Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Sakamoto
Yoshitaka Sakamoto 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).
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Patent number: 11958921Abstract: To provide a disposable diaper enabling reduction in re-wet amount and having an excellent speed of incorporating liquid regardless of concentration and configuration of a water-absorbing agent in an absorbent material. A water-absorbing agent having excellent Gel Capillary Absorption (GCA) and Free Gel Bed Permeability (FGBP) is obtained by crushing a crosslinked hydrogel polymer obtained in a polymerization step to have a specific weight average particle diameter while fluid retention capacity and a surface tension of a water-absorbing agent are adjusted in a specific range, drying the crushed crosslinked hydrogel polymer, and then adding a liquid permeability enhancer thereto during surface crosslinking or after surface crosslinking.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yorino, Daisuke Takeda, Yoshitaka Ikeuchi, Shigeru Sakamoto, Yoshihiro Shobo, Yoshifumi Adachi, Ryota Wakabayashi, Daisuke Takagi, Sachie Kitabata
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Publication number: 20230372882Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is, in a bubble generating device provided with a bubble generating unit for generating minute bubbles in water flowing through the inside of the cylindrical main body unit, to improve the bubble generating efficiency of the bubble generating unit. Provided is a bubble generating device provided with a cylindrical main body unit and a bubble generating unit disposed within the main body, wherein: the bubble generating unit is provided with slits extending radially centered on one point within the main body unit in a cross-sectional plane of the main body unit, and a column part protruding from the inner peripheral surface of main body unit and formed on the peripheral edge of the slits; and the amount of protrusion of the column part is gradually reduced toward the upstream side from the peripheral edges of the slits, and the column part has a recessed part formed on the downstream surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Yoshiki Shibata, Kouji Hanamura, Yoshitaka Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11794152Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is, in a bubble generating device provided with a bubble generating unit for generating minute bubbles in water flowing through the inside of the cylindrical main body unit, to improve the bubble generating efficiency of the bubble generating unit. Provided is a bubble generating device provided with a cylindrical main body unit and a bubble generating unit disposed within the main body, wherein: the bubble generating unit is provided with slits extending radially centered on one point within the main body unit in a cross-sectional plane of the main body unit, and a column part protruding from the inner peripheral surface of main body unit and formed on the peripheral edge of the slits; and the amount of protrusion of the column part is gradually reduced toward the upstream side from the peripheral edges of the slits, and the column part has a recessed part formed on the downstream surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SHIBATA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiki Shibata, Kouji Hanamura, Yoshitaka Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20230334528Abstract: According to an embodiment, a data processing apparatus generalizes an element described in advertising campaign information and holds a plurality of switchable derivation methods to be used for deriving a first target model representing a recipient image. The data processing apparatus generates, on the basis of an attribute and an action history of a recipient collected from the recipient, recipient information indicating a characteristic of each attribute of the recipient and holds a plurality of switchable derivation methods to be used for deriving, for each attribute, a second target model representing a recipient image. Further, the data processing apparatus determines a target model who is a target of the advertising campaign.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Yoshitaka SAKAMOTO, Shigeki NIMIYA, Nobuharu TOZAWA, Hajime TAKEI
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Publication number: 20230334532Abstract: According to an embodiment, a data processing apparatus generalizes an element described in advertising campaign information and derives a first target model representing a recipient image. The data processing apparatus generates, on the basis of an attribute and an action history of a recipient collected from the recipient, recipient information indicating a characteristic of each attribute of the recipient and derives, for each attribute, a second target model representing a recipient image. Further, the data processing apparatus determines a target model who is a target of the advertising campaign.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Shigeki NIMIYA, Yoshitaka SAKAMOTO, Nobuharu TOZAWA, Hajime TAKEI
