Patents by Inventor Shinichi Yamamoto

Shinichi 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).

  • Publication number: 20250051571
    Abstract: Provided is a curable silicone composition that has excellent curing properties and flow properties when heated and melted, and that enables fine filling, as well as excellent storage stability and thick molding properties, and that forms a hard cured product with low surface tack when cured. A curable silicone composition having hot-melt properties as a whole, comprises: (A) a solid organopolysiloxane resin that contains (A1) an organopolysiloxane resin having a curing reactive functional group and containing 20 mol % or more of a Q unit, and (A2) an organopolysiloxane resin not having a curing reactive functional group and containing 20 mol % or more of a Q unit; (B) 10 to 100 parts by mass of a straight-chain or branched organopolysiloxane having a curing reactive functional group; (C) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane; and (D) particles containing a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst using a thermoplastic resin with a Tg in a range of 110 to 200° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Ryosuke YAMAZAKI, Shinichi YAMAMOTO, Kouichi OZAKI, Toru IMAIZUMI
  • Patent number: 12225283
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data; an output interface that outputs information to a user; and a controller that controls the output interface, based on recording data and the image data generated by the image sensor, the recording data recording information on a first moving image, wherein the controller causes the output interface to output shooting assist information during shooting of a second moving image with the image sensor, the shooting assist information assisting the user to match the second moving image with the first moving image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Yamasaki, Shinichi Yamamoto, Kyosuke Osuka, Yuichi Suzuki, Akira Seto
  • Publication number: 20250043561
    Abstract: A siphon jet flush toilet comprises: a bowl; a rim spout port suppling flush water to the bowl; a discharge trap conduit; a jet spout port spouting flush water toward an inlet of the discharge trap conduit; a reservoir tank including a jet spouting discharge valve and storing flush water; a jet water conduit configured to guide the flush water in the reservoir tank to the jet spout port; and a controller being configured to control a rim spouting in which the flush water is spouted from the rim spout port and a jet spouting in which the flush water is spouted from the jet spout port, wherein the jet spouting discharge valve includes a valve body, the valve body being arranged at a position that is lower than an upper surface of the bowl and higher than a seal water level, and before opening the jet spouting discharge valve, the flush water is supplied to the jet water conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Koichiro MATSUMURA, Takumi TSUCHITANI, Kenichi NAKAMURA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Chisato SONE, Shinichi URATA, Daisuke YAMAMOTO, Koichi MOTOOKA, Kenji HATAMA
  • Publication number: 20250047981
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus comprising: a body to and from which an optical system is configured to be attachable and detachable; an imaging sensor configured to capture a subject image via the optical system to generate image data; an input interface configured to acquire a zoom amount indicating a degree of a zoom operation by a user for the optical system; and a controller configured to scale a cropped image from the image data so as to implement a hybrid zoom operation which changes, from a first focal length, a second focal length, according to the zoom amount acquired by the input interface, the first focal length being formed by the optical system and the second focal length corresponding to an angle of view of the subject image in the image data. The controller is configured to maintain a characteristic of the second focal length with respect to the zoom amount before and after the optical system is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuya NAKANISHI, Takaaki YAMASAKI, Kenta MIZUKOSHI, Shinichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250043559
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes a reservoir tank, a bowl, a rim spout port, a discharge trap conduit, a jet spout port configured to spout flush water toward an inlet of the discharge trap conduit, a jet water conduit configured to supply the flush water from the reservoir tank to the jet spout port, and a discharge device configured to supply or stop supplying the flush water to the jet water conduit, wherein the flush water is spouted at a first flow rate from the jet spout port when the discharge device is driven and the flush water in the reservoir tank flows into the jet water conduit and, after spouting of the first flow rate ends, the flush water is spouted at a second flow rate from the jet spout port due to the flush water retained in the jet water conduit flowing toward the jet spout port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Kenichi NAKAMURA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Shinichi URATA, Takumi TSUCHITANI, Chisato SONE, Jing CHEN, Wataru ISHIMI, Naoki ABE, Daisuke YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250024157
    Abstract: An imaging device of the present disclosure includes: a communication unit that connects via a communication network to a provision server that provides a trained model used for image capturing; a connection unit that connects to a storage and outputs data to the storage; and a controller. The storage stores the trained model. The controller transmits photographing-related information obtained in association with image capturing to the provision server via the communication unit at a predetermined timing; and the controller stores, in the storage, a new trained model transmitted from the provision server in response to the photographing-related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junpei MATSUDA, Shinichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240430581
