Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Nakano

Tomoyuki 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).

  • Patent number: 10006599
    Abstract: Lighting apparatus for a vehicle includes: night-time low beam light source which mainly illuminates a lower front region in front of the vehicle; and daytime light source which mainly illuminates an overhead region above the lower front region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nakano, Tomoyuki Ogata, Yoshihiko Kanayama, Makoto Kai
  • Patent number: 9944068
    Abstract: In a droplet ejection control apparatus according to the invention, a judgment section judges, taking a dot position that is assigned by a predetermined nozzle (incorrect ejection position) as a reference, whether or not a printing state is such that a second proximity dot lands earlier than a first proximity dot. A changing section changes an ejection state, when the ejection state is judged to be such that the second proximity dot lands earlier than the first proximity dot, to another ejection state in which the first proximity dot lands earlier than the second proximity dot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Sato, Naoki Sudo, Tomoyuki Nakano, Akito Sato
  • Patent number: 9929416
    Abstract: There are provided a stock solution composition for fuel cell vehicle coolant used by dilution with a diluent comprising water and a method for producing the same, and further a fuel cell vehicle coolant composition having improved storage stability and a method for producing the same. The present invention relates to a method for producing a stock solution composition for fuel cell vehicle coolant, wherein the stock solution composition comprises at least one ethylene glycol compound selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, and triethylene glycol, and is used by dilution with a diluent comprising water, and the method comprises the following steps: (a) a step of selecting as a raw material an ethylene glycol compound having an ethylene glycol monoformate content of 60 ppm or less; or (b) a step of selecting as a raw material an ethylene glycol compound, wherein a 50% by mass aqueous solution of the ethylene glycol compound has a conductivity of 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichiro Sugiyama, Kazuhiro Miyajima, Youichirou Yoshii, Nobukazu Takagi, Tomoyuki Nakano, Takumi Otsubo
  • Publication number: 20180073718
    Abstract: A mounting pedestal is disposed on a wheeled vehicle and a light emitter is mounted on the mounting pedestal. The mounting pedestal includes a metal layer and an insulating layer stacked on the metal layer. The insulating layer has a major surface facing in a direction of travel of the wheeled vehicle and a heat escape port in which solder that joins the light emitter and the metal layer is disposed. The mounting pedestal has a step which arranges the major surface into a plurality of major surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Takahiro MIYAKE, Tomoyuki NAKANO, Masahiro KASANO, Takashi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20180065375
    Abstract: When a known lid member was merely applied to a bottle that contains ink, there was room for improvement in terms of the operation of the lid member and the way how to bring attention to the handling thereof. A bottle set is provided that includes: a bottle that includes an ink container that contains ink, and an outflow port through which the ink in the ink container flows out to the outside; and a lid member that is configured to attach to and detach from the bottle, and is configured to cover the outflow port in a state of being attached to the bottle. The lid member includes a colored portion that has optical transparency and is colored with a color corresponding to a type of the ink contained in the ink container in at least a portion of the lid member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi Nagashima, Hitoshi Igarashi, Ryoichi Tanaka, Tadahiro Mizutani, Tomoyuki Nakano
  • Publication number: 20170369756
    Abstract: A coolant composition includes: a viscosity improving agent; at least one alkali metal compound selected from the group consisting of alkali metal salts and alkali metal hydroxides; and a base composed of water and/or at least one alcohol selected from the group consisting of a monohydric alcohol, a dihydric alcohol, a trihydric alcohol, and a glycol monoalkyl ether, wherein the viscosity improving agent is a compound represented by a formula of R1O—(R2O)m—SO3M, where R1 represents a linear or branched alkyl or alkenyl group having 16 to 24 carbon atoms, R2 represents an ethylene group or a propylene group, m represents an average addition molar number of R2O and a number from 0.5 to 10, and M represents a cation or a hydrogen atom, and a kinetic viscosity of the coolant composition is 8.5 mm2/sec or higher at 25° C. and is 2.0 mm2/sec or lower at 100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KAO CORPORATION, JAPAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuaki KODAMA, Kazuhiro MIYAJIMA, Ryota MAKINO, Shogo KAMENOUE, Shinichi OGURA, Kazuhito YAEDA, Yoichiro YOSHII, Tomoyuki NAKANO, Masayuki NAGASAWA
  • Publication number: 20170313057
