Patents by Inventor Yosuke Kondo
Yosuke Kondo 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: 11913567Abstract: An electromagnetic valve manifold includes valve assemblies arranged in a single direction, each valve assembly including electromagnetic valves arranged in the single direction, a slave station disposed at one of ends of the electromagnetic valve manifold in the single direction, and a valve driving unit disposed in correspondence with each of the valve assemblies. The slave station includes a slave station output port that sends a control signal and valve driving unit power to the valve driving units. The valve driving units each include an electromagnetic valve power input port that receives electromagnetic valve power from an external device and a circuit board configured to control driving of the electromagnetic valves of a corresponding one of the valve assemblies using the control signal and send the electromagnetic valve power to the electromagnetic valves.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: CKD CORPORATIONInventors: Takemoto Kondo, Kazuya Nakata, Shinji Itoh, Yosuke Eguchi, Kiyotoki Natsume, Ikuo Ogino
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Patent number: 11875824Abstract: According to an embodiment, each of a plurality of controller chips included in a magnetic disk device includes a buffer control circuit and an arbitration circuit, and controls a corresponding one of a plurality of actuator systems. The first controller chip is connected to a buffer memory via the buffer control circuit included in the first controller chip, and is connected to the second controller chip. The second controller chip is connected to the first controller chip and the third controller chip. The arbitration circuit included in the second controller chip performs arbitration between data transfer between the third controller chip and the first controller chip and data transfer between the first controller chip and an actuator system controlled by the second controller chip among the plurality of actuator systems.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke Kondo, Kana Furuhashi, Kazuya Takada, Eric R. Dunn
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Publication number: 20230306988Abstract: According to an embodiment, each of a plurality of controller chips included in a magnetic disk device includes a buffer control circuit and an arbitration circuit, and controls a corresponding one of a plurality of actuator systems. The first controller chip is connected to a buffer memory via the buffer control circuit included in the first controller chip, and is connected to the second controller chip. The second controller chip is connected to the first controller chip and the third controller chip. The arbitration circuit included in the second controller chip performs arbitration between data transfer between the third controller chip and the first controller chip and data transfer between the first controller chip and an actuator system controlled by the second controller chip among the plurality of actuator systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Yosuke Kondo, Kana Furuhashi, Kazuya Takada, Eric R. Dunn
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Patent number: 11364206Abstract: The present invention addresses a problem of providing a high quality seamless capsule, with excellent uniformity of shell thickness and virtually no eyes in the shell. The problem can be solved by manufacturing a seamless capsule using a shell composition comprising at least one polysaccharide selected from the group consisting of agar, carrageenan and gellan gum, and a PVA copolymer comprising the following structural units: (i) polyvinyl alcohol, (ii) at least one unsaturated carboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, fumaric acid and maleic acid, and (iii) at least one unsaturated carboxylic acid ester selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formula [I]: H2C?C(R1)—COOR2??[I] (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms).Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignees: FUJI CAPSULE CO., LTD., NISSHIN KASEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichi Nishimura, Sergio Ishiba, Hitoshi Uruga, Hisayoshi Aoki, Yosuke Kondo, Yoshiyuki Shimokawa
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Patent number: 11168629Abstract: The present invention is one that accurately measures an exhaust gas component regardless of variation in atmospheric pressure around a test object that is a vehicle or part of it, and an exhaust gas analysis apparatus that measures component concentration in exhaust gas discharged from the test object that is the vehicle or part of it. The exhaust gas analysis apparatus includes: an exhaust gas detector that mixes the exhaust gas and reactive gas together and detects the resulting phenomenon; a pressure gauge that measures the atmospheric pressure at the time of measurement of the exhaust gas or pressure at a predetermined point inside the exhaust gas analysis apparatus as measured pressure; and a correction part that, on the basis of the measured pressure by the pressure gauge, corrects the measurement error of the exhaust gas detector associated with a variation in the supply amount of the reactive gas.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Naoto Mizutani, Masahiro Nishikawa, Haruhisa Mohara, Shun Fukami, Yosuke Kondo
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Publication number: 20210196641Abstract: A soft capsule film composition, comprising: (A) a native gellan gum; (B) one or more hydrophilic polysaccharides; (C) a starch or modified starch; (D) a plasticizer; and (E) water, wherein a gelling agent other than the native gellan gum and the one or more hydrophilic polysaccharides is not an essential component. The soft capsule film composition shortens drying time at room temperature, suppresses the stickiness of the surface of a film sheet, imparts film sheet strength which can withstand continuous production in factory manufacturing with a rotary die filling machine or the like, and enables the manufacture of a good soft capsule with high adhesiveness. For this reason, the soft capsule produced using the soft capsule film composition can be utilized for various uses such as drugs, quasi drugs, cosmetics, and foods.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Yuki Obatake, Yosuke Kondo, Koji Masuda, Kazuhiko Watanabe, Yoshihiko Watanabe
