Patents by Inventor Akio Yamanaka
Akio Yamanaka 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: 12148331Abstract: A content generation method generates image content to be projected at a projection position in a real space by a projector. In a first acquisition process, space information regarding a virtual space corresponding to the real space is acquired. In a second acquisition process, display position information regarding a display position corresponding to the projection position in the virtual space is acquired. In a third acquisition process, reference position information regarding a reference position in the virtual space is acquired. In a generation process, an image including an object viewed from the reference position when the object is displayed at the display position in the virtual space is generated as the image content, based on the space information, the reference position information, and the display position information.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Mashitani, Junji Masumoto, Takaaki Abe, Akio Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20210366324Abstract: A content generation method generates image content to be projected at a projection position in a real space by a projector. In a first acquisition process, space information regarding a virtual space corresponding to the real space is acquired. In a second acquisition process, display position information regarding a display position corresponding to the projection position in the virtual space is acquired. In a third acquisition process, reference position information regarding a reference position in the virtual space is acquired. In a generation process, an image including an object viewed from the reference position when the object is displayed at the display position in the virtual space is generated as the image content, based on the space information, the reference position information, and the display position information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Ken Mashitani, Junji Masumoto, Takaaki Abe, Akio Yamanaka
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Patent number: 9482888Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a magneto-optical material containing as a main component an oxide that includes a terbium oxide and having a large Verdet constant at a wavelength in the 1.06 ?m region (0.9 to 1.1 ?m) and high transparency, and to provide a small-sized optical isolator suitably used in a fiber laser for a processing machine. The magneto-optical material of the present invention contains an oxide represented by Formula (I), TbxR1?x)2O3, where x satisfies 0.4?×?1.0 and R includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of scandium, yttrium, and lanthanoid elements other than terbium, at a content of at least 99 wt %.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2011Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Makikawa, Toshiaki Watanabe, Akio Yamanaka, Hirotaka Naruse
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Patent number: 9083013Abstract: In an electrochemical device having an element main body 1A enclosed in an exterior package 1B, a peripheral region of the exterior package 1B is provided with an elastic structure or a plurality of elastic structures R1, R2 having an elastic force in a thickness direction (Z-axis direction) of films. Each of the elastic structures R1, R2 has a first region of the exterior package 1B folded along a film outer edge, and a second region of the exterior package 1B opposed to the first region. Two ends R11, R13 (R21, R23) of the first region in a direction along the film outer edge are in contact with the second region, and between the two ends R11, R13 (R21, R23) there is a space (with a maximum height 2R) between the first region and the second region.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2011Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Hidetake Itoh, Kazuo Katai, Yoshihiko Ohashi, Yosuke Miyaki, Akio Yamanaka, Hiroaki Hasegawa
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Patent number: 8753538Abstract: An oxide is provided that contains the oxide represented by Formula (I) as the main component thereof, that has a Verdet constant at a wavelength of 1.06 ?m of at least 0.18 min/(Oe·cm), and that has a transmittance at a wavelength of 1.06 ?m and for an optical length of 3 mm of at least 70%, (TbxR1-x)2O3??(I) wherein x is 0.4?x?1.0; R includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, europium, gadolinium, ytterbium, holmium and lutetium.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Makikawa, Toshiaki Watanabe, Akio Yamanaka, Hirotaka Naruse
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Publication number: 20140116543Abstract: A fuel supply system includes a fuel tank, a filler pipe through which fuel is supplied to the fuel tank, and a storage tank in which a fuel additive that is to be supplied to the fuel tank is stored. An extended portion is formed at a portion adjacent to a communication port of the filler pipe and to which fuel directly flows when the fuel is supplied to the fuel tank. The fuel tank includes an injector that injects the fuel additive from the storage tank into the fuel tank. The fuel additive is injected into the extended portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: HIROYUKI KOJIMA, TAKUYA MITO, AKIO YAMANAKA, KEITA ISHIZAKI, AKIRA ISAYAMA
