Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Nakamura

Mitsuhiro 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).

  • METHOD OF LIPID ASSAY AND REAGENT FOR USE THEREIN
    Publication number: 20140051102
    Abstract: A method of lipid assay characterized by assaying the lipids contained in a blood component in the presence of an organic silicon compound. The method can cause specific conditions for direct methods while satisfying requirements such as no influence on precision of assay, no burden on assay apparatus, and easy availability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: SEKISUI MEDICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuaki YAMAMOTO, Shoko Yamamoto, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Kazunori Saito
  • Reformer, cell stack device, fuel cell module, and fuel cell device
    Patent number: 8652693
    Abstract: A reformer including a vaporization part provided with a supply port through which raw fuel is supplied, the supply port being provided at a central section of a tubular container; and reforming parts provided at both sides of the container, each reforming part containing reforming catalyst that reforms the raw fuel that flows into the reforming part from the vaporization part into fuel gas and provided with a fuel-gas supply port through which the fuel gas is discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Takashi Ono
  • BIOLOGICAL SIGNAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, BIOLOGICAL SIGNAL MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT, AND BIOLOGICAL SIGNAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS SET
    Publication number: 20130324826
    Abstract: A biological signal measurement apparatus includes a supporter and a vital sensor. The supporter is made of a shape-memory material. The vital sensor is configured to acquire a biological signal of a user. The vital sensor is attached to the supporter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Takuro Yamamoto, Haruhiko Soma, Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Tomiji Tanaka
  • Data collection device, program, and data collection method
    Patent number: 8589339
    Abstract: The present invention provides a data collection device that lightens a registering workload for an administrator and prevents that a set of procedures for a data collection is started later than a registered start time. A data collection device 101 comprises: a database 105 in which start times of the sets of the procedures have been previously registered; and a registration control unit operable, if a received specified time is the same as any of the previously registered start times, to search and retrieve a time that is different from any of the previously registered start times in association with a new set of the procedures, instead of registering the specified time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Display device
    Patent number: 8581859
    Abstract: There is provided a device with a part or a whole of a housing thereof having flexibility. The device includes a display unit; a detection unit that detects a bent portion of the display device; and a display switching unit that switches display content of the display unit according to a position and a bent level of the bent portion of the display device detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Okumura, Naofumi Yoneda, Rui Morisawa, Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • SHEET FEEDING DEVICE, SHEET CONTAINING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20130292896
    Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a loading section on which sheets are loaded, a delivery section that sequentially delivers the sheets from a top of a stack of the sheets having a side surface loaded on the loading section, a blowing section that has a blowing opening, which opens opposite the side surface of the stack of sheets loaded on the loading section, and that blows air toward the side surface of the stack of sheets through the blowing opening, an inclination section that causes the stack of sheets loaded on the loading section to be inclined in accordance with the quantity of the sheets loaded on the loading section, and a setting section that sets a position of the blowing opening of the blowing section in accordance with an amount of inclination of the stack of sheets that are inclined by the inclination section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime YOSHII, Mitsuhiro NAKAMURA
  • Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same
    Patent number: 8575658
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a compound semiconductor substrate; a first conductivity type-channel field-effect transistor region formed on the compound semiconductor substrate, and that includes a first channel layer; a first conductivity type first barrier layer that forms a heterojunction with the first channel layer, and supplies a first conductivity type charge to the first channel layer; and a second conductivity type gate region that has a pn junction-type potential barrier against the first conductivity type first barrier layer; and a second conductivity type-channel field-effect transistor region formed on the compound semiconductor substrate, and that includes a second conductivity type second channel layer, and a first conductivity type gate region that has a pn junction-type potential barrier against the second conductivity type second channel layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Tamari, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Koji Wakizono, Tomoya Nishida, Yuji Ibusuki
  • Fuel battery module and fuel battery device
    Patent number: 8535835
