Patents by Inventor Naoki Kitagawa
Naoki Kitagawa 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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Patent number: 10929585Abstract: A recording medium recording a program for a process, the process includes: calculating an amount of distortion in a via of a printed circuit board based on an expression using coefficient m, ??={(L×?×?t×E)/(D×T)}×m, where ?? is the amount of distortion, L is a length of the via, ? is a thermal expansion coefficient of a base material, ?t is a temperature change of an environment, E is a Young's modulus, D is a diameter of the via, and T is a thickness of plating in the via; and calculating a lifetime of the via based on an expression, M=N/(n×365), where M is the lifetime of the via, n is a frequency of the temperature change, and N is the number of cycles of the lifetime satisfying an expression Nx=C/??.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Mitsunori Abe, Yoshiyuki Hiroshima, Takahiro Kitagawa, Naoki Nakamura, Akiko Matsui
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Publication number: 20200403339Abstract: A connector includes: an insulator that includes a first main surface being a surface that faces a cable, and a rear surface being a surface on an opposite side of the first main surface; a contact that electrically connects the cable and a substrate; and an actuator that is rotatable about a rotation axis parallel to the substrate. The actuator includes a plate-shaped side wall that intersects with the rotation axis. The side wall includes a base portion including a second main surface that is a surface that faces the first main surface when the actuator is rotated in a direction closer to the cable, and a recognition portion that protrudes from the base portion. A distance from the rotation axis to a leading end of the recognition portion in a direction orthogonal to the second main surface is larger than a distance from the rotation axis to the rear surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventor: Naoki KITAGAWA
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Patent number: 10854998Abstract: A connection structure between an electric wire and a terminal has an electric wire including a core wire with strands, and a terminal including a bottom-plate portion and a pair of core-wire-crimping pieces, which protrude from both edges of the bottom-plate portion and each distal-end portion of the pair of core-wire-crimping pieces being divided into a plurality of portions, the terminal enclosing and holding the core wire by the bottom-plate portion and the pair of core-wire-crimping pieces. The pair of core-wire-crimping pieces extends in directions to approach each other at a proximal-end portion, is in contact with each other at an intermediate portion, and extends in directions to be separated from each other at the distal-end portion. At least one portion of the plurality of portions of each distal-end portion of the pair of core-wire-crimping pieces extend in a different direction from other portions of the distal-end portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Ito, Hironori Kitagawa
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Patent number: 10783309Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor that calculates a distortion amount that represents an amount of distortion generated in a via of a printed circuit board based on a following equation, ??={(L×?×?t×E)/(D×T)}×m×?×?×?; calculates a lifetime of the via based on a following equation, M=N/(n×365); changes, when the calculated lifetime is outside a first setting range, at least two design values of the via length, the thermal expansion coefficient, the Young's modulus, the via diameter, or the plating thickness within a second setting range corresponding to the at least two design values respectively; gives points of two perspectives affected by the change and outputs a graph that indicates an impact degree according to the points of the two perspectives for each combination of the at least two design values.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Mitsunori Abe, Yoshiyuki Hiroshima, Takahiro Kitagawa, Akiko Matsui, Naoki Nakamura
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Patent number: 10761617Abstract: A touchpad constituting a touch type operation apparatus includes a hemisphere portion and a flat surface portion and is mounted in an automobile. The hemisphere portion is a protruding type region having at least a part of a boundary with an adjacent region defined by a step. A front half portion is set as a second region. A rear half portion and the flat surface portion are set as a first region. During manual driving of the automobile, the first region is set as a non-sensitive region, and the second region is set as a sensitive region.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoki Tsukamoto, Yoshihisa Usami, Yusuke Kitagawa, Yuki Okabe
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Patent number: 10741948Abstract: A connector 10 according to the present disclosure comprises a contact 30; and an insulator 20 having an attaching groove 22 on an outer surface into which the contact 30 is inserted and attached, wherein the insulator 20 has a bottom wall 23 formed to be continuous with a bottom surface of the attaching groove 22 in a downward direction; and at least a part of the attaching groove 22 has a wide portion 24 wider in at least one direction than a groove width on the outer surface along a direction parallel to the bottom wall 23.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Naoki Kitagawa
