Patents by Inventor Masahiko Nakamura
Masahiko Nakamura 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: 20250130160Abstract: To provide a microparticle sorting device for optimizing an emulsion generation condition and a microparticle sorting condition. The present technology provides the microparticle sorting device including: a particle detection unit that detects microparticles in a first liquid flowing through a main flow path; a collection flow path that collects an emulsion in which a sorting-target microparticle among the microparticles and the first liquid are contained in a second liquid immiscible with the first liquid; an emulsion detection unit that detects light from the emulsion collected and/or microparticles contained in the emulsion by using different optical detection systems; and a control unit that controls collection of the emulsion into the collection flow path on the basis of information detected by the emulsion detection unit. Furthermore, the present technology also provides a microparticle sorting method in the microparticle sorting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2023Publication date: April 24, 2025Inventors: MASAHIKO NAKAMURA, MASAHIRO MATSUMOTO, TATSUMI ITO
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Publication number: 20240367611Abstract: A vehicle information processing device, for application to a vehicle configured to perform all driving operations under a fixed condition, the device includes; a terminal identification section configured to identify a portable terminal corresponding to authentication information authenticated by an authentication device provided at the vehicle; a driver's terminal setting section configured to set a driver's terminal used by a driver, based on information received from the identified portable terminal; and a notification section configured to notify the driver's terminal in a case in which a predetermined condition is satisfied in an autonomous driving state in which all driving operations are performed by the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi FUJITA, Jun TOHYAMA, Daisuke AKAHO, Yuta MANIWA, Natsumi IZAWA, Shunichiroh SAWAI, Masahiko NAKAMURA, Kenichiro AOKI
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Publication number: 20240367669Abstract: A vehicle control device includes at least one processor, the processor being configured to: in a vehicle configured to enable autonomous travel control that permits a driver to behave in a manner in which it is not possible to check surroundings of the vehicle, determine whether or not a portable terminal configured to receive notification of vehicle information is present inside a vehicle cabin before the autonomous travel control is executed; and in a case in which it has been determined that the portable terminal is not present inside the vehicle cabin, provide notification, via an onboard unit, that notification of the vehicle information cannot be provided from the portable terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi FUJITA, Jun TOHYAMA, Daisuke AKAHO, Yuta MANIWA, Natsumi IZAWA, Shunichiroh SAWAI, Masahiko NAKAMURA, Kenichiro AOKI
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Publication number: 20240367582Abstract: A control device includes a first processor. The first processor is configured to provide notification of a warning during autonomous driving to a first display unit of an onboard terminal installed in a vehicle; provide notification of the warning to a second display unit at a portable terminal carried by a vehicle occupant, via a second processor at the portable terminal; and in a case in which a predetermined condition has been satisfied, disable notification of the warning to the portable terminal and provide notification of the warning to the onboard terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi FUJITA, Jun TOHYAMA, Daisuke AKAHO, Yuta MANIWA, Natsumi IZAWA, Shunichiroh SAWAI, Masahiko NAKAMURA, Kenichiro AOKI
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Publication number: 20240372942Abstract: A notification system includes a mobile terminal configured to receive, and to perform notification of, notification information regarding a vehicle, and a vehicle control device that is configured to generate the notification information for a driver of the vehicle, and to transmit the notification information to the mobile terminal, in which the vehicle control device includes one or more processors configured to perform control in which notification of the notification information is made to the mobile terminal, while varying a range of the mobile terminal that is controllable by the driver until a predetermined condition is satisfied, in accordance with an urgency of the notification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta MANIWA, Koichi Fujita, Jun Tohyama, Daisuke Akaho, Natsumi Izawa, Shunichiroh Sawai, Masahiko Nakamura, Kenichiro Aoki
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Publication number: 20240367667Abstract: A notification system includes a mobile terminal and a processor. The mobile terminal receives notification information for a driver of a vehicle and notifies the driver of the notification information. The processor generates the notification information and transmits the notification information to the mobile terminal. The processor causes the mobile terminal to notify the driver of the notification information until an ending condition for ending notification is satisfied. The processor changes the ending condition depending on urgency of the notification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta MANIWA, Koichi FUJITA, Jun TOHYAMA, Daisuke AKAHO, Natsumi IZAWA, Shunichiroh SAWAI, Masahiko NAKAMURA, Kenichiro AOKI
