Patents by Inventor Shigeru Yamamoto

Shigeru 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: 20240146258
    Abstract: A power amplifier circuit that includes an external input terminal and an external output terminal; a first power amplifier, a second power amplifier, a third power amplifier, and a fourth power amplifier; a transformer including an input-side coil and an output-side coil; and a first transmission line, the external input terminal being connected to an input terminal of the first and second power amplifiers, an output terminal of the first power amplifier is connected to an input terminal of the third and fourth power amplifiers, output terminals of the third and fourth power amplifiers being connected to a first and second end of the input-side coil respectively, the external output terminal being connected to a first end of the output-side coil, and an output terminal of the second power amplifier being connected to a second end of the output-side coil via the first transmission line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji TAHARA, Shigeru TSUCHIDA, Kae YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240102314
    Abstract: An electronic lock mounting structure (FS) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is disposed between an electronic lock (100) and a door (20) to mount the electronic lock (100) on the door (20). The electronic lock mounting structure (FS) includes an attachment (110) and a base (120). The electronic lock mounting structure (FS) includes an engagement mechanism (121) configured to engage with a thumb-turn mounting hole (TH) provided in the door (20). The engagement mechanism (121) may include three claw portions configured to engage the thumb-turn mounting hole (TH).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yasumasa SHIKATA, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Shinsuke SHOJI, Shigeru IWASE
  • Patent number: 11927599
    Abstract: Included are: a main body including an installation part in which a cartridge housing a liquid for treating a test substance contained in a specimen is installed and a detector configured to detect the test substance treated with the liquid within the cartridge installed in the installation part; a lid part arranged rotatably on the main body about a shaft so as to open and close the installation part; a biasing part biasing the lid part in an opening direction; and a plurality of regulators each generating resistance against a biasing force in the opening direction at different timing during an opening motion of the lid part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: JVCKENWOOD Corporation, SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamamoto, Shigeru Yokota, Hideki Samata, Tomoyuki Nose, Sayuri Tomoda
  • Publication number: 20230390809
    Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus includes a process tank for storing a treatment liquid, a chamber for surrounding the process tank, a solvent vapor nozzle for supplying solvent vapor into the chamber, a cleaning liquid nozzle for supplying a cleaning liquid, and a controller. The controller causes immersion treatment, where a substrate is immersed in the treatment liquid stored in the process tank, to be performed for a preset period of time, and causes dry treatment, where the substrate processed with the treatment liquid and taken out of the process tank is dried with the solvent vapor supplied from the solvent vapor nozzle, to be performed. The controller causes the cleaning liquid nozzle to supply the cleaning liquid into the chamber and causes the process tank to be immersed in the cleaning liquid stored in the chamber, whereby the chamber cleaning treatment, where the chamber including an outer wall of the process tank is cleaned, is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Shigeru YAMAMOTO, Takashi AKIYAMA, Daiki FUJII, Kenji EDAMITSU
  • Publication number: 20230290631
    Abstract: A substrate processing method is provided. The substrate processing method includes: (S7) supplying a water repellent agent (SMT) to a substrate (W); (S11) supplying dilute isopropyl alcohol (dIPA) to the substrate (W) after the supplying a water repellent agent (SMT), the dilute isopropyl alcohol (dIPA) being obtained by diluting isopropyl alcohol; and (S12) drying the substrate (W) after the supplying dilute isopropyl alcohol (dIPA).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Tetsuya EMOTO, Shigeru YAMAMOTO, Daiki FUJII, Kenji EDAMITSU, Keiji IWATA, Yuya KAWAI, Kenichi ITO
  • Publication number: 20230118236
    Abstract: A collation device includes a light source unit; a camera unit that receives light emitted from the light source unit and reflected in a collation area of an object to acquire a photographed image of the collation area; and a processor configured to, by executing a program: detect a positional relationship between the light source unit and the camera unit by using the photographed image, and notify of a collation result between the photographed image and a registered image prepared in advance by using the positional relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yukari MOTOSUGI, Nobuhiro KITAGAWA, Kazuhiro HIRATA, Shigeru YAMAMOTO, Masahiro IGUSA, Minoru OSHIMA, Tetsuya KIMURA, Momoko FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20230099580
    Abstract: A collation device includes a processor configured to, by executing a program: (a) acquire a photographed image including a collation area provided on a printing substrate having unevenness, (b) simultaneously execute smoothing processing and shading difference enhancement processing on the photographed image, and (c) detect the collation area based on an image obtained by simultaneously executing the smoothing processing and the shading difference enhancement processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Ken SATO, Yukari MOTOSUGI, Shigeru YAMAMOTO, Minoru OSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11578470
