Patents by Inventor Kentaro Adachi
Kentaro Adachi 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).
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Patent number: 11951695Abstract: Provided are methods for producing a fiber-reinforced plastic having high mechanical properties and high productivity during molding of a complicated shape. In one aspect, the method produces a fiber-reinforced plastic using a tape substrate A and a sheet substrate B, the tape substrate A being a tape-shaped substrate including one or more sheets of incised prepreg a; the incised prepreg a being a prepreg including unidirectionally oriented reinforcing fibers and a resin and having a plurality of incisions dividing the reinforcing fibers formed in the prepreg, and satisfying the following condition 1; the sheet substrate B being a substrate including randomly oriented reinforcing fibers and a resin.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yuzo Fujita, Kentaro Adachi, Takuya Karaki
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Patent number: 11926129Abstract: A prepreg laminate is provided which includes: a woven fabric prepreg on at least one surface layer; and a discontinuous fiber prepreg; the woven fabric prepreg including reinforcing fibers R1 having a woven structure, and a thermosetting resin A, the discontinuous fiber prepreg including unidirectionally oriented discontinuous reinforcing fibers R2 and a thermosetting resin B, the thermosetting resin A and the thermosetting resin B satisfying the following calorific value condition: calorific value condition: when each of the thermosetting resin A and the thermosetting resin B is heated using a differential scanning calorimeter from 50° C. to 130° C. at 700° C./min under a nitrogen atmosphere followed by retention at 130° C.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Kentaro Adachi, Yuzo Fujita, Takuya Karaki
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Patent number: 11926111Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced plastic composite containing a fiber-reinforced plastic part having a plate-like portion and a rib protruding from one surface of the plate-like portion, and a metal part, having an average thickness of 0.5-3.0 mm, laminated on part of or all of the plate-like portion of the fiber-reinforced plastic part, comprising: a lamination step for stacking a plurality of incised prepreg layers as a plurality of sheets of base material to form a base laminate, each prepreg layer containing unidirectionally oriented fibers and resin, and a plurality of incisions crossing the fibers, a base material heating step for heating the base laminate, and a molding step for integrating the base laminate and the metal part by pressing them between a rib molding member having a recessed portion for forming a rib and a skin molding member free of such a recessed portion in a pressing device.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yuzo Fujita, Takuya Karaki, Kentaro Adachi
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Publication number: 20240067219Abstract: A method for controlling a mobile vehicle comprises the steps of selecting a control mode for autonomous driving of the mobile vehicle and transmitting information on the selected control mode to the mobile vehicle. The control mode includes a first mode and a second mode of which a restriction on a driving safety is stricter than that of the first mode. The step of selecting the control mode comprises the steps of determining whether a remote support for the mobile vehicle is required, and selecting the first mode as the control mode when it is determined that the remote support is not required whereas selecting the second mode as the control mode when it is determined that the remote support is required.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Narihito YAMAZATO, Kentaro ICHIKAWA, Maiko HIRANO, Yoshitaka ADACHI, Koji TAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240059031Abstract: A prepreg laminate is described that is a fiber-reinforced plastic material having high rigidity, lightweight properties and excellent moldability, where the prepreg laminate is obtained by a prepreg (A), in which non-continuous reinforcing fibers are impregnated with a thermosetting resin or thermoplastic resin, and a prepreg (B), in which non-continuous reinforcing fibers are impregnated with a thermoplastic resin, being laminated adjacent to each other, and by the prepreg (A) being disposed on at least one surface, at least some combinations of the prepreg (A) and the prepreg (B) adjacent to each other forming an overlap region that satisfies at least one of the requirements (1) and (2) as defined.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Kentaro Adachi, Masato Honma, Hiroaki Matsutani
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Patent number: 11872773Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a fiber-reinforced plastic having high mechanical properties and high productivity during molding of a complicated shape.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Kentaro Adachi, Yuzo Fujita, Takuya Karaki
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Patent number: 11862115Abstract: A circuit device is used in a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display panel and a backlight including a plurality of light sources. The plurality of light sources are respectively provided corresponding to a plurality of areas of the display panel. The circuit device includes a light amount abnormality detection circuit, a dimming circuit, and a color correction circuit. The light amount abnormality detection circuit detects a light amount abnormality of the light source. The dimming circuit performs light amount compensation processing of compensating for a light amount of an area corresponding to an abnormal light source by adjusting a light amount of a light source other than the abnormal light source that is a light source in which the light amount abnormality is detected.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventors: Kentaro Adachi, Kumar Anandabairavasamy Anand
