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Fukui, Tokyo

Akira Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090186004Method For Preparing An Organ For Transplantation - The present invention provides a method for preparing an organ, particularly a kidney, for transplantation into mammals. In detail, the present invention provides a method for preparing autotransplantation of autologous organs, particularly a kidney, wherein the isolated autologous mesenchymal stem cells are transplanted into an embryo inside a pregnant mammalian host or into an embryo dissected from a pregnant mammalian host at a desired site to induce differentiation, which is then transplanted into the individual.07-23-2009
20100050347Inkjet dyeing method and apparatus - An inkjet dyeing apparatus for dyeing a belt-shape textile includes a feeding section for feeding the textile, a front surface printing section for dyeing a front surface of the textile by ink ejected thereon, a front surface drying section for drying the front surface of the textile, an inverting section for inverting and feeding the textile to a rear surface printing line, a rear surface printing section for dyeing the rear surface of the textile by ink ejected thereon, and a rear surface drying section for drying the rear surface of the textile. A transporting section is provided to transport the textile for further processing. A control unit controls ink ejection at the front and rear surface printing sections.03-04-2010
20120066843INKJET DYEING METHOD - An inkjet dyeing method for dyeing a belt-shape textile by ejecting ink includes a feeding step of feeding the textile to an inkjet dyeing apparatus, a front surface printing step of dyeing the textile by ejecting the ink onto a front surface of the textile, a front surface drying step of drying the front surface of the textile, an inverting step of inverting the textile, a rear surface printing step of dyeing the textile by ejecting ink onto a rear surface of the textile, and a rear surface drying step of drying the rear surface of the textile.03-22-2012
20150252693CONDENSER - The condenser which has a thin heat transfer pipe group, a main body trunk, and an intermediate trunk, and which generates condensed water by causing steam discharged from a steam turbine to flow from an upper section of the intermediate trunk, and by bringing the steam into contact with the thin heat transfer pipe group. In the intermediate trunk, upstream side heaters and downstream side heaters are arranged so as to be parallel to each other in a steam flowing direction. The downstream side heaters and turbine bypass pipes are arranged at the same position in the steam flowing direction. The length of a gap between the upstream side heaters and the downstream side heaters, and the turbine bypass pipes is set to be equal to or shorter than the radius of the turbine bypass pipes.09-10-2015

Patent applications by Akira Fukui, Tokyo JP

Akiyoshi Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20130278056DC Power Supply System and Control Method - A DC power supply system and a control method, which can continue charging of a storage battery with a constant current even if an assist current is needed due to, for example, overload during charging of the storage battery and can suppress a current output from the storage battery as much as possible. In a power supply system, when a charger operates at a potential of an output voltage smaller than the potential of the output voltage of a rectifier during charging of the storage battery, the output current of the charger is controlled so that a charging current Ie supplied from the charger to the storage battery is kept at a predetermined value, and when a load requires a current larger than the current supplied by the rectifier during charging of the storage battery, the potential of the output voltage of the rectifier is reduced smaller than the potential of the output voltage of the charger by a current drooping operation, and the diode is electrically connected, the output current of the charger is controlled so that the charger outputs the assistant current Ic supplied toward the load while the charging current Ie is kept at a predetermined value.10-24-2013

Daiki Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090114484DEVICE FOR CONTROLLED OPERATION OF ELEVATOR - In a control operation performed at the time of earthquake or strong wind, when a running elevator is stopped at the nearest floor, the natural frequency of the transverse vibration of a rope is prevented from resonating with the natural frequency of the building, and thereby the increase in transverse vibration of the rope is restrained.05-07-2009
20100140023CAR SWAY DETECTOR FOR ELEVATOR - Since there are a variety of models of elevators, it is extremely time consuming to set by each elevator a specified value for judging car sway. Also, when one specified value is made to represent criteria for all elevators in order to save time for the setting, detection results may vary. Specified values as judgment criteria for car sway are prestored as a table or a relational expression that employ elevator specifications as parameters and a means for automatically selecting a specified value by using information on the elevator specifications is provided, which saves time for the setting. Since the set specified value is suitable for that particular elevator, variation in detection results is suppressed to realize a highly reliable car sway detector.06-10-2010

Daisuke Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080274310Thermal Transfer Sheet - It is an object of the present invention to provide a thermal transfer sheet which has high adhesion strength of a dye layer to a base and a high reflection density, and has a good releasing property from a image-receiving sheet in printing even after being stored in the conditions of high temperatures and high humidity, and can attain adequately satisfactory printed substances having high sharpness of thermal transfer images.11-06-2008
20090041957Thermal Transfer Sheet - To provide a thermal transfer sheet having a back layer excellent in heat resistance and slipping properties and causing no wrinkling at printing and no image-defect by tailing, the sheet being able to be prepared without a heat treating, such as aging.02-12-2009
20090202754THERMAL TRANSFER SHEET - It is an object of the present invention to provide a thermal transfer sheet which has a conductive primer layer having adequate adhesion and heat resistance without using a binder resin, has an excellent antistatic property, and hardly causes troubles in printing.08-13-2009
20110265977THERMAL TRANSFER SHEET - The present invention provides a thermal transfer sheet that has good heat resistance and slip property, and prevents the occurrence of tailing upon printing to achieve good printing even in high-speed printing.11-03-2011
20140108087LOG MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND LOG MANAGEMENT METHOD - A server system generates one thread with respect to a request for a process, and at the time, a thread local storage that is a dedicated area in which data used for the thread is stored is secured on a main storage device. Log tracking information that can uniquely identify output of a log from the start of output of the log to the end of output of the same is held in the thread local storage during a process of a session ID, a user ID, and a sequence number. When the log is output, the log tracking information is added to the log data to be output to an auxiliary storage device.04-17-2014
20150355904PROGRAM VISUALIZATION DEVICE, PROGRAM VISUALIZATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM VISUALIZATION PROGRAM - A data visualization device includes a module for a specific viewpoint which is selected and a diagram representing the program is generated for modules included in source code. For a module extracted using a module call relationship diagram creation unit, a data analysis unit calculates the relevance of a viewpoint, which is input by a user, by utilizing a module call relationship and a common data usage relationship. The relevance is calculated by multiplying the viewpoint relevance of a viewpoint dependent module serving as the base point and a viewpoint relevance weight in an action determination table and in inter-module path viewpoint relevance weight data. The calculated viewpoint relevance is corrected using a viewpoint relevance correction value in viewpoint relevance determination noise correction threshold data. Final viewpoint relevance is stored into per-module viewpoint relevance determination data and a program diagram in accordance with this viewpoint relevance is created.12-10-2015

Patent applications by Daisuke Fukui, Tokyo JP

Hajime Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120287296IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus includes a communication unit that executes data communication with a predetermined number of external devices, a search unit that searches for external devices that can executes data communication with the imaging apparatus, and a determination unit that, if the search unit finds a number of external devices that is greater than the predetermined number, determines with which of the external devices communication is to be activated. The determining unit is configured to, in case that the imaging unit executes an imaging process, preferentially activate communication with external devices that are used in the imaging process.11-15-2012
20130155316IMAGING APPARATUS, LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS, AND CAMERA SYSTEM - An imaging apparatus, which can communicate with a light emitting apparatus via a radio wave communication unit using radio waves, is configured to control timing at which the imaging apparatus starts an operation corresponding to a light emission performed according to a light emission start instruction based on a first light emission delay time that the light emitting apparatus requires for the processing from completion of reception of data indicating the light emission start instruction issued from the radio wave communication unit to a start of the light emission, and a second light emission delay time required for the processing from an output of the light emission start instruction issued from a light emission start instruction unit to completion of transmission of the data indicating the light emission start instruction issued from the radio wave communication unit.06-20-2013

