Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Torii
Hiroyuki Torii 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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Patent number: 11691693Abstract: A front sprocket assembly comprises a first sprocket and a second sprocket. The second sprocket includes a second sprocket body and a plurality of second sprocket teeth. At least one tooth of the plurality of second sprocket teeth includes a less chain-interference recess provided to the second axially inwardly facing surface. The less chain-interference recess is configured to reduce interference between the at least one tooth of the plurality of second sprocket teeth and a chain in an upshifting operation in which the chain is shifted from the first sprocket toward the second sprocket. The less chain-interference recess has a radially innermost end positioned radially inwardly from a tooth bottom circle of the plurality of second sprocket teeth. A radial distance radially defined from the tooth bottom circle to the radially innermost end with respect to a rotational center axis is equal to or larger than 1.0 mm.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Kohei Ohyabu, Tomohiro Noma, Hiroyuki Torii
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Publication number: 20220379997Abstract: A front sprocket assembly comprises a first sprocket and a second sprocket. The second sprocket includes a second sprocket body and a plurality of second sprocket teeth. At least one tooth of the plurality of second sprocket teeth includes a less chain-interference recess provided to the second axially inwardly facing surface. The less chain-interference recess is configured to reduce interference between the at least one tooth of the plurality of second sprocket teeth and a chain in an upshifting operation in which the chain is shifted from the first sprocket toward the second sprocket. The less chain-interference recess has a radially innermost end positioned radially inwardly from a tooth bottom circle of the plurality of second sprocket teeth. A radial distance radially defined from the tooth bottom circle to the radially innermost end with respect to a rotational center axis is equal to or larger than 1.0 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2021Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Kohei OHYABU, Tomohiro NOMA, Hiroyuki TORII
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Patent number: 10594485Abstract: An authentication system includes first and second terminals, and an authentication subsystem. The authentication subsystem: generates a first token based on reception of a code image authentication start request, generates and stores a code image key in association with the first token, generates and stores a code image including the code image key at a URL of the storage unit, transmits the first token and the URL to the first terminal, registers the received first token as a key in an information transmitting and receiving unit, checks whether a received ID of the second terminal is a unique ID, when the received unique ID of the second terminal is the unique ID, checks whether the received code image key is stored in the storage unit, and transmits a first response code to the information transmitting and receiving unit using, as a key.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: ISAO CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiki Maezawa, Takahiro Nishida, Hiroyuki Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Torii
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Publication number: 20190222420Abstract: An authentication system includes first and second terminals, and an authentication subsystem. The authentication subsystem: generates a first token based on reception of a code image authentication start request, generates and stores a code image key in association with the first token, generates and stores a code image including the code image key at a URL of the storage unit, transmits the first token and the URL to the first terminal, registers the received first token as a key in an information transmitting and receiving unit, checks whether a received ID of the second terminal is a unique ID, when the received unique ID of the second terminal is the unique ID, checks whether the received code image key is stored in the storage unit, and transmits a first response code to the information transmitting and receiving unit using, as a key.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Toshiki MAEZAWA, Takahiro NISHIDA, Hiroyuki KIKUCHI, Hiroyuki TORII
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Patent number: 9461279Abstract: A battery sealing member: has a power generating element, a case body member, a case lid member, and an electrode terminal member having an insert-through part inserted in a through-hole provided in the case lid member. The electrode terminal member is electrically connected to the power generating element. The battery sealing member is made of a synthetic resin and has a sealing part held between the electrode terminal member and the inner surface of the case lid member. The crystallinity of the sealing part of the sealing member is higher than the crystallinity of a portion other than the seal section.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2013Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, YODOGAWA HU-TECH CO., LTDInventors: Takashi Harayama, Kazuyuki Kusama, Katsumi Ogawa, Isao Awai, Hiroyuki Torii
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Publication number: 20160006004Abstract: An object is to provide a gasket for a secondary battery having excellent compressive restoration characteristics. A gasket for a secondary battery (particularly for a lithium secondary battery) is a gasket used as an insulation seal of a secondary battery, and is a hot-press and cold-press molded product (particularly, a product which is hot-pressed into a gasket shape under a temperature condition lower than a melting point of a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer (PFA) that is used by 0° C. to 80° C. and is thereafter cooled under pressure) obtained by hot-pressing a skived sheet obtained by skiving a block-shaped molded body (particularly, a columnar or cylindrical molded body obtained by injecting a PFA raw material into a heated mold to be pressurized and cooling the material under pressure) made of a PFA to be deformed into a gasket shape and thereafter performing cold-pressing on the resultant to fix a shape thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Katsumi OGAWA, Isao AWAI, Hiroyuki TORII, Tomohiro ONO, Shin-ichi SAKASHITA, Mikimasa KOKADO
