Patents by Inventor Shinji Yamamoto

Shinji 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: 11972084
    Abstract: A touch panel system includes a touch panel, a cover member overlapping the touch panel, and a controller. The controller includes a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a pointer, based on a signal value obtained from a position detection electrode, an amplification processing unit configured to perform amplification processing on at least one signal value in a pressing force detection range corresponding to the position of the pointer detected by the position detection unit among signal values obtained from a pressing force detection electrode, and a pressing force detection unit configured to calculate magnitude of a pressing force generated by the pointer, based on a signal value after the amplification processing being a signal value in the pressing force detection range including a signal value obtained by amplification by the amplification processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Yamagishi, Takenori Maruyama, Kazutoshi Kida, Takuma Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11970751
    Abstract: The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present embodiment is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a base steel sheet (1), an intermediate layer (4) disposed to be in contact with the base steel sheet (1), and an insulation coating (3) disposed to be in contact with the intermediate layer (4). The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present embodiment includes a surface of the base steel sheet (1) having a strain region (D) which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction of the base steel sheet (1), and a crystalline phosphorus oxide M2P4O13 present in the insulation coating (3) on the strain region (D) in a cross-sectional view of a surface parallel to the rolling direction and a sheet thickness direction of the base steel sheet (1). (M means at least one or both of Fe and Cr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Shinji Yamamoto, Hideyuki Hamamura, Takashi Kataoka, Shunsuke Okumura
  • Patent number: 11965315
    Abstract: The invention of the present application intends to provide a work machine that can ensure high operability by preventing abrupt actuation of an actuator and a shock to a machine body by use of a bleed-off function at the time of starting of the actuator and that can improve the energy-saving performance by reducing a bleed-off flow rate after the starting of the actuator. For this purpose, a controller opens a bleed-off valve at a timing at which an operation device is being operated and before a flow rate of a hydraulic pump starts increasing, and closes the bleed-off valve at a timing at which the operation device is being operated and after the flow rate of the hydraulic pump has started increasing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kento Kumagai, Shinya Imura, Yasutaka Tsuruga, Takaaki Chiba, Hiroaki Amano, Shinji Nishikawa, Akihiro Narazaki, Genroku Sugiyama, Shinjiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11967914
    Abstract: A vibration actuator control device includes a control unit and a driving unit. The control unit outputs a first control signal for controlling driving of a first vibration actuator including a first vibrating body and a first contact body, and outputs a second control signal for controlling driving of a second vibration actuator and including a second vibrating body. The driving unit (i) outputs a first alternating-current voltage in a first plurality of phases set based on the first control signal, and (ii) outputs a second alternating-current voltage in a second plurality of phases set based on the second control signal. The control unit individually sets a phase difference of the first alternating-current voltage based on the first control signal and sets a phase difference of the second alternating-current voltage based on the second control signal, and commonly sets a first alternating-current voltage frequency and a second alternating-current voltage frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Morita, Shinji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11962282
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device including a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer provided over the support substrate, at least one pair of comb-shaped electrodes disposed on the piezoelectric layer, each of the at least one pair of comb-shaped electrodes including electrode fingers, a temperature compensation film interposed between the support substrate and the piezoelectric layer, the temperature compensation film having a temperature coefficient of elastic constant opposite in sign to a temperature coefficient of elastic constant of the piezoelectric layer; and an insulating layer interposed between the support substrate and the temperature compensation film, a first surface of the insulating layer having first protruding portions and/or first recessed portions, a second surface of the insulating layer having second protruding portions and/or second recessed portions, the first surface being closer to the support substrate, the second surface being closer to the temperature compensation film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Yamamoto, Toshio Nishizawa, Naoki Kakita
  • Patent number: 11961989
    Abstract: A control method for a fuel cell system, the fuel cell system including a hydrogen storage part and a fuel cell stack that generates electric power using hydrogen supplied from the hydrogen storage part, the fuel cell system being mounted on a towed portion of a moving body that includes the towed portion and a towing portion, the fuel cell system being electrically connected to the towing portion, the towing portion including a battery and a drive device performing driving in response to supply of electric power, the towed portion being towed by the towing portion, the control method includes: acquiring remaining amount information indicating a remaining amount of the battery, and starting supply of electric power to the towing portion when it is determined that the remaining amount of the battery is equal to or less than a threshold based on the remaining amount information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Murakami, Shinji Matsunaga, Takashi Arai, Akiji Ando, Takashi Yanagiura, Kazunori Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20240119894
