Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Yamada
Kazuhiro 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).
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Publication number: 20250012918Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an emitter that emits a sub-terahertz wave to a person, a detection device, and a phase modulator. The detection device includes: an optical system that images a reflected wave which is the sub-terahertz wave emitted from the emitter and reflected by the person; and a plurality of pixels that are disposed in a planar arrangement and each receive the reflected wave imaged by the optical system, and generates an image, based on the reflected wave received by each of the plurality of pixels. The phase modulator changes an angular distribution of a phase of the reflected wave to be received by the plurality of pixels in the detection device during an exposure period in which the detection device generates the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Shunsuke TOMOMATSU, Kazuhiro YAMADA
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Publication number: 20250010034Abstract: An object of the present invention is to make control for friction compensation executed in a master-slave system more appropriate. A control system includes a master device, a slave device, and a control device. Furthermore, the control device includes a friction compensation control unit and a tactile force transmission unit. The friction compensation control unit calculates a force for assisting an operation in the master device with respect to friction generated in the slave device on the basis of a moving average of velocity of a movable portion in the slave device. The tactile force transmission unit assists the operation in the master device with a force calculated by the friction compensation control unit and controls tactile force transmission in the master device and the slave device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2022Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicants: KEIO UNIVERSITY, MOTION LIB, INC., TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kouhei OHNISHI, Takahiro MIZOGUCHI, Kazuhiro YAMADA, Yoshiyuki HABU, Shin MAKI, Toshihiro FUJII
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Publication number: 20250016459Abstract: An imaging apparatus captures an image of a person passing through a predetermined space, using a sub-terahertz wave. The imaging apparatus includes an emitter that emits the sub-terahertz wave to the person, and a detection device. The detection device includes: an optical system that images a reflected wave which is the sub-terahertz wave emitted from the emitter and reflected by the person; and a plurality of pixels that are disposed in a planar arrangement and each receive the reflected wave imaged by the optical system, and generates an image based on cumulative intensities, each being obtained by accumulating an intensity of the reflected wave received by each of the plurality of pixels for a predetermined time, and the planar arrangement of the plurality of pixels. The predetermined time is ?/1778 seconds or longer, when the wavelength of the sub-terahertz wave is taken as ? mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Shunsuke TOMOMATSU, Kazuhiro Yamada
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Patent number: 12164822Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable information recording medium stores a program therein. The program when executed by one or more processors causes an operation terminal to perform determining, based on information that the operation terminal obtains from the outside in response to an operation performed on the operation terminal, an electronic apparatus from among a plurality of electronic apparatuses connected to the operation terminal, the electronic apparatus being one which is to output electronic data stored in an information storage apparatus connected to the operation terminal; obtaining, from the information storage apparatus, electronic data from among a plurality of sets of electronic data stored in the information storage apparatus in a format that the determined electronic apparatus is capable of outputting; and transmitting the obtained electronic data to the determined electronic apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20240383435Abstract: A webbing take-up device includes a spool, a lock base, and a lock member. The lock base includes a lock base body equipped with a load bearing portion, and a shaft portion. The lock member includes a shaft portion insertion hole for insertion of the shaft portion, and on actuation displaces from a housed position to an engaged position to limit rotation of the spool in the pull-out direction. Shapes and dimensions of the shaft portion and the shaft portion insertion hole are set such that, when a load accompanying pull-out of the webbing from the spool has been input from the lock member positioned at the engaged position to the lock base, the load is input from the lock member to the load bearing portion and an outer peripheral face of the shaft portion and an inner peripheral face of the shaft portion insertion hole are separated from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2024Publication date: November 21, 2024Inventors: Atsushi NISHINO, Kazuhiro YAMADA
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Publication number: 20240375405Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid storing unit capable of storing liquid, a liquid ejection unit including an ejection port that is capable of ejecting the liquid, and a pressure control unit that receives the liquid from the liquid storing unit and allows the liquid having a pressure controlled to be within a predetermined pressure range to be supplied to the liquid ejection unit. Additionally, the liquid ejection apparatus includes a first circulation unit that supplies the liquid having the pressure controlled by the pressure control unit to the ejection port while circulating the liquid between the liquid ejection unit and the pressure control unit, and a second circulation unit that circulates the liquid between the liquid storing unit and the pressure control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Kazuhiro YAMADA, Yohei NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20240380352Abstract: A power converter includes: a first converter circuit; an inverter circuit; a first smoothing unit connected between the first converter circuit and the inverter circuit, the first smoothing unit including a first smoothing capacitor having a breakdown voltage equal to a second voltage threshold and a second smoothing capacitor having a breakdown voltage higher than a first voltage threshold, the first voltage threshold being higher than or equal to a second voltage threshold; an interrupting device connected in series to the first smoothing capacitor; a voltage detector that detects a voltage across the second smoothing capacitor; and a controller that, in a case where the detected voltage is higher than or equal to the second voltage threshold, opens the interrupting device and controls a rotation speed of a motor such that a ripple current through the second smoothing capacitor is less than or equal to a rated ripple current.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Tomoyuki TANIGUCHI, Kazushige SAWADA, Keisuke UEMURA, Kazuhiro YAMADA
