Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Nakazawa

Yoshiaki Nakazawa 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: 11933954
    Abstract: A zoom lens system includes: a first lens group having positive power; a second lens group having negative power; a third lens group having positive power; a fourth lens group having positive power; a fifth lens group having negative power; and a following lens group following the fifth lens group. The first to fifth lens groups and the following lens group are arranged in this order such that the first lens group is located closest to an object and that the following lens group is located closest to an image. While the zoom lens system is zooming, intervals between the respective lens groups change. While the zoom lens system is focusing from an infinity focus point through a shortest shooting range, a plurality of negative lens groups included in the fifth lens group and the following lens group move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Genki Nakazawa, Takao Yamanaka, Yoshiaki Kurioka
  • Patent number: 11890694
    Abstract: There is provided a resistance spot welding apparatus including a first rod-shaped electrode body, second rod-shaped electrode body, first ring-shaped member, second ring-shaped member, first elastic body, and second elastic body. The first rod-shaped electrode body and second rod-shaped electrode body are arranged facing each other, the first rod-shaped electrode body is inserted into a through hole of the first ring-shaped member, the first elastic body is connected to an opposite side of first ring-shaped member to second rod-shaped electrode body side, the first rod-shaped electrode body and first ring-shaped member are not electrically connected to each other, the second rod-shaped electrode body is inserted into a through hole of the second ring-shaped member, the second elastic body is connected to an opposite side of second ring-shaped member to first rod-shaped electrode body side, and the second rod-shaped electrode body and second ring-shaped member are not electrically connected each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Tohru Okada, Yasuhiro Ito, Masanori Yasuyama, Yasunori Sawa
  • Publication number: 20240019152
    Abstract: A visualization system includes: a receiver configured to receive an input of arrangement information indicating a location of an object image on a target area image showing a target area; a storage storing correspondence information; a controller configured to output information indicating an air condition of the target area based on the arrangement information on the object image and the correspondence information; and a display configured to display at least one of information indicating the target area image or the information indicating the air condition of the target area. The object includes an air conditioner and a fixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi UDA, Tomoyuki HAIKAWA, Yone YUN, Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA, Yuki YAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11712949
    Abstract: What is provided is an automobile side structure including: a first impact absorbing member (122) extending in a vehicle height direction inside an automobile door; a second impact absorbing member (126) inside the automobile door; a door inner panel (200) inside the automobile door; and a side sill (520), in which the first impact absorbing member (122), the second impact absorbing member (126), the door inner panel (200), and the side sill (520) are on a straight line in a vehicle width direction, and the second impact absorbing member (126) is disposed between the first impact absorbing member (122) and the door inner panel (200); and an automobile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Suzuki, Yoshiaki Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 11673455
    Abstract: Provided is an automobile door (600) including: an exterior material (110); a first impact absorbing member (122); and a second impact absorbing member (124), in which the first impact absorbing member (122) is disposed to traverse the exterior material (110) so as to extend between both end portion regions in a vehicle height direction, the first impact absorbing member (122) is disposed on a vehicle interior side from the second impact absorbing member (124), the second impact absorbing member (124) is disposed to traverse the exterior material (110) so as to extend between both end portion regions in a vehicle length direction, the second impact absorbing member (124) is disposed adjacent to an inner surface of the exterior material (110), and at a portion excluding both of the end portion regions in the vehicle height direction, both of the end portion regions in the vehicle length direction, and an intersection portion, bending rigidity in a vehicle width direction of a cross section perpendicular to an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Suzuki, Yoshiaki Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 11639087
    Abstract: Provided is an automobile door (600) including: a first impact absorbing member (122) that traverses the automobile door (600) so as to extend between both end portion regions in a vehicle height direction; a second impact absorbing member (124) that traverses the automobile door (600) so as to extend between both end portion regions in a vehicle length direction; an exterior material (110); and a belt line reinforcement (300), in which bending rigidity in a vehicle width direction of a cross section perpendicular to an extending direction of the belt line reinforcement (300) at a support portion is larger than bending rigidity in the vehicle width direction of a cross section perpendicular to an extending direction of the first impact absorbing member (122) at an intersection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Suzuki, Satoshi Hirose, Tohru Yoshida, Yoshiaki Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 11628483
