Patents by Inventor Kenichi Nakano

Kenichi Nakano 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: 20240323556
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a package, and an imaging system capable of curbing degradation of image quality. A solid-state imaging device according to an aspect of the present technology includes: a photoelectric conversion unit that is configured by using a material with lower band gap energy than silicon; and a circuit substrate that is joined to the photoelectric conversion unit, in which the circuit substrate includes a pixel signal generation circuit that generates a pixel signal of a voltage value in accordance with a charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit, a thermometer circuit that detects a temperature of the circuit substrate, and a temperature control signal generation circuit that acquires temperature information indicating the temperature detected by the thermometer circuit and generates a temperature control signal on the basis of the acquired temperature information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: JUMPEI KAWANO, TOSHIAKI NAKANO, KIYOSHIGE TSUJI, KENICHI HARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220379599
    Abstract: A printing apparatus according to an aspect includes a printing mechanism and a control section configured to control the printing mechanism to form a different margin according to presence or absence of an abnormality of the printing mechanism and a degree of the abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventor: Kenichi NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220296162
    Abstract: Provided is a system capable of determining a stress coping style of a test subject in a non-contact state. The system includes a biological information acquiring part which acquires biological information of a test subject in a non-contact state, and a determining part which determines a stress coping style of the test subject based on the biological information and a response pattern specified in advance. The response pattern is specified by a hemodynamic parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: KOSENSHA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Nozawa, Kosuke Oiwa, Kenichi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20210251104
    Abstract: This heat radiating device is provided with a heat radiating part for radiating the heat of a heat generating body, and a fan provided on a surface opposite to a surface on which the heat generating body of the heat radiating part is located. The heat radiating part is formed by stacking a plurality of plate-like heat radiating plates, and comb-like fin parts that extend radially in the in-plane direction are formed on the peripheries of the respective heat radiating plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi MITSUNARI, Kenichi NAKANO, Katsuya SAKAMOTO, Youhei MINESAKI, Yoshitada HIGASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210113093
    Abstract: To provide a blood pressure estimation system capable of instantaneously estimating a blood pressure of a subject in a non-contact manner. A blood pressure estimation system includes a face image acquisition unit that acquires a face image of a subject, and a blood pressure estimation unit that estimates a blood pressure of a subject based on a spatial feature amount of the face image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: TOSHO ESTATE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Nozawa, Kosuke Oiwa, Kenichi Nakano
  • Patent number: 10960896
    Abstract: A saddle-ride type vehicle control apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires information indicating a posture of an occupant of a saddle-ride type vehicle; a determining unit that determines a level of intervention in driving of the saddle-ride type vehicle based on the posture of the occupant indicated by the information acquired by the acquiring unit; and an intervening unit that intervenes in the driving of the saddle-ride type vehicle based on a condition of the saddle-ride type vehicle and the level of intervention determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Tsukada, Takashi Ozeki, Kenichi Nakano, Sumitaka Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10924103
    Abstract: A driver circuitry includes a voltage application circuitry, a current detection circuitry, and a control circuitry. The voltage application circuitry is connected to a drive terminal of a transistor, and controls a voltage of an input signal and applies to the drive terminal. The current detection circuitry is connected to an output terminal of the transistor, and detects that a current output from the transistor becomes a size of a predetermined current or more. The control circuitry is connected to the current detection circuitry, and controls the voltage application circuitry based on the voltage of the input signal to output a voltage between the drive terminal and the output terminal at the timing when the current detection circuitry detects the current of the predetermined current or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20200403609
    Abstract: A driver circuitry includes a voltage application circuitry, a current detection circuitry, and a control circuitry. The voltage application circuitry is connected to a drive terminal of a transistor, and controls a voltage of an input signal and applies to the drive terminal. The current detection circuitry is connected to an output terminal of the transistor, and detects that a current output from the transistor becomes a size of a predetermined current or more. The control circuitry is connected to the current detection circuitry, and controls the voltage application circuitry based on the voltage of the input signal to output a voltage between the drive terminal and the output terminal at the timing when the current detection circuitry detects the current of the predetermined current or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventor: Kenichi Nakano
