Patents by Inventor Kenichi Numata

Kenichi Numata 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: 20240151330
    Abstract: A multilayered tubular shaped object has an inner layer, an outer layer, and an interlayer interposed between the inner layer and the outer layer to bond them together, and the inner layer contains a polyolefin as a main component, the outer layer contains a thermoplastic polyurethane as a main component, the interlayer contains an adhesive polyolefin as a main component, a thickness of the outer layer is 1 to 1.5 mm, and a proportion of a sum of the thickness of the outer layer and a thickness of the interlayer to a thickness of the multilayered tubular shaped object is 0.7 to 0.88, and a softening temperature of the thermoplastic polyurethane is 135 to 200° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Daichi AOKI, Kenichi NUMATA
  • Publication number: 20240133491
    Abstract: A flexible tube includes at least a first resin layer which includes a fluororesin and has a thickness of 0.05 to 0.5 mm and 1 to 16% of the overall thickness of the flexible tube, and a second resin layer which is provided on an outer side of the first resin layer and includes a thermoplastic resin different from that in the first resin layer, wherein in the fluororesin, the flexural modulus measured by ASTM D790 is 500 to 1200 MPa, and the ratio (A)/(B), which is obtained by FTIR measurement, of the peak area (A) corresponding to C—H bonds at a wavenumber of 1400 to 1500 cm?1 to the peak area (B) corresponding to C—F bonds at a wavenumber of 1000 to 1100 cm?1 is 0.2 to 4.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Kenichi NUMATA, Masaru OKURA
  • Patent number: 11956356
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a key management device includes a storage and a server. The storage includes a first nonvolatile memory, and a first controller configured to encrypt, using a first media encryption key, data from a host, and store the encrypted data in the first nonvolatile memory. The server includes a second nonvolatile memory storing a first key, and a second controller configured to transmit the first key from the second nonvolatile memory to the storage without passing through the host. The first controller is configured to generate the first media encryption key using the first key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Kusaka, Kenichi Numata
  • Patent number: 11941261
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a first storage region assigned to a first user and a second storage region assigned to a second user. A first controller is capable of providing a data protection function to the first and second storage regions, and a second controller is capable of providing the data protection function to the second storage region. The first controller stores a table with information about the data protection function. The second controller can refer to the table. The first controller has a authority to execute a user authentication for the first storage region and the second storage region to determine whether the data protection function can be provided for the first or second storage regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Numata
  • Patent number: 11933438
    Abstract: An operator is enabled to easily identify the normal attachment direction of a ground clip and set the ground clip in a correct direction. Provided is a hose attachment structure in which a ground clip is attached over a grounded electroconductive pipe and a flexible hose inserted onto an outer face of the electroconductive pipe, wherein the ground clip includes a coil part that is attached to the outer face of the electroconductive pipe and an outer peripheral surface of the flexible hose and a pair of pinch parts that protrudes from both end parts in an axial direction of the coil part and faces each other, and one pinch part among the pair of pinch parts has an asymmetrically-shaped indicator part having directivity in the axial direction of the coil part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Numata
  • Patent number: 11859736
    Abstract: An antistatic flexible hose, including: a hose body which is formed of a soft material having flexibility; a conductive layer which is provided along an outer peripheral face of the hose body in an axial direction; a conductive wire which is wound in a spiral shape along the outer peripheral face of the hose body and an outer surface of the conductive layer and which is provided so as to be pressure-welded, in a radial direction, to the outer peripheral face of the hose body and the outer surface of the conductive layer; and a reinforcing member which is provided in a spiral shape along the conductive wire so as to protrude from the outer peripheral face of the hose body and the outer surface of the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Okura, Kenichi Numata
  • Publication number: 20230337349
    Abstract: A plasma treatment apparatus has a dielectric with an inner cavity and having a cylindrical shape, a coiled inner electrode positioned on the inner peripheral surface side of the dielectric and wound along the axial direction, an outer electrode positioned on the outer peripheral surface side of the dielectric and applying an AC voltage between the outer electrode and the inner electrode, and a gas supply part supplying to the inner cavity a gas to generate plasma by applying the AC voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Kenichi NUMATA, Daichi AOKI
  • Publication number: 20230297251
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a first storage region assigned to a first user and a second storage region assigned to a second user. A first controller is capable of providing a data protection function to the first and second storage regions, and a second controller is capable of providing the data protection function to the second storage region. The first controller stores a table with information about the data protection function. The second controller can refer to the table. The first controller has a authority to execute a user authentication for the first storage region and the second storage region to determine whether the data protection function can be provided for the first or second storage regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventor: Kenichi NUMATA
  • Publication number: 20230250900
    Abstract: To provide a multilayer tubular molded body, which has high chemical resistance and heat resistance and excellent adhesive strength, and a method for producing the same, a multilayer tubular molded body 1 has an inner layer 2 containing a polyolefin as a main component, an outer layer 3 containing polyvinyl chloride as a main component, and an interlayer 4, which is provided between the inner layer 2 and the outer layer 3, has a function to attach the inner layer 2 and the outer layer 3, and contains a first polyolefin having an aromatic ring on a side chain and a second polyolefin having an ester containing group on a side chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Daichi AOKI, Kenichi NUMATA
  • Publication number: 20230011828
    Abstract: An operator is enabled to easily identify the normal attachment direction of a ground clip and set the ground clip in a correct direction. Provided is a hose attachment structure in which a ground clip is attached over a grounded electroconductive pipe and a flexible hose inserted onto an outer face of the electroconductive pipe, wherein the ground clip includes a coil part that is attached to the outer face of the electroconductive pipe and an outer peripheral surface of the flexible hose and a pair of pinch parts that protrudes from both end parts in an axial direction of the coil part and faces each other, and one pinch part among the pair of pinch parts has an asymmetrically-shaped indicator part having directivity in the axial direction of the coil part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi NUMATA
  • Patent number: 11521406
