Patents by Inventor Minoru Yamada

Minoru 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).

  • Publication number: 20240135631
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: an acquisition unit configured to divide a target area into a plurality of meshes of a predetermined size, and acquire mesh data indicating the environment of the target area with height information about the plurality of meshes on a per-mesh basis; a first ray tracing unit configured to determine a two-dimensional ray trace from a transmission point to a reception point on the basis of the mesh data, a radio wave being transmitted at the transmission point, the radio wave being received at the reception point; a second ray tracing unit configured to determine a three-dimensional ray trace corresponding to the two-dimensional ray trace, on the basis of the mesh data, and height information about the transmission point and the reception point; and a radio field intensity calculation unit configured to calculate an intensity of the radio wave at the reception point, using one or more three-dimensional ray traces determined by the second ray tracing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Minoru INOMATA, Wataru YAMADA, Nobuaki KUNO, Motoharu SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240137138
    Abstract: A communication design support apparatus includes: a propagation model storage unit that stores a propagation model; an acquisition unit that acquires point cloud data of a structure and measurement data of radio wave intensities in a plurality of frequency bands; a parameter update unit that updates a parameter of the propagation model based on the acquired data; and an estimation unit that estimates propagation loss based on the propagation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Minoru INOMATA, Wataru YAMADA, Nobuaki KUNO, Motoharu SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240109874
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having a cholinergic muscarinic M1 receptor positive allosteric modulator activity and useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, pain, sleep disorder, Parkinson's disease dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, and the like. The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula (I) or a salt thereof. wherein each symbol is as described in the specification, or a salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Masami YAMADA, Shinkichi SUZUKI, Takahiro SUGIMOTO, Minoru NAKAMURA, Hiroki SAKAMOTO, Makoto KAMATA
  • Publication number: 20240107413
    Abstract: A connection destination switching control method executed by a communication apparatus, the connection destination switching control method comprising: a data acquisition step of acquiring observed values of received power of signals transmitted from a base station; a prediction processing step of predicting future received power by using the observed values acquired in the data acquisition step as input data into a prediction model; and a connection destination switching processing step of executing control for handover based on the future received power predicted in the prediction processing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Motoharu SASAKI, Nobuaki KUNO, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Minoru INOMATA, Wataru YAMADA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11937380
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to structures of, and methods for forming electromagnetic band gap (EBG) element. Specifically, the disclosure is directed to methods for additively manufacturing electronic mushroom-type EBG elements having a periodic cell structure enabling a reduced footprint and increased band gap range for a very wide range of frequencies, for example between 500 MHz to about 30 GHz, by altering both the EBG structure's superstrate as well as the ground plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Nano Dimension Technologies, LTD.
    Inventor: Minoru Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230397340
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to structures of, and methods for forming electromagnetic band gap (EBG) element. Specifically, the disclosure is directed to methods for additively manufacturing electronic mushroom-type EBG elements having a periodic cell structure enabling a reduced footprint and increased band gap range for a very wide range of frequencies, for example between 500 MHz to about 30 GHz, by altering both the EBG structure's superstrate as well as the ground plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventor: Minoru Yamada
  • Patent number: 11694837
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods for fabricating coreless printed circuit board (PCB) based transformers and/or coreless PCB-based circuits containing one or more coil inductor(s). More specifically, the disclosure relates to methods for fabricating coreless PCB-based transformers and/or inductors having concatenated helix architecture of their primary and secondary windings using layer-by-layer printing of dielectric and conductive patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Nano Dimension Technologies, LTD.
