Patents by Inventor Makoto Yamaguchi
Makoto Yamaguchi 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: 20250149723Abstract: A wiring module of one embodiment is a member used for a battery pack in which a plurality of battery modules are arranged side by side in a first direction. The wiring module includes an insulating substrate and a wiring member. The substrate is disposed to face a first end of one battery module among the plurality of battery modules in a second direction in a case where the second direction is a direction intersecting the first direction. The wiring member includes a main body supported by the substrate, and a plurality of terminal connection portions mutually branching and extending from the main body and respectively connected to a plurality of detection terminals provided at the first end of the battery module.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Hayato YAMAGUCHI, Sadaharu OKUDA, Yasuhiro KOMINATO, Ryoichi MURATA, Makoto ISHII, Takahiro SYOUDA
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Publication number: 20250145044Abstract: A noncontact power supply system is provided with a mobile unit, a ground power supply apparatus configured to be able to supply power by noncontact to the mobile unit and a server configured to be able to communicate with the mobile unit and the ground power supply apparatus respectively. The server is configured to set a system utilization price of the noncontact power supply system based on the demand for power and, when an intent by the mobile unit for utilization of the noncontact power supply system at the system utilization price is confirmed, enable the mobile unit with a confirmed intent for utilization to be supplied with power by noncontact by sending information necessary for noncontact power supply to the mobile unit with a confirmed intent for utilization and ground power supply apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutaka KIMURA, Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Makoto HASHIMOTO, Masaki KANESAKI, Keisuke TANI, Nobuhisa YAMAGUCHI, Kazuyoshi OBAYASHI, Yuichi TAKEMURA
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Patent number: 12292382Abstract: A crystallinity measurement device includes a Raman spectroscopy unit configured to acquire a Raman spectrum of resin-containing material including crystalline thermoplastic resin; and an analysis unit configured to calculate crystallinity of the crystalline thermoplastic resin based on an intensity of a low-wavenumber spectrum that is a spectrum in a region of less than 600 cm?1, in the Raman spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., AKITA UNIVERSITYInventors: Nobuyuki Kamihara, Naomoto Ishikawa, Kiyoka Takagi, Sota Kamo, Makoto Yamaguchi, Mitsutoshi Jikei, Kazuya Matsumoto, Mikio Muraoka
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Patent number: 12293983Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a conductive pillar capable of bonding a substrate and a bonding member with high bonding strength via a bonding layer without employing an electroplating method, and a method for manufacturing a bonded structure by employing this method. A method for manufacturing a conductive pillar 1 includes, in sequence, the steps of forming a resist layer 16 on a substrate 11 provided with an electrode pad 13, the resist layer 16 including an opening portion 16a on the electrode pad 13, forming a thin Cu film 17 by sputtering or evaporating Cu on a surface of the substrate 11 provided with the resist layer 16 including the opening portion 16a, filling the opening portion 16a with a fine particle copper paste 12c, and sintering the fine particle copper paste 12c by heating the substrate 11 filled with the fine particle copper paste 12c.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: DIC CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Yamaguchi, Makoto Yada
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Publication number: 20250140535Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a plasma processing chamber, a base arranged inside the plasma processing chamber, and an electrostatic chuck arranged on the base and having a substrate support surface and a ring support surface. The electrostatic chuck is configured to include a plurality of heat-transfer gas supply holes formed in the substrate support surface, an annular seal band formed on the substrate support surface around an outer periphery of the plurality of heat-transfer gas supply holes so as to surround the plurality of heat-transfer gas supply holes, and at least one first protrusion formed on the substrate support surface between a first heat-transfer gas supply hole closest to the seal band among the plurality of heat-transfer gas supply holes and the seal band.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2025Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Takashi KANAZAWA, Shin YAMAGUCHI, Makoto KATO, Ryoma MUTO
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Patent number: 12287603Abstract: A cartridge includes a coupling positioned at an end of a photosensitive drum, with the coupling including (i) a cylindrical main body positioned coaxially with the photosensitive drum and open to outside of the cartridge and (ii) a projection positioned in the cylindrical main body. The projection is movable relative to the cylindrical main body between a first position and a second position such that an end of the projection is positioned closer to the rotational axis of the coupling when the projection is in the first position than when the projection is in the second position. A part of the cylindrical main body is positioned outside the photosensitive drum, and a part of the cylindrical main body is positioned inside of the photosensitive drum, and the projection is at least partially positioned inside of the photosensitive drum.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuo Uesugi, Makoto Hayashida, Koji Yamaguchi, Takashi Yano
