Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Hayakawa

Hiroshi Hayakawa 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: 20250033087
    Abstract: An article transport facility includes an article transport vehicle and a control system that controls the article transport vehicle. The article transport facility includes a plurality of receiving conveyors each to be a destination of an article. The plurality of receiving conveyors can hold less than or equal to a maximum holdable-article number of articles. The control system calculates, for each of the plurality of receiving conveyors, a receivable-article number by subtracting a held-article number and a reserved-article number from the maximum holdable-article number, and selects a receiving conveyor to be the destination of the article based on the receivable-article number of each of the plurality of receiving conveyors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Kengo Ikedo, Hiroshi Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20250019192
    Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet support portion supporting a sheet or sheets, a sheet feeding unit for performing a sheet feeding operation, an air sheet-separation unit for performing an air blowing operation, and a control unit for performing sheet feeding control to perform the sheet feeding operation by using the sheet feeding unit, in a state where the air blowing operation is in a stopped state, after the air blowing operation is performed by the air sheet-separation unit and the air blowing operation is stopped. In the sheet feeding control, after performing the air blowing operation, the control unit performs the air blowing operation again when performing the sheet feeding operation by using the sheet feeding unit on sheets of a set number of sheets set in advance based on an attribute of the sheet supported on the sheet support portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: MASAKI KAWAGUCHI, YOHEI KATTO, TAKUYA HAYAKAWA, HIROSHI SAGAWA, YUTAKA ANDO
  • Publication number: 20250019191
    Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus configured to feed a sheet includes a sheet support portion, a feeding portion, a sheet support detection portion, a separation portion, and a control portion configured to selectively execute a first mode and a second mode, wherein in a case where a first type is set as a sheet type of the sheets in a state where the first mode is selected, the control portion starts air blowing by the separation portion upon detection that the sheets are supported on the sheet support portion, and wherein in a case where the sheet type setting operation is executed upon detection that the sheets are supported on the sheet support portion and the first type is set as the sheet type in a state where the second mode is selected, the control portion starts air blowing by the separation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: HIROSHI SAGAWA, TAKUYA HAYAKAWA, YOHEI KATTO, YUTAKA ANDO, MASAKI KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250004901
    Abstract: To provide a successor setting system that can set a successor without setting the successor in advance even when an administrator of IT infrastructure management information is absent without taking over. A successor setting system includes: a successor selection rule management table in which a successor selection rule is managed, the successor selection rule being used to select a successor of an administrator of IT infrastructure management information by which a resource and users who operate the resource are managed when the administrator is unable to continue managing the IT infrastructure management information; and an activity history monitoring unit that monitors activity history of the users in the resource, applies an evaluation result obtained by evaluating the activity history for each user to the successor selection rule to select the user who is to be the successor, and sets the selected user as the successor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Kosaku IZUMI, Yuusuke ASAI, Hiroshi HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230305917
    Abstract: There are proposed a highly reliable operation management apparatus and method capable of presenting highly effective countermeasures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Rong ZHANG, Hiroshi HAYAKAWA, Yuusuke TAKADA, Takeshi ARISAKA, Yasuto NISHII
  • Publication number: 20230291649
    Abstract: A management system stores peripheral information apparatus management information for managing a configuration of a peripheral information apparatus on a network of a to-be-managed information apparatus. The peripheral information apparatus management information indicates an identifier of the peripheral information apparatus recognized in the network. The management system receives, from the to-be-managed information apparatus, current peripheral information apparatus configuration information indicating a configuration of the peripheral information apparatus in a current network of the to-be-managed information apparatus. The current peripheral information apparatus configuration information indicates an identifier of the peripheral information apparatus recognized in the current network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Naoki KOBAYASHI, Shinya TAKEUCHI, Hiroshi HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230048604
