Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Otsuka

Hiroshi Otsuka 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: 9541534
    Abstract: An inspection apparatus used for an article storage facility includes an inactive gas supply portion provided with a supply nozzle provided in a placement support portion. A transport container having a supply port for an inactive gas is formed at a bottom portion thereof for accommodating substrates in a sealed state. The nozzle is joined to the supply port by a self weight of the transport container supported on the placement support portion so as to inject the inactive gas to an interior of the transport container. An inspection supply port is joined to the supply nozzle by a self weight of the inspection apparatus supported on the placement support portion, and is configured such that a gravity center position is supported on the placement support portion and coincides with a gravity center position of the transport container, the supply port inspects a state of supply of the inactive gas in the state of being supported on the placement support portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Otsuka, Shinsuke Kawamura, Tadahiro Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 9543898
    Abstract: A microwave amplifier including: a bias circuit that includes a line having an electrical length of one quarter the wavelength at the frequency configured to be amplified by the microwave amplifier and being connected between the output terminal of an amplifier and a bias voltage source, and a capacitor connected between a terminal where the line is connected to the bias voltage source and a ground that defines the reference potential of the microwave amplifier; and a resonant circuit that includes a resistor and a capacitor connected in series between the ground and the terminal where the line is connected to the bias voltage source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tsuyama, Hiroyuki Nonomura, Hiroshi Otsuka, Hifumi Noto, Yoshinori Yasunaga, Mitsuhiro Shimozawa, Yuichi Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 9520311
    Abstract: A processing facility is disclosed in which a container side contact surface and a support side contact surface are in contact with each other and a supply hole or a discharge hole, and a communicating hole are allowed to communicate with each other when a container is supported by a container support, and in which the container side contact surface is formed to be flat at least in a periphery of the communicating hole, and the support side contact surface is formed to have a shape that is gradually lower as a distance increases from the supply hole or the discharge hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Otsuka, Shinsuke Kawamura, Tadahiro Yoshimoto
  • Publication number: 20160335146
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute a process for detecting a sign, the process includes obtaining message information output from one or a plurality of information processing devices; obtaining configuration information in the one or the plurality of information processing devices; storing the obtained message information and the obtained configuration information in a common format; and outputting predetermined message information and predetermined configuration information according to comparison of a predetermined pattern described in the common format and the message information and the configuration information stored in the common format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Otsuka, YUKIHIRO WATANABE, YASUHIDE MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160332815
    Abstract: A plurality of transport controls selectively performed by a transport control device include a second transport control performed on a selected one of a first article transport device and a second article transport device as a target article transport device such that the target article transport device is moved only in a first path portion to transport articles when the target article transport device is the first article transport device, and that the target article transport device is moved only in a second path portion to transport the articles when the target article transport device is the second article transport device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Toshihito Ueda, Hiroshi Otsuka, Takeshi Abe
  • Publication number: 20160289001
    Abstract: An article storage facility is provided in which a back side transport device can be installed while reducing any reduction in the storage efficiency of the article storage facility. A back side transport device (4) is provided which can support and transport an article (W) between an outside location (P1) located rearward of a back face of the article storage rack (2) and an inside location (P2) located forwardly of the back face of the article storage rack (2). The inside location (P2) is defined between storage sections (1) arranged along the rack vertical direction. And the back side transport device (4) includes a receiving support portion (20) for receiving and supporting an article (W), and an actuating operation portion (21) for actuating the receiving support portion (20) in order to move the article (W) to the inside location (P2) and to the outside location (P1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suguru Shibata, Hiroshi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 9461884