Hiroaki Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110262037IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE SAME AND IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - In one embodiment, an image encoding apparatus converts bit depth of an input image formed of a plurality of pixels each having an N bit depth into an (N+M) bit depth larger than N bit depth by M bits. An adaptive bit depth converter converts the bit depth of each pixel of the decoded image of the (N+M) bits into the N bits selectively using one of a plurality of conversion systems. The converted image of the N bit depth is stored in a frame memory as a reference image. The bit depth of each pixel of the reference image of the N bit depth read out from the frame memory is converted into the (N+M) bit depth larger than the N bit depth by M bits in accordance with the conversion system by a pixel bit depth inverse converter.10-27-2011

Hiroshi Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100012850ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION DETECTOR AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION PROTECTION EFFECT - An ultraviolet radiation detector 01-21-2010

Jirou Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090310390ELECTRICAL POWER SOURCE, OPERATIONAL METHOD OF THE SAME, INVERTER AND OPERATIONAL METHOD OF THE SAME - The present invention is an electric power source in which a plurality of inverters operate on the same frequency and the plurality of inverters are connected in parallel so that a resistance value expressed by (1−β·G)/(α·G) where α is the output voltage feedback gain, β is the output current feed forward gain, and G is the inverter current gain, is made to be the equivalent output impedance; and is an electrical power source in which the cross-current between the inverters are made to be an acceptable value or below by adjusting the output of each of the inverters by controlling the equivalent output impedance by modifying both or either one of the output voltage feedback gain α or the output current feed forward gain α.12-17-2009

Patent applications by Jirou Fukui, Tokyo JP

Katsuhiko Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20140076039GLOW PLUG - A glow plug includes: a heater power-conduction shaft that supplies power to a heater; a pressure detection element that is provided in an axial-direction end portion of the heater power-conduction shaft and converts pressure that the heater power-conduction shaft receives in the axial direction into an electrical signal; a first insulation member that surrounds an outer periphery of the pressure detection element with respect to the axis, and allows a signal output terminal of the pressure detection element to protrude toward an outer peripheral side of the axis; a power supply wire that is provided on an outer peripheral side of the first insulation member with respect to the axis, and is connected to the heater power-conduction shaft to supply power to the heater; a signal processing circuit that is provided on an outer peripheral side of the power supply wire with respect to the axis, and is connected to the signal output terminal to process an electrical signal of the pressure detection element; and a second insulation member that is provided between the power supply wire and the signal processing circuit, and insulates the signal processing circuit from the power supply wire.03-20-2014

Keiji Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080227451HOME SUBSCRIBER SERVER CONFIGURATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention is to provide a home subscriber server configuration method and system that is accessible in switching to any one of plural HSS servers in a redundant configuration. Information stored in such plural HSS servers (e.g., HSS-A server 09-18-2008

Kenichi Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090039846SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - In order to set with a high precision the value of rush current flowing in the power switch circuit at the time of turning “on” the power, the internal circuit Int_Cir of the LSI is supplied with the internal source voltage Vint from the output transistor MP02-12-2009

Kenjl Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090266706HIGH ELECTRIC FIELD ELECTROLYSIS CELL - A High Electric Field Electrolysis (HEFE) cell is provided for electrolyzing water to transform it into Free Radical Solution (FRS) water for cleaning, deodorizing, and sterilizing. The HEFE cell is comprised of a pair of flat electrodes attached (or coated) onto a flat proton ion exchange membrane enclosed in a corresponding structure that accommodates the electrodes and the proton ion exchange membrane. The structure is comprised of at least one inlet channel for receiving purified water and two outlet channels for output of electrolyzed FRS water and hydrogen rich water. The HEFE cell further provides a mechanism for recycling of hydrogen rich water for re-use or electric power generation. The quantity and the quality of FRS water production is controlled with an external control circuit that automatically monitors and maintains appropriate parameter values for the production of FRS water.10-29-2009

Kiyoshi Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20130086378PROXY SYSTEM FOR SECURITY PROCESSING WITHOUT ENTRUSTING CERTIFIED SECRET INFORMATION TO A PROXY - First communication units use a public key thereof certified by a certification authority on a PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), which is held by the first communication units in advance, and a secret key of the first communication units or delegation information generated by using secret information, as public key certificate, of the first communication units to thereby allow a proxy server to perform security processing, i.e. key exchange processing, authentication processing or processing for providing compatibility of encryption schemes, between the first communication units and a second communication unit on behalf of the first communication units.04-04-2013
20130195274COMMISSION INFORMATION GENERATOR FOR MAKING PROCESSES ON COMMUNICATION PERFORMED BY ANOTHER COMPUTER - In a communicator in a communication system, a commission information generator for generating a commission parameter to make a process on a communication between communicators performed by another computer includes a first memory for storing a secret key and an encrypter for generating N number of the commission parameters, where N is a natural number, from a first to an N-th commission parameter. The encrypter regards a j-th shared key, where j is a positive integer equal to or less than N, out of the N number of shared keys as key information, encrypts a bit sequence representation of j-th partial information, associated with the j-th shared key, out of N pieces of partial information, and thereby generates a j-th commissioned parameter.08-01-2013
20130315391SECURE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - There is provided a secure communication system comprising first and second communication apparatuses carrying out encrypted communication. The first communication apparatus includes: a first established communication path managing unit managing information on an encrypted communication path established with the second communication apparatus; and a first communication path reestablishing unit notifying the second communication apparatus of first communication apparatus identification information and operating with the second communication apparatus to reestablish an encrypted communication path using the information on the established encrypted communication path. The second communication apparatus includes: a second established communication path managing unit managing the first communication apparatus identification information and managing the information on the established encrypted communication path in association with the first communication apparatus identification information; and a second communication path reestablishing unit reestablishing the encrypted communication path based on the first communication apparatus identification information and the information on the established encrypted communication path.11-28-2013
20150079984NETWORK REGISTRATION SYSTEM FOR REGISTERING COMMUNICATOR ON NETWORK AND NETWORK DEVICE THEREFOR - In a network registration system including a communicator to be registered on a network and a register registering the communicator on the network, either of the communicator and the register includes a check information generator generating a check information signal according to check information for prompting the user to check that the communicator is treated as an object to be registered in the network registration system; and a check information output section outputting the check information signal in a form sensible to the user. The other of the communicator and the register includes an evaluation criterion supplier supplying evaluation criterion information allowing the user to evaluate the suitability of the check information emitted from the check information output section. Thus, the network registration system can prevent an incorrect registration while easily registering the communicator to the network.03-19-2015

Kiyoyuki Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20130248505WELDING QUALITY CLASSIFICATION APPARATUS - The welding quality classification apparatus relating to the present invention is an apparatus, wherein a data point indicating feature information of a welded joint to be classified whose welding quality is unknown is mapped to a point in a mapping space which has a dimensional number higher than the number of the features constituting the feature information, and the welding quality of a welded joint to be classified is classified based on which of regions of two welding qualities, which are formed by separating the mapping space with a decision boundary, contains the mapped point, and wherein a discriminant function is determined by adopting a weight which minimizes the sum of the classification error corresponding to classification accuracy of a training dataset and a regularization term having a positive correlation with the dimensional number of the discriminant function as weight for each feature constituting the discriminant function indicating the decision boundary.09-26-2013

