Patents by Inventor Akira Satou
Akira Satou 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: 20240136274Abstract: A quantum device capable of effectively cooling a quantum chip and an area (e.g., a space) therearound is provided. A quantum device includes a quantum chip and an interposer on which the quantum chip is located. The interposer includes an interposer substrate and an interposer wiring layer. The interposer wiring layer is disposed on a surface of the interposer substrate on a side on which the quantum chip is located. The interposer wiring layer includes, in at least a part thereof, a superconducting material layer formed of a superconducting material and a non-superconducting material layer formed of a non-superconducting material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Katsumi KIKUCHI, Akira MIYATA, Suguru WATANABE, Takanori NISHI, Hideyuki SATOU, Kenji NANBA, Ayami YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240118612Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a photosensitive resin composition, a method for manufacturing a resist pattern film, and a method for manufacturing a plated shaped article; the photosensitive resin composition comprises (A) an alkali-soluble resin, (B1) a polymerizable compound having at least two (meth)acryloyl groups and at least two hydroxy groups in one molecule and having a ring structure, (C) a photoradical polymerization initiator, (D) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound (d1) containing two or more nitrogen atoms, a thiol compound (d2), and a polymerization inhibitor (d3), and (F) a solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: JSR CORPORATIONInventors: Keiichi SATOU, Akira Ishii, Takuya Tomita, Kazuhiko Koumura
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Patent number: 10899016Abstract: An example system includes a vehicle, a robot, and a controller. The vehicle may include an accelerator operator and a steering operator. The robot may include as accelerator actuator configured to operate the accelerator operator, and a steering actuator configured to operate-the steering operator. The controller is configured to: in response to an accelerator command, send a first signal to the accelerator actuator to operate the accelerator operator of the vehicle, and in response to a steering command, send a second, signal to the steering actuator to steer the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignees: SRI INTERNATIONAL, YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Thomas Low, Thomas De Candia, Seungkook Yun, Thomas Egan, Bryan Chavez, Alexander Kernbaum, Riley Shear, Leonard Gerard, Stephen Morfey, Richard Mahoney, Regis Vincent, Paul Birkmeyer, Hiroyuki Morita, Hirokatsu Muramatsu, Keiji Nishimura, Hiroshi Saijou, Akira Satou, Toshifumi Uchiyama, Hitoshi Watanabe, Shirou Watanabe
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Patent number: 10165045Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: receive, from each of a plurality of data centers located in a plurality of positions, load information pertaining to a load of each data center; calculate an estimated load value for each of the plurality of data centers based on the received load information; determine a data center to execute a requested process based on the estimated load value and a time zone of the position where each of the plurality of data centers is located; and control the determined data center to execute the requested process.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Masato Otsuka, Akira Satou, Tooru Yamamoto, Masahiro Sato
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Publication number: 20180297209Abstract: An example system includes a vehicle, a robot, and a controller. The vehicle may include an accelerator operator and a steering operator. The robot may include as accelerator actuator configured to operate the accelerator operator, and a steering actuator configured to operate-the steering operator. The controller is configured to: in response to an accelerator command, send a first signal to the accelerator actuator to operate the accelerator operator of the vehicle, and in response to a steering command, send a second, signal to the steering actuator to steer the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2016Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: Thomas LOW, Thomas DE CANDIA, Seungkook YUN, Thomas EGAN, Bryan CHAVEZ, Alexander KERNBAUM, Riley SHEAR, Leonard GERARD, Stephen MORFEY, Richard MAHONEY, Regis VINCENT, Paul BIRKMEYER, Hiroyuki MORITA, Hirokatsu MURAMATSU, Keiji NISHIMURA, Hiroshi SAIJOU, Akira SATOU, Toshifumi UCHIYAMA, Hitoshi WATANABE, Shirou WATANABE
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Patent number: 9965777Abstract: An advertisement distribution management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a detection unit, a storage unit, and an acceptance unit. The detection unit detects information on a wireless terminal which exists in a communication area of a wireless LAN access point and which satisfies a predetermined condition. The storage unit stores information on the wireless terminal detected by the detection unit and attribute information set to the wireless LAN access point in association with each other. The acceptance unit accepts an order request of an advertisement distribution that specifies the attribute information on the basis of the information on the wireless terminal stored in the storage unit in association with the specified attribute information.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATIONInventors: Ririse Taki, Shouichi Iiduka, Akira Satou
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BIPOLAR LAMINATED ALL-SOLID-STATE LITHIUM-ION RECHARGEABLE BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME
Publication number: 20170263981Abstract: There is provided a bipolar laminated all-solid-state lithium-ion rechargeable battery including bipolar electrodes and solid electrolyte layers that are alternately laminated. When viewed from a lamination direction of the battery, a current collector layer of each bipolar electrode has its outer edge inside the outer edge of a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer of the bipolar electrode. At least one of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer of each bipolar electrode is provided with at least one electrical insulating portion in an outer edge region on the surface where it is in contact with the current collector layer of the bipolar electrode. When each bipolar electrode is viewed from the lamination direction, the perspective projection of the at least one electrical insulating portion configures the entire periphery of the outer edge. The bipolar electrodes and the solid electrolyte layers form a sinter-bonded body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2017Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventor: Akira SATOU -
