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Hiroshi Ikeda

Hiroshi Ikeda, Gunma JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110020158RECIPROCATING COMPRESSOR - A compressor includes a cylinder block including cylinder bores and pistons within the cylinder bores. A front housing opposes a first cylinder block end face to form a crank chamber accommodating a piston driving mechanism. A valve plate opposes a second cylinder block end face and includes suction and discharge holes. A rear housing includes suction and discharge chambers and opposes the second cylinder block end face with the valve plate there between. Strap-shaped suction valves on the valve plate end face oppose the cylinder block, thereby opening and closing the suction holes at tip portions. Discharge valves on the valve plate end face oppose the rear housing to open and close the discharge holes. Through-bolts join the front housing, the crank chamber, the cylinder block, the valve plate, and the rear housing. The valve plate includes grooves extending from holes accommodating the through-bolts to portions abutting the suction valves.01-27-2011

Hiroshi Ikeda, Osaka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090168886MOVING PICTURE DECODING DEVICE - A moving picture decoding device 07-02-2009
20090323821MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS - Provided is a moving picture decoding apparatus including: a picture memory (12-31-2009
20100020869CODING RATE CONVERSION DEVICE AND CODING RATE CONVERSION METHOD - A coding rate conversion device can easily avoid the possibility of a violation of the standard taking place when all of the coded blocks included in a macroblock are to be deleted, with a high degree of efficiency in rate conversion performed when an MPEG-2 coding rate is converted through requantization. The coding rate conversion device performs a rate conversion on first coded data by inversely quantizing the first coded data having been quantized with a first quantization step and requantizing the first coded data with a second quantization step larger in step size than the first quantization step. The coding rate conversion device includes: a block specifying unit which specifies an object block having a nonzero coefficient, out of a plurality of blocks included in the first coded data; and a non-zeroing unit which performs non-zeroing processing by which a first nonzero coefficient of the specified object block become a nonzero coefficient even after the rate conversion is performed using the second quantization step, when the rate conversion is performed on the specified object block.01-28-2010
20100040153DECODING APPARATUS AND DECODING METHOD - A decoding apparatus is provided which can perform error concealment accurately by reducing false detection of an error and detecting an error efficiently. The decoding apparatus (02-18-2010
20100091842CODING RATE CONVERSION APPARATUS, CODING RATE CONVERSION METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A plurality of macroblocks constituting coded data are inverse quantized using a first quantization matrix that is used when coding a picture, to obtain a plurality of sets of coefficient data. The first quantization matrix is converted to a second quantization matrix using a first conversion value and a second conversion value, where the first conversion value is for converting a low frequency coefficient corresponding to a frequency lower than a predetermined frequency among a plurality of coefficients shown by the first quantization matrix, and the second conversion value is for converting a high frequency coefficient among the plurality of coefficients and is larger than the first conversion value (Step S04-15-2010
20100260258IMAGE CODING DEVICE, CODING RATE CONVERSION DEVICE, AUDIO VIDEO STREAM RECORDING DEVICE, NETWORK DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, COEFFICIENT CONVERSION DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND IMAGE CODING METHOD - An image coding device (10-14-2010
20120039397DIGITAL SIGNAL REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND DIGITAL SIGNAL COMPRESSION DEVICE - A digital signal reproduction device includes an audio decoder configured to decode an audio bit stream to output a resulting audio signal, an audio bit stream analyzer configured to analyze whether or not the audio bit stream contains human voice, a playback speed determiner configured to determine a playback speed based on a result of the analysis by the audio bit stream analyzer, and a variable speed reproducer configured to receive the audio signal and reproduce an audio signal corresponding to the playback speed determined by the playback speed determiner.02-16-2012

