Patents by Inventor Junichi Higuchi

Junichi Higuchi 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: 20230220508
    Abstract: A method for producing an austenitic heat resistant steel in which a difference between a content of Nb and an amount of Nb analyzed as extraction residues satisfies [0.170?Nb?NbER?0.480], the method including: a forming step of machining and forming a steel having a predetermined chemical composition into a product shape; a solution heat treatment step of performing, after the forming step, heat treatment under conditions including a heat treatment temperature satisfying [?250Nb+1200?T??100Nb+1290] and a soaking time satisfying [405?0.3T?t?2475?1.5T]; and a cooling step of performing cooling after the solution heat treatment step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HIRATA, Masahiro SETO, Mitsuru YOSHIZAWA, Junichi HIGUCHI, Takahiro OSUKI
  • Publication number: 20230203629
    Abstract: There is provided an austenitic heat resistant steel including a chemical composition that consists of, in mass %, C: 0.04 to 0.12%, Si: 0.01 to 0.30%, Mn: 0.50 to 1.50%, P: 0.001 to 0.040%, S: less than 0.0050%, Cu: 2.2 to 3.8%, Ni: 8.0 to 11.0%, Cr: 17.7 to 19.3%, Mo: 0.01 to 0.55%, Nb: 0.400 to 0.650%, B: 0.0010 to 0.0060%, N: 0.050 to 0.160%, Al: 0.025% or less, and O: 0.020% or less, with the balance: Fe and impurities and that satisfies [0.170?Nb?NbER?0.480].
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro SETO, Hiroyuki HIRATA, Mitsuru YOSHIZAWA, Junichi HIGUCHI, Takahiro OSUKI
  • Publication number: 20220325394
    Abstract: An austenitic heat resisting steel includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %: C: 0.04% to 0.12%; Si: 0.10% to 0.30%; Mn: 0.20% to 0.80%; P: 0% to 0.030%; S: 0.0001% to 0.0020%: Sn: 0.0005% to 0.0230%; Cu: 2.3% to 3.8%; Co: 0.90% to 2.40%; Ni: 22.0% to 28.0%; Cr: 20.0% to 25.0%; Mo: 0.01% to 0.40%; W: 2.8% to 4.2%; Nb: 0.20% to 0.80%; B: 0.0010% to 0.0050%; and N: 0.16% to 0.30%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities, optionally further includes one or more selected from Al, O, V, Ti, Ta, C, Mg, and REM, in which 0.0012%?[% S]+[% Sn]?2.5×[% B]+0.0125% is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HIRATA, Mitsuru YOSHIZAWA, Junichi HIGUCHI, Katsuki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11431656
    Abstract: A switch identification method in by a computer includes sending a first packet to a first virtual switch emulating a first physical switch, and identifying a second virtual switch that is an allocation destination to which the first virtual switch allocates the first packet, and referring, to a storage unit that stores a switch correspondence information that associates a second physical switch that is an allocation destination of the first physical switch with the second virtual switch, and identifying the second physical switch that is the allocation destination to which the first physical switch allocates a second packet emulated by the first packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Junichi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20220235445
    Abstract: A ferritic heat-resistant steel includes, by mass: from 0.06 to 0.11% of C; from 0.15 to 0.35% of Si; from 0.35 to 0.65% of Mn; from 0 to 0.02% of P; from 0 to 0.003% of S; from 0.005 to 0.25% of Ni; from 0.005 to 0.25% of Cu; from 2.7 to 3.3% of Co; from 8.3 to 9.7% of Cr; from 2.5 to 3.5% of W; from 0.15 to 0.25% of V; from 0.03 to 0.08% of Nb; from 0.002 to 0.04% of Ta; from 0.01 to 0.06% of Nd; from 0.006 to 0.016% of B; from 0.005 to 0.015% of N; from 0 to 0.02% of Al; and from 0 to 0.02% of O, with a balance consisting of Fe and impurities, and an amount of W, which is analyzed as an electrolytically extracted residue, [% W]ER, satisfying: ?10×[% B]+0.26?[% W]ER?10×[% B]+0.54.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HIRATA, Mitsuru YOSHIZAWA, Junichi HIGUCHI, Katsuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210367907
    Abstract: A switch identification method in by a computer includes sending a first packet to a first virtual switch emulating a first physical switch, and identifying a second virtual switch that is an allocation destination to which the first virtual switch allocates the first packet, and referring, to a storage unit that stores a switch correspondence information that associates a second physical switch that is an allocation destination of the first physical switch with the second virtual switch, and identifying the second physical switch that is the allocation destination to which the first physical switch allocates a second packet emulated by the first packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Junichi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20210292876
    Abstract: There is provided an austenitic heat resistant alloy including a chemical composition that contains, in mass percent: C: 0.04 to 0.18%, Si: 1.5% or less; Mn: 2.0% or less, P: 0.020% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Cu: 0.10% or less, Ni: 20.0 to 30.0%, Cr: 21.0 to 24.0%, Mo: 1.0 to 2.0%, Nb: 0.10 to 0.40%, Ti: 0.20% or less, Al: 0.05% or less, N: 0.10 to 0.35%, and B: 0.0015 to 0.005%, with the balance: Fe and impurities, the austenitic heat resistant alloy satisfying [P+6B?0.040].
