Patents by Inventor Makoto Kawamura

Makoto Kawamura 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: 20240092240
    Abstract: It has at least one fixing plate arranged on the seat back and at least one support member arranged on the fixing plate, and the support member can be arranged at an arbitrary angle at an arbitrary position on the front surface of the fixing plate. Therefore, the position of the support member can be adjusted not only in the vertical direction but also in the horizontal direction with respect to the seat back, but also in the angle. Therefore, it is possible to increase the degree of freedom in the position and the angle of the support member as compared with the related art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KAWAMURA, Makoto OMURA, Keita ITO
  • Publication number: 20240084853
    Abstract: To provide an axle bearing having a low torque property and superior bearing lifetime. A hub bearing 6 is configured to rotatably support a wheel of a vehicle, and has a grease composition 10 sealed in an inner space thereof. The grease composition 10 contains a base oil and a thickener. The shear stress of the grease composition at the shear rate of 1,000-10,000 s?1 at 25° C. is 3,000 Pa or less. The viscosity of the grease composition is 1 Pas or less. The yield stress of the grease composition at 25° C. measured by a dynamic viscoelasticity analysis method using a rheometer is 1,300-3,000 Pa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Takayuki KAWAMURA, Ryouta KONDOU, Makoto SEKI, Susumu YAMAJI
  • Patent number: 11910067
    Abstract: A content providing system is provided that includes a client terminal and a server, and provides content based on a use state of the client terminal. The client terminal includes a client control unit and a display unit. The server includes a client terminal management unit, a content recording unit, a content management unit, a content distribution control unit, and a distribution condition management unit. The client control unit secures a content frame based on a distribution condition notified from the distribution condition management unit, and transmits a distribution request of the content to the content distribution control unit. The content distribution control unit extracts and distributes the content from the content recording unit, and the client control unit displays the content distributed by the content distribution control unit on the display unit within the content frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NEC NETWORKS & SYSTEM INTEGRATION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Kikuchi, Yasuaki Tsunemi, Yukiko Einaga, Tomonori Kaizaki, Makoto Kawamura, Satoshi Kobayashi, Tomomi Abe, Xuan Han, Ryuki Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20220295157
    Abstract: A content providing system is provided that includes a client terminal and a server, and provides content based on a use state of the client terminal. The client terminal includes a client control unit and a display unit. The server includes a client terminal management unit, a content recording unit, a content management unit, a content distribution control unit, and a distribution condition management unit. The client control unit secures a content frame based on a distribution condition notified from the distribution condition management unit, and transmits a distribution request of the content to the content distribution control unit. The content distribution control unit extracts and distributes the content from the content recording unit, and the client control unit displays the content distributed by the content distribution control unit on the display unit within the content frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Osamu KIKUCHI, Yasuaki TSUNEMI, Yukiko EINAGA, Tomonori KAIZAKI, Makoto KAWAMURA, Satoshi KOBAYASHI, Tomomi ABE, Xuan HAN, Ryuki KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210228638
    Abstract: A cell product for treatment of spinal cord injury, comprising a SSEA-3-positive pluripotent stem cell (Muse cell) derived from a mesenchymal tissue in a living body or a cultured mesenchymal cell. Preferably, the spinal cord injury is complete or incomplete spinal cord injury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: LIFE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Makoto KAWAMURA, Naoya MASUTOMI
  • Patent number: 10422859
    Abstract: In a distance measuring device, a drive controller generates an emission timing signal and an exposure timing signal in accordance with a measurement condition. A light source irradiates light in response to the emission timing signal. A solid-state image sensor has a group of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern and divided into a plurality of regions on a line-by-line basis, and performs an exposure process on a selected one of the regions in response to the exposure timing signal. An imaging signal processor obtains distance information by performing an arithmetic operation on a signal output from the solid-state image sensor. The drive controller generates mutually different measurement conditions to the plurality of the regions of the solid-state image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Kawamura, Tomohito Nagata, Haruka Takano, Mitsuhiko Otani
  • Publication number: 20160178734
