Patents by Inventor Keiichi Kondo

Keiichi Kondo 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: 9670356
    Abstract: A matrix material for a carbon fiber-reinforced composite comprises a matrix resin as a resin component. The matrix resin contains both a first epoxy resin and a second epoxy resin or only the first epoxy resin, further contains a third epoxy resin, and has an average epoxy equivalent weight of 109 to 162. The first epoxy resin contains a polyfunctional glycidylamine-type epoxy resin. The second epoxy resin contains at least one of a p-aminophenol-type epoxy resin and a tetramethylbiphenol-type solid epoxy resin. The third epoxy resin contains a bisphenol A-type epoxy resin having a weight-average molecular weight of 8000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., FUKUI PREFECTURAL GOVERNMENT
    Inventors: Shuichiro Yoshida, Keiichi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20160369381
    Abstract: A seamless steel pipe has a yield strength of 400 MPa or less and excellent HIC resistance. The seamless steel pipe includes: a chemical composition consisting, in mass %, of, C: 0.01 to 0.20%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.3 to 2.0%, P: 0.02% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: 0.02 to 0.2%, sol.Al: 0.001 to 0.100%, O: 0.0050% or less, N: 0.0100% or less, Ca: 0 to 0.0050%, Ti: 0 to 0.012%, and Nb: 0 to 0.012%, the balance being Fe and impurities; and a structure consisting, in area ratio, of 10 to 50% of ferrite and 0 to less than 5% of pearlite, the balance being tempered bainite and/or tempered martensite, and the number of inclusions each having a grain diameter of 50 mm or more is not more than 15 per 100 mm2, and the seamless steel pipe has a yield strength of 400 MPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi KONDO, Yuji ARAI, Kenji KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160168371
    Abstract: A matrix material for a carbon fiber-reinforced composite comprises a matrix resin as a resin component. The matrix resin contains both a first epoxy resin and a second epoxy resin or only the first epoxy resin, further contains a third epoxy resin, and has an average epoxy equivalent weight of 109 to 162. The first epoxy resin contains a polyfunctional glycidylamine-type epoxy resin. The second epoxy resin contains at least one of a p-aminophenol-type epoxy resin and a tetramethylbiphenol-type solid epoxy resin. The third epoxy resin contains a bisphenol A-type epoxy resin having a weight-average molecular weight of 8000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Shuichiro Yoshida, Keiichi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20160160307
    Abstract: Low-alloy oil-well steel pipe includes a composition consisting, in mass %, of C: 0.40 to 0.65%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.10 to 1.00%, P: 0.020% or less, S: 0.0020% or less, Cu: 0.15% or less, Cr: 0.40 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.50 to 2.50%, V: 0.05 to 0.25%, Ti: 0 to less than 0.01%, Nb: 0.01 to 0.2%, sol.Al: 0.010 to 0.100%, N: 0.006% or less, B: 0 to 0.0015%, and Ca: 0 to 0.003%, the balance being Fe and impurities. The structure has tempered martensite and 0 to less than 2% volume ratio of retained austenite. A grain size number of prior-austenite grain in the structure is 9.0 or more. An equivalent circular diameter of a sub-structure surrounded by a boundary having a crystal orientation difference of 15° or more from a packet boundary, a block boundary and a lath boundary is 3 ?m or less for the tempered martensite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Yuji ARAI, Tomohiko OMURA, Keiichi KONDO
  • Publication number: 20160039185
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a laminated molded body in which a thin fiber reinforced layer is laminated and having a favorable strength characteristic. The laminated molded body (1) includes a laminated portion (a laminated portion of SR1 on an upper side and SR1, for example) in which fiber reinforced layers SR1 to SRn, each having a thickness of 20 to 80 ?m in which a reinforcing fiber material is dispersed in a thermosetting resin material which serves as a matrix, are laminated, and a laminated portion in which a resin layer is laminated between the fiber reinforced layers (a laminated portion of SR2 on the upper side, TP1, and SR3, for example).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: FUKUI PREFECTURAL GOVERNMENT
    Inventors: Kazumasa KAWABE, Hideki SASAYAMA, Keiichi KONDO
  • Publication number: 20150247226
    Abstract: The low alloy steel for oil country tubular goods according to the present invention has a chemical composition containing, by mass percent, C: 0.56 to 1.00%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.00%, P: at most 0.025%, S: at most 0.010%, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Mo: 0.40 to 1.00%, V: 0.05 to 0.30%, and O: at most 0.010%, the balance being Fe and impurities, wherein the yield stress thereof is at least 862 MPa, and the half-value width of a [211] crystal surface obtained by X-ray diffraction is at most 0.50°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Tomohiko Omura, Yuji Arai, Kaori Kawano, Akihiro Sakamoto, Kazuo Okamura, Kenji Yamamoto, Keiichi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20150174836
    Abstract: A method for producing a molded article of a fiber-reinforced plastic include molding a fiber-resin mixture containing an inorganic reinforcing fiber and a thermosetting resin under heat and pressure. The elapsed time since the thermosetting resin reached a molding temperature at which a hardening reaction proceeds is measured, the loss angle ? of the thermosetting resin is measured in a dynamic viscoelasticity measurement, and the relationship between the elapsed time and the loss angle ? is evaluated to calculate the range of the elapsed time, within which the loss angle ? is 0.55 to 1.57 rad after the loss angle ? reached the maximum value, as the pressurization start range. The fiber-resin mixture is heated to the molding temperature and pressure application to the fiber-resin mixture is started within the pressurization start range, to obtain the molded article of the fiber-reinforced plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Shuichiro Yoshida, Keiichi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20150114527
    Abstract: A steel for oil country tubular goods includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %, C, Si, Mn, Al, Mo, P, S, O, N, and a balance containing Fe and impurities, wherein a full width at half maximum HW of a crystal plane corresponding to a (211) crystal plane of an ? phase and a carbon content expressed in mass % in the chemical composition satisfy HW×C1/2?0.38, the carbon content and a molybdenum content expressed in mass % in the chemical composition satisfy C×Mo?0.6, a number of M2C carbides having a hexagonal crystal structure and having an equivalent circle diameter of 1 nm or more is 5 pieces or more per one square micron, and an yield strength is 758 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Tomohiko Omura, Yuji Arai, Kaori Kawano, Akihiro Sakamoto, Kazuo Okamura, Kenji Yamamoto, Keiichi Kondo, Koji Nagahashi, Masanao Seo
  • Publication number: 20150041030
    Abstract: A steel has a chemical composition consisting of, by mass percent, C: 0.15-0.65%, Si: 0.05-0.5%, Mn: 0.1-1.5%, Cr: 0.2-1.5%, Mo: 0.1-2.5%, Ti: 0.005-0.50%, Al: 0.001-0.50%, and optionally at least one element selected from Nb: ?0.4%, V: ?0.5%, and B: ?0.01%, Ca: ?0.005° A, Mg: ?0.005%, and REM: ?0.005%, and the balance of Fe and impurities, wherein Ni, P, S, N and O as impurities are Ni: ?0.1%, P: ?0.04%, S: ?0.01%, N: ?0.01%, and O: ?0.01%. The steel is hot-worked into a shape and then sequentially subjected to heating the steel to a temperature exceeding the Ac1 transformation point and lower than the Ac3 transformation point and cooling. Then, a step of reheating the steel to a temperature not lower than the Ac3 transformation point and quenching the steel by rapid cooling, and a step of tempering the steel at a temperature not higher than the Ac1 transformation point are performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Keiichi Kondo, Yuji Arai
  • Patent number: 8696834
    Abstract: A method for suppressing shock and storage cracking when manufacturing seamless steel pipes comprises hot piercing and hot rolling a billet consisting of, by mass percent controlled amounts of C, Si, Mn, Cr, Mo, Ti, and Al, with the balance being Fe and impurities of Ni, P, S, N, and O also in controlled amounts. Further heat treatment is performed, wherein a hot rolled steel pipe is direct quenched from a temperature of not lower than the Ar3 transformation point and the pipe is then subjected to heat treatment at a temperature of not lower than 450° C. and not higher than the Ac1 transformation point in heat treatment equipment for performing direct quenching. The steel pipe subjected to the heat treatment is reheated, quenched from a temperature of not lower than the Ac3 transformation point, and tempered at a temperature of not higher than the Ac1 transformation point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Kondo, Toshiharu Abe, Kunio Kondo, Yuichi Yano, Yuji Arai
