Patents by Inventor Shinji Furuya

Shinji Furuya 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: 20190015534
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sterilized-liquefied gas producing apparatus including: a liquefied gas reservoir; a source-gas supplier that supplies a source gas to the liquefied gas reservoir; a cooler that cools down an inside of the liquefied gas reservoir to liquefy the source gas; a supply pipe that connects the source-gas supplier and the liquefied gas reservoir; a sterilization filter provided at the supply pipe; a sterilizer that heats and sterilizes a sterilization region by high-temperature saturated water vapor, the sterilization region being located further downstream than the sterilization filter; and a dryer that removes moisture generated by the heat sterilization to dry the sterilization region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi YOSHIMOTO, Yoichi OHINATA, Takao KINOSHITA, Shinji FURUYA, Naoto SUZUKI, Masayoshi HIRUMA, Shinji TAKASAKI
  • Patent number: 8737387
    Abstract: A gateway unit which relays communication between a call control network and a terminal having no call control function. The gateway unit includes: a session control section which substitutively performs call control processing in call control communication performed by the terminal by way of the call control network and reports a band required for the call control communication to the call control network; and a band adjustment section which determines an updated value of a band of the call control communication based on a communication packet in the call control communication, received from the terminal. The session control section reports the updated value to the call control network as the band required by the call control communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Motofumi Tanabe, Koji Sato, Shinji Furuya, Shingo Soma, Tetsuya Yokotani
  • Publication number: 20120218989
    Abstract: A gateway unit which relays communication between a call control network and a terminal having no call control function. The gateway unit includes: a session control section which substitutively performs call control processing in call control communication performed by the terminal by way of the call control network and reports a band required for the call control communication to the call control network; and a band adjustment section which determines an updated value of a band of the call control communication based on a communication packet in the call control communication, received from the terminal. The session control section reports the updated value to the call control network as the band required by the call control communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Motofumi Tanabe, Koji Sato, Shinji Furuya, Shingo Soma, Tetsuya Yokotani
  • Patent number: 8203625
    Abstract: An image capture device according to the present invention includes: an optical system for producing a subject's image; an imager with multiple photodiodes, which reads an electrical signal representing the intensity of light that has been incident on each photodiode from the photodiode, thereby generating an image signal representing the subject's image; a controller, which acquires sensitivity information by photometry in order to adjust the sensitivity of the imager to light and which selects one of multiple methods for reading the electrical signal from each photodiode according to the sensitivity information acquired; and a driver for driving the imager by the reading method selected. The multiple reading methods include a mixing reading method, by which the electrical signals supplied from the photodiodes are added together and then output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Furuya, Eiji Anno, Yuichi Suzuki, Tomoaki Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20120062598
    Abstract: The image displaying apparatus of the present invention provides a first display mode in which a first display region for one screen image is formed in a display screen, with the short side direction of the display screen aligned with the vertical direction; and a second display mode in which a first display region and a second display region for two screen images are formed in the display screen, with the long side direction of the display screen aligned with the vertical direction, and the first display region and the second display region formed such that they are arranged up and down. According to this configuration, when images are displayed in a double screen, each image can be displayed as large as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji FURUYA, Akira YAMADA, Akihito MURAI, Kiyoshi KITAGAWA, Yuichi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 8081252
    Abstract: The image displaying apparatus of the present invention provides a first display mode in which a first display region for one screen image is formed in a display screen, with the short side direction of the display screen aligned with the vertical direction; and a second display mode in which a first display region and a second display region for two screen images are formed in the display screen, with the long side direction of the display screen aligned with the vertical direction, and the first display region and the second display region formed such that they are arranged up and down. According to this configuration, when images are displayed in a double screen, each image can be displayed as large as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Furuya, Akira Yamada, Akihito Murai, Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Yuichi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20110115971
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image capture device that can omit calculating a pulse signal that should otherwise be used to get a flash fired during a flash-ON sequential shooting operation. An image capture device includes: an image capturing section configured to capture a subject's image; a flashing section configured to store electricity and emitting flash light using the electricity; a power supply configured to supply the electricity; and a control section configured to control the supply of the electricity to the flashing section. If the flashing section performs preliminary flashing and main flashing sequentially, the control section supplies no electricity to the flashing section after the preliminary flashing is done and before the main flashing is performed for a first time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Shinji Furuya, Eiji Anno, Yuichi Suzuki, Tomoaki Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20100013956
