Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Yamada
Hirofumi Yamada 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: 20240122260Abstract: An inhaler device configured to consume an accumulated capacity to contribute to generation of aerosol or aerosol imparted with flavor, a sensor configured to detect a predefined variable, an interface configured to make a notification to an inhaler of the aerosol, and a controller configured to cause the interface to function in a first mode when a detected or estimated capacity is smaller than a threshold and the variable satisfies a predefined condition for requesting the generation of the aerosol.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2020Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Manabu TAKEUCHI, Hirofumi MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 11959148Abstract: A preventive maintenance method includes performing abrasive blast-cleaning; performing shot peening: applying a fluorescent coating material before the shot peening is performed; and irradiating a portion applied with the fluorescent coating material with an ultraviolet ray after the shot peening is performed. Coverage is calculated based on a residual fluorescent coating material that fluoresces.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: YAMADA INFRA TECHNOS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Yamada, Shohei Yamada
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Publication number: 20240090879Abstract: A server acquires, in a first predetermined period, first data in which excretion related data of a user, acquired by an excretion sensor installed in a toilet, and a user ID for identifying the user are associated with each other, generates a reference database indicating an excretion tendency of the user on the basis of the acquired first data, acquires, in a second predetermined period, second data in which excretion related data of the user, acquired by the excretion sensor installed in the toilet, and the user ID are associated with each other, generates alert information for the user on the basis of the reference database and the second data, and outputs the generated alert information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi KANAI, Yuka YAMADA, Hideyuki MAEHARA
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Patent number: 11925750Abstract: An inhalation device that makes it possible to reduce the possibility of a user neglecting to replenish the remaining amounts of elements required for inhalation of aerosol or aerosol imparted with flavor.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.Inventors: Manabu Yamada, Manabu Takeuchi, Hirofumi Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20240074510Abstract: An inhaler device configured to consume an accumulated capacity to contribute to generation of aerosol or aerosol imparted with flavor, a sensor configured to detect a predefined variable, an interface configured to make a notification to an inhaler of the aerosol, and a controller configured to cause the interface to function in a first mode when a detected or estimated capacity is smaller than a threshold and the variable satisfies a predefined condition for requesting the generation of the aerosol.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2020Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Manabu TAKEUCHI, Hirofumi MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20230395617Abstract: There is provided a solid-state imaging device capable of preventing the sensitivity difference from being generated between the pixels. The fixed imaging device of the present disclosure includes: a first pixel; and a second pixel located in a first direction of the first pixel, in which each of the first and second pixels includes a first transistor and a second transistor, and the first and second transistors in the second pixel are disposed periodically in the first direction with respect to the first and second transistors in the first pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Mikinori ITO, Natsuko OOTANI, Yutaro KOMURO, Akira OKADA, Yuhei AOTANI, Yuichi YAMAGUCHI, Tsubasa SAKAKI, Masumi ABE, Kodai KANEYASU, Yuta NOGUCHI, Kazuki TAKAHASHI, Hirofumi YAMADA, Kohei YAMASHINA, Ryosuke TAKAHASHI, Yoshiki SAITO, Yusuke KIKUCHI, Yukihito IIDA, Kenichi OBATA, Ryuichi ITOH, Yuki UEMURA
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Publication number: 20230287536Abstract: The present invention provides a preventive maintenance method for a steel bridge capable of significantly shortening a construction period, significantly cutting cost, and accurately determining whether peening has appropriately been performed. The preventive maintenance method includes: an abrasive blast-cleaning step of performing abrasive blast-cleaning; a peening step of performing shot peening: a fluorescent coating material application step of applying a fluorescent coating material before the peening step; and a coverage determination step of irradiating a portion applied with the fluorescent coating material with an ultraviolet ray after the peening step, so as to calculate coverage on the basis of a residual fluorescent coating material that fluoresces.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Hirofumi YAMADA, Shohei YAMADA
