Patents by Inventor Masanori Nakata
Masanori Nakata 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: 20240125499Abstract: A normalization unit acquires a normalized reference value being a value obtained from normalization of a reference value according to a predetermined normalization rule, the reference value being a status value acquired from an air conditioner during a normal estimation period during which the air conditioner is estimated to operate normally, the status value indicating an operational status of the air conditioner. An acquiring unit acquires from the air conditioner, the status value as a diagnosis value during a diagnosis period during which it is not clear whether or not the air conditioner operates normally and which is after the normal estimation period. The normalization unit normalizes the diagnosis value according to the normalization rule.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Makoto WADA, Yasutaka OCHIAI, Toshiyuki KURIYAMA, Masanori NAKATA
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Publication number: 20240117983Abstract: An air conditioning management system includes: an air conditioning system including a plurality of air conditioning devices which include an outdoor unit, an indoor unit, and a remote control device each capable of performing wired communication; and a communication terminal. Each air conditioning device of the plurality of air conditioning devices includes a transceiver configured to, in response to receiving a request signal requesting device data, transmit device data of the air conditioning device to another air conditioning device or the communication terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2021Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Atsushi KIMATA, Masanori NAKATA, Makoto KURIHARA
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Publication number: 20230375996Abstract: A device management system includes: a device and a device management apparatus with a storage unit, a sending and receiving unit, a first identifier change detection unit, an identifier converting unit, and a device management unit. The storage unit is configured to store a first identifier unique to the device and a second identifier. The sending and receiving unit is configured to receive the second identifier and a third identifier changed from the first identifier when the device configuration is changed. The first identifier change detection unit is configured to detect a change from the first identifier to a third identifier when the second identifier matches the second identifier stored in the storage unit. The identifier converting unit is configured to convert the third identifier to the first identifier. The device management unit is configured to manage the device that sent the third identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Shun KATO, Hirotoshi YANO, Masanori NAKATA
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Publication number: 20230247448Abstract: An apparatus maintenance management system includes a plurality of apparatuses each configured to transmit information on its own operation and information on the presence or absence of an abnormality, and a remote processor configured to acquire and store the information of each of the apparatuses. The remote processor is configured to restrict communication by using authentication keys of at least one type having a master-slave relationship, and perform communication with, as a communication partner, each of a first communication device to which one of the authentication keys that functions as a master for at least one of the apparatuses is given in advance and a second communication device to which another one of the authentication keys that functions as a slave for the first communication device is given in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2020Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Shun KATO, Hirotoshi YANO, Masanori NAKATA
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Publication number: 20230146356Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a controller that processes data that is transmitted in communication between the communication module and a reception device. The controller extracts data from transmission-scheduled data and produces a transmission-scheduled data list. When data communication between the transmission apparatus and the reception device is interrupted and is then recovered, and an interruption history of the communication is present in the reception device, the controller acquires from the reception device, an unreceived data list indicating data that is not received by the reception device before the communication is interrupted. The controller combines the acquired unreceived data list with the produced transmission-scheduled data list to update the transmission-scheduled data list.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2020Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Kiyomi TAKEI, Masanori NAKATA
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Publication number: 20230040665Abstract: An image acquisition unit (211) acquires a photographed image obtained by photographing an air-conditioning indoor unit including a plurality of air outlets. An image collation unit (212) collates a template image wherein an air-conditioning indoor unit of a same type as the air-conditioning indoor unit is shown with the photographed image. An air outlet identification unit (213) determines an air outlet identifier of each air outlet in the photographed image based on a collation result, and on air outlet identification data indicating an air outlet identifier to be associated with each air outlet in the template image. An identification result display unit (214) displays the photographed image by superimposing the air outlet identifier on each air outlet in the photographed image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Keita SAITO, Shinichiro OTANI, Tomooki UKIANA, Masanori NAKATA
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Patent number: 11003122Abstract: A printer including a transport path; a transport mechanism that is disposed in the transport path and transports the medium in a transporting direction caused when printing is executed by a recording section; a discharge-side transport path that forms a part of a downstream side in the transporting direction from the recording section in the transport path and is movable to a position close to the transport mechanism and a position separated from the transport mechanism; and a control section that controls the recording section and the transport mechanism. In a state where a transport failure of the medium occurs in the transport path, in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, the control section executes an additional transport process of discharging the medium to the discharge-side transport path by transporting the medium in the transporting direction by a predetermined amount by the transport mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yuichi Segawa, Tetsuji Takeishi, Shota Hiramatsu, Masanori Nakata
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Patent number: 10877965Abstract: A data search device includes a prediction unit that predicts a resource amount to be used in query processing scheduled to be executed, using a relationship between query processing executed in a past and a resource amount used in the query processing, and a change unit that changes an upper limit value of a resource amount usable in query processing to the predicted resource amount to be used in the query processing scheduled to be executed for which execution has been permitted.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Masanori Nakata
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Patent number: 10618324Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a plurality of belt rollers that rotate, a direction in which a rotation axis of each belt rollers extends being a width direction that intersects a transport direction of a medium; a transporting belt that, while wound across the plurality of belt rollers, rotate to transport the medium in the transport direction; a print head that performs printing on the medium transported by the transporting belt; and a control unit that rotates the transporting belt while in a state in which an unrotated state of the transporting belt has continued for a predetermined period. When a rotation position of the transporting belt after application of power and before rotating the transporting belt is referred to as an initial rotation position, in a case in which a rotation of the transporting belt is to be stopped, the control unit stops the transporting belt at a rotation position that is different from the initial rotation position.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshikazu Koike, Satoshi Chiba, Masanori Nakata
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Patent number: 10434798Abstract: A printing apparatus which appropriately deals with a medium jam occurring on the transportation belt is provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Masanori Nakata
