Patents by Inventor Keiichi Aoki
Keiichi Aoki 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: 20260161205Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus which improves an external appearance and which easily ensures the strength of an exterior member. In the electronic apparatus, an upper surface of an exterior panel (20A) has, on a peripheral portion of the upper surface, a first position (P1), a second position (P2) defined on an opposite side of a center (P0) of the upper surface from the first position (P1), a third position (P3), and a fourth position (P4) defined on an opposite side of the center (P0) of the upper surface from the third position (P3). A line (L1) that connects the first position (P1) and the second position (P2) to each other and is formed along the upper surface is a curve bulging to a lower side, and a line (L2) that connects the third position (P3) and the fourth position (P4) to each other and is formed along the upper surface is a curve bulging to an upper side.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2025Publication date: June 11, 2026Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yujin MORISAWA, Yasuhiro Ootori, Keiichi Aoki, Shinya Tsuchida
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Publication number: 20260156771Abstract: The amount of ingredients and dust contained in air to be deposited on a component on a circuit board included in a cooling fan is reduced. A cooling fan (10) has a base plate (40) having an annular outer circumferential base section (41) and a center base section (42) that is positioned inside the outer circumferential base section (41). The cooling fan (10) has an electric motor (60) that is positioned below the center base section (42), a circuit board (70) that is positioned between the electric motor (60) and the center base section (42) and is for driving the electric motor (60), and a circumferential wall section (55) that surrounds an outer circumferential edge of the circuit board (70).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: June 4, 2026Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Takayuki Hachiya, Shinya Tsuchida, Yuta Tamaki, Keiichi Aoki
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Publication number: 20250338431Abstract: There is provided an electronic device that prevents atmospheric components and dust from sticking to parts mounted on a circuit substrate of a cooling fan. The cooling fan has the circuit substrate arranged, with respect to a motor, in a direction along an axis line of the motor. At least one of a switching element, a control IC for controlling the switching element, a protection diode, a protection capacitor, and a shunt resistor is mounted on the circuit substrate. An air intake port of the electronic device is positioned away from the motor in a radial direction of the motor. The at least one of the parts is arranged on the opposite side of the air intake port with a plane interposed therebetween, the plane passing through the axis line of the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2022Publication date: October 30, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Takayuki HACHIYA, Keiichi AOKI, Yuta TAMAKI, Mitsuharu MORISHITA, Shinya HIROMITSU
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Publication number: 20250247997Abstract: Provided is an electronic device that can reduce dust and so forth that adhere to a ventilation region of a heat generating part or a heat radiating part. An electronic device includes a power supply unit, and a housing that has the power supply unit accommodated therein and that has an intake port formed therein. The intake port is positioned to the right with respect to the power supply unit. The power supply unit has, on a side thereof directed to the right of the power supply unit, an intake region for allowing passage therethrough of air from the outside toward the inside of a case of the power supply unit. A dustproof wall is formed between the intake region and the intake port and stands uprightly in an upward and downward direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2023Publication date: July 31, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yuuki KITAMURA, Kazutaka ETO, Yuta TAMAKI, Keiichi AOKI, Yasuhiro OOTORI
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Publication number: 20250205607Abstract: A setting section 80 sets an automatic download processing execution time which is set according to a predicted time of startup of the information processing apparatus. A download processing section 82 executes automatic download processing of a patch file at the set execution time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: June 26, 2025Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Fumihiko Iida, Syunsuke Bamba, Atsushi Hamano, Keiichi Aoki, Kazuki Soma
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Patent number: 12298823Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus which improves an external appearance and which easily ensures the strength of an exterior member. In the electronic apparatus, an upper surface of an exterior panel (20A) has, on a peripheral portion of the upper surface, a first position (P1), a second position (P2) defined on an opposite side of a center (P0) of the upper surface from the first position (P1), a third position (P3), and a fourth position (P4) defined on an opposite side of the center (P0) of the upper surface from the third position (P3). A line (L1) that connects the first position (P1) and the second position (P2) to each other and is formed along the upper surface is a curve bulging to a lower side, and a line (L2) that connects the third position (P3) and the fourth position (P4) to each other and is formed along the upper surface is a curve bulging to an upper side.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yujin Morisawa, Yasuhiro Ootori, Keiichi Aoki, Shinya Tsuchida
