Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Shimizu

Yoshitaka Shimizu 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: 20240389147
    Abstract: In a wireless communication method between a base station and a plurality of wireless terminals, the base station includes a plurality of first wireless modules that perform wireless communication using different channels that do not overlap each other, and each of the plurality of wireless terminals includes a second wireless module that performs wireless communication using any one communication channel. The wireless communication method includes executing a channel switching process of switching use states of the plurality of first wireless modules according to a predetermined schedule so as to enable any one of the plurality of first wireless modules to carry out transmission and to prohibit the other thereof from carrying out transmission. Further, there is a sleeping of an operation of the second wireless module while the first wireless module that performs wireless communication using the communication channel is prohibited from carrying out transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko SHINOHARA, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI, Junichi IWATANI, Yoshitaka SHIMIZU, Tomoyuki YAMADA
  • Patent number: 12139045
    Abstract: A vehicle according to the present disclosure includes a brake device and an electronic control unit. The brake device is configured to change a front-rear distribution ratio of braking force with respect to front and rear wheels. The electronic control unit is configured to: control the brake device such that the front-rear distribution ratio is in accordance with a fixed distribution characteristic in which the front-rear distribution ratio is constant regardless of deceleration of the vehicle in at least a part of a first range being a required deceleration range lower than a lower limit value of the deceleration perceivable by a person in the vehicle; and control the brake device such that the front-rear distribution ratio is biased toward the rear wheel than that in the fixed distribution characteristic in a second range in which the deceleration is higher than that in the first range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nozomu Maruhashi, Yuichi Shimizu, Toshiki Hara, Yoshitaka Fujita
  • Patent number: 12120103
    Abstract: An information processing system (1) includes an account-opening task server (100) and an agent server (200), wherein the server (100) includes a transmission unit (102) that transmits, to the server (200), when storing personal information of a user in a personal information database (120), first authentication information for logging in the server (100) with respect to the user and a processing unit (104) that executes, when receiving the first authentication information, processing of reading the user information of the user, and the server (200) includes an ID registration unit (202) that stores second authentication information for the user to log in to the server (200) in an ID storage unit (220) in association with the first authentication information and a login unit (204) that reads, when receiving the second authentication information, the first authentication information corresponding to the second authentication information from the ID storage unit (220) and logs in to the server (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Kihara, Shota Ono, Yoshitaka Yoshimura, Tomohisa Shimizu, Shinichi Toriyama, Masahiro Kiyosawa
  • Publication number: 20240334417
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of wireless communication apparatuses that constitutes a wireless communication network and one or a plurality of control apparatuses that controls the plurality of wireless communication apparatuses. The plurality of wireless communication apparatuses includes a base station, a first wireless terminal, and a second wireless terminal. Each of the base station and the first wireless terminal includes N (N is an integer of two or more) network interface controllers (NICs), and the second wireless terminal includes M (M<N) NICs. The control apparatus executes channel switching processing of switching a use state of the N NICs in the base station and the first wireless terminal. The control apparatus controls the base station and the first wireless terminal to use NICs of the same channel in the same period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko SHINOHARA, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI, Junichi IWATANI, Tomoyuki YAMADA, Yoshitaka SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240334468
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of wireless communication apparatuses forming a wireless communication network. The system also includes one or a plurality of control apparatuses that controls the plurality of wireless communication apparatuses. Each of the plurality of wireless communication apparatuses includes a plurality of network interface controllers (NICs) that performs wireless communication through different channels that do not overlap each other. The control apparatus executes channel switching processing of switching a use state of the plurality of NICs in each wireless communication apparatus. The control apparatus controls the plurality of wireless communication apparatuses to use NICs of the same channel in the same period. The control apparatus controls to share connection information regarding each of the plurality of NICs in advance before the channel switching processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko SHINOHARA, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI, Junichi IWATANI, Tomoyuki YAMADA, Yoshitaka SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11092235
    Abstract: An object is to reduce a delay in response. An automatic gear changing control device includes a sleeve which is moved by an actuator to perform an engagement operation, an engine which is connected to an input shaft, and a control unit which controls the movement of the sleeve by the actuator and controls the rotation of the input shaft by the engine or a motor generator. The control unit performs synchronization control of controlling the rotation of the input shaft for the engagement operation at a different gear stage after the engagement is released and starts shift control of moving the sleeve to an engagement completion position by the actuator before at least the synchronization is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shimizu, Mitsutoshi Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20200088293
