Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Hayashi
Yoshinori Hayashi 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: 11942003Abstract: The visibility of the external scene from the inside of the transmissive transparent screen when the video image is not displayed and the visibility of the video image from the outside when the video image is displayed are satisfied. In a video image display system comprising a projection device 100 and a transmissive transparent screen 1 having a first surface and a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface, having a visible light transmittance of at least 5[%], and displaying video images projected from the projection device 100 installed on the first surface side, as video images visible to an observer on the second surface side, the following formula 1 is satisfied: ?1.5?ln(((B/A)/I)×G)?3.9??Formula 1 in the formula 1, A is the projection area [m2] of the projection device 100, B is the luminous flux [lm] projected onto A by the projection device 100, I is the ambient illuminance [lx] at the side of the second surface, and G is the screen gain of the transparent screen 1.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Hideaki Hayashi, Yoshinori Iguchi, Yukihiro Tao
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Publication number: 20240066880Abstract: A liquid supplying device includes a tank and a cartridge. The cartridge is configured to be detachably attached to the tank in an attachment-detachment direction crossing a vertical direction. The cartridge includes a first storage chamber. The tank includes a second storage chamber, a liquid passage, and a gas passage. The liquid passage has a first end, a second end, and a first extending portion. The second end is formed with a second opening open to an atmosphere. The first extending portion extends from the second opening in the attachment-detachment direction. The gas passage has a third end, a fourth end, and a second extending portion. The fourth end is formed with a fourth opening open to the atmosphere. The second extending portion extends from the fourth opening in the attachment-detachment direction. The second opening is at a position different from the fourth opening in the attachment-detachment direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Yoshinori OSAKABE, Akinari ISHIBE, Tatsuya SHINDO, Masahiro HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20240070937Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire three-dimensional thermographic image data by imaging a subject irradiated with infrared rays. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a plurality of items of projection data by imaging the subject with tomosynthesis. The processing circuitry is configured to execute reconstruction based on the plurality of items of projection data and the three-dimensional thermographic image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI, Daisuke SATO, Tomio MAEHAMA, Risa HAYASHI, Tamotsu INO, Katsunori KOJIMA, Yoshinori SAITO, Naoto WATANABE
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Patent number: 11848599Abstract: A drive circuit for a switch drives an upper-arm switch and a lower-arm switch that include body diodes. Of the body diodes in upper- and lower-arm switches, the diode through which a feedback current flows during a dead time is a target diode. Of the upper- and lower-arm switches, the switch that includes the target diode is a target switch. The remaining switch is an opposing arm switch. The drive circuit maintains an electric potential of a control terminal relative to a second terminal of the target switch at a negative voltage over a period from a timing subsequent to a start timing of a dead time immediately after the target switch is switched to an off-state until a point within a period over which the opposing arm switch is set to an on-state, and subsequently maintains the electric potential at an off-voltage until a next dead time is ended.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsunori Kimura, Yoshinori Hayashi, Kengo Mochiki
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Publication number: 20230341244Abstract: A conveyance device includes a slider, a conveyance unit, a magnetic scale for detecting a position of the slider, and a magnetic sensor for detecting magnetism of the magnetic scale. The magnetic scale includes a plurality of tracks arranged in parallel, and magnetization start positions and magnetization end positions of some tracks of the plurality of tracks are shifted to a side opposite to an end portion of the track from magnetization start positions and magnetization end positions of the other tracks.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2020Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunsuke AOKI, Yoshinori HAYASHI, Hideaki KOUDA
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Publication number: 20230237292Abstract: A laser processing system includes: a first light irradiator including: a first light emitter to emit first laser light; and a first light scanner to scan a first region of a workpiece with the first laser light emitted from the first light emitter; a second light irradiator including: a second light emitter to emit second laser light; and a second light scanner to scan a second region different from the first region of the workpiece with the second laser light emitted from the second light emitter. The first light irradiator emits the first laser light to the first region of the workpiece in a first irradiation direction, the second light irradiator emits the second laser light to the second region of the workpiece in a second irradiation direction opposite to the first irradiation direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Kazunori WATANABE, Yoshinori HAYASHI
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Patent number: 11012611Abstract: An electronic apparatus including an imaging unit, an operation unit, an output unit, and a control unit, wherein the control unit outputs a sound relating to a first warning using the output unit, in a case where a condition for issuing the first warning is satisfied, wherein the control unit stops outputting the sound relating to the first warning, in a case where an instruction is received by the operation unit, wherein the control unit doesn't output the sound relating to the first warning even when the condition for issuing the first warning is satisfied, in a case where the output of the sound relating to the first warning is stopped, and wherein the control unit outputs a sound relating to a second warning, when a condition for issuing the second warning is satisfied, in a case where the output of the sound relating to the first warning is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yu Narita, Yoshinori Hayashi, Koichi Sasaki, Dai Miyauchi, Tomotaka Uekusa, Hitoshi Nishitani
