Patents by Inventor Kenji Okamura

Kenji Okamura 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: 20230074375
    Abstract: An automatic control determination unit determines whether to start automatic dumping control. A dumping control unit generates a first command to rotate a bucket in a dump direction until an inclination of the bucket reaches a predetermined dumping completion angle upon determining to start the automatic dumping control. The dumping control unit generates a second command to rotate a boom in a raising direction during a period until the inclination of the bucket reaches the dumping completion angle from an inclination at the time of start of the automatic dumping control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Ryuta OKUWAKI, Takeshi OI, Kenji OKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10218099
    Abstract: A board connector (10) includes a receptacle (20) fittable to a mating connector and fixing members (60) for fixing the receptacle (20) to a circuit board (90). The receptacle (20) is in the form of a rectangular tube and has a pair of side walls (21) facing each other in a width direction and a bottom wall (22) and a ceiling wall (23) facing each other in a height direction. At least either the side walls (21) or the bottom wall (22) include(s) mounting recesses (31) for mounting the fixing members (60) within a wall thickness between an inner side surface and an outer side surface of the receptacle (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Liping Kang, Kenji Okamura
  • Publication number: 20170294725
    Abstract: A board connector (10) includes a receptacle (20) fittable to a mating connector and fixing members (60) for fixing the receptacle (20) to a circuit board (90). The receptacle (20) is in the form of a rectangular tube and has a pair of side walls (21) facing each other in a width direction and a bottom wall (22) and a ceiling wall (23) facing each other in a height direction. At least either the side walls (21) or the bottom wall (22) include(s) mounting recesses (31) for mounting the fixing members (60) within a wall thickness between an inner side surface and an outer side surface of the receptacle (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Liping Kang, Kenji Okamura
  • Patent number: 9774116
    Abstract: A board connector includes a plate-like fixing member (30) to be mounted in a housing (10) and including a board fixing portion (31) to be fixed to a circuit board (100) by solder. At least the board fixing portion (31) of the fixing member includes a plurality of plate pieces (38A, 38B) arranged to face each other in a plate thickness direction. Plating layers (46) are formed on plate surfaces of the plate pieces (38A, 38B) and plating drip layers (43) continuous with the plating layers (46) are formed on end surfaces of the plate pieces (38A, 38B) intersecting with the plate surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRINF SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Liping Kang, Kenji Okamura, Mitsugu Furutani
  • Publication number: 20170162961
    Abstract: A board connector includes a plate-like fixing member (30) to be mounted in a housing (10) and including a board fixing portion (31) to be fixed to a circuit board (100) by solder. At least the board fixing portion (31) of the fixing member includes a plurality of plate pieces (38A, 38B) arranged to face each other in a plate thickness direction. Plating layers (46) are formed on plate surfaces of the plate pieces (38A, 38B) and plating drip layers (43) continuous with the plating layers (46) are formed on end surfaces of the plate pieces (38A, 38B) intersecting with the plate surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Liping Kang, Kenji Okamura, Mitsugu Furutani
  • Patent number: 9109345
    Abstract: A controller constituting a construction machine includes: a target value computing unit that generates a speed target value of a boom based on a lever manipulating signal; a target value correcting unit that corrects the speed target value; and a command signal output unit that outputs a command signal to a boom driving device based on the corrected speed target value. The target value correcting unit includes: a motion information acquiring unit that acquires motion information on a motion of an arm; a maximum value determining unit that determines based on the motion information a maximum correction value for reducing suppression of a floating motion by a floating motion suppressing unit as the motion of the arm becomes faster; and a correction value regulating unit that corrects the speed target value based on the maximum correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Okamura, Masashi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 9054474
    Abstract: A wire harness capable of forming a short circuit by use of a plurality of electric wires and a joint connector while being slenderized and reduced in weight. The wire harness includes a plurality of circuit modules each forming a short circuit. Each of the circuit modules, includes a plurality of electric wires, and a plurality of external-connection connectors, connected to respective first ends of the electric wires, and a joint connector, connected to respective second ends of the electric wires to short-circuit the electric wires. The electric wires constituting the circuit modules are bundled together so that the joint connector of each of the circuit modules is discretely disposed so as to be located in a vicinity of at least one of the external-connection connectors included in the circuit module, around which electric wires a binding tape is wound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Omori, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Tatsuo Tamagawa, Motohiro Yokoi, Kenji Okamura, Takeshi Tsuji, Toshifumi Ichio, Toshio Shimizu, Takayuki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20150113803
