Patents by Inventor Masashi Nakano

Masashi Nakano 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: 12128677
    Abstract: An image forming device performs image formation on a medium selected by a computer. When a cutting device is unusable, a long sheet-type medium accommodated in a first medium container is unusable. However, a conveyance passage used for conveying a short sheet-type medium is usable in at least one of a first state where the cutting device is unusable or a second state where the sheet-type medium is unable to pass through the cutting device. A necessary condition to make both the long sheet-type medium and the short sheet-type medium selectable includes the detector detecting neither the first status nor the second status. A necessary condition to make the long sheet-type medium unselectable and make the short sheet-type medium selectable includes the detector detecting one of the first status and the second status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Ohhashi, Satoru Arakane, Koichi Tsugimura, Haruka Azechi, Yasuhiro Nakano, Ayaka Hotta
  • Publication number: 20240287685
    Abstract: A pickling apparatus for pickling a strip of metal being conveyed is equipped with: a pickling tank for storing an acid solution; a surrounding part disposed in the pickling tank so as to surround the strip immersed in the acid solution in the pickling tank; and an oxidant supply part for supplying a liquid oxidant toward an inside of the surrounding part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES JAPAN, LTD.
    Inventors: Naohiko MATSUDA, Takashi NAKANO, Yuki MAEHASHI, Shinji NAMBA, Masashi YOSHIKAWA, Kosei TSUJI, Takahiro YAGI, Ryusuke NAKATSUKA
  • Publication number: 20230347939
    Abstract: A driving assistance device according to the present disclosure is capable of being mounted on a vehicle. The vehicle includes: a vehicle body; a detection device capable of detecting a state around the vehicle; and a display unit visually recognizable by a driver. The driving assistance device includes: a memory; and a processor configured to: determine whether the two vehicles are allowed to pass each other based on the state, size information of a vehicle body of another vehicle, and a size of the vehicle body of the vehicle; search for, when determining that passing between the two vehicles is not performable, a first evacuation candidate area to which the vehicle is allowed to evacuate based on the state detected along a traveling trajectory of the vehicle by the detection device; and display a search result of the first evacuation candidate area on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi NAKANO, Ken NAKAOKA, Tomoya URUSHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20230332791
    Abstract: Examples of an interface module include a fan filter unit including a fan and a filter, a housing surrounding a space adjacent to the filter, a discharge system attached to the housing, a substrate support instrument provided in the housing, an upper housing surrounding a space adjacent to the fan, a gas supply system attached to the upper housing, a circulation duct connected to the housing and the upper housing, and a radiator provided between the fan and the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Masashi Nakano, Masaei Suwada
  • Publication number: 20230069600
    Abstract: Examples of an interface module includes a fan filter unit having a fan and a filter, a housing surrounding a space adjacent to the filter, the housing includes a door, an upper housing surrounding a space adjacent to the fan, a first port provided in the upper housing, a second port communicating to a FFU internal space, the FFU internal space is a space between the fan and the filter in the fan filter unit, and a differential pressure gauge connected to the first port and the second port to detect a differential pressure between an interior of the upper housing and the FFU internal space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Masashi Nakano, Wataru Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220402417
    Abstract: In a vehicle seat, a side frame of a seat back frame has a front wall that is formed so as to be bent inward continuously from a front edge of a plate-shaped portion and forms a curved region extending vertically from around the rotating shaft and reaching an upper frame, and a rear wall that is formed so as to be bent inward continuously from a rear edge of the plate-shaped portion and forms a curved region extending vertically from around the rotating shaft and reaching the upper frame, and an inner edge of the front wall has a projecting piece that spreads to the inside from a virtual outline corresponding to a shape of the upper frame and is superimposed on the front wall of the upper frame from the rear. This provides a vehicle seat that can contribute to improvement of the work efficiency when assembling a seat back frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi BABA, Soichiro KAMEI, Masashi NAKANO, Takuya ARAI, Ryota URUSHIHARA, Masayuki HOSHI, Hironori WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11224947
    Abstract: A seat frame assembling unit includes: a setting device and a setting robot. The setting device is driven in a state where side frames, a connecting frame, a pan frame, a member frame and an upper frame are arranged. The setting robot installs the side frames side by side and subsequently installs the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame between the side frames. The setting device moves the side frames to positions in which the side frames are to be assembled with the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Nakano, Shingo Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11140632
    Abstract: The in-vehicle communication device includes a CAN communication unit, an Ethernet communication unit, a controller that controls communication by the CAN communication unit and the Ethernet communication unit, a first voltage output unit that outputs a first voltage, and a second voltage output unit that outputs a second voltage lower than the first voltage. The second voltage output is applied to the Ethernet communication unit. The first voltage output by the first voltage output unit and the second voltage output by the second voltage output unit are applied to the CAN communication unit. An opening/closing unit is provided between the second voltage output unit and the Ethernet communication unit. When a predetermined operation in the vehicle has been detected, the controller puts the opening/closing unit into an open state and cuts off the supply of power from the second voltage output unit to the Ethernet communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Okada, Masashi Nakano
  • Patent number: 10920725
    Abstract: A fluid passage device including a passage for flowing high-pressure fluid of a predetermined or higher pressure comprises a sac bore cylinder of a metal, which includes therein a closed passage and a branch passage. The closed passage is shaped to extend straightly in a predetermined direction and has a closed top end, and the branch passage is branched off from the closed passage. A top end part of the closed passage at a closed side is defined by a ceiling wall surface, which is perpendicular to the predetermined direction, a passage wall surface, which is parallel to the predetermined direction, and a connecting wall surface, which connects the ceiling wall surface and the passage wall surface. The connecting wall surface is shaped to curve in a direction to expand the closed passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20200254574
    Abstract: A seat frame assembling unit includes: a setting device and a setting robot. The setting device is driven in a state where side frames, a connecting frame, a pan frame, a member frame and an upper frame are arranged. The setting robot installs the side frames side by side and subsequently installs the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame between the side frames. The setting device moves the side frames to positions in which the side frames are to be assembled with the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Masashi Nakano, Shingo Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20200205080
    Abstract: The in-vehicle communication device includes a CAN communication unit, an Ethernet communication unit, a controller that controls communication by the CAN communication unit and the Ethernet communication unit, a first voltage output unit that outputs a first voltage, and a second voltage output unit that outputs a second voltage lower than the first voltage. The second voltage output is applied to the Ethernet communication unit. The first voltage output by the first voltage output unit and the second voltage output by the second voltage output unit are applied to the CAN communication unit. An opening/closing unit is provided between the second voltage output unit and the Ethernet communication unit. When a predetermined operation in the vehicle has been detected, the controller puts the opening/closing unit into an open state and cuts off the supply of power from the second voltage output unit to the Ethernet communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Ryo Okada, Masashi Nakano
  • Patent number: 10668585
    Abstract: A seat frame assembling unit includes: a setting device and a setting robot. The setting device is driven in a state where side frames, a connecting frame, a pan frame, a member frame and an upper frame are arranged. The setting robot installs the side frames side by side and subsequently installs the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame between the side frames. The setting device moves the side frames to positions in which the side frames are to be assembled with the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Nakano, Shingo Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20180283337
    Abstract: A fluid passage device including a passage for flowing high-pressure fluid of a predetermined or higher pressure comprises a sac bore cylinder of a metal, which includes therein a closed passage and a branch passage. The closed passage is shaped to extend straightly in a predetermined direction and has a closed top end, and the branch passage is branched off from the closed passage. A top end part of the closed passage at a closed side is defined by a ceiling wall surface, which is perpendicular to the predetermined direction, a passage wall surface, which is parallel to the predetermined direction, and a connecting wall surface, which connects the ceiling wall surface and the passage wall surface. The connecting wall surface is shaped to curve in a direction to expand the closed passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventor: Masashi NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20180067676
    Abstract: A storage device according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a plurality of memory devices and a storage controller. The memory devices provide the storage controller with a storage space which comprises a plurality of sectors, each said sector including a write data memory region and an inspection code memory region. When the memory devices receive a read request from the storage controller, if the sector which is the subject of the read request has not been written to, an inspection code is generated on the basis of information included in the read request, and data of a prescribed pattern is transmitted with the inspection code to the storage controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Wenhan SHI, Masashi NAKANO, Junji OGAWA, Akira MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20170282313
