Patents by Inventor Akihiro Yamada

Akihiro Yamada 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).

  • Patent number: 11960182
    Abstract: Provided is a light absorption anisotropic film capable of preparing an image display device having excellent display performance and excellent durability, and a laminate and an image display device formed of the light absorption anisotropic film. The light absorption anisotropic film is used for an image display device, which is formed of a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystal compound and a dichroic substance, in which in a signal derived from the dichroic substance detected by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, a relationship between a maximum intensity Imax of the light absorption anisotropic film in a thickness direction and an intensity Isur1 in a surface of the light absorption anisotropic film on a viewing side of the image display device satisfies Expression (I-1) 2.0?Imax/Isur1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yumi Kato, Naoki Koito, Hiroshi Matsuyama, Akihiro Sugita, Takehiro Kasahara, Naoyoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11957642
    Abstract: An internal substance supplier includes a conveying mechanism including a conveying member configured to capture and convey an internal substance, and a supply mechanism including a scraping member disposed to cross a conveyance route of the substance by the conveying member in the conveying mechanism and configured to collide with the substance conveyed by the conveying member, a gliding member including a recessed groove configured to guide the substance colliding with the scraping member and scraped from the conveying member, to be adjacent to a position vertically above a die bore in a table in a compression-molding machine, and a push transfer member including a projection configured to come into contact with the substance, push the substance to a start edge of the recessed groove in the gliding member, and move along the recessed groove to transfer the substance to an end edge of the recessed groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: KIKUSUI SEISAKUSHO LTD., OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Tsujiura, Tomohiro Kakitani, Shohei Yamada, Akihiro Sawada, Shinshu Unida
  • Publication number: 20240118653
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate, the electrophotographic photoreceptor having an outermost surface layer that contains a binder resin, a charge-transporting material, and a fluorine-containing resin particle, the fluorine-containing resin particle containing 0 or more and 30 or less carboxy groups per 106 carbon atoms, a charging device that charges the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electrostatic latent image forming device that forms an electrostatic latent image on the electrophotographic photoreceptor that is charged, a developing device that houses a developer containing a toner and that develops, with the developer, the electrostatic latent image formed on the electrophotographic photoreceptor into a toner image, a transfer device that transfers the toner image onto a transfer-receiving medium, and an optical discharging device that, after the toner image i
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kusano, Wataru Yamada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Akihiro Kawasaki, Yuki Oyamada
  • Publication number: 20240118636
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer disposed on the conductive substrate, having a volume resistivity of 5.0×107 [?m] or more and 5.0×109 [?m] or less, and having a thickness of 20 ?m or more and 40 ?m or less, a charge generation layer disposed on the undercoat layer, and a charge transport layer disposed on the charge generation layer, having a volume resistivity of 1.0×1013 [?m] or more and 5.0×1014 [?m] or less, and having a thickness of 15 ?m or more and 40 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuki OYAMADA, Wataru Yamada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Keisuke Kusano, Akihiro Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20240105565
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: an oscillator including external terminals disposed on a first face with a specific distance along a first direction; an integrated circuit including a first region formed with first electrode pads along one side, and a second region formed with second electrode pads on two opposing sides of the first region; a lead frame that includes terminals at a peripheral portion, and on which the oscillator and the integrated circuit are mounted such that the external terminals, the first and second electrode pads face in a substantially same direction and such that one side of the integrated circuit is substantially parallel to the first direction; a first bonding wire that connects one external terminal to one first electrode pad; a second bonding wire that connects one terminal of one lead frame to one second electrode pad; and a sealing member that seals all of the components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihisa SONE, Kazuya YAMADA, Akihiro TAKEI, Yuichi YOSHIDA, Kengo TAKEMASA
  • Publication number: 20240092337
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes front-wheel and rear-wheel driving systems, and a control system. The front-wheel driving system includes a first travel motor mechanically coupled to a front wheel of a vehicle and a first accumulator electrically coupled to the first travel motor. The rear-wheel driving system includes a second travel motor mechanically coupled to a rear wheel of the vehicle and a second accumulator electrically coupled to the second travel motor. The control system includes one or more processors and one or more memories communicably coupled to the one or more processors, and controls the first and second travel motors. When a difference between an SOC of the first accumulator and an SOC of the second accumulator is greater than a threshold value, the one or more processors change a torque distribution ratio between the first and second travel motors from a reference distribution ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi KUSANO, Yoshinobu YAMAZAKI, Masami OGURI, Akihiro NABESHIMA, Yoshiyuki JIN, Takeshi YONEDA, Fumiya SATO, Keigo YAMADA, Takumi ARAKI, Shuntaro MIURA
  • Publication number: 20240085380
    Abstract: An ultrasonic inspection device is used for inspecting a packaging container having a joined portion including overlapping and joined edges of the packaging container. The ultrasonic inspection device includes a transmitter configured to irradiate ultrasonic waves toward at least a base end portion of the joined portion in a state in which the joined portion protrudes from a surface of an object in a direction orthogonal to the surface, the base end portion being positioned on a side of the object. The ultrasonic inspection device further includes a plurality of receivers configured to receive the ultrasonic waves transmitted through the joined portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro NARA, Hideyuki YAMADA, Takao KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240074482
    Abstract: Provided is a tobacco sheet having high swelling property for a non-combustion heating type flavor inhaler. The tobacco sheet for a non-combustion heating type flavor inhaler includes tobacco powder having a cumulative 90% particle size (D90) of 200 ?m or more in a volume-based particle size distribution measured by a dry laser diffraction method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro KOIDE, Kimitaka UCHII, Takahiro MATSUDA, Ayaka HASHIMOTO, Manabu YAMADA, Hiroshi SHIBUICHI, Tetsuya MOTODAMARI, Toru SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20240074483