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Patent number: 10954073Abstract: The linear conveyor device includes a position detecting device including a scale attached to a slider, and a sensor structural body including a sensor and a driver. The driver is provided with a first and a second signal processing units, and a signal comparison processing unit. The first signal processing unit performs predetermined first interpolation processing on an output signal from a first sensor, generates and outputs first positional data. The second signal processing unit performs predetermined second interpolation processing on an output signal from a second sensor, generates second positional data, and outputs the second positional data. The signal comparison processing unit recognizes the first positional data as positional information of the slider, generates identification information unique to the slider, and outputs the identification information, where the identification information corresponds to a difference between the first positional data and the second positional data.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshinori Hayashi, Satoshi Urata
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Patent number: 10950152Abstract: A HUD device comprising a display device for scanning with light emitted by a light source (e.g., an LD) an optical element array (e.g., a micro lens array) including multiple optical elements (e.g., micro lenses) to form an image and for projecting the light that has formed the image. The display device includes a control unit 8060 that is capable of changing output power of the light In this case, it is possible to provide a display device that is capable of adjusting luminance of an image while controlling against luminance unevenness of the image from occurring.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Inamoto, Yoshinori Hayashi, Hiroyuki Tanabe
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Publication number: 20200380900Abstract: A HUD device comprising a display device for scanning with light emitted by a light source (e.g., an LD) an optical element array (e.g., a micro lens array) including multiple optical elements (e.g., micro lenses) to form an image and for projecting the light that has formed the image. The display device includes a control unit 8060 that is capable of changing output power of the light In this case, it is possible to provide a display device that is capable of adjusting luminance of an image while controlling against luminance unevenness of the image from occurring.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Makoto INAMOTO, Yoshinori HAYASHI, Hiroyuki TANABE
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Patent number: 10855269Abstract: In a drive circuit, one of an upper-arm switch and a lower-arm switch being in an on state by a main driver is referred to as a target arm switch. The other of the upper-arm switch and the lower-arm switch being in an off state by the main driver is referred to as an opposite arm switch. An intrinsic diode connected in antiparallel to the opposite arm switch is referred to as an opposite arm diode. The drive circuit includes a protective driver configured to determine whether a failure has occurred in the target arm switch. The protective driver is configured to change the target arm switch from the on state to the off state, and the opposite arm switch from the off state to the on state upon determining that a failure has occurred in the target arm switch.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo Mochiki, Mitsunori Kimura, Yoshinori Hayashi
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Publication number: 20200235653Abstract: A drive circuit for a switch drives an upper-arm switch and a lower-arm switch that include body diodes. Of the body diodes in upper- and lower-arm switches, the diode through which a feedback current flows during a dead time is a target diode. Of the upper- and lower-arm switches, the switch that includes the target diode is a target switch. The remaining switch is an opposing arm switch. The drive circuit maintains an electric potential of a control terminal relative to a second terminal of the target switch at a negative voltage over a period from a timing subsequent to a start timing of a dead time immediately after the target switch is switched to an off-state until a point within a period over which the opposing arm switch is set to an on-state, and subsequently maintains the electric potential at an off-voltage until a next dead time is ended.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsunori KIMURA, Yoshinori HAYASHI, Kengo MOCHIKI
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Patent number: 10720912Abstract: A suppressing circuit is provided with a diode of which an anode is connected to a first neutral point between a drive circuit and a control electrode of a semiconductor switch; a capacitor disposed between a cathode of the diode and a reference potential; a constant voltage circuit connected to a second neutral point between the diode and the capacitor; an adjusting resistor disposed between the constant voltage circuit and the second neutral point; and a cutoff switch disposed between a constant voltage circuit side of the adjusting resistor and the reference potential.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshinori Hayashi
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Publication number: 20200177795Abstract: An electronic apparatus including an imaging unit, an operation unit, an output unit, and a control unit, wherein the control unit outputs a sound relating to a first warning using the output unit, in a case where a condition for issuing the first warning is satisfied, wherein the control unit stops outputting the sound relating to the first warning, in a case where an instruction is received by the operation unit, wherein the control unit doesn't output the sound relating to the first warning even when the condition for issuing the first warning is satisfied, in a case where the output of the sound relating to the first warning is stopped, and wherein the control unit outputs a sound relating to a second warning, when a condition for issuing the second warning is satisfied, in a case where the output of the sound relating to the first warning is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Yu Narita, Yoshinori Hayashi, Koichi Sasaki, Dai Miyauchi, Tomotaka Uekusa, Hitoshi Nishitani
