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).

  • Patent number: 9166542
    Abstract: When the frequency bandwidth of a high frequency signal to be amplified is changed, the linearity of a high frequency module deteriorates. A high frequency module has an amplifier circuit including an amplification transistor and a variable impedance circuit, and an output matching network. Based on an amplifying operation, the amplified high frequency signal will contain unwanted signals of secondary distortion components. In a frequency band that generates such unwanted signals of secondary distortion components, the output impedance of the amplifier circuit is changed so that the impedance will not match between the amplifier circuit and the output matching network. The output impedance of the amplifier circuit is changed by controlling the variable impedance circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norio Hayashi, Satoshi Shimizu, Ryo Kadoi, Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9070266
    Abstract: Provide an operation management support apparatus for power plant, supporting a maintenance work and preventing a user from violation of the operational safety programs, caused by a human error in case where a power plant temporarily deviates from LCO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Musashi Shigeyama, Kazunobu Kurahashi, Chihiro Ohba, Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8944934
    Abstract: A head 4 includes a head body h1, a socket 10, and a weight body 12. The weight body 12 has an engaging part 32. The socket 10 has 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 in the second hole part 20 by relative rotation of an angle ?. Hardness Hs of the second hole part 20 is D40 or greater and D58 or less. The second hole part 20 has a resistance surface 84 elastically deformed in the middle of the relative rotation. A longest sectional size of the engaging part 32 is defined as d1, and a distance between the resistance surfaces 84 opposed to each other is defined as F1, a ratio (F1/d1) is 0.935 or greater and 0.965 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Dunlop Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140357398
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Akio YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140354360
    Abstract: When the frequency bandwidth of a high frequency signal to be amplified is changed, the linearity of a high frequency module deteriorates. A high frequency module has an amplifier circuit including an amplification transistor and a variable impedance circuit, and an output matching network. Based on an amplifying operation, the amplified high frequency signal will contain unwanted signals of secondary distortion components. In a frequency band that generates such unwanted signals of secondary distortion components, the output impedance of the amplifier circuit is changed so that the impedance will not match between the amplifier circuit and the output matching network. The output impedance of the amplifier circuit is changed by controlling the variable impedance circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Norio Hayashi, Satoshi Shimizu, Ryo Kadoi, Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8870681
    Abstract: A golf club head with a hollow portion therein, includes a head main body provided with at least one opening which includes at least a part of a sole portion forming a bottom of the head, a resin member composed of a fiber reinforced resin which is attached to the head main body so as to close the opening, and a reinforcing member across the opening having a specific gravity greater than that of the resin member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8870680
    Abstract: A golf club head (1) has a hollow structure provided on a heel side thereof with a hosel portion (7) having a shaft inserting hole. The hollow structure comprises a main frame (1A) made of at least one kind of metal material and a rear casing (1C) made of a fiber reinforced resin and fixed to the main frame. The main frame comprises: the hosel portion; a front section (8) extending from the hosel portion toward a club face (2A) for hitting a ball and toward a toe side of the golf club head; and a rear section (9) extending from the hosel portion toward a back face of the golf club head and toward the toe side of the golf club head while keeping a distance (L3) in the front-back direction of the golf club head from the front section (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8827827
    Abstract: A golf club 2 is provided with a head 4, a shaft 6, a tip member 8, and a screw member 10. The shaft 6 is inserted into a shaft hole of the tip member 8, and a tip part of the shaft 6 is fixed to the shaft hole. An axis line s1 of the shaft 6 is inclined with respect to an axis line z1 of the tip member 8. The head 4 has a head hole into which the tip member is inserted, a head side engaging part capable of being engaged with the tip member 8 inserted into the head hole, and a through hole into which the screw member 10 can be inserted. The tip member 8 has a shaft side engaging part 38 capable of being engaged with the head side engaging part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Dunlop Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8810317
