Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Muto
Yoshihiro Muto 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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Patent number: 11971149Abstract: Sunlight incident in a lamp through a lens is prevented from being collected on a portion formed between a front end of a reflector and a lens holding frame through an opening formed in front of the portion. A vehicle lamp includes a light emitting portion, a lens that projects light emitted from the light emitting portion, a reflector including a first reflective surface that reflects light emitted from the light emitting portion toward the lens, an opening formed between a front end of the reflector and a frame, the frame that holds the lens, and a second reflective surface that is formed between the front end of the reflector and the frame, and reflects external light incident in the vehicle lamp through the lens.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Muto, Yoshihiro Sugie, Eiji Suzuki
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Patent number: 9425029Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a supply source including a first supply source and a second supply source arranged to respectively face a first surface of a substrate and a second surface on an opposite side of the first surface. The supply source is configured to supply a material to apply a process to the substrate. A shield member includes a first shield provided around the first supply source and a second shield provided around the second supply source, the first shield and the second shield being arranged to sandwich the substrate. A moving device is configured to move the first shield and the second shield to set one of a close state in which the first shield and the second shield are close to each other and a separate state in which the first shield and the second shield are separate from each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2015Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: CANON ANELVA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Muto, Ryuji Higashisaka, Satoshi Yamada
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Publication number: 20150235822Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus including a supply source including a first supply source and a second supply source arranged to respectively face a first surface of a substrate and a second surface on an opposite side to the first surface and configured to supply a material to apply a process to the substrate, a shield member including a first shield provided around the first supply source and a second shield provided around the second supply source, the first shield and the second shield being arranged to sandwich the substrate, and a moving device configured to move the first shield and the second shield to set one of a close state in which the first shield and the second shield are close to each other and a separate state in which the first shield and the second shield are separate from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Applicant: CANON ANELVA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro MUTO, Ryuji HIGASHISAKA, Satoshi YAMADA
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Patent number: 7779963Abstract: A motorcycle having a tail pipe formed from a pair of branch pipes that branch from a main pipe and that ensures a sound absorbing effect. A muffler has a casing that surrounds a rear section of an exhaust pipe, and a sound absorbing material that is filled between the casing and the rear section of the exhaust pipe. The rear section of the exhaust pipe includes a main pipe that is connected to the exhaust pipe and that extends to the rear, and first and second branch pipes that are connected to and branch from the main pipe and extend to the rear. A cross sectional area of the casing, when viewed from an exhaust gas flow direction becomes larger as the casing extends toward the branch pipe side.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2007Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshihiro Muto
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Publication number: 20080116004Abstract: An exhaust system for a motorcycle that inhibits generation of flow noise without diminishing external appearance. The exhaust system has a tail cap and a ring shaped outer cap that is fixed to a rear end edge of a casing. An inner cap is fixed to a rear end wall of the casing and has a tail hole having a size that allows a tail pipe to pass through it with a gap therebetween. A gap s is formed in a boundary region between the inner cap and the outer cap.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihiro MUTO
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Publication number: 20080110693Abstract: A motorcycle having a tail pipe formed from a pair of branch pipes that branch from a main pipe and that ensures a sound absorbing effect. A muffler has a casing that surrounds a rear section of an exhaust pipe, and a sound absorbing material that is filled between the casing and the rear section of the exhaust pipe. The rear section of the exhaust pipe includes a main pipe that is connected to the exhaust pipe and that extends to the rear, and first and second branch pipes that are connected to and branch from the main pipe and extend to the rear. A cross sectional area of the casing, when viewed from an exhaust gas flow direction becomes larger as the casing extends toward the branch pipe side.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2007Publication date: May 15, 2008Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihiro MUTO