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Patent number: 10883696Abstract: A lighting tool for a vehicle includes a first light source unit having a plurality of first light emitting elements and a first heat conductive substrate on which the first light emitting elements are mounted, and a second light source unit having at least one or a plurality of second light emitting elements and a second heat conductive substrate on which the second light emitting element is mounted, wherein the first heat conductive substrate is thermally bonded to the second heat conductive substrate in a state in which the first heat conductive substrate and the second heat conductive substrate are overlapped with each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Yosuke Kondo
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Patent number: 10846176Abstract: A magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk, which includes, in a track, a plurality of first sectors each recording user data and a second sector recording parity data for restoring the user data recorded in the first sectors, and a disk controller configured to read data from a plurality of sectors including the first sectors and the second sector based on an instruction from a host, and to detect whether there is an error in each of the first sectors when the user data is read from the first sectors. The disk controller continues reading the data recorded in the plurality of sectors even when an error is detected in one of the first sectors by the disk controller.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventor: Yosuke Kondo
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Patent number: 10777545Abstract: A semiconductor device configures a protection element that protects a protection target element connected between a cathode electrode and an anode electrode when a parasitic transistor configured by a cathode region, a first conductivity type well layer, and a second conductivity type well is turned on and electrical continuity is established between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of body regions in one cell of the protection element, and the plurality of body regions is brought in contact with the cathode electrode.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Yamada, Shinya Sakurai, Takashi Nakano, Yosuke Kondo, Mutsuya Motojima
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Publication number: 20200191080Abstract: The present invention is one that accurately measures an exhaust gas component regardless of variation in atmospheric pressure around a test object that is a vehicle or part of it, and an exhaust gas analysis apparatus that measures component concentration in exhaust gas discharged from the test object that is the vehicle or part of it. The exhaust gas analysis apparatus includes: an exhaust gas detector that mixes the exhaust gas and reactive gas together and detects the resulting phenomenon; a pressure gauge that measures the atmospheric pressure at the time of measurement of the exhaust gas or pressure at a predetermined point inside the exhaust gas analysis apparatus as measured pressure; and a correction part that, on the basis of the measured pressure by the pressure gauge, corrects the measurement error of the exhaust gas detector associated with a variation in the supply amount of the reactive gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: HORIBA, lTD.Inventors: Naoto MIZUTANO, Masahiro NISHIKAWA, Haruhisa MOHARA, Shun FUKAMI, Yosuke KONDO
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Publication number: 20200155464Abstract: The present invention addresses a problem of providing a high quality seamless capsule, with excellent uniformity of shell thickness and virtually no eyes in the shell. The problem can be solved by manufacturing a seamless capsule using a shell composition comprising at least one polysaccharide selected from the group consisting of agar, carrageenan and gellan gum, and a PVA copolymer comprising the following structural units: (i) polyvinyl alcohol, (ii) at least one unsaturated carboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, fumaric acid and maleic acid, and (iii) at least one unsaturated carboxylic acid ester selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formula [I]: H2C?C(R?)—COOR2??[I] (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Koichi Nishimura, Sergio Ishiba, Hitoshi Uruga, Hisayoshi Aoki, Yosuke Kondo, Yoshiyuki Shimokawa
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Patent number: 10649693Abstract: A hard disk device accepts logical block addresses (LBAs) from a host. The hard disk device includes a disk having a plurality of physical sectors from which data is read and to which data is written, and a processor configured to perform read and write operations on the disk in response to read and write commands from the host that designate LBAs. The processor, in response to a request for initialization, does not perform any write operations on the disk, and generates a new mapping of LBAs to the physical sectors for a current generation based on unusable sectors detected during a previous generation, and tracks differences in correspondence between LBAs and the physical sectors between the current generation and the previous generation.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke Kondo, Kana Furuhashi
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Publication number: 20200081779Abstract: A magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk, which includes, in a track, a plurality of first sectors each recording user data and a second sector recording parity data for restoring the user data recorded in the first sectors, and a disk controller configured to read data from a plurality of sectors including the first sectors and the second sector based on an instruction from a host, and to detect whether there is an error in each of the first sectors when the user data is read from the first sectors. The disk controller continues reading the data recorded in the plurality of sectors even when an error is detected in one of the first sectors by the disk controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventor: Yosuke KONDO
