Patents by Inventor Yusuke Adachi

Yusuke Adachi 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: 20130285910
    Abstract: The electronic device 100 includes a touch panel 102 to be touched by a user, a vibrating section 203 for vibrating the touch panel 102, a vibration control section 301 for controlling the vibration of the vibrating section 203, and a display section 101 for displaying an image. The vibration control section 301 changes the vibration of the vibrating section 203 in accordance with a speed at which the user performs a swiping operation on the touch panel 102 and a spatial frequency in a swiping direction of an image displayed at a position where the user is performing a swiping operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Yusuke ADACHI, Shoichi ARAKI, Yoshifumi HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20130278179
    Abstract: A drive unit includes an ultrasonic actuator having an actuator body formed using a piezoelectric element, and a driving element provided on the actuator body and configured to output a driving force by moving according to the vibration of the actuator body, and a control section configured to induce the vibration in the actuator body by applying a first and a second AC voltages having a same frequency and different phases to the piezoelectric element. The control section adjusts the first AC voltage and the second AC voltage so that the first AC voltage and the second AC voltage have different voltage values from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Yusuke ADACHI, Hideaki MUKAE, Masaru HIGASHIONJI, Eiichi NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20130271412
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including: a base; a panel; a support for supporting the panel with respect to the base; and a vibrator for causing the panel to vibrate at a given frequency. The support includes a first region located at a part corresponding to a node of vibration of the panel, and a second region located at a part other than the node of the vibration of the panel. The support has a rigidity that is smaller in the first region than in the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Yusuke ADACHI, Ryo OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20130265268
    Abstract: An electronic device 1 includes a display section 12 for displaying an input operation area 52, a touch panel 21 provided on a display surface side of the display section 12 for detecting a touch position touched by a user, a vibration section 23 for vibrating the touch panel 21, and a vibration control section 27 for controlling the vibration section 23 so as to intermittently generate unit vibrations, each of which is composed of a plurality of iterations of a vibration of a predetermined frequency. The vibration control section 27 changes a cycle T on which the unit vibrations are intermittently generated based on a touch position of the user on the touch panel 21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Ryo OKUMURA, Naoto YUMIKI, Yusuke ADACHI, Akira KOGA, Masahiro INATA
  • Publication number: 20130229384
    Abstract: An electronic device 100 includes a touch panel 102 for accepting a touch operation by a user to detect a touch position, a vibrating section 203 for vibrating the touch panel 102 in a first vibration mode and a second vibration mode, and a vibration control section 301 for controlling the vibration of the vibrating section 203. The number of vibration nodes occurring on the touch panel 102 in the first vibration mode is different from the number of vibration nodes occurring on the touch panel 102 in the second vibration mode. The vibration control section 301 vibrates the touch panel 102 in at least one of the first vibration mode and the second vibration mode depending on the touch position of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke ADACHI, Ryo OKUMURA
  • Patent number: 8493006
    Abstract: A drive unit includes an ultrasonic actuator having an actuator body formed using a piezoelectric element, and a driving element provided on the actuator body and configured to output a driving force by moving according to the vibration of the actuator body, and a control section configured to induce the vibration in the actuator body by applying a first and a second AC voltages having a same frequency and different phases to the piezoelectric element. The control section adjusts the first AC voltage and the second AC voltage so that the first AC voltage and the second AC voltage have different voltage values from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Adachi, Hideaki Mukae, Masaru Higashionji, Eiichi Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 8436513
    Abstract: A drive unit includes: a shaft; a movable body supported by the shaft so as to be displaceable along the shaft; a vibratory actuator configured to drive the movable body; and a support body configured to support the vibrator actuator. The vibratory actuator includes an actuator main body that contacts the movable body and is configured to vibrate to output a driving force to the movable body, an opposing member that contacts the movable body and is positioned so as to face the actuator main body with the movable body interposed therebetween, and a coupling member that is configured to couple the actuator main body with the opposing member and to bias the actuator main body and the opposing member so as to sandwich the movable body therebetween with the movable body kept displaceable along the shaft. The support body supports the vibratory actuator so that the vibratory actuator is displaceable along a biasing direction of the coupling member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Mukae, Eiichi Nagaoka, Yusuke Adachi
