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).

  • Publication number: 20230106495
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Takafumi ITO
  • Patent number: 11601604
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sensaburo Nakamura, Hidehito Yakushiji, Norimasa Ozaki, Takafumi Ito, Naomi Egashira
  • Patent number: 11550478
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Takafumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20220356958
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicants: SATAKE CORPORATION, MECHANO TRANSFORMER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi ITO, Tadashi MATSUSHITA, Toshiro HIGUCHI, Sze Keat CHEE, Yoshinobu MIZUNO, Toshitada HIRATA
  • Publication number: 20220316617
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicants: SATAKE CORPORATION, MECHANO TRANSFORMER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi ITO, Tadashi MATSUSHITA, Toshiro HIGUCHI, Sze Keat CHEE, Kunio EBIHARA, Toshitada HIRATA
  • Publication number: 20220297162
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: SATAKE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi ITO, Tadashi MATSUSHITA, Masaaki SADAMARU
  • Publication number: 20220213973
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicants: SATAKE CORPORATION, MECHANO TRANSFORMER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi ITO, Tadashi MATSUSHITA, Toshiro HIGUCHI, Sze Keat CHEE, Yoshinobu MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20210240355
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventor: Takafumi ITO
  • Patent number: 11072219
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignees: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Harley-Davidson Motor Company Group, LLC
    Inventors: Yukihiro Hoshino, Takafumi Ito, Hidenori Shirabe, Toshitaka Aoki
  • Patent number: 11063474
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Yoshida, Takafumi Ito, Hiroyuki Dosho
  • Patent number: 11016672
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Coiporation
    Inventor: Takafumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20210146861
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Ichiro FUKUMOTO, Takafumi ITO
  • Patent number: 10960859
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuichi Takeuchi, Takahiko Naruse, Tomoaki Mizuno, Toshiya Takeuchi, Takehito Teramae, Ichiro Yoshida, Takafumi Ito
  • Patent number: 10914014
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignees: 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
  • Patent number: 10838512
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Yoshida, Takafumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20200319802
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventor: Takafumi ITO
  • Publication number: 20200272242
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro YOSHIDA, Takafumi ITO
  • Patent number: 10738905
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: SATAKE CORPORATION, MECHANO TRANSFORMER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Ito, Hironori Arii, Tadashi Matsushita, Sze Keat Chee, Takeshi Yano, Toshiro Higuchi
  • Patent number: 10732850
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventor: Takafumi Ito
  • Patent number: D956630
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventor: Takafumi Ito