Patents by Inventor Satoshi Yamamoto

Satoshi 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: 12278401
    Abstract: This non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that is an example of an embodiment comprises a winding type electrode body for which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are wound with a separator interposed. The electrode body has a positive electrode lead. The positive electrode lead has: a lead base made of metal that includes a first surface joined to the positive electrode, and a second surface on the side opposite to the first surface; and an insulating ceramic layer principally comprising an inorganic compound and formed over a range within the second surface of the lead base so as to face the negative electrode with at least the separator interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignees: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD., PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Natsuhiko Mukai, Satoshi Yamamoto, Masaki Deguchi, Taisuke Yamamoto, Atsushi Ueda, Masanobu Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20250108403
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a treatment liquid supplying method and a substrate treating apparatus. The treatment liquid supplying method for a substrate treating apparatus provided with a nozzle configured to eject a treatment liquid, a pipe connected to the nozzle, an on-off valve provided on the pipe, and a suck back valve provided on the pipe between the nozzle and the on-off valve includes an ejection stopping step of stopping ejection of the treatment liquid from the nozzle by causing the on-off valve to perform closing operation, and a liquid cut-off position adjusting step of adjusting a liquid cut-off position as a position where the treatment liquid in a column shape ejected from the nozzle is cut off by causing the suck back valve to perform first suction operation in association with the closing operation by the on-off valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Hidetoshi SAGAWA, Junki NISHIMURA, Satoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250082201
    Abstract: A slit lamp microscope of an aspect example includes an illumination system, first photographing system, fixation system, movement mechanism, and controller. The illumination system projects slit light onto an anterior segment of a subject's eye from a first direction. The first photographing system photographs the anterior segment onto which the slit light is being projected, from a second direction different from the first direction. The fixation system outputs fixation light for fixation of the subject's eye. The movement mechanism moves the illumination system and the first photographing system, the controller performs a first control for the movement mechanism to move at least the illumination system and a second control for the first photographing system to photograph the anterior segment a plurality of times in parallel with each other while causing the fixation system to output the fixation light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro OHMORI, Yasufumi FUKUMA, Satoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12246664
    Abstract: A power supply structure 11 for a headrest 10 for supplying power to the headrest 10 attached to a seat body 13 includes: a power supply coil 16 that is located in the seat body 13; a power reception coil 30 that is located in the headrest 10 and receives power from the power supply coil 16; and an elastic member 21 that is located in at least one of the seat body 13 and the headrest 10 and urges the power supply coil 16 and the power reception coil 30 in a direction that approaches each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masami Ono, Hidetoshi Ishida, Satoshi Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20250065827
    Abstract: A wire harness routing device 10 according to this disclosure is for routing a wire harness 60 under a sliding seat 1. The wire harness routing device 10 includes an extra length storing case 20 and a protector 30. The extra length storing case 20 is disposed on a floor 2 that is opposite a lower surface 5 of the sliding seat 1. The protector 30 is movable with respect to the extra length storing case 20. The wire harness 60 includes an inner extra length portion and an outer extra length portion. The inner extra length portion is disposed in the extra length storing case 20 and extends toward the protector 30 and the outer extra length portion extends outside the extra length storing case 20 from the protector 30 toward the lower surface 5 of the sliding seat 1. The sliding seat 1 includes a pair of contact members 6, 7 that come into contact with the protector 30 according to movement of the sliding seat 1 and move the protector 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Adient US LLC
    Inventors: Tomoka SHIDA, Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Kazuyoshi OHARA, Minho YANG, Yasuhiro NAGAI
  • Patent number: 12220173
    Abstract: A slit lamp microscope of an aspect example includes an illumination system, first photographing system, fixation system, movement mechanism, and controller. The illumination system projects slit light onto an anterior segment of a subject's eye from a first direction. The first photographing system photographs the anterior segment onto which the slit light is being projected, from a second direction different from the first direction. The fixation system outputs fixation light for fixation of the subject's eye. The movement mechanism moves the illumination system and the first photographing system. the controller performs a first control for the movement mechanism to move at least the illumination system and a second control for the first photographing system to photograph the anterior segment a plurality of times in parallel with each other while causing the fixation system to output the fixation light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ohmori, Yasufumi Fukuma, Satoshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20250035901
    Abstract: A light irradiation device includes: a light source configured to output light having coherence; a light focusing element having a focusing axis and a non-focusing axis intersecting with the focusing axis and configured to focus the light on a focusing line so as to generate planar light; and an aperture mask having an opening part that limits a part of luminous fluxes of the light transmitted from the light source to the light focusing element. The opening part of the aperture mask has opening edges disposed to extend in a direction along the focusing axis of the light focusing element, and, in a case in which the opening edges are projected onto the focusing line, corresponding projected portions have linear spreads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Masanori KOBAYASHI, Satoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250033336
    Abstract: A co-extruded sheet contains a polycarbonate resin, and includes a core layer formed from a foam resin, a skin layer formed from a non-foaming resin and laminated to one major surface of the core layer, and a second skin layer laminated to another major surface of the core layer. A melt volume-flow rate of the polycarbonate resin contained in the core layer (MVRc) and a melt volume-flow rate of the polycarbonate resin contained in one of the skin layers (MVRs) satisfy the following expression, (1): 1.5 ? MVRs / MVRc ? 8. .
