Patents by Inventor Junichi Hirai

Junichi Hirai 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: 11942242
    Abstract: A wiring member includes a wiring body and a pattern. The wiring body includes a plurality of wire-like transmission members and a base material. The plurality of wire-like transmission members are fixed to the base material in an aligned state, and the pattern is provided on the wiring body. The pattern makes a two-dimensional position of at least a part of a portion related to the base material recognizable in the wiring body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Suguru Yasuda, Haruka Nakano, Motohiro Yokoi, Kenta Ito, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Koichiro Goto, Junichi Shirakawa, Yoshitaka Kami, Yasushi Nomura, Sofia Barillaro
  • Patent number: 9919365
    Abstract: A side milling cutter for slot cutting is provided whose vibration can be damped even in cases where a vibration mode of the cutter generates plural nodes in a cutting part. A side milling cutter for slot cutting of the present invention includes a disc-shaped cutter and a plurality of cartridges as cutting edges provided at a predefined interval in a circumferential direction along an outer circumference of the disc-shaped cutter. The disc-shaped cutter cuts a predefined slot on a workpiece using the cartridges by circumferentially rotating. The disc-shaped cutter internally includes a plurality of vibration damping structures in the circumferential direction on a disk surface of the disc-shaped cutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignees: Misubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Takayuki Miyamoto, Kenji Nishikawa, Ippei Kono, Junichi Hirai, Masanori Kawakami, Nobuhisa Kanamaru, Hitoshi Tohkairin
  • Publication number: 20150165531
    Abstract: A side milling cutter for slot cutting is provided whose vibration can be damped even in cases where a vibration mode of the cutter generates plural nodes in a cutting part. A side milling cutter for slot cutting of the present invention includes a disc-shaped cutter and a plurality of cartridges as cutting edges provided at a predefined interval in a circumferential direction along an outer circumference of the disc-shaped cutter. The disc-shaped cutter cuts a predefined slot on a workpiece using the cartridges by circumferentially rotating. The disc-shaped cutter internally includes a plurality of vibration damping structures in the circumferential direction on a disk surface of the disc-shaped cutter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Takayuki MIYAMOTO, Kenji NISHIKAWA, Ippei KONO, Junichi HIRAI, Masanori KAWAKAMI, Nobuhisa KANAMARU, Hitoshi TOHKAIRIN
  • Patent number: 8015203
    Abstract: A document recognizing apparatus includes a display control unit which displays a document data including a character string related to a character string selected by a user, and an area that includes at least a character string of the document data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takebe, Noriaki Ozawa, Akihiro Minagawa, Yusaku Fujii, Yoshinobu Hotta, Hiroshi Tanaka, Katsuhito Fujimoto, Junichi Hirai, Seiji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7948867
    Abstract: When a program transmission apparatus divides a program into a plurality of partial programs before transmission, a program reception execution apparatus executes a partial program when the partial program has already been received, and, when the execution needs to proceed to from a present partial program to a next partial program, executes the other partial program when the next partial program has been received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Inoue, Masahiro Oashi, Yuki Kusumi, Tatsuya Shimoji, Ikuo Minakata, Masayuki Kozuka, Yoshihiro Mimura, Yoshiyuki Miyabe, Kazuo Okamura, Takashi Kakiuchi, Junichi Hirai, Naoya Takao, Toshiya Mori
  • Publication number: 20100073012
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a method of detecting water leakage in a coil, which determines whether or not cooling water leaks into an insulation layer, the water being supplied to a conductor of a coil covered with the insulation layer, including: applying an AC voltage to the conductor; bringing a surface electrode device into pressure contact with the insulation layer; grounding the surface electrode device through an impedance; measuring a potential of the surface electrode device; and determining that the cooling water leaks from the conductor into the insulation layer when a measured potential is higher than a potential of a normal coil
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: TOSHIBA PLANT SYSTEMS & SERVICES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Inoue, Hideyuki Shimada, Shinobu Sekito, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hiroshi Kaneiwa, Shinji Uemoto, Junichi Hirai
  • Patent number: 7664598
    Abstract: The present invention provides a guiding device that can induce a user to move according to a guiding route. The guiding device according to the present invention is a guiding device which guides a user, including an acquisition unit (101) which acquires a guiding route for the user, a recognition unit (102) which recognizes an object which exists in the user's vicinity, a management unit (104) which manages an object and an adjustment method for adjusting an influence that the object has on the movement of the user, by associating the object and the adjustment method in advance, a judgment unit (103) which judges whether or not the object recognized by the recognition unit (102) exists within the guiding route acquired by the acquisition unit (101), and an adjustment unit (110) which executes a specified adjustment process based on the judgment made by the judgment unit (102), and on the adjustment method managed in association with the object recognized by the recognition unit (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kakuya Yamamoto, Keiji Sugiyama, Junichi Hirai
