Patents by Inventor Shigeru Yokota
Shigeru Yokota 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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Patent number: 11927599Abstract: Included are: a main body including an installation part in which a cartridge housing a liquid for treating a test substance contained in a specimen is installed and a detector configured to detect the test substance treated with the liquid within the cartridge installed in the installation part; a lid part arranged rotatably on the main body about a shaft so as to open and close the installation part; a biasing part biasing the lid part in an opening direction; and a plurality of regulators each generating resistance against a biasing force in the opening direction at different timing during an opening motion of the lid part.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: JVCKENWOOD Corporation, SYSMEX CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Yamamoto, Shigeru Yokota, Hideki Samata, Tomoyuki Nose, Sayuri Tomoda
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Publication number: 20210231696Abstract: Included are: a main body including an installation part in which a cartridge housing a liquid for treating a test substance contained in a specimen is installed and a detector configured to detect the test substance treated with the liquid within the cartridge installed in the installation part; a lid part arranged rotatably on the main body about a shaft so as to open and close the installation part; a biasing part biasing the lid part in an opening direction; and a plurality of regulators each generating resistance against a biasing force in the opening direction at different timing during an opening motion of the lid part.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Masahiro Yamamoto, Shigeru Yokota, Hideki Samata, Tomoyuki Nose, Sayuri Tomoda
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Patent number: 10539122Abstract: Plasma which is supplied from a supply passage (1) is accelerated with a Hall electric field (E) which is generated through interaction of electrons (e?) emitted from a cathode (3), a radial direction magnetic field (Bd), and an electric field (Ex).Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2014Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITYInventors: Takuya Yamazaki, Hirofumi Shimizu, Akihiro Sasoh, Shigeru Yokota, Shota Harada, Teruaki Baba
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Patent number: 10260487Abstract: Electrodeless plasma is supplied to a space between a cathode and an anode such that a resistivity in the space is reduced. The electrodeless plasma is accelerated with Lorentz force induced by a radial direction magnetic field component and an axial direction magnetic field component that are generated in the space, and current in the space.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITYInventors: Takuya Yamazaki, Hirofumi Shimizu, Satoshi Fujiwara, Akihiro Sasoh, Shigeru Yokota, Shota Harada, Teruaki Baba
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Publication number: 20170198683Abstract: Supplying electrodeless plasma to a space (S) between a cathode (22) and an anode (23), the resistivity in the space is downed. The electrodeless plasma is accelerated with Lorentz force induced by a radial direction magnetic field component (By) and an axial direction magnetic field component (Bx) that are generated in the space (S), and current (Iac) which flows through the space (S).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2014Publication date: July 13, 2017Inventors: Takuya YAMAZAKI, Hirofumi SHIMIZU, Satoshi FUJIWARA, Akihiro SASOH, Shigeru YOKOTA, Shota HARADA, Teruaki BABA
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Publication number: 20170152840Abstract: Plasma which is supplied from a supply passage (1) is accelerated with a Hall electric field (E) which is generated through interaction of electrons (e?) emitted from a cathode (3), a radial direction magnetic field (Bd), and an electric field (Ex).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2014Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicants: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd, National University Corporation Nagoya UniversityInventors: Takuya YAMAZAKI, Hirofumi SHIMIZU, Akihiro SASOH, Shigeru YOKOTA, Shota HARADA, Teruaki BABA
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Patent number: 8723968Abstract: An image pickup apparatus has a camera-shake correction mechanism which performs camera-shake correction by moving an image pickup element with respect to a lens unit. The image pickup apparatus includes a z-plate provided slidably in a z-direction, an actuator for moving the plate in the z-direction, a z-shaft which guides the movement of the z-plate, and a rotating ball sandwiched between a base plate and the z-plate in a rotatable state. In a y-z plan view, an opening portion is provided between the z-shaft and the rotating ball, and the rotating ball is arranged outside the opening portion between one end and the other end of the opening portion in the z-direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: JVC Kenwood CorporationInventors: Shigeru Yokota, Masahiro Yamamoto, Etsuo Shima, Yuki Wada, Yasufumi Nakaaki
