Patents by Inventor Kenji Yamamoto

Kenji 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: 11335371
    Abstract: A reproduction apparatus dividing a cross section of superposed light into a plurality of regions in a tangential and/or radial direction includes: an optical system configured to generate each of a first set of signal light and reference light having a phase difference of approximately 0°, a second set of signal light and reference light having a phase difference of approximately 180°, a third set of signal light and reference light having a phase difference of approximately 90°, and a fourth set of signal light and reference light having a phase difference of approximately 270°, using a plurality of superposed light beams corresponding to the divided regions; an optical receiver configured to output signals corresponding to the sets of the signal light and the reference light; and a circuit configured to compute signals as differences between the signals, and obtain a reproduction signal by computation from the computed signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Sekiguchi, Toshihiro Horigome, Kenji Yamamoto, Kotaro Kurokawa
  • Publication number: 20220069088
    Abstract: An SiC semiconductor device includes an SiC semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type having a main surface, a source trench formed in the main surface and having a side wall and a bottom wall, a source electrode embedded in the source trench and having a side wall contact portion in contact with a region of the side wall of the source trench at an opening side of the source trench, a body region of a second conductivity type formed in a region of a surface layer portion of the main surface along the source trench, and a source region of the first conductivity type electrically connected to the side wall contact portion of the source electrode in a surface layer portion of the body region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki NAKANO, Kenji YAMAMOTO, Seigo MORI
  • Patent number: 11211519
    Abstract: The method for manufacturing a solar cell includes: forming a first semiconductor layer of first conductivity type on a surface of a semiconductor substrate; forming a lift-off layer containing a silicon-based material on the first semiconductor layer; selectively removing the lift-off layer and first semiconductor layer; forming a second semiconductor layer of second conductivity type on a surface having the lift-off layer and first semiconductor layer; and removing the second semiconductor layer covering the lift-off layer by removing the lift-off layer using an etching solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Mishima, Kunihiro Nakano, Katsunori Konishi, Daisuke Adachi, Takashi Kuchiyama, Kenji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210397119
    Abstract: The present invention provides a recording medium detecting device, an image forming device, an image forming system, a recording medium detecting method, and a non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program capable of detecting a grain direction of a recording medium. A recording medium detecting device has: a sensor capable of detecting a recording medium from a first detection direction and a second detection direction different from the first detection direction; and a control unit. The control unit determines a grain direction of a recording medium from first surface property data obtained when the recording medium is detected from the first detection direction and second surface property data obtained when the recording medium is detected from the second detection direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoto SUGAYA, Kenji TAMAKI, Kenji YAMAMOTO, Tatsuo ISHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20210397879
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus 10 includes an interface 12 configured to acquire an image and a processor 13 configured to perform low-rank approximation by singular value decomposition on the acquired image, and perform object recognition on the acquired image subjected to the low-rank approximation by the singular value decomposition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210390981
    Abstract: A reproduction apparatus dividing a cross section of superposed light into a plurality of regions in a tangential and/or radial direction includes: an optical system configured to generate each of a first set of signal light and reference light having a phase difference of approximately 0°, a second set of signal light and reference light having a phase difference of approximately 180°, a third set of signal light and reference light having a phase difference of approximately 90°, and a fourth set of signal light and reference light having a phase difference of approximately 270°, using a plurality of superposed light beams corresponding to the divided regions; an optical receiver configured to output signals corresponding to the sets of the signal light and the reference light; and a circuit configured to compute signals as differences between the signals, and obtain a reproduction signal by computation from the computed signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji SEKIGUCHI, Toshihiro HORIGOME, Kenji YAMAMOTO, Kotaro KUROKAWA
  • Patent number: 11199184
    Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate compressor includes a displacement control valve that is configured to change crank chamber pressure, and an opening adjusting valve that adjusts an amount of refrigerant sucked into a suction chamber. The opening adjusting valve includes a valve case, a first valve element, a second valve element, and an urging spring. The valve case has a valve seat on which the second valve element is seated. The valve seat regulates movement of the second valve element toward the first valve element. A sealing member is provided between an inner peripheral surface of the valve case that defines a second valve chamber and an outer peripheral surface of the second valve element to prevent refrigerant in the second valve chamber so that leakage between a bleed passage and a control passage is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Noriaki Satake, Shinichi Kakegawa, Shuhei Sekinaga, Shiro Hayashi, Akinobu Kanai
  • Publication number: 20210358159
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus 10 includes an interface 12 configured to acquire a stereo image that includes a standard image and a reference image captured from different viewpoints and a processor 13 configured to perform low-rank approximation by singular value decomposition on the standard image and the reference image, and calculate a parallax by performing stereo matching processing between the standard image and the reference image that are subjected to the low-rank approximation by the singular value decomposition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210355324
    Abstract: An addition reaction-curable silicone emulsion composition containing a water-soluble silane coupling agent (I) and an organopolysiloxane (II) having at least two alkenyl groups in one molecule thereof, where the water-soluble silane coupling agent (I) has at least one group selected from among a succinic anhydride group, a quaternary ammonium group, and a ureido group, and 1 part by mass or more of the water-soluble silane coupling agent (I) is contained relative to 100 parts by mass of the organopolysiloxane (II). This provides: a silicone emulsion composition that gives a cured film adhering well to plastic film substrates regardless of the type, while having suitable release properties regarding adhesives; and a delamination film made by forming a cured film of the silicone emulsion composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Natsumi INOUE, Tetsuro YAMADA, Kenji YAMAMOTO, Tsuneo KIMURA, Munenao HIROKAMI
  • Publication number: 20210313596
