Patents by Inventor Tadashi Yamada

Tadashi Yamada 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: 20080011530
    Abstract: When a determination result of a limitation determining section during a driving of a forklift is positive, a control section limits a vehicle speed and adjusts an engine speed. If a limitation canceling condition is met while the vehicle speed is limited, a control section cancels a vehicle speed limitation state, and executes a loading priority control in which an actuation of a loading device is prioritized. Thus, when a loading device is actuated during driving with a speed limit, the stability of the forklift is ensured while improving the workability of the loading operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventors: Hidenori Oka, Tadashi Yamada, Toshikazu Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20070206031
    Abstract: A data-line drive circuit controls a current value of a control signal in every cycle T1 based on upper 8-bit digital data DAB of digital data In, and performs pulse-width control in a cycle T2 based on lower 2-bit digital data SUB of the digital data In for the portion which is D/A-converted based on the same digital data of the control signal. It is thus possible to provide an electronic circuit suitable to inhibit a variation in the luminance so as to control the luminance levels of pixels with high precision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20070206032
    Abstract: A data-line drive circuit controls a current value of a control signal in every cycle T1 based on upper 8-bit digital data DAB of digital data In, and performs pulse-width control in a cycle T2 based on lower 2-bit digital data SUB of the digital data In for the portion which is D/A-converted based on the same digital data of the control signal. It is thus possible to provide an electronic circuit suitable to inhibit a variation in the luminance so as to control the luminance levels of pixels with high precision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadashi Yamada
  • Patent number: 7253813
    Abstract: An electrooptical apparatus includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, and electrooptical devices, each being placed at an intersection of each of the scanning lines and each of the signal lines. The electrooptical apparatus is driven according to the amount of drive current supplied to the electrooptical devices. The electrooptical apparatus includes a brightness detection unit to detect the brightness of the electrooptical devices, and a drive current amount adjusting unit to adjust the amount of drive current based on the detected brightness result obtained by the brightness detection unit in order to correct for the brightness of the electrooptical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Yamada
  • Patent number: 7245276
    Abstract: A data-line drive circuit controls a current value of a control signal in every cycle T1 based on upper 8-bit digital data DAB of digital data In, and performs pulse-width control in a cycle T2 based on lower 2-bit digital data SUB of the digital data In for the portion which is D/A-converted based on the same digital data of the control signal. It is thus possible to provide an electronic circuit suitable to inhibit a variation in the luminance so as to control the luminance levels of pixels with high precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20070091032
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a display method and a display device capable of performing an appropriate light emission control without providing an external sensor. [Solving Means] A panel drive current value K corresponding to a panel drive current In that is a sum of drive currents flowing into pixels 8R, 8G, and 8B is detected, and the panel drive current value K and a set current value Is that has been previously set are compared with each other. Then, when the panel drive current value K is equal to or higher than the set current value Is in a standard luminance display mode, the standard luminance display mode is switched to a high luminance display mode. On the other hand, when the panel drive current value K is lower than the set current value Is, the high luminance display mode is switched to the standard luminance display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20070084450
    Abstract: A load determining section of a drive control apparatus for forklift determines a load state related to a loading attachment. In a case where a connection determining section determines switching to a connection state, if the load state determined by the load determining section requires that driving of a vehicle body be limited, a disconnection control section forcibly disconnects a transmission of a driving force to a drive wheel. Thus, the forklift is prevented from being started in a state that is likely to make the driving of the forklift unstable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventors: Hidenori Oka, Tadashi Yamada, Toshikazu Kamiya, Masayuki Takahashi, Kimihide Hasegawa, Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070080025
    Abstract: A drive control apparatus for a forklift. Based on the load state, it is determined whether to limit a maximum vehicle speed and an acceleration/deceleration during traveling of the forklift. Limitation contents regarding the maximum vehicle speed and the acceleration/deceleration is determined based on a determination result of whether to put the limitations. A speed of the engine is adjusted based on the determined limitation contents, thereby controlling driving of the forklift. When the determined limitation contents are changed, an acceleration/deceleration limitation value is selected from a plurality of acceleration/deceleration limitation values according to the pattern of the change of the limitation contents, and drive control related to the acceleration/deceleration is executed to limit the acceleration/deceleration of the forklift by using the selected acceleration/deceleration limitation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Inventors: Tadashi Yamada, Hidenori Oka, Toshikazu Kamiya, Kimihide Hasegawa, Michihiro Miura, Masayuki Takahashi, Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7198290
    Abstract: An air bag for steering wheel of the invention is folded and housed in a boss positioned in the vicinity of the center of a ring of a steering wheel gripped by a driver during steering. The air bag includes a driver side wall and a wheel side wall that are substantially equal in outer shape to each other. The wheel side wall includes an opening for supplying an inflation gas therethrough in the center. A periphery of the opening provides an area for attachment of the air bag to the steering wheel. A thickness regulating tether for regulating the separation distance between the driver side and wheel side walls and thus regulating the thickness of the completely inflated air bag is disposed in the vicinity of the opening. An oscillation regulating tether for regulating the separation distance between the driver side and wheel side walls is disposed in the vicinity of the ring of the steering wheel in the completely inflated air bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Yamada, Hitoshi Iida, Naohiko Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 7168735
    Abstract: A head protecting airbag is folded up to be housed at an upper part of a window of a vehicle so as to be deployed and inflated downward from the upper part of the window so as to cover an interior side of the window. In the airbag, a plurality of parallel cells adapted to be deployed and inflated by an inflating gas introduced thereinto are provided in parallel with each other below a gas supply passage portion in which the inflating gas flows along a longitudinal direction. In a cell of the parallel cells so provided which is required to deploy quickly, of front and rear partitioning portions, a partitioning portion situated at an upstream side of the gas flowing in the gas supply passage portion is provided such that an end thereof which extends upward from a lower edge portion is disposed so as to form an inlet port between a distal end of a horizontal portion of a downstream side partitioning portion and itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Kino, Tadashi Yamamoto, Michiyasu Ito, Takanobu Ikeda, Tadashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20060260877
