Patents by Inventor Koji Sonoda

Koji Sonoda 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: 11942119
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus includes irreversible adsorbing materials in a sealed housing for the magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyo Mizutani, Koji Sonoda, Makoto Okamoto, Takuma Kido
  • Publication number: 20230284839
    Abstract: There is provided a bathtub apparatus capable of satisfactorily detecting an electrocardiographic signal even in a state where water is being discharged into a bathtub by a water discharge device. The present invention is a bathtub apparatus (1) including a bathtub main body (2), a water discharge device (8) that discharges water toward inside of the bathtub main body and is provided above a first inner wall surface (2a) forming a short side of the bathtub main body, and electrodes (4a, 4b, 4c) attached to the bathtub main body to detect an electrocardiographic signal of a bathing person, where the electrodes are arranged on an inner wall surface of the bathtub main body, and are arranged closer to the first inner wall surface than a position (P) where water discharged from the water discharge device hits a water surface of the water stored in the bathtub main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi TSUBOI, Koji SONODA, Kei WATANABE, Yu ICHIKAWA, Masayoshi ENOKI, Kensuke AZUMA, Ryoko UNO, Mao JINDE, Yuwa ISHII, Kenji FURUKAWA, Hiroki KURITA
  • Publication number: 20220375502
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus includes irreversible adsorbing materials in a sealed housing for the magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Akiyo Mizutani, Koji Sonoda, Makoto Okamoto, Takuma Kido
  • Publication number: 20220020391
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a housing, plurality of magnetic disks that are rotatable in the housing, magnetic heads which process data with respect to the respectively magnetic disks, a head actuator provided in the housing and supporting the magnetic heads to be movable and a capturing part formed of a material that is as easily or more easily electrostatically chargeable as or than a polycarbonate-based material in a triboelectric series, and disposed in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventor: Koji SONODA
  • Patent number: 10736474
    Abstract: A toilet seat device includes a main part, a toilet seat, a load sensor, a controller, and a memory. The toilet seat includes a seating part where a user is seated, and a support leg part supporting a load applied to the seating part. The load sensor is provided in the support leg part and detects the load applied to the support leg part. The controller performs at least a body weight measurement of the user based on a detection result of the load sensor. The controller includes a register mode and a normal-use mode in the body weight measurement. The register mode includes determining an estimated value for estimating the total body weight of the user from the seated load. The normal-use mode includes estimating a load value relating to the total body weight of the user based on the estimated value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Takaki, Hiroshi Tsuboi, Hitoaki Higuchi, Koji Sonoda, Keisuke Tashiro, Tomohiro Hara, Yo Morotomi
  • Publication number: 20200150122
    Abstract: The biological information measurement system of the present invention includes a test subject-side device provided in a toilet installation room, and a server communicable with the test subject-side device, the test subject-side device includes a sulfur-containing gas sensor sensitive to sulfur-containing gas and outputting detection data, a transmitter-receiver transmitting measurement data including detection data of the sulfur-containing gas detected by the sulfur-containing gas sensor to the server, and the server includes a database in which measurement data including detection data of sulfur-containing gas detected by the sulfur-containing gas sensor is accumulated and recorded with dates and times of defecation acts by being associated with test subject identification information, and server-side data analyzer that analyzes physical condition of a test subject on the basis of a time-dependent variation tendency of the measurement data accumulated and recorded in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Aya HASEGAWA, Tetsuhiro WASADA, Aya TAKAO, Satoko KIZUKA, Hidenori OKA, Akemi TAKESHITA, Masayuki NAGAISHI, Koji SONODA, Shingo YAMAYA, Hiroshi TSUBOI
  • Patent number: 10571470
