Patents by Inventor Koji Matsuoka
Koji Matsuoka 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: 10414255Abstract: A vehicle sunroof apparatus includes check mechanisms each including a rotary cam and a fixed cam. The fixed cam includes a switch guide which switches the check mechanism between an engaged state and a disengaged state. The switch guide allows advancement of the rotary cam which is at an advancement and retraction rotary position, pushes the rotary cam to a first rotary position, and further pushes the rotary cam to a second rotary position, the check mechanism is thereby switched to the engaged state. The switch guide pushes the rotary cam to a release preparation position, further pushes the rotary cam to the advancement and retraction rotary position, the check mechanism is thereby switched to the disengaged state. The fixed cam includes an initialization guide that pushes the rotary cam to the release preparation position.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Matsuoka, Hiroyuki Noda, Shintaro Katsura, Ryuuta Fukada
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Publication number: 20190276735Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a fine fluorescent particle, which does not cause concentration quenching and has low ecotoxicity. Specifically, the present invention relates to a fine fluorescent particle containing an AIE-active compound, the particle consisting of a network polymer, wherein the fine fluorescent particle is characterized in that the AIE-active compound is, for example, a compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein E represents silicon or germanium; R1 and R2, which are the same or different, each represent a hydrocarbon group containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group; and R3, R4, R5 and R6, which are the same or different, each represent a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: National University Corporation SAITAMA UNIVERSITYInventors: Ken Hatano, Takahiko Matsushita, Daisuke Fujikawa, Koji Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20190264340Abstract: An organic hydride production apparatus includes: an electrolyte membrane having proton conductivity; a cathode that includes a cathode catalyst layer used to hydrogenate a hydrogenation target substance using protons to produce an organic hydride and also includes a cathode chamber; an anode that includes an anode catalyst layer used to oxidize water to produce protons and also includes an anode chamber; and a gas introduction unit that introduces, into the anolyte at a certain position, a certain gas used to remove at least one of the hydrogenation target substance and the organic hydride that have passed through the electrolyte membrane and been mixed into the anolyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Applicants: National University Corporation YOKOHAMA National University, DE NORA PERMELEC LTDInventors: Shigenori MITSUSHIMA, Kensaku NAGASAWA, Yoshinori NISHIKI, Akihiro KATO, Setsuro OGATA, Awaludin ZAENAL, Akiyoshi MANABE, Koji MATSUOKA, Yasushi SATO
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Publication number: 20190047101Abstract: There are provided a tool management device and a machine tool provided therewith, capable of simply and selectively checking all tools attached to respective tool stations to prevent a necessary tool from being forgotten to be attached and an unnecessary tool from being left attached. A tool management device 1 for managing tools detachable from a plurality of tool stations provided in a tool rest 12 of a machine tool 11 includes control means 5 for causing tool information related to one or more tools attached to each of the tool stations to be displayed in display means 3, wherein every time when a display area 62 for designating an appropriate tool station is selected, the control means 5 switches between a deployed state of deploying and displaying tool information related to all tools attached to the tool station selected, and a folded state of folding and displaying only tool information related to a predetermined tool, to cause the selected state to be displayed in an identical screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Yoshihiro TAKIGUCHI, Akio SANADA, Koji MATSUOKA, Tetsushi ASADA
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Publication number: 20180208031Abstract: A vehicle sunroof apparatus includes check mechanisms each including a rotary cam and a fixed cam. The fixed cam includes a switch guide which switches the check mechanism between an engaged state and a disengaged state. The switch guide allows advancement of the rotary cam which is at an advancement and retraction rotary position, pushes the rotary cam to a first rotary position, and further pushes the rotary cam to a second rotary position, the check mechanism is thereby switched to the engaged state. The switch guide pushes the rotary cam to a release preparation position, further pushes the rotary cam to the advancement and retraction rotary position, the check mechanism is thereby switched to the disengaged state. The fixed cam includes an initialization guide that pushes the rotary cam to the release preparation position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2016Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji MATSUOKA, Hiroyuki NODA, Shintaro KATSURA, Ryuuta FUKADA
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Publication number: 20170012566Abstract: A drive apparatus includes: an electric motor; a drive target; a transmission mechanism through which the electric motor and the drive target are connected to each other; a rotation sensor that detects the rotational position of the electric motor; a starting position setting unit that sets the rotational position which is detected in a motor lock state in which the rotation of the electric motor is limited, as a starting position corresponding to a mechanical lock state of the drive target; a voltage sensor that detects the voltage of an electric power source which supplies electric power to the electric motor; and a starting position correcting unit that corrects the set starting position by the amount of correction which increases by the extent of an increase in the detected voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shintaro KATSURA, Ryuuta FUKADA, Nobuyasu BESSHO, Koji NAGASE, Koji MATSUOKA
