Patents by Inventor Tsugio Yamamoto
Tsugio Yamamoto 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: 20250031324Abstract: An electronic key accommodation case that is detachably attached to an electronic key operation device configured to press a pressing button of an accommodated electronic key. The electronic key accommodation case includes: a housing configured to accommodate the electronic key; and a position regulating unit configured to regulate a position of the electronic key in the housing. The housing includes a plurality of positioning units that position the position regulating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsugio YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20250020193Abstract: An electronic key operation device includes: an accommodation unit configured to accommodate an electronic key; a pressing member configured to press a button of the electronic key accommodated in the accommodation unit; an actuator configured to apply power for pressing the button to the pressing member, and a position setting part configured to set a relative position between the actuator and the pressing member and set a position of the pressing member so as to correspond to a position of the button.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsugio YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 12194958Abstract: A vehicle-mounted device (10) includes an accommodation unit (50) that accommodates an electronic key (7) of a vehicle (5), and a first actuator (31) and a second actuator (32) that each perform a button pressing operation on the electronic key (7) that is accommodated in the accommodation unit (50). The accommodation unit (50) allows the first actuator (31) and the second actuator (32) to each perform the button pressing operation on push buttons on different electronic keys (7) of different vehicles (5).Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsugio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20240253596Abstract: A vehicle-mounted apparatus comprising: a main body portion; and an electronic key accommodating portion that accommodates an electronic key of a vehicle and is attachable to and detachable from the main body portion, wherein the electronic key accommodating portion includes a switching unit that switches detection states of a first detection unit and a second detection unit according to an attachment or detachment operation of the electronic key accommodating portion to or from the main body portion, the first detection unit is provided in the main body portion for detecting an accommodation state of the electronic key in the electronic key accommodating portion, and the second detection unit is provided in the main body portion for detecting an attachment or detachment state of the electronic key accommodating portion with respect to the main body portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2022Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsugio YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240247707Abstract: An electronic key operation device according to the present disclosure includes: an accommodation portion configured to accommodate an electronic key; a pressing member configured to press a button of the electronic key accommodated in the accommodation portion; an actuator configured to apply power for pressing the button to the pressing member; and a position setting portion configured to set a relative position between the actuator and the pressing member and set a position of the pressing member. The position setting portion is configured to set a position of the pressing member so as to correspond to a position of the button in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsugio YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240175292Abstract: A vehicle-mounted apparatus for accommodating an electronic key of a vehicle, the apparatus comprises a speaker; a light emitting unit; an audio control unit configured to control the speaker to emit given audio guidance related to a handling procedure of the vehicle-mounted apparatus when the vehicle is used; and a lighting control unit configured to control lighting of the light emitting unit in conjunction with audio emission control of the audio guidance by the audio control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsugio YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230360834Abstract: A vehicle-mounted apparatus includes an accommodation portion that is configured to accommodate an electronic key of a vehicle, an actuator that is configured to perform a press operation to the electronic key accommodated in the accommodation portion by moving a movable portion in one direction, and an intermediate member that is disposed between the electronic key accommodated in the accommodation portion and the actuator and that is configured to transmit a force of the press operation to a press button of the electronic key. The intermediate member is configured to abut against the movable portion and to apply a biasing force for biasing the movable portion in a direction opposite to the one direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsugio YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20220314932Abstract: A vehicle-mounted device (10) includes an accommodation unit (50) that accommodates an electronic key (7) of a vehicle (5), and a first actuator (31) and a second actuator (32) that each perform a button pressing operation on the electronic key (7) that is accommodated in the accommodation unit (50). The accommodation unit (50) allows the first actuator (31) and the second actuator (32) to each perform the button pressing operation on push buttons on different electronic keys (7) of different vehicles (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsugio YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210199689Abstract: A socket includes: a contact probe; and an insulating support body supporting the contact probe. The contact probe includes: a first plunger to be connected with an object to be inspected; a second plunger to be connected with an inspecting board; and a spring configured to urge the first plunger and the second plunger in a direction apart from each other. In a state where a tip end of the first plunger is released, a projecting amount of the second plunger from the insulating support body is zero with a natural length of the spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsugio YAMAMOTO, Kenichi SATO, Takayoshi OKUNO
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Patent number: 10976346Abstract: A socket includes: a contact probe; and an insulating support body supporting the contact probe. The contact probe includes: a first plunger to be connected with an object to be inspected; a second plunger to be connected with an inspecting board; and a spring configured to urge the first plunger and the second plunger in a direction apart from each other. In a state where a tip end of the first plunger is released, a projecting amount of the second plunger from the insulating support body is zero with a natural length of the spring.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsugio Yamamoto, Kenichi Sato, Takayoshi Okuno