Patent applications by Hiroshi Ikeda, Osaka JP

Hiroshi Ikeda, Akita-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090297425METALLIC SILICON AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - This metallic silicon is manufactured by refining molten crude metallic silicon by unidirectional solidification, and has a purity of 3N or more to 6N or less and an average crystal grain diameter of 1 mm or more. This method for manufacturing the metallic silicon includes: solidifying molten crude metallic silicon in a mold which contains fine silica particles in an inner peripheral layer thereof by unidirectional solidification at a rate of 1 mm/min or less; and then cooling to 200° C. or below at a rate of 2° C./min or less.12-03-2009
20100025638COMPOSITION FOR FORMING TRANSPARENT ELECTROCONDUCTIVE FILM, TRANSPARENT ELECTROCONDUCTIVE FILM, AND DISPLAY - A composition includes a binder component and a conductive powder and a high-refractive-index powder both dispersed in the binder component, wherein the conductive powder includes 0.1 to 30 mass % of a tin hydroxide powder and 70 to 99.9 mass % of other conductive powder. The composition enables to form a transparent conductive film having excellent scratch resistance, excellent antistatic properties, an extremely high visible light transmittance and a controllable refractive index. Also described is the transparent conductive film. Further described is a display having the transparent conductive film on the display surface.02-04-2010
20100232024COMPOSITION FOR TRANSPARENT ELECTROCONDUCTIVE FILM FORMATION, TRANSPARENT ELECTROCONDUCTIVE FILM, AND DISPLAY - Through employment of a binder component, tin hydroxide powder serving as a conductive powder, and a high-refractive index powder; through dispersal of tin hydroxide powder and light-transmission-ensuring microparticles in a binder component at a predetermined ratio; and through employment of a specific binder component and, as a conductive powder, tin hydroxide powder and a conductive powder other than tin hydroxide powder at a predetermined ratio, there can be provided a composition which can form a transparent conductive film that exhibits excellent antistatic effect, and has very high visible light transmittance and provides transmitted images with natural hue by virtue of no color absorption wherein, if desired, the film also exhibits excellent scratch resistance and high antiglare effect, or the refractive index of the film can be controlled; such a transparent conductive film, and a display having such a transparent conductive film on a screen thereof.09-16-2010

Hiroshi Ikeda, Sumida-Ku JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100220925DETECTING METHOD AND DETECTING SYSTEM FOR POSITIONS OF FACE PARTS - A method and a system for simply and automatically detecting the positions of eyes, mouth, and nose in a face image with high reliability are provided. A plurality of grayscale images with gradually varying lightness are formed from a face image. Then, a process (fade-in process) is performed which detects pixel block areas that gradually appear in a face area in the grayscale images as the face area that is in a fade-out state at high lightness fades in and is brought into a fade-in state at low lightness. The detected pixel block areas include paired pixel block areas appearing as a pair. The positions of the eyes are determined based on the number of appearance of the paired pixel block areas over all the grayscale images. The positions of the mouth and nose are determined based on the positional relationship between the eyes and pixel block areas which are detected by the fade-in method and in which gradually appearing pixels no longer grow.09-02-2010