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Patent number: 12271619Abstract: A reading-out section 108 is capable of reading out files recorded in a first auxiliary storage device 2a and a second auxiliary storage device 2b. A recording management section 106 moves a file of an application recorded in the second auxiliary storage device 2b to the first auxiliary storage device 2a. An application execution section 102 executes the application by using the file moved to the first auxiliary storage device 2a.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Syunsuke Bamba, Makoto Sunayama, Masaki Takahashi, Keiichi Aoki
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Patent number: 12075593Abstract: Not only cooling performance for an integrated circuit such as a central processing unit (CPU) but also cooling performance for a power supply unit is improved. An electronic apparatus includes a first heat sink and a power supply unit including a power supply unit case having an intake air wall in which a plurality of air intake holes are formed. The intake air wall is located in front of the first heat sink. The intake air wall has an external surface being inclined with respect to both a front-rear direction and a left-right direction and facing the first heat sink. A cooling fan is disposed to feed air toward the intake air wall.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shinya Tsuchida, Keiichi Aoki, Yasuhiro Ootori, Yuta Tamaki, Mitsuharu Morishita
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Patent number: 12019886Abstract: A decrease in responsiveness when storing content in a flash memory is reduced. A storage management apparatus includes a flash memory including a plurality of blocks that include a plurality of usable blocks and one or more spare blocks. The apparatus is configured to acquire a new data set; change at least a part of the one or more spare blocks into a usable block and store the new data set in the thus changed usable block, in a case where a size of the new data set is larger than the writable area of the plurality of usable blocks and where the size of the new data set is larger than the writable area when an unnecessary data set contained in the plurality of usable blocks is deleted; and change the usable blocks all the data sets of which are deleted into spare blocks through garbage collection.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Keiichi Aoki, Masaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 11954328Abstract: A processing load is reduced when a flash memory is used. A storage management device acquires an archive associated with an application, stores the acquired archive to one or more blocks among a plurality of blocks contained in the flash memory, and deletes one block among the plurality of blocks. In the archive storage, the acquired archive is stored in one of the blocks not storing an archive associated with an application different from that of the acquired archive, and in the deletion of one block, when an application is deleted, a block storing an archive associated with the application to be deleted is deleted.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Keiichi Aoki, Masaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 11899930Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce deterioration in responsiveness to storage of content in a flash memory. A storage management apparatus according to the present invention includes a flash memory including a plurality of blocks each having a reserved area and a normal area, acquires a new dataset when a writable area included in a normal area of the plurality of blocks is larger than the new dataset and the new dataset is smaller in size than the writable area included in the normal area of the plurality of blocks in a case where unnecessary datasets included in the plurality of blocks are deleted, copies non-unnecessary datasets from the normal area of a specific block including the unnecessary datasets to the normal area of another block, deletes all datasets included in the normal area of the specific block, and stores the new dataset in the normal area of the specific block from which all the datasets are deleted.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Keiichi Aoki, Masaki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20230345665Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus that acquires an ambient temperature of the electronic apparatus and operates a cooling device to cool a component that generates heat during an operation. When the ambient temperature is lower than a predetermined reference temperature, the electronic apparatus exercises control to increase an output of the cooling device to a value higher than that obtained when the ambient temperature is equal to or higher than the reference temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shinya Tsuchida, Nils Sabelstrom, Mitsuharu Morishita, Masanori Hayashibara, Yasuhiro Ootori, Keiichi Aoki
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Patent number: 11785738Abstract: Proposed is an electronic apparatus with which it is possible to increase design freedom concerning a wall section formed with vent holes. A rear wall section (20D) includes a rectilinear wall section (21i) spaced rearward from a rear edge (41c) of a circuit board (41), and an inclined wall section (21j) located on the rear side relative to the rectilinear wall section (21i). An inner wall section (42e) is located between the inclined wall section (21j) and the rear edge (41c) of the circuit board (41), and is not located between the rectilinear wall section (21i) and the rear edge (41c) of the circuit board (41).Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Ichiro Sasaki, Keiichi Aoki
