Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Inoue

Yasuhiro Inoue 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: 10469678
    Abstract: A switch operation erroneous-detection avoidance device includes: an execution control unit that if a prescribed device executes a prescribed process with a portable object when an operation switch transits from a pressed state to an unpressed state, prohibits execution of a process associated with the operation switch and if the prescribed device does not execute the prescribed process with the portable object when the operation switch transits from the pressed state to the unpressed state, permits the execution of the process associated with the operation switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 10450218
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle-mounted display device disposed in an interior member of a vehicle. The vehicle-mounted display device of the invention includes: a display panel; a cover glass covering the display panel; a housing accommodating the display panel; and a holding portion holding a position of the housing, in which the cover glass is a tempered glass having a thickness being 0.5 to 2.5 mm, a thickness of a compressive stress layer being 10 ?m or more, and a surface compressive stress of a compressive layer being 650 MPa or higher, and when the thickness (unit: mm) of the cover glass is represented by x and an energy absorption rate (unit: %) of the holding portion is represented by y. Expression (1) is satisfied, and impact resistance of the cover glass is excellent: y??37.1×ln(x)+53.7??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kyohei Hashimoto, Atsushi Inoue, Yasuhiro Inoue, Yasumasa Kato, Yasuji Fukasawa, Yusuke Kobayashi, Masaaki Konishi
  • Publication number: 20190217208
    Abstract: This case is a case configured to accommodate a controller, the controller including: a first main surface; a second main surface provided on a side opposite to the first main surface; a first side surface and a second side surface provided on both ends in a longer direction of the first main surface and the second main surface; and a first side end surface and a second side end surface provided on both ends in a shorter direction of the first main surface and the second main surface. The controller further includes: a first operation portion provided on the first main surface; a second operation portion provided on the first end surface; a third operation portion provided on the second main surface; and an image capturing section provided on the second end surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Shinji HIROSE, Yasuhiro INOUE, Yuki IJIRI, Shinichi KASUNO
  • Publication number: 20190192962
    Abstract: An example game system includes a plurality of types of sub devices, and a main device capable of being attached to and detached from any of the sub devices, and executes a game application. The game system determines the type of the sub device to which the main device is attached while the game application is being executed. The game system executes a game process based on a game operation performed by using the main device and/or the sub device to which the main device is attached while the game application is being executed. The game system executes a game process depending on the determined type of the sub device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Shinichi KASUNO, Yuki ONOZAWA, Yuki IJIRI, Yasuhiro INOUE, Shinji HIROSE
  • Patent number: 10328350
    Abstract: An example attachment is attachable to a game controller including a controller-side slide portion on which a controller-side operation button is provided. The attachment includes an attachment-side slide portion and an attachment-side operation button. The attachment-side slide portion is provided on a first surface of the attachment, wherein the attachment-side slide portion is configured to slidably engage with the controller-side slide portion in a predetermined slide direction, and wherein the controller-side slide portion is insertable into the attachment-side slide portion from a first side in the slide direction. The attachment-side operation button is capable of protruding from a second surface on a reverse side from the first surface. The attachment-side operation button includes a actuation portion capable of protruding from the first surface, thereby pressing the controller-side operation button, in response to an operation of pressing the attachment-side operation button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Furuike, Yasuhiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20190134940
    Abstract: To provide a cover member excellent in edge safety, and a display device in which said cover member is used. A cover member which covers a display panel of a display device and which has a front surface that does not face the display panel and a rear surface that faces the display panel, said cover member being a laminate in which a first glass plate constituting said front surface and a second glass plate constituting said rear surface are bonded via an intermediate film interposed therebetween, wherein the first glass plate has a first inside chamfer which is a chamfer on the intermediate film side, and the first inside chamfer and the second glass plate or the intermediate film are bonded by a resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi INOUE, Yasuhiro INOUE, Kyohei HASHIMOTO, Takashi SHIBUYA
  • Publication number: 20190116278
    Abstract: A switch operation erroneous-detection avoidance device includes: an execution control unit that if a prescribed device executes a prescribed process with a portable object when an operation switch transits from a pressed state to an unpressed state, prohibits execution of a process associated with the operation switch and if the prescribed device does not execute the prescribed process with the portable object when the operation switch transits from the pressed state to the unpressed state, permits the execution of the process associated with the operation switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventor: YASUHIRO INOUE
