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Katori, JP

Katsuyoshi Katori, Yamato JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120203964SELECTING A VIRTUAL TAPE SERVER IN A STORAGE SYSTEM TO PROVIDE DATA COPY WHILE MINIMIZING SYSTEM JOB LOAD - In a storage system including plural source storage devices, a target storage device selects which source storage device to accept a copy request from the target storage device so as to minimize the load on the entire system. The system calculates first and second load values for job loads being processed. System load values for the system are derived from job load value of a specific data, and respective load values for first and second source storage devices. The system compares the system load values to select a storage device to provide the data copy so as to minimize the load on the entire system.08-09-2012

Katsuyoshi Katori, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110107045HYBRID STORAGE DATA MIGRATION BY SELECTIVE DATA REMOVAL - A hybrid data storage system is one which has data storage clusters of different types. In a hybrid data storage system, at least one first data storage cluster is configured to store data and has high data storage capacity; and at least one second data storage cluster is configured to store data and has lower data storage capacity than the first cluster. The data is initially replicated and stored by at least one first and at least one second data storage cluster. The method identifies a portion of the stored initially replicated data of at least one second data storage cluster as “pinned”; continues to store the pinned initially replicated data; and selectively removes non-pinned initially replicated data from the second data storage cluster(s) to account for the capacity difference.05-05-2011
20120166395CONTROLLING MIRRORING OF TABLES BASED ON ACCESS PREDICTION - A system for managing a plurality of storage devices that are configured to store a database. The system includes an access instruction acquiring unit configured for acquiring an access instruction to access the database. The system also includes a predicting unit configured for predicting a table to be accessed in response to the acquired access instruction. The system further includes a relocation unit configured for mirroring the table predicted by the predicting unit, the mirroring between the plurality of storage devices.06-28-2012

Katsuyoshi Katori, Kawasaki JP

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20120084499SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A VIRTUAL TAPE LIBRARY DOMAIN - Systems and methods for managing a virtual tape library (VTL) domain capable of being coupled to a host are provided. One system includes a plurality of VTL nodes configured to store multiple scratch erased volumes. Each VTL node comprises a processor configured to perform at least a portion of the below method. One method includes receiving a request from the host to de-mount a volume in one of the plurality of VTL nodes, transferring the volume to a scratch category in response to receiving the request, erasing data in the volume and categorizing the volume as a scratch erased volume, and providing ownership of the scratch erased volume to a VTL node in the plurality of VTL nodes based on pre-determined criteria for the plurality of VTL nodes. Also provided are computer storage mediums including computer code for performing the above method.04-05-2012
20120131280SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BACKING UP STORAGE VOLUMES IN A STORAGE SYSTEM - Systems and methods for backing up storage volumes are provided. One system includes a primary side, a secondary side, and a network coupling the primary and secondary sides. The secondary side includes first and second VTS including a cache and storage tape. The first VTS is configured to store a first portion of a group of storage volumes in its cache and migrate the remaining portion to its storage tape. The second VTS is configured to store the remaining portion of the storage volumes in its cache and migrate the first portion to its storage tape. One method includes receiving multiple storage volumes from a primary side, storing the storage volumes in the cache of the first and second VTS, migrating a portion of the storage volumes from the cache to storage tape in the first VTS, and migrating a remaining portion of the storage volumes from the cache to storage tape in the second VTS.05-24-2012

Keiji Katori, Chiba-Ken JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110286611DIGITAL AMPLIFIER - A digital amplifier is described with decreased high-frequency noise current flowing into GND via a capacitor in a low-pass filter output. Consequently output sound quality is improved because AC loops of noise current that occur are balanced while each switch is turned on.11-24-2011

