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: 7780800
    Abstract: A bent pipe corresponding to at least API X100 grade and having a base metal with high strength and toughness and a weld metal with high toughness is provided. A steel plate prepared by cooling after hot rolling at a cooling rate at the central portion in the plate thickness direction of at most 5° C. per second at 700-500° C. is formed into a bend mother pipe, which is then heated to 900-1100° C. and subjected to bending, then it is cooled to a temperature of at most 300° C. at a cooling rate in the central portion of the thickness direction of at least 5° C. per second at 700-500° C., after which it is tempered at 300-500° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Takahashi, Akio Yamamoto, Masahiko Hamada
  • Patent number: 7771854
    Abstract: When an ignition switch is turned off, a hydrogen supply valve is closed. Operation of a compressor continues, and an air supply valve and an air discharge valve are opened to supply the compressed air into a fuel cell through a hydrogen supply port. The scavenging process of removing the fuel gas and the water remaining in the fuel gas channel is performed through the air discharge valve, a drain valve, and a hydrogen purge valve. Then, all the valves connected to the fuel gas channel are closed. The pressure when the valves are closed, and the pressure when a short time has elapsed after closing the valves are detected by a pressure sensor. Based on the pressure difference, a failure due to the leakage in the fuel gas channel is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Kotani, Shinji Yoshikawa, Akio Yamamoto, Tomoki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7770428
    Abstract: A high-strength hot bend pipe which has a balance between an excellent strength of at least X70 grade and toughness and which has excellent tensile properties and a weld metal with excellent low temperature toughness is manufactured. A UOE steel pipe having a base metal with a composition of C: 0.03-0.12%, Si: 0.05-0.50%, Mn: 1.4-2.2%, S: at most 0.01%, Al: at most 0.06%, N: at most 0.008%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities, with the carbon equivalent (Ceq) being at most 0.36% and the weld cracking parameter (Pcm) being at most 0.22%, and having a weld metal with a weld cracking parameter (Pcm) of at most 0.28%, a B content of at most 5 ppm, and an O content of at most 280 ppm is heated to a temperature range of 900-1100° C. and subjected to bending, and then is immediately cooled to a temperature range of 300° C. or lower at a cooling rate of at least 3° C./sec, and then is tempered in a temperature range of 300-500° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Takahashi, Akio Yamamoto, Masahiko Hamada
  • Publication number: 20100120556
    Abstract: A head 2 is hollow. The head 2 has a face 4, a crown and a sole 8. A rib 20 is provided on the inner surface of the head. Preferably, the rib 20 has a toe side part 20t located on the inner surface of a side 10 of a toe side, a sole disposing part 20s located on the inner surface of the sole 8, and a heel side part 20h located on the side 10 of a heel side. Preferably, the toe side part 20t and the sole disposing part 20s are connected with each other. Preferably, the sole disposing part 20s and the heel side part 20h are connected with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Akio Yamamoto, Seiji Hayase
  • Patent number: 7713141
    Abstract: A golf club head having a good impact-absorbing property improved to provide a good hitting feel without deteriorating the repulsion property, which includes a metallic face member 8 including at least a part of face F, and a metallic head body 9 to be joined with face member 8, wherein the face member 8 has back surface 8b, and the head body 9 has receiving surface 12 contacting a periphery 8be of the back surface 8b, and fold-back portion 14 which extends backward of the head from the receiving surface 12 and is folded toward the head center without contacting the back surface 8b so that it has opposite surface 18 facing the back surface 8b and it forms space 13 between them, and wherein at least one impact-absorbing member 15 made of an elastic material is disposed in the space 18 such that a front portion 15a thereof is in contact with the back surface 8b, a rear portion 15b thereof is in contact with the opposite surface 18 and a middle portion thereof between them extends in the space 13 without contact
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20100113089
    Abstract: A multimode wireless communication apparatus including a radio frequency unit having controllable communication mode and a control unit for periodically making the radio frequency unit operate in a mobile telephone mode and, after predetermined time, switching the mode to a wireless LAN mode, wherein if occurrence of an incoming call event is detected when the radio frequency unit is in standby reception in the mobile telephone mode, the control unit suppresses the switching to the wireless LAN mode and determines whether the communication in the mobile telephone mode should be continued or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: May Suzuki, Taizo Yamawaki, Satoshi Tanaka, Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7705680
