Patents by Inventor Akio Yamada

Akio 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).

  • Publication number: 20060015890
    Abstract: There are provided a video viewing system and method thereof which are capable of easily grasping the usage status of a plurality of video groups. An on-air broadcast video, edited video, and raw material video are stored in a video storage unit 106, and mutual correlations obtained from a series of correlations of these video groups are stored in a correlation information storage unit 108. When any one video of the on-air broadcast video, edited video, and raw material video is specified, a correlation information retrieval unit 107 retrieves the mutual correlation of the specified video, and a frequency-of-use calculation unit 109 generates the frequency-of-use of the specified video in other video groups based on the retrieved correlation. The generated frequency-of-use is graphed and displayed on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Inventors: Eiji Kasutani, Takami Sato, Akio Yamada, Ryoma Oami
  • Publication number: 20050226598
    Abstract: A video access system with which a utilization state of several types of video groups can be easily comprehended and a method thereof are provided. An on-air video, an edited video, and a material video are stored in a video storage part 106, and a mutual corresponding relation obtained from series of corresponding relations of these video groups is stored in a corresponding information storage part 108. When one of the on-air video, the edited video, and the material video is designated, a corresponding information search part 107 specifies other video corresponding to the designated video with reference to the mutual corresponding relation. The corresponding relation between the designated video and the specified video is visually displayed on a display part 102.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Kasutani, Takami Sato, Akio Yamada, Ryoma Oami
  • Publication number: 20050205247
    Abstract: An automotive air-conditioning system according to an aspect of the present invention includes a bypass passage through which cool air flows, bypassing a heating heat exchanger; a hot air passage through which hot air passing through the heating heat exchanger flows, the hot air passage has a downstream portion curved toward the bypass passage; an air mixing chamber located at a confluence of the bypass passage and the hot air passage, for mixing hot air and cool air; at least one front outlet passage diverging from the air mixing chamber toward the front side of a passenger compartment; at least one rear outlet passage diverging from the air mixing chamber toward the rear side of the passenger compartment, the at least one rear outlet passage has an upstream portion arranged along the hot air passage; a communication path configured to connect the hot air passage to a middle portion of the at least one rear outlet passage; and a door configured to open and close the communication path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2005
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ezaki, Akio Yamada, Masaki Ogawara
  • Publication number: 20050148504
    Abstract: This invention relates to a cysteine protease inhibitor comprising casein which is a protein derived from milk, a partial peptide of casein, and/or hydrolysate of casein as an active ingredient. The cysteine protease inhibitor of the present invention can be used as preventive or therapeutic drug for osteoporosis, malignant hypercalcemia, breast cancer, prostate cancer, periodontitis or bacterial and viral infectious diseases, and food, drink, feed and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Katunuma, Akio Yamada, Yasushi Kawaguchi, Natsuko Takakura
  • Patent number: 6911661
    Abstract: An electron beam exposure apparatus, which exposes patterns on a wafer by an electron beam, includes an electron beam producing unit which produces the electron beam and an electron beam shaping member having a plurality of openings which shape the electron beam. The 1st ratio, which is a ratio between opening width of the 1st opening among the plurality of the openings in the 1st direction, which is substantially perpendicular to irradiation direction of the electron beam, and pattern width of the pattern, which should be exposed on the wafer by the electron beam shaped by the 1st opening, in the direction corresponding to the 1st direction, and the 2nd ratio, which is a ratio between opening width of the 2nd opening among the plurality of the openings, in the 1st direction, and pattern width of the pattern, which should be exposed on the wafer by the electron beam shaped by the 2nd opening, in the direction corresponding to the 1st direction, are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Yabe, Akio Yamada
  • Patent number: 6903355
    Abstract: An electron beam exposure apparatus for exposing a pattern accurately even if the current of the electron beam is high. The electron beam exposure apparatus 100 includes a mask 30 with a first and second block patterns for shaping the electron beam. Magnification of the first block pattern to a first exposure pattern which is to be exposed by the electron beam having a first current shaped by the first block pattern is different with magnification of the second block pattern to a second exposure pattern which is to be exposed by the electron beam having a second current shaped by the second block pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yasuda, Akio Yamada, Takayuki Yabe
  • Patent number: 6881968