    Abstract: In a distance measuring device, a drive controller generates an emission timing signal and an exposure timing signal in accordance with a measurement condition. A light source irradiates light in response to the emission timing signal. A solid-state image sensor has a group of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern and divided into a plurality of regions on a line-by-line basis, and performs an exposure process on a selected one of the regions in response to the exposure timing signal. An imaging signal processor obtains distance information by performing an arithmetic operation on a signal output from the solid-state image sensor. The drive controller generates mutually different measurement conditions to the plurality of the regions of the solid-state image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Makoto KAWAMURA, Tomohito NAGATA, Haruka TAKANO, Mitsuhiko OTANI
  • Patent number: 9024967
    Abstract: The system provides different ways for users to select an object and an action to be applied to the object in computer applications such as image processing or digital post-production. The user can select an object first and then an action, or vice versa. The user can also use gestural input to designate both an object and action virtually simultaneously. Multiple view, or windows, of an image can be independently sized, zoomed, panned, etc. Any effects performed on the image appear in all of the windows since each window shows (potentially) different portions of the same image content. A navigation window helps a user move within a large image or diagram that does not fit entirely on a single display screen. The navigation window includes an inner box that shows, in miniature, the principal objects in the screen display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sukendeep Samra, Makoto Kawamura, Shingo Kawabe, Kyoko Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8956132
    Abstract: A compressor includes a main body having in a housing a vane back-pressure space configured to project a vane forming a compression room for compressing gas, and a centrifugal oil separator. A discharge section to which the gas from the oil separator is ejected is formed in the housing, and the oil separator includes a pressure-adjusting valve configured to adjust pressure of the vane back-pressure space according to pressure of the discharge section. The pressure-adjusting valve is arranged in the oil separator without being affected by the gas ejected from the oil separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Keita Satou, Makoto Kawamura, Hiroshi Iijima, Hiroyuki Sato, Keisuke Nakazawa, Yukihiko Ando, Tohru Kamiyama, Hiroyuki Seimiya, Hiroki Shinkawa, Fumiaki Maruoka, Katsumi Endou, Masanori Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8878863
    Abstract: The portable terminal includes a display unit configured to display a screen; a first buffer and a second buffer configured to sequentially store display data for the displayed screen; a first determination unit configured to determine whether to perform single-buffer control or double-buffer control based on update data for the displayed screen; and a setting unit configured to set, if single-buffer control is appropriate, a display control method of the display unit to a display control method using the first buffer and to set, if double-buffer control is appropriate, a display control method of the display unit to a display control method using the first buffer and the second buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited
    Inventors: Masataka Kato, Makoto Kawamura
  • Patent number: 8830272
    Abstract: Multiple views, or windows, of an image of flowgraph nodes can be modified to facilitate viewing the nodes. In one embodiment, each window includes at least one boundary that is shared with another window so that when a window is changed by moving a particular boundary it causes another window sharing the particular boundary to correspondingly change. Window subsections can be used for viewing a different portion of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Sukendeep Samra, Makoto Kawamura, Shingo Kawabe, Kyoko Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8554186
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device that has a short range wireless communications unit performing short range wireless communications. A personal information storage unit storing a set of simple personal information relevant to the user of the mobile terminal device and a set of contact information for the user attached to the set of simple personal information and inhibited from being displayed on a device receiving this information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Usami, Mitsuhiro Nishibe, Shunsuke Kunieda, Kazunori Ueda, Takashi Kawakami, Makoto Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20120301343
    Abstract: A compressor includes a main body having in a housing a vane back-pressure space configured to project a vane forming a compression room for compressing gas, and a centrifugal oil separator, wherein a discharge section to which the gas from the oil separator is ejected is formed in the housing, the oil separator includes a pressure-adjusting valve configured to adjust pressure of the vane back-pressure space according to pressure of the discharge section, and the pressure-adjusting valve is provided in the oil separator without being affected by the gas ejected from the oil separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Keita SATOU, Makoto Kawamura, Hiroshi lijima, Hiroyuki Sato, Keisuke Nakazawa, Yukihiko Ando, Tohru Kamiyama, Hiroyuki Seimiya, Hiroki Shinkawa, Fumiaki Maruoka, Katsumi Endou, Masanori Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8152483
