Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Yamashita
Toshiyuki Yamashita 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).
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Publication number: 20220325886Abstract: A cooling channel structure includes a tubular member with openings at both ends. In an inner portion or on a surface of the tubular member, as cooling channels for flowing a cooling medium for cooling the tubular member, provided are a plurality of spiral outer surface-side channels located on an outer surface side of the tubular member, at least one inner surface-side channel located on an inner surface side of the tubular member, and a plurality of folded channels, respectively, connecting the plurality of outer surface-side channels and the at least one inner surface-side channel on one end side of the tubular member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Yuta TAKAHASHI, Tatsuya KAMEYAMA, Yoshitaka NAKAYAMA, Toshiyuki YAMASHITA, Yasuharu CHUMAN, Shuji TANIGAWA, Takafumi SHINOGI, Ryuhei TAKASHIMA
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Publication number: 20220282929Abstract: Provided are a first wall section extending along a first direction, a second wall section disposed at an interval from the first wall section in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a plurality of partition wall sections connecting the first wall section and the second wall section so as to form at least one cooling channel between the first wall section and the second wall section, the cooling channel having a plurality of channel cross-sections disposed at intervals in the first direction. In a cross-section including the first direction and the second direction, at least a part of each of the partition wall sections extends along a direction intersecting with the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Tatsuya KAMEYAMA, Yuta TAKAHASHI, Yoshitaka NAKAYAMA, Toshiyuki YAMASHITA, Yasuharu CHUMAN, Shuji TANIGAWA, Takafumi SHINOGI, Ryuhei TAKASHIMA
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Patent number: 10471884Abstract: In a headlight optical-axis control device 10, a controller 15 is configured to: calculate vehicle angles indicating tilt angles of a vehicle relative to a road surface, on the basis of ratios, each being a ratio of a difference between a reference acceleration in a longitudinal direction and a signal indicating an acceleration in the longitudinal direction detected during traveling of the vehicle, to a difference between a reference acceleration in a perpendicular direction and a signal indicating an acceleration in the perpendicular direction detected during traveling of the vehicle by an acceleration sensor 2; calculate a plot of the calculated vehicle angles thereby to derive a vehicle angle corresponding to a case where a change of the acceleration in the longitudinal direction is zero; and generate a signal for controlling the optical axes of headlights 5L and 5R on the basis of the derived vehicle angle.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2014Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuaki Akaza, Toshiyuki Yamashita, Takashi Ohsawa, Wataru Tsujita, Takahiko Ito
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Patent number: 10001361Abstract: A real acceleration computing unit 3 calculates the real acceleration Gw in the direction of travel of a vehicle by acquiring the velocity V a wheel speed sensor 12 installed in the vehicle detects. A road surface gradient computing unit 5 calculates the inclination of a road surface (road surface gradient ?1) from the real acceleration Gw and the accelerations Gx and Gz in the back and forth and up and down directions of the vehicle an acceleration sensor 11 installed in the vehicle detects. A pitching angle computing unit 6 calculates the inclination of the vehicle with respect to the road surface (pitching angle ?2) from the real acceleration Gw and the accelerations Gx and Gz.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2012Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiyuki Yamashita
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Publication number: 20170183585Abstract: There is provided coal gasification unit including: a coal gasifier; a char recovery unit; flare equipment; an air flow rate adjustment valve and an oxygen supply flow passage that supply oxygen-containing gas to the coal gasifier; an inert gas supply flow passage that supplies nitrogen gas to an upstream side of the char recovery unit; and a control unit that controls a supply amount of the oxygen-containing gas and a supply amount of the nitrogen gas, in which the coal gasifier has a starting burner, and in which the control unit controls the supply amount of the nitrogen gas prior to starting combustion of starting fuel by the starting burner so that an oxygen concentration of mixed gas in which combustion gas generated by combustion of the oxygen-containing gas and the starting fuel has been mixed with the nitrogen gas becomes not more than an ignition concentration.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2015Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Shogo YOSHIDA, Yoshinori KOYAMA, Toshiyuki YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20170129390Abstract: In a headlight optical-axis control device 10, a controller 15 is configured to: calculate vehicle angles indicating tilt angles of a vehicle relative to a road surface, on the basis of ratios, each being a ratio of a difference between a reference acceleration in a longitudinal direction and a signal indicating an acceleration in the longitudinal direction detected during traveling of the vehicle, to a difference between a reference acceleration in a perpendicular direction and a signal indicating an acceleration in the perpendicular direction detected during traveling of the vehicle by an acceleration sensor 2; calculate a plot of the calculated vehicle angles thereby to derive a vehicle angle corresponding to a case where a change of the acceleration in the longitudinal direction is zero; and generate a signal for controlling the optical axes of headlights 5L and 5R on the basis of the derived vehicle angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2014Publication date: May 11, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuaki AKAZA, Toshiyuki YAMASHITA, Takashi OHSAWA, Wataru TSUJITA, Takahiko ITO
