Patents by Inventor Naoki Yamashita

Naoki Yamashita 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: 20240120773
    Abstract: A noncontact power supply device provided with one or more coil units and a cover housing the coil units inside of it. The cover is formed by joining a first sheet arranged at one surface sides of front and back surfaces of the coil units and a second sheet arranged at the other surface sides, the first sheet is a sheet covering the one surface sides of the coil units, the second sheet is a sheet having another surface part covering the other surface sides of the coil units and side surface parts covering side surfaces, the side surface parts of the second sheet are made to abut against side surfaces of the coil units by bending boundaries with the other surface part, and outer edge parts of the side surface parts of the second sheet and outer edge parts of the first sheet are joined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Iwata, Osamu Yamashita, Shinjiro Saigusa, Toshiya Hashimoto, Katsuya Kobayashi, Sungmin Cho
  • Publication number: 20240113560
    Abstract: A noncontact power supply device is comprised of a plurality of coil units each having a coil for transmitting power to an object for receiving power by noncontact. Furthermore, the coil units are joined together by a bonding agent having rubbery elasticity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Osamu YAMASHITA, Naoki IWATA, Shinjiro SAIGUSA, Sungmin CHO, Katsuya KOBAYASHI, Toshiya HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11939667
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wavelength conversion member, includes: providing a wavelength conversion layer having a phosphor-containing portion and a light reflecting portion surrounding the phosphor-containing portion, and the wavelength conversion layer having an upper surface, a bottom surface and at least one side surface; forming a light-blocking film on the upper surface of the wavelength conversion layer; and removing a part of the light-blocking film by laser processing to expose at least a part of the phosphor-containing portion from the light-blocking film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Eboshi, Hiroaki Yuto, Hiroki Sakata, Toshiaki Yamashita, Akinori Hara
  • Publication number: 20240097504
    Abstract: A noncontact power supply apparatus includes a coil unit having a coil for transmitting electric power to a power supply target by noncontact and an electromagnetic shield for reducing a leakage magnetic field of the coil. The electromagnetic shield is the laminate body in which the metal plates are laminated. A lubricant having a predetermined viscosity is applied to a contacting surface between the metal plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Yamashita, Naoki Iwata, Shinjiro Saigusa, Sungmin Cho, Katsuya Kobayashi, Toshiya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20240096549
    Abstract: A power transmission coil unit provided with a board having at its back surface a component mounting part to which electronic components are mounted and a coil forming part at which a coil comprised of a conductor pattern is formed, a core arranged so as to abut against a back surface of the board and formed with a hole for housing the electronic components at a position facing the electronic components, and a protective member provided at a further front surface side of the power transmission coil unit than the component mounting part of the board and receiving a load applied to the power transmission coil unit. A space is formed on a back surface side of the facing portion of the protective member positioned at the location facing the component mounting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Yamashita, Naoki Iwata, Shinjiro Saigusa, Sungmin Cho, Katsuya Kobayashi, Toshiya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20240088718
    Abstract: A power transmitting coil unit includes a board on which a coil comprised of a conductor pattern is formed and to a back surface side of which capacitors are mounted, a core arranged at a back surface side of the board and formed with a hole at a position facing the capacitors, a bottom plate arranged at a back surface side of the core, a space formed defined by a back surface of the board, a front surface of the bottom plate, and an inner circumferential surface of the hole and in which the capacitors are housed, and support member arranged in the space and supporting the board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Osamu YAMASHITA, Naoki IWATA, Shinjiro SAIGUSA, Sungmin CHO, Katsuya KOBAYASHI, Toshiya HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11926881
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet having a high yield ratio and excellent stretch flangeability and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. The high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet has a chemical composition including, by mass %, C: 0.10 to 0.30%, Si: 0.50 to 2.00%, Mn: 2.5 to 4.0%, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.020% or less, Al: 0.10% or less, N: 0.01% or less, Ti: 0.100% or less, and B: 0.0003 to 0.0030%, with the balance being Fe and incidental impurities. N and Ti satisfy a specified formula, and the total area fraction of martensite and bainite is 95% or more. The number density of bainite grains having an area of 3 ?m2 or more and a carbon concentration of less than 0.7C is 1200 grains/mm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Tanaka, Hidekazu Minami, Naoki Takayama, Takako Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20240080980