    Abstract: The variable capacity compressor has a rotor 21, as a rotating member, fixed to a drive shaft 10 and rotating integrally with the drive shaft 10, a swash plate 24, as a tilting member, tiltably and slidably attached to the drive shaft 10, a linkage mechanism 40 linking the rotor 21 and the swash plate 24 at a position corresponding to an upper dead center of the swash plate 24, transferring rotation of the rotor 21 to the swash plate 24, and guiding the tilting movement of the swash plate 24, and a tilting movement guide 60 provided between the rotor 21 and the swash plate 24 and anterior to the linkage mechanism 40 in the rotating direction and guiding changes of the inclination angle of the swash plate 24 with respect to the drive shaft 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Kawamura, Masakazu Aoki
  • Patent number: 8078950
    Abstract: A delay measuring device according to the present invention comprises a memory cell, a delay element and a selector. The memory cell is provided with a non-inversion output terminal and an inversion output terminal, and the memory cell fetches a data value inputted from outside in synchronization with a clock, retains the fetched data value and outputs the retained data value from the non-inversion output terminal and the inversion output terminal. The delay element is connected to the inversion output terminal. The selector selects one of the data value and a delayed data value outputted from the delay element and supplies the selected data value to the memory cell. In the present invention, a comparison result of making a comparison between a delay amount generated in the delayed data value and a time length defined based on the clock is outputted from the non-inversion output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20110206305
    Abstract: With use of separated alloy powder (10) as a sintering material, it is possible to utilize characteristics of metals of different types (SUS steel and Cu, for example). Further, a boundary surface between regions constituted by different metals is at least partially alloyed. Thus, it is possible to enhance bonding strength between the regions, and possible to enhance strength of a sintered bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fuyuki Ito, Kazuo Okamura, Makoto Kawamura, Hiroko Kawamura, Noriyoshi Kurata
  • Patent number: 7975128
    Abstract: The processor according to the present invention is a processor having a forwarding function and includes an attribute information holding unit (141) that holds attribute information regarding inhibition of writing to a register and a register write inhibition circuit (126) that holds, when forwarding is performed, the writing of the data forwarded according to attribute information. The attribute information holding unit (141) holds the attribute information by relating the attribute information to at least one register. Alternatively, the attribute information holding unit is a part of plural pipeline buffers and passes the attribute information along with the data to be forwarded, to a pipeline buffer in a subsequent stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shin-ichiro Fukai, Makoto Kawamura
  • Patent number: 7894322
    Abstract: An optical pickup (100) includes: an irradiating device (101) for irradiating a laser beam (LB); a first light focusing device (104) for focusing the laser beam on the recording medium (10); a collimator device (102) which is disposed on the optical path between the irradiating device and the first light focusing device and which can be displaced along the optical path of the laser beam; a splitting device (103) which reflects one portion of the laser beam and transmits therethrough another portion of the laser beam; a light receiving device (111) for receiving the reflected one portion of the laser beam; and a second light focusing device (112) for focusing, on the light receiving device, the reflected one portion of the laser beam, the light receiving device and the first light focusing device is disposed at a position at which rate of change in light density of the laser beam on the first light focusing device before and after displacement of the collimator device is substantially the same as that on the l
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Kawamura
  • Patent number: 7774666
    Abstract: The analyzer according to the present invention is an analyzer having a scan test function, and including scan paths each having flip-flops which function as a shift register when a scan test is performed, and a switching unit operable to switch between a first connection state, and a second connection state where the scan paths are connected in series to each other and further an output from the last stage of the scan path is connected to the input of the first stage of the scan path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Kawamura, Yutaka Ochi, Yasunaga Iseda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: RE42962
    Abstract: An optical disk having a diameter less than 140 mm and, a thickness of 1.2 mm±0.1 mm, with a plurality of record tracks having data recorded thereon as embossed pits representing information and exhibiting a track pitch in the range between 0.646 ?m and 1.05 ?m; with the tracks being divided into a lead-in area, a program area and a lead-out area. The data includes table of contents (TOC) information recorded in a plurality of sectors in at least one TOC track and user information recorded in a plurality of sectors in user tracks; with the TOC information including addresses of start sectors recorded in the user tracks. The data (both user and TOC information) is encoded in a long distance error correction code having at least eight parity symbols, and is run length limited (RLL) modulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Yonemitsu, Ryuichi Iwamura, Shunji Yoshimura, Makoto Kawamura