Patents by Inventor Shinji Nishimura

Shinji Nishimura 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: 9476654
    Abstract: An aircraft/spacecraft fluid cooling system and an aircraft/spacecraft fluid cooling method in which a fluid in a pipe installed in aircraft or spacecraft can be cooled efficiently so that the amount of fluid required for cooling the fluid can be reduced. A fluid cooling system includes a feed line that feeds a fluid from a storage tank to a pump, and a cooling section that expands a propellant having traveled through the pump, feeds the propellant to the outer periphery of the feed line so as to cool the propellant in the feed line, and discharges the expanded propellant outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Kitayama, Keitaro Ishikawa, Yorichika Mihara, Taichi Aoyama, Shinji Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20160307712
    Abstract: Electric appliance (1) includes control section (31) having a plurality of operation modes, driving source (21) controlled by control section (31), and switch (12) for switching between the operation modes. Control section (31) is configured to perform a first determination and a second determination in response to an operation duration of switch (12) in order to determine a type of the operation of switch (12), and to set an operation mode after the operation of switch (12) in response to the results of the first and second determinations and an operation mode before the operation of switch (12). In the present aspect, the operability of switching between the operation modes in electric appliance (1) is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: SHINJI NISHIMURA, TAKAFUMI OHBA, KOTARO YANAGI
  • Publication number: 20160283987
    Abstract: A plurality of internet auctions, which are transacted independently for a transaction partner and independently for a transaction object, are combined to improve reliability of a transaction, correctness of an appraisement of a commodity and a guarantee of the commodity and achieve a fair and safe internet auction. An internet auction of the commodity, a guarantee charge internet auction and a reverse internet auction of a guaranteed written opinion are combined in one transaction, although they are originally done independently for a transaction partner and independently for a transaction object, by letting a plurality of third parties who are neutral be participated in the transaction between a seller of the commodity and a buyer. Thus, the seller of the commodity and the buyer can fairly and safely transaction the commodity on the internet auction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventor: Shinji NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160172921
    Abstract: A side surface at the outside of a plurality of teeth portions of one separated core is faced to a side surface of teeth portions of an adjacent separated core, so as to form a second slot which is straddled between the adjacent separated cores, and a first slot is formed by a plurality of teeth portions of one separated core, and a width size of the first slot is identical to a width size of the second slot, and coil conductor storage space is formed in the first slot via a first insulating component, and coil conductor storage space is formed in the second slot via a second insulating component, and a thickness size of the first insulating component is different from a thickness size of the second insulating component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu YOSHINORI, Atsushi SAKAUE, Tatsuro HINO, Hironori TSUIKI, Shinichi OKADA, Hiroki SHIOTA, Masaya INOUE, Shogo OKAMOTO, Shinji NISHIMURA, Akira HASHIMOTO, Shinkichi SAWA, Yutaka IKURA, Ryuichi KITORA
  • Patent number: 9360939
    Abstract: It is a problem of the present invention to provide a technical method to achieve a video-game-use simulated-experience remote control button that allows simulated experience that allows experience and reaction of tactile sense corresponding to video game software. According to the present invention, the button portion of a video-game-use remote control is replaced with a tool and a mechanical device that allow creating tactile sense corresponding to the content of a video game, providing a reaction after a human operator the created tactile sense, operation using the power level of the human, so as to generate a load. The generated load is quantified and the quantified value is set as X, and X is converted into a button operation of the video-game-use remote control so as to achieve a video-game-use simulated-experience remote control button that allows simulated experience of tactile sense.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Inventor: Shinji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9343933
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a rotor including: a rotor core divided into blocks in an axial direction, the blocks being arranged to have a phase angle therebetween in a circumferential direction, the rotor core having magnet through holes arrayed in the circumferential direction and formed in an outer circumferential region; and permanent magnets inserted into the magnet through holes. The magnet through hole includes: a magnet insertion portion into which the permanent magnet is inserted; and a non-magnetic portion provided on an outer side of the magnet insertion portion in the circumferential direction. A bridge portion is formed between the outer circumferential surface and an outer circumferential inner wall of the non-magnetic portion. A bridge angle, which is an angle between both circumferential ends of the bridge portion with a rotation center of the rotor core set as a vertex, is larger than a skew angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Isoda, Masaya Inoue, Shinji Nishimura, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Tomoya Tachibana
  • Publication number: 20160126797
