Patents by Inventor Yukihiro Yamamoto

Yukihiro 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).

  • Patent number: 8709339
    Abstract: To prevent electrical charging inside a resin material as well as a surface of a resin vessel at a time of sterilizing the resin vessel by being irradiated with electron beam, a bottle support unit is mounted to a lower end portion of a cylindrical rotating shaft rotatably supported by a rotating wheel. The bottle support unit includes a pair of griper members by which a mouth portion of a bottle is gripped. A ground electrode is disposed to be capable of being inserted into the interior of the resin vessel through a mouth portion thereof, and the interior of the resin vessel is irradiated with the electron beam in a state of the ground electrode being inserted into the resin vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Shibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiya Kobayashi, Mitsuomi Narita, Tomohiko Sugimori, Tsunehiko Yokoi, Yukinobu Nishino, Masami Hayashi, Hideki Nishikawa, Yukihiro Yamamoto, Tokuo Nishi
  • Patent number: 8692413
    Abstract: In a noncontact electric power feeding system using a resonance method, electrical equipment installed within a coil case is configured to include an electric power receiving antenna and a rectifier in an integrated manner. The electrical equipment is driven by receiving electric power from an electromagnetic field generated by electromagnetic resonance, without power supply from the outside of the coil case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaru Sasaki, Shinji Ichikawa, Toru Nakamura, Yukihiro Yamamoto, Taira Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8618503
    Abstract: An electron beam sterilizer has a bottle holder 28 provided with a rotation shaft 38, a neck gripper 70 mounted to a lower end of the rotation shaft 38, a rotating body 30 for rotating and moving the neck gripper 70 and a rotator revolver (segment gear 54, pinion gear 46, disc-shaped cam 66, etc.), and while conveying the resin bottle 2 in the state of being held, the resin bottle 2 is sterilized by irradiation with the electron beam through the irradiation window 19 of the electron beam irradiation device 18. The entire surface of the resin bottle 2 is completely sterilized by being rotated by the rotator during the movement in front of the irradiation window 19 and, thereafter, the rotator is inverted in position to return the neck gripper to thereby discharge the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Shibuya Kogyo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinobu Nishino, Tokuo Nishi, Yukihiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8610399
    Abstract: A resonance type non-contact power supply system is provided that includes power supplying equipment and an electric vehicle. The power supply equipment includes an alternating-current power source and a primary-side resonance coil for receiving power from the alternating-current power source. The electric vehicle includes power receiving equipment and a vehicle height control device mounted on the electric vehicle. The power receiving equipment includes a secondary-side resonance coil that receives power from the primary-side resonance coil, a rectifier that rectifies the power received by the secondary-side resonance coil, and an electrical storage device, to which the power rectified by the rectifier is supplied. A resonance system that includes the primary-side resonance coil and the secondary-side resonance coil is configured such that impedance thereof is adjusted by the use of the vehicle height control device when the electrical storage device is charged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Takada, Sadanori Suzuki, Shimpei Sakoda, Yukihiro Yamamoto, Shinji Ichikawa, Toru Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8505269
    Abstract: Charges accumulated inside a wall structure of a resin vessel, which is sterilized by an electron beam irradiator, and an ionizer disposed outside a filler emits to the outer surface of the resin vessel are eliminated with negative ions having the same polarity as that of charges accumulated in the wall section of the resin vessel, while conveying the resin vessel sterilized by the electron beam irradiator to the filler, by which liquid fills the resin vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Shibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiya Kobayashi, Mitsuomi Narita, Tomohiko Sugimori, Tsunehiko Yokoi, Yukinobu Nishino, Masami Hayashi, Takashi Kadoya, Tokuo Nishi, Yukihiro Yamamoto, Takuya Onishi, Takahiro Kida, Kouichi Murata
  • Publication number: 20130202481
