Patents by Inventor Yuji Sakamoto

Yuji Sakamoto 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: 20240136257
    Abstract: A power semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes, in the following order, a conductor plate, an insulator, a lead frame, a first mold package including a plurality of semiconductor elements provided on the lead frame inside thereof, and resin-sealed such that a main surface of the conductor plate opposite to a side on which the insulator is provided is exposed, and a second mold package in which the first mold package is resin-sealed such that the main surface is exposed, in which the lead frame has a plurality of terminals protruding from one side surface of the first mold package, the plurality of terminals are projecting from a front surface of the second mold package opposite to the conductor plate, and the plurality of terminals are alternately arranged to form a staggered pattern closer to one side of the front surface in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya SAKAMOTO, Keitaro ICHIKAWA, Yuji SHIKASHO
  • Patent number: 11964621
    Abstract: A vehicle seatbelt device of an embodiment includes a recognizer that recognizes circumstances around a vehicle, a steering operator that is able to adjust steering of the vehicle, a vibrator that causes a portion of the steering operator to vibrate, a seatbelt that restrains a portion of the body of an occupant of the vehicle, a tension adjustment mechanism that is able to adjust the tension of the seatbelt, and a controller that controls the vibrator and the tension adjustment mechanism on the basis of the circumstances recognized by the recognizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Odai, Yuji Yasui, Kenji Komori, Yosuke Sakamoto, Yosuke Koike, Kenshi Torikai
  • Patent number: 11942623
    Abstract: Provided are a negative electrode that is for use in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, includes a porous metal body as a current collector, contains a skeleton-forming agent highly infiltrated in the current collector so that it is less likely to suffer from structural degradation and provides improved cycle durability; and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including such a negative electrode. The negative electrode for use in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a current collector including a porous metal body; a first negative electrode material disposed in pores of the porous metal body and including a conductive aid, a binder, and a negative electrode active material including a silicon-based material; and a second negative electrode material disposed in pores of the porous metal body and including a skeleton-forming agent including a silicate having a siloxane bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Tanaami, Toshimitsu Tanaka, Yuji Isogai, Makiko Takahashi, Shintaro Aoyagi, Takashi Mukai, Yuta Ikeuchi, Taichi Sakamoto, Naoto Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20240079222
    Abstract: A surface modifying apparatus is configured to modify a bonding surface of a substrate to be bonded to another substrate by plasma of a processing gas. The surface modifying apparatus includes a processing vessel; a measuring unit; and a controller. The processing vessel is configured to accommodate the substrate therein. The measuring unit is configured to measure a value indicating an amount of moisture in the processing vessel. The controller is configured to determine whether or not bonding strength between the substrate and the another substrate, when it is assumed that the substrate modified in the processing vessel is bonded to the another substrate, is good based on the value indicating the amount of moisture in the processing vessel measured by the measuring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi Terada, Yuji Mimura, Hiroshi Maeda, Takuro Masuzumi, Masaru Honda, Ryoichi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20240079214
    Abstract: A surface modifying method of modifying a bonding surface of a substrate to be bonded to another substrate by plasma of a processing gas includes an adjusting process and a modifying process. In the adjusting process, an amount of moisture in a processing vessel is adjusted by supplying a humidified gas into the processing vessel allowed to accommodate the substrate therein. In the modifying process, the bonding surface of the substrate is modified by forming the plasma of the processing gas in the processing vessel in a state that the amount of moisture in the processing vessel is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji Mimura, Hiroshi Maeda, Takuro Masuzumi, Takashi Terada, Masaru Honda, Ryoichi Sakamoto, Takashi Fuse, Yusuke Kubota
  • Publication number: 20240071861
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a wiring member, a sintered member between a first main electrode of the semiconductor element and the wiring member, and a sealing body. The wiring member includes a base material, a metal film on a face of the base material, and an uneven oxide film. The uneven oxide film includes a thick film portion and a thin film portion. An opposing face of the wiring member opposing the semiconductor element includes a mounting portion to which the first main electrode is bonded, an outer peripheral portion formed with the thick film portion and surrounding the semiconductor element, and an intermediate portion formed with the thin film portion between the mounting portion and the outer peripheral portion. The sintered member overlaps with the mounting portion and the intermediate portion in the plan view, and is in contact with the thin film portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Ryo KIMURA, Yuji KOJIMA, Takashi SATO, Yoshitsugu SAKAMOTO, Tomomi OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20230404784
