Patents by Inventor Takayuki Homma
Takayuki Homma 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: 11985034Abstract: A management device comprises an extracting means that extracts, from a database storing configuration information, the client terminals belonging to a specified group, network devices directly serving the client terminals, network devices between the serving network devices, and MEC devices to be treated as candidates for selection, and a selecting means that selects the MEC device to be accessed by the plurality of client terminals forming the group by using first and second amounts of latency, the first amount of latency being the amount of latency between each network device directly serving the client terminals belonging to the group and each MEC device, and the second amount of latency being the amount of latency between each network device directly serving the client terminals belonging to the group and each client terminal.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takuya Sato, Tomohiro Okada, Takayuki Nakamura, Shunsuke Homma, Mitsuo Amasaka
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Patent number: 11713727Abstract: An engine system includes an engine having a combustion chamber, an intake gas passage through which air to be supplied to the combustion chamber flows, an exhaust gas passage through which exhaust gas generated from the combustion chamber flows, a reformer configured to reform the fuel to generate a reformed gas containing hydrogen, a gas supply passage through which air to be supplied to the reformer flows, a bypass passage connected to the gas supply passage and the exhaust gas passage so as to bypass the reformer and through which the fuel having passed through the reformer is circulated to an upstream of the reformer, and a switching valve switched between a normal position that does not allow the fuel having passed through the reformer to flow to the bypass passage and a circulating position that allows the fuel having passed through the reformer to flow to the bypass passage.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Takayuki Homma, Yoshitaka Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20220170415Abstract: An engine system includes an engine having a combustion chamber, an intake gas passage through which air to be supplied to the combustion chamber flows, an exhaust gas passage through which exhaust gas generated from the combustion chamber flows, a reformer configured to reform the fuel to generate a reformed gas containing hydrogen, a gas supply passage through which air to be supplied to the reformer flows, a bypass passage connected to the gas supply passage and the exhaust gas passage so as to bypass the reformer and through which the fuel having passed through the reformer is circulated to an upstream of the reformer, and a switching valve switched between a normal position that does not allow the fuel having passed through the reformer to flow to the bypass passage and a circulating position that allows the fuel having passed through the reformer to flow to the bypass passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Takayuki HOMMA, Yoshitaka TAKEUCHI
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Patent number: 10927035Abstract: A method of manufacturing a solar heat collection pipe includes an inner circumferential film forming step of forming an antireflection film on an inner surface of a glass pipe and an outer circumferential film forming step of forming an antireflection film on an outer surface of the glass pipe. These film forming steps are performed so that a part of a coating film through which a coating material is flowed when the coating material is discharged from the glass pipe in a coating material discharging step of the inner circumferential film forming step and a part of a coating film with which the coating material is in contact when the glass pipe is lifted from the coating material in a lifting step of the outer circumferential film forming step are positioned within a half circumference of the glass pipe in a circumferential direction of the glass pipe.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Takayuki Homma
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Patent number: 10627986Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method for controlling the information processing apparatus includes creating instructions corresponding to processing for transmitting image data to an apparatus identified by a URL, obtaining icon data based on the URL, and setting the obtained icon data as an icon of the created instructions.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takayuki Homma
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Publication number: 20200062641Abstract: A method of manufacturing a solar heat collection pipe includes an inner circumferential film forming step of forming an antireflection film on an inner surface of a glass pipe and an outer circumferential film forming step of forming an antireflection film on an outer surface of the glass pipe. These film forming steps are performed so that a part of a coating film through which a coating material is flowed when the coating material is discharged from the glass pipe in a coating material discharging step of the inner circumferential film forming step and a part of a coating film with which the coating material is in contact when the glass pipe is lifted from the coating material in a lifting step of the outer circumferential film forming step are positioned within a half circumference of the glass pipe in a circumferential direction of the glass pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Takayuki HOMMA
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Patent number: 10533774Abstract: A solar heat collection tube with improved optical transmittance and durability to the external environment includes an inner tube through the interior of which a heat medium can flow, an outer tube that covers an outer periphery of the inner tube such that an annular heat insulating space is formed between the outer tube and the inner tube, and thermal expansion difference absorbing means or absorbing a thermal expansion difference between the inner tube and the outer tube. The outer tube is a glass tube, a first anti-reflection film is formed on an inner surface of the glass tube, a second anti-reflection film is formed on an outer surface of the glass tube, the second anti-reflection film is more durable to the external environment than the first anti-reflection film, and the first anti-reflection film has a higher optical transmittance than the second anti-reflection film.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Takayuki Homma
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Patent number: 10302334Abstract: This invention is a sunlight-to-heat converting member containing chromium silicide having an element ratio of Cr to Si from 1:1.6 to 1:4.7. This invention is also a sunlight-to-heat converting stack including a layer of the sunlight-to-heat converting member and a metal layer. This invention is also a sunlight-to-heat converting device including a light collecting part, either or both of a container and a flow path where sunlight is collected by the light collecting part, and a heating medium housed in either or both of the container and the flow path. The sunlight-to-heat converting member or the sunlight-to-heat converting stack is formed on a surface of either or both of the container and the flow path. The sunlight-to-heat converting member, the sunlight-to-heat converting stack, and the sunlight-to-heat converting device of this invention can convert light to heat efficiently.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2014Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, JAPAN FINE CERAMICS CENTERInventors: Takuhito Tsutsui, Kazuto Noritake, Toru Sasatani, Norihito Takeuchi, Takayuki Homma, Yoshiki Okuhara
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Publication number: 20180195767Abstract: A solar heat collection tube with improved optical transmittance and durability to the external environment includes an inner tube through the interior of which a heat medium can flow, an outer tube that covers an outer periphery of the inner tube such that an annular heat insulating space is formed between the outer tube and the inner tube, and thermal expansion difference absorbing means or absorbing a thermal expansion difference between the inner tube and the outer tube. The outer tube is a glass tube, a first anti-reflection film is formed on an inner surface of the glass tube, a second anti-reflection film is formed on an outer surface of the glass tube, the second anti-reflection film is more durable to the external environment than the first anti-reflection film, and the first anti-reflection film has a higher optical transmittance than the second anti-reflection film.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2016Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Takayuki HOMMA
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Patent number: 9875073Abstract: A printing apparatus according to the present invention stores in a predetermined storage area, identification information of a print job including a print setting as a monitoring target in accordance with an extension program, for a job registration event issued according to a basic program when the print job is received. Then, for the job registration event issued according to the basic program, a job log including the identification information that has been stored in accordance with the extension program, in a dedicated file different from a normal file.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takayuki Homma
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Patent number: 9635207Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: an obtainment unit that obtains an application-related job from a management apparatus; a control unit that controls an application for the information processing apparatus in accordance with the obtained job; and a setting unit that changes, along with the control by the control unit, at least one of settings of the information processing apparatus and settings of the application in accordance with setting information included in the obtained job, wherein in a case where the obtained job represents an instruction to install the application, the control unit obtains, from the distribution apparatus, an application file and a license file that correspond to the application designated by the job, and installs the application using the application file and the license file.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takayuki Homma
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Publication number: 20170090837Abstract: A printing apparatus according to the present invention stores in a predetermined storage area, identification information of a print job including a print setting as a monitoring target in accordance with an extension program, for a job registration event issued according to a basic program when the print job is received. Then, for the job registration event issued according to the basic program, a job log including the identification information that has been stored in accordance with the extension program, in a dedicated file different from a normal file.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventor: Takayuki Homma
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Publication number: 20160360059Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: an obtainment unit that obtains an application-related job from a management apparatus; a control unit that controls an application for the information processing apparatus in accordance with the obtained job; and a setting unit that changes, along with the control by the control unit, at least one of settings of the information processing apparatus and settings of the application in accordance with setting information included in the obtained job, wherein in a case where the obtained job represents an instruction to install the application, the control unit obtains, from the distribution apparatus, an application file and a license file that correspond to the application designated by the job, and installs the application using the application file and the license file.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: TAKAYUKI HOMMA
