Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Horiuchi
Tetsuya Horiuchi 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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Patent number: 11943788Abstract: A terminal includes a receiver, which, in operation, receives time unit information related to an amount of an uplink time resource per a time unit, and receives a number of repetitions over a plurality of the time units, wherein the time unit includes a downlink time resource for a downlink signal and the uplink time resource for a response signal. The amount of the uplink time resource is expressed as a fixed number of consecutive symbols that remains the same number over the plurality of the time units over which the response signal is repeatedly transmitted. The terminal includes a transmitter, which, in operation, repeatedly transmits the response signal over the plurality of the time units.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Ayako Horiuchi, Takashi Iwai
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Patent number: 11937259Abstract: Provided is a base station capable of enhancing signal reception performance. In the base station (100), a control unit (101) generates data signals in unit of fixed length. A transmission unit (107) performs repetitive transmission of a transmission signal including at least one of the data signals in unit of fixed length in a resource that can be set to a plurality of data lengths.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Tomoya Nunome, Ankit Bhamri
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Publication number: 20240089052Abstract: A base station (100, 300) is provided with a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter (109) transmits a downlink signal in a downlink transmission region, in a time unit that includes the downlink transmission region, an uplink transmission region, and a gap period that is a switching point between the downlink transmission region and the uplink transmission region. The receiver (111) receives an uplink signal in the uplink transmission region, in the time unit. Furthermore, a delay tolerant signal for which a delay is tolerated more than for the downlink signal and the uplink signal is mapped to within the gap period.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: TOMOHUMI TAKATA, TAKASHI IWAI, HIDETOSHI SUZUKI, AYAKO HORIUCHI, JOACHIM LOEHR, TETSUYA YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 11035657Abstract: Provided is a threaded-hole inspection device having high inspection precision. An incomplete thread ridge portion of a gauge portion 5 of a thread gauge 1 is removed, a phase-positioning portion 8 for positioning a tip-side start point 7 of a complete thread ridge at a prescribed phase when the thread gauge 1 is mounted on a rotating-shaft portion 2 is provided to a fastening portion 6 of the thread gauge 1 that is to be fastened to the rotating-shaft portion 2, and a phase-positioning engaging portion 9 that is to engage with the phase-positioning portion 8 is provided to the rotating-shaft portion 2.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: DAI-ICHI SOKUHAN WORKS CO.Inventors: Mamoru Hara, Yasuo Sato, Atsushi Sato, Tetsuya Horiuchi, Teruyuki Miyashita, Takao Hayashi, Kenji Miyamori, Koji Miyamori, Mamoru Watanabe
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Patent number: 10788307Abstract: The invention provides a sensor capable of detecting deformation. The deformation sensor has a structure in which an ion-conductive polymer layer is sandwiched between soft electrodes, wherein non-uniform ion distribution is generated in the ion-conductive polymer layer by deformation, thereby generating a potential difference between the electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, MITSUI CHEMICALS TOHCELLO, INC.Inventors: Kinji Asaka, Tetsuya Horiuchi, Zicai Zhu, Mitsuo Takase
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Publication number: 20190293401Abstract: Provided is a threaded-hole inspection device having high inspection precision. An incomplete thread ridge portion of a gauge portion 5 of a thread gauge 1 is removed, a phase-positioning portion 8 for positioning a tip-side start point 7 of a complete thread ridge at a prescribed phase when the thread gauge 1 is mounted on a rotating-shaft portion 2 is provided to a fastening portion 6 of the thread gauge 1 that is to be fastened to the rotating-shaft portion 2, and a phase-positioning engaging portion 9 that is to engage with the phase-positioning portion 8 is provided to the rotating-shaft portion 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: DAI-ICHI SOKUHAN WORKS CO.Inventors: Mamoru HARA, Yasuo SATO, Atsushi SATO, Tetsuya HORIUCHI, Teruyuki MIYASHITA, Takao HAYASHI, Kenji MIYAMORI, Koji MIYAMORI, Mamoru WATANABE
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Patent number: 10307130Abstract: A dose calculation apparatus includes a specifying unit that specifies physical shape information of at least one of a body width and a body thickness of a subject using a ray-sum image generated from a plurality of medical images acquired by imaging the subject with an X-ray apparatus, an acquisition unit that acquires a correction coefficient corresponding to the physical shape information of at least one of the body width and the body thickness specified by the specifying unit from a storage unit configured to store a relationship between the physical shape information and the correction coefficient, and a calculation unit that calculates dose in accordance with a physical shape of the subject based on the correction coefficient acquired by the acquisition unit and a value representing X-ray intensity during taking of medical images.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tetsuya Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20190003818Abstract: The present invention relates to a deformation sensor comprising a structure in which an ion-conductive polymer layer is sandwiched between soft electrodes, wherein non-uniform ion distribution is generated in the ion-conductive polymer layer by deformation, thereby generating a potential difference between the electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2016Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, MITSUI CHEMICALS TOHCELLO, INC.Inventors: Kinji ASAKA, Tetsuya HORIUCHI, Zicai ZHU, Mitsuo TAKASE
