Patents by Inventor Kenji Miyamoto

Kenji Miyamoto 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: 20250046493
    Abstract: A composite electrical wire 1 includes a shielded electrical wire 10 that includes one or more insulated electrical wires 11 and a film-like metallic shield that covers the outer periphery of the one or more insulated electrical wires 11, a lead wire 20, and a fixing member 30 that fixes the lead wire 20 to the shielded electrical wire 10. The metallic shield includes a covering part 14a that covers the outer periphery of the shielded electrical wire 10. The lead wire 20 overlaps with the covering part 14a and is electrically connected to the metallic shield. The fixing member 30 presses the mutually-overlapping covering part 14a and lead wire 20 radially inward with respect to the shielded electrical wire 10, and fixes the covering part 14a and the lead wire 20 to the shielded electrical wire 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Keisuke KONDO, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Kazuhiro WASHIO
  • Patent number: 12203659
    Abstract: A combustor cylinder includes a cylinder, and a fuel nozzle capable of injecting fuel into a combustion space of the cylinder. The cylinder has a plurality of cooling passages allowing cooling air to circulate therethrough, and a nozzle attachment penetration hole penetrating the cylinder from an outer circumferential surface of the cylinder to an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder. The fuel nozzle has a mixing passage, a fuel passage communicating with the mixing passage and capable of supplying the fuel to the inside of the mixing passage, and a connection passage communicating with the mixing passage and capable of supplying cooling air from a part of the plurality of cooling passages to the inside of the mixing passage. A position in the mixing passage communicating with the connection passage is on a side where a spout port of the mixing passage is present from a position where the mixing passage communicates with the fuel passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Geoffrey D. Myers, Kenji Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20250007844
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system comprising: at least one base station accommodating a wireless terminal; at least one transfer device which transfers, to a higher level, an uplink communication of the wireless terminal received via the base station; and a transfer device controller which controls the at least one transfer device, and the communication system further includes: an information acquisition unit for acquiring information regarding a wireless communication for each quality-of-service class between the base station and the wireless terminal; a rate determination unit for determining, for each of the quality-of-service classes, a shaping rate for traffic shaping such that a packet loss caused by congestion does not occur, on the basis of the information regarding the wireless communication for each quality-of-service class; and a communication control unit for executing, for each quality-of-service class, the traffic shaping at the higher level to the base station on the basis of the shaping rate
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji MIYAMOTO, Yoshihito SAKAI, Tatsuya SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20240414646
    Abstract: A first transmission apparatus receives a data signal transmitted by a communication apparatus from a lower transmission apparatus sets the received data signal in a data unit, and transmits the data unit. A second transmission apparatus receives the data unit transmitted by the first transmission apparatus. An electric power controller calculates an arrival start timing that is a timing at which the data unit including a data signal transmitted from a communication apparatus starts to arrive at the second transmission apparatus on a basis of a code rate and a size of a data transmission block used when the communication apparatus transmits the data signal, and performs control such that a sleep state of a signal processor that performs processing on the data unit in the second transmission apparatus is ended before the arrival start timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka UJIKAWA, Tatsuya SHIMADA, Yoshihito SAKAI, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Yuka OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12166323
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a crimp terminal in which a core wire is kept from coming loose. The crimp terminal 14 includes a plate-like crimp portion 15 that is to be crimped to a core wire of an electric wire by being deformed so as to wrap around the core wire, and a protruding portion 16 that protrudes from the inner surface of the crimp portion 15. A groove 21 that extends along a direction that intersects the extending direction of the core wire is provided in the protruding portion 16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES. LTD., SUMITOMOM WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Nishimura, Taiji Mochizuki, Kenji Miyamoto, Kazuhiro Washio
  • Publication number: 20240405909
    Abstract: A control device includes an acquisition unit that acquires information from a distributed station that notifies the information related to one or more events occurred within a predetermined time period at a predetermined notification frequency, an information analysis unit that executes analysis processing on the information, a frequency derivation unit that derives an occurrence frequency of the information, a load derivation unit that derives a load of analysis processing of the information, and a frequency control unit that controls the predetermined notification frequency with a frequency lower than the occurrence frequency as an upper limit on the basis of at least one of an analysis result of the information, an occurrence frequency of the information, and a load of analysis processing of the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroko NOMURA, Hirotaka UJIKAWA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Kota ASAKA, Yoshihito SAKAI, Tatsuya SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20240406952
