Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Yamada
Yoshiyuki 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).
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Patent number: 8299863Abstract: A flexural mode resonator element includes: a vibration arm extending from a base end toward a tip; a base joined to the vibration arm at the base end; and supporting arms arranged on both sides of the base in a width direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the vibration arm and joined to the base, wherein the base has a reduced cross-section portion disposed along the extending direction of the vibration arm between a joint portion with the vibration arm and a joint portion with the supporting arms, and the reduced cross-section portion is disposed so as to satisfy a relationship 2×W1?L?6×W1 where L is the length of the reduced cross-section portion in the extending direction of the vibration arm, and W1 is the arm width of the vibration arm.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hideo Tanaya, Yoshiyuki Yamada
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Patent number: 8251510Abstract: An ophthalmic observation apparatus that is capable of performing follow-up of an examinee's eye efficiently and suitably. The ophthalmic observation apparatus for observing an image of an examinee's eye that is obtained by an ophthalmic photographing apparatus includes an input device arranged to output an operation signal given by an examiner, a monitor, and a display control unit arranged to display a first image and a second image of a same portion of the examinee's eye that are obtained at different dates and times of examination on the monitor in a comparable manner, and when changing a display region of the image of the examinee's eye based on the operation signal outputted from the input device, synchronize the change of the display region between the first image and the second image.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Nidek Co., LtdInventors: Masahiko Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Yamada
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Publication number: 20120181738Abstract: An electronic part positioning jig is provided, which includes a positioning member which is made of carbon and positions an element part, and a platform which supports the positioning member on a plane. The platform includes a frame member which receives the positioning member, and a body portion which fixes the frame member. The positioning member is sandwiched between the frame member and the body portion so as to be displaceable on the body portion by the frame member being fixed to the body portion by a joining member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiji Hirose, Osamu Ogasawara, Koji Ishida, Yoshiyuki Yamada
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Publication number: 20120125225Abstract: A bodyshell of a railcar includes side outside plates and end bodyshells. The side outside plates are respectively provided at both end portions of an underframe in a vehicle width direction. The end bodyshell includes end outside plates and corner posts. The end outside plates are respectively provided at front and rear end portions of the underframe. The corner posts are respectively provided at four corners of the underframe and are joined to the end outside plates and the side outside plates. Moreover, the corner post includes a side plate joining portion. The side plate joining portion overlaps a front end portion of the side outside plates from an outer side in the vehicle width direction and is joined to the side outside plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicants: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, West Japan Railway CompanyInventors: Masayasu Matsuoka, Hiroyuki Kido, Taro Hayashi, Makoto Taguchi, Toshiyuki Yamada, Naoaki Kawakami, Yasufumi Minamimoto, Taro Oka, Yoshiyuki Yamada
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Patent number: 8182703Abstract: A tuning fork resonator element that has a base portion, first and second resonating arms extending from the base portion in a first direction, and a support frame sandwiching the first and second resonating arms and being connected to the base portion includes: a first excitation electrode, formed in an area close to a connection portion with the base portion of the support frame, being connected to a mount electrode with a conductive adhesive; a second excitation electrode, formed in at least one of an area sandwiching the first and second resonating arms of the support frame and an area positioned farther than the first and second resonating arms in the first direction, being connected to a mount electrode with the conductive adhesive; and a cut portion of the support frame formed on an external surface of the support frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2010Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Yamada, Hideo Tanaya
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Patent number: 8151805Abstract: A cigarette is provided with a tobacco section including a tobacco filler rod wrapped with an inner wrapper paper sheet containing less than 4% by weight of calcium carbonate and an outer wrapper paper containing calcium carbonate in an amount of 30 g/m2 and a burn adjusting agent in an amount of 3% by weight or more.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2004Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.Inventors: Kazuko Takeda, Yoshiyuki Yamada
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Publication number: 20110260587Abstract: A piezoelectric vibration piece includes a base made of a piezoelectric material; a plurality of vibration arms which is integrally formed with the base and extends in parallel; elongate grooves which are formed along longitudinal directions of the vibration arms; and excitation electrodes which include inner electrodes disposed in the elongate grooves and side electrodes disposed in side surfaces facing the inner electrodes, wherein widening portions in which the widths of the vibration arms are widened toward the base at a joint between the vibration arms of the base are formed, and the side electrodes are led to principal surfaces and side surfaces of the widening portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshiyuki YAMADA
