Patents by Inventor Yusuke

Yusuke 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).

  • Coated cutting tool
    Patent number: 9199311
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool with improved abrasion resistance and chipping resistance in which a cemented carbine substrate has a coating film formed on a surface of the substrate by chemical vapor deposition. The coating film includes a lower film with the average film thickness of 2 to 15 ?m, formed on the surface of the substrate, and an aluminum oxide upper film, with an average film thickness of 1 to 10 ?m, formed on a surface of the lower film. The lower film is an alternate laminated film formed by alternately stacking TiN films; each having the average thickness of 10 to 300 nm, and TiCN films each having the average thickness of 0.1 to 0.5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Hirano
  • Information processing system relating to content distribution, storage medium for storing program directed thereto, and information processing device
    Patent number: 9199171
    Abstract: A CPU shows animation in which an introduction character appears. In succession, the CPU has a profile of the introduction character displayed. Thereafter, the CPU has a substance of a content displayed, based on a title or the like included in motion picture information downloaded from a distribution server. Namely, the CPU causes a monitor to display the introduction character (a character object) based on obtained character information and outputs information for introducing a specific content in association with the introduction character (the character object) based on obtained content information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Mizuki, Yusuke Beppu
  • Method for producing resist composition
    Patent number: 9201301
    Abstract: Provided by the present invention is a method for producing a resist composition, especially a silicon-containing resist underlayer film composition, with fewer film defects, the composition used in immersion exposure, double patterning, development by an organic solvent, and so forth. Specifically, provided is a method for producing a resist composition to be used for manufacturing a semiconductor device, wherein the resist composition is filtered using a filter which filters through 5 mg or less of an eluate per unit surface area (m2) in an extraction using an organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ogihara, Yusuke Biyajima, Motoaki Iwabuchi, Taku Morisawa
  • Cleaning unit, process cartridge incorporating same, and image forming apparatus incorporating same
    Patent number: 9201378
    Abstract: A cleaning unit, which is included in a process cartridge or an image forming apparatus, includes a brush rotary body to remove toner, a toner collecting rotary body to collect the toner, a toner collecting blade to scrape the toner, and a cleaning blade to scrape the toner falling from the brush rotary body. The image carrier, the brush rotary body, and the toner collecting rotary body rotate in the same direction. The cleaning blade, the brush rotary body, and the toner collecting rotary body are located to cause a tangential line passing through a contact area of the brush rotary body and the toner collecting rotary body on an outer peripheral circle around a shaft of the brush rotary body to have an intersection point intersecting a non-contact surface of the cleaning blade disposed opposite to a contact portion of the cleaning blade with the image carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Asaoka, Hirotaka Hatta, Toshiya Sato, Takeshi Kojima, Hiroyuki Uenishi, Yusuke Ishizuka
  • Vibration modality switching system for providing navigation guidance
    Patent number: 9202353
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for switching vibration modalities based on conditions to provide navigation guidance. The system includes a tactile belt and a computing device. The computing device includes a modality module for receiving path data describing a path planned for a user associated with a tactile belt and location data describing a location of the user associated with the tactile belt, determining condition data based on the path data and the location data and determining a vibration modality based on the condition data. The condition data describes a direction change. The vibration modality describes a pattern for vibration and indicates a vibration signal. The system applies the vibration signal indicated by the vibration modality to the tactile belt to instruct the user associated with the tactile belt to follow the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Emrah Akin Sisbot, Akansel Cosgun, Yusuke Nakano
  • Gas generator
    Patent number: 9199603
    Abstract: A gas generator includes a bottom plate part which is a part of a housing, a cup-shaped member accommodating a transfer charge, a cylindrical filter accommodated in the housing, and an annular first pad member situated in a part on the side of the bottom plate part of a combustion chamber. The cup-shaped member is arranged to project toward inside the combustion chamber, and has a first extension part extending outwardly in the radial direction from a part on the side of an open end along the bottom plate part. The first pad member has a second extension part extending inwardly in the radial direction from an abutting part abutting on the inner circumferential face of the filter along the bottom plate part. By sandwiching the first extension part between the bottom plate part and the second extension part, the cup-shaped member is fixed to the bottom plate part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Ohsugi, Yusuke Tanaka, Naoki Izaki, Yoshitaka Iwai
  • Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product
    Patent number: 9202097
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a detection unit, an extraction unit, and a reading unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire an input image including a marker having a position detection pattern. The detection unit is configured to detect the position detection pattern using identification data used for detecting the position detection pattern included in the input image, the identification data being from a plurality of position detection patterns having different forms from each other. The extraction unit is configured to extract, from the input image, the marker corresponding to the detected position detection pattern. The reading unit is configured to read data associated with the extracted marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yusuke Tazoe, Masahiro Sekine, Masashi Nishiyama, Goh Itoh
  • Resistance random access memory device
    Patent number: 9202846
    Abstract: A resistance random access memory device according to one embodiment includes an interlayer insulation film which a trench is made therein, an ion supply layer provided along a bottom surface and a side surface of the trench, a portion of the ion supply layer provided along the bottom surface is thicker than a portion of the ion supply layer provided along the side surface, and a resistance change layer provided at least below the ion supply layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yusuke Arayashiki, Kikuko Sugimae
  • Driving method of electrophoretic display device, and controller
    Patent number: 9202417
    Abstract: A driving method of an electrophoretic display device, which has a plurality of pixels where an electrophoretic layer is interposed between a first electrode and a second electrode, including supplying a first voltage pulse with one polarity of a first polarity or a second polarity to a first pixel in a third display state between a first display state and a second display state, supplying a second voltage pulse with the other polarity of the first polarity or the second polarity to the first pixel, supplying a third voltage pulse, which has the same polarity as the polarity of the first voltage pulse and has a duration different from a duration of the first voltage pulse, to a second pixel which is in the third display state, and supplying the second voltage pulse to the second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Yamada
  • Image processing apparatus and image processing method
    Patent number: 9202130
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a storage configured to store, for a plurality of areas in a target image, attributes and patterns associated with the attributes, each the attributes being assigned to each the plurality of areas, and each the pattern being created from areas having an identical attribute among the attributes; and a processor configured to: obtain an area that is specified in the target image and an attribute that is assigned to the specified area, search the storage for a pattern based on similarity between the pattern and a pattern created from a certain number of areas having the assigned attribute; and search for an area in the target image based on similarity between the area and the certain number of areas in accordance with the searched pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takayuki Baba, Shugo Nakamura, Masaki Ishihara, Masahiko Sugimura, Susumu Endo, Yusuke Uehara, Daiki Masumoto, Hirohisa Naito, Akira Miyazaki
  • INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150338935
    Abstract: Provided is an information management system, esigned not to sense a hand holding a writing tool at the time of writing on a sheet. The information management system is provided with a personal computer which has a display, and an electronic underlay which is laid under a sheet to perform writing. The electronic underlay is provided with: a sheet-like optical waveguide formed by sandwiching lattice-like cores between a sheet-like under cladding layer and a sheet-like over cladding layer; a light emitting element connected to one end surface of the cores; and a light receiving element connected to another end surface of the core. An elasticity modulus of the core is larger than an elasticity modulus of the under cladding layer and of the over cladding layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Shimizu, Ryoma Yoshioka
  • IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150338804
    Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes a heater including a substrate and a heat generating element provided on the substrate; a supporting member supporting the heater, the supporting member being provided with a recess for receiving the heater; a high heat conduction member having a thermal conductivity at least in a direction parallel with a surface higher than a thermal conductivity of the substrate, the high heat conduction member being sandwiched between the heater and the supporting member. A side surface of the heater and a surface, defining the recess and opposing the side surface of the heater, of the supporting member are bonded by adhesive material with each other to fix the heater and the supporting member to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakashima, Atsuhiko Yamaguchi
  • Sealed Body, Light-Emitting Module, and Method of Manufacturing Sealed Body
    Publication number: 20150340649