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Patent number: 10635301Abstract: A touch pad includes a flat portion and a convex type three-dimensional portion having a hemispherical shape. An outer circumferential surface of the three-dimensional portion constitutes a spherical operation area. A second recognition unit of the touch-pad controller recognizes a gesture operation of at least two fingers to be the same gesture operation as a pinch-in operation in a planar operation area, in a case where movement trajectories of the at least two fingers in the spherical operation area are arc-shaped movement trajectories which are bulged outwardly in a case where the spherical operation area is viewed in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Usami, Naoki Tsukamoto, Yusuke Kitagawa, Yuki Okabe
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Publication number: 20200126744Abstract: A seal structure of an electronic device is provided with: a housing in which a base and a case are sealed by a sealant and a closed space enclosed by the base and the case is provided; and at least one of terminals having a body and a leg. The base includes a terminal groove that accommodates the body, a through hole that accommodates the leg, and a placement area forming part that forms a placement area for the sealant together with the body, the leg, the terminal groove, and the through hole, the placement area extending from the outside of the housing toward the closed space through an interval between the through hole and the leg and an interval between the terminal groove and the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2017Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: Omron CorporationInventors: Tatsuro KITAGAWA, Norio FUKUI, Ryoichi KIDO, Naoki KAWAGUCHI
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Patent number: 10566721Abstract: A cable connector includes: a contact (45A, 45B) supported by an insulator (20) having a cable insertion groove (21); a lock member (65) rotatable about a rotation shaft (74), between a lock position where a lock portion (68) of the lock member faces a locked portion (98) of a sheet-like cable (93) inserted in the insulator and an unlock position where the lock portion does not face the locked portion; and a bias portion (80) for biasing the lock member to the lock position, wherein an inner surface of the cable insertion groove includes a reference surface (21a) which is an end surface in a movement direction of the lock portion from the lock position to the unlock position, and a rotation center G of the rotation shaft is located on a side opposite to the movement direction, with respect to the reference surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Nakajima, Yoshiharu Fujii, Naoki Kitagawa
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Publication number: 20200026816Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor that calculates a distortion amount that represents an amount of distortion generated in a via of a printed circuit board based on a following equation, ??={(L×?×?t×E)/(D×T)}×m×?×?×?; calculates a lifetime of the via based on a following equation, M=N/(n×365); changes, when the calculated lifetime is outside a first setting range, at least two design values of the via length, the thermal expansion coefficient, the Young's modulus, the via diameter, or the plating thickness within a second setting range corresponding to the at least two design values respectively; gives points of two perspectives affected by the change and outputs a graph that indicates an impact degree according to the points of the two perspectives for each combination of the at least two design values.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Mitsunori Abe, YOSHIYUKI HIROSHIMA, Takahiro KITAGAWA, AKIKO MATSUI, Naoki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20200019254Abstract: A touchpad constituting a touch type operation apparatus includes a hemisphere portion and a flat surface portion and is mounted in an automobile. The hemisphere portion is a protruding type region having at least a part of a boundary with an adjacent region defined by a step. A front half portion is set as a second region. A rear half portion and the flat surface portion are set as a first region. During manual driving of the automobile, the first region is set as a non-sensitive region, and the second region is set as a sensitive region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoki Tsukamoto, Yoshihisa Usami, Yusuke Kitagawa, Yuki Okabe
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Publication number: 20200019253Abstract: A touch panel control unit controls a touch panel including a solid region. A gesture determination unit obtains solid shape information from a solid shape information table, specifies a content of a gesture operation with respect to the touch panel based on the solid shape information, and generates gesture specification information. An AP interface unit transmits the gesture specification information to the AP execution unit and receives response information from the AP execution unit. A display control unit controls display of the touch panel based on the received response information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yusuke KITAGAWA, Yoshihisa USAMI, Naoki TSUKAMOTO, Yuki OKABE
