Patents by Inventor Takashi Nakano
Takashi Nakano 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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Publication number: 20230307823Abstract: An arrangement of antennas on a roof of a vehicle is described to minimize radio wave interference. The roof includes an outer panel, a first structural component extending in a lateral direction across the roof, and a second structural component extending in the lateral direction across the roof. The first structural component is closer to a rear edge of the roof than the second structural component. The roof also includes an antenna configuration attached to the roof. The antenna configuration includes a first set of antennas mounted to the first structural component and a second set of antennas mounted to the second structural component. The first set of antennas are spaced apart from the rear edge of the roof by a first distance. The second set of antennas are spaced apart from the edge of the roof by a second distance. The second distance is greater than the first distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Kohei INOUE, Patrick J. ELLISON, Taiga MARUKAWA, Kosaku TOMOZAWA, Takashi NAKANO, Akira FUTATSUHASHI, Jagpaul S. PANDHER, Tsuyoshi HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230303185Abstract: A vehicle hood assembly can include a vehicle body structure and a hood moveable with respect to the vehicle body structure from a closed state to an opened state. A first linkage can connect the hood to the vehicle body structure and include a first linkage aperture extending therethrough. A second linkage can connect the hood to the vehicle body structure and include a second linkage aperture extending therethrough. A central axis of the first linkage aperture can be coaxial with a central axis of the second linkage aperture if the hood is in the opened state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Steven C. Heinrichs, Stephen D. Rosenkrantz, Patrick J. Ellison, Taiga Marukawa, Kosaku Tomozawa, Akira Futatsuhashi, Gilberto Larrache-Irizarry, Steve Faria, Keiichiro Tsuji, Takashi Nakano
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Publication number: 20230294612Abstract: A module support system for a vehicle including exterior paneling defining an interior and exterior of the vehicle, and a frame disposed in the interior of the vehicle, the module support system including a first casting mounted on the frame, where the first casting extends outward from the frame, through the exterior paneling, to the exterior of the vehicle such that the first casting includes an interior portion disposed within the interior of the vehicle and mounted on the frame, and an exterior portion extending outward from the exterior of the vehicle. The module support system includes a first electronic device supported on the exterior portion of the first casting, and a cover fixed with the exterior portion of the first casting such that the cover is disposed over the first electronic device and the exterior portion of the first casting with respect to an external environment of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Taiga MARUKAWA, Gilberto LARRACHE-IRIZARRY, Douglas M. DAFLER, Patrick J. ELLISON, Kosaku TOMOZAWA, Keiichiro TSUJI, Anthony John LEANZA, Takashi NAKANO
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Publication number: 20230294509Abstract: A vehicle fender air intake assembly for a vehicle can include a central baffle configured to be mounted to a body structure of the vehicle, a central shutter mounted on the central baffle, a lower baffle configured to be mounted to the body structure, a lower shutter mounted on the lower baffle, and an upper baffle including a first side and a second side that opposes the first side. The upper baffle can terminate at the first side and the second side. The first side can include a first opening in fluid communication with the central baffle, and the second side can include a second opening in fluid communication with the central baffle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Stephen J. MARSHALL, Steve FARIA, Patrick J. ELLISON, Taiga MARUKAWA, Takashi NAKANO, Akira FUTATSUHASHI, Keiichiro TSUJI
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Publication number: 20230279977Abstract: A duct system for an air intake system for a vehicle, the duct system including a first duct having a first duct wall that defines a first duct opening and forms a conduit configured for conveying fluid through the first duct opening in an axial direction of the first duct opening, and a rim fixed with the first duct wall and extending from the first duct in the axial direction of the first duct opening, and disposed around the first duct opening, with a first rim portion and a second rim portion disposed along opposite sides of the first duct opening in a lateral direction of the first duct opening perpendicular to the axial direction of the first duct opening. The duct system also includes a second duct including a second duct wall that defines a second duct opening in fluid communication with the first duct opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Stephen James MARSHALL, Steve FARIA, Taiga MARUKAWA, Patrick J. ELLISON, Takashi NAKANO, Akira FUTATSUHASHI, Keiichiro TSUJI
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Publication number: 20230257025Abstract: A vehicle fender assembly includes a fender including a body having an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface. The body defines a body opening. A stiffener is mounted to the body inner surface and is located at the body opening. The stiffener includes stiffener holes sized to receive associated fasteners. A charge port assembly includes a bracket mounted to the stiffener. The bracket includes bracket holes sized to receive the associated fasteners. The bracket holes are over-sized relative to the associated fasteners to allow for positional movement of the charge port assembly on the associated fasteners relative to the body opening. The stiffener includes at least one stiffener locating feature and the bracket includes at least one bracket locating feature adapted to mate with the at least one stiffener feature to ensure proper placement of the bracket on the stiffener relative to the body opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Stephen James MARSHALL, Steve FARIA, Daniel R. MULLER, Patrick J. ELLISON, Taiga MARUKAWA, Takashi NAKANO, Akira FUTATSUHASHI, Keiichiro TSUJI
