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Yasutoshi Aoki, Kodaira-Shi JP
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| 20110017375 | PNEUMATIC RADIAL TIRE FOR HEAVY LOAD - The present invention provides a pneumatic radial tire for heavy load, having lug grooves in respective side regions of a tread surface, in which tire an amount of slip of the trailing edge of each of land portions defined by the lug grooves, with respect to a road surface, when the tire is rotated with load applied thereon is advantageously reduced without causing decrease in partial wear resistance of the land portions at a road contact surface thereof and generating cracks at the lug groove bottom. The pneumatic radial tire for heavy load, having a plurality of lug grooves | 01-27-2011 |
Yasutoshi Chiba, Chiba JP
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| 20100014850 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes: an image pickup unit including an image pickup element and a control substrate mounted with the image pickup element; and a shutter unit including a blade for adjusting an amount of light reaching the image pickup element and a drive source for driving the blade. The shutter unit includes a terminal portion electrically connected to a coil of the drive source. The terminal portion extends outward from the shutter unit and is electrically connected to the control substrate. The terminal portion and the image pickup unit include alignment means for aligning these each other. The shutter unit is aligned with the image pickup unit via the terminal portion. | 01-21-2010 |
Yasutoshi Fujita, Hong Kong CN
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| 20120084969 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THERMAL ASSISTED MAGNETIC WRITE HEAD - A method of manufacturing a thermally-assisted magnetic write head is provided. The method includes steps of: forming a laminate structure including the waveguide; the plasmon generator, and the magnetic pole in order; performing a first polishing process to planarize an end surface of the laminate structure; performing a first etching process to remove impurity attached on the end surface of the laminate structure, and to allow the plasmon generator to be recessed from the waveguide and the magnetic pole, thereby forming a recessed region on the end surface of the laminate structure; forming a protection layer on the end surface of the laminate structure such that at least the recessed region is filled; and performing a second polishing process on the end surface of the laminate structure formed with the protection layer until the plasmon generator is exposed, thereby completing the air bearing surface. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20130091695 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A THERMALLY-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD THAT SUPPRESSES PROTRUSION OF A PLASMON GENERATOR - A method of manufacturing a thermally-assisted magnetic recording head includes the steps of: forming a preliminary head section that has a surface to be polished and includes a magnetic pole, a waveguide, and a preliminary plasmon generator; causing a volumetric expansion of the preliminary plasmon generator with heat by introducing light into the core of the waveguide of the preliminary head section; and polishing the surface to be polished of the preliminary head section into a medium facing surface. The preliminary plasmon generator has an end face located in the surface to be polished. In the step of polishing the surface to be polished, the surface to be polished is subjected to polishing with the preliminary plasmon generator expanded in volume, whereby the end face of the preliminary plasmon generator is polished into the front end face, and the preliminary plasmon generator thereby becomes the plasmon generator. | 04-18-2013 |
Yasutoshi Fujita, Dongguan CN
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| 20120036706 | Row bar for forming sliders and method of manufacturing slider - A row bar for forming sliders has a row of slider forming portions, each slider forming portion having a slider to be cut from the row bar and a medial region adjacent the slider, each medial region having a first guide pad disposed thereon; wherein each slider has: a slider body; a magnetic writer and a magnetic reader disposed on the slider body; a second guide pad disposed on the slider body; two electrical lapping guides disposed on the slider body and electrically connecting to the first guide pad and the second guide pad respectively; a row of bonding pads formed on the slider body and electrically connecting to the magnetic reader and the magnetic writer; and a grounding pad disposed on the slider body and electrically connecting to the first guide pad and the second guide pad. The invention also discloses a method of manufacturing the slider. | 02-16-2012 |
Yasutoshi Furukawa, Kawasaki JP
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| 20100097080 | CONTACT SENSOR UNIT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CONTACT SENSOR UNIT - A contact sensor unit includes: a flexible substrate having a conductive pattern; a sensor element having a detecting surface for detecting a fingerprint of a test subject, the sensor element having a terminal electrically connected to the conductive pattern, and the sensor element mounted on the flexible substrate to be covered with the flexible substrate; and a reinforcing member fixed on the flexible substrate and surrounding the sensor element. | 04-22-2010 |
Yasutoshi Hayashi, Nagoya JP
