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).

  • Publication number: 20140292273
    Abstract: The power supply control device of the present invention includes: a set of power reception conductors; a set of power supply conductors; a set of intermediate conductors electrically connected to the set of power reception conductors, respectively; a set of relays configured to make and break electrical connections between the set of intermediate conductors and the set of power supply conductors, respectively; a zero-phase current transformer positioned to allow the set of intermediate conductors to pass through an inside of the zero-phase current transformer; a control circuit for controlling the set of relays responding to a detection result of the zero-phase current transformer; and a body block including a first block and a second block fixed to the first block. The set of power reception conductors and the set of power supply conductors are fixed to the first block. The set of intermediate conductors is fixed to the second block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru INAGAKI, Shinichi NAKAMURA, Takao AKIOKA
  • Publication number: 20140295710
    Abstract: A female connector 1 includes a plurality of contactors 3, a holding body 5, a body 61, and a holder 62. Plurality of contactors 3 are connected to a plurality of electric wires 20 of a cable 2, respectively. Holding body 5 is designed to hold the plurality of contactors 3. Body 61 has a housing recess 610 designed to house the plurality of contactors 3 and holding body 5. Holder 62 is designed to prevent holding body 5 from falling from housing recess 610 by coupling to body 61. Female connector 1 includes a cover 63 formed by double molding so as to cover holder 62 in a state where cable 2 is inserted into holder 62 and where holder 62 and body 61 are coupled to each other. Holder 62 is designed to be in close contact with cable 2 along a whole circumference thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru INAGAKI, Shinichi NAKAMURA, Masahiko MIKURA
  • Publication number: 20140292272
    Abstract: The power supply control device in accordance with the present invention includes: a power reception terminal for receiving power; a power supply terminal for supplying power; a relay configured to make and break an electrical connection between the power reception terminal and the power supply terminal; a control circuit configured to control the relay; a power supply circuit configured to supply power to the control circuit by use of power received via the power reception terminal; and a printed wiring board. The control circuit and the power supply circuit are mounted on the printed wiring board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru INAGAKI, Tatsuya MUKAI, Naoki FUKUO, Shinichi NAKAMURA, Takao AKIOKA
  • Patent number: 8823249
    Abstract: An irradiation device includes: a light source having an amalgam alloy member that is disposed on a part of the inner surface of a light source tube; and a chamber in which the light source is disposed. The chamber includes: a main chamber body; and a first gas inflow port and a first gas outflow port that are formed in the main chamber body. The first gas inflow port and the first gas outflow port are arranged so that the outer surface of the part of the light source tube where the amalgam alloy member is disposed is positioned in a flow path of a gas that flows in through the first gas inflow port and flows out through the first gas outflow port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Seiji Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8796551
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a body part in which a circuit block is accommodated; a first cable drawn outside from the body part to be connected to a charge circuit of an electric vehicle; a second cable drawn outside from the body part to be connected to a power source; and a sealing member sealing a gap between each of the cables and a corresponding cable passing port of the body part. The power supply control device further includes an outer restriction member provided at each of the cables on an outer side than the sealing member to prevent the corresponding cable from being bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Haruhiko Mihara, Shinichi Nakamura, Noboru Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20140184929
    Abstract: Provided are: a thin display device that has reduced dimensions between a light guide plate and a display panel; and a television receiver provided with the display device. By threading screws, the edge of an opening and a bottom part press, with an elastic member interposed therebetween, the display panel and the light guide plate together. As a result, the dimensions between the display panel and the light guide plate can be reduced by sandwiching the display panel and the light guide plate by a front cabinet and a back cabinet from the front and back without interposing a support member between the display panel and the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140125877
    Abstract: The display device includes a display unit having a display surface on a front side thereof, a front cabinet enclosing a peripheral edge part of the display unit, and a back cabinet covering a back side of the display unit. In the display device, a light source is installed on an inner surface of the front cabinet facing an outer peripheral surface of the display unit, and the front cabinet and the back cabinet have grooves formed on the outer surfaces thereof. The front cabinet includes an elongated cavity formed in a front corner of the front cabinet. The cavity extends substantially parallel to an array direction of an LED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Yohichi Ueno