    Abstract: An electron beam exposure apparatus for exposing a wafer by an electron beam, including: an electron beam generation section for generating the electron beam; an electron beam shaping member with a plurality of openings for shaping the electron beam; a deflecting section for deflecting the electron beam which has passed through the electron beam shaping member; and a deflection correction control section for controlling the deflecting section based on a position of the opening of the electron beam shaping member through which the electron beam passes. The deflecting section deflects the electron beam and corrects distortion of an image of the electron beam on the wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventor: Akio Yamada
  • Patent number: 6869319
    Abstract: A misconnection-proof key comprises a substantially L-shaped block made of a hard metal including a short arm and a long arm intersecting with the short arm at right angles thereto. The long arm has at a substantially mid portion on its surface a removal preventing protrusion integrally formed therewith. A plurality of misconnection-proof keys thus constructed are used in a connector including an insulating block having a number of contacts, and a metal shell partly covering the insulating block on the side of contact portions of the contacts. The plurality of misconnection-proof keys are each inserted with the long arm into a slot formed at a predetermined position between the insulating block and the metal shell until the removal preventing protrusion is fitted in a removal preventing recess or aperture formed in the slot so that the short arm of the key extending outwardly of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: DDK Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Yamada, Kazuyuki Ozai, Shinya Ishizuka, Kazuhiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20050004041
    Abstract: A peptide Met-Lys-Pro, which is obtained by chemical synthesis ot hydrolysis of casein, is used as the active ingredient of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors or hypotensive drugs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Tamura, Hiroshi Miyakawa, Akio Yamada, Hitoshi Saito, Yasushi Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Ochi, Tomoko Ide, Eri Inoue
  • Publication number: 20040224566
    Abstract: A misconnection-proof key comprises a substantially L-shaped block made of a hard metal including a short arm and a long arm intersecting with the short arm at right angles thereto. The long arm has at a substantially mid portion on its surface a removal preventing protrusion integrally formed therewith. A plurality of misconnection-proof keys thus constructed are used in a connector including an insulating block having a number of contacts, and a metal shell partly covering the insulating block on the side of contact portions of the contacts. The plurality of misconnection-proof keys are each inserted with the long arm into a slot formed at a predetermined position between the insulating block and the metal shell until the removal preventing protrusion is fitted in a removal preventing recess or aperture formed in the slot so that the short arm of the key extending outwardly of the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Akio Yamada, Kazuyuki Ozai, Shinya Ishizuka, Kazuhiro Sato
  • Patent number: 6776637
    Abstract: An electrical connector adapted to be mounted onto a panel of an electronic appliance includes a housing and a predetermined number of contacts held and fixed in the housing. The housing includes one or more projections formed on each of an upper surface and a lower surface of the housing, and the projections are adapted to be positioned on a first side of the panel. The electrical connector also includes a block which engages the housing, and the block is adapted to be positioned on a second side of the panel which is opposite the first side of the panel. Moreover, the block includes a through-hole formed therethrough. The electrical connector also includes a fixing pin, and a portion of the fixing pin is positioned within the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: DDK Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Yamada, Kazuyuki Ozai, Hitoshi Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20040127092
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing and a required number of pusher members. The housing has a fitting aperture into which two or at least three flexible printed circuit boards are inserted and insertion openings for holding the required number of the pusher members. When the two or at least three flexible printed circuit boards are inserted into the fitting aperture of the housing, contact portions of the two or at least three flexible printed circuit boards are urged by the pusher members so as to be connected to each other to achieve electrical continuity of the connector. With this construction, the connector can be mounted on anywhere with the exception of a flexible printed circuit board as by adhesion or pushing down by a frame of the set without using soldering, thereby permitting low cost manufacture and wide freedom of selection of connector mechanisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Akio Yamada, Takuya Higeta
  • Publication number: 20040063633
    Abstract: Whey protein is hydrolyzed with hydrolase so that a rate of hydrolysis is preferably 20 to 30%. A fraction, which has molecular weights above 10,000 daltons, is removed from a resultant hydrolysate by means of an ultrafiltration method to obtain a whey protein hydrolysate which is used as an active ingredient of an interleukin-18 inducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Hayasawa, Yoshitaka Tamura, Hiroshi Miyakawa, Akio Yamada, Tetsuya Kuhara, Hiroshi Ochi
  • Publication number: 20040013401
