Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Yamada
Tsutomu 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).
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Publication number: 20090160819Abstract: The present invention is an inner touch panel in which a 1st and a 2nd planer member, each having an electrode disposed on one surface thereof, oppose each other with a fixed space therebetween. The electrodes face each other across the space, and a polarizing plate is stacked on the other surface of the 1st planer member. At least one of the 1st and the 2nd planer members is a film made of a siloxane crosslinking acrylic silicone resin. Here, in the case of having a thickness in the range of 0.1 mm and 0.4 mm, the film maintains, after heat treatment at 120° C. for 1000 hours, 96% or more of the visible light transmittance at a wavelength of 400 nm before the heat treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2005Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: Kuniaki Sasaki, Kunitomo Tsureyama, Shuji Furukawa, Hirotoshi Sato, Tsutomu Yamada, Keiji Tsukamoto, Masanori Yamamoto, Takumi Sakamoto, Hideaki Mizumoto
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Patent number: 7502083Abstract: On a first substrate are formed a TFT provided to each pixel, an insulating film which covers the TFT, and a reflective layer which is provided on the insulating film so as to be insulated from the TFT and reflects light incident from a second substrate side. The reflective layer is covered with a passivation film on which a first electrode made of a transparent conductive material, such as ITO having the work function equivalent to a second electrode, is formed and connected to the TFT. The passivation film covering the reflective layer prevents the reflective surface of the reflective layer from deteriorating in reflection properties during a process for connecting the TFT and the first electrode. Further, the first and second electrodes having similar characteristics can symmetrically AC drive the liquid crystal layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2007Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuhiko Oda, Satoshi Ishida, Tsutomu Yamada
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Patent number: 7482746Abstract: A reflective layer for reflecting light incident from a second substrate side and transmitting through a second electrode made of ITO or the like is formed above a first substrate, a switching element provided for each pixel, and an insulating film covering the switching element, the reflective layer being insulated from the switching element. A first electrode having a work function similar to the second electrode and made of a transparent conductive material such as ITO is formed more proximate to a liquid crystal layer than is the reflective layer and is connected to the switching element. The thickness of the first electrode is set to 100 ? or less or in a range approximately from 750 ? to 1250 ?. Alternatively, the switching element maybe connected to the reflective electrode, the first electrode and the reflective electrode which are formed with an insulating film therebetween may be capacitively coupled, and the first electrode may be driven by the reflective electrode via the capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2006Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Ogawa, Kazuhiro Inoue, Norio Koma, Nobuhiko Oda, Satoshi Ishida, Tsutomu Yamada, Tohru Yamashita
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Publication number: 20090013221Abstract: To reset only the CPU in a component in an abnormal condition without affecting CPUs of components in a normal condition, a multi-component system, in which a plurality of components each including at least a CPU are connected via a common bus to each other, includes a first reset signal generating unit which generates a reset signal by a switch operation to send the reset signal to respective components and a judge unit which is disposed in each component to determine whether or not resetting of a CPU is allowed. The judge unit inhibits, if the CPU is in a normal condition, the resetting of the CPU in response to the reset signal and resets, if the CPU is in an abnormal condition, the CPU in response to the reset signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2008Publication date: January 8, 2009Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment System Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norihisa Yanagihara, Hajime Kihara, Tsutomu Yamada, Makiko Naemura, Kenji Seino
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Publication number: 20080313326Abstract: The information processor includes a device communication performance management module. The device communication performance management module includes: a communication performance evaluation unit that measures and evaluates the communication performance with respect to a device to be used when it is used by a device-use application; a device naming rule management unit that manages a naming rule for incorporating the communication performance evaluated by the communication performance evaluation unit into the name of the device file for a device as the target of evaluation; and a device file management unit that creates a device file for a device as the target of evaluation in accordance with the naming rule based on the result of communication performance evaluation. The result of communication performance evaluation by the communication performance evaluation unit is incorporated into the name of a device file and the evaluation result is thereby provided to a device-use application.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2008Publication date: December 18, 2008Inventors: Tatsuya MARUYAMA, Tsutomu Yamada, Hisanori Nonaka, Hiromichi Endoh
