Patents by Inventor Koji Yamashita
Koji Yamashita 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).
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Publication number: 20220002968Abstract: A remote operation device includes: a vibration detector to detect a plurality of vibration components in a plurality of directions different from each other, the vibration components being included in a vibration caused on an attachment; a transmission device; and a transmission control section that controls an operation of the transmission device. A vibration determination condition is set in advance, the vibration determination condition including a condition that an amplitude of a maximum vibration component largest in amplitude among the plurality of vibration components detected by the vibration detector is equal to or larger than a preset amplitude threshold. The transmission control section controls the operation of the transmission device to allow the vibration information to be transmitted to an operator only when the vibration determination condition is met.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke NODA, Koji YAMASHITA, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20210292994Abstract: A work machine includes: a first posture detection device which detects a posture of an upper slewing body with respect to a lower travelling body; a second posture detection device which detects a posture of a blade; a laser beam receiver which is provided to the upper slewing body and can receive a laser beam emitted from a laser beam emitter; and a calculation unit which calculates a height position of a cutting edge of the blade with respect to a surface to be constructed. The calculation unit calculates the height position of the cutting edge of the blade with respect to the surface to be constructed based on a laser beam receiving position where the laser beam is received by the laser beam receiver, a posture of the upper slewing body with respect to the lower travelling body, and a posture of the blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2019Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke KAMIMURA, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI, Koji YAMASHITA, Daisuke NODA
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Publication number: 20210184353Abstract: Provided is an LC resonant antenna including: an inductor layer provided with a coil-shaped inductor; and a capacitor layer laminated on the inductor layer in a direction of an axis along a coil center of the inductor. The capacitor layer includes a capacitor connected to the inductor. The capacitor includes a pair of electrode plates arranged in parallel at a distance from each other in a laminating direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2018Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Hideki Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Ohshima, Koji Yamashita, Takeshi Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20210082268Abstract: A construction machine work information management system includes: a server; a transmission unit attached to the construction machine and configured to transmit a wireless signal indicating first identification information for identifying the transmission unit itself; and reception units disposed at a plurality of monitoring target positions at a work site, the reception units being configured to receive the wireless signal when the construction machine approaches, and to transmit second identification information for identifying the reception unit itself to the server together with the first identification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2019Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki DOI, Nobuhiro FUKUO, Koji YAMASHITA, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20210002853Abstract: A construction machine capable of reducing a resistance that a bucket receives from the ground and improving smoothness of a construction surface includes a working device including a working device body and a bucket, first and second bucket actuators that rotationally move the bucket, and a control device. The control device controls the second bucket actuator to make the second bucket actuator periodically oscillate the bucket in a direction of a yaw motion during excavation work or ground leveling work.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Koji YAMASHITA
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Patent number: 10867814Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid processing method of drying a substrate held horizontally after supplying deionized water to the substrate. The liquid processing method includes: supplying the deionized water to a front surface of the substrate; supplying a first solvent to the front surface of the substrate after supplying the deionized water; supplying a water-repellent agent to the front surface of the substrate to impart water-repellency to the front surface of the substrate; supplying a second solvent to the front surface of the substrate to which water-repellency is imparted; and removing the second solvent from the front surface of the substrate. A specific gravity of the first solvent is smaller than a specific gravity of the water-repellent agent, and a specific gravity of the second solvent is larger than the specific gravity of the water-repellent agent.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Yosuke Kawabuchi, Kouzou Tachibana, Mitsunori Nakamori, Kotaro Ooishi, Keisuke Egashira, Koji Tanaka, Hiroaki Inadomi, Masami Yamashita, Yoshiteru Fukuda, Koji Yamashita, Yu Tsurifune, Takuro Masuzumi
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Patent number: 10775060Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus is capable of performing a heating-defrosting operation where a specific one of a plurality of parallel heat exchangers is a heat exchanger to be defrosted and serves as a condenser while at least one parallel heat exchanger other than the heat exchanger to be defrosted serves as an evaporator. The air-conditioning apparatus includes a liquid refrigerant transporting unit for transferring liquid refrigerant from an accumulator to the heat exchanger to be defrosted. To perform the heating-defrosting operation, the air-conditioning apparatus supplies, to the heat exchanger to be defrosted, the liquid refrigerant transferred by the liquid refrigerant transporting unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2014Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Naofumi Takenaka, Shinichi Wakamoto, Kazuya Watanabe, Koji Yamashita, Takeshi Hatomura
