Patents by Inventor Akira Yamamoto
Akira 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: 20250052689Abstract: An indicator (31) is to be attached to a target object that is the target of determination of a degradation state, the indicator having color components to be extracted by a degradation state determination apparatus that includes a degradation state model and a color change database for determining the degradation state of the target object. The indicator includes a medium layer having printed thereon an identifier (32) and a color pattern (33) having a plurality of colors applied to different positions, the plurality of colors having different sensitivities to a degradation factor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Taku YAMAMOTO, Akira MORIGUCHI
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Patent number: 12225283Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data; an output interface that outputs information to a user; and a controller that controls the output interface, based on recording data and the image data generated by the image sensor, the recording data recording information on a first moving image, wherein the controller causes the output interface to output shooting assist information during shooting of a second moving image with the image sensor, the shooting assist information assisting the user to match the second moving image with the first moving image.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takaaki Yamasaki, Shinichi Yamamoto, Kyosuke Osuka, Yuichi Suzuki, Akira Seto
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Patent number: 12214582Abstract: An on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor has a support, an image-recording layer, and an outermost layer in this order. The image-recording layer contains an infrared absorber, an electron-accepting polymerization initiator, and a polymerizable compound. LUMO of the electron-accepting polymerization initiator-LUMO of the infrared absorber is 0.45 eV or more, and the outermost layer contains a discoloring compound. A method of preparing a lithographic printing plate and a lithographic printing method employ the on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuaki Enomoto, Akira Yamamoto, Yusuke Namba, Keisuke Nogoshi
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Patent number: 12208939Abstract: A can lid is provided to be made of a steel plate and easy to be opened. An opening piece is enclosed by a score line formed on a periphery of a panel portion. An installation portion of a tab is attached to the opening piece at a site close to a circumference of the opening piece. The tab includes a finger grip portion that is situated closer to a center of the opening piece than the installation portion, and a nose portion that is situated on an opposite side to the finger grip portion at a radially outer side of the score line. A portion of the panel portion underneath the nose portion serves as a support section that supports the nose portion from below. An outer circumferential bead is formed on a radially outer side of the score line to enhance a bending stiffness of the support section.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: DAIWA CAN COMPANYInventors: Toshiyuki Ohkoshi, Hirokazu Konagaya, Tadayoshi Iwamaru, Akira Yamamoto, Katsumi Ohshima
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Publication number: 20250028296Abstract: A computation device according to one embodiment includes a data acquisition unit that acquires shape data pertaining to shapes of a first circular processed groove processed by a rotating member when a tool is present at a first position in a machine coordinate system, and a second circular processed groove processed by the rotating member when the tool is present at a second position; a coordinate calculation unit that calculates, on the basis of the shape data, position coordinates corresponding to the first position based on a rotational center position of the rotating member; and a deviation amount calculation unit that calculates, as a deviation amount, the difference between the first position and the position coordinates.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventors: Yuuta ONOZATO, Akira YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20250018788Abstract: A sun gear is connected to and rotates integrally with a rotor, a carrier rotatably supports first and second pinion gears that rotate integrally with each other, one of the carrier and the ring gear is connected to the first gear to rotate integrally with the first gear, the other of the carrier and the ring gear is fixed to the case, the second gear meshes with the first gear and is connected to and rotates integrally with the output member, the first pinion gear meshes with the sun gear, the second pinion gear having a smaller diameter than the first meshes with the ring gear, a support bearing that supports the first gear is on an inner side in a radial direction of the first gear and at a position overlapping the first gear in radial direction view, and the first and second gears are each double helical.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2022Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Shoichi YAMASAKI, Takeshi TORII, Chihiro ONISHI, Soichiro HATTORI, Takafumi KOMORI, Akira YAMAMOTO, Koki MUKAIYAMA
