Patents by Inventor Akinori Yamamoto

Akinori Yamamoto has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240091928
    Abstract: A wrist of an arm robot includes a first motor, a first speed reducer, a second motor, a transmission shaft, and a second speed reducer. The first motor is arranged at a base and generates a first rotational drive force to rotate a first distal portion. The first speed reducer is arranged at the first distal portion, includes a hollow portion, and reduces a rotational speed of the first rotational drive force. The second motor is arranged at the base and generates a second rotational drive force to rotate a second distal portion. The transmission shaft is arranged at the first distal portion and passes through the hollow portion of the first speed reducer. The second speed reducer is arranged at the first distal portion, is arranged coaxial with the first speed reducer, and is arranged along an axial direction of the first speed reducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya KAWATA, Masato YAMAMOTO, Norihisa TATSUTA, Akinori TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20220197870
    Abstract: A scenario execution system includes a scenario execution terminal, a log management device, and a storage device. The scenario execution terminal includes a scenario execution unit and an event notification unit. The scenario execution unit executes a scenario file having a scenario indicating a procedure of operations in the scenario execution terminal described therein. The event notification unit notifies the log management device of information on an event generated by the scenario execution unit executing the scenario file. The log management device includes a log recording unit that receives the information on the event from the scenario execution terminal and records log data having the received information on the event set therein on the storage device. The storage device adds, to the log data, information uniquely generated on the basis of log data recorded before such log data and stores resultant log data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NTT Advanced Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Akinori YAMAMOTO, Yusuke Tsujikawa, Takashi Hattori, Shuichi Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20220171152
    Abstract: A lens unit includes a first lens disposed on an object side in an optical axis direction, a plurality of image-side lenses (second lens through seventh lens) comprising a second lens facing the first lens on an image side in the optical axis direction and disposed on the image side with respect to the first lens, a lens barrel coaxial with the optical axis to hold the first lens and the plurality of image-side lenses radially inside, a first sealing member to seal a gap between the first lens and the lens barrel, and a second sealing member to seal a gap between an image side surface (flange surface) of the first lens and the lens barrel radially inside the first sealing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio SHIROTORI, Akinori YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220019050
    Abstract: A lens unit 1 includes a plurality of lenses aligned in a row along an optical axis L and a lens holder 2. A first lens L1 located the closest to an object-side La includes an object-side lens surface 11, an image-side lens surface 12, and an image-side flange surface 13. A first housing portion 4 accommodating the first lens L1 in the lens holder 2 includes a regulation portion 42 regulating a position of the first lens L1 in the optical axis L direction. The regulation portion 42 includes a lens seating surface 40 in contact with the first lens L1. The image-side flange surface 13 of the first lens L1 includes an outer peripheral region 13A in contact with the lens seating surface 40 of the regulation portion 42 and an inner peripheral region 13B in which a flexible printed circuit board 8 is disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuo TSURUOKA, Akinori YAMAMOTO, Toshio SHIROTORI, Katsumi UMEDA, Masanori TANIKAWA, Shinya OKADA
  • Publication number: 20220019051
    Abstract: A lens unit 1 includes a plurality of lenses aligned in a row along an optical axis L and a lens holder 2. A transparent conductive film 16, which functions as a heater, is disposed on an image-side lens surface 12 of the first lens L1 disposed the closest to an object side La. A flexible printed circuit board 8 that feeds power to the transparent conductive film 16 includes a flat surface portion 81 along an image-side flange surface 13 surrounding an outer peripheral side of the image-side lens surface 12, an extension portion 82 extending to an outer side in a radial direction, and a protruding portion 83 projecting to the outer side in the radial direction from the flat surface portion 81. The protruding portion 83 includes a first electrode 84A and a second electrode 84B electrically connected to the transparent conductive film 16.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuo TSURUOKA, Akinori YAMAMOTO, Katsumi UMEDA, Masanori TANIKAWA, Shinya OKADA
  • Publication number: 20210405616