    Abstract: A control system for the work vehicle includes a display, an input device, and a controller. The controller displays a current position of a work vehicle on a screen of a display. The controller receives a first input signal indicating an input operation by an operator from a input device. The controller determines, as a first position, the position of the work vehicle when the first input signal is received. The controller displays the first position on the screen of the display. The controller receives a second input signal indicating an input operation by an operator from the input device. The controller determines, as the second position, the position of the work vehicle when the second input signal is received. The controller determines a target design surface indicating a target trajectory of a work implement based on reference position information including at least the first position and the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Junji Harada, Shigeru Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230035447
    Abstract: A substrate treatment method includes a first gas treating step, a water-repellency treatment step, and a spraying step. In the first gas treating step, a first gas is supplied to the substrate inside the chamber in a state in which the inside of the chamber is decompressed. The first gas includes gas of an organic solvent. The water-repellency treatment step is executed after the first gas treating step. In the water-repellency treatment step, the inside of the chamber is in the decompressed state, and a water-repellent agent is supplied to the substrate inside the chamber. The spraying step is executed after the water-repellency treatment step. In the spraying step, the inside of the chamber is in the decompressed state, and a first liquid is sprayed over the substrate inside the chamber. The first liquid includes liquid of an organic solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru YAMAMOTO, Kenji EDAMITSU, Daiki FUJII, Keiji IWATA, Kenichi ITO, Yuya KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20230035562
    Abstract: The substrate treatment method includes a first decompressing step, a first pressurizing step, and a first atmospheric pressure step. In the first decompressing step, the inside of a chamber is in a decompressed state, and a first gas is supplied to a substrate inside the chamber. The first gas includes an organic solvent. The first pressurizing step is executed after the first decompressing step. In the first pressurizing step, mixed gas is supplied to the substrate inside the chamber, and the inside of the chamber is pressurized from the decompressed state to an atmospheric pressure state. The mixed gas includes an organic solvent and inert gas. The first atmospheric pressure step is executed after the first pressurizing step. In the first atmospheric pressure step, the inside of the chamber is maintained in the atmospheric pressure state, and at least any of liquid discharge treatment and substrate treatment is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru YAMAMOTO, Keiji IWATA, Daiki FUJII, Kenji EDAMITSU, Yuya KAWAI, Kenichi ITO
  • Patent number: 11494896
    Abstract: A collation device includes a processor configured to: acquire plural captured images obtained by capturing an inspection image to be collated, while changing an irradiation direction of light to be emitted; and provide a notification of a collation result between the inspection image included in each of the captured images, and a collation image of which pattern changes depending on the irradiation direction of the light, according to a similarity between plural registered images obtained by capturing in advance the collation image while changing the irradiation direction of the light to be emitted to the collation image, and the inspection image, after adjusting a positional relationship between a camera, a light source, and an image to be identical to a positional relationship between a camera that captures the inspection image at a time of capturing the inspection image, a light source that irradiates the inspection image with light, and the inspection image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Hirata, Nobuhiro Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 11496336
    Abstract: A method includes: (a) transmitting, by the control device, control data containing one of the plurality of second parameters to the relay device; (b) determining, by at least one of the control device or the relay device, whether the one of the plurality of second parameters matches one of the plurality of first parameters; and (c) transmitting, by the relay device, the control data received from the control device in (a), using one of the plurality of interfaces of the relay device for which the one of the plurality of second parameters is set if it is determined in the determining that the one of the plurality of first parameters matches the one of the plurality of second parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Fujiwara, Shigeru Yamamoto, Tetsuya Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 11408150
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a work implement. A control system for the work vehicle includes a controller. The controller obtains first topographical data indicative of a topography of a work target before filling work. The controller obtains blade tip position data indicative of a blade tip position of the work implement during the filling work. The controller obtains second topographical data indicative of a compacted topography after the filling work. The controller determines a compression rate of the work target from the first topographical data, the blade tip position data, and the second topographical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Yamamoto, Eiji Ishibashi, Takahiro Shimojo
  • Publication number: 20220208545