  • Patent number: 8714102
    Abstract: A liquid drop discharge device provides a head unit 420 which discharges filter element material relative to each of various colors of color filters. The head unit 420 is composed of an ink jet heads which are arranged on one end of a print substrate plate having a shape of rectangular card and head devices 433 which are arranged on the other end of the print substrate plate comprising connectors 441. The head devices 433 are aligned in two rows, as two groups, in a staggered arrangement so that a portion on which the connectors 441 are aligned in one of the two rows does not face to the same portion of the other in the two rows and protrudes outside of the print substrate plate. The head unit 420 discharges the filter element material onto predetermined portions in a superimposing manner while shifting along a direction which intersects to a direction along which the head devices 433 are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140111706
    Abstract: The display device includes a display unit, a front cabinet 3, and a back cabinet 4. The front cabinet 3 includes a front surface part 31, a peripheral surface part 32, and a protruding plate part 322. The back cabinet 4 includes a screw insert hole 42 and an extension part 41. The front cabinet 3 and the back cabinet 4 are coupled by fastening of a tapping screw 5 which is inserted into a screw insertion hole 42 from the rear side and tapped and screwed to the peripheral surface part 32 and the protruding plate part 322 or a tip surface of the protruding plate part 322, and by fitting of the extension part 41 to a gap 324 between the peripheral surface part 32 and the protruding plate part 322.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Yoshikazu Ichinari
  • Patent number: 8696374
    Abstract: A power feeding control device is provided with a main body accommodating an electric circuit for controlling power supply to a motor vehicle from a power source. First and second cables to be connected to the motor vehicle and the power source extend from the longitudinally opposite ends of the main body, respectively. The second cable includes a plug having a plug body accommodating a second contact electrically connected to a first contact provided in the main body, and a retaining ring attached to the plug body such that the retaining ring is rotatable about an axial direction of the plug body while being restricted to move in the axial direction. By screwing the retaining ring onto a thread portion of the main body, the retaining body is detachably attached to the main body in the state that the second contact is electrically connected to the first contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hironobu Oe, Shinichi Nakamura, Takao Akioka, Noboru Inagaki, Haruhiko Mihara
  • Patent number: 8673457
    Abstract: There is provided an organic electroluminescence device including: a pair of electrodes formed of an anode and a cathode; and an organic compound layer provided between the pair of electrodes, in which: the organic compound layer contains a metal so that the metal partially forms a coordination bond with an organic compound; and a ratio of the number of metal atoms involved in the coordination to the total number of metal atoms in the layer is 0.11 or more to 0.42 or less. The organic electroluminescence device has excellent light emitting property that is not largely impaired even after the device is driven for a long time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Seishi Miura
  • Patent number: 8547424
    Abstract: An endoscope system has a light source apparatus and an endoscope including an illumination optical system and an objective optical system. At least the objective optical system of the endoscope is provided with an adjustable diaphragm, and in a light path in one of the light source apparatus, the illumination optical system, and the objective optical system, an insertable/retractable filter for observation for special light is provided. The adjustable diaphragm performs a closing operation or an opening operation only when the filter for observation for special light is inserted into the light path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignees: Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ishii, Seiji Iwasaki, Masahiro Kawauchi, Hideaki Ishihara, Susumu Takahashi, Shinichi Nakamura, Azusa Noguchi, Hideyasu Takato, Tsutomu Sasamoto
  • Patent number: 8541978
    Abstract: A feed control device includes a contact device, an output detector, a contact weld sensor, and an alarm device. The output detector is configured to detect the presence of power feeding into the side of an electrically-powered car from an external power supply. The contact weld sensor is configured to sense that the contact device is welded based on a detection result of the output detector if detecting the presence of power feeding from the external power supply to a feed line for the contact device when a state signal representing charge permission is not entered. The alarm device is configured, if the contact weld sensor senses that the contact device is welded, to indicate the occurrence of weld to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Toyoya Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Fukuo, Tatsuya Mukai, Shiro Mori, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Shinichi Nakamura, Kouji Kakiuchi, Yoji Minami, Kazuhiro Kondou, Kiyosi Gotou
  • Patent number: 8507604
