Patents by Inventor Akira Yamada
Akira Yamada 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: 10491759Abstract: The disclosure includes an edge extracting unit configured to, based on image data corresponding to a print image, extract edge pixels forming an outline of a partial image, a dot formation specification determining unit configured to, based on the image data, determine dot formation specifications, and a print data generator configured to, based on the dot formation specifications, generate print data for causing execution of printing by a printing apparatus for printing the print image by discharging first ink on a printing medium and second ink that promotes spreading of the first ink on the printing medium to form the plurality of dots.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi Tanase, Akira Yamada
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Publication number: 20190263139Abstract: A printing apparatus configured to print an image by discharging inks of different colors from a printing head onto a printing medium includes an edge extractor that extracts an edge pixel constituting a contour of the image from image data and a dot data generator that generates dot data indicating the recording state of dots corresponding to the image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Kazuyoshi TANASE, Akira YAMADA
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Publication number: 20190237457Abstract: A semiconductor device configures a protection element that protects a protection target element connected between a cathode electrode and an anode electrode when a parasitic transistor configured by a cathode region, a first conductivity type well layer, and a second conductivity type well is turned on and electrical continuity is established between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of body regions in one cell of the protection element, and the plurality of body regions is brought in contact with the cathode electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Akira YAMADA, Shinya SAKURAI, Takashi NAKANO, Yosuke KONDO, Mutsuya MOTOJIMA
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Patent number: 10286667Abstract: A recording device includes, when a transporting direction of a medium is set to a first axis and a direction intersecting with the transporting direction is set to a second axis, a head which includes a nozzle column along the first axis; a pair of heads in which the heads discharging droplets of the same color are paired; and a head unit which includes a plurality of pairs of heads along the second axis. The pair of heads include a predetermined overlapping portion in which the nozzle columns are overlapped with each other in a side view from the second axis, the overlapping portion includes a plurality of nozzle regions divided along the second axis, and a position of the nozzle region which is used in discharge of the droplets is different from a position of the nozzle region of another pair of heads.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuaki Sakurada, Toru Fujita, Takamitsu Kondo, Seigo Momose, Akira Yamada, Masahisa Otake
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Patent number: 10260704Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a light source mounted on a vehicle body and a light guide body for guiding light generated by the light source. On the light guide body, vertically to a light travelling direction, a plurality of notch-shaped portions are formed in line. The notch-shaped portions become narrow in pitch as the distance from the light source increases and are formed deeper as the distance from the light source increases. Preferably, the notch-shaped portions exhibit arc cross-sections having the same curvature radius, and the depths of the notch-shaped portions are specified by the central angles of the arc cross-sections.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Yamada, Shunsuke Iwao, Koji Ueda, Ryo Chijimatsu
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Publication number: 20190059107Abstract: Provided is a wireless environment evaluation method including a step 1 acquiring a transmission and reception history of wireless signals transmitted and received between the plurality of wireless stations and acquiring or estimating a number of wireless stations in transmission standby, based on the transmission and reception history; a step 2 calculating a normal reception rate S in a congesting situation in reception according to the number of wireless stations in transmission standby; a step 3 acquiring a normal reception rate S? of the wireless signals per a fixed channel use time from the transmission and reception history in the prescribed wireless station; and a step 4 determining a degree of the exposed situation in reception according to a ratio of the normal reception rate S? to the normal reception rate S.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2017Publication date: February 21, 2019Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Akiyoshi INOKI, Hirantha Sithira ABEYSEKERA, Munehiro MATSUI, Takeo ICHIKAWA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Akira KISHIDA, Daisuke KOIZUMI, Akira YAMADA, Yoshifumi MORIHIRO, Takahiro ASAI
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Publication number: 20190032621Abstract: A control apparatus controls the operation of a starter such that, after an idling stop is executed and before a request for starting an engine is subsequently issued, the control apparatus executes a preset which causes a pinion to engage a ring gear. A control apparatus controls the operation of a starter such that, after an idling stop is executed and before a request for starting an engine is subsequently issued, the control apparatus executes a preset which causes a pinion to engage a ring gear. It is determined that the preset condition has been cancelled, and the preset is again executed. In that case, the pinion is already engaged with the ring gear at the time point when a request for starting the engine is issued. In that way it is unnecessary for the control apparatus to push out the pinion after a start request is issued.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitomo TAKEUCHI, Atsuyuki HIRUMA, Akira YAMADA, Akihiro IMURA, Takuro NAKAOKA
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Publication number: 20190014227Abstract: The disclosure includes an edge extracting unit configured to, based on image data corresponding to a print image, extract edge pixels forming an outline of a partial image, a dot formation specification determining unit configured to, based on the image data, determine dot formation specifications, and a print data generator configured to, based on the dot formation specifications, generate print data for causing execution of printing by a printing apparatus for printing the print image by discharging first ink on a printing medium and second ink that promotes spreading of the first ink on the printing medium to form the plurality of dots.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Kazuyoshi TANASE, Akira YAMADA
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Patent number: 10173419Abstract: The printing apparatus is provided with a transport mechanism section that transports work, a printing mechanism section that has nozzles, which carry out printing by discharging an ink, as liquid droplets, onto the work transported by the transport mechanism section, and an adjustment section that adjusts a volume per single droplet of the ink discharged from the nozzles on the basis of a separation distance between the nozzles and the work, which is positioned directly below the nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuaki Sakurada, Takamitsu Kondo, Seigo Momose, Akira Yamada
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Publication number: 20180266682Abstract: A pseudo flame detecting portion detects a presence of a pseudo flame due to disturbance light when a sensor output of a flame sensor is equal to or greater than a pseudo flame threshold value and detects an absence of pseudo flame when the sensor output is equal to or less than another pseudo flame threshold value. The combustion controlling portion monitors the pseudo flame detection result from the pseudo flame detecting portion before an ignition attempt in the combustion equipment and, when the pseudo flame detection result continuously indicates presence of pseudo flame for a first monitoring time, cancels the ignition attempt in the combustion equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Azbil CorporationInventors: Takeshi NISHIYAMA, Yuichi KUMAZAWA, Shigeki ISHII, Akira YAMADA, Satoru YAMAGISHI, Tomoya NAKATA, Kayo SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20180266683Abstract: A flame detection adjusting portion adjusts a preset reference threshold value based on a sensor output indicating disturbance light obtained from a flame sensor before an ignition attempt in combustion equipment and outputs an obtained adjusted threshold value, and a combustion flame detecting portion detects a presence or an absence of a combustion flame in the combustion equipment based on the sensor output obtained from the flame sensor during combustion in the combustion equipment and an adjusted threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Azbil CorporationInventors: Takeshi NISHIYAMA, Yuichi KUMAZAWA, Shigeki ISHII, Akira YAMADA, Satoru YAMAGISHI, Tomoya NAKATA, Kayo SUZUKI
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Patent number: 10058019Abstract: A bonding apparatus includes: a backup unit including a light-transmissive transmission member having a support surface which supports at least a bonding region of a light-transmissive board from below; a pressure-bonding unit which presses an electronic component placed on the bonding region via a photo-curable adhesive agent; and a light irradiation unit which irradiates the supporting surface with light which promotes hardening of the adhesive agent. The electronic component is bonded to the board by pressing the electronic component mounted on a top surface of the adhesive agent in a state in which light from the light irradiation unit is incident upon the adhesive agent through the supporting surface. The bonding apparatus further includes a light distribution measuring unit which measures a distribution of light from the light irradiation portion in the supporting surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasutaka Tsuboi, Akira Yamada, Toshihiko Tsujikawa
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Patent number: 9962928Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport section, a printing section, and a control section. The printing section is configured to move in an intersecting direction intersecting a transport direction of a recording medium. The printing section includes a plurality of nozzles that are configured to perform printing by discharging an ink onto the recording medium. The control section is configured to control the transport section and the printing section. The printing section includes a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row, the first and second nozzle rows form an overlapping section in which the first and second nozzle rows overlap each other as viewed in the intersecting direction. The control section is configured to control a plurality of adjacent nozzles among the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row, which are in the vicinity of the overlapping section, not to discharge the ink.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuaki Sakurada, Takamitsu Kondo, Seigo Momose, Akira Yamada
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Publication number: 20180043685Abstract: The printing apparatus is provided with a transport mechanism section that transports work, a printing mechanism section that has nozzles, which carry out printing by discharging an ink, as liquid droplets, onto the work transported by the transport mechanism section, and an adjustment section that adjusts a volume per single droplet of the ink discharged from the nozzles on the basis of a separation distance between the nozzles and the work, which is positioned directly below the nozzles.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2016Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Kazuaki SAKURADA, Takamitsu KONDO, Seigo MOMOSE, Akira YAMADA
