Patents by Inventor Atsushi Taniguchi
Atsushi Taniguchi 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).
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Patent number: 11973002Abstract: A composite substrate includes, in this order: a ceramic plate; a metal layer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of aluminum and an aluminum alloy; and a thermal sprayed layer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of copper and a copper alloy, and an intermetallic compound containing copper and aluminum as constituent elements is scattered between the metal layer and the thermal sprayed layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Denka Company LimitedInventors: Atsushi Sakai, Masaya Yumiba, Kentaro Nakayama, Yoshitaka Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20240136808Abstract: A fuse element of a SCP is reliably fusion-cut with a simple circuit configuration to interrupt an electric current. In a power supply equipped with a battery unit, a control circuit (7) is configured to control turning on and off of a switch (6) configured to connect the SCP (3) which is connected in series to a battery unit (1) and is configured to interrupt charge and discharge currents in an abnormal state. Battery unit 1 includes battery cells (2) connected in series to one another. The SCP (3) includes fuse element 4 connected in series to an output end of the battery unit (1), and a heater (5) configured to fusion-cut the fuse element (4). The switch (6) includes switching elements (10) each of which has one terminal connected to the heater (5) and another terminal connected to a corresponding one of different-voltage terminals (11) of the battery unit 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: KEITARO TANIGUCHI, JUNPEI ITO, ATSUSHI SUYAMA
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Publication number: 20240083313Abstract: A seat comprises a seat cushion pad (20) including an air flow passage (21), and a blower connected to the air flow passage (21). The seat cushion pad (20) comprises a pad body (100), and a cover member (200) disposed on an upper surface of the pad body (100) to form the air flow passage (21) between the pad body (100) and the cover member (200). The cover member (200) comprises a first cover member (210) disposed on the upper surface of the pad body (100), and a second cover member (220) disposed on an upper surface of the first cover member (210). The first cover member (210) is fixed to the pad body (100), and the second cover member (220) is fixed to the first cover member (210) and to the pad body (100).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Atsushi OKIMURA, Tatsumi KONNO, Wataru NISHII, Yuji NAKANO, Hiroshi IZAWA, Hiromi TANIGUCHI
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Patent number: 11902154Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to perform automatic restoration from network failures even when complicated operations for executing a plurality of commands are required. The present disclosure relates to a network setting device that is communicatively connected to a plurality of network devices and performs a setting of the plurality of network devices. The network setting device performs a first step for determining whether a network including the plurality of network devices satisfies a predetermined operational policy.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeru Inoue, Atsushi Taniguchi, Toru Mano, Kazuya Anazawa, Kohei Mizuno, Kengo Nakamura, Masaaki Nishino, Norihito Yasuda, Masakazu Ishihata
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Patent number: 11877199Abstract: A base station information DB (11) of a base station management apparatus (1) stores base station information that indicates wireless schemes that can be implemented by base stations (5), scheduled periods for implementation of the wireless schemes, and coverage areas of the base stations (5) in which wireless terminals can be accommodated.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Shimizu, Maiko Naya, Kenji Shimizu, Takahiro Yamazaki, Atsushi Taniguchi, Takayuki Yamada
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Patent number: 11722397Abstract: Provided are a reliability estimation system and a reliability estimation method capable of reducing a calculation amount of a reliability of a plurality of networks between terminals in communication between the terminals over the plurality of networks. The reliability estimation system according to the present invention calculates, for each network, a contraction reliability Rx, a contraction reliability Rx? when nodes are contracted, and a contraction reliability RB? between the networks including the terminals, and a true value of the reliability between the terminals over the plurality of networks is between a product P1 (=RB? Rx) and a product P2 (=RB? Rx?). Instead of calculating the true value of the reliability, only an upper limit and a lower limit are calculated, and thus, it is possible to significantly low additional remark the calculation amount.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Taniguchi, Takeru Inoue, Kohei Mizuno
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Patent number: 11644545Abstract: A distance measuring device includes a light emitting unit that outputs a measurement light, a first polarization state control unit that controls a polarization state of the measurement light output from the light emitting unit, a second polarization state control unit that controls the polarization state of the measurement light of which a polarization state is controlled by the first polarization state control unit, and an optical path switching element that selects an emission direction of the measurement light of which a polarization state is controlled by the second polarization state control unit, in which the second polarization state control unit controls the polarization state of the measurement light so that the measurement lights are emitted from the optical path switching element in a plurality of the emission directions, and the optical path switching element receives a reflected light obtained by reflecting the emitted measurement light by an object.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kenji Maruno, Masahiro Watanabe, Yuta Urano, Tatsuo Hariyama, Atsushi Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20230138720Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to search for a command sequence, while preventing overlooking as much as possible, in a shorter period of time than that of searching using only an actual system is used. The present disclosure provides an execution procedure searching device that searches for a command sequence to be set for a plurality of devices constituting a system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2020Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Toru MANO, Kazuya ANAZAWA, Kohei MIZUNO, Kengo NAKAMURA, Masaaki NISHINO, Norihito YASUDA, Masakazu ISHIHATA
