Patents by Inventor Masashi Inoue

Masashi Inoue 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: 20240159271
    Abstract: An outer joint member and a hub wheel are coupled to be able to transmit torque by meshing face splines respectively provided and applying a tightening force in an axial direction between both the face splines. Shapes of tooth surfaces of the face splines are determined such that, when bringing the face splines close to each other in the axial direction and meshing them with each other, tooth surfaces of the face splines first come into contact with each other in, among an outer diameter portion of a meshing region between both the face splines, an inner diameter portion, and an intermediate portion sandwiched between the outer diameter portion and the inner diameter portion, one of the outer and inner diameter portions, and then the tooth surfaces of both the face splines come into contact with each other in the other of the outer and inner diameter portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Masashi FUNAHASHI, Teruaki FUJIO, Masaya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240151264
    Abstract: An outer joint member 31 and a hub wheel 16 are coupled so as to be able to transmit torque by meshing face splines 51 and 52 respectively provided and applying a tightening force in an axial direction between both the face splines 51 and 52. Shapes of tooth surfaces of both the face splines 51 and 52 are determined such that, in a process of bringing both the face splines 51 and 52 close to each other in the axial direction and meshing with each other, tooth surfaces 51a and 51b of both the face splines 51 and 52 first come into contact with each other in, among an outer diameter portion Ea of a meshing region X between both the face splines, an inner diameter portion Ec, and an intermediate portion Eb sandwiched between the outer diameter portion and the inner diameter portion, the intermediate portion Eb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Masashi FUNAHASHI, Teruaki FUJIO, Masaya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240142482
    Abstract: Disclosed is a specimen measurement apparatus comprising: a measurement unit configured to suction a specimen from a specimen container and measure the suctioned specimen; and a specimen transport unit configured to transport the specimen container to the measurement unit, wherein the specimen transport unit includes a rack setting part configured to allow a specimen rack to be set thereon, the specimen rack holding the specimen container that has not been subjected to specimen suction by the measurement unit, a rack collection part configured to collect the specimen rack holding the specimen container that has been subjected to specimen suction by the measurement unit, and an interruption specimen setting part configured to allow the specimen rack to be set thereon, the specimen rack holding the specimen container that is to be subjected to specimen suction by the measurement unit in preference to the specimen container held by the specimen rack having been set on the rack setting part, and the interruption
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Sysmex Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Tada, Taku INOUE, Hironori Katsumi, Takaaki Nagai
  • Publication number: 20240142483
    Abstract: Disclosed is a specimen measurement apparatus comprising: a measurement unit configured to suction a specimen from a specimen container and measure the suctioned specimen; and a specimen transport unit configured to transport the specimen container to the measurement unit, wherein the specimen transport unit includes a first transport part including a first placement surface configured to allow a specimen rack to be placed thereon, the first transport part being configured to transport a plurality of the specimen racks, each holding the specimen container, on the first placement surface, and a second transport part disposed above the first transport part and including a second placement surface configured to allow the specimen rack to be placed thereon, the second transport part being configured to transport a plurality of the specimen racks on the second placement surface, and at least one of the first transport part and the second transport part is configured to allow the specimen rack to be taken out there
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Sysmex Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Tada, Taku INOUE, Hironori KATSUMI
  • Patent number: 11967863
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine. This rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor, and the rotor includes: a rotor core having formed therein a magnet insertion hole group; and a permanent magnet group. In the rotor core, a first magnetic slit and a second magnetic slit are formed. In the second magnetic slit, a first magnet magnetic flux guide path connecting a first q-axis magnetic path and a second q-axis magnetic path is arranged. When an angle between a straight line passing through a first intersecting point and a radial center point and a straight line passing through a second intersecting point and the radial center point is set as ?1, the number of pole pairs is set as P, a natural number is set as m1, and n1 is set as a natural number smaller than m1, the following expression: ?1=2?×n1÷{P×(2m1?1)} [rad] is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mitsuda, Yoshihiro Miyama, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Masaya Inoue, Masashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240119173
    Abstract: An information transaction device is connected to an information holding device including a storage unit storing personal information and includes a sharing approval reception unit configured to receive approval of sharing of the personal information by an information sharing destination device from a user associated with the personal information, a provision approval reception unit configured to receive approval of provision which is transmission of the personal information to an information provision destination device, from the user associated with the personal information, a sharing instruction unit configured to, in a case where the sharing approval reception unit receives the approval of the sharing, instruct the information holding device to perform the sharing, and a provision instruction unit configured to, in a case where the provision approval reception unit receives the approval of the provision, instruct the information holding device to perform the provision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke SATO, Yasumasa MITSUHATA, Masashi INOUE, Yurika MICHISHITA
