Patents by Inventor Yoshikuni

Yoshikuni 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: 20240168421
    Abstract: A removable unit that is attachable to and detachable from a body of an apparatus includes a positioning projection and an upstream projection. The positioning projection projects downward to position a unit or a member located below the removable unit when the removable unit is attached to the body. The upstream projection projects more downward than the positioning projection at an upstream end of the removable unit in an attachment direction of the removable unit to the apparatus. A lower end of the positioning projection is located higher than a line connecting a lower end of the upstream projection and a lower portion of a downstream end of the removable unit in the attachment direction when viewed in a direction orthogonal to both an up and down direction and the attachment direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Takahiro IMADA, Yoshikuni SASAKI, Takuya SESHITA
  • Patent number: 11988545
    Abstract: A proposing an improvement in an installation environment of a weighing apparatus is made by including (a) a step of acquiring, weighed data of an object (7) to be weighed from a weighing sensor (13) together with time information, (b) a step of acquiring, environmental data together with time information, (c) a step of checking, with respect to the weighed data and the environmental data, whether an amount of change of the data per unit time or an average value of the data is less than or not less than a threshold with reference to a threshold database (191) and determining influence on the apparatus, and (d) a step of making a proposal on the installation environment for each result of the determination with reference to an improvement proposal database (193).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: A&D COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshikuni Sato, Yoshikazu Nagane
  • Patent number: 11981765
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a catalyst which has high activity and enables the production of an olefin polymer that has a polar group; and a method for producing the polymer. A catalyst for olefin polymerization, which contains a metal complex represented by general formula (C1); and a method for producing an ethylene (co)polymer, wherein (1) ethylene is polymerized, (2) ethylene and an olefin having a polar group represented by general formula (1) are copolymerized, or (3) ethylene, an olefin having a polar group represented by general formula (1) and another monomer are copolymerized, with use of the above-described catalyst. (In the formulae, the symbols are as defined in the description; and at least one of R6 and R7 represents a 9-fluorenyl analogous group represented by general formula (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, Resonac Corporation, JAPAN POLYETHYLENE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoko Nozaki, Junichi Kuroda, Shinya Hayashi, Yoshikuni Okumura, Masahiro Uematsu, Yusuke Mitsushige
  • Publication number: 20240139954
    Abstract: A robot system includes: a robot control unit that controls an operation of a robot, using a control parameter for the robot; a safety monitoring unit that monitors the operation of the robot, using a safety monitoring parameter for the robot; a control parameter setting unit that sets the control parameter to the robot control unit; and a safety monitoring parameter setting unit that acquires the control parameter set to the robot control unit, from the robot control unit, and sets at least one of a plurality of parameters included in the acquired control parameter, as the safety monitoring parameter to the safety monitoring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Keiichi TSUJI, Yoshihito YAMADA, Ryuya YAMAGISHI, Yoshikuni KOBAYASHI, Akira TANABE
  • Patent number: 11972051
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a control unit that generates a vibration stimulation signal to be provided to a user based on a sound signal in a content, wherein the control unit is configured to: acquire data of a content including a sound signal; execute an analysis process on the sound signal; and generate a vibration stimulation signal to be provided to a user in a conversion process of the sound signal according to a result of the analysis process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Rei Hiromi, Shinichi Shiotsu, Yoshikuni Miki, Akio Arai, Yohei Kakee
  • Publication number: 20240136894
    Abstract: A control device that includes a circuit board, a plurality of heating elements that generate heat that accompanies driving the motor, and a rotation angle sensor that detects a rotation angle of the motor. The circuit board has a power supply input portion to which a driving current of the motor is supplied, a heating element mounting region where the plurality of the heating elements are mounted, and a controller mounting region where the rotation angle sensor is mounted. The power supply input portion, the heating element mounting region, and the controller mounting region are disposed in such an order. The circuit board, as seen from an axial direction of the rotating shaft, protrudes to an outside of a projection region that projects an outer surface of a cylindrical portion of a motor case that surrounds the motor. The power supply input portion is located on a portion out of portions of the circuit board that are on the outside of the projection region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikuni TOMIOKA, Takashi NAGAO, Katsuhiko OMAE, Takahiro OKANOUE
  • Publication number: 20240125786
    Abstract: A stable isotope-labeled indole carboxylic acid compound represented by Formula (I) is provided. In Formula (I), X1 to X8 are each independently C or 13C; Y is N or 15N; M is H, Na, K, Li, CH3, or C2H5; R1 is H or D; R2 is H, CH3, 13CH3, C2H5, or 13C2H5; R3 is H, CH3, 13CH3, C2H5, or 13C2H5; R4 is H or D; and R5 is H or D.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshikuni Kikutani, Masaki Takiwaki, Hiroshi Umemura, Seketsu Fukuzawa
