Patents by Inventor Kouichi Matsumoto

Kouichi Matsumoto 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: 9001516
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic circuit unit to be mounted within a casing of an automatic transmission for a vehicle. An electronic circuit body including circuit-side terminals protruding in an outward direction from a main-body, connectors to be connected to the electronic circuit body, a cover, and a base member having a placing face on which the cover, the electronic circuit body and the connectors are placed. The cover is provided with a main-body covering part, fitting-portion covering parts and which cover a fitting-portion of the circuit-side terminals and fitting parts of the wire-side terminals from a side opposing to the placing face, and a restricting part for regulating the detachment of the connectors from the fitting position to the detached position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Nakayama, Kouichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8979638
    Abstract: The present application provides a system which transmits a request signal to a plurality of chips located within a communication range of an antenna, receives from a chip which has received the request signal an answer back including identification information and a plurality of error detection codes of the chip, generates a plurality of error detection codes from the identification information of the chip, detects match or mismatch of a plurality of error detection codes received and a plurality of error detection codes generated, and when, among a plurality of pairs of the error detection codes, match of a pair of error detection codes is detected and mismatch of another pair of error detection codes is detected, determines that the match of the pair of the error detection codes of the chip is misrecognition resulting from collision of a response signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Emori, Shinsuke Yamaguchi, Toru Sugawara, Kouichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8797839
    Abstract: A signaling processor has a message transfer part for a Layer 2 operable to notify a message transfer part for a Layer 3 of a signal indicative of stop (release) completion of a link being connected when it receives a response to a request for a link release process after detection of a failure of the link being connected and notification of the request for the link release process to a correspondent signaling processor and a message transfer part for the Layer 3 operable to perform a retrieval process of a received signal that has not been retrieved and has been stored in the message transfer part for the Layer 2 when it receives the signal indicative of stop (release) completion of the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kouichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8750317
    Abstract: An exemplary aspect of the invention is a data monitoring system including a data monitoring apparatus, a monitoring terminal, a first network, a second network, a first communication apparatus that is connected to the first network and a second communication apparatus that is connected to the second network, wherein the data monitoring apparatus includes a call processing circuit to retrieve decoding information out of a call processing signal transmitted from one of the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus to the other and to transmit the decoding information to the monitoring terminal, and a data processing circuit to transmit data having voice data or image data to the monitoring terminal, wherein one of the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus transmits the data to the other, and wherein the monitoring terminal includes a decoding circuit to decode the data in accordance with the decoding information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichi Matsumoto, Kazunori Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20130323955
    Abstract: A connector terminal includes: a main body section having a board-contacting-surface which is flat and capable of contacting a connecting conductor of a circuit board; and an elastic deforming section that is positioned on a side opposite to the board-contacting-surface in a thickness direction of the circuit board, and that can deform elastically in the thickness direction with respect to the main body section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Nishio, Hiroki Hirai, Kouichi Matsumoto, Yasuo Omori
  • Publication number: 20130296041
    Abstract: A gaming table device which can determine frauds precisely and human errors is provided. A plurality of antennas for reading medium identification information of the game medium disposed on a game table through a wireless communication are disposed at locations spaced away from each other, and when a first antenna of the plurality of antennas is selected, a second antenna spaced at a predetermined distance from the first antenna of the plurality of antennas is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuki EMORI, Toru Sugawara, Kouichi Matsumoto, Shinsuke Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8506401
