Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Yamada

Tomoyuki 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: 20220294022
    Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery that has a wound electrode assembly that has been precisely wound. A secondary battery is provided with a wound electrode assembly in which a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate are wound with a separator interposed therebetween, and is provided with a battery case that houses the wound electrode assembly. The separator has a strip-shaped base material layer and has a surface layer formed on the surface of the base material layer and having a mesh structure formed of polyvinylidene fluoride. The separator is positioned to the outside of a negative electrode trailing end of the negative electrode plate, and the distance between the negative electrode trailing end and a separator trailing end of the separator is not more than 30 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Daichi KOBORI, Tomoyuki YAMADA, Kazutaka MITA
  • Publication number: 20220271348
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a secondary battery capable of inhibiting precipitation of metallic lithium is provided. The secondary battery disclosed herein includes a flat wound electrode body. A positive electrode starting end portion inside the electrode body has a first region extending along a flat portion of the electrode body. On the other hand, a negative electrode starting end portion inside the electrode body has a second region extending along the flat portion, a folded portion folded back from an end portion of the second region, and a third region extending from an end portion of the folded portion. In addition, the electrode body has an electrode starting end stacked portion in which the first region, the second region, and the third region overlap. According to such a configuration, it is possible to prevent a partial pressing failure from occurring and inhibit the precipitation of metallic lithium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi KAWAMURA, Tomoyuki YAMADA, Tatsuya TSUSHIMA, Takashi HOSOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220214844
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a control section that causes a display section to display a first screen, and a reception section, the first screen includes an operation screen operated by a user, and the operation screen includes i. a first individual selection screen as an individual selection screen for the user to individually select a first formation candidate which is a formation candidate to be formed on a first forming surface of a three-dimensional object, ii. a second individual selection screen as the individual selection screen for the user to individually select a second formation candidate which is the formation candidate to be formed on a second forming surface different from the first forming surface of the three-dimensional object, and iii. a combination selection screen for the user to select a combination of the formation candidate including the first formation candidate and the second formation candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Takeshi TSUCHIYA, Tomoyuki YAMADA, Kazumi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220212412
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a control section that causes a display section to display a first screen, and a reception section, the first screen includes a preview screen, and the preview screen includes i. a first preview screen that makes a first formation candidate, which is a formation candidate to be formed on a first forming surface of the three-dimensional object, visible to the user, ii. a second preview screen that makes a second formation candidate, which is the formation candidate to be formed on a second forming surface different from the first forming surface of the three-dimensional object, visible to the user, and iii. a third preview screen that makes a third formation candidate, which is the formation candidate to be formed on a third forming surface different from the first forming surface and the second forming surface of the three-dimensional object, visible to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Kazumi YAMADA, Takeshi TSUCHIYA, Tomoyuki YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220199256
    Abstract: A search method of searching for a feature that affects an output result of a machine learning model, the search method includes: a first step of applying, to all training data, at least one or more separate filters combining at least one or more feature presence/absence determining devices that determine presence or absence of a feature on a plurality of sets of correct answer data that is positive and correct answer data that is negative and information on whether the pieces of the data is positive; a second step of applying the pieces of training data generated in the first step to separate machine learning to separately execute machine learning; and a third step of outputting information that extracts a new feature using a verification result obtained by inputting verification data to separate machine learning after the machine learning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoyuki YAMADA, Masato NISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20220140453
    Abstract: Disclosed here is a battery including: an exterior body having a bottom wall; and a winding electrode body in which positive electrode, negative electrode and separator are wound about a winding axis. The winding electrode body has a flat shape having a pair of curvature parts having a curved outside surface and a flat part that connects the pair of curvature parts to each other and has a flat outside surface. When a line perpendicular to the winding axis of the winding electrode body and perpendicular to the bottom wall of the exterior body is assumed as L1, a portion positioned at an outermost periphery of the negative electrode in at least one of the pair of the curvature parts faces a portion positioned on a winding inner peripheral side of the negative electrode via the separator and not via the positive electrode on the line L1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoyuki YAMADA, Takashi HOSOKAWA, Ryoichi WAKIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11309320
