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Kuroiwa, Tokyo

Hiroshi Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090080115VCM DRIVER AND PWM AMPLIFIER - The present invention provides a VCM driver realizing low power consumption and high accuracy and a PWM amplifier compensating a dead time distortion. A phase compensator, a ΔS modulator receiving an output signal of the phase compensator and converting the output signal to a control code of predetermined bits, a PWM modulator receiving the control code to produce a PWM signal, and an output circuit receiving the PWM signal to drive a voice coil constitute a forward path. A sense amplifier sensing a current of the voice coil, an ADC receiving an output signal of the sense amplifier, a low-pass filter receiving an output signal of the ADC, and a decimation filter receiving an output signal of the low-pass filter constitute a feedback path. An output signal of the decimation filter is fed back to the input side of the phase compensator to form a major feedback loop having a first-order characteristic loop gain. An output signal of the decimation filter is fed back to the output side of the phase compensator to form a minor feedback loop having a loop gain which is flat until a target band frequency when viewed from the output side of the phase compensator.03-26-2009
20100177444VCM DRIVER AND PWM AMPLIFIER - The present invention provides a VCM driver realizing low power consumption and high accuracy and a PWM amplifier compensating a dead time distortion. A phase compensator, a ΔΣ modulator receiving an output signal of the phase compensator and converting the output signal to a control code of predetermined bits, a PWM modulator receiving the control code to produce a PWM signal, and an output circuit receiving the PWM signal to drive a voice coil constitute a forward path. A sense amplifier sensing a current of the voice coil, an ADC receiving an output signal of the sense amplifier, a low-pass filter receiving an output signal of the ADC, and a decimation filter receiving an output signal of the low-pass filter constitute a feedback path. An output signal of the decimation filter is fed back to the input side of the phase compensator to form a major feedback loop having a first-order characteristic loop gain. An output signal of the decimation filter is fed back to the output side of the phase compensator to form a minor feedback loop having a loop gain which is flat until a target band frequency when viewed from the output side of the phase compensator.07-15-2010

Patent applications by Hiroshi Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Koji Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110043587CARD PRINTER AND CARD PRINTING/STACKING DEVICE - Based on information recorded on and read out from a card, a card printer erasably writes information on the card or erases information recorded on the card. The card printer comprises transport means T for transporting card 02-24-2011

Masakazu Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090011646Connector improved in reliability of connection - In a connector including a conductive contact, an insulating housing holding the contact, and a conductive shell covering the housing, the housing includes a protruding portion of a flat-plate shape having first and second principal surfaces faced to each other. The contact includes a first contacting portion disposed on the first principal surface of the protruding portion and a second contacting portion extending from the first contacting portion to the second principal surface of the protruding portion. The shell includes a shell contacting portion disposed on the second principal surface of the protruding portion. The second contacting portion and the shell contacting portion have confronting end faces faced to each other.01-08-2009
20110008975Connector assembly - A connector assembly has a first connector and a second connector matable with the first connector. The first connector includes a first contact having a first contact portion and a first housing configured to hold the first contact. The second connector includes a second contact having a second contact portion that is brought into contact with the first contact portion and a second housing configured to hold the second contact. The connector assembly further includes a positioner operable to position the second contact portion in a first direction so that the second contact portion corresponds to the first contact portion when the second connector is moved relative to the first connector along the first direction. The connector assembly further includes a movement guide operable to guide a relative movement of the second connector relative to the first connector along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction in a state in which the second contact portion has been positioned in the first direction until the second contact portion is brought into contact with the first contact portion.01-13-2011

Patent applications by Masakazu Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Takaaki Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080253928Substrate for Biochip and Method for Manufacturing Substrate for Biochip - A substrate for biochips has a substrate surface having a reaction region capable of reacting with biological substances and a non-reaction region not reacting with the biological substances, sunken bottomed wells formed in the substrate surface, and a layer of a material capable of reacting with the biological substances having a surface exposed only at the bottoms of the bottomed wells, the exposed surface forming the reaction region.10-16-2008
20100233429Substrate for Biochip, Biochip, Method for Manufacturing Substrate for Biochip and Method for Manufacturing Biochip - A base plate having a surface on which a plurality of hydroxyl groups can be introduced, a metallic membrane disposed on the base plate and having a plurality of wells reaching the base plate, and a crosslinkable polymer membrane disposed on the metallic membrane are included.09-16-2010
20100288727METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE FOR BIOCHIP - A substrate for biochips is manufactured so that the substrate has a substrate surface having a reaction region capable of reacting with biological substances and a non-reaction region not reacting with the biological substances, sunken bottomed wells formed in the substrate surface, and a layer of a material capable of reacting with the biological substances having a surface exposed only at the bottoms of the bottomed wells, the exposed surface forming the reaction region.11-18-2010
20110174773SUBSTRATE FOR BIOCHIP, BIOCHIP, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE FOR BIOCHIP, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BIOCHIP - A base plate having a surface on which a plurality of hydroxyl groups can be introduced, a metallic membrane disposed on the base plate and having a plurality of wells reaching the base plate, and a crosslinkable polymer membrane disposed on the metallic membrane are included.07-21-2011

