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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Patent number: 11238387Abstract: A management system includes a storage unit that stores schedule information that indicates schedules of a plurality of tasks to be performed by the same flight vehicle. The schedule information includes types of the plurality of tasks, date/times of the plurality of tasks, and locations at which the plurality of tasks are to be performed. When the types, the date/times, and the locations that are included in the schedule information stored in the storage unit satisfy an integration condition, an integration unit integrates the schedules of the plurality of tasks. An output unit outputs integrated schedule information indicating the schedules of the integrated tasks.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Youhei Oono, Yuichiro Segawa
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Publication number: 20220001833Abstract: A webbing retractor includes: a take-up shaft on which a webbing that is applied to a vehicle occupant can be taken-up, and on which the webbing is taken-up due to the take-up shaft being rotated in a take-up direction, and that is rotated in a pull-out direction due to the webbing being pulled-out; a restricting member that, by being operated, restricts rotation of the take-up shaft in the pull-out direction; a sensing section that senses a pulled-out state of the webbing; and a control section that, in a case in which the sensed pulled-out state corresponds to a state in which the webbing is pulled-out to a predetermined position, operates the restricting member and restricts rotation of the take-up shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Tomoya OWAKI, Takuhiro SAITO, Kazuhiro YAMADA, Atsushi NISHINO
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Publication number: 20210394525Abstract: 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: June 11, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Kazuhiro YAMADA, Yohei NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20210394708Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Atsushi NISHINO, Takuhiro SAITO, Kazuhiro YAMADA, Chihiro MATSUOKA
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Patent number: 11199246Abstract: An automatic transmission which includes a first rotating member and a second rotating member is provided. The first rotating member includes an outer rotating member having a first outer power transmission part and an outer extending part, and an inner rotating member which is made of a different material from the outer rotating member and has a first inner power transmission part and an inner extending part. The outer and inner extending parts are coupled through a first extending part formed by axially joining them to each other at a caulking part. The second rotating member includes a second extending part having a recess indented on an opposite side of the first extending part. The caulking part has a protrusion protruding by being recessed from the first extending part to the second extending part. At least a part of the protrusion is located inside the recess.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Akira Hashimoto, Yasuo Miura, Takeyuki Tanaka, Tomoya Nakano, Kazuhiro Yamada, Hiroyuki Enoki
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Patent number: 11167846Abstract: Piloting assistance from a remote location is provided to a pilot of a flight vehicle. A server selects captured images. The captured images include flight vehicle viewpoint images that were captured by an image capturing function of the flight vehicle, or pilot viewpoint images that were captured by an image capturing apparatus and show the flight of the flight vehicle. The server provides selected captured images to an assister terminal with priority. The server determines the display with priority based on information related to the flight of the flight vehicle. For example, the server determines the captured images that are to be displayed with priority based on a state during the flight of the flight vehicle. States include, for example, the altitude, speed, orientation, battery amount, and motor rotation speeds of the flight vehicle, as well as the distance between the flight vehicle and a work object.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20210323310Abstract: 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: June 29, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai, Takuro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11149847Abstract: A power transmission device in an automatic transmission includes a friction tightening element (a second brake) having a drum member, and a transmission path constituent member (a third ring gear) coupled to the drum member via a coupling part extending circumferentially along the drum member, the drum member having low-rigidity parts (long holes) provided at a plurality of circumferential positions on the drum member in at least one of portions radially outside and inside the coupling part.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Masanori Sasaki, Masamichi Fujikawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Kensuke Ueda, Sayaka Katayama, Yasuo Miura, Takeyuki Tanaka, Hirokazu Kouno, Takashi Miyamoto, Ryohei Hanamure, Siyuan Tao
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FLOURESCENCE IMAGE ANALYZING APPARATUS, METHOD OF ANALYZING FLUORESCENCE IMAGE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
Publication number: 20210302315Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Kazuhiro YAMADA, Shohei Matsumoto, Yusuke Konishi -
Patent number: 11117374Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes an ejection orifice for ejecting a liquid; a flow path in which an energy generating element is disposed, generates an energy to be used for ejecting the liquid; a liquid inside the flow path; an ejection orifice part that allows the ejection orifice and the flow path to communicate with each other; a supply flow path for supplying the liquid from the outside; and a recovery flow path for recovering the liquid to the outside. The moisture content of the liquid is 65 wt % or less. The liquid inside the flow path is circulated between the inside and the outside of the flow path.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Shingo Okushima, Yasuhiko Osaki, Naozumi Nabeshima
