Patents by Inventor Koji Nakanishi

Koji Nakanishi 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: 12088923
    Abstract: A visible light communication method transmits a signal by visible light communication. The visible light communication method includes modulating the signal into a predetermined blinking pattern, and transmitting the signal by causing visible light to blink according to the predetermined blinking pattern, from a projector disposed in an indoor space surrounded by a wall toward the wall. The visible light communication method also includes projecting video from the projector toward the wall, wherein the visible light is reflected by the wall to prevent the signal from being received in an outside of the indoor space, and the signal is used to transmit data related to the video projected to a terminal in the indoor space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Koji Nakanishi, Hideki Aoyama, Ikuo Fuchigami, Hidehiko Shin, Tsutomu Mukai, Yosuke Matsushita, Shigehiro Iida, Kazunori Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240294755
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fiber-reinforced resin filament and an object, the fiber-reinforced resin filament containing a thermoplastic resin (A), a fibrous reinforcing material (B) having a fiber length of 3 to 9 mm and a fiber diameter of 5 to 20 ?m, and an elastomer (C). The fiber-reinforced resin filament of the present invention provides a thermoplastic resin filament for 3D printing that can be wound up, and an object built by fused deposition modeling using this fiber-reinforced resin filament exhibits suitable mechanical properties. This finding has led to completion of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Nakanishi, Daisuke Ito
  • Publication number: 20240145814
    Abstract: A battery unit which achieves both thermal performance and repairability, and which efficiently ensures insulation between a battery cell and a cooler. The battery unit according to the present disclosure comprises a battery cell, a heat dissipation sheet, a cured resin heat dissipation member, and a cooler in this order so as to be in contact with each other, the battery cell and the heat dissipation sheet being in contact with each other in an interface separable manner, the cured resin heat dissipation member being bonded to the heat dissipation sheet and the cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20240044004
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to apparatus and methods for semiconductor processing, more particularly, to a thermal process chamber. The thermal process chamber includes a substrate support, a first plurality of heating elements disposed over or below the substrate support, and a spot heating module disposed over the substrate support. The spot heating module is utilized to provide local heating of cold regions on a substrate disposed on the substrate support during processing. Localized heating of the substrate improves temperature profile, which in turn improves deposition uniformity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Shu-Kwan LAU, Koji NAKANISHI, Toshiyuki NAKAGAWA, Zuoming ZHU, Zhiyuan YE, Joseph M. RANISH, Nyi Oo MYO, Errol Antonio C. SANCHEZ, Schubert S. CHU
  • Publication number: 20240027295
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for lamp housing crack detection are provided herein. For example, a method associated with a process chamber having a lamp housing comprises sequentially processing a plurality of substrates in the process chamber, during processing of the plurality of substrates, collecting lamp housing data indicative of a fluid leak in the lamp housing from a sensor operably connected to the lamp housing of the process chamber, determining from the lamp housing data whether lamp housing crack is present, and responsive to determining lamp housing crack is present, at least one of triggering an alert or stopping processing of the process chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Philip MATHEW, Mehran BEHDJAT, Masamori SANAKA, Koji NAKANISHI, Ryan MURDOCH, Mark David JOHNSON, Jun QIAN, Yuchun CHANG, George GOVEL
  • Patent number: 11821088
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to apparatus and methods for semiconductor processing, more particularly, to a thermal process chamber. The thermal process chamber includes a substrate support, a first plurality of heating elements disposed over or below the substrate support, and a spot heating module disposed over the substrate support. The spot heating module is utilized to provide local heating of cold regions on a substrate disposed on the substrate support during processing. Localized heating of the substrate improves temperature profile, which in turn improves deposition uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Shu-Kwan Lau, Koji Nakanishi, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Zuoming Zhu, Zhiyuan Ye, Joseph M. Ranish, Nyi O. Myo, Errol Antonio C. Sanchez, Schubert S. Chu
  • Publication number: 20230370726
