Patents by Inventor Akihiro Kimura
Akihiro Kimura 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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Publication number: 20230090154Abstract: A present invention is a power supply device, comprising a battery unit, a heater configured to generate heat on the basis of power of the battery unit, and a driving unit configured to drive the heater with a driving force according to a temperature of the battery unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shunichiro Sueyoshi, Akihiro Kimura, Kotaro Kawase, Yoshiharu Nawata, Mitsuyoshi Kanai
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Publication number: 20230091553Abstract: According to one embodiment, the memory system includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, a data buffer, a volatile memory for storing a management table uniquely associates the user data with an address of the physical storage region of nonvolatile semiconductor memory, a controller that carries out a force quit process for writing the user data stored in a data buffer, the management table stored in volatile memory into the nonvolatile semiconductor memory, and a storage battery. The controller starts the force quit process prior to the power supply of the internal power supply regulator is switched from an external power supply to the storage battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Akihiro KIMURA, Hiroki MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20230087723Abstract: A communication apparatus which terminates an L2 tunnel and an L3 tunnel includes a table storage unit which stores an ARP table where a broadcast MAC address is set as a destination MAC address linked to a destination IP address, and a transmission unit which acquires the broadcast MAC address as a destination MAC address corresponding to a destination IP address of an IP packet received via the L3 tunnel by referring to the ARP table and transmits a frame to which the broadcast MAC address is added as a destination MAC address, via the L2 tunnel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2020Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Hiroki KANO, Katsuma Miyamoto, Akihiro Kimura
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Patent number: 11590654Abstract: A conveyance robot system according to the present disclosure includes an intrusion detection sensor that detects an intrusion of an object into the arm opening, and a distance sensor that measures a clearance distance indicating a distance between an arm entry/exit surface and a shelf, the arm entry/exit surface being a surface of the conveyance robot in which the arm opening is provided from among surfaces of the conveyance robot 1 constituting the safety cover, and the object being stored in the shelf. The distance sensor is disposed at a fixed height of the shelf in a horizontal direction and at a height of the shelf corresponding to a part to be measured.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fuminori Saito, Atsunori Kobayashi, Akihiro Kimura, Hidenori Yabushita, Fukashi Andoh, Yoshihiro Okumatsu, Takeshi Nishida, Akihito Goto, Reoto Uetake
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Publication number: 20230055402Abstract: A communication device, in which a protocol is workable, the protocol enabling formation of a redundancy configuration including a plurality of communication devices by use of a virtual IP address, includes: a table storage unit configured to store a table in which, for each of a plurality of destination networks connected to the communication device through a path, the virtual IP address and the destination network are associated with each other; and a control unit configured to identify, in response to detection of a failure in the path connected to one of the destination networks, the virtual IP address associated with the destination network by reference to the table and cause the identified virtual IP address to transition to another communication device, the another communication device forming the redundancy configuration with the communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2020Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Akihiro Kimura, Katsuma Miyamoto, Hiroki KANO
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Patent number: 11571609Abstract: A balance training system includes a moving carriage moving on a moving surface by driving a driving unit, and calculates a load's center of gravity of the training person's feet on a boarding surface from the detected load. The system sets a stable range. The stable range is a range of the load's center. The training person is estimated to maintain upright on the boarding surface in the range. The system controls movement of the moving carriage in a mode selected between a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the driving unit drives under drive control predicting that the calculated load's center shifts within a first range set inside the stable range. In in the second mode, the driving unit drives under drive control predicting that the calculated load's center shifts to a second range set outside the first range inside the stable range.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akihiro Kimura
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Patent number: 11507173Abstract: According to one embodiment, the memory system includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, a data buffer, a volatile memory for storing a management table uniquely associates the user data with an address of the physical storage region of nonvolatile semiconductor memory, a controller that carries out a force quit process for writing the user data stored in a data buffer, the management table stored in volatile memory into the nonvolatile semiconductor memory, and a storage battery. The controller starts the force quit process prior to the power supply of the internal power supply regulator is switched from an external power supply to the storage battery.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Kimura, Hiroki Matsushita
