Patents by Inventor Toshio Akiyama

Toshio Akiyama 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: 11926131
    Abstract: A composite material is capable of suppressing decrease in the strength, which is caused by bending of fibers of a skin material during the time when the composite material is cured. A composite material is provided with a honeycomb core, a first skin material, a second skin material, a thunder-resistant mesh and a resin material; and the resin material is not arranged in a neighborhood portion which is the region corresponding to the region at the front end of the honeycomb core. A first film adhesive is arranged between the first skin material and the honeycomb core; a second film adhesive is arranged between the second skin material and the honeycomb core; and a fourth film adhesive is arranged in the neighborhood portion of the resin material in a weight per square meter, which is lower than those of the first film adhesive and the second film adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Noma, Hiromichi Akiyama, Toshio Kozasa, Masayuki Kanemasu, Shunichi Morishima
  • Patent number: 11383160
    Abstract: A video game processing apparatus is provided for controlling progress of a video game while displaying a player character on a display screen. A player character operation area and a viewpoint operation area are set so that the player character operation area and the viewpoint operation area do not overlap on the display screen. A first operational input to the set player character operation area is received, and an action of the player character is controlled on a basis of the first operational input. A second operational input to the set viewpoint operation area is received, and a viewpoint or a position of a virtual camera is controlled in response to the second operational input. The player character operation area is an operation area through which the player character is operated by a slide operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX
    Inventors: Ryoma Matsui, Toshio Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20200376377
    Abstract: A video game processing apparatus is provided for controlling progress of a video game while displaying a player character on a display screen. A player character operation area and a viewpoint operation area are set so that the player character operation area and the viewpoint operation area do not overlap on the display screen. A first operational input to the set player character operation area is received, and an action of the player character is controlled on a basis of the first operational input. A second operational input to the set viewpoint operation area is received, and a viewpoint or a position of a virtual camera is controlled in response to the second operational input. The player character operation area is an operation area through which the player character is operated by a slide operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX (also trading as SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
    Inventors: Ryoma MATSUI, Toshio AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10780345
    Abstract: A video game processing apparatus is provided for controlling progress of a video game while displaying a player character on a display screen of a display device provided with a touch panel. The video game processing apparatus is provided with a virtual controller information memory for storing virtual controller information on a virtual controller. The display device is caused to display the virtual controller on the display screen on the basis of the virtual controller information. In a case where an operational input to the virtual controller displayed on the display screen is received, the video game processing apparatus updates a shape of the virtual controller on the basis of the virtual controller information, and controls an action of the player character on the basis of the received operational input. The operational input may include a slide operation and a tap operation, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX
    Inventors: Ryoma Matsui, Toshio Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20200246707
    Abstract: In a case where an in-game element (for example, an item) which becomes a determination target in a video game (for example, a video game that a user currently plays) corresponds to an in-game element that was given to the user in the other video game (for example, a video game that the user played), a user terminal gives the user an in-game element different from the in-game element that became the determination target. In a case where an event of the video game is executed based on a request from the user, an in-game element for which an acquisition condition is satisfied in the event may be set as the determination target. The user terminal may refer to a predetermined storage region to display information regarding an in-game element that corresponds to a given element among a plurality of in-game elements that appears in the video game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisanao SUZUKI, Toshio AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200122032
    Abstract: A video game processing apparatus is provided for controlling progress of a video game while displaying a player character on a display screen of a display device provided with a touch panel. The video game processing apparatus is provided with a virtual controller information memory for storing virtual controller information on a virtual controller. The display device is caused to display the virtual controller on the display screen on the basis of the virtual controller information. In a case where an operational input to the virtual controller displayed on the display screen is received, the video game processing apparatus updates a shape of the virtual controller on the basis of the virtual controller information, and controls an action of the player character on the basis of the received operational input. The operational input may include a slide operation and a tap operation, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX (also trading as SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
    Inventors: Ryoma MATSUI, Toshio AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10543428
    Abstract: A video game processing apparatus is provided for controlling progress of a video game while displaying a player character on a display screen of a display device provided with a touch panel. The video game processing apparatus is provided with a virtual controller information memory for storing virtual controller information on a virtual controller. The display device is caused to display the virtual controller on the display screen on the basis of the virtual controller information. In a case where an operational input to the virtual controller displayed on the display screen is received, the video game processing apparatus updates a shape of the virtual controller on the basis of the virtual controller information, and controls an action of the player character on the basis of the received operational input. The operational input may include a slide operation and a tap operation, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX
    Inventors: Ryoma Matsui, Toshio Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20180311579
    Abstract: A video game processing apparatus is provided for controlling progress of a video game while displaying a player character on a display screen of a display device provided with a touch panel. The video game processing apparatus is provided with a virtual controller information memory for storing virtual controller information on a virtual controller. The display device is caused to display the virtual controller on the display screen on the basis of the virtual controller information. In a case where an operational input to the virtual controller displayed on the display screen is received, the video game processing apparatus updates a shape of the virtual controller on the basis of the virtual controller information, and controls an action of the player character on the basis of the received operational input. The operational input may include a slide operation and a tap operation, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX (also trading as SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
    Inventors: Ryoma MATSUI, Toshio AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10039980
    Abstract: A video game processing apparatus is provided for controlling progress of a video game while displaying a player character on a display screen of a display device provided with a touch panel. The video game processing apparatus is provided with a virtual controller information memory for storing virtual controller information on a virtual controller. The display device is caused to display the virtual controller on the display screen on the basis of the virtual controller information. In a case where an operational input to the virtual controller displayed on the display screen is received, the video game processing apparatus updates a shape of the virtual controller on the basis of the virtual controller information, and controls an action of the player character on the basis of the received operational input. The operational input may include a slide operation and a tap operation, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX
    Inventors: Ryoma Matsui, Toshio Akiyama
  • Patent number: 9901821
    Abstract: A video game processing apparatus is provided for controlling progress of a video game while displaying a player character on a display screen of a display device. Object information on an object that appears in the video game indicates an action possible range, in which the object can carry out a predetermined action against the player character, and the content of the predetermined action. In a case where a movement starting operation for the player character is received, the player character is caused to move in accordance with the received movement starting operation. It is determined whether the movement of the player character is terminated within the action possible range. The predetermined action by the object corresponding to the action possible range is carried out in a case where it is determined that the movement of the player character is terminated within the action possible range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX
    Inventors: Ryoma Matsui, Toshio Akiyama
  • Patent number: 9881181
    Abstract: A device-installation-information distribution apparatus for distributing device installation information including a function of installing program on an information processing apparatus to enable the information processing apparatus to use a device over a network and a function of configuring operation settings of the program includes a distribution request obtaining unit configured to obtain a distribution request, which is transmitted from the information processing apparatus, requesting to distribute the device installation information, a device-installation-information update unit configured to obtain login information for use in logging into the information processing apparatus at a privilege authorized to install software based on the obtained distribution request and device installation information for the target device and update the device installation information by adding the login information to the device installation information, and a device-installation-information distribution unit configur
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Toshio Akiyama
  • Patent number: 9815707
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of processing discharge gas containing ammonia, hydrogen, nitrogen, and an organic metal compound discharged from the production process of a gallium nitride compound semiconductor. The discharge gas is brought into contact with a cleaning agent prepared by impregnating an alkali metal compound with a metal oxide to remove the organic metal compound from the discharge gas. The discharge gas from which an organic metal compound is removed is brought into contact with an ammonia decomposition catalyst on heating to decompose the ammonia into nitrogen and hydrogen. The discharge gas in which ammonia is decomposed is brought into contact with palladium alloy membrane on heating to recover hydrogen that has penetrated through the palladium alloy membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN PIONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kansei Izaki, Masanori Iwaki, Yasusada Miyano, Toshio Akiyama
  • Patent number: 9809454
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method for refining hydrogen with a hydrogen refining device in which the inside of a cell is divided into a primary side space and a secondary side space by palladium alloy capillaries each having one end being closed and a tube sheet supporting the open end of the palladium alloy capillaries, in which impurity-containing hydrogen is introduced from the primary side space to allow hydrogen to permeate the palladium alloy capillaries so as to collect pure hydrogen from the secondary side space. The method for refining hydrogen has a capability of decreasing the removed amount of gas containing impurities and efficiently collecting pure hydrogen from the secondary side space. From hydrogen with 1000 ppm or less of impurities as raw material hydrogen, gas containing impurities that does not penetrate the palladium alloy capillaries is removed from the primary side space at the flow rate of 10% or less of the introduction flow rate of the raw material hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN PIONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinao Komiya, Satoshi Arakawa, Toshio Akiyama, Yasuo Sato, Noboru Takemasa
  • Patent number: 9707507
    Abstract: The present invention provides ammonia purification means to remove impurities such as oil with a negative effect on vapor deposition from inexpensive commercially available industrial crude ammonia and from crude ammonia recovered from the gallium nitride compound semiconductor process and to continuously supply the purified ammonia to the gallium nitride compound semiconductor process. The oil removing device removing oil from crude ammonia containing oil as impurities includes an oil filter cylinder accommodating a filtration element cylindrically formed from a filtration membrane processed into a shape of pleat, honeycomb, or space structure; and an oil adsorption cylinder filled with activated carbon. The ammonia purification apparatus is provided with the oil removing device; a catalyst cylinder filled with a catalyst containing nickel as an active component; and an adsorption cylinder filled with synthetic zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN PIONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Arakawa, Toshio Akiyama, Koichi Yada, Atsuya Makita
  • Patent number: 9529554
    Abstract: A printer driver device includes: an ink-based maximum tone level determination unit configured to determine maximum tone levels for respective types of ink for raster data on an image generated by a layout setting section, based on contents of a print setting information of the image; and a data volume determination unit configured to generate tone datasets on the respective types of ink for each pixel of the image based on the maximum tone levels determined by the ink-based maximum tone level determination unit, and transfer the generated tone datasets as the raster data by connecting the generated tone datasets by use of a line-interleaved format or a band-sequential format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshio Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20160360061
    Abstract: Provided are a setting-information receiving unit that receives, from a user terminal, the setting information that includes the function setting information that indicates the printing setting of a printer driver for a device and the user identification information on the user who uses the user terminal and that stores it in a setting-information storage unit; a request-information receiving unit that receives, from the shared terminal, the request information that includes the user identification information; an application-information generating unit that acquires, from the setting-information storage unit, the function setting information, included in the setting information that includes the user identification information, included in the request information and that generates an installation package for applying the printing setting, indicated by the function setting information, to the printing setting of the printer driver of a shared terminal for the device; and a delivering unit that delivers the i
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshio AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160339377
    Abstract: The present invention provides ammonia purification means to remove impurities such as oil with a negative effect on vapor deposition from inexpensive commercially available industrial crude ammonia and from crude ammonia recovered from the gallium nitride compound semiconductor process and to continuously supply the purified ammonia to the gallium nitride compound semiconductor process. The oil removing device removing oil from crude ammonia containing oil as impurities includes an oil filter cylinder accommodating a filtration element cylindrically formed from a filtration membrane processed into a shape of pleat, honeycomb, or space structure; and an oil adsorption cylinder filled with activated carbon. The ammonia purification apparatus is provided with the oil removing device; a catalyst cylinder filled with a catalyst containing nickel as an active component; and an adsorption cylinder filled with synthetic zeolite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Satoshi ARAKAWA, Toshio AKIYAMA, Koichi YADA, Atsuya MAKITA
  • Patent number: 9433889
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a means for easily replacing palladium alloy capillaries in a hydrogen purification device formed by using hydrogen separation membrane formed from the palladium alloy capillaries. The hydrogen purification device can be easily disassembled into a palladium alloy membrane unit and a storage structure thereof. A palladium alloy membrane unit is provided with a plurality of palladium alloy capillaries, a disk-shaped tube sheet supporting the palladium alloy capillaries, a pure hydrogen discharge pipe having a cylinder being in close contact with a periphery of the tube sheet at one end, a joint connecting with a pure hydrogen outlet of the storage structure at the other end, and preferably a joint being in close contact with an opening of a container of the storage structure at a position between the cylinder and the outlet joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN PIONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinao Komiya, Satoshi Arakawa, Toshio Akiyama, Yasuo Sato, Noboru Takemasa
  • Patent number: 9374272
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive an input of user information, a determining unit configured to determine a destination corresponding to the user information, a preparing unit configured to prepare a computer program for enabling an information terminal device to which the computer program is installed to use a data processing function provided by the data processing apparatus and configuration information related to the data processing function, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit instruction information giving an instruction as to how the computer program and the configuration information are acquired to the destination thus determined over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshio Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20160115022
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method for refining hydrogen with a hydrogen refining device in which the inside of a cell is divided into a primary side space and a secondary side space by palladium alloy capillaries each having one end being closed and a tube sheet supporting the open end of the palladium alloy capillaries, in which impurity-containing hydrogen is introduced from the primary side space to allow hydrogen to permeate the palladium alloy capillaries so as to collect pure hydrogen from the secondary side space. The method for refining hydrogen has a capability of decreasing the removed amount of gas containing impurities and efficiently collecting pure hydrogen from the secondary side space. From hydrogen with 1000 ppm or less of impurities as raw material hydrogen, gas containing impurities that does not penetrate the palladium alloy capillaries is removed from the primary side space at the flow rate of 10% or less of the introduction flow rate of the raw material hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshinao KOMIYA, Satoshi ARAKAWA, Toshio AKIYAMA, Yasuo SATO, Noboru TAKEMASA