    Abstract: A sealed body in which sealing is uniformly performed is provided. A light-emitting module in which sealing is uniformly performed is provided. A method of manufacturing the sealed body in which sealing is uniformly performed is provided. The sealed body comprises a first substrate alternately provided with a high-reflectivity region with respect to the energy ray and a low-reflectivity region with respect to the energy ray so as to overlap with a sealant surrounding a sealed object, and a second substrate capable of transmitting the energy ray. The sealed object is sealed between the first substrate and the second substrate by heating the sealant with irradiation with the energy ray through the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusuke Nishido
  • INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM, VIEWING TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROVISION PROGRAMME
    Publication number: 20150339305
    Abstract: The information providing system includes the communication unit, the content database, the search unit and the map information generation unit. The communication unit acquires place information indicating a place. The content database stores place information indicating a place and specifying information specifying an expression part where an expression related to the place appears in content in association with each other. The search unit acquires the specifying information stored in association with the place information indicating a place within a specified range from the place indicated by the place information acquired by the communication unit from the content database. The map information generation unit outputs the specifying information acquired by the search unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc
    Inventors: Yusuke MURATA, Kenjiro NUMAZU, Ruka SAKURAI
  • HAIR DRYER
    Publication number: 20150335127
    Abstract: A hair dryer includes a heater, a fan, a motor for driving the fan, a body case that accommodates the heater, the fan, and the motor, and a thermal barrier tube disposed between the body case and the heater. The diameter of the fan is allowed to be 90 mm or more, and an air quantity formed by the fan is allowed to be 1.0 m3 to 1.4 m3/min, thereby enabling reduction of noise while resulting in the sufficient air quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Masanori TERAMOTO, Keitoku MORITA, Yusuke HORIGUCHI, Juncheng PENG
  • SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20150340509
    Abstract: An object is to provide a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor film, which has stable electrical characteristics and high reliability. A stack of first and second material films is formed by forming the first material film (a film having a hexagonal crystal structure) having a thickness of 1 nm to 10 nm over an insulating surface and forming the second material film having a hexagonal crystal structure (a crystalline oxide semiconductor film) using the first material film as a nucleus. As the first material film, a material film having a wurtzite crystal structure (e.g., gallium nitride or aluminum nitride) or a material film having a corundum crystal structure (?-Al2O3, ?-Ga2O3, In2O3, Ti2O3, V2O3, Cr2O3, or ?-Fe2O3) is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Yusuke NONAKA, Takayuki INOUE, Masashi TSUBUKU, Kengo AKIMOTO, Akiharu MIYANAGA
  • ANALYZING APPARATUS AND CALIBRATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20150338534
    Abstract: Calibration of an analyzing apparatus is performed using appropriate calibration data that reflects actual measurement conditions. The analyzing apparatus includes an emission unit, a collection filter, a calibration base material, a detection unit, and a composition analysis unit. The emission unit emits an exciting X-ray to generate a fluorescent X-ray by exciting particulate matter. The collection filter collects the particulate matter. The calibration base material is provided in a measurement area together with the collection filter when performing the calibration. The detection unit detects X-rays generated from the measurement area. The detection unit detects a calibration X-ray when performing the calibration. The composition analysis unit generates calibration data by using the calibration X-ray when performing the calibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Yusuke MIZUNO, Tomoki AOYAMA
  • OPTICAL SENSOR, DETECTION METHOD USING OPTICAL SENSOR, METHOD FOR AFFIXING CAPTURE BODY, AND INSPECTION UNIT
    Publication number: 20150338400
    Abstract: The optical sensor includes a first metal layer having top and a bottom faces, a second metal layer having top and bottom faces, and a hollow area sandwiched by the first metal layer and the second metal layer. A capturing body for capturing a target substance to be detected can be disposed in the hollow area. Thicknesses of the first metal layer and the second metal layer are both not less than 5 nm and not greater than 50 nm. The hollow area includes a determining part for determining the presence of the target substance contained in a specimen. The second metal layer can transmit an electromagnetic wave from the bottom face to the top face. The first metal layer can transmit the electromagnetic wave from the bottom face to the top face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Kiyoshi HASHIMOTODANI, Yusuke KITAGAWA
  • Joint for connection
    Patent number: D744324
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: ADAMANT KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hyakutake, Shinichi Takeda, Yusuke Akiyama
  • Cutting insert
    Patent number: D744557
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventor: Yusuke Koike