Patents by Inventor Yutaka Kitamura

Yutaka Kitamura 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: 20240123823
    Abstract: A display system includes an image display part displaying an image indicating a mode selected in a driving device of a vehicle having a plurality of modes. The image display part displays all images indicating each of the plurality of modes, and displays the image indicating the selected mode to be different in at least one of color, brightness, character format, and size from an image indicating a non-selected mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yutaka OKAYASU, Gouo KURATA, Yuto MORI, Masao MISHINA, Norikazu KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200134453
    Abstract: A device for shortening time for learning curve prediction includes a sampler, a learning curve predictor, a learning executor, and a learning curve calculator. The sampler samples a weight parameter of a parameter model which outputs a parameter of a learning curve model of a neural network (NNW) on the basis of a set value of a hyperparameter of the NNW. The learning curve predictor calculates a prediction learning curve of the NNW on the basis of the sampled weight parameter and an actual learning curve of the NNW. The learning executor advances learning in the NNW. The learning curve calculator calculates an actual learning curve resulting from the advance of the learning in the NNW. The learning curve predictor updates the prediction learning curve of the NNW on the basis of the weight parameter sampled before the learning advances and the actual learning curve calculated after the learning advances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Preferred Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka KITAMURA, Shin-ichi MAEDA
  • Patent number: 10479133
    Abstract: A film for molding has an annular olefin-based resin as the main component thereof and is characterized by an X surface and a Y surface both having a surface glossiness of no more than 50%, when one surface is the X surface and the other surface is the Y surface. The film has excellent winding properties during processing, has high design properties and excellent fingerprint wipe-off properties for the surface of product members (molded members after molding and decoration) when the film is used as a transfer foil for molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kitamura, Hisataka Tabata
  • Publication number: 20170144474
    Abstract: A film for molding has an annular olefin-based resin as the main component thereof and is characterized by an X surface and a Y surface both having a surface glossiness of no more than 50%, when one surface is the X surface and the other surface is the Y surface. The film has excellent winding properties during processing, has high design properties and excellent fingerprint wipe-off properties for the surface of product members (molded members after molding and decoration) when the film is used as a transfer foil for molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kitamura, Hisataka Tabata
  • Publication number: 20150272151
    Abstract: A dairy product-like processed food which enables rice to be consumed and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The dairy product-like processed food contains rice. This processed food may be a processed food in which rice slurry containing ground rice and a dispersion medium, rice flour, glutinous rice flour, or top-grade rice flour is mixed therein. The method of manufacturing the dairy product-like processed food includes a step of wet-grinding rice, and a step of mixing the rice slurry produced by the wet grinding with a predetermined raw material of the processed food.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Narahara, Hiroshi Horiuchi, Hiroshi Echizen, Yutaka Kitamura
  • Patent number: 8966783
    Abstract: Provided are a novel vacuum-pressure spray-drying method and a novel vacuum-pressure spray-drying apparatus suitable for drying and powdering a liquid raw material containing a substance susceptible to heat denaturation, such as a food raw material and a medicine raw material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Tanabe Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Kitamura, Kazuhiko Yamazaki, Yoshitsugu Yamano
  • Publication number: 20130126102
    Abstract: Provided are a novel vacuum-pressure spray-drying method and a novel vacuum-pressure spray-drying apparatus suitable for drying and powdering a liquid raw material containing a substance susceptible to heat denaturation, such as a food raw material and a medicine raw material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: TANABE ENGINEERING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Kitamura, Kazuhiko Yamazaki, Yoshitsugu Yamano
  • Patent number: 8011467
    Abstract: In a vehicle power supply system including a battery, an inverter unit for converting DC electric power of the battery into AC electric power and supplying it to a rotating electric machine to drive it, an AC wiring line for connecting the rotating electric machine and the inverter unit, and a DC wiring line for connecting the inverter unit and the battery, the inverter unit is placed in a vicinity of the battery so that the DC wiring line becomes shorter than the AC wiring line. By this, a voltage drop due to the DC wiring line is reduced, and a torque characteristic of the rotating electric machine can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Yutaka Kitamura
