Patents by Inventor Tomoya Nakamura

Tomoya 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: 20240147861
    Abstract: A thermoelectric device includes: a sheet-like or plate-like thermoelectric conversion film including a thermoelectric conversion element formed with a material exhibiting an anomalous Nernst effect; and a catalyst portion formed with a catalyst that reacts with a fluid the catalyst portion being on the side of at least a first surface of the thermoelectric conversion film and facing a flow path of the fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Satoru Nakatsuji, Mamoru Miyawaki, Ryota Uesugi, Hiroto Nakamura, Tomoya Higo
  • Publication number: 20240147442
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives, in a first band, information related to a second band; and a control section that simultaneously uses a first signal in the first band and a second signal in the second band for at least one of synchronization, measurement, channel estimation, position estimation, and reference signal transmission. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately use resources according to capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Kumagai, Takuma Nakamura, Tomoya Ohara, Daisuke Kurita, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240097441
    Abstract: A management system includes a plurality of resources configured to be electrically connected to an external power supply, and a management device configured to manage the resources. The management device includes a planning unit and a management unit. The planning unit is configured to determine a power balancing plan of each of the resources by using first information on a use schedule of each of the resources and second information indicating a magnitude of an environmental load in a process of generating electric power to be supplied by the external power supply. The management unit is configured to manage the resources to cause each of the resources to operate according to the power balancing plan or a modified power balancing plan in power balancing of the external power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CHUBU ELECTRIC POWER MIRAIZ CO., INC., CHUBU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke HORII, Eiko Megan UCHIDA, Masashi TANAKA, Masato EHARA, Sachio TOYORA, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Akinori MORISHIMA, Takuji MATSUBARA, Tohru NAKAMURA, Ryou TAKAHASHI, Kenta ITO, Toshiki SUZUKI, Atsushi MIYASHITA, Takashi OCHIAI
  • Publication number: 20240086174
    Abstract: A vehicular electronic control device installed in a vehicle capable of switching between a chargeable state and an unchargeable state performs activation acceptance for inquiring of a user whether to accept activation processing of activating updated software after completion of installation processing of writing update data in an update target node to generate the updated software, transmits during the chargeable state a switching instruction that executes the activation processing during the chargeable state to the update target node, and transmits during the chargeable state a switching setting instruction that executes the activation processing during the unchargeable state to the update target node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Sho NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro Uehara, Hideo Yoshimi, Tomoya Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20240070237
    Abstract: A method for controlling an information processing apparatus having an OS, capable of appropriately executing a process related to a program for executing an administrator authority requiring process. The method comprising: when receiving an operation from a predetermined account in a predetermined OS environment, executing a first process for installing a first program regardless whether the predetermined account is an administrator account or a non-administrator account; when receiving an operation from the predetermined account in an OS environment which is not the predetermined OS environment, executing a second process for activating a third program for installing a second program regardless whether the predetermined account is the administrator account or the non-administrator account; and executing a third process for installing the second program when the third program is activated and execution of an administrator authority requiring process is permitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: TOMOYA KOBAYAKAWA, AKIRA NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11916195
    Abstract: An electrolyte solution containing a compound (1) represented by the formula (1), (wherein R101 and R102 are each individually a substituent such as a C1-C7 alkyl group, and the substituent optionally contains at least one divalent to hexavalent hetero atom in a structure or optionally has a structure obtained by replacing at least one hydrogen atom by a fluorine atom or a C0-C7 functional group) and at least one compound (11) selected from compounds such as a compound represented by formula (11-1) (wherein R111 and R112 are the same as or different from each other and are each a hydrogen atom or the like, and R113 is an alkyl group free from a fluorine atom or the like):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Kinoshita, Tomoya Hidaka, Toshiharu Shimooka, Shigeaki Yamazaki, Hisako Nakamura, Takaya Yamada, Yuuki Suzuki, Yoshiko Kuwajima, Kenzou Takahashi, Akiyoshi Yamauchi, Kotaro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20240002638
    Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin composition containing a polyolefin resin; one or more resins selected from a polyamide resin and a polyester resin; a fiber; and a modified polyolefin resin, in a specific proportion, wherein the ratio ?N/?B of a melt viscosity ?A of the polyolefin resin at 250° C. and a shear rate of 120/sec to a melt viscosity ?B of the resin at 250° C. and a shear rate of 120/sec is in a range of 0.3 to 1.3. The fiber-reinforced resin composition has excellent heat distortion resistance under high load, and has an excellent balance between heat distortion resistance and tensile creep resistance while containing a compatibilizer. In addition, the fiber-reinforced resin composition having excellent impregnation properties into long glass fibers improves the interaction between the fiber and the resin composition, and contributes to the improvement of mechanical properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Masashi KOMATSUBARA, Kenji KOJIO, Tomoya NAKAMURA, Hirokazu TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11773899
    Abstract: A rolling bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, rolling elements, and a retainer that holds the rolling elements. The retainer includes a metal portion and a sliding resin portion The metal portion has communication holes each having a plurality of openings on the surface of the metal portion, and the sliding resin portion is disposed in the communication holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11763418
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing device, an image processing method, and a computer program that can reduce the toggle rate without degrading image data. The present invention provides an image processing device that processes image data comprising: a first processing unit, wherein the first processing unit is configured to receive input pixel data and output output pixel data, the input pixel data includes sequential pixel data which is pixel data having N sequential pixel data (N?3), and the output pixel data includes data in which the pixel data included in the sequential pixel data is sorted based on a similarity of the pixel data included in the sequential pixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuzaki, Tsubasa Ito, Tomoya Nakamura, Kenichi Kagawa
  • Patent number: 11428948
    Abstract: A blur compensation system includes: a mirror on which light of an image from a predetermined position is incident and which reflects light of a specific wavelength such that an incidence angle and an emission angle of the light of the specific wavelength are different from each other; a mirror that is disposed at a position on which the light of an image which is reflected by the mirror is incident and reflects the light of the specific wavelength such that an incidence angle and an emission angle of the light of the specific wavelength are different from each other; and a lens that is disposed on an optical axis of the light of an image between the mirror and the mirror and changes a direction of the light of an image which is reflected by the mirror such that light of a wavelength other than the specific wavelength out of the light of an image which is reflected by the mirror is emitted in the same direction as the light of the specific wavelength from an emission position of the light of the specific wave
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: NTT DOCOMO, INC., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shinji Kimura, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Yuji Aburakawa, Masahiro Yamaguchi, Tomoya Nakamura, Shunsuke Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20220186776
    Abstract: A rolling bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, rolling elements, and a retainer that holds the rolling elements. The retainer includes a metal portion and a sliding resin portion The metal portion has communication holes each having a plurality of openings on the surface of the metal portion, and the sliding resin portion is disposed in the communication holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: NTN Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoya NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220172317
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing device, an image processing method, and a computer program that can reduce the toggle rate without degrading image data. The present invention provides an image processing device that processes image data comprising: a first processing unit, wherein the first processing unit is configured to receive input pixel data and output output pixel data, the input pixel data includes sequential pixel data which is pixel data having N sequential pixel data (N?3), and the output pixel data includes data in which the pixel data included in the sequential pixel data is sorted based on a similarity of the pixel data included in the sequential pixel data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki MATSUZAKI, Tsubasa ITO, Tomoya NAKAMURA, Kenichi KAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210109366
    Abstract: A blur compensation system includes: a mirror on which light of an image from a predetermined position is incident and which reflects light of a specific wavelength such that an incidence angle and an emission angle of the light of the specific wavelength are different from each other; a mirror that is disposed at a position on which the light of an image which is reflected by the mirror is incident and reflects the light of the specific wavelength such that an incidence angle and an emission angle of the light of the specific wavelength are different from each other; and a lens that is disposed on an optical axis of the light of an image between the mirror and the mirror and changes a direction of the light of an image which is reflected by the mirror such that light of a wavelength other than the specific wavelength out of the light of an image which is reflected by the mirror is emitted in the same direction as the light of the specific wavelength from an emission position of the light of the specific wave
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicants: NTT DOCOMO, INC., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shinji KIMURA, Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI, Yuji ABURAKAWA, Masahiro YAMAGUCHI, Tomoya NAKAMURA, Shunsuke IGARASHI
  • Patent number: 10582154
