Patents by Inventor Hiroki Morimura
Hiroki Morimura 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: 11927024Abstract: A binding machine includes: a wire feeding unit configured to feed a wire; a curl forming unit configured to form a feeding path of the wire along which the wire fed in a first direction by the wire feeding unit is wound around an object; and a binding unit configured to twist the wire fed in first direction by the wire feeding unit and wound on the object. The wire feeding unit includes a pair of feeding members configured to sandwich the wire and to feed the wire by a rotating operation, and a feeding motor configured to drive the feeding members. The binding machine further includes a control unit configured to control the wire feeding unit. The control unit is configured to control the wire feeding unit to enable the wire sandwiched by the feeding members to be discharged from the feeding members.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouichirou Morimura, Yusuke Yoshida, Takahiro Ito, Hiroki Ishiguro
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Patent number: 11070417Abstract: In a sensor relay apparatus (10), a storage unit (11) stores a communication protocol correspondence list (22B) in which a sensor terminal (ST) and a communication protocol are registered in association with each other, and a communication format (22C) to be used in the communication protocol, a relay processing unit (12) communicates with the sensor terminal (ST) specified in the communication protocol correspondence list (22B) based on the communication protocol associated with the sensor terminal (ST), receives sensor data detected by the sensor terminal (ST), converts the format of the sensor data based on the communication format (22C) in association with the communication protocol, and relays and transfers the sensor data to a processing apparatus (20), and a relay managing unit (16) updates the communication protocol correspondence list (22B) or the communication format (22C) in the storage unit (11), based on a communication protocol correspondence list or a communication format newly notified from thType: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shoichi Oshima, Kenichi Matsunaga, Toshihiko Kondo, Hiroki Morimura
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Patent number: 10916122Abstract: In a sensor relay apparatus (10), a communication control unit (13) receives sensor data from a sensor terminal (ST) via a terminal module (11) when a transmission data amount related to the sensor data to be transmitted from the sensor terminal (ST) is equal to or greater than a determination threshold. This can reduce the overhead time taken at the time of the transmission of the sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2017Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shoichi Oshima, Kenichi Matsunaga, Toshihiko Kondo, Hiroki Morimura
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Patent number: 10862602Abstract: In a sensor data acquisition terminal (10), an NTP back-end processing unit (12) synchronizes a terminal timing with a parent terminal timing by exchanging NTP packets for time synchronization with a parent terminal (20) based on NTP, and a protocol conversion unit (13) converts an NTP packet, which is output from the NTP back-end processing unit (12) and will be transmitted to the parent terminal (20), to a TPSN packet based on TPSN, outputs the TPSN packet to a wireless processing unit (14), converts a TPSN packet from the parent terminal (20), which is output from the wireless processing unit (14), to an NTP packet, and outputs the NTP packet to the NTP back-end processing unit (12).Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Matsunaga, Shoichi Oshima, Toshihiko Kondo, Ahmed Musa, Hiroki Morimura
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Patent number: 10777909Abstract: Provided is a loop antenna array that can easily create a magnetic field distribution which enables the boundary of a communication area to be clearly set. 2n loop antennae are provided adjacently to one another, where n is a natural number. The directions of currents in adjacent ones of the loop antennae are opposite to each other. For example, in a loop antenna array, two loop antennae are disposed adjacently to each other on an insulator substrate. First feed points energize one loop antenna and second feed points energize the other loop antenna.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Nippon Telegrah and Telephone CorporationInventors: Ai-ichiro Sasaki, Fumiharu Morisawa, Hiroki Morimura, Tsutomu Mizota, Osamu Kagami
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Patent number: 10680333Abstract: Provided is a loop antenna which can contribute to an increase of an area of a radio system using a magnetic field. The loop antenna includes a main loop 1 which is an open loop connected to a signal source 5 or a reception circuit; and an amplification loop 2 which is a closed loop having the same shape as the main loop 1. The main loop 1 and the amplification loop 2 are arranged on a same surface of a flat substrate formed of an insulator. A first capacitance is connected to the main loop 1, and a second capacitance is connected to the amplification loop.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Ai-ichiro Sasaki, Tsutomu Mizota, Hiroki Morimura, Osamu Kagami
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Publication number: 20200113490Abstract: A measurement unit is attached to a measurement target person and measures an acceleration. A body motion calculation unit obtains the magnitude of a body motion of the measurement target person based on the acceleration measured by the measurement unit. An activity state determination unit time-serially obtains an activity state representing whether the measurement target person is in a first state or a second state, based on a posture decided by a posture decision unit and the magnitude of the body motion calculated by the body motion calculation unit. If the activity state after continues for a predetermined time defined in advance, an activity state correction unit determines that the transition of the activity state obtained by the activity state determination unit has been done. A time correction unit returns the transition time of the activity state determined by the activity state correction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Takayuki OGASAWARA, Shingo TSUKADA, Shoichi OSHIMA, Hiroki MORIMURA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Rieko SATO
