Patents by Inventor Yoshihiko Yokoyama

Yoshihiko Yokoyama 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: 20230418377
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have catadioptric lenses that each include a partial mirror, a quarter wave plate, and a polarizer. An optical system in the head-mounted device may have an infrared light-emitting device and an infrared light-sensing device. The optical system may illuminate a user's eyes in eye boxes and may gather measurements from the illuminated eye boxes for eye tracking and other functions. The optical system may operate through the catadioptric lenses. To enhance optical system performance, the polarizers may be wire grid polarizers that are formed from conductive lines that exhibit enhanced infrared transmission and/or the quarter wave plates may be formed from cholesteric liquid crystal layers that serve as quarter wave plates at visible wavelengths and that do not serve as quarter wave plates at infrared wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Yokoyama, John N. Border, Naoto Matsuyuki, Serhan O. Isikman, Wei-Liang Hsu
  • Patent number: 11809619
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have catadioptric lenses that each include a partial mirror, a quarter wave plate, and a polarizer. An optical system in the head-mounted device may have an infrared light-emitting device and an infrared light-sensing device. The optical system may illuminate a user's eyes in eye boxes and may gather measurements from the illuminated eye boxes for eye tracking and other functions. The optical system may operate through the catadioptric lenses. To enhance optical system performance, the polarizers may be wire grid polarizers that are formed from conductive lines that exhibit enhanced infrared transmission and/or the quarter wave plates may be formed from cholesteric liquid crystal layers that serve as quarter wave plates at visible wavelengths and that do not serve as quarter wave plates at infrared wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Yokoyama, John N. Border, Naoto Matsuyuki, Serhan O. Isikman, Wei-Liang Hsu
  • Patent number: 11653571
    Abstract: A resonance device includes a first substrate formed of a semiconductor material or a glass material and having a recess which has an opening in a first main surface, a second substrate bonded to the first main surface and configured to close the opening of the recess, and a resonator element housed in the recess. An inner surface of the recess includes a side surface, a bottom surface, and a connection surface connecting the side surface and the bottom surface, the connection surface is a curved surface, and L1<L2, wherein L1 is a length of the connection surface in a first direction, and L2 is a length in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiko Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20230024820
    Abstract: An analysis device for visualizing an accuracy of a trained determination device includes an acquisition unit acquiring an image pair of a non-defective product image and a defective product image, an extraction unit extracting an image region of a defective part of the defective product, a generation unit generating a plurality of image regions of pseudo-defective parts, a compositing unit synthesizing each of the image regions of the plurality of pseudo-defective parts with the non-defective product image to generate a plurality of composite images having different feature quantities, an unit outputting the plurality of composite images to the determination device and acquiring a label corresponding to each of the plurality of composite images from the determination device, and a display control unit displaying an object indicating the label corresponding to each of the plurality of composite images in an array based on the feature quantities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicants: Morpho, Inc., Tokyo Weld Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko YOKOYAMA, Tsukasa KATO, Daiju KIKUCHI, Satoshi HIROTA, Takuma UMENO
  • Patent number: 11540599
    Abstract: Watch bands can be provided with an ability to dynamically adjust the fit of a watch against a wrist of a user. One or more of a variety of tensioning elements can be provided with a shape memory polymer that responds to a stimulus to adjust a fit of the band. Such stimulus can be from user or actively applied by the watch. The shape memory polymer can be a composite material that provides high durability under cyclic stretching and high speed response of shape recovering while avoiding a drastic moduli drop by shape recovering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Yokoyama, Osamu Yabe, Eiryo Shiraishi, Naoto Matsuyuki
  • Publication number: 20220405605
    Abstract: A training support device includes a derivation unit that derives a feature quantity of the training data, on the basis of a model trained using the training data, and training data having first data given a first label and second data given a second label, and derives, a feature quantity of the training candidate data, on the basis of at least one piece of training candidate data given any one of the first label and the second label, and the model, a calculation unit that calculates, at least one of a distance between the training candidate data and the first data and a second distance between the training candidate data and the second data, and a selection unit that selects data to be added as the training data from among the pieces of training candidate data, on the basis of the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicants: TOKYO WELD., LTD., MORPHO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko YOKOYAMA, Tsukasa KATO, Daiju KIKUCHI, Takuma UMENO