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Patent number: 7439114Abstract: For obtaining p-Si by irradiating a laser beam to an a-Si layer to polycrystallize, an energy level in a region to be irradiated by the laser beam is set such that a level at the rear area of the region along a scan direction of the laser beam is lower than that at the front area or the center area of the region. The energy level at the front area or the center area of the region is set such that it is substantially equal to or more than the upper limit energy level which maximizes a grain size of the p-Si obtained. Since an energy profile is set as described above, when the laser beam is scanned on the a-Si layer, an irradiated energy of the laser on the region is gradually lowered from the upper limit as the laser beam passes through, which allows the semiconductor layer to be annealed within an optimal energy level during the latter half of the annealing process.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2005Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidenori Ogata, Ken Wakita, Kiyoshi Yoneda, Yoshihiro Morimoto, Tsutomu Yamada, Kazuhiro Imao, Takashi Kuwahara
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Publication number: 20080222405Abstract: An initialization data generator includes a task database in which task descriptions for initializing a computer are specified related with task IDs and an initialization database in which initialization data descriptions for initializing a computer are stored related with initialization data IDs. The initialization data generator takes input of the computer ID of a computer to be initialized and task data, reads task descriptions and initialization data descriptions according to task ordering related with the task data from the task database and the initialization database, based on the task IDs, task ordering, and the initialization data IDs for software modules which are loaded into the computer to be initialized by the tasks corresponding to the task IDs, specified in the task data, and generates and transfers initialization data to the computer to be initialized, thereby initializing the computer to be initialized.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2008Publication date: September 11, 2008Inventors: Tsutomu YAMADA, Hisanori Nonaka, Tatsuya Maruyama, Hiromichi Endoh, Noritaka Matsumoto, Hideaki Suzuki
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Publication number: 20080195732Abstract: An information processor disclosed herein prevents adverse impacts on higher priority processing due to extremely frequent receive processing when inbound traffic from a network is over-traffic state (under a DoS attack). The information processor attached to a network collects information about traffic state and, if it is determined that over-traffic state is present, deactivates the communication processing function without passing an interrupt request due to communication to the data processing block. In this state, the information processor continues to collect information about traffic state and, when it is determined that over-traffic state has terminated, starts to transfer an interrupt request to the data processing block and makes the communication processing function recover.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2008Publication date: August 14, 2008Inventors: Tatsuya Maruyama, Tsutomu Yamada, Hideaki Suzuki, Norihisa Yanagihara, Makiko Naemura
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Publication number: 20080138589Abstract: The present invention provides a transparent planar body and a transparent touch switch that can improve visibility. Specifically, the transparent planar body (1) has a patterned transparent conductive film (12) on at least one surface of a transparent substrate (11). This transparent planar body (1) comprises a transmittance-adjusting layer for equalizing the transmission spectrum of light transmitted through a patterned region wherein the transparent conductive film (12) is provided via the transparent substrate (11) with that transmitted through a non-patterned region wherein the transparent conductive film (12) is not provided via the transparent substrate (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: GUNZE LIMITEDInventors: Naohiro Wakabayashi, Tsutomu Yamada, Kuniaki Sasaki, Shuji Furukawa, Keiji Tsukamoto
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Publication number: 20080052647Abstract: A computer development apparatus includes hardware-parts where design data on hardware parts are caused to correspond to each other for each of information for identifying the hardware parts, software-parts where design data on software parts are caused to correspond to each other for each of information for identifying the software parts, relation for registering data for identifying a hardware part and a software part for each function of computer, the hardware part and the software part being necessary for implementing each function, constraint condition for specifying functions of a development-target computer, and extraction unit for identifying hardware part and software part by using the constraint condition and the relation, the hardware and software parts being necessary for implementing the functions included in the constraint condition, extracting, out of the hardware-parts and the software-parts, design data corresponding to the identified hardware part and software part, and outputting the extracType: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2007Publication date: February 28, 2008Inventors: Tsutomu Yamada, Tatsuya Maruyama, Hisanori Nonaka