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Patent number: 10454172Abstract: A main loop is an open loop that is wound on a bar-shaped rod formed of a magnetic body or an insulation body and that has terminals T and T that couple a signal source or a receiving circuit to the main loop. The number of turns is 1 or more. An amplifying loop is wound on a part of the rod that is different from the part on which the main loop is wound. The main loop and the amplifying loop are thus spaced from each other. The amplifying loop is a closed loop including no terminals. The number of turns is 1 or more. The number of turns may be the same as or different from the number of turns of the main loop.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Ai-ichiro Sasaki, Tsutomu Mizota, Hiroki Morimura, Osamu Kagami
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Publication number: 20190188999Abstract: In a sensor relay apparatus (10), a communication control unit (13) receives sensor data from a sensor terminal (ST) via a terminal module (11) when a transmission data amount related to the sensor data to be transmitted from the sensor terminal (ST) is equal to or greater than a determination threshold. This can reduce the overhead time taken at the time of the transmission of the sensor data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Shoichi OSHIMA, Kenichi MATSUNAGA, Toshihiko KONDO, Hiroki MORIMURA
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Publication number: 20190132071Abstract: In a sensor data acquisition terminal (10), an NTP back-end processing unit (12) synchronizes a terminal timing with a parent terminal timing by exchanging NTP packets for time synchronization with a parent terminal (20) based on NTP, and a protocol conversion unit (13) converts an NTP packet, which is output from the NTP back-end processing unit (12) and will be transmitted to the parent terminal (20), to a TPSN packet based on TPSN, outputs the TPSN packet to a wireless processing unit (14), converts a TPSN packet from the parent terminal (20), which is output from the wireless processing unit (14), to an NTP packet, and outputs the NTP packet to the NTP back-end processing unit (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi MATSUNAGA, Shoichi OSHIMA, Toshihiko KONDO, Ahmed MUSA, Hiroki MORIMURA
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Publication number: 20190116080Abstract: In a sensor relay apparatus (10), a storage unit (11) stores a communication protocol correspondence list (22B) in which a sensor terminal (ST) and a communication protocol are registered in association with each other, and a communication format (22C) to be used in the communication protocol, a relay processing unit (12) communicates with the sensor terminal (ST) specified in the communication protocol correspondence list (22B) based on the communication protocol associated with the sensor terminal (ST), receives sensor data detected by the sensor terminal (ST), converts the format of the sensor data based on the communication format (22C) in association with the communication protocol, and relays and transfers the sensor data to a processing apparatus (20), and a relay managing unit (16) updates the communication protocol correspondence list (22B) or the communication format (22C) in the storage unit (11), based on a communication protocol correspondence list or a communication format newly notified from thType: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2017Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventors: Soichi OSHIMA, Kenichi MATSUNAGA, Toshihiko KONDO, Hiroki MORIMURA
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Publication number: 20180342806Abstract: A main loop is an open loop that is wound on a bar-shaped rod formed of a magnetic body or an insulation body and that has terminals T and T that couple a signal source or a receiving circuit to the main loop. The number of turns is 1 or more. An amplifying loop is wound on a part of the rod that is different from the part on which the main loop is wound. The main loop and the amplifying loop are thus spaced from each other. The amplifying loop is a closed loop including no terminals. The number of turns is 1 or more. The number of turns may be the same as or different from the number of turns of the main loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Ai-ichiro Sasaki, Tsutomu Mizota, Hiroki Morimura, Osamu Kagami
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Publication number: 20180277953Abstract: Provided is a loop antenna which can contribute to an increase of an area of a radio system using a magnetic field. The loop antenna includes a main loop 1 which is an open loop connected to a signal source 5 or a reception circuit; and an amplification loop 2 which is a closed loop having the same shape as the main loop 1. The main loop 1 and the amplification loop 2 are arranged on a same surface of a flat substrate formed of an insulator. A first capacitance is connected to the main loop 1, and a second capacitance is connected to the amplification loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2016Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Ai-ichiro Sasaki, Tsutomu Mizota, Hiroki Morimura, Osamu Kagami
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Publication number: 20180205157Abstract: Provided is a loop antenna array that can easily create a magnetic field distribution which enables the boundary of a communication area to be clearly set. 2n loop antennae are provided adjacently to one another, where n is a natural number. The directions of currents in adjacent ones of the loop antennae are opposite to each other. For example, in a loop antenna array, two loop antennae are disposed adjacently to each other on an insulator substrate. First feed points energize one loop antenna and second feed points energize the other loop antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2016Publication date: July 19, 2018Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Ai-ichiro Sasaki, Fumiharu Morisawa, Hiroki Morimura, Tsutomu Mizota, Osamu Kagami
