Patents by Inventor Yuta Yamamoto

Yuta 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: 10444501
    Abstract: The image display device further includes a scanning unit that uses light from the light source to scan the movable screen and the fixed screen, and an optical system that uses light from the movable screen and the fixed screen to generate a virtual image, a drive unit that moves the movable screen, a structure body that supports the fixed screen at a fixed position such that the fixed screen is closer to the optical system than the movable screen is, and a magnetic cover that covers a movable part of the drive unit. The structure body covers an area around an opening of the magnetic cover to shield the movable part of the drive unit from stray light travelling backward via the optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Furuya, Akira Kurozuka, Yuta Yamamoto, Susumu Uragami
  • Patent number: 10432899
    Abstract: Provided is an image display device capable of effectively enhancing image quality of a display image with a simple configuration. The image display device includes a light source, a screen configured to be two-dimensionally scanned with laser light to draw an image on the screen, a scanning unit configured to scan the screen with the laser light, a mirror drive circuit configured to drive the scanning unit, and an optical system configured to generate a virtual image of the image drawn on the screen. On the screen, a plurality of lens regions are arranged so as to individually line up in two directions different from each other. Rows of the lens regions in one of the two directions are inclined relatively at a predetermined inclination angle with respect to main scan directions of the laser light to the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Furuya, Akira Kurozuka, Yuta Yamamoto, Susumu Uragami
  • Publication number: 20190278178
    Abstract: A chemically amplified positive-type photosensitive resin composition capable of forming a resist pattern having excellent cross-sectional perpendicularity of a nonresist section even when a resist pattern is formed on a metal surface, and a method for manufacturing a substrate with a template and a method for manufacturing a plated article using the composition. The composition contains an acid generator, a resin, and a sulfur-containing compound including a sulfur-containing compound and a thiol compound that is different from the sulfur-containing compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Yasushi KUROIWA, Yuta YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10409063
    Abstract: An image display device includes a light source, a screen, a scanning unit, an optical system, a drive unit, a support base, and a fixed base. The screen is irradiated with light from the light source, and an image is thus formed on the screen. The scanning unit scans the light from the light source along multiple scanning lines on the screen. The optical system forms a virtual image using the light from the screen. The drive unit moves the screen in an optical axis direction. The support base supports the drive unit. The fixed base supports the support base via a damper. The support base is supported by the fixed base such that the support base has support rigidity higher in a first direction in which a visual distance of a display image is changed in association with the movement of the screen than in directions other than the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Uragami, Hiroyuki Furuya, Akira Kurozuka, Yuta Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190228705
    Abstract: An image display device includes: a light source emitting laser light; a screen on which an image is drawn by being two-dimensionally scanned by the laser light; a scanner causing the laser light to scan the screen; a light detector detecting a light amount of the laser light emitted from the light source; and a controller controlling the light source by changing a current value to drive the light source in response to a target light amount. The controller obtains a detection signal when driving the light source at a plurality of current setting values from the light detector, and corrects the current value with respect to the target light amount according to an arithmetic operation configured to suppress a difference between an output characteristic of the light source guessed by the obtained detection signal and a reference output characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki FURUYA, Susumu URAGAMI, Yuta YAMAMOTO, Akira KUROZUKA, Mitsutaka YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10302938
    Abstract: A light source device includes a laser light source, a first adjustment mechanism, a second adjustment mechanism, and a mirror. The laser light source emits laser light. The first adjustment mechanism is configured such that the laser light from the laser light source is incident thereto, and performs an emission angle adjustment of the laser light and a focus adjustment of the laser light. The second adjustment mechanism is configured such that the laser light from the first adjustment mechanism is incident thereto, and performs a positional adjustment of the incident laser light. The mirror is configured such that the laser light from the second adjustment mechanism is incident thereto, and emits the incident laser light in a predetermined direction. An image display apparatus includes the above light source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Uragami, Hiroyuki Furuya, Takahisa Shiramizu, Akira Kurozuka, Yuta Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10292194
    Abstract: A voice I/O apparatus comprises a voice input unit that acquires uttered voice; a connection control unit that controls connection between the voice I/O apparatus and a control apparatus that generates a response to the voice; and an interaction control unit that transmits the acquired voice to the control apparatus, receives the response to the voice, and outputs the response, wherein the connection control unit establishes, between the voice I/O apparatus and the control apparatus, connection of a voice channel over which the voice is transmitted and connection of a data channel over which data other than the voice is transmitted, and terminates the data channel in a case where the connection of the voice channel is not completed within a given time period from the establishment of the connection of the data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hayato Sakamoto, Atsushi Ikeno, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yuta Yamamoto, Toshifumi Nishijima, Satoru Sasaki, Hiromi Tonegawa, Norihide Umeyama
