Patents by Inventor Kenichi Yamada

Kenichi 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).

  • Patent number: 11972611
    Abstract: A controller is provided that is configured to perform: obtaining information about a condition for an image that is provided to a user, and that corresponds to a preference of the user; specifying at least one predetermined position at which an image satisfying the condition can be taken; and generating a command for a moving object to move to the predetermined position and to take an image, and transmitting the command to the moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Komamine, Yurika Tanaka, Kenichi Yamada, Ryuichi Kamaga, Ai Miyata, Yu Nagata, Shintaro Matsutani
  • Publication number: 20240136740
    Abstract: Provided is a flexible printed circuit connection structure which includes a flexible printed circuit having a plurality of wires, a board to be connected having a plurality of wires to be connected, a plurality of solder connection portions, and a partition wall, in which: the plurality of solder connection portions is a part where the plurality of wires of the flexible printed circuit and the plurality of wires to be connected of the board to be connected are connected to each other by solder; the partition wall is provided away from the plurality of solder connection portions so as to surround the plurality of solder connection portions; and the flexible printed circuit, the board to be connected, and the partition wall define a sealed space, and the plurality of solder connection portions is arranged inside the sealed space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON MEKTRON, LTD.
    Inventors: Shuzo YAMADA, Kenichi NAKAYAMA, Tomoki KANAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11957300
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (2000) detects an abnormal region (30) from a moving image frame (14). The abnormal region (30) is a region that is estimated to represent an abnormal part inside a body of a subject. The information processing apparatus (2000) generates and outputs output information based on the number of detected abnormal regions (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NATIONAL CANCER CENTER
    Inventors: Ikuma Takahashi, Maki Sano, Kimiyasu Takoh, Motoyasu Okutsu, Chiemi Tanaka, Masahiro Saikou, Hitoshi Imaoka, Kenichi Kamijo, Ryuji Hamamoto, Yutaka Saito, Masayoshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240117346
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an object of the present invention is to provide a double-stranded nucleic acid complex having a novel structure. In an embodiment, the present invention relates to a nucleic acid complex comprising a first nucleic acid strand and a second nucleic acid strand, wherein said first nucleic acid strand: (1) is capable of hybridizing to at least a part of a target transcriptional product; (2) has an antisense effect on the target transcriptional product; and (3) is a gapmer comprising a central region, and a 5? wing region and a 3? wing region, said second nucleic acid strand comprises at least one sugar-unmodified central region (first exposed region) consisting of one sugar-unmodified ribonucleoside or two or three contiguous sugar-unmodified ribonucleosides linked by an internucleoside bond, which is or are complementary to a part of said first nucleic acid strand, and said first nucleic acid strand is annealed to said second nucleic acid strand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicants: National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Takanori Yokota, Tetsuya Nagata, Hiroki Yamada, Hideki Furukawa, Takatoshi Yogo, Kenichi Miyata, Akio Uchida, Naoki Tomita
  • Patent number: 11952749
    Abstract: A control device for a power machine includes a target circuit pressure specifying unit configured to specify a target circuit pressure of the hydrostatic continuously variable transmission, a measurement value acquisition unit configured to acquire an actual circuit pressure of the hydrostatic continuously variable transmission, a brake torque determination unit configured to determine a brake torque based on the target circuit pressure and the actual circuit pressure, and a pump control unit configured to control the hydraulic pump based on the brake torque. The brake torque is a torque consumed by the hydraulic pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Yamada, Shogo Miyazaki, Akira Takeno, Shota Yamawaki
  • Patent number: 11953091
    Abstract: A power transmission device includes an input shaft, an output shaft, a differential device, a continuously variable transmission unit, and a control device. The differential device includes a first rotation element connected to the input shaft, a second rotation element connected to the output shaft, and a third rotation element. The continuously variable transmission unit includes a conversion unit configured to convert rotational power of the third rotation element into an other power, and a reconversion unit configured to reconvert the converted other power into the rotational power and supply the reconverted rotational power to the output shaft. The control device includes a continuously variable transmission control unit configured to generate a control signal of the continuously variable transmission unit such that the other power generated by the conversion unit exceeds the other power input to the reconversion unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Miyazaki, Shinya Kawakita, Kenichi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240105884
