Patents by Inventor Ichiro Yamamoto
Ichiro 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).
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Patent number: 11916296Abstract: An antenna device, for a mobile body, of this disclosure includes an antenna configured to be installed in the mobile body, and a reflector having a reflection surface configured to change a beam direction of the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yutaro Miki, Suguru Yamagishi, Takanori Fukunaga, Ichiro Kuwayama, Toyohisa Takano, Hiroki Hirai, Norichika Oomi, Kosuke Sone, Yasuyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11887090Abstract: A management apparatus capable of reducing troubles with cash operations to be performed by store clerks and decreasing the costs for store operations is provided. A self-payment system includes a scanning station, a payment station, and a management server. The payment station includes a money-insertion acceptance unit for accepting insertion of cash upon payment for a product to be purchased that has been registered on the basis of the scanning station, and a money-ejection acceptance unit for accepting ejection of cash on the basis of a manipulation performed by a customer on the payment station.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: FUJITSU FRONTECH LIMITEDInventors: Shigekazu Akita, Ichiro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20210350349Abstract: A management apparatus capable of reducing troubles with cash operations to be performed by store clerks and decreasing the costs for store operations is provided. A self-payment system includes a scanning station, a payment station, and a management server. The payment station includes a money-insertion acceptance unit for accepting insertion of cash upon payment for a product to be purchased that has been registered on the basis of the scanning station, and a money-ejection acceptance unit for accepting ejection of cash on the basis of a manipulation performed by a customer on the payment station.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Shigekazu AKITA, Ichiro YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 10449988Abstract: There is provided a steering wheel including (1) a resin body made of resin, (2) a decorative body that is provided separately from the resin body, and (3) a placement member that is disposed between the resin body and the decorative body and that is moved by the decorative body when the decorative body has been relatively displaced.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Yoshiaki Maekubo, Ichiro Yamamoto, Taichi Hino, Tamio Harada, Hiroshi Ohira
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Publication number: 20180009462Abstract: A decorative member for a steering wheel which is used for being attached to a resin member formed around a ring core metal of a steering wheel. The decorative member includes a base layer attached to the resin member, a design part arranged on the base layer, and a heater arranged between the design part and the base layer. The base layer may include an extraction part at an intermediate position in a longitudinal direction thereof such that a lead wire connected with the heater is led out of the extraction part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: Ichiro YAMAMOTO, Yoshiaki MAEKUBO
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Patent number: 9822683Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine is provided with a filter including a selective catalytic reduction NOx catalyst carried thereon. Further, a post-catalyst is provided for an exhaust gas passage disposed on a downstream side from the filter. The post-catalyst has an oxidizing function, and the post-catalyst has such a function that the production of N2 based on the oxidation of ammonia is facilitated in a predetermined first temperature area. A filter regeneration process execution unit is programmed to control the temperature of the post-catalyst to be in the first temperature area while adjusting the temperature of the filter to be in a predetermined second temperature area lower than a filter regeneration temperature during a certain period of time.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2012Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihisa Tsukamoto, Nobumoto Ohashi, Shigeki Nakayama, Akira Mikami, Kenji Sakurai, Hiroshi Otsuki, Junichi Matsuo, Keishi Takada, Ichiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9662612Abstract: An object of the present invention is to appropriately remove, from an exhaust gas, HC, CO, and ammonia flowing out from a filter (SCRF) on which an SCR catalyst is carried. In the present invention, a post-catalyst 8 is provided for an exhaust gas passage of an internal combustion engine on a downstream side from SCRF along with a flow of the exhaust gas. The post-catalyst 8 is constructed to include an adsorption reduction part 81c which adsorbs ammonia and which reduces NOx by using ammonia as a reducing agent, a first oxidation part 81b which oxidizes ammonia, and a second oxidation part 82 which oxidizes HO and CO.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2012Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akira Mikami, Shigeki Nakayama, Nobumoto Ohashi, Keishi Takada, Kenji Sakurai, Yoshihisa Tsukamoto, Hiroshi Otsuki, Junichi Matsuo, Ichiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9651139Abstract: Disclosed is an automatic transmission shifter which comprises a shifter body, and a shift lever. The shifter body comprises a housing having a gate, and a lever contact noise-preventing element. The shift lever comprises a lever shaft and a locking piece. The lever contact noise-preventing element comprises a shaft contact noise-preventing portion configured to prevent contact noise between the lever shaft penetrating the gate and the shifter body, and a locking piece contact noise-preventing portion integrally formed with the shaft contact noise-preventing portion and configured to prevent contact noise between the locking piece and the shifter body. The housing and the lever contact noise-preventing element are formed by a double molding process.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: DELTA KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Ichiro Yamamoto, Yuji Shiwa, Yuya Ishihara
