Patents by Inventor Hiroki Yamamoto

Hiroki 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).

  • Patent number: 11480473
    Abstract: A temperature measuring device includes an electrical temperature measuring instrument configured to measure the temperature of a temperature sensitive section electrically; a heat transfer part formed of an elastomer in which the temperature sensitive section is embedded; and a heat insulation part formed of an elastomer covering a single surface of the heat transfer part. The heat transfer part has a thermal conductivity that is greater than a thermal conductivity of the heat insulation part. A mounting section is formed at the heat insulation part, and is to be mounted at a mounting location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220324581
    Abstract: A transmission cooling assembly of a helicopter includes: a transmission including a speed change structure that changes the speed of rotation produced by rotational power input from a prime mover and outputs the resulting rotational power and a housing accommodating the speed change structure; a cowl covering at least a part of an outer surface of the housing, with a gap defined between the cowl and the outer surface; and a flow structure that allows external air to flow through the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta OGASAWARA, Akira Hayasaka, Hiroki Yamamoto, Hidenori Arisawa, Yuji Shinoda, Mitsuaki Tanaka, Hironori Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20220315211
    Abstract: A transmission lubricating assembly of a helicopter includes: a transmission including a speed change structure that changes the speed of rotation produced by rotational power input from a prime mover and outputs the resulting rotational power and a housing accommodating the speed change structure; and a lubricator that lubricates the speed change structure. The lubricator includes a collector that collects a mist of a lubricating oil in an internal space of the housing and a dropper that is disposed below the collector and that applies droplets of the lubricating oil to the speed change structure, the droplets resulting from the collected mist being gathered under its own weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta OGASAWARA, Akira HAYASAKA, Hiroki YAMAMOTO, Hidenori ARISAWA, Yuji SHINODA, Mitsuaki TANAKA, Hironori HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220256804
    Abstract: An animal toilet (1) has: a main body (10) provided with a urine passing section (12); and a tray (20) on which an absorbent body (200) for absorbing urine passing through the urine passing section (12) is disposed. In a lower end portion on one side in the front-rear direction of the main body (10), an opening (19) for accommodating the tray (10) is formed. In the left-right direction, the length of the opening (19) is longer than the length of the tray (20). In a state where the tray (20) is accommodated in the main body (10), both a bottom section (15d) of the main body and a bottom section (27) of the tray are grounded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Chiyo Takai, Yuki Koido, Yasuhiro Sasano, Shinya Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11399985
    Abstract: An absorbent article for animals that includes a longitudinal direction, a width direction, and a thickness direction that are mutually orthogonal to each other. The absorbent article includes: a first nonwoven fabric that forms a first surface in the thickness direction; a second nonwoven fabric that forms a second surface in the thickness direction that is on an opposite side of the first surface, and that is attached to an animal such that the longitudinal direction is disposed along a waist of the animal; in a plan view, between a first side edge and a second side edge of the absorbent article in the longitudinal direction, a first region, a center region, and a second region that divide the absorbent article into three equal portions in the longitudinal direction; and an engagement portion that extends in the width direction in the first surface of the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Daisuke Komatsubara
  • Patent number: 11380994
    Abstract: A coil device comprising a coil, and a ferrite core arranged in a hollow portion of the coil, and a resin covering them; the ferrite core being a Ni ferrite core having initial permeability ?i of 450 or more at a frequency of 100 kHz and a temperature of 20° C., and an average crystal grain size of 5-9 ?m, both of temperature-dependent inductance change ratios TLa and TLb and stress-dependent inductance change ratios PLa and PLb being ?0.6% to +0.6%, and both of the sum of TLa and PLa and the sum of TLb and PLb being more than ?1.0% and less than +1.0%; and an antenna comprising it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Tada, Satoru Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11344946
    Abstract: A control device for continuous casting continuously producing a slab by injecting a molten metal from a nozzle to a mold and extracting the molten metal while solidifying the molten metal, includes a molten metal level meter measuring a molten metal level in the mold, a main control unit obtaining an operation amount of a flow rate adjusting mechanism that adjusts a flow rate of a molten metal injected to the mold from the nozzle such that a molten metal level measured by the molten metal level meter follows a molten metal level target value, a flowmeter measuring the flow rate of the molten metal injected to the mold from the nozzle, an input disturbance correction unit obtaining a first correction amount for the operation amount of the flow rate adjusting mechanism obtained by the main control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11334058