Hiroshi Ikeda, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080297156NMR Probe - An NMR probe permits measurements to be made with its inner coil without replacing the probe. The NMR probe has three coils disposed to surround a sample tube. An inner coil can resonate with the HF and LF. An intermediate coil can resonate with the HF and LF, and produces an RF magnetic field perpendicular to the RF field produced by the inner coil. An outermost coil can resonate at least at a lock frequency. The outermost coil produces an RF magnetic field which is perpendicular to the RF field produced by the intermediate coil but which is coincident in direction with the RF field produced by the inner coil.12-04-2008
20090046891HAIR STYLE SIMULATION IMAGE CREATING METHOD - A hairstyle simulation image is formed by combining a face image and a hair image such that a hair image of any hairstyle can be simply combined with the face image without impairing the naturalness of the fitted face and hair images, irrespective of whether or not a part of the face is covered with the hair. The hairstyle simulation image formed by combining the face and hair images is formed as follows. First, two eyes in the face image are detected, and a semi-oval shaped curve L02-19-2009
20090261829NMR Probe - An NMR probe is offered which enables a 10-22-2009
20090290267Magnetic Recording and Reproducing Apparatus with Thin-Film Magnetic Head Having Microwave Magnetic Exciting Function - A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus with a thin-film magnetic head having microwave magnetic exciting function, includes a metal housing, a magnetic recording medium, arranged in the metal housing, having a magnetic recording layer, and a thin-film magnetic head, arranged in the metal housing, having a write magnetic field production unit and a resonance magnetic field production unit. The write magnetic field production unit produces, in response to a write signal, a write magnetic field to be applied into the magnetic recording layer, and the resonance magnetic field production unit produces, in response to a microwave excitation signal, a resonance magnetic field with a frequency equal to or in a range near a ferromagnetic resonance frequency F11-26-2009
20100073804Thin-Film Magnetic Head Having Microwave Magnetic Exciting Function And Magnetic Recording And Reproducing Apparatus - A thin-film magnetic head having microwave magnetic exciting function includes a write magnetic field production means for producing, in response to a write signal, a write magnetic field to be applied into a magnetic recording medium, and at least line conductor of a microwave radiator of a plane-structure type, formed independent from the write magnetic field production means, for radiating, by feeding there through a microwave excitation current, a microwave band resonance magnetic field with a frequency equal to or in a range near a ferromagnetic resonance frequency F03-25-2010
20100086459Impurity removing apparatus and method of operating the same - An impurity removing apparatus is simple in structure for removing impurities from a rare gas and enable to make the rare gas reusable. The impurity removing apparatus includes a first treatment device 04-08-2010
20100208379Thin-Film Magnetic Head Having Microwave Magnetic Exciting Function and Magnetic Recording and Reproducing Apparatus - A thin-film magnetic head having microwave magnetic exciting function, includes a write magnetic field production unit for producing, in response to a write signal, a write magnetic field to be applied into a magnetic recording medium, a line conductor of a microwave radiator of a plane-structure type, formed independent from the write magnetic field production means, for radiating, by feeding there through a microwave excitation current, a microwave band resonance magnetic field with a frequency equal to or in a range near a ferromagnetic resonance frequency F08-19-2010
20110222185Magnetic Recording Apparatus Provided with Microwave-Assisted Head - A magnetic recording apparatus includes a magnetic recording medium having a magnetic recording layer, a thin-film magnetic head with a microwave-band magnetic drive function, the head having a write field generation means that generates a write field to the magnetic recording medium in response to a write signal, and a microwave generator that is provided independent of the write field generation means and generates an alternating magnetic field in plane having a microwave-band frequency when microwave-excitation current is fed, an excitation current generation means that generates the microwave-excitation current by amplitude-modulating microwave carrier current with a modulating signal having a fixed period, and a write signal supply means that generates the write signal and applies it to the write field generation means of the thin-film magnetic head.09-15-2011
20110242696MICROWAVE ASSISTED MAGNETIC HEAD - A gap between a main pole and auxiliary pole composing a thin film magnetic head having a microwave assisted function of the present invention is filled with a nonmagnetic dielectric layer to embed a microwave radiator. The nonmagnetic dielectric layer has an inclined surface at a end on a side of an opposing medium surface by which the microwave radiated from the microwave radiator to be bent toward the main pole, whereby the microwave magnetic field generated from the microwave generator can be gathered immediately below the main pole, further improving the microwave assisted effect.10-06-2011
20110248710APPARATUS FOR MEASURING MAGNETIC FIELD OF MICROWAVE-ASSISTED HEAD - A measuring circuit system in a magnetic field measuring apparatus of the invention has an amplifier and a band-pass filter connected in sequence on an output terminal side of the TMR element, the band-pass filter is a narrow-range band-pass filter such that a peak pass frequency of the filter that is a center is a basic frequency selected from a range of 10 to 40 GHz and a band width centered around the basic frequency is a narrow range of ±0.5 to ±4 GHz; and with the measuring circuit system, an SIN ratio (SNR) of 3 dB or greater is obtained, the SNR being defined by a ratio of an amplitude S of a high-frequency generated signal induced by the TMR element to a total noise N that is a sum of a head noise generated by the TMR element and a circuit noise generated by the amplifier. With such a configuration, an in-plane high-frequency magnetic field generated by a microwave-assisted magnetic head is reliably and precisely measured.10-13-2011
20120033534MICROWAVE ASSISTED MAGNETIC HEAD - A microwave assisted magnetic head is formed to include a main pole magnetic layer including a main pole; a shielded magnetic layer including a shielded pole; a recording coil that is formed to generate a writing magnetic field from a tip of the main pole; and a microwave radiation waveguide made of a conductive nonmagnetic material that is disposed in a recording gap, the recording gap being a gap between the main pole and the shielded pole. The main pole magnetic layer and the shielded magnetic layer have an intermediate connection part that connects the layers at a depth-side, and an electrical insulation magnetic film is disposed in the intermediate connection part, and the main pole and the shielded pole are electrically connected with the microwave radiation waveguide that is disposed in the recording gap, which is the gap between the main pole and the shielded pole so that a simple configuration, with a relatively easy and efficient manufacturing process, is realized that overlaps AC magnetic fields in an in-plane direction of a microwave band, which is the same as, or close to, a ferromagnetic resonant frequency of a medium recording layer.02-09-2012

Patent applications by Hiroshi Ikeda, Tokyo JP

Hiroshi Ikeda, Kasumigaura JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100186901COMPONENT FEEDER - A component feeder capable of enhancing productivity is provided by that the component feeder includes a tape feeding device intermittently feeding a component housing tape constituted of a carrier tape having component housing parts formed with predetermined interval to contain respective electronic components, and a cover tape covering the component housing parts to prevent the components from jumping out from the component housing parts while the component housing tape wound on a housing tape reel is sequentially fed to a component extracting position, and an electronic component exposing device exposing the electronic components in the component housing parts to be allowed to be extracted, wherein the tape feeding device is constituted of a first feeding device and a second feeding device, and the electronic component exposing device is provided between the first feeding device and the second feeding device.07-29-2010

