Patents by Inventor Hiroki Kanai

Hiroki Kanai 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: 20240092133
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile robot that can simultaneously absorb an impact received from an uneven road surface while moving and estimate the position or orientation of the mobile robot while functioning. The mobile robot according to the present invention has an operation mechanism having a multi-jointed arm, and a movement mechanism that causes the operation mechanism to move, the mobile robot being characterized in that: the movement mechanism has a first support part and a second support part, which support the weight of the movement mechanism; and the second support part is installed at a position that is nearer to an outer peripheral section, in terms of the movement direction of the movement mechanism, than is the installation position of the first support part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Toshifumi MITSUYAMA, Yoshiki KANAI, Toru SHIBATA, Yuuko OKADA, Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Tomohiro INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230266749
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processing portion. The processing portion is configured to obtain information on a location of a worker associated with time information, and information on a state of a production apparatus associated with the time information. And the processing portion is configured to display an accumulated time on a display portion by using the obtained information, the accumulated time being obtained in a predetermined combination of the location of the worker and the state of the production apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroki Kanai
  • Patent number: 11703425
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to be connected to a sensor used to measure a state of a machine apparatus includes a processing portion. The information processing apparatus includes a processing portion configured to measure the state of the machine apparatus by using the sensor and executing a measurement task corresponding to an event condition that has been satisfied. The event condition is one of a plurality of event conditions associated with a plurality of measurement tasks. The processing portion is configured to execute a priority process in which when two or more event conditions of the plurality of event conditions have been satisfied, two or more measurement tasks corresponding to the two or more event conditions are executed in order of priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroki Kanai
  • Publication number: 20220276647
    Abstract: A gateway apparatus is configured to communicate with at least one node apparatus configured to execute at least one measurement task. The gateway apparatus includes a storage portion storing first information for identifying the at least one node apparatus and the at least one measurement task. The gateway apparatus is configured to receive, from a node apparatus, measurement data, identification information of the node apparatus, and identification information of a measurement task in which the measurement data has been obtained, and in a case where the first information matching both the identification information is not stored in the storage portion, request the node apparatus to transmit second information about processing content of the measurement task in which the measurement data has been obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroki Kanai
  • Publication number: 20220136931
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to be connected to a sensor used to measure a state of a machine apparatus includes a processing portion. The information processing apparatus includes a processing portion configured to measure the state of the machine apparatus by using the sensor and executing a measurement task corresponding to an event condition that has been satisfied. The event condition is one of a plurality of event conditions associated with a plurality of measurement tasks. The processing portion is configured to execute a priority process in which when two or more event conditions of the plurality of event conditions have been satisfied, two or more measurement tasks corresponding to the two or more event conditions are executed in order of priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroki Kanai
  • Publication number: 20220102291
    Abstract: A power module comprises a first switching element and a second switching element mounted on a multilayer substrate; and a bypass capacitor formed on the multilayer substrate, wherein the multilayer substrate includes, a first wiring line pattern connecting a first terminal and the bypass capacitor, a second wiring line pattern connecting a second terminal and a third terminal, and a third wiring line pattern connecting a fourth terminal and the bypass capacitor, and the power module further includes, a first electrically conductive member connecting a non-mounting surface of the first switching element and a first connection portion provided on the second wiring line pattern, and a second electrically conductive member connecting a non-mounting surface of the second switching element and a second connection portion provided on the third wiring line pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki KANAI, Naomichi FUJII
  • Publication number: 20220016789
    Abstract: A tool stocker for holding a tool is equipped with a stocker-inclining member that inclines the tool stocker and also equipped with a mechanism that adjusts an attaching/detaching position at which an interchangeable tool is attached to and detached from a robot arm. The attaching/detaching position can be adjusted by using the tool stocker so as to fit moving paths of the robot arm appropriately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Hidetada Asano, Naonori Kayama, Yoshiyuki Miyazaki, Toshifumi Takahashi, Hiroki Kanai, Naoto Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20210013879
