Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Nakayama

Nobuyuki Nakayama 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: 12270924
    Abstract: A sensor includes: a complex transfer function calculator that calculates a complex transfer function representing propagation characteristics between each N transmission antenna element and each M reception antenna element, using radio waves transmitted as a reception signal in a space where at least one living body is present from each N transmission antenna element and received by each M reception antenna element; a spectrum calculator that: calculates likelihood spectra, each indicating a likelihood of presence of each living body, by an estimation algorithm for estimating the presence from living body information that is a living body component in the complex transfer function, using different values as the number of the at least one living body; and calculates an integrated spectrum by integrating the likelihood spectra calculated; and an estimator that estimates living body information indicating at least the number of living bodies, and outputs the living body information estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoichi Iizuka, Takeshi Nakayama, Naoki Honma, Nobuyuki Shiraki
  • Patent number: 12262573
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other; and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and including a first organic semiconductor material, a second organic semiconductor material, and a third organic semiconductor material that have mother skeletons different from one another. The first organic semiconductor material is one of fullerenes and fullerene derivatives. The second organic semiconductor material in a form of a single-layer film has a higher linear absorption coefficient of a maximal light absorption wavelength in a visible light region than a single-layer film of the first organic semiconductor material and a single-layer film of the third organic semiconductor material. The third organic semiconductor material has a value equal to or higher than a HOMO level of the second organic semiconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Matsuzawa, Yoshiaki Obana, Ichiro Takemura, Norikazu Nakayama, Masami Shimokawa, Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Iwao Yagi, Hideaki Mogi
  • Patent number: 12246777
    Abstract: A vehicle-body structure may include a floor panel, a dash panel extending upward from a vehicle front portion of the floor panel and partitioning a vehicle front portion of an occupant space, a cooler disposed on a vehicle front side of the dash panel, a control device disposed in the occupant space, and a supply pipe through which a heat exchange medium subjected to heat exchange at a heat exchanger is supplied to the control device. The heat exchanger may be closer to the control device than a powertrain PT mounted on an automobile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanaka, Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba
  • Patent number: 12240529
    Abstract: To increase an effect of absorbing an impact load from a vehicle front side. A vehicle-body structure includes a left-side suspension support member supporting a front suspension, a center frame disposed higher than and away from a floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of an occupant space and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, a left-side front frame connected to a front portion of the center frame and extending to the left-side suspension support member, a right-side front frame connected to the front portion of the center frame and extending to a right-side suspension support member, and a connection member that connects the floor panel and at least one of a rear portion of the left-side front frame, a rear portion of the right-side front frame, and the front portion of the center frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 12233699
    Abstract: A vehicle-body structure increases comfort inside a vehicle cabin and improves vehicle-body stiffness. A battery housing portion in which a battery is housed and a battery non-housing portion in which the battery is not housed are provided alongside in a vehicle front-rear direction below the vehicle cabin. A second frame portion disposed at the battery non-housing portion is larger than a first frame portion disposed at the battery housing portion in a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12233946
    Abstract: To sufficiently improve the distortion stiffness of a vehicle body in a case in which no floor tunnel largely bulging upward from a floor panel is provided. A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space including a seat on which a passenger is to sit, a cross member provided at a rear portion of the floor panel and extending in a vehicle width direction, a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, and a connecting member connecting the cross member and a rear portion of the center frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Takashi Hirakawa, Hideaki Hoshuyama, Tsuneki Shimanaka
  • Publication number: 20250060468
    Abstract: A living body distance estimating device includes: a transmission signal generator that generates a multicarrier signal; a transmission antenna including M transmission antenna elements; a reception antenna including N reception antenna elements; a receiver that measures reception signals for a first period; a complex transfer function calculator that calculates, for each of subcarriers and using the reception signals measured in the first period, a plurality of complex transfer functions indicating a propagation characteristic between each transmission antenna element and each reception antenna element; a living body correlation matrix calculator that calculates a living body correlation matrix by extracting components relating to the living body in the reception signals; and an estimator that estimates, using the living body correlation matrix, a third distance which is a sum of a first distance between the transmission antenna and the living body and a second distance between the reception antenna and the
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Shoichi IIZUKA, Takeshi NAKAYAMA, Naoki HONMA, Ryousuke TANAKA, Tomonori ITO, Nobuyuki SHIRAKI
  • Patent number: 12227229
    Abstract: To decrease the retraction amount of a traveling motor at front collision. A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space including a seat on which a passenger sits, a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, and a connecting member extending upward from the floor panel, having an upper portion fixed to the center frame, and connecting the center frame to the floor panel. A traveling motor is arranged on a vehicle front side of the connecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 12220231
    Abstract: An estimation device includes: M transmission antenna elements each transmitting a first transmission signal; N transmitter-receivers each including a reception antenna element and receiving, over a predetermined period, a first reception signal including a reflection signal that is the first transmission signal reflected by a first living body, using the reception antenna element; a memory storing training signals that are second reception signals obtained by causing the N transmitter-receivers to preliminarily receive second reception signals including reflection signals that are second transmission signals transmitted from the M transmission antenna elements to a second living body and reflected therefrom; a first vector calculator calculating a first vector for each training signal and each first reception signal by respective predetermined methods; and a circuit identifying the first living body or estimating an orientation of the first living body by a predetermined method, using correlation coefficient
