Patents by Inventor Akio Yamamoto
Akio 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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Patent number: 9558801Abstract: A data holding circuit includes: a latch circuit having a first terminal and a second terminal, a logical value held at the first terminal being changed according to a value to be held by the data holding circuit, and the second terminal holding an inverted logical value of the logical value held at the first terminal; and a storing circuit which stores the logical values held at the first terminal and the second terminal in response to a write signal, and sets the logical values held at the first terminal and the second terminal to the stored logical values in response to a read signal, wherein the storing circuit includes two Magnetic Tunnel Junction elements which are connected in series between the first terminal and the second terminal and in reverse directions to each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.Inventors: Hirotaka Takeno, Akio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20160375322Abstract: The present invention provides a golf club head that enables increasing the moment of inertia while also improving durability, and a manufacturing method for the same. The golf club head of the present invention includes a crown portion. The crown portion has a first region having a first thickness and multiple second regions having a second thickness that is smaller than the first thickness. The second regions are distributed in a radiating fashion so as to extend from an origin toward a peripheral portion of the crown portion excluding the face side, the origin being located within 15 mm of the center of gravity of the golf club head in the toe-heel direction and also being located in the vicinity of the face side in the face-back direction in a plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Applicant: DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD.Inventor: Akio YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 9528172Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet having improved HIC resistance and fracture resistance even when it is thick has a chemical composition comprising, in mass %, C: 0.02-0.07%, Si: 0.05-0.50%, Mn: 1.10-1.60%, P: at most 0.015%, S: at most 0.0030%, Nb: 0.005-0.030%, Ti: 0.005-0.020%, Al: 0.005-0.060%, Ca: 0.0005-0.0060%, N: 0.0015-0.0070%, at least one of Cu, Ni, Cr, and Mo in a total of greater than 0.1% to less than 1.5%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities and a steel structure composed of at least 10% by area of bainite and a remainder of ferrite and pearlite. The degree of segregation is less than 1.6 for Nb and less than 1.4 for Mn in the central portion of the thickness of the steel sheet.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2011Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Izuru Minato, Nobuaki Takahashi, Akio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9475813Abstract: To provide a novel tricyclic pyrrolopyridine compound having a JAK inhibitory activity and useful for prevention, treatment and/or improvement of particularly autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases and allergic diseases. A novel tricyclic pyrrolopyridine compound represented by the formula (I), a tautomer or pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound or a solvate thereof: wherein the respective substituents are defined in detail in the specification, and R1 is a C1-6 alkyl group or the like, R2 is a hydrogen atom or the like, R3 is a hydrogen atom or the like, the ring A is C3-11 cycloalkane or the like, L1 is a C1-6 alkylene group or the like, and R4 is NRaRb or the like.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Takahashi, Tsuneo Watanabe, Keishi Hayashi, Kazunori Kurihara, Takanori Nakamura, Akio Yamamoto, Takuya Nishimura, Toshihiko Kamiyama, Yuuki Hidaka
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Patent number: 9421430Abstract: The present invention provides a golf club head that enables increasing the moment of inertia while also improving durability, and a manufacturing method for the same. The golf club head of the present invention includes a crown portion. The crown portion has a first region having a first thickness and multiple second regions having a second thickness that is smaller than the first thickness. The second regions are distributed in a radiating fashion so as to extend from an origin toward a peripheral portion of the crown portion excluding the face side, the origin being located within 15 mm of the center of gravity of the golf club head in the toe-heel direction and also being located in the vicinity of the face side in the face-back direction in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD.Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9387369Abstract: A golf club includes a club head, and a shaft. The club head includes a hosel formed into a tubular body having a top end and a shaft insertion hole extending downwardly from the top end. The shaft includes a shaft main body and a reinforcing member. The shaft main body is formed into a tubular shape having a tip end, and an internal surface surrounding cavity therein. The reinforcing member has a specific gravity of not more than 2.0 and is fixed in the cavity of the shaft main body. The reinforcing member includes a first portion fitting the internal surface of the shaft main body. The first portion includes an uppermost edge positioned upwardly with respect to the top end of the hosel, and a lowermost edge positioned between the top end of the hosel and the tip end of the shaft main body.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2014Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD.Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20160160125Abstract: To enable a carbonized material production kiln to be maintained in a simple manner when an exposed surface on a side wall of the kiln is cracked, to prevent the kiln from easily cracking by heat to thereby prolong the life of the kiln itself, and to increase heat retention efficiency to thereby increase carbonization efficiency even during periods of cold temperatures such as the winter season. The carbonized material production kiln is formed by stacking cubic concrete blocks each having no reinforcing iron so that recombination of up to six faces of each cubic concrete block becomes possible, wherein a heat storage/retention member such as stones is filled in an exhaust space formed between a kiln floor iron plate and a kiln bottom so as to store heat, thereby preventing a decrease in carbonization efficiency even at cold temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2013Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: YAMAMOTO BIO-CHARCOAL MFG. CO., LTD.Inventor: Akio YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 9358431Abstract: A head body h1 includes a recess part 14 for a socket. A socket 10 is attached to the recess part 14 for a socket. A weight body 12 is detachably attached to the socket 10. The weight body 12 can be secured by relative rotation of an angle +?°. The weight body 12 can be detached by relative rotation of an angle??°. The weight body 12 includes an engaging part 32. The socket 10 includes a first hole part 18 and a second hole part 20. The engaging part 32 can take an engaging position EP and a non-engaging position NP at the second hole part 20 by the relative rotations. A sectional shape of the engaging part 32 has N-fold rotation symmetry. N is an integer of 1 or greater and 3 or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD.Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9345935Abstract: A golf club gc includes a head hd, a shaft sf, a sleeve sv, and a screw sc. The sleeve sv is secured to a tip part of the shaft sf. The sleeve sv includes a plurality of engaging projections sv6 and non-engaging surfaces sv7, each of the non-engaging surfaces sv7 positioned between the engaging projections sv6 adjacent to each other. A hosel 10 of the head hd includes an engaging recess 10a extending downward from a hosel end face 10b, and a hosel hole h1. Rotation of the sleeve sv to the head hd is regulated by engagement between the engaging projection sv6 and the engaging recess 10a. A space is formed between an inner surface of the hosel hole h1 and the non-engaging surface sv7 in the connected state.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD.Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20160141163Abstract: This mass spectrometric device is provided with a sample container (8) for placing a measurement sample (12) therein, a detector (9) analyzing the mass of a sample and detecting a drug, or the like, in the sample, a dielectric container (3) linked to the sample container for running a discharge current into air to provoke ionization, a valve (2) for sending air intermittently to the sample container, the dielectric container and the detector, a barrier discharge high-voltage power source (6) to be discharged by the dielectric container, a current detection unit (5) connected to the barrier discharge high-voltage power source for detecting a discharge current (28), a discharge-start timing detection unit (7) connected to the current detection unit for detecting the discharge-start timing based on the current detection result from the current detection unit to send a discharge-start timing signal (17), and a control unit (11) for controlling each constituent.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Akio YAMAMOTO, Toshimitsu WATANABE, Shigeo OOTSUKI, Kazuki KAJIMA, Toshiaki YANOKURA
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Patent number: 9320947Abstract: A golf club 2 includes a head 4, a shaft 6, a sleeve 8, and a screw 10. The sleeve 8 is fixed to a tip part of the shaft 6. The head 4 has a head body 18 and an engaging member 20. The engaging member 20 is fixed to the head body 18. Rotation of the sleeve 8 to the head 4 is regulated based on engagement between the sleeve 8 and the engaging member 20. Withdrawal of the sleeve 8 from the head 4 is regulated based on connection between the sleeve 8 and the screw 10. The head body 18 has a screw part. The engaging member 20 has a screw part. The screw part of the head body 18 is connected to the screw part of the engaging member 20.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2011Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD.Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20160111068Abstract: A method of fabricating a bow stick includes winding a prepreg, in which a fiber is impregnated with a resin, on a mandrel with a diameter gradually decreasing toward a distal end, setting a semi-fabricated product, in which the prepreg is wound on the mandrel, into a mold and molding the semi-fabricated product in a shape corresponding to a cavity formed between the mold and the mandrel by heating and pressurizing the semi-fabricated product in the mold, and taking out the mandrel from a molded product molded in the shape corresponding to the cavity to acquire a long and hollow stick body. When adjusting at least one of a weight distribution, a center of gravity, and a weight of the stick body, the volume of the cavity is changed using the mandrel of which the diameter or the diameter variation is gradually changed in an axis direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Akio Yamamoto, Kazushi Nakai, Tatsuya Hiraku, Toshiharu Fukushima
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Patent number: 9311902Abstract: A method of fabricating a bow stick includes winding a prepreg, in which a fiber is impregnated with a resin, on a mandrel with a diameter gradually decreasing toward a distal end, setting a semi-fabricated product, in which the prepreg is wound on the mandrel, into a mold and molding the semi-fabricated product in a shape corresponding to a cavity formed between the mold and the mandrel by heating and pressurizing the semi-fabricated product in the mold, and taking out the mandrel from a molded product molded in the shape corresponding to the cavity to acquire a long and hollow stick body. When adjusting at least one of a weight distribution, a center of gravity, and a weight of the stick body, the volume of the cavity is changed using the mandrel of which the diameter or the diameter variation is gradually changed in an axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2012Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Akio Yamamoto, Kazushi Nakai, Tatsuya Hiraku, Toshiharu Fukushima
