Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Fukuda

Hiroyuki Fukuda 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: 20200029464
    Abstract: A liquid immersion tank includes an outer-case to have a first hole in a side-wall of the outer-case and an opening at a top of the outer-case, an inner-case to have a second hole in a side-wall of the inner-case and an opening at a top of the inner-case, the inner-case being contained in the outer-case and containing an electronic device to be cooled by a coolant, and a spring to support the inner-case to be able to move between a first position and a second position disposed above the first position, cause, when the inner-case is at the first position, the second hole to communicate with the first hole so that the coolant flow into the inner-case, and cause, when the inner-case is at the second position, the second hole to face the side-wall of the outer-case so that the coolant is prevented to flow into the inner-case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi INANO, Hiroyuki FUKUDA, Minoru Ishinabe, Yukiko Wakino
  • Publication number: 20200012516
    Abstract: A migration management method includes referring to a performance deterioration rate of a specific virtual server when utilization of a virtual server other than the specific virtual server in virtual servers that work on a physical server is changed in a stepwise manner, and calculating a first index value relating to a load state of the physical server before the performance deterioration rate exceeds a threshold based on a number of virtual CPUs allocated to each of the virtual servers and utilization of the virtual CPUs; calculating a second index value relating to the load state based on the number of virtual CPUs and the utilization while the specific virtual server is activated on the physical server; and conducting migration to another physical server for a virtual server other than the specific virtual server in the virtual servers when the calculated second index value exceeds the calculated first index value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Kodama, Shigeto SUZUKI, Hiroyuki FUKUDA, Kazumi Kojima
  • Publication number: 20190394900
    Abstract: A cooling system includes: a cooling device; a pump coupled to the cooling device; and a waste heat device coupled to the cooling device, wherein the cooling device includes: a first refrigerant tank and a second refrigerant tank that each stores a first refrigerant that is output from the waste heat device and input to the waste heat device; and a liquid immersion tank sandwiched between the first refrigerant tank and the second refrigerant tank and configured to hold an electronic device in a second refrigerant that is output from the pump and input to the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi INANO, Hiroyuki FUKUDA, Minoru Ishinabe, Yukiko Wakino
  • Patent number: 10517191
    Abstract: A liquid immersion server includes a processor, a heat sink to which heat generated by the processor is transferred, a flow channel through which a first refrigerant liquid that has absorbed heat from the heat sink flows, and a cooling bath that stores a second refrigerant liquid that is inactive in a lower section thereof and that stores the first refrigerant liquid in an upper section thereof, wherein when the liquid immersion server is in operation, the processor, the heat sink, and the flow channel are immersed in the second refrigerant liquid, the flow channel has a supply port to which the first refrigerant liquid is supplied from a first pipe and a first discharge port that discharges the first refrigerant liquid that has absorbed heat into the cooling bath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yukiko Wakino, Satoshi Inano, Hiroyuki Fukuda, Minoru Ishinabe
  • Patent number: 10509048
    Abstract: A first rack of a first color and a second rack of a second color respectively hold blood collecting tubes. After a test is finished, the first and second racks are disposed at a carrying-out section. A result screen showing a test result includes a first region of the first color and a second region of the second color. The first and second regions are displayed in positions corresponding to positions of the first and second racks in the carrying-out section. First symbols are displayed in the first region at positions corresponding to positions of the blood collecting tubes held in the first rack. Second symbols are displayed in the second region at positions corresponding to positions of the blood collecting tubes held in the second rack. A displayed appearance of each of the first and second symbols is changed in accordance with the test result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fukuda, Ryoko Nakayama, Rikiya Tanabe, Hyuga Masu, Kazuhiro Emi, Noriyoshi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10478050
    Abstract: An operation device for an into-bore introduction device, includes: a projecting portion formed to project from a grasping section in a radial direction to a longitudinal axis of the grasping section, in a surface between a surface on which a bending operation knob is disposed and a surface on which operator's palm abuts to grasp the grasping section, in the grasping section; a pressing switch disposed on the projecting portion; and an inclined surface formed distantly by as much as a predetermined distance from the pressing switch, and in which an amount of the inclined surface to project outside in the radial direction is decreased on an insertion section side of the projecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fukuda, Yasuo Funakoshi, Kota Sugaya, Kenji Tajima, Yuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 10482926
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a casing which includes a side plate on each of left and right sides; and a processing apparatus to be mounted in the casing, wherein the processing apparatus includes: a board on which an arithmetic processing device and a storage device are mounted; a rail which is provided on each of the left and right sides of the board and extends in the horizontal direction to make the board slidable; a locking portion which locks the board to the casing; and a detection portion which detects that the board is taken out when the board is taken out from the casing by that locking by the locking portion is released and the board slides against the rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Kodama, Shigeto Suzuki, Hiroyuki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10472693
