Patents by Inventor Kenji Takao

Kenji Takao 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: 20210112099
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtainer, a first sender, a receiver, a second sender, and a decider. The obtainer obtains an information protection policy from a management device. The management device is unable to communicate with a service providing device. The first sender sends the information protection policy to the service providing device. The receiver receives from the service providing device a collation result indicating whether or not the service providing device conforms to the information protection policy. The second sender sends the collation result to the management device. The decider decides that it is possible to use the service providing device if information indicating that the service providing device conforms to the information protection policy is received from the management device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji TAKAO
  • Publication number: 20210080935
    Abstract: A remote service system includes a first computer terminal configured to add a first signature to control information representing control content to be applied to a facility and transmit the control information and a second computer terminal configured to cause the control content represented by the control information to be applied to the facility, wherein the first computer terminal and the second computer terminal are connected by a first communication network and wherein the second computer terminal and the facility are connected by a second communication network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Takayuki KONO, Kenji TAKAO, Daisuke GOTO, Hiroyasu ISHIGAKI
  • Patent number: 10921786
    Abstract: A plant network entrance device includes a change information reception unit configured to receive change information for changing a control parameter of a plant facility from a change execution device, a change information transmission unit configured to transmit the change information to the plant facility, an operation data acquisition unit configured to acquire pre-change operation data that is operation data before a time at which a change in the control parameter based on the change information is made and post-change operation data that is operation data after the time at which the change is made, an improvement rate calculation unit configured to calculate an improvement rate for operation states before and after the change on the basis of the pre-change operation data and the post-change operation data, and an improvement rate transmission unit configured to transmit the improvement rate to the change execution device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kono, Kenji Takao
  • Publication number: 20200387656
    Abstract: The verification-processing device includes an acquisition unit that is configured to acquire a circuit logic model represented by an evaluation expression represented by a logical expression taking as variables, a relay, an element, and a connection line that form a relay logic circuit to be verified, the evaluation expression including at least a logical expression for a case where a failure event occurs in the relay logic circuit; and a determination unit that is configured to determine the logical state of an output of the relay when a failure event occurs in the element or the connection line, based on the circuit logic model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Kenji TAKAO, Keita HIRAYAMA, Noritaka YANAI
  • Publication number: 20200192335
    Abstract: A plant monitoring system includes a plurality of distributed recording units in which programs for transmitting at least a portion of a group of a pieces of state monitoring information of the plant to a predetermined information processing device are previously recorded in a plurality of storage devices in a distributed manner, a determination unit that sequentially acquires the pieces of state monitoring information and determines whether or not the acquired pieces of state monitoring information satisfy a program execution condition prescribed in advance, and an execution request output unit that outputs a program execution request corresponding to the program execution condition to the distributed recording units in a case where the program execution condition is satisfied. Each of the distributed recording units includes a program execution processing unit that reads and executes the program designated by the execution request in a case where the execution request is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventor: Kenji TAKAO
  • Publication number: 20200153905
    Abstract: An edge device that automatically establishes a connection with a remote monitoring device when an abnormality has occurred in a plant is provided. The edge device includes a controller configured to detect an abnormality on the basis of data regarding an observation target device, and a connection establishment unit configured to establish a connection with a remote monitoring device such that the remote monitoring device is able to remotely access the edge device when the controller has detected the abnormality and determined that the detected abnormality matches a predetermined condition, wherein the remote access is a connection for remotely checking a state of the observation target device, or for enabling a remote manipulation of the observation target device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Kenji TAKAO, Yusuke YAMASHINA
  • Publication number: 20200034545
    Abstract: An information provision device provides customer-desired support information using learned artificial intelligence and includes: a parameter group acquisition unit that refers to one of recording devices included in a recording system in which parameter groups characterizing the learned artificial intelligence are distributed and pre-recorded in the recording devices, and acquires the parameter groups; a design information acquisition unit that acquires design information in which information capable of identifying an application place in the learned artificial intelligence of each of the parameter groups is specified; an artificial intelligence generation unit that generates at least a part of the learned artificial intelligence on the basis of the acquired parameter groups and the acquired design information; and a support information transmission unit that transmits the support information output from at least a part of the generated artificial intelligence to an information processing device of a custome
