Patents by Inventor Yuji Yamanaka

Yuji Yamanaka 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).

  • Publication number: 20200089268
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a power source circuit has first, second, and third one-conductivity-type transistors with commonly connected emitters, wherein the first transistor has an emitter area that is N times those of the second and third transistors. The power source circuit outputs a reference voltage that is set by a voltage drop that is caused at a resistance between bases of the first and second transistors and a forward voltage of a PN-junction diode, and outputs a BG_OK signal in response to a potential at a collector of the third transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji YAMANAKA
  • Patent number: 10577501
    Abstract: A polyphenylene sulfide resin composition includes a polyphenylene sulfide resin (A), an amino group-containing compound (B), an epoxy group-containing elastomer (C), wherein the polyphenylene sulfide resin (A) forms a continuous phase and the amino group-containing compound (B) and the epoxy group-containing elastomer (C) form a dispersed phase in the morphology of a forming product composed of the resin composition observed with a transmission electron microscope, and the modulus of elongation (the elastic modulus determined by performing a tensile test on an ASTM type 1 dumbbell test piece obtained by injection molding at a cylinder temperature of 300° C. and at a mold temperature of 150° C., under the conditions in which the distance between chucks is 114 mm, the test piece distance is 100 mm, and the elongation rate is 10 mm/min) of the resin composition is 1.0 MPa or more and 1000 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Yamanaka, Kei Saito, Hiroyuki Isago, Takeshi Unohara, Hideki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20190330470
    Abstract: A polyphenylene sulfide resin composition includes a polyphenylene sulfide resin (A), an amino group-containing compound (B), an epoxy group-containing elastomer (C), wherein the polyphenylene sulfide resin (A) forms a continuous phase and the amino group-containing compound (B) and the epoxy group-containing elastomer (C) form a dispersed phase in the morphology of a forming product composed of the resin composition observed with a transmission electron microscope, and the modulus of elongation (the elastic modulus determined by performing a tensile test on an ASTM type 1 dumbbell test piece obtained by injection molding at a cylinder temperature of 300° C. and at a mold temperature of 150° C., under the conditions in which the distance between chucks is 114 mm, the test piece distance is 100 mm, and the elongation rate is 10 mm/min) of the resin composition is 1.0 MPa or more and 1000 MPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Yuji Yamanaka, Kei Saito, Hiroyuki Isago, Takeshi Unohara, Hideki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10411508
    Abstract: A non-contact power supply device is used in a processing apparatus including a moving unit movable inside a closed container. The device supplies electric power to the moving unit from outside the closed container. The power supply device includes a feed unit and a heat dissipater. The feed unit includes a feed line and a power supply transformer. The feed line has a feed region arranged inside the closed container along the moving direction of the moving unit. The transformer is arranged inside the closed container so as to be opposed to the feed region in a non-contact manner and is provided so as to move together with the moving unit. The heat dissipater includes a portion on one end side connected to the feed region so as to be capable of conducting heat thereto, and a portion on the other end side extending outside the closed container, so that heat generated in the feed region is partially dissipated outside the closed container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Sinfonia Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Yamanaka, Mamoru Kosaki, Hideaki Moriya
  • Publication number: 20190238123
    Abstract: A driver circuit having an overcurrent protection function is configured to: output, when a current value of an output transistor exceeds a threshold value, a shut-off signal for turning OFF the output transistor; output an interval signal for turning ON the output transistor after a predetermined time interval has elapsed from a timing at which the shut-off signal is output when the control signal is in a control state for turning ON the output transistor; and turn OFF the output transistor when any one of the interval signal and the shut-off signal is in a state for turning OFF the output transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji YAMANAKA
  • Patent number: 10192185
    Abstract: A farmland management system includes an information detection unit configured to acquire information relating to a crop being cultivated, a storage unit configured to store crop registration information for estimating a growth condition of the crop, a growth estimation unit configured to refer to the crop registration information and estimate the growth condition of the crop based on the information relating to the crop and the crop registration information, and a display unit configured to display the growth condition estimated by the growth estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tomii, Shohei Matsumura, Takashi Noguchi, Kensuke Masuda, Kohji Oshikiri, Takeshi Denda, Hirokazu Takenaka, Yuji Yamanaka
  • Publication number: 20180133375
