Patents by Inventor Satoshi Imai
Satoshi Imai 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: 11611942Abstract: A high-frequency signal processing apparatus and a wireless communication apparatus can achieve a decrease in power consumption. For example, when an indicated power level to a high-frequency power amplifier is equal to or greater than a second reference value, envelope tracking is performed by causing a source voltage control circuit to control a high-speed DCDC converter using a detection result of an envelope detecting circuit and causing a bias control circuit to indicate a fixed bias value. The source voltage control circuit and the bias control circuit indicate a source voltage and a bias value decreasing in proportion to a decrease in the indicated power level when the indicated power level is in a range of the second reference value to the first reference value, and indicate a fixed source voltage and a fixed bias value when the indicated power level is less than the first reference value.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Kiichiro Takenaka, Takayuki Tsutsui, Taizo Yamawaki, Shun Imai
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Patent number: 11594351Abstract: A multilayer chip varistor includes an element body, first and second external electrodes, and first and second electrical conductor groups. The first electrical conductor group includes a first internal electrode connected to the first external electrode, and a first intermediate electrical conductor opposed to the first internal electrode. The second electrical conductor group includes a second internal electrode including a first electrically conductive material and connected to the second external electrode, and a second intermediate electrical conductor opposed to the second internal electrode. At least one of the first and second intermediate electrical conductors includes the second electrically conductive material. The element body includes a low electrical resistance region between the first and second internal electrodes. The second electrically conductive material is diffused in the low electrical resistance region.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Kagaya, Masayuki Uchida, Naoyoshi Yoshida, Takeshi Yanata, Satoshi Goto, Takeshi Oyanagi, Yusuke Imai, Daiki Suzuki, Kaname Ueda
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Patent number: 11547936Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for downloading application software from a server, including: downloading the application software from the server, where a first application software file contains only a portion of the application software, and a second application software file contains more than the portion of the application software; executing the application software and generating application images based thereon, where execution of the first application software file contains enough of the application software to execute a limited amount of the application software; and displaying the application images on a display screen based on the execution of the application software, where the acquisition unit begins downloading the second application software file in a background process after downloading the first application software file and at least partially during the execution of the first application software file.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Kenichi Imai, Shigeru Enomoto, Hiroshi Saito, Toshimasa Aoki, Satoshi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11460524Abstract: A radio frequency coil according to an embodiment is configured to receive a magnetic resonance signal from an examined subject. The radio frequency coil includes an expandable and contractible first element and an expandable and contractible second element. The radio frequency coil has an overlap region where a first loop formed by the first element overlaps with a second loop formed by the second element. The ratio of the area of the overlap region to the area of the region enclosed by the first loop changes in accordance with expansion/contraction of the first element forming the first loop. The first element and the second element include liquid metal in at least a part thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Imai, Sadanori Tomiha, Masahiro Fukushima, Misaki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20220260939Abstract: The disclosure provides a development roll for electrophotographic apparatuses. The development roll for electrophotographic apparatuses includes: a shaft; an elastic layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft; a surface layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of the elastic layer; and an end protection layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of the surface layer at both ends in an axial direction. The end protection layer contains a binder polymer and a surface modification agent that has a cyano group.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: Sumitomo Riko Company LimitedInventors: Satoshi Endo, Kengo Fujii, Kentaro Imai, Satoshi Tatsumi
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Publication number: 20220256477Abstract: A high-frequency signal processing apparatus and a wireless communication apparatus can achieve a decrease in power consumption. For example, when an indicated power level to a high-frequency power amplifier is equal to or greater than a second reference value, envelope tracking is performed by causing a source voltage control circuit to control a high-speed DCDC converter using a detection result of an envelope detecting circuit and causing a bias control circuit to indicate a fixed bias value. The source voltage control circuit and the bias control circuit indicate a source voltage and a bias value decreasing in proportion to a decrease in the indicated power level when the indicated power level is in a range of the second reference value to the first reference value, and indicate a fixed source voltage and a fixed bias value when the indicated power level is less than the first reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Satoshi TANAKA, Kiichiro TAKENAKA, Takayuki TSUTSUI, Taizo YAMAWAKI, Shun IMAI