  • Publication number: 20130331474
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition for light scattering layer for use in forming a light scattering layer of an organic EL device, including: a binder composition including at least one type of resin (A); and light scattering particles (B). In a resin composition for light scattering layer of the invention, the light scattering particles (B) have an average particle diameter of 200 nm to 500 nm in the resin composition and have a content of 20 vol % or less of particles with a particle diameter of 600 nm or more with respect to a total amount of the light scattering particles (B); and a refractive index difference between the binder composition and the light scattering particles (B) is 0.1 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Kana Kida, Tohru Iwata, Jiro Chisaka, Akira Hirano, Keiichi Kondo
  • Patent number: 8459313
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] A gas fuel vehicle capable of detecting a gas leakage on the back side of a fuel fill port (inside of a vehicle body) extremely easily is provided. [Means for Solving the Problem] The gas fuel vehicle includes: a gas filling port that receives a supply of a gas fuel from a fuel supply device on the outside of a vehicle body; a communicating hole that connects the inside of the vehicle body and the outside of the vehicle body; a shielding member that shields the fuel fill port and the communicating hole from the outside of the vehicle body; and a gas fuel storage unit that stores the gas fuel supplied from the fuel supply device through the fuel fill port. A rod portion of a gas leakage detector is inserted into the communicating hole from the outside of the vehicle body, thereby detecting a gas leakage inside the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Iida, Keiichi Kondo
  • Patent number: 8408600
    Abstract: A tank mounting technique of the invention effectively responds to a variation in size of a high-pressure tank T in its longitudinal direction and allows positioning of the high-pressure tank T around its longitudinal axis. A tank receiving recess 110 provided below a vehicle platform F has a pair of a front inclined surface 112F and a rear inclined surface 112R arranged to face each other across a concave groove 114. A side face of the high pressure tank T is brought into contact with both the inclined surfaces 112F and 112R. An end face of a tank positioning groove TVS formed on the high pressure tank T is brought into contact with a contact structure 121 of a tank edge bracket 120. This arrangement enables the high-pressure tank T to be positioned in a vehicle vertical direction and a vehicle front-back direction, as well as in the tank longitudinal direction (in a vehicle width direction).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiichi Kondo, Toshikazu Ito
  • Publication number: 20120042992
    Abstract: A method for suppressing shock and storage cracking when manufacturing seamless steel pipes comprises hot piercing and hot rolling a billet consisting of, by mass percent controlled amounts of C, Si, Mn, Cr, Mo, Ti, and Al, with the balance being Fe and impurities of Ni, P, S, N, and O also in controlled amounts. Further heat treatment is performed, wherein a hot rolled steel pipe is direct quenched from a temperature of not lower than the Ar3 transformation point and the pipe is then subjected to heat treatment at a temperature of not lower than 450° C. and not higher than the Ac1 transformation point in heat treatment equipment for performing direct quenching. The steel pipe subjected to the heat treatment is reheated, quenched from a temperature of not lower than the Ac3 transformation point, and tempered at a temperature of not higher than the Ac1 transformation point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi KONDO, Toshiharu ABE, Kunio KONDO, Yuichi YANO, Yuji ARAI
  • Patent number: 7946602
