Patents by Inventor Hideaki Tachibana

Hideaki Tachibana 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).

  • Patent number: 8165039
    Abstract: A communication apparatus holds information concerning a second network reported from a specific wireless terminal that has left a first network. In accordance with predetermined criteria, the communication apparatus decides a wireless terminal that is to be allowed to join the second network and notifies this wireless terminal so as to cause the specific wireless terminal to return to the first network. This wireless terminal uses the held information concerning the second network to discriminate the communication status of the second network and requests the specific wireless terminal to return in accordance with the communication status discriminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideaki Tachibana
  • Publication number: 20120006595
    Abstract: A bus bar module, which is electrically connected to a power terminal of an at least one semiconductor module having a semiconductor element, includes at least one bus bar made of a conductor, and a sealing member made of resin which seals part of the bus bar. The bus bar has at least one welded plate including an at least one welded part welded to the power terminal, and a held plate held by the sealing member. Part of the held plate configures a sealed part sealed with the sealing member. At least one slit is formed between the welded plate and the held plate. The welded plate and the held plate are connected to each other at a predetermined position farther from the sealed part than from the at least one welded part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideaki TACHIBANA
  • Publication number: 20110309921
    Abstract: A communication apparatus for transmitting data to a data accumulation apparatus via a relay apparatus detects, by communication with the relay apparatus, which is the relay function used by the relay apparatus to operate, a proxy relay function of temporarily holding and proxy-transmitting the data and a transparent relay function of transparently transmitting the data without holding. The communication apparatus transmits the data based on the detected relay function. When the data is being transmitted using the relay apparatus operating by the transparent relay function, and a disconnection notification representing disconnection of communication between the relay apparatus and the data accumulation apparatus is received from the relay apparatus, the data transmission is immediately stopped. When the data is being transmitted using the relay apparatus operating by the proxy relay function, the data transmission is continued.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideaki Tachibana
  • Publication number: 20110261600
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes a plurality of semiconductor modules and a plurality of bus bars. The plurality of bus bars include a positive electrode bus bar connected to a positive electrode power terminal, a negative electrode bus bar connected to a negative electrode power terminal, and a plurality of AC bus bars connected to an AC power terminal. Of a DC bus bar group Including the positive electrode bus bar and the negative electrode bus bar, and an AC bus bar group including the plurality of AC bus bars, part of one of the bus bar groups is sealed with insulating resin, and the other of the bus bar groups is not sealed with insulating resin. A seat is formed on the insulating resin sealing the one of the bus bar groups, and the other of the bus bar groups is mounted on a seat face of the seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideaki TACHIBANA
  • Publication number: 20110238848
    Abstract: Difficulties involved when a plurality of setting methods for setting communication parameters are usable are overcome. Setting methods executable by both first and second communication devices are determined, and a setting method is selected from among the determined setting methods. Then, it is judged whether or not switching to a setting network for executing a communication parameter setting process is required to execute a communication parameter setting process using the selected setting method. In accordance with a judgment result, switching to the setting network is performed, and a communication parameter setting process is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideaki Tachibana
  • Publication number: 20110220045
    Abstract: A variable valve device has a hydraulic actuator that implements discharge of operating oil in a pressure chamber and a hydraulic control valve that controls supply and discharge of the operating oil to and from the hydraulic actuator by opening and closing, thereby preventing the closing movement of the intake valve. After a signal that closes the hydraulic control valve in a current engine control cycle is output at a prescribed crank angle, the crank angle of a crankshaft, when surge pressure in the pressure chamber has exceeded a prescribed threshold value resulting from closing of the hydraulic control valve, is determined, and at least either an output crank angle or a waveform of the signal that closes the hydraulic control valve is corrected based on the operation start crank angle, and the corrected signal is output to the hydraulic control valve in a next control cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Etsuro Sato, Hideaki Tachibana, Youhei Hisada, kazuo Ohta
  • Publication number: 20110214631
    Abstract: A variable valve device and a method of controlling the variable valve device, wherein, in order to prevent a shortage of oil film in a spool section, only the spool of a solenoid on/off valve is moved at a timing not affecting operation of an air intake valve, to thereby stabilize operation of the solenoid on/off valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Etsuro Sato, Hideaki Tachibana, Youhei Hisada, Kazuo Ohta
  • Publication number: 20100293300
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a participating device, an identification device, and a notification device. The participating device is capable of participating in a first network and a second network. The identification device is configured to identify a security state of the first network. When the security state identified by the identification device is a predetermined state, the notification device notifies, to the second network, information related to the first network or information related to an apparatus connecting to the first network. When the security state identified by the identification device is not the predetermined state, the notification device does not notify, to the second network, information related to the first network or information related to an apparatus connecting to the first network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideaki Tachibana
