Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Yamada

Hiroshi 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).

  • Publication number: 20250118517
    Abstract: There is provided a circuit breaker handle lock device capable of enhancing work safety. By inserting slide pins through a first slotted hole of a locking plate and a second slotted hole of a lock plate and connecting the slide pins to a slide part, a handle catch and the lock plate are arranged to be slidable in the movement direction of a knob part with respect to the locking plate. A second lock hole of the slide part and a first lock hole of the locking plate communicate with each other at the OFF position of the knob part, and the locking plate is blocked with the second lock hole at the ON position of the knob part. The lock plate moves in the movement direction of the knob part while blocking the first slotted hole of the locking plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC FA COMPONENTS & SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroto YAMADA, Hiroshi MORIAI, Takayuki TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 12262752
    Abstract: A power supply unit of an aerosol generation device that supplies electric power to a load that generates aerosol including a sensor that is in an operating state among a normal state and a plurality of abnormal states, and detects an aerosol generation request while the power supply unit is in an active state, a control unit that detects a state of the sensor, and generates an error signal capable of distinguishing between a first and second abnormal states when the sensor is in at least one of the first and second abnormal states included in the plurality of abnormal states, and a notification unit that makes a notification in a different mode for each type of the error signal, wherein the control unit causes the power supply unit to undergo a transition from the active state to a sleep state after generating the error signal, and the plurality of abnormal states include a state in which supply of electric power to the load is unnecessary for detection by the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi Akao, Manabu Yamada, Hiroshi Tezuka
  • Publication number: 20250100471
    Abstract: A power supply device for a sliding door includes: a wire harness that draws a straddling portion into a door trim through a lower side of a vehicle below a lower end; a vehicle-body-side protector that draws out the straddling portion toward the sliding door; and a door-side protector that is a member configured to perform routing of the straddling portion toward an introduction portion positioned in a closing operation direction when the sliding door is fully closed, and that draws, out of a cylindrical portion toward an upper side of the vehicle, a door-side end portion of the straddling portion drawn into the introduction portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamashita, Tetsuo Yamada
  • Patent number: 12259320
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: an area light source including an emission surface from which a sub-terahertz wave is emitted to a measurement target; and a detector including an image sensor that receives a reflected wave generated by the measurement target reflecting the sub-terahertz wave emitted from the emission surface. The area light source includes: at least one point light source that emits a sub-terahertz wave; and a reflector that reflects the sub-terahertz wave emitted from the at least one point light source, to generate a sub-terahertz wave to be emitted from the emission surface. The reflector has a reflection surface that is a bumpy surface which includes two or more frequency components in a spatial frequency range and whose roughness curve element mean length RSm is at least 0.3 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Asai, Kazuhiro Yamada, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20250083957
    Abstract: A nitride contains zinc and a group 4 element. The group 4 element contained in the nitride is at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of titanium and zirconium. A content of zinc in the nitride is expressed as [Zn] atomic %. A total content of the group 4 element in the nitride is expressed as [M] atomic %. In the nitride, [M]/([Zn]+[M]) is more than 20% and less than 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicants: TDK Corporation, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yukari INOUE, Tomohiro TERADA, Junichi KIMURA, Masato UEHARA, Kenji HIRATA, Hiroshi YAMADA, Morito AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250083701
    Abstract: An action planning apparatus calculate, when one piece of scene information is listed by a scene generation unit, one or more modes and calculate, when a plurality of pieces of scene information are listed by the scene generation unit, a plurality of modes in parallel using the plurality of pieces of scene information. The action planning apparatus selects one of the modes calculated in the calculating step and outputs the selected one of the modes as action of a moving body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi YAMADA, Shota KAMEOKA
  • Publication number: 20250087552
    Abstract: At least one of transistors is in a device layer. A plurality of bumps are on one surface of the device layer. An insulating layer is on a surface of the device layer opposite to the surface having the plurality of bumps. The heat transfer layer is in contact with a surface of the insulating layer opposite to a surface on which the device layer is disposed. The heat transfer layer is formed of an insulating material having a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of the insulating layer. When the device layer is viewed in plan view, one first transistor of the transistors includes a non-overlapping portion which is a portion not overlapping with the plurality of bumps, and the heat transfer layer is continuous from a portion overlapping with the non-overlapping portion to a portion overlapping with at least one of the plurality of bumps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mari SAJI, Atsushi KUROKAWA, Hiroshi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20250068103