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiharu GOTO, Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Kei MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20250018692
    Abstract: A co-extruded sheet reduces swelling and/or cracking of the surface occurring during thermal shaping such as vacuum forming and provides improved mechanical strength. A co-extruded sheet contains a polycarbonate resin, and includes a core layer formed from a foam resin and skin layers formed from a non-foaming resin. The skin layer is laminated to one major surface of the core layer, while the skin layer is laminated to the other major surface of the core layer. The core layer has an expansion ratio of 1.6 to 3. The co-extruded sheet has a thickness of 1 to 5 mm and satisfies expression (1): 0.10? (t1+t2)/T?0.5. In expression (1), t1 indicates the thickness of the skin layer, t2 indicates the thickness of the second skin layer, and T indicates the thickness of the co-extruded sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoki TANIGUCHI, Atsushi YUSA, Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Toshiharu GOTO, Kei MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20250010589
    Abstract: A co-extruded sheet reduces swelling and/or cracking of the surface occurring during thermal shaping such as vacuum forming and provides improved mechanical strength. A co-extruded sheet contains a polycarbonate resin, and includes a core layer formed from a foam resin and skin layers formed from a non-foaming resin. The skin layer is laminated to one major surface of the core layer, while the skin layer is laminated to the other major surface of the core layer. The co-extruded sheet has a density of 0.4 to 0.9 g/cm3. The co-extruded sheet has a thickness of 1 to 5 mm and satisfies expression (1): 0.10?(t1+t2)/T?0.5. In expression (1), t1 indicates the thickness of the skin layer, t2 indicates the thickness of the second skin layer, and T indicates the thickness of the co-extruded sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoki TANIGUCHI, Atsushi YUSA, Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Toshiharu GOTO, Kei MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 12189108
    Abstract: A sample observation device includes: an emission optical system that emits planar light to a sample on an XZ plane; a scanning unit that scans the sample in a Y-axis direction so as to pass through an emission surface of the planar light; an imaging optical system that has an observation axis inclined with respect to the emission surface and forms an image of observation light generated in the sample; an image acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of pieces of XZ image data corresponding to an optical image of the observation light; and an image generation unit that generates XY image data based on the plurality of pieces of XZ image data. The image generation unit extracts an analysis region of the plurality of pieces of XZ image data acquired in the Y-axis direction, integrates brightness values of at least the analysis region in a Z-axis direction to generate X image data, and combines the X image data in the Y-axis direction to generate the XY image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventor: Satoshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20250001070
    Abstract: A device that is indwelled in an in-vivo lumen and releases a substance X to be administered that is accommodated, the device including: the cylindrical main body portion 10 having the inner cavity 11 in which the substance X to be administered can be accommodated and configured to be able to retain a shape of the inner cavity 11 against an external force; and an ejection portion 40 that is slidable in a liquid-tight manner in the inner cavity 11, in which at least a part of the main body portion 10 is composed of the deformable member that is deformable along a shape of the in-vivo lumen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki YOSHIKAWA, Suguru HATA, Satoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12174537
    Abstract: Disclosed is a salt represented by formula (I): wherein, in formula (I), Q1 and Q2 each independently represent a fluorine atom or the like, R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or the like, zi represents an integer of 0 to 6, and when zi is 2 or more, a plurality of R1 and R2 may be the same or different from each other, X1 represents *—CO—O—, *—O—CO— or the like (* represents a bonding site to C(R1)(R2) or C(Q1)(Q2)), L1 represents a single bond or a divalent saturated hydrocarbon group having 1 to 28 carbon atoms or the like, R3 and R4 each independently represent a cyclic hydrocarbon group having 3 to 18 carbon atoms which may have a substituent or the like, and Z+ represents an organic cation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuro Masuyama, Satoshi Yamamoto, Koji Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20240374135