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image by receiving incident light to generate image data; an adjuster that adjusts a light reception rate in each position on an incident surface entered by the light and corresponding to an image indicated by the image data, the light reception rate allowing the image sensor to receive the light; a detector that detects a skin region corresponding to a part with skin of a subject indicated by the subject image in the image; and a controller that controls the adjuster to render the light reception rate in a position corresponding to a part of the image on the incident surface different from the light reception rate in another position thereon, wherein the controller compensates exposure of a part corresponding to the skin region detected by the detector to bring luminance in the skin region within a predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki YAMASAKI, Shinichi YAMAMOTO, Motonori OGURA
  • Publication number: 20240405440
    Abstract: A reflector antenna device includes: a primary radiator to radiate a radio wave; a primary reflector including a dielectric plate of a flat plate shape, and resonance elements that are aligned on a reflection surface of the dielectric plate, and each adjust a phase of a reflected wave of the incident radio wave; and a secondary reflector including a reflection surface on which the radio wave radiated from the primary radiator is incident and that reflects the incident radio wave toward the primary reflector, the reflection surface making a route length from the primary radiator to the reflection surface of the primary reflector of a radio wave of a high frequency radiated from the primary radiator longer than a route length from the primary radiator to the reflection surface of the primary reflector of a radio wave of a low frequency radiated from the primary radiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa NAKAJIMA, Shinichi YAMAMOTO, Yasuhiro NISHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20240386636
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus system includes: one or more image sensors; an interface device for acquiring data; a storage; and one or more signal processing circuits. The one or more image sensors generate video data by capturing images. The interface device acquires at least one of audio data acquired during image capturing and biometric data that is biometric information of a user acquired during the image capturing. The storage records a data set in which at least one of the audio data and the biometric data is correlated with the video data. The one or more signal processing circuits determine an emotion the user felt regarding an event that was occurring at the time of the image capturing, using at least one of the video data, the audio data, and the biometric data, and that execute an image editing process on the video data depending on the determined emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki YAMASAKI, Shinichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240387992
    Abstract: There are provided a primary radiator that adjusts a position of a phase center of a radio wave to be radiated, forward or backward along a radial axis of the radio wave depending on a frequency of the radio wave to be radiated, and radiates a radio wave, a reflector that includes a dielectric plate of a flat plate shape, and a plurality of resonance elements that are aligned on a top surface of the dielectric plate that is a reflection surface for reflecting the radio wave, and that each adjust a phase of a reflected wave of the incident radio wave, and receives incidence of the radio wave radiated from the primary radiator and reflect the incident radio wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru MAKINO, Hiromasa NAKAJIMA, Shinichi YAMAMOTO, Yasuhiro NISHIOKA
  • Patent number: 12106529
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image by receiving incident light, to generate image data; a controller that controls an image shooting operation using the image sensor; a recorder that records the image data as a result of the image shooting operation; and an adjuster that adjusts a light reception rate in each position on an incident surface, the light reception rate allowing the image sensor to receive the light, the incident surface being entered by the light corresponding to an image represented by the image data. The controller controls the adjuster to render the light reception rate in a position corresponding to part of the image on the incident surface different from the light reception rate in another position thereon, and causes the image sensor to capture the image with the light reception rate rendered different by the adjuster in the image shooting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Yamasaki, Shinichi Yamamoto, Wataru Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20240323545
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a controller, and a user interface. The image sensor captures a subject image to generate imaging data. The controller performs repair processing to generate a moving image file from a corrupted file, the moving image file being capable of reproducing a moving image indicated by the imaging data, the corrupted file having a defect as the moving image file. The user interface inputs a user operation related to the repair processing. The controller receives a user operation selecting a specific corrupted file from one or more of corrupted files via the user interface, and performs the repair processing on the selected corrupted file in response to the user operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru OKAMOTO, Akira SETO, Shinichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240265639