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Publication number: 20240418218Abstract: A drive device including a stationary member, a bearing, and a rotary member drivingly connected to a driving source and supported by the stationary member via the bearing so as to be rotatable about an axis. The rotary member is press-fitted to the bearing and the bearing is fitted to the stationary member. One or more grooves through which oil passes are formed on a surface of the bearing that faces the stationary member in a radial direction or on a surface of the stationary member that faces the bearing in the radial direction. The groove extends in an axial direction and in a circumferential direction about the axis, and is open on at least one side out of both sides of the bearing in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2022Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Shoichi YAMASAKI, Akira YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 12158201Abstract: An internal meshing type gear device includes: an internal gear; and an external gear that meshes with the internal gear, in which, when a straight line passing through an external gear center and an internal gear center is defined as a gear center line, a pitch point between the external gear and the internal gear is positioned radially inside an external tooth tip circle and an internal tooth tip circle, an intersection point between a normal line to a contact point locus between the external gear and the internal gear and the gear center line is positioned between the pitch point and the external gear center, and the contact point locus is positioned in a meshing region between the external and internal tooth tip circles within an angle range in which an angle centered on the pitch point from the gear center line is 0 to ?/2 [rad].Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Teijiro Yamanaka, Akira Yamamoto
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Patent number: 12157296Abstract: An on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor having a support and an image-recording layer on the support, in which the image-recording layer contains an infrared absorber, a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound, and a color-developing substance precursor, and in a case where the image-recording layer is exposed to an infrared laser having a wavelength of 830 nm at an energy density of 110 mJ/cm2, a loss of ethylenically unsaturated bonds in an exposed area in the image-recording layer is 10% to 40% of ethylenically unsaturated bonds in a non-exposed area in the image-recording layer, and a method for preparing a lithographic printing plate or a lithographic printing method using the on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Natsumi Yokokawa, Kazuaki Enomoto, Akinori Fujita, Yusuke Namba, Akira Sakaguchi, Akira Yamamoto, Ichiro Koyama
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Patent number: 12157160Abstract: A can lid comprising: a main body comprising a laminate metal sheet, the laminate metal sheet comprising a metal sheet and a first resin film on a major surface of the metal sheet, the major surface having a score line delimiting an opening piece, the first resin film comprising a first resin layer comprising a dimer acid-copolymerized polyester resin and being amorphous; and a tab attached to the main body and adapted to cause a cleavage along the score line.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: DAIWA CAN COMPANYInventors: Toshiyuki Ohkoshi, Hirokazu Konagaya, Tadayosi Iwamaru, Akira Yamamoto, Katsumi Ohshima, Junji Matsumura
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Publication number: 20240361822Abstract: When receiving power requirement for power control and performing power control of a target device in accordance with the received power requirement, based on power consumption for a performance of each component of the target device and a device configuration of the target device, power saving level management information is created, which respectively defines the performance of each component at each power saving level associated with each of a plurality of divided power consumption ranges of the target device, and based on a power consumption upper limit value or the power saving level of the target device designated as the received power requirement, the power saving level management information is referred to and the performance of each component is set to a performance of the power saving level according to the power requirement, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: October 31, 2024Inventors: Masanori TAKADA, Akira YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240348683Abstract: An object is to effectively use resources of a plurality of storage nodes. A storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes. The storage system includes: a management unit configured to manage the plurality of storage nodes. Each of the plurality of storage nodes is configured to accumulate credits on a condition that a processing load is within a predetermined range and perform burst in which processing is performed with a load exceeding the predetermined range by consuming the credits. The management unit manages the credits of each storage node, determines a trigger of burst of predetermined storage processing based on an accumulation state of the credits in the plurality of storage nodes related to the storage processing, and executes, when the credits are accumulated in the plurality of storage nodes related to the predetermined storage processing, the predetermined storage processing by the burst by consuming the accumulated credits.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2023Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: Misato YOSHIDA, Takahiro YAMAMOTO, Katsuto SATO, Akira YAMAMOTO, Yoshinori OHIRA
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Publication number: 20240307833Abstract: Provided are an ultra fine bubble production apparatus and production method capable of collecting ultra fine bubbles efficiently. To this end, a cooler unit is controlled so that a temperature of a liquid in a collector unit can be lower than a temperature of a liquid containing ultra fine bubbles generated in an ultra fine bubble generation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: RUI SEKINE, AKIRA YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 12086470Abstract: The present invention realizes a storage device that has a high data reduction effect without decreasing I/O performances. The storage device includes a processor, an accelerator, a memory, and a storage medium, the processor specifies data to be compressed that is data stored in the storage medium from data stored in the memory and transmits a compression instruction including information relating to the data to be compressed to the accelerator, and the accelerator reads the plurality of continuous items of data from the memory and compresses the plurality of items of data to be compressed obtained by excluding data that is not to be compressed from the plurality of items of data, based on the information relating to the data to be compressed received from the processor, to generate compressed data stored in the storage device.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Nagao, Tomohiro Yoshihara, Akira Yamamoto, Yuusaku Kiyota
