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Koji Yamada

Koji Yamada, Hyogo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090208638TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE SOLUTION, A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME AND THE USE THEREOF - According to the present invention, there is provided a temperature-sensitive aluminum phosphate solution, characterized in that, composition of the aluminum phosphate is within such ranges that 3Al08-20-2009
20110063584High pressure discharge lamp lighting apparatus and projector - A discharge lamp lighting apparatus comprises a discharge lamp and a power supply the discharge lamp can be switched between a steady power lighting mode, which drives the discharge lamp by an alternating current in which first and second polarities are repeated by turns, and a low power lighting mode, which drives the discharge lamp at 50% or less of the alternating current of the steady power lighting mode, and the alternating current comprises a first time unit, which has a time width t03-17-2011
20110128508Lighting apparatus for high-pressure discharge lamp and projector - A lighting apparatus for a high-pressure discharge lamp that has an electric discharge container made of quartz glass, and containing a pair of counter electrodes and a power supply unit that supplies AC current to the high-pressure discharge lamp. The power supply unit has a stationary power lighting mode and a modulated power lighting mode that supplies current having power less than power in the stationary power lighting mode. The modulated power lighting mode supplies a rectangular AC current having a first term and a second term. A mean high-frequency current value supplied to a first electrode is greater than a mean current value supplied to a second electrode in the first term. A current is supplied to the second electrode for a term longer than the half-cycle period in the second term, the current being lower than the mean high-frequency current value supplied to the first electrode.06-02-2011

Koji Yamada, Toyota-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090107240INVERTED PENDULUM TYPE MOVING BODY AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An inverted pendulum type moving body according to the present invention includes: first actuators that rotationally drive wheels each disposed on an axle; and a turning motion control portion that controls the first actuators when the inverted pendulum type moving body comes into contact with an obstacle so as to allow the inverted pendulum type moving body to perform a turning motion.04-30-2009
20090108553INVERTED WHEEL TYPE MOVING BODY AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - To provide an inverted wheel type moving body capable of improving the operability, and a method of controlling the same. An inverted wheel type moving body in accordance with one aspect of the present invention includes motors 04-30-2009
20100292069CARBON COMPOSITE MATERIALS COMPRISING PARTICLES OF METAL CARBIDES DISPERSED THEREIN AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - This invention provides carbon composite materials, which comprise metal carbide particles, at least the particle surfaces or the entirety of which are metal carbides, synthesized in situ from a metal source, i.e., at least one member selected from the group comprising metal particles, metal oxide particles, and composite metal oxide particles, and a carbon source, i.e., a thermosetting resin, dispersed in a carbon, carbon fiber, or carbon/carbon fiber matrix, and contain no free metal particles. This invention also provides a method for producing such composite carbon materials, which enables the production of carbon composite materials having a high coefficient of friction, high thermostability, and abrasion resistance.11-18-2010
20110038680TOOL HOLDER FIXING STRUCTURE - A tool holder fixing structure is arranged to fix a tool holder for holding a tool attached with a throwaway tip to a tool-holder holding part of a machine tool so that a foreign-matter receiving clearance is provided between the tool holder and the tool-holder holding part. The foreign-matter receiving clearance is defined in a range of +30° to −30° from a cutting-edge position of the throwaway tip assumed as an original point and in a range of 150° to 210° from the original point, respectively.02-17-2011
20110178667VEHICLE, CONTROLLER AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME - The vehicle is provided with a body; a pair of right and left wheels; a first motor that drives one of the wheels; a second motor that drives the other one of wheels; a controller for receiving a target current value for the first motor and controlling current of the first motor; a calculator for receiving the target current value and an actual movement amount of the first motor and calculating a disturbance torque loaded on the first motor; an adjuster for adjusting the target current value for the first motor in a basis of the disturbance torque; a controller for receiving a target current value for the second motor and controlling current of the second motor; a calculator for receiving the target current value and an actual movement amount of the second motor and calculating a disturbance torque loaded on the second motor; an adjuster for adjusting the target current value for the second motor in a basis of the disturbance torque. Accordingly, even if the disturbance torque is loaded, the vehicle can keep running as intended.07-21-2011

