Patents by Inventor Katsuya Miyata

Katsuya Miyata 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).

  • Patent number: 10240810
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a general-purpose display device that is able to display on a display unit easily operating information required for assessing a test operation state, and an application program to be executed by the display device. Accordingly, in this display device which displays on the display unit the operating information of an air conditioner in which an outdoor unit provided with an outdoor heat exchanger and an indoor unit provided with an indoor heat exchanger are connected by a refrigerant pipe and a refrigerant is circulated by a compressor, a control unit of the display device controls the display unit so that time information is displayed horizontally and a first operating information display area and a second operating information display area for displaying first operating information and second operating information, respectively, corresponding to the time information are displayed vertically side by side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc.
    Inventors: Emi Saito, Naoya Sugiyama, Katsuya Miyata, Makoto Itoh, Shinya Suenaga, Tatsuya Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20170307246
    Abstract: In order to determine configuration information of an air conditioner, to display a cause of a malfunction of the air conditioner during a trial operation and maintenance, and to easily check, on the mobile terminal, repair work based on determination results, a maintenance system of the air conditioner includes a display device that displays configuration information, a cause of a malfunction, and a repair work procedure of the air conditioner in which an outdoor device provided with an outdoor heat exchanger and an indoor device provided with an indoor heat exchanger are connected via refrigerant piping and a refrigerant is circulated by a compressor, and the display device includes a control unit that determines a configuration of the outdoor device or the indoor device of the air conditioner, a control unit that determines whether or not a malfunction occurs, and a display unit that displays a repair work procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Takatoshi OHARA, Emi SAITO, Toru FUJIHIRA, Naoya SUGIYAMA, Katsuya MIYATA, Toshiyuki NEMOTO, Kouichirou SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 9766679
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a power monitoring device configured in such a manner as to make it as easy as possible to perform power monitoring, notification and control for customers in coordination with the power utilization rate of a utility grid. The power monitoring device is provided with: a target power setting unit that receives, from outside, information indicating the power utilization rate of a utility grid by time, and, with regard to time periods in which the power utilization rate is greater than a prescribed threshold value, reduces preset target power consumption levels, and sets target power consumption levels by time; and an assessment and control unit that obtains, from outside, the power usage of power-consuming devices, and performs control in order to save power for the power-consuming devices in time periods in which the obtained power usage exceeds the target power consumption level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI APPLIANCES, INC
    Inventors: Tadayoshi Kosaka, Katsuya Miyata, Hidetoshi Teraoka
  • Publication number: 20170010016
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a general-purpose display device that is able to display on a display unit easily operating information required for assessing a test operation state, and an application program to be executed by the display device. Accordingly, in this display device which displays on the display unit the operating information of an air conditioner in which an outdoor unit provided with an outdoor heat exchanger and an indoor unit provided with an indoor heat exchanger are connected by a refrigerant pipe and a refrigerant is circulated by a compressor, a control unit of the display device controls the display unit so that time information is displayed horizontally and a first operating information display area and a second operating information display area for displaying first operating information and second operating information, respectively, corresponding to the time information are displayed vertically side by side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Emi SAITO, Naoya SUGIYAMA, Katsuya MIYATA, Makoto ITOH, Shinya SUENAGA, Tatsuya SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170010014
    Abstract: An air conditioner test operation application which allows to input control inputs for test operation of an air conditioner from a mobile terminal. Through input of a prescribed control input to a control input unit of the mobile terminal, model information pertaining to units that belong to a prescribed group to undergo test operation is not displayed on the display unit of the mobile terminal by the controller of the mobile terminal, whereas model information pertaining to the other group is displayed; and through input of a display switching control input to the control input unit of the mobile terminal, the model information pertaining to the other group that was not being displayed is displayed on the display unit of the mobile terminal by the controller of the mobile terminal, whereas the model information pertaining to the one group that was being displayed ceases to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Katsuya MIYATA, Shinya SUENAGA, Naoya SUGIYAMA, Makoto ITOH, Emi SAITO, Tatsuya SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9403496
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system capable of enhancing convenience for remotely operating a movable-body-mounted apparatus mountable in a movable body such as a vehicle. For example, a communication system includes a movable-body-mounted apparatus including: a movable body information storage part which stores movable body information including a received signal quality of a radio wave used for communication to/from a center server and information on a vehicle; a separation determination part which determines whether or not a user who moves along with the vehicle is separated from the vehicle; and a movable body information notification part which notifies the user of the movable body information stored in the movable body information storage part when the separation determination part determines that the user is separated from the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kobayashi, Katsuya Miyata, Tetsuo Nakano, Mitsuhiro Kitani, Hirokazu Aoshima, Noboru Kiyama
