Patents by Inventor Toru Noda

Toru 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).

  • Patent number: 8533587
    Abstract: A Web server for transmitting a Web page to a terminal device of a user via a network includes a dynamic part operation portion for determining contents of a dynamic part of a Web page in accordance with a parameter designated by a user, a dynamic part process portion for performing a process of making a data memory portion store the contents of the dynamic part determined by the dynamic part operation portion in connection with the Web page and the user, a Web page generating portion for generating a Web page in accordance with the determined contents of the dynamic part and a Web page transmission portion for transmitting the generated Web page to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Toru Noda
  • Patent number: 8144185
    Abstract: A computer system has a presence server having a presence management unit that carries out a processing associated with presence data; and a conference management server that carries out a control processing of a conference. Then, when a request of an image delivery to another participant of a voice-based teleconference is received from a terminal of a first participant of the voice-based teleconference, the conference management server secures a resource for the image delivery, and transmits a presence setting request to the presence server so that the first participant and another participant can subscribe data concerning the resource for the image delivery. In addition, in response to the presence setting request, the presence management unit of the presence server carries out a setting so that the first participant and another participant can subscribe the data concerning the resource for the image delivery as presence data, which is delivered to subscribers when updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hisayuki Morishima, Toru Noda, Akinobu Toda
  • Patent number: 8006666
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a main combustion chamber, an auxiliary combustion chamber, a partition wall that separates the main and auxiliary combustion chambers, a first igniter disposed in the auxiliary combustion chamber, a second igniter disposed in the main combustion chamber, and a controller electrically coupled to the first and second igniters. The auxiliary combustion chamber has a capacity smaller than that of the main combustion chamber. The partition wall includes a communication passage. The controller is adapted to send an auxiliary combustion chamber ignition timing signal to the first igniter and is adapted to send a main combustion chamber ignition timing signal to the second igniter. Further, the controller is adapted to send the auxiliary and main combustion chamber ignition timing signals such that, in response to at least one engine operating condition, ignition in the auxiliary combustion chamber occurs after ignition in the main combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Ashida, Toru Noda, Masashi Kuroda
  • Patent number: 7814883
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine, including a main combustion chamber serving as a main combustion chamber, an auxiliary combustion chamber adjacent to the main combustion chamber and smaller in capacity than the main combustion chamber, and a partition wall between the main combustion chamber and the auxiliary combustion chamber, the partition wall including an injection hole by which the main combustion chamber and the auxiliary combustion chamber communicate. A fuel supply device supplies fuel to the main combustion chamber and the auxiliary combustion chamber. A mixture forming device forms a mixture of air and the supplied fuel in the main combustion chamber, away from the partition wall before ignition. An ignition device ignites the fuel in the auxiliary combustion chamber, propelling an ejecting torch flame into the mixture of air and fuel in the main combustion chamber through the injection hole, thereby burning the mixture of air and fuel in the main combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isamu Hotta, Eiji Takahashi, Toru Noda
  • Patent number: 7769527
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine (100) comprises a fuel injection valve (21, 22) which supplies a first fuel having a higher self-ignitability than gasoline and a second fuel having a higher combustion speed than gasoline such that an air-fuel mixture containing the first fuel and the second fuel is formed in a combustion chamber (14), a spark plug (25) which ignites the air-fuel mixture, and a programmable controller (41) programmed to control supply proportions of the first fuel and the second fuel such that the ignited air-fuel mixture undergoes flame propagation combustion and then undergoes self-ignition combustion. Thus, a reduction in emissions can be achieved, and high thermal efficiency can be realized through the self-ignition combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Noda, Atsushi Teraji, Takashi Araki, Akihiko Kakuho, Isamu Hotta, Koichi Ashida, Masaharu Kassai
  • Patent number: 7668640
    Abstract: A cylinder direct injection type internal combustion engine, including a fuel injection device configured to directly inject a first octane-value fuel and a second octane-value fuel into a combustion chamber. The second octane-value fuel has an octane value larger than an octane value of the first octane-value fuel. A controller is programmed to perform a first operation mode. In the first operation mode, the first octane-value fuel is injected from the fuel injection device, and the second octane-value fuel is injected from the fuel injection device toward an ignition flame formed by self-ignition combustion of the first octane-value fuel, so as to cause flame propagation and combustion of the second octane-value fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Teraji, Toru Noda, Daisuke Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7610896
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine system, including a primary fuel tank that stores a fuel, a fuel reformer that reforms the fuel from the primary fuel tank, a secondary fuel tank that stores the fuel reformed by the fuel reformer, a fuel injection device that injects the fuel that is selectably supplied from either the primary fuel tank or secondary fuel tank into a combustion chamber, a sensor that detects the quantity of fuel remaining in the secondary fuel tank, and a control device that sets and outputs a load and revolution speed of the engine. The control device is configured to set the engine load and engine revolution speed according to a request output determined based upon an operation performed by an operator. The engine load and engine revolution speed when the quantity of fuel remaining in the secondary fuel tank is more than a predetermined value, are set different than when the quantity of fuel remaining in the secondary fuel tank is less than the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Kakuho, Atsushi Teraji, Toru Noda
