Patents by Inventor Noboru Yamamoto

Noboru 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: 20080168904
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tractor in which necessity of maintenance of a precleaner can be checked without opening a bonnet every time. In a tractor in which the outside air which is purified through a precleaner is further purified through an air cleaner before the outside air is supplied to an engine, a radiator is arranged in front of the engine, the precleaner is arranged in front of the radiator, and the engine, the radiator and the precleaner are covered with a bonnet, the precleaner is arranged such that the interior of at least a dust collecting/storing portion of the precleaner is viewable from the outside in a see-through manner, and the bonnet includes a viewing portion through which the interior of the dust collecting/storing section is viewable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2006
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yozo Oka, Noboru Yamamoto, Nobuaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7325635
    Abstract: The present invention aims at a tractor which can easily perform an assembling operation and a maintenance operation of a PTO transmission mechanism. According to the present invention, a PTO casing which incorporates a PTO transmission mechanism therein is detachably mounted on a rear portion of a transmission casing and, at the same time, the PTO casing is mounted in a state that a front portion thereof is housed in the inside of the transmission casing. By mounting the PTO casing which incorporates the PTO transmission mechanism therein on the rear portion of the transmission casing in this manner, it is possible to easily perform the assembling operation and the maintenance operation of the PTO transmission mechanism. Further, by mounting the PTO casing in a state that the front portion thereof is housed in the inside of the transmission casing, it is possible to miniaturize the transmission casing (make the transmission casing compact).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Noboru Yamamoto, Bunei Katagiri
  • Publication number: 20070207021
    Abstract: A tractor of the present invention can reduce a manufacturing cost of a lift arm support body. The tractor is configured such that a lift arm is mounted on an upper portion of a transmission casing by way of a lift arm support body, the lift arm is hydraulically controllable by a hydraulic control valve by way of a hydraulic circuit body, and the hydraulic circuit body and the hydraulic control valve are fixed to the transmission casing as bodies separate from a lift arm support body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Noboru Yamamoto, Toshiyuki Shin, Shigenori Sakikawa, Shingo Araki
  • Publication number: 20070069488
    Abstract: The present invention aims at allowing a tractor to easily set the creep transmission specification and the non-creep transmission specification. According to the present invention, in a tractor in which a transmission part is interlockingly connected with a prime mover part, and power is transmitted to a front wheel and a rear wheel from the transmission part thus enabling the traveling of the tractor, a creep transmission part is detachably interlockingly connected with the transmission part. By detachably mounting the creep transmission part to the transmission part in this manner, it is possible to easily set the creep transmission specification and the non-creep transmission specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Noboru Yamamoto, Bunei Katagiri
  • Publication number: 20060272867
    Abstract: The present invention aims at making a transmission casing compact. In the present invention, in the inside of a transmission casing, a traveling-system power transmission mechanism which is interposed between an engine and an axel, a PTO-system power transmission mechanism which is interposed between the engine and a PTO shaft, and a changeover mechanism which is interposed between both power transmission mechanisms are provided, wherein the power transmission of the PTO-system power transmission mechanism is interrupted at a middle portion thereof by the changeover mechanism and, at the same time, the changeover mechanism is allowed to perform a changeover manipulation to connect a downstream side portion of the PTO-system power transmission mechanism and a downstream side portion of the traveling-system power transmission mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Noboru Yamamoto, Bunei Katagiri, Keiichi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20060254836
    Abstract: The present invention aims at a tractor which can easily perform an assembling operation and a maintenance operation of a PTO transmission mechanism. According to the present invention, a PTO casing which incorporates a PTO transmission mechanism therein is detachably mounted on a rear portion of a transmission casing and, at the same time, the PTO casing is mounted in a state that a front portion thereof is housed in the inside of the transmission casing. By mounting the PTO casing which incorporates the PTO transmission mechanism therein on the rear portion of the transmission casing in this manner, it is possible to easily perform the assembling operation and the maintenance operation of the PTO transmission mechanism. Further, by mounting the PTO casing in a state that the front portion thereof is housed in the inside of the transmission casing, it is possible to miniaturize the transmission casing (make the transmission casing compact).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventors: Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Noboru Yamamoto, Bunei Katagiri
