Patents by Inventor Seiji Kuroda

Seiji Kuroda 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: 20120308776
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cermet coating that can take advantage of the hardness of a powder for a hard reinforcement phase more effectively, and spraying particles for forming the cermet coating. The cermet coating is formed on a base surface and has a hard reinforcement phase and a binder phase. The cermet coating has a Vickers hardness of from 50% to less than 100% of the hardness of the powder for a hard reinforcement phase, and has a surface roughness (center-line average roughness Ra) of less than 3.0. The cermet coating is formed by heating spraying particles prepared as aggregates of a powder for a hard reinforcement phase and a powder for a binder phase, and applying the spraying particles to a base at a supersonic velocity to integrate the powder for a hard reinforcement phase with the powder for a binder phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Seiji Kuroda, Makoto Watanabe, Masayuki Komatsu, Kazuto Sato, Junya Kitamura
  • Patent number: 8301124
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for communicating with a different information processing apparatus, includes: a first connection establishment block configured to control a first communication section, which carries out nearby wireless communication for delivering and accepting information to and from the different information processing apparatus positioned near to the information processing apparatus, to establish a connection for the nearby wireless communication; an acquisition block configured to acquire setting information for short range wireless communication which exhibits a wire communication range than the nearby wireless communication and capability information regarding the capacity of the different information processing apparatus from the different information processing apparatus through the nearby wireless communication; and a second connection establishment block configured to control a second communication section, which carries out the short range wireless communication, based on the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Soma, Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20120220278
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system including a service provider unit, a communication terminal and an information processing unit. The communication terminal includes a terminal first communication section, a terminal second communication section to communicate with the information processing unit through a first communication channel, a terminal third communication section to communicate with the information processing unit through a second communication channel, and a terminal communication control section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Soma, Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Kazuo Takada
  • Publication number: 20120156994
    Abstract: A communication processing apparatus, a computer program product, and a data processing method are provided. The communication processing apparatus includes a near-field communication unit configured to perform near-field communication; a control unit configured to acquire communication history data of near-field communication performed by using the near-field communication unit; and a storage unit configured to store the communication history data under control of the control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to acquire the communication history data stored in the storage unit and transmit the acquired communication history data to a server that performs information management, when issuing an information registration request to the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Kuroda, Isao Soma, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Kazuo Takada, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Naoki Miyabayashi
  • Patent number: 8180278
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system including a service provider unit, a communication terminal and an information processing unit. The communication terminal includes a terminal first communication section, a terminal second communication section to communicate with the information processing unit through a first communication channel, a terminal third communication section to communicate with the information processing unit through a second communication channel, and a terminal communication control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Soma, Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Kazuo Takada
  • Patent number: 8135343
    Abstract: An information management apparatus includes a communication unit configured to receive, from a plurality of communication processing apparatuses, a plurality of pieces of communication history data of near-field communication performed in the plurality of communication processing apparatuses; a data comparison unit configured to perform comparison of the plurality of pieces of communication history data received by the communication unit; and a data registration unit configured to register a plurality of pieces of user information associated with the plurality of communication processing apparatuses as a group in a database on condition that it is verified by the data comparison unit, in accordance with the plurality of pieces of communication history data of the near-field communication, that near-field communication has been performed between the plurality of communication processing apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Kuroda, Isao Soma, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Kazuo Takada, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Naoki Miyabayashi
  • Publication number: 20110205944
    Abstract: A communication device has a first communication section that supports a first communication mode having a low communication rate and a second communication section that supports a second communication mode having a higher communication rate than the first communication mode. The communication device includes a packet generation section and a communication control section. The packet generation section generates a first portion containing authentication information used for connection authentication for the second communication mode and a second portion other than the first portion. The communication control section performs control to cause the first communication section to transmit the first portion and to cause the second communication section to transmit the second portion after the connection authentication succeeds using the authentication information contained in the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Isao Soma, Kazuo Takada, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Masahiro Sueyoshi
