Patents by Inventor Makoto Sonoda

Makoto Sonoda 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: 20240117984
    Abstract: Provided is an air conditioner including an indoor unit provided with a microphone element for receiving voice instructions, such that a voice instruction spoken by an operator is acquired with high quality and control based on the voice instruction spoken by the operator is likely to be ensured. The air conditioner includes an indoor unit, a transmission unit, and a reception unit. The indoor unit has a main body and a microphone element. The main body has formed therein a blow-out port through which air-conditioned air is blown out toward a space to be air-conditioned. The microphone element accepts a voice instruction captured from a voice capturing portion arranged at a position that deviates from a ventilation space through which the air blown out from the blow-out port flows, in such a manner as to face the space to be air-conditioned. The transmission unit transmits the voice instruction accepted by the microphone element to an outside as a signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Kousuke TSUBOI, Takao SONODA, Makoto IKEDA, Tetsushi TSUDA, Yu OTA, Yuuichi KITA, Kenji AMANO, Atsushi MATSUBARA, Tomomi KUKITA, Naoko KURIYAMA, Tomoyoshi ASHIKAGA, Gen KUMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11942119
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus includes irreversible adsorbing materials in a sealed housing for the magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyo Mizutani, Koji Sonoda, Makoto Okamoto, Takuma Kido
  • Publication number: 20190061430
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire 1 for a passenger car comprises a carcass 6 having a radial structure, a belt layer 7, and a tread portion 2. The tread portion 2 has an outer tread edge (To) and an inner tread edge (Ti). A tread pattern is formed in an asymmetric shape with respect to a tire equator (C). The tread portion 2 is divided into a plurality of circumferential land regions by a plurality of main grooves 10. The circumferential land regions include an outer shoulder land region 16, an inner shoulder land region 17, and a middle land region 18 arranged therebetween. The outer shoulder land region 16 is larger than the inner shoulder land region 17 with respect to rigidity in a tire circumferential direction and the rigidity in a tire axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi KAMIGORI, Kenji UEDA, Makoto SONODA, Hiroto TAKENAKA, Takuya OSAWA, Kota HAYASHI, Masahiro NAGASE, Tomohisa KURIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10172377
    Abstract: There is provided pet food for dogs, in which the pet food is gel type pet food, the moisture content is 50% by weight or greater, the viscosity measured by a rotational viscometer is in a range of 30 dPa·s to 70 dPa·S, the viscosity measured by a Bostwick viscometer is in a range of 0.1 cm/min to 5.0 cm/min, and one or more gelling agents and one or more thickeners are contained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignees: UNICHARM CORPORATION, TEIKEI EBISU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Ichihashi, Tetsuya Hirano, Makoto Sonoda, Mikayo Minamitani
  • Publication number: 20180141735
    Abstract: Provided is a pet food packaging body including a packaging container which includes a plurality of accommodating portions, in which a plurality of kinds of pet food are individually accommodated in the accommodating portions of the packaging container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Fumisato Yoshiga, Go Ikeda, Makoto Sonoda, Mikayo Minamitani
  • Publication number: 20160128361
    Abstract: There is provided pet food for dogs, in which the pet food is gel type pet food, the moisture content is 50% by weight or greater, the viscosity measured by a rotational viscometer is in a range of 30 dPa·s to 70 dPa·S, the viscosity measured by a Bostwick viscometer is in a range of 0.1 cm/min to 5.0 cm/min, and one or more gelling agents and one or more thickeners are contained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Masaki ICHIHASHI, Tetsuya HIRANO, Makoto SONODA, Mikayo MINAMITANI
  • Patent number: 5011377
    Abstract: A swash-plate type piston pump motor has a housing assembly comprising: an end plate for rotatably supporting a cylinder rotor against thrust loads in its axial direction and also rotatably supporting the upper end of an output shaft; a cylinder side peripheral wall encompassing the cylinder rotor; an inner peripheral wall which is joined contiguously to the cylinder side peripheral wall and extends downward toward the lower end of the output shaft. The inner peripheral wall encloses and supports a swash plate in an inclined state. A downwardly extending outer peripheral wall is also joined contiguously to the cylinder side peripheral wall and is flared outward toward the lower end of the output shaft, an annular space being formed between the inner and outer peripheral walls. The maximum flare angle of the outer peripheral wall relative to the axial direction of the output shaft is 30 degrees. The outer peripheral wall has at its open flare extremity a motor mounting flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toyoaki Sagawa, Makoto Sonoda, Tokihiko Umeda