Patents by Inventor Eiji Yamamoto
Eiji 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: 20090024400Abstract: A multiplexed audio data decoder apparatus is provided in which integration of an audio decoder is easy, and has a high flexibility when the number of the formats to be processed is increased or when the specification is changed. In an external ROM 60 there are accumulated a plurality of decoding program codes corresponding to respective plural methods for compressing and encoding. A controller means 50 transfers the decoding program code corresponding to the method for compressing and encoding after changing thereof, from the external ROM 60 to an internal RAM 25. A DSP 22 starts decoding processing by using the decoding program code which is transmitted into the internal RAM 25.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2008Publication date: January 22, 2009Inventors: YUKIO FUJII, SHINICHI OBATA, HIROAKI SHIRANE, EIJI YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 7466555Abstract: A card connector assembly having a card misinsertion preventive structure has: a front cover placed in front of two card connectors double-decked up and down, each having an insertion opening; a shutter pivotally supported by the front cover; and a pivotal shaft. The shutter has two lengthwise parallel planes perpendicularly intersecting each other in L-shaped cross-section. In the absence of a card inserted in any of the card connectors, the shutter allows any one of the two insertion openings to be open to the front of the front cover to enable insertion of a card from outside into any one card connector. When a card is inserted in one card connector, the shutter covers the insertion opening of the other card connector to prevent insertion of a further card from outside into the other card connector. This prevents, in advance, a connection error, thereby preventing discomfort to the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2006Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Eiji Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20080291698Abstract: A control method for a PWM cyclo-converter is provided in which a voltage can be accurately generated even when a voltage command is small. In the PWM cyclo-converter, the turning on and off operations of two-way semiconductor switch are repeated at intervals of short time. As switching patterns, within the intervals of short time, a first terminal of output side terminals outputs in order a maximum potential phase P, an intermediate potential phase M and the maximum potential phase N, a second terminal of the output side terminals outputs in order the maximum potential phase P, the intermediate potential phase M, a minimum potential phase N, the intermediate potential phase M and the maximum potential phase P, and a third terminal of the output side terminals outputs in order the intermediate potential phase M, the minimum potential phase N and the intermediate potential phase M.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2005Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Eiji Yamamoto, Hidenori Hara, Jun-Koo Kang
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Patent number: 7454274Abstract: An in-vehicle device having a plurality of output units. The device includes content provision units for individually outputting, to each of users, a piece of content arbitrarily chosen by the user from a plurality of pieces of content, using one of the plurality of output units. The device includes a user recognition unit for individually recognizing the user who receives the piece of content through the one of the plurality of output units. The device includes a storage unit for individually storing the piece of content provided to the user. The device further includes a control unit for, when the user recognition means recognizes that a user to receive the piece of content through the one of the plurality of output units is changed to another user, outputting a piece of content corresponding to the another user by controlling the content provision unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2005Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideyuki Uemura, Eiji Yamamoto, Shinichi Maru
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Publication number: 20080276544Abstract: The present invention provides a cemented carbide with superior strength and toughness by refining the WC in the alloy uniformly and by restricting the growth of coarse WC efficiently. In this cemented carbide, WC with a mean particle diameter of no more than 0.3 microns serves as a hard phase and at least one type of iron group metal element at 5.5-15 percent by mass serves as a binder phase. In addition to this hard phase and binder phase, this cemented carbide contains 0.005-0.06 percent by mass of Ti, Cr at a weight ratio relative to the binder phase of at least 0.04 and no more than 0.2, with the remaining portion being formed from inevitable impurities. In particular, this cemented carbide does not contain Ta.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2005Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.Inventors: Kazuhiro Hirose, Eiji Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7447241Abstract: A multiplexed audio data decoder apparatus is provided in which integration of an audio decoder is easy, and has a high flexibility when the number of the formats to be processed is increased or when the specification is changed. In an external ROM 60 there are accumulated a plurality of decoding program codes corresponding to respective plural methods for compressing and encoding. A controller means 50 transfers the decoding program code corresponding to the method for compressing and encoding after changing thereof, from the external ROM 60 to an internal RAM 25. A DSP 22 starts decoding processing by using the decoding program code which is transmitted into the internal RAM 25.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2004Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Video and Information Systems, Inc.Inventors: Yukio Fujii, Shinichi Obata, Hiroaki Shirane, Eiji Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20080251703Abstract: In a triple slit optical encoder, a first grating and a third grating are formed on separate members, and values of a first effective width W1 and a first pitch p1 of an optical pattern on the first grating, and a third effective width W3 and a third pitch p3 of an optical pattern on the third grating are set to values such that a periodic signal having the amplitude effective for detection of a relative displacement of a scale is achieved based on periodicity of the self-image, refractive indices of substances of substances and/or spaces interposed in the optical path from a bare LED up to a photodetector, and the thickness of those substances and/or spaces in a direction substantially perpendicular to a plane on which the second grating is formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2007Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Hane, Eiji Yamamoto, Yoshimi Kuroda, Iwao Komazaki
