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).
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Publication number: 20250117159Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Hiroshi Uchida, Hidehiko Numasato, Akira Yokozuka, Shrey Khanna, Kevin Tzou
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Patent number: 12271631Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Uchida, Hidehiko Numasato, Akira Yokozuka, Shrey Khanna, Kevin Tzou
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Publication number: 20250112256Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventor: Hiroshi Uchida
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Patent number: 12223982Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 24, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Uchida, Hidehiko Numasato, Akira Yokozuka, Shrey Khanna, Peyman Niazi
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Publication number: 20240190785Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: Resonac CorporationInventors: Ichiro FUJITA, Hiroshi UCHIDA, Makoto SAITO
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Patent number: 12004924Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Himuro, Hiroshi Uchida
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Publication number: 20230309458Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Makoto SAITO, Hiroshi UCHIDA, Ichiro FUJITA, Naoyuki SUGAWARA, Yoshio FUJIWARA, Manabu KUWAJIMA, Hisashi KIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230263111Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2021Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Makoto SAITO, Hiroshi UCHIDA, Ichiro FUJITA
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Publication number: 20230192589Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicants: 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
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Publication number: 20230159402Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Hiroshi UCHIDA, Ichiro FUJITA, Naoyuki SUGAWARA, Makoto SAITO
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Patent number: 11590725Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichiro Takemoto, Hiroshi Uchida, Kentaro Kono
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Publication number: 20220369569Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Ichiro FUJITA, Makoto SAITO, Hiroshi UCHIDA, Hisashi KIMOTO
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Publication number: 20220369568Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Ichiro FUJITA, Makoto SAITO, Hiroshi UCHIDA, Hisashi KIMOTO
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Publication number: 20220354116Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Ichiro FUJITA, Makoto SAITO, Hiroshi UCHIDA, Hisashi KIMOTO
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Patent number: 11358927Abstract: 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 amideType: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Yasuyuki Ueda, Akira Shibuya, Hideo Miyata, Hiroshi Uchida
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Patent number: 11354291Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Uchida, Hitoshi Kaneko
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Patent number: 11325734Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: OMORI MACHINERY CO., LTDInventor: Hiroshi Uchida
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Patent number: 11247271Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Masanao Hara, Shigeru Yamaki, Hiroshi Uchida
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Patent number: 11203659Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K. K.Inventors: Jun Dou, Masahiko Toba, Hiroshi Uchida
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Patent number: 11135795Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kei Onishi, Hiroshi Uchida