Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Yamashita

Nobuyuki 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).

  • Patent number: 8251812
    Abstract: A control program for an action game according to the present invention in which one of a plurality of characters moving in a game space is selected to be an attack target, in response to an operation of a game player, comprises: a selectable candidate object judging step of judging each of said plurality of characters as to whether or not it is a selectable candidate object which is qualified to be an attack target and which is in position relationship which could be selected as an attack target, a selection order deciding step of deciding an order of selecting those of said plurality of selectable candidate objects, which have been judged by the selectable candidate object judging step; and an attack target changing step of selecting, based on the selection order decided by the selection order deciding step, one of said plurality of characters as an attack target and sequentially changing the attack target in response to an attack target changing operation by the game player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Sega Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Ishihata, Nobuyuki Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20120024599
    Abstract: An oil-cooled equipment harness includes a shielded wire including a conductor, a shielding layer on a periphery of the conductor, and a flexibility, a terminal fitting enclosing a front end part of the shielded wire, a housing enclosing a periphery of the shielded wire a predetermined distance away from the terminal fitting such that shielded wire is exposed from the terminal fitting, the housing including a flange, a first oil entry-preventing means disposed at a space between the shielded wire and the terminal fitting for preventing oil in the shielding case from entering into the conductor, and an oil leak-preventing means disposed at a space between the housing and the shielding case for preventing the oil in the shielding case from leaking out of the shielding case. The terminal fitting and the housing are relatively movable by the shielded wire exposed at between the terminal fitting and the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi Cable Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki YAMASHITA, Masaaki IMAHORI, Michiaki SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20120011173
    Abstract: In a storage network including at least a computer system, at least an external storage and at least a network system for communication of input/output data between the computer system and the external storage, a method of collecting the performance data on the network system and the software operated on the network system, in which the range or degree of data collection is automatically adjusted as required based on the performance data collected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Ohata, Tatsundo Aoshima, Kei Takeda, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Takato Kusama
  • Patent number: 8055686
    Abstract: In a storage network including at least a computer system, at least an external storage and at least a network system for communication of input/output data between the computer system and the external storage, a method of collecting the performance data on the network system and the software operated on the network system, in which the range or degree of data collection is automatically adjusted as required based on the performance data collected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Ohata, Tatsundo Aoshima, Kei Takeda, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Takato Kusama
  • Patent number: 8037860
    Abstract: A cylinder liner has an upper portion and a lower portion with respect to an axial direction of the cylinder liner. A high thermal conductive film is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the upper portion. A low thermal conductive film is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the lower portion. The cylinder liner reduces temperature difference of a cylinder along its axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Teikoku Piston Ring Co., Ltd., Teipi Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Takami, Kouhei Hori, Takeshi Tsukahara, Noritaka Miyamoto, Masaki Hirano, Yukinori Ohta, Satoshi Yamada, Kouhei Shibata, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Toshihiro Mihara, Giichiro Saito, Masami Horigome, Takashi Sato
  • Patent number: 8028508
    Abstract: A mower unit includes a housing, a pair of cutting blades arranged inside the housing, each of the cutting blades being rotatable about a respective vertical axis supported by the housing, the cutting blades being driven to be rotated in opposite directions, and a baffle arranged generally between rotation regions of the cutting blades to guide air flows generated by the cutting blades. The baffle defines an upper baffle portion located adjacent an upper region of the housing, a lower baffle portion located adjacent a lower region of the housing, and an air passage formed for allowing the air flows to flow between the upper baffle portion and lower baffle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Ryouzou Imanishi, Tomoyuki Morikawa, Katsuhiko Uemura, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Kazuaki Kurohara, Hiroshi Oshima
  • Patent number: 8006473
    Abstract: A mowed grass amount detecting apparatus for a grass collection container of a grass mowing includes a pivotal sensor plate (62) constituting a portion of a boundary wall for holding the mowed grass charged into the grass collection container. The pivotal sensor plate has a receiving face which receives the weight of mowed grass. The apparatus also includes a detecting unit (66) for detecting an amount of pivotal movement of the sensor plate (62) from a home position. The receiving face of the pivotal sensor plate (62) is configured so as to close a sensor opening portion formed downwardly of a mowed grass charging portion of the grass collection container communicated and connected with the conveying duct, so that the receiving face of the pivotal sensor plate receives the weight of mowed grass held within the grass collection container (32) through the sensor opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kuramoto, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Hironobu Nishihara
  • Patent number: 7980050
    Abstract: A mower unit includes a mower deck, a plurality of blades mounted inside the mower deck and rotatable about vertical shafts supported to the mower deck, the mower deck defining, on one lateral side thereof, a discharge outlet for discharging cut grass cut by the plurality of blades, and an opening and closing member configured to be movable to a closing position for closing the discharge outlet and also to an opening position away from the discharge outlet for opening the discharge outlet, the opening and closing member at the opening position being disposed along an outer face of the mower deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Ryouzou Imanishi, Hiroaki Kitaguchi, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Hiroki Nagai, Hiroshi Oshima, Tomoyuki Morikawa, Takashi Fujii, Toshiki Kanai, Katsuhiko Uemura, Hiroyuki Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 7954909
    Abstract: In a fluid pressure booster, when an input shaft and a valve plunger advance, an atmosphere valve opens to introduce air into a variable pressure chamber. At this time, the input shaft has not moved by a predetermined stroke, and thus a projection of the valve plunger is positioned within an inner peripheral surface of a control valve body, thus forming an orifice, which causes air to be sucked at a restricted flow rate. As a result, generation of noise is suppressed. When the input shaft moves the predetermined stroke, the projection of the valve plunger is positioned away from the inner peripheral surface of the control valve body and the orifice is no longer formed. Accordingly, the flow rate of the air is not restricted by the orifice, and thus a relatively large amount of air is sucked into and introduced into the pressure variation chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Bosch Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7931534
    Abstract: A control program for an action game according to the present invention in which one of a plurality of characters moving in a game space is selected to be an attack target, in response to an operation of a game player, comprises: a selectable candidate object judging step of judging each of said plurality of characters as to whether or not it is a selectable candidate object which is qualified to be an attack target and which is in position relationship which could be selected as an attack target, a selection order deciding step of deciding an order of selecting those of said plurality of selectable candidate objects, which have been judged by the selectable candidate object judging step; and an attack target changing step of selecting, based on the selection order decided by the selection order deciding step, one of said plurality of characters as an attack target and sequentially changing the attack target in response to an attack target changing operation by the game player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Sega Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Ishihata, Nobuyuki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7905080
    Abstract: A grass collector adapted to be attached to a rear of a riding-type mower for receiving cut grass from a mower unit through a duct, the grass collector including a front container section having a rearwardly facing opening and adapted to be attached to the riding-type mower, the front container section carrying a first bottom plate having a substantially horizontal position. A rear container section is supported pivotably about a pivot point located in a rear upper region of the front container section and pivotable between a first position wherein the rear container section substantially covers the opening of the front container section and a second position pivoted from the first position to allow cut grass to fall, the rear container section having a second bottom plate having a substantially horizontal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Uemura, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Kazuaki Kurohara, Hiroki Nagai
  • Patent number: 7885716
    Abstract: The present invention provides an audio/visual data communication system including an audio/visual data reproducing device capable of changing the type of data to be transmitted. Further, the present invention provides an audio/visual data transmitting device and an audio/visual data reproducing device forming the audio/visual data communication system. An audio data reproducing speaker 3 includes an instruction input unit 33 that inputs an instruction to change data transmitted from an audio data transmitting device, a message generating unit 32 that generates a message for requesting to change data on the basis of the instruction, and a message transmitting unit 31 that transmits the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Yamashita, Kazuyoshi Tari, Kenzo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7818749
    Abstract: In reference, update, and insertion processing, the lock of an un-transferred object is released, and then the lock of a transferred object is set when the pointer is traced for transfer between objects to thereby improve the parallel execution capability of the reference, update, and insertion. At that time, the IS-mode (in the case of reference processing) or the IX-mode (in the case of update and insertion processing) is set at the starting of the processing, and the lock is released at the time of completion of the processing. Furthermore, in deletion processing, after the pointer to a deletion target is separated or replaced and all the processing that acquires the lock of an object group has been completed, the region of the deletion target object is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Yamashita, Yukio Nakano
  • Patent number: 7814739
