Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kawabe

Hiroshi Kawabe 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: 20240150882
    Abstract: To provide a galvanized steel sheet having high strength, specifically, a tensile strength of 1,150 MPa or more, and excellent resistance spot weldability, a base steel sheet has a defined chemical composition, an amount of diffusible hydrogen in the base steel sheet is 0.20 mass ppm or less, and surface roughness Ra of the galvanized steel sheet is 0.6 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi MAEDA, Hiromi YOSHITOMI, Masaki KOBA, Nao KAWABE, Tatsuya NAKAGAITO, Katsuya HOSHINO, Hiroshi MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 10603964
    Abstract: A back surface part (13) is arranged on an inner surface (35) facing an inner side of a rim flange part (32) in a tire width direction (H) or arranged closer to the inner side in the tire width direction (H) than the inner surface (35), in a no-load reference state where a pneumatic tire (10) is mounted on an applied rim (30) and the internal pressure of the pneumatic tire (10) is set to atmospheric pressure, and a flat surface part (20) extending linearly along a tire radial direction (R) in the reference state is formed in a connecting portion of the back surface part (13) connected with a heel part (14), thereby making it possible to prevent a large force from acting thereon from the applied rim (30) and to improve uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Kawakami, Hiroshi Kawabe
  • Patent number: 9811034
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device that forms an image on a sheet, a fixing device including a fixing member that fixes the image formed on the sheet and a polishing device that polishes a surface of the fixing member, and circuitry that determines whether an interruption required operation is to be performed, at a time while image formation is being performed by the image forming device to execute an image forming job, or at a time after image formation is executed for one job and before image formation is to be executed for a subsequent job, controls the image forming device to stop image formation to perform the interruption required operation, based on a determination indicating that the interruption required operation is to be performed, and controls the polishing device to polish the surface of the fixing member concurrently with the interruption required operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawabe, Kaori Hemmi, Keisuke Kubota
  • Publication number: 20170052492
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device that forms an image on a sheet, a fixing device including a fixing member that fixes the image formed on the sheet and a polishing device that polishes a surface of the fixing member, and circuitry that determines whether an interruption required operation is to be performed, at a time while image formation is being performed by the image forming device to execute an image forming job, or at a time after image formation is executed for one job and before image formation is to be executed for a subsequent job, controls the image forming device to stop image formation to perform the interruption required operation, based on a determination indicating that the interruption required operation is to be performed, and controls the polishing device to polish the surface of the fixing member concurrently with the interruption required operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroshi KAWABE, Kaori HEMMI, Keisuke KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20150367688
    Abstract: A back surface part (13) is arranged on an inner surface (35) facing an inner side of a rim flange part (32) in a tire width direction (H) or arranged closer to the inner side in the tire width direction (H) than the inner surface (35), in a no-load reference state where a pneumatic tire (10) is mounted on an applied rim (30) and the internal pressure of the pneumatic tire (10) is set to atmospheric pressure, and a flat surface part (20) extending linearly along a tire radial direction (R) in the reference state is formed in a connecting portion of the back surface part (13) connected with a heel part (14), thereby making it possible to prevent a large force from acting thereon from the applied rim (30) and to improve uniformity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro KAWAKAMI, Hiroshi KAWABE
  • Publication number: 20130325929
    Abstract: A system includes an application server connected to a web server and a client terminal via a network, the terminal being connected to an external memory, the application server includes an interface for a provider of a service, a contents database, an attribute database, an ID receiving part for receiving the ID sent from the client terminal connected to the external memory, an authentication part, an attribute information reading part, a display contents generation part and a display contents sending part, the external memory is stored with a program for sending the read ID to the application server from the client terminal and displaying the received display contents on a screen of the client terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: IZE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi KAWABE, Yoshikatsu OHTANI, Toshiharu NISHIWAKI
  • Publication number: 20100217839
    Abstract: Problem to be solved is the development system of the Integrated Development Environment which can be used by a server terminal system. Means for Solution is that a development system which develops software in a network server and a terminal, and the server and the terminal are provided. The server is provided with a library source database which can make a fixed source file and a source file preparer. Also, a compiler making an executable file from a fixed source file, and a network connecter transmitting and receiving a source file and the executable file are provided. The terminal is provided with a network connecter and an Integrated development environment which can edit and transmit a source file transmitted from the server by the network connecter of the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawabe, Toshiharu Nishiwaki, Yoshikatsu Ohtani
