Patents by Inventor Takahiro Ito
Takahiro 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: 20230101829Abstract: A composition including a fluoropolymer and substantially free from a compound represented by the following formula (3): (H—(CF2)8—SO3)qM2, wherein M2 is H, a metal atom, NR54, imidazolium optionally containing a substituent, pyridinium optionally containing a substituent, or phosphonium optionally containing a substituent; R5s are each H or an organic group and are the same as or different from each other; and q is 1 or 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Taketo KATO, Satoru YONEDA, Manabu FUJISAWA, Kazuya ASANO, Takahiro KITAHARA, Masahiro HIGASHI, Akiyoshi YAMAUCHI, Sumi ISHIHARA, Yosuke KISHIKAWA, Shinnosuke NITTA, Marina NAKANO, Hirotoshi YOSHIDA, Yoshinori NANBA, Kengo ITO, Chiaki OKUI, Hirokazu AOYAMA, Masamichi SUKEGAWA, Taku YAMANAKA, Yuuji TANAKA, Kenji ICHIKAWA, Yohei FUJIMOTO, Hiroyuki SATO
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Patent number: 11615005Abstract: Each redundancy group is constituted by one active program (storage control software of the active program) and N standby programs (N is an integer of two or more). Each of the N standby programs is associated with a priority to be determined as a failover (FO) destination. In the same redundancy group, FO is performed from the active program to the standby program based on the priority. For the plurality of pieces of storage control software including the active programs and the standby programs that change to be active by FO in the plurality of redundancy groups arranged in the same node, standby storage control software that can set each of the programs as a FO destination are arranged in different nodes.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Shintaro Ito, Takahiro Yamamoto, Sachie Tajima, Masakuni Agetsuma
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Patent number: 11613119Abstract: A liquid discharge method of discharging a liquid from a nozzle of a liquid discharge head by applying a drive pulse to a drive element of the liquid discharge head includes an acquisition step of acquiring a state of a dot formed on a recording medium by the liquid discharged from the nozzle, as a recording condition, and a driving step of applying the drive pulse that varies depending on the recording condition acquired in the acquisition step, to the drive element. The drive pulse may include a first potential, a second potential different from the first potential, and a third potential different from the first potential and the second potential. The second potential may be to be applied after the first potential, and the third potential may be to be applied after the second potential.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Toshiro Murayama, Takahiro Katakura, Nobuaki Ito
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Publication number: 20230077961Abstract: To set an appropriate buffer area in a storage system that performs hierarchical storage management. The storage system includes a storage device that provides a storage pool and a storage management unit that manages the storage pool in a tiered manner. The storage pool is provided with a first tier, a second tier, a third tier, and a third tier buffer which is a buffer area used as a buffer when reading or writing data from or to the third tier which is a buffer target tier. The storage management unit determines a size of the third tier buffer based on an access frequency of the third tier.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takaki NAKAMURA, Takahiro YAMAMOTO, Shintaro ITO, Masakuni AGETSUMA
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Patent number: 11602931Abstract: A liquid discharge method of discharging a liquid from a nozzle of a liquid discharge head by applying a drive pulse to a drive element of the liquid discharge head includes an acquisition step of acquiring a recording condition, and a driving step of applying the drive pulse to the drive element. The drive pulse includes a first potential, a second potential different from the first potential, and a third potential different from the first potential and the second potential. The second potential is to be applied after the first potential, and the third potential is to be applied after the second potential. In the liquid discharge method, in the driving step, the drive pulse having the first potential that varies depending on the recording condition acquired in the acquisition step is applied to the drive element.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Toshiro Murayama, Takahiro Katakura, Nobuaki Ito
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Publication number: 20230070203Abstract: A power supply unit includes a power supply and a converter. The converter performs operation selected from the group consisting of boosting and stepping down of an output voltage of the power supply; and includes a reactor in which n-phase coils are magnetically coupled to each other, n-phase switches, and a control unit. The control unit controls duty cycles of the n-phase switches; monitors a current value flowing through the n-phase coils; and performs phase switching control when the control unit determines that an operation condition described below is satisfied, the phase switching control being control in which the control unit performs phase switching from in phase to out of phase in the case where the n-phase switches are being driven in phase and performs phase switching from out of phase to in phase in the case where the n-phase switches are being driven out of phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiko KANEKO, Nobuyuki KITAMURA, Takahiro UMEHARA, Masayuki ITO
