Patents by Inventor Kenta TO

Kenta TO 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).

  • CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE DRIVE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140206500
    Abstract: A control device of a vehicle drive device includes: a hydraulic power transmission device having a lockup clutch mechanically coupling an input-side rotating member to which power from an engine is input and an output-side rotating member outputting power to drive wheels; and an electric motor coupled to a power transmission path between the hydraulic power transmission device and the drive wheels. If regeneration braking of a vehicle is performed with the electric motor, an engagement force of the lockup clutch is made larger when a vehicle speed related value varying depending on a vehicle speed is higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta KUMAZAKI, Tooru MATSUBARA, Atsushi TABATA, Tatsuya IMAMURA
  • Direct Lubrication Tilting Pad Journal Bearing
    Publication number: 20140205224
    Abstract: In a direct lubrication tilting pad journal bearing, a pad has an oil collection path in a groove shape. The oil collection path is formed so that an inlet may open in an opposite end surface to a rotation direction of a rotation shaft in the pad, an outlet may open in an inner circumferential surface of the pad, and the inlet and the outlet may continuously open. Further, a width dimension of the oil collection path is smaller than a width dimension of the pad, and a depth dimension from an outer circumferential surface of the rotation shaft to a bottom surface of the oil collection path is larger than a distance from the outer circumferential surface of the rotation shaft to an end of a nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Hemmi, Kenta Susuki
  • KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
    Publication number: 20140202321
    Abstract: A keyboard musical instrument, including: a key; a board; a first member formed of a material different from a material of the board; a first acoustic transducer configured to vibrate the board in accordance with a drive signal supplied thereto; and a second acoustic transducer configured to vibrate the first member in accordance with a drive signal supplied thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenta OHNISHI
  • Method, device, and computer product for managing communication situation
    Patent number: 8788621
    Abstract: An action acquiring unit acquires action information corresponding to operation information from a first storage unit for a first user, and stores acquired action information in a third storage unit. A receiving unit receives, via a network, action information of a second user from an external device. A situation acquiring unit acquires, from a second storage, a communication situation corresponding to received action information. A writing unit writes the action information of the first user indicated by the communication situation to the third storage unit, additionally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masayuki Okamoto, Naoki Iketani, Hideo Umeki, Sogo Tsuboi, Kenta Cho, Keisuke Nishimura
  • Motor drive PWM rectifier having modulation scheme selector
    Patent number: 8786239
    Abstract: A motor drive PWM rectifier includes a control section which generates the PWM signal in accordance with either a three-phase modulation scheme or a two-phase modulation scheme in which a PWM voltage command for one phase selected from among three phases each constituting the PWM voltage command in the three-phase modulation scheme is set and held at a level equivalent to a maximum value or minimum value of the PWM carrier and in which a PWM voltage command for the other two phases created by also applying an offset, required to achieve the setting, to the other two phases, a detecting section which detects three-phase AC current and outputs a detected current value, and a selecting section which selects the two-phase modulation scheme when the detected current value is larger than a first threshold value but smaller than a second threshold value, and otherwise selects the three-phase modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Yasusuke Iwashita, Masakazu Niwa, Kenta Yamamoto
  • Reference voltage circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit
    Patent number: 8786358
    Abstract: A reference voltage circuit includes a first amplifier configured to output a reference voltage, a second amplifier coupled to the first amplifier, an offset adjustment voltage generation circuit, a first load device and a first pn junction device, and second and third load devices and a second pn junction device. The offset adjustment voltage generation circuit is configured to generate a voltage which is input to the third and fourth input terminals of the second amplifier, and reduce an offset voltage between the first and second input terminals of the first amplifier through the second amplifier. The first input terminal is coupled to a coupling node of the first load device and the first pn junction device, and the second input terminal is coupled to a coupling node of the second load device and the third load device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Spansion LLC
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Endo, Kenta Aruga, Suguru Tachibana, Koji Okada
  • Gas turbine combustor
    Patent number: 8783038