    Abstract: A motor, which can reduce a shaft current by a cheap configuration and has a high reliability, is provided. A motor which is provided between an internal combustion engine and a transmission and installed in a housing for connecting the internal combustion engine and the transmission, in which a number of magnetic poles of a rotor is “10×n” (n is a natural number), and a number of teeth of a stator is “12×n” (n is a natural number); and a rotary shaft of the rotor, bearings for supporting the rotary shaft, and the housing are composed of electric conductors; and an electric conductor circuit, which includes the rotary shaft, the bearings, and the housing and is interlinked to the stator, is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji NISHIMURA, Shinsuke KAYANO
  • Patent number: 9282940
    Abstract: A mobile X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray generation unit, a boom member configured to hold and arrange the X-ray generation unit at an arbitrary position, a supporting column unit connected to the boom member and configured to elevate and pivot the X-ray generation unit, a display unit, including a display screen, coupled to the X-ray generation unit through a movable mechanism configured to enable the orientation of the display screen, with respect to the X-ray generating unit, to be altered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinji Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20160046181
    Abstract: Provided is an engine device that facilitates fastening between a main machine frame (140) and a side surface of an exhaust gas purification case (38) so that workability of mounting the exhaust gas purification ease (38) can be easily improved. The engine device is provided with the exhaust gas purification case (38) for processing exhaust gas from an engine (1), and the exhaust gas purification ease (38) is disposed on a main machine (120) side on which the engine (1) is mounted. The engine device is provided with the main machine frame (140) on which the engine (1) and the like are mounted, The main machine frame (140) is provided with a bottom support member (141) for supporting the exhaust gas purification case (38) and side support devices (143, 144) for fastening and fixing the exhaust gas purification case (38) to the main machine frame (140) in an attachable and detachable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventor: Shinji NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160043615
    Abstract: A magnet temperature estimation device includes: a voltage detector (1) for detecting a voltage at a time when a winding is energized; a high-order component detector (2) for detecting a high-order component of the voltage; a reference database (3) for storing in advance, as a table, a correspondence relationship between the high-order component and two or more parameters, which include a magnet temperature and another one or more parameters, as parameters affecting the voltage from which the high-order component is detected; a parameter value detector (4) for detecting a value of the another one or more parameters; and a magnet temperature estimator (5) for estimating a magnet temperature corresponding to the high-order component detected by the high-order component detector based on the another one or more parameters detected by the parameter value detector and the table stored in the reference database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke KAYANO, Masaya INOUE, Shinji NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 9255517
    Abstract: An engine device in which an exhaust gas purification device can be assembled adjacent to an engine with high rigidity, and the exhaust gas purification device can be compactly installed. The engine device includes an exhaust gas recirculation device and a common rail disposed on the side on which an intake manifold of the engine is disposed, the exhaust gas purification device disposed on the side on which an exhaust manifold of the engine is disposed, an oil pan disposed on the bottom of the engine, and a support body for linking the exhaust gas purification device to the oil pan, so that the exhaust gas purification device is supported by the oil pan via the support body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Nishimura, Satoshi Nakano, Takayuki Onodera
  • Patent number: 9246366
    Abstract: A winding assembly includes: slot-housed portions housed inside each of the slots of the stator core so as to form pairs that line up in an inner layer and an outer layer relative to a slot depth direction; first return portions at a first axial end of the stator core that link end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the inner layer inside each of the slots and end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the outer layer inside the slots that are (N?M) slots away; and second return portions at a second axial end of the stator core that link end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the outer layer inside each of the slots and end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the inner layer inside the slots that are (N+M) slots away.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiro Imazawa, Kazunori Tanaka, Kazuya Hasegawa, Norihiro Murata, Hiroshi Hosokawa, Shinji Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20150362996
    Abstract: It is a problem of the present invention to provide a technical method to achieve a video-game-use simulated-experience remote control button that allows simulated experience that allows experience and reaction of tactile sense corresponding to video game software. According to the present invention, the button portion of a video-game-use remote control is replaced with a tool and a mechanical device that allow creating tactile sense corresponding to the content of a video game, providing a reaction after a human operator the created tactile sense, operation using the power level of the human, so as to generate a load. The generated load is quantified and the quantified value is set as X, and X is converted into a button operation of the video-game-use remote control so as to achieve a video-game-use simulated-experience remote control button that allows simulated experience of tactile sense.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventor: Shinji NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20150357870
