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).

  • Patent number: 10404501
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes an RF reception unit configured to receive a radio signal from a terminal; a channel estimation unit configured to estimate channel information of a wireless transmission path with respect to the terminal; a demodulation unit configured to perform soft decision demodulation on the radio signal; a quantization unit configured to quantize a log likelihood ratio obtained through soft decision demodulation in the demodulation unit, on the basis of a statistical distribution determined using an average value of the log likelihood ratio determined in accordance with a modulation scheme used in wireless communication with the terminal and a variance of a log likelihood ratio obtained on the basis of the channel information; and a decoding unit configured to perform a decoding process on the log likelihood ratio quantized by the quantization unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Jun Terada, Shigeru Kuwano
  • Publication number: 20190265618
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus connected to a charging device includes an image forming unit, a fixing unit, a charge processor, a controller, and a printed sheet counter. The charge processor charges a fee for printing. The controller selects an energy saving mode, upon deciding that a balance of a deposited amount in the charging device is less than a threshold amount. The printed sheet counter counts the number of sheets of the recording medium printed by the image forming unit in one single printing job. The controller selects the energy saving mode for the next printing job, upon deciding that the number of sheets printed in one single printing job is less than a predetermined threshold number of sheets, when the deposit balance is remaining in the charging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto MATSUMOTO, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Kazuhiro TSUBAKI, Takuya ARITSUKI
  • Patent number: 10396872
    Abstract: A relay apparatus includes: an estimation unit selects a code book number corresponding to a reception SNR range based on an estimated reception SNR value; a soft demodulation unit that performs soft demodulation on a received first signal to detect a likelihood of the received first signal; a first memory unit that stores a first quantization code book showing, for each code book number, a relationship between a quantization parameter and a likelihood quantization bit value; a quantization unit that refers the first quantization code book to obtain a relationship between a quantization parameter and a likelihood quantization bit value that corresponds to the selected code book number, and adaptively quantizes the detected likelihood by using the obtained relationship to obtain a likelihood quantization bit value; and a transmission unit that transmits, to the receiving apparatus, a second signal including the obtained likelihood quantization bit value and the selected code book number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Shigeru Kuwano, Jun Terada
  • Publication number: 20190238372
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes a radio apparatus and a signal processing apparatus that function as a base station, and the radio apparatus includes a channel estimation unit that, on the basis of a radio signal transmitted from a terminal apparatus, estimates channel information relating to a radio transmission path between the radio apparatus and the terminal apparatus; a demodulation unit that performs soft-decision demodulation of the radio signal on the basis of the channel information estimated by the channel estimation unit; a signal switching unit that, depending on the terminal apparatus that transmitted the radio signal, switches an output destination of a log likelihood ratio obtained by the soft-decision modulation between either a first path passing through a decoding unit that decodes the log likelihood ratio or a second path not passing through the decoding unit; and a transmission unit that transmits a signal output from the first path or the second path to the signal processing apparat
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji MIYAMOTO, Jun TERADA, Tatsuya SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20190221329
    Abstract: A cable with terminal includes a coaxial cable in which a core, an inner insulating layer, a shield layer and an outer insulating layer are concentrically arranged from an inner side to an outer side, and a terminal connected to the coaxial cable. The terminal includes a pair of barrel pieces crimped in an overlapping state to an exposed part of the shield layer. An engaging protrusion is provided on the barrel piece on one side out of the pair of barrel pieces and projects toward the barrel piece on the other side. The engaging protrusion is engaged with a hole edge part of an engaging hole provided in the barrel piece on the other side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Kazuaki Hamada
  • Publication number: 20190184023
    Abstract: The present invention provides a glycosaminoglycan derivative in which a group derived from glycosaminoglycan and a group derived from a physiologically active substance having at least one of a carboxy group and a hydroxy group are coupled by covalent bond with a spacer therebetween, in which the spacer is selected in accordance with the decomposition rate of the covalent bond to the group derived from the physiologically active substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Seikagaku Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Yosuke Yasuda, Keiji Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 10312605
    Abstract: A terminal-equipped wire configured by crimping a pair of barrel pieces provided on a terminal to an external sheath of a wire, the external sheath being provided on an outer circumferential surface of a core wire. The pair of barrel pieces are wrapped around the external sheath into a polygonal tube shape that has a plurality of corner portions in a circumferential direction of the external sheath, leading end edges of the pair of barrel pieces are arranged on opposite sides of at least one corner portion out of the plurality of corner portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Hamada, Kenji Miyamoto, Yasuaki Nakayama, Kenji Makino