  • Publication number: 20150310756
    Abstract: A learner's terminal is provided with a time acquiring unit for acquiring time, an input unit capable of carrying out a handwriting input, and answer input history data notifying unit for use in notifying a school server of the time acquired by the time acquiring unit and handwriting input data inputted thereto by the input unit as answer input history data, and the school server is provided with an answer input history data storage unit for storing the answer input history data notified by the learner's terminal and an answer input history data transmitting unit for transmitting the answer input history data stored in the answer input history data storage unit to an instructor's terminal, while the instructor's terminal is provided with an answer screen display unit for displaying a screen at the time of answering in time series based upon the answer input history data transmitted by the answer input history data transmitting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Hideki NAKAMURA, Tetsuo NAKANO, Katsuya MIYATA, Yusaku KATSUBE, Masaaki YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20150076926
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a power monitoring device configured in such a manner as to make it as easy as possible to perform power monitoring, notification and control for customers in coordination with the power utilization rate of a utility grid. The power monitoring device is provided with: a target power setting unit that receives, from outside, information indicating the power utilization rate of a utility grid by time, and, with regard to time periods in which the power utilization rate is greater than a prescribed threshold value, reduces preset target power consumption levels, and sets target power consumption levels by time; and an assessment and control unit that obtains, from outside, the power usage of power-consuming devices, and performs control in order to save power for the power-consuming devices in time periods in which the obtained power usage exceeds the target power consumption level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Tadayoshi Kosaka, Katsuya Miyata, Hidetoshi Teraoka
  • Patent number: 8965448
    Abstract: In a multimode mobile station capable of communicating with a plurality of cellular systems where a current cellular system which the mobile station has acquired and a cellular system which the mobile station tries to access differ, access-failure information is stored at access failure time. The access-failure information includes any one of, or the combination of information on access failure such as access-system type, access time information, access location information, access failure reason, number of access failures, etc. Since an access cellular system is selected on the basis of the stored access-failure information, even when a current cellular system which the mobile station has acquired and a cellular system which the mobile station tries to access differ, it is possible to shorten re-acquisition time and to reduce power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong)
    Inventor: Katsuya Miyata
  • Publication number: 20140172198
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system capable of enhancing convenience for remotely operating a movable-body-mounted apparatus mountable in a movable body such as a vehicle. For example, a communication system includes a movable-body-mounted apparatus including: a movable body information storage part which stores movable body information including a received signal quality of a radio wave used for communication to/from a center server and information on a vehicle; a separation determination part which determines whether or not a user who moves along with the vehicle is separated from the vehicle; and a movable body information notification part which notifies the user of the movable body information stored in the movable body information storage part when the separation determination part determines that the user is separated from the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventors: Yuichi Kobayashi, Katsuya Miyata, Tetsuo Nakano, Mitsuhiro Kitani, Hirokazu Aoshima, Noboru Kiyama
  • Patent number: 8711845
    Abstract: The first communication unit 101 performs data communication in a first communication mode specializing in packet communication via a first communication system A. The second communication unit 102 performs data communication in a second communication mode supporting voice communication via a second communication system B. The control unit 109 controls the first communication unit 101 and second communication unit 102. The control unit 109 controls the first communication unit 101 to perform data communication via the first communication system A until a voice communication start instruction is received. The control unit 109 determines whether to perform data communication via the second communication system B based on access control information on the second communication system B in response to the reception of a voice communication start instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Casio Mobile Communications, Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuya Miyata
  • Patent number: 8655364
    Abstract: When a terminal-status detecting unit detects a predetermined terminal status with communication over a first mobile communication system being enabled by a first mobile communication unit, a control unit causes a second mobile communication system to start a process of acquiring a second mobile communication system to set communication via the second mobile communication system in an enabled status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Casio Mobile Communications, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kitani, Katsuya Miyata
  • Patent number: 8615268
    Abstract: A control unit 19 switches four antennas 111 to 114 at predetermined time intervals, receives signals from an LTE base station 2 using four receiving antennas 111 to 114, and receives signals from a GSM base station 3 using the four antennas 111 to 114. The control unit 19 determines the reception level in a cell 2c of the LTE base station 2 on the basis of signal strengths detected by a received signal detector 14p when signals are received from the LTE base station 2 using the four antennas 111 to 114. In addition, the control unit 19 determines the reception level in a cell 3c of the GSM base station 3 on the basis of four signal strengths detected by the received signal detector 14p when signals are received from the GSM base station 3 using the four antennas 111 to 114.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Sugiyama, Katsuya Miyata