    Abstract: A wire harness capable of forming a short circuit by use of a plurality of electric wires and a joint connector while being slenderized and reduced in weight. The wire harness includes a plurality of circuit modules each forming a short circuit. Each of the circuit modules, includes a plurality of electric wires, and a plurality of external-connection connectors, connected to respective first ends of the electric wires, and a joint connector, connected to respective second ends of the electric wires to short-circuit the electric wires. The electric wires constituting the circuit modules are bundled together so that the joint connector of each of the circuit modules is discretely disposed so as to be located in a vicinity of at least one of the external-connection connectors included in the circuit module, around which electric wires a binding tape is wound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicants: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo OMORI, Hiroki HIRAI, Tetsuji TANAKA, Tatsuo TAMAGAWA, Motohiro YOKOI, Kenji OKAMURA, Takeshi TSUJI, Toshifumi ICHIO, Toshio SHIMIZU, Takayuki SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 8930090
    Abstract: A construction machine includes: a working equipment; a manipulating unit that manipulates the working equipment; and a controller that controls the working equipment. The controller includes: a rolling compaction determining unit that determines whether or not the working equipment is under a rolling compaction operation for hardening earth and sand through reciprocation; and a command output regulating unit that controls the working equipment so that a motion speed of the working equipment does not exceed a predetermined maximum value when the rolling compaction determining unit determines that the working equipment is under the rolling compaction operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Okamura, Masashi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 8524422
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a low expansion glass substrate which serves as a substrate of a reflective mask used in a lithography step of semiconductor production steps, wherein two side surfaces positioned to face each other among side surfaces formed along a periphery of the low expansion glass substrate, each have a flatness of 25 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kenji Okamura, Masabumi Ito, Hiroshi Kojima
  • Patent number: 8471169
    Abstract: Provided is an electrode (1) which has a double structure including Cu or a Cu alloy as an electrode body (2) and a core material (3) made of W, Mo, a W-based alloy, or a Mo-based alloy embedded in a surface of the electrode body (2) which is abutted against a material to be welded, the core material (3) being formed by using W, Mo, the W-based alloy, or the Mo-based alloy which is in the form of a fibrous structure extended by sintering, swaging, and annealing in an electrode axis direction, the fibrous structure having a horizontal cross-sectional average particle diameter of 50 ?m or more and an aspect ratio of 1.5 or more. The electrode (1) can be used as an inexpensive electrode obtained by suppressing particle dropping/attrition and defects in electrodes for spot welding, in which heat and pressure are applied repeatedly, stably enhancing durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignees: Nippon Tungsten Co., Ltd., Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Mukae, Kenji Okamura, Shuichi Teramoto, Jun Kurobe, Hiroshi Asada, Shouji Inoue, Shigeo Matsubara
  • Patent number: 8460843
    Abstract: A glass substrate obtained by a method including measuring flatness of a glass substrate surface and measuring concentration distribution of dopant in the substrate. Processing conditions of the surface are set up for each site of the substrate based on results from the measuring the flatness and the measuring the distribution, and the finishing is carried out while keeping an angle formed by normal line of the substrate and incident beam onto the surface at from 30 to 89°. The surface is subjected to second finishing for improving an RMS in a high spatial frequency region. The surface after the second finishing satisfies the requirements: an RMS slope in the region that 5 ?m<? (spatial wavelength)<1 mm is not more than 0.5 mRad and an RMS slope in the region that 250 nm<? (spatial wavelength)<5 ?m is not more than 0.6 mRad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Koji Otsuka, Kenji Okamura
  • Patent number: 8442730
    Abstract: A controller of a construction machine includes a target command value computing unit generating a speed target command value for normal motion of a working equipment based on a manipulating signal, a target command value correcting unit correcting the command value, and a command signal output unit outputting a command signal to a driving device based on the corrected speed target command value. The target command value correcting unit includes a vibration suppressing unit generating a speed target command value for vibration suppression to suppress generation of vibrations in the working equipment based on the command value, a peak value recognizing unit recognizing a peak value of the command value based on the command value sequentially generated by the target command value computing unit, and a target command value compositing unit compositing the command values according to the peak value to correct the command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Okamura, Masashi Ichihara
  • Patent number: 8430700
    Abstract: An electric wire with a terminal connector includes an electric wire and a female terminal connector crimped onto a core wire exposed at the electric wire. A female terminal connector has a wire barrel having a surface to be applied to the core wire. The surface has a plurality of recesses formed therein. Each recess has an opening edge. The opening edge of the recess includes first opening edges that are parallel to each other. The first opening edges are arranged to overlap with each other in the extending direction of the electric wire so that the first opening edges are present over the entire length of all over the plurality of the recesses on the crimping portion in the extending direction of the electric wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Ono, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Shimoda, Takuji Otsuka, Masaaki Tabata, Kenji Okamura, Kazuhiro Aoki, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Takahito Nakashima