    Abstract: Permanent magnets that form individual magnetic poles are configured by arranging three magnet blocks to be spaced apart from each other circumferentially, the three magnet blocks are each formed such that cross-sectional shapes that are perpendicular to a central axis of a rotor core are radially outwardly convex, and circumferential widths are narrower in magnet blocks that are further away from a magnetic pole center, and the three magnet blocks that are arranged circumferentially are formed to have mirror symmetry relative to a plane that passes through the magnetic pole center and the central axis of the rotor core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Takuma SASAI, Shinsuke KAYANO, Masaya INOUE, Shinji NISHIMURA, Akihiro DAIKOKU
  • Publication number: 20150270746
    Abstract: A motor of the present invention is configured in such a way that a side surface of a teeth portion and a side surface, which is faced to the side surface, of a neighboring teeth portion, in which an inner circumference side tip of the teeth portion is excepted, are positioned in parallel at a slot in which a coil of a stator, which is configured in a cylinder shape, is installed, and self-both side surfaces at the inner circumference side tip of the teeth portion are positioned in parallel. Thereby, a high electric power of the motor can be generated, and the coil can be installed to a tip of the teeth portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20150240698
    Abstract: An engine device in which an exhaust gas purification device can be assembled adjacent to an engine with high rigidity, and the exhaust gas purification device can be compactly installed. The engine device includes an exhaust gas recirculation device and a common rail disposed on the side on which an intake manifold of the engine is disposed, the exhaust gas purification device disposed on the side on which an exhaust manifold of the engine is disposed, an oil pan disposed on the bottom of the engine, and a support body for linking the exhaust gas purification device to the oil pan, so that the exhaust gas purification device is supported by the oil pan via the support body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Shinji Nishimura, Satoshi Nakano, Takayuki Onodera
  • Publication number: 20150226101
    Abstract: An engine device in which an exhaust gas purification device can be disposed without substantially increasing mounting width dimensions (height, lateral width, front and rear width) of an engine. The engine device includes the exhaust gas purification device connected to an exhaust manifold of the engine, an oil pan disposed on a bottom of the engine, a support body for linking the exhaust gas purification device to the oil pan, so that the exhaust gas purification device is supported by the oil pan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Shinji Nishimura, Taichi Togashi, Hiroyasu Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20150194849
    Abstract: A rotor core is configured by arranging divided rotor cores coaxially so as to be in close contact with each other such that magnetic pole centers are aligned axially, auxiliary grooves are recessed into respective outer circumferential surfaces of the divided rotor cores between respective magnetic poles so as to have plane symmetry relative to a plane that includes a center position between the magnetic poles and a central axis of the divided rotor cores, and so as to extend from a first axial end to a second axial end of the divided rotor cores, the auxiliary grooves recessed into an outer circumferential surface of an identical divided rotor core have an identical groove shape, and groove widths of the auxiliary grooves are set such that predetermined orders of harmonic components of cogging torque that result from each of the divided rotor cores mutually cancel each other out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kayano, Masaya Inoue, Shinji Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20150162790
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a rotor including: a rotor core divided into blocks in an axial direction, the blocks being arranged to have a phase angle therebetween in a circumferential direction, the rotor core having magnet through holes arrayed in the circumferential direction and formed in an outer circumferential region; and permanent magnets inserted into the magnet through holes. The magnet through hole includes: a magnet insertion portion into which the permanent magnet is inserted; and a non-magnetic portion provided on an outer side of the magnet insertion portion in the circumferential direction. A bridge portion is formed between the outer circumferential surface and an outer circumferential inner wall of the non-magnetic portion. A bridge angle, which is an angle between both circumferential ends of the bridge portion with a rotation center of the rotor core set as a vertex, is larger than a skew angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi ISODA, Masaya INOUE, Shinji NISHIMURA, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Tomoya TACHIBANA
  • Publication number: 20150130311
    Abstract: A plurality of core blocks that are arranged into an annular shape are inserted into and fixed to a cylindrical frame, and are disposed inside the frame, a bolt passage member that is produced as a solid body and that has a bolt passage aperture that passes through in a longitudinal direction is fixed by welding to an outer circumferential surface of the frame such that the longitudinal direction thereof is oriented in the axial direction of the frame, and a stator is held on the housing by fastening a bolt that is passed through the bolt passage aperture into a fixing portion that is formed on the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi MURAKAMI, Kouichi OJIMA, Shinji NISHIMURA