Patents by Inventor Masahiro Yamamoto

Masahiro 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: 20190329429
    Abstract: A parallel link robot includes a main body, a number of driving mechanisms provided in the main body, a number of link units each having one end connected to corresponding one of the plurality of driving mechanisms, a movable plate disposed beneath the main body, and supported by the other ends of the number of link units, and an oil tray placed adjacently to the lower surface of the main body, where the oil tray is detachably attached to the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10456847
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a cutting tool includes an insert that includes a cutting edge at at least one part of a portion where two surfaces intersect. The cutting tool further includes a holder capable of rotating about a rotational axis. The holder includes a pocket including: a placement portion where the insert is positioned; and a cutout portion is adjacent to the placement portion and positioned further forward in a rotational direction than the placement portion. The holder further includes an inflow port that opens at at least one part of the holder, a first flow path positioned in the interior of the holder, and an outflow port positioned at the pocket. The cutout portion includes a recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10442016
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a cutting insert includes a body member and a cutting member. The body member is a columnar body, and includes: an upper surface; a lower surface; and an outer side surface between the upper surface and the lower surface. The cutting member is located at a corner part of the outer side surface in the body member. The cutting member includes: at least three surfaces being exposed; and a cutting edge at an intersecting portion of two of the at least three surfaces. The body member includes a through hole penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190293640
    Abstract: A nanoparticle measurement device includes a timing signal generation unit, a low-frequency component extraction unit, a low-frequency component calculation unit, a threshold correction unit, and a measurement unit. The timing signal generation unit generates timing signals. The low-frequency component extraction unit extracts low-frequency components according to the timing signals. The low-frequency component calculation unit calculates an interpolated low-frequency component in accordance with the low-frequency components. The threshold correction unit sets a corrected threshold in accordance with the interpolated low-frequency component. The measurement unit extracts and counts nanoparticle pulse signals from a light reception signal according to the timing signals and the corrected threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Shigehiko IWAMA, Masahiro YAMAMOTO, Atsushi SAITO
  • Patent number: 10422295
    Abstract: A filter malfunction determination apparatus includes a calculator that calculates, upon determination that a rapid output increase has occurred, an amount of change of a parameter value output from a sensor before and after the rapid output increase. The calculator calculates, based on the calculated amount of change, a correction value for correcting at least one of the parameter value output from the sensor and a malfunction determination threshold. The filter malfunction determination apparatus includes an offset corrector configured to perform, based on the correction value, offset correction of at least one of the parameter value output from the sensor and the malfunction determination threshold after determination that the rapid output increase has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamamoto, Manabu Yoshidome, Masayuki Tamura, Go Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 10409271
    Abstract: A scheduling method includes a first step where a controller prepares the schedule so that a preliminary processing process and a substrate processing process are performed in that order by a processing unit in common, a second step where, when an abnormality occurs in a substrate processing apparatus in a period from the start of the preliminary processing process to before the start of the substrate processing process, the controller stops the substrate processing process at the processing unit designated in the first step, and a third step where, when the abnormality is resolved, the controller prepares the schedule so that a post-resolution preliminary processing process and the substrate processing process are performed in that order at the processing unit designated in the first step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190248000
    Abstract: A parallel link robot includes a plurality of drive units and link units each driven by the corresponding drive unit. Each of the drive units includes a motor, a transmission mechanism that transmits the rotation of the motor to the link unit, and a housing that holds the motor. The housing includes a first connection portion, a second connection portion, and an opening through which the link unit extends. The first connection portion of one of the drive units and the second connection portion of another of the drive units are connected to each other, while the second connection portion of the one of the drive units and the first connection portion of another of the drive units are connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10373852