    Abstract: A scenario providing device stores a scenario file, a customization file for stating a setting value of a variable used for executing a process constituting a scenario, and a menu for selecting the scenario. A menu providing unit of the scenario providing device causes a scenario execution terminal to display the menu and decides the scenario in accordance with an option selected in the scenario execution terminal from options included in the displayed menu. The scenario providing unit of the scenario providing device transmits the scenario file of the decided scenario and the customization file. A scenario execution unit of the scenario execution terminal substitutes, in the scenario indicated by the scenario file, the setting value of the variable stated in the customization file by a user and executes the scenario.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: NTT Advanced Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Akinori YAMAMOTO, Takashi HATTORI, Akiko NOGUCHI, Shuichi MIYAZAKI
  • Patent number: 10975026
    Abstract: The method for producing a polythiol compound includes reacting 2-mercaptoethanol having a water content of 3000 ppm or less on a mass basis, with epihalohydrin to obtain a halide represented by the formula (1), wherein X represents a halogen atom; and obtaining at least one polythiol compound selected from the group consisting of a polythiol compound represented by the formula (4), a polythiol compound represented by the formula (5), a polythiol compound represented by the formula (6), and a polythiol compound represented by the formula (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Kageyama, Masahisa Kousaka, Akinori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10747025
    Abstract: A polarizing lens including a polarizing polyvinyl alcohol film arranged between two pieces of a lens base material, where the polarizing polyvinyl alcohol film includes a hydrophobic region having higher hydrophobicity than other regions at least at a partial region of an outer periphery part including an edge surface thereof and the hydrophobic region is exposed at least at a part of an edge surface of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ogaya, Masaki Ihara, Akinori Yamamoto, Toshihiko Shimizu, Kenichi Tonouchi
  • Patent number: 10717693
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a diol having a specific structure in high yields while keeping high selectivity. Provided is a method for producing a diol having a specific structure by oxidizing an olefin having a specific structure in the presence of a ruthenium compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohito Hamada, Michiaki Okada, Akinori Yamamoto, Yosuke Kishikawa
  • Publication number: 20200130300
    Abstract: A coating method includes a) supplying a coating liquid including a resin to a lens surface of a lens body made of a resin, the lens surface being on one side of the lens body, and b) forming a film of the coating liquid on the lens surface by rotating the lens body around a predetermined rotational axis. The film of the coating liquid is a buffer layer provided between the lens body and an anti-reflection layer. When the lens surface is a convex surface, the viscosity of the coating liquid is about 8 mPa·s or more and about 26 mPa·s or less and a number of revolutions of the lens body in the step b) is about 4500 rpm or more and about 30000 rpm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Akinori YAMAMOTO, Takashi NAKAYAMA, Keiichiro SHINOKI, Muneyuki OTANI, Takanori KAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10520155
    Abstract: A light guide for a vehicle lamp includes a rod-shaped portion and a plate-shaped portion. The rod-shaped portion includes a rod-shaped light guide portion and a connecting projection portion projecting from a peripheral surface of the rod-shaped light guide portion and extending along the rod-shaped light guide portion. The plate-shaped portion includes two principal surfaces facing opposite to each other and a plate-shaped portion side surface connecting the two principal surfaces. The light guide is a multi-color molded product in which the rod-shaped portion is formed of a first resin material and the plate-shaped portion is formed of a second resin material containing a light diffusing agent. The rod-shaped light guide portion is connected to the side surface of the plate-shaped portion by the connecting projection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Matsubara, Mamoru Kosuge, Akinori Yamamoto, Asami Sakashita
  • Publication number: 20190278046
    Abstract: A lens unit includes lenses arranged along an optical axis, and a support that supports the lenses. The lenses include a negative lens made of resin and having a negative power and a positive lens made of resin and having a positive power. A distance between two lens surfaces of the negative lens is minimum on the optical axis. A buffer layer and an antireflection layer are successively provided on at least one lens surface of the two lens surfaces of the negative lens. The antireflection layer is provided directly on at least one lens surface of two lens surfaces of the positive lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Akinori YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190278109
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a polarizing lens that includes a polarizing polyvinyl alcohol film arranged between two pieces of a lens base material. The method includes subjecting the polarizing lens to edging processing to prepare a polarizing lens where the polarizing polyvinyl alcohol film is exposed at least at a part of an edge surface of the lens, and applying hydrophobization treatment to the polarizing polyvinyl alcohol film exposed at the edge surface of the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke OGAYA, Masaki IHARA, Akinori YAMAMOTO, Toshihiko SHIMIZU, Kenichi TONOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190071376
