Patents by Inventor Masahiro Kawachi
Masahiro Kawachi 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: 11158908Abstract: [Problem] A separator for a lead acid storage battery that is prevented from suffering the puncture of a separator formed of a microporous film is to be provided. [Solution] The separator includes: a microporous film having a thickness of from 0.1 to 0.3 mm as a base portion 3; plural main ribs 2a that are provided on one surface 3a of the base portion 3; and plural miniature ribs 2b that have a lower height than a height of the main ribs 2a and are provided on the other surface 3b of the base portion 3, and the plural miniature ribs 2b are provided in a linear form with an inter-rib distance P, which is a distance between facing surfaces of the adjacent miniature ribs 2b, of less than 1.9 mm.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Masaki Onishi, Takashi Shidomi, Masahiro Kawachi
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Publication number: 20200136117Abstract: [Problem] A separator for a lead acid storage battery that is prevented from suffering the puncture of a separator formed of a microporous film is to be provided. [Solution] The separator includes: a microporous film having a thickness of from 0.1 to 0.3 mm as a base portion 3; plural main ribs 2a that are provided on one surface 3a of the base portion 3; and plural miniature ribs 2b that have a lower height than a height of the main ribs 2a and are provided on the other surface 3b of the base portion 3, and the plural miniature ribs 2b are provided in a linear form with an inter-rib distance P, which is a distance between facing surfaces of the adjacent miniature ribs 2b, of less than 1.9 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Masaki ONISHI, Takashi SHIDOMI, Masahiro KAWACHI
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Patent number: 8221920Abstract: A separator for a valve regulated lead-acid battery which comprises a paper sheet where very fine glass fiber is a main component, which has a piercing strength (puncture strength) of 4.5 N/mm or more and a tensile strength of 7.0 N/10 mm2 or more. The paper sheet is made by blending 80 to 90% by weight of glass fiber having 1.5 ?m or less average fiber size, 5 to 10% by weight of single-material monofilament-form thermally non-adhesive organic fiber (non-heat-bondable organic fiber) and 5 to 10% by weight of single-material monofilament-form thermally adhesive organic fiber (heat-bondable organic fiber) comprising the same kind of material as in the thermally non-adhesive organic fiber in a wet papermaking process whereupon the fiber materials are bonded each other by thermal fusion of the thermally adhesive organic fiber whereby a coat (film) by melting of the organic fiber is not substantially formed on the surface of the glass fiber.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Masahiro Kawachi, Shoji Sugiyama, Takashi Shidomi
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Patent number: 8107685Abstract: A method of displaying sensed displacement is such as to collect single dimension light distribution data using a single dimensional imaging device; transmit the light distribution data to a processor; and display the light distribution data as a line bright wave form on a display using software implemented by the processor.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Tatsuya Matsunaga, Masahiro Kawachi
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Patent number: 7846545Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a glass fiber package where a glass fiber aggregate which contains alkali-containing glass wool fiber of a very small diameter having an average fiber size of 5 ?m or less or, particularly, less than 1 ?m and containing 5% or more by weight or, particularly, 10% or more by weight of alkali metal oxide components is packed in a compressed state to give a form which is able to be handled as a freight, and in which, fiber breakage (lowering in the fiber length) and fiber adhesion caused by compression packing is hardly resulted even upon a long-term storage whereby the properties inherent to the glass fiber immediately after its manufacture is apt to be maintained; to provide a method for packing the glass fiber; and to provide a glass fiber product using the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2008Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Shoji Sugiyama, Takashi Shidomi, Masahiro Kawachi
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Publication number: 20090285451Abstract: A method of displaying sensed displacement is such as to collect single dimension light distribution data using a single dimensional imaging device; transmit the light distribution data to a processor; and display the light distribution data as a line bright wave form on a display using software implemented by the processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Inventors: Tatsuya MATSUNAGA, Masahiro KAWACHI
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Patent number: 7486409Abstract: In a sensor head, parallel rays or approximately parallel rays are generated by a pair of condenser lenses that reciprocate according to vibrations of a collimate lens and a tuning fork, and go out from a light port. To the light port, a lens holder in which an objective lens is supported is detachably attached. The light from the light port is processed to measurement beams that are condensed by the objective lens to a predetermined position.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2006Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Yamashita, Hirotaka Nakashima, Masahiro Kawachi
