Patents by Inventor Akira Kamiya

Akira Kamiya 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: 20090134866
    Abstract: A rotation detecting device includes a rotation detecting element detecting rotation speed of a rotating object and including lead terminals, a holder integrally molded with an electrode terminal to which the lead terminals are connected, including an opposing surface in opposition to the rotating object and a contact surface on the opposite side of the opposing surface, and accommodating the rotation detecting element, a cover accommodating the holder and including a bottom face portion in contact with the holder at the contact surface and a peripheral wall portion formed along the periphery of the bottom face portion, and a housing molded with resin, accommodating a lateral face of the holder being in contact with the cover, and fixing the holder to the cover. The holder includes a first resin filling portion filled with a first resin and a second resin filling portion isolated from the first resin filling portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Mamoru Tsuda, Akira Kamiya, Eiichiro Iwase
  • Patent number: 7520160
    Abstract: An electrochemical sensor for measuring contents of a fluid or gas at high pressure and/or high temperature, for use, for example, in a wellbore for hydrocarbon applications, is provided. The sensor includes: a bulkhead-like electrode assembly including a cylindrical housing and a cylindrical electrode structure. The cylindrical electrode structure includes a cylindrical conductive pin extending from a high pressure region to a low pressure region and an electrode connected to one end of the pin at the high pressure region and having an electrode surface for exposure to a flow path of the fluid or gas in the high pressure region. At least a part of the surface of the pin is protected from direct contact with the fluid or the gas by an insulating coating impermeable to the fluid or gas. The pin may include an alternating pattern of protruding and receded portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Michael M Toribio, Akira Kamiya, Stephane Vannuffelen, Noriyuki Matsumoto, Jimmy Lawrence
  • Publication number: 20090090176
    Abstract: An electrochemical sensor for measuring contents of a fluid or gas at high pressure and/or high temperature, for use, for example, in a wellbore for hydrocarbon applications, is provided. The sensor includes: a bulkhead-like electrode assembly including a cylindrical housing and a cylindrical electrode structure. The cylindrical electrode structure includes a cylindrical conductive pin extending from a high pressure region to a low pressure region and an electrode connected to one end of the pin at the high pressure region and having an electrode surface for exposure to a flow path of the fluid or gas in the high pressure region. At least a part of the surface of the pin is protected from direct contact with the fluid or the gas by an insulating coating impermeable to the fluid or gas. The pin may include an alternating pattern of protruding and receded portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: MICHAEL M. TORIBIO, AKIRA KAMIYA, STEPHANE VANNUFFELEN, NORIYUKI MATSUMOTO, JIMMY LAWRENCE
  • Patent number: 7433409
    Abstract: A data extractor 110 extracts data which coincides with set conditions from input data. A buffer 120 stores the extracted data. A data flow controller 130 distributes the data in the buffer 120 among separate buffers 14i (i=1 to n) and transfers the data in accordance with the set conditions. Each of the separate buffers 14i stores the transferred data. Decoders 15i respectively decode the data stored in the separate buffers 14i. A buffer manager 160 manages the buffer 120, and a separate buffer manager 170 manages the separate buffers 14i. A decoding controller 180 controls decoding performed by each of the decoders 15i. A reproduction controller 190 provides an instruction required to select desired data and reproduce the selected data. Consequently, decoding and reproduction of a plurality of data in digital broadcasting are realized, thereby making it possible to recover, when an error occurs, from the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20080238913
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel for displaying an instrument image including an index image constituting an index and a pointer image constituting a pointer for pointing the index of the index image and a controller for displaying the instrument image on the display panel. The controller varies at least one of a pointer display mode of the pointer image and an index display mode of the index image so as to increase a readability of the index indicated by the index image when positions associated with the pointer image and the index image coincide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miki Katoh, Masahiro Kuno, Nagako Matsuno, Akira Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20080123322
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display element for showing information as a screen image; and an ornamental member disposed on a display surface of the display element and having a shape corresponding to the screen image. The ornamental member includes a light transparent element and a light nontransparent element. The screen image includes a designed image on a position of the display surface corresponding to the light transparent element. The display element outputs a screen image light from the display surface. The screen image light corresponding to the designed image passes through the light transparent element so that the screen image light is outputted from the ornamental member to the display side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seigo Tane, Satoshi Sugiura, Akira Kamiya
