Patents by Inventor Tomoaki Nakamura

Tomoaki Nakamura 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: 11970159
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control system for avoiding a collection between a right-turning vehicle and a straight-through vehicle without decreasing comfort for an occupant. In the system, a first vehicle V1 and a second vehicle V2 retain high-precision map data for identifying a traveling lane. When the first vehicle V1 traveling in an autonomous driving mode intends to turn right from a right turn lane at an intersection ahead based on the high-precision map data, the first vehicle V1 transmits a right turn notification indicating the intention to turn right to nearby vehicles using vehicle-to-vehicle communications. When the second vehicle V2 traveling in an autonomous driving mode intends to travel straight at an intersection ahead, the second vehicle V2 recognizes a right-turning vehicle in an oncoming lane at the intersection upon receiving the right turn notification from the right-turning vehicle, and performs a predetermined control for collision avoidance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Chikamori, Kazumasa Nakamura, Hitoshi Konishi, Takuji Harayama, Tomoaki Masakawa, Naofumi Aso, Ryo Matsuzawa, Zhaoqi Wang
  • Patent number: 11965043
    Abstract: A resin particle includes a fluorescent colorant and a color pigment. A hue angle of the resin particle and a hue angle of the fluorescent colorant are different from each other. When a fluorescence peak wavelength in a spectral reflectance of the fluorescent colorant is represented by A (nm), an integrated value of a spectral reflectance (%) of the color pigment in a wavelength range of from A?30 (nm) to A+30 (nm) is 2,500 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Ryutaro Kembo, Masaru Takahashi, Yukiaki Nakamura, Tomoaki Tanaka, Satomi Hara
  • Patent number: 11960874
    Abstract: A control system comprises a mobile object control unit for controlling a mobile object; an update control unit for controlling reception of an update program of the mobile object control unit from a server and controlling update of the mobile object control unit by the program; an acquisition unit for acquiring reception information indicating a communication manner for receiving from the server for each program; and a communication control unit for controlling receiving the program from the server, based on the reception information, wherein the acquisition unit is for, when both a first update program and a second update program received after update by the first update program is executed have not been received, acquiring information about change of reception information of the first update program, and the communication control unit is for controlling receiving the first update program based on the information about change acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Yamaguchi, Tomoaki Taki, Koichiro Nakamura, Shoichi Kuraoka
  • Patent number: 11960074
    Abstract: An optical filter includes a pair of reflection films facing each other via a gap, and a gap change portion that changes a distance between the pair of reflection films, wherein the reflection film is formed by a plurality of layered structures, the plurality of layered structures are respectively formed by alternate stacking of high-refractive layers and low-refractive layers having smaller refractive indices than the high-refractive layers and, in the respective layered structures, optical film thicknesses of the high-refractive layers and optical film thicknesses of the low-refractive layers are film thicknesses based on predetermined design center wavelengths set with respect to each of the layered structures, and the design center wavelengths are different with respect to each of the layered structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11938970
    Abstract: A control device that is mounted in a second vehicle which a first vehicle having a following travel function is detachably connected to or loaded on is provided. The control device includes a control unit configured to perform: detecting another vehicle that is within a predetermined range from the second vehicle in a state in which the second vehicle has the first vehicle connected thereto or loaded thereon and of which some or all of a scheduled travel route is the same as some or all of a scheduled travel route of the first vehicle after the first vehicle has been disconnected from the second vehicle; and transmitting following instruction information to the first vehicle and disconnecting the first vehicle from the second vehicle such that the first vehicle travels with the detected other vehicle as a preceding vehicle by the following travel function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Harada, Teppei Nishiguchi, Kazuki Komoriya, Tomoaki Ihara, Miyu Higashimura, Toshihiro Nakaichi, Kazunobu Okasaka, Ryo Hattori, Yohei Tanigawa, Ryohei Kimbara, Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11939327
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a heterocyclic compound having an AMPA receptor potentiator effect, which is expected to be useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of depression, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the like. The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as described in the specification, or a salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoaki Hasui, Shinji Nakamura, Satoshi Mikami, Tohru Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11938961
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes: a map processing unit that creates local map data based on high accuracy map data and a position of an own vehicle; and an autonomous driving control unit that creates a travel plan for autonomous traveling of the own vehicle based on the local map data and controls traveling of the own vehicle according to the travel plan. The map processing unit creates multiple pieces of transmission data by dividing the local map data so as to correspond to regions on a map and transmits the multiple pieces of transmission data to the autonomous driving control unit. The map processing unit changes a shape and a size of the region on the map corresponding to each piece of transmission data based on selection information which decides a travel mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Chikamori, Kazumasa Nakamura, Hitoshi Konishi, Takuji Harayama, Tomoaki Masakawa, Naofumi Aso, Ryo Matsuzawa, Zhaoqi Wang
