Patents by Inventor Wataru Suzuki

Wataru Suzuki 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).

  • Publication number: 20240140455
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a data set including a requested acceleration as information representing movement of a vehicle in a front-rear direction and any one of a steering angle, a yaw rate, and a rotation radius as information representing movement of the vehicle in a lateral direction from each of a plurality of applications, an arbitration unit configured to perform arbitration of information representing the movement of the vehicle in the front-rear direction and arbitration of information representing the movement of the vehicle in the lateral direction based on a plurality of the data sets received by the receiver, and a first output unit configured to output instruction information for driving an actuator based on an arbitration result of the arbitration unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ikuma SUZUKI, Wataru KANDA, Kaiji ITABASHI, Yoshihisa YAMADA, Kazuki MIYAKE, Tamotsu KONDOH
  • Patent number: 11974258
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to monitor a PDCCH with a DCI format in a control resource set, and receive a PDSCH scheduled by the DCI format, wherein the DCI format includes a frequency domain resource assignment field, in a case that the number of bits of the frequency domain resource assignment field is given at least based on the number NtargetRB of resource blocks of a first bandwidth, and the frequency domain resource assignment field is applied to the first bandwidth, a value NRIV indicated by the frequency domain resource assignment field is given based on a first method, and in a case that the number of bits of the frequency domain resource assignment field is given at least based on the number NsizeRB of resource blocks of a second bandwidth, and the frequency domain resource assignment field is applied to the first bandwidth, the value NRIV is given based on a second method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Toshizo Nogami, Wataru Ouchi, Taewoo Lee, Huifa Lin
  • Publication number: 20240137146
    Abstract: A terminal device includes encoding circuitry configured to encode a code block and output coded bits for the code block, and rate-matching circuitry configured to perform bit-selection procedure for the coded bits, wherein the rate-matching circuitry is configured to determine a starting coded bit index for the bit-selection procedure based on a rate-matching sequence length or an index of an instance of a PUSCH in which the coded bits are mapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, SHOICHI SUZUKI, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA, HUIFA LIN, WATARU OUCHI, Takahisa FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20240137935
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a reception circuitry that receives a PDCCH where a DCI format is mapped; and a transmission circuitry that transmits a PUCCH corresponding to a PUCCH resource indicated based on the DCI format. A first higher layer parameter is configured for a PUCCH format corresponding to the PUCCH. In a case that a second higher layer parameter is configured for the PUCCH resource, the number of repetitions of the PUCCH is a value of the second higher layer parameter, and in a case that the second higher layer parameter is not configured, the number of repetitions of the PUCCH is a value of the first higher layer parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Takahisa FUKUI, TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, SHOICHI SUZUKI, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA, WATARU OUCHI, HUIFA LIN
  • Patent number: 11966181
    Abstract: A tubular fuser device rotates and is in contact with a sheet on which a positively charged toner image is formed to fix the toner image to the sheet. The fuser device includes a tubular substrate made of a metal, a rubber layer covering the outer periphery of the substrate, an adhesion layer covering the outer periphery of the rubber layer, and a surface layer made of a resin covering the outer periphery of the adhesion layer. The adhesion layer has a first adhesion layer that is in contact with the rubber layer and a second adhesion layer interposed between the first adhesion layer and the surface layer. The first adhesion layer is made of a fluororesin-based adhesive, and the second adhesion layer is made of a silicone rubber-based adhesive containing an ionic conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Nemoto, Kenji Sasaki, Masaya Suzuki, Hidetomo Mukai
  • Publication number: 20240124685
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a methyl methacrylate-containing composition with high quality stability during storage. This can be solved with a methyl methacrylate-containing composition, a pyrazine compound represented by Formula (1) (component A1), and a polymerization inhibitor (Component B1), in which the concentration of methyl methacrylate is from 99 to 99.99% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Kurihara, Tatsuya Suzuki, Yuki Kato, Wataru Ninomiya, Maiko Kakimoto
  • Patent number: 11962202
