Patents by Inventor Masayuki Yamamoto
Masayuki 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).
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Patent number: 10516234Abstract: A connector unit including a connector and a connector cover. Locking protrusions are provided at one end of the connector, and locking holes are provided in an upper wall and a bottom wall of the connector cover. Notch parts capable of receiving the electric wire are provided at any one end of both ends of the upper wall and both ends of the bottom wall corresponding to both opening ends of the hollow space surrounded by the connector, the upper wall, the bottom wall, and side walls.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Masataka Nagayama, Kenji Takahashi, Masayuki Yamamoto, Teruo Kato, Yusuke Hinoda
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Publication number: 20190177813Abstract: A seamless steel pipe is provided that has a chemical composition which consists of, by mass %, C: 0.10 to 0.20%, Si: 0.05 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.2%, P?0.025%, S?0.005%, Cu?0.20%, N?0.007%, Ni: 0.20 to 0.50%, Cr: 0.30% or more and less than 0.50%, Mo: 0.30 to 0.50%, Nb: 0.01 to 0.05%, Al: 0.001 to 0.10%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0020%, Ti: 0.003 to 0.050%, V: 0.01 to 0.20%, a total of any one or more elements among Ca, Mg and REM: 0 to 0.025%, and the balance: Fe and impurities, and for which Pcm (=C+(Si/30)+(Mn/20)+(Cu/20)+(Ni/60)+(Cr/20)+(Mo/15)+(V/10)+5B)?0.30. The steel micro-structure includes, in area %, tempered martensite ?90%. The tensile strength is 980 MPa or more, and a Charpy impact value at ?40° C. using a 2 mm V-notch test specimen is 75 J/cm2 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Takeshi Miki, Yuji Arai, Yusuke Mihara, Yohsuke Uchida, Masahiro Yamazaki, Masayuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20190052013Abstract: A connector unit including a connector and a connector cover. Locking protrusions are provided at one end of the connector, and locking holes are provided in an upper wall and a bottom wall of the connector cover. Notch parts capable of receiving the electric wire are provided at any one end of both ends of the upper wall and both ends of the bottom wall corresponding to both opening ends of the hollow space surrounded by the connector, the upper wall, the bottom wall, and side walls.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2017Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Masataka Nagayama, Kenji Takahashi, Masayuki Yamamoto, Teruo Kato, Yusuke Hinoda
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Patent number: 10201859Abstract: Provided is a chuck structure, which is configured to chuck an annular workpiece from a radially outer side of the workpiece. The chuck structure includes: leaf spring members arranged at a predetermined pitch along a circumferential direction of the chuck structure so as to be symmetrical with respect to a mechanism center axis; chuck claw members mounted to distal ends of the leaf spring members, respectively; and a pressing force applying mechanism configured to apply a force of pressing the leaf spring members radially inward, to thereby elastically press the chuck claw members onto a radially outer surface of the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: NTN CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Yagi
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Patent number: 10067182Abstract: A semiconductor device is capable of detecting a power supply voltage abnormality without degrading the performance of internal circuits. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of power supply inspection circuits and a result storage register. The power supply inspection circuits detect a power supply voltage abnormality in each pad that couples an internal wiring disposed in the semiconductor device to another part disposed outside of the semiconductor device. The result storage register stores inspection results indicated by result signals output from the power supply inspection circuits.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventor: Masayuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20180107946Abstract: From each of in-vehicle units in vehicles, a travel behavior data indicating a travel behavior of the vehicle is received and recorded in a travel history database. The travel behavior data of the vehicles are read from the travel history database; an avoidance action arising in each of the vehicles is detected based on the read travel behavior data. From the detected avoidance actions of the vehicles, a related avoidance action group being avoidance actions arising due to an identical object at different positions at different points of times in different target vehicles is extracted based on an occurrence position and an occurrence point of time of each detected avoidance action. Information on position change of the identical object as a cause of the extracted related avoidance action group is recorded as an alert target data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2016Publication date: April 19, 2018Inventors: Masayuki Yamamoto, Katsushi Asami, Daisuke Kaji, Yuya Hattori