  • Patent number: 10818174
    Abstract: An output apparatus includes: an identifying unit that identifies a direction in which an occupant of a first vehicle is looking; a receiving unit that receives, from a second vehicle positioned in the direction identified by the identifying unit, information indicating whether or not the first vehicle is recognized by the second vehicle; and an output unit that outputs alert information to at least one alerting device among alerting devices attached to the first vehicle and the occupant of the first vehicle if the first vehicle is not recognized by the second vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Nakano, Yoshiaki Tsukada, Hiroyuki Kojima, Takashi Ozeki
  • Patent number: 10715266
    Abstract: To provide a technology of updating a broadcast station list capable of both shortening a searching time and deleting an unreceivable broadcast station. A broadcast receiver includes a processor and an associated memory configured to: control a tuner to scan a predetermined frequency band and search for a receivable broadcast station in the predetermined frequency band; and create a list including at least the receivable broadcast station by acquiring information of the receivable broadcast station. When there is a second receivable digital broadcast station at a frequency corresponding to a first digital broadcast station that already exists in the list when scanning, the processor omits acquisition of broadcast station information of the second digital broadcast station and uses broadcast station information of the first digital broadcast station that exists in the list as information of the second digital broadcast station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yuya Terashima, Kenichi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20200036461
    Abstract: To provide a technology of updating a broadcast station list capable of both shortening a searching time and deleting an unreceivable broadcast station. A broadcast receiver includes a processor and an associated memory configured to: control a tuner to scan a predetermined frequency band and search for a receivable broadcast station in the predetermined frequency band; and create a list including at least the receivable broadcast station by acquiring information of the receivable broadcast station. When there is a second receivable digital broadcast station at a frequency corresponding to a first digital broadcast station that already exists in the list when scanning, the processor omits acquisition of broadcast station information of the second digital broadcast station and uses broadcast station information of the first digital broadcast station that exists in the list as information of the second digital broadcast station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yuya TERASHIMA, Kenichi NAKANO
  • Patent number: 10478914
    Abstract: For butt-welding, which includes bringing joining end surfaces of a cup member and a shaft member into abutment against each other and radiating a high energy intensity beam from a radially outer side, the shaft member has a recess on a radially inner side of the joining end surface to obtain a welded portion having a closed hollow cavity on a radially inner side after butt-welding. The joining end surface (protruding surface) of the cup member protrudes toward a radially inner side with respect to an inner diameter of the joining end surface of the shaft member. With this, a welded portion of an outer joint member of a constant velocity universal joint, which is manufactured by joining the cup member and the shaft member, can be improved in strength and quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Nakagawa, Shintaro Suzuki, Kenichi Nakano, Takuya Fujita, Kiyohiro Suzuki, Renji Natsume, Tatsuro Sugiyama, Masazumi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190300012
    Abstract: A saddle-ride type vehicle control apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires information indicating a posture of an occupant of a saddle-ride type vehicle; a determining unit that determines a level of intervention in driving of the saddle-ride type vehicle based on the posture of the occupant indicated by the information acquired by the acquiring unit; and an intervening unit that intervenes in the driving of the saddle-ride type vehicle based on a condition of the saddle-ride type vehicle and the level of intervention determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiaki TSUKADA, Takashi OZEKI, Kenichi NAKANO, Sumitaka OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190304300
    Abstract: An output apparatus includes: an identifying unit that identifies a direction in which an occupant of a first vehicle is looking; a receiving unit that receives, from a second vehicle positioned in the direction identified by the identifying unit, information indicating whether or not the first vehicle is recognized by the second vehicle; and an output unit that outputs alert information to at least one alerting device among alerting devices attached to the first vehicle and the occupant of the first vehicle if the first vehicle is not recognized by the second vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Kenichi NAKANO, Yoshiaki TSUKADA, Hiroyuki KOJIMA, Takashi OZEKI