    Abstract: In a gain switching LNA including a first transistor, a first transistor group (for example, second to ninth transistors) and a second transistor group (for example, tenth to seventeenth transistors), a first resistor connected between an emitter of the tenth transistor and a collector of the first transistor and a second resistor connected to emitters of eleventh to seventeenth transistors and the collector of the first transistor and having a resistance one seventh as high as that of the first resistor are provided. In a high-gain mode, since isolation of the tenth to seventeenth transistors which are turned OFF and the first and second to ninth transistors is secured by the first resistor and the second resistor, there is no deterioration in the noise factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Yutaka Igarashi, Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7682263
    Abstract: A golf club head having a hollow structure including a club face having a toe-side extreme end and a heel-side extreme end between which a club face maximum width Wf is defined; and a rear part being rear of the club face and having a toe-side extreme end and a heel-side extreme end (excepting a hosel portion) between which a head maximum width Wh is defined, wherein a ratio (Wh/Wf) of the head maximum width Wh to the club face maximum width Wf is more than 1.0, but not more than 1.5 and the distance of the toe-side extreme end of the rear part and the distance of the heel-side extreme end of the rear part are not more than 0.2 times the distance of a front-side extreme end of the head, each distance measured in the back-and-forth direction of the head from a rear-side extreme end of the head, whereby the weight is distributed toward the toe, heel and rear of the head, and the depth of the center of gravity and the moment of inertia can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7678487
    Abstract: A discharged fuel diluter for a fuel cell includes: a dilution case which defines a dilution space; an offgas introduction pipe which penetrates the dilution case, supplying offgas discharged from the fuel cell in the case; a partitioning member having a rib provided in the dilution case; and a dilution gas pipe which penetrates the dilution case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Numata, Shujiro Nozaki, Makoto Anazawa, Masahiro Matsutani, Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7662248
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing a gas generating agent capable of constantly producing a gas generating agent with a high quality. The process for producing a gas generating agent comprises the first step of feeding nitroguanidine, a basic copper nitrate and guar gum and stirring and mixing them in the presence of moisture, the second step of extrusion-molding and cutting the mixture, and the third step of drying it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Yamamoto, Takeshi Takahori
  • Patent number: 7657282
    Abstract: A multimode wireless communication apparatus including a radio frequency unit having controllable communication mode and a control unit for periodically making the radio frequency unit operate in a mobile telephone mode and, after predetermined time, switching the mode to a wireless LAN mode, wherein if occurrence of an incoming call event is detected when the radio frequency unit is in standby reception in the mobile telephone mode, the control unit suppresses the switching to the wireless LAN mode and determines whether the communication in the mobile telephone mode should be continued or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: May Suzuki, Taizo Yamawaki, Satoshi Tanaka, Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7619913
    Abstract: In an apparatus for managing area data, the first data structure for area management includes: a first index data structure including a first root node corresponding to a first set of areas containing a first area, first non-leaf nodes, and first leaf nodes; and a first data storage corresponding to the first leaf nodes. The second storage for area data stores one or more second data structures for area management constructed on the basis of area data collected from data in the first storage for area data based on one or more area attributes designated by a user. The second data structure for area management includes: a second index data structure including a second root node corresponding to a second set of areas containing second areas collected based on the one or more area attributes designated, second non-leaf nodes, and second leaf nodes; and a second data storage corresponding to the second leaf nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20090275423
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventor: Akio YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 7604890