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Publication number: 20180035467Abstract: A wireless user equipment performing wireless communication in a primary and a secondary frequency bands, a first wireless access point AP performing the wireless communication in the primary frequency band, and a second wireless base transceiver station BTS performing the wireless communication in the secondary frequency band are included. The AP and the BTS are connected to each other through a network. A UD report transfer unit transfers a UD report including information relating to transmission-waiting user data destined for a receiving node. The receiving node includes a transmission opportunity control unit which sets a fixed transmission prohibition time in a channel in the primary frequency band for a wireless communication device in a vicinity, obtains a transmission opportunity, grants the transmission opportunity to the transmitting node, and causes the user data to be transmitted from the transmitting node according to the transferred UD report.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2016Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Riichi KUDO, Hirantha Sithira ABEYSEKERA, Yasushi TAKATORI, Takeo ICHIKAWA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Yasufumi MORIOKA, Hiroto YASUDA, Akira YAMADA, Yoshifumi MORIHIRO, Yukihiko OKUMURA
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Patent number: 9872395Abstract: A component crimping apparatus includes: a substrate holding part that holds a substrate of a transparent material, a component previously attached to each electrode of electrodes juxtaposed in an edge of the substrate through a photo-curable adhesive member; a supporting part that supports, by a transparent member, a region under the electrodes in the substrate; crimping tools that are juxtaposed over the transparent member and press the components to the substrate; and a light irradiating part that irradiates the adhesive member with light through the transparent member when the crimping tools press the components to the substrate. The crimping tools are configured movably in an arrangement direction of the crimping tools, the transparent member has a dimension capable of covering a whole region of a movable range of the crimping tools, and the light irradiating part irradiates a whole region of the transparent member with the light.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Yamada, Shinjiro Tsuji, Satoshi Adachi, Yasutaka Tsuboi, Toshihiko Tsujikawa
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Publication number: 20170354726Abstract: A composition for treating cancer, comprising 6 to 13 peptides derived from tumor antigens, wherein the composition is used in the manner that antibodies to the respective peptides in the peripheral blood of a patient are measured and peptides to which antibodies are positive are selected and administered to the patient, and a peptide selection method.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: Green Peptide Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyogo ITOH, Akira YAMADA
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Patent number: 9842824Abstract: A component mounting apparatus crimps a component to a transparent substrate. The component is mounted on the transparent substrate through a photo-modifiable resin portion. The component mounting apparatus includes a receiving portion that receives a surface of the substrate by an upper surface of a transparent member, a pressing portion that presses the component against the substrate, an emission portion that emits light to the photo-modifiable resin portion through the transparent member, and a control portion that controls a timing when the pressing portion starts pressing of the component and a timing when the emission portion starts emission of the light so that the emission of the light is started a predetermined differential time earlier or later than the start of the pressing of the component.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Yamada, Toshihiko Tsujikawa
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Publication number: 20170274650Abstract: A recording device includes, when a transporting direction of a medium is set to a first axis and a direction intersecting with the transporting direction is set to a second axis, a head which includes a nozzle column along the first axis; a pair of heads in which the heads discharging droplets of the same color are paired; and a head unit which includes a plurality of pairs of heads along the second axis. The pair of heads include a predetermined overlapping portion in which the nozzle columns are overlapped with each other in a side view from the second axis, the overlapping portion includes a plurality of nozzle regions divided along the second axis, and a position of the nozzle region which is used in discharge of the droplets is different from a position of the nozzle region of another pair of heads.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: Kazuaki SAKURADA, Toru FUJITA, Takamitsu KONDO, Seigo MOMOSE, Akira YAMADA, Masahisa OTAKE
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Patent number: 9739300Abstract: A component crimping apparatus includes: a substrate holding part that holds a substrate of a transparent material, a component previously attached to each electrode of electrodes juxtaposed in an edge of the substrate through a photo-curable adhesive member; a supporting part having a base part with an optical path and a transparent member on the base part and connected to the optical path, and supports, by the transparent member, a region under a targeted electrode in the substrate; a crimping tool arranged over the transparent member and presses the component to the substrate; a light irradiating part that irradiates the adhesive member attached to the targeted electrode with light through the optical path; and a light shielding member that covers a portion in which the transparent member is not installed in an opening part of the optical path in the base part.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Yamada, Shinjiro Tsuji, Satoshi Adachi, Yasutaka Tsuboi, Toshihiko Tsujikawa