Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Yamamoto
Yoshihiro Yamamoto 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: 20240142292Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition device that acquires, as a first strength, a strength of a radio signal related to position information received at a position of a first height, and a first determination device that determines that the first height is a water level when an attenuation amount of the first strength with respect to a reference strength exceeds a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo SASAHARA, Yoshihiro YAMAMURA, Hidetoshi YAMAMOTO, Yuya OZAWA
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Publication number: 20240132242Abstract: Time required for initial operation and operation immediately after wound body replacement is shortened. A packaging device packages an object to be packaged using a wound body. An elongated sheet-shaped packaging material is wound into the wound body. The wound body includes a recording medium that stores information. The information recorded in the recording medium includes remaining amount information indicating a remaining amount of the packaging material in the wound body. The packaging device includes a drive unit that generates driving force in order to rotate the wound body, an information reader that reads the remaining amount information stored in the recording medium, and a controller that controls the packaging device. The controller sets a rotation speed of the wound body based on the remaining amount information read by the information reader.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TAKAZONO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuo Iimori, Yoshihiro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20240124842Abstract: Provided is a method of preparing a somatic cell including converting a differentiated somatic cell of a mammal to other somatic cell by culturing the differentiated somatic cell in a medium for inducing differentiation of the somatic cell other than the differentiated somatic cell in the presence of a TGF-? pathway inhibitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: KYOTO PREFECTURAL PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta YAMAMOTO, Tsunao KISHIDA, Yoshihiro SOWA, Toshiro YAMAMOTO, Osam MAZDA
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Publication number: 20240118223Abstract: A surface inspection device (1) according to the present invention comprises: a plate-shaped sample holding member (3) which can hold a sample (2); a spindle motor (4) for rotating the sample holding member (3); a turntable (5) which is fixed to the spindle motor (4) and rotated by the spindle motor (4); a frame (6) to which the spindle motor (4) is fixed; a plurality of support members (12) each having one end fixed to the sample holding member (3) and the other end fixed to the turntable (5), the support members supporting the sample holding member (3) such that the sample holding member is displaceable in a focus direction which is the height direction with respect to the turntable (5); and a sample drive unit (11) which displaces the sample holding member (3) in the focus direction with respect to the turntable (5). This surface inspection device (1) can accurately drive the sample (2) in the focus direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2021Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Katsuhiko KIMURA, Yoshihiro SATOU, Masaya YAMAMOTO, Ayumi TOMIYAMA
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Patent number: 11945776Abstract: An electrolyte solution containing a compound represented by the following formula (1).Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshiko Kuwajima, Akiyoshi Yamauchi, Kotaro Hayashi, Hisako Nakamura, Toshiharu Shimooka, Takaya Yamada, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Shigeaki Yamazaki, Kenzou Takahashi
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Publication number: 20240071422Abstract: A disk device according to one embodiment includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, and a flexible printed circuit board. The flexible printed circuit board is electrically connected to the magnetic head. The flexible printed circuit board includes a first layer, a second layer having conductive property, and a third layer having insulation property. The first layer includes a first surface having insulation property. The second layer overlays the first surface, and includes a first conductor and a second conductor spaced from the first conductor. The third layer covers at least a part of the first surface and at least a part of the second layer. The flexible printed circuit board is provided with a first hole that is located between the first conductor and the second conductor with spacing from the second layer and penetrates the third layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Kota TOKUDA, Yoshihiro AMEMIYA, Shinra YAMANAKA, Nobuhiro YAMAMOTO, Taichi OKANO
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Patent number: 11897537Abstract: A driver assistance system is provided that allows a driver to easily perform an accelerator operation by a finger of his/her hand while grasping a steering holding section. The driver assistance system includes an operation member near a steering wheel held by a driver, which rotates about a rotation shaft in a vehicle front-rear direction and thereby steers the vehicle. The operation member has an operation section that the driver can manually operate to accelerate/decelerate the vehicle, and includes a support member on the steering wheel, the support member supporting the operation member in a slidingly displaceable manner along a steering axial direction. The operation section is disposed near a radially inner side of a rim section of the steering wheel, and the operation section and the rim section overlap in the steering axial direction within a movable range of the operation member along the steering axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Tonohara, Keiichi Yamasaki, Katsuhisa Maedo, Kenichi Nakamoto
