Patents by Inventor Masaaki Ueda

Masaaki Ueda 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: 20170263278
    Abstract: A magnetic-disk glass substrate of the present invention includes a pair of main surfaces, a side wall surface, and a chamfered surface between the main surfaces and the side wall surface. Regarding surface properties of at least one of the side wall surface and the chamfered surface of the glass substrate, an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) is 0.015 gm or less, and a bearing factor of a roughness cross-sectional area when a roughness percentage is 60% is 95% or more in a bearing curve of a roughness cross-sectional area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventor: Masaaki UEDA
  • Patent number: 9697860
    Abstract: A magnetic-disk glass substrate of the present invention includes a pair of main surfaces, a side wall surface, and a chamfered surface between the main surfaces and the side wall surface. Regarding surface properties of at least one of the side wall surface and the chamfered surface of the glass substrate, an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) is 0.015 ?m or less, and a bearing factor of a roughness cross-sectional area when a roughness percentage is 60% is 95% or more in a bearing curve of a roughness cross-sectional area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaaki Ueda
  • Publication number: 20170169849
    Abstract: A magnetic-disk glass substrate has a circular center hole a pair of main surfaces and an edge surface. The edge surface has a side wall surface and chamfered surfaces interposed between the side wall surface and the main surfaces, and a roundness of an edge surface on an outer circumferential side is 1.5 ?m or less. Also, a midpoint A between centers of two least square circle respectively derived from outlines in a circumferential direction respectively obtained at two positions spaced apart by 200 ?m in a substrate thickness direction on the side wall surface on the outer circumferential side, and centers B and C respectively derived from a respective one of two chamfered surfaces on the outer circumferential side in the substrate thickness direction, are located such that a sum of respective distances between A and B, and A and C, is 1 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Masanori TAMAKI, Takeyoshi TAKAHASHI, Masaaki UEDA
  • Publication number: 20170169848
    Abstract: A magnetic-disk glass substrate has a circular hole at a center, and includes a pair of main surfaces and a side wall surface orthogonal to the main surfaces. A roundness of the circular hole is 1.5 ?m or less. A difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of radii of three inscribed circles that are respectively derived from outlines in the circumferential direction at three positions spaced apart by 200 ?m in a substrate thickness direction on the side wall surface of the circular hole is 3.5 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Masanori TAMAKI, Takeyoshi TAKAHASHI, Masaaki UEDA
  • Publication number: 20170140785
    Abstract: A magnetic-disk glass substrate according to the present invention is a doughnut-shaped magnetic-disk glass substrate having a circular hole provided in the center, a pair of main surfaces, and an outer circumferential end surface and an inner circumferential end surface each including a side wall surface and a chamfered surface that is formed between each main surface and the side wall surface. A measurement point is provided on the outer circumferential end surface every 30 degrees in the circumferential direction with reference to a center of the glass substrate, and when a curvature radius of a shape of a portion between the side wall surface and the chamfered surface is determined at each measurement point, the difference in the curvature radius between neighboring measurement points is 0.01 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Takeyoshi TAKAHASHI, Masaaki UEDA
  • Patent number: 9595286
    Abstract: A magnetic-disk glass substrate has a circular center hole, a pair of main surfaces and an edge surface. The edge surface has a side wall surface and chamfered surfaces interposed between the side wall surface and the main surfaces, and a roundness of an edge surface on an outer circumferential side is 1.5 ?m or less. Also, a midpoint A between centers of two least square circle respectively derived from outlines in a circumferential direction respectively obtained at two positions spaced apart by 200 ?m in a substrate thickness direction on the side wall surface on the outer circumferential side, and centers B and C respectively derived from a respective one of two chamfered surfaces on the outer circumferential side in the substrate thickness direction, are located such that a sum of respective distances between A and B, and A and C, is 1 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Tamaki, Takeyoshi Takahashi, Masaaki Ueda
  • Patent number: 9595284
    Abstract: A magnetic-disk glass substrate has a circular hole at a center, and includes a pair of main surfaces and a side wall surface orthogonal to the main surfaces. A roundness of the circular hole is 1.5 ?m or less. A difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of radii of three inscribed circles that are respectively derived from outlines in the circumferential direction at three positions spaced apart by 200 ?m in a substrate thickness direction on the side wall surface of the circular hole is 3.5 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Tamaki, Takeyoshi Takahashi, Masaaki Ueda
  • Patent number: 9583128
    Abstract: A magnetic-disk glass substrate according to the present invention is a doughnut-shaped magnetic-disk glass substrate having a circular hole provided in the center, a pair of main surfaces, and an outer circumferential end surface and an inner circumferential end surface each including a side wall surface and a chamfered surface that is formed between each main surface and the side wall surface. A measurement point is provided on the outer circumferential end surface every 30 degrees in the circumferential direction with reference to a center of the glass substrate, and when a curvature radius of a shape of a portion between the side wall surface and the chamfered surface is determined at each measurement point, the difference in the curvature radius between neighboring measurement points is 0.01 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeyoshi Takahashi, Masaaki Ueda
  • Patent number: 9327772
    Abstract: A cabin is mounted on a device frame, and hydraulic equipment is placed on a pedestal of the device frame. In this configuration, an attachment body of a front lower part of the cabin is disposed and attached onto an installation part on a front part of the pedestal; providing a front cover between the front part of the pedestal and the front lower part of the cabin for covering forward and outward of the hydraulic equipment; and providing a front plate on the front lower part of the cabin for supporting a lower edge of a front glass. A vertically intermediate portion of an inner surface of the front plate is fixed to the attachment body, and a lower part of the front plate is placed on an upper side of the cover to thereby cover forward and upward of the installation part of the pedestal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Ueda, Kenichi Saiki