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor of the present invention comprises a fuel injector for injecting a fuel toward a combustion chamber; a swirler which takes-in compressed air generated in a compressor and swirls the compressed air, in the vicinity of the fuel injector; a tubular guide member for guiding the compressed air taken-in from the swirler, to the combustion chamber; and a heat shield having a cylindrical portion located outward relative to the guide member; wherein the cylindrical portion has a purge hole; and air is introduced through the purge hole and is supplied to a space formed between the guide member and the cylindrical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Horikawa, Hideki Ogata, Kenta Yamaguchi, Ryusuke Matsuyama
  • Reflective mask blank, method of manufacturing the same, and reflective mask
    Patent number: 8785086
    Abstract: To solve a problem of reduction in accumulated energy due to backward scattering, leading to degradation in CD linearity, which is caused when a generally used high-contrast resist is used in the manufacture of a reflective mask. A reflective mask blank for manufacturing a reflective mask includes a substrate, a multilayer reflective film which is formed on the substrate and adapted to reflect exposure light, and an absorber film which is formed on the multilayer reflective film and adapted to absorb the exposure light. A resist film for electron beam writing is formed on the absorber film and the contrast value ? of the resist film for electron beam writing is 30 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Hashimoto, Kazunori Ono, Kenta Tsukagoshi, Tooru Fukui
  • Stacked chips package having feed-through electrode connecting the first and second semiconductor components via an adhesive layer
    Patent number: 8786103
    Abstract: A first semiconductor component and a second semiconductor component are attached together via an adhesion layer so that the first semiconductor component and the second semiconductor component are electrically connected with each other via a through electrode. The through electrode is formed to fill a through hole formed in the second semiconductor component and a through hole formed in a portion the adhesion layer. The through hole formed in the portion the adhesion layer is positioned between the through hole formed in the second semiconductor component and a second connection surface of a first semiconductor component through electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Uchiyama, Akihiko Tateiwa
  • LIQUID PRESSURE METER, LIQUID LEVEL METER, AND WARNING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140196538
    Abstract: A liquid level meter includes: an exterior portion having an internal space which a liquid to be measured flows in; and a pressure sensitive portion provided inside the exterior portion and having a pressure sensitive surface; wherein the exterior has holes that it is arranged on each of a vertically lower side and a vertically upper side relative to the pressure sensitive surface, and the holes connect an inside and outside of the internal space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta Sato, Kentaro Yoda, Hisao Motoyama
  • GAMING MACHINE AND GAMING METHOD
    Publication number: 20140200064
    Abstract: A gaming machine according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first display unit that includes a plurality of reels including a plurality of symbols thereon; and a controller configured to: determine whether a rendering effect activation is selected; execute a game by spinning and stopping the plurality of reels of the display device; and perform a rendering effect on the spinning and stopping of the plurality of reels when it is determined that the rendering effect activation is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicants: Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Okada, Masumi Fujisawa, Kenta Kitamura, Susumu Mio
  • QUANTUM COMPUTER AND QUANTUM COMPUTING USING ISING MODEL
    Publication number: 20140200689
    Abstract: For each pair of a plurality of slave lasers B for which injection synchronization is performed by a master laser M, by controlling the intensity of light exchanged between two slave lasers B and an optical path length between the two slave lasers B using a slave-to-laser intensity control unit IA and an inter-slave laser optical path length control unit IP, the magnitude and the sign of pseudo ising interaction Jij between the two slave lasers B are implemented. After the plurality of slave lasers B arrive at a steady state, by measuring relative values of the oscillation phases of the plurality of slave lasers B with respect to the oscillation phase of the master laser M by using an oscillation phase measuring unit PM, pseudo ising spins ?i of the plurality of slave lasers B are measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicants: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Inter-University Research Institute Corporation, Research Organization of Information and Systems
    Inventors: Shoko Utsunomiya, Kenta Takata, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Kai Wen
  • DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140200714
    Abstract: A control system, a control method and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium cooperate to assist control for an autonomous robot. An interface receives recognition information from an autonomous robot (22), said recognition information including candidate target objects to interact with the autonomous robot (22). A display control unit (42) causes a display image to be displayed on a display of candidate target objects, wherein at least two of the candidate target objects are displayed with an associated indication of a target object score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta Kawamoto, Yoshiaki Iwai, Satoru Shimizu
  • Vehicular shift control device
    Patent number: 8777811
