Patents by Inventor Kazuhiko Endo
Kazuhiko Endo 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: 20240103414Abstract: A fixing unit or device that can be used in an image forming apparatus includes a first heater element that is formed of a material that increases in electrical resistance with increases in temperature. A controller of the fixing unit is configured to vary a duty ratio of electric power applied to the first heater element during a start-up operation in which the temperature of the first heater element is raised to a target operating temperature. By varying the duty ratio during the start-up operation, changes in the resistance of the first heater element with the heating can be compensated. For example, the duty ratio can be increased during the course of the start-up to achieve the target operating temperature faster.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Kiyotaka MURAKAMI, Kazuhiko KIKUCHI, Sasuke ENDO, Masaya TANAKA, Ryota SAEKI, Kousei MIYASHITA, Ryosuke KOJIMA, Yohei DOI, Yuki KAWASHIMA, Eiji SHINOHARA
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Publication number: 20240089525Abstract: A video transmission apparatus, including: a video data obtaining unit which obtains video data; a video data storing unit which stores the video data obtained by the video data obtaining unit; a reduced video generating unit which generates reduced video of which a data volume is reduced by performing image processing on the video data obtained by the video data obtaining unit; a streaming transmitting unit which transmits the reduced video to a transmission destination by streaming; and a video data transmitting unit which transmits the video data stored in the video data storing unit to a preservation destination of the video data in response to a predetermined condition being satisfied, is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Naohiro AKIYAMA, Yoshihiro ENDO, Kazuhiko SAYAMA, Junichiro MAMIYA
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Patent number: 11625220Abstract: A digital mixer is disclosed having a plurality of displays and which applies a mixing process on an audio signal. The digital mixer includes an input interface, one or more processors, an output interface, at least a first display and a second display, and an operator. The operator includes a mode switching button for switching between a first mode and a second mode. The one or more processors are configured to cause parameter setting screens of audio signals of different channels to be displayed respectively on the first display and the second display when the mode switching button is set to the first mode, and cause different parameter setting screens of an audio signal of a single channel to be displayed respectively on the first display and the second display when the mode switching button is set to the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: TEAC CORPORATIONInventors: Dai Sato, Kazuhiko Endo, Daisuke Mitomi, Paul Youngblood
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Publication number: 20220147310Abstract: A digital mixer is disclosed having a plurality of displays and which applies a mixing process on an audio signal. The digital mixer includes an input interface, one or more processors, an output interface, at least a first display and a second display, and an operator. The operator includes a mode switching button for switching between a first mode and a second mode. The one or more processors are configured to cause parameter setting screens of audio signals of different channels to be displayed respectively on the first display and the second display when the mode switching button is set to the first mode, and cause different parameter setting screens of an audio signal of a single channel to be displayed respectively on the first display and the second display when the mode switching button is set to the second mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Dai SATO, Kazuhiko ENDO, Daisuke MITOMI, Paul YOUNGBLOOD
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Patent number: 11150867Abstract: A mixing console is disclosed which enables temporary operation and display of channels of different layers with a simple operation. A digital mixing console includes a channel strip portion that has a plurality of channel strips having an operator which adjusts a parameter value for controlling an audio signal, and a layer setter that divides the channel strip portion into a plurality of blocks and sets layer data which define a channel to be operated and to be displayed for each of the blocks. When one or more processors detect an operation of FIX LAYER button which prohibits switching of the layer data to fix the layer data for each of the blocks, the one or more processors fix the layer data of the corresponding block.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: TEAC CORPORATIONInventors: Dai Sato, Kazuhiko Endo
