Patents by Inventor Akiyoshi Okamoto

Akiyoshi Okamoto 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).

  • Publication number: 20240191392
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a silicon carbide single crystal includes growing the silicon carbide single crystal on a surface of a seed crystal by supplying a supply gas including a raw material gas of silicon carbide to the surface of the seed crystal and controlling an environment so that at least a part inside the heating vessel is 2500° C. or higher. The growing the silicon carbide single crystal includes controlling a temperature distribution ?T in a radial direction centering on central axis of the seed crystal and the silicon carbide single crystal satisfies a radial direction temperature condition of ?T?10° ° C. on the surface of the seed crystal before the growing of the silicon carbide single crystal and on a growth surface of the silicon carbide single crystal during the growing of the silicon carbide single crystal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Akiyoshi HORIAI, Takeshi OKAMOTO, Takahiro KANDA, Norihiro HOSHINO, Kiyoshi BETSUYAKU, Isaho KAMATA, Hidekazu TSUCHIDA, Takashi KANEMURA
  • Publication number: 20240110309
    Abstract: Provided are a method for manufacturing a silicon carbide single crystal, and a silicon carbide single crystal ingot which ensure a high crystal growth rate and increase the ratio of conversion from basal plane dislocations to threading edge dislocations. The method prepares a seed substrate composed of silicon carbide having an off-angle in a [1-100] direction with respect to a {0001} plane; and grows a silicon carbide single crystal layer on the seed substrate by an HTCVD method, thereby converting basal plane dislocations contained in the seed substrate to threading edge dislocations during crystal growth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kiyoshi BETSUYAKU, Norihiro HOSHINO, Isaho KAMATA, Hidekazu TSUCHIDA, Akiyoshi HORIAI, Takeshi OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8584249
    Abstract: A system for preventing unauthorized use of digital content that can prevent unauthorized use of digital content and can reliably collect a charge for secondary use is provided. The system for preventing unauthorized use may include: a distributing recording medium ? on which a content file having header information “A” and a data body “B” is recorded in a state of lacking play information “A1” indispensable for playing the data body “B” included in the header information a; a management center managing use of the content file on the distributing recording medium ? and which can deliver the prepared play information “A1” of the header information “A” as piece data via a communication line ?; and a digital content playing device which is a device used for playing the content file on the distributing recording medium ? and has a function of communicating via the communication line ? with the management center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Phu Sang Ltd., LLC
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Okamoto, Masataka Ishida
  • Patent number: 7908478
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent illegal use of data (digital contents), and a second object is to provide a method for processing data which ensures the collection of charges for secondary use of the data, a data reading method for reading the data processed by this processing method, and a recording medium storing programs implementing these methods. The method for processing data is such that in a method for processing a data body b which is encrypted and is decrypted on a decryption bit length basis, and thereby is reproduced, the data body b is encrypted, a part of this data body b with a bit length different from the decryption bit length is omitted, and the omitted part is closed so as to make the data continuous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Okamoto, Masataka Ishida
  • Publication number: 20070136605
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent illegal use of data (digital contents), and a second object is to provide a method for processing data which ensures the collection of charges for secondary use of the data, a data reading method for reading the data processed by this processing method, and a recording medium storing programs implementing these methods. The method for processing data is such that in a method for processing a data body b which is encrypted and is decrypted on a decryption bit length basis, and thereby is reproduced, the data body b is encrypted, a part of this data body b with a bit length different from the decryption bit length is omitted, and the omitted part is closed so as to make the data continuous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Applicant: Japan Wave Inc.,
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Okamoto, Masataka Ishida
  • Publication number: 20060085859
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a system for preventing unauthorized use of digital content which can prevent unauthorized use of digital content and can reliably collect a charge for secondary use. Basically, a system for preventing unauthorized use of digital content has: a distributing recording medium ? on which a content file having header information “A” and a data body “B” is recorded in a state of lacking play information “A1” indispensable for playing the data body “B” included in the header information a; a management center 110 which is management means managing use of the content file on the distributing recording medium ? and can deliver the prepared play information “A1” of the header information “A” as piece data via a communication line ?; and a digital content playing device 120 which is a device used for playing the content file on the distributing recording medium ? and has a function of communicating via the communication line ? with the management center 110.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Applicant: Japan-Wave Inc.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Okamoto, Masataka Ishida
  • Publication number: 20030135467
    Abstract: [Problem to be solved] To rent a digital contents such as a movie or the like easily without a case in which the digital contents cannot be rented as it was rented by someone else.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Inventor: Akiyoshi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 5914089
    Abstract: Hereby established is a method of disinfection by ozone which is safe, clean, more reliable, and more efficient than prior methods. The method comprises a step of calculating the amount of ozone which would be required to solely disinfect bacteria if there were no co-existing materials, a step of calculating the amount of ozone which will be consumed by actual co-existing materials and a step of applying the total value of the two ozone amounts in proper forms, such as, gas or liquid, etc., preferably in the form of aqueous solution, to the object to be disinfected. This method can be consistently adopted for disinfection on very wide varieties of bacteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: Masao Suzuki
    Inventors: Atsushi Murakami, Yukio Akahori, Akiyoshi Okamoto