  • Patent number: 11345121
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an aluminized composite including a base material. The aluminized composite may also include a diffusion layer disposed over the base material. The aluminized composite may further include an aluminum material disposed over the diffusion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Yokoyama, Naoto Matsuyuki, James A. Wright, Brian M. Gable, William A. Counts, Eric W. Hamann
  • Patent number: 11148398
    Abstract: A multilayer composite is provided. The composite may include a plurality of metallic glass layers interleaved with a plurality of polymer layers. The composite may have a thickness of up to 100 microns. The composite may have a fatigue strength of at least 1.5 times of the fatigue strength of a monolithic metallic glass having the same thickness as the composite and the same chemical composition as the metallic glass layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Yokoyama, Naoto Matsuyuki, Sungwon Bae, Theodore A. Waniuk
  • Patent number: 10901222
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display with a concave surface. A linear polarizer may be formed on the concave surface. A quarter wave plate may receive light from the linear polarizer. A catadioptric lens may have first and second lens elements. The first lens element may have first and second opposing surfaces. The second lens element may have opposing third and fourth surfaces. The first surface may be convex and may face the display. The fourth surface may be concave. The second surface may be concave. The third surface may be convex and may match the second surface. An additional quarter wave plate may be formed as a coating on the third surface. A partially reflective coating may be formed on the first surface. A reflective polarizer may be formed as a coating on the fourth surface. An additional polarizer may be formed on the reflective polarizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Victoria C. Chan, John N. Border, Yury A. Petrov, Yoshihiko Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20200313070
    Abstract: A resonance device includes a first substrate formed of a semiconductor material or a glass material and having a recess which has an opening in a first main surface, a second substrate bonded to the first main surface and configured to close the opening of the recess, and a resonator element housed in the recess. An inner surface of the recess includes a side surface, a bottom surface, and a connection surface connecting the side surface and the bottom surface, the connection surface is a curved surface, and L1<L2, wherein L1 is a length of the connection surface in a first direction, and L2 is a length in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshihiko YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 10662055
    Abstract: A MEMS element includes a surface silicon layer on which an element is formed and on which a first electrode and a second electrode as element electrodes and an electrode pad connected to the first electrode and the second electrode are disposed, and in which a first wiring through-hole is disposed at a position overlapping with the electrode pad of the surface silicon layer and a wiring electrode electrically connected to the electrode pad is disposed in the first wiring through-hole, in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Yamazaki, Akihiko Ebina, Osamu Kawauchi, Yoshihiko Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10595780
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a base; a functional element; and a first member and a second member which connect the base and the functional element to each other. The first member and the second member have different elastic moduli from each other. The elastic modulus of the first member is higher than the elastic modulus of the second member. At least a part of the first member is situated more closely to a center of the functional element than the second member, as viewed in a plan view taken from a direction in which the base and the functional element are arrayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kamakura, Hideo Miyasaka, Yoshihiko Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20200081257
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display with a concave surface. A linear polarizer may be formed on the concave surface. A quarter wave plate may receive light from the linear polarizer. A catadioptric lens may have first and second lens elements. The first lens element may have first and second opposing surfaces. The second lens element may have opposing third and fourth surfaces. The first surface may be convex and may face the display. The fourth surface may be concave. The second surface may be concave. The third surface may be convex and may match the second surface. An additional quarter wave plate may be formed as a coating on the third surface. A partially reflective coating may be formed on the first surface. A reflective polarizer may be formed as a coating on the fourth surface. An additional polarizer may be formed on the reflective polarizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Victoria C. Chan, John N. Border, Yury A. Petrov, Yoshihiko Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10520734
