Patents by Inventor Kenji Yasui
Kenji Yasui 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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Publication number: 20200085295Abstract: A retinal scanning type eye examination device includes a storage unit configured to store test image data; a laser emitting unit including a laser light source configured to generate an imaging laser beam based on the test image data, the laser emitting unit being configured to project a test image onto a retina of an eyeball of a person subjected to an eye examination by using the imaging laser beam; an optical component configured to cause the imaging laser beam to converge at an inside of the eyeball of the person; a parameter acquiring unit configured to acquire parameter information for a retinal scanning type eyewear, the parameter information including angle information indicating a rotation angle of the laser emitting unit when the laser emitting unit is rotated around a converging point of the laser beam; and an output unit configured to output the parameter information to an external device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2017Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Hironori MIYAUCHI, Kenji YASUI, Mitsuru SUGAWARA, Makoto SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20190353897Abstract: An image projection device includes: a light source emitting a light beam; an image input unit inputting image data; a control unit generating an image light beam based on the input image data, and controlling emission of the image light beam from the light source; a scan unit scanning the image light beam emitted from the light source; and a projection optical member illuminating a retina of an eyeball of a user with the image light beam scanned by the scan unit, and projecting an image onto the retina, wherein a diameter of the image light beam at a time when the image light beam enters a cornea of the eyeball is not smaller than 310 ?m and not larger than 800 ?m, and a user having an original visual acuity in a range of 0.04 to 1.2 has an acquired visual acuity of 0.4 or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2017Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: QD LASER INC.Inventors: Makoto SUZUKI, Kenji YASUI, Mitsuru SUGAWARA
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Publication number: 20190255665Abstract: A heat treatment method is provided in which a first steel component (11) formed with a coating (111) thereon is fitted in first holes (123, 124) of a second steel component (12) subjected to a quenching treatment. The heat treatment method includes a heating step of heating the second steel component to a first temperature (T1) equal to or higher than a tempering temperature (T0) of the second steel component and higher than a temperature of the first steel component by a temperature difference (?T) for achieving shrink fitting and a shrink-fitting step of shrink-fitting the first steel component in the first holes of the second steel component in a state of maintaining the temperature difference for achieving shrink fitting between the first steel component and the second steel component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Ryosuke HIRAISHI, Kenji YASUI, Yukichi OKAYAMA, Kei TANAKA, Takeshi OSHIO
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Patent number: 10135107Abstract: A directional coupler according to the invention includes an opening in a wall surface of a waveguide, and a coupling line on an outer side of the waveguide. The opening is configured to not cross a tube axis of the waveguide in plan view, and to emit a circularly polarized wave. The coupling line includes first and second transmission lines and output parts disposed at both ends, the first and second transmission lines extending across the opening to cross the tube axis in plan view and being opposed to each other across the center of the opening. The first and second transmission lines are interconnected at a position displaced from an area vertically above the opening.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Yoshino, Tomotaka Nobue, Kenji Yasui, Yoshiharu Omori, Masafumi Sadahira, Masayuki Kubo
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Patent number: 9666109Abstract: A projector includes, a projecting unit that converts image data into light and projects the light at a predetermined angle of view, a projecting direction changing unit that changes the projecting direction of the projecting unit from a first projecting direction to a second projecting direction, a projection angle derivation unit that derives a projection angle between the first projecting direction and a projecting direction after changed, and an image cutting out unit that generates cut-out image data that a part of a region of an image of the inputted image data is cut out based on the angle of view and the projection angle as image data to be projected, when the projecting unit projects the image of the inputted image data stored on the storage unit across the first projecting direction and the second projecting direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CorporationInventors: Hironobu Fukutomi, Katsumi Watanuki, Takayuki Sugahara, Kenji Yasui, Ryo Nishima, Shunichi Shichijo
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Patent number: 9648670Abstract: A microwave heating device according to the present invention includes a microwave oscillation portion including a reference-signal oscillator formed from a quarts oscillator, phase variable portions and phase-locked loops and, further, includes a control portion for controlling the microwave oscillation portion, and plural radiation portions placed on a wall surface of a heating chamber for housing a to-be-heated object, wherein microwaves supplied to plural microwave feeding points provided in the radiation portions are controlled in phase and electric power, thereby controlling the aspect of radiations of microwaves radiated from the radiation portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomotaka Nobue, Yoshiharu Oomori, Kenji Yasui, Makoto Mihara