Kohtaro Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090165107IDENTIFICATION MANAGMENT SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE AUTHENTICATION - The conventional vertical integration system management form has a problem that a first user cannot receive a service provided by a second user belonging to another service system. To cope with this, a following system is suggested. That is, according to a second judgment server use request from a first electronic device used by a first user, an identification management server which has received a guarantee request outputted from a first judgment server searches for master-slave relationship information based on a common identifier. According to the search result, a guarantee is outputted. According to the guarantee, the first judgment server outputs a guaranteed service request to the second judgment server. Thus, the first user can receive the service used by the second user belonging to other vertical integration type system.06-25-2009
20090235340IDENTIFICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE AUTHENTICATION - In the conventional vertical integration system management form, it is impossible or difficult to limit the electronic device function or format when providing a service to an electronic device which is judged by a judgment server of an administrator of the service providing system with whom a service provider has not concluded a contract. To cope with this, a following system is suggested. That is, according to a use request from a first electronic device to a second judgment server, an identification management server which has received a guarantee request outputted from a first judgment server searches an identification management unit for managing information including the electronic device identifiers. According to the search result, a guarantee is outputted. According to the guarantee, the first judgment server outputs a guaranteed service request to the second judgment server. Thus, it is possible to provide a more flexible service provision environment by cooperating the user identification management with other vertical integration type system management form.09-17-2009
20100223381IDENTIFICATION MANAGING SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In operation of a conventional vertical integration system a primary user cannot provide services to a secondary user belonging to other service group. An identification managing server is proposed to carry out the retrieval of a master-slave relation information by using common identification information as a key and outputs an assurance including its result when the identification managing server receives an assurance request output from a first judgment server at a request of a second judgment server from a first electronic device used by a primary user. Further, the first judgment server outputs an assured service based on such assurance to the second judgment server in order for the primary user to have services from the other vertical integration system to which the secondary user belongs.09-02-2010

Koji Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080206083Seal system and scroll type fluid machine - Durability of a seal member is improved by reducing a surface pressure thereon. A seal mechanism 08-28-2008
20090087331Scroll type fluid machine - This invention provides a scroll type fluid machine which can simultaneously realize the stabilization of the behavior in the rotational direction of an orbiting scroll and the reduction in the manufacturing cost by the ease of holding a grease. In the scroll type fluid machine, three pairs of rotation prevention mechanisms are provided between a casing and an orbiting scroll. The rotation prevention mechanism is constituted of first and second ball coupling mechanisms having a function different from each other. The first ball coupling mechanism supports the thrust load of the orbiting scroll. Meanwhile, the second ball coupling mechanism supports the rotation force of the orbiting scroll.04-02-2009
20100326777Disk brake - A disc brake that suppresses braking noises when a vehicle moves backward include an urging spring urging a friction pad toward a rotationally exiting side of a disc when the vehicle moves forward, the urging spring being arranged between a hook portion of the friction pad and a torque receiving portion of a carrier. The urging spring formed through bend of an elastic plate material has its spring constant that is set to be a small value to avoid resonance frequency causing noise where the base end side thereof is fixed to the hook portion of the backing plate while the top end side thereof elastically abuts to the torque receiving portion of the carrier. The urging spring is located at the position that is outside in the radial direction from the center position of the hook portion in its width direction.12-30-2010
20130167567REFRIGERATION CYCLE APPARATUS - A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes low-pressure side pressure detecting means for detecting the pressure of a refrigerant being sucked by a compressor, suction refrigerant temperature detecting means for detecting the temperature of the refrigerant being sucked by the compressor, frequency detecting means for detecting the operation frequency of the compressor, cooling target fluid inflow temperature detecting means for detecting the temperature of a cooling target fluid flowing in an evaporator, cooling target fluid outflow temperature detecting means for detecting the temperature of the cooling target fluid flowing out of the evaporator, and flow rate calculating means (measuring unit, computing unit, and storage unit) for calculating the absolute quantity of the flow rate of the cooling target fluid flowing in the evaporator using a value detected by each detecting means.07-04-2013
20140344703INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus and a method that perform reproduction control with a high degree of freedom on slideshow reproduction are provided. Reproduction control to which first control data in which information on a reproduction start point and a reproduction end point of an image is recorded and second control data in which information on maximum display time of each image is recorded are applied is performed. When automatic slide paging setting as user setting information is ON (valid), image transition processing is performed according to whether the maximum display time for reproducing the second control data has passed, regardless of whether the reproduction end point of the first control data has passed. For example, if image display time reaches the reproduction end point of the first control data, the image is continuously displayed in a state in which the displayed image is paused, and image transition processing is performed as the maximum display time for reproducing the second control data has passed after the pause.11-20-2014

Patent applications by Koji Fukui, Tokyo JP

Kou Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090085722CABLE INSTALLATIN SUPPORT SYSTEM, TERMINAL BLOCK PLATE AND CABLE INSTALLATION SUPPORT METHOD - Provided is a cable installation support system capable of saving the labor of, and speeding up, work and check work while eliminating human error. A terminal block is provided with terminals with a fixed pitch, and a terminal block cover provided with RFIDs with the same pitch as the pitch of the terminals of the terminal block is attached to the terminal block. A terminal is provided with an RFID reader that reads identification information stored in the RFIDs. Also, in the terminal, identification information in RFID tags attached to core wires of a cable and terminals to which the core wires are attached are associated with each other, and predetermined RFIDs attached to the terminal block cover and the respective terminals of the terminal block are associated with each other. When an RFID tag and an RFID in the terminal block cover are read by the RFID reader, the terminal determines whether or not the core wire is connected to a correct terminal, based on the associated information.04-02-2009

Kouji Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100170273REFRIGERATING AND AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS - In a range of a wind velocity of 0.5 to 3.5 (m/s) in a refrigeration cycle, when combining absorbent having a small dependency on the wind velocity and the refrigeration cycle, it is not possible to vary dehumidification capability by changing the wind velocity and matching with an actual load is poor. In a refrigerating and air conditioning apparatus having a refrigerator 07-08-2010

Makoto Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20140242728METHOD OF ETCHING A MAGNESIUM OXIDE FILM - A magnetoresistive device includes an MR element including a metal layer, and an insulating portion made of magnesium oxide and in contact with the MR element. A method of manufacturing the magnetoresistive device includes the step of removing an unwanted magnesium oxide film that is formed by the magnesium oxide in the process of forming the insulating portion. In this step, the unwanted magnesium oxide film is wet etched by using an etchant containing an aqueous ammonia solution.08-28-2014