    Abstract: To prevent electrical charging inside a resin material as well as a surface of a resin vessel at a time of sterilizing the resin vessel by being irradiated with electron beam, a bottle support unit is mounted to a lower end portion of a cylindrical rotating shaft rotatably supported by a rotating wheel. The bottle support unit includes a pair of griper members by which a mouth portion of a bottle is gripped. A ground electrode is disposed to be capable of being inserted into the interior of the resin vessel through a mouth portion thereof, and the interior of the resin vessel is irradiated with the electron beam in a state of the ground electrode being inserted into the resin vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Toshiya KOBAYASHI, Mitsuomi NARITA, Tomohiko SUGIMORI, Tsunehiko YOKOI, Yukinobu NISHINO, Masami HAYASHI, Hideki NISHIKAWA, Yukihiro YAMAMOTO, Tokuo NISHI
  • Publication number: 20130193913
    Abstract: Power supply equipment (10) is provided with an AC power supply (11) and a primary-side resonance coil (13b). Movable body equipment (20) is provided with a secondary-side resonance coil (21b), which receives power from the primary-side coil, a rectifier (23), which rectifies the received power, a charger (24) to which the rectified power is supplied, and a secondary battery (25), which is connected to the charger. A primary matching unit (12) is provided between the AC power supply (11) and the primary-side resonance coil (13b). A secondary matching unit (22) is provided between the secondary-side resonance coil (21b) and the rectifier (23). A control unit is provided to either the power supply equipment (10) or the movable body equipment (20). The control unit controls a primary matching unit adjustment unit (14) and a secondary matching unit adjustment unit (26).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Takada, Sadanori Suzuki, Shimpei Sakoda, Yukihiro Yamamoto, Shinji Ichikawa, Toru Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130182363
    Abstract: To eliminate charges accumulated inside a wall structure of a resin vessel 2, which is sterilized by an electron beam irradiator 16, an ionizer 134 disposed outside a filler 112 emits to the outer surface of the resin vessel 2 with negative ions having the same polarity as that of charges accumulated in the wall section of the resin vessel 2, while conveying the resin vessel 2 sterilized by the electron beam irradiator 16 to the filler 112, by which liquid fills the resin vessel 2. A filling nozzle 132 is connected to ground, and an ion flowing path is formed through a liquid column La filling the interior of the resin vessel 2 from the filling nozzle 132.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventors: Toshiya KOBAYASHI, Mitsuomi NARITA, Tomohiko SUGIMORI, Tsunehiko YOKOI, Yukinobu NISHINO, Masami HAYASHI, Takashi KADOYA, Tokuo NISHI, Yukihiro YAMAMOTO, Takuya ONISHI, Takahiro KIDA, Kouichi MURATA
  • Patent number: 8461550
    Abstract: Plastic containers fed by an article feeder housed in a shield chamber are sterilized by being irradiated with an electron beam that is radiated from an irradiation window of an electron beam irradiation unit which is coupled to an opening of the shield chamber. In a maintenance mode, an adjustment irradiation box is detachably mounted on the electron beam irradiation unit in covering relation to the irradiation window of the electron beam irradiation unit. The adjustment irradiation box houses therein an electron beam receiver for receiving the electron beam radiated from the irradiation window, a cooling mechanism for cooling the electron beam receiver, and an exhaust mechanism for discharging an atmosphere in the adjustment irradiation box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Shibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinobu Nishino, Tokuo Nishi, Yukihiro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20130119781
    Abstract: A power supplying equipment includes an alternating-current power source and a primary-side resonance coil. A movable body equipment includes a secondary-side resonance coil a rectifier, and a secondary battery to which the power rectified by the rectifier is supplied. The power supplying equipment further includes a primary matching unit provided between the alternating-current power source and the primary-side resonance coil, and a primary matching unit adjusting section for adjusting the primary matching unit. The primary matching unit adjusting section adjusts the primary matching unit only at times other than when detecting the distance between the primary-side resonance coil and the secondary-side resonance coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Takada, Shimpei Sakoda, Sadanori Suzuki, Yukihiro Yamamoto, Shinji Ichikawa, Toru Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8421411
    Abstract: A resonance type non-contact charging device includes a high frequency power source, a primary side resonant coil, a secondary side resonant coil, a charger, a secondary battery, and a stop control unit. The primary side resonant coil receives supply of high frequency electric power from the high frequency power source. The secondary side resonant coil is arranged apart from the primary side resonant coil in a non-contact manner. The secondary side resonant coil receives electric power from the primary side resonant coil through magnetic field resonance between the primary side resonant coil and the secondary side resonant coil. The charger receives supply of high frequency electric power from the secondary side resonant coil. The secondary battery is connected to the charger. The stop control unit stops the high frequency power source before stopping the charger when charging is to be stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Takada, Sadanori Suzuki, Kenichi Nakata, Shimpei Sakoda, Yukihiro Yamamoto, Shinji Ichikawa, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8421410
    Abstract: A resonance type non-contact charging device includes a high frequency power source, a primary side resonant coil, a secondary side resonant coil, a charger, a secondary battery, and a stop control unit. The primary side resonant coil receives supply of high frequency electric power from the high frequency power source. The secondary side resonant coil is arranged apart from the primary side resonant coil in a non-contact manner. The secondary side resonant coil receives electric power from the primary side resonant coil through magnetic field resonance between the primary side resonant coil and the secondary side resonant coil. The charger receives supply of high frequency electric power from the secondary side resonant coil. The secondary battery is connected to the charger. The stop control unit stops the high frequency power source before stopping the charger when charging is to be stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Takada, Sadanori Suzuki, Kenichi Nakata, Shimpei Sakoda, Yukihiro Yamamoto, Shinji Ichikawa, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8415645
    Abstract: It is aimed to prevent electrical charging inside a resin material as well as a surface of a resin vessel at a time of sterilizing the resin vessel by being irradiated with electron beam. A bottle support unit is mounted to a lower end portion of a cylindrical rotating shaft rotatably supported by a rotating wheel. The bottle support unit includes a pair of griper members by which a mouth portion of a bottle is gripped. The bottle rotated and conveyed in a state supported by the bottle support unit is irradiated with the electron beam from an electron beam irradiator to thereby sterilize the bottle. A ground electrode is disposed to be capable of being inserted into the interior of the resin vessel through a mouth portion thereof, and the interior of the resin vessel is irradiated with the electron beam in a state of the ground electrode being inserted into the resin vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Shibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiya Kobayashi, Mitsuomi Narita, Tomohiko Sugimori, Tsunehiko Yokoi, Yukinobu Nishino, Masami Hayashi, Hideki Nishikawa, Yukihiro Yamamoto, Tokuo Nishi
  • Publication number: 20130063085
    Abstract: Movable body equipment is provided with: a secondary-side resonance coil, which receives power from a primary-side resonance coil of power supply equipment; a rectifier, which rectifies the power received by the secondary-side resonance coil; and a secondary battery, to which to which the power rectified by the rectifier is supplied. A resonance-type non-contact power supply system is provided with: state of charge detection units, which detect the state of charge of the secondary battery; and an impedance estimation unit, which estimates an impedance estimation value for the secondary battery on the basis of the state of charge of the secondary battery. When the absolute value of the difference between the impedance estimation value and the current impedance value of the secondary battery exceeds a threshold, a determination unit determines that a foreign body is present between the primary-side resonance coil and the secondary-side resonance coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Takada, Sadanori Suzuki, Shimpei Sakoda, Yukihiro Yamamoto, Shinji Ichikawa, Toru Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130057207
    Abstract: A power feeding system is provided, in which a detected value of reflected power at a power supply device in a power feeding installation is sent from the power feeding installation to a vehicle via a first communication device, the vehicle has an impedance matching device for adjusting an impedance at a resonance system that is constituted of a power transmission resonator, including a primary self-resonant coil and a primary coil in the power feeding installation, and a power receiving resonator, including a secondary self-resonant coil and a secondary coil in the vehicle, and the impedance matching device is controlled based on the detected value of the reflected power at the power supply device, which has been received from the power feeding installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Toru Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Takada, Sadanori Suzuki, Shimpei Sakoda, Yukihiro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20130057208
