Patents by Inventor Takashi Nitta

Takashi Nitta 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: 12075198
    Abstract: An image projection apparatus includes a detector that detects a first region emitting non-visible light; a projector that projects a visible-light image onto a second region including the first region detected by the detector; and a controller configured to generate the visible-light image. The controller varies colors of pixels of the visible-light image in a stepwise manner depending on emission intensities of the non-visible light at positions corresponding to the pixels within the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Takada, Etsuro Hatano, Takashi Nitta, Satoru Seo, Takashi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240270316
    Abstract: A vehicle front structure includes: a floor panel, disposed on a lower end side of a vehicle; a side sill, disposed on each side of the floor panel in a vehicle width direction, and extending along a vehicle front-rear direction; a pillar, disposed above the side sill, and extending in a vehicle upper-lower direction; a dash panel, disposed at a front of the side sill and the pillar to be erected upward toward a front from the floor panel, and partitioning a vehicle compartment and a front compartment; and a triangular gusset, bonded to an upper surface of the side sill and a vehicle inner surface of the pillar. The triangular gusset has an inclined surface obliquely extending upward from an inner end of the side sill toward the vehicle inner surface of the pillar. The inclined surface of the triangular gusset is bonded to the dash panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yamato SASANO, Takehiro KONDO, Akira HAGA, Takashi NITTA
  • Patent number: 12061993
    Abstract: Disclosed is a service providing system capable of providing an information processing function effective for a variety of system constructions as a service. The service providing system of the present embodiment realizes an information retrieval function, a knowledge base construction function, and a knowledge presentation function. The information retrieval function retrieves information on an analysis target and information indicating a condition of the analysis target; the knowledge base construction function constructs a knowledge database for acquiring knowledge corresponding to the condition of the analysis target based on the information retrieved by the information retrieval function. The knowledge presentation function presents knowledge corresponding to the condition of the analysis target from the knowledge database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Kagawa, Yoshikata Tobita, Toshio Okamoto, Masaru Suzuki, Nahoko Oshita, Saori Nitta, Kazuyoshi Nishi, Shinichirou Amanashi, Toshiyuki Kano, Takashi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12017606
    Abstract: A vehicle body rear structure includes: a rear wheel house; a rear cross member located on a vehicle width direction inner side of a lower portion of the rear wheel house and extending in a vehicle width direction; a pillar extending upward from an upper portion of the rear wheel house; a wheel house reinforcing member extending along the rear wheel house and connecting between the rear cross member and the pillar; a retractor functioning as a seat belt winding device; and a bracket configured to fix the retractor to a vehicle body. The bracket has one end portion connected to the wheel house reinforcing member. The bracket has another portion extending from the one end portion in the vehicle forward direction or in the vehicle rearward direction and connected to the rear wheel house.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shungo Chino, Takashi Nitta, Yusuke Nakamura, Ryo Takabu, Takuma Mashiko, Takamitsu Kasai
  • Patent number: 11945341
    Abstract: A seat connection structure includes a reinforcing member and a rear seat. The reinforcing member reinforces a rear floor panel and left and right rear wheel houses. The rear seat is disposed in front of a vehicle body of the reinforcing member, and is connected to the reinforcing member via left and right fixing members. The left and right fixing members connect the seat back of the rear seat and the reinforcing member, and are connected to face a front surface portion of the reinforcing member formed on a front side of the vehicle body and facing a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Daisuke Ohkawa, Shungo Chino, Yushiro Tachibana, Takashi Nitta
  • Patent number: 11934247
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit capable of communicating with a server, a battery, and a controller. The controller is capable of executing processing regarding a predetermined function for which personal authentication is required at a time of use, detects a remaining charge level of the battery, and transmits, when the detected remaining charge level is less than a predetermined threshold value, a transfer request signal to the server, the transfer request signal requesting transfer of use authority of the function to another information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatomo Kurata, Takashi Nitta, Futoshi Takeuchi, Kenji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240051253