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| 20090001977 | BILL DISCRIMINATION DEVICE AND SENSOR FOR SAME - The sensor portion of the bill discrimination device has a variable inductance portion whose inductance changes depending on thickness of the bill and the magnetic ink amount, and an output signal generator for generating an output signal depending on the inductance of the variable inductance portion. The variable inductance portion includes a contact member which may have magnetostrictive behavior, and a coil portion disposed about the perimeter thereof. The contact member is positioned so as to be subjected to pressing force of a spring via an auxiliary roller. When the pressing force received from the spring changes depending on the thickness of a currency bill, the magnetic permeability of the contact member will change and the inductance of the variable inductance portion will change. At the same time, the inductance of the variable inductance portion will also change depending on the magnetic charge of the currency bill. | 01-01-2009 |
Yasutoshi Inoue, Fukushima-Ken JP
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| 20090074498 | RIBBON CASSETTE STRUCTURE INTEGRATED WITH PAPER FEED TRAY AND PRINTER USING THE RIBBON CASSETTE STRUCTURE INTEGRATED WITH PAPER FEED TRAY - A ribbon cassette structure integrated with a paper feed tray includes a ribbon cassette that includes a pair of bobbin receiving units and is integrated with a paper feed tray. One of the pair of bobbin receiving units that are connected to each other, and the paper feed tray are pivotally connected to each other so as to be opened or closed between an open state where the one of the pair of bobbin receiving units and the paper feed tray are mostly separated from each other, and a closed state where the one of the pair of bobbin receiving units and the paper feed tray come in contact with each other. | 03-19-2009 |
Yasutoshi Kai, Fukuoka-Shi JP
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| 20100063048 | Remedy for angiospasm accompanying subarachnoid hemorrhage containing thrombin receptor antagonist as the active ingredient - A therapeutic agent for subarachnoid hemorrhage or a drug for improving prognosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage, comprising a compound having a PAR1 inhibitory effect, its pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a hydrate thereof | 03-11-2010 |
Yasutoshi Kano, Kariya-Shi JP
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| 20090218870 | SEAT RECLINING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A seat reclining apparatus for a vehicle includes a lower frame supporting a seat cushion of a seat for the vehicle, a lower plate mounted on the lower frame, an upper plate rotatably supported by the lower plate, an upper frame supporting a seatback of the seat for the vehicle and rotatably supported by the lower frame via the upper plate and the lower plate, the upper frame being relatively rotatable with respect to the upper plate, a first lock mechanism arranged between the lower plate and the upper plate, the first lock mechanism permitting and restricting a relative rotation of the upper plate to the lower plate, a second lock mechanism arranged between the upper frame and the upper plate, the second lock mechanism permitting and restricting a relative rotation of the upper frame to the upper plate, and a stopper member rotatably supported by the lower frame and frictionally engageable with the upper plate, the stopper member applying a resistance force to the relative rotation of the upper plate to the lower plate. | 09-03-2009 |
Yasutoshi Maeda, Nara JP
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| 20100090928 | Liquid Craystal Display Device, its Driving Method and Electronic Device - In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for driving a liquid crystal display device is disclosed which includes: combining liquid crystal panels a and b with one another, each of which displays an image in accordance with a video image source, wherein, when the images respectively displayed on the liquid crystal panels are combined with one another so that a signal image is displayed, the images that are different from each other are switched with one another at a preset interval. As a result, a phosphor burn-in on a display screen is difficult to occur, even when an identical image is displayed continuously for an extended period of time. | 04-15-2010 |
Yasutoshi Mizuno, Toyokawa-Shi JP
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| 20130146373 | VEHICLE AND ELECTRIC STORAGE APPARATUS - A vehicle includes a floor panel and an electric storage apparatus fixed to a lower face of the floor panel and outputting an energy for use in running of the vehicle. The electric storage apparatus includes a first electric storage stack including a plurality of electric storage elements, an electronic device used to control charge and discharge of the electric storage apparatus and located below the first electric storage stack in the vehicle, and a case accommodating the first electric storage stack and the electronic device and fixed to the lower face of the floor panel. | 06-13-2013 |
Yasutoshi Murakami, Nara JP
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| 20080286528 | Color Filter Substrate, Liquid Crystal Display Device, Production Method of Color Filter Substrate, Production Method of Liquid Crystal Display Device - To provide: a color filter substrate with high display quality in which defective portions of a bank member (black matrix), such as a pin hole, a portion having an insufficient film thickness, a portion having an insufficient width, and a disconnection portion, or color mixing defects of a colored layer are corrected by the simple and inexpensive method; a liquid crystal display device including such a color filter; and production methods thereof. The color filter substrate of the present invention is a color filter substrate comprising a bank member and a colored layer on a substrate, wherein the color filter substrate has a structure in which a color mixing member formed of colored layer materials of two or more colors is formed in a defective portion of the bank member or along the bank member. | 11-20-2008 |