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory cell using vertical nanowire (VNW) FETs includes a program element of which a gate is connected to a word line, and a switch element that is provided between the program element and a bit line and of which a gate is connected to the word line. The program element and the switch element are each constituted by one or a plurality of VNW FETs, and these VNW FETs are arranged in a line in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220115080
    Abstract: A layout structure of a small-area one time programmable (OTP) memory using a complementary FET (CFET) is provided. The OTP memory has transistors TP as a program element and transistors TS as a switch element. The transistors TP are three-dimensional transistors of which channel portions overlap each other as viewed in plan. The transistors TS are three-dimensional transistors of which channel portions overlap each other as viewed in plan. The OTP memory of two bits is implemented in a small area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventor: Tomoyuki YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220109147
    Abstract: A positive electrode plate that has a positive electrode active material layer formed on a positive electrode core, wherein the positive electrode core has, on an edge side, a thick portion which has a thickness that is greater than the thickness of a portion of the positive electrode core that has the positive electrode active material layer formed on both sides, and the positive electrode plate has a first region that extends into the thick portion from the portion of the positive electrode core that has the positive electrode active material layer formed on both sides and a second region that is positioned outside the first region in the thick portion. The average maximum diameter of the metal crystal grains that compose the first region is smaller than those of the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Tamura, Yoshifumi Magari, Atsutoshi Ako, Akira Nishida, Kentaro Tsukamoto, Tomoyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11289351
    Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes a process chamber configured to process a substrate; a processing gas supply part configured to supply a processing gas to the substrate; a heater configured to heat the substrate; a transfer robot configured to transfer the substrate; a first power supply connected to at least one part selected from the group of the processing gas supply part, the heater, and the transfer robot; a first controller installed between the at least one part and the first power supply; a second power supply including two or more power sources configured to drive the first controller; and a second controller installed between the first controller and the second power supply and configured to allow power to be supplied to the first controller while setting a power ratio of each of the two or more power sources of the second power supply to a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Yamada, Tadashi Kontani, Shigenori Tezuka
  • Publication number: 20220070886
    Abstract: In a random access radio communication system configured to perform downlink communication from a radio base station to radio terminals by random access, the radio terminals include one or more low latency terminals requiring low latency and one or more non-low latency terminals not requiring low latency, and the low latency terminals and the non-low latency terminals are configured to be distinguished by service set identifiers (SSIDs). The random access radio communication system includes terminal assignment destination control unit of distinguishing the low latency terminals and the non-low latency terminals in accordance with the SSIDs and evenly distributing the terminals into a plurality of communication channels, and random access control unit of performing priority control on the low latency terminals and the non-low latency terminals for each communication channel so that the downlink communication in the low latency terminal satisfies a predetermined delay time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki YAMADA, Keisuke WAKAO, Kenichi KAWAMURA, Akira KISHIDA, Shota NAKAYAMA, Yasushi TAKATORI, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220069359
    Abstract: A rectangular secondary battery is provided with: a rectangular exterior body having an opening, a bottom part, a first lateral wall, a second lateral wall, a third lateral wall, and a fourth lateral wall; a sealing plate for sealing the opening; and a flat wound electrode body obtained by winding a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate with a separator therebetween, wherein a plurality of the flat wound electrode bodies are arranged in the rectangular exterior body. The flat wound electrode bodies each have: a flat region formed at the center, a first bent region having a bent outer surface and being formed on one end side of the flat region; and a second bent region having a bent outer surface and being formed on the other end side of the flat region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Yamada, Naoki Imachi, Daisuke Ikeda, Kazuaki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20220059908
    Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery which can be produced with high efficiency. This secondary battery is provided with: a belt-like positive electrode plate having a plurality of positive electrode tabs; a belt-like negative electrode plate having a plurality of negative electrode tabs; a flat wound electrode body obtained by winding the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate with a belt-like separator therebetween; and a positive electrode collector (second positive electrode collector) connected to the plurality of positive electrode tabs. The plurality of positive electrode tabs in a state of being laminated are joined to the positive electrode collector (second positive electrode collector). Identification parts are formed on some positive electrode tabs of the plurality of positive electrode tabs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Yamada, Naoki Imachi, Daisuke Ikeda, Kazuaki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20220059911
