Patents by Inventor Makoto Nomura

Makoto Nomura 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: 11668075
    Abstract: A work vehicle 1 includes a display unit 51 of a rechargeable work vehicle 1, and a display unit controller 53 configured to reduce a brightness of the display unit 51 during charge of the work vehicle 1, compared with that during operation of the work vehicle 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Nomura, Takanori Yamane, Kaoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11656699
    Abstract: The present invention provides a product with an operation display panel incorporated therein, which naturally harmonizes with the environment to not create visual noise for a user and allow the user to operate the operation display panel intuitively while feeling a natural material. A thin layer, made of a natural wood, natural fiber, natural leather, or natural stone, or a resin, synthetic fiber, synthetic leather or artificial stone created by imitating the appearance and touch of a natural material, is provided on the peripheral surface of a housing so that the thin layer covers at least the entire front surface of a display panel. A touch sensor incorporated comes in contact with the front surface of the panel. The thickness of the thin layer and the luminance of the panel are designed to allow the user to view the content displayed on the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: MUI LAB, INC.
    Inventors: Kazunori Oki, Nobuyasu Hirobe, Fumiaki Shibayama, Shinji Horii, Takanori Yamamoto, Makoto Nomura
  • Publication number: 20230152914
    Abstract: The present invention provides a product with an operation display panel incorporated therein, which naturally harmonizes with the environment to not create visual noise for a user and allow the user to operate the operation display panel intuitively while feeling a natural material. A thin layer, made of a natural wood, natural fiber, natural leather, or natural stone, or a resin, synthetic fiber, synthetic leather or artificial stone created by imitating the appearance and touch of a natural material, is provided on the peripheral surface of a housing so that the thin layer covers at least the entire front surface of a display panel. A touch sensor incorporated comes in contact with the front surface of the panel. The thickness of the thin layer and the luminance of the panel are designed to allow the user to view the content displayed on the panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Kazunori OKI, Nobuyasu HIROBE, Fumiaki SHIBAYAMA, Shinji HORII, Takanori YAMAMOTO, Makoto NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20230093324
    Abstract: There is provided a technique capable of improving the throughput by suppressing stagnation of a substrate in a transfer chamber and by reducing unused time. According to one aspect thereof, a substrate processing apparatus includes: a plurality of process chambers in which a substrate among a plurality of substrates is capable of being processed; a transfer chamber provided with a transfer structure capable of transferring the substrate; and a controller configured to be capable of: (a) calculating a substrate transferable time during which the substrate is capable of being transferred to each of the plurality of process chambers; (b) selecting a substrate transfer path to a process chamber among the plurality of process chambers such that the substrate transferable time is the shortest among those calculated in (a); and (c) performing a control of the transfer structure based on the substrate transfer path selected in (b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Keita OKUBO, Makoto NOMURA, Kazuhito SAITO
  • Publication number: 20220403626
    Abstract: A display unit controller of a work vehicle includes a plurality of high-voltage charging systems, at least one of working equipment or a traveling device being driven by an electric motor, the display unit controller including: a charging/operation determination unit that functions as a detection unit detecting an abnormality for each of the charging systems and functions as a determination unit determining availability of work or traveling of the work vehicle; and a display control unit varying a charging availability indication indicating presence or absence of the abnormality for each of the charging systems according to the presence or absence of the abnormality for each of the charging systems based on a detection result of the detection unit, and varying an operation availability indication indicating availability of work or traveling according to the availability of work or traveling based on a determination result of the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Nomura
  • Publication number: 20220090356
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a start-up switch, a first electric device, and a second electric device. Electric power is supplied to the first electric device based on an operating state of the start-up switch and an electric power supply command. Electric power is supplied to the second electric device based on the operating state of the start-up switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Imai, Makoto Nomura
  • Publication number: 20220056672
    Abstract: A work vehicle 1 includes a display unit 51 of a rechargeable work vehicle 1, and a display unit controller 53 configured to reduce a brightness of the display unit 51 during charge of the work vehicle 1, compared with that during operation of the work vehicle 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Nomura, Takanori Yamane, Kaoru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210395976