  • Publication number: 20190101787
    Abstract: A transparent substrate includes a first principal surface; a second principal surface as a principal surface on the opposite side of the first principal surface; a lateral surface extending between the first principal surface and the second principal surface; and a first boundary surface disposed between the first principal surface and the lateral surface and having a plurality of concave portions; wherein the first boundary surface is configured such that each of the concave portions has a bottom with a curvature and that the frequency of a maximum curvature is less than 3% in a frequency distribution of the curvatures of the concave portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro INOUE, Atsushi Inoue, Ryou Hokari, Kensuke Fujii
  • Publication number: 20190104225
    Abstract: An operation switch press erroneous-detection avoidance device, if an operation on an operation switch is performed by an approaching object to the operation switch, in a case where the operation on the operation switch is detected during a period when an event which occurs in association with the operation on the operation switch occurs, prohibits a process associated with the operation switch from being activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventor: YASUHIRO INOUE
  • Publication number: 20190094604
    Abstract: A cover glass for covering a display panel of a display device, includes a front surface not to be faced to the display panel, a back surface to be faced the display panel, a front-side chamfered part which is a chamfered part on the side of the front surface, and a back-side chamfered part which is a chamfered part on the side of the back surface. The front-side chamfered part has a surface roughness Ra of more than 100 nm. The back-side chamfered part has a surface roughness Ra of 100 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi INOUE, Yasuhiro Inoue, Takeaki Ono, Kyohei Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20180234563
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, includes: a short-range wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication with a mobile terminal that is in proximity; an operating portion that receives operational instructions from a user; and an operation panel having a communication area of the short-range wireless communication unit and an operation area of the operating portion on the same surface. The operation panel is constructed such that the communication area of the short-range wireless communication unit is arranged around a corner portion on the near side of the operation area where the operating portion of the operation panel is arranged, as viewed from the user side who operates the operation panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Megumi IDO, Yasuhiro INOUE, Yosuke KASHU, Masahiro KAWANO, Toshiyuki KONISHI
  • Publication number: 20180099225
    Abstract: An example attachment is attachable to a game controller including a controller-side slide portion on which a controller-side operation button is provided. The attachment includes an attachment-side slide portion and an attachment-side operation button. The attachment-side slide portion is provided on a first surface of the attachment, wherein the attachment-side slide portion is configured to slidably engage with the controller-side slide portion in a predetermined slide direction, and wherein the controller-side slide portion is insertable into the attachment-side slide portion from a first side in the slide direction. The attachment-side operation button is capable of protruding from a second surface on a reverse side from the first surface. The attachment-side operation button includes a actuation portion capable of protruding from the first surface, thereby pressing the controller-side operation button, in response to an operation of pressing the attachment-side operation button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Hironori FURUIKE, Yasuhiro INOUE
  • Publication number: 20180065881
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle-mounted display device disposed in an interior member of a vehicle. The vehicle-mounted display device of the invention includes: a display panel; a cover glass covering the display panel; a housing accommodating the display panel; and a holding portion holding a position of the housing, in which the cover glass is a tempered glass having a thickness being 0.5 to 2.5 mm, a thickness of a compressive stress layer being 650 MPa or higher, and when the thickness (unit: mm) of the cover glass is represented by x and an energy absorption rate (unit: %) of the holding portion is represented by y. Expression (1) is satisfied, and impact resistance of the cover glass is excellent: y??37.1×ln(x)+53.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kyohei HASHIMOTO, Atsushi INOUE, Yasuhiro INOUE, Yasumasa KATO, Yasuji FUKASAWA, Yusuke KOBAYASHI, Masaaki KONISHI
  • TOY
    Publication number: 20160292562
    Abstract: A non-limiting example toy is a toy of a soft toy type, and includes an outer cover and filler that is filled inside the outer cover. A buttock portion of a stuffed toy is formed with a flat surface or approximately flat surface, and an ornament member is sewn on a surface side of the outer cover. A reinforcing member is adhered on a back side of the outer cover in a position corresponding to the ornament member. An IC tag is stuck on this reinforcing member. A user passes the stuffed toy over a reader/writer by bringing the buttock portion (hips portion) of the stuffed toy providing with the ornament member into contact to the reader/writer or by putting (sitting down) the stuffed toy on the reader/writer. Accordingly, tag information is read or tag information is rewritten.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Kenichiro ASHIDA, Emi WATANABE, Yasuhiro INOUE, Yusuke KANEDA
