Patents by Inventor Atsushi Yoshida

Atsushi Yoshida 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).

  • Degradation estimation method and degradation estimation apparatus
    Patent number: 10628804
    Abstract: A degradation estimation method includes: a service record acquiring step acquiring a service record of maintenance of a device; an analysis step analyzing a degradation state of the device from the service record; a determination standard adjustment step adjusting a first determination standard to a second determination standard depending on the analyzed degradation state, the first determination standard being determined in advance for estimating whether there is degradation of the device or not; a device data acquisition step acquiring first device data indicating state of the device; and a first degradation estimation step estimating whether there is degradation of the device or not using the acquired first device data and the second determination standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Yoshida, Wei Zhang, Yosuke Tajika
  • CLEANING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CLEANING AND DRYING AN OBJECT
    Publication number: 20200108424
    Abstract: A compact versatile cell-type cleaning device and cell-type drying device is provided. A cleaning apparatus includes: a cover having a loading port formed on a wall surface of a cleaning chamber, and an unloading port formed on a wall surface of a drying chamber; a partition plate having an intermediate transfer port for dividing into the cleaning chamber and the drying chamber; an intermediate door that opens and closes the intermediate transfer port; a turntable disposed inside the drying chamber and having a first gripping device that grips an object, and a moving device having a gripping device that grips the object through a loading port, cleans the object inside the cleaning chamber while gripping the object, and moves the object to the turntable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Daisuke KUNITOMO, Toyoaki MITSUE, Toyohiro YAMAUCHI, Atsushi KOHAMA, Atsushi YOSHIDA
  • Image processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having tone correction based on status
    Patent number: 10613463
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a memory and circuitry. The memory is configured to store a status of the image forming apparatus and a first detected density value obtained in a first tone correction based on a dither pattern. The circuitry is configured to calculate a difference between the status of the image forming apparatus upon the first tone correction and the status of the image forming apparatus upon a second tone correction following the first tone correction. The circuitry is further configured to calculate a correction value according to the difference in the status of the image forming apparatus, based on the first detected density value and a second detected density value obtained in the second tone correction based on a reference pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Hamashoji, Atsushi Yoshida, Hayato Kano
  • POLISHING HEAD AND POLISHING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200094371
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polishing head for a polishing apparatus for polishing a quadrangular substrate using a polishing pad attached to a polishing table, comprising a head body portion, a plurality of elastic bags disposed in a surface of the head body portion, which is to face the polishing table, and a substrate holding plate for holding the substrate, the substrate holding plate being pressed by the elastic bags in a direction away from the head body portion, the head body portion being provided with channels for bags, which are in communication with the respective elastic bags, the polishing head further including at least two support plates disposed between the elastic bags on one hand and the substrate holding plate on the other, the elastic bags being configured to press the substrate holding plate through the support plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Kenichi Akazawa, Makoto Kashiwagi, Yu Ishii, Atsushi Yoshida, Kenichi Kobayashi, Tetsuji Togawa, Hozumi Yasuda
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200065742
    Abstract: An object is to deliver more packages together. A number of first packages scheduled to be delivered by a vehicle that delivers packages to a predetermined area is acquired, the cost of delivering second packages by the vehicle is set on the basis of the number of first packages, the second packages being different from the first packages, and information on the cost is provided to a user present within the predetermined area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiki OHTANI, Hirofumi KAMIMARU, Riho MATSUO, Shodai KATO, Atsushi YOSHIDA, Shunsuke TANIMORI
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200051197
    Abstract: Carpooling in a vehicle traveling to a predetermined place is promoted. A number of carpool passenger users who are users scheduled to carpool in a vehicle that travels to a predetermined place is acquired; a cost needed for potential users who are users different from the carpool passenger users to ride the vehicle is set on the basis of the number of carpool passenger users; and information on the cost is provided to the potential users present within a predetermined range from a scheduled path of the vehicle traveling to the predetermined place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiki OHTANI, Hirofumi KAMIMARU, Riho MATSUO, Shodai KATO, Atsushi YOSHIDA, Shunsuke TANIMORI
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20200051021
    Abstract: Re-delivery of a package is efficiently performed in a case where a package is not handed over when the package is delivered. Failure to hand over a package by delivery of the package by a first vehicle in which the package that is scheduled to be delivered to a delivery des in ti loaded is detected; and matching, with the vehicle, of a second vehicle that is different from the first vehicle and for which a condition allowing reloading of the package from the first vehicle and a condition allowing delivery of the package to the delivery destination are established is performed, in a case where failure to hand over the package is detected, where matching is performed on the basis of information about traveling of the first vehicle, information about the package, and information about traveling of the second vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiki OHTANI, Hirofumi KAMIMARU, Riho MATSUO, Shodai KATO, Atsushi YOSHIDA, Shunsuke TANIMORI
  • CONVEYANCE APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200016710
    Abstract: A conveyance apparatus includes two clamp mechanisms. Each of the clamp mechanisms is configured to freely change its state among a fully clamping state, a semi-clamping state, and a non-clamping state. When an object is delivered from a first clamp mechanism that is holding the object to a second clamp mechanism, the second clamp mechanism is brought into the semi-clamping state to temporarily hold the object. Then, the first clamp mechanism is brought into the non-clamping state and the second clamp mechanism is brought into the fully clamping state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro YOSHIMURA, Atsushi KOHAMA, Atsushi YOSHIDA, Makoto IIDA, Syuntaro NAGAI