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a carrier holding unit which holds a carrier that contains substrates, a plurality of processing units, each of which processes a substrate, a substrate transfer unit which transfers substrates between the carrier and the processing units, and a controller. The controller classifies the plurality of processing units into a plurality of groups and is programmed, when determining a processing unit that is to process a substrate, to select one of the plurality of groups, to select one processing unit belonging to the selected group, and to control the substrate transfer unit to carry a substrate into the selected processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co,. Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10337974
    Abstract: A particulate matter detection sensor has an element part for detecting an amount of PM contained in exhaust gas emitted from an internal combustion engine. A deposition part and at least a pair of detection electrodes are formed on an end surface of the element part. Some of particles of PM is deposited on the deposition part. The pair of detection electrodes are arranged on the deposition part. The particulate matter detection sensor changes its output electrical signal according to variation of electrical properties between the pair of the detection electrodes due to deposition of PM on the deposition part. A concave collection part is formed on the deposition part. The concave collection part has a concaved shape when viewed from the edge surface of the element part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomotaka Mouri, Masayuki Tamura, Masahiro Yamamoto, Go Miyagawa, Hironobu Shimokawa, Kazuhiko Koike
  • Patent number: 10320284
    Abstract: An inverter device uses an inverter to convert DC voltage supplied from a rectifying component to AC voltage and applies the AC voltage to an inductive load. The inverter device includes a shunt resistor provided on a direct-current link interconnecting the rectifying component and the inverter, a first terminal passing current to the shunt resistor, a second terminal to which the current from the shunt resistor flows, and a printed board having a conductive pattern with first and second conductive pattern components joining the shunt resistor and the first and second terminals, respectively. The first conductive pattern component includes a first central region connecting right and left side ends of the shunt resistor to right and left side ends of the first terminal, and first right and left side protruding regions. A ratio of areas of the first left and right side protruding regions is 0.6 to 1.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Doi, Hiroshi Doumae, Takuji Koyama, Michiya Takezoe, Keito Kotera, Masahiro Yamamoto, Yoshitsugu Koyama, Sumio Kagimura
  • Patent number: 10296035
    Abstract: Provided is an operation lever adapted to make a blade perform an action other than an up and down action by rotatably a grip around the shaft center of a lever shaft. The operation lever has a lever shaft operable back and forth, corresponding to an up and down action of a blade of a dozer unit, and a grip provided on an upper part of the lever shaft and capable of rotating in a clockwise direction and counterclockwise direction from a neutral position around a shaft center of the lever shaft by a predetermined rotation angle, corresponding to an angle action or a tilting action of the blade. The grip includes a return-to-neutral spring adapted to return the grip from a rotated position to a neutral position, and the rotation angle of the grip in the clockwise direction is set to be different from that in the counterclockwise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Tokuda, Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190145885
    Abstract: An analysis device includes an optical disc drive, a gate information processing unit, a detection circuit, and a gate shift processing unit. The optical disc drive rotates a specimen analysis disc and detects a measurement radial position for an optical pickup. The detection circuit generates gate signals shifted by a gate shift amount in each measurement radial position in a rotating direction of the specimen analysis disc, and generates count values of the respective gate signals. The gate shift processing unit divides a gate signal-corresponding region of the corresponding gate signal by a unit gate shift amount in the rotating direction of the specimen analysis disc to define a plurality of divided regions and sets count values of the divided regions based on the count values of the gate signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi SAITO, Shigehiko IWAMA, Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10259057
    Abstract: A cutting insert, a cutting tool and method of manufacturing a machined product. The cutting insert includes: upper and lower surfaces; a side surface; a cutting edge; and a rake portion on the upper surface. The cutting edge includes major and minor cutting edges that are convex toward outside of the main body portion. The minor cutting edge has a curvature radius smaller than a curvature radius of the major cutting edge. The rake portion is inclined and approaches the lower surface as moving from the major cutting edge toward inside of the main body portion and is located along the major cutting edge. An inclination angle of the rake portion becomes smaller as moving from a part continuous with one end of the major cutting edge toward a part continuous with center of the major cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190107475
