Patents by Inventor Akiko Sato

Akiko Sato 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: 8596870
    Abstract: A dust seal is provided with a tubular fitting portion, a bush end surface abutting portion, a lip portion and a sealing projection integrally formed. The sealing projection is formed to project in an axially opposite direction to the lip portion from a radial inner section of the bush end surface abutting portion and abuts against a chamfered portion of a bush in such a manner as to overlap the chamfered portion. Therefore, at the time of supplying lubricant between the bush and a connecting pin, the sealing projection can prevent a part of the lubricant from entering between an end surface of the bush and the bush end surface abutting portion of the dust seal to maintain a sealed state therebetween. In consequence, the dust seal can be stably held on the inner peripheral side of a boss member, preventing the pulling-out of the dust seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Nippon Valqua Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Akita, Osamu Gokita, Akiko Sato, Eiji Negoro, Tomiyoshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8373818
    Abstract: A multiple primary color display device according to the present invention includes a pixel defined by a plurality of sub pixels. The plurality of sub pixels include a first sub pixel to display a first color having a first hue, a second sub pixel to display a second color having a second hue, a third sub pixel to display a third color having a third hue, and a fourth sub pixel to display a fourth color having a fourth hue. When a color represented by the input signal is changed from black to white via a color of a prescribed hue, luminance levels of the plurality of sub pixels are set such that the luminance level of each of the first sub pixel, the second sub pixel and the third sub pixel is started to be increased without increasing the luminance level of the fourth sub pixel and such that the luminance level of the third sub pixel is increased at a lower rate than that of the luminance level of each of the first sub pixel and the second sub pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaihsa
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Yuichi Yoshida, Akiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20120229529
    Abstract: A multiple primary color display device according to the present invention includes a pixel defined by a plurality of sub pixels. The plurality of sub pixels include a first sub pixel to display a first color having a first hue, a second sub pixel to display a second color having a second hue, a third sub pixel to display a third color having a third hue, and a fourth sub pixel to display a fourth color having a fourth hue. When a color represented by the input signal is changed from black to white via a color of a prescribed hue, luminance levels of the plurality of sub pixels are set such that the luminance level of each of the first sub pixel, the second sub pixel and the third sub pixel is started to be increased without increasing the luminance level of the fourth sub pixel and such that the luminance level of the third sub pixel is increased at a lower rate than that of the luminance level of each of the first sub pixel and the second sub pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Yuichi Yoshida, Akiko Sato
  • Patent number: 8058964
    Abstract: In an open magnetic circuit type laminated coil component having a laminate formed by laminating a magnetic layer and a non-magnetic layer or a low magnetic permeability layer and a coil conductor disposed in the laminate, a zirconium oxide is included in the non-magnetic layer or the low magnetic permeability layer forming the laminate. The content of the zirconium oxide in the low magnetic permeability layer is in the range of about 0.02 wt % to about 1.0 wt %. A zirconium oxide is also included in the magnetic layer in a proportion of less than about 1.0 wt %. As the magnetic layer, a material including Ni—Cu—Zn ferrite as a main component is preferably used. As the non-magnetic layer or the low magnetic permeability layer, a material including Cu—Zn ferrite as a main component is preferably used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akiko Sato
  • Patent number: 8044758
    Abstract: An open magnetic circuit multilayer coil component includes a laminate with magnetic layers, a coil, and a nonmagnetic layer provided within the laminate so as to cross a magnetic path formed by energization of the coil. A nonmagnetic material constituting the nonmagnetic layer is a Zn—Cu-based ferrite nonmagnetic material, and a magnetic material constituting the magnetic layer is a magnetic material containing 100 parts by weight of an Ni—Zn—Cu-based magnetic ferrite material and 0.1 to 2.0 parts by weight, in terms of Co3O4, of Co added to the Ni—Zn—Cu-based magnetic ferrite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Nakamura, Akiko Sato, Yoichi Nakatsuji
  • Publication number: 20110019949
    Abstract: A dust seal is provided with a tubular fitting portion, a bush end surface abutting portion, a lip portion and a sealing projection integrally formed. The sealing projection is formed to project in an axially opposite direction to the lip portion from a radial inner section of the bush end surface abutting portion and abuts against a chamfered portion of a bush in such a manner as to overlap the chamfered portion. Therefore, at the time of supplying lubricant between the bush and a connecting pin, the sealing projection can prevent a part of the lubricant from entering between an end surface of the bush and the bush end surface abutting portion of the dust seal to maintain a sealed state therebetween. In consequence, the dust seal can be stably held on the inner peripheral side of a boss member, preventing the pulling-out of the dust seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicants: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., NIPPON VALQUA INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Akita, Osamu Gokita, Akiko Sato, Eiji Negoro, Tomiyoshi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20100271163
