Patents by Inventor Koji Kida

Koji Kida 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: 20190285192
    Abstract: A solenoid valve device includes a body including a gas passage and an accommodation portion communicating with the gas passage, a solenoid valve that is accommodated in the accommodation portion and that controls flow of gas by opening and closing the gas passage, a sealing member disposed between the accommodation portion and the solenoid valve to maintain airtightness of the gas passage, and a solenoid that generates power for the solenoid valve to open and close the gas passage, wherein the body is provided with a communication hole that allows communication between inside and outside of the accommodation portion; the solenoid includes a connection terminal portion extending toward the communication hole; and a connector is accommodated in the communication hole in a manner such that rotation of the connector in a circumferential direction about an axis of the communication hole is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazushi NUMAZAKI, Natsuki IWAMOTO, Toshikatsu KUBO, Tomohiro YASUOKA, Koji KIDA
  • Patent number: 10416832
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display device, etc. which display information in a display format that provides high visibility. The display device 201 comprises a display unit 202 which displays first nodes, each representing a different communication entity with communication capabilities, or second nodes, each representing a different group of a plurality of communication entities, around a first region, and which shows communications being carried out between first and second nodes, between a plurality of first nodes, or between a plurality of second nodes, in a display format in which the connections between these communicating nodes are indicated within the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Isoyama, Etsuko Ichihara, Junpei Kamimura, Yoshiaki Sakae, Yuji Kobayashi, Takashi Nomura, Koji Kida
  • Publication number: 20190018959
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a software analysis device which efficiently analyzes a computer environment in which software is capable of running. The software analysis system determines an order of detection devices, generates order information representing the order, and calculate a progression degree of abnormality based on how degree a predetermined order include the order in the order information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko ISOYAMA, Koji KIDA, Hiroki TAGATO, Yoshiaki SAKAE, Junpei KAMIMURA, Yuji KOBAYASHI, Etsuko ICHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20180357976
    Abstract: Provided is, for example, a display control apparatus that generates display information for specifying an event occurred in an information processing system easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Etsuko ICHIHARA, Koji KIDA, Hiroki TAGATO, Yoshiaki SAKAE, Kazuhiko ISOYAMA, Junpei KAMIMURA, Yuji KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10142054
    Abstract: A communication unit (2020) performs directly wireless communicates with a portable terminal (3000). A collection information acquisition unit (2040) acquires collection information. A division transmission unit (2060) generates multiple pieces of partial collection information by dividing the collection information, and transmits pieces of partial collection information being different from each other to multiple portable terminals (3000). A redundancy transmission unit (2080) transmits the same collection information to the multiple portable terminals (3000). An index value acquisition unit (2100) acquires any one or two of a reliability index value and a capacity index value of the portable terminal (3000). Based on any one or two of the reliability index value and the capacity index value of each portable terminal (3000), a transmission control unit (2120) selects the division transmission unit (2060) or the redundancy transmission unit (2080) to perform the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Fujiyama, Koji Kida
  • Publication number: 20180306343
    Abstract: A solenoid valve includes a coil, a valve element receiving portion, a valve element placed inside of the valve element receiving portion, and a valve portion configured to open and close a gas flow path accompanied with move of the valve element. Either a surface of the valve element opposed to the valve element receiving portion or a surface of the valve element receiving portion opposed to the valve element has a first groove that is extended in an axial direction and a second groove that is arranged to intersect with the first groove and to be extended in a circumferential direction. The first groove is formed to be extended at least from the second groove toward a valve portion-side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicants: SOKEN, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke HORI, Hiroki YAHASHI, Koji KIDA, Akio NAKAMURA, Takuya SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20180276064
    Abstract: The diagnosis device specifies a progression degree relating to a first information processing device for output information output by a first detection device at a first timing with respect to the first information processing device, based on device information indicates a progression degree that represents a degree to which the information processing device is abnormal with respect to the information processing device, determines whether or not information in which a first detection device identifier of the first detection device and the specified progression degree are associated with each other is included in progression-degree information in which a detection device identifier capable of identifying a detection device and the progression degree are associated with each other; and calculates the progression degree relating to the first information processing device according to the specified progression degree when the information is determined to be included in the progression-degree information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko ISOYAMA, Koji KIDA, Hiroki TAGATO, Yoshiaki SAKAE, Junpei KAMIMURA, Yuji KOBAYASHI, Etsuko ICHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20180241052
