Patents by Inventor Yuichi Machida
Yuichi Machida 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: 20240116943Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having a Pim-1 inhibitory activity. The present invention provides a compound of Formula [I] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a pharmaceutical composition containing the same, and a pharmaceutical use thereof, and the like. wherein each symbol is as defined in the description.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Masafumi Inoue, Yosuke Ogoshi, Takayuki Furukawa, Takuya Machida, Ikuo Mitani, Kazuhito Harada, Yuichi Nakagawa, Nobutaka Yamaoka
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Publication number: 20230372571Abstract: Provided is a gas sensor device including a plurality of sensitive members and a measuring instrument. The plurality of sensitive members have respective sensitive materials that react to molecules present in the air and targeted for measurement. The measuring instrument independently measures the respective reactions of the plurality of sensitive members to the molecules.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2020Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Takeshi Asano, Yoichi Nishimaki, Takao Maruyama, Yumi Ueda
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Publication number: 20230372570Abstract: An aroma chemical presentation apparatus includes an encapsulation body supporting unit that supports an aroma chemical encapsulation body in which an aroma chemical material is encapsulated, an action body that is brought into contact with the aroma chemical encapsulation body to cause the aroma chemical material in the aroma chemical encapsulation body to be emitted, and a derivation fan that forms an air flow in a predetermined direction for deriving the emitted aroma chemical material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2020Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yuichi Machida, Shinichi Hirata, Takeshi Asano, Yoichi Nishimaki, Takao Maruyama, Yumi Ueda
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Publication number: 20230201712Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for controlling an operating device, where the operating device includes: (i) a grip part to be gripped by a user; and (ii) an operation part for activation by a finger of the user gripping the grip part, and where the operation part includes: (i) a movable part capable of moving from a resting position toward another position in response to a force applied by the finger of the user, (ii) a biasing element operating to urge the movable part toward the resting position, and (iii) a motorized assembly operating to receive a drive signal and apply a force to the movable part in an opposite direction of the force applied by the finger of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yusuke Kanagawa, Ikuo Yamano, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
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Patent number: 11654353Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing having a holding portion for gripping by a hand of a user; a manipulation block having a first side that includes at least one of: (i) one or more pressable buttons, and (ii) a stick button, and having a second side that includes a trigger button; and at least one of: (i) a thumb sensor block, located proximate to the first side of the manipulation block, and operable to detect the presence of the thumb of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the user, (ii) a first finger sensor, located on the trigger button, and operable to detect the presence of the at least one finger of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the user, and (iii) a second finger sensor, located proximate to both the second side of the manipulation block and the holding portion of the housing, and operable to detect the presence of at least one of a middle finger, a ring finger, and a pinky finger of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the usType: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yuichi Machida, Kunihito Sawai, Shinichi Hirata, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Yoichi Nishimaki, Yasushi Okumura, Norihiro Nagai
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Patent number: 11648464Abstract: A controller device to be worn on a hand of a user includes a plurality of sensor sections that detect the fingers of the user and a sensor support section for supporting the sensor sections. The sensor support section supports the sensor sections in such a manner that the distance between mutually adjacent sensor sections is changeable.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Takuya Kuji, Yuichi Machida
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Patent number: 11596858Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for a control unit; and an operating device including: (i) operation button to be activated by touch of a user, (ii) a first vibration mechanism for vibrating the operation button, and (iii) a second vibration mechanism for vibrating a main body of the operating device, where the control unit controls the first vibration mechanism and the second vibration mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
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Patent number: 11524226Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for controlling an operating device, wherein the operating device includes: (i) a grip part to be gripped by a user; and (ii) an operation part for activation by a finger of the user gripping the grip part, where the operation part includes: (i) a movable part capable of moving from a resting position toward another position in response to a force applied by the finger of the user, (ii) a biasing element operating to urge the movable part toward the resting position, (iii) a sensor operating to measure the force applied by the finger of the user to the movable part and produce a sensing signal therefrom, and (iv) a motorized assembly operating to receive a drive signal, and in response, apply an amount of force to the movable part in opposition to the force applied by the finger of the user, and where the drive signal is a variable dependent on variations in the sensing signal, such that the amount of force applied to the movable part in opposition to the force applied by the finType: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
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Publication number: 20220241684Abstract: An operation device has a movable portion movable between a first position and a second position. The movable portion is operated by a user while the operation device is gripped by the user. The operation device receives information identifying a control mode and control information defined for each control mode as an instruction related to control of a tactile force sense, and controls the tactile force sense presented to the movable portion by using the received control information in the control mode identified by the received information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
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Patent number: 11344797Abstract: An operation device has a movable portion movable between a first position and a second position. The movable portion is operated by a user while the operation device is gripped by the user. The operation device receives information identifying a control mode and control information defined for each control mode as an instruction related to control of a tactile force sense, and controls the tactile force sense presented to the movable portion by using the received control information in the control mode identified by the received information.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
