Patents by Inventor Shinichi Nakamura

Shinichi 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).

  • Patent number: 12270188
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl including a waste receiving surface, a rim and a well portion; a water spouting part that spouts flush water toward the bowl; and a water discharge trap including an inlet connected to a lower part of the well portion, the water discharge trap discharging waste in the bowl, the well portion includes a bottom wall formed above and in front of the inlet of the water discharge trap, a side wall formed to surround a periphery of the bottom wall, and a joining portion that joins an outer edge of the bottom wall and a bottom edge of the side wall with a surface having a curvature, and the bottom wall of the well portion includes a concave portion formed to recess downward on left and right sides with respect to a center axis in a left-right direction in a front sectional view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Kenichi Nakamura, Shinichi Urata, Kazunari Yasui, Isami Sakaba, Yuichi Tsubone, Shigeru Okada, Satoshi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20250112615
    Abstract: The present application relates to an elastic wave device and a module using the elastic wave device. The elastic wave device comprises a supporting substrate; a dielectric layer formed on the supporting substrate; an insulating layer formed on the dielectric layer; a piezoelectric layer formed on the insulating layer; and a resonator including IDT electrodes formed on the piezoelectric layer. The dielectric layer includes a first strip-shaped acoustic impedance region with a long side direction and a short side direction; and a second strip-shaped acoustic impedance region arranged alternately with the first acoustic impedance region and having a different acoustic impedance from that of the first acoustic impedance region. The elastic wave device of this application provides good temperature characteristics and effectively suppresses spurious response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Subei SHUN, Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Shinichi SHIOI
  • Publication number: 20250108518
    Abstract: A drive device (7) that unwinds, in a first direction, a wire (WR) connected to an operation target (41, 551, 552) with predetermined tension and pulls the wire in a direction opposite to the first direction to cause the operation target to perform an action includes a motor (71), a first rotating member (74) that can be rotated by the motor in a second direction and in a direction opposite to the second direction about a rotation axis (Rx5), a pulling member (TM) that is provided rotatably coaxially with the first rotating member, holds an end (WR1) of the wire, rotates in the second direction to unwind the wire in the first direction, and rotates in the direction opposite to the second direction to pull the wire in the direction opposite to the first direction, and a pulling member side urging member (77) that urges the pulling member in the direction opposite to the second direction relative to the first rotating member, in which, when the wire is moved in the first direction due to an external factor, the
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi Hirata, Hitoshi Nakamura, Yuuichi Machida, Toru Kuronuma, Takuya Kuji, Maito Omori, Toshiyuki Ando, Yumi Ueda, Takeshi Asano
  • Patent number: 12255635
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a substrate, a first resonator, a second resonator, and a shared reflector. The second resonator is adjacent to the first resonator and has different frequency characteristics different than the first resonator. The first resonator includes a first interdigital transducer electrode. The second resonator includes a second interdigital transducer electrode. The shared reflector has frequency characteristics that are the same as both frequency characteristics of the first resonator and frequency characteristics of the second resonator or between the frequency characteristics of the first resonator and the frequency characteristics of the second resonator. a higher-order mode frequency of the first resonator and a higher-order mode frequency of the second resonator coincides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Nakamura, Shinichi Okada, Syunsuke Kido
  • Patent number: 12247740
    Abstract: A fuel injector has a body extending in an axial direction. The body includes: an axial passage formed so as to extend in the axial direction; a radial passage formed so as to communicate at one end with the axial passage and to open at another end to an outer surface of the body; and an internal passage including a first opening and a second opening open to the outer surface, and formed so as to extend inside the body from the first opening to the second opening. The first opening and the second opening are located opposite to each other across a third opening, through which the radial passage opens to the outer surface, in a circumferential direction centered on an axis of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Fujimoto, Shinichi Fukuba, Mitsuhiro Nakao, Yoshikazu Matsumura, Kota Yoshino, Satoshi Takiguchi, Sosuke Nakamura, Shinji Akamatsu
  • Publication number: 20250050236
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system including a controller installed on a hand of a user, an operation target remotely operated by the controller, and a relay apparatus that performs relaying between the controller and the operation target, in which the controller includes a first detection section that detects a motion of fingers of the user, a stimulus providing section that provides an external stimulus to the fingers of the user, and a control section that controls the stimulus providing section, the operation target includes a driving section that performs an action in reference to action information received, and a second detection section that detects the external stimulus to the operation target, and the relay apparatus transmits, to the operation target, the action information based on a detection result from the first detection section, and in reference to a detection result from the second detection section, transmits, to the controller, stimulus provision information for controlling the stimulus pr
