Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Hiroyuki 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).

  • Publication number: 20160238181
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pipe structure including a pipe that is disposed along an approximately horizontal direction, and has a plurality of ducts through which a gaseous body having a higher temperature than a temperature of a surrounding atmosphere continuously flows, and a plurality of couplings each connecting the ducts together; and a cover covering an outer periphery of the pipe. The cover defines a plurality of vents from which the gaseous body leaking from the pipe flows out of the cover at an interval in a length direction of the pipe. As the plurality of vents, the cover includes at least first vents located corresponding to the couplings. Respective positions of the first vents are substantially set within a range from a two o'clock position to a ten o'clock position through a six o'clock position in a cross sectional surface of the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Tadahiko SUZUTA, Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO, Kei TAKAO, Ichiro MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20160238180
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pipe structure including: a pipe through which a gaseous body having a higher temperature than a temperature of a surrounding atmosphere flows; a cover that covers an outer peripheral portion of the pipe, and defines a plurality of vents from which the gaseous body leaking from the pipe flows out; and a line-shaped sensor that passes a position corresponding to each of the plurality of vents, and is sensitive to a temperature or a concentration of the gaseous body outside the cover, wherein the sensor includes a range in which the sensor rises upward from the position corresponding to the vent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO, Tadahiko SUZUTA, Kei TAKAO, Ichiro MAEDA
  • Patent number: 9395872
    Abstract: A facilities controlling device includes a file acquiring portion that acquires a screen file from a storing portion and acquires a corresponding image file, display script file and processing script file from the storing portion, a data processing portion that acquires, from a device, device data corresponding to data identifying information in the screen file acquired by the file acquiring portion, and performs data processing on the acquired device data based on a processing script in the processing script file corresponding to the device data obtained by the file acquiring portion, and a display processing portion that displays, in a screen, the device data produced by the data processing portion and a symbol of the image file acquired by the file acquiring portion, based on the display script in the display script file acquired by the file acquiring portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Yamada, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20160202330
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic sensor device having a structure in which a plurality of MTJ structures, each using a ferromagnetic layer having an in-plane axis of easy magnetization and a ferromagnetic layer having a perpendicular axis of easy magnetization, are laminated. By a single device, magnetic fields in two or more directions can be sensed, or a plurality of magnetic field ranges including a small magnetic field and a relatively large magnetic field can be sensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO, Akihiko KANDORI, Katsuya MIURA
  • Patent number: 9386122
    Abstract: A server selecting apparatus which is configured to communicate with at least one image processing apparatus includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with the at least one image processing apparatus; and a control device. The control device is configured to: acquire, via the communication unit, specific function information as to whether the at least one image processing apparatus is capable of executing the processing of a specific function which is a specific image processing function; identify at least one specific-function executable apparatus which is capable of executing the processing of the specific function from among the at least one image processing apparatus, based on the specific function information; and select one image processing apparatus as a specific server, which manages execution information of the specific function with respect to all of the at least one specific-function executable apparatus, from among the at least one specific-function executable apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20160172158
    Abstract: To realize a focused-ion-beam machining apparatus capable of machining a thin sample with a wide area and a uniform film thickness and a needle-like sample with a sharp tip, in a focused-ion-beam machining apparatus including: an ion source (1); an electronic lens (3) focusing an ion beam extracted from the ion source (1) and irradiating the ion beam to a sample (5); and a sample holder (13) holding the sample (5), the sample holder (13) is provided with a shield electrode (7) arranged in a manner such as to cover the sample (5), and the sample (5) and the shield electrode (7) are insulated from each other in a manner such that voltages can be applied to them separately from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Noriyuki LEE, Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO, Akira SUGAWARA
  • Publication number: 20160167345