  • Patent number: 10280984
    Abstract: A cup member has a cylindrical portion, a bottom portion, and a short shaft portion having a solid shaft shape and including a joining end surface at an end portion thereof. A shaft member has a solid shaft shape and includes a joining end surface at one end thereof. The joining end surfaces of the cup and shaft members are brought into abutment against each other and welded from a radially outer side to form a welded portion. At this time, center segregation is prevented from interfering with the welded portion. The cup member is formed by forging including upsetting a billet having a columnar shape successively in a plurality of stages, extruding the cylindrical portion and the short shaft portion, and ironing the cylindrical portion. In the course of the upsetting, a region of the billet corresponding to a bottom side of the cup member is narrowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Numamoto, Kenichi Nakano, Takuya Fujita, Akira Sera, Hiroshi Matsunaga, Tatsuro Sugiyama, Masazumi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10171191
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus includes a reception unit, sound controlling unit, and determination unit. The reception unit receives a signal of an analog broadcast and a signal of a digital broadcast having the same broadcast content. The sound controlling unit performs, when an output of the broadcast receiving apparatus switched into the analog broadcast from the digital broadcast, a switching control of switching the output into the analog broadcast from the digital broadcast so that an acoustic characteristic of the output digital broadcast gradually approaches an acoustic characteristic of the analog broadcast based on a reception intensity of the signal of the analog broadcast. The determination unit determines, after the sound controlling unit starts the switching control, whether or not the switching control performed by the sound controlling unit is to be continued, based on reception state of the signal of the digital broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yuya Terashima, Kenichi Nakano
  • Patent number: 10135328
    Abstract: A step down convertor with a distributed driving system. In one embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed that includes an inductor coupled to an output node. The apparatus also includes first and second circuits. The first circuit can transmit current to the output node via the inductor, and the second can transmit current to the output node via the inductor. The apparatus also includes a third circuit for modifying operational aspects of the first circuit or the second circuit based on a magnitude of current flowing through the inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS AMERICA INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Sato, Ryotaro Kudo, Hideo Ishii, Kenichi Nakano
  • Patent number: 10006499
    Abstract: A pressure disk includes spring receiving portions for mounting coil springs that are elastically installed between the pressure disk and a clutch center. The spring receiving portions are aligned circumferentially on the outside in a radial direction with respect to an oil take-in hole. The spring receiving portions are provided with a supply hole in a side surface portion thereof toward the inside of the pressure disk. The supply hole introduces the oil supplied from the oil take-in hole. The spring receiving portion includes a discharge hole which discharges to the outside the oil introduced in the spring receiving portion. An inside cylindrical portion of the clutch center includes communication holes communicating with the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20180109340
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus includes a reception unit, sound controlling unit, and determination unit. The reception unit receives a signal of an analog broadcast and a signal of a digital broadcast having the same broadcast content. The sound controlling unit performs, when an output of the broadcast receiving apparatus switched into the analog broadcast from the digital broadcast, a switching control of switching the output into the analog broadcast from the digital broadcast so that an acoustic characteristic of the output digital broadcast gradually approaches an acoustic characteristic of the analog broadcast based on a reception intensity of the signal of the analog broadcast. The determination unit determines, after the sound controlling unit starts the switching control, whether or not the switching control performed by the sound controlling unit is to be continued, based on reception state of the signal of the digital broadcast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuya TERASHIMA, Kenichi NAKANO
  • Patent number: 9926819
    Abstract: In a lubricating device of an internal combustion engine having a crank chamber and a transmission chamber, which is arranged in the rear of the crank chamber so as to accommodate therein a gear transmission provided with a main shaft and a pump shaft. The pump shaft is shared by a scavenging pump and a feed pump for feeding oil to a part to be lubricated and to which motive power from the crank shaft is transmittable. An axis of the pump shaft is arranged below an axis of the main shaft. A pump gear located on the pump shaft meshes directly with a primary driven gear, which meshes with a primary drive gear located on the crank shaft so as to form a primary gear reduction mechanism in cooperation with the primary drive gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Hatae, Kohei Omori, Kenichi Nakano