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Publication number: 20200019276Abstract: A touchpad includes a flat surface portion and a protruding solid portion having a hemispherical shape. An operation recognition part and an operation validity determination part are implemented in a touchpad control part. The operation recognition part recognizes a gesture operation performed on an operation region of the touchpad. The operation validity determination part determines only a rotating slide operation that is a slide operation with a finger along a lower periphery of the solid portion as a valid operation while an automobile is in a state of manual driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yuki OKABE, Naoki TSUKAMOTO, Yoshihisa USAMI, Yusuke KITAGAWA
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Publication number: 20200019252Abstract: A touchpad includes a flat surface portion and a protruding solid portion having a hemispherical shape. The operation recognition part recognizes a gesture operation performed on an operation region of the touchpad. An operation validity determination part determines that only a rotating slide operation with respect to a lower periphery of the solid portion is a valid operation even at a time of an operation lock invalidating the gesture operation. In a case where the rotating slide operation is performed at the time of the operation lock, the operation lock is released, and at the same time, a specific function is executed by an AP execution part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yuki OKABE, Naoki TSUKAMOTO, Yoshihisa USAMI, Yusuke KITAGAWA
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Patent number: 10393536Abstract: A probe information storing unit is provided to store therein probe information items of a vehicle, and a voxel storing unit is provided to store therein voxels, which are defined and later described, in association with position information of the respective voxels. The voxels are defined in a three-dimensional space based on map data. The voxel storing unit and the probe information storing unit are referred to, and the probe information items are given, as votes, to the voxels that correspond to position information of the respective probe information items. A statistical process is executed to the probe information items given to each of the voxels, and the process results are associated with the respective voxels.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA MAPMASTER INCORPORATEDInventors: Naoki Kitagawa, Yumiko Yamashita, Yoshihiro Ui
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Publication number: 20190220564Abstract: A recording medium recording a program for a process, the process includes: calculating an amount of distortion in a via of a printed circuit board based on an expression using coefficient m, ??={(L×?×?t×E)/(D×T)}×m, where ?? is the amount of distortion, L is a length of the via, ? is a thermal expansion coefficient of a base material, ?t is a temperature change of an environment, E is a Young's modulus, D is a diameter of the via, and T is a thickness of plating in the via; and calculating a lifetime of the via based on an expression, M=N/(n×365), where M is the lifetime of the via, n is a frequency of the temperature change, and N is the number of cycles of the lifetime satisfying an expression Nx=C/??.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Mitsunori ABE, YOSHIYUKI HIROSHIMA, Takahiro KITAGAWA, Naoki NAKAMURA, AKIKO MATSUI
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Publication number: 20190165504Abstract: A connector 10 according to the present disclosure comprises a contact 30; and an insulator 20 having an attaching groove 22 on an outer surface into which the contact 30 is inserted and attached, wherein the insulator 20 has a bottom wall 23 formed to be continuous with a bottom surface of the attaching groove 22 in a downward direction; and at least a part of the attaching groove 22 has a wide portion 24 wider in at least one direction than a groove width on the outer surface along a direction parallel to the bottom wall 23.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2017Publication date: May 30, 2019Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Naoki KITAGAWA
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Publication number: 20180216954Abstract: A probe information storing unit is provided to store therein probe information items of a vehicle, and a voxel storing unit is provided to store therein voxels, which are defined and later described, in association with position information of the respective voxels. The voxels are defined in a three-dimensional space based on map data. The voxel storing unit and the probe information storing unit are referred to, and the probe information items are given, as votes, to the voxels that correspond to position information of the respective probe information items. A statistical process is executed to the probe information items given to each of the voxels, and the process results are associated with the respective voxels.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: NAOKI KITAGAWA, YUMIKO YAMASHITA, YOSHIHIRO UI
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Patent number: D844567Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Naoki Kitagawa
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Patent number: D845248Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Naoki Kitagawa