  • Patent number: 7084585
    Abstract: The discharge lamp lighting apparatus includes a high-voltage generating coil connected in series to a discharge lamp for applying a high voltage to the discharge lamp to turn on the lamp, an inverter for inverting a dc voltage into an ac voltage in order to supply a lamp current to the discharge lamp on an alternating basis through the high voltage generating coil, a lamp voltage detecting circuit for detecting a voltage across the discharge lamp as a lamp voltage, and a lamp power control circuit for controlling an ac power supplied to the discharge lamp from the inverter on the basis of the lamp voltage detected by the lamp voltage detecting circuit. The lamp voltage detecting circuit detects the lamp voltage by subtracting a voltage in proportion to a sum of voltage drops across devices lying on a current path over which the lamp current flows other than the discharge lamp from a voltage in proportion to the dc voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noboru Yamamoto, Yukio Kunieda, Tomoyuki Funayama
  • Publication number: 20060084658
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel compound having a superior calcium antagonism, in particular, a neuron-selective calcium antagonism. Namely, it provides a compound represented by the following formula, a salt thereof or a hydrate of them. In the formula, Ar indicates an optionally substituted 5- to 14-membered aromatic ring etc.; the ring A indicates any one ring selected from a piperazine, a homopiperazine, a piperidine and the like; the ring B indicates an optionally substituted C3-14 hydrocarbon ring etc.; E indicates a single bond, a group represented by the formula —CO—, etc.; X indicates a single bond, an oxygen atom etc.; R1 indicates a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group etc.; and D1, D2, W1 and W2 are the same as or different from each other and each represents a single bond or an optionally substituted C1-6 alkylene chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Inventors: Noboru Yamamoto, Yuichi Suzuki, Manami Kimura, Tetsuhiro Niidome, Yoichi Iimura, Tetsuyuki Teramoto, Yoshihisa Kaneda, Toshihiko Kaneko, Nobuyuki Kurusu, Daisuke Shinmyo, Yukie Yoshikawa, Slinji Hatakeyama
  • Publication number: 20050144167
    Abstract: In the basic form of merge processing, that is sort processing, two sorted partial data string pairs are input, and one series of sorted data string is output as a whole. Conventionally, high parallelism of this processing has been considered difficult. A method for dividing a sorted partial data string pair into a plurality of segment pairs, if invented, would allow an advanced parallel merge processing to be performed even in a homogeneous configuration parallel computer system, such as a tightly coupled multi-processor sharing a main storage. The basis of merge processing is processing to input a pair of two sorted partial data strings and to output one sorted data string. A method for sub-dividing this input data string pair into arbitrary data string pairs from the first part of both data strings of the input data string pair, while considering the magnitude of the key value, has been invented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Applicant: Nihon University School Juridical Person
    Inventor: Noboru Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6906072
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel compound having a superior calcium antagonism, in particular, a neuron-selective calcium antagonism. Namely, it provides a compound represented by the following formula, a salt thereof or a hydrate of them. In the formula, Ar indicates an optionally substituted 5- to 14-membered aromatic ring etc.; the ring A indicates any one ring selected from a piperazine, a homopiperazine, a piperidine and the like; the ring B indicates an optionally substituted C3-14 on hydrocarbon ring etc.; E indicates a single bond, a group represented by the formula —CO—, etc.; X indicates a single bond, an oxygen atom etc.; R1 indicates a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group etc.; and D1, D2, W1 and W2 are the same as or different from each other and each represents a single bond or an optionally substituted C1-6 alkylene chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Eisai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Yamamoto, Yuichi Suzuki, Manami Kimura, Tetsuhiro Niidome, Yoichi Iimura, Tetsuyuki Teramoto, Yoshihisa Kaneda, Toshihiko Kaneko, Nobuyuki Kurusu, Daisuke Shinmyo, Yukie Yoshikawa, Shinji Hatakeyama
  • Publication number: 20050089034
    Abstract: This invention constructs within the LAN a private area network (PAN) which is configured by terminal devices (personal computers and the like) of a specific group, is hardly influenced by the LAN traffic, and has high security. For this purpose, a PAN server which manages the communication route between specific terminals is installed within the LAN. The PAN server sets the communication route of each terminal device as label information, and causes switches and terminals to set pieces of label information generated for them. When the frame of data from a given port of each connection switch contains information representing PAN communication, the connection switch outputs the data to only a port specified by routing label information described in the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuguhide Sakata, Yukichi Niwa, Kenji Nakamura, Mitsuru Yamamoto, Noboru Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Yatsu
  • Patent number: 6875761