Publication number: 20170255408Abstract: By providing a virtual integrated disk creating unit configured to create a single virtual integrated disk by virtually integrating storage areas of a plurality of storage devices, and a target setting unit configured to set a login target to which a login to the virtual integrated disk from an outside is made, the time to log in to storage areas in multiple storage device provided in another node can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2017Publication date: September 7, 2017Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Hidejirou DAIKOKUYA, Yoshimasa MISHUKU, Ryota TSUKAHARA, Toshiaki TAKEUCHI, Akira Satou
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Patent number: 9600186Abstract: A first storage virtualization device operates in a system in which instructions requested by host computers are assigned to a plurality of storage virtualization devices. The first storage virtualization device includes an interface and a processor. The interface receives a write instruction assigned to the first storage virtualization device, data to be written by the write instruction, and operation statuses of other storage virtualization devices in the system. The processor calculates index values which represent loads when the first storage virtualization device processes the write instruction. The processor selects a second storage virtualization device for the purpose of requesting that it execute the write instruction by use of the operation statuses when the index values are greater than thresholds. The processor transmits the write instruction and the data to the second storage virtualization device.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Akira Satou, Toshiaki Yamauchi, Akihide Otawa
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Publication number: 20160344804Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: receive, from each of a plurality of data centers located in a plurality of positions, load information pertaining to a load of each data center; calculate an estimated load value for each of the plurality of data centers based on the received load information; determine a data center to execute a requested process based on the estimated load value and a time zone of the position where each of the plurality of data centers is located; and control the determined data center to execute the requested process.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Masato OTSUKA, Akira SATOU, Tooru YAMAMOTO, Masahiro SATO
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Patent number: 9175592Abstract: In a control device for an internal combustion engine according to the present embodiment, the control device includes: cooling units arranged on a path where a coolant is circulated, and cooling an exhaust gas of an engine with the coolant flowing through the cooling units; an atmospheric pressure sensor detecting an atmosphere pressure; and ECUs deciding whether or not to perform an exhaust gas temperature control for suppressing a temperature of the exhaust gas based on whether or not a heat quantity is more than a decision value, and correcting the decision value to be lower as the atmosphere pressure is lower.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2009Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Tsunooka, Shigemasa Hirooka, Shinichi Mitani, Akira Satou, Shigeyuki Urano
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Publication number: 20150301753Abstract: A first storage virtualization device operates in a system in which instructions requested by host computers are assigned to a plurality of storage virtualization devices. The first storage virtualization device includes an interface and a processor. The interface receives a write instruction assigned to the first storage virtualization device, data to be written by the write instruction, and operation statuses of other storage virtualization devices in the system. The processor calculates index values which represent loads when the first storage virtualization device processes the write instruction. The processor selects a second storage virtualization device for the purpose of requesting that it execute the write instruction by use of the operation statuses when the index values are greater than thresholds. The processor transmits the write instruction and the data to the second storage virtualization device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2015Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Akira SATOU, Toshiaki YAMAUCHI, Akihide OTAWA
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Patent number: 9142940Abstract: There is provided a switchboard including a boards each including an opening portion which is provided in a ceiling surface and configured to exhaust heat, and an intake portion which is provided in a lower portion and configured to taken in cooling air, a fan provided to cover the opening portion of a board of the boards and configured to exhaust air in a horizontal direction to cool the inside of the board, and a duct configured to supply the cooling air from the opening portion of a board not provided with the fan to the inside of the board provided with the fan.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems CorporationInventors: Takehiro Takahashi, Akira Satou
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Publication number: 20150086405Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a rotor driven to rotate by a motor and a pump body having a pump chamber accommodating the rotor, an intake port for introducing oil into the pump chamber according to rotation of the rotor, a discharge port for discharging oil from the pump chamber according to rotation of the rotor, a first discharge passage communicated to a first communication hole provided in the discharge port and circulating oil discharged from the discharge port, the first discharge passage having a smaller cross sectional area than the discharge port, and a second discharge passage communicated to a second communication hole provided in the discharge port separately from the first communication hole and circulating oil discharged from the discharge port, the second discharge passage having a smaller cross sectional area than the discharge port.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidefumi KONAKAWA, Takahiro Sekii, Satoru Amano, Akira Satou, Kiyotomo Miura