    Abstract: A substrate treatment method includes a rinsing step of performing treatment of a substrate with a rinse liquid, an immersing step of immersing the substrate in a diluted isopropyl alcohol (dIPA) stored in a treatment tank after the rinsing step, a first isopropyl alcohol treatment step of performing treatment of the substrate with an isopropyl alcohol after the immersing step, and a water-repellent treatment step of performing water-repellent treatment of the substrate after the first isopropyl alcohol treatment step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru YAMAMOTO, Daiki FUJII, Keiji IWATA, Kenji EDAMITSU, Yuya KAWAI, Kenichi ITO
  • Publication number: 20220198631
    Abstract: A collation device includes a processor configured to: acquire plural captured images obtained by capturing an inspection image to be collated, while changing an irradiation direction of light to be emitted; and provide a notification of a collation result between the inspection image included in each of the captured images, and a collation image of which pattern changes depending on the irradiation direction of the light, according to a similarity between plural registered images obtained by capturing in advance the collation image while changing the irradiation direction of the light to be emitted to the collation image, and the inspection image, after adjusting a positional relationship between a camera, a light source, and an image to be identical to a positional relationship between a camera that captures the inspection image at a time of capturing the inspection image, a light source that irradiates the inspection image with light, and the inspection image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru YAMAMOTO, Kazuhiro HIRATA, Nobuhiro KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210184892
    Abstract: A method includes: (a) transmitting, by the control device, control data containing one of the plurality of second parameters to the relay device; (b) determining, by at least one of the control device or the relay device, whether the one of the plurality of second parameters matches one of the plurality of first parameters; and (c) transmitting, by the relay device, the control data received from the control device in (a), using one of the plurality of interfaces of the relay device for which the one of the plurality of second parameters is set if it is determined in the determining that the one of the plurality of first parameters matches the one of the plurality of second parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Toshihiro Fujiwara, Shigeru Yamamoto, Tetsuya Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 10753772
    Abstract: A resolver includes a resolver rotor fixed to a rotating shaft, and a resolver stator disposed around the resolver rotor. The resolver stator includes an annular stator core having a plurality of salient poles which protrudes radially inward and which is disposed at regular intervals in a circumferential direction. The resolver rotor has an outer peripheral surface defined by an outer radius Rm(?) which is obtained by blending, with respect to a first function Gp(?) where an air gap between the resolver rotor and the salient poles is proportional to a sine wave (sin ?) related to an angle ? of the resolver rotor, a second function Gip(?) where the inverse of the air gap is proportional to the sine wave (sin ?), at a predetermined ratio ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeru Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20200065534
    Abstract: A product manufacturing method includes acquiring a random pattern in one region on a surface of a first member by capturing an image of the first member; acquiring identification information, based on which a second member is individually identifiable, from the second member, the second member being combined with the first member to constitute a product; storing the acquired random pattern and the acquired identification information in association with each other; and forming the product by combining the first member and the second member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eisaku HAYASHI, Shigeru YAMAMOTO, Kensuke ITO, Masahiro IGUSA
  • Publication number: 20190390443
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a work implement. A control system for the work vehicle includes a controller. The controller obtains first topographical data indicative of a topography of a work target before filling work. The controller obtains blade tip position data indicative of a blade tip position of the work implement during the filling work. The controller obtains second topographical data indicative of a compacted topography after the filling work. The controller determines a compression rate of the work target from the first topographical data, the blade tip position data, and the second topographical data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Shigeru YAMAMOTO, Eiji ISHIBASHI, Takahiro SHIMOJO
  • Publication number: 20190390435
    Abstract: A control system for the work vehicle includes a display, an input device, and a controller. The controller displays a current position of a work vehicle on a screen of a display. The controller receives a first input signal indicating an input operation by an operator from a input device. The controller determines, as a first position, the position of the work vehicle when the first input signal is received. The controller displays the first position on the screen of the display. The controller receives a second input signal indicating an input operation by an operator from the input device. The controller determines, as the second position, the position of the work vehicle when the second input signal is received. The controller determines a target design surface indicating a target trajectory of a work implement based on reference position information including at least the first position and the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Junji HARADA, Shigeru YAMAMOTO