  • Patent number: 7379180
    Abstract: A fluid analysis system for use downhole comprises an input light signal that is directed through a fluid sample housed in a sample cell. The input light signal may originate from a plurality of light sources. An output light signal from the sample cell is then routed to one or more spectrometers for measurement of the represented wavelengths in the output light signal. The output of the spectrometers is then compared to known values for hydrocarbons typically encountered downhole. This provides insight into the composition of the sample fluid. Additionally, the light from the light sources can be routed directly to the one or more spectrometers to be used in calibration of the system in the high temperature and noise environment downhole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Stephane Vannuffelen, Akira Kamiya, Masaki Miyashita, Kentaro Indo, Reinhart Ciglenec, Tsutomu Yamate
  • Publication number: 20080066538
    Abstract: A downhole fluid analysis tool capable of fluid analysis during production logging that includes a phase separator and a plurality of sensors to perform analysis on the fluids collected at a subsurface location in a borehole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: AKIRA KAMIYA, GARY ODDIE, STEPHANE VANNUFFELEN, TSUTOMU YAMATE, OLIVER MULLINS, BHAVANI RAGHURAMAN, ALBERT ANDREWS, ANDREW CARNEGIE, CHENGLI DONG, MARIAN FAUR, CHRISTOPHER HARRISON, KENTARO INDO, LI JIANG, MICHAEL O'KEEFE
  • Publication number: 20070171413
    Abstract: A fluid analysis system for use downhole comprises an input light signal that is directed through a fluid sample housed in a sample cell. The input light signal may originate from a plurality of light sources. An output light signal from the sample cell is then routed to one or more spectrometers for measurement of the represented wavelengths in the output light signal. The output of the spectrometers is then compared to known values for hydrocarbons typically encountered downhole. This provides insight into the composition of the sample fluid. Additionally, the light from the light sources can be routed directly to the one or more spectrometers to be used in calibration of the system in the high temperature and noise environment downhole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephane Vannuffelen, Akira Kamiya, Masaki Miyashita, Kentaro Indo, Reinhart Ciglenec, Tsutomu Yamate
  • Patent number: 7236206
    Abstract: A video signal interpolation can adapt an image of input video signal to voluntary aspect ratios widely. The invention also allows a display device to uniformly line-sequential scan and uses at least two line-memories (LM1, LM2) which are applied with an input digital video signal and controls writing and reading for these line-memories to generate a video signal subjected to vertical interpolation from a reading output of the line-memories. In the control, any one of the line-memories are circularly selected, and a sample sequence of the input digital video signal is sequentially written into the selected line-memory at its sample rate while sequentially reading out samples of the written sequence at a constant rate which is higher than the sample rate and which is according to a desired ratio of interpolation (vertical expansion ratio), wherein, when one of the line-memories is in writing operation, the other one of the line-memories is repeatedly read out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Inventors: Masaru Yasui, Satoshi Hirano, Akira Kamiya, legal representative, Takeo Kamiya, deceased
  • Patent number: 6998976
    Abstract: An operating device in a vehicle has hierarchical display screens. The hierarchical display screens have operation items for operating an operational object. An operation item on a lower-level screen is displayed on the top screen, based on the number of use of the operation item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Kawai, Nobuaki Koshobu, Akira Kamiya, Yuji Ito
  • Patent number: 6998971
    Abstract: A manipulation display area and an operation state display area are disposed in a display. The manipulation display area is divided into a constant area and a variable area. The constant area includes manipulation items to be most frequently selected by a user, while the variable area includes manipulation items to be altered according to use condition. Thereby the user can easily reach a necessary manipulation item among a lot of the manipulation items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: DENSO Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Ito, Nobuaki Koshobu, Takayoshi Kawai, Akira Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20050154505
    Abstract: A vehicle information display system includes a head-up display for reflecting an image on a windshield of a vehicle and displaying the image so that a driver recognizes the image as a virtual image. Information is collected for being displayed by the head-up display. A circumstance of the vehicle, a circumstance of surrounding of the vehicle, or a circumstance of the driver is detected. The collected information is classified in accordance with a detection result. Then, display contents of the head-up display are controlled in accordance with a classification result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Koji Nakamura, Hiroshi Ando, Akira Kamiya, Nobuaki Kawahara, Kazuya Yasuda, Masaru Kakizaki, Nozomi Kitagawa, Tomoo Aoki, Yoshio Shinoda, Naoyuki Aoki, Shinji Kashiwada, Junya Inada, Akira Takahashi, Takayuki Fujikawa
  • Publication number: 20040095366