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Patent number: 6721238Abstract: A magneto-optical recording medium for recording and reproducing carriers by laser beam irradiation includes a first magnetic layer which is magnetized in the in-plane direction at room temperature and is perpendicularly magnetized at a predetermined temperature T1 or more; a second magnetic layer which is in contact with the first magnetic layer, has a Curie temperature Tc2 higher than the predetermined temperature T1, and has in-plane magnetic anisotropy up to the Curie temperature Tc2; a third magnetic layer which has a Curie temperature Tc3 higher than the predetermined temperature T1 and has perpendicular magnetic anisotropy at least in a predetermined range of a temperature distribution of the magneto-optical recording medium during laser beam irradiation when reproducing; and a rare earth metal layer formed between the third magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2001Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasuhito Tanaka, Yoshihiro Muto
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Publication number: 20030123336Abstract: A magneto-optical recording medium for recording and reproducing carriers by laser beam irradiation includes a first magnetic layer which is magnetized in the in-plane direction at room temperature and is perpendicularly magnetized at a predetermined temperature T1 or more; a second magnetic layer which is in contact with the first magnetic layer, has a Curie temperature Tc2 higher than the predetermined temperature T1, and has in-plane magnetic anisotropy up to the Curie temperature Tc2; a third magnetic layer which has a Curie temperature Tc3 higher than the predetermined temperature T1 and has perpendicular magnetic anisotropy at least in a predetermined range of a temperature distribution of the magneto-optical recording medium during laser beam irradiation when reproducing; and a rare earth metal layer formed between the third magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2001Publication date: July 3, 2003Inventors: Yashuhito Tanaka, Yoshihiro Muto
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Publication number: 20020046338Abstract: A URL input device is connected to a WWW client device and helps the client device access a desired network object. The URL input device includes a URL storing unit, a URL displaying unit, a URL selection interface, and an access facilitating unit. The URL storing unit stores URLs for accessing network objects. The URL displaying unit displays the URLs. The URL selection interface has the user select a URL corresponding to the desired network object from the displayed URLs. The access facilitating unit facilitates the client device's access to the desired network object, by having the client device use the selected URL.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2001Publication date: April 18, 2002Inventors: Masaaki Ueda, Takuya Oka, Takanori Hatta, Nobuya Takagi, Yoshihiro Muto
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Patent number: 6333899Abstract: A magneto-optical recording medium having a magnetic film stack structure includes a recording layer, a reproducing layer, and an intermediate layer formed between the recording layer and the reproducing layer. The intermediate layer has an easy magnetization characteristic along an in-plane direction at room temperature.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1999Date of Patent: December 25, 2001Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Sony CorporationInventors: Ken Tamanoi, Yoshihiro Muto
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Patent number: 6033538Abstract: In a magneto-optical recording medium including a first magnetic layer which is magnetized in a predetermined direction according to a data signal and a second magnetic layer which is magnetically connected to the first magnetic layer by exchange interaction, so that a boundary magnetic wall can exist between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer, the present invention increases stability of the boundary magnetic wall formed between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer and to enhance a reproduction durability as well as durability against repeated recording.The first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer are formed by sputtering. At least one of the magnetic layers composing the first magnetic layer and positioned adjacent to the second magnetic layer is formed with a sputter gas pressure greater than the sputter gas pressure applied when forming a magnetic layer composing the second magnetic layer and positioned adjacent to the first magnetic layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1997Date of Patent: March 7, 2000Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masatsugu Suwabe, Yoshihito Fukushima, Yoshihiro Muto
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Patent number: 5993616Abstract: This invention provides a method for producing a magneto-optical recording medium with a laminated film composed of a plurality of magnetic layers made of alloys of rare earth metals-transition metals such as a magneto-optical recording medium allowing direct overwriting through light intensity modulation and a magneto-optical recording medium allowing magnetically induced recording with super resolution, or a method for stably producing a magneto-optical recording medium excellent in performance.The method consists of using, as vaporizers to form the laminated magnetic film, three or more vaporizers including one or more vaporizers containing mainly rare earth elements and one or more vaporizers containing mainly transition metals.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1997Date of Patent: November 30, 1999Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masatsugu Suwabe, Yoshihito Fukushima, Yoshihiro Muto