  • Publication number: 20100217705
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes an electronic payment unit configured to perform electronic payment processing via a short-range wireless communication, an acquisition unit configured to acquire, via the short-range wireless communication, a service parameter required for utilizing a public wireless local area network (LAN) service, by performing the electronic payment processing, and a transfer unit configured to transfer the acquired service parameter to a second communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideaki Tachibana
  • Publication number: 20100095119
    Abstract: A communication apparatus is provided that encrypts content data that is to be uploaded to a server by using a first encryption key used in a process for sharing a communication parameter for communicating with other communication apparatus via a wireless network or a second encryption key based on the communication parameter shared in the sharing process. Consequently, the content data can be viewed only by a specific communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideaki Tachibana
  • Publication number: 20090199796
    Abstract: An engine valve device includes an intake valve which opens and closes an intake port by a pressing force of a rotating cam and a pressing force of a valve spring, a piston which is movable in a same direction as the intake valve, a cylinder portion which houses the piston such that the piston is movable inside, a hydraulic actuator including the piston and the cylinder portion, a supply discharge pipe line which communicates with a pressure chamber formed by the piston and the cylinder portion, an accumulator which accumulates hydraulic oil flowed out from the pressure chamber via the supply discharge pipe line, and an electromagnetic on-off valve which controls a flow of the hydraulic oil between the pressure chamber and the accumulator. The electromagnetic on-off valve is arranged on the supply discharge pipe line between the hydraulic actuator and the accumulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Youhei Hisada, Hideaki Tachibana, Etsuro Sato, Kunio Horiai, Jun Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20090161630
    Abstract: A communication apparatus holds information concerning a second network reported from a specific wireless terminal that has left a first network. In accordance with predetermined criteria, the communication apparatus decides a wireless terminal that is to be allowed to join the second network and notifies this wireless terminal so as to cause the specific wireless terminal to return to the first network. This wireless terminal uses the held information concerning the second network to discriminate the communication status of the second network and requests the specific wireless terminal to return in accordance with the communication status discriminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideaki Tachibana
  • Patent number: 6210002
    Abstract: A lens holding mechanism of spectacles with an extremely simple structure is provided, which mechanism nonetheless enables the respective lenses to be securely clamped. The respective lenses are held onto the respective endpieces or the bridge by abutting an elastically deformable holding member having a receiving portion with a first corresponding hole provided therethrough and an abutment portion with a second corresponding hole provided therethrough onto the lens surface and tightly inserting a first inserting pin of a joint member mounted onto the respective endpieces or the bridge into a holding aperture provided in the vicinity of the circumferential fringe side of the respective lenses so as to be tightly received into the first corresponding hole while at the same time by tightly inserting the second inserting pin into the second corresponding hole. In spite of such an extremely simple structure, the reliable lens clamping is assured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Inventor: Hideaki Tachibana
  • Patent number: 6007200
    Abstract: Here is disclosed a lens holding mechanism of rimless spectacles with a simple structure, which nonetheless enables the respective lenses to be securely clamped. A first holding aperture and a second holding aperture are provided in the vicinity of the circumferential fringe sides of the respective lenses and a joint member provided with a first thrusting projection and a second thrusting projection is formed extensively from a contra-lens portion of an endpiece or a bridge. The first projection is inserted into the first aperture while the second projection is inserted into the second aperture, and at least the first projection and the first holding aperture are tightly held onto each other by means of a clamping sleeve or cap made of basically, synthetic resin. In spite of such an extremely simple structure, the reliable lens clamping is assured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Aoyama Gankyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideaki Tachibana
  • Patent number: 5847800
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a lens holding mechanism of a pair of rimless spectacles whereby the lenses can be securely held in check without an intricate structure therefore. According to this mechanism, a concave portion is notched on the side surface of the lens while a joint member, on the surface of which a groove capable of being fitted into said concave portion is formed, is provided on a proximal end portion with regard to the lens of an endpiece to pivotally and foldably support a temple or both ends of a bridge to connect a pair of lenses juxtaposed to each other. In order to prevent this joint member from slipping out of the concave portion of the lens, basically, a recess portion is provided on the groove of the joint member while a protrusive portion to fit into said recess is provided on the concave portion of the lens. Thereby, it becomes possible to securely hold the lenses in check with the endpiece or the bridge by means of an extremely simple structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Inventor: Hideaki Tachibana