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Patent number: 9797945Abstract: A semiconductor device is capable of detecting a power supply voltage abnormality without degrading the performance of internal circuits. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of power supply inspection circuits and a result storage register. The power supply inspection circuits detect a power supply voltage abnormality in each pad that couples an internal wiring disposed in the semiconductor device to another part disposed outside of the semiconductor device. The result storage register stores inspection results indicated by result signals output from the power supply inspection circuits.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventor: Masayuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20170299652Abstract: A semiconductor device is capable of detecting a power supply voltage abnormality without degrading the performance of internal circuits. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of power supply inspection circuits and a result storage register. The power supply inspection circuits detect a power supply voltage abnormality in each pad that couples an internal wiring disposed in the semiconductor device to another part disposed outside of the semiconductor device. The result storage register stores inspection results indicated by result signals output from the power supply inspection circuits.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2014Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventor: Masayuki YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20170291225Abstract: Provided is a chuck structure, which is configured to chuck an annular workpiece from a radially outer side of the workpiece. The chuck structure includes: leaf spring members arranged at a predetermined pitch along a circumferential direction of the chuck structure so as to be symmetrical with respect to a mechanism center axis; chuck claw members mounted to distal ends of the leaf spring members, respectively; and a pressing force applying mechanism configured to apply a force of pressing the leaf spring members radially inward, to thereby elastically press the chuck claw members onto a radially outer surface of the workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: October 12, 2017Inventors: Masayuki YAMAMOTO, Tsuyoshi YAGI
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Patent number: 9774123Abstract: A connector is provided with a connecting terminal, a connecting housing, and a front holder. The connecting housing includes a connecting terminal storing chamber, and a lance which is elastically deformable in order to store the connecting terminal into the terminal storing chamber and which is engageable with the connecting terminal in order to prevent the connecting terminal from removing when recovered from an elastic deformation. The front holder is supported to be movable to back and forth along the insertion direction and locked on a front end of the terminal storing chamber. The front holder is moved in the opposite direction to the insertion direction to be actually locked by pressure in a state that the front holder is temporarily locked and contacted with the connecting terminal to hold in a state that the front holder is actually locked.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Sasaki, Masayuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20170269153Abstract: A semiconductor device is capable of detecting a power supply voltage abnormality without degrading the performance of internal circuits. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of power supply inspection circuits and a result storage register. The power supply inspection circuits detect a power supply voltage abnormality in each pad that couples an internal wiring disposed in the semiconductor device to another part disposed outside of the semiconductor device. The result storage register stores inspection results indicated by result signals output from the power supply inspection circuits.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventor: MASAYUKI YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 9766822Abstract: A computer system including a management computer for managing the entire system, an integral apparatus, and a high-level connecting device for connecting the management computer and the integral apparatus is designed so that the management computer retains integral apparatus internal configuration information, configuration information about an integral apparatus to be introduced, that indicates the configuration of the integral apparatus that may possibly be introduced to the system, and lifetime information indicating lifetime of the integral apparatus; obtains connectivity guarantee information indicating whether connectivity between the computer and the storage apparatus is guaranteed or not; selects an integral apparatus to be removed from the system by referring to the lifetime information; selects an integral apparatus to be introduced to the system by referring to the integral apparatus internal configuration information, the configuration information about the integral apparatus to be introduced, anType: GrantFiled: July 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yasunori Kaneda, Yutaka Kudo, Yukio Ogawa, Masakatsu Mori, Tomoki Sekiguchi, Masayuki Yamamoto, Naoto Matsunami
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Patent number: 9709209Abstract: To achieve a mechanism that supports an article at a desired position in a displaceable manner in accordance with a weight of the article with a simple, small, and lightweight structure. An article supporting device 1 includes a base member 2, a supporting member 3, a spring member 4 which is a compression coil spring, a spring force transmission member 5, a cam member 6, and a cam follower member 7. The cam follower member is pressed against a downward-facing cam surface 15 of the support member, an upward-facing cam surface 18 of the spring force transmission member, and a sideward-facing cam surface 22 of the cam member by a load of an article and a spring force of the spring member. The downward-facing cam surface and upward-facing cam surface are inclined in reverse directions to each other and disposed opposite to each other with the cam follower member interposed therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: NISCA CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuzo Aoyagi, Hiroto Akiyama, Toru Ochiai, Masayuki Yamamoto, Toshiki Ono