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Patent number: 8625197Abstract: An optical isolator including a Faraday rotator that has a high Faraday effect and a high transmission factor in a wavelength used is provided. An optical isolator comprises at least: a Faraday rotator; a polarizer arranged on a light incidence side of the Faraday rotator; and an analyzer arranged on a light exit side of the Faraday rotator, wherein the Faraday rotator consists of an oxide that contains an ytterbium oxide (Yb2O3) with a mass ratio of 30% or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Makikawa, Toshiaki Watanabe, Tomohiro Koyama, Hisaya Oda, Takuya Takahashi, Akio Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20130222909Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a magneto-optical material containing as a main component an oxide that includes a terbium oxide and having a large Verdet constant at a wavelength in the 1.06 ?m region (0.9 to 1.1 ?m) and high transparency, and to provide a small-sized optical isolator suitably used in a fiber laser for a processing machine. The magneto-optical material of the present invention contains an oxide represented by Formula (I) below at a content of at least 99 wt %. (TbxR1-x)2O3??(I) (In Formula (I), x satisfies 0.4?x?1.0 and R includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of scandium, yttrium, and lanthanoid elements other than terbium.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Makikawa, Toshiaki Watanabe, Akio Yamanaka, Hirotaka Naruse
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Publication number: 20120028109Abstract: In an electrochemical device having an element main body 1A enclosed in an exterior package 1B, a peripheral region of the exterior package 1B is provided with an elastic structure or a plurality of elastic structures R1, R2 having an elastic force in a thickness direction (Z-axis direction) of films. Each of the elastic structures R1, R2 has a first region of the exterior package 1B folded along a film outer edge, and a second region of the exterior package 1B opposed to the first region. Two ends R11, R13 (R21, R23) of the first region in a direction along the film outer edge are in contact with the second region, and between the two ends R11, R13 (R21, R23) there is a space (with a maximum height 2R) between the first region and the second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Hidetake ITOH, Kazuo KATAI, Yoshihiko OHASHI, Yosuke MIYAKI, Akio YAMANAKA, Hiroaki HASEGAWA
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Patent number: 8033102Abstract: An exhaust emission control device for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of terminating reduction control in proper timing when a NOx cleaning catalyst includes an auxiliary catalyst having an oxygen storage capacity, thereby making it possible to reduce exhaust emissions and improve fuel economy. The exhaust emission control device includes the NOx cleaning catalyst and an ECU. The NOx cleaning catalyst includes the auxiliary catalyst having an oxygen storage capacity. The ECU executes reduction control when predetermined conditions for executing the reduction control are satisfied. During execution of the reduction control, when exhaust gas temperature is higher than a predetermined value, if a second excess air ratio is lower than a predetermined value, the ECU determines that the reduction control should be terminated.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2008Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Odajima, Isao Kaneko, Akio Yamanaka, Toshiyuki Kabashima
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Patent number: 8028953Abstract: Providing an accelerating device capable of safely and efficiently accelerating an aircraft even if the aircraft is a high-speed and heavyweight one. The accelerating device has a support base for supporting an aircraft so that it does not go backward or levitate and does not pitch; a guide way placed along a predetermined route; guide means for guiding the support base along the guide way; and drive means for driving the support base along the guide way.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2006Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Central Japan Railway CompanyInventors: Shiro Hosaka, Masatada Yamamoto, Satoshi Matsuda, Akio Yamanaka, Toshihiko Takeo
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Publication number: 20110181950Abstract: An optical isolator including a Faraday rotator that has a high Faraday effect and a high transmission factor in a wavelength used is provided. An optical isolator comprises at least: a Faraday rotator; a polarizer arranged on a light incidence side of the Faraday rotator; and an analyzer arranged on a light exit side of the Faraday rotator, wherein the Faraday rotator consists of an oxide that contains an ytterbium oxide (Yb2O3) with a mass ratio of 30% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2011Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji MAKIKAWA, Toshiaki WATANABE, Tomohiro KOYAMA, Hisaya ODA, Takuya TAKAHASHI, Akio YAMANAKA
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Publication number: 20110133111Abstract: An oxide is provided that contains the oxide represented by Formula (I) as the main component thereof, that has a Verdet constant at a wavelength of 1.06 ?m of at least 0.18 min/(Oe·cm), and that has a transmittance at a wavelength of 1.06 ?m and for an optical length of 3 mm of at least 70%, (TbxR1-x)2O3??(I) wherein x is 0.4?x?1.0; R includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, europium, gadolinium, ytterbium, holmium and lutetium.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Makikawa, Toshiaki Watanabe, Akio Yamanaka, Hirotaka Naruse
