Patents by Inventor Masato Takeda

Masato Takeda 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: 10294644
    Abstract: Afforded are: a toilet body including a toilet bowl part, a rim conduit 36, and a rim part; and a functional component mounted on an upper surface part of the toilet body, rearward of the toilet bowl part. The upper surface part includes a cut-out part formed such as to be recessed downward from the other part of the upper surface part. The functional component is disposed on the cut-out part such as to be partially positioned downward with respect to an upper surface of the rim part, and such as to be partially stuck out into the toilet bowl part from upon the cut-out part, and, on a bottom surface of the stuck-out part, the functional component is provided with a conduit forming surface serving as an upper surface of the rim conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: LIXIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiya Saeki, Hiroaki Watanabe, Yukihiro Inoue, Tooru Higashino, Masato Takeda, Akiya Oohira, Takeya Ichiyanagi, Yasuhiro Kondo, Hironao Inoue, Tetsuo Hata
  • Patent number: 10158302
    Abstract: Electric power equipment such as a lawn mower is provided with a travel unit driven by a travel motor for propelling the equipment, a work unit driven by a work motor to perform prescribed work such as cutting grass as the equipment travels, a battery for powering the motors, and a control unit which is configured to lower a rotational speed of the travel motor according to a decrease in the voltage or the remaining charge of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Fukano, Masato Takeda, Keisuke Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20180152121
    Abstract: Electric power equipment such as a lawn mower is provided with a travel unit driven by a travel motor for propelling the equipment, a work unit driven by a work motor to perform prescribed work such as cutting grass as the equipment travels, a battery for powering the motors, and a control unit which is configured to lower a rotational speed of the travel motor according to a decrease in the voltage or the remaining charge of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Jun FUKANO, Masato TAKEDA, Keisuke MURAOKA
  • Publication number: 20180146616
    Abstract: Electric power equipment such as a lawn mower is provided with a travel unit driven by a travel motor for propelling the equipment, a work unit driven by a work motor to perform prescribed work such as cutting grass as the equipment travels, and a control unit configured to decrease a rotational speed of the travel motor in response to an increase in a load applied to the work motor, and to increase the rotational speed of the travel motor in response to a decrease in a load applied to the work motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Jun FUKANO, Masato TAKEDA, Keisuke MURAOKA
  • Publication number: 20180128549
    Abstract: A refrigerant heat exchanger is provided and includes: a hollow container having a cylindrical shape; a plate stack disposed on an inner lower side of the hollow container, including plates each having a front side and a back side with a plurality of concavo-convex portions formed thereon which are stacked to form a first heat exchange flow passage through which a first refrigerant flows and a second heat exchange flow passage through which a second refrigerant flows; a supply pipe disposed in an interior space of the hollow container above the plate stack and configured to supply the first refrigerant to the plate stack; and a discharge pipe configured to exchange heat between the first refrigerant supplied from the supply pipe and the second refrigerant flowing through the plate stack and to discharge the first refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: MAYEKAWA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato TAKEDA, Yasushi TOMIYAMA, Iwao TERASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20170247870
    Abstract: Afforded are: a toilet body including a toilet bowl part, a rim conduit 36, and a rim part; and a functional component mounted on an upper surface part of the toilet body, rearward of the toilet bowl part. The upper surface part includes a cut-out part formed such as to be recessed downward from the other part of the upper surface part. The functional component is disposed on the cut-out part such as to be partially positioned downward with respect to an upper surface of the rim part, and such as to be partially stuck out into the toilet bowl part from upon the cut-out part, and, on a bottom surface of the stuck-out part, the functional component is provided with a conduit forming surface serving as an upper surface of the rim conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Akiya SAEKI, Hiroaki WATANABE, Yukihiro INOUE, Tooru HIGASHINO, Masato TAKEDA, Akiya OOHIRA, Takeya ICHIYANAGI, Yasuhiro KONDO, Hironao INOUE, Tetsuo HATA
  • Patent number: 8704402
    Abstract: In an apparatus for preventing theft of equipment (electric motor) having a prime mover (motor), a prime mover controller, a starter switch that allows the operator to connect/disconnect power from a power source to the prime mover; and an authenticator that acquires ID information from an electronic key through a receiver when the key is brought close thereto by the operator, and permits the controller to start the prime mover when acquired ID information is determined to correspond with authentication ID information, the starter switch is made of electrode pair that is sensitive to electrostatic capacitance, and the starter switch and the receiver are installed together on an electronic circuit board, thereby achieving the smaller structure of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Manita, Makoto Yamamura, Masato Takeda, Kosei Yamashita, Yoshