Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Noda

Tetsuya Noda 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: 20230228962
    Abstract: A optical cable member includes an optical cable, a fixing member, a first housing tube, and a second housing tube. The optical cable includes an optical fiber and a tensile strength member. In the optical cable, a cable main body housing the optical fiber and the tensile strength member, and a cable exposure portion in which the optical fiber and the tensile strength member are exposed to an outside are provided. The fixing member fixes the tensile strength member. The first housing tube is disposed between the fixing member and the cable main body, houses the tensile strength member therein, and allows the optical fiber to extend therein. The second housing tube is disposed on a side opposite to the first housing tube of the fixing member, and houses the optical fiber of the cable exposure portion therein. The second housing tube is a bendable member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC OPTIFRONTIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya NODA, Hidenori YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11703519
    Abstract: Provided is a temperature control system applied to an apparatus for analyzing a sample using a pipette nozzle and a reaction container, including a pipette tip temperature controller that heats a pipette tip which is fitted on the pipette nozzle and aspirates or discharges liquid and a reaction container temperature controller that heats the reaction container. The pipette tip temperature controller heats, in a concentrated manner, at least a distal end portion of the pipette tip of the pipette nozzle located at a predetermined heating position with hot air emitted from a heat source and is configured such that a distal end is capable of arriving at the reaction container by lowering the pipette nozzle from the heating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Fujii, Teiji Tanaka, Tatsuya Yamazaki, Tomoharu Nakagawa, Tetsuya Noda, Atsuo Iwashita, Yuuya Shouji
  • Patent number: 11637718
    Abstract: In a relay device, a transmitting/receiving unit of an ECU relay receives data. A first counter value is incremented if an amount of data received by the transmitting/receiving unit per unit time exceeds a first threshold. A second counter value is incremented if the amount of data received by the transmitting/receiving unit per unit time exceeds a second threshold. The second threshold is greater than the first threshold. A control unit of a bus relay repeatedly monitors the first counter value. If the first counter value is incremented, the control unit shortens a cycle with which the second counter value is monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tateishi, Hiroshi Ueda, Ryo Tanaka, Tetsuya Noda, Shogo Kamiguchi
  • Patent number: 11630071
    Abstract: An analysis method for detecting an amount of a substance by irradiating an analysis chip containing the substance and detecting a quantity of light output from the analysis chip. The analysis method including irradiating an incident surface of the analysis chip and another surface adjacent to the incident surface with detection light while changing a relative position of the detection light with respect to the analysis chip, detecting reflected light from the incident surface of the analysis chip, and acquiring information on a position of the analysis chip from a relationship between a quantity of the reflected light detected and the relative position. The analysis method determines if the analysis chip is abnormal when a quantity of target reflected light is equal to or lower than a predetermined light quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Noda, Masanao Majima, Yuuya Shouji
  • Publication number: 20230107783
    Abstract: In an in-vehicle information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment, a server processing unit receives a search message for searching for a requested service, from a client processing unit configured to request that a service be provided, the search message includes identification information and version information of the requested service, the server processing unit determines whether or not the version information included in the received search message matches version information of a service that the server processing unit provides, and, if it is determined that the two types of version information do not match, the server processing unit examines whether or not it is possible to provide the service with different version information to the client processing unit, and, if it is possible to provide the service with different version information, the server processing unit provides the service to the client processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventor: Tetsuya NODA
  • Publication number: 20230105426
    Abstract: An in-vehicle information processing apparatus includes a client processing unit configured to be provided with a service and perform processing, the client processing unit receives, from a server processing unit configured to provide a service, a service providing message that includes identification information and version information of a service to be provided, determines whether or not the version information included in the received service providing message and version information of a service that the client processing unit desires to be provided match, and, if it is determined that the two types of version information do not match, the client processing unit examines whether or not it is possible to receive the service with different version information, and, if it is possible to receive the service with different version information based on an examination result, the client processing unit receives the service and performs processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventor: Tetsuya NODA
  • Publication number: 20230048882
    Abstract: Provided is a temperature control system applied to an apparatus for analyzing a sample using a pipette nozzle and a reaction container, including a pipette tip temperature controller that heats a pipette tip which is fitted on the pipette nozzle and aspirates or discharges liquid and a reaction container temperature controller that heats the reaction container. The pipette tip temperature controller heats, in a concentrated manner, at least a distal end portion of the pipette tip of the pipette nozzle located at a predetermined heating position with hot air emitted from a heat source and is configured such that a distal end is capable of arriving at the reaction container by lowering the pipette nozzle from the heating position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hiromi FUJII, Teiji TANAKA, Tatsuya YAMAZAKI, Tomoharu NAKAGAWA, Tetsuya NODA, Atsuo IWASHITA, Yuuya SHOUJI
