Patents by Inventor Masayoshi Yoshida

Masayoshi Yoshida 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: 20230368984
    Abstract: A solar cell module includes: a solar cell module body and a print layer formed further toward a light-receiving surface side than the solar cell module body by printing with specific transparency in a specific region. A rear surface side is visible from the light-receiving surface side in at least part of the specific region. The specific transparency is set to satisfy a condition that spectral sensitivity integral ratio A defined by formula (1) below is not less than a specific value A* that the spectral sensitivity integral ratio A takes when printing is performed with transparency resulting in a short circuit current ratio of 0.6. ? is wavelength (nm), f(?) is quantum efficiency IPCE (%) in a case in which the print layer is formed, and fSC(?) is quantum efficiency IPCE (%) in a case in which the print layer is not formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayoshi YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11817547
    Abstract: A wound-type battery includes a wound electrode group having a first electrode and a second electrode with polarity opposite to the first electrode, an electrolyte, a battery case, a sealing plate that seals an opening of the battery case, an insulating plate that is disposed between the electrode group and the sealing plate and that has a hole, and a first tab that passes through the hole to electrically connect the first electrode and the sealing plate to each other. At least a part of a region of the first tab that extends through the hole to a sealing plate side is covered with a tab tape on a side facing the insulating plate. The tab tape includes at least a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer on a side opposite the first adhesive layer and is in contact with the first tab through the first adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yoshida, Oose Okutani, Takeshi Enomoto, Akira Takano
  • Publication number: 20230325413
    Abstract: An error cause estimation device comprising: a data pre-processing unit that uses data to be processed and generates training data that has an appropriate format for input to a machine learning model; and a model tree generation unit that generates error detection models that are training models for detecting errors and uses the training data as inputs therefor, and generates a model tree that expresses the relationship between error detection models by using a tree structure that has the error detection models as node therefor. Thus, it is possible to generate a training model that detects errors for each of a plurality of types of errors that occur, even when there has been no prior annotation of error causes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuhiro YOSHIDA, Masayoshi ISHIKAWA, Fumihiro SASAJIMA, Masami TAKANO, Koichi HAYAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11769747
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first insulator. The device further includes a first pad provided in the first insulator, and including first and second layers provided on lateral and lower faces of the first insulator in order. The device further includes a second insulator provided on the first insulator. The device further includes a second pad provided on the first pad in the second insulator, and including third and fourth layers provided on lateral and upper faces of the second insulator in order. The device further includes a first portion provided between an upper face of the first pad and a lower face of the second insulator or between a lower face of the second pad and an upper face of the first insulator, and including a metal element same as a metal element included in the first layer or the third layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Genki Sawada, Masayoshi Tagami, Jun Iijima, Ippei Kume, Kiyomitsu Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20230266641
    Abstract: A waterproof camera system that maintains a wireless connection state with an external device while floating on a water surface includes an image pickup apparatus equipped with a wireless module, a waterproof casing that hermetically stores the image pickup apparatus, and a float attached to the waterproof casing. An antenna unit of the wireless module is arranged at either a position with a height approximately equal to a water surface or a position separated from the water surface in an above water direction in each of a first position where the waterproof camera system floats on the water surface so that the image pickup apparatus can perform underwater image pickup and a second position where the waterproof camera system floats on the water surface so that the image pickup apparatus can perform above water image pickup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: HIDETOSHI KEI, MASAYOSHI SHIBATA, TAKASHI YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230266642
    Abstract: A waterproof camera system that can easily perform underwater image pickup and overwater image pickup. The waterproof camera system includes an image pickup apparatus, a waterproof casing that hermetically stores the image pickup apparatus. The image pickup apparatus includes a first housing that includes a lens unit and a second housing that holds the first housing. The waterproof casing includes a first section that surrounds a circumference of the first housing and a second section that surrounds a circumference of the second housing. The waterproof camera system has buoyancy that floats the waterproof camera system on a water surface in both a first posture in which the first section of the waterproof casing is in an underwater side and a second posture in which the first section is in an overwater side in a state where the image pickup apparatus is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi Yoshida, Hidetoshi Kei, Masayoshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20230238916
