Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Asahara

Hiroyuki Asahara 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: 20210317850
    Abstract: A fluid pressure cylinder includes a first cylinder portion and a second cylinder portion disposed in parallel, and a supply-and-discharge port. The first cylinder portion is partitioned by a first piston into a head-side first accumulation chamber and a rod-side second accumulation chamber. The second cylinder portion is partitioned by a second piston into a head-side release chamber and a rod-side drive chamber. Pressurized fluid is supplied to and discharged from the second accumulation chamber and the drive chamber through the supply-and-discharge port. An end of a first piston rod connected to the first piston and an end of a second piston rod connected to the second piston are connected to each other. The first piston includes a communication switching valve switching communication between the first accumulation chamber and the second accumulation chamber, between enabled and disabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youji TAKAKUWA, Hiroyuki ASAHARA, Seiichi NAGURA
  • Patent number: 11143175
    Abstract: A pressure booster constituting a cylinder apparatus is provided with a first piston and a second piston that are coupled to each other by a rod. A connection member provided to the second piston is configured so as to be displaceable from a connection position to a blocking position as a result of the connection member making contact with a cylinder body when the second piston is displaced in a direction where a boosting chamber contracts, and so as to be displaceable from the blocking position to the connection position as a result of the connection member making contact with the cylinder body when the second piston is displaced in a direction where the boosting chamber expands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Asahara, Kazutaka Someya
  • Publication number: 20210293258
    Abstract: A first position detection sensor and a second position detection sensor of a pressure booster detect the position of a first piston or a second piston. A fluid supply mechanism supplies a fluid to a first pressure-boosting chamber and/or a second pressure-boosting chamber. On the basis of the detection results of the first position detection sensor and the second position detection sensor, the fluid supply mechanism switches between performing an operation for supplying fluid to a first drive chamber and discharging fluid from a second drive chamber, and performing an operation for discharging fluid from the first drive chamber and supplying fluid to the second drive chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ASAHARA, Kengo MONDEN, Naoki SHINJO, Seiichi NAGURA, Kazutaka SOMEYA
  • Publication number: 20210108657
    Abstract: A fluid circuit for air cylinders is provided with a switching valve, an air supply source, an exhaust port and a check valve. When the switching valve is in a first position, one cylinder chamber is connected with the air supply source and the other cylinder chamber is connected with the exhaust port. When the switching valve is in a second position, the one cylinder chamber is connected with the other cylinder chamber via the check valve, and the one cylinder chamber is connected with the exhaust port. The acoustic velocity conductance of a pipe connecting the switching valve and a cylinder port part of the one cylinder chamber is lower than the acoustic velocity conductance of the switching valve and the cylinder port part of the one cylinder chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki TAKADA, Youji TAKAKUWA, Hiroyuki ASAHARA, Kengo MONDEN, Kazutaka SOMEYA
  • Publication number: 20210102558
    Abstract: A pressure booster constituting a cylinder apparatus is provided with a first piston and a second piston that are coupled to each other by a rod. A connection member provided to the second piston is configured so as to be displaceable from a connection position to a blocking position as a result of the connection member making contact with a cylinder body when the second piston is displaced in a direction where a boosting chamber contracts, and so as to be displaceable from the blocking position to the connection position as a result of the connection member making contact with the cylinder body when the second piston is displaced in a direction where the boosting chamber expands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ASAHARA, Kazutaka SOMEYA
  • Patent number: 10927857
    Abstract: A fluid pressure cylinder driving device includes a switch valve, a high pressure air supply source, an exhaust port and a check valve. When the switch valve is at a first position, a head side cylinder chamber communicates with the high pressure air supply source, and a rod side cylinder chamber communicates with the exhaust port. When the switch valve is at a second position, the head side cylinder chamber communicates with the rod side cylinder chamber via the check valve, and the head side cylinder chamber communicates with the exhaust port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youji Takakuwa, Hiroyuki Asahara, Kengo Monden, Aki Iwamoto, Naoki Shinjo, Kazutaka Someya, Akihiro Kazama