    Abstract: A motor includes a shaft, a rotor, a stator including a coil and opposed to the rotor, and a bearing configured to support the shaft. In addition, the motor further includes a first temperature sensor disposed farther toward an outer periphery side than the coil, and a second temperature sensor disposed farther toward an inner periphery side than the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Kouji Kebukawa, Kentaro Suzuki, Wataru Nogamida, Yoshihisa Okabuchi, Takayuki Sugaya, Takahiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20240108836
    Abstract: An auxiliary device and a method for estimating the muscle pressure of a patient being ventilated by a pulmonary ventilator is provided which comprises creating the database that correlates data on pressure, volume and flow of pulmonary ventilator respiratory cycles with muscle pressure data corresponding to the pressure, volume and flow data of the ventilator; using the database to create a training data set; training a predictive time-series algorithm with the training data set; populating the algorithm with pressure, volume and flow data from a pulmonary ventilator, in which the pressure, volume and flow data include at least a time series with pressure, volume and flow curve points; and using the algorithm to estimate the muscle pressure value for at least one of the time series points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Julio Akira UEDA, Wataru UEDA, Toru Miyagi KINJO, Tatsuo SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11947287
    Abstract: A sheet separation device separates a non-bonding portion of a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlapped and bonded together at one end of the two-ply sheet. The sheet separation device includes a separator that includes a first separator and a second separator. The first separator is inserted into a gap between the two sheets of the two-ply sheet. The second separator is inserted between the two sheets at said another end of the two-ply sheet that is opposite to the one end of the two-ply sheet and moves in a width direction of the two-ply sheet after the first separator is inserted into the gap and relatively moves from the one end to said another end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru Takahashi, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Shinya Monma, Yoshito Suzuki, Joji Akiyama, Yohsuke Haraguchi, Sho Asano, Wataru Nozaki
  • Publication number: 20240107583
    Abstract: Terminal device attempts to initiate a COT-u after the channel is sensed to be idle and transmit a configured grant PUSCH. A start of a time domain resource of the configured grant PUSCH is aligned with the start of the FFP-u. In a case that the FFP-u does not overlap with an IP-g of an FFP-g, the COT-u is initiated and the configured grant PUSCH is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: HUIFA LIN, SHOICHI SUZUKI, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, WATARU OUCHI, TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, TAKAHISA FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20240095476
    Abstract: A wireless tag reading apparatus includes an antenna, a driving mechanism configured to move the antenna to multiple positions, and a controller configured to: upon receipt of a radio wave from a wireless tag via the antenna at each of the multiple positions, obtain tag information stored in the wireless tag and radio wave information related to the radio wave, adjust the radio wave information based on the tag information, and determine whether the wireless tag is a reading target based on information indicating a position of the wireless tag that is output from a model in response to an input of the adjusted radio wave information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Wataru SAKURAI, Nobuo MUROFUSHI, Shigeaki SUZUKI, Yuki SUZUKI, Masaki KIMURA, Yuichiro KAWABE, Haruka OTAKE
  • Publication number: 20240095732
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires transaction information in which consumer identification information for identifying a consumer is associated with individual item identification information indicating an individual item of a commodity purchased by the consumer in a transaction; a management unit that manages, for an individual consumer, the transaction information acquired by the acquisition unit; a receipt information output unit that outputs, based on the transaction information managed by the management unit, receipt information presented as a receipt to the consumer; a reception unit that receives event information indicating contents of an event targeting a commodity; and a specifying unit that specifies the consumer identification information, corresponding to the individual item identification information of an individual item which is a target of the event information received by the reception unit, with reference to the transaction information managed by
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuo Murofushi, Shigeaki Suzuki, Wataru Sakurai, Masaki Kimura, Yuichiro Kawabe, Yuki Suzuki, Haruka Otake
  • Publication number: 20240098736
