Patents by Inventor Hideo Saito
Hideo Saito 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: 20230153007Abstract: A system causes a migration tool of a cloud computer to migrate, from a first storage system to the cloud computer, a system volume storing an image of an OS for configuring a computer instance to be migrated, and a data volume storing data used by the OS, and causes a second storage system to create a mapping volume, which has been mapped to the data volume migrated to the cloud computer with the migration tool, in a second storage system, and sets a path of data input/output from the computer instance to the mapping volume in the computer instance.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Misato YOSHIDA, Hideo SAITO, Takaki NAKAMURA, Naruki KURATA, Takahiro YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230126302Abstract: A plate making system comprises a writing device, an exposure device, a developing device, a plate cutting device, a first transfer device, a second transfer device and a third transfer device in an integrated manner. The plate making system also comprises a control device that controls a series of plate making processes for a flexographic printing original plate performed by the writing device, the exposure device, the developing device and the plate cutting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicants: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ESKO Graphics imaging Gesellschaft mit beschrankter HaftungInventors: Yuki YAMAMOTO, Hideo SAITO, Thomas PASCAL, Klein THOMAS
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Patent number: 11636015Abstract: A storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes. The storage node includes: one or more storage devices which respectively provide a storage area; and one or more control software which read/write requested data from/into the corresponding storage device according to a request from a higher-level device, wherein each of the control software retains predetermined configuration information required for reading/writing requested data from/into the corresponding storage device according to a request from the higher-level device, wherein a plurality of the control software are managed as a redundancy group, and the configuration information retained in each of the control software belonging to the same redundancy group is synchronously updated, and wherein the plurality of control software configuring the redundancy group are each deployed in respectively different storage nodes so as to distribute a load of each of the storage nodes.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masakuni Agetsuma, Yuko Matsui, Shintaro Ito, Hideo Saito
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Patent number: 11493092Abstract: A speed-reducing or -increasing apparatus, with first and second crown gears facing one another, with a cam unit that causes the first crown gear to incline with respect to the second crown gear so that the first crown gear meshes with the second crown gear, that causes the first crown gear to precess in such a manner as to move the meshing position, and couples to an input or output shaft. A rolling element is between the cam unit and the first crown gear, and the cam unit includes a first member that couples to the input or output shaft and a second member made of steel and including a rolling element rolling portion where the rolling element rolls, the second member configured to be incapable of rotating relatively to the first member, and at least part of the first member having a lower specific gravity than the second member.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo Saito, Yuichi Mizutani, Kotaro Kushida
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Patent number: 11493844Abstract: The present invention provides a photosensitive resin composition for a flexographic printing plate, the photosensitive resin composition including at least a hydrophilic copolymer (A), a thermoplastic elastomer (B), a photo-polymerizable monomer (C), a photo-polymerization initiator (D), a plasticizer (E), and an acidic group-containing polymer (F), wherein the photosensitive resin composition for the flexographic printing plate has an acid value of 1 to 100 mgKOH/g, as measured by neutralization titration.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Ogawa, Hideo Saito, Tohru Kihara, Kenji Ota
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Publication number: 20220336064Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry. The processing circuitry collects patient information and medical information related to a medical record including a plurality of medical actions. The processing circuitry causes a display to display the medical record by displaying the plurality of medical actions, the collected patient information, and the collected medical information in time series and displaying an option selected in the medical record by a doctor in association with any reason for the selection of the option. The processing circuitry causes the display device to display the option selected by the doctor and any option not selected by the doctor in a distinguishable manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi YOSHIDA, Yasunori OHSHIMA, Daizo OIKAWA, Hideo SAITO
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Publication number: 20220237016Abstract: One or more storage devices store resource migration schedule information including a plurality of records. Each of the plurality of records indicating a migration source node and a migration destination node of each of one or more resources. One or more processors are configured to determine a priority of each of the plurality of records such that a record having locality after migration has a higher priority than a priority of a record without locality after migration. The locality is determined based on whether a virtual machine and a volume associated with each other in advance exist in the same node. The one or more processors are configured to determine a migration schedule of each of the plurality of records based on the priority of each of the plurality of records.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Yuushi KAMIYA, Hiroyuki MORIMOTO, Hideo SAITO