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus causes a display to display an image obtained in a virtual space, the display being provided for a user, the virtual space being configured to allow an avatar indicating the user to move. The information processing apparatus includes: an input interface that receives a user operation to set a specific object as a target for predetermined image processing, among objects arranged in the virtual space; and a controller that causes the display to display a processed image obtained by applying the image processing to the specific object in the virtual space, based on the user operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki YAMASAKI, Shinichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240165538
    Abstract: A crystallization device (4) includes a stirring blade (W) including a plurality of radially penetrating holes (h) and rotating about a rotating shaft (3), a reaction tank (1) having a bottomed cylindrical shape and concentrically accommodating the stirring blade (W) inside, a first liquid supply portion (5a) provided on the reaction tank (1) and supplying a first reaction liquid (L1) to the inside of the reaction tank (1), and a second liquid supply portion (5b) provided on the stirring blade (W) and supplying a second reaction liquid (L2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: TSUKISHIMA KIKAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroya TSUZAKI, Shinichi YAMAMOTO, Yuma NAGASAWA, Tatsuya KAMBE
  • Publication number: 20240149636
    Abstract: Provided is a controller configured to provide a restriction on the start or stop of remote air conditioning in response to the fact that a battery of a vehicle is in a predetermined state of deterioration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinichi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11962081
    Abstract: An antenna and a radome that covers the antenna are provided, the radome includes a first part, a second part, and a third part each with a surface which is flush to each other, the first part has a beam transmission characteristic corresponding to a scanning angle of 0 degrees of a beam emitted by the antenna with an emission direction directed toward the first part, the second part has a beam transmission characteristic corresponding to a first scanning angle of a beam emitted by the antenna with an emission direction directed toward the second part, and the third part has a beam transmission characteristic corresponding to a second scanning angle of a beam emitted by the antenna with an emission direction directed toward the third part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Nakajima, Shinichi Yamamoto, Michio Takikawa
  • Patent number: 11957052
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a thermoelectric material are provided. The thermoelectric material includes a sintered body formed of p-type and n-type thermoelectric materials for the thermoelectric conversion element. The thermoelectric materials have a MgAgAs type crystal structure as a main phase. An area ratio of internal defects of the thermoelectric materials for one thermoelectric conversion element is 10% or less in terms of a total area ratio of defective portions in a scanning surface according to ultrasonic flaw detection in a thickness direction of the thermoelectric material. No defect having a length of 800 ?m or more is present at any vertex of chips of the thermoelectric materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Yamamoto, Masami Okamura, Nobuaki Nakashima, Masanori Mizobe
  • Publication number: 20240101068
    Abstract: A controller is provided that is configured to perform: identifying a first user who is a user using a vehicle that is associated with a plurality of users; and transmitting, to a terminal of the first user, information about a parking position of the vehicle when the vehicle is parked, and not transmitting the information about the parking position of the vehicle to a terminal of a second user, who is a user other than the first user among the plurality of users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240104791
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a communication interface that communicates data with an image processing apparatus connected via a communication network, an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data, a controller that transmits the image data to the image processing apparatus via the communication interface, to request image processing for the image processing apparatus on the image data, and a setting interface that acquires setting information on a request for image processing, according to user operation, wherein based on the setting information acquired with the user operation, the controller limits specific image data from the image data generated by the image sensor, to request, for the image processing apparatus, specific image processing thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki YAMASAKI, Shinichi YAMAMOTO, Wataru OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240082909
    Abstract: A metal powder for 3D printer includes a plurality of metal particles. A particle size distribution of the plurality of metal particles has a maximum peak within particle diameters of 1 ?m to 200 ?m. The particle size distribution gives a difference D90?D10 of 10 ?m or more between D90 and D10, D90 denoting a particle diameter in which a cumulative percentage is 90% in volume proportion, and D10 denoting a particle diameter in which a cumulative percentage is 10% in volume proportion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori MIZOBE, Shinichi YAMAMOTO, Tadashi INO, Tooru TANAKA, Hideshi NAKANO