    Abstract: The biological information measurement system of the present invention includes a test subject-side device provided in a toilet installation room, and a server communicable with the test subject-side device, the test subject-side device includes a sulfur-containing gas sensor sensitive to sulfur-containing gas and outputting detection data, a transmitter-receiver transmitting measurement data including detection data of the sulfur-containing gas detected by the sulfur-containing gas sensor to the server, and the server includes a database in which measurement data including detection data of sulfur-containing gas detected by the sulfur-containing gas sensor is accumulated and recorded with dates and times of defecation acts by being associated with test subject identification information, and server-side data analyzer that analyzes physical condition of a test subject on the basis of a time-dependent variation tendency of the measurement data accumulated and recorded in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Aya Hasegawa, Tetsuhiro Wasada, Aya Takao, Satoko Kizuka, Hidenori Oka, Akemi Takeshita, Masayuki Nagaishi, Koji Sonoda, Shingo Yamaya, Hiroshi Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20190290079
    Abstract: A toilet seat device includes a main part, a toilet seat, a load sensor, a controller, and a memory. The toilet seat includes a seating part where a user is seated, and a support leg part supporting a load applied to the seating part. The load sensor is provided in the support leg part and detects the load applied to the support leg part. The controller performs at least a body weight measurement of the user based on a detection result of the load sensor. The controller includes a register mode and a normal-use mode in the body weight measurement. The register mode includes determining an estimated value for estimating the total body weight of the user from the seated load. The normal-use mode includes estimating a load value relating to the total body weight of the user based on the estimated value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Takeshi Takaki, Hiroshi Tsuboi, Hitoaki Higuchi, Koji Sonoda, Keisuke Tashiro, Tomohiro Hara, Yo Morotomi
  • Patent number: 10013322
    Abstract: A storage controller stores, for each of a plurality of storage devices, a usable capacity, which is a capacity usable by the storage controller in a logical storage area, configures a first RAID group using a first storage device group among the plurality of storage devices, and allocates, on the basis of a request from a host computer, one of a plurality of pages of the logical storage area in the first RAID group to a virtual volume. The storage controller reduces, when receiving first failure information indicating a failure in a first storage device in the first storage device group from the first storage device, a usable capacity of the first storage device on the basis of the first failure information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Go Uehara, Shigeo Homma, Koji Sonoda
  • Publication number: 20170370936
    Abstract: The biological information measurement system of the present invention includes a test subject-side device provided in a toilet installation room, and a server communicable with the test subject-side device, the test subject-side device includes a sulfur-containing gas sensor sensitive to sulfur-containing gas and outputting detection data, a transmitter-receiver transmitting measurement data including detection data of the sulfur-containing gas detected by the sulfur-containing gas sensor to the server, and the server includes a database in which measurement data including detection data of sulfur-containing gas detected by the sulfur-containing gas sensor is accumulated and recorded with dates and times of defecation acts by being associated with test subject identification information, and server-side data analyzer that analyzes physical condition of a test subject on the basis of a time-dependent variation tendency of the measurement data accumulated and recorded in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Aya HASEGAWA, Tetsuhiro WASADA, Aya TAKAO, Satoko KIZUKA, Hidenori OKA, Akemi TAKESHITA, Masayuki NAGAISHI, Koji SONODA, Shingo YAMAYA, Hiroshi TSUBOI
  • Publication number: 20170089875
    Abstract: The present invention is a biological information measurement system that measures physical condition of a test subject, and includes: a suction device that sucks gas in the bowl; a gas detector with a gas sensor sensitive to odiferous gas and hydrogen gas included in the defecation gas; a control device; a data analyzer that analyzes the physical condition of the test subject on the basis of detection data; and an output device that outputs an analysis result. In the system, the gas sensor includes first and second detectors that have different sensitivities to hydrogen gas and odiferous gas, and detect first and second detection data, respectively, and the data analyzer includes a gas arithmetic circuit that acquires concentration of odiferous gas on the basis of a conversion table of a relationship between the first and second detection data and concentration of the odiferous gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Aya HASEGAWA, Satoko KIZUKA, Masayuki NAGAISHI, Akemi TAKESHITA, Shingo YAMAYA, Hidenori OKA, Koji SONODA, Hiroshi TSUBOI