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Publication number: 20220043352Abstract: A flexographic printing raw plate comprising at least a support, a photosensitive resin composition layer, an intermediate layer, and an infrared ablation layer sequentially stacked, wherein the intermediate layer comprises a hydrophilic resin (A) and a layered inorganic compound (B), and the intermediate layer has a film thickness of 2 ?m or more and 30 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2019Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuzo FUJIKI, Hiroshi OGAWA, Hideo SAITO
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Patent number: 11237745Abstract: To more effectively eliminate a resource imbalance among storage apparatuses, and shorten the time required for elimination in a computer system including a plurality of storage apparatuses and a computer. In a computer system including a plurality of storage apparatuses that provide a volume to a computer and a storage management device that manages the plurality of storage apparatuses, in a case where there is an instruction to create a new volume, the storage management device compares a distribution of feature amounts of all volumes provided by each storage apparatus and a distribution of feature amounts of all volumes in a case of providing a newly created volume in each storage apparatus, and instructs a storage apparatus having a largest difference in the distributions of the feature amounts to create a volume.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takaki Nakamura, Hideo Saito, Yoshinori Ohira, Azusa Jin
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Publication number: 20220027246Abstract: A storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes. The storage node includes: one or more storage devices which respectively provide a storage area; and one or more control software which read/write requested data from/into the corresponding storage device according to a request from a higher-level device, wherein each of the control software retains predetermined configuration information required for reading/writing requested data from/into the corresponding storage device according to a request from the higher-level device, wherein a plurality of the control software are managed as a redundancy group, and the configuration information retained in each of the control software belonging to the same redundancy group is synchronously updated, and wherein the plurality of control software configuring the redundancy group are each deployed in respectively different storage nodes so as to distribute a load of each of the storage nodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Masakuni AGETSUMA, Yuko MATSUI, Shintaro ITO, Hideo SAITO
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Patent number: 11204709Abstract: Disclosed is a storage system having a plurality of storage nodes, each of the storage nodes including: a non-volatile storage apparatus that stores control information regarding a volume; a capacity controller that performs control associated with writing information to and reading information from the storage apparatus; and a migration controller migrates the volume, in which when the volume is migrated between the storage nodes, the capacity controller updates the control information in response to the migration of the volume performed by the migration controller.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shintaro Ito, Takahiro Yamamoto, Hideo Saito
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Patent number: 11199972Abstract: The present invention proposes an information processing system and a volume allocation method making it feasible to reduce overall system operation cost. A replication group to carry out replication is comprised of one or multiple nodes. A storage node classifies respective storage devices mounted thereon into plural storage hierarchies according to the drive type of each of the storage devices for management of the storage devices. A controller node allocates, to each node of the nodes constituting the replication group, a volume for which a storage device of a storage hierarchy suitable for a type of middleware that the node uses and a node type of the node acting in the replication group provides a storage area.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Azusa Jin, Hideo Saito, Masakuni Agetsuma, Soichi Takashige
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Patent number: 11196806Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to replication of data between different environments selectively while maintaining the performance of applications. The replication of data may be used to replicate data from a data center running a business critical application to another data center running an analytics application. In example implementations, a storage management program translates the IDs of database tables to storage locations, and the storage management program requests a storage system to replicate those storage locations to another storage system.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Hideo Saito, Keisuke Hatasaki, Akira Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11188243Abstract: Even though storage systems are different in types, storage pools in a plurality of storage systems are integrated, and a storage volume is created in a suited storage pool corresponding to a storage requirements. In an information system where a plurality of storage systems (a disk array, an SDS system, and an HCI system) is present, when creating the storage volume using requested storage requirements as parameters, a storage management server selects a storage pool that satisfies the storage requirements based on comparison of the storage requirements and characteristic information held in first management information (a storage pool management table), the server creates the storage volume in the selected storage pool, and the server adds an entry relating to the created storage volume to second management information (a volume management table).Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masanori Takata, Yoshinori Ohira, Hideo Saito, Masakuni Agetsuma