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Patent number: 8432470Abstract: A data conversion/output device includes a number of sensors, voltage-time conversion circuits that are arranged adjacent to respective sensors and change output levels upon the lapse of times corresponding to output voltage values from the sensors after a conversion operation start point in order to convert for voltage outputs of the sensors into times. The device also includes sensed data generation circuits outputting, as digital data, lapse times until the output levels of the voltage-time conversion circuits change after a conversion start point. The sensed data generation circuits include a counter for counting a clock signal. An operation start of the voltage-time conversion circuits and a start of count operation of the counter are staggered.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Satoshi Shigematsu, Hiroki Morimura
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Publication number: 20110141081Abstract: A data conversion/output device includes a number of sensors, voltage-time conversion circuits that are arranged adjacent to respective sensors and change output levels upon the lapse of times corresponding to output voltage values from the sensors after a conversion operation start point in order to convert for voltage outputs of the sensors into times. The device also includes sensed data generation circuits outputting, as digital data, lapse times until the output levels of the voltage-time conversion circuits change after a conversion start point. The sensed data generation circuits include a counter for counting a clock signal. An operation start of the voltage-time conversion circuits and a start of count operation of the counter are staggered.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: June 16, 2011Inventors: Satoshi Shigematsu, Hiroki Morimura
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Patent number: 7911520Abstract: A data conversion/output device includes a number of sensors, voltage-time conversion circuits that are arranged adjacent to respective sensors and change output levels upon the lapse of times corresponding to output voltage values from the sensors after a conversion operation start point in order to convert voltage outputs of the sensors into times. The device also includes sensed data generation circuits for outputting, as digital data, lapse times until the output levels of the voltage-time conversion circuits change after a conversion start point. The sensed data generation circuits include a counter for counting a clock signal. An operation start of the voltage-time conversion circuits and a start of count operation of the counter are staggered.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2009Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Satoshi Shigematsu, Hiroki Morimura
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Publication number: 20100073741Abstract: A data conversion/output device includes a number of sensors, voltage-time conversion circuits that are arranged adjacent to respective sensors and change output levels upon the lapse of times corresponding to output voltage values from the sensors after a conversion operation start point in order to convert voltage outputs of the sensors into times. The device also includes sensed data generation circuits for outputting, as digital data, lapse times until the output levels of the voltage-time conversion circuits change after a conversion start point. The sensed data generation circuits include a counter for counting a clock signal. An operation start of the voltage-time conversion circuits and a start of count operation of the counter are staggered.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2009Publication date: March 25, 2010Inventors: Satoshi Shigematsu, Hiroki Morimura
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Patent number: 7673145Abstract: This invention includes an image quality priority level decision processing unit (40) which evaluates the magnitude of an image quality of each of a plurality of first image data formed from biometric images associated with the same target on the basis of a specific index having the relationship of a monotone function with authentication accuracy of biometric authentication, and outputs each of the first image data upon adding a priority level thereto on the basis of the evaluation result, a first image storage (6, 81) unit which stores each of the first image data having a priority level added thereto from the image quality priority level decision processing unit (40), a second image storage unit (8, 61) which stores second image data used for comparison/collation with the first image data, an image collation unit (7) which compares/collates the second image data stored in the second image storage unit (8, 61) with the first image data stored in the first image storage unit (6, 81) and outputs the comparisonType: GrantFiled: March 5, 2004Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Nippon Telephone and Telegraph CorporationInventors: Takahiro Hatano, Satoshi Shigematsu, Hiroki Morimura, Namiko Ikeda, Yukio Okazaki, Katsuyuki Machida, Mamoru Nakanishi
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Patent number: 7606399Abstract: A sensor cell includes a sensor electrode (101) formed on a substrate (100), a signal output unit (16) which outputs a signal corresponding to a capacitance (Cf) formed between the sensor electrode and the surface of a finger (3), a high-sensitivity electrode (103) formed on the substrate so as to be insulated and isolated from the sensor electrode, and a potential controller (14) which controls the potential of the finger surface via a capacitance (Cc) formed between the high-sensitivity electrode and the finger surface by controlling the potential of the high-sensitivity electrode. In this arrangement, when the resistance of the finger is high, the potential of the finger surface can be controlled so as not to fluctuate with the potential change of the sensor electrode.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2005Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Hiroki Morimura, Mamoru Nakanishi, Satoshi Shigematsu, Takahiro Hatano, Yukio Okazaki, Katsuyuki Machida