Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Kato

Yasuhiro Kato 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: 20140335003
    Abstract: A carbon dioxide recovery system includes an absorption tower in which carbon dioxide is absorbed into an absorbing solution then the absorbing solution is output to a regeneration tower in which carbon dioxide is released from the absorbing solution. The regeneration tower outputs the absorbing solution from which carbon dioxide has been released and an exhaust gas included released carbon dioxide and water vapor. In a condensing section the exhaust gas is separated into dioxide gas stream and a condensed water stream. In a mixing section the condensed water is mixed with an amine to a replenishment amine aqueous solution in which the amine is dissolved in the condensed water. In a replenishment section the absorbing solution is mixed with the replenishment amine aqueous solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro KATO, Shinji MURAI, Takehiko MURAMATSU, Satoshi SAITO
  • Patent number: 8876236
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a liquid jetting head in which nozzles for jetting the liquid are formed and which has an actuator for jetting the liquid from the nozzles; an interposer substrate which is provided to the liquid jetting head and on which a driver IC is mounted; a control substrate which controls the liquid jetting head; a wire member which connects the interposer substrate and the control substrate; and a flexible circuit board which connects the interposer substrate and the actuator, wherein the interposer substrate has a first connecting portion to which the wire member is to be connected, and a second connecting portion to which the flexible circuit board is to be connected, and the driver IC is arranged nearer to the first connecting portion than the second connecting portion of the interposer substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kondo, Yasuhiro Kato, Masayoshi Hayashi, Tatsuya Nishikawa, Reiko Higashikawa, Toru Yamashita, Masato Sueyasu
  • Patent number: 8725149
    Abstract: A handover method according to the present invention includes the steps of: forwarding, at a handover-source radio base station (eNB), user data (A) for a mobile station (UE) to a handover-target radio base station (eNB) when it is determined that a handover processing is to be performed, the user data (A) being stored in the handover-source radio base station (eNB); activating, at the handover-target radio base station, a predetermined timer when transmitting a path switch request to a path control apparatus, and storing second user data for the mobile station received from the path control apparatus until the predetermined timer expires; and forwarding, at the handover-target radio base station, the stored second user data to the mobile station after the predetermined timer expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masayuki Motegi, Yasuhiro Kato, Yoshitsugu Shimazu, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140077550
    Abstract: A vehicle seat including: a cushion pad having elasticity and configured to be bent by a load of an occupant, the cushion pad including: a foamed-resin body made of foamed resin and provided at an ischium corresponding portion of the cushion pad, which is configured to support at least an ischial tuberosity of an occupant, and a first high elastic body of a sheet shape having a degree of elasticity higher than that of the foamed-resin body and provided at a front end portion of the cushion pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiya MAKIGUCHI, Miki AZUMA, Yasuhiro KATO
  • Patent number: 8670375
    Abstract: A tracking area setting apparatus is disclosed that includes a service request measurement unit measuring a frequency of occurrence of a service request transmitted by a user equipment terminal to a cell where the user equipment terminal is located based on a paging channel transmitted in all cells belonging to a tracking area where the user equipment terminal is located, the user equipment terminal being a target user equipment terminal to receive a call, the tracking area including one or more cells and a tracking area determination unit determining whether a number of the frequency of occurrence of the service request in a predetermined cell is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value based on the frequency of occurrence of the service request and, when determining yes, separate the predetermined cell from the tracking area to which the predetermined cell belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Takehiro Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kato, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari
  • Publication number: 20140063126
    Abstract: A liquid droplet jetting apparatus configured to jet liquid droplets, includes: a channel structure; an energy applying device including a plurality of first contact points; a wiring board arranged to face the surface of the energy applying device and connected to the energy applying device. The wiring board includes second contact points electrically connected to the first contact points, respectively and signal wiring lines connected to the second contact points, respectively. Further, the liquid droplet jetting apparatus includes a sealing material arranged, between the wiring board and the energy applying device, to surround at least a part of an area in which the first and second contact points are arranged, and a recess-protrusion portion formed in an area, of the wiring board, which is positioned between the sealing material and the second contact points, and which is other than an area in which the second contact points are arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Yamashita, Tomoyuki Kubo, Yasuhiro Kato
  • Patent number: 8666413
