Patents by Inventor Akinori Yamamoto
Akinori Yamamoto 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: 20130244114Abstract: According to the present invention, there are provided lithium titanate particles which exhibit an excellent initial discharge capacity and an enhanced high-efficiency discharge capacity retention rate as an active substance for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries and a process for producing the lithium titanate particles, and Mg-containing lithium titanate particles. The present invention relates to lithium titanate particles with a spinel structure comprising TiO2 in an amount of not more than 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2011Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: Toda Kogyo CorporationInventors: Akinori Yamamoto, Tomoko Okita, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Kohji Mori, Kazumichi Koga, Akihisa Kajiyama
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Patent number: 8394300Abstract: A manufacturing method of optical goods, including: injecting a material composition stored in a tank into a cavity provided inside a mold; and polymerizing and curing the injected material composition, in which a viscosity of the material composition stored in the tank is measured.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2008Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masaki Ihara, Toru Saito, Akinori Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8273444Abstract: A lamp design surface member is provided. The lamp design surface member includes a design surface having a decorative surface. Concave-convex portions and planar portions are formed together on the decorative surface. The concave-convex portions have a peak cross-sectional height Rt of 1 ?m or more and the planar portions have a peak cross-sectional height Rt smaller than 1 ?m. The planar portions are formed so that an area ratio of the planar portions to the decorative surface is in a range of 30% to 80%.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2010Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michihiko Suzuki, Akinori Yamamoto, Kenichi Matsunaga
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Patent number: 8075171Abstract: A lamp device is provided that is capable of performing a first actuation and a second actuation. At the first actuation, the lamp device pivots a lamp about a first axis relative to a support, and, at the second actuation, the lamp device pivots the lamp about a second axis, which is perpendicular to the first axis, relative to the support. The lamp includes a first supporting portion that is located on the first axis and at a side of the lamp and a second supporting portion that is located on the first axis and at the other side of the lamp. The first supporting portion is supported by the support to be pivotable about the intersection point of the first axis and the second axis. The second supporting portion is joined to a movable joint member. The movable joint member is supported by the support so as to be movable along a second actuation axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2010Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akinori Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8013084Abstract: A manufacturing method of an optical material, the method including: blending an inorganic compound (a) containing at least one of a sulfur atom and a selenium atom and a compound (b) represented by a following formula (1) in a tank, the compound (a) and the compound (b) being blended at a ratio of 1 mass % or more and 50 mass % or less of the compound (a) and 50 mass % or more and 99 mass % or less of the compound (b) relative to a total mass of a mixture of the compound (a) and the compound (b); mixing a compound (c) containing at least one thiol (SH) group; preliminarily polymerizing the compounds; cooling the compounds; and deaerating the compounds, in which a viscosity of the composition stored in the tank is controlled during at least one of the preliminarily polymerizing, the cooling and the deaerating (m represents an integer of 0 to 4, and n represents an integer of 0 to 2).Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2008Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masaki Ihara, Toru Saito, Akinori Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20110052876Abstract: A lamp design surface member is provided. The lamp design surface member includes a design surface having a decorative surface. Concave-convex portions and planar portions are formed together on the decorative surface. The concave-convex portions have a peak cross-sectional height Rt of 1 ?m or more and the planar portions have a peak cross-sectional height Rt smaller than 1 ?m. The planar portions are formed so that an area ratio of the planar portions to the decorative surface is in a range of 30% to 80%.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Michihiko SUZUKI, Akinori YAMAMOTO, Kenichi MATSUNAGA