  • Publication number: 20110168056
    Abstract: The present invention relates to improvement in alloy powder particles or wires used as a source material in atmospheric plasma spray and wire arc spray to reduce the amount of oxides on the thermal-sprayed coating. The alloy particles and the wire of the present invention 1 are doped with at least an element to be oxidized and evaporated preferentially as compared to the major alloy elements on the particle surface during flight by spraying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE
    Inventors: Seiji Kuroda, Zhen Su Zeng, Jin Kawakita, Hideyuki Murakami, Masayuki Komatsu
  • Patent number: 7948925
    Abstract: A communication device has a first communication section that supports a first communication mode having a low communication rate and a second communication section that supports a second communication mode having a higher communication rate than the first communication mode. The communication device includes a packet generation section and a communication control section. The packet generation section generates a first portion containing authentication information used for connection authentication for the second communication mode and a second portion other than the first portion. The communication control section performs control to cause the first communication section to transmit the first portion and to cause the second communication section to transmit the second portion after the connection authentication succeeds using the authentication information contained in the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Isao Soma, Kazuo Takada, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Masahiro Sueyoshi
  • Publication number: 20100304036
    Abstract: There are provided a thermal spraying method and a thermal spraying apparatus therefore, in which a gas shroud is disposed in an HVOF thermal spraying gun barrel, the velocity of metallic particles is energized and accelerated with respect to the metallic particle to be thermally sprayed from the gun, and inert gas is supplied into the space defined inside of the shroud through a circumferential slit formed in such a manner as to shield the metallic particles from the atmosphere so as to collide with the surface of a base member, thereby forming a thermally sprayed dense film having a small oxygen content without overheating the base plate by an HVOF method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Seiji Kuroda, Takeshi Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20100183842
    Abstract: Provided is a resin coated member produced according to a coating method through HVOF spraying that comprises generating a combustion jet in a combustion chamber connected to one end of a barrel while controlling the temperature of the combustion jet by supply of an inert gas to the jet, feeding resin coating materials into the temperature-controlled combustion jet and leading them to pass through the barrel, and spouting the coating particles through a spout port along with the combustion jet therethrough to thereby coat the substrate surface; wherein the length of the barrel, the temperature of the combustion jet and the physical properties of the coating particles are defined so as to satisfy both the following formulae (1) and (2), and wherein the interface between the coating material and the substrate surface has a structure of such that the two break in each other with at least micron-pitch irregularities. Numerical ? ? Formula ? ? 1 ? × t r > 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventors: Jin Kawakita, Seiji Kuroda, Masayuki Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20100136229
    Abstract: A coating method of the invention is characterized by using particles each being an aggregate comprising particles far smaller than that, and heating them at a temperature lower than the melting point and blowing and depositing the same to an object to be treated at a supersonic velocity. The warm spray of the invention is characterized in that standard particles and addition particles with a particle diameter larger than that are mixed so that the K-value determined by the following relation is 1 or more and 2 or less: K=A×(B/C)×D, A: mass % of the content of additive particles, B: center particle diameter of standard particle (?m), C: center particle diameter of additive particle (?m), D: (maximum particle diameter?minimum particle diameter) of additive particle/10 (?m). The invention intends to deposit micro oxide crystals without using an adhesive or the like, with no alteration to the function thereof, and also attain a dense layer with no substantial voids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Jin Kawakita, Seiji Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20100075605
    Abstract: An information processing device has a first transmitting unit to connect a first other information processing device and second other information processing device and transmit the content via the connection; a first receiving unit to receive a master request that requests an upgrade to a master from the first other information processing device; a second transmitting unit to transmit the identification information of the first other information processing device to the second information processing device upon receiving the master request; a disconnecting unit to disconnect the connection with the second other information processing device after transmitting the identification information of the first other information processing device; and a second receiving unit to receive content via the connection from the first other information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro YONEDA, Naoki Miyabayashi, Isao Soma, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Kazuo Takada
  • Publication number: 20100077031
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a first receiving unit to receive, from a first other information processing device, equipment information of a second other information processing device that differs from the first other information processing device, via a first communication and first connecting information useful for connecting with the second other information processing device by a second communication that differs from the first communication; a first transmitting unit to transmit second connection information that is useful for connecting with the device itself by the second communication to the first other information processing device, via the first communication; and a second receiving unit to receive content data transmitted from the second other information processing device by the second communication, based on the first connection information and the second connection information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro YONEDA, Naoki Miyabayashi, Isao Soma, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Kazuo Takada
  • Publication number: 20100009711
    Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including: a first communication unit having a first communication range; a second communication unit having a second communication range wider than the first communication range; a control unit which transmits a request signal for starting communication via the second communication unit from the first communication unit to another communication apparatus, and transmits authentication information from the second communication unit to the another communication apparatus in the case where it is determined that communication with the another communication apparatus via the second communication unit is possible based on a response signal after the first communication unit receives the response signal in response to the request signal; and a notification unit which notifies a user after the second communication unit receives a result of authentication based on the authentication information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Takada, Isao Soma, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Naoki Miyabayashi
  • Publication number: 20090305630
    Abstract: An information management apparatus includes a communication unit configured to receive, from a plurality of communication processing apparatuses, a plurality of pieces of communication history data of near-field communication performed in the plurality of communication processing apparatuses; a data comparison unit configured to perform comparison of the plurality of pieces of communication history data received by the communication unit; and a data registration unit configured to register a plurality of pieces of user information associated with the plurality of communication processing apparatuses as a group in a database on condition that it is verified by the data comparison unit, in accordance with the plurality of pieces of communication history data of the near-field communication, that near-field communication has been performed between the plurality of communication processing apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Kuroda, Isao Soma, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Kazuo Takada, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Naoki Miyabayashi
  • Publication number: 20090253417
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system including a service provider unit, a communication terminal and an information processing unit. The communication terminal includes a terminal first communication section, a terminal second communication section to communicate with the information processing unit through a first communication channel, a terminal third communication section to communicate with the information processing unit through a second communication channel, and a terminal communication control section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Soma, Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Kazuo Takada
  • Publication number: 20090227282
    Abstract: A communication device has a first communication section that supports a first communication mode having a low communication rate and a second communication section that supports a second communication mode having a higher communication rate than the first communication mode. The communication device includes a packet generation section and a communication control section. The packet generation section generates a first portion containing authentication information used for connection authentication for the second communication mode and a second portion other than the first portion. The communication control section performs control to cause the first communication section to transmit the first portion and to cause the second communication section to transmit the second portion after the connection authentication succeeds using the authentication information contained in the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki MIYABAYASHI, Yoshihiro YONEDA, Isao SOMA, Kazuo TAKADA, Seiji KURODA, Yasuharu ISHIKAWA, Masahiro SUEYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20090221271
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for communicating with a different information processing apparatus, includes: a first connection establishment block configured to control a first communication section, which carries out nearby wireless communication for delivering and accepting information to and from the different information processing apparatus positioned near to the information processing apparatus, to establish a connection for the nearby wireless communication; an acquisition block configured to acquire setting information for short range wireless communication which exhibits a wire communication range than the nearby wireless communication and capability information regarding the capacity of the different information processing apparatus from the different information processing apparatus through the nearby wireless communication; and a second connection establishment block configured to control a second communication section, which carries out the short range wireless communication, based on the
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Isao SOMA, Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20090222659
    Abstract: A communication device for performing communication by employing first and second communication units, includes: a reception unit for receiving a communication packet including a random number generated for every connection with another communication device, a certificate calculated with the random number, and authentication method information indicating whether or not an authentication method at the second communication unit is compatible with the public key system, through the first communication unit; and a method determining unit for determining whether or not an originator of the communication packet accepts public key encryption based on the authentication method information included in the communication packet; wherein in a case of the method determining unit determining that the originator of the communication packet does not accept the public key system, the random number included in the communication packet is replied to the originator as the identification information of the device itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Miyabayashi, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Isao Soma, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Kazuo Takada, Masahiro Sueyoshi