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Patent number: 9081874Abstract: An information retrieval apparatus including a first detecting unit that detects a feeder indicative of a presence of a numerical value in a file subject to retrieval in which a numeral and a character are present together; a second detecting unit that detects a number of places in the numerical value correlated to the feeder detected by the first detecting unit; and a compressing unit that compresses the numerical value into compressed information including a compression code for a numeral indicative of the number of places detected by the second detecting unit and a compression code for a numeral at each place in the numerical value, wherein the numerical value is correlated to the feeder based on an appearance frequency of a numeral included in the file.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2011Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Masahiro Kataoka, Hiroyuki Torii, Masahiro Kurishima, Hideo Kasai
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Publication number: 20150140415Abstract: A battery sealing member: has a power generating element, a case body member, a case lid member, and an electrode terminal member having an insert-through part inserted in a through-hole provided in the case lid member. The electrode terminal member is electrically connected to the power generating element. The battery sealing member is made of a synthetic resin and has a sealing part held between the electrode terminal member and the inner surface of the case lid member. The crystallinity of the sealing part of the sealing member is higher than the crystallinity of a portion other than the seal section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicants: YODOGAWA HU-TECH CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Harayama, Kazuyuki Kusama, Katsumi Ogawa, Isao Awai, Hiroyuki Torii
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Publication number: 20120072434Abstract: An information retrieval apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires a numerical value defining a boundary of a numerical range; a detecting unit that detects a number of places in and a head numeral of the numerical value; an extracting unit that extracts from a bit string group, a bit string indicating whether a numerical value in a numerical value group having the number of places and the head numeral is present in files subject to retrieval; a specifying unit that specifies a file corresponding to a bit in the extracted bit string, the bit indicating the presence of a numerical value of the numerical value group; a determining unit that determines whether a numerical value in the specified file meets the boundary condition; and a designating unit that, based on a determination by the determining unit designates the specified file to have a numerical value within the numerical range.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Masahiro Kataoka, Hiroyuki Torii, Masahiro Kurishima, Hideo Kasai
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Patent number: 8131721Abstract: An information retrieval apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires a numerical value defining a boundary of a numerical range; a detecting unit that detects a number of places in and a head numeral of the numerical value; an extracting unit that extracts from a bit string group, a bit string indicating whether a numerical value in a numerical value group having the number of places and the head numeral is present in files subject to retrieval; a specifying unit that specifies a file corresponding to a bit in the extracted bit string, the bit indicating the presence of a numerical value of the numerical value group; a determining unit that determines whether a numerical value in the specified file meets the boundary condition; and a designating unit that, based on a determination by the determining unit designates the specified file to have a numerical value within the numerical range.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2009Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Masahiro Kataoka, Hiroyuki Torii, Masahiro Kurishima, Hideo Kasai
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Publication number: 20090193020Abstract: An information retrieval apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires a numerical value defining a boundary of a numerical range; a detecting unit that detects a number of places in and a head numeral of the numerical value; an extracting unit that extracts from a bit string group, a bit string indicating whether a numerical value in a numerical value group having the number of places and the head numeral is present in files subject to retrieval; a specifying unit that specifies a file corresponding to a bit in the extracted bit string, the bit indicating the presence of a numerical value of the numerical value group; a determining unit that determines whether a numerical value in the specified file meets the boundary condition; and a designating unit that, based on a determination by the determining unit designates the specified file to have a numerical value within the numerical range.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2009Publication date: July 30, 2009Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Masahiro Kataoka, Hiroyuki Torii, Masahiro Kurishima, Hideo Kasai
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Patent number: 7263272Abstract: An apparatus for recording/reproducing video and audio signals on/from a recording medium includes a first and second tuner which receive a video signal of a first and second format transmitted by broadcasting, respectively; a recorder which records the video signal of the first format from the first tuner on the recording medium; a reproducer which reproduces the video signal of the first format from the recording medium; and a decoder which decodes the video signal of first format from the reproducer and converts the decoded signal to another video signal of the second format. A switching circuit is provided which selects one of the another video signal of the second format and the video signal of the second format as a selected video signal, and a video output terminal outputs the selected video signal through an on-screen display unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2004Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroya Abe, Hideo Nishijima, Hiroyuki Torii, Kouji Kaniwa, Katsuyuki Watanabe, Toshio Nakamoto
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Publication number: 20050036760Abstract: An apparatus for recording/reproducing video and audio signals on/from a recording medium includes a first and second tuner which receive a video signal of a first and second format transmitted by broadcasting, respectively; a recorder which records the video signal of the first format from the first tuner on the recording medium; a reproducer which reproduces the video signal of the first format from the recording medium; and a decoder which decodes the video signal of first format from the reproducer and converts the decoded signal to another video signal of the second format. A switching circuit is provided which selects one of the another video signal of the second format and the video signal of the second format as a selected video signal, and a video output terminal outputs the selected video signal through an on-screen display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2004Publication date: February 17, 2005Inventors: Hiroya Abe, Hideo Nishijima, Hiroyuki Torii, Kouji Kaniwa, Katsuyuki Watanabe, Toshio Nakamoto
