Patents by Inventor Toru Nishikawa

Toru Nishikawa 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: 11791102
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor has a relationship of about 10°??1?about 50° and a relationship of about 10°??2?about 50°, where ?1 denotes an angle between a first end surface and a perpendicular extending from a side of a first main surface at a point of intersection of the first main surface and the first end surface, and ?2 denotes an angle between a second end surface and a perpendicular extending from a side of the first main surface at a point of intersection of the first main surface and the second end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Suguru Nakano, Risa Hojo, Akira Tanaka, Toru Nishikawa, Satoshi Muramatsu
  • Publication number: 20230146313
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a rechargeable battery, a charge FET including a parallel diode connected in series with the battery, and a control circuit configured to control turning on and off of the charge FET. The control circuit includes a discriminating circuit configured to detect a bicycle-mounted state and a charger-connected state, and a memory configured to store a full charge voltage of the battery. The control circuit is configured to, while the discriminating circuit detects the bicycle-mounted state. turn off the charge FET. The control circuit is configured to, while the discriminating circuit detects the charger-connected state, stop charging the battery by switching the charge FET to turn off the charge FET upon detecting that a voltage of the battery charged by a charger becomes higher than the full charge voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Mizoshita, Hidetaka Arai, Toru Nishikawa, Kazuya Maegawa, Hiroki Teraoka
  • Patent number: 11370161
    Abstract: An air flow controller includes: a box-shaped body cover that is disposed above and/or below a film running surface to be adjacent to an upstream side of an entrance of a tenter oven in a film running direction and/or a downstream side of an exit of the tenter oven in the film running direction, the box-shaped body cover extending in the film running direction and having a surface facing the film running surface and being open. The box-shaped body cover includes at least one partition structural body in the box-shaped body cover, the partition structural body extending in a width direction of the film and separating inside of the box-shaped body cover into a plurality of chambers, and each of at least two of the chambers is provided with an air discharge mechanism configured to discharge air in a corresponding chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Inventors: Ryuta Abe, Toru Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20220162776
    Abstract: There is provided an oxidation heat treatment oven including a heat treatment chamber configured to heat-treat a fiber bundle that is an aligned acrylic fiber bundle in an oxidizing atmosphere to form an oxidized fiber bundle; a slit-shaped opening configured to take the fiber bundle in and out of the heat treatment chamber; guide rollers installed at both ends of the heat treatment chamber and configured to turn the fiber bundle back; a hot air supply nozzle that has a longitudinal axis along the width of the fiber bundle traveling and that blows out hot air, in a direction substantially parallel to a traveling direction of the fiber bundle, above and/or below the fiber bundle traveling in the heat treatment chamber; and a suction nozzle configured to suck the hot air blown out from the hot air supply nozzle, in which the hot air supply nozzle satisfies disclosed conditions (1) to (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoto Hosotani, Taku Yamamoto, Kazuyuki Gondo, Shigeki Chieda, Toru Nishikawa, Fumiyasu Nomura
  • Publication number: 20220109195
    Abstract: A pack battery charging method is a charging method for connecting pack battery to charger and charging pack battery at a constant voltage and a constant current. Pack battery detects a degree of deterioration of battery and a supply voltage at which charger charges pack battery, and specifies a charging termination current from both the supply voltage of charger and the degree of deterioration of battery to perform charging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: TSUYOSHI MORIMOTO, TOMOMI KAINO, TORU NISHIKAWA, NAOTO MATSUDA, TAKANORI HARADA
  • Publication number: 20210364236
    Abstract: A gas blowoff nozzle includes: a casing including a gas blowoff face that blows off gas; a gas supply port provided to one end of the casing and supplying gas along the longitudinal direction of the nozzle; and a pressure equalizing chamber communicating with the gas supply port and the gas blowoff face, and including a partition plate including a plurality of tubular bodies having orifices on both ends. In each of the tubular bodies, an angle ? that a wall surface on a side closer to the gas supply port forms with the partition plate is 55° to 120° as an interior angle in a sectional shape of each of the tubular bodies. A gas circulation hole is provided on a face of each of the tubular bodies that comes into contact with the partition plate, the gas circulation hole passing through the face and the partition plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeki Chieda, Toru Nishikawa, Fumiyasu Nomura
  • Publication number: 20210241976
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor has a relationship of about 10°??1?about 50° and a relationship of about 10°??2?about 50°, where ?1 denotes an angle between a first end surface and a perpendicular extending from a side of a first main surface at a point of intersection of the first main surface and the first end surface, and ?2 denotes an angle between a second end surface and a perpendicular extending from a side of the first main surface at a point of intersection of the first main surface and the second end surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Suguru NAKANO, Risa HOJO, Akira TANAKA, Toru NISHIKAWA, Satoshi MURAMATSU