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Nakayama, Shoichi Iizuka, Naoki Honma, Nobuyuki Shiraki, Teppei Hayashi, Kazuki Numazaki
  • Patent number: 12208759
    Abstract: To improve protection performance for a pedestrian colliding with a front portion of a traveling vehicle, a front bumper includes a bumper fascia, a front grill, and decorative member. The disposition position and shape of a bumper reinforcement are set such that the bumper reinforcement is positioned inside an opening of the bumper fascia in a front view. Cross members are arranged at higher and lower positions than the decorative member and extend toward a vehicle-width-direction outer side beyond the bumper reinforcement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Mitsuru Wakabayashi, Koji Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 12202548
    Abstract: To suppress damage on a bonnet at light collision, a vehicle-body structure includes rear-portion crush cans that perform compressive deformation when a first predetermined load is applied, and front-portion crush cans that perform compressive deformation when a second predetermined load smaller than the first predetermined load is applied. A front portion of a bonnet is positioned on a vehicle rear side of front portions of the rear-portion crush cans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Mitsuru Wakabayashi, Koji Miyamoto, Masaki Motoki, Manabu Tatsuda
  • Patent number: 12187211
    Abstract: To suppress deformation of a vehicle cabin by efficiently absorbing an impact load obliquely from a vehicle front side, a vehicle-body front structure includes an upper-side cross member, a lower-side cross member, upper-side impact absorption members that support respective ones of both vehicle-width-direction sides of the upper-side cross member, and lower-side impact absorption members that support respective ones of both vehicle-width-direction sides of the lower-side cross member. The upper-side impact absorption members and the lower-side impact absorption members are each positioned farther on a vehicle-width-direction outer side at a position farther on a vehicle front side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Mitsuru Wakabayashi, Koji Miyamoto, Masaki Motoki, Manabu Tatsuda
  • Patent number: 12157425
    Abstract: To improve protection performance for a pedestrian colliding with a front portion of a traveling vehicle, a front bumper includes a bumper fascia, a front grill, and a decorative member. The decorative member includes a left part extending along a left edge portion of an opening, and a right part extending along a right edge portion of the opening. A left end portion of a bumper reinforcement is positioned on a right side of the left part of the decorative member. A right end portion of the bumper reinforcement is positioned on a left side of the right part of the decorative member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Mitsuru Wakabayashi, Koji Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20240275791
    Abstract: A privilege providing system includes a first processor to recognize a prescribed act; a second processor to grant a privilege to at least a subject other than a performer of the prescribed act upon the act being recognized by the first processor, and a storage configured to store the privilege granted by the second processor to at least the subject other than the performer of the prescribed act.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuyuki NAKAYAMA, Toru KIMIJIMA, Keiichiro ISHI, Bin YUAN, Hiroshi NAGANO, Junko KATO, Takahiko NAKAMURA, Kanako BABA
  • Patent number: 11778108
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a printer communicable with an external device in accordance with a predetermined communication protocol. The printer includes: a data reception unit configured to receive data containing a character string to be printed, from the external device; an acquisition unit configured to acquire extraction setting information that is information relating to a method of extracting the character string contained in the data that is received by the data reception unit; an extraction unit configured to, upon receiving the data from the external device, extract the character string from the received data, based on the extraction setting information that is acquired by the acquisition unit; and a print unit configured to print the character string that is extracted by the extraction unit, on a print medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fujio Yoshida, Nobuyuki Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20230182827
    Abstract: To sufficiently improve the distortion stiffness of a vehicle body in a case in which no floor tunnel largely bulging upward from a floor panel is provided. A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space including a seat on which a passenger is to sit, a cross member provided at a rear portion of the floor panel and extending in a vehicle width direction, a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, and a connecting member connecting the cross member and a rear portion of the center frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Takuma INAMI, Nobuyuki NAKAYAMA, Hiroyuki BABA, Takashi HIRAKAWA, Hideaki HOSHUYAMA, Tsuneki SHIMANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230112413
    Abstract: A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space, a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a front-rear direction, and connecting members each extending upward from the floor panel, having an upper portion fixed to the center frame, and connecting the center frame to the floor panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Takuma INAMI, Nobuyuki NAKAYAMA, Hiroyuki BABA
  • Publication number: 20230114224
    Abstract: A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space, a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a front-rear direction, a cross member extending and intersecting the center frame in a plan view in the occupant space, and a connecting member extending upward from the cross member, having an upper portion fixed to the center frame, and connecting the center frame to the cross member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Takuma INAMI, Nobuyuki NAKAYAMA, Hiroyuki BABA
  • Publication number: 20230101843
    Abstract: A vehicle-body structure prevents a submarine phenomenon of a passenger during a front-end collision and achieves lowering of the vehicle floor-height while maintaining a sufficient number of mounted batteries. Embodiments of a vehicle-body structure include a seat pan that is formed at part of a floor panel and on which a seat cushion is placed, and a battery arranged below the seat pan. A bulging portion that bulges upward is formed at a vehicle front-side of the seat pan. An accessory member is housed inside the bulging portion. An upper-end portion of the accessory member housed in the bulging portion 4 is positioned farther on the upper-side than a lower-end portion of the bulging portion 48a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Takuma INAMI, Nobuyuki NAKAYAMA, Hiroyuki BABA, Hiroshi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230095674
    Abstract: A vehicle-body structure increases comfort inside a vehicle cabin and improves vehicle-body stiffness. A battery housing portion in which a battery is housed and a battery non-housing portion in which the battery is not housed are provided alongside in a vehicle front-rear direction below the vehicle cabin. A second frame portion disposed at the battery non-housing portion is larger than a first frame portion disposed at the battery housing portion in a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Takuma INAMI, Nobuyuki NAKAYAMA, Hiroyuki BABA, Hiroshi TANAKA