Patents by Inventor Yasuyuki Yamada

Yasuyuki 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).

  • Patent number: 8717526
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are disposed to face each other with liquid crystal interposed therebetween and a sealing material which is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate to seal the liquid crystal, wherein a side surface of the liquid crystal display device has a cut surface, and a first resin layer which is formed along the sealing material and has a height less than a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate in a display region and the sealing material are exposed at the cut surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukari Shigekura, Hiroshi Miyairi, Yasuyuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20140110688
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device of the invention includes an element substrate, an organic electroluminescent light-emitting element disposed on the element substrate, and a sealing film disposed on the organic electroluminescent light-emitting element, wherein the organic electroluminescent light-emitting element includes an anode formed of metal and disposed on the element substrate, a light-emitting layer disposed on the anode, and a transparent cathode disposed on the light-emitting layer, and the sealing film includes a light-transmittance-reducing layer colored in black.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoki NAKAMURA, Yasuyuki YAMADA, Tohru SASAKI
  • Patent number: 8682058
    Abstract: According to the embodiments, a plurality of positional relationships between a coordinate system for indicating a defect position on a wafer that is used by an inspection device and a coordinate system that is used in design data on a pattern is set, the defect position output by the inspection device and the design data are aligned by using each of the set positional relationships, and a local pattern of a portion in which the defect position is aligned is extracted from the design data for each positional relationship. Then, the extracted local pattern is classified based on a degree of matching of graphical feature. The number of classification patterns is calculated for each positional relationship. Then, a pattern dependence degree of the detected defect group is calculated by using the calculated number of classification patterns of each positional relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8524447
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a substance, which is easy to handle and enables the measurement of ATP with a high sensitivity regardless of the concentration of protein, and further a measuring method of ATP using the substance. Such object is solved with a fluorescence labelled fusion protein obtained by attaching two types of fluorescent substances of potential donor and acceptor for fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) respectively to a protein which can cause structural changes depending on ATP binding, namely ? protein, which is the subunit of ATP synthetase, and further solved by contacting the fluorescence labelled fusion protein with a subject substance and then measuring the fluorescence spectra.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: The New Industry Research Organization
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Noji, Hiromi Imamura, Ryota Iino, Yasuyuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20130209656
    Abstract: Problem: To provide a bitterness-masking agent and method that masks the bitterness of an edible substance containing a pharmaceutical product, food, or drink, whether a fine powder or a whole fruit, safely, cheaply, simply, with anti-bacterial and anti-degenerative properties over the long term even at room temperature and in a hydrated state, without destroying or altering the composition thereof, using an ingredient in use from early times, in order to have the edible substance absorbed by the stomach; and to provide an importation and exportation method for an edible material using same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8470398
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing single-hole hollow polymer particles having extremely uniform outer diameters and inner diameters with no need for classification operation. Further, the present invention provides single-hole hollow polymer particles produced by the method for producing single-hole hollow polymer particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamauchi, Yasuyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8465836
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing single-hole hollow polymer particles which have an extremely uniform outside diameter and inside diameter, and thus do not require a classifying operation. Further provided are single-hole hollow polymer particles produced by such a method for producing single-hole hollow polymer particles. The invention relates to a method for producing single-hole hollow polymer particles, which includes: preparing a dispersion of swollen particle droplets by mixing a seed particle dispersion obtained by dispersing uncrosslinked polymer-containing seed particles in a water-containing dispersion medium, with a radical polymerizable monomer, an oil-soluble solvent and an oil-soluble polymerization initiator, and causing the radical polymerizable monomer, the oil-soluble solvent and the oil-soluble polymerization initiator to be absorbed in the seed particles; and polymerizing the radical polymerizable monomer in the swollen particle droplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamauchi, Yasuyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8378350