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display; a display driver that drives the display such that the display displays in accordance with display data; and a host controller that transfers update display data of one screen to the display driver. The display driver includes a light-emission controller that causes a self-luminous elements to emit light, and a memory that stores the update display data of the one screen. The display driver reads the update display data on the memory after an elapse of a predetermined period of time from a drive end time at which the display controller finishes driving in accordance with the update display data and drives the screen by using the read update display data. The display driver drives the self-luminous elements once or more at a timing when the update display data from the host controller to the display driver is not updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: YUICHI SATO, KENJI MAEDA, SHINJI YAMAMOTO, TAKUYA OKAMOTO, FUMITAKA SEKI, MASAFUMI ITO, YOHICHI TAKAZANE
  • Publication number: 20240105349
    Abstract: A nuclear fusion system comprises: a muon generation unit to generate negative muons including electron and positron accelerators for generating electron and positron beams; a gas supply unit to supply to circulate gaseous deuterium or gaseous deuterium-tritium mixture as raw material gas; a Laval nozzle to accelerate the raw material gas to supersonic velocity; and a shock wave cone connected to the Laval nozzle to introduce the raw material gas accelerated to supersonic velocity to generate an oblique shock wave, the raw material gas accelerated to supersonic velocity being introduced into the shock wave cone to generate the oblique shock wave, the oblique shock wave being decelerated to create a high-density gas target in an in-flight manner, the muons generated as a result of causing electrons and positrons to collide with each other being introduced into the high-density gas target thereby to cause a muon-catalyzed nuclear fusion reaction to occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: CHUBU UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Shinji OKADA, Motoyasu SATO, Atsuo IIYOSHI, Kimitaka ITOH, Takashi MUTOH, Norimasa YAMAMOTO, Yoshiharu TANAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11942627
    Abstract: A positive electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery, including a positive electrode current collector; and a positive electrode mixture layer that is provided on at least one side of the positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode mixture layer including a positive electrode active material layer, and an undercoat layer formed between the positive electrode current collector and the positive electrode active material layer, the undercoat layer containing a conductive auxiliary, a binder, and a thermally expandable microcapsule having a maximum volume expansion temperature of from 70° C. to 180° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Shinji Yamamoto, Yuri Endo
  • Patent number: 11929640
    Abstract: A stator includes a magnetic plate material that has a main plate surface that is a surface to face a main plate of a movement when assembled to the main plate and that has a rotor accommodating hole formed in a part thereof; and a non-magnetic region that is made non-magnetic by applying chromium on the main plate surface around the rotor accommodating hole and irradiating the chromium with a laser from the main plate surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Kosuke Yamamoto, Shinji Kinoshita, Hitoshi Takeuchi, Tatsuya Omura
  • Publication number: 20240077493
    Abstract: Provided is a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the steps including a step of subjecting a sample containing microorganisms to mass spectrometry to obtain a mass spectrum, a step of reading a mass-to-charge ratio m/z of a peak derived from a marker protein from the mass spectrum, and an identification step of identifying which bacteria of serovar of Salmonella genus bacteria the microorganisms contained in the sample contain, based on the mass-to-charge ratio m/z, wherein at least one of two types of ribosomal proteins S8 and Peptidylpropyl isomerase is used as the marker protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicants: SHIMADZU Corporation, Meijo University
    Inventors: Hiroto Tamura, Naomi Yamamoto, Teruyo Kato, Keisuke Shima, Shinji Funatsu
  • Patent number: 11916531
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer provided over the support substrate, comb-shaped electrodes disposed on the piezoelectric layer, each of the comb-shaped electrodes including electrode fingers exciting an acoustic wave, a temperature compensation film interposed between the support substrate and the piezoelectric layer and having a temperature coefficient of an elastic constant opposite in sign to that of the piezoelectric layer, a boundary layer interposed between the support substrate and the temperature compensation film, an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating through the boundary layer being higher than an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating through the temperature compensation film and being lower than an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating through the support substrate, and an intermediate layer interposed between the support substrate and the boundary layer and having a Q factor less than a Q factor of the boundary layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiharu Nakazato, Shinji Yamamoto, Ryouta Iwabuchi, Naoki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11898215
