Patents by Inventor Tomoyoshi Yokota
Tomoyoshi Yokota 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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Publication number: 20220389727Abstract: Provided is a user-friendly power tool. The power tool 1 comprises: a battery pack mount 2c to which a battery pack 4 can be attached and detached; and a cover 17 that can cover the battery pack 4, mounted on the battery pack mount 2c, and the battery pack mount 2c so as to allow opening and closing. The wall 23 of the battery pack mount 2c is provided with a correcting part 23a that is capable of correcting inward warping of both the left and right side surfaces of the cover 17, which are the longitudinal direction surfaces. The lower edge of the correcting part 23a has a rounded shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuuki EBISAWA, Hideki KOBAYASHI, Tomoyoshi YOKOTA, Natsumi EBISAWA, Takafumi ITOU, Syota HIRATSUKA
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Patent number: 9518587Abstract: An air compressor comprising: a tank (50), a compression mechanism (30), a motor (5) and a control circuit (7). The control circuit (7) includes a CPU (70) and a storing unit (74) which stores a control program, the compressor operation history and a plurality of operation modes. Each of the operation modes is defined by two setting values: a reference restart pressure value and a motor rotational speed value, at least one of these values being different from among the plurality of modes. The control circuit (7) executes one of the plurality of modes as a target mode in which the control unit controls the motor to restart by comparing the pressure in the tank with the reference restart pressure and rotates the motor at the rotational speed of the target mode. The control circuit changes the target mode from the one of the plurality of modes to another one of the plurality of modes based on the compressor operation history.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2012Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyoshi Yokota, Seiichi Kodato, Hiroki Kitagawa, Kenichi Matsunaga, Masahiro Miura, Yoshimi Takahashi
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Patent number: 9435329Abstract: An air compressor includes a compression unit, a drive unit, a tank unit, and a control circuit unit. The compression unit is configured to generate a compressed air and provided with a handle positioned above a center of gravity of the air compressor. The drive unit is configured to drive the compression unit. The tank unit is disposed below the compression unit and includes a plurality of air tanks configured to reserve the compressed air. The compressed air reserved in the tank unit has a pressure value. The control circuit unit is configured to detect the pressure value of the compressed air reserved in the tank unit and to control the drive unit to drive the compression unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2012Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Kitagawa, Tomoyoshi Yokota, Kenichi Matsunaga, Masahiro Miura, Shingo Kosugi
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Patent number: 9226212Abstract: A communication terminal device and method operable to control a handover is disclosed. A connection is made to a first wireless communication network. If occurrence of a handover factor is detected, a search is made for a second wireless communication network based on a detection order, and handoff is made.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2009Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Miki, Tomoyoshi Yokota
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Patent number: 9179389Abstract: A radio terminal (10) includes: an MIH user (14) for managing mobility from a first network to a second network; and an MIH function unit (13) for controlling handover from the first network to the second network. The MIH function unit (13) notifies a link control unit (12) of a condition setting request including a first judgment local formula as a condition for starting setting of the second network and the radio link and a second judgment logical formula as a condition executing a handover from the first network to the second network. The first judgment logical formula and the second judgment logical formula indicates a combination of threshold values to be satisfied by a plurality of radio parameters in the first network and the established radio link.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2008Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventor: Tomoyoshi Yokota
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Patent number: 9101993Abstract: A portable cutter has a base member, a main body, a cutting blade, a protection member, a dust collection member, and a guide member. The base member moves on a workpiece, the base member having a shaft provided in proximity to one end thereof. The main body is coupled to the base member. A posture of the main body with respect to the base member is changeable. The cutting blade is attached to the main body and driven to cut the workpiece. The cutting blade has an outer periphery. The protection member covers a part of the outer periphery of the cutting blade. The dust collection member has an inlet provided in proximity to the outer periphery of the cutting blade for drawing and collecting dust. The guide member is pivotably supported to the shaft of the base member for guiding the dust to the opening of the dust collection member.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2008Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoyoshi Yokota, Tetsuo Ebata, Shinji Kuragano, Tomomasa Nishikawa
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Patent number: 9078171Abstract: A wireless communication device (10) comprising a first communication portion (36a) that connects to a wide-area wireless communication network; a second communication portion (36b) that connects to a narrow-area wireless communication network; and processing portions (32, 34) that, during communication with a wide-area wireless communication network via the first communication portion (36a), upon detection of a communication area boundary vicinity of the wide-area wireless communication network when communication is performed, perform processing so that the second communication portion (36c) continues performing communication that the first communication portion (36a) is performing.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2006Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Masahiro Saito, Tomoyoshi Yokota