    Abstract: A gaming table device which can determine frauds precisely and human errors is provided. A plurality of antennas for reading medium identification information of the game medium disposed on a game table through a wireless communication are disposed at locations spaced away from each other, and when a first antenna of the plurality of antennas is selected, a second antenna spaced at a predetermined distance from the first antenna of the plurality of antennas is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuki Emori, Toru Sugawara, Kouichi Matsumoto, Shinsuke Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20130148313
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic circuit unit to be mounted within a casing of an automatic transmission for a vehicle. An electronic circuit body including circuit-side terminals protruding in an outward direction from a main-body, connectors to be connected to the electronic circuit body, a cover, and a base member having a placing face on which the cover, the electronic circuit body and the connectors are placed. The cover is provided with a main-body covering part, fitting-portion covering parts and which cover a fitting-portion of the circuit-side terminals and fitting parts of the wire-side terminals from a side opposing to the placing face, and a restricting part for regulating the detachment of the connectors from the fitting position to the detached position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Nakayama, Kouichi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20120282998
    Abstract: The present application provides a system which transmits a request signal to a plurality of chips located within a communication range of an antenna, receives from a chip which has received the request signal an answer back including identification information and a plurality of error detection codes of the chip, generates a plurality of error detection codes from the identification information of the chip, detects match or mismatch of a plurality of error detection codes received and a plurality of error detection codes generated, and when, among a plurality of pairs of the error detection codes, match of a pair of error detection codes is detected and mismatch of another pair of error detection codes is detected, determines that the match of the pair of the error detection codes of the chip is misrecognition resulting from collision of a response signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: Universal Entertainment Corporation of
    Inventors: Kazuki Emori, Shinsuke Yamaguchi, Toru Sugawara, Kouichi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20120080845
    Abstract: A gaming table device which can determine frauds precisely and human errors is provided. A plurality of antennas for reading medium identification information of the game medium disposed on a game table through a wireless communication are disposed at locations spaced away from each other, and when a first antenna of the plurality of antennas is selected, a second antenna spaced at a predetermined distance from the first antenna of the plurality of antennas is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicants: Aruze Gaming America, Inc., UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki EMORI, Toru Sugawara, Kouichi Matsumoto, Shinsuke Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20110280122
    Abstract: A signaling processor has a message transfer part for a Layer 2 operable to notify a message transfer part for a Layer 3 of a signal indicative of stop (release) completion of a link being connected when it receives a response to a request for a link release process after detection of a failure of the link being connected and notification of the request for the link release process to a correspondent signaling processor and a message transfer part for the Layer 3 operable to perform a retrieval process of a received signal that has not been retrieved and has been stored in the message transfer part for the Layer 2 when it receives the signal indicative of stop (release) completion of the link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 7938694
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a connector terminal which can be easily fitted to or separated from a partner terminal (partner connector) even if the space for fitting operation is limited in the fitting direction. The connector terminal has a terminal inserting portion to which the partner terminal is inserted, and a coupling portion intercoupling and electrically interconnecting the inserting portion and a wire connection portion of a coated wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroomi Hiramitsu, Hosei Mizuno, Kouichi Matsumoto, Hiroki Hirai, Akira Ito
  • Patent number: 7827429
    Abstract: A fault tolerant computer comprises a first unit, a second unit, a delay buffer and a delay time setting unit. The first unit executes a computer program in response to an input signal. The second unit executes the computer program in the same execution environment as the first unit in response to the input signal. The delay buffer controls a delay time of a timing when the input signal is input to the first unit with respect to a timing when the input signal is input to the second unit. The delay time setting unit sets the delay time to zero when receiving a synchronization mode signal and sets the delay time to be larger than zero when receiving a delay mode signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kouichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 7785671
