Patents by Inventor Yasutaka Ito

Yasutaka Ito 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: 11947249
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a first layer made of a semiconductor monocrystal, a second layer provided at the first layer and having a crystal orientation not continuous with the crystal orientation of the first layer, and a columnar crystal structure including a light emitting layer and extending from the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Noda, Hideki Hahiro, Tetsuji Fujita, Atsushi Ito, Koichiro Akasaka, Yasutaka Imai, Michifumi Nagawa
  • Publication number: 20240067570
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pre-sintered body for obtaining a zirconia sintered body that can satisfy both high strength and high translucency, and a method of production of such a pre-sintered body. The present invention relates to a zirconia pre-sintered body comprising a secondary aggregate having an average particle diameter of 275 nm or less, the secondary aggregate comprising zirconia, and a stabilizer capable of preventing a phase transformation of zirconia, the secondary aggregate comprising a larger particle having an average primary particle diameter of 100 nm or more and 200 nm or less, and a smaller particle having an average primary particle diameter of 10 nm or more and less than 60 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.
    Inventors: Kirihiro NAKANO, Nobusuke KASHIKI, Yasutaka KUDO, Yoshihisa ITO
  • Patent number: 11892422
    Abstract: A particulate-matter detecting sensor including an insulating substrate which has a detecting face, detecting conductors formed in the insulating substrate, and a heating section formed on the insulating substrate. Each detecting conductor includes a detecting electrode part, a terminal part, and a connecting part. A portion of the detecting conductor is constituted of a noble metal conductor mainly formed of at least one noble metal selected from Pt, Au, Pd, Rh and Ir. At least a portion of the connecting part is formed of a low expansion conductor mainly formed of a low expansion coefficient metal having linear expansion coefficient lower than that of the noble metal. Both conductors are joined at an overlapping part at which the noble metal conductor and the low expansion conductor are partly overlapped with each other on an insulating layer forming the insulating substrate in a normal line direction of the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: IBIDEN CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka Ito, Tomoyoshi Nakamura, Takeshi Ushida, Takehito Kimata, Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230351218
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to: generate, by machine learning using time-series data of a variable for a phenomenon related to an abnormality in a system to be monitored, a prediction model for predicting an indicator used to identify the a timing of system maintenance and a physical model for predicting the variable; and perform either one of a first prediction process using the physical model that is learned using the indicator predicted by the prediction model and a second prediction process of correcting the indicator predicted by the prediction model by using the variable predicted by the physical model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hideaki UEHARA, Kenji HIROHATA, Tomoyuki SUZUKI, Yasutaka ITO
  • Patent number: 11608014
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a sound-absorbing material having sound absorption performance with an average sound absorption coefficient of 0.65 or more in the frequency domain of 800 to 2000 Hz. The present invention relates to a sound-absorbing material including: a fiber layer including a plurality of holes open to a surface thereof and having a thickness of 3 mm or more; and an inorganic material layer formed on the surface of the fiber layer, the holes being blind holes each penetrating through the inorganic material layer and having a bottom inside the fiber layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Suzuki, Yasutaka Ito, Tomoyoshi Nakamura, Koji Ohshika
  • Publication number: 20210310972
    Abstract: A particulate-matter detecting sensor including an insulating substrate which has a detecting face, a plurality of detecting conductors formed in the insulating substrate, and a heating section embedded in the insulating substrate. Each of the plurality of detecting conductors includes a detecting electrode part, a terminal part, and a connecting part. An exposed conductor part of the detecting conductor which is exposed to the element surface is constituted of a noble metal conductor mainly formed of at least one noble metal selected from Pt, Au, Pd, Rh and Ir. At least a portion of a non-exposed conductor part of the detecting conductor which is not exposed to the element surface is constituted of a low expansion conductor mainly formed of a low expansion coefficient metal which linear expansion coefficient is lower than that of the noble metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicants: IBIDEN CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka ITO, Tomoyoshi NAKAMURA, Takeshi USHIDA, Takehito KIMATA, Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210199611
    Abstract: A particulate-matter detecting sensor including an insulating substrate which has a detecting face, detecting conductors formed in the insulating substrate, and a heating section formed on the insulating substrate. Each detecting conductor includes a detecting electrode part, a terminal part, and a connecting part. A portion of the detecting conductor is constituted of a noble metal conductor mainly formed of at least one noble metal selected from Pt, Au, Pd, Rh and Ir. At least a portion of the connecting part is formed of a low expansion conductor mainly formed of a low expansion coefficient metal having linear expansion coefficient lower than that of the noble metal. Both conductors are joined at an overlapping part at which the noble metal conductor and the low expansion conductor are partly overlapped with each other on an insulating layer forming the insulating substrate in a normal line direction of the insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicants: IBIDEN CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka ITO, Tomoyoshi NAKAMURA, Takeshi USHIDA, Takehito KIMATA, Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10874998