    Abstract: Provided is a sheet 2 for forming a protective film including a protective film-forming film 1 of which the light transmittance at a wavelength of 1600 nm is 25% or greater, and light transmittance at a wavelength of 550 nm is 20% or less, and a release sheet 21 which is laminated on one or both surfaces of the protective film-forming film 1. According to such a sheet 2 for forming a protective film, cracks existing in a workpiece or a manufactured product obtained by processing the workpiece can be inspected and a protective film in which grinding marks existing in the workpiece or the manufactured product are not visually recognized can be formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Naoya Saiki, Daisuke Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Ken Takano
  • Publication number: 20160154615
    Abstract: A printing system including a printer and an information processing apparatus, the printer being configured to receive image data from the information processing apparatus, store the image data, generate image identification information identifying the image data, and transmit the image identification information to the information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus being configured to store the received image identification information in association with an information-processor user ID, and transmit an inquiry about a login user to the printer, the printer returning a printer user ID of the login user to the information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus transmitting to the printer a print command and the image data stored in association with the information-processor user ID when the received printer user ID is coincident with the stored information-processor user ID, the printer performing a printing operation based on the received image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventor: Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9357181
    Abstract: A tracking assistance device includes: a target-to-be-tracked setting unit that, in response to an input operation performed by a monitoring person on one of display views to designate a moving object to be tracked, sets the designated moving object as a target to be tracked, the display views displaying captured images taken by respective cameras and stored in a recorder; a camera selection unit that, based on tracing information obtained by processing the captured images, selects any of the cameras inferred to have taken an image of the moving object designated as the target to be tracked from among the cameras other than the camera corresponding to the display view on which the target to be tracked was designated; and a playback unit that causes the captured images taken by each camera selected by the camera selection unit to be displayed in a corresponding one of the display views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Fujimatsu, Sonoko Hirasawa, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9284215
    Abstract: There is provided a glass for chemical strengthening having a gray-based color tone and excelling in characteristics preferred for the purposes of housing or decoration of an electronic device, that is, bubble quality, strength, and light transmittance characteristics. A glass for chemical strengthening contains, in mole percentage based on following oxides, 55% to 80% of SiO2, 3% to 16% of Al2O3, 0% to 12% of B2O3, 5% to 16% of Na2O, 0% to 4% of K2O, 0% to 15% of MgO, 0% to 3% of CaO, 0% to 18% of ?RO (where R represents Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba or Zn), 0% to 1% of ZrO2, 0.01% to 0.2% of Co3O4, 0.05% to 1% of NiO, and 0.01% to 3% of Fe2O3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Kazuhide Kuno
  • Publication number: 20160063731
    Abstract: To improve, when performing tracking of moving objects by using captured images taken by multiple cameras, the accuracy of the tracking process across the cameras, a tracking processing device includes: a storage unit that stores, for each camera, a plurality of pieces of intra-camera tracking information including image information of persons obtained from the captured images; a refining unit that performs refining of the plurality of pieces of intra-camera tracking information and thereby extracts pieces of inter-camera tracking information to be used in a process of tracking the persons across the multiple cameras; and an associating unit that, on the basis of the pieces of inter-camera tracking information, associates the persons in the captured images across the multiple cameras.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO, Takeshi FUJIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20160051920
    Abstract: A filter media for an air filter having a PF value higher than ever, and an air filter provided with the same. The filter media for an air filter is composed of wet-laid nonwoven fabric containing a glass fiber having an average fiber diameter of less than 1 ?m, and a binder fiber, and wherein the wet-laid nonwoven fabric contains a fluorine resin and a surfactant, and does not contain a resin binder or contains a binder resin in an amount of 50% by mass or less based on the fluorine resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Masashi SATO, Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO, Eiko MEGURO, Junji NEMOTO, Toshihiko SOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160039709
    Abstract: In glass or chemically tempered glass containing a coloring component, when chromaticity of a major surface is measured on the glass in a state of a glass plate with a 0.8 mm thickness, at least one of an absolute value of a difference (?a*(D65?F2)) and is an absolute value of a difference (?a*(A?F2)) is 2.10 or more, where the difference (?a*(D65?F2)) is a difference between a chromaticity a* value of reflected light by a D65 light source and a chromaticity a* value of reflected light by an F2 light source in an L*a*b* color system and the difference (?a*(A?F2)) is a difference between a chromaticity a* value of reflected light by an A light source and the chromaticity a* value of the reflected light by the F2 light source in the L*a*b* color system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO, Kazuhide KUNO, Makoto SHIRATORI
