Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Fujimoto

Hiroshi Fujimoto 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: 20210034678
    Abstract: Provided is a dialogue server capable of simply reducing the amount of dialogue without manually constructing a database for reduction of dialogue in advance. A dialogue server 100 includes a history database 105 which is a history storage unit configured to store history information based on an input performed by one user or another user, a reception unit 101 configured to receive an input sentence from a user terminal 200 of the one user and acquires an input keyword therefrom, a search unit 102 configured to perform a search on the basis of the input keyword and the history information when the input keyword is acquired, and a transmission unit configured to transmit response content (a question sentence candidate) based on a search of the search unit 102 to the user terminal 200.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takanori HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi FUJIMOTO, Yuriko OZAKI
  • Publication number: 20210013457
    Abstract: A vapor deposition apparatus for forming an organic layer on a substrate from organic material includes: a container comprising a conductor and configured to store the organic material; a vacuum chamber configured to store the container; a frame body next to the vacuum chamber defining a space configured to receive cables connected to the vacuum chamber; a coil disposed around the container; a power semiconductor stored in the space and connected to the coil; and a DC power supply placed outside of the space and connected to the power semiconductor; wherein the power semiconductor is an IGBT, an Si power MOSFET, a GaN power FET or an SiC power MOSFET, and wherein the power semiconductor is configured to function as a transistor constituting a part of an inverter unit that converts DC into AC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Shinichiro Kobayashi, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Hiroshi Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20200402509
    Abstract: A function execution instruction system includes a function execution instruction unit configured to instruct execution of one or more functions, a sentence input unit configured to input a sentence, an execution function determination unit configured to determine a function the execution of which is instructed on the basis of an input sentence, a time information extraction unit configured to extract time information indicating a time from the input sentence, and a time specification unit configured to, in accordance with a determined function, specify a time used for the execution of the function on the basis of extracted time information wherein the function execution instruction unit instructs the execution of the determined function, which uses a specified time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJIMOTO, Kousuke KADONO
  • Publication number: 20200372054
    Abstract: A conversation device includes: an inquiry unit configured to output an inquiry including presentation of a key; an acquisition unit configured to acquire an answer; a key accumulating unit configured to accumulate keys included in the inquiry as accumulation keys in a case in which a positive answer for the inquiry is acquired; a candidate question sentence extracting unit configured to extract candidate question sentences including the accumulation keys by referring to a question sentence storing unit configured to store a question sentence and a set of keys included in the question sentence in association with each other; a key selecting unit configured to select an inquiry key that is caused to be included in a next inquiry output by the inquiry unit among a plurality of keys included in the candidate question sentences; and an output unit configured to output one question sentence among the candidate question sentences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuriko OZAKI, Hiroshi FUJIMOTO, Takanori HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200357405
    Abstract: A server is an interactive system that performs the interaction by performing a reverse question with respect to an input by the user and providing response content. An input acquisition unit and an answer generation unit constitute an interaction execution unit that repeatedly performs the interaction until a question sentence and an answer, which are the response content, satisfy a prescribed condition. Further, the stoppage determination execution unit performs control for stopping the interaction performed by the input acquisition unit and the answer generation unit based on the interaction state by the user or the other user. In a case where the interaction is stopped, the output unit provides the question sentence and the answer thereof at the time of stoppage to the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takanori HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi FUJIMOTO, Yuriko OZAKI
  • Publication number: 20200285974
    Abstract: An interaction bot system 1 includes a first bot device 10 and at least two or more second bot devices 20. The first bot device 10 includes a first generation unit 11 configured to generate first narrowing down information for specifying the second bot device 20 corresponding to the question from the user on the basis of the question from the user, and a specification unit 13 configured to specify the second bot device 20 on the basis of the first narrowing down information. The second bot device 20 includes a second generation unit 21 configured to generate second narrowing down information for specifying the answer to the question on the basis of the question from the user, and an answer generation unit 23 configured to generate and output the answer to the question from the user on the basis of the second narrowing down information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200183682
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic calculator includes a processor. The processor is configured to display a screen image on which a first area displaying a source code and a second area displaying a diagram representing at least a part of the source code are arranged and edit the diagram displayed in the second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hirotaka TOYA, Mamoru AOKI, Hiroshi FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200122318
    Abstract: A control system according to an embodiment includes a motor configured to drive a link, a first sensor configured to detect information about the driving by the motor or information about a relation between the driving means and the load member as first sensor information, a second sensor configured to detect information about a displacement of the link as second sensor information, and a control unit configured to perform feedback control of the driving means so as to follow a command value in a two-inertial system model including an inertial system on a load side and an inertial system on a driving side. The control unit includes a disturbance observer configured to estimate a disturbance, and a filter configured to convert an estimated value of the disturbance into a driving force of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicants: The University of Tokyo, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimoto, Akiyuki Hasegawa, Taro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10421351
    Abstract: An in-wheel motor system can drive an in-wheel motor stably, and also allows power feeding from the road surface, even when transmission and reception coils are misaligned. An in-wheel motor system (1) includes a power transmitter (100) that utilizes a resonance phenomenon using a magnetic field. The power transmitter (100) transmits power (P) wirelessly from the vehicle body to an in-wheel motor (10) mounted in a wheel. The in-wheel motor system (1) may also include a communication interface (110) that communicates between the vehicle body and the wheel, and the communication interface (110) may transmit a control signal (CTL) for driving the in-wheel motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, NSK Ltd., TOKYO ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimoto, Takehiro Imura, Gaku Yamamoto, Daisuke Gunji, Motoki Sato
  • Publication number: 20190258946
    Abstract: A question inference device comprises: an input unit inputting an inquiry from a user; a storage unit storing a plurality of questions prepared in advance and one or more keywords for identifying each question in association with each other; a choice unit referring to the storage unit and choosing a question associated with a keyword contained in the inquiry inputted by the input unit from among the plurality of questions; a computation unit computing the likelihood of each of the plurality of questions for the inquiry inputted by the input unit; an inference unit inferring, based on a choice result of the choice unit and a computation result of the computation unit, such a question that the user intends the substance of the question from among the plurality of questions; and an output unit outputting information based on an inference result of the inference unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJIMOTO, Takanori HASHIMOTO, Yuriko OZAKI
  • Patent number: 10164839
    Abstract: A log analysis system includes a first processor unit, a second processor unit, a third processor unit, and a fourth processor unit. The first processor unit normalizes the detection log acquired by an acquirer, allocating the detection log into predefined monitoring target units, and outputs the monitoring target units. The second processor unit appends common information based on a predefined rule to each of the monitoring target units of the detection log output from the first processor unit, arranges the monitoring target units into information granularities based on the content of the detection log and common information, and outputs the monitoring target units as analysis unit information. The third processor unit gathers the analysis unit information output from the second processor unit and setting detection target event candidates based on a predefined rule, and outputs the detection target event candidates and the determination results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: LAC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Tsuchiya, Masamichi Abe, Tetsuya Kageyama, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hiroyuki Washio, Atsushi Umaki, Ippei Shiode, Masahiro Kimura, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Hiroshi Takechi
  • Patent number: 10137555
    Abstract: A machine tool includes a spindle retaining a tool, a spindle motor, a feed device relatively moving a workpiece and a tool with a feed motor, a spindle motor control unit, and a feed motor control unit. In a method of machining a workpiece with the machine tool, the spindle motor control unit continuously varies a rotational speed of the spindle in a periodic or non-periodic manner with a predetermined amplitude with respect to a target rotational speed. The feed motor control unit continuously varies a relative moving speed between the tool and the workpiece in synchronization with the spindle motor such that a ratio of the rotational speed of the spindle to the moving speed does not become constant at least in a predetermined time zone in which a spindle speed reaches a maximal value and a predetermined time zone in which the spindle speed reaches a minimal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, DMG Mori Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimoto, Satoshi Fukagawa, Shinji Ishii, Yuki Terada
  • Patent number: 10104108
    Abstract: A log analysis system for analyze a detection log detected in a monitoring target system includes an acquisition device for detecting detection target processes performed in the monitoring target system, and acquiring a detection log of the detection target processes; and a processor device for processing the detection log acquired by the acquirer. The processor device includes a plurality of processing blocks that perform processing on the detection log sequentially. The processor device performs processing while sending the detection log in order from a most-upstream processing block to downstream processing blocks. A most-downstream processing block of the processor device notifies the most-upstream processing block of the processor device that the detection log has been received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: LAC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimoto, Toshihide Nakama
  • Patent number: 10017834