    Abstract: A picture presentation system 1 presents a user U with a picture where a virtual image Di is created in a space in front of the user U. The picture presentation system 1 includes a hologram mirror 10 configured to reflect a picture composed of light of a specific wavelength at an angle different from an angle of incidence and transmit light other than the light of the specific wavelength, and a screen 20 configured to display the picture toward the hologram mirror. The hologram mirror 10, being placed opposite to the user U, reflects the picture from the screen 20 in such a way that the user U can visually recognize the virtual image Di of the picture at a position on the opposite side from the user U across the hologram mirror 10 (arrow AR1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: NTT DOCOMO, INC., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shinji Kimura, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Yuji Aburakawa, Shunsuke Igarashi, Tomoya Nakamura, Masahiro Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20190174093
    Abstract: A picture presentation system 1 presents a user U with a picture where a virtual image Di is created in a space in front of the user U. The picture presentation system 1 includes a hologram mirror 10 configured to reflect a picture composed of light of a specific wavelength at an angle different from an angle of incidence and transmit light other than the light of the specific wavelength, and a screen 20 configured to display the picture toward the hologram mirror. The hologram mirror 10, being placed opposite to the user U, reflects the picture from the screen 20 in such a way that the user U can visually recognize the virtual image Di of the picture at a position on the opposite side from the user U across the hologram mirror 10 (arrow AR1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicants: NTT DOCOMO, INC., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shinji KIMURA, Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI, Yuji ABURAKAWA, Shunsuke IGARASHI, Tomoya NAKAMURA, Masahiro YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9206848
    Abstract: Radial passages (22) that penetrate from the inner diameter side to the outer diameter side of a retainer (8) are provided between inner wall surface portions (14) of a pocket (10) facing each other in an axial direction of the retainer and a rolling element (6) so that the radial passages (22) serve as a grease reservoir as well as a grease passage for allowing the grease adhering to the rolling element (6) to move onto an outer ring raceway surface (4a). The radial passages (22) are made up of arc-shaped spaces (18) between the rolling element (6) and the inner wall surface portions (14) of the inner wall surface of a pocket (10) and segment shaped spaces (20) between the rolling element (6) and arcuate recesses (16) at the four corners of the pocket (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhito Fujikake, Tomoya Nakamura, Hiroaki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140219596
    Abstract: Radial passages (22) that penetrate from the inner diameter side to the outer diameter side of a retainer (8) are provided between inner wall surface portions (14) of a pocket (10) facing each other in an axial direction of the retainer and a rolling element (6) so that the radial passages (22) serve as a grease reservoir as well as a grease passage for allowing the grease adhering to the rolling element (6) to move onto an outer ring raceway surface (4a). The radial passages (22) are made up of arc-shaped spaces (18) between the rolling element (6) and the inner wall surface portions (14) of the inner wall surface of a pocket (10) and segment shaped spaces (20) between the rolling element (6) and arcuate recesses (16) at the four corners of the pocket (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Yasuhito Fujikake, Tomoya Nakamura, Hiroaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8746982
    Abstract: A rolling bearing device includes inner races, outer races, rolling elements, a retainer, and an inner race spacer. The inner race spacer is formed of an oil reservoir member made of a sintered metal impregnated with lubricating oil, and a spacer cover fitted onto an outer periphery of the oil reservoir member. Through a centrifugal force to be applied to the oil reservoir member at the time of bearing rotation, the lubricating oil is scattered radially outward through a chamfered portion of the oil reservoir member via an oil supply passage, to thereby lubricate the interior of the bearing with oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Daichi Ito, Tomoya Nakamura, Yasuhito Fujikake
  • Patent number: 8469367
    Abstract: A chucking device for use when an outer peripheral end part of a semi-finished product having a pillar-shaped catalyst wrapped in a mat and housed in a cylinder is spin-processed using a plurality of spinning rollers. An outer peripheral surface of the semi-finished product is chucked using a plurality of pressing pieces. Each of the pressing pieces has a contact surface for touching the cylinder of the semi-finished product, and a pair of chamfers extending radially outward from either end of the contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Yutaka Giken Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Yamazaki, Yasushi Kageyama, Akihiro Kawamata, Tomoya Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120328225
    Abstract: Provided is a rolling bearing device comprising inner races (2), outer races (3), rolling elements (4), a retainer (5), and an inner race spacer (6). The inner race spacer (6) is formed of an oil reservoir member (7) made of a sintered metal impregnated with lubricating oil, and a spacer cover (8) fitted onto an outer periphery of the oil reservoir member (7). Through a centrifugal force to be applied to the oil reservoir member (7) at the time of bearing rotation, the lubricating oil is scattered radially outward through a chamfered portion (7d) of the oil reservoir member (7) via an oil supply passage (S), to thereby lubricate the interior of the bearing with oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Daichi Ito, Tomoya Nakamura, Yasuhito Fujikake