Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Sasaki

Hirofumi Sasaki 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: 20240131046
    Abstract: [Problem] The present invention has as an object to provide an antiviral agent effective as a remedy for COVID-1 9 and other viral infections. [Resolution Means] Provided is an antiviral agent and the like, made of: the compound represented by general formula (1) or (2) below [R1 being —(CH2)n1—Z1—R11 2 r —CH—(—Z1—R11,)(n1 being 0 or 1; Z1 being a single bond, —O—, —NH—, —S—, —SO—, —SO2—,SO—CO—, —CO—O—, or —CH?N—O—; R11 being a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbons, —NR12 R13, —N3,—NO2,—CN, —CH2—CO—O—R14, or a five- or six-membered heterocyclic group including a nitrogen atom; R12 and R13 each independently being a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbons; and R14 being a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbons], a derivative thereof, a salt of these compounds, or a solvate thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Katsumi MAENAKA, Akira MATSUDA, Hirofumi SAWA, Yasuko ORBA, Michihito SASAKI, Kentaro UEMURA
  • Patent number: 11901897
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor connected to a programmable logic circuit. The processor is configured to: allow a first circuit reconfigured in a first region of the programmable logic circuit to execute a process; in parallel with the process of the first circuit, allow a second circuit to be reconfigured in a second region different from the first region; and adjust at least one of a clock frequency used in the process of the first circuit and a clock frequency used in reconfiguration of the second circuit so that a time point at which the process of the first circuit is completed and a time point at which the reconfiguration of the second circuit is completed will become closer to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20240047841
    Abstract: A Butler matrix circuit includes: a phase shifter that shifts the phase of a signal, the width of the phase shifter and/or the density of a dielectric material in the phase shifter being set so that the characteristic impedance of the lowest-order mode in the phase shifter varies in accordance with a predetermined function; and a coupler that divides a signal or crosses signals, the density of a dielectric material in a coupled portion between a first waveguide and a second waveguide arranged in parallel being varied in the coupler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Hirofumi SASAKI, Yasunori YAGI, Doohwan LEE, Jun MASHINO, Takayuki YAMADA, Tomoki SEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240047843
    Abstract: In a waveguide, density of a dielectric material in the waveguide is set so that a characteristic impedance of a lowest-order mode in the waveguide varies in accordance with a predetermined function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Hirofumi SASAKI, Yasunori YAGI, Doohwan LEE, Jun MASHINO, Takayuki YAMADA, Tomoki SEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240039137
    Abstract: In a waveguide, a width of the waveguide is set so that a characteristic impedance of a lowest-order mode in the waveguide varies in accordance with a predetermined function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Hirofumi SASAKI, Yasunori YAGI, Doohwan LEE, Jun MASHINO, Takayuki YAMADA, Tomoki SEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240014553
    Abstract: A transmission device includes: a multiplex circular array antenna including a plurality of circular array antennas in which a plurality of antenna elements are arranged in a circle; a plurality of Butler circuits connected to the multiplex circular array antenna; and one or more Butler circuits connected to one or more linear array antennas including some antenna elements among the plurality of antenna elements of the multiplex circular array antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Takayuki YAMADA, Doohwan LEE, Jun MASHINO, Hirofumi SASAKI, Yasunori YAGI, Tomoki SEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230412243
    Abstract: A reception device includes a first antenna, a second antenna, and a control unit that combines signals of a radio wave in a first orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode and a radio wave in a second OAM mode having a sign only that is different from a sign of the first OAM mode, received by the first antenna, with signals obtained by rotating OAM phases of the radio wave in the first OAM mode and the radio wave in the second OAM mode received by the second antenna by a predetermined angle to extract a signal of the radio wave in the first OAM mode, and combines signals of the radio wave in the first OAM mode and the radio wave in the second OAM mode received by the second antenna with signals obtained by rotating OAM phases of the radio wave in the first OAM mode and the radio wave in the second OAM mode received by the first antenna by the predetermined angle to extract a signal of the radio wave in the second OAM mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Doohwan LEE, Hirofumi SASAKI, Yasunori YAGI, Takayuki YAMADA, Tomoki SEMOTO, Jun MASHINO
  • Patent number: 11811143