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Publication number: 20080005256Abstract: A feedback control device capable of continuously performing high-accuracy, stable control even in cases where any of multiple controllers for controlling a controlled system becomes incapable of control action. A controller (master controller) generates control data for stably controlling a heater by feedback control, controls the heater in accordance with the control data, and sends the control data to the other controller (slave controller). The slave controller receives the control data from the master controller but does not control the heater while the master controller is operating normally. If the master controller develops anomaly and becomes incapable of normal control action, the slave controller initiates feedback control of the heater in accordance with the control data received from the master controller immediately before the anomaly occurred, and controls the heater thereafter in accordance with control data generated thereby.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2007Publication date: January 3, 2008Inventors: Yoshiaki Shibayama, Yuichi Nagaki, Tsutomu Yamada, Hiroshi Oikawa
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Publication number: 20070263167Abstract: On a first substrate are formed a TFT provided to each pixel, an insulating film which covers the TFT, and a reflective layer which is provided on the insulating film so as to be insulated from the TFT and reflects light incident from a second substrate side. The reflective layer is covered with a passivation film on which a first electrode made of a transparent conductive material, such as ITO having the work function equivalent to a second electrode, is formed and connected to the TFT. The passivation film covering the reflective layer prevents the reflective surface of the reflective layer from deteriorating in reflection properties during a process for connecting the TFT and the first electrode. Further, the first and second electrodes having similar characteristics can symmetrically AC drive the liquid crystal layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2007Publication date: November 15, 2007Inventors: Nobuhiko Oda, Satoshi Ishida, Tsutomu Yamada
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Publication number: 20070266184Abstract: A modular computer system formed by connecting a processing module having a processor mounted thereon and a plurality of I/O modules in a stacked form via connectors, where differing ones of the plurality of I/O modules being differing types of I/O modules from one another, which operate with mutually differing types of bus-layout configurations. In accordance with the association of I/O modules with identification information, for each differing type of I/O module stacked via the connectors, said processing module selects from differing preset bus-layout configurations and device drivers from a memory, to dynamically reconfigure the reconfigurable generic bus for accessing the differing type of I/O module.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2007Publication date: November 15, 2007Inventors: Tsutomu YAMADA, Tetsuaki Nakamikawa, Hiromichi Endoh, Noritaka Matsumoto, Hirokazu Kasashima
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Patent number: 7272665Abstract: Without being restrained to a specific bus scheme, kinds of I/O modules connected to a processing module can be discriminated. Module exclusive selection parts respectively provided in I/O modules connected in a stacked form to a processing module via connectors judge only a module select signal input from terminals in the same position on processing module side connectors to be active. Based thereon, identification information of its own I/O module is output to a predetermined terminal on the connector. Without being restrained to a specific bus scheme, therefore, the processing module can acquire identification information of the I/O modules from a predetermined terminal on a connector. One I/O module can be selected by a simple module selection circuit scheme of inputting module select signals successively output from the processing module to terminals in the same position on processing module side connectors according to the connection order of the I/O modules.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2004Date of Patent: September 18, 2007Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Yamada, Tetsuaki Nakamikawa, Hiromichi Endoh, Noritaka Matsumoto, Hirokazu Kasashima
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Publication number: 20070200983Abstract: On a first substrate, a TFT which is a switching element is provided for each pixel, and above an insulating film covering this TFT, a reflective layer which is insulated from the TFT and which reflects light entering a second substrate and transmitting through a second electrode made of ITO is formed. Further, a first electrode having a work function similar to that of the second electrode and made of a transparent conductive material such as ITO is formed closer to a liquid crystal layer than the reflective layer, and this first electrode is connected with the TFT. With this configuration, the liquid crystal layer can be symmetrically AC driven by the first and second electrodes. A reliable connection between the first electrode and the TFT is provided through a connection metal layer made of a refractory metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2006Publication date: August 30, 2007Inventors: Kazuhiro Inoue, Norio Koma, Shinji Ogawa, Tohru Yamashita, Nobuhiko Oda, Satoshi Ishida, Tsutomu Yamada