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Patent number: 11866214Abstract: Time required for initial operation and operation immediately after wound body replacement is shortened. A packaging device packages an object to be packaged using a wound body. An elongated sheet-shaped packaging material is wound into the wound body. The wound body includes a recording medium that stores information. The information recorded in the recording medium includes remaining amount information indicating a remaining amount of the packaging material in the wound body. The packaging device includes a drive unit that generates driving force in order to rotate the wound body, an information reader that reads the remaining amount information stored in the recording medium, and a controller that controls the packaging device. The controller sets a rotation speed of the wound body based on the remaining amount information read by the information reader.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TAKAZONO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuo Timori, Yoshihiro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20230408700Abstract: An optical distance-measuring device includes: a light emitter having plural light-emitting areas that are arrayed in a first direction; an optical system provided at a position toward which the light emitter emits light, the optical system causing light beams respectively emitted from the plural light-emitting areas to be deflected in respectively different directions; and a detector including plural detecting elements configured to detect a reflection of light outgoing from the optical system. Detecting directions of some of the plural detecting elements are different from detecting directions of others of the plural detecting elements in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kazuhiro SAKAI, Hiroyuki HOTTA, Kei TAKEYAMA, Shigetoshi NAKAMURA, Yoshihiro YAMAMOTO, Junichiro HAYAKAWA
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Publication number: 20230411558Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light emitting part having multiple light emitting regions arranged along a first direction; and an optical system that is disposed on a light-exit side of the light emitting part and that deflects light emitted from the multiple light emitting regions in different directions, the optical system being configured such that a light exit angle in a second direction, which intersects the first direction, is smaller than the light exit angle in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2022Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shigetoshi NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro SAKAI, Hiroyuki HOTTA, Kei TAKEYAMA, Yoshihiro YAMAMOTO, Junichiro HAYAKAWA
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Patent number: 11755054Abstract: A driver assistance system enables brake and accelerator operation by an operation bar in a manner close to a sense of a driver of a vehicle, regardless of the degree of operation of the operation bar. Embodiments include an operation bar extending downward toward a vehicle floor panel from a manual operation area where a seated driver manually operates the operation bar, and whose lower portion is supported in a slidingly displaceable manner along an axial direction in a front-down, rear-up tilted state. The operation bar includes a brake actuation section, below the manual operation area, that actuates a brake mechanism by sliding displacement of the operation bar in a front-down direction; and an accelerator actuation section that actuates an acceleration mechanism by sliding displacement of the operation bar in a rear-up direction that is a reverse direction on the same axis from the sliding displacement in the front-down direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Tonohara, Keiichi Yamasaki, Katsuhisa Maedo, Kazutaka Aihara
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Patent number: 11718599Abstract: A method for producing a cyclic carbonate represented by the following formula (1): wherein X1 and X2 are the same as or different from each other, and are each a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, or a monovalent organic group; and R is an organic group containing one or more carbon-carbon unsaturated bonds. The method includes reacting an unsaturated cyclic carbonate represented by the following formula (A): wherein X1 and X2 are defined as described above, and an alcohol represented by the formula (B): R—OH, wherein R is defined as described above, or an alkoxide thereof in the presence of a base, or reacting the unsaturated cyclic carbonate and the alkoxide. Also disclosed is a method for producing a cyclic carbonate.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Akiyoshi Yamauchi, Kotaro Hayashi, Yuuki Suzuki, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Yosuke Kishikawa
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Publication number: 20230243968Abstract: A distance measurement apparatus includes a light emitting unit that has plural light emitting elements, and is able to be driven independently in plural regions, a light receiving unit provided with plural light receiving elements that receive reflected light of light applied to an object from the light emitting unit, a shaping unit that causes an overlapping portion to be generated in which light reception of the reflected light overlaps in the adjacent regions, on the light receiving unit, a measurement unit that measures a distance to the object, from a difference between a waveform of light received by the light receiving unit and a waveform of light emitted by the light emitting unit, and a correction unit that corrects a distance difference in the reflected light in the adjacent regions, by using a distance measurement value in the overlapping portion measured by the measurement unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2022Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Junichiro HAYAKAWA, Tomoaki SAKITA, Kei TAKEYAMA, Daisuke IGUCHI, Takashi KONDO, Yoshihiro YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 11615627Abstract: There are provided an object recognition apparatus that raises the recognition accuracy for a surrounding object and a vehicle control apparatus, and an object recognition method and a vehicle control method. An object recognition apparatus receives object data, which is a state value of the object, from a first sensor for detecting a surrounding object; compares estimation data obtained through estimation of a state value of the object, based on recognition data calculated in a past period, with the object data, and determines whether or not the object data is data in a low-resolution state; then, in accordance with the determination result, calculates the state value of the object by use of object data and estimation data and then generates the state value as recognition data, so that the recognition accuracy for an object is raised.