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi HIRATA, Hitoshi NAKAMURA, Yuuichi MACHIDA, Toru KURONUMA, Takuya KUJI, Maito OMORI, Toshiyuki ANDO, Yumi UEDA, Takeshi ASANO
  • Publication number: 20250043559
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes a reservoir tank, a bowl, a rim spout port, a discharge trap conduit, a jet spout port configured to spout flush water toward an inlet of the discharge trap conduit, a jet water conduit configured to supply the flush water from the reservoir tank to the jet spout port, and a discharge device configured to supply or stop supplying the flush water to the jet water conduit, wherein the flush water is spouted at a first flow rate from the jet spout port when the discharge device is driven and the flush water in the reservoir tank flows into the jet water conduit and, after spouting of the first flow rate ends, the flush water is spouted at a second flow rate from the jet spout port due to the flush water retained in the jet water conduit flowing toward the jet spout port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Kenichi NAKAMURA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Shinichi URATA, Takumi TSUCHITANI, Chisato SONE, Jing CHEN, Wataru ISHIMI, Naoki ABE, Daisuke YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250044872
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operation device that includes a mounting section, a first position detection section, and a stimulus generation section. The mounting section is attached to a hand and fingers of a user. The first position detection section is disposed on the mounting section to detect the positions of the fingers. The stimulus generation section is disposed on the mounting section, placed at a position corresponding to one of the user's fingers, and configured to apply an external stimulus to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi HIRATA, Hitoshi NAKAMURA, Yuuichi MACHIDA, Toru KURONUMA, Takuya KUJI, Maito OMORI, Toshiyuki ANDO, Yumi UEDA, Takeshi ASANO
  • Publication number: 20250043561
    Abstract: A siphon jet flush toilet comprises: a bowl; a rim spout port suppling flush water to the bowl; a discharge trap conduit; a jet spout port spouting flush water toward an inlet of the discharge trap conduit; a reservoir tank including a jet spouting discharge valve and storing flush water; a jet water conduit configured to guide the flush water in the reservoir tank to the jet spout port; and a controller being configured to control a rim spouting in which the flush water is spouted from the rim spout port and a jet spouting in which the flush water is spouted from the jet spout port, wherein the jet spouting discharge valve includes a valve body, the valve body being arranged at a position that is lower than an upper surface of the bowl and higher than a seal water level, and before opening the jet spouting discharge valve, the flush water is supplied to the jet water conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Koichiro MATSUMURA, Takumi TSUCHITANI, Kenichi NAKAMURA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Chisato SONE, Shinichi URATA, Daisuke YAMAMOTO, Koichi MOTOOKA, Kenji HATAMA
  • Patent number: 12216688
    Abstract: Provided is an information system and an information collection method that are capable of acquiring desired site data while preventing an increase in cost. A link logic definition unit 17 holds a link logic that is definition information defining a correspondence relation between an item value of the site data and a reference value that is an external value of transaction data used for acquiring the item value. A link logic data acquisition unit 18 acquires the item value of the site data by using the link logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Thanh Hai Vo, Dan Xu, Shinichi Nakamura, Noboru Fujita, Daisuke Okabe
  • Publication number: 20250031633
    Abstract: An assistance device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire reference data that is data of standard time-series change of a state of a specific crop and measurement data obtained by measuring a time-series change in a state of the specific crop; and a determination unit configured to determine cultivation work with respect to cultivation of the specific crop 1) based on a change rate of the state accompanying a time-series change in the reference data and a change rate of the state accompanying a time-series change in the measurement data, 2) based on a value of the state in the reference data and a value of the state in the measurement data, or 3) based on an integrated value of a time-series change of the state in the reference data and an integrated value of a time-series change of the state in the measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Shinichi HOSOMI, Xiangyu ZENG, Hiroyuki MIYAURA, Arata NAKAMURA, Yasuko FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20240399710
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy clad material for a heat exchanger comprises a cladding material on one side surface or both side surfaces of a core material, wherein the core material comprises: Mn at 0.50 to 1.80 mass %; and one or more types selected from Cu at more than 0.05 mass % and less than 0.20 mass % and Ti at 0.05 to 0.30 mass % with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, and the cladding material comprises: Si at 3.00 to 10.00 mass %; Fe at 0.30 to 0.80 mass %; Mn at 0.30 to 1.80 mass %; and Zn at 1.00 to 5.00 mass % with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, in which the total content of the Fe and the Mn is 2.10 mass % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: UACJ Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Tomohiro Shoji, Ryo Tomori
  • Publication number: 20240384817
    Abstract: An extruded, multi-hole pipe (1) has an aluminum alloy composition that contains Si: 0.30 mass % or more and 1.80 mass % or less, Cu: 0.10 mass % or more and 0.50 mass % or less, Mn: 0.30 mass % or more and 1.00 mass % or less, and Mg: 0.30 mass % or more and 1.00 mass % or less. The tensile strength of the extruded, multi-hole pipe (1) is 290 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Shinichi NAKAMURA, Taichi SUZUKI, Ryo TOMORI
