Patents by Inventor Tomokazu Yoshida

Tomokazu Yoshida 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).

  • Patent number: 11776728
    Abstract: A reactor includes an outer peripheral iron core, at least three iron cores, and a coil wound around the iron core. The reactor further includes an energizing portion connected to the coil and configured to be connected to a cable, and a cover provided to cover the energizing portion. At least one cutout formed in the cover is provided with at least one adjustment member configured to adjust an area of the cutout at least partially in the cover. The adjustment member is configured to be cut away from the cutout or to be bent with respect to a surface where the cutout is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Tomokazu Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20230142024
    Abstract: A method for producing a fluoride fluorescent material comprises: preparing fluoride particles having a composition containing at least one element or ion A selected from the group consisting of alkaline metal elements and NH4+, at least one element M selected from the group consisting of Group-4 elements and Group-14 elements, Mn4+, and F, in which a molar ratio of A in 1 mol of the composition is 2, a total molar ratio of M and Mn4+ is 1, a molar ratio of Mn4+ is in a range of more than 0 and less than 0.2, and a molar ratio of F is 6; subjecting the fluoride particles to a first heat treatment at a temperature of 500° C. or more in an inert gas atmosphere; washing the first heat-treated fluoride particles with a washing liquid; and bringing the washed fluoride particles into contact with a fluorine-containing substance and subjecting the resulting fluoride particles to a second heat treatment at a temperature of 400° C. or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11643595
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion member including a wavelength conversion layer containing a fluoride phosphor, quantum dots, a surfactant, and a resin. The fluoride phosphor contains fluoride particles having a specific composition and having particle size values within specific ranges. The quantum dots include at least one selected from a first crystalline nanoparticle and a second crystalline nanoparticle. The first crystalline nanoparticle has a specific composition. When irradiated with light having a wavelength of 450 nm, the first crystalline nanoparticle emits light having an emission peak at a wavelength in a range from 510 nm to 535 nm, and a full width at half maximum of the emission peak of the first crystalline nanoparticle is in a range from 10 nm to 30 nm. The second crystalline nanoparticle includes a chalcopyrite-type crystalline structure, and a full width at half maximum of the emission peak of the second crystalline nanoparticle is 45 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Shiota, Keisho Yamashita, Shoji Hosokawa, Tomokazu Yoshida, Yohei Yamauchi, Naoto Kijima
  • Publication number: 20230114859
    Abstract: Provided is a fluoride phosphor having higher durability. The fluoride phosphor includes a first fluoride and a second fluoride deposited on at least part of a surface of the first fluoride. The first fluoride has a composition containing an alkali metal, Si, Al, Mn, and F, wherein, when the number of moles of the alkali metal is taken as 2, the total number of moles of Si, Al, and Mn is 0.9 to 1.1; the number of moles of Al is more than 0 and less than 0.10; the number of moles of Mn is more than 0 and less than 0.20; and the number of moles of F is 5.9 to 6.1. The second fluoride has a composition which contains an alkali metal, Si, and F, and which is substantially free of Al and Mn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11600424
    Abstract: A core main body includes an outer peripheral iron core, and at least three iron cores. Between the two iron cores adjacent to each other, a gap being magnetically couplable is formed. The outer peripheral iron core includes a first outer peripheral iron core block and a second outer peripheral iron core block that are formed by stacking a plurality of magnetic plates, and an intermediate plate disposed therebetween. The intermediate plate includes an outer peripheral iron core corresponding portion corresponding to the outer peripheral iron core, a plurality of protruding sections protruding from an outer peripheral surface of the outer peripheral iron core, and engaging sections provided on the plurality of protruding sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Tomokazu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11587723
    Abstract: A reactor includes: an outer peripheral iron core; three leg iron cores; and three coils, each of the coils having an input side coil end and an output side coil end projecting from a same end surface on an end side in the axial direction of the three leg iron cores, where the three coils include two first coils in which a projecting position of the input side coil end and a projecting position of the output side coil end has a first relative positional relationship and include one second coil having a second relative positional relationship opposite to the first relative positional relationship and where winding directions from the input side coil end to the output side coil end of the first and the second coils are reversed to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomokazu Yoshida, Masatomo Shirouzu, Kenichi Tsukada
  • Patent number: 11572506