    Abstract: A manufacturing method and a manufacturing apparatus for a head hardened rail to which various alloy elements are added and which is excellent in hardness and toughness of a head portion surface layer. The method includes, when forcibly cooling at least a head portion of a hot-rolled rail or a heated rail, starting the forcible cooling from a state where a surface temperature of the head portion of the rail is not less than an austenite range temperature, and performing the forcible cooling at a cooling rate of 10° C./sec or more until the surface temperature reaches 500° C. or more and 700° C. or less after the forcible cooling is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo Kijima, Hiroyuki Fukuda, Kenji Okushiro
  • Publication number: 20190297747
    Abstract: An apparatus for liquid immersion cooling, the apparatus includes: a casing configured to be partly filled with a first coolant and immerse, in the first coolant, a heat generating component other than a first heat generating component in a plurality of heat generating component; a liquid cooling jacket provided in contact with the first heat generating component placed in the casing, and configured to cool the first heat generating component; a first cooling device configured to dissipate heat of a second coolant sent out from the liquid cooling jacket through a first pipe, thereby cooling the second coolant; and a first pump configured to send out the second coolant cooled by the first cooling device to the liquid cooling jacket through a second pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yukiko Wakino, Satoshi INANO, Hiroyuki FUKUDA, Minoru Ishinabe
  • Patent number: 10424344
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a casing which includes a side plate on each of left and right sides; and a processing apparatus to be mounted in the casing, wherein the processing apparatus includes: a board on which an arithmetic processing device and a storage device are mounted; a rail which is provided on each of the left and right sides of the board and extends in the horizontal direction to make the board slidable; a locking portion which locks the board to the casing; and a detection portion which detects that the board is taken out when the board is taken out from the casing by that locking by the locking portion is released and the board slides against the rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Kodama, Shigeto Suzuki, Hiroyuki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10417050
    Abstract: An apparatus stores plural pieces of reference data selected based on operation data input from a host OS executed by an information processing device. The apparatus selects one or more pieces of selection reference data from the plural pieces of reference data, based on a plurality of correlation coefficients which are calculated upon receiving a predictive demand and which respectively indicate correlations between predictive target reference data indicating reference data to be predicted and other reference data. The apparatus calculates predictive values of the predictive target reference data, based on the selected one or more pieces of selection reference data, and controls the plurality of calculation resources for the information processing device, based on the predictive values of the predictive target reference data and a predetermined reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shigeto Suzuki, Hiroshi Endo, Hiroyoshi Kodama, Hiroyuki Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20190278626
    Abstract: A migration control apparatus includes one or more processors configured to successively select, as a first group, a virtual machine in an ascending order of power consumption from among a first plurality of virtual machines, until total power consumption of one or more non-selected virtual machines in the first plurality of virtual machines falls below a threshold, successively select, as a second group, another virtual machine in a descending order of power consumption from among the first plurality of virtual machines, until total power consumption of one or more other non-selected virtual machines in the first plurality of virtual machines falls below the threshold, select a specific group in accordance with a first number of virtual machines included in the first group and a second number of virtual machines included in the second group, and perform migration for at least one virtual machine included in the specific group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Kodama, Shigeto SUZUKI, Hiroyuki FUKUDA, Kazumi Kojima
  • Publication number: 20190262789
    Abstract: A kneading state determination system includes a kneading unit and a determination unit. The kneading unit kneads a kneading material, and transmits a kneading state value indicating a kneading state to the determination unit. Based on the kneading state value transmitted from the kneading unit, the determination unit determines kneading of the kneading material in the kneading unit in accordance with a preset determination condition. The determination condition includes a determination period and a state value range. The state value range is set as a range for the kneading state value. The determination period is a partial period of a period from start to completion of the kneading in the kneading unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fukuda, Makoto Irie
  • Patent number: 10379516
