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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Publication number: 20120071261Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Inventor: Akio YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20120007667Abstract: The disclosed invention enables the cutoff frequency of a filter to be automatically adjusted to an arbitrary setting value within the adjustment range. An automatic cutoff frequency adjusting circuit includes a voltage/current converter circuit, a charge circuit, a discharge circuit, a digital capacitance having a plurality of electrostatic capacitances, a comparator for comparing a voltage inputted to the digital capacitance with a reference voltage, and a capacitance control circuit for controlling the digital capacitance. The time until the comparator detects that the voltage inputted to the digital capacitance is higher than the reference voltage after a reset signal has become a predetermined logic level is measured, and the digital capacitance is controlled by repeating, under a predetermined condition, processing for obtaining a next setting value of the digital capacitance, based on a measurement result, a target value of the digital capacitance, and the current value of the digital capacitance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Inventors: Yusaku KATSUBE, Yutaka IGARASHI, Akio YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20110269416Abstract: The present invention provides a transmitter which performs matching between parts, corresponding to switching between bands for transmission signals and performs more suitable matching in response to unintended changes in device characteristics inside the parts due to secular changes or the like, and etc. The transmitter includes matching circuits coupled to the input and output sides of each amplifier, and level detectors each of which inputs therein the amplified transmission signal via the matching circuit and detects the level of the transmission signal. When one is selected from a plurality of transmission bands to generate a transmission signal, the transmitter sets the value of impedance corresponding to the transmission band to the corresponding matching circuit and fine-adjusts the set value of impedance, based on the result of detection by the corresponding level detector after the setting of the value of the impedance thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2011Publication date: November 3, 2011Inventors: Ryo Kadoi, Akio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20110247475Abstract: A stick of a string instrument bow includes a base material having an arched-rod shaped carbon fiber resin layer made of carbon fiber resin and a glass fiber resin layer which covers the outer surface of the carbon fiber resin layer and is made of glass fiber resin, and the glass fiber resin layer has a non-adhesion portion formed of an air layer present within the glass fiber resin layer and an adhesion portion which does not include the air layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Akio Yamamoto, Hiroshi Nakaya, Tatsuya Hiraku, Toshiharu Fukushima
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Patent number: 8029383Abstract: A hosel portion (22) has a screw portion (32) formed on an internal surface or external surface thereof and a hosel hole (28). A screw member (10) has a through hole (30) for causing a shaft (6) and an inner member (8) to penetrate therethrough, a screw portion (32) and a downward surface (56). The screw portion (32) of the screw member (10) and a screw portion (26) of the hosel portion (22) are coupled to each other. The inner member (8) has a shaft inserting hole (40) opened on an upper end side thereof, a lower surface (42) which can be engaged with a receiving surface (60), and an upward surface (44). At least a part of the inner member (8) is inserted into the hosel hole (28). The shaft (6) and the shaft inserting hole (40) are fixed to each other through bonding and/or fitting. The shaft (6) and a head (4) are fixed to each other through an engagement of the downward surface (56) and the upward surface (44) and an engagement of the receiving surface (60) and the lower surface (42).Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2008Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: SRI Sports LimitedInventor: Akio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20110190071Abstract: A preferable golf club 2 is provided with a head 4, a shaft 6, a sleeve 8, and a screw 10. The head 4 is provided with a head body 14 and an engaging member 16. The head body 14 is formed by joining a plurality of members. The plurality of members includes a face member 112, a crown member 110, a sole member 114, and a hosel member 116. Preferably, the face member 112, the crown member 110, and the sole member 114 are produced by press processing a rolled material. Preferably, a through hole 130 into which a lower end part of the hosel member 116 can be fitted is formed in the sole member 114. In the golf club 2, the head body 14 and the shaft 6 are detachably mounted to each other without destruction of a bonding agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7963856Abstract: A hosel portion (22) has a screw portion (32) and a hosel hole (28). The screw portion (32) of a screw member (10) and a screw portion (26) of the hosel portion (22) are coupled to each other. An inner member (8) has a shaft inserting hole (40) and a lower surface (42). A shaft (6) and the shaft inserting hole (40) are fixed through bonding or the like. The lower surface (42) of the inner member (8) has a plurality of first surfaces and a plurality of second surfaces. The first surface is a parallel surface with a central axis or a tilted surface which is tilted to a circumferential direction. The first surface is extended in such a direction as to enable, together with a receiving surface, a generation of a force capable of inhibiting a relative rotation of a head