Patents by Inventor Naoki YAMAOKA

Naoki YAMAOKA 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: 20240141993
    Abstract: An oil control ring comprises: an oil ring having a pair of land parts arranged in a sliding direction and connected to each other by a web part; and a coil expander that biases the oil ring toward the outer circumferential side in the radial direction. The web part of the oil ring is provided with a plurality of window holes. In the axial cross-sectional view of the largest opening portion of the window hole in the axial direction of the oil ring, a width H1 in the sliding direction of the oil ring and a length L1 of a combustion chamber-side non-window hole part, which excludes the window hole, in the outer circumferential surface of the web part, satisfy the condition of 0.15>L1/H1?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Akira HIKONE, Takashi OGURO, Noriaki AYUZAWA, Toshihiro YAMAOKA, Naoki UMEDA
  • Publication number: 20140354631
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable information processing program is provided. The information processing program, executed by a processing apparatus that is adapted to access a display unit and an input unit, causes the processing apparatus to perform functionality that includes causing a captured image captured by a virtual camera located in a virtual space to be displayed on the display unit, receiving an indicated position on the captured image from the input unit, calculating a position in the virtual space corresponding to the indicated position, and updating the captured image to a state in which ranges close to and distant from the virtual camera with respect to a range proximate to the calculated position are out of focus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoki YAMAOKA