Patents by Inventor Takeshi Nakagawa

Takeshi Nakagawa 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: 20240128294
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a plurality of light receiving parts arrayed regularly, a first light blocking member including a plurality of first openings arrayed corresponding respectively to the plurality of light receiving parts, and a plurality of microlenses arrayed corresponding respectively to the plurality of first openings. Each light receiving part included in the plurality of light receiving parts includes a plurality of light receiving pixels arrayed in a first direction as a main scanning direction. Each microlens included in the plurality of microlenses is object side telecentric. The plurality of microlenses, the first light blocking member and the plurality of light receiving parts are arranged so that light reflected by an object and passing through the microlens and the first opening corresponding to the microlens enters the plurality of light receiving pixels included in the light receiving part corresponding to the first opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KAWANO, Naoki NAKAGAWA, Takeshi ONO, Shigeru TAKUSHIMA, Naoyuki TOKIDA, Akira OTA, Miki SUGANO
  • Patent number: 11962820
    Abstract: Provided are an image generation apparatus, an image generation method, and a program for generating an image indicative of play status of a game in which two-dimensional objects representative of information to be offered to a viewing audience at the destination of delivery are clearly expressed. An image acquisition section acquires a game image indicative of the content to be displayed on a display device, the game image representing at least the play status of a game in which a virtual three-dimensional object placed in a virtual three-dimensional space is viewed from a point of view in the virtual three-dimensional space. The image acquisition section also acquires a delivery target two-dimensional image indicating a two-dimensional object targeted for delivery, the delivery target two-dimensional image having the same resolution as that of an image to be delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sachiyo Aoki, Kenichiro Yokota, Takeshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11942489
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a plurality of light-receiving pixels configured to receive reflected light; a first light-shielding member including a plurality of first openings and disposed between the plurality of light-receiving pixels and a reference surface; a second light-shielding member including a plurality of second openings and disposed between the plurality of first openings and the reference surface; and a plurality of condenser lenses disposed at a distance from the plurality of second openings. The plurality of condenser lenses, the second light-shielding member, the first light-shielding member, and the plurality of light-receiving pixels are disposed at positions at which reflected light sequentially passes through one of the condenser lenses corresponding to each light-receiving pixel, one of the second openings corresponding to the each light-receiving pixel, and one of the first openings corresponding to the each light-receiving pixel and enters the each light-receiving pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawano, Naoki Nakagawa, Takeshi Ono, Shigeru Takushima, Taisuke Makita, Naoyuki Tokida
  • Patent number: 11941177
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided which includes a first acquisition unit (214) configured to acquire a control command, inputted by a first user, including positional information for designating a presentation position at which to present a tactile stimulus by a tactile presentation device and mode information for designating a mode of the tactile stimulus, a generation unit (218) configured to generate a tactile control signal for presenting the tactile stimulus to the presentation position in response to the control command, and a first distribution unit (222) configured to distribute the tactile control signal to the tactile presentation device worn on a body of a second user, in which the first distribution unit distributes, according to a predetermined rule, the tactile control signal related to the control command inputted by each of a plurality of the first users to the tactile presentation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Takeshi Ogita, Osamu Ito, Yohei Fukuma, Ayumi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20240098200
    Abstract: An image reading device (100) includes a first glass member (52), a plurality of condensing lenses (14) provided on a first surface (52a) of the first glass member (52), a first light blocking member (12) having a plurality of first openings (32) respectively corresponding to the plurality of condensing lenses (14), a second glass member (51) having a third surface (51a) in superimposition with the first light blocking member (12), a second light blocking member (11) having a plurality of second openings (31) respectively corresponding to the plurality of first openings (32), a third glass member (53) having a fifth surface (53a) in superimposition with the second light blocking member (11), a third light blocking member (15) having a plurality of third openings (34) respectively corresponding to the plurality of second openings (31), and a sensor unit (3) having a sensor substrate (9) and a plurality of light receiving pixels (10) arrayed in a predetermined array direction on the sensor substrate (9) and res
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KAWANO, Naoki NAKAGAWA, Takeshi ONO, Shigeru TAKUSHIMA, Taisuke MAKITA, Naoyuki TOKIDA
  • Patent number: 11935998
    Abstract: A battery device comprises a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery provided with an electric power generating element and a pressing member which presses the electric power generating element in the stacking direction. The electric power generating element comprises: a positive electrode with a positive electrode active material layer of a positive electrode active material on the surface of a positive electrode collector; a negative electrode with a negative electrode active material layer of a negative electrode active material on the surface of a negative electrode collector; and a separator which holds an electrolyte solution. This battery device satisfies (1) 0.1<(T1?T2)/T1×100<5, where T1 is the thickness of the thickest portion of the electric power generating element in the stacking direction, and T2 is the thickness of the thinnest portion of the of the electric power generating element in the stacking direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamasa Nakagawa, Takeshi Nakano, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yusuke Nakashima, Naofumi Shoji
  • Patent number: 11643816