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Patent number: 11151045Abstract: Provided is a distributed storage system which can reduce a load on a network between storage apparatuses when an access request is received and improve responsiveness. In the distributed storage system, the storage device includes a data area and a cache area; a node becomes an owner node when receiving a transfer of charge of an LU from another node in a non-storage state where LU data is not stored in a data area; the processor of the owner node receives a read request for an LU that is in charge, obtains data of a target area based on data of the storage device of another node when the data of the target area is not stored in the data area or the cache area of the owner node, and transmits the data to a request source and stores it in a cache area.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Ohira, Masakuni Agetsuma, Takeru Chiba, Takahiro Yamamoto, Hiroto Ebara, Hideo Saito
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Patent number: 11144415Abstract: A storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes. The storage node includes: one or more storage devices which respectively provide a storage area; and one or more control software which read/write requested data from/into the corresponding storage device according to a request from a higher-level device, wherein each of the control software retains predetermined configuration information required for reading/writing requested data from/into the corresponding storage device according to a request from the higher-level device, wherein a plurality of the control software are managed as a redundancy group, and the configuration information retained in each of the control software belonging to the same redundancy group is synchronously updated, and wherein the plurality of control software configuring the redundancy group are each deployed in respectively different storage nodes so as to distribute a load of each of the storage nodes.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masakuni Agetsuma, Yuko Matsui, Shintaro Ito, Hideo Saito
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Patent number: 11137940Abstract: A capacity control module which manages a physical storage area provided by each of storage devices in a cluster by dividing the physical storage area into a physical storage area having a predetermined size, in a plurality of storage nodes configuring a storage system, and, a storage control module which receives an I/O request from a higher-level device are provided, two storage control modules, which are arranged in different storage nodes and configure a redundancy configuration, are managed as a storage control module pair, the capacity control module preferentially allocates each of the physical storage areas in the vicinity of an arrangement destination of each of the storage control modules configuring the storage control module pair, to the storage control module pair, and storage data is read from or is written on the physical storage area, according to a command applied from the storage control module.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shintaro Ito, Yuko Matsui, Masakuni Agetsuma, Hideo Saito, Takeru Chiba, Takahiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11128535Abstract: A computer system includes: a storage device; storage area management units that provide a storage area, based on the storage device to a data management unit having a data protection function for achieving availability of a system providing a service, and have a data control function for the storage area; and a control unit that manages arrangement of the storage area and a data control policy applied to the storage area. The control unit acquires setting information about the availability of the system providing the service and performance of the service and determines the data control policy applied to the storage area, based on the setting information. The storage area management units control the storage area, based on the data control policy.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Azusa Jin, Hideo Saito, Takaki Nakamura, Masakuni Agetsuma, Tsukasa Shibayama
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Patent number: 11112973Abstract: A computer system includes a host unit that issues a request of an I/O processing to a volume VOL, a local pool control unit that is in charge of management of a local pool based on a storage area of a drive of one node, and a global pool control unit that is in charge of management of a global pool based on a plurality of local pools, wherein the global pool control unit controls transmission of target data of the I/O processing performed by the host unit based on a commonality relationship among a first node that is formed with the host unit performing the I/O processing, a second node that is formed with the global pool control unit, and a third node that is formed with the local pool control unit managing the local pool.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Hiroto Ebara, Yoshinori Ohira, Hideo Saito, Masakuni Agetsuma, Takeru Chiba, Takahiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11068367Abstract: While an extra storage resource required for an operation of IaaS/PaaS is reduced, an SLA on storage performance is maintained even upon a failure. In a storage system including a plurality of storage nodes for providing storage regions for storing data of a computer on which an application is executed, a normal mode to be set in a normal state and an emergency mode in which a predetermined function is suppressed compared with the normal mode are prepared as a process mode for a request for input and output of data. In the storage system, in response to the occurrence of a failure in a first storage node, the process mode is switched to the emergency mode for a second storage node in which the failure does not occur.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Hideo Saito, Yoshinori Ohira, Masakuni Agetsuma, Hiroto Ebara