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention make it possible to reduce loss and delay of downlink user data transmitted at regular time intervals in a mobile communication system employing a hard handover method, and make it possible to easily perform high-quality handover solely by a handover-starting base station. A base station for transmitting downlink user data at regular time intervals to a mobile station is disclosed. The base station is configured to transmit a handover-command signal immediately after transmitting the downlink user data to the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kato, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Masayuki Motegi, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140055535
    Abstract: An ink cartridge comprises a main body comprising a first surface, a second surface, and a chamber, configured to store ink, disposed between the first surface and the second surface; an ink outlet portion disposed on the first surface of the main body configured to direct the ink from the chamber to an exterior of the main body; and an electronic circuit board disposed on the main body. The electronic circuit board comprises an electrical interface, a first portion facing a second direction that intersects a first plane that is perpendicular to the first direction, a second portion facing a third direction away from the ink outlet portion that intersects a second plane that is parallel to the first direction, and a connecting portion between the first portion and the second portion. The electrical interface is disposed on an area of the electronic circuit board including the connecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki TAKAGI, Tomohiro KANBE, Yasuhiro KATO, Hirotake NAKAMURA, Hirofumi KONDO
  • Publication number: 20140055536
    Abstract: An ink containing device comprises an ink cartridge and an adaptor. The ink cartridge comprises a first main body comprising a chamber configured to store ink, an ink outlet portion disposed on a first surface of the first main body configured to direct the ink from the chamber to an exterior of the first main body wherein the first surface faces a first direction, and an electrical interface disposed on the first main body. The adaptor is configured to be in an attached state with the ink cartridge. The adaptor comprises a second main body comprising a first contact disposed on a particular surface facing a particular direction, and a second contact disposed on a further surface and electrically connected to the first contact, wherein the second contact is electrically connected to the electrical interface in the attached state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki TAKAGI, Tomohiro KANBE, Yasuhiro KATO, Hirotake NAKAMURA, Hirofumi KONDO
  • Patent number: 8657406
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus is provided including: a liquid jetting head having a nozzle formed therein through which the liquid is jetted; a driving unit which is configured to output energy to the liquid jetting head; an energy recovery mechanism which is configured to recover and supply a part of the energy supplied from the driving unit to the liquid jetting head; and a mist removing unit to which the part of the energy recovered by the energy recovery mechanism is supplied so that the supplied energy is used to remove a mist generated under a condition that the liquid jetting head jets the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Reiko Higashikawa, Hirofumi Kondo, Tomoyuki Kubo, Masayoshi Hayashi, Masato Sueyasu, Toru Yamashita, Tatsuya Nishikawa, Yasuhiro Kato, Shuhei Hiwada
  • Patent number: 8649323
    Abstract: A plug-and-play radio base station autonomously establishes X2 logical interfaces and S1 logical interfaces with existing base stations and upper nodes. A new radio base station which is installed in a network advertises an IP address of the new radio base station over a transport network. An existing radio base station or an upper node which receives the IP address detects the number of hops from the new radio base station to the existing radio base station or the upper node. An initial logical interface with the new radio base station is established when the detected number of hops is below a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Takehiro Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kato, Yoshitsugu Shimazu, Masayuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20130343974
    Abstract: An acid gas absorbent comprising at least one type of diamine compound represented by the following general formula (1), R1R2N—(CHR3)n—CH2—NR4R5??(1), where R1, R2, R4 and R5 represent any of: a cyclic alkyl group having carbon number from 3 to 6; an alkyl group having carbon number from 1 to 4; a hydroxyalkyl group; and a hydrogen atom, R3 represents any of: the hydrogen atom; a methyl group; and an ethyl group, “n” represents an integer number of 1 or 2, at least one of two amino groups is a secondary amino group, both of the two amino groups are groups other than a primary amino group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Shinji MURAI, Yukishige MAEZAWA, Yasuhiro KATO, Takehiko MURAMATSU, Masatoshi HODOTSUKA, Satoshi SAITO
  • Publication number: 20130331104
    Abstract: A disclosed base station apparatus to be used in a mobile communication system includes a report signal receiving unit, receiving a report signal from one or more user equipment terminals, a radio parameter adjustment unit adjusting radio parameters based on an analysis result of each report signal, a designation unit designating a report condition to be used for each user equipment terminal to determine whether to transmit the report signal and content to be reported in the report signal, and a report unit reporting the report condition and the content to be reported to the one or more user equipment terminals. Further, in the base station apparatus, the report condition is satisfied when a transmission source of a downlink reference signal is a specific cell, and the content to be reported includes a received quality value of the downlink reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Takehiro Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kato, Yoshitsugu Shimazu, Masayuki Motegi