    Abstract: In a droplet ejection control apparatus according to the invention, a judgment section judges, taking a dot position that is assigned by a predetermined nozzle (incorrect ejection position) as a reference, whether or not a printing state is such that a second proximity dot lands earlier than a first proximity dot. A changing section changes an ejection state, when the ejection state is judged to be such that the second proximity dot lands earlier than the first proximity dot, to another ejection state in which the first proximity dot lands earlier than the second proximity dot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroki SATO, Naoki SUDO, Tomoyuki NAKANO, Akito SATO
  • Patent number: 9726341
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes: a first light source that emits a first light; a first lens that allows the first light to pass through and exit from a first exit face of the first lens; a second light source that emits a second light; and a second lens that is smaller than the first lens and allows the second light to pass through and exit from a second exit face of the second lens. When viewed from the first exit face side: (i) the first exit face has a recess that is recessed inward from a periphery of the first exit face; and (ii) the second exit face is at least partially disposed in the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Kanayama, Tomoyuki Nakano, Tomoyuki Ogata, Masaaki Ito, Toshiro Omuro
  • Patent number: 9725030
    Abstract: A vehicle light installed in a vehicle includes: a main case having a front opening; a first light guide disposed in the main case; a first light source that emits light into the first light guide; and a headlamp disposed in the main case. The first light guide (i) is rod-shaped, (ii) includes a first extended section extending from the inboard side of the first light guide relative to the vehicle widthwise direction toward the outboard side and a second extended section that continues from the first extended section, curves back inwardly, and extends to the inboard side, and (iii) opens toward a longitudinal center line of the vehicle. The headlamp is disposed between the first extended section and the second extended section. The first extended section and the second extended section extend toward the longitudinal center line of the vehicle to a point beyond the headlamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ogata, Tomoyuki Nakano, Yasufumi Shirakawa, Hiro Aoki, Toshifumi Tanaka, Yuki Nishida, Kazuki Masuda
  • Patent number: 9610777
    Abstract: A printing control apparatus controls ejection of a pigment ink, supplied from a cartridge, from a nozzle row having a plurality of nozzles. Time information regarding an elapsed time of the cartridge is obtained, and used nozzles, in the nozzle row, that eject the pigment ink are reduced based on the time information of the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Asada, Tomoyuki Nakano, Takashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9479676
    Abstract: A printer includes a liquid ejection section and a drive control section. The liquid ejection section is configured to eject a plurality of types of liquids and form dots having different sizes. The drive control section is configured to control a dot size of the liquids to be ejected by the liquid ejection section based on image data. When an image including a three-dimensional image in which a plurality of linear images are arrayed is printed on a medium, the liquid ejection section is configured to eject the liquids, at least in an end section area in an array direction of the linear images in a print area of the image, under a setting in which an ejection ratio of relatively small dots is set lower than in an inner area that is positioned more inward than the end section area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nakano, Hiroshi Shirotori, Yoshiyuki Ozawa, Kanako Ide, Katsumi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20160193955
    Abstract: A vehicle light installed in a vehicle includes: a main case having a front opening; a first light guide disposed in the main case; a first light source that emits light into the first light guide; and a headlamp disposed in the main case. The first light guide (i) is rod-shaped, (ii) includes a first extended section extending from the inboard side of the first light guide relative to the vehicle widthwise direction toward the outboard side and a second extended section that continues from the first extended section, curves back inwardly, and extends to the inboard side, and (iii) opens toward a longitudinal center line of the vehicle. The headlamp is disposed between the first extended section and the second extended section. The first extended section and the second extended section extend toward the longitudinal center line of the vehicle to a point beyond the headlamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Tomoyuki OGATA, Tomoyuki NAKANO, Yasufumi SHIRAKAWA, Hiro AOKI, Toshifumi TANAKA, Yuki NISHIDA, Kazuki MASUDA
  • Patent number: 9371974
    Abstract: A lighting device includes: a circuit board placed on a base; and a transformer provided in the circuit board. The transformer includes: a winding pattern formed on the circuit board; and a core having an outer leg portion. The circuit board has an outer leg insertion portion through which the outer leg portion of the core is inserted, and the circuit board and the base have therebetween a gap which is air space. The base and at least a lateral face of the outer leg portion are bonded together by a first resin that is insertable from the outer leg insertion portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Nishikawa, Tomoyuki Nakano, Masatoshi Ueno, Masashi Kichima, Kazuya Kato
