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).

  • Publication number: 20250142724
    Abstract: A wiring board includes an insulation layer made of ceramic, and a via conductor extending through the insulation layer in a thickness direction. The via conductor includes a metal portion and a ceramic portion. The metal portion includes a continuous phase disposed along the thickness direction of the insulation layer in a vertical cross-sectional view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi HIGASHI, Hiroaki SANO, Akira IMOTO, Takafumi YAMAGUCHI, Sentarou YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250114812
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a plurality of first mist nozzles provided inside a chamber and arranged at a predetermined second interval along an arrangement of a plurality of substrates; and a plurality of second mist nozzles provided inside the chamber and arranged at the second interval along the arrangement of the plurality of substrates. The first mist nozzles are disposed on opposite sides of the second mist nozzles, with respect to the substrates in plan view. The first and second mist nozzles are disposed in a manner facing the substrates in plan view. The first mist nozzles are arranged in a manner offset from the respective second mist nozzles by a length corresponding to a half the second interval in the direction of the arrangement of the substrates W. Each of the first and second mist nozzles sprays the liquid as at least one of mist and droplets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Akira ITO, Yasuhiko NAGAI, Takashi AKIYAMA, Shigeru YAMAMOTO, Keiji IWATA, Kenji EDAMITSU
  • Publication number: 20250111572
    Abstract: A model data control method includes receiving first model data of a performer and second model data of an instrument, receiving calibration data related to a size of the performer or the instrument, receiving motion data of the performer, correcting the first model data or the second model data, using the calibration data, rendering the first model data and the second model data after the correcting, and controlling the first model data using the motion data
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Takuma TAKEMOTO, Takuya FUJISHIMA, Akira MAEZAWA, Norihiro UEMURA, Yoshinari NAKAMURA, Yuki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250100023
    Abstract: A solvent supply unit of a substrate processing device is disposed at a position higher than an opening of an upper surface of a processing tank, and supplies a mist-like solvent from an outside of the processing tank toward an inside of the processing tank in plan view. When a substrate is immersed in processing liquid, a control unit performs a solvent supply operation of decompressing an inside of the chamber and supplying the mist-like solvent from the solvent supply unit. In a solvent supply state in which the inside of the chamber is decompressed and the solvent is supplied, the control unit causes a lifter to take out the substrate from the processing liquid in the processing tank, and then opens a QDR valve to discharge the processing liquid from the processing tank. In the solvent supply state, the control unit causes the lifter to lower the substrate to a lower position in the processing tank in which the processing liquid is not stored, and then causes the lifter to raise the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Akira ITO, Yasuhiko NAGAI, Takashi AKIYAMA, Shigeru YAMAMOTO, Keiji IWATA
  • Publication number: 20250094392
    Abstract: To migrate a volume while maintaining a pair. A first node includes a primary volume. A second node includes a secondary volume configured to create a remote copy pair with the primary volume and sets the remote copy using identification information on the primary volume and identification information on the secondary volume. A third node includes a migration destination volume to be a migration destination of the secondary volume. The first node receives a new pair creating request in which the identification information on the volume, the primary identification information on the secondary volume, and information specifying the third node are designated, and creates a new pair between the primary volume and the migration destination volume. The second node deletes the pair of the secondary volume and the primary volume and replaces the identification information on the migration destination volume with the identification information on the secondary volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroki FUJII, Takahiro YAMAMOTO, Akira DEGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250078321
    Abstract: A degradation state determination method for determining a degradation state of a target object based on a color of an indicator attached to the target object includes generating a color change database including data indicating a relationship between a change in color of the indicator and an amount of a degradation factor that causes the target object to degrade, selecting a color to be used for the indicator so that the amount of the degradation factor can be identified, acquiring an image of the indicator attached to the target object and extracting a color component from the image (S27), and determining, based on the color change database and the extracted color component, the degradation state of the target object using a degradation determination model that takes the amount of the degradation factor as an input and outputs an index of the degradation state of the target object (S30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku YAMAMOTO, Akira MORIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250076155
    Abstract: A degradation state determination method is for a degradation state determination apparatus to determine a degradation state of a tire mounted on a vehicle based on a color of an indicator attached to the tire. The method includes determining the degradation state of the tire, using a degradation determination model that takes an amount of a degradation factor that causes the tire to degrade as input and outputs an index of the degradation state, based on a color change database, including data indicating a relationship between a change in color of the indicator and the amount of the degradation factor, and a color component extracted from an image of the indicator attached to the tire, and proposing, based on the determined degradation state of the tire, an option that is at least one of a method and a product that are selectable when retreading the tire (S44 to S48).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku YAMAMOTO, Akira MORIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250077360
    Abstract: When the latest data and a backup of the latest data are infected, the data is recovered from the backup older than the data. Therefore, it is necessary to eliminate a difference from the latest data, leading to loss of business opportunities. A data recovery system that recovers data stored in a storage system includes a storage device that holds original data, an analyzing server that holds a copy of the original data, and generates formatted data by formatting the copy data for analysis, a managing server that holds the copy data and data history management information storing a history of the formatted data, and a data recovery unit that refers to the data history management information, selects the copy data or the formatted data as recovery data, and recovers the data from the selected recovery data when a security threat is detected in the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo HAYASAKA, Yuto KAMO, Akira YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250076010
    Abstract: A gas generator includes: an ignition device including an igniter, an igniter holding portion having a tubular shape and being configured to hold the igniter and a fixing portion made of resin and being configured to fix the igniter to the igniter holding portion; and a case having a bottomed tubular shape and being configured to accommodate a gas generating agent which combusts by actuation of the ignition device, the case being made of resin and including a side wall portion with a base end side being connected to the fixing portion, and a closing end portion configured to close a tip end side. The case includes an inclined surface extending obliquely with respect to an axial direction of the case on the tip end side, and a fragile part formed at an edge portion excluding at least a base end portion of the inclined surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Daicel Corporation
    Inventors: Akira FUKUSHIMA, Shinya YAMAMOTO, Narumi MIZUTA
  • Publication number: 20250052689
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku YAMAMOTO, Akira MORIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 12225283
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Yamasaki, Shinichi Yamamoto, Kyosuke Osuka, Yuichi Suzuki, Akira Seto
  • Patent number: 12214582
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki Enomoto, Akira Yamamoto, Yusuke Namba, Keisuke Nogoshi
  • Patent number: 12208939
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: DAIWA CAN COMPANY
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ohkoshi, Hirokazu Konagaya, Tadayoshi Iwamaru, Akira Yamamoto, Katsumi Ohshima
  • Publication number: 20250028296
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Yuuta ONOZATO, Akira YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250018788
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichi YAMASAKI, Takeshi TORII, Chihiro ONISHI, Soichiro HATTORI, Takafumi KOMORI, Akira YAMAMOTO, Koki MUKAIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240418218
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichi YAMASAKI, Akira YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12158201
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Teijiro Yamanaka, Akira Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12157296
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Natsumi Yokokawa, Kazuaki Enomoto, Akinori Fujita, Yusuke Namba, Akira Sakaguchi, Akira Yamamoto, Ichiro Koyama
  • Patent number: 12157160
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: DAIWA CAN COMPANY
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ohkoshi, Hirokazu Konagaya, Tadayosi Iwamaru, Akira Yamamoto, Katsumi Ohshima, Junji Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20240361822
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Masanori TAKADA, Akira YAMAMOTO