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Patent number: 9549159Abstract: An image projection apparatus includes a light modulation device that modulates light according to image data; a projecting unit that projects modulated light; an angle-of-view deriving unit that derives an angle of view at which modulated light is projected; a projection-direction changing unit that changes a projection direction from a first direction to a second direction; a projection-angle deriving unit that derives a projection angle between the first direction and a changed projection direction; a storage unit that stores image data; and an image cutting unit that generates cut-out image data by cutting a part of the image data based on the angle of view and the projection angle as image data projected from the first direction through the second direction, and the minimum variable angle is determined based on the angle of view and a size of an effective region of the modulated light.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CorporationInventors: Ryo Nishima, Katsumi Watanuki, Hisato Seki, Kenji Yasui, Norihisa Yamamoto, Shunichi Shichijo
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Patent number: 9398646Abstract: In order to provide a microwave heating device and a microwave heating control method which are capable of uniformly heating a to-be-heated object in a desired state, by employing plural feeding portions provided in a heating chamber on the basis of information about reflected electric power from the respective feeding portions; a control portion controls to supply microwave electric power from plural feeding portions to a heating chamber by operating a microwave generating portion at a heating frequency for heating a to-be-heated object, estimates a heating state for the to-be-heated object on the basis of per-unit-time increase/decrease change states of detected levels of detection signals detected by electric-power detection portions, and controls the heating frequency and the microwave electric power supplied from the feeding portions to the heating chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2010Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomotaka Nobue, Yoshiharu Oomori, Kenji Yasui, Makoto Mihara
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Publication number: 20150244055Abstract: A directional coupler according to the invention includes an opening in a wall surface of a waveguide, and a coupling line on an outer side of the waveguide. The opening is configured to not cross a tube axis of the waveguide in plan view, and to emit a circularly polarized wave. The coupling line includes first and second transmission lines and output parts disposed at both ends, the first and second transmission lines extending across the opening to cross the tube axis in plan view and being opposed to each other across the center of the opening. The first and second transmission lines are interconnected at a position displaced from an area vertically above the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Yoshino, Tomotaka Nobue, Kenji Yasui, Yoshiharu Omori, Masafumi Sadahira, Masayuki Kubo
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Patent number: 9079277Abstract: A stacking apparatus capable of stacking flattened tube fins efficiently is provided. There is provided a stacking apparatus for stacking flattened tube fins, each having a cutaway portion through which a heat exchanger flattened tube is inserted, formed from one side to the other side in a width direction, the stacking apparatus including a stack pin to be inserted into the cutaway portion, and the stack pin has a swing-preventing structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2013Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: HIDAKA SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanao Karasawa, Yoshitaka Ide, Yasuyuki Morimoto, Kenji Yasui
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Patent number: 9029744Abstract: A microwave heating apparatus includes, within a heating room, a placement table having a horizontal placement surface for placing an object to be heated, and a plurality of feeding portions which are placed on a wall surface of the heating room for supplying microwave electric power to the heating room. The microwave heating apparatus is adapted to relatively move the position of the straight line connecting two feeding portions to each other, with respect to the object to be heated, through a movement mechanism portion, and to detect a phase difference between the microwave electric powers which minimizes reflected electric power returning from the heating room to the two feeding portions, for detecting the state of placement of the object to be heated on the placement table.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Oomori, Tomotaka Nobue, Kenji Yasui, Makoto Mihara
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Publication number: 20150070662Abstract: An image projection apparatus includes a light modulation device that modulates light according to image data; a projecting unit that projects modulated light; an angle-of-view deriving unit that derives an angle of view at which modulated light is projected; a projection-direction changing unit that changes a projection direction from a first direction to a second direction; a projection-angle deriving unit that derives a projection angle between the first direction and a changed projection direction; a storage unit that stores image data; and an image cutting unit that generates cut-out image data by cutting a part of the image data based on the angle of view and the projection angle as image data projected from the first direction through the second direction, and the minimum variable angle is determined based on the angle of view and a size of an effective region of the modulated light.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Ryo Nishima, Katsumi Watanuki, Hisato Seki, Kenji Yasui, Norihisa Yamamoto, Shunichi Shichijo
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Publication number: 20150009218Abstract: A projector includes, a projecting unit that converts image data into light and projects the light at a predetermined angle of view, a projecting direction changing unit that changes the projecting direction of the projecting unit from a first projecting direction to a second projecting direction, a projection angle derivation unit that derives a projection angle between the first projecting direction and a projecting direction after changed, and an image cutting out unit that generates cut-out image data that a part of a region of an image of the inputted image data is cut out based on the angle of view and the projection angle as image data to be projected, when the projecting unit projects the image of the inputted image data stored on the storage unit across the first projecting direction and the second projecting direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Hironobu FUKUTOMI, Katsumi WATANUKI, Takayuki SUGAHARA, Kenji YASUI, Ryo NISHIMA, Shunichi SHICHIJO
