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).

  • Abrasion inspection apparatus, abrasion inspection method, and program
    Patent number: 10458776
    Abstract: An abrasion inspection apparatus includes: a first imaging unit installed on a track along which a vehicle is traveling, a guide wheel installed on the vehicle, the first imaging unit imaging an inside of the track; a second imaging unit installed on the track in a vehicle traveling direction with respect to the first imaging unit and imaging the inside of the track; an image acquisition unit acquiring a first image of a boundary of the guide wheel captured by the first imaging unit on a first direction side in the vehicle traveling direction, and a second image of the boundary of the guide wheel captured by the second imaging unit at the same time on an opposite side to the first direction side; and a guide wheel detection unit detecting an abrasion situation of the guide wheel according to a position of a boundary indicated in the acquired images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuaki Morita, Masahiro Yamada, Kazuki Ozaki, Hiroyuki Kono
  • Battery Module
    Patent number: 10461300
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Hiromi Ueda, Takayuki Kato, Naoto Morisaku
  • MOTOR CONTROLLER, SENSORLESS BRUSHLESS MOTOR, FAN, AND MOTOR CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20190319561
    Abstract: A motor controller includes an energization pattern determiner that determines an energization pattern that specifies a coil to be energized from coils of multiple phases and a current supply that supplies a current to the coil based on the energization pattern. The energization pattern determiner includes, assuming that an energization period is a time from determination of the energization pattern to determination of the next energization pattern, a first operation mode in which the energization period is determined based on a rotation speed of the rotor, and a second operation mode in which the energization period is longer than in the first operation mode. At the start of activation, the energization pattern determiner passes through multiple energization periods in the second operation mode, and then shifts to the first operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMADA, Daisuke SHIMIZU
  • Ejector refrigeration cycle device and low outside temperature operation thereof
    Patent number: 10442274
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tashiro, Masahiro Yamada, Makoto Kume, Haruyuki Nishijima, Youhei Nagano, Yoshiyuki Yokoyama, Yoshinori Araki
  • DISPLAY PANEL, COLLECTIVE DISPLAY PANEL, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISPLAY PANEL
    Publication number: 20190310500
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate while having a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a first seal portion formed from a first sealant containing a resin as a main component and disposed around the liquid crystal layer to bond the first substrate and the second substrate together and seal the liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a second seal portion formed from a second sealant containing a resin as a main component and having higher oxygen absorbability than the first sealant has and disposed on an outer peripheral side of the display panel than the first seal portion and between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: MASAHIRO YAMADA, TSUYOSHI ARIKAWA
  • RUBBER COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF PRODUCING RUBBER COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20190300689
    Abstract: A rubber composition contains: at least one rubber component selected from the group consisting of an ethylene propylene diene rubber, a chloroprene rubber, a nitrile rubber, and an acrylic rubber; 1.5 to 30 parts by mass of a fluorene-modified cellulose nanofiber per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component; and 30 to 120 parts by mass of a carbon-based filler per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component. A method of producing a rubber composition comprises: kneading a dispersion of a fluorene-modified cellulose nanofiber in a process oil and a rubber component to prepare a kneaded material; and mixing a vulcanizing agent into the kneaded material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Yuta ARAKAWA, Yasuhiro YAMAGUCHI, Hidekazu KURIMOTO, Masahiro YAMADA, Hiroki SAKAMOTO
  • Battery module
    Patent number: 10403870
    Abstract: A battery module is provided and includes an array body in which a plurality of battery cells are arrayed, an elastic member disposed on at least one side in an array direction of the array body, a pair of end plates holding the array body and the elastic member therebetween, a resin middle plate disposed between the array body and the elastic member, and a metal joining member joining the pair of the end plates each other, in which the middle plate is provided with a through hole through which the joining member is inserted, and a metal collar is inserted through the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yuki Chujo, Takayuki Kato, Hiromi Ueda, Naoto Morisaku, Masahiro Yamada
  • Method and apparatus for monitoring network
    Patent number: 10397248
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Masanobu Morinaga
  • CATHARANTHUS PLANT NAMED 'SUNCATFE 291'
    Publication number: 20190223342
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Catharanthus plant named ‘Suncatfe 291’, characterized by its compact, semi-upright and uniformly mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely basal branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; relatively small star-shaped light red purple-colored flowers with dark red purple-colored centers; and good garden performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: Suntory Flowers Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada
  • Image processing apparatus and image processing method for generating synthetic image and changing synthetic image
    Patent number: 10328866