    Abstract: A control device of a work vehicle is provided with: a start operation determination unit that determines whether or not a generation state exists in which a start signal of a start switch for starting an electric motor has been generated; a lock state determination unit that determines whether or not a safe operation unit is in a lock state; a circuit state determination unit that determines whether or not a supply circuit is in a state of being capable of supplying power to the electric motor; and a drive instruction unit that, in the generation state and the lock state, outputs a drive instruction to the electric motor when the supply circuit transitions from a state of being incapable of supplying the power to a supply-capable state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Nomura, Takanori Yamane
  • Publication number: 20200241675
    Abstract: The present invention provides a product with an operation display panel incorporated therein, which naturally harmonizes with the environment to not create visual noise for a user and allow the user to operate the operation display panel intuitively while feeling a natural material. A thin layer, made of a natural wood, natural fiber, natural leather, or natural stone, or a resin, synthetic fiber, synthetic leather or artificial stone created by imitating the appearance and touch of a natural material, is provided on the peripheral surface of a housing so that the thin layer covers at least the entire front surface of a display panel. A touch sensor incorporated comes in contact with the front surface of the panel. The thickness of the thin layer and the luminance of the panel are designed to allow the user to view the content displayed on the panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Kazunori OKI, Nobuyasu HIROBE, Fumiaki SHIBAYAMA, Shinji HORII, Takanori YAMAMOTO, Makoto NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20200216961
    Abstract: A processing container including a plasma generation space in which a processing gas is plasma-excited and a substrate processing space communicating with the plasma generation space; a plasma generator including a coil arranged to surround the plasma generation space and provided to be wound around an outer periphery of the processing container, and a high-frequency power source that supplies high-frequency power to the coil; a gas supply section that supplies the processing gas to the plasma generation space; a temperature sensor provided outside the processing container and configured to detect a temperature of the processing container; and a controller configured to perform control to cause the temperature of the processing container detected by the temperature sensor to fall within a range of a target temperature defined by a preset upper limit value and a preset lower limit value, prior to execution of a process recipe for processing a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto NOMURA, Yasuhiro MIZUGUCHI, Kazuhito SAITO, Takashi YOKAWA, Makoto SHIRAKAWA, Masako SUEYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20200139494
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rack bar includes joining axial end portions of first and second bar members to each other, and forming a power transmission section on the second bar member. The first bar member has a toothed portion. When the second bar member is hollow, the method may further include thickening a wall of a portion of the second bar member along the axial direction so as to be coaxial with the first bar member. When the second bar member has a greater diameter than the first bar member, the method may further include cutting an outside diameter of a portion of the second bar member in the axial direction so as to be coaxial with the first bar member. The power transmission section is formed on the portion of the second bar member where the wall has been thickened and/or the outside diameter has been cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: NETUREN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto NOMURA, Takashi YAMAWAKI, Ryosuke SUZUKI, Nobumoto ISHIKI
  • Patent number: 10562138
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rack bar includes joining axial end portions of first and second bar members to each other, and forming a power transmission section on the second bar member. The first bar member has a toothed portion. When the second bar member is hollow, the method may further include thickening a wall of a portion of the second bar member along the axial direction so as to be coaxial with the first bar member. When the second bar member has a greater diameter than the first bar member, the method may further include cutting an outside diameter of a portion of the second bar member in the axial direction so as to be coaxial with the first bar member. The power transmission section is formed on the portion of the second bar member where the wall has been thickened and/or the outside diameter has been cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: NETUREN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Nomura, Takashi Yamawaki, Ryosuke Suzuki, Nobumoto Ishiki
  • Patent number: 10259355