    Abstract: A graft copolymer satisfying (a) to (e): (a) a main chain derived from one or more monomers selected from (I) an acrylic acid, (II) a methacrylic acid, (III) a vinyl ester, (IV) a styrene and (V) a vinyl group-containing silane compound, at least one kind of the monomer having a crosslinkable functional group, (b) a side chain derived from a reactive homopolymer ?-olefin having a meso pentad fraction (mmmm) of from 30 to 80% by mol or a copolymer of 50% by mass or more of at least one ?-olefin, (c) a graft ratio of from 1 to 150% by mass, (d) a weight average molecular weight of from 500 to 400,000, and (e) a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of from 1.5 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takenori Fujimura, Ryo Aburatani, Shuji Machida, Shinichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8421404
    Abstract: A power feeding control apparatus includes a housing for accommodating at least a relay unit arranged on power feeding lines to open and close the power feeding lines, a control circuit for controlling the relay unit, a leakage current detection circuit for detecting leakage current in an electric vehicle and a power supply circuit for generating a control electric power. The apparatus further includes a power source side connector removably connected to a socket of an external power source, a vehicle side connector removably connected to a power receiving connector of the electric vehicle and a first and a second board that the power supply circuit and the control circuit are mounted, respectively. A power feeding line block provided separately from the first and the second board and having metal plates constituting the power feeding lines. The metal plates are insertion-molded in the power feeding line block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Kouji Kakiuchi, Tatsuya Mukai, Shiro Mori, Naoki Fukuo, Noboru Inagaki, Haruhiko Mihara, Koji Gamou, Takao Akioka, Syuichi Iha
  • Patent number: 8413602
    Abstract: A liquid drop discharge device provides a head unit 420 which discharges filter element material relative to each of various colors of color filters. The head unit 420 is composed of an ink jet heads which are arranged on one end of a print substrate plate having a shape of rectangular card and head devices 433 which are arranged on the other end of the print substrate plate comprising connectors 441. The head devices 433 are aligned in two rows, as two groups, in a staggered arrangement so that a portion on which the connectors 441 are aligned in one of the two rows does not face to the same portion of the other in the two rows and protrudes outside of the print substrate plate. The head unit 420 discharges the filter element material onto predetermined portions in a superimposing manner while shifting along a direction which intersects to a direction along which the head devices 433 are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8369067
    Abstract: An electricity feeding control device is provided with an air hole (31c) which is formed by penetrating a part of a peripheral wall of a body (31) constituting a part of a housing case (3). The housing case (3) is provided in its inside with an inner pressure adjusting sheet (5), formed with a breathable and waterproof member, and arranged so as to cover the air hole (31c) from the inside of the housing case (3). The air hole (31c) comprises a long recess (31c2) formed in an outer surface of the body (31), a communicating hole (31c1) consecutively formed in one end of a longi-tudinal direction of the recess (31c2) and communicated with an inner surface of the body (31), and a shielding plate (33) attached in the outer surface of the body (31) so as to cover a region other than the other end of the longitudinal direction of the recess (31c2), in a region of an opening section (31c3) of the recess (31c2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Kouji Kakiuchi, Tatsuya Mukai, Shiro Mori, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Naoki Fukuo, Yoji Minami, Kazuhiro Kondou
  • Patent number: 8363364
    Abstract: A branch wire L5 from the voltage detection circuit 14 is inserted in the zero-phase-sequence current transformer ZCT in the direction from the load side to the external power supply side. For this configuration, the zero-phase-sequence current transformer ZCT is to detect unbalance of the sum of current flowing in the first and second conductive wires L1, L2 and the current flowing in the branch wire L5. Therefore, the present invention can accurately detect occurrence of electrical leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Watanabe, Tatsuya Mukai, Shiro Mori, Naoki Fukuo, Kiyosi Gotou, Kouji Kakiuchi, Shinichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120327307
    Abstract: Provided are: a light guide plate apparatus including a plurality of light guide plates arranged in parallel in which the middle part in the longitudinal direction of the light guide plates is held by a support body without blocking light diffusion in the inside of each light guide plate; a light source apparatus employing this light guide plate apparatus; a display apparatus in which the luminance distribution is homogenized in the center part of the screen; and a television receiver apparatus employing this display apparatus. A plurality of light guide plates 42 having an approximately rectangular shape and emitting light having entered through the side surface on one shorter side are supported by a support body 41, in plural lines such that the side surfaces on the longer side are facing each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Takaharu Kikuchi, Hideto Takeuchi, Eiji Iwata
  • Patent number: D680065
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro Shibamura, Tatsuya Mukai, Noboru Inagaki, Naoki Fukuo, Takao Akioka, Hironobu Oe, Shinichi Nakamura, Yoji Minami, Hironobu Kusafuka, Masaru Sasaki