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Publication number: 20220210319Abstract: An electronic apparatus configured to communicate with a content processing system, the electronic apparatus includes a communication controller configured to control transmission of a processing instruction for content to the content processing system and control acquisition of a remaining content amount available for the processing from the content processing system via a communication unit, and a display controller configured to control display of a numerical value indicating the acquired remaining content amount in a specific display area, and in a case where a predetermined condition about communication is satisfied, control performing of a specific display related to the specific display area based on satisfaction of the predetermined condition, the specific display being different from the numerical value indicating the remaining content amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Ryo Imai, Satoshi Masuda, Ryo Takahashi
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Patent number: 11372062Abstract: According to one embodiment, a coil element includes an extendable and contractible coil and a capacitor. The capacitor is connected to the coil and has an electrostatic capacity which changes due to a physical change in response to extension or contraction of the coil.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Sadanori Tomiha, Takafumi Ohishi, Sho Kawajiri, Satoshi Imai
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Publication number: 20220197980Abstract: When the application (P) is activated (enabled, validated) by the second activation key (K2) issued by the first electronic apparatus (10), the control circuit (21) of the second electronic apparatus (20) stores the application identifier (PI), i.e., information for specifying the application (P) in the backup area (the second storage area (282)). Even if the application (P) is accidentally deleted from the second electronic apparatus (20), the application (P) can be recovered by identifying the application based on the information in the backup area.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: HIROSHI YOSHIMOTO, HIROSHI NAKAMURA, SATOSHI IMAI, AYA KAMAKURA
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Patent number: 11353678Abstract: An image-capturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a base plate, a base body, a lens holding section, and a first bonding material. An imaging element is implemented on the base plate. The base body includes a first surface portion arranged to be oriented toward the base plate, and is connected to the base plate. The lens holding section includes a second surface portion spaced from the first surface portion, and holds a lens section that forms an image of light that enters the lens section. The first bonding material is filled into a space between the first surface portion and the second surface portion to connect the base body and the lens holding section.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Imai, Kazuki Sakae, Takashi Warashina
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Patent number: 11333731Abstract: An MRI apparatus according to an embodiment includes a whole body RF coil accommodated in a gantry. The whole body RF coil includes a first element unit used for transmission of a radio frequency magnetic field; and a second element unit used for reception of a magnetic resonance signal produced from a subject having been applied with the radio frequency magnetic field. The first element unit is a birdcage-type RF coil having two end rings and a plurality of rungs spaced apart from each other along the circumferential direction of the end rings. The second element unit is a microstrip antenna.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Imai, Sadanori Tomiha
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Patent number: 11328039Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: an input module configured to input an export instruction and an electronic apparatus identifier, the export instruction instructing to export an application, the electronic apparatus identifier corresponding to one different electronic apparatus; a controller module configured to generate an activation key on a basis of the electronic apparatus identifier where the export instruction is input, the activation key being for activating the application only in the one different electronic apparatus, control to output a package file including the application and the activation key, and inactivate the application after a certain replacement transition time period passes, the certain replacement transition time period starting from an output time point of the package file; and an output module configured to output the package file controlled by the controller module.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Satoshi Imai, Aya Kamakura, Hiroshi Yoshimoto
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Patent number: 11233906Abstract: A storage device stores, for each of one or more function expansion applications, the hardware component necessary for operation of the function expansion application. A control circuit is configured to detect that there is a failure in any of the plurality of hardware components, determine whether or not there is the function expansion application that needs, for operation thereof, the hardware component from which a failure has been detected, and perform control so that an operation mode is switched to a first degeneracy mode in which the detected hardware component is not used where there is no function expansion application that needs the detected hardware component, and the other hardware components are used.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Satoshi Imai, Hiroshi Nakamura, Aya Kamakura, Hiroshi Yoshimoto
