Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Nakamura
Toshiaki 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).
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Publication number: 20250026017Abstract: A robot system including a first robot, a second robot, a first robot control device for controlling the first robot, a second robot control device for controlling the second robot, and a sensor, the first and second robots carrying out a coordinated operation, wherein: the first robot control device includes a first trajectory planning unit for planning the action of the first robot, a first control unit for executing the planned action of the first robot, a first collision prediction unit for predicting a collision between the first or second robot and an external disturbance on the basis of information from the sensor, and a first interlocking-preventing unit; the second robot control device includes a second trajectory planning unit for planning the action of the second robot, a second control unit for executing the planned action of the second robot, a second collision prediction unit for predicting a collision between the first or second robot and an external disturbance on the basis of information fromType: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshiharu SUGAWARA, Toshiaki NAKAMURA, Gyanendra Nath TRIPATHI, Shoichi HANDA
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Publication number: 20240389948Abstract: A prediction device is equipped with a computing device and a communication device connected to the computing device in a communicable manner. The communication device acquires an AGEs measurement value of the subject a plurality of times in a time-series manner and acquires an SMI measurement value of the subject. The computing device calculates prediction information regarding an SMI prediction value, based on AGEs measurement values acquired by a plurality of times in a time-series manner and the SMI measurement value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2022Publication date: November 28, 2024Inventors: Mikihiro YAMANAKA, Toshiaki NAKAMURA, Yusuke MURASE, Yutaro NAKATSU, Masaki KANAI, Masatoshi TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 12071572Abstract: [Object] The present invention provides a curable resin composition useful for imparting high durability and adhesion to a substrate such as a metal. [Solution] A curable resin composition is prepared by combining a polyamide-based resin (A) having an amino group, a blocked polyisocyanate (B), and an epoxy compound (C). The polyamide-based resin (A) contains a polyamide-based resin (A1) having a melting point of 170° C. or higher and a polyamide-based resin (A2) having a melting point of 150° C. or lower. The mass ratio of the polyamide-based resin (A1) and the polyamide-based resin (A2) is, in the form of the former/the latter, from 65/35 to 35/65.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: DAICEL-EVONIK LTD.Inventors: Mitsuteru Mutsuda, Hirofumi Iguchi, Toshiaki Nakamura
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Patent number: 12012534Abstract: [Object] The present invention provides a curable resin composition useful for imparting high durability and adhesion to a substrate such as a metal. [Solution] A curable resin composition is prepared by combining a polyamide-based resin (A) having an amino group, a blocked polyisocyanate (B), and an epoxy compound (C). The polyamide-based resin (A) contains a polyamide-based resin (A1) having a melting point of 170° C. or higher and a polyamide-based resin (A2) having a melting point of 150° C. or lower. The mass ratio of the polyamide-based resin (A1) and the polyamide-based resin (A2) is, in the form of the former/the latter, from 65/35 to 35/65.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: DAICEL-EVONIK LTD.Inventors: Mitsuteru Mutsuda, Hirofumi Iguchi, Toshiaki Nakamura
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Patent number: 12012532Abstract: Provided are a curable resin composition having high durability and adherence to a base material such as a metal, a molded composite member formed by coating the base material with the curable resin composition and performing resin molding, and a production method for the same. The curable resin composition contains a polyamide-based resin, a blocked polyisocyanate, and an epoxy compound, and the polyamide-based resin has an amino group concentration from 20 to 300 mmol/kg, and has a water absorption of 1 mass % or less determined by a water absorption test specified by ASTM D570. The polyamide-based resin has a C8-18 alkylene chain and has a melting point from 160 to 250° C. Per 1 mol of amino groups of the polyamide-based resin, a proportion of isocyanate groups of the blocked polyisocyanate is from 1.5 to 5 mol, and a proportion of epoxy groups of the epoxy compound is from 0.1 to 0.8 mol.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignees: DAICEL-EVONIK LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuteru Mutsuda, Hirofumi Iguchi, Toshiaki Nakamura, Nao Sato, Mutsuo Tezuka, Yasufumi Nakajima
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Patent number: 12007253Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure provides a rotation angle detecting device capable of detecting a rotation angle of a rotation body rotatable about a central axis. The rotation angle detecting device includes: a sensor magnet, having multiple magnetic poles provided side-by side in a circumferential direction about the central axis and installed to the rotation body; a magnetic sensor, overlapped with the sensor magnet when viewed in a predetermined first direction and capable of detecting a magnetic field of the sensor magnet; and a pair of magnetic parts, provided to sandwich the magnetic sensor in a second direction intersecting the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke Ito, Toshiaki Nakamura
