Patents by Inventor Masashi Yamada

Masashi 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).

  • Patent number: 11974770
    Abstract: A medical device system that includes an ultrasound transducer and a processor. The ultrasound transducer includes a plurality of electrode plates to which a drive signal is supplied, and a plurality of piezoelectric elements that are alternately arranged with the electrode plates, and that generate ultrasound vibrations according to the drive signal. The ultrasound transducer also includes an electric wiring that electrically connects the electrode plates adjacent to each other, and a memory that stores reference information regarding specific initial characteristics. The processor analyzes the generated ultrasonic vibrations to determine a resonance point of the ultrasound transducer, and detects resonance point information regarding the resonance point. The processor then determines whether an abnormality has occurred in the ultrasound transducer by comparing the stored reference information and the detected resonance point information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Kawasaki, Masashi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11965843
    Abstract: A chemical bond evaluation method capable of directly evaluating the presence or absence of a chemical bond between silica and a silane coupling agent includes performing multidimensional solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis on a rubber composition comprising a rubber component, a silica, and a silane coupling agent; and evaluating the presence or absence of a chemical bond between silica and the silane coupling agent in the rubber composition containing a rubber component, the silica, and the silane coupling agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Fukuchi, Takehiro Kitaura, Hiroaki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240119762
    Abstract: An information processing method that is executed by an information processing device configured to calculate a feature relating to driving by a driver and transmit configured to information on the feature to outside includes specifying whether a current situation is a predetermined situation, calculating information on the predetermined situation as the feature when the information processing device specifies the predetermined situation, statistically quantifying the feature, and transmitting the statistically quantified feature to outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihisa YAMADA, Shoji KUBOTA, Masashi NOSE
  • Publication number: 20240097169
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell that generates power by being supplied with a reaction gas; an air pressure regulator that regulates an air pressure, which is a pressure of an oxidant gas passing through the fuel cell; and a control device that controls a power generation amount of the fuel cell. When the air pressure is higher than a predetermined high-pressure reference value while a required output to the fuel cell shows a decreasing tendency, the control device limits or delays a reduction in the power generation amount of the fuel cell in response to a decrease in the required output. Alternatively, when the air pressure is lower than a predetermined low-pressure reference value while the required output to the fuel cell shows an increasing tendency, the control device limits or delays an increase in the power generation amount of the fuel cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi YAMADA, Masashi MAEDA, Miho HATAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20240069297
    Abstract: In an optical fiber cable in which an optical fiber ribbon formed by parallelly arranging a plurality of optical fibers is packaged in an internal space, a core portion of each optical fiber is made of pure quartz and an effective cross-sectional area of the core portion at a wavelength of 1,550 nm is 110 ?m2 or more and 150 ?m2 or less. The optical fiber ribbon is an optical fiber ribbon in which the optical fibers are connected by continuously applying an adhesive resin between adjacent optical fibers. An occupation ratio of the optical fiber ribbon to the internal space calculated from a ratio of a cross-sectional area of the internal space to a cross-sectional area of the packaged optical fiber ribbon is 25% or more and 55% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yutaka HASHIMOTO, Fumiaki SATO, Masashi KIKUCHI, Akira SAKURAI, Yusuke YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230310021
    Abstract: A vibration transmitter includes: a first rod including a fitting hole extending along the longitudinal axis thereof; and a second rod attached to a distal end portion of the first rod by a fitting portion fitted into the fitting hole in a state where a compressed surface pressure is received from the inner surface of fitting hole. The first rod includes: a first region in which the fitting portion is fitted into the fitting hole; and a second region positioned proximal of the first region. In the first region of the first rod, a crystal grain diameter is larger than that in the second region of the first rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MAEDA, Yukihiko SHIMAMURA, Masashi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230274876
    Abstract: The coil component includes a plurality of coils 2 including round wires 22 arranged in alignment and wound in multiple layers and a bobbin 3 around which the coils 2 are wound. The bobbin 3 includes a winding portion 21 around which the coils are wound, a flange portion 22 provided at both ends of the winding portion 21, and the wall portion provided between the adjacent coils 2 and standing from the winding portion 21. The flange portion 22 includes an inclined guide 222 that spreads toward an opening 221. The winding portion 31 includes the groove portion 312 in which the round wire 22 as the first layer is fitted, and a step 313 provided between the flange portion 32 and the groove portion 312 and protrudes from the winding portion 31. The wall portion 33 includes an inclined side surface 332.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Toshikazu Ninomiya, Taichi Tamura, Masashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230253140
    Abstract: This adhesively-laminated core manufacturing method is a method for manufacturing an adhesively-laminated core by punching a plurality of steel sheet parts while a strip-shaped steel sheet is fed and laminating the steel sheet parts via an adhesive, and includes a step of forming a curing acceleration portion by applying and drying a curing accelerator on one or both surfaces of the strip-shaped steel sheet before a pressing oil is applied, and a step of applying the pressing oil to a surface of the curing acceleration portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, TOAGOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi TAKEDA, Shinsuke TAKATANI, Ryu HIRAYAMA, Yoshiaki IWASE, Makoto NIWA, Masashi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230235164
    Abstract: A sealing composition and a sealing method for a coated electric cable have excellent sealing performance even under conditions such as cooling-heating cycles or high temperature and humidity. The coated electric cable sealing composition is for sealing a core wires connection section formed by electrically connecting multiple core wires exposed from multiple coated electric wires, and features having a hardening time of 10 minutes or less at 130° C., and permeating to inside of the coated electric wires at a height of 5 mm or more at the time point of hardening while the exposed parts of the core wires including the core wires connection section and the boundary part between the coated parts and the exposed parts of the core wires are immersed perpendicularly in the coated electric cable sealing composition filled in a resin cap and the sealing composition is heated to be cured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: TOAGOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuko SUZUKI, Masashi YAMADA, Hiroyuki YAMAGA
  • Patent number: 11701138
    Abstract: A vibration transmitter includes: a first rod including a fitting hole extending along the longitudinal axis thereof; and a second rod attached to a distal end portion of the first rod by a fitting portion fitted into the fitting hole in a state where a compressed surface pressure is received from the inner surface of fitting hole. The first rod includes: a first region in which the fitting portion is fitted into the fitting hole; and a second region positioned proximal of the first region. In the first region of the first rod, a crystal grain diameter is larger than that in the second region of the first rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Maeda, Yukihiko Shimamura, Masashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230173593
    Abstract: The outer peripheral surface is provided with a first margin contiguous to each of the cutting edge and the flank face, and a second margin that is located on the rear side with respect to the first margin in a rotation direction and that is separated from each of the flank face and the thinning face. An outer peripheral portion of the first margin and an outer peripheral portion of the second margin have respective back tapers having the same angle. In a direction parallel to the axial line, a distance between a front end of the first margin and a front end of the second margin is more than or equal to 3 mm and less than or equal to 5 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi YAMADA, Naoyuki WAKATSUKI, Yasumasa SUNANO, Takayuki NATORI, Riku TADOKORO
  • Patent number: 11660691
    Abstract: A reamer is rotated about a central axis and has, in a direction along a central axis, a tool front end and a tool rear end that is an end opposite to the tool front end. The reamer includes a blade on a tool front end side. The blade has, on a circumferential surface, a chamfered cutting edge located on the tool front end side, a circumferential cutting edge contiguous to an end of the chamfered cutting edge on a tool rear end side, and a margin that is a surface contiguous to the circumferential cutting edge. The circumferential cutting edge includes a front end portion between a first position and a second position, the first position being an end on a chamfered cutting edge side, the second position having a distance of 1 mm from the first position in a direction of extension of the circumferential cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP., Sumitomo Electric Tool Net, Inc.
