Patents by Inventor Naoya Okada
Naoya Okada 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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Patent number: 10715363Abstract: An optical communication apparatus has an interface circuit that acquires transfer condition information including a bit rate and a channel spacing of an optical network, a processor that selects a modulation scheme in accordance with the transfer condition information and operates in the modulation scheme, wherein the processor is configured to select a first modulation scheme when the bit rate is greater than a first value in accordance with the channel spacing, and select a second modulation scheme when the bit rate is smaller than the first value, the second modulation scheme having a data transfer performance higher than the first modulation scheme.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Naoya Okada, Taizo Maeda, Kosuke Komaki
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Patent number: 10705414Abstract: A projector a cooler configured to cool a cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas. The cooler includes a refrigerant generator configured to generate the refrigerant and a refrigerant sender configured to send the generated refrigerant toward the cooling target. The refrigerant generator includes a moisture absorbing/discharging member, a first air blower configured to deliver air outside the projector to the moisture absorbing/discharging member, a heat exchanger connected to the refrigerant sender, a heater configured to heat the moisture absorbing/discharging member, and a second air blower configured to deliver, to the heat exchanger, air around a portion of the moisture absorbing/discharging member that is the portion heated by the heater. The heat exchanger, by cooling the air having flowed into the heat exchanger, generates the refrigerant from the air having flowed into the heat exchanger. The moisture absorbing/discharging member is fixed.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Naoya Okada, Nobuo Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20200213009Abstract: An optical communication apparatus includes an interface circuit that acquires bit rate information of an optical network, and a processor that selects a modulation scheme in accordance with the bit rate information and operates in the modulation scheme, wherein the processor is configured to select a first modulation scheme when the bit rate is equal to or greater than a first value, and select a second modulation scheme when the bit rate is smaller than the first value, the second modulation scheme having a data transfer performance higher than the first modulation scheme.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Naoya OKADA, Taizo MAEDA, Kosuke Komaki
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Patent number: 10692986Abstract: A compound film of tungsten and germanium useful for semiconductor devices, a semiconductor device using the compound film and a method and an apparatus for manufacturing the compound film. Various embodiments include a compound film of tungsten and germanium, which has a germanium/tungsten composition ratio of 0.2 or more and less than 6 and includes an optical energy gap. The compound film of tungsten and germanium is produced on a substrate by causing a material gas of tungsten and a material gas of germanium to undergo a chemical reaction in at least one of a region in a gas phase and a region on the substrate. Various embodiments include a semiconductor device including a stack structure in which a semiconductor substrate, a compound film of tungsten and germanium having a germanium/tungsten composition ratio of 1 or more and 3.2 or less, and a metal electrode are laminated in this order.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Naoya Okada, Noriyuki Uchida, Toshihiko Kanayama
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Patent number: 10692708Abstract: This sputtering cathode has a sputtering target having a tubular shape in which the cross-sectional shape thereof has a pair of long side sections facing each other, and an erosion surface facing inward. Using the sputtering target, while moving a body to be film-formed, which has a film formation region having a narrower width than the long side sections of the sputtering target, parallel to one end face of the sputtering target and at a constant speed in a direction perpendicular to the long side sections above a space surrounded by the sputtering target, discharge is performed such that a plasma circulating along the inner surface of the sputtering target is generated, and the inner surface of the long side sections of the sputtering target is sputtered by ions in the plasma generated by a sputtering gas to perform film formation in the film formation region of the body to be film-formed.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: KEIHIN RAMTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Iwata, Toshiyuki Nedu, Yuta Takakuwa, Naoya Okada, Ippei Sato, Naonori Shibata, Keiichi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20200192601Abstract: High reliability and high performance of a storage device formed of a Dual port NVMe SSD are achieved while preventing the risk of destruction of data. The storage device includes a main memory that belongs to each of two or more clusters and that stores data related to an IO request; and a processor belonging to each of the clusters controlling accesses to the main memory. The main memory includes a first region where writing from the memory drive is permitted and a second region where the writing is prohibited. The processor selects the first region as a transfer destination related to the IO request from the memory drive when the IO request is a first request, and selects the second region as the transfer destination related to the IO request from the memory drive while permitting writing to the second region when the IO request is a second request.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2016Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Naoya OKADA, Masanori TAKADA, Mitsuo DATE, Sadahiro SUGIMOTO, Norio SIMOZONO
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Publication number: 20200159454Abstract: In a large-scale storage system configured by combining a plurality of storage modules, it is possible to improve a read performance for deduplicated data. A large-scale storage system includes a first storage module and a second storage module each connected to a computing machine, the first storage module and the second storage module being connected to each other by a network, the first controller determines whether second data that is same as first data requested to be written is already stored in the second storage module when the first storage module receives a write request from the computing machine, and the first controller determines whether to store the first data in the first storage medium or to refer to the second data in the second storage module in a case in which the second data is already stored in the second storage module.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Nobumitsu TAKAOKA, Tomohiro YOSHIHARA, Naoya OKADA