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Patent number: 9078182Abstract: A radio terminal (10) comprises a radio communication unit (11) that receives packets via a first or second network at predetermined intervals; a buffer (15) that temporarily stores packets received by a receiving unit; a radio communication unit (11) that transmits a preparation request for a handover from the first network to the second network; and an application processing unit (16) that reproduces the packets stored in the buffer (15) at a rate that is established in accordance with the predetermined intervals. The application processing unit (16) changes a packet reproduction rate to a rate slower than the predetermined rate in response to transmission of the preparation request for handover, thereby increases the amount of packets stored in the buffer.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Tomoyoshi Yokota
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Patent number: 9049690Abstract: A communication system includes a call control server that receives a call request containing preference information of the outgoing call side, calls the incoming call side and transmits call request reception information containing information indicating that the call request has been received and the preference information to a message transmission server in order to convey the received call request to the incoming call side. The message transmission server receives the call request reception information transmitted from the call control server and transmits an activation message for activating communication with the outgoing call side containing the preference information contained in the call request reception information, based on the received call request reception information, to the incoming call side.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2007Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Tomoyoshi Yokota
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Patent number: 8974191Abstract: An air compressor includes a motor, an air compression mechanism driven by the motor, a rotation shaft rotatable integrally with a rotor of the motor, a fan rotatable integrally with the rotation shaft, a plurality of air tanks for reserving compressed air generated by the air compression mechanism, and a control unit for controlling the motor. The plurality of air tanks are juxtaposed with each other and arrayed in an array direction. The plurality of air tanks includes an endmost air tank and an adjacent air tank adjacent to the endmost air tank. The control unit is disposed adjacent to and opposite to the adjacent air tank relative to the endmost air tank. The control unit is disposed adjacent to and in confrontation with an outer circumference of the fan.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Miura, Seiichi Kodato, Hiroki Kitagawa, Tomoyoshi Yokota, Kenichi Matsunaga, Yoshimi Takahashi
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Patent number: 8885610Abstract: A switching server 100 determines whether or not to switch a network for an uplink from a radio IP network 10A to a radio IP network 10B, on the basis of an acquired communication quality of the uplink. In addition, when determining to switch the network for the uplink to the radio IP network 10B, the switching server 100 transmits, to an MN 300, an uplink switching instruction to switch the network for the uplink to the radio IP network 10B.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2007Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventor: Tomoyoshi Yokota
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Patent number: 8885598Abstract: A radio terminal 10 includes a radio communication unit 11 configured to receive packets at predetermined intervals through a first network 100 or a second network 200, a buffer 15 configured to temporarily store packets received by the radio communication unit 11, another radio communication unit 11 configured to transmit a preparation request for handover from the first network 100 to the second network 200, and an application processor 16 configured to reproduce the packets stored in the buffer 15 at a predetermined rate determined according to the predetermined interval. The application processor 16 stops the adaptive buffer control in response to the transmission of the handover preparation request.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2009Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventor: Tomoyoshi Yokota
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Patent number: 8821131Abstract: According to the invention, an air compressor includes: one pair of air tanks arranged parallel to each other by being separated from each other in a constant interval, for storing thereinto compressed air; a compressing unit that compresses air sucked from an external space so as to supply the compressed air to the air tanks; and a motor coupled to the compressing unit so as to drive the compressing unit, while the motor and the compressing unit are arranged above the one pair of air tanks; wherein: a cooling fan that generates cooling wind is provided on one end of a rotation shaft of the motor; and a control circuit unit that drives the motor is arranged above the one pair of air tanks and at a position which is overlapped with an axial direction projection area of the cooling fan.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2009Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyoshi Yokota, Seiichi Kodato, Kenichi Matsunaga, Kazuhiro Segawa, Naoto Ichihashi
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Patent number: 8818377Abstract: A radio terminal (10) includes an MIH user (14) configured to manage mobility from the first network to the second network; and an MIH function unit (13) configured to control a handover from the first network to the second network. The MIH user (14) notifies a link controller (12) via the MIH function unit (13) of a condition setting request including a first judgment logical formula being a condition to start an establishment of a radio link with the second network and a second judgment logical formula being a condition to execute a handover from the first network to the second network. The first judgment logical formula and the second judgment logical formula each indicate a combination of thresholds to be satisfied by a plurality of respective link is parameters in the radio link established with the first network.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2008Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventor: Tomoyoshi Yokota
