Patents by Inventor Kentaro Yamada

Kentaro Yamada 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: 20220315063
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present invention acquires, from a communication device of a user, at least one of utterance information by the user and position information of the communication device, specifies a predetermined region according to a mark included in the utterance information; acquires a movement direction of the user from at least one of the utterance information and the position information acquired from the communication device of the user, and setting a probability distribution that the user exists to a divided region of the predetermined region based on the acquired movement direction of the user; and presumes the user based on the set probability distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Anirudh Reddy KONDAPALLY, Kentaro YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220276648
    Abstract: A mobile object control apparatus acquires an image,, recognizes an indication of a user, recognizes a first region that a mobile object is able to enter and a second region that the mobile object is not able to enter on the basis of the image, and determines a target position to which the mobile object will move on the basis of the indication from the user, the first region that the mobile object is able to enter, and the second region that the mobile object is not able to enter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Kentaro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220275847
    Abstract: This shock absorber includes a piston main body and a piston band. The piston main body has, at an outer peripheral portion thereof, a stepped portion including a large-diameter surface portion, a stepped surface portion and a small-diameter surface portion. The piston band has, at an outer peripheral portion thereof, a large diameter portion, a medium diameter portion formed so as to have a smaller diameter than the large diameter portion, and a small diameter portion formed between the large diameter portion and the medium diameter portion so as to have a smaller diameter than the medium diameter portion, in a state before being disposed in a cylinder. At one end on the side close to a tip portion of a piston rod, an inner peripheral surface is inclined toward the piston main body side from the large-diameter surface portion to a small-diameter surface portion of the stepped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuya YAMADA, Kentaro YAMADA, Reiji NAKAGAWA, Hiroyasu SATO, Sadatomo MATSUMURA, Wataru TAKAGI
  • Patent number: 11390993
    Abstract: A hopper includes a receiving member having a guide surface that guides a non-flat strip-shaped sheet and a posture adjusting unit that adjusts a posture of the falling sheet and sends it to the guide surface, and a discharge unit that discharges the sheet. The posture adjusting unit may have a posture adjusting surface continuous with the guide surface and bent from the guide surface so as to form a ridge line at a boundary portion with the guide surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kentaro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220194942
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a compound that is useful for the treatment and prophylaxis of rabies. The present disclosure provides a compound represented by formula XXIIF or formula XXIIB: wherein R1, R2A, R2B, R3, and R4 are defined in the specification, a solvent, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, use of such a compound, solvate, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for the treatment or prophylaxis of rabies and cancer, a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a compound, solvate, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a method for the treatment or prophylaxis of rabies and cancer using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kouji, Kentaro Yamada, Akira Katoh, Toshimasa Ishizaki, Shigeru Matsuoka, Akira Nishizono, Tadashi Mishina, Atsushi Yoshimori
  • Publication number: 20220136874
    Abstract: A field device case is a metal field device case where a lead-in part for drawing a cable including an outer shield is provided on a tubular circumferential wall. The field device case includes: a first inner surface which is formed away from an opening end surface of the field device case in an axial direction orthogonal to the opening end surface; a second inner surface which is formed farther away from the opening end surface than the first inner surface in the axial direction; and a cable fixing member which is fixed to the first inner surface and allows the outer shield of the cable drawn by the lead-in part to be in contact with the second inner surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Masaya TAGUCHI, Akira UEHARA, Kentaro YAMADA, Yudai HIRAI
  • Publication number: 20220134348
    Abstract: A coarse crusher includes a coarsely crushing unit configured to coarsely crush a sheet piece having an elongated shape, a hopper having a feed opening through which the sheet piece is fed to the coarsely crushing unit, the hopper being configured to feed the sheet piece putted into the hopper to the coarsely crushing unit through the feed opening, and a posture adjuster configured to adjust posture of the sheet piece. The hopper includes two guide plates facing each other with the feed opening therebetween and configured to guide the sheet piece to the coarsely crushing unit and two coupling plates coupling the two guide plates to each other. The posture adjuster includes a protrusion disposed on at least one of the coupling plates and protruding toward an inner side of the hopper. The posture adjuster is configured to come in contact with the sheet piece being coarsely crushed by the coarsely crushing unit to adjust the posture of a portion of the sheet piece that is remote from the coarsely crushing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Kentaro YAMADA, Yuki KODAMA