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Patent number: 8776269Abstract: A first member and a second member are overlapped to form an overlapping portion (K) and a region including the overlapping portion is sewn in a zigzag manner. The first member is structured by an outer finger-palm portion (104A) and the second member is structured by an inner finger-palm portion (104B), respectively, and at the overlapping portion (K), the inner finger-palm portion (104B) is overlapped on the outer finger-palm portion (104A) or the outer finger-palm portion (104A) is overlapped on the inner finger-palm portion (104B).Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2008Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Matsuoka Glove Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Matsuoka
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Patent number: 8505115Abstract: A sewn glove is provided which can be put on a hand and used without providing an uncomfortable feeling and in which fingers can be greatly (deeply) bent. The sewn glove includes a finger pocket formed by sewing a finger-back member for covering a back surface of a finger and a finger-palm member having a width wide enough to cover a palm surface and right and left sides of the finger. The finger pocket is bent toward a palm side. A finger-palm member (12) is divided into divided finger-palm members (12X, 12Y, 12Z) at positions corresponding to interphalangeal joints of the finger. Each divided portion edge of each of the divided finger-palm members (12X, 12Y, 12Z) is a cut edge (15a, 15b) extending to cover from the left side of the finger through the palm surface of the finger to the right side of the finger.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2010Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Matsuoka Glove Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Matsuoka
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Patent number: 8440364Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly includes an solid polymer electrolyte membrane, an anode, and a cathode. The cathode has a stacked body of a catalyst layer and a gas diffusion layer. The catalyst layer has platinum-cobalt-supporting carbon particles and an ion conductor. The ratio (P2/P1) of the pore volume P2 (ml/g) per gram of catalyst layer in a second micro-pore diameter, ranging from 0.1 ?m to less than 1 ?m, over the pore volume P1 per gram of catalyst layer in a first micro-pore diameter, ranging from 0.01 ?m to less than 0.1 ?m, is in a range of 3.8 to 8.3.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2009Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Matsuoka
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Patent number: 8266900Abstract: A plurality of flat tubes formed as a tube having notches by linearly cutting upper and lower parts from a hollow flat circular doughnut shape are stacked to structure a tube laminate. It is attached to a case so that a notch aligns with the notch and faces upward by an exhaust inflow end plate and that a notch aligns with the notch and faces downward by an exhaust outflow end plate. A cutoff valve is provided at an exhaust outflow end of an exhaust communication tube passing through the center of the tube laminate by heat insulation. While an internal combustion engine is warming up, the cutoff valve is closed to cause the exhaust to flow in gaps of the respective flat tubes from upward to downward as a whole and also a heat exchange medium is caused to flow in the respective flat tubes from downward to upward as a whole to have heat exchanged between the exhaust and the heat exchange medium to recover the exhaust heat.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2008Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignees: The University of Tokyo, Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd., M-K Sale Co., Ltd., Kandori Industry Ltd., Waki Factory Inc.Inventors: Naoki Shikazono, Koji Matsuoka, Isamu Kandori, Shiro Ikuta, Tsunehito Wake
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Publication number: 20110258751Abstract: A sewn glove is provided which can be put on a hand and used without providing an uncomfortable feeling and in which fingers can be greatly (deeply) bent. The sewn glove includes a finger pocket formed by sewing a finger-back member for covering a back surface of a finger and a finger-palm member having a width wide enough to cover a palm surface and right and left sides of the finger. The finger pocket is bent toward a palm side. A finger-palm member (12) is divided into divided finger-palm members (12X, 12Y, 12Z) at positions corresponding to interphalangeal joints of the finger. Each divided portion edge of each of the divided finger-palm members (12X, 12Y, 12Z) is a cut edge (15a, 15b) extending to cover from the left side of the finger through the palm surface of the finger to the right side of the finger.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2010Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: MATSUOKA GLOVE CO., LTD.Inventor: Koji Matsuoka
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Patent number: 8017274Abstract: A fuel cell is provided which can enhance the CO resistance to thereby improve the voltage characteristics thereof. A fuel cell includes an electrolyte layer, a first electrode provided on one surface of the electrolyte layer, and a second electrode provided on the other surface of the electrolyte layer. In this fuel cell, a reaction fluid to be supplied to the first electrode contains carbon monoxide or carbon monoxide is generated from a reaction fluid having been supplied to the first electrode. The first electrode of the fuel cell includes a first catalyst material (Pt) having a function of extracting an electron from the reaction fluid, a second catalyst material (WAu) having a function of reducing the activation energy for conversion of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide, and an oxygen-supplying material (Ru) supplying oxygen.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2009Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Matsuoka, Yoshihiro Ikoma