  • Patent number: 11949101
    Abstract: Provided are a lithium composite metal compound having excellent cycle characteristics in the case of being used as battery materials, a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery using the same, a positive electrode using the same, and a lithium secondary battery using the same. The lithium composite metal compound is represented by Composition Formula (I), in which physical property values of pores that are obtained from measurement of nitrogen adsorption and desorption isotherms at a liquid nitrogen temperature satisfy requirements (1) and (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED, TANAKA CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Inoue, Yusuke Maeda
  • Publication number: 20240104080
    Abstract: An information transaction device stores catalog information including detailed information related to one or more datasets including personal information providable to an information provision destination device from an information provision source device. The information transaction device receives a provision request for the dataset from the information provision destination device. The information transaction device outputs a transmission request for the dataset indicated by the provision request to the information provision source device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke SATO, Yasumasa Mitsuhata, Masashi Inoue, Yurika Michishita
  • Patent number: 11929649
    Abstract: The rotating electric machine includes: a rotor; and a stator, wherein the rotor includes: a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole group including a plurality of magnet insertion holes; and a permanent magnet group including a plurality of permanent magnets inserted in the plurality of magnet insertion holes of the magnet insertion hole group, respectively, wherein the plurality of magnet insertion holes are arranged side by side in a shape convex toward a center of the rotor from a radially-outer side surface of the rotor core, wherein the permanent magnet group forms one magnetic pole, wherein, in a part of the rotor core between the radially-outer side surface and the magnet insertion hole group, a magnetic slit is formed to extend in a shape convex toward the center of the rotor from the radially-outer side surface, and wherein the magnet insertion hole group includes three magnet insertion holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mitsuda, Yoshihiro Miyama, Masaya Inoue, Masashi Nakamura, Moriyuki Hazeyama
  • Publication number: 20240074945
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dental restorative curable composition that has high mechanical strength and toughness and has excellent water resistance and smoothness/gloss durability in the form of a cured product, a dental composite resin comprising the dental restorative curable composition, and a dental mill blank comprising a cured product of the dental restorative curable composition. The present invention relates to a dental restorative curable composition comprising: a (meth)acrylic acid ester compound (A) which has at least one polymer structure selected from the group consisting of a polycarbonate, a polyarylate, and an aromatic polysulfone and in which terminal hydroxy residues derived from repeating units constituting the polymer structure are directly (meth)acryloylated; a (meth)acrylic acid ester compound (B) having two or more (meth)acryloyloxy groups (excluding the (meth)acrylic acid ester compound (A)); an inorganic filler (C) having an average primary particle diameter of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.
    Inventors: Masashi INOUE, Seiya ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11888354
    Abstract: A saturation portion which is magnetically saturated during no-load operation of the rotary electric machine is formed in the rotor core at a position facing at least one of the first main surface and the second main surface of the permanent magnet when viewed in the axial direction. When viewed in the axial direction, the saturation portion includes at least one core protrusion firmed between the wall portion of the magnet accommodating hole and at least one of the first main surface and the second main surface of the permanent magnet such that a part of the rotor core extends in a direction intersecting the first main surface or the second main surface, and at least one nonmagnetic portion formed between the wall portion of the magnet accommodating hole and at least one of the first main surface and the second main surface of the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kubota, Masashi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20230392032
    Abstract: A water-based ink for ink-jet printing, including a pigment, water-insoluble crosslinked polymer particles, an organic solvent, and water. The water-insoluble crosslinked polymer particles are constituted of a polymer A having a crosslinked structure, which includes carboxy groups and has an acid value of not less than 45 mgKOH/g and not more than 180 mgKOH/g. The ink includes alkali metal ions in an amount of not less than 15 mol % and not more than 65 mol %, and ammonium ions in an amount of not less than 55 mol % and not more than 145 mol %, both on the basis of a whole molar amount of the carboxy groups of the polymer A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi INOUE, Daiki KAWATA, Tetsuya EGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11773278
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-based ink containing at least pigment-containing water-insoluble crosslinked polymer particles (A), a polymer emulsion (B) and water, in which a water-insoluble crosslinked polymer constituting the crosslinked polymer particles (A) is obtained by subjecting a polymer that contains a constitutional unit derived from a carboxylic acid monomer having an acid value of not less than 200 mgKOH/g and a constitutional unit derived from a hydrophobic monomer, to crosslinking reaction with an epoxy compound, and a polymer constituting the polymer emulsion (B) contains a constitutional unit derived from a carboxylic acid monomer and a constitutional unit derived from a hydrophobic monomer. The water-based ink of the present invention is excellent in ejection stability and fastness of the printed characters or images while maintaining good optical density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Inoue, Daiki Kawata
  • Publication number: 20230268501
    Abstract: A lithium metal composite oxide having a layered structure, containing Li, Ni, and an element X, in which the element X is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Co, Mn, Fe, Cu, Ti, Mg, Al, W, Mo, Nb, Zn, Sn, Zr, Ga, B, Si, S, and P, Ni/(Ni+X), which is a ratio of the number of moles of Ni to the total number of moles of Ni and the element X, is 0.7 or more, and in a powder X-ray diffraction measurement of the lithium metal composite oxide using CuK? rays, a diffraction peak is present within a range of a diffraction angle 2?=18.7±1°, and a relative standard deviation of a volume-based crystallite size distribution calculated from the diffraction peak within the range of 2?=18.7±1° is 0.20 or more and 0.55 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventor: Masashi INOUE
  • Patent number: 11707346
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dental mill blank that exhibits desirable resistance against wear in opposing teeth. The present invention relates to a dental mill blank comprising: an inorganic filler containing an inorganic filler (A) and an inorganic filler (B); and a polymer, the inorganic filler (A) partly forming an aggregate, and the dental mill blank satisfying the following formulae (I) to (III), 0.001?a<0.32??(I) 0.3?b?10??(II) 5?x?80??(III), where a is an average primary particle diameter of the inorganic filler (A) in micrometers, b is an average primary particle diameter of the inorganic filler (B) in micrometers, and x is an average particle diameter of the aggregate in micrometers. Preferably, the dental mill blank comprises an island component containing the aggregate, and a sea component containing the inorganic filler (A) and the inorganic filler (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: KURARAY NORITAKE DENTAL INC.
    Inventors: Masashi Inoue, Kenji Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 11685975
    Abstract: A magnesium alloy containing, in % by mass, 0.95 to 2.00% of Zn, 0.05% or more and less than 0.30% of Zr, 0.05 to 0.20% of Mn, and the balance consisting of Mg and unavoidable impurities, wherein the magnesium alloy has a particle size distribution with an average crystal particle size from 1.0 to 3.0 ?m and a standard deviation of 0.7 or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Medical Device Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Ueda, Masashi Inoue, Makoto Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20230155434
    Abstract: A stator coil including a continuous three-phase coil group the linear portions in the linear portion groups of the respective phases being arranged side by side in order in the continuous three-phase coil group, wherein in each of first slots that are every other slots from among the slots, the linear portions of a same phase are accommodated in order and stacked in a radial direction of the stator core, and in each of second slots that are every other slots different from the first slots from among the slots, the linear portions of two phases that are same as two phases of the linear portions in the first slots on opposite sides of the second slot are accommodated in a number of layers stacked, the number being equal to a number of layers stacked in the first slots, and stacked in the radial direction of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Kenichi OMAGARI, Masashi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230078613
    Abstract: A lithium metal composite oxide having a layered structure, containing at least Li, Ni, and an element X, in which the element X is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Co, Mn, Fe, Cu, Ti, Mg, Al, B, W, Mo, Nb, Zn, Sn, Zr, Ga, La, and V, and characteristic values obtained from adsorption isotherm measurement of nitrogen gas obtained by a gas adsorption method satisfy requirements (1) and (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventor: Masashi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230080167
    Abstract: A socket includes a housing with a bottom plate portion and a frame body portion standing at edges of the bottom plate portion and extending along the edges. The frame body portion serves as a locator in an in-plane direction of the bottom plate portion in mounting an electronic component. The bottom plate portion and the frame body portion are integrally molded into the housing. The socket includes a plurality of contacts supported by the bottom plate portion. The socket includes a spring member including a supported portion supported by a first side of the frame body portion and a spring portion that elastically deforms by being pushed by the electronic component, pressing the electronic component against a second side opposite to the first side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Naoki Hashimoto, Masashi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11597667
    Abstract: A wastewater treatment system includes a plurality of reaction tanks, a blowing pipe, a blower unit, and an air supply amount controller. The air supply amount controller includes: a water quality measurement unit configured to measure a state of wastewater; a necessary air amount acquisition unit configured to acquire, a necessary air amount for achieving a predetermined target water quality of wastewater; a target in-pipe pressure calculation unit configured to calculate a blowing pipe loss pressure when the necessary amount of air is supplied into the blowing pipe, calculate a target in-pipe pressure based on the blowing pipe loss pressure, and change the calculated target in-pipe pressure in accordance with change of the necessary air amount; and a blowing control unit configured to control air supply from the blower unit so that the pressure in the blowing pipe becomes equal to the target in-pipe pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Metawater Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Takahashi, Daisuke Naka, Nobuki Tsuboi, Masashi Inoue