Kenji Katori, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090246366APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREPARING PARTICULATES - Disclosed herein is an apparatus for preparing composite particulates, including a rotary body having a bottom surface and a side wall and operative to contain particulates to which an adhering material is to be made to adhere; a centrifugal machine for rotating the rotary body so as to apply centrifugal forces to the particulates in the rotary body; and an inclination varying device operative to vary the inclination of the rotary body to an arbitrary inclination angle in the range from an angle at which the bottom surface of the rotary body forms a horizontal surface perpendicular to the direction of gravity to an angle at which the bottom surface forms a vertical surface parallel to the direction of gravity, and operative to support the rotary body at the arbitrary inclination angle.10-01-2009
20090305066SPUTTERING COMPOSITE TARGET, METHOD FOR MANUFACUTURING TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILM USING THE SAME AND TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILM-PROVIDED BASE MATERIAL - A sputtering composite target includes: an oxide based component containing indium oxide; and a carbon based component.12-10-2009
20100112203APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREPARING COMPOSITE PARTICULATES - A method of preparing composite materials by (a) containing particulates to which an adhering material is to be made to adhere, in a rotary body having a bottom surface and a side wall; (b) rotating the rotary body so as to apply centrifugal forces to the particulates in the rotary body; and (c) varying the inclination of the rotary body to an arbitrary inclination angle in the range from an angle at which the bottom surface of the rotary body forms a horizontal surface perpendicular to the direction of gravity to an angle at which the bottom surface forms a vertical surface parallel to the direction of gravity, and supporting the rotary body at the arbitrary inclination angle05-06-2010
20100150796FUEL REFORMER - A fuel reformer which can easily achieve high weight energy density and high volume energy density, and a method for producing the fuel reformer with ease and high efficiency as well as an electrode for electrochemical device, such as a fuel cell, and an electrochemical device are provided. The present invention is to feed hydrogen obtained from a fuel reformer having a catalyst layer containing Pt for taking out hydrogen from a liquid fuel, such as methanol, and a hydrogen permeable layer, such as a Pd thin film, which is impermeable to liquid and permeable to hydrogen to an electrochemical device such as a fuel cell, which comprises a negative electrode, a positive electrode and a proton conductive film sandwiched therebetween. The present invention provides a method of producing the hydrogen permeable layer in the reformer 06-17-2010
20110064875COMPOSITE PARTICULATE PREPARING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A composite particulate preparing apparatus is provided that includes a rotating body receiving particulates to which an adhering material is allowed to adhere and having a bottom surface, a side wall and a flange part; a centrifugal machine rotating the rotating machine to apply centrifugal force to the particulates in the rotating body; an inclination varying device shifting the rotating body at an arbitrary inclination angle so that the bottom surface of the rotating body forms a vertical plane parallel to a gravitational direction from a horizontal plane perpendicular to the gravitational direction; and a stirring device disposed closer to a horizontal line perpendicular to a vertical line drawn from a rotational center of the rotating body in a gravitational direction on a rotational side where the particulates drop from an uppermost point, than to the vertical line.03-17-2011

Patent applications by Kenji Katori, Kanagawa JP

Kentaro Katori, Nakano-Ku JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090304404IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Developing bias is set as follows. An electric field intensity between a developing roller and a photoconductor is set to cause normally-charged toner to fly in an image area and not to cause the toner to fly in a background area. Thus, the normally-charged toner does not fly in the background area. The normally-charged toner caused to fly is therefore unlikely to flick low-charged toner and oppositely-charged toner. The low-charged toner and the oppositely-charged toner will not adhere to the background area and cause image fogging. Accordingly, an image forming apparatus can be provided to prevent the low-charged toner and the oppositely-charged toner from adhering to the background area of an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor and to avoid the occurrence of image fogging in the background area on a printed material.12-10-2009

