poultry leg meat deboning device is configured to perform a separation of a meat part from a femur with respect to a poultry leg meat to which a peeling off of the meat part has been performed until a side of a knee joint of the femur in a bone-in poultry leg meat which has been cut from a femur of a poultry carcass. The poultry leg meat deboning device includes: an ankle holding part configured to hold an ankle of the poultry leg meat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: MAYEKAWA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Nakamura, Ken Masubuchi, Kenichi Oka, Kenichiro Sakurai, Noriyuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 12230065
    Abstract: A gate apparatus includes a gate unit which is disposed on a second plane crossing a first plane in which an authentication object moves in one direction and which partitions a moving space of the authentication object from another space, an inclined face which is formed on the gate unit to cross the first plane and the second plane and which is inclined upwardly from the first plane, a display configured to display an image on the inclined face, and an image acquisition unit configured to capture an image of the authentication object in proximity to the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yamaoka, Keito Tachizaki, Kenichi Oosawa, Junya Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20250052902
    Abstract: A measurement device includes: a light emitting unit configured to emit pulsed light; an imaging sensor configured to output a signal value corresponding to an exposure amount for each pixel; a timing control unit configured to expose the pixel of the imaging sensor to reflected light in an exposure period that is set according to a measurement target region and has an exposure width shorter than a pulse width of the pulsed light; and a calculation unit configured to calculate an arrival time of the reflected light based on signal values corresponding to three or more consecutive exposure periods that can include the pulse width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki TAKAHASHI, Yasuo NAKAMURA, Kenichi HOSHI, Daiki KATO
  • Publication number: 20250043561
    Abstract: A siphon jet flush toilet comprises: a bowl; a rim spout port suppling flush water to the bowl; a discharge trap conduit; a jet spout port spouting flush water toward an inlet of the discharge trap conduit; a reservoir tank including a jet spouting discharge valve and storing flush water; a jet water conduit configured to guide the flush water in the reservoir tank to the jet spout port; and a controller being configured to control a rim spouting in which the flush water is spouted from the rim spout port and a jet spouting in which the flush water is spouted from the jet spout port, wherein the jet spouting discharge valve includes a valve body, the valve body being arranged at a position that is lower than an upper surface of the bowl and higher than a seal water level, and before opening the jet spouting discharge valve, the flush water is supplied to the jet water conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Koichiro MATSUMURA, Takumi TSUCHITANI, Kenichi NAKAMURA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Chisato SONE, Shinichi URATA, Daisuke YAMAMOTO, Koichi MOTOOKA, Kenji HATAMA
  • Publication number: 20250043559
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes a reservoir tank, a bowl, a rim spout port, a discharge trap conduit, a jet spout port configured to spout flush water toward an inlet of the discharge trap conduit, a jet water conduit configured to supply the flush water from the reservoir tank to the jet spout port, and a discharge device configured to supply or stop supplying the flush water to the jet water conduit, wherein the flush water is spouted at a first flow rate from the jet spout port when the discharge device is driven and the flush water in the reservoir tank flows into the jet water conduit and, after spouting of the first flow rate ends, the flush water is spouted at a second flow rate from the jet spout port due to the flush water retained in the jet water conduit flowing toward the jet spout port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Kenichi NAKAMURA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Shinichi URATA, Takumi TSUCHITANI, Chisato SONE, Jing CHEN, Wataru ISHIMI, Naoki ABE, Daisuke YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240390561
    Abstract: A medical coating agent contains a polymer including a structural unit (A) derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having a urethane bond. The polymer has a glass transition temperature of ?25° C. or lower in a saturated hydration state, the state being defined as such a hydration state of the polymer that the top of the endothermic peak attributed to melting of ice emerges at 0° C. in a DSC curve obtained when the polymer which has been hydrated is heated by means of a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) at a rate of 5° C./minute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicants: TOAGOSEI CO., LTD., KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru TANAKA, Shota TANIGUCHI, Kenichi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240277891
    Abstract: A medical treatment material that forms a hydrogel upon contact with water contains a polymer (A) including a structural unit derived from an ethylenic unsaturated monomer (ma) which has a carboxyl group and a molecular weight of 115 or less, and a polymer (B) including a structural unit derived from an ethylenic unsaturated monomer (mb) which has a functional group E that is capable of forming a hydrogen bond with a carboxyl group, the polymer (B) not being the polymer (A). At least one of the polymer (A) and the polymer (B) includes a structural unit derived from an ethylenic unsaturated monomer (mc) differing from the ethylenic unsaturated monomers (ma) and (mb), and the monomer (mc) is not an ethylenic unsaturated monomer having a cross-linkable functional group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicants: TOAGOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Koyama, Tomoko Ito, Kenichi Nakamura, Ayaka Ouchi
  • Patent number: 12054929
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl part, a drainage water trap part that is connected to a bottom part of the bowl part, and a water drainage socket that is connected to the drainage water trap part and includes an upper side water drainage socket that extends downward from the drainage water trap part, a back side R part that is connected to the upper side water drainage socket and changes a flow channel so that a washing water that flows from an upper side is directed to a front side, and a horizontal pipe that extends forward from the back side R part. The back side R part and the horizontal pipe include a water storage part that stores a part of washing water. The water storage part is arranged on a lower side of a back side lower end part of the drainage water trap part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Chisato Sone, Kenichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yuichi Tsubone, Shigeru Okada, Kenichi Takano, Satoshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11987968
    Abstract: The present invention provides a flush toilet device (1) including: a flush toilet (2); a flush water tank (10); a discharge valve (12) that discharges the flush water stored in the flush water tank; a branching portion (33) that splits flush water supplied from a water supply source into first and second branched flow paths; a first on-off valve (19) provided in the first branched flow path and switches between spout and stop of the flush water from the upper spout port; a second on-off valve (17) provided in the second branched flow path and switches between supply and stop of the flush water into the flush water tank; and a controller (28) that controls the first and second on-off valve so that water is spouted from the upper spout port and is supplied into the flush water tank at a time by opening the first and second on-off valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Kenichi Nakamura, Takumi Tsuchitani, Shinichi Urata, Chisato Sone, Koichiro Matsumura