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Publication number: 20230132633Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to perform automatic restoration from network failures even when complicated operations for executing a plurality of commands are required. The present disclosure relates to a network setting device that is communicatively connected to a plurality of network devices and performs a setting of the plurality of network devices. The network setting device performs a first step for determining whether a network including the plurality of network devices satisfies a predetermined operational policy.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2020Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Toru MANO, Kazuya ANAZAWA, Kohei MIZUNO, Kengo NAKAMURA, Masaaki NISHINO, Norihito YASUDA, Masakazu ISHIHATA
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Patent number: 11635295Abstract: A shape of an object is measured with a high degree of accuracy. A shape measurement system comprises: a distance measuring head for irradiating an object with light and receiving light reflected from the object; a distance measuring device for generating a distance detection waveform on the basis of the reflected light; and a control device for analyzing the distance detection waveform and calculating a measured distance value to the object. The shape measurement system is characterized in that the control device calculates a feature amount of the distance detection waveform and performs at least one of a process of correcting an error in the measured distance value by substituting the feature amount into a correction formula and a process of performing a confidence weighting of an error in the measured distance value by substituting the feature amount into a confidence weighting formula.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuo Hariyama, Masahiro Watanabe, Atsushi Taniguchi, Kenji Maruno, Akio Yazaki
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Patent number: 11617070Abstract: A communication control apparatus includes a communication parameter acquisition unit that acquires at least one second communication parameter that is a candidate for a first communication parameter indicating a communication parameter to be assigned to a communication apparatus and indicates a communication parameter suitable for regional characteristics indicating a communication environment in a region where the communication apparatus is installed, a setting file storage unit that stores a setting file corresponding to each second communication parameter, a setting file acquisition control unit that acquires the setting file and stores the acquired setting file in the setting file storage unit, and a communication parameter assignment unit that determines the first communication parameter from among the second communication parameters acquired by the communication parameter acquisition unit and assigns the determined first communication parameter to the communication apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Taniguchi, Kenji Shimizu, Yohei Katayama, Takahiro Yamazaki, Maiko Naya
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Publication number: 20230013105Abstract: It is an objective of the present disclosure to reduce computational complexity for obtaining a network topology configuration capable of efficiently accommodating a plurality of traffic demands assumed between nodes present in a network. A device of the present disclosure includes: a computation traffic generation unit that creates a traffic demand matrix whose elements are values individually obtained by demands between nodes present in a target network area from a plurality of traffic demand matrices created based on predicted traffic demands between the nodes; and a network topology generation unit that generates a network topology based on the traffic demand matrix generated by the computation traffic generation unit and port information of the nodes in the network area.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2019Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuya ANAZAWA, Toru MANO, Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Kohei MIZUNO
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Patent number: 11546868Abstract: A radio communication method executed by a control apparatus controlling a base station apparatus performing communication with a terminal in a predetermined region, and includes determining whether there is the terminal that is asynchronized in communication with the base station apparatus transmitting a synchronization signal, and controlling, in a case where it is determined that there is the asynchronized terminal, the base station apparatus to increase an allocation time of the synchronization signal in compliance with a radio scheme used by the asynchronized terminal or to shorten an allocation cycle of the synchronization signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Katayama, Atsushi Taniguchi, Kenji Shimizu, Takahiro Yamazaki, Maiko Naya
