Patents by Inventor Atsushi Yamamoto

Atsushi 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: 20250030396
    Abstract: A vibrator device includes a vibrator element, a base to which the vibrator element is coupled, and a lid bonded to the base. The vibrator element is accommodated in an accommodation space between the lid and the base. At least one of the base or the lid includes a first semiconductor substrate connected to a ground potential and having a conductivity type that is p-type or n-type. The vibrator element includes a vibrator substrate, a first electrode disposed on a side of the vibrator substrate closer to the first semiconductor substrate, and a second electrode disposed on a side of the vibrator substrate farther from the first semiconductor substrate. L1?0.2×10?3 and d1??×S1×1012, wherein L1 [m] is the height of the accommodation space, d1 [m] is the distance between the first semiconductor substrate and the first electrode, S1 [m2] is the area of the first electrode, and ? [F/m] is the permittivity of the accommodation space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Takayoshi KOGA, Yusuke YAMAMOTO, Ryuta NISHIZAWA, Atsushi MATSUO, Junichi TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250028233
    Abstract: An optical element, which is arranged between a light source and a light deflector reflecting and two-dimensionally deflecting incident light, includes: a first region on which light from the light source is caused to be incident and which emits the light to the light deflector; and a second region which is different from the first region, on which light reflected and two-dimensionally deflected by the light deflector is incident, and which emits the light to an outside, and an optical surface having a different optical action is provided on at least one side of an incident side and an emission side of the first region and an incident side and an emission side of the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12203537
    Abstract: A damper device includes an input-side rotating member, an intermediate rotating member, an output-side rotating member, and an elastic body. The elastic body is located in a clearance in a circumferential direction between each of a plurality of corresponding portions in which a hook portion of the input-side rotating member and a hook portion of the output-side rotating member face each other and the intermediate rotating member. A part of the corresponding portions is a first corresponding portion configured in such a manner that the elastic body is separated from the output-side rotating member and in contact with the input-side rotating member. The remainder of the corresponding portions is a second corresponding portion configured in such a manner that the elastic body is separated from the input-side rotating member and is in contact with the output-side rotating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, VALEO KAPEC JAPAN K.K.
    Inventors: Isamu Hachisuwa, Atsushi Muto, Takashi Fujita, Kiyoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12206254
    Abstract: A power transmission device includes power transmission coils arranged in a line, a power transmission circuit connected to the power transmission coils, and control circuitry that switches an electrical connection between the power transmission circuit and each power transmission coil, detects a relative position between the power receiving coil and each power transmission coil, selects two or more power transmission coils adjacent to each other based on the detected relative position, and causes the power transmission circuit to supply the AC power to the selected two or more power transmission coils. In a direction perpendicular to an array direction of the power transmission coils, width Dlt of each power transmission coil is equal to or longer than width Dlr of the power receiving coil. In the array direction, width Dwt of each power transmission coil is shorter than width Dwr of the power receiving coil and satisfies 0.2?Dwt/Dwr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromu Matsumoto, Hiroshi Kanno, Atsushi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20250018692
    Abstract: A co-extruded sheet reduces swelling and/or cracking of the surface occurring during thermal shaping such as vacuum forming and provides improved mechanical strength. A co-extruded sheet contains a polycarbonate resin, and includes a core layer formed from a foam resin and skin layers formed from a non-foaming resin. The skin layer is laminated to one major surface of the core layer, while the skin layer is laminated to the other major surface of the core layer. The core layer has an expansion ratio of 1.6 to 3. The co-extruded sheet has a thickness of 1 to 5 mm and satisfies expression (1): 0.10? (t1+t2)/T?0.5. In expression (1), t1 indicates the thickness of the skin layer, t2 indicates the thickness of the second skin layer, and T indicates the thickness of the co-extruded sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoki TANIGUCHI, Atsushi YUSA, Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Toshiharu GOTO, Kei MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 12196433
    Abstract: A connection pipe of a heat exchange unit includes a second refrigerant pipe made of a second metal higher in potential than a first metal of a first refrigerant pipe. The second refrigerant pipe includes a first section that is bent to protrude upward. The first section includes a first curved section disposed on a first refrigerant pipe side relative to an apex of the first section and a second curved section disposed on a side opposite to the first refrigerant pipe side relative to the apex of the first section. A covering member or a coating film is provided in intimate contact with the second refrigerant pipe to cover a first refrigerant pipe side edge of the second refrigerant pipe and the first curved section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakano, Shota Ago, Atsushi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12189085
