Patents by Inventor Masataka Yamamoto

Masataka 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: 11930431
    Abstract: A wireless sensor system is provided with: a wireless terminal device which is driven by electric power stored in a power storage unit and transmits measurement information indicating a result of measurement by a sensor; and a management device which receives the measurement information transmitted from the wireless terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masataka Funaki, Yoshizo Tanaka, Daigo Murata, Takashi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230328615
    Abstract: A radio broadcast receiver comprising: a memory; and a processor that is coupled to the memory, and, when executing a program stored in the memory, performs operations. The operations include: receiving analog quality information indicating a reception quality of an analog radio based on a broadcast radio including a digital radio and the analog radio; and determining switching of a radio source from one of the broadcast radio and an IP radio to the other of the broadcast radio and the IP radio based on the analog quality information indicating the reception quality of the analog radio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Masataka YAMAMOTO, Yosuke ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230269014
    Abstract: A reception device includes a first electronic component and a second electronic component. The first electronic component includes a first signal processor and a first control circuit controlling the first signal processor. The second electronic component includes a second signal processor and a second control circuit controlling the second signal processor. The first control circuit controls the first signal processor such that transmission of a reception signal from a first transmitter of the first signal processor to the second electronic component and transmission of an analog sound signal from a second transmitter of the first signal processor to the second electronic component are simultaneously started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventor: Masataka YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11588564
    Abstract: A receiving device including a first electronic component and a second electronic component. The first electronic component includes: an analog audio demodulator that demodulates a received signal including a digital broadcast wave and an analog broadcast wave to output an analog audio, the analog broadcast wave being broadcast later by a preset first delay time than the digital broadcast wave; and a transmitter that transmits a communication signal including the analog audio and the received signal to the second electronic component. The second electronic component includes: a receiver that receives the communication signal from the transmitter; a digital audio demodulator that demodulates the received signal included in the communication signal to output a digital audio; and a selector that selects at least one of the digital audio and the analog audio as an output sound signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masataka Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210396536
    Abstract: A passage direction detecting device includes: a detection processing unit that detects a passage direction in which a passage connected to an exit of a parking area of a vehicle extends and the vehicle has to travel after exiting from the parking area, based on a road surface marking provided on a road surface to illustrate the parking area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoji INUI, Masaki FURUKAWA, Masataka YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210110179
    Abstract: A parking assistance device that recognizes a parking stall where a vehicle is to be parked, includes: at least three cameras that take images of an outside of the vehicle; a setting unit that sets, based on a preset setting condition, a camera which is to take an image used for recognizing the parking stall; and a detection unit that detects the parking stall based on the image taken by the set camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoji INUI, Shota Sobue, Masaki Furukawa, Naoki Yamamura, Yuya Shimohira, Masataka Yamamoto, Ryutaro Kato
  • Publication number: 20210058176
    Abstract: A receiving device including a first electronic component and a second electronic component. The first electronic component includes: an analog audio demodulator that demodulates a received signal including a digital broadcast wave and an analog broadcast wave to output an analog audio, the analog broadcast wave being broadcast later by a preset first delay time than the digital broadcast wave; and a transmitter that transmits a communication signal including the analog audio and the received signal to the second electronic component. The second electronic component includes: a receiver that receives the communication signal from the transmitter; a digital audio demodulator that demodulates the received signal included in the communication signal to output a digital audio; and a selector that selects at least one of the digital audio and the analog audio as an output sound signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masataka YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10361543
    Abstract: A water blocking structure of a wire harness and a method for manufacturing the wire harness is provided. The water blocking structure includes a set of wires including a plurality of wires arranged in at least one row and side by side in a direction of a diameter of the wire, and an integrally molded stopper made of a hard resin that is injection-molded at a low-pressure so as to surround a portion of the set of wires in an extending direction of the wires and to have an outer circumferential shape defining portion that conforms to an inner circumferential shape of a wire passage portion into which the set of wires is to be inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimitoshi Makino, Tetsuro Saimoto, Akihito Shibuya, Masataka Yamamoto, Kenji Kinezuka, Shinnya Matsuura, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Takafumi Mori
  • Patent number: 10164414
    Abstract: A protection tube with latch in which a latch that is formed engageable with an attachment hole of a panel is molded integral with a protection tube that receives an electric wire, and a manufacturing apparatus of the protection tube with latch. The protection tube with latch includes a latch to be engaged with the attachment hole of the panel having the electric wire wired therein disposed on an outer peripheral face of the protection tube that is formed tubular and receives the electric wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka Yamamoto, Takehiko Uehara, Yoshihiro Murakami, Masahiro Sora
  • Patent number: 10153070
    Abstract: A waterproof structure of a wire harness includes at least one bundle of an electric wire group in which a plurality of electric wires are linearly arranged, a damming part made of a hard resin material, the damming part which surrounds a part of the electric wire group in an extension direction of the electric wire group and which includes an outer periphery shape part according to a shape of a trapezoidal through hole in an electric wire group insertion part with a divided structure, and a water stop material which prevents water from entering a gap between the electric wire group insertion part and the outer periphery shape part and which is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kimitoshi Makino, Tetsuro Saimoto, Akihito Shibuya, Masaaki Sugiyama, Masataka Yamamoto, Kenji Kinezuka, Shinya Matsurra, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Takafumi Mori, Takenori Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 10109394
