Patents by Inventor Masashi Yamada

Masashi 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: 20160343490
    Abstract: A reactor includes a core, a resin cover provided around the core, and a coil disposed around the core at the external side of the resin cover. The coil includes a conductive wire having a self-fusing layer formed on the surface of the conductive wire, and the adjoining conductive wire portions are bonded together by the self-fusing layer. The resin cover includes a bonding portion provided at a part of the resin cover and facing the end portion of the coil, and the end portion of the coil are bonded with the resin cover by an adhesive at the bonding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Kensuke MAENO, Masashi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20160297492
    Abstract: A cowling structure of a straddle-type vehicle, comprises a front opening forming section formed with a front opening which opens frontward in a vehicle body; a rear opening forming section formed with a rear opening which is placed rearward relative to the front opening and opens to a rear in the vehicle body; an inclined wall which is placed between a lower portion of the front opening forming section and a lower portion of the rear opening forming section, extends in a forward and rearward direction, and includes an inclined surface inclined to be higher as the inclined surfaces extends in a rearward direction; and an outer side wall protruding upward from an outer side portion of the inclined wall in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle body and extending in the forward and rearward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Masashi Yamada, Takumi Uemoto
  • Publication number: 20160167084
    Abstract: An attachment coating method including, mixing a conductive attachment into an insulating liquid, immersing an attachment target in the insulating liquid in which the attachment is mixed, and applying ultrasonic vibration to the insulating liquid in which the attachment target is immersed and causing friction between the attachment target and the attachment to charge the attachment target and the attachment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicants: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, YOSHIDA INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi YAMADA, Hideaki KATSUMI
  • Patent number: 9352173
    Abstract: A treatment device includes a treatment portion, a transmission portion and a moment shift portion. The treatment portion transmits ultrasonic vibration. The length of the treatment portion is shorter than ¼ of a wavelength of the ultrasonic vibration. The transmission portion has one end at a node position where the first generated node from the distal end of the treatment portion appears, and is located closer to a proximal side than the node position. The length of the transmission portion is ¼ of the wavelength. The moment shift portion is located between the treatment portion and the transmission portion. An average of I1/A12 is greater than an average of I2/A22, where I1 is the second moment of area and A1 is a sectional area in the treatment portion, and I2 is the second moment of area and A2 is a sectional area in the transmission portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Yamada, Norihiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 9282990
    Abstract: A treatment device includes a first grip member having an elongated shape, and a second grip member which is displaced with respect to the first grip member to grip the biological tissue between the first grip member and the second grip member. The second grip member includes a grip section that comes into contact with a biological tissue as a gripping target. I/A2 of the grip section is maximum at the proximal end, and/or Z/A3/2 of the grip section is maximum at the proximal end, where I is a second moment of area, Z is a section modulus, and A is a cross-sectional area calculated based on an axis perpendicular to a straight line passing through a center of gravity of the first grip member and a center of gravity of the second grip member in a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the grip section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Yamada, Norihiro Yamada, Shinya Masuda
  • Publication number: 20160045770
    Abstract: A jaw of a grasping treatment apparatus includes abutment portion spacing a distal treatment section and a jaw electrode portion apart from each other in a state that the abutment portion abuts on the distal treatment section, and a jaw insulation portion disposed in a part spaced apart from the abutment portion in a width direction of the jaw on an electrode facing-surface. a spacing distance from the distal treatment section to an insulation facing-surface is less than a distance from the electrode facing-surface to the distal treatment section in the state that the abutment portion abuts on the distal treatment section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventor: Masashi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20160035475
    Abstract: A reactor 10 includes a core, a coil 11 and a bobbin 14. The core includes a plurality of core pieces 12, 13A, 13B that are joined one another. The coil is wound around at least a part of the core. The bobbin is dividable and provided between the core and the coil. A dividing surface 50 of the bobbin is displaced from a position of a joining surface of the core pieces with the bobbin that is provided between the core and the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Kensuke Maeno, Toshikazu Ninomiya, Masashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20150168435
    Abstract: An automated analyzer (1) is offered which has a single mechanical drive (43) permitting a carrier arm member (31) to move in any one of two mutually perpendicular directions. The automated analyzer has a control rod (37), supported from the carrier arm member (31), supported from a holding or base mechanism (32). The holding mechanism (32) supports a movable frame (42), a mechanism body (41), a drive pulley (44), a driven pulley (45), the mechanical drive (43), a drive belt (46), and an arm holding member (47). The drive pulley (44) is rotatably mounted to the mechanism body (41). The driven pulley (45) is spaced a given spacing from the drive pulley (44) in a first direction (U1) and rotatably mounted to the mechanism body (41). The drive belt (46) is trained around both drive pulley (44) and driven pulley (45). The arm holding member (47) is formed on the drive belt (46) and rotatably mounted to the arm holding member (47).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi Yaginuma, Masashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20150162119
