Patents by Inventor Yasushi Sugiyama

Yasushi Sugiyama 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: 20150317706
    Abstract: Provided is a server device whereby more customers are gathered at a store, and the spending per customer is increased. In a server device (50): a storage unit (54) stores charging parameters corresponding to purchase costs; a wired communication unit (53) receives information of the purchase cost which is inputted into a cash register; and a generating unit (55a) retrieves, from the charging parameters which are stored in the storage unit (54), the charging parameter corresponding to the purchase cost which is received by the wired communication unit (53), and, on the basis of the charging parameter, generates charging information which indicates either the charging time or the charging quantity at which a power outlet carries out charging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Kotaro SAKATA, Yasushi SUGIYAMA, Kimio MINAMI
  • Patent number: 9126495
    Abstract: A reverse polarity protection circuit includes a p-channel MOSFET, an n-channel MOSFET, zener diodes, a coil that suppresses a backward flow of an electric current, a resistor that retains a voltage difference between a source of the p-channel MOSFET and a drain of the n-channel MOSFET, a resistor that protects the circuit if short-circuit destruction of the p-channel MOSFET occurs, a resistor that protects the circuit if short-circuit destruction of the n-channel MOSFET occurs, an electrolytic capacitor that suppresses fluctuation in an input voltage to a power supply control IC, a battery that supplies a voltage to an ECU, and the power supply control IC that generates a voltage for causing an IC in the ECU to operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Sugiyama, Takuya Mayuzumi, Yasuhiko Okada, Kiyoomi Kadoya
  • Publication number: 20150039913
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic control unit capable of identifying an abnormality in a power supply voltage without narrowing the operating voltage range, and having minimal effects on cost and the circuit mounting surface area. The ECU includes a microcomputer containing an input terminal VCCin and an input terminal Vrin, a power supply IC that supplies a power supply voltage VCC to the input terminal VCCin, and as a reference-voltage-generator circuit a voltage-divider resistor and a voltage-divider resistor configuring a voltage-dividing circuit that outputs a sub-divided voltage Vc is sub-divided from the power supply voltage VCC, a capacitor coupled at one end to the input terminal Vrin and coupled on at the other end to ground, and a voltage isolation element coupled between the voltage-dividing circuit and the input terminal Vrin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yasushi Sugiyama, Takuya Mayuzumi, Ryosuke Ishida, Yasuhiko Okada, Kiyoomi Kadoya, Kenichi Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20150029682
    Abstract: Proposed is a C/U that is designed to accomplish the above object. The CU includes a multilayer circuit substrate, a resin cover, and a metal base. Electronic parts are mounted on both surfaces of the multilayer circuit substrate which is covered with the resin cover and the metal base. The multilayer circuit substrate 8 includes a signal pattern, a GND pattern, an important signal pattern, and a multilayer circuit substrate insulating layer. The GND pattern is electrically connected to the metal base through a screw. The GND pattern is disposed on the side of the resin cover in order to shield the important signal pattern against electromagnetic waves penetrating the resin cover to enter a housing and electromagnetic waves incident from the metal base side. The important signal pattern is disposed so that it is covered with the GND pattern and the metal case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoomi Kadoya, Ryosuke Ishida, Takuya Mayuzumi, Kenichi Hoshino, Yasuhiko Okada, Yasushi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 8617419
    Abstract: The present invention relates to dielectrically positive, preferably nematic, media comprising one or more polymerisable compounds of formula I in which the parameters have the meaning given in the text, to polymer-stabilized media obtained therefrom, to the use thereof in liquid-crystal displays, and to these displays, in particular PSA-IPS, PSA-FFS and PSA-positive VA displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Sayuri Ohgiri, Masahiko Okamura, Yasushi Sugiyama, Hideo Ichinose
  • Publication number: 20130193754
    Abstract: A reverse polarity protection circuit includes a p-channel MOSFET, an n-channel MOSFET, zener diodes, a coil that suppresses a backward flow of an electric current, a resistor that retains a voltage difference between a source of the p-channel MOSFET and a drain of the n-channel MOSFET, a resistor that protects the circuit if short-circuit destruction of the p-channel MOSFET occurs, a resistor that protects the circuit if short-circuit destruction of the n-channel MOSFET occurs, an electrolytic capacitor that suppresses fluctuation in an input voltage to a power supply control IC, a battery that supplies a voltage to an ECU, and the power supply control IC that generates a voltage for causing an IC in the ECU to operate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Yasushi SUGIYAMA, Takuya MAYUZUMI, Yasuhiko OKADA, Kiyoomi KADOYA
  • Patent number: 8394467
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to dielectrically positive nematic media comprising one or more compounds of formula I and one or more compounds of formulae II and III and optionally one or more compounds of formulae IV and V and liquid crystal devices comprising these media and especially to fast switching electro-optical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Yuko Arai, Takanori Takeda, Yasushi Sugiyama, Hideo Ichinose
  • Publication number: 20120256124
    Abstract: The present invention relates to dielectrically positive, preferably nematic, media comprising one or more polymerisable compounds of formula I in which the parameters have the meaning given in the text, to polymer-stabilised media obtained therefrom, to the use thereof in liquid-crystal displays, and to these displays, in particular PSA-IPS, PSA-FFS and PSA-positive VA displays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Sayuri OHGIRI, Masahiko OKAMURA, Yasushi SUGIYAMA, Hideo ICHINOSE
  • Publication number: 20110234968
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to dielectrically positive nematic media comprising one or more compounds of formula I and one or more compounds of formulae II and III and optionally one or more compounds of formulae IV and V and liquid crystal devices comprising these media and especially to fast switching electro-optical devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Yuko Arai, Takanori Takeda, Yasushi Sugiyama, Hideo Ichinose