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Patent number: 9287434Abstract: Methods for producing a semiconductor layer and for producing a photoelectric conversion device, semiconductor raw material are disclosed. An embodiment of the method for producing a semiconductor layer includes: forming a film containing a metal element and an oxygen element; generating oxygen gas by heating the film; and forming a semiconductor layer containing a metal chalcogenide from the film by allowing the metal element to react with a chalcogen element. Another embodiment of the method includes forming a lower film containing a metal element; forming an upper film, which contains the metal element and a substance that contains oxygen, on the lower film; generating oxygen gas by heating the substance; and forming a semiconductor layer containing a metal chalcogenide from the lower film and the upper film by allowing a chalcogen element to react with the metal element in the lower film and the upper film.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Akio Yamamoto, Seiji Oguri, Hiromitsu Ogawa, Aki Kitabayashi, Shinichi Abe, Kazumasa Umesato, Norihiko Matsushima, Keizo Takeda, Manabu Kyuzo, Ken Nishiura, Atsuo Hatate
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Publication number: 20160051865Abstract: There is provided a golf club including a head and a shaft detachably attached to the head, and having excellent reliability. This golf club includes a head, a shaft, a sleeve, and a screw. The sleeve is fixed to a tip part of the shaft. A head has a head body and an engaging member. The engaging member is fixed to the head body. Rotation of the sleeve to the head is regulated based on engagement between the sleeve and the engaging member. Withdrawal of the sleeve from the head is regulated based on connection between the sleeve and the screw. The screw is a multiple-thread screw.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD.Inventor: Akio YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20160005450Abstract: A data holding circuit includes: a latch circuit having a first terminal and a second terminal, a logical value held at the first terminal being changed according to a value to be held by the data holding circuit, and the second terminal holding an inverted logical value of the logical value held at the first terminal; and a storing circuit which stores the logical values held at the first terminal and the second terminal in response to a write signal, and sets the logical values held at the first terminal and the second terminal to the stored logical values in response to a read signal, wherein the storing circuit includes two Magnetic Tunnel Junction elements which are connected in series between the first terminal and the second terminal and in reverse directions to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Hirotaka TAKENO, Akio YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 9227275Abstract: A method for manufacturing a head 2 includes the steps of: (A) producing a plurality of head components Ph; (B) welding at least two of the head components Ph to each other while abutting the head components Ph on a guide core gc1; and (C) removing the guide core gc1. Preferably, the guide core gc1 is made of a water-soluble material. Preferably, at least one of the head components Ph is produced by a press process. Preferably, the guide core gc1 has a lack part Ms1. Preferably, existence of the lack part Ms1 avoids contact between a welding joint part wd1 and the guide core gc1 in the step B.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD.Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20150368245Abstract: To provide a novel tricyclic pyrrolopyridine compound having a JAK inhibitory activity and useful for prevention, treatment and/or improvement of particularly autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases and allergic diseases. A novel tricyclic pyrrolopyridine compound represented by the formula (I), a tautomer or pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound or a solvate thereof: wherein the respective substituents are defined in detail in the specification, and R1 is a C1-6 alkyl group or the like, R2 is a hydrogen atom or the like, R3 is a hydrogen atom or the like, the ring A is C3-11 cycloalkane or the like, L1 is a C1-6 alkylene group or the like, and R4 is NRaRb or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Keiji TAKAHASHI, Tsuneo WATANABE, Keishi HAYASHI, Kazunori KURIHARA, Takanori NAKAMURA, Akio YAMAMOTO, Takuya NISHIMURA, Toshihiko KAMIYAMA, Yuuki HIDAKA
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Publication number: 20150348658Abstract: A nozzle repair method and a nuclear reactor vessel include: removing a trepanning portion (208) as a connection portion with respect to an in-core instrumentation cylinder (204) in a groove-welding portion (206); removing the in-core instrumentation cylinder (204) from a lower end plate (66); forming a plug attachment opening (211) by removing the groove-welding portion (206); applying a pressing load to the lower end plate (66) by attaching a plug (212) to the plug attachment opening (211); and welding and fixing the plug (212) attached to the plug attachment opening (211). Accordingly, since a repair is easily performed, it is possible to improve the workability and to decrease a repair cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nishimura, Takeshi Yamamoto, Hideshi Sakashita, Tomonobu Sato, Akio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9184329Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device is disclosed. The photoelectric conversion device includes an electrode layer and a semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer is located on the electrode layer and contains a group I-III-VI compound. In the semiconductor layer, an atomic ratio of a group I-B element to a group III-B element decreases from one principal surface side of the semiconductor layer on the electrode layer side to a central portion in a thickness direction and increases from the central portion to another principal surface side on a side opposite to the electrode layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Shinichi Abe, Akio Yamamoto, Seiji Oguri, Kazumasa Umesato