Patents by Inventor Osamu Yamashita

Osamu 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: 20240122988
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a synapse formation promoter and a brain plasticity promoter comprising CD24-negative mesenchymal stem cells prepared from a patient's own bone marrow aspirate and treatment of dementia, chronic-phase cerebral infarction, chronic-phase spinal cord injury, mental diseases, and the like using the synapse formation promoter and brain plasticity promoter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: Sapporo Medical University, Nipro Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Honmou, Masanori Sasaki, Rie Maezawa, Shinichi Oka, Yuko Sasaki, Masahito Nakazaki, Toshihiko Yamashita
  • 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
  • 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: 11688551
    Abstract: The method heats the metal foil made of amorphous soft magnetic material while bringing the metal foil into close contact with a placement surface of a metal base such that the metal foil conforms to the placement surface, to crystallize the amorphous soft magnetic material of the metal foil into nano-crystal soft magnetic material. In the crystallization, the metal foil is heated at a heating temperature to crystallize the amorphous soft magnetic material, the heating temperature being higher than or equal to a crystallization starting temperature at which the amorphous soft magnetic material crystallizes into nano-crystal soft magnetic material and allowing a temperature of the placement surface to be lower than a temperature of the metal foil having temperature rise due to heat generated by self-heating during crystallization, and the heat generated by self-heating of the metal foil during crystallization is absorbed by the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20230182665
    Abstract: A bracket for a hose of a vehicle system. The bracket having a hook and a mounting segment. The hook allows free movement of the hose while cradling the hose to prevent the hose from rubbing against abrasive or high temperature surfaces. The mounting segment includes an anti-rotation segment which abuts a mounting point to prevent rotation of the bracket. The bracket also includes gussets which reinforce the bending resistance of the bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Karma Automotive LLC
    Inventors: Rasha Alghusain, Philip McCarroll, Osamu Yamashita, Jerry Kuo, Bradley Moppins
  • Patent number: 11646153
    Abstract: The method heats the metal foil made of amorphous soft magnetic material while bringing the metal foil into close contact with a placement surface of a metal base such that the metal foil conforms to the placement surface, to crystallize the amorphous soft magnetic material of the metal foil into nano-crystal soft magnetic material. In the crystallization, the metal foil is heated at a heating temperature to crystallize the amorphous soft magnetic material, the heating temperature being higher than or equal to a crystallization starting temperature at which the amorphous soft magnetic material crystallizes into nano-crystal soft magnetic material and allowing a temperature of the placement surface to be lower than a temperature of the metal foil having temperature rise due to heat generated by self-heating during crystallization, and the heat generated by self-heating of the metal foil during crystallization is absorbed by the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11565640
    Abstract: A bracket for a hose of a vehicle system. The bracket having a hook and a mounting segment. The hook allows free movement of the hose while cradling the hose to prevent the hose from rubbing against abrasive or high temperature surfaces. The mounting segment includes an anti-rotation segment which abuts a mounting point to prevent rotation of the bracket. The bracket also includes gussets which reinforce the bending resistance of the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Karma Automotive LLC
    Inventors: Rasha Alghusain, Philip McCarroll, Osamu Yamashita, Jerry Kuo, Bradley Moppins
  • Patent number: 11535906
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method that ensures easily manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece having excellent soft magnetic properties. The method is a method for manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece obtained by crystallizing an amorphous alloy ribbon piece and including: increasing a temperature of the amorphous alloy ribbon piece to a crystallization starting temperature; and increasing the temperature of the amorphous alloy ribbon piece from the crystallization starting temperature to a crystallization process termination temperature equal to or less than a crystallization completion temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Yamashita, Shinichi Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 11512363
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing metal foils, capable of easily crystalizing amorphous soft magnetic material of a plurality of metal foils into nano-crystal soft magnetic material by uniformly heating the metal foils. A laminate obtained by laminating the metal foils made of amorphous soft magnetic material is held by a holding member such that adjacent metal foils can be separated from each other in a laminated direction of the laminate. By conveying either the holding member or magnets in a direction perpendicular to the laminated direction as a conveying direction such that the holding member and the magnets come close to each other, the adjacent metal foils are separated from each other with a magnetic force of the magnets. The separated metal foils are heated to crystalize the amorphous soft magnetic material of the metal foils into nano-crystal soft magnetic material. The same magnetic pole of the magnets aligns in the laminated direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11473157
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece capable of manufacturing a nanocrystalline alloy ribbon piece is provided. The method for manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece according to the present disclosure is a method for manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece obtained by crystallizing an amorphous alloy ribbon piece, and includes: preparing the amorphous alloy ribbon piece; sequentially heating the amorphous alloy ribbon piece from one end to an intermediate position toward another end to a temperature range equal to or more than a crystallization starting temperature, and stopping the heating when heating the amorphous alloy ribbon piece up to the intermediate position to the temperature range; and heating a region on the other end side with respect to the intermediate position of the amorphous alloy ribbon piece to the temperature range equal after the stopping of the heating in the sequentially heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Yamashita, Yu Takanezawa
  • Patent number: 11473158
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a nanocrystalline alloy ribbon piece with high productivity is provided. The method according to the present disclosure is a method for manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece obtained by crystallizing an amorphous alloy ribbon piece, and includes: preparing the amorphous alloy ribbon piece; sequentially heating the ribbon piece from one end to an intermediate position toward another end to a temperature range equal to or more than a crystallization starting temperature, and stopping the heating when heating the ribbon piece up to the intermediate position; and sequentially heating the ribbon piece from the other end to a position immediately before the intermediate position to the temperature range. In the sequentially heating the ribbon piece from the other end, the ribbon piece is heated up to the position immediately before the intermediate position after the heating is stopped in sequentially heating the ribbon piece from the one end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Takanezawa, Osamu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11430605
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing metal foils, capable of easily crystalizing amorphous soft magnetic material of a plurality of metal foils into nano-crystal magnetic by uniformly heating the metal foils. Separating members (magnets) are disposed on the opposite sides of a laminate, which has been obtained by laminating a plurality of metal foils made of amorphous soft magnetic material, in the laminated direction of the laminate, and the metal foils forming the laminate are magnetized with the magnets. Thus, the adjacent metal foils are separated from each other in the laminated direction and a gap is formed between the metal foils. The metal foils are heated with the gap formed therebetween so that the amorphous soft magnetic material of each metal foil is crystalized into nano-crystal magnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11333289
    Abstract: A decompression heat-insulating pipe structure that can exhibit the desired heat-insulating performance and is easy to assemble. In the structure, a space between ends of inner and outer tubes is decompressed. The outer tube includes a first flange, which extends radially inward from an axially one end thereof, and a second flange, which extends radially outward from the axially other end thereof. The inner tube includes a third flange, which extends radially inward from an axially one end thereof and is opposed to the first flange at an axially inward position of the first flange, and a fourth flange, which extends radially outward from the axially other end thereof and being opposed to the second flange at an axially outward position of the second flange. First and second elastic seal members are disposed between the first and third flanges and between the second and fourth flanges, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11326225
    Abstract: There is provided a metal sheet producing method that can avoid a decrease in magnetic properties. The metal sheet producing method is a method for producing metal sheets by applying heat treatment to metal sheets made of amorphous soft magnetic material while conveying the metal sheets along a bar and thus crystallizing the amorphous soft magnetic material into nano-crystal soft magnetic material. The method includes attaching the plurality of metal sheets in a laminated state to an upstream portion of the bar, separating the plurality of metal sheets from each other using magnetic force and moving the metal sheets while applying heat treatment thereto so as to allow them to pass by a midstream portion of the bar, and sequentially laminating the metal sheets that have passed by the midstream portion on a downstream portion of the bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11092290
    Abstract: An amount Y of liquid hydrogen that has passed through a first valve and has been volatilized during a predetermined time after first and second valves are opened is calculated by using a pressure P0 in an internal space of a liquid hydrogen tank measured before the two valves are opened, a pressure P1 in the internal space measured after the lapse of the predetermined time since the two valves are opened, and an amount X of the gaseous hydrogen that has passed through the second valve during the predetermined time. A fluid level H of the liquid hydrogen in the liquid hydrogen tank after the lapse of the predetermined time since the two valves are opened is calculated by using a expression showing a relationship between the H and an amount Y1 of the liquid hydrogen that passes through the first valve and drops therefrom, and the Y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaaki Takahashi, Osamu Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20210233705
    Abstract: The method heats the metal foil made of amorphous soft magnetic material while bringing the metal foil into close contact with a placement surface of a metal base such that the metal foil conforms to the placement surface, to crystallize the amorphous soft magnetic material of the metal foil into nano-crystal soft magnetic material, in the crystallization, the metal foil is heated at a heating temperature to crystallize the amorphous soft magnetic material, the heating temperature being higher than or equal to a crystallization starting temperature at which the amorphous soft magnetic material crystallizes into nano-crystal soft magnetic material and allowing a temperature of the placement surface to be lower than a temperature of the metal foil having temperature rise due to heat generated by self-heating during crystallization, and the heat generated by self-heating of the metal foil during crystallization is absorbed by the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20210207238
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing metal foils, capable of easily crystalizing amorphous soft magnetic material of a plurality of metal foils into nano-crystal soft magnetic material by uniformly heating the metal foils. A laminate obtained by laminating the metal foils made of amorphous soft magnetic material is held by a holding member such that adjacent metal foils can be separated from each other in a laminated direction of the laminate. By conveying either the holding member or magnets in a direction perpendicular to the laminated direction as a conveying direction such that the holding member and the magnets come close to each other, the adjacent metal foils are separated from each other with a magnetic force of the magnets. The separated metal foils are heated to crystalize the amorphous soft magnetic material of the metal foils into nano-crystal soft magnetic material. The same magnetic pole of the magnets aligns in the laminated direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu YAMASHITA