  • Patent number: 10967584
    Abstract: The method of forming reinforced fiber base material is provided with: arranging, on the mold having a projection with a upper surface, a platform that is adjacent to the projection and has a flat upper surface at the same height as the upper surface of the projection; forming the laminate by placing reinforced fiber base material in layers on the upper surface of the projection; placing an end of the laminate in the width direction extending out of the upper surface of the projection, on the upper surface of the platform, with the end of the laminate in the width direction sandwiched in a vertical direction by a pair of the films of which outer ends in the width direction are fixed to each other; and removing the platform and pulling out the pair of the films while shaping the laminate along the projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation
    Inventors: Kensuke Matsumoto, Toru Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20210055319
    Abstract: Disclosed is a testing apparatus comprising a disposal container body comprising: a first opening portion that faces upward to receive a used test piece dropped by a test piece transfer part of the testing apparatus, wherein the test piece transfer part is configured to transfer the used test piece to the first opening portion; and a second opening portion that faces laterally to receive a liquid waste and to which an end of a discharge pipe of the testing apparatus is inserted, wherein the discharge pipe is configured to transfer the liquid waste to the second opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuya TAMURA, Hiroki KOIKE, Toru NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10866255
    Abstract: Disclosed is a testing apparatus comprising a disposal container body comprising: a first opening portion that faces upward to receive a used test piece dropped by a test piece transfer part of the testing apparatus, wherein the test piece transfer part is configured to transfer the used test piece to the first opening portion; and a second opening portion that faces laterally to receive a liquid waste and to which an end of a discharge pipe of the testing apparatus is inserted, wherein the discharge pipe is configured to transfer the liquid waste to the second opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuya Tamura, Hiroki Koike, Toru Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 10792844
    Abstract: An airflow control apparatus for a tenter oven including an entrance into which a film is conveyed and an exit from which the film is taken out, the airflow control apparatus having a box-shaped body installed adjacent to at least one or both of an upstream side in a film running direction of the entrance and a downstream side in the film running direction of the exit, includes: at least one pair of air blowing nozzles configured to blow air toward the film; at least one pair of upstream-side exhaust mechanisms configured to discharge air in the box-shaped body, and located on the upstream side of the air blowing nozzles in the film running direction; and at least one pair of downstream-side exhaust mechanisms configured to discharge the air in the box-shaped body, and located on the downstream side of the air blowing nozzles in the film running direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Nishikawa, Ryuta Abe
  • Publication number: 20200108547
    Abstract: An air flow controller includes: a box-shaped body cover that is disposed above and/or below a film running surface to be adjacent to an upstream side of an entrance of a tenter oven in a film running direction and/or a downstream side of an exit of the tenter oven in the film running direction, the box-shaped body cover extending in the film running direction and having a surface facing the film running surface and being open. The box-shaped body cover includes at least one partition structural body in the box-shaped body cover, the partition structural body extending in a width direction of the film and separating inside of the box-shaped body cover into a plurality of chambers, and each of at least two of the chambers is provided with an air discharge mechanism configured to discharge air in a corresponding chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryuta Abe, Toru Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20190325346
    Abstract: Machine learning with model filtering and model mixing for edge devices in a heterogeneous environment is disclosed. In an example embodiment, an edge device includes a communication module, a data collection device, a memory, a machine learning module, and a model mixing module. The edge device analyzes collected data with a model for a first task, outputs a result, and updates the model to create a local model. The edge device communicates with other edge devices in a heterogeneous group, transmits a request for local models to the heterogeneous group, and receives local models from the heterogeneous group. The edge device filters the local models by structure metadata, including second local models, which relate to a second task. The edge device performs a mix operation of the second local models to generate a mixed model which relates to the second task, and transmits the mixed model to the heterogeneous group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Preferred Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke OKANOHARA, Justin B. CLAYTON, Toru NISHIKAWA, Shohei HIDO, Nobuyuki KUBOTA, Nobuyuki OTA, Seiya TOKUI
  • Patent number: 10387794
