Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Uchida

Hiroshi Uchida 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: 20250117159
    Abstract: Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, method, and one or more processing devices that are configured to: select a seek time model from a plurality of seek time models based at least in part on an operational characteristic of an access command, the operational characteristic relating to an off-track susceptibility of executing the access command; determine an access time for the access command using the selected seek time model; and select a next access command for execution based on the determined access time for the access command and determined access times for other ones of a plurality of access commands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroshi Uchida, Hidehiko Numasato, Akira Yokozuka, Shrey Khanna, Kevin Tzou
  • Patent number: 12271631
    Abstract: Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, method, and one or more processing devices that are configured to: select a seek time model from a plurality of seek time models based at least in part on an operational characteristic of an access command, the operational characteristic relating to an off-track susceptibility of executing the access command; determine an access time for the access command using the selected seek time model; and select a next access command for execution based on the determined access time for the access command and determined access times for other ones of a plurality of access commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Uchida, Hidehiko Numasato, Akira Yokozuka, Shrey Khanna, Kevin Tzou
  • Publication number: 20250112256
    Abstract: A control method for controlling a fuel cell system includes: setting a fuel composition and a fuel flow rate to a combustor as unknown numbers and setting conditions of an air flow rate to the combustor; estimating composition ratios of the components constituting the mixed gas based on simultaneous equations including at least one of a first characteristic equation based on a relationship between an amount of air supplied to and an oxygen concentration in an exhaust gas discharged from the combustor and a second characteristic equation based on a relationship between the amount of air supplied to and a temperature of the exhaust gas discharged from the combustor, and a composition equation representing a sum of the composition ratios of the types of the components of the mixed gas; and adjusting a flow rate of the fuel supplied to the fuel cell based on the estimated composition ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventor: Hiroshi Uchida
  • Patent number: 12223982
    Abstract: A Data Storage Device (DSD) includes a disk to store data, at least one head to read and write data on the disk, and a Voice Coil Motor (VCM) to move the at least one head over the disk. An upper velocity limit is reduced for moving the at least one head to perform a command to read or write data at a target location on the disk as a precautionary measure against damaging the at least one head during an Emergency Power Off (EPO) state. The upper velocity limit is reduced in response to the target location being in an Outer Diameter (OD) region of the disk, a direction needed to move the at least one head being in an Inner Diameter (ID) to OD direction, and a starting position being at least as radially far from an OD region position as a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Uchida, Hidehiko Numasato, Akira Yokozuka, Shrey Khanna, Peyman Niazi
  • Publication number: 20240190785
    Abstract: Provided is a spreading agent that has a high water solubility and can effectively enhance the adhesion force of a fertilizer component or an agricultural chemical to a plant. This spreading agent contains at least one oligosaccharide selected from the group consisting of a chitin oligosaccharide, a cello-oligosaccharide and a xylo-oligosaccharide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Resonac Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro FUJITA, Hiroshi UCHIDA, Makoto SAITO
  • Patent number: 12004924
    Abstract: Earmuffs include a bowl-shaped housing base having a first engagement portion, an annular plate-shaped base plate having a second engagement portion on one side and a third engagement portion on the other side, and is integrated with the housing base by causing the second engagement portion to be engaged with the first engagement portion, and a pad portion that includes a pad fixed on one side and a pad base having a fourth engagement portion on the other side, and is integrated with the base plate by causing the fourth engagement portion to be engaged with the third engagement portion. The base plate has a groove portion adjacent to the third engagement portion and the pad base has a rib that enters the groove portion. The rib enters the groove portion and restricts an inclination of the third engagement portion involved with an engagement with the fourth engagement portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Himuro, Hiroshi Uchida