    Abstract: A thermal barrier coating system comprising a metal substrate, a metal bonding layer and a ceramics thermal barrier layer wherein the ceramics thermal barrier layer has a columnar structure of a stabilized zirconia containing a stabilizer or a stabilized ZrO2—HfO2 solid solution containing a stabilizer, and comprises 0.1 to 10 mol % of lanthanum oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignees: Japan Fine Ceramics Center, Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mineaki Matsumoto, Norio Yamaguchi, Kazushige Kimura, Hideaki Matsubara, Yasuo Matsunaga, Kouichi Matsumoto, Yasuhiro Shigegaki, Takahito Araki
  • Patent number: 7667729
    Abstract: There are provided a multi-point conference system and a multi-point conference device capable of using an SIP terminal as a conference terminal and clearly and smoothly performing speaker switching without requesting a conference terminal to transmit an intra frame when a speaker is detected. The multi-point connection device includes an image processing unit for accumulating in a memory (13), image data from the conference terminal participating in the conference, and decoding the image data on the speaker accumulated in the memory (13) and re-encoding the decoded image upon detection of a speaker in a medium processing unit (15). Upon switching of a speaker, the image processing unit re-encodes the first image as an intra frame and transmits the image data to conference terminals other than that of the speaker, so that the conference terminals other than that of the speaker can perform decoding from the intra frame, thereby clearly and smoothly performing the speaker switching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichi Matsumoto, Kazunori Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20100029142
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a connector terminal 20 which can be easily fitted to or separated from a partner terminal (partner connector) even if the space for fitting operation is limited in the fitting direction. The connector terminal 20 has a terminal inserting portion 30 to which the partner terminal is inserted, and a coupling portion 60 intercoupling and electrically interconnectng the inserting portion 30 and a wire connection portion 50 of a coated wire W.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroomi Hiramitsu, Hosei Mizuno, Kouichi Matsumoto, Hiroki Hirai, Akira Ito
  • Publication number: 20080218584
    Abstract: There are provided a multi-point conference system and a multi-point conference device capable of using an SIP terminal as a conference terminal and clearly and smoothly performing speaker switching without requesting a conference terminal to transmit an intra frame when a speaker is detected. The multi-point connection device includes an image processing unit for accumulating in a memory (13), image data from the conference terminal participating in the conference, and decoding the image data on the speaker accumulated in the memory (13) and re-encoding the decoded image upon detection of a speaker in a medium processing unit (15). Upon switching of a speaker, the image processing unit re-encodes the first image as an intra frame and transmits the image data to conference terminals other than that of the speaker, so that the conference terminals other than that of the speaker can perform decoding from the intra frame, thereby clearly and smoothly performing the speaker switching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Kouichi Matsumoto, Kazunori Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20080141060
    Abstract: A fault tolerant computer comprises a first unit, a second unit, a delay buffer and a delay time setting unit. The first unit executes a computer program in response to an input signal. The second unit executes the computer program in the same execution environment as the first unit in response to the input signal. The delay buffer controls a delay time of a timing when the input signal is input to the first unit with respect to a timing when the input signal is input to the second unit. The delay time setting unit sets the delay time to zero when receiving a synchronization mode signal and sets the delay time to be larger than zero when receiving a delay mode signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventor: Kouichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 7364806
    Abstract: A thermal barrier coating system comprising a metal substrate, a metal bonding layer and a ceramics thermal barrier layer wherein the ceramics thermal barrier layer has a columnar structure of a stabilized zirconia containing a stabilizer or a stabilized ZrO2—HfO2 solid solution containing a stabilizer, and comprises 0.1 to 10 mol % of lanthanum oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignees: Japan Fine Ceramics Center, Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mineaki Matsumoto, Norio Yamaguchi, Kazushige Kimura, Hideaki Matsubara, Yasuo Matsunaga, Kouichi Matsumoto, Yasuhiro Shigegaki, Takahito Araki
  • Publication number: 20080075879
    Abstract: A thermal barrier coating system comprising a metal substrate, a metal bonding layer and a ceramics thermal barrier layer wherein the ceramics thermal barrier layer has a columnar structure of a stabilized zirconia containing a stabilizer or a stabilized ZrO2—HfO2 solid solution containing a stabilizer, and comprises 0.1 to 10 mol % of lanthanum oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Mineaki Matsumoto, Norio Yamaguchi, Kazushige Kimura, Hideaki Matsubara, Yasuo Matsunaga, Kouichi Matsumoto, Yasuhiro Shigegaki, Takahito Araki