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Patent number: 7417218Abstract: An optical encoder is a reflecting triple grating type optical encoder. A light projecting section of the optical encoder which includes a combination of a bare chip LED and a first grating of a first pitch p1, irradiates a predetermined light. A photodetecting section of the optical encoder which includes a combination of a photodetector and a third grating of a third pitch p3 detects a movement of a self image. Each of the first grating and the third grating is disposed substantially parallel with respect to a scale, and a substantially parallel and substantially flat light transmitting area is formed in a predetermined portion of a surface of a detecting head. A light transparent member is disposed in a space between the surface of the detecting head, and the first grating and the second grating.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2006Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Eiji Yamamoto, Yoshimi Kuroda, Jun Hane, Iwao Komazaki
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Patent number: 7399192Abstract: A high density flexible wiring connection device comprises a flexible flat cable (FFC) having narrow-pitch conductors and a flat cable connector (FC connector) having a double-sided contact designed for narrow-pitch wiring and having upper and lower contact terminals. A supplementary wiring board having upper and lower wiring terminals is introduced to connect alternate ones and the other alternate ones of the narrow-pitch conductors of the FFC to alternate ones of the upper contact terminals and alternate ones of the lower contact terminals of the FC connector, respectively, thereby making the pitch of each of the upper and lower wiring terminals twice the narrow pitch of the FFC and the FC connector. The use of the supplementary wiring board to thus convert the wiring pitch makes it possible to prevent whiskers, even if formed on the contact terminals, from causing short-circuits between adjacent contact terminals and between adjacent wiring terminals.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2007Date of Patent: July 15, 2008Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Eiji Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7369970Abstract: A development department stores physical characteristic data concerning a product to be manufactured, such as shape and CAD data, in a database. Cost factor data are provided from a plurality of potential makers of the product. The cost factor data is stored in a database. Manufacturing costs are calculated for the respective makers based on the cost factor data, and then displayed. The provided information, the cost factor data stored in the databases, and the estimated manufacturing costs can be browsed through a network. Further, the cost factor data stored in the databases can be updated by the makers through the network.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2001Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masakatsu Shimizu, Akio Kawano, Eiji Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7351378Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for extracting nucleic acid from a specimen, including traditionally difficult specimens, in preparation for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis. The apparatus includes: a shaker, a centrifugal separator, a particle supply mechanism for supplying particles of different sizes, a liquid chemical supply mechanism, a conveyance arm for transporting the specimen or tube-containing specimen, and a control means. The control means is designed to shake tubes containing large and small diameter particles and transport the tubes through a centrifuge in order to separate the nucleic acid-containing material from the remainder of the specimen and crush the material to extract the nucleic acid.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult HonshaInventors: Tsuyoshi Osanai, Eiji Yamamoto, Katsuhiro Tomaru, Junji Fujimoto, Koichi Watanabe, Takahiro Matsuki, Yukiko Miyamoto, Ryuichiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 7337251Abstract: The information processing device comprises first and second master circuits and an arbiter for arbitrating access rights to a bus to which the master circuits are connected. The arbiter has storage units retaining information representing priorities of the access rights, and an arbitration control logical unit for arbitrating the access rights of the master circuits based on the information. When the priority of the first master circuit is higher than the priority of the second master circuit and there is no access request from the first master circuit but there is an access request from the second master circuit, the arbitration control logical unit permits access of the second master circuit, and the storage units lower the priority of the second master circuit without changing the priority of the first master circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2005Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.Inventors: Makoto Saen, Hiroshi Ueda, Eiji Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20070217243Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a PWM cycloconverter that can compensate an error between a voltage command and a real voltage generated by a commuting operation. The PWM cycloconverter for solving the above-described problem includes: an input voltage phase detector (6) for detecting the phase of the voltage of a three-phase ac power source (1); a current direction detector (7) for detecting the direction of a current supplied to a two-way semiconductor switch (3); and a commutation compensator (11) for receiving the outputs of the input voltage phase detector and the current detector as inputs to compensate for a voltage command.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2005Publication date: September 20, 2007Inventors: Eiji Yamamoto, Hidenori Hara, Kouichi Eguchi