    Inventors: Masashi Yamada, Masaaki Jindai, Jun Okamoto, Futoshi Takeshita, Kyosuke Kai, Katsutoshi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11624009
    Abstract: An adhesive composition containing (A) a modified polyolefin resin and (B) an epoxy compound, wherein the modified polyolefin resin (A) is a polyolefin resin graft modified with a modifying agent that contains an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof. The content of the epoxy compound (B) is 1-20 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the modified polyolefin resin (A); and the epoxy compound is composed of two or more types of epoxy compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: TOAGOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Hirakawa, Masashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230084900
    Abstract: Provided are a program and a sound output device for maintaining the interest of the user. A sound output device 1 which outputs prescribed musical scales comprises: a level information acquisition unit 13 that acquires, as level information, a user's sense of pitch; a sound output unit 16 that outputs sound of which the pitch has been changed under prescribed conditions based on the acquired level information; a response information acquisition unit 19 that acquires, as response information, a response to the change in a musical scale input by the user on the basis of the output musical scale; a correctness determination unit 20 that determines the correctness of the acquired response information; and a level determination unit 21 that determines the level of the user's sense of pitch on the basis of the determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Ryosei WAKABAYASHI, Masashi YAMADA, Sho HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20220411630
    Abstract: A resin composition including a polyester polyurethane resin (A); and an epoxy resin (B), in which a molecular weight per a urethane bond of the polyester polyurethane resin (A) is from 200 to 8,000, and a layered body including a resin composition layer, a layered body, a flexible copper-clad laminate, a flexible flat cable, or an electromagnetic wave shielding film, each using the resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiro TORII, Yuya OKIMURA, Hironori KUTSUNA, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Masashi YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11484192
    Abstract: An optical-scanning-type observation probe is provided with: an imaging optical system that illumination light scanned by an optical scanner enters and that focuses the illumination light in the form of a spot, multiple times; a projection optical system that emits illumination light coming from a focus position focused by the imaging optical system, toward a subject in the form of a spot; and a light-receiver that is provided independently of the imaging optical system and the projection optical system and that receives reflected light of the illumination light, the reflected light coming from the subject, via a light path different from that of the imaging optical system and the projection optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuyoshi Shimamoto, Keiichiro Nakajima, Masashi Yamada, Takamitsu Sakamoto, Mitsuru Namiki, Mikihiko Terashima
  • Publication number: 20220306859
    Abstract: Provided are: a resin composition, containing a polyester polyurethane resin (A), an epoxy resin (B), and a polyamide resin (C); as well as a bonding film, a layered body including a resin composition layer, a layered body, and an electromagnetic wave shielding film, each using the resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yuya OKIMURA, Masahiro TORII, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Masashi YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11419625
    Abstract: A probe is connected to an ultrasonic transducer capable of generating ultrasonic vibration. The probe includes an elongated main body portion, and a cylindrical engagement portion. The main body portion is capable of transmitting the ultrasonic vibration. The ultrasonic vibration is input to the engagement portion. The engagement portion includes: a connection portion that is connected to the ultrasonic transducer, and a holding cylindrical portion that is continuous to the connection portion, and that holds the proximal end portion of the main body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukihiko Shimamura, Masashi Yamada, Hideyuki Komamura, Tomokazu Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20220259427
    Abstract: Provided are: a resin composition, containing a polyester polyurethane resin (A), an epoxy resin (B), and a polyolefin resin (C); as well as a layered body including a resin composition layer, a layered body, and an electromagnetic wave shielding film, each using the resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Yuya OKIMURA, Masahiro TORII, Makoto HIRAKAWA, Masashi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220151522
    Abstract: A biological information measuring device includes: a first light emitter configured to irradiate a biotissue with light of a first wavelength; a second light emitter arranged in proximity to the first light emitter and configured to irradiate the biotissue with light of a second wavelength; a first and a second photodetectors configured to photodetect the light of the first and the second wavelengths transmitted through or reflected from the biotissue; and a processor configured to calculate the arterial blood oxygen saturation from the change due to pulsation components in the absorption coefficient of the light of the first wavelength, the change due to the pulsation components in the absorption coefficient of the light of the second wavelength, a distance ?1 between the first and the second light emitters and the first photodetector, and a distance ?2 between the first and the second light emitters and the second photodetector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuka TSUBOI, Masashi YAMADA