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Publication number: 20230325801Abstract: A POS system for managing information from POS terminals, includes a first terminal in a first store and generating first information in a first format including data fields each storing data related to an item purchased in a transaction, a second terminal in a second store and generating second information in a second format including data fields each storing data related to an item purchased in a transaction, a store server configured to manage the first and second information, and a management server configured to acquire the first and second information from the store server, when the items indicated in the first and second information are identical, modify the first and second information such that each information includes the same data fields, aggregate the data in the corresponding fields of the first and second information, and transmit the aggregated data to the store server or an external device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2022Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Xin LIU, Shigeki NIMIYA, Nobuharu TOZAWA, Hajime TAKEI, Yoshitaka SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210331124Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is, in a bubble generating device provided with a bubble generating unit for generating minute bubbles in water flowing through the inside of the cylindrical main body unit, to improve the bubble generating efficiency of the bubble generating unit. Provided is a bubble generating device provided with a cylindrical main body unit and a bubble generating unit disposed within the main body, wherein: the bubble generating unit is provided with slits extending radially centered on one point within the main body unit in a cross-sectional plane of the main body unit, and a column part protruding from the inner peripheral surface of main body unit and formed on the peripheral edge of the slits; and the amount of protrusion of the column part is gradually reduced toward the upstream side from the peripheral edges of the slits, and the column part has a recessed part formed on the downstream surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Yoshiki Shibata, Kouji Hanamura, Yoshitaka Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11077411Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is, in a bubble generating device provided with a bubble generating unit for generating minute bubbles in water flowing through the inside of the cylindrical main body unit, to improve the bubble generating efficiency of the bubble generating unit. Provided is a bubble generating device provided with a cylindrical main body unit and a bubble generating unit disposed within the main body, wherein: the bubble generating unit is provided with slits extending radially centered on one point within the main body unit in a cross-sectional plane of the main body unit, and a column part protruding from the inner peripheral surface of main body unit and formed on the peripheral edge of the slits; and the amount of protrusion of the column part is gradually reduced toward the upstream side from the peripheral edges of the slits, and the column part has a recessed part formed on the downstream surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: SHIBATA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiki Shibata, Kouji Hanamura, Yoshitaka Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11062458Abstract: An extraction section extracts, from each of a plurality of non-defective product images which show the appearance of the inspection target determined to be a non-defective product, the non-defective vector representing a feature of each non-defective product image. A generation section generates a transformation matrix by using a plurality of non-defective product vectors extracted by the extraction section. The transformation matrix is a matrix representing sequentially performing first mapping for mapping the feature vector to a feature space and second mapping for mapping a result of the first mapping to the whole space to which the feature vector belongs. An adjusting section adjusts each element of the transformation matrix generated by the generation section by using, as learning data, the feature vector extracted from a pseudo defect image.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, MEIJO UNIVERSITYInventors: Yoshio Yokoyama, Yoshitaka Sakamoto, Kazuhiro Hotta, Tomokazu Murata
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Publication number: 20200111217Abstract: An extraction section extracts, from each of a plurality of non-defective product images which show the appearance of the inspection target determined to be a non-defective product, the non-defective vector representing a feature of each non-defective product image. A generation section generates a transformation matrix by using a plurality of non-defective product vectors extracted by the extraction section. The transformation matrix is a matrix representing sequentially performing first mapping for mapping the feature vector to a feature space and second mapping for mapping a result of the first mapping to the whole space to which the feature vector belongs. An adjusting section adjusts each element of the transformation matrix generated by the generation section by using, as learning data, the feature vector extracted from a pseudo defect image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Yoshio YOKOYAMA, Yoshitaka SAKAMOTO, Kazuhiro HOTTA, Tomokazu MURATA