  • Publication number: 20090030908
    Abstract: A computer system for an easy system/information management. A client (100) and a server (200) are connected through a network (NW) so that a hard disk (240) or a server storage device is stored with a server holding type application program such as a menu program (243) to be operated on the web browser of the client (100). The server (200) has a web server program (242) and provides a file in response to the request of the client (100). After having started a second OS program (151), the client (100) starts a web browser program (153) in a full-screen display, and gains access to the file which is set for each client (100) or user and expressed in URL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: IZE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kawabe
  • Patent number: 7320477
    Abstract: An air bag system of the invention is attached using an attaching piece portion and includes an air bag which is inflated for deployment when an inflating gas flows thereinto. The air bag is attached to an inner panel by attaching an attaching bracket having a pair of strengthening plates provided on front and back sides of the attaching piece portion with a bolt as a fastening means. A through hole in the attaching piece portion is set to such a size that a location constituting a circumferential edge is disposed at a position deflected from an area between a head portion of the bolt and the inner panel when a fastening stem portion of the bolt is fastened to the inner panel. The bolt is fastened to the inner panel in such a state that only the attaching bracket is interposed between the inner panel and the head portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawabe, Tadashi Yamamoto, Mishiyasu Ito, Takanobu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 6571844
    Abstract: Sipes extending from one end of a block to the central area of the block and sipes extending from the other end of the block to the central area of the block (sipes 24, 28, 32 and 36) are inclined in directions opposite to each other. The sipes extending from one end of the block and the sipes extending from the other end of the block intersect a common line extending along the circumferential direction of the tire. Due to this structure, the number of portions of the sipes, which portions are located in the central area of the block, is made greater than that in the peripheral area of the block. The density of sipes is thus increased in the central area of a block where water tends to form when driving on ice, for improving braking and traction properties on ice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Ochi, Masaharu Kimura, Makoto Kurokawa, Hiroshi Kawabe, Hiroto Yoshida
  • Patent number: 6249954
    Abstract: An apparatus for assisting the mounting of a tire-wheel assembly onto an axle in a high precision without eccentrically arranging the assembly from the axle comprises a pair of opposite clasping members sandwiching the tire-wheel assembly from its side surfaces therebetween, a vibration applying machine fixed to one of the clasping members, and a fastening means for temporarily fastening the clasping members at a given position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawabe, Kenjiro Yamaya
  • Patent number: 5946797
    Abstract: An apparatus for assisting the mounting of a tire-wheel assembly onto an axle in a high precision without eccentrically arranging the assembly from the axle comprises a pair of opposite clasping members sandwiching the tire-wheel assembly from its side surfaces therebetween, a vibration applying machine fixed to one of the clasping members, and a fastening means for temporarily fastening the clasping members at a given position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawabe, Kenjiro Yamaya
  • Patent number: 5656775
    Abstract: A device for installing a tire-wheel assembly onto a wheel balancer comprises a rotating shaft of the wheel balancer for rotating the tire-wheel assembly, a wheel receiving member comprised of a disc-contacting portion and a cup-shaped base portion, a taper cone of a frustoconical shape, a spring disposed between a bottom of the cup-shaped base portion and a bottom of the taper cone, a wheel pushing member, and a female screw member, in which the disc-contacting portion of the wheel receiving member is provided at a side facing the disc portion with an elastic member embedded in the disc-contacting portion in a peripheral direction thereof and a protruding member contacting with the elastic member and retractably moving from an outer surface of the disc-contacting portion in an axial direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kawabe
  • Patent number: 5454627
    Abstract: The magnitude of an amount of correction of unbalance at each axially opposite end face of the rim-fitted tire and the position on a circumference of each of the rim end faces are measured by an unbalance measuring machine for simultaneously measuring an amount of correction of static unbalance and an amount of correction of dynamic unbalance. The magnitude of the amount of correction of static unbalance, the position of an amount of correction of static unbalance on a rim periphery for minimizing a magnitude of an amount of correction of residual dynamic unbalance, the magnitude of the amount of correction of residual dynamic unbalance, and the position of the amount of correction of residual dynamic unbalance on the circumference of each of the rim end faces are calculated on the basis of the magnitude of the amount of correction of unbalance and the position of the amount of correction of unbalance on the circumference of each of the rim end faces measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawabe, Hisao Makino
  • Patent number: 5339880