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Patent number: 12285835Abstract: A hard wafer grinding method includes a rough grinding step of forming a section along the diameter of a hard wafer into a centrally recessed shape by roughly grinding the hard wafer such that a central part of the hard wafer is thinner than a peripheral part of the hard wafer, a finish grinding step of expanding a ground area of the hard wafer from the peripheral part in an annular shape to the central part while dressing lower surfaces of finish grinding stones by the peripheral part of the hard wafer of the centrally recessed shape after the rough grinding, then setting the whole of a radius part of the hard wafer as the ground area, and further finish-grinding the hard wafer so as to obtain a predetermined thickness.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: DISCO CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Akita, Makoto Saito, Takashi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 12281187Abstract: To provide microwell films for bioassay suitable for a “unimolecular enzyme assay” method and methods of manufacturing the films, a microwell film for bioassay is comprised of at least a substrate (11), and a resin layer (12) having microwells on its surface provided on one main surface of the substrate (11), where in the substrate (11) and the resin forming the resin layer (12), an absorption coefficient at each of wavelengths of 350 nm to 800 nm is 0.01 ?m?1 or less.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fujito Yamaguchi, Ryuichi Ito, Makoto Okada
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Patent number: 12263796Abstract: A door wiring module includes: a service hole cover including a cover body part and a route indication part provided to the cover body part; and a wiring member whose route is regulated so that the wiring member passes through a first position and a second position on the cover body part. The route indication part indicates a plurality of routes each having a route length different from each other as routes of the wiring member between the first position and the second position, and a route of the wiring member is regulated so that the wiring member passes through any route selected from the plurality of routes.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Housei Mizuno, Hiroki Hirai, Takuji Otsuka, Makoto Higashikozono, Koji Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 12266266Abstract: A mobile object management device that manages a boarding-type mobile object that moves within a predetermined area with a user on board includes an acquirer configured to acquire positional information of the boarding-type mobile object, a manager configured to manage the boarding-type mobile object and a terminal device of a user on the boarding-type mobile object in association with each other, and an event operation commander configured to cause the boarding-type mobile object to execute a predetermined operation in accordance with an event performed in the predetermined area via the terminal device of the user on the basis of the positional information and information on the event.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Sachiko Yamamoto, Shinichiro Kobashi, Makoto Hasegawa, Naoto Shikano, Shota Yamaguchi, Marika Mochizuki
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Publication number: 20250100395Abstract: A vehicle includes: a wireless power receiver that receives power in a wireless manner from a plurality of wireless power transmitters arranged at predetermined intervals in a vehicle traveling direction on a traveling path; a rotating electric machine capable of generating driving force for traveling; an inverter that exchanges power with the rotating electric machine; a first power supply; a second power supply having higher output density and lower capacity density than the first power supply; and a DC-DC converter that exchanges power with the second power supply. Further, the wireless power receiver, the inverter, the DC-DC converter, and the first power supply are electrically connected in parallel to a power bus that supplies the power from the wireless power receiver to the inverter, and the second power supply and the power bus are electrically connected via the DC-DC converter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutaka KIMURA, Toshiya HASHIMOTO, Makoto HASHIMOTO, Kazuyoshi OBAYASHI, Keisuke TANI, Nobuhisa YAMAGUCHI, Masaki KANESAKI, Yuichi TAKEMURA
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Publication number: 20250101561Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with good film adhesion. Among the elements present at grain boundaries between ceramic particles contained in a base film of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, either or both of S and Se elements are contained in a range of 0.02 at % to 2.00 at %.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi IMAMURA, Makoto WATANABE, Masanari TOMOZAWA, Hiroi YAMAGUCHI, Shigehiro TAKAJO, Mari TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20250076898Abstract: Regarding a method of collecting a target object falling through the air by using an unmanned aerial vehicle, the method including: an information transmission step of transmitting state information of the target object falling through the air from the target object; and a collection step of capturing the target object by an unmanned aerial vehicle flying in accordance with command information generated based on the state information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Makoto HIRAI, Ichiro OBA, Hirofumi MAEDA, Daisuke YAMAGUCHI, Yohei TAKAYAMA, Masashi YOSHIDA
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INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