  • Publication number: 20160141646
    Abstract: There are provided a stock solution composition for fuel cell vehicle coolant used by dilution with a diluent comprising water and a method for producing the same, and further a fuel cell vehicle coolant composition having improved storage stability and a method for producing the same. The present invention relates to a method for producing a stock solution composition for fuel cell vehicle coolant, wherein the stock solution composition comprises at least one ethylene glycol compound selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, and triethylene glycol, and is used by dilution with a diluent comprising water, and the method comprises the following steps: (a) a step of selecting as a raw material an ethylene glycol compound having an ethylene glycol monoformate content of 60 ppm or less; or (b) a step of selecting as a raw material an ethylene glycol compound, wherein a 50% by mass aqueous solution of the ethylene glycol compound has a conductivity of 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichiro SUGIYAMA, Kazuhiro MIYAJIMA, Youichirou YOSHII, Nobukazu TAKAGI, Tomoyuki NAKANO, Takumi OTSUBO
  • Patent number: 9342766
    Abstract: An image generation method for generating an image, which is printed on a medium arranged so as to face a lens layer having a plurality of lenses and includes a three-dimensional image and a two-dimensional image, includes performing lossy compression for the two-dimensional image in a direction in which light focusing of the lenses occurs and magnifying the two-dimensional image in the direction in which the light focusing of the lenses occurs after the lossy compression for the two-dimensional image has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nakano, Hiroshi Shirotori, Hitoshi Toyoshima, Katsuhito Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9342768
    Abstract: A virtual displaying method of a three-dimensional image for displaying at least one image of a plurality of images configuring a virtual three-dimensional image providing a three-dimensional visualization through a lens layer having a plurality of lenses includes applying a deterioration processing to the at least one image, and displaying, in a display section, an obtained image by the deterioration processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nakano, Katsuhito Suzuki, Hiroshi Shirotori
  • Patent number: 9303838
    Abstract: A vehicle light installed in a vehicle includes: a main case having a front opening; first and second light guides that are disposed in the main case; light sources that emit light into the first and second light guides; and a translucent cover fitted to cover the opening of the main case. The first light guide is rod-shaped and includes a first extended section extending from the inboard side of the first light guide relative to the vehicle width direction toward the outboard side of the first light guide relative to the same and a second extended section that continues from the first extended section, curves back inwardly, and extends to the inboard side, and the second light guide is plate-shaped and disposed so as to pass in front of or behind the portion of the first light guide that curves back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ogata, Tomoyuki Nakano, Yasufumi Shirakawa, Hiro Aoki, Toshifumi Tanaka, Yuki Nishida, Kazuki Masuda
  • Publication number: 20160061402
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes: a first light source that emits a first light; a first lens that allows the first light to pass through and exit from a first exit face of the first lens; a second light source that emits a second light; and a second lens that is smaller than the first lens and allows the second light to pass through and exit from a second exit face of the second lens. When viewed from the first exit face side: (i) the first exit face has a recess that is recessed inward from a periphery of the first exit face; and (ii) the second exit face is at least partially disposed in the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko KANAYAMA, Tomoyuki NAKANO, Tomoyuki OGATA, Masaaki ITO, Toshiro OMURO
  • Publication number: 20160048263
    Abstract: Thumbnails included in an area designated by a pinch gesture are all specified. If it is not true that “the thumbnails included in the designated area are all displayed in the selected style” (S2004, No), the thumbnails included in the designated area are all displayed in the selected style (S2005), and the status is set to selected state (S2006). If it is true that “the thumbnails included in the designated area are all displayed in the selected style” (S2004, Yes), the thumbnails included in the designated area are all displayed in unselected style (S2007), and the status is set to unselected state (S2008). If the gesture is continuously changed to a pinch-out gesture or a pinch-in gesture (S2010, No), the selected area or the unselected area are expanded or reduced depending on the status (S2014, S2015).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Masaki Hiraga, Tomoyuki Nakano
  • Publication number: 20160033103
    Abstract: Lighting apparatus for a vehicle includes: night-time low beam light source which mainly illuminates a lower front region in front of the vehicle; and daytime light source which mainly illuminates an overhead region above the lower front region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki NAKANO, Tomoyuki OGATA, Yoshihiko KANAYAMA, Makoto KAI