  • Patent number: 7650342
    Abstract: A management device that provides user profile taking the user's situation into consideration. The management device creates, in response to a request from applications, a new user profile (hereinafter referred to as “comprehensive user profile”) based on a plurality of user profiles, and provides it to the applications. The management device always monitors a user's situation, directly or indirectly correlates the user's situation at the time that the user profile is registered with the user profile, and stores the same. Because the management device creates the comprehensive user profile based on the user profile corresponding to the current user situation, the comprehensive user profile reflects the user's situation which changes from time to time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Sugiyama, Junichi Hirai, Akira Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 7555000
    Abstract: The present invention relate to a digital broadcast system, and it is an object of the invention to record contents quickly in a broadcast system which implements interactivity by transmitting a set of data repeatedly, wherein a digital broadcast receiver separates a table corresponding to video images from streams in an arbitrary order and repeats the processing of memorizing the video image data to be identified in the order of obtaining the same by means of the table corresponding to the video images until all of the set of video images have been memorized. This allows for performing, in a short time, storage process of video image data broadcast for the purpose of efficient reproduction by a receiver having no storage function. Additionally, the data is available to viewers at any time after the completion of storage thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Shimoji, Masahiro Oashi, Hiroyuki Waki, Junichi Hirai
  • Publication number: 20090125509
    Abstract: A document recognizing apparatus includes a display control unit which displays a document data including a character string related to a character string selected by a user, and an area that includes at least a character string of the document data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroaki TAKEBE, Noriaki OZAWA, Akihiro MINAGAWA, Yusaku FUJII, Yoshinobu HOTTA, Hiroshi TANAKA, Katsuhito FUJIMOTO, Junichi HIRAI, Seiji TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20080301166
    Abstract: The present invention provides a user profile which takes a user's situation into consideration. A management device 100 creates, in response to a request from applications 110, a new user profile (hereinafter referred to as “comprehensive user profile”) based on a plurality of user profiles, and provides it to the applications 110. The management device 100 always monitors a user's situation, directly or indirectly correlates the user's situation at the time that the user profile is registered with the user profile, and stores the same. Because the management device creates the comprehensive user profile based on the user profile corresponding to the current user situation, the comprehensive user profile reflects the user's situation which changes from time to time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Keiji Sugiyama, Junichi Hirai, Akira Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20080243385
    Abstract: The present invention provides a guiding device that can induce a user to move according to a guiding route. The guiding device according to the present invention is a guiding device which guides a user, including an acquisition unit (101) which acquires a guiding route for the user, a recognition unit (102) which recognizes an object which exists in the user's vicinity, a management unit (104) which manages an object and an adjustment method for adjusting an influence that the object has on the movement of the user, by associating the object and the adjustment method in advance, a judgment unit (103) which judges whether or not the object recognized by the recognition unit (102) exists within the guiding route acquired by the acquisition unit (101), and an adjustment unit (110) which executes a specified adjustment process based on the judgment made by the judgment unit (102), and on the adjustment method managed in association with the object recognized by the recognition unit (102).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Kakuya Yamamoto, Keiji Sugiyama, Junichi Hirai
  • Patent number: 7305698