    Abstract: This invention solves the problem of providing an efficient, new method for producing a fluoromethylene-containing compound. The problem can be solved by a method for producing a compound represented by formula (1) or a ring-closed or ring-opened derivative of the compound, wherein R1 represents an organic group, RX represents hydrogen or fluorine, R2a, R2b, R2c, and R2d are the same or different, and each represents —Y—R21 or —N(—R22)2, or R2b and R2c may join together to form a bond, wherein Y represents a bond, oxygen, or sulfur, R21 represents hydrogen or an organic group, and R22, in each occurrence, is the same or different and represents hydrogen or an organic group; the method comprising step A of reacting a compound represented by formula (2), wherein X represents a leaving group, and other symbols are as defined above, with a compound represented by formula (3), wherein the symbols are as defined above, in the presence of a reducing agent under light irradiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicants: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka Prefecture University Public Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto MATSUURA, Akinori YAMAMOTO, Yosuke KISHIKAWA, Ilhyong RYU, Takahide FUKUYAMA, Shuhei SUMINO
  • Publication number: 20190062270
    Abstract: The method for producing a polythiol compound includes reacting 2-mercaptoethanol having a water content of 3000 ppm or less on a mass basis, with epihalohydrin to obtain a halide represented by the formula (1), wherein X represents a halogen atom; and obtaining at least one polythiol compound selected from the group consisting of a polythiol compound represented by the formula (4), a polythiol compound represented by the formula (5), a polythiol compound represented by the formula (6), and a polythiol compound represented by the formula (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio KAGEYAMA, Masahisa KOUSAKA, Akinori YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190062488
    Abstract: Provided are: a method for producing a cured product, including a curable composition preparing step of preparing a curable composition containing a polyiso(thio)cyanate compound, a polythiol compound, and a curing catalyst having a water content of 5000 ppm or less on a mass basis, and a curing step of curing the curable composition to obtain a cured product; a cured product obtained by curing a curable composition containing a polyiso(thio)cyanate compound, a polythiol compound, and a curing catalyst having a water content of 5000 ppm or less on a mass basis; and an eyeglass lens substrate including the cured product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio KAGEYAMA, Masahisa KOUSAKA, Akinori YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190062490
    Abstract: Provided are: a method for producing a cured product, including a curable composition preparing step of preparing a curable composition by mixing a polyiso(thio)cyanate compound with a polythiol compound having a water content of less than 20 ppm on a mass basis, and a curing step of curing the curable composition to obtain a cured product; a cured product obtained by curing a curable composition containing a polyiso(thio)cyanate compound and a polythiol compound having a water content of less than 20 ppm on a mass basis; and an eyeglass lens substrate including the cured product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio KAGEYAMA, Masahisa KOUSAKA, Akinori YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190062489
    Abstract: Provided are: a method for producing a cured product, including a curable composition preparing step of preparing a curable composition by mixing a polythiol compound with a polyiso(thio)cyanate compound having a water content of 300 ppm or less on a mass basis, and a curing step of curing the curable composition to obtain a cured product; a cured product obtained by curing a curable composition containing a polythiol compound and a polyiso(thio)cyanate compound having a water content of 300 ppm or less on a mass basis; and an eyeglass lens substrate including the cured product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio KAGEYAMA, Masahisa KOUSAKA, Akinori YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190049086
    Abstract: A light guide for a vehicle lamp includes a rod-shaped portion and a plate-shaped portion. The rod-shaped portion includes a rod-shaped light guide portion and a connecting projection portion projecting from a peripheral surface of the rod-shaped light guide portion and extending along the rod-shaped light guide portion. The plate-shaped portion includes two principal surfaces facing opposite to each other and a plate-shaped portion side surface connecting the two principal surfaces. The light guide is a multi-color molded product in which the rod-shaped portion is formed of a first resin material and the plate-shaped portion is formed of a second resin material containing a light diffusing agent. The rod-shaped light guide portion is connected to the side surface of the plate-shaped portion by the connecting projection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji MATSUBARA, Mamoru KOSUGE, Akinori YAMAMOTO, Asami SAKASHITA
  • Publication number: 20180327342
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a diol having a specific structure in high yields while keeping high selectivity. Provided is a method for producing a diol having a specific structure by oxidizing an olefin having a specific structure in the presence of a ruthenium compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohito HAMADA, Michiaki OKADA, Akinori YAMAMOTO, Yosuke KISHIKAWA