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Publication number: 20220352995Abstract: An object is to provide a communication system and a terminal capable of predicting future communication quality in order to enable variations in communication quality due to variations in environment to be addressed. A communication system and a terminal according to the present invention learn an input and output relationship from terminal information such as surrounding environment information of the terminal that can be acquired by a camera, a sensor, or the like, and position information of the terminal and current communication quality to generate a learning model, and predict future communication quality using the learning model, the surrounding environment information and the terminal information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Riichi KUDO, Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Kohei MIZUNO
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Publication number: 20220321447Abstract: Provided are a reliability estimation system and a reliability estimation method capable of reducing a calculation amount of a reliability of a plurality of networks between terminals in communication between the terminals over the plurality of networks. The reliability estimation system according to the present invention calculates, for each network, a contraction reliability Rx, a contraction reliability Rx? when nodes are contracted, and a contraction reliability RB? between the networks including the terminals, and a true value of the reliability between the terminals over the plurality of networks is between a product P1 (=RB? Rx) and a product P2 (=RB? Rx?). Instead of calculating the true value of the reliability, only an upper limit and a lower limit are calculated, and thus, it is possible to significantly low additional remark the calculation amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2019Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Takeru INOUE, Kohei MIZUNO
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Patent number: 11438890Abstract: A wireless communication method is executed by a wireless communication system including one or more wireless terminals and a wireless communication apparatus. The wireless communication apparatus generates wireless scheme schedule information, which is information related to a schedule of a slot allocated to an uplink signal and a downlink signal of a predetermined wireless scheme, generates a downlink signal to be transmitted in the slot to the wireless terminal based on the wireless scheme schedule information, and transmits a beacon signal including the wireless scheme schedule information in the slot. The wireless terminal receives the beacon signal, in the slot, acquires the wireless scheme schedule information from the beacon signal, and generates an uplink signal to be transmitted in the slot to the wireless communication apparatus, based on the wireless scheme schedule information.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Katayama, Atsushi Taniguchi, Kenji Shimizu, Takahiro Yamazaki, Maiko Naya
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Patent number: 11432179Abstract: An environmental information acquisition method is performed by an environmental information acquisition apparatus that acquires a measurement result of a radio wave environment. The environmental information acquisition method includes distributing software of each radio scheme to one or more base station apparatuses measuring a radio wave environment of the radio scheme based on the software of the radio scheme, instructing the one or more base station apparatuses to measure the radio wave environment, and acquiring the measurement result of the radio wave environment from the one or more base station apparatuses measuring based on the software the radio wave environment in multiple sections set across an area.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Maiko Naya, Kenji Shimizu, Takahiro Yamazaki, Atsushi Taniguchi, Yohei Katayama
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Publication number: 20220268929Abstract: According to the present invention, a measured distance is corrected in accordance with change in the surrounding environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Tatsuo HARIYAMA, Masahiro WATANABE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Kenji MARUNO
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Patent number: 11421976Abstract: Provided is a shape measurement system in order to perform three-dimensional measurement corresponding to a measurement object having various shapes, which includes a measurement probe, a probe tip, and a processor. The probe tip includes an optical element that is configured to irradiate an object with measurement light and a cylindrical unit that is configured to lock the optical element. The processor is configured to calculate an optical path length from the optical element to an object based on reflected light of the measurement light with which the object is irradiated; and calculate a three-dimensional shape of the object based on the input information and the optical path length.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo Hariyama, Masahiro Watanabe, Atsushi Taniguchi, Kenji Maruno
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Patent number: 11419113Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication method in a wireless communication system including a plurality of base station apparatuses, a plurality of wireless signal processing apparatuses configured to perform signal processing that corresponds to each of a plurality of wireless schemes, and a control apparatus configured to control a transmission timing of signals in the base station apparatus and the wireless signal processing apparatus, the method including: determining a combination of the base station apparatus and the wireless signal processing apparatus that perform communication at each predetermined time by the control apparatus such that there is less overlap in time to establish a communication path between the wireless signal processing apparatus and each of a plurality of base station apparatuses that use the same wireless signal processing apparatus, in which the base station apparatus and the wireless signal processing apparatus perform communication by switching a determined combination of tType: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Katayama, Atsushi Taniguchi, Kenji Shimizu, Takahiro Yamazaki, Maiko Naya