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).

  • Publication number: 20210297357
    Abstract: A storage unit configured to store information regarding flow characteristics indicating whether a flow constituted by a packet is a flow having a tendency to have a large number of short packets or a flow having a tendency to have a large number of long packets in association with destination information of the packet, a determination unit configured to, in a case where an input port receives a packet, determine flow characteristics of a flow constituted by the packet on the basis of the 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 determined by the determination unit are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Akihiro Kimura, Shinya KAWANO, Hideo Tsuchiya, Akihiro Okada, Katsuma Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11128569
    Abstract: A load distribution system has: determination means for determining, upon an input port receiving a packet, a flow attribute indicating whether a flow configured by the packet is a flow that tends to include many long packets or a flow that tends to include many short packets; and output means for outputting the packet to a packet transfer device in a load state indicating that a load applied by the flow of the flow attribute is low, of a plurality of packet transfer devices, in accordance with the flow attribute determined by the determination means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Kimura, Hideaki Iwata, Akihiro Okada, Hideo Tsuchiya, Shunsuke Homma, Katsuma Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20210170582
    Abstract: A conveyance robot system according to the present disclosure includes a conveyance robot, and a robot control unit configured to control an operation of picking up an object performed by the conveyance robot, wherein the robot control unit determines that a movable range area, which is an area outside a safety cover where a robot arm is operated, satisfies a safety ensuring condition that can regard safety of the movable range area as equivalent to the safety inside the safety cover and allow the robot arm to perform a work while projecting toward the shelf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fuminori SAITO, Atsunori KOBAYASHI, Akihiro KIMURA, Hidenori YABUSHITA, Fukashi ANDOH, Yoshihiro OKUMATSU, Takeshi NISHIDA, Akihito GOTO, Reoto UETAKE
  • Publication number: 20210170601
    Abstract: A conveyance robot system according to the present disclosure includes an intrusion detection sensor that detects an intrusion of an object into an 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 a conveyance robot in which the arm opening is provided from among surfaces of the conveyance robot constituting a safety cover, and an object being stored in the shelf. The robot control unit disables the intrusion detection sensor to allow a robot arm to perform a work by protruding from the shelf when the clearance distance becomes less than or equal to a present high-speed work allowance threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fuminori Saito, Atsunori Kobayashi, Akihiro Kimura, Hidenori Yabushita, Fukashi Andoh, Yoshihiro Okumatsu, Takeshi Nishida, Akihito Goto, Reoto Uetake
  • Publication number: 20210170602
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fuminori SAITO, Atsunori KOBAYASHI, Akihiro KIMURA, Hidenori YABUSHITA, Fukashi ANDOH, Yoshihiro OKUMATSU, Takeshi NISHIDA, Akihito GOTO, Reoto UETAKE
  • Publication number: 20210152025
    Abstract: An electric power charge and discharge system for an electronic device having a battery, by which the electronic device can be used for a long period of time. In a wireless communication device including a wireless driving portion including a first battery and a wireless charging portion including a second battery, the first battery is charged by electric power from a fixed power supply and the second battery is charged by using electromagnetic waves existing in an external space. Further, the first battery and the second battery are discharged alternately, and during a period in which the first battery is discharged, the second battery is charged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Shuhei NAGATSUKA, Akihiro KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210119822
    Abstract: 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 provided
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Hideo TSUCHIYA, Hideaki IWATA, Akihiro OKADA, Shunsuke HOMMA, Akihiro KIMURA, Katsuma MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210105227
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Shinya Kawano, Katsuma Miyamoto, Akihiro Kimura, Akihiro Okada, Hiroaki Sato
  • Publication number: 20210067371
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Shinya Kawano, Katsuma Miyamoto, Akihiro Kimura, Akihiro Okada, Hiroaki Sato
  • Patent number: 10910884
    Abstract: An electric power charge and discharge system for an electronic device having a battery, by which the electronic device can be used for a long period of time. In a wireless communication device including a wireless driving portion including a first battery and a wireless charging portion including a second battery, the first battery is charged by electric power from a fixed power supply and the second battery is charged by using electromagnetic waves existing in an external space. Further, the first battery and the second battery are discharged alternately, and during a period in which the first battery is discharged, the second battery is charged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuhei Nagatsuka, Akihiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20210008872
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a composition for electronic devices in which when a film is formed therefrom, the amount of residual solvents including fluorine-containing solvents within the film is reduced, the effects of residual solvents on a device are minimized, and it is thus possible to achieve high element performance; an ink for electronic devices that is suitable for wet processes and that makes it possible to achieve high liquid stability and element performance as a result of containing the composition for electronic devices; and a method for producing an electronic device. This composition for electronic devices contains a component A and a component B and is characterized in that the component A is a fluorine-containing solvent and the component B is a compound having a structure represented by general formula (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Akihiro KIMURA, Miyuki OKANIWA, Hiroto ITO
  • Publication number: 20210014165
    Abstract: A load distribution system has: determination means for determining, upon an input port receiving a packet, a flow attribute indicating whether a flow configured by the packet is a flow that tends to include many long packets or a flow that tends to include many short packets; and output means for outputting the packet to a packet transfer device in a load state indicating that a load applied by the flow of the flow attribute is low, of a plurality of packet transfer devices, in accordance with the flow attribute determined by the determination means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro KIMURA, Hideaki IWATA, Akihiro OKADA, Hideo TSUCHIYA, Shunsuke HOMMA, Katsuma MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200412690
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Katsuma MIYAMOTO, Hideaki IWATA, Akihiro OKADA, Hideo TSUCHIYA, Shunsuke HOMMA, Akihiro KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200373796
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventor: Akihiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20200373794
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventor: Akihiro KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200350786
    Abstract: An electric power charge and discharge system for an electronic device having a battery, by which the electronic device can be used for a long period of time. In a wireless communication device including a wireless driving portion including a first battery and a wireless charging portion including a second battery, the first battery is charged by electric power from a fixed power supply and the second battery is charged by using electromagnetic waves existing in an external space. Further, the first battery and the second battery are discharged alternately, and during a period in which the first battery is discharged, the second battery is charged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Shuhei NAGATSUKA, Akihiro KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200330906
    Abstract: A filter device comprises a case and a filter element. The case has a fixed cylinder and a movable cylinder. The fixed cylinder and the movable cylinder provide a valve mechanism. A biasing member is arranged between the fixed cylinder and the movable cylinder. The filter element and the support cylinder are meshed with each other by a meshing mechanism. The meshing mechanism is provided by a movable cylinder meshing portion and a frame meshing portion. The meshing mechanism prevents rotation of the filter element with respect to the tightening direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Takanori TSUNEKAWA, Fumiya KOMINE, Takafumi KATO, Akihiro KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200321308
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Akihiro Kimura, Takeshi Sunaga
  • Publication number: 20200289897
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 10770380
    Abstract: A method includes the steps of: preparing a lead frame including a plurality of die pads, and preparing a plurality of semiconductor chips; disposing each of the semiconductor chips on a respective one of the die pads; forming a sealing resin to cover the die pads and the semiconductor chips; and attaching a heat dissipation plate to the die pads by pressing the heat dissipation plate against the die pads via a resin sheet which is an adhesive layer after the sealing resin is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Kimura, Takeshi Sunaga, Shouji Yasunaga, Akihiro Koga