    Abstract: An image capture device according to the present invention includes: an optical system for producing a subject's image; an imager with multiple photodiodes, which reads an electrical signal representing the intensity of light that has been incident on each photodiode from the photodiode, thereby generating an image signal representing the subject's image; a controller, which acquires sensitivity information by photometry in order to adjust the sensitivity of the imager to light and which selects one of multiple methods for reading the electrical signal from each photodiode according to the sensitivity information acquired; and a driver for driving the imager by the reading method selected. The multiple reading methods include a mixing reading method, by which the electrical signals supplied from the photodiodes are added together and then output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Furuya, Eiji Anno, Yuichi Suzuki, Tomoaki Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 7594406
    Abstract: The invention has an object to provide a regenerator and cryogenics pump using a regenerator material which fulfills such requirements as specific heat, thermal conductivity, manufacturing easiness, strength, hardness, chemical stabilization and low cost instead of Pb which is environmentally harmful. In a regenerator 14 which contains regenerator material 16 in an internal path for refrigerant, and in which heat is exchanged between the helium gas as refrigerant, and regenerator material, regenerator material 16 is any one of Sn, Bi—Sn alloy and Ag—Sn alloy. The regenerator material 16 is spherical. Plural spheres are packed in the internal path of the regenerator 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignees: Ulvac Cryogenics, Inc., Ulvac, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Murayama, Shinji Furuya, Hidetoshi Morimoto, Junpei Yuyama
  • Patent number: 7469064
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a display displaying an image with a predetermined number of pixels; an image holding unit holding an original image composed of a number of pixels larger than a number of pixels that is displayable on the display; and an object judgment unit judging whether or not an object is included in the original image held in the image holding unit, and generating object information related to the object in a case where the object is included in the original image. The image display apparatus also includes a display image generation unit extracting at least a part of an object area from the original image based on the original image specified by the user as well as on the object information corresponding to the original image, and generating a display image composed of a number of pixels corresponding to the number of pixels that is displayable on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Furuya, Ichiro Okabayashi, Yasuhiro Mori, Masaki Yamauchi, Akihiro Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20080022000
    Abstract: A communication network includes a plurality of user networks that accommodates IP terminals and does not perform a call control function, a core network (a call control network) that is located among the user networks and performs a call control function and a call management function, and a gateway that connects the user networks to the core network. The gateway receives a communication request packet from the user network or a data packet that is initially transmitted, and analyzes the packet. Thus, the gateway establishes a necessary call in the core network to allow an IP packet to pass through the core network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2004
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Shinji Furuya, Tetsuya Yokotani, Kouji Sato, Kazuyuki Kashima
  • Publication number: 20070285533
    Abstract: The image displaying apparatus of the present invention provides a first display mode in which a first display region for one screen image is formed in a display screen, with the short side direction of the display screen aligned with the vertical direction; and a second display mode in which a first display region and a second display region for two screen images are formed in the display screen, with the long side direction of the display screen aligned with the vertical direction, and the first display region and the second display region formed such that they are arranged up and down. According to this configuration, when images are displayed in a double screen, each image can be displayed as large as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji FURUYA, Akira YAMADA, Akihito MURAI, Kiyoshi KITAGAWA, Yuichi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 7301942
    Abstract: A method for determining a combination of data for transfer comprises counting the number of candidates in data for candidates of a data transfer request for each row as the number of candidates at lattice points of a lattice composed of N rows×N columns, searching for a minimum value out of count values equal to or greater than 1, selecting and storing one row showing the minimum value. Regarding the candidates in the selected row, the method also comprises counting the number of candidates in each column where candidates exist, searching for a minimum value, selecting and storing one column, deleting all candidates on the row and the column determined, and repeating these processes until no more candidates exist to determine combinations of rows and columns stored at a point of time when no more candidates exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Furuya, Hirotoshi Yamada, Nobuyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070227159
    Abstract: The invention has an object to provide a regenerator and cryogenics pump using a regenerator material which fulfils such requirements as specific heat, thermal conductivity, manufacturing easiness, strength, hardness, chemical stabilization and low cost instead of Pb which is environmentally harmful. In a regenerator 14 which contains regenerator material 16 in an internal path for refrigerant, and in which heat is exchanged between the helium gas as refrigerant, and regenerator material, the regenerator material 16 is any one of Sn, Bi—Sn alloy and Ag—Sn alloy. The regenerator material 16 is spherical. Plural spheres are packed in the internal path of the regenerator 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2005