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Publication number: 20110044063Abstract: A lamp device is provided that is capable of performing a first actuation and a second actuation. At the first actuation, the lamp device pivots a lamp about a first axis relative to a support, and, at the second actuation, the lamp device pivots the lamp about a second axis, which is perpendicular to the first axis, relative to the support. The lamp includes a first supporting portion that is located on the first axis and at a side of the lamp and a second supporting portion that is located on the first axis and at the other side of the lamp. The first supporting portion is supported by the support to be pivotable about the intersection point of the first axis and the second axis. The second supporting portion is joined to a movable joint member. The movable joint member is supported by the support so as to be movable along a second actuation axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: ASMO CO, Ltd.Inventor: Akinori Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7775767Abstract: A fan assembly includes a plurality of rotor vanes, a motor rotating the rotor vanes with a center axis J1 as center, a plurality of stator vanes arranged in a passage of air flow generated by rotation of the rotor vanes, and a base portion including a plate-like portion and side circumferential wall. A radially inner end of the stator vane is connected to the side circumferential wall of the base portion, and a side opening is arranged in the side circumferential wall. The air flow generated by rotation of the rotor is guided along the stator vane and taken into the motor to cool of the heat generating source arranged therein.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2007Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Nidec CorporationInventors: Shinji Takemoto, Katsuo Tazawa, Kazushi Ishikawa, Akinori Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20100120994Abstract: A resin composition is disclosed, which is obtained by polymerizing and curing a polymerizable composition at least containing: component A: a compound having in one molecule at lease one episulfide structure represented by the following formula (1): wherein X represents S or C, and R1 represents C1-10 hydrocarbon, component B: a compound having per molecule at least one SH group, and component C: an organosilicon compound represented by the following formula (2): R1mR2pSiX14?p?m??(2) wherein R1 is an organic group having a polymerizable reaction group, R2 is a C1-6 hydrocarbon group, X1 is a hydrolytic group, m is 0 or 1, and p is 0 or 1, the component C being present in a proportion of 6 parts by mass or more and 50 parts by mass or less per 100 parts by mass of the total of the component A and the component B.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2009Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toru SAITO, Masaki IHARA, Akinori YAMAMOTO, Daisuke OGAYA
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Patent number: 7649118Abstract: There are provided a novel norbornene derivative which is a material for a chemically amplifying type photoresist for F2 laser, possesses excellent transparency and improved dry etching resistivity and has a fluorine-containing ketone unit or fluorine-containing tertiary alcohol unit directly bonded to the norbornene backbone; a fluorine-containing polymer obtained by using the norbornene derivative as a copolymerizable monomer; and a chemically amplifying type photoresist composition comprising the fluorine-containing polymer, a photoacid generator and a solvent.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2007Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Araki, Takuji Ishikawa, Takuji Kume, Akinori Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7637644Abstract: A vehicle lamp has a housing and a transparent cover formed of a transparent resin having a flexural modulus of 2000 MPa or more, and joined to the housing by beam welding. The transparent cover has a first surface and a second surface. The second surface faces the housing, and a welding surface is formed along a circumference of the second surface. The welding surface is formed such that the welding surface has a three-dimensional curved surface in a closed-curve form, and such that each continuing surface of the welding surface is formed as a flat surface with respect to a direction of a normal line thereto or as a curved surface having a curvature radius of 30 mm or more with respect to a direction of a normal line thereto.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2006Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akinori Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7592484Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing carbonyl difluoride comprising a step of reacting trifluoromethane with oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas while heating.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2005Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Seiji Takubo, Takuji Kume, Akinori Yamamoto, Chie Sawauchi, Hisako Nakamura
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Publication number: 20090156781Abstract: A manufacturing method of an optical material, the method including: blending an inorganic compound (a) containing at least one of a sulfur atom and a selenium atom and a compound (b) represented by a following formula (1) in a tank, the compound (a) and the compound (b) being blended at a ratio of 1 mass % or more and 50 mass % or less of the compound (a) and 50 mass % or more and 99 mass % or less of the compound (b) relative to a total mass of a mixture of the compound (a) and the compound (b); mixing a compound (c) containing at least one thiol (SH) group; preliminarily polymerizing the compounds; cooling the compounds; and deaerating the compounds, in which a viscosity of the composition stored in the tank is controlled during at least one of the preliminarily polymerizing, the cooling and the deaerating.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2008Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masaki Ihara, Toru Saito, Akinori Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20090155453Abstract: A manufacturing method of optical goods, including: injecting a material composition stored in a tank into a cavity provided inside a mold; and polymerizing and curing the injected material composition, in which a viscosity of the material composition stored in the tank is measured.