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).

  • Publication number: 20180323779
    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: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro NOGUCHI, Koichi NOSE, Yoshifumi IKENAGA, Yoichi YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 10033372
    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: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Noguchi, Koichi Nose, Yoshifumi Ikenaga, Yoichi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20180138468
    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: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicants: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Nippon Steel & Sumikin Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaharu IBARAGI, Koichi NOSE, Yasuto GOTO, Nobuo KADOWAKI, Hiroto UNNO
  • Publication number: 20180083494
    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: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Koichiro NOGUCHI, Koichi NOSE, Yoshifumi IKENAGA, Yoichi YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 9906079
    Abstract: There is a problem in the prior semiconductor devices that energy recovery efficiency is low. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a power supply circuit includes an alternating-current signal synthesis unit including a plurality of alternating-current coupling elements having primary sides to which respective input alternating-current signals are input and secondary sides connected in series with each other, and a control circuit that outputs an input selection signal specifying a combination of the input alternating-current signals to be synthesized. The control circuit generates the input selection signal so as to maximize the output alternating-current signal synthesized by the alternating-current synthesis signal unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichiro Noguchi, Koichi Nose, Yoshifumi Ikenaga, Yoichi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9905817
    Abstract: A resin-metal composite sealed container having a heat seal part using a heat-sealing resin, between an end part of a first metal foil and an end part of a second metal foil, and a metallically sealed part with a weld bead, on the end face outside the heat sealed part of the first metal foil and the second metal foil. The resin-metal composite sealed container, wherein the melting point of the metal constituting the metal foil is higher by 300° C. or more than the thermal decomposition temperature of the heat-sealing resin, the specific gravity of the metal constituting the metal foil is 5 or more, and the weld bead is formed by a laser welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Nose, Jun Nakatsuka, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Yu Murai
  • Patent number: 9906669
    Abstract: A scanning system according to the present invention includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of pieces of image information generated by continuously scanning a medium to be scanned, a path calculation unit that calculates a path of scanning the medium based on the plurality of pieces of image information acquired by the image acquisition unit, a processing method determination unit that determines a processing method of the plurality of pieces of image information in accordance with a path calculated by the path calculation unit, and a processing unit that processes the plurality of pieces of image information by a processing method determined by the processing method determination unit and converts the plurality of pieces of image information into information in a form corresponding to the processing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Hijioka, Koichi Nose, Shunsuke Okumura
  • Patent number: 9852349
    Abstract: A scanner system includes a pen-shaped scanner that scans a character strings that is one part of a sentence described in a paper book and generates and transmits sentence image data on the basis of the scanned character string, a storage unit that stores therein book image data that is higher in image quality than the sentence image data and is obtained by electronically imaging the sentence described in the paper book, and a matching unit that compares the book image data with the sentence image data that the pen-shaped scanner has transmitted and extracts partial image data that has been decide to match the sentence image data from the book image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Tomisawa, Koichi Nose, Shunsuke Okumura
  • Patent number: 9843227
    Abstract: A power supply device according to an embodiment comprises a plurality of power sources 10 each including an antenna and an AC/DC conversion unit, a plurality of consolidating units 13_1 to 13_i, and a power supply unit 15. The consolidating units 13_1 to 13_i respectively include consolidating circuits 14_1 to 14_i that selectively consolidate a plurality of DC signals 21_1 to 21_n supplied by the plurality of power sources 10. The power supply unit 15 includes a consolidating circuit 16 that selectively consolidates the DC signals 21_1 to 21_i output from the plurality of consolidating units 13_1 to 13_i, and a voltage conversion circuit 17 that converts a DC signal 23 resulting from consolidation in the consolidating circuit 16, to a predetermined voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Noguchi, Koichi Nose, Yoshifumi Ikenaga, Yoichi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20170313903
    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: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriko YAMADA, Sawako YAMAGUCHI, Koichi NOSE
  • Publication number: 20170310236
    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: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Shunichi KAERIYAMA, Kouichi YAMAGUCHI, Koichi NOSE
  • Publication number: 20170300329