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Patent number: 9407903Abstract: A compound-eye type stereoscopic image shooting apparatus has a single image sensing device and two shooting optical systems. The two shooting optical systems include a first shooting optical system for forming a first subject image composed of light in a first wavelength range alone and a second shooting optical system for forming a second subject image composed of light in a second wavelength range alone which is different from the first wavelength range. The image sensing device has an image sensing surface divided into a first image sensing area for recording the first subject image and a second image sensing area for recording the second subject image. The image sensing device has, on the image sensing surface, a wavelength filter that transmits, in the first image sensing area, light in the first wavelength range alone and, in the second image sensing area, light in the second wavelength range alone.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2011Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA OPTO, INC.Inventor: Toshiyuki Yamashita
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Patent number: 9113633Abstract: The present invention provides a composition containing an aluminate and calcium hypochlorite, wherein the content of the aluminate is 1.0 part by weight to less than 2 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Yamashita, Yoshinori Kamatsuchi
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Patent number: 9020281Abstract: Two imaging optical systems are provided. The two imaging optical systems are configured to have a difference in a ghost appearance condition under the same imaging condition by differentiating at least one of the angle, the resolution, and the variation adjustment in production. In Step S1, images captured by the two imaging optical systems are stored. In Step S2, corresponding positions of each respective portion of a subject between the two imaging optical systems are obtained. In Step S3, images at the corresponding positions are compared with each other for determining a bright portion having a deviation in a luminance value, as a ghost portion. In this configuration, it is possible to accurately detect a ghost generation position on a real-time basis.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Konika Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc.Inventor: Toshiyuki Yamashita
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Publication number: 20150088455Abstract: A real acceleration computing unit 3 calculates the real acceleration Gw in the direction of travel of a vehicle by acquiring the velocity V a wheel speed sensor 12 installed in the vehicle detects. A road surface gradient computing unit 5 calculates the inclination of a road surface (road surface gradient ?1) from the real acceleration Gw and the accelerations Gx and Gz in the back and forth and up and down directions of the vehicle an acceleration sensor 11 installed in the vehicle detects. A pitching angle computing unit 6 calculates the inclination of the vehicle with respect to the road surface (pitching angle ?2) from the real acceleration Gw and the accelerations Gx and Gz.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2012Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Toshiyuki Yamashita
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Patent number: 8959256Abstract: Bus lines 20, 21 are connected to peripheral devices 1, 2 such that the polarities of the bus lines are replaced with each other according to an attachment position, and information acquisition units 16-1, 16-2 determine an attachment position P1 if the polarities of a connector terminal 10-1 (or 10-2) and a connector terminal 11-1 (or 11-2) are plus and minus, and determines an attachment position P2 if minus and plus.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2010Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Yamashita, Yuji Hiraoka
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Publication number: 20140134278Abstract: The present invention provides a composition containing an aluminate and calcium hypochlorite, wherein the content of the aluminate is 1.0 part by weight to less than 2 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Inventors: Toshiyuki Yamashita, Yoshinori Kamatsuchi
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Patent number: 8603194Abstract: There is provided manufacturing method of battery comprising adhering process (S1) to adhere fluorescent material (leakage indicator including fluorescein) which emits fluorescence in response to predetermined light (ultraviolet radiation) irradiated under condition that electrolyte exists, to at least one portion of a surface on a battery case, and leakage detecting process (S2 through S9) to detect presence/absence of electrolyte leakage with fluorescence which an adhered portion emits in response to the predetermined light (ultraviolet radiation) irradiated on at least the adhered portion which has adhesion of the fluorescent material (leakage indicator including fluorescein), out of the surface on the battery case.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2005Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kojiro Ito, Masato Onishi, Toshiyuki Yamashita, Michio Ozawa
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Patent number: 8538634Abstract: Body velocity estimating device 10A is constituted by acceleration measurement unit 11, acceleration separation unit 12, filter processing operation unit 13, acceleration addition unit 14, integration processing operation unit 15, and estimated body velocity output unit 16. The unit 12 compares an acceleration measured by the unit 11 with set acceleration upper and lower limit reference values to separate the measured acceleration into reference value range-in and range-out accelerations. The unit 13 performs filtering on the separated reference value range-out acceleration to calculate filtered accelerations of the reference value range-out acceleration. The unit 14 adds the filtered accelerations to the previously separated range-in acceleration. The unit 15 multiplies the added acceleration by an operation period, and adds the resultant to the estimated body velocity calculated in the preceding one operation period to update the value of the estimated body velocity.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2009Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Mitsuaki Akaza, Toshiyuki Yamashita