    Abstract: A visible light communication method transmits a signal by visible light communication. The visible light communication method includes modulating the signal into a predetermined blinking pattern, and transmitting the signal by causing visible light to blink according to the predetermined blinking pattern, from a projector disposed in an indoor space surrounded by a wall toward the wall. The visible light communication method also includes projecting video from the projector toward the wall, wherein the visible light is reflected by the wall to prevent the signal from being received in an outside of the indoor space, and the signal is used to transmit data related to the video projected to a terminal in the indoor space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuaki OSHIMA, Koji NAKANISHI, Hideki AOYAMA, Ikuo FUCHIGAMI, Hidehiko SHIN, Tsutomu MUKAI, Yosuke MATSUSHITA, Shigehiro IIDA, Kazunori YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230260672
    Abstract: An insulated wire including a conductor (A) and an insulating layer (B) around the conductor (A). The insulating layer (B) contains an aromatic polyetherketone resin (I) and a fluorine-containing copolymer (II) and has a melt viscosity at 60 sec?1 and 390° C. of 0.40 to 0.75 kPa·s. The aromatic polyetherketone resin (I) has a melt viscosity at 60 sec?1 and 390° C. of 0.30 kPa·s or lower. The insulating layer (B) has a thickness of 30 to 300 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuma MARUHASHI, Koji NAKANISHI, Toyomitsu SEKI, Hideki KONO
  • Publication number: 20230242771
    Abstract: A composition for three-dimensional printing which contains an aromatic polyetherketone resin (I) and a fluorine-containing copolymer (II). The composition satisfies a ratio r2/r1 of 1.60 or lower, wherein r1 represents an average dispersed particle size of the fluorine-containing copolymer (II) and r2 represents an average dispersed particle size of the fluorine-containing copolymer (II) after melt flow rate measurement at 380° C. and a load of 5000 g with 5-minute pre-heating in conformity with ASTM D1238. Also disclosed is a three-dimensionally printed article obtained by three-dimensional printing of the composition for three-dimensional printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji NAKANISHI, Toyomitsu SEKI, Takuma MARUHASHI, Hideki KONO
  • Publication number: 20230235182
    Abstract: A powder composition containing an aromatic polyetherketone resin (I) and a fluorine-containing copolymer (II). The powder composition has a ratio r2/r1 of 1.60 or lower, wherein r1 represents an average dispersed particle size of the fluorine-containing copolymer (II) and r2 represents an average dispersed particle size of the fluorine-containing copolymer (II) after melt flow rate measurement at 380° C. and a load of 5000 g with 5-minute pre-heating in conformity with ASTM D1238.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji NAKANISHI, Toyomitsu SEKI, Takuma MARUHASHI, Noriko IMADA, Hideki KONO
  • Publication number: 20230187262
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a support ring for a thermal processing chamber. The support ring has a polysilicon coating. The polysilicon coating is formed using a plasma spray deposition process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Jian WU, Toshiyuki NAKAGAWA, Koji NAKANISHI
  • Publication number: 20230174780
    Abstract: A film containing a resin composition containing an aromatic polyetherketone resin (I) and a fluorine-containing copolymer (II). The fluorine-containing copolymer (II) defines a dispersed phase at an average dispersed particle size of 5 µm or smaller. The aromatic polyetherketone resin (I) has a crystallinity of lower than 6%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toyomitsu SEKI, Takuma MARUHASHI, Koji NAKANISHI, Hideki KONO
  • Patent number: 11659284
    Abstract: A visible light communication method transmits a signal by visible light communication. The visible light communication method includes modulating the signal into a predetermined blinking pattern, and transmitting the signal by causing visible light to blink according to the predetermined blinking pattern, from a projector disposed in an indoor space surrounded by a wall toward the wall. The visible light communication method also includes projecting video from the projector toward the wall, wherein the visible light is reflected by the wall to prevent the signal from being received in an outside of the indoor space, and the signal is used to transmit data related to the video projected to a plurality of terminals in the indoor space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Koji Nakanishi, Hideki Aoyama, Ikuo Fuchigami, Hidehiko Shin, Tsutomu Mukai, Yosuke Matsushita, Shigehiro Iida, Kazunori Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230082221
    Abstract: A visible light communication method transmits a signal by visible light communication. The visible light communication method includes modulating the signal into a predetermined blinking pattern, and transmitting the signal by causing visible light to blink according to the predetermined blinking pattern, from a projector disposed in an indoor space surrounded by a wall toward the wall. The visible light communication method also includes projecting video from the projector toward the wall, wherein the visible light is reflected by the wall to prevent the signal from being received in an outside of the indoor space, and the signal is used to transmit data related to the video projected to a plurality of terminals in the indoor space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuaki OSHIMA, Koji NAKANISHI, Hideki AOYAMA, Ikuo FUCHIGAMI, Hidehiko SHIN, Tsutomu MUKAI, Yosuke MATSUSHITA, Shigehiro IIDA, Kazunori YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11594445
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a support ring for a thermal processing chamber. The support ring has a polysilicon coating. The polysilicon coating is formed using a plasma spray deposition process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Wu, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Koji Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20230053865
    Abstract: A thermal-conductive silicone composition containing (A) 0.5 to 2.5 mass % of a crosslinked silicone gel containing (a) an organopolysiloxane having at least two aliphatic unsaturated hydrocarbon groups per molecule, and having a kinematic viscosity at 25° C. of 10,000,000 mm2/s or more, and (b) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane having two or more silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms per molecule; (B) 12.5 to 19.5 mass % of a hydrolysable organopolysiloxane compound; and (C) 80 to 85 mass % of aluminum nitride particles having an average particle size of 0.5 pm or more and 1.5 pm or less. A content of coarse particles in the aluminum nitride particles is 1.0 volume % or less relative to the whole. The coarse particles are 10 pm or more in a particle size distribution by laser diffraction. A thermal-conductive silicone composition has excellent coating workability and favorable pumping-out resistance, and is capable of attaining low thermal resistance by being thinly compressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keita KITAZAWA, Wataru TOYA, Ayako YAMAGUCHI, Koji NAKANISHI, Ryo MIYAZAKI, Masataka DEGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230011050
    Abstract: A reactor includes a coil having gaps between adjacent turns of a winding, a core inserted through the coil, and a heat-dissipating material that is in contact with a side face of the coil. The heat-dissipating material is inserted between the adjacent turns of the winding of the coil, and the thickness of the heat-dissipating material outside the coil in a direction of an axis of the coil is smaller than the thickness of the heat-dissipating material between the adjacent turns of the winding. By reducing the thickness of the heat-dissipating material outside the coil where contribution to coil cooling is small, the amount of the heat-dissipating material can be reduced without lowering the cooling performance to the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 11534940
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a method for producing a pellet and an apparatus for producing a pellet, including a conveyor belt that conveys a strand formed by melting a composition containing a thermoplastic resin and an additive and then ejecting the molten composition from a feeder, a liquid-spraying device spraying a liquid toward the strand conveyed, a gas-blowing device blowing a gas toward the strand conveyed, a strand cutter cutting the strand conveyed into a pellet, the liquid-spraying device, the gas-blowing device, and the strand cutter being disposed in this order in the conveying direction of the strand, a measurement device measuring a surface temperature of the strand, the measurement device being disposed upstream of the strand cutter in the conveying direction, and an adjustment mechanism adjusting driving of at least one of the liquid-spraying device and the gas-blowing device in accordance with the surface temperature measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Sakurai, Yasuaki Kumagai, Hisanori Ikeda, Koji Nakanishi, Yasuhiro Iriguchi, Kazunari Fukasawa, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11491892
    Abstract: A selection apparatus includes an acquirer configured to acquire information of a usage state of at least one reuse component before being reused and a purpose of use of the at least one reused component; and a selector configured to select a reused component suitable for the purpose of use based on the usage state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 11490025
    Abstract: A method includes setting an exposure time of an image sensor included in a terminal device so that, in an image obtained by capturing a subject by the image sensor, a bright line corresponding to each of a plurality of exposure lines included in the image sensor appears according to a change in luminance of the subject. The method also includes obtaining a bright line image including a plurality of bright lines, by capturing the subject that changes in luminance by the image sensor with the set exposure time. The method further includes estimating a plurality of center areas each of which is in each of the plurality of bright lines, and obtaining identification information of the subject, by demodulating data specified by a pattern of the plurality of center areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Koji Nakanishi, Hideki Aoyama, Ikuo Fuchigami, Hidehiko Shin, Tsutomu Mukai, Yosuke Matsushita, Shigehiro Iida, Kazunori Yamada