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).
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Publication number: 20180323779Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Koichiro NOGUCHI, Koichi NOSE, Yoshifumi IKENAGA, Yoichi YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 10033372Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Koichiro Noguchi, Koichi Nose, Yoshifumi Ikenaga, Yoichi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20180138468Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2016Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicants: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Nippon Steel & Sumikin Materials Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaharu IBARAGI, Koichi NOSE, Yasuto GOTO, Nobuo KADOWAKI, Hiroto UNNO
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Publication number: 20180083494Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Koichiro NOGUCHI, Koichi NOSE, Yoshifumi IKENAGA, Yoichi YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 9906079Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Koichiro Noguchi, Koichi Nose, Yoshifumi Ikenaga, Yoichi Yoshida
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Patent number: 9905817Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichi Nose, Jun Nakatsuka, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Yu Murai
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Patent number: 9906669Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Kenichiro Hijioka, Koichi Nose, Shunsuke Okumura
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Patent number: 9852349Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 10, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Tomisawa, Koichi Nose, Shunsuke Okumura
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Patent number: 9843227Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 18, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Koichiro Noguchi, Koichi Nose, Yoshifumi Ikenaga, Yoichi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20170313903Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriko YAMADA, Sawako YAMAGUCHI, Koichi NOSE
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Publication number: 20170310236Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Shunichi KAERIYAMA, Kouichi YAMAGUCHI, Koichi NOSE
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Publication number: 20170300329Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2014Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Koichiro NOGUCHI, Osamu OKAZAKI, Shunichi KAERIYAMA, Koichi NOSE
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Patent number: 9716440Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: RENASAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Shunichi Kaeriyama, Kouichi Yamaguchi, Koichi Nose
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Publication number: 20170185836Abstract: 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 userType: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Shunsuke OKUMURA, Koichi NOSE, Kenichiro HIJIOKA
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Publication number: 20170170436Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2015Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicants: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaharu IBARAGI, Koichi NOSE, Kiyokazu ISHIZUKA, Yasuto GOTO, Shuji NAGASAKI, Hiroto UNNO
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Publication number: 20170171408Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2016Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicant: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Kenichiro HIJIOKA, Koichi NOSE, Shunsuke OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20170162836Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2015Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicants: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaharu IBARAGI, Koichi NOSE, Kiyokazu ISHIZUKA, Yasuto GOTO, Shuji NAGASAKI, Hiroto UNNO
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Patent number: 9630164Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Kajiro, Koichi Nose, Susumu Kitagawa, Ryotaro Matsuda, Hiroshi Sato
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Publication number: 20170068869Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2016Publication date: March 9, 2017Inventors: Satoru TOMISAWA, Koichi NOSE, Shunsuke OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20170061818Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Kenichiro HIJIOKA, Koichi NOSE