Patents by Inventor Takafumi Tanaka
Takafumi Tanaka 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: 20240137128Abstract: An optical transmission system including an optical transmission device and an optical reception device that receives, via an optical transmission line, a signal transmitted from the optical transmission device, the optical transmission system including a transmission-mode selection unit that selects transmission mode information in descending order of priority out of transmission mode information, which is combinations of a plurality of parameters concerning transmission performance, the transmission mode information being a plurality of kinds of the transmission mode information common to the transmission performance of the optical transmission device and the optical reception device, a signal transmission unit that transmits, to the optical reception device, a signal modulated based on the selected transmission mode information, and a signal reception unit that receives the signal and modulates the received signal based on the transmission mode information selected by the transmission-mode selection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Tetsuro Inui, Hideki Nishizawa, Seiji Okamoto, Akira Hirano, Shokei Kobayashi, Fumikazu Inuzuka, Seiki Kuwabara, Takafumi Tanaka, Kei Kitamura, Takuya Oda
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Patent number: 11946431Abstract: Provided is an electronically controlled throttle device configured to reduce size of a motor and concurrently to enhance reduction of a noise of the motor. The electronically controlled throttle device includes: a body including a throttle valve; a motor provided with a brush, the motor configured to drive the throttle valve; a bracket (20F) configured to attach the motor to the body; a pigtail connected electrically to the brush, and arranged on a surface of the bracket (20F), the surface facing the motor; and a filter circuit (an inductor (31), a capacitor (32), and a resistor (33)) connected electrically to the pigtail and configured to reduce the noise of the motor. The filter circuit is arranged on a surface of the bracket (20F), the surface opposite the motor.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Hidefumi Hatsuzawa, Takuya Tanaka, Takafumi Saito
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Patent number: 11931987Abstract: A decorative material having a design with an excellent tactile and a visual effect. The decorative material has a texture region on a base material, the texture region is composed of: a plurality of projection regions containing a plurality of particles with a particle size of 5 ?m or more and 60 ?m or less and independent of each other; and a gap region between the projection regions, and the average diameter of the circumscribed circles of the projection regions, when the texture region is viewed in plan view, is 100 ?m or more and 500 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takafumi Kaida, Yuji Tanaka, Yuki Aoyama, Ryouichi Satou
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Patent number: 11923897Abstract: The present disclosure has an object of proposing a method and a device for estimating the state of a transmission path or an optical transmitter capable of mechanically estimating a factor causing an error with a small amount of constellation data and a low computing amount.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Nakachi, Yitu Wang, Tetsuro Inui, Takafumi Tanaka, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Katsuhiro Shimano
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Patent number: 11917019Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is an information processing system that includes a computing machine installed in a computing machine base, and a first transmitting/receiving apparatus connected to the computing machine, a second transmitting/receiving apparatus installed in a user base that is used by a user, and a device connected to the second transmitting/receiving apparatus, and a control apparatus configured to control connection between the first transmitting/receiving apparatus and the second transmitting/receiving apparatus. In the information processing system, the control apparatus is configured to change the connection between the first transmitting/receiving apparatus and the second transmitting/receiving apparatus, and copy the state of the pre-change computing machine from the pre-change computing machine into the post-change computing machine.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Takuya Ohara, Takuya Oda, Fumikazu Inuzuka, Takafumi Tanaka, Masayuki Shimoda
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Publication number: 20240056179Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, a detection unit, a control unit, and a selection unit. The first communication unit uses a first path for communication, when electric power is supplied. The second communication unit uses a second path for communication, when electric power is supplied. The detection unit detects a fault predictive sign. The control unit supplies no electric power to the second communication unit when the detection unit does not detect the fault predictive sign. The control unit starts supplying electric power to the second communication unit and performs normality confirmation of the second path when the detection unit detects the fault predictive sign, before switching from the first path to the second path.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2019Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kei KITAMURA, Fumikazu INUZUKA, Kengo SHINTAKU, Takafumi TANAKA, Takuya ODA
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Patent number: 11890610Abstract: The present invention provides a particulate cobalt ion adsorbent which has a high adsorption capacity. A particulate cobalt ion adsorbent which contains potassium hydrogen dititanate hydrate represented by chemical formula K2-XHxO.2TiO2.nH2O (wherein x is 0.5 or more and 1.3 or less, and n is greater than 0), and no binder, wherein the particulate cobalt ion adsorbent has a particle size range of 150 ?m or more and 1000 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: TITAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Sakuma, Makoto Komatsu, Takeshi Izumi, Nobuyuki Hashimoto, Toshimasa Seki, Takafumi Tanaka, Hidenori Ishioka
