Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Hirai
Nobuyuki Hirai 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: 9618576Abstract: A semiconductor device measurement apparatus 1A includes a tester 2 that generates an operational pulse signal to be input to a semiconductor device 3, a light source 5 that generates light, a light branch optical system 6 that irradiates the semiconductor device with the light, a light detector 7 that detects reflected light obtained by the semiconductor device 3 reflecting the light, and outputs a detection signal, an analog signal amplifier 8 that amplifies the detection signal and outputs an amplified signal, and an analysis apparatus 10 that analyzes an operation of the semiconductor device 3 based on the amplified signal and a predetermined correction value, wherein the predetermined correction value is obtained based on a signal obtained by the analog signal amplifier 8 amplifying a signal corresponding to a harmonic of a fundamental frequency of the operational pulse signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Akihiro Otaka, Mitsunori Nishizawa, Nobuyuki Hirai, Tomonori Nakamura
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Patent number: 9588727Abstract: A PC registers in advance PC-assistant copying functions which can be provided by the printer driver for a MFP. The MFP presents, to the user, copying functions including the registered functions. Upon reception of a copy instruction, the MFP determines whether selected functions include a PC-assisted copying function. If the selected functions include a PC-assisted copying function, the MFP transmits, to the PC, scanned image data and a job ticket containing information representing the selected functions. Upon reception of the job ticket, the PC generates a print job for printing the image data on the basis of the job ticket, and transmits the print job to the MFP.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuyuki Hirai
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Publication number: 20160377175Abstract: A hydraulic control device that includes a solenoid valve capable of supplying a first engagement pressure to the first engagement element; and a first cut valve that is interposed in an oil passage from the solenoid valve to the first engagement element and is capable of cutting off supply of a hydraulic pressure to the first engagement element, wherein only the first engagement pressure and a second engagement pressure serve as hydraulic pressures that act such that the first cut valve cuts off the supply of the hydraulic pressure to the first engagement element, and the first cut valve is switched so as to cut off the supply of the hydraulic pressure to the first engagement element when the first engagement pressure and the second engagement pressure are simultaneously supplied to the first engagement element and the second engagement element, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2014Publication date: December 29, 2016Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro MAEDA, Nobuyuki HIRAI, Masamichi YAMAGUCHI, Yoshimitsu HYODO, Kenichi TSUCHIDA, Hiroyuki KUTSUBO
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Publication number: 20160290443Abstract: A jump shift of an automatic transmission with multiple shift speeds such as, e.g., ten forward speeds involves operation of many engagement elements. The shifting operation for the jump shift is therefore complicated, making it difficult for the automatic transmission to respond quickly. After shifting to the seventh speed as a direct coupling speed is completed by engaging three clutches C1, C3, C4, the remaining other clutch C2 is also engaged at the seventh speed. In the case of a jump shift, e.g., a shift from the seventh speed to the fifth speed, shifting to the fifth speed is completed by disengaging the clutch C1 and performing control to disengage the clutch C3 and to engage a brake B1 with the remaining other clutch C2 kept in the engaged state. This facilitates the shifting operation from the direct coupling speed and allows the automatic transmission to respond quickly.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroyuki KUTSUBO, Nobuyuki HIRAI, Masamichi YAMAGUCHI, Yoshimitsu HYODO, Kenichi TSUCHIDA, Terufumi MIYAZAKI, Youhei HABATA, Yoshio HASEGAWA
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Publication number: 20160290499Abstract: A hydraulic control device that includes two hydraulic oil chambers, wherein a predetermined engagement element of the engagement elements is an engagement element that includes the two hydraulic oil chambers and is engageable and disengageable when an engagement pressure is supplied to and discharged from at least one of the two hydraulic oil chambers, and a control unit that reduces supply of the engagement pressure to one of the two hydraulic oil chambers to a level lower than that in a state in which a first shift speed is established, when the control unit performs shifting from the state in which the first shift speed is established by supplying the engagement pressures to both of the two hydraulic oil chambers and engaging the predetermined engagement element to a second shift speed by switching engagement and disengagement states of engagement elements other than the predetermined engagement element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki HIRAI, Yoshihiro MAEDA, Masamichi YAMAGUCHI, Yoshimitsu HYODO, Kenichi TSUCHIDA
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Publication number: 20160230879Abstract: A hydraulic control device for an automatic transmission, wherein when the first switching valve is switched to the first state while the second switching valve is in the third state, the reverse range pressure applied from the reverse range pressure input port of the second switching valve can be supplied from the first output port to the hydraulic servo for the first friction engagement element via the fourth output port of the second switching valve and the first input port of the first switching valve, and when a shift range is shifted from a neutral range to a reverse range, the second switching valve is in the fourth state, and the first switching valve is switched from the first state to the second state, so that the reverse range pressure applied to the reverse range pressure input port is cut off by the second switching valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2014Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki HIRAI, Masamichi YAMAGUCHI, Yoshimitsu HYODO, Kenichi TSUCHIDA, Naoyuki FUKAYA