    Abstract: The present invention provides a reflective polarized-light separating diffraction-element usable in a wide wavelength region including an ultraviolet region, and an optical measurement device comprising the same. The reflective polarized-light separating diffraction-element comprises: a substrate (1); a reflection surface (2) formed on a surface of the substrate (1); and a lattice structured body assembly (3) that is provided on the reflection surface (2) and shows a form birefringence (?n*). The lattice structured body assembly (3) consists of lattice structured bodies (3A, 3B, 3C and 3D) of four patterns having lattice structures of different azimuths. The lattice structured bodies (3A, 3B, 3C and 3D) of a plurality of patterns are aligned on the reflection surface 2 in a predetermined direction such that the azimuths of the lattice structures change in a structurally periodic manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicants: JASCO CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Takashi FUKUDA, Akira EMOTO, Yoshihito NARITA, Hiroshi HAYAKAWA, Yuichi MIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20220365686
    Abstract: Disclosed is an evaluation system for evaluating a resource operation of an information system by a user. The evaluation system includes one or more arithmetic units, and one or more storage devices. The one or more storage devices are configured to store risk management information for managing an erroneous operation risk evaluation index relating to the resource operation of the information system. The one or more arithmetic units are configured to: receive operation information indicating a first resource operation designated by a first user, and evaluate an erroneous operation risk of the first resource operation based on the first resource operation and the risk management information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: So SUZUKI, Hiroshi HAYAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11487440
    Abstract: Disclosed is an evaluation system for evaluating a resource operation of an information system by a user. The evaluation system includes one or more arithmetic units, and one or more storage devices. The one or more storage devices are configured to store risk management information for managing an erroneous operation risk evaluation index relating to the resource operation of the information system. The one or more arithmetic units are configured to: receive operation information indicating a first resource operation designated by a first user, and evaluate an erroneous operation risk of the first resource operation based on the first resource operation and the risk management information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: So Suzuki, Hiroshi Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 11429278
    Abstract: To automate processing of agent software which operates in a storage apparatus. A storage system includes: a storage apparatus including a storage device which stores data and one or two or more pieces of agent software, and a controller for controlling the agent software; and a server that transmits and receives information to and from the storage apparatus via a network, wherein the controller: activates the agent software and monitors a status of the agent software; and causes the agent software to execute processing on condition that the status of the agent software is standby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Furo, Shinya Takeuchi, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Akira Shirasu
  • Publication number: 20210334005
    Abstract: To automate processing of agent software which operates in a storage apparatus. A storage system includes: a storage apparatus including a storage device which stores data and one or two or more pieces of agent software, and a controller for controlling the agent software; and a server that transmits and receives information to and from the storage apparatus via a network, wherein the controller: activates the agent software and monitors a status of the agent software; and causes the agent software to execute processing on condition that the status of the agent software is standby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Takayuki FURO, Shinya TAKEUCHI, Hiroshi HAYAKAWA, Akira SHIRASU
  • Patent number: 11048412
    Abstract: To automate processing of agent software which operates in a storage apparatus. A storage system includes: a storage apparatus including a storage device which stores data and one or two or more pieces of agent software, and a controller for controlling the agent software; and a server that transmits and receives information to and from the storage apparatus via a network, wherein the controller: activates the agent software and monitors a status of the agent software; and causes the agent software to execute processing on condition that the status of the agent software is standby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Furo, Shinya Takeuchi, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Akira Shirasu
  • Publication number: 20210158248
    Abstract: A computer system includes a business system operating services each providing a function corresponding to a request. the computer system comprises: a controller generating a schedule for changing an allocation amount of a resource of the business system for a service; and an allocation change unit changing the allocation amount of the resource for the service based on the schedule. The controller calculates in a case of detecting reception of a request for starting processing, a reception count of the detected request; identifies related services; calculate a predicted value of an index indicating a load of each of the related services based on the reception count of the request; determines whether it is necessary to change the allocation amount of the resource for the each of the related services; and generates the schedule of a determined related service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Ryo UENISHI, Takaki KURODA, Hiroshi HAYAKAWA, Masashi YAKU, Hironobu SAKATA
  • Patent number: 10505189