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging device capable of preventing occurrence of flare and ghosts. The imaging device includes a solid-state imaging element including a laminate substrate in which a first substrate and a second substrate are laminated, a glass substrate positioned above the first substrate, and a lens formed on the glass substrate, in which a cavity is provided between the lens and the solid-state imaging element. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamamoto, Kensaku Maeda
  • Publication number: 20250007380
    Abstract: Provided is a rotor in which the magnetic resistance between magnetic poles is low. The rotor includes magnet modules arranged in an annular shape with a rotary shaft as a center. Each magnet module includes a base formed of a magnetic material, and two rotor magnets having poles different from each other and provided with a gap therebetween in the rotation direction of the rotary shaft on an outer circumferential surface of the base. The abutting rotor magnets of two magnet modules adjacent in the rotation direction have the same pole and are in close contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke KAWASHIMA, Ryoji MIYATAKE, Atsushi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12173162
    Abstract: A modified pigment having excellent color tone selectivity is provided by laking dye by an environmentally friendly method without using metal. A modified pigment according to the present invention is obtained by laking a dye containing at least one of an acidic group and a basic group with at least one of an amino acid and protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: DIC CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Takahiko Ootsubo, Hitoshi Sekine, Kouji Nemoto, Atsushi Yamamoto, Ken-ichi Tominaga, Masumi Asakawa, Kazuhiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20240421643
    Abstract: A permanent magnet-type rotary electric machine comprises: a stator including: a stator core having a plurality of stator teeth formed circumferentially; stator coils arranged in the respective bottoms of a plurality of stator slots formed between the stator teeth and wound on the stator teeth in a concentrated winding manner; and stator magnets arranged near the respective openings of the plurality of stator slots, a first rotor having a plurality of pole pieces and disposed coaxially with the stator to face the stator magnets; and a second rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets and disposed coaxially with the first rotor to face the first rotor, wherein the circumferential width of stator teeth positioned between the adjacent two of the stator magnets is narrower than the circumferential width of the stator slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Haruyuki KOMETANI, Ryoji MIYATAKE, Atsushi YAMAMOTO, Noboru NIGUCHI, Katsuhiro HIRATA, Hironori SUZUKI, Takuya ITO
  • Patent number: 12170853
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging device capable of achieving miniaturization and height reduction of a device configuration, reducing generation of a flare or a ghost, preventing separation of a lens. A size relation of “solid-state imaging element>lens non-effective region>lens effective region” is established in a vertical direction with respect to an incident direction of incident light. The present disclosure is applicable to an imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamamoto, Kensaku Maeda
  • Publication number: 20240414471
    Abstract: To contribute to downsizing of a device while reducing sound pressure of noise over a wide band. The present technology provides a sound pressure control device that includes a sound pressure control unit that includes a first path and a second path through which infiltrating sound passes, in which the first path is formed in a cylindrical shape in a direction differing from a direction in which the sound infiltrates, and the second path is formed in a spiral shape around an outer periphery of the first path. Furthermore, the present technology provides an electronic device and a component including the sound pressure control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: ATSUSHI YAMAMOTO, MASAKI KAMATA, NAOKI SHINMEN, YUTA SATO
  • Publication number: 20240386606
    Abstract: If the patch image, referred to as a first patch image, cut from an image within the cutting range, referred to as a target range, set for one component is input to the alignment network unit, the correction amount for correcting the position of the cutting range for one component included in the patch image is output from the alignment network unit. Then, the image within the corrected cutting range obtained by correcting the cutting range by this correction amount is cut from the composite image, referred to as a stored component image, to generate the corrected patch image, referred to as a second patch image, including the one component, and the grip success probability is calculated for this corrected patch image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240346798
    Abstract: A composite image is generated by combining a gray scale image, referred to as a luminance image, and a depth image respectively representing the plurality of components. In the generated composite image, the shape of the component at a relatively high position among the plurality of components easily remains, and the composite image is useful in confirming such a component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12114683