Masahiro Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110062175SLIDE ACTION TYPE HINGED-LID PACKAGE - A slide action type hinged-lid package (03-17-2011
20110068027SLIDE-ACTION HINGE-LID PACKAGE - The package (03-24-2011
20110068155TONGUE-LID PACKAGE - A package (03-24-2011
20120123788CODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, AND DEVICE AND PROGRAM USING THE METHODS - A high-quality decoded signal is synthesized. A coding method of the present invention includes a local decoding coefficient searching step. The local decoding coefficient searching step includes a replication determining sub-step, a candidate replication shift signal sequence generating sub-step, a distance calculating sub-step, and a minimum distance shift amount finding sub-step. The replication determining sub-step determines, for each source signal sequence to be coded, whether or not a candidate replication shift signal sequence is to be generated from a decoded signal sequence and outputs a replication determination flag. If the replication determination flag indicates that a candidate replication shift signal sequence is to be generated, the candidate replication shift signal sequence generating sub-step generates a candidate replication shift signal sequence for each predetermined candidate signal shift amounts. The distance calculating sub-step calculates a parameter representing the distance between predetermined signal sequences. The minimum distance shift amount finding step obtains a signal shift amount that minimizes the distance.05-17-2012
20130034168CODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A normalization value calculator 02-07-2013
20130101028ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A quantized normalization value and a normalization-value quantization index corresponding to the quantized normalization value are obtained, the quantized normalization value being obtained by quantizing a normalization value that is a value representative of samples. If a difference value that is obtained by subtracting a value corresponding to the quantized normalization value from a value corresponding to a magnitude of a value of each sample is positive and if the value of each sample is positive, the difference value is set as a quantization candidate. If the difference value is positive and if the value of each sample is negative, a value obtained by inverting positive/negative of the difference value is set as the quantization candidate. The plurality of quantization candidates respectively corresponding to the plurality of samples are collectively vector-quantized, and a vector quantization index is thus obtained and output. Sign information is output, the sign information expressing positive/negative of each sample that does not make the difference value positive, among the samples. Accordingly, encoding and decoding techniques capable of reducing musical noise and the like can be provided.04-25-2013
20130101049ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, ENCODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In encoding, index information indicating a group of coefficients that minimizes the sum of the error between the value of each sample and the value obtained by multiplying the quantized value of the sample by a coefficient corresponding to the position of the sample, for all sample positions, among a plurality of groups of predetermined coefficients corresponding to the positions of the samples, is output. In decoding, a plurality of values corresponding to an input vector quantization index are obtained as decoded values corresponding to a plurality of sample positions;04-25-2013
20130106626ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, ENCODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM05-02-2013
20130114733ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - When a number of samples which are less than a first reference value is a second reference value or less, a second encoding mode is selected. In the second encoding mode, when a difference value that is obtained by subtracting a value corresponding to the quantized normalization value from a value corresponding to the magnitude of each sample is positive and the sample is positive, the difference value is set as a quantization candidate corresponding to the sample; when the difference value is positive and the sample is negative, the sign of the difference value is reversed and the result is set as the quantization candidate corresponding to the sample; and a plurality of quantization candidates are jointly vector-quantized to obtain a vector quantization index. When the second encoding mode is not selected, a first encoding mode other than the second encoding mode is selected.05-09-2013
20130317814ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, ENCODER, DECODER, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In encoding, the number of bits to be assigned to codes corresponding to noise or a pulse sequence obtained according to prediction analysis applied to time series signals included in a predetermined time interval is switched according to whether an index that indicates a level of periodicity and/or stationarity of input time series signals satisfies a condition that indicates high periodicity and/or high stationarity or a condition that indicates low periodicity and/or low stationarity, to acquire the codes corresponding to the noise and the pulse sequence. In decoding, a decoding mode for codes corresponding to noise or a pulse sequence included in codes corresponding to a predetermined time interval is switched according to the same criterion as that described above to decode the codes corresponding to the noise or the pulse sequence to acquire noise or a pulse sequence corresponding to the predetermined time interval.11-28-2013
20140019145ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, ENCODER, DECODER, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In encoding, a frequency-domain sample sequence derived from an acoustic signal is divided by a weighted envelope and is then divided by a gain, the result obtained is quantized, and each sample is variable-length encoded. The error between the sample before quantization and the sample after quantization is quantized with information saved in this variable-length encoding. This quantization is performed under a rule that specifies, according to the number of saved bits, samples whose errors are to be quantized. In decoding, variable-length codes in an input sequence of codes are decoded to obtain a frequency-domain sample sequence; an error signal is further decoded under a rule that depends on the number of bits of the variable-length codes; and from the obtained sample sequence, the original sample sequence is obtained according to supplementary information.01-16-2014
20150046172ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, ENCODER, DECODER, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A frequency-domain sample interval corresponding to a time-domain pitch period L corresponding to a time-domain pitch period code of an audio signal in a given time period is obtained as a converted interval T02-12-2015
20150088529ENCODING METHOD, ENCODER, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A value of gain is updated so that the greater the difference between the number of bits or estimated number of bits in a code obtained by encoding a string of integer value samples obtained by dividing each sample in a sample string derived from an input audio signal in a given interval by gain before the update and a predetermined number B of allocated bits, the greater the difference between the gain before the update and the updated gain. A gain code corresponding to the updated gain and an integer signal code obtained by encoding a string of integer value samples obtained by dividing each sample in the sample string by the gain are obtained.03-26-2015
20150194163DECODING METHOD, DECODING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR - In a speech coding scheme based on a speech production model, such as a CELP-based scheme, an object of the present invention is to provide a decoding method that can reproduce natural sound even if the input signal is a noise-superimposed speech. The decoding method includes a speech decoding step of obtaining a decoded speech signal from an input code, a noise generating step of generating a noise signal that is a random signal, and a noise adding step of outputting a noise-added signal, the noise-added signal being obtained by summing the decoded speech signal and a signal obtained by performing, on the noise signal, a signal processing that is based on at least one of a power corresponding to a decoded speech signal for a previous frame and a spectrum envelope corresponding to the decoded speech signal for the current frame.07-09-2015

Patent applications by Masahiro Fukui, Tokyo JP

Mika Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120036144INFORMATION AND RECOMMENDATION DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, an information recommendation device includes following units. The input unit is configured to input a first document and a second document which has been browsed before the first document. The subject-keyword extraction unit is configured to extract first and second subject keywords from the first and second documents, respectively. The interest-keyword extraction unit is configured to extract first interest keywords from the first and second subject keywords, and to extract second interest keywords based on information specifying the first and second documents, the first interest keywords, and the first and second subject keywords. The second interest keywords are estimated to be keywords in which the user is next interested. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire, based on the second interest keywords, recommendation information on third documents which are candidates to be browsed after the first document. The presentation unit presents the recommendation information.02-09-2012

Misako Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20160058138ACCESSORY/DECORATION THAT OPENS LIKE A FLOWER - As a new design, when making part of a decoration rotatable, there is a tendency for this to result in an unnecessarily complex structure, and it was difficult to apply such structures to small decorations such as rings, due to considerations such as strength and smooth movement. Solution: The present invention was configured as follows in order to provide a decoration which, even if having a small size, has a simple structure and strength, and opens like a flower. The decoration has a configuration whereby one of a group of movable petals (03-03-2016

Osamu Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20160058138ACCESSORY/DECORATION THAT OPENS LIKE A FLOWER - As a new design, when making part of a decoration rotatable, there is a tendency for this to result in an unnecessarily complex structure, and it was difficult to apply such structures to small decorations such as rings, due to considerations such as strength and smooth movement. Solution: The present invention was configured as follows in order to provide a decoration which, even if having a small size, has a simple structure and strength, and opens like a flower. The decoration has a configuration whereby one of a group of movable petals (03-03-2016

Ryuta Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100075188Manufacturing Method of Membrane Electrode Assembly - The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a membrane electrode assembly which makes it possible to produce a polymer electrolyte fuel cell at a high level of productivity. According to the present invention, it is possible to make differences in characteristics between a first catalyst electrode 03-25-2010

Sachiko Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20130004550SUSTAINED-RELEASE SOLID PREPARATION FOR ORAL USE - It is intended to avoid dose dumping of a drug and improve the dissolution properties of the drug in the lower gastrointestinal tract, and thereby provide a sustained-release matrix preparation for oral administration that reliably exhibits its main pharmacological effect when orally administered once or twice a day. The present invention provides a sustained-release preparation obtained by mixing of (A) a pharmacologically active drug, (B) hydroxypropyl methylcellulose acetate succinate having a median size (D01-03-2013
20150366810SUSTAINED-RELEASE SOLID PREPARATION FOR ORAL USE - It is intended to avoid dose dumping of a drug and improve the dissolution properties of the drug in the lower gastrointestinal tract, and thereby provide a sustained-release matrix preparation for oral administration that reliably exhibits its main pharmacological effect when orally administered once or twice a day. The present invention provides a sustained-release matrix preparation comprising (A) a pharmacologically active drug, (B) a combination of cellulose derivatives, and (C) mannitol.12-24-2015