  • Patent number: 11958358
    Abstract: Configuration, in which images output to a display unit are switched and displayed in accordance with the behavior of a driver, such as movements of the head of the driver, is achieved. Driver information indicating the behavior of the driver of a moving apparatus and images captured by a plurality of cameras that images a situation around the moving apparatus from different viewpoints are input. The images output to the display unit are switched in accordance with the driver information. The plurality of cameras is, for example, a plurality of rear cameras installed in the rear of the moving apparatus. For example, a direction of the face or line-of-sight of the driver is detected. An image in a direction corresponding to the detected direction of the face or line-of-sight of the driver is selected as an output image, and displayed on the display unit. Alternatively, an image in a direction indicated by a gesture of the driver is selected, and displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Oba, Mitsuharu Ohki, Shigeyuki Baba, Yoshikuni Nomura
  • Patent number: 11954476
    Abstract: An on-board update apparatus includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with a first on-board apparatus including a storage unit that stores a program in a rewritable manner and a second on-board apparatus including a sensor that performs detection of a person present around a vehicle and configured to transmit a detection result indicating presence or absence of a person around the vehicle; and a processing unit configured to obtain an update program for updating the program stored in the storage unit from outside, and execute update processing of the program stored in the storage unit using the obtained update program, wherein the processing unit executes update processing of the program stored in the storage unit using the update program, when it is determined that no person is present around the vehicle based on the detection result received through the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshikuni Shimomura
  • Publication number: 20240112929
    Abstract: A processing device that processes a workpiece of a plate shape having a thickness direction along an upper-bottom direction includes a controller configured to control an operation of the processing device, a storing section storing the workpiece, a transfer section including a transfer hand on which the workpiece is placed and that moves the workpiece from and into the storing section, a processing section processing the workpiece, a holding section holding an upper surface of the workpiece, and a moving section horizontally moving the holding section between the transfer hand and the processing section. The holding section receives and places the workpiece from and on the transfer hand above the transfer hand. The processing section processes the workpiece from below and the workpiece is held by the holding section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshikuni SUZUKI, Shigeyuki UCHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11942346
    Abstract: A resin applying machine includes a processing chamber, a temperature measuring unit, and a controller. The processing chamber houses therein a holder for holding the wafer, a table that faces the holder, a resin supply unit for supplying a liquid resin to the table, a moving unit for relatively moving the holder and the table closely to each other, and a hardening unit for hardening the liquid resin that has coated the wafer. The temperature measuring unit measures a temperature in the processing chamber. The controller includes a correlation data storage unit for recording therein correlation data with respect to the temperature in the processing chamber and a moved distance by which the holder and the table are relatively moved by the moving unit at the temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshikuni Migiyama, Kazuki Sugiura, Yoshinori Kakinuma, Mitsuru Ikushima
  • Patent number: 11935778
    Abstract: A holding mechanism includes a Bernoulli pad that holds a plate-shaped body, a hand on which the Bernoulli pad is disposed, a sensor that is disposed on the hand and detects that the plate-shaped body is held under suction by the Bernoulli pad, a lateral movement restriction section disposed on the hand, a tube that connects an air source supplying air to the Bernoulli pad and the Bernoulli pad, an adjustment valve that is disposed in the tube and adjusts a flow rate of air supplied to the Bernoulli pad, and a control section that controls operation of the adjustment valve. The control section gradually increases the flow rate of the air supplied from the adjustment valve to the Bernoulli pad and, when it is detected by the sensor that the plate-shaped body has been held under suction by the Bernoulli pad, fixes the flow rate of the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Kakinuma, Yoshikuni Migiyama, Yoshinobu Saito, Jonghyun Ryu
  • Publication number: 20240089567
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including a pixel array unit (300) configured by arraying, in a row direction and a column direction, a plurality of pixels (304) of five or more types in which wavelength bands of detectable light are different in stages. The plurality of pixels are arrayed such that, at points having any spatial phases on the pixel array unit, mixed spectral characteristics obtained by mixing spectral characteristics of a predetermined number of pixels around the points are substantially same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Seichi Otsuki, Shigeki Nakamura, Yoshikuni Nomura
  • Patent number: 11927510
    Abstract: A standard calibration solution includes water, a non-alcoholic solvent that is mixed with water, and a steroid hormone, and a content of the non-alcoholic solvent is 10% by volume or more and 50% by volume or less. The standard calibration solution is used for quantitative measurement using a mass spectrometry device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Takiwaki, Seketsu Fukuzawa, Yoshikuni Kikutani, Kiyotaka Fujino, Kentaro Abe, Yoshiyuki Ito
