Patents by Inventor Akihiko Hoshino

Akihiko Hoshino 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: 11963141
    Abstract: Method of scrambling signals, transmission point device, and user equipment using the method are provided. The method includes: sending an ID table to a user equipment through higher layer signaling, the ID table being a subset of the whole ID space and containing available IDs for the user equipment; notifying the user equipment an ID in the ID table to be used through physical layer signaling or UE specific higher layer signaling; generating a random seed based on the notified ID; initializing a scrambling sequence by the random seed; and scrambling the signals with the initialized scrambling sequence. The method of the disclosure, by combining physical layer signaling and higher layer signaling, may notify the used group ID and the blind detection space to a UE, wherein the blind detection for the UE is enabled and the signaling overhead is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio
  • Publication number: 20240113819
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal including a receiver, which, in operation, receives a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) candidate list for CSI-RS configuration information. The CSI-RS candidate list is indicated as Radio Resource Control (RRC) control information for respective terminals. The terminal further includes circuitry, which, in operation, specifies at least one CSI-RS resource information of a measurement target based on the CSI-RS candidate list, and measures a reception power using the specified CSI-RS resource information. The terminal also includes a transmitter, which, in operation, reports the result of the reception power measurement. A reception power measurement method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiko NISHIO, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Masayuki HOSHINO, Hidenori MATSUO, Takashi TAMURA
  • Patent number: 11949626
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a terminal device that allows constraints on user allocation to be prevented and spread codes to be allocated in a scheduler when non-adaptive HARQ is employed using a PHICH. A codeword generator generates code words by encoding data, a layer mapping unit places each CW in one or a plurality of layers, a DMRS generator generates a reference signal for each layer in which a CW is placed by using any resource among a plurality of resources defined by a mutually orthogonal plurality of OCCs, and an ACK/NACK demodulator receives a response signal indicating a retransmission request. When a response signal requesting retransmission of only a CW placed in a plurality of layers is received, the DMRS generator uses each resource having the same OCC among the plurality of resources for the reference signals generated in the corresponding layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 11917439
    Abstract: There are provided a wireless communication method of configuring a measurement resource and a wireless communication device therefor. The method comprises determining a measurement resource to be disregarded when the number of measurement resources configured in one subframe exceeds the maximum number of measurement resources that a user equipment is able to measure in one subframe, wherein the measurement resource with lower priority is determined to be disregarded, and the measurement resource is not disregarded A times within the duration of N subframes, where A is an integer larger than 1, N corresponds to one plus B*periodicity of the measurement resource, and B is an integer equal to or larger than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Ming Xu
  • Patent number: 10654437
    Abstract: In the state in which the first reinforcing cloth and the second reinforcing cloth are in loops, two end portions of the first reinforcing cloth are sewn to the first skin, and two end portions of the second reinforcing cloth are sewn to the second skin. Thus, the first reinforcing cloth and the second reinforcing cloth are sewn to the first skin and the second skin, respectively, in two-layer states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: NHK SPRING Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yaegashi, Tomoyuki Iyama, Akihiko Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20190001914
    Abstract: In the state in which the first reinforcing cloth and the second reinforcing cloth are in loops, two end portions of the first reinforcing cloth are sewn to the first skin, and two end portions of the second reinforcing cloth are sewn to the second skin. Thus, the first reinforcing cloth and the second reinforcing cloth are sewn to the first skin and the second skin, respectively, in two-layer states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Satoshi Yaegashi, Tomoyuki Iyama, Akihiko Hoshino
  • Patent number: 6648395
    Abstract: A vehicle rear seat is provided with a seat cushion, a seat back connected to the seat cushion and foldable from an upright position to a forwardly folded position over the seat cushion, and a retainer board mounted to a rear surface of the seat back for tilting movement. The seat back has a body portion and a decorative cover placed over the body portion. The decorative cover has an upper decorative cover component and a rear decorative cover component. The retainer board includes a core material, a decorative cover composed of one cover element and the other cover element opposing to the one cover element to enclose the core material, and a mount segment extending from the retainer board and connected to the rear decorative cover component of the seat back. The mount segment serves as a hinge to enable the retainer board to be placed in an inoperative rest position and in an operative unfold position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Automotive Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20020140270
    Abstract: A vehicle rear seat is provided with a seat cushion, a seat back connected to the seat cushion and foldable from an upright position to a forwardly folded position over the seat cushion, and a retainer board mounted to a rear surface of the seat back for tilting movement. The seat back has a body portion and a decorative cover placed over the body portion. The decorative cover has an upper decorative cover component and a rear decorative cover component. The retainer board includes a core material, a decorative cover composed of one cover element and the other cover element opposing to the one cover element to enclose the core material, and a mount segment extending from the retainer board and connected to the rear decorative cover component of the seat back. The mount segment serves as a hinge to enable the retainer board to be placed in an inoperative rest position and in an operative unfold position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventor: Akihiko Hoshino