  • Publication number: 20160223552
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a biological information measurement system which can be readily purchased by general consumers, and can measure defecation gas in households. The present invention is a biological information measurement system (1) that measures physical condition of a test subject on the basis of defecation gas, having a suction device (18), a gas detector (20) sensitive to odiferous gas, a control device (22), a data analyzer (60) that analyzes the physical condition of the test subject, and an output device (68), and the data analyzer adopts detection data concerning initial excretion at a time of a predetermined increase in the odiferous gas being firstly detected by the gas detector, in a defecation period after the test subject sits on a seat of a flush toilet, as the first detection data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Satoko KIZUKA, Hiroshi TSUBOI, Masayuki NAGAISHI, Koji SONODA, Hidenori OKA, Akemi TAKESHITA, Shingo YAMAYA, Aya HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20160220170
    Abstract: There is provided a diagnosis system that is capable of allowing general consumers to readily purchase it, as well as capable of measuring defecation gas at home. The present invention is a system (1) including a device (10) on a test subject side, and a server (12), the test subject side device includes a suction device, a gas detector, a test subject identification device, a control device, and a communication device, the server has a database (12a) in which first detection data of odiferous gas, and test subject disease data are accumulated and recorded, and the server side data analyzer is provided with relating means that generates affected test subject defecation gas data, similarity determination means that compares a time-dependent change characteristic of the affected test subject defecation gas data, and a time-dependent change characteristic of test subject defecation gas data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Aya HASEGAWA, Tetsuhiro WASADA, Aya TAKAO, Satoko KIZUKA, Hidenori OKA, Akemi TAKESHITA, Masayuki NAGAISHI, Koji SONODA, Shingo YAMAYA, Hiroshi TSUBOI
  • Publication number: 20160223519
    Abstract: There is provided a diagnosis system that is capable of allowing general consumers to readily purchase it, as well as capable of measuring defecation gas at home. The system of the present invention includes: a suction device that sucks gas in the bowl into which defecation gas is discharged by a test subject; a gas detector provided with a gas sensor that is sensitive to methyl mercaptan gas included in the gas sucked by the suction device; a control device that controls the suction device and the gas detector; a data analyzer that analyzes physical condition of the test subject on the basis of detection data acquired by the gas detector; and an output device that outputs an analysis result acquired by the data analyzer, and the data analyzer includes a reliability determination circuit for determining reliability of detection by the gas detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Shingo YAMAYA, Koji SONODA, Aya HASEGAWA, Hiroshi TSUBOI, Masayuki NAGAISHI, Akemi TAKESHITA, Satoko KIZUKA, Hidenori OKA
  • Publication number: 20160223551
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a biological information measurement system capable of notifying poor physical condition. The present invention is a system (1) that measures physical condition on the basis of defecation gas, and that includes: a test subject identification device; a suction device (18) that sucks gas in a bowl; a gas detector (20) that reacts to methyl mercaptan gas contained in the sucked gas; a control device (22) that controls the suction device and the gas detector; a storage device that stores first detection data; a data analyzer that analyzes physical condition of a test subject on the basis of time-dependent change in a plurality of first detection data items that is acquired in a defecation act performed multiple times in a predetermined period; and an output device that outputs an analysis result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Satoko KIZUKA, Hiroshi TSUBOI, Masayuki NAGAISHI, Koji SONODA, Hidenori OKA, Akemi TAKESHITA, Masahiro YAMAMOTO, Akitoshi SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160223548
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a biological information measurement system capable of detecting odiferous gas in defecation gas at sufficient accuracy. The present invention is a system (1) that measures physical condition of a test subject on the basis of a defecation gas, and that includes: a suction device (18); a gas detector (20) with a gas sensor sensitive to an odiferous gas; a control device; a data analyzer (60) that analyzes the physical condition of the test subject; and an output device (68), and a detecting portion of the gas sensor detects gas at an oxidation-reduction temperature at which the detecting portion reacts to the hydrogen gas by an oxidation-reduction reaction, and at an oxidation-reduction reduced temperature at which an oxidation-reduction reaction to the hydrogen gas is deteriorated to relatively raise sensitivity of the detecting portion to the odiferous gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Satoko KIZUKA, Hiroshi TSUBOI, Masayuki NAGAISHI, Hidenori OKA, Akemi TAKESHITA, Koji SONODA, Aya HASEGAWA, Shingo YAMAYA, Masahiro YAMAMOTO, Akitoshi SAKAGUCHI, Yasuhiro SETOGUCHI, Kuniyuki IZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160223549
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a biological information measurement system capable of reliably detecting odiferous gas discharged from a test subject. The present invention is a biological information measurement system (1) that measures physical condition of the test subject on the basis of defecation gas, and that includes: a suction device (18) that sucks gas in a bowl (2a); a gas detector (20) provided with a gas sensor that reacts to methyl mercaptan gas contained in the sucked gas; a control device (22) that controls the suction device and the gas detector; a data analyzer (60) that analyzes physical condition of the test subject; an output device that outputs this analysis result; and output result stabilizing mean for reducing influence of odiferous noise on the analysis result to be outputted by the output device, on the basis of the odiferous noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Satoko KIZUKA, Hiroshi TSUBOI, Masayuki NAGAISHI, Koji SONODA, Hidenori OKA, Akemi TAKESHITA, Shingo YAMAYA, Aya HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20160223518
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a diagnosis system with high practicality. The present invention is a system (1) that measures physical condition of a test subject on the basis of defecation gas, including a suction device (18) that sucks gas in the bowl into which the defecation gas is discharged, a gas detector (20) provided with a gas sensor that is sensitive to odiferous gas, included in the defecation gas sucked by the suction device, a control device (22) that controls the suction device and the gas detector, a data analyzer (60) that analyzes the physical condition of the test subject on the basis of detection data, and an output device (68) that outputs an analysis result, and the data analyzer applies correction to the physical condition of the test subject analyzed on the basis of detection data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Shingo YAMAYA, Koji SONODA, Aya HASEGAWA, Hiroshi TSUBOI, Masayuki NAGAISHI, Akemi TAKESHITA, Satoko KIZUKA, Hidenori OKA
  • Publication number: 20160223550
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a biological information measurement system that can reliably detect odiferous gas discharged from a test subject. The present invention is a system (1) that measures physical condition of a test subject on the basis of defecation gas, and has a suction device (18) that sucks gas in a bowl (2a), a gas detector (20) provided with a gas sensor (26) that is sensitive to methyl mercaptan gas included in the sucked defecation gas, a control device (22) that controls the suction device and the gas detector, a data analyzer (60) that analyzes the physical condition of the test subject, and an output device (68) that outputs an analysis result, and the data analyzer is provided with noise suppression means that suppresses influence of noise caused by the test subject, other than discharge of defecation gas of the test subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Aya HASEGAWA, Shingo YAMAYA, Hidenori OKA, Koji SONODA, Satoko KIZUKA, Hiroshi TSUBOI, Akemi TAKESHITA, Masayuki NAGAISHI
  • Patent number: 9335929
    Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor storage system has multiple nonvolatile semiconductor storage media, a control circuit having a media interface group (one or more interface devices) coupled to the multiple nonvolatile semiconductor storage media, and multiple switches. The media interface group and the multiple switches are coupled via data buses, and each switch and each of two or more nonvolatile chips are coupled via a data bus. The switch is configured so as to switch a coupling between a data bus coupled to the media interface group and a data bus coupled to any of multiple nonvolatile chips that are coupled to this switch. The control circuit partitions write-target data into multiple data elements, switches a coupling by controlling the multiple switches, and distributively sends the multiple data elements to multiple nonvolatile chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishikawa, Koji Sonoda, Go Uehara, Junji Ogawa, Hideyuki Koseki