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus for processing an image according to one embodiment includes a generating unit, a display control unit, and a change receiving unit. The display control unit generates a synthetic image providing a view of a vehicle from a virtual viewpoint, based on a plurality of onboard camera images. The display control unit displays the generated synthetic image on a display unit. The change receiving unit receives a change in the relative positional relation between an image region that is based on one of the camera images and image regions that are based on the other camera images in the synthetic image. The generating unit generates a synthetic image, based on a changed positional relation every time a change in the positional relation is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenta Shimizu, Masahiro Yamada, Yasuyoshi Sawada, Takumi Hayashida, Azusa Matsuoka, Naoyuki Okada, Minoru Fujioka, Yuka Shidochi, Toshinori Esaka
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20190129583
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a storage processing unit that, in a case of storing a document or a copy of the document inside a storage area in a different specific storage area, executes a process of setting information indicating the storage area in an attribute indicating an original storage location of the document to store, and storing the document in the specific storage area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMADA, Takeshi KUNIMASA, Atsushi MARUYAMA, Naoki OKAMOTO
  • Friction plate and wet-type multiple-disc clutch with friction plate
    Patent number: 10260570
    Abstract: A friction plate has a plurality of friction material segments circularly fixed on an annular core plate, wherein each of the friction material segments includes an oil groove having an opening that opens in the direction of an outer circumferential edge of the friction plate and an end portion that ends between an inner circumferential edge and the outer circumferential edge, oil passages in communication in the direction of the inner and the outer circumferential edges of the friction plate are provided among the friction material segments, and at least some of the oil passages have a first shape, the width of which in a circumferential direction decreases from the inner circumferential edge of the friction plate toward the outer circumferential edge thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: NSK-WARNER K.K.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takabayashi, Yousuke Ikeda, Masanori Okada, Masahiro Kobayashi, Osamu Tanaka, Fumimasa Muramatsu, Yoshinori Watanabe, Masahiro Yamada, Tsutomu Kawai, Kazuyuki Fujita
  • BATTERY MODULE
    Publication number: 20190097191
    Abstract: Provided is a battery module, which includes an array for battery cells; an elastic body disposed with respect to the array, a restraining member that restrains the array via the elastic body in an arranging direction of the battery cells, a plurality of harnesses that extend in the arranging direction and have connecting terminals of tips thereof connected to electrode terminals of the predetermined battery cells, and a binding member that binds the plurality of harnesses into a harness bundle. A binding position of the harnesses which is caused by the binding member is located at a side opposite to the elastic body relative to a connecting position between the electrode terminal and the connecting terminal, and the harness that branches off from the binding member has a flexure between the binding position and the connecting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMADA, Hiromi UEDA, Hirokuni AKIYAMA
  • plant named ‘Sunpetu 211’
    Patent number: PP30396
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘Sunpetu 211’, characterized by its upright and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; large flowers that are bright purple with a white-colored star pattern; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Suntory Flowers Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada
  • plant named ‘Suncatfe 291’
    Patent number: PP30741
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Catharanthus plant named ‘Suncatfe 291’, characterized by its compact, semi-upright and uniformly mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely basal branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; relatively small star-shaped light red purple-colored flowers with dark red purple-colored centers; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Suntory Flowers Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada
  • Autonomous Mobile robot
    Patent number: D865829
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Sakai, Masahiro Yamada, Satoshi Tanigawa, Sugiko Honda
  • plant named ‘Suncal 1544’
    Patent number: PP31063
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Suncal 1544’, characterized by its semi-upright and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; large white-colored flowers with yellow-colored centers; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Suntory Flowers Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada
  • plant named ‘Suncal 1082’
    Patent number: PP31098
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Suncal 1082’, characterized by its semi-upright and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; large light yellow-colored flowers; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Suntory Flowers Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada
  • plant named ‘Suncal 5101’
    Patent number: PP31099
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Suncal 5101’, characterized by its semi-upright and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; large red purple-colored flowers with white and yellow-colored centers; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Suntory Flowers Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada
  • plant named ‘Suncal 1941’
    Patent number: PP31141
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Suncal 1941’, characterized by its semi-upright and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; large purple violet-colored flowers with yellow-colored centers; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Suntory Flowers Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada