Patents by Inventor Takayuki Kuroda

Takayuki Kuroda 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: 20180239619
    Abstract: A system change assistance system includes value redefinition means 501 configured to compare two vectors, one of which is set to a first comparison subject vector and the other is set to a second comparison subject vector, each configured from a set of a value of a first item having a discrete value in which the number of possible values is finite or less than a predetermined value, and a value of a second item having a continuous value or a discrete value in which the number of possible values is equal to or larger than a predetermined value, and to change the value of the first item of the first comparison subject vector in a case where the value of the first item of each vector is matched and the value of the second item of each vector is different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi KITANO, Takayuki KURODA, Manabu NAKANOYA
  • Publication number: 20180225133
    Abstract: Provided is a system construction assistance system including: a system definition input unit that inputs a system definition including at least a designation of a component using a component definition that is capable of including a field definition and a setting definition about a setting to a constituent element associated with the field, and an assignment definition related to assignment of a constituent element to a field included in the component; and a setting assignment unit that associates a constituent element with a field in a designated component, based on the system definition and the component definition, and assigns a setting to a constituent element constituting a target system, by reflecting a setting content defined with respect to the field in the constituent element associated with the field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki KURODA
  • Publication number: 20180203680
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to easily apply a system configuration definition file which is generated for a given environment to system deployment for another environment. A component information storage unit 110 of a deployment device 100 stores component information 111, which includes: setting information which is independent of deployment tools, for each of the constituent elements which configure a system; and deployment processes performed by the deployment tools with respect to combinations of each constituent element and each deployment tool which is usable in the deployment of the constituent element. A component identification unit 120 identifies the deployment processes corresponding to a designated deployment tool for each of the constituent elements on the basis of the component information 111. A sequence determination unit 130 determines an execution sequence of the identified deployment processes on the basis of dependencies among the constituent elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Nakanoya, Takayuki Kuroda
  • Patent number: 9957368
    Abstract: The present invention is a phenolic resin foam board having a thickness of 40 mm or more to 300 mm or less, when the phenolic resin foam board is sliced into n pieces (n?5) at approximately equal intervals of 8 mm or more to 10 mm or less, a density of an n-th specimen is dn, an average density of n pieces of specimens is dave, a lowest density among the densities of n pieces of specimens is dmin, 0?(dave?dmin)/dave?0.12 is established, and when values for Di=(di+d(i+1))/2 are calculated, Di values are plotted and points corresponding to the Di values are connected, resulting in a density distribution curve, no straight line parallel to the horizontal axis intersects the density distribution curve at four points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Kuroda, Hisashi Mihori, Takatoshi Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 9792201
    Abstract: A test support device which can test all configurations of a system including a specific system component, comprehensively and quickly, is provided. A test support device (100) includes a storage unit (102) and an extraction processing unit (101). A configuration of a system is defined with a plurality of functionalities to be maintained by the system and a set of programs implementing the functionalities respectively. The storage unit (102) stores component-relation information (201) which indicates an identifier of each of one or more systems, an identifier of each of a plurality of functionalities to be maintained by each of the systems, and an identifier of each of one or more programs being capable of implementing each of the functionalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20160002428
    Abstract: The present invention is a phenolic resin foam board having a thickness of 40 mm or more to 300 mm or less, when the phenolic resin foam board is sliced into n pieces (n?5) at approximately equal intervals of 8 mm or more to 10 mm or less, a density of an n-th specimen is dn, an average density of n pieces of specimens is dave, a lowest density among the densities of n pieces of specimens is dmin, 0?(dave?dmin)/dave?0.12 is established, and when values for Di=(di+d(i+1))/2 are calculated, Di values are plotted and points corresponding to the Di values are connected, resulting in a density distribution curve, no straight line parallel to the horizontal axis intersects the density distribution curve at four points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki KURODA, Hisashi MIHORI, Takatoshi KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20150370593