  • Publication number: 20130286433
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which utilizes a communication device is disclosed. A communication unit of a housing which corresponds to an antenna portion is provided at a position at which the communication unit can be seen without obstruction from the upper side. A communication device such as a smartphone can be brought close to or into contact with the communication unit readily. Accordingly, wireless communication between the antenna portion and the communication device can be established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryoichi Matsushima, Hirofumi Kondo, Yasuhiro Kato, Masayoshi Hayashi, Masato Sueyasu, Reiko Toyama
  • Patent number: 8545783
    Abstract: There is provided an acid gas absorbent having excellent performance of absorbing acid gas such as carbon dioxide, and an acid gas removal device and an acid gas removal method using the acid gas absorbent. An acid gas absorbent of an embodiment contains at least one type of tertiary amine compound represented by the following general formula (1). (In the above formula (1), the cycle A represents a cyclic structure whose carbon number is not less than 3 nor more than 8. R1, R2 and R3 each represent an alkyl group whose carbon number is 1 to 4, and R4 represents a hydroxyalkyl group. R1 and R2 are groups coupled to carbon atoms adjacent to a carbon atom forming the cycle A and coupled to a nitrogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinji Murai, Yukishige Maezawa, Yasuhiro Kato, Takehiko Muramatsu, Masatoshi Hodotsuka
  • Patent number: 8542948
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains a difference between a partial region of an input image and a partial region of a background image, stored in a storage device, corresponding to the partial region of the input image, determines whether each partial region of the input image is a moving body region or a background region based on the difference, and combines the partial region of the input image determined as the background region and the partial region of the background image corresponding to the partial region of the input image to update the background image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kato, Shinji Shiraga, Kotaro Yano
  • Patent number: 8506913
    Abstract: An acidic gas absorbent having a high acidic gas absorption capacity, that is, a high acidic gas absorption amount and a high acidic gas absorption rate, an acidic gas absorption device, and a method for absorbing an acidic gas, are provided. An acidic gas absorbent containing an azabicyclo compound and a primary or secondary amine compound; an acidic gas absorbent containing a heteroaromatic ring compound and a primary or secondary amine compound; an acidic gas removal device using these acidic gas absorbents; and a method for removing an acidic gas are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinji Murai, Satoshi Saito, Yasuhiro Kato, Takehiko Muramatsu, Takashi Kuboki, Hiroko Watando, Asato Kondo, Yukishige Maezawa
  • Patent number: 8504045
    Abstract: A radio base station (T-eNB) is configured to set up a data forwarding tunnel for forwarding user plane data to the radio base station (T-eNB) only for an access bearer for which the user plane data to be forwarded exists, when receiving a notification from a handover-source radio base station (S-eNB) as to whether or not the user plane data to be forwarded exists for each access bearer. The notification being made by using a handover request message for the mobile station (UE), and the access bearer being set up between the radio base station (T-eNB) and a upper level node (SGW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Masayuki Motegi, Yasuhiro Kato, Yoshitsugu Shimazu, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8504049
    Abstract: A disclosed mobile communication system includes a newly-installed base station configured to send its identifier and a pilot channel; existing base stations; user devices configured to send reception quality measurements of the pilot channel to the existing base stations; and an upper node. Each of the existing base stations includes a statistical processing unit for performing statistical processing on the reception quality measurements; and a statistical processing result reporting unit configured to send a result of the statistical processing to the upper node. The upper node includes a tracking area selecting unit configured to select a tracking area to be assigned to the newly-installed base station based on the results of the statistical processing; and a tracking area reporting unit configured to report the selected tracking area to the newly-installed base station. The newly-installed base station includes a tracking area setting unit configured to set the reported tracking area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Takehiro Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kato, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari
  • Patent number: 8478274
    Abstract: A handover control apparatus includes a service determination unit determining a type of a service being communicated with by a mobile station and a handover processing unit performing handover in accordance with either a network initiative type handover procedure or a mobile station initiative type handover procedure based on the determination. If the service being communicated with by the mobile station belongs to a communication quality guaranteed type service, the handover is performed in accordance with the network initiative type handover procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kato, Hideaki Takahashi, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Takehiro Nakamura