    Abstract: A control device includes: a scheme determination unit configured to determine whether a packet to which an identifier of a priority is assigned is transmitted in conformity with a grant-free scheme; a time estimation unit configured to estimate a time in which a traffic volume of the packet is equal to or more than a threshold; and a transfer control unit configured to generate a control signal of a signal transfer device so that the signal transfer device transfers a packet that has arrived at the signal transfer device in the estimated time in accordance with the identifier of the priority. The scheme determination unit determines whether the repeated transmission of the packet is performed. The time estimation unit estimates a time in which the plurality of packets arrive at the signal transfer device a predetermined number of times at predetermined time intervals when it is determined that the repeated transmission of the packets is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroko NOMURA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Kota ASAKA
  • Publication number: 20240380133
    Abstract: A terminal is constructed to be connected to an attachment target by a bolt, and includes a first surface, a through hole, and an asperity portion. A material for the terminal is aluminum, etc. The terminal has a Vickers hardness equal to or higher than 80 HV. A ratio S1/S2 between a first area S1 and a second area S2 while the first surface and the attachment target are connected to each other by tightening of the bolt is equal to or lower than 0.8. The first area S1 is an area of a region where the first surface is in contact with the attachment target at a pressure equal to or higher than 25 MPa. The second area S2 is an area of an annular region around the bolt. The first area S1 is equal to or larger than 5 mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryohei KOBAYASHI, Toru MAEDA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Masashi FUJIKI, Akihiro HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12117175
    Abstract: A combustor includes: a tube plate having an upstream side end face and a downstream side end face that are orthogonal to a combustor axis, in which an air hole passing through the upstream side end face and the downstream side end face is formed in the tube plate; and a fuel injector that injects fuel into air passing through the air hole. The air hole has: a bent channel that curves toward a direction orthogonal to the combustor axis toward the downstream side; and an inclined channel that is connected to the downstream side of the bent channel so as to be continuous therewith, and that extends inclining with respect to the combustor axis and opens to the downstream side end face. A fuel injection position at which the fuel injector injects fuel is located on the downstream side of the upstream end of the bent channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Miura, Shinichi Fukuba, Keijiro Saito, Kenji Miyamoto, Kenta Taniguchi, Kiyoshi Fujimoto, Tomo Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20240336506
    Abstract: The invention provides a microorganism that can degrade aromatic polyester or a degradation product thereof and a method for degrading aromatic polyester or a degradation product thereof with the use of such microorganism. The microorganism is a bacterial strain that degrades aromatic polyester or a degradation product such as the strain No. 2a (Accession Number: NITE BP-03483); the strain No. 7a (Accession Number: NITE BP-03484); or the strain No. 8d (Accession Number: NITE BP-03485).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: JEPLAN, INC.
    Inventors: Kenji MIYAMOTO, Yuki KAWAI, Masakazu KADOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240323575
    Abstract: A control device including a collection unit that acquires, at a predetermined cycle, cooperation information, which is information indicating a communication state between a communication system that includes a wireless station including an antenna and an allocation device that allocates a wavelength, and a terminal to be communicated, an analysis unit that analyzes the communication state in the communication system on the basis of the cooperation information, and an allocation control unit that controls execution of wavelength allocation by the allocation device on the basis of an analysis result of the analysis unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Karin UMEDA, Kota ASAKA, Hiroko NOMURA, Hiroshi O, Yoshihito SAKAI, Hirotaka UJIKAWA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Yuka OKAMOTO, Tatsuya SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20240323746
    Abstract: A communication system including one or more base stations that accommodates wireless terminals, one or more transfer apparatuses that transfer uplink communication of the wireless terminal received via the base station to an upper side, and a transfer apparatus controller that controls the one or more transfer apparatuses includes an information acquisition unit that acquires information on wireless communication between the base station and the wireless terminal for each traffic flow, a rate determination unit that determines a shaping rate of the traffic shaping for each traffic flow, so that delay jitter in the base station is mitigated on an upper side with respect to the base station, on the basis of the information on the wireless communication for each traffic flow, and a communication control unit that executes traffic shaping on the upper side with respect to the base station on the basis of the shaping rate determined by the rate determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Yoshihito SAKAI, Tatsuya SHIMADA, Keita Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240323800
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is a wireless communication system including: a plurality of end wireless devices that include an antenna and transmit and receive signals to and from a wireless terminal which is a communication target; a plurality of transfer devices that transfer signals which are transmitted and received by the wireless terminal which is a communication target and the end wireless device; and a transfer management device that, in a case where communication status information indicating a status of communication between the wireless terminal and the end wireless devices is received, executes a transfer route control process of controlling paths between the plurality of transfer devices on the basis of the received communication status information, wherein the end wireless devices execute a switching process of controlling operations of the end wireless devices relating to communication between the end wireless devices and the wireless terminal on the basis of the commu
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji MIYAMOTO, Yoshihito SAKAI, Tatsuya SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20240288170