  • Patent number: 8421308
    Abstract: In an ultrasonic actuator, piezoelectric layers and internal electrode layers are stacked. External electrodes are formed on a principal surface exposed to an outside of the outermost piezoelectric layer. Side electrodes connected to the internal electrode layers and the external electrodes are formed on side surfaces of a body including the piezoelectric layers and the internal electrode layers. A first divided electrode and a first external electrode are connected together by a plurality of side electrodes. A second divided electrode and a second external electrode are connected together by a plurality of side electrodes. A minus electrode layer and a third external electrode are connected together by a plurality of side electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Adachi
  • Patent number: 8410671
    Abstract: An ultrasonic actuator includes an actuator body configured by alternately stacking piezoelectric layers, and a positive and a negative electrode layers. The positive electrode layer includes a first through a fourth positive split electrodes and a positive diagonal-connection electrode connecting together the first and the third positive split electrodes. The second and the fourth positive split electrodes are connected together outside the positive electrode layer. The negative electrode layer includes a first through a fourth negative split electrodes and a negative diagonal-connection electrode connecting together the first and the third negative split electrodes. The second and the fourth negative split electrodes are connected together outside the negative electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Adachi
  • Publication number: 20130070124
    Abstract: A lens barrel comprises a first zoom/focus lens group and a second zoom/focus lens group configured to respectively vary a focal distance and imaging distance by moving in an optical axis, a first actuator configured to drive the first zoom/focus lens group, a second actuator configured to drive the second zoom/focus lens group, and a drive controller configured to independently control the first actuator and the second actuator. The drive controller is configured to wobble the first zoom/focus lens group by reciprocating only the first zoom/focus lens group out of the first and second zoom/focus lens groups in a optical axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Norikazu Katsuyama, Yusuke Adachi, Fumio Muramatsu
  • Publication number: 20130050568
    Abstract: A lens barrel includes a first zoom/focus lens group and a second zoom/focus lens group configured to respectively vary a focal distance and imaging distance by moving in an optical axis, a first actuator configured to drive the first zoom/focus lens group, and a second actuator configured to drive the second zoom/focus lens group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Yusuke Adachi, Norikazu Katsuyama, Fumio Muramatsu
  • Publication number: 20130009893
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a touch screen panel; a support structure having a first support member and a second support member, the first support member and the second support member being in contact with touch screen panel to support the touch screen panel at a periphery of the touch screen panel; a base being in contact with the support structure to support the touch screen panel via the support structure; and a vibration mechanism for vibrating the touch screen panel, the vibration mechanism being provided near the periphery of the touch screen panel so as to be closer to the first support member than to the second support member. The first support member has a rigidity which is greater than a rigidity of the second support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo OKUMURA, Yusuke ADACHI
  • Patent number: 8350446
    Abstract: An ultrasonic actuator (2) includes an actuator body (4) which performs a longitudinal vibration and a bending vibration, and a driver element (8a, 8b) which is provided on one of side surfaces of the actuator body (4) which is a mounting surface (40a), and performs an orbital motion in accordance with the vibrations of the actuator body (4) to output a driving force. The driver element (8a, 8b) includes a first driver element (8a) and a second driver element (8b) which are provided on the mounting surface (40a) at different positions in a longitudinal direction of the actuator body (4). The first driver element (8a) and the second driver element (8b) are located at different positions in a thickness direction of the actuator body (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Adachi, Takayuki Hayashi, Eiichi Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 8314533