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Patent number: 10627708Abstract: A projector including a light source device configured to emit light, a light modulator configured to modulate the light emitted from the light source device in accordance with an image signal, a projection optical device configured to project the light modulated by the light modulator, and a cooler configured to cool a cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas. The cooler includes a refrigerant generator configured to generate the refrigerant and a refrigerant sender configured to send the generated refrigerant toward the cooling target. The refrigerant generator includes a flow passage section through which the refrigerant flows. A portion of the inner surface of the flow passage section that is the portion facing the lower side in the gravity direction inclines with respect to the horizontal plane perpendicular to the gravity direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuo Sugiyama, Naoya Okada
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Patent number: 10628349Abstract: An I/O control method and system for respectively achieving both acceleration of I/O processing and redundantization of data. The present invention is based upon an I/O control method of performing control related to an I/O request from a virtual machine operated in a computer provided with an I/O device that executes I/O processing, and the I/O control method includes a first step in which an I/O analysis unit determines whether or not data redundantization processing related to the I/O request is executed on the basis of the I/O request from the virtual machine and setting information for enabling identifying whether or not the data redundantization processing is executed and a second step in which a control unit transmits an I/O command related to the I/O request to a data redundantization mechanism that executes the data redundantization processing on the basis of a determination result in the first step.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Mizuno, Ken Sugimoto, Hiroaki Akutsu, Naoya Okada, Keitaro Uehara
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Patent number: 10514594Abstract: A projector includes a cooler that cools a cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas. The cooler includes a refrigerant generator that generates the refrigerant, a refrigerant sender that sends the refrigerant generated in the refrigerant generator toward the cooling target, and a refrigerant holder connected to the cooling target, the refrigerant holder holding the refrigerant sent by the refrigerant sender and receiving heat from the cooling target to transform the refrigerant into a gas. The refrigerant generator includes a heat exchanger that stores the generated refrigerant therein. In a case where the projector takes a basic attitude, the refrigerant holder and the refrigerant generator are so located in the projector that the surface of the refrigerant stored in the heat exchanger is lower in the gravity direction than the horizontal plane passing through the lowest portion of the refrigerant holder in the gravity direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Naoya Okada, Nobuo Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20190361611Abstract: A storage system includes a controller and a nonvolatile memory drive, in which the controller transmits a write request that designates a volume identifier of a volume to be provided to a host, to the nonvolatile memory drive; the nonvolatile memory drive exclusively allocates a free block selected from a plurality of blocks to the volume identifier; write data of the write request is written to the free block; when the write data is update write data, an area that stores data to be updated is changed to an invalid data area; and after valid data of a block including the invalid data area is migrated to another block, all data of the block including the invalid data area is erased.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2017Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Koji HOSOGI, Naoya OKADA, Akifumi SUZUKI, Hideyuki KOSEKI, Masahiro TSURUYA
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Publication number: 20190363546Abstract: A charging control device is equipped with a state of charge detection unit adapted to detect a state of charge of a secondary battery, a storage unit adapted to store a charging pattern in which the state of charge and a charging current are associated, and a charging control unit adapted to change the charging pattern in accordance with the state of charge of the secondary battery when charging is initiated, and to control the charging current in accordance with the charging pattern after having been changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Hajime ABE, Naoya OKADA, Hiroki TSUTSUMI
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Publication number: 20190361824Abstract: An I/O control method and system for respectively achieving both acceleration of I/O processing and redundantization of data. The present invention is based upon an I/O control method of performing control related to an I/O request from a virtual machine operated in a computer provided with an I/O device that executes I/O processing, and the I/O control method includes a first step in which an I/O analysis unit determines whether or not data redundantization processing related to the I/O request is executed on the basis of the I/O request from the virtual machine and setting information for enabling identifying whether or not the data redundantization processing is executed and a second step in which a control unit transmits an I/O command related to the I/O request to a data redundantization mechanism that executes the data redundantization processing on the basis of a determination result in the first step.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2017Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko MIZUNO, Ken SUGIMOTO, Hiroaki AKUTSU, Naoya OKADA, Keitaro UEHARA
