Patents by Inventor Kenji Nakamura

Kenji 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).

  • Patent number: 10987080
    Abstract: A radiation irradiation detection system includes a radiation generation apparatus that includes a radiation generation unit, an emission control unit controlling emission of the radiation, and an exposure switch unit receiving a radiation irradiation instruction and a radiation stoppage instruction, and a radiation detection apparatus that includes a radiation detector detecting the radiation transmitted through a subject, and a detection control unit controlling the radiation detector, and the emission control unit starts emission of the radiation in a case where the emission permitting signal output from the detection control unit is received while the exposure switch unit is receiving the radiation irradiation instruction, continuously performs emission of the radiation regardless of a reception state of the emission permitting signal in a preset emission period after the radiation starts to be emitted, and stops emission of the radiation in a case where the instruction reception unit receives the radiati
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210072086
    Abstract: To provide an infrared sensor that allows heat to be efficiently transferred from an insulating film to a heat sensitive element and has a good responsivity. The infrared sensor according to the present invention includes an insulating film 2; a pair of first adhesive electrodes 3A that is patterned on either surface of the insulating film; a pair of first terminal electrodes 4A that is patterned on either surface of the insulating film; a first heat sensitive element 5A that is provided on either surface of the insulating film and is connected to the pair of first adhesive electrodes; a pair of first pattern wiring parts 6A that is patterned on either surface of the insulating film with one end thereof being connected to the pair of first adhesive electrodes and the other end thereof being connected to the pair of first terminal electrodes; and a heat transfer film 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kenji Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Tari, Shingo Hirano
  • Publication number: 20210068656
    Abstract: A non-contact ultrasonic tonometer for measuring the eye pressure of an examinee's eye by use of ultrasound includes a Langevin transducer. The Langevin transducer applies ultrasound to the examinee's eye to measure the eye pressure of the examinee's eye. Further, A non-contact ultrasonic tonometer for measuring the eye pressure of an examinee's eye by use of ultrasound includes: ultrasonic generating means for generating ultrasound; a support base supporting the ultrasonic generating means; and attaching means for attaching the ultrasonic generating means to the support base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki MIWA, Kazunari SHIMIZU, Shirohisa KOBAYASHI, Tsutomu UEMURA, Kenji NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10939888
    Abstract: A radiation irradiating apparatus includes a radiation generator that generates radiation and a switch that controls emission of the radiation from the radiation generator. The radiation generator and the switch are constituted by separate housings. The radiation generator and the switch are attachable and detachable to and from each other via a surface of a portion of each of the housings thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Sato, Kenji Nakamura, Misaki Kawahara, Fumito Nariyuki, Ryosuke Ogura, Tomoaki Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20210066734
    Abstract: A redox flow battery system includes a redox flow battery cell, a first circulation mechanism, and a second circulation mechanism. The redox flow battery cell includes a positive electrode chamber housing a positive electrode, a negative electrode chamber housing a negative electrode, and a separator separating the positive electrode chamber and the negative electrode chamber. The first circulation mechanism and the second circulation mechanisms circulate electrolytic solutions into the positive electrode chamber and the negative electrode chamber, respectively. The separator is a porous body. Each of the electrolytic solutions contains an active material and a mediator that has a diameter larger than pore distribution d50 of the separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Kan KITAGAWA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Hiroaki YOTOU, Atsushi NAKAJIMA, Kenichi OYAIZU, Kan HATAKEYAMA, Yota SUGAI
  • Patent number: 10935667
    Abstract: The information processing device includes: a distribution target determination unit configured to determine that a terminal located within a first predetermined range and detected by a first detection technique (e.g. GPS) is a first distribution target terminal and that a terminal located within and detected by a second detection technique (e.g. beacon) is a second distribution target terminal, where the second predetermined range is included in the first predetermined range; a distribution request acquisition unit configured to acquire a distribution request from a distribution requester terminal; and an information distribution unit configured to distribute information corresponding to the distribution request to at least the first distribution target terminal, the first distribution target terminal not overlapping with the second distribution terminal, or the second distribution target terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Nagaaki Hoshi, Lin Zhong, Kenji Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210035769
