Patents by Inventor Shohei Nakamura
Shohei 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).
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Patent number: 11945436Abstract: A vehicle speed/headway control function and a lane-keeping function are provided as driving assist functions to assist in a driving operation by a driver. A mode-switching controller is provided for switching between the modes. In the lane-keeping assist mode, it is assessed whether or not a traveling condition has been met that an actual vehicle speed of the host vehicle exceeds a speed limit of a roadway on which the host vehicle is traveling during lane-keeping travel in which “hands-off mode,” which allows the driver to remove their hands from the steering wheel, has been selected. The mode is switched from “hands-off mode” to “hands-on mode,” which has as a condition that the driver has their hands on the steering wheel, upon assessing that the traveling condition that the actual vehicle speed exceeds the speed limit has been met.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Shohei Nakamura
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Publication number: 20240087711Abstract: A medication management system, method, and related medicine packaging device and packaged medicine are provided. The exemplary system includes a medication device including a memory unit that stores ID information and an ID transmission unit that transmits the ID information stored in the memory unit. A processing device that has correspondence information in which the ID information is associated with prescription information of a plurality of medicines to be taken together with one medication device and personal information about a patient who takes the plurality of medicines. A detector detects the ID information transmitted from the ID transmission unit and transmits the ID information that has been detected to the processing device, which manages medication based on the ID information that has been received and the correspondence information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Takanori NAKAMURA, Shohei MORIKAWA, Kosuke HAMADA, Hiroshi TAKEMURA
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Publication number: 20230391191Abstract: A display control method used for a control system that controls a behavior of a host-vehicle to perform an automatic lane change includes, when the control system proposes to a driver to perform the automatic lane change, displaying a second character string that includes a first character string and a third character string on a meter display provided to a meter unit that displays a meter of the host-vehicle, when contents of the automatic lane change proposed to the driver by the control system include a first lane change and a second lane change following the first lane change, displaying the second character string, which includes the first character string and the third character string, in the first lane change, and displaying the second character string, which includes the first character string, but does not include the third character string, in the second lane change.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Hikaru Nakao, Akira Morimoto, Kosuke Sato, Shohei Nakamura, Shuko Ishimaru
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Patent number: 11766937Abstract: In a display control method, a first information image is displayed on a head-up display. The first information image includes a first vehicle icon which is a figure indicating a vehicle, and a first character string arranged above the first vehicle icon. A second information image is displayed on a meter display. The second information image includes a second vehicle icon which is a figure indicating a vehicle, and a second character string which is arranged below the second vehicle icon, and includes the first character string.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hikaru Nakao, Akira Morimoto, Kosuke Sato, Shohei Nakamura, Shuko Ishimaru
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Publication number: 20230256823Abstract: A display control method used for a control system that controls a behavior of a host-vehicle to perform an automatic lane change includes, when the control system proposes to a driver to perform the automatic lane change, displaying a second character string that includes at least a first character string that proposes the automatic lane change to the driver on a meter display provided to a meter unit that displays a meter of the host-vehicle. The first character string indicates contents for urging an operation of the automatic lane change, and the second character string includes the first character string and a third character string indicating a reason why the first character string is notified.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Hikaru Nakao, Akira Morimoto, Kosuke Sato, Shohei Nakamura, Shuko Ishimaru
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Patent number: 11656410Abstract: A fusion splicer includes an irradiation unit to irradiate an optical fiber with first wavelength light and second wavelength light; a light receiving unit; a processing unit to extract first feature data from first luminance information based on the first wavelength light and to extract second feature data from second luminance information based on the second wavelength light; a determination unit to determine whether the first feature data and the second feature data are within a predetermined range; and a drive unit to move one optical fiber on the basis of the luminance information from which the feature data is extracted so as to arrange the axes of the optical fibers in a predetermined positional relationship when the feature data is determined to be within the predetermined range. The processing unit extracts the second feature data when the first feature data is not within the predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC OPTIFRONTIER CO., LTD.Inventors: Shohei Nakamura, Hiroshi Takayanagi, Yuta Ryono, Hideaki Yusa
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Patent number: 11492015Abstract: A driving assist method and a driving assist device is provided for controlling a transmission ratio of a continuously variable transmission, which steplessly shifts gears and outputs an engine rotation speed. The driving assist method and a driving assist device continuously performs downshifting until an upshift occurs, when the transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission is controlled so that the engine rotational speed increases in conjunction with an increase in a vehicle speed and the upshift will be performed after the vehicle has accelerated.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Shinya Saito, Shohei Nakamura
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Publication number: 20220266869Abstract: A driving assist method and a driving assist device is provided for controlling a transmission ratio of a continuously variable transmission, which steplessly shifts gears and outputs an engine rotation speed. The driving assist method and a driving assist device continuously performs downshifting until an upshift occurs, when the transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission is controlled so that the engine rotational speed increases in conjunction with an increase in a vehicle speed and the upshift will be performed after the vehicle has accelerated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2019Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Atsushi ITO, Shinya SAITO, Shohei NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20220219688Abstract: A vehicle speed/headway control function and a lane-keeping function are provided as driving assist functions to assist in a driving operation by a driver. A mode-switching controller is provided for switching between the modes. In the lane-keeping assist mode, it is assessed whether or not a traveling condition has been met that an actual vehicle speed of the host vehicle exceeds a speed limit of a roadway on which the host vehicle is traveling during lane-keeping travel in which “hands-off mode,” which allows the driver to remove their hands from the steering wheel, has been selected. The mode is switched from “hands-off mode” to “hands-on mode,” which has as a condition that the driver has their hands on the steering wheel, upon assessing that the traveling condition that the actual vehicle speed exceeds the speed limit has been met.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Atsushi ITO, Shohei NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20220212689Abstract: In a display control method, if a control system proposes an automatic lane change to a driver of a host-vehicle, an arrow icon for guiding an automatic lane change is displayed on a head-up display, and a display method for the arrow icon is switched depending on a plurality of processes in the control performed by the control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Hikaru Nakao, Akira Morimoto, Kosuke Sato, Shohei Nakamura, Shuko Ishimaru