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Takao
  • Publication number: 20190384263
    Abstract: A plant network entrance device includes a change information reception unit configured to receive change information for changing a control parameter of a plant facility from a change execution device, a change information transmission unit configured to transmit the change information to the plant facility, an operation data acquisition unit configured to acquire pre-change operation data that is operation data before a time at which a change in the control parameter based on the change information is made and post-change operation data that is operation data after the time at which the change is made, an improvement rate calculation unit configured to calculate an improvement rate for operation states before and after the change on the basis of the pre-change operation data and the post-change operation data, and an improvement rate transmission unit configured to transmit the improvement rate to the change execution device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Takayuki KONO, Kenji TAKAO
  • Patent number: 9783214
    Abstract: An operation management device that manages the operation of a plurality of vehicles that travel along a track is provided with: a vehicle position acquisition unit that acquires the positions of the plurality of vehicles that are present on the track; a density calculation unit that calculates the density of the plurality of vehicles that are traveling along the track within a predetermined range; and a departure determination unit that adjusts the departure time of a target vehicle from a station at which the vehicle stops on the basis of a front direction density indicating the density of vehicles that are traveling within a predetermined range in front of the predetermined target vehicle in the travel direction thereof and a back direction density indicating the density of vehicles that are traveling within a predetermined range in back of the predetermined target vehicle in the travel direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Niinomi, Kenji Takao, Noritaka Yanai, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Yutaka Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20170281465
    Abstract: To provide an apparatus for promoting ineffective sweating includes an air heating unit for heating air in a sweating room, a mist generator for generating mist, a blower for circulating air in the sweating room by supplying mist, and a control device. The sweating room is provided with a temperature sensor and a humidity sensor for measuring temperature and relative humidity respectively in the sweating room. The control device is provided with a dew-point temperature determination unit for determining a dew-point temperature td in the sweating room based on the temperature and the relative humidity and a temperature setting unit for setting a body temperature of a user, and controls the air heating unit and the mist generator so that the dew-point temperature td is kept higher than the body temperature. This configuration can promote comfortable ineffective sweating with the low physical burden on the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Kenji TAKAO, Kazunori SUDA, Yoshiji TOKITA, Katsumi MOROGA
  • Patent number: 9751544
    Abstract: A train traffic control inspection device includes an information acquiring unit configured to acquire railroad topology information indicating a configuration of a railroad network in which a plurality of blocks are connected and which includes one or more branches, travel path information specifying a path of a train which travels in the railroad network on a combination of one or more routes for each train, route setting information in which conditions to be satisfied when a route request for reserving a path on which a train will travel is given are defined for each route, and interlock system operation information in which safe operation logics of the interlock system are defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noritaka Yanai, Toshihiko Niinomi, Kenji Takao, Yasuyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9744981
    Abstract: An operation management device that manages the operation of a plurality of vehicles is provided with: a vehicle position acquisition unit that acquires the positions of the plurality of vehicles; an interval adjustment unit that, on the basis of congestion information, identifies a station that is a reference for increasing the density of the plurality of vehicles that are present and sets a standby time at each station that is behind the station that is a reference, the standby time being for the plurality of vehicles that stops at the stations behind the station; and a departure determination unit that adjusts the departure times of the plurality of vehicles from each of the stations behind the station on the basis of the standby times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Niinomi, Kenji Takao, Noritaka Yanai, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Yutaka Miyajima
  • Patent number: 9738173
    Abstract: A charging and discharging control device includes a pantograph point voltage detection unit configured to detect a pantograph point voltage of a vehicle, a charging and discharging control unit configured to charge a power storage device provided in a vehicle when the pantograph point voltage is greater than or equal to a charging voltage threshold value and discharge the power storage device when the pantograph point voltage is less than a discharging voltage threshold value, a load determination unit configured to determine whether an absolute value of load power for the vehicle is less than a load power threshold value, and a charging and discharging control change unit configured to reduce any one of more of the charging voltage threshold value, the discharging voltage threshold value, and charging/discharging impedance when the absolute value of the load power is less than the load power threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Wakasugi, Takayuki Kono, Katsuaki Morita, Toshihiko Niinomi, Noritaka Yanai, Kenji Takao, Kyotaro Onishi
  • Patent number: 9595189
