Patents by Inventor Takao Aoki
Takao Aoki 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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QUANTUM COMPUTING UNIT, SINGLE PHOTON SOURCE, QUANTUM COMPUTING DEVICE, AND QUANTUM COMPUTING METHOD
Publication number: 20230204863Abstract: In order to deterministically operate a quantum computing unit (13-m) having a plurality of quantum systems trapped thereto, quantum computing is carried out with use of a quantum computing unit including: an optical nanofiber (131-m) optically connected, via a tapered portion, to an optical fiber (12) through which a photon entering thereto is propagated; and a plurality of quantum systems (132-m) arranged outside the optical nanofiber so as to be arrayed at intervals along a longitudinal direction of the optical nanofiber. Note that at least any one of the quantum systems functions as a qubit interacting with the photon.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventor: Takao AOKI -
Patent number: 11024337Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk having a first region to which data is written by normal recording and a second region to which data is written by shingled recording, a head configured to write the data to the disk and read the data from the disk, and a controller configured to, when first data and second data is to be sequentially written to a third region of the second region, reserve a fourth region corresponding to the first data and the second data in the first region, write the first data to the fourth region, write the second data after the first data in the fourth region, and sequentially write the first data and the second data read from the fourth region to the third region.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage CorporationInventor: Takao Aoki
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Patent number: 9433212Abstract: Provided is a novel plant growth regulator. The disclosed plant growth regulator comprises flubendiamide as an active ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2012Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: NIHON NOHYAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Nao Tokubuchi, Shingo Tamura, Takao Aoki, Ken Kuriyama
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Publication number: 20140256687Abstract: Provided are an agricultural and horticultural insecticide composition comprising flubendiamide and dichlorvos and/or profenofos as active ingredients; and a method for using an agricultural and horticultural insecticide composition, comprising treating insect pests directly, treating crops potentially infested with the insect pests, or treating surrounding soil or cultivation medium of the crops with an effective amount of an agricultural and horticultural insecticide composition comprising flubendiamide and dichlorvos and/or profenofos as active ingredients.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2012Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: NIHON NOHYAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Shingo Tamura, Takao Aoki, Ken Kuriyama
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Publication number: 20140213656Abstract: Provided is a novel plant growth regulator. The disclosed plant growth regulator comprises flubendiamide as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2012Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: NIHON NOHYAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Nao Tokubuchi, Shingo Tamura, Takao Aoki, Ken Kuriyama
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Publication number: 20140148493Abstract: Provided are an agricultural and horticultural insecticide composition comprising flubendiamide and tolfenpyrad as active ingredients; and a method for using an agricultural and horticultural insecticide composition, comprising treating insect pests directly, treating crops potentially infested with the insect pests, or treating surrounding soil or cultivation medium of the crops with an effective amount of an agricultural and horticultural insecticide composition comprising flubendiamide and tolfenpyrad as active ingredients.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: NIHON NOHYAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Shingo Tamura, Takao Aoki, Ken Kuriyama
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Patent number: 8154814Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk comprises an area which comprises a plurality of data tracks and is partitioned into a first segment and a plurality of second segments. A controller detects that a segment to be refreshed next is one of the plurality of second segments. The controller saves data stored in the one of the plurality of second segments into the first segment when a segment to be refreshed next is the one of the plurality of second segments.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2010Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takao Aoki, Yasuhiko Ichikawa
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Patent number: 8136131Abstract: An optical pickup includes an actuator having an objective lens and an optical base on which the actuator is supported. The actuator includes a yoke having an opening, a first straight section and an opposing second straight section, the opening being interposed between the straight sections, the first and second straight sections having a first and a second bent section, respectively, as an extension of each bent section. The yoke is formed as coving the actuator with the straight sections so that the objective lens is exposed through the opening without being obstructed by the optical base. The first bent section has one contact section whereas the second bent section has two contact sections. The optical base includes an ark-like support section. The optical base supports the actuator in such a way that the contact sections are made to have contact with the ark-like support section.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2009Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Takao Aoki, Masaki Murayama
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Patent number: 7986594Abstract: An optical pickup has a lens actuator, at least one suspension wire having a first end and an opposite second end, the lens actuator being held by the wire at the first end, and a support base to which the wire is fixed at the second end. The support base has at least one cutaway section provided as corresponding to the wire, having a concavity to receive at least partially the wire in cross section orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the wire, the concavity curving in a direction parallel to the cross section of the wire, and a land formed around the cutaway section, the wire being soldered to the land at the second end while the wire is being received at least partially by the concavity.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2009Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Takao Aoki, Masaki Murayama
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Patent number: 7925828Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk has a set of tracks thereon. A controller performs refresh control for reading data by a head from a track on the disk to be refreshed and for writing the read data by the head to a spare track adjacent to the track from which the data has been read. The controller switches the track from which the data has been read to a new spare track after the writing.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2009Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takao Aoki, Yasuhiko Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20110019302Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk comprises an area which comprises a plurality of data tracks and is partitioned into a first segment and a plurality of second segments. A controller detects that a segment to be refreshed next is one of the plurality of second segments. The controller saves data stored in the one of the plurality of second segments into the first segment when a segment to be refreshed next is the one of the plurality of second segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takao Aoki, Yasuhiko Ichikawa