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display with a concave surface. A linear polarizer may be formed on the concave surface. A quarter wave plate may receive light from the linear polarizer. A catadioptric lens may have first and second lens elements. The first lens element may have first and second opposing surfaces. The second lens element may have opposing third and fourth surfaces. The first surface may be convex and may face the display. The fourth surface may be concave. The second surface may be concave. The third surface may be convex and may match the second surface. An additional quarter wave plate may be formed as a coating on the third surface. A partially reflective coating may be formed on the first surface. A reflective polarizer may be formed as a coating on the fourth surface. An additional polarizer may be formed on the reflective polarizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Victoria C. Chan, John N. Border, Yury A. Petrov, Yoshihiko Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10501836
    Abstract: Methods of forming a bulk metallic glass disclosed. The methods include packing a metallic glass-forming alloy powder to form a green body; heating the green body to a temperature between the glass transition temperature and the melting point of the metallic glass-forming alloy to form a heated green body; and cooling the heated green body to a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the metallic glass-forming alloy to form the bulk metallic glass. The methods of forming a bulk metallic glass also include packing one or more layers of an amorphous foil to form a green body; heating the green body to a temperature between the glass transition temperature and the melting point of the metallic glass-forming alloy to form a heated green body; and cooling the heated green body to a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the metallic glass-forming alloy to form the bulk metallic glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Yokoyama, Theodore A. Waniuk, Naoto Matsuyuki
  • Publication number: 20190099982
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an aluminized composite including a base material. The aluminized composite may also include a diffusion layer disposed over the base material. The aluminized composite may further include an aluminum material disposed over the diffusion layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Yokoyama, Naoto Matsuyuki, James A. Wright
  • Publication number: 20190085465
    Abstract: A multilayer composite is provided. The composite may include a plurality of metallic glass layers interleaved with a plurality of polymer layers. The composite may have a thickness of up to 100 microns. The composite may have a fatigue strength of at least 1.5 times of the fatigue strength of a monolithic metallic glass having the same thickness as the composite and the same chemical composition as the metallic glass layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Yokoyama, Naoto Matsuyuki, Sungwon Bae, Theodore A. Waniuk
  • Publication number: 20180312395
    Abstract: A MEMS element includes a surface silicon layer on which an element is formed and on which a first electrode and a second electrode as element electrodes and an electrode pad connected to the first electrode and the second electrode are disposed, and in which a first wiring through-hole is disposed at a position overlapping with the electrode pad of the surface silicon layer and a wiring electrode electrically connected to the electrode pad is disposed in the first wiring through-hole, in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi YAMAZAKI, Akihiko EBINA, Osamu KAWAUCHI, Yoshihiko YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180080109
    Abstract: Methods of forming a bulk metallic glass disclosed. The methods include packing a metallic glass-forming alloy powder to form a green body; heating the green body to a temperature between the glass transition temperature and the melting point of the metallic glass-forming alloy to form a heated green body; and cooling the heated green body to a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the metallic glass-forming alloy to form the bulk metallic glass. The methods of forming a bulk metallic glass also include packing one or more layers of an amorphous foil to form a green body; heating the green body to a temperature between the glass transition temperature and the melting point of the metallic glass-forming alloy to form a heated green body; and cooling the heated green body to a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the metallic glass-forming alloy to form the bulk metallic glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Yokoyama, Theodore A. Waniuk, Naoto Matsuyuki
  • Publication number: 20180070878
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a base; a functional element; and a first member and a second member which connect the base and the functional element to each other. The first member and the second member have different elastic moduli from each other. The elastic modulus of the first member is higher than the elastic modulus of the second member. At least a part of the first member is situated more closely to a center of the functional element than the second member, as viewed in a plan view taken from a direction in which the base and the functional element are arrayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Tomoyuki KAMAKURA, Hideo MIYASAKA, Yoshihiko YOKOYAMA