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Publication number: 20210124553Abstract: A mixing console is disclosed which enables temporary operation and display of channels of different layers with a simple operation. A digital mixing console includes a channel strip portion that has a plurality of channel strips having an operator which adjusts a parameter value for controlling an audio signal, and a layer setter that divides the channel strip portion into a plurality of blocks and sets layer data which define a channel to be operated and to be displayed for each of the blocks. When one or more processors detect an operation of FIX LAYER button which prohibits switching of the layer data to fix the layer data for each of the blocks, the one or more processors fix the layer data of the corresponding block.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Dai SATO, Kazuhiko ENDO
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Patent number: 10636751Abstract: A semiconductor device 100 of the present invention includes a front end and back ends A and B, each including a plurality of layers. Further, in the plurality of layers of the back end B, (i) circuits 22, 23, and 24 having a security function are provided in at least one layer having a wiring pitch of 100 nm or more, (ii) a circuit having a security function is provided in at least one wiring layer in M5 or higher level (M5, M6, M7, . . . ), (iii) a circuit having a security function is provided in at least one layer, for which immersion ArF exposure does not need to be used, or (iv) a circuit having a security function is provided in at least one layer that is exposed by using an exposure wavelength of 200 nm or more.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yohei Hori, Yongxun Liu, Shinichi Ouchi, Tetsuji Yasuda, Meishoku Masahara, Toshifumi Irisawa, Kazuhiko Endo, Hiroyuki Ota, Tatsuro Maeda, Hanpei Koike, Yasuhiro Ogasahara, Toshihiro Katashita, Koichi Fukuda
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Publication number: 20190019766Abstract: A semiconductor device 100 of the present invention includes a front end and back ends A and B, each including a plurality of layers. Further, in the plurality of layers of the back end B, (i) circuits 22, 23, and 24 having a security function are provided in at least one layer having a wiring pitch of 100 nm or more, (ii) a circuit having a security function is provided in at least one wiring layer in M5 or higher level (M5, M6, M7, . . . ), (iii) a circuit having a security function is provided in at least one layer, for which immersion ArF exposure does not need to be used, or (iv) a circuit having a security function is provided in at least one layer that is exposed by using an exposure wavelength of 200 nm or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2016Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventors: Yohei Hori, Yongxun Liu, Shinichi Ouchi, Tetsuji Yasuda, Meishoku Masahara, Toshifumi Irisawa, Kazuhiko Endo, Hiroyuki Ota, Tatsuro Maeda, Hanpei Koike, Yasuhiro Ogasahara, Toshihiro Katashita, Koichi Fukuda
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Patent number: 9598962Abstract: A turbine rotor includes a high- and low-temperature side rotor base materials. The high- and low-temperature materials include concavities and grooves. The turbine rotor has an enclosed space formed by the concavity of the high- and low-temperature materials being disposed opposingly, and a gap formed by the grooves of the high- and low-temperature materials being disposed opposingly. The turbine rotor contains a buildup welding section formed between the high- and low-temperature materials, which has the same composition as that of the high- or low-temperature material, and has a penetration bead on the enclosed space side, and the gap contains a weld metal filled therein. Thus, a stable penetration bead can be formed in a dissimilar material welded rotor combining two kinds of alloy materials with different thermal properties, and then generation of a non-welded portion of a butting section that becomes a start point of fracture can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Nishioka, Kenichi Murata, Kazuhiko Endo, Jun Sato, Toshio Namatame, Shinya Imano
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Patent number: 9340118Abstract: When detecting an abnormality, an in-vehicle wireless instrument in a plug-in vehicle sends an abnormality occurrence notification to a mobile terminal via an information center. The mobile terminal performs a notification to notify a user of the abnormality having occurred in the plug-in vehicle. When the user performs a charging forbiddance manipulation based on the notification, the mobile terminal sends a charging forbidding command to a power management ECU in the vehicle via the information center and the in-vehicle wireless instrument. When receiving the charging forbidding command, the power management ECU stops charging a battery using an external power source, and sends a setting completion notification to the mobile terminal via the in-vehicle wireless instrument and the information center. When receiving the setting completion notification, the mobile terminal notifies the user that the charging is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuhiko Endo