    Abstract: A stent delivery system includes: a stent delivery device configured to carry a stent to a stenosis and indwell the stent, an observation device configured to observe the stenosis, and one or more processors comprising hardware, the one or more processors being configured to: acquire an observation image from the observation device, and determine at least one stent candidate to be placed in the stenosis based on the observation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji SAKAMOTO, Genri INAGAKI, Nao INOUE, Shohei HEMMI, Kenji MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20230404364
    Abstract: A stent delivery system includes: a stent delivery device configured to carry a stent to a stenosis and indwell the stent; an observation device configured to observe the stenosis; and one or more processors comprising hardware, the one or more processors being configured to: acquire an observation image from the observation device, and determine, based on the observation image, at least one insertion position, which is a position within the stenosis where the stent delivery device is recommended to be inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji SAKAMOTO, Shintaro INOUE, Anthony PIROZZI, Gloria YEE, Brandon RANALLI
  • Publication number: 20230363729
    Abstract: A stent delivery system includes: a stent delivery device configured to carry a stent to a stenosis and indwell the stent; an observation device configured to observe the stenosis; and one or more processors, each comprising hardware, the one or more processors being configured to: acquire an observation image from the observation device; and determine a target placement position for placing the stent in the stenosis based on the observation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji MURAKAMI, Kazuhiro GONO, Genri INAGAKI, Yuji SAKAMOTO, Nao INOUE, Shohei HEMMI, Hiroyuki MINO, Hirokazu HORIO, Atanaska GOSPODINOVA, Shintaro INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230363777
    Abstract: The medical system includes a basket treatment tool a processor. The processor determines, one or more of: a first determination, based on a transmissive image including the biliary duct, of whether a size of a gallstone allows the basket treatment tool to remove the gallstone from the papillary orifice, or a second determination, based on a resistance when the basket treatment tool is pulled, of whether the resistance allows the basket treatment tool to remove the gallstone from the papillary orifice; and controls the basket treatment tool to remove the gallstone from the papillary orifice when one or more of the first determination or the second determination determines that the gallstone is removable from the papillary orifice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Genri INAGAKI, Masayasu CHIDA, Yuji SAKAMOTO, Makoto ISHIKAKE, Seiichiro SAKAGUCHI, Shohei HEMMI
  • Patent number: 11232570
    Abstract: A diagnostic system, method, and a computer-readable storage medium for determining a severity of a gastric condition, such as gastritis, in a subject are disclosed. The diagnostic system includes a processor that obtains an image of a stomach of the subject collected by an endoscope. The processor can compare the subject image with reference normal and abnormal stomach images. If the subject image is abnormal, the processor can generate a subject abnormality image indicative of the differences between the subject image and the normal image. By comparing the generated subject abnormality image with reference abnormality images representative of different severity levels of gastritis, the processor can diagnose the subject as having a particular severity level of gastritis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu Nozaki, Wataru Hashimoto, Takashi Suzuki, Mitsunori Kubo, Yusuke Kuwa, Yuji Sakamoto, Mariko Otagiri, Naoki Yoshida, Yoji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210256701
    Abstract: A diagnostic system, method, and a computer-readable storage medium for determining a severity of a gastric condition, such as gastritis, in a subject are disclosed. The diagnostic system includes a processor that obtains an image of a stomach of the subject collected by an endoscope. The processor can compare the subject image with reference normal and abnormal stomach images. If the subject image is abnormal, the processor can generate a subject abnormality image indicative of the differences between the subject image and the normal image. By comparing the generated subject abnormality image with reference abnormality images representative of different severity levels of gastritis, the processor can diagnose the subject as having a particular severity level of gastritis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu NOZAKI, Wataru HASHIMOTO, Takashi SUZUKI, Mitsunori KUBO, Yusuke KUWA, Yuji SAKAMOTO, Mariko OTAGIRI, Naoki YOSHIDA, Yoji WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210200812
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to extract a phrase to be used for a search of information from a natural sentence input by a user, search for the information using the extracted phrase, dynamically select a search phrase from the phrase based on the number of appearances of the phrase in the information in a presented range of a result of the search in accordance with an operation related to browsing of the result of the search performed by the user, and execute a process of presenting the selected search phrase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11024031
    Abstract: A diagnostic system, method, and a computer-readable storage medium for determining a severity of a gastric condition, such as gastric cancer, in a subject are disclosed. The diagnostic system includes a processor that can obtain various images of a stomach of the subject including wavelength images and generate difference images from the wavelength images. The processor can compare the subject images with reference images representative of different severity levels of gastric cancer, or can input the subject images into a learned model trained using the reference images stored in the database to extract a feature pattern corresponding to a severity of gastric cancer to diagnose the subject as having a particular severity level of gastric cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu Nozaki, Wataru Hashimoto, Takashi Suzuki, Mitsunori Kubo, Yusuke Kuwa, Yuji Sakamoto, Mariko Otagiri, Naoki Yoshida, Yoji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210137449