    Inventor: Minoru Yamada
  • Patent number: 11667801
    Abstract: A set of compositions for ink jet textile printing includes an ink composition and a coating composition, the ink composition containing a pigment, resin particles, and water, and the coating composition containing resin particles and water. The resin particles contained in the ink composition contain any of a urethane resin, a polycarbonate resin, an acrylic resin, and a styrene resin. The amount of the resin particles in the ink composition is from 1 to 5 parts by mass on a solids basis per part by mass of the pigment on a solids basis. The Young's modulus of dried film of the ink composition is from 1 to 25 MPa, and that of dried film of the coating composition is 50 MPa or less and higher than that of dried film of the ink composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventor: Minoru Yamada
  • Patent number: 11529809
    Abstract: An ink jet printing recording apparatus includes a belt which supports a recording medium; a heating portion which heats the belt; and an ink jet recording head which ejects an ink jet ink composition, the belt is provided with an adhesive layer, the ink jet ink composition contains a heat cross-linking component, and the belt is heated by the heating portion to a temperature lower than a reaction temperature of the heat cross-linking component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi Tsubamoto, Kosuke Chidate, Minoru Yamada, Ryota Miyasa, Tasuku Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20220272843
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems and methods for fabricating printed circuit board (PCB) based transformers and/or coreless PCB-based circuits containing one or more coil inductor(s). More specifically, the disclosure is directed to systems and methods for fabricating PCB-based transformers and/or inductors having concentric or eccentric (non-concentric) continuous or concatenated coil architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventor: Minoru Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220157511
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems and methods for fabricating coreless printed circuit board (PCB) based transformers and/or coreless PCB-based circuits containing one or more coil inductor(s). More specifically, the disclosure is directed to systems and methods for fabricating coreless PCB-based transformers and/or inductors having concatenated helix architecture of their primary and secondary windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventor: Minoru Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220104344
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems, methods and devices providing a modular building block towards a fabrication process for embedding a multiplicity of active and passive components in a three-dimensional structure by either automated or otherwise robotic pick and place systems, or part of the actual build of the structure, hence accelerating the miniaturization of fully functional AMEs with smaller form factor. Specifically, the disclosure is directed to the use of additive manufacturing technologies and systems, methods and compositions for fabricating multilayer AMEs having integrated active integrated circuits, RF antennas, signal indicators such as LED, and passive components such as coils, capacitor, and resistors, embedded within the AMEs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Minoru Yamada, Jaim Nulman, Udi Zamwell, Michael Parthos
  • Publication number: 20210283908
    Abstract: An ink jet printing recording apparatus includes a belt which supports a recording medium; a heating portion which heats the belt; and an ink jet recording head which ejects an ink jet ink composition, the belt is provided with an adhesive layer, the ink jet ink composition contains a heat cross-linking component, and the belt is heated by the heating portion to a temperature lower than a reaction temperature of the heat cross-linking component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi TSUBAMOTO, Kosuke CHIDATE, Minoru YAMADA, Ryota MIYASA, Tasuku NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200332138
    Abstract: An ink jet printing ink composition includes: cross-linkable group-containing urethane resin particles; a diketopyrrolopyrrole-based pigment; and a first organic solvent having a hydrogen bond term ?h of 10 to less than 18 in Hansen solubility parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Minoru YAMADA, Masakazu OHASHI, Kosuke CHIDATE
  • Publication number: 20200317942
    Abstract: A set of compositions for ink jet textile printing includes an ink composition and a coating composition, the ink composition containing a pigment, resin particles, and water, and the coating composition containing resin particles and water. The resin particles contained in the ink composition contain any of a urethane resin, a polycarbonate resin, an acrylic resin, and a styrene resin. The amount of the resin particles in the ink composition is from 1 to 5 parts by mass on a solids basis per part by mass of the pigment on a solids basis. The Young's modulus of dried film of the ink composition is from 1 to 25 MPa, and that of dried film of the coating composition is 50 MPa or less and higher than that of dried film of the ink composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventor: Minoru YAMADA
  • Patent number: 10731233
    Abstract: A composition for bonding includes tin, germanium, and nickel. A contained amount of germanium is less than or equal to 10 mass %. A contained amount of nickel in mass % is less than or equal to a product of 2.8 multiplied by a term that is the contained amount of germanium in mass % to the power of 0.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Minoru Yamada, Atsushi Yamada, Koichi Shibuya, Shinya Kikugawa, Keisuke Hanashima
  • Patent number: 10344174
    Abstract: An ink jet printing ink composition contains pigment particles, resin particles, and water, in which the particle diameter ratio of the average particle diameter of the resin particles to the average particle diameter of the pigment particles is 0.60 or more and 1.70 or less and the potential ratio of the zeta potential of the resin particles to the zeta potential of the pigment particles is 0.80 or more and 1.25 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Yamada
  • Publication number: 20180237647
    Abstract: An ink jet printing ink composition contains pigment particles, resin particles, and water, in which the particle diameter ratio of the average particle diameter of the resin particles to the average particle diameter of the pigment particles is 0.60 or more and 1.70 or less and the potential ratio of the zeta potential of the resin particles to the zeta potential of the pigment particles is 0.80 or more and 1.25 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventor: Minoru YAMADA
  • Patent number: 10053590
    Abstract: A composition for inkjet is adapted to be discharged by an inkjet method. The composition includes a metal powder having a surface, metal or metal alloy constituting at least the surface of the metal powder, an organic solvent, and a binder resin. The surface of the metal powder is modified by chemical bonding with a fluorinated silane composition and/or a fluorinated phosphate compound as a surface preparation agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Toyoda, Masaya Shibatani, Minoru Yamada, Tomohiro Ogawa, Hidekazu Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20180230575
    Abstract: A composition for bonding incudes tin, germanium, and nickel. A contained amount of germanium is less than or equal to 10 mass %. A contained amount of nickel in mass % is less than or equal to a product of 2.8 multiplied by a term that is the contained amount of germanium in mass % to the power of 0.3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Minoru YAMADA, Atsushi YAMADA, Koichi SHIBUYA, Shinya KIKUGAWA, Keisuke HANASHIMA