    Abstract: A fuel cell module that can accommodate a single fuel cell stack efficiently and that can enhance power generation efficiency, and a fuel cell device comprising the fuel cell module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Takashi Ono
  • Fuel cell module
    Patent number: 8507139
    Abstract: A fuel cell module includes in a casing: a fuel cell stack that is formed by stacking a plurality of unit cell; an oxidant gas distributing member that is disposed at a side surface, that extends in a stack direction of the unit cells, of the fuel cell stack that extends in a direction from one end to another end of each of the unit cells, and that supplies the oxidant gas to the another end of each unit cell after supplying the oxidant gas through the oxidant gas distributing member from the one end to the another end; a reformer disposed at the one end; and a combustion portion that is disposed between the one end and the reformer. The oxidant gas distributing member has a higher thermal conductivity at the one end side of the unit cells than at the another end side of the unit cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Izawa, Satoshi Shiokawa, Takashi Ono, Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • METHOD OF LIPID ASSAY AND REAGENT FOR USE THEREIN
    Publication number: 20130164768
    Abstract: A method of lipid assay characterized by assaying the lipids contained in a blood component in the presence of an organic silicon compound. The method can cause specific conditions for direct methods while satisfying requirements such as no influence on precision of assay, no burden on assay apparatus, and easy availability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Mitsuaki YAMAMOTO, Shoko Yamamoto, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Kazunori Saito
  • Specimen Testing Device and Method for Creating Absorbed Current Image
    Publication number: 20130119999
    Abstract: Proposed is a technique of emphasizing a change in absorbed current obtained from a faulty part in a wiring section as a testing target more than in other parts of the wiring section. A specimen testing device is configured to output an image of absorbed current output from two probes during scanning of an electron beam so as to be operatively associated with the scanning of the electron beam and includes the following mechanism. When a faulty part of a wiring section on the specimen side with which two probes are in contact is irradiated with an electron beam, the resistance value at the faulty part changes more than that of irradiation of a normal wiring section with the electron beam. Such a change in resistance value is detected as a change in ratio between a resistance value of the wiring section specified by the two probes and a known resistance value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoharu Obuki, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Yasuhiko Nara, Tohru Ando
  • ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC HEADSET
    Publication number: 20130085363
    Abstract: An electroencephalographic headset includes: a supporter that includes expanding and contracting wires each having expansion and contraction properties and is to be attached to a head of a user by expansion and contraction of each of the expanding and contracting wires; and a plurality of electrodes that are provided to the supporter in defined placement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Wada, Takeshi Yamazaki, Natsuki Kimura, Yoshihiro Wakita, Koji Kashima, Tomiji Tanaka, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Haruhiko Soma, Takuro Yamamoto
  • METHOD FOR QUANTITATIVELY DETERMINING LDL CHOLESTEROLS
    Publication number: 20130078659
    Abstract: A method for quantitatively determining LDL cholesterol, including the steps of adding to serum a surfactant selected from among polyoxyethylenealkylene phenyl ethers and polyoxyethylenealkylene tribenzylphenyl ethers and a cholesterol-assaying enzyme reagent so as to preferentially react cholestrols in high density- and very low density-cholesterols among lipoproteins, and subsequently determining the amount of cholesterol that reacts thereafter. This method can eliminate the necessity for pretreatments such as centrifugation and electrophoresis, enables the quantitative determination to be conducted in an efficient, simple manner, and can be applied to various automatic analyzers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro NAKAMURA, Kazuo NAKANISHI, Koichi HINO, Mitsuhisa MANABE
  • DISPLAY, ELECTRONIC UNIT, AND SUPPORTING SUBSTRATE
    Publication number: 20130070431
    Abstract: There are provided a display and an electronic unit that realize excellent operability when display content is switched based on a user operation associated with a variation in a physical form, and a supporting substrate employed in such a display. The display includes: a supporting substrate having flexibility; and a display section provided on the supporting substrate. The flexibility of the supporting substrate gradually increases toward an edge in a first region provided at at least a portion on a side of the edge in a plane thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei Fukuma, Masahiro Kinoshita, Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Management apparatus, information processing apparatus, management method, and information processing method
    Patent number: 8396805