Kentaro Katori, Toyokawa-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090175636IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To prevent image defects such as fog and irregularities caused by the accumulation of the oppositely charged toner by flying the toner toward a photoreceptor to compulsorily consume the toner even though the toner is oppositely charged toner having a small charged amount. A potential difference between the photoreceptor and the development roller is set at a value at which the normally charged toner on the development roller can be flown toward the photoreceptor in the development phase at the time of compulsorily consuming the toner, and this potential difference is set at a value at which the flown normally charged toner can be returned to the development roller in the recovery phase. A development duty and a frequency f are set in such a way that a time period in the development phase is larger than a time taken for the normally charged toner on the development roller to fly to a point located midway between the development roller and the photoreceptor and is smaller than a time taken for arriving at the photoreceptor, and a time period in the recovery phase is larger than a time taken before the normally charged toner arrived at the point located midway between the development roller and the photoreceptor arrives at the photoreceptor, returns to the development roller to beaten out the oppositely charged toner and the oppositely charged toner beaten out flies to the photoreceptor.07-09-2009

Patent applications by Kentaro Katori, Toyokawa-Shi JP

Masato Katori, Kawasaki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080207209CELLULAR MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of autonomously generating neighboring cell information in a cellular mobile radio communication system including: transmitting, by a first base station, a measurement radio signal through a radio channel for radio field intensity measurement; measuring a radio field intensity of the measurement radio signal received from the first base station; determining based on the measured radio field intensity whether the first base station is a neighboring cell; registering identification information of the first base station in second office data of neighboring cells possessed by itself when the first base station is determined as the neighboring cell; obtaining first office data possessed by the first base station based on the identification information; and reflecting the first office data obtained from the first base station as neighboring cell information in the second office data possessed by itself, the measuring, determining, registering, obtaining and reflecting being sequentially performed by each of second base stations.08-28-2008
20100015987Radio Resource Allocation Method And Radio Station - Provided is a radio resource allocation method of allocating common radio resources shared among a plurality of radio stations or a plurality of sectors to each of the plurality of radio stations or each of the plurality of sectors. The method includes defining, as a frame set, a given number of radio frames for repeatedly providing the common radio resources along a time axis, defining, as radio resource units, minimum units obtained by dividing the common radio resources provided by the frame set in units of the radio frames and in units of sub-channel groups, and allocating at least one of the radio resource units to each of the plurality of radio stations or the each of the plurality of sectors.01-21-2010
20110216688RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF SWITCHING COMMUNICATION MODE - In a radio communication system, when switching of a multicast communication and a unicast communication is performed, a radio communication base station determines whether to switch a communication mode based on reception information received from a mobile terminal, newly establishes a logical channel between the mobile terminal and the radio communication base station by the same logical channel as before switching based on the determination result, converts to a transport channel of a communication mode different from before switching in the newly established logical channel, and switches communication with each mobile terminal to a communication mode represented by the converted transport channel. Thus, switching of the communication mode is performed limitedly only in between the radio communication base station and each mobile terminal.09-08-2011
20110319086BASE-STATION DEVICE AND HANDOVER METHOD - A base-station device that forms a first cell in a wireless communication system in which a plurality of second cells are included in the first cell, includes: a reception unit configured to receive control information including information used to specify the location of a mobile terminal from the mobile terminal located in the first cell; a location information storage unit configured to store location information indicating the location of each of the plural second cells; a selection unit configured to select, based on a result obtained by comparing the location of the mobile terminal with the location information, a neighboring cell that can be a destination to which the mobile terminal is handed over from the first cell, from among the plural second cells; and a transmission unit configured to transmit to the mobile terminal a neighboring cell notification message giving notice of the selected neighboring cell.12-29-2011