    Abstract: A slit lamp microscope of an aspect example includes an illumination system, first photographing system, fixation system, movement mechanism, and controller. The illumination system projects slit light onto an anterior segment of a subject's eye from a first direction. The first photographing system photographs the anterior segment onto which the slit light is being projected, from a second direction different from the first direction. The fixation system outputs fixation light for fixation of the subject's eye. The movement mechanism moves the illumination system and the first photographing system, the controller performs a first control for the movement mechanism to move at least the illumination system and a second control for the first photographing system to photograph the anterior segment a plurality of times in parallel with each other while causing the fixation system to output the fixation light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro OHMORI, Yasufumi FUKUMA, Satoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240375328
    Abstract: A physical foaming agent introduction filter includes a filter body and a plurality of fine holes provided in the filter body. Each of the fine holes includes a resin-contact-side hole that opens toward one surface side of the filter body and that is adapted to be in contact with molten resin, and a physical foaming agent introduction hole that opens toward the other surface side of the filter body and that communicates with the resin-contact-side hole to allow a physical foaming agent to be introduced into the physical foaming agent introduction hole. The resin-contact-side hole has a diameter that is equal to or smaller than a diameter of the physical foaming agent introduction hole, and that is 10 to 80 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Yasuo YAMAGUCHI, Hideto GOTO, Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Atsushi YUSA
  • Patent number: 12140742
    Abstract: A light irradiation device includes: a light source configured to output light having coherence; a light focusing element having a focusing axis and a non-focusing axis intersecting with the focusing axis and configured to focus the light on a focusing line so as to generate planar light; and an aperture mask having an opening part that limits a part of luminous fluxes of the light transmitted from the light source to the light focusing element. The opening part of the aperture mask has opening edges disposed to extend in a direction along the focusing axis of the light focusing element, and, in a case in which the opening edges are projected onto the focusing line, corresponding projected portions have linear spreads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Masanori Kobayashi, Satoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12140624
    Abstract: The degree of freedom of an abnormality detection target location in a solid-state imaging device in which a plurality of substrates are joined is improved. A semiconductor device includes a connection line and a detection circuit. A plurality of semiconductor substrates are joined in the semiconductor device. Then, in the semiconductor device, the connection line is wired across the plurality of semiconductor substrates. The detection circuit detects the presence or absence of an abnormality in a joint surface of the plurality of semiconductor substrates based on an energization state of the connection line when enable has been set by a predetermined control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Takeuchi, Satoshi Yamamoto, Kyoichi Takenaka, Keita Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20240357919
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element includes a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, where the photoelectric conversion layer has a perovskite structure, a hole-transporting layer, a second electrode, and a film including a compound represented by General Formula (2) disposed between the photoelectric conversion layer and the hole-transporting layer. In General Formula (2), A is a cationic amino compound represented by General Formula (6) or General Formula (7), a cationic pyridinium compound, a cationic imidazolinium compound, or a cationic pyrrolidinium compound. In General Formula (6), R1 is —H, —F, —CF3, or —OCH3, n is 1 or 2, and X is Br or I. In General Formula (7), n is an integer of 5 or greater but 12 or less, and X is Br or I.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Yuuji Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240337354
    Abstract: A hydrogen supply system includes: a hydrogen production device; a hydrogen flow line through which hydrogen produced by the hydrogen production device s circulated; a buffer tank that is provided in the hydrogen flow line on the downstream side of the hydrogen production device; a compressor that is provided in the hydrogen flow line on a downstream side of the buffer tank; a bypass line that bypasses a portion of the hydrogen flow line and has a downstream-side end portion communicating with the hydrogen flow line on the downstream side of the buffer tank; and a storage tank that is provided in the bypass line and is capable of storing the hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Furuichi, Satoshi Yamamoto, So Komada, Tadashi Katsume, Kaori Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240324876
    Abstract: A slit-lamp microscope includes an illumination system that is configured to project a slit light onto a subject eye; a slit portion that is configured to generate the slit light having a width by passing a light from a light source through a slit between a pair of slit blades in the illumination system; and a controller that is configured to control the light source, wherein the controller is configured to turn the light source off when the pair of slit blades is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji YOSHIDA, Satoshi YAMAMOTO