  • Patent number: 8588868
    Abstract: A controller of the communication terminal identifies, after power is turned on, whether or not to use a cellular phone communicating unit or a wireless LAN communicating unit based on communication system information stored beforehand in a storing unit. When the identification is complete, the controller initializes the cellular phone communicating unit, and, according to results of the identification, causes the cellular phone communicating unit to enter standby state or sleep state. Next, the controller initializes the wireless LAN communicating unit, and, according to results of the identification, causes the wireless LAN communicating unit to enter standby state or sleep state. When an application which using a wireless communicating unit in sleep state is launched, the controller causes that wireless communicating unit to enter standby state from sleep state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuya Miyata
  • Patent number: 8515486
    Abstract: A wireless communication terminal has a first wireless communication unit which performs data communication via a first wireless communication system and a second wireless communication unit which performs voice communication via a second wireless communication system. When an instruction of starting a voice communication is given, a temporal withdrawal process is started to the first wireless communication system, and an acquiring process of the second wireless communication system is started. After the voice communication ends, until a predetermined time elapses, an acquiring state of the second wireless communication system by the second wireless communication unit is continued. After the predetermined time has elapsed, the acquiring state of the second wireless communication system is cancelled, and a temporal withdrawal cancelling process is started to the first wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Casio Mobile Communications, Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuya Miyata
  • Patent number: 8335472
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal includes a proximity wireless communication unit and a control command generating unit. The proximity wireless communication unit performs wireless communication directly with another mobile communication terminal present in a communicationable range. When the proximity wireless communication unit is capable of communicating with another mobile communication terminal, the control command generating unit generates a control command which is associated with an internal state and which is for controlling another mobile communication terminal, and transmits the control command to another mobile communication terminal through the proximity wireless communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuya Miyata
  • Patent number: 8132217
    Abstract: First, a control device determines a reproduction-display device, from which the control device has been able to obtain neighborhood device information via a short-range wireless communication section, to be located in the neighborhood of the control device, and registers this reproduction-display device to neighborhood determination information. Next, the control device detects the reproduction-display devices connected to a network, to which a content server is connected, using a network communication section and registers these reproduction-display devices to reproduction device registration information. The reproduction-display device, which is registered in both of the reproduction device registration information and the neighborhood determination information, is designated by priority, and reproduces and displays content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuya Miyata
  • Patent number: 8099097
    Abstract: A wireless LAN device determines whether there is a necessity to search for a base station based on base station information as to a currently associated first base station, and selects all or a part of base station search conditions stored in advance to search for the base station when there is the necessity for searching the base station. When detecting at least one base station, the wireless LAN device determines whether there is a necessity to execute a handover based on base station information of each of the detected base station and the first base station. If the handover is necessary, the wireless LAN device determines the second base station from the base stations and associates the wireless LAN device with the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuya Miyata
  • Publication number: 20110268109
    Abstract: The first communication unit 101 performs data communication in a first communication mode specializing in packet communication via a first communication system A. The second communication unit 102 performs data communication in a second communication mode supporting voice communication via a second communication system B. The control unit 109 controls the first communication unit 101 and second communication unit 102. The control unit 109 controls the first communication unit 101 to perform data communication via the first communication system A until a voice communication start instruction is received. The control unit 109 determines whether to perform data communication via the second communication system B based on access control information on the second communication system B in response to the reception of a voice communication start instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Inventor: Katsuya MIYATA
  • Publication number: 20110207427
    Abstract: When a terminal-status detecting unit detects a predetermined terminal status with communication over a first mobile communication system being enabled by a first mobile communication unit, a control unit causes a second mobile communication system to start a process of acquiring a second mobile communication system to set communication via the second mobile communication system in an enabled status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: NEC CASIO Moblie Communications, Ltd
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro KITANI, Katsuya MIYATA