  • Patent number: 10301682
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fluidic device, an exosome analysis method, a biomolecule analysis method, and a biomolecule detection method, which can analyze even the content of an exosome in a series of flows by introducing a sample into the device. A fluidic device of the present invention is a fluidic device which detects a biomolecule contained in an exosome in a sample, and includes: an exosome purification unit which has a layer modified with a compound having a hydrophobic chain and a hydrophilic chain; a biomolecule purification unit; a biomolecule detection unit; a first flow path which connects the exosome purification unit to the biomolecule purification unit; and a second flow path which connects the biomolecule purification unit to the biomolecule detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Ichiki, Masashi Kobayashi, Ayako Hayashi, Shoichi Tsuchiya, Takanori Akagi, Taro Ueno, Takashi Funatsu, Kenji Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20190126215
    Abstract: A solution mixer comprising: a main flow path in which a solution circulates; at least one solution introduction flow path connected to the main flow path; and at least one solution discharge flow path connected to the main flow path, wherein the solution discharge flow path has at least one solution discharge flow path valve, and wherein the main flow path has at least one main flow path valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Takanori ICHIKI, Taro Ueno, Shoichi TSUCHIYA, Masashi KOBAYASHI, Kenji MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190113231
    Abstract: A combustor (3) includes: a fuel nozzle configured to inject fuel; a tubular body (24) having a tubular shape in which a combustion region through which combustion gas flows is formed inside, and in which a plurality of slits (50) are formed extending in the circumferential direction at intervals in the circumferential direction; and throttle pieces (60) which are fitted into the slits (50), project radially inward from the inner circumferential side of the tubular body (24), and have a throttle face that extends along the flow direction of the combustion gas as it extends from the radially outer side inward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Shuhei KAJIMURA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Taiki KINOSHITA, Kotaro MIYAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190107283
    Abstract: A combustor includes: a first nozzle which extends along an axis and injects fuel toward a downstream side; a flame stabilizer which covers a downstream-side end portion of the first nozzle from an outer periphery side; and a plurality of second nozzles arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction around the axis on the outer periphery side of the flame stabilizer. The flame stabilizer has a cone portion expanding in diameter toward the downstream side from the upstream side, and a flange portion extending radially outward from a downstream-side end edge of the cone portion, and a penetrating portion which penetrates at least the flange portion in a direction of the axis is formed in the flame stabilizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Kenji MIYAMOTO, Satoshi TAKIGUCHI, Keijiro SAITO, Shinji AKAMATSU, Shinichi FUKUBA
  • Publication number: 20190107053
    Abstract: There is provided a gas turbine (1) including a compressor (2) that generates compressed air, a casing (5) into which the compressed air is introduced, a combustor (3) that generates a combustion gas, a turbine (4) that is driven by the combustion gas, a combustor cooling system (6) that has a sub-compressor (62), which is able to be operated independently of the compressor (2), and a heat exchanger (61), which extracts air in the casing (5) and causes the air to exchange heat after the sub-compressor (62) has increased a pressure of the air, and that introduces the air, which has exchanged heat, into a cooling passage (31) of a cylindrical body (30) of the combustor (3), and a combustor air introducing system that extracts air flowing in the combustor cooling system (6) and introduces the air into the combustor (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Kenji MIYAMOTO, Satoshi TAKIGUCHI, Masakazu NOSE
  • Publication number: 20190093570
    Abstract: A combustion device includes: a nozzle casing defining an axial flow passage; and a nozzle disposed in the axial flow passage. The nozzle includes: a nozzle body having a tubular shape extending along the axial flow passage; a swirler vane protruding radially outward from the nozzle body in a radial direction of the nozzle body; at least one first injection hole having an opening on a surface of the nozzle body or the swirler vane; at least one second injection hole having an opening on the surface of the nozzle body or the swirler vane; a first fuel flow passage extending through the nozzle body and being in communication with the at least one first injection hole; and a second fuel flow passage extending through the nozzle body separately from the first fuel flow passage, and being in communication with the at least one second injection hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kenji MIYAMOTO, Kei INOUE, Shin KATO, Tomo KAWAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20190089562
