Patents by Inventor Masashi Yamasaki

Masashi Yamasaki 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: 10340765
    Abstract: A motor unit is received in a first space of a motor case. A frame contacts an inner peripheral wall of the motor case and is fixed in an inside of the motor case. A cutout, which is formed in at least one of the motor case and the frame, forms a seal groove, which extends in a circumferential direction between the motor case and the frame. A cover covers the seal groove and forms a second space in an inside of the cover. A seal material is received in the seal groove and limits intrusion of liquid, such as water, from an outside of the motor case and the cover into the first space and the second space. In this way, intrusion of the liquid into the first space and the second space can be limited with the seal material provided in the single seal groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20190140574
    Abstract: A drive apparatus is provided with a motor, a plurality of substrates and a plurality of connectors. The substrates are provided in one side of the motor in the axial direction thereof, the substrates including switching elements and control components mounted thereon. The connectors are provided in an opposite side against the motor across the substrates, the connectors including connector terminals connected to one of the substrates. The substrates include two or more non-overlapped regions where no substrates are overlapped when projecting the substrates in the axial direction. The non-overlapped regions include a connector connecting region connected to the connector terminals, and a motor line connecting region connected to winding groups of the motor corresponding to every phase of each winding group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventor: Masashi YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20190126973
    Abstract: The drive apparatus includes a motor, a plurality of substrates, a connector, and a connection terminal. The substrates are provided in one side of the motor in its axial direction. The connector is provided at an opposite side of the motor across the substrates in the axial direction. The connection terminal is connected to the substrates. The substrates are arranged such that a part of the substrates are overlapped when the substrates are projected in the axial direction. An overlapped region is defined as a region where the part of the substrates are overlapped. The connection terminal penetrates, in the overlapped region, at least a part of the substrates, the connection terminal being connected to the substrates in the overlapped region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Masashi YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 10214233
    Abstract: The drive apparatus includes a motor, a plurality of substrates, a connector, and a connection terminal. The substrates are provided in one side of the motor in its axial direction. The connector is provided at an opposite side of the motor across the substrates in the axial direction. The connection terminal is connected to the substrates. The substrates are arranged such that a part of the substrates are overlapped when the substrates are projected in the axial direction. An overlapped region is defined as a region where the part of the substrates are overlapped. The connection terminal penetrates, in the overlapped region, at least a part of the substrates, the connection terminal being connected to the substrates in the overlapped region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 10211771
    Abstract: A drive apparatus is provided with a motor, a plurality of substrates and a plurality of connectors. The substrates are provided in one side of the motor in the axial direction thereof, the substrates including switching elements and control components mounted thereon. The connectors are provided in an opposite side against the motor across the substrates, the connectors including connector terminals connected to one of the substrates. The substrates include two or more non-overlapped regions where no substrates are overlapped when projecting the substrates in the axial direction. The non-overlapped regions include a connector connecting region connected to the connector terminals, and a motor line connecting region connected to winding groups of the motor corresponding to every phase of each winding group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20190017943
    Abstract: Circuitry for converting frame data outputted from an obliquely arranged detector, to frame data in a coordinate system for reconstruction is avoided from becoming larger in size and an processing amount is reduced. An X-ray apparatus is provided with a two-dimensional pixel array, the two-dimensional pixel array having a plurality of rectangular pixels, having a predetermined size and outputting an electrical signal in response to an incident X-ray photon. The pixels of the array are arranged in the row and column directions in a first Cartesian coordinate system. The row direction is set obliquely to a scan direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Tsutomu YAMAKAWA, Shuichiro YAMAMOTO, Masashi YAMASAKI, Masahiro OKADA
  • Publication number: 20180209922