    Abstract: A particulate matter detection device includes a sensor unit which has a detection unit provided with a pair of electrodes and a heater unit provided with a heater electrode and which is configured to output a signal corresponding to the amount of particulate matter, and a sensor control unit which detects the number of particles of the particulate matter. The sensor control unit has a capture control unit, a heating control unit to heat the detection unit to a first temperature at which a SOF is volatilizable and a second temperature at which soot is burnable, an output changing ratio calculation unit to calculate a ratio between a first output value at the first temperature and a second output value as the maximum output upon heating to the second temperature, and a particle number calculation unit to estimate the average particle diameter of the particulate matter from a value corrected based on the temperature of the sensor unit at the second output value to calculate the number of particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhiko KOIKE, Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190103051
    Abstract: An image display device includes: a display unit that displays an image; a right side support and a left side support that support the display unit in an upright state, and are at least partially light-transmissive; a right side first light source and a left side first light source that are disposed in the display unit, and emit light to at least a part of the right side support and the left side support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMAMOTO, Naoki NOGUCHI, Osamu NAKAZAWA, Toshiharu TSUTSUI, Naoki MATSUMURA, Kazuhiro TADA
  • Publication number: 20190088259
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a display control system includes a recognizer, a calculator, and a display controller. The recognizer is configured to recognize sound generated from a sound source. The calculator is configured to calculate a first direction of the sound source from a position of a user based at least in part on the recognized sound. The display controller is configured to cause a display to output display information that visually expresses the sound in a first display format determined based at least in part on an angle between a second direction in which the user faces and the first direction of the sound source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMAMOTO, Kosei FUME
  • Publication number: 20190088258
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a voice recognition device includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: recognize a voice signal representing a voice uttered by an object speaker, to generate text and meta information representing information that is not included in the text and included in the voice signal; generate an object presentation vector including a plurality of parameters representing a feature of a presentation uttered by the object speaker; calculate a similarity between the object presentation vector and a reference presentation vector including a plurality of parameters representing a feature of a presentation uttered by a reference speaker; and output the text. The one or more processors are further configured to determine whether to output the meta information based on the similarity, and upon determining to output the meta information, add the meta information to the text and output the meta information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Kosei FUME, Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190078685
    Abstract: The controller performs shift control of the transmission such that an actual pressure of a primary pressure becomes an indicating pressure. The controller includes a phase advance compensator which performs advance compensation of the indicating pressure, and a setting unit which sets an indicating pressure on which the advance compensation is performed by the phase advance compensator as the indicating pressure, in accordance with at least one of a rotation speed of a primary pulley, an input torque to a secondary pulley, a speed ratio, or a changing rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: JATCO Ltd
    Inventors: Takurou KAWASUMI, Ken OKAHARA, Midori YAMAGUCHI, Masahiro YAMAMOTO, Hiroki IWASA, Hiroki KUMASHIRO, Masayuki SHIMIZU, Ryuuichi FURUKAWA, Kenichi MORI, Kazutaka ADACHI, Yutaka KANEKO, Hiroyuki ASHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190061144
    Abstract: Provided is a robot including at least one joint, and at least two links and coupled with each other by the joint. At least one of the links and includes an inner layer made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic, and an outer layer made of elastic material and covering an outer peripheral surface of at least part of the inner layer in a longitudinal direction over an entire circumference, the layers being integrally stacked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190032588
    Abstract: After an engine is started, an ECU performs first regeneration processing of a PM sensor through heating by a heater and, after the first regeneration processing, applies a voltage continuously to detection electrodes for a predetermined voltage application period. The ECU causes PM to adhere to an insulating substrate due to the voltage application and, at a time point after the predetermined time period has elapsed, determines the amount of PM that is adhering to the insulating substrate. When a predetermined condition is satisfied outside the voltage application period, the ECU determines whether the amount of adhering PM on the insulating substrate is equal to or greater than an excess determination threshold value. If the amount of adhering PM is determined to be equal to or greater than the excess determination threshold value, the ECU performs second regeneration processing of the PM sensor, through heating by the heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMAMOTO, Masayuki TAMURA, Takashi ARAKI, Go MIYAGAWA, Manabu YOSHIDOME, Masato KATSUNO, Toshihiro SAKAWA