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Patent number: 9593610Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique with which an amount of reducing agent adsorbed to a selective reduction type NOx catalyst provided in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine can be controlled to a target adsorption amount. In an exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine according to the present invention, when a reducing agent adsorption amount adsorbed on a selective reduction type NOx catalyst is held at a target adsorption amount, a reducing agent supply amount supplied from a supply apparatus per unit time is controlled to an amount obtained by adding a predetermined amount to a reduction consumption amount, which is an amount of reducing agent consumed per unit time by the selective reduction type NOx catalyst for NOx reduction.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shunsuke Toshioka, Keishi Takada, Shigeki Nakayama, Junya Nakajima, Ichiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9482133Abstract: In order to suppress ammonia from flowing out during regeneration treatment of a filter carrying an SCR catalyst, the prevent invention provides an exhaust emission control system of an internal combustion engine, including a first stage catalyst having an oxidation function, a fuel supply device configured to supply fuel to the first stage catalyst, a filter provided in the exhaust passage downstream of the first stage catalyst and carrying a selective redaction type NOx catalyst, an ammonia supply device configured to supply ammonia to the filter, a filter-regeneration-treatment executing unit configured to execute filter regeneration treatment, and a control unit configured to supply, when the filter regeneration treatment is not executed, the ammonia in an amount corresponding to an amount of the NOx emitted from the internal combustion engine, and to supply, when the filter regeneration treatment is executed, the ammonia in an amount corresponding to an amount of the NOx obtained by subtracting, from theType: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keishi Takada, Nobumoto Ohashi, Shigeki Nakayama, Akira Mikami, Kenji Sakurai, Junichi Matsuo, Yoshihisa Tsukamoto, Hiroshi Otsuki, Ichiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9464554Abstract: In an exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine provided with a filter supporting an SCR catalyst, the present invention is intended to suppress HC and CO from being discharged to the outside at the time of the execution of filter regeneration processing, and to carry out the filter regeneration processing in an efficient manner. In the present invention, a post-catalyst having an oxidation function is arranged in an exhaust passage at the downstream side of the filter. Then, when the temperature of the post-catalyst is lower than a predetermined activation temperature at the time the execution of the filter regeneration processing is requested, the temperature of the post-catalyst is raised by carrying out control of raising the temperature of the exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine, and control increasing the flow rate of the exhaust gas, before the execution of the filter regeneration processing.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Junichi Matsuo, Nobumoto Ohashi, Shigeki Nakayama, Kenji Sakurai, Akira Mikami, Keishi Takada, Yoshihisa Tsukamoto, Hiroshi Otsuki, Ichiro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20160288815Abstract: There is provided a steering wheel including (1) a resin body made of resin, (2) a decorative body that is provided separately from the resin body, and (3) a placement member that is disposed between the resin body and the decorative body and that is moved by the decorative body when the decorative body has been relatively displaced.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Yoshiaki MAEKUBO, Ichiro YAMAMOTO, Taichi HINO, Tamio HARADA, Hiroshi OHIRA
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Patent number: 9275381Abstract: A charging and billing system, which can be installed in a space-saving manner and at low cost when installed in a parking lot where multiple electric vehicles park, is provided. The charging and billing system has: multiple charging devices that performed charging by supplying electricity; a vending machine, which is separate to the charging devices, and which performs billing according to the amount of electricity supplied during charging; and a transmission line that connects the charging devices to the vending machine so as to enable information to the transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2011Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventor: Sei-ichiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9243707Abstract: An automatic transmission shifter includes: a shifter body; a shift lever; a control switch unit for controlling the shift lever; and a switch-unit holding member holding the control switch unit. The switch-unit holding member is attached to the shifter body. The control switch unit has a shifter body-based positioning portion configured to be positioned with respect to the shifter body during an operation of attaching the switch-unit holding member to the shifter body.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Delta Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Yamamoto, Yuji Shiwa, Keita Nishimo
