Patents by Inventor Toshio Miki

Toshio Miki 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: 7769397
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed herein for implementing dormant mode with paging in a WLAN. Power savings in the computing device and reduction in traffic across the network are achieved by requiring a computing device to inform the WLAN of its location only when it crosses a paging area boundary or is to receive IP traffic. Dormant mode with paging is implemented in a protocol that supports dormant functionality and paging functionality but does not itself provide methods or standards for implementing such functionality, such as the IEEE 802.11. The methods and apparatuses disclosed herein provide the methods needed to implement dormant mode with paging in such a protocol. Generally, the methods and apparatuses for implementing dormant mode with paging basically include (1) establishing paging areas; (2) communicating access group information to a computing device; and (3) locating a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Daichi Funato, Fujio Watanabe, Toshio Miki
  • Patent number: 7689225
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed herein for implementing dormant mode with paging in a WLAN. Power savings in the computing device and reduction in traffic across the network are achieved by requiring a computing device to inform the WLAN of its location only when it crosses a paging area boundary or is to receive IP traffic. Dormant mode with paging is implemented in a protocol that supports dormant functionality and paging functionality but does not itself provide methods or standards for implementing such functionality, such as the IEEE 802.11. The methods and apparatuses disclosed herein provide the methods needed to implement dormant mode with paging in such a protocol. Generally, the methods and apparatuses for implementing dormant mode with paging basically include (1) establishing paging areas; (2) communicating access group information to a computing device; and (3) locating a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Daichi Funato, Fujio Watanabe, Toshio Miki
  • Publication number: 20100036523
    Abstract: A vacuum processing apparatus includes a vacuum chamber capable of keeping a first pressure lower than an atmospheric pressure, a driving source disposed in the vacuum chamber, an electric power supply mechanism including a primary side mechanism disposed outside the vacuum chamber for supplying electric power to the driving source and a secondary side mechanism disposed in the vacuum chamber for receiving the electric power from the primary side mechanism in a contactless relationship, and a vessel capable of accommodating airtightly the secondary side mechanism under a second pressure higher than the first pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yushi SATO, Toshio Miki, Yosuke Muraguchi, Katsumi Yasuda, Kazunari Kitaji, Yasushi Muragishi, Minoru Maeda
  • Patent number: 7627470
    Abstract: A speaking period required for a voice recognition processing is detected with a simple and robust approach. A speaking period is detected based on an EMG generated when a speaker speaks. A large amplitude is observed in an EMG as muscular activity is caused when a speaker speaks. By observing this, a speaking period can be detected. The EMG can be measured from the speaker's skin via electrodes provided on a mobile-type terminal. Since a mobile-type terminal is usually pressed to the skin for use, affinity between this use form and the present invention is very high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Manabe, Akira Hiraiwa, Yumiko Hiraiwa, legal representative, Kouki Hayashi, Toshiaki Sugimura, Toshio Miki
  • Patent number: 7610053
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed herein for implementing dormant mode with paging in a WLAN. Power savings in the computing device and reduction in traffic across the network are achieved by requiring a computing device to inform the WLAN of its location only when it crosses a paging area boundary or is to receive IP traffic. Dormant mode with paging is implemented in a protocol that supports dormant functionality and paging functionality but does not itself provide methods or standards for implementing such functionality, such as the IEEE 802.11. The methods and apparatuses disclosed herein provide the methods needed to implement dormant mode with paging in such a protocol. Generally, the methods and apparatuses for implementing dormant mode with paging basically include (1) establishing paging areas; (2) communicating access group information to a computing device; and (3) locating a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Daichi Funato, Fujio Watanabe, Toshio Miki
  • Patent number: 7519356
    Abstract: Plural terminal devices are arranged under a relay apparatus. The relay apparatus includes a mobile communication network connection unit, a packet switching network connection unit, and an emergency call determination unit. The emergency call determination unit determines whether or not the calls originated from the terminal devices are emergency calls, and when the calls are the emergency calls, connects the emergency calls to the mobile communication network connection unit. When the calls are the emergency calls, the mobile communication network connection unit connects the emergency calls to the mobile communication network by issuing thereto a notice on an identification number of the relay apparatus, the identification number being stored in an IC card attached to the relay apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Motoharu Miyake, Hiroshi Inamura, Takashi Suzuki, Toshio Miki
  • Patent number: 7510366
    Abstract: A vertical axis type wind power station and a blade manufacturing process, which can stabilize the turning motions of blades and can raise the power generation efficiency by lightening the blades to smoothen the turning motions of the blades; a structure and method for mounting the wind-driven device of a wind power station, by which the wind-driven device can be easily disposed at the upper portion of a building; and a windbreak wind power plant for breaking the wind by using the vertical axis type wind power stations or wind-driven devices arranged along the shoreline or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Okubo, Kazumichi Kato, Hirosuke Imabayashi, Toshio Miki, Hideki Tamura, Hiroo Mike, Akira Shiozaki, Yushi Sato, Tomoyuki Matsunaga, Tetsuyuki Kimura, Nobuhiro Saito, Hiroki Kataoka
  • Patent number: 7476990
