Patents by Inventor Ken Yamashita
Ken Yamashita 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: 9505087Abstract: A weld metal according to the present invention has a specific chemical composition, contains carbide particles each having an equivalent circle diameter of greater than 0.5 ?m in a number of 0.25 or less per micrometer of grain boundary length, and has an A-value as specified by Formula (1) of 0.12 or more, Formula (1) expressed as follows: A-value=([V]/51+[Nb]/93)/([Cr]/52+[Mo]/96) ??(1) where [V], [Nb], [Cr], and [Mo] are contents (percent by mass) of V, Nb, Cr, and Mo, respectively, in the weld metal.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hidenori Nako, Ken Yamashita, Minoru Otsu, Genichi Taniguchi, Mikihiro Sakata
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Patent number: 9289859Abstract: This weld metal has excellent creep characteristics and has a given chemical composition. In the weld metal, the value A defined by equation (1) is 200 or greater, and carbide particles each having an equivalent-circle diameter of 0.40 ?m or more have an average equivalent-circle diameter less than 0.85 ?m. In the segments that connect the centers of three or more carbide particles which are present on a 6-?m straight line and which each has an equivalent-circle diameter of 0.40 ?m or more, the sum of the lengths of the portions where the segments intersect the carbide particles is 25% or more of the overall length of the segments. Value A=([V]/51+[Nb]/93)/{[V]×([Cr]/5+[Mo]/2)}×104??(1) In the equation, [V], [Nb], [Cr], and [Mo] respectively indicate the contents (mass %) of V, Nb, Cr, and Mo in the weld metal.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hidenori Nako, Ken Yamashita, Minoru Otsu, Mikihiro Sakata, Genichi Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20160002758Abstract: This welded structure comprises a weld metal which contains C, Si, Mn, Cr, Mo, V, Nb, N and O in prescribed amounts respectively with the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities and which exhibits an A value of 200 or more and a Z value of 0.05 or more. The A value is calculated from the element contents of the weld metal according to the formula: A value=([V]/51+[Nb]/93)/{[V]×([Cr]/5+[Mo]/2)}×104. The Z value is calculated according to the formula: Z value=N×[insol. V] [wherein N (particles/?m) is the number density of carbide particles present in a prior austenite grain boundary per unit grain boundary in the stress-relief annealed weld metal, and [insol. V] is the concentration of compound-type V as determined by analyzing an extraction residue of the stress-relief annealed weld metal].Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)Inventors: Hidenori NAKO, Ken YAMASHITA, Minoru OTSU, Mikihiro SAKATA, Genichi TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20150368767Abstract: A weld metal of the present invention contains C: 0.05-0.12%, Si: 0.10-0.35%, Mn: 0.65-0.90%, Cr: 1.85-2.50%, Mo: 0.80-1.20%, V: 0.25-0.50%, Nb: 0.010-0.050%, B: 0.0005-0.0010%, N: 0.025% or less (exclusive of 0%), and O: 0.025-0.060% respectively, with the remainder consisting of iron and inevitable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Hidenori NAKO, Ken YAMASHITA, Minoru OTSU, Genichi TANIGUCHI
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Patent number: 8992698Abstract: Provided is a welding metal in which the chemical component composition thereof is appropriately controlled; an A value that is specified by a predetermined relational expression satisfies the requirement of being 3.8% to 9.0%; an X value that is specified by a predetermined relational expression satisfies the requirement of being 0.5% or greater; the area percentage of carbide particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.20 ?m or greater in the welding metal is 4.0% or less; and the number of carbide particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of 1.0 ?m or greater is 1000 particles/mm2 or less. This welding metal, which can exhibit not only high strength but also good low-temperature toughness and good drop-weight characteristics, is useful as a material for a pressure vessel in a nuclear power plant.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Kobe Steel. Ltd.Inventors: Hidenori Nako, Yoshitomi Okazaki, Ken Yamashita, Minoru Otsu, Hideaki Takauchi
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Patent number: 8932415Abstract: Provided is a welding metal in which a predetermined chemical component composition is satisfied, the A value as specified by formula (1) is 3.8% to 9.0%, and the surface area percentage of carbide having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.20 ?m or greater in the welding metal is 4.0% or less. A value=0.8×[C]?0.05×[Si]+0.5×[Mn]+0.5×[Cu]+[Ni]?0.5×[Mo]+0.2×[Cr]??(1) (Provided that [C], [Si], [Mn], [Cu], [Ni], [Mo] and [Cr] are the C, Si, Mn, Cu, Ni, Mo and Cr content (by mass percent), respectively) The welding metal is useful as a material for a pressure vessel of a nuclear power plant as the welding metal is high in strength and has good low-temperature toughness and drop-weight characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2011Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hidenori Nako, Yoshitomi Okazaki, Ken Yamashita, Minoru Otsu, Hideaki Takauchi
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Publication number: 20140294491Abstract: A weld metal according to the present invention has a specific chemical composition, contains carbide particles each having an equivalent circle diameter of greater than 0.5 ?m in a number of 0.25 or less per micrometer of grain boundary length, and has an A-value as specified by Formula (1) of 0.12 or more, Formula (1) expressed as follows: A-value=([V]/51+[Nb]/93)/([Cr]/52+[Mo]/96) ??(1) where [V], [Nb], [Cr], and [Mo] are contents (percent by mass) of V, Nb, Cr, and Mo, respectively, in the weld metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Hidenori Nako, Ken Yamashita, Minoru Otsu, Genichi Taniguchi, Mikihiro Sakata
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Publication number: 20140212323Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer overlay welding section in which a first layer of an overlay welding section to be formed on the bearing contact surface of a high Cr steel turbine rotor includes C: 0.05 to 0.2%, Si: 0.1 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.3 to 1.5%, Cr: 4.0 to 7.7%, and Mo: 0.5 to 1.5% with a remainder including Fe and unavoidable impurities, a multilayer overlay welding section in which, in addition to the above layer, an upper layer welding section includes C: 0.05 to 0.2%, Si: 0.1 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.3 to 2.5%, Cr: 1.0 to 4.0%, and Mo: 0.5 to 1.5%, and a welding material therefor and a process for producing the multilayer overlay welding section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2012Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.), THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.Inventors: Yuta Honma, Rinzo Kayano, Mikihiro Sakata, Ken Yamashita
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Patent number: 8649653Abstract: A problem with high resource-consuming managed copy is that simultaneous execution of the managed copy, which is controlled by a playback device, and a BD-J application, which is recorded on a recording medium, leads to a shortage in resources. Provided is a playback device that enables simultaneous execution of the managed copy and the BD-J application while preventing resource contention therebetween, by imposing an access limitation on the disc medium by causing the BD-J application to assume that the disc medium has been virtually ejected.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Keiichi Tanaka, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Ken Yamashita
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Publication number: 20130315661Abstract: This weld metal has a predetermined chemical composition, controls the number of oxides in accordance with size, and has an A value stipulated by the belowmentioned formula of no greater than 5.0. A value=(100×[C]?6×[insol.Cr]?2×[insol.Mo]?24×[insol.V]?13×[insol.Nb])×([Mo]?[insol.Mo]), where [insol.Cr], [insol.Mo], [insol.Nb], and [insol.V] are contents (in mass percent) of Cr, Mo, Nb, and V, respectively, present as a compound after stress-relief heat treatment, and [C] and [Mo] are contents (in mass percent) of C and Mo, respectively, contained in the weld metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2012Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel,Ltd.)Inventors: Hidenori Nako, Ken Yamashita, Minoru Otsu, Genichi Taniguchi, Mikihiro Sakata
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Publication number: 20130309003Abstract: This weld metal has excellent creep characteristics and has a given chemical composition. In the weld metal, the value A defined by equation (1) is 200 or greater, and carbide particles each having an equivalent-circle diameter of 0.40 ?m or more have an average equivalent-circle diameter less than 0.85 ?m. In the segments that connect the centers of three or more carbide particles which are present on a 6-?m straight line and which each has an equivalent-circle diameter of 0.40 ?m or more, the sum of the lengths of the portions where the segments intersect the carbide particles is 25% or more of the overall length of the segments. Value A=([V]/51+[Nb]/93)/{[V]×([Cr]/5+[Mo]/2)}×104??(1) In the equation, [V], [Nb], [Cr], and [Mo] respectively indicate the contents (mass %) of V, Nb, Cr, and Mo in the weld metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Hidenori Nako, Ken Yamashita, Minoru Otsu, Mikihiro Sakata, Genichi Taniguchi
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Patent number: 8574381Abstract: To provide weld metal that has a high strength and toughness in the as-welded condition or in the annealed condition. The weld metal of the present invention contains by weight %, C: 0.04-0.15%, Si: 0.50% or less, Mn: 1.0-1.9%, Ni: 1.0-4.0%, Cr: 0.10-1.0%, Mo: 0.20 to 1.2%, Ti: 0.010-0.060%, Al: 0.030% or less, O: 0.15-0.060%, N: 0.010% or less, Fe and inevitable impurities as the remaining contents. The weld metal is further characterized by the fact that the ratio of Ti content (%) to Si content (%) i.e., [compound type Ti]/[compound type Si] is more than 1.5, and the number A defined by the following formula is 0.50 or more, wherein A=[Ti]/([O]?1.1×[Al]+0.05×[Si]).Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2010Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hidenori Nako, Yoshitomi Okazaki, Ken Yamashita, Hideaki Takauchi, Minoru Otsu
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Patent number: 8433929Abstract: Provided is a data management device for managing data recorded onto a readable and writable recording medium by an application that is verified based on a digital certificate. The recording medium has a plurality of areas and access to each area is restricted to a different application. The data management device includes an application authentication module, a mapping module, and a local storage display module. The application authentication module verifies that an application is an authentic application based on a digital certificate attached to the application. The mapping module associates, if the application is verified, an area accessible by the application with a subject name described in the digital certificate used for the verification. The local storage display module displays information regarding the area accessible by the application, with the use of the subject name associated with the area.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Ken Yamashita
