Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Takemoto

Yoshiaki Takemoto 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: 20150008593
    Abstract: A stacked semiconductor device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first electrode is connected to the second electrode so that the first surface faces the second surface. A tip portion of the first wall section that faces the second substrate is connected to a tip portion of the second wall section that faces the first substrate. The first wall section is connected to the second wall section over an entire circumference. An outside space that is formed in an outside of the first wall section and an outside of the second wall section between the first substrate and the second substrate is filled with a sealing member over the entire circumference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Takemoto, Naohiro Takazawa, Hiroshi Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20140367853
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device is a solid-state imaging device in which a first substrate formed on a first semiconductor wafer and a second substrate formed on a second semiconductor wafer are bonded via connect that electrically connects the substrates, wherein the first substrate includes photoelectric conversion units, the second substrate includes an output circuit that acquires a signal generated by the photoelectric conversion unit via the connector and outputs the signal, and dummy connectors that support the first and second bonded substrates are further arranged in a substrate region in which the connectors are not arranged in a substrate region of at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Tsukimura, Naohiro Takazawa, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Haruhisa Saito, Yoshitaka Tadaki, Yuichi Gomi
  • Publication number: 20140305559
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a tread portion provided with an asymmetrical tread pattern and comprising an inboard shoulder land portion, an inboard shoulder main groove, an inboard middle land portion, an inboard crown main groove, a center land portion, an outboard crown main groove, an outboard middle land portion, an outboard shoulder main groove, and an outboard shoulder land portion. The inboard middle land portion is provided with inboard middle axial grooves extending from the inboard shoulder main groove and each comprising a main portion and a turnback portion. The inboard shoulder land portion is provided with inboard shoulder sipes extending from the inboard shoulder main groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki TAKEMOTO
  • Patent number: 8847296
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device is a solid-state imaging device in which a first substrate formed on a first semiconductor wafer and a second substrate formed on a second semiconductor wafer are bonded via connect that electrically connects the substrates, wherein the first substrate includes photoelectric conversion units, the second substrate includes an output circuit that acquires a signal generated by the photoelectric conversion unit via the connector and outputs the signal, and dummy connectors that support the first and second bonded substrates are further arranged in a substrate region in which the connectors are not arranged in a substrate region of at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Tsukimura, Naohiro Takazawa, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Haruhisa Saito, Yoshitaka Tadaki, Yuichi Gomi
  • Publication number: 20140265706
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets, which function as first magnetic poles, and salient poles, which function as second magnetic poles. A ratio X1:X2 of a quantity X1 of magnetic pole portions of the rotor, which is the sum of the quantity of the magnets and the quantity of the salient poles, and the quantity X2 of slots is 2n:3n (n being a natural number). The sum of a magnetic pole occupying angle ?1 of the magnet and a magnetic pole occupying angle ?2 of the salient pole is 360°. The magnetic pole occupying angle ?1 is set in a range of 180°<?1?230°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji YAMADA, Seiya YOKOYAMA, Shigemasa KATO, Yoshiaki TAKEMOTO, Yoko TATEISHI
  • Publication number: 20140265703
    Abstract: A motor including a stator and a rotor. The stator includes teeth and windings. Each tooth has a distal portion defined by a radially inward side of the stator. The rotor, which is arranged inward in the radial direction from the stator, includes a rotor core, magnets, and salient poles. Each salient pole is separated by a void from the magnet that is adjacent in the circumferential direction. The distal portion of each tooth is longer than a radially outward side of each magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoji Yamada, Seiya Yokoyama, Keisuke Koide, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Shigemasa Kato, Toshihiro Uchida
  • Publication number: 20140203677
    Abstract: A rotor with four axially stacked rotor cores, and a plurality of field magnets interposed between them. Each rotor core includes a rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic pole. Each rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles are respectively extending from and formed on each rotor core at equal angle intervals. Tip end surfaces of the first and third rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic pole abut against or are closely opposed to each other axially. Tip end surfaces of the second and fourth rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles abut against or are closely opposed to each other in the axial direction. The plurality of field magnets are magnetized in the axial direction such that the field magnets causes the first and third rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles to function as first magnetic poles, and cause the second and fourth rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles to function as second magnetic poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventors: Yoshiaki TAKEMOTO, Yusuke MORIMOTO, Masashi MATSUDA, Seiya YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 8786161
    Abstract: A motor in which drive current supplied to a winding is controlled in accordance with a rotational position of a rotor detected from a waveform of an induced voltage between phases. The motor is provided with a stator including 3×n teeth and windings for three phases. A rotor includes a rotor core, an n number of magnets, and an n number of salient poles. The magnets function as one of the magnetic poles, the salient poles function as the other one of the magnetic poles. Each salient pole is spaced apart by a gap from the adjacent ones of the magnets in the circumferential direction. The magnets and gap are arranged inward in the radial direction from the rotor core. An electrical angle between two ends of each magnet is set to be smaller than an electrical angle between two ends of each salient pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Takemoto, Toshihiro Uchida, Seiya Yokoyama, Shigemasa Kato
  • Publication number: 20140190606
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion with an asymmetric pattern including an outboard shoulder main groove, an inboard shoulder main groove, an outboard shoulder portion between the outboard shoulder main groove and an outboard tread edge, a middle portion between the outboard shoulder main groove and the inboard shoulder main groove, and an inboard shoulder portion between the inboard shoulder main groove and an inboard tread edge, wherein the outboard shoulder portion is provided with a three dimensional sipe that has a pair of sipe surfaces extending to a depth direction of the sipe while changing its direction or opening configuration, and the inboard shoulder portion or the middle portion is provided with a two dimensional sipe that has a pair of sipe surfaces extending to a depth direction of the sipe while maintaining its direction and opening configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki TAKEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140103481