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including first and second gate interconnections; a first pixel circuit disposed at one side of the first gate interconnection, the first pixel circuit including a first transistor, a gate electrode of the first transistor electrically connected to the first gate interconnection, a source electrode of the first transistor formed in a source layer, the source electrode including a first source electrode facing portion overlapping with the gate electrode; and a second pixel circuit disposed at the other side of the second gate interconnection, the second pixel circuit including a second transistor, a gate electrode of the second transistor electrically connected to the second gate interconnection, a source electrode of the second transistor formed in the source layer, the source electrode including a second source electrode facing portion overlapping with the gate electrode and stretched along the first source electrode facing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryouhei Suzuki, Yasuyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8363199
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including: a first substrate and a second substrate which are arranged so as to be opposed to each other for sandwiching a liquid crystal; an image display portion; a sealing material which seals the liquid crystal; and a light-shielding film which is formed on a liquid crystal side of the second substrate so that a part of the light-shielding film extends beyond the image display portion to overlap with the sealing material, and which has openings in the image display portion, at least in regions of the multiple pixels, in which the part of the light-shielding film that overlaps with the sealing material has a recessed portion formed on a sealing material side of the light-shielding film continuously or discontinuously along a circumferential direction of the sealing material, to a depth that is smaller than a thickness of the light-shielding film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuninobu Sekiya, Yasuyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8351011
    Abstract: In an liquid crystal display device which includes: an image display part having a plurality of pixels; and a sealing member which is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate while surrounding the image display part and seals the liquid crystal therein, the sealing member includes a liquid crystal filling port which is formed by cutting away a portion of the sealing member, an side-wall edge surface of the first substrate and a side-wall edge surface of the second substrate are made coplanar with a side-wall edge surface of the sealing member along the extending direction of the sealing member on at least one side of the first substrate and the second substrate where the liquid crystal filling port is formed, and the liquid crystal filling port is formed such that a width of the liquid crystal filling port is narrowed along the liquid-crystal filling direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukari Shigekura, Yasuyuki Yamada, Hiroshi Miyairi
  • Patent number: 8259247
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate having a first portion and a second portion; a pad formed in the first portion; a second substrate facing the second portion; a conductive film formed on the opposite face of the second substrate from the face facing the first substrate; liquid crystal arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate; a conductive resin disposed on the pad so as to extend on the conductive film and electrically connecting the pad with the conductive film; and an insulating layer formed on the first substrate and including a dam part arranged next to the conductive resin in the first portion. The height from the surface of the pad to the surface of the conductive film is 0.31 mm or less in a position avoiding the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Saori Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20120186380
    Abstract: [Summary] [Problem] To provide a load compensation device which can compensate loads on a working arm, and has excellent safety and durability. [Means of Resolution] A working arm 104 is supported by a first pivot-mounting part 103 on a supporting body 102, an actuator cylinder 105 is supported by a second pivot-mounting part 107 above the first pivot-mounting part 103, and a piston rod 108 of the actuator cylinder 105 is linked to a third pivot-mounting part 109 of the working arm 104. A piston rod 112 of a compensation cylinder 110 is linked to a movable frame 113, and a piston 112A of the compensation cylinder 110 is urged upward by means of a compression coil spring 114 which pushes the movable frame 113 upward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Yamada, Toshio Morita
  • Publication number: 20120189848
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing single-hole hollow polymer particles which have an extremely uniform outside diameter and inside diameter, and thus do not require a classifying operation. Further provided are single-hole hollow polymer particles produced by such a method for producing single-hole hollow polymer particles. The invention relates to a method for producing single-hole hollow polymer particles, which includes: preparing a dispersion of swollen particle droplets by mixing a seed particle dispersion obtained by dispersing uncrosslinked polymer-containing seed particles in a water-containing dispersion medium, with a radical polymerizable monomer, an oil-soluble solvent and an oil-soluble polymerization initiator, and causing the radical polymerizable monomer, the oil-soluble solvent and the oil-soluble polymerization initiator to be absorbed in the seed particles; and polymerizing the radical polymerizable monomer in the swollen particle droplets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamauchi, Yasuyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8223332
