Patents by Inventor Koichi Yamamoto

Koichi 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: 10056532
    Abstract: Provided are a light source circuit unit that improves light extraction efficiency, as well as an illuminator and a display that include such a light source circuit unit. The light source circuit unit includes: a circuit substrate having a wiring pattern on a surface thereof, the wiring pattern having light reflectivity, a circular pedestal provided on the circuit substrate, a water-repelling region provided at least from a peripheral edge portion of the pedestal to a part of a side face of the pedestal, and one or two or more light-emitting device chips mounted on the pedestal, and driven by a current that flows through the wiring pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Koichi Yamamoto, Takehito Hirose, Shigeru Teshigahara
  • Patent number: 10037868
    Abstract: The plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing chamber disposed inside a vacuum vessel; a first high-frequency power supply outputting a first high-frequency power for supplying an electric field to generate a plasma for use in processing a sample to be processed inside the processing chamber; a sample stage disposed inside the processing chamber with the sample placed on an upper surface thereof; a second high-frequency power supply intermittently outputting a second high-frequency power for generating a bias potential to an electrode disposed inside the sample stage and capable of variably adjusting the output time; and a function to adjust operation of the plasma processing apparatus using a result of detection of a temporal change in waveform of current or voltage in a transient state of the second high-frequency power in synchronism with start of the intermittent output of the second high-frequency power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Toyota, Koichi Yamamoto, Naoki Yasui
  • Publication number: 20180166918
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided, which includes a housing having a rectangular plan-view shape defined by two sides along a longitudinal direction and two sides along a lateral direction. The mobile terminal includes a camera included in the housing; a charging coil arranged in the housing; and a battery arranged in the housing. The camera, the charging coil, and the battery are arranged in this order along the longitudinal direction of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshio Koyanagi, Koichi Yamamoto, Takanori Hirobe, Hiroyuki Uejima, Kenichiro Tabata, Shuichiro Yamaguchi, Munenori Fujimura, Akio Hidaka, Takumi Naruse
  • Publication number: 20180166919
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided with a housing, a circuit board included in the housing and having a thickness direction normal to a plane of the circuit board, a battery pack included in the housing, and a non-contact charging module included in the housing. The non-contact charging module includes a charging coil formed of a wound conducting wire; a communication coil arranged adjacent to the charging coil; and a magnetic sheet on which the charging coil and the communication coil are arranged. The magnetic sheet has four edges that collectively define a rectangular profile of the magnetic sheet, and at most three pairs of adjacent edges respectively meet to form at most three corners. At least a portion of the non-contact charging module overlaps with the circuit board as viewed in the thickness direction of the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshio Koyanagi, Koichi Yamamoto, Takanori Hirobe, Hiroyuki Uejima, Kenichiro Tabata, Shuichiro Yamaguchi, Munenori Fujimura, Akio Hidaka, Takumi Naruse
  • Publication number: 20180109139
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided, which includes a housing having a rectangular plan-view shape defined by two sides along a longitudinal direction and two sides along a lateral direction. The mobile terminal includes a camera included in the housing; a charging coil arranged in the housing; and a battery arranged in the housing. The camera, the charging coil, and the battery are arranged in this order along the longitudinal direction of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshio Koyanagi, Koichi Yamamoto, Takanori Hirobe, Hiroyuki Uejima, Kenichiro Tabata, Shuichiro Yamaguchi, Munenori Fujimura, Akio Hidaka, Takumi Naruse
  • Publication number: 20170367169
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes: a high voltage power supply for supplying a high voltage power to a magnetron; and a detector for detecting a microwave output from the magnetron, wherein based on a result of comparing a signal, which is obtained by adding an output from the detector to an AC component of a current detected from an output of the high voltage power supply, with a setting value of the output of the high voltage power supply, the output of the high voltage power supply is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Yamamoto, Atsushi Itou
  • Publication number: 20170345980
    Abstract: Provided are a light source circuit unit that improves light extraction efficiency, as well as an illuminator and a display that include such a light source circuit unit. The light source circuit unit includes: a circuit substrate having a wiring pattern on a surface thereof, the wiring pattern having light reflectivity, a circular pedestal provided on the circuit substrate, a water-repelling region provided at least from a peripheral edge portion of the pedestal to a part of a side face of the pedestal, and one or two or more light-emitting device chips mounted on the pedestal, and driven by a current that flows through the wiring pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Koichi Yamamoto, Takehito Hirose, Shigeru Teshigahara