  • Patent number: 7610973
    Abstract: An inverter unit is provided with: a case for housing a circuit board on which switching elements, diodes, and a capacitor are mounted; and a heat sink constructed integrally with the case. The inverter unit is mounted to an upper portion of the rotary electric machine by fixing the case to a mounting plate mounted to a boss. In addition, the inverter unit is electrically connected to three phase output terminals projecting out of a rear bracket by means of alternating-current wiring, and is electrically connected to a battery by means of direct-current wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Yutaka Kitamura
  • Patent number: 7589449
    Abstract: The electric rotating machine includes a rotor and an armature. The rotor consists of a cylindrical part having a field winding and a claw-pole shaped magnetic pole part. A magnetic short-circuit mechanism is disposed between the magnetic pole parts adjacent each other in circumferential direction of a rotor core so as to cause a magnetic plate of a material of high magnetic permeability to move toward radial direction of the rotor core, thereby short-circuiting between N-pole and S-pole of a permanent magnet due to centrifugal force acting in accordance with rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kasiha
    Inventor: Yutaka Kitamura
  • Patent number: 7545061
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine for vehicles is capable of improving a cooling performance of switching elements forming an inverter module, and small-sizing the entire rotating electric machine. The rotating electric machine includes: a stator; a rotor, a cooling fan; a front bracket and a rear bracket; and a cover; and in which a pair of switching elements are disposed axially adjacent to each other between the rear bracket and the cover; a ventilation hole for sucking an outside air is formed on an axial wall of the cover; and by rotation of the cooling fan, the outside air flows from the ventilation hole with respect to the switching elements, and goes through a suction port and is discharged through a discharge port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Yutaka Kitamura, Hiroaki Aso
  • Patent number: 7538523
    Abstract: The control apparatus-integrated generator-motor has: a generator-motor; and a control apparatus that is constituted by an inverter, a control circuit, a temperature sensor, etc. The control circuit determines whether or not switching element temperature will exceed the maximum permissible temperature when a command for an automatic engine stopping operation is issued. Then, if it is determined that the maximum permissible temperature will be exceeded, generated output of the generator-motor is reduced immediately before the automatic engine stopping operation in such a way that the switching element temperature will not exceed the maximum permissible temperature. The engine is subsequently stopped automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Kitamura, Yoshihito Asao
  • Patent number: 7485983
    Abstract: In a vehicle power supply system including a battery, an inverter unit for converting DC electric power of the battery into AC electric power and supplying it to a rotating electric machine to drive it, an AC wiring line for connecting the rotating electric machine and the inverter unit, and a DC wiring line for connecting the inverter unit and the battery, the inverter unit is placed in a vicinity of the battery so that the DC wiring line becomes shorter than the AC wiring line. By this, a voltage drop due to the DC wiring line is reduced, and a torque characteristic of the rotating electric machine can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Yutaka Kitamura
  • Patent number: 7420312
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating electrical machine including an armature core on which an armature winding is wound; a rotor core which is supported by a rotation axis at a predetermined air gap in an inner diameter side of the armature core, and includes claw-shaped magnetic pole portions in which adjacent magnetic poles have different poles and a cylindrical portion having a field winding; and a permanent magnet which is provided in a magnetic circuit of the rotor core and supplies magnetic flux to the armature core with the field winding, wherein a magnetic short-circuiting mechanism for demagnetizing the magnetic flux of the permanent magnet by deforming a portion of the magnetic short-circuiting mechanism by a centrifugal force and short-circuiting between the magnetic pole portions of the rotor core is provided in the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaka Kitamura, Yoshihito Asao, Hiroyuki Akita
  • Patent number: 7414339
