Patents by Inventor Toyoaki Yokoi

Toyoaki Yokoi 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: 8130636
    Abstract: A communication control system is provided that performs communications satisfying a request for industrial applications and a request for open protocol communications at the same time. To this end, in the invention, a high-priority communication section performing critical communications to provide real time property and reliability, and a low-priority communication section performing communications based on an open standard protocol coexist in a same communication station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Demachi, Hiromichi Ebashi, Kuniharu Akabane, Takeshi Nakajima, Kenji Habaguchi, Masayuki Murakami, Toyoaki Yokoi, Takeshi Hongo, Akinori Ishii, Sadatoshi Sogo
  • Patent number: 8054850
    Abstract: A communication control system is provided that satisfies the needs of industrial applications in terms of real time properties, scalability and flexibility. For this purpose, the invention causes a communication station performing communications in accordance with a standard protocol to perform multiplex communications based on time division of a communication band. Communication is performed by dividing a communication cycle into time slots, and assigning a set of communication stations and a type of a communication section to each of the time slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Demachi, Hiromichi Ebashi, Kuniharu Akabane, Takeshi Nakajima, Takeshi Hongo, Toyoaki Yokoi, Kenji Habaguchi, Masayuki Murakami
  • Publication number: 20080062954
    Abstract: A communication control system is provided that satisfies the needs of industrial applications in terms of real time properties, scalability and flexibility. For this purpose, the invention causes a communication station performing communications in accordance with a standard protocol to perform multiplex communications based on time division of a communication band. Communication is performed by dividing a communication cycle into time slots, and assigning a set of communication stations and a type of a communication section to each of the time slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2004
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Demachi, Hiromichi Ebashi, Kuniharu Akabane, Takeshi Nakajima, Takeshi Hongo, Toyoaki Yokoi, Kenji Habaguchi, Masayuki Murakami
  • Publication number: 20070250182
    Abstract: A communication control system is provided that performs communications satisfying a request for industrial applications and a request for open protocol communications at the same time. To this end, in the invention, a high-priority communication section performing critical communications to provide real time property and reliability, and a low-priority communication section performing communications based on an open standard protocol coexist in a same communication station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2004
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Demachi, Hiromichi Ebashi, Kuniharu Akabane, Takeshi Nakajima, Kenji Habaguchi, Masayuki Murakami, Toyoaki Yokoi, Takeshi Hongo, Akinori Ishii, Sadatoshi Sogo
  • Patent number: 6973103
    Abstract: A communication control system and method comprising, in one embodiment, a plurality of strobe signals are generated at different timings in a transmission circuit and a plurality of latch circuits equal to the number of strobe signals are provided in a receiver circuit so that data is retained in each latch circuit using the strobe signals one at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Hayashi, Hideo Matsukawa, Toyoaki Yokoi
  • Patent number: 6952404
    Abstract: A communication control system and method comprising, in one embodiment, a master station connected to a slave station using two redundant buses, wherein command frames having the same content are sent out to the buses and the communication process is changed depending on whether or not the contents of the command frames, when received by the receiving station, are identical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Hayashi, Hideo Matsukawa, Toyoaki Yokoi
  • Publication number: 20030081541
    Abstract: A communication control system and method comprising, in one embodiment, a master station connected to a slave station using two redundant buses, wherein command frames having the same content are sent out to the buses and the communication process is changed depending on whether or not the contents of the command frames, when received by the a receiving station, are identical. In another embodiment, a plurality of units are connected to each bus in a multi-drop configuration, and a line length of each bus is defined so that reflected signals from other units reach a receiving unit on each bus after the transition period of a received signal at that receiving unit ends. In still another embodiment, a unit is connected to each bus and the unit is provided with a driver IC, wherein transmission data is first encoded into bit signals having a fixed number of bits, then the signals are supplied to the driver IC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION, a Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Hayashi, Hideo Matsukawa, Toyoaki Yokoi
  • Patent number: 6556583
    Abstract: A communication control system and method comprising, in one embodiment, a master station connected to a slave station using two redundant buses, wherein command frames having the same content are sent out to the buses and the communication process is changed depending on whether or not the contents of the command frames, when received by the a receiving station, are identical. In another embodiment, a plurality of units are connected to each bus in a multi-drop configuration, and a line length of each bus is defined so that reflected signals from other units reach a receiving unit on each bus after the transition period of a received signal at that receiving unit ends. In still another embodiment, a unit is connected to each bus and the unit is provided with a driver IC, wherein transmission data is first encoded into bit signals having a fixed number of bits, then the signals are supplied to the driver IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Hayashi, Hideo Matsukawa, Toyoaki Yokoi
  • Publication number: 20030035369
    Abstract: A communication control system and method comprising, in one embodiment, a plurality of strobe signals are generated at different timings in a transmission circuit and a plurality of latch circuits equal to the number of strobe signals are provided in a receiver circuit so that data is retained in each latch circuit using the strobe signals one at a time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION, a Japan corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Hayashi, Hideo Matsukawa, Toyoaki Yokoi
  • Patent number: 5578764
    Abstract: A Coriolis type mass flowmeter utilizing a measuring tube through which flows the fluid being examined and a pair of Coriolis signals generated thereby, wherein are provided a first and second A/D converter to convert the respective pair of Coriolis signals into respective digital signals; a first and second phase shifter for converting the respective digital signals to output signals each deviated from the respective digital signals by 90.degree.; a timing clock generator for supplying the first and second A/D converter with timing signals which are independent of vibrations of the Coriolis signals, and trigonometric calculating device for obtaining tan .PHI. using the following equation: tan .PHI.=(bc-ad)/(ac+bd), wherein a and c represent the outputs from the A/D converters, and b and d represent the outputs from the phase shifters, and tan .PHI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toyoaki Yokoi, Hiroshi Owada