Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Yamamoto
Tomohiro 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).
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Patent number: 8168444Abstract: A substrate having a channel portion in which a liquid transfers, wherein, even if the channel portion has no micro-channel interconnecting chambers, a liquid can transfer stepwise from one region to the next region according to the speed of rotation of the substrate. The substrate can be rotated about a rotation axis as the center, and has the channel portion including the chambers formed therein. The inner wall of each chamber has a first area including an area intersecting with a centrifugal direction from the center; and also has a second area placed at a position farther from the center than the first area, and including a surface intersecting with the centrifugal direction from the center. Further, the first area has a region for holding a droplet of a liquid provided; and also has a region where a contact with the droplet expands when the substrate is rotated, and that communicate with the second area.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Nobuhiko Ozaki, Tomohiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8155242Abstract: A frequency shift keying digital signal receiving apparatus includes a detecting portion detecting a new signal on the basis of a signal, from which a correlated ambient noise is filtered out by an adaptive filter, a holding portion holding a first electric power for the signal received before a new signal is detected, a calculating portion calculating a second electric power for the signal received after the new signal is detected, a comparing portion comparing levels of the first and second electric powers, a selector selecting the signal, from which the correlated ambient noise is filtered out, when the first electric power is higher than the second electric power and selecting the signal bypassing the adaptive filter when the first electric power is lower than the second electric power, and a demodulating portion demodulating a desired signal on the basis of the signal selected by the selecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiro Yamamoto, Akira Furuhashi, Takahiro Horie, Yuichi Murakami, Kazunori Ono, Frederic Coutant, Tarik Aouine
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Publication number: 20120077016Abstract: A sealing material is provided, which has excellent sealing property, with cracks, fracture, and deformation being minimized. The sealing material of the invention is prepared by vulcanizing and foaming a mixture containing a rubber component containing a copolymer rubber of ethylene, an ?-olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms, and a conjugated diene, a vulcanizing agent, and a blowing agent, and then subjecting the mixture to a cell breakage treatment, characterized in that the mixture further includes a fatty acid calcium salt and a fatty acid zinc salt.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2010Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8105681Abstract: A composition of the present invention includes an organosilica sol; and a siloxane graft-type polymer obtained by compositing fluorine resin or acrylic resin with siloxane and/or a cold glass coating agent. A melamine decorative board of the present invention includes a low refractive index layer formed on a surface thereof. The low refractive index layer is composed of a cured product of the composition.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Aica Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoshi Tanimoto, Tomohiro Yamamoto, Takaharu Ito, Katsumi Honma
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Patent number: 8050364Abstract: A digital signal receiving apparatus includes: detection-judging portion judging a possible presence of a desired signal when a signal level of a smoothed signal is greater than a reference level; wherein said first smoothed signal and said second smoothed signal are compared in order to generate a detection signal representing a judgment of a possible presence of a desired signal, said second smoothed signal having a convergence speed slower than that of the first smoothing filter, a filter controlling portion switching an adaptive filter from an adaptive mode to a non-adaptive mode when the detection-judging portion judges the possible presence of the desired signal and switching from the non-adaptive mode to the adaptive mode when the detection-judging portion judges the absence of the desired signal; a limiting portion limiting a signal level of an auto-correlation signal to the signal level of the smoothed signal; and a demodulating portion demodulating the auto-correlation signal having the signal levelType: GrantFiled: November 13, 2008Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiro Yamamoto, Akira Furuhashi, Takahiro Horie, Yuichi Murakami, Kazunori Ono, Frederic Coutant, Tarik Aouine
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Patent number: 8050370Abstract: A digital signal receiving apparatus includes a detection-judging portion having a first smoothing filter generating a first smoothed signal by smoothing an auto-correlation signal and judging a possible presence of a desired signal when a signal level of the first smoothed signal is greater than a reference level and an absence of the desired signal when being smaller than the reference level. The smoothing filter includes a limiting portion limiting a fluctuation width of the first smoothed signal; and an adjusting portion configured to adjust the fluctuation width of the first smoothed signal limited by the limiting portion to be reduced while an elapsing time after the detection-judging means judges the possible presence of the desired signal is increasing.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2008Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiro Yamamoto, Akira Furuhashi, Takahiro Horie, Yuichi Murakami, Kazunori Ono, Frederic Coutant, Tarik Aouine
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Publication number: 20110236289Abstract: When a disproportionated chlorosilane is to be produced by causing a starting material chlorosilane liquid to flow through a catalyst-packed layer which is packed with a weakly basic anion exchange resin as a disproportionation reaction catalyst to carry out a disproportionation reaction, before the disproportionation reaction is carried out, the disproportionation reaction catalyst is brought into contact with a processing gas obtained by diluting a chlorosilane with an inert gas to prevent the deterioration of the disproportionation reaction catalyst at the start of the reaction so as to carry out the disproportionation of the chlorosilane efficiently.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2009Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventors: Shouji Iiyama, Tomohiro Yamamoto, Yukihiro Takata, Shinichiro Koyanagi, Kanji Sakata