Shingo Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110286587CALL INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, CALL INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, CALL INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A call information providing system includes a voice data storage device and a call information providing device. The voice data storage device stores voice data indicating content of a call and a telephone number of a phone terminal used for a call so as to correspond to each other. The call information providing device transmits the information (or voice data itself), which specifies the voice data stored in the voice data storage device, to the email address of a user of the phone terminal used for the call by email. Accordingly, the content of the call and the email can be uniformly managed by the emailer of the email terminal.11-24-2011

Shoichi Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080230847SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - The reliability of a semiconductor device having an embedded wire in the lowest layer wire is improved. In a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, MISFETs are formed and over the main surface, insulating films 09-25-2008
20090289367SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A copper interconnection layer is formed in an interconnection trench at a surface of an interlayer insulating film. A diffusion preventing insulating film is formed to cover the copper interconnection layer and is made of at least one of SiC and SiCN. An insulating film is formed on the copper interconnection layer with the diffusion preventing insulating film interposed and is made of SiN.11-26-2009
20100052062SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - To provide a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device which can improve the reliability of the semiconductor device. A first insulating film for covering a semiconductor element formed in a semiconductor substrate is formed by a thermal CVD method or the like which has a good embedding property. A second insulating film is formed to cover the first insulating film by a plasma CVD method which has excellent humidity resistance. A plug is formed to penetrate the first insulating film and the second insulating film. A third insulating film comprised of a low-k film having a relatively low dielectric constant is formed over the second insulating film. A wiring is formed in the third insulating film by a damascene technique to be electrically coupled to the plug.03-04-2010
20110001246SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - The reliability of a semiconductor device having an embedded wire in the lowest layer wire is improved. In a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, MISFETs are formed and over the main surface, insulating films 01-06-2011
20120289032SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - The reliability of a semiconductor device having an embedded wire in the lowest layer wire is improved. In a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, MISFETs are formed. Over the main surface, insulating films 11-15-2012

Patent applications by Shoichi Fukui, Tokyo JP

Tadashi Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20160094027SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided is a semiconductor device making it possible to promote area reduction while maintaining ESD resistance. The semiconductor device includes a power wire, a ground wire and a protection circuit provided between the power wire and the ground wire so as to cope with electrostatic discharge. The protection circuit includes a first transistor, a first resistive element, a second transistor, a first capacitive element, a first inverter and a protection transistor. Agate width of the second transistor is narrower than a gate width of the first transistor.03-31-2016

Takao Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090208022HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION MEASUREMENT METHOD, HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION CONVOLUTION METHOD, AND HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION CONVOLUTION DEVICE - A head-related transfer function measurement method includes the steps of: first measuring, including placing an acousto-electric conversion unit nearby both ears of a listener where placement of an electro-acoustic conversion unit is assumed, picking up sound waves emitted at a perceived sound source position with the acousto-electric conversion unit in a state with a dummy head or a human at the listener position, and measuring a head-related transfer function from only the sound waves directly reaching the acousto-electric conversion unit; second measuring, including picking up sound waves emitted at a perceived sound source position with the acousto-electric conversion unit, with no dummy head or human at the listener position, and measuring a natural-state transfer property from only the sound waves directly reaching the acousto-electric conversion unit; normalizing the head-related transfer function with the natural-state transfer property to obtain a normalized head-related transfer function; which is stored in a storage unit.08-20-2009
20090214045HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION CONVOLUTION METHOD AND HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION CONVOLUTION DEVICE - A head-related transfer function (HRTF) convolution method arranged, when an audio signal is reproduced acoustically by an electro-acoustic conversion unit disposed in a nearby position of both ears of a listener, to convolute an HRTF into the audio signal, which allows the listener to listen to the audio signal such that a sound image is localized in a perceived virtual sound image localization position, the method including the steps of: measuring, when a sound source is disposed in the virtual sound image localization position, and a sound-collecting unit is disposed in the position of the electro-acoustic conversion unit, a direct-wave direction HRTF regarding the direction of a direct wave, and reflected-wave direction HRTFs regarding the directions of selected one or more reflected waves, from the sound source to the sound-collecting unit, separately beforehand; and convoluting the obtained direct-wave direction HRTF, and the reflected-wave direction HRTFs into the audio signal.08-27-2009
20100265399VIDEO/AUDIO INPUT/OUTPUT SYSTEM - Provided is a video/audio input/output system including a video/audio input system including a video input device and a plurality of audio input devices and a video/audio output system including a video output device having a display surface, the video output device being for outputting a video on the display surface based on a video signal obtained by the video input device, and a plurality of audio output devices respectively corresponding to the plurality of audio input devices. The plurality of audio output devices are each installed at a location determined by decreasing or increasing, according to a reduction rate or an enlargement rate of the video to a real size and with a centre of the video as a reference, a distance from the centre of the video to a foot of a perpendicular drawn from the location of installation of the corresponding audio input device to the display surface, and the plurality of audio output devices output audio based on the audio signals obtained by the corresponding audio input devices.10-21-2010
20100322428AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An audio signal processing device includes: head related transfer function convolution processing units convoluting head related transfer functions with audio signals of respective channels of plural channels, which allow the listener to listen to sound so that sound images are localized at assumed virtual sound image localization positions concerning respective channels of the plural channels of two or more channels when sound is reproduced by electro-acoustic transducer means; and 2-channel signal generation means for generating 2-channel audio signals to be supplied to the electro-acoustic transducer means from audio signals of plural channels from the head related transfer function convolution processing units, wherein, in the head related transfer function convolution processing units, at least a head related transfer function concerning direct waves from the assumed virtual image localization positions concerning a left channel and a right channel in the plural channels to both ears of the listener is not convoluted.12-23-2010
20110286601AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An audio signal processing device includes a processing unit for convoluting head-related transfer functions with audio signals of a plurality of channels, and the processing unit includes a storage unit for storing data of a double-normalized head-related transfer function by normalizing a normalized head-related transfer function obtained by normalizing a head-related transfer function in a state in which a dummy head or a person is present in a position of the listener with a transfer characteristic in a pristine state in which the dummy head or the person is not present, using a normalized head-related transfer function obtained by normalizing a head-related transfer function in the state in which the dummy head or the person is present with a transfer characteristic in the pristine state, and a convolution unit for reading the data from the storage unit and convoluting the data with the audio signals.11-24-2011
20120328123SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a signal processing apparatus, including a filter unit that filters an audio signal created by decimating a portion of frequency components by an all-pass filter and outputs a filtering result thereof as improvement components to improve sound quality of the audio signal, and an adder that generates an improved sound in which the sound quality of the audio signal is improved by adding the improvement components to the audio signal.12-27-2012
20130287235HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION CONVOLUTION METHOD AND HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION CONVOLUTION DEVICE - A head-related transfer function (HRTF) convolution method arranged, when an audio signal is reproduced acoustically by an electro-acoustic conversion unit disposed in a nearby position of both ears of a listener, to convolute an HRTF into the audio signal, which allows the listener to listen to the audio signal such that a sound image is localized in a perceived virtual sound image localization position, the method including the steps of: measuring, when a sound source is disposed in the virtual sound image localization position, and a sound-collecting unit is disposed in the position of the electro-acoustic conversion unit, a direct-wave direction HRTF regarding the direction of a direct wave, and reflected-wave direction HRTFs regarding the directions of selected one or more reflected waves, from the sound source to the sound-collecting unit, separately beforehand; and convoluting the obtained direct-wave direction HRTF, and the reflected-wave direction HRTFs into the audio signal.10-31-2013
20150117648AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Provided is an audio signal processing device including a signal processing section that changes, at a time of generating and outputting 2-channel audio signals to be subjected to sound reproduction by two electroacoustic transducing means located at positions in the vicinities of both ears of a listener, from audio signals of a plurality of and more than two channels, virtual sound image localization positions on a circle around the listener, across the virtual sound image localization positions, the virtual sound image localization position that is supposed for each of the plurality of channels of audio signals provided on the circle.04-30-2015