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Publication number: 20200286751Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a liquid processing tank, a movement mechanism, an ejector, and a controller. The liquid processing tank stores a processing liquid. The movement mechanism moves a plurality of substrates immersed in the liquid processing tank to above the liquid surface of the processing liquid. The ejector ejects a vapor of an organic solvent toward portions of the plurality of substrates exposed from the liquid surfaces. The controller moves up the ejection position of the vapor of the organic solvent by the ejection unit as the plurality of substrates are moved up.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Kazuya Koyama, Kotaro Tsurusaki, Koji Yamashita
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Publication number: 20200286754Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a liquid processing tank, a movement mechanism, an ejector, and a controller. The liquid processing tank stores a processing liquid. The movement mechanism moves a plurality of substrates immersed in the liquid processing tank to a position above the liquid surface of the processing liquid. The ejector ejects a vapor of an organic solvent toward portions of the plurality of substrates that are exposed from the liquid surface. The controller changes an ejection flow rate of the vapor ejected by the ejector as the plurality of substrates are moved up.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Kotaro Tsurusaki, Koji Yamashita, Kazuya Koyama, Kouzou Kanagawa
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Publication number: 20200271344Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigeration circuit, a first shut-off device provided at a pipe connecting a heat-source-side heat exchanger and an expansion device, a refrigerant leak detection device, and a controller. The controller controls a flow switching device to switch a connection state between a first connection state in which a discharge side of a compressor is connected to the heat-source-side heat exchanger, and a second connection state in which a suction side of the compressor is connected to the heat-source-side heat exchanger via an accumulator. When a refrigerant leak is detected, the controller performs a refrigerant retrieval operation and a refrigerant transfer operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2017Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Soshi IKEDA, Jun NISHIO, Katsuhiro ISHIMURA, Kohei OGURA, Koji YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20200248943Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigeration circuit, a first shut-off device, a leakage detection device, and a controller configured to perform a refrigerant recovery operation in a case where refrigerant leakage is detected. At the time of the refrigerant recovery operation, the controller performs control to perform a first operation of recovering refrigerant from a load-side heat exchanger into an accumulator and a heat-source-side heat exchanger, and a second operation of moving refrigerant in the heat-source-side heat exchanger to the accumulator. In the first operation, the first shut-off device is closed, a flow passage switching device is brought into a first connection state, and a compressor is driven. The second operation is performed after the first operation, and in the second operation, the connection state of the flow passage switching device is switched to a second connection state in a state where the compressor is being operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2017Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Jun NISHIO, Soshi IKEDA, Katsuhiro ISHIMURA, Kohei OGURA, Koji YAMASHITA
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Patent number: 10727042Abstract: A liquid processing method can remove pure water existing within a pattern of a substrate and replace the pure water with a solvent rapidly. The liquid processing method of supplying the pure water onto the substrate, which is horizontally held and has the pattern formed on a surface thereof, and drying the substrate includes a pure water supplying process of supplying the pure water onto the surface of the substrate; a heated solvent supplying process of supplying, after the pure water supplying process, the solvent in a liquid state, which is heated to a temperature equal to or higher than a boiling point of water, onto the surface of the substrate on which the pure water exists; and a removing process of drying the substrate by removing the solvent form the surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Mitsunori Nakamori, Yosuke Kawabuchi, Takuro Masuzumi, Koji Yamashita, Shozou Maeda
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Patent number: 10570478Abstract: Provided is a steel for a mechanical structure for cold working, which contains C, Si, Mn, P, S, Al and N and in which the metal structure includes pearlite and ferrite, the total areal proportion of pearlite and ferrite relative to the overall structure is 90% or higher, the average circle-equivalent diameter of bcc-Fe crystal grains surrounded by large angle grain boundaries is 5-15 ?m, the average aspect ratio of pro-eutectoid ferrite crystal grains is 3.0 or lower, and the average spacing at the narrowest pearlite lamellar spacing is 0.20 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: KOBE STEEL, LTD.Inventors: Yuki Sasaki, Takehiro Tsuchida, Takuya Kochi, Koji Yamashita, Masamichi Chiba, Kei Masumoto, Masayuki Sakata
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Patent number: 10529960Abstract: A battery pack includes multiple sub-modules each of which includes multiple battery cells electrically connected to each other, and an exhaust duct that is provided between and integrated with at least the two battery modules facing each other. The exhaust duct includes therein an exhaust passage that communicates with an outer surface of a safety valve provided in each battery cell in each of the facing battery modules.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Yamashita, Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, Kouichi Umeda
