Patents by Inventor Yoichi Nakagawa

Yoichi Nakagawa 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: 11940557
    Abstract: A processor in an object detection device is configured to: acquire settings data for one or more radar grids, each radar grid being set for a measurement area of a corresponding radar and consisting of radar cells; acquire settings data for a processing grid for clustering operations, the processing grid being set for the one or more measurement areas and consisting of processing cells; calculate, for each processing cell, one or more likelihoods associated with measurements of one or more related radar cells based on distances between the processing cell and the one or more related radar cells; calculate a grid value of each of the processing cells in the processing grid based on the one or more likelihoods; and perform a clustering operation on each processing cell based on distances between and/or grid values of the processing cell and one or more different processing cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Weijie Liu, Makoto Yasugi, Yoichi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20240075410
    Abstract: There is provided a gas solution supply apparatus capable of preventing bubbles from being generated in use at a point-of-use even if gas solution to be provided to a point-of-use has a high concentration. The gas solution supply apparatus 1 includes: a gas dissolving unit 4 that dissolves a source gas in a source liquid to produce a first gas solution; a first gas-liquid separator 10 that stores the first gas solution produced and produces a second gas solution through gas-liquid separation of the first gas solution; a pressure reducer 17 that depressurizes the second gas solution produced in the first gas-liquid separator 10; and a second gas-liquid separator 12 that stores the depressurized second gas solution and produces a third gas solution through gas-liquid separation of the second gas solution. The third gas solution is supplied to a point-of-use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Suguru OZAWA, Yuji ARAKI, Yoichi NAKAGAWA, Toshifumi WATANABE, Risa KIMURA, Ryuta KATO
  • Publication number: 20230180108
    Abstract: To secure a line of sight (LOS) in wireless communication between a mobile communication device mounted on a moving object and a fixed communication device provided on a travel route of the moving object, a wireless communication system includes an LOS determiner that determines whether line of sight between the mobile communication device and the fixed communication device is secured based on position information of the fixed communication device and position information of the mobile communication device, and a travel condition determiner that, when it is determined by the LOS determiner that the line of sight is not secured, determines a travel condition of the moving object for securing the line of sight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi NAKAGAWA, Masataka IRIE, Noriyuki SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11648515
    Abstract: A gas solution manufacturing device 1 includes a gas supply line 2 configured to supply a gas as a raw material of a gas solution, a liquid supply line 3 configured to supply a liquid as a raw material of the gas solution, a gas solution production unit 4 configured to mix the gas and the liquid together to produce the gas solution, a gas-liquid separation unit 5 configured to perform gas-liquid separation of the produced gas solution into a supplied liquid to be supplied to a use point and a discharged gas to be discharged through an exhaust port, and a gas dissolving unit 6 provided in the liquid supply line 4 and configured to dissolve the discharged gas resulting from the gas-liquid separation in the liquid. The gas dissolving unit 6 is configured with a hollow fiber membrane configured with a gas permeable membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru Ozawa, Yuji Araki, Yoichi Nakagawa, Toshifumi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11584669
    Abstract: A gas dissolved liquid manufacturing device includes: a pump configured to pressurize a liquid; a pipe communicating with the pump; a nozzle disposed in the pipe, the nozzle being configured to generate micro bubbles using a supplied gas; and a gas-liquid separation tank whose upper part communicates with the pipe, the gas-liquid separation tank being configured to separate a gas-liquid mixture generated by the nozzle into a gas and a liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Nakagawa, Suguru Ozawa, Yuji Araki, Toshifumi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11571719
    Abstract: A nozzle for generating fine bubbles, the nozzle including: a hollow housing; and a plurality of plates provided in the housing and partitioning the housing into a plurality of spaces, wherein an upper face or a side face of the housing is provided with an inflow port into which a gas-dissolved liquid flows and which communicates with an uppermost space of the spaces partitioned by the plate, each of the plates is provided with a plurality of through-holes, and a lower face of the housing is provided with a slit communicating with a lowermost space of the spaces partitioned by the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20220408307
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a communication system which can effectively avoid congestion in ITS communications at a street intersection to properly assist the driving of autonomous vehicles. An information source roadside apparatus 3 acquires terminal movement information on movement directions of nearby pedestrian terminals, and transmits the information to an information destination roadside apparatus, which determines, based on the received information, if there is predicted congestion in the terminal-to-terminal communications at a predetermined future time. When determining that there is predicted congestion, the information destination roadside apparatus transmits an instruction for a congestion avoidance operation to the pedestrian terminals 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi UENO, Hiroaki SUDO, Koichi AIHARA, Makoto YASUGI, Yoichi NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220345978