  • Patent number: 7789210
    Abstract: To make it unnecessary to insert a plate spring as a separate part between a metal ring (2) and a mating member (11) to be coupled therewith such as a clutch plate, and reduce the number of parts and the assembly manhours, the sealing device (1) includes the metal ring (2) and seal sections (3) such as packings supported by the metal ring (2), and the metal ring (2) is provided with a intimate-contact region (4) for intimately contacting to the mating member (11) to be coupled, wherein the sealing device (1) is characterized in that the intimate-contact region (4) of the metal ring (2) is integrally formed with pawl-like intimate-contact sections (6) which are in the form of a pawl and which exert spring force on the mating member (11) to be coupled, and is used, for example, as a bonded piston seal (BPS) in an automatic transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunari Hamaya, Kiichiro Goto, Ken Yoshikawa, Shinji Nagasawa, Yoshiyuki Kanzaki, Yasushi Sugiyama, Hiroyuki Nikamoto
  • Patent number: 7667455
    Abstract: An annular magnetic encoder is provided in which a plurality of S magnetic poles and N magnetic poles are alternately arranged in an arrangement pattern. The arrangement pattern comprises: a plurality of index parts provided in a circumferential direction at fixed intervals; a plurality of standard pitch parts provided between the index parts; and a plurality of specific pitch parts provided in all of the standard pitch parts or in the standard pitch parts other than one standard pitch part, where the specific pitch parts are arranged in different positions within each of the standard pitch parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Sugiyama, Hiroyuki Nikamoto, Takashi Ota, Junichi Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20080061771
    Abstract: An annular magnetic encoder in which a plurality of S poles and N poles, the S poles and the N poles being magnetic poles, are alternately arranged, the magnetic encoder has a structure in which a change in width of the magnetic poles in a rotational direction according to a rotational angle allows the rotational angle to be specified, so that little rotation can specify a rotational angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Sugiyama, Hiroyuki Nikamoto, Takashi Ota, Junichi Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20070256557
    Abstract: To make it unnecessary to insert a plate spring as a separate part between a metal ring (2) and a mating member (11) to be coupled therewith such as a clutch plate, and reduce the number of parts and the assembly manhours, the sealing device (1) includes the metal ring (2) and seal sections (3) such as packings supported by the metal ring (2), and the metal ring (2) is provided with a intimate-contact region (4) for intimately contacting to the mating member (11) to be coupled, wherein the sealing device (1) is characterized in that the intimate-contact region (4) of the metal ring (2) is integrally formed with pawl-like intimate-contact sections (6) which are in the form of a pawl and which exert spring force on the mating member (11) to be coupled, and is used, for example, as a bonded piston seal (BPS) in an automatic transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunari Hamaya, Kiichiro Goto, Ken Yoshikawa, Shinji Nagasawa, Yoshiyuki Kanzaki, Yasushi Sugiyama, Hiroyuki Nikamoto
  • Patent number: 7288295
    Abstract: Liquid crystal media based on a mixture of polar compounds of formulae I-VIII, their use for electro-optical purposes, and displays containing this medium, are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignees: Merck Patent GmbH, Sharp Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Ichinose, Yasushi Sugiyama, Takanori Takeda, Jeong-Hee Sung, Masako Nakamura, Yoshito Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Toshihiro Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20060115605
    Abstract: Liquid crystal media based on a mixture of polar compounds of formulae I-VIII, their use for electro-optical purposes, and displays containing this medium, are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Hideo Ichinose, Yasushi Sugiyama, Takanori Takeda, Jeong-Hee Sung, Masako Nakamura, Yoshito Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Toshihiro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 6793985
    Abstract: Liquid crystalline media comprising a dielectrically positive component A, comprising compounds of formula I wherein the parameters have the meanings given herein, are suitable for use in liquid crystal displays, especially to active matrix displays and in particular IPS displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Shinji Nakajima, Yasushi Sugiyama, Yukiomi Tanaka, Takanori Takeda, Hideo Ichinose
  • Patent number: 6790488
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of polar compounds having positive dielectric anisotropy, characterized in that it comprises one or more compounds of general formula (I) and one or more compounds of general formula (I*) in which R, R1*, R2*, A1, Z1, Y, L, L1*, L2*, m, x and y are as defined in claim 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Shinji Nakajima, Akiko Takashima, Yasushi Sugiyama, Hideo Ichinose
  • Patent number: 6764723
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium based on a mixture of polar compounds having negative dielectric anisotropy, which contains at least one compound of formula I wherein R1 and R2 are independently of each other an alkyl, alkoxy or alkenyl group with 1 to 12 C atoms, it also being possible for one or more CH2 groups in these radicals to be replaced, in each case independently of one another, by —O—, —CH═CH—, —CO—, —OCO— or —COO— in such a manner that oxygen atoms are not linked directly to one another, Z is OCH2 or CH2O, and m is 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Seung-Eun Lee, Nobuo Kubo, Masahiro Iijima, Hideo Ichinose, Yukiomi Tanaka, Shinji Nakajima, Yasushi Sugiyama, Takanori Takeda
  • Patent number: 6692796
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to liquid crystal media comprising a component A, comprising one or more compounds of formula I and a component B, comprising one or more compounds of formula II wherein the parameters are as defined in the text and to liquid crystal displays comprising these media, in particular to TN AMD displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
    Inventors: Hideo Ichinose, Shinji Nakajima, Yasushi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20030161971
    Abstract: Liquid crystalline media comprising a dielectrically positive component A, comprising compounds of formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Shinji Nakajima, Yasushi Sugiyama, Yukiomi Tanaka, Takanori Takeda, Hideo Ichinose