    Abstract: The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a base steel sheet (1), an intermediate layer (4) disposed to be in contact with the base steel sheet (1), and an insulation coating (3) disposed to be in contact with the intermediate layer (4), and the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a surface of the base steel sheet (1) having a groove (G) which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction of the base steel sheet (1), in which in a cross-sectional view of a plane parallel to the rolling direction and a sheet thickness direction of the base steel sheet (1), when a region between end portions of the groove (G) is defined as a groove part (RG), an average thickness of the intermediate layer (4) of the groove part (RG) is 0.5 times or more and 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Shinji Yamamoto, Fumiaki Takahashi, Hideyuki Hamamura, Shinsuke Takatani, Masaru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11881163
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display; a display driver that drives the display such that the display displays in accordance with display data; and a host controller that transfers update display data of one screen to the display driver. The display driver includes a light-emission controller that causes a self-luminous elements to emit light, and a memory that stores the update display data of the one screen. The display driver reads the update display data on the memory after an elapse of a predetermined period of time from a drive end time at which the display controller finishes driving in accordance with the update display data and drives the screen by using the read update display data. The display driver drives the self-luminous elements once or more at a timing when the update display data from the host controller to the display driver is not updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Sato, Kenji Maeda, Shinji Yamamoto, Takuya Okamoto, Fumitaka Seki, Masafumi Ito, Yohichi Takazane
  • Publication number: 20230402220
    Abstract: This wound core is a wound core including: a substantially rectangular wound core main body in a side view in which first planar portions and corner portions are alternately continuous and at least one of two or more bent portions existing in at least one corner portion satisfies Equations (1) to (3) below. Tave?40 nm??(1) (To?Tu)/Tave?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki USHIGAMI, Shinji YAMAMOTO, Takeo ARAMAKI, Yuki KUNITA, Satoshi ARAI
  • Patent number: 11784355
    Abstract: A negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery, the negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode mixture layer that is applied to at least one side of the negative electrode current collector, the negative electrode mixture layer containing a negative electrode active material, a conductive auxiliary, a binder, a polymer particle having a softening point of from 70° C. to 150° C., and a thermally expandable microcapsule having a maximum volume expansion temperature that is higher than the softening point of the polymer particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Shinji Yamamoto, Yuri Endo
  • Patent number: 11775612
    Abstract: In order to provide a learning data generating apparatus that is able to efficiently restrain erroneous detections, the learning data generating apparatus includes a data acquisition unit configured to acquire learning data including teacher data, and a generation unit configured to generate generated learning data based on the learning data and a generating condition, wherein the generation unit converts teacher data of a positive instance into teacher data of a negative instance according to a preset rule when generating the generated learning data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Yamamoto, Takato Kimura
  • Publication number: 20230281947
    Abstract: There is provided with an image processing device. A determination unit determines, in a case where a reference person on an image is concealed by another person, a part or all of a region of the other person on the image as a processing region in accordance with a state of the concealment. An estimation unit estimates a joint point of the reference person on a processed image obtained by performing a process of processing the processing region on the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: SHINJI YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11716448
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a comparison unit configured to compare an image capturing condition for a collation target object with an image capturing condition for each of a plurality of image capturing apparatuses, a selection unit configured to select an image capturing apparatus to be collated from among the plurality of image capturing apparatuses based on a result of the comparison by the comparison unit, and a collation unit configured to collate information about an object captured by the image capturing apparatus to be collated with information about the collation target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Yamamoto, Masato Kazui
  • Publication number: 20230208395
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer provided on the support substrate, at least a pair of comb-shaped electrodes provided on the piezoelectric layer, each of the comb-shaped electrodes including a plurality of electrode fingers, and an insulating layer provided between the support substrate and the piezoelectric layer, the insulating layer having, in at least a part thereof, a plurality of void regions of which extending directions are different from each other when viewed from a thickness direction of the support substrate, a width in the corresponding extending direction of each of the void regions being longer than a width in a direction orthogonal to the corresponding extending direction when viewed from the thickness direction of the support substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji YAMAMOTO, Koichi SATO, Toshiharu NAKAZATO