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Patent number: 6798979Abstract: A helical scanning video tape recorder for recording and reproducing video signals and audio signals to/from a magnetic tape. The video tape recorder includes an analog signal reproducing mode in which an FM luminance signal and a down-converted chrominance signal are reproduced from the magnetic tape by a pair of magnetic heads having a first azimuth angle and an FM audio signal is reproduced from a deep layer of the magnetic tape by a pair of magnetic heads having a second azimuth angle, and a digital signal reproducing mode in which a digital signal is reproduced from the magnetic tape by the pair of magnetic heads having the second azimuth angle. The digital signal is converted into a signal having a frequency in a frequency band higher than a frequency of the FM audio is signal. The video type recorder also includes a recording mode detector and a controller.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2001Date of Patent: September 28, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroya Abe, Hideo Nishijima, Hiroyuki Torii, Kouji Kaniwa, Katsuyuki Watanabe, Toshio Nakamoto
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Patent number: 6519006Abstract: An aspect ratio converter converts a still image signal having an aspect ratio of 4:3 to a still image signal having a predetermined wide aspect ratio. A both-end pixel extractor extracts predetermined amounts of both left and right end images of a horizontal scanning period of the still image signal having an aspect ratio of 4:3. A both-wing image data preparing unit and a both-wing extrapolator use the extracted images to extrapolate a region of from both left and right ends of the horizontal scanning period of the still image signal having an aspect ratio of 4:3 to both left and right ends of the horizontal scanning period of the still image signal having the wide aspect ratio.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2000Date of Patent: February 11, 2003Inventors: Akira Nakamura, Tadafumi Kuno, Shunichi Okada, Noriyuki Goto, Hiroyuki Torii, Masashi Kubota, Sadaharu Okada
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Publication number: 20010041043Abstract: A helical scanning video tape recorder for recording and reproducing video signals and audio signals to/from a magnetic tape. The video tape recorder includes an analog signal reproducing mode in which an FM luminance signal and a down-converted chrominance signal are reproduced from the magnetic tape by a pair of magnetic heads having a first azimuth angle and an FM audio signal is reproduced from a deep layer of the magnetic tape by a pair of magnetic heads having a second azimuth angle, and a digital signal reproducing mode in which a digital signal is reproduced from the magnetic tape by the pair of magnetic heads having the second azimuth angle. The digital signal is converted into a signal having a frequency in a frequency band higher than a frequency of the FM audio is signal. The video type recorder also includes a recording mode detector and a controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2001Publication date: November 15, 2001Inventors: Hiroya Abe, Hideo Nishijima, Hiroyuki Torii, Kouji Kaniwa, Katsuyuki Watanabe, Toshio Nakamoto
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Patent number: 6272285Abstract: A VTR compatible with the current analog VTR and capable of recording and reproducing digital signals, determines the presence or absence of recorded digital signals and selects an operating mode for recording and reproducing in accordance therewith.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1999Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroya Abe, Hideo Nishijima, Hiroyuki Torii, Kouji Kaniwa, Katsuyuki Watanabe, Toshio Nakamoto
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Patent number: 5978546Abstract: A VTR compatible with the current analog VTR and capable of recording and reproducing digital signals identifies the type of a tape cassette by the presence or absence of a cassette identification hole formed in a digital recording tape cassette determines tape speed for a recording mode on the basis of the ratio between the frequency of a control signal and the rotating speed of a capstan motor, determines the presence or absence of recorded digital signals through the synchronous detection of reproduced output, and decides the mode for recording and reproducing on the basis of those decisions. Thus, the automatic discrimination between the analog mode and the digital mode can be achieved and erroneous operations, such as an erroneous erasing operation can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1996Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroya Abe, Hideo Nishijima, Hiroyuki Torii, Kouji Kaniwa, Katsuyuki Watanabe, Toshio Nakamoto
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Patent number: 5432612Abstract: A multi-mode display device is made integral with a multi-mode video signal recording and play-back device to enable a control circuit and a control signal to be made in common to each other, With this arrangement, a circuit size can be reduced and at the same time a circuit configuration can be simplified. In addition, an operation of a circuit not related with the play-back signal is controlled or stopped by using a common control circuit and then a consumption power can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 1990Date of Patent: July 11, 1995Inventors: Satoru Takashimizu, Fumio Inoue, Hiroyuki Torii, Jun Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5075803Abstract: A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus having a first recording mode and a second recording mode in which a luminance signal of a video signal is converted into FM luminance signal related to a first carrier frequency and to a second carrier frequency so as to be recorded on a magnetic tape includes a discriminating device or discriminating a recording mode in which an FM luminance signal reproduced from a magnetic tape so as to be supplied to a playback circuit has been recorded.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 1989Date of Patent: December 24, 1991Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Moro, Hitoshi Akamine, Hiroyuki Torii, Kuniaki Miura