    Abstract: An operating device in a vehicle has hierarchical display screens. The hierarchical display screens have operation items for operating an operational object. An operation item on a lower-level screen is displayed on the top screen, based on the number of use of the operation item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Takayoshi Kawai, Nobuaki Koshobu, Akira Kamiya, Yuji Ito
  • Publication number: 20030216816
    Abstract: A manipulation display area and an operation state display area are disposed in a display. The manipulation display area is divided into a constant area and a variable area. The constant area includes manipulation items to be most frequently selected by a user, while the variable area includes manipulation items to be altered according to use condition. Thereby the user can easily reach a necessary manipulation item among a lot of the manipulation items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: Yuji Ito, Nobuaki Koshobu, Takayoshi Kawai, Akira Kamiya
  • Patent number: 6546184
    Abstract: A display frame selecting portion selects only frame data to be played. A display data managing portion writes only the received and decoded display data to be played in a storage area of a display data storage portion. The display data managing portion and a display control portion 1606 are connected through a header information storage portion, executing toggle processing to the display data storage portion. The display data managing portion writes the decoded frame data in an enabled storage area IP. The display control portion continues to read display data from a storage area IP with write completed until the end of writing of display data to be played next, and a display portion continues to display the display data. Thus, it is possible to provide a still picture player for expanding a function of a video player and displaying required still picture (for example, still picture selected according to preferences on a viewer's side, and the like) among inputted still pictures without a blackout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Akira Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20020180746
    Abstract: A video signal interpolation can adapt an image of input video signal to voluntary aspect ratios widely. The invention also allows a display device to uniformly line-sequential scan and uses at least two line-memories (LM1, LM2) which are applied with an input digital video signal and controls writing and reading for these line-memories to generate a video signal subjected to vertical interpolation from a reading output of the line-memories. In the control, any one of the line-memories are circularly selected, and a sample sequence of the input digital video signal is sequentially written into the selected line-memory at its sample rate while sequentially reading out samples of the written sequence at a constant rate which is higher than the sample rate and which is according to a desired ratio of interpolation (vertical expansion ratio), wherein, when one of the line-memories is in writing operation, the other one of the line-memories is repeatedly read out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Masaru Yasui, Satoshi Hirano, Takeo Kamiya, Akira Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20020126987
    Abstract: A display frame selecting portion 113 selects only frame data to be played. A display data managing portion 1604 writes only the received and decoded display data to be played in a storage area of a display data storage portion 1605. The display data managing portion 1604 and a display control portion 1606 are connected through a header information storage portion 1608, executing toggle processing to the display data storage portion 1605. The display data managing portion 1604 writes the decoded frame data in an enabled storage area IP. The display control portion 1606 continues to read display data from a storage area IP with write completed until the end of writing of display data to be played next, and a display portion 1607 continues to display the display data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 1998
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventor: AKIRA KAMIYA
  • Patent number: 6432142
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mold having split dies to be arranged in opposition about a substrate and an outer frame situated about the perimeter of the split dies, wherein the outer frame and split dies function as a wedge and move slidably so as to convert the load produced by a vertical uniaxial press into load applied from two opposing directions across the horizontal, the split dies move in such a way as to compress the titanium or titanium alloy substrate and uniformly press the side faces thereof so as to impart the required configuration to the substrate, and to artificial bone having high biological affinity produced by the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Japan as represented by Secretary of Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Akira Kamiya, Akira Watazu, Katsuyoshi Naganuma, Jun Zhu
  • Patent number: 6387298
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel orange light-emitting phosphorescent material that is non-toxic and chemically stable in air, and this invention relates to a Ti—CaO phosphorescent material, produced from a starting material of calcium oxide (CaO), or of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), calcium hydroxide(Ca(OH)2), calcium sulfate(CaSO4), calcium oxalate (CaC2O4), or other compound to be converted to CaO through heating in air, by a process of bringing this starting material into contact with metallic titanium (Ti) and conducting heat treatment thereof in vacuo or in an atmosphere that is not reactive with Ti such as argon gas, or by a process of mechanical alloying and the like of CaO and Ti.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Akira Kamiya, Jun Zhu, Akira Watazu, Katsuyoshi Naganuma