  • Patent number: 11292794
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a compound that is useful for the treatment and prophylaxis of rabies. The present disclosure provides a compound represented by formula XXIF or formula XXIB: wherein R1, R2A, R2B, R3, and R4 are defined in the specification, a solvent, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, use of such a compound, solvate, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for the treatment or prophylaxis of rabies and cancer, a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a compound, solvate, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a method for the treatment or prophylaxis of rabies and cancer using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Oita University Institute of Advanced Medicine, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kouji, Kentaro Yamada, Akira Katoh, Toshimasa Ishizaki, Shigeru Matsuoka, Akira Nishizono, Tadashi Mishina, Atsushi Yoshimori
  • Publication number: 20220082458
    Abstract: A flexible sensor includes a substrate having flexibility; and a sensor element provided on the substrate, wherein the sensor element includes a transistor having a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; and a variable resistance portion connected to either of the gate electrode, the source electrode, and the drain electrode, and the variable resistance portion has a resistance value changeable due to a strain, and wherein the variable resistance portion includes an extension portion extending in a direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei KOIZUMI, Yoshiaki KITO, Takachika SHIMOYAMA, Katsuhiro HATAYAMA, Kentaro YAMADA, Tohru KIUCHI, Yasuteru FUKAWA
  • Patent number: 11261879
    Abstract: This fluid machine includes a motor housing, a rotating shaft which is inserted through the motor housing, an impeller which is mounted on a protruding portion of the rotating shaft, and a facing portion which faces the motor housing on a first end side in the axial direction. A first opening is provided on the first end side of the motor housing, a second opening is provided on a second end side of the motor housing, and an in-housing passage fluidly couples the first opening with the second opening. The fluid machine further includes an exhaust passage which is formed between the motor housing and the facing portion and which fluidly couples the first opening with external air, and a rotating blade which is disposed between the first opening and the exhaust passage, wherein the rotating blade is mounted on the rotating shaft and is rotatable with the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventors: Yosuke Akamatsu, Gen Kuwata, Kentaro Yamada
  • Patent number: 11217670
    Abstract: A characteristic of a semiconductor device having a back electrode including an Au—Sb alloy is improved. The semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate and the back electrode including the Au—Sb alloy layer. The back electrode is formed on the semiconductor substrate. The Sb concentration in the Au—Sb alloy layer is equal to or greater than 15 wt %, and equal to or less than 37 wt %. The thickness of the Au—Sb alloy layer is equal to or larger than 20 nm, and equal to or less than 45 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Takahashi, Masaki Watanabe, Masashi Sahara, Kentaro Yamada, Masaki Sakashita, Shinichi Maeda, Yoshiaki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11198087
    Abstract: Technology improving the effect of cleaning a filter by a high pressure air current is provided. A first dust collector 27 has a housing into which a gas carrying capture material is carried; a filter 240 having a filter element 305 that captures the capture material, and an opening 305b from which air passing through the filter element 305 flows out; and an injector having a nozzle with an injection opening that injects a gas, moves the nozzle to a position in contact with the opening, and injects the gas from the injection opening 305b when the nozzle is in contact with the opening 305b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kentaro Yamada
  • Patent number: 11154931
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a three-dimensional formed object for manufacturing the three-dimensional formed object by stacking layers includes supplying a first forming material of the three-dimensional formed object to a contour region of the three-dimensional formed object in the layers, applying energy to the first forming material supplied to the contour region to solidify the first forming material, supplying a second forming material to a region corresponding to the three-dimensional formed object, the region being a contact region in contact with the contour region, and applying energy to the second forming material supplied to the contact region to solidify the second forming material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Ishida, Hajime Onishi, Eiji Okamoto, Kentaro Yamada
  • Patent number: 11143541
    Abstract: A sample container of a thermal analyzer that performs thermogravimetry or calorimetry includes a bottomed cylindrical body portion and a cover portion abutting against an opening of the body portion and covering at least a part of the opening. The cover portion includes a first cover portion abutting against an edge portion of the opening and having a second opening in a part of the first cover portion, and a second cover portion separated from the first cover portion in an axial direction of the body portion so as to cover at least a part of the second opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Yamada, Yasuyuki Takagi
  • Patent number: 11123746
    Abstract: Provided are a shredder assuring greater freedom in designing a feedstock supplier that supplies sheets, and a sheet manufacturing apparatus. The shredder has a feedstock supplier having a supply opening through which a sheet is supplied; and a shredding device configured to shred the sheet supplied from the feedstock supplier. The shredding device includes a rotary cutter that rotates on a first axis, and a circulating cutter that moves in an endless path and cuts the sheet in conjunction with the rotary cutter. The circulating cutter includes a conveyor configured to convey the sheet from the feedstock supplier to the rotary cutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kentaro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20210252981
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a display control unit which controls a display unit which can display an image of a character and a graphical user interface (GUI) which accepts an operation instruction for an apparatus. The information processing device includes an obtaining unit which obtains information indicating an operation content of an apparatus intended by a user. The display control unit determines the presentation duration for which a presentation image of the character operating the GUI is displayed based on the operation content and causes a display unit to display the presentation image for the presentation duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji YASUI, Nanami TSUKAMOTO, Misako YOSHIMURA, Kentaro YAMADA, Hisashi ISHIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20210252982
    Abstract: A control device controls a display device capable of displaying visual information for a passenger of a moving body, in two or more display regions. The control device causes adjacent target regions of the display regions to change from a display state in which the information is displayed to a display restricted state in which display is restricted, according to a predetermined order, when a predetermined condition is satisfied. The control device determines the target regions and the order, based on a traveling direction of the moving body at the time when the condition is satisfied or a traveling direction of the moving body that is predicted after the time when the condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji YASUI, Misako YOSHIMURA, Kentaro YAMADA, Nanami TSUKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210214356
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a compound that is useful for the treatment and prophylaxis of rabies. The present disclosure provides a compound represented by formula XXIF or formula XXIB: wherein R1, R2A, R2B, R3, and R4 are defined in the specification, a solvent, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, use of such a compound, solvate, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for the treatment or prophylaxis of rabies and cancer, a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a compound, solvate, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a method for the treatment or prophylaxis of rabies and cancer using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kouji, Kentaro Yamada, Akira Kato, Toshimasa Ishizaki, Shigeru Matsuoka, Akira Nishizono, Tadashi Mishina, Atsushi Yoshimori
  • Patent number: 10903475
    Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes: energy storage devices each including an external terminal, the energy storage devices being arranged in a first direction; a bus bar including a plate-like conductive portion; and a neighboring member disposed between the energy storage devices. The conductive portion includes: a fusible portion where a width size, which is a size in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, is defined by a pair of edges, the width size being smaller than a width size of other portions of the conductive portion; and a pair of enlarged width portions contiguously formed with both sides of the fusible portion in the first direction, a width size of the pair of enlarged width portions increasing in a direction away from the fusible portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Nishimura, Yuta Yamamoto, Kentaro Yamada
  • Patent number: 10872813
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device capable of having improved adhesion between a plating film and a wiring layer. A method of manufacturing the semiconductor device includes a step of forming a wiring layer having a surface covered with an oxide film, a step of removing a portion of the oxide film by dry etching to form, in the oxide film, a first opening for exposing a portion of the wiring layer, a step of forming a passivation film covering the wiring layer, is provided with a second opening communicated with the first opening, and is made of an insulating resin material, and a step of growing a plating film on the wiring layer exposed from the first and second openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Sukegawa, Yoshinori Matsumuro, Toshikazu Hanawa, Kentaro Yamada