Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Nishi

Tetsuya Nishi 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: 11937024
    Abstract: A projection system includes a projection device that projects drawings individually onto a plurality of work spots in a work site. The projection device includes a driver that changes an orientation of the projection device. When drawings are individually projected onto a first work spot and a second work spot in a stated sequence, and the second work spot is outside a projection angle that is projectable by the projection device, the driver changes the orientation of the projection device to include the second work spot within the projection angle after work at the first work spot is finished. The first work spot and the second work spot are included in the plurality of work spots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Hayashi, Tetsuya Nishi, Keisuke Hara
  • Publication number: 20230418145
    Abstract: A projection device according to an aspect of the present invention is a projection device for use at a construction site, and includes: a projector that projects an image onto a projection plane; a distance meter that measures a distance to the projection plane; a rotation driver that rotates the projector and the distance meter; an angle sensor that measures a rotation angle of the rotation driver; and a data processor that corrects the image that is projected from the projector. At least one of the distance meter or the projector is offset from a center line of a rotation axis of the rotation driver. The data processor corrects the image by using the distance measured by the distance meter and the rotation angle measured by the angle sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHI, Yuki HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11812935
    Abstract: In an endoscope cleaning work support device, an operation reception unit received an input from a cleaner. A display control unit controls the display unit to display a procedure for manual cleaning of an endoscope on a display unit step by step. A measurement unit measures a first period of time from a start time of a procedure in a current step marked by reception of an input for displaying the procedure in the current step by the operation reception unit, to an end time of the procedure in the current step marked by reception of an input for displaying a procedure in a subsequent step by the operation reception unit. A comparison determination unit compares a reference period of time defined for each step for displaying the procedure with the first period of time. The display control unit displays information for alerting the cleaner when the first period of time is shorter than the reference period of time on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishi, Hikari Shimizu, Clarinda Kuan, Kaori Kitano, Yoshiko Ikeda, Takeshi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11812203
    Abstract: A projection system includes: a projection device that includes a laser scanner and projects one or more drawings individually onto work spots in a work site; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust at least one of (i) a quantity of the one or more drawings to be simultaneously projected by the projection device or (ii) a setting parameter regarding a mode of projection performed by the projection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Hara, Tetsuya Nishi, Yuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11803109
    Abstract: A projection method, which is executed by a projection device, for projecting drawing data for a building onto a projection plane of the building under construction includes: measuring a distance from each of three or more points which are not aligned in a straight line and are on either of two non-parallel straight lines on the projection plane to the projection device using a distance meter included in the projection device; and projecting the drawing data onto a projection position on the projection plane which is determined based on the distance measured and the angle of the distance meter at the time at which the distance is measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishi, Yuki Hayashi, Keisuke Hara
  • Patent number: 11493185
    Abstract: An illuminating device according to the present disclosure is of a reflective type and uses a laser beam. The illuminating device includes: a laser element that emits a laser beam; an optical fiber that transmits the laser beam emitted by the laser element; a phosphor layer that converts a wavelength of light incident on one of surfaces and emits the light through the one of the surfaces; and an optical component that causes reflected light of the laser beam transmitted through the optical fiber to be incident on the one of the surfaces of the phosphor layer. With the illuminating device, an intensity distribution of the light incident on the one of the surfaces of the phosphor layer is sparse at a central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru Iizawa, Masahito Yamana, Kazuyuki Yamae, Tetsuya Nishi
  • Publication number: 20220295024
    Abstract: A projection system includes: a projection device that includes a laser scanner and projects one or more drawings individually onto work spots in a work site; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust at least one of (i) a quantity of the one or more drawings to be simultaneously projected by the projection device or (ii) a setting parameter regarding a mode of projection performed by the projection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke HARA, Tetsuya NISHI, Yuki HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220276548