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Patent number: 10529918Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor device manufacturing method which includes: loading a substrate with a magnetic substance film formed thereon into a process container; regulating an internal pressure of the process container to a first pressure lower than an atmospheric pressure; regulating the internal pressure of the process container from the first pressure to a second pressure higher than the first pressure; and magnetizing the magnetic substance film by applying a magnetic field to the magnetic substance film under the second pressure.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Mitsuru Yamazaki, Koji Yamashita
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Patent number: 10520233Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus is capable of efficiently performing defrosting operation without suspending a heating operation of an indoor unit. The air-conditioning apparatus includes a main circuit sequentially connecting, via a pipe, a compressor, indoor heat exchangers, first flow control devices, and a plurality of parallel heat exchangers connected in parallel to each other to allow refrigerant to circulate, first defrost pipes branching a part of the refrigerant discharged from the compressor and causing the part of the refrigerant to flow into one of the plurality of parallel heat exchangers to be defrosted, an interface heat exchanger located between the plurality of parallel heat exchangers, a first bypass pipe branching a part of the refrigerant discharged from the compressor and causing the part of the refrigerant to flow into the interface heat exchanger, and a second bypass pipe causing the part of the refrigerant flowing out of the interface heat exchanger to flow into the main circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2015Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kazuya Watanabe, Shinichi Wakamoto, Naofumi Takenaka, Naomichi Tamura, Tadashi Ariyama, Koji Yamashita, Takeshi Hatomura
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Patent number: 10508826Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a selection unit and a determination unit, the selection unit selecting a reverse-defrosting operation mode or a heating-defrosting simultaneous operation mode, the reverse-defrosting operation mode being a mode in which all of parallel heat exchangers are defrosted by stopping a heating operation, the heating-defrosting simultaneous operation mode being a mode in which each parallel heat exchanger is sequentially defrosted while continuing a heating operation, the determination unit determining whether or not a defrosting operation is to be started, in which the determination unit is configured to start the defrosting operation in a state where the amount of frost deposited on the parallel heat exchangers is smaller in a case where the heating-defrosting simultaneous operation mode is selected than in a case where the reverse-defrosting operation is selected.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Naofumi Takenaka, Shinichi Wakamoto, Kazuya Watanabe, Naomichi Tamura, Tadashi Ariyama, Koji Yamashita, Takeshi Hatomura
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Patent number: 10483604Abstract: A battery pack includes: a battery assembly including a plurality of batteries; a fluid drive member driving a fluid which cools the battery assembly; a housing that houses the battery assembly and the fluid drive member; and a beam provided integrally with a bottom wall of the housing to support the battery assembly from a lower side. A circulation passage provided in the housing includes: a first fluid passage between the battery assembly and a side wall of the housing; a battery passage between the batteries; and a second fluid passage downstream of the battery passage and extending toward the fluid drive member. The second fluid passage is surrounded by at least the beams, the bottom wall, and a lower end of the battery assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, Yoshimitsu Inoue, Koji Yamashita, Shota Iguchi
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Patent number: 10465968Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes: a compressor allowing refrigerant injection thereto and compress and discharge the refrigerant at a high temperature; an indoor heat exchanger exchanging heat between air and refrigerant; a first flow rate control device adjusting and controlling a flow rate of refrigerant; and a plurality of outdoor heat exchangers being in parallel to exchange heat between outside air and refrigerant, a first defrosting pipe allowing a branched part of the refrigerant discharged from the compressor to pass and flow into the outdoor heat exchanger to be defrosted; a reducing device adjusting a pressure of refrigerant passing through the first defrosting pipe to a medium pressure; a second defrosting pipe from which the refrigerant having passed through the outdoor heat exchanger to be defrosted is injected into the compressor; and a reducing device adjusting a pressure of refrigerant passing through the second defrosting pipe to an injection pressure.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2013Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Naofumi Takenaka, Shinichi Wakamoto, Kazuya Watanabe, Koji Yamashita, Takeshi Hatomura
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Patent number: 10451306Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus, including an outdoor unit including a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger, a plurality of indoor units each including an indoor heat exchanger, and a relay unit configured to distribute refrigerant supplied from the outdoor unit to the plurality of indoor units, the relay unit including a first branch unit in which liquid-side pipes connected to the plurality of indoor units join together, and a refrigerant shutoff valve, which is configured to control bidirectional flow of the refrigerant, and is provided to the first branch unit, the number of the refrigerant shut off valve being smaller than a number of the plurality of indoor units.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Naofumi Takenaka, Shinichi Wakamoto, Yuji Motomura, Osamu Morimoto, Hirofumi Koge, Koji Yamashita