Patents by Inventor Kazuo Yamamoto

Kazuo 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).

  • Patent number: 10014535
    Abstract: An object is to provide a technique of reducing a potential failure to start a fuel cell system due to a temperature decrease in a vehicle with the fuel cell system mounted thereon. There is provided a vehicle that comprises a fuel cell system, a battery, a motor, and a determiner configured to determine that the fuel cell system has a frozen part when temperature measured by a temperature measurement unit is equal to or lower than a predetermined first temperature and at least one of conditions (1) to (3) is satisfied: (1) no purging process is performed after a change from an on state of the vehicle to an off state of the vehicle; (2) ambient temperature decreases to or below a predetermined second temperature in the off state of the vehicle and no purging process is performed; and (3) an inclination of the vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined inclination at a time of change from the off state of the vehicle to the on state of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiko Kaneko, Yohei Okamoto, Kazuo Yamamoto, Tomohiro Ogawa, Masashi Toida, Mitsuhiro Nada, Tomio Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 9991531
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a control unit that estimates a discharge amount of the fuel gas partially discharged from the fuel cell partially discharged during an opening period of the discharge valve based on a lost amount of the fuel gas during the opening period and a consumed amount of the fuel gas by electric generation of the fuel cell during the opening period, wherein a pressure increase period during which the pressure increases and a pressure decrease period during which the pressure decreases exist due to intermittent injection of the fuel gas, and the control unit estimates the lost amount of the fuel gas based on a decrease rate of the pressure during the pressure decrease period within the opening period, and based on an assumed decrease rate of the pressure during the pressure increase period within the opening period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Imanishi
  • Patent number: 9986253
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of an aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Patent number: 9956885
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a power supply circuit including a fuel cell and a secondary battery; an oxidant gas supply flow passage; a pump; and a control unit configured to drive the pump and dilute hydrogen retained in an cathode. The control unit is configured to stop supplying an oxidant gas to the cathode by stopping an operation of the pump such that dilution of the hydrogen retained in the cathode is stopped, while the fuel cell vehicle remains stationary after a starter switch of the fuel cell vehicle is switched from an off state to an on state, or while a load required of the power supply circuit remains smaller than a predetermined value after the starter switch of the fuel cell vehicle is switched from the off state to the on state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Imanishi, Kazuo Yamamoto, Masashi Toida
  • Publication number: 20180111743
    Abstract: Provided is a double container in which an inner container and an outer container are difficult to be separated in a case where the inner container is attached to the outer container. It is a cup-shaped double container, having an inner container and an outer container in which a part of a cross section are non-circular, having a space provided between the inner container and the outer container, and having an open upper end portion, the container including: on an outer peripheral surface of a cylindrical side surface member of the inner container, a rib extending in a vertical direction and disposed in plural numbers at predetermined intervals; and a rotation regulating unit disposed on an inner peripheral surface of a cylindrical side surface member of the outer container and capable of regulating relative rotation of the inner container and the outer container by interfering with the rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshihiro Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20180092197
    Abstract: When accelerating first ions, radio frequency power is fed to a drift tube linear accelerator so that the phase difference between an accelerating half cycle for accelerating the first ions in one of the plurality of drift tube gaps and the accelerating half cycle for accelerating the accelerated first ions reaching the next drift tube gap is set to a first accelerating cycle phase difference; and when accelerating second ions having a charge-to-mass ratio lower than the first ions, the radio frequency power is fed to the drift tube linear accelerator so that the phase difference between an accelerating half cycle for accelerating the second ions in the one drift tube gap and the accelerating half cycle for the accelerated second ions reaching the next drift tube gap is set to a second accelerating cycle phase difference that is larger than the first accelerating cycle phase difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Sadahiro KAWASAKI, Hiromitsu INOUE
  • Publication number: 20180070094
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a program which are capable of transferring information about a color gamut and a dynamic range of luminance of a content recorded in a recording medium to a display device. A reproduction device of the present technology includes: a readout unit configured to read out, from a recording medium recording a content, a file of a video stream and a file of reproduction management information used for reproducing the video stream and including monitor information indicating at least one of a color gamut and a dynamic range of luminance of a master monitor used for authoring the video stream; a decoding unit configured to decode the video stream; and an output unit configured to control an output of video data obtained by decoding the video stream and the monitor information included in the reproduction management information to a display device, depending on a performance of the display device to which the content is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinobu Hattori, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9847210
    Abstract: A particle beam irradiation apparatus includes an accelerator that extracts a pulse-shaped particle beam and a switching system that switches a particle beam to prevent irradiation of a subject. The apparatus also includes a database in which a time dependency of the number of particles in one pulse of the particle beam is stored in association with a driving condition of the accelerator. A computer processor calculates a timing of switching by the switching system, based on a desired accumulated number of particles to be irradiated onto the irradiation subject and the time dependency of the number of particles in one pulse of the particle beam, and a switching controller controls the switching system based on the timing of switching calculated by the computer processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Yusuke Sakamoto, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9806359
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell; an anode gas supply flow path for supplying an anode gas to the fuel cell; an anode gas discharge flow path for discharging an anode off gas from the fuel cell; an anode gas circulation flow path for connecting the anode gas supply flow path and the anode gas discharge flow path to each other; a circulation device provided on the anode gas circulation flow path and serving for supplying the anode off gas to the anode gas supply flow path; and a controller. When liquid water is residing in the circulation device, the controller controls a circulation flow rate of the circulation device to discharge the liquid water residing in the circulation device. The controller restricts an increasing rate of the circulation flow rate of the circulation device if it is decided that a quantity of the liquid water residing in the circulation device is equal to or more than a specified value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Imanishi
