Patents by Inventor Akio Yamamoto

Akio 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).

  • Patent number: 8663860
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel cell system which includes a fuel cell having an anode and a cathode and for producing electricity through reaction between the fuel gas and the oxidant gas, a fuel gas supply path through which the fuel gas passes, an oxidant gas supply path through which the oxidant gas passes, a voltage sensing device for detecting voltage produced by the fuel cell during power generation, and a decision device for determining whether or not cross leakage occurs between the anode and the cathode of the fuel cell, based on voltage information sent from the voltage sensing device. Moreover, the decision device determines that the cross leakage occurs between the anode and the cathode, if the voltage produced by the fuel cell is less than a predetermined value during the power generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takatsugu Koyama, Mitsunori Matsumoto, Akio Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Seiji Tonegawa, Nobutaka Nakajima, Shinjiro Morita
  • Publication number: 20140057733
    Abstract: A golf club 2 is provided with a head 4, a shaft 6, a tip member 8, and a screw member 10. The shaft 6 is inserted into a shaft hole of the tip member 8, and a tip part of the shaft 6 is fixed to the shaft hole. An axis line s1 of the shaft 6 is inclined with respect to an axis line z1 of the tip member 8. The head 4 has a head hole into which the tip member is inserted, a head side engaging part capable of being engaged with the tip member 8 inserted into the head hole, and a through hole into which the screw member 10 can be inserted. The tip member 8 has a shaft side engaging part 38 capable of being engaged with the head side engaging part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Akio YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20130320072
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a head 2 includes the steps of: (A) producing a plurality of head components Ph; (B) welding at least two of the head components Ph to each other while abutting the head components Ph on a guide core gc1; and (C) removing the guide core gc1. Preferably, the guide core gc1 is made of a water-soluble material. Preferably, at least one of the head components Ph is produced by a press process. Preferably, the guide core gc1 has a lack part Ms1. Preferably, existence of the lack part Ms1 avoids contact between a welding joint part wd1 and the guide core gc1 in the step B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventor: Akio YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8594605
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to accurately set a frequency characteristic of a filter integrated in a semiconductor integrated circuit. A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a filter circuit, a cutoff frequency calibration circuit, and a Q-factor calibration circuit. The cutoff frequency calibration circuit adjusts cutoff frequency of the filter circuit to a desired value by adjusting capacitance components of the filter circuit. After adjustment of the cutoff frequency of the filter circuit by the cutoff frequency calibration circuit, the Q-factor calibration circuit adjusts the Q factor of the filter circuit to a desired value by adjusting a resistance component of the filter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yusaku Katsube, Kosuke Tsuiji, Yutaka Igarashi, Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8561876
    Abstract: A preferable golf club 2 is provided with a head 4, a shaft 6, a sleeve 8, and a screw 10. The head 4 is provided with a head body 14 and an engaging member 16. The head body 14 is formed by joining a plurality of members. The plurality of members includes a face member 112, a crown member 110, a sole member 114, and a hosel member 116. Preferably, the face member 112, the crown member 110, and the sole member 114 are produced by press processing a rolled material. Preferably, a through hole 130 into which a lower end part of the hosel member 116 can be fitted is formed in the sole member 114. In the golf club 2, the head body 14 and the shaft 6 are detachably mounted to each other without destruction of a bonding agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20130271287
    Abstract: Provide an operation management support apparatus for power plant, supporting a maintenance work and preventing a user from violation of the operational safety programs, caused by a human error in case where a power plant temporarily deviates from LCO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Musashi Shigeyama, Kazunobu Kurahashi, Chihiro Ohba, Akio Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20130242809
    Abstract: In a tunable duplexer combining a tunable filter with a canceler, calibration for optimizing passband characteristics and stop band characteristics is accelerated, and the deterioration of performance due to variations is highly accurately compensated. The tunable filter is calibrated to acquire isolation characteristics, and then coarse calibration and fine calibration are performed on the canceler. In coarse calibration, the use band of the tunable filter is set to a suppression band, and the isolation characteristics of the canceler are acquired. An amplitude, a phase, and a bias voltage are adjusted based on a result of comparison with the acquired isolation characteristics of the tunable filter for determining an approximate convergence. Fine calibration is further performed, and the optimum point is determined in a narrow range near the convergence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: MASAZUMI TONE, AKIO YAMAMOTO, TAKASHI SHIBA, OSAMU HIKINO