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Publication number: 20190271906Abstract: A projector includes a cooler that cools a cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas. The cooler includes a refrigerant generator that generates the refrigerant, a refrigerant sender that sends the refrigerant generated in the refrigerant generator toward the cooling target, and a refrigerant holder connected to the cooling target, the refrigerant holder holding the refrigerant sent by the refrigerant sender and receiving heat from the cooling target to transform the refrigerant into a gas. The refrigerant generator includes a heat exchanger that stores the generated refrigerant therein. In a case where the projector takes a basic attitude, the refrigerant holder and the refrigerant generator are so located in the projector that the surface of the refrigerant stored in the heat exchanger is lower in the gravity direction than the horizontal plane passing through the lowest portion of the refrigerant holder in the gravity direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Naoya OKADA, Nobuo SUGIYAMA
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Patent number: 10353613Abstract: When mounting hardware which is coupled to another portion by a plurality of paths with different applications, despite the hardware being a single device, and a failure occurs in any of the paths, there is a risk that the failure may propagate to other components unless the other paths are also blocked. In order to solve the problem described above, in a storage apparatus to which a device coupled by a plurality of coupling paths with different applications can be mounted, the present invention determines a block range at the time of an occurrence of a failure to be a device and a plurality of coupling paths coupled to the device, manages the block range, and upon an occurrence of a failure, executes failure handling which involves blocking an appropriate block range determined in advance by referring to the information.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Araki, Yusuke Nonaka, Masanori Takada, Naoya Okada
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Publication number: 20190207007Abstract: A compound film of tungsten and germanium useful for semiconductor devices, a semiconductor device using the compound film and a method and an apparatus for manufacturing the compound film. Various embodiments include a compound film of tungsten and germanium, which has a germanium/tungsten composition ratio of 0.2 or more and less than 6 and includes an optical energy gap. The compound film of tungsten and germanium is produced on a substrate by causing a material gas of tungsten and a material gas of germanium to undergo a chemical reaction in at least one of a region in a gas phase and a region on the substrate. Various embodiments include a semiconductor device including a stack structure in which a semiconductor substrate, a compound film of tungsten and germanium having a germanium/tungsten composition ratio of 1 or more and 3.2 or less, and a metal electrode are laminated in this order.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2017Publication date: July 4, 2019Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Naoya OKADA, Noriyuki UCHIDA, Toshihiko KANAYAMA
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Publication number: 20190203346Abstract: This sputtering cathode has a sputtering target having a tubular shape in which the cross-sectional shape thereof has a pair of long side sections facing each other, and an erosion surface facing inward. Using the sputtering target, while moving a body to be film-formed, which has a film formation region having a narrower width than the long side sections of the sputtering target, parallel to one end face of the sputtering target and at a constant speed in a direction perpendicular to the long side sections above a space surrounded by the sputtering target, discharge is performed such that a plasma circulating along the inner surface of the sputtering target is generated, and the inner surface of the long side sections of the sputtering target is sputtered by ions in the plasma generated by a sputtering gas to perform film formation in the film formation region of the body to be film-formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2019Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventors: Hiroshi IWATA, Toshiyuki NEDU, Yuta TAKAKUWA, Naoya OKADA, Ippei SATO, Naonori SHIBATA, Keiichi HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20190196313Abstract: A projector a cooler configured to cool a cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas. The cooler includes a refrigerant generator configured to generate the refrigerant and a refrigerant sender configured to send the generated refrigerant toward the cooling target. The refrigerant generator includes a moisture absorbing/discharging member, a first air blower configured to deliver air outside the projector to the moisture absorbing/discharging member, a heat exchanger connected to the refrigerant sender, a heater configured to heat the moisture absorbing/discharging member, and a second air blower configured to deliver, to the heat exchanger, air around a portion of the moisture absorbing/discharging member that is the portion heated by the heater. The heat exchanger, by cooling the air having flowed into the heat exchanger, generates the refrigerant from the air having flowed into the heat exchanger. The moisture absorbing/discharging member is fixed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Naoya OKADA, Nobuo SUGIYAMA
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Publication number: 20190196312Abstract: A projector including a light source device configured to emit light, a light modulator configured to modulate the light emitted from the light source device in accordance with an image signal, a projection optical device configured to project the light modulated by the light modulator, and a cooler configured to cool a cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas. The cooler includes a refrigerant generator configured to generate the refrigerant and a refrigerant sender configured to send the generated refrigerant toward the cooling target. The refrigerant generator includes a flow passage section through which the refrigerant flows. A portion of the inner surface of the flow passage section that is the portion facing the lower side in the gravity direction inclines with respect to the horizontal plane perpendicular to the gravity direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuo SUGIYAMA, Naoya OKADA
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Publication number: 20190196311Abstract: A projector includes a light source device configured to emit light, a light modulator configured to modulate the light emitted from the light source device in accordance with an image signal, a projection optical device configured to project the light modulated by the light modulator, and a cooler configured to cool a cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas. The cooler includes a refrigerant generator configured to generate the refrigerant and a refrigerant sender configured to send the generated refrigerant toward the cooling target.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuo SUGIYAMA, Naoya OKADA