    Abstract: A vehicular shift control device is provided that controls the input rotational speed of a geared transmission by adjusting the rotational speed of a drive source at downshift of the geared transmission. The greater the deceleration of the vehicle, the smaller is set the change gradient of the input rotational speed of the geared transmission. Therefore, even if the decrease rate of the post-shifting synchronization rotational speed is great, the incident angle ? of the input rotational speed of the geared transmission relative to the post-shifting synchronization rotational speed is maintained as a large angle. Even when the deceleration of the vehicle during downshift is great, the downshift is smoothly executed without producing an excessive synchronization shock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshinari Suzuki, Kenta Kumazaki, Yoshiki Ando, Masakazu Kaifuku
  • Colorant multimer, colored curable composition, color filter and method for producing the same, and solid-state image sensor, image display device, liquid crystal display device and organic EL display with the color filter
    Patent number: 8778235
    Abstract: A colorant multimer includes, as a partial structure of a colorant moiety, a dipyrromethene metal complex compound or tautomer thereof obtained from: (i) a dipyrromethene compound represented by the following Formula (M); and (ii) a metal or a metal compound: wherein in Formula (M), R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, and R10 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Ito, Masaru Yoshikawa, Yuki Mizukawa, Kenta Ushijima, Shinichi Kanna, Haruki Inabe, Yoshihiko Fujie, Akiyoshi Goto, Yushi Kaneko, Hiroaki Idei
  • Gaming machine
    Patent number: 8777734
    Abstract: On a lower image display panel 141, a game result of rearranged of symbols 501 is randomly determined. When the result is winning of a bonus game, individual indication data and common indication data associated with the type of the bonus game are specified. After an indication effect starts based on the common indication data, an indication effect is executed based on the individual indication data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventors: Masumi Fujisawa, Kenta Kitamura, Susumu Mio, Makoto Miyawaki
  • Storage apparatus and method of controlling storage apparatus
    Patent number: 8782354
    Abstract: Efficient data processing is implemented by using the functions of an external storage apparatus which is connected to the virtual storage apparatus. A storage apparatus which is connected to a host apparatus which requests data I/Os and to an external storage apparatus comprising a storage device respectively via a network, comprising a storage device storing data which is read and written by the host apparatus; and a control device which controls data writing to a storage area, wherein the control device provides a predetermined storage area of the storage device of the external storage apparatus to the host apparatus as one or more virtual volumes, and manages the virtual volumes and function information indicating the functions of the external storage apparatus in association with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Ninose, Yoshiaki Eguchi, Akira Yamamoto, Ai Satoyama
  • Distributed processing of partitioned stream data including data element group and end data
    Patent number: 8782650
    Abstract: A stream data processing apparatus creates a plurality of partition data on the basis of stream data, and distributes the partition data to a plurality of computers. Specifically, the stream data processing apparatus acquires from the stream data a data element group that is configured in the number of data elements based on the processing capability of the partition data destination computer, and decides an auxiliary data part of this data element group based on a predetermined value. The stream data processing apparatus creates partition data that include the acquired data element group and END data. The data element group is configured from the auxiliary data part and a result usage data part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Takahashi, Naohiro Suzuki
  • EXTERNAL STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING EXTERNAL STORAGE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140191363
    Abstract: An external storage device including an interconnect substrate having a contact type external terminal, at least one semiconductor chip disposed over a first surface of the interconnect substrate, and a sealing resin layer which seals the at least one semiconductor chip and does not cover the external terminal. The at least one semiconductor chip includes a storage device, an inductor being connected to the storage device, a driver circuit configured to control the inductor and an interconnect layer. The interconnect layer is formed at a first surface of the semiconductor chip and includes the inductor. The first surface of the semiconductor chip is other than facing the first surface of the interconnect substrate, and the inductor and the driver circuit are connected to each other through the interconnect layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka Nakashiba, Kenta Ogawa
  • CAGE AND ROLLING BEARING
    Publication number: 20140193111
    Abstract: A cage 11 for holding a plurality of rolling elements 20 incorporated between an inner ring and an outer ring by a plurality of pockets with their centers arranged at regular intervals in the revolving direction of the rolling elements 20 includes at least one drive pocket 14 having a smaller clearance 22 in the revolving direction of the cage 11 and rolling elements 20 than the clearances of the remaining non-drive pockets 15 in the cage 11. Thus, drive power to be applied to the cage 11 can be always maintained constant and the swinging motion of the cage 11 during revolution can be prevented, thereby being able to reduce cage sounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventors: Kenta Kenmochi, Atsushi Minakami, Yoshiaki Katsuno