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Publication number: 20210302515Abstract: A radio frequency coil according to an embodiment is configured to receive a magnetic resonance signal from an examined subject. The radio frequency coil includes an expandable and contractible first element and an expandable and contractible second element. The radio frequency coil has an overlap region where a first loop formed by the first element overlaps with a second loop formed by the second element. The ratio of the area of the overlap region to the area of the region enclosed by the first loop changes in accordance with expansion/contraction of the first element forming the first loop. The first element and the second element include liquid metal in at least a part thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi IMAI, Sadanori TOMIHA, Masahiro FUKUSHIMA, Misaki KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11115325Abstract: A control device that controls a transfer device, includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to evaluate, for each of a plurality of processing rules to be used to process a packet in the transfer device, a processing load caused upon identification of a packet matching the processing rule, based on the type of an application requirement identifying the packet to which the processing rule is applied, generate, as a table to be used by the transfer device, a rule table storing the plurality of processing rules in order from the lowest processing load to the highest processing load, and transmit, to the transfer device, a control packet to request the transfer device to set the rule table.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Dai Suzuki, Satoshi Imai
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Patent number: 11061090Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a Radio Frequency (RF) coil configured to apply an RF magnetic field to a subject. The RF coil includes: a supporting member formed to have a circular cylindrical shape; and an electrically-conductive member which is arranged to extend along an axial direction of the supporting member and through which a radio frequency current flows when the RF magnetic field is generated. The electrically-conductive member includes: a first part provided on an outer circumferential surface of the supporting member; and a second part positioned farther away from an RF shield provided on an outer circumferential side of the RF coil than the first part is, in terms of a radial direction of the supporting member.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Fukushima, Sadanori Tomiha, Manabu Ishii, Satoshi Imai
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Patent number: 11063767Abstract: An apparatus serves as a node device included in a distributed data sharing network, and shares, by using a blockchain, a piece of event information related to an event generated in a terminal, among node devices included in the distributed data sharing network, where the blockchain is a continuously growing list of blocks which are linked and secured using cryptography. The apparatus generates a piece of event data including the piece of event information related to the event, and causes the generated piece of event data to be stored in one of the node devices included in the distributed data sharing network.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Satoshi Imai, Toru Katagiri, Motoyoshi Sekiya
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Publication number: 20210191064Abstract: An image-capturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a base plate, a base body, a lens holding section, and a first bonding material. An imaging element is implemented on the base plate. The base body includes a first surface portion arranged to be oriented toward the base plate, and is connected to the base plate. The lens holding section includes a second surface portion spaced from the first surface portion, and holds a lens section that forms an image of light that enters the lens section. The first bonding material is filled into a space between the first surface portion and the second surface portion to connect the base body and the lens holding section.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2018Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Satoshi IMAI, Kazuki SAKAE, Takashi WARASHINA
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Publication number: 20210132165Abstract: According to one embodiment, a coil element includes an extendable and contractible coil and a capacitor. The capacitor is connected to the coil and has an electrostatic capacity which changes due to a physical change in response to extension or contraction of the coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Sadanori TOMIHA, Takafumi OHISHI, Sho KAWAJIRI, Satoshi IMAI
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Patent number: 10984241Abstract: A medical image diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a storage circuitry and processing circuitry. The storage circuitry is configured to store therein workflow information indicating a plurality of procedures related to a preparation for an imaging process. The processing circuitry is configured to analyze an image obtained by a camera. The processing circuitry is configured to identify which of the plurality of procedures has been performed on the basis of the workflow information and a result of the analysis performed on the image and to cause an informing device to provide information about one or more of the procedures corresponding to a result of the identifying.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Miyuki Ota, Mitsuo Takagi, Sadanori Tomiha, Satoshi Imai, Masahiro Fukushima, Manabu Ishii, Shinji Mitsui