Patents by Inventor Masahiro Yamamoto

Masahiro Yamamoto 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: 11413955
    Abstract: A working machine includes a support bracket attached to a machine body, a first mounting member provided to the support bracket and formed of an elastic member, a first cooler and a second cooler arranged in parallel to a horizontal direction and mounted on the support bracket with the first mounting member, a fitting bracket detachably fitted to upper portions of the first and second coolers, and a second mounting member arranged between the fitting bracket and the first and second coolers and formed of elastic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Enomoto, Akira Komukai, Daisuke Yoshida, Masahiro Yamamoto, Toyoharu Hashima
  • Publication number: 20220220881
    Abstract: In a control apparatus, a heater adjuster performs a regeneration task of causing a heater to heat a sensing member of a particulate matter sensor to burn particulate matter deposited on the sensing member to thereby remove the particulate matter from the sensing member. The heater adjuster performs a deposition reduction task of maintaining, for a predetermined duration, a temperature of the sensing member at a deposition reduction temperature that reduces additional particulate-matter deposition on the sensing member. The predetermined duration is defined from completion of a regeneration task to a time when an environmental condition around the particulate matter sensor is determined to be stable. The heater adjuster stops the heater from heating the sensing member if a condition determiner determines that the environmental condition around the particulate matter sensor is stable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220154987
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes a first unit and a second unit. The first unit is connected to the second unit by a connection power wire and a connection ground wire, the connection power wire feeding power from the first unit to the second unit, the connection ground wire connecting ground of the first unit to ground of the second unit. The first unit includes a capacitor connected between the connection power wire and ground of the first unit. The connection power wire and the connection ground wire extend through a hole of a magnetic piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMAMOTO, Kenji KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220145418
    Abstract: A non oriented electrical steel sheet consists of a silicon steel sheet and an insulation coating. The silicon steel sheet contains Si, Al, and Mn as chemical composition, and an alignment degree to {5 5 7}<7 14 5> orientation in a central area along a thickness direction of the silicon steel sheet is 12 to 35.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru ICHIE, Masaru TAKAHASHI, Fuminobu MURAKAMI, Shinichi MATSUI, Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220120865
    Abstract: A LiDAR apparatus includes a light transmitter, an optical window, and a heating wire. The light transmitter emits and sweeps light in a predetermined scanning direction. The optical window is disposed in an opening of a housing in which the light transmitter is installed and permits light beams, as outputted from the light transmitter, to pass therethrough. The heating wire works to supply heat to the optical window. The heating wire has at least one section which is located at equal intervals away from and extends parallel to two of a plurality of beam center lines which are arranged adjacent each other. Each of the beam center lines is a line extending in the scanning direction through centers of a plurality of beam transmitting regions of the optical window through which the light beams pass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220113381
    Abstract: A ranging apparatus is provided which is mountable to a vehicle and emits a transmit wave and receives a reflected wave arising from reflection of the transmit signal from an object to calculate a distance to the object. The ranging apparatus includes a light transmissive window, a heater, and a controller. The light transmissive window permits at least one of the transmit wave and the reflected wave to pass through. The heater works to add thermal energy to the light transmissive window. The controller uses an ambient temperature outside the ranging apparatus and a speed of the vehicle derived from a vehicle speed sensor to control energization of the heater. When the vehicle speed sensor is malfunctioning, the controller controls the energization of the heater as a function of the ambient temperature without use of the speed of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMAMOTO, Chiharu UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220113382
    Abstract: A ranging apparatus is provided which is mountable to a vehicle and includes a transmitter, at least one detector, a light transmissive window, a heater, a snow accumulation condition determiner, a snowfall condition determiner, and a heater controller. The heater works to heat the transmissive window. The snow accumulation condition determiner determines a snow accumulation condition of a surface of the light transmissive window. The snowfall condition determiner determines a snowfall condition around the vehicle. The heater controller works to control energization of the heater depending upon the snow accumulation condition and the snowfall condition. The heater controller stops energizing the heater for a period of time when it is determined that there is neither the snow accumulation on the surface of the light transmissive window nor the snowfall around the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220113409