Patent applications by Koji Yamada, Toyota-Shi JP

Koji Yamada, Odate-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110001279APPARATUS FOR RECOVERING PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS - A method for recovering platinum group elements comprises charging into a closed electric furnace and melting, together with flux components and a reducing agent, a platinum group element-containing substance to be processed and a copper source material containing copper oxide, sinking molten metal of primarily metallic copper below a molten slag layer of primarily oxides, and enriching the platinum group elements in the molten metal sunk below, and is characterized in that molten slag whose copper content has decreased to 3.0 wt % or less is discharged from the electric furnace and that the copper source material charged into the electric furnace is a granular copper source material of a grain diameter of not less than 0.1 mm and not greater than 10 mm.01-06-2011

Koji Yamada, Sunto-Gun JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100280023THIAZOLE DERIVATIVES - It is intended to provide an adenosine A11-04-2010

Koji Yamada, Himeji-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100253236HIGH PRESSURE DISCHARGE LAMP LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE - In order to maintain a stable arc and avoid wear of the projections of electrode tip ends even if the lamp is lighted with a lamp power of at most 70% of the nominal electric power, a high pressure discharge lamp light source device is provided comprised of a high pressure discharge lamp having a discharge vessel made from quartz glass and a pair of electrodes arranged oppositely to each other with a spacing of at most 2.0 mm, each electrode having a projection formed at a tip end thereof, and mercury of at least 0.20 mg/mm10-07-2010

Koji Yamada, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100080506SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL FUNCTION DEVICE - A semiconductor optical function device includes a semiconductor substrate having a substrate edge surface; an optical waveguide formed on the semiconductor substrate; a non-waveguide region formed on the semiconductor substrate between the optical waveguide and the substrate edge surface; and an insulation region disposed around the optical waveguide and having a semiconductor interface contacting with the non-waveguide region on a side of the substrate edge surface. The semiconductor interface extends not in parallel to the substrate edge surface, and is inclined relative to the substrate edge surface by a specific angle.04-01-2010
20100254665Semiconductor optical communication module and manufacturing method thereof - A semiconductor optical communication module includes a semiconductor chip mounted on a chip carrier and a lens assembly having an end parallel to and facing the front edge of the chip carrier. The semiconductor chip has a front facet oriented at an acute angle to the front edge of the chip carrier. An optical waveguide in the semiconductor chip transmits an optical signal that propagates on an optical axis extending from the front facet of the semiconductor chip to the end of the lens assembly. The optical axis is orthogonal to the end of the lens assembly and the front edge of the chip carrier. The angled mounting of the semiconductor chip on the chip carrier allows the lens assembly to be placed close to the edge of the chip carrier, and to be moved for optical axis adjustment without striking the chip carrier.10-07-2010

Patent applications by Koji Yamada, Tokyo JP

Koji Yamada, Shiga JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090310282Electrochemical capacitor - Disclosed is an electrochemical capacitor comprising a positive electrode exhibiting an irreversible capacity for extending the potential range during a charge/discharge cycle, a negative electrode composed of a material which is capable of reversibly adsorbing/desorbing lithium ions, and an electrolyte solution composed of an organic solvent containing lithium ions.12-17-2009
20090317670Hydrazine supply device, fuel cell system utilizing the same, vehicle carrying the fuel cell system, and method of supplying hydrazine - Hydrazine supply device (12-24-2009
20090318662Hydrazine storage resin - A hydrazine-fixing group such as a ketone group, a formyl group, a chlormethyl group or an amide group, which is capable of releasably fixing hydrazine, is introduced into a side chain of a synthetic resin, and hydrazine is fixed to the hydrazine-fixing group. Since a hydrazine storage resin of the present invention has a hydrazine-releasable group capable of releasing hydrazine, it is able to store hydrazine stably. In addition, hydrazine can be supplied by releasing hydrazine from the hydrazine-releasable group. Consequently, the hydrazine storage resin can be widely used in various industrial fields requiring supply of hydrazine.12-24-2009
20100035111FUEL CELL - Provided is a fuel cell including an electrolyte allowing an anion component to migrate; a fuel-side electrode and an oxygen-side electrode being arranged in opposed relation to each other while sandwiching the electrolyte; a fuel supplying material for supplying fuel to the fuel-side electrode; and an oxygen supplying material for supplying oxygen to the oxygen-side electrode, in which the oxygen-side electrode and/or the fuel-side electrode contain(s) a transition metal, and at least one of a complex-forming organic compound and an electrically-conductive polymer.02-11-2010
20100233583FUEL CELL SYSTEM - A fuel cell system of the present invention includes a fixing unit that fixes or releases hydrazine; a releasing liquid supplying unit that supplies a water-based releasing liquid for releasing hydrazine fixed in the fixing unit to the fixing unit; a fuel cell to which hydrazine released in the fixing unit is supplied as fuel; a sensing unit for detecting an amount of hydrazine supplied to the fuel cell; and a detection unit that detects an amount of hydrazine fixed in the fixing unit based on a predetermined theoretical hydrazine supply amount to the fuel cell and a hydrazine supply amount detected by the sensing unit.09-16-2010