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Patent number: 7256391Abstract: A plurality of analog signals are detected in a sensor in accordance with a displacement of a scale on which a pattern with a predetermined cycle is formed. The plurality of analog signals are subjected to signal processing in a signal processing portion, and then output from a sensor head. Setup switching is performed by a setup switching portion provided in the sensor head in such a manner that an output signal at this moment complies with a signal input specification of a positional information output device. Further, the sensor, the signal processing portion and the setup switching portion form an integrated circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2004Date of Patent: August 14, 2007Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Yoshimi Kuroda, Eiji Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20070178751Abstract: A high density flexible wiring connection device comprises a flexible flat cable (FFC) having narrow-pitch conductors and a flat cable connector (FC connector) having a double-sided contact designed for narrow-pitch wiring and having upper and lower contact terminals. A supplementary wiring board having upper and lower wiring terminals is introduced to connect alternate ones and the other alternate ones of the narrow-pitch conductors of the FFC to alternate ones of the upper contact terminals and alternate ones of the lower contact terminals of the FC connector, respectively, thereby making the pitch of each of the upper and lower wiring terminals twice the narrow pitch of the FFC and the FC connector. The use of the supplementary wiring board to thus convert the wiring pitch makes it possible to prevent whiskers, even if formed on the contact terminals, from causing short-circuits between adjacent contact terminals and between adjacent wiring terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2007Publication date: August 2, 2007Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Eiji Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20070139022Abstract: An input voltage detection method, for a PWM cycloconverter whose operation can be stably continued though a power voltage sharply fluctuates, and an apparatus therefor are provided. For a PWM cycloconverter, provided are: an input power voltage phase detector 41, for detecting the phase of three-phase AC power; an artificial DC bus voltage detector 42, for detecting the magnitude of the three-phase AC power; an input voltage upper and lower limit calculator 43, for employing the output of the artificial DC bus voltage detector to calculate upper and lower limits for an input voltage; and a voltage comparator 46, for comparing a voltage value, detected by the artificial DC bus voltage detector, with the upper and lower limit values obtained by the input voltage upper and lower limit calculator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2004Publication date: June 21, 2007Inventors: Eiji Yamamoto, Hidenori Hara, Kouichi Eguchi
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Publication number: 20070091158Abstract: A partition 13a is provided at the almost center of a parallel sheet feed tray 13 in a main-scanning direction and recording paper sheets P1 and P2 such as postcards are mounted in two rows in parallel in the main-scanning direction. By bringing upper surfaces of the recording paper sheets P1 and P2 into contact with a pick roller 5, the recording paper sheets P1 and P2 are picked one by one per row and fed toward an inside of a housing 10. While the recording paper sheets P1 and P2 are conveyed in a sub-scanning direction with being arranged in parallel in the main-scanning direction, ink drops are discharged to both the recording paper sheets P1 and P2 with reciprocation of a carriage 2 with the ink cartridges 3 in the main-scanning direction. Thus, images are formed on the two recording paper sheets P1 and P2 simultaneously, and thereby shortening time necessary for printing a lot of recording paper sheets.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2006Publication date: April 26, 2007Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Eiji Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20070081369Abstract: A PWM cycloconverter easily capable of improving an input current waveform and regenerating energy of a snubber into a power source is provided. A PWM cycloconverter includes a PWM converter connected to a DC voltage system. An output unit of the PWM converter is connected to a place before an input filter of the PWM cycloconverter to keep down resonance of the input filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2004Publication date: April 12, 2007Inventors: Hidenori Hara, Junkoo Kang, Eiji Yamamoto, Kenji Yamada
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Patent number: 7177128Abstract: It is an object of the invention to realize a snubber module which is small in size, and which can be easily handled, thereby miniaturizing a power conversion apparatus. In the invention, a snubber module (10) is configured so that twelve snubber diodes and a snubber capacitor which constitute a snubber circuit for suppressing a surge voltage are enclosed in a resin mold (101), and a P-side lead wire (103) and an N-side lead wire (104) which are two capacitor external terminals that are connected respectively to two terminals of the snubber capacitor, and six diode external terminals (102) which are connected respectively to connecting portions where respective two of the twelve snubber diodes are connected to each other are exposed from the resin mold (101).Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2003Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Eiji Yamamoto, Hidenori Hara
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Publication number: 20070033180Abstract: A unit property for defining the manufacturing industry software unit is described with the use of the action of an access to a domain concept data model element of an activity that is realized by the software unit described in an implementation specification format. As a result, the manufacturing industry software unit can be formally described as the property that defines the action of the description when it is described by using the software unit profiling template described in the implementation specification format defined by ISO 16100-2. Also, a request in conducting retrieval can be described in the same format as the above, and the process semantics of the existing manufacturing industry software unit can be efficiently registered in the directly expressed and in a common form, and effectively retrieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2006Publication date: February 8, 2007Inventors: Nobumasa Nakano, Eiji Yamamoto, Masaru Nagashima