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Publication number: 20240031045Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is an information processing system including a computing machine installed in a computing machine base, a first transmission/reception device connected to the computing machine, a second transmission/reception device installed in a user base used by a user, a device connected to the second transmission/reception device, and a delay control device configured to measure a delay amount generated between the first transmission/reception device and the second transmission/reception device and control the measured delay amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya OHARA, Takuya ODA, Fumikazu INUZUKA, Takafumi TANAKA, Masayuki SHIMODA
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Publication number: 20240028552Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is an information processing system including a computer installed in a computer base, a first transceiver connected to the computer, a second transceiver installed in a user base used by a user, a device connected to the second transceiver, a network configured to perform communication between a plurality of the first transceivers and the second transceiver, and a controller configured to control connection between one of the plurality of the first transceivers and the second transceiver, in which the controller is configured to control connection between one of the plurality of the first transceivers and the second transceiver via the network having a circuit switching function.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya OHARA, Takuya ODA, Fumikazu INUZUKA, Takafumi TANAKA, Masayuki SHIMODA
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Publication number: 20230412299Abstract: An optical path design device includes a scheduling unit configured to generate, according to demand information, including information on a frequency bandwidth required for communication between a first node device at a start point of an optical path and a second node device at an end point of an optical path, and including information on a future time zone in which the communication will be executed, allocation content including information on a route connecting the first node device and the second node device and information on a center frequency of the frequency allocated to the communication corresponding to the demand information and determine the start time and the end time of the allocation of the allocation content, and a queue for adjusting a timing of allocation of the allocation content in the future time zone based on the start time and the end time of the allocation in a case where the allocation content cannot be allocated to the communication corresponding to the demand information with the cuType: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2020Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Takafumi Tanaka, Takuya OHARA, Fumikazu INUZUKA, Takuya ODA, Masayuki SHIMODA
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Publication number: 20230403220Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides an information processing system in which at least one of a connection between an input/output device and a computing machine or a connection between the computing machine and a central computing machine is made via a network, and a plurality of users uses the same content by using the input/output device via the network, the information processing system including a delay measurement device configured to measure an amount of transmission delay generated between the input/output device and the central computing machine for each of the users, and a delay adjustment device configured to adjust a difference in the amount of transmission delay between the users to be kept within a predetermined value on the basis of the measured amount of transmission delay.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya ODA, Takuya OHARA, Fumikazu INUZUKA, Takafumi TANAKA, Masayuki SHIMODA
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Publication number: 20230344753Abstract: Distribution devices are each connected to a single or a plurality of line switching networks and a single or a plurality of packet switching networks, selects either the line switching network or the packet switching network as the distribution destination on the basis of distribution policy information in a case where data to which the service providing device or the calculation device is set as a transmission destination, and transmits the received data to the selected switching network is received, and the distribution device captures the received data on the basis of the aggregation policy information and transmit the data to the service providing device or the calculation device corresponding to the transmission destination of the captured data in a case where data transmitted by the other distribution device is received from the line switching network or the packet switching network.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Takuya ODA, Takuya OHARA, Fumikazu INUZUKA, Takafumi TANAKA, Masayuki SHIMODA
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Publication number: 20230336629Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is an information processing system that includes a computing machine installed in a computing machine base, and a first transmitting/receiving apparatus connected to the computing machine, a second transmitting/receiving apparatus installed in a user base that is used by a user, and a device connected to the second transmitting/receiving apparatus, and a control apparatus configured to control connection between the first transmitting/receiving apparatus and the second transmitting/receiving apparatus. In the information processing system, the control apparatus is configured to change the connection between the first transmitting/receiving apparatus and the second transmitting/receiving apparatus, and copy the state of the pre-change computing machine from the pre-change computing machine into the post-change computing machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Takuya OHARA, Takuya ODA, Fumikazu INUZUKA, Takafumi TANAKA, Masayuki SHIMODA
