Patents by Inventor Tomonori Soeda

Tomonori Soeda 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: 20130047030
    Abstract: The supply of power to a storage apparatus can be made redundant by means of power inputs from two types of power supply, namely an AC power supply and a DC power supply. The storage apparatus comprises a power supply unit for supplying power to a plurality of storage devices, and a power supply controller for controlling a method of supplying power from the power supply unit, wherein the power supply unit makes redundant the power supplied from a first power supply device which supplies AC power and/or from a second power supply device which supplies DC power, and supplies this power to the plurality of storage devices, and wherein, in response to an operator configuration input, the power supply controller supplies power from the first power supply device to one storage device among the plurality of storage devices and supplies power from the second power supply device to another storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Inventors: Tomonori Soeda, Hiroshi Suzuki, Fumiaki Hosaka, Toshimitsu Shishido
  • Patent number: 7447036
    Abstract: A plurality of control packages 100 are mounted on both sides of a basic chassis 11 of a disk array device. A cable clamping mechanism 300 is disposed on the underside of the control packages 100 positioned in the space between the control packages 100 and a power unit 400. A rail portion 310 is disposed parallel to the direction in which the control packages 100 are arranged. A number of clamp cores 320 corresponding to the number of the control packages (CHA) are movably disposed on the rail portion 310. Each clamp core 320 corresponds to each of the control package 100, and clamps cables in control package units. Even when tensile force acts on the cables 200 from below, the present invention prevents this force from acting directly on a control package 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomonori Soeda, Shinichi Nishiyama, Tetsuya Abe
  • Publication number: 20060245168
    Abstract: A plurality of control packages 100 are mounted on both sides of a basic chassis 11 of a disk array device. A cable clamping mechanism 300 is disposed on the underside of the control packages 100 positioned in the space between the control packages 100 and a power unit 400. A rail portion 310 is disposed parallel to the direction in which the control packages 100 are arranged. A number of clamp cores 320 corresponding to the number of the control packages (CHA) are movably disposed on the rail portion 310. Each clamp core 320 corresponds to each of the control package 100, and clamps cables in control package units. Even when tensile force acts on the cables 200 from below, the present invention prevents this force from acting directly on a control package 100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventors: Tomonori Soeda, Shinichi Nishiyama, Tetsuya Abe
  • Patent number: 7095616
    Abstract: A plurality of control packages 100 are mounted on both sides of a basic chassis 11 of a disk array device. A cable clamping mechanism 300 is disposed on the underside of the control packages 100 positioned in the space between the control packages 100 and a power unit 400. A rail portion 310 is disposed parallel to the direction in which the control packages 100 are arranged. A number of clamp cores 320 corresponding to the number of the control packages (CHA) are movably disposed on the rail portion 310. Each clamp core 320 corresponds to each of the control package 100, and clamps cables in control package units. Even when tensile force acts on the cables 200 from below, the present invention prevents this force from acting directly on a control package 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomonori Soeda, Shinichi Nishiyama, Tetsuya Abe
  • Publication number: 20050169127
    Abstract: A plurality of control packages 100 are mounted on both sides of a basic chassis 11 of a disk array device. A cable clamping mechanism 300 is disposed on the underside of the control packages 100 positioned in the space between the control packages 100 and a power unit 400. A rail portion 310 is disposed parallel to the direction in which the control packages 100 are arranged. A number of clamp cores 320 corresponding to the number of the control packages (CHA) are movably disposed on the rail portion 310. Each clamp core 320 corresponds to each of the control package 100, and clamps cables in control package units. Even when tensile force acts on the cables 200 from below, the present invention prevents this force from acting directly on a control package 100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Tomonori Soeda, Shinichi Nishiyama, Tetsuya Abe