    Abstract: An open magnetic circuit multilayer coil component includes a laminate with magnetic layers, a coil, and a nonmagnetic layer provided within the laminate so as to cross a magnetic path formed by energization of the coil. A nonmagnetic material constituting the nonmagnetic layer is a Zn—Cu-based ferrite nonmagnetic material, and a magnetic material constituting the magnetic layer is a magnetic material containing 100 parts by weight of an Ni—Zn—Cu-based magnetic ferrite material and 0.1 to 2.0 parts by weight, in terms of Co3O4, of Co added to the Ni—Zn—Cu-based magnetic ferrite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro NAKAMURA, Akiko SATO, Yoichi NAKATSUJI
  • Patent number: 7693675
    Abstract: Methods of confidential data sharing and mutual authentication between a sensor node and a router are established, and data in the sensor node is protected from a physical attack. Sensor node issuing processing is performed on a sensor node having a tamper resistant device. The sensor node issuing processing is processing in which data and a function that are deactivated are loaded in the tamper resistant device of the sensor node from the time of manufacture of the sensor node to the time the sensor node reaches a system that runs the sensor node. Activation data is used to activate the deactivated data and function. The activation data is shared between stages of the issuing processing with the use of a data management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Motobayashi, Akiko Sato, Toshio Okochi
  • Patent number: 7662419
    Abstract: A composition which is obtained by causing a specific compound to be present together with sucralose. The composition provides a sucralose in a stable form, more particularly, a sucralose which is still stable and thus is significantly suppressed with respect to the decrease in sweetness and discoloration (browning, blackening), even when it is subjected to a warming treatment under a condition wherein temperature is high and especially water content is low and/or pH is low. The stabilized sucralose-containing composition can be used as a sweetener by itself and as a compound with a food or a drug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: San-Ei Gen F.F.I., Inc
    Inventors: Naoto Ojima, Masami Madono, Kazutaka Hirao, Masanori Mie, Akiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20090251268
    Abstract: In an open magnetic circuit type laminated coil component having a laminate formed by laminating a magnetic layer and a non-magnetic layer or a low magnetic permeability layer and a coil conductor disposed in the laminate, a zirconium oxide is included in the non-magnetic layer or the low magnetic permeability layer forming the laminate. The content of the zirconium oxide in the low magnetic permeability layer is in the range of about 0.02 wt % to about 1.0 wt %. A zirconium oxide is also included in the magnetic layer in a proportion of less than about 1.0 wt %. As the magnetic layer, a material including Ni—Cu—Zn ferrite as a main component is preferably used. As the non-magnetic layer or the low magnetic permeability layer, a material including Cu—Zn ferrite as a main component is preferably used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akiko SATO
  • Patent number: 7587200
    Abstract: A computer system including wireless terminals which transmit information, a business application server which performs a predetermined operation based on information received from the wireless terminals, and a base transceiver station which relays communications between the wireless terminals and the business application server, are provided. The base transceiver station, to manage said plural wireless terminals in groups, stores a group definition table showing a correspondence between the wireless terminals and the groups, stores the information received from the terminals in a state history table which manages the state history of the wireless terminals, extracts difference information between the information received from the wireless terminals and the information stored in the state history table, summarizes the extracted difference information for each group, and transmits it to the business application server. The data amount received by a business application server is thus reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd
    Inventors: Yusuke Mishina, Akiko Sato, Masahiro Motobayashi
  • Patent number: 7587221
    Abstract: An attribute value of a matter accompanied by a sensor is transmissibly accessible in a sensor node system constituted by wireless terminal computers having the sensor, the wireless communication base stations and server computers. The wireless terminal computer reports at the time of wireless communication an identification number of a wireless communication base station with which it communicates previously. A relay processing service is dynamically constituted so that when a wireless communication base station different from itself is reported, the wireless base station as the communication counter-part can transmissbly look up the wireless terminal computer from a host computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Mishina, Toshio Okochi, Akiko Sato, Masahiro Motobayashi
  • Patent number: 7487920
    Abstract: An integrated circuit card operation management system and method are provided. In one example of the system, a collator system is provided for receiving a user request to determine whether the application program can be loaded, for acquiring a card policy from a card issue management system, and for acquiring an application program policy from a service provider management system. The collator system requests card related information of the card issue management system and requests application program related information of the service provider management system. The collator system specifies a definition format. The card issue management system and the service provider management system extract requested information from existent information, convert the requested information according to the specified definition format, and transmit the converted information to the collator system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiko Sato, Yusuke Mishina, Masanori Oikawa
  • Patent number: 7360088
