Patents by Inventor Shinichi Arai
Shinichi Arai 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: 11972051Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a control unit that generates a vibration stimulation signal to be provided to a user based on a sound signal in a content, wherein the control unit is configured to: acquire data of a content including a sound signal; execute an analysis process on the sound signal; and generate a vibration stimulation signal to be provided to a user in a conversion process of the sound signal according to a result of the analysis process.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventors: Rei Hiromi, Shinichi Shiotsu, Yoshikuni Miki, Akio Arai, Yohei Kakee
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Patent number: 11926900Abstract: A laminate includes a base substrate, and a coating layer formed on the base substrate. The coating layer includes a copper alloy portions derived from precipitation-hardening copper alloy particles and hard particle portions which are harder than the copper alloy portions, the hard particle portions are derived from hard particles, and the parts bond with each other via an interface. Each of the hard particle portions has a non-spherical shape. A sliding member includes the laminate in at least one sliding portion. A method for manufacturing a laminate includes a step of spraying a mixture in a non-molten state including precipitation-hardening copper alloy particles and hard particles having a non-spherical shape and being harder than the copper alloy particles onto a base substrate, to form a coating layer on the base substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., FUKUDA METAL FOIL & POWDER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Izawa, Junichi Arai, Yutaka Mabuchi, Katsunori Otobe, Shinichi Nishimura
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Patent number: 11893101Abstract: A wearable camera is to be worn by a user and includes: a capturing unit configured to capture and read a code in which fixed information and variable information of the user are registered; and a processor configured to extract the fixed information and the variable information of the user based on a read result of the capturing unit. The processor is configured to register the extracted fixed information and variable information of the user in a memory, and permit the user to use the wearable camera based on the registration in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Haraguchi, Manabu Nakamura, Masashi Nakamura, Shinichi Arai
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Publication number: 20240014622Abstract: A laser device includes: a seed light source configured to output a laser light having a single mode; a multicore fiber including at least one core group having at least one core, each of the core in the core group being optically coupled to neighboring cores; and an optical coupler configured to input the laser light to the core group, wherein in the multicore fiber, the laser light propagates through the core group in a super mode representing propagation mode of the core group.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigehiro TAKASAKA, Yoshihiro EMORI, Shinichi ARAI, Ryuichi SUGIZAKI
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Patent number: 11753328Abstract: A method for screening an optical fiber core including a resin coating layer, includes: a pre-strain applying step of adding a tensile force while feeding a portion of the optical fiber core retained at both ends of the portion, and applying a pre-tensile strain larger than zero and smaller than a guaranteed tensile strain set as a guaranteed value; a guaranteed strain applying step of adding a tensile force while feeding the portion of the optical fiber core retained at both ends of the portion and applied with the pre-tensile strain, and applying the guaranteed tensile strain only for a predetermined time; and a guaranteed strain releasing step of releasing the optical fiber core from the guaranteed tensile strain.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Arai, Shigeto Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20230123319Abstract: An optical amplifying fiber includes: at least one core portion including a rare earth element added therein; an inner cladding portion surrounding the at least one core portion, the inner cladding portion having a refractive index lower than a maximum refractive index of the at least one core portion; and an outer cladding portion surrounding the inner cladding portion, the outer cladding portion having a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the inner cladding portion, the inner cladding portion including different refractive index regions each having a refractive index different from a refractive index of a region adjacent to that different refractive index region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigehiro TAKASAKA, Koichi MAEDA, Keiichi AISO, Shinichi ARAI, Kazunori MUKASA, Yukihiro TSUCHIDA, Masanori TAKAHASHI, Ryuichi SUGIZAKI