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus for an interactive communication system using a broadcast wave, which includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, and a transmitting unit. The first storage unit stores a plurality of frames of image data. The second storage unit stores control information which shows links between said plurality of frames of image data stored in the first storage unit, and which indicates a combining of a supplementary design with the image data. These supplementary designs are stored by a receiving apparatus and are combined with the image represented by the image data. The transmitting unit repeatedly transmits a predetermined number of frames of image data together with corresponding control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Tanigawa, Kazuo Okamura, Junichi Hirai, Yoshiyuki Miyabe
  • Publication number: 20070197195
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an information notification controller and an information notification control method that can provide information suited to users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2005
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Keiji Sugiyama, Junichi Hirai, Kakuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7203739
    Abstract: Terminal devices and a method of transferring sets of transmission document information in a network system between terminal devices such as portable devices which can be grouped together into a plurality of different groups is provided. A terminal device can store capability information relative to a specific type of data that can be received and outputted. The terminal device can receive an inquiry from another terminal device as to the capability information and can transmit the capability information when appropriate to the inquiring terminal device. Various types of capability information can be stored, depending upon the particular capabilities of the terminal device such as picture data, audio data and character data to enable the terminal device to be an e-mail terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Ohto, Kazuo Okamura, Masaki Mukai, Junichi Hirai, Toshihiro Hishida
  • Publication number: 20070005724
    Abstract: People communicating with each other in remote places can easily connect their communication devices. For example, a user A of an IP telephone unit a1 may have a desire to transmit a still image to a user B talking on an IP telephone unit b1. In such a case, from the IP telephone unit b1, the IP telephone unit a1 obtains the facsimile number of a communication device belonging to user B which can receive still images, for example, a facsimile. The IP telephone unit a1 can transmit the obtained facsimile number to the facsimile device a2 connected by LAN. The facsimile device a2 which has received the number calls the received facsimile number. In other words, the IP telephone unit a1 which includes the communication control device obtains the communication address required for a third communication during a call, and notifies the communication device a2 of the address with the second communication function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Junichi Hirai, Keiji Sugiyama, Masashi Takemura
  • Publication number: 20060293838
    Abstract: A guidance apparatus includes: a goal setting unit which sets a guidance goal of a user; a recognition unit which recognizes a situation of the user; a guidance tool obtainment unit which obtains a guidance tool for the user; a guidance plan making unit which makes a guidance plan by combining two or more guidance tools obtained; an execution unit which executes the guidance plan; and a presentation unit which presents a result of the execution to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Kakuya Yamamoto, Keiji Sugiyama, Junichi Hirai
  • Patent number: 7149599
    Abstract: When creating other tool path from two tool paths for cutting a work accurately and efficiently, the data on the first tool path is composed of a position vector and a direction vector of a tool for use when the work is cut while moving the tool. The data on the second tool path is composed of a position vector and a direction vector of the tool for use when the work, which has been cut according to the first tool path, is further cut. A computer uses the first tool path data and second tool path data to calculate a position vector and a direction vector of a medium tool path that is between the first tool path and second tool path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Arai, Junichi Hirai, Tamotsu Harihara, Osamu Chiba, Nobuhisa Kanamaru, Shunsuke Minami
  • Publication number: 20060227721
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a content transmission device which allows playback of content on a content receiving device, the viewing and/or listening of which was interrupted on the content receiving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Junichi Hirai, Keiji Sugiyama, Masashi Takemura
  • Patent number: RE40361
    Abstract: A data conversion apparatus is provided as a data transmitting apparatus in a data communication system which achieves pseudo interactive communications by using one-way communications between the data transmitting apparatus and a plurality of data receiving apparatuses. The data conversion apparatus converts documents stored inside into images to be displayed on the screen, such as a TV screen. In doing so, if the document includes character strings or image information as link destination information which specifies another document as a link destination, the data conversion apparatus adds a supplementary design into the image of the link destination information for the viewer to recognize such information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Yamanaka, Kazuo Okamura, Junichi Hirai, Hidekazu Tanigawa, Chihiro Imagawa