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Publication number: 20100266452Abstract: Provided is a measuring chip, which can spot a specimen liquid of a minute quantity for an immune agglutination easily and precisely to the measuring chip and which can prevent the flow of the specimen liquid and the contamination of the specimen. The measuring chip comprises at least two substrates, a spacer arranged between the substrates, at least one passage made of the substrates and the spacer into a hollow shape and having two open ends, counter electrodes for applying an electric field, and a specimen-spotted portion to be spotted with the specimen. The specimen-spotted portion has a structure made of a square, circular, elliptical or sector shape by that spacer. Moreover, the specimen-spotted portion has two open ends, one of which is connected to one open end of that passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2008Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuhei Tanaka, Tomohiro Yamamoto, Nobuhiko Ozaki, Shinki Kojima
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Publication number: 20100190903Abstract: A composition of the present invention includes an organosilica sol; and a siloxane graft-type polymer obtained by compositing fluorine resin or acrylic resin with siloxane and/or a cold glass coating agent. A melamine decorative board of the present invention includes a low refractive index layer formed on a surface thereof. The low refractive index layer is composed of a cured product of the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2008Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: AICA KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoshi Tanimoto, Tomohiro Yamamoto, Takaharu Ito, Katsumi Honma
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Publication number: 20100120166Abstract: A substrate having a channel portion in which a liquid transfers, wherein, even if the channel portion has no micro-channel interconnecting chambers, a liquid can transfer stepwise from one region to the next region according to the speed of rotation of the substrate. The substrate can be rotated about a rotation axis as the center, and has the channel portion including the chambers formed therein. The inner wall of each chamber has a first area including an area intersecting with a centrifugal direction from the center; and also has a second area placed at a position farther from the center than the first area, and including a surface intersecting with the centrifugal direction from the center. Further, the first area has a region for holding a droplet of a liquid provided; and also has a region where a contact with the droplet expands when the substrate is rotated, and that communicate with the second area.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2008Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuhiko Ozaki, Tomohiro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20100104837Abstract: A melamine decorative laminated sheet has a melamine resin layer and a low refractive index layer which is formed upper than the melamine resin layer and has a lower refractive index than a refractive index of the melamine resin layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: AICA KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoshi Tanimoto, Tomohiro Yamamoto, Takaharu Ito
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Publication number: 20100096276Abstract: A multicomponent analysis sensor for measuring two or more kinds of the subjects to be measured by using redox reactions, which is a multicomponent analysis sensor comprising a liquid sample inlet from which a liquid sample containing two or more kinds of the subjects to be measured is introduced, a first measurement chamber, a second measurement chamber, a first channel connecting the above-described liquid sample inlet to the above-described first measurement chamber and a second channel connecting the above-described first measurement chamber to the second measurement chamber, wherein the above-described first measurement chamber and the above-described second measurement chamber respectively have a working electrode and a counter electrode. A first reagent layer containing an enzyme and an electron transfer substance is provided in the first channel or the first chamber, while another reagent layer containing an enzyme is provided in the second channel or the second chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2007Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinki Kojima, Tomohiro Yamamoto, Fumihisa Kitawaki, Tetsuo Yukimasa
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Publication number: 20100062414Abstract: A sample liquid analytical chip that whilst being of simple structure, has a reaction region and a detection region isolated from each other and further has liquid feed control means for a sample liquid, thereby realizing speedy reliable analysis. The sample liquid analytical chip comprises a tubular sample liquid transfer channel with its both ends open, a reaction reagent layer disposed on the internal wall surface of the sample liquid transfer channel and a detection region for detecting any physical or chemical change of the sample liquid. In the sample liquid analytical chip, the sample liquid transfer channel at an area of its wall surface is provided an opening and a lid fitted to the opening. Portion of the lid forms a hinge in cooperation with the wall surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2008Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Yamamoto, Tetsuo Yukimasa, Ryou Hamada, Fumihisa Kitawaki, Nobuhiko Ozaki
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Publication number: 20100056370Abstract: A catalyst carrier which includes a catalyst support layer containing an alkaline earth metal and/or an alkali metal disposed on an alumina substrate. The alkaline earth metal and/or the alkali metal is suppressed or prevented from diffusing into the substrate to react with alumina in the substrate. A catalyst support layer 3 that contains an alkaline earth metal and/or an alkali metal is formed on a surface of an alumina substrate 1 having a three-dimensional network structure. A zirconia layer 2 consisting of zirconia and/or stabilized zirconia is disposed between the substrate 1 and the catalyst support layer 3. The zirconia layer 2 has a thickness of 3 ?m or more in a region of at least 65% of the substrate surface. The zirconia layer suppresses or prevents the alkaline earth metal and/or the alkali metal in the catalyst support layer from diffusing into the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicants: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION, CHIYODA CORPORATIONInventors: Yasushige Shigyo, Tomohiro Yamamoto, Kenichi Imagawa, Takeshi Minami