    Abstract: A supporting structure for an actuator body, which can prevent reduction of vibration of an actuator body and maintain a contact state of a driver element with an abutment body in a stable manner even when the driver element receives reactive force from the abutment body is realized. An ultrasonic actuator (2) includes an actuator body (4) for generating vibration, driver elements (8), provided on a mounting surface (40a) of the actuator body (4), for outputting driving force, a pressing rubber (62) for pressing the actuator body (4) to a stage (11), a case (5) to which the actuator body (4) is coupled, and a plate spring (61) for elastically supporting the actuator body (4) relative to the case (5). The plate spring (61) supports the mounting surface (40a) of the actuator body (4) on which the driver elements 8 are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Higashionji, Hideaki Mukae, Eiichi Nagaoka, Yusuke Adachi
  • Publication number: 20120225564
    Abstract: In the disclosed vapor deposition method, by using a structure wherein an inner diameter of a group-V source gas introduction piping is greater than an outer diameter a group-III source gas introduction piping, and the group-III source gas introduction piping is inserted one-to-one into the interior of the group-V source gas introduction piping, the group-III source gas piping is thereby prevented from being cooled by a cooling mechanism, and hardening of metallic materials upon the surface of the wall of the piping is alleviated. It is thus possible to provide a vapor deposition device, a vapor deposition method, and a semiconductor element manufacturing method, which are capable of efficaciously introducing easily hardening metallic materials into a reactor without the metallic materials adhering to a showerhead or a piping, and to carry out efficacious doping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yusuke Adachi, Hidekazu Sakagami
  • Publication number: 20120212104
    Abstract: An ultrasonic actuator (2) includes an actuator body (4) which performs a longitudinal vibration and a bending vibration, and a driver element (8a, 8b) which is provided on one of side surfaces of the actuator body (4) which is a mounting surface (40a), and performs an orbital motion in accordance with the vibrations of the actuator body (4) to output a driving force. The driver element (8a, 8b) includes a first driver element (8a) and a second driver element (8b) which are provided on the mounting surface (40a) at different positions in a longitudinal direction of the actuator body (4). The first driver element (8a) and the second driver element (8b) are located at different positions in a thickness direction of the actuator body (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke ADACHI, Takayuki HAYASHI, Eiichi NAGAOKA
  • Patent number: 8237331
    Abstract: The drive efficiency of a vibratory actuator is improved without increasing a weight of a driver element. An ultrasonic actuator (2) includes an actuator body (4) for generating longitudinal vibration and bending vibration, and driver elements (8), provided on a mounting surface (40a) which is one of side surfaces of the actuator body (4), for making an orbit motion according to the vibrations of the actuator body (4) to output driving force. In the driver element (8), a through hole (80) is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Nagaoka, Yusuke Adachi
  • Patent number: 8228624
    Abstract: A drive unit includes an ultrasonic actuator, which has an actuator body formed using a piezoelectric element and outputs a driving force by vibration of the actuator body, and a control section which induces vibration in the actuator body by supplying a plurality of AC voltages to the piezoelectric element. The control section provides, in combination, phase control, which controls the driving force by adjusting a phase difference between a first and a second AC voltages, and wave-number control, which controls the driving force by adjusting the wave number included in a predetermined burst period in each AC voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kanda, Yusuke Adachi
  • Publication number: 20120172293
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a peptide having a superior Y2 receptor agonist action and useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of obesity and the like. A peptide represented by the formula: P1-X1-A25-A26-A27-A28-A29-A30-A31-A32-A33-A34-A35-A36-NH2 wherein each symbol is as described in the specification, or a salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Taiji Asami, Naoki Nishizawa, Ayumu Niida, Yusuke Adachi
  • Patent number: 8183738
    Abstract: In driving a target body only by one of actuators, the target body is smoothly driven. A drive unit (1) includes a stage (3), a first ultrasonic actuator (4A) for driving the stage (3) in an X direction and a second ultrasonic actuator (4B) for driving the stage (3) in a Y direction. When the stage (3) is driven only in one of the X direction and the Y direction, one of the first and second ultrasonic actuators (4A and 4B) which corresponds to the direction generates composite vibration of longitudinal direction parallel to a contact surface of the stage (3) and bending vibration perpendicular to the contact surface of the stage (3). On the other hand, the other one of the first and second ultrasonic actuators (4A and 4B) generates only longitudinal vibration parallel to the contact surface of the stage (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Honjo, Hideaki Mukae, Yusuke Adachi