Patents by Inventor Takuya Nakano
Takuya 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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Patent number: 11945232Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus is provided with a tank that stores ink, a print head that performs print operation by ejecting ink supplied from the tank, a circulation unit that establishes a circulating state to circulate ink in a circulation path if print operation is performed and establishes a stopped state to stop circulation of ink if print operation is terminated, and a deaeration unit that performs deaeration operation to deaerate ink inside the circulation path. The apparatus includes an estimation unit that estimates a dissolved gas amount in ink inside the circulation path based on dissolved gas amounts increased in the circulating state and in the stopped state, respectively, and a control unit that causes the deaeration unit to execute deaeration operation after completion of print operation if the dissolved gas amount estimated by the estimation unit exceeds a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takatoshi Nakano, Yoshinori Nakagawa, Atsushi Takahashi, Takuya Fukasawa
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Patent number: 11948827Abstract: The disclosure provides one technique for suppressing wear of a cleaning member and unexpected dust generation. A substrate support mechanism 100 includes a first support part 110 which is swingable and has a contact region that can come into contact with a peripheral edge of one surface of a substrate W in a closed state, a second support part 120 which supports the other surface of the substrate W, and a first support part moving part 140 which swings the first support part 110.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: EBARA CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuru Miyazaki, Hisajiro Nakano, Takuya Inoue
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Patent number: 11934944Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for training a neural network with augmented data. A dataset comprising a plurality of classes is obtained for training a neural network. Prior to initiation of training, the dataset may be augmented by performing affine transformations of the data in the dataset, wherein the amount of augmentation is determined by a data augmentation variable. The neural network is trained with the augmented dataset. A training loss and a difference of class accuracy for each class is determined. The data augmentation variable is updated based on the total loss and class accuracy for each class. The dataset is augmented by performing affine transformations of the data in the dataset according to the updated data augmentation variable, and the neural network is trained with the augmented dataset.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Takuya Goto, Masaharu Sakamoto, Hiroki Nakano
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Patent number: 11919318Abstract: Ink is circulated through a circulation flow path between a print head and an ink tank. Detection operation for detecting an ink ejection state in an ejection opening in the print head is performed. The ink circulation and the detection operation are simultaneously performed by performing the detection operation in response to a start of the ink circulation.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takuya Fukasawa, Yuhei Oikawa, Takatoshi Nakano, Yoshinori Nakagawa, Atsushi Takahashi
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Patent number: 11870315Abstract: An electric pump includes an impeller, a rotor connected to the impeller, a housing housing the rotor, a plurality of divided iron cores surrounding an outer surface of the housing, a plurality of divided coil bobbins respectively attached to the plurality of the divided iron cores, a plurality of divided coils respectively wound around the plurality of the divided coil bobbins, and a bus bar unit including a plurality of bus bars.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SHINANO KENSHI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Miyasaka, Takahisa Tezuka, Naomi Koyama, Takuya Nakano
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Patent number: 11656201Abstract: According to one implementation, a structural health monitoring system includes an ultrasonic transducer, an ultrasonic sensor, a strain sensor and a signal processing part. The ultrasonic transducer oscillates an ultrasonic wave to the first inspection area. The ultrasonic sensor detects a waveform of at least one of a transmission wave of the ultrasonic wave and a reflected wave of the ultrasonic wave. The transmission wave has transmitted the first inspection area. The reflected wave has been reflected in the first inspection area. The strain sensor detects a strain amount of the second inspection area. The signal processing part obtains at least one index, representing health of the structural object including the first inspection area and the second inspection area, based on the waveform detected by the ultrasonic sensor and the strain amount detected by the strain sensor.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Soejima, Takuya Nakano
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Patent number: 11494536Abstract: A load calculator includes a coefficient storage, a replacement deriver, and an internal-load deriver. The storage stores a first coefficient, an internal load acting on a target point in a target member when a unit load acts on a concentrated load point in the target member along one of three orthogonal axes, and as a second coefficient, an internal load acting on the target point when a unit moment acts on the concentrated load point around one of the axes. The replacement deriver derives a replacement load and moment by replacing an external load acting on the target member with six force components acting on the concentrated load point. The internal load deriver derives an internal load acting on any target point with the first coefficient, the replacement load, the second coefficient, and the replacement moment when the external load acts on the target member.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Kensuke Yoshimura, Masakatsu Abe, Takuya Nakano
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Publication number: 20210302372Abstract: According to one implementation, a structural health monitoring system includes an ultrasonic transducer, an ultrasonic sensor, a strain sensor and a signal processing part. The ultrasonic transducer oscillates an ultrasonic wave to the first inspection area. The ultrasonic sensor detects a waveform of at least one of a transmission wave of the ultrasonic wave and a reflected wave of the ultrasonic wave. The transmission wave has transmitted the first inspection area. The reflected wave has been reflected in the first inspection area. The strain sensor detects a strain amount of the second inspection area. The signal processing part obtains at least one index, representing health of the structural object including the first inspection area and the second inspection area, based on the waveform detected by the ultrasonic sensor and the strain amount detected by the strain sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2020Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki SOEJIMA, Takuya NAKANO
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Publication number: 20210263536Abstract: An internal-load calculation apparatus includes a memory and a calculator. The memory stores the results of a preliminary analysis of an internal load exerted on a member of interest in a sound condition. The calculator calculates, on the basis of the distribution of an internal load exerted on the member of interest upon the application of an external load to an element of interest and the results of the preliminary analysis stored in the memory, the distribution of an internal load exerted on the member of interest upon the occurrence of damage on the element of interest. The element of interest corresponds to at least one of a plurality of elements of the member of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventor: Takuya NAKANO
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Publication number: 20210257874Abstract: An electric pump includes an impeller, a rotor connected to the impeller, a housing housing the rotor, a plurality of divided iron cores surrounding an outer surface of the housing, a plurality of divided coil bobbins respectively attached to the plurality of the divided iron cores, a plurality of divided coils respectively wound around the plurality of the divided coil bobbins, and a bus bar unit including a plurality of bus bars.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2020Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: SHINANO KENSHI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi MIYASAKA, Takahisa TEZUKA, Naomi KOYAMA, Takuya NAKANO
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Patent number: 11018172Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging element configured to inhibit an adverse effect, which is attributable to a light shielding film formed for disposing an OPB region, on the formation of a constituent other than the light shielding film of the solid-state imaging element, and an electronic device. According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a solid-state imaging element, including: an effective pixel region in which a large number of pixels are vertically and horizontally arranged; and an OPB region formed by coating pixels around the effective pixel region with a light shielding film. Corners on at least one of an outer circumferential side and an inner circumferential side of the OPB region are formed into an arc shape. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a back-surface irradiation type CMOS image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Takuya Nakano
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Patent number: 10914277Abstract: In an intake device, an upper fuel injection device that injects a fuel and a suction port that suctions the air-fuel mixture supplied to a cylinder head are disposed in the air cleaner. The intake device includes the air cleaner including an air cleaner case and a sidewall filter that purifies an air suctioned into the air cleaner case. The sidewall filter partitions a space in the air cleaner case in a vehicle width direction, and has at least partially overlapping with the upper fuel injection device in the vehicle width direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Hariu, Akiyuki Karashima, Takuya Nakano
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Publication number: 20200192991Abstract: A load calculator includes a coefficient storage, a replacement deriver, and an internal-load deriver. The storage stores a first coefficient, an internal load acting on a target point in a target member when a unit load acts on a concentrated load point in the target member along one of three orthogonal axes, and as a second coefficient, an internal load acting on the target point when a unit moment acts on the concentrated load point around one of the axes. The replacement deriver derives a replacement load and moment by replacing an external load acting on the target member with six force components acting on the concentrated load point. The internal load deriver derives an internal load acting on any target point with the first coefficient, the replacement load, the second coefficient, and and the replacement moment when the external load acts on the target member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Kensuke YOSHIMURA, Masakatsu Abe, Takuya Nakano
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Patent number: 10683813Abstract: A rotary-type throttling device for an internal combustion engine includes an upstream auxiliary intake passageway formed in a throttle body and having an inlet port held in fluid communication with the atmosphere, and a downstream auxiliary intake passageway formed in a cylindrical valve body of a rotary valve and having an outlet port open at a downstream outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical valve body. The upstream auxiliary intake passageway and the downstream auxiliary intake passageway have a body-side joint fluid communication port and a valve-side joint fluid communication port formed in respective sliding surfaces of the throttle body and the cylindrical valve body and designed to overlap each other to keep the upstream and downstream auxiliary intake passageways and in fluid communication with each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Sano, Takuya Nakano
