Patents by Inventor Kota NISHIMURA

Kota NISHIMURA 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: 20240100937
    Abstract: A cooling system mounted in a vehicle includes a motor that is a drive source of the vehicle; an inverter that drives the motor; a radiator; a washer liquid tank that stores a cleaning liquid for cleaning a windshield of the vehicle; and a circulation channel that allows the cleaning liquid stored in the washer liquid tank to circulate through the inverter, the motor, the radiator, and the washer liquid tank in an order presented, thereby causing the cleaning liquid to store heat of the motor and the inverter and also causing heat of the cleaning liquid to be dissipated by the radiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ryoma NISHIMURA, Kota KATO
  • Patent number: 10615577
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a spark plug including a reference standard imaging step of imaging a plurality of reference standards to obtain a plurality of reference images, each reference standard having a reference part with a predetermined known dimension; a reference standard measuring step of measuring a measured dimension or a measured number of pixels of the reference part in the plurality of reference images; a regression line deriving step of obtaining a regression line by the least squares method from: the measured dimension or the measured number of pixels of the plurality of reference standards; and the known dimensions; and a determining step of determining whether a target part in a target image is within a predetermined range based on a correction value obtained by correcting a measured dimension of a target part by using a relational expression describing the regression line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Nishimura, Norihide Kachikawa
  • Publication number: 20200021085
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a spark plug including a reference standard imaging step of imaging a plurality of reference standards to obtain a plurality of reference images, each reference standard having a reference part with a predetermined known dimension; a reference standard measuring step of measuring a measured dimension or a measured number of pixels of the reference part in the plurality of reference images; a regression line deriving step of obtaining a regression line by the least squares method from: the measured dimension or the measured number of pixels of the plurality of reference standards; and the known dimensions; and a determining step of determining whether a target part in a target image is within a predetermined range based on a correction value obtained by correcting a measured dimension of a target part by using a relational expression describing the regression line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota NISHIMURA, Norihide KACHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10439368
    Abstract: Standard image data representing standard image including image of slit of a standard device is produced by photographing the standard device including the slit which includes a standard slit segment having a predetermined width. A width of the standard slit segment in the standard image is determined by analyzing the standard image data. Gap image data representing a gap image which is an image including an image of a discharge gap of a spark plug is produced by photographing the spark plug. A distance of the discharge gap in the gap image is determined by analyzing the gap image data. By using the distance of the discharge gap in the gap image and the width of the standard slit segment in the standard image, it is determined whether an actual distance of the discharge gap is within a predetermined allowable range or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Nishimura, Norihide Kachikawa
  • Publication number: 20190103732
    Abstract: Standard image data representing standard image including image of slit of a standard device is produced by photographing the standard device including the slit which includes a standard slit segment having a predetermined width. A width of the standard slit segment in the standard image is determined by analyzing the standard image data. Gap image data representing a gap image which is an image including an image of a discharge gap of a spark plug is produced by photographing the spark plug. A distance of the discharge gap in the gap image is determined by analyzing the gap image data. By using the distance of the discharge gap in the gap image and the width of the standard slit segment in the standard image, it is determined whether an actual distance of the discharge gap is within a predetermined allowable range or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota NISHIMURA, Norihide KACHIKAWA