  • Patent number: 11573243
    Abstract: Provided is a temperature control system applied to an apparatus for analyzing a sample using a pipette nozzle and a reaction container, including a pipette tip temperature controller that heats a pipette tip which is fitted on the pipette nozzle and aspirates or discharges liquid and a reaction container temperature controller that heats the reaction container. The pipette tip temperature controller heats, in a concentrated manner, at least a distal end portion of the pipette tip of the pipette nozzle located at a predetermined heating position with hot air emitted from a heat source and is configured such that a distal end is capable of arriving at the reaction container by lowering the pipette nozzle from the heating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Fujii, Teiji Tanaka, Tatsuya Yamazaki, Tomoharu Nakagawa, Tetsuya Noda, Atsuo Iwashita, Yuuya Shouji
  • Patent number: 11397150
    Abstract: Presently disclosed is a way to provide a measuring device capable of easily detecting measurement abnormality without increasing load in hardware. The measuring device may include: an emission means that may emit light to a measurement target region; a light measurement means that may measure light output from the measurement target region by emission with the emission means; a driving means that may move a position of at least one of the measurement target region and the emission means; and a determination means that may compare measurement values of the light measured a plurality of times by the light measurement means while changing positions of the measurement target region by the driving means and thereby determines abnormality of a measurement result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youichi Aoki, Tetsuya Noda
  • Patent number: 11353401
    Abstract: By irradiating a sensor chip including an analyte labeled with a fluorescent substance with excitation light from an excitation light irradiation unit for emitting the excitation light using a specimen detector including the excitation light irradiation unit and a fluorescence detection unit for detecting fluorescence, fluorescence emitted from the fluorescent substance is detected by the fluorescence detection unit. When the analyte is detected on the basis of a detection value depending on the intensity of the detected fluorescence, a corrected detection value is calculated by correcting the detection value using individual difference information acquired in advance on the basis of an individual difference between the specimen detectors and a correction coefficient for each sensor chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD
    Inventor: Tetsuya Noda
  • Patent number: 11354112
    Abstract: Provided are an on-board update device, an update process method, and an update process program capable of appropriately updating a plurality of on-board devices installed in a vehicle if a plurality of update processes are provided through different paths. The on-board update device according to this embodiment performs communication via external communication units, and includes an execution determination unit configured to determine, if different update programs are respectively received from different external devices via a plurality of external communication units, based on version information of the update programs, whether or not it is possible to perform an update process using each update program, and, if the execution determination unit has determined that it is possible to perform update processes with regard to a plurality of update programs, an update process unit performs update processes using the plurality of update programs in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Noda
  • Patent number: 11241684
    Abstract: Disclosed is a reaction method that includes a reaction process using a pipette tip to allow substances to cause a reaction, the method including: providing a heater for heating the pipette tip in accordance with a preset temperature; attaching the pipette tip to a pipette nozzle and heating the pipette tip by a first preset temperature; when a period of heating by the first preset temperature exceeds a preset period, switching an output of the heater from the first preset temperature to a lower second preset temperature; detecting a distal end position of the pipette tip at or after the switching; and executing the reaction process while controlling the distal end position of the pipette tip with reference to the detected distal end position, in which the temperature of the pipette tip is kept by the second preset temperature at least until operation of the pipette tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Youichi Aoki, Yuuya Shouji, Tetsuya Noda, Atsuo Iwashita
  • Patent number: 11204363
    Abstract: A pipette tip leading end detection device for detecting that a leading end of a pipette tip is close to a reference surface set to a reaction vessel includes a pipette nozzle, pump, nozzle driver, pressure sensor that detects a pressure generated between the pipette tip and pump, and hardware processor. The hardware processor obtains a determination value using an AD conversion value obtained from the pressure while the pipette nozzle is being lowered, and detects that the leading end of the pipette tip is close to the reference surface on the basis that the determination value is a threshold value or more. The determination value is a calculation value indicating a pressure change speed calculated from AD conversion values within a past certain time and the threshold value is a value larger than maximum noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiromi Fujii, Atsushi Hosotani, Yasuhiro Miyake, Takefumi Asou, Tetsuya Noda, Atsuo Iwashita, Yuuya Shouji
  • Patent number: 11169089
