Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Nakamura
Nobuyuki 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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Patent number: 12041788Abstract: A storage device includes: a memory unit and a first pillar. The first pillar includes: a first region having a third portion between a first and a second portion respectively having a first and a second maximum diameter, and having a first minimum diameter, the first and second portions defining a first distance; a second region having a sixth portion between a fourth and a fifth portion respectively having a third and a fourth maximum diameter, and having a second minimum diameter, the fourth and fifth portions defining a second distance; and a third region between the first and second regions, having a ninth portion between a seventh and an eighth portion respectively having a fifth and a sixth maximum diameter, and having a third minimum diameter, the seventh and eighth portions defining a third distance shorter than each of the first and second distances.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Tsutomu Nakanishi, Yasuaki Ootera, Nobuyuki Umetsu, Michael Arnaud Quinsat, Masaki Kado, Susumu Hashimoto, Shiho Nakamura, Naoharu Shimomura, Tsuyoshi Kondo, Mutsumi Okajima
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Publication number: 20240128158Abstract: According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, a through-silicon via (TSV)-Bump structure is provide. The TSV-Bump structure comprises a TSV in a semiconductor substrate and a bump on the TSV. The bump includes a conductive plug portion and a step structure portion under the conductive plug portion. The step structure is configured to electrically couple the TSV and the conductive plug portion with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: YUTAKA NAKAE, NOBUYUKI NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 11946112Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet of the present invention has a specific chemical composition. Furthermore, in the steel sheet, a degree of Mn segregation in a specific region is 1.5 or less; a maximum P concentration in a specific region is 0.08 mass % or less; in a specific region, at least one specific MnS particle group is present, the number of specific MnS particle groups is 2.0 or fewer per 1 mm2, and the number of specific oxide-based inclusions is 8 or fewer per 1 mm2; of all oxide-based inclusions, oxide-based inclusions having a specific composition are present in a number ratio of 80% or greater; the microstructure includes, in terms of a volume fraction, 30 to 95% martensite, 5 to 70% ferrite phase, less than 30% (and 0% or greater) bainite, and less than 2.0% (and 0% or greater) austenite phase; and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or greater.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda, Shimpei Yoshioka, Koichi Taniguchi, Hiroshi Matsuda, Takeshi Murai, Nobuyuki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20240024770Abstract: Disclosed herein is a server device including one or more processors having hardware. The one or more processors specify a status of a user and specify an activity to be recommended to the user, on the basis of the specified status of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Nobuyuki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20240014102Abstract: An apparatus includes a through-silicon via (TSV) including a conductive material; a first contact plug having an upper surface and a bottom surface directly connected to an upper surface of the TSV; a first wiring directly connected to the upper surface of the first contact plug; a second wiring having an upper surface; a second contact plug having an upper surface and a bottom surface directly connected to the upper surface of the second wiring; and a third wiring directly connected to the upper surface of the second contact plug; wherein the first wiring and the third wiring are in a substantially same level.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2022Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Yutaka Nakae, Nobuyuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 11846002Abstract: The high-strength steel sheet according to the present invention includes a specific chemical composition, a steel structure in which a total area fraction of martensite and bainite in a position of ¼ of a sheet thickness is 92% or more and 100% or less, the balance in a case where the total area fraction is not 100% contains retained austenite, and an area fraction of ferrite in a region extending up to 10 ?m in a sheet thickness direction from a surface is 10% or more and 40% or less, in which a tensile strength is 1320 MPa or more, and a Vickers hardness in a position of 15 ?m in the sheet thickness direction from the surface satisfies a specified formula.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shimpei Yoshioka, Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda, Nobuyuki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20230372816Abstract: When a trophy unlock condition is fulfilled, a trophy processing section 124 grants a virtual award to a user playing a game. A transmission processing section 126 transmits, to a server device 5, acquisition information regarding a trophy acquired by the user. A trophy information acquiring section 150 acquires, from the server device 5, information regarding a trophy that has a possibility of being acquired by the user next. A display processing section 140 displays the information acquired by the trophy information acquiring section 150.