Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Yoshida
Hiroyuki Yoshida 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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Patent number: 11328947Abstract: An aligner apparatus according to one or more embodiments may include a first rotating base, a second rotating base, and a detection apparatus. The first rotating base on which a wafer placed thereon rotates around a first rotation axis line. The second rotating base on which a wafer placed thereon rotates around a second rotation axis whose position is different from that of the first rotation axis line. The detection apparatus includes one sensor for detecting the edge of the wafer, and the detection range of the sensor includes the edge of the wafer placed on the first rotating base and the edge of the wafer placed on the second rotating base, and detects the edges of the two wafers.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KAWASAKI ROBOTICS (USA), INC.Inventors: Haruhiko Tan, Hajime Nakahara, Shota Tominaga, Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Publication number: 20220120942Abstract: A liquid crystal element (100) refracts and outputs light. The liquid crystal element (100) includes a first electrode (1), a second electrode (2), an insulating layer (21) that is an electric insulator, a resistance layer (22), a liquid crystal layer (23) including liquid crystal, and a third electrode (3). The insulating layer (21) is disposed between each location of the first and second electrodes (1) and (2) and the resistance layer (22) to insulate the first and second electrodes (1) and (2) from the resistance layer (22). The resistance layer (22) has an electrical resistivity higher than that of the first electrode (1) and lower than that of the insulating layer (21). The resistance layer (22) and the liquid crystal layer (23) are disposed between the insulating layer (21) and the third electrode (3). The resistance layer (22) is disposed between the insulating layer (21) and the liquid crystal layer (23).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Giichi SHIBUYA, Hiroyuki YOSHIDA, Masanori OZAKI
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Publication number: 20220116527Abstract: An imaging device capable of detecting an attitude of a display unit with respect to a body unit is miniaturized. Therefore, an imaging device includes: a display support unit configured to support a display unit that displays an image captured by a body unit; a first arm unit of which one end is connected to the display support unit; a first magnet provided in one of the display support unit and the first arm unit; and a first magnetic sensor provided in the other of the display support unit and the first arm unit. A pivoting state of the display support unit and the first arm unit is variable using a first pivoting axis as a support point axis. The first magnetic sensor receives a magnetic field released from the first magnet and outputs a signal in accordance with the pivoting state of the display support unit and the first arm unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2019Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: GENKI YUZAWA, YOHEI KOYANAGI, SHINJI SHIBA, TAIKI UNO, HIROYUKI YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 11292928Abstract: An active energy ray-curable inkjet ink containing polymerizable compounds and a polymerization initiator, wherein the polymerizable compounds include at least 5 types of polyfunctional polymerizable compounds having molecular weights within a range from 150 to 500, and include substantially no monofunctional polymerizable compounds.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignees: TOYO INK SC HOLDINGS CO., LTD., TOYOCOLOR CO., LTDInventors: Yohei Konda, Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Patent number: 11291431Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein an examination assisting program that causes a computer to execute a process including: performing a site detecting process that uses an object detection technique on each of a plurality of ultrasound examination images taken of an examined subject by performing a scan on the examined subject; and displaying a site detection map in which a detection result of each of a plurality of sites included in the examined subject is kept in correspondence with the scan, on a basis of detection results from the site detecting process.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignees: FUJITSU LIMITED, RIKEN, SHOWA UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL CANCER CENTERInventors: Masaaki Komatsu, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Akira Sakai, Akihiko Sekizawa, Ryu Matsuoka, Ryuji Hamamoto
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Publication number: 20220057676Abstract: A display device includes an optical waveguide layer, a variable refractive index layer, and an optical layer. The refractive index of the variable refractive index layer changes in response to application of a drive voltage. The optical layer reflects or absorbs light. The variable refractive index layer reflects the light to be guided through the optical waveguide layer 11 toward the inside of the optical waveguide layer depending on the refractive index of the variable refractive index layer to allow the optical waveguide layer to guide the reflected light. The variable refractive index layer introduces the light to be guided through the optical waveguide layer into the variable refractive index layer depending on the refractive index of the variable refractive index layer and emits the introduced light out of the variable refractive index layer. The optical layer reflects or absorbs the light emitted from the variable refractive index layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2019Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroyuki YOSHIDA, SeongYong CHO, Masanori OZAKI