    Abstract: A system is provided which compensates a low operational performance of a conventional integrated circuit (IC) card by setting a substitute server computer between the IC card and a business server computer in a system using the IC card. Substitute processing using an authentication result is realized by setting an IC card authentication server computer in addition to the business server computer and sending an authentication result of the authentication server computer to the IC card, substitute server computer, and business server computer. Thus, because the substitute server computer does not directly authenticate the IC card, the quantity of authentication information in the substitute server computer is substantially reduced and authentication processing becomes efficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Mishina, Akiko Sato, Masanori Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20070299624
    Abstract: Methods of confidential data sharing and mutual authentication between a sensor node and a router are established, and data in the sensor node is protected from a physical attack. Sensor node issuing processing is performed on a sensor node having a tamper resistant device. The sensor node issuing processing is processing in which data and a function that are deactivated are loaded in the tamper resistant device of the sensor node from the time of manufacture of the sensor node to the time the sensor node reaches a system that runs the sensor node. Activation data is used to activate the deactivated data and function. The activation data is shared between stages of the issuing processing with the use of a data management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Masahiro Motobayashi, Akiko Sato, Toshio Okochi
  • Publication number: 20070027922
    Abstract: A computer system including wireless terminals which transmit information, a business application server which performs a predetermined operation based on information received from the wireless terminals, and a base transceiver station which relays communications between the wireless terminals and the business application server, are provided. The base transceiver station, to manage said plural wireless terminals in groups, stores a group definition table showing a correspondence between the wireless terminals and the groups, stores the information received from the terminals in a state history table which manages the state history of the wireless terminals, extracts difference information between the information received from the wireless terminals and the information stored in the state history table, summarizes the extracted difference information for each group, and transmits it to the business application server. The data amount received by a business application server is thus reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Yusuke Mishina, Akiko Sato, Masahiro Motobayashi
  • Patent number: 7152230
    Abstract: A method, by which if a reissued smart card is issued based on an old smart card, the application program loaded in the old smart card is smoothly reloaded in the reissued smart card, is disclosed. Its specific configuration will be described as below. A method for loading an application program in a smart card comprises the steps of: in response to a request for loading one application program for a smart card in the smart card that has been reissued based on an old smart card, judging whether or not said one application program was loaded in the old smart card, according to a relationship between a card id of the reissued smart card and a card id of the old smart card; and if it is found out that said one application program was loaded, loading said one application program in the reissued smart card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Sato, Yusuke Mishina, Minoru Ashizawa, Masaru Ohki, Nikkou Kaku, Shohei Takeuchi, Hirohiko Kurokawa, Shinichi Hirata
  • Publication number: 20060277185
    Abstract: A system for unified management of personal information under control of the user while protecting the privacy of that information. A user terminal owned by the user, and an access control server connected to an external service terminal for providing a service to the user terminal, includes an access control module for controlling access from external service terminals to personal information retained in the user terminal; and the access control module accepts attribute information for the external service terminal and the access control policy for setting the access rights to the personal information held in the user terminal, and decides whether to not to grant access rights based on the accepted external service terminal attribute information and the accepted access control policy, and sends the decision results to the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Akiko Sato, Yusuke Mishina, Masahiro Motobayashi
  • Publication number: 20060190458
    Abstract: An attribute value of a matter accompanied by a sensor is transmissibly accessible in a sensor node system constituted by wireless terminal computers having the sensor, the wireless communication base stations and server computers. The wireless terminal computer reports at the time of wireless communication an identification number of a wireless communication base station with which it communicates previously. A relay processing service is dynamically constituted so that when a wireless communication base station different from itself is reported, the wireless base station as the communication counter-part can transmissbly look up the wireless terminal computer from a host computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Yusuke Mishina, Toshio Okochi, Akiko Sato, Masahiro Motobayashi
  • Patent number: 7029717
    Abstract: A composition which is obtained by causing a specific compound to be present together with sucralose. The composition provides a sucralose in a stable form, more particularly, a sucralose which is still stable and thus is significantly suppressed with respect to the decrease in sweetness and discoloration (browning blackening), even when it is subjected to a warming treatment under a condition wherein temperature is high and especially water content is low and/or pH is low. The stabilized sucralose-containing composition can be used a sweetener by itself and as a compound with a food or a drug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: San-Ei Gen F.F.I., Inc.
    Inventors: Naoto Ojima, Masami Madono, Kazutaka Hirao, Masanori Mie, Akiko Sato