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Publication number: 20230171915Abstract: Not only cooling performance for an integrated circuit such as a CPU but also cooling performance for a power supply unit is improved. An electronic apparatus (1) includes a first heat sink (71) and a power supply unit (60) including a power supply unit case (61) having an intake air wall (61a) in which a plurality of air intake holes (61b) are formed. The intake air wall (61b) is located in front of the first heat sink (71). The intake air wall (61b) has an external surface being inclined with respect to both a front-rear direction and a left-right direction and facing the first heat sink (71). A cooling fan (5) is disposed to feed air toward the intake air wall (61a).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shinya TSUCHIDA, Keiichi AOKI, Yasuhiro OOTORI, Yuta TAMAKI, Mitsuharu MORISHITA
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Publication number: 20230114888Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus which improves an external appearance and which easily ensures the strength of an exterior member. In the electronic apparatus, an upper surface of an exterior panel (20A) has, on a peripheral portion of the upper surface, a first position (P1), a second position (P2) defined on an opposite side of a center (P0) of the upper surface from the first position (P1), a third position (P3), and a fourth position (P4) defined on an opposite side of the center (P0) of the upper surface from the third position (P3). A line (L1) that connects the first position (P1) and the second position (P2) to each other and is formed along the upper surface is a curve bulging to a lower side, and a line (L2) that connects the third position (P3) and the fourth position (P4) to each other and is formed along the upper surface is a curve bulging to an upper side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yujin MORISAWA, Yasuhiro OOTORI, Keiichi AOKI, Shinya TSUCHIDA
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Publication number: 20230102571Abstract: A heat radiating device includes a plurality of heat pipes including respective heat receiving portions that are located above an integrated circuit and that are thermally connected to the integrated circuit, and a heat sink connected to the plurality of heat pipes. A plurality of the heat receiving portions are aligned with each other in a left-right direction and are in contact with the heat receiving portions (73a) of adjacent ones of the heat pipes. The heat receiving portions each have a first width in an upward-downward direction and have a second width smaller than the width in the left-right direction. With this, cooling performance for the integrated circuit can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nils SABELSTROM, Chiyoshi SASAKI, Shinya TSUCHIDA, Keiichi AOKI, Yasuhiro OOTORI
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Publication number: 20220365677Abstract: A processing load is reduced when a flash memory is used. A storage management device acquires an archive associated with an application, stores the acquired archive to one or more blocks among a plurality of blocks contained in the flash memory, and deletes one block among the plurality of blocks. In the archive storage, the acquired archive is stored in one of the blocks not storing an archive associated with an application different from that of the acquired archive, and in the deletion of one block, when an application is deleted, a block storing an archive associated with the application to be deleted is deleted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Keiichi AOKI, Masaki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220283705Abstract: A decrease in responsiveness when storing content in a flash memory is reduced. A storage management apparatus includes a flash memory including a plurality of blocks that include a plurality of usable blocks and one or more spare blocks. The apparatus is configured to acquire a new data set; change at least a part of the one or more spare blocks into a usable block and store the new data set in the thus changed usable block, in a case where a size of the new data set is larger than the writable area of the plurality of usable blocks and where the size of the new data set is larger than the writable area when an unnecessary data set contained in the plurality of usable blocks is deleted; and change the usable blocks all the data sets of which are deleted into spare blocks through garbage collection.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Keiichi AOKI, Masaki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220261154Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce deterioration in responsiveness to storage of content in a flash memory. A storage management apparatus according to the present invention includes a flash memory including a plurality of blocks each having a reserved area and a normal area, acquires a new dataset when a writable area included in a normal area of the plurality of blocks is larger than the new dataset and the new dataset is smaller in size than the writable area included in the normal area of the plurality of blocks in a case where unnecessary datasets included in the plurality of blocks are deleted, copies non-unnecessary datasets from the normal area of a specific block including the unnecessary datasets to the normal area of another block, deletes all datasets included in the normal area of the specific block, and stores the new dataset in the normal area of the specific block from which all the datasets are deleted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Keiichi AOKI, Masaki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220253235Abstract: A reading-out section 108 is capable of reading out files recorded in a first auxiliary storage device 2a and a second auxiliary storage device 2b. A recording management section 106 moves a file of an application recorded in the second auxiliary storage device 2b to the first auxiliary storage device 2a. An application execution section 102 executes the application by using the file moved to the first auxiliary storage device 2a.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Syunsuke BAMBA, Makoto SUNAYAMA, Masaki TAKAHASHI, Keiichi AOKI