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Publication number: 20130343899Abstract: A turbine rotor includes a high- and low-temperature side rotor base materials. The high- and low-temperature materials include concavities and grooves. The turbine rotor has an enclosed space formed by the concavity of the high- and low-temperature materials being disposed opposingly, and a gap formed by the grooves of the high- and low-temperature materials being disposed opposingly. The turbine rotor contains a buildup welding section formed between the high- and low-temperature materials, which has the same composition as that of the high- or low-temperature material, and has a penetration bead on the enclosed space side, and the gap contains a weld metal filled therein. Thus, a stable penetration bead can be formed in a dissimilar material welded rotor combining two kinds of alloy materials with different thermal properties, and then generation of a non-welded portion of a butting section that becomes a start point of fracture can be suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Inventors: Eiji Nishioka, Kenichi Murata, Kazuhiko Endo, Jun Sato, Toshio Namatame, Shinya Imano
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Patent number: 8597732Abstract: A method comprising: supplying a gas whose water concentration has been controlled to become smaller than 1 PPB, whose oxygen partial pressure has been controlled to become lower than 10?21 atm by a water/oxygen molecule discharging apparatus into the interior of a reaction chamber and carrying out a dehydration/deoxidation process in the interior of said reaction chamber so as to control water vapor partial pressure to become lower than 10?10 atm; depositing a metal film on a substrate by supplying a carrier gas or a plasma excitation gas whose water concentration has been controlled to become smaller than 1 PPB, whose oxygen partial pressure has been controlled to become lower than 10?21 atm into the interior of said reaction chamber; forming an insulating film on the wafer by oxidizing the metal film in a low-oxygen atmosphere whose oxygen partial pressure has been controlled to become lower than 10?20 atm.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2008Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Naoki Shirakawa, Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Kazuhiko Endo, Tetsuya Mino
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Patent number: 8575677Abstract: A semiconductor device having, on a silicon substrate, a gate insulating film and a gate electrode in this order; wherein the gate insulating film comprises a nitrogen containing high-dielectric-constant insulating film which has a structure in which nitrogen is introduced into metal oxide or metal silicate; and the nitrogen concentration in the nitrogen containing high-dielectric-constant insulating film has a distribution in the direction of the film thickness; and a position at which the nitrogen concentration in the nitrogen containing high-dielectric-constant insulating film reaches the maximum in the direction of the film thickness is present in a region at a distance from the silicon substrate. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including introducing nitrogen by irradiating the high-dielectric-constant insulating film which is made of metal oxide or metal silicate, with a nitrogen containing plasma, is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2012Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Heiji Watanabe, Kazuhiko Endo, Kenzo Manabe
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Publication number: 20130268139Abstract: A terminal is enabled to receive an input manipulation of an engine start request by a user, and communicates with an in-vehicle apparatus mounted in a host vehicle via a wireless communication network. When the input manipulation of the engine start request is made in the terminal, a server functioning as a determination section determines whether the host vehicle exists in an idling prohibition region. The server also functions as a start permission output section. When the host vehicle does not exist in the idling prohibition region, the server outputs a start permission instruction for an engine start apparatus. When the host vehicle exists in the idling prohibition region, any start permission instruction is not outputted.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuhiko Endo
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Patent number: 8399879Abstract: Provided is a method for fabricating a nano-wire field effect transistor including steps of: preparing an SOI substrate having a (100) surface orientation, and nano-wire field effect transistor where two triangular columnar members configuring the nano-wires and being made of a silicon crystal layer are arranged one above the other on an SOI substrate having a (100) surface such a way that the ridge lines of the triangular columnar members face via an insulator; processing the silicon crystal configuring the SOI substrate into a standing plate-shaped member having a rectangular cross-section; and as a nanowire, processing the silicon crystal by orientation dependent wet etching into a shape where two triangular columnar members are arranged one above the other in such a way that the ridge lines of the triangular columnar members configuring the nano-wires face through the ridge lines thereof, and an integrated circuit including the nano-wire field effect transistor.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2009Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Yongxun Liu, Takashi Matsukawa, Kazuhiko Endo, Shinichi Ouchi, Kunihiro Sakamoto, Meishoku Masahara