  • Patent number: 8425266
    Abstract: An electric wire with a terminal connector includes an electric wire and a female terminal connector crimped onto a core wire exposed at the electric wire. A female terminal connector has a wire barrel having a surface to be applied to the core wire. The surface has a plurality of recesses formed therein. Each recess has an opening edge. The opening edge of the recess includes first opening edges that are parallel to each other. The space between the recesses adjacent to each other in the extending direction of the first opening edge is set narrower than the space between the recesses adjacent to each other in the extending direction of the electric wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems I, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Ono, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Shimoda, Takuji Otsuka, Masaaki Tabata, Kenji Okamura, Kazuhiro Aoki, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Takahito Nakashima
  • Patent number: 8337262
    Abstract: An electric wire with a terminal connector includes an electric wire and a female terminal connector crimped onto a core wire exposed at the electric wire. A female terminal connector has a wire barrel having a surface to be applied to the core wire. The surface has a plurality of recesses formed therein. Each recess has a parallelogram-shaped opening edge. The opening edge of the recess includes a pair of first opening edges that are parallel to each other and a pair of second opening edges that are parallel to each other and different from the first opening edges. The recesses are spaced in the extending direction of the first opening edges and are spaced in the extending direction of the second opening edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Ono, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Shimoda, Takuji Otsuka, Masaaki Tabata, Kenji Okamura, Kazuhiro Aoki, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Takahito Nakashima
  • Patent number: 8303355
    Abstract: Rims of an opening of each recess form a parallelogram, and comprise two first opening rims that are parallel to a first direction and two second opening rims that are parallel to a second direction. The first opening rims of each of the recesses that are aligned along the first direction are arranged on a straight line along the first direction. The second opening rims of each of the recesses that are aligned along the second direction are arranged on a straight line along the second direction. The recesses are formed by pressing a wire barrel with a die where a plurality of protruding parts are formed so as to correspond to the recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Ono, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Shimoda, Takuji Otsuka, Kenji Okamura, Masaaki Tabata
  • Publication number: 20120228024
    Abstract: A wire harness capable of forming a short circuit by use of a plurality of electric wires and a joint connector while being slenderized and reduced in weight. The wire harness includes a plurality of circuit modules each forming a short circuit. Each of the circuit modules, includes a plurality of electric wires, and a plurality of external-connection connectors, connected to respective first ends of the electric wires, and a joint connector, connected to respective second ends of the electric wires to short-circuit the electric wires. The electric wires constituting the circuit modules are bundled together so that the joint connector of each of the circuit modules is discretely disposed so as to be located in a vicinity of at least one of the external-connection connectors included in the circuit module, around which electric wires a binding tape is wound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Omori, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Tatsuo Tamagawa, Motohiro Yokoi, Kenji Okamura, Takeshi Tsuji, Toshifumi Ichio, Toshio Shimizu, Takayuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8246394
    Abstract: A plurality of recesses are formed on a surface of a wire barrel where an electric wire is provided. In a state before the electric wire is crimped onto the wire, barrel, at least one of sides comprising rims of an opening of each recess of a quadrangular shape is a crossing side crossing at an angle of from 85 degrees to 95 degrees to an extending direction. In a state before the electric wire is crimped onto the wire barrel 16, the crossing sides of a plurality of recesses positioned adjacent to each other in the extending direction are so arranged as to overlap with each other in the extending direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Ono, Hiroki Hirai, Tetsuji Tanaka, Hiroki Shimoda, Takuji Otsuka, Kenji Okamura, Masaaki Tabata
  • Patent number: 8177591
    Abstract: A terminal fitting 10 includes a main body 20 to be coupled to a mating conductor, and a crimp contact section 30 rearward from the main body 20. The crimp contact section 30 is crimped on an end of a core wire 42 in a covered electrical cable 40 so as to surround the end. The core wire 42 includes a plurality of metallic strands 41 and is covered with a sheath 43 to form the covered electrical cable 40. Serrations 34 are provided on a contact surface of the crimp contact section 30 for surrounding the core wire 42. Each serration 34 is a polygonal shaped recess with which the core wire 42 engages upon crimping. Both diagonal corner portions 34C of each serration 34 are rounded. Thus, the whole periphery of an opening edge around the recess penetrates an oxide layer on a core wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Okamura, Masaaki Tabata