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2008Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Masaki Ihara, Toru Saito, Akinori Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7405359Abstract: A chlorine-containing resin composition for covering an electric wire of the present invention, has a heat stability of not less than 240 minutes and a volume resistivity of 5.0×1013 to 1.0×1016 ?·cm when measured according to JIS K6723, and comprises: 100 parts by weight of a chlorine-containing resin, and 1.5 to 10 parts by weight of Mg—Al-based hydrotalcite-type particles having a composition represented by the formula: [MgxCay].Alz.(OH)2.An?p.mH2O ?wherein 0.2?z/(x+z)?0.6; 0.01?y/(x+z)?0.20; x+y+z=1; p=(2(x+y?1)+3z)/n; A is a n-valent anion; and m is more than 0 and not more than 0.75, having a plate surface diameter of 0.1 to 1.0 ?m and a thickness of 0.02 to 0.08 ?m, and containing calcium at a molar ratio of Ca to a sum of Mg and Al of 0.01:1 to 0.20:1, and having a heat-resisting time of not less than 4 hours upon a chlorine-containing resin composition containing the Mg—Al-based hydrotalcite-type particles.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2005Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Toda Kogyo CorporationInventors: Naoya Kobayashi, Torayuki Honmyo, Tsutomu Katamoto, Akinori Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20080145296Abstract: A chlorine-containing resin composition for covering an electric wire of the present invention, has a heat stability of not less than 240 minutes and a volume resistivity of 5.0?1013 to 1.0×1016 ?·cm when measured according to JIS K6723, and comprises: 100 parts by weight of a chlorine-containing resin, and 1.5 to 10 parts by weight of Mg—Al-based hydrotalcite-type particles having a composition represented by the formula: [MgxCay]·Alz·(OH)2·An?p·mH2O wherein 0.2?z/(x+z)?0.6; 0.01?y/(x+z)?0.20; x+y+z=1; p=(2(x+y?1)+3z)/n; A is a n-valent anion; and m is more than 0 and not more than 0.75, having a plate surface diameter of 0.1 to 1.0 ?m and a thickness of 0.02 to 0.08 ?m, and containing calcium at a molar ratio of Ca to a sum of Mg and Al of 0.01:1 to 0.20:1, and having a heat-resisting time of not less than 4 hours upon a chlorine-containing resin composition containing the Mg—Al-based hydrotalcite-type particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2008Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: TODA KOGYO CORPORATIONInventors: Naoya Kobayashi, Torayuki Honmyo, Tsutomu Katamoto, Akinori Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20080021243Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing carbonyl difluoride comprising a step of reacting trifluoromethane with oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas while heating.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2005Publication date: January 24, 2008Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.,Inventors: Seiji Takubo, Takuji Kume, Akinori Yamamoto, Chie Sawauchi, Hisako Nakamura
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Publication number: 20070196208Abstract: A fan assembly includes a plurality of rotor vanes, a motor rotating the rotor vanes with a center axis J1 as center, a plurality of stator vanes arranged in a passage of air flow generated by rotation of the rotor vanes, and a base portion including a plate-like portion and side circumferential wall. A radially inner end of the stator vane is connected to the side circumferential wall of the base portion, and a side opening is arranged in the side circumferential wall. The air flow generated by rotation of the rotor is guided along the stator vane and taken into the motor to cool of the heat generating source arranged therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2007Publication date: August 23, 2007Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Takemoto, Katsuo Tazawa, Kazushi Ishikawa, Akinori Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20070129576Abstract: There are provided a novel norbornene derivative which is a material for a chemically amplifying type photoresist for F2 laser, possesses excellent transparency and improved dry etching resistivity and has a fluorine-containing ketone unit or fluorine-containing tertiary alcohol unit directly bonded to the norbornene backbone; a fluorine-containing polymer obtained by using the norbornene derivative as a copolymerizable monomer; and a chemically amplifying type photoresist composition comprising the fluorine-containing polymer, a photoacid generator and a solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2007Publication date: June 7, 2007Inventors: Takayuki Araki, Takuji Ishikawa, Takuji Kume, Akinori Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20070081352Abstract: A vehicle lamp has a housing and a transparent cover formed of a transparent resin having a flexural modulus of 2000 MPa or more, and joined to the housing by beam welding. The transparent cover has a first surface and a second surface. The second surface faces the housing, and a welding surface is formed along a circumference of the second surface. The welding surface is formed such that the welding surface has a three-dimensional curved surface in a closed-curve form, and such that each continuing surface of the welding surface is formed as a flat surface with respect to a direction of a normal line thereto or as a curved surface having a curvature radius of 30 mm or more with respect to a direction of a normal line thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2006Publication date: April 12, 2007Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Akinori Yamamoto