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20200020245
    Abstract: An objective is to encourage users who give teaching to carpool in a case where learning is provided between multiple users in a carpool vehicle. An information processing apparatus includes a controller and when learning is provided in a carpool vehicle between a teacher user who is a user giving teaching and a student user who is a user receiving the teaching, the controller acquires information for distinguishing between the teacher user and the student user, and gives an incentive to the teacher user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiki OHTANI, Hirofumi KAMIMARU, Riho MATSUO, Shodai KATO, Atsushi YOSHIDA, Shunsuke TANIMORI
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20200005419
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus executes: acquiring whether or not a first user permits another user to ride in a first vehicle; acquiring whether or not a second user is matched with each of vehicles; regarding, as the first vehicle, a vehicle which is among the vehicles and with which the second user is not matched, and matching the first vehicle with the first user, when the first user requests a ride in the first vehicle and does not permit another user to ride in the first vehicle; and not permitting the other user to be matched with the first vehicle, after matching the first user with the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiki OHTANI, Hirofumi KAMIMARU, Riho MATSUO, Shodai KATO, Atsushi YOSHIDA, Shunsuke TANIMORI
  • BRK INHIBITORY COMPOUND
    Publication number: 20200000810
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Brk inhibitory compound represented by general formula (I) (wherein, all symbols represent the same meanings as the symbols set forth in the specification), a salt thereof, an N-oxide thereof, a solvate thereof, or a prodrug of any of these.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo YAMAMOTO, Masakuni KURONO, Atsushi YOSHIDA, Shingo HOTTA
  • COMPOUND HAVING SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR AGONISTIC ACTIVITY AND PHARMACEUTICAL USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20200000816
    Abstract: A somatostatin receptor subtype 2 agonist represented by the general formula (I): wherein all symbols have the same meanings as described in the specification, or a salt thereof, which can be easily administered and can alleviate pain accompanied by the therapy of patients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akiharu ISHIDA, Atsushi YOSHIDA, Hidenori MIYATA, Tomoyuki SHONO
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20190392731
    Abstract: Learning effects are increased in a case where a learning is performed between multiple users in a carpool vehicle. An information processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit, in a case where a learning between multiple carpool users who are users in a carpool in a same vehicle is to be performed in the vehicle, matches the multiple carpool users to join the carpool in the vehicle, based on information about learning levels of multiple demanding users who are users demanding the carpool in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiki OHTANI, Hirofumi KAMIMARU, Riho MATSUO, Shodai KATO, Atsushi YOSHIDA, Shunsuke TANIMORI
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20190385482
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller, in a case where a learning between a teacher user who is a user giving teachings and a student user who is a user receiving teachings is performed in a carpool vehicle, when it is determined, based on information indicating whether a driver of the vehicle is the teacher user or the student user, that the driver is the student user, provides information related to the determination to multiple users selected as carpool members in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiki OHTANI, Hirofumi KAMIMARU, Riho MATSUO, Shodai KATO, Atsushi YOSHIDA, Shunsuke TANIMORI
  • Polishing apparatus and polishing method
    Patent number: 10493588
    Abstract: The polishing apparatus has a polishing unit capable of polishing a peripheral portion of the substrate to form a right-angled cross section. The polishing apparatus includes: a substrate holder that holds and rotates the substrate; guide rollers that support a polishing tape; and a polishing head having a pressing member that presses an edge of the polishing tape against the peripheral portion of the substrate from above. The guide rollers are arranged such that the polishing tape extends parallel to a tangential direction of the substrate and a polishing surface of the polishing tape is parallel to a surface of the substrate. The substrate holder includes: a holding stage that holds the substrate; and a supporting stage that supports a lower surface of the peripheral portion of the substrate in its entirety. The supporting stage rotates in unison with the holding stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Seki, Tetsuji Togawa, Masayuki Nakanishi, Naoki Matsuda, Atsushi Yoshida
  • Rotary machine unit
    Patent number: 10487691
    Abstract: A rotary machine unit equipped with rotary shaft provided so as to penetrate the respective opposing surfaces of a first casing and a second casing arranged opposing one another, said rotary machine unit also being equipped with at least two engagement mechanisms equipped with a first engaging part provided on the opposing surface of the first casing and extending radially along the direction from the center part penetrated by the rotary shaft toward the circumferential edge part, and a second engaging part provided on the opposing surface of the second casing so as to engage the first engaging part in a state in which the first engaging part is able to move in the extension direction of the first engaging part. The engagement mechanisms are provided inclined with respect to one another when viewed from the axial direction of the rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Okita, Atsushi Yoshida
  • WAFER BOAT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20190326145
    Abstract: Provided is a wafer boat having a plurality of SiC wafers mounted on the water boat so that main surfaces of the plurality of the SiC wafers vertically face each other. The wafer boat includes a wafer support member in which a plurality of wafer shelves supporting the plurality of the SiC wafers are provided along an arrangement direction of the plurality of the SiC wafers, and a surface roughness of at least the wafer support member is equal to or larger than 2 ?m and equal to or smaller than 4 ?m at Ra value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi YOSHIDA
  • Rear light for motor vehicle
    Patent number: D866021
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Yoshida, Keisuke Watanabe, Tamami Sato, Shinichi Harada
  • Rear light for motor vehicle
    Patent number: D868308
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Yoshida, Tamami Sato, Kouhei Kawakami, Kazuhiro Ito
  • Headlight for motor vehicle
    Patent number: D877944
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Yoshida, Keisuke Watanabe, Tamami Sato, Yasunori Kawano