Patents by Inventor Atsushi Shibata

Atsushi Shibata 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: 20190031412
    Abstract: A sealing cap for a compressor is made of an elastically-deformable material and includes a plug portion, a bolt insertion portion, a tab portion, and a plate-like body portion. The plug portion is to be inserted into a fluid port of a compressor to plug the fluid port. The plate-like body portion integrally joins the plug portion, the bolt insertion portion, and the tab portion. The bolt insertion portion extends from a front surface of the body portion. The tab portion is formed on the front surface of the body portion. The plug portion is projectingly formed on a rear surface of the body portion. The tab portion includes a ring having an annular shape, and is located opposite to the bolt insertion portion across the plug portion. The ring has an opening that extends through the ring in a direction that crosses insertion direction of the plug portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yuki MORIKAGE, Atsushi SHIBATA, Koji ISHII, Hiromichi OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20170270479
    Abstract: An automatic estimation method comprises a first step (STEP 01) of introducing a shape data on an item, a second step (STEP 02) of recognizing a shape of the item on the basis of the shape data, a third step (STEP 06) of acquiring a manufacturing condition which can be selected on the basis of the recognized shape, a fourth step (STEP 08) of displaying the manufacturing condition and corresponding price and delivery time, and a fifth step (STEP 09, STEP 10) of updating the displayed price and delivery time depending on change of the manufacturing condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Takaaki WADA, Mitsunobu YOSHIDA, Kenji NAKAGAWA, Atsushi SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 9062786
    Abstract: A relief valve for a compressor includes a valve body, a relief port, a cap and a cover. The relief port is formed in the end of the valve body and refrigerant gas is blown out through the relief port if pressure in the compressor is excessively increased. An engaging portion is formed in the cover so as to be engageable with the valve body such that the cover is prevented from moving relative to the valve body. With the cover is mounted on the valve body through the cap, the relief port is covered by the end of the cap, a first clearance is formed between the ends of the cap and the valve body so as to be in communication with the relief port, and a flowing passage for refrigerant gas blown out through the relief valve is formed from the relief port through the first clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yoshinori Inoue, Kenta Nishimura, Koji Ishii, Atsuo Sumi, Atsushi Shibata, Toru Mizutani, Terunao Kono
  • Patent number: 8796386
    Abstract: A thiocarbonyl compound represented by the following formula (a) is useful as a RAFT agent. By using this, a process for producing a polymer having a excellent reactivity or monomer conversion rate and its polymer are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Carbide Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Musashi, Atsushi Shibata, Noboru Yamagata
  • Publication number: 20140212645
    Abstract: The optical composite sheet 1 includes a first optical layer 10 and a second optical layer 20, and a low-refractive index layer 30 that is laminated at least between the first optical layer 10 and the second optical layer 20 and has a lower refractive index than the refractive indices of the first optical layer 10 and the second optical layer 20. The low-refractive index layer 30 is characterized by containing many particles 50 having an average particle size of 5 nm to 300 nm, a binder resin 35 that binds the surface sites of the particles 50 to each other, and gaps 36 that are formed among the particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: NIPPON CARBIDE INDUSTRIES CO., INC.