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Patent number: 8399330Abstract: A manufacturing method of the nano-wire field effect transistor, comprising steps of preparing an SOI substrate having a (100) surface orientation; processing a silicon crystal layer comprising the SOI substrate into a standing plate-shaped member having a rectangular cross-section; processing the silicon crystal layer by orientation dependent wet etching and thermal oxidation into a shape where two triangular columnar members are arranged one above the other with a spacing from each other so as to face along the ridge lines of the triangular columnar members; and processing the two triangular columnar members into a circular columnar member configuring a nano-wire by hydrogen annealing or thermal oxidation.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2012Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Yongxun Liu, Takashi Matsukawa, Kazuhiko Endo, Shinichi Ouchi, Kunihiro Sakamoto, Meishoku Masahara
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Publication number: 20120301309Abstract: Dissimilar metal welds including a buttering portion with a small variation in strength distribution in a plate thickness direction are formed by welding two parent materials having at least one of different compositions and different refining conditions through a buttering for alleviating mismatch between one of the different compositions and the different refining conditions of the two members and through a welded metal for joining one of the parent materials and the buttering. The buttering is formed of welding metals laminated in a plate thickness direction, and a dilution ratio of the buttering with the parent materials is 50% or less. The manufacturing method includes performing butt welding on a dummy material formed by increasing a groove depth by providing a member on a bottom side of a welding groove and on parent materials by using the buttering; and processing a groove within a welding metal formed of the buttering.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Inventors: Eiji NISHIOKA, Jun SATO, Shinya IMANO, Takeshi KUDO, Kenichi MURATA, Kazutaka HOSOKAWA, Kazuhiko ENDO
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Publication number: 20120274276Abstract: When detecting an abnormality, an in-vehicle wireless instrument in a plug-in vehicle sends an abnormality occurrence notification to a mobile terminal via an information center. The mobile terminal performs a notification to notify a user of the abnormality having occurred in the plug-in vehicle. When the user performs a charging forbiddance manipulation based on the notification, the mobile terminal sends a charging forbidding command to a power management ECU in the vehicle via the information center and the in-vehicle wireless instrument. When receiving the charging forbidding command, the power management ECU stops charging a battery using an external power source, and sends a setting completion notification to the mobile terminal via the in-vehicle wireless instrument and the information center. When receiving the setting completion notification, the mobile terminal notifies the user that the charging is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuhiko Endo
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Publication number: 20120238082Abstract: A manufacturing method of the nano-wire field effect transistor, comprising steps of preparing an SOI substrate having a (100) surface orientation; processing a silicon crystal layer comprising the SOI substrate into a standing plate-shaped member having a rectangular cross-section; processing the silicon crystal layer by orientation dependent wet etching and thermal oxidation into a shape where two triangular columnar members are arranged one above the other with a spacing from each other so as to face along the ridge lines of the triangular columnar members; and processing the two triangular columnar members into a circular columnar member configuring a nano-wire by hydrogen annealing or thermal oxidation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Yongxun LIU, Takashi Matsukawa, Kazuhiko Endo, Shinichi Ouchi, Kunihiro Sakamoto, Meishoku Masahara
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Publication number: 20120181632Abstract: A semiconductor device having, on a silicon substrate, a gate insulating film and a gate electrode in this order; wherein the gate insulating film comprises a nitrogen containing high-dielectric-constant insulating film which has a structure in which nitrogen is introduced into metal oxide or metal silicate; and the nitrogen concentration in the nitrogen containing high-dielectric-constant insulating film has a distribution in the direction of the film thickness; and a position at which the nitrogen concentration in the nitrogen containing high-dielectric-constant insulating film reaches the maximum in the direction of the film thickness is present in a region at a distance from the silicon substrate. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including introducing nitrogen by irradiating the high-dielectric-constant insulating film which is made of metal oxide or metal silicate, with a nitrogen containing plasma, is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Heiji WATANABE, Kazuhiko Endo, Kenzo Manabe