    Abstract: A roof structure includes: horizontal base materials forming a roof slope; and roof panels fixed on the horizontal base materials and spread side by side in a slope direction, each of the roof panels includes a roofing board, and rafters fixed to a lower surface of the roofing board in parallel to each other, and extending perpendicularly to the horizontal base materials, each of the rafters of one of the two adjacent roof panels in the slope direction includes a carry-out portion projecting from an edge of the roofing board, each of the carry-out portions being between the rafters of the other roof panel and fixed to the roofing board of the other roof panel, a projection length of the carry-out portions is smaller than a distance between the adjoining horizontal base materials, and the carry-out portions and the other roof panel are fixed to the same horizontal base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SEKISUI HOUSE, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Sato, Takeshi Nakagawa, Fukutaro Asai
  • Publication number: 20220410694
    Abstract: A work machine includes: a partition member provided with an intake port and an exhaust port and forming an engine room; an engine disposed in the engine room; a cooling fan disposed on an intake port side of the engine in the engine room; an exhaust pipe discharging exhaust gas from the engine; and an exhaust duct disposed in the engine room and having an inflow port into which air from the cooling fan flows, and an outflow port. At least a portion of the exhaust duct is disposed above the engine and has a facing surface facing the engine and a through-hole provided in the facing surface. At least a portion of the exhaust pipe is disposed in the through-hole. A gap is formed between an outer surface of the exhaust pipe and an inner surface of the through-hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ikeda, Kazuya Imamura, Takaaki Mizokami, Naotsuna Matsuda, Takeshi Nakagawa, Naoya Ando
  • Patent number: 11406903
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a receiving section configured to receive an input of a usage purpose of the information processing device from a user, an identifying section configured to identify a procedure including one or more steps necessary for realizing the usage purpose, a first screen generating section configured to generate an operating screen for completing one step in the identified procedure, and a second screen generating section configured to generate an information screen including information regarding the identified procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: You Asakura, Shuji Hiramatsu, Daisuke Kawamura, Wataru Kaneko, Takashi Hatakeda, Takeshi Nakagawa, Shigeru Enomoto, Toru Yamamoto, Satoshi Kobayashi, Koichi Aoki
  • Patent number: 11319703
    Abstract: A representative roof frame structure incorporates: paired wood sloping beams respectively extending from a ridge portion toward eaves on opposite sides from each other; a hanging portion hanging vertically downward from the ridge portion; and two steel braces respectively installed between lower faces of the sloping beams and side faces of a lower end of the hanging portion, wherein one end of each of the steel braces is pin-jointed to a beam-side fixing portion protruding from the lower face of the sloping beam, and the other end of each of the steel braces is pin-jointed to a hanging-portion-side fixing portion protruding from the side face of the lower end of the hanging portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SEKISUI HOUSE, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Nakagawa, Kazumi Hijikata, Shinji Utsunomiya, Jun Mikuriya, Ryousuke Sato, Naruhiko Nakano, Shintarou Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20210381233
    Abstract: A roof structure includes: horizontal base materials forming a roof slope; and roof panels fixed on the horizontal base materials and spread side by side in a slope direction, each of the roof panels includes a roofing board, and rafters fixed to a lower surface of the roofing board in parallel to each other, and extending perpendicularly to the horizontal base materials, each of the rafters of one of the two adjacent roof panels in the slope direction includes a carry-out portion projecting from an edge of the roofing board, each of the carry-out portions being between the rafters of the other roof panel and fixed to the roofing board of the other roof panel, a projection length of the carry-out portions is smaller than a distance between the adjoining horizontal base materials, and the carry-out portions and the other roof panel are fixed to the same horizontal base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Ryosuke SATO, Takeshi NAKAGAWA, Fukutaro ASAI
  • Publication number: 20210235139
    Abstract: Provided are an image generation apparatus, an image generation method, and a program for generating an image indicative of play status of a game in which two-dimensional objects representative of information to be offered to a viewing audience at the destination of delivery are clearly expressed. An image acquisition section acquires a game image indicative of the content to be displayed on a display device, the game image representing at least the play status of a game in which a virtual three-dimensional object placed in a virtual three-dimensional space is viewed from a point of view in the virtual three-dimensional space. The image acquisition section also acquires a delivery target two-dimensional image indicating a two-dimensional object targeted for delivery, the delivery target two-dimensional image having the same resolution as that of an image to be delivered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sachiyo Aoki, Kenichiro Yokota, Takeshi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20210189717
    Abstract: A representative roof frame structure incorporates: paired wood sloping beams respectively extending from a ridge portion toward eaves on opposite sides from each other; a hanging portion hanging vertically downward from the ridge portion; and two steel braces respectively installed between lower faces of the sloping beams and side faces of a lower end of the hanging portion, wherein one end of each of the steel braces is pin-jointed to a beam-side fixing portion protruding from the lower face of the sloping beam, and the other end of each of the steel braces is pin-jointed to a hanging-portion-side fixing portion protruding from the side face of the lower end of the hanging portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Takeshi NAKAGAWA, Kazumi HIJIKATA, Shinji UTSUNOMIYA, Jun MIKURIYA, Ryousuke SATO, Naruhiko NAKANO, Shintarou ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10878563