    Abstract: A stainless steel material having compositions which contain on the basis of percent by mass, C from 0.04 to 0.12%, Ni from 0 (including a case of no addition) to 5.0%, Cr from 12.0 to 17.0%, N from 0.0 to 0.10%, Si from 0.2 to 2.0%, Mn at 2.0% or less, Cu from 0.0 to 2.0%, P at 0.06% or less, S at 0.006% or less, with residue being Fe and unavoidable impurities. Further, a parent phase has any one of a single phase structure of ferrite phase or martensite phase and a diploid phase structure of ferrite phase and martensite phase. An end of the base material is melt-welded as a joint to form a pipe. The parent phase is provided with carbide uniformly separated at grain boundaries and within grains, with a dissolved amount of C being 0.03% by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichi Isozaki, Yasutoshi Hideshima, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Satoshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180111473
    Abstract: An in-wheel motor system can drive an in-wheel motor stably, and also allows power feeding from the road surface, even when transmission and reception coils are misaligned. An in-wheel motor system (1) includes a power transmitter (100) that utilizes a resonance phenomenon using a magnetic field. The power transmitter (100) transmits power (P) wirelessly from the vehicle body to an in-wheel motor (10) mounted in a wheel. The in-wheel motor system (1) may also include a communication interface (110) that communicates between the vehicle body and the wheel, and the communication interface (110) may transmit a control signal (CTL) for driving the in-wheel motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, NSK Ltd., TOYO ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJIMOTO, Takehiro IMURA, Gaku YAMAMOTO, Daisuke GUNJI, Motoki SATO
  • Patent number: 9846428
    Abstract: A controller has a varying speed signal generation unit generating a varying speed command signal varying at predetermined amplitude and period, a current control unit generating a current command signal based on the varying speed command signal, a feedback control unit generating a correction signal based on a deviation between the varying speed command signal and a present rotational speed of the spindle motor and adding the correction signal to the current command signal, and a learning control unit calculating a disturbance component caused by cutting resistance based on the deviation every predetermined rotation angle of the spindle motor and, in synchronism with a rotation angle of the spindle motor corresponding to the varying speed command signal input into the current control unit, generating a compensation signal based on the disturbance component corresponding to the rotation angle and adding the compensation signal to the varying speed command signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignees: The University of Tokyo, DMG MORI SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimoto, Teruaki Ishibashi, Shinji Ishii, Koji Yamamoto, Yuki Terada
  • Patent number: 9803257
    Abstract: A stainless steel material having compositions which contain on the basis of percent by mass, C from 0.04 to 0.12%, Ni from 0 (including a case of no addition) to 5.0%, Cr from 12.0 to 17.0%, N from 0.0 to 0.10%, Si from 0.2 to 2.0%, Mn at 2.0% or less, Cu from 0.0 to 2.0%, P at 0.06% or less, S at 0.006% or less, with residue being Fe and unavoidable impurities. Further, a parent phase has any one of a single phase structure of ferrite phase or martensite phase and a diploid phase structure of ferrite phase and martensite phase. An end of the base material is melt-welded as a joint to form a pipe. The parent phase is provided with carbide uniformly separated at grain boundaries and within grains, with a dissolved amount of C being 0.03% by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichi Isozaki, Yasutoshi Hideshima, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Satoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9748008
    Abstract: A nuclear power plant control system (3) is provided with detection units (30a to 30d) which detect phenomena that occurs in a nuclear power plant for each of four systems, a trip control device (20) which starts, in the case where a signal that indicates an occurrence of the phenomenon is input from at least a predetermined number of signal lines out of signal lines of two systems, processing corresponding to the phenomenon, and majority circuits (50a and 50b) which are provided for each signal line of the two systems and each output, in the case where the phenomenon is detected by N or more detection units out of the detection units (30a to 30d), a signal that indicates an occurrence of the phenomenon to a corresponding signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 9685246
    Abstract: A control system allows controlling a nuclear facility in an evacuation area. The control system includes a control device in ordinary use disposed in a non-evacuation area, an emergency control device—for emergency in the evacuation area, a plant control facility connectable to the control device—and the emergency control device, a signal switching unit that switches from a normal coupling to an emergency coupling based on an emergency switch signal, a first selector switch in the non-evacuation area, a second selector switch-in the evacuation area, an AND circuit configured to output the emergency switch signal to the signal switching unit in the case where the emergency switch signal is input from the first selector switch and the emergency switch signal is input from the second selector switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimoto, Hironobu Shinohara, Yasutake Akizuki, Toshiki Fukui, Yuichi Tanaka, Shinji Kiuchi, Hiroshi Shirasawa
  • Patent number: 9666316
    Abstract: A nuclear power plant control system (1) includes a control button (21) which receives an operation for controlling a control target device (40), a notification lamp (12) which notifies that a control signal corresponding to the operation received by the control button (21) arrives at a predetermined position on a path connected from a control panel (20) to the control target device (40), and a control signal inhibition unit (33) which inhibits a control signal from arriving at the control target device (40) in midstream between the predetermined position on the path and the control target device (40) in response to an operation received by a test permission button (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimoto, Hironobu Shinohara, Yasutake Akizuki, Toshiki Fukui, Yuichi Tanaka, Shinji Kiuchi, Hiroshi Shirasawa