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Publication number: 20220062757Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing having a holding portion for gripping by a hand of a user; a manipulation block having a first side that includes at least one of: (i) one or more pressable buttons, and (ii) a stick button, and having a second side that includes a trigger button; and at least one of: (i) a thumb sensor block, located proximate to the first side of the manipulation block, and operable to detect the presence of the thumb of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the user, (ii) a first finger sensor, located on the trigger button, and operable to detect the presence of the at least one finger of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the user, and (iii) a second finger sensor, located proximate to both the second side of the manipulation block and the holding portion of the housing, and operable to detect the presence of at least one of a middle finger, a ring finger, and a pinky finger of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the usType: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yuichi Machida, Kunihito Sawai, Shinichi Hirata, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Yoichi Nishimaki, Yasushi Okumura, Norihiro Nagai
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Patent number: 11198060Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for causing a device to present a sense of force against depressing of a button in response to receiving an input initiated by the user of a sense-of-force presentation start position in said predetermined movable range, and to store the sense-of-force presentation start position in a memory in response to the input initiated by the user; acquiring a depress amount of said button; receiving the sense-of-force presentation start position from the memory; and instructing the presentation of the sense of force against depressing of said button when said depress amount reaches said sense-of-force presentation start position.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yuichi Machida, Kunihito Sawai, Shinichi Hirata, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Yoichi Nishimaki, Yasushi Okumura, Norihiro Nagai
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Publication number: 20210299555Abstract: A controller device to be worn on a hand of a user includes a plurality of sensor sections that detect the fingers of the user and a sensor support section for supporting the sensor sections. The sensor support section supports the sensor sections in such a manner that the distance between mutually adjacent sensor sections is changeable.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2018Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Takuya Kuji, Yuichi Machida
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Publication number: 20210178254Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for controlling an operating device, wherein the operating device includes: (i) a grip part to be gripped by a user; and (ii) an operation part for activation by a finger of the user gripping the grip part, where the operation part includes: (i) a movable part capable of moving from a resting position toward another position in response to a force applied by the finger of the user, (ii) a biasing element operating to urge the movable part toward the resting position, (iii) a sensor operating to measure the force applied by the finger of the user to the movable part and produce a sensing signal therefrom, and (iv) a motorized assembly operating to receive a drive signal, and in response, apply an amount of force to the movable part in opposition to the force applied by the finger of the user, and where the drive signal is a variable dependent on variations in the sensing signal, such that the amount of force applied to the movable part in opposition to the force applied by the finType: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
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Patent number: 10967253Abstract: An operating device includes a movable part capable of moving between a first position and a second position, with the movable part being capable of operation by the finger of the user gripping the operating device. The operating device includes a regulating part that regulates a range in which the movable part can move, and a control part that determines the amount of regulation in which the movable part can move and provides the regulating part with an instruction to regulate the range in which the movable part can move according to the amount of regulation which has been determined.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yusuke Nakagawa, Ikuo Yamano, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
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Publication number: 20210060422Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for a control unit; and an operating device including: (i) operation button to be activated by touch of a user, (ii) a first vibration mechanism for vibrating the operation button, and (iii) a second vibration mechanism for vibrating a main body of the operating device, where the control unit controls the first vibration mechanism and the second vibration mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
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Patent number: 10905788Abstract: Disclosed herein is a scent-emanating apparatus including a discharging mechanism which permits a scent substance perceivable by a user together with a marker substance for detection to be discharged outwards, and a sensor to detect the marker substance discharged from the discharging mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Yoichi Nishimaki, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Kazuo Miura
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Patent number: 10881953Abstract: A control system includes a console device having an operating button to be operated by a user and a vibrating mechanism for vibrating the operating button, and a control device for controlling vibrations produced by the vibrating mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
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Patent number: 10850192Abstract: A control apparatus for a device with one of the left side and the right side of the device fixed as pressed against the palm of a user. The device includes a button that can be depressed within a predetermined movable range and a sense-of-force presentation block for presenting a sensor of force against button depression within a range in which any of the fingers of the user is reachable, the input of a sense-of-force presentation start position in the predetermined movable range being received, a button depressing amount being acquired, and, when the sense-of-force presentation start position is reached, instructing the sense-of-force presentation block to present a sense force against the depressing of the button.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yuichi Machida, Kunihito Sawai, Shinichi Hirata, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Yoichi Nishimaki, Yasushi Okumura, Norihiro Nagai
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Publication number: 20200353352Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for causing a device to present a sense of force against depressing of a button in response to receiving an input initiated by the user of a sense-of-force presentation start position in said predetermined movable range, and to store the sense-of-force presentation start position in a memory in response to the input initiated by the user; acquiring a depress amount of said button; receiving the sense-of-force presentation start position from the memory; and instructing the presentation of the sense of force against depressing of said button when said depress amount reaches said sense-of-force presentation start position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yuichi Machida, Kunihito Sawai, Shinichi Hirata, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Yoichi Nishimaki, Yasushi Okumura, Norihiro Nagai