Patent applications by Koji Yamada, Shiga JP

Koji Yamada, Itami-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100204346NOVEL SWEETENER HAVING SUCROSE-LIKE TASTE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND USE OF THE SAME - Problem: To develop a method for producing a novel sweetener containing glucose, fructose, and psicose, which is produced from glucose liquid sugar using an isomerase and an epimerase; use of the novel sweetener as a food or drink material; and a novel sweetener capable of preventing obesity caused by the intake thereof.08-12-2010

Koji Yamada, Kawasaki-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100187666LEAD FRAME AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A lead frame includes a welding portion to be welded to other lead frame, and a frame, wherein the welding portion has an island portion provided like an island, and a plurality of connection members which connect the island portion and the frame with each other; and one connection member is provided so that a straight line which connects a connection point of the island portion and one connection member, and a connection point of one connection member and the frame, inclines away from a portion of the outer circumference (edge, for example) of the island portion where the connection member is connected, and also from a portion of the inner circumference (edge, for example) of the frame where the connection member is connected.07-29-2010

Koji Yamada, Nagano JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100177132Ink Tank and Ink Jet Printer Incorporating the Same - An ink chamber is formed with a vent port allowing atmospheric air to enter therein and an ink outlet from which ink is taken out. An optical member has an ink contact face capable of contacting with ink contained in the ink chamber. The ink contact face includes a detection face at which a remaining amount of ink in the ink chamber is optically detected in accordance with an amount of air entered into the ink chamber via the vent port. A first ink absorbing member is disposed in the vicinity of the ink contact face, and capable of absorbing the ink in the ink chamber.07-15-2010

Patent applications by Koji Yamada, Nagano JP

Koji Yamada, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080273216PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - When a user enters control information for controlling a printing device, the information is stored in a user information storage unit. All combinations of items of the control information capable of being set by the user and values of items incapable of being set by the user, these having been selected so as to be the optimum values for the combinations, are stored as preset values in a combined information storage unit. An information storage unit compares a value in the user information storage unit with a value in the combined information storage unit. If a combination for which agreement is achieved is found in the combined information storage unit, this value is stored in a printing information storage unit and transmitted to the printing device. Thus, an optimum value can be selected and sent to the printing device even with regard to an item incapable of being selected by the user.11-06-2008
20100095294INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Commands such as installation operation and launch program commands need to be executed after appropriately switching between an administrator account and another account, for each command, when an installer constituting a program for readily performing installation operations collectively for a plurality of pieces of software or the like is launched. When an installer is launched in the present invention, process-to-process communication is secured between the processes of an administrator account and a user account, and an account to execute a command included in the installer is determined in the process of the administrator account. If the determination result indicates that the account to execute the command is the user account, the command is executed in the process of the user account rather than in the process of the administrator account.04-15-2010
20110149329PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - When a user enters control information for controlling a printing device, the information is stored in a user information storage unit. All combinations of items of the control information capable of being set by the user and values of items incapable of being set by the user, these having been selected so as to be the optimum values for the combinations, are stored as preset values in a combined information storage unit. An information storage unit compares a value in the user information storage unit with a value in the combined information storage unit. If a combination for which agreement is achieved is found in the combined information storage unit, this value is stored in a printing information storage unit and transmitted to the printing device. Thus, an optimum value can be selected and sent to the printing device even with regard to an item incapable of being selected by the user.06-23-2011