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Patent number: 8966143Abstract: A method, executed by a computer, for controlling storages includes obtaining time elapsed since data to be moved in a source storage in three or more storages whose performance for response to an access request is different is accessed in accordance with the access request, identifying, from the storages, a destination storage that meets condition under which the data to be moved in the source storage is moved, based on the obtained elapsed time by referring to a storage unit that stores the condition under which data is moved to each of the storages, and moving the data to be moved in the source storage to the identified destination storage.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Akira Satou
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Patent number: 8935079Abstract: An engine includes a normal fuel tank, fuel gas tank, an in-tank injection valve and a fuel gas supply valve. During operation of the engine, in a state where the fuel gas supply valve is closed, a fuel is injected into the fuel gas tank through the in-tank injection valve to generate a fuel gas by vaporizing the fuel. The fuel gas is stored in the fuel gas tank and is maintained in the gas phase due to the natural decompression even after the engine is stopped. To start the engine, the fuel gas supply valve is opened to supply the fuel gas in the fuel gas tank to a surge tank. Thus, compared with the case where the fuel gas is generated at the start of the engine, the fuel gas can be quickly supplied into the cylinder, so that the ability to start the engine is improved.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2010Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Tsunooka, Yasuyuki Irisawa, Shinichi Mitani, Satoshi Yoshizaki, Akira Satou, Shigeyuki Urano
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Patent number: 8819363Abstract: A method for controlling a switch apparatus connectable to a host and a storage device including first and second areas, the method includes: establishing schedule of copying data stored in the first area of the storage device into the second area of the storage device; monitoring a state of access by the host to the storage device; carrying out copying the data stored in the first area into the second area while the monitored state of the access by the host allows copying of the data from the first area into the second area; and enhancing copying, if any portion of the data remains when a time set by the schedule is expired, the remaining portion of the data from the first area into the second area.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2009Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Akira Satou, Kenichi Fujita, Koutarou Sasage, Atsushi Masaki, Hiroshi Shiomi
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Publication number: 20140222584Abstract: An advertisement distribution management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a detection unit, a storage unit, and an acceptance unit. The detection unit detects information on a wireless terminal which exists in a communication area of a wireless LAN access point and which satisfies a predetermined condition. The storage unit stores information on the wireless terminal detected by the detection unit and attribute information set to the wireless LAN access point in association with each other. The acceptance unit accepts an order request of an advertisement distribution that specifies the attribute information on the basis of the information on the wireless terminal stored in the storage unit in association with the specified attribute information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATIONInventors: Ririse TAKI, Shouichi IIDUKA, Akira SATOU
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Patent number: 8762665Abstract: A switch connectable between hosts and storage device, the switch for providing a service of allotting virtual areas to be deployed in the storage device to any of the hosts upon demand, the switch includes: a processor for controlling allotment of virtual areas to the hosts and allocation of physical areas of the storage device to the virtual areas; and a memory for storing information of the host allowed access to the virtual areas, the processor controlling access by any of the hosts to the virtual area so as to restrict access by any of the hosts to a part of the virtual areas allotted to the any of the hosts in reference to the memory.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2009Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Akira Satou, Kenichi Fujita, Koutarou Sasage, Atsushi Masaki, Hiroshi Shiomi, Masakazu Sakamoto, Takuya Kurihara, Toshiaki Takeuchi, Atsushi Shinohara
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Patent number: 8700948Abstract: A storage area managing apparatus includes a managing unit for managing a plurality of logical volumes provided by a plurality of storage drive groups for storing data redundantly, and a rebuilding controller for generating recovery data when at least one of the drive groups is degraded on the basis of the data stored in the degraded drive group and generating a selected logical volume on the basis of the capacity of the recovery data, the rebuilding controller controlling the management unit for managing first logical volumes to correspond to a part of the plurality of storage drive groups except for the degraded drive group. The storage area managing apparatus includes a first transferring unit for transferring the recovery data to the part of the plurality of storage drive groups as indicated by the selected logical volume.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2009Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Atsushi Masaki, Kenichi Fujita, Koutarou Sasage, Akira Satou, Hiroshi Shiomi