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Publication number: 20220333569Abstract: To prolong a lifetime of a starter battery, a starting system (5) for an internal combustion engine (3) includes: a starter battery (22) constituted of a lithium-ion battery and configured to supply electric power to a starter motor (21); and a controller (51) configured to drive the starter motor (21) by the electric power from the starter battery (22) to perform cranking operations of the engine (3) intermittently, wherein the controller (51) is configured to prohibit the cranking operations for a first time interval before the cranking operations are performed a prescribed number of times within a prescribed time window, and to prohibit the cranking operations for a second time interval longer than the first time interval right after the cranking operations are performed the prescribed number of times within the prescribed time window.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2019Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Norio KANEKO, Akihiro KIMURA, Takashi HASHIZUME, Daisuke NOJIRI, Koji KURIYAGAWA
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Patent number: 11444251Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescent element having high efficiency, a long lifetime, and bending resistance. An organic electroluminescent element includes a light emitting layer and an electron transport layer adjacent to the light emitting layer between a positive electrode and a negative electrode. A host compound of the light emitting layer has an ionization potential deeper than that of a light emitting dopant of the light emitting layer by 0.3 eV or more. At least one organic compound contained in the electron transport layer has a molecular dipole moment of 6.0 debye or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Kazuhiro Oikawa, Akihiro Kimura
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Publication number: 20220278072Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided with a semiconductor element having a plurality of electrodes, a plurality of terminals electrically connected to the plurality of electrodes, and a sealing resin covering the semiconductor element. The sealing resin covers the plurality of terminals such that a bottom surface of the semiconductor element in a thickness direction is exposed. A first terminal, which is one of the plurality of terminals, is disposed in a position that overlaps a first electrode, which is one of the plurality of electrodes, when viewed in the thickness direction. The semiconductor device is provided with a conductive connection member that contacts both the first terminal and the first electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Akihiro Kimura, Takeshi Sunaga
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Patent number: 11404923Abstract: A stator assembly has a motor housing of a cylindrical shape and a stator fixed to an inner peripheral wall of the motor housing by a shrink fitting process. A stator core of the stator includes a projecting portion in contact with the motor housing and a stopper portion, which is smaller than the projecting portion in a radial direction. The stopper portion is in contact with the motor housing in an actual-use temperature range. The projecting portions and the stopper portions are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction in a cyclic manner. A cycle unit is composed of one or more than one projecting portion and one or more than one stopper portion. Multiple stator core sheets are built up in such a way that the cycle units are alternately arranged in an axial direction and neighboring stator core sheets are displaced in the circumferential direction by a predetermined shift angle.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro Kimura
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Patent number: 11398754Abstract: In a stator assembly, each stator core includes a plurality of protrusions and a plurality of recesses, which are provided periodically in a circumferential direction on an outer periphery. The protrusion abuts at least a part of an inner wall of a housing in the circumferential direction. The recess is smaller than the protrusion in a radial direction and has a gap relative to the inner wall of the housing. Adjacent stator cores are shifted in the circumferential direction by a predetermined shift angle such that a periodic unit formed of at least one protrusion and at least one recess appear alternately in the axial direction. The protrusion has a radius of curvature smaller than a radius of a circumscribed circle at a part abutting the inner wall of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro Kimura
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Publication number: 20220223568Abstract: The semiconductor device A1 includes a support member 2, a metal part 30 having obverse and reverse surfaces 301-302 spaced in z direction, with the reverse surface 302 bonded to the support member 2, a second bonding layer 42 boding the support member 2 and the metal part 30, a semiconductor element 10 facing the obverse surface 301 and bonded to the metal part 30, and a sealing member 7 covering the support member 2, metal part 30, second bonding layer 42 and semiconductor element 10. The metal part 30 includes a first body 31 of a first material and a second body 32 of a second material, with a boundary between the bodies 31-32. The second material has a linear thermal expansion coefficient smaller than that of the first material. The semiconductor device is improved in reliability by reducing thermal stress from heat generation of the semiconductor element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Kaito INOUE, Akihiro KIMURA
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Patent number: 11388019Abstract: A function management device that manages, in a communication system including a plurality of pieces of customer premises communication equipment and a server capable of providing a function to the plurality of pieces of customer premises communication equipment, the function provided by the server, and includes a resource management unit configured to collect resource information from the plurality of pieces of customer premises communication equipment, a network management unit configured to collect, from the server, network band information of each of the functions, the network band being between the plurality of pieces of customer premises communication equipment and the server, and a function processing unit configured to activate a virtual machine on one of the plurality of pieces of customer premises communication equipment on the basis of the resource information and the network band information to cause a first function selected on the basis of a band occupancy ratio from among the functions providedType: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Hideo Tsuchiya, Hideaki Iwata, Akihiro Okada, Shunsuke Homma, Akihiro Kimura, Katsuma Miyamoto