Patent applications by Takao Fukui, Tokyo JP

Takayuki Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100212590APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING MOLTEN ZINC COATED STEEL SHEET - An apparatus for manufacturing a molten zinc coated steel sheet includes a molten zinc coating device, a temper rolling mill, an acid solution contacting device, and a cleaning device connected in tandem, wherein the acid solution contacting device and the cleaning device are separated from each other with a region therebetween and an absolute humidity controller is disposed in the region between the acid solution contacting device and the cleaning device.08-26-2010

Takeo Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100130626METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ANION EXCHANGE RESIN, ANION EXCHANGE RESIN, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CATION EXCHANGE RESIN, CATION EXCHANGE RESIN, MIXED BED RESIN, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ULTRAPURE WATER FOR WASHING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MATERIAL - A method for manufacturing an anion exchange resin, in which remaining of impurities and generation of decomposition products are suppressed and leachables are reduced, the method including the following steps (1-a) to (1-e) of: (1-a) obtaining a cross-linked copolymer by copolymerizing a monovinyl aromatic monomer and a cross-linkable aromatic monomer; (1-b) specifying the content of a specific leachable compound to be 400 μg or less relative to 05-27-2010
20100288308METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING ULTRAPURE WATER, AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WASHING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MEMBERS - An ultrapure water production system that can stably produce ultrapure water having a boron concentration of 1 ng/L or less or a metal concentration of 0.1 ng/L or less, a method for producing ultrapure water using the ultrapure water production system, and a method and a system for washing electronic component members. In an ultrapure water production system that includes a mixed-bed deionization apparatus 11-18-2010
20120220674METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ANION EXCHANGE RESIN, ANION EXCHANGE RESIN, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CATION EXCHANGE RESIN, CATION EXCHANGE RESIN, MIXED BED RESIN, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ULTRAPURE WATER FOR WASHING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MATERIAL - This invention relates to a method for manufacturing a cation exchange resin, wherein the method includes the steps of: copolymerizing a monovinyl aromatic monomer and a cross-linkable aromatic monomer to obtain a cross-linked copolymer; specifying a content of a leachable compound represented by formula (I) to be 400 μg or less relative to 1 g of the cross-linked copolymer,08-30-2012
20120255911METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ANION EXCHANGE RESIN, ANION EXCHANGE RESIN, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CATION EXCHANGE RESIN, CATION EXCHANGE RESIN, MIXED BED RESIN, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ULTRAPURE WATER FOR WASHING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MATERIAL - The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an anion exchange resin, wherein the method includes the step of contacting a water soluble polymer containing an anionic dissociative group with a resin to produce an anion exchange resin. In the method, an amount of contact of the water soluble polymer is 0.01 to 10 mmol/L, in terms of an amount of the anionic dissociative group, relative to 1 liter of the anion exchange resin, and a wafer surface flatness (Rms) of the anion exchange resin is 4 Å or less, determined by a silicon wafer test.10-11-2012

Patent applications by Takeo Fukui, Tokyo JP

Tatsuo Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090021712PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE METHOD, DISPLAY MANUFACTURING METHOD, MASK, AND MASK MANUFACTURING METHOD - An exposure apparatus of the present invention is an exposure apparatus for, while moving a first object M and a second object P along a scanning direction, performing projection exposure on the second object, which has a first projection optical system PL01-22-2009
20100283983Illumination apparatus for efficiently gathering illumination light - An illumination apparatus includes a light guide fiber receiving illumination light, which is generated by first to third light sources, with first to third entrances and emitting at least part of the illumination light received by each entrance from a common exit. A second illumination relay optical system optically relays the illumination light from the second light source to form a first light beam having a first angle of incidence and sends the first light beam to the second entrance. First and third illumination relay optical systems optically relay the illumination light from the first and third light sources to form a second light beam having a second angle of incidence differing from the first angle of incidence and send the second light beam to the first and third entrances.11-11-2010
20130021589Projection Optical System, Exposure Apparatus, Exposure Method, Display Manufacturing Method, Mask, and Mask Manufacturing Method - An exposure apparatus of the present invention is an exposure apparatus for, while moving a first object M and a second object P along a scanning direction, performing projection exposure on the second object, which has a first projection optical system PL01-24-2013
20130033712DETECTION METHOD AND DETECTION APPARATUS - A detection method of detecting a position of an uppermost substrate of a plurality of substrates stacked on each other includes applying illumination to a region covering a portion of an edge of the uppermost substrate and a portion of a lower substrate stacked with the uppermost substrate, identifying a position of the edge of the uppermost substrate based on a position of a step-like portion present in the region due to a step formed between the uppermost substrate and the lower substrate, and identifying a position of the uppermost substrate based on the position of the edge of the uppermost substrate.02-07-2013
20140022560DETECTION METHOD AND DETECTION APPARATUS - A detection method of detecting a position of an uppermost substrate of a plurality of substrates stacked on each other includes applying illumination to a region covering a portion of an edge of the uppermost substrate and a portion of a lower substrate stacked with the uppermost substrate, identifying a position of the edge of the uppermost substrate based on a position of a step-like portion present in the region due to a step formed between the uppermost substrate and the lower substrate, and identifying a position of the uppermost substrate based on the position of the edge of the uppermost substrate.01-23-2014

Patent applications by Tatsuo Fukui, Tokyo JP

Tatsuro Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20140356544RESIN MOLDED BODY FOR ELECTROSTATIC COATING - The present invention relates to a resin molded body for electrostatic coating, which contains resin and carbon fiber that have an average fiber diameter of from 1 nm to 150 nm (inclusive), and which has a surface resistivity of from 1.0×1012-04-2014

Tatsuya Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20150361992ROTARY MACHINE SUPPORT DEVICE - A rotary machine support device is used for supporting a rotary machine including a hearing housing with a flange and a rotary shaft. The rotary machine support device includes a support portion which supports the rotary machine. The support portion includes: a mounting flange capable of contacting the flange; and arms, each arm including a holding portion which holds the mounting flange and the flange together while pressing the flanges contacting each other inward from outside in the radial direction thereof. The holding portion includes a pair of claw pieces. In addition, at least one of the mounting flange and a groove portion formed between the pair of claw pieces is formed in a tapered shape, and the tapered shape is formed so that the width thereof in the opposing direction of the flange and the mounting flange gradually decreases outward from inside in the radial direction.12-17-2015

Tokao Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110305358HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION GENERATION APPARATUS, HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION GENERATION METHOD, AND SOUND SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - A head related transfer function generation apparatus includes a first input unit that inputs a first head related transfer function generated in a first measurement environment, a second input unit that inputs a second head related transfer function generated in a second measurement environment, and a transform normalization processing unit that normalizes a first gain of the first head related transfer function represented in frequency-axis data with a second gain of the second head related transfer function represented in frequency-axis data and also calculates a square root thereof.12-15-2011