    Abstract: A composite oxide which includes lithium, at least one of calcium and magnesium, and nickel and manganese, and has a lithium-excess layered rock-salt structure, and a cathode active material and a lithium secondary battery which contain the composite oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Junji Akimoto, Hiroshi Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 10370633
    Abstract: A continuous sterilizing apparatus circulates, through members constituting a flow channel, a sterilizing medium that sterilizes the members to sterilize the members, circulates a sterilizing liquid subjected to sterilization treatment through pipes, performs a series of pieces of treatment including heating treatment, holding treatment, and cooling treatment on the sterilizing liquid, controls a flow rate, a temperature, and a pressure to be preset conditions, and switches a liquid to be circulated through the flow channel from the sterilizing liquid to a liquid to be sterilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Mimitsuka, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Ken Morita, Yuki Yamamoto, Kenichi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 10295626
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes receiving coils each including an A/D converter configured to convert an MR signal received from an object into a digital signal by sampling the MR signal, a clock generation circuit configured to generate a reference clock of the sampling, and a radio transmission circuit configured to wirelessly transmit a digitized MR signal; and a main body configured to wirelessly receive the digitized MR signal and generate an image of the object by reconstructing the digitized MR signal, wherein one of the receiving coils selected as a reference receiving coil by the main body is configured to transmit the reference clock to each of other receiving coils by radio or by wire; and each of the other receiving coils is configured to synchronize the reference clock generated by the clock generation circuit with the reference clock transmitted from the reference receiving coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hayakawa, Tomoyuki Yoshida, Sadanori Tomiha, Kazuyuki Soejima
  • Patent number: 10078452
    Abstract: Provided is a performance information management system which includes a target apparatus having a plurality of components as monitoring targets and a management computer for managing the target apparatus and which manages performance information of the target apparatus with the management computer, wherein the target apparatus is capable of acquiring performance information for each monitoring target, and the management computer is configured to: allocate an initial storage area of which capacity differs for each monitoring target to each of the monitoring targets; detect depletion of a storage area allocated to a monitoring target when attempting to store the performance information of the monitoring target to the storage area; additionally allocate a consecutive storage area with a prescribed capacity to the monitoring target with the depleted storage area; and store the performance information of the monitoring target in the additionally-allocated storage area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hayakawa, Takaki Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20180138507
    Abstract: A composite oxide which includes lithium, at least one of calcium and magnesium, and nickel and manganese, and has a lithium-excess layered rock-salt structure, and a cathode active material and a lithium secondary battery which contain the composite oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Junji AKIMOTO, Hiroshi HAYAKAWA
  • Patent number: 9817091
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes a first RF coil device, a radio communication unit and an image reconstruction unit. The first RF coil device is wirelessly connected to a second RF coil device, and receives a nuclear magnetic resonance signal wirelessly transmitted from the second RF coil device. The first RF coil device wirelessly transmits the nuclear magnetic resonance signal detect by the first RF coil device and the nuclear magnetic resonance signal obtained from the second RF coil device to the radio communication unit, via an induced electric field. The radio communication unit receives the nuclear magnetic resonance signals wirelessly transmitted from the first RF coil device via an induced electric field. The image reconstruction unit reconstructs image data on the basis of the nuclear magnetic resonance signals received by the radio communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Ishii, Sadanori Tomiha, Hiroshi Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20170139608
    Abstract: Provided is a performance information management system which includes a target apparatus having a plurality of components as monitoring targets and a management computer for managing the target apparatus and which manages performance information of the target apparatus with the management computer, wherein the target apparatus is capable of acquiring performance information for each monitoring target, and the management computer is configured to: allocate an initial storage area of which capacity differs for each monitoring target to each of the monitoring targets; detect depletion of a storage area allocated to a monitoring target when attempting to store the performance information of the monitoring target to the storage area; additionally allocate a consecutive storage area with a prescribed capacity to the monitoring target with the depleted storage area; and store the performance information of the monitoring target in the additionally-allocated storage area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi HAYAKAWA, Takaki KURODA