Patents by Inventor Yuta Nakamura

Yuta 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).

  • Patent number: 11706515
    Abstract: An imaging device with a compact design allows illumination with a light source and imaging with an image sensor. An imaging device includes a front case having a front surface including a window and a lens-holder receptacle aligned with each other in a width direction (X-direction), a lens holder including a lens and attachable inside the lens-holder receptacle in the front case, a first circuit board on which an image sensor to receive light through the lens in the lens holder is mounted, and a second circuit board on which an LED to emit light through the window in the front case is mounted. The first and second circuit boards extend entirely in the width direction. The second circuit board is located frontward from the first circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC COPAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20230183501
    Abstract: An ink contains water, a coloring material, a resin, two or more types of organic solvents, and a surfactant, wherein the ink is horizontally discharged to a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Shin HASEGAWA, Takashi TAMAI, Michihiko NAMBA, Yuta NAKAMURA, Mayumi YOSHIHARA, Daiki HASEBE
  • Patent number: 11647268
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that can efficiently solve problems caused by heat generated by a heat generating element. The image pickup apparatus including a sensor substrate configured to implement an image sensor, and a main circuit board configured to implement a heat generating element. A length of the main circuit board is longer than a length of the sensor substrate in a width direction of the image pickup apparatus. The main circuit board is aslant arranged to an optical axis of the image pickup apparatus so that a first space part will be provided between the sensor substrate and the main circuit board. A cross section of the first space part in a plane that is parallel to both the optical axis and the width direction is approximately triangle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuna Oyama, Norikazu Hirota, Yoji Oya, Kazuo Yamamoto, Yuta Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20230097550
    Abstract: A working machine may include a first ground-contact part, a driving part configured to drive the first ground-contact part, a clutch mechanism configured to be switched between a transmission state and a non-transmission state, a clutch operation part configured to switch a state of the clutch mechanism, a braking mechanism configured to be switched between a braking state and a non-braking state, and a braking operation part configured to switch a state of the braking mechanism. In a case where the state of the braking mechanism is the braking state, the clutch mechanism may be switched from the transmission state to the non-transmission state by operating the clutch operation part, and in a case where the state of the braking mechanism is the non-braking state, the clutch mechanism may not be switched from the transmission state to the non-transmission state even by operating the clutch operation part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Shibata, Susumu Kato, Yasuo Ifuku, Yuta Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11614814
    Abstract: A touch panel comprises: a first electrode substrate having a first conductive film; a second electrode substrate having a decorative portion facing the first conductive film; and a case configured to contain the first electrode substrate, wherein the first electrode substrate has a larger area than the second electrode substrate, and wherein the case is configured to cover an outer peripheral portion of the first electrode substrate outside the second electrode substrate, and not to cover the second electrode substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Hideyuki Hagihara, Yutaka Ueno, Masaya Morohashi, Takuya Ozawa, Yuta Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11606044
    Abstract: The present power conversion device includes an inverter, a step-up/down converter, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a voltage sensor, a control device, and a backup power supply. The auxiliary device is connected between the first DC power supply and the step-up/down converter, and the control device includes an abnormality determination unit configured to determine that an abnormality has occurred when a control voltage is equal to or lower than a first threshold value, and a control unit configured to execute discharge control when the abnormality determination unit determines that the abnormality has occurred and an inter-terminal voltage measured by the voltage sensor is equal to or lower than a second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobukatsu Yamaguchi, Yuta Nakamura, Yasuhiko Kondo
  • Publication number: 20230055952
    Abstract: An energy storage device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a positive electrode including a positive active material layer; a negative electrode; and a nonaqueous electrolyte, the positive active material layer includes boron and aluminum, and a maximum voltage width that is a difference between a charge upper limit voltage and a discharge lower limit voltage under normal usage is 1.1 V or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Yuta NAKAMURA, Yohei SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20230053000
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging element (100) includes a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit (600). The first and second photoelectric conversion units (500, 600) are joined at joint surfaces facing each other, and include an upper electrode (502, 602), a lower electrode (508A, 608), a photoelectric conversion film (504, 604), and a storage electrode (510, 610). The lower electrode (508A) of the first photoelectric conversion unit (500) is connected to a charge storage unit (314) via a first through electrode (460A, 460B) penetrating a semiconductor substrate (300).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: KENICHI MURATA, MASAHIRO JOEI, YUTA NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11539027
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a luminescent thin film, a luminescent multilayered film, and an organic electroluminescent element that have luminescence properties with excellent storage stability in atmospheric air; and a production method therefor. This luminescent thin film contains a luminescent compound A, and is characterized by containing 0.0001 mass % or more of an oxide B of luminescent compound A in terms of the luminescent compound A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yuta Nakamura, Satoru Inoue
  • Patent number: 11524509
    Abstract: ink includes water, an alcohol having a boiling point of 240 degrees C. or lower, and an infrared absorbent, wherein the alcohol accounts for 5.0 percent by mass or more of the total amount of the ink and the ink is free of an alcohol having a boiling point higher than 240 degrees C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Nakamura, Naoto Shimura
  • Patent number: 11526069