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Patent number: 7604776Abstract: A reaction of a sample mixture liquid is detected accurately, by allowing a solid reagent to be dissolved and reacted in a liquid sample quickly and accurately. A disc main body, and at least one sample mixing unit provided at the disc main body are provided, and the sample mixing unit is provided with: a liquid sample reserve unit; a reagent chamber capable of disposing a plurality of the solid reagents; and a measurement chamber to which a sample mixture liquid containing a liquid sample and a solid reagent mixed in the reagent chamber is supplied. The reagent chamber has a form which allows a plurality of the solid reagents to be disposed in the direction substantially parallel to the radial direction of the disc in which centrifugal force is generated, or in the direction substantially perpendicular to the radial direction of the disc.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2008Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Yamamoto, Toshihiko Yoshioka, Nobuhiko Ozaki
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Publication number: 20090238724Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a disc for analyzing a fluid sample, which can analyze the fluid sample with accuracy by having the fluid sample react quickly and uniformly with the solid reagent held in the chamber. The disc has a chamber is defined by a gap formed with at least two opening, and defined by a spacer intervening between an upper substrate and a lower substrate, the upper substrate having a convex section, the lower substrate having a concave section, the reagent being attached to the concave section of the lower substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2006Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro Yamamoto, Nobuhiko Ozaki
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Publication number: 20090200756Abstract: A seal structure is disclosed, wherein a casing 10 has an annular protrusion 11 making up a hole-formed portion of a through hole 12. The portion of a joint member 30 around a joint body 31 is wound with a band-shaped seal member 60. A first peripheral end portion 60a and a second peripheral end portion 60b of the seal member 60 are formed progressively upward in the direction from the engine compartment to the passenger compartment. In the process of inserting the joint body 31 and the seal member 60 into the through hole 12 of the casing 10, the first peripheral end portion 60a and the second peripheral end portion 60b of the seal member 60 are butted against each other in the peripheral direction. As a result, a gap is difficult to form between the first peripheral end portion 60a and the second peripheral end portion 60b.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohiro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20090201547Abstract: An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses, a management apparatus configured to manage and operate the image forming system, and a plurality of communication control apparatuses each configured to control data communication between the management apparatus and a corresponding image forming apparatus, wherein the management apparatus includes a software component storing unit configured to store one or more software components in a predetermined storage area of a storage device of the management apparatus, the one or more software components being each configured to generate print data recognizable by a corresponding image forming apparatus and a selecting unit configured to select a software component from the one or more software components in response to the print request, the selected software component being used to generate print data corresponding to the image forming apparatus selected as a printing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Inventors: Yuusuke Noguchi, Akeo Maruyama, Tetsuo Ohtsuka, Yoshiya Itoh, Michio Sumiyoshi, Shinichi Kudo, Kazunori Kobayashi, Tomohiro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20090190154Abstract: An image forming system includes one or more image forming apparatuses and a management apparatus. The management apparatus includes: a software component retention part configured to retain one or more software components in a storage unit, the software components each being configured to generate output format data in a data format interpretable by a printer engine of a corresponding one or more of the image forming apparatuses from application data; a determination part configured to determine, based on the specified image forming apparatus, one of the software components to be used to generate the output format data corresponding to the specified image forming apparatus; and a transmission part configured to transmit the generated output format data to the specified image forming apparatus. The specified image forming apparatus includes an image forming part to form a predetermined image on an image forming medium based on the transmitted output format data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2009Publication date: July 30, 2009Inventors: Yuusuke Noguchi, Akeo Maruyama, Tetsuo Ohtsuka, Yoshiya Itoh, Michio Sumiyoshi, Shinichi Kudo, Kazunori Kobayashi, Tomohiro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20090169430Abstract: A panel for analyzing a sample liquid by which an exactly fixed quantity of sample liquid can be dripped conveniently, and convenience of measuring operation and accuracy of measurements can be ensured even for a sample liquid containing solid components. The panel for analyzing a sample liquid comprises a first channel-like chamber which is rotated about the center of rotation and into which the sample liquid flows by capillarity, a first channel connected to the first chamber and having a cavity the width or the height of which is increased discontinuously, a second chamber connected to the first channel, an opening for supplying the sample liquid to the first chamber, and an opening for discharging gas from the first chamber as the sample liquid flows in.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2007Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro Yamamoto, Toshihiko Yoshioka