Patents by Inventor Masahiro Yamada

Masahiro 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).

  • Publication number: 20170307259
    Abstract: When intended to increase a refrigerant discharge capacity of a compressor in an ejector refrigeration cycle device at start-up of the compressor, the refrigerant discharge capacity is increased in such a manner that an increase amount in the refrigerant discharge capacity of the compressor per predetermined time period is lower than a maximum capacity increase amount per predetermined time period enabled by the compressor. Thus, even if a gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant flows into a refrigerant inflow passage forming a swirling-flow generating portion, the flow velocity of the gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant is prevented from becoming high, so that it can reduce friction noise that would be caused when the gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant circulates through the refrigerant inflow passage, further suppressing the generation of noise from the ejector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinori ARAKI, Toshiyuki TASHIRO, Masahiro YAMADA, Makoto KUME, Haruyuki NISHIJIMA, Youhei NAGANO, Yoshiyuki YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170297416
    Abstract: An ejector refrigeration cycle device includes: a radiator that dissipates heat from a refrigerant discharged from a compressor; an ejector module that decompresses the refrigerant cooled by the radiator; and an evaporator that evaporates a liquid-phase refrigerant separated in a gas-liquid separation space of the ejector module. A grille shutter is disposed as an inflow-pressure increasing portion between the radiator and a cooling fan blowing the outside air toward the radiator. The grille shutter is operated to decrease the volume of the outside air to be blown toward the radiator when an outside air temperature is equal to or lower than a reference outside air temperature, thereby increasing the pressure of the inflow refrigerant to flow into a nozzle passage of the ejector module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki TASHIRO, Masahiro YAMADA, Makoto KUME, Haruyuki NISHIJIMA, Youhei NAGANO, Yoshiyuki YOKOYAMA, Yoshinori ARAKI
  • Publication number: 20170299227
    Abstract: An ejector-type refrigeration cycle has a compressor, an ejector module, a discharge capacity control section, and a pressure difference determining section. The ejector module has a body providing a gas-liquid separating space. The pressure difference determining section determines whether a low pressure difference operating condition is met. The low pressure difference operating condition is an operating condition in which a pressure difference obtained by subtracting a low-pressure side refrigerant pressure from a high-pressure side refrigerant pressure a predetermined reference pressure difference or lower. The body is provided with an oil return passage that guides a part of a liquid-phase refrigerant to flow from the gas-liquid separating space to a suction side of the compressor. The discharge capacity control section sets a refrigerant discharge capacity to be a predetermined reference discharge capacity or higher when the low pressure difference operating condition is determined to be met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto KUME, Masahiro YAMADA, Toshiyuki TASHIRO, Yoshinori ARAKI, Haruyuki NISHIJIMA, Youhei NAGANO, Yoshiyuki YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170295691
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Catharanthus plant named ‘Suncatfe 43’, characterized by its compact, upright to outwardly spreading and uniformly mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely basal branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; relatively small star-shaped white-colored flowers; and good garden performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: SUNTORY FLOWERS LIMITED
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20170295690
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Catharanthus plant named ‘Suncatfe 185’, characterized by its compact, upright to outwardly spreading and uniformly mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely basal branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; relatively small star-shaped pink-colored flowers with a distinct red purple-colored eye zone; and good garden performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: SUNTORY FLOWERS LIMITED
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20170295689
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Catharanthus plant named ‘Suncatso 23’, characterized by its upright to outwardly spreading and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely basal branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; double-type flowers that are purple violet in color; and good garden performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: SUNTORY FLOWERS LIMITED
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20170288197
    Abstract: A battery module includes an array body in which a plurality of battery cells are arranged, a plurality of harnesses extending in an array direction of the battery cells in the array body and having connecting terminals of tips connected to electrode terminals of the predetermined battery cells, and a binding member configured to bind the plurality of harnesses in a harness bundle, wherein the harnesses branched off from the binding member have flexure between a position at which the harnesses are bound by the binding member and connecting positions of the electrode terminals and the connecting terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMADA, Hiromi UEDA, Takayuki KATO, Naoto MORISAKU
  • Patent number: 9764761
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a driver's seat supported to a frame unit, a first hydraulic stepless speed changing device transmitting power to a first drive wheel, a second hydraulic stepless speed changing device transmitting power to a second drive wheel, and an oil tank. A bridge beam extending in a vehicle body transverse direction is provided between a cable harness extending in the vehicle body transverse direction and a hydraulic passage connecting the second hydraulic stepless speed changing device to the oil tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Barry Jordan, David Spitz
  • Patent number: 9765781
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes fixed and movable scrolls, each scroll having a spiral lap placed on one surface of a plate. The lap of the fixed scroll and the lap of the movable scroll are interlocked to form a compression chamber between the laps of the scrolls which are adjacent to each other. At least one of the laps has a spiral shape in which a base radius of an involute decreases as a winding angle increases in a region extending from a winding start part to a winding middle part, and the base radius of the involute in a region extending from the winding middle part to a winding end part is larger than the smallest value of the base radius of the involute in the region extending from the winding start part to the winding middle part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Murakami, Masahiro Yamada, Kouji Kojima
  • Publication number: 20170225709
