Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Fujita

Hiroshi Fujita 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).

  • Base station apparatus, mobile communication system and priority setting method
    Patent number: 8547930
    Abstract: A problem is to provide a base station apparatus, a mobile communication system and a priority setting method for easing abrupt decrease of the transmission speed when performing handover between wireless systems in which transmission speeds are different, and the problem is solved by providing priority higher than normal to a terminal that comes from a second wireless system, by handover, in which transmission speed is greater than a first wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujita, Yoshiharu Tajima
  • Communicating device and method of controlling communicating device
    Patent number: 8547852
    Abstract: A communicating device capable of transmitting packets to a destination device via any of a plurality of adjacent devices, has a first measuring unit for measuring a first quality of a link between the communicating device and the destination device for a first period of time, a second measuring unit for measuring a second quality of a link from the communicating device to the destination device for a second period of time shorter than the first period of time, a first selector for selecting an adjacent device from the plurality of adjacent devices based on the measured first quality when transmitting a new packet to the destination device, and a second selector for selecting an adjacent device from the plurality of adjacent devices based on the measured second quality upon failure of transmitting the new packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Hiroshi Fujita
  • FRONT PILLAR FOR AUTOMOBILE
    Publication number: 20130241238
    Abstract: A front pillar for an automobile includes an outer panel, an inner panel, and a hollow member disposed between the outer and inner panels. The outer panel has a roof-joining outer flange section projecting toward a roof skin flange section of a roof beyond the hollow member, and joined by spot welding to the roof skin flange section. A roof-joining extended flange section is joined by welding to at least two surfaces of the hollow member, extended to project toward the roof skin flange section beyond the hollow member and overlap the roof-joining outer flange section, and joined by spot welding to the roof skin flange section together with the roof-joining outer flange section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Fujita
  • Base station and mobile station
    Patent number: 8537764
    Abstract: A base station includes an identifying unit that identifies a group to which a mobile station that is to start communication belongs; a determining unit that determines a second pilot signal, which is allocated to the group identified by the identifying unit, to be a pilot signal for communication with the mobile station; and a transmitting unit that transmits information for identifying the second pilot signal to the mobile station by using a first pilot signal determined beforehand for each group as a pilot signal for notifying the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujita, Taiji Kondo
  • FRONT PILLAR FOR AUTOMOBILE
    Publication number: 20130234470
    Abstract: A front pillar for an automobile includes an outer panel, an inner panel, and a hollow member disposed between the outer and inner panels. Outer flanges of the outer and inner panels are overlapped with each other to form a closed void section and a seal attachment section. The seal attachment section includes a rear section reinforcing member and a front section reinforcing member sandwiched between the outer flanges of the outer and inner panels in a rear end section and a front end section, respectively, of the front pillar, and a gap channel formed to communicate with the closed void section by partially separating the outer flanges of the outer and inner panels at a central section of the front pillar. The reinforcing members are joined to an outer wall section of the hollow member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Fujita
  • FRONT PILLAR FOR AUTOMOBILE
    Publication number: 20130234471
    Abstract: A front pillar for an automobile includes an outer panel, an inner panel, a hollow member sandwiched between the outer and inner panels, and a reinforcing member. The outer panel has a glass attachment flange section extending along an edge of the windshield. The hollow member has a first concave section provided on an upper wall section at a terminal end of the hollow member. The first concave section is downwardly separated from the glass attachment flange section of the outer panel. The reinforcing member has a second concave section welded to the first concave section and downwardly separated from the glass attachment flange section of the outer panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Fujita
  • FRONT PILLAR FOR AUTOMOBILE
    Publication number: 20130234469
    Abstract: A front pillar for an automobile includes a hollow member, an outer panel, and an inner panel. The inner panel has a restricting concave section receiving therein a part of the hollow member to restrict relative displacement of the hollow member in a vehicle width direction relative to the inner panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Fujita
  • Mobile communication system using adaptive multi-antenna
    Patent number: 8532646
    Abstract: A mobile communication system using an adaptive multiantenna realizes improvement of reception characteristics, effective use of the band, and optimization of the throughput in comparison with a system in which application of the same multiantenna communication method is continued irrespective of a variation of the number of radio relay stations. The mobile communication system comprises a radio base station, a radio relay station, and mobile terminal stations for communicating with the radio base station through a radio relay station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masahiro Watanabe, Makoto Yoshida, Hiroshi Fujita
  • BICYCLE HUB AXLE ADAPTER
    Publication number: 20130229048
    Abstract: A bicycle hub axle adapter basically includes a hub axle adapter main body and at least one retaining member. The hub axle adapter main body is configured to be inserted into a bicycle hub having a hollow hub axle. The at least one retaining member is disposed on an external surface of the hub axle adapter main body for contacting an internal surface of the hollow hub axle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi FUJITA
  • WIRELESS STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20130229907
    Abstract: A second wireless station includes a communicating unit that transmits a packet to a first wireless station and retransmits the packet when a response signal for the packet is not received by a predetermined response time limit; an acquiring unit that acquires from the first wireless station, transmission prohibition period information indicating a transmission prohibition period during which transmission of a signal by the first wireless station is prohibited; and a postponing unit that postpones the response time limit in the transmission prohibition period indicated by the acquired transmission prohibition period information to be after the transmission prohibition period ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventors: Yun WEN, Hiroshi FUJITA
  • Processing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 8517035