  • Patent number: 9793562
    Abstract: When a first timing at which a fuel gas is injected to a fuel gas supply flow path by an injector and a second timing at which water residing on a circulation flow path is discharged by controlling rotating speed of a circulation pump coincide with each other, a controller performs either: (i) a first process of operating the circulation pump at a preset RPM without injecting the fuel gas to the fuel gas supply flow path by the injector; or (ii) a second process of injecting the fuel gas to the fuel gas supply flow path by the injector and operating the circulation pump at an RPM lower than the preset RPM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Imanishi
  • Publication number: 20170278550
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproducing device, a reproducing method, an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and a recording medium, which are capable of reproducing an appropriate HDR video. The reproducing device of the present technology acquires reproduction management information in which a first flag indicating whether or not encoded data of a first HDR video which is mandatory when a video of a luminance range wider than a standard luminance range is included in content is included in the content and a second flag indicating whether or not encoded data of a second HDR video that is likely to be included in the content is included in the content are described. Further, the reproducing device reproduces the encoded data of the first HDR video or the encoded data of the second HDR video on the basis of the details of the first flag and the second flag and performance of a display serving as an output destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei TAKAHASHI, Kouichi UCHIMURA, Kazuo YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9774819
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of one aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range. The reproduction device decodes the coded data and converts the extended video obtained by decoding the coded data to the standard video on the basis of the brightness conversion definition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Publication number: 20170223815
    Abstract: For the purpose of providing a transportable linear accelerator system which can restrain entering of losing ion beams deviated from a trajectory therefor, to thereby efficiently achieve reduction in radioactivity at low cost, and a transportable neutron source equipped therewith, a transportable linear accelerator system is configured to be provided with a beam chopper just before an inlet of a post-accelerator, thereby to cut off, from the proton beams pre-accelerated by a pre-accelerator, uncontrolled proton beams, and thus to radiate only the controlled proton beams to the post-accelerator, so that the proton beams are prevented from hitting an acceleration electrode, etc. of the post accelerator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Sadahiro KAWASAKI, Hiromitsu INOUE
  • Publication number: 20170202249
    Abstract: A container-filled beverage for a person with swallowing difficulty, which contains a thickening agent, has a viscosity of 50 mPa·s or more, and is filled in a light-shielding container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroshi BATORI, Toshiyuki AKACHI, Tomoko KANAZAWA, Keiji KUROIWA, Tomoe TAMAI, Takasuke UMETSU, Hiroshi ENDOU, Yoshinari SUGANUMA, Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Moeko KAWAMORI, Hikaru NAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9661735
    Abstract: A synchrotron injector system comprising a first ion source which generates a first ion, a second ion source which generates a second ion having a smaller charge-to-mass ratio than a charge-to-mass ratio of the first ion, a pre-accelerator having the capability to enable to accelerate both the first ion and the second ion, a low-energy beam transport line which is constituted in such a way to inject either the first ion or the second ion into the pre-accelerator, and a self-focusing type post-accelerator which accelerates only the first ion after acceleration which is emitted from the pre-accelerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Sadahiro Kawasaki, Hiromitsu Inoue
  • Patent number: 9653740
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell; a fuel supply source; a supply passage; a circulation passage; a gas-liquid separator; a discharge passage; a discharge valve; a differential pressure detecting portion; and a control unit, wherein the control unit estimates a flow rate of a fuel gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Imanishi
  • Publication number: 20170133200
    Abstract: A particle beam irradiation apparatus includes an accelerator that extracts a pulse-shaped particle beam, a switching system that has a function of switching a particle beam in order not to be irradiated onto an irradiation subject, a database in which time dependency of the number of particles in one pulse of the particle beam is stored in accordance with a driving condition for the accelerator, a computing processing unit that calculates a timing of switching operation by the switching system, based on a desired accumulated number of particles to be irradiated onto the irradiation subject and the time dependency of the number of particles in one pulse of the particle beam, that is stored in the database, and a switching controller that controls the switching system based on the timing of switching operation by the switching system, that is calculated by the computing processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi INOUE, Yusuke SAKAMOTO, Kazuo YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170111553
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that prevents hooking of a cable, coming-off of a connector, or the like without lowering insertion and extraction performance of a cable even when external connection terminals are arranged on inclined faces formed on a side surface of an apparatus main body in its width direction while reducing a size of the apparatus main body in the width direction. The inclined faces inclines such that ends of the respective inclined faces on a back side of the apparatus main body are inclined in a direction to come close to the optical axis. The inclined faces are arranged at positions so as not to overlap to each other when viewed from the width direction of the apparatus main body, and are arranged such that a part of the inclined faces overlap to each other when viewed from a direction of the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170098427
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus may include circuitry configured to: receive a first image (201), a second image (202) and first color space information (BT.2020) indicating a first color space of the first image; convert a second color space (BT.709) of the second image to a converted color space (BT.2020) same as the first color space, when the second color space is different from the first color space; and generate a display image (209) including the first image and the second image having the converted color space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Shinobu Hattori
  • Publication number: 20160380284
    Abstract: An object is to reduce the noise and the vibration caused in operation of an injector in a non-power generation state of a fuel cell. There is provided a fuel cell system comprising fuel cells configured such that each fuel cell includes an anode, an electrolyte membrane and a cathode; an injector that is configured to supply hydrogen to the anode; and a controller that is configured to control operation of an injector to make pressure of the anode reach a target pressure. In a non-power generation state that is after a start of the fuel cell system but is before power generation of the fuel cells, the controller sets a second target pressure that is higher than a first target pressure to the target pressure and controls operation of the injector to make the pressure of the anode equal to the second target pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro OKUYOSHI, Hiroyuki IMANISHI, Kazuo YAMAMOTO