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Patent number: 9665216Abstract: A proximity detection unit detects the proximity of a finger to a screen and outputs a proximity detection signal. A contact detection unit detects the contact of the finger to the screen and outputs a contact detection signal. On the basis of the proximity detection signal, a display control unit magnifies and displays a predetermined range around a proximity corresponding position. On the basis of the contact detection signal depending on the contact operation of the indicator for the predetermined range, the display control unit fixes the magnified display of the predetermined range and does not change the display position of the magnified predetermined range depending on the movement operation of the finger on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2013Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventor: Masayuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9575672Abstract: A storage system has a plurality of flash packages, and a storage controller for receiving a write request from a host and sending a write-data write request based on data conforming to this write request to a write-destination flash package. A virtual capacity, which is larger than the physical capacity of the flash package, is defined in the storage controller. The storage system compresses the write data, and writes the compressed write data to the write-destination flash chip.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akira Yamamoto, Masayuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9569130Abstract: A storage system 100, which has a plurality of flash packages 230, has a function for minimizing the imbalance of the number of deletions of each block inside the flash package 230 and a block-unit capacity virtualization function, and efficiently manifests lessening of the imbalance of the number of deletions and reduction in the data storage capacity for the entire storage system 100 by having functions for calculating the number of deletions and the data occupancy of each flash package 230, and for transferring data between the flash packages 230 on the basis of the values of these number of deletions and data occupancy.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akira Yamamoto, Sadahiro Sugimoto, Akihiko Araki, Masayuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9411746Abstract: In the computer system, a storage system provides a storage level virtual volume based on thin provisioning technology, to a physical server on which a virtual machine is defined. The storage system releases the area of the logical volume corresponding to the storage level virtual volume accessed by a virtual machine which is specified to be deleted, on the basis of storage level virtual volume conversion information which is managed by the storage system.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Yamamoto, Masataka Innan, Nobuhiko Ando, Takato Kusama, Nobuo Beniyama, Yoshiki Fukui, Katsutoshi Asaki
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Patent number: 9400618Abstract: A storage system comprises a plurality of flash packages comprising a plurality of flash chips, and a storage controller for receiving a first write request from a higher-level apparatus and sending a second write request of write data based on data conforming to this first write request to a write-destination flash package, and demonstrates a capacity virtualization function for causing a storage capacity to appear larger than an actual storage capacity for the higher-level apparatus, and for configuring a storage space using page units. The storage system generates a second VOL (logical volume) based on a first VOL, manages a plurality of VOLs comprising the first VOL and one or more second VOLs generated based on the first VOL as a VOL group, and allocates the same page to areas of the same address of the plurality of VOLs configuring the VOL group.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2014Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Akira Yamamoto, Masayuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20160172779Abstract: A connector is provided with a connecting terminal, a connecting housing, and a front folder. The connecting housing includes a connecting terminal storing chamber, and a lance which is elastically deformable in order to store the connecting terminal into the terminal storing chamber and which is engageable with the connecting terminal in order to prevent the connecting terminal from removing when recovered from an elastic deformation. The front folder is supported to be movable to back and forth along the insertion direction and locked on a front end of the terminal storing chamber. The front folder is moved in the opposite direction to the insertion direction to be actually locked by pressure in a state that the front folder is temporarily locked and contacted with the connecting terminal to hold in a state that the front folder is actually locked.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro SASAKI, Masayuki YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20160115542Abstract: Provided is FGF21 that is a metabolism-related biomarker reflecting the activation of Nrf2 in vivo. Also provided are a method for monitoring a response of a subject to which an Nrf2 activator is administered, said method comprising a step for measuring the FGF21 level, at a point during or after the administration of the Nrf2 activator, in a biosample that is derived from the subject, wherein an increase in the FGF21 level indicates a positive response to the administration of the Nrf2 activator, etc. According to the present invention, a metabolism-related biomarker that reflects the activation of Nrf2 in vivo is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2014Publication date: April 28, 2016Applicants: Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tohoku UniversityInventors: Masayuki Yamamoto, Akira Uruno, Yuki Furusawa