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Patent number: 9238985Abstract: To estimate an amount of reducing agent adsorbed to a selective reduction type NOx catalyst with a higher degree of precision, an amount of variation over a predetermined time in a reducing agent amount adsorbed to a selective reduction type NOx catalyst is calculated from an upper limit value of a reducing agent amount that is adsorbed to the selective reduction type NOx catalyst when the reducing agent is supplied continuously by a supply unit, which is calculated on the basis of a temperature of the selective reduction type NOx catalyst, and the reducing agent amount adsorbed to the selective reduction type NOx catalyst, whereupon a reducing agent amount adsorbed to the selective reduction type NOx catalyst following the elapse of the predetermined time is estimated by adding the variation amount to the reducing agent amount adsorbed to the selective reduction type NOx catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keishi Takada, Shunsuke Toshioka, Shigeki Nakayama, Ichiro Yamamoto, Junya Nakajima
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Patent number: 9224232Abstract: A stereoscopic image generation device that generates a stereoscopic image including a right-eye image and a left-eye image is provided. The stereoscopic image generation device includes an image enlarging/reducing unit that enlarges or reduces the right-eye image and the left-eye image which constitute stereoscopic image data, and a display control unit that performs control to display a stereoscopic image by showing the right-eye image and the left-eye image of the stereoscopic image data for a right eye and a left eye, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisao Hattori, Ken-ichiro Yamamoto, Hisao Kumai, Ikuko Tsubaki, Mikio Seto
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Patent number: 9200416Abstract: This invention provides a safety fence which can easily be installed in parking spaces, and which enables wiring to be laid to each parking space by housing the wiring on the inside. The safety fence has two legs and a cylindrical section. The two legs are inserted in two holes formed in the ground in the width direction of a vehicle. The cylindrical section is formed in a substantially upside-down U-shape, the two ends of which are connected to the two legs. The cylindrical section houses the wiring on the inside. Two openings that expose the wiring to the outside are formed on both sides of the cylindrical section in the vehicle width direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventor: Sei-ichiro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20150330275Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress a reduction in a NOx purification ratio accompanying filter regeneration processing in an exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine that includes a filter carrying an SCR catalyst. In the present invention, the temperature of the filter is increased following completion of the filter regeneration processing by increasing the temperature of exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine, and in so doing, HC adhered to the filter is removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2012Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira MIKAMI, Shigeki NAKAYAMA, Nobumoto OHASHI, Keishi TAKADA, Kenji SAKURAI, Yoshihisa TSUKAMOTO, Hiroshi OTSUKI, Junichi MATSUO, Ichiro YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 9189893Abstract: To generate an image that enables effective suppression of the occurrence of binocular rivalry and that facilitates stereoscopic vision. A left-eye image feature point extraction unit (13b) and a right-eye image feature point extraction unit (13d) extract feature points from a left-eye image and a right-eye image, respectively. A number-of-non-corresponding-points calculation unit (13g) calculates, in a case where the feature points in one image among the left-eye image and the right-eye image, which are extracted by a left-eye image feature point extraction unit (13b) and a right-eye image feature point extraction unit (13d), are shifted a certain distance in the horizontal direction, the number of feature points in the one image that do not correspond to the feature points in the other image, for each shift distance. A disparity value adjustment unit (13h) adjusts a disparity value between the left-eye image and the right-eye image in accordance with the number calculated for each shift distance.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ikuko Tsubaki, Hisao Hattori, Ken-ichiro Yamamoto, Hisao Kumai, Mikio Seto
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Publication number: 20150322837Abstract: In order to suppress ammonia from flowing out during regeneration treatment of a filter carrying an SCR catalyst, the prevent invention provides an exhaust emission control system, of an internal combustion engine, including a first stage catalyst having an oxidation function, a fuel supply device configured to supply fuel to the first stage catalyst, a filter provided in the exhaust passage downstream of the first stage catalyst and carrying a selective redaction type NOx catalyst, an ammonia supply device configured to supply ammonia to the filter, a filter-regeneration-treatment executing unit configured to execute filter regeneration treatment, and a control unit configured to supply, when the filter regeneration treatment is not executed, the ammonia in an amount corresponding to an amount of the NOx emitted from the internal combustion engine, and to supply, when the filter regeneration treatment is executed, the ammonia in an amount corresponding to an amount of the NOx obtained by subtracting, from thType: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keishi TAKADA, Nobumoto OHASHI, Shigeki NAKAYAMA, Akira MIKAMI, Kenji SAKURAI, Junichi MATUO, Yoshihisa TSUKAMOTO, Hiroshi OTSUKI, Ichiro YAMAMOTO