Patent applications by Koji Yamada, Yokohama-Shi JP

Koji Yamada, Machida JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080250187Data processing system and data processor - One data processor is provided with an interface for realizing connection with the other data processor. This interface is provided with a function for connecting the other data processor as a bus master to an internal bus of the one data processor, and the relevant other data processor is capable of directly operating peripheral functions that are memory mapped to the internal bus from an external side via the interface. Accordingly, the data processor can utilize the peripheral functions of the other data processor without interruption of the program being executed. In short, one data processor can use in common the peripheral resources of the other data processor.10-09-2008
20110131349DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSOR - One data processor is provided with an interface for realizing connection with the other data processor. This interface is provided with a function for connecting the other data processor as a bus master to an internal bus of the one data processor, and the relevant other data processor is capable of directly operating peripheral functions that are memory mapped to the internal bus from an external side via the interface. Accordingly, the data processor can utilize the peripheral functions of the other data processor without interruption of the program being executed. In short, one data processor can use in common the peripheral resources of the other data processor.06-02-2011

Patent applications by Koji Yamada, Machida JP

Koji Yamada, Okaya JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090195629MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE - A medium processing device is provided. A case defines a space. A storage unit is configured to store a medium. A media drive is operable to perform at least one of writing data on the medium and reading data from the medium. A liquid ejecting unit is operable to eject liquid onto a surface of the medium. An air introducing port is configured to introduce air into the space from outside of the space. An air discharging port is configured to discharge the air to the outside from the space. The space includes a first part in which the media drive is disposed, a second part in which the liquid ejecting unit is disposed and a third part in which the storage unit is disposed. The air introducing port is provided in the first part and the air discharging port is provided in the second part. The first part, the second part and the third part are disposed so that the air is introduced into the first part, flows through the third part and is discharged from the second part.08-06-2009

Koji Yamada, Kurashiki-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090148659POROUS MEMBRANE OF VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE RESIN AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A porous membrane, made of polyvinylidene fluoride which is excellent in fractionating capability, permeating capability and physical strength and suitable for use in water treatment such as water purification, preparation of drinking water, preparation of water for industrial use and wastewater treatment, and which can be manufactured inexpensively and easily. The porous membrane has one surface formed with round or oval micropores and the opposite surface formed with substantially slit shaped micropores. The round or oval micropores have an average ratio between the major axis and the minor axis, which is within the range of 1:1 to 5:1, and the substantially slit shaped micropores have an average ratio between the major axis and the minor axis, which is not smaller than 5:1 and the particle cutoff of the membrane is not smaller than 0.2 μm.06-11-2009

Koji Yamada, Ibaraki JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090131464SPIROCHROMANONE DERIVATIVES AS ACETYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE (ACC) INHIBITORS - The invention relates to a compound of a formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, useful as a therapeutic agent for various ACC-related disorders.05-21-2009

Koji Yamada, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090101023FRYER - A fryer is provided which, during a standby for cooking, can keep the temperature of a cooking oil slightly lower than a cooking temperature and, during cooking, can quickly raise the oil temperature to the cooking temperature. The fryer also has capabilities of easily performing a heat exchange operation on the cooking oil, preventing degradation of the cooking oil, securing a good kitchen environment and enhancing a work efficiency. The fryer comprises a fryer tank having oil and water for cleaning the oil stored in two layers one upon the other; and a heater installed in the oil layer; wherein the water in the water layer is drawn out from a water suction opening at a bottom of fryer tank, cleaned by a filtering water tank and then delivered into the fryer tank almost horizontally in an off-centered direction from a water supply opening formed in a lower, side wall of the fryer tank, thus rotating the water in the fryer tank in a swirl. The fryer also has a device for discharging impurities collected in the filtering water tank.04-23-2009
20110300364POLYMER SHEET AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - A polymer sheet according to at least one embodiment of the present invention is a polymer sheet whose main component is oriented nanocrystals of a polymer, and which satisfies the following conditions (I), (II), and (III): (I) having a crystallinity of not less than 70%; (II) having a tensile strength at break of not less than 100 MPa and a tensile modulus of not less than 3 GPa; and (III) having an average thickness of not less than 0.15 mm. According to at least one embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to provide a polymer sheet excelling in properties such as mechanical strength, heat tolerance, and transparency, particularly a polymer sheet having excellent properties such as mechanical strength, heat tolerance, and transparency in general-purpose plastics such as polypropylene.12-08-2011