    Inventors: Ikuo Mimura, Atsushi Shibata, Naoki Musashi, Shinya Hattori, Ippei Imagawa
  • Patent number: 8392024
    Abstract: A method of controlling a power assist device that includes an operating handle, a force sensor, a robot arm, an actuator that drives the robot arm, and a conveying portion for conveying the robot arm. When a body in motion, the conveying portion is controlled to move in synchronization with the body, and when the motion of the body is stopped or has resumed, the drive of the robot arm is stopped for a predetermined time, and does not resume until after a predetermined time has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Araki Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Murayama, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Ken-ichi Fujino, Shinji Akiyama, Atsushi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20120247586
    Abstract: A relief valve for a compressor includes a valve body, a relief port, a cap and a cover. The relief port is formed in the end of the valve body and refrigerant gas is blown out through the relief port if pressure in the compressor is excessively increased. An engaging portion is formed in the cover so as to be engageable with the valve body such that the cover is prevented from moving relative to the valve body. With the cover is mounted on the valve body through the cap, the relief port is covered by the end of the cap, a first clearance is formed between the ends of the cap and the valve body so as to be in communication with the relief port, and a flowing passage for refrigerant gas blown out through the relief valve is formed from the relief port through the first clearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yoshinori INOUE, Kenta NISHIMURA, Koji ISHII, Atsuo SUMI, Atsushi SHIBATA, Toru MIZUTANI, Terunao KONO
  • Publication number: 20120141083
    Abstract: An optical patch panel section is made turnable in a double-door manner, whereby workability in coupling an optical fiber to an optical connector is improved. Eventually, a compact design is provided. Owing to the compact design, a communication chassis can be loaded in the same area in a rack as an area in which an optical transmission device is stored. Not only when a network is constructed but also when a channel is switched to another because a transmission line has to be relocated due to a change in the route of the transmission line occurring after the network is constructed, or when the quality of the transmission line is varied, light level adjustment work or light dispersion adjustment work can be easily achieved from one place on the front side of the chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Seigo OBAYASHI, Kenichi Ogawa, Atsushi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20120108757
    Abstract: A thiocarbonyl compound represented by the following formula (a) is useful as a RAFT agent. By using this, a process for producing a polymer having a excellent reactivity or monomer conversion rate and its polymer are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Nippon Carbide Industries Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Musashi, Atsushi Shibata, Noboru Yamagata
  • Patent number: 7926337
    Abstract: A vehicle locking device locking a vehicle on a chassis dynamometer, equipped with rollers allowing driving wheels of the vehicle placed thereon, while keeping the driving wheels thereof placed on the rollers, was configured so as to detect angles of traction, to determine traction forces optimum for hauling the vehicle based on the detected angles, and to control the vehicle locking device based on thus-determined traction forces so as to take up a belt, aiming at readily and stably locking a test vehicle under optimum traction forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignees: Ono Sokki Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isamu Inoue, Atsushi Shibata, Naoki Umeda, Shuichi Tsukatsune, Haruhiko Tateno, Takahiro Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20110010012
    Abstract: A method of controlling a power assist device that includes an operating handle, a force sensor, a robot arm, an actuator that drives the robot arm, and a conveying portion for conveying the robot arm. When a body in motion, the conveying portion is controlled to move in synchronization with the body, and when the motion of the body is stopped or has resumed, the drive of the robot arm is stopped for a predetermined time, and does not resume until after a predetermined time has elapsed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ARAKI MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Murayama, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Ken-ichi Fujino, Shinji Akiyama, Atsushi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20090133484
    Abstract: A vehicle locking device locking a vehicle on a chassis dynamometer, equipped with rollers allowing driving wheels of the vehicle placed thereon, while keeping the driving wheels thereof placed on the rollers, was configured so as to detect angles of traction, to determine traction forces optimum for hauling the vehicle based on the detected angles, and to control the vehicle locking device based on thus-determined traction forces so as to take up a belt, aiming at readily and stably locking a test vehicle under optimum traction forces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicants: ONO SOKKI CO., LTD., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isamu INOUE, Atsushi Shibata, Naoki Umeda, Shuichi Tsukatsune, Haruhiko Tateno, Takahiro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 7315888
    Abstract: Data communication is carried out between nodes each not having a global address. In a network management system in which a first network and a second network which have the different address systems are connected to each other through an address translator, each of the first and second networks has a node and a management protocol proxy; and each of the management protocol proxies includes a management protocol proxy data generating unit for treating, as management protocol proxy data, a transmission source address, a transmission destination address and data in a protocol data unit which are contained in a packet of a management protocol sent from the associated one of the nodes, and an address translation unit for translating the address information in the protocol data unit contained in the management protocol proxy data sent from the other management protocol proxy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Shibata