Hiroshi Ikeda, Saitama JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090039963CIRCUIT FOR INHIBITING OVER-CURRENT IN POWER AMPLIFIER - A power amplifier drives a load connected to a first output terminal and a second output terminal. When generation of over-current is detected by the current detection section, the output amplifier control section is controlled to stop the operation of the output amplifier section, and when a voltage greater than or equal to said set value is detected by said voltage detection section, the stopped operation of said output amplifier section is maintained even though generation of the over-current is not detected at the current detection section. When the terminal voltage detection section detects a terminal voltage greater than or equal to a predetermined voltage, over-current at the current detection section is suppressed.02-12-2009
20100045373AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT - An extraction circuit is connected to an input path of an output amplifier. When the power is turned on, the extraction circuit extracts current on the basis of a difference between the normal rise of the supply voltage and a delayed supply voltage. Therefore, a steep rise in the input of the output amplifier when the power is turned on can be removed.02-25-2010

Hiroshi Ikeda, Ome-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090218068DIE FOR DIE CASTING AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CAST PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, a die includes a stationary die and a movable die. Between the stationary die and the movable die, a product section which includes a main product section, and a protrusion part protruding from the main product section toward a side of the biscuit section, a first runner configured to guide molten metal toward the main product section, and a second runner configured to guide molten metal toward the protrusion part are formed. The second runner is provided at a position deviated from the first runner three-dimensionally, and overpasses the first runner.09-03-2009
20090321034DIE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CAST PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, a biscuit section, a product section in which a cast product is to be cast, and an overflow section which is provided on the opposite side of the biscuit section with respect to the product section are provided between a stationary die and a movable die of a die. The die includes a die surface provided with a concave section in which a rib of the cast product is to be cast. The concave section includes an inner peripheral surface of the concave section which includes a first surface spreading perpendicularly to a direction from the biscuit section toward the overflow section, and positioned on the overflow section side of the inner peripheral surface, and a second surface spreading in the direction from the biscuit section toward the overflow section. Surface roughness of the first surface is finer than surface roughness of the second surface.12-31-2009

Hiroshi Ikeda, Nagano JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080250610Endless Boot Fixing Band and Manufacturing Method Thereof - The rotation of the band in relation to a boot to be fastened is prevented, so that reduction of the boot-fastening force is prevented, thereby preventing leakage of grease from a boot to be fastened, and so that boot-bands can be manufactured simply. An endless boot-fixing band 10-16-2008

Hiroshi Ikeda, Yokohama JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110231173SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is a simulation method for simulating an operation of a device. The simulation method includes specifying, by a computer, a boundary between a non-defective status and a defective status of a product in design space with a design parameter as an origin. The boundary is specified according to a search using a search indicator defined based on an operating state different from an operating state of a determination indicator that determines the non-defective status and the defective status of the operation.09-22-2011

Hiroshi Ikeda, Kanagawa-Ken JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120099967STEAM TURBINE - A steam turbine includes two or more rotating blades and a diaphragm outer ring. Each of the rotating blades includes a tip cover, moisture-trapping grooves, a droplet ejection hole, and a drain guide groove. The tip cover is provided to a tip of each of the rotating blades and is connected in contact with another tip cover adjacent to the tip cover. The moisture-trapping grooves are formed in a longitudinal direction of each of the rotating blades. The droplet ejection hole is to connect an outside of the tip cover on a side of the diaphragm outer ring with an inside of the tip cover. The drain guide groove is to connect ends of the moisture-trapping grooves on the side of the tip cover with the droplet ejection hole. The diaphragm outer ring includes a drain pocket which faces the droplet ejection hole.04-26-2012

Hiroshi Ikeda, Fukuoka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120107589COMPOSITE SHAPED BODY AND SILICA GLASS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides a composite shaped body comprising silica nanoparticles and an organic polymer, wherein the silica nanoparticles and the organic polymer form a three-dimensional network; thereby provides: a composite shaped body which exhibits excellent formability and fabricability and which is also suited for use, for example, in producing a silica glass provided with an electrical conductivity; and a silica glass (especially, an electrically conductive silica glass) obtained by firing the composite shaped body.05-03-2012