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shape data production method and a system for the same for realizing contactless receiving of data regarding the inner shape of a tubular body which includes a step of generating multiple pieces of two-dimensional image data based on a signal from an image capturing device configured to be movable inside a tubular body and configured to capture an image of the inside of the tubular body; a step of receiving space information on the image capturing device upon image capturing by the image capturing device based on a signal from a motion sensor placed at the image capturing device; and a step of associating the two-dimensional image data and the space information with each other and generating three-dimensional shape data of the inside of the tubular body based on the two-dimensional image data and the space information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: RION Co., Ltd., Utsunomiya University
    Inventors: Takeshi Nakagawa, Daisuke Barada
  • Publication number: 20200139254
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a receiving section configured to receive an input of a usage purpose of the information processing device from a user, an identifying section configured to identify a procedure including one or more steps necessary for realizing the usage purpose, a first screen generating section configured to generate an operating screen for completing one step in the identified procedure, and a second screen generating section configured to generate an information screen including information regarding the identified procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: You ASAKURA, Shuji HIRAMATSU, Daisuke KAWAMURA, Wataru KANEKO, Takashi HATAKEDA, Takeshi NAKAGAWA, Shigeru ENOMOTO, Toru YAMAMOTO, Satoshi KOBAYASHI, Koichi AOKI
  • Publication number: 20200140698
    Abstract: Provided is a heat-ray shielding particle dispersion which contains: ITO particles having a heat-ray shielding capability; a solvent containing 60% by mass or more of water; and a dispersant. The ITO particles have a BET specific surface area of 20 m2/g or more, have a blue or dark blue tone represented by an L value of 50 or less and a<0 and b<0 in the Lab color system, and are contained in an amount of 1-90% by mass with respect to 100% by mass of the dispersion. The solvent is a component obtained by removing the heating residue from the heat-ray shielding particle dispersion, and is contained in an amount of 6.1-99.0% by mass with respect to 100% by mass of the dispersion. The dispersant is at least one kind among a phosphate ester-based dispersant, a polyglycerin-based dispersant, a polyvinylpyrrolidone-based dispersant, a polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene condensate-based dispersant, and a polyacrylate-based dispersant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS ELECTRONIC CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ai TAKAYA, Takeshi NAKAGAWA, Kazuki TAZAKI
  • Patent number: 10496258
    Abstract: An image of a folder linked to one program is displayed on a display section by a simpler operation than a conventional operation. A control section displays a program icon image on a display section, the program icon image being an image associated with a program, and being an image causing processing related to the program to be performed in response to reception of a predetermined operation on the image. The control section changes the program icon image displayed on the display section and associated with the program to a folder corresponding image in response to reception of an instruction to generate a folder linked to the program, the folder corresponding image being an image associated with the folder linked to the program, and being an image causing the program corresponding image associated with the program linked to the folder to be displayed on the display section in response to reception of the predetermined operation on the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Sumino Sato, Norihiro Nagai, Toru Yamamoto, Yuji Nakamura, Ryota Uchino, Takeshi Nakagawa, Makoto Saito, Masanori Nomura
  • Publication number: 20190272633
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shape data production method and a system for the same for realizing contactless receiving of data regarding the inner shape of a tubular body which includes a step of generating multiple pieces of two-dimensional image data based on a signal from an image capturing device configured to be movable inside a tubular body and configured to capture an image of the inside of the tubular body; a step of receiving space information on the image capturing device upon image capturing by the image capturing device based on a signal from a motion sensor placed at the image capturing device; and a step of associating the two-dimensional image data and the space information with each other and generating three-dimensional shape data of the inside of the tubular body based on the two-dimensional image data and the space information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Takeshi NAKAGAWA, Daisuke BARADA
  • Patent number: 10133604
    Abstract: In response to a selection of a program, a board image display control section sets program related information associated with the selected program in a displayable state. An execution start managing section starts the program in response to reception of a request to start the program, the program related information associated with the program being set in the displayable state. A stop and end managing section ends an already started program when a given condition is satisfied at a time of starting the program by the execution start managing section. A setting of program related information associated with the ended program is maintained in a displayable state even after the program is ended by the stop and end managing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Nakagawa, Takashi Hatakeda, Akihito Nagata, Yumi Kataoka, Toru Morita, Wataru Kaneko, Kousuke Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9664325
    Abstract: A pipe connecting device having a joint body including a fitting cylinder to which a flared synthetic resin-made tube is to be externally fitted, an external thread formed on a radially outward side of the fitting cylinder; and a union nut including an internal thread screwed with the external thread, and a tube pressing portion that presses a diameter changing portion formed between a flared portion in the tube, and a non-flared portion, in the direction of the axis. In a fastening completion state in which the tube pressing portion is caused to press the diameter changing portion by a screw advancement of the union nut, the screw advancement being produced by screwing the internal thread to the external thread, positions of a basal end of the external thread and a tip end of the union nut in the directions of axes coincident with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON PILLAR PACKAGING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masateru Yamada, Takayuki Kishimoto, Takeshi Nakagawa, Kiyotaka Omae