Tomoya Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120018117INDOOR UNIT OF AIR CONDITIONER AND AIR CONDITIONER - An indoor unit includes a casing having a suction port formed in an upper part and a blow-out port formed on a lower side at a front face part, an axial-flow or diagonal-flow fan provided on the downstream side of the suction port in the casing, and a heat exchanger provided on the downstream side of the fan and on the upstream side of the blow-out port in the casing, in which air blown out of the fan and refrigerant are heat-exchanged.01-26-2012
20120031134INDOOR UNIT OF AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS AND AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An indoor unit includes a heat exchanger provided on the downstream side of a fan and formed with a plurality of lower end portions in a vertical cross section from the front side to the back side of a casing, a plurality of drain pans provided below the lower end portions of the heat exchanger and configured to collect drain water occurring on the heat exchanger, and a drain channel provided between the drain pans and configured to be a flow channel of the drain, and a connecting port to which a drain hose configured to drain the drain water collected by the drain pans to the outside of the casing, and one of the drain pans is arranged to a level equal to or higher than the level of the other drain pan, and the drain channel is provided on the drain pan arranged on the back side of the casing.02-09-2012
20120031139INDOOR UNIT OF AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS AND AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An indoor unit includes a casing having a suction port formed on an upper portion and a blow-out port on a lower side of a front surface portion, an axial-flow or mixed-flow fan provided on the downstream side of the suction port in the casing, and a heat exchanger provided in the casing at a position on the downstream side of the fan and on the upstream side of the blow-out port. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of fins arranged side by side with predetermined gaps therebetween and a plurality of heat-transfer tubes penetrating through the plurality of fins. The heat exchanger is configured in such a manner that the air-flow resistance of an area facing the outer peripheral side of the fan is larger than the air-flow resistance of an area facing a center portion of the fan.02-09-2012
20120031983INDOOR UNIT OF AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS AND AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An indoor unit includes: a casing formed with a suction port and a blow-out port; a plurality of fans provided in parallel in the casing; a heat exchanger provided on the downstream side of the fans and on the upstream side of the blow-out port; a horizontal wind direction control vane provided at the blow-out port to control the horizontal direction of an airflow blown out from the blow-out port; a vertical wind direction control vane provided at the blow-out port to control the vertical direction of the airflow blown out from the blow-out port; and an infrared ray human detection sensor configured to detect the position of a person present in a room, and air volumes, the orientation of the horizontal wind direction control vane, and the orientation of the vertical wind direction control vane of the fans are each controlled according to results of detection by the infrared ray sensor.02-09-2012
20130105125INDOOR UNIT OF AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS05-02-2013

Toshiki Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120148005REACTOR SHUTDOWN SYSTEM - A rector shutdown system includes a reactor, a control-rod drive unit that can drive a control rod in pulling and inserting directions with respect to a fuel assembly, a power source that can supply power to the control-rod drive unit, and a power converter that is provided between the control-rod drive unit and the power source, in which when power supply is cut off, the control-rod drive unit inserts the control rod into the fuel assembly to stop nuclear reaction in the reactor, and the rector shutdown system includes a reactor trip breaker provided between the power converter and the control-rod drive unit, a safety protection-system device that controls the reactor trip breaker to cut off power supply to the control-rod drive unit, and a CCF device that controls the power converter to cut off power supply to the control-rod drive unit.06-14-2012
20130163709OPERATION MONITORING APPARATUS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT - An operation monitoring apparatus is provided with a function integration VDU (06-27-2013
20130177119CONTROL DEVICE AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CONTROL SYSTEM - A nuclear power plant control system includes control devices, and the control devices 07-11-2013
20130202074CONTROL SYSTEM FOR NUCLEAR FACILITY AND CONTROL METHOD FOR NUCLEAR FACILITY (AS AMENDED) - A control system allows controlling a nuclear facility in an evacuation area. The control system includes a control device in ordinary use disposed in a non-evacuation area, an emergency control device—for emergency in the evacuation area, a plant control facility connectable to the control device—and the emergency control device, a signal switching unit that switches from a normal coupling to an emergency coupling based on an emergency switch signal, a first selector switch in the non-evacuation area, a second selector switch-in the evacuation area, an AND circuit configured to output the emergency switch signal to the signal switching unit in the case where the emergency switch signal is input from the first selector switch and the emergency switch signal is input from the second selector switch.08-08-2013
20130204405CONTROL DEVICE AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CONTROL SYSTEM - A nuclear power plant control system including: a detection unit for detecting a specific event occurring in the nuclear power plant; an on-site equipment handling the event; and a majority decision judging device and an on-site equipment control device which constitute a plurality of control devices respectively operating independently. Each control devices includes a plurality of arithmetic units which perform arithmetic processes independently and in parallel based on a detection result of the detection unit, and output a signal for controlling the on-site equipment according to the results of operations of the arithmetic processes. The plurality of arithmetic units perform a matching process for harmonizing process statuses of the arithmetic processes of respective arithmetic units with each other when starting up the control devices, and after completing the matching process, respectively perform the arithmetic processes independently and in parallel.08-08-2013
20130204453CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NUCLEAR POWER FACILITY - A nuclear power control system includes: a safety protection apparatus which outputs a first safety mode operating signal while outputting a first unsafety mode operating signal; a CCF apparatus that outputs a second safety mode operating signal; and a signal input/output circuit that is connected to the safety protection apparatus and the CCF apparatus. The signal input/output circuit includes an OR circuit that outputs a third safety mode operating signal based on the presence or absence of an input of the first safety mode operating signal and the second safety mode operating signal; a NOT circuit that is connected to the output side of the OR circuit; and an AND circuit that outputs a third unsafety mode operating signal, and the presence and absence of an input of a first unsafety mode operating signal.08-08-2013
20130301771NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TESTING NUCLEAR POWER PLANT - A nuclear power plant control system (11-14-2013

Udai Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20150217542MEDICINE PACKAGING SHEET AND MEDICINE PACKAGE - One object of the present invention is to provide a medicine packaging sheet, and a medicine package, which do not need to enclose an oxygen absorbent in the package in addition to add the oxygen absorbent in the package material, and which have excellent oxygen absorbing properties and oxygen barrier properties. The present invention provides a medicine packaging sheet including a barrier layer and an oxygen absorbing layer, wherein the oxygen absorbing layer is composed of a resin composition including a base resin, an oxygen absorbing resin, and a reaction accelerator.08-06-2015

Yasuo Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080266763PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Provided is a portable electronic apparatus. The portable electronic apparatus includes a casing, an operation portion, and a finger placement portion. The casing includes a front surface and a back surface. The operation portion is disposed at a first position on the front surface and is operated with a first finger of a user for an input. The finger placement portion is disposed at a second position on the back surface. The second position corresponds to the first position. The finger placement portion guides a second finger of the user to be capable of being placed thereon.10-30-2008

Yoko Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110262513ANTI-VIRAL MEMBER - Disclosed is an anti-viral member which can inactivate a virus. Specifically disclosed is an anti-viral member which is characterized by comprising a base material, univalent copper compound microparticles, and inorganic microparticles which are provided for the purpose of retaining the univalent copper compound microparticles on the base material and each of which has a silane monomer bound to the surface thereof via a chemical bond, wherein the inorganic microparticles are bound to one another via chemical bonds formed between the silane monomers provided on the surfaces thereof, and each of the inorganic microparticles is bound to the base material via a chemical bond between the silane monomer and the base material to form spaces in which the univalent copper compound microparticles are to be retained. The anti-viral member has an extremely high anti-viral activity compared to those achieved by the conventional binder immobilization techniques, and is applicable to various materials or various products to which the materials are applied.10-27-2011
20120171276VIRUS INACTIVATING SHEET - A virus inactivating sheet is provided that can inactivate viruses adhering thereto even in the presence of lipids and proteins regardless of whether or not the viruses have an envelope. The virus inactivating sheet can inactivate viruses adhering thereto and includes a sheet body, and monovalent copper compound fine particles and/or iodide fine particles that are held by the sheet body. The virus inactivating sheet can inactivate various viruses. These viruses can be inactivated even in the presence of lipids and proteins.07-05-2012
20120192876MASK - A mask is provided that can inactivate viruses adhering thereto even in the presence of lipids and proteins regardless of whether or not the viruses have an envelope. The mask can inactivate viruses adhering thereto and includes a mask body provided with a member used when the mask is worn and virus inactivating fine particles having a virus inactivating ability and held by the mask body. The virus inactivating fine particles are particles of at least one selected from the group consisting of platinum(II) iodide, palladium(II) iodide, silver(I) iodide, copper(I) iodide, and copper(I) thiocyanate.08-02-2012
20140127321ANTIVIRAL RESIN MEMBER - To provide an antiviral resin member which can efficiently inactivate viruses and has excellent sustainability.05-08-2014
20140367263ANTI-VIRUS ALUMINUM MEMBER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - [Problem] To provide an anti-virus aluminum member capable of minimizing secondary infection by deactivating viruses in a short period of time even when viruses adhere thereto, regardless of whether a viral envelope is present, and useful for application in door knobs, handrails, air-conditioner fins or the like.12-18-2014