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Patent number: 11720211Abstract: A touch sensor includes a substrate with a first surface, and a plurality of first electrodes on the first surface of the substrate in a view area. The first surface of the substrate includes a plurality of bottomed grooves extending linearly. Each first electrode includes a plurality of fine lines including a conductive material buried in one of the grooves. Each fine line includes a bottomed recess recessed from the first surface toward the bottom surface of each groove.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Nonami, Hirofumi Yamada, Tetsuya Minamide, Shigeyuki Fujii
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Publication number: 20220397970Abstract: A touch sensor includes a substrate with a first surface, and a plurality of first electrodes on the first surface of the substrate in a view area. The first surface of the substrate includes a plurality of bottomed grooves extending linearly. Each first electrode includes a plurality of fine lines including a conductive material buried in one of the grooves. Each fine line includes a bottomed recess recessed from the first surface toward the bottom surface of each groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji NONAMI, Hirofumi YAMADA, Tetsuya MINAMIDE, Shigeyuki FUJII
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Publication number: 20220346625Abstract: Provided is, for example, a cleaner sheet including: a cleaning surface that is configured to be brought into sliding contact with a surface of an object to be cleaned. The cleaning surface has unevenness, and includes projections respectively having distal ends configured to be in sliding contact with the object to be cleaned when in use. The projections are constituted by a member formed to have the projections arranged at intervals from each other in a plane direction of the cleaning surface. The member has a hardness of 0.4 MPa or more measured by a nano-indentation method. The cleaning surface further includes adhesive recesses that have higher adhesive force than that of the member and are exposed on the cleaning surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicants: NITOMS, INC., NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi YAMADA, Hiroshi Nagami, Yosuke Suyama, Tsuneaki Omori, Yoshitake Shigematsu, Yoji Ebisu, Teiji Sakashita, Mao Suzukawa
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Patent number: 11412916Abstract: Provided is, for example, a cleaner sheet including: a cleaning surface that is configured to be brought into sliding contact with a surface of an object to be cleaned. The cleaning surface has unevenness, and includes projections respectively having distal ends configured to be in sliding contact with the object to be cleaned when in use. The projections are constituted by a member formed to have the projections arranged at intervals from each other in a plane direction of the cleaning surface. The member has a hardness of 0.4 MPa or more measured by a nano-indentation method. The cleaning surface further includes adhesive recesses that have higher adhesive force than that of the member and are exposed on the cleaning surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignees: NITOMS, INC., NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi Yamada, Hiroshi Nagami, Yosuke Suyama, Tsuneaki Omori, Yoshitake Shigematsu, Yoji Ebisu, Teiji Sakashita, Mao Suzukawa
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Patent number: 11366098Abstract: A method for recovering a metal that uses a reduced amount of a chelating agent is described, where the method includes a complex forming step of forming, in a mixture, a complex between a metal in a sample and a chelating agent; a complex depositing step of depositing the complex in the mixture; and a metal recovering step of recovering the deposited complex from the mixture, thereby recovering the metal in the sample.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc.Inventors: Hirofumi Yamada, Akitsugu Kudo
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Publication number: 20220173150Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging apparatus designed to improve sensitivity while preventing worsening of color mixing. A substrate, a plurality of photoelectric conversion regions provided in the substrate, a color filter provided on the upper side of the photoelectric conversion regions, a trench provided through the substrate and provided between the photoelectric conversion regions, and a recessed region including a plurality of recesses provided on the light-receiving surface side of the substrate above the photoelectric conversion regions are included. The color filter over adjacent two of the photoelectric conversion regions is of the same color. The number of the recesses of the recessed region is larger at a high image height than at an image height center. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a back-illuminated solid-state imaging apparatus etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: TOMOKI KUROSE, TOMOYUKI ARAI, HIROMASA SAITO, SHINJI NAKAGAWA, JUNJI HAYAFUJI, HIROFUMI YAMADA