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Patent number: 8901470Abstract: In a microwave heating apparatus of the invention, microwaves from oscillation parts 1a, 1b are divided into a plurality of microwaves by power division parts 2a, 2b and inputted to amplification parts 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, and desired microwave powers from the amplification parts are supplied from feeding parts 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d to a heating chamber 8. Reflected powers reflected from the heating chamber to the amplification parts via the feeding parts are detected by power detection parts 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d. Each of the feeding parts has a plurality of antennas for supplying the microwaves having different characteristics to the heating chamber, and a control part 7 extracts an oscillating frequency with which the reflected powers detected by the power detection parts are minimum, and causes the oscillation parts to oscillate at the extracted oscillating frequency so as to supply the microwaves having the different characteristics from the plurality of antennas to the heating chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshiharu Oomori, Tomotaka Nobue, Kenji Yasui, Makoto Mihara
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Publication number: 20140090238Abstract: A stacking apparatus capable of stacking flattened tube fins efficiently is provided. There is provided a stacking apparatus for stacking flattened tube fins, each having a cutaway portion through which a heat exchanger flattened tube is inserted, formed from one side to the other side in a width direction, the stacking apparatus including a stack pin to be inserted into the cutaway portion, and the stack pin has a swing-preventing structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: HIDAKA SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanao KARASAWA, Yoshitaka IDE, Yasuyuki MORIMOTO, Kenji YASUI
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Patent number: 8680446Abstract: A microwave heating apparatus includes a microwave generation part 10 using a semiconductor element, and first and second heating chambers 100a, 100b to each of which a microwave generated in the microwave generation part is fed. A reflected microwave returned from at least one of the first and second heating chambers 100a, 100b to the microwave generation part is transmitted to the other heating chamber by a circulation type non-reciprocal circuit 118, so that generated power of the microwave generation part is substantially completely consumed upon heating of an article to be heated.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2009Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tomotaka Nobue, Kenji Yasui, Yoshiharu Oomori, Makoto Mihara
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Patent number: 8642934Abstract: A power control unit for high-frequency dielectric heating is provided. The power control unit controls an inverter circuit for rectifying voltage of an AC power supply, and modulates the on time of a switching transistor during high frequency switching. The power control unit includes an input current detection section for detecting input current from the AC power supply to the inverter circuit and outputting input current waveform information. A conversion section is provided for converting the input current waveform information into a drive signal of the switching transistor of the inverter circuit so that an instantaneous fluctuation of the input current waveform information is suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2006Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Haruo Suenaga, Kenji Yasui, Shinichi Sakai, Nobuo Shirokawa, Hideaki Moriya, Manabu Kinoshita
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Patent number: 8624170Abstract: An inverter controller controls an inverter. The inverter converts direct current into alternating current of a predetermined frequency. The inverter includes a resonance circuit for fluctuating output of a predetermined object to be controlled. The inverter controller comprises an output fluctuating unit which fluctuates output of the inverter in response to an output value of a temperature detection section which detects a temperature of a switching element of the inverter. The inverter controller further comprises an output increase suppressing unit which suppresses an increase in the output of the inverter for a predetermined time after decrease control in the output of the inverter performed by the output fluctuating unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2007Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Manabu Kinoshita, Haruo Suenaga, Kenji Yasui, Shinichi Sakai, Nobuo Shirokawa, Hideaki Moriya
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Patent number: 8492687Abstract: A power control unit for high-frequency dielectric heating is provided, and includes an input current detection section for detecting input current from the AC power supply to the inverter circuit and outputting input current waveform information. A conversion section converts the input current waveform information into a drive signal of the switching transistor of the inverter circuit so that instantaneous fluctuation of the input current waveform information is suppressed. A mix circuit mixes the input current waveform information and power control information for controlling so that current or voltage at an arbitrary point of the inverter circuit becomes a predetermined value and generates an on voltage signal. The conversion section converts the on voltage signal into the drive signal so that the on time is shortened in the portion where the input current is large and that the on time is prolonged in the portion where the input current is small.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2009Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Haruo Suenaga, Kenji Yasui, Shinichi Sakai, Nobuo Shirokawa, Hideaki Moriya, Manabu Kinoshita
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Patent number: 8420991Abstract: A microwave heating apparatus includes a microwave generation part (5) having a plurality of output parts, a heating chamber (4) to contain an object to be heated, a plurality of feeding parts (21a, 21b, 21c, 21d) supplying outputs of the plurality of output parts to the heating chamber, and a control part (6) controlling microwave radiation from the plurality of feeding parts to control an electromagnetic wave distribution in the heating chamber, in which a microwave is concentrated on the object to be heated put in the heating chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2008Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Makoto Mihara, Tomotaka Nobue, Kenji Yasui, Yoshiharu Oomori