    Abstract: Provided is a valve unit including a first gas flow channel to a gas tank and a second gas flow channel branching off from the first gas flow channel and leading to a gas-consuming device. The valve unit can avoid the entrance of water, which may be included in gas, into the second gas flow channel. The first gas flow channel to let gas from the outside in has a bend. The first gas flow channel has a communication port to the gas tank at an end downstream of the bend. A second gas flow channel branches off at a branching part between the bend and the communication port, and the second gas flow channel leads to the gas-consuming device. A straightening member is disposed between the bend and the branching part, and is to straighten the gas flow from the upstream to be parallel to the direction of the first gas flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Ryosuke HORI, Hiroki YAHASHI, Koji KIDA
  • Publication number: 20180119831
    Abstract: A valve device for a gas tank, includes a body and a check valve provided in an injection passage to inject gas into the gas tank. The check valve includes a valve seat, a case fixed in the injection passage while a space is provided between an inner peripheral surface of the injection passage and the case to enable gas to flow through the space, and a valve element accommodated in the case. The case includes a cylindrical portion, and is configured such that the bottom of the cylindrical portion, provided at an opposite side to the valve seat, defines a range where the valve element is axially movable. The valve element includes a head portion that can block a valve hole of the valve seat, and a sliding portion formed to be axially movable with respect to the cylindrical portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya SUZUKI, Kazuki OKAMURA, Yuya KIHARA, Akio NAKAMURA, Shusuke INAGI, Akira YAMASHITA, Koji KIDA
  • Patent number: 9959766
    Abstract: Information regarding moving bodies (00) that are in danger of colliding is collected at an appropriate frequency in accordance with the degree of danger. This information-collecting device has a risk calculation unit and a transmission-interval determination unit. The risk calculation unit receives, from a plurality of moving bodies, state information that includes locations and velocities and is transmitted at provided time intervals. The risk calculation unit also computes the distance between and relative velocities of two moving bodies. The transmission-interval determination unit computes an interval such that the higher the relative velocities of two moving bodies are relative to the distance therebetween, the shorter the interval is, and provides the computed interval to the moving bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Etsuko Ichihara, Kenichiro Fujiyama, Koji Kida
  • Patent number: 9942112
    Abstract: An information collection system includes a server apparatus, a plurality of edge apparatuses, and a collection rules storage unit. The edge apparatus includes a first information generation unit that generates first information and a second information generation unit that generates second information. The collection rules storage unit stores collection rules so as to be associated with the edge apparatus and the first information that the server apparatus acquires from the edge apparatus. The server apparatus includes a first information acquisition unit that acquires the first information from the edge apparatus, a second information acquisition unit that acquires the second information from the edge apparatus, and a collection rules acquisition unit that acquires collection rules from the collection rules storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Fujiyama, Koji Kida
  • Publication number: 20180018384
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing system for more appropriately classifying elements that constitute an information processing device or the like. This information processing system is provided with: a means that, on the basis of information indicating the relationship between a plurality of elements that constitute a system, acquires, for first elements to be classified, a set of second elements capable of arriving at the first elements via a relationship of arbitrary numbers; and a means that, on the basis of the set corresponding to the first elements, classifies each of the first elements in any of a plurality of roles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi NOMURA, Koji KIDA, Kazuhiko ISOYAMA, Junpei KAMIMURA, Yoshiaki SAKAE, Yuji KOBAYASHI, Etsuko ICHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20170264498
    Abstract: Disclosed are an event estimation device, etc., which are capable of estimating with high precision whether a communication is singular. Provided is an event estimation device (101), comprising: a model creation unit (102) which creates a model which, on the basis of a frequency with which a communication is executed, computes that a degree of singularity which represents the extent to which the communication is singular is high if the frequency is low, and computes that the degree of singularity is low if the frequency is high; and an estimation unit (103) which computes the degree of singularity by applying the model to the frequency relating to a given communication, and if the computed degree of singularity satisfies a standard, estimates that the given communication is singular, and if the computed degree of singularity does not satisfy the standard, estimates that the given communication is not singular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko ISOYAMA, Etsuko ICHIHARA, Junpei KAMIMURA, Yoshiaki SAKAE, Yuji KOBAYASHI, Takashi NOMURA, Koji KIDA
  • Publication number: 20170262145