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Patent number: 8811337Abstract: A radio terminal 10 includes a radio communication unit 11 configured to receive packets at predetermined intervals through a first network 100 or a second network 200, a buffer 15 configured to temporarily store packets received by the radio communication unit 11, another radio communication unit 11 configured to transmit a preparation request requesting a preparation of handover from the first network 100 to the second network 200, and an application processor 16 configured to reproduce the packets stored in the buffer 15 at a predetermined rate determined according to the predetermined interval. The application processor 16 decreases the amount of the packets stored in the buffer 15 by changing a packet reproducing rate to a rate higher than the predetermined rate in response to the transmission of the preparation request.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2009Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventor: Tomoyoshi Yokota
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Patent number: 8792460Abstract: In a radio communication system employing HARQ scheme wherein the maximum number of slots is changed, a radio terminal (1) which calculates a predictive transmission rate being the predictive value of a downlink transmission rate at a future time after the receiving time of a downlink radio signal is provided with a storage unit (15A) which stores in association with a DRC a corrected transmission rate obtained by causing a defined transmission rate being a downlink transmission rate in the case of using all the maximum number of slots to reflect the probability of succeeding in decoding data using only some of the slots, and a calculation unit (142) which predicts the reception quality at the future time on the basis of the reception quality before the receiving time, obtains from the storage unit (15A) the corrected transmission rate associated with the DRC corresponding to the predicted reception quality, and calculates the predictive transmission rate from the obtained corrected transmission rate.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2010Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Tomoyoshi Yokota, Fangwei Tong, Atsushi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8784070Abstract: When an air pressure in a tank part (5) drops from a maximum set pressure value (A1) to or below at least one restart set pressure value defined to lie in a range between the maximum set pressure value and a minimum set pressure value, a control circuit part (2) operates an electric motor (3b) at a predetermined revolving speed. When the air pressure in the tank part (5) drops from the restart set pressure value to or below the minimum set pressure value, the control circuit part (2) operates the electric motor (3b) at the predetermined revolving speed or a revolving speed lower than N2 until the air pressure in the tank part (5) reaches the maximum set pressure value.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2009Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyoshi Yokota, Seiichi Kodato, Kenichi Matsunaga
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Publication number: 20140186193Abstract: An air compressor comprising: a tank (50), a compression mechanism (30), a motor (5) and a control circuit (7). The control circuit (7) includes a CPU (70) and a storing unit (74) which stores a control program, the compressor operation history and a plurality of operation modes. Each of the operation modes is defined by two setting values: a reference restart pressure value and a motor rotational speed value, at least one of these values being different from among the plurality of modes. The control circuit (7) executes one of the plurality of modes as a target mode in which the control unit controls the motor to restart by comparing the pressure in the tank with the reference restart pressure and rotates the motor at the rotational speed of the target mode. The control circuit changes the target mode from the one of the plurality of modes to another one of the plurality of modes based on the compressor operation history.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyoshi Yokota, Seiichi Kodato, Hiroki Kitagawa, Kenichi Matsunaga, Masahiro Miura, Yoshimi Takahashi
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Patent number: 8718639Abstract: When communication quality exceeds the first threshold, the radio communication terminal 300 starts connection with the radio communication system 120 and establishes the radio link L2 to the radio communication system 120. Further, a handover from the radio link L1 to the radio link L2 is performed when the communication quality exceeds the second threshold after the establishment of the radio link L2, the second threshold corresponding to communication quality degraded than that indicated by the first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventor: Tomoyoshi Yokota
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Patent number: 8626171Abstract: It is judged whether a mobile node 11 exists at a boundary A overlapped with a different sector of the base station for use in communication or at a boundary B overlapped with an area of another base station or at an area fringe C. In accordance with the application in use and the results thus judged, a handover is performed between base stations in a wireless communication system, or switching to the another wireless communication system is made, or simultaneous communication with the another wireless communication system is performed, or either the uplink or the downlink is switched to the another wireless communication system.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2007Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventor: Tomoyoshi Yokota