  • Patent number: 8525584
    Abstract: The disclosed invention enables the cutoff frequency of a filter to be automatically adjusted to an arbitrary setting value within the adjustment range. An automatic cutoff frequency adjusting circuit includes a voltage/current converter circuit, a charge circuit, a discharge circuit, a digital capacitance having a plurality of electrostatic capacitances, a comparator for comparing a voltage inputted to the digital capacitance with a reference voltage, and a capacitance control circuit for controlling the digital capacitance. The time until the comparator detects that the voltage inputted to the digital capacitance is higher than the reference voltage after a reset signal has become a predetermined logic level is measured, and the digital capacitance is controlled by repeating, under a predetermined condition, processing for obtaining a next setting value of the digital capacitance, based on a measurement result, a target value of the digital capacitance, and the current value of the digital capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yusaku Katsube, Yutaka Igarashi, Akio Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20130125982
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a photoelectric conversion device having high adhesion between a light-absorbing layer and an electrode layer as well as high photoelectric conversion efficiency. A photoelectric conversion device comprises a light-absorbing layer including a chalcopyrite-based compound semiconductor and oxygen. The light-absorbing layer includes voids therein. An atomic concentration of oxygen in the vicinity of the voids is higher than an average atomic concentration of oxygen in the light-absorbing layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Oguri, Isamu Tanaka, Norihiko Matsushima, Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8383921
    Abstract: A stick of a string instrument bow includes a base material having an arched-rod shaped carbon fiber resin layer made of carbon fiber resin and a glass fiber resin layer which covers the outer surface of the carbon fiber resin layer and is made of glass fiber resin, and the glass fiber resin layer has a non-adhesion portion formed of an air layer present within the glass fiber resin layer and an adhesion portion which does not include the air layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Yamamoto, Hiroshi Nakaya, Tatsuya Hiraku, Toshiharu Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20130033327
    Abstract: A high frequency circuit and a high frequency module are provided, in which the accuracy of compensation operation is improved in compensating by digital control. The amplification gain of an amplification element of an amplifier unit is controlled by a bias current of a bias control unit. A process monitoring circuit of a calibration circuit includes a first and a second element characteristic detector and a voltage comparator. The detectors convert the current of replica elements into a first and a second detection voltage. The voltage comparator compares a first and a second detection voltage and supplies a comparison output signal to a search control unit. Responding to the comparison output signal of the comparator and a clock signal of a clock generating unit, the controller generates a multi-bit digital compensation value according to a predetermined search algorithm, and the bias control unit of the second detector is feedback-controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo KADOI, Norio HAYASHI, Satoshi SHIMIZU, Akio YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8331895
    Abstract: A receiving circuit is provided for performing reception of a plurality of band signals and suppression of blockers that remain in the plurality of band signals being received and converted in frequency. The receiving circuit includes a first low-pass filter that has a first pole position to suppress blockers remaining in a received signal by the first pole position, and a second low-pass filter that has a second pole position to suppress blockers remaining in a signal that has passed through said first low-pass filter by the second pole position. A switch that switches on/off an input-output path including the filters so that the received signal passes through said first filter without passing through the second filter when receiving a first band signal, while the received signal passes through both filters when receiving a second band signal different from the first band signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yusaku Katsube, Akio Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20120216904
    Abstract: A method of making an UOE steel pipe having excellent deformability and low-temperature toughness includes providing a steel composition with a controlled composition consisting essentially of C: 0.03-0.07%, Si: 0.05-0.50%, Mn: 1.6-2.2%, P: at most 0.020%, S: at most 0.003%, Cu: 0.20-0.60%, Cr: at most 0.10%, Ni: 0.20-0.80%, Nb: 0.005-0.030%, Ti: 0.005-0.030%, N: at most 0.0070%, Al: 0.005-0.060%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities, a hardenability index Pcm of at most 0.22%, Cu+Cr+Ni is 0.4-1.5%, and Nb+Mo+V is at most 0.05%. The pipe has a yield strength in the longitudinal direction of at least 480 MPa, a yield-tensile ratio of at most 85% and a Charpy absorbed energy of the heat affected zone at ?40° C. of at least 40 J.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki TAKAHASHI, Akio YAMAMOTO, Masahiko HAMADA
  • Patent number: 8246489