    Abstract: The vehicle seat (100) comprises a cover part (29) including a cover member (24) having a folded portion (24b) in the X direction at a position where it is overlapped with a hole part (21a) formed in a seat back (2), and a cover member (25) having a folded portion (25b) folded in the X direction at a position where it is overlapped with the hole part (21a). The cover part (29) includes two sewn parts (26, 27) for fixing the overlapped portion of the cover members (24, 25) in two locations in the Y direction, while no sewn part exists in such section of the overlapped portion as intervenes between the sewn parts (26, 27).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignees: TACHI-S CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Shindo, Kengo Kataoka, Makoto Nomura, Kanae Morita
  • Patent number: 10239428
    Abstract: The vehicle seat is configured to improve child seat mountability, and to prevent deterioration in appearance design when the child seat is demounted. The vehicle seat includes an anchor storage recess formed in a pad that constitutes the seat for storing an anchor to be engaged with an engagement member attached to a child seat. The anchor storage recess is covered with a skin material having a slit. The slit has an inverse T-like shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keigo Yamauchi, Kouichi Moroi, Hitoshi Abe, Kengo Kataoka, Makoto Nomura
  • Publication number: 20180304422
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rack bar includes joining axial end portions of first and second bar members to each other, and forming a power transmission section on the second bar member. The first bar member has a toothed portion. When the second bar member is hollow, the method may further include thickening a wall of a portion of the second bar member along the axial direction so as to be coaxial with the first bar member. When the second bar member has a greater diameter than the first bar member, the method may further include cutting an outside diameter of a portion of the second bar member in the axial direction so as to be coaxial with the first bar member. The power transmission section is formed on the portion of the second bar member where the wall has been thickened and/or the outside diameter has been cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: NETUREN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto NOMURA, Takashi YAMAWAKI, Ryosuke SUZUKI, Nobumoto ISHIKI
  • Patent number: 10060518
    Abstract: A rack bar includes a shaft portion and a rack toothed portion provided on the shaft portion. The rack toothed portion includes a plurality of rack teeth provided side by side in an axial direction of the shaft portion to mesh with a pinion gear. Each of the rack teeth includes a tooth tip portion, a contact face arranged obliquely relative to the axial direction and configured to contact the pinion gear, and a rounded corner portion between the tooth tip portion and the contact face. A first radius defining a central area of the rounded corner portion with respect to a tooth width direction is larger than a second radius defining another area of the rounded corner portion other than the central area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: NETUREN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Nomura, Takashi Yamawaki, Ryosuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10011206
    Abstract: A simply structured vehicle seat with reduced number of parts includes a cap for covering an anchor storage recess which stores an anchor to be engaged with an engagement member attached to a child seat. The anchor storage recess includes a side part and a bottom part. A cap is provided for covering the anchor storage recess, and includes a flange part, a main body part, and a slit. The main body part has a dimension larger than an inner dimension of the side part of the anchor storage recess. The cap is detachably fitted with the anchor storage recess by engagement between the anchor and the slit and pressure contact between the side part of the anchor storage recess and the main body part of the cap, when the main body of the cap is inserted along the side part into the anchor storage recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignees: TACHI-S CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fujii, Jonathan Garcia, Kengo Kataoka, Makoto Nomura, Kazuhisa Nishimura, Kanae Tsukidate
  • Patent number: 9920826
    Abstract: A hollow rack bar and a method of manufacturing the hollow rack bar are provided. The hollow rack bar includes a hollow blank pipe portion having a uniform wall thickness, and a rack toothed portion. The rack toothed portion includes teeth, a flat portion having a flat surface and arranged side by side with the teeth in a direction along a center axis of the blank pipe portion, and a slanted portion provided at an end of the flat portion with respect to a direction perpendicular to the center axis and arranged to be lower than the flat portion. A length of the slanted portion projected on a straight line perpendicular to the center axis and parallel to the surface of the flat portion is longer than zero and equal to or shorter than the wall thickness of the blank pipe portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: NETUREN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamawaki, Makoto Nomura, Kenichi Aoki
  • Patent number: D828498
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitada Doi, Makoto Nomura, Shinya Yamasaki
  • Patent number: D828499
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitada Doi, Makoto Nomura, Shinya Yamasaki