    Abstract: In a device for detecting a paper splice part of a cardboard sheet and a device for producing a cardboard sheet, the device for detecting a paper splice part of a cardboard sheet, which detects a sheet paper splice part of a cardboard sheet that has a first sheet, a corrugated second sheet, and a third sheet bonded together, comprises: a sheet paper splice detection unit that detects the sheet paper splice part on the basis of the shape of the sheet and that is placed between a position at which sheets are spliced and a position at which the sheets are bonded in a sheet carrying direction; a marking device that marks the sheet paper splice part on the downstream side of the sheet paper splice detection unit in the sheet carrying direction; and a mark detection device that detects the mark on the downstream side of the marking device in the sheet carrying direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi NITTA, Shuichi TAKEMOTO, Junichi KAWASE, Kazuki MIZUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230278639
    Abstract: A vehicle body rear section includes a rear floor pan (11), a floor pan reinforcement member (20), and a towing load receiving section. The rear floor pan (11) has an upper surface to which the spare tire (16) is fixed. The floor pan reinforcement member (20) is fixed to a lower surface of the rear floor pan (11). The towing load receiving section protrudes downward from a rear section of the rear floor pan (11). The floor pan reinforcement member (20) extends at least partially from a support position of the towing load receiving section toward a front side of a fixed position of the spare tire (16). An easy-deformable portion (22) with lower bending strength than that of front and rear regions is provided in front of the fixed position of the spare tire (16) in a reinforcement region of the rear floor pan (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Takuya Sasaki, Toshihiro Yamaguchi, Kyosuke Yamakita, Takashi Nitta, Dai Kamata, Yusuke Miura
  • Publication number: 20230264763
    Abstract: A vehicle rear structure includes a spare tire bracket which has a longer rear section than a front section thereof in the vehicle with respect to a spare tire fixing portion, a spare tire fixed to the spare tire fixing portion, and reinforcement member having a second inclination reinforcing portion extending upward from a rear section of a rear floor pan towards the front of the vehicle. The spare tire bracket has a first easy bending section provided behind the spare tire fixing portion in the vehicle. The reinforcement member has a second easy bending section provided behind the spare tire fixing portion in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Takuya Sasaki, Toshihiro Yamaguchi, Kyosuke Yamakita, Takashi Nitta, Dai Kamata, Yusuke Miura
  • Publication number: 20230242065
    Abstract: A vehicle body rear structure includes: a rear wheel house; a rear cross member located on a vehicle width direction inner side of a lower portion of the rear wheel house and extending in a vehicle width direction; a pillar extending upward from an upper portion of the rear wheel house; a wheel house reinforcing member extending along the rear wheel house and connecting between the rear cross member and the pillar; a retractor functioning as a seat belt winding device; and a bracket configured to fix the retractor to a vehicle body. The bracket has one end portion connected to the wheel house reinforcing member. The bracket has another portion extending from the one end portion in the vehicle forward direction or in the vehicle rearward direction and connected to the rear wheel house.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Shungo CHINO, Takashi NITTA, Yusuke NAKAMURA, Ryo TAKABU, Takuma Mashiko, Takamitsu KASAI
  • Patent number: 11712867
    Abstract: A single facer equipped with a plurality of corrugated roll units each composed of a pair of corrugated rolls is provided with: a lifting/lowering device that causes each of the corrugated roll units to be lifted and lowered between a use position at which a core sheet is to be corrugated, a first position adjacent to and directly under the use position, and a second position adjacent to and directly under the first position; a horizontal movement device that causes each of the corrugated roll units to be moved horizontally between the first position, a third position adjacent to the first position on one side in a sheet transfer direction, and a fourth position adjacent to the first position on the other side in the sheet transfer direction; and a control device that controls the lifting/lowering device and the horizontal movement device to move the corrugated roll units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Mizutani, Takashi Nitta
  • Patent number: 11691376
    Abstract: A sheet humidifying device, a method, and a cardboard sheet manufacturing device are provided with: a pre-heating roll that has an outer peripheral surface on which a corrugating medium is wrapped; and a humidified water jetting device that jets humidified water onto the outer peripheral surface of the pre-heating roll on which the corrugating medium has not been wrapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Nitta
  • Publication number: 20230094923
    Abstract: A vehicle body lower structure includes a front cross member, a rear side frame, a floor panel, and a front floor frame. The front cross member is disposed in front of a battery in a vehicle. The rear side frame is connected to an end portion of the front cross member on an outward side in a vehicle width direction. The front floor frame forms a closed cross section together with the floor panel and is coupled to the end portion of the front cross member on the outward side in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Shungo Chino, Takashi Nitta, Kazuya Kimura, Shuma Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20230101857