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Patent number: 10471939Abstract: A braking control apparatus performs right and left wheel independent control to approach a slip rate of a rear-right wheel and a rear-left wheel to a target slip rate as an average of slip rates of a front-right wheel and a front-left wheel. In a high-speed range, right and left wheel independent control is started when a deceleration is equal to or larger than a start value that is smaller than a start value used in a low-speed range. In right and left wheel independent control started in the high-speed range, when there is a demand to increase braking pressures of both the rear-right wheel and the rear-left wheel, the braking pressure of the rear wheel located on the outside during the occurrence of deflection of the vehicle resulting from braking is increased, and the braking pressure of the rear wheel located on the inside is prohibited from increasing.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Hara, Yuji Yoshii, Yusaku Yamamoto, Hitoshi Terada, Takuya Nakano, Shinya Akiba
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Publication number: 20190242336Abstract: In an intake device, an upper fuel injection device that injects a fuel and a suction port that suctions the air-fuel mixture supplied to a cylinder head are disposed in the air cleaner. The intake device includes the air cleaner including an air cleaner case and a sidewall filter that purifies an air suctioned into the air cleaner case. The sidewall filter partitions a space in the air cleaner case in a vehicle width direction, and has at least partially overlapping with the upper fuel injection device in the vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Jun Hariu, Akiyuki Karashima, Takuya Nakano
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Publication number: 20180141527Abstract: A braking control apparatus performs right and left wheel independent control to approach a slip rate of a rear-right wheel and a rear-left wheel to a target slip rate as an average of slip rates of a front-right wheel and a front-left wheel. In a high-speed range, right and left wheel independent control is started when a deceleration is equal to or larger than a start value that is smaller than a start value used in a low-speed range. In right and left wheel independent control started in the high-speed range, when there is a demand to increase braking pressures of both the rear-right wheel and the rear-left wheel, the braking pressure of the rear wheel located on the outside during the occurrence of deflection of the vehicle resulting from braking is increased, and the braking pressure of the rear wheel located on the inside is prohibited from increasing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2017Publication date: May 24, 2018Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro HARA, Yuji YOSHII, Yusaku YAMAMOTO, Hitoshi TERADA, Takuya NAKANO, Shinya AKIBA
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Patent number: 9945515Abstract: An above-ground low-temperature tank includes a metal inner tank which stores low-temperature liquefied gas, and an outer tank which includes a concrete outer wall surrounding the inner tank. A hole portion which has a preset depth from a bottom surface of the inner tank is formed on a bottom portion of the inner tank, and a metal pit main body having a cylindrical bottomed accommodating portion is provided in a state where the accommodating portion is accommodated in the hole portion. A reinforcing body which supports at least an outer circumferential edge portion of a bottom surface of the pit main body is provided on the bottom surface side of the pit main body in the hole portion. A cold insulation material is provided below the reinforcing body.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: IHI CORPORATIONInventor: Takuya Nakano
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Publication number: 20180080391Abstract: A rotary-type throttling device for an internal combustion engine includes an upstream auxiliary intake passageway formed in a throttle body and having an inlet port held in fluid communication with the atmosphere, and a downstream auxiliary intake passageway formed in a cylindrical valve body of a rotary valve and having an outlet port open at a downstream outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical valve body. The upstream auxiliary intake passageway and the downstream auxiliary intake passageway have a body-side joint fluid communication port and a valve-side joint fluid communication port formed in respective sliding surfaces of the throttle body and the cylindrical valve body and designed to overlap each other to keep the upstream and downstream auxiliary intake passageways and in fluid communication with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Sano, Takuya Nakano
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Publication number: 20170117313Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging element configured to inhibit an adverse effect, which is attributable to a light shielding film formed for disposing an OPB region, on the formation of a constituent other than the light shielding film of the solid-state imaging element, and an electronic device. According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a solid-state imaging element, including: an effective pixel region in which a large number of pixels are vertically and horizontally arranged; and an OPB region formed by coating pixels around the effective pixel region with a light shielding film. Corners on at least one of an outer circumferential side and an inner circumferential side of the OPB region are formed into an arc shape. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a back-surface irradiation type CMOS image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2015Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventor: TAKUYA NAKANO