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first rotatable member, a second rotatable member, an air nozzle, and a pipe. The pipe includes a portion provided in a range overlapping with the first rotatable member and making one reciprocation or more in a case that when a direction crossing a feeding direction of a recording material fed in a nip is a widthwise direction of the first rotatable member, the pipe is viewed in a direction perpendicular to the widthwise direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: YASUHARU TORATANI, SHUTARO SAITO, KEISUKE YOSHIDA, YUYA YAMADA, TAKU ASHIDA, ASUNA FUKAMACHI, SHOHEI TSUZAKI, YUSUKE YAMAGUCHI, HIROSHI MIYAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12231807
    Abstract: A video transmission apparatus (10) includes: a specified-position information acquisition unit (110) that acquires specified-position information indicating a specified position in an area to be surveilled including each imaging region corresponding to each of a plurality of imaging apparatuses; and a video transmission control unit (120) that selects at least one imaging apparatus from among the plurality of imaging apparatuses using imaging position information indicating a position or an imaging range of each of the plurality of imaging apparatuses and the specified-position information and transmits a video captured by the selected imaging apparatus to a video sharing apparatus that is to share the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mika Saito, Kenichiro Ida, Ryoma Oami, Junko Nakagawa, Hiroshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20250055956
    Abstract: A video transmission apparatus (10) includes: a specified-position information acquisition unit (110) that acquires specified-position information indicating a specified position in an area to be surveilled including each imaging region corresponding to each of a plurality of imaging apparatuses; and a video transmission control unit (120) that selects at least one imaging apparatus from among the plurality of imaging apparatuses using imaging position information indicating a position or an imaging range of each of the plurality of imaging apparatuses and the specified-position information and transmits a video captured by the selected imaging apparatus to a video sharing apparatus that is to share the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Mika SAITO, Kenichiro IDA, Ryoma OAMI, Junko NAKAGAWA, Hiroshi YAMADA
  • Patent number: 12221664
    Abstract: Using an apparatus for manufacturing a thin steel sheet including the followings which are arranged in order: a continuous casting machine (1) for a thin slab having a slab thickness of 70 mm to 120 mm at a lower end of a mold; a holding furnace (2) that is configured to maintain a temperature of a cast slab (10) and/or heats the cast slab (10); and a rolling stand (3) by which finish rolling is performed, the casting speed of the thin slab is set to 4 to 7 m/min, the slab (10) is reduced at a rolling reduction of 30% or more by the reduction roll (4) after solidification is completed and when a center temperature of the slab is 1300° C. or higher, and the slab (10) is held at a temperature of 1150° C. or higher and 1300° C. or lower for five minutes or longer in the holding furnace (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Takayama, Hiroshi Harada, Kenji Yamada, Masashi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20250042259
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a traveling motor and an accelerator operation part. The traveling motor is coupled to a wheel. The accelerator operation part is to be operated by a driver. The vehicle control apparatus includes a control system including a processor and a memory communicably coupled to each other. A control mode adapted to control the traveling motor includes a torque control mode of feedback-controlling a motor torque and a speed control mode of feedback-controlling a motor rotation speed. When a motor lock is detected, the control system detects an operation amount of the accelerator operation part and calculates a switching threshold by adding a predetermined amount to the operation amount. The control system switches the control mode to the speed control mode when: the accelerator operation part is further operated while the motor lock has continued; and the operation amount exceeds the switching threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Keigo YAMADA, Yoshinobu YAMAZAKI, Yoshiyuki JIN, Akihiro NABESHIMA, Takeshi YONEDA, Fumiya SATO, Hiroshi KUSANO, Takumi ARAKI, Shuntaro MIURA
  • Patent number: 12218068
    Abstract: A through electrode substrate according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate having a first surface, a second surface, and a through-hole that penetrates between the first surface and the second surface and a through electrode disposed inside of the through-hole. The through electrode includes a first portion that closes part of the through-hole adjacent to the first surface and a second portion disposed along the internal surface of the through-hole. The thinnest part of the first portion in a direction perpendicular to the first surface has a thickness of A, the thinnest part of the second portion has a thickness of B, and the diameter of the through-hole on the first surface has a length of C. The relationship A<C<A+B×2 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kudo, Miyuki Suzuki, Shohei Yamada
  • Publication number: 20250026383