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Patent number: 7259813Abstract: On a first substrate are formed a TFT provided to each pixel, an insulating film which covers the TFT, and a reflective layer which is provided on the insulating film so as to be insulated from the TFT and reflects light incident from a second substrate side. The reflective layer is covered with a passivation film on which a first electrode made of a transparent conductive material, such as ITO having the work function equivalent to a second electrode, is formed and connected to the TFT. The passivation film covering the reflective layer prevents the reflective surface of the reflective layer from deteriorating in reflection properties during a process for connecting the TFT and the first electrode. Further, the first and second electrodes having similar characteristics can symmetrically AC drive the liquid crystal layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2002Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuhiko Oda, Satoshi Ishida, Tsutomu Yamada
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Publication number: 20070156862Abstract: In a computer system in which a plurality of computers is connected through a network, each computer is allowed to utilize a function of another computer. There are provided policy information and autonomous configuration client for a client computer and server information and autonomous configuration server for a server computer. The policy information has information about a necessary function, a communication system corresponding to the function and application software. The client computer acquires the necessary function from the policy information and retrieves a server computer on the network. The server computer responds to the function that can be provided. The autonomous configuration client exchanges setting information with the autonomous configuration server and autonomously sets the communication system and the application software. The client computer utilizes the necessary function.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2006Publication date: July 5, 2007Inventors: Tsutomu Yamada, Hideaki Suzuki, Hiromichi Endoh, Satoru Funaki, Tatsuya Maruyama, Hisanori Nonaka
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Publication number: 20070112983Abstract: A computer system, being a stack bus system in which a plurality of computer modules are stacked and connected to one another and being capable of automatically matching and allocating bus resources such as clocks and interrupts, is provided. In the computer system including one system module and n peripheral modules, each peripheral module includes an interrupt selector, a clock selector, an arbitration signal selector, a resource decision unit, and a position identification unit. The position identification unit cooperates with a position configuration unit present in the system module to identify a position of the module, which includes the position identification unit, in the computer system, and autonomously decides bus resources used by the module. By allowing the interrupt selector, the clock selector, and the arbitration signal selector to select and use the decided bus resources, each peripheral module can match and configure the bus resources in the computer system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2006Publication date: May 17, 2007Inventors: Tsutomu Yamada, Hiromichi Endoh, Noritaka Matsumoto, Satoru Funaki, Tatsuya Maruyama, Atsushi Ito, Fumiyuki Tamura, Norihisa Yanagihara, Makiko Naemura
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Patent number: 7218370Abstract: A gate line is severed before the gate line reaches an Output portion of a vertical driving circuit of a display device, and the separated gate lines are connected by a metal wiring in an upper layer. The gate line is, for example, made of molybdenum, chrome, a molybdenum alloy or a chrome alloy, and the metal is made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy. Since the gate line is severed, the voltage stored in the gate line during the manufacturing process will not be discharged to the gate wiring of the thin film transistor, preventing the break down of the gate insulating layer of the thin film transistor.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Segawa, Masaaki Aota, Tsutomu Yamada
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Patent number: 7196756Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a display, in which the degradation of a displaying quality caused by a turbulently reflected light beam at the time of exposure can be suppressed. The display according to the present invention having a reflective region and a transmissive region comprises a projecting insulating layer formed in a region corresponding to the reflective region on a substrate and a light shielding layer formed under the projecting insulating layer and formed to extend at least up to a region in which a side end of the projecting insulating layer is located.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2004Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuhiko Oda, Tsutomu Yamada, Yasushi Miyajima, Shinji Ogawa