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Publication number: 20230192429Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a first feeder, a second feeder, and processing circuitry. The first feeder includes a sheet stacker, an air blower, a suction feeder, and a remaining amount detection sensor. The air blower blows air to float an uppermost sheet. The suction feeder sucks and feeds the sheet. The remaining amount detection sensor detects a remaining amount of sheets stacked. The processing circuitry determines whether the remaining amount of sheets in the first feeder is smaller than a threshold, causes the first feeder to perform a feeding operation of feeding the sheet floated by the air blower to the suction feeder in response to a determination that the remaining amount is equal to or greater than the threshold, and causes the second feeder to feed a sheet instead of the first feeder in response to a determination that the remaining amount is smaller than the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Nakano
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Publication number: 20230098207Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a base region, an emitter region, a collector region, and an element isolation insulating film. The semiconductor substrate has a main surface. The base region has a first conductivity type and is disposed in a surface layer of the semiconductor substrate that is close to the main surface. The emitter region has a second conductivity type and is disposed in a surface layer of the base region. The collector region has the second conductivity type and is disposed at a portion in the surface layer of the semiconductor substrate apart from the emitter region. The element isolation insulating film is disposed on the main surface, and has a thermal oxide film being in contact with a junction interface between the base region and the emitter region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Syogo IKEURA, Takashi NAKANO
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Publication number: 20230079056Abstract: A shaft has a weight of 50 g or less. A forward flex is 110 mm or less. A backward flex is 100 mm or less. A shaft torque is 4.0° to 6.5°. The shaft includes a first hoop layer, a second hoop layer longer than the first hoop layer, and a third hoop layer longer than the second hoop layer. An outer diameter at a position 550 mm apart from a tip end is D5. An outer diameter at a position 950 mm apart from the tip end is D9. A crushing strength at the position 550 mm apart from the tip end is F5. A crushing strength at the position 950 mm apart from the tip end is F9. F5/D5 is 1.5 or greater and 2.5 or less. F9/D9 is 1.0 or greater and 2.0 or less. A difference (F5?F9) is 4 kgf or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Takashi NAKANO
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Publication number: 20230073965Abstract: A shaft includes a tip end and a butt end. In the shaft, a flexural rigidity at a point located 130 mm apart from the tip end is denoted by E1, a flexural rigidity at a point located 1030 mm apart from the tip end is denoted by E10, and a torsional rigidity at the point located 130 mm apart from the tip end is denoted by G1. A ratio (E10/E1) is greater than or equal to 2.4 and less than or equal to 8. The flexural rigidity E1 is less than or equal to 2.5 (kgf·m2). The flexural rigidity E10 is greater than or equal to 6.0 (kgf·m2). The torsional rigidity G1 is greater than or equal to 0.5 (kgf·m2). A ratio (E1/G1) is greater than or equal to 1.0 and less than or equal to 4.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Takashi NAKANO
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Patent number: 11597616Abstract: A feeding device includes a loading portion, a lifting mechanism, a conveying unit, a sheet detector, a near-end detector, and process circuitry. The loading portion stacks a plurality of sheets. The lifting mechanism lifts the loading portion. The conveying unit conveys the sheets on the loading portion. The sheet detector detects presence or absence of the sheets on the loading portion at a specified height position. The sheet count detector detects a number of sheets conveyed by the conveying unit. The near-end detector detects a near-end state in which a stack height of the sheets on the loading portion is a specified value or less. The process circuitry controls the lifting mechanism based on a detection result of the sheet detector before the near-end state is detected, and controls the lifting mechanism based on a detection result of the sheet count detector after the near-end state is detected.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hikaru Fukasawa, Hidetoshi Kojima, Tatsuya Sugawara, Takashi Nakano, Atsunori Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230026097Abstract: Metals are smelted properly. An electrolytic smelting furnace includes a furnace body, a furnace bottom electrode provided at a bottom part in the furnace body, and an upper electrode provided above the furnace bottom electrode in the furnace body, and the upper electrode includes a conductive compound with a spinel-type structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: Takashi NAKANO, Ikumasa KOSHIRO, Yuki ASAI, Nobuki UDA
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Patent number: 11542112Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a sheet loading table on which a bundle of sheets is stacked, an identification mark on an end face of the sheet loading table, and an imaging unit to identify the identification mark.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Nakano, Hikaru Fukasawa
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Publication number: 20220243293Abstract: An electrolytic smelting system includes: an electrolytic smelting furnace including a furnace body to which a molten ore is introduced, a cathode substrate which is installed on a bottom portion in the furnace body, and an anode substrate which is positioned above the cathode substrate in the furnace body; an inert gas circulation unit including a circulation line to recover an inert gas supplied into the electrolytic smelting furnace together with oxygen and supply the inert gas to the molten ore; and an oxygen-removing unit which is installed in the circulation line and which removes oxygen from the circulation line.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Takashi NAKANO, Ikumasa KOSHIRO
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Publication number: 20220157538Abstract: An irreversible power switch which is operational from the outside after lamination of laminated communication device and the like, includes a substrate, electrodes disposed on the substrate, a brittle member disposed so as to face the electrodes and apart from the electrodes and a conductive adhesive portion disposed on the brittle member at a side to face the electrodes thereof. The electrodes and the conductive adhesive portion are irreversibly and electrically bonded by brittle fracture of the brittle member under the external pressing force in the thickness direction of the laminated communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: KANDA KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Haruki TAMAMIZU, Takashi NAKANO, Tadayoshi KIKUCHI, Misaki DOI
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Publication number: 20220126178Abstract: A shaft includes a tip end, a butt end, flexural rigidities E1 to E10 at respective points that are located 130 mm, 230 mm, 330 mm, 430 mm, 530 mm, 630 mm, 730 mm, 830 mm, 930 mm, and 1030 mm apart from the tip end. A ratio (E8/E1) is greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 7. The flexural rigidity E1 is less than or equal to 2.5 (kgf·m2). The flexural rigidity E8 is greater than or equal to 5.0 (kgf·m2). When a formula of a straight line that passes through a point (230, E2) and a point (630, E6) is represented by y=ax+b, the shaft satisfies the following relationships R1 and R8: (130a+b)<E1?(130a+b+0.5)??(R1), and (830a+b)<E8?(830a+b+1.0)??(R8).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Takashi NAKANO
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Patent number: 11245164Abstract: An invention comprises: a circular waveguide that has a cylindrical section having a circular pipe conduit with a circular shaped cross section, and side wall sections joined to the both sides in an axial direction of the cylindrical section; a first rectangular waveguide that has a first rectangular pipe conduit with a rectangular shaped cross section and that is joined to one of the side wall sections so that the first rectangular pipe conduit communicates with the circular pipe conduit; a second rectangular waveguide that has a second rectangular pipe conduit with a rectangular shaped cross section and that is joined to the other of the side wall sections so that the second rectangular pipe conduit communicates with the circular pipe conduit; and a dielectric plate that is configured as a plate shape, is disposed in the circular pipe conduit, and is airtightly held to the cylindrical section, wherein the circular waveguide has a plastically deformable section that is plastically deformable so that at leastType: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: NEC Network and Sensor Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Kasahara, Takashi Nakano
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Patent number: 11206186Abstract: There is provided a measurement apparatus and a measurement method capable of easily performing measurement on a DUT by automatically specifying a Bluetooth (registered trademark) core specification version supported by the DUT. A command packet corresponding to the highest Bluetooth core specification version is transmitted to the DUT, in a case where an event including an error response is returned from the DUT, a command packet corresponding to the next lower Bluetooth core specification version than the command packet of the returned event continuously transmitted to the DUT, in a case where an event not including an error response is returned from the DUT, the Bluetooth core specification version of the command packet of the returned event is specified as the Bluetooth core specification version supported by the DUT, and measurement is performed on the DUT by using the command packet corresponding to the specified Bluetooth core specification version.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: ANRITSU CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihide Goto, Akihisa Kumaki, Takashi Nakano
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Patent number: 11143242Abstract: A journal bearing includes: a carrier ring; a plurality of bearing pads disposed on a radially inner side of a lower half region of the carrier ring, and configured to support a rotor shaft from below; and a guide metal disposed in an upper half region of the carrier ring, in center with respect to an axial direction of the rotor shaft, so as to cover an upper region of an outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.Inventors: Tanehiro Shinohara, Takaaki Kaikogi, Takashi Nakano, Yuichiro Waki, Yutaka Ozawa, Naoto Tochitani
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Publication number: 20210312649Abstract: It provides the measurement data of each portion of the target object with a high accuracy. The measurement data calculation apparatus 1020 includes an obtaining unit 1024A, an extraction unit 1024B, a conversion unit 1024C, and a calculation unit 1024D. The obtaining unit 1024A obtains the image data in which the target object is photographed and the full length data of the target object. The extraction unit 1024B extracts the shape data indicating the shape of the target object from the image data. The conversion unit 1024C converts and silhouettes the shape data based on the full length data. The calculation unit 1024D uses the shape data converted by the conversion unit 1024C to calculate the measurement data of each portion of the target object.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Daisuke SATO, Hiroki YATO, Chikashi ARITA, Yoshihisa ISHIBASHI, Takashi NAKANO, Ryosuke SASAKI, Ryosuke TAJIMA, Yoshihiro OHTA