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a designated first component among one or more components which configure a document; a specification unit that specifies a second component, which has a determined relation with respect to the first component, among the components; and a notification unit that provides a notification of a request of an approval with respect to the first component to an approver in a case where all specified second components are approved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kenichi Numata
  • Patent number: 11507284
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a nonvolatile storage medium and a controller. The controller encrypts data with an encryption key, writes encrypted data into the storage medium, and manages a first and second encryption keys. The first encryption key encrypts data to be written into a first area and a second encryption key encrypts data to be written into a second area. The controller updates, if the first area is write protected and the second area is not write protected, the second encryption key without updating the first encryption key when receiving an initialization command from a host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Isozaki, Yoshiyuki Kudoh, Kenichi Numata
  • Patent number: 11468159
    Abstract: A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including user areas, a volatile memory, a battery, and a controller configured to, when the volatile memory maintains first information indicating an access to a user area is permitted and a verification value upon startup of the system, determine whether the information is validated by the value, and upon determining that the information is validated, permit an access to the user area and prohibit the access to any other area, and when the volatile memory does not maintain the information and value, or the information is not validated, prohibit an access to any user area, and thereafter, upon receipt of a command and authentication information from the host, permit an access to the user area requested by the command, and generate and store in the volatile memory the information and the value for validating the generated information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Numata, Sachi Tarui
  • Publication number: 20220205563
    Abstract: An antistatic flexible hose, including: a hose body which is formed of a soft material having flexibility; a conductive layer which is provided along an outer peripheral face of the hose body in an axial direction; a conductive wire which is wound in a spiral shape along the outer peripheral face of the hose body and an outer surface of the conductive layer and which is provided so as to be pressure-welded, in a radial direction, to the outer peripheral face of the hose body and the outer surface of the conductive layer; and a reinforcing member which is provided in a spiral shape along the conductive wire so as to protrude from the outer peripheral face of the hose body and the outer surface of the conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru OKURA, Kenichi NUMATA
  • Publication number: 20220085997
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a key management device includes a storage and a server. The storage includes a first nonvolatile memory, and a first controller configured to encrypt, using a first media encryption key, data from a host, and store the encrypted data in the first nonvolatile memory. The server includes a second nonvolatile memory storing a first key, and a second controller configured to transmit the first key from the second nonvolatile memory to the storage without passing through the host. The first controller is configured to generate the first media encryption key using the first key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro KUSAKA, Kenichi NUMATA
  • Publication number: 20210173844
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires input information including (i) feature information indicating a feature of similarity of a content between a first document element and a second document element, (ii) an attribute of the first document element, and (iii) an attribute of the second document element, and a generation unit that generates relation information corresponding to the input information acquired by the acquisition unit, by an AI which has learned to generate the relation information indicating a relation between the first document element and the second document element from the input information in advance by machine learning, in which each of the contents of the first document element and the second document element is formed of one or more parts, and the feature information is obtained based on similarity information indicating similarity of a pair of the parts between the first document element and the second document element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Saneyuki KOBAYASHI, Kenichi NUMATA, Yushi HARADA
  • Publication number: 20210141910
    Abstract: A storage device includes a storage and a controller. The storage includes a plurality of sections. The controller executes control of the storage. The control includes writing data to the storage and reading data from the storage, in response to a command from a host. The controller includes a security control unit that applies a data protection processing method compliant with a first specification or a second specification, to protect data in the storage. The security control unit applies a first data protection processing method compliant with the first specification to a first section of the plurality of sections and a second data protection processing method compliant with the second specification to a second section of the plurality of sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventor: Kenichi NUMATA
  • Publication number: 20210103653
    Abstract: A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including user areas, a volatile memory, a battery, and a controller configured to, when the volatile memory maintains first information indicating an access to a user area is permitted and a verification value upon startup of the system, determine whether the information is validated by the value, and upon determining that the information is validated, permit an access to the user area and prohibit the access to any other area, and when the volatile memory does not maintain the information and value, or the information is not validated, prohibit an access to any user area, and thereafter, upon receipt of a command and authentication information from the host, permit an access to the user area requested by the command, and generate and store in the volatile memory the information and the value for validating the generated information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Kenichi Numata, Sachi Tarui
  • Publication number: 20200302076
    Abstract: A document processing apparatus includes a division unit and a determination unit. The division unit is configured to divide a document into plural partial structures. The determination unit is configured to determine, for each partial structure, whether content of the partial structure includes an element corresponding to a predetermined concealment type, determine that a partial structure which does not include an element corresponding to the concealment type is releasable, and determine that a partial structures which includes an element corresponding to the concealment type is unreleasable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi NUMATA
  • Publication number: 20200293206
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device comprises a nonvolatile storage medium and a controller. The controller encrypts data with an encryption key, writes encrypted data into the storage medium, and manages a first and second encryption keys. The first encryption key encrypts data to be written into a first area and a second encryption key encrypts data to be written into a second area. The controller updates, if the first area is write protected and the second area is not write protected, the second encryption key without updating the first encryption key when receiving an initialization command from a host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi ISOZAKI, Yoshiyuki KUDOH, Kenichi NUMATA