Patent applications by Yoko Fukui, Tokyo JP

Yoshiaki Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120018352HYDROTREATING CATALYST, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND PROCESS FOR HYDROTREATING HYDROCARBON OIL - A hydrotreating catalyst that exhibits excellent levels of both desulfurization activity and denitrification activity. The hydrotreating catalyst is prepared by supporting molybdenum, cobalt and nickel on a carrier comprising aluminum, silicon, phosphorus and boron, and then performing a presulfiding treatment, and has an average stacking number for molybdenum sulfide slab that is greater than 1.0 but not more than 1.9. Also, a process for producing a hydrotreating catalyst that enables a hydrotreating catalyst having excellent levels of both desulfurization activity and denitrification activity to be produced with comparative ease. The process includes a first step of mixing an acidic aluminum salt aqueous solution and a basic aluminum salt aqueous solution in the presence of phosphate ions and silicate ions to achieve a pH of 6.5 to 9.5, thereby obtaining a hydrate, a second step of adding boron to the hydrate to prepare a carrier-forming material, a third step of molding and calcining the carrier-forming material to obtain a carrier, a fourth step of supporting molybdenum, cobalt and nickel on the carrier to obtain a catalyst precursor, and a fifth step of performing a presulfiding treatment by bringing the catalyst precursor into contact with a mixed gas containing hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide under conditions including a pressure of not less than 2.0 MPa and a maximum temperature of 240 to 380° C.01-26-2012

Yoshie Fukui, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100080016LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS - A light source apparatus includes a light source from which, excitation light is emitted, an optical fiber which is optically connected to the light source, and which guides the excitation light, and a wavelength converting member which is optically connected to an emitting end portion of the optical fiber, and which receives the excitation light emitted from the emitting end portion, and makes emerge light of a wavelength area different from a wavelength area of the excitation light. The light source apparatus has a diverging unit which is arranged in an optical path of the excitation light, between the emitting end portion of the optical fiber and the wavelength converting member, and a holding member for holding the emitting end portion of the optical fiber, the diverging unit, and the wavelength converting member.04-01-2010

Yoshiki Fukui, Tokyo JP

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20150373111CONFIGURATION INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD AND MANAGEMENT COMPUTER - A management computer configured to manage one or more storage apparatuses managing a plurality of resources transmits requests to the one or more storage apparatuses to, based on one or more basic information pieces for identifying the one or more storage apparatuses, acquire as a priority configuration information on, out of the plurality of resources, resources logically closer to a host computer of the one or more storage apparatuses. The management computer receives the configuration information corresponding to the requests from the one or more storage apparatuses, and incorporates the received configuration information into configuration management information for managing the configuration information on the resources managed by the one or more storage apparatuses.12-24-2015

Yoshimitsu Fukui, Tokyo JP

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20150328675METAL STRIP - Provided is a metal strip for a pipe with which the weight of a pipe can be reduced while maintaining the strength of a joint portion that tends to be structurally the weakest. A metal strip L is formed by rolling. The thickness of each of a head end portion 11-19-2015

Yutaka Fukui, Tokyo JP

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20150287789SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes trenches formed in a lattice shape on the surface of a silicon carbide substrate on which a semiconductor layer is formed, and gate electrodes formed inside of the trenches via a gate insulating film. The depth of the trenches is smaller in a portion where the trenches are crossingly formed than in a portion where the trenches are formed in parallel to each other. Consequently, the silicon carbide semiconductor device is obtained that increases a withstand voltage between the gate electrodes and corresponding drain electrodes on the semiconductor device rear surface to prevent dielectric breakdown and, at the same time, has a large area of the gate electrodes, high channel density per unit area, and low ON resistance.10-08-2015
20150333126SILICON-CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - It is an object of the present invention to provide a silicon carbide semiconductor device that reduces an influence of an off-angle of a silicon carbide substrate on characteristics of the semiconductor device and achieves improved operational stability and reduced resistance. In a trench-gate silicon carbide MOSFET semiconductor device formed on the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate having the off-angle, a low-channel doped region is provided on a first sidewall surface side of the trench in a well region, and a high-channel doped region having an effective acceptor concentration lower than that of the low-channel doped region is provided on a second sidewall surface side of the trench in the well region.11-19-2015
20150357415INSULATED GATE SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - An insulated gate silicon carbide semiconductor device includes: a drift layer of a first conductivity type on a silicon carbide substrate of 4H type with a {0001} plane having an off-angle of more than 0° as a main surface; a first base region; a source region; a trench; a gate insulating film; a protective diffusion layer; and a second base region. The trench sidewall surface in contact with the second base region is a surface having a trench off-angle of more than 0° in a <0001> direction with respect to a plane parallel to the <0001> direction. The insulated gate silicon carbide semiconductor device can relieve an electric field of a gate insulating film and suppress an increase in on-resistance and provide a method for manufacturing the same.12-10-2015
20160071937SILICON-CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A silicon carbide semiconductor device that reduces an influence of an off-angle of a silicon carbide substrate on characteristics of the semiconductor device and achieves improved operational stability and reduced resistance. In a trench-gate silicon carbide MOSFET semiconductor device, a high-concentration well region is formed in a well region, and a distance from a first sidewall surface of a trench of the silicon carbide semiconductor to the high-concentration well region is smaller than a distance from a second sidewall surface of the trench to the high-concentration well region, the second sidewall surface facing the first sidewall surface of the trench through the gate electrode.03-10-2016

Yuto Fukui, Tokyo JP

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20130226965Acquiring Customized Information from a Server - A mechanism is provided for acquiring information from a server based on search condition input by a search performing user and communication results with other information terminals. Input search conditions are received from a search performing user. Communication is performed with other information terminals. A search request is transmitted to the server based on the input search conditions and the communication results from the other information terminals. Information is received from the server that matches input search results and the communication results. The acquired information is customized based the communication results with the other information terminals. The customized information is then displayed on the information terminal.08-29-2013
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20140289204EXECUTING A FILE BACKUP PROCESS - A technique to execute a backup process efficiently when an identical file is owned by multiple persons in order to decrease storage capacity and traffic volume requirements. In a backup system including a backup execution terminal, backup destination terminals, and a management server, the backup execution terminal executes a deemed backup process for deeming the file identical to the target file and owned on the backup destination terminals to be a backup duplicate of the target file, or an actual backup process for sending the target file to the management server, each of the backup destination terminals stores the backup execution terminal and the file identical to the target file in association with each other at the time of the deemed backup, and the management server stores the target file sent from the backup execution terminal at the time of the actual backup.09-25-2014
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