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Publication number: 20190176100Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is, in a bubble generating device provided with a bubble generating unit for generating minute bubbles in water flowing through the inside of the cylindrical main body unit, to improve the bubble generating efficiency of the bubble generating unit. Provided is a bubble generating device provided with a cylindrical main body unit and a bubble generating unit disposed within the main body, wherein: the bubble generating unit is provided with slits extending radially centered on one point within the main body unit in a cross-sectional plane of the main body unit, and a column part protruding from the inner peripheral surface of main body unit and formed on the peripheral edge of the slits; and the amount of protrusion of the column part is gradually reduced toward the upstream side from the peripheral edges of the slits, and the column part has a recessed part formed on the downstream surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Yoshiki Shibata, Kouji Hanamura, Yoshitaka Sakamoto
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Patent number: 7769008Abstract: A packet routing arrangement, when receiving a request to join or leave a multicast group from a host unregistered to that group, a response is sent exclusively to the unregistered host. In the packet routing arrangement, when receiving a request packet from a host to join or leave a group, including the identifier of the group, it is determined whether the source host of the packet is registered to that group; and, if it is not registered, the first group identifier is changed to a second group identifier assigned to another delivery server delivering information to the other unregistered host and the packet is transferred to this other delivery server. When receiving a packet containing certain information from this delivery server, the second group identifier included in the received packet is changed to the first group identifier and the packet is transmitted to the unregistered host.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2005Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Sakamoto, Hisao Taguchi, Migaku Ota, Shinsuke Shimizu
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Patent number: 7532624Abstract: When multicast distribution is performed on a network where a point-to-point connection is made between user terminals and a multicast router, the multicast router is protected from load due to response reports, join requests, or leave statements sent from the user terminals simultaneously. If the user terminals send response reports simultaneously, a Layer 2 switch disposed between the user terminals and the multicast router limits response reports sent to the multicast router. The Layer 2 switch prevents response reports sent from the same user terminal from being discarded consecutively, by sending a response report sent from the same user terminal to the multicast router 200 with priority in the next join confirmation event. If the user terminals send join requests or leave statements simultaneously, the Layer 2 switch limits the join requests or leave statements sent to the multicast router 200 in the same manner.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2006Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Communication Technologies, LtdInventors: Kozo Ikegami, Takashi Yokoyama, Minoru Nagai, Yoshitaka Sakamoto, Shigehiro Onizawa
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Patent number: 7463295Abstract: The present invention includes a film or video image pickup signal recording/reproduction system having an image pickup apparatus outputting an image pickup signal, a recording apparatus recording the image pickup signal, a reproduction apparatus reproducing the recorded signal, a characteristic conversion apparatus switching the characteristic of the reproduced signal, and a display apparatus displaying the signal output from the characteristic conversion apparatus. The image pickup apparatus has two kinds of gamma curve characteristics. The gamma curve characteristic data is recorded by the recording apparatus and extracted by the reproduction apparatus. The gamma curve characteristic of a reproduction image is switched by the characteristic conversion apparatus depending on the data. The image is output on a display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2003Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Ryoji Asada, Akihiro Takeuchi, Akira Usui, Yoshitaka Sakamoto, Takayuki Kimoto, Tamotsu Akeyama
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Patent number: 7430205Abstract: A packet transfer apparatus which can switch a communication path for each of a plurality of users using the same L2TP tunnel is provided. Packet transfer apparatuses terminating L2TP contain a table specifying a flow threshold level and a priority level of each subscriber; the amount of packet flow of each subscriber is measured in accordance with the information in the table; if the threshold level is exceeded, the packet communication path is switched in accordance with the priority level specified for each subscriber. The OSPF protocol is used to manage the path information, and the information of a plurality of paths to a destination is stored in a path management table. The path is switched by specifying destination routers with the source routing option in the IP header of a packet after L2TP encapsulation.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2005Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Hitachi Communication Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Migaku Ota, Hiroaki Miyata, Jun Nakajima, Yoshitaka Sakamoto