Patent applications by Takaaki Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Takahiro Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110203869ELECTRIC POWER STEERING APPARATUS - In an electric power steering apparatus including capacitor for smoothing out the voltage of battery and relay including a relay contact disposed at a place upstream of the capacitor, a path is provided for directly conducting a terminal voltage of the capacitor from a downstream side of the relay contact to a system power supply supply that generates a source voltage for a control system including controller and the like, so that the system power supply and the control system that is supplied therefrom with electric power for control purpose are utilized as a discharge circuit. Thus is obtained a simplified configuration of circuit responsible for discharging the capacitor.08-25-2011

Takao Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110171038WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE AND PRODUCING METHOD OF WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE - A wind turbine rotor blade includes an outer skin material formed of fiber-reinforced plastic, main strength materials (super cap materials) disposed on inner surfaces of a back side and a front side of the outer skin material, and crossbeam materials (sheer webs) disposed between the main strength materials, wherein the main strength material is formed by stacking, one on top of another, reinforced fiber sheets having constant widths in a longitudinal direction.07-14-2011
20110182742WIND TURBINE BLADE AND WIND TURBINE GENERATOR USING THE SAME - A wind turbine blade includes a laminated structure having an outer shell (07-28-2011
20120100002WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE - Provided is a wind turbine rotor blade that can secure a sufficient strength in a coupling portion without significant increase in weight even though a blade is increased in size because beams, which are main strength members of the separated blades, are coupled to each other by metallic coupling members. A wind turbine rotor blade including: a skin that forms a long hollow shape; and a beam that is vertically passed in a longitudinal direction to reinforce the skin from inside, wherein the beam is separated into at least two portions in the longitudinal direction, and ends of the adjacent beams are coupled to each other through a metallic coupling member having: a first flange portion opposed to the one end; a second flange portion opposed to the other end; and a connecting portion that connects these first flange portion and second flange portion, and the skin is separated into a coupling portion skin arranged at a position corresponding to the coupling member, and a main body skin arranged at a position corresponding to the beam.04-26-2012

Takashi Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100029791METHOD FOR PRODUCING VESICLE, VESICLE OBTAINED BY THE PRODUCTION METHOD, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING FROZEN PARTICLE USED IN PRODUCTION OF VESICLE - A W/O emulsion is produced from an aqueous solution containing a substance to be entrapped in a vesicle in a dissolved or suspended state and an oil phase containing an emulsifier; subsequently, the W/O emulsion is cooled to a temperature at which the aqueous solution of the W/O emulsion becomes a frozen particle and the oil phase maintains a liquid state, and the oil phase is removed; thereafter, an oil phase containing a vesicle constituent lipid is added to the frozen particle, and the obtained mixture is then stirred, so as to substitute the emulsifier on the surface of the frozen particle with the vesicle constituent lipid; and thereafter, an external water phase is added to the frozen particle coated with a lipid membrane, so as to hydrate the lipid membrane by the external water phase. This process achieves a high entrapment yield of a desired substance while controlling desired physical properties such as particle diameter.02-04-2010
20110150953METHOD FOR PRODUCING VESICLE, VESICLE OBTAINED BY THE PRODUCTION METHOD, AND W/O/W EMULSION FOR PRODUCING VESICLE - A vesicle is produced by: a step of producing a W/O emulsion from an aqueous solution containing a substance to be entrapped in a vesicle in a dissolved or suspended state and an organic solvent phase containing a lipid having emulsification capacity, which can constitute the vesicle; a step of producing a W/O/W emulsion from the W/O emulsion and an external water phase solution of a water-soluble emulsifier, which does not destroy a vesicle lipid membrane; and a step of removing the organic solvent phase from the W/O/W emulsion, so as to form a vesicle. This method simultaneously achieves a high entrapment yield of an active ingredient and the control of a particle diameter.06-23-2011

Takeru Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110010106APPARATUS STATE DETECTOR, METHOD FOR DETECTING APPARATUS STATE, APPARATUS STATE DETECTION SERVER AND APPARATUS STATE DETECTION SYSTEM; LIVING PERSONS' ANOMALY DETECTOR, LIVING PERSONS' ANOMALY DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING LIVING PERSONS' ANOMALY, AND APPARATUS-STATE DATABASE MAINTENANCE SERVER - An apparatus state detector and its associates are provided to save time and effort for learning combinations of operation states of all apparatuses at home and commit fewer estimation errors even when an unknown apparatus starts operating. The apparatus state detector includes measuring means 01-13-2011
20110051789COMMUNICATION ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION ANALYSIS METHOD - To obtain a communication analysis apparatus and a communication analysis method that are allowed to analyze a communication message and a waveform signal in such a manner that the communication message and waveform signal are associated with each other.03-03-2011
20120029874AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - An air conditioning system diagnosis apparatus is obtained in which a refrigerating cycle is automatically analyzed and waveform data in messages flowing in a general-purpose network is acquired and automatically analyzed according to the analysis result of the refrigerating cycle, thereby achieving, with a single apparatus, diagnosis and monitoring of errors in the refrigerating cycle and in the general-purpose network. A trigger output means creates a trigger on the basis of a waveform analysis condition and the analysis result of a packet received from a message analyzing means; when receiving the trigger, a waveform input means reads out waveform data stored in a buffer; waveform analyzing means notifies a synchronization determining means of the analysis result of the waveform data; the synchronization determining means searches for the analysis result of a packet synchronized with the received analysis result of the waveform data.02-02-2012
20120101778AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM DIAGNOSIS RESULT DISPLAY APPARATUS - An air conditioning system diagnosis apparatus and an air conditioning system diagnosis result display apparatus capable of representing various kinds of failures with high visibility by generating a system structure diagram that illustrates an air conditioning system in a different form depending on a detected failure and illustrating the failure using this system structure diagram are obtainable. Diagnosis result superimposed diagram generating means for generating a system structure diagram that includes icons, such as an icon of an outdoor unit and an icon of an indoor unit, and a line that links them on the basis of system structure information derived by system structure analyzing means and for superimposing a refrigeration cycle diagnosis result derived by refrigeration cycle analyzing means in the vicinity of an icon of a concerned device in the system structure diagram is included.04-26-2012

