Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Sawada

Tomohiro Sawada 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).

  • Patent number: 11963558
    Abstract: A circuit mounted article to be fixed to a fabric is provided and includes a circuit board having flexibility, an electronic component mounted on a fabric facing face side, which faces the fabric, of the circuit board, and further a reinforcing portion to be used for fixing of the circuit mounted article to the fabric on the fabric facing face side of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takatoshi Abe, Tomohiro Fukao, Tomoaki Sawada, Susumu Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11967328
    Abstract: A sound source separation filter information estimation device (10) estimates a covariance matrix having information on a correlation between sound source spectra and information on a correlation between channels as information on sound source separation filter information for separating an individual sound source signal from a mixed acoustic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rintaro Ikeshita, Nobutaka Ito, Tomohiro Nakatani, Hiroshi Sawada
  • Publication number: 20240127841
    Abstract: An acoustic signal enhancement device includes: a spatiotemporal covariance matrix estimation unit 2 configured to estimate spatiotemporal covariance matrices Rf(j) and Pf(j); a reverberation suppression unit 3 configured to obtain a reverberation suppression filter Gf(j) of the sound source j using the estimated spatiotemporal covariance matrices Rf(j) and Pf(j) for each sound source j and to generate a reverberation suppression signal vector using the obtained reverberation suppression filter Gf(j) and the observation signal vector Xt,f; a sound source separation unit 4 configured to obtain an enhanced sound yt,f(j) of the sound source j and power of the sound source j using the generated reverberation suppression signal vector for each sound source j (where 1?j?J) corresponding to the target sound; and a control unit 5 configured to perform control such that processes of these units are repeatedly performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro NAKATANI, Rintaro IKESHITA, Keisuke KINOSHITA, Hiroshi SAWADA, Shoko ARAKI
  • Patent number: 11957642
    Abstract: An internal substance supplier includes a conveying mechanism including a conveying member configured to capture and convey an internal substance, and a supply mechanism including a scraping member disposed to cross a conveyance route of the substance by the conveying member in the conveying mechanism and configured to collide with the substance conveyed by the conveying member, a gliding member including a recessed groove configured to guide the substance colliding with the scraping member and scraped from the conveying member, to be adjacent to a position vertically above a die bore in a table in a compression-molding machine, and a push transfer member including a projection configured to come into contact with the substance, push the substance to a start edge of the recessed groove in the gliding member, and move along the recessed groove to transfer the substance to an end edge of the recessed groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: KIKUSUI SEISAKUSHO LTD., OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Tsujiura, Tomohiro Kakitani, Shohei Yamada, Akihiro Sawada, Shinshu Unida
  • Patent number: 11915717
    Abstract: The signal separation device includes: cross product calculation means receiving an input of an observed signal that is a mixture of a plurality of target signals, and calculating a cross product of the observed signal; model calculation means updating a parameter of a model for estimating the cross product with a predetermined algorithm using an inverse matrix of a matrix that represents an estimate of the cross product; inverse matrix calculation means calculating the inverse matrix of a matrix by a SIMD command when the parameter is updated; and separation means calculating the target signals using a matrix representing an estimate of the cross product, the updated parameter, and the observed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sawada, Rintaro Ikeshita, Nobutaka Ito, Tomohiro Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20230323883
    Abstract: Provided is an electric pump having an elastic member that is not easily detached, and the housing formation cost is not high. The electric pump includes a pump body with a housing and an elastic member arranged on an outer circumferential surface of the housing. An elastic member arrangement portion is provided on the outer circumferential surface. A protrusion is provided on the elastic member arrangement portion. The protrusion includes a pillar portion and a fastening portion extending from the pillar portion. The fastening portion has a hook part. The elastic member has holes in two opposite ends, and the holes are engaged with the protrusion. The two opposite ends overlap with each.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiro SAWADA, Daisuke KIRYU, Toshihito NAGAI
  • Patent number: 8369167
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes the following elements. A sense amplifier amplifies signal on a bit line. A column switch is between the bit line and a local input-output line. A sub-amplifier amplifies signal on the local input-output line. A write switch is between the local input-output line and a main input-output line. A write amplifier amplifies write data and supplies the amplified write data to the main input-output line when data write operation is performed. A test circuit activates the sense amplifier while the test circuit deactivating the sub-amplifier and the write amplifier when a data read operation is performed in test mode. The test circuit places the column switch and the write switch in conductive state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Elpida Memory, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Sawada
  • Publication number: 20110164464
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes the following elements. A sense amplifier amplifies signal on a bit line. A column switch is between the bit line and a local input-output line. A sub-amplifier amplifies signal on the local input-output line. A write switch is between the local input-output line and a main input-output line. A write amplifier amplifies write data and supplies the amplified write data to the main input-output line when data write operation is performed. A test circuit activates the sense amplifier while the test circuit deactivating the sub-amplifier and the write amplifier when a data read operation is performed in test mode. The test circuit places the column switch and the write switch in conductive state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: ELPIDA MEMORY, INC.
    Inventor: Tomohiro SAWADA
  • Patent number: 5737838
    Abstract: The method of making a piston unit for an internal combustion engine incorporates the steps of pinching a melting core in a mold cavity of a piston mold wherein the melting core includes an inner ring that forms a ring shaped passage within a piston body, an outer ring and a plurality of coupling portions connected with between the inner ring and the outer ring. The method further includes pouring molten metallic alloy into the cavity and solidifying therein, removing the outer ring of the melting core, filling the space left by removal of the outer ring with reinforced material, and then melting the inner ring and the coupling portions of the melting core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromi Niimi, Yasuhiro Kawabata, Soichi Hara, Tomohiro Sawada
  • Patent number: 5601010
    Abstract: Piston unit used in an internal combustion engine, which allows no interfacial crack between a piston and a wear-proof ring as well as allowing to provide T6 treatment to aluminum base alloy used for the piston. The piston unit has a piston formed of aluminum base alloy, and a wear-proof ring that has been fused with a first ring groove of the piston. The wear-proof ring is formed of copper-zinc alloy with its thermal expansion coefficient ranging from 19.5.times.10.sup.-6 m/m to 22.0.times.10.sup.-6 m/m. The copper zinc alloy may contain 63 wt. % of copper, 30 wt. % of zinc, 15 wt. % of aluminum, and 4% of titanium, or it may contain 70 wt. % of copper and 30% of zinc only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sawada, Shuji Inoue, Yuji Kato