    Abstract: Uneven distribution of current is suppressed even in a condition that semiconductor elements are mounted in a limited area on a circuit board. A power supply device includes a secondary battery cell, charging/discharging FETs, and a circuit board including a first terminal block and a second terminal block. A first charging/discharging FET and a third charging/discharging FET are disposed at a side of the first terminal block on circuit board. A second charging/discharging FET and a fourth charging/discharging FET are disposed at a side of the second terminal block on circuit board. A first current path connecting the first charging/discharging FET in series to the second charging/discharging FET is longer than a second current path connecting the third charging/discharging FET in series to the fourth charging/discharging FET. The first current path includes a first current impeding region configured to impede current flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: NAOKI KAWAI, TAKAHIRO YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20240079749
    Abstract: Erroneous fuse-blowout during assembling is avoided, thereby improving workability. A power supply device includes a battery unit and a circuit unit electrically connected to the battery unit for controlling charging and discharging. The battery unit includes a series connection including secondary battery cells connected at least in series to one another, a battery-side ground on a low-voltage side of the series connection, and a battery-side output on a high-voltage side of the series connection. The circuit unit includes an overvoltage-detecting fuse configured to detect an overvoltage and to blow upon detecting the overvoltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: NAOKI KAWAI, TAKAHIRO YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20240072398
    Abstract: Unintentional damage of a power supply device during assembling of the device is avoided to increase workability of the assembling. The power supply device includes secondary battery cells each including an electrode terminal, a battery holder holding the cells, and a circuit board including a control circuit mounted thereon and electrically connected to the cells to control charging and discharging. A method of manufacturing the device includes connecting, to a board-side ground terminal disposed on the board, a battery-side ground terminal drawn outside from the holder as a ground of a total output of the cells electrically connected in series and/or parallel, mounting the board on a surface of the holder, and connecting, to respective one or more board-side intermediate terminals disposed on the board, one or more battery-side intermediate terminals disposed on the holder being electrically connected to at least one of the cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: NAOKI KAWAI, TAKAHIRO YAMASHITA, TOMOYUKI ICHIZA
  • Publication number: 20240029101
    Abstract: A management system for managing data of sales promotions for consumers, includes a touch point device configured to detect an action performed by a consumer and a server device that includes: a communication interface configured to communicate with the touch point device, a memory that stores first information in which the action performed by the consumer is associated with a sales promotion and one or more conditions, and a processor configured to: determine whether the action has been detected by the touch point device, upon determining that the action has been detected, acquire from the touch point device second information related to a location where the action has been performed, and determine whether the conditions associated with the action are satisfied based on the second information, and upon determining that the conditions are satisfied, execute computer code for carrying out the sales promotion associated with the action for the consumer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Shigeki NIMIYA, Naoki YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20230363629
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a light source that irradiates an observation target with excitation light; an imaging part that separately receives short wavelength-side NIR light and SWIR light from the observation target; and an image processing unit that generates a composite image having both a density of a short wavelength-side NIR light image and a definition of an SWIR light image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Tamron Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki YAMASHITA, Akira ONODA, Toshiya SEGAWA
  • Patent number: 11576643
    Abstract: An imaging planning apparatus according to one embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains a first value of a first index that is related to an X-ray dose and a second value of a second index that is related to an image quality, based on an X-ray imaging condition of a subject set in a predetermined examination. The processing circuitry displays an association chart indicating an association between the first index and the second index on a display unit, displays an acceptable range of the first index and the second index, the acceptable range being based on information related to a diagnostic reference level corresponding to the predetermined examination, in a manner distinguished from a range other than the acceptable range in the association chart, and also displays a mark at a position corresponding to the first value and the second value in the association chart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bing Lan, Xieping Xu, Lin Li, Yijin Wang, Qingyu Yan, Naoki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11458577