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Publication number: 20110261201Abstract: An input device, wherein the screen (18a) of a display device (18) is divided into two regions, a region (A1) and a region (A2), and the icon switch displayed in the region including the position of an invisible pointer (P?) is selected. Thus, one of an icon switch (1) and an icon switch (2) that are displayed on the screen (18a) is selected at any time. Consequently, the user will no longer have to watch the screen carefully and perform an operation for moving an instruction marker such as a visible pointer to a desired icon switch, for example as in conventional devices. Accordingly, the user can enter a desired instruction in a short time by selecting a desired icon switch in a short time.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2009Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taketoshi Fujii, Haruka Iga, Yoji Inui, Atsuo Fukaya, Keiichi Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Yamada
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Patent number: 7999637Abstract: A piezoelectric vibration piece includes a base made of a piezoelectric material; a plurality of vibration arms which is integrally formed with the base and extends in parallel; elongate grooves which are formed along longitudinal directions of the vibration arms; and excitation electrodes which include inner electrodes disposed in the elongate grooves and side electrodes disposed in side surfaces facing the inner electrodes, wherein widening portions in which the widths of the vibration arms are widened toward the base at a joint between the vibration arms of the base are formed, and the side electrodes are led to principal surfaces and side surfaces of the widening portions.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yoshiyuki Yamada
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Publication number: 20110187232Abstract: A vibrating piece substrate includes: a plurality of tuning-fork vibrating pieces each having a base portion, and vibration arm portions and support arm portions extending from the base portion; a frame portion; and a plurality of linking portions connecting the frame portion and the plurality of tuning-fork vibrating pieces, wherein the support arm portions extend in the same direction as the direction in which the vibration arm portions extend, and the support arm portions have a length smaller than the vibration arm portions, the tuning-fork vibrating pieces are arranged such that the vibration arm portions of adjacent tuning-fork vibrating pieces sandwich the region of a portion of the frame portion therebetween, measurement pads are formed in the region of the frame portion sandwiched between the vibration arm portions, and wiring lines are formed in the linking portions to provide electric conduction between the tuning-fork vibrating pieces and the measurement pads.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshiyuki YAMADA
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Publication number: 20110156831Abstract: A flexural mode resonator element includes: a vibration arm extending from a base end toward a tip; a base joined to the vibration arm at the base end; and supporting arms arranged on both sides of the base in a width direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the vibration arm and joined to the base, wherein the base has a reduced cross-section portion disposed along the extending direction of the vibration arm between a joint portion with the vibration arm and a joint portion with the supporting arms, and the reduced cross-section portion is disposed so as to satisfy a relationship 2×W1?L?6×W1 where L is the length of the reduced cross-section portion in the extending direction of the vibration arm, and W1 is the arm width of the vibration arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo TANAYA, Yoshiyuki YAMADA
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Patent number: 7880895Abstract: An apparatus has an optical system detecting spectral information and having an optical scanner and a driving unit changing the optical path length by moving an optical member, a monitor, a control unit obtaining a tomographic image by performing Fourier analysis on the information and displaying the obtained image, and a unit previously setting an image on the monitor, in which the member is moved from an initial position and presence or absence of the tomographic image is determined, when the presence is detected, whether the tomographic image is normal or inverted is determined, and when the tomographic image is not the set image, the member is moved to obtain the set image, and when the tomographic image is the set image, the member is moved so that a position of the tomographic image in the depth direction coincides with a predetermined adjustment position and the driving unit is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2009Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yamada, Yukihiro Higuchi, Norimasa Satake, Hisanari Torii
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Patent number: 7863803Abstract: A tuning fork resonator element that has a base portion, first and second resonating arms extending from the base portion in a first direction, and a support frame sandwiching the first and second resonating arms and being connected to the base portion includes: a first excitation electrode, formed in an area close to a connection portion with the base portion of the support frame, being connected to a mount electrode with a conductive adhesive; a second excitation electrode, formed in at least one of an area sandwiching the first and second resonating arms of the support frame and an area positioned farther than the first and second resonating arms in the first direction, being connected to a mount electrode with the conductive adhesive; and a cut portion of the support frame formed on an external surface of the support frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2008Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Epson Toyocom CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Yamada, Hideo Tanaya