  • Patent number: 12043044
    Abstract: A three-dimensional object printing apparatus includes: a head having a nozzle surface; a robot that has a base portion that supports the head, and changes a position of the head with respect to the base portion; and a cap portion having a fixed position to the base portion to cover the nozzle surface, in which the three-dimensional object printing apparatus is configured to execute: a capping operation of causing the robot to locate the head at a position at which the nozzle surface is covered with the cap portion, and a printing operation of causing the head to eject the liquid to a work with respect to the work, and a yaw angle of the head during the execution of the capping operation and a yaw angle of the head during the execution of the printing operation are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Yuta Abe, Yuichiro Matsuura, Yuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 12028052
    Abstract: A composite filter device includes a transmission filter and a reception filter first and second acoustic wave filters, respectively. The first acoustic wave filter has a first pass band and the second acoustic wave filter has a second pass band higher than the first pass band. One end of the first acoustic wave filter and one end of the second acoustic wave filter are connected in common by a common terminal. The second acoustic wave filter is a ladder filter including parallel arm resonators defined by acoustic wave resonators. The inequalities of fq<fr and fr<fp<fa are satisfied, where fq and fp represent a resonant frequency and an anti-resonant frequency, respectively, of one of the parallel arm resonators having the lowest capacitance and fr and fa represent resonant frequencies and anti-resonant frequencies, respectively, of other ones of the parallel arm resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11981152
    Abstract: There is provided a three-dimensional object printing apparatus including a first robot supporting a head having a nozzle for discharging a liquid and changing a position and a posture of the head, a second robot supporting a three-dimensional workpiece and changing a position and a posture of the workpiece, a curing unit that emits energy to cure or solidify the liquid discharged from the head, and a maintenance unit that performs maintenance on the head. The first robot has a first base portion fixed to a base. The second robot has a second base portion fixed to the base. In a plan view of the base, a virtual line segment connecting the first base portion and the second base portion passes between the curing unit and the maintenance unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Kumagai, Shinichi Nakamura, Tomonaga Hasegawa, Yuichiro Matsuura, Yuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 11981151
    Abstract: A three-dimensional object printing apparatus includes: a head having a nozzle surface; and a robot that has a base portion and an arm portion that supports the head, and changes a position of the head with respect to the base portion, in which the three-dimensional object printing apparatus is configured to execute: a first printing operation of causing the head to print an image to a three-dimensional first medium, and a second printing operation of causing the head to print a test pattern while causing the robot to change a position of the head with respect to the second medium, and a yaw angle of the head during the execution of the first printing operation and a yaw angle of the head during the execution of the second printing operation are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Yuta Abe, Yuichiro Matsuura, Keigo Sugai, Yuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 11932035
    Abstract: There is provided a three-dimensional object printing apparatus including an imaging device fixed to a base and imaging an object located inside an imaging range, a first robot supporting a head having a nozzle for discharging a liquid and changing a position and a posture of the head, and a second robot supporting a three-dimensional workpiece and changes a position and a posture of the workpiece. The three-dimensional object printing apparatus performs a material feeding step of causing the second robot to move the workpiece from an outside to an inside of the imaging range, and a printing step of causing the head to discharge the liquid to the workpiece while at least one of the first robot and the second robot relatively moves the head and the workpiece inside the imaging range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomonaga Hasegawa, Yuichiro Matsuura, Masaru Kumagai, Shinichi Nakamura, Yuki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20240083112
    Abstract: A three-dimensional object printing apparatus includes: a head unit including a head that ejects a liquid toward a three-dimensional workpiece along a Z axis; a sensor unit including a sensor that detects a positional relationship with respect to the workpiece; and a movement mechanism that change positions of the head unit and the sensor unit with respect to the workpiece, in which the movement mechanism includes a first Z-axis movement mechanism that changes the position of the sensor unit with respect to the workpiece along the Z axis, and a second Z-axis movement mechanism that changes the position of the head unit with respect to the workpiece along the Z axis, and the first Z-axis movement mechanism and the second Z-axis movement mechanism move the sensor unit and the head unit independently of each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Shinichi NAKAMURA, Keigo SUGAI, Hajime KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11911962
    Abstract: A three-dimensionally shaped article production member is a member used in a three-dimensionally shaped article production apparatus for producing a three-dimensionally shaped article by stacking a layer formed using a composition containing particles. The member is placed on a stage and comes in contact with the layer, and has a portion provided with pores in a contact surface with the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Okamoto, Shinichi Nakamura, Koki Hirata