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Publication number: 20160222991Abstract: A hydraulic device wherein an orifice is provided upstream of the discharge valve in an oil passage from the electric pump, a drain oil passage from the second hydraulic servo communicates between the orifice and the discharge valve in the oil passage from the electric pump, and an oil pressure in the oil passage upstream of the orifice is maintained at a predetermined pressure higher than the set pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2014Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki HIRAI, Masamichi YAMAGUCHI, Yoshimitsu HYODO, Kenichi TSUCHIDA, Naoyuki FUKAYA
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Publication number: 20160121661Abstract: A tire 10 has a decoration portion 15 using a paint on a surface of a side portion 12. The decoration portion 15 has a white paint layer 16 formed on at least a part of the decoration portion 15, a color paint layer 17 disposed by laminating on the white paint layer 16 and having a thickness less than the thickness of the white paint layer 16, and a protective layer 18 disposed by laminating on the color paint layer 17 and having the thickness less than the thickness of the white paint layer 16. The elastic modulus of the protective layer is larger than the elastic modulus of the white paint layer and the color paint layer. A thickness of the decoration portion 15 as a whole, including the white paint layer 15, the color paint layer 17 and the protective layer 18, is 150 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Keita OSHIKANE, Nobuyuki HIRAI, Takashi KUWAHARA, Kentaro MIZOTANI, Yuki NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20150317112Abstract: A PC registers in advance PC-assistant copying functions which can be provided by the printer driver for a MFP. The MFP presents, to the user, copying functions including the registered functions. Upon reception of a copy instruction, the MFP determines whether selected functions include a PC-assisted copying function. If the selected functions include a PC-assisted copying function, the MFP transmits, to the PC, scanned image data and a job ticket containing information representing the selected functions. Upon reception of the job ticket, the PC generates a print job for printing the image data on the basis of the job ticket, and transmits the print job to the MFP.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2015Publication date: November 5, 2015Inventor: Nobuyuki Hirai
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Publication number: 20150293036Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting an integrated circuit is an apparatus for inspecting an integrated circuit having a semiconductor substrate and a circuit portion formed on a front face a side of the semiconductor substrate. The apparatus comprises a light generation unit for generating light L for irradiating the integrated circuit, a wavelength width adjustment unit, for adjusting the wavelength width of the light irradiating the integrated circuit, an irradiation position adjustment unit for adjusting the irradiation position of the light irradiating the integrated circuit, and a light detection unit for detecting the light from the integrated circuit when the light from the light generation unit irradiates the circuit portion through a rear face of the semiconductor substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Tomonori Nakamura, Nobuyuki Hirai
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Patent number: 9124731Abstract: A PC registers in advance PC-assistant copying functions which can be provided by the printer driver for a MFP. The MFP presents, to the user, copying functions including the registered functions. Upon reception of a copy instruction, the MFP determines whether selected functions include a PC-assisted copying function. If the selected functions include a PC-assisted copying function, the MFP transmits, to the PC, scanned image data and a job ticket containing information representing the selected functions. Upon reception of the job ticket, the PC generates a print job for printing the image data on the basis of the job ticket, and transmits the print job to the MFP.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2006Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuyuki Hirai
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Patent number: 9099350Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting an integrated circuit is an apparatus for inspecting an integrated circuit having a semiconductor substrate and a circuit portion formed on a front face a side of the semiconductor substrate. The apparatus comprises a light generation unit for generating light L for irradiating the integrated circuit, a wavelength width adjustment unit, for adjusting the wavelength width of the light irradiating the integrated circuit, an irradiation position adjustment unit for adjusting the irradiation position of the light irradiating the integrated circuit, and a light detection unit for detecting the light from the integrated circuit when the light from the light generation unit irradiates the circuit portion through a rear face of the semiconductor substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Tomonori Nakamura, Nobuyuki Hirai
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Patent number: 9094544Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an analysis unit configured to analyze a print job generated based on a plurality of records, a determination unit configured to detect a boundary or boundaries of records based on a result of analysis obtained by the analysis unit and to determine a print page corresponding to each respective record, and a storage unit configured to store each record of the print job and a respective print page corresponding to each respective record while associating them with each other according to content determined by the determination unit. Related methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuyuki Hirai
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Publication number: 20150153408Abstract: A semiconductor device measurement apparatus 1A includes a tester 2 that generates an operational pulse signal to be input to a semiconductor device 3, a light source 5 that generates light, a light branch optical system 6 that irradiates the semiconductor device with the light, a light detector 7 that detects reflected light obtained by the semiconductor device 3 reflecting the light, and outputs a detection signal, an analog signal amplifier 8 that amplifies the detection signal and outputs an amplified signal, and an analysis apparatus 10 that analyzes an operation of the semiconductor device 3 based on the amplified signal and a predetermined correction value, wherein the predetermined correction value is obtained based on a signal obtained by the analog signal amplifier 8 amplifying a signal corresponding to a harmonic of a fundamental frequency of the operational pulse signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Akihiro OTAKA, Mitsunori NISHIZAWA, Nobuyuki HIRAI, Tomonori NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20150048707Abstract: A method for producing a radially anisotropic ring magnet having at least one axial groove on the inner surface comprises using a die comprising a cylindrical, magnetic core, a magnetic sleeve having an axial ridge in alignment with the groove on the outer surface and disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the core, and an outer, cylindrical die member defining a cavity for forming the ring magnet with the magnetic sleeve, and compression-molding magnet powder charged into the cavity while applying a magnetic field in a radial direction, and a radially anisotropic ring magnet substantially having a composition of R-TM-B, wherein R is at least one of rare earth elements including Y, TM is at least one of transition metals, and B is boron, having at least one axial groove on the inner surface, and magnetized such that centerlines between magnetic poles do not overlap grooves.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki HIRAI, Mitsutoshi Natsumeda
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Patent number: 8937419Abstract: A method for producing a radially anisotropic ring magnet having at least one axial groove on the inner surface comprises using a die comprising a cylindrical, magnetic core, a magnetic sleeve having an axial ridge in alignment with the groove on the outer surface and disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the core, and an outer, cylindrical die member defining a cavity for forming the ring magnet with the magnetic sleeve, and compression-molding magnet powder charged into the cavity while applying a magnetic field in a radial direction, and a radially anisotropic ring magnet substantially having a composition of R-TM-B, wherein R is at least one of rare earth elements including Y, TM is at least one of transition metals, and B is boron, having at least one axial groove on the inner surface, and magnetized such that centerlines between magnetic poles do not overlap grooves.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki Hirai, Mitsutoshi Natsumeda
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Patent number: 8554751Abstract: An image forming apparatus which is capable of performing more appropriate control of access to files which grant different access rights on a versions basis. The image forming apparatus is communicably connected to a file server. In a system controller of the image forming apparatus, a reading control section reads an original to thereby generate image data. The reading control section extracts version information on the original from the generated image data. Then, the system controller identifies, out of at least one version of an original file stored in the file server as electronic data corresponding to the original, a version that permits the image forming apparatus to perform image formation, based on the extracted version information on the original.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2012Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuyuki Hirai
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Patent number: 8554432Abstract: A power transfer mechanism control device that controls a power transfer mechanism which is mounted on a vehicle including an automatically stoppable and automatically startable motor and which transfers power from the motor to an axle side via a friction engagement element actuated by a fluid pressure from a fluid pressure actuator, wherein during neutral control performed while the motor is in operation, a neutral control amount, which is a control amount for causing the friction engagement element to stand by in a neutral state with pressure lower than a complete engagement pressure, is set on the basis of a power transfer state of the power transfer mechanism to control the fluid pressure actuator, and learned, and while the motor is automatically stopped, the fluid pressure actuator is controlled using the learned neutral control amount such that the friction engagement element stands by in the neutral state.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2011Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Shimizu, Nobuyuki Hirai, Kenichi Tsuchida, Kazunori Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8465610Abstract: A method and apparatus for building a green tire or a tire component member by winding and laminating a rubber strip on a rigid core or a building drum. The apparatus includes a flattening roll and a rubber strip winder. The flattening roll flattens a projection of a stepped portion produced by overlapping portions of the rubber strip, and a roller of the flattening roll is moved so that it is constantly located at a given position with reference to the rigid core or building drum. The flattening roll moves in a direction opposite to a moving direction of the rubber strip winder during helical winding of the rubber strip on the rigid core or building drum.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2008Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Bridgestone CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Hirai, Kenji Yamada, Katsuto Koyama
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Patent number: 8425379Abstract: A power transfer mechanism control device controlling a power transfer mechanism mounted on a vehicle which transfers power from an internal combustion engine to an axle side via a friction engagement element actuated by a fluid pressure from either of a first fluid pressure actuator driven by the power from the internal combustion engine and a second fluid pressure actuator driven by a fluid pressure source different from a fluid pressure source for the first fluid pressure actuator. When the internal combustion engine is to be automatically started, the second fluid pressure actuator is controlled such that, before complete combustion occurs in the internal combustion engine, the friction engagement element stands by in a low-pressure state, and the first fluid pressure actuator is controlled such that the friction engagement element transfers the torque at predetermined timing after the complete combustion occurs in the internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki Hirai, Tetsuya Shimizu, Kenichi Tsuchida, Kazunori Ishikawa, Atsushi Ishibashi