Patents by Inventor Keiichi Yamamoto

Keiichi 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).

  • Indoor unit of air-conditioning apparatus
    Patent number: 10024554
    Abstract: An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes an air-sending device unit having an air-sending device unit housing configured to house an air-sending device and provided with an air inlet; and a heat exchanger unit having a heat exchanger unit housing configured to house an indoor heat exchanger, provided with an air outlet, and configured to be coupled to the air-sending device unit housing, wherein the air-sending device includes a rotating fan, an electric motor, and a casing, the casing, the air inflow port, and the air-sending device unit housing, a first rail unit, and a slide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Hayashi, Yukihiko Kawanori, Keiichi Yamamoto
  • Display device
    Patent number: 10001664
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a panel driver board, and flexible circuit boards. The liquid crystal panel has a substantially round shape and includes linear edge sections formed by linearly cutting out outer edge portions. The panel driver board is configured to supply signals related to image display to the liquid crystal panel. The flexible circuit boards include first ends and second ends. The first ends are mounted to the liquid crystal panel aligned with the linear edge sections with respect to the circumferential direction in a non-display area. The second ends are mounted to the panel driver board. Portions of the flexible circuit boards joining the first ends and the second ends have bending shapes in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Mitani, Aya Nakatani, Keiichi Yamamoto, Seiji Muraoka
  • Drive device, drive method, display device and display method
    Patent number: 9934743
    Abstract: A display drive circuit (drive device) has a signal line drive circuit that, before the display panel is turned OFF, writes prescribed data signals to a respective plurality of pixels via a plurality of source signal lines, such that the potential of the drain electrodes of the respective pixels becomes equal to the potential of the opposite electrode after the display panel is turned OFF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keiichi Yamamoto
  • Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium
    Patent number: 9880684
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a touch position detection unit configured to detect a touch position indicated by an operation object in contact with an input target surface, a proximity position detection unit configured to detect a proximity position indicated by an operation object in proximity to the input target surface, and a recognition unit configured to recognize that an operation object has started a moving operation, based on a condition to be satisfied by a movement amount of the touch position detected by the touch position detection unit. The condition changes according to a movement amount of the proximity position detected by the proximity position detection unit before the touch position detection unit starts to detect the touch position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keiichi Yamamoto
  • DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180024395
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a panel driver board, and flexible circuit boards. The liquid crystal panel has a substantially round shape and includes linear edge sections formed by linearly cutting out outer edge portions. The panel driver board is configured to supply signals related to image display to the liquid crystal panel. The flexible circuit boards include first ends and second ends. The first ends are mounted to the liquid crystal panel aligned with the linear edge sections with respect to the circumferential direction in a non-display area. The second ends are mounted to the panel driver board. Portions of the flexible circuit boards joining the first ends and the second ends have bending shapes in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Masahiro MITANI, Aya NAKATANI, Keiichi YAMAMOTO, Seiji MURAOKA
  • HEAT EXCHANGE UNIT AND AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170254559
    Abstract: A heat exchange unit includes a heat exchanger, a first drain pan, and a second drain pan. The heat exchanger is configured to cause heat to be exchanged between air and refrigerant. The first drain pan is provided so as to face the heat exchanger and has an opening through which the air flows. The second drain pan is provided so as to face the heat exchanger and is attached to the first drain pan so as to form an L shape in side view together with the first drain pan. The heat exchange unit is installed in an installation state in which the first drain pan is located below the heat exchanger or in an installation state in which the second drain pan is located below the heat exchanger. The second drain pan includes a rib on a facing surface facing the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventor: Keiichi YAMAMOTO
  • INDOOR UNIT OF AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170219222
    Abstract: An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes an air-sending device unit having an air-sending device unit housing configured to house an air-sending device and provided with an air inlet; and a heat exchanger unit having a heat exchanger unit housing configured to house an indoor heat exchanger, provided with an air outlet, and configured to be coupled to the air-sending device unit housing, wherein the air-sending device includes a rotating fan, an electric motor, and a casing, the casing, the air inflow port, and the air-sending device unit housing, a first rail unit, and a slide member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Tomoki HAYASHI, Yukihiko KAWANORI, Keiichi YAMAMOTO
  • ROLLING BEARING
    Publication number: 20170211617
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rolling bearing that reduces the weight of a holder, that meanwhile maintains the rigidity of the holder itself, and that makes it possible to minimize increases in rotational torque even when rotating at an extremely high speed. The rolling bearing comprises an inner ring, an outer ring, a plurality of rolling bodies, and a holder for holding the rolling bodies between the inner ring and the outer ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: NACHI-FUJIKOSHI CORP.