Yasutoshi Nozawa, Macon GE
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| 20100181695 | MALE SURFACE FASTENER MEMBER FOR USE IN A CUSHION BODY MOLD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Various embodiments include a male surface fastener member configured for being molded onto a surface of a foaming resin mold body. The male surface fastener member includes a plurality of male surface fastener strips connected with each other in an end-to-end relationship via a connecting portion that is integrally formed with at least the end portions of each male surface fastener strips. Each male surface fastener strip includes a base material having a first surface from which a plurality of engaging elements extend upwardly and first and second substantially lateral resin intrusion prevention walls that upwardly from the first surface along a width direction of the base material between the first and second longitudinal resin intrusion prevention walls. Each of the lateral resin intrusion prevention walls comprises a plurality of engaging elements that are arranged in series in a width direction of the first surface. | 07-22-2010 |
Yasutoshi Nozawa, Macon, GA US
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| 20100176538 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF INSTALLING HOOK FASTENER ELEMENTS IN A MOLD ASSEMBLY - Various embodiments of a mold assembly system include a mold defining at least one trench along a surface of the mold and two or more hook fastener elements disposed on the surface of the trench in an end-to-end relationship. Each hook fastener elements includes: (1) an elongated base, (2) a plurality of hooks extending upwardly from an upper surface of the base, and (3) a magnetic material disposed within the base. The hook fastener elements are unattached to each other and are separately disposed within the trench, and the magnetic portion of the trench is configured to attract the hook fastener elements toward the magnetic portion and hold the hook fastener elements adjacent thereto in an end-to-end relationship substantially along the length of the trench. In one embodiment, the hook fastener elements are substantially the same length and are usable in straight trenches, curved trenches, or trenches having various lengths. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20110062615 | MALE SURFACE FASTENER MEMBER FOR USE IN A CUSHION BODY MOLD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Various embodiments include a male surface fastener member configured for being molded onto a surface of a foaming resin mold body. The male surface fastener member includes a plurality of male surface fastener strips connected with each other in an end-to-end relationship via a connecting portion that is integrally formed with at least the end portions of each male surface fastener strips. Each male surface fastener strip includes a base material having a first surface from which a plurality of engaging elements extend upwardly and first and second substantially lateral resin intrusion prevention walls that upwardly from the first surface along a width direction of the base material between the first and second longitudinal resin intrusion prevention walls. Each of the lateral resin intrusion prevention walls comprises a plurality of engaging elements that are arranged in series in a width direction of the first surface. | 03-17-2011 |
Yasutoshi Okuno, Kyoto JP
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| 20090011596 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device includes an element group which generates a specific identification number and is composed of a plurality of elements. The specific identification number is set based on irregular deviation in electric characteristic of the elements which is caused due to a random failure in a manufacturing process. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20100032733 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having an element formation region containing impurities of a first conductivity type; a gate electrode formed on the element formation region with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween; and a silicon alloy layer formed on a lateral side of the gate electrode in the element formation region, and containing impurities of a second conductivity type. A boundary layer containing impurities of the second conductivity type is formed between the silicon alloy layer and the element formation region. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20130043545 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING HIGH-K GATE DIELECTRIC LAYER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The disclosure relates to integrated circuit fabrication and, more particularly, to a semiconductor device with a high-k gate dielectric layer. An exemplary structure for a semiconductor device comprises a substrate and a gate structure disposed over the substrate. The gate structure comprises a dielectric portion and an electrode portion that is disposed over the dielectric portion, and the dielectric portion comprises a carbon-doped high-k dielectric layer on the substrate and a carbon-free high-k dielectric layer adjacent to the electrode portion. | 02-21-2013 |
Yasutoshi Sugiura, Nishio-Shi JP
