Patents by Inventor Tadashi Yoda

Tadashi Yoda 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: 20230246625
    Abstract: A quartz crystal resonator unit that includes: a piezoelectric blank; a first excitation electrode on a first principal surface and within at least a part of a vibration portion of the piezoelectric blank; a second excitation electrode on a second principal surface and within at least a part of the vibration portion of the piezoelectric blank; a first extended electrode on the first principal surface and electrically connected to the first excitation electrode; and a second extended electrode on the second principal surface and electrically connected to the second excitation electrode; and an insulation layer including a hollow portion which defines a space with the second excitation electrode. A thickness of the first extended electrode is larger than a thickness of the second extended electrode. An end portion of the first extended electrode extends over the hollow portion in a plan view of the piezoelectric vibrator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Toshio NISHIMURA, Yuuki OOI, Tadashi YODA, Tadayuki OKAWA
  • Patent number: 11063574
    Abstract: A quartz crystal resonator unit that includes a substrate, a lid, and an adhesive member that joins the substrate and the lid to each other to form an enclosure; a quartz crystal resonator disposed in the enclosure; and an adjustment member on the quartz crystal resonator and that includes a material whose volatilization amount per unit time and unit volume increases as humidity increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seita Takahashi, Tadashi Yoda
  • Patent number: 11063573
    Abstract: A quartz crystal resonator that includes a substrate including a vibration portion, a frame portion that surrounds the vibration portion, and first to fourth coupling portions that couple the vibration portion and the frame portion to each other; and first and second excitation electrodes. An intersecting point of diagonal lines of a quadrangle formed by first to fourth connection portions is located on the positive side of the z axis relative to the x axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Mimura, Tadashi Yoda, Koki Sai
  • Publication number: 20190238115
    Abstract: A quartz crystal resonator unit that includes a substrate, a lid, and an adhesive member that joins the substrate and the lid to each other to form an enclosure; a quartz crystal resonator disposed in the enclosure; and an adjustment member on the quartz crystal resonator and that includes a material whose volatilization amount per unit time and unit volume increases as humidity increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Seita Takahashi, Tadashi Yoda
  • Publication number: 20190109577
    Abstract: A quartz crystal resonator that includes a substrate including a vibration portion, a frame portion that surrounds the vibration portion, and first to fourth coupling portions that couple the vibration portion and the frame portion to each other; and first and second excitation electrodes. An intersecting point of diagonal lines of a quadrangle formed by first to fourth connection portions is located on the positive side of the z axis relative to the x axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhiro MIMURA, Tadashi YODA, Koki SAI
  • Publication number: 20170305239
    Abstract: An air conditioner vent outlet portion includes: an air conditioner vent outlet component, installed at a setting wall component in front of front seats in an automobile compartment, and having a vent outlet (11) of an air-conditioned air with an opening facing the interior of the automobile compartment; and a glossiness decorative component (13), installed at a peripheral edge portion of the vent outlet (11). Bumps (16) extending along a front-rear direction of the automobile are formed on the surfaces which face the interior of the automobile compartment, of the decorative component (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi YODA, Hiroki SHIGEHARA, Tomohiko NARA
  • Patent number: 8378555
    Abstract: An electromechanical conversion element having high connection reliability and an actuator equipped with the electromechanical conversion element. The electromechanical conversion element includes: a displacement part capable of expanding and contracting by application of voltage and having electrode forming faces and an adhesion face which are disposed adjacent to each other; and external electrodes on the electrode forming faces, in which lead electrodes for applying voltage to the displacement part are bonded to bonding regions provided in the external electrodes, and a driven member capable of being driven by the expansion and contraction of the displacement part is bonded to the adhesion face by an adhesive. The electromechanical conversion element further includes bleed flow blocking parts on the electrode forming faces at points closer to the adhesion face than ends of the bonding regions located on the same side as the adhesion face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignees: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventors: Tadashi Yoda, Toshio Nishimura, Masanaga Nishikawa, Yasuhiro Okamoto, Tomoyuki Yuasa
  • Publication number: 20120187800
    Abstract: An electromechanical conversion element having high connection reliability and an actuator equipped with the electromechanical conversion element. The electromechanical conversion element includes: a displacement part capable of expanding and contracting by application of voltage and having electrode forming faces and an adhesion face which are disposed adjacent to each other; and external electrodes on the electrode forming faces, in which lead electrodes for applying voltage to the displacement part are bonded to bonding regions provided in the external electrodes, and a driven member capable of being driven by the expansion and contraction of the displacement part is bonded to the adhesion face by an adhesive. The electromechanical conversion element further includes bleed flow blocking parts on the electrode forming faces at points closer to the adhesion face than ends of the bonding regions located on the same side as the adhesion face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicants: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc., Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Yoda, Toshio Nishimura, Masanaga Nishikawa, Yasuhiro Okamoto, Tomoyuki Yuasa
  • Patent number: 8113229
    Abstract: A gear operated shut valve for a ventilation system in a motor vehicle is disclosed. The gear operated shut valve includes gear train. The gear train includes a driven gear that is associated with the shut valve and a driving gear that is associated with an outlet knob on an outlet of the ventilation system. The shut valve is substantially angled with respect to the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cordell Bosma, Tadayuki Nishimura, Tadashi Yoda
  • Patent number: 7789265
    Abstract: A cup holder with a securing mechanism for use in a vehicular cup holder for receiving and securing different sized cups. The cup holder includes a cylindrical opening defined by a cylindrical wall and bottom wall, tab openings formed in the cylindrical wall, tabs projecting through the openings, and a biasing device for biasing the tabs. The tabs are attached to the cup holder so as to be movable in a horizontal direction and to be rotatable in a vertical direction about a central pivot point. The tabs are biased so as to project fully into the cylindrical opening and to be in a non-pivoted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Christian Kearney, Tadashi Yoda
  • Publication number: 20100019183
    Abstract: A gear operated shut valve for a ventilation system in a motor vehicle is disclosed. The gear operated shut valve includes gear train. The gear train includes a driven gear that is associated with the shut valve and a driving gear that is associated with an outlet knob on an outlet of the ventilation system. The shut valve is substantially angled with respect to the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Cordell Bosma, Tadayuki Nishimura, Tadashi Yoda
  • Publication number: 20090152285
    Abstract: A cup holder with a securing mechanism for use in a vehicular cup holder for receiving and securing different sized cups. The cup holder includes a cylindrical opening defined by a cylindrical wall and bottom wall, tab openings formed in the cylindrical wall, tabs projecting through the openings, and a biasing device for biasing the tabs. The tabs are attached to the cup holder so as to be movable in a horizontal direction and to be rotatable in a vertical direction about a central pivot point. The tabs are biased so as to project fully into the cylindrical opening and to be in a non-pivoted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Christian Kearney, Tadashi Yoda
  • Patent number: 4531366
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hydraulic circuit system for use in a swivel type excavator. The circuit system having a plurality of variable displacement pumps for supplying pressurized fluid for manipulations of work implements and swivel means of the excavator, and control means operative to automatically adjust pump displacement to the output hosepower of a prime mover driving the pumps. The control means includes hydraulic pressure detector means, servo-control means respectively provided in the pumps, negative control valves for respectively controlling the servo-control means by the action of the pressure detector means, cut off valves respectively connected in series with the negative control valves, and summing valves respectively connected in series with some of the cut off valves so as to control pressurized fluid to be supplied into the servo-control means by the action of the fluid pressure delivered from the pumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1985
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho
    Inventors: Yukio Moriya, Tadashi Yoda, Hisashi Fukumoto