  • Publication number: 20160005431
    Abstract: A magnetic-disk glass substrate has a circular center hole, a pair of main surfaces and an edge surface. The edge surface has a side wall surface and chamfered surfaces interposed between the side wall surface and the main surfaces, and a roundness of an edge surface on an outer circumferential side is 1.5 ?m or less. Also, a midpoint A between centers of two least square circle respectively derived from outlines in a circumferential direction respectively obtained at two positions spaced apart by 200 ?m in a substrate thickness direction on the side wall surface on the outer circumferential side, and centers B and C respectively derived from a respective one of two chamfered surfaces on the outer circumferential side in the substrate thickness direction, are located such that a sum of respective distances between A and B, and A and C, is 1 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori TAMAKI, Takeyoshi TAKAHASHI, Masaaki Ueda
  • Publication number: 20150371673
    Abstract: A magnetic-disk glass substrate has a circular hole at a center, and includes a pair of main surfaces and a side wall surface orthogonal to the main surfaces. A roundness of the circular hole is 1.5 ?m or less. A difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of radii of three inscribed circles that are respectively derived from outlines in the circumferential direction at three positions spaced apart by 200 ?m in a substrate thickness direction on the side wall surface of the circular hole is 3.5 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori TAMAKI, Takeyoshi TAKAHASHI, Masaaki Ueda
  • Publication number: 20150262604
    Abstract: A magnetic-disk glass substrate according to the present invention is a doughnut-shaped magnetic-disk glass substrate having a circular hole provided in the center, a pair of main surfaces, and an outer circumferential end surface and an inner circumferential end surface each including a side wall surface and a chamfered surface that is formed between each main surface and the side wall surface. A measurement point is provided on the outer circumferential end surface every 30 degrees in the circumferential direction with reference to a center of the glass substrate, and when a curvature radius of a shape of a portion between the side wall surface and the chamfered surface is determined at each measurement point, the difference in the curvature radius between neighboring measurement points is 0.01 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeyoshi Takahashi, Masaaki Ueda
  • Publication number: 20150255103
    Abstract: A magnetic-disk glass substrate of the present invention includes a pair of main surfaces, a side wall surface, and a chamfered surface between the main surfaces and the side wall surface. Regarding surface properties of at least one of the side wall surface and the chamfered surface of the glass substrate, an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) is 0.015 ?m or less, and a bearing factor of a roughness cross-sectional area when a roughness percentage is 60% is 95% or more in a bearing curve of a roughness cross-sectional area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaaki UEDA
  • Patent number: 9058051
    Abstract: A grip comprises a grip body forming a gripping control portion of a manually operable device to be held with the operator's palm and fingers. The grip body includes a ball-receiving surface coming into contact with the ball of the thumb, a palm-receiving surface coming into contact with a middle portion of the palm and the ball of the little finger, a finger-receiving surface coming into contact with the fingers, an open surface positioned between the tips of the fingers and the ball of the thumb for receiving the thumb when the grip body is held, and a switch mounted on a top portion of the grip body to be operable with the thumb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Miura, Masaaki Ueda, Ikuhiro Uotani, Kenji Kohno, Takehiro Sakai
  • Publication number: 20140292034
    Abstract: A cabin is mounted on a device frame, and hydraulic equipment is placed on a pedestal of the device frame. In this configuration, an attachment body of a front lower part of the cabin is disposed and attached onto an installation part on a front part of the pedestal; providing a front cover between the front part of the pedestal and the front lower part of the cabin for covering forward and outward of the hydraulic equipment; and providing a front plate on the front lower part of the cabin for supporting a lower edge of a front glass. A vertically intermediate portion of an inner surface of the front plate is fixed to the attachment body, and a lower part of the front plate is placed on an upper side of the cover to thereby cover forward and upward of the installation part of the pedestal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki UEDA, Kenichi SAIKI
  • Patent number: 8730055
    Abstract: A display device for a work vehicle having a work apparatus operated by an actuator, the device comprising: a flow rate limit setting unit for variably setting a maximum flow rate level of hydraulic oil supplied to and drained from the actuator by operating an operating member; and a display unit for displaying the maximum flow rate level of the hydraulic oil supplied to and drained from the actuator; wherein the hydraulic oil whose flow rate corresponds to a manipulated variable of the operating member is supplied to and drained from the actuator within a range defined by the maximum flow rate level that is set by the flow rate limit setting unit to cause the work apparatus to operate, with an operating member symbol for indicating the operating member being displayed in the display unit; and the maximum flow rate level of the hydraulic oil supplied to and drained from the actuator by operating the operating member is displayed in accordance with the operating member symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Miura, Masaaki Ueda
  • Patent number: 8610747
    Abstract: A display device for a work vehicle, comprising: a variable display unit capable of varying display contents; and a printed display unit disposed adjacent to the variable display unit; wherein: the printed display unit is formed with a background color similar to that of the variable display unit so that the printed display unit appears as a single display unit continuous with the variable display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Junta Kuwae, Keisuke Miura, Masaaki Ueda, Ikuhiro Uotani
  • Patent number: D742934
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kushita, Masaaki Ueda, Kasumi Inagaki, Yoshitaka Higashikawa
  • Patent number: D742940
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kushita, Masaaki Ueda, Kenichi Saiki
  • Patent number: D768549
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kushita, Masaaki Ueda, Kasumi Inagaki, Kenichi Saiki