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Patent number: 11531896Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of implementing a neural network using a small-scale circuit by simplifying the multiplication of the input data by weight data. The neural network circuit according to the present invention is configured from: a means for multiplying input data by a rounded value of the mantissa part of weight data; a means for shifting the multiplication result by the number of bits of the rounded value; a means for adding the shifted result to the original input data; and a means for shifting the addition result by the number of bits of the exponent part of the weight.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki Nakamura, Teppei Hirotsu, Tatsuya Horiguchi
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Patent number: 11392093Abstract: A prediction control device controls an actuator for automatic driving of a vehicle including: a command value generation unit generating an operation amount for the actuator and an operation amount candidate as a predicted value; an output prediction unit outputting a control amount candidate as a predicted value corresponding to the actuator output by using an operation model; an evaluation function calculation unit expressing constraint conditions for the automatic driving; a situation degree detection obtaining a measure of giving priority to ride comfort or giving priority to danger avoidance of an own vehicle while traveling; and a responsiveness adjusting unit obtaining a next operation amount candidate from the situation degree from the situation degree detection unit. The operation command value generation unit generates an operation amount for the actuator, and the responsiveness adjusting unit adjusts the output of the evaluation function according to the situation degree.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki Nakamura, Teppei Hirotsu, Tatsuya Horiguchi, Tadanobu Toba, Hideyuki Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20220185250Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a motor control device capable of realizing a redundancy while suppressing an increase in the number of parts and the number of connection signal lines. The invention includes angle sensors 102 and 103 for detecting a rotation angle of a motor, MPU 107 for controlling the motor based on a stroke sensor 117 and receiving the detected value of the angle sensor 102, MPU 108 for controlling the motor based on the stroke sensor 117 and receiving the detected value of the angle sensor 103, and communication units 115 and 116 for transmitting and receiving signals between the MPUs 107 and 108. The MPU 107 includes an angle sensor failure detecting unit 114 for detecting a failure of the angle sensors 102 and 103, according to the detected value of the angle sensor 102, the detected value of the angle sensor 103 received through the communication unit 115, and a control angle of the motor created in response to the stroke sensor 117.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki NAKAMURA, Tohma YAMAGUCHI, Asahi WATANABE
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Patent number: 11247702Abstract: Even in a case where an operation abnormality occurs in the arithmetic processing unit of the control device, control is safely shifted to the degeneration control microcomputer, and a vehicle control device capable of improving safety is realized. There are provided an outside world recognition microcomputer 10b, a control microcomputer 11b that outputs a control command to the actuator control device, and a degeneration control microcomputer 12b to which control is shifted in a case where an abnormality occurs in the control microcomputer 11b. The outside world recognition microcomputer 10b calculates a collision potential based on information from the outside world, and determines whether to reset the control microcomputer 11b when an abnormality occurs in the control microcomputer 11b or to shift control to the degeneration control microcomputer 12b.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Hideyuki Sakamoto, Tadanobu Toba, Toshiaki Nakamura
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Patent number: 11246239Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heatsink that can improve heat radiation efficiency of a heat radiating fin and equalize a heat input in a heat receiving portion while securing sufficient volumes of the heat receiving portion, a heat insulating portion, and a heat radiating portion even in an environment in which an installation space for the heatsink, more specifically, an installation space in a width direction of the heatsink is limited.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yosuke Watanabe, Kenya Kawabata, Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Tatsuro Miura, Kazuaki Aotani, Toshiaki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20210396551Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure provides a rotation angle detecting device capable of detecting a rotation angle of a rotation body rotatable about a central axis. The rotation angle detecting device includes: a sensor magnet, having multiple magnetic poles provided side-by side in a circumferential direction about the central axis and installed to the rotation body; a magnetic sensor, overlapped with the sensor magnet when viewed in a predetermined first direction and capable of detecting a magnetic field of the sensor magnet; and a pair of magnetic parts, provided to sandwich the magnetic sensor in a second direction intersecting the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke ITO, Toshiaki NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 11112186Abstract: A heatsink including: a heat transport member having a heat receiving portion thermally connected to a heating element; and a heat radiating fin group which is connected to a heat radiating portion of the heat transport member and in which a plurality of heat radiating fins is arranged, wherein the heat transport member has an integral internal space that communicates from the heat receiving portion to the heat radiating portion and that is filled with a working fluid, a heat receiving portion inner surface area increasing portion and a supporting member are provided in an internal space of the heat receiving portion, and the supporting member is in surface contact with the heat receiving portion inner surface area increasing portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yosuke Watanabe, Kenya Kawabata, Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Tatsuro Miura, Kazuaki Aotani, Toshiaki Nakamura