    Inventors: Keiichi YAMAMOTO, Akira TATSUSHIMA, Yasuhiro UENO
  • AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170159967
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a heat-exchange unit. The heat-exchange unit has a pair of heat exchangers, and a partition plate disposed in such a state that a first region located on the inside of a space between the pair of heat exchangers and a second region located on the outside of the space are formed. The heat-exchange unit is disposed in such an orientation that one of the pair of heat exchangers is provided adjacent to and above the other heat exchanger and that the second region of the partition plate is located on the downstream side of the first region. The second region of the partition plate is provided with an inlet of a drain path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Yukihiko KAWANORI, Keiichi YAMAMOTO, Hiroshi TSUTSUMI, Ayaka UEYAMA
  • Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium for recognizing a multi-touch operation
    Patent number: 9665201
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of recognizing a multi-touch operation acquires positions of a plurality of touch points that constitutes the multi-touch operation, acquires information indicating a distance between two touch points that constitute the multi-touch operation based on the acquired positions, and determines that the input multi-touch operation is an enlargement or reduction operation that causes a display unit to enlarge or reduce an image to be displayed thereon, if the distance between the two touch points indicated by the acquired information has been continuously enlarged or reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keiichi Yamamoto
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, OPERATION DETERMINATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20170131831
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a touch sensor configured to detect a touch position on an input surface touched with a pointer. The information processing apparatus is configured to receive, depending on whether or not a linear locus of the touch position on the input surface starts from inside an operation start region set on the input surface, the linear locus of the touch position as any one of a first operation and a second operation different from the first operation on an image that is displayed on a predetermined display. The operation start region is determined based on at least one of an operation status of the pointer and a display state of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventor: Keiichi Yamamoto
  • HEAT EXCHANGE UNIT AND AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170108230
    Abstract: A heat exchange unit includes a heat exchanger and a drain pan detachable to the heat exchanger, the drain pan including a first drain pan having a flat shape installed on a first imaginary plane, and a second drain pan having a flat shape and installed on a second imaginary plane having a different angle with respect to the first imaginary plane, wherein the first drain pan is provided below the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi YAMAMOTO, Junki OONISHI
  • Burdock fruit extract containing arctigenin at high content and process for producing same
    Patent number: 9586921
    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED A burdock fruit extract containing arctigenin at high content and its production method are provided, and both of which are used for treatment of pancreatic cancer. SOLUTION The burdock fruit extract containing arctigenin at high content by enzymatically converted arctiin into arctigenin with beta-glucosidase, which is an enzyme occurring endogenously in a burdock fruit, and adding ethanol, extracting, concentrating and then freeze-drying or spray drying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignees: Kracie Pharma, Ltd., Japan as Represented by President of National Cancer Center, National University Corporation University of Toyama
    Inventors: Keiichi Yamamoto, Toshiki Okubo, Satoshi Yomoda, Hiroyasu Esumi, Chika Miyoshi, Shigetoshi Kadota
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INPUT CONTROL METHOD, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170031500
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus repeatedly detects a touch position to be input to an input surface and causes movement reflecting a change of the touch position detected on an image displayed on a display. The information processing apparatus does not reflect the change of the touch position to be detected during a time period during which a predetermined condition is satisfied after the touch position detected rests for a predetermined time period or longer on the image displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventor: Keiichi YAMAMOTO
  • Information processing apparatus and control method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 9529527
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus can recognize a first operation made up of a first input and a second operation made up of the first input and an input that follows after the first input. Input by an operating object is detected, starts a response corresponding to the first operation after the first input from the operating object is detected, regardless of existence of any input to follow after the first input, in a case that information relating to movement of the operating object moving in a direction parallel to an input subject face, which is the subject for the operating object to perform the first input, satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keiichi Yamamoto
  • Information processing apparatus and operation method thereof for determining a flick operation of a pointer
    Patent number: 9459789
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus with an interface with high convenience for a user. A reference speed is set according to an amount of movement or a movement time period of a pointer of a stylus or a finger. It is determined based on a movement speed of the pointer and the reference speed that a flick operation with the pointer has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keiichi Yamamoto
  • Information processing apparatus operable in response to touch operation
    Patent number: 9405374
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine a moving speed of an image displayed on the display screen based on information relating to the movement of the touch position acquired, wherein the determination unit determines, if a plurality of pieces of information relating to a sequential movement of the touch position in the touch operation are acquired, whether to reflect each of the plurality of pieces of information relating to the sequential movement of the touch position on the moving speed of the image displayed on the display screen, and further determines the moving speed of the image displayed on the display screen based on information determined as being reflected on the movement of the image displayed on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keiichi Yamamoto
  • Drain pan for heat exchanger
    Patent number: D768270
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Yamamoto, Tomoki Hayashi, Hiroyuki Masuda
  • Air conditioner
    Patent number: D777891
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kubota, Keiichi Yamamoto, Tomoki Hayashi, Hiroyuki Masuda, Shinya Morikawa, Akihiro Hasegawa, Junki Oonishi
  • Drain pan for heat exchanger
    Patent number: D783789
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Yamamoto, Tomoki Hayashi, Hiroyuki Masuda