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a driver's seat supported to a frame unit, a first hydraulic stepless speed changing device transmitting power to a first drive wheel, a second hydraulic stepless speed changing device transmitting power to a second drive wheel, and an oil tank. A bridge beam extending in a vehicle body transverse direction is provided between a cable harness extending in the vehicle body transverse direction and a hydraulic passage connecting the second hydraulic stepless speed changing device to the oil tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMADA, Barry JORDAN, David SPITZ
  • Patent number: 9661179
    Abstract: In an information processing device, a reading unit reads in a filled-in document. A recognition unit recognizes a standard document type and an information structure of the document. A storage unit stores content filled in on the document. If the read-in document is not a most recent version, a comparing unit compares the information structure of the most recent version of a preregistered standard document type corresponding to the recognized standard document type to the recognized information structure. A generation unit generates a differential document of the modified information structure, according to a result of the comparison. An output unit outputs the generated differential document. If a filled-in differential document is read in, a merge unit merges filled-in content on the differential document with filled-in content on the stored document, and the storage unit replaces the already-stored content with the merged content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 9646572
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus determines a transparency percentage of each of plural portions of a cabin image of a vehicle, causes the plural portions to be semi-transparent or to be transparent at the determined transparency percentages and displays the cabin image. Thus, the user can intuitively understand a positional relationship between the vehicle and a surrounding region and does not miss an obstacle in a course of traveling of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Shinichi Moriyama, Ryuichi Morimoto, Miki Murasumi
  • Patent number: 9637804
    Abstract: A heat-treatment oil composition contains (A) a first base oil with a kinematic viscosity at 40 degrees C. in a range of 5 mm2/s to 60 mm2/s in an amount of 50 mass % to 95 mass % of a total amount of the composition, (B) a second base oil with a kinematic viscosity at 40 degrees C. of 300 mm2/s or more in an amount of 5 mass % to 50 mass %, and (C) an alpha-olefin copolymer. The heat-treatment oil composition according to the invention can reduce distortion unevenness and hardness unevenness accompanying mass-quenching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenro Noguchi, Masayuki Kato, Katsumi Ichitani, Masahiro Kobessho, Masahiro Yamada, Norihiro Takasaki
  • Patent number: 9610891
    Abstract: A plurality of light sources to assist in image capturing is attached to a vehicle at low cost and simplicity. Three light sources that illuminate a side area in the same direction of the vehicle are fixed to and accommodated in the same housing in a state where light axes of the light sources are directed to different directions from each other. Through this, the three light sources are integrated into a side camera unit by the housing. Accordingly, by attaching the side camera unit only, the light sources can be attached to the vehicle at a time. As a result, the light sources for widely illuminating the side area of the vehicle can be mounted on the vehicle at low cost and simplicity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20170078312
    Abstract: A disclosed network monitoring method includes: specifying a feature value for each of plural packet groups that were transferred between a first terminal and a second terminal on a connection between the first terminal and the second terminal; calculating a value representing variation in specified feature values; and determining whether the calculated value is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMADA, Masanobu Morinaga
  • Publication number: 20170054349
    Abstract: A method comprises: a step of disposing a coil end connection portion of a first stator coil end and a solid connection at mutually adjacent positions after the solid connection and the cooling water pipe are brazed together; a step of disposing a heating coil around the solid connection and the first stator coil end in such a way as to bypass the cooling water pipe connection portion; and a step of supplying the heating coil with alternating current, so that the solid connection and the first stator coil end are induce-heated and then connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Souichi UENO, Noriyasu KOBAYASHI, Daisuke IWASHITA, Masahiro YAMADA, Tomoaki TAKAHASHI, Naosuke OTE
  • Patent number: 9568000
    Abstract: A compressor includes a casing, a compression mechanism, a drive shaft, a main frame, a motor, a flow path forming member, and a temperature measuring mechanism. The casing stores lubricating oil in its bottom portion. The main frame has the compression mechanism placed on it and supports the drive shaft in such a way that the drive shaft may freely rotate. The flow path forming member forms an oil flow path at a space adjacent an inner peripheral surface of the casing. The oil flow path carries a flow of lubricating oil, which lubricates sliding portions including the compression mechanism and the drive shaft. The temperature measuring mechanism is disposed outside the casing. The temperature measuring mechanism measures the temperature of a section of an outer peripheral surface of the casing adjacent the oil flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Yasuhiro Murakami, Nobuo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9562575
    Abstract: A ratchet type one-way clutch is provided that includes an outer race having a pocket on an inner circumference thereof, an inner race arranged on an inner diameter side of the outer race so as to be coaxial therewith, the inner race having a notch on an outer circumference thereof, a pawl member housed in the pocket and engaged with the notch of the inner race to transmit torque between the inner race and the outer race, and a spring for urging the pawl member to the inner race. The ratchet type one-way clutch is provided with urging force stabilizing means for stabilizing an urging force of the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: NSK-WARNER K.K.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kawai, Kazuyuki Fujita, Masahiro Yamada, Sousuke Kawai
  • Patent number: PP28153
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a new and distinct variety of Catharanthus plant having vigorous, upright plant habit, abundant branching, especially basally branching, developed from the base of the plant throughout the growing season and great profusion of double, bright red purple flowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SUNTORY FLOWERS LIMITED
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada
  • Patent number: PP28290
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘Sunmomoheart’, characterized by its upright and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; flowers that are white in color with pink-colored heart-shaped pattern; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Suntory Flowers Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada