Patents by Inventor Kinji Taki
Kinji Taki 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).
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Patent number: 9866048Abstract: An electric power is fed from a wireless feeding device to a feeding device, and the feeding device feeds the electric power to an object to which the electric power is fed. The feeding device includes a power receiving module, a power circuit and a controller. The power receiving module receives the electric power from the wireless feeding device. The electric power is fed from the power receiving module or from an AC adapter to the power circuit and the power circuit feeds the electric power to the object to which the electric power is fed. The controller interrupts a supply of the electric power from the AC adapter.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kinji Taki, Tooru Mamata
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Publication number: 20160147259Abstract: One embodiment provides an electronic device including: a first unit; a first controller in the unit; a second unit; a second controller in this unit; and a transmitting buffer of update information of the second controller which is provided in the first unit, wherein the first controller obtains the update information from an external part and transmits the update information to the second controller from the transmitting buffer and the second controller carries out an updating operation in accordance with the update information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2015Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Kinji TAKI
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Patent number: 9304544Abstract: According to one embodiment, an external device includes a switching module configured to switch an external display, which is to be connected to a port of a display control circuit in an information processing device, between first and second external displays connected to the external device. A controller detects a state of a first detection signal representing whether or not a first external display is connected to the external device and a state of a second detection signal representing whether or not a second external display is connected to the external device. The controller controls the switching module based on the detected states of the first and second detection signals and a display priority.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Kinji Taki
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Patent number: 9104396Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus performs a communication with a portable device detachably attached to a port of the apparatus. The apparatus supplies bus power to the portable device through the port. The apparatus includes a notification module configured to execute an operation of notifying the portable device whether the port is a first type port configured to supply a first charging current or a second type port configured to supply a second charging current higher than the first charging current. The apparatus controls, when a remaining level of a battery of the apparatus is lower than a threshold, an operation of the notification module such that the portable device recognizes the port as the first type port.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Kinji Taki
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Publication number: 20150207363Abstract: An electric power is fed from a wireless feeding device to a feeding device, and the feeding device feeds the electric power to an object to which the electric power is fed. The feeding device includes a power receiving module, a power circuit and a controller. The power receiving module receives the electric power from the wireless feeding device. The electric power is fed from the power receiving module or from an AC adapter to the power circuit and the power circuit feeds the electric power to the object to which the electric power is fed. The controller interrupts a supply of the electric power from the AC adapter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2014Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventors: Kinji Taki, Tooru Mamata
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Publication number: 20140379951Abstract: According to one embodiment, an external device includes a switching module configured to switch an external display, which is to be connected to a port of a display control circuit in an information processing device, between first and second external displays connected to the external device. A controller detects a state of a first detection signal representing whether or not a first external display is connected to the external device and a state of a second detection signal representing whether or not a second external display is connected to the external device. The controller controls the switching module based on the detected states of the first and second detection signals and a display priority.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventor: Kinji Taki
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Publication number: 20140189394Abstract: According to one embodiment, a electronics device includes a setting module, a determination module, a control module. The setting module is configured to set a power consumption reference value for a predetermined period of time. The determination module is configured to determine whether an amount of power consumption of an external power supply exceeds the power consumption reference value in the predetermined period of time. The control module is configured to cause a power reduction process to be performed when the amount of power consumption is determined as exceeding the power consumption reference value, the power reduction process reducing the amount of power consumption of the external power supply.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kinji Taki, Tooru Mamata