  • Patent number: 11915963
    Abstract: A protective member forming apparatus includes an integrating unit that integrates a resin sheet held by a chuck table with a wafer by a resin, a conveying unit that conveys the wafer, and a cutting unit that holds, by a cutting table, the wafer integrated with the resin sheet conveyed by the conveying unit and cuts the resin sheet by a cutting section along the wafer. The cutting unit includes a detection unit that images the wafer by a camera and detects a position of a periphery of the wafer, and a control unit that causes cutting of the resin sheet by the cutting section to be performed only in the case where a peripheral edge of the wafer detected coincides with a track of a cutter blade of the cutting section when the preset resin sheet is cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Kakinuma, Yoshikuni Migiyama
  • Publication number: 20240057946
    Abstract: A sarcopenia evaluation method in a sarcopenia evaluation device that evaluates sarcopenia based on a walking motion of a subject includes: acquiring walking data related to walking of the subject; detecting, from the walking data, at least one walking parameter of an angle of a knee joint of one leg in a stance phase of the one leg of the subject, an angle of the knee joint of the one leg in a swing phase of the one leg, a vertical displacement of a toe of one foot in the stance phase, a vertical displacement of the toe of the one foot in the swing phase, an angle of an ankle joint of the one foot in the stance phase, and an angle of the ankle joint of the one foot in the swing phase; and determining whether or not the subject has sarcopenia using at least one walking parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Takahiro HIYAMA, Yoshikuni SATO, Takahiro AIHARA, Kengo WADA, Taichi HAMATSUKA, Yoshihiro MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20240055218
    Abstract: A charged particle beam writing apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes an electrode configured to deflect a charged particle beam, an amplifier configured to apply a deflection potential to the electrode, a diagnostic circuit configured to diagnose the amplifier, a switching circuit arranged between an output of the amplifier and the electrode, and configured to switch the output of the amplifier between the electrode and the diagnostic circuit, an electron optical system configured to irradiate a target object with the charged particle beam deflected by being applied with the deflection potential by the amplifier, a column configured to include therein the electrode and the electron optical system, a first coaxial cable configured to connect an output side of the amplifier with the switching circuit, a second coaxial cable configured to connect the electrode with the switching circuit, a third coaxial cable configured to connect the output side of the amplifier with the diagnosti
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: NuFlare Technology, Inc., NuFlare Technology America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuo SENGOKU, Yoshikuni GOSHIMA, John William KAY, Chising LAI
  • Publication number: 20230409739
    Abstract: An information processing device that executes storage control for personal information data that are stored in a storage unit in an on-vehicle device that executes an operation that is based on personal information data that are stored in the storage unit has a controller. The controller executes a deletion process that deletes personal information data that are stored in the storage unit, in a case where an end of use of a vehicle is detected, and executes a registration process that stores, in the storage unit, personal information data of a user for the on-vehicle device that are acquired from an external device, in a case where a start of use of a vehicle is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yoshikuni MIKI, Yuji UNO, Masayuki TOYODA
  • Publication number: 20230402253
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a multi charged particle beam evaluation method is for evaluating trajectories of a plurality of individual beams in a multi charged particle beam which has passed through a plurality of openings provided in an aperture array substrate. The method includes measuring positions of the plurality of individual beams at each of a plurality of heights, in an optical axis direction, of an imaging plane of the multi charged particle beam, or a measurement plane on which a mark for beam position measurement is formed, the plurality of heights being different from each other, and extracting a singular beam in which a beam trajectory has changed among the plurality of individual beams based on a position difference, the position difference being a difference between beam positions of the plurality of individual beams measured at each of the plurality of heights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi MORITA, Yoshikuni GOSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11841652
    Abstract: A contact-separation device brings a contact-separation member into contact with a contacted member separably and includes a biasing member that generates a biasing force. A presser presses the contact-separation member against the contacted member in a pressing direction with the biasing force from the biasing member. A cam presses the presser in an opposite direction being opposite to the pressing direction. The cam is rotatable and has a cam face. A cam follower has a cam contact face that contacts the cam face of the cam. The cam contact face is curved to project toward the cam. The cam contact face has a curvature that is smaller than a greatest curvature of the cam face of the cam and is greater than a smallest curvature of the cam face of the cam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Saitoh, Takahiro Imada, Yoshikuni Sasaki, Tamotsu Ikeda, Hiromasa Takagi, Jun Okamoto