    Abstract: An OAM multiplexing communication system uses one or more OAM modes and multiplexes signals of one or more sequences for each OAM mode. A transmitting station includes a transmitting antenna using an M-UCA, and an OAM mode generation unit that simultaneously generates one or more OAM modes from each UCA. A receiving station includes a receiving antenna equivalent to the M-UCA, an OAM mode separation unit that separates signals received by each UCA for each OAM mode, and a received signal processing unit that estimates channel information for each OAM mode and performs an equalization process for each OAM mode by using a receiving weight calculated from the channel information. The received signal processing unit is configured to estimate, for each OAM mode, channel information of another OAM mode causing interference and calculate the receiving weight of a subject OAM mode by using the channel information of the subject OAM mode and said another OAM mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Sasaki, Doohwan Lee, Hiroyuki Fukumoto, Hiroyuki Shiba
  • Publication number: 20230315961
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an integrated circuit that is capable of reconfiguring a logic circuit, executes data processing, and in a case where an error is generated in the data processing, acquires signal data from an acquisition target position set for a circuit portion that performs the data processing, and then outputs the signal data, a narrowing-down unit that narrows down an analysis target depending on the generated error, and a change unit that changes the acquisition target position depending on a result of a narrowing down by the narrowing-down unit after the signal data is output from the integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hirofumi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230291791
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to provide an execution instruction of processing and apparatus identification information of the information processing apparatus to a cloud server that executes distributed processing, acquire identification information of the processing and the apparatus identification information from each of the cloud servers, and in a case where the acquired apparatus identification information is the apparatus identification information of the information processing apparatus, acquire a processing result of the processing identified by the identification information of the processing acquired together with the apparatus identification information from the cloud server that is a transmission source of the apparatus identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hirofumi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230291859
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to provide an execution instruction for processing to a server that executes distributed processing, acquire a processing result of the processing, which is distributed to the server in the distributed processing, from each of servers, in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied without acquiring the processing result for respective processing related to the distributed processing, provide a notification indicating that the processing result has not been acquired to each server that executes the distributed processing, and after the notification, among the servers that execute the distributed processing, acquire the processing result from a different server that is different from the server to which the processing, which is related to the processing result that has not been acquired in a case where the condition is satisfied, is distributed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hirofumi SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11740253
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic analyzer that can perform a reagent preparation/disposal operation comfortably and smoothly as when printing a reagent list such as a reagent preparation/disposal list on paper even without printing the reagent list. The automatic analyzer that performs analysis using a sample and a reagent, the automatic analyzer including: a storage unit that stores reagent information related to a reagent remaining amount or a reagent expiration date of each of reagent containers; and a display unit that displays a reagent list in which reminder information that gives a reminder to an operator is assigned to each of setting positions of the reagent containers based on the reagent information stored in the storage unit. The reagent managing unit updates display of the reagent list such that a reagent container selected by the operator is visually identifiable while the reagent list is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Sasaki, Toshihide Hanawa, Satoshi Shibuya, Yasuo Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20230245812
    Abstract: A coil device 1 comprises a coil 10, a T-shaped core 20 including a columnar portion 21 around which the coil 10 is disposed and a flange 22 formed at a first end 21a of the columnar portion 21 in an axial direction thereof, and an exterior body 30 covering the coil 10 and the columnar portion 21 and made of an exterior material including magnetic particles and a resin. The core 20 is provided with a recess 40 including at least one of a first recess 41 or a second recess 42. The first recess 41 extends between the first end 21a and a second end 21b of the columnar portion 21 in the axial direction. The second recess 42 extends from an inner side towards an outer side of the flange 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto TSUKAMOTO, Sena YOSHINO, Tomohiko AIDA, Shigeki YANAGIDA, Masashi GOTOH, Hirofumi SASAKI, Hitoshi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230079024
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: create individual pages of printing data by combining plural pieces of source data containing highly confidential data with high confidentiality in accordance with a printing instruction received from a terminal apparatus; and add high-confidentiality information indicating high confidentiality to a page of the printing data that contains the highly confidential data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20220328242