    Abstract: A traveling operation detecting portion detects traveling operation and non-traveling operation selectively. The traveling operation corresponds to operator operation that involves traveling of an industrial vehicle. The non-traveling operation corresponds to operator operation that does not involve the traveling of the industrial vehicle. An upper setting portion selectively sets a first engine speed upper limit and a second engine speed upper limit, which are different from each other, as an upper limit of an acceptable speed range of an engine in correspondence with a detection result of the traveling operation detecting portion. Thus, maximum advantage of the performance of the engine is ensured in correspondence with operation of the industrial vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Ito, Tadashi Yamada, Hidenori Oka, Toshikazu Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20060262048
    Abstract: A display method is performed by a display panel having a display area where a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix so as to correspond to intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines. The display method includes: driving light emitting elements of the pixels on the basis of image data; switching a plurality of different images to display the images on the display area such that portions of the images overlap each other; and putting a black display portion in a portion of the image after the switching which overlaps the image before the switching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20060254847
    Abstract: In an industrial vehicle, a controller controls an energizing state of an electromagnetic control valve. The controller is electrically connected to a driver detection switch and a position detection switch. The controller breaks energization of the electromagnetic control valve if the driver detection switch detects that a driver of the vehicle is not seated. The controller energizes or reenergizes the electromagnetic control valve if the driver detection switch detects that the driver is seated and the position detection switch detects that the manipulation position of the direction indication member is a neutral position and then a forward or backward position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventors: Michihiro Miura, Kazutoshi Yamada, Tadashi Yamada
  • Patent number: 7123221
    Abstract: An electro-optical apparatus is provided that has a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, and electro-optical devices that are each being placed at an intersection of each of the scanning lines and each of the signal lines. The electro-optical apparatus is driven according to the amount of drive current supplied to the electro-optical devices. The electro-optical apparatus includes a lighting time measuring unit to measure a lighting time of the electro-optical devices, a lighting time storage unit to store the lighting time obtained by the lighting time measuring unit, and a drive current amount adjusting unit to adjust the amount of drive current based on the lighting time stored in the lighting time storage unit so as to correct the brightness of the electro-optical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20060202630
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel that has a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix so as to correspond to intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines and a plurality of light-emitting elements provided in each of the plurality of pixels. The display device drives the display panel on the basis of image data. The display device further includes a temperature detecting unit that detects the temperature of the display panel; and a display aspect changing unit that changes a display aspect of the display panel so as to decrease the luminance of each of light-emitting elements, among the plurality of light-emitting elements provided in each of the plurality of pixels, which have high temperature dependency of characteristic deterioration, when the temperature of the display panel detected by the temperature detecting unit becomes larger than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20060202617
    Abstract: A display panel includes a light-emitting-element substrate in which a plurality of pixels each having a light-emitting element are arranged in a matrix shape, and a sealing substrate that is bonded to the light-emitting-element substrate so as to airtightly seal the entire light-emitting elements of the plurality of pixels. In the sealing substrate, a concave portion that houses the light-emitting elements of the plurality of pixels therein is formed. On an inner surface of the sealing substrate facing the light-emitting elements, a reinforcing member that protrudes to maintain a gap between the sealing substrate and the light-emitting elements is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20060192496
    Abstract: A display panel includes a light-emitting element substrate provided with a plurality of pixels that are arranged in a matrix corresponding to intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, a light-emitting element provided at each of the pixels that is driven on the basis of image data of each of the pixels, and a power supply line pad and a data line pad that are disposed on the light-emitting element substrate in a two-dimensional manner, the power supply line pad being provided with terminals of a plurality of power supply lines that supply the power to the pixels and the data line pad being provided with terminals of the plurality of data lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20060181839
    Abstract: A display module of a mobile body includes a plurality of panel assemblies each having an electroluminescent panel. In the display module of the mobile body, one of mobile body information data and image data is displayed on each electroluminescent panel of the plurality of panel assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20060138756
    Abstract: The head-protecting airbag according to the present invention is formed by hollow-weaving method, and includes a gas admissive portion inflatable with inflation gas to separate its vehicle's inner wall and vehicle's outer wall, and a non-admissive portion admitting no inflation gas. The non-admissive portion includes mounting portions arranged in the upper edge of the airbag, and a marginal portion located around the gas admissive portion. The non-admissive portion partially has a two-ply structure where the hollow-woven cloth material separates into vehicle's inner cloth part and outer cloth part from the marginal portion having a one-ply structure. At least one of the mounting portions is formed by folding back a region of the two-ply cloth part to have a four-ply structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Applicant: c/o TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Ochiai, Takanobu Ikeda, Tadashi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20060138748
    Abstract: A head protecting airbag includes a bag body and an inner tube. The inner tube is provided within the bag body so as to be separated with respect to an inner peripheral surface of an inflation main part of the bag body so as provide a protecting area directly therebelow and is supported by a support cloth which is joined to an internal side of the inflation main part around an outer periphery thereof. The support cloth is provided integrally with the inflation main part as a substantially tubular shape which has a shorter longitudinal length than that of the inner tube and which can wrap up the inner tube, when outer peripheral parts of interior and exterior wall portions which are located on an upper edge of the inflation main part above the inner tube are joined to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masao Kino, Tadashi Yamada, Takanobu Ikeda, Tadashi Yamamoto