    Abstract: A clamp mark includes a mark main body, flange parts and a linear rib. The mark main body has a cylindrical shape. The mark main body is made of resin material by molding. The mark main body covers a circumference of an electric wire entirely in a circumference direction of the electric wire at a predetermined position of the electric wire in an axial direction of the electric wire. The flange parts are respectively provided on both ends of the mark main body in an axial direction of the mark main body so as to project outward in a radial direction of the mark main body from an outer peripheral surface of the mark main body. The rib is provided on and projected from the outer peripheral surface of the mark main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masataka Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10008843
    Abstract: A wire protection member includes: a flexible cylindrical wire protection tube; a cylindrical covering member that is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the wire protection tube by molding; and a locking tool that is formed integrally with the cylindrical covering member to allow the locking tool to be locked to a mounting hole of a vehicle body panel. The cylindrical covering member includes: a thick portion that is formed to be thicker in radial thickness than another outer circumferential portion in a circumferential direction on which at least the locking tool is provided to protrude; and a flat surface or a gentle curved surface that is formed in an outer surface of the thick portion and that is substantially parallel to a plane passing through an axis of the wire protection tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Masataka Yamamoto, Atsuyoshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9994171
    Abstract: A clamp mark includes a mark main body and flange parts. The mark main body, is made of resin material by molding, and covers a circumference of an electric wire entirely in a circumference direction of the electric wire at a predetermined position of the electric wire in an axial direction of the electric wire. The flange parts are respectively provided on both end portions of the mark main body in the axial direction of the electric wire so as to project outward in a radial direction of the electric wire from an outer peripheral surface of the mark main body. A cross section of the mark main body, which is perpendicular to the axial direction, is not precise circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka Yamamoto, Takehiko Uehara, Takahisa Nagatsu
  • Publication number: 20180068765
    Abstract: A clamp mark includes a mark main body, flange parts and a linear rib. The mark main body has a cylindrical shape. The mark main body is made of resin material by molding. The mark main body covers a circumference of an electric wire entirely in a circumference direction of the electric wire at a predetermined position of the electric wire in an axial direction of the electric wire. The flange parts are respectively provided on both ends of the mark main body in an axial direction of the mark main body so as to project outward in a radial direction of the mark main body from an outer peripheral surface of the mark main body. The rib is provided on and projected from the outer peripheral surface of the mark main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masataka YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180065574
    Abstract: A clamp mark includes a mark main body and flange parts. The mark main body, is made of resin material by molding, and covers a circumference of an electric wire entirely in a circumference direction of the electric wire at a predetermined position of the electric wire in an axial direction of the electric wire. The flange parts are respectively provided on both end portions of the mark main body in the axial direction of the electric wire so as to project outward in a radial direction of the electric wire from an outer peripheral surface of the mark main body. A cross section of the mark main body, which is perpendicular to the axial direction, is not precise circle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Masataka YAMAMOTO, Takehiko UEHARA, Takahisa NAGATSU
  • Publication number: 20170372817
    Abstract: A waterproof structure of a wire harness includes at least one bundle of an electric wire group in which a plurality of electric wires are linearly arranged, a damming part made of a hard resin material, the damming part which surrounds a part of the electric wire group in an extension direction of the electric wire group and which includes an outer periphery shape part according to a shape of a trapezoidal through hole in an electric wire group insertion part with a divided structure, and a water stop material which prevents water from entering a gap between the electric wire group insertion part and the outer periphery shape part and which is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicants: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kimitoshi MAKINO, Tetsuro SAIMOTO, Akihito SHIBUYA, Masaaki SUGIYAMA, Masataka YAMAMOTO, Kenji KINEZUKA, Shinya MATSUURA, Yasuhiro SUZUKI, Takafumi MORI, Takenori TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20170368729
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a wire harness which includes at least one bundle of an electric wire group in which a plurality of electric wires are linearly arranged, and a damming part made of a resin material surrounding a part of the electric wire group in an extending direction of the electric wire group and including an outer periphery shape part according to an inner peripheral shape of an electric wire group insertion part, the manufacturing method includes a mold clamping step of disposing a part of the one bundle of the electric wire group and mold clamping an upper mold and a lower mold and an injection step of performing low pressure injection of a larger amount of molten resin than a volume of a cavity into the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicants: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kimitoshi MAKINO, Tetsuro SAIMOTO, Akihito SHIBUYA, Naoya KAWASAKI, Masaaki SUGIYAMA, Masataka YAMAMOTO, Kenji KINEZUKA, Shinya MATSUURA, Yasuhiro SUZUKI, Takafumi MORI, Takenori TSUCHIYA
  • Patent number: 9843177
    Abstract: Provided is a protection tube with latch in which a latch that is formed engageable with an attachment hole of a panel is molded integral with a protection tube that receives an electric wire, and a manufacturing apparatus of the protection tube with latch. The protection tube with latch includes a latch to be engaged with the attachment hole of the panel having the electric wire wired therein disposed on an outer peripheral face of the protection tube that is formed tubular and receives the electric wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka Yamamoto, Takehiko Uehara, Yoshihiro Murakami, Masahiro Sora
  • Patent number: 9831646
    Abstract: A wire protection member includes: a flexible cylindrical wire protection tube, in which a plurality of large diameter portions and a plurality of small diameter portions are arranged alternately such that concave outer circumferential grooves are formed between adjacent ones of the large diameter portions across the corresponding small diameter portion; and a connection member in which a connection portion and a locking tool are formed integrally. The connection portion connects a plurality of annular portions formed in a plurality of the outer circumferential grooves respectively by molding. The locking tool is allowed to be locked to a mounting hole of a vehicle body panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Tsukamoto, Masataka Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Sugawara
  • Patent number: 9812230
    Abstract: A sheath member has a cylindrical and flexible main body to accommodate an electric wire and a deformation restricting portion molded on an outer peripheral side of the main body and extending over a predetermined shape maintaining range such that the main body is maintained in a desired routing shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Tsukamoto, Masataka Yamamoto, Yasusada Oishi