    Abstract: A high frequency circuit and a high frequency module are provided, in which the accuracy of compensation operation is improved in compensating by digital control. The amplification gain of an amplification element of an amplifier unit is controlled by a bias current of a bias control unit. A process monitoring circuit of a calibration circuit includes a first and a second element characteristic detector and a voltage comparator. The detectors convert the current of replica elements into a first and a second detection voltage. The voltage comparator compares a first and a second detection voltage and supplies a comparison output signal to a search control unit. Responding to the comparison output signal of the comparator and a clock signal of a clock generating unit, the controller generates a multi-bit digital compensation value according to a predetermined search algorithm, and the bias control unit of the second detector is feedback-controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Kadoi, Norio Hayashi, Satoshi Shimizu, Akio Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140213389
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: DUNLOP SPORTS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akio YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140213386
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Akio YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140187347
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Dunlop Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8758171
    Abstract: The fitting method includes a step of preparing a relationship C in which a face angle at or before impact and a hitting result are considered when a plurality of golf players swing using a plurality of golf clubs with different head physical property values; a step of obtaining measurement result of the face angle by a subject (golf player) hitting a ball with a test club; and a step of determining a head physical property fitted to the subject on the basis of the relationship C and the measurement result of the face angle. Preferably, the relationship C is a relational expression F1. The relational expression F1 may be a relational expression F11 of the face angle and the hitting results. The relational expression F1 may be a relational expression F12 of the face angle and the head physical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8740721
    Abstract: An iron-type golf club head comprises a head main portion having a face for hitting a golf ball, and weight members made of metallic material having heavier specific gravity than the head main portion. The head main portion has a tubular portion provided on a heel side of the face and having a shaft inserting hole. The tubular portion is provided continuously on the lower side of the shaft inserting hole with a bottomed hole part for arranging the weight members. The weight members include a heel-side weight member disposed in the bottomed hole part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140144551
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventors: Izuru Minato, Nobuaki Takahashi, Akio Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140127851
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Yamamoto, Seiji Oguri, Hiromitsu Ogawa, Aki Kitabayashi, Shinichi Abe, Kazumasa Umesato, Norihiko Matsushima, Keizo Takeda, Manabu Kyuzo, Ken Nishiura, Atsuo Hatate
  • Publication number: 20140069492
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Abe, Akio Yamamoto, Seiji Oguri, Kazumasa Umesato
  • Patent number: 8668597
    Abstract: A golf club 2 is provided with a head 4, a shaft 6, a tip member 8, and a screw member 10. The shaft 6 is inserted into a shaft hole of the tip member 8, and a tip part of the shaft 6 is fixed to the shaft hole. An axis line s1 of the shaft 6 is inclined with respect to an axis line z1 of the tip member 8. The head 4 has a head hole into which the tip member is inserted, a head side engaging part capable of being engaged with the tip member 8 inserted into the head hole, and a through hole into which the screw member 10 can be inserted. The tip member 8 has a shaft side engaging part 38 capable of being engaged with the head side engaging part. Circumferential relative positions A in which the head side engaging part and the shaft side engaging part can be engaged with each other are M kinds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8663860
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel cell system which includes a fuel cell having an anode and a cathode and for producing electricity through reaction between the fuel gas and the oxidant gas, a fuel gas supply path through which the fuel gas passes, an oxidant gas supply path through which the oxidant gas passes, a voltage sensing device for detecting voltage produced by the fuel cell during power generation, and a decision device for determining whether or not cross leakage occurs between the anode and the cathode of the fuel cell, based on voltage information sent from the voltage sensing device. Moreover, the decision device determines that the cross leakage occurs between the anode and the cathode, if the voltage produced by the fuel cell is less than a predetermined value during the power generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takatsugu Koyama, Mitsunori Matsumoto, Akio Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Seiji Tonegawa, Nobutaka Nakajima, Shinjiro Morita
  • Publication number: 20140057733
    Abstract: A golf club 2 is provided with a head 4, a shaft 6, a tip member 8, and a screw member 10. The shaft 6 is inserted into a shaft hole of the tip member 8, and a tip part of the shaft 6 is fixed to the shaft hole. An axis line s1 of the shaft 6 is inclined with respect to an axis line z1 of the tip member 8. The head 4 has a head hole into which the tip member is inserted, a head side engaging part capable of being engaged with the tip member 8 inserted into the head hole, and a through hole into which the screw member 10 can be inserted. The tip member 8 has a shaft side engaging part 38 capable of being engaged with the head side engaging part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Akio YAMAMOTO