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Publication number: 20160302758Abstract: A dose calculation apparatus includes a specifying unit that specifies physical shape information of at least one of a body width and a body thickness of a subject using a ray-sum image generated from a plurality of medical images acquired by imaging the subject with an X-ray apparatus, an acquisition unit that acquires a correction coefficient corresponding to the physical shape information of at least one of the body width and the body thickness specified by the specifying unit from a storage unit configured to store a relationship between the physical shape information and the correction coefficient, and a calculation unit that calculates dose in accordance with a physical shape of the subject based on the correction coefficient acquired by the acquisition unit and a value representing X-ray intensity during taking of medical images.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2016Publication date: October 20, 2016Inventor: Tetsuya Horiuchi
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Patent number: 8814801Abstract: A vessel wall monitoring apparatus includes: a first detecting unit which detects vessel diameter information based on first biological information obtained from a subject; a first producing unit which differentiates the vessel diameter information detected by the first detecting unit, to produce a vessel diameter function; a second detecting unit which detects blood pressure based on second biological information obtained from the subject; a second producing unit which performs a logarithmic operation on the blood pressure detected by the second detecting unit, to produce a logarithmic blood pressure function; and an outputting unit which produces an impedance model expression by using the vessel diameter function, the logarithmic blood pressure function, and mechanical characteristic values including a stiffness, viscosity, and inertia, and which calculates and outputs at least one of the stiffness, the viscosity, and the inertia based on the impedance model expression.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignees: Nihon Kohden Corporation, Hiroshima UniversityInventors: Toshio Tsuji, Masao Yoshizumi, Masashi Kawamoto, Yukihito Higashi, Noboru Saeki, Ryuji Nakamura, Abdugheni Kutluk, Akinobu Kohno, Tetsuya Horiuchi, Teiji Ukawa
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Patent number: 8416913Abstract: X-ray transmission data of a specific direction is extracted from X-ray transmission data obtained by rotating an X-ray tube irradiating an X-ray around an object. The outline of the object is calculated based on the X-ray transmission data of the specific direction. Then, based on this outline, the X-ray transmission data is corrected, and an image of the inside of the object is reconstructed from the corrected X-ray transmission data.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2008Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Naruomi Akino, Satoru Nakanishi, Tetsuya Horiuchi
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Patent number: 8189740Abstract: An X-ray CT apparatus that transmits X-rays toward a subject on the basis of a set scan condition and reconstructs images from detected X-rays that passes through the subject, including a scan plan setting unit configured to set the scan condition, a reference dose storage unit configured to store reference dose information, including an relation between an attribute information about a plurality of kinds of subjects and reference doses to be referenced for an exposure dose, and an exposure dose calculation unit configured to calculate the exposure dose corresponding to the set scan condition in accordance with the timing of setting of the scan condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Tetsuya Horiuchi, Masahiro Kazama
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Publication number: 20110125034Abstract: A vessel wall monitoring apparatus includes: a first detecting unit which detects vessel diameter information based on first biological information obtained from a subject; a first producing unit which differentiates the vessel diameter information detected by the first detecting unit, to produce a vessel diameter function; a second detecting unit which detects blood pressure based on second biological information obtained from the subject; a second producing unit which performs a logarithmic operation on the blood pressure detected by the second detecting unit, to produce a logarithmic blood pressure function; and an outputting unit which produces an impedance model expression by using the vessel diameter function, the logarithmic blood pressure function, and mechanical characteristic values including a stiffness, viscosity, and inertia, and which calculates and outputs at least one of the stiffness, the viscosity, and the inertia based on the impedance model expression.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2010Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicants: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION, UNIVERSITY OF HIROSHIMAInventors: Toshio TSUJI, Masao YOSHIZUMI, Masashi KAWAMOTO, Yukihito HIGASHI, Noboru SAEKI, Ryuji NAKAMURA, Abdugheni KUTLUK, Akinobu KOHNO, Tetsuya HORIUCHI, Teiji UKAWA
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Patent number: 7778381Abstract: The present invention provides an X-ray CT apparatus capable of obtaining each tomographic image indicative of X-ray tube voltage dependent information of a subject with the optimum image quality by less reduced exposure. The X-ray CT apparatus includes device for setting a plurality of X-ray tube voltages and sets imaging conditions used in the photography using the respective X-ray tube voltages in such a manner that respective image noise of tomographic images photographed at the X-ray tube voltages become substantially identical to one another. The setting of the imaging conditions is the setting of X-ray tube currents. The X-ray tube currents are set based on geometrical characteristic amounts of the subject determined from each scout image in such a manner that the respective image noise of the tomographic images photographed at the plurality of X-ray tube voltages become substantially identical to one another.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2008Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: GE Medial Systems Global Technology Company, LLCInventors: Akihiko Nishide, Kosuke Sasaki, Tetsuya Horiuchi
