Patents by Inventor Ayako Inoue

Ayako Inoue 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: 20240081361
    Abstract: A coloration inhibitor characterized in containing, as an active ingredient, a heated oil obtained by implementing a heating treatment at 120° C. or higher on: an unrefined raw oil including an expressed oil of an oil and fat raw material, an extracted oil of the oil and fat raw material, or both the expressed oil and the extracted oil; or an oil and fat obtained by furthermore implementing degumming, deacidification, or both of these treatments on the unrefined raw oil. The coloration inhibitor is suitably used as an edible ingredient for inhibiting coloration of an edible oil and fat composition or inhibiting coloration of a food product cooked using the edible oil and fat composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Takehiko SEKIGUCHI, Ayako MAEDA, Masami INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230344911
    Abstract: The in-vehicle information processing device includes: a vehicle information acquisition unit for acquiring vehicle information including update information of software mounted in a vehicle and charge information of a battery, from an associated ECU, and determining a process not allowing the vehicle to travel and a recommended return time which is time when the vehicle is allowed to travel; a user action state estimation unit for acquiring a position of the vehicle and a user operation condition from an associated ECU, and estimating a user action state; and a user notification information generation unit for generating user notification information including information for assisting the user in action determination, on the basis of the process not allowing the vehicle to travel and the recommended return time, and the user action state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya HIGASHINO, Ayako INOUE, Tsubasa MORITA, Masahiro NAKATSUKASA, Hideki FUKUHARA
  • Patent number: 11223495
    Abstract: A transfer device includes an output-port decision unit to decide, on the basis of storage information stored in a frame input, an output port from which the frame is output from among a plurality of ports, an allocation unit to associate an input port to which the frame is input with an output port from which a frame which is transferred by a cut-through method is output on a one-to-one basis, and allocate a first frame to a first pathway transferring by the cut-through method and allocate a second frame to a second pathway transferring by a store-and-forward method on the basis of type information of an input port to which a frame has been input, class information of the frame, and the output port decided by the output-port decision unit, and an IET-output control unit to output the first frame from the output port, decide whether to divide the second frame on the basis of the class information of the second frame, and output the second frame from the output port on the basis of decision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako Inoue, Sachiko Taniguchi, Yusuke Sakagami
  • Patent number: 11159495
    Abstract: Provided is a transfer device (200) that includes a plurality of ports to and from each of which a layer-2 frame is input and output; a frame identification unit (221) that identifies whether or not the frame has been encrypted; an address filter unit (222) that decides one of the plurality of ports from which the frame is to be output; an encryption necessity determination unit (223) that has an encryption necessity determination table depending on destination information and priority information which are included in each frame, and a decryption necessity determination table depending on the destination information included in each frame, and when the frame has not been encrypted, determines whether or not encryption is necessary for the frame based on the encryption necessity determination table, and when the frame has been encrypted, determines whether or not decryption is necessary for the frame based on the decryption necessity determination table; an encryption decryption processing unit (225) that enc
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakagami, Ayako Inoue, Sachiko Taniguchi, Ryusuke Kawate
  • Patent number: 11115304
    Abstract: To include an FCS code calculation unit to calculate a first code that is an FCS code of a received frame, an FCS check unit to compare the first code with a second code that is an FCS code stored in the received frame, and to output a first comparison result indicating a match or no match between two codes, an inverse FCS check unit to compare the first code with a third code obtained by inverting each bit of the second code, and to output a second comparison result indicating a match or no match between two codes, an error determination unit to determine an error state of the received frame, and an FCS update unit to update, if the second comparison result indicates no match, the second code with a fourth code obtained by inverting each bit of the first code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako Inoue, Sachiko Taniguchi, Yusuke Sakagami, Ryusuke Kawate
  • Publication number: 20200280457
    Abstract: A transfer device includes an output-port decision unit to decide, on the basis of storage information stored in a frame input, an output port from which the frame is output from among a plurality of ports, an allocation unit to associate an input port to which the frame is input with an output port from which a frame which is transferred by a cut-through method is output on a one-to-one basis, and allocate a first frame to a first pathway transferring by the cut-through method and allocate a second frame to a second pathway transferring by a store-and-forward method on the basis of type information of an input port to which a frame has been input, class information of the frame, and the output port decided by the output-port decision unit, and an IET-output control unit to output the first frame from the output port, decide whether to divide the second frame on the basis of the class information of the second frame, and output the second frame from the output port on the basis of decision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako INOUE, Sachiko TANIGUCHI, Yusuke SAKAGAMI
