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).

  • Publication number: 20230397809
    Abstract: An ophthalmic observation apparatus of an embodiment includes a microscope, a processor, and a display controller. The microscope includes a pair of photography systems and is configured to acquire a pair of pieces of moving image data of a subject's eye. The processor is configured to perform first processing including at least one of a control of the microscope and image processing applied to at least one of the pair of pieces of moving image data, such that a predetermined parameter of the pair of pieces of moving image data satisfies a first condition. The display controller is configured to display a pair of moving images based on the pair of pieces of moving image data produced by the first processing on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro YAMADA, Kazuhiro OOMORI, Yasufumi FUKUMA
  • Publication number: 20230397811
    Abstract: An ophthalmic observation apparatus according to an embodiment example includes a moving image generating unit, an analyzing processor, a target position determining processor, and a display controller. The moving image generating unit is configured to generate a moving image by photographing the subject's eye. The analyzing processor is configured to analyze a still image included in the moving image to detect an image of a predetermined site of the subject's eye. The target position determining processor is configured to determine a target position for a predetermined treatment based at least on the image of the predetermined site detected by the analyzing processor. The display controller is configured to display, on a display device, the moving image and target position information that represents the target position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro YAMADA, Kazuhiro OOMORI, Yasufumi FUKUMA
  • Patent number: 11813864
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoko Shimizu, Toru Nakakubo, Kazuhiro Yamada, Atsushi Teranishi, Osamu Kanome
  • Publication number: 20230342099
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11797243
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 11787363
    Abstract: In a vehicle emergency, a spool of a webbing take-up device is rotated in a pull-out direction such that a main lock is displaced toward a rotation-radial direction outside of the spool and engages with a clutch gear configuring a first rotation body. Rotation of the spool in the pull-out direction is thus restricted. Also in a vehicle emergency, the first rotation body is rotated in a take-up direction of the spool such that the main lock engages with the first rotation body, and rotation force of the first rotation body is transmitted to the spool through the main lock and the spool is rotated in the take-up direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Atsushi Nishino, Takuhiro Saito, Kazuhiro Yamada, Chihiro Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11763441
    Abstract: The accuracy of an index indicating growth conditions of a crop obtained from a shot image is improved, while reducing the flight time of an aircraft shooting the crop. Crop image acquisition unit acquires an image of a crop region shot by drone. Index calculation unit calculates an index indicating growth conditions of a crop shot in the image based on the acquired image of the crop region. Flight instruction unit instructs, if a portion (low index region) regarding which the calculated index is less than a predetermined index threshold is present in the crop region, drone to shoot the low index region while increasing the resolution of the image. Specifically, flight instruction unit makes an instruction to shoot the portion while performing a low-altitude flight at an altitude lower than that when the image regarding which the index of the low index region has been calculated has been shot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Youhei Oono, Yuichiro Segawa
  • Publication number: 20230264478
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai, Takuro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11724511
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus comprising: two flow passages for supplying or recovering a liquid to an element substrate for ejecting the liquid; a circulation supply flow passage for supplying liquid to oneflow passage, a circulation recovery flow passage for recovering liquid from the other flow passage, and a plurality of on-off valve mechanisms for controlling communication and shutoff between the respective flow passages; the on-off valve mechanism comprises an opening located between flow passages, a sealing portion capable of on-off the opening, an urging member for urging the sealing portion in a direction to approach or away from the opening, and a movement mechanism for moving the sealing portion against the urging force of the urging member, the liquid discharge device controls opening and closing of at least two on-off valve mechanisms by moving the scaling parts of at least two on-off valve mechanisms together by the movement mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yohei Nakamura, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 11720311
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230183043
    Abstract: An elevator door control system comprises a door sensor, a door motor control unit, a transmission unit being wired by a cable as part of or all of a transmission path between the door sensor and the door motor control unit, a storage unit to store a change in a binary signal indicating detection of an obstacle in association with a door position at a time of the change in the binary signal. A partially broken state of the cable is determined by evaluating reproducibility of the door position at the time of the change in the binary signal on the basis of the timing of the change in the binary signal and a door position at the time of the change in the binary signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11673396
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai, Takuro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20230173820
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiro YAMADA, Yohei NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230112817
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a reflector which covers an imaging space on a pathway that a human passes through, from at least one of both sides of the pathway, and diffusely reflects a sub-terahertz wave; a first light source which emits a sub-terahertz wave onto the reflector; and a first detector which receives a reflected wave of the sub-terahertz wave emitted from the first light source, diffusely reflected by the reflector, and reflected by the human, and generates an image based on the reflected wave received. The first light source and the first detector are located at a first direction side relative to a center of the imaging space in a direction in which the pathway extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI, Kazuhiro YAMADA, Yosuke ASAI
  • Publication number: 20230114622
    Abstract: A webbing winding device includes a spool, a sensor lever, a solenoid, and a controller. In a state where the sensor lever is disposed at the first position, the rotation in the drawing-out direction of the spool is enabled, and in a state where the sensor lever is disposed at the second position, the rotation in the drawing-out direction of the spool is locked. When the solenoid is actuated, a part of the sensor lever is attracted and the sensor lever is displaced from the first position to the second position. The controller adjusts the attracting force by which the solenoid attracts a part of the sensor lever. The controller adjusts the attracting force after completion of displacement to the second position of the sensor lever to an attracting force weaker than the attracting force F at the time of completion of displacement to the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Chihiro SANO, Kazuhiro YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230116330
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a diffuse-reflector which covers an imaging space on a pathway that a human passes through, from at least a side out of both sides of the pathway, and includes a reflector which diffusely reflects a sub-terahertz wave; a light source which emits a sub-terahertz wave onto the reflector; and a detector which receives a reflected wave of the sub-terahertz wave which has been emitted from the light source, diffusely reflected by the reflector, and reflected by the human, and detects an intensity of the reflected wave received. The diffuse-reflector includes a visible light transmissive area which transmits visible light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiro YAMADA, Yosuke ASAI, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI, Katsuhiko HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230103628
    Abstract: A webbing winding device includes a spool, a sensor lever, and a solenoid. In a state where the sensor lever is disposed at the first position, the rotation in the drawing-out direction of the spool is enabled, and in a state where the sensor lever is disposed at the second position, the rotation in the drawing-out direction of the spool is locked. When the solenoid is actuated, the sensor lever is displaced from the first position to the second position. The sensor lever is provided with a thinned groove being deformed when a part of the sensor lever disposed at the second position is pressed toward the first position, the thinned groove allowing displacement toward the first position of the part of the sensor lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Chihiro SANO, Kazuhiro YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11602934
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head, a liquid ejection apparatus, and a liquid ejection method are capable of sufficiently suppressing the thickening of a liquid in an ejection orifice. The liquid ejection head includes a pressure chamber, a channel in which a liquid is caused to flow through the pressure chamber, an ejection orifice communicating with the pressure chamber, and an ejection energy generation element configured to eject the liquid in the pressure chamber from the ejection orifice. A meniscus of the liquid is formed at an end portion of the ejection orifice communicating with the pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Takuro Yamazaki, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai
  • Patent number: 11597212
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yohei Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20230048324
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the CO2 and O2 remover. The CO2 and O2 remover comprises 65 to 85 weight percent (wt. %) of a nickel oxide (NiO), 5 to 20 wt. % of a magnesium oxide (MgO), wherein the weight ratio of the nickel oxide and the magnesium oxide (NiO/MgO) is 4 to 11, and wherein the wt. % is based on the weight of the CO2 and O2 remover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Hyunjoong KIM, Kazuhiro YAMADA