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Publication number: 20110129710Abstract: A resin layer RN is bonded to a corner of the other end of at least one of an anode electrode A and a cathode electrode K and an outer edge of a corner of the other end of the other of the anode electrode A and the cathode electrode K is not located on a straight line passing an outer edge of the corner of the other end of the at least one and being parallel to a thickness direction of the electrode. In another embodiment, an outer edge of a corner of the other end of at least one of the anode electrode A and the cathode electrode K consists of an arcuate curve when viewed from a direction parallel to the thickness direction thereof, and an outer edge of a corner of the other end of the other of the anode electrode A and the cathode electrode K is not located on a straight line passing the outer edge of the corner of the other end of the at least one and being parallel to the thickness direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2010Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiko OHASHI, Akio YAMANAKA, Yukio SHINOHARA, Yuriko AKIMOTO, Kazue HASEGAWA
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Patent number: 7674399Abstract: The present invention provides electroluminescent materials that emit very bright light with little energy consumption, little loss of energy converted into heat, etc., and suffers from little deterioration due to long-term use, in particular, inorganic electroluminescent materials that emit blue to green light having a wavelength shorter than yellow.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2004Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignees: Japan Science and Technology Agency, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Masanori Ando, Akio Yamanaka, Yutaka Kawabe, Eiichi Hanamura
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Publication number: 20090280413Abstract: There is obtained a carbon material for lithium-ion secondary battery negative electrode, a low-crystalline carbon impregnated carbon material for lithium-ion secondary battery negative electrode, a negative electrode plate, and a lithium-ion secondary battery, each of which realizes a first charge/discharge cycle with less gas generation and provides a rapid charge/discharge. The carbon material is obtained by: blending and kneading a carbonaceous aggregate with a binder to form a composition; press molding the composition into an article; carbonizing the press molded article; graphitizing the article to obtain an artificial graphite block; milling the block; and carrying out particle size control. The carbon material has characteristics of: (1) R-value=(I1360/I1580)?0.2, where R-value is defined by the ratio of D band to G band in Raman spectrum using Nd:YAG laser light of 532 nm wavelength; and (2) d(002)?0.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2007Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: TOYO TANSO CO., LTDInventors: Naoto Ohta, Kazuhito Hoshi, Shingo Bito, Akio Yamanaka, Tomoyuki Okuni
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Publication number: 20090134274Abstract: [PROBLEMS] Providing an accelerating device capable of safely and efficiently accelerating an aircraft even if the aircraft is a high-speed and heavyweight one. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] The accelerating device has a support base for supporting an aircraft so that it does not go backward or levitate and does not pitch; a guide way placed along a predetermined route; guide means for guiding the support base along the guide way; and drive means for driving the support base along the guide way.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2006Publication date: May 28, 2009Applicant: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANYInventors: Shiro Hosaka, Masatada Yamamoto, Satoshi Matsuda, Akio Yamanaka, Toshihiko Takeo
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Publication number: 20090084087Abstract: An exhaust emission control device for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of terminating reduction control in proper timing when a NOx cleaning catalyst includes an auxiliary catalyst having an oxygen storage capacity, thereby making it possible to reduce exhaust emissions and improve fuel economy. The exhaust emission control device includes the NOx cleaning catalyst and an ECU. The NOx cleaning catalyst includes the auxiliary catalyst having an oxygen storage capacity. The ECU executes reduction control when predetermined conditions for executing the reduction control are satisfied. During execution of the reduction control, when exhaust gas temperature is higher than a predetermined value, if a second excess air ratio is lower than a predetermined value, the ECU determines that the reduction control should be terminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Odajima, Isao Kaneko, Akio Yamanaka, Toshiyuki Kabashima
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Publication number: 20070085470Abstract: The present invention provides electroluminescent materials that emit very bright light with little energy consumption, little loss of energy converted into heat, etc., and suffers from little deterioration due to long-term use, in particular, inorganic electroluminescent materials that emit blue to green light having a wavelength shorter than yellow.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2004Publication date: April 19, 2007Applicants: Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi-shi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Masanori Ando, Akio Yamanaka, Yutaka Kawabe, Eiichi Hanamura