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Publication number: 20210353128Abstract: Provided is, for example, a cleaner sheet including: a cleaning surface that is configured to be brought into sliding contact with a surface of an object to be cleaned. The cleaning surface has unevenness, and includes projections respectively having distal ends configured to be in sliding contact with the object to be cleaned when in use. The projections are constituted by a member formed to have the projections arranged at intervals from each other in a plane direction of the cleaning surface. The member has a hardness of 0.4 MPa or more measured by a nano-indentation method. The cleaning surface further includes adhesive recesses that have higher adhesive force than that of the member and are exposed on the cleaning surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2020Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicants: NITOMS, INC., NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi YAMADA, Hiroshi NAGAMI, Yosuke SUYAMA, Tsuneaki OMORI, Yoshitake SHIGEMATSU, Yoji EBISU, Teiji SAKASHITA, Mao SUZUKAWA
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Patent number: 10551323Abstract: The disclosure provides plasma spectroscopy analysis methods using a preparatory process of adding a control metal species that is different from an analyte metal species to a sample so as to have a known concentration; a concentration process of introducing the sample to a measurement container, and applying an electric current across a pair of electrodes disposed in the measurement container to concentrate the analyte metal species and the control metal species in the sample in a vicinity of at least one of the electrodes; a detection process; a correction process; and a quantification process.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc.Inventors: Kojiro Honma, Kentaro Kiriyama, Hirofumi Yamada
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Patent number: 10438866Abstract: A heat-insulating sheet includes a heat storage sheet, a first insulating sheet, and a thermally conductive sheet. The heat storage sheet contains a first resin and a plurality of microcapsules containing latent heat storage material and mixed in the form of aggregates with each other. The first insulating sheet has a first face bonded to the heat storage sheet and a second face opposite to the first face. The thermally conductive sheet is bonded to the second face of the first insulating sheet. The content of the microcapsules in the heat storage sheet is falls within a range from 40 wt % to 90 wt %, inclusive. The heat storage sheet includes a layer free from the microcapsules at a portion in contact with the first insulating sheet.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masafumi Nakayama, Yoshiya Sakaguchi, Hirofumi Yamada
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Patent number: 10244657Abstract: A thermal insulation sheet includes a heat storage sheet, an insulation sheet affixed to the heat storage sheet, and a highly-thermoconductive sheet affixed to the insulation sheet. The heat storage sheet contains a resin and powdery microcapsules mixed with the resin. The powdery microcapsules encapsulate latent-heat storage agent. The heat storage sheet has a void ratio not less than 10% and not more than 30%. Or, the heat storage sheet may have surface roughness Ra not less than 2 ?m and not more than 20 ?m. The thermal insulation sheet suppresses or retards transferring of heat generated in a heat-generating component to outside, and suppresses a rapid rising of a temperature of the heat-generating component.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2014Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masafumi Nakayama, Yoshiya Sakaguchi, Hirofumi Yamada
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Publication number: 20190011370Abstract: The disclosure provides plasma spectroscopy analysis methods using a preparatory process of adding a control metal species that is different from an analyte metal species to a sample so as to have a known concentration; a concentration process of introducing the sample to a measurement container, and applying an electric current across a pair of electrodes disposed in the measurement container to concentrate the analyte metal species and the control metal species in the sample in a vicinity of at least one of the electrodes; a detection process; a correction process; and a quantification process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.Inventors: Kojiro Honma, Kentaro Kiriyama, Hirofumi Yamada
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Publication number: 20190011428Abstract: A method for recovering a metal that uses a reduced amount of a chelating agent is described, where the method includes a complex forming step of forming, in a mixture, a complex between a metal in a sample and a chelating agent; a complex depositing step of depositing the complex in the mixture; and a metal recovering step of recovering the deposited complex from the mixture, thereby recovering the metal in the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc.Inventors: Hirofumi Yamada, Akitsugu Kudo
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Patent number: 10107793Abstract: A method for recovering a metal that uses a reduced amount of a chelating agent is described, where the method includes a complex forming step of forming, in a mixture, a complex between a metal in a sample and a chelating agent; a complex depositing step of depositing the complex in the mixture; and a metal recovering step of recovering the deposited complex from the mixture, thereby recovering the metal in the sample.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc.Inventors: Hirofumi Yamada, Akitsugu Kudo