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Patent number: 10514283Abstract: The present invention is an exhaust gas flow rate measuring unit that eliminates the disturbance of the flow velocity distribution of exhaust gas flowing through an attachment pipe to accurately measure an exhaust gas flow rate, and is mounted in a vehicle to measure the flow rate of exhaust gas emitted from an exhaust pipe of the vehicle. In addition, the exhaust gas flow rate measuring unit includes the attachment pipe that is connected to the exhaust pipe and forms a flow path through which the exhaust gas flows, a flowmeter that is provided in the flow path and measures the flow rate of the exhaust gas flowing through the flow path, and a straightening mechanism that is provided on the upstream side of the flowmeter in the flow path.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Yosuke Kondo, Shintaro Aoki
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Patent number: 10504550Abstract: A magnetic disk device includes a plurality of tracks and a controller. The controller receives write data to be written to a first sector of a track, generates a first data string based on the write data and a logical identifier for the first sector, attempts to cause the first data string to be written to the first sector, determines whether a write error has occurred while the first data string is written to the first sector, generates a second data string based at least in part on the first data string, and in response to determining that no write error has occurred while the first data string is written to the first sector, writes a parity data string that is based at least in part on the second data string to a second sector of the track that stores parity data for the track.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage CorporationInventors: Syosuke Maruyama, Kana Furuhashi, Yosuke Kondo
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Publication number: 20190293258Abstract: A lighting tool for a vehicle includes a first light source unit having a plurality of first light emitting elements and a first heat conductive substrate on which the first light emitting elements are mounted, and a second light source unit having at least one or a plurality of second light emitting elements and a second heat conductive substrate on which the second light emitting element is mounted, wherein the first heat conductive substrate is thermally bonded to the second heat conductive substrate in a state in which the first heat conductive substrate and the second heat conductive substrate are overlapped with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventor: Yosuke KONDO
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Publication number: 20190279678Abstract: A magnetic disk device includes a plurality of tracks and a controller. The controller receives write data to be written to a first sector of a track, generates a first data string based on the write data and a logical identifier for the first sector, attempts to cause the first data string to be written to the first sector, determines whether a write error has occurred while the first data string is written to the first sector, generates a second data string based at least in part on the first data string, and in response to determining that no write error has occurred while the first data string is written to the first sector, writes a parity data string that is based at least in part on the second data string to a second sector of the track that stores parity data for the track.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2018Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Syosuke MARUYAMA, Kana FURUHASHI, Yosuke KONDO
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Publication number: 20190237457Abstract: A semiconductor device configures a protection element that protects a protection target element connected between a cathode electrode and an anode electrode when a parasitic transistor configured by a cathode region, a first conductivity type well layer, and a second conductivity type well is turned on and electrical continuity is established between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of body regions in one cell of the protection element, and the plurality of body regions is brought in contact with the cathode electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Akira YAMADA, Shinya SAKURAI, Takashi NAKANO, Yosuke KONDO, Mutsuya MOTOJIMA
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Publication number: 20190174820Abstract: A breakable capsule for use in a tobacco industry product is disclosed. The capsule has a core-shell structure, the core including a crystallization inhibitor and at least about 35% w/w menthol, based on the total weight of the core.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Peter WAN, Frank MERZBACH, Kazuhiko WATANABE, Yosuke KONDO, Kenji KATO
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Patent number: 10294384Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a fluororesin-aluminum oxide mixed dispersion wherein both fluororesin particle and aluminum oxide particle uniformly float and disperse in an aqueous solvent. The fluororesin-aluminum oxide mixed dispersion is obtained by mixing aqueous dispersion of fluororesin particle and aluminum oxide particle sol, wherein both the fluororesin particle and the aluminum oxide particle float and disperse, and wherein the dispersion state is stably maintained for three days or more. A solid product obtained by evaporation and scattering of the solvent from the above-described fluororesin-aluminum oxide mixed dispersion has a heat resistance of not less than 330° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignees: JAPAN MATEX CO., LTD., Kawaken Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuro Tsukamoto, Yuzo Nakamura, Yuhi Hosoi, Yosuke Kondo, Naofumi Nagai, Fujio Mizukami