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Publication number: 20230006410Abstract: An optical amplifying fiber includes: at least one single core portion doped with a rare-earth element; an inner cladding portion configured to enclose the at least one core portion, the inner cladding portion having a lower refractive index than maximum refractive index of each core portion; and an outer cladding portion configured to enclose the inner cladding portion, the outer cladding portion having a lower refractive index than refractive index of the inner cladding portion, wherein the inner cladding portion includes a plurality of air bubbles.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigehiro TAKASAKA, Koichi MAEDA, Keiichi AISO, Shinichi ARAI, Ryuichi SUGIZAKI, Kazunori MUKASA, Yukihiro TSUCHIDA, Masanori TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220329249Abstract: An R/D conversion method includes a step of removing a frequency band including a frequency component that is twice an excitation frequency of excitation signals of a resolver (30) from a digital angle value (?). The R/D conversion method further includes a step of outputting, by the resolver (30), the resolver signals having a phase difference that corresponds to an angle of the resolver with respect to the excitation signals, respectively, and a step of feeding back the digital angle value (?) includes feeding back the digital angle value (?) to the resolver signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Hiroshi KUSHIHARA, Hirofumi MARUYAMA, Ryohei USHIKUSA, Shinichi ARAI
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Patent number: 11323692Abstract: In an asset management system, a wearable camera mountable by a police officer and a server that manages information regarding the wearable camera are connected to enable a communication. The wearable camera repeatedly diagnoses whether or not the wearable camera has failure at a predetermined timing, and notifies the server of a diagnosis result. The server is connected to a database, accumulates the diagnosis result of the wearable camera in the database every time the server receives the diagnosis result of the wearable camera, and displays the diagnosis result of the wearable camera on an external terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Minoru Hagio, Junichi Hamada, Masahiro Nomoto, Shinichi Arai
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Patent number: 11276193Abstract: An information processing device has a receiving section for receiving, from a second vehicle having started the tracking of a first person, the position information of the second vehicle and the image data photographed by the on-vehicle camera mounted on the second vehicle; a control section for searching for the image of the first vehicle included in the image data from the images photographed by monitoring cameras installed around the position indicated by the position information and for tracking the first vehicle searched for using the images photographed by the monitoring cameras; and a transmitting section for transmitting the tracking position information of the first vehicle being tracked by the control section.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Minoru Hagio, Nobuhito Seki, Keiichi Miyazaki, Kosuke Shinozaki, Masayuki Hasegawa, Shinichi Arai, Ryutaro Sen, Naoya Sakurai
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Patent number: 11253947Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnet wire bonding method and a bonding structure, and more particularly to a new improvement for ultrasonically bonding a longitudinal outer peripheral surface of a magnet wire having no entangling part to a flat surface of a flat part of a terminal pin. A magnet wire bonding method and structure, comprising: using a terminal pin (11) having a flat plate part (40) provided in a pin part (11a) as a terminal pin holding part (3); placing a magnet wire (13) in a longitudinally spread state on a flat surface (40a) of the flat plate part (40) without being entangled; and ultrasonically bonding an outer peripheral surface (13E) of the magnet wire (13) onto the flat surface (40a) with an ultrasonic horn (50).Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: TAMAGAWA SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Kushihara, Kazuyuki Ishibashi, Hirofumi Maruyama, Shinichi Arai, Toshiki Muramatsu, Shinichi Hara, Katsutoshi Toyotake
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Patent number: 11237322Abstract: An optical fiber manufacturing method includes setting a first holding member and a rod inside a glass pipe, the first holding member made of glass and having plural holes formed, so that the rod is supported by the first holding member; filling glass particles between the rod and a glass pipe inner wall; holding the rod such that the rod and the filled glass particles are enclosed by the glass pipe inner wall and the first and second holding members, and sealing one end of the glass pipe and manufacturing an intermediate; and manufacturing an optical fiber from the intermediate, wherein a bulk density of the first and second holding members is set with reference to a bulk density of a filling portion made from the glass particles, and the predetermined range is determined according to a core diameter permissible variation range in its longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Arai, Harumi Inaba, Shigeto Matsumoto, Takeshi Yagi, Shinichi Aozasa, Kyozo Tsujikawa, Kazuhide Nakajima
