Patents by Inventor Masato Inaba

Masato Inaba 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).

  • Patent number: 11985837
    Abstract: To provide a photoelectric conversion element capable of further improving performance in a photoelectric conversion element using an organic semiconductor material. The photoelectric conversion element includes a first electrode and a second electrode arranged to face each other, and a photoelectric conversion layer 17 provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the photoelectric conversion layer 17 includes a first organic semiconductor material and a second organic semiconductor material, and at least one of the first organic semiconductor material or the second organic semiconductor material is an organic molecule having a HOMO volume fraction of 0.15 or less or a LUMO volume fraction of 0.15 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Hattori, Hajime Kobayashi, Sae Miyaji, Masato Kanno, Miki Kimijima, Yuta Hasegawa, Toshio Nishi, Takashi Kawashima, Yosuke Saito, Yuta Inaba
  • Patent number: 11820192
    Abstract: A stabilizer includes a main body cylinder portion which is elastically deformable; and a pair of connection portions respectively connected to a pair of left and right suspension devices. Each of the pair of connection portions is provided with a fixed shaft portion which is solid and fixed to the main body cylinder portion. The fixed shaft portion includes a fitting portion fitted into the main body cylinder portion and a large diameter portion connecting the fitting portion and a connection portion of the pair of connection portions and formed to have a diameter larger than that of the fitting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Inaba, Junichi Nakayama, Yuichiro Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11786960
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stabilizer, the stabilizer including a main body bar that is elastically deformable, and a pair of connecting plates that are separately connected to a pair of left and right suspension devices, the method including a forging step of forming the connecting plate by forging both end portions of a material tube, in which in the forging step, both end portions of the material tube are crushed in a radial direction to be formed into the connecting plate in a state where a sealing metal plate heated to a temperature equal to or higher than a melting point is disposed inside both end portions of the material tube heated to a temperature lower than the melting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mizukami, Masato Inaba, Masato Sugawara, Michiya Masuda
  • Publication number: 20220363103
    Abstract: A stabilizer is a stabilizer including: a main body cylinder portion which is elastically deformable; and a pair of connection portions respectively connected to a pair of left and right suspension devices, wherein a fixed shaft portion which is solid and fixed to the main body cylinder portion is provided to the connection portion, wherein the fixed shaft portion includes a fitting portion fitted into the main body cylinder portion and a large diameter portion connecting the fitting portion and the connection portion and formed to have a diameter larger than that of the fitting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Masato INABA, Junichi NAKAYAMA, Yuichiro YAMAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220266650
    Abstract: A stabilizer is a stabilizer including: a main body cylinder portion which is elastically deformable and a pair of connection plate portions respectively connected to a pair of left and right suspension devices, wherein the connection plate portion includes a pair of base material portions located on both sides in the connection plate portion in a plate thickness direction T and an alloy oxide region which is disposed between the pair of base material portions and in which alloy oxides are scattered, and wherein crystal grains constituting the pair of base material portions straddle the alloy oxide region in the plate thickness direction and the pair of base material portions are joined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Masato INABA, Junichi NAKAYAMA, Yuichiro YAMAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220152689
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stabilizer, the stabilizer including a main body bar that is elastically deformable, and a pair of connecting plates that are separately connected to a pair of left and right suspension devices, the method including a forging step of forming the connecting pate by forging both end portions of a material tube, in which in the forging step, both end portions of the material tube are crushed in a radial direction to be formed into the connecting plate in a state where a sealing metal plate heated to a temperature equal to or higher than a melting point is disposed inside both end portions of the material tube heated to a temperature lower than the melting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi MIZUKAMI, Masato INABA, Masato SUGAWARA, Michiya MASUDA
  • Patent number: 10464786
    Abstract: A flat storage facility includes a storage/retrieval device having a Y-direction moving member that is horizontally movable at a certain height above a storage item placement plane. A carriage is horizontally movable in an X direction on the Y-direction moving member, and a storage item gripping mechanism is provided in the carriage. The storage/retrieval device performs storage/retrieval on a storage item between the storage/retrieval device and respective storage item placement points set on the storage item placement plane. The storage item placement plane is divided into a plurality of unit sections at various heights with respect to a reference plane. When the storage/retrieval operation is performed with the storage/retrieval device, the lowering distance of the storage item gripping mechanism with respect to the carriage is adjusted according to the height of the unit section to which the storage item placement point of a storage/retrieval target belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Miyoshi, Masato Inaba, Jun Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10370224