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hot-stamping formed article made of steel, in which the hot-stamping formed article has at least one of a tensile strength of 1200 MPa or more and a martensitic steel structure and includes a first portion, a corner portion, and a second portion, which are sequentially continuous from one end portion to the other end portion in a longitudinal direction, each of the first portion, the corner portion, and the second portion includes a top sheet and two vertical walls connected to the top sheet when viewed in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the second portion includes a first outwardly-extending flange adjacent to the vertical wall, and the corner portion includes a vertical flange extending from the vertical wall of the first portion, a second outwardly-extending flange adjacent to the vertical wall located on an outer peripheral side of the corner portion out of the two vertical walls, and a transition portion in which the vertical flange and the se
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Otsuka, Yoshiyuki Kaseda, Yoshiaki Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 11623260
    Abstract: A formed body 1 includes a first flange 3, a body portion 100 (a first vertical wall portion 4, a top plate portion 5, a second vertical wall portion 6), and a second flange 7, and the formed body 1 is made of steel having tensile strength of 440 MPa or more. The first flange 3 extends toward the second flange 7 from an edge portion of the first vertical wall portion 4. The first flange 3 and the body portion 100 curve so as to conform to each other as viewed from the direction orthogonal to the top plate portion 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Nishimura, Yoshiaki Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 11479300
    Abstract: Energy absorption at the time of load input is improved with high mass efficiency. A hollow member includes: a hollow metal member having a bending induction portion in a portion thereof in a longitudinal direction; and a resin material which is disposed in close contact with the metal member on both sides of the bending induction portion in the longitudinal direction, and is disposed in at least a part of a range of less than ? of a cross-sectional height of the metal member from an end portion of the bending induction portion toward an outside in the longitudinal, in which an amount of the resin material per length in the longitudinal direction is larger on the outside of the bending induction portion than on an inside of the bending induction portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Hirose, Yoshiaki Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 11478836
    Abstract: Provided is a press-formed article manufacturing method including pressing a blank with the first pressing apparatus to form a first intermediate formed article having a pair of bent portions bent to one side in the plate thickness direction and having a spacing between the bent portions narrower than the width of the top plate and equal to or more than the width of the top portion of the convex portion, and moving the second die relative to the second punch side punch with respect to the die pad and the second punch and forming a second intermediate formed article in a state where a portion between the bent portions is sandwiched between the die pad and the convex portion, with one side of the first intermediate formed article in the plate thickness direction as the convex portion side of the second pressing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, TOYODA IRON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiya Suzuki, Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Makoto Murai, Yasunobu Ishino
  • Publication number: 20220280992
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a press-formed article includes first press forming and second press forming. In the first press forming, an intermediate formed article is formed from a metal sheet by subjecting the metal sheet to processing including performing draw-forming on the metal sheet to form a peripheral wall portion, bending the metal sheet to form a convex flange portion, and bending the metal sheet to form at least a side standing flange main body portion of a side standing flange portion and a floor flange main body portion of a floor flange portion. The second press forming includes bending the intermediate formed article to form the convex flange portion to an inclined flange portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi ONO, Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA, Satoshi SHIRAKAMI
  • Patent number: 11413919
    Abstract: A structural member includes a top sheet portion which has a first edge portion and a second edge portion facing the first edge portion, a wall portion which extends from the second edge portion in a direction intersecting the top sheet portion, and a closed cross-sectional portion which is provided in the first edge portion, in which the first edge portion is curved toward an inside of the top sheet portion in a plan view with respect to the top sheet portion, and when a distance from the first edge portion to the second edge portion of the structural member is referred to as a structural member width, the closed cross-sectional portion forms a closed cross section on a vertical cut plane of the structural member along a direction of the structural member width, the vertical cut plane of the structural member along the direction of the structural member width has an open cross section, and a shape of the vertical cut plane of the structural member including the closed cross-sectional portion is asymmetric wi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Ito, Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Takeshi Kawachi
  • Patent number: 11360007
    Abstract: The present invention addresses an object to provide an embedding apparatus capable of removing an embedding material such as paraffin and solids such as debris of a tissue fragment adhered to a tweezers holder hole easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: SAKURA SEIKI CO., LTD., SAKURA FINETEK JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahisa Mimura, Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Mitsuaki Narita
  • Patent number: 11358203