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Patent number: 12073089Abstract: A storage device manages data stored in a storage drive in a plurality of logical hierarchies. The plurality of logical hierarchies include a writing hierarchy above a hierarchy of a parity group including a plurality of storage drives. The storage device writes received host data in a free area in the writing hierarchy. In the data recovery process for replacing a failure storage drive with a new storage drive, the storage device executes the garbage collection process on a first logical area in the writing hierarchy associated with the first parity group including the failure storage drive. In the garbage collection process, valid data is selected from the first logical area and copied to a second logical area associated with a second parity group different from the first parity group.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Betsuno, Akira Yamamoto, Takashi Nagao, Kazuki Matsugami
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Publication number: 20240216877Abstract: An ultrafine bubble-containing liquid producing apparatus and method enables preventing ultrafine bubbles over a long period of operation by, based on a predetermined condition, switching between a first mode where a liquid between an ultrafine bubble generating unit and a storing chamber is circulated at a first flow velocity and a second mode where the liquid is circulated at a second flow velocity higher than the first flow velocity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: July 4, 2024Inventor: AKIRA YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240220378Abstract: Proposed are a highly available information processing system and information processing method capable of withstanding a failure in units of sites. A redundancy group including a plurality of the storage controllers installed in different sites is formed, and the redundancy group includes an active state storage controller which processes data, and a standby state storage controller which takes over processing of the data if a failure occurs in the active state storage controller, and the active state storage controller executes processing of storing the data from a host application installed in the same site in the storage device installed in that site, and storing redundant data for restoring data stored in a storage device of a same site in the storage device installed in another site where a standby state storage controller of a same redundancy group is installed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: July 4, 2024Inventors: Yoshinori OHIRA, Hideo SAITO, Takaki NAKAMURA, Akira YAMAMOTO, Takahiro YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240216876Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus for an ultra fine bubble containing liquid includes an ultra fine bubble generating unit to generate ultra fine bubbles in a liquid, a circulation path, a circulating unit, a blocking unit, and a control unit. The ultra fine bubble generating unit, the circulating unit, and the blocking unit are in the circulation path and the circulating unit circulates the liquid through the circulation path. The blocking unit switches between closing and opening of the circulation path. The control unit controls the ultra fine bubble generating unit, the circulating unit, and the blocking unit and alternately executes a first mode in which, with the blocking unit open, the ultra fine bubble generating unit is driven while the circulating unit is being driven, and a second mode in which, with the blocking unit closed and the ultra fine bubble generating unit stopped, the circulating unit is driven.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: July 4, 2024Inventor: AKIRA YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240157800Abstract: In a vehicle drive system, in at least either of a case where a first ECU receives a collision detection signal or a case where an interlock line is disconnected, the first ECU controls a relay such that electrical connection between a battery and a motor device is disconnected. The motor device includes an electric motor for traveling, a PCU, a second ECU, and a backup power supply. The PCU includes one or more capacitors. When the interlock line is disconnected, the second ECU is activated by electric power supplied from the backup power supply activated along with the disconnection. Under the condition that the second ECU does not receive, from the first ECU, a discharge command to discharge residual charge or that a determination that a collision occurs is made, the second ECU controls the PCU such that the PCU executes a discharge control.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akira Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11977299Abstract: A polarized light irradiation device of the present disclosure has: a light source unit which continuously emits polarized light; a light shaping unit which shapes the polarized light emitted from the light source unit into a preset shape to irradiate an irradiation target object with the shaped polarized light; a transport mechanism which transports the irradiation target object relative to the light source unit; and an interlocking mechanism which periodically and continuously changes a direction of linearly polarized light applied to the irradiation target object or an azimuthal angle of elliptically polarized light applied to the irradiation target object according to an amount of transport of the irradiation target object relative to the light source unit by the transport mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Yamamoto, Makoto Kamo