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Patent number: 7341864Abstract: A molecule introducing apparatus is provided with a power supply circuit 20 for supplying power, a step-up transformer 30 which is supplied with power from the power supply circuit 20 and which outputs a high voltage, a switching transistor 22 that blocks off and allows the supply of power from the power supply circuit 20 to the step-up transformer 30 and which generates an instantaneous high voltage, and a pair of electrode probes 50 for applying the instantaneous high voltage generated at the step-up transformer 30 to a predetermined region in a body. The molecule introducing apparatus oscillates DNA arranged outside a cell by the instantaneous high voltage so as to introduce the DNA into the cell.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2001Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignees: The Hollenniun Laboratories, Meiryo Technica Corporation, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Sakamoto, Masafumi Koide, Juichiro Nakashima, Susumu Satoh, Sousuke Miyoshi, Akiko Suzuki, Hiroyuki Arakawa, Hiroshi Marusawa
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Publication number: 20070165633Abstract: When multicast distribution is performed on a network where a point-to-point connection is made between user terminals and a multicast router, the multicast router is protected from load due to response reports, join requests, or leave statements sent from the user terminals simultaneously. If the user terminals send response reports simultaneously, a Layer 2 switch disposed between the user terminals and the multicast router limits response reports sent to the multicast router. The Layer 2 switch prevents response reports sent from the same user terminal from being discarded consecutively, by sending a response report sent from the same user terminal to the multicast router 200 with priority in the next join confirmation event. If the user terminals send join requests or leave statements simultaneously, the Layer 2 switch limits the join requests or leave statements sent to the multicast router 200 in the same manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2006Publication date: July 19, 2007Inventors: Kozo Ikegami, Takashi Yokoyama, Minoru Nagai, Yoshitaka Sakamoto, Shigehiro Onizawa
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Publication number: 20060023733Abstract: Upon receiving a connection request from a terminal, a packet transfer apparatus registers information on the terminal with a memory and forwards information necessary for the authentication of the terminal and an authentication request to an authentication server. The apparatus then receives authentication permission and a multicast group address list associated with the terminal that has made the connection request from the server. The apparatus then associates the multicast group address list received with the terminal information stored in the memory for registration. Upon receiving a participation request from the terminal, the apparatus determines whether or not the group address contained in the participation request is present in the list in the memory. If the group address is present in the list in the memory, the apparatus permits the delivery of a packet to the terminal from a content delivery server and transmits the packet to the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2005Publication date: February 2, 2006Inventors: Shinsuke Shimizu, Hiroaki Miyata, Jun Nakajima, Yoshitaka Sakamoto, Migaku Ota
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Publication number: 20050281265Abstract: A packet routing arrangement, when receiving a request to join or leave a multicast group from a host unregistered to that group, a response is sent exclusively to the unregistered host. In the packet routing arrangement, when receiving request packet from a host to join or leave a group, including the identifier of the group, it is determined whether the source host of the packet is registered to that group; and, if it is not registered, the first group identifier is changed to a second group identifier assigned to another delivery server delivering information to the other unregistered host and the packet is transferred to this other delivery server. When receiving a packet containing certain information from this delivery server, the second group identifier included in the received packet is changed to the first group identifier and the packet is transmitted to the unregistered host.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2005Publication date: December 22, 2005Inventors: Yoshitaka Sakamoto, Hisao Taguchi, Migaku Ota, Shinsuke Shimizu
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Publication number: 20050207411Abstract: A packet transfer apparatus which can switch a communication path for each of a plurality of users using the same L2TP tunnel is provided. Packet transfer apparatuses terminating L2TP contain a table specifying a flow threshold level and a priority level of each subscriber; the amount of packet flow of each subscriber is measured in accordance with the information in the table; if the threshold level is exceeded, the packet communication path is switched in accordance with the priority level specified for each subscriber. The OSPF protocol is used to manage the path information, and the information of a plurality of paths to a destination is stored in a path management table. The path is switched by specifying destination routers with the source routing option in the IP header of a packet after L2TP encapsulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2005Publication date: September 22, 2005Inventors: Migaku Ota, Hiroaki Miyata, Jun Nakajima, Yoshitaka Sakamoto