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).

  • Patent number: 11811015
    Abstract: Provided is an electricity-storage module including: a stacked body that includes electrodes which are stacked along a first direction; a sealing body that is provided to the stacked body so as to surround a peripheral edge portion of the electrodes, forms an inner space that stores an electrolytic solution between the electrodes adjacent to each other along the first direction, and seals the inner space; and a reinforcing body that is provided in the electrodes so as to suppress deformation of the electrodes. The electrodes include bipolar electrodes and a negative terminal electrode, the negative terminal electrode includes the electrode plate and a negative electrode provided on the second surface, and is disposed at one end of the stacked body in the first direction such that the second surface faces an inner side of the stacked body in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yuki Chujo, Takayuki Hirose, Tomohiro Nakamura, Masahiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 11794563
    Abstract: An electric powered work vehicle is to be configured so that holding of the battery at the storage position can be carried out easily at the time of attachment of the battery. There is provided guide mechanism for movably guiding the battery while supporting it along a horizontal direction between a storage position and a detachment position located away from the storage position along the horizontal direction. There is provided a holding mechanism configured to be automatically operated to a holding state capable of holding the battery at the storage position when the battery is moved to the storage position along the guide mechanism. There is provided a releasing operational portion manually operable to render the holding mechanism to a releasing state for allowing movement of the battery to the detachment position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Hirokazu Ito
  • Publication number: 20230315950
    Abstract: A clearance calculation device for a rotary machine in which a rotating body is rotatably supported by a stationary body and a gas path is formed between the stationary body and the rotating body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kumagai, Hiroki Takeda, Yuta Imai, Motoharu Ueda, Masahiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230306839
    Abstract: An information processing method includes a step of acquiring movement information on a first mobile body including information on a first position through which the first mobile body is scheduled to pass in a first time slot and information on a travel direction of the first mobile body and a step of setting, as an exclusive area in the first time slot, an area between the first position and a second position on a travel direction side of the first mobile body from the first position based on the movement information on the first mobile body. The exclusive area is set in a manner that the second mobile body other than the first mobile body is not permitted to move within the exclusive area in the travel direction different from the travel direction of the first mobile body in the first time slot, and the second mobile body is permitted to move within the exclusive area in the same travel direction as the first mobile body in the first time slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMADA, Yohei CHISHIKI, Kenji TAKAO
  • Patent number: 11740365
    Abstract: This positional error prediction device (1) is provided with: a satellite position acquisition unit (154) which acquires a receivable position of a satellite on a target date at a target time and a target point at which a positional error prediction is performed; a relative relationship value acquisition unit (151) which acquires a value of the relative relationship between the position of the satellite and an observation start position of the satellite at the target point; and an error prediction unit (155) which predicts, on the basis of the relative relationship value and a positional error prediction model generated in advance, a positional error on the target date at the target time and the target point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Kenji Takao, Takeshi Korenaga
  • Patent number: 11739404
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy plastically-processed article, capable of preventing a burning crack from occurring due to processing heat generated during plasticity processing while maintaining a solution-treatment temperature of an aluminum alloy material for ensuring a mechanical strength thereof. A method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy plastically-processed article, includes a step of performing a solution treatment for an aluminum alloy material by heating and maintaining the aluminum alloy material at a solution-treatment temperature, a step of performing plasticity processing for the aluminum alloy material subjected to the solution treatment, and steps of cooling the plastically-processed aluminum alloy material at a time at which the step of the plasticity processing is completed, and aging the cooled aluminum alloy material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KOBE STEEL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Suzuki, Takehito Kobayashi, Masayuki Isogawa, Katsuya Yoshida, Chihiro Asai, Masahiro Yamada, Masayuki Hori
  • Publication number: 20230257783
    Abstract: A waste treatment system includes: at least one reformer for hydrolyzing waste; and a microbial reactor for microbially degrading a reformed material containing at least a solid among the waste hydrolyzed in the at least one reformer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Noma, Kazuhiro Kawai, Keiji Fujikawa, Susumu Okino, Yosuke Nakagawa, Koichi Fukunaga, Keiichi Nakagawa, Haruka Adachi, Takashi Ike, Ryo Kamito, Masahiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230229634
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: display a representative image representing a document file shared by plural users on a screen of a terminal apparatus of a user, a single representative image being prepared for a single document file; and in a case where another user is viewing or editing the document file, display information indicative of the other user and information indicative of a part of the document file which the other user is viewing or editing while displaying the representative image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuichi MOTOKI, Masahiro YAMADA, Naoto KASHIWAGI
  • Patent number: 11700790
    Abstract: A grass mowing machine includes a vehicle body frame, a mower deck incorporating a rotary cutter blade, a coupling mechanism for coupling the mower deck to the vehicle body frame with allowing a lateral displacement of the mower deck in a vehicle body transverse direction, a mower electric motor attached to the mower deck and configured to feed rotary power to the rotary cutter blade and a displacement operation mechanism MV for laterally displacing the mower deck in the vehicle body transverse direction in operative association with the coupling mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Fumiya Yasue
  • Patent number: 11699557
    Abstract: An electricity-storage module includes an electrode stacked body and a sealing body. A negative terminal electrode is disposed at one end of the electrode stacked body in a stacking direction such that a second surface is an inner side of the electrode stacked body. The sealing body includes first resin portions 21 which are joined to edge portions, and a second resin portion that is joined to the first resin portions 21 so as to surround the first resin portions from an outer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tomohiro Nakamura, Yuki Chujo, Masahiro Yamada, Takayuki Hirose
  • Patent number: 11695181
