Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Nakamura
Yoshihiro 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: 20250033033Abstract: To make liquid unlikely to drip from a pipette when the pipette is tilted. A pipette includes a main body portion, a tapered portion, and a distal end portion. The main body portion has a hollow cylindrical shape. The tapered portion has a hollow cylindrical shape, and extends further than a distal end of the main body portion in a distal direction. An inner diameter of a proximal end of the tapered portion is less than or equal to an inner diameter of the distal end of the main body portion. The tapered portion has an inner diameter decreasing in the distal direction. The distal end portion has a hollow cylindrical shape, extends from a distal end of the tapered portion in the distal direction, and has an inner diameter that is less than or equal to an inner diameter of the distal end of the tapered portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2022Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: Yoshihiro YOSHIKAWA, Masayuki TOYOSHIMA, Ryosuke NAKAMURA, Kazunari ABE
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Publication number: 20250026058Abstract: This injection molding method includes the steps of: constructing a prediction model on the basis of an input parameter including a molding condition for a molding product and an objective variable value including a quality value that quantifies a required quality of the molding product with respect to the input parameter; inferring a predictive distribution of the objective variable value with respect to the input parameter, using the prediction model; and deriving such a molding condition that satisfies the required quality of the molding product, by a Bayesian optimization method utilizing a regression model for obtaining the input parameter that yields a quality value highest in evaluation of the objective variable value as compared to an initial quality value, on the basis of the predictive distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2023Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Ryuki NAKAMURA, Yuka YOKOBORI, Yoshihiro HOSOKAWA
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Publication number: 20240406838Abstract: A communication apparatus receives status information including a value of a status regarding reception or non-reception of a beacon signal. The status is associated with each of pieces of identification information 25_1 to 25_n. When receiving the status information after transmitting a beacon signal, the communication apparatus selects, based on the status information, another identification information different from identification information of the beacon signal transmitted most recently and transmits a beacon signal including the selected identification information, instead of the beacon signal transmitted most recently.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Naoki YAMAGUCHI, Yoshihiro NAKAMURA, Yosuke ODA, Takuya KITAJIMA, Tomoyuki OKADA
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Publication number: 20240359140Abstract: The present invention provides a spiral membrane element suitable for suppressing a decrease in a permeation rate of a permeated fluid from a separation membrane. The spiral membrane element of the present invention includes a central tube and a separation membrane that is wound around the central tube. The central tube has an opening for guiding, to an inside of the central tube, a permeated fluid having permeated through the separation membrane. The opening extends in a longitudinal direction of the central tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2022Publication date: October 31, 2024Inventors: Makoto KATAGIRI, Yoshihiro NAKAMURA, Shinya NISHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20240149221Abstract: The present invention provides a spiral membrane element suitable for suppressing a decrease in a permeation rate (or a permeation flux) of a permeated fluid from a separation membrane. A spiral membrane element of the present invention includes: a central tube; a membrane leaf that has a separation membrane and a permeation spacer and is wound around the central tube; and a flow passage spacer that is connected to the permeation spacer and is wound around the central tube on a side closer to the central tube than the membrane leaf is. A pressure loss of the flow passage spacer measured by a predetermined test is smaller than a pressure loss of the permeation spacer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Makoto KATAGIRI, Yoshihiro NAKAMURA, Shinya NISHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230418547Abstract: A data processing method performed by a processor that receives data signals from a plurality of devices that utilize different protocols from each other receives data signals, respectively, from each of the plurality of devices, and generates multitrack audio data, in which audio data of a plurality of channels is stored by storing a first data string of a digital audio signal, received from a first device of the plurality of devices that utilizes a first protocol, in a first channel of the plurality of channels, and storing a data string of a digital signal, related to the digital audio signal and received from a second device of the plurality of devices that utilizes a second protocol different from the first protocol, as a second data string of the digital audio signal in a second channel of the plurality of channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Masatoshi HASEGAWA, Yuki SUEMITSU, Naoki TORIYAMA, Yoshihiro NAKAMURA, Yoshiyuki TSUGE