    Abstract: An X-ray tube device includes a main body that incorporates a bulb, which generates X-rays, a collimator that is provided to protrude from the main body in an irradiation direction of the X-rays in a part of a front surface (first surface), which is a surface of the main body, and has an irradiation window for irradiating the X-rays with an adjusted irradiation range, and connectors that are provided for connecting a guard unit for keeping a distance from a test object, between the front surface (first surface) of the main body and a front surface (second surface), which is a surface of the collimator where the irradiation window is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji NAKAMURA, Ryosuke OGURA, Keiichiro TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210029810
    Abstract: An X-ray tube device incorporates a mono-tank, and includes a gripping portion that is provided to protrude from a main body in a side surface and supports the main body by gripping. In a case where the main body is divided into two portions of a center-of-gravity-side portion including the center of gravity of the main body and a non-center-of-gravity-side portion not including the center of gravity using a plane passing through the center of the main body and an irradiation direction of X-rays, the gripping portion is in the center-of-gravity-side portion, and the gripping portion is not in the non-center-of-gravity-side portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji NAKAMURA, Ryosuke OGura, Keiichiro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200354633
    Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display device that has a high off-response speed and a good balance between drive voltage and transmittance, is stable over time, and also has a high voltage holding ratio. A liquid crystal display device in which a liquid crystal layer containing a polymer network (A) and a liquid crystal composition (B) is disposed between two substrates having an electrode on at least one side thereof and having transparent properties on at least one side thereof, and the loss factor (tan ?) (loss modulus/storage modulus) of the liquid crystal layer calculated from the storage modulus (Pa) and the loss modulus (Pa) in a sinusoidal vibration measured with a rheometer at 25° C. and at a measurement frequency of 1 Hz ranges from 0.1 to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasebe, Toru Fujisawa, Yoshinori Iwashita, Fumiaki Kodera, Keisuke Fujisawa, Kenji Nakamura, Yuichi Satokawa
  • Patent number: 10806149
    Abstract: A method for producing silver-ion antibacterial liquid using a type A or type X silver zeolite includes a process to weigh silver zeolite for obtain its blending quantity in a range of 0.1 to 20.0 percent by weight and to weigh citric acid for obtaining its blending quantity such that its blending ratio to the silver zeolite becomes 1.2 or greater, followed by blending of the two into purified water; a process to mix under agitation the silver zeolite and citric acid blended in the purified water to prepare a mixture liquid containing at least a citric acid-silver complex and silica hydrate; and a process to remove the silica hydrate produced in the mixture liquid. The production method can produce at low cost a silver-ion antibacterial liquid offering immediate bactericidal effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Taiki Corp., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Nakamura, Koji Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200299008
    Abstract: Filling of a powder particle material is executed for a flexible container bag (hereinafter, referred to as “flex container bag”) by executing a powder particle material filling step of filling the flex container bag with the powder particle material by supplying the powder particle material to the flex container bag, and a tapping step of executing a lifting operation of lifting up the flex container bag filled with the powder particle material to cause the flex container bag to be distant from a floor surface or a base bed thereabove and a dropping operation of dropping the flex container bag by releasing the lifting by the lifting operation to cause the flex container bag to collide with the floor surface or the base bed. The handling property of the flex container bag filled with the powder particle material can further be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: SUMITOMO SEIKA CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Matsushita, Kenji Nakamura, Hideo Kazama
  • Patent number: 10751977
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a flexible metal-clad laminated plate includes the steps of: (a) obtaining a laminated body by laminating a polyimide resin film including a non-thermoplastic polyimide layer and an adhesive layer containing thermoplastic polyimide, the adhesive layer being provided on at least one side of the non-thermoplastic polyimide layer, and a metal foil; and (b) subjecting the laminated body obtained in the step (a) to heat treatment under an inert gas atmosphere and a pressure of 0.20 to 0.98 MPa at a temperature of a glass transition temperature Tg of the thermoplastic polyimide?20° C. to the glass transition temperature Tg+50° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Arisawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Mayama, Naoki Suzuki, Takashi Miwa, Shuichi Fujita, Kenji Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200238362
    Abstract: A lower mold includes: refrigerant ejection ports in its press-molding surface; and three or more independent refrigerant guide grooves extending in the press-molding surface from the refrigerant ejection ports to guide the refrigerant ejected from the refrigerant ejection port to an outer portion of the press-molding surface with the refrigerant being in contact with a workpiece. Each of the refrigerant guide grooves neither branches halfway nor merges with the others of the refrigerant guide grooves to extend from the refrigerant ejection ports to the outer portion of the press-molding surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri TAKAHASHI, Takeshi MATSUDA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Chie OKAWA, Ichirou INO, Naoyuki IRIE
  • Publication number: 20200238363