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet for a heat exchanger includes a three-layer material in which a brazing material layer, an intermediate layer, and a core material are cladded and stacked, the intermediate layer is formed of an aluminum alloy which can include Mn, Si, Fe, and Cu, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, the core material is formed of an aluminum alloy which can include Si, Fe, Cu, and Mn, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, and the brazing material layer is formed of an aluminum alloy including Si, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukie Kitada, Naoki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11370067
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet includes a four-layer material containing an intermediate layer formed of an aluminum alloy including Mn of from 0.2 to less than 0.35 mass %, Si of 0.6 mass % or less, Fe of 0.7 mass % or less, and Cu of 0.1 mass % or less, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, a core material formed of an aluminum alloy including Si of 1.2 mass % or less, Fe of 1.0 mass % or less, Cu of from 0.3 to 1.0 mass %, and Mn of from 0.5 to 2.0 mass %, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, and each of an air-side brazing material layer and an internal brazing material layer is formed of an aluminum alloy including Si of from 4 to 13 mass %, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukie Kitada, Naoki Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20220179131
    Abstract: In a cemented lens according to one aspect of the present invention, a first optical element provided with a first light shielding film and a second optical element provided with a second light shielding film are cemented by an adhesive layer, and the adhesive layer is exposed from between the first light shielding film and the second light shielding film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: TAMRON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki YAMASHITA, Takahito MORI
  • Patent number: 11255618
    Abstract: In this flat extruded aluminum multi-port tube, the corrosion-resistance, at inner surfaces of a plurality of flow passages independently and parallelly extending in the tube axial direction, is effectively enhanced. In a flat extruded aluminum multi-port tube 10 formed by an extrusion by employing an aluminum tube material and an aluminum sacrificial anode material having an electrochemically lower potential than the aluminum tube material, the aluminum sacrificial anode material is exposed to form a sacrificial anode portion 18 at least in a part of an inner circumferential portion in each of the plurality of flow passages 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignees: UACJ CORPORATION, UACJ EXTRUSION CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Naoki Yamashita, Seiichi Nagao, Satoshi Shibata, Kazuhisa Naitou, Takeshi Okinotani, Susumu Ichikawa, Akira Itoh
  • Patent number: 11220728
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy pipe-shaped hollow material is produced by porthole extrusion. The aluminum alloy pipe-shaped hollow material includes an Al—Mg-based alloy containing Mg of 0.7 mass % or more and less than 2.5 mass %, and Ti of more than 0 mass % and 0.15 mass % or less, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities. A work hardening coefficient n-value is 0.25 or more and less than 0.43. The aluminum alloy pipe-shaped hollow material has an inner-surface ridged structure inside thereof, and an area ratio of the inner-surface ridged structure in a cross-section orthogonal to an extending direction of the aluminum alloy pipe-shaped hollow material is 1 to 30%. The present invention can provide an aluminum alloy pipe-shaped hollow material that is an aluminum alloy pipe-shaped hollow material of a 5000 series aluminum alloy produced by porthole extrusion and has excellent bending processability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: UACJ CORPORATION, UACJ EXTRUSION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichi Suzuki, Naoki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11171170
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a semiconductor device including: a solid-state image sensor having a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric conversion element is two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix; and a flexible printed circuit having wiring adapted to connect a pad portion provided on an upper surface side to be located on a light receiving surface side of the solid-state image sensor to an external terminal provided on a lower surface side opposite to the upper surface side, in which the flexible printed circuit is arranged along respective surfaces of the solid-state image sensor such that a position of an end portion located on the upper surface side becomes a position different from a position in a space above the light receiving surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Momiuchi, Yuji Takaoka, Kiyohisa Tanaka, Eiichirou Kishida, Emi Nishioka, Naoki Yamashita, Hirokazu Seki
  • Patent number: 11015234
    Abstract: A three-layer clad material includes a core material, a cladding material 1, and a cladding material 2, the core material including an aluminum alloy that includes 0.5 to 1.8% of Mn, and either or both of more than 0.05% and less than 0.2% of Cu, and 0.05 to 0.30% of Ti, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, the cladding material 1 including an aluminum alloy that includes 3 to 10% of Si, and 1 to 10% of Zn, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, and the cladding material 2 including an aluminum alloy that includes 3 to 13% of Si, and 0.05% or less of Cu, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein the Si content X (%) in the cladding material 1 and the Si content Y (%) in the cladding material 2 satisfy the value (Y?X) is ?1.5 to 9%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Shoji, Naoki Yamashita, Toshikazu Tanaka, Hirokazu Tanaka