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Yasuo SASAKI, Nobuyuki NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20220090247Abstract: A steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a tensile strength of 1,320 MPa or more, and methods for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a specified microstructure including martensite and bainite, the total area fraction of the martensite and the bainite being 92% or more and 100% or less, the balance being one or more selected from ferrite and retained austenite. The forumulae [%Ti]+[%Nb]>0.007 and [%Ti]×[%Nb]2?7.5×10?6 are satisfied in the chemical composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shimpei YOSHIOKA, Yoshihiko ONO, Yuma HONDA, Nobuyuki NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20220056549Abstract: A steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a tensile strength of 1,320 MPa or more, and methods for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a specified microstructure including martensite and bainite, the total area fraction of the martensite and the bainite being 95% or more and 100% or less, the balance being one or more selected from ferrite and retained austenite. The forumulae [% Ti]+[% Nb]>0.007 and [% Ti]×[% Nb]2?7.5×10?6 are satisfied in the chemical composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shimpei YOSHIOKA, Yoshihiko ONO, Yuma HONDA, Nobuyuki NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20210340641Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet of the present invention has a specific chemical composition. Furthermore, in the steel sheet, a degree of Mn segregation in a specific region is 1.5 or less; a maximum P concentration in a specific region is 0.08 mass % or less; in a specific region, the number of specific MnS particle groups is 2.0 or fewer per 1 mm2, and the number of specific oxide-based inclusions is 8 or fewer per 1 mm2; of all of the oxide-based inclusions, oxide-based inclusions having a specified composition are present in a number ratio of 80% or greater; the microstructure includes, in terms of a volume fraction, 30 to 95% martensite and bainite in total, 5 to 70% ferrite phase, and less than 3% (and 0% or greater) austenite phase; and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or greater.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda, Shimpei Yoshioka, Koichi Taniguchi, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Takeshi Murai
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Publication number: 20210332454Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet of the present invention has a specific chemical composition. Furthermore, in the steel sheet, a degree of Mn segregation in a specific region is 1.5 or less; a maximum P concentration in a specific region is 0.08 mass % or less; in a specific region, at least one specific MnS particle group is present, the number of specific MnS particle groups is 2.0 or fewer per 1 mm2, and the number of specific oxide-based inclusions is 8 or fewer per 1 mm2; of all oxide-based inclusions, oxide-based inclusions having a specific composition are present in a number ratio of 80% or greater; the microstructure includes, in terms of a volume fraction, 30 to 95% martensite, 5 to 70% ferrite phase, less than 30% (and 0% or greater) bainite, and less than 2.0% (and 0% or greater) austenite phase; and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or greater.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2019Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda, Shimpei Yoshioka, Koichi Taniguchi, Hiroshi Matsuda, Takeshi Murai, Nobuyuki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20210310094Abstract: The high-strength steel sheet according to the present invention includes a specific chemical composition, a steel structure in which a total area fraction of martensite and bainite in a position of ¼ of a sheet thickness is 92% or more and 100% or less, the balance in a case where the total area fraction is not 100% contains retained austenite, and an area fraction of ferrite in a region extending up to 10 ?m in a sheet thickness direction from a surface is 10% or more and 40% or less, in which a tensile strength is 1320 MPa or more, and a Vickers hardness in a position of 15 ?m in the sheet thickness direction from the surface satisfies a specified formula.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Shimpei Yoshioka, Yoshihiko Ono, Yuma Honda, Nobuyuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 10982297Abstract: A steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a method for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a microstructure including martensite and bainite. The total area fraction of the martensite and the bainite to the entirety of the microstructure is more than 90% and 100% or less. The microstructure includes inclusion clusters A and B, the content of the clusters A in the microstructure being 2 clusters/mm2 or less, and the content of the clusters B in the microstructure being 5 clusters/mm2 or less. The microstructure includes carbide particles including Fe as a main constituent which have an aspect ratio of 2.0 or less and a major axis of 0.30 ?m or more and 2 ?m or less. The content of the carbide particles in the microstructure is 4000 particles/mm2 or less. The microstructure includes prior ? grains having an average size of 6 to 15 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Shimpei Yoshioka, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Hiroshi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 10969591Abstract: A transmitting and receiving section receives an image rendered on the basis of a position or an orientation of a head mounted display at a first time together with information regarding the position or the orientation at the first time. A correction section corrects the image by acquiring information regarding a position or an orientation of the head mounted display at a second time of displaying the image, translating or rotationally moving a visual field of the head mounted display in a screen coordinate system in response to a difference between the position or the orientation at the first time and the position or the orientation at the second time, and pasting the image on the translated or rotationally moved visual field as a texture.