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Publication number: 20230260491Abstract: A percussion instrument motion reproduction device includes a percussion instrument. The percussion instrument includes a vibration portion. The percussion instrument motion reproduction device includes a first driving portion. The first driving portion of the percussion instrument motion reproduction device is configured to visually displace the vibration portion in response to an electrical signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Yoshiyuki TSUGE, Yoshihiro NAKAMURA, Yu SASAKI, Ryo HAMAOKA, Naoki TORIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230226473Abstract: The present invention provides a depth filter which contains fine particles and coarse particles, and which exhibits excellent filtration precision with respect to a high concentration fluid and/or a high viscosity fluid. This depth filter enables filtration for a long period of time, while maintaining a low filtration pressure. The present invention is a depth filter which is obtained by winding a fiber sheet into a cylinder, and which comprises a pre-filtration layer and a microfiltration layer; the pre-filtration layer and the microfiltration layer are formed of a fiber sheet; the fiber sheet is composed of a nonwoven fabric or a web; the average fiber diameter of the fiber sheet continuously decreases from the pre-filtration layer toward the microfiltration layer; and the average weight per square meter of the fiber sheet continuously decreases from the pre-filtration layer toward the microfiltration layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2021Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicants: JNC CORPORATION, JNC FILTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryota MINEO, Akitomo TANAKA, Yoshihiro NAKAMURA, Osamu YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 11623266Abstract: A sheet material machining system includes a sheet material machining machine which is configured to machine a workpiece to produce a machined workpiece that includes a plurality of products and a residual material. The machined workpiece is configured to be placed on a sorting table. The plurality of products are configured to be placed on a temporary placement table. At least one product among the plurality of products are configured to be placed on a discharge table. A carrier includes an attracting actuator and a mobile actuator. The order management processor is configured to control the carrier and includes a storage configured to memorize a layout of the plurality of products in the workpiece. The plurality of products are associated with an attracting order.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: YAMAZAKI MAZAK CORPORATIONInventors: Yukio Morita, Isao Kuwayama, Tetsu Hattori, Yoshihiko Sakai, Yoshihiro Nakamura
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Patent number: 11552234Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion element includes: a thermoelectric member that is columnar; an insulator formed around the thermoelectric member; and a metal layer formed continuously on an edge surface of the thermoelectric member and an edge surface of the insulator. An edge portion of the thermoelectric member and an edge portion of the insulator define a gap covered with the metal layer. The inner portion of the gap covered with the metal layer is a void.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yui Saitou, Yoshihiro Nakamura
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Publication number: 20220285776Abstract: A power storage apparatus includes: a first end component and a second end component that interpose power storage devices in a first direction; and a first side component and a second side component that interpose the power storage devices in a second direction. The first end component includes a first end connector connected to the first side component and a second end connector connected to the second side component. The first side component includes a first side connector connected to the first end connector. The second side component includes a second side connector connected to the second end connector. The first end connector and the first side connector overlap one another in the first direction, and are joined. The second end connector and the second side connector overlap one another in the second direction, and are joined.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Yasutaka Miyawaki, Yoshihiro Nakamura, Yoshiki Karata
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Publication number: 20220145028Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a film capable of enhancing snow sliding property and highly preventing snow accretion and/or ice accretion on a structure. The film of the present invention includes, as an outermost layer, an oil-containing layer containing an oil component in a resin, wherein the oil component bleeds from a surface of the oil-containing layer at a temperature not more than a predetermined temperature, the surface of the oil-containing layer has a concave-convex configuration, and the arithmetic mean height (Sa) in a 3.2 cm×3.2 cm region on the surface of the oil-containing layer is 4 ?m or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Daisuke MATSUKUMA, Haruka ONA, Yoshihiro NAKAMURA, Hiroyuki FUJITA
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Patent number: 11088309Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion element includes a thermoelectric member that is columnar and an insulator formed around the thermoelectric member. Particles are enclosed between the thermoelectric member and the insulator.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yui Saitou, Yoshihiro Nakamura, Satoshi Maeshima
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Patent number: 10871369Abstract: The methods disclosed herein include recording at near-vertical first and second measurement positions respective first and second interferograms of the photomask surface and defining a difference map as the difference between the first and second interferograms. Respective first and second normal forces on the photomask are also measured at the first and second measurement positions. The change in the normal force is used define a scaling factor, which is applied to the difference map to define a scaled difference map. A compensated flatness measurement with a reduced shape contribution due to gravity is obtained by subtracting the scaled difference map from the first interferogram. An interferometer-based flatness measurement system is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Thomas James Dunn, John Weston Frankovich, Robert Dennis Grejda, Christopher Alan Lee, Matthew Ronald Millecchia, Yoshihiro Nakamura
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Patent number: 10801568Abstract: A disk brake includes a caliper, an inner pad and an outer pad that press a disk, a piston pressing the inner pad, and a claw portion pressing the outer pad. The inner pad includes a first surface that contacts the disk when the inner pad presses the disk and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The second surface has a first hole. The outer pad includes a third surface that contacts the disk when the outer pad presses the disk and a fourth surface opposite to the third surface. The fourth surface has a second hole. The first hole and the second hole are disposed so that, when the inner pad is projected onto the outer pad in the axial direction of the disk, the gravity center of the first hole and the gravity center of the second hole are offset relative to each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takahito Osada, Yoshihiro Nakamura
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Patent number: 10638290Abstract: A communication terminal according to an embodiment includes a communication unit configured to transmit first information to a relay apparatus that receives information transmitted from a plurality of communication terminals and transmits the received information to a server, and includes a determination unit configured to determine a transmission timing of second information transmitted by the communication unit after transmission of the first information on the basis of a communication state of the relay apparatus at the time of transmission of the first information.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakamura, Kohei Nishibori
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Publication number: 20200041248Abstract: The methods disclosed herein include recording at near-vertical first and second measurement positions respective first and second interferograms of the photomask surface and defining a difference map as the difference between the first and second interferograms. Respective first and second normal forces on the photomask are also measured at the first and second measurement positions. The change in the normal force is used define a scaling factor, which is applied to the difference map to define a scaled difference map. A compensated flatness measurement with a reduced shape contribution due to gravity is obtained by subtracting the scaled difference map from the first interferogram. An interferometer-based flatness measurement system is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Thomas James Dunn, John Weston Frankovich, Robert Dennis Grejda, Christopher Alan Lee, Matthew Ronald Millecchia, Yoshihiro Nakamura
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Publication number: 20200042922Abstract: A display system for a money processor configured to deposit and withdraw money. The display system includes a display coupled to the money processor, and a memory configured to store a plurality of pieces of maintenance step data respectively corresponding to maintenance operations of the components of the money processor, each piece of maintenance step data including a plurality of pieces of image data corresponding to a series of steps of the corresponding maintenance operation. The display system also includes a controller that displays a piece of image data on the display, to show a situation of the money processor that an operator sees at the step corresponding thereto. The controller is configured to, upon determining that one of the components needs maintenance, read a corresponding piece of the maintenance step data from the memory, and display the pieces of image data included in the maintenance operation data sequentially on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki NIIZUMA, Yoshihiro NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20200028056Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion element includes: a thermoelectric member that is columnar; an insulator formed around the thermoelectric member; and a metal layer formed continuously on an edge surface of the thermoelectric member and an edge surface of the insulator. An edge portion of the thermoelectric member and an edge portion of the insulator define a gap covered with the metal layer. The inner portion of the gap covered with the metal layer is a void.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Yui SAITOU, Yoshihiro NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 10523469Abstract: A relay device according to an embodiment includes a communication unit that receives information, transmitted from a plurality of communication terminals, and transmits the received information to a server; and a deriving unit that, in accordance with the total number of pieces of information received by the communication unit between a first point and a second point that elapses a predetermined time period, derives the timing information related to the transmission timing of information transmitted after the second point by at least one communication terminal among the communication terminals, and the communication unit transmits the timing information to the at least one communication terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakamura, Kohei Nishibori