    Abstract: In the case of constructing systems having configurations different each other by using a virtual machine including a common component, a binary file of the virtual machine depending on the plural systems to be constructed is generate, efficiently. The system construction device 100 includes a system information acquisition unit 120 and a VM image generation unit 110. The system information acquisition unit 120 acquires a plurality of pieces of configuration information regarding respective systems each indicating a virtual machine and an additional module to be deployed on the virtual machine. The VM image generation unit 110 generates, when a virtual machine is matched and at least one additional module is matched among the acquired pieces of configuration information, a binary file for operating the matched virtual machine and the matched additional module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventor: Takayuki KURODA
  • Publication number: 20150324305
    Abstract: A change management system includes a system definition expansion unit 11 which generates information of a state machine set made up of one or more state machines, from a system definition. The system definition includes one or more primitives and any number of wirings. Each of the primitives includes any number of wire ports. Each of the wire ports includes one state machine. Each of the wirings connects to two wire ports included in different primitives. The system definition expansion unit 11 generates the information of the state machine set, by connecting existing definitions of the primitives by the wirings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicants: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki KURODA, Aniruddha Suresh GOKHALE
  • Publication number: 20150324211
    Abstract: A change planning system includes a state machine set conversion unit 11 which converts a state machine set made up of one or more state machines, into a single state machine including one or more states, wherein a state in a state machine included in the state machine set transitions to another state according to a transition condition designating a state in a state machine included in the state machine set other than the state machine, wherein a state in the single state machine corresponds to a state of all state machines in the state machine set, and wherein, while the transition condition according to which the state in the state machine makes a predetermined transition is satisfied, the state in the single state machine transitions to another state corresponding to another state of all state machines that results from the predetermined transition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicants: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki KURODA, Aniruddha Suresh GOKHALE
  • Publication number: 20150323916
    Abstract: A fast change planning system includes: a state machine set division unit 11 which divides a state machine set made up of one or more state machines, into a state machine group set; and a state machine set integration unit 12 which integrates transition orders derived from each of the state machine groups obtained by dividing the state machine group set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicants: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki KURODA, Aniruddha Suresh GOKHALE
  • Publication number: 20150317239
    Abstract: A test support device which can test all configurations of a system including a specific system component, comprehensively and quickly, is provided. A test support device (100) includes a storage unit (102) and an extraction processing unit (101). A configuration of a system is defined with a plurality of functionalities to be maintained by the system and a set of programs implementing the functionalities respectively. The storage unit (102) stores component-relation information (201) which indicates an identifier of each of one or more systems, an identifier of each of a plurality of functionalities to be maintained by each of the systems, and an identifier of each of one or more programs being capable of implementing each of the functionalities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventor: Takayuki Kuroda
  • Patent number: 9092234
    Abstract: In a method for obtaining a system by combining program components, the relocation of the program components can be facilitated. When a component has been moved between upper and lower level composites by a relocation processing unit, if a move source composite has a wiring between an element and a component to be moved, a complement processing unit performs complement processing in which a service or a reference is added to the lower level composite, a wiring for connecting the added service or reference and the element is set to the move source composite, and a wiring for connecting the added service or reference and the component to be moved is set to a move destination composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20130332722
    Abstract: In a method for obtaining a system by combining program components, the relocation of the program components can be facilitated. When a component has been moved between upper and lower level composites by a relocation processing unit (111), if a move source composite has a wiring between an element and a component to be moved, a complement processing unit (112) performs complement processing in which a service or a reference is added to the lower level composite, a wiring for connecting the added service or reference and the element is set to the move source composite, and a wiring for connecting the added service or reference and the component to be moved is set to a move destination composite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Kuroda
  • Patent number: 8523155
    Abstract: A fluid passage connection device includes a positioning mechanism that incorporates a male coupler attached to a stationary base member and a female coupler attached to a movable member, and that positions the movable member with respect to the base member so that it becomes possible to connect the male and female couplers, and a clamping mechanism that drives the movable member in order to clamp and fix the movable member with respect to the base member by the elastic force of a spring, and that also releases this clamping with the hydraulic pressure of a hydraulic cylinder; and the male coupler has a connection sleeve that is driven to retract by hydraulic pressure and is driven to advance by a spring, with a hydraulic passage being provided that interconnects a hydraulic pressure operation chamber of the connection sleeve and an unclamping hydraulic chamber of the hydraulic cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Pascal Engineering Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Kuroda