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Nobuyuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 10870902Abstract: A cold-rolled steel sheet has: a predetermined chemical composition; and a microstructure in which tempered martensite and bainite are contained in a total area ratio of 95-100% with respect to a whole volume of the microstructure; a number of predetermined inclusion groups is at most 0.8/mm2, the inclusion groups being formed by one or more inclusion particles, the one or more inclusion particles having a major axis length of 0.3 ?m or more and extending and/or distributed in a dot-sequence manner along a rolling direction; a number of carbides mainly composed of Fe having a predetermined size is at most 3,500/mm2; a number of carbides that are distributed in the tempered martensite and/or in the bainite and that have a diameter of 10 nm to 50 nm is at least 0.7×107/mm2; and prior ? grains have a mean grain size of 18 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko Ono, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Ryosuke Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20200319463Abstract: A transmitting and receiving section receives an image rendered on the basis of a position or an orientation of a head mounted display at a first time together with information regarding the position or the orientation at the first time. A correction section corrects the image by acquiring information regarding a position or an orientation of the head mounted display at a second time of displaying the image, translating or rotationally moving a visual field of the head mounted display in a screen coordinate system in response to a difference between the position or the orientation at the first time and the position or the orientation at the second time, and pasting the image on the translated or rotationally moved visual field as a texture.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2018Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Nobuyuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 10400316Abstract: A high strength hot rolled steel sheet with good formability, which has good magnetic properties, excellent punchability, and a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more. The high strength hot rolled steel sheet having a chemical composition containing C: 0.070% to 0.140%, Si: 0.10% to 1.00%, Mn: 1.00% to 1.80%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, N: 0.0080% or less, Al: 0.010% to 0.100%, Ti: 0.050% to 0.150%, and the remainder composed of Fe and incidental impurities, on a percent by mass basis, and 95% or more of bainite microstructure on a volume fraction basis, wherein carbides constituting 80% or more of total precipitation carbides are dispersed at grain boundaries of bainitic ferrite constituting the bainite microstructure and 80% or more of total precipitation carbides have particle grain sizes of 20 to 300 nm.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Katsumi Nakajima, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Nobuyuki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20190194775Abstract: A steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a method for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a microstructure including martensite and bainite. The total area fraction of the martensite and the bainite to the entirety of the microstructure is more than 90% and 100% or less. The microstructure includes inclusion clusters A and B, the content of the clusters A in the microstructure being 2 clusters/mm2 or less, and the content of the clusters B in the microstructure being 5 clusters/mm2 or less. The microstructure includes carbide particles including Fe as a main constituent which have an aspect ratio of 2.0 or less and a major axis of 0.30 ?m or more and 2 ?m or less. The content of the carbide particles in the microstructure is 4000 particles/mm2 or less. The microstructure includes prior ? grains having an average size of 6 to 15 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko ONO, Shimpei YOSHIOKA, Nobuyuki NAKAMURA, Hiroshi HASEGAWA
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Patent number: 10323293Abstract: A high-carbon hot rolled steel sheet with excellent hardenability and small in-plane anisotropy, and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet are provided. The steel sheet has a chemical composition including, by mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.48%, Si: not more than 0.1%, Mn: not more than 0.5%, P: not more than 0.03%, S: not more than 0.01%, sol. Al: not more than 0.10%, N: not more than 0.005% and B: 0.0005 to 0.0050%, the balance including Fe and inevitable impurities. The steel sheet includes a microstructure containing ferrite and cementite. The cementite has an average grain size of not more than 1.0 ?m. The steel sheet has an in-plane anisotropy of r value, ?r, of not more than 0.1 in absolute value.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2012Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yuka Miyamoto, Takashi Kobayashi, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Yoshimasa Funakawa
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Patent number: 10301698Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet for a generator rim contains a structure containing a ferrite phase with an areal ratio of 95% or more in which precipitates containing Ti and V whose average grain diameter is less than 10 nm are precipitated in crystal grains of the ferrite phase. The ferrite phase has an average crystal grain diameter within the range of 2 ?m or more and less than 10 ?m. The hot-rolled steel sheet for a generator rim has strength with a yield strength YS in a rolling direction of 700 MPa or more and electromagnetic properties with a magnetic flux density B50 of 1.5 T or more and a magnetic flux density B100 of 1.6 T or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2013Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Nakamura, Katsumi Nakajima, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Kazutaka Okimoto, Takahiko Ogura