Patents by Inventor Naoyuki Yamamoto

Naoyuki 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).

  • Patent number: 11971637
    Abstract: A display device includes wires that are coupled to driver terminals that are able to be coupled to a driver integrated circuit (IC) and that are provided along a first direction and extending so as to spread toward outsides in the first direction as the wires are directed toward a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and dummy wires that are provided along the wires on one outside and another outside in the first direction of the wires and that are not coupled to the driver terminals and the wires, wherein a number of the dummy wires on the one outside and a number of the dummy wires on the other outside are respectively three or more, the dummy wires extend in parallel with the wires, and a width of the dummy wire is equal to a width of the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Yamamoto, Naoyuki Obinata, Kengo Shiragami
  • Patent number: 11932508
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming unit, a varnish, a receiving unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit executes image forming processing to form an image on a plurality of types of recording media including a first type recording medium having a coated layer and a second type recording medium that is without a coated layer. The varnish application unit executes varnish application processing to apply varnish to a recording medium on which the image is formed by the image forming unit. The receiving unit receives an instruction for selecting a recording medium and to receive an instruction for the varnish application processing. The control unit performs control to prevent the receiving unit from receiving an instruction to execute the varnish application processing on the second type recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20240085843
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus including a fixing unit, a folding processing portion, and a pressure-bonding portion. A first recording material having a first basis weight is fixed at a first temperature by the fixing unit and then is pressure-bonded by the pressure-bonding portion after a lapse of a first period. A second recording material having a second basis weight is fixed at a second temperature by the fixing unit and then is pressure-bonded by the pressure-bonding portion after a lapse of a second period. The second basis weight is larger than the first basis weight. The second temperature is higher than the first temperature. The second period is longer than the first period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: NAOYUKI YAMAMOTO, KENICHIRO KITAJIMA, YOSHIRO TSUKADA, TOHRU NAKAEGAWA, KOTA MORI, SHUICHI TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240088067
    Abstract: A device which enables protection against an abruptly rising pulse such as an electromagnetic pulse in a compact size at a device level and a semiconductor package in which the device is mounted are provided. The semiconductor package (1, 2, 3) includes a substrate (12, 60, 70), an IC chip (21) arranged on the substrate (12, 60, 70), a plurality of connection parts (30) configured to connect the IC chip (21) to the outside, a plurality of bonding wires (40) configured to connect the IC chip (21) and corresponding ones of the plurality of connection parts (30), and a mechanism configured to bypass surge current applied to any of the plurality of connection parts (30) from the connection parts (30) to a ground potential via a path different from the plurality of bonding wires (40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Syusaku Yamamoto, Yuichiro Kamino, Takatoshi Tojo, Minoru Tsukazaki, Naoyuki Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20240085834
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit and a fixing unit; a folding processing portion; a pressure-bonding portion; and an input portion capable of selecting a pressure-bonding mode in which a pressure-bonding print prepared by subjecting the recording material to pressure-bonding processing by the folding processing portion and the pressure-bonding portion and capable of selecting a layout of the toner image formed on the recording material. When the pressure-bonding mode is selected, the layout depending on the pressure-bonding mode is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: SHUICHI TAMURA, NAOYUKI YAMAMOTO, TOHRU NAKAEGAWA, KENICHIRO KITAJIMA, KOTA MORI, YOSHIRO TSUKADA
  • Patent number: 11815850
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a varnish application apparatus, and a controller. When the image forming apparatus is in a standby state and preheating of varnish in a tank by a heater is completed, if an image forming job of forming a toner image on a first recording material and applying varnish thereto by a varnish coater is received, the controller controls a guide member to guide the first recording material to a first conveyance path. When the image forming apparatus is in a standby state and preheating of varnish in the tank by the heater is not completed, if an image forming job of forming a toner image on a second recording material and not applying varnish thereto by the varnish coater is received, the controller controls the guide member to guide the second recording material to a second conveyance path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Arimura, Naoyuki Yamamoto, Kenichiro Kitajima, Shuichi Tamura, Ryota Fujioka, Yoshiro Tsukada, Shohei Okumura, Takahiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230127053
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a varnish application apparatus, and a controller. The varnish application apparatus includes a varnish application unit configured to apply varnish to a recording material, a first conveyance unit configured to convey a recording material in a first conveyance path that passes through the varnish application unit, and a second conveyance unit configured to convey a recording material in a second conveyance path that does not pass through the varnish application unit. When failure is occurred to one or both of the varnish application unit and the first conveyance unit and failure is not occurred to the second conveyance unit, the controller is configured to permit execution of the second image forming job and to convey a recording material by the second conveyance unit in the varnish application apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Koji Arimura, Naoyuki Yamamoto, Kenichiro Kitajima, Shuichi Tamura, Ryota Fujioka, Yoshiro Tsukada, Shohei Okumura, Takahiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230129927