    Abstract: The type and/or properties of a substance is identified highly accurately regardless of the thickness of the substance. A data processing apparatus processes counts detected at each of pixels of a photo counting detector in each of a plurality of energy ranges of X-rays. The X-rays are radiated from an X-ray tube, and transmitted through an object. The apparatus calculates an image of the object based on the counts, and sets a region of interest on the image. The apparatus further removes, from the pixel, pixel information showing a background present in the region of interest, and calculates, pixel by pixel, inherent information inherent to the substance, based on the counts detected at each of the respective pixels in each of the energy ranges of the X-rays in the region of interest. The inherent information indicates a transmission characteristic inherent to the X-rays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Tsutomu YAMAKAWA, Shuichiro YAMAMOTO, Yoshiharu OBATA, Masashi YAMASAKI, Masahiro OKADA
  • Patent number: 10033253
    Abstract: A drive device includes a motor, having a stator on which a winding wire group is wound, a rotor disposed relative to the stator, and a shaft rotating in one body with the rotor are included, a controller disposed on one axial end of the motor and having a substrate on which electronic components for controlling a power supply to the winding wire group are implemented, a frame member facing the substrate and having a substrate supporter that supports the substrate in a contacting manner, a boss protruding from the frame member toward the substrate, and an engager fixedly disposed on the substrate and having elastically-deformable multiple claws that engagingly hold the boss in a binding manner. This arrangement reduces the volume of the drive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Yamasaki, Hideki Kabune
  • Patent number: 9979253
    Abstract: In a drive apparatus, a motor unit is received in an inside of a tubular section of a motor case, and a bottom plate section is fixed to a gear box. A closure is fitted to an inner wall of the tubular section on an inner side of an opening edge part of the motor case. A control device cover is fixed to an end part of the motor case, which is opposite from the gear box, to cover a control device. An O-ring fluid-tightly seals between the motor case and the gear box, and a bonding agent fluid-tightly seals between the control device cover and the motor case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20180118708
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds having a Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signaling inhibitory action useful as preventive and therapeutic drugs of autoimmune disease and/or inflammatory disease or diseases such as chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain (CINP), liver injury, ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) and the like. The present invention relates to a compound represented by formula (I) and a salt thereof: (wherein, each symbol is explained in greater detail in the specification).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Toshitake KOBAYASHI, Morihisa SAITOH, Yasufumi WADA, Hiroshi NARA, Nobuyuki NEGORO, Masashi YAMASAKI, Takahiro TANAKA, Naomi KITAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9912208
    Abstract: A drive apparatus includes a controller, which has a circuit board and a plurality of connection terminals, and an electric motor, which includes a plurality of winding sets and a plurality of motor lines. Each of the winding sets includes a plurality of windings. Each motor lines has an insertion length that is a length of the motor line measured from a contact start part of the motor line, which first contacts a corresponding one of the connection terminals at a time of press fitting the motor line into the corresponding connection terminal, to a contacting part of the motor line, which is in contact with the corresponding connection terminal after the press fitting of the motor line into the corresponding connection terminal. The insertion lengths of the motor lines are grouped into at least two groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 9899890
    Abstract: A driver device has a semiconductor module in which a motor terminal extends from a molded body and is connected to a motor wire. A heat sink of the driver device has a module mounting surface, which extends axially outward from an axial end of the motor section, on which the semiconductor module is fastened. The motor terminal includes a base region on a molded body side of a bend location and an extension region on a tip side of the bend location. The extension region has a connection portion on which an insertion hole receives the motor wire. A terminal angle between the extension region and a perpendicular line perpendicular to the motor wire is greater than zero degree. As such, the volume of the driver device is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mikihiro Hiramine, Masashi Yamasaki, Toshihiro Fujita
  • Publication number: 20180001923
    Abstract: A drive device of an electric power steering apparatus includes a motor housing fixed to a gear housing, a stator, which is received in an inside of the motor housing, a rotor, which is rotatably placed on an inner side of the stator, and a shaft, which is rotated integrally with the rotor. The motor housing includes an engaging portion. The engaging portion has a thread, which is coaxial with a rotational axis of the shaft and is threadably engaged with the gear housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventor: Masashi YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 9831738
