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).

  • Patent number: 9170929
    Abstract: A data storage temporarily stores an address conversion table associating the sector numbers with the physical addresses for each file. A conversion table memory allocator allocates a memory region for the address conversion table corresponding to a file when a request is made to open the file. A file system manager releases the allocated memory region at a given time. The file system manager stores sector numbers of one or multiple sectors constituting a file in each record of the address conversion table for which the memory region is allocated in sequence. Then, a memory control section searches the flash memory to acquire a physical address corresponding to a sector number in the each record of the address conversion table, and stores each acquired physical address in the corresponding record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Kikkawa, Masanori Nakata
  • Publication number: 20150293540
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko Izumihara, Tomoaki Gyota, Masanori Nakata
  • Publication number: 20150258816
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a body, an operation panel provided on a front surface of the body, a feeding cassette that accommodates sheets, removably mounted with respect to the body from the front surface of the body, and is configured such that a part thereof is protruded from body in a state of being mounted on the body, a recording section that is disposed inside the body and performs printing by ejecting ink onto a sheet transported from the feeding cassette, a discharging tray that is disposed on the feeding cassette and supports the sheet after printing is completed, and a body-side cover section that is provided in the body and covers both side surfaces of the feeding cassette.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YODA, Masanori NAKATA, Takeshi AOKI, Toshikazu KOTAKA
  • Patent number: 9132644
    Abstract: In a waste liquid container which is attachable and detachable to a recording portion including a liquid ejecting head which discharges a waste liquid and can store the waste liquid which is discharged from the liquid ejecting head in a state of being mounted on the recording portion, an engagement portion which protrudes from a side wall of the waste liquid container and is disposed lower in a vertical direction than a guide portion which is provided on the recording portion in the state of being mounted on the recording portion is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Harada, Masanori Nakata, Taisuke Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9122473
    Abstract: A terminal device that is this program generating device generates program area specifying information that specifies the placement area of an operating program executed by a remote control device. Also, on the basis of the program area specifying information and a program counter value of the remote control device, the terminal device appends a program specifying process that specifies the operating program executed by the remote control device to a measuring program that measures the execution state of the operating program. As a result, there is generated a measuring program that measures changes in the operating state of software in real time while reducing the effect on the operation of the software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsukura, Masanori Nakata
  • Patent number: 9074786
    Abstract: A system communicator receives from a network signals indicating the state of an air conditioner, and updates the content of an air-conditioning information memory. An automatic control rule memory stores automatic control rules which are used when an air conditioner control content is determined. An air conditioner automatic controller determines the air conditioner control content based on the content of the air-conditioning information memory and the automatic control rules recorded in the automatic control rule memory, and changes the content of the air-conditioning information memory. A rule adjustment screen generator stores, in a rule adjustment screen memory, screen creation information generated based on the content of the automatic control rule memory. A rule adjustment operator displays the content of the rule adjustment screen memory as a screen, and receives an operation to adjust the content of the automatic control rule memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki Gyota, Masanori Nakata, Takeru Kuroiwa
  • Publication number: 20150158316
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head which performs recording on a medium. The recording apparatus includes a first roller that reverses a medium which is transported from the recording head side and a medium reception unit that is provided on the downstream side of the recording head on the medium transport path on which the medium is transported. The medium reception unit also functions as a first medium support unit that supports a medium that is inserted from a discharging direction side of the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventor: Masanori NAKATA
  • Publication number: 20150143015