    Abstract: An instruction execution control system includes a plurality of instruction storage units configured to output instructions in an FIFO order to a plurality of instruction execution units configured to execute the instructions; an instruction control unit configured to assign each of a plurality of the sequentially input instructions to one of the instruction storage units, and an output control unit configured to control the output of the instructions from the instruction storage units. When the input instruction is a dummy instruction to be inserted between instructions that should be executed in an execution order, the instruction control unit distributes the input instruction to the plurality of instruction storage units. The output control unit stops the output of the instructions from the instruction storage unit, the instruction output therefrom has become the dummy instruction, to the instruction execution unit until instructions output from all instruction storage units become the dummy instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Koichiro NOGUCHI, Osamu OKAZAKI, Shunichi KAERIYAMA, Koichi NOSE
  • Patent number: 9716440
    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: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: RENASAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunichi Kaeriyama, Kouichi Yamaguchi, Koichi Nose
  • Publication number: 20170185836
    Abstract: A marking analysis system includes a marking data storage unit to store a plurality of marking data indicating a plurality of positions marked by a user in a book so as to correspond respectively to a plurality of users, a marking distribution analysis unit that analyzes the marking data and calculates a marking frequency for each of a plurality of unit areas in the book, and generates marking distribution characteristic data indicating a distribution of the marking frequency with respect to a position in the unit area, a marking distribution characteristic data storage unit to store the marking distribution characteristic data, and a similar user retrieval unit that, when determining that the distribution of the marking frequency indicated by the marking distribution characteristic data of a target user selected as a processing target and the distribution of the marking frequency indicated by the marking distribution characteristic data of another user are similar, extracts the another user as a similar user
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Shunsuke OKUMURA, Koichi NOSE, Kenichiro HIJIOKA
  • Publication number: 20170170436
    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: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu IBARAGI, Koichi NOSE, Kiyokazu ISHIZUKA, Yasuto GOTO, Shuji NAGASAKI, Hiroto UNNO
  • Publication number: 20170171408
    Abstract: A scanning system 9 according to the present invention includes an image acquisition unit 91 that acquires a plurality of pieces of image information generated by continuously scanning a medium to be scanned, a path calculation unit 92 that calculates a path of scanning the medium based on the plurality of pieces of image information acquired by the image acquisition unit 91, a processing method determination unit 93 that determines a processing method of the plurality of pieces of image information in accordance with a path calculated by the path calculation unit 92, and a processing unit 94 that processes the plurality of pieces of image information by a processing method determined by the processing method determination unit 93 and converts the plurality of pieces of image information into information in a form corresponding to the processing method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro HIJIOKA, Koichi NOSE, Shunsuke OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20170162836
    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: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicants: 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: 9630164
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a porous polymer metal complex which can be used as a gas adsorbent and contains two or more types of similar ligands. A porous polymer metal complex is provided expressed by [CuX]n(1) (in the Formula, X represents two or more types of isophthalic acid ions selected from the group consisting of isophthalic acid ions and isophthalic acid ions having a substituent at position 5, at least an amount of one type of X is 5 mol % to 95 mol % of the total number of moles of X, and n represents an assembly number of constituent units expressed by CuX and is not particularly limited).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kajiro, Koichi Nose, Susumu Kitagawa, Ryotaro Matsuda, Hiroshi Sato
  • Publication number: 20170068869
    Abstract: A scanner system includes a pen-shaped scanner that scans a character strings that is one part of a sentence described in a paper book and generates and transmits sentence image data on the basis of the scanned character string, a storage unit that stores therein book image data that is higher in image quality than the sentence image data and is obtained by electronically imaging the sentence described in the paper book, and a matching unit that compares the book image data with the sentence image data that the pen-shaped scanner has transmitted and extracts partial image data that has been decide to match the sentence image data from the book image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Satoru TOMISAWA, Koichi NOSE, Shunsuke OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20170061818
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a skill teaching verification system and a skill teaching verification program that can verify an effect of a teaching method for a skill. An analyzing unit analyzes a plurality of pieces of sample data stored in a storing unit using a predetermined multivariate analyzing method. A motion template generation unit generates a standard human body motion model on the basis of an analysis result by the analyzing unit. A motion synthesizing unit generates a corrected human body motion model obtained by correcting the standard human body motion model on the basis of an instruction of a user. A verification unit predicts an attempt result obtained from the corrected human body motion model on the basis of the analysis result by the analyzing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro HIJIOKA, Koichi NOSE