    Abstract: Provided is a gelling composition capable of keeping a gel state in a food even when the food heated at 75° C. is cooled to around 45° C. at which the food can be eaten in a warm state. Specifically provided is a gelling composition comprising methyl cellulose, a 2.0% by weight aqueous solution of which has a storage modulus G? (75° C.) at 75° C. of 3,000 to 5,500 Pa, the 2.0% by weight aqueous solution of which has a return temperature storage modulus G? (75 to 45° C.) of 2,000 to 3,600 Pa when the temperature of the aqueous solution is returned from 75° C. to 45° C., and a 2.0% by weight aqueous solution of which has a viscosity at 20° C. of 3,000 to 10,000 mPa·s; a low temperature gelling agent; and a solvent. A food comprising the gelling composition is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamamoto, Shingo Niinobe, Akira Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20240330689
    Abstract: An information processing device determines presence or absence of an explanatory condition deviating from the pullback constraint, which is a constraint condition based on four arithmetic operations across a plurality of explanatory variables for each individual that has been generated and resets a reset value based on a plurality of explanatory variables with respect to the plurality of explanatory variables deviating from the pullback constraint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Sho Nakajima, Atsushi Yamamoto, Jun Okano
  • Publication number: 20240330406
    Abstract: An information-processing method executed by an information-processing device includes: generating a new individual by changing a value of part of explanatory variables of an individual selected with a first probability from current generation data, which has n individuals (n is an integer of three or more) and in which each individual is an explanatory variable group having a plurality of explanatory variables, to a target value based on a value of a corresponding explanatory variable of another individual; generating a new individual by changing a value of part of explanatory variables of an individual selected with a second probability from the current generation data to another value; and selecting n individuals of next generation data from the n individuals and the generated individual based on a fitness degree calculated from an explanatory variable group for each individual, wherein an explanatory variable having a value defined by a combination condition is set to take a value represented by one of a
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Sho Nakajima, Atsushi Yamamoto, Jun Okano
  • Publication number: 20240330405
    Abstract: An information processing method executed by an information processing device includes: generating a new individual by changing a value of part of explanatory variables of an individual selected with a first probability from current generation data, which has n individuals (n is an integer of two or more) and in which each individual is an explanatory variable group having a plurality of explanatory variables, to a target value based on a value of a corresponding explanatory variable of another individual; generating a new individual by changing a value of part of explanatory variables of an individual selected with a second probability from the current generation data to another value; and selecting n individuals of next generation data from the n individuals and the generated individual based on a degree of fitness calculated from an explanatory variable group for each individual, wherein the explanatory variable is set to take a value within a predetermined range determined in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Sho Nakajima, Atsushi Yamamoto, Jun Okano
  • Patent number: 12104862
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a fin group including plate-shaped fins; heat transfer tubes penetrating the plate-shaped fins; and a support plate at an end of the fin group. The heat transfer tubes penetrate the support plate. The heat exchanger is configured to cause a heat medium flowing through the heat transfer tubes to exchange heat with air. End portions of the heat transfer tubes form protrusions protruding from the support plate. The protrusions include: a first protrusion connected to one of the protrusions adjacent to the first protrusion; and a second protrusion connected to a flow path pipe different from one of the protrusions adjacent to the second protrusion. A distance from a tip end of the second protrusion to the support plate is shorter than a distance from a tip end of the first protrusion to the support plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakano, Atsushi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20240320404
    Abstract: A design support device includes a processor configured to execute a program to estimate a plurality of types of performance of a product from a design factor group including a plurality of design factors of the product using a machine learning model, and generate candidates for design information of the product on the basis of comprehensive evaluation of the estimated plurality of types of performance. The processor is further configured to execute the program to acquire Pareto solutions to the plurality of types of performance as the candidates for design information using a genetic algorithm with the plurality of design factors as chromosome information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Sho Nakajima, Atsushi Yamamoto, Jun Okano