    Abstract: A flat storage facility includes a storage/retrieval device having a Y-direction moving member with a length corresponding to the width of a storage item placement plane in an X direction and that is movable in a forward/backward Y direction of the storage item placement plane. A carriage is supported on the Y-direction moving member and is movable in the X direction. A storage item gripping mechanism is supported on the carriage so as to be freely raised and lowered. Lowering of the storage item gripping mechanism is controlled such that downward flexural deformation distances between end portions of the Y-direction moving member in the X direction are determined. Lowering distance adjustment values of the storage item gripping mechanism for the storage item placement points are set based on the downward flexural deformation distances, and lowering distances of the storage item gripping mechanism are reduced by the lowering distance adjustment values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Miyoshi, Jun Hamaguchi, Masato Inaba
  • Patent number: 10233039
    Abstract: A raising/lowering conveyance apparatus has at least two sets of container holders operable to be raised/lowered in conjunction with each other, and to be freely movable closer to or away from containers in the back-and-forth horizontal direction. A sensor operable to detect the upper end height of the transferred containers which have been transferred and raised is attached to a position near the lower end of each container holder, to determine abnormality in posture of the transferred containers through a comparison operation between the value of the upper end height of the transferred containers detected by the sensor and the normal value of the upper end height of the transferred containers calculated on the basis of the height of the container being handled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Miyoshi, Jun Hamaguchi, Masato Inaba
  • Publication number: 20180086609
    Abstract: A flat storage facility includes a storage/retrieval device having a Y-direction moving member that is horizontally movable at a certain height above a storage item placement plane. A carriage is horizontally movable in an X direction on the Y-direction moving member, and a storage item gripping mechanism is provided in the carriage. The storage/retrieval device performs storage/retrieval on a storage item between the storage/retrieval device and respective storage item placement points set on the storage item placement plane. The storage item placement plane is divided into a plurality of unit sections at various heights with respect to a reference plane. When the storage/retrieval operation is performed with the storage/retrieval device, the lowering distance of the storage item gripping mechanism with respect to the carriage is adjusted according to the height of the unit section to which the storage item placement point of a storage/retrieval target belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Miyoshi, Masato Inaba, Jun Hamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20180086608
    Abstract: A flat storage facility includes a storage/retrieval device having a Y-direction moving member with a length corresponding to the width of a storage item placement plane in an X direction and that is movable in a forward/backward Y direction of the storage item placement plane. A carriage is supported on the Y-direction moving member and is movable in the X direction. A storage item gripping mechanism is supported on the carriage so as to be freely raised and lowered. Lowering of the storage item gripping mechanism is controlled such that downward flexural deformation distances between end portions of the Y-direction moving member in the X direction are determined. Lowering distance adjustment values of the storage item gripping mechanism for the storage item placement points are set based on the downward flexural deformation distances, and lowering distances of the storage item gripping mechanism are reduced by the lowering distance adjustment values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Miyoshi, Jun Hamaguchi, Masato Inaba
  • Publication number: 20170267469
    Abstract: A raising/lowering conveyance apparatus has at least two sets of container holders operable to be raised/lowered in conjunction with each other, and to be freely movable closer to or away from containers in the back-and-forth horizontal direction. A sensor operable to detect the upper end height of the transferred containers which have been transferred and raised is attached to a position near the lower end of each container holder, to determine abnormality in posture of the transferred containers through a comparison operation between the value of the upper end height of the transferred containers detected by the sensor and the normal value of the upper end height of the transferred containers calculated on the basis of the height of the container being handled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Miyoshi, Jun Hamaguchi, Masato Inaba
  • Patent number: 6335853
    Abstract: A thermosensitive wire (15), including a pair of phosphor bronze round wires which cause a short-circuit when the ambient temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature, is laid along an induction line (14), and a protective device (25) including a DC power supply unit (33) for applying a DC voltage and a meter relay (35) for detecting that the thermosensitive wire (15) has caused a short-circuit is provided on both ends of the thermosensitive wire (15). An alarm output (35A) of the meter relay (35) is outputted to a high-frequency generating circuit (24) so as to shut down a high-frequency current to be supplied to the induction line (14). With this structure, even when a metal such as a tool made of iron is erroneously set near the induction line (14), the heating thereof may be detected by using the thermosensitive wire (15) and the high-frequency current flowing through the induction line (14) may be shut down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitagawa, Masato Inaba, Kazutoshi Takeda