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Patent number: 11780309Abstract: A door weather strip includes at least an exterior installation base member installed on a door frame or a door molding, and a seal lip that is formed protruding and extending above and outside in a vehicle width direction from the exterior installation base member and elastically comes into contact with a vehicle body opening peripheral edge when a door is closed, in which a hard portion that is harder than a seal lip main body portion constituting the seal lip is formed between a tip of the seal lip and a root portion between the seal lip and the exterior installation base member and on the vehicle body opening peripheral edge side.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinnosuke Hamada, Yoshinobu Yamada, Kentaro Adachi, Yasuyuki Kinoshita
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Publication number: 20230302687Abstract: A fiber-reinforced plastic capable of coping with a more complicated shape while maintaining lightweight properties and mechanical properties is provided, where a thermoplastic prepreg is obtained by impregnating a discontinuous reinforcing fiber web impregnated with a thermoplastic resin, the thermoplastic prepreg satisfying at least one of the following features (A) or (B): feature (A): a plurality of incisions cutting at least a part of discontinuous reinforcing fibers constituting the discontinuous reinforcing fiber web; and feature (B): a fiber length variation region in which a coefficient of variation in fiber length of the discontinuous reinforcing fibers constituting the discontinuous reinforcing fiber web is 40% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Kentaro Adachi, Terumasa Tsuda, Kota Kawahara, Masato Honma, Hiroaki Matsutani
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Publication number: 20230245628Abstract: A circuit device is used in a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display panel and a backlight including a plurality of light sources. The plurality of light sources are respectively provided corresponding to a plurality of areas of the display panel. The circuit device includes a light amount abnormality detection circuit, a dimming circuit, and a color correction circuit. The light amount abnormality detection circuit detects a light amount abnormality of the light source. The dimming circuit performs light amount compensation processing of compensating for a light amount of an area corresponding to an abnormal light source by adjusting a light amount of a light source other than the abnormal light source that is a light source in which the light amount abnormality is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Kentaro ADACHI, Kumar Anandabairavasamy ANAND
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Patent number: 11642949Abstract: Window seals can be configured to divert water away from an area of the vehicle where the presence of water is not desired, such as a door latch. A window seal can include a first body member and a second body member. The first body member can include a main body and a lip extending from the main body. The lip can include an upper end and a lower end. The second body member can be angled relative to the first body member. The second body member can include a liquid diverter that has a collector portion in fluid communication with a gutter portion. The collector portion can include an inlet opening. The inlet opening can be operatively positioned to receive a liquid from the lower end of the lip, and the gutter portion can route the liquid away from undesired areas.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kashif Zia, Kentaro Adachi, Ruben Vazquez
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Patent number: 11482756Abstract: A gas vent duct includes a lower case, an upper case, and a valve element. The valve element includes a shaft at its upper part and pivots on the shaft from a blocking position so that the gas vent pathway communicates with the outside of the vehicle compartment. The blocking position is a position in which the valve element blocks the ventilation pathway. The lower case includes a support supporting the shaft so that the valve element is pivotable. The support covers the shaft from above. A recess is defined by a portion of the inner surface of the upper case that is located above the support, the recess being recessed upward. When the recess and the support are seen from above, at least a part of the support is located within the recess.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Isao Takahashi, Kentaro Adachi
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Publication number: 20220315718Abstract: An object is to provide an incised prepreg having desired formability stably, wherein the incised prepreg contains unidirectionally oriented reinforcing fibers and matrix resin and has an incised region containing a plurality of incisions made to divide reinforcing fibers, wherein the incised region includes a plurality of incision rows, each containing a plurality of incisions having nearly equal fiber-directionally projected lengths and aligned at substantially constant intervals in the fiber direction and wherein the distance L1, measured at right angles to the fiber direction, between two incision rows located on either side of an arbitrarily selected incision row and the fiber-directionally projected length L2 of the latter incision row satisfy the following relation: ?1.0<L1/L2<0.5.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yuta Naito, Kentaro Adachi, Hiroaki Matsutani
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Publication number: 20220297519Abstract: A door weather strip includes at least an exterior installation base member installed on a door frame or a door molding, and a seal lip that is formed protruding and extending above and outside in a vehicle width direction from the exterior installation base member and elastically comes into contact with a vehicle body opening peripheral edge when a door is closed, in which a hard portion that is harder than a seal lip main body portion constituting the seal lip is formed between a tip of the seal lip and a root portion between the seal lip and the exterior installation base member and on the vehicle body opening peripheral edge side.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Shinnosuke HAMADA, Yoshinobu YAMADA, Kentaro ADACHI, Yasuyuki KINOSHITA
