Patents by Inventor Akihiro Wakatsuki

Akihiro Wakatsuki 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: 11267573
    Abstract: A small flying vehicle flown by radio control or autonomously by an auto pilot is equipped with an airbag device. The small flying vehicle has a main body part including a controller and a battery, a frame, a propeller, a motor, and a transmitting and receiving antenna. The airbag device has a gas supplier, a sensor, a controller, and an airbag. The airbag device is attached to the main body part, and the gas supplier is provided with a gas cylinder that releases a compressed gas when a closure member sealing the gas cylinder is broken, a breaker, including an electric igniter, that breaks the closure member, and introduction device that introduces the gas discharged from the gas cylinder and providing the pressurized gas into the airbag to inflate the airbag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Wakatsuki, Tomomi Akiba, Takao Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20200231291
    Abstract: A small flying vehicle capable of mitigating the shock at the time of falling and colliding with the ground or the like is provided. A small flying vehicle equipped with an airbag device, capable of flying by radio control or autonomously flying by autopilot, and having a maximum length of 2 m or less, wherein the small flying vehicle has a main body part including a controller and a battery, a frame, a propeller, a motor, and a transmitting and receiving antenna; the airbag device has gas supply means, a sensor, a control device and an airbag, and is attached to the main body part; and the gas supply means is provided with a gas cylinder capable of releasing an internal gas when a closure member is broken and opened, breaking means including an electric igniter for opening the closure member of the gas cylinder, and introduction means for introducing the pressurized gas in the gas cylinder into the airbag to inflate the airbag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro WAKATSUKI, Tomomi AKIBA, Takao KURODA
  • Patent number: 10059577
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a perforator for breaking a closing member at a gas outlet of a gas bottle to allow a gas to flow out. The perforator includes a cylindrical housing having three openings, namely, a first opening at a first end portion, a second opening at a second end portion which is opposite to the first end portion, and a third opening formed in a circumferential wall portion, an ignition device being fixed at the first opening, the second opening to be connected to the gas bottle and the third opening serving as a gas discharge portion, and when a pressure created by actuation of the ignition device is received, the first piston moving in an axial direction, and the second piston moving towards the second opening by receiving the movement of the first piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao Kuroda, Tomohide Fujiwara, Akihiro Wakatsuki
  • Publication number: 20170036901
    Abstract: The present invention provides a perforator for breaking a closing member at a gas outlet of a gas bottle to allow a gas to flow out, including the cylindrical housing having three openings, namely, a first opening at a first end portion, a second opening at a second end portion which is opposite to the first end portion, and a third opening formed in a circumferential wall portion, an ignition device being fixed at the first opening, the second opening to be connected to the gas bottle and the third opening serving as a gas discharge portion, an first piston and a second piston being disposed, in the order of the first piston and the second piston, from the side of the ignition device to the side of the second opening in the cylindrical housing, and when a pressure created by actuation of the ignition device is received, the first piston moving in an axial direction inside the cylindrical housing, and the second piston moving towards the second opening inside the cylindrical housing by receiving the movem
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao KURODA, Tomohide FUJIWARA, Akihiro WAKATSUKI
  • Patent number: 6106636
    Abstract: In a method of and apparatus for controlling an atmosphere in a heat treatment furnace according to the present invention, a carburizing is carried out while supplying a hydrocarbon series gas and an oxidization gas into the furnace. The quantity of a residual CH.sub.4, a partial pressure of the oxidization gas and a partial pressure of CO are measured. The quantity of each gas to be supplied into the furnace is controlled according to either one of the values of the partial pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Dowa Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Naito, Kouichi Ogihara, Akihiro Wakatsuki, Tadanori Nakahiro, Hideki Inoue, Yoshio Nakashima
  • Patent number: 6051078
    Abstract: In a method of and apparatus for controlling an atmosphere in a heat treatment furnace according to the present invention, a carburizing is carried out while supplying a hydrocarbon series gas and an oxidization gas into the furnace, and the supply of the hydrocarbon series gas is stopped either when the quantity of a residual CH.sub.4 in the furnace is changed to increasing from decreasing, or when a partial pressure of oxygen in the furnace reaches a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Dowa Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Naito, Kouichi Ogihara, Akihiro Wakatsuki, Tadanori Nakahiro, Hideki Inoue, Yoshio Nakashima