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| 20080297081 | Brushless motor driving apparatus - In a brushless motor driving apparatus, a drive circuit arranged to rotate a magnet rotor by sequentially switching energization of coils of phases, detect a position of the magnet rotor based on back electromotive force voltage generated in each phase coil, and control the energization of each phase coil based on the detected position. The drive circuit is configured to energize each phase under duty control and, before the back electromotive force control, perform initial setting twice sequentially for sweeping energization duty with respect to each phase coil to set the magnet rotor in a predetermined initial position. | 12-04-2008 |
Yasutoshi Takizawa, Matsumoto JP
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| 20100217593 | Program for creating Hidden Markov Model, information storage medium, system for creating Hidden Markov Model, speech recognition system, and method of speech recognition - A program for generating Hidden Markov Models to be used for speech recognition with a given speech recognition system, the information storage medium storing a program, that renders a computer to function as a scheduled-to-be-used model group storage section that stores a scheduled-to-be-used model group including a plurality of Hidden Markov Models scheduled to be used by the given speech recognition system, and a filler model generation section that generates Hidden Markov Models to be used as filler models by the given speech recognition system based on all or at least a part of the Hidden Markov Model group in the scheduled-to-be-used model group. | 08-26-2010 |
Yasutoshi Ueda, Hiroshima JP
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| 20100269740 | HEAVY FUEL-FIRED BOILER SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - In an exhaust gas treatment system including a denitration device that removes nitrogen oxide in exhaust gas from a heavy fuel-fired boiler, an air preheater that recovers heat in the gas after the nitrogen oxide is removed, an electric precipitator that removes dust while adding ammonia into the gas after heat recovery, a desulfurization device that removes sulfur oxide in the gas after dust removal, and a stack that exhausts the gas after desulfurization to the outside, an ash-shear-force measuring instrument is provided to measure an ash shear force, which is ash flowability, on the downstream side of the electric precipitator, so that a feed rate of an air supply unit that supplies air to the boiler is reduced according to ash shear-force information. | 10-28-2010 |
Yasutoshi Ueda, Tokyo JP
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| 20120177481 | GAS TURBINE - This gas turbine includes a turbine cooling structure of cooling a turbine by using cooling air and a filter that reduces dust in the cooling air on an upstream side of the turbine. Furthermore, the gas turbine includes a supply pipe for supplying the cooling air to the filter, a branch pipe that is branched from the supply pipe on an upstream of the filter, and a unit that calculates or estimates a circulation amount of dust in the cooling air. In this gas turbine, at a time of start-up of a turbine, the supply pipe is closed and the branch pipe is opened, and when the circulation amount of dust in the cooling air becomes equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, the supply pipe is opened and the branch pipe is closed. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20130074690 | METHOD FOR OPERATION OF DUST COLLECTION DEVICE, AND DUST COLLECTION DEVICE - A method for operating a dust collection device by reducing the adhesion of high-resistance dust while performing stable charging, with minimal pressure loss and high efficiency. The dust collection device comprises a pre-charging unit and a bag filter in a flue gas duct through which a gas flows, with the pre-charging unit disposed upstream from the bag filter, wherein the pre-charging unit comprises electrodes that charge the dust, a power source that supplies electric power to the electrodes, and a gas flow rate control device that adjusts the flow rate of the gas flowing through the pre-charging unit to a prescribed value. The method comprises a step of charging the dust by applying a voltage from the electrodes to the dust, and a step of removing the dust adhered to the electrodes by increasing the flow rate of the gas flowing through the pre-charging unit. | 03-28-2013 |
Yasutoshi Yamamoto, Osaka JP
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| 20090073278 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND DIGITAL CAMERA - A visual processing section | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090174792 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE FOR ENLARGEMENT OF DYNAMIC RANGE - An inter-line CCD (IT-CCD) capable of reading signals in two read modes, a field read mode and a frame read mode, is used to control, by a system control means, a CCD exposure and a signal read mode, a short-time exposure signal (Short signal) acquires an image by a field read and a long-time exposure signal (Long signal) acquires an image by a frame read, and these two images are synthesized by a signal synthesizing means to expand a dynamic range. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20100188494 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit operable to capture a subject to generate image data, an extracting unit operable to extract feature quantity information indicative of a feature of the subject from the image data generated by the imaging unit, a storing unit operable to store the feature quantity information extracted by the extracting unit as a registration candidate, a determining unit operable to determine whether a subject indicated by the feature quantity information extracted by the extracting unit is a same face indicated by the feature quantity information stored in the storing unit as the registration candidate, and a display unit operable to display a screen for prompting a user to perform an operation concerning registration in accordance with number of times the determining unit determines that the subject indicated by the feature quantity information extracted by the extracting unit is the same subject indicated by the feature quantity information stored in the storing unit as the registration candidate. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100194931 | IMAGING DEVICE - The imaging device of the present invention includes an image generator that generates an electric image from optical information inputted thereto; an operation portion that receives an instruction for a shooting preparation operation or a shooting operation from a user; a scene discriminator that discriminates a shooting scene on the basis of the image generated by the image generator and a picture quality adjuster that adjusts the picture quality of the image generated by the image generator on the basis of a result of discrimination performed by the scene discriminator. Due to this configuration, it is possible to discriminate an optimum shooting scene on the basis of an image to be captured, and consequently the operability can be improved. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20110069201 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging device of the present invention comprises: an imaging mechanism; a sound acquisition unit operable to acquire sound data that includes information reflecting an imaging environment; and a setting unit operable to, based on the sound data acquired by the sound acquisition unit, select and set one or more setting values for controlling the imaging mechanism. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110181759 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CORRECTION METHOD OF IMAGE DATA - An imaging apparatus is provided for reducing noise which is derived from random noise contained in a correction signal used for correcting an image data and is newly generated on correction of the image data. The imaging apparatus drives vertical transfer registers with no signal charge from photoelectric transducers read out to the vertical transfer registers to obtain and store a correction signal into a field memory. The apparatus subtracts the correction signal from the image data by a subtractor. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110279691 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus having a continuous shooting function includes an imaging unit configured to generate an image signal based on an optical signal of a subject, a storage unit configured to store an image file based on the image signal, a first detector configured to detect a motion of the imaging apparatus, and a controller configured to control a capturing interval of the imaging unit for capturing an image in a continuous shooting operation based on a detecting result of the first detector so that the capturing interval for a magnitude of the motion of the imaging apparatus which is larger than a predetermined value is shorter than the capturing interval for the magnitude of the motion of the imaging apparatus which is smaller than the predetermined value. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20120162498 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS WITH RANDOM TRIGGER OPERATION - An apparatus includes: a synchronizing signal generation portion outputting a synchronizing signal periodically; a diaphragm; an imaging portion operated based on the synchronizing signal to pick up a subject image through the diaphragm and generate image data; a trigger input portion operable to input a trigger signal commanding a start of a photographing operation by the imaging portion; and a control portion controlling the operation of the imaging portion. The control portion controls synchronous processing for operating the diaphragm in synchronization with the synchronizing signal. When the trigger signal is input, the control portion stops the generation of the synchronizing signal by the synchronizing signal generation portion and thereafter resumes the generation of the synchronizing signal, while when the synchronous processing is being performed, the control portion initializes the synchronous processing before resuming the generation of the synchronizing signal. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120189264 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a setting unit and a display controller configured to control the display unit. A plurality of recording modes include a first recording mode which generates heat so that the temperature in the case reaches a predetermined temperature, and a second recording mode which generates heat so that the temperature in the case cannot reach the predetermined temperature. The display controller determines the remaining recording time based on the temperature of a case, and determines whether the set-up recording mode is the first recording mode, and determines, based on a result of the determination, whether to display a remaining recording time which is determined based on the temperature in the case, on the display unit. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120189265 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature associated with a case of the imaging apparatus, a moving image recording unit configured to generate moving image data based on one of a plurality of recording methods which determines image quality of a recording image, and records the moving image data in a recording medium, and a controller configured to control the recording method set on the moving image recording unit. The controller changes the recording method to be set on the moving image recording unit, according to a result of the sensing by the temperature sensor. | 07-26-2012 |