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Patent number: 7751524Abstract: An X-ray computed tomography apparatus includes a gantry, a reconstruction processing unit which generates first volume data on the basis of a projection data set which covers an angle range of 180°+a fan angle and also generates second volume data on the basis of a projection data set which covers an angle range of 360°, a correction data generating unit which generates correction data for reducing a cone beam artifact on the basis of a difference between the first volume data and the second volume data, and a correction unit which corrects the first volume data on the basis of the correction data.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2008Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Horiuchi, Satoru Nakanishi, Naruomi Akino
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Patent number: 7639776Abstract: The present invention aims to obtain a tomographic image similar in image quality to a tomographic image obtained by executing a scan at X-ray tube current value set by an X-ray automatic exposure function even when the X-ray tube current value set by the X-ray automatic exposure function are not within a standard range of the X-ray tube current values settable at the X-ray tube (21). X-ray tube current value supplied to the X-ray tube (21) are set by the X-ray automatic exposure function. Thereafter, when the X-ray tube current value set by the X-ray automatic exposure function is not within in the standard range of the X-ray tube current value settable at the X-ray tube, the X-ray tube current value at a portion not within the standard range are changed so as to be within the standard range, and the set value of helical pitch is changed so as to correspond to the ratio between the pre-changed x-ray tube current value and the post-changed X-ray tube current value.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2007Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLCInventors: Makoto Gohno, Tetsuya Horiuchi, Akihiko Nishide, Akira Hagiwara
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Patent number: 7623615Abstract: An X-ray CT image reconstruction method includes turning a fan-shaped X-ray beam, which is thick and irradiated to a subject, about the subject, detecting projection data items concerning an X-ray beam, which is transmitted by the subject, with the X-ray beam turned by a plurality of successive angles of rotation, enhancing fan-beam data, which includes projection data items detected with the X-ray beam turned by the angles of rotation, so as to sharpen projection data contained in the fan-beam data and acquired along each projection line, producing parallel-beam data, which has values thereof defined along parallel projection lines, in relation to each angle of projection using the enhanced fan-beam data, and reconstructing an image using the parallel-beam data.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2006Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLCInventors: Naoyuki Kawachi, Tetsuya Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20090122952Abstract: The present invention provides an X-ray CT apparatus capable of obtaining each tomographic image indicative of X-ray tube voltage dependent information of a subject with the optimum image quality by less reduced exposure. The X-ray CT apparatus includes device for setting a plurality of X-ray tube voltages and sets imaging conditions used in the photography using the respective X-ray tube voltages in such a manner that respective image noise of tomographic images photographed at the X-ray tube voltages become substantially identical to one another. The setting of the imaging conditions is the setting of X-ray tube currents. The X-ray tube currents are set based on geometrical characteristic amounts of the subject determined from each scout image in such a manner that the respective image noise of the tomographic images photographed at the plurality of X-ray tube voltages become substantially identical to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LLCInventors: Akihiko Nishide, Kosuke Sasaki, Tetsuya Horiuchi
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Publication number: 20090074143Abstract: An X-ray CT apparatus that transmits X-rays toward a subject on the basis of a set scan condition and reconstructs images from detected X-rays that passes through the subject, including a scan plan setting unit configured to set the scan condition, a reference dose storage unit configured to store reference dose information, including an relation between an attribute information about a plurality of kinds of subjects and reference doses to be referenced for an exposure dose, and an exposure dose calculation unit configured to calculate the exposure dose corresponding to the set scan condition in accordance with the timing of setting of the scan condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Shinsuke TSUKAGOSHI, Tetsuya Horiuchi, Masahiro Kazama
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Patent number: 7502439Abstract: To enable radiation rays to be efficiently used. A scout scan parameter setting unit sets a rotation movement position to which an X-ray tube and an X-ray detector are moved so as to rotate around a subject on the basis of subject information of a subject on which a scout scan is performed at the time of performing a scout scan. At the time of starting execution of the scout scan, a rotating unit moves the X-ray tube and the X-ray detector so as to rotate around the subject to the rotation movement position which is set by the scout scan parameter setting unit. After that, a scout scan is performed in the rotation movement position.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2006Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLCInventors: Tetsuya Horiuchi, Junko Sekiguchi