    Abstract: In a network having an edge server disposed therein, to appropriately construct a wireless communication route used in communication between the edge server and a user terminal, a processor of a network control device acquires group information related to grouped base stations in multiple base stations disposed in the network, acquires route information related to one or more wireless communication routes formed by multi-hop communication between the grouped base stations, and transmits the group information and the route information to an edge server connected to one of the base stations or to a user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki SHIMIZU, Hiroaki ASANO, Masahisa OKUDA, Yoichi NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220301430
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle dispatching system that reduces burden on users. A roadside apparatus 4 detects a vehicle waiting person based on images captured by a camera 13, acquires the person's position data; sets a pickup point based on the person's position data and map data, acquires the pickup point's position data, and transmit it to a server 5. The server selects a vehicle to be dispatched for the person according to a positional relationship between the vehicle and the pickup point, and transmits the pickup point's position data to an in-vehicle terminal 2. The in-vehicle device or the roadside apparatus performs control so that the vehicle moves to the pickup point, when determining, based on the pickup point's position data and the map data, that a lane closest to the pickup point is for the same traveling direction as a lane in which the vehicle is traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroaki SUDO, Tsuyoshi UENO, Shintaro MURAMATSU, Yoichi NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220301427
    Abstract: Provided is a system which can reduce load on a travel controller that performs a danger avoidance operation by preliminarily detecting a significant event without increasing an amount of ITS communications, thereby providing suitable assistance for travel control of autonomous vehicles. When a vehicle 1 passes through a certain section of a road after an in-vehicle terminal 4 has detected a significant event while the vehicle 1 is traveling in the section, the in-vehicle terminal 4 transmits event data (images and other information related to the event) to a roadside apparatus 6 at an end point of the section. The roadside apparatus 6 transmits the event data to another roadside apparatus 6 at a start point of the section, which in turn transmits the event data to an in-vehicle device in another vehicle entering the section so that the device can perform travel control based on the event data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi UENO, Shintaro MURAMATSU, Yoichi NAKAGAWA, Koichi AIHARA, Makoto YASUGI, Hiroaki SUDO
  • Patent number: 11352274
    Abstract: A gas dissolution supply apparatus dissolves a gas supplied from a gas supply unit in a liquid supplied from a liquid supply unit to produce a gas dissolution in a gas dissolving unit, stores the gas dissolution produced in the gas dissolving unit in a gas dissolution tank, supplies the gas dissolution from the gas dissolution tank to a point of use, measures the flow rate of a part of the gas dissolution supplied to the point of use that is returned to the gas dissolving unit, and adjusts the flow rate of the liquid supplied from the liquid supply unit to the gas dissolving unit based on the result of the measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru Ozawa, Yuji Araki, Toshifumi Watanabe, Yoichi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20220105478
    Abstract: A gas solution supply device 1 includes: a first gas-liquid separator 8 in which gas solution is stored; a second gas-liquid separator 16 provided at a stage subsequent to the first gas-liquid separator 8 and in which gas solution to be supplied to a use point is stored; an intermediate line 17 provided between the first gas-liquid separator 8 and the second gas-liquid separator 16; a pressure booster pump 18 provided on the intermediate line 17 and increases a pressure of gas solution being supplied from the first gas-liquid separator 8 to the second gas-liquid separator 16; a gas supply line 2 that supplies gas as a material of the gas solution; and a gas dissolving unit 20 provided on the intermediate line 17 and dissolves the gas supplied from the gas supply line 2 in the gas solution supplied from the first gas-liquid separator 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Suguru OZAWA, Yuji ARAKI, Toshifumi WATANABE, Yoichi NAKAGAWA, Risa KIMURA, Tao XU
  • Publication number: 20210311169
    Abstract: An object determination method involves acquiring radar data including information records of a radar reflection intensity and a velocity for each orientation and each distance; generating a radar detection image in which each pixel has a plurality of channels for containing data records of a radar reflection intensity, a velocity, and a distance, respectively, the data records corresponding to the position of the pixel; and by using a machine learning model for image recognition trained for object determination, acquiring an object determination result determined based on the radar detection image. In particular, the method includes, based on position data of an object area detected from the radar data of an entire observation area, extracting radar data of the object area from the radar data of the entire observation area; and generating the radar detection image of the object area based on the radar data of the object area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Weijie LIU, Makoto YASUGI, Yoichi NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210245115