  • Patent number: 7098532
    Abstract: A ceramic package and a chip resistor obtained by forming, on a plastic ceramic green sheet comprising 100 parts by weight of a ceramic powder mainly composed of borosilicate glass, into which 10 to 30 parts by weight of an acrylic copolymer obtained by polymerizing 100 parts by weight of a (meth)acrylic acid ester and 1 to 10 parts by weight of a monomer having a functional group of a hydroxyl group, acid amide group, or amino group and having a Tg in the range of ?30° C. to +10° C. is compounded, a conductor layer using a plastic conductive paste obtained by compounding, into 100 parts by weight of a conductive powder, 5 to 20 parts a mixture of an acrylic copolymer having a Tg of not more than ?30° C. and an ethylcellulose-based binder, press forming the resultant single layer of ceramic green sheet, and calcining the resultant ceramic green sheet having the integrally formed bottom, opening and opening circumferential edge and a method for producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Nippon Carbide Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junya Naito, Fumio Ishita, Atsushi Shibata, Noboru Yamagata
  • Patent number: 6912783
    Abstract: In a manufacturing method of a valve plate for a compressor according to this invention, a punch die 43 formed with a convex and concave configuration at its tip end face 42 is set at a press machine 41, and the punch die 43 is depressed against a surface of a valve plate 9 to transfer the convex and concave configuration of the tip end face 42. Thus, peripheral portions of a suction port and a discharge port of the valve plate 9 are roughened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Hirohiko Tanaka, Suguru Hirota, Atsushi Shibata, Takeshi Kondo, Mitsuru Hattori, Eiji Tokunaga, Tetsuhiko Fukanuma, Masakazu Hashimoto, Hiromi Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20050082648
    Abstract: A ceramic package and a chip resistor obtained by forming, on a plastic ceramic green sheet comprising 100 parts by weight of a ceramic powder mainly composed of borosilicate glass, into which 10 to 30 parts by weight of an acrylic copolymer obtained by polymerizing 100 parts by weight of a (meth)acrylic acid ester and 1 to 10 parts by weight of a monomer having a functional group of a hydroxyl group, acid amide group, or amino group and having a Tg in the range of ?30° C. to +10° C. is compounded, a conductor layer using a plastic conductive paste obtained by compounding, into 100 parts by weight of a conductive powder, 5 to 20 parts a mixture of an acrylic copolymer having a Tg of not more than ?30° C. and an ethylcellulose-based binder, press forming the resultant single layer of ceramic green sheet, and calcining the resultant ceramic green sheet having the integrally formed bottom, opening and opening circumferential edge and a method for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventors: Junya Naito, Fumio Ishita, Atsushi Shibata, Noboru Yamagata
  • Patent number: 6680816
    Abstract: An audio/control head for used in a Video Cassette Recorder or the like has a core holder 11 arranged to include positioning portions 24 and 25 for determining the pitch length P1 and pressing tabs 23 having an elasticity for pressing inwardly cores members 15 and 17 against the positioning portions 24 and 25 from the outer side. As the cores members 15 and 17 are held directly on the positioning portions 24 and 25, they are inwardly pressed by the pressing tabs 23. Then, the core pitch p1 is precisely determined between the audio core and the control core without using a particular jig during the assembly. The overall number of jigs required for mounting the cores to the core holder can be reduced. Also, the core pitch P1 can be improved in the accuracy and the characteristics of the head will be consistent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Matsui, Atsushi Shibata
  • Patent number: 6661608
    Abstract: In a mounting structure for mounting a conductive shielding case, accommadating therein an audio magnetic head, to a chassis via of an adjusting plate, columnar protrusions formed on both side surfaces of the shielding case are engaged with groove portions formed on cut and raised pieces of the adjusting plate. With this arrangement, it is possible to fix the shielding case and the adjusting plate. Thus it is possible to fix the shielding case to the adjusting plate without using screws, and thereby be decrease the cost of parts and manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Matsui, Atsushi Shibata
  • Patent number: 6648199
    Abstract: A pinch roller device is provided wherein an elastic cylindrical roller is fitted over a cylindrical holder 1, in the inner wall of which are formed a small hole 1a and a large hole b 1b; wherein a bearing 3 is fitted in the large hole 1b and a bearing stopper sleeve 4 is pressed into the large hole 1b, so that the bearing 3 can be rotatably fitted over a roller shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Shibata, Tsukasa Shinmi
  • Publication number: 20030163919
    Abstract: In a manufacturing method of a valve plate for a compressor according to this invention, a punch die 43 formed with a convex and concave configuration at its tip end face 42 is set at a press machine 41, and the punch die 43 is depressed against a surface of a valve plate 9 to transfer the convex and concave configuration of the tip end face 42. Thus, peripheral portions of a suction port and a discharge port of the valve plate 9 are roughened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: Hirohiko Tanaka, Suguru Hirota, Atsushi Shibata, Takeshi Kondo, Mitsuru Hattori, Eiji Tokunaga, Tetsuhiko Fukanuma, Masakazu Hashimoto, Hiromi Yoshino