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a linear actuator in which reliability is improved, and performance is also easily improved. The present invention provides a linear actuator including a stator, a movable element having an iron member, and being reciprocatable with respect to the stator, a permanent magnet fixed to the stator so as to be opposed to the iron member, and a coil fixed to the stator. Because both the coil and the permanent magnet are fixed to the stator, electrical current does not have to be supplied to the movable element, and the feeder lines connected to the coil will not be broken due to the movement of the movable element. In addition, the weight of the movable element will not be increased even when the weigh of the permanent magnet is increased in order to obtain high magnetic flux density for improvement in performance. Moreover, because the movable element does not include a magnet, a magnetizing operation does not have to be applied to the movable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Kazumichi Kato, Toshio Miki, Minoru Maeda, Takashi Fukunaga, Kozo Furutani, Toshiya Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7469365
    Abstract: The writing address supply part 210 supplies writing addresses for writing the bits forming bit sequences corresponding to the header H contained in a frame to be transmitted or stored and bit sequences corresponding to the data D, into the operating memory 220. The reading address supply part 230 alternately supplies to the operating memory 220 a plurality of addresses for reading a plurality of continuous bits corresponding to the header H from the operating memory 220, and an address for reading 1 bit corresponding to the data D from the operating memory 220, and reads the bit sequence such that the bits forming the bit sequence corresponding to the header H are scattered and arranged within the bit sequence forming the data D, from the operating memory. In accordance with such an interleaving device, it is possible to individually randomize frames according to their constituent data, and it is possible to transmit the bits that make up such data in a format which is most suited for said data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiro Kawahara, Toshio Miki, Sanae Hotani, Takashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7432608
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electric generator for achieving the cost reduction of the electric generator itself from the view point of the structure of the electric generator, and the cost reduction of the generation of electricity from the view point of the performance of the electric generator, and a power supply equipment for use in this electric generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Okubo, Kazumichi Kato, Yuzo Takakado, Hirosuke Imabayashi, Toshio Miki, Masami Morita, Hideki Tamura, Katsuyoshi Nakano, Yushi Sato, Tomoyuki Matsunaga, Tetsuyuki Kimura, Nobuhiro Saito, Tetsunari Kobayakawa, Kenji Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20080244069
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed herein for implementing dormant mode with paging in a WLAN. Power savings in the computing device and reduction in traffic across the network are achieved by requiring a computing device to inform the WLAN of its location only when it crosses a paging area boundary or is to receive IP traffic. Dormant mode with paging is implemented in a protocol that supports dormant functionality and paging functionality but does not itself provide methods or standards for implementing such functionality, such as the IEEE 802.11. The methods and apparatuses disclosed herein provide the methods needed to implement dormant mode with paging in such a protocol. Generally, the methods and apparatuses for implementing dormant mode with paging basically include (1) establishing paging areas; (2) communicating access group information to a computing device; and (3) locating a computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Daichi Funato, Fujio Watanabe, Toshio Miki
  • Publication number: 20080240323
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed herein for implementing dormant mode with paging in a WLAN. Power savings in the computing device and reduction in traffic across the network are achieved by requiring a computing device to inform the WLAN of its location only when it crosses a paging area boundary or is to receive IP traffic. Dormant mode with paging is implemented in a protocol that supports dormant functionality and paging functionality but does not itself provide methods or standards for implementing such functionality, such as the IEEE 802.11. The methods and apparatuses disclosed herein provide the methods needed to implement dormant mode with paging in such a protocol. Generally, the methods and apparatuses for implementing dormant mode with paging basically include (1) establishing paging areas; (2) communicating access group information to a computing device; and (3) locating a computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Daichi Funato, Fujio Watanabe, Toshio Miki
  • Patent number: 7428667
    Abstract: The writing address supply part 210 supplies writing addresses for writing the bits forming bit sequences corresponding to the header H contained in a frame to be transmitted or stored and bit sequences corresponding to the data D, into the operating memory 220. The reading address supply part 230 alternately supplies to the operating memory 220 a plurality of addresses for reading a plurality of continuous bits corresponding to the header H from the operating memory 220, and an address for reading 1 bit corresponding to the data D from the operating memory 220, and reads the bit sequence such that the bits forming the bit sequence corresponding to the header H are scattered and arranged within the bit sequence forming the data D, from the operating memory. In accordance with such an interleaving device, it is possible to individually randomize frames according to their constituent data, and it is possible to transmit the bits that make up such data in a format which is most suited for said data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiro Kawahara, Toshio Miki, Sanae Hotani, Takashi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20080197719