    Abstract: Adjustment values, including a station stop time or a departure interval, are set for each vehicle. Next, the set adjustment values and a traveling pattern are used to calculate the power consumption by and regenerative power from each vehicle when in operation for each time point. Next, the total vehicle power at each time point is calculated by subtracting the total regenerative power from braking vehicles from the total power consumption by powering vehicles one a per time point basis. Next, a positive value or a negative value is extracted from the total vehicle power at each time point. Next, an evaluation value is calculated using the absolute value of the total of the extracted values. Next, adjustment values that produce the smaller evaluation value are identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Takao, Toshihiko Niinomi, Takayuki Kono
  • Publication number: 20160005310
    Abstract: Adjustment values, including a station stop time or a departure interval, are set for each vehicle. Next, the set adjustment values and a traveling pattern are used to calculate the power consumption by and regenerative power from each vehicle when in operation for each time point. Next, the total vehicle power at each time point is calculated by subtracting the total regenerative power from braking vehicles from the total power consumption by powering vehicles one a per time point basis. Next, a positive value or a negative value is extracted from the total vehicle power at each time point. Next, an evaluation value is calculated using the absolute value of the total of the extracted values. Next, adjustment values that produce the smaller evaluation value are identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Kenji TAKAO, Toshihiko NIINOMI, Takayuki KONO
  • Publication number: 20150360705
    Abstract: An operation management device that manages the operation of a plurality of vehicles that travel along a track is provided with: a vehicle position acquisition unit that acquires the positions of the plurality of vehicles that are present on the track; a density calculation unit that calculates the density of the plurality of vehicles that are traveling along the track within a predetermined range; and a departure determination unit that adjusts the departure time of a target vehicle from a station at which the vehicle stops on the basis of a front direction density indicating the density of vehicles that are traveling within a predetermined range in front of the predetermined target vehicle in the travel direction thereof and a back direction density indicating the density of vehicles that are traveling within a predetermined range in back of the predetermined target vehicle in the travel direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Toshihiko NIINOMI, Kenji TAKAO, Noritaka YANAI, Yasuyuki SUZUKI, Yutaka MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20150360706
    Abstract: An operation management device that manages the operation of a plurality of vehicles is provided with: a vehicle position acquisition unit that acquires the positions of the plurality of vehicles; an interval adjustment unit that, on the basis of congestion information, identifies a station that is a reference for increasing the density of the plurality of vehicles that are present and sets a standby time at each station that is behind the station that is a reference, the standby time being for the plurality of vehicles that stops at the stations behind the station; and a departure determination unit that adjusts the departure times of the plurality of vehicles from each of the stations behind the station on the basis of the standby times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko NIINOMI, Kenji TAKAO, Noritaka YANAI, Yasuyuki SUZUKI, Yutaka MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20150344050
    Abstract: A train traffic control inspection device includes an information acquiring unit configured to acquire railroad topology information indicating a configuration of a railroad network in which a plurality of blocks are connected and which includes one or more branches, travel path information specifying a path of a train which travels in the railroad network on a combination of one or more routes for each train, route setting information in which conditions to be satisfied when a route request for reserving a path on which a train will travel is given are defined for each route, and interlock system operation information in which safe operation logics of the interlock system are defined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Noritaka YANAI, Toshihiko NIINOMI, Kenji TAKAO, Yasuyuki SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20150314699
    Abstract: A charging and discharging control device includes a pantograph point voltage detection unit configured to detect a pantograph point voltage of a vehicle, a charging and discharging control unit configured to charge a power storage device provided in a vehicle when the pantograph point voltage is greater than or equal to a charging voltage threshold value and discharge the power storage device when the pantograph point voltage is less than a discharging voltage threshold value, a load determination unit configured to determine whether an absolute value of load power for the vehicle is less than a load power threshold value, and a charging and discharging control change unit configured to reduce any one of more of the charging voltage threshold value, the discharging voltage threshold value, and charging/discharging impedance when the absolute value of the load power is less than the load power threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki WAKASUGI, Takayuki KONO, Katsuaki MORITA, Toshihiko NIINOMI, Noritaka YANAI, Kenji TAKAO, Kyotaro ONISHI
  • Patent number: 8900379
    Abstract: Provided are a stainless steel for a proton-exchange membrane fuel cell separator having high durability and a low contact resistance (i.e., high electrical conductivity) and a proton-exchange membrane fuel cell using the same. More specifically, a stainless steel for a proton-exchange membrane fuel cell separator has a composition comprising 0.03% mass % or less of C, 16-45 mass % of Cr, 0.03 mass % or less of N, 0.1-5.0 mass % of Mo, wherein a total of the C content and the N content satisfies 0.03 mass % or less; a balance portion is comprised of Fe and unavoidable impurities; an atomic ratio of Cr/Fe with respect to Al, Cr, and Fe contained in a passive film on a surface of the stainless steel is 1 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Ishikawa, Kunio Fukuda, Yasushi Kato, Osamu Furukimi, Kenji Takao