  • Patent number: 10283823
    Abstract: Provided is an energy storage apparatus where a cooling fluid minimally leaks to the outside from a passage formed between an outer spacer and an energy storage device. The energy storage apparatus includes: an energy storage device; an outer spacer arranged adjacently to the energy storage device; and an end plate arranged such that the outer spacer is sandwiched between the energy storage device and the end plate, wherein the outer spacer includes: a base extending along the energy storage device, the base defining, with the energy storage device, a passage; and a seal portion projecting from the base and being in contact with the energy storage device, wherein the end plate includes a pressing portion disposed at a position corresponding to the seal portion, the pressing portion pressing the seal portion toward the energy storage device via the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignees: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Yamamoto, Motoki Hoshino, Masao Kawata, Jun Machida
  • Publication number: 20190121233
    Abstract: A chemically amplified positive-type photosensitive resin composition capable of suppressing the occurrence of “footing” in which the width of the bottom (the side proximal to the surface of a support) becomes narrower than that of the top (the side proximal to the surface of a resist layer) in the nonresist portion; and the generation of development residue when a resist pattern serving as a template for a plated article is formed on a metal surface of a substrate using the photosensitive resin composition. A mercapto compound having a specific structure is included in the photosensitive resin composition, and includes an acid generator which generates acid upon exposure to an irradiated active ray or radiation, and a resin whose solubility in alkali increases under the action of acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Akiya KAWAUE, Yuta YAMAMOTO, Kazuaki EBISAWA, Yasushi KUROIWA
  • Patent number: 10261317
    Abstract: The image display device includes a light source, screens on which images are formed by being irradiated with light from the light source, a scanning unit that scans the screens by using the light from the light source, an optical system that generates a virtual image by using light from the screens, and a drive unit that includes a holder for integrally supporting the screens and moves the screens together with the holder The screens are aligned in a direction perpendicular to a movement direction of the holder caused by the drive unit, and are installed at positions that are shifted from each other by a certain distance in the movement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Furuya, Akira Kurozuka, Yuta Yamamoto, Susumu Uragami
  • Publication number: 20190109348
    Abstract: An energy storage device includes: an electrode assembly, wherein electrodes each including a covered portion which is covered by an active material layer and a non-covered portion which extends from the covered portion and is not covered by the active material layer are stacked on each other such that the covered portions overlap with each other and the non-covered portions overlap with each other, and the electrode assembly having a non-covered stacked portion where the non-covered portions are stacked on each other; a protective plate being brought into face contact with the non-covered stacked portion from one side in a stacking direction of the non-covered stacked portion; a current collector including a bonding portion which is brought into face contact with the non-covered stacked portion from an other side in the stacking direction, and an enlarged width portion extending from the bonding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventor: Yuta YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190055907
    Abstract: A vertically extending air intake duct 1 on a rear of a cab 2 in a delivery vehicle to take in ambient air for an engine through an air intake 3 has a duct body 4 as outer shell with the intake 3 on an upper portion, a side branch section 5 on a lower portion of the body 4 and having upper and lower ends opened in the body 4 and outside, respectively, a mesh member 6 extending over the intake 3 to collect rainwater, a louver 7 for covering the member 6 and the intake 3 to prevent intrusion of matter other than ambient air, and a drip channel or bead 8 on an inner wall of the body 4 and just below the member 6 to capture and guide rainwater flowing down on the inner wall to the upper end of the section 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: HINO MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki TSURUTA, Takuya HASEBE, Yuta YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190044123
    Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes: energy storage devices each including an external terminal, the energy storage devices being arranged in a first direction; a bus bar including a plate-like conductive portion; and a neighboring member disposed between the energy storage devices. The conductive portion includes: a fusible portion where a width size, which is a size in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, is defined by a pair of edges, the width size being smaller than a width size of other portions of the conductive portion; and a pair of enlarged width portions contiguously formed with both sides of the fusible portion in the first direction, a width size of the pair of enlarged width portions increasing in a direction away from the fusible portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Yosuke NISHIMURA, Yuta YAMAMOTO, Kentaro YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20190018239