    Abstract: A head 2 is provided with a face 4, a crown 6, and a sole 8. The head 2 is hollow. At least a part of an inner surface of the head 2 is a metal inner surface Kn. At least one rib 20 made of a metal is provided on the metal inner surface Kn. The at least one rib 20 is a partial weld rib obtained by carrying out partial welding between the rib 20 and the metal inner surface Kn. A welded portion and an unwelded portion coexist in a longitudinal direction of the partial weld rib 20 between the metal inner surface Kn and the partial weld rib 20. Preferably, the partial welding is carried out between a side surface 24 of the partial weld rib 20 and the metal inner surface Kn. Preferably, a weld bead Bd is present on a place on which the partial welding is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20120194265
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to accurately set a frequency characteristic of a filter integrated in a semiconductor integrated circuit. A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a filter circuit, a cutoff frequency calibration circuit, and a Q-factor calibration circuit. The cutoff frequency calibration circuit adjusts cutoff frequency of the filter circuit to a desired value by adjusting capacitance components of the filter circuit. After adjustment of the cutoff frequency of the filter circuit by the cutoff frequency calibration circuit, the Q-factor calibration circuit adjusts the Q factor of the filter circuit to a desired value by adjusting a resistance component of the filter circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusaku KATSUBE, Kosuke TSUIJI, Yutaka IGARASHI, Akio YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8226500
    Abstract: A head 2 is hollow. The head 2 has a face 4, a crown 6 and a sole 8. A rib 20 is provided on the inner surface of the head. Preferably, the rib 20 has a toe side part 20t located on the inner surface of a side 10 of a toe side, a sole disposing part 20s located on the inner surface of the sole 8, and a heel side part 20h located on the side 10 of a heel side. Preferably, the toe side part 20t and the sole disposing part 20s are connected with each other. Preferably, the sole disposing part 20s and the heel side part 20h are connected with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventors: Akio Yamamoto, Seiji Hayase
  • Publication number: 20120163245
    Abstract: A tunable filter has an out-of-band signal suppression amount of 30 dB that is smaller than 50 dB, the suppression amount of a typical duplexer. Thus, a canceller having a suppression amount of about 20 dB is necessary (particularly, a method is provided to obtain a suppression amount over a wide band without being adversely affected by the group delay characteristics and frequency characteristics of an amplifier included in a canceller). Delay devices corresponding to the group delay of the amplifier are disposed on the signal path of the tunable filter. The canceller includes a matching circuit that adjusts an amplitude, a phase, and a delay, a wide-band amplifier that has small amplitude fluctuations and small phase fluctuations over the frequency bands of a transmission signal and a reception signal, a variable-impedance transmission coupler, and a variable-impedance reception coupler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Masazumi Tone, Akio Yamamoto, Takashi Shiba, Osamu Hikino
  • Publication number: 20120121453
    Abstract: A thick steel plate and a UOE steel pipe having a high strength of at least X60 grade and improved resistance to HIC have a chemical composition consisting essentially of, in mass percent, C: 0.02-0.07%, Si: 0.05-0.50%, Mn: 1.1-1.6%, P: at most 0.015%, S: at most 0.002%, Nb: 0.005-0.060%, Ti: 0.005-0.030%, Al: 0.005-0.06%, Ca: 0.0005-0.0060%, N: 0.0015-0.007%, at least one of Cu, Ni, Cr, and Mo in a total amount of greater than 0.1% and less than 1.5%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities, wherein the degrees of segregation of Nb and Ti are both at most 2.0, and the ratio of (the degree of Nb segregation)/(the degree of Mn segregation) and the ratio of (the degree of Ti segregation)/(the degree of Mn segregation) are both at least 1.0 and at most 1.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Takahashi, Akio Yamamoto, Izuru Minato
  • Publication number: 20120122606
    Abstract: An iron-type golf club head comprises a head main portion having a face for hitting a golf ball, and weight members made of metallic material having heavier specific gravity than the head main portion. The head main portion has a tubular portion provided on a heel side of the face and having a shaft inserting hole. The tubular portion is provided continuously on the lower side of the shaft inserting hole with a bottomed hole part for arranging the weight members. The weight members include a heel-side weight member disposed in the bottomed hole part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventor: Akio YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20120112853
    Abstract: A tunable filter and a tunable duplexer are provided, both of which comprise an input terminal, an output terminal, four fixed capacitors, three variable capacitors and three fixed coils; wherein the variable capacitors are grounded at one end and, at the other end, connected to the fixed coils to form three sets of series-connected LC circuit; wherein the connecting points of the three sets of series-connected LC circuit, the input terminal and the output terminal are connected with the fixed capacitors, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventors: Osamu HIKINO, Takashi Shiba, Naoko Kamogawa, Akio Yamamoto, Masazumi Tone