    Abstract: A processing apparatus includes: a processing chamber configured to contain a workpiece; a first nozzle provided in the processing chamber, the first nozzle discharging vapor onto the workpiece; a wall enclosing the processing chamber; a fluid channel provided inside the wall; a fluid inlet; and a fluid outlet. The fluid inlet is provided in communication with the fluid channel. The fluid outlet is provided in communication with the fluid channel, where a fluid flows into the fluid inlet, passes through the fluid channel, and flows out of the fluid outlet. A processing method for processing a workpiece moving in a processing chamber, the processing method includes: discharging a vapor from a first nozzle toward the workpiece while flowing a fluid through a fluid channel which is provided inside a wall, the wall enclosing the processing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takahiko Wakatsuki, Naoya Hayamizu, Hiroshi Fujita, Akiko Saito, Toshihide Hayashi, Yukinobu Nishibe
  • Radio resource allocation method and telecommunication apparatus
    Patent number: 8514788
    Abstract: A radio resource allocation method for use in a radio telecommunication system for a first radio telecommunication apparatus and a second telecommunication apparatus carrying out a radio telecommunication by using an allocated radio resource, comprising selecting a resource allocation pattern identifying a combination of radio resources allocatable within a resource management space from among a pre-prepared plurality of resource allocation patterns, and notifying the second radio telecommunication apparatus of pattern identifier information identifying the selected resource allocation pattern and of startup position information thereof within the resource management space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujita, Yoshiharu Tajima
  • FORCE DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS FOR A BICYCLE WHEEL SPOKE
    Publication number: 20130207448
    Abstract: A force-distributing apparatus for a bicycle wheel spoke includes a force-distributing body having a free-end first surface and a second surface disposed at an opposite side of the first surface. The first surface substantially has the shape of a truncated sphere, and the force-distributing body has a spoke-receiving opening that extends through the first surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: SHIMANO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Koshiyama, Hiroshi Fujita
  • CONNECTOR AND FUEL CELL
    Publication number: 20130209911
    Abstract: A connector is connected with a connector joint structure formed in separators in a fuel cell. The connector has: a connector casing; a terminal element that is provided in the connector casing and is configured to be in contact with an edge side of the separator and to be elastically deformed in an insertion direction of the connector that is orthogonal to a stacking direction of the separators, when the connector is connected with the connector joint structure; and an engagement element that is formed in the connector casing and is configured to engage with the connector joint structure and restrict motion of the connector in the insertion direction when the connector is connected with the connector joint structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuki Otake, Hiroshi Fujita
  • Front pillar for automobile
    Patent number: 8444211
    Abstract: A front pillar (18) for an automobile includes a hollow member (25), an outer panel (28), and an inner panel (29). The hollow member has a curved shape, the entirety of which projects to the outside of a vehicle body. The outer panel is provided to the wall section of the hollow member which is on the vehicle exterior side. The inner panel is formed so as to lie along the wall section of the hollow member on the vehicle interior (34) side, and is provided to the wall section (27) on the vehicle exterior side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Fujita
  • BICYCLE WHEEL RIM STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20130099556
    Abstract: A bicycle wheel rim structure is provided with a rim, a cap and a tape. The rim includes a first annular side portion, a second annular side portion and an annular bridge portion extending between the first and second annular side portions. The bridge portion has at least one opening. The cap includes a base plate and a projection. The base plate overlies an outer rim surface of the annular bridge portion. The projection extends from the base plate into the at least one opening. The tape is attached to the outer rim surface of the annular bridge portion and overlying the base plate of the cap. The tape is dimensioned to cover an interface between a peripheral edge of the base plate of the cap and the outer rim surface of the annular bridge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki KOSHIYAMA, Hiroshi FUJITA, Takashi YAEGASHI
  • WIRELESS STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20130100937
    Abstract: A wireless station includes a receiver configured to receive a packet, a processor configured to set a retransmission start time of a packet transmitted to another wireless station based on the received packet, and a transmitter configured to control transmission of a packet that is the same as the transmitted packet in accordance with whether a response signal responsive to the transmitted packet is received before the set retransmission start time is reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroshi Fujita
  • WIRELESS TERMINAL, GATEWAY SELECTION METHOD, AND WIRELESS NETWORK SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130077567
    Abstract: A wireless terminal includes a detection section that detects, from a packet received from a plurality of gateways, a control packet broadcast from the plurality of gateways, a candidate specifying section that specifies a plurality of gateways as candidates for connection from a sender gateway that sent the detected control packet, and a selection section that selects one of the specified gateways as a gateway for establishment of connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujita, Yun Wen, Makoto Yoshida
  • Connection destination base station determination device
    Patent number: 8396500
    Abstract: A connection destination base station determination device is disclosed that includes: a storage part configured to store information indicating a radio base station that has transmitted a signal received with intensity at or above a certain level in a mobile terminal, and information indicating the amount of available resources in the radio base station; a selection part configured to select, of radio base stations having the amount of available resources greater than or equal to the amount of resources requested by the mobile terminal, a radio base station different from a radio base station having the largest amount of available resources as a connection destination radio base station; and a notification part configured to notify the selected radio base station that the mobile terminal is to be connected thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limted
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujita, Yoshiharu Tajima, Atsuya Tanaka
  • PNEUMATIC TIRE
    Publication number: 20130025762
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions, a pair of bead cores disposed one in each of the bead portions, and a carcass ply extending between the bead portions through the tread portion and sidewall portions, wherein the carcass ply is composed of windings of at least one carcass cord looped around the two bead cores in a helical manner and/or figure-of-eight manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventor: Hiroshi Fujita