    Abstract: A monitoring device has a processor configured to determine whether a degree of preparedness of a driver to initiate manual control is a first degree in which manual control of a vehicle is possible, a second degree which is allowed while the vehicle is being operated by automatic control or a third degree which is not allowed while the vehicle is being operated by automatic control, based on posture information indicating a posture of the driver, acquired while the vehicle is being operated by automatic control, and a notification control unit that provides a predetermined notification to increase the degree of preparedness of the driver to initiate manual control, via a notification unit, when it has been determined that the degree of preparedness to initiate manual control is the third degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Udara Eshan Manawadu, Takuhiro Omi, Hiroshi Morimoto, Kenta Yamada
  • Patent number: 12204277
    Abstract: Provided is a toner including toner base particles and resin particles. Each toner base particle includes a binder resin, a colorant, and wax. Each resin particle e has a core-shell structure including a core and a shell, where a glass transition temperature TgA of the shell is higher than a glass transition temperature TgB of the core. A surface of each toner base particle is covered with the resin particles. A storage elastic modulus G?1 of the toner at 70° C. during heating is 1.0×105 Pa or greater but 1.0×103 Pa or less, and a storage elastic modulus G?2 of the toner at 100° C. during heating is 1.0×104 Pa or greater but 5.0×104 Pa or less, as the toner is measured by a rheometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kamada, Hiroshi Yamada, Toma Takebayashi, Akio Takei
  • Patent number: 12202552
    Abstract: A vehicle exterior member having a self-neutralizing function which can improve running characteristics and steering stability of a vehicle without impairing the design property has a fiber molded member containing a needle-punched nonwoven fabric or knitted fabric. The fibers constituting the fiber molded member contain a conductive fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: HAYASHI TELEMPU CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kensaku Sakai, Hiroshi Suzuki, Koushi Yamada, Motoi Iida, Masaru Shirota
  • Patent number: 12205875
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to the present embodiment includes a substrate and a semiconductor chip. The substrate has a first face and a plurality of conductive connection parts provided on the first face. The semiconductor chip has a second face that faces the first face and a plurality of connection bumps provided on the second face and electrically connected to the plurality of conductive connection parts. The conductive connection part arranged in a chip outer peripheral region of a chip region on the first face where the semiconductor chip is arranged is different in thickness from the conductive connection part arranged in a chip central region of the chip region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Tsukiyama, Hideo Aoki, Hiroshi Oota, Tomoyasu Yamada, Yuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12175687
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (2000) includes a first analyzing unit (2020), a second analyzing unit (2040), and an estimating unit (2060). The first analyzing unit (2020) calculates a flow of a crowd in a capturing range of a fixed camera (10) using a first surveillance image (12). The second analyzing unit (2040) calculates a distribution of an attribute of objects in a capturing range of a moving camera (20) using a second surveillance image (22). The estimating unit (2060) estimates an attribute distribution for a range that is not included in the capturing range of the moving camera (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoma Oami, Katsuhiko Takahashi, Yusuke Konishi, Hiroshi Yamada, Hiroo Ikeda, Junko Nakagawa, Kosuke Yoshimi, Ryo Kawai, Takuya Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12174291
    Abstract: In an object determination apparatus, a same-object determiner is configured to make a same-object determination as to whether a first object ahead of a subject vehicle that is a vehicle carrying the object determination apparatus, detected by an electromagnetic wave sensor, and a second object ahead of the subject vehicle, detected by an image sensor, are the same object. A candidate-object identifier is configured to identify a candidate for the first object, between which and the second object the same-object determination is to be made, as a candidate object. A candidate-object selector is configured to, in response to there being a plurality of the candidate objects, preferentially select, from the plurality of candidate objects, a candidate object whose likelihood for the identified object type of the second object is higher than a predetermined likelihood threshold, as a candidate object to be subjected to the same-object determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei Masui, Naoki Kusumoto, Hiroshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240421225
    Abstract: High-voltage transistors that may be fabricated in a standard low-voltage process. Embodiments include integrated circuits that combine, in a unitary structure, an LDMOS FET device that includes one or more dummy polysilicon structures (DPS's) overlying a drift region and comparable in configuration to the FET gate, and interstitial implant resistance pockets (IRP) formed within the drift region between the gate and an adjacent DPS and between each pair of adjacent DPS's. The IRPs may be augmented with floating contacts to remove heat from the drift region and provide additional shielding of the drain contact from the nearest edge of the gate. The IRPs may be biased to modulate the conductivity of the drift region. The DPS's may be biased to modulate the conductivity of the drift region, and in such a way as to protect each DPS from excessive and potentially destructive voltages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Jagar Singh, Anil Kumar, Sinan Goktepeli, Hiroshi Yamada, Akira Fujihara, Tsunekazu Saimei, Kazuhiko Shibata