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).
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Publication number: 20220397254Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2019Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Ritsuya OSHIMA, Masatoshi NISHIMURA, Akihiro YAMADA, Muneharu KUWATA
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Patent number: 11489001Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Taiichiro Watanabe, Akihiro Yamada, Hideo Kido, Hiromasa Saito, Keiji Mabuchi, Yuko Ohgishi
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Publication number: 20220303489Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Hideo Kido, Atsuhiko Yamamoto, Akihiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20220258697Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes a first group of nozzles for cleaning the sensor surfaces of a plurality of LiDARs for obtaining information of a surrounding region, a first pump for feeding a cleaning liquid to the first group of nozzles, a second group of nozzles for cleaning the sensor surfaces of a plurality of cameras for obtaining information of a region overlapping with the region whose information is obtained by the LiDARs, a second pump for feeding the cleaning liquid to the second group of nozzles, and a drive assist ECU which activates the first pump and the second pump. When the drive assist ECU determines that a cleaning execution condition is satisfied, the drive assist ECU selectively activates one of the first pump and the second pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Tomoaki Iida, Akihiro Yamada, Yudai Sadakuni
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Patent number: 11408318Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device is disclosed provided with a denitration catalyst for reducing and removing nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas using ammonia as a reducing agent in a gas flow passage through which the exhaust gas discharged from a boiler flows, and which injects ammonia into the exhaust gas flowing through the gas flow passage on an upstream side of the denitration catalyst, including multiple disturbing plate support members, and a disturbing plate. The multiple disturbing plate support members are fixedly provided on a downstream side of the denitration catalyst and arranged extending linearly in a flow path cross section to cross the gas flow passage. The disturbing plate includes an exhaust gas flow facing surface exposed on an upstream side and is fixed to the disturbing plate support members so that a position thereof in the flow path cross section can be changed.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoshimura, Katsumi Yano, Katsuhiro Yashiro, Akihiro Yamada, Satoru Shishido, Hironori Kishi
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Patent number: 11394914Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Hideo Kido, Atsuhiko Yamamoto, Akihiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20220213242Abstract: An object is to provide a wax dispersant capable of improving the resin composition in the fluidity in a molten state, the transparency and the storage stability, when adding the wax to a thermoplastic resin. The wax dispersant is a copolymer (A) which has a copolymerization composition comprising structural units respectively derived from: an aromatic monomer (A1) within 40 to 94% by mass; a (meth)acrylic acid long chain alkyl ester (A2) represented by the formula (1) (an alcohol residue R2 is C9 to C22 alkyl) within 5 to 40% by mass; and a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester (A3) represented by the formula (2) (an alcohol residue R4 is C1 to C8 alkyl) within 1 to 20% by mass, and also has a weight average molecular weight within 3,000 to 50,000.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: NOF CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Yamada, Takeshi Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Ogi, Tatsuya Aono
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Publication number: 20220108464Abstract: A three-dimensional measurement apparatus includes an attachment portion for attaching the three-dimensional measurement apparatus to a robot, a flange for attaching an end effector, a sensor configured to receive light from an object, and a calculation unit configured to determine three-dimensional information about the object by performing a calculation using data obtained by the sensor. A shortest distance among distances from a center of the flange to an outer peripheral edge of the calculation unit is less than or equal to a radius of the attachment portion or the flange, as viewed from the flange.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventor: Akihiro Yamada
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Patent number: 11192231Abstract: A power supply system includes a wearing part worn on a hand of a worker, a connecting member held by the wearing part, and a control circuit. The connecting member is disposed at a position where it is attached to a tool-side attachment part provided on a grip of a power tool when the worker grips the grip. The connecting member includes, in an exposed manner, a power source terminal that supplies electric power to the power tool and a signal terminal that receives a response signal from the power tool, which are electrically connected to the power tool in an attached state where the connecting member is attached to the tool-side attachment part. The control circuit makes the power source terminal and a power source unit electrically continuous when the signal terminal receives the response signal and makes them electrically discontinuous when the signal terminal receives no response signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Hayato Kano, Akihiro Yamada, Hiroki Kaneko
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Patent number: 11124135Abstract: A pair of floor-side extensions are provided in the vehicle width direction on the lower surface of at least one of a dash lower panel and a floor panel constituting the floor of a vehicle chamber so as to protrude downward in front of the battery unit front surface with a high voltage cable interposed between the pair of floor-side extension members. A pair of member-side extensions are provided so as to protrude upward at positions facing the pair of floor-side extensions in the vehicle front-and-rear direction on the rear end edge of a suspension member.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiro Yamada, Kenshi Tomiki, Yusuke Fujii, Satoshi Kasai
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Publication number: 20210254527Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device is disclosed provided with a denitration catalyst for reducing and removing nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas using ammonia as a reducing agent in a gas flow passage through which the exhaust gas discharged from a boiler flows, and which injects ammonia into the exhaust gas flowing through the gas flow passage on an upstream side of the denitration catalyst, including multiple disturbing plate support members, and a disturbing plate. The multiple disturbing plate support members are fixedly provided on a downstream side of the denitration catalyst and arranged extending linearly in a flow path cross section to cross the gas flow passage. The disturbing plate includes an exhaust gas flow facing surface exposed on an upstream side and is fixed to the disturbing plate support members so that a position thereof in the flow path cross section can be changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoshimura, Katsumi Yano, Katsuhiro Yashiro, Akihiro Yamada, Satoru Shishido, Hironori Kishi
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Patent number: 11019296Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Kido, Atsuhiko Yamamoto, Akihiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20200350358Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Taiichiro Watanabe, Akihiro Yamada, Hideo Kido, Hiromasa Saito, Keiji Mabuchi, Yuko Ohgishi
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Patent number: 10748958Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Taiichiro Watanabe, Akihiro Yamada, Hideo Kido, Hiromasa Saito, Keiji Mabuchi, Yuko Ohgishi
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Publication number: 20200177832Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Hideo Kido, Atsuhiko Yamamoto, Akihiro Yamada
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Patent number: 10639981Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes: a floor panel of a floor of a vehicle interior; a left floor member having a left inclined portion inclined toward the outer side of a vehicle from the front of the vehicle toward the rear of the vehicle when viewed from the top, and a right floor member having a right inclined portion inclined toward the outer side of the vehicle from the front of the vehicle toward the rear of the vehicle when viewed from the top; a battery support frame closer to the lower side of the vehicle than the left and right floor members; and a fastening unit for fixing the battery support frame to the floor panel through the left and right floor members. The battery support frame is fastened to the floor panel at the left inclined portion and the right inclined portion through the fastening unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Kasai, Akihiro Yamada, Kazuma Otoguro, Akira Nishino
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Publication number: 20200130163Abstract: A power supply system includes a wearing part worn on a hand of a worker, a connecting member held by the wearing part, and a control circuit. The connecting member is disposed at a position where it is attached to a tool-side attachment part provided on a grip of a power tool when the worker grips the grip. The connecting member includes, in an exposed manner, a power source terminal that supplies electric power to the power tool and a signal terminal that receives a response signal from the power tool, which are electrically connected to the power tool in an attached state where the connecting member is attached to the tool-side attachment part. The control circuit makes the power source terminal and a power source unit electrically continuous when the signal terminal receives the response signal and makes them electrically discontinuous when the signal terminal receives no response signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Hayato KANO, Akihiro YAMADA, Hiroki KANEKO
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Publication number: 20190386431Abstract: Provided is a connection structure and a device composite capable of suppressing terminal wrench while suppressing increase in size and assembly cost. The connector connection structure 1 includes an AT connector (first connector), and an ECU connector (second connector), the ECU side housing (second housing) is provided with a protrusion extending in a connector connection direction, that is, the direction of the terminal connection of a female type terminal (first terminal) and a male type terminal (second terminal), entering the AT side housing (first housing) prior to terminal connection, the AT side housing (first housing) is provided with a guide recess for guiding the terminal connection by entering of the protrusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Akira Sato, Akihiro Tsuruta, Akihiro Yamada, Riku Kambe
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Publication number: 20190342514Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Hideo Kido, Atsuhiko Yamamoto, Akihiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20190275873Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes: a floor panel of a floor of a vehicle interior; a left floor member having a left inclined portion inclined toward the outer side of a vehicle from the front of the vehicle toward the rear of the vehicle when viewed from the top, and a right floor member having a right inclined portion inclined toward the outer side of the vehicle from the front of the vehicle toward the rear of the vehicle when viewed from the top; a battery support frame closer to the lower side of the vehicle than the left and right floor members; and a fastening unit for fixing the battery support frame to the floor panel through the left and right floor members. The battery support frame is fastened to the floor panel at the left inclined portion and the right inclined portion through the fastening unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi KASAI, Akihiro YAMADA, Kazuma OTOGURO, Akira NISHINO