    Abstract: Performance of an electronic device is improved. A substrate for transfer includes a substrate having a surface and made of a visible light transmitting material, and an elastic deformation portion fixed on the surface of the substrate, transmitting visible light, and made of an elastically deformable material. The elastic deformation portion includes a plurality of element holding portions, and a plurality of protrusions arranged at positions not overlapping with the plurality of element holding portions, and protruding higher than the plurality of element holding portions when the surface of the substrate is a reference plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kenichi TAKEMASA, Kazuyuki YAMADA, Keisuke ASADA, Daiki ISONO
  • Patent number: 11940347
    Abstract: A pressure sensor has a stem in which a pressure introduction hole into which a pressure medium is introduced and a diaphragm deformable according to the pressure of the pressure medium are formed, and a strain detecting element which is arranged on the diaphragm via an insulating film and being configured to output a detection signal according to the deformation of the diaphragm. The strain detecting element is configured to have a portion made of polysilicon. A low doping layer having a higher electrical resistivity than polysilicon and a higher crystallinity than the insulating film is arranged between the insulating film and the strain detecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, NAGANO KEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kodama, Naoki Yoshida, Kaori Miyashita, Eiji Takeda, Nobuaki Yamada, Yoshihiro Tomomatsu, Yasushi Yanagisawa, Yusuke Midorikawa, Shirou Kamanaru, Kenichi Yokoyama, Inao Toyoda, Hisayuki Takeuchi, Naohisa Niimi, Masao Takahashi, Yasutake Ura, Kouji Asano, Yukihiro Kamada
  • Publication number: 20240084182
    Abstract: A thermally conductive silicone composition including: (A) an organopolysiloxane represented by the following general formula (1) having a kinematic viscosity at 25° C. of 10 to 10,000 mm2/s, (B) an organopolysiloxane other than the component (A), represented by the following general formula (2) and having a kinematic viscosity at 25° C. of 1,000 to 100,000 mm2/s, (C) an organosilane represented by the following general formula (3), and (D) a thermally conductive filler having a thermal conductivity of 10 W/m·° C. or more. A thermally conductive silicone composition which does not cause a thickening phenomenon during preservation and has excellent shift resistance is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi TSUJI, Kunihiro YAMADA, Shota AKIBA
  • Publication number: 20240078483
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires information about an article to be loaded onto a vehicle, acquires a characteristic of a person who can affect the article based on the information, and executes a concurrent riding determination to determine existence of concurrent riding on the vehicle by the article and a user having the characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro MIURA, Kenichi YAMADA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Fumiyuki KAGARA, Go TANAKA, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240070581
    Abstract: An information processing method, for an information processing apparatus including a controller, includes a first step, by the controller, of acquiring positional information indicating a change over time in positions of a plurality of users, a second step, by the controller, of predicting a number of the users who will gather at a specific time at a boarding/alighting point to board/alight from a vehicle based on the change over time in the positions of the plurality of users indicated by the positional information, and a third step, by the controller, of determining a vehicle dispatch schedule for the vehicle to the boarding/alighting point based on the number of users predicted to gather at the specific time at the boarding/alighting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kenichi YAMADA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Hiromitsu FUJII, Mitsuhiro NAITO
  • Publication number: 20240070576
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores information on a package to be transported by a vehicle traveling within a site of a factory and attributes of each employee working at the factory, a controller that sets a condition on an employee who can be in charge of loading or unloading the package and formulates a transportation plan for the package based on the information on the package, and identifies at least one employee who has attributes satisfying the condition, from among one or more employees scheduled to ride in the vehicle transporting the package, based on the attributes of each employee and the condition on the employee who can be in charge of loading or unloading the package, and a communication interface that notifies a mobile terminal carried by the at least one employee of a request for loading or unloading the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro MIURA, Kenichi YAMADA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Fumiyuki KAGARA, Go TANAKA, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11917682