    Abstract: Condensed pyridine compounds represented by formula (I): wherein: R1 and R3 are, independently, hydrogen, lower alkyl, or lower alkoxy; R2 represent an amino substituent; ring A is a benzene ring, pyridine ring, thiophene ring, or furan ring; and B represents a substituent containing a ring structure. Also, pharmaceutically acceptable salt and hydrates thereof. These compounds are clinically useful medicaments having serotonin antagonism, and in particular, for treating, ameliorating, or preventing spastic paralysis. They are also useful as central muscle relaxants for ameliorating myotonia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Eisai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohshi Ueno, Atsushi Sasaki, Koki Kawano, Tadashi Okabe, Noritaka Kitazawa, Keiko Takahashi, Noboru Yamamoto, Yuichi Suzuki, Manabu Matsunaga, Atsuhiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20050057192
    Abstract: The discharge lamp lighting apparatus includes a high-voltage generating coil connected in series to a discharge lamp for applying a high voltage to the discharge lamp to turn on the lamp, an inverter for inverting a dc voltage into an ac voltage in order to supply a lamp current to the discharge lamp on an alternating basis through the high voltage generating coil, a lamp voltage detecting circuit for detecting a voltage across the discharge lamp as a lamp voltage, and a lamp power control circuit for controlling an ac power supplied to the discharge lamp from the inverter on the basis of the lamp voltage detected by the lamp voltage detecting circuit. The lamp voltage detecting circuit detects the lamp voltage by subtracting a voltage in proportion to a sum of voltage drops across devices lying on a current path over which the lamp current flows other than the discharge lamp from a voltage in proportion to the dc voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Noboru Yamamoto, Yukio Kunieda, Tomoyuki Funayama
  • Patent number: 6853155
    Abstract: An electric discharge lamp device has a lighting start voltage storage circuit for storing a lamp voltage immediately after the start of lighting of a lamp, and a change detection circuit for detecting a change in the lamp voltage by subtracting the lamp voltage immediately after the start of lighting of the lamp from the lamp voltage detected currently. The electric power supplied to the lamp is controlled based upon the change in the lamp voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Yamamoto, Yukio Kunieda
  • Publication number: 20040256849
    Abstract: A column hole cover is interposed between a circumferential portion of an aperture of a column hole of an instrument panel and a steering gear box capable of being displaced in a predetermined direction. The column hole cover includes a cylindrical main body extended in the predetermined direction. The main body includes a first annular end portion directly or indirectly fixed to the steering gear box, and a second annular end portion. The second end portion is provided with an annular seal. An intermediate portion between the first and second end portions is provided with a expandable/contractible portion capable of being elastically expanded or contracted in the predetermined direction. Irrespective of the displacement of the steering gear box, the annular seal is maintained in an elastic pressure contact against the circumferential portion of the aperture of the instrument panel by a reaction force of the compressed expandable/contractible portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Hirohisa Suzuki, Seizou Furukawa, Noboru Yamamoto, Teruya Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20040220193
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel compound having a superior calcium antagonism, in particular, a neuron-selective calcium antagonism. Namely, it provides a compound represented by the following formula, a salt thereof or a hydrate of them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicant: Eisai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Yamamoto, Yuichi Suzuki, Manami Kimura, Tetsuhiro Niidome, Yoichi Iimura, Tetsuyuki Teramoto, Yoshihisa Kaneda, Toshihiko Kaneko, Nobuyuki Kurusu, Daisuke Shinmyo, Yukie Yoshikawa, Shinji Hatakeyama
  • Publication number: 20040204421
    Abstract: Condensed pyridine compounds represented by formula (I): 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: Eisai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohshi Ueno, Atsushi Sasaki, Koki Kawano, Tadashi Okabe, Noritaka Kitazawa, Keiko Takahashi, Noboru Yamamoto, Yuichi Suzuki, Manabu Matsunaga, Atsuhiko Kubota
  • Patent number: 6790844
    Abstract: Condensed pyridine compounds represented by formula (I): wherein: R1 and R3 are, independently, hydrogen, halogen, lower alkyl, or lower alkoxy; R2 represents an amino substituent; ring A is a benzene ring, pyridine ring, thiophene ring, or furan ring; and B represents a substituent containing a ring structure. Also, pharmaceutically acceptable salt and hydrates thereof. These compounds are clinically useful medicaments having; serotonin antagonism, and in particular, for treating, ameliorating, or preventing spastic paralysis. They are also useful as central muscle relaxants for ameliorating myotonia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Eisai Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kohshi Ueno, Atsushi Sasaki, Koki Kawano, Tadashi Okabe, Noritaka Kitazawa, Keiko Takahashi, Noboru Yamamoto, Yuichi Suzuki, Manabu Matsunaga, Atsuhiko Kubota
  • Patent number: D542308
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yozo Oka, Toshiyuki Shin, Nobuaki Takahashi, Noboru Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D558797
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Yamamoto, Susumu Akashima