    Abstract: An object is to reduce a delay in response. An automatic gear changing control device includes a sleeve which is moved by an actuator to perform an engagement operation, an engine which is connected to an input shaft, and a control unit which controls the movement of the sleeve by the actuator and controls the rotation of the input shaft by the engine or a motor generator. The control unit performs synchronization control of controlling the rotation of the input shaft for the engagement operation at a different gear stage after the engagement is released and starts shift control of moving the sleeve to an engagement completion position by the actuator before at least the synchronization is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka SHIMIZU, Mitsutoshi KAMIYA
  • Publication number: 20180147189
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide excellent pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of ataxia in spinocerebellar degeneration with which the risk of side effects caused by elevation of thyroid hormone levels is reduced. The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of ataxia in spinocerebellar degeneration including, as an active ingredient, a daily dose of 1.6 mg to 3.2 mg of rovatirelin or 1.6 mg to 3.2 mg of pharmacologically acceptable salt of rovatirelin as being calculated as a free form, wherein the pharmaceutical composition is administered once daily. The pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention are particularly useful as therapeutic agents for ataxia in SCD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: KISSEI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shimizu, Hitoshi Yamano, Yuji Kiyono, Tomoyuki Ijiro
  • Patent number: 8951450
    Abstract: Disclosed are: an apparatus which enables the easy production of liposomes having uniform particle diameters; and others. Specifically disclosed is a liposome production apparatus comprising: a microtube having a flow path through which a lipid-dissolved solution comprising at least one lipid, water and a water-miscible organic solvent can pass; a housing section in which the microtube is accommodated; and a cooling means for cooling the dissolved solution contained in the microtube in the housing section to a temperature at which liposomes can be produced. The apparatus enables the production of liposomes having uniform particle diameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignees: Biomedcore, Inc., Toray Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shimizu, Yuichiro Satoh, Yasuhiko Mibe, Masakazu Kuroda, Yuichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 8774089
    Abstract: A wireless terminal receives a first broadcast signal transmitted from a wireless base station; detects whether a part of a wireless terminal ID of the own wireless terminal is included in the first broadcast signal received in the broadcast signal reception or not and determines that the second broadcast signal is to be continuously received when the part of the wireless terminal ID is included; and receives the second broadcast signal when it is determined in the broadcast signal determination that the second broadcast signal is to be received, stops receiving data transmitted from the wireless base station when assignment information to be transmitted to the own wireless terminal is not present in the received second broadcast signal, and receives data transmitted from the wireless base station to the own wireless terminal based on the information on the assignment position of the wireless slot included in the second broadcast signal when the assignment information to be transmitted to the own wireless ter
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Fusao Nuno, Yoshitaka Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8660098
    Abstract: A base station apparatus includes a base-station receiver which receives information indicating the occurrence of the given event in the wireless terminal device, the information being transmitted from the wireless terminal device using the common slot. The base station apparatus includes a base-station transmission and reception manager which determines the number of random slots assigned as random slots to transmit the bandwidth request information for the given event among random slots in the random access period, based on the occurrence of the given event received by the base-station receiver. The base station apparatus includes a base-station transmitter which transmits, in the base station apparatus, information on the assigned random slots to the wireless terminal device of random access period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shimizu, Fusao Nuno
  • Patent number: 8532140
    Abstract: A base station performs bandwidth assignment for each terminal station or each wireless link even when the base station does not receive a bandwidth request in random access from the terminal station in the demand assignment period present in a specific period in which a transmission frequency of data to transmit is high, the specific period being specified for each terminal station or each wireless link between the terminal station and the base station, and the terminal station transmits at least one of bandwidth request information and the data to transmit in a bandwidth assigned by the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shimizu, Fusao Nuno
  • Publication number: 20120267809
    Abstract: Disclosed are: an apparatus which enables the easy production of liposomes having uniform particle diameters; and others. Specifically disclosed is a liposome production apparatus comprising: a microtube having a flow path through which a lipid-dissolved solution comprising at least one lipid, water and a water-miscible organic solvent can pass; a housing section in which the microtube is accommodated; and a cooling means for cooling the dissolved solution contained in the microtube in the housing section to a temperature at which liposomes can be produced. The apparatus enables the production of liposomes having uniform particle diameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicants: TORAY ENGINEERING CO., LTD., BIOMEDCORE, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shimizu, Yuichiro Satoh, Yasuhiko Mibe, Masakazu Kuroda, Yuichiro Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20110250262