    Abstract: A vehicle body includes: a vehicle body floor having a battery housing portion; a pair of left and right side sills; a front cross member disposed in front of the battery housing portion; a rear cross member disposed behind the battery housing portion; and a battery cover that covers a battery from above. A widened portion of which a height in a vertical direction increases with respect to a center region of the front cross member in a vehicle width direction and of which a front-rear width expands to a vehicle rear side with respect to a front-rear width of the center region of the front cross member in the vehicle width direction is provided on an end portion of the front cross member on an outer side in the vehicle width direction. The battery cover is made of a metal and includes an outer connecting portion connected to the widened portion on an outer side in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Tetsuya Sugizaki, Shungo Chino, Takashi Nitta, Kazuya Kimura, Takafumi Raitoku, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Toshihiro Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230101545
    Abstract: A seat connection structure includes a reinforcing member and a rear seat. The reinforcing member reinforces a rear floor panel and left and right rear wheel houses. The rear seat is disposed in front of a vehicle body of the reinforcing member, and is connected to the reinforcing member via left and right fixing members. The left and right fixing members connect the seat back of the rear seat and the reinforcing member, and are connected to face a front surface portion of the reinforcing member formed on a front side of the vehicle body and facing a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Daisuke Ohkawa, Shungo Chino, Yushiro Tachibana, Takashi Nitta
  • Publication number: 20230024506
    Abstract: A vehicle body rear portion structure includes a vehicle body floor, and the vehicle body floor includes a tire storage area that is hollowed downward in a recess shape. The vehicle body floor includes a front extension wall and a raised part. The front extension wall extends to a vehicle body forward side from an upper end part of a rise wall on a front side of the tire storage area. The raised part stands upward from a front part of the front extension wall and extends substantially along a vehicle width direction. A plurality of reinforcement beads that extend along a vehicle body forward/rearward direction and have a front end portion which extends to a vicinity of a lower end of the raised part are formed on the front extension wall to be spaced apart from each other in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi NITTA, Hirotaka HAYAKAWA, Toshihiro YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230015322
    Abstract: A vehicle body rear portion includes a vehicle body floor and a fuel tank. The vehicle body floor has a tire storage area that is hollowed downward. The fuel tank is supported by a lower surface of the vehicle body floor on a forward side of the tire storage area. A stiffener is attached to the vehicle body floor at a forward position of the tire storage area. The stiffener extends along a vehicle body forward/rearward direction and reinforces an upper region of the fuel tank of the vehicle body floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Takashi Nitta, Toshihiro Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230015659
    Abstract: This vehicle body rear structure includes a tire pan provided to protrude downward from a floor of a vehicle rear section and including a spare tire fixing portion configured to fix a center portion of a spare tire, and a jack base provided on the tire pan, and the jack base extends downward from the tire pan on a rear side with respect to a vehicle body, and has a front end portion continuously extending from the spare tire fixing portion to a front side of the vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Takuya Sasaki, Toshihiro Yamaguchi, Kyosuke Yamakita, Takashi Nitta, Dai Kamata, Yusuke Miura
  • Publication number: 20220379974
    Abstract: This vehicle rear structure includes a rear floor pan, rear side frames each provided on an outer side of the rear floor pan in a vehicle width direction, and a cross portion configured to connect the rear side frames provided on both sides in the vehicle width direction, and the cross portion has a cross ridge portion provided in front of the rear floor pan and extending in the vehicle width direction, and an extension member having a first end portion connected to the cross ridge portion and a second end portion disposed at a side opposite to the first end portion in the vehicle width direction and connected to the rear side frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi Nitta, Kazuya Kimura
  • Patent number: 11370287
    Abstract: This vehicle body substructure includes side sill load transmitting members that are provided inside each of side sills, a floor cross-member that is provided on one of an upper surface and a lower surface of a floor panel laid between the side sills and has extending portions extending toward upper portions of the side sill load transmitting members, an underfloor mounting component that is provided below the floor panel and includes an underfloor cross-member, underfloor frames that are attached to lower portions of the underfloor mounting component and the side sills, and underfloor load transmitting members that are provided in the underfloor frames and face the underfloor cross-member. The underfloor load transmitting member has an upper half portion which faces a lower portion of the side sill load transmitting members, and a lower half portion which is fixed to a part of each of the underfloor frames attached to a lower portion of each of the side sills.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Tsuyuzaki, Shogo Imamura, Shigeki Morie, Keita Yoshinaga, Hiroyuki Ozawa, Takashi Nitta, Takashi Yamada, Yasuyuki Shibata