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Publication number: 20220003921Abstract: A multicore fiber includes: n pieces of first core regions in a circular shape with a radius r1 that are arranged about points P11 to P1n, and that has a first core portion and a first cladding portion; a second core region in a circular shape with a radius R1 that is arranged about the point a1, and that has a second core portion and a second cladding portion; and a cladding region that is formed on an outer circumferences of the first core region and the second core region. Further, abutting surfaces that are flat surfaces abutting on each other are formed in portions on the outer circumferences of the first core region and the second core region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanori TAKAHASHI, Koichi MAEDA, Shinichi ARAI, Ryuichi SUGIZAKI, Masayoshi TSUKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210396617Abstract: A pressure sensor includes: a light source that outputs signal light; a sensor optical fiber where the signal light is input and the signal light is propagated with a loss of 0.3 dB/m or more; and an optical receiver that receives the signal light propagated through the sensor optical fiber. Further, pressure applied to the sensor optical fiber is detected on a basis of intensity of the signal light received by the optical receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki HASEGAWA, Hiroyuki TAMAOKA, Takeshi YAGI, Shinichi ARAI
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Publication number: 20210224373Abstract: A wearable camera is to be worn by a user and includes: a capturing unit configured to capture and read a code in which fixed information and variable information of the user are registered; and a processor configured to extract the fixed information and the variable information of the user based on a read result of the capturing unit. The processor is configured to register the extracted fixed information and variable information of the user in a memory, and permit the user to use the wearable camera based on the registration in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Takayuki HARAGUCHI, Manabu NAKAMURA, Masashi NAKAMURA, Shinichi ARAI
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Publication number: 20200413034Abstract: In an asset management system, a wearable camera mountable by a police officer and a server that manages information regarding the wearable camera are connected to enable a communication. The wearable camera repeatedly diagnoses whether or not the wearable camera has failure at a predetermined timing, and notifies the server of a diagnosis result. The server is connected to a database, accumulates the diagnosis result of the wearable camera in the database every time the server receives the diagnosis result of the wearable camera, and displays the diagnosis result of the wearable camera on an external terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Minoru HAGIO, Junichi HAMADA, Masahiro NOMOTO, Shinichi ARAI
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Patent number: 10855913Abstract: A wearable camera includes: a storage section that stores therein video data of captured moving image; and a controller that adds a bookmark signal to the video data when an event included in the video data is detected, in which the bookmark signal indicates a location at which playback of the video data starts when the video data is played back.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Minoru Hagio, Shinichi Arai, Takae Oguchi
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Publication number: 20200358947Abstract: A wearable camera includes: a storage section that stores therein video data of captured moving image; and a controller that adds a bookmark signal to the video data when an event included in the video data is detected, in which the bookmark signal indicates a location at which playback of the video data starts when the video data is played back.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Minoru HAGIO, Shinichi ARAI, Takae OGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200299178Abstract: A method for screening an optical fiber core including a resin coating layer, includes: a pre-strain applying step of adding a tensile force while feeding a portion of the optical fiber core retained at both ends of the portion, and applying a pre-tensile strain larger than zero and smaller than a guaranteed tensile strain set as a guaranteed value; a guaranteed strain applying step of adding a tensile force while feeding the portion of the optical fiber core retained at both ends of the portion and applied with the pre-tensile strain, and applying the guaranteed tensile strain only for a predetermined time; and a guaranteed strain releasing step of releasing the optical fiber core from the guaranteed tensile strain.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi ARAI, Shigeto MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20200211216Abstract: An information processing device has a receiving section for receiving, from a second vehicle having started the tracking of a first person, the position information of the second vehicle and the image data photographed by the on-vehicle camera mounted on the second vehicle; a control section for searching for the image of the first vehicle included in the image data from the images photographed by monitoring cameras installed around the position indicated by the position information and for tracking the first vehicle searched for using the images photographed by the monitoring cameras; and a transmitting section for transmitting the tracking position information of the first vehicle being tracked by the control section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Minoru HAGIO, Nobuhito SEKI, Keiichi MIYAZAKI, Kosuke SHINOZAKI, Masayuki HASEGAWA, Shinichi ARAI, Ryutaro SEN, Naoya SAKURAI