Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Ando

Tomohiro Ando 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: 20230257861
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an austenitic stainless steel contains C?0.10 mass %, Si?0.50 mass %, 3.0?Mn?8.0 mass %, P?0.30 mass %, S?0.30 mass %, 7.0 Ni?12.0 mass %, 18.0?Cr?28.0 mass %, 1.0?Mo?3.0 mass %, 0.03?V?0.50 mass %, 0.0003?B?0.0300 mass %, 0.0001?Ca?0.0300 mass %, 0.35?N?0.80 mass %, W?2.0 mass %, Zr?0.20 mass %, Cu?0.5 mass %, Al?0.10 mass %, and O?0.050 mass %, with a balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities. The austenitic stainless steel has a number density of coarse alloy carbonitrides of 3×105 pieces/mm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Nobuyuki TAKAHASHI, Daisuke Kudo, Tomohiro Ando, Yoshikiko Koyanagi
  • Patent number: 11378598
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit device has a first switching element that is connected between first and second nodes, a second switching element that is connected between the first node and a third node and outputs a current that is 1/K times as much as an output current of the first switching element, and an amplifier that controls, by a signal provided by amplifying a voltage difference between the third node and a fourth node, a conduction state of a third switching element that is connected between the fourth node and a fifth node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ando, Kazuhiro Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20210278445
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit device has a first switching element that is connected between first and second nodes, a second switching element that is connected between the first node and a third node and outputs a current that is 1/K times as much as an output current of the first switching element, and an amplifier that controls, by a signal provided by amplifying a voltage difference between the third node and a fourth node, a conduction state of a third switching element that is connected between the fourth node and a fifth node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Tomohiro ANDO, Kazuhiro TAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9977293
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide electronic eyeglass and liquid crystal lens production methods that eliminate the need for forming a liquid crystal injection path in the liquid crystal lens, while making provisions so as to be able to sufficiently maintain a prescribed gap between substrates. The electronic eyeglass and liquid crystal lens production methods includes the steps of placing a sealing agent so as to form a closed planar region on at least one of first and second transparent substrates, dropping a liquid crystal material into an inside space enclosed by the sealing agent, bonding the other of the transparent substrates onto the one transparent substrate on which the liquid crystal material has been dripped, and filling a resin into a space created outside the sealing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ando, Kenji Matsumoto, Ayano Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20160357490
    Abstract: Acquiring means acquires relevant information (for example, information indicative of an amount of processing that has been performed relative to the content based on a user's operation) relevant to content. Selecting means selects one or more content from among a plurality of content corresponding to a plurality of items of display information displayed on first display means, based on relevant information acquired by acquiring means for each of the plurality of content. Display control means causes second display means to display the one or more content selected by selecting means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoru KAWAMURA, Takashi OOMIYA, Tomohiro ANDO, Akihiro ICHINOSE, Masami NAGATA
  • Patent number: 8994885
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pre-edging lens and a method for manufacturing an edged lens, wherein provisions are made to be able to maintain the cell gap of a liquid crystal lens structure constant while, in effect, eliminating the need to incorporate any spacers in the edged lens. More specifically, the invention provides a pre-edging lens and a method for manufacturing an edged lens, wherein the pre-edging lens includes a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, a first sealing material which does not contain any spacer, a liquid crystal layer provided between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate and sealed by the first seal, and a second seal which contains a spacer and which is disposed in a region provided between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate and located outwardly of the first seal, the region being removed during edging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ando, Kenji Matsumoto, Ayano Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8611961
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device of the invention is a mobile terminal device capable of placing and receiving calls by first identification information, and of placing and receiving calls by second identification information, and is characterized by having a mode changing section that changes a mode among a first mode, a second mode and a common mode, and an outgoing call control section which places a call by the first identification information in the first mode, places a call by the second identification information in the second mode, and places a call by either the first identification information or the second identification information in the common mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akiko Irie, Takayuki Yoshihara, Tetsuya Miyakawa, Yasushi Tachibana, Takayuki Orii, Takeshi Natsuno, Tomohiro Ando