    Abstract: A semiconductor substrate according to the present invention includes: a substrate; an electrode array which is provided on the surface on one side in a thickness direction of the substrate and in which a plurality of electrodes is two-dimensionally arranged in a plan view; and a resin layer which is provided on the surface on one side and seals peripheries of the plurality of electrodes. The plurality of electrodes protrudes by greater than or equal to 5% of its own height on the resin layer and is capable of being accommodated in the resin layer by being compressed in the thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shugo Ishizuka, Yuichi Gomi, Yoshiaki Takemoto
  • Publication number: 20140103522
    Abstract: A semiconductor substrate having a base material and a connection portion provided on at least one surface of the base material. The connection portion includes: a non-conductive wall portion so as to surround a concave portion formed on the base material; an electrode portion disposed on a bottom surface of a concave portion; and a metal portion disposed in contact with the electrode portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Takemoto
  • Patent number: 8653771
    Abstract: A controller for use with a motor including a stator, around which three-phase coils are wound, and a rotor, which includes a magnet functioning as a first magnetic pole and a salient pole of a core functioning as a second magnetic pole. The controller supplies the three-phase coils with excitation currents having a predetermined phase difference from one another to drive and rotate the rotor. The controller includes a current adjustment unit that adjusts a fundamental wave current using high-order currents for third order and ninth order components in a q-axis to reduce torque ripple. The excitation current is generated based on the fundamental wave current adjusted by the current adjustment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Santo, Seiya Yokoyama, Yoji Yamada, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Shigemasa Kato, Kenta Goto
  • Publication number: 20140042851
    Abstract: A motor includes a first, second, and third motor unit. First, second and third rotors each including a first and second rotor core and a field magnet. The first and second rotor cores include respectively first and second rotor core bases and a plurality of first and second claw magnetic poles that are arranged alternately along a circumferential direction of the motor. The field magnet causes the plurality of first claw magnetic poles and the plurality of second claw magnetic poles to function as different magnetic poles. Each of first and second stators including pluralities of first claw magnetic poles and second claw magnetic poles alternately arranged along the circumferential direction of the motor. The second stator core having a coil section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventors: Yoshiaki TAKEMOTO, Yoko TATEISHI
  • Patent number: 8643239
    Abstract: A motor including a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a rotor core, magnet pole portions, and core pole portions. First magnetic pole portions, which are the magnet pole portions or the core pole portions, each include a first and second opposing parts arranged in an axial direction. Each first opposing part includes an auxiliary groove, and each second opposing part does not include an auxiliary groove. Where M(°) represents an open angle of the first magnetic pole portion, G(°) represents an open angle of the void, and L represents the number of teeth, an angle D1 from a center line in the circumferential direction of the first magnetic pole portion to the side surface in the auxiliary groove that is closer to the center line in the circumferential direction satisfies D1=M/2+G?a×360(°)/L (where a is a natural number).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Takemoto, Shigemasa Kato, Seiya Yokoyama, Keisuke Koide
  • Publication number: 20130313938
    Abstract: A brushless motor includes a first rotor core, a second rotor core, and a field magnet member. The first rotor core includes primary projecting pieces arranged along a circumferential direction at equal intervals. The second rotor core has the same shape as the first rotor core, and includes secondary projecting pieces arranged along the circumferential direction at equal intervals. The secondary projecting pieces are positioned between the primary projecting pieces that are adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction. The field magnet member is arranged between the first rotor core and the second rotor core. The field magnet member is magnetized along an axial direction to generate primary magnetic poles in the primary projecting pieces, and generate secondary magnetic poles in the secondary projecting pieces. A rotor includes the first rotor core, the second rotor core, and the field magnet member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Inventors: Yoji YAMADA, Seiya YOKOYAMA, Yoshiaki TAKEMOTO, Chie MORITA, Koji MIKAMI
  • Publication number: 20130256879
    Abstract: A wiring substrate may include: a base having a predetermined thickness; a plurality of electrode portions formed to protrude on one surface in a thickness direction of the base; a wiring provided in the base and electrically connected to the electrode portions; and a resin layer formed on the base to fill between the plurality of electrode portions. An upper surface of the resin layer may be formed in a concave shape lower than a maximum height of the electrode portion, and an upper surface of the electrode portion and the upper surface of the resin layer form a continuous curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chihiro Migita, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Yoshitaka Tadaki
  • Publication number: 20130256889
    Abstract: A substrate includes a base member having a predetermined thickness, and an electrode array provided in one surface in a thickness direction of the base member and having a plurality of electrodes arranged two-dimensionally in a plan view, and the electrode array includes a central portion and an incremental region provided around the central portion in the planar view and is formed so that a height of the electrodes in the incremental region gradually increase as approaching toward the central portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Takemoto, Yuichi Gomi, Chihiro Migita, Hiroshi Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20130256880
    Abstract: An electrode body is provided as an electrode body capable of appropriately reducing a load when silicon wafer direct bonding is performed. The electrode body includes a base member that has a predetermined thickness; and an electrode portion that is formed on one surface of the base member in a thickness direction thereof. The electrode portion includes a basic bump formed in a substantially columnar shape to protrude on the base member and a fragile bump formed independently from the basic bump to form a metallic bond with the basic bump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chihiro Migita, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yoshiaki Takemoto
  • Patent number: D700878
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Takemoto
  • Patent number: D700880
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Takemoto