Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Aoyama

Tetsuya Aoyama 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: 20120052261
    Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording method including primarily applying a resin ink containing resin components to a recording medium to form a first resin ink layer, and secondarily applying the resin ink to the first resin ink layer to form a second resin ink layer, to thereby form a resin ink layer, wherein each of the primary applying process and the secondary applying process includes drying the applied resin ink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Aoyama, Hidehiko Komatsu
  • Patent number: 8127259
    Abstract: A synthesis constraint creating unit has a process emergence number acquiring unit that acquires, for each process attribute, the emergence number of the process belonging to each process attribute, the process being in the behavior level description, a circuit structure component specifying unit that specifies a kind of a circuit structural component which can embody the process belonging to each process attribute and which can be described in a register transfer level description, for each process attribute, and a synthesis constraint creating unit that creates synthesis constraint information indicating the kind and number of circuit structural component necessary for expressing the process described in the behavior level description by the register transfer level description based on the emergence number of the process acquired for each process attribute and the kind of the circuit structural component specified for each process attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20120040710
    Abstract: A communication control method executed in a multi-hop cellular network including at least one gateway and a plurality of radio base stations includes: a first radio base station performing radio resource management and movement management concerning a radio mobile station requesting, when the first radio base station determines it is necessary to switch a connection destination of the radio mobile station, a second radio base station at a handover destination to perform handover processing and instructing the radio mobile station (a handover execution mobile station) to perform handover to the second radio base station; and the second radio base station determining, based on the number of times of transfer until a signal transmitted from the first radio base station reaches the own station, whether to change the radio base station that performs the radio resource management and the movement management concerning the handover execution mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Aoyama, Yuya Takatsuka
  • Publication number: 20120040155
    Abstract: The ink jet recording method is an ink jet recording method used in a recording apparatus including a white ink containing a white color material, a resin ink containing a resin, and a glitter ink containing a glitter pigment, and a head for recording using the white ink, the resin ink, and the glitter ink, the method including firstly forming a white ink layer on a recording medium, secondly forming a resin ink layer on the white ink layer, and thirdly forming the glitter ink layer on the white ink layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hidehiko Komatsu, Tetsuya Aoyama, Ippei Okuda
  • Publication number: 20120040147
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method for recording a non-water-based glitter ink on a recording medium, including forming an underlayer, in which a resin ink in which resin components are dispersed or dissolved in a dispersion medium is applied to at least a site of the recording medium on which the non-water-based glitter ink is recorded, thereby forming an underlayer, and recording a glitter ink, in which the non-water-based glitter ink is recorded on the underlayer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Hidehiko Komatsu, Tetsuya Aoyama, Takashi Oyanagi, Kazuaki Tsukiana
  • Patent number: 8117572
    Abstract: A behavioral synthesis unit generates an intermediate level description that describes a plurality of processes indicated by a behavioral level description and data passed over during the plurality of processes based oil a behavioral level description describing the behavior of an electronic circuit and synthesis constraint information constituting constraints to be satisfied while generating a register transfer level description based on the behavioral level description and the number and type of circuit configuration elements that can be described in the register transfer level description. The data flow path information analyzing unit acquires path information indicating a data path and at least one process executed on the path based on the intermediate level description. A synthesis constraint generating unit then generates new synthesis constraint information that improves prescribed circuit performance of the electronic circuit based on library information and path information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Aoyama
  • Patent number: 8091053
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides a circuit generation system that can automatically generate a power control circuit. In the circuit generation system according to the aspect of the invention includes a behavioral synthesis unit that generates synthesis-attached information and RT-level circuit information based on behavioral-level description information in which information on a circuit is described by a program language; and a power control circuit generation unit that generates a power control circuit based on the synthesis-attached information, and connects the generated power control circuit to an RT-level circuit of the RT-level circuit information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20110234680
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a recording method by which the occurrence of bleeding and repelling in a cured layer can be suppressed during overprinting. [Solution] In a recording method, a first ink composition containing a colorant, a photopolymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator is ejected from a recording head onto a recording medium; light is emitted from a light source to the first ink composition that has adhered to the recording medium with the result that the first ink composition is cured at a cure rate that is in the range from 70 to 95%; a second ink composition containing a colorant, a photopolymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator is ejected from a recording head to the first ink composition that has been cured on the recording medium; and light is emitted from a light source to the second ink composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Tetsuya AOYAMA, Keitaro NAKANO
  • Patent number: 7985784
    Abstract: An ink set includes: at least one black ink composition that contains at least a self-dispersing pigment and a resin emulsion; and at least one color ink composition that contains at least an organic pigment covered with water-insoluble polymer and a resin emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Miharu Kanaya, Tetsuya Aoyama, Masahiro Hanmura
  • Patent number: 7790783
    Abstract: A water-base ink composition comprising: a chromatic color pigment covered with a water-insoluble vinyl polymer; a titanium dioxide pigment; and water; and a water-base ink composition containing, in addition to a chromatic color pigment, dispersant and water, both a titanium dioxide pigment and silica pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Aoyama, Daisuke Ishihara, Masahiro Yatake
  • Patent number: 7775653