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Patent number: 9417862Abstract: An information processing apparatus provided with an extension unit for performing control to download and install an extension program for extending functionality, the extension unit comprises: a first control unit that performs control to download from an external server an introduction program that provides information about the extension program which can be downloaded, and installs the introduction program; an obtaining unit that obtains, from the installed introduction program, information about the extension program; a provision unit that provides a screen for displaying the obtained information about the extension program and for receiving an instruction to install the extension program; and a second control unit that, in response to the instruction by a user via the screen, performs control to use key information included in the obtained information to download and install the extension program.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takayuki Homma
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Publication number: 20160230285Abstract: A plating apparatus (1) includes: a holding member (2) that holds a plated object (W); a spacer (4) that is stacked on the holding member (2) via a first seal member (3) in an annular shape surrounding the plated object (W), and has a through portion (45) from which the plated object (W) is exposed and which stores a plating solution; and an anode member (6) that is stacked on the spacer (4) via a second seal member (3) in an annular shape surrounding the through portion (45), and has an anode layer (62) arranged to face the plated object (W) which is exposed from the through portion (45).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2014Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicants: WASEDA University, YAMAMOTO-MS CO., LTD.Inventors: Wataru Yamamoto, Kimiko Koiwa, Takayuki HOMMA, Masahiro YANAGISAWA, Mikiko Saito, Tomoyuki YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 9313356Abstract: The storage unit stores first ability information indicating an image processing ability of each of the plurality of image reading apparatuses and second ability information indicating an image processing ability of the image processing apparatus. The accepted job is instructed to execute by any one of the plurality of image reading apparatuses and specifies at least image processing. The selecting is performed on either an image reading apparatus instructing to execute the job or the image processing apparatus based on the first ability information and the second ability information. When the image reading apparatus is selected, the image reading apparatus is controlled to execute the image processing specified in the job. When the image processing apparatus is selected, the image processing apparatus is controlled to execute the image processing specified in the job on data read by the image reading apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takayuki Homma
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Publication number: 20160084532Abstract: This invention is a sunlight-to-heat converting member containing chromium silicide having an element ratio of Cr to Si from 1:1.6 to 1:4.7. This invention is also a sunlight-to-heat converting stack including a layer of the sunlight-to-heat converting member and a metal layer. This invention is also a sunlight-to-heat converting device including a light collecting part, either or both of a container and a flow path where sunlight is collected by the light collecting part, and a heating medium housed in either or both of the container and the flow path. The sunlight-to-heat converting member or the sunlight-to-heat converting stack is formed on a surface of either or both of the container and the flow path. The sunlight-to-heat converting member, the sunlight-to-heat converting stack, and the sunlight-to-heat converting device of this invention can convert light to heat efficiently.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2014Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicants: JAPAN FINE CERAMICS CENTER, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Takuhito TSUTSUI, Kazuto NORITAKE, Toru SASATANI, Norihito TAKEUCHI, Takayuki HOMMA, Yoshiki OKUHARA
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Publication number: 20160034263Abstract: An information processing apparatus provided with an extension unit for performing control to download and install an extension program for extending functionality, the extension unit comprises: a first control unit that performs control to download from an external server an introduction program that provides information about the extension program which can be downloaded, and installs the introduction program; an obtaining unit that obtains, from the installed introduction program, information about the extension program; a provision unit that provides a screen for displaying the obtained information about the extension program and for receiving an instruction to install the extension program; and a second control unit that, in response to the instruction by a user via the screen, performs control to use key information included in the obtained information to download and install the extension program.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2015Publication date: February 4, 2016Inventor: Takayuki Homma
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Patent number: 8937730Abstract: A system includes an image forming apparatus and a server connected to the image forming apparatus via the Internet. The image forming apparatus establishes in response to login of a user, a push type communication method for allowing the server to transmit an instruction, and the server transmits, to the image forming apparatus, an instruction relating to setting information corresponding to the logged-in user by using the established push type communication method.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2013Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takayuki Homma
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Patent number: 8786882Abstract: An image processing apparatus may execute a process defined in a job ticket. The image processing apparatus includes a holding unit to hold a job ticket defining a plurality of processes. A display control unit of the image processing apparatus performs control to display, on a display unit, pieces of information about the plurality of processes defined in the job ticket held in the holding unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2009Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takayuki Homma