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes: a flat tube disposed over an aperture of a wall of a combustor that extends toward a turbine in a gas turbine system. The flat tube is configured such that air compressed by a compressor of the gas turbine system flows perpendicular to a thickness direction of the flat tube before flowing through the aperture. The flat tube has a fuel hole through which gaseous fuel that flows inside the flat tube exits to a passage of the air. An entire length of a downstream edge of the flat tube with respect to a flow of the air is disposed within the aperture when viewed perpendicular to the wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Geoffrey D. Myers, Kota Yoshino, Issei Tamura, Satoshi Takiguchi, Sosuke Nakamura, Satoshi Hada, Kenji Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20240230092
    Abstract: A combustor cylinder includes a cylinder, and a fuel nozzle capable of injecting fuel into a combustion space of the cylinder. The cylinder has a plurality of cooling passages allowing cooling air to circulate therethrough, and a nozzle attachment penetration hole penetrating the cylinder from an outer circumferential surface of the cylinder to an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder. The fuel nozzle has a mixing passage, a fuel passage communicating with the mixing passage and capable of supplying the fuel to the inside of the mixing passage, and a connection passage communicating with the mixing passage and capable of supplying cooling air from a part of the plurality of cooling passages to the inside of the mixing passage. A position in the mixing passage communicating with the connection passage is on a side where a spout port of the mixing passage is present from a position where the mixing passage communicates with the fuel passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Geoffrey D. Myers, Kenji Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20240170861
    Abstract: A terminal-equipped electric wire includes an electric wire in which a conductor composed of a plurality of bare strands is covered with an insulating coating, a tubular intermediate component, and a terminal; the terminal includes, at one end, a connecting portion for connection with a mating terminal and, at another end, a tubular coupling portion for coupling to the intermediate portion; the intermediate component includes, at one end, a first electromagnetically welding portion that is fitted onto and electromagnetically welded to the conductor exposed at a terminal end of the electric wire and, at another end, a second electromagnetically welding portion 38 that is fitted onto and electromagnetically welded to the coupling portion of the terminal; and the conductor of the electric wire and the intermediate component are made of the same type of metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji KAWATA, Kenji MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240133554
    Abstract: A combustor cylinder includes a cylinder, and a fuel nozzle capable of injecting fuel into a combustion space of the cylinder. The cylinder has a plurality of cooling passages allowing cooling air to circulate therethrough, and a nozzle attachment penetration hole penetrating the cylinder from an outer circumferential surface of the cylinder to an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder. The fuel nozzle has a mixing passage, a fuel passage communicating with the mixing passage and capable of supplying the fuel to the inside of the mixing passage, and a connection passage communicating with the mixing passage and capable of supplying cooling air from a part of the plurality of cooling passages to the inside of the mixing passage. A position in the mixing passage communicating with the connection passage is on a side where a spout port of the mixing passage is present from a position where the mixing passage communicates with the fuel passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Geoffrey D. Myers, Kenji Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20240125476
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor according to at least one embodiment, includes: a less combustible fuel flow control part for controlling, independently of each other, amounts of less combustible fuel supplied to a first fuel injector and a second fuel injector; a highly combustible fuel flow control part for controlling, independently of each other, amounts of highly combustible fuel having a higher combustion speed than the less combustible fuel and supplied to the first fuel injector and the second fuel injector; and a controller configured to control the less combustible fuel flow control part and the highly combustible fuel flow control part such that a relative ratio of a first ratio of the highly combustible fuel to whole of first fuel injected by the first fuel injector and a second ratio of the highly combustible fuel to whole of second fuel injected by the second fuel injector changes according to an operating condition of a gas turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kenji MIYAMOTO, Sosuke NAKAMURA, Taku EGAWA, Tomo KAWAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20240085023
    Abstract: A premixed combustion burner including: an outer tube having an inlet opening on a first side in an axial direction and an outlet opening on a second side in the axial direction; an inner tube formed in a cylindrical shape extending in the axial direction and spaced inside the outer tube, and forming a film air flow path between the inner and outer tubes; and a strut extending inward from the inner wall surface of the outer tube and supporting the inner tube. An end of the inner tube on the first side is located further towards the second side than the outer tube inlet opening. An end of the inner tube on the second side is located further towards the first side than the outlet opening of the outer tube. The outer tube, the strut, and the inner tube are formed with a fuel injection flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kiyoshi FUJIMOTO, Tomo KAWAKAMI, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Keisuke MIURA, Shinichi FUKUBA
  • Publication number: 20240085837
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, in a case of duplex printing, a sheet is transported toward an image forming device along a sheet transport route, the image forming device forms an image on a first face, which is one of faces of the sheet, a reverse transport device reverses the front and back faces of the sheet and transports the sheet to a position upstream of a show-through reading device in a sheet transport direction, and the show-through reading device reads a second face, which is another face of the sheet. Then the show-through detector decides whether a show-through has occurred, on a basis of the image that has been read.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya MAJIMA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Takahiro HONDA, Hiroyuki YAMAGUCHI, Hideo TAKETANI