    Abstract: A method for producing a fluoride fluorescent material comprises: preparing fluoride particles having a composition containing at least one element or ion A selected from the group consisting of alkaline metal elements and NH4+, at least one element M selected from the group consisting of Group-4 elements and Group-14 elements, Mn4+, and F, in which a molar ratio of A in 1 mol of the composition is 2, a total molar ratio of M and Mn4+ is 1, a molar ratio of Mn4+ is in a range of more than 0 and less than 0.2, and a molar ratio of F is 6; subjecting the fluoride particles to a first heat treatment at a temperature of 500° C. or more in an inert gas atmosphere; washing the first heat-treated fluoride particles with a washing liquid; and bringing the washed fluoride particles into contact with a fluorine-containing substance and subjecting the resulting fluoride particles to a second heat treatment at a temperature of 400° C. or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20220403236
    Abstract: A fluoride phosphor, comprising fluoride particles having an average particle size of 0.1 ?m to 7 ?m and a maximum particle size of 1 ?m to 18 ?m, wherein a ratio of the maximum particle size with respect to the average particle size is higher than 1. The fluoride particles have a composition containing an element M containing at least one selected from the group consisting of Group 4 elements, Group 13 elements, and Group 14 elements; an alkali metal; Mn; and F. In the composition, when the number of moles of the alkali metal is 2, the number of moles of Mn is more than 0 but less than 0.2, the number of moles of the element M is more than 0.8 but less than 1, and the number of moles of F is more than 5 but less than 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei YAMAUCHI, Tomokazu YOSHIDA, Yuki SHIOTA
  • Publication number: 20220403231
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion member including a wavelength conversion layer containing a fluoride phosphor, quantum dots, a surfactant, and a resin. The fluoride phosphor contains fluoride particles having a specific composition and having particle size values within specific ranges. The quantum dots include at least one selected from a first crystalline nanoparticle and a second crystalline nanoparticle. The first crystalline nanoparticle has a specific composition. When irradiated with light having a wavelength of 450 nm, the first crystalline nanoparticle emits light having an emission peak at a wavelength in a range from 510 nm to 535 nm, and a full width at half maximum of the emission peak of the first crystalline nanoparticle is in a range from 10 nm to 30 nm. The second crystalline nanoparticle includes a chalcopyrite-type crystalline structure, and a full width at half maximum of the emission peak of the second crystalline nanoparticle is 45 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki SHIOTA, Keisho YAMASHITA, Shoji HOSOKAWA, Tomokazu YOSHIDA, Yohei YAMAUCHI, Naoto KIJIMA
  • Patent number: 11521783
    Abstract: Provided is a reactor having a core main body that includes an outer peripheral iron core, at least three iron cores, and coils. Between the iron cores adjacent to each other, a gap being magnetically coupled is formed. The reactor includes a fixture that fixes both end portions of the at least three iron cores together by passing through an interior of the outer peripheral iron core in a region between the outer peripheral iron core and the gap. The fixture includes plate-like members disposed on both end faces of the core main body and includes rod-like members that connect the plate-like members to each other by passing through the interior of the outer peripheral iron core. The plate-like members each include a protrusion extending axially inward of the core main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Tsukada, Tomokazu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11476033
    Abstract: A reactor includes a core body, and the core body includes an outer peripheral iron core, at least three iron cores in contact with an inner surface of the outer peripheral iron core, or positioned to be coupled to the inner surface, and coils wound around the iron cores. A gap through which magnetic coupling is possible is formed between one iron core of the at least three iron cores and another iron core adjacent to the one iron core. The reactor includes an end plate attached to one end face of the core body, and the end plate includes a protruding portion that partially protrudes in a direction away from an outer circumferential surface of the core body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Tomokazu Yoshida, Masatomo Shirouzu, Kenichi Tsukada
  • Patent number: 11414596
    Abstract: Provided is a fluoride fluorescent material having high luminance. The fluoride fluorescent material has a composition containing Mn, A that is at least one element or ion selected from the group consisting of alkali metal elements and NH4+, at least one element M selected from the group consisting of Group-4 elements and Group-14 elements, and F; and contains spherical fluoride particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20220117385
    Abstract: Provided is an interdental cleaning tool that can be smoothly inserted between back teeth. An interdental cleaning tool according to the present invention includes: a cleaning tool body that is made of a synthetic resin, and includes a grip portion that is capable of being gripped with fingers of a user and a shaft portion that extends in one direction from the grip portion; and a cleaning portion configured to clean between teeth, covering a leading end of the shaft portion, and made of an elastomer, wherein (angle b)/(angle a) is 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: KOBAYASHI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tasuku KIKKAWA, Yuji SAIKI, Tomokazu YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210402389