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Patent number: 7824035Abstract: An ophthalmic photographing apparatus comprising a photographing optical system for obtaining a regional image of an examinee's eye, comprising a light source, a focusing optical element movable in an optical-axis direction by a driving mechanism, and a photodetector, and a control unit controlling driving of the mechanism and obtain the image based on a signal from the photodetector, wherein the control unit further moves the optical element in predetermined steps/continuously to obtain the image at each position, calculates frequency distribution of luminance of each of the images to detect a change characteristic of luminance values having frequencies equal or exceeding a threshold value in the frequency distribution with respect to the optical element position, and detects a focus position of the optical element based on the change characteristics to move the optical element to a position corresponding to the detected focus position.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2009Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yamada, Yuji Murase, Mitsuo Yamamoto, Yukihiro Higuchi, Norimasa Satake
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Publication number: 20100269320Abstract: A tuning fork resonator element that has a base portion, first and second resonating arms extending from the base portion in a first direction, and a support frame sandwiching the first and second resonating arms and being connected to the base portion includes: a first excitation electrode, formed in an area close to a connection portion with the base portion of the support frame, being connected to a mount electrode with a conductive adhesive; a second excitation electrode, formed in at least one of an area sandwiching the first and second resonating arms of the support frame and an area positioned farther than the first and second resonating arms in the first direction, being connected to a mount electrode with the conductive adhesive; and a cut portion of the support frame formed on an external surface of the support frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki YAMADA, Hideo TANAYA
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Publication number: 20100238403Abstract: An ophthalmic observation apparatus that is capable of performing follow-up of an examinee's eye efficiently and suitably. The ophthalmic observation apparatus for observing an image of an examinee's eye that is obtained by an ophthalmic photographing apparatus includes an input device arranged to output an operation signal given by an examiner, a monitor, and a display control unit arranged to display a first image and a second image of a same portion of the examinee's eye that are obtained at different dates and times of examination on the monitor in a comparable manner, and when changing a display region of the image of the examinee's eye based on the operation signal outputted from the input device, synchronize the change of the display region between the first image and the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Inventors: Masahiko KOBAYASHI, Yoshiyuki Yamada
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Publication number: 20100096955Abstract: A piezoelectric vibration piece includes a base made of a piezoelectric material; a plurality of vibration arms which is integrally formed with the base and extends in parallel; elongate grooves which are formed along longitudinal directions of the vibration arms; and excitation electrodes which include inner electrodes disposed in the elongate grooves and side electrodes disposed in side surfaces facing the inner electrodes, wherein widening portions in which the widths of the vibration arms are widened toward the base at a joint between the vibration arms of the base are formed, and the side electrodes are led to principal surfaces and side surfaces of the widening portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2009Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshiyuki YAMADA
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Patent number: 7677253Abstract: A regenerated tobacco material is manufactured through extracting a natural tobacco material with an extracting solvent to obtain an extracted solution containing components of the natural tobacco material and an extraction residue. A regenerated tobacco web is prepared by using the extraction residue. On the other hand, the extracted solution is subjected to a fractionating treatment by means of ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis filtration, or reversed-phase partition chromatography to obtain a first fraction enriched in desired components and depleted in undesired components, and a second fraction enriched in the undesired components and depleted in the desired components. The first fraction is added, optionally together with the second fraction decreased in amount, to the regenerated tobacco web to prepare a regenerated tobacco material.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2005Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yamada, Yukiko Hasegawa
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Patent number: 7659798Abstract: A piezoelectric vibration piece includes a base made of a piezoelectric material; a plurality of vibration arms which is integrally formed with the base and extends in parallel; elongate grooves which are formed along longitudinal directions of the vibration arms; and excitation electrodes which include inner electrodes disposed in the elongate grooves and side electrodes disposed in side surfaces facing the inner electrodes, wherein widening portions in which the widths of the vibration arms are widened toward the base at a joint between the vibration arms of the base are formed, and the side electrodes are led to principal surfaces and side surfaces of the widening portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2006Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yoshiyuki Yamada
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Publication number: 20100014089Abstract: An apparatus has an optical system detecting spectral information and having an optical scanner and a driving unit changing the optical path length by moving an optical member, a monitor, a control unit obtaining a tomographic image by performing Fourier analysis on the information and displaying the obtained image, and a unit previously setting an image on the monitor, in which the member is moved from an initial position and presence or absence of the tomographic image is determined, when the presence is detected, whether the tomographic image is normal or inverted is determined, and when the tomographic image is not the set image, the member is moved to obtain the set image, and when the tomographic image is the set image, the member is moved so that a position of the tomographic image in the depth direction coincides with a predetermined adjustment position and the driving unit is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yamada, Yukihiro Higuchi, Norimasa Satake, Hisanari Torii