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Patent number: 11085703Abstract: The present disclosure is to provide a heatsink that can improve heat radiation performance of a heat radiating fin while preventing dry-out of a heat receiving portion and that can equalize a heat input in the heat receiving portion in an environment in which an installation space of the heatsink is limited even when a forbidden region exists in the installation space.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yosuke Watanabe, Kenya Kawabata, Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Tatsuro Miura, Kazuaki Aotani, Toshiaki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20210222031Abstract: [Object] The present invention provides a curable resin composition useful for imparting high durability and adhesion to a substrate such as a metal. [Solution] A curable resin composition is prepared by combining a polyamide-based resin (A) having an amino group, a blocked polyisocyanate (B), and an epoxy compound (C). The polyamide-based resin (A) contains a polyamide-based resin (A1) having a melting point of 170° C. or higher and a polyamide-based resin (A2) having a melting point of 150° C. or lower. The mass ratio of the polyamide-based resin (A1) and the polyamide-based resin (A2) is, in the form of the former/the latter, from 65/35 to 35/65.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2020Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: Daicel-Evonik Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuteru MUTSUDA, Hirofumi IGUCHI, Toshiaki NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20210221402Abstract: A prediction control device is realized which can respond to changes in the surrounding situations while the own vehicle is traveling and can perform a rapid operation during normal driving and in an emergency as if a person drives. The prediction control device includes a means (103, 104) for detecting a change amount and a change direction of surroundings and the own vehicle, and a means 105 for setting an initial value and a prediction period of a solution search calculation in a prediction control means based on the detection result. The means 105 for setting the initial value and the prediction period has a fail operational control mode in which the initial value and the prediction period set according to the change amount of the surroundings and the own vehicle is set with a previous calculation result of the solution search calculation to the initial value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2019Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki NAKAMURA, Teppei HIROTSU, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210198541Abstract: Provided are a curable resin composition having high durability and adherence to a base material such as a metal, a molded composite member formed by coating the base material with the curable resin composition and performing resin molding, and a production method for the same. The curable resin composition contains a polyamide-based resin, a blocked polyisocyanate, and an epoxy compound, and the polyamide-based resin has an amino group concentration from 20 to 300 mmol/kg, and has a water absorption of 1 mass % or less determined by a water absorption test specified by ASTM D570. The polyamide-based resin has a C8-18 alkylene chain and has a melting point from 160 to 250° C. Per 1 mol of amino groups of the polyamide-based resin, a proportion of isocyanate groups of the blocked polyisocyanate is from 1.5 to 5 mol, and a proportion of epoxy groups of the epoxy compound is from 0.1 to 0.8 mol.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicants: DAICEL-EVONIK LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO.,LTD.Inventors: Mitsuteru MUTSUDA, Hirofumi IGUCHI, Toshiaki NAKAMURA, Nao SATO, Mutsuo TEZUKA, Yasufumi NAKAJIMA
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Patent number: 11035748Abstract: A sensor attachment structure of an oil pressure sensor suitable for use as a control valve of an automobile transmission includes a sensor case inserted into an accommodation space 4 of a valve upper-body portion such that a body portion of the sensor case is capable of rotating about a vertical central axis. A stopper projects in a horizontal direction from the upper body, the stopper being movable vertically in a guide groove of the sensor case, and a rotatable relative to a restricting portion of the central case to restrict a vertical movement of the stopper to prevent the oil pressure sensor from falling off the upper body.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoka Osawa, Hironobu Wakabayashi, Toshiaki Nakamura, Hiroshi Tatsuta
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Patent number: 10996001Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heatsink that can increase a fin area of a heat radiating fin while securing sufficient volumes of a heat receiving portion, heat insulating portion, and heat radiating portion even in an environment in which an installation space for the heatsink, more specifically, an installation space in a height direction of the heatsink is limited.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yosuke Watanabe, Kenya Kawabata, Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Tatsuro Miura, Kazuaki Aotani, Toshiaki Nakamura
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Patent number: 10908042Abstract: A pressure sensor device includes a pressure sensor having a housing positioned on a center axis extending vertically, a sensing hole provided in a lower part of the housing, and an electrode unit provided in an upper part of the housing; and a connecting member having a contact spring that is pressed against the electrode unit of the pressure sensor. The electrode unit includes a first frame-shaped electrode having a frame-like shape that is rotationally symmetrical with respect to the center axis; and an annular first-surface portion on which the first frame-shaped electrode is placed.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoka Osawa, Hiroshi Shirai, Toshiaki Nakamura