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Patent number: 12138924Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes ejection orifices for ejecting liquid, common liquid chambers connected to the ejection orifices, common flow passages, and pitch conversion flow passages that connects the common flow passages and liquid chambers to each other. The pitch conversion flow passages includes a periphery formed with resin. In a case where a number of pitch conversion flow passages in a group is minimum on a condition that one or more of the pitch conversion flow passages are respectively included in the group, the pitch conversion flow passages have a repeating pattern in which the group is repeatedly arranged. At least one of two pitch conversion flow passages adjoining an m-th pitch conversion flow passage (m is all integers from 1 to n?2, where n is an integer of 3 or more) is one of first to (m+1)-th pitch conversion flow passages.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoko Shimizu, Toru Nakakubo, Kazuhiro Yamada, Atsushi Teranishi, Osamu Kanome
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Publication number: 20240367441Abstract: A liquid ejecting head has a laminated flow path member on which a supply flow path for individually supplying a plurality of liquids to an element substrate and a collection flow path for individually collecting the liquids are formed. The supply flow path includes first and second common supply flow paths for horizontally leading first and second liquids to positions corresponding to a plurality of element substrates. The first and second common supply flow paths are formed in the same layer of the laminated flow path member. The collection flow path includes a first common collection flow path for horizontally collecting the first liquid and a second common collection flow path for horizontally collecting the second liquid from positions corresponding to the plurality of element substrates. The first and second common collection flow paths are formed in the same layer of the laminated flow path member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Toru Nakakubo, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Shingo Okushima
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Publication number: 20240338519Abstract: A data management system, a terminal device, a data input method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The data management system includes one or more terminal devices and an information processing system. The information processing system stores in one or more memories, a template associated with a plurality of tasks including at least a request task and a reporting task, the template having one or more input items set for each task and transmits the template to the one or more terminal devices. Each of the one or more terminal devices displays on a display, the plurality of tasks associated with the template, receives a selection of a task from the plurality of tasks displayed on the display, and displays on the display, the input items associated with the selected task based on the template.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2024Publication date: October 10, 2024Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiro Yamada
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Patent number: 12097814Abstract: A vehicular device includes a control unit, a main board on which the control unit is mounted, and a module that has a functional unit having different specifications depending on a product model of the vehicular device. The module has a module side control unit configured to control the functional unit of the module. The main board and the module are housed in a casing and connected with each other through a common interface regardless of the specifications of the functional unit. The module side control unit is configured to control the functional unit based on a control command received from the control unit, the control command being common regardless of the specifications of the functional unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuhiro Yamada
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Patent number: 12077001Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid storing unit capable of storing liquid, a liquid ejection unit including an ejection port that is capable of ejecting the liquid, and a pressure control unit that receives the liquid from the liquid storing unit and allows the liquid having a pressure controlled to be within a predetermined pressure range to be supplied to the liquid ejection unit. Additionally, the liquid ejection apparatus includes a first circulation unit that supplies the liquid having the pressure controlled by the pressure control unit to the ejection port while circulating the liquid between the liquid ejection unit and the pressure control unit, and a second circulation unit that circulates the liquid between the liquid storing unit and the pressure control unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yohei Nakamura
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Patent number: 12076724Abstract: A specimen processing apparatus performs processing on a specimen contained in a container. The specimen processing apparatus includes: holders having different shapes, each of the holders being configured to hold the container; a holder placement unit that comprises holder receiving portions having different shapes, the shapes of the holder receiving portions corresponding to the shapes of the holders; and a specimen processing unit that performs processing on the specimen contained in the container held by one of the holders placed on the holder placement unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Kazuki Asao, Keisuke Kuwano
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Patent number: 12070956Abstract: A liquid ejecting head has a laminated flow path member on which a supply flow path for individually supplying a plurality of liquids to an element substrate and a collection flow path for individually collecting the liquids are formed. The supply flow path includes first and second common supply flow paths for horizontally leading first and second liquids to positions corresponding to a plurality of element substrates. The first and second common supply flow paths are formed in the same layer of the laminated flow path member. The collection flow path includes a first common collection flow path for horizontally collecting the first liquid and a second common collection flow path for horizontally collecting the second liquid from positions corresponding to the plurality of element substrates. The first and second common collection flow paths are formed in the same layer of the laminated flow path member.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Toru Nakakubo, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Shingo Okushima