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Patent number: 8373939Abstract: A linear motion device includes a guide shaft. A to-be-moved member is supported on the guide shaft, and is linearly movable along the guide shaft. A lead screw extends parallel to the guide shaft. A clamper meshes with the lead screw. The clamper moves as the lead screw rotates. An intermediate member is provided between the to-be-moved member and the clamper. An urging member operates for urging the to-be-moved member toward the clamper and enabling the intermediate member to be seated between the to-be-moved member and the clamper in a manner such that an axis of the intermediate member is nonparallel to the guide shaft.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2010Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Yonemitsu, Shigeru Yokota, Hideki Samata, Noboru Uchida, Masahiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8021061Abstract: A lens barrier device 10 includes a pair of lens barrier members 12, 12 having a pair of toggle-lever engagement bosses 12e, 12e, a ring 14 having a pair of recesses 14d, 14d formed on its outer circumferential part, a pair of toggle levers 15, 15 having a pair of triangular cam part 15d, 15d and a base frame 17 supporting the toggle levers 15, 15, and a pair of torsion springs 16, 16 engaged with the toggle levers 15, 15 and the base frame 17. In assembling, the toggle-lever engagement bosses 12e, 12e are freely fitted into the recesses 14d, 14d, respectively. With forward-reverse rotating of the ring 14, by allowing the toggle-lever engagement bosses 12e, 12e to slide along the triangular cam part 15d, 15d while pressing the bosses 12e, 12e through respective ends of the recesses 14d, 14d, the pair of lens barrier members 12, 12 are held in their closed or opened condition by the toggle levers 15, 15 and the torsion springs 16, 16.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, LimitedInventors: Noboru Uchida, Shigeru Yokota, Masahiro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20110052182Abstract: A lens barrier device 10 includes a pair of lens bather members 12, 12 having a pair of toggle-lever engagement bosses 12e, 12e, a ring 14 having a pair of recesses 14d, 14d formed on its outer circumferential part, a pair of toggle levers 15, 15 having a pair of triangular cam part 15d, 15d and a base frame 17 supporting the toggle levers 15, 15, and a pair of torsion springs 16, 16 engaged with the toggle levers 15, 15 and the base frame 17. In assembling, the toggle-lever engagement bosses 12e, 12e are freely fitted into the recesses 14d, 14d, respectively. With forward-reverse rotating of the ring 14, by allowing the toggle-lever engagement bosses 12e, 12e to slide along the triangular cam part 15d, 15d while pressing the bosses 12e, 12e through respective ends of the recesses 14d, 14d, the pair of lens bather members 12, 12 are held in their closed or opened condition by the toggle levers 15, 15 and the torsion springs 16, 16.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LIMITEDInventors: Noboru UCHIDA, Shigeru YOKOTA, Masahiro YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20110026147Abstract: A linear motion device includes a guide shaft. A to-be-moved member is supported on the guide shaft, and is linearly movable along the guide shaft. A lead screw extends parallel to the guide shaft. A clamper meshes with the lead screw. The clamper moves as the lead screw rotates. An intermediate member is provided between the to-be-moved member and the clamper. An urging member operates for urging the to-be-moved member toward the clamper and enabling the intermediate member to be seated between the to-be-moved member and the clamper in a manner such that an axis of the intermediate member is nonparallel to the guide shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Yonemitsu, Shigeru Yokota, Hideki Samata, Noboru Uchida, Masahiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7172439Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to fix connector pins at low cost. Connector pins penetrate both a holding substrate and a main substrate. The connecter pins can be restrained from an outward radial direction by both wall surfaces of pin holes of the holding substrate, and wall surfaces of through-holes of the main substrate, thus improving upright-standability of the connector pins. The holding substrate is formed of a same raw substrate as the main substrate is formed of, and permanent resists which are laminated on the holding substrate, and ink used for silk screen printing to which the holding substrate is subjected, are made of a same material of the main substrate, so that fire resistance of the holding substrate and fire resistance of the main substrate are same. Therefore, if the main substrate clears a predetermined fire-resistance standard, the holding substrate also inevitably clears the predetermined fire-resistance standard.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2006Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Yokobatake, Hiroyuki Arai, Yuzen Chin, Shigeru Yokota, Yoshikazu Kawai
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Patent number: 7085477Abstract: A ROM 51 stores a plurality of volume set values and a plurality of level change rates corresponding to each other and an IC 5 accepts a volume set value specified by a user when carrying out volume setting. Moreover, it is decided whether a reproducing object is a CD or a DVD depending on a decision signal output from a loader section 1. A level change rate corresponding to the volume set value is output to an IC 2 if the reproducing object is the DVD, and the level change rate corresponding to the volume set value is adjusted at a predetermined adjusting rate and the level change rate thus adjusted is output to the IC 2 if the reproducing object is the CD. The IC 2 changes the level of an analog signal indicative of a voice input from the loader section 1 at the level change rate and outputs the signal to an amplifying circuit 3.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2001Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruhiko Fujii, Kazuyoshi Kuwabata, Shigeru Yokota, Satoshi Shimoda