    Abstract: A projection method, which is executed by a projection device, for projecting drawing data for a building onto a projection plane of the building under construction includes: measuring a distance from each of three or more points which are not aligned in a straight line and are on either of two non-parallel straight lines on the projection plane to the projection device using a distance meter included in the projection device; and projecting the drawing data onto a projection position on the projection plane which is determined based on the distance measured and the angle of the distance meter at the time at which the distance is measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHI, Yuki HAYASHI, Keisuke HARA
  • Publication number: 20220201259
    Abstract: A projection system includes a projection device that projects drawings individually onto a plurality of work spots in a work site. The projection device includes a driver that changes an orientation of the projection device. When drawings are individually projected onto a first work spot and a second work spot in a stated sequence, and the second work spot is outside a projection angle that is projectable by the projection device, the driver changes the orientation of the projection device to include the second work spot within the projection angle after work at the first work spot is finished. The first work spot and the second work spot are included in the plurality of work spots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki HAYASHI, Tetsuya NISHI, Keisuke HARA
  • Publication number: 20220082230
    Abstract: An illuminating device according to the present disclosure is of a reflective type and uses a laser beam. The illuminating device includes: a laser element that emits a laser beam; an optical fiber that transmits the laser beam emitted by the laser element; a phosphor layer that converts a wavelength of light incident on one of surfaces and emits the light through the one of the surfaces; and an optical component that causes reflected light of the laser beam transmitted through the optical fiber to be incident on the one of the surfaces of the phosphor layer. With the illuminating device, an intensity distribution of the light incident on the one of the surfaces of the phosphor layer is sparse at a central region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Noboru IIZAWA, Masahito YAMANA, Kazuyuki YAMAE, Tetsuya NISHI
  • Patent number: 10906344
    Abstract: A printing paper having a base paper and an outermost coating layer is provided, and satisfies at least one of the following characteristics (I), (II) and (III): (I) when an aqueous solution having a surface tension of 20 mN/m is dropped on the side having the outermost coating layer of the printing paper, a contact angle between the droplet and the outermost coating layer is 40° or more and 65° or less; (II) for the side having the outermost coating layer of the printing paper, a transfer amount of an aqueous solution having a surface tension of 20 mN/m at a contact time of 1 second as determined by the Bristow method is 5.0 ml/m2 or more and 12.0 ml/m2 or less; and (III) on the surface of the outermost coating layer of the printing paper, a maximum peak value of specular reflection light quantity of a point image is 2,000 or more and 30,000 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Masanori Nagoshi, Tetsuya Nishi, Toru Kaneko, Hideki Takada, Masayuki Takishiro
  • Publication number: 20200260943
    Abstract: In an endoscope cleaning work support device, an operation reception unit received an input from a cleaner. A display control unit controls the display unit to display a procedure for manual cleaning of an endoscope on a display unit step by step. A measurement unit measures a first period of time from a start time of a procedure in a current step marked by reception of an input for displaying the procedure in the current step by the operation reception unit, to an end time of the procedure in the current step marked by reception of an input for displaying a procedure in a subsequent step by the operation reception unit. A comparison determination unit compares a reference period of time defined for each step for displaying the procedure with the first period of time. The display control unit displays information for alerting the cleaner when the first period of time is shorter than the reference period of time on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHI, Hikari SHIMIZU, Clarinda KUAN, Kaori KITANO, Yoshiko IKEDA, Takeshi NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200114674
    Abstract: A printing paper having a base paper, and one or more coating layer(s) arranged on at least one surface of the base paper, wherein; in the coating layer(s), an outermost coating layer positioned on the outermost side with respect to the base paper contains at least a pigment, a binder, a lubricant, a dispersant and a cationic resin, wherein the pigment in the outermost coating layer contains kaolin and calcium carbonate, a content of the kaolin and the calcium carbonate is 80 parts by mass or more based on 100 parts by mass of the pigment in the outermost coating layer, and a mass content ratio of the kaolin to the calcium carbonate in the outermost coating layer is 1:9 to 6:4, and the printing paper satisfies at least one of the following characteristics (I), (II) and (III): (I) when an aqueous solution having a surface tension of 20 mN/m is dropped on the side having the outermost coating layer of the printing paper, a contact angle between the droplet and the outermost coating layer is 40° or more and 6
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Masanori NAGOSHI, Tetsuya NISHI, Toru KANEKO, Hideki TAKADA, Masayuki TAKISHIRO