    Abstract: A power module includes a power circuit which includes one or more power semiconductors; and a control circuit which supplies a gate signal to each of the one or more power semiconductors. The control circuit includes one or more gate drivers which generate the gate signal in accordance with a control signal and in which a side to which the control signal is input and a side on which the gate signal is generated are insulated, a control input circuit to which the control signal is input and which supplies the control signal to the one or more gate drivers, and a control output circuit which supplies the gate signal to each of the power semiconductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: HIROKI KANAI, TOMOTOSHI SATOH, KOICHIRO FUJITA, KENICHI TANAKA, HIROYUKI KOMEDA, NAOMICHI FUJII
  • Patent number: 10892748
    Abstract: A power module includes a power circuit which includes one or more power semiconductors; and a control circuit which supplies a gate signal to each of the one or more power semiconductors. The control circuit includes one or more gate drivers which generate the gate signal in accordance with a control signal and in which a side to which the control signal is input and a side on which the gate signal is generated are insulated, a control input circuit to which the control signal is input and which supplies the control signal to the one or more gate drivers, and a control output circuit which supplies the gate signal to each of the power semiconductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Kanai, Tomotoshi Satoh, Koichiro Fujita, Kenichi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Komeda, Naomichi Fujii
  • Patent number: 10811350
    Abstract: A primary-side electrode and a secondary-side electrode of a power device are disposed so as to straddle plural separate primary and secondary wires in a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer includes plural separate primary and secondary wires, an insulating part is disposed in a first insulating layer in a region between the primary and secondary wires and directly below the power device, an intralayer insulating part is disposed in the second conductive layer in a region between the primary and secondary wires and directly below the power device, and a via that connects the primary wire in the first conductive layer and the primary wire in the second conductive layer and connects the secondary wire in the first conductive layer and the secondary wire in the second conductive layer is disposed in the first insulating layer directly below the primary-side and secondary-side electrodes of the power device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Kanai, Tomotoshi Satoh, Kenichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20190371722
    Abstract: A primary-side electrode and a secondary-side electrode of a power device are disposed so as to straddle plural separate primary and secondary wires in a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer includes plural separate primary and secondary wires, an insulating part is disposed in a first insulating layer in a region between the primary and secondary wires and directly below the power device, an intralayer insulating part is disposed in the second conductive layer in a region between the primary and secondary wires and directly below the power device, and a via that connects the primary wire in the first conductive layer and the primary wire in the second conductive layer and connects the secondary wire in the first conductive layer and the secondary wire in the second conductive layer is disposed in the first insulating layer directly below the primary-side and secondary-side electrodes of the power device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: HIROKI KANAI, TOMOTOSHI SATOH, KENICHI TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20190111575
    Abstract: A tool stocker for holding a tool is equipped with a stocker-inclining member that inclines the tool stocker and also equipped with a mechanism that adjusts an attaching/detaching position at which an interchangeable tool is attached to and detached from a robot arm. The attaching/detaching position can be adjusted by using the tool stocker so as to fit moving paths of the robot arm appropriately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Hidetada Asano, Naonori Kayama, Yoshiyuki Miyazaki, Toshifumi Takahashi, Hiroki Kanai, Naoto Fukuda
  • Patent number: 9201601
    Abstract: A storage system which is connected to a host computer, includes a storage device; a first controller which controls data transfers between the storage device and the host computer; a second controller connected to the first controller and controls data transfers between the storage device and the host computer; a non-volatile memory; and a battery device. The first controller includes a first volatile memory and the second controller comprising a second volatile memory. Upon a power outage, the battery device starts supplying electric power to the first controller and the second controller, and wherein the second controller copies data which is stored in the first volatile memory to the second volatile memory and, after copying is complete, stops operation of the first controller, stops the power supply from the battery device to the first controller, and copies data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Matsubara, Hiroki Kanai, Toru Maeda
  • Publication number: 20150293714