    Abstract: An inkjet recording method for producing a black image on a recording medium by using an ink set having two or more types of ink compositions including at least one black ink composition and at least one color ink composition, wherein the recording medium has a recording surface with a 20-degree specular gloss value as defined by JIS Z8741 of 10% or larger, and an image clarity value as defined by JIS K7105 of 15-95%; and wherein the discharged weight of the black ink composition upon producing the black image is 0-10 weight % in proportion to the total discharged weight (100 weight %) of the ink composition discharged upon producing the black image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Miharu Kanaya, Tetsuya Aoyama, Masahiro Hanmura
  • Patent number: 7759411
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ink composition comprising at least a pigment, a polymer which encapsulates the pigment to make the pigment dispersible in the ink composition, a multivalent metal ion and water, wherein the polymer is a vinyl polymer obtained by polymerizing: A) at least one specific vinyl monomer, B) a monomer having a salt-forming group, C) a macromer having a number average molecular weight of 500 to 500,000, and D) a monomer copolymerizable with the monomers A), B) and C), and wherein the content of the multivalent metal ion is from 3 to 500 ppm based on the total amount of the ink composition. Also disclosed are an ink jet recording method using the ink composition and recorded matter obtained by the ink jet recording method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20090258203
    Abstract: [Object] There is provided an inkjet recording method in which two liquids are printed and which can perform inkjet ejection, in which the inkjet recording method provides a high-quality image using a reaction liquid having excellent storage stability, ejection stability, and recoverability from clogging on a recording medium having an absorbing layer of a paper support with low water absorption, the image having excellent abrasion resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Aoyama, Hidehiko Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20090235220
    Abstract: A behavioral synthesis unit generates an intermediate level description that describes a plurality of processes indicated by a behavioral level description and data passed over during the plurality of processes based oil a behavioral level description describing the behavior of an electronic circuit and synthesis constraint information constituting constraints to be satisfied while generating a register transfer level description based on the behavioral level description and the number and type of circuit configuration elements that can be described in the register transfer level description. The data flow path information analyzing unit acquires path information indicating a data path and at least one process executed on the path based on the intermediate level description. A synthesis constraint generating unit then generates new synthesis constraint information that improves prescribed circuit performance of the electronic circuit based on library information and path information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventor: TETSUYA AOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20090228859
    Abstract: A synthesis constraint creating unit has a process emergence number acquiring unit that acquires, for each process attribute, the emergence number of the process belonging to each process attribute, the process being in the behavior level description, a circuit structure component specifying unit that specifies a kind of a circuit structural component which can embody the process belonging to each process attribute and which can be described in a register transfer level description, for each process attribute, and a synthesis constraint creating unit that creates synthesis constraint information indicating the kind and number of circuit structural component necessary for expressing the process described in the behavior level description by the register transfer level description based on the emergence number of the process acquired for each process attribute and the kind of the circuit structural component specified for each process attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventor: TETSUYA AOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20090220748
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ink composition which can provide an image having excellent glossy texture to various recording media, particularly to a glossy recording medium, is decreased in bronzing phenomenon, and is also good in fixing property and scratch resistance such as gloss change. The invention relates to an ink composition containing at least a coloring agent coated with a water-insoluble polymer as a coloring material and a resin emulsion as an additive, wherein the weight average molecular weight of the water-insoluble polymer is from 50,000 to 150,000, and wherein the resin emulsion comprises a resin comprising a monomer component of the same kind as the monomer component constituting the water-insoluble polymer and having a weight average molecular weight of 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Miharu Kanaya, Tetsuya Aoyama, Masahiro Hanmura, Teruo Naito
  • Patent number: 7566081
    Abstract: A cushioning clip for receiving a movement of a movable member approaching a stationary member, including a cushioning part, for absorbing an impact force, and a mounting part for mounting the cushioning part to the stationary member. The cushioning part is formed of a flexible material exhibiting elasticity. The mounting part is formed of a rigid material exhibiting a predetermined rigidity. A hollow part is formed in the cushioning part. An inner wall of the hollow part is formed almost perpendicularly to the stationary member, and an apex part on a distal end side of the inner wall is flexed inwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Daiwa Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20080092103
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides a circuit generation system that can automatically generate a power control circuit. In the circuit generation system according to the aspect of the invention includes a behavioral synthesis unit that generates synthesis-attached information and RT-level circuit information based on behavioral-level description information in which information on a circuit is described by a program language; and a power control circuit generation unit that generates a power control circuit based on the synthesis-attached information, and connects the generated power control circuit to an RT-level circuit of the RT-level circuit information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20070234527
    Abstract: A cushioning clip for receiving a movement of a movable member approaching a stationary member, including a cushioning part, for absorbing an impact force, and a mounting part for mounting the cushioning part to the stationary member. The cushioning part is formed of a flexible material exhibiting elasticity. The mounting part is formed of a rigid material exhibiting a predetermined rigidity. A hollow part is formed in the cushioning part. An inner wall of the hollow part is formed almost perpendicularly to the stationary member, and an apex part on a distal end side of the inner wall is flexed inwardly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventor: Tetsuya Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20070117882
    Abstract: A water-base ink composition comprising: a chromatic color pigment covered with a water-insoluble vinyl polymer; a titanium dioxide pigment; and water; and a water-base ink composition containing, in addition to a chromatic color pigment, dispersant and water, both a titanium dioxide pigment and silica pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Tetsuya Aoyama, Daisuke Ishihara, Masahiro Yatake