Patents by Inventor Akio Fukada

Akio Fukada 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).

  • Failure history management apparatus
    Patent number: 7272535
    Abstract: A failure history management system includes a radio identification tag that is placed on a device and stores device-identifying-information that identifies the device, a management computer for managing failure history data of the device, and a terminal unit configured to identify the device from the device-identifying information stored in the radio identification tag, to read failure history data of the device from the management computer, and to provide failure history data of the device to the management computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Akio Fukada
  • Failure history management apparatus
    Publication number: 20060271339
    Abstract: A failure history management system includes a radio identification tag that is placed on a device and stores device-identifying-information that identifies the device, a management computer for managing failure history data of the device, and a terminal unit configured to identify the device from the device-identifying information stored in the radio identification tag, to read failure history data of the device from the management computer, and to provide failure history data of the device to the management computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventor: Akio Fukada
  • Master-slave-type control system with stand-by suspending control station
    Patent number: 5086384
    Abstract: In a master-slave-type control system, a normal supervisory control station which is a master device, control terminal devices, and a stand-by supervisory control station which is a slave device for effecting an operation of the normal supervisory control station in place thereof are connected with a common transmission passage. The normal supervisory control station receives data from each control terminal device repeatedly sent on the transmission passage to the normal supervisory control station, collects the data from each control terminal device, and sends its internal data on the transmission passage to an imaginary station at the end of each period of data collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1992
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Akio Fukada
  • Video signal transmission system with reduced number of signal lines
    Patent number: 4893175
    Abstract: A video signal transmission system for transmitting a plurality of color video signals and horizontal/vertical sync signals from a transmitter part to a receiver part through a plurality of signal transmission lines is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1990
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Akio Fukada
  • Vacuum brazing sheet for use in aluminum heat exchanger
    Patent number: 4721653
    Abstract: A vacuum brazing sheet for use in drawn-cup type heat exchanger made of aluminum with the degree of closure from 0.2 to 4.0 cm.sup.2 /l, wherein a brazing material containing:Si 11-14 wt. %Mg 1.0-2.0 wt. % andthe balance of Al is clad on one or both surfaces of aluminum or aluminum alloy material.The brazing performance can be improved and stabilized, and higher yield can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1988
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Hidetaka Oda, Akio Fukada, Kikuo Toyose, Jun Takigawa, Masao Takemoto