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Kurihara, Hiroyuki Semba, Hirokazu Okada, Junichi Higuchi, Katsuki Tanaka, Takahiro Osuki
  • Publication number: 20210276229
    Abstract: Provided is a fluororesin molded article in which a plurality of sections having respective functions different from each other are integrally formed and which has characteristics suitable for the functions at the respective sections. A fluororesin molded article 50 that is an integrally molded product including a first section 51a, 51b and a second section 52, a function of the first section being different from a function of the second section, wherein the first section 51a, 51b and the second section 52 are a sintered body of a fluororesin powder, an average particle size of the fluororesin powder contained in the first section being different from an average particle size of the fluororesin powder contained in the second section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventor: Junichi HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210250235
    Abstract: A diagram generation method executed by a computer, includes acquiring, from each of a plurality of communication devices, device information including identification information set in a first network interface existing on a first network; identifying an internet protocol (IP) address set in a second network interface existing in a second network, the second network interface being included in a communication device which acquires the device information; store, in a memory, linked information in which the acquired device information and the IP address are associated with each other; and generating a network configuration diagram in which each of the plurality of communication devices sharing the IP address is an individual communication device by using the linked information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yosuke Takano, Naoki OGUCHI, Masaaki Noro, Junichi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20210237315
    Abstract: Provided is a molding method for a fluororesin molded article that is capable of forming a fluororesin molded article including sections having respective characteristics different from each other, as an integrally molded product. A molding method for a fluororesin molded article, the method comprising forming a preliminary molded article by pressing a fluororesin powder in a primary mold 100, sintering the preliminary molded article, loading the sintered preliminary molded article into a secondary mold, cooling the preliminary molded article while pressing the preliminary molded article, to form the fluororesin molded article, wherein the forming a preliminary molded article includes loading, into the primary mold 100, a layered product 10 in which at least two kinds of fluororesin powders having respective average particle sizes different from each other are layered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventor: Junichi HIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11061462
    Abstract: Provided a device that performs at least one of an input and an output, a device power supply control unit that controls power supply to the device, and a device power supply control instruction unit that instructs the device power supply control unit to stop power supply to the device based on an instruction from an operation unit arranged in the apparatus, wherein stopping power supply to the device makes it possible to set the device that is fixedly connected in the apparatus to a pseudo removed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 10942763
    Abstract: An operation management apparatus includes a processor. The processor generates a VM load model for each virtual machine running on an information processing system, generates resource utilization rate estimation data based on VM load models of a virtual machine group running on the physical machine and a VM load model of a first virtual machine, for each of physical machines except for a first physical machine on which the first virtual machine is running, generates a resource competition occurrence model based on the resource utilization rate of the physical machine, calculates a statistical value of competition occurrence probabilities of the resource, for each of the physical machines except for the first physical machine, based on the resource utilization rate estimation data and the resource competition occurrence model, specifies the migration destination physical machine based on the statistical value, and outputs information of a specified migration destination physical machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Junichi Higuchi, Takuto Tsuji, Ken Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20210029079
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including: when performing a network address translation, creating a forwarding graph that represents a network connection from a source network to a destination network based on extended IP address information in which an extended IP address including IP addresses before and after the network address translation, a belonging domain before the network address translation, and a belonging domain after the network address translation are associated with each other; and verifying reachability from the source network to the destination network based on the created forwarding graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yosuke Takano, Naoki OGUCHI, Junichi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 10833921