    Abstract: A fuel cell discharge-gas processing device includes: an anode off-gas introduction path which introduces an anode off-gas discharged from an anode of a fuel cell; a dilution container which is connected to the anode off-gas introduction path, and into which the anode off-gas is introduced; and a bypass path which branches off from a cathode gas supply path for supplying a cathode gas to a cathode of the fuel cell, and is connected to the dilution container so as to bypass the fuel cell. While the fuel cell is in operation, the cathode gas supplied from the bypass path into the dilution container is discharged to an exterior of the dilution container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Numata, Akio Yamamoto, Masahiro Matsutani, Shujiro Nozaki, Shinri Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20090244349
    Abstract: A solid state image pickup device includes a plurality of light receiving sections formed in a regular pattern, transfer channels, a plurality of first transfer electrodes and a plurality of second transfer electrodes formed on the transfer channels, a plurality of first wires each applying a potential to the corresponding first transfer electrodes and a plurality of second wires each applying a potential to the corresponding second transfer electrodes. The first and second wires extend in the directions intersecting each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Akio Yamamoto, Ichiroh Murakami, Masanori Murakami
  • Publication number: 20090199612
    Abstract: A high-strength hot bend pipe which has a balance between an excellent strength of at least X70 grade and toughness and which has excellent tensile properties and a weld metal with excellent low temperature toughness is manufactured. A UOE steel pipe having a base metal with a composition of C: 0.03-0.12%, Si: 0.05-0.50%, Mn: 1.4-2.2%, S: at most 0.01%, Al: at most 0.06%, N: at most 0.008%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities, with the carbon equivalent (Ceq) being at most 0.36% and the weld cracking parameter (Pcm) being at most 0.22%, and having a weld metal with a weld cracking parameter (Pcm) of at most 0.28%, a B content of at most 5 ppm, and an O content of at most 280 ppm is heated to a temperature range of 900-1100° C. and subjected to bending, and then is immediately cooled to a temperature range of 300° C. or lower at a cooling rate of at least 3° C./sec, and then is tempered in a temperature range of 300-500° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Nobuaki Takahashi, Akio Yamamoto, Masahiko Hamada
  • Patent number: 7572194
    Abstract: A golf club head includes a recessed part on the external surface of a head main body, and a weight member mounted in this recessed part and formed of a material having a specific gravity greater than that of the head main body. This golf club head has a first addition member mounted on and abutting the external side of the weight member. A base of this first addition member is a resin or a rubber. The head has a second addition member mounted on and abutting the external side of the first addition member. This second addition member is formed of a metal having a specific gravity greater than that of the first addition member and smaller than that of the weight member. Therefore, the joint strength between the head main body and the weight member can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7565120
    Abstract: In a signal receiving circuit of a direct conversion system applied with a semiconductor integrated circuit for radio communication having a PLL requiring a clock signal, an LNA requiring low-noise receiving characteristics, and others, a variable coupling line is provided between clock signal buffers and at an input stage of the PLL, so that coupling between the variable coupling line and an input terminal of the LNA and coupling between the variable coupling line and a GND terminal of the LNA are made equal to each other at frequencies of higher harmonic waves of a clock signal. When the input terminal and the GND terminal of the LNA are excited at the same phase, since no output occurs at an output terminal of the LNA, an output of the LNA does not contain any higher harmonic wave of a clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Yutaka Igarashi, Yusaku Katsube, Akio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7556110
    Abstract: At least two or more energy storage units are disposed on the right and left sides, in a traveling direction, of a vehicle, and a drive unit for controlling these energy storage units is located between the two or more energy storage units. The drive unit is lower in height than the two or more energy storage units, whereby air passage are formed above the drive unit and between the two or more energy storage units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Yamamoto, Minoru Matsunaga, Koichi Yamamoto, Masahiro Matsutani, Mitsunori Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20090156323
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventor: Akio Yamamoto