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Publication number: 20190348980Abstract: A suppressing circuit is provided with a diode of which an anode is connected to a first neutral point between a drive circuit and a control electrode of a semiconductor switch; a capacitor disposed between a cathode of the diode and a reference potential; a constant voltage circuit connected to a second neutral point between the diode and the capacitor; an adjusting resistor disposed between the constant voltage circuit and the second neutral point; and a cutoff switch disposed between a constant voltage circuit side of the adjusting resistor and the reference potential.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshinori HAYASHI
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Patent number: 10461736Abstract: A semiconductor device turns on and off a power switching device having a gate terminal and output terminals between which an output current is produced by a gate voltage applied to the gate terminal. The semiconductor device includes: an output current detector detecting a current value correlated with the output current; a voltage detector detecting a voltage across the output terminals of the power switching device; a clamp circuit clamping the gate voltage at a predetermined value; and a controller controlling the clamp circuit to adjust the gate voltage based on the voltage detected by the voltage detector. The controller controls the clamp circuit to set the gate voltage to be at a minimum voltage according to the detected voltage to cause the output current to be larger than a threshold current required for detecting the short circuit in the power switching device.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Kato, Kenji Komiya, Yusuke Shindo, Yoshinori Hayashi, Kenichi Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20190288678Abstract: In a drive circuit, one of an upper-arm switch and a lower-arm switch being in an on state by a main driver is referred to as a target arm switch. The other of the upper-arm switch and the lower-arm switch being in an off state by the main driver is referred to as an opposite arm switch. An intrinsic diode connected in antiparallel to the opposite arm switch is referred to as an opposite arm diode. The drive circuit includes a protective driver configured to determine whether a failure has occurred in the target arm switch. The protective driver is configured to change the target arm switch from the on state to the off state, and the opposite arm switch from the off state to the on state upon determining that a failure has occurred in the target arm switch.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo MOCHIKI, Mitsunori KIMURA, Yoshinori HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20190193942Abstract: The linear conveyor device includes a position detecting device including a scale attached to a slider, and a sensor structural body including a sensor and a driver. The driver is provided with a first and a second signal processing units, and a signal comparison processing unit. The first signal processing unit performs predetermined first interpolation processing on an output signal from a first sensor, generates and outputs first positional data. The second signal processing unit performs predetermined second interpolation processing on an output signal from a second sensor, generates second positional data, and outputs the second positional data. The signal comparison processing unit recognizes the first positional data as positional information of the slider, generates identification information unique to the slider, and outputs the identification information, where the identification information corresponds to a difference between the first positional data and the second positional data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2016Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshinori HAYASHI, Satoshi URATA
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Publication number: 20190181856Abstract: A semiconductor device turns on and off a power switching device having a gate terminal and output terminals between which an output current is produced by a gate voltage applied to the gate terminal. The semiconductor device includes: an output current detector detecting a current value correlated with the output current; a voltage detector detecting a voltage across the output terminals of the power switching device; a clamp circuit clamping the gate voltage at a predetermined value; and a controller controlling the clamp circuit to adjust the gate voltage based on the voltage detected by the voltage detector. The controller controls the clamp circuit to set the gate voltage to be at a minimum voltage according to the detected voltage to cause the output current to be larger than a threshold current required for detecting the short circuit in the power switching device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Yoshitaka KATO, Kenji KOMIYA, Yusuke SHINDO, Yoshinori HAYASHI, Kenichi WAKABAYASHI
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Patent number: 10319602Abstract: A substrate treatment apparatus which can more efficiently regenerate phosphoric acid which is able to be returned to etching treatment along with such etching treatment as much as possible without using a large facility, that is, a substrate treatment apparatus which treats a silicon substrate W on which a nitride film is formed by a liquid etchant which contains phosphoric acid, which comprises an etching treatment unit (the spin treatment unit 30) which gives a suitable quantity of liquid etchant to each substrate which is fed one at a time so as to etch the substrate and remove the nitride film, a phosphoric acid regenerating unit (the spin treatment unit 30) which mixes liquid etchant used for treatment of one substrate and a suitable quantity of liquid hydrofluoric acid for the amount of the used liquid etchant under a predetermined temperature environment to regenerate the phosphoric acid, and a phosphoric acid recovery unit (the pump 38, phosphoric acid recovery tank 50, and pump 52) which returns theType: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuo Kobayashi, Koichi Hamada, Yoshiaki Kurokawa, Masaaki Furuya, Hideki Mori, Yasushi Watanabe, Yoshinori Hayashi