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Murayama, Shinji Furuya, Hidetoshi Morimoto
  • Patent number: 6988153
    Abstract: The data storage system 1 comprises tape drives 21 to 23 operable to read and write data transmitted via the SCSI bus 112 from and on a tape in parallel and a host PC 4 for controlling data transmission to the SCSI bus. The host PC 4 includes a data access control unit 41 operable to calculate a bus reconnect timing that makes it possible to avoid stopping tape writing or reading even when any one of the respective drive drives 21 to 23 waits for the time when the other tape drives finish data transmitting after it reaches a bus reconnect timing based on the tape drive information “(the number of drive units, a data transmission speed of the bus, either a data reading speeds of the respective drive units or a data writing speeds of the respective drive units)=(m, S and R)”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Furuya
  • Publication number: 20050220349
    Abstract: The image display apparatus 1 includes the following: the display 50 for displaying an image with a predetermined number of pixels; an image holding unit 210 for holding an original image composed of a number of pixels larger than a number of pixels that is displayable on the display 50; an object judgment unit 30 for judging whether or not an object is included in the original image held in the image holding unit 210, and generating object information related to the object in the case where the object is included in the original image; a display image generation unit 40 for extracting at least a part of an object area from the original image based on the original image specified by the user as well as on the object information corresponding to the original image, and generating a display image composed of a number of pixels corresponding to the number of pixels that is displayable on the display 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Shinji Furuya, Ichiro Okabayashi, Yasuhiro Mori, Masaki Yamauchi, Akihiro Kawabata
  • Patent number: 6927648
    Abstract: Four frequency components (f1 to f4) (where, f1<f2<f3<f4) are input into a port (10) of a first demultiplexing filter circuit (1), and demultiplexed into low frequency components (f1 and f2) and high frequency components (f3 and f4), and input in a port (20) of a second demultiplexing filter circuit (2) and a port (30) of a third demultiplexing filter circuit (3), respectively. The frequency components (f1 and f2) are demultiplexed into the component (f1) and the component (f2) by the second demultiplexing filter circuit (2), and output from a port (23) and a port (24), respectively. The frequency components (f3 and f4) are demultiplexed into the component (f3) and the component (f4) by the third demultiplexing filter circuit (3), and output from a port (33) and a port (34), respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: UBE Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiko Furuya, Hiroshi Ichikawa, Ryuji Oyama, Kazuki Iwashita, Koichi Fukuda, Shinji Furuya
  • Patent number: 6859888
    Abstract: A data storage array apparatus including multiple disks and writing/reading striped data and parity data onto/from the multiple disk devices, each having a storage area divided into multiple blocks, blocks across the multiple disks forming a group, the apparatus made up of: writing/reading means for writing/reading the striped data and the parity data in a group in accordance with an access request from the outside; error information generation means for generating error information indicating the presence/absence of an error caused by a writing operation by the writing/reading means and storing the error information in a memory; judgement means for, at each writing operation, judging whether the error information should be written to a predetermined group; and control means for controlling the writing/reading means to read error information from the memory and write the error information to the predetermined group according to a result obtained from the judgement means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Furuya, Manabu Migita
  • Patent number: 6807623
    Abstract: A data processing control system has a controller wherein the controller (1) sends every received instruction to the plurality of data processing devices until the number of instructions being executed or waiting to be executed by the plurality of data processing devices reaches a predetermined number, (2) does not send any received instructions to the plurality of data processing devices but holds the received instructions in a queue once the number of instructions being executed or waiting to be executed by the plurality of data processing devices has reached the predetermined number, and (3) when the number of instructions being executed or waiting to be executed by the plurality of data processing devices has become zero by completing the execution thereof, starts sending the queued instructions in sequence to the plurality of data processing devices, and continues to send the queued instructions or every newly received instruction to the plurality of data processing devices until the number of instructio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Migita, Junji Nishikawa, Ichiro Okabayashi, Shinji Furuya
  • Publication number: 20040093442
    Abstract: The data storage system 1 comprises tape drives 21 to 23 operable to read and write data transmitted via the SCSI bus 112 from and on a tape in parallel and a host PC 4 for controlling data transmission to the SCSI bus. The host PC 4 includes a data access control unit 41 operable to calculate a bus reconnect timing that makes it possible to avoid stopping tape writing or reading even when any one of the respective drive drives 21 to 23 waits for the time when the other tape drives finish data transmitting after it reaches a bus reconnect timing based on the tape drive information “(the number of drive units, a data transmission speed of the bus, either a data reading speeds of the respective drive units or a data writing speeds of the respective drive units)=(m, S and R)”.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventor: Shinji Furuya