    Abstract: A coil device includes: an inner core including a winding core portion wound by a wire, an upper flange portion with a first end portion on one side of the winding core portion, and a lower flange portion with a second end portion on the other side of the winding core portion; an outer core having an insertion hole and disposed outside the inner core, the inner core being inserted to the insertion hole; and a pair of terminal portions on the outer core, lead portions of the wire connect to the terminal portions. The number of wire turns along a radial direction of the winding core portion is larger on one side of the winding core portion than on the other side, and a wire winding end position is at the first end portion on the one side of the winding core portion with a wire winding start position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi ISHII, Takashi KUDO, Hirofumi SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11411325
    Abstract: In an OAM multiplexing communication system in which an M-UCA is provided in each of a transmitting station and a receiving station, signals in a plurality of OAM modes are generated and transmitted from each UCA of the transmitting station, signals in the plurality of OAM modes are received and demultiplexed by each UCA of the transmitting station, and streams of the number of UCAs×the number of OAM modes are subjected to spatial multiplex transmission, in which the transmitting station includes a signal processing unit generating the streams to be transmitted in the plurality of OAM modes from each of the UCAs of the M-UCA, and the receiving station includes a signal processing unit receiving the signals in the plurality of OAM modes demultiplexed by each of the UCAs of the M-UCA, and demultiplexes the received signals for each stream from signals in an identical OAM mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Doohwan Lee, Hirofumi Sasaki, Hiroyuki Fukumoto, Hiroyuki Shiba
  • Patent number: 11323165
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a plurality of antenna elements; a modulation unit modulating signals including data in a plurality of first OAM modes having different real number values; a calculation unit calculating factors indicating weights corresponding to each of the signals in the plurality of first OAM modes modulated by the modulation unit for each of the plurality of antenna elements, based on information indicating a wireless environment of a counter wireless communication device that is a transmission destination of the data; and a transmission processing unit multiplexing each of the signals in the plurality of first OAM modes for each of the plurality of antenna elements by using the factors, and outputting the signals obtained through multiplexing for each of the plurality of antenna elements to each of the plurality of antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Sasaki, Hiroyuki Fukumoto, Doohwan Lee, Hiroyuki Shiba
  • Patent number: 11273168
    Abstract: A heterocyclic compound represented by the general formula (1) or a salt thereof: wherein m, l, and n respectively represent an integer of 1 or 2; X represents —O— or —CH2—; R1 represents hydrogen, a lower alkyl group, a hydroxy-lower alkyl group, a protecting group, or a tri-lower alkylsilyloxy-lower alkyl group; R2 and R3, which are the same or different, each independently represent hydrogen or a lower alkyl group; or R2 and R3 are bonded to form a cyclo-C3-C8 alkyl group; and R4 represents an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group, wherein the aromatic or heterocyclic group may have one or more arbitrary substituent(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Ito, Hirofumi Sasaki, Kuninori Tai, Tomoichi Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20220069823
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor connected to a programmable logic circuit. The processor is configured to: allow a first circuit reconfigured in a first region of the programmable logic circuit to execute a process; in parallel with the process of the first circuit, allow a second circuit to be reconfigured in a second region different from the first region; and adjust at least one of a clock frequency used in the process of the first circuit and a clock frequency used in reconfiguration of the second circuit so that a time point at which the process of the first circuit is completed and a time point at which the reconfiguration of the second circuit is completed will become closer to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventor: Hirofumi SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11251993
    Abstract: A gateway apparatus includes: a gateway apparatus selection part configured to select a first gateway apparatus compliant with a first version of a communication protocol or a second gateway apparatus compliant with a second version of the communication protocol different from the first version of the communication protocol, the first and second gateway apparatuses being connected to a communication destination network, in such a manner that a selection rate of the first and second gateway apparatuses matches a predetermined rate; a message conversion part configured to convert a version of a message(s); and a transmission part configured to transmit a message(s) after matching the version of the communication protocol of the message(s) and the version of the communication protocol of the selected one of the first and second gateway apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirofumi Sasaki