  • Publication number: 20240071688
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip having a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers facing each other through each of the plurality of dielectric layers, an external electrode that is provided on an end face of the multilayer chip in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in which the plurality of internal electrode layers face each other, and has a plurality of glass portions that are spaced from each other on a surface of the external electrode, and a plated layer that is provided on the external electrode and has discontinuous portions on the plurality of glass portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAMURA, Mikio TAHARA, Hiroki SHIMIZU, Masaru SAITO, Tomio INOUE
  • Patent number: 11913803
    Abstract: A data compression method is used for compressing data indicating a gradient of a route. The data compression method includes: acquiring a gradient table that shows gradient values in respective sections arranged between a starting point of the route and an ending point thereof, the sections including one section and an adjacent section adjacent to the one section: ranking the gradient values; and in a case where the gradient value of the one section and the gradient value of the adjacent section are in a same rank, integrating the gradient value of the one section and the gradient value of the adjacent section and generating a compressed gradient table that shows a distance and a corresponding rank of the section having the same rank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Chikamori, Kazumasa Nakamura, Hitoshi Konishi, Takuji Harayama, Tomoaki Masakawa, Naofumi Aso, Ryo Matsuzawa, Zhaoqi Wang
  • Publication number: 20240021375
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip and external electrodes opposite to each other in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in which internal electrode layers face and include a ceramic grain. 0.722×ln(W×T/E)?5.75+(?E??0)+(t/12)?6.02 is satisfied, when a dimension of the multilayer chip in the first direction is T (?m), a dimension of the multilayer chip in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction is W (?m), a number of the internal electrode layers is E, a thermal expansion coefficient of the external electrodes is ?E (×10?6/K), a thermal expansion coefficient of the multilayer chip is ?0 (×10?6/K), and a maximum value of a thickness of the external electrodes on a main face in the first direction is t (?m).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio TAHARA, Tomoaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240010412
    Abstract: A buffer material is formed by assembling four buffer members containing cellulose fibers and having a plate shape, in which the cellulose fibers are oriented along a main surface of the buffer member, a first buffer member and a third buffer member among the four buffer members are spaced apart from each other and have the respective main surfaces disposed along each other, and a second buffer member and a fourth buffer member are spaced apart from each other and have the respective main surfaces disposed along each other, a rectangular frame shape is shown when viewed in a plan view from a direction along a Z axis, and an article is stored in a region surrounded by the four buffer members in the plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAMURA, Tetsuji FUJITA, Jun TAKIZAWA, Hisashi KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20240010413
    Abstract: A buffer material includes four buffer members containing cellulose fibers and having rectangular plate shapes similar to each other, in which the cellulose fibers are oriented along a main surface of the buffer member, at least two buffer members among the four buffer members have two recess portions on one specific side, the buffer material is assembled by inserting the other buffer members into the recess portions of the buffer members, two buffer members among the four buffer members are spaced apart from each other and each have the main surfaces disposed along a YZ plane, and the other two buffer members are spaced apart from each other and each have the main surfaces disposed along an XZ plane, and an article is stored in a region surrounded by the four buffer members in the plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAMURA, Tetsuji FUJITA, Jun TAKIZAWA, Hisashi KOIKE
  • Patent number: 11842854
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes: a ceramic main body having a parallelepiped shape in which edges of first internal electrode layers are led out to a first edge face and edges of second internal electrode layer are led out to a second edge face facing the first edge face; and external electrodes respectively formed on the first edge face and the second edge face and extending to at least one side face of the ceramic main body, wherein a distance in a length direction between first conductive layers of the respective external electrodes on the at least one side face is shorter between locations corresponding to corner portions of the ceramic main body, respectively, than between center portions of the first conductive layers of the respective external electrodes in a width direction orthogonal to the length direction on the at least one side face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakamura, Mikio Tahara, Michio Oshima, Hiroaki Uenishi, Takehiko Kamobe
  • Patent number: 11815130