Publication number: 20250078984Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to acquire information including biological information of a user, and cause a display to display at least one of a subjective indicator of total mental fatigue, a subjective indicator of concentration, or multiple types of mental fatigue determined based on the acquired information and a learned model. The learned model has learned relations between biological information acquired in advance and the subjective indicator of total mental fatigue, the subjective indicator of concentration, or each of the multiple types of mental fatigue.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Takayuki YAMAGUCHI, Yuuki OKA, Yoshihiko MIKI, Makoto WATANABE, Shu TANAKA -
Patent number: 12220171Abstract: The ophthalmologic device to be coupled to a correcting device for correcting subject eyes, the correcting device including a right-left pair of two examination windows and a right-left pair of arrangement mechanisms that each arrange first optical elements, includes: a coupling member configured to be detachably coupled to each of coupled members provided on a side surface of the correcting device on a side opposite to an eyepiece side for each subject eye; a second optical element arranged at a position facing a second examination window opposite to a first examination window which is an eyepiece window, when the coupling member is coupled to the coupled member, the second optical element configured to branch a second optical path from a first optical path along the optical axes; and an objective measuring system arranged on the second optical path and configured to acquire ocular characteristics of each subject eye.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoko Tatara, Suguru Miyagawa, Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Makoto Saika
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Patent number: 12221199Abstract: When a joystick is positioned within a first dead zone including a neutral position, a controller pauses a shifting action and steering of a propulsion device regardless of a tilt operation and a twist operation of the joystick. When the joystick is positioned within a second dead zone located rearward of the first dead zone, the controller pauses the shifting action of the propulsion device regardless of the tilt operation of the joystick and controls the steering of the propulsion device in accordance with the twist operation of the joystick.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Ito, Kohei Yamaguchi, Yoshikazu Nakayasu
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Patent number: 12216036Abstract: A particle size distribution measuring apparatus includes a light source that emits measurement light to a sample accommodated in a cell including a pair of light transmission plates separated from each other, one or a plurality of detectors that detects the measurement light scattered in the sample, and a particle size distribution calculator that calculates a particle size distribution of a particle group included in the sample based on output signals of the detectors. The particle size distribution measuring apparatus further includes a force applying mechanism that moves at least one of the light transmission plates to apply pressure or a shearing force to the sample in the cell, in which the particle size distribution calculator is configured to calculate the particle size distribution at the time when the pressure or the shearing force applied to the sample has changed from a first state to a second state.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Mori, Makoto Nagura
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Publication number: 20250036147Abstract: In a method of transporting cargo suspended by multiple UAVs, each of the multiple UAVs flies such that a relative positional relationship of each of the multiple UAVs to the cargo is maintained. This method of transporting cargo is achieved by one or both of a ground position control mode in which flight of each of the multiple UAVs is controlled to follow a change in a position of the cargo relative to the ground, and an interval control mode in which the flight of each of the multiple UAVs is controlled so as to maintain an interval of each of the multiple UAVs to the cargo.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: Makoto HIRAI, Ichiro OBA, Daisuke YAMAGUCHI, Yohei TAKAYAMA, Masashi YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 12113290Abstract: Provided is a crossed-dipole antenna that can communicate at a plurality of frequencies, and has a simple structure that can be miniaturized. The crossed-dipole antenna is provided with a core composed of a dielectric material, a reflecting plate, a first element group composed of four first elements that are formed on an outer surface of the core, extend from a central portion of the top surface of the core with a first length L1, and are arranged to be orthogonal to one another, a second element group that resonates at a second resonance frequency f2 and is composed of four second elements that are formed on the outer surface of the core, extend from the central portion of the top surface of the core with a second length L2, and are arranged to be orthogonal to one another, and feeders that transmit electric power to each element. Each of the first elements and the second elements extends along the outer surface of the core and is bent from the top surface to the side surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: MARUWA CO., LTD.Inventors: Sota Nagashima, Makoto Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20240300028Abstract: A cutting tool according to this invention includes a cutting edge configured to cut a workpiece; a rake surface configured to come in contact with a chip, which appears when the workpiece is cut by the cutting edge; and a relieved surface configured to come in contact with a to-be-cut surface of the workpiece. A plurality of first grooves are formed in the cutting edge side of the rake surface. A plurality of second grooves are formed in the cutting edge side of the relieved surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: AISIN FUKUI CORPORATIONInventors: Daichi YAMAGUCHI, Kazuyoshi MIYAMOTO, Makoto YAMAGUCHI