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes a registering unit configured to issue a first key corresponding to a first service in response to a request for registration with the first service from a first information processing apparatus; a storage unit configured to store an apparatus ID of the first information processing apparatus, the first key, and a second key corresponding to a second service while associating the apparatus ID, the first key, and the second key with each other; and a composite license issuing unit configured to issue a composite license including a first license and a second license, the first license including first encrypted data, which is a content key that is used to decrypt the encrypted content and that is encrypted with the first key, and the second license including second encrypted data, which is the content key that is encrypted with the second key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichi Adachi, Yoji Kawamoto, Motomasa Futagami, Atsushi Nakamura, Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIA
    Publication number: 20130053720
    Abstract: An information processor includes a brain wave sensor adapted to output a brain wave signal by measuring brain waves of a subject, an external sensor adapted to sense the surrounding environment of the subject, an environmental change determination section adapted to determine, based on a sensor signal output from the external sensor, whether a stimulus resulting from a change in the surrounding environment of the subject beyond a steady state has been applied to the subject, an event-related potential detection section adapted to detect an event-related potential for the stimulus in the brain wave signal if it is determined that the stimulus has been applied to the subject, and a calculation section adapted to calculate, based on a feature quantity obtained from the detected event-related potential, a value representing the focus level of the subject on a target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Junichiro Enoki, Haruhiko Soma, Takuro Yamamoto, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Tomiji Tanaka
  • Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same
    Patent number: 8378389
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a compound semiconductor substrate; an n-channel field-effect transistor region formed on the compound semiconductor substrate, and that includes a first channel layer; an n-type first barrier layer that forms a heterojunction with the first channel layer, and supplies an n-type charge to the first channel layer; and a p-type gate region that has a pn junction-type potential barrier against the n-type first barrier layer; and a p-channel field-effect transistor region formed on the compound semiconductor substrate, and that includes a p-type second channel layer, and an n-type gate region that has a pn junction-type potential barrier against the p-type second channel layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Tamari, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Koji Wakizono, Tomoya Nishida, Yuji Ibusuki
  • Molded elastomer for endoscope
    Patent number: 8353822
    Abstract: A molded elastomer for an endoscope is provided, which includes a fluorine-containing elastomer and a filler. The filler includes thermal black in a content of 1 to 10 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the fluorine-containing elastomer, and plate alumina in a content of 2 to 10 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the fluorine-containing elastomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignees: Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Yuko Hirano, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Akinobu Nakano, Hirokazu Kamioka
  • SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME
    Publication number: 20120267684
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a compound semiconductor substrate; a first conductivity type-channel field-effect transistor region formed on the compound semiconductor substrate, and that includes a first channel layer; a first conductivity type first barrier layer that forms a heterojunction with the first channel layer, and supplies a first conductivity type charge to the first channel layer; and a second conductivity type gate region that has a pn junction-type potential barrier against the first conductivity type first barrier layer; and a second conductivity type-channel field-effect transistor region formed on the compound semiconductor substrate, and that includes a second conductivity type second channel layer, and a first conductivity type gate region that has a pn junction-type potential barrier against the second conductivity type second channel layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: SHINICHI TAMARI, MITSUHIRO NAKAMURA, KOJI WAKIZONO, TOMOYA NISHIDA, YUJI IBUSUKI
  • FUEL CELL MODULE
    Publication number: 20120251904
    Abstract: A fuel cell module includes: in a casing, a fuel cell stack that is formed by stacking a plurality of unit cells; and an oxidant gas distributing member that is disposed at a side surface, that extends in a stack direction, of the fuel cell stack, that extends in a direction from one end to another end of each of the unit cells, and that supplies the oxidant gas along the oxidant gas distributing member from the one end to the another end to supply the oxidant gas to the another end of each unit cell. The oxidant gas distributing member includes a heat exchange restraint portion that restrains heat exchange between the unit cells and the oxidant gas in at least one of end portions of the fuel cell stack in the stack direction, in comparison with the heat exchange thereof in other portion in the fuel cell stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicants: KYOCERA CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Izawa, Satoshi Shiokawa, Takashi Ono, Mitsuhiro Nakamura