    Abstract: A follower bearing includes an outer ring, rolling elements, and a cage retaining the rolling elements. The outer ring includes an annular first member made of steel, and an annular second member made of resin and covering an outer circumferential surface of the first member. The first member includes a tubular portion. The second member includes a first portion disposed on one side of the tubular portion in an axial direction and having a first opposing surface that opposes an outer circumferential surface of the cage in a radial direction, and a second portion disposed on the other side of the tubular portion in the axial direction and having a second opposing surface that opposes the outer circumferential surface of the cage in the radial direction. In the radial direction, the first and second opposing surfaces are each disposed on a more outer circumference side than a second raceway surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakamura, Takafumi Kawashima
  • Patent number: 11705281
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a multilayer chip in which dielectric layers mainly composed of ceramic and internal electrode layers are alternately stacked so that the internal electrode layers are alternately exposed to two end faces of the multilayer chip having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape; and a pair of external electrodes formed from the two end faces to at least one side face of side faces, wherein each external electrode includes a metal layer formed from the end face to the at least one side face and mainly composed of copper, and an oxide layer covering at least a part of the metal layer, mainly composed of copper oxide, and having a maximum thickness of 0.5 ?m or greater, wherein a first surface, which is in contact with the plated layer, of the oxide layer has Cu particles formed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakamura, Mikio Tahara, Masako Kanou, Fusao Sato
  • Publication number: 20230220880
    Abstract: A follower bearing 1 includes: a shaft 30 having an outer peripheral surface including an annular first raceway surface 11; an outer ring 60 having an inner peripheral surface including an annular second raceway surface 41 facing the first raceway surface 11; and a plurality of rollers 70 disposed on an annular raceway along the first raceway surface 11 and the second raceway surface 41 to be in contact with the first raceway surface 11 and the second raceway surface 41. The outer ring 60 includes an annular first member 40 made of steel and an annular second member 50 made of a resin and covering outer peripheral surfaces 44A and 44B of the first member 40. The first member 40 includes a cylindrical portion 42 having a hollow cylindrical shape and including the second raceway surface, and a projection 43 extending radially outward from the cylindrical portion 42. Ends of the projection 43 in the axial direction are filled with the second member 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventor: Tomoaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230150231
    Abstract: A buffer material is a material including a buffer sheet that contains cellulose fibers and a binding material binding the cellulose fibers and has a sheet shape, and a nonwoven fabric sheet that is provided on at least one surface side of the buffer sheet and is formed of nonwoven fabric. Further, a thickness T2 of the nonwoven fabric sheet is 5% or greater and 90% or less of a thickness Tl of the buffer sheet. Further, a basis weight of fibers in the nonwoven fabric sheet is less than a basis weight of the cellulose fibers in the buffer sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Jun TAKIZAWA, Tetsuji FUJITA, Tomoaki NAKAMURA, Hisashi KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20230147271
    Abstract: A buffer material of the present disclosure is a buffer material including a buffer sheet that contains cellulose fibers and a binding material binding the cellulose fibers and has a sheet shape, in which the buffer sheet has a plurality of first projections that protrude toward at least one surface side and are provided in a lattice shape. Further, it is preferable that the buffer sheet further have a plurality of second projections having a projection amount that is greater than a projection amount of the first projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Jun TAKIZAWA, Tetsuji FUJITA, Tomoaki NAKAMURA, Hisashi KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20230122259
    Abstract: An advertisement print method includes an advertisement information obtaining step of obtaining, by an advertisement processing apparatus, advertisement information input by an input apparatus, a transaction data selection step of selecting, by the advertisement processing apparatus, N transaction data associated with the advertisement information from a plurality of transaction data stored in an e-commerce database based on the advertisement information and orderer information and receiver information stored in the e-commerce database, N being an integer not less than 1, and a print step of printing, by a print apparatus, an advertisement based on the advertisement information on packing materials of N products specified by the N selected transaction data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Tetsuji FUJITA, Hisashi KOIKE, Satoru YANAGI, Tokuro MIYANISHI, Jun TAKIZAWA, Tomoaki NAKAMURA, Akio ITO, Toshiaki MIKOSHIBA
  • Patent number: 11581140
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer chip having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers that are alternately stacked, the internal electrode layers being alternately exposed to two edge faces of the multilayer chip facing each other, and a pair of external electrodes respectively formed on the two edge faces so as to be connected to the internal electrode layers exposed on the respective edge faces, each external electrode extending to at least one side face of the multilayer chip, wherein in the multilayer chip, oxides including Zn and Ni are present around the internal electrode layer in a vicinity of a connection part connecting the internal electrode layer to the external electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakamura, Mikio Tahara, Sadanori Shimoda