  • Patent number: 7603225
    Abstract: A controller (70) controls combustion in an internal combustion engine that injects a fuel having high self-ignitability into a cylinder during a compression stroke, in which a premixed gas formed from a fuel having low self-ignitability is compressed within the cylinder, and ignites the premixed gas using the injected fuel as an ignition source. The controller (70) is programmed to detect any one of a self-ignitability of the fuel forming the premixed gas, a self-ignitability of the fuel serving as the ignition source, and an internal cylinder pressure, and set the other two in accordance with a resulting detection value. Thus, combustion conditions can be controlled appropriately, regardless of the engine operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Araki, Toru Noda
  • Patent number: 7584739
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes neighboring main and auxiliary combustion chambers that are separated by a partition wall including a communicating passage. Ignition of an air/fuel mixture in the auxiliary combustion chamber produces a fuel torch that is jetted into an air/fuel mixture in the main combustion chamber. Under a predetermined operation condition, timing for opening an intake valve is retarded relative to both the timing for closing an exhaust valve and the timing for top dead center of a piston on an exhaust stroke. By retarding the timing for opening the intake valve, residual gas in the auxiliary combustion that is left over from a previous cycle can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Takahashi, Toru Noda, Akihiko Kakuho, Isamu Hotta, Koichi Ashida
  • Patent number: 7556030
    Abstract: A spark-ignition type internal combustion engine, including a main tank for storing a to-be-determined fuel having an unknown self-ignition property, an auxiliary tank for accumulating a reference fuel having a known self-ignition property, and a controller. The controller is programmed to supply to a combustion chamber a blended fuel prepared by blending the to-be-determined fuel and the reference fuel at a predetermined ratio, measure a self-ignition property of the blended fuel, and determine the unknown self-ignition property of the to-be-determined fuel based on the measured self-ignition property of the blended fuel, the known self-ignition property of the reference fuel and the ratio of the blended fuel. The controller is also programmed to introduce the to-be-determined fuel after the determination from the main tank to the auxiliary tank, and store the to-be-determined fuel in the auxiliary tank such that the to-be-determined fuel serves as a next reference fuel having a known self-ignition property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Ashida, Toru Noda, Isamu Hotta
  • Publication number: 20090043479
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine (100) comprises a fuel injection valve (21, 22) which supplies a first fuel having a higher self-ignitability than gasoline and a second fuel having a higher combustion speed than gasoline such that an air-fuel mixture containing the first fuel and the second fuel is formed in a combustion chamber (14), a spark plug (25) which ignites the air-fuel mixture, and a programmable controller (41) programmed to control supply proportions of the first fuel and the second fuel such that the ignited air-fuel mixture undergoes flame propagation combustion and then undergoes self-ignition combustion. Thus, a reduction in emissions can be achieved, and high thermal efficiency can be realized through the self-ignition combustion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Toru Noda, Atsushi Teraji, Takashi Araki, Akihiko Kakuho, Isamu Hotta, Koichi Ashida, Masaharu Kassai
  • Publication number: 20090037077
    Abstract: A controller (70) controls combustion in an internal combustion engine that injects a fuel having high self-ignitability into a cylinder during a compression stroke, in which a premixed gas formed from a fuel having low self-ignitability is compressed within the cylinder, and ignites the premixed gas using the injected fuel as an ignition source. The controller (70) is programmed to detect any one of a self-ignitability of the fuel forming the premixed gas, a self-ignitability of the fuel serving as the ignition source, and an internal cylinder pressure, and set the other two in accordance with a resulting detection value. Thus, combustion conditions can be controlled appropriately, regardless of the engine operating conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Takashi Araki, Toru Noda
  • Publication number: 20080257304
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine, including a premixed mixture formation device that forms a premixed mixture of fuel and air in a combustion chamber, a fuel gas supply device that injects fuel gas directly into the combustion chamber, and an ignition device that ignites the fuel gas. The fuel gas supply device is configured to inject the fuel gas into the premixed mixture near a top dead center of a compression stroke such that a spray of the fuel gas passes through a firing position of the ignition device, to produce the spray of the fuel gas in a predetermined area substantially extending from one end of a cylinder bore to the other end as viewed in a cylinder-bore direction defined by a centerline of the cylinder bore. The ignition device is configured to directly ignite the spray of the fuel gas and to ignite and burn the premixed mixture by way of flame propagation along the spray of the fuel gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru NODA, Takashi Araki, Koichi Ashida
  • Publication number: 20080228375
    Abstract: A spark-ignition type internal combustion engine, including a main tank for storing a to-be-determined fuel having an unknown self-ignition property, an auxiliary tank for accumulating a reference fuel having a known self-ignition property, and a controller. The controller is programmed to supply to a combustion chamber a blended fuel prepared by blending the to-be-determined fuel and the reference fuel at a predetermined ratio, measure a self-ignition property of the blended fuel, and determine the unknown self-ignition property of the to-be-determined fuel based on the measured self-ignition property of the blended fuel, the known self-ignition property of the reference fuel and the ratio of the blended fuel. The controller is also programmed to introduce the to-be-determined fuel after the determination from the main tank to the auxiliary tank, and store the to-be-determined fuel in the auxiliary tank such that the to-be-determined fuel serves as a next reference fuel having a known self-ignition property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Ashida, Toru Noda, Isamu Hotta
  • Publication number: 20080221778
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine system, including a primary fuel tank that stores a fuel, a fuel reformer that reforms the fuel from the primary fuel tank, a secondary fuel tank that stores the fuel reformed by the fuel reformer, a fuel injection device that injects the fuel that is selectably supplied from either the primary fuel tank or secondary fuel tank into a combustion chamber, a sensor that detects the quantity of fuel remaining in the secondary fuel tank, and a control device that sets and outputs a load and revolution speed of the engine. The control device is configured to set the engine load and engine revolution speed according to a request output determined based upon an operation performed by an operator. The engine load and engine revolution speed when the quantity of fuel remaining in the secondary fuel tank is more than a predetermined value, are set different than when the quantity of fuel remaining in the secondary fuel tank is less than the predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko KAKUHO, Atsushi Teraji, Toru Noda
  • Publication number: 20080196690
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine, including a main combustion chamber serving as a main combustion chamber, an auxiliary combustion chamber adjacent to the main combustion chamber and smaller in capacity than the main combustion chamber, and a partition wall between the main combustion chamber and the auxiliary combustion chamber, the partition wall including an injection hole by which the main combustion chamber and the auxiliary combustion chamber communicate. A fuel supply device supplies fuel to the main combustion chamber and the auxiliary combustion chamber. A mixture forming device forms a mixture of air and the supplied fuel in the main combustion chamber, away from the partition wall before ignition. An ignition device ignites the fuel in the auxiliary combustion chamber, propelling an ejecting torch flame into the mixture of air and fuel in the main combustion chamber through the injection hole, thereby burning the mixture of air and fuel in the main combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventors: Isamu Hotta, Eiji Takahashi, Toru Noda
  • Publication number: 20080136897
    Abstract: A computer system has a presence server having a presence management unit that carries out a processing associated with presence data; and a conference management server that carries out a control processing of a conference. Then, when a request of an image delivery to another participant of a voice-based teleconference is received from a terminal of a first participant of the voice-based teleconference, the conference management server secures a resource for the image delivery, and transmits a presence setting request to the presence server so that the first participant and another participant can subscribe data concerning the resource for the image delivery. In addition, in response to the presence setting request, the presence management unit of the presence server carries out a setting so that the first participant and another participant can subscribe the data concerning the resource for the image delivery as presence data, which is delivered to subscribers when updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Hisayuki Morishima, Toru Noda, Akinobu Toda
  • Publication number: 20080103678
    Abstract: A cylinder direct injection type internal combustion engine, including a fuel injection device configured to directly inject a first octane-value fuel and a second octane-value fuel into a combustion chamber. The second octane-value fuel has an octane value larger than an octane value of the first octane-value fuel. A controller is programmed to perform a first operation mode. In the first operation mode, the first octane-value fuel is injected from the fuel injection device, and the second octane-value fuel is injected from the fuel injection device toward an ignition flame formed by self-ignition combustion of the first octane-value fuel, so as to cause flame propagation and combustion of the second octane-value fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Atsushi Teraji, Toru Noda, Daisuke Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7344246
    Abstract: An observation apparatus is provided. An apex angle of a contact prism is inputted by operating an apex angle setting knob of a control panel. A fining angle of the contact prism is inputted by operating a fitting angle setting knob. A control unit determines the amount of correction for astigmatism of a left observation optical system and the amount of correction for astigmatism of a right observation optical system based on a recognized observation magnification and the inputted apex angle. An axial angle for the astigmatism of the left observation optical system and an axial angle for the astigmatism of the right observation optical system are determined based on the inputted fitting angle. Variable cross cylinder lens rotating drive units are controlled to rotate cylinder lenses of each of the right and left observation optical systems, thereby obtaining the determined axial angle and the determined amount of correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Toru Noda, Kazuhiko Onuma, Yasufumi Fukuma, Koji Nishio, Hidetaka Aeba, Yoshio Okazaki, Masaru Sato, Yasuo Kato
  • Patent number: 7305657
    Abstract: A Web server storing a Java program for generating an HTML file of a Web page includes a portion for obtaining an HTML file, a first conversion portion for converting the file into Java codes, a portion for replacing the codes with a part of a Java program related to the Web page structure, the Java program being for generating the HTML file, a portion for extracting Java codes of a part related to a designated Web page structure, a second conversion portion for converting the codes into an HTML file, and a portion for transmitting the file to the terminal device. If the HTML file contains a tag indicating an unmodifiable part, the first conversion portion converts the tag into a Java code indicating an unmodifiable part. The second conversion portion converts the code contained in the Java codes into the tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Toru Noda