Patents by Inventor Yuji Hosoda
Yuji Hosoda 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: 9184863Abstract: Methods and apparatus to multiplex light signals are disclosed herein. An example method includes conveying a first light signal via a first optical path and conveying a second light signal via a second optical path. The example method also includes frequency-division multiplexing and time-division multiplexing the first light signal and the second light signal to enable generation of a multiplexed light signal. The example method further includes directing the multiplexed light signal into an optical detector.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventor: Yuji Hosoda
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Patent number: 9182235Abstract: Calculating a highly accurate locus is a goal.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka Hara, Akira Oshima, Kenjiro Yamamoto, Yuji Hosoda
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Patent number: 8925379Abstract: A sensor module for a sensing apparatus configured for operation downhole, within a borehole. The sensor module comprises a sensor array having a plurality of sensors to sense selected formation parameters and a control system for selective and independent operation of each sensor of the sensor array. Each sensor of the sensor array is configured or designed as a discrete sensor unit for individual and independent communication and control. Each sensor of the sensor array may have an associated electronics module that provides standardized electronic connectivity with the control system.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2013Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Tsutomu Yamate, Toru Terabayashi, Ricardo Vasques, Kazumasa Kanayama, Yuji Hosoda, Stephane Briquet
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Publication number: 20140193153Abstract: Methods and apparatus to multiplex light signals are disclosed herein. An example method includes conveying a first light signal via a first optical path and conveying a second light signal via a second optical path. The example method also includes frequency-division multiplexing and time-division multiplexing the first light signal and the second light signal to enable generation of a multiplexed light signal. The example method further includes directing the multiplexed light signal into an optical detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2013Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Yuji Hosoda
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Publication number: 20140088863Abstract: Calculating a highly accurate locus is a goal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2011Publication date: March 27, 2014Inventors: Yoshitaka Hara, Akira Oshima, Kenjiro Yamamoto, Yuji Hosoda
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Patent number: 8666016Abstract: A fuel exchange apparatus, comprising: a traveling carriage moving horizontally in one direction; a traversing carriage moving horizontally on the traveling carriage in a direction orthogonal to the one direction in which the traveling carriage moves; and a fuel holding unit attached to the traversing carriage, and including an telescopic tube enabling to extend and contract, a holding tool for holding a fuel assembly and releasing the held fuel assembly, and a lifter for raising and lowering the holding tool by winding and running out linear members for suspending and supporting the holding tool from the traversing carriage, wherein the holding tool is selectively placed in a constrained state in which the holding tool is subject to a constraint by the telescopic tube and in a freely suspended state in which the holding tool is released from the constraint by the telescopic tube and freely suspended by the linear members.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2007Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Arai, Yuji Hosoda, Ryoji Azumaishi, Yutaka Kometani, Kunihiko Iwama
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Publication number: 20140023171Abstract: A fuel exchange apparatus, comprising: a traveling carriage moving horizontally in one direction; a traversing carriage moving horizontally on the traveling carriage in a direction orthogonal to the one direction in which the traveling carriage moves; and a fuel holding unit attached to the traversing carriage, and including an telescopic tube enabling to extend and contract, a holding tool for holding a fuel assembly and releasing the held fuel assembly, and a lifter for raising and lowering the holding tool by winding and running out linear members for suspending and supporting the holding tool from the traversing carriage, wherein the holding tool is selectively placed in a constrained state in which the holding tool is subject to a constraint by the telescopic tube and in a freely suspended state in which the holding tool is released from the constraint by the telescopic tube and freely suspended by the linear members.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2007Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventors: Yutaka Arai, Yuji Hosoda, Ryoji Azumaishi, Yutaka Kometani, Kunihiko Iwama