    Abstract: [Problem] In a vehicular rotating electrical machine apparatus mounted in an electric vehicle or a hybrid electric vehicle, a rotating electrical machine apparatus in which a rotating electrical machine and an inverter unit to control the rotating electrical machine are integrated is miniaturized, and its torque characteristic and efficiency are improved. [Means for Resolution] Since an inverter unit 4 is cooled by cooling air forcibly formed by a cooling fan 28, the inverter unit 4 is efficiently cooled. Then, heat radiating fins 401a, 402a and 403a of heat sinks 401, 402 and 403 can be miniaturized, and consequently, the inverter unit 4 is miniaturized, and mountability of the inverter unit 4 to a rear bracket 19 is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaka Kitamura, Yoshihito Asao
  • Patent number: 7400070
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine for vehicles is capable of improving a cooling performance of switching elements forming an inverter module, and small-sizing the entire rotating electric machine. The rotating electric machine includes: a stator; a rotor, a cooling fan; a front bracket and a rear bracket; and a cover; and in which a pair of switching elements are disposed axially adjacent to each other between the rear bracket and the cover; a ventilation hole for sucking outside air is formed in a radially outer circumferential portion of the cover; and by rotation of the cooling fan, the outside air flows radially from the ventilation hole with respect to the switching elements and goes through a suction port and is discharged through a discharge port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Yutaka Kitamura, Hiroaki Aso
  • Patent number: 7397223
    Abstract: An inverter-integrated electrical rotating machine is provided in which each switching device of an inverter and power wiring and control wiring for connecting them can be highly protected electrically and mechanically while the cooling property of the switching devices can be improved. Cooling air flows led in from cooling air flow suction holes in an end wall of an inverter case simultaneously flow in parallel from the cooling air flow suction holes on inner and outer sides in the radial direction. The cooling air flows then penetrate an inverter device in an axial direction through an outer circumferential cooling air passage formed by an outer circumferential lateral plate part and an inner circumference of the inverter case and an inner circumferential cooling air passage formed between an inner circumferential lateral plate part and a cover surrounding a rotary shaft. The cooling air flows are then led into a motor housing from a cooling air flow suction hole of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaka Kitamura, Yoshihito Asao
  • Publication number: 20070240662
    Abstract: The control apparatus-integrated generator-motor has: a generator-motor; and a control apparatus that is constituted by an inverter, a control circuit, a temperature sensor, etc. The control circuit determines whether or not switching element temperature will exceed the maximum permissible temperature when a command for an automatic engine stopping operation is issued. Then, if it is determined that the maximum permissible temperature will be exceeded, generated output of the generator-motor is reduced immediately before the automatic engine stopping operation in such a way that the switching element temperature will not exceed the maximum permissible temperature. The engine is subsequently stopped automatically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Kitamura, Yoshihito Asao
  • Publication number: 20070114083
    Abstract: In a vehicle power supply system including a battery, an inverter unit for converting DC electric power of the battery into AC electric power and supplying it to a rotating electric machine to drive it, an AC wiring line for connecting the rotating electric machine and the inverter unit, and a DC wiring line for connecting the inverter unit and the battery, the inverter unit is placed in a vicinity of the battery so that the DC wiring line becomes shorter than the AC wiring line. By this, a voltage drop due to the DC wiring line is reduced, and a torque characteristic of the rotating electric machine can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Yutaka Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20070035185
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine for vehicles is capable of improving a cooling performance of switching elements forming an inverter module, and small-sizing the entire rotating electric machine. The rotating electric machine includes: a stator; a rotor, a cooling fan; a front bracket and a rear bracket; and a cover; and in which a pair of switching elements are disposed axially adjacent to each other between the rear bracket and the cover; a ventilation hole for sucking an outside air is formed on an axial wall of the cover; and by rotation of the cooling fan, the outside air flows from the ventilation hole with respect to the switching elements, and goes through a suction port and is discharged through a discharge port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Yutaka Kitamura, Hiroaki Aso