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a cover formed in a cylindrical shape and extending in an axial direction to cover the controller section, a lid section disposed inside of the cover body to seal the cover body, a first sealing member compressed between the lid section and the cover, and a second sealing member compressed in a different direction than the first sealing member between the cover and the first frame or the second frame. The rotating electric machine also includes a tab formed on an outer periphery of the first frame or the second frame, and a claw extending from the one end of the cover body and engageable with the tab to hold the sealing members in a compressed state. As a result, the rotating electric machine is sealed from dust and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Yamasaki, Daisuke Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9828357
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds having a Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signaling inhibitory action useful as preventive and therapeutic drugs of inflammatory disease and/or central nervous system disease or diseases such as chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain (CINP), liver injury, ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) and the like. The present invention relates to a compound represented by formula (I) and a salt thereof: wherein, each symbol is explained in greater detail in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Toshitake Kobayashi, Morihisa Saitoh, Yasufumi Wada, Hiroshi Nara, Nobuyuki Negoro, Taisuke Katoh, Masashi Yamasaki, Takahiro Tanaka, Naomi Kitamoto
  • Patent number: 9789899
    Abstract: A drive device of an electric power steering apparatus includes a motor housing fixed to a gear housing, a stator, which is received in an inside of the motor housing, a rotor, which is rotatably placed on an inner side of the stator, and a shaft, which is rotated integrally with the rotor. The motor housing includes an engaging portion. The engaging portion has a thread, which is coaxial with a rotational axis of the shaft and is threadably engaged with the gear housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20170291635
    Abstract: The drive apparatus includes a motor, a plurality of substrates, a connector, and a connection terminal. The substrates are provided in one side of the motor in its axial direction. The connector is provided at an opposite side of the motor across the substrates in the axial direction. The connection terminal is connected to the substrates. The substrates are arranged such that a part of the substrates are overlapped when the substrates are projected in the axial direction. An overlapped region is defined as a region where the part of the substrates are overlapped. The connection terminal penetrates, in the overlapped region, at least a part of the substrates, the connection terminal being connected to the substrates in the overlapped region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Masashi Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20170294860
    Abstract: A drive apparatus is provided with a motor, a plurality of substrates and a plurality of connectors. The substrates are provided in one side of the motor in the axial direction thereof, the substrates including switching elements and control components mounted thereon. The connectors are provided in an opposite side against the motor across the substrates, the connectors including connector terminals connected to one of the substrates. The substrates include two or more non-overlapped regions where no substrates are overlapped when projecting the substrates in the axial direction. The non-overlapped regions include a connector connecting region connected to the connector terminals, and a motor line connecting region connected to winding groups of the motor corresponding to every phase of each winding group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Masashi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 9742244
    Abstract: In a driver device, a controller substrate has a center part on which a rotation angle sensor is attached and an outer periphery portion which is fixed onto a heat sink. The heat sink has a cylinder part extending in an axial direction of the rotation shaft to contact the outer periphery portion of the controller substrate. The cylinder part of the heat sink is continuously formed along an entire periphery and has the same height at all portions. Such configuration provides an even deformation distribution of the cylinder part due to a temperature change, thereby reducing unevenness of heat stress distribution along a substrate plane and decreasing stress applied to the sensor, which facilitates a reduction of a detection error of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasufumi Matsuo, Masashi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 9735643
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a motor section and a controller section. The motor section includes an annular stator, a winding wire wound on the stator, and a rotor rotatably disposed inside the stator. The controller section is positioned in an axially non-overlapping position with the stator and controls an electric power supply to the winding wire for a drive control of the motor section. The rotating electric machine also includes a cover having a cylindrical shape which seamlessly covers the controller section and the motor section. The rotating electric machine further includes a lid section for sealing of an end part of the cover. As a result, the rotating electric machine is sealed from dust and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Yamasaki