Patents by Inventor Koichi Nose

Koichi Nose 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: 11764368
    Abstract: A titanium material including a base metal made of pure titanium or a titanium alloy and a titanium oxide film formed on the base metal. Peak intensities obtained by thin-film X-ray diffraction analysis performed on an outer layer of the titanium material using an incident angle of 0.3° satisfy (I(104)+I(200))/I(101)?0.08?0.004×I(200), where I(104) is the peak intensity resulting from a plane (104) of a Ti2O3 phase, I(200) is the peak intensity resulting from a plane (200) of a TiO phase, I(101) is the peak intensity resulting from a plane (101) of an ?-Ti phase, and 0<I(104), 0?I(200), and 0<I(101). The titanium material is inexpensive and has both the electrical conductivity and corrosion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideya Kaminaka, Yoshitaka Nishiyama, Koichi Nose, Junko Imamura, Haruka Sato
  • Publication number: 20230008014
    Abstract: The data processing device includes the inference processor and learning processor. The inference processor includes a input data determination circuit for determining whether or not each of the binarized input data is a predetermined value, a memory for storing a plurality of coefficient and a coefficient address information including information about a coefficient address in which a plurality of coefficient are stored, an inference controller for reading coefficient address from the storage unit based on a determination result of the input data determination circuit and reading coefficient from the storage unit based on coefficient address, a arithmetic circuit for performing an operation using the binarized input data and coefficient acquired by the inference controller to generate the arithmetic operation result as a output data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Shunsuke OKUMURA, Koichi NOSE
  • Publication number: 20220389565
    Abstract: A flow rate adjustment valve includes: a flow path portion which has one end at which an opening is formed, and in which a fluid flows; a lifting valve which is configured to close the opening by covering an entire region of the opening, open the opening by being separated from the opening in an opening direction of the opening, and change a distance from the opening in the opening direction to change a flow area with respect to the opening; and a servo actuator as a driver which moves the lifting valve in the opening direction based on a predetermined detection value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Shibaura Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki KURIHARA, Takeshi NAMBA, Satoshi FUKUYAMA, Koichi NOSE
  • Publication number: 20220307122
    Abstract: A surface treatment device includes a housing unit, a surface treatment element, and a stirring element. The housing unit houses a workpiece. The surface treatment element performs surface treatment on the workpiece housed in the housing unit. The stirring element stirs the workpiece when the surface treatment element performs the surface treatment on the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Shibaura Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi FUKUYAMA, Yoshiaki KURIHARA, Takeshi NAMBA, Koichi NOSE
  • Publication number: 20220216548
    Abstract: A battery case and method of production of the same realizing smaller size, higher mountability, longer service life, and lower cost than in the past, that is, a battery case comprising a container body and a container cover, in which battery case, one or both of the container body and the container cover are made from a laminated steel sheet comprised of a plated steel sheet on which a film having a polyolefin-based resin as a main constituent is laminated, a joined part of the container body and the container cover has a welded part of the plated steel sheet, a melt bonded part of the film, and a gap part between the welded part and the melt bonded part, where a length of gap part/thickness of plated steel sheet ?10.0 and a length of gap part/length of joined part <0.50, and at least part of the inside surface of the battery case is covered by the film, and a method of production of the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinobu KOBAYASHI, Koichi NOSE, Yasuto GOTO, Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Tatsuo NAGATA, Masaharu IBARAGI
  • Patent number: 11326224
    Abstract: Provided are a stainless steel sheet with good corrosion resistance, low contact resistance and good press workability without the use of expensive materials such as gold or rare metals, and a method of manufacture the same. A method of manufacturing a stainless steel sheet includes: preparing a slab having a chemical composition including, in mass %: 20 to 26% Cr, up to 0.1% N, up to 2.0% Si, etc. (step S1); performing hot rolling and cold rolling on the slab to produce a rolled steel sheet with a thickness of 50 to 200 ?m (step S2); an annealing step in which the rolled steel sheet is annealed and cooled in a gas atmosphere containing nitrogen (step S3); and pickling the rolled steel sheet after the annealing step with a solution containing a non-oxidizing acid (step S4). The stainless steel sheet has an N content of 0.6 to 2.0% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideya Kaminaka, Yoshitaka Nishiyama, Koichi Nose, Jun Maki, Junko Imamura, Kohei Maejima, Yuya Takashima
  • Patent number: 11198918
    Abstract: The present invention has as its object to provide thickness 60 ?m or less ultra-thin stainless steel foil which secures high thickness precision and simultaneously secures plastic deformability and good elongation at break, that is, secures good press-formability (deep drawability). The present invention solves this problem by ultra-thin stainless steel foil which has three or more crystal grains in a thickness direction, has a recrystallization rate of 90% to 100%, and has a nitrogen concentration of a surface layer of 1.0 mass % or less. For this reason, there is provided a method of production of stainless steel foil comprising rolling stainless steel sheet, then performing final annealing and making a thickness 5 ?m to 60 ?m, wherein a rolling reduction ratio at rolling right before final annealing is 30% or more, a temperature of final annealing after rolling is 950° C. to 1050° C. in the case of austenitic stainless steel and 850° C. to 950° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroto Unno, Shinichi Terashima, Toru Inaguma, Koichi Nose, Naoki Fujimoto, Naoya Sawaki, Shuji Nagasaki
  • Publication number: 20210132866
    Abstract: A data processing device includes: an input data determining unit configured to determine whether or not each of binarized input data is a predetermined value; a storage unit configured to store a plurality of coefficients and coefficient address information including information related to coefficient addresses where the plurality of coefficients are stored; a control unit configured to read the coefficient address from the storage unit based on a determination result of the input data determining unit and read the coefficient from the storage unit based on the coefficient address; and an arithmetic unit configured to execute an arithmetic operation related to the coefficient acquired by the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Shunsuke OKUMURA, Koichi NOSE
  • Publication number: 20210066729
    Abstract: A titanium material includes a base material made of pure titanium or a titanium alloy; and a carbon layer covering a surface of the base material. The carbon layer includes non-graphitizable carbon, and has an R value (I1350/I1590) of 2.0 or more and 3.5 or less in the Raman spectroscopy using laser having a wavelength of 532 nm. Where I1350 is peak intensity at a wave number of around 1.35×105 m?1 in a Raman spectrum, and I1590 is peak intensity at a wave number of around 1.59×105 m?1 in a Raman spectrum. According to this titanium material, it is possible to realize low contact resistance by the carbon layer. Moreover, this titanium material is not susceptible to surface oxidation and capable of maintaining low contact resistance even when exposed to noble potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideya KAMINAKA, Koichi NOSE, Yoshitaka NISHIYAMA, Junko IMAMURA, Haruka SATO, Yuya TAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200283867
    Abstract: Provided are a stainless steel sheet with good corrosion resistance, low contact resistance and good press workability without the use of expensive materials such as gold or rare metals, and a method of manufacture the same. A method of manufacturing a stainless steel sheet includes: preparing a slab having a chemical composition including, in mass %: 20 to 26% Cr, up to 0.1% N, up to 2.0% Si, etc. (step S1); performing hot rolling and cold rolling on the slab to produce a rolled steel sheet with a thickness of 50 to 200 ?m (step S2); an annealing step in which the rolled steel sheet is annealed and cooled in a gas atmosphere containing nitrogen (step S3); and pickling the rolled steel sheet after the annealing step with a solution containing a non-oxidizing acid (step S4). The stainless steel sheet has an N content of 0.6 to 2.0% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL STAINLESS STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideya KAMINAKA, Yoshitaka NISHIYAMA, Koichi NOSE, Jun MAKI, Junko IMAMURA, Kohei MAEJIMA, Yuya TAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 10741802
    Abstract: A steel foil for an electrical storage device container, including a steel foil, a metal chromium layer layered on the steel foil, and a hydrated chromium oxide layer layered on the metal chromium layer, in which the concentration of Fe from a surface of the hydrated chromium oxide layer to a depth of 10 nm is less than 10% by mass, the area ratio of a site having an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 10 nm or more in a visual field of 1 ?m at the surface of the hydrated chromium oxide layer is less than 20%, and a site having an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 10 nm in a visual field of 1 ?m has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 3 nm or less in a visual field of 1 ?m at the surface of the hydrated chromium oxide layer, is adopted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Ibaragi, Koichi Nose, Yasuto Goto, Nobuo Kadowaki, Hiroto Unno
  • Publication number: 20200091523
    Abstract: A titanium material including a base metal made of pure titanium or a titanium alloy and a titanium oxide film formed on the base metal. Peak intensities obtained by thin-film X-ray diffraction analysis performed on an outer layer of the titanium material using an incident angle of 0.3° satisfy (I(104)+I(200))/I(101)?0.08?0.004×I(200), where I(104) is the peak intensity resulting from a plane (104) of a Ti2O3 phase, I(200) is the peak intensity resulting from a plane (200) of a TiO phase, I(101) is the peak intensity resulting from a plane (101) of an ?-Ti phase, and 0<I(104), 0?I(200), and 0<I(101). The titanium material is inexpensive and has both the electrical conductivity and corrosion resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Hideya Kaminaka, Yoshitaka Nishiyama, Koichi Nose, Junko Imamura, Haruka Sato
  • Patent number: 10472543
    Abstract: Problems to be Solved: To provide a metal foil coil with a planarization film, with which an electronic device can be formed by a roll to roll process. Solution: A quick curable coating liquid for a planarization film prepared by adding into an organic solvent, with respect to 1 mol of a phenyltrialkoxysilane, 0.1 mol to 1 mol of acetic acid and 0.005 mol to 0.05 mol of organic tin as a catalyst, hydrolyzing the silane with 2 mol to 4 mol of water, then distilling away the organic solvent at a temperature of 160° C. to 210° C. under reduced pressure to yield a resin, and dissolving the resin in an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent, is coated on a metal foil coil to a film thickness of 2.0 ?m to 5.0 ?m. When an insulation coating is provided on a metal foil coil before a planarization film is formed, high reliability for insulation can be obtained. When a stainless steel foil provided with a reflection film is used, a highly efficient light emitting device can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriko Yamada, Sawako Yamaguchi, Koichi Nose
  • Patent number: 10418601
    Abstract: A steel foil for a power storage device container includes a rolled steel foil which has a thickness of 200 ?m or less, a diffusion alloy layer which is formed on a surface layer of the rolled steel foil and contains Ni and Fe, and a chromium-based surface treatment layer which is formed on the diffusion alloy layer. The <111> polar density in a reverse pole figure of the diffusion alloy layer in a rolling direction is 2.0 to 6.0, and the aspect ratio of crystal in a surface of the diffusion alloy layer is 1.0 to 5.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Ibaragi, Koichi Nose, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Yasuto Goto, Shuji Nagasaki, Hiroto Unno
  • Patent number: 10305468
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes: a first switch SWx which switches whether or not to supply a first power supply voltage Vx generated by accumulating a charge outputted from a power source 10, as a second power supply voltage VDD to a first circuit 13, and a second switch SW1 which switches whether or not to connect to the first circuit 13 a smoothing capacitor C1 which suppresses a fluctuation of the second power supply voltage VDD, and the first switch SWx is switched to an on state in response to that the first power supply voltage Vx has reached a sufficient voltage, and then the second switch SW1 is switched to the on state in response to that the second power supply voltage VDD has reached a sufficient voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichiro Noguchi, Koichi Nose, Yoshifumi Ikenaga, Yoichi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20190090341
    Abstract: A plasma generating device with a pair of plate-like conductor parts each having a plurality of through-holes passing between main surfaces are opposed to each other with a predetermined gap therebetween. A gas is flowed into the through-holes from one side of the pair of plate-like conductor parts. Plasma discharge is generated in the gap by applying a high-frequency voltage between the pair of plate-like conductor parts and the generated plasma is flowed out to the other side of the pair of plate-like conductor parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: JCU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki TAKAHASHI, Hiroyuki UEYAMA, Koichi NOSE
  • Patent number: 10230275
    Abstract: A power supply device includes a plurality of power sources each including an antenna and an AC/DC conversion unit that converts an AC signal received by the antenna to a DC signal, a plurality of consolidating units each including a first consolidating circuit that selectively consolidates a plurality of DC signals supplied by the plurality of power sources, and a power supply unit that includes a second consolidating circuit that selectively consolidates DC signals output from the plurality of consolidating units, and a first voltage conversion circuit that converts a DC signal resulting from consolidation in the second consolidating circuit, to a predetermined voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichiro Noguchi, Koichi Nose, Yoshifumi Ikenaga, Yoichi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10205135
    Abstract: A steel foil for a power storage device container includes a rolled steel foil, a nickel layer formed on a surface of the rolled steel foil, and a chromium-based surface treatment layer formed on a surface of the nickel layer. The nickel layer includes an upper layer portion which is in contact with the chromium-based surface treatment layer and contains Ni of 90 mass % or more among metal elements, and a lower layer portion which is in contact with the rolled steel foil and contains Ni of less than 90 mass % among the metal elements and Fe. <111> polar density in a reverse pole figure of the nickel layer in a rolling direction is 3.0 to 6.0. The nickel layer has a sub-boundary which is a boundary between two crystals having a relative orientation difference of 2° to 5°, and a large angle boundary which is a boundary between two crystals having the relative orientation difference of equal to or more than 15°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Ibaragi, Koichi Nose, Kiyokazu Ishizuka, Yasuto Goto, Shuji Nagasaki, Hiroto Unno
  • Patent number: 10187117
    Abstract: Provided is a receiving circuit that operates in a power supply system different from a transmitting circuit outputting a transmission signal and receives the transmission signal through an AC coupling device where a primary coil through which the transmission signal flows and a secondary coil having a center tap to which a specified voltage is supplied from an external terminal are magnetically coupled, which includes a pulse width amplifier circuit that holds pulse signals appearing at both ends of the secondary coil for a specified period of time and outputs them as hold signals, respectively, and a differential amplifier that compares a voltage of the hold signal and a voltage of the hold signal and outputs a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Shunichi Kaeriyama, Kouichi Yamaguchi, Koichi Nose
  • Publication number: 20180323447
    Abstract: This titanium product includes a base metal, and a complex oxide film formed on the surface of the base metal. The base metal has a chemical composition consisting of, by mass %, platinum group elements: 0 to 0.15%, rare earth elements: 0 to 0.1%, and a balance: Ti and impurities. The complex oxide film contains a complex oxide of Ti and one or more elements selected from La, Ce, Nd, Sr and Ca, and has a thickness of 1 to 20 nm. The average grain size at the base metal surface is preferably from 20 to 300 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Junko IMAMURA, Jun MAKI, Koichi NOSE, Hideya KAMINAKA