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Patent number: 6839090Abstract: A video reproduction apparatus includes a video player 3 which reproduces a video signal, a V-chip signal for restricting a display of a specific image being added to the video signal; a video processing circuit 5 which processes the video signal from the video player 3; a CRT 7 which displays the video signal that is processed by the video processing circuit 5; a control section 10 which reads out the V-chip signal and judges whether a screen is to be blocked or not; and a memory 11 which stores a result of the judgment. When a mode is transferred to a special play mode, a judgment result which immediately precedes the mode transfer is read out from the memory 11. If the judgment result is that the blocking is to be blocked, the screen of the CRT 7 is set to a blocked state.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2000Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shigeru Yokota
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Publication number: 20020051093Abstract: A ROM 51 stores a plurality of volume set values and a plurality of level change rates corresponding to each other and an IC 5 accepts a volume set value specified by a user when carrying out volume setting. Moreover, it is decided whether a reproducing object is a CD or a DVD depending on a decision signal output from a loader section 1. A level change rate corresponding to the volume set value is output to an IC 2 if the reproducing object is the DVD, and the level change rate corresponding to the volume set value is adjusted at a predetermined adjusting rate and the level change rate thus adjusted is output to the IC 2 if the reproducing object is the CD. The IC 2 changes the level of an analog signal indicative of a voice input from the loader section 1 at the level change rate and outputs the signal to an amplifying circuit 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2001Publication date: May 2, 2002Inventors: Haruhiko Fujii, Kazuyoshi Kuwabata, Shigeru Yokota, Satoshi Shimoda
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Patent number: 5357385Abstract: A cassette loading device for a cassette recording/reproducing apparatus includes a cassette tray reciprocably movable between a first position in which the cassette tray is retracted into a body of the recording/reproducing apparatus for loading a cassette in a predetermined position, and a second position in which the cassette tray is ejected forwardly from the front panel of the body for attachment and detachment of the cassette relative to the cassette tray, a holder disposed in the cassette tray for holding the cassette, and a mechanism responsive to the movement of the cassette tray toward the second position for causing the holder to tilt its forward end upwardly.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1992Date of Patent: October 18, 1994Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Shigeru Yokota, Mitsuhiko Hara
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Patent number: 5258541Abstract: A carbonic acid ester is produced by reacting an alcohol with carbon monoxide and oxygen in the presence of a catalyst comprising a cupric salt of a weak acid and/or a cupric halide and an alkaline earth metal salt of a weak acid and/or an alkaline earth metal halide.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1992Date of Patent: November 2, 1993Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Yokota, Yasutaka Tanaka, Hiroto Miyake
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Patent number: 5089650Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for producing a carbonic acid ester by reacting alcohol, carbon monoxide, and oxygen with one another in the presence of a copper compound alone or together with a platinum group metal compound and a reaction accelerator, characterized in that (I) the reaction is carried out in a nitrile compound or amide compound as a solvent, (II) the reaction is carried out in the presence of a reaction accelerator which consists of a quaternary phosphonium halide and a quaternary phosphonium weak acid salt or quaternary phosphonium alkoxide, and/or (III) the reaction is carried out in the presence of a quinoid compound or a compound that changes into a quinoid compound under the reaction conditions.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1987Date of Patent: February 18, 1992Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Yokota, Hiroshi Koyama, Hidetaka Kojima
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Patent number: 4286819Abstract: A rear seat apparatus for cars which have a sitting space and a luggage space, the spaces communicating with each other but being normally substantially sectioned by a foldable rear seat back. In order to attain a comfortable position of the rear seat for occupants thereof, while also attaining variable capacity of the luggage space, a reclining device and an operating mechanism therefor is provided on the rear seat back. The operating mechanism is provided in the upper middle part of the back surface of the rear seat back for maximum operating convenience.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1978Date of Patent: September 1, 1981Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Haruo Inoue, Shigeru Yokota, Yoshiharu Saito