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Patent number: 7870460Abstract: According to one embodiment, the controller controls a data refresh operation. The data refresh operation comprises a refresh-data read operation of reading L blocks of data by a head from a track to be refreshed on a disk, a data backup-write operation of writing the read data by the head to a backup-track on the disk, and a refresh-write operation of writing the read data by the head to the track to be refreshed after the backup-write operation. The controller sets the number L of blocks to a value that satisfies conditions for completing the backup-write operation and the refresh-write operation within a time corresponding to N revolutions of the disk from completion of the refresh-data read operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2009Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Taro Iketaki, Akio Mizuno, Yasuhiko Ichikawa, Takao Aoki
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Publication number: 20100165502Abstract: According to one embodiment, the controller controls a data refresh operation. The data refresh operation comprises a refresh-data read operation of reading L blocks of data by a head from a track to be refreshed on a disk, a data backup-write operation of writing the read data by the head to a backup-track on the disk, and a refresh-write operation of writing the read data by the head to the track to be refreshed after the backup-write operation. The controller sets the number L of blocks to a value that satisfies conditions for completing the backup-write operation and the refresh-write operation within a time corresponding to N revolutions of the disk from completion of the refresh-data read operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2009Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Taro Iketaki, Akio Mizuno, Yasuhiko Ichikawa, Takao Aoki
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Publication number: 20100014183Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk has a set of tracks thereon. A controller performs refresh control for reading data by a head from a track on the disk to be refreshed and for writing the read data by the head to a spare track adjacent to the track from which the data has been read. The controller switches the track from which the data has been read to a new spare track after the writing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takao Aoki, Yasuhiko Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20090323504Abstract: An optical pickup includes an actuator having an objective lens and an optical base on which the actuator is supported. The actuator includes a yoke having an opening, a first straight section and an opposing second straight section, the opening being interposed between the straight sections, the first and second straight sections having a first and a second bent section, respectively, as an extension of each bent section. The yoke is formed as coving the actuator with the straight sections so that the objective lens is exposed through the opening without being obstructed by the optical base. The first bent section has one contact section whereas the second bent section has two contact sections. The optical base includes an ark-like support section. The optical base supports the actuator in such a way that the contact sections are made to have contact with the ark-like support section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. a corporation of JapanInventors: Takao Aoki, Masaki Murayama
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Publication number: 20090323479Abstract: An optical pickup has a lens actuator, at least one suspension wire having a first end and an opposite second end, the lens actuator being held by the wire at the first end, and a support base to which the wire is fixed at the second end. The support base has at least one cutaway section provided as corresponding to the wire, having a concavity to receive at least partially the wire in cross section orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the wire, the concavity curving in in a direction parallel to the cross section of the wire, and a land formed around the cutaway section, the wire being soldered to the land at the second end while the wire is being received at least partially by the concavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. a corporation of JapanInventors: Takao AOKI, Masaki MURAYAMA
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Publication number: 20080145432Abstract: A fine particle comprising an amphiphilic polymer, further comprising an inner nucleus of hydrophilic segment of amphiphilic polymer, and a hydrophobic outer layer of hydrophobic segment of amphiphilic polymer, and having a surface modifier bonded to the hydrophobic outer layer. A fine particle of the invention effectively enclose protein, peptide drug, nucleic acid medicine of hydrophilic property and large molecular weight in the inner nucleus of hydrophilic segment of amphiphilic polymer, and are preferable for stabilizing in the body and promoting absorption.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2006Publication date: June 19, 2008Inventors: Yoshinori Kakizawa, Takao Aoki, Nobuo Ida, Reiji Nishio
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Publication number: 20080019918Abstract: A pharmaceutical preparation has a ligand structure specifically recognizing a target site and an amphiphilic compound having a hydrophobic or amphiphilic group. The pharmaceutical preparation employs an amphiphilic compound of specific structure obtained by introducing a chained hydrophilic group with an appropriate flexibility, and thus becomes a fine particle suited for drug targeting. The pharmaceutical preparation is expected to give a prolonged pharmacological effect. A particulate preparation exhibiting a remarkable site targeting property can be formed. Further, according to the selection of matrix forming material, the drug releasing property can be controlled.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2005Publication date: January 24, 2008Inventors: Takao Aoki, Shinichi Yamane, Shinichi Kawanami, Yuichi Koyamatsu, Yoshifumi Watanabe, Itaru Hamachi, Ryo Suzuki, Masakazu Koiwa, Nobuo Ida
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Publication number: 20060233724Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for being administered to periodontal pockets, comprising as an effective ingredient a bisphosphonic acid derivative, which has an excellent sustained-release property when locally administered, is disclosed. The pharmaceutical composition for being administered to periodontal pockets according to the present invention comprises a bisphosphonic acid derivative or a salt thereof, and a base which undergoes liquid-gel phase transition upon contacting with physiological body fluid in the periodontal pocket.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2003Publication date: October 19, 2006Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Ryoji Yoshii, Takao Aoki
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Patent number: 7031020Abstract: An image forming apparatus and method in which a controller is capable of executing image processing of its own are disclosed. The controller has an RF unit for processing image information, a halftone image processor, a density corrector and a patch generator. The engine includes a modulator corresponding to the RF unit, a halftone image processor different from that of the controller, a density controller, modulator and patch generator corresponding to the halftone processor of the engine, a sensor for sensing the density of formed patches, and a control unit for controlling the density of an image on the basis of a signal from the sensor. The engine sends the controller a signal relating to density control.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2000Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akio Aoki, Takao Aoki, Kaoru Seto, Seiji Sagara, Satoshi Shimizu, Katsuhiko Nishimura, Kazuro Yamada