    Abstract: A plant data classification device according to one aspect of the invention includes: a data classification unit that classifies multidimensional operation data into categories; an evaluation index calculation unit that calculates an evaluation index of a category from a value of the operation data; a classification result evaluation unit that calculates a variation in the evaluation index for each category and determines whether the variation in the evaluation index is less than or equal to a reference value; and a parameter changing unit that changes, when it is determined that the variation in the evaluation index exceeds the reference value, a value of a parameter that defines a size of a category of the data classification unit in a direction of decreasing the size of the category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Hori, Hiroki Yamamoto, Masaaki Mukaide
  • Patent number: 11320808
    Abstract: Provided is a plant data display processing device including: a data classification unit that classifies operation data into categories according to similarity; an evaluation index calculation unit that calculates an evaluation index of a category from a value of the operation data; and a classification result display processing unit that calculates a representative value of the operation data for each of the categories from the operation data contained in each of the categories, maps identification information of each of the categories to two-dimensional space in accordance with similarity of a representative value of the operation data, and generates three-dimensional image data in which the identification information of each of the categories is shown on a plane formed of a first axis and a second axis, and the evaluation index of the category is shown on a third axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Hori, Kouji Kageyama, Hiroki Yamamoto, Masaaki Mukaide
  • Publication number: 20220132715
    Abstract: There is provided a component mounter that conveys in a board having a product area in which a pattern electrode incorporated in an electrical product is disposed and an inspection area in which an inspection electrode for inspecting electrical characteristics is disposed, and conveys out the board after repeatedly executing an operation of picking up a component supplied by a component feeder and installing the component in the product area according to an installation sequence program, the device including: target event occurrence detector for detecting occurrence of an event that requires inspection of the electrical characteristics with respect to the component supplied by the component feeder; a determiner for determining whether or not the inspection area is vacant; and inspection-required component installer for installing the component picked up from the component feeder in the inspection area as an inspection-required component, in a case where the target event occurrence detector detects the occurre
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: HIDEKI SUMI, RYOUJI EGUCHI, HIROKI YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220127097
    Abstract: Personnel saving of a process from a printer to a sheet processing machine is achieved. A general printing management device is connected to be communicable with a conveyance management device that manages a plurality of automatic guided vehicles each conveying a stacker in which paper ejected from a printer is stackable. The general printing management device generates conveyance instruction information for conveying a stacker in which paper ejected from the printer is stacked from a sheet receiving position of the printer to a sheet supply position of a next processing machine, based on job information in which a manufacturing process procedure for manufacturing a printed product is registered, and transmits the conveyance instruction information to the conveyance management device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Horizon Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki YAMAMOTO, Kohei KASHIWAGI
  • Publication number: 20220127120
    Abstract: Provided is a stacker including a stacking shelf on which printed paper from a printer is received and stacked, a lifting and lowering mechanism that lifts and lowers the stacking shelf, and a stacker control unit that controls the lifting and lowering mechanism. The stacker control unit controls the lifting and lowering mechanism to lift and lower the stacking shelf to a first predetermined height corresponding to the printer at a receiving position for receiving the paper from the printer, and to lift and lower the stacking shelf to a second predetermined height corresponding to a sheet processing machine at a paper supply position for supplying paper to the sheet processing machine, the paper supply position being different from the receiving position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Horizon Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki YAMAMOTO, Kohei KASHIWAGI
  • Patent number: 11298910
    Abstract: A sheet folding apparatus includes a sheet folding unit disposed to fold a sheet and a conveyance unit disposed to feed the sheet to the sheet folding unit in a feed direction orthogonal to a fold direction of the sheet folding unit while correcting a skew of the sheet. The conveyance unit includes an elongated reference guide, a conveyance mechanism disposed to convey the sheet in the feed direction while exerting a force on the sheet toward the reference guide, an adjustment mechanism disposed to adjust an inclination of the reference guide with respect to the feed direction. The apparatus further includes an input unit through which a user inputs a folding misalignment amount of the sheet folded by the sheet folding unit. The inclination of the reference guide is corrected by the adjustment mechanism based on at least the folding misalignment amount inputted through the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HORIZON INTERNATONAL INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Tabuchi, Hiroki Yamamoto, Shigeru Wakimoto, Yoshikazu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11255074
    Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes an acceleration detection device and a controller. The acceleration detection device detects an acceleration of the work vehicle. The controller determines whether the acceleration is greater than a first threshold and reduces the a vehicle speed when the acceleration continues to be equal to or greater than the first threshold over a predetermined first determination time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Shinichiro Hosoya, Takashi Noda
  • Publication number: 20220024826
    Abstract: Provided is fibrous cellulose used for producing a concrete-pump pressure-feeding primer containing calcium carbonate powder, which is excellent in a dispersion stability and a pressure-feeding property. The fibrous cellulose is used for producing the concrete-pump pressure-feeding primer through mixing with the calcium carbonate powder. The fibrous cellulose contains ultrafine fibrous modified cellulose which has an ionic group and has a fiber width of 1,000 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: OJI HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rina TANAKA, Yoshiyuki TSUTSUMI, Hiroki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220022351
    Abstract: A component mounting system includes a plurality of component mounters, a characteristic inspection device, and a management device. Each of the component mounters transmits inspection area component information including identification information of the corresponding component mounter, information of a conveyed-in board, and identification information of an inspection-required component installed in an inspection area, to the management device. The characteristic inspection device determines whether or not the inspection-required component installed in the inspection area is an error component, and transmits the information on the determined inspection-required component to the management device as error information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: HIDEKI SUMI, RYOUJI EGUCHI, HIROKI YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11180339
    Abstract: A conveying unit 2including conveyor belts 7, a stopper 3positioning a sheet S at a folding position P on a conveying path 2, a knife-type folding unit 4, an anti-bounce roller unit 16having rollers 25a, 25b, and a motor 22 are provided. The rollers can be moved back and forth. A roller rotational speed monitoring unit 31 and a roller position setting unit 32 operatively connected to the motor are further provided. In setting mode, the rollers are moved from an upstream or a downstream of a tail end of the sheet positioned at the folding position P toward the tail end at a constant speed and stopped when the rotational speed of the rollers changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Horizon International Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Yoshikazu Nakamura, Shigeru Wakimoto, Hideaki Tabuchi
  • Patent number: 11161546
    Abstract: When left and right steering levers are both operated and the operation amount of the left lever is larger than that of the right lever, a controller calculates a correction left operation amount of the left lever according to the operation amount of the right lever, and controls a left steering clutch so as to cause a vehicle body to turn toward the left in accordance with the correction left operation amount. When left and right steering levers are both operated and the operation amount of the right lever is larger than that of the left lever, the controller calculates a correction right operation amount of the right lever according to the operation amount of the left lever, and controls a right steering clutch so as to cause the vehicle body to turn toward the right in accordance with the correction right operation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Nakano, Hiroki Yamamoto, Kazuki Kure, Souichi Tsumura
  • Patent number: 11161170
    Abstract: A control method of a continuous casting process is a method that injects molten metal from a surface layer nozzle and an inner layer nozzle into a mold and separates the molten metal of a surface layer and the molten metal of an inner layer, the control method including, using a molten metal level meter that measures a surface layer level and a flowmeter that measures a supply flow rate of the molten metal, estimating a boundary layer level on the basis of a measured value of the surface layer level, a measured value of the supply flow rate of the molten metal, and a calculated value of the supply flow rate of the molten metal, and controlling the supply flow rate of the molten metal of the surface layer nozzle and the supply flow rate of the molten metal of the inner layer nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Hiroshi Kitada
  • Publication number: 20210283679
    Abstract: A control device for continuous casting continuously producing a slab by injecting a molten metal from a nozzle to a mold and extracting the molten metal while solidifying the molten metal, includes a molten metal level meter measuring a molten metal level in the mold, a main control unit obtaining an operation amount of a flow rate adjusting mechanism that adjusts a flow rate of a molten metal injected to the mold from the nozzle such that a molten metal level measured by the molten metal level meter follows a molten metal level target value, a flowmeter measuring the flow rate of the molten metal injected to the mold from the nozzle, an input disturbance correction unit obtaining a first correction amount for the operation amount of the flow rate adjusting mechanism obtained by the main control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki YAMAMOTO