    Abstract: A secondary battery provided with: a belt-like positive electrode plate having a plurality of positive electrode tabs; and a positive electrode current collector which is connected so that the plurality of positive electrode tabs are stacked, wherein the positive electrode plate has a positive electrode core body and a positive electrode active material layer formed on the positive electrode core bodies. At one edge side of the positive electrode plate where the plurality of positive electrode tabs are provided, one surface of the positive electrode core body has formed thereon a first protrusion that protrudes from said surface of the positive electrode core body in the thickness direction of the positive electrode core body, whereas the other surface of the positive electrode core body has no protrusion formed to protrude from said other surface of the positive electrode core body in the thickness direction of the positive electrode core body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Tamura, Yoshifumi Magari, Atsutoshi Ako, Akira Nishida, Kentaro Tsukamoto, Tomoyuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220021001
    Abstract: Provided are a highly reliable electrode plate and a secondary battery using the electrode plate. A positive electrode plate, which is for a secondary battery, has a positive electrode core body and a positive electrode active material layer formed on the positive electrode core body. The positive electrode core body has, at an end thereof, a thick part having a thickness larger than that of the center area of the positive electrode core body. The thick part includes a first projection that projects from one surface of the positive electrode core body in the thickness direction of the positive electrode core body. The positive electrode core body is formed of an aluminum alloy which contains 0.5-2.0 mass % of Mn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Tamura, Yoshifumi Magari, Atsutoshi Ako, Akira Nishida, Kentaro Tsukamoto, Tomoyuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220014965
    Abstract: A wireless LAN communication device generates an MPDU by attaching a MAC header to transmission data, generates an A-MPDU subframe by attaching an MPDU delimiter to the MPDU, generates an A-MPDU by aggregating a plurality of A-MPDU subframes, and transmits the A-MPDU. The wireless LAN communication device includes: an MPDU duplicating means for determining whether or not transmission data is a redundancy target according to a required quality of the transmission data, determining that an MPDU generated from the transmission data determined to be a redundancy target is a redundant MPDU, and generating a duplicate MPDU by duplicating the redundant MPDU; and an A-MPDU generating means for generating an A-MPDU that includes the redundant MPDU and the duplicate MPDU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Kenichi Kawamura, Yasushi TAKATORI, Hiroshi Nakamoto, Tomoyuki Yamada, Keisuke Wakao, Shota Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20220007419
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless LAN system in which an interference control signal transmitter that is provided in the surroundings of the wireless LAN base station and the wireless LAN terminal, and is configured to collect wireless environment information regarding the interfering AP/STA, and transmit, to the interfering AP/STA, an interference control signal that is to be used to set a transmission waiting period; and an interference control signal management device configured to collect the wireless environment information from the interference control signal transmitter, determine the interference control signal transmitter whose communication area includes the interfering AP/STA based on the wireless environment information, and control the determined interference control signal transmitter to transmit the interference control signal to be used to set the transmission waiting period that corresponds to a length of time of the communication between the wireless LAN base station and the wireless LAN terminal, wher
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi KAWAMURA, Yasushi TAKATORI, Tomoyuki YAMADA, Hiroshi NAKAMOTO, Keisuke WAKAO, Shota NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11145907
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. A negative electrode core of a negative electrode plate has front and back surfaces each with a surface roughness different from the other Rz. In a wound electrode body, a wound negative electrode core-exposed portion is formed at one end portion in the winding axis direction. In the wound negative electrode core-exposed portion, the surface roughness of the negative electrode core-exposed portion on the outer surface side is lower than the surface roughness on the inner surface side. A negative electrode current collector is placed on the outer surface of the wound negative electrode core-exposed portion and the negative electrode current collector is resistance-welded to the wound negative electrode core-exposed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Yamada, Ryosuke Shirota, Tetsuya Matsuda, Kazuma Mima
  • Publication number: 20210313205
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the technique, there is provided a configuration including: a furnace body covering a reaction chamber; a heating element divided into zones and provided in the furnace body; first temperature sensors provided for the zones such that its temperature measuring point is arranged near the heating element; second temperature sensors provided such that its temperature measuring point is provided close to a temperature measuring point of a first temperature sensor; and temperature meters provided at the zones to hold the temperature measuring points of the first and the second temperature sensors to be close to each other in a protection pipe. Each temperature meter penetrates an outer periphery of the furnace body perpendicular to a central axis of the reaction chamber such that a front end of the protection pipe is located outside the reaction tube and on a tube axis thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Shinobu SUGIURA, Masaaki UENO, Tetsuya KOSUGI, Hitoshi MURATA, Masashi SUGISHITA, Tomoyuki YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20210005618
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory cell using vertical nanowire (VNW) FETs includes a program element of which a gate is connected to a word line, and a switch element that is provided between the program element and a bit line and of which a gate is connected to the word line. The program element and the switch element are each constituted by one or a plurality of VNW FETs, and these VNW FETs are arranged in a line in a first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Yamada