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a pre-filled syringe formulation with staked needle, which contains an antibody at a high concentration and can be produced on an industrial scale in a simple manner without causing clogging. A pre-filled syringe formulation with staked needle, in which a protein solution is packed. The pre-filled syringe formulation is characterized in that a cap formed with a material having low water vapor permeability is provided at the needle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Rieko SHIOZAKI, Yuji YAMANAKA, Mika TAKAHASHI, Tadao YAMAZAKI, Masakazu FUKUDA, Shogo YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 9958265
    Abstract: A specimen measuring device includes: a light source device that irradiates a specimen surface of a specimen with illumination light from multiple illumination units at a plurality of illumination angles; a spectral camera device that is arranged above the specimen surface, spectrally separates reflected light from the specimen surface, and acquires 2D spectral information through a single image capturing operation; and a calculating unit that calculates deflection angle spectral information of the specimen surface used to measure a measurement value of a certain evaluation item of the specimen using a change in an optical geometrical condition of an illumination direction and an image capturing direction between pixels in an X axis direction and a Y axis direction of the spectral information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Sho Nagai, Kensuke Masuda, Go Maruyama, Yuji Yamanaka, Naohiro Kamijo, Kenji Kagitani
  • Patent number: 9840596
    Abstract: A polyphenylene sulfide block copolymer contains polyphenylene sulfide units and polyorganosiloxane units and has a glass-transition temperature in the range of 80° C. or lower and a weight-average molecular weight in the range of 35,000 to 100,000. The polyphenylene sulfide block copolymer has high flexibility as well as high heat resistance and heat aging resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Toray Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Yamanaka, Hiroyuki Isago, Kei Saito, Hideki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9837845
    Abstract: A charging controlling system includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a battery terminal, and a switch terminal. The charging controlling system includes a coil connected to the switch terminal at a first end thereof. The charging controlling system includes a resistor connected to a second end of the coil at a first end thereof and to the battery terminal at a second end thereof. The charging controlling system includes a capacitor connected between the second end of the coil and the ground. The charging controlling system includes a diode connected to the switch terminal at a cathode thereof and to the ground at an anode thereof. The charging controlling system includes a charging controlling circuit that controls charging of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yuji Yamanaka
  • Publication number: 20170197039
    Abstract: Provided is a syringe cap including a projection extending in the circumferential direction of a cap body, wherein the projection includes an apex located radially outward of the cap body from the outer circumferential surface of the cap body, a first inclined surface having a starting end located at the apex and having a terminal end located at a position on the side closer to the proximal end of the cap body than the starting end is, and a second inclined surface having a starting end located at the apex and on the outer circumferential surface of the cap body having a terminal end located at a position on the side closer to the distal end of the cap body than the starting end is, on the outer circumferential surface of the cap body, and the shortest distance from the starting end to the terminal end of the first inclined surface is smaller than the shortest distance from the starting end to the terminal end of the second inclined surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicants: Taisei Kako Co., Ltd., Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Rieko Shiozaki, Yuji Yamanaka, Taiji Horita, Ippei Matsumoto, Kensuke Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20170145165
    Abstract: A polyphenylene sulfide block copolymer contains polyphenylene sulfide units and poly-organosiloxane units and has a glass-transition temperature in the range of 80° C. or lower and a weight-average molecular weight in the range of 35,000 to 100,000. The polyphenylene sulfide block copolymer has high flexibility as well as high heat resistance and heat aging resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Yuji Yamanaka, Hiroyuki Isago, Kei Saito, Hideki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170118925
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtainment unit configured to obtain spectroscopic information generated from image information of a plant captured by an imaging unit; and a generation unit configured to generate a control signal for controlling a degree of water stress of the plant, based on the obtained spectroscopic information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi NOGUCHI, Kensuke MASUDA, Kohji OSHIKIRI, Takeshi DENDA, Shohei MATSUMURA, Yasuhiro TOMII, Yuji YAMANAKA
  • Patent number: 9638575