    Abstract: A management device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to collect measurement data from sensors installed in respective measurement locations including outside an installation room in which an information processing device is installed, in a gas path in an air-conditioning system of the installation room, and inside the installation room, the measurement data being data measured by the respective sensors. The processor is configured to store the measurement data in the memory. The processor is configured to delete unnecessary data from the measurement data stored in the memory. The processor is configured to calculate a predicted value in at least one measurement location of the measurement locations on basis of the measurement data from which the unnecessary data is deleted. The predicted value is a value of data predicted to be measured by any of the sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Endo, Hiroyuki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10356958
    Abstract: An immersion cooling apparatus includes an immersion tank in which an electronic device is disposed and in which a secondary refrigerant is stored, the electronic device being dipped into and cooled down by the secondary refrigerant, a housing in which the immersion tank is disposed and in which a primary refrigerant is stored, the immersion tank being dipped into and cooled down by the primary refrigerant, and a driver that rotates the immersion tank, wherein the immersion tank being rotatably attached to an interior of the housing, the immersion tank having an inner circumferential surface and an outer circumferential surface, the inner circumferential surface being positioned facing the electronic device, the outer circumferential surface being positioned on an opposite side of the inner circumferential surface, each of the inner circumferential surface and the outer circumferential surface having a plurality of projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Inano, Minoru Ishinabe, Yukiko Wakino, Hiroyuki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10343509
    Abstract: In a hybrid vehicle that does not have a differential rotation absorbing element in the drive system, a hybrid control module controls a driving force to a drive wheel in accordance with a required driving force within a range of a maximum outputable driving force of a traveling drive source. The hybrid control module limits a driving force transmitted to the drive wheel in the HEV mode in accordance with the maximum outputable driving force in the EV mode at the time of the mode transition, when the mode transitions from an EV mode, in which only a first motor/generator is used as the traveling drive source to an HEV mode in which the first motor/generator and an internal combustion engine are used as traveling drive sources when a change in the vehicle speed is occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fukuda, Tomoyuki Nakano
  • Publication number: 20190206446
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a casing which includes a side plate on each of left and right sides; and a processing apparatus to be mounted in the casing, wherein the processing apparatus includes: a board on which an arithmetic processing device and a storage device are mounted; a rail which is provided on each of the left and right sides of the board and extends in the horizontal direction to make the board slidable; a locking portion which locks the board to the casing; and a detection portion which detects that the board is taken out when the board is taken out from the casing by that locking by the locking portion is released and the board slides against the rails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Kodama, Shigeto SUZUKI, Hiroyuki FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20190188033
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes a memory; and a processor configured to: store configuration information and performance information for each of a plurality of information processing apparatuses acquired from a host OS executed by each of a plurality of groups to which the plurality of information processing apparatuses belong and each of which provides a given service into the memory for each of the plurality of groups, select, based on the configuration information and the performance information, a movement target virtual machine for each of the plurality of groups, when the movement target virtual machine is moved to the different group, determine whether a performance value of a service corresponding to the movement target virtual machine satisfies a reference value, and when it is determined that the performance value satisfies the reference value, determine to move the movement target virtual machine from the target group to the different group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shigeto SUZUKI, Hiroyoshi Kodama, Satoshi INANO, Hiroyuki FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 10325214
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a database configured to store a plurality of physical quantities in time-series, a processor, and a memory storing a program causing the processor to execute acquiring the plurality of physical quantities, selecting first explanatory variates, selecting second explanatory variates, generating past case data by acquiring the physical quantities corresponding to the objective variates and an input variate group of the first explanatory variates and the second explanatory variates, searching for predetermined pieces of past case data in the sequence from the shortest of the inter-vector distances, building up the second model from the input variate group in the predetermined pieces of searched past case data and from the objective variates, and predicting values of objective variates from the second model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masatoshi Ogawa, Takeo Kasajima, Hiroshi Endo, Hiroyuki Fukuda, Masao Kondo
  • Patent number: 10295052
    Abstract: A vehicle transmission control device is provided in a vehicle having a gear type transmission capable of selecting a plurality of gear shift patterns, and an electric oil pump for supplying lubricating oil to a gear-shifting mechanism. The vehicle transmission control device includes a transmission controller that selects a path having a small load on the lubricated parts from among the plurality of power transmission paths upon detecting a malfunction has occurred in the oil pump to prevent seizing of lubricated parts and damage to gear-shifting mechanism if a malfunction occurs in the oil pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tsukizaki, Masato Koga, Hiroyuki Fukuda, Ryohey Toyota, Hidekazu Yagi