    Abstract: To provide a mercury measuring apparatus of a closed system capable of performing automatically a process ranging from collection to injection of the sample composed mainly of hydrocarbon, which is effective to accomplish a highly reliable measurement. The mercury measuring apparatus 100 includes a column 1 filled with a first adsorbent 11 and a reducing agent 13, an injecting unit 3 for injecting a sample into the column 1, a first heating unit 12, a second heating unit, a mercury collecting tube 18 filled with a second adsorbent 17, a third heating unit 19, a mercury measuring unit 2, gas flow passages FP1, FP2 and FP4, flow switching valves V1 to V3, V5 and V6 for selecting one of the gas flow passages FP1, FP2 and FP4, and a control unit 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Instruments Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Yamada, Munehiro Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20120180077
    Abstract: An optical disk drive device includes: a tray provided with an outer disk tray on which an optical disk is mounted; an electrode provided on the outer disk tray; an electrostatic capacitance sensor unit configured to sense electrostatic capacitance between the electrode and an optical disk mounted in proximity to the electrode; a storage unit configured to store a table that identifies electrostatic capacitance between each of different types of optical disks and the electrode occurring when the optical disk is mounted in proximity to the electrode; and a determination unit configured to determine the type of the optical disk mounted on the tray, based on a sensor result obtained by the electrostatic capacitance sensor unit and the table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20110299072
    Abstract: To provide a mercury measuring apparatus of a closed system capable of performing automatically a process ranging from collection to injection of the sample composed mainly of hydrocarbon, which is effective to accomplish a highly reliable measurement. The mercury measuring apparatus 100 includes a column 1 filled with a first adsorbent 11 and a reducing agent 13, an injecting unit 3 for injecting a sample into the column 1, a first heating unit 12, a second heating unit, a mercury collecting tube 18 filled with a second adsorbent 17, a third heating unit 19, a mercury measuring unit 2, gas flow passages FP1, FP2 and FP4, flow switching valves V1 to V3, V5 and V6 for selecting one of the gas flow passages FP1, FP2 and FP4, and a control unit 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: NIPPON INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Yamada, Munehiro Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20110286657
    Abstract: According to the embodiments, a plurality of positional relationships between a coordinate system for indicating a defect position on a wafer that is used by an inspection device and a coordinate system that is used in design data on a pattern is set, the defect position output by the inspection device and the design data are aligned by using each of the set positional relationships, and a local pattern of a portion in which the defect position is aligned is extracted from the design data for each positional relationship. Then, the extracted local pattern is classified based on a degree of matching of graphical feature. The number of classification patterns is calculated for each positional relationship. Then, a pattern dependence degree of the detected defect group is calculated by using the calculated number of classification patterns of each positional relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventor: Yasuyuki YAMADA
  • Patent number: 8058545
    Abstract: A first control may be for setting a tempo upon which a performance position, which may be set with a second control, may be based. Circuitry may be selectively passing inputted musical tone signal. A processor may be configured for processing data for controlling an output signal of the circuitry based on the performance position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Roland Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Yamada, Hiroya Kurio, Ryushi Matsutani
  • Publication number: 20110223426
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing single-hole hollow polymer particles having extremely uniform outer diameters and inner diameters with no need for classification operation. Further, the present invention provides single-hole hollow polymer particles produced by the method for producing single-hole hollow polymer particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamauchi, Yasuyuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20110204372
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including first and second gate interconnections; a first pixel circuit disposed at one side of the first gate interconnection, the first pixel circuit including a first transistor, a gate electrode of the first transistor electrically connected to the first gate interconnection, a source electrode of the first transistor formed in a source layer, the source electrode including a first source electrode facing portion overlapping with the gate electrode; and a second pixel circuit disposed at the other side of the second gate interconnection, the second pixel circuit including a second transistor, a gate electrode of the second transistor electrically connected to the second gate interconnection, a source electrode of the second transistor formed in the source layer, the source electrode including a second source electrode facing portion overlapping with the gate electrode and stretched along the first source electrode facing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Ryouhei Suzuki, Yasuyuki Yamada