    Abstract: A measuring apparatus and a measuring method are provided. The measuring apparatus includes an optical system to condense light, a light receiving device to receive light condensed by the optical system at a plurality of light receiving positions and convert the light into an electric signal, a plurality of optical band-pass filters arranged near a lens stop of the optical system, each of the optical band-pass filters having a different spectral transmittance, a lens array arranged between the optical system and the light receiving device, the lens array having a plurality of lenses each of which is arranged substantially in parallel with a two-dimensional surface of the light receiving device, and a correction unit to correct the electric signal for each one of the plurality of light receiving positions of the light receiving device. The measuring method is performed by the measuring apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Yamanaka, Go Maruyama, Kensuke Masuda, Sho Nagai
  • Patent number: 9605944
    Abstract: Disclosed is a distance measuring device including an imaging lens configured to condense incident light from an object, a lens array configured in such a manner that light having passed through the imaging lens is incident thereon, an imaging element array configured to receive light having passed through the lens array to output image information, and a distance calculating part configured to calculate a distance to the object based on the image information, wherein the lens array includes plural lenses with different numeric apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yamanaka, Kensuke Masuda
  • Patent number: 9609292
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a filter unit including filter areas having different wavelength selectivities; a light receiving element array configured to receive light transmitted through the filter unit; a storage unit configured to store, for each filter area, positional information indicating a position at which light transmitted is received on the light receiving element array; an area detector configured to detect, based on the positional information, an image area corresponding to the light transmitted from an image output by the light receiving element array when light from an object enters the filter unit; and a color detector configured to detect a color of the object based on an output value of the image area. The positional information indicates a position on the light receiving element array identified by using a spectral-response-coincidence-degree indicating a degree of coincidence between a spectral responsivity of each pixel and a desired wavelength selectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuji Yamanaka, Kensuke Masuda, Go Maruyama, Sho Nagai
  • Publication number: 20170054325
    Abstract: A non-contact power supply device is used in a processing apparatus including a moving unit movable inside a closed container. The device supplies electric power to the moving unit from outside the closed container. The power supply device includes a feed unit and a heat dissipater. The feed unit includes a feed line and a power supply transformer. The feed line has a feed region arranged inside the closed container along the moving direction of the moving unit. The transformer is arranged inside the closed container so as to be opposed to the feed region in a non-contact manner and is provided so as to move together with the moving unit. The heat dissipater includes a portion on one end side connected to the feed region so as to be capable of conducting heat thereto, and a portion on the other end side extending outside the closed container, so that heat generated in the feed region is partially dissipated outside the closed container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Yuji Yamanaka, Mamoru Kosaki, Hideaki Moriya
  • Patent number: 9531963
    Abstract: The image capturing device includes an optical system that focuses lights from an object to generate optical information, a filter provided near a diaphragm position of the optical system, the filter having a plurality of types of spectral characteristics, a sensor that converts the optical information of the object to electronic data, the sensor providing a plurality of spectral transmittance values that sequentially and spatially change, and a lens array having a plurality of lenses being arranged in substantially parallel in a direction of a two-dimensional surface of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Yamanaka, Kensuke Masuda, Go Maruyama
  • Patent number: 9420242
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a filter, an imaging element, a lens, a spectral image generator, and an exposure adjuster. The filter includes a plurality of filter areas having different spectral transmission characteristics. The imaging element receives light transmitted through the filter and outputs image information. The lens array includes a plurality of lenses arranged approximately parallel to a light receiving surface of the imaging element and is arranged between the filter and the imaging element. The spectral image generator generates a plurality of spectral images respectively corresponding to the plurality of filter areas on the basis of the image information output by the imaging element. The exposure adjuster adjusts an exposure time of the imaging element on the basis of luminance values of the spectral images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Go Maruyama, Kensuke Masuda, Yuji Yamanaka, Sho Nagai
  • Patent number: D773660
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignees: CHUGAI SEIYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TAISEI KAKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rieko Shiozaki, Yuji Yamanaka, Taiji Horita, Ippei Matsumoto, Kensuke Taniguchi