and the shaft in hitting. The second surface is extended in a closer direction to the circumferential direction as compared with the first surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2009Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: SRI Sports LimitedInventor: Akio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20110134810Abstract: For providing a module for use of a mobile communication terminal, being small in sizes and high in reliability, and enabling with plural numbers of bands, and also a mobile communication terminal with using the same therein, canceling is conducted on transmission signal and/or noises of reception band on reception side with using a feed forward technology, for maintaining a degree of suppression of the transmission signal and/or the noises of reception band on the reception side. In this case, for achieving the cancellation of wide band signals from the transmission signal to the reception band, a delay adjusting function is used, in addition to gain and phase adjusting functions. Also, for conducting stable canceling of jamming signals, controls are conducted on the gain, the phase and the delay of a loop with using a reception SN and/or a CQI signal, etc. Further, for achieving low power consumption, a feed forward loop can be made ON/OFF depending on a level of the transmission signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Inventors: Akio Yamamoto, Hitoshi Akiyama, Takashi Shiba, Osamu Hikino
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Publication number: 20110098127Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Inventor: Akio YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 7922599Abstract: Golf club 2 has shaft 6, head 4, inner member 8 and screw member 10. The inner member 8 has shaft channel 46 provided so as to open on the top end side, and engaging hole 52 provided separately from this shaft channel 46. The head 4 has hosel member 22 having hosel hole 26, and head hole 70 that extends from the head external surface toward inside the head. At least a part of the inner member 8 is inserted into the hosel hole 26. The shaft 6 and the shaft channel 46 are stuck by adhesion and/or fitting. Continuous hole 76 is formed with the engaging hole 52 continuous with the head hole 70, and the screw member 10 is inserted into the engaging hole 52 and the head hole 70 through this continuous hole 70. The screw member 10 is thread connected with the engaging hole 52 and/or the head hole 70.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2008Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: SRI Sports LimitedInventor: Akio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20110070457Abstract: A high-strength UOE steel pipe which has excellent deformability and excellent low-temperature toughness in its heat affected zone and which is suitable for use in a pipeline installed on permafrost in extremely cold regions or in earthquake-prone regions, for example, is provided. The UOE steel pipe has a steel composition consisting essentially of C: 0.03-0.07%, Si: 0.05-0.50%, Mn: 1.6-2.2%, P: at most 0.020%, S: at most 0.003%, Cu: 0.20-0.60%, Cr: at most 0.10%, Ni: 0.20-0.80%, Nb: 0.005-0.030%, Ti: 0.005-0.030%, N: at most 0.0070%, Al: 0.005-0.060%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities, the hardenability index Pcm is at most 0.22%, Cu+Cr+Ni is 0.4-1.5%, Nb+Mo+V is at most 0.05%. The pipe has a yield strength in the longitudinal direction of at least 480 MPa with a yield-tensile ratio of at most 85% and a Charpy absorbed energy of the heat affected zone at ?40° C. of at least 40 J.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2010Publication date: March 24, 2011Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Nobuaki Takahashi, Akio Yamamoto, Masahiko Hamada
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Publication number: 20110064023Abstract: A wireless communication system comprises a host and a device. The host is provided with a communication unit capable of data communication using a first communication system and a second communication system which is higher in maximum transmission rate than the first communication system, and without regard to any communication system to be used by the device, the host uses the first communication system to start processing for establishment of a communication link with the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2010Publication date: March 17, 2011Inventors: Akio YAMAMOTO, Ryo KADOI, Masazumi TONE
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Patent number: 7898945Abstract: A multimedia transmission system with redundant multiple strain transmission lines for transmitting packeted multimedia data that includes sound and/or video comprises an apparatus having send and receive function capabilities. The apparatus includes a carrier detection device adapted to detect a carrier related to that packeted multimedia data. A switch device is adapted to change over to a selected sending and/or receiving capable transmission line from among the redundant multiple strain transmission lines based on the carrier detection by the carrier detection device.