  • Publication number: 20200127978
    Abstract: Provided is a transfer device (200) that includes a plurality of ports to and from each of which a layer-2 frame is input and output; a frame identification unit (221) that identifies whether or not the frame has been encrypted; an address filter unit (222) that decides one of the plurality of ports from which the frame is to be output; an encryption necessity determination unit (223) that has an encryption necessity determination table depending on destination information and priority information which are included in each frame, and a decryption necessity determination table depending on the destination information included in each frame, and when the frame has not been encrypted, determines whether or not encryption is necessary for the frame based on the encryption necessity determination table, and when the frame has been encrypted, determines whether or not decryption is necessary for the frame based on the decryption necessity determination table; an encryption decryption processing unit (225) that enc
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke SAKAGAMI, Ayako INOUE, Sachiko TANIGUCHI, Ryusuke KAWATE
  • Patent number: 10528498
    Abstract: A transfer apparatus has an input port and an output port, an input line speed of the input port and an output line speed of the output port being capable of being set to differ from each other. The transfer apparatus comprises, for each output port: a low-latency frame transmission buffer to store a low-latency frame received at the input port; a normal-latency frame transmission buffer to store a normal-latency frame that is a frame received at the input port, the normal-latency frame being permitted to be transferred with higher latency than the low-latency frame; a time calculation unit to calculate output start time of the low-latency frame by using information on a frame length of the low-latency frame, the input line speed, and the output line speed when the low-latency frame is received; and an output contention control unit to control transfer of the low-latency frame and the normal-latency frame by using the output start time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako Inoue, Sachiko Taniguchi, Yuji Goto
  • Publication number: 20190319865
    Abstract: To include an FCS code calculation unit to calculate a first code that is an FCS code of a received frame, an FCS check unit to compare the first code with a second code that is an FCS code stored in the received frame, and to output a first comparison result indicating a match or no match between two codes, an inverse FCS check unit to compare the first code with a third code obtained by inverting each bit of the second code, and to output a second comparison result indicating a match or no match between two codes, an error determination unit to determine an error state of the received frame, and an FCS update unit to update, if the second comparison result indicates no match, the second code with a fourth code obtained by inverting each bit of the first code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ayako INOUE, Sachiko TANIGUCHI, Yusuke SAKAGAMI, Ryusuke KAWATE
  • Publication number: 20190213151
    Abstract: A transfer apparatus has an input port and an output port, an input line speed of the input port and an output line speed of the output port being capable of being set to differ from each other. The transfer apparatus comprises, for each output port: a low-latency frame transmission buffer to store a low-latency frame received at the input port; a normal-latency frame transmission buffer to store a normal-latency frame that is a frame received at the input port, the normal-latency frame being permitted to be transferred with higher latency than the low-latency frame; a time calculation unit to calculate output start time of the low-latency frame by using information on a frame length of the low-latency frame, the input line speed, and the output line speed when the low-latency frame is received; and an output contention control unit to control transfer of the low-latency frame and the normal-latency frame by using the output start time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ayako INOUE, Sachiko TANIGUCHI, Yuji GOTO
  • Patent number: 9610785
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tape printer including a feed portion, a feed path, a print portion, and a cut portion. The feed portion performs pre-print feed to feed a tape before a print process and post-print feed to feed the tape after the print process. In addition, the feed portion feeds the tape forward as the post-print feed such that the upstream-side end of an image printed on the tape is positioned on the downstream side of a cut position and the tape backward as the pre-print feed when the cut portion has not performed a cut operation after the post-print feed at the time of starting the following print process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Oida, Takeshi Hosokawa, Yusuke Harigae, Noriaki Murayama, Junpei Watanabe, Ayako Inoue, Tomoko Yamada
  • Patent number: 9566801
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tape printer including: a vertical/horizontal conversion section that applies vertical/horizontal conversion processing to a character image to be rotated in at least one of a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction; a print section that prints the character image on a tape; a time acquisition section that acquires time displayed by a hand image constituting a hand type clock image serving as the character image; and a basic hand image storage section that stores a main basic hand image of a plurality of the hand images whose angles are different from each other according to time, wherein, when the hand image that displays the time acquired by the time acquisition section is not included in the basic hand image, the vertical/horizontal conversion section applies the vertical/horizontal conversion processing to the basic hand image to generate the hand image that displays the time acquired by the time acquisition section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Oida, Junpei Watanabe, Ayako Inoue, Tomoko Yamada
  • Publication number: 20160039226