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display control device, etc., with which information is displayed according to a display mode having high visibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko ISOYAMA, Etsuko ICHIHARA, Junpei KAMIMURA, Yoshiaki SAKAE, Yuji KOBAYASHI, Takashi NOMURA, Koji KIDA
  • Publication number: 20170255305
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display device, etc. which display information in a display format that provides high visibility. The display device 201 comprises a display unit 202 which displays first nodes, each representing a different communication entity with communication capabilities, or second nodes, each representing a different group of a plurality of communication entities, around a first region, and which shows communications being carried out between first and second nodes, between a plurality of first nodes, or between a plurality of second nodes, in a display format in which the connections between these communicating nodes are indicated within the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko ISOYAMA, Etsuko ICHIHARA, Junpei KAMIMURA, Yoshiaki SAKAE, Yuji KOBAYASHI, Takashi NOMURA, Koji KIDA
  • Publication number: 20170132060
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing device that improves the detectability of system errors. This information processing device includes: a means that generates a state graph based on relationship change information indicating a change in the relationship between a plurality of elements included in a system, the state graph having the elements as the vertices thereof and the relationship between the elements as the sides thereof; a means that generates a normal model having the state graph as a set of conditions to be fulfilled during normal system operation, based on the relationship change information; and a means that detects system errors and outputs error information indicating detected errors, based on the state graph and the normal model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi NOMURA, Koji KIDA, Junpei KAMIMURA, Yoshiaki SAKAE, Etsuko KATSUDA, Kazuhiko ISOYAMA, Kentaro YAMASAKI, Yuji KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170116861
    Abstract: Information regarding moving bodies (00) that are in danger of colliding is collected at an appropriate frequency in accordance with the degree of danger. This information-collecting device has a risk calculation means and a transmission-interval determination means. The risk calculation means receives, from a plurality of moving bodies, state information that includes locations and velocities and is transmitted at provided time intervals. The risk calculation means also computes the distance between and relative velocities of two moving bodies. The transmission-interval determination means computes an interval such that the higher the relative velocities of two moving bodies are relative to the distance therebetween, the shorter the interval is, and provides the computed interval to said moving bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Etsuko ICHIHARA, Kenichiro FUJIYAMA, Koji KIDA
  • Publication number: 20170093900
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a reach-extent extraction unit configured to extract, with use of a relationship graph representing relationships between a plurality of elements included in a system and location information that indicates, on the relationship graph, a plurality of locations in the system where anomalies have been detected, paths in the relationship graph as being reach extents, the path including a set of the elements that are directly or indirectly related to each of the plurality of locations as a source; and a shared-extent extraction unit configured to extract an influence process of an anomaly by extracting an extent that is shared in at least a prescribed number of paths among paths in the relationship graph that have been extracted as the reach extents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi NOMURA, Koji KIDA, Junpei KAMIMURA, Yoshiaki SAKAE, Etsuko KATSUDA, Kazuhiko ISOYAMA, Kentaro YAMASAKI, Yuji KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170075746
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing device that outputs information including the data transmission relationship between elements constituting an information processing system, the information indicating the state of the information processing system. The information processing device includes a graphing means for generating a relationship graph based on an event log indicating the behavior of each of a plurality of processes operating in the system, the relationship graph having the processes as the vertices thereof and having the data transmission relationship between the vertices as the sides thereof; and a graph output means for outputting the generated relationship graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi NOMURA, Koji KIDA, Junpei KAMIMURA, Yoshiaki SAKAE, Etsuko KATSUDA, Kazuhiko ISOYAMA, Kentaro YAMASAKI, Yuji KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9530317
    Abstract: A peripheral aircraft selection means maps a region in a 3D space defined by a start point of period information of the aircraft of interest, a point having the coordinate values of passage position coordinates at an end point of the period information and a lower limit arrival time, and a point having the coordinate values of passage position coordinates at the end point of the period information and an upper limit arrival time onto a 2D plane by use of a first projection matrix. The peripheral aircraft selection means then selects a peripheral aircraft which can abnormally near to the aircraft of interest by determining how the resultant region crosses with a circle whose center is a passage position of the peripheral aircraft and whose radius is a determination standard threshold as to whether abnormal nearing will occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sachio Teramoto, Koji Kida, Hiroki Tagato, Tomohito Ando