    Abstract: An object is to integrate pieces of information related to mutually the same target, though the pieces of information do not contain, in common, an attribute unique to one target. To achieve the object, from a generated condition storage unit storing generated integration conditions each specifying one or more attributes contained, in duplicate, in pieces of information related to mutually the same target, one of the generated integration conditions specifying one or more attributes being the same as one or more attributes contained in integration target information is obtained as a generated integration condition corresponding to the integration target information. A CI 200b containing the attributes specified by the obtained generated integration condition and in which the values of the attributes specified are identical to the values of the attributes contained is determined as a CI related to the same target as the integration target information is related to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuji Wada, Yasuhide Matsumoto, Masazumi Matsubara, Hiroshi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 9407216
    Abstract: A comparator 13 that detects the difference between a high frequency signal detected by a detector 12 and a feedback signal A output from a comparator 11; a comparator 14 that detects the difference between the difference detected by the comparator 13 and a feedback signal B output from an adder 18; and a loop filter 15 that passes only a prescribed low frequency band of the output signal of the comparator 14 are provided, in which an amplitude sensitivity adjuster 16 adjusts the amplitude sensitivity of a variable gain amplifier 3 in accordance with the rate of change of the signal passing through the loop filter 15, thereby controlling the gain of the variable gain amplifier 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuo Kohama, Yutaro Yamaguchi, Naoko Nitta, Kenji Mukai, Hiroshi Otsuka, Kenichi Horiguchi, Morishige Hieda, Koji Yamanaka, Satoshi Miho
  • Publication number: 20160211815
    Abstract: A configuration is provided with: a tuned line 13 that is connected between a branch terminal 3 and a branch terminal of branch lines 2 and 4; and a tuned line 14 that is connected between a combining terminal 7 and a combining terminal 9 of combining lines 10 and 11. This enables reduction of a non-uniform voltage distribution occurring due to a difference in characteristics between two amplifier elements 6 and 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shohei Imai, Hiroshi Otsuka, Koji Yamanaka, Hiroaki Maehara, Motoyoshi Koyanagi, Akira Ota
  • Publication number: 20160117280
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that includes a plurality of ports, selectively connects one of the plurality of ports, and is interconnected to a plurality of an apparatuses via the plurality of ports, the information processing apparatus includes a memory configured to store therein zoning information indicating a connection relationship between the plurality of ports; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to issue, based on the zoning information, at least one of a first instruction for instructing to announce in a visually confirmable manner by using an indicator arranged so as to correspond to one or more of the plurality of ports and a second instruction for instructing to transmit an announcement command signal used for requesting an apparatus coupled to the information processing apparatus to announce a port of the apparatus in a visually confirmable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventor: Hiroshi OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20160092289
    Abstract: A determination method, for determining a possibility of a new failure in a system, includes: obtaining first setting values for a plurality of setting items of the system when a failure in the system occurs; obtaining second setting values for the plurality of setting items when an input that the failure has been recovered is received; identifying at least one setting item from among the plurality of setting items based on the first setting values and the second setting values, the at least one setting item having a first setting value different from a second setting value; determining a value from among the first value and the second value of the at least one setting item; comparing an input value regarding the at least one setting item and the value; determining the possibility based on a result of the comparing; and outputting information regarding the possibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Otsuka, YUKIHIRO WATANABE, YASUHIDE MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 9251029
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products predict locations of failures. Messages historically received are analyzed to predict a future failure. A pattern in the messages historically received is used to retrieve a template. A location of the future failure is predicted from the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Otsuka, Kaustubh Joshi, Matti A. Hiltunen, Edward Scott Daniels, Yasuhide Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9230845
    Abstract: An article storage facility comprises a plurality of storage units for storing transporting containers for substrates and inactive gas feed passages for supplying inactive gas to each of the plurality of said storage units. The plurality of storage units are divided into a plurality of sections. The inactive gas feed passages include section feeding portions which supply the inactive gas to the sections, and storage unit feeding portions which divert and supply the inactive gas, that is supplied to a respective section by an associated one of the section feeding portions, to the plurality of storage units in the respective section. The article storage facility includes a bypass portion which allows communication between two or more storage unit feeding portions, and a bypass switching valve that can be switched between an open state in which the inactive gas can be communicated through the bypass portion and a closed state in which the inactive gas cannot be communicated through the bypass portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Otsuka, Masahiro Takahara, Toshihito Ueda
  • Publication number: 20150378803
