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: 20160378358
    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: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Takafumi ITO
  • Publication number: 20160334028
    Abstract: A protruding section formed at the one side end of a connector section provided in a valve is inserted into a recessed section formed as part of a valve placement section of a fluid apparatus. The valve is caused to pivot with the inserted portion that serves as a supporting point, and an engaging section formed at the front end of a lever of a hook section formed at the other side end of the connector section is allowed to engage with an engaging protruding section formed as part of the valve placement section of the fluid apparatus. The valve is thus attached to the fluid apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicants: Satake Corporation, Mechano Transformer Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Ito, Yoichi Kawamura, Tadashi Matsushita, Sze Keat Chee, Toshitada Hirata, Yoshinori Kawawa
  • Patent number: 9488501
    Abstract: A measuring apparatus/method detects a signal varying with displacement of an object and measurement of the displacement. The apparatus includes clock generator, detector, operation device, and correction device. The clock generator generates, in synchronization with a request signal for requesting measurement data, a first clock signal having a cycle shorter than a cycle of the request signal. The detector performs the detection with respect to each cycle of the first clock signal. The operation device obtains the measurement data based on output of the detector. The correction device obtains a displacement amount of the object per unit time based on plural measurement data, and corrects the measurement data based on the obtained displacement amount and a time difference between the first clock signal relating to the measurement data and the first clock signal relating to the request signal. The method includes the corresponding steps of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takafumi Ito, Yoshiyuki Okada
  • Publication number: 20160312371
    Abstract: An alkaline water electrolysis diaphragm includes: a polymer porous layer containing at least one polymer compound selected from polyether sulfone having a contact angle of 20 to 90° and polysulfone having the contact angle of 20 to 90°; and an organic fiber fabric layer coupled to the polymer porous layer. The polyether sulfone having the contact angle of 20 to 90° is at least one polymer compound selected from the group made of polyether sulfone, hydrophilic polyether sulfone, cationic polyether sulfone, and cationic hydrophilic polyether sulfone. The polysulfone having the contact angle of 20 to 90° is at least one polymer compound selected from the group made of polysulfone, hydrophilic polysulfone, cationic polysulfone, and cationic hydrophilic polysulfone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DE NORA PERMELEC LTD, thyssenkrupp UHDE CHLORINE ENGINEERS (JAPAN) LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji KAMEI, Koki TAGUCHI, Ikuo SHIMOMURA, Takafumi ITO, Jun KAWAGUCHI, Tomonori TAKASE, Akihiro KATO, Akiyoshi MANABE, Terumi HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9465545
    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: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Takafumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20150270769
    Abstract: A field rotor of a superconducting rotating machine including: a rotation shaft; a supply shaft that supplies a refrigerant to the rotation shaft at one end of the rotation shaft; an input/output shaft provided at the other end of the rotation shaft so as to integrally rotate with the rotation shaft; and a superconducting coil held on a circumferential surface of the rotation shaft to be cooled by the refrigerant, wherein the supply shaft and the input/output shaft are fixed to each other so as to rotate integrally with each other, and the rotation shaft and the supply shaft are at least partly brought in contact with each other in order to allow the rotation shaft to be supported by the supply shaft and in order to be slidably fitted to each other in a circumferential direction of the rotation shaft and in an axial direction of the rotation shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshichika Sato, Katsuya Umemoto, Takafumi Ito, Hayato Iwasaki, Yousuke Tsumura
  • Patent number: 9114430
    Abstract: A piezoelectric valve stably supplies gas even for a long gas ejection time, with a high responsivity to opening the valve, is provided. The piezoelectric valve, including a gas-pressure-chamber for receiving a compressed gas supplied from outside, a gas-discharge-channel through which the compressed gas is discharged from the gas-pressure-chamber, comprises: a valve body disposed in the gas-pressure-chamber and opens/closes the gas-discharge-channel; a piezoelectric element for producing a driving force to move the valve body as a displacement; a displacement-enlarging-mechanism for enlarging the displacement of the piezoelectric element to act on the valve body; and a driving unit having a signal-generating-unit for generating a signal comprising a pre-pulse and a main pulse and provides the signal generated by the signal-generating-unit to a driving circuit as an input signal to apply a driving voltage to the piezoelectric element to make the piezoelectric element expand and drive the valve body open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignees: SATAKE CORPORATION, MECHANO TRANSFORMER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Ito, Teruhiko Takeuchi, Tadashi Matsushita, Sze Keat Chee, Takeshi Yano, Takeshi Kamima, Toshiro Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20150227721
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a serial communication interface connector, a non-volatile semiconductor memory, a memory controller, and a memory reader/writer. The serial communication interface connector is capable of being connected to a serial communication interface terminal of electronic equipment. The memory controller includes a memory interface connected to the non-volatile semiconductor memory and a copyright protection function and controls the non-volatile semiconductor memory. The memory reader/writer includes a controller interface connected to the memory controller and a serial communication interface connected to the serial communication interface connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Takafumi ITO
  • Patent number: 9097359
    Abstract: A piezoelectric valve whose assembly work can be efficiently performed. A piezoelectric valve according to this invention includes a valve main body having a gas pressure chamber which receives compressed gas supplied from the outside, a plate which is disposed inside the valve main body and is fixed to the valve main body, and actuators each of which has a valve element, a piezoelectric element generating, in the form of a displacement, driving force required for operation of the valve element, and a displacement magnification mechanism for magnifying a displacement of the piezoelectric element and causing the magnified displacement to act on the valve element, are fixed to each of two surfaces of the plate, and are disposed inside the valve main body together with the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignees: SATAKE CORPORATION, MECHANO TRANSFORMER, KURODA PNEUMATICS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Ito, Sze Keat Chee, Takeshi Yano, Takeshi Kamima, Toshitada Hirata, Toshiro Higuchi
  • Patent number: 9058254
    Abstract: A memory device includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The nonvolatile memory includes a storage area having a plurality of memory blocks each including a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells, and a buffer including a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells and configured to temporarily store data, and in which data is erased for each block. If a size of write data related to one write command is not more than a predetermined size, the controller writes the write data to the buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takafumi Ito, Hidetaka Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9037874
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a serial communication interface connector, a non-volatile semiconductor memory, a memory controller, and a memory reader/writer. The serial communication interface connector is capable of being connected to a serial communication interface terminal of electronic equipment. The memory controller includes a memory interface connected to the non-volatile semiconductor memory and a copyright protection function and controls the non-volatile semiconductor memory. The memory reader/writer includes a controller interface connected to the memory controller and a serial communication interface connected to the serial communication interface connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Takafumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20150060337
    Abstract: A piezoelectric valve stably supplies gas even for a long gas ejection time, with a high responsivity to opening the valve, is provided. The piezoelectric valve, including a gas-pressure-chamber for receiving a compressed gas supplied from outside, a gas-discharge-channel through which the compressed gas is discharged from the gas-pressure-chamber, comprises: a valve body disposed in the gas-pressure-chamber and opens/closes the gas-discharge-channel; a piezoelectric element for producing a driving force to move the valve body as a displacement; a displacement-enlarging-mechanism for enlarging the displacement of the piezoelectric element to act on the valve body; and a driving unit having a signal-generating-unit for generating a signal comprising a pre-pulse and a main pulse and provides the signal generated by the signal-generating-unit to a driving circuit as an input signal to apply a driving voltage to the piezoelectric element to make the piezoelectric element expand and drive the valve body open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Satake Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Ito, Teruhiko Takeuchi, Tadashi Matsushita, Sze Keat Chee, Takeshi Yano, Takeshi Kamima, Toshiro Higuchi
  • Patent number: 8944255
    Abstract: A chute for an optical sorting machine allows objects to be sorted to drop under gravity from the lower end of the chute, thereby supplying the objects to an optical detection section. The chute is provided with: a first portion which includes a portion for receiving the objects to be sorted which are supplied from a supply section; and a second portion which continues from the first portion. The first portion is composed of a single part and has: flat surfaces along which the objects to be sorted flow down; and connection surfaces. The flat surfaces located upstream are bent downward and the connection surfaces located downstream are bent upward to form a smooth undulation in the surface along which the objects to be sorted flow down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Satake Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Ito, Tomoyuki Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20150026396
    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: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Takafumi ITO
  • Patent number: 8924678
    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: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Takafumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20140367561
    Abstract: A measuring apparatus for performing detection of a signal varying with displacement of an object and measurement of the displacement, includes a clock generator configured to generate, in synchronization with a request signal for requesting measurement data, a first clock signal having a cycle shorter than a cycle of the request signal; a detector configured to perform the detection with respect to each cycle of the first clock signal; an operation device configured to obtain the measurement data based on an output of the detector; and a correction device configured to obtain a displacement amount of the object per unit time based on a plurality of the measurement data, and correct the measurement data based on the obtained displacement amount and a time difference between the first clock signal relating to the measurement data and the first clock signal relating to the request signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Takafumi ITO, Yoshiyuki OKADA
  • Patent number: 8909684
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor memory device and a memory controller. The semiconductor memory device is capable of holding data. The memory controller controls write operation to write data received from a host unit into the semiconductor memory device. The memory controller includes a logical address space including a plurality of address areas each having a write limiting condition according to an address and a type of data to be written into the semiconductor memory device, permitting an adding a file and inhibiting a written file from being overwritten in a specific file format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Takafumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20140339141
    Abstract: A piezoelectric valve whose assembly work can be efficiently performed. A piezoelectric valve according to this invention includes a valve main body having a gas pressure chamber which receives compressed gas supplied from the outside, a plate which is disposed inside the valve main body and is fixed to the valve main body, and actuators each of which has a valve element, a piezoelectric element generating, in the form of a displacement, driving force required for operation of the valve element, and a displacement magnification mechanism for magnifying a displacement of the piezoelectric element and causing the magnified displacement to act on the valve element, are fixed to each of two surfaces of the plate, and are disposed inside the valve main body together with the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Takafumi Ito, Sze Keat Chee, Takeshi Yano, Takeshi Kamima, Toshitada Hirata, Toshiro Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20140318565
    Abstract: A cosmetic facial mask is described, having high fitting properties onto skin, an excellent skin tightening effect, and an excellent lift-up effect on a flaccid cheek or face line. The cosmetic facial mask includes a laminate in which a non-elastomeric fiber layer and an elastomer layer are integrated through lamination, and has stretchability in a vertical direction of a face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Takafumi Ito, Junji Iwata, Yasushi Matsuda, Mitsuru Kojima
  • Patent number: D758453
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignees: Satake Corporation, Mechano Transformer Corporation, Kuroda Pneumatics Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Ito, Yoshinori Kawawa, Toshitada Hirata, Sze Keat Chee, Toshiro Higuchi