Patents by Inventor Takafumi Ito
Takafumi Ito 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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Publication number: 20230106495Abstract: A memory card is attached to a host device, and includes a data control circuit which transfers data with respect to the host device in synchronism with a rise edge and a fall edge of a clock signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Takafumi ITO
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Patent number: 11601604Abstract: To improve user operability. Provided is a Next change operating section that receives a changing operation on each item in a Next control data set being in a control state of a Next-use M/E of a switcher (vision mixer). When a changing operation is received in the Next change operating section, that is, when there is a changing operation, a control section changes contents of the Next control data set, and in accordance with the changed contents of the Next control data set, sends a control signal concerning the Next-use M/E to the switcher. A user can simply and easily change the contents of the Next control data set by operating the Next change operating section, and operability can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2017Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Sensaburo Nakamura, Hidehito Yakushiji, Norimasa Ozaki, Takafumi Ito, Naomi Egashira
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Patent number: 11550478Abstract: A method of controlling a storage device attached to a host device, includes transferring data with respect to the host device in synchronism with a rise edge and a fall edge of a clock signal in first and second transfer modes. In response to a check function command, status data indicating that the storage device supports the second transfer mode is output through a data terminal. In response to a set function command, the storage device is set into the second transfer mode. The check function and the set function are switched in response to a first value and a second value of a mode bit in the check function command.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Kioxia CorporationInventor: Takafumi Ito
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Publication number: 20220356958Abstract: A piezoelectric valve includes: a valve main part including a gas pressure chamber receiving compressed gas supplied from outside; a plate inside the valve main part, and an actuator fixed to the plate and inside the valve main part, which is a case with an opening on a front surface. The plate includes a gas discharge path and a valve seat coming into contact with a valve element of the actuator opening and closing the gas discharge path. A lid member that closes the opening of the case has a gas discharge opening communicating with the gas discharge path of the plate; is welded and fixed to a front surface of the plate, where the gas discharge path opens, on an annular welded part surrounding the gas discharge opening; and is welded and fixed to an end surface of the case on an annular welded part on the outer peripheral part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicants: SATAKE CORPORATION, MECHANO TRANSFORMER CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi ITO, Tadashi MATSUSHITA, Toshiro HIGUCHI, Sze Keat CHEE, Yoshinobu MIZUNO, Toshitada HIRATA
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Publication number: 20220316617Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric actuator that can reduce a risk of air leakage due to weakening of pressing force of a valve element against a valve seat surface and airtightness. The piezoelectric actuator is used for a piezoelectric valve that opens and closes a valve utilizing displacement of a laminated piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric actuator includes: a valve element; a laminated piezoelectric element that generates a driving force, required for operation of the valve element, as a displacement; and a displacement enlargement mechanism that enlarges a displacement of a laminated piezoelectric element and causes the enlarged displacement to act on the valve element. In the piezoelectric actuator, a surface of the valve element to be in contact with a valve seat of the piezoelectric valve is made flat and smooth in a state in which a tensile load is applied to the laminated piezoelectric element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicants: SATAKE CORPORATION, MECHANO TRANSFORMER CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi ITO, Tadashi MATSUSHITA, Toshiro HIGUCHI, Sze Keat CHEE, Kunio EBIHARA, Toshitada HIRATA
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Publication number: 20220297162Abstract: To provide an optical grain sorter that can reduce the proportion of non-defective grains blown off collaterally, and even in a case in which a plurality of defective grains or the like fall down in a state overlapping each other, can blow off all the defective grains or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: SATAKE CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi ITO, Tadashi MATSUSHITA, Masaaki SADAMARU
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Publication number: 20220213973Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric valve in which the valve is opened/closed utilizing a displacement of a laminated piezoelectric element, including: a valve main body having a gas pressure chamber that receives compressed gas supplied externally; and an actuator having a valving element, the laminated piezoelectric element that generates a driving force required for operating the valving element as the displacement, and a displacement enlarging mechanism that enlarges the displacement of the laminated piezoelectric element to be acted on the valving element, the actuator being disposed in the valve main body, in which a surface of the laminated piezoelectric element is coated with silicone in a state in which the laminated piezoelectric element is integrated into the actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicants: SATAKE CORPORATION, MECHANO TRANSFORMER CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi ITO, Tadashi MATSUSHITA, Toshiro HIGUCHI, Sze Keat CHEE, Yoshinobu MIZUNO
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Publication number: 20210240355Abstract: A memory card is attached to a host device, and includes a data control circuit which transfers data with respect to the host device in synchronism with a rise edge and a fall edge of a clock signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Toshiba Memory CorporationInventor: Takafumi ITO
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Patent number: 11072219Abstract: A vehicle height adjusting apparatus includes: a cylindrical body internally partitioned into a plurality of oil chambers by a partition wall provided along an axis, the oil chambers filled with oil, and respectively provided with cylindrical body oil holes to be connected to an outside; one operating portion rotatably provided on the cylindrical body, and rotated to be moved along the axis; pistons moved along the axis by the operating portion, and received in the oil chambers respectively; and a plurality of damper devices respectively provided with damper oil holes into which the oil flowing out of the cylindrical body oil holes when the pistons move flows, the damper devices that can adjust a vehicle height by amounts of the oil filled into the damper devices through the damper oil holes, and that can absorb impact energy inputted on a wheel.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignees: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Harley-Davidson Motor Company Group, LLCInventors: Yukihiro Hoshino, Takafumi Ito, Hidenori Shirabe, Toshitaka Aoki