  • Patent number: 10612740
    Abstract: A moving-body light-emitting device for a vehicle includes: a light source including a light-emitting element; a substrate on which the light source is provided; a first lens that covers the light-emitting element and includes a curved surface that transmits light emitted from the light-emitting element, the curved surface including a first curved surface and a second curved surface; and a reflective surface that covers the first curved surface of the first lens and reflects the light transmitted through the first lens. The second curved surface of the first lens is not covered with the reflective surface, and transmits the light reflected by the reflective surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Ueno, Makoto Kai, Tetsuya Nishi, Toshiaki Nakamura, Yuuji Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10274138
    Abstract: A lighting device is provided which includes: a wavelength converter that emits, from laser light, light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the laser light; and a reflector surrounding the wavelength converter and including a surface of revolution that reflects the light emitted from the wavelength converter. The reflector includes, in the surface of revolution, a through-hole through which the laser light passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishi, Hiroshi Kitano
  • Publication number: 20190093844
    Abstract: A moving-body light-emitting device for a vehicle includes: a light source including a light-emitting element; a substrate on which the light source is provided; a first lens that covers the light-emitting element and includes a curved surface that transmits light emitted from the light-emitting element, the curved surface including a first curved surface and a second curved surface; and a reflective surface that covers the first curved surface of the first lens and reflects the light transmitted through the first lens. The second curved surface of the first lens is not covered with the reflective surface, and transmits the light reflected by the reflective surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuharu UENO, Makoto KAI, Tetsuya NISHI, Toshiaki NAKAMURA, Yuuji NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190093873
    Abstract: A moving-body lighting device includes: a first light source; a second light source that is disposed forward of the first light source and emits light forward; a reflector in a shape of a segment of a spheroid, and that reflects the light emitted by the first light source; a projection lens that receives the light emitted by the first light source and reflected by the reflector; and a shade disposed between the second light source and the projection lens, proximate a second focal point. The projection lens includes a first lens region that receives the light emitted by the first light source and reflected by the reflector, and a second lens region that receives the light emitted by the second light source. The major axis of the spheroid is oblique to a horizontal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya NISHI
  • Publication number: 20180051855
    Abstract: A lighting device is provided which includes: a wavelength converter that emits, from laser light, light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the laser light; and a reflector surrounding the wavelength converter and including a surface of revolution that reflects the light emitted from the wavelength converter. The reflector includes, in the surface of revolution, a through-hole through which the laser light passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHI, Hiroshi KITANO
  • Patent number: 9889696
    Abstract: A coated paper for industrial inkjet printing presses that achieves excellent uniformity in color densities and ink absorbability, has the capability of suppressing strike-through of inks, and achieves excellent paper feeding characteristics is provided. The paper comprises: a base paper, and a coating layer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of a cationic resin and a water-soluble polyvalent cationic salt, and a pigment containing kaolin, on the base paper. The coated paper surface on the side where the coating layer is located has an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of is 4.5 ?m to 7.5 ?m, and has 1 to 350 protruding parts per 1.0 square centimeter, wherein a protruding part has a maximum width of 10 ?m to 100 ?m measured using a photographed image of the coated paper surface taken by magnifying 50 times using an electron microscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Hideki Takada, Tetsuya Nishi, Masanori Nagoshi
  • Patent number: 9789722
    Abstract: Provided is a printing coated paper which is advantageous not only in that the coated paper has offset printability and causes no mottling in the printed area even in ink jet printing, but also in that the coated paper exhibits excellent rubbing resistance with respect to the printed area and excellent print density of a dye ink. The task of the present invention is achieved by a printing coated paper having a coating layer comprised mainly of a pigment and a binder formed on at least one side of a base paper, wherein the base paper is a treated base paper which has been subjected to size press using a treatment solution containing at least one member selected from a cationic resin and a water-soluble multivalent cation salt, wherein the total applied amount per each side of the at least one member selected from a cationic resin and a water-soluble multivalent cation salt, in terms of the solids content, is in the range of from 0.1 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Masanori Nagoshi, Koji Idei, Tetsuya Nishi, Toru Kaneko