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Publication number: 20130290764Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus performs a communication with a portable device detachably attached to a port of the apparatus. The apparatus supplies bus power to the portable device through the port. The apparatus includes a notification module configured to execute an operation of notifying the portable device whether the port is a first type port configured to supply a first charging current or a second type port configured to supply a second charging current higher than the first charging current. The apparatus controls, when a remaining level of a battery of the apparatus is lower than a threshold, an operation of the notification module such that the portable device recognizes the port as the first type port.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2012Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventor: Kinji Taki
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Patent number: 8131499Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a body, a triaxial acceleration sensor which is built in the body and includes a long axis and a short axis, a disk device built in the body, a calculation unit that calculates a value on a basis of an acceleration value which is detected by the triaxial acceleration sensor and is output in a direction perpendicular to the long axis and to the short axis, a setting unit that sets a threshold in a state of the body in which a plane formed by the long axis and the short axis is approximately parallel to a direction of action of gravitational acceleration, and a controller that starts protection of the disk device on a basis of a result of comparison between the value calculated by the calculation unit and the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2010Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Koji Nakamura, Tatsuya Aoyagi, Toru Mamata, Kinji Taki
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Patent number: 8060336Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a body, a triaxial acceleration sensor which is built in the body and includes a long axis and a short axis, a disk device built in the body, a calculation unit that calculates a value on a basis of an acceleration value which is detected by the triaxial acceleration sensor and is output in a direction perpendicular to the long axis and to the short axis, a setting unit that sets a threshold in a state of the body in which a plane formed by the long axis and the short axis is approximately parallel to a direction of action of gravitational acceleration, and a controller that starts protection of the disk device on a basis of a result of comparison between the value calculated by the calculation unit and the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2009Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Koji Nakamura, Tatsuya Aoyagi, Toru Mamata, Kinji Taki
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Publication number: 20110127949Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a battery, a detection module, a setting module, and a charging module. The battery is configured to be chargeable by power from an external power supply. The detection module is configured to detect whether the battery is in a first charging state or a second charging state, a capacity of the second charging state is lower than the first charging state. The setting module is configured to set a charging end capacity of the second charging state, after passing of a preset period since the detection module detects that the battery is in the first charging state. The charging module is configured to charge the battery up to a capacity indicated by the charging end capacity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2010Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Kinji TAKI
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Publication number: 20100220581Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a body, a triaxial acceleration sensor which is built in the body and includes a long axis and a short axis, a disk device built in the body, a calculation unit that calculates a value on a basis of an acceleration value which is detected by the triaxial acceleration sensor and is output in a direction perpendicular to the long axis and to the short axis, a setting unit that sets a threshold in a state of the body in which a plane formed by the long axis and the short axis is approximately parallel to a direction of action of gravitational acceleration, and a controller that starts protection of the disk device on a basis of a result of comparison between the value calculated by the calculation unit and the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Koji Nakamura, Tatsuya Aoyagi, Toru Mamata, Kinji Taki
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Publication number: 20090138103Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a body, a triaxial acceleration sensor which is built in the body and includes a long axis and a short axis, a disk device built in the body, a calculation unit that calculates a value on a basis of an acceleration value which is detected by the triaxial acceleration sensor and is output in a direction perpendicular to the long axis and to the short axis, a setting unit that sets a threshold in a state of the body in which a plane formed by the long axis and the short axis is approximately parallel to a direction of action of gravitational acceleration, and a controller that starts protection of the disk device on a basis of a result of comparison between the value calculated by the calculation unit and the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2009Publication date: May 28, 2009Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Koji Nakamura, Tatsuya Aoyagi, Toru Mamata, Kinji Taki