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Patent number: 8576055Abstract: A collision avoidance assisting system for a vehicle, for expecting a risk of colliding upon a moving object (or a moving obstacle), including a pedestrian, more correctly, but without annoying a driver, excessively, by estimating the risk to be excessively high, comprises a moving object detecting means for detecting a moving object existing on periphery of the vehicle; a footway boundary detecting means for detecting a position and a configuration of a footway boundary object on periphery of the vehicle; a risk estimation means for estimating a risk that the moving object detected by said moving object detecting means collides on the vehicle; and an alarm means for calling an attention to a driver of the vehicle, upon basis of the risk of collision estimated by the risk estimation means, wherein the risk of collision between the moving object, which is detected by the moving object detecting means, and that vehicle is estimated by taking at least the position information of the moving object, the position iType: GrantFiled: February 3, 2010Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Hara, Yuji Hosoda, Masashi Koga
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Patent number: 8540408Abstract: A lamp light source comprises: a light-emitting unit having a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements arranged as a ring on a front face of a mount so as to principally emit light in a frontal direction; and a circuit unit converting externally-supplied electrical power to cause the semiconductor light-emitting elements to emit the light, wherein a through-hole passes vertically through the light-emitting unit at a point inside the ring of semiconductor light-emitting elements, the circuit unit is at least partly arranged within the through-hole, and a space is provided between the circuit unit and the light-emitting unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2011Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kenji Takahashi, Yuji Hosoda, Kazushige Sugita
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Patent number: 8504202Abstract: An autonomous mobile robot apparatus and a method for avoiding collision due to rush-out, being applicable under the circumstances where persons and robots come and go each other, comprises an obstacle detector unit 3, which detects an obstacle, a route producer unit 7, which determines a route for reaching to a destination while avoiding the obstacle detected by the obstacle detector unit upon basis of a predetermined avoiding method, as well as, a velocity thereof, and a moving unit 2, which loads the obstacle detector unit and the route producer unit thereon and moves, thereby operating under circumstances mixing with a human being(s), wherein the obstacle detector unit, further, detects a terminal point of an article lying in an advancing direction of the autonomous mobile robot apparatus, and a distance between the terminal point and the autonomous mobile robot apparatus, and the route producer unit, when the obstacle detector unit detects the terminal end of said article, controls at least either one ofType: GrantFiled: August 26, 2009Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Ryoko Ichinose, Saku Egawa, Yuji Hosoda
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Patent number: 8397561Abstract: A sensor module for a sensing apparatus configured for operation downhole, within a borehole. The sensor module comprises a sensor array having a plurality of sensors to sense selected formation parameters and a control system for selective and independent operation of each sensor of the sensor array. Each sensor of the sensor array is configured or designed as a discrete sensor unit for individual and independent communication and control. Each sensor of the sensor array may have an associated electronics module that provides standardized electronic connectivity with the control system.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2010Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Schlumberger Tecchnology CorporationInventors: Tsutomu Yamate, Toru Terabayashi, Ricardo Vasques, Kazumasa Kanayama, Yuji Hosoda, Stephane Briquet
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Publication number: 20120287632Abstract: A lamp light source comprises: a light-emitting unit having a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements arranged as a ring on a front face of a mount so as to principally emit light in a frontal direction; and a circuit unit converting externally-supplied electrical power to cause the semiconductor light-emitting elements to emit the light, wherein a through-hole passes vertically through the light-emitting unit at a point inside the ring of semiconductor light-emitting elements, the circuit unit is at least partly arranged within the through-hole, and a space is provided between the circuit unit and the light-emitting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2011Publication date: November 15, 2012Inventors: Kenji Takahashi, Yuji Hosoda, Kazushige Sugita
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Publication number: 20120273812Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a light source for illumination that achieves excellent luminous intensity distribution and can be easily assembled. A light source 1 comprises a mount 20; a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements 12 disposed on an upper surface 22 of the mount 20 so that each light-emitting element emits light primarily upward; and a reflector 80 disposed above the semiconductor light-emitting elements 12 and having a reflective surface 85 configured to reflect a portion of primary light from the light-emitting elements 12 obliquely downward so that the portion of the primary light is prevented from striking the upper surface 22 of the mount 20, wherein the reflector 80 is provided with an opening 86 or a cut for leaking another portion of the primary light upward.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2011Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventors: Kenji Takahashi, Yuji Hosoda, Ryoma Murase, Shinji Kadoriku, Yusuke Kusaka, Kazushige Sugita