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Publication number: 20240367673Abstract: A vehicle notification system according to a first aspect includes: a terminal installation portion that is provided at a periphery of a driver's seat of a vehicle capable of autonomous driving in which all driving operations are performed under certain conditions, and that is configured such that a portable terminal can be installed at the terminal installation portion; and a control section that is configured to permit the autonomous driving in a case in which a portable terminal is detected as being installed at the terminal installation portion, and is configured to notify the portable terminal in a case in which a predetermined condition in an autonomous driving state is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichi FUJITA, Jun TOHYAMA, Daisuki AKAHO, Yuta MANIWA, Natsumi IZAWA, Shunichiroh SAWAI, Masahiko NAKAMURA, Kenichiro AOKI
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Patent number: 11967577Abstract: Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device including a conductive member that has a main surface facing in a thickness direction, a semiconductor element that has a plurality of pads facing the main surface, a plurality of electrodes that are individually formed with respect to the plurality of pads and protrude from the plurality of pads toward the main surface, and a bonding layer for electrically bonding the main surface to the plurality of electrodes. The bonding layer includes a first region having conductivity and a second region having electrical insulation. The first region includes a metal portion. At least a part of the second region includes a resin portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: ROHM Co., LTD.Inventors: Yosui Futamura, Yuto Nishiyama, Masahiko Nakamura
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Patent number: 11788944Abstract: To provide a technique that enables the risk of contamination to be reduced. Provided is a microparticle measuring apparatus including at least: a relay unit that enables a flow path through which microparticles flow and a cleaning fluid storage unit to communicate with each other; a sheath fluid tube that causes the flow path and a sheath fluid storage unit to communicate with each other; and a cleaning fluid tube that causes the relay unit and the cleaning fluid storage unit to communicate with each other, in which the relay unit includes a first connector that can be connected to a joint portion on the sheath fluid storage unit side of the sheath fluid tube.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Saito, Shingo Mouri, Masahiko Nakamura, Hidetaka Okamoto
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Publication number: 20230273108Abstract: To provide a technique capable of stably forming droplets. There is provided a microparticle sorting device and the like including: an imaging element configured to acquire an image of fluid and a droplet at a position where liquid discharged from an orifice that generates a stream of the fluid is converted into a droplet; and a processing unit configured to determine a harmonic superposition amplitude ratio, a harmonic phase difference, and a superimposed wave voltage on the basis of states of a satellite droplet and a break-off point in the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: SHIN MASUHARA, MASAHIKO NAKAMURA, MASAHIDE FURUKAWA
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Patent number: 11718574Abstract: The present invention is a solvent composition including: a solvent including 1-chloro-2,3,3-trifluoro-1-propene; and at least one type of stabilizer selected from a group consisting of phenols, ethers, epoxides, amines, alcohols, and hydrocarbons, and is a solvent composition which is excellent in solubility of various organic substances and has no adverse effect on a global environment, and is excellent in stability, and this solvent composition can be used for a wide range of industrial uses such as cleaning, coating uses, and a heat transfer fluid.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Toshio Miki, Masahiko Nakamura, Mari Ichinokawa, Hidekazu Okamoto, Atsushi Fujimori
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Publication number: 20230094354Abstract: An electronic device which can suppress peeling off and damaging of the bonding material is provided. The electronic device includes an electronic component, a mounting portion, and a bonding material. The electronic component has an element front surface and an element back surface separated in the z-direction. The mounting portion has a mounting surface opposed to the element back surface on which the electronic component is mounted. The bonding material bonds the electronic component to the mounting portion. The bonding material includes a base portion and a fillet portion. The base portion is held between the electronic component and the mounting portion in the z-direction. The fillet portion is connected to the base portion and is formed outside the electronic component when seen in the z-direction. The electronic component includes two element lateral surface and ridges. The ridges are intersections of the two element lateral surface and extend in the z-direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Yosui FUTAMURA, Masahiko NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20230037700Abstract: A dielectric, including a halogenated olefin having from 2 to 4 carbon atoms, and having a water content of 6000 ppm or less in terms of mass.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: AGC INC.Inventors: Hiroki HAYAMIZU, Tamaki CHINSOGA, Masato FUKUSHIMA, Masahiko NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 11521917Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a chip that includes a mounting surface, a non-mounting surface, and a side wall connecting the mounting surface and the non-mounting surface and has an eaves portion protruding further outward than the mounting surface at the side wall and a metal layer that covers the mounting surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventors: Yosui Futamura, Masahiko Nakamura