  • Patent number: 5951086
    Abstract: A lock mechanism comprises a latch claw installed on a fixed rail of a back and forth slide mechanism, and a lock release knob disposed between the latch claw and an operating lever for a lock release operation supported by a movable rail. An end portion of the operating lever is inserted into an inside of the back and forth slide mechanism from a through hole formed in the movable rail. The lock release knob is operated by the operating lever and an engagement between a striker disposed on a vehicle floor and the latch claw is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Ikeda Bussan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Hoshino, Takashi Nakamori, Hideya Miyashita
  • Patent number: 5820212
    Abstract: A seat cushion comprises a seat frame having a generally rectangular shape; a pad member integrally molded on the seat frame and an outer skin member covering the pad member. The pad member is formed at a back side thereof with a plurality of recesses into which given parts of the seat frame are partially exposed. Each given part is placed on a top of a laterally extending ridge of the pad member while being joined thereto. A plurality of hook units are employed for fastening the outer skin member to the pad member. Each hook unit includes a generally U-shaped hook member and a flexible strip which are integrally molded. The hook member is operatively engaged with the given part of the seat frame and the flexible strip is sewed to a leading end of the outer skin member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Ikeda Bussan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Hoshino, Mineji Kitsuta
  • Patent number: 5303389
    Abstract: In a data processing system including at least two processing units having different throughputs for performing sequential access upon a main storage unit, the number of elements of the main storage unit simultaneously accessed by the processing units is different, or the sequence of elements accessed by one of the processing units is reversed, thereby substantially improving the input/output throughput for the main storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Akihiko Hoshino, Mikio Itoh, Nobuhiko Kuribayashi
  • Patent number: 5098159
    Abstract: A seat mounting device for use with a vehicle seat (11) has a recliner mechanism (16) that angularly adjusts the seat back (15) with respect to the seat cushion (13) during use and has a forwardly projecting support member which is pivotally supported by a pivot pin (23) for movement of the seat back between use and easy-enter positions. The vehicle seat (11) also has a mounting device (10) that mounts the recliner support member on a movable rail member of a slide mechanism mounted on a vehicular floor. A leg member (17a) connected to the seating device is generally L-shaped and has a right angle connection between its upper and lower ends. The lower end of the leg member (17a) is fastened to the moveable rail (12a) of the slide mechanism (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Ikeda Bussan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiko Hoshino
  • Patent number: 5074534
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an automotive seat which includes a seat frame and a plurality of S-springs which are spanned between spaced two portions of the seat frame. Each spring has one U-shaped end portion. In order to tightly and unmovably connect the U-shaped end portion of each spring to selected one of the side portions of the frame, an improved spring holding structure is formed on the selected portion of the frame, which includes a tunnel portion which is integrally formed on the selected portion and two raised portions which are integrally formed on the same selected portion in a manner to put therebetween the tunnel portion. The distance between the two raised portions is substantially equal to the longitudinal length of the U-shaped end portion of the spring. The U-shaped end portion of the spring is received in the tunnel portion having its longitudinal ends respectively contacting with the two raised portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Assignee: Ikeda Bussan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiko Hoshino
  • Patent number: 5002339
    Abstract: A pair of cover half members are attached to each other and to a seat hinge base plate in such a manner as to enclose the base plate. The respective cover halves each snap directly onto the base plate at a single point on their lower sides. At their upper sides the covers snap onto each other. The connection between the covers and the base plate is firm but is still resilient enough to allow sufficient movement between the cover assembly and the base plate in the event that large forces or shocks are applied to the cover. The connection between the cover halves is sufficiently strong that forces acting on the cover halves cannot readily force them apart nor cause them to become detached from the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1991
    Assignee: Ikeda Bussan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamashita, Hiroaki Iwamoto, Akihiko Hoshino, Takashi Hosoe
  • Patent number: 4949292
    Abstract: An improved vector processor for processing a modified recurrent equation: a.sub.i =a.sub.i-2 .times.b.sub.i-1 .times.b.sub.i +b.sub.i .times.c.sub.i-1 +c.sub.i, where i is an integer: i=1, 2, 3, . . . , n, at a high speed. The vector processor includes a data distribution circuit (40a, 40b), at least one odd term calculation circuit (10A, 10AA), and at least one even term calculation circuit (10B, 10BB). The odd term calculation circuit calculates odd terms of the modified recurrent equation: a.sub.j =(a.sub.j-2 .times.b.sub.j-1 .times.b.sub.j)+(b.sub.i +c.sub.j-1)+c.sub.j, where j is an odd integer. The even term calculation circuit calculates even terms of the recurrent equations: a.sub.k =(a.sub.k-2 .times.b.sub.k-1 .times.b.sub.k)+(b.sub.k .times.c.sub.k-1)+c.sub.k, where k is an even integer. The data distribution circuit receives an initial, data a.sub.0 and input vector (operand) data (b.sub.i) and (c.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Akihiko Hoshino, Shoji Nakatani, Koji Kuroda, Tetsu Kawai
  • Patent number: 4916609
    Abstract: In a data processing system including at least two processing units having different throughputs for performing sequential access upon a main storage unit, the number of elements of the main storage unit simultaneously accessed by the processing units is different, or the sequence of elements accessed by one of the processing units is reversed, thereby substantially improving the input/output throughput for the main storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Akihiko Hoshino, Mikio Itoh, Nobuhiko Kuribayashi