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Patent number: 11257205Abstract: An image measuring method performed with an image measuring device measuring a dimension of a measured object from an image of the measured object captured by an image capturer. The method executes a standard reference object measurement measuring a dimension of the standard reference object with the image measuring device; a standard reference dimension input inputting a dimension of the standard reference object specified by a device other than the image measuring device; a preset value calculation calculating a preset value from the dimension of the measured standard reference object and from a dimension of the standard reference object measured by a predetermined measurement tool; a measurement measuring a dimension of a measured object other than the standard reference object using the image measuring device; and a correction correcting the dimension of the measured object other than the standard reference object measured by the image measuring device.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Gyokubu Cho, Koichi Komatsu, Akira Takada, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Takashi Hanamura, Takuho Maeda, Makoto Kaieda, Isao Tokuhara
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Patent number: 11249224Abstract: A liquid crystal element (100) refracts and outputs light. The liquid crystal element (100) includes a first electrode (1), a second electrode (2), an insulating layer (21) that is an electric insulator, a resistance layer (22), a liquid crystal layer (23) including liquid crystal, and a third electrode (3). The insulating layer (21) is disposed between each location of the first and second electrodes (1) and (2) and the resistance layer (22) to insulate the first and second electrodes (1) and (2) from the resistance layer (22). The resistance layer (22) has an electrical resistivity higher than that of the first electrode (1) and lower than that of the insulating layer (21). The resistance layer (22) and the liquid crystal layer (23) are disposed between the insulating layer (21) and the third electrode (3). The resistance layer (22) is disposed between the insulating layer (21) and the liquid crystal layer (23).Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Giichi Shibuya, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Masanori Ozaki
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Patent number: 11211182Abstract: A cable conductor includes a conductor portion and an insulating material covering the conductor portion. The conductor portion includes a plurality of conductive materials having different characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Hideomi Adachi, Takeshi Ogue, Masahide Tsuru, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Kenta Yanazawa, Toshihiro Nagashima, Tetsuo Yamada
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Patent number: 11177056Abstract: A waterproofing structure for shielded cable includes: a shielded cable including one or more cables and a braided wire serving as a shielding member and covering the cables; and a grommet serving as a waterproofing member covering a waterproofed portion of the braided wire. Thermoplastic resins serving as waterproofing fillers are respectively disposed on an inner side and an outer side of the waterproofed portion of the braided wire. The gaps between the plurality of strands of the braided wire and the gap between the braided wire and the small-diameter cylindrical portion of the grommet are filled with the thermoplastic resin melted by heating.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Ogue, Hideomi Adachi, Masahide Tsuru, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Kenta Yanazawa, Toshihiro Nagashima, Tetsuo Yamada
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Patent number: 11177625Abstract: A laser apparatus comprising a laser diode module/cooling plate assembly in which a plurality of LD modules to which a driving current is supplied in series is disposed on the surface of a cooling plate, comprising: a laser power source; switch valves for switching a flow direction of a cooling liquid flowing through a cooling liquid flow path; a timing determination apparatus for determining the timing for switching the flow direction of the cooling liquid, by referencing temperature time series data of at least any one temperature variation part in the laser diode module/cooling plate assembly having temperature variations due to heat generated in a heat-generating part of the laser diode module; and a control circuit for outputting a driving current output command to the laser power source and outputting a valve switch command to the switch valves by referencing the determination result of the timing determination apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Takigawa, Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Patent number: 11170913Abstract: A waterproofing structure for shielded cable includes: a shielded cable including one or more cables and a braided wire serving as a shielding member and covering the cables; a grommet serving as a waterproofing member and covering a waterproofed portion on the braided wire; and a heat shrinkable tube including an adhesive disposed to cover the waterproofed portion of the braided wire 13. The adhesive pushed into the braided wire by heat shrinkage of the heat shrinkable tube fills a gap between a plurality of strands of the braided wire in an entire region of the waterproofed portion and a gap between the cable and the braided wire. A space between an outer circumferential surface of the heat shrinkable tube and a part of an inner circumferential surface of the waterproofing member is blocked without any gap in a circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Ogue, Hideomi Adachi, Masahide Tsuru, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Kenta Yanazawa, Toshihiro Nagashima, Tetsuo Yamada
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Patent number: 11150392Abstract: An optical element 1 includes a first layer (A1) and a second layer (A2) that faces the first layer (A1). The first layer (A1) includes a plurality of first structural bodies (B1) that each have optical anisotropy. In reflection of light entering from the first layer (A1), the second layer (A2) reflects the light while maintaining a polarization state of the light at incidence and at the reflection. The first layer (A1) changes, according to directions of orientation of the first structural bodies (B1), a phase of the light from a phase at incidence to the first layer (A1) from outside of the first layer (A1) to a phase at output from the first layer (A1) toward the second layer (A2). The first layer (A1) changes the phase of the light from a phase at incidence to the first layer (A1) from the second layer (A2) to a phase at output from the first layer (A1) toward the outside of the first layer (A1) according to the directions of orientation of the first structural bodies (B1).Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventor: Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Patent number: 11133643Abstract: A laser apparatus includes: a cooling capacity control means which controls the cooling capacity of a heat receiving/cooling unit; a surrounding member which surrounds a dew condensation prevention target unit including a heat generating unit and which reaches a surrounding member equilibrium temperature higher than the maximum dew point temperature within a housing as the temperature of the heat generating unit is increased; and a temperature detection means which detects the temperature of the surrounding member, a control unit compares, while a current output command is being output to a laser power supply unit, a surrounding member temperature with a switching temperature previously set lower than the surrounding member equilibrium temperature and when the surrounding member temperature is lower than the switching temperature, the control unit controls the cooling capacity control means such that the cooling capacity of the heat receiving/cooling unit is a low level whereas when the surrounding member temType: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Takigawa, Yuji Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Tadashi Kurosawa, Atsushi Mori, Toshiyasu Shiomi, Michinori Maeda, Akihiko Nishio
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Publication number: 20210291323Abstract: A support jig is configured to be capable of supporting a first vibrationproof material including a first outer cylinder and a second vibrationproof material including a second outer cylinder, the support jig including a jig main body that accommodates lower portions of the first and second vibrationproof materials, and an adapter configured to be selectively attachable onto an upper portion of the jig main body. The jig main body includes, at an upper end portion, a main body counterbore portion for supporting the first vibrationproof material from below while horizontally positioning the first vibrationproof material at the first outer cylinder, in a state where no adapter is attached. The adapter includes, at an upper end portion, an adapter counterbore portion for supporting the second vibrationproof material from below while horizontally positioning the second vibrationproof material at the second outer cylinder, in a state where the adapter is attached.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Patent number: 11074681Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing therein an anomalousness determination program that causes a computer to execute a process includes: sensing a region in an object in each of a plurality of ultrasound examination images using an object sensing technique; based on a result of the sensing and a structure of the object, acquiring a result of sensing each of a plurality of regions in the object in each of the ultrasound examination images; and determining anomalousness in the object based on the result of sensing each of the regions in the ultrasound examination images.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignees: FUJITSU LIMITED, RIKEN, SHOWA UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL CANCER CENTERInventors: Masaaki Komatsu, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Akira Sakai, Akihiko Sekizawa, Ryu Matsuoka, Ryuji Hamamoto
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Publication number: 20210214568Abstract: An active energy ray-curable inkjet ink containing polymerizable compounds and a polymerization initiator, wherein the polymerizable compounds include at least 5 types of polyfunctional polymerizable compounds having molecular weights within a range from 150 to 500, and include substantially no monofunctional polymerizable compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2019Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicants: TOYO INK SC HOLDINGS CO., LTD, TOYOCOLOR CO. LTD.Inventors: Yohei KONDA, Hiroyuki YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 11027675Abstract: A wire harness includes a harness main body including one or a plurality of conductive paths and an exterior member through which the one or a plurality of conductive paths is inserted, a packing bent portion arranged in a middle of the harness main body and used as a bent portion at a position suitable for packing the wire harness, and a routing path regulating portion arranged at the position suitable for packing the wire harness and configured to regulate the wire harness at a desired path when routing the wire harness.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Hideomi Adachi, Takeshi Ogue, Masahide Tsuru, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Toshihiro Nagashima, Tetsuo Yamada, Kenta Yanazawa
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Patent number: 11017457Abstract: An information processing system includes a local server and a cloud server. The cloud server includes the following. A receiver receives input of temporary input data. A transmitter transmits the temporary input data based on a transmitting request from the local server. The local server includes the following. A monitoring unit monitors whether the temporary input data is received in the cloud server. A transmitting request unit requests the temporary input data when the monitoring unit determines that the temporary input data is received. A receiver receives the temporary input data. A reflecting unit reflects the temporary input data on a data input form. A registering unit registers data input on the data input form in a database of the local server when data input on the data input form is finished.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Publication number: 20210088006Abstract: A fuel adsorption apparatus may include a tubular housing accommodating a pillar adsorbent configured to adsorb and desorb evaporated fuel. The housing may include a tubular accommodating portion accommodating the pillar adsorbent and disposed spaced apart from an outer peripheral surface of the pillar adsorbent. The housing may also include a support portion extending from an end of the accommodating portion such that the support portion is inclined toward an axis of the housing. The support portion may be structured and arranged to support the pillar adsorbent at an edge disposed between an axial end face of the pillar adsorbent and the outer peripheral surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventor: Hiroyuki Yoshida