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Publication number: 20110020726Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly includes an solid polymer electrolyte membrane, an anode, and a cathode. The cathode has a stacked body of a catalyst layer and a gas diffusion layer. The catalyst layer has platinum-cobalt-supporting carbon particles and an ion conductor. The ratio (P2/P1) of the pore volume P2 (ml/g) per gram of catalyst layer in a second micro-pore diameter, ranging from 0.1 ?m to less than 1 ?m, over the pore volume P1 per gram of catalyst layer in a first micro-pore diameter, ranging from 0.01 ?m to less than 0.1 ?m, is in a range of 3.8 to 8.3.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2009Publication date: January 27, 2011Inventor: Koji Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20100251702Abstract: A plurality of flat tubes formed as a tube having notches by linearly cutting upper and lower parts from a hollow flat circular doughnut shape are stacked to structure a tube laminate. It is attached to a case so that a notch aligns with the notch and faces upward by an exhaust inflow end plate and that a notch aligns with the notch and faces downward by an exhaust outflow end plate. A cutoff valve is provided at an exhaust outflow end of an exhaust communication tube passing through the center of the tube laminate by heat insulation. While an internal combustion engine is warming up, the cutoff valve is closed to cause the exhaust to flow in gaps of the respective flat tubes from upward to downward as a whole and also a heat exchange medium is caused to flow in the respective flat tubes from downward to upward as a whole to have heat exchanged between the exhaust and the heat exchange medium to recover the exhaust heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., M-K SALE CO., LTD., KANDORI INDUSTRY LTD., WAKI FACTORY INC.Inventors: Naoki Shikazono, Koji Matsuoka, Isamu Kandori, Shiro Ikuta, Tsunehito Wake
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Publication number: 20100218303Abstract: A first member and a second member are overlapped to form an overlapping portion (K) and a region including the overlapping portion is sewn in a zigzag manner. The first member is structured by an outer finger-palm portion (104A) and the second member is structured by an inner finger-palm portion (104B), respectively, and at the overlapping portion (K), the inner finger-palm portion (104B) is overlapped on the outer finger-palm portion (104A) or the outer finger-palm portion (104A) is overlapped on the inner finger-palm portion (104B).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2008Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: MATSUOKA GLOVE CO., LTD.Inventor: Koji Matsuoka
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Patent number: 7771859Abstract: A fuel cell includes an electrolyte layer, a first electrode which is provided on one surface of the electrolyte layer and to which fuel is supplied, and a second electrode which is provided on the other surface of the electrolyte layer and to which an oxidant is supplied. The first electrode contains an additive having an oxidation-reduction potential which is higher than a potential of formation reaction for forming a proton from the fuel and which is lower than an oxidation potential of a component contained in the first electrode.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2007Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Matsuoka, Takaaki Taniguchi
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Patent number: 7700220Abstract: A fuel cell is provided which can enhance the CO resistance to thereby improve the voltage characteristics thereof. A fuel cell includes an electrolyte layer, a first electrode provided on one surface of the electrolyte layer, and a second electrode provided on the other surface of the electrolyte layer. In this fuel cell, a reaction fluid to be supplied to the first electrode contains carbon monoxide or carbon monoxide is generated from a reaction fluid having been supplied to the first electrode. The first electrode of the fuel cell includes a first catalyst material (Pt) having a function of extracting an electron from the reaction fluid, a second catalyst material (WAu) having a function of reducing the activation energy for conversion of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide, and an oxygen-supplying material (Ru) supplying oxygen.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2006Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Matsuoka, Yoshihiro Ikoma
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Publication number: 20100055542Abstract: A fuel cell is provided which can enhance the CO resistance to thereby improve the voltage characteristics thereof. A fuel cell includes an electrolyte layer, a first electrode provided on one surface of the electrolyte layer, and a second electrode provided on the other surface of the electrolyte layer. In this fuel cell, a reaction fluid to be supplied to the first electrode contains carbon monoxide or carbon monoxide is generated from a reaction fluid having been supplied to the first electrode. The first electrode of the fuel cell includes a first catalyst material (Pt) having a function of extracting an electron from the reaction fluid, a second catalyst material (WAu) having a function of reducing the activation energy for conversion of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide, and an oxygen-supplying material (Ru) supplying oxygen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji MATSUOKA, Yoshihiro Ikoma
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Patent number: 7649087Abstract: A saccharide residue-functional organopolycarbosiloxane containing at least two monosaccharide or polysaccharide groups per molecule in which a specific site on the monosaccharide or polysaccharide is bonded to silicon through a thioether bond. Also, a method of preparing the saccharide residue-functional organopolycarbosiloxane, comprising condensing a saccharide residue-functional metal thiolate compound wherein the metal is an alkali metal atom or alkaline-earth metal atom, and an organopolycarbosiloxane containing groups having the formula —R2Q wherein R2 is C2 to C10 alkylene, and Q is a group selected from halogen atoms, C1 to C10 alkylsulfonate groups, and C6 to C20 arylsulfonate groups.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2002Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Dow Corning Toray Silicone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Yoshitake, Daiyo Terunuma, Koji Matsuoka, Ken Hatano
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Patent number: 7354982Abstract: A saccharide residue-functional organopolysiloxane containing at least two monosaccharide or polysaccharide groups per molecule in which a specific site on the monosaccharide or polysaccharide is bonded to silicon through a thioether bond. Also, a method of preparing the saccharide residue-functional organopolysiloxane, comprising condensing a saccharide residue-functional metal thiolate compound wherein the metal is an alkali metal atom or alkaline-earth metal atom. and an organopolysiloxane containing groups having the formula —R2 Q wherein R2 is C2 to C10 alkylene, and Q is a group selected from halogen atoms, C1 to C10 alkylsulfonate groups, and C6 to C20 arylsulfonate groups.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2006Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Dow Corning Toray Silicone Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Yoshitake, Daiyo Terunuma, Koji Matsuoka, Ken Hatano