Patents by Inventor Akira Minegishi

Akira Minegishi 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: 20160315552
    Abstract: A power source circuit includes first and second input terminals; first, second, and third inductors; first and second switching devices; first and second capacitors; and first and second output terminals. A first end of the second inductor is connected to a path that connects the first input terminal and the first node, a second end of the second capacitor is connected to a path that connects the second input terminal and the second node, and the first inductor and the second inductor are magnetically coupled with each other. A first end of the third inductor and a second end of the second inductor are connected to each other. A second end of the third inductor and a first end of the second capacitor are connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: TAIKI NISHIMOTO, AKIRA MINEGISHI
  • Publication number: 20160223455
    Abstract: A container includes: a humidifier configured to humidify a room to a given humidity; a measuring instrument configured to measure humidity of the room for a fixed time from a point in time that the room is humidified to the given humidity; and an information processing device configured to obtain an opening area of the room based on an amount of decrease in absolute humidity in the fixed time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Akira MINEGISHI
  • Publication number: 20160192543
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus is an air-conditioning apparatus, for an air-conditioning target space in which a rack including a device as a heat-producing object is provided and which is separated by the rack into a cold space and a hot space, that makes return air from the hot space flow in so as to cool the return air and supplies an arbitrary air volume of the supplied air which is obtained by cooling the return air to the cold space by using a supply fan. The air-conditioning apparatus includes a processor. The processor executes a process including conducting control so that a temperature of the supplied air is equal to a prescribed value that is set in advance, and adjusting an air volume of the supplied air by controlling the supply fan so that a temperature of the return air is equal to a target value that is set in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Takehisa Matsuda, Akira MINEGISHI, Hideo Kubo, Hiroyuki FUKUDA, TOSHIO SUGIMOTO, Masaki TAKAHASHI, Syunsuke OHGA
  • Publication number: 20160099649
    Abstract: A switching power supply apparatus includes: an DC/AC converter unit for converting a DC voltage to an AC voltage based on switching operation of switching devices; a transformer for converting the AC voltage to an AC voltage having a voltage value; a resonance circuit provided between the DC/AC converter unit and the transformer; an AC/DC converter circuit for converting an AC voltage from the transformer to a DC; an output detector unit for detecting an output voltage or an output current of the apparatus; a duty ratio controller unit for controlling a duty ratio of switching of the apparatus such that a detected output voltage or current becomes a target value; an energy detector unit for detecting an energy accumulated in the resonance circuit; and a controller unit for controlling a switching frequency such that a detected energy becomes a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoichi HARA, Kazuyuki SAKIYAMA, Akira MINEGISHI
  • Publication number: 20160028592
    Abstract: A program stored in the memory causes the processor to acquire one or more items of information from one or more connection interfaces each to access an information acquisition source within an information processing system at timing being set corresponding to each item. Further, the program causes the processor to display each item of the acquired one or more items information in a display field associated with each item of the acquired one or more items information. Yet further the program causes the processor to set the timing for acquiring the one or more items of information next corresponding to a characteristic per item of the acquired one or more items information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Keiko Takeuchi, Akira Minegishi
  • Publication number: 20160021792
    Abstract: An air conditioning controlling system, includes: a sensor configured to measure a first air pressure in a cold aisle in a first space cooled by an air conditioner and a second air pressure in a hot aisle in a second space cooled by the air conditioner; and a control apparatus configured to calculate a first prediction value of a power consumption amount of an information processing apparatus and a second prediction value of a power consumption amount of the air conditioner for each of a plurality of first temperatures at an air capacity of the air conditioner which is based on the first air pressure and the second air pressure, detect, from among the plurality of first temperatures, a temperature at which a total value of the first prediction value and the second prediction value is minimized, and set the detected temperature as a second temperature to the air conditioner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Akira MINEGISHI, Akira KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150349562
    Abstract: A switching power supply includes a DC/AC inverter, an AC/DC converter, a first capacitor that passes an alternating current outputted from the DC/AC inverter, a second capacitor that passes the alternating current, and a reactor that passes part of the alternating current. An output voltage from the AC/DC converter is adjusted by a change of the period in which the reactor passes the part of the alternating current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: AKIRA MINEGISHI, SHOICHI HARA
  • Publication number: 20140351149
    Abstract: A computer stores configuration information that indicates the inclusion relationship between a plurality of replacement units in a target apparatus that is a target of a replacement work by identification information that identifies the plurality of replacement units. The computer determines, according to the configuration information, first identification information indicating a first replacement unit that includes a second replacement unit in the target apparatus indicated by second identification information included in report information transmitted from the target apparatus. Then, the computer outputs replacement candidate information including the first identification information for indicating that the first replacement unit is a replacement candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventor: Akira MINEGISHI
  • Publication number: 20140319985
    Abstract: A movement mechanism includes: a guide member; an installation base that is movably provided on the guide member; and a removable cover base that is removably disposed, next to the installation base, on the guide member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akira KIKUCHI, Eichiro OKUMURA, Akihiro HAMAGUCHI, Akira MINEGISHI
  • Patent number: 8700758