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Publication number: 20230070168Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes: an element body; a coil disposed in the element body; and a first external electrode disposed on a surface of the element body in which the first external electrode has a first electrode layer disposed on the surface of the element body and a first plating layer and a second plating layer disposed on the first electrode layer, and the first plating layer and the second plating layer are disposed so as to be scattered in a plurality of places on an edge of the first electrode layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke NAGAI, Kazuhiro EBINA, Takahiro SATO, Kunihiko KAWASAKI, Shinichi SATO, Seiichi NAKAGAWA, Kouichi KAKUDA, Yuya ISHIMA, Mitsuru ITO
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Publication number: 20230070967Abstract: A surveying system includes a target unit having a reflection target and an encoder pattern showing an angle of the target unit; a scanner configured to acquire three-dimensional point cloud data, measured coordinates of the target, and optically read the encoder pattern to acquire an encoder pattern read angle; and a leveling base configured to selectively allow either of the target unit and the scanner to be removably mounted. The scanner calculates a direction angle of the leveling base based on the encoder pattern read angle and the offset angle of the target unit, calculates coordinates of an installation point of the target unit based on the measured coordinates of the target and the direction angle of the target, and calculates a direction angle of the scanner based on the offset angle of the scanner and the direction angle of the leveling base on which the scanner is mounted.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Satoshi YASUTOMI, Takahiro KOMEICHI, Tadayuki ITO
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Publication number: 20230072794Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes: an element body formed by stacking a magnetic body layer containing a plurality of metal magnetic particles of a soft magnetic material; a first coil disposed in the element body and configured to include a plurality of first coil conductors; a second coil disposed in the element body and configured to include a plurality of second coil conductors; a first external electrode to which one end portion of each of the first coil and the second coil is connected; and a second external electrode to which the other end portion of each of the first coil and the second coil is connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke NAGAI, Kazuhiro EBINA, Takahiro SATO, Kunihiko KAWASAKI, Shinichi SATO, Shinichi KONDO, Kouichi KAKUDA, Yuya ISHIMA, Kosuke ITO
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Publication number: 20230063805Abstract: The present invention provides a heterocyclic compound having an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity. A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as described in the specification, or a salt thereof, is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of narcolepsy.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Yuichi KAJITA, Yuhei MIYANOHANA, Tatsuki KOIKE, Kohei TAKEUCHI, Yoshiteru ITO, Norihito TOKUNAGA, Takahiro SUGIMOTO, Tohru MIYAZAKI, Tsuneo ODA, Yasutaka HOASHI, Yasushi HATTORI, Keisuke IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20230063170Abstract: Provided is a vehicle braking support device. The braking support device includes: detection units for detecting a state around a host vehicle; a braking support control unit for executing braking support by a braking device according to the detected state; and a vehicle stop control unit for maintaining a stopped state of a host vehicle after the host vehicle is stopped by the braking support control unit, and for releasing the stopped state of the host vehicle after a predetermined period has elapsed. The vehicle stop control unit, in a case where by using the detected state it is determined that it is desirable to maintain the stopped state of the host vehicle beyond the predetermined period, the vehicle stop control unit does not release the stopped state of the host vehicle until an operation by a driver is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Kei KAMIYA, Yosuke ITO, Takaharu OGURI, Takahiro BABA, Ryo TAKAKI, Shinichi NAGATA
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Patent number: 11594139Abstract: A management system comprises a movement management unit that communicates via a communication device with a plurality of moving bodies including an autonomous moving body provided with an autonomous control unit for moving autonomously, and that manages the movement of the plurality of moving bodies. The movement management unit comprises a priority/subordination determination unit that determines the degree of priority/subordination relating to the respective movements of the plurality of moving bodies on the basis of individual information of the moving bodies.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Nagai, Yo Ito, Takahiro Iijima
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Patent number: 11593182Abstract: A storage system including a processor performs a process for providing a volume including a plurality of areas to one or more hosts. One or more storage devices are connected to the processor and store data of the volume, in which each of a plurality of nodes monitors a load of the volume provided by an own node and loads of areas obtained by dividing an area of the volume into a plurality of the areas, and a first node determining that the load of the one volume being monitored is equal to or more than a threshold value migrates a portion of the area included in the one volume to a volume of a second node different from the first node according to the load of the areas obtained by dividing the area of the one volume into the plurality of areas and a policy of load sharing.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Yamamoto, Yuki Sakashita, Shintaro Ito, Masakuni Agetsuma
