Patents by Inventor Satoshi Yamanaka
Satoshi Yamanaka 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).
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Publication number: 20150274172Abstract: A vehicle control system configured to carry out an energy saving control is provided. The vehicle control system is applied to a vehicle having an engine, a torque converter, a transmission and a clutch device selectively connecting a turbine runner to the transmission. The vehicle control system executes the energy saving control by controlling both an operating condition of the engine and an engagement condition of the clutch device or only the engagement condition of the clutch device. The vehicle control system comprises a clutch control means configured to increase the torque transmitting capacity of the clutch device using an increasing amount of a speed of the turbine runner as a target value, when bringing the clutch device into engagement being in disengagement during execution of the energy saving control.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2012Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Satoshi Yamanaka, Takahiro Yokokawa, Yoshio Ito
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Publication number: 20150261981Abstract: A magnetic sensor device includes magnetic detection elements arrayed along a line intersecting the relative movement direction of a medium, and a magnet applying a bias magnetic field to the magnetic detection elements with a line of magnetic force in the constant direction. The magnetic sensor device detects a magnetic field change when a medium with a magnetic pattern passes through the bias magnetic field as an electric signal through the magnetic detection elements and reads the magnetic pattern of the medium. A plurality of reading switches is connected to the respective magnetic detection elements and an output line common to the magnetic detection elements. The magnetic sensor device includes a shift register closing the reading switches sequentially one by one to transfer the outputs from the magnetic detection elements sequentially one by one to the output line.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2013Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomokazu Ogomi, Hironobu Arimoto, Satoshi Yamanaka, Kazuya Makabe
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Patent number: 9105416Abstract: A rotor on which a moving contact is attached is received and rotatably held in a body, and a knob is received and held in the body side by side with the rotor and is movable. A plurality of first and second teeth are circumferentially staggered with each other on an outer perimeter surface of the rotor near one end and near the other end, respectively, in the direction of the axis of the rotor to project from the surface. An inclined surface is formed in each of the first and second teeth. A projecting part is formed on the knob to project toward the rotor. In response to a depression of the knob, the projecting part pushes the inclined surface of the second teeth to rotate the rotor and, in response to a return of the knob, pushes the inclined surface of the first teeth to rotate the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2014Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: HOSIDEN CORPORATIONInventor: Satoshi Yamanaka
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Patent number: 9020303Abstract: An interpolation computation unit (3B) treats, as positions of interest, positions where pixels within a high-resolution image (D30) occupy when the high-resolution image (D30) is superimposed on a low-resolution image (D01), and for each position of interest, obtains a pixel value for a pixel assumed to exist at the position of interest by performing an interpolation computation using pixel values of a plurality of pixels within the low-resolution image (D01). An interpolation coefficient calculation unit (3A) obtains interpolation coefficients (D3A) having values that increase with increasing strength of correlation of the pixels in the plurality of pixels in the low-resolution image with the pixel of interest, and outputs the interpolation coefficients to the interpolation computation unit (3B). Angles of edges and shapes of edges are not classified into any predetermined patterns; therefore, it is possible to perform suitable interpolation computations regardless of edge shape.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2011Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shotaro Moriya, Satoshi Yamanaka
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Patent number: 8965654Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an engine and a clutch configured to connect and disconnect a power transmission path between the engine and a drive wheel according to a supplied hydraulic pressure. The vehicle control device is configured to carry out neutral control that controls the hydraulic pressure supplied to the clutch to an N control study value for placing the clutch in a semi-engaged state while a vehicle stops and inertia control (free-run control, deceleration eco-run control, and N inertia control) that carries out an inertia travelling by releasing the clutch while the vehicle travels. At the time that the inertia control is executed, the vehicle control device controls the hydraulic pressure supplied to the clutch to the same value as the N control study value.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2012Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Yamanaka, Yoshio Ito, Takahiro Yokokawa
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Patent number: 8952283Abstract: The slide switch includes a body, a slider, a terminal, and an armature. The slider is slidably held in the body and is pushed by insertion of the object to slidingly move. The terminal is provided with a fixed contact point disposed on a surface, facing the slider, of the body along a sliding movement direction. The armature is attached to the slider and is provided with a moving contact point that slides on a fixed contact point disposition surface of the body in association with sliding movement of the slider. The slider is provided with an engagement part to receive an action of a moving part that moves in the sliding movement direction in association with extraction and insertion of the object, and the engagement part is in shape of generating a free running distance in which the slider does not act even when the moving part acts.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2013Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Hosiden CorporationInventors: Satoshi Yamanaka, Kenjiro Desaki, Hirofumi Koizumi