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a light source device and an image display device. The light source device includes a laser light source configured to emit laser light having a wavelength in a range from 635 nm to 645 nm inclusive, a temperature sensor configured to detect temperature around the light source device, and a laser control circuit configured to control the laser light source. The laser control circuit approximates, with use of a quartic expression, change in threshold current of the laser light source relative to temperature, and approximates, with use of a quadratic expression, change in slope efficiency of the laser light source relative to temperature, to obtain threshold current and slope efficiency of the laser light source corresponding to detection temperature of the temperature sensor, and controls the laser light source in accordance with the threshold current and the slope efficiency thus obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: AKIRA KUROZUKA, YUTA YAMAMOTO, SUSUMU URAGAMI, HIROYUKI FURUYA
  • Publication number: 20180374407
    Abstract: Provided is an image display device capable of effectively enhancing image quality of a display image with a simple configuration. The image display device includes a light source, a screen configured to be two-dimensionally scanned with laser light to draw an image on the screen, a scanning unit configured to scan the screen with the laser light, a mirror drive circuit configured to drive the scanning unit, and an optical system configured to generate a virtual image of the image drawn on the screen. On the screen, a plurality of lens regions are arranged so as to individually line up in two directions different from each other. Rows of the lens regions in one of the two directions are inclined relatively at a predetermined inclination angle with respect to main scan directions of the laser light to the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: HIROYUKI FURUYA, AKIRA KUROZUKA, YUTA YAMAMOTO, SUSUMU URAGAMI
  • Publication number: 20180364480
    Abstract: The image display device further includes a scanning unit that uses light from the light source to scan the movable screen and the fixed screen, and an optical system that uses light from the movable screen and the fixed screen to generate a virtual image, a drive unit that moves the movable screen, a structure body that supports the fixed screen at a fixed position such that the fixed screen is closer to the optical system than the movable screen is, and a magnetic cover that covers a movable part of the drive unit. The structure body covers an area around an opening of the magnetic cover to shield the movable part of the drive unit from stray light travelling backward via the optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: HIROYUKI FURUYA, AKIRA KUROZUKA, YUTA YAMAMOTO, SUSUMU URAGAMI
  • Publication number: 20180356632
    Abstract: The image display device includes a light source, screens on which images are formed by being irradiated with light from the light source, a scanning unit that scans the screens by using the light from the light source, an optical system that generates a virtual image by using light from the screens, and a drive unit that includes a holder for integrally supporting the screens and moves the screens together with the holder The screens are aligned in a direction perpendicular to a movement direction of the holder caused by the drive unit, and are installed at positions that are shifted from each other by a certain distance in the movement direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: HIROYUKI FURUYA, AKIRA KUROZUKA, YUTA YAMAMOTO, SUSUMU URAGAMI
  • Publication number: 20180317270
    Abstract: A voice I/O apparatus comprises a voice input unit that acquires uttered voice; a connection control unit that controls connection between the voice I/O apparatus and a control apparatus that generates a response to the voice; and an interaction control unit that transmits the acquired voice to the control apparatus, receives the response to the voice, and outputs the response, wherein the connection control unit establishes, between the voice I/O apparatus and the control apparatus, connection of a voice channel over which the voice is transmitted and connection of a data channel over which data other than the voice is transmitted, and terminates the data channel in a case where the connection of the voice channel is not completed within a given time period from the establishment of the connection of the data channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hayato SAKAMOTO, Atsushi IKENO, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI, Yuta YAMAMOTO, Toshifumi NISHIJIMA, Satoru SASAKI, Hiromi TONEGAWA, Norihide UMEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180315423
    Abstract: A system comprises an apparatus having a first voice I/O device; and a voice interface apparatus having a second voice I/O device, and connected to the apparatus by audio connection via short-range wireless communication, wherein the apparatus includes a voice I/O unit that performs voice input and output by using the first voice I/O device or the second voice I/O device; an interaction unit that performs voice interaction with a user; and a process unit that performs a process other than the voice interaction, by using the voice I/O, and the voice I/O unit switches a device used for the voice input and output to the first voice input/output device in a case where the process unit is brought into a first state in which the voice input and output is required when the voice interaction with the user is performed by using the second voice I/O device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi MIZUMA, Atsushi IKENO, Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI, Yuta YAMAMOTO, Toshifumi NISHIJIMA, Satoru SASAKI, Hiromi TONEGAWA, Norihide UMEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180239140
    Abstract: An image display device includes a light source, a screen, a scanning unit, an optical system, a drive unit, a support base, and a fixed base. The screen is irradiated with light from the light source, and an image is thus formed on the screen. The scanning unit scans the light from the light source along multiple scanning lines on the screen. The optical system forms a virtual image using the light from the screen. The drive unit moves the screen in an optical axis direction. The support base supports the drive unit. The fixed base supports the support base via a damper. The support base is supported by the fixed base such that the support base has support rigidity higher in a first direction in which a visual distance of a display image is changed in association with the movement of the screen than in directions other than the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: SUSUMU URAGAMI, HIROYUKI FURUYA, AKIRA KUROZUKA, YUTA YAMAMOTO