    Abstract: A CM feature data extracting unit 22 extracts a feature data 24 of a section corresponding to a CM from broadcasting signals received by a receiving facility 21. A checking portion 23 checks the feature data 24 against a CM feature data registered with a DB 3. The checking portion 23 registers, with the DB 3, the CM feature data 24 determined not being included in the DB 3 as a new CM. The feature data calculating portion 42 extracts a feature data 44 from broadcast waves received by a receiving facility 41. A checking unit 43 checks the feature data 44 against a CM feature datatored with the DB 3. When they agree, a checking portion 4 sends out a checking result 45 to a recording portion 5. The recording portion 5 creates a report 51 from the checking result 45 and submits the report 51 to a client 1. A broadcast checker 6 receives a broadcast checking charge 11 in compensation for the report 51.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Eiji Kasutani, Akio Yamada, Masahiro Iwadare
  • Publication number: 20040000649
    Abstract: An electron beam exposure apparatus for exposing a pattern accurately even if the current of the electron beam is high. The electron beam exposure apparatus 100 includes a mask 30 with a first and second block patterns for shaping the electron beam. Magnification of the first block pattern to a first exposure pattern which is to be exposed by the electron beam having a first current shaped by the first block pattern is different with magnification of the second block pattern to a second exposure pattern which is to be exposed by the electron beam having a second current shaped by the second block pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yasuda, Akio Yamada, Takayuki Yabe
  • Publication number: 20030197135
    Abstract: An electron beam exposure apparatus for exposing a wafer by an electron beam, including: an electron beam generation section for generating the electron beam; an electron beam shaping member with a plurality of openings for shaping the electron beam; a deflecting section for deflecting the electron beam which has passed through the electron beam shaping member; and a deflection correction control section for controlling the deflecting section based on a position of the opening of the electron beam shaping member through which the electron beam passes. The deflecting section deflects the electron beam and corrects distortion of an image of the electron beam on the wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akio Yamada
  • Patent number: 6623441
    Abstract: An artificial kidney capable of cleaning blood, like a kidney of a healthy body, by any person even at home which is small in the size and simple in the structure and handling, without requiring any pharmaceutical solution. A metabolic end product separation chamber (9) is placed to the center of a cylindrical centrifugator (7) for circulating blood continuously and separating it into blood cell ingredients and plasma ingredients for conducting ultrafiltration of the separated plasmas and intaking water, serum electrolytes and unnecessary metabolic end products, in which a water re-absorbing module (11) capable of flowing the concentrated plasma ingredients and re-absorbing the water content and the serum electrolytes to obtain a cleaned plasma ingredient is placed, and the obtained cleaned blood ingredients are mixed with the blood cell ingredients separated by the centrifugator (7) to obtain cleaned blood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kihara, Akio Yamada
  • Publication number: 20030168616
    Abstract: An electron beam exposure apparatus, which exposes patterns on a wafer by an electron beam, includes an electron beam producing unit which produces the electron beam and an electron beam shaping member having a plurality of openings which shape the electron beam. The 1st ratio, which is a ratio between opening width of the 1st opening among the plurality of the openings in the 1st direction, which is substantially perpendicular to irradiation direction of the electron beam, and pattern width of the pattern, which should be exposed on the wafer by the electron beam shaped by the 1st opening, in the direction corresponding to the 1st direction, and the 2nd ratio, which is a ratio between opening width of the 2nd opening among the plurality of the openings, in the 1st direction, and pattern width of the pattern, which should be exposed on the wafer by the electron beam shaped by the 2nd opening, in the direction corresponding to the 1st direction, are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Yabe, Akio Yamada
  • Publication number: 20030171029
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a required number of contacts held and fixed in the housing. The housing is provided with at least one projection on each of surfaces defining its thickness and is provided with a block formed integrally with or separately from the housing. The block is formed with a through-hole in its one flange portion, into which a fixing pin can be inserted, whereby the electrical connector is mounted on a panel in a floating manner. With this arrangement, the electrical connector can be simply and easily mounted on the panel without increasing manufacturing cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Applicant: DDK, LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Yamada, Kazuyuki Ozai, Hitoshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 6579265
    Abstract: An insertion guide is used for inserting an arterial needle, which takes blood out from the body, and a venous needle, which returns purified blood into the body, into one or two fistulae formed in a vein running beneath the skin of the arm. The insertion guide may include a holder having an arterial guide hole, which guides the arterial needle downwards at an incline from the shoulder side to the wrist side relative to the fistula, and a venous guide hole, which guides the venous needle downwards at an incline from the wrist side to the shoulder side relative to the fistula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Hospal AG
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kihara, Akio Yamada