    Abstract: A system that can include a processor that obtains voice data of a subject. The processor can compare the voice data of the subject with reference normal and abnormal voice data. If the voice data of the subject is abnormal, the processor can generate an abnormal subject voice data that is indicative of differences between the subject voice data and the normal voice data. By comparing the generated abnormal subject voice data with the reference normal and abnormal voice data, the processor can determine what condition the subject may be suffering from and the severity of that condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu NOZAKI, Wataru HASHIMOTO, Takashi SUZUKI, Mitsunori KUBO, Yusuke KUWA, Yuji SAKAMOTO, Mariko OTAGIRI, Naoki YOSHIDA, Yoji WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10052411
    Abstract: The present invention provides a graft more suitable for the transplantation of corneal endothelial cells and an application method thereof. Specifically, the present invention provides a corneal endothelial preparation capable of cell proliferation in vivo, which contains a substrate and a corneal endothelial cell layer cultured on the substrate, and a treatment method of a disease selected from the group consisting of bullous keratopathy, corneal edema, corneal leukoma and corneal endothelial inflammation, which includes a step of transplanting the preparation to patients. As the substrate, collagen is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SENJU PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriko Koizumi, Shigeru Kinoshita, Yuji Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 10045818
    Abstract: A treatment tool for an endoscope includes a sheath which is extended along a longitudinal axis; a pre-curved portion which is disposed at a distal portion of the sheath; a knife wire lumen which is formed along the longitudinal axis of the sheath; a first communication hole and a second communication hole which are open on an outer circumferential surface to communicate the outer circumferential surface positioned with the knife wire lumen; a wire-shaped cutting portion which is protruded from the first communication hole and the second communication hole, and is extended in a position spaced from the outer circumferential surface and the virtual plane; a fixing portion which is provided to fix an end portion of a wire connected to the cutting portion inside the knife wire lumen, and a bending portion which is provided to bend the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsukasa Kobayashi, Yuji Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Morishita, Isamu Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9610120
    Abstract: A high-frequency treatment tool for an endoscope includes: a sheath formed of a material having an insulation property; a shaft-shaped member formed of a material having conductivity and inserted to advance and retract in the sheath; and an electrode having a conduit line formed to jet forward a fluid supplied into the sheath, and connected to a distal end section of the shaft-shaped member. The electrode has an outer circumferential surface electrically connected to a contacted tissue to perform treatment, and an inner circumferential surface of the conduit line that faces the fluid when the fluid is supplied. An arithmetic average roughness of the outer circumferential surface is larger than an arithmetic average roughness of the inner circumferential surface, and the arithmetic average roughness of the inner circumferential surface is 0.1 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fuminori Wake, Yuji Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20160367231
    Abstract: A biopsy system includes an endoscope having an insertion portion provided with a channel and an active bending section disposed in part of the insertion portion, and a treatment tool. The treatment tool has a sheath capable of being inserted into the channel and a needle tube disposed inside the sheath. The sheath has a distal tube portion including a distal end of the sheath and a proximal tube portion fixed to a proximal end of the distal tube portion and less flexible than the distal tube portion. A connecting portion acting as a boundary portion between the distal tube portion and the proximal tube portion is placed in a proximal side relative to a proximal end of a bending section in a positional relationship in which the distal end of the sheath protrudes from a distal end of the channel and is optically observable by the endoscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuji UEMICHI, Yuji SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160338771
    Abstract: A treatment tool for an endoscope includes a sheath which is extended along a longitudinal axis; a pre-curved portion which is disposed at a distal portion of the sheath; a knife wire lumen which is formed along the longitudinal axis of the sheath; a first communication hole and a second communication hole which are open on an outer circumferential surface to communicate the outer circumferential surface positioned with the knife wire lumen; a wire-shaped cutting portion which is protruded from the first communication hole and the second communication hole, and is extended in a position spaced from the outer circumferential surface and the virtual plane; a fixing portion which is provided to fix an end portion of a wire connected to the cutting portion inside the knife wire lumen, and a bending portion which is provided to bend the wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsukasa KOBAYASHI, Yuji SAKAMOTO, Hiroyuki MORISHITA, Isamu NAKAJIMA