Patents by Inventor Takashi Amano

Takashi Amano 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).

  • Patent number: 7577805
    Abstract: A system is provided for storage of journal data from a primary site to a secondary site with a predefined quality of service. In one implementation, the primary storage system stores information for updating data stored on the primary disk array in the form of a history of updates made to the data. The primary storage system is configured to transfer this journal information to the secondary storage system. The user can specify the quality of service desired using a variety of measures, for example, a recovery point objective or a recovery time objective. In response, a copy manager within one of the storage systems determines the capacity of the various primary and secondary volumes, and determines the copy rate available, typically dependent upon the bandwidth between the primary and secondary systems. The copy manager then copies journal data to the remote site where it is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Amano, Yuichi Yagawa
  • Patent number: 7573426
    Abstract: An antenna includes an antenna element, and a first magnetic body which is arranged at least a part of the antenna element and has positive magnetostrictive characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Amano, Akihiro Tsujimura
  • Patent number: 7574462
    Abstract: A method and apparatus which provide solutions for avoiding journal overflow in after and before journal methods of a backup and recovery system used with a storage system. The after journal method solutions, which are conducted when the amount of free space reaches a threshold, include periodically taking a new snapshot and deleting the oldest journal, periodically taking a new logical snapshot and deleting the oldest journal, stopping the taking journal entries when the journal volume is full, and stopping the taking journal entries when the journal volume is full and then switching to bitmap management. The before journal method solution, which is conducted when the amount of free space reaches a threshold, includes applying wrap-around overwriting to overwrite the oldest journal entry by the newest journal entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Amano, Kenji Yamagami
  • Patent number: 7570218
    Abstract: An antenna element made of an electrically conductive material pattern is printed and formed on a face of a casing made of an electrically nonconductive material having a circuit board housed therein, and the antenna element and the circuit board are electrically connected to each other by a connecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akihiro Tsujimura, Hiroyuki Hotta, Takashi Amano, Koichi Sato
  • Publication number: 20090174615
    Abstract: An antenna element made of an electrically conductive material pattern is printed and formed on a face of a casing made of an electrically nonconductive material having a circuit board housed therein, and the antenna element and the circuit board are electrically connected to each other by a connecting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akihiro TSUJIMURA, Hiroyuki HOTTA, Takashi AMANO, Koichi SATO
  • Publication number: 20090167623
    Abstract: A magnetic member is interposed and arranged between an antenna element and a printed circuit board, and an air member or a dielectric member is interposed between the antenna element and the magnetic member. The magnetic member is constituted of a nanogranular structure in which magnetic nanoparticles with ferromagnetism are three-dimensionally dispersed and arranged in an insulating matrix substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akihiro TSUJIMURA, Koichi Sato, Takashi Amano, Hiroyuki Hotta
  • Publication number: 20090140933
    Abstract: A radio apparatus having a printed board, an antenna element and an isolating member is provided. The antenna element is connected to the printed board. The isolating member is formed by layering a magnetic layer made of magnetic material and a dielectric layer made of dielectric material. The isolating member is folded and arranged in such a way that the magnetic layer is placed no less than twice between the printed board and the antenna element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Naoto Ito, Akihiro Tsujimura, Takashi Amano
  • Publication number: 20090112967
    Abstract: To restrict data transmission to a mobile terminal according to a location of the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal requests data to a second computer, the mobile terminal does not log in the second computer. A communication method for a communication system having a first computer and the second computer, the first computer sends location information of the mobile terminal to the second computer, and the second computer controls data which is to be sent to the first computer according to an access right based on a predetermined location information by referring to received location information. Thereby, it can be controlled data sent to the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Takashi Amano, Shoji Kodama
  • Patent number: 7515111
    Abstract: A magnetic member is interposed and arranged between an antenna element and a printed circuit board, and an air member or a dielectric member is interposed between the antenna element and the magnetic member. The magnetic member is constituted of a nanogranular structure in which magnetic nanoparticles with ferromagnetism are three-dimensionally dispersed and arranged in an insulating matrix substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akihiro Tsujimura, Koichi Sato, Takashi Amano, Hiroyuki Hotta
  • Publication number: 20090077311
    Abstract: A second storage system (SS2) comprises a plurality of tapes, a first storage device capable of performing random access at a rate higher than the tapes, and a virtual storage device emulating the first storage device. A first storage system (SS1) comprises a second storage device and a third storage device that has the virtual storage device mapped therewith. The SS2 reserves a storage space on the first storage device and reads data from the tape corresponding to the virtual storage device into the storage space. The SS1 performs copying between the second storage device and third storage device and, in this process, sends a command for access generated in the third storage device to the virtual storage device. When receiving the Access Command corresponding to the virtual storage device, the SS2 accesses the storage space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Takashi Amano, Yoichi Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20090058737
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a case that includes a dielectric member made of a first dielectric material, the dielectric member being coated with a coating layer made of a second dielectric material; a wireless communication circuit that is housed in the case; an antenna element that is electrically connected to the wireless communication circuit, the antenna element being made of a conductive material and provided on a surface of the dielectric member; and an adhesive layer that is disposed between the antenna element and the dielectric member to adhere the antenna element onto the dielectric member, the adhesive layer being made of a third dielectric material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akihiro TSUJIMURA, Takashi Amano