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless LAN system in which an interference control signal transmitter that is provided in the surroundings of the wireless LAN base station and the wireless LAN terminal, and is configured to collect wireless environment information regarding the interfering AP/STA, and transmit, to the interfering AP/STA, an interference control signal that is to be used to set a transmission waiting period; and an interference control signal management device configured to collect the wireless environment information from the interference control signal transmitter, determine the interference control signal transmitter whose communication area includes the interfering AP/STA based on the wireless environment information, and control the determined interference control signal transmitter to transmit the interference control signal to be used to set the transmission waiting period that corresponds to a length of time of the communication between the wireless LAN base station and the wireless LAN terminal, wher
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Kawamura, Yasushi Takatori, Tomoyuki Yamada, Hiroshi Nakamoto, Keisuke Wakao, Shota Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20240062128
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to generate an operation plan for a vehicle transporting employees in a plant. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire information regarding a work end time for each building or production line on the plant's premises, and generate the operation plan based on the information regarding the work end time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro MIURA, Kenichi YAMADA, Satoshi KOMAMINE, Fumiyuki KAGARA, Go TANAKA, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240044660
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire, as profile data, data read from a medium held by each of users when each of the users gets on a vehicle to be operated with the users on board to a destination having a plurality of facilities, identify, based on the acquired profile data, a facility from among the plurality of facilities at which each of the users is to get off the vehicle, and perform control of operating the vehicle along a route including the identified facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kenichi YAMADA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Hiromitsu FUJII, Mitsuhiro NAITO
  • Publication number: 20240046173
    Abstract: A management support apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus of a manager, and a controller configured to acquire, as profile data, data read from a medium held by each user when each user gets on a vehicle to be operated with multiple users on board to a factory, identify, based on the acquired profile data, that each user has already been on board, upon detecting a user who has not been on board among users scheduled to get on the vehicle, generate proposal data with reference to process data indicating a process of which the detected user is scheduled to be in charge in the factory, the proposal data proposing a schedule change for the process, and transmit the generated proposal data to the terminal apparatus of the manager via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kenichi YAMADA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Hiromitsu FUJII, Mitsuhiro NAITO
  • Patent number: 11889231
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires images captured by a camera mounted in a vehicle, and a memory that can store the images. The controller acquires travel data on the vehicle for when the image was captured and stores the image in the memory in a case in which the travel data satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Komamine, Toyokazu Nakashima, Koichi Suzuki, Lei Wang, Jun Karashima, Kenichi Yamada, Hiromitsu Fujii, Shota Minami
  • Publication number: 20230391061
    Abstract: A laminating system includes: a sheet feeder that feeds a plurality of cut sheets; a continuous conveyor that conveys the cut sheets fed by the sheet feeder without any interval between the cut sheets; a laminator that executes laminating processing and attaches a laminate film to a target sheet among the cut sheets conveyed by the continuous conveyor; and a hardware processor that causes the sheet feeder to feed one or more insertion sheets at least before or after the target sheet of the laminating processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenichi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11825242
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires images captured by a camera mounted in a vehicle, and a memory that can store the images. The controller acquires travel data on the vehicle for when the image was captured and stores the image in the memory in a case in which the travel data satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Komamine, Toyokazu Nakashima, Koichi Suzuki, Lei Wang, Jun Karashima, Kenichi Yamada, Hiromitsu Fujii, Shota Minami
  • Patent number: 11816704
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a communication interface configured to transmit, to at least one bidding apparatus, range data indicating a geographical range through which at least one vehicle travels, and receive, from the at least one bidding apparatus, bidding data for bidding on an advertising slot associated with the geographical range indicated by the range data, and a controller configured to determine a bidder to whom the advertising slot is to be sold based on the bidding data received by the communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takeyama, Kenichi Yamada, Hideo Hasegawa, Bryce H. Morisako