  • Patent number: 8272629
    Abstract: A swing clamp apparatus is provided in which the clamp arm is positioned and attached to a clamp rod at a desired position in a simple and reliable manner and the clamp arm replacement workload is certainly reduced. The swing clamp apparatus comprises an attachment block fixed to the leading end of a clamp rod and to which a clamp arm is detachably attached and a pair of clamping force transmission pins inserted in the attachment block and clamp arm in the direction parallel to the orthogonal direction to the axis for coupling the positioned clamp arm to the attachment block in an integrated manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Pascal Engineering Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Kuroda
  • Patent number: 8177210
    Abstract: A method for positioning a work, which is adapted for a knock hole of a small diameter and which can absorb a pitch error between a main positioning hole and an auxiliary positioning hole of the work is disclosed. An insert shaft of a main positioning device is inserted into the main positioning hole. An auxiliary positioning device includes a base lower block having a parallel slide holding surface, a sliding flange having a sliding surface, and an insert shaft disposed above the sliding flange. The sliding flange of the auxiliary positioning device is guided and moved by the slide holding surface, and is inserted, while absorbing the pitch error, into the auxiliary positioning hole, thereby to position the work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Pascal Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Kitamura, Koichi Sugiura, Takayuki Kawakami, Takayuki Kuroda
  • Patent number: 8087650
    Abstract: A clamping device is capable of engaging a clamping object with an inner wall of hole or side wall of the clamping object. The clamping device 1 is provided with a rod support for moving an engagement portion 25 of a clamping rod 3 in a direction roughly rectangular to the longitudinal direction of the clamping rod 3 and switchably rotatably supports the clamping rod 3 in a clamping main body across a clamping position and a clamp release position, a piston drive mechanism 6 for driving a piston 4 across the clamping position and the clamp release position, and a cam mechanism 7 for driving the engagement portion 25 in the clamping direction by the driving force of piston drive mechanism 6 for driving the piston 4 to the clamping position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignees: Pascal Engineering Corporation, Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kuroda, Takayuki Munechika, Takao Kobayashi, Masato Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 8047520
    Abstract: The coupling apparatus for bringing a pallet 3 (a movable article) near to a base side support 2 from above, positioning it in the horizontal X, Y directions and in the vertical Z direction, and clamping it in a releasable manner comprises a pair of first engaging protrusions 12 and a pair of second engaging protrusions 13 formed on the top surface of the support 2 for positing in the X direction and in the Y direction, respectively; a pair of first movable article side engaging protrusions 32 each abutting the pair of first engaging protrusions 12 on one side and a pair of second movable article side engaging protrusions 33 each abutting the pair of second engaging protrusions 12 on one side; a Z direction positioning mechanism 8 for positioning the pallet 3 relative to the support 2 in the Z direction; and a clamping mechanism 7 for clamping the pallet 3 on the support 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Pascal Engineering Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20100308580
    Abstract: A fluid passage connection device includes a positioning mechanism that incorporates a male coupler attached to a stationary base member and a female coupler attached to a movable member, and that positions the movable member with respect to the base member so that it becomes possible to connect the male and female couplers, and a clamping mechanism that drives the movable member in order to clamp and fix the movable member with respect to the base member by the elastic force of a spring, and that also releases this clamping with the hydraulic pressure of a hydraulic cylinder; and the male coupler has a connection sleeve that is driven to retract by hydraulic pressure and is driven to advance by a spring, with a hydraulic passage being provided that interconnects a hydraulic pressure operation chamber of the connection sleeve and an unclamping hydraulic chamber of the hydraulic cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventor: Takayuki Kuroda
  • Patent number: 7819392
    Abstract: A positioning mechanism in a positioning and clamping device includes an annular tapered surface that is formed on an outer periphery of a cylindrical shaft for positioning a pallet in the horizontal direction, and has a decreasing diameter toward an axial tip of the cylindrical shaft. An annular engaging mechanism, which is formed on an inner periphery side portion of an annular engagement member, is engageable with the annular tapered surface, and is elastically deformed in the radial direction, as a result of engagement with the annular tapered surface. The engaging mechanism has a tapered ring portion, which makes a face contact with the annular tapered surface, and multiple ribs extending outward, radially, from the tapered ring portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Pascal Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Kuroda, Takayuki Munechika