    Abstract: An extraction method comprising: acquiring configuration information indicating a configuration of a processing device for each generation that represents a respective time period between configuration modifications, and extracting first information indicating configuration modifications between generations based on a plurality of generations of the acquired configuration information; acquiring performance information indicating various types of performance of the processing device at respective times, and extracting, as second information associated with one of the generations, a time when an abnormality was detected in change to a time series of the acquired performance information; acquiring event information indicating an event occurring in the processing device at respective times, and extracting, as third information associated with one of the generations, a time of event information creation when an abnormality was detected; and extracting the first information, the second information, and the third in
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroshi Otsuka, Tetsuya UCHIUMI, YUKIHIRO WATANABE, YASUHIDE MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 9220182
    Abstract: A semiconductor module cooler includes a fin which is a heat sink, which is thermally connected to a semiconductor element, and which has one or more notches in an edge at one or more arbitrary positions in a longitudinal direction and one or more convex ribs which are formed on a bottom of a water jacket having a cooling flow path and which fit into the one or more notches at one or more arbitrary positions. By doing so, the efficiency of transferring heat generated by the semiconductor element by a coolant is improved and cooling performance is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Otsuka, Tomohiro Fukazu, Kosuke Nishiyama, Takeshi Ichimura, Hiromichi Gohara
  • Patent number: 9197442
    Abstract: A first port included in a relay apparatus transmits a first type of frame to a second relay apparatus. A second port transmits a second type of frame to the second relay apparatus. A control unit specifies on the basis of transfer information that a transfer destination port of the first type of frame which is for accessing a node connected to the second relay apparatus is the first port. After that, the control unit generates the second type of frame including the first type of frame according to a load on the first port. Instead of transmitting the first type of frame from the first port, the control unit transmits the second type of frame from the second port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroshi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 9183264
    Abstract: In the configuration information management device, if a CI stored in the entity information storage unit has a feature, duplicates of the CIs that are associated with the subject CI, managed by other FCMDBs, and do not have features, as well as duplicates of Rels, are created and managed in the entity information storage unit. In the configuration information management device, when a search request for a search formula that associates CIs with one another by Rels is received, the information about the search formula is searched for with the use of the duplicates created in the entity information storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuji Wada, Masazumi Matsubara, Hiroshi Otsuka, Shinya Kitajima, Yukihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9176798
    Abstract: A failure prediction device generates a failure predictor pattern in accordance with previous cases of failure that has occurred in a first system, the failure predictor pattern being used to detect a predictor of failure in the first system configuration. When a system configuration is changed from the first system configuration to a second system configuration, the failure prediction device calculates the difference information that indicates the difference between the system configurations by using the number of changes that is the accumulated number of times that a change of the configuration item which is included in a system is executed. The failure prediction device determines, in accordance with the calculated difference information, whether the failure predictor pattern is applicable to the detection of a predictor of failure in the second system configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yukihiro Watanabe, Hiroshi Otsuka, Yasuhide Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20150286488
    Abstract: A verification support method includes generating, every time a setting change of a certain computer among a plurality of computers is executed, a configuration change information item that includes one or more setting change information items indicating a content of the setting change of the certain computer and a content of a setting change to be made by a computer other than the certain computer in response to the setting change of the certain computer; calculating a co-occurrence probability for each of combinations of setting change items extracted from a plurality of setting change items included in a plurality of generated configuration change information items; extracting a second setting change item of which a co-occurrence probability when the first setting change item is changed is equal to or larger than a first threshold when information of a first setting change item is received; and outputting the second setting change item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yukihiro Watanabe, Hiroshi Otsuka, Yasuhide Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20150249150
    Abstract: A portion of an AlN spacer layer of a high electron mobility transistor (GaN HEMI) having a nitride semiconductor used therein is removed only in a region directly below a gate electrode and in a vicinity of the region, and a length of a portion where the AlN spacer layer is not present is sufficiently smaller than a distance between a source electrode and a drain electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaro YAMAGUCHI, Toshiyuki OISHI, Hiroshi OTSUKA, Koji YAMANAKA