  • Patent number: 9812746
    Abstract: A battery unit includes a battery and a battery case which accommodates the battery and which is disposed underneath a floor panel FP, and cooling air is introduced from an air intake port to cool the battery. In the battery case, a cooling space C which communicates with the air intake port is formed separately from a battery accommodation space M which accommodates the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Goichi Katayama, Koichi Yamamoto, Yasuaki Hotozuka
  • Publication number: 20170310149
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided, which includes a housing having a rectangular plan-view shape defined by two sides along a longitudinal direction and two sides along a lateral direction. The mobile terminal includes a camera included in the housing; a charging coil arranged in the housing; and a battery arranged in the housing. The camera, the charging coil, and the battery are arranged in this order along the longitudinal direction of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshio Koyanagi, Koichi Yamamoto, Takanori Hirobe, Hiroyuki Uejima, Kenichiro Tabata, Shuichiro Yamaguchi, Munenori Fujimura, Akio Hidaka, Takumi Naruse
  • Publication number: 20170310148
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided, which includes a housing; a camera placed in the housing; a circuit board included in the housing; a charging coil arranged in the housing; a wireless communication coil electrically isolated from the charging coil; and a magnetic sheet including a front surface, on which the charging coil and the wireless communication coil are arranged, and a back surface. The charging coil includes a first winding portion, a first leg portion, and a second leg portion. The wireless communication coil includes a second winding portion. The first and second leg portions of the charging coil are arranged between the second winding portion of the wireless communication coil and the back surface of the magnetic sheet. A minimum distance between the first and second leg portions and the camera is less than a minimum distance between the first winding portion and the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshio Koyanagi, Koichi Yamamoto, Takanori Hirobe, Hiroyuki Uejima, Kenichiro Tabata, Shuichiro Yamaguchi, Munenori Fujimura, Akio Hidaka, Takumi Naruse
  • Patent number: 9773957
    Abstract: Provided are a light source circuit unit that improves light extraction efficiency, as well as an illuminator and a display that include such a light source circuit unit. The light source circuit unit includes: a circuit substrate having a wiring pattern on a surface thereof, the wiring pattern having light reflectivity, a circular pedestal provided on the circuit substrate, a water-repelling region provided at least from a peripheral edge portion of the pedestal to a part of a side face of the pedestal, and one or two or more light-emitting device chips mounted on the pedestal, and driven by a current that flows through the wiring pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Koichi Yamamoto, Takehito Hirose, Shigeru Teshigahara
  • Publication number: 20170237665
    Abstract: A packet processing method executed by a system including a first apparatus and a second apparatus, the first apparatus having a first processor and a plurality of interfaces and a second apparatus having a second processor and a plurality of third processors, the packet processing method includes receiving, by the first processor, a packet via an interface in the plurality of interfaces; storing identification information of the interface into the packet; transmitting the packet to the second apparatus; receiving, by the second processor, the packet transmitted from the first apparatus; selecting a processor from the plurality of third processors based on the identification information included in the received packet; and executing processing of the packet using the selected processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Sato, Koichi Yamamoto, Yosuke Gondo, SHINICHI HAYASHI, Wataru Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 9735606
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided with a housing, a circuit substrate, a secondary-side non-contact charging module, and a heat dissipating sheet. The circuit substrate comprises a substrate, an electronic component that is mounted to the substrate, and a shield case that covers the electronic component. The heat dissipation sheet is in contact with the shield case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Koyanagi, Koichi Yamamoto, Takanori Hirobe, Hiroyuki Uejima, Kenichiro Tabata, Shuichiro Yamaguchi, Munenori Fujimura, Akio Hidaka, Takumi Naruse
  • Publication number: 20170229910
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided with a housing, a circuit board included in the housing and having a thickness direction normal to a plane of the circuit board, a battery pack included in the housing, and a non-contact charging module included in the housing. The non-contact charging module includes a charging coil formed of a wound conducting wire; a communication coil arranged adjacent to the charging coil; and a magnetic sheet on which the charging coil and the communication coil are arranged. The magnetic sheet has four edges that collectively define a rectangular profile of the magnetic sheet, and at most three pairs of adjacent edges respectively meet to form at most three corners. At least a portion of the non-contact charging module overlaps with the circuit board as viewed in the thickness direction of the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshio Koyanagi, Koichi Yamamoto, Takanori Hirobe, Hiroyuki Uejima, Kenichiro Tabata, Shuichiro Yamaguchi, Munenori Fujimura, Akio Hidaka, Takumi Naruse