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Publication number: 20190079444Abstract: A printer including a transport path; a transport mechanism that is disposed in the transport path and transports the medium in a transporting direction caused when printing is executed by a recording section; a discharge-side transport path that forms a part of a downstream side in the transporting direction from the recording section in the transport path and is movable to a position close to the transport mechanism and a position separated from the transport mechanism; and a control section that controls the recording section and the transport mechanism. In a state where a transport failure of the medium occurs in the transport path, in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, the control section executes an additional transport process of discharging the medium to the discharge-side transport path by transporting the medium in the transporting direction by a predetermined amount by the transport mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Yuichi SEGAWA, Tetsuji TAKEISHI, Shota HIRAMATSU, Masanori NAKATA
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Publication number: 20190023035Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a plurality of belt rollers that rotate, a direction in which a rotation axis of each belt rollers extends being a width direction that intersects a transport direction of a medium; a transporting belt that, while wound across the plurality of belt rollers, rotate to transport the medium in the transport direction; a print head that performs printing on the medium transported by the transporting belt; and a control unit that rotates the transporting belt while in a state in which an unrotated state of the transporting belt has continued for a predetermined period. When a rotation position of the transporting belt after application of power and before rotating the transporting belt is referred to as an initial rotation position, in a case in which a rotation of the transporting belt is to be stopped, the control unit stops the transporting belt at a rotation position that is different from the initial rotation position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: Yoshikazu KOIKE, Satoshi CHIBA, Masanori NAKATA
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Patent number: 10054328Abstract: A control device controls a plurality of equipment items for conditioning the environment in a room. The control device comprises an installation information memory and a space information memory configured to store information regarding the space the environment in which can be conditioned by each of the plurality of equipment items; a target setter configured to set a target location in the room and a target environment at the target location; a unit identifier configured to identify the equipment item that can condition the environment at the target location; and a controller configured to select one control pattern based on the power consumption when the control according to each control pattern is executed from among a plurality of control patterns for controlling the equipment item so as to condition the environment at the target location to the target environment and control the equipment item with the selected control pattern.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2013Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroko Kobori, Tomoaki Gyota, Masanori Nakata
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Publication number: 20180215173Abstract: A printing apparatus which appropriately deals with a medium jam occurring on the transportation belt is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventor: Masanori NAKATA
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Publication number: 20180181614Abstract: A data search device includes a prediction unit that predicts a resource amount to be used in query processing scheduled to be executed, using a relationship between query processing executed in a past and a resource amount used in the query processing, and a change unit that changes an upper limit value of a resource amount usable in query processing to the predicted resource amount to be used in the query processing scheduled to be executed for which execution has been permitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2017Publication date: June 28, 2018Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Masanori NAKATA
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Patent number: 9928558Abstract: The storage unit prestores element image data presenting an element image contained in a display image in an image data region that is a continuous storage region, and prestores draw command data containing data for creating display data presenting the display image in which the element image is placed in a draw command region that is a continuous storage region. The central processing unit makes reference to a screen management table when a predetermined drawing condition is satisfied to identify and output the draw command identification data corresponding to the satisfied drawing condition. The draw processing unit acquires from the storage unit the draw command data identified with the output draw command identification data, and creates and outputs to the display unit the display data placing the element image based on the acquired draw command data.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomoaki Gyota, Takuya Mukai, Masanori Nakata
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Patent number: 9816718Abstract: A device control determiner outputs a control information request containing a condition of facility devices in a data possessing device group possessing control information, and a kind of the control information. A connection relationship manager manages information regarding a connection relationship among each of the plurality of facility devices. A connection route database stores information regarding a connection route from a reference device that is a reference among the plurality of facility devices to another facility device. The device grouper creates a data possessing device group based on the control information request, the connection route database and information managed by the connection relationship manager. An information collective obtainer obtains control information from the facility device in the data possessing device group through a communicator, and creates a data array of the obtained control information.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroko Kobori, Tomoaki Gyota, Masanori Nakata
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Patent number: 9746504Abstract: A fault detection device comprises: a measurement data acquirer that acquires measurement data for current flowing on power supply lines that are connected to multiple electrical devices; a clusterer that classifies the measurement data for a past fixed period into multiple clusters based on at least one of frequency and phase with respect to an AC cycle; a pattern analyzer that analyzes each of the clusters for an appearance pattern of measurement data that satisfy a preset standard; and a fault determiner that determines the occurrence of a fault when measurement data is acquired that differs from the analyzed appearance pattern.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Makoto Katsukura, Masanori Nakata
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Patent number: 9715240Abstract: A facility equipment operation device includes an affected section determiner and a mismatch detector. An affected section determiner computes an affected section that is affected by a controlled equipment that is facility equipment with a changed control parameter, by referencing data including an installation position of facility equipment in an objective space, and a capability related to an area affected by the facility equipment. The mismatch detector detects a mismatched state on the basis of whether or not an effect exerted by the controlled equipment on the affected section when the controlled equipment operates according to the changed control parameter, and an effect exerted on the affected section by a facility equipment currently operating, are in a predetermined relationship.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroko Izumihara, Tomoaki Gyota, Masanori Nakata
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Publication number: 20170203586Abstract: A printing apparatus including a plurality of belt rollers that rotate, a direction in which a rotation axis of each belt rollers extends being a width direction that intersects a transport direction of a medium; a transporting belt that, while wound across the plurality of belt rollers, rotate to transport the medium in the transport direction; a print head that performs printing on the medium transported by the transporting belt; and a control unit that rotates the transporting belt when a predetermined condition, which is satisfied in a case in which an unrotated state of the transporting belt continues, is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2017Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: Yoshikazu KOIKE, Satoshi CHIBA, Masanori NAKATA