    Abstract: A radical-curable seal member for fuel cell 4 having a glass transition temperature of ?40° C. or lower made from a crosslinked product of a radical-curable composition containing (A) (Meth)acrylic polymer having a (meth)acryloyl group at a molecular chain end, (B) Monofunctional (meth)acrylic monomer, (C) Polyfunctional (meth)acrylic monomer and (D) Radical polymerization initiator, wherein the radical-curable composition contains 20 to 90 weight parts of component (B), 1 to 10 weight parts of component (C), 0.01 to 10 weight parts of component (D) with respect to 100 weight parts of component (A), a weight ratio [(B)/(C)] of the component (B) with respect to the component (C) being 4 to 24, and a content [(C)/{(A)+(B)+(C)}] of the component (C) with respect to a total of 100 wt % of the component (A), the component (B), and the component (C) being 1 to 7 wt %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
    Inventors: Shota TANIGUCHI, Yasunori NIMURA, Kenji YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11136810
    Abstract: To provide a window regulator and a method of assembling the same, capable of easily supplying grease to a slider shoe and a support portion of a guide rail, the window regulator includes: a guide rail extending in an operation direction of a window glass; and a slider installed to the window glass and guided along the operation direction on the guide rail. The slider has a slider shoe configured to support at least a part of the guide rail, and a grease injection hole configured to inject grease into an internal space of the slider shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Kazuya Yokoyama, Kazuki Natsume
  • Patent number: 11136809
    Abstract: To provide a window regulator and a method of assembling the same, capable of easily applying grease to a main wall portion of a guide rail, the window regulator includes: a guide rail extending in an operation direction of a window glass; and a slider installed to the window glass and guided along the operation direction on the guide rail, wherein the guide rail has a main wall portion extending in a front-rear direction, and the slider has a main body portion facing the main wall portion of the guide rail abuttably from a vehicle width direction, and a grease application portion configured to apply grease along the operation direction on the main wall portion of the guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Kazuya Yokoyama, Kazuki Natsume
  • Patent number: 11136803
    Abstract: To provide a window regulator and a method of assembling the same, capable of easily applying grease to a wire facing surface of a guide rail, the window regulator includes: a guide rail extending in an operation direction of a window glass; a slider installed to the window glass and guided along the operation direction on the guide rail; and a wire configured to drive the slider along the operation direction with respect to the guide rail, wherein the guide rail has a wire facing surface facing the wire along the operation direction, and the slider has a grease application portion for applying grease along the operation direction on the wire facing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Kazuya Yokoyama, Kazuki Natsume
  • Patent number: 11139498
    Abstract: An electrode catalyst for fuel cells that can inhibit an increase in gas diffusion resistance includes a carbon material having a ratio of a peak intensity IA derived from an amorphous structure to a peak intensity IG derived from a graphite structure in an X-ray diffraction spectrum (ratio IA/IG) of 0.90 or less as a catalyst-supporting carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Yamamoto, Nobuaki Mizutani, Kohei Koyamada, Kotaro Horiai, Mikihiro Kataoka, Kenji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210305363
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type having a first main surface at one side and a second main surface at another side, a trench gate structure including a gate trench formed in the first main surface of the semiconductor layer, and a gate electrode embedded in the gate trench via a gate insulating layer, a trench source structure including a source trench formed deeper than the gate trench and across an interval from the gate trench in the first main surface of the semiconductor layer, a source electrode embedded in the source trench, and a deep well region of a second conductivity type formed in a region of the semiconductor layer along the source trench, a ratio of a depth of the trench source structure with respect to a depth of the trench gate structure being not less than 1.5 and not more than 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Minoru NAKAGAWA, Yuki NAKANO, Masatoshi AKETA, Masaya UENO, Seigo MORI, Kenji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210304650
    Abstract: An image display device includes: a display including a plurality of pixels; a selector configured to randomly select one or more pixels as target pixels from the plurality of pixels for each frame; and a target pixel value changer configured to change pixel values of one or more target pixels selected by the selector
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Kenji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210301573
    Abstract: In a wire regulator, a slider has a metal portion and a resin portion. The resin portion covers part of a front surface and a back surface of the metal portion, and forms a rainwater guide portion having an eave, the rainwater guide portion reducing entrance of rainwater into a lifting wire end housing portion, a lowering wire end housing portion, and a groove portion. A slit is provided at the resin portion at at least one of a front surface or a back surface of the slider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji YAMAMOTO, Kazuya YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210301576
    Abstract: In a wire regulator, a lifting wire extension direction is a direction crossing a rainwater and the like dropping direction. A first rainwater guide portion having an eave formed on one side of a slider through a lifting wire is formed. A second rainwater guide portion having an eave formed on the other side of the slider through the lifting wire is formed. The eave of the first rainwater guide portion and the eave of the second rainwater guide portion are arranged shifted from each other in the rainwater and the like dropping direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: SHIROKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji YAMAMOTO, Kazuya YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 11131935
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus outputs correction data using a first system that outputs the correction data for correcting a condition defining processing to be performed in a lithography apparatus that forms a pattern onto a substrate. The first system includes a first model that outputs the correction data in case where a processing result indicating a result of the processing is input, and a second model that outputs the processing result in case where the condition is input. The first system corrects the condition using the correction data output from the first model, and outputs the correction data based on the processing result output by inputting the corrected condition to the second model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Mitsuhiro Masuda
  • Publication number: 20210288196
    Abstract: A solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate having a photoelectric conversion section, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The semiconductor substrate has a thickness of 70 ?m or more and 200 ?m or less. A chipping mark is present on an edge of at least one principal surface of the semiconductor substrate. The maximum length of the chipping mark along a side of the semiconductor substrate is 45 ?m or less. The semiconductor substrate does not have a scribe mark due to laser irradiation. The solar cell can suppress a reduction in the fill factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Kunihiro NAKANO, Kunta YOSHIKAWA, Kenji YAMAMOTO