    Abstract: A seat frame assembling unit includes: a setting device and a setting robot. The setting device is driven in a state where side frames, a connecting frame, a pan frame, a member frame and an upper frame are arranged. The setting robot installs the side frames side by side and subsequently installs the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame between the side frames. The setting device moves the side frames to positions in which the side frames are to be assembled with the connecting frame, the pan frame, the member frame and the upper frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Masashi Nakano, Shingo Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20160238919
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an optical path forming member which includes at least one exterior wall surrounding an imaging optical system and defines an optical path inside the exterior wall; a through-portion which extends through the exterior wall of the optical path forming member; a lid member which covers the through-portion from the outside of the optical path forming member; and a plurality of light shield walls provided on one of the optical path forming member and the lid member, wherein the plurality of light shield walls are intermittently arranged in a direction along an optical axis of the imaging optical system so that the through-portion includes a plurality of internal spaces which are respectively positioned between the light shield walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi NAKANO
  • Patent number: 9248488
    Abstract: A bending die used in the apparatus for manufacturing the automotive suspension arm to bend a rod-like raw material and produce a bent material includes a lower bending die including a mounting portion for mounting thereon the rod-like raw material and an upper bending die including a pressing portion for vertically pressing the rod-like raw material mounted on the lower bending die. The mounting portion and the pressing portion include a lower die contact portion and an upper die contact portion each formed into a shape along the bent shape of the bent material to come in contact with the bent material. The lower die contact portion includes, in the middle portion thereof, a groove portion formed to have a size which allows a moving means to grip the bent material in non-contact relation with the bent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Takeuchi, Masashi Nakano, Chihiro Kitamoto, Shunsuke Suzuki, Hirotoshi Hamada
  • Publication number: 20110302984
    Abstract: There are provided a bending die to be used in an apparatus and method for manufacturing an automotive suspension arm to allow the manufacturing apparatus to have a simple and low-cost structure and a reduced installation area and perform automated manufacturing, and the apparatus and method for manufacturing the automotive suspension arm using the bending die. A bending die used in the apparatus for manufacturing the automotive suspension arm to bend a rod-like raw material and produce a bent material includes a lower bending die including a mounting portion for mounting thereon the rod-like raw material and an upper bending die including a pressing portion for vertically pressing the rod-like raw material mounted on the lower bending die. The mounting portion and the pressing portion include a lower die contact portion and an upper die contact portion each formed into a shape along the bent shape of the bent material to come in contact with the bent material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Koji Takeuchi, Masashi Nakano, Chihiro Kitamoto, Shunsuke Suzuki, Hirotoshi Hamada
  • Publication number: 20090035591
    Abstract: In a flexible laminate containing a metal foil layer/a thermoplastic polyimide layer or/and a conductor circuit layer/a thermoplastic polyimide layer, the metal foil layer or the conductor circuit layer is bonded to at least one side of the thermoplastic polyimide layer. The thermoplastic polyimide layer is formed from a thermoplastic polyimide resin film or sheet produced by melt extrusion of a thermoplastic polyimide resin. Alternatively, the thermoplastic polyimide layer is formed from a biaxially oriented thermoplastic polyimide resin film or sheet. Such a flexible laminate can be easily manufactured by a lamination method which comprises bonding a thermoplastic polyimide resin film (1) to a metal foil (2) or a conductive circuit layer (4) by heating under pressure, and has excellent heat resistance, electrical properties and mechanical strength inherent in a polyimide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicants: KURASHIKI BOSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TAIYO INK MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro NISHIKAWA, Masashi Nakano, Noriyuki Akane, Nobuhito Ito, Masaki Sasaki, Masao Arima
  • Patent number: 6369825
    Abstract: A first image data portion and a second image data portion differing from the first image data portion are converted so that they become similar to each other in binary notation. This conversion is performed, for example, by addition. Then, the first and second converted image data portions are transferred so that those converted portions are positioned adjacently to each other in a time-series manner. Finally, after the execution of said transferring step, the first and second image data portions are restored so that those restored portions respectively include original bits. This restoration is performed, for example, by subtraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Masashi Nakano