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Publication number: 20080241662Abstract: A separator for a valve regulated lead-acid battery having a piercing strength (puncture strength) of 4.5 N/mm or more and a tensile strength of 7.0 N/10 mm2 or more which includes a paper sheet through wet papermaking process in which 80 to 90% by weight of glass fiber having 1.5 mm or less than average fiber size, 5 to 10% by weight of single-material monofilament-form thermally non-adhesive organic fiber (non-heat-bondable organic fiber) and 5 to 10% by weight of single-material monofilament-form thermally adhesive organic fiber (heat-bondable organic fiber) including the same kind of material as in the above monofilament-form thermally non-adhesive organic fiber (non-heat-bondable organic fiber) are blended in a wet papermaking process whereupon the fiber materials of the above glass fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Masahiro Kawachi, Shoji Sugiyama, Takashi Shidomi
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Publication number: 20080241539Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a glass fiber package where a glass fiber aggregate which contains alkali-containing glass wool fiber of a very small diameter having an average fiber size of 5 ?m or less or, particularly, less than 1 ?m and containing 5% or more by weight or, particularly, 10% or more by weight of alkali metal oxide components is packed in a compressed state to give a form which is able to be handled as a freight, and in which, fiber breakage (lowering in the fiber length) and fiber adhesion caused by compression packing is hardly resulted even upon a long-term storage whereby the properties inherent to the glass fiber immediately after its manufacture is apt to be maintained; to provide a method for packing the glass fiber; and to provide a glass fiber product using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Shoji Sugiyama, Takashi Shidomi, Masahiro Kawachi
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Patent number: 7362451Abstract: To provide a displacement sensor device capable of fast data read-out processing. A sensor device includes: a light-emitting element for irradiating an object to be measured with light at a prescribed angle; an image pickup element for shooting the light-irradiated object to be measured at another angle; a normal measurement area setting device capable of setting a normal measurement area in the visual field of the image pickup element; a receiving-light signal detecting device for detecting a receiving-light signal distribution area of the object to be measured from the set normal measurement area; a following-type measurement area setting device for setting at least one following-type measurement area which includes the detected receiving-light signal distribution area and is narrower than the normal measurement area; a displacement measuring device for measuring a target displacement by measuring the following-type measurement area; and an output device for outputting the measured displacement.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2005Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Naoya Nakashita, Koji Shimada, Yoshinori Kawai, Masahiro Kawachi
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Patent number: 7337082Abstract: A measurement instrument includes a measurement value acquiring portion for acquiring a measurement value in a predetermined period, and a measurement timing acquiring portion for acquiring measurement timing information. The measurement timing information is a measurement start timing, and the measurement timing information is added to the measurement value acquired in a predetermined period, corresponding to elapsed timing information which is calculated from the measurement period, based on the measurement start timing. In addition, a plurality of the measurement values added by the measurement timing information are digitally outputted collectively. In addition, an identification number of an applicable measurement instrument which number is owned by the measurement instrument is further added to the measurement value.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2005Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Koji Shimada, Masahiro Kawachi
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Publication number: 20070103701Abstract: In a sensor head, parallel rays or approximately parallel rays are generated by a pair of condenser lenses that reciprocate according to vibrations of a collimate lens and a tuning fork, and go out from a light port. To the light port, a lens holder in which an objective lens is supported is detachably attached. The light from the light port is processed to measurement beams that are condensed by the objective lens to a predetermined position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2006Publication date: May 10, 2007Inventors: Yoshihiro Yamashita, Hirotaka Nakashima, Masahiro Kawachi