    Abstract: A stabilizer configured to connect suspension devices situated right and left of an automobile, the stabilizer is characterized in that the stabilizer extends below a suspension member where a steering device of the automobile is fixed; at a side of the suspension member, the stabilizer extends above a lower arm and toward a front of the automobile; and the stabilizer is connected to the suspension devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimatani, Satoshi Murata, Seiji Sakai, Masao Tajima, Makoto Kobayashi, Keiichi Kondo, Shinji Iwasa, Kimihiro Kuji
  • Publication number: 20100206427
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] A gas fuel vehicle capable of detecting a gas leakage on the back side of a fuel fill port (inside of a vehicle body) extremely easily is provided. [Means for Solving the Problem] The gas fuel vehicle includes: a gas filling port that receives a supply of a gas fuel from a fuel supply device on the outside of a vehicle body; a communicating hole that connects the inside of the vehicle body and the outside of the vehicle body; a shielding member that shields the fuel fill port and the communicating hole from the outside of the vehicle body; and a gas fuel storage unit that stores the gas fuel supplied from the fuel supply device through the fuel fill port. A rod portion of a gas leakage detector is inserted into the communicating hole from the outside of the vehicle body, thereby detecting a gas leakage inside the vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Iida, Keiichi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20100045018
    Abstract: A tank mounting technique of the invention effectively responds to a variation in size of a high-pressure tank T in its longitudinal direction and allows positioning of the high-pressure tank T around its longitudinal axis. A tank receiving recess 110 provided below a vehicle platform F has a pair of a front inclined surface 112F and a rear inclined surface 112R arranged to face each other across a concave groove 114. A side face of the high pressure tank T is brought into contact with both the inclined surfaces 112F and 112R. An end face of a tank positioning groove TVS formed on the high pressure tank T is brought into contact with a contact structure 121 of a tank edge bracket 120. This arrangement enables the high-pressure tank T to be positioned in a vehicle vertical direction and a vehicle front-back direction, as well as in the tank longitudinal direction (in a vehicle width direction).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Keiichi Kondo, Toshikazu Ito
  • Publication number: 20090160155
    Abstract: A stabilizer configured to connect suspension devices situated right and left of an automobile, the stabilizer is characterized in that the stabilizer extends below a suspension member where a steering device of the automobile is fixed; at a side of the suspension member, the stabilizer extends above a lower arm and toward a front of the automobile; and the stabilizer is connected to the suspension devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2006
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimatami, Satoshi Murata, Seiji Sakai, Masao Tajima, Makoto Kobayashi, Keiichi Kondo, Shinji Iwasa, Kimihiro Kuji
  • Patent number: 7394648
    Abstract: Provided are an electric double-layer capacitor which can have a reduced internal resistance and an improved withstand voltage with a simple structure, and a method for manufacturing the capacitor. The electric double-layer capacitor uses an alloy of carbon and aluminum as a material of the electrode. The electrode is formed by applying carbon to an aluminum foil and heating the aluminum foil with carbon thereon to a temperature at which the aluminum foil and the carbon are alloyed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Kondo, Hideki Shimamoto
  • Patent number: 7338128
    Abstract: A seat back lock is included in a seat back of a vehicle. A knob is provided at the top of the seat back. A passenger in the vehicle pushes down the knob to cause the seat back to move from a standing position to a folding position on a seat. In the standing position, a striker extending from the body of the vehicle engages with a hook of the seat back lock. The seat back lock comprises a binding lever and a warning lever connected to the knob. Whenever the strike engages with the hook, the binding lever directly contacts the striker. If the striker incompletely engages with or disengages from the hook, the knob is pulled down by the warning lever to expose an indicator to permit the passenger to visually recognize it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Inoue, Hiroshi Morinaga, Masahito Minoura, Shinji Suzuki, Keiichi Kondo