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Patent number: 11368411Abstract: In a communication system including first virtual CPE and second virtual CPE, the first virtual CPE includes a band acquisition unit configured to acquire a first contract band set for a subscriber under control of the first CPE and acquire a value of decrease in the first contract band when at least one subscriber terminal of the subscriber transitions from being under control of the first CPE to being under control of the second CPE, and a band control unit configured to control a communication band for the first CPE, and the second virtual CPE includes a band acquisition unit configured to acquire a second contract band set for a subscriber under control of the second CPE and acquire a value of increase in the second contract band, and a band control unit configured to control a communication band for the second CPE.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Shinya Kawano, Katsuma Miyamoto, Akihiro Kimura, Akihiro Okada, Hiroaki Sato
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Patent number: 11367704Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided with a semiconductor element having a plurality of electrodes, a plurality of terminals electrically connected to the plurality of electrodes, and a sealing resin covering the semiconductor element. The sealing resin covers the plurality of terminals such that a bottom surface of the semiconductor element in a thickness direction is exposed. A first terminal, which is one of the plurality of terminals, is disposed in a position that overlaps a first electrode, which is one of the plurality of electrodes, when viewed in the thickness direction. The semiconductor device is provided with a conductive connection member that contacts both the first terminal and the first electrode.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiro Kimura, Takeshi Sunaga
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Publication number: 20220182325Abstract: An application information storage unit configured to store information obtained by associating application information including flow characteristics of an application of a flow constituted by a packet with a flow identifier for identifying the flow of the packet, an acquisition unit configured to acquire, in a case where an input port receives a packet, application information of a flow constituted by the packet from the application information storage unit, and an output unit configured to output the packet received by the input port to a packet transfer apparatus in a load state indicating that a load due to the flow of the flow characteristics is light among a plurality of packet transfer apparatuses according to the flow characteristics included in the application information acquired by the acquisition unit are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2019Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Akihiro Kimura, Shinya KAWANO, Hideo Tsuchiya, Akihiro Okada, Katsuma Miyamoto
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Patent number: 11343223Abstract: A communication apparatus connected to a virtual apparatus having an address dispensing function via an access network is provided, wherein the communication apparatus includes a communication confirmation unit configured to perform a communication confirmation between the virtual apparatus and the communication apparatus; and an address dispensing unit configured to dispense an address to a user terminal under control of the communication apparatus when communication between the virtual apparatus and the communication apparatus is not able to be confirmed by the communication confirmation unit, and the address dispensing unit causes the user terminal to forcibly release the address when the communication between the virtual apparatus and the communication apparatus is able to be confirmed by the communication confirmation unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Katsuma Miyamoto, Hideaki Iwata, Akihiro Okada, Hideo Tsuchiya, Shunsuke Homma, Akihiro Kimura
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Publication number: 20220131804Abstract: When the load becomes high, an identification unit (301) of a second packet forwarding device (30) identifies an application of a new flow. Then, a determination unit (302) determines whether or not distribution of new flow is necessary, based on the flow characteristic of the application and the type of the high load. Then, when distribution of the new flow is necessary, a decision unit (303) acquires a list of second packet forwarding devices (30) having a low load from the load monitoring device (10), and decides a second packet forwarding device (30) as the distribution destination. Then, a control unit (304) performs a route control for guiding the flow to the second packet forwarding device (30) which is the distribution destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Akihiro Kimura, Shinya KAWANO
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Patent number: 11165603Abstract: In a communication system including a first virtual CPE to which a terminal belongs, a second virtual CPE, and an authentication server, when the terminal connects to the second virtual CPE, the second virtual CPE confirms whether terminal information of the terminal is registered in the authentication server, and when the terminal information is registered in the authentication server, the authentication server notifies the second virtual CPE of an address of the first virtual CPE, and the second virtual CPE performs a tunnel connection to the first virtual CPE.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Shinya Kawano, Katsuma Miyamoto, Akihiro Kimura, Akihiro Okada, Hiroaki Sato