    Abstract: A riding type mower includes: a vehicle body, a driver's seat mounted on the vehicle body; an operation part arranged around the driver's seat; a mower unit provided on the vehicle body; a shutter for closing a discharge port; a shutter moving mechanism for moving the shutter between a close position closing the discharge port and an open position opening the discharge port; and a lock mechanism for locking the shutter at the close position. The mower unit includes: a mower deck; a cutting blade installed inside the mower deck; the discharge port formed in the mower deck, through which mown grass cut by the blade is discharge from the mower unit to outside. A shutter operating tool for remotely operating the shutter moving mechanism to open and close the shutter is provided in the operation part. The lock mechanism is remotely operable from the operation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Uemura, Hiroki Nagai, Tomoyuki Morikawa, Ryouzou Imanishi, Hiroaki Kitaguchi, Takashi Fujii, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Toshiki Kanai
  • Patent number: 7757652
    Abstract: A cylinder liner 2 is enveloped in a cylinder block through insert casting. The cylinder liner 2 includes a cylinder liner body 2a and a metal coating layer 8 formed on the body 2a through a cold spraying method. Since the metal coating layer 8 is formed in a non-molten and oxygen free state, few oxygen films or oxygen layers are formed on the surface of or in the interior of the metal coating layer 8. Thus, the thermal conductivity of the metal coating layer 8 is sufficiently high. As a result, the thermal conductivity from the metal coating layer 8 to the cylinder block is sufficiently high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noritaka Miyamoto, Masaki Hirano, Toshihiro Takami, Kouhei Shibata, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Toshihiro Mihara, Giichiro Saito, Masami Horigome, Takashi Sato
  • Patent number: 7753023
    Abstract: A cylinder liner has an outer circumferential surface on which a film is formed. The film functions to form gaps between the cylinder block and the cylinder liner. Alternatively, the film functions to reduce adhesion of the cylinder liner to the cylinder block. The cylinder liner suppresses excessive decreases in the temperature of a cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiro Takami, Kouhei Hori, Takeshi Tsukahara, Noritaka Miyamoto, Masaki Hirano, Yukinori Ohta, Satoshi Yamada, Kouhei Shibata, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Toshihiro Mihara, Giichiro Saito, Masami Horigome, Takashi Sato
  • Publication number: 20100109428
    Abstract: A vibration isolation mechanism for a coil spring, according to the invention, includes a spring retainer 24 that supports a return spring 20. The spring retainer 24 comprises a pedestal retainer 25 and a holding retainer 26. A seat winding portion 20a of the return spring 20 is elastically and firmly held between a holding portion 30a of the pedestal retainer 25 and holding portions 31a of the holding retainer 26. Accordingly, vibrations of the return spring 20 are forcedly damped, so that the generation of an abnormal noise caused by vibrations of the return spring 20 is suppressed even when a minute clearance is present between the seat winding portion 20a and a second turn portion of the return spring 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7685987
    Abstract: A cylinder liner for insert casting used in a cylinder block is disclosed. The cylinder liner has an outer circumferential surface, and upper, middle, and lower portions with respect to an axial direction of the cylinder liner. A high thermal conductive film is formed in a section of the outer circumferential surface that corresponds to the upper portion, and a low thermal conductive film is formed in a section of the outer circumferential surface that corresponds to the lower portion. The high thermal conductive film and the low thermal conductive film are laminated in a section of the outer circumferential surface that corresponds to the middle portion, thereby forming a laminated film portion. As a result, temperature difference along the axial direction of the cylinder is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noritaka Miyamoto, Toshihiro Takami, Masaki Hirano, Kouhei Shibata, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Toshihiro Mihara, Giichiro Saito, Masami Horigome, Takashi Sato
  • Publication number: 20100043379
    Abstract: A mower unit includes a mower deck, a plurality of blades mounted inside the mower deck and rotatable about vertical shafts supported to the mower deck, the mower deck defining, on one lateral side thereof, a discharge outlet for discharging cut grass cut by the plurality of blades, and an opening and closing member configured to be movable to a closing position for closing the discharge outlet and also to an opening position away from the discharge outlet for opening the discharge outlet, the opening and closing member at the opening position being disposed along an outer face of the mower deck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: KUBUTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouzou IMANISHI, Hiroaki KITAGUCHI, Nobuyuki YAMASHITA, Hiroki NAGAI, Hiroshi OSHIMA, Tomoyuki MORIKAWA, Takashi FUJII, Toshiki KANAI, Katsuhiko UEMURA, Hiroyuki OGASAWARA
  • Publication number: 20100031620
    Abstract: A riding type mower includes: a vehicle body, a driver's seat mounted on the vehicle body; an operation part arranged around the driver's seat; a mower unit provided on the vehicle body; a shutter for closing a discharge port; a shutter moving mechanism for moving the shutter between a close position closing the discharge port and an open position opening the discharge port; and a lock mechanism for locking the shutter at the close position. The mower unit includes: a mower deck; a cutting blade installed inside the mower deck; the discharge port formed in the mower deck, through which mown grass cut by the blade is discharge from the mower unit to outside. A shutter operating tool for remotely operating the shutter moving mechanism to open and close the shutter is provided in the operation part. The lock mechanism is remotely operable from the operation part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Uemura, Hiroki Nagai, Tomoyuki Morikawa, Ryouzou Imanishi, Hiroaki Kitaguchi, Takashi Fujii, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Toshiki Kanai