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Publication number: 20220203834Abstract: In a display control method, a first information image is displayed on a head-up display. The first information image includes a first vehicle icon which is a figure indicating a vehicle, and a first character string arranged above the first vehicle icon. A second information image is displayed on a meter display. The second information image includes a second vehicle icon which is a figure indicating a vehicle, and a second character string which is arranged below the second vehicle icon, and includes the first character string.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2019Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Hikaru Nakao, Akira Morimoto, Kosuke Sato, Shohei Nakamura, Shuko Ishimaru
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Publication number: 20220099895Abstract: A fusion splicer includes an irradiation unit to irradiate an optical fiber with first wavelength light and second wavelength light; a light receiving unit; a processing unit to extract first feature data from first luminance information based on the first wavelength light and to extract second feature data from second luminance information based on the second wavelength light; a determination unit to determine whether the first feature data and the second feature data are within a predetermined range; and a drive unit to move one optical fiber on the basis of the luminance information from which the feature data is extracted so as to arrange the axes of the optical fibers in a predetermined positional relationship when the feature data is determined to be within the predetermined range. The processing unit extracts the second feature data when the first feature data is not within the predetermined range.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC OPTIFRONTIER CO., LTD.Inventors: Shohei NAKAMURA, Hiroshi TAKAYANAGI, Yuta RYONO, Hideaki YUSA
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Publication number: 20220099894Abstract: A fusion splicer includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an optical fiber disposition unit, and a first conductive member. The first electrode has a first potential, the second electrode has a second potential lower than the first potential, and an arc discharge is generated therebetween. The optical fiber disposition unit has grooves in which first optical fibers and second optical fibers are accommodated. The first conductive member is provided apart from the grooves between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first conductive member has a third potential that is lower than the first potential and higher than the second potential, and is disposed at a position at which the shortest distance from one of the first electrode and the second electrode is shorter than the shortest distance from the other of the first electrode and the second electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC OPTIFRONTIER CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryosuke MEO, Hiroshi TAKAYANAGI, Shohei NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 11267729Abstract: An in-liquid plasma generation device includes a housing which holds a liquid in an internal space, a gas supply tube which includes an opening in the internal space and discharges a gas into the liquid through the opening, a first electrode which has projecting part projecting into the internal space via the opening from inside of the gas supply tube, the projecting part including a conductor covered by a dielectric, a second electrode which surrounds the projecting part of the first electrode and includes a conductor isolated from the liquid by a dielectric, and a voltage applier which applies a voltage to between the first electrode and the second electrode. A space between the projecting part and the second electrode is a flow passage in which the gas discharged from the opening flows.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Horikoshi, Shohei Nakamura, Shigeru Takatsuji, Motohiro Kono
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Publication number: 20210302841Abstract: The radical supply step of supplying the radicals (active species) to the resist film R is performed in the plasma processing (Step S102). Then, the resist removal step of supplying the organic solvent having the low surface tension to the resist film R present on the front surface Sa of the substrate S after the radical supply step to remove the resist film R from the front surface Sa of the substrate S is performed (Step S104).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Akira Horikoshi, Shohei Nakamura, Shigeru Takatsuji, Takahiro Kimura
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Publication number: 20210086238Abstract: A liquid film of a processing liquid containing at least one of sulfuric acid, a sulfate, peroxosulfuric acid, and a peroxosulfate, or a processing liquid containing hydrogen peroxide is formed on a substrate. A plasma is radiated to the liquid film. Thereby, a substrate processing method in which substrate processing using an oxidizing power of the processing liquid can be efficiently performed is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira HORIKOSHI, Shohei NAKAMURA, Shigeru TAKATSUJI, Motohiro KONO, Takahiro KIMURA, Kenji KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20200407247Abstract: An in-liquid plasma generation device includes a housing which holds a liquid in an internal space, a gas supply tube which includes an opening in the internal space and discharges a gas into the liquid through the opening, a first electrode which has projecting part projecting into the internal space via the opening from inside of the gas supply tube, the projecting part including a conductor covered by a dielectric, a second electrode which surrounds the projecting part of the first electrode and includes a conductor isolated from the liquid by a dielectric, and a voltage applier which applies a voltage to between the first electrode and the second electrode. A space between the projecting part and the second electrode is a flow passage in which the gas discharged from the opening flows.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2018Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Akira HORIKOSHI, Shohei NAKAMURA, Shigeru TAKATSUJI, Motohiro KONO
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Patent number: 9787955Abstract: In a multi-projection device, each of the projectors comprises a light shielding plate. The light shielding plate has an end formed into a sawtooth shape and is also provided with a gradation coated part which is coated such that white-light transmittance gradually decreases in the direction away from the end.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: KRIPTON CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahisa Hamada, Shohei Nakamura
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Publication number: 20160255312Abstract: In a multi-projection device, each of the projectors comprises a light shielding plate. The light shielding plate has an end formed into a sawtooth shape and is also provided with a gradation coated part which is coated such that white-light transmittance gradually decreases in the direction away from the end.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2015Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: KRIPTON CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahisa HAMADA, Shohei NAKAMURA
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Patent number: D983851Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC OPTIFRONTIER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazufumi Joko, Shohei Nakamura, Hiroki Akiyama