  • Publication number: 20230309458
    Abstract: Provided is a method for improving the yield of a harvested product of at least one plant selected from the group consisting of plants belonging to the families Solanaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Poaceae and Fabaceae. A method for cultivating at least one plant selected from the group consisting of plants belonging to the families Solanaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Poaceae and Fabaceae comprises applying a plant-vitalizing agent comprising an exogenous elicitor and an endogenous elicitor to a young seedling of the plant at least one time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Makoto SAITO, Hiroshi UCHIDA, Ichiro FUJITA, Naoyuki SUGAWARA, Yoshio FUJIWARA, Manabu KUWAJIMA, Hisashi KIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230263111
    Abstract: Provided is a method for improving the cotton crop yield. This method for cultivating cotton comprises treating seedlings at least once with a plant activator containing an exogenous elicitor and an endogenous elicitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Makoto SAITO, Hiroshi UCHIDA, Ichiro FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20230192589
    Abstract: What is provided is a production method in which a vinyl acetate is reacted with a primary or secondary alcohol represented by Formula (1) and carbon monoxide to produce a first ester compound represented by Formula (2), and the first ester compound is reacted with an alcohol to produce a lactic acid ester represented by Formula (3) and an acetic acid ester represented by Formula (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicants: KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Makoto TOKUNAGA, Haruno MURAYAMA, Eiji YAMAMOTO, Jooyoung SHIM, Haruki MORI, Nao SHIRAKURA, Shinya TSUKAMOTO, Shohei NISHIZAWA, Kazuhiro KITAGAWA, Hiroshi UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230159402
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for efficiently obtaining a fertilizer containing polysaccharide hydrolysates and nutrients such as calcium, phosphoric acid, and nitrogen. The present invention is a method for manufacturing a fertilizer, characterized by comprising: a hydrolysis step for obtaining a mixture including polysaccharide hydrolysates through hydrolysis of polysaccharides using an acid catalyst; and a neutralizing step after the hydrolysis step for adding at least one basic compound selected from the group consisting of potassium salt, phosphate, ammonium salt, and ammonia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Hiroshi UCHIDA, Ichiro FUJITA, Naoyuki SUGAWARA, Makoto SAITO
  • Patent number: 11590725
    Abstract: A method produces a high-pressure gas storage container that includes a liner and a reinforcing layer. The liner houses a high-pressure gas. The reinforcing layer is formed by winding a plurality of strip-shaped reinforcing members around an outer perimeter surface of the liner. The method includes irradiating plasma on at least a portion of the reinforcing fibers, and adjusting an irradiation intensity of the plasma such that an irradiation amount of the plasma with respect to the reinforcing fibers becomes constant in accordance with changes in a transport speed of the reinforcing fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Takemoto, Hiroshi Uchida, Kentaro Kono
  • Publication number: 20220369569
    Abstract: Physiological processes in plants are regulated and reinforced, and crop vitality, yield, quality and post-harvesting storage life are improved. A plant vitalizer containing an amino acid or its salt and an oligosaccharide is applied to plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Ichiro FUJITA, Makoto SAITO, Hiroshi UCHIDA, Hisashi KIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220369568
    Abstract: Physiological processes in plants are regulated and reinforced, and crop vitality, yield, quality and post-harvesting storage life are improved. A plant vitalizer that includes a cellooligosaccharide is applied to the plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Ichiro FUJITA, Makoto SAITO, Hiroshi UCHIDA, Hisashi KIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220354116
    Abstract: Physiological processes in plants are regulated and reinforced, and crop vitality, yield, quality and post-harvesting storage life are improved. A plant vitalizer comprising an exogenous elicitor and an endogenous elicitor is applied to plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Ichiro FUJITA, Makoto SAITO, Hiroshi UCHIDA, Hisashi KIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11358927
    Abstract: A method of producing an N,N-disubstituted amide of the present invention is a method of reacting a nitrile with an alcohol in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the nitrile is a compound represented by R1CN (R1 represents an alkyl group having 10 or less carbon atoms or an aryl group having 10 or less carbon atoms), wherein the alcohol is a compound represented by R2OH (R2 represents an alkyl group having 10 or less carbon atoms), wherein the catalyst is a metal salt represented by MXn (M represents a metal cation having an oxidation number of n, X represents a monovalent anion including a substituted sulfonyl group represented by —S(?O)2—R3 (R3 represents a hydrocarbon group having 10 or less carbon atoms or a group in which some or all of hydrogen atoms in the hydrocarbon group are substituted with fluorine atoms), and n represents an integer of 1 to 4), a substituent bonded to a carbon atom in a carbonyl group of the N,N-disubstituted amide is R1, and two substituents bonded to nitrogen atoms in an amide
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Ueda, Akira Shibuya, Hideo Miyata, Hiroshi Uchida
  • Patent number: 11354291
    Abstract: A storage unit (12) stores a hash table that corresponds to a predetermined field of a packet and has a set of a hash value from a value in the corresponding field and a pointer registered, and an ANY point table that corresponds to the predetermined field and has a pointer registered. A search unit (132) refers to a hash value calculated from a value in a field of a packet to be searched and to a pointer registered in the hash table and the ANY point table, to perform hash search for a rule corresponding to the packet to be searched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Uchida, Hitoshi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11325734
    Abstract: A heat shrinking apparatus 1 includes: a conveyance unit 11 conveying a package 3 obtained by wrapping an object(s) 5 with a heat-shrink film 4; an endless belt 21 disposed below a conveying surface of the conveyance unit, rotating along a conveying direction of the conveyance unit; and a hot air jet unit 19(20) jetting out hot air from an inside to an outside of a belt surface of the endless belt facing the conveying surface, wherein: the endless belt has a hot air passing portion 30 extending in a belt width direction; the hot air jet unit jets out the hot air toward the conveying surface through the hot air passing portion; and the endless belt rotates following a movement of the package so that a seal portion(s) 6a(6b) provided at a front end and/or a rear end of the package is/are heat-shrunk with the hot air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: OMORI MACHINERY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hiroshi Uchida
  • Patent number: 11247271
    Abstract: A method for producing metal nanowire of small diameter and long length. In the method for producing a metal nanowire, a first solution containing an ionic derivative and a polyol as a solvent are kept at 80-200° C., and a second solution containing a metal salt and a polyol as a solvent is supplied into the first solution so that the ratio between the number of moles of metal atoms in the metal salt supplied in one minute and the total number of moles of halogen atoms in the ionic derivative in the first solution (the number of moles of metal atoms in the metal salt supplied in one minute/the total number of moles of halogen atoms in the ionic derivative) is less than 10. It is preferable that the ionic derivative is a quaternary ammonium halide and the metal salt is silver nitrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Masanao Hara, Shigeru Yamaki, Hiroshi Uchida
  • Patent number: 11203659
    Abstract: A method for producing a polyurethane according to the present invention including: a first step wherein an epoxy carboxylate compound (X) is obtained by reacting (a) an epoxy compound that includes a halogen atom content of 10 ppm by mass or less, while having only two epoxy groups and no hydroxyl group in each molecule, (b) an unsaturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acid that has an ethylenic unsaturated group in each molecule, while having no aromatic ring, and (c) an aromatic monocarboxylic acid that has no ethylenic unsaturated group in each molecule; and a second step wherein the epoxy carboxylate compound (X) obtained in the first step is reacted with a diisocyanate compound (Y).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K. K.
    Inventors: Jun Dou, Masahiko Toba, Hiroshi Uchida
  • Patent number: 11135795
    Abstract: Cord ply joiner for a tire includes a first pressurizer having first pressing member and first pressure receiving member in upper and lower sides, and a second pressurizer having second pressing member and second pressure receiving member in the upper and lower sides. A first code ply positioning mechanism positions a first code ply by bringing a tail end of the first code ply into contact with a side surface of the second pressure receiving member, a first code ply fixing mechanism lowers the cord end pressing member so the first cord ply is fixed, and a second code ply positioning mechanism positions the tip of the second code ply by bringing the tip into contact with a side surface of the cord end pressing member. The first pressurizer and the second pressurizer are brought close to each other, whereby a shearing force is applied to an overlapped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Onishi, Hiroshi Uchida