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to enable a monitoring apparatus to reliably obtain information of an event which occurs in an apparatus to be monitored in a monitoring system employing a connectionless communication method. An apparatus to be monitored comprises: a first transmitting unit for transmitting first information as event information related to an event in the apparatus to be monitored to a monitoring apparatus by a connectionless communication method; and a second transmitting unit for transmitting second information as the event information to the monitoring apparatus by a communication method different from the connectionless communication method. The monitoring apparatus comprises: a first receiving unit for receiving the first information transmitted from the first transmitting unit; and a second receiving unit for receiving the second information transmitted from the second transmitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Akira Minegishi
  • Patent number: 8676568
    Abstract: A storage unit stores first filter information specifying the formats of messages and second filter information specifying weights for words or phrases. A first search unit selects messages matching the formats specified by the first filter information from a plurality of messages as messages to be extracted. A second search unit calculates the importance level of each message unselected by the first search unit, based on the words or phrases included in the message and the second filter information, and selects messages to be extracted, according to the calculated importance levels from the messages unselected by the first search unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Akira Minegishi, Michio Sato, Takao Shibazaki, Naomi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8607219
    Abstract: An information processing device which is separated a plurality of partitions updates a firmware program in each partition. A management unit monitors the partition in operation and receives the firmware program from an external device and transmits the firmware program to each of the partition. Each partition writes and updates the firmware program in one memory area which is not used in operation out of a pair of memory area to perform an update of the firmware without stopping the operation of the partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Akira Minegishi
  • Publication number: 20130238319
    Abstract: A storage unit stores first filter information specifying the formats of messages and second filter information specifying weights for words or phrases. A first search unit selects messages matching the formats specified by the first filter information from a plurality of messages as messages to be extracted. A second search unit calculates the importance level of each message unselected by the first search unit, based on the words or phrases included in the message and the second filter information, and selects messages to be extracted, according to the calculated importance levels from the messages unselected by the first search unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akira Minegishi, Michio Sato, Takao Shibazaki, Naomi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8421678
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus includes a dielectric substrate including a ground conductor formed on a back surface thereof, and a radiation conductor formed on a front surface of the dielectric substrate. Upon directly transmitting and receiving a wireless digital signal via a feed point of the radiation conductor, formation of notched portions at sides of the radiation conductor, which intersect an electric field plane defined by an electric field when the antenna apparatus is excited, leads to reduction in the waveform distortion of waveform of the transmitted wireless digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakiyama, Akira Minegishi
  • Patent number: 8294531
    Abstract: A microstrip line is constituted by including a grounding conductor and a strip conductor with a dielectric substrate being sandwiched between the grounding conductor and the strip conductor. The microstrip line includes a conductor section having at least one groove formed to sterically intersect the strip conductor, thereby exhibiting a substantially more uniform passing characteristic as compared with a prior art microstrip line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakiyama, Akira Minegishi
  • Patent number: 8213185
    Abstract: In an interposer substrate, a plating stub conductor and a ground conductor form a capacitor, and a plating stub conductor and the ground conductor form a capacitor. Capacitances of the capacitors are adjusted so that a phase difference between signals transmitted by a differential transmission using a signal line including a connection wiring conductor and a signal line including a connection wiring conductor is equal to 180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Minegishi, Kazuhide Uriu, Toru Yamada
  • Patent number: 8117731
    Abstract: A method of installing a door glass (15) on a vehicle door (16). The door glass is tilted relative to the front-rear direction of a vehicle to reduce the length in the front-rear direction of the door glass. The tilted door glass is lowered to position it between a pair of sashes (121, 122) provided at the front and rear of the vehicle door. The tilt of the door glass is corrected to a predetermined level to fit the door glass into the front and rear sashes and then the door glass is lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miwa, Atsushi Osada, Akira Minegishi
  • Patent number: 8040200
    Abstract: In a differential transmission line, a substrate has first and second surfaces parallel to each other, and a first grounding conductor is formed on the second surface of the substrate. A dielectric layer is formed on the first grounding conductor, and a second grounding conductor is formed on the dielectric layer. First and the second signal conductors are formed to be parallel to each other on the first surface of the substrate. The first signal conductor and the first and second grounding conductors constitute a first transmission line, and the second signal conductor and the first and second grounding conductors constitute a second transmission line. A slot is formed in the first grounding conductor to three-dimensionally intersect with the first and second signal conductors and to be orthogonal to a longitudinal direction thereof, and a connecting conductor is formed for connecting the first grounding conductor with the second grounding conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Minegishi, Toru Yamada, Kazuhide Uriu, Susumu Sawada
  • Publication number: 20110179407
    Abstract: An information processing device which is separated a plurality of partitions updates a firmware program in each partition. A management unit monitors the partition in operation and receives the firmware program from an external device and transmits the firmware program to each of the partition. Each partition writes and updates the firmware program in one memory area which is not used in operation out of a pair of memory area to perform an update of the firmware without stopping the operation of the partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Akira MINEGISHI
  • Publication number: 20110128090
    Abstract: A strip conductor is provided on a dielectric board, and a ground conductor facing the strip conductor in a thickness direction of the dielectric board is provided on a surface of the dielectric board. The ground conductor is provided with a plurality of holes penetrating therethrough along the thickness direction of the dielectric board. This structure accomplishes a microstrip line that can obtain consistent passing frequency characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakiyama, Akira Minegishi