    Abstract: A coil includes a coil unit provided with a wire and a self-melting layer formed on surfaces of the wire, and a resin member affixed to the wire. The wire is adhered and affixed to the resin member by the self-melting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Ryo Nakatsu, Toshikazu Ninomiya, Kensuke Maeno, Masashi Yamada, Ryotaro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9034512
    Abstract: Provided is a gasket for an electrochemical cell, which has good sealing performance and is capable of improving productivity of the gasket, and an electrochemical cell. A gasket (4) for an electrochemical cell, which is made of a resin and has an annular shape including an outer wall and an inner wall, includes a plurality of annular salient portions (4a) formed on an inner side surface of the outer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Koji Sato, Masashi Yamada, Shunji Watanabe, Kumi Tachibana
  • Publication number: 20150119761
    Abstract: A treatment device includes a treatment portion, a transmission portion and a moment shift portion. The treatment portion transmits ultrasonic vibration. The length of the treatment portion is shorter than ¼ of a wavelength of the ultrasonic vibration. The transmission portion has one end at a node position where the first generated node from the distal end of the treatment portion appears, and is located closer to a proximal side than the node position. The length of the transmission portion is ¼ of the wavelength. The moment shift portion is located between the treatment portion and the transmission portion. An average of I1/A12 is greater than an average of I2/A22, where I1 is the second moment of area and A1 is a sectional area in the treatment portion, and I2 is the second moment of area and A2 is a sectional area in the transmission portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Masashi YAMADA, Norihiro YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20150014805
    Abstract: An image pickup module includes: an image pickup chip including a main surface on which a light-receiving portion of an image pickup device and a plurality of electrodes connected to the light-receiving portion are formed; and a wiring board including flying leads bonded to the respective plurality of electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20140378971
    Abstract: A treatment device includes a first grip member having an elongated shape, and a second grip member which is displaced with respect to the first grip member to grip the biological tissue between the first grip member and the second grip member. The second grip member includes a grip section that comes into contact with a biological tissue as a gripping target. I/A2 of the grip section is maximum at the proximal end, and/or Z/A3/2 of the grip section is maximum at the proximal end, where I is a second moment of area, Z is a section modulus, and A is a cross-sectional area calculated based on an axis perpendicular to a straight line passing through a center of gravity of the first grip member and a center of gravity of the second grip member in a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the grip section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Masashi YAMADA, Norihiro YAMADA, Shinya MASUDA
  • Patent number: 8849127
    Abstract: Using a general-purpose cost-advantageous blue-light-excited-type white light emitting diode (LED), destruction of devices is prevented and visible light data communication is performed at a sufficient transmission rate. The blue-light-excited-type white LED is driven based on a driving current signal generated based on transmission data. While a visible light signal is outputted to a receiver, a multi-tone driving current signal is generated by a rising pulse and a falling pulse to a rising edge and a falling edge of the transmission data, respectively. Each of pulse widths of the rising pulse and the falling pulse is the same as a unit interval of the transmission data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Yamada, Kousuke Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140167561
    Abstract: An ultrasonic vibration apparatus includes a vibrator, wherein the vibrator includes at least two vibration elements to generate ultrasonic vibration when a driving voltage is applied to the vibration elements, at least three electrode portions wherein the vibration elements and the electrode portions is alternately arranged side by side in a vibrating direction, at least the three electrode portions includes at least two first electrode portions and at least one second electrode portion alternately arranged in the vibrating direction, the vibrator integrally vibrates ultrasonically in the vibrating direction when the driving voltage is applied to the first electrode portions and the second electrode portion, and a bridging portion coupling and electrically connecting two first electrode portions of at least the two first electrode portions with each other, and the ultrasonic vibration apparatus further includes an anti-vibration portion to suppress vibration of the bridging portion in any other direction exc
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Yuji Hirai, Masashi Yamada, Machiko Koshigoe
  • Patent number: 8750719
    Abstract: A visible light communication receiver increases a communication distance from a transmitter to a receiver while realizing high transmission speed. The visible light communication receiver includes a receiving unit that receives a visible light signal from a blue light-excited white LED driven by a driving current signal generated by adding rising and falling pulses to respective rising and falling edges of a transmission data encoded according to a DC-free RLL code having a minimum run of 1 and NRZI-modulated prior to adding the rising and falling pulses; a photoelectric converter that converts the visible light signal into an electrical signal; an equalizer that equalizes the electrical signal to a duobinary signal; a discriminator that discriminates the duobinary signal to generate a 3-value signal; a maximum-likelihood decoder that ML-decodes the 3-value signal to output a decoded signal; and a decoder that RLL decodes the decoded signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Yamada, Kousuke Nakamura
  • Patent number: D756268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Yamada, Takumi Uemoto, Norikazu Matsumura
  • Patent number: D758923
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Yamada, Takumi Uemoto, Norikazu Matsumura
  • Patent number: D761081
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masashi Yamada
  • Patent number: D773698
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masashi Yamada