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Patent number: 12064969Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a print element substrate including multiple ejection openings, pressure chambers, a common flow path, and pumps, the pumps being configured to circulate liquid between the common flow path and the pressure chamber; and a flow path member laminated to the print element substrate. The flow path member includes a supply flow path and a collection flow path, the supply flow path being configured to supply liquid to the print element substrate, and the collection flow path being configured to collect liquid that is not ejected. The supply flow path and the collection flow path have liquid connection with the same common flow path. A circulating pump generates a flow of liquid flowing in an order of the supply flow path, the common flow path, and the collection flow path, the circulating pump being provided at a position different from the print element substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai, Takuro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 12056449Abstract: A data management system, a terminal device, a data input method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The data management system includes one or more terminal devices and an information processing system. The information processing system stores in one or more memories, a template associated with a plurality of tasks including at least a request task and a reporting task, the template having one or more input items set for each task and transmits the template to the one or more terminal devices. Each of the one or more terminal devices displays on a display, the plurality of tasks associated with the template, receives a selection of a task from the plurality of tasks displayed on the display, and displays on the display, the input items associated with the selected task based on the template.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20240160394Abstract: A system includes an operation device and an information storing apparatus, which are connected via a network. The operation device determines, based on information input from the outside of the operation device in response to an operation performed on the operation device, an electronic device among a plurality of electronic devices connected to the system, for causing the electronic device to input electronic data to the information storing apparatus, and sends, to the information storing apparatus, a first request to cause the determined electronic device to input the electronic data to the information storing apparatus. The information storing apparatus sends, to the determined electronic device, a second request based on the first request sent from the operation device, and stores the electronic data that has been sent from the determined electronic device based on the sent second request.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiro YAMADA
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Publication number: 20240142789Abstract: Disclosed is an optical system including: a light source configured to emit light; an irradiation optical system including a diffractive optical element on which the light is incident, the irradiation optical system being configured to apply illumination light in which a plurality of diffracted lights generated by the diffractive optical element are distributed; a flow cell in which a sample containing cells is caused to flow to a position at which the illumination light is applied by the irradiation optical system; and a light receiver configured to receive light generated from each cell flowing in the flow cell, upon application of the illumination light by the irradiation optical system. The illumination light includes zero-order diffracted light whose relative intensity relative to another diffracted light is not greater than 10 times. The irradiation optical system applies the illumination light to a position through which the cell in the flow cell passes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya KUWANA, Takeshi SUGIYAMA, Kazuhiro YAMADA, Ayato TAGAWA
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Publication number: 20240109326Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a print element substrate including multiple ejection openings, pressure chambers, a common flow path, and pumps, the pumps being configured to circulate liquid between the common flow path and the pressure chamber; and a flow path member laminated to the print element substrate. The flow path member includes a supply flow path and a collection flow path, the supply flow path being configured to supply liquid to the print element substrate, and the collection flow path being configured to collect liquid that is not ejected. The supply flow path and the collection flow path have liquid connection with the same common flow path. A circulating pump generates a flow of liquid flowing in an order of the supply flow path, the common flow path, and the collection flow path, the circulating pump being provided at a position different from the print element substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai, Takuro Yamazaki
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Fluorescence image analyzing apparatus, method of analyzing fluorescence image, and computer program
Patent number: 11946866Abstract: Disclosed is a fluorescence image analyzing apparatus including a light source that emits light to a sample including a plurality of cells labeled with a fluorescent dye at a target site, an imaging unit that captures a fluorescence image of each of the cells that emit fluorescence by being irradiated with the light, a fluorescence image of the cell, and a processing unit that processes the fluorescence image captured by the imaging unit to acquire a bright spot pattern of fluorescence in the fluorescence image. The processing unit selects a reference pattern corresponding to a measurement item of the sample from a plurality of reference patterns corresponding to a plurality of measurement items and generates information used for determination of the sample based on the bright spot pattern of fluorescence in the fluorescence image and the selected reference pattern.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Shohei Matsumoto, Yusuke Konishi