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a liposome, which comprises: a first mixing step wherein one or more lipids are mixed with an aqueous solution containing a water-miscible organic solvent; a heating step wherein the mixture obtained by mixing the lipids with the aqueous solution is heated to a temperature at which the lipids are dissolved in the aqueous solution; and a cooling step following the heating step, wherein the resulting mixture is cooled down to a temperature at which a liposome is produced. Uniform-sized liposomes having a high encapsulation rate can be easily obtained by the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: BIOMEDCORE, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shimizu, Yasuhiko Mibe
  • Publication number: 20110038317
    Abstract: A wireless terminal receives a first broadcast signal transmitted from a wireless base station; detects whether a part of a wireless terminal ID of the own wireless terminal is included in the first broadcast signal received in the broadcast signal reception or not and determines that the second broadcast signal is to be continuously received when the part of the wireless terminal ID is included; and receives the second broadcast signal when it is determined in the broadcast signal determination that the second broadcast signal is to be received, stops receiving data transmitted from the wireless base station when assignment information to be transmitted to the own wireless terminal is not present in the received second broadcast signal, and receives data transmitted from the wireless base station to the own wireless terminal based on the information on the assignment position of the wireless slot included in the second broadcast signal when the assignment information to be transmitted to the own wireless ter
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Fusao Nuno, Yoshitaka Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20110013578
    Abstract: A base station performs bandwidth assignment for each terminal station or each wireless link even when the base station does not receive a bandwidth request in random access from the terminal station in the demand assignment period present in a specific period in which a transmission frequency of data to transmit is high, the specific period being specified for each terminal station or each wireless link between the terminal station and the base station, and the terminal station transmits at least one of bandwidth request information and the data to transmit in a bandwidth assigned by the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shimizu, Fusao Nuno
  • Publication number: 20110007720
    Abstract: A base station apparatus includes a base-station receiver which receives information indicating the occurrence of the given event in the wireless terminal device, the information being transmitted from the wireless terminal device using the common slot. The base station apparatus includes a base-station transmission and reception manager which determines the number of random slots assigned as random slots to transmit the bandwidth request information for the given event among random slots in the random access period, based on the occurrence of the given event received by the base-station receiver. The base station apparatus includes a base-station transmitter which transmits, in the base station apparatus, information on the assigned random slots to the wireless terminal device of random access period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shimizu, Fusao Nuno
  • Publication number: 20100324271
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide antibodies which recognize non-reducing mannose residues. The present invention provides antibodies recognizing non-reducing mannose residues, which are obtained through screening of phage-display library of human scFvs by using, as an antigen, Man3-DPPE which is an artificial glycolipid synthesized from mannotriose and dipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine by reductive amination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: TOKAI UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
    Inventors: Yoko Yamaguchi, Munehiro Nakata, Keiko Sakai, Yoshitaka Shimizu, Ayano Takasaki, Tomoki Chiba, Yu Kusada, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Atsushi Takayanagi
  • Publication number: 20080020029
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a drug delivery composition which allows efficient accumulation of an administered substance such as an anti-cancer drug and the like in a target site. The present invention provides a drug delivery liposome composition for delivering a substance to be administered to a target site, which comprises an oligosaccharide coated liposome and a substance to be administered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicants: TOKAI UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, AICHI PREFECTURE
    Inventors: Naoya Kojima, Yoshitaka Shimizu, Yuzuru Ikehara, Hayao Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 4430776
    Abstract: A combination vibration damper and fastener comprises head portions of the shape of a suction disc opposed back to back to each other across a space and adapted to collide with two separate panels, shanks extended in opposite directions from the head portions and provided with engaging means, damper pieces extended aslant from the head portions so as to be opposed to each other, and a connecting piece serving to connect the two head portions to each other. Insertion of the opposite shanks into the fitting holes bored in advance in the two panels fastens the two panels as separated by a fixed distance from each other. Vibration arising in one of the panels is absorbed by the damper pieces and prevented from reaching the other panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1984
    Assignees: Matsushita Reiki Co., Ltd., Nifco Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shimizu, Norio Takahashi