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tape printer including a feed portion, a feed path, a print portion, and a cut portion. The feed portion performs pre-print feed to feed a tape before a print process and post-print feed to feed the tape after the print process. In addition, the feed portion feeds the tape forward as the post-print feed such that the upstream-side end of an image printed on the tape is positioned on the downstream side of a cut position and the tape backward as the pre-print feed when the cut portion has not performed a cut operation after the post-print feed at the time of starting the following print process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Masahiro Oida, Takeshi Hosokawa, Yusuke Harigae, Noriaki Murayama, Junpei Watanabe, Ayako Inoue, Tomoko Yamada
  • Publication number: 20160039220
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tape printer including: a vertical/horizontal conversion section that applies vertical/horizontal conversion processing to a character image to be rotated in at least one of a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction; a print section that prints the character image on a tape; a time acquisition section that acquires time displayed by a hand image constituting a hand type clock image serving as the character image; and a basic hand image storage section that stores a main basic hand image of a plurality of the hand images whose angles are different from each other according to time, wherein, when the hand image that displays the time acquired by the time acquisition section is not included in the basic hand image, the vertical/horizontal conversion section applies the vertical/horizontal conversion processing to the basic hand image to generate the hand image that displays the time acquired by the time acquisition section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Masahiro Oida, Junpei Watanabe, Ayako Inoue, Tomoko Yamada
  • Publication number: 20160042256
    Abstract: Disclosed is tape printer including: a display section that selectively displays one of a plurality of evaluation images based on the number of evaluation characters placed in a first mode; a first operation section used to operate the evaluation image in a first direction; a second operation section used to operate the evaluation image in a second direction; an image change section that changes the evaluation image to another evaluation image in which the number of the evaluation characters placed in the first mode is incremented in the first direction and changes the evaluation image to another evaluation image in which the number of the evaluation characters placed in a second mode is incremented in the second direction; and a print data generation section that generates print data of the displayed evaluation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Masahiro Oida, Takeshi Hosokawa, Junpei Watanabe, Ayako Inoue, Tomoko Yamada
  • Patent number: 9252289
    Abstract: A non-volatile semiconductor memory device has a semiconductor substrate, an element isolation region disposed in a surface of the semiconductor substrate, a well region disposed along one principal surface of the semiconductor substrate, source and drain regions arranged in the well region, a gate oxide film arranged on the surface of the semiconductor substrate between the source region and the drain region, a floating gate disposed on the gate oxide film, and an insulating film disposed on a surface of the floating gate. A control gate is capacitively coupled to the floating gate disposed through intermediation of the insulating film. A resistive element is serially connected to the control gate. Write characteristics of the non-volatile semiconductor memory device are improved as a result of a delay effect of the resistive element serially connected to the control gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Ayako Inoue, Kazuhiro Tsumura
  • Patent number: 8963224
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including, on the same semiconductor substrate, a transistor element, a capacitor, and a resistor. The capacitor is formed on an active region, and the resistor is formed on an element isolation region, both formed of the same polysilicon film. By CMP or etch-back, the surface is ground down while planarizing the surface until a resistor has a desired thickness. Owing to a difference in height between the active region and the element isolation region, a thin resistor and a thick upper electrode of the capacitor are formed to prevent passing through of a contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Ayako Inoue, Kazuhiro Tsumura
  • Patent number: 8760926
    Abstract: Provided is a memory circuit in which erroneous writing is less likely to occur at the time of power-on. A memory circuit (10) includes: a P-channel non-volatile memory element (15) for writing, to which a voltage is applied between a source and a drain thereof only during writing so as to write data; and an N-channel non-volatile memory element (16) for reading, which has a control gate and a floating gate provided in common to a control gate and a floating gate of the P-channel non-volatile memory element (15) and to which a voltage is applied to a source and a drain thereof only during reading so as to read the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Osanai, Yoshitsugu Hirose, Kazuhiro Tsumura, Ayako Inoue
  • Patent number: 8710626
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor capacitor including: a capacitor device forming region having a trapezoidal trench which is formed on a surface of a first conductivity type semiconductor substrate; a second conductivity type lower electrode layer provided along the trapezoidal trenches of the capacitor device forming region; a capacitor insulating film formed at least on a surface of the second conductivity type lower electrode layer; and a second conductivity type upper electrode formed on a surface of the capacitor insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Ayako Inoue, Naoto Saitoh
  • Patent number: D850527
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: King Jim Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tanaka, Satomi Ohdan, Masatoshi Hirayama, Kiyomi Takada, Ayako Inoue