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2006Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Roland CorporationInventors: Masayuki Saito, Masahiko Tange, Akio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7861383Abstract: A clasp for connecting a pair of bands has a support member connected to one of the bands and a movable member connected to the other of the bands. A plurality of engaging parts that engage the movable member are disposed to the support member along the length of the band, and the movable member can be moved from one engaging part to another engaging part only when the movable member is inclined to the support member. The length can therefore be adjusted with a simple, easily understood operation using a simple and compact arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2007Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Akio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7856218Abstract: In a direct conversion receiver, to cancel a DC offset generated in the baseband processing block, negative feedback arrangements comprising a gain control amplifier and a low-pass filter are respectively attached to the I and Q signal branches of the baseband block following mixer outputs. The gain control amplifier in each negative feedback circuit is gain adjusted so that the product G·B of the gain G of a primary gain control amplifier and its own gain B will be constant and thereby the DC offset is cancelled. This DC offset cancellation can be applied in a continuous receiving system with no intermittent time during a receiving operation. Capacitance elements located off-chip can be reduced to those to be used only in the low-pass filters in the negative feedback circuits, whereas many off-chip capacitance elements have been required to be inserted between each stage of gain control amplifiers in conventional baseband chains.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2007Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Yukinori Akamine, Satoshi Tanaka, Akio Yamamoto, Kazuaki Hori
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Patent number: 7849566Abstract: A clasp has a first member and a second member that are disposed to two coupled members. The clasp is closed by the first member and the second member mutually engaging when the coupled members slide in relatively opposite directions. The first member has a first attachment member that has side walls, a spine that connects the side walls, and a button unit that has a push button which is urged to the outside from the inside of the coupled members in the direction intersecting the sliding direction of the coupled members. The second member has a second attachment member that has side walls attached at a prescribed position to the other coupled member on both sides. The first attachment member and the button unit are attached at a prescribed position to the one coupled member.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2008Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Akio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20100311381Abstract: A receiving circuit is provided for performing reception of a plurality of band signals and suppression of blockers that remain in the plurality of band signals being received and converted in frequency. The receiving circuit includes a first low-pass filter that has a first pole position to suppress blockers remaining in a received signal by the first pole position, and a second low-pass filter that has a second pole position to suppress blockers remaining in a signal that has passed through said first low-pass filter by the second pole position. A switch that switches on/off an input-output path including the filters so that the received signal passes through said first filter without passing through the second filter when receiving a first band signal, while the received signal passes through both filters when receiving a second band signal different from the first band signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2010Publication date: December 9, 2010Inventors: Yusaku KATSUBE, Akio YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 7824811Abstract: A fuel cell discharge-gas processing device that dilutes anode off-gas discharged from a fuel cell anode by mixing the anode off-gas with a diluent gas so as to produce a diluted gas and then discharges mixture of the anode off-gas and the diluent gas, includes: a dilution container; an anode off-gas introduction path; a diluent gas path through; a diluent gas emission hole; a mixed gas discharge hole; at least one partition panel; and a communication gas path, wherein the anode off-gas emission hole is provided so as to emit anode off-gas toward the partition panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2005Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideo Numata, Akio Yamamoto, Shujiro Nozaki, Masahiro Matsutani, Kazunori Fukuma
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Publication number: 20100273574Abstract: A head 2 is provided with a face 4, a crown 6, and a sole 8. The head 2 is hollow. At least a part of an inner surface of the head 2 is a metal inner surface Kn. At least one rib 20 made of a metal is provided on the metal inner surface Kn. The at least one rib 20 is a partial weld rib obtained by carrying out partial welding between the rib 20 and the metal inner surface Kn. A welded portion and an unwelded portion coexist in a longitudinal direction of the partial weld rib 20 between the metal inner surface Kn and the partial weld rib 20. Preferably, the partial welding is carried out between a side surface 24 of the partial weld rib 20 and the metal inner surface Kn. Preferably, a weld bead Bd is present on a place on which the partial welding is carried out.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7813710Abstract: The present invention is a receiving circuit used for a cellular phone that is reduced in size and can realize low power consumption. In a signal reception circuit that is used in a cellular phone that perform transmission and reception of a plurality of band wireless signals and includes a low-pass filter for removing blockers unnecessary for signal reception, the low-pass filter 104 is composed of a plurality of filters composed of a plurality of different circuit configurations and having a plurality of different pole positions, switching between a filter for blocker removal and a filter configuration with reduced sensitivity degradation is performed by combining a plurality of filters for each signal reception band, and by performing power-off of an unnecessary filter portion in the filter configuration, power consumption is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2005Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.Inventors: Yusaku Katsube, Akio Yamamoto