    Abstract: A distance measuring device is configured to emit transmission waves and detect reflected waves from an object, to measure a distance to the object. The device includes a housing, a transmission window that is provided to an opening of the housing and through which the transmission waves and the reflected waves are transmitted, a heater provided to the transmission window and heats the transmission window, a reflected wave side board whose edge is close to the transmission window in a space on a detection side of the reflected waves formed by dividing a space on the transmission window side in the housing into a space on an emission side of the transmission waves and the space on the detection side of the reflected waves, and a temperature sensor detecting a temperature of the heater. The temperature sensor is mounted on the transmission window side of the reflected wave side board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11283438
    Abstract: A gate drive apparatus includes a driver, a peak voltage detector and a drive capability controller. The driver drives a gate of a first switching element as one of two switching elements respectively in an upper arm and a lower arm of a half-bridge circuit. The peak voltage detector detects a peak voltage at a second switching element in a situation where the first switching element is turned on. The drive capability controller calculates a value of drive capability when the driver turns on the first switching element, in a condition that the peak voltage at the second switching element does not exceed a tolerance value of a voltage at the second switching element according to a specification of the second switching element, and modifies the drive capability when the driver turns on the first switching element, based on a calculated result of the value of the drive capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Akiyama, Akimasa Niwa, Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220083580
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a reception unit that receives pre-training data that is data used for pre-training in machine learning, and a search condition for similar pre-training data that is data similar to the pre-training data, a search unit that searches for similar pre-training data in accordance with the search condition, and a generation unit that performs pre-training based on the retrieved similar pre-training data, and generates a trained model by using a result obtained through the pre-training.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220054181
    Abstract: An esophageal liquid-supply catheter is capable of reducing the temperature transmission to the esophagus due to heating, cooling or the like by ablation, by efficiently delivering a liquid to the esophagus is disclosed. The esophageal liquid-supply catheter contains a tubular member, a plurality of arms with the proximal ends fixed to the distal end of the tubular member, and a distal end tip fixed to the distal end of the arms, wherein the plurality of arms can be deformed and expanded outward in the radial direction of the tubular member. A shaft may be inserted through the tubular member and fixed on the distal end to the distal end tip, and the arms can be expanded outward in the radial direction when the shaft is slid toward the proximal end side relative to the tubular member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamamoto, Hiroki Nakajima, Tomohiko Ikeda, Akinori Matsukuma, Tatsuya Okada
  • Publication number: 20220003848
    Abstract: A heater is disposed on an inner surface or an outer surface of a transmission window to cover a transmission region where at least either the transmission waves or the reflected waves pass through and a circuit component is disposed on the inner surface or the outer surface of the transmission window, in a region other than a region where the heater is disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220003844
    Abstract: In a LIDAR device, a projector projects scanning light along a preset scanning direction, and a receiver receives incident light from a scan area. An optical window is provided in an opening of a housing that houses the projector and the receiver, where the optical window transmits the light projected by the projector and the light received by the receiver. A heater wire for heating the optical window is provided on a least a projection window that is a projector side area of the optical window. A wire spacing that is a minimum distance between two points on adjacent segments of the heater wire, one on each, is equal to or greater than a width of a beam of the light projected by the projector in a direction connecting the two points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210405036
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a substrate for analysis fixes antibodies that specifically react with specific antigens included in detection target substances to the substrate for analysis. The method subjects the substrate for analysis to immersion treatment with a predetermined treatment solution so as to form antibody aggregations in which the antibodies are aggregated at boundary regions between recesses and convex portions on the substrate for analysis. The method causes the antigens and the antibodies to react with each other so as to capture the detection target substances on the substrate for analysis by the antibody aggregations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Koji TSUJITA, Makoto ITONAGA, Masayuki ONO, Atsushi SAITO, Shigehiko IWAMA, Katsue HORIKOSHI, Yuichi HASEGAWA, Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210379678