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Publication number: 20230232307Abstract: An optical path design device includes: a search unit configured to search for one or more route possibilities from a start point to an end point in an optical network including one or more transmission paths as links and a plurality of node devices as nodes on the basis of topology information of the optical network, information on the start point, and information on the end point; a time derivation unit configured to derive available time which is time at which a frequency band including one or more frequency slots becomes available for communication for each of the transmission paths or the node devices included in the route; and a design unit configured to select the route from the one or more route possibilities that have been searched for on the basis of the available time derived for each of the transmission paths or the node devices and select a frequency band of an optical signal to be transmitted through an optical path in the selected route.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2020Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Takafumi Tanaka, Takuya OHARA, Fumikazu INUZUKA, Takuya ODA, Masayuki SHIMODA
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Publication number: 20230078855Abstract: Provided is a charge-adjustment powder having an excellent ability to regulate a charging property on a surface of a target to be charge-adjusted within a certain range, and to maintain the applied charge. The charge-adjustment powder is formed with particles having titanium-niobium oxide on at least a part of a surface of a core, and the content of an alkali metal is set to be 20.0 mmol/kg or less based on the whole.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: Titan Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takayasu Tanaka, Toshimasa Seki, Takafumi Tanaka, Tomoko Yoshimi, Toru Kumagai
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Publication number: 20230076671Abstract: A virtual environment optical communication network is generated by setting configuration parameters of physical packages of a real environment optical communication network in package emulators that a computer program has virtually constructed to implement the physical packages, the real environment optical communication network being constructed by a plurality of node devices in which the physical packages are mounted, pieces of configuration data are generated based on pieces of resource data indicating resources required for optical paths detected based on acquired configuration parameters and a requested transmission mode, optical paths are set in the virtual environment optical communication network based on the generated pieces of configuration data, and optical paths are set in the real environment optical communication network based on the pieces of configuration data that have been used to set the optical paths.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2020Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi TANAKA, Hideki NISHIZAWA, Tetsuro INUI, Seiki KUWABARA, Shuto YAMAMOTO, Seiji OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11581988Abstract: A transmission device includes a frame processing unit, a redundant channel processing unit, a transmission and reception unit, and a channel selection unit. The frame processing unit generates division frames, adds error detection signals to the division frames, and outputs the division frames to which the error detection signals are added to a plurality of data channels. The redundant channel processing unit generates, from the division frames, one or more redundant frames including restoration information that enables restoration of the division frames, and outputs the generated redundant frames to a data channel. The transmission and reception unit outputs the division frames and the redundant frames to a transmission line. The channel selection unit allocates the division frames and the redundant frames to allocable transmission and reception units.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Tanaka, Tetsuro Inui, Akira Hirano, Yoshiaki Yamada
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Publication number: 20230018846Abstract: The present disclosure has an object of proposing a method and a device for estimating the state of a transmission path or an optical transmitter capable of mechanically estimating a factor causing an error with a small amount of constellation data and a low computing amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2019Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki NAKACHI, Yitu WANG, Tetsuro INUI, Takafumi TANAKA, Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Katsuhiro SHIMANO
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Patent number: 11546064Abstract: An optical transmission system including an optical transmission device and an optical reception device that receives, via an optical transmission line, a signal transmitted from the optical transmission device, the optical transmission system including a transmission-mode selection unit that selects transmission mode information in descending order of priority out of transmission mode information, which is combinations of a plurality of parameters concerning transmission performance, the transmission mode information being a plurality of kinds of the transmission mode information common to the transmission performance of the optical transmission device and the optical reception device, a signal transmission unit that transmits, to the optical reception device, a signal modulated based on the selected transmission mode information, and a signal reception unit that receives the signal and modulates the received signal based on the transmission mode information selected by the transmission-mode selection unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Tetsuro Inui, Hideki Nishizawa, Seiji Okamoto, Akira Hirano, Shokei Kobayashi, Fumikazu Inuzuka, Seiki Kuwabara, Takafumi Tanaka, Kei Kitamura, Takuya Oda
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Patent number: 11509392Abstract: A communication system transmits relay data through a communication path including a plurality of sections in which different communication schemes are used. A relay communication device is provided between a first section and a second section which are adjacent sections. The relay communication device includes a receiving unit receiving the relay data from the first section through a frame of a first communication scheme, and a relaying unit configuring, in a frame of a second communication scheme used to transmit the relay data to a relay destination, signal quality information representing signal quality calculated for a physical link in each of the sections through which the relay data is transmitted before arriving at the relay communication device, and outputting the frame of the second communication scheme to the second section.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takafumi Tanaka, Shokei Kobayashi, Seiki Kuwabara, Yoshiaki Yamada