    Abstract: A DMA controller (40) comprises a reading start address register (402) storing a reading start address from which reading starts; a reading data size register (403) storing the size of data to be read in a single reading operation; an offset value register (404) storing an offset value for updating the reading start address after the reading operation ends; a repetition upper limit value register (405) storing the upper limit value of the number of times of repetition of the reading operation; and a repetition counter register (406) storing the number of times of repetition of the reading operation. The controller (401) of the DMA controller (40) outputs an interrupt signal indicating that the processing of the DMA controller (40) ends when the value stored in the repetition counter register (406) reaches the value stored in the repetition upper limit value register (405).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Masanori NAKATA, Noriyuki KUSHIRO, Yoshiaki ITO, Yoshiaki KOIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20150120003
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko Kobori, Tomoaki Gyota, Masanori Nakata
  • Publication number: 20150088441
    Abstract: A power measure calculates, based on a current and a voltage measured at a predetermined location in a power supply line, active power and apparent power for each predetermined time period based on utilization of plural kinds of electric facilities connected to the power supply line. A data memory accumulates and stores data regarding the active power and the apparent power calculated by the power measure in a time-series manner. A variation detector analyzes data regarding the active power by what corresponds to a predetermined time period and stored in the data memory to detect a time slot at which there is an operation change in any one of the electric facilities. A distribution estimator calculates, when the variation detector detects the time slot, a power factor in the time slot, and estimates power consumption for each kind of the electric facilities in the time slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Nakata, Makoto Katsukura, Masaaki Yabe, Noriyuki Kushiro
  • Patent number: 8970604
    Abstract: A state display device capable of reducing a processing load applied to a microcomputer by performing part of a GUI process by hardware and a display method of the state display device are obtained. A rendering processing device starts a process in response to a rendering request stored in a rendering request region when a starting command is stored in a start/end instruction register. When a rendering request specified by an instruction address is a rendering termination request, the rendering processing means terminates the process performed in response to the rendering request, stores a termination factor in an interruption factor register, and issues an interruption to a central processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Nakata, Noriyuki Kushiro, Makoto Katsukura, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takuya Mukai
  • Patent number: 8930146
    Abstract: An apparatus state detector and its associates are provided to save time and effort for learning combinations of operation states of all apparatuses at home and commit fewer estimation errors even when an unknown apparatus starts operating. The apparatus state detector includes measuring means that measures a physical quantity of an environment in which an apparatus is placed, feature-quantity calculation means that calculates a feature quantity of the measured value measured by the measuring means, storage means that stores in advance the feature quantity of each apparatus and an apparatus state associated with the feature quantity in a reference-apparatus entry dictionary, and apparatus-state detection means that searches the reference-apparatus entry dictionary for a feature quantity by using a feature quantity calculated by the feature-quantity calculation means as a search key and detects an apparatus state based on the apparatus state associated with the retrieved feature quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsukura, Masanori Nakata, Noriyuki Kushiro, Takeru Kuroiwa, Toshiyasu Higuma, Naoyuki Hibara, Yoshiaki Ito
  • Patent number: 8903682
    Abstract: An air conditioning system diagnosis apparatus and an air conditioning system diagnosis result display apparatus capable of representing various kinds of failures with high visibility by generating a system structure diagram that illustrates an air conditioning system in a different form depending on a detected failure and illustrating the failure using this system structure diagram are obtainable. Diagnosis result superimposed diagram generating means for generating a system structure diagram that includes icons, such as an icon of an outdoor unit and an icon of an indoor unit, and a line that links them on the basis of system structure information derived by system structure analyzing means and for superimposing a refrigeration cycle diagnosis result derived by refrigeration cycle analyzing means in the vicinity of an icon of a concerned device in the system structure diagram is included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Gyota, Noriyuki Kushiro, Yoshiaki Ito, Masanori Nakata, Takeru Kuroiwa
  • Patent number: 8890878
    Abstract: An operation terminal for remotely operating an electronic apparatus includes a processing unit for remotely communicating with the electronic apparatus in accordance with a program, a memory on which the processing unit performs writing or reading of data, a nonvolatile memory for storing a basic screen image drawing command for drawing a basic screen image that is displayed before the operation terminal is operated, a drawing processor for creating a bitmapped image of the basic screen image in accordance with the basic screen image drawing command, and a display unit for displaying the bitmapped image on a screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsukura, Masanori Nakata, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takuya Mukai, Noriyuki Kushiro
  • Publication number: 20140306887
    Abstract: A control device includes a storage device for prestoring rendering command data, a central processing device, and a rendering processing device. The rendering command data is data for generating a rendering command executed in order to generate display data indicating a display image to be displayed on a display device. The central processing device refers to a screen management table when a predetermined rendering condition is satisfied, and specifies and outputs rendering command specifying data corresponding to the satisfied rendering condition. The rendering processing device acquires the rendering command data specified by the outputted rendering command specifying data from storage device, generates display data based on the acquired rendering command data, and outputs the display data to the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Mukai, Tomoaki Gyota, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Masanori Nakata, Noriyuki Kushiro
  • Publication number: 20140292984
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head which performs recording on a medium; a first roller which reverses a medium which is transported from the recording head side; and a medium reception unit which is provided on the downstream side of the recording head on the medium transport path on which the medium is transported, in which the medium reception unit also functions as a first medium support unit which supports a medium which is inserted from a discharging direction side of the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masanori NAKATA
  • Patent number: 8838416
    Abstract: An air conditioning system diagnosis apparatus is obtained in which a refrigerating cycle is automatically analyzed and waveform data in messages flowing in a general-purpose network is acquired and automatically analyzed according to the analysis result of the refrigerating cycle, thereby achieving, with a single apparatus, diagnosis and monitoring of errors in the refrigerating cycle and in the general-purpose network. A trigger output portion creates a trigger on the basis of a waveform analysis condition and the analysis result of a packet received from a message analyzing portion; when receiving the trigger, a waveform input portion reads out waveform data stored in a buffer; waveform analyzing portion notifies a synchronization determining portion of the analysis result of the waveform data; the synchronization determining portion searches for the analysis result of a packet synchronized with the received analysis result of the waveform data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takeru Kuroiwa, Masanori Nakata, Tomoaki Gyota
  • Patent number: 8831757
    Abstract: An air-conditioning information storer (13) stores data received by a communicator (11) from air conditioners (2) and sensors (3) as air-conditioning information. A controller (10) executes control programs including at least a PLC program, determines control details for each air conditioner (2) in accordance with the air-conditioning information stored in the air-conditioning information storer (13), and stores the determined control details as air-conditioning information in the air-conditioning information storer (13). Furthermore, the controller (10) transmits control data based upon the determined control details to the corresponding air conditioner (2) via the communicator (11). Moreover, the controller (10) updates the PLC program on the basis of an operation performed by the user. Air-conditioning information is stored at a predetermined address within the air-conditioning information storer (13) in accordance with the type and content of the corresponding equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takeru Kuroiwa, Masanori Nakata, Tomoaki Gyota
  • Patent number: 8823723
    Abstract: An application program changes a property value of a graphic object arranged in an object database. An object manager reads out the property value from the object database and then issues a drawing command. A graphics engine executes the drawing command to configure a memory image of the graphic object on a VRAM to display the image on a liquid crystal display via an LCDC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsukura, Masanori Nakata, Noriyuki Kushiro, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Toshiaki Kikuta, Takuya Mukai
  • Patent number: 8807703
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a liquid ejection head which is provided on the apparatus main body and ejects liquid onto a recording medium, a draw-out path which is provided on the apparatus main body, a waste liquid unit which is provided on the draw-out path in a detachable manner and reserves waste liquid wastefully ejected from the liquid ejection head, an opening from which a transportation path for transporting the recording medium is exposed, and an opening/closing unit which is provided to be capable of opening and closing the opening, and at least a part of which is located on the draw-out path and covers at least a part of the waste liquid unit in a state where the waste liquid unit is attached to the draw-out path and the opening is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Okamoto, Masanori Nakata, Yoshikane Tsuchihashi, Takafumi Ogimura