    Abstract: A cutting insert may include a first surface, a second surface and a lateral surface. The first surface may have a polygonal shape and may include a first corner, a second corner, a third corner, a first side and a second side. The lateral surface may include a first lateral surface and a second lateral surface. At least a part of the first lateral surface may be located between the first side and the second surface. At least a part of the second lateral surface may be located between the second side and the second surface. The first lateral surface may be located further outside than the first side in a front view of the first surface. The first lateral surface may include a first region located closer to the second lateral surface as coming closer to the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210373134
    Abstract: A ranging apparatus works to measure a distance to an object and includes an emitter, a receiver, a housing, an optical window, a heater, an outlet hole formed in the housing, a power conductor, and a guide. The housing has the emitter and the receiver disposed therein and also has the optical window formed therein. The heater supplies heat to the optical window. The power conductor connects with the heater and extends outside the housing through the outlet hole. The guide is disposed in the housing and works to guide movement of the power conductor toward the outlet hole. The guide is equipped with a cover which covers at least a portion of the power conductor and is less able to reflect light emitted from the emitter and light reflected from the object than the power conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210373133
    Abstract: A ranging apparatus works to measure a distance to an object and includes an emitter, a receiver, a housing, an emitting window, a receiving window, an emitting window heating wire, and an emitting window covering layer. The emitter outputs light. The receiver receives reflected light arising from reflection of the emitted light on the object. The housing has the emitter disposed therein. The emitting window is provided in the housing and configured to have the emitted light to be transmissible therethrough. The receiving window is provided in the housing and configured to have the reflected light to be transmissible therethrough toward the receiver. The emitting window heating wire adds heat to the emitting window. The emitting window covering layer covers the emitting window heating wire. The emitting window covering layer reflects the emitted light and the reflected light less than the emitting window heating wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11176943
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a voice recognition device includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: recognize a voice signal representing a voice uttered by an object speaker, to generate text and meta information representing information that is not included in the text and included in the voice signal; generate an object presentation vector including a plurality of parameters representing a feature of a presentation uttered by the object speaker; calculate a similarity between the object presentation vector and a reference presentation vector including a plurality of parameters representing a feature of a presentation uttered by a reference speaker; and output the text. The one or more processors are further configured to determine whether to output the meta information based on the similarity, and upon determining to output the meta information, add the meta information to the text and output the meta information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kosei Fume, Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210325852
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to reduce the amount of data used in an apparatus, a system, and a method for performing a substrate processing. In order to achieve this object, a substrate processing apparatus includes one or more processing units each for performing a processing on a substrate and one or more arithmetic processing parts. One or more arithmetic processing parts generate a flow recipe defining a flow of a series of processings for a substrate by combining two or more processing recipes among a plurality of processing recipes each defining a processing condition relating to a processing to be performed on a substrate in the one or more processing units. The plurality of processing recipes include a plurality of liquid processing recipes each defining a condition of a processing to be performed on a substrate by using a processing liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Koji HASHIMOTO, Shinji SHIMIZU, Hiroshi HORIGUCHI, Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210310972
    Abstract: A particulate-matter detecting sensor including an insulating substrate which has a detecting face, a plurality of detecting conductors formed in the insulating substrate, and a heating section embedded in the insulating substrate. Each of the plurality of detecting conductors includes a detecting electrode part, a terminal part, and a connecting part. An exposed conductor part of the detecting conductor which is exposed to the element surface is constituted of a noble metal conductor mainly formed of at least one noble metal selected from Pt, Au, Pd, Rh and Ir. At least a portion of a non-exposed conductor part of the detecting conductor which is not exposed to the element surface is constituted of a low expansion conductor mainly formed of a low expansion coefficient metal which linear expansion coefficient is lower than that of the noble metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicants: IBIDEN CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka ITO, Tomoyoshi NAKAMURA, Takeshi USHIDA, Takehito KIMATA, Masahiro YAMAMOTO