    Abstract: A gas solution manufacturing device 1 includes a gas supply line 2 configured to supply a gas as a raw material of a gas solution, a liquid supply line 3 configured to supply a liquid as a raw material of the gas solution, a gas solution production unit 4 configured to mix the gas and the liquid together to produce the gas solution, a gas-liquid separation unit 5 configured to perform gas-liquid separation of the produced gas solution into a supplied liquid to be supplied to a use point and a discharged gas to be discharged through an exhaust port, and a gas dissolving unit 6 provided in the liquid supply line 4 and configured to dissolve the discharged gas resulting from the gas-liquid separation in the liquid. The gas dissolving unit 6 is configured with a hollow fiber membrane configured with a gas permeable membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Suguru OZAWA, Yuji ARAKI, Yoichi NAKAGAWA, Toshifumi WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11047063
    Abstract: A plating apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an anode holder configured to hold an anode; a substrate holder placed opposite the anode holder and configured to hold a substrate; and an anode mask installed on a front face of the anode holder and provided with a first opening adapted to allow passage of an electric current flowing between an anode and the substrate. The diameter of the first opening in the anode mask is configured to be adjustable. When a first substrate is plated, a diameter of the first opening is adjusted to a first diameter. When a second substrate is plated, the diameter of the first opening is adjusted to a second diameter smaller than the first diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jumpei Fujikata, Masashi Shimoyama, Yoichi Nakagawa, Yoshitaka Mukaiyama, Yoshio Minami
  • Patent number: 11040315
    Abstract: A gas-dissolved liquid producing apparatus capable of increasing a gas dissolution efficiency and enhancing stability of the concentration of gas-dissolved liquid is provided. The gas-dissolved producing apparatus 1 includes an ozone gas supply unit 2 for supplying ozone gas, a pure water supply unit 3 for supplying pure water, and an ozonated water generator 4 for dissolving ozone gas in supplied pure water to generate ozonated water. The generator 4 includes a first nozzle 10 having a first optimum flow rate, a second nozzle 11 having a second optimum flow rate different from the first optimum flow rate, a flow rate detector 15 for detecting the flow rate of the supplied pure water, and a controller 16 for controlling which one of the first nozzle and the second nozzle should be supplied with the supplied gas, based on the flow rate of the pure water detected by the detector 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11018821
    Abstract: A first OFDM frame signal includes a grid of multiple frequency subcarriers and multiple time periods.—An OFDM symbol is transmitted using multiple frequency subcarriers during a time period and includes known reference OFDM symbols assigned to corresponding time-frequency resource elements in the grid. —Each resource element is defined by a one of the multiple frequency subcarriers and one of the multiple time periods. —A second OFDM frame signal is also generated, but the resource elements assigned to the known reference OFDM symbols are different from the time-frequency resource elements in the grid assigned to the known reference OFDM symbols in the first OFDM frame signal. The first and second OFDM frame signals are converted to a first and second radio signals. The first radio signal is transmitted from a first antenna and the second radio signal from a second, different antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Optis Wireless Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka, Yoichi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20210103029
    Abstract: A processor in an object detection device is configured to: acquire settings data for one or more radar grids, each radar grid being set for a measurement area of a corresponding radar and consisting of radar cells; acquire settings data for a processing grid for clustering operations, the processing grid being set for the one or more measurement areas and consisting of processing cells; calculate, for each processing cell, one or more likelihoods associated with measurements of one or more related radar cells based on distances between the processing cell and the one or more related radar cells; calculate a grid value of each of the processing cells in the processing grid based on the one or more likelihoods; and perform a clustering operation on each processing cell based on distances between and/or grid values of the processing cell and one or more different processing cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Weijie LIU, Makoto YASUGI, Yoichi NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210101185
    Abstract: A nozzle for generating fine bubbles, the nozzle including: a hollow housing; and a plurality of plates provided in the housing and partitioning the housing into a plurality of spaces, wherein an upper face or a side face of the housing is provided with an inflow port into which a gas-dissolved liquid flows and which communicates with an uppermost space of the spaces partitioned by the plate, each of the plates is provided with a plurality of through-holes, and a lower face of the housing is provided with a slit communicating with a lowermost space of the spaces partitioned by the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventor: Yoichi NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 10966203
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus capable of alleviating a burden in setting a transmission format and suppressing increases in the scale of the apparatus. In this apparatus, space multiplexing adaptability detection section detects space multiplexing transmission adaptability for divided bands obtained by dividing a communication band to which Ns subcarrier signals belong in multicarrier transmission and to which a plurality of subcarrier signals belong, and outputs the detection results. Transmission format setting section sets a transmission format when carrying out radio transmission based on the detection results from space multiplexing adaptability detection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Optis Wireless Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Yoichi Nakagawa, Kentaro Miyano