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).

  • 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
  • Publication number: 20230043869
    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, a main component of the dielectric layers being ceramic, a main component of the internal electrode layers being Ni, the internal electrode layers being alternately exposed to two end faces of the multilayer chip opposite to each other, and external electrodes, each of which is provided on each of the two end faces. Each of the external electrodes includes a base layer contacting the internal electrode layers, a main component of the base layer being Cu. The base layer includes Ni of 1 wt % or more and 10 wt % or less on a presumption that an amount of Cu is 100 wt %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAMURA, Mikio TAHARA
  • Patent number: 11557434
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes external electrodes having conductive resin layers thereinside on respective two ends opposed to each other in a rectangular parallelepiped ceramic component body. Each of the external electrodes includes an underlying metal layer, an intermediate metal layer, a conductive resin layer, an external metal layer. A tip angle ? between an outer face of a tip portion of the wraparound portion of the underlying metal layer and a surface of the ceramic component body is 20° or smaller, and a tip angle ? between an outer face of a tip portion of the wraparound portion of the intermediate metal layer and a surface of the ceramic component body is 20° or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD
    Inventors: Satoshi Kobayashi, Takahisa Fukuda, Tomoaki Nakamura, Mikio Tahara, Naoki Saito, Kiyoshiro Yatagawa
  • Patent number: 11551868
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes: a ceramic main body of a parallelepiped shape having at least two edge faces facing each other, and having an internal electrode layer inside; and external electrodes formed on the two edge faces and having a structure in which a plated layer is formed on a ground layer having a metal, as a main component, and ceramic; the external electrodes have an extension region which extends to at least one of four side faces from the two edge faces, and a part of which corresponds to a corner portion of the ceramic main body and includes a portion with the ground layer and a first portion, without the ground layer, arranged at a position where one of the two end faces and one of the four side faces are connected; and the plated layer covers the ground layer and the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Uenishi, Takehiko Kamobe, Tomoaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11529126
    Abstract: An ultrasonic device includes: a substrate provided with a first opening and a second opening; a support film that is provided on the substrate and blocks the first opening and the second opening; a transmitting piezoelectric film that is provided on the support film at a position which overlaps the first opening when viewed in a thickness direction of the substrate and is interposed between a pair of electrodes in the thickness direction of the substrate; and a receiving piezoelectric film that is provided on the support film at a position which overlaps the second opening when viewed in the thickness direction of the substrate and is interposed between a pair of electrodes in the thickness direction of the substrate. In the thickness direction of the substrate, a thickness dimension of the transmitting piezoelectric film is smaller than a thickness dimension of the receiving piezoelectric film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventors: Hiromu Miyazawa, Hiroshi Ito, Tomoaki Nakamura, Masayoshi Yamada, Kanechika Kiyose, Tsukasa Funasaka
  • Publication number: 20220341487
    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: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAMURA, Takafumi KAWASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11482379
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer chip including a multilayer structure and cover layers disposed on top and bottom faces in a stack direction of the multilayer structure, and a pair of external electrodes respectively formed on two edge faces of the multilayer structure and extending to four side faces of the multilayer chip, wherein each external electrode has a recessed portion on at least one of two side faces facing each other in the stack direction or at least one of remaining two side faces, and wherein each external electrode has no recessed portion on the two side faces when each external electrode has the recessed portion on at least one of the remaining two side faces, and has no recessed portion on the remaining two side faces when each external electrode has the recessed portion on at least one of the two side faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Tahara, Tomoaki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20220333646
    Abstract: A rotary table bearing 1 includes an outer ring 10, an inner ring 20, and a plurality of rollers 30. The outer ring 10 includes a first body portion 11 and a first steel strip 12. The inner ring 20 includes a second body portion 21 and a second steel strip 22. The first body portion 11 includes a first flange portion 53 of an annular shape that contacts a first end face 31 which is an end face of the roller 30 in the axial direction. The second body portion 21 includes a second flange portion 54 of an annular shape that is located to contact a second end face 32 which is an end face of the roller 30 opposite to the first end face 31 in the axial direction. At least one of an inner circumferential surface of the inner ring 20 and an outer circumferential surface of the outer ring 10 has a gear 114 formed over an entire circumference thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventor: Tomoaki NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11474342
    Abstract: A wavelength-tunable interference filter includes: a first substrate where a first mirror and a first electrode are provided; a second substrate where a second mirror corresponding to the first mirror and a second electrode facing the first electrode are provided; and a bonding part bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together. The first substrate includes a moving part where the first mirror is arranged, a diaphragm part holding the moving part in such a way that the moving part is movable in the Z-direction, and an outer circumferential part provided outside of the diaphragm part. The diaphragm part includes a planar part having a uniform thickness, and a first slope part having a thickness in the Z-direction incrementing as it goes from the planar part toward the outer circumferential part. The first electrode is provided over a range from the planar part to the first slope part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventors: Yasushi Matsuno, Tomoaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11419579
    Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor includes a vibration plate, a first electrode, a piezoelectric body, and a second electrode. The first electrode is laminated on the vibration plate, that has a length along a surface of the vibration plate in a first direction, and that has a width Wbe along the surface of the vibration plate in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. The width Wbe is not more than the length. The piezoelectric body is laminated on the first electrode and has a width Wpz in the second direction. The second electrode is laminated on the piezoelectric body. A ratio Wbe/Wpz between the width Wbe of the first electrode and the width Wpz of the piezoelectric body is not less than 0.1 and not more than 0.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yamada, Hiroshi Matsuda, Tomoaki Nakamura, Hiroshi Ito, Hiromu Miyazawa
  • Publication number: 20220262572
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic device includes a ceramic main body and a pair of external electrodes respectively covering a pair of end surfaces of the ceramic main body, wherein the ceramic main body includes a laminated body including a plurality of internal electrodes laminated vertically therein, and a pair of side margin parts respectively covering a pair of side surfaces of the laminated body, and wherein a distance between a bottom surface of the ceramic main body and the bottommost internal electrode is greater than a distance between the top surface of the ceramic main body and the topmost internal electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAMURA, Mikio TAHARA, Yasutomo SUGA, Tetsuhiko FUKUOKA
  • Publication number: 20220122775
    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: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAMURA, Mikio TAHARA, Michio OSHIMA, Hiroaki UENISHI, Takehiko KAMOBE
  • Publication number: 20220082744
    Abstract: An optical filter includes: a first filter including a pair of first reflective films facing each other via a first gap and a first actuator changing a gap between the pair of first reflective films; and a second filter including a pair of second reflective films facing each other via a second gap and a second actuator changing a gap between the pair of second reflective films with the pair of second reflective films disposed on an optical path of light transmitted through the pair of first reflective films, in which each of the first reflective film and the second reflective film is configured by a plurality of optical bodies being laminated, the optical body has reflection characteristics of reflecting light centered on a predetermined design center wavelength, and the design center wavelength is different in each of the optical bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Tomoaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220055951
    Abstract: The present invention provides means capable of satisfactorily exhibit the properties inherent in the inorganic particle and the constituent material of the coating layer, such as obtaining high dispersibility and high mechanical properties in the coated particle that contains the inorganic particle having at least the inorganic substance capable of forming an inorganic oxide on a surface, and the coating layer with which the inorganic particle is coated. The present invention relates to a coated particle that contains an inorganic particle having at least an inorganic substance capable of forming an inorganic oxide on a surface, and a coating layer with which the inorganic particle is coated, in which the amount of the inorganic oxide per unit surface area of the inorganic particle does not exceed 0.150 mg/m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Souma Taguchi, Keigo KAMOSHIDA, Tomoaki NAKAMURA, Naoya MIWA, Keiji ASHITAKA
  • Patent number: 11244788
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes: a ceramic main body that has internal electrode layers inside thereof and has a parallelepiped shape in which a part of one of the internal electrode layers is extracted to a first edge face of the parallelepiped shape and a part of another internal electrode layer is extracted to a second edge face of the parallelepiped shape facing the first edge face; external electrodes that are respectively formed on the first edge face and the second edge face and extend to at least one of side faces of the ceramic main body, wherein an interval between side edge portions of the external electrodes on the at least one of side faces is shorter than center portions of the external electrodes on the at least one of side faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakamura, Mikio Tahara, Michio Oshima, Hiroaki Uenishi, Takehiko Kamobe
  • Patent number: 11215639
    Abstract: A probe card has an edge sensor. The edge sensor has a first needle and a second needle. The first needle and the second needle are in contact with each other when the first needle and a wafer are not in contact with each other, and the first needle and the second needle are not in contact with each other when the first needle and the wafer are in contact with each other. The probe card has a resistor connected between the first needle and the second needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroto Matsubayashi, Takayuki Matsumoto, Tomoaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11164701
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes: a multilayer chip including a multilayer structure and cover layers, the multilayer structure having a structure in which each of a plurality of dielectric layers and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked and are alternately exposed to two edge faces of the multilayer chip, a main component of the plurality of dielectric layers being a ceramic, the cover layers being provided on an upper face and a lower face of the multilayer structure in a stacking direction; and a pair of external electrodes that are formed on the two edge faces, wherein each of the external electrodes has a smaller thickness on a corner portion of the cover layers, has a crook toward the internal electrode layers, and has a larger thickness on an area of the two edge faces where the internal electrode layers are extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Tahara, Tomoaki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210319954
    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: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAMURA, Mikio TAHARA, Masako KANOU, Fusao SATO
  • Patent number: 11107631
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes: a ceramic main body having at least two edge faces facing each other; and external electrodes formed on the two edge faces, wherein: the external electrodes have a structure in which a plated layer is formed on a ground layer having ceramic; a main component of the ground layer is a metal; the external electrodes have an extension region that extends to at least one of four side faces from the two edge faces of the ceramic main body; a part of the extension region corresponding to a corner portion of the ceramic main body has a first portion having a maximum spaced distance of 10 ?m or less in a face direction of the ground layer; and the plated layer has an average thickness that is 30% or more with respect to the maximum spaced distance, and covers the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Uenishi, Takehiko Kamobe, Tomoaki Nakamura