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Patent number: 11097687Abstract: A webbing retractor includes a spool, a motor, a force limiter mechanism, a first rotating body, a second rotating body, a ratchet gear, a pawl body and a control section. The ratchet gear is provided at one of the first rotating body or the second rotating body. The pawl body is provided at another of the first rotating body or the second rotating body. The pawl body can engage with the ratchet gear in a case in which the first rotating body rotates toward one side, and engagement of the pawl body with the ratchet gear being cancelled in a case in which the first rotating body rotates toward another side. The control section drives the motor to rotate in reverse, such that the first rotating body rotates toward another side in a case in which a physical amount relating to load of the passenger exceeds a predetermined value during forward rotational driving.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Tomoya Owaki, Takuhiro Saito, Kazuhiro Yamada, Atsushi Nishino
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Patent number: 11093670Abstract: A hot-dip coating equipment includes a cooling rate determining device that includes: a coefficient obtaining section configured to obtain coefficients ?, ?, ?, and ? associated with the hot-dip coating bath, in the following equation that expresses a degree of discoloration YI of the surface of a hot-dip coated steel sheet; and a rate determining section configured to determine an average cooling rate A so as to allow the YI of the following Expression (1) to be not more than a predetermined reference value, YI =(?×[SE]+?)×{(T?ST)/A}1/2+?×[SE]+? . . . (1), where: [SE] is a concentration (mass %) of a specific element contained in the hot-dip coating bath; T is a temperature (° C.) of the hot-dip coating bath; and ST is a solidification temperature (° C.) at which the hot-dip coating bath is solidified.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignees: NIPPON STEEL NISSHIN CO., LTD., NS Wheeling-Nisshin, Inc.Inventors: Koutarou Ishii, Shinya Furukawa, Shinichi Koga, Yasunori Hattori, Patrick Edward Pendleton, Kazuhiro Yamada
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Patent number: 11090937Abstract: In a liquid ejection head, ejection orifices can be densely arranged while suppressing decrease in liquid flow speed. A channel extending through a pressure chamber extends in a direction crossing an ejection orifice array such that a liquid flows between the two ends of the channel located on the sides of the ejection orifice array.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Takuro Yamazaki, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai
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Publication number: 20210247944Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiro YAMADA
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Fluorescence image analyzing apparatus, method of analyzing fluorescence image, and computer program
Patent number: 11085880Abstract: 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: April 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Shohei Matsumoto, Yusuke Konishi -
Patent number: 11089289Abstract: An image processing device includes depth acquisition circuitry that uses a parallax corresponding to image data to electronically generate a depth map of an image and object detection circuitry that uses distance information and the depth map to electronically detect a specific object in the image by identifying specific pixels in the image data. The depth map includes information that pertains to distances from a reference position for each pixel in the image.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Takeo Ohishi, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Shuzo Sato, Takayuki Yoshigahara, Jun Murayama, Ken Nishida, Kazuhiro Yamada
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Patent number: 11065872Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a nozzle including an ejection port for ejecting a liquid for performing recording on a recording medium, and a pressure chamber in which an energy generating element that generates energy used for ejecting the liquid from the ejection port is disposed; and a heating unit that heats the liquid. In the liquid ejection head, the liquid in the pressure chamber is circulated to and from the outside of the pressure chamber, and an average number of preliminary ejections per nozzle during an operation period in which the recording is performed is equal to or greater than 0 and equal to or less than 20.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiko Osaki, Shingo Okushima, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Yamada, Naozumi Nabeshima
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Patent number: 11065878Abstract: 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: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Toru Nakakubo, Ryo Kasai, Takuro Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20210207553Abstract: A storage device of a control system stores a trained neural network that is trained by using training data to which information as to whether there is an abnormality in an air flow meter is given as a true label. The trained neural network receives, as inputs, condition index values including the opening of a throttle valve and the engine speed, a load detected value calculated based on a detection signal of the air flow meter, a load estimated value estimated without using the detection signal of the air flow meter, and a change index value indicating the degree of change of the engine load. A CPU of the control system executes a diagnostic process to determine whether there is an abnormality in the air flow meter, using the neural network, which receives the condition index values, load detected value, load estimated value, and change index value as the inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuhiro YAMADA
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Patent number: 11053880Abstract: A storage device of a control system stores a trained neural network that is trained by using training data to which information as to whether there is an abnormality in an air flow meter is given as a true label. The trained neural network receives, as inputs, condition index values including the opening of a throttle valve and the engine speed, a load detected value calculated based on a detection signal of the air flow meter, a load estimated value estimated without using the detection signal of the air flow meter, and a change index value indicating the degree of change of the engine load. A CPU of the control system executes a diagnostic process to determine whether there is an abnormality in the air flow meter, using the neural network, which receives the condition index values, load detected value, load estimated value, and change index value as the inputs.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuhiro Yamada