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignees: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyoshi Yamashina, Masanori Mori, Koji Iida, Tomohiro Akiyama, Shinichi Tateiwa, Takayuki Moritani, Hiroyuki Ueda, Hideaki Tamazumi, Junki Tamaru, Yoshihiro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20220326726Abstract: A driver assistance system enables brake and accelerator operation by an operation bar in a manner close to a sense of a driver of a vehicle, regardless of the degree of operation of the operation bar. Embodiments include an operation bar extending downward toward a vehicle floor panel from a manual operation area where a seated driver manually operates the operation bar, and whose lower portion is supported in a slidingly displaceable manner along an axial direction in a front-down, rear-up tilted state. The operation bar includes a brake actuation section, below the manual operation area, that actuates a brake mechanism by sliding displacement of the operation bar in a front-down direction; and an accelerator actuation section that actuates an acceleration mechanism by sliding displacement of the operation bar in a rear-up direction that is a reverse direction on the same axis from the sliding displacement in the front-down direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro YAMAMOTO, Yasuyuki TONOHARA, Keiichi YAMASAKI, Katsuhisa MAEDO, Kazutaka AIHARA
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Patent number: 11420877Abstract: A method for producing lithium fluorosulfonate which includes reacting XSO3H, wherein X is a leaving group other than fluorine, with a lithium source and a fluorine source. Also disclosed is a composition containing XSO3H.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yuuki Suzuki, Akiyoshi Yamauchi, Kotaro Hayashi, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Yosuke Kishikawa, Tatsuya Ohtsuka, Atsushi Maruo, Hiroyuki Arima
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Publication number: 20220234644Abstract: A driver assistance system is provided that allows a driver to easily perform an accelerator operation by a finger of his/her hand while grasping a steering holding section. The driver assistance system includes an operation member near a steering wheel held by a driver, which rotates about a rotation shaft in a vehicle front-rear direction and thereby steers the vehicle. The operation member has an operation section that the driver can manually operate to accelerate/decelerate the vehicle, and includes a support member on the steering wheel, the support member supporting the operation member in a slidingly displaceable manner along a steering axial direction. The operation section is disposed near a radially inner side of a rim section of the steering wheel, and the operation section and the rim section overlap in the steering axial direction within a movable range of the operation member along the steering axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro YAMAMOTO, Yasuyuki TONOHARA, Keiichi YAMASAKI, Katsuhisa MAEDO, Kenichi NAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20220064139Abstract: The present disclosure provides, for example, a method that can produce a fluorolactone compound from hexafluoropropylene oxide or the like in a single step. The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a compound represented by formula (1): wherein two R1 are the same and each is a fluorine atom or a fluoroalkyl group, the method comprising step A of reacting a compound represented by formula (2): wherein R1 is as defined above, with a compound represented by formula (3): wherein R31, R32, and R33 are the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, or two of them are optionally linked to each other to form a ring optionally having one or more substituents, and a compound represented by formula (4-1) or the like: wherein R41, R42, R43, and R44 are the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom ox an alkyl group, or two of them are optionally linked to each other to form a ring optionally having one or more substituents.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Moe HOSOKAWA, Koutarou HAYASHI, Yoshihiro YAMAMOTO, Akiyoshi YAMAUCHI, Makoto MATSUURA, Yosuke KISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20220048661Abstract: Time required for initial operation and operation immediately after wound body replacement is shortened. A packaging device packages an object to be packaged using a wound body. An elongated sheet-shaped packaging material is wound into the wound body. The wound body includes a recording medium that stores information. The information recorded in the recording medium includes remaining amount information indicating a remaining amount of the packaging material in the wound body. The packaging device includes a drive unit that generates driving force in order to rotate the wound body, an information reader that reads the remaining amount information stored in the recording medium, and a controller that controls the packaging device. The controller sets a rotation speed of the wound body based on the remaining amount information read by the information reader.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: Takazono CorporationInventors: Kazuo Iimori, Yoshihiro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20210399340Abstract: An electrolyte solution containing at least one compound represented by formula (1-1) and formula (1-2), formula (1-1) being: where R101 is an optionally fluorinated C1-C7 alkyl group, an optionally fluorinated C2-C8 alkenyl group, an optionally fluorinated C2-C9 alkynyl group, or an optionally fluorinated C6-C12 aryl group, and optionally contains at least one selected from O, Si, S, and N in a structure; and formula (1-2) being: where R102 and R103 are (i) each individually H, F, an optionally fluorinated C1-C7 alkyl group, an optionally fluorinated C2-C7 alkenyl group, an optionally fluorinated C2-C9 alkynyl group, or an optionally fluorinated C5-C12 aryl group, or (ii) hydrocarbon groups binding to each other to form a 5-membered or 6-membered hetero ring with a nitrogen atom; and R102 and R103 each optionally contain at least one selected from O, S, and N in a structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshiko KUWAJIMA, Akiyoshi YAMAUCHI, Yuuki SUZUKI, Kotaro HAYASHI, Hisako NAKAMURA, Takaya YAMADA, Toshiharu SHIMOOKA, Yoshihiro YAMAMOTO, Shigeaki YAMAZAKI, Kenzou TAKAHASHI