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Publication number: 20230057789Abstract: A wireless power transfer system includes a first power transmission unit, a second power transmission unit, a power reception unit, a sensing unit, and an ECU. The first power transmission unit is provided in a parking space. The second power transmission unit is provided in a traveling lane for a vehicle. The sensing unit senses a sensing target in a sensing region set around the vehicle. When the sensing unit senses the sensing target, the ECU reduces electric power transmitted from the first power transmission unit or the second power transmission unit that is transmitting electric power to the vehicle. The ECU sets the sensing region to be larger when the power reception unit receives electric power from the first power transmission unit than when the power reception unit receives electric power from the second power transmission unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro HIRANO, Shogo TSUGE, Ryosuke IKEMURA, Yohei ARINO, Masaki ITO, Yuki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20230055398Abstract: A processor obtains power reception information including information on a power reception form of a power reception apparatus of each of a plurality of vehicles. The processor obtains power transmission information including information on a power transmission form of a power transmission apparatus available on a travel path through which each of the plurality of vehicles can travel. The processor selects as a vehicle to be dispatched from among the plurality of vehicles, a vehicle that can receive electric power from the power transmission apparatus on the travel path, based on the power reception information and the power transmission information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takahiro HIRANO, Shogo TSUGE, Ryosuke IKEMURA, Yohei ARINO, Masaki ITO, Yuki TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 11584366Abstract: A braking control device for controlling braking of a host vehicle. For a state in which a host vehicle is stopped in an intersection by automatic emergency braking and an oncoming vehicle is approaching in an oncoming lane, the host vehicle prohibits secondary braking, flashes a hazard lamp, and prohibits an idling stop. For a state in which it is determined in that the vehicle is stopped and it is determined in that it is safe for the vehicle to start moving, the host vehicle releases stop maintenance braking.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yosuke Ito, Takaharu Oguri, Kei Kamiya, Takahiro Baba, Ryo Takaki, Tomoyuki Doi
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Publication number: 20230052915Abstract: A method that enables fabrication of a machinable zirconia composite sintered body that is machinable in a sintered state while maintaining properties suited for dental use, in a shorter time than it is possible with conventional methods. A method for producing a machinable zirconia composite sintered body by fabricating a molded body with a raw material composition that includes 78 to 95 mol % of ZrO2 and 2.5 to 10 mol % of Y2O3, and also includes 2 to 8 mol % of Nb2O5 and/or 3 to 10 mol % of Ta2O5, and in which ZrO2 predominantly includes a monoclinic crystal system and sintering the molded body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: KURARAY NORITAKE DENTAL INC.Inventors: Shinichiro KATO, Yoshihisa ITO, Takahiro NIWA
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Publication number: 20230038374Abstract: There is provided a sulfide solid electrolyte containing elemental lithium (Li), elemental phosphorus (P), elemental sulfur (S), and an elemental halogen (X). The mole ratio of the elemental lithium (Li) to the elemental phosphorus (P), Li/P, satisfies 3.7<Li/P<5.4. The mole ratio of the elemental sulfur (S) to the elemental phosphorus (P), S/P, satisfies 3.9<S/P<4.1. The mole ratio of the elemental halogen (X) to the elemental phosphorus (P), X/P, satisfies 0.7<X/P<2.4. The sulfide solid electrolyte includes a crystalline phase having an argyrodite-type crystal structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Yuki NAKAYAMA, Takahiro ITO, Tsukasa TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20230040770Abstract: The present invention provides a heterocyclic compound having an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity. A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as described in the specification, or a salt thereof has an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity, and is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of narcolepsy.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2020Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Yasushi HATTORI, Yuhei MIYANOHANA, Tatsuki KAJITA, Tatsuki KOIKE, Yasutaka HOASHI, Norihito TOKUNAGA, Alexander Martin PAWLICZEK, Tsuneo ODA, Tohru MIYAZAKI, Yoshiteru ITO, Kohei TAKEUCHI, Keisuke IMAMURA, Takahiro SUGIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230044019Abstract: An epoxy resin composition comprises the following components [A] to [E]: [A] epoxy resin, [B] amine-type curing agent, [C] cure accelerator, and [D] red phosphorus. The epoxy resin composition contains, per 100 mass parts for the total amount of [A], 25-45 mass parts of [A1] a liquid bisphenolic epoxy resin and 20-40 mass parts of [A2] a phenol novolac-type epoxy resin, and has a content ratio of [E] to [D] ([E]/[D]) of at least 1. Provided are a light-weight fiber-reinforced composite material that exhibits an excellent flame retardancy and mechanical properties and does not produce halogen gas during combustion, and an epoxy resin composition that has a viscosity suitable for obtaining the fiber-reinforced composite material as well as prepregs.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Takahiro MINO, Akihiko ITO, Hiroaki SAKATA