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus having a high operability irrespective of whether an accessory is attached to an apparatus body. The apparatus body includes a first connection section connected to the accessory, a first operation member disposed in a surface different from a surface where the first connection section is provided, and a second operation member disposed in the surface where the first connection section is provided. The accessory includes a second connection section which can be connected to the first connection section, and a third operation section disposed in a surface different from the surface where the second connection section is provided and is located in the vicinity of the second operation member in a state in which the accessory is attached to the apparatus body. The second operation member and the third operation member have at least one same function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Nakamura, Hideki Toichi, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220345601
    Abstract: An imaging device with a compact design allows illumination with a light source and imaging with an image sensor. An imaging device includes a front case having a front surface including a window and a lens-holder receptacle aligned with each other in a width direction (X-direction), a lens holder including a lens and attachable inside the lens-holder receptacle in the front case, a first circuit board on which an image sensor to receive light through the lens in the lens holder is mounted, and a second circuit board on which an LED to emit light through the window in the front case is mounted. The first and second circuit boards extend entirely in the width direction. The second circuit board is located frontward from the first circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventor: Yuta NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11472977
    Abstract: Provided is an ink containing water, a plurality of organic solvents, a color material, and resin particles, wherein the plurality of organic solvents contain at least one compound having a hydrogen bond term ?H, which is a Hansen solubility parameter, of 4.1 MPa1/2 or higher but 9.5 MPa1/2 or lower and a boiling point of 170° C. or higher and at least one diol compound containing 3 or 4 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kido, Hidefumi Nagashima, Juichi Furukawa, Yuta Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11456685
    Abstract: The present motor control device includes an inverter, a converter, and a control device. The control device has a rotation speed calculation unit that calculates a rotation speed of a motor; an optimum voltage calculation unit that calculates an optimum input voltage; a minimum voltage calculation unit that calculates a minimum input voltage required to operate the motor at a motor operating point; and a target value setting unit that sets either one of the optimum input voltage and the minimum input voltage as a target input voltage. In a case in which the set target torque exceeds a predetermined value, the target value setting unit sets the minimum input voltage lower than the optimum input voltage as the target input voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Tokita, Kazunari Kurokawa, Masahiro Shimada, Yuta Nakamura, Takami Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11421124
    Abstract: An ink contains a coloring material, an organic solvent, a resin, and a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 having a weight average molecular weight of from 390 to 610, where R1 represents a hydrocarbon group, and n represents an integer of 2 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Shimura, Yuta Nakamura, Yoshiaki Masuda
  • Patent number: 11415866
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus having a forced air cooling function and capable of having an accessory attached thereto includes an image capturing apparatus body. A lens mount is provided on the apparatus body and can have a shooting lens removably attached thereto. An attachment portion is provided on the apparatus body and can have the accessory removably attached thereto. A built-in microphone is arranged on a side of a surface of the apparatus body, different from any of a surface where an air outlet port for discharging air used for forced cooling is arranged, a surface where the lens mount is arranged, and a surface where the attachment portion is arranged. The built-in microphone is arranged at a location closer to a top surface of the image capturing apparatus body than a bottom surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kojima, Hideki Toichi, Hayato Mano, Yusuke Mogi
  • Patent number: 11404989
    Abstract: A power supply system (1) includes: a drive motor (M) coupled to drive wheels (W); a first inverter (23) which converts DC electric power into three-phase AC electric power; a first current sensor (23I) which generates a current detection signal according to electrical current flowing in the first inverter (23), and a system ECU (8) which executes discharge control for discharging electrical charge of a second smoothing capacitor (C2) connected to the first inverter (23), in a case of a discharge start condition being established. The system ECU (8), in a case of the drive motor (M) rotating upon starting the discharge control, executes the discharge control, after executing three-phase short-circuit control to turn ON all switching elements of an upper arm or all switching elements of a lower arm of the three-phase arm of the first inverter (23), based on the current detection signal of the sensor (23I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Kondo, Yuta Nakamura, Nobukatsu Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11405536
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an image sensor that captures an image of a subject, a first substrate on which the image sensor is mounted, a second substrate located frontward from the first substrate in an optical axis direction and having a first opening, and a lens barrel holding a lens. The image sensor receives light passing through the lens and the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC COPAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11381719
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject, a substrate on which the imaging unit is mounted, a lens barrel holding a lens, a shield plate surrounding the substrate and including a metal, and a case accommodating the substrate, the lens barrel, and the shield plate and including a metal. The shield plate is in contact with the case. The substrate includes a ground potential portion electrically connected to the shield plate and the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC COPAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20220199934
    Abstract: A luminescent film includes a host compound, a blue phosphorescent compound, and a blue fluorescent compound, in which an emission spectrum of the blue phosphorescent compound and an absorption spectrum of the blue fluorescent compound have portions overlapping with each other; shortest wavelength-side maximum emission wavelengths of the blue phosphorescent compound (abbreviated as “BPM” in the expression) and the blue fluorescent compound (abbreviated as “BFM” in the expression) satisfy the following expression (1): ?BFM??BPM: expression (1) in which ?BFM represents the shortest wavelength-side maximum emission wavelength of the blue fluorescent compound and ?BPM represents the shortest wavelength-side maximum emission wavelength of the blue phosphorescent compound; and light emission derived from the blue fluorescent compound is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Kenichi TABATA, Yuta NAKAMURA, Taketo NAMIKAWA, Satoru INOUE, Yasuo MIYATA, Hiromoto II