  • Patent number: 10883523
    Abstract: A cylinder main body of a fluid pressure cylinder includes a switch valve, a check valve, and a flow path communicating a high pressure air supply source with a head side cylinder chamber and communicating an exhaust port with a rod side cylinder chamber when the switch valve is at a second position. Another flow path communicates the head side cylinder chamber with the rod side cylinder chamber and the exhaust port when the switch valve is at the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youji Takakuwa, Hiroyuki Asahara, Kengo Monden, Aki Iwamoto, Naoki Shinjo, Kazutaka Someya, Akihiro Kazama
  • Patent number: 10851806
    Abstract: When a fluid is supplied to a first pressure-boosting chamber and/or a second pressure-boosting chamber of a pressure booster, either a first electromagnetic valve unit supplies a fluid discharged from a first pressurizing chamber to a second pressurizing chamber, or a second electromagnetic valve unit supplies a fluid discharged from a third pressurizing chamber to a fourth pressurizing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Asahara, Kengo Monden, Naoki Shinjo, Seiichi Nagura, Kazutaka Someya
  • Publication number: 20200232449
    Abstract: A boosting device is provided with a drive unit which is driven under the action of energization, and a boosting mechanism which is connected to the drive unit and which boosts and outputs a pressurized fluid. The boosting mechanism comprises a rotating body which is connected to a drive shaft of a drive source and includes a slope portion, and four pistons opposing the rotating body and disposed moveably in an axial direction. The pistons are sequentially and continuously pushed in the axial direction by means of the slope portion of the rotating body, whereby the pressurized fluid is compressed and boosted in a boosting chamber. The pressurized fluid that has been boosted in the boosting chamber is discharged out of an output port through a discharge passageway when an exhaust check valve is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ASAHARA, Seiichi NAGURA, Kazutaka SOMEYA
  • Publication number: 20200149560
    Abstract: The present invention allows the number of components to be reduced and assembly work to be easily performed. A cylinder drive manifold device that constitutes a cylinder drive apparatus is provided with a block-shaped manifold in which a plurality of holes are formed for circulating a fluid used for driving a plurality of fluid pressure cylinders. The manifold is configured such that a plurality of switching valves for supplying a fluid alternately to a first cylinder chamber and a second cylinder chamber of each of the fluid pressure cylinders are attachable. A plurality of check valves and a plurality of throttle valves are incorporated into the plurality of holes of the manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ASAHARA, Kazutaka SOMEYA
  • Publication number: 20200063760
    Abstract: When a fluid is supplied to a first pressure-boosting chamber and/or a second pressure-boosting chamber of a pressure booster, either a first electromagnetic valve unit supplies a fluid discharged from a first pressurizing chamber to a second pressurizing chamber, or a second electromagnetic valve unit supplies a fluid discharged from a third pressurizing chamber to a fourth pressurizing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ASAHARA, Kengo MONDEN, Naoki SHINJO, Seiichi NAGURA, Kazutaka SOMEYA
  • Publication number: 20200025224
    Abstract: A cylinder main body of a fluid pressure cylinder includes a switch valve, a check valve, and a flow path communicating a high pressure air supply source with a head side cylinder chamber and communicating an exhaust port with a rod side cylinder chamber when the switch valve is at a second position. Another flow path communicates the head side cylinder chamber with the rod side cylinder chamber and the exhaust port when the switch valve is at the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youji TAKAKUWA, Hiroyuki ASAHARA, Kengo MONDEN, Aki IWAMOTO, Naoki SHINJO, Kazutaka SOMEYA, Akihiro KAZAMA
  • Publication number: 20190277310
    Abstract: A fluid pressure cylinder driving device includes a switch valve, a high pressure air supply source, an exhaust port and a check valve. When the switch valve is at a first position, a head side cylinder chamber communicates with the high pressure air supply source, and a rod side cylinder chamber communicates with the exhaust port. When the switch valve is at a second position, the head side cylinder chamber communicates with the rod side cylinder chamber via the check valve, and the head side cylinder chamber communicates with the exhaust port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youji TAKAKUWA, Hiroyuki ASAHARA, Kengo MONDEN, Aki IWAMOTO, Naoki SHINJO, Kazutaka SOMEYA, Akihiro KAZAMA
  • Publication number: 20190258289
    Abstract: A mobile device comprising: a microphone; an acceleration sensor; a display section; a touch panel; and a controller, wherein the controller sets the display section and the touch panel to ON and enables screen operation when the controller sets the display section and the touch panel to OFF and timing of sound which is collected by the microphone and timing of moving which is detected by the acceleration sensor match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventor: Hiroyuki ASAHARA
  • Patent number: 10149053
    Abstract: To resolve volume shortage of middle and high band of speaker reproduction sound. A DSP 4 performs LPF processing to extract low frequency component of an audio signal to which the first volume processing is performed, DRC processing to compress the audio signal to which the LPF processing is performed in case that the audio signal to which the LPF processing is performed is not less than a predetermined signal level, HPF processing to extract high frequency component of the audio signal to which the first volume processing is performed, second volume processing to attenuate the audio signal to which the HPF processing is performed based on the volume value that is received, and synthesis processing to synthesize the audio signal to which the DRC processing is performed and the audio signal to which the second volume processing is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Onkyo Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Kurosaki, Tsuyoshi Kawaguchi, Yoshinori Nakanishi, Hiroyuki Asahara, Norimasa Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20180041836
    Abstract: To resolve volume shortage of middle and high band of speaker reproduction sound. A DSP 4 performs LPF processing to extract low frequency component of an audio signal to which the first volume processing is performed, DRC processing to compress the audio signal to which the LPF processing is performed in case that the audio signal to which the LPF processing is performed is not less than a predetermined signal level, HPF processing to extract high frequency component of the audio signal to which the first volume processing is performed, second volume processing to attenuate the audio signal to which the HPF processing is performed based on the volume value that is received, and synthesis processing to synthesize the audio signal to which the DRC processing is performed and the audio signal to which the second volume processing is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroki KUROSAKI, Tsuyoshi KAWAGUCHI, Yoshinori NAKANISHI, Hiroyuki ASAHARA, Norimasa KITAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9762197
    Abstract: To realize active control ground that sets inverted output of an amplification circuit to ground with simple configuration. A DAP 1 comprises a positive side DAC 7 that D/A-converts digital audio data into analog audio data, a positive side amplification circuit 9 that amplifies the analog audio data that the DAC 7 D/A-converts, a negative side DAC 8 that D/A-converts the digital audio data into the analog audio data, and a negative side amplification circuit 10 that amplifies the analog audio data that the DAC 8 D/A-converts, and a CPU 2. The CPU 2 mutes the DAC 8 in case of an ACG mode that sets output of the amplification circuit 10 to ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: ONKYO Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Asao, Tsuyoshi Kawaguchi, Makoto Yoshida, Takanori Shiozaki, Yoshinori Nakanishi, Hiroyuki Asahara, Norimasa Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 9712919
    Abstract: To reduce signal output and wiring to a D/A converter (DAC). A DAP 1 comprises a DAC 7 that D/A-converts LR 2 channels digital audio data into LR 2 channels analog audio data, an amplification circuit 9 that amplifies the LR 2 channels analog audio data that the DAC 7 D/A-converts, a DAC 8 that D/A-converts the LR 2 channels digital audio data into the LR 2 channels analog audio data, and an amplification circuit 10 that amplifies inverted LR 2 channels analog audio data that the LR 2 channels analog audio data that the DAC 8 D/A-converts is inverted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Onkyo Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Asao, Tsuyoshi Kawaguchi, Makoto Yoshida, Takanori Shiozaki, Yoshinori Nakanishi, Hiroyuki Asahara, Norimasa Kitagawa
  • Patent number: D794164
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunaga Suzuki, Hiroyuki Asahara, Naoki Shinjo
  • Patent number: D888774
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Asahara