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a varnish application apparatus, and a controller. When the image forming apparatus is in a standby state and preheating of varnish in a tank by a heater is completed, if an image forming job of forming a toner image on a first recording material and applying varnish thereto by a varnish coater is received, the controller controls a guide member to guide the first recording material to a first conveyance path. When the image forming apparatus is in a standby state and preheating of varnish in the tank by the heater is not completed, if an image forming job of forming a toner image on a second recording material and not applying varnish thereto by the varnish coater is received, the controller controls the guide member to guide the second recording material to a second conveyance path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Koji Arimura, Naoyuki Yamamoto, Kenichiro Kitajima, Shuichi Tamura, Ryota Fujioka, Yoshiro Tsukada, Shohei Okumura, Takahiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230115760
    Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle device capable of switching as to whether to make a diagnosis or not when the identification number of the vehicle is not registered in the server. The in-vehicle device 1 includes an OTA center communicating unit 2 (first communication circuit) that establishes wireless communication with an OTA center 300 (server), a memory 1b (first memory) that stores therein diagnosis permission information 4 (first information) indicating diagnosis permitted or diagnosis not permitted, and a CPU 1a (first processor). When the VIN (identification number) of the vehicle 11 having the in-vehicle device 1 onboard is not registered in the OTA center 300 and the diagnosis permission information 4 indicates diagnosis permitted, the CPU 1a makes a diagnosis of the in-vehicle device 1 and stores the result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki YAMAMOTO, Hitoshi KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230075958
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming unit, a varnish, a receiving unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit executes image forming processing to form an image on a plurality of types of recording media including a first type recording medium having a coated layer and a second type recording medium that is without a coated layer. The varnish application unit executes varnish application processing to apply varnish to a recording medium on which the image is formed by the image forming unit. The receiving unit receives an instruction for selecting a recording medium and to receive an instruction for the varnish application processing. The control unit performs control to prevent the receiving unit from receiving an instruction to execute the varnish application processing on the second type recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventor: Naoyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230073009
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming unit, a varnish coating unit, a reception unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit executes an image forming process of forming an image on types of recording media including a first type of recording medium with a coated layer and a second type of recording medium without a coated layer. The varnish coating unit executes a varnish coating process of varnish coating a recording medium on which an image is formed by the image forming unit. The reception unit receives a printing job from a user. The control unit controls the varnish coating unit. When the printing job received by the reception unit is a printing job for executing the varnish coating process on the second type of recording medium, the control unit controls the varnish coating unit to prevent the varnish coating unit from executing the varnish coating process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventor: Naoyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230068570
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming unit for forming a first toner image and a second toner image on a first surface and a second surface of a recording medium by using toner containing wax; a pressure-bonding unit for pressure-bonding the recording medium folded in two by applying heat and pressure to the recording medium, an inner surface of the recording medium folded in two being pressure-bonded via an adhesive medium, one of the first surface and the second surface being the inner surface of the recording medium folded in two, the pressure-bonding unit pressure-bonding the recording medium folded in two via an adhesive member; and a control unit for determining an image forming order so that an image is formed on an outer surface of the recording medium folded in two, and then on the inner surface of the recording medium folded in two.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Shuichi Tamura, Naoyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11493146
    Abstract: In an opening and closing valve of the invention, an operation dial and a valve body housed in a main body are connected by a rotary shaft, and a regulation member having a first fitting hole engaging with a fitter in the rotary shaft is disposed in a housing space of the main body. When a second fitting hole in the operation dial is released from the fitter in the closed state, the first fitting hole is fitted into the fitter to regulate the rotation, or when the second fitting hole is fitted into the fitter, the first fitting hole is released from the fitter to achieve the rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: FUMOTO GIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryohei Yamamoto, Yuho Yamamoto, Naoyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220300612