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for fitting bead portions of the tire onto a wheel substantially uniformly and at the same time for filling inner pressure into the tire. A wheel cap-shaped jig in the form of a disc is arranged on the side surface of the wheel. The periphery of the wheel cap-shaped jig progressively reduces outwardly in the rotating axial direction of the wheel. The tire is then obliquely arranged on the wheel through the wheel cap-shaped jig, and the bead portions are radially outwardly expanded along their circumferences so as to assemble onto the rim. An outer cylindrical member having an inclined annular end surface and an inner cylindrical member telescopically arranged in the outer cylindrical member are brought into air-tight contact with the rim and a side surface of the tire, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawabe, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Naotaka Tomita
  • Patent number: 5287907
    Abstract: A method for assembling a tire on the rim of a wheel and filling inner pressure in the tire. The wheel is fixed on a wheel table in an airtight manner to the table. The tire is arranged on the wheel and a pawl is moved along the circumference of the wheel or the wheel on the table is rotated to arrange the bead portions of the tire around the rim of the wheel. An outer cylinder member is brought into abutment against one of the bead portions to urge it toward the other bead portion and pressurized air is filled into the tire through a clearance between the wheel and the one bead portion of the tire to bring the bead portions into close contact with the rim of the wheel. Thereafter, pressurized air is further filled in the tire through the inflation valve of the wheel to maintain the inner pressure higher than the normal inner pressure and then the inner pressure is lowered to the normal inner pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawabe, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Naotaka Tomita
  • Patent number: 5224532
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for fitting bead portions of the tire onto a wheel substantially uniformly and at the same time for filling inner pressure into the tire. A wheel cap-shaped jig in the form of a disc is arranged on the side surface of the wheel. The periphery of the wheel cap-shaped jig progressively reduces outwardly in the rotating axial direction of the wheel. The tire is then obliquely arranged on the wheel through the wheel cap-shaped jig, and the bead portions are radially outwardly expanded along their circumferences so as to assemble onto the rim. An outer cylindrical member having an inclined annular end surface and an inner cylindrical member telescopically arranged in the outer cylindrical member are brought into air-tight contact with the rim and a side surface of the tire, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1993
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawabe, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Naotaka Tomita
  • Patent number: 5222538
    Abstract: A method for assembling a tire on a wheel without causing any detrimental deformation of bead portions of the tire. The tire is obliquely arranged on a wheel cap-shaped jig provided on the upper side surface of the wheel located on a flat surface to arrange the lower part of the lower bead portion loosely around the wheel. The lower part of the tire is inwardly urged, while the other part of the lower bead portion is radially outwardly expanded to arrange it along its circumference around the wheel, progressively. Moreover, the part of the upper bead portion is radially outwardly expanded and is urged downward toward the support surface to arrange it loosely around the wheel. The part of the tire corresponding to the part of the upper bead portion is inwardly urged, while the remaining part of the upper bead portion is radially outwardly expanded and is urged downward toward the support surface along the circumference of the upper bead portion to arrange it around the wheel, progressively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1993
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Naotaka Tomita, Hiroshi Kawabe, Toshiyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5171067
    Abstract: The magnitude of an amount of correction of unbalance at each axially opposite end face of the rim-fitted tire and the position on a circumference of each of the rim end faces are measured by means of an unbalance measuring machine for simultaneously measuring an amount of correction of static unbalance and an amount of correction of dynamic unbalance. The magnitude of the amount of correction of static unbalance, the position of an amount of correction of static unbalance on a rim periphery for minimizing a magnitude of an amount of correction of residual dynamic unbalance, the magnitude of the amount of correction of residual dynamic unbalance, and the position of the amount of correction of residual dynamic unbalance on the circumference of each of the rim end faces are calculated on the basis of the magnitude of the amount of correction of unbalance and the position of the amount of correction of unbalance on the circumference of each of the rim end faces measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawabe, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Naotaka Tomita
  • Patent number: 5146969
    Abstract: An apparatus for filling pressurized air into a tire includes a table for supporting thereon a tire mounted on a rim, an inner cylinder member air-tightly engageable with a flange of the rim, and an outer cylinder member air-tightly engageable with a side rubber of the tire and forming an air-tight space in cooperation with the inner cylinder member. The end face of the outer cylinder member air-tightly engageable with the side rubber of the tire is inclined to the rotating axis of the tire. Therefore, the bead portion of the tire needs only to get over the part of the hump of the rim positioned oblique relative thereto along its circumference little by little during filling pressurized air into the tire. As a result, the bead portion of the tire is only subjected to a little deformation and comes into close contact with the rim, the bead portion of the tire substantially uniformly closely contacts the rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1992
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawabe, Toshiyuki Watanabe