Tatsuo Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080284396SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PROVIDED WITH FEEDBACK CIRCUIT INCLUDING RESISTIVE ELEMENT AND CAPACITIVE ELEMENT - The present invention provides a switching power supply circuit capable of stabilizing an output voltage as well as increasing a response speed of the output voltage by improving a phase margin of an open loop as a whole of the switching power supply circuit. The switching power supply circuit according to the present invention includes a resistor and a capacitor in addition to a configuration of a conventional switching power supply circuit. The resistor is connected between a node and the capacitor. The capacitor is connected between the resistor and another node. The resistor and the capacitor configure a phase compensation circuit. The phase compensation circuit has a cut-off frequency in accordance with a resonance frequency of an inductor and a capacitor by adjusting a resistance value of the resistor and a capacitance of the capacitor.11-20-2008
20110055281Information processing apparatus and information processing method - There is provided an information processing apparatus which includes a content collection unit which collects content, an output control unit which simultaneously provides main content and sub-content, and a content group creation control unit which sets a creation logic and an algorithm by using the algorithm based on the creation logic, a content group in which content to be recommended for the user is assembled from a plurality of content collected by the content collection unit. The content group creation control unit creates a plurality of content groups. The plurality of content groups include a content group created based on a creation logic related to the main content and a content group created based on a creation logic related to the sub content. The output control unit causes the plurality of content groups to be displayed to the user.03-03-2011
20110055718Information processing apparatus and information processing method - A system and method for recommending content to a user. In embodiments of the system and method, one or more content groups is generated, at least one of the content groups including more than one type of content, and a display indicative of the one or more content groups is presented to the user.03-03-2011

Patent applications by Tatsuo Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Yoichiro Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110179731CONSTRUCTION METHOD FOR WOODEN HOUSE AND WALL PANEL - A plurality of columns are erected with predetermined spacing on a groundsill. Then, a wall panel composed of a plurality of paulownia plates laminated, with the grains of the paulownia plates being crossed, is fixed between these columns. One surface of the wall panel is used as an external wall and the other surface of the wall panel is used as an internal wall to form the walls of the wooden house.07-28-2011

Yukiko Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100005043ACTIVE LEARNING SYSTEM, ACTIVE LEARNING METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR ACTIVE LEARNING - In order to carry out a learning in which newly acquired data is taken to be more important than data previously accumulated, a function is provided which sets a weight for learning data based on an acquisition order of the learning data. Furthermore, in order to carry out a learning which reflects data acquired in the last cycle and a result with respect to the data, a function is provided which feeds back a result of a learning in the last cycle to a rule and sets a weight for learning data based on a relation between a label of data and a prediction value.01-07-2010
20100023465ACTIVE LEARNING SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A processing unit (01-28-2010
20120124048CLUSTERING APPARATUS, AND CLUSTERING METHOD - A technique extracts an object that is characteristic although the number of appearances is less demanded. A clustering apparatus includes: a similarity degree calculating section calculating a similarity degree of a combination of optional two of objects to store the calculated similarity degree in a similarity degree table, excluding a combination of one of the optional two and itself; a merging object selecting section selecting as merging objects, two objects related to the similarity degree which satisfies a predetermined reference; a new object generating section generating a new object from the merging objects; a merging object removing section removing from the similarity degree table, a similarity degree between each of the two objects selected as the merging objects and each of the objects; and a new object adding section calculating a similarity degree between the new object and each of the plurality of objects other than the new object.05-17-2012

Patent applications by Yukiko Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Yutaka Kuroiwa, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120131955METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ULTRA-THIN GLASS SUBSTRATE - The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an ultra-thin glass substrate, the method including: a feeding step of feeding a preform for a glass substrate to a production line while being held; a heating step of heating the preform fed from the feeding step to a temperature around a softening point thereof; and a drawing step of drawing the preform that has softened in the heating step to form an ultra-thin glass substrate, in which the preform has been wound on a cylindrical first winding roll.05-31-2012