    Abstract: Provided is a security processing device capable of preventing tampering of software related to detection and diagnosis of abnormality such as a security attack and taking a measure according to a cause in a case where the abnormality occurs. The security processing device which manages a device related to operation control of a vehicle includes: a control part which includes a non-secure area in which a mounted program is capable of being changed from an outside and a secure area in which a mounted program is incapable of being changed from the outside. The control part includes a code of an operation program which is mounted in the non-secure area and performs the operation control of the vehicle, and a diagnosis program which is mounted in the secure area and diagnoses abnormality of the code of the operation program and monitors communication with the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki YAMAMOTO, Hiroki YAMAZAKI, Hitoshi KAWAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11362859
    Abstract: The present invention provides an in-vehicle communication device and an in-vehicle system that can establish communication, in a short time, between applications corresponding to the same communication protocol between in-vehicle processing devices connected to communication buses having different communication protocols. In the present invention, when the first communication controller 33 has received a specific message from the first in-vehicle processing device 102 connected to the first communication bus 101, the in-vehicle communication device 1 transmits a communication protocol switching command from the second communication controller 3 to the second in-vehicle processing device 202 connected to the second communication bus 201 to switch a communication protocol setting of the second communication controller to the same communication protocol setting as that of the first communication bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Yamamoto, Hiroki Yamazaki, Hitoshi Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11209756
    Abstract: A method for producing printed matter that has a fixed toner image and a resin layer, in the indicated sequence, on a substrate, comprising a toner image formation step of forming a fixed toner image on the substrate by fixing a toner containing a resin and a hydrocarbon wax, a mixture layer formation step of forming, on the fixed toner image, a layer of a mixture, the mixture contains at least one selected from the group consisting of diacrylates and dimethacrylates as a component (a) and a polymerization initiator as a component (b); and a resin layer formation step of polymerizing the component (a) and the component (b) in the mixture layer to form the resin layer; wherein the melting point of the hydrocarbon wax is from 55° C. to 85° C., a surface wax index A and a wax distribution unevenness index B of the area are predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuya Chimoto, Yoshiro Tsukada, Naoyuki Yamamoto, Shuichi Tamura, Akifumi Matsubara, Hayato Ida
  • Publication number: 20210332903
    Abstract: An on-off valve includes a valve body housed in a valve body housing portion provided in a main body, the valve body being switchable between an open position and a closed position, an operating means that switch the valve body between the open position and the closed position, a discharge channel, one end of the discharge channel being communicated with a valve chamber of the main body, another end of the discharge channel being communicated with a discharge port, an attaching member inserted into the main body and protruding to a container side of the main body, and including a connection portion at a distal end of the attaching member, the connection portion being connected to a container discharge portion, and an insertion portion provided in the main body, the attaching member rotatably penetrating through the insertion portion, the insertion portion being communicated with the valve body housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: FUMOTO GIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryohei YAMAMOTO, Yuho YAMAMOTO, Naoyuki YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11159456
    Abstract: It is possible to perform transfer with low latency. The control apparatus includes a routing control unit, transmission queues, and a plurality of controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Yamamoto, Kenichi Osada, Shuhei Kaneko, Hitoshi Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11133587
    Abstract: An antenna device includes: a dielectric substrate 1; a first conductor 2 provided on a first surface of the dielectric substrate 1; a second conductor 100 provided on a second surface of the dielectric substrate 1, the second surface being opposite to the first surface on which the first conductor 2 is provided, the second conductor 100 having a feeding point 12; a third conductor 200a provided on the same second surface on which the second conductor 100 is provided; and a pair of transmission lines that electrically connect the second conductor 100 and the third conductor 200a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Uesaka, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Naoyuki Yamamoto, Toru Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20210176090
    Abstract: The present invention provides an in-vehicle communication device and an in-vehicle system that can establish communication, in a short time, between applications corresponding to the same communication protocol between in-vehicle processing devices connected to communication buses having different communication protocols. In the present invention, when the first communication controller 33 has received a specific message from the first in-vehicle processing device 102 connected to the first communication bus 101, the in-vehicle communication device 1 transmits a communication protocol switching command from the second communication controller 3 to the second in-vehicle processing device 202 connected to the second communication bus 201 to switch a communication protocol setting of the second communication controller to the same communication protocol setting as that of the first communication bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki YAMAMOTO, Hiroki YAMAZAKI, Hitoshi KAWAGUCHI