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Patent number: 8181057Abstract: To synchronize units of a formation evaluation/drilling operation evaluation system, a time delay associated with a communications link between a master unit and a slave unit of the formation evaluation/drilling operation evaluation system is determined. The master unit has a master time clock that provides universal time. The time delay associated with the communications link is used to enable synchronization of time provided by a slave time clock in the slave unit to the universal time.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Edward Nichols, Yuji Hosoda, Thor Johnsen, Vamsi Vytla, Hong Zhang, Luis DePavia
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Patent number: 8174403Abstract: Remote sensing systems are provided including a recorder, a cable network and a plurality of downhole sensor nodes. The cable network comprises a first cable and a second cable. The first and second cables form a loop. The recorder and the plurality of downhole sensor nodes are connected to the cable network in series. The first cable delivers power to the nodes and the second cable comprises a power return and closes the loop to the recorder.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Masahiro Kamata, Yuji Hosoda
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Publication number: 20100257926Abstract: A sensor module for a sensing apparatus configured for operation downhole, within a borehole. The sensor module comprises a sensor array having a plurality of sensors to sense selected formation parameters and a control system for selective and independent operation of each sensor of the sensor array. Each sensor of the sensor array is configured or designed as a discrete sensor unit for individual and independent communication and control. Each sensor of the sensor array may have an associated electronics module that provides standardized electronic connectivity with the control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2010Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: TSUTOMU YAMATE, TORU TERABAYASHI, RICARDO VASQUES, KAZUMASA KANAYAMA, YUJI HOSODA, STEPHANE BRIQUET
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Publication number: 20100222954Abstract: An autonomous mobile robot apparatus and a method for avoiding collision due to rush-out, being applicable under the circumstances where persons and robots come and go each other, comprises an obstacle detector unit 3, which detects an obstacle, a route producer unit 7, which determines a route for reaching to a destination while avoiding the obstacle detected by the obstacle detector unit upon basis of a predetermined avoiding method, as well as, a velocity thereof, and a moving unit 2, which loads the obstacle detector unit and the route producer unit thereon and moves, thereby operating under circumstances mixing with a human being(s), wherein the obstacle detector unit, further, detects a terminal point of an article lying in an advancing direction of the autonomous mobile robot apparatus, and a distance between the terminal point and the autonomous mobile robot apparatus, and the route producer unit, when the obstacle detector unit detects the terminal end of said article, controls at least either one ofType: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2009Publication date: September 2, 2010Inventors: Ryoko Ichinose, Saku Egawa, Yuji Hosoda
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Publication number: 20100201509Abstract: A collision avoidance assisting system for a vehicle, for expecting a risk of colliding upon a moving object (or a moving obstacle), including a pedestrian, more correctly, but without annoying a driver, excessively, by estimating the risk to be excessively high, comprises a moving object detecting means for detecting a moving object existing on periphery of the vehicle; a footway boundary detecting means for detecting a position and a configuration of a footway boundary object on periphery of the vehicle; a risk estimation means for estimating a risk that the moving object detected by said moving object detecting means collides on the vehicle; and an alarm means for calling an attention to a driver of the vehicle, upon basis of the risk of collision estimated by the risk estimation means, wherein the risk of collision between the moving object, which is detected by the moving object detecting means, and that vehicle is estimated by taking at least the position information of the moving object, the position iType: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2010Publication date: August 12, 2010Inventors: Yoshitaka HARA, Yuji Hosoda, Masashi Koga
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Patent number: D660470Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2011Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Mase, Yasushige Tomiyoshi, Tomonari Hashimoto, Yuji Hosoda
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Patent number: D660471Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2011Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Mase, Yasushige Tomiyoshi, Tomonari Hashimoto, Yuji Hosoda