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes an RF reception unit configured to receive a radio signal from a terminal; a channel estimation unit configured to estimate channel information of a wireless transmission path with respect to the terminal on the basis of the radio signal received by the RF reception unit; a demodulation unit configured to perform soft decision demodulation on the radio signal on the basis of the channel information estimated by the channel estimation unit; a quantization unit configured to quantize a log likelihood ratio obtained through soft decision demodulation in the demodulation unit, on the basis of a statistical distribution determined using an average value of the log likelihood ratio determined in accordance with a modulation scheme used in wireless communication with the terminal and a variance of a log likelihood ratio obtained on the basis of the channel information; and a decoding unit configured to perform a decoding process on the log likelihood ratio quantized by the qu
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji MIYAMOTO, Jun TERADA, Shigeru KUWANO
  • Publication number: 20190086093
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes an external cylinder, an inner cylinder disposed in the external cylinder, a first fuel injecting unit disposed in the inner cylinder, an air passage provided between the external cylinder and the inner cylinder to cause compressed air to flow into the inner cylinder, and a second fuel injecting unit disposed in the air passage. The second fuel injecting unit is disposed at a curve communicating with the inner cylinder downstream in the air passage. The second fuel injecting unit is supported by a curved inner surface of the external cylinder in the inner cylinder. The second fuel injecting unit is disposed with a center line in a longitudinal direction inclined in a flow direction of the compressed air flowing through the air passage at a predetermined angle with respect to a perpendicular orthogonal to a tangent to the curved inner surface of the external cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi FUKUBA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Keijiro SAITO, Satoshi TAKIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10230442
    Abstract: In a partial centralization system configuration, a wireless communication system of the present invention transmits a precoding matrix generated in a media access control (MAC) function or a matrix or vector obtained by dividing the precoding matrix between central unit equipment and distributed unit equipment in addition to data of modulated symbols necessary for a precoding matrix calculation and downlink control information (DCI) corresponding to the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Shigeru Kuwano, Jun Terada
  • Publication number: 20190069278
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a control device and at least one communication device. The control device includes a scheduler configured to generate control information for a process of a physical layer in wireless communication between the communication device and a terminal, an encoding unit configured to generate encoded data by performing encoding on data to be transmitted to the terminal on the basis of the control information, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the control information to the communication device when the control information is generated and transmits the encoded data to the communication device when the encoded data is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji MIYAMOTO, Jun TERADA, Shigeru KUWANO
  • Publication number: 20190056111
    Abstract: A combustor includes: a first cylindrical body which is configured to hold a fuel nozzle extending in an axial line direction and through which air flows toward a downstream side thereof; a second cylindrical body that is connected to a downstream side of the first cylindrical body; and an outer shell that has an inner peripheral surface configured to define an air introduction channel through which air is introduced such that the air reverses course at an upstream end of the first cylindrical body and flows toward the downstream side together with an outer peripheral surface of the first cylindrical body. The inner peripheral surface has an outside narrowing surface that is formed to extend inward in a radial direction toward the upstream end of the first cylindrical body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji MIYAMOTO, Satoshi TAKIGUCHI, Koichi NISHIDA, Yoshitaka HIRATA, Shohei NUMATA, Keita YUNOKI, Yasuhiro AKIYAMA, Tomoki URUNO
  • Patent number: 10211956
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes distributed units communicating with a terminal device and a central unit connected to the distributed units and receiving and processing signals from the distributed units. The central unit includes a host function unit to pre-notify the distributed units if a received signal from the terminal device is a target of coordination between distributed units, hard/soft determination units configured to separate received signals from the distributed units into a hard decision value and a soft decision value based on presence or absence of coordination between the distributed units, transmit the hard decision value to the host function unit as is, and transmit the soft decision value to a signal combining unit, the signal combining unit combines soft decision values output from the hard/soft determination units and outputs a combined soft decision value, and a decoding unit performs decoding using the soft decision value output from the signal combining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Shigeru Kuwano, Jun Terada
  • Publication number: 20190044252
    Abstract: A wire with terminal (10) includes at least one wire (11) having a core (13) and a terminal (12) connected to the wire (11). The terminal (12) includes a wire barrel (16) to be caulked and crimped to the core (13). At least one end part of the wire barrel (16) in an extension direction of the wire (11) is provided with an enlarged diameter portion (20) enlarged in diameter toward the one end part. At least one recess (24E) is provided at a position corresponding to the enlarged diameter portion (20) and in a region configured to come into contact with the core (13) in a placing surface (23) of the wire barrel (16) where the core (13) is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Washio, Kenji Miyamoto, Taiji Mochizuki, Naoya Nishimura, Takanobu Shimada