    Abstract: A power storage module including: a stacked body that includes electrodes stacked along a first direction; a sealing body that includes a first sealing portion joined to an edge portion of each of the electrodes, forms an inner space between the electrodes adjacent to each other, and seals the inner space; and an electrolytic solution that is stored in the inner space and includes an alkali solution. The electrodes include bipolar electrodes, and a negative terminal electrode. The power storage module includes surplus spaces different from the inner space on a route of an alkali creep phenomenon in which the electrolytic solution reaches the outside from the inner space through the negative terminal electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Nakamura, Yuki Chujo, Masahiro Yamada, Takayuki Hirose, Nobuyasu Haga, Motoyoshi Okumura, Takuro Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11623505
    Abstract: An electric work vehicle includes: a carrier 32 in which a battery can be stored and a support portion 40 is provided; a carrier storage portion provided in a vehicle body and capable of holding the carrier 32; a guide portion 21, 22 that is capable of supporting, via the support portion 40, the carrier 32 operated so as to be lifted from the ground, in a state in which the carrier is lifted from the ground, and guiding the carrier 32 toward the carrier storage portion; and a positioning portion 42 configured to, when the carrier 32 placed on the ground is operated so as to be lifted and the support portion 40 has reached a position at which the support portion 40 can be supported by the guide portion 21, 22, stop the operation of lifting the carrier 32.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Hirokazu Ito, Makoto Odagiri
  • Publication number: 20230090301
    Abstract: A power supply device for an electric work vehicle, including: a battery by which an electric work vehicle is drivable; a first connection unit for an internal inverter configured to convert DC power from the battery into AC power, and output the AC power to an internal electric device installed in the electric work vehicle; a second connection unit for an external inverter configured to convert DC power from the battery into AC power, and output the AC power to an external electric device; and a battery control unit connected to the first connection unit and the second connection unit, and configured to control charging of, and power supply from, the battery, wherein the battery control unit is configured to communicate with the external inverter side via the second connection unit to perform authentication regarding whether or not power supply to the external inverter is permitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Takumi Yamamoto, Tomohiko Hisakuni, Masahiro Yamada, Hirokazu Ito
  • Publication number: 20230087889
    Abstract: A work vehicle capable of traveling on a public road and in a working field includes: a public road traveling determination unit configured to generate vehicle body position information regarding a position at which the vehicle body is located, determine based on the vehicle body position information whether or not the vehicle body is traveling on the public road, and output a determination result; and a vehicle speed limiter configured to limit a vehicle speed in accordance with the determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiko Hisakuni, Masahiro Yamada, Hirokazu Ito
  • Publication number: 20230078682
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a reception function of receiving, from a requester, a first instruction section that is used to provide an instruction for a process related to work when a target document to be worked on is transmitted; and a processing function of displaying the first instruction section received from the requester on a work screen on which a worker performs the process related to the work on the target document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11597275
    Abstract: In a work vehicle, a pivot axis of an operating lever and a rotary axis of a potentiometer are located on a same axis. An interlocking mechanism includes an input part which inputs power of the operating lever following the operating lever about the pivot axis as a pivot, and an output part which is supported to a rotary operation shaft and outputs power of the input part to the rotary operation shaft. The input part and the output part are operably connected via a connecting pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Hirokazu Ito, Tomohiko Hisakuni
  • Publication number: 20230062469
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes: a body; a travel device supporting the body; a travel driver configured to drive the travel device; a brake configured to lock and unlock the travel device; a deactivation operation tool manually movable to a first position, at which the brake is operable to be activated and deactivated, and a second position, at which the brake is kept deactivated; a position detector configured to detect that the deactivation operation tool is at the second position; and a notifier configured to provide, based on a result of the detection by the position detector, a notification that the deactivation operation tool is at the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Manji, Masahiro Yamada, Hirokazu Ito
  • Publication number: 20230059324
    Abstract: A battery pack according to a first aspect of the present disclosure is configured to be installed in a vehicle, and includes a battery stack including a plurality of battery modules stacked in a first direction, an air supply member of which a position with respect to the battery stack is fixed, and that defines an internal space extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction along a first side face of the battery stack, and a partition member that divides the internal space of the air supply member in the first direction, into a plurality of air supply passages configured to each extend in the second direction and be connected to a blower device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka WATANABE, Kenji BABA, Masahiro YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11549592
    Abstract: A cap member is used in a shut-off valve including a valve head in which a through hole is formed, the cap member including: a cap member main body screwed into the through hole; a first engaging portion for engaging with a first tool for screwing the cap member main body into the valve head; a second engaging portion formed inside the cap member main body to engage with a second tool for unscrewing the cap member main body from the valve head; and a wall portion covering the second engaging portion so that the second engaging portion is not exposed when the cap member is viewed from the first engaging portion toward the second engaging portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Yuki, Masahiro Yamada, Satoru Kimura, Nobuo Kawauchi, Yu Shindo
  • Publication number: 20220411891
    Abstract: A rolling bearing is a tapered roller bearing, a cylindrical roller bearing, or a deep groove ball bearing including an inner ring, an outer ring, and a rolling element, each of the inner ring, the outer ring, and the rolling element being composed of a steel, the rolling bearing having a quench-hardened layer in at least one of an inner ring raceway surface of the inner ring, an outer ring raceway surface of the outer ring, and a rolling contact surface of the rolling element. A ratio of a total area of a plurality of martensite crystal grains in the quench-hardened layer is more than or equal to 70%. The plurality of martensite crystal grains are classified into a first group and a second group. An average grain size of the martensite crystal grains belonging to the first group is less than or equal to 0.97 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi KAWAI, Chikara OHKI, Masahiro YAMADA