  • Patent number: 9730172
    Abstract: There is provided a base station device capable of achieving synchronization in a wired manner between base station devices in IP-DECT. Thus, according to the base station device, in slave base station devices, synchronization control unit hardware that is connected to Ethernet (registered trademark), and outputs timestamp information and synchronization pulses which includes interval pulses and wide pulses, synchronization control unit software that generates frame numbers based on the timestamp information, and a wireless timing control unit that receives the synchronization pulses generated in the synchronization control unit hardware and the frame numbers generated in the synchronization control unit software, and performs timing control for performing wireless communication with IP-DECT client terminals are provided. The wireless timing control unit includes a frame counter, and the frame counter is updated using the frame numbers with the wide pulses as triggers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Shibuta, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Koichi Yamamoto, Katsunori Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9711375
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus is provided including a processing chamber disposed within a vacuum vessel to form plasma therein, a processing stage disposed in the processing chamber to mount a wafer thereon, a first power supply for outputting an electric field supplied to form the plasma and forming an electric field of a first frequency supplied with repetition of a high output and a low output during processing of the wafer, a second power supply for supplying power of a second frequency to an electrode disposed within the processing stage, and a control device for causing a first value between load impedance at time of the high output of the electric field and load impedance at time of the low output of the electric field to match with impedance of the first power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Terauchi, Tsutomu Iida, Koichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9699750
    Abstract: Provided is a synchronization establishment method capable of reducing the time required to establish synchronization in a slave station without putting an unnecessary load on a master station. In the synchronization establishment method, a one-second cycle of a message is divided into 100 time slots including slot “0” to slot “99”; ten slots including slot “90” to slot “99” as some of the slots are allocated to a fast synchronization establishment mode; and, in the fast synchronization establishment mode, messages such as Sync2, Delay_Req, and Delay_Resp are transmitted and received between the master station and the slave station so that the slave station establishes synchronization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Shibuta, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Koichi Yamamoto, Katsunori Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9692090
    Abstract: A battery cooling structure includes a cooling plate and an electrically insulative sheet. The cooling plate is to support a cooling surface of a battery module to cool the battery module including a plurality of battery cells arranged side by side. The electrically insulative sheet has an electrical non-conductivity and is disposed between the cooling surface of the battery module and the cooling plate to transfer heat from the cooling surface to the cooling plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Arihisa Kimura, Goichi Katayama, Koichi Yamamoto, Masato Fujioka
  • Patent number: 9667086
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided with a housing, a battery pack, and a secondary-side non-contact charging module. In a plan view along the thickness direction of the housing, the battery pack is arranged in a first area, and the secondary-side non-contact charging module is arranged in a second area that is adjacent to the first area. The secondary-side non-contact charging module overlaps with the intersection of a center line for the second area, said center line following the direction in which the first area and the second area are adjacent to each other, and a center line for the width direction of the housing, said center line being orthogonal to the direction in which the first area and the second area are adjacent to each other in the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Koyanagi, Koichi Yamamoto, Takanori Hirobe, Hiroyuki Uejima, Kenichiro Tabata, Shuichiro Yamaguchi, Munenori Fujimura, Akio Hidaka, Takumi Naruse
  • Patent number: 9642133
    Abstract: A communication apparatus is provided that can improve synchronization precision between multiple communication apparatuses. For this reason, the communication apparatus that communicates with a different communication apparatus over a network includes a slot control unit that generates multiple slots for communicating a synchronization message, and allocates each slot to the communication apparatus and the different communication apparatus; and a communication unit that communicates the synchronization message between the communication apparatus and the different apparatus, using the each slot that is allocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Shibuta, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Koichi Yamamoto, Katsunori Takahashi