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Patent number: 8952279Abstract: A slide switch is provided that is more excellent in reliability than conventional techniques. A slide switch senses an extracted state and an inserted and engaged state of an object. The slide switch includes a body, a slider, a terminal, and an armature. The slider is slidably held in the body and is pushed by insertion of the object to slidingly move. The terminal is provided with a fixed contact point disposed on a surface, facing the slider, of the body along a sliding movement direction. The armature is attached to the slider and is provided with a moving contact point that slides on a fixed contact point disposition surface of the body in association with sliding movement of the slider. In the entire range of the sliding movement, the body and the slider cover all around the fixed contact point and the armature.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2013Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Hosiden CorporationInventors: Satoshi Yamanaka, Kenjiro Desaki, Hirofumi Koizumi
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Patent number: 8921723Abstract: A slider is slidably held in a body and is pushed by insertion of an object to slidingly move. Terminals are provided with fixed contact points disposed on a surface, facing the slider, of the body along a sliding movement direction. The armature is attached to the slider and is provided with moving contact points that slide on a fixed contact point disposition surface of the body in association with sliding movement of the slider. The slider has an armature mounting surface with a side wall protrudingly formed in one end in the sliding movement direction. The body has a facing surface facing an end surface of the side wall in an entire range of sliding movement. At least any one of an end in the sliding movement direction of the end surface of the side wall and an end in the sliding movement direction of the facing surfaces of the body has a foreign substance elimination groove formed therein.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2013Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Hosiden CorporationInventors: Satoshi Yamanaka, Kenjiro Desaki, Hirofumi Koizumi
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Patent number: 8875980Abstract: In a friction stir welding apparatus, workpiece fixing surface plates (3a, 3b) are installed on a framework (1). In addition, a welding apparatus main body (8) including a bobbin tool (5) having a probe (5a) protruding upward from a gap (4), a spindle (6) configured to attach the bobbin tool (5) to an upper end section thereof, and a spindle driving apparatus (7) configured to pivot the spindle (6) is movably installed at the framework (1) in a longitudinal direction of the gap (4) via linear guide mechanisms (9) installed at both sides of the welding apparatus main body (8). Further, a moving apparatus (10) is installed to move the welding apparatus main body (8) in the longitudinal direction of the gap (4). According to the friction stir welding apparatus, since the welding apparatus main body (8) is supported by the framework (1) via both of the linear guide mechanisms (9), a large welding reaction force can be sufficiently received.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Saito, Naoki Oiwa, Rie Sakamoto, Tadafumi Kanayama, Satoshi Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20140278000Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: an engine; a power transmission device that transmits power from the engine to drive wheels; a mechanical pump that supplies oil for operating the power transmission device to the power transmission device by driving of the engine; and an electric pump that supplies the oil to the power transmission device by driving of a motor. The vehicle control system is capable of executing stopped economy running control for stopping the engine when a vehicle is stopped, and travel economy running control for stopping the engine while the vehicle is traveling. During the execution of the stopped economy running control, learning control is executed whereby a control value for controlling the oil pressure is updated such that the actual oil pressure generated by the electric pump is converged to a target value. During the execution of the travel economy running control the learning control is prohibited.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2011Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Yamanaka, Yoshio Ito
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Patent number: 8807616Abstract: A robot hand includes a mounting surface to which a work unit is mounted with some freedom of horizontal movement. A pair of anti-fall hooks is formed at a tip portion of the mounting surface to support a front edge portion of the work unit so as to prevent the work unit from falling off the mounting surface. A pair of support section is provided at a rear edge portion of the mounting surface to support a rear edge portion of the work unit. If, during placement of the work unit into a cassette, the work unit collides with the cassette, the work unit comes into contact with one of the support sections, and the work unit is rotated on the mounting surface about the contact point as a fulcrum so as to correct the misalignment of the work unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Disco CorporationInventor: Satoshi Yamanaka
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Patent number: 8805113Abstract: An image processing device includes an edge-enhancing image enlarger that converts an input image to a high-resolution image with edge enhancement. A difference calculator determines differences between the high-resolution image and the input image. A high-resolution image corrector corrects the high-resolution image by diffusing the differences to pixels of the high-resolution image, thereby generating a corrected image in which edges are enhanced without image degradation in textured areas.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shotaro Moriya, Satoshi Yamanaka, Hideki Yoshii, Hidetsugu Suginohara
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Patent number: 8786541Abstract: A light emission control device includes a partial region feature quantity detector, an enlarged region feature quantity detector, a whole screen feature quantity detector, and a light emission controller. The partial region feature quantity detector detects a feature quantity of the image as a partial region feature quantity. The enlarged region feature quantity detector defines the partial region of interest and the partial regions neighboring the partial region of interest, and detects a feature quantity of the image of the enlarged region. The whole screen feature quantity detector detects this feature quantity as a whole screen feature quantity. On the basis of the partial region feature quantity and the enlarged region feature quantity pertaining to the partial region of interest, and the whole screen feature quantity, the light emission controller controls the light emission luminance of the light emission unit corresponding to the partial region of interest.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2011Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akinori Heishi, Satoshi Yamanaka, Hideki Yoshii
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Publication number: 20140190812Abstract: A rotor on which a moving contact is attached is received and rotatably held in a body, and a knob is received and held in the body side by side with the rotor and is movable. A plurality of first and second teeth are circumferentially staggered with each other on an outer perimeter surface of the rotor near one end and near the other end, respectively, in the direction of the axis of the rotor to project from the surface. An inclined surface is formed in each of the first and second teeth. A projecting part is formed on the knob to project toward the rotor. In response to a depression of the knob, the projecting part pushes the inclined surface of the second teeth to rotate the rotor and, in response to a return of the knob, pushes the inclined surface of the first teeth to rotate the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: HOSIDEN CORPORATIONInventor: Satoshi YAMANAKA
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Publication number: 20140172257Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an engine and a clutch configured to connect and disconnect a power transmission path between the engine and a drive wheel according to a supplied hydraulic pressure. The vehicle control device is configured to carry out neutral control that controls the hydraulic pressure supplied to the clutch to an N control study value for placing the clutch in a semi-engaged state while a vehicle stops and inertia control (free-run control, deceleration eco-run control, and N inertia control) that carries out an inertia travelling by releasing the clutch while the vehicle travels. At the time that the inertia control is executed, the vehicle control device controls the hydraulic pressure supplied to the clutch to the same value as the N control study value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Yamanaka, Yoshio Ito, Takahiro Yokokawa
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Patent number: 8714561Abstract: To improve durability of a seal lip (4) of an oil seal (1) in slidably contact with the peripheral surface of a shaft (23), a lubricating oil supply section (11) for collecting adhered oil and dropping it on the shaft (23) is provided at a forward end portion of an installation section (2), the lubricating oil supply section (11) has projections (12) formed on the inner peripheral surface of the installation section (2) to collect oil on the surface thereof, the surface of each projection (12) has a recess (13) for temporarily accumulating oil, guidance projections, or a slope for collecting the oil, and dams are formed on a forward end face (2a) of the installation section (2) to block the oil flowing down along the circumferential direction on the forward end face (2a) and guides the oil toward each projection (12).Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Nok CorporationInventors: Satoshi Yamanaka, Takehiro Nakagawa, Masayuki Tanida, Hideharu Hyakutake, Hiroki Matsui, Hideyuki Furuyama, Go Kanzaki, Shinya Takeda, Kei Sasaki, Akira Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8675998Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing images, and an image display apparatus are provided that can produce favorable images even when digitized image are partially magnified (enlarged) or reduced (shrunk). The apparatus for expanding or reducing input image data supplied thereto, for each area of the image data, comprises a high frequency (HF) component smoothing processor that generates smoothed-HF-component image data by smoothing HF components of the input image data; a partial magnification/reduction controller that generates partial magnification/reduction control information that designates positions of pixels in image data obtained after expanding or reducing the input image data for each image area; and a pixel data generator that generates pixel data of pixel positions designated by the partial magnification/reduction control information in the smoothed-HF-component image data, by using pixel data in a neighborhood of the designated pixel positions.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Noritaka Okuda, Shotaro Moriya, Toshiaki Kubo, Satoshi Yamanaka
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Patent number: 8657648Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a turn table rotatably provided and having an opening; at least five chuck tables provided on the turn table, each chuck table having a holding surface for holding a workpiece; a support bed inserted through the opening of the turn table; four processing unit supporting mechanisms each including a first support column provided on the outside of the turn table, a second support column provided on the support bed, and a support member mounted to the first and second support columns; four processing units respectively supported by the four processing unit supporting mechanisms, the four processing units respectively corresponding to four of the at least five chuck tables; and four feeding units for respectively moving the four processing units in a direction perpendicular to the holding surfaces of the chuck tables.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Disco CorporationInventors: Satoshi Yamanaka, Toshiyasu Rikiishi, Nobuyuki Takada
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Patent number: 8648859Abstract: An intermediate image generating means (1) generates a horizontal intermediate image (D1h) and a vertical intermediate image (D1v) by extracting components of an input image (DIN) in a particular frequency band; an intermediate image processing means (2) generates a horizontal image (D2Bh) and a vertical image (D2Bv) by performing non-linear processing (2A) and high-frequency component generation (2B); an intermediate image (D2) is obtained by combining these horizontal and vertical images by performing weighted addition for each pixel and is added (3) to the input image (DIN) to obtain an enhanced output image (DOUT). Even if the input image includes a fold-over component on the high-frequency side or does not include an adequate high-frequency component, adequate image enhancement processing can be carried out.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2009Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka Toyoda, Shotaro Moriya, Noritaka Okuda, Satoshi Yamanaka, Koji Minami, Hiroaki Sugiura
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Patent number: D720704Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Hosiden CorporationInventor: Satoshi Yamanaka