    Abstract: A method for producing a press-formed product includes a first pressing step and a second pressing step. In the first pressing step, an intermediate formed product is formed from a processed material by using first press tooling. The intermediate formed product includes a stepped section of a top plate section, a temporary vertical wall section adjacent to the top plate section via a ridge section and having at least part of the shape of the vertical wall section, and a temporary flange section adjacent to the temporary vertical wall section via a temporary ridge section. In the second pressing step, the press-formed product is formed from the intermediate formed product. In the second pressing step, forming is performed such that the temporary ridge section is moved toward the temporary flange section with at least part of the top plate section of the intermediate formed product restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junki Natori, Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Ryuichi Nishimura, Keiji Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20220168839
    Abstract: A welded joint manufacturing method includes: abutting a first electrode against a first steel sheet of a welded joint at a site A, which is a location at an outer side of a nugget in a sheet-plane direction in a plane running parallel to the first steel sheet; abutting a second electrode against a second steel sheet at a site B, which is a location at an outer side of the nugget in a sheet-plane direction in a plane running parallel to the first steel sheet of the welded joint, and positioned on an opposite side of the nugget from the site A; and passing a current through the welded joint between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Tohru OKADA, Hiroki FUJIMOTO, Masanori YASUYAMA, Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220126656
    Abstract: Provided is an automobile door (600) including: an exterior material (110); a first impact absorbing member (122); and a second impact absorbing member (124), in which the first impact absorbing member (122) is disposed to traverse the exterior material (110) so as to extend between both end portion regions in a vehicle height direction, the first impact absorbing member (122) is disposed on a vehicle interior side from the second impact absorbing member (124), the second impact absorbing member (124) is disposed to traverse the exterior material (110) so as to extend between both end portion regions in a vehicle length direction, the second impact absorbing member (124) is disposed adjacent to an inner surface of the exterior material (110), and at a portion excluding both of the end portion regions in the vehicle height direction, both of the end portion regions in the vehicle length direction, and an intersection portion, bending rigidity in a vehicle width direction of a cross section perpendicular to an
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya SUZUKI, Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA
  • Patent number: 11311925
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a manufacturing method for a saddle-shaped press-molded article includes curling a blank at a top plate configuration location of the blank that will form a top plate portion, applying the curl with a first force acting from an inner face side toward an outer face side of the blank at the top plate configuration location, applying the curl with a net force configured by second forces acting in mutually facing directions and a third force acting in the opposing direction to the first force at the outer face side of respective vertical wall configuration locations of the blank that will be molded into vertical wall portions, and in a state in which the top plate configuration location is curled, restraining end portion inverted ridge configuration location that will be molded into end portion inverted ridge portion, the top plate configuration location, the vertical wall configuration locations, and end portion flange configuration location that will be molded into end porti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Shirakami, Yoshiaki Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20220097497
    Abstract: Provided is an automobile door (600) including: a first impact absorbing member (122) that traverses the automobile door (600) so as to extend between both end portion regions in a vehicle height direction; a second impact absorbing member (124) that traverses the automobile door (600) so as to extend between both end portion regions in a vehicle length direction; an exterior material (110); and a belt line reinforcement (300), in which bending rigidity in a vehicle width direction of a cross section perpendicular to an extending direction of the belt line reinforcement (300) at a support portion is larger than bending rigidity in the vehicle width direction of a cross section perpendicular to an extending direction of the first impact absorbing member (122) at an intersection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya SUZUKI, Satoshi HIROSE, Tohru YOSHIDA, Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220089005
    Abstract: What is provided is an automobile side structure including: a first impact absorbing member (122) extending in a vehicle height direction inside an automobile door; a second impact absorbing member (126) inside the automobile door; a door inner panel (200) inside the automobile door; and a side sill (520), in which the first impact absorbing member (122), the second impact absorbing member (126), the door inner panel (200), and the side sill (520) are on a straight line in a vehicle width direction, and the second impact absorbing member (126) is disposed between the first impact absorbing member (122) and the door inner panel (200); and an automobile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya SUZUKI, Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA
  • Patent number: 11279408
    Abstract: The amount of absorbed energy at the time of load input is improved with high mass efficiency. A hollow member includes: a hollow metal member having a bending induction portion in a portion in a longitudinal direction; and a resin material which is made of a resin having a Young's modulus of 20 MPa or more and is disposed in the bending induction portion in close contact with the metal member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Hirose, Yoshiaki Nakazawa