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Patent number: 5966349Abstract: A magneto-optical recording medium capable of performing light-intensity-modulation direct overwrite and having excellent practical characteristics is provided. A magneto-optical recording film is formed by stacking a reproducing layer made of a magnetic material from which a large Kerr rotation angle can be obtained, a memory layer made of a magnetic material having great magnetic anisotropy, an intermediate layer having small magnetic anisotropy and made of TMrich rare earth-transition metal amorphous alloy, a recording layer having a Curie temperature higher than those of the memory layer and the intermediate layer and made of TMrich rare earth-transition metal amorphous alloy, a switching layer made of a magnetic material having a Curie temperature lower than that of the recording layer and an initializing layer made of a magnetic material having a Curie temperature higher than those of the reproducing layer, the memory layer, the intermediate layer, the recording layer and the switching layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1997Date of Patent: October 12, 1999Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masatsugku Suwabe, Yoshihito Fukushima, Yoshihiro Muto
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Patent number: 5876807Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a magneto-optical recording medium capable of optical intensity modulation direct overwriting, which method enables to easily form an initialization layer having an excellent stability against the magnetization inversion during the optical intensity modulation direct overwriting.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1997Date of Patent: March 2, 1999Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yoshihiro Muto
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Patent number: 5379275Abstract: The present invention adopts as the basic structure of its thermomagnetic recording medium an arrangement consisting of a first and a second magnetic thin film having perpendicular anisotropy and a third magnetic thin film having in-plane magnetic anisotropy or small perpendicular magnetic anisotropy interposed therebetween, formed into a laminated structure by being magnetically coupled to the adjoining films in turn, modulates and switches, in accordance with information to be recorded, a first heating condition and a second heating condition, with the medium applied with a predetermined external magnetic field H.sub.ex in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the film, the first condition being that for raising temperature of the medium to a first temperature T.sub.1 which is virtually above the Curie temperature T.sub.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1993Date of Patent: January 3, 1995Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masahiko Kaneko, Katsuhisa Aratani, Yoshihiro Muto
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Patent number: 5353171Abstract: A magneto-optical recording apparatus records information on a magneto-optical recording medium composed of a memory layer and a recording layer which are disposed on a substrate, each comprising a magnetic thin film of amorphous-rare-earth transition-metal alloy. The memory and recording layers are magnetically coupled directly, or through an intermediate layer therebetween, to each other under an exchange force. A recording magnetic field generator such as a permanent magnet or an electromagnet applies a recording magnetic field to the magneto-optical recording medium, and an initializing magnetic field generator such as a permanent magnet or an electromagnet applies an initializing magnetic force to the magneto-optical recording medium. The initializing magnetic field generator has a magnetic pole confronting a surface of the magneto-optical recording medium. The initializing magnetic force comprises a magnetic field H.sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1992Date of Patent: October 4, 1994Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kayoko Suzuki, Ariyoshi Nakaoki, Yoshihiro Muto
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Patent number: 4760237Abstract: A laser beam machine comprises stationary guide means, a first table movably mounted on the stationary guide means for moving between two positions, a movable guide means liftably disposed, and a second table movably mounted on the movable guide means for movement between the two positions. The tables are exchanged with each other by lifting the movable guide means to move the first and second tables between the two positions.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1987Date of Patent: July 26, 1988Assignee: Yamazaki Mazak CorporationInventors: Masayoshi Mizukado, Minoru Tashiro, Yoshihiro Muto
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Patent number: 4640166Abstract: A first drive means is provided to an upper turret and a lower turret in such a manner as that the upper turret and lower turret can be synchronously rotated through a turret drive system, and a second drive means is provided to an upper metallic mold and a lower metallic mold in such a manner as that the upper and the lower metallic molds can be synchronously rotated within the respective turrets through a metallic mold drive system, and the metallic mold drive system is connected to the turret drive system through a differential gear mechanism. And, when the turrets are positioned, the second drive means is held stopped and the metallic molds each holding its own dividing angle are rotated within the respective turrets by the first drive means through the differential gear mechanism. The dividing of the angles for the respective metallic molds is carried out through the differential gear mechanism by the second drive means while maintaining the turrets positioned and stopped.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1985Date of Patent: February 3, 1987Assignee: Yamazaki Machinery Works, Ltd.Inventors: Masayoshi Mizukado, Akio Morishita, Yoshihiro Muto