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Publication number: 20130132615Abstract: Bus lines 20, 21 are connected to peripheral devices 1, 2 such that the polarities of the bus lines are replaced with each other according to an attachment position, and information acquisition units 16-1, 16-2 determine an attachment position P1 if the polarities of a connector terminal 10-1 (or 10-2) and a connector terminal 11-1 (or 11-2) are plus and minus, and determines an attachment position P2 if minus and plus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2010Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Yamashita, Yuji Hiraoka
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Patent number: 8386130Abstract: The occupant protection device (air bag ECU 1) of the invention is composed of an input signal acquisition unit 11 for acquiring acceleration signals or angular velocity signals from sensors installed in a vehicle, a digital signal processing unit 12 for generating an output signal in a time series of the acceleration signals or angular velocity signals composed of consecutive first, second and third intervals by changing a multiplication factor of the second interval in comparison with the first and third intervals, a status determination unit 13 for determining a collision or rollover of the vehicle based on the output signal, and an air bag actuation circuit 14 for igniting a squib 32.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2007Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Toshiyuki Yamashita
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Patent number: 8374753Abstract: A starting device of an occupant protective system includes an angular velocity or acceleration sensor 11 for detecting the behavior of a vehicle, processing sections 131 and 132 for performing two or more computations using different subtrahends on a physical quantity based on the output from the sensor 11, a comparing section 133 for comparing absolute values of outputs from the processing sections 131 and 132, a selecting section 134 for selecting the output value of the processing sections 131 and 132 with the minimum absolute value, and a decision section 135 for making a decision as to the necessity for starting the occupant protective system in accordance with the output value selected.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shigenaga Yamasaki, Toshiyuki Yamashita
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Publication number: 20120321203Abstract: Two imaging optical systems are provided. The two imaging optical systems are configured to have a difference in a ghost appearance condition under the same imaging condition by differentiating at least one of the angle, the resolution, and the variation adjustment in production. In Step S1, images captured by the two imaging optical systems are stored. In Step S2, corresponding positions of each respective portion of a subject between the two imaging optical systems are obtained. In Step S3, images at the corresponding positions are compared with each other for determining a bright portion having a deviation in a luminance value, as a ghost portion. In this configuration, it is possible to accurately detect a ghost generation position on a real-time basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Inventor: Toshiyuki Yamashita
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Patent number: 8306767Abstract: A sensor output correcting device includes: a sensor element for detecting a variation in an object to be measured, and for outputting this variation as a signal; an A/D converter for converting the analog signal outputted from the sensor element into a digital signal; a zero reference value calculating unit for calculating a zero reference value which is a drift amount of the sensor element from the signal outputted from the sensor element; a zero point correcting unit for correcting a zero point of the signal outputted from the A/D converter on the basis of the zero reference value calculated by the zero criterion calculating unit; an output limiting unit for limiting a value of an output signal inputted from the zero point correcting unit on the basis of a correction amount provided by the zero point correcting unit, and a high frequency removing unit for removing a high frequency component.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2008Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Toshiyuki Yamashita
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Publication number: 20120140047Abstract: A stereoscopic image shooting apparatus has first and second shooting optical systems, a single image sensing device, a wavelength switcher, and a controller. The shooting optical systems form left-viewpoint and right-viewpoint subject images. The image sensing device has an image sensing surface on which the subject images are formed. The wavelength switcher switches wavelengths of the light incident on the image sensing surface by the controller. By forming the left-viewpoint subject image with light in the specific wavelength range and simultaneously forming the right-viewpoint subject image with light in the wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range, a first image is formed in a first frame. By forming the right-viewpoint subject image with light in the specific wavelength range and simultaneously forming the left-viewpoint subject image with light in the wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range, a second image is formed in a second frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2011Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.Inventor: Toshiyuki YAMASHITA