    Abstract: The diffusing member of the present invention is disposed in an exhaust pipe to partially block exhaust gas flowing in from upstream of the exhaust pipe, the diffusing member including a ceramic member and a metal member, wherein the ceramic member surrounds the metal member in such a manner that the metal member is partially exposed, and the volume of the ceramic member constituting the diffusing member is larger than the volume of the metal member constituting the diffusing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Kariya, Fumiyuki Mutsuda, Tomoyoshi Nakamura, Yuya Sugiura, Yasutaka Ito
  • Patent number: 10802771
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that: detects a defect that occurs when an image processor performs an image process on process data; produces verification data when the defect is detected during the image process, wherein the verification data is formed in a case that at least one portion of the process data, to be processed by the image processor, is changed and causes a same defect that occurs during the image process on the process data; and externally outputs the verification data instead of the process data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideaki Soejima, Hisashi Uchida, Hiroaki Kubo, Tomoaki Nakajima, Yasutaka Ito, Yoshiaki Shibuta
  • Patent number: 10715489
    Abstract: A management server disposed outside a firewall and supporting connection of communications between a control target device disposed inside the firewall and a cloud server disposed outside the firewall, includes a server-side session establishing portion to, based on a request from a relay device disposed inside the firewall, establish a session with the relay device, a device information acquiring portion to acquire device information about the control target device from the relay device via the established session, and an update determining portion to, in response to reception of a request of connecting to the control target device from the cloud server, determine whether to update the device information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hisashi Uchida, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Noriaki Asamoto, Masami Yamada, Shuji Yoneda, Kazuya Anezaki, Akihiro Torigoshi, Yasutaka Ito
  • Patent number: 10657256
    Abstract: One information processing apparatus among a plurality of information processing apparatuses performs virus detection processing for detecting a computer virus. When a computer virus has been detected from the one information processing apparatus by the virus detection processing, the one information processing apparatus transmits an execution request to perform the virus detection processing to another information processing apparatus different from the one information processing apparatus among the plurality of information processing apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Akita, Yuji Okamoto, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Masami Yamada, Atsushi Tamura, Yasutaka Ito, Yoshikazu Ikenoue
  • Patent number: 10650291
    Abstract: A simulation device includes: a simulator simulating an information processing device; a virtual execution controller executing a job identical to a job executed by the information processing device, while a parameter different from a parameter set in the information processing device, is set in a virtual device in which the simulator simulates the information processing device, by controlling the simulator, when the information processing device is out of a preset admissibility condition; a parameter determinator determining the parameter set in the virtual device, as a change parameter, when the virtual device while the virtual device executes the job, satisfies the admissibility condition; and a setter controlling the information processing device such that the determined change parameter is set in the information processing device, when an environment of the information processing device becomes identical to an environment when the information processing device is out of the admissibility condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Ito, Hisashi Uchida, Hiroaki Kubo, Tomoaki Nakajima, Yoshiaki Shibuta, Hideaki Soejima
  • Publication number: 20200010028
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a sound-absorbing material having sound absorption performance with an average sound absorption coefficient of 0.65 or more in the frequency domain of 800 to 2000 Hz. The present invention relates to a sound-absorbing material including: a fiber layer including a plurality of holes open to a surface thereof and having a thickness of 3 mm or more; and an inorganic material layer formed on the surface of the fiber layer, the holes being blind holes each penetrating through the inorganic material layer and having a bottom inside the fiber layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke SUZUKI, Yasutaka ITO, Tomoyoshi NAKAMURA, Koji OHSHIKA
  • Patent number: 10484571
    Abstract: A multifunction device integrally includes a first device and a second device. The first device has a first system, and the second system has a second system. The second device requests, in response to a predetermined command entered, a first snapshot of the first device from the first device. The first device generates the first snapshot in response to a request from the second device, and sends the first snapshot to the second device. The second device generates a second snapshot of the second device in response to the predetermined command entered, and saves, to a save destination, the first snapshot sent and the second snapshot. The first device starts the first system by using the first snapshot saved in the save destination. The second device starts the second system by using the second snapshot saved in the save destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Masami Yamada, Yuji Okamoto, Katsuhiko Akita, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Yasutaka Ito, Atsushi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20190285590
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a detection system includes a wheel, at least one sensor, a generation unit, and a diagnosis unit. The wheel has an outer edge including an inner wall in which an installation surface is provided. The at least one sensor is installed on the installation surface to detect an elastic wave transmitted from at least one of the wheel and a structure making contact with the wheel. The generation unit is configured to generate time information representing time at which the elastic wave is detected, and feature information representing features of the elastic wave. The diagnosis unit is configured to diagnose, on the basis of the time information and the feature information, a position of a damaged portion of at least one of the wheel and the structure, and a degree of damage of the damaged portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Junko HIROKAWA, Ena ISHII, Yasutaka ITO, Yuki UEDA, Takashi USUI, Takahiro OMORI, Kazuo WATABE
  • Publication number: 20190146720
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that: detects a defect that occurs when an image processor performs an image process on process data; produces verification data when the defect is detected during the image process, wherein the verification data is formed in a case that at least one portion of the process data, to be processed by the image processor, is changed and causes a same defect that occurs during the image process on the process data; and externally outputs the verification data instead of the process data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideaki Soejima, Hisashi Uchida, Hiroaki Kubo, Tomoaki Nakajima, Yasutaka Ito, Yoshiaki Shibuta
  • Publication number: 20190114185
    Abstract: A simulation device includes a hardware processer that simulates an apparatus. When an state of the apparatus does not satisfy a allowable condition, the hardware processor determines a group of the plurality of jobs being executed as an error group, and allows a virtual device to carry out a plurality of jobs that are generated when a parameter defined by at least one of the plurality of jobs included in the error group is changed. When a state of the virtual device satisfies the allowable condition, the hardware processor determines a group of the plurality of jobs executed as a change job group. When the apparatus carries out a plurality of new jobs, the hardware processor allows the apparatus to change each of parameters of the plurality of new jobs to a parameter defined by a change job included in the change job group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakajima, Hisashi Uchida, Hiroaki Kubo, Yasutaka Ito, Hideaki Soejima, Yoshiaki Shibuta
  • Publication number: 20190109960
    Abstract: A simulation device includes: a simulator simulating an information processing device; a virtual execution controller executing a job identical to a job executed by the information processing device, while a parameter different from a parameter set in the information processing device, is set in a virtual device in which the simulator simulates the information processing device, by controlling the simulator, when the information processing device is out of a preset admissibility condition; a parameter determinator determining the parameter set in the virtual device, as a change parameter, when the virtual device while the virtual device executes the job, satisfies the admissibility condition; and a setter controlling the information processing device such that the determined change parameter is set in the information processing device, when an environment of the information processing device becomes identical to an environment when the information processing device is out of the admissibility condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Ito, Hisashi Uchida, Hiroaki Kubo, Tomoaki Nakajima, Yoshiaki Shibuta, Hideaki Soejima
  • Publication number: 20190095192
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor executes an firmware of a first version, acquires a set of firmware of a second version and verification state information that indicates progress of verification of each of a plurality of processes defined by the firmware of the second version from a server, and updates the firmware of the first version with the firmware of the second version. The verification state information includes a completed state where the verification of a non-occurrence of an error is completed and an unverified state where the verification of the non-occurrence of an error is not completed, and the hardware professor sets a settability state of an unverified process out of the plurality of processes to a disabled state where a user cannot make settings to allow execution of the unverified process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Akita, Yuji Okamoto, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Masami Yamada, Atsushi Tamura, Yasutaka Ito
  • Publication number: 20190078568
    Abstract: A roller unit used for a rotary compressor is cylindrically formed to rotate eccentrically around a rotary shaft. The roller unit is divided into at least three rollers in an axial direction of the rotary shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yoshinori MORI, Yasutaka Ito, Norihisa Watanabe