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Patent number: 7191087Abstract: A sensor controller is disclosed which transmits large-capacity data such as waveform data and image data within a short time (in rapid cycles, for example) and makes possible various collaborative operations using the transmitted data. A control unit includes a programmable logic circuit and a CPU to control the operation of the sensor controller. A unit connector can be used to connect other sensor controllers. An inter-unit path constitutes a signal transmission path between the control unit and the unit connector and includes a sensing data transmission path between the programmable logic circuit and the unit connector. In the case where another sensor controller is connected to the unit connector, the sensing data can be transmitted between the programmable logic circuit of the local sensor controller and the programmable logic circuit of the particular another sensor controller.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2005Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Inoue, Masahiro Kawachi, Hajime Takegawa, Koji Shimada, Hitoshi Oba, Kenji Horie, Yoshinori Kawai, Takeshi Yoshiura
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Patent number: 7157917Abstract: A cable includes a first connector half holding a conductor terminal, a second connector half holding a conductor terminal, an electric cord electrically connecting the conductor terminal of the first connector half to the conductor terminal of the second connector half, and a waveform shaping circuit performing waveform shaping of a signal passing through the electric cord, and the first and second connector halves are structured to allow attachment to and detachment from each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Naoya Nakashita, Hirotaka Nakashima, Hitoshi Oba, Masahiro Kawachi, Kizuku Fujita, Kohei Tomita
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Patent number: 7151568Abstract: A displacement sensor comprising an imaging unit and an image processing unit. The imaging unit comprises a two dimensional imaging device and a drive control unit. The two dimensional imaging device includes a group of light receiving pixels arranged in a matrix so as to correspond to a field of view of a standard imaging unit, a plurality of vertical shift registers corresponding to different columns of the pixels, and a horizontal register for receiving the outputs of the vertical shift registers from top stages thereof, a photosensitive pixel region being defined in a prescribed horizontal band having a sufficiently narrower width than that would be provided by the total number of horizontal lines and interposed between a front optically black pixel region and a back optically black pixel region.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2001Date of Patent: December 19, 2006Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Masahiro Kawachi, Michitoshi Okada, Koji Shimada, Hitoshi Oba, Satoshi Yoneda
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Publication number: 20060034488Abstract: A method of displaying sensed displacement is such as to collect single dimension light distribution data using a single dimensional imaging device; transmit the light distribution data to a processor; and display the light distribution data as a line bright wave form on a display using software implemented by the processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2005Publication date: February 16, 2006Inventors: Tatsuya Matsunaga, Masahiro Kawachi
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Publication number: 20050237068Abstract: A cable includes a first connector half holding a conductor terminal, a second connector half holding a conductor terminal, an electric cord electrically connecting the conductor terminal of the first connector half to the conductor terminal of the second connector half, and a waveform shaping circuit performing waveform shaping of a signal passing through the electric cord, and the first and second connector halves are structured to allow attachment to and detachment from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2005Publication date: October 27, 2005Inventors: Naoya Nakashita, Hirotaka Nakashima, Hitoshi Oba, Masahiro Kawachi, Kizuku Fujita, Kohei Tomita
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Patent number: 6959103Abstract: Provided is a displacement sensor which allows at least part of the data used from the time of obtaining an image until the time of computing the displacement can be readily verified. In a displacement sensor for automatically extracting a coordinate of a measuring point from an image obtained by using an imaging device according to a prescribed measuring point extraction algorithm, and computing a desired displacement from the automatically extracted measuring point coordinate, the sensor is further provided with the function to edit data used from the time of obtaining the image until the time of computing the displacement for use as display data for an image monitor.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2001Date of Patent: October 25, 2005Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Tatsuya Matsunaga, Masahiro Kawachi
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Patent number: D540745Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2004Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Oba, Masahiro Kawachi, Hiroyuki Inoue
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Patent number: D567187Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2004Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Oba, Masahiro Kawachi, Hiroyuki Inoue