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a linear actuator in which reliability is improved, and performance is also easily improved. The present invention provides a linear actuator including a stator, a movable element having an iron member, and being reciprocatable with respect to the stator, a permanent magnet fixed to the stator so as to be opposed to the iron member, and a coil fixed to the stator. Because both the coil and the permanent magnet are fixed to the stator, electrical current does not have to be supplied to the movable element, and the feeder lines connected to the coil will not be broken due to the movement of the movable element. In addition, the weight of the movable element will not be increased even when the weigh of the permanent magnet is increased in order to obtain high magnetic flux density for improvement in performance. Moreover, because the movable element does not include a magnet, a magnetizing operation does not have to be applied to the movable element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: SHINKO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAGAWA, Kazumichi KATO, Toshio MIKI, Minoru MAEDA, Takashi FUKUNAGA, Kozo FURUTANI, Toshiya SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 7382067
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a linear actuator in which reliability is improved, and performance is also easily improved. The present invention provides a linear actuator including a stator, a movable element having an iron member, and being reciprocatable with respect to the stator, a permanent magnet fixed to the stator so as to be opposed to the iron member, and a coil fixed to the stator. Because both the coil and the permanent magnet are fixed to the stator, electrical current does not have to be supplied to the movable element, and the feeder lines connected to the coil will not be broken due to the movement of the movable element. In addition, the weight of the movable element will not be increased even when the weigh of the permanent magnet is increased in order to obtain high magnetic flux density for improvement in performance. Moreover, because the movable element does not include a magnet, a magnetizing operation does not have to be applied to the movable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Kazumichi Kato, Toshio Miki, Minoru Maeda, Takashi Fukunaga, Kozo Furutani, Toshiya Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20080069022
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed herein for implementing dormant mode with paging in a WLAN. Power savings in the computing device and reduction in traffic across the network are achieved by requiring a computing device to inform the WLAN of its location only when it crosses a paging area boundary or is to receive IP traffic. Dormant mode with paging is implemented in a protocol that supports dormant functionality and paging functionality but does not itself provide methods or standards for implementing such functionality, such as the IEEE 802.11. The methods and apparatuses disclosed herein provide the methods needed to implement dormant mode with paging in such a protocol. Generally, the methods and apparatuses for implementing dormant mode with paging basically include (1) establishing paging areas; (2) communicating access group information to a computing device; and (3) locating a computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Daichi Funato, Fujio Watanabe, Toshio Miki
  • Publication number: 20070233863
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed herein for implementing dormant mode with paging in a WLAN. Power savings in the computing device and reduction in traffic across the network are achieved by requiring a computing device to inform the WLAN of its location only when it crosses a paging area boundary or is to receive IP traffic. Dormant mode with paging is implemented in a protocol that supports dormant functionality and paging functionality but does not itself provide methods or standards for implementing such functionality, such as the IEEE 802.11. The methods and apparatuses disclosed herein provide the methods needed to implement dormant mode with paging in such a protocol. Generally, the methods and apparatuses for implementing dormant mode with paging basically include (1) establishing paging areas; (2) communicating access group information to a computing device; and (3) locating a computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Daichi Funato, Fujio Watanabe, Toshio Miki
  • Patent number: 7236928
    Abstract: An efficient optimization algorithm is provided for multipulse speech coding systems. The efficient algorithm performs computations using the contribution of the non-zero pulses of the excitation function and not the zeroes of the excitation function. Accordingly, efficiency improvements of 87% to 99% are possible with the efficient optimization algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Khosrow Lashkari, Toshio Miki
  • Publication number: 20070061135
    Abstract: Alternate window optimization procedures and/or LSP interpolation factor optimization procedures are used to improve the ITU-T G.729 speech coding standard (the “Standard”) by replacing the window used by the Standard with an optimized window and/or replacing the LSP interpolation factor used by the standard with an optimized LSP interpolation factor. Optimized windows created using the alternate window optimization procedure and/or optimized LSP interpolation factors created using the LSP interpolation factor optimization procedure yield improvements in the objective quality of synthesized speech produced by the Standard. In many cases, improvements are obtained using shorter windows, which results in reduced computational cost and/or smaller future buffering requirements, which results in lowered coding delay. The improved Standard, procedures, and optimized windows and LSP interpolation factors can all be implemented as computer readable software code and in optimization devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventors: Wai Chu, Toshio Miki
  • Patent number: 7191369
    Abstract: The writing address supply part 210 supplies writing addresses for writing the bits forming bit sequences corresponding to the header H contained in a frame to be transmitted or stored and bit sequences corresponding to the data D, into the operating memory 220. The reading address supply part 230 alternately supplies to the operating memory 220 a plurality of addresses for reading a plurality of continuous bits corresponding to the header H from the operating memory 220, and an address for reading 1 bit corresponding to the data D from the operating memory 220, and reads the bit sequence such that the bits forming the bit sequence corresponding to the header H are scattered and arranged within the bit sequence forming the data D, from the operating memory. In accordance with such an interleaving device, it is possible to individually randomize frames according to their constituent data, and it is possible to transmit the bits that make up such data in a format which is most suited for said data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiro Kawahara, Toshio Miki, Sanae Hotani, Takashi Suzuki