    Abstract: A panel connected body includes a plurality of flat panels arranged in a matrix of m rows and n columns, where m?3 and n?3; and a plurality of row-direction connection portions and column-direction connection portions which connect together panels that are adjacent in a row direction and column direction, respectively. A first type row satisfying relationships D1?2L and Dy?Dy?1?2L and a second type row satisfying relationships Dn?2L and Dy?Dy+1+2L are alternately included, where Dy is a length along the column direction of the column-direction connection portions in a y-th column, and L is a thickness of the panels. The relationship E?WC?L is satisfied, where WC is a length along the column direction of the panels and E is a length along the column direction of the row-direction connection portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki HAYASHI, Kiyoshige KOJIMA, Masayoshi YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11699834
    Abstract: A sealed battery, which is an exemplary embodiment, comprises a battery case including a bottomed cylindrical outer can and a sealing body that closes an opening of the outer can, a gasket disposed between the outer can and the sealing body, and an electrode body including an electrode and housed in the battery case. The sealing body includes a metal plate, and the metal plate has a thin portion formed in an annular shape, a valve portion having a convex shape inside the battery case, and an annular portion to which the electrode lead is connected. The gasket is provided with an elastically deformable portion that abuts against the inner surface of the valve portion and urges the valve portion to the outside of the battery case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yoshida, Oose Okutani, Takahiro Nogami, Akira Takano
  • Patent number: 11670771
    Abstract: A battery according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a positive electrode tab electrically connected to the positive electrode; a negative electrode tab electrically connected to the negative electrode; a positive electrode tab tape covering the positive electrode tab: and a negative electrode tab tape covering the negative electrode tab. In the battery described above, at least one tab tape of the positive electrode tab tape and the negative electrode tab tape has a multilayer structure in which an adhesive layer and a substrate layer primarily formed from an organic material are laminated in this order from an electrode tab side, and the adhesive layer contains an adhesive material and a reactive material which generates an endothermic reaction at a temperature lower than a heat resistance temperature of the organic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yoshida, Oose Okutani
  • Patent number: 11664633
    Abstract: Disclosed is a power wiring device which comprises: at least one elongated wiring member which includes a plurality of first connectors and allows the first connectors to be mutually electrically conducted; and a plurality of circuit modules each including a second connector which is mechanically and electrically attachable to and detachable from any of the first connectors, wherein the plurality of circuit modules include: at least one energy harvesting module as a circuit module capable of outputting power generated by energy harvesting from the second connector; and at least one load module as a circuit module capable of consuming power input from the second connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yoshida, Kiyoshige Kojima
  • Patent number: 11664549
    Abstract: A metal case has a cylindrical body section, an opening section at one end of the body section, the opening section having an opening, and a bottom section closing the other end of the body section. At least one of the body section and the opening section has a protrusion sticking outward in the direction of the radius of the body section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Takano, Oose Okutani, Takeshi Enomoto, Masayoshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11658458
    Abstract: An optical device includes: a base having first and second ends in first and second directions, respectively, and extends in the first direction; an optical module having a head adjacent to the base and is positioned close to the second end and a neck protruding from the head and is thinner than the head; a substrate attached on the base arranged with the head; and a pressing member having a first fixing portion fixed to the base, a second fixing portion fixed to the base, a first extension portion extending from the first fixing portion, a second extension portion extending from the second fixing portion, and a pressing portion provided in at least one of the first and the second extension portions and presses the head against the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Nishita, Masahiro Yoshida, Etsuji Katayama
  • Patent number: 11637526
    Abstract: The power generation module group 1 includes a sheet 10 and power generation panels 21 to 24. First lines L1 and L1? are present between the panels 21 and 22 adjacent to each other in the lateral direction, the first lines crossing neither the panels 21 nor 22 and coming in contact with both the panels 21 and 22. The second line L2 is present on the bottom side of the panel 21 and on the bottom side of the panel 22, crosses neither the panels 21 nor 22 and is parallel in the lateral direction. An angle ?1 that is the largest angle on the panel 22 side of angles formed by the second line L2 and the first lines L1 and L1? is an acute angle. The panels 23 and 24 are disposed in line symmetry with the panels 21 and 22, respectively, with respect to the lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Hayashi, Kiyoshige Kojima, Masayoshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11626835