    Abstract: A module installation unit is capable of installing a plurality of modules capable of accommodating a plurality of tubes containing a sample. A temperature adjusting unit heats and cools the sample in the tube of each module to the temperature required for nucleic acid amplification. An optical detection unit is used commonly by the plurality of modules installed in the module installation unit and which is capable of detecting the amplified nucleic acid of a sample subjected to nucleic acid amplification of a tube by regulating the temperature via the temperature adjusting unit for each module installed in the module installation unit. A moving unit moves the optical detecting unit and module installation unit relative to each other so as to detect the amplified nucleic acid of the sample in a tube of each of the plurality of modules installed in the module installation unit via the optical detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tasuku YOTORIYAMA, Tomokazu YOSHIDA, Kaoru ASANO
  • Patent number: 11174430
    Abstract: A fluoride fluorescent material includes a composition including K, Ge, Mn4+, and F and having a molar ratio of K of 2, a total molar ratio of Ge and Mn4+ of 1, a molar ratio of Mn4+ of more than 0 and less than 0.2, and a molar ratio of F of 6 in 1 mol of the composition, has a light emission spectrum having a first light emission peak in a range of 615 nm or more and less than 625 nm having a full width at half maximum of 6 nm or less, and a second light emission peak in a range of 625 nm or more and less than 635 nm, and has an internal quantum of 85% or more efficiency under excitation of light having a wavelength of 450 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11142686
    Abstract: Provided are a method of producing an aluminate fluorescent material, an aluminate fluorescent material and a light emitting device. The production method includes heat-treating a mixture prepared by mixing a compound containing at least one alkaline earth metal element selected from the group consisting of Ba, Sr and Ca, a Mg-containing compound not acting as a flux, a Mn-containing compound, an Al-containing compound, a first flux containing at least one alkali metal element selected from the group consisting of Na, K, Rb and Cs, and a Mg-containing second flux to give an aluminate fluorescent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shozo Taketomi, Shoji Hosokawa, Tomokazu Yoshida, Kazuya Nishimata
  • Patent number: 11128252
    Abstract: A motor drive device has an abnormality detection function for a power supply unit between its own device and a power supply, and includes: a forward converter that is inputted AC power from the power supply via the power supply input part, and converts the AC power into DC power; a reverse converter that converts the DC power from the forward converter into AC power; a DC link capacitor provided to a DC link between the forward converter and the reverse converter; a voltage detection part that detects voltage of the DC link capacitor; and an abnormality detection part that obtains a voltage change amount for a predetermined time of the DC link capacitor based on voltage values detected by the voltage detection part, and performs abnormality detection on the power supply input part based on the voltage change amount thus obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20210267732
    Abstract: Provided is an interdental cleaning tool that is not too soft and is unlikely to break during use. An interdental cleaning tool according to the present invention includes: a cleaning tool body that is made of a synthetic resin, and includes a grip portion that is capable of being gripped with fingers of a user and a shaft portion that extends in one direction from the grip portion; and a cleaning portion configured to clean between teeth, covering a leading end of the shaft portion, and made of an elastomer, wherein Y>?0.07X+3.3 is satisfied, where Y is a maximum torque value (N·cm) when the grip portion is rotated at a rotational speed of 10 rpm about a position located 15 mm away from a leading end of the cleaning portion, and X is a rotational angle (degrees) when the maximum torque value is measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: KOBAYASHI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tasuku KIKKAWA, Yuji SAIKI, Tomokazu YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11041118
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a fluoride fluorescent material, comprising: contacting a fluoride particles represented by the following general formula (I): K2[M1?aMn4+aF6]??(I) wherein M is at least one member selected from the group consisting of elements belonging to Groups 4 and 14 of the Periodic Table, and a satisfies the relationship: 0<a<0.2; with a solution containing alkaline earth metal ions in the presence of a reducing agent to form an alkaline earth metal fluoride and less than tetravalent manganese ions on the surface of the fluoride particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11034888
    Abstract: Provided are an aluminate fluorescent material, a light emitting device, and a method for producing an aluminate fluorescent material. The aluminate fluorescent material, having an aluminate composition containing: at least one alkaline earth metal element selected from the group consisting of Ba, Sr, and Ca; Mn; and optionally Eu and/or Mg, wherein the fluorine content in the aluminate fluorescent material is 100 ppm or more and 7,000 ppm or less, and the average particle diameter of the aluminate fluorescent material, which is measured according to a Fisher Sub-Sieve Sizer method, is 8 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimata, Tomokazu Yoshida, Shoji Hosokawa