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Patent number: 11440862Abstract: There are provided a solvent composition which is excellent in solubility of various organic substances and excellent in detergency and a drying property, and has no adverse effect on a global environment and is excellent in stability; a cleaning method using the solvent composition; a method of forming a coating film; a heat transfer fluid including the solvent composition; and a heat cycle system using the heat transfer fluid. A solvent composition including 1-chloro-2,3,3-trifluoro-1-propene and 1-chloro-3,3-difluoro-1-propyne, a cleaning method of bringing the solvent composition and an article into contact with each other, a method of dissolving a nonvolatile organic compound in the solvent composition to produce a coating film-forming composition and evaporating the solvent composition after applying the coating film-forming composition on an article to be coated, to form a coating film, a heat transfer fluid including the solvent composition, and a heat cycle system using the heat transfer fluid.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Masahiko Nakamura, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Mari Ichinokawa, Atsushi Fujimori, Hidekazu Okamoto
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Patent number: 11427521Abstract: A cleaning method may include: bringing an article to be cleaned into contact with a liquid-phase solvent composition including 1-chloro-2,3,3-trifluoro-1-propene and 1-chloro-2,2,3,3-tetrafluoropropane; and exposing the article to be cleaned to steam generated by evaporating the liquid-phase solvent composition. In the liquid-phase composition, a proportion of a content of 1-chloro-2,2,3,3-tetrafluoropropane to a total of a content of 1-chloro-2,3,3-trifluoro-1-propene and a content of 1-chloro-2,2,3,3-tetrafluoropropane may be 0.0001 to 1 mass %.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Masahiko Nakamura, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Mari Ichinokawa, Atsushi Fujimori, Hidekazu Okamoto
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Patent number: 11401486Abstract: There is provided a solvent composition which is a stable solvent composition which is excellent in solubility of various organic substances, has a sufficient drying property, and has no adverse effect on a global environment, is stabilized not to decompose, and moreover suppresses metal corrosion under coexistence with metal, and which can be used without having an adverse effect on articles of various materials such as metal, plastic, and elastomer in a wide range of industrial uses such as cleaning and dilution coating uses. A solvent composition including: a solvent (A) including (D-1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoro-1-propene; and a stabilizer (B) consisting of HCFC whose boiling point at normal pressure is not lower than 30° C. nor higher than 60° C.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Masahiko Nakamura, Hidekazu Okamoto, Masaaki Tsuzaki, Hiroaki Mitsuoka, Satoko Itoh
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Publication number: 20220202694Abstract: A gene expression promoter for skin beautification contains a fermented extract of aspergillus oryzae as an effective component. The gene expression promotor for skin beautification causes expression of at least one gene for skin beautification among BMP-2, TGFB1, CLDN7, HB-EGF, VEGF-A, LCE3D, and PPAR-D. The fermented extract of aspergillus oryzae is extracted using water after steamed rice as a raw material is fermented with aspergillus oryzae.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: KOHSEI INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiko NAKAMURA, Daisuke MIYAI, Shouta KURIMOTO
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Publication number: 20220153666Abstract: The present invention is a solvent composition including: a solvent including 1-chloro-2,3,3-trifluoro-1-propene; and at least one type of stabilizer selected from a group consisting of phenols, ethers, epoxides, amines, alcohols, and hydrocarbons, and is a solvent composition which is excellent in solubility of various organic substances and has no adverse effect on a global environment, and is excellent in stability, and this solvent composition can be used for a wide range of industrial uses such as cleaning, coating uses, and a heat transfer fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Hiroaki MITSUOKA, Toshio MIKI, Masahiko NAKAMURA, Mari ICHINOKAWA, Hidekazu OKAMOTO, Atsushi FUJIMORI
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Publication number: 20220115347Abstract: Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device including a conductive member that has a main surface facing in a thickness direction, a semiconductor element that has a plurality of pads facing the main surface, a plurality of electrodes that are individually formed with respect to the plurality of pads and protrude from the plurality of pads toward the main surface, and a bonding layer for electrically bonding the main surface to the plurality of electrodes. The bonding layer includes a first region having conductivity and a second region having electrical insulation. The first region includes a metal portion. At least a part of the second region includes a resin portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Yosui Futamura, Yuto Nishiyama, Masahiko Nakamura