Koji Yamada, Shizuoka JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090102466Bearing with absolute angel sensor - To provide a rotation sensor equipped bearing capable of detecting a highly precise absolute angle with no correction work required after incorporation into a bearing installed equipment, an absolute angle sensor equipped bearing assembly includes a sensor equipped bearing 04-23-2009

Koji Yamada, Aichi-Ken JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090051136COAXIAL TWO-WHEELED INVERTED PENDULUM TYPE MOVING VEHICLE - The present invention provides, in connection with a coaxial two-wheeled inverted pendulum type moving vehicle, a technique which allows sudden braking without making a vehicle body to tilt significantly backward. The coaxial two-wheeled inverted pendulum type moving vehicle of the present invention comprises a pair of wheels, a chassis for supporting the pair of wheels coaxially and rotatably, wheel actuators for rotating the wheels with respect to the chassis, a vehicle body supported by the chassis, and an inverted pendulum control unit for controlling the wheel actuators so as to maintain the balanced state of the chassis. In this moving vehicle, the vehicle body is shiftable supported by the chassis in a manner that the vehicle body may shift in a direction parallel to the moving direction of the moving vehicle with respect to the chassis. The traveling body further comprises an attitude actuator for shifting the vehicle body along the moving direction of the moving vehicle with respect to the chassis, and a braking attitude control unit for controlling the attitude actuator so as to shift the vehicle body to a direction opposite to the moving direction of the moving vehicle with respect to the chassis when braking is commenced while the moving vehicle is in motion.02-26-2009

Koji Yamada, Aichi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090018743Mobile Unit and Control Method of Mobile Unit - In an inverted pendulum type mobile unit that performs inverted pendulum stabilization control and traveling control based on a velocity target value as an input variable, a change in tilt angle of a vehicle body occurring during traveling is smoothed. The target value generating portion in the inverted pendulum type mobile unit generates the velocity target value V01-15-2009

Koji Yamada, Okaya-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080310940Media processing device - A media processing device enables quick, easy, problem-free removal of processed media while maintaining high media quality. The media processing device, such as a disc publisher 12-18-2008
20080313663MEDIA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME - A processor is provided in a main body and performs at least one of writing data on a plate-shaped medium, reading data from the medium and printing on the medium. A drawer tray is provided in the main body, includes a stacker portion which is configured to accommodate a plurality of plate-shaped media processed by the processor and is movable between an accommodated position where the stacker portion is capable of receiving the media and a drawn position where the drawer tray is pulled out from the main body to take out the media accommodated in the stacker portion.12-18-2008

Koji Yamada, Yamagata-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110298142MICRO-BUBBLE GENERATING DEVICE - A micro-bubble generating device is provided which is capable of mixing or dispersing micro-bubbles into a liquid with high stability and has a simple structure that permits reduction of a cost of manufacture. A first member and a first packing are superposed on each other on one side of a gas-permeable film, while a second member and a second packing are superposed on each other on the other side of the gas-permeable film. A pressurized gas delivered via a gas inlet of the first member flows through a fluid passage of the first packing, permeates through the gas-permeable film, and is ejected as micro-bubbles into a liquid flowing through a fluid passage in the form of a narrow shallow strip-like groove provided in the second packing.12-08-2011

Koji Yamada, Nagoya-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110299608COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT AND VEHICLE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A communication circuit is provided which transmits an information bit string from a transmission unit to a reception unit. The transmission unit includes a first modulation circuit that modulates a first carrier wave by a start bit to generate a first frequency signal, a second modulation circuit that modulates a second carrier wave by the information bit string to generate a second frequency signal, and a transmission circuit that transmits the first and second frequency signals from a transmitting antenna. The reception unit includes a reception circuit that receives a signal from the transmission unit, a first detector circuit that detects a signal of the first carrier wave to demodulate the start bit, a second detector circuit that detects a signal of the second carrier wave to demodulate the information bit string, and a detection circuit that is synchronized by the start bit and reads the information bit string.12-08-2011

Koji Yamada, Hokkaido JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120015399FLUORESCENT SOLVATOCHROMIC PIGMENT - The present invention presents a novel fluorescent solvatochromic dye that (1) has an ionic terminal that makes it easier to use in a hydrophilic surface or in polar solvents, (2) can be efficiently excited by commonly used Argon lasers (488 nm), (3) shifts the wavelength of emitted light according to the change of polarity, and (4) can effectively stain living tissues such as cells and the like.01-19-2012