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Patent number: 11063474Abstract: A wireless power supply system is provided to include a headset and a vehicle-side system. The headset, which is attached to a head of a driver of a vehicle, is configured (i) to generate an electric power by using a received electromagnetic wave, (ii) to actuate a sensor with the generated electric power to measure an activity of the driver, and (iii) to transmit activity measurement data indicating a measurement result. The vehicle-side system, which is provided to the vehicle, is configured (i) to transmit the electromagnetic wave, (ii) to receive the activity measurement data from the headset, and (iii) to monitor the activity of the driver based on the received measurement data. The transmitting or receiving state of the electromagnetic wave is monitored to provide a monitoring result, which is to be notified.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro Yoshida, Takafumi Ito, Hiroyuki Dosho
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Patent number: 11016672Abstract: A memory card is attached to a host device, and includes a data control circuit which transfers data with respect to the host device in synchronism with a rise edge and a fall edge of a clock signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Toshiba Memory CoiporationInventor: Takafumi Ito
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Publication number: 20210146861Abstract: The present invention provides an automobile sound insulation panel which suitably implements a lightweight sound insulation panel with an expanded sound isolation-target frequency band and improved sound isolation performance. An automobile sound insulation panel includes a first panel member, a second panel member, and an elastic sheet member positioned between the first panel member and the elastic sheet member. The elastic sheet member includes a first projection-recess part. The first panel member abuts on respective upper opening edges of a plurality of recesses that form the first projection-recess part. Individual air layers exist between the second panel member and the elastic sheet member. A continuous air layer exists between the first panel member and the elastic sheet member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2018Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Ichiro FUKUMOTO, Takafumi ITO
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Patent number: 10960859Abstract: An automatic brake control apparatus controls a braking device of a vehicle to execute a brake operation at a brake operating timing. The automatic brake control apparatus includes a brain activity state acquirer unit configured to acquire an activity state of a brain of a driver of the vehicle; a change determiner unit configured to use the activity state of the brain of the driver acquired after the braking device has executed a brake operation at a brake operating timing to determine whether changing the brake operating timing is necessary or unnecessary; and a change controller configured to change the brake operating timing in response to that changing the brake operating timing is determined to be necessary.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuichi Takeuchi, Takahiko Naruse, Tomoaki Mizuno, Toshiya Takeuchi, Takehito Teramae, Ichiro Yoshida, Takafumi Ito
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Patent number: 10914014Abstract: A diaphragm includes a porous supporting body and a polymer porous membrane. When one of surfaces of the porous membrane is defined as a surface A, the other surface opposite to the surface A is defined as a surface B, a section of the porous membrane parallel to the surfaces A and B is defined as a section C, an average pore diameter on the surface A is defined as an average pore diameter DA, an average pore diameter on the surface B is defined as an average pore diameter DB, and an average pore diameter on the section C is defined as an average pore diameter DC, the average pore diameters DA and DB are substantially equal to each other, and the average pore diameter DC is larger than each of the average pore diameters DA and DB.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2016Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DE NORA PERMELEC LTD, THYSSENKRUPPP UHDE CHLORINE ENGINEERS (JAPAN) LTD.Inventors: Takafumi Ito, Ikuo Shimomura, Yuji Kamei, Akiyoshi Manabe, Akihiro Kato, Terumi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10838512Abstract: In an electronic information processing system, a brain activity detection unit detects an activity of a user's brain. A change determination part determines whether a character input mode presently set needs to be changed to a different character input mode based on a detection result of the brain activity detection unit after a character input under the character input mode presently set is displayed on a display unit. When the change determination part determines that the character input mode presently set needs to be changed to the different character input mode, the character input mode setting part sets the different character input mode instead of the character input mode presently set.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro Yoshida, Takafumi Ito
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Publication number: 20200319802Abstract: A memory card is attached to a host device, and includes a data control circuit which transfers data with respect to the host device in synchronism with a rise edge and a fall edge of a clock signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: Toshiba Memory CorporationInventor: Takafumi ITO
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Publication number: 20200272242Abstract: In an electronic information processing system, a brain activity detection unit detects an activity of a user's brain. A change determination part determines whether a character input mode presently set needs to be changed to a different character input mode based on a detection result of the brain activity detection unit after a character input under the character input mode presently set is displayed on a display unit. When the change determination part determines that the character input mode presently set needs to be changed to the different character input mode, the character input mode setting part sets the different character input mode instead of the character input mode presently set.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2016Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ichiro YOSHIDA, Takafumi ITO
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Patent number: 10738905Abstract: A piezoelectric valve, having superior responsiveness during valve opening and capability to stabilize gas supply at an early stage, includes a gas pressure chamber receiving compressed gas and an exhaust path discharging the compressed gas from the gas pressure chamber; a valve disc placed in the gas pressure chamber to open and close the exhaust path; a piezoelectric element generating a driving force for operation of the valve disc, as a displacement; a displacement magnifying mechanism magnifying the displacement of the piezoelectric element and applying the magnified displacement to the valve disc; and driving means including a signal generator generating a signal including a first prepulse, a second prepulse, and a main pulse, applies a drive voltage to the piezoelectric element using the signal generated by the signal generator, as an input signal to a drive circuit, and drives and opens the valve disc by expanding the piezoelectric element.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignees: SATAKE CORPORATION, MECHANO TRANSFORMER CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Ito, Hironori Arii, Tadashi Matsushita, Sze Keat Chee, Takeshi Yano, Toshiro Higuchi
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Patent number: 10732850Abstract: A memory card is attached to a host device, and includes a data control circuit which transfers data with respect to the host device in synchronism with a rise edge and a fall edge of a clock signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Toshiba Memory CorporationInventor: Takafumi Ito
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Patent number: D956630Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Inventor: Takafumi Ito