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: acquire message data that indicate a message size and a response time of each response message identified from an encrypted packet group; identify, based on the message data, first peak sizes that satisfy a first condition from a first size distribution of the message size of each response message; determine based on the message data, when the first peak sizes include a second peak size different from third peak sizes, whether a first time distribution satisfies a second condition, the third peak sizes being peak sizes of the message size of each response message in a normal state, the first time distribution being a frequency distribution of the response time of each response message having the second peak size; and determine that a service is abnormal, when the first time distribution satisfies the second condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Junichi Higuchi, Ken Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20200301496
    Abstract: Provided a device that performs at least one of an input and an output, a device power supply control unit that controls power supply to the device, and a device power supply control instruction unit that instructs the device power supply control unit to stop power supply to the device based on an instruction from an operation unit arranged in the apparatus, wherein stopping power supply to the device makes it possible to set the device that is fixedly connected in the apparatus to a pseudo removed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi HIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10768967
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes classifying a plurality of virtual machines, which are to be mapped to a plurality of physical machines each of which is subjected to a maintenance operation, into groups by referring to correspondence information in which information indicating a desired time zone for executing a maintenance operation of a physical machine is correlated with information indicating a virtual machine such that an overlap time of desired time zones corresponding to the virtual machines in the same group is equal to or longer than a predetermined time; and mapping the groups obtained by the classifying to the physical machines different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Junichi Higuchi, Masazumi Matsubara
  • Patent number: 10621131
    Abstract: A bridge connecting apparatus comprises: a connection state control part that controls a first connection state between the bridge connecting apparatus and the other bridge connecting apparatus; and a connection state monitoring part that monitors the first connection state recognized on the connection state control part and a second connection state between the first device recognized on the OS and the second device. The connection state monitoring part instructs to the connection state control part so that the first connection state does not come into connection when it is detected that the first connection state is at non-connection. The connection state control part controls so that the first connection state does not come into connection according to the instruction from the connection state monitoring part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20200059399
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: acquire message data that indicate a message size and a response time of each response message identified from an encrypted packet group; identify, based on the message data, first peak sizes that satisfy a first condition from a first size distribution of the message size of each response message; determine based on the message data, when the first peak sizes include a second peak size different from third peak sizes, whether a first time distribution satisfies a second condition, the third peak sizes being peak sizes of the message size of each response message in a normal state, the first time distribution being a frequency distribution of the response time of each response message having the second peak size; and determine that a service is abnormal, when the first time distribution satisfies the second condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Junichi Higuchi, Ken Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20190391836
    Abstract: An operation management apparatus includes a processor. The processor generates a VM load model for each virtual machine running on an information processing system, generates resource utilization rate estimation data based on VM load models of a virtual machine group running on the physical machine and a VM load model of a first virtual machine, for each of physical machines except for a first physical machine on which the first virtual machine is running, generates a resource competition occurrence model based on the resource utilization rate of the physical machine, calculates a statistical value of competition occurrence probabilities of the resource, for each of the physical machines except for the first physical machine, based on the resource utilization rate estimation data and the resource competition occurrence model, specifies the migration destination physical machine based on the statistical value, and outputs information of a specified migration destination physical machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Junichi Higuchi, Takuto Tsuji, Ken Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10425311
    Abstract: A packet monitoring apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to capture a plurality of packets transmitted through a communication line and belonging to a first session, specify capturing time intervals between the plurality of packets, acquire, from each of the plurality of packets, a clock number of clocks generated by a transmission apparatus and counted when each of the plurality of packets is transmitted from the transmission apparatus, specify a difference of the clock numbers between each of the plurality of packets and a packet captured immediately prior to each of the plurality of packets, specify a frequency of the clock based on the specified capturing time interval and the specified difference, and specify a jitter of the capturing time intervals based on the specified capturing time interval, the specified frequency, and the specified difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Junichi Higuchi