    Abstract: Provided is a tobacco sheet for non-combustion heating type flavor inhalers, which has high bulkiness. The tobacco sheet for non-combustion heating type flavor inhalers contains a tobacco raw material, in which the cross-sectional surface of the tobacco sheet when observed in the direction of thickness of the tobacco sheet has a corrugated shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro KOIDE, Kimitaka UCHII, Manabu YAMADA, Hiroshi SHIBUICHI, Tetsuya MOTODAMARI, Toru SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 11921453
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a latent image forming device and a visualizing device. The latent image forming device forms a latent image with an adhesive on a base material. The visualizing device causes particles to adhere to the latent image to visualize the latent image as an uneven image. The particles each contains an insoluble substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Yamada, Akihiro Kawasaki, Hiroaki Katoh
  • Publication number: 20240047504
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: plural photodiodes formed in different depths in a unit pixel area of a substrate; a plural vertical transistors formed in the depth direction from one face side of the substrate so that gate portions for reading signal charges obtained by photelectric conversion in the plural photodiodes are formed in depths corresponding to the respective photodiodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taiichiro WATANABE, Akihiro YAMADA, Hideo KIDO, Hiromasa SAITO, Keiji MABUCHI, Yuko OHGISHI
  • Patent number: 11835202
    Abstract: An illumination device includes a light source unit that emits light, a first optical unit that lets the light enter and changes a divergence angle of the entered light, a second optical unit including an image light formation unit that lets the light with the changed divergence angle enter and emits light including image light having image information, and a drive unit that moves the first optical unit and the second optical unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ritsuya Oshima, Masatoshi Nishimura, Akihiro Yamada, Muneharu Kuwata
  • Patent number: 11817473
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: plural photodiodes formed in different depths in a unit pixel area of a substrate; and plural vertical transistors formed in the depth direction from one face side of the substrate so that gate portions for reading signal charges obtained by photoelectric conversion in the plural photodiodes are formed in depths corresponding to the respective photodiodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taiichiro Watanabe, Akihiro Yamada, Hideo Kido, Hiromasa Saito, Keiji Mabuchi, Yuko Ohgishi
  • Publication number: 20230322987
    Abstract: A colored resin component includes a colorant having maximum absorbance in a wavelength band of 700 nm or higher and 1100 nm or lower, a copolymer including a first repeating unit derived from an acrylic monomer having an epoxy group, a second repeating unit derived from a monomer having a phenolic hydroxyl group, and a third repeating unit derived from an acrylic monomer having an aromatic ring, or a third repeating unit derived from an acrylic monomer having an alicyclic structure, and a solvent compatible with the colorant and the copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: TOPPAN Inc.
    Inventors: Reiko IWATA, Yuri NAGAI, Akihiro YAMADA, Shuto HARA
  • Publication number: 20230269500
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel region in which shared pixels which share pixel transistors in a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions are two-dimensionally arranged. The shared pixel transistors are divisionally arranged in a column direction of the shared pixels, the pixel transistors shared between neighboring shared pixels are arranged so as to be horizontally reversed or/and vertically crossed, and connection wirings connected to a floating diffusion portion, a source of a reset transistor and a gate of an amplification transistor in the shared pixels are arranged along the column direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Hideo Kido, Atsuhiko Yamamoto, Akihiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230076090
    Abstract: (Object) When a cyclocarbonate group-containing (meth)acrylate monomer is applied for a polymer used as a paint or the like, it is to provide the cyclocarbonate group-containing (meth)acrylate monomer in which the increase of the viscosity over time is suppressed so that it can used stably for a long time. (Solution) It is provided a cyclocarbonate group-containing (meth)acrylate monomer (A) represented by a formula (1) as follows, wherein a content of di(meth)acrylate monomer (B) represented by a formula (2) as follows is 3 weight % or lower. (R1 represents hydrogen atom or methyl group, R2 represents an alkyl group having a number of carbons of 2 to 10, and X is 0 or 1.) (R3 represents hydrogen atom or methyl group, R4 represents an alkyl group having a number of carbons of 2 to 10, and X is 0 or 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NOF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro TANAKA, Akihiro YAMADA, Tatsuya AONO, Kazuhiro ODA
  • Patent number: 11595610
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel region in which shared pixels which share pixel transistors in a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions are two-dimensionally arranged. The shared pixel transistors are divisionally arranged in a column direction of the shared pixels, the pixel transistors shared between neighboring shared pixels are arranged so as to be horizontally reversed or/and vertically crossed, and connection wirings connected to a floating diffusion portion, a source of a reset transistor and a gate of an amplification transistor in the shared pixels are arranged along the column direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Kido, Atsuhiko Yamamoto, Akihiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220415961
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: plural photodiodes formed in different depths in a unit pixel area of a substrate; and plural vertical transistors formed in the depth direction from one face side of the substrate so that gate portions for reading signal charges obtained by photoelectric conversion in the plural photodiodes are formed in depths corresponding to the respective photodiodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Taiichiro Watanabe, Akihiro Yamada, Hideo Kido, Hiromasa Saito, Keiji Mabuchi, Yuko Ohgishi
  • Publication number: 20220397254
    Abstract: An illumination device includes a light source unit that emits light, a first optical unit that lets the light enter and changes a divergence angle of the entered light, a second optical unit including an image light formation unit that lets the light with the changed divergence angle enter and emits light including image light having image information, and a drive unit that moves the first optical unit and the second optical unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ritsuya OSHIMA, Masatoshi NISHIMURA, Akihiro YAMADA, Muneharu KUWATA
  • Patent number: D1026243
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumio Yamada, Akihiro Mochizuki