Patent applications by Masato Katori, Kawasaki JP

Satoru Katori, Himeji-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100230234DEFORMED-COIN DETECTOR - A deformed-coin detector accurately detecting a deformed coin without being affected by a variation in transporting speed of a coin. A coin transported along a coin transporting face comes into contact with detecting elements of coin-thickness detecting bodies, the detecting elements move by a distance corresponding to the dimension of the coin in its thickness direction and simultaneously, light shielding portions of the coin-thickness detecting bodies move. A light detecting portion detects a light shielding amount that varies due to movement of the light shielding portions. A coin denomination determining unit determines a denomination of the coin transported along the coin transporting face and reads a reference light-shielding amount pre-stored in a reference light shielding amount storing unit regarding the denomination. The light shielding amount detected by the light detecting portion is compared with the reference light shielding amount, and when the detected light shielding amount is out of a predetermined range with respect to the reference light shielding amount, the coin is judged to be a deformed coin.09-16-2010

Takuma Katori, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090132492MENU DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, MENU SERVER, READ/WRITE DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is a menu distribution system that provides a menu, which is viewable in a conventional manner and is customized for each customer. A customer allows a read/write device to read a customer ID information storage medium storing customer ID information. The read/write device transmits the customer ID information to a menu server. The menu server has a customer information storage unit that stores, for each customer, attribute information such as food preferences. The menu server selects a menu item most suitable for the customer identified by the transmitted customer ID information, by comparing customer attribute information and menu items stored in a menu item information storage unit. Menu image data is generated based on the selected menu item and is transmitted to the read/write device. The read/write device writes the received menu image data to a memory of a paper like display.05-21-2009
20090240519DWELL-UNIT-MANAGEMENT SUPPORTING SYSTEM, DWELL-UNIT-MANAGEMENT SUPPORTING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, SERVER AND MULTIPLE FUNCTION PROCESSING MACHINE - As receiving information for specifying a dwell unit and a request of creating an inspection list, a dwell unit information server creates an inspection list for the dwell unit in response to the request. A multiple function processing machine prints out the inspection list, and reads the inspection list on which a defective equipment is written. The multiple function processing machine extracts handwritten information from read-out information, and transmits the extracted information to the dwell unit information server together with code information printed on the inspection list. The dwell unit information server extracts an equipment needing inspection based on the code information and the handwritten information, and transmits a work instruction which instructs maintenance/repair of the equipment to a maintenance/repair responsible company responsible for the extracted equipment.09-24-2009
20100079785PRINTING SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD AND PRINTING SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM - A client terminal transmits a call request for using a MFP to a call control server. The call control server carries out authentication processing about a user and the MFP in response to the call request. If the authentication processing result is correct, the call control server transfers the call request to the printing service management server. The call request is transferred from the printing service management server to a printing service providing server and then transferred to the MFP via the call control server. Thus, a session of the client terminal and the MFP is established. The printing service providing server carries out processing for providing a predetermined printing service based on the call request from the client terminal.04-01-2010

Tomohiro Katori, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120239884MEMORY CONTROL DEVICE, MEMORY DEVICE, MEMORY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a memory control device including a device driver that executes writing or reading of data to/from a main storage unit and temporary writing or reading of data to/from a cache unit including a plurality of cache blocks, and a control unit that issues an instruction for writing or reading of data of a file system to/from the main storage unit or the cache unit to the device driver. The control unit may notify priority information about a priority for data storage into a logical block to which the cache block is associated to the device driver.09-20-2012

Yoichi Katori, Suginami-Ku JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090004958Method and System for Cooling of Dressed Carcasses - A method of cooling a dressed carcass of a slaughtered animal halved along the backbone thereof while transferring the dressed carcass in a cooling chamber is provided, with which reduction in process yield in the cooling process due to evaporation of water from the dressed carcass is suppressed to a minimum, meat juice dripping together with water does not occur when cutting the dressed carcass, the cooling period of time is reduced, energy is saved in cooling process, initial cost is reduced, and productivity is improved. The dressed carcass is cooled while transferring in the cooling chamber in a hanged attitude along the transport route T, whereby a plurality of partitioned spaces are provided in the cooling chamber 01-01-2009
20090260780METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COOLING BREAD JUST AFTER BAKED - A method and apparatus for cooling bread just after baked are proposed in which bread f just after baked is transferred on a conveyor 10-22-2009