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Patent number: 11413788Abstract: Provided is an intermediate base material (incised prepreg) which has exceptional surface quality and mechanical properties when solidified and with which it is possible to obtain a fiber-reinforced plastic having excellent three-dimensional shape conformance properties. This incised prepreg has, in a prepreg that includes a resin and reinforcing fibers oriented in one direction, incisions substantially parallel to the orientation direction of the reinforcing fibers (the incisions substantially parallel to the orientation direction of the reinforcing fibers are referred to as parallel incisions) and incisions that cut across the reinforcing fibers (the incisions that cut across the reinforcing fibers are referred to as intersecting incisions).Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Terumasa Tsuda, Kentaro Adachi, Yuzo Fujita, Takuya Karaki
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Publication number: 20220250456Abstract: Window seals can be configured to divert water away from an area of the vehicle where the presence of water is not desired, such as a door latch. A window seal can include a first body member and a second body member. The first body member can include a main body and a lip extending from the main body. The lip can include an upper end and a lower end. The second body member can be angled relative to the first body member. The second body member can include a liquid diverter that has a collector portion in fluid communication with a gutter portion. The collector portion can include an inlet opening. The inlet opening can be operatively positioned to receive a liquid from the lower end of the lip, and the gutter portion can route the liquid away from undesired areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2021Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Kashif Zia, Kentaro Adachi, Ruben Vazquez
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Publication number: 20220134854Abstract: A door assembly includes a door frame, a first window glass, and a holding member. The door frame includes a first window seal and a second window frame. The first window seal at least partially defines a first window opening. The second window frame at least partially defines a second window opening. The second window frame having a division bar that separates the first window opening and the second window opening. The first window seal having a bottom seal member and a side seal member that extends between the bottom seal member and the division bar. The bottom seal member includes a slit extending along a longitudinal direction of the bottom seal member. The first window glass is inserted into the first window opening through the slit. The holding member is coupled to the bottom seal member to inhibit movement of the first window glass with respect to the first window opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Kashif Zia, Kentaro Adachi, Ruben Vazquez
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Patent number: 11210984Abstract: A timing controller that controls a drive circuit of a display panel includes: a delay output unit configured to output a delay value based on a delay time of a second pulse with respect to a first pulse that is output by the drive circuit, the first pulse being generated in synchronization with a data signal supplied to the display panel; and an error output unit configured to compare the delay value and a threshold value to each other and output an error signal based on a result of the comparison, and the second pulse is a pulse that is output from the drive circuit based on the first pulse.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kentaro Adachi, Chisato Higuchi
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Patent number: 11117454Abstract: A seal component includes a division bar arranged between the movable glass and the fixed glass, a flexible first seal molded integrally with the division bar and sealing both a vertical side portion of the movable glass and a vertical side portion of the fixed glass, a flexible second seal coupled to an upper end of the first seal and sealing a portion of a periphery of the fixed glass excluding the vertical side portion, and a coupling member that couples a lower side portion of the second seal to the first seal. The first seal includes a first groove into which the vertical side portion of the fixed glass is fitted thereby sealing the vertical side portion, and the second seal includes a second groove into which the portion of the periphery of the fixed glass excluding the vertical side portion is fitted thereby sealing the fitted portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Kashif Zia, Kentaro Adachi, Ruben Vazquez
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Publication number: 20210244118Abstract: In order to provide a layered article in which shape deformation is suppressed while exhibiting compression properties that are an index of impact absorption, and further, a layered article that can control feeling when receiving impact on demand, provided is a layered article including a porous structure material containing discontinuous reinforcing fibers (A), resin (B) and voids (C), and a skin layer formed on a surface of the porous structure material, in which the porous structure material has an elastic resilience from 50% compression of 1 MPa or more, and the layered article has a plastic deformation amount of 20 ?m or less in a falling-weight impact test performed on the surface on which the skin layer is formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Takashi FUJIOKA, Kentaro ADACHI, Masato HONMA