    Abstract: Machine learning with model filtering and model mixing for edge devices in a heterogeneous environment is disclosed. In an example embodiment, an edge device includes a communication module, a data collection device, a memory, a machine learning module, and a model mixing module. The edge device analyzes collected data with a model for a first task, outputs a result, and updates the model to create a local model. The edge device communicates with other edge devices in a heterogeneous group, transmits a request for local models to the heterogeneous group, and receives local models from the heterogeneous group. The edge device filters the local models by structure metadata, including second local models, which relate to a second task. The edge device performs a mix operation of the second local models to generate a mixed model which relates to the second task, and transmits the mixed model to the heterogeneous group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: PREFERRED NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Okanohara, Justin B. Clayton, Toru Nishikawa, Shohei Hido, Nobuyuki Kubota, Nobuyuki Ota, Seiya Tokui
  • Publication number: 20190118493
    Abstract: The method of forming reinforced fiber base material is provided with: arranging, on the mold having a projection with a upper surface, a platform that is adjacent to the projection and has a flat upper surface at the same height as the upper surface of the projection; forming the laminate by placing reinforced fiber base material in layers on the upper surface of the projection; placing an end of the laminate in the width direction extending out of the upper surface of the projection, on the upper surface of the platform, with the end of the laminate in the width direction sandwiched in a vertical direction by a pair of the films of which outer ends in the width direction are fixed to each other; and removing the platform and pulling out the pair of the films while shaping the laminate along the projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensuke Matsumoto, Toru Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20180311866
    Abstract: An airflow control apparatus for a tenter oven including an entrance into which a film is conveyed and an exit from which the film is taken out, the airflow control apparatus having a box-shaped body installed adjacent to at least one or both of an upstream side in a film running direction of the entrance and a downstream side in the film running direction of the exit, includes: at least one pair of air blowing nozzles configured to blow air toward the film; at least one pair of upstream-side exhaust mechanisms configured to discharge air in the box-shaped body, and located on the upstream side of the air blowing nozzles in the film running direction; and at least one pair of downstream-side exhaust mechanisms configured to discharge the air in the box-shaped body, and located on the downstream side of the air blowing nozzles in the film running direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Nishikawa, Ryuta Abe
  • Publication number: 20180253665
    Abstract: A machine learning heterogeneous edge device, method, and system are disclosed. In an example embodiment, an edge device includes a communication module, a data collection device, a memory, a machine learning module, a group determination module, and a leader election module. The edge device analyzes collected data with a model, outputs a result, and updates the model to create a local model. The edge device communicates with other edge devices in a heterogeneous group. The edge device determines group membership and determines a leader edge device. The edge device receives a request for the local model, transmits the local model to the leader edge device, receives a mixed model created by the leader edge device performing a mix operation of the local model and a different local model, and replaces the local model with the mixed model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: Preferred Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Okanohara, Justin Clayton, Toru Nishikawa, Shohei Hido, Nobuyuki Kubota, Nobuyuki Ota, Seiya Tokui
  • Patent number: 9990587
    Abstract: A machine learning heterogeneous edge device, method, and system are disclosed. In an example embodiment, an edge device includes a communication module, a data collection device, a memory, a machine learning module, a group determination module, and a leader election module. The edge device analyzes collected data with a model, outputs a result, and updates the model to create a local model. The edge device communicates with other edge devices in a heterogeneous group. The edge device determines group membership and determines a leader edge device. The edge device receives a request for the local model, transmits the local model to the leader edge device, receives a mixed model created by the leader edge device performing a mix operation of the local model and a different local model, and replaces the local model with the mixed model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: PREFERRED NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Okanohara, Justin B. Clayton, Toru Nishikawa, Shohei Hido, Nobuyuki Kubota, Nobuyuki Ota, Seiya Tokui
  • Publication number: 20170153258
    Abstract: Disclosed is a testing apparatus comprising a disposal container body comprising: a first opening portion that faces upward to receive a used test piece dropped by a test piece transfer part of the testing apparatus, wherein the test piece transfer part is configured to transfer the used test piece to the first opening portion; and a second opening portion that faces laterally to receive a liquid waste and to which an end of a discharge pipe of the testing apparatus is inserted, wherein the discharge pipe is configured to transfer the liquid waste to the second opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuya TAMURA, Hiroki KOIKE, Toru NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: D800304
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuya Tamura, Hiroki Koike, Toru Nishikawa