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Patent number: 7496470Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a body, a triaxial acceleration sensor which is built in the body and includes a long axis and a short axis, a disk device built in the body, a calculation unit that calculates a value on a basis of an acceleration value which is detected by the triaxial acceleration sensor and is output in a direction perpendicular to the long axis and to the short axis, a setting unit that sets a threshold in a state of the body in which a plane formed by the long axis and the short axis is approximately parallel to a direction of action of gravitational acceleration, and a controller that starts protection of the disk device on a basis of a result of comparison between the value calculated by the calculation unit and the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2005Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Koji Nakamura, Tatsuya Aoyagi, Toru Mamata, Kinji Taki
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Patent number: 7491766Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous emulsion having excellent polymerization stability and standing stability and a redispersible powder. Specifically, the present invention relates to an aqueous emulsion of a polymer obtained by polymerizing an acrylic monomer in the presence of a polyvinyl alcohol containing an acetoacetic ester group; wherein the polyvinyl alcohol containing an acetoacetic ester group has block character [?] of 0.3 to 0.6, hydrolysis degree of at least 97% by mol and acetoacetic esterification degree of 0.01 to 1.5% by mol, and the value obtained by dividing the maximum value by the minimum value of the respective average acetoacetic esterification degree for each of the polyvinyl alcohol containing an acetoacetic ester group separated by particle size of 44 to 74, 74 to 105, 105 to 177, 177 to 297, 297 to 500 and 500 to 1680 ?m is 1.0 to 3.0. Also, the present invention relates to a redispersible fiber obtained by drying the aqueous emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2005Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: The Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuo Shibutani, Kiyoharu Kitamura, Kinji Taki, Masaaki Yamada
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Publication number: 20060136168Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a body, a triaxial acceleration sensor which is built in the body and includes a long axis and a short axis, a disk device built in the body, a calculation unit that calculates a value on a basis of an acceleration value which is detected by the triaxial acceleration sensor and is output in a direction perpendicular to the long axis and to the short axis, a setting unit that sets a threshold in a state of the body in which a plane formed by the long axis and the short axis is approximately parallel to a direction of action of gravitational acceleration, and a controller that starts protection of the disk device on a basis of a result of comparison between the value calculated by the calculation unit and the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2005Publication date: June 22, 2006Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Koji Nakamura, Tatsuya Aoyagi, Toru Mamata, Kinji Taki
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Publication number: 20050197441Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous emulsion having excellent polymerization stability and standing stability and a redispersible powder. Specifically, the present invention relates to an aqueous emulsion of a polymer obtained by polymerizing an acrylic monomer in the presence of a polyvinyl alcohol containing an acetoacetic ester group; wherein the polyvinyl alcohol containing an acetoacetic ester group has block character [?] of 0.3 to 0.6, hydrolysis degree of at least 97% by mol and acetoacetic esterification degree of 0.01 to 1.5% by mol, and the value obtained by dividing the maximum value by the minimum value of the respective average acetoacetic esterification degree for each of the polyvinyl alcohol containing an acetoacetic ester group separated by particle size of 44 to 74, 74 to 105, 105 to 177, 177 to 297, 297 to 500 and 500 to 1680 ?m is 1.0 to 3.0. Also, the present invention relates to a redispersible fiber obtained by drying the aqueous emulsion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2005Publication date: September 8, 2005Inventors: Mitsuo Shibutani, Kiyoharu Kitamura, Kinji Taki, Masaaki Yamada
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Patent number: 5627731Abstract: A personal computer comprises a housing having a bottom wall. A plurality of functional components are arranged side by side on the bottom wall of the housing. A fixture plate is arranged on top of the functional components and secured to the functional components and the bottom wall by means of screws. The functional components are held between the fixture plate and the bottom wall.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1996Date of Patent: May 6, 1997Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Youji Sato, Yuji Nakajima, Kinji Taki, Toshikazu Konno
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Patent number: 5617301Abstract: A personal computer comprises a housing having a bottom wall. A plurality of functional components are arranged side by side on the bottom wall of the housing. A fixture plate is arranged on top of the functional components and secured to the functional components and the bottom wall by means of screws. The functional components are held between the fixture plate and the bottom wall.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1995Date of Patent: April 1, 1997Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Youji Sato, Yuji Nakajima, Kinji Taki, Toshikazu Konno
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Patent number: 5455746Abstract: A personal computer comprises a housing having a bottom wall. A plurality of functional components are arranged side by side on the bottom wall of the housing. A fixture plate is arranged on top of the functional components and secured to the functional components and the bottom wall by means of screws. The functional components are held between the fixture plate and the bottom wall.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1993Date of Patent: October 3, 1995Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Youji Sato, Yuji Nakajima, Kinji Taki, Toshikazu Konno