    Abstract: A storage system which is connected to a host computer, includes a storage device; a first controller which controls data transfers between the storage device and the host computer; a second controller connected to the first controller and controls data transfers between the storage device and the host computer; a non-volatile memory; and a battery device. The first controller includes a first volatile memory and the second controller comprising a second volatile memory. Upon a power outage, the battery device starts supplying electric power to the first controller and the second controller, and wherein the second controller copies data which is stored in the first volatile memory to the second volatile memory and, after copying is complete, stops operation of the first controller, stops the power supply from the battery device to the first controller, and copies data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Ryosuke Matsubara, Hiroki Kanai, Toru Maeda
  • Patent number: 8904201
    Abstract: At the time of a fan failure of a plurality of fans for cooling redundant controllers, data loss can be avoided even if a power source of each controller is controlled. A storage system includes: a first controller for controlling a first power source; a plurality of first fans for cooling the first controller; a second controller for controlling a second power source; a plurality of second fans for cooling the second controller; and a storage device including a plurality of storage units; wherein if a fan failure of the first fans occurs, the first controller controls the first power source in a standby state on condition that the second controller is in a normal state; and if the second power source is in the standby state, the first controller executes destaging processing and then controls the first power source in the standby state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Matsubara, Hiroki Kanai, Shohei Shimahara
  • Publication number: 20130080796
    Abstract: At the time of a fan failure of a plurality of fans for cooling redundant controllers, data loss can be avoided even if a power source of each controller is controlled. A storage system includes: a first controller for controlling a first power source; a plurality of first fans for cooling the first controller; a second controller for controlling a second power source; a plurality of second fans for cooling the second controller; and a storage device including a plurality of storage units; wherein if a fan failure of the first fans occurs, the first controller controls the first power source in a standby state on condition that the second controller is in a normal state; and if the second power source is in the standby state, the first controller executes destaging processing and then controls the first power source in the standby state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventors: Ryosuke Matsubara, Hiroki Kanai, Shohei Shimahara
  • Publication number: 20110282963
    Abstract: Disclosed is a storage device 10 in which CPUs 132 are redundantly configured, and which is thus capable of performing dual-writing of data into cache memories 134 respectively coupled to the CPUs 132. In the storage device 10, general-purpose processors each including an NTB_Port 72, PCI_Ports 73 and a Memory_I/F 74 are used as CPUs 132 of the CPUs 132. In the storage device 10, when a first PCIe_Port 73 determines not to perform the dual-writing, a first NTB_Port 1322 writes data into only one of the cache memories 134, and when the first PCIe_Port 73 determines to perform the dual-writing, the first NTB_Port 1322 writes data into one of the cache memories 134 while writing the data into the other one of the cache memories 134 via the other one of the CPUs 132.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Shohei Shimahara, Hiroki Kanai, Ryosuke Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20110167189
    Abstract: By writing a command for transferring data from a first cluster to a second cluster and the second cluster writing data that was requested from the first cluster based on the command into the first cluster, data can be transferred in real time from the second cluster to the first cluster without having to issue a read request from the first cluster to the second cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: Ryosuke Matsubara, Hiroki Kanai, Shogei Shimahara
  • Patent number: 7761699
    Abstract: When there is an access passing between unit disk controllers, the band of a mutual connecting network must be very large in order to exhibit the performance sufficiently, so that the cost is increased. In the present invention, the access number of a logical volume is monitored, the change of an access path is suggested to an upper class device, and the logical volume is moved or copied to each unit disk controller, so that the mutual connecting network is used mainly for copy of the logical volume, thereby reducing the necessary band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd
    Inventors: Akira Fujibayashi, Kazuhisa Fujimoto, Hiroki Kanai
  • Patent number: 7725805
    Abstract: Reliability of data that is stored in a disk drive by a storage system is enhanced. An information apparatus has a processor, a memory, an interface control unit, and a system control unit, which controls communications between the processor, the memory, and the interface control unit. The system control unit judges whether to attach, to data that is transferred between the memory and the system control unit, an error detecting code for protecting the data based on an address in the memory at which the data to be transferred is read or written.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Hashimoto, Hiroki Kanai