  • Patent number: 8548724
    Abstract: The positioning terminal of the present invention includes a positioning unit 103 configured to perform positioning processing for acquiring position information which indicate a current position of the positioning terminal, a route storage unit 104 configured to store a registered route formed by concatenating location points indicated by position information previously acquired by the positioning unit 103, a route matching determining unit 106 configured to determine whether or not the positioning terminal 10 moves on the registered route, and a continuous positioning control unit 109 configured to change a positioning interval at which the positioning unit 103 performs positioning processing from a time interval TI1 to a time interval TI2 which is longer than the time interval TI1, when it is determined that the positioning terminal moves on the registered route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ando, Makoto Ueda, Takenori Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20130107186
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pre-edging lens and a method for manufacturing an edged lens, wherein provisions are made to be able to maintain the cell gap of a liquid crystal lens structure constant while, in effect, eliminating the need to incorporate any spacers in the edged lens. More specifically, the invention provides a pre-edging lens and a method for manufacturing an edged lens, wherein the pre-edging lens includes a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, a first sealing material which does not contain any spacer, a liquid crystal layer provided between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate and sealed by the first seal, and a second seal which contains a spacer and which is disposed in a region provided between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate and located outwardly of the first seal, the region being removed during edging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ando, Kenji Matsumoto, Ayano Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8428656
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device of the invention is a mobile terminal device capable of placing and receiving calls by first identification information, and of placing and receiving calls by second identification information, and is characterized by having a mode changing section that changes a mode among a first mode, a second mode and a common mode, and an outgoing call control section which places a call by the first identification information in the first mode, places a call by the second identification information in the second mode, and places a call by either the first identification information or the second identification information in the common mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akiko Irie, Takayuki Yoshihara, Tetsuya Miyakawa, Yasushi Tachibana, Takayuki Orii, Takeshi Natsuno, Tomohiro Ando
  • Publication number: 20130037202
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide electronic eyeglass and liquid crystal lens production methods that eliminate the need for forming a liquid crystal injection path in the liquid crystal lens, while making provisions so as to be able to sufficiently maintain a prescribed gap between substrates. The electronic eyeglass and liquid crystal lens production methods includes the steps of placing a sealing agent so as to form a closed planar region on at least one of first and second transparent substrates, dropping a liquid crystal material into an inside space enclosed by the sealing agent, bonding the other of the transparent substrates onto the one transparent substrate on which the liquid crystal material has been dripped, and filling a resin into a space created outside the sealing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ando, Kenji Matsumoto, Ayano Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8374647
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided which is capable of managing contact-less card function content, while acquiring and deleting the contact-less card function content with ease. The mobile terminal according to the present invention has a terminal operating system (OS) that executes various functions of the mobile terminal, a Felica application manager (FAM), a Felica device driver that drives a Felica OS according to control of the FAM, and a Felica chip that stores Felica content. The FAM operates a Java applications manager that manages Java applications having the network computing function, API to start a browser, that executes API, and other applications such as a the browser, a menu and a Felica viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ando, Hiroshi Kawabata, Satoshi Washio
  • Publication number: 20120276950
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device of the invention is a mobile terminal device capable of placing and receiving calls by first identification information, and of placing and receiving calls by second identification information, and is characterized by having a mode changing section that changes a mode among a first mode, a second mode and a common mode, and an outgoing call control section which places a call by the first identification information in the first mode, places a call by the second identification information in the second mode, and places a call by either the first identification information or the second identification information in the common mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Akiko Irie, Takayuki Yoshihara, Tetsuya Miyakawa, Yasushi Tachibana, Takayuki Orii, Takeshi Natsuno, Tomohiro Ando
  • Publication number: 20120045619
    Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate provided with an optical structure which can correctly transfer the jagged shape of a mold and guarantee a lens surface that has favorable quality, and provides an optical element which uses such a substrate. A manufacturing method of a substrate, provided with an optical structure, includes applying a curing resin onto the substrate, which has a recessed portion, pressing a mold, having a jagged shape, from an upper portion of the curing resin toward the substrate, and forming an optical structure having the jagged shape by curing the curing resin. The recessed portion is provided to cover the lower portion of the region on which the jagged shape is arranged, so as to retain uncured resin of the curing resin when the mold is pressed toward the substrate. An optical element includes a substrate that is manufactured using the above-described manufacturing method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro ANDO, Kenji MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 8031157
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an output circuit including a first output unit supplying a first voltage, a second output unit supplying a second voltage, a switching unit selectively outputting, to an output end, the first voltage from the first output unit and the second voltage from the second output unit, a detection unit detecting a voltage of the output end, and a control unit controlling one of the first voltage and the second voltage on the basis of the voltage detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ando, Masaji Ueno
  • Publication number: 20110218731
    Abstract: The positioning terminal of the present invention includes a positioning unit 103 configured to perform positioning processing for acquiring position information which indicate a current position of the positioning terminal, a route storage unit 104 configured to store a registered route formed by concatenating location points indicated by position information previously acquired by the positioning unit 103, a route matching determining unit 106 configured to determine whether or not the positioning terminal 10 moves on the registered route, and a continuous positioning control unit 109 configured to change a positioning interval at which the positioning unit 103 performs positioning processing from a time interval TI1 to a time interval TI2 which is longer than the time interval TI1, when it is determined that the positioning terminal moves on the registered route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tomohiro ANDO, Makoto UEDA, Takenori HORIUCHI
  • Publication number: 20110098089
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device of the invention is a mobile terminal device capable of placing and receiving calls by first identification information, and of placing and receiving calls by second identification information, and is characterized by having a mode changing section that changes a mode among a first mode, a second mode and a common mode, and an outgoing call control section which places a call by the first identification information in the first mode, places a call by the second identification information in the second mode, and places a call by either the first identification information or the second identification information in the common mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Akiko Irie, Takayuki Yoshihara, Tetsuya Miyakawa, Yasushi Tachibana, Takayuki Orii, Takeshi Natsuno, Tomohiro Ando
  • Patent number: 7910868
    Abstract: Predetermined voltage is applied to a liquid crystal lens by a liquid crystal lens driver. Image signals are generated based on an optical image passed through the liquid crystal lens during transient response operation caused by application of the predetermined voltage, and plural focus signals are extracted by sampling the image signals at predetermined cycles. Levels of the extracted autofocus signals are compared to determine the maximum value of the autofocus signal. Thus, with the liquid crystal lens, by making use of the transient response operation of the liquid crystal lens, a focus point can be detected in sufficient speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Suzuki, Yuichi Kato, Takahiro Kawada, Yasuhiro Kageyama, Tomohiro Ando
  • Patent number: 7864934
    Abstract: An object is to provide a telephone enabling a user of a telephone to readily recognize which telephone user is a source of voice under transmission. This telephone 10 has a receiver 102 for receiving telephone information to specify each of an authorized telephone and unauthorized telephones, a display surface 100 for displaying predetermined information based on the received telephone information, and a display control part 105 for specifying a content of the predetermined information, based on the telephone information received by the receiver 102, and for displaying the content on the display surface 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ando, Rei Takahashi, Kazuka Higashi, Takeshi Iitaka
  • Patent number: 7802726
    Abstract: In a system according to the invention, a communication section of a mobile terminal detects a carrier from an external R/W, starts communication with the external R/W, and acquires content simplified data of contactless card function content from the external R/W. The acquired content simplified data is transferred to a control section using the contactless card function content and stored. Further, in this system, by connecting to a URL contained in the content simplified data, content body data of the contactless card function content corresponding to the content simplified data is downloaded and stored in the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ando, Naoki Yamane, Hiroshi Kawabata, Satoshi Washio