    Abstract: A lower mold includes: refrigerant ejection ports in its press-molding surface; refrigerant guide grooves in the press-molding surface to guide a refrigerant ejected from the refrigerant ejection ports to an outer portion of the press-molding surface with the refrigerant being in contact with a workpiece; a single connecting groove connected to the refrigerant guide grooves and formed at the outer portion of the press-molding surface into which the refrigerant flows through the refrigerant guide grooves; and discharge ports in the connecting groove. Each of the refrigerant discharge ports is formed at a part of the connecting groove apart from the connecting points between the connecting groove and the refrigerant guide grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri TAKAHASHI, Takeshi MATSUDA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Chie OKAWA, Ichirou INO, Naoyuki IRIE
  • Publication number: 20200206987
    Abstract: A hot-pressing device includes at least one mold having a molding surface; and at least one mold holder, wherein the hot-pressing device further comprises a refrigerant supply groove provided so as to horizontally extend to at least a mold side or a mold holder side in a contact surface between the at least one mold and the at least one mold holder; and at least one refrigerant supply path opened in corresponding at least one opening disposed on the molding surface, the refrigerant supply path communicating with the refrigerant supply groove and being provided in the inside of the at least one mold so as to extend vertically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi MATSUDA, Masaru TOBO, Yuri TAKAHASHI, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yoshihide HIRAO, Chie OKAWA, Seiji INOUE, Naoyuki IRIE
  • Publication number: 20200198939
    Abstract: To accurately present guide information which expresses the shape and height of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load. A guide information display device is equipped with: a data acquisition unit provided with a camera for capturing an image of a hoisting load region which includes at least a hoisting load and the ground surface below the hoisting load from above the hoisting load, and a laser scanner for obtaining a data point group in the hoisting load region; a data processing unit for estimating the top surface of the hoisting weight, the ground surface, and the top surfaces of objects, on the basis of the obtained data point group, and generating guide frames which surround the top surfaces of the hoisting weight and objects; and a data display unit which displays guide information obtained by overlapping the generated guide frames and the captured image with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki KOSAKA, Iwao ISHIKAWA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20200165107
    Abstract: To accurately present information about the shape and location of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load, regardless of the orientation and operational state of the crane. A guide information display device, wherein a camera images part of a work region of a crane, a laser scanner obtains a data point group of the work region captured by the camera, and a data processing unit: removes, from the obtained data point group, a data point group located between a hoisting load hanging from a crane and the tip end section of the telescopic boom of the crane; estimates, on the basis of the remaining data point group, the top surface of the hoisting load, the ground surface of the work region, and the top surfaces of objects located in the work region; generates guide frames which surround the top surfaces of the hoisting load and the objects; and overlaps the generated guide frames on the captured image, and displays the same on a data display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki KOSAKA, Iwao ISHIKAWA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20200167940
    Abstract: Provided is a method for clustering the data point groups of one or more measurement targets located in the same region from among the acquired data point groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki KOSAKA, Iwao ISHIKAWA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20200139315
    Abstract: Provided is a production method with which a large amount of particle mixture in which two or more types of particles are mixed can be easily produced. The production method is for producing a particle mixture in which two or more types of particles are mixed, and includes the following steps (1) and (2): (1) a step of adding a first additive to first particles and mixing the first additive with the first particles using a first mixer; and (2) a step of introducing the two or more types of particles including the first particles mixed with the first additive and second particles into a blender container of a gravity blender, and mixing the two or more types of particles inside the blender container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Kazushi Takemoto, Kenji Nakamura, Hideo Kazama
  • Patent number: 10605651
    Abstract: The infrared sensor according to the present invention includes an insulating film; a pair of first terminal electrodes; a pair of second terminal electrodes; a first heat sensitive element; a second heat sensitive element; a pair of first pattern wiring parts and a pair of second pattern wiring parts that are patterned on either surface of the insulating film; an infrared-receiving region that is provided on the other surface of the insulating film so as to oppose to the first heat sensitive element; and an infrared reflection film that is formed on the other surface of the insulating film so as to avoid the infrared-receiving region and to cover at least the portion immediately above the second heat sensitive element, wherein the infrared reflection film has a thermal coupling part in proximity to a portion of the first pattern wiring part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Tari, Shingo Hirano