  • Publication number: 20090019308
    Abstract: A storage system maintains a journal and a snapshot of one or more data volumes. Two journal entry types are maintained, an AFTER journal entry and a BEFORE journal entry. Two modes of data recovery are provided: “fast” recovery and “undo-able” recovery. A combination of both recovery modes allows the user to quickly recover a targeted data state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Amano
  • Patent number: 7461201
    Abstract: A second storage system (SS2) comprises a plurality of tapes, a first storage device capable of performing random access at a rate higher than the tapes, and a virtual storage device emulating the first storage device. A first storage system (SS1) comprises a second storage device and a third storage device that has the virtual storage device mapped therewith. The SS2 reserves a storage space on the first storage device and reads data from the tape corresponding to the virtual storage device into the storage space. The SS1 performs copying between the second storage device and third storage device and, in this process, sends a command for access generated in the third storage device to the virtual storage device. When receiving the Access Command corresponding to the virtual storage device, the SS2 accesses the storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Computer Peripherals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Amano, Yoichi Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20080244205
    Abstract: The correspondence between a plurality of virtual storage positions in a virtual volume for logically holding a snapshot image of a main volume in which data elements transmitted from a higher-level device are written and a plurality of address information elements indicating a plurality of actual storage positions of a plurality of data elements constituting the snapshot image is managed. In the initial backup, all the data elements stored in all the actual storage positions indicated by a plurality of address information elements are backed up, then storage positions where a difference has occurred between the virtual volume and the backup destination storage device is managed, and in the next and subsequent backups, data elements on the storage positions specified from the address information elements corresponding to the differentially managed storage positions are backed up.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Takashi Amano, Yoichi Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20080204901
    Abstract: When using an acrylic resin with a refractive index of 1.494, for example, the structure of the Fresnel lens is such that in a segment where a deviation angle of 19.5° or less is required, refraction-only prisms which do not cause any reflections are used, while in a segment where a deviation angle of 31.0° or larger is required, single-step total reflection prisms in which light is totally internally reflected once and then refracted are used and, in a segment where a deviation angle not smaller than 19.5° but not larger than 31.0° is required, two-step total reflection prisms in which light is totally internally reflected twice and then refracted are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Takashi Amano, Tsunehisa Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080191954
    Abstract: An antenna device is provided. The antenna device includes an antenna element including a first portion and a second portion formed almost parallel to each other, and a plane-shaped piece of magnetic material provided between the first portion and the second portion, the magnetic material arranged almost parallel to the first portion and the second portion. A wireless mobile terminal is provided. The wireless mobile terminal includes a printed circuit board, an antenna element including a first portion and a second portion formed almost parallel to each other, the first portion and the second portion arranged almost parallel to the printed circuit board each, and a plane-shaped piece of magnetic material provided between the first portion and the second portion, the magnetic material arranged almost parallel to the printed circuit board, the magnetic material arranged almost parallel to the first portion and the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akihiro Tsujimura, Koichi Sato, Takashi Amano, Satoshi Mizoguchi, Isao Ohba
  • Patent number: 7398422
    Abstract: A storage system maintains a journal and a snapshot of one or more data volumes. Two journal entry types are maintained, an AFTER journal entry and a BEFORE journal entry. Two modes of data recovery are provided: “fast” recovery and “undo-able” recovery. A combination of both recovery modes allows the user to quickly recover a targeted data state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Amano, Kenji Yamagami
  • Publication number: 20080143627
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a printed circuit board and an antenna element. The printed circuit board has a face a portion of which is formed by a conductive layer overlaid with a magnetic material layer made of anisotropic magnetic material. The magnetic material layer is arranged in such a way that a hard magnetization axis of the anisotropic magnetic material is directed almost parallel to the face. The antenna element is arranged almost parallel to the printed circuit board on a side of the face. The antenna element is arranged in such a way that an antenna current distributed on the antenna element if the antenna element is excited is directed almost perpendicular to the hard magnetization axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Isao Ohba, Takashi Amano, Akihiro Tsujimura, Satoshi Mizoguchi, Koichi Sato
  • Publication number: 20080129608
    Abstract: An antenna includes an antenna element, and a first magnetic body which is arranged at least a part of the antenna element and has positive magnetostrictive characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takashi Amano, Akihiro Tsujimura
  • Publication number: 20080112859
    Abstract: A fuel gas processing apparatus includes a gas supply portion for supplying a fuel gas containing carbon monoxide and a catalytic combustion portion for catalytically oxidizing the fuel gas supplied from the gas supply portion. The fuel gas processing apparatus includes a carbon monoxide reduction portion for reducing the amount of carbon monoxide contained in the fuel gas before the fuel gas is supplied to the catalytic combustion portion to enhance combustibility of the catalytic combustion portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Shigenori Onuma, Koichi Kuwaba, Takashi Amano, Takashi Ishikawa, Hitoshi Yoshiguchi, Atsushi Takumi