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Patent number: 10585117Abstract: A contact probe includes a first plunger, a second plunger, and a coil spring. The coil spring is disposed outside the first plunger, and urges the first plunger and the second plunger in a direction away from each other. The first plunger and the second plunger are fitted to each other so as to be slidable with respect to each other. The first plunger includes a large diameter part, and a small diameter part provided on a proximal end side of the large diameter part. The small diameter part is fitted into the second plunger. The coil spring includes a close winding part on a side of the second plunger. Adjacent lines of the close winding parts are brought into close contact with each other and come into electrical contact with each other at least in a compressed state of the coil spring.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsugio Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20190004090Abstract: A contact probe includes a first plunger, a second plunger, and a coil spring. The coil spring is disposed outside the first plunger, and urges the first plunger and the second plunger in a direction away from each other. The first plunger and the second plunger are fitted to each other so as to be slidable with respect to each other. The first plunger includes a large diameter pail, and a small diameter part provided on a proximal end side of the large diameter part. The small diameter part is fitted into the second plunger. The coil spring includes a close winding part on a side of the second plunger. Adjacent lines of the close winding parts are brought into close contact with each other and come into electrical contact with each other at least in a compressed state of the coil spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsugio YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20180335447Abstract: A contact probe includes a tube which is electrically conductive, a plunger which is electrically conductive and disposed in the tube at one end of the tube, and a spring which is disposed in the tube and urges the plunger in a projection direction. The tube includes a slant portion on an inner circumferential surface of the tube. The slant portion is inclined with respect to an axial direction of the tube. A base portion comes into contact with the slant portion and an inclination of the plunger varies, when the plunger retracts.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicant: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsugio YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20170248630Abstract: A socket includes: a contact probe; and an insulating support body supporting the contact probe. The contact probe includes: a first plunger to be connected with an object to be inspected; a second plunger to be connected with an inspecting board; and a spring configured to urge the first plunger and the second plunger in a direction apart from each other. In a state where a tip end of the first plunger is released, a projecting amount of the second plunger from the insulating support body is zero with a natural length of the spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2017Publication date: August 31, 2017Applicant: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsugio YAMAMOTO, Kenichi SATO, Takayoshi OKUNO
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Patent number: 8723540Abstract: A contact probe includes: a first and second plungers, one of the first and second plungers being connected to an object to be inspected, the other being connected to an inspecting board; and a spring urging the first and second plungers so as to be separated from each other. The first plunger includes a distal end side columnar part and a flange part. The flange part includes a first portion that has a first length from a center point, which is, greater than a radius of the distal end side columnar part, in a first direction perpendicular to an axial direction, and includes a second portion that has a second length from the center point, which is smaller than the radius of the distal end side columnar part, in a second direction perpendicular to the axial direction and different from the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2012Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Yokowo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsugio Yamamoto, Takeshi Todoroki
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Publication number: 20140076210Abstract: The present invention includes: a mill main body with a material feed pipe for feeding a biomass material from above in a vertical axis direction; a mill table on which the fed biomass material is placed; a drive unit rotating and driving the mill table; a mill roller that operates in conjunction with rotation of the mill table to mill the biomass material by a pressing force; and a ventilation means that forms an upward flow to blow out a carrier gas to convey milled biomass powder, wherein the mill main body has a barrel part decreased in diameter in the middle thereof in the vertical axis direction, and the mill main body has on a top plate thereof a plurality of discharge tubes circumferentially arranged for discharging the biomass powder on a line extended from the diameter-decreased barrel part in the vertical axis direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2011Publication date: March 20, 2014Inventors: Takuichiro Daimaru, Tsugio Yamamoto, Kenichi Arima, Masaaki Kinoshita, Kazuhiro Tekeuchi, Norichika Kai, Yoshishige Uematsu
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Patent number: 8657221Abstract: A roller mill structure which achieves uniform distribution of fine particles passed through a rotary classifier to fine particle exits disposed at four points when conveying as pulverized coal milled in the roller mill on the air current is provided. A roller mill structure is configured to discharge pulverized coal obtained by milling a raw coal, which is loaded in a mill body (11), from fine particle exits (14) formed on the top of the mill body so as to be quartered in the circumferential direction to the outside by air current conveyance.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2008Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Matsumoto, Tsugio Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Masahiko Taniguchi
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Patent number: 8622328Abstract: In a vertical roller mill in which a fixed-type cyclone sorter is provided in a casing, the fixed-type cyclone sorter includes a conical member; a fixed-blade entrance window through which a solid-gas two-phase flow is introduced into the interior of the conical member; a flat plate-like fixed blade that causes the solid-gas two-phase flow to spiral; an inner cylinder into which pulverized coal is guided from the bottom end thereof toward the top end thereof by means of spiraling of the solid-gas two-phase flow; and a pulverized-coal exit through which the pulverized coal guided to the top end of the inner cylinder is guided outside the conical member, wherein the fixed blade is provided with a tip portion where a downward flow is increased for the solid-gas two-phase flow guided into the interior of the conical member from the fixed-blade entrance window.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Matsumoto, Takashi Tsutsuba, Koki Matsuzaki, Sotaro Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro Sueoka, Kenichi Arima, Tsugio Yamamoto, Takuichiro Daimaru
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Publication number: 20130327861Abstract: In a vertical roller mill in which a fixed-type cyclone sorter is provided in a casing, the fixed-type cyclone sorter includes a conical member; a fixed-blade entrance window through which a solid-gas two-phase flow is introduced into the interior of the conical member; a flat plate-like fixed blade that causes the solid-gas two-phase flow to spiral; an inner cylinder into which pulverized coal is guided from the bottom end thereof toward the top end thereof by means of spiraling of the solid-gas two-phase flow; and a pulverized-coal exit through which the pulverized coal guided to the top end of the inner cylinder is guided outside the conical member, wherein the fixed blade is provided with a tip portion where a downward flow is increased for the solid-gas two-phase flow guided into the interior of the conical member from the fixed-blade entrance window.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2011Publication date: December 12, 2013Inventors: Shinji Matsumoto, Takashi Tsutsuba, Koki Matsuzaki, Sotaro Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro Sueoka, Kenichi Arima, Tsugio Yamamoto, Takuichiro Daimaru
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Patent number: 8590464Abstract: To achieve an improvement in concentration distribution in a vertical direction at an inlet of a pulverized coal distributor and uniformly distribute pulverized coal to respective pulverized coal burners.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2008Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Matsumoto, Tsugio Yamamoto, Masahiko Taniguchi, Kazuhiro Takeuchi