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Publication number: 20130070052Abstract: A video processing device is one of multiple devices in a home theater system. Upon connection to another device, a depth adjustment determination module determines whether depth adjustment of two or more view components is necessary for playback of stereoscopic video images. When depth adjustment is necessary, a capability comparison module performs a communications sequence to determine which device will perform the depth adjustment. When it is determined during the communications sequence that the video processing device itself is to perform the depth adjustment, it does so and then transmits the resulting adjusted two or more view components to the other device. When it is determined that the other device is to perform the depth adjustment, the video processing device transmits the two or more view components without performing depth adjustment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Ken Yamashita, Osamu Yamaji, Hidetaka Oto
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Publication number: 20130028782Abstract: Provided is a welding metal in which the chemical component composition thereof is appropriately controlled; an A value that is specified by a predetermined relational expression satisfies the requirement of being 3.8% to 9.0%; an X value that is specified by a predetermined relational expression satisfies the requirement of being 0.5% or greater; the area percentage of carbide particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.20 ?m or greater in the welding metal is 4.0% or less; and the number of carbide particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of 1.0 ?m or greater is 1000 particles/mm2 or less. This welding metal, which can exhibit not only high strength but also good low-temperature toughness and good drop-weight characteristics, is useful as a material for a pressure vessel in a nuclear power plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Hidenori Nako, Yoshitomi Okazaki, Ken Yamashita, Minoru Otsu, Hideaki Takauchi
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Patent number: 8335425Abstract: In performing stereoscopic view, a shift information memory (21) stores, as a number of pixel lengths, an offset indicating how far in a right direction or a left direction to move coordinates of pixels to realize stereoscopic view. When realizing stereoscopic view, a plane shift engine (20) moves the coordinates of image data in a graphics plane in the right direction or the left direction by the number of pixel lengths indicated by the offset. When a scale of video data targeted for stereoscopic view is changed by a basic graphics plane (15), a shift distance of pixel coordinates by the plane shift engine (20) is based on a number of pixel lengths obtained by multiplying the offset by a changed scaling factor in the horizontal direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Ken Yamashita, Germano Leichsenring
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Publication number: 20120294752Abstract: Provided is a welding metal in which a predetermined chemical component composition is satisfied, the A value as specified by formula (1) is 3.8% to 9.0%, and the surface area percentage of carbide having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.20 ?m or greater in the welding metal is 4.0% or less. A value=0.8×[C]?0.05×[Si]+0.5×[Mn]+0.5×[Cu]+[Ni]?0.5×[Mo]+0.2×[Cr]??(1) (Provided that [C], [Si], [Mn], [Cu], [Ni], [Mo] and [Cr] are the C, Si, Mn, Cu, Ni, Mo and Cr content (by mass percent), respectively) The welding metal is useful as a material for a pressure vessel of a nuclear power plant as the welding metal is high in strength and has good low-temperature toughness and drop-weight characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2011Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Hidenori Nako, Yoshitomi Okazaki, Ken Yamashita, Minoru Otsu, Hideaki Takauchi
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Patent number: 8306387Abstract: The playback apparatus realizes stereoscopic viewing by overlaying planar or stereoscopic graphics over stereoscopic video in a way that reduces eye strain using following method in abstract: A graphics plane holds therein data composed of graphics data. A shift engine shifts, in a case when a composition unit composites the graphics data with a left-view video frame, coordinates of each of the pixels is shifted in a first horizontal direction, and in a case when the composition unit composites the graphics data with a right-view video frame, coordinates of each of the pixels is shifted in a second horizontal direction that is opposite to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Ken Yamashita, Germano Leichsenring
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Patent number: 8301013Abstract: In performing stereoscopic view, a shift information memory stores, as a number of pixel lengths, an offset indicating how far in a right direction or a left direction to move coordinates of pixels to realize stereoscopic view. When realizing stereoscopic view, a plane shift engine moves the coordinates of image data in a graphics plane in the right direction or the left direction by the number of pixel lengths indicated by the offset. When a scale of video data targeted for stereoscopic view is changed by a basic graphics plane, a shift distance of pixel coordinates by the plane shift engine is based on a number of pixel lengths obtained by multiplying the offset by a changed scaling factor in the horizontal direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Ken Yamashita, Germano Leichsenring
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Publication number: 20120170916Abstract: The playback apparatus realizes stereoscopic viewing by overlaying planar or stereoscopic graphics over stereoscopic video in a way that reduces eye strain using following method in abstract: A graphics plane holds therein data composed of graphics data. A shift engine shifts, in a case when a composition unit composites the graphics data with a left-view video frame, coordinates of each of the pixels is shifted in a first horizontal direction, and in a case when the composition unit composites the graphics data with a right-view video frame, coordinates of each of the pixels is shifted in a second horizontal direction that is opposite to the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Ken YAMASHITA, Germano LEICHSENRING