  • Publication number: 20160031747
    Abstract: Coating film-attached glass includes: glass containing a coloring component; and a colored coating film formed on one major surface of the glass, wherein at least one of an absolute value of a difference between (?a*(D65?F2)) of the glass and (?a*(D65?F2)) of the coating film and an absolute value of a difference between (?a*(A?F2)) of the glass and (?a*(A?F2)) of the coating film is 0.2 or more, where (?a*(D65?F2)) is a difference between a chromaticity a* value of reflected light by a D65 light source and a chromaticity a* value of reflected light by an F2 light source in an L*a*b* color system and (?a*(A?F2)) is a difference between a chromaticity a* value of reflected light by an A light source and the chromaticity a* value of the reflected light by the F2 light source in the L*a*b* color system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO, Kazuhide KUNO, Makoto SHIRATORI
  • Patent number: 9251599
    Abstract: A tracking assistance device includes: a target-to-be-tracked setting unit that causes captured images stored in a recorder to be displayed on a monitor and, in response to an input operation performed by a monitoring person to designate a moving object to be tracked, sets the designated moving object as a target to be tracked; a candidates selection unit that selects, as a candidate(s), a moving object(s) highly relevant with the moving object set as the target to be tracked; a candidate image presenting unit that extracts, as a candidate image(s), a captured image(s) in which the candidate moving object(s) is(are) included, and causes the monitor to display the candidate image(s) is(are) such that the monitoring person selects an appropriate candidate image; and a tracing information correction unit that changes the target to be tracked to the moving object associated with the selected candidate image and corrects the tracing information accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sonoko Hirasawa, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20160027990
    Abstract: A crystal vibration device where a crystal unit is supported on a case substrate in a cantilever manner by first and second conductive adhesive layers. The crystal unit has a length direction and is formed using a rectangular-plate-shaped crystal substrate and A>4.30t+0.16, where A (mm) represents a shorter distance among distances between a central axis of the crystal substrate and end portions of the first and second conductive adhesive layers on a central axis side, and t (?m) represents a thickness of the crystal substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO, Masaru ASAI
  • Patent number: 9230686
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes: a plurality of memory banks each including a plurality of memory cells; a plurality of redundant circuits each allocated to an associated one of the plurality of memory banks to replace a defective memory cell among the plurality of memory cells included in the associated memory bank; a plurality of roll call circuits allocated to an associated one of the plurality of memory banks to generate a roll call data when an address corresponding to the defective memory cell is supplied; and a plurality of data buses commonly allocated to the plurality of memory banks. The roll call circuits output the roll call data to the plurality of data buses in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuichi Kubouchi, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150365068
    Abstract: A quartz vibrating device that includes a quartz vibrator supported upon a case board in a cantilever state. The quartz vibrator is electrically connected to first and second mount electrodes by first and second conductive adhesive layers. A total S (mm2) of bonding surface areas of portions bonding the quartz vibrator to the case board by the first and second conductive adhesive layers is in a range of S??0.001t+0.22 when a thickness of a quartz substrate is t (?m).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: HIROYUKI YAMAMOTO, Masaru Asai
  • Patent number: 9191633
    Abstract: A tracking assistance device for assisting a monitoring person in tracking a moving object by displaying on a display device a monitoring screen in which display views for displaying in real time captured images taken by respective cameras are arranged on a map image representing a monitored area in accordance with an actual arrangement of the cameras, includes: a target-to-be-tracked setting unit that, in response to an input operation performed by the monitoring person on one of the display views to designate a moving object to be tracked, sets the designated moving object as a target to be tracked; a prediction unit that predicts a next display view in which the moving object set as the target to be tracked will appear next based on tracing information obtained by processing the captured images; and a display view indicating unit that indicates the next display view on the monitoring screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Fujimatsu, Sonoko Hirasawa, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9153306
    Abstract: Provided is a tunnel magnetoresistive effect element such that a high TMR ratio and a low write current can be realized, and the thermal stability factor (E/kBT) of a recording layer and a pinned layer is increased while an increase in resistance of the element as a whole is suppressed, thus enabling a stable operation. On at least one of a recording layer 21 and a pinned layer 22 each comprising CoFeB, electrically conductive oxide layers 31 and 32 are disposed on a side opposite to a tunnel barrier layer 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hideo Ohno, Shoji Ikeda, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Yosuke Kurosaki, Katsuya Miura