    Abstract: Power reception equipment (20) is provided with: a secondary side resonance coil (21b) which receives power from a primary side resonance coil (13b) of power supply equipment (10); and a rectifier (23) which rectifies the received power. The power reception equipment is further provided with: a secondary matching unit (22) which is provided between the secondary side resonance coil (21b) and the rectifier (23); a charger (24) to which rectified electric power is supplied; a power storage device (25) which is connected to the charger; and a control unit (26) which adjusts the secondary matching unit when the power storage device is being charged. The control unit stores, as data on a storage device (33), the relationship between the charge power from the power supply equipment during the power ascension phase and the matching status of the secondary matching unit (22) when charging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Takada, Sandanori Suzuki, Shimpei Sakoda, Yukihiro Yamamoto, Shinji Ichikawa, Toru Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130057082
    Abstract: A non-contact power reception system comprising movable body equipment including a secondary-side coil for receiving, in a non-contact manner, electric power from a primary-side coil, which receives electric power from an AC power source, a rectifier, which rectifies electric power received by the secondary-side coil, and an electrical storage device, which is connected to rectifier, wherein the movable body equipment includes a matching unit located between the secondary-side coil and the rectifier, and the non-contact power reception system is configured to bring the matching unit into a mismatch state when electric power is being received from the primary-side coil in a state in which the movable body equipment should refuse power reception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Takada, Sadanori Suzuki, Shimpei Sakoda, Yukihiro Yamamoto, Shinji Ichikawa, Toru Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8378628
    Abstract: A conversion adaptor enables utilization of a standardized charge cable used when a power storage device mounted on an electrically-powered vehicle is charged by a power source provided outside of the vehicle as a universal cable for transmitting electric power to electric loads having different plug shapes that are respectively standardized from one region to another. Conversion adaptor includes a primary side connector unit configured to be connectable to a connector of charge cable, a secondary side connector unit configured so as to have a plug of an electric load, such as a home electric appliance, connected thereto, and a manipulating unit for manipulating a CCID of charge cable so that relays are switched off when connector of charge cable is connected to first connector unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Kenji Itagaki, Masaru Sasaki, Wanleng Ang, Kenji Murasato, Atsushi Mizutani, Yukihiro Yamamoto, Taira Kikuchi, Yoshikazu Kataoka, Shingo Ieda, Hiroki Sawada, Yoshinori Fujitake
  • Patent number: 8373138
    Abstract: An irradiation surface of an electron beam irradiation device 28 is directed toward a vessel 2 conveyed by a vessel conveying device 24 to thereby irradiate the vessel 2 with the electron beam to sterilize the vessel, an irradiation chamber 30 is provided so as to surround the irradiation surface of the electron beam irradiation device 28 and the vessel 2 subjected to the irradiation, a discharge chamber 32 is provided on an outlet side of the irradiation chamber 30, and dry-air supply means 80 for supplying a dried aseptic air is connected to the irradiation chamber 30. By removing moisture within the irradiation chamber 30 which is irradiated with the electron beam, the changing of nitrogen oxide to nitric acid is suppressed to thereby prevent metal portions from corroding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Shibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinobu Nishino, Tokuo Nishi, Yukihiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8330120
    Abstract: Even in a case where a spark is generated in an electron beam irradiation device 28, all the vessels 2 being conveyed are sterilized by the irradiation with the electron beam. The electron beam is emitted by heating filaments 42 arranged in a vacuum chamber 40 and the vessels 2 are irradiated with the electron beam taken out into the atmosphere through a window foil 48 of an irradiation window 46 formed to an irradiation section 44. The vessels 2 are conveyed in a state of being held by vessel holding portions 36A and 36B of a vessel conveying device 24 and pass in front of the irradiation window 46. Although the electron beam irradiation is temporarily interrupted when a spark is generated, a length of the irradiation window 46 in a vessel conveying direction X is made larger than a vessel conveying distance in an interruption time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Shibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinobu Nishino, Tokuo Nishi, Yukihiro Yamamoto