    Abstract: An energy harvester, wherein it comprises: a flat plate-like energy harvesting part having a power generation region which generates electric power by utilizing an energy in the external environment and an internal wiring to which the electric power thus generated is supplied; a connector part connectable to an external device; a diode of which anode is electrically connected with the internal wiring; and a flexible wiring sub state on which the diode and a connection part for electrically connecting a cathode of the diode to the connector part are provided, wherein the internal wiring extends from the power generation region to a side edge portion of the energy harvesting part, and at least a portion of the flexible wiring substrate is provided in the side edge portion so as to overlap a portion of the internal wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yoshida, Kiyoshige Kojima, Takatoshi Matsuo, Midori Yamaai
  • Patent number: 11621450
    Abstract: A battery can has a cylindrical body section, an opening section at one end of the body section, and a bottom section closing the other end of the body section. An annularly grooved portion is formed by constriction near the open end of the opening section. The annularly grooved portion has an upper-groove section as the section closer to the open end than the narrowest section, which is positioned farthest inside, of the grooved portion, and also has a lower-groove section as the section closer to the bottom section than the narrowest section. The wall thickness T1 of the lower-groove section is larger than the wall thickness T2 of the body section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Oose Okutani, Takeshi Enomoto, Masayoshi Yoshida, Akira Takano
  • Publication number: 20230064158
    Abstract: A sealed battery as an example of an embodiment is provided with an electrode body to which an electrode tab is connected, a closed-end cylindrical exterior housing can which houses the electrode body, and a sealing body that seals an opening of the exterior housing can. The sealing body includes a rupture disk. The rupture disk has a curved first thin-walled portion and a first valve portion surrounded by a straight-line portion connecting both ends of the first thin-walled portion. The first valve portion has a protruding section protruding toward the electrode body, the electrode tab is joined to a side surface of the protruding section, and at least a part of a joint surface between the electrode tab and the protruding section is disposed on a plane crossing the straight-line portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayoshi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20230053520
    Abstract: A connection unit includes: a body having peripheral edges; magnets, at least one of which being disposed on each side of the peripheral edges of the body; and electrode terminals, at least three of which being disposed on the each side of the peripheral edges of the body. An outer surface of the body has a curved surface. The electrode terminals are disposed along the curved surface or the surface having the polygonal cross section of the outer surface. The electrode terminals disposed on the peripheral edges of the body have either: one positive electrode terminal and two negative electrode terminals, or one negative electrode terminal and two positive electrode terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Midori YAMAAI, Naomi SHIGA, Masayoshi YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11463039
    Abstract: Provided is an energy harvester having excellent portability. The energy harvester includes a flat plate-shaped energy harvesting section and a pair of connectors that are electrically conductive. The energy harvesting section includes an electricity generating region that utilizes energy in the external environment to generate electrical power and metal foils. The metal foils extend from the electricity generating region to a peripheral part of the energy harvesting section. The electrical power of the electricity generating region is supplied to the metal foils. The peripheral part includes a pair of holes that expose part of each of the metal foils. Each of the connectors includes a spring, a terminal part that is electrically connected to the spring and is connectable to an external device, and a flat plate part that overlaps with the energy harvesting section. The springs are electrically connected to the metal foils exposed via the holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yoshida, Kiyoshige Kojima, Yuki Hayashi, Takatoshi Matsuo, Midori Yamaai
  • Publication number: 20220254574
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device includes: a first base plate; a second base plate disposed in opposition to the first base plate; a plurality of photoelectric conversion cells that are disposed between the first base plate and the second base plate and that each include a photoelectrode and a counter electrode disposed at a side closer than the photoelectrode to the second base plate; a first wiring structure disposed adjacently to the photoelectric conversion cells and capable of electrically connecting adjacent photoelectrode conversion cells; and a second wiring structure at least partly disposed between the counter electrode and the second base plate and capable of electrically connecting any photoelectric conversion cells among the plurality of photoelectric conversion cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayoshi YOSHIDA, Midori YAMAAI
  • Patent number: 11362619
    Abstract: Disclosed is a photoelectric conversion device that includes: a thin panel-shaped photoelectric conversion module; a first connection member that couples to an outer edge of the photoelectric conversion module at a joint so as to be electrically connected to the photoelectric conversion module; a reinforcing member that couples to a portion including the joint; and a main body that receives electric power supply from the photoelectric conversion module via the first connection member. The first connection member is mechanically and electrically attachable/detachable to/from the main body and has a thickness in vertical direction that is greater than a thickness in vertical direction of the photoelectric conversion module and less than or equal to a thickness in vertical direction of the reinforcing member at the joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Midori Yamaai, Kiyoshige Kojima, Yuki Hayashi, Masayoshi Yoshida