    Abstract: A terminal device includes configuration circuitry configured to determine multiple resources for configured repetitions for a PUSCH based on information indicating a starting OFDM symbol index in a slot, a length of a PUSCH in a slot and the number of repetitions, and baseband circuitry configured to generate one or more instances each of which includes one or more resources from the multiple resources, wherein the baseband circuitry is configured to determine the each of the one or more instances such that the each of the one or more instances has no gap in time domain, or the baseband circuitry is configured to determine each of the one or more instances such that the each of the one or more instances has no gap for downlink reception in time domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, SHOICHI SUZUKI, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA, HUIFA LIN, WATARU OUCHI, Takahisa FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20240098777
    Abstract: Terminal device attempts to transmit a PUSCH scheduled by a DCI format after the channel is sensed to be idle. When the start of the PUSCH is not aligned with an FFP-u, in a case that the channel access mode is configured to as semi-static, the terminal device does not initiate a COT, regardless of indication by a ChannelAccess-CPext field in the DCI format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: HUIFA LIN, SHOICHI SUZUKI, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, WATARU OUCHI, TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, Takahisa FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20240095473
    Abstract: A wireless tag reading apparatus includes an antenna, a driving mechanism configured to move the antenna to multiple positions, and a controller configured to: upon receipt of a radio wave from a wireless tag via the antenna at each of the multiple positions, obtain tag information stored in the wireless tag and radio wave information related to the radio wave, determine whether the wireless tag is a reading target based on positional information indicating a position of the wireless tag that is output from a model in response to an input of the radio wave information, and issue a notification when a reliability level of the positional information output from the model is less than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Wataru SAKURAI, Nobuo MUROFUSHI, Shigeaki SUZUKI, Yuki SUZUKI, Masaki KIMURA, Yuichiro KAWABE, Haruka OTAKE
  • Publication number: 20240094369
    Abstract: A reading apparatus includes a mechanism to move an antenna between first and second positions, and a controller configured to: (a) control the antenna to transmit radio waves to wireless tags each attached to an object when the antenna is between the first and second positions; acquire, from response waves, information registered in each tag and indicating attributes of the object and the tag, and signal values of the response waves; and calculate an estimated position of each tag and a reliability level thereof based on the values. When the level of the position of a tag is less than a threshold or when the information of a tag indicates an attribute that can affect radio communications, the controller performs step (a) again, acquires signal values of response waves received from the tag, and calculates an estimated position of the tag and a reliability level thereof based on the values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Wataru SAKURAI, Nobuo MUROFUSHI, Shigeaki SUZUKI, Yuki SUZUKI, Masaki KIMURA, Yuichiro KAWABE, Haruka OTAKE
  • Publication number: 20240095474
    Abstract: A wireless tag reading apparatus for reading tag information stored in a wireless tag attached to an item, includes a stage on which the item can be placed, one or more antennas movable between first and second positions, a camera facing the stage, and a controller configured to control the camera to capture images and detect an object therein, control the antennas to transmit radio waves to a wireless tag and move the antennas, wherein the transmitting and the moving are repeated while the antennas move from the first position to the second position during a tag reading period, acquire tag information from response waves transmitted by the wireless tag in response to the radio waves, based on the captured images, determine whether the object has moved during the tag reading period, and upon determining that the object has moved during the tag reading period, issue a notification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Wataru SAKURAI, Nobuo MUROFUSHI, Shigeaki SUZUKI, Yuki SUZUKI, Masaki KIMURA, Yuichiro KAWABE, Haruka OTAKE
  • Patent number: 11937229
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment (UE) which communicates with a base station is described. The method may comprise acquiring radio resource control (RRC) configuration information. The RRC configuration information may indicate one or more entries, each of the entries specifying a slot format. The method may also comprise receiving a physical signal and a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with a downlink control (DCI) format. The DCI format may include a first information field and a second information field. The first information field may indicate an entry out of the entries. The second information field may indicates channel occupancy status of all channel access bandwidths in a bandwidth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Daiichiro Nakashima, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Taewoo Lee, Huifa Lin
  • Patent number: D1016141
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi Nagashima, Yoshihiro Koizumi, Shun Oya, Wataru Suzuki
  • Patent number: D1021181
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori Hattori, Wataru Suzuki, Isao Yasuda