    Abstract: A measurement chip including a prism, a metal film, and a capturing body is prepared. In a state in which a specimen is present on the metal film, scattered light obtained when first light which passes through the metal film and the specimen is scattered in the specimen when the first light is applied to the metal film from a prism side at a first incident angle smaller than a critical angle is detected. In a state in which a substance to be measured is captured by the capturing body and the specimen is not present on the metal film, a signal indicating an amount of the substance to be measured generated in the measurement chip when second light is applied to the metal film at a second incident angle not smaller than the critical angle from the prism side is detected. On the basis of a hematocrit value of the specimen determined from a light amount of the scattered light, a measurement value indicating the amount of the substance to be measured determined from the signal is corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Noda, Fumio Nagai, Youichi Aoki, Makiko Otani
  • Publication number: 20210285874
    Abstract: A measurement chip including a prism, a metal film, and a capturing body is prepared. In a state in which a specimen is present on the metal film, scattered light obtained when first light which passes through the metal film and the specimen is scattered in the specimen when the first light is applied to the metal film from a prism side at a first incident angle smaller than a critical angle is detected. In a state in which a substance to be measured is captured by the capturing body and the specimen is not present on the metal film, a signal indicating an amount of the substance to be measured generated in the measurement chip when second light is applied to the metal film at a second incident angle not smaller than the critical angle from the prism side is detected. On the basis of a hematocrit value of the specimen determined from a light amount of the scattered light, a measurement value indicating the amount of the substance to be measured determined from the signal is corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Tetsuya NODA, Fumio NAGAI, Youichi AOKI, Makiko OTANI
  • Patent number: 11079331
    Abstract: To provide an inspection system capable of performing a target biological reaction under temperature conditions suitable for the reaction even with reciprocal liquid feeding. An inspection system including at least: a sensor chip with a flow path having a reaction site for performing biological reactions; a liquid feeder that causes reaction liquid to flow into and out of the flow path; and a first temperature adjuster that adjusts temperature of reaction liquid flowed in the flow path, where the system performs reciprocal liquid feeding by the liquid feeder where some of the reaction liquid flowed in the flow path is caused to flow out of the flow path and to flow in again. The inspection system includes a second temperature adjuster that, during reciprocal liquid feeding, adjusts temperature of the reaction liquid flowed outside the flow path through temperature adjustment of a liquid holding section of the liquid feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masataka Matsuo, Tetsuya Noda
  • Patent number: 11047798
    Abstract: A specimen containing a substance to be measured is introduced into a flow path of a measurement chip including a flow path which is a cavity for accommodating liquid and a reflecting unit which specularly reflects light which passes through the flow path so as to pass through the flow path again and a measurement value indicating an amount of the substance to be measured in the specimen is acquired. Then, second light acquired when first light including light of a wavelength absorbed by a red blood cell passes through the specimen in the flow path, is reflected by the reflecting unit, and passes through the specimen in the flow path again is detected in a state in which the specimen is present in the flow path. Next, a hematocrit value of the specimen is determined on the basis of a detection result of the second light. Next, a measurement value is corrected on the basis of the hematocrit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Fumio Nagai, Tetsuya Noda, Hideyuki Fujii
  • Publication number: 20210117177
    Abstract: Provided are an on-board update device, an update process method, and an update process program capable of appropriately updating a plurality of on-board devices installed in a vehicle if a plurality of update processes are provided through different paths. The on-board update device according to this embodiment performs communication via external communication units, and includes an execution determination unit configured to determine, if different update programs are respectively received from different external devices via a plurality of external communication units, based on version information of the update programs, whether or not it is possible to perform an update process using each update program, and, if the execution determination unit has determined that it is possible to perform update processes with regard to a plurality of update programs, an update process unit performs update processes using the plurality of update programs in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventor: Tetsuya Noda
  • Publication number: 20210025821
    Abstract: Presently disclosed is a way to provide a measuring device capable of easily detecting measurement abnormality without increasing load in hardware. The measuring device may include: an emission means that may emit light to a measurement target region; a light measurement means that may measure light output from the measurement target region by emission with the emission means; a driving means that may move a position of at least one of the measurement target region and the emission means; and a determination means that may compare measurement values of the light measured a plurality of times by the light measurement means while changing positions of the measurement target region by the driving means and thereby determines abnormality of a measurement result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Youichi AOKI, Tetsuya NODA
  • Publication number: 20210001792
    Abstract: In a relay apparatus, if partial data that is a portion of update data that is used to update a control program is input to a second input/output unit, a control unit stores the partial data in a storage unit. If partial data is input to a first input/output unit while partial data is being repeatedly input to the second input/output unit, the control unit stops storing the partial data input to the second input/output unit and stores the partial data input to the first input/output unit in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventor: Tetsuya Noda