  • Patent number: 8900744
    Abstract: A battery case comprises a tray member (20), a cover member (22), a first holding member (24) of a metal arranged to contact a tray flange (32) with its outer circumferential edge portion projecting outward from the tray flange by a predetermined length, a second holding member (26) of a metal arranged to contact a cover flange (36) with its outer circumferential edge portion projecting outward from the cover flange by a predetermined length, and a fastening means (28, 29) fastening the first and second holding members together at a predetermined location outwardly away from the tray and cover flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Weng Leong Loo, Yutaka Fujiwara, Hideki Yoshioka, Yasuhiro Inoue, Fumihiro Ogata, Seiichi Takasaki, Hideki Honjo
  • Patent number: 8680737
    Abstract: A stator 3 is provided with a plurality of magnetic poles 3a on the outer circumference thereof, and is configured from a plurality of layers of plate-shaped members. A rotor 4 is rotatably disposed around the stator. The inner circumferential face of the rotor is provided with a magnet 5. The outer circumferential ends of the magnetic poles of the stator are provided with an extended portion that is bent such that at least one plate-shaped member, including an outermost layer, of the plurality of plate-shaped members is substantially parallel to the magnet. When the inner diameter of a bent portion of a plate-shaped member that is the closest to the magnet of the at least one plate-shaped member constituting the extended portion is taken as R1i, and the thickness of the closest plate-shaped member is taken as T1, R1i<T1 is satisfied. Accordingly, it is possible to improve the driving efficiency of an outer rotor-type motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kawasaki, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Atsuyoshi Koshiba, Koji Kadowaki, Yasuo Kunishige, Yasuhiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 8405276
    Abstract: The motor comprises a stator, a rotor, and magnets. The stator has a plurality of magnetic poles circumferentially arranged at first spaced intervals. The rotor is rotatably arranged in a position opposing to the stator. The magnets are arranged at second spaced intervals circumferentially on a surface of the rotor. The stator is formed by laminating plate materials, and a plurality of laminated plate materials at least including outermost layers of a laminated body thereof are bent in a direction substantially parallel to the magnet in order to form extended portions. And, when a magnet opposed area of pole tip portion being closest to a magnet including the extended portion is S, and a sectional area of magnetic pole is A, then area ratio (S/A) fulfills the relation of 4.8>(S/A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kawasaki, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Atsuyoshi Koshiba, Yasuhiro Inoue, Koji Kadowaki, Yasuo Kunishige
  • Publication number: 20120321927
    Abstract: A battery case for a vehicle includes a tray member (22) made of resin and configured to hold a battery (38), one or more beam members (30) arranged so as to extend in at least one of width and longitudinal directions of the tray member, the one or more beam members supporting the tray member and having a recess (50) formed therein, and a bottom wall (58) interposed between the tray member and the one or more beam members and closing an aperture plane of the recess of the one or more beam members to form a closed cross-section, the bottom wall being constituted by a continuous metal plate underlying a bottom plate of the tray member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Weng Leong Loo, Yutaka Fujiwara, Hideki Yoshioka, Yasuhiro Inoue, Fumihiro Ogata, Seiichi Takasaki, Hideki Honjo
  • Publication number: 20120301765
    Abstract: A battery case for a vehicle includes a tray member of resin, configured to hold batteries and having a plurality of projections formed on a bottom thereof, and a tray reinforcing member arranged so as to face the outer surface of the tray member and having at least one reinforcing member constituted by a metal plate, the reinforcing member being arranged on one side of the tray reinforcing member facing the tray member and raised from the one side of the tray reinforcing member. A recess is formed at least in the outer surface of one of the projections so as to correspond in position to the reinforcing member, and the reinforcing member is received in the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Weng Leong Loo, Yutaka Fujiwara, Hideki Yoshioka, Yasuhiro Inoue, Fumihiro Ogata, Seiichi Takasaki, Hideki Honjo
  • Publication number: 20120164500
    Abstract: A battery case comprises a tray member (20), a cover member (22), a first holding member (24) of a metal arranged to contact a tray flange (32) with its outer circumferential edge portion projecting outward from the tray flange by a predetermined length, a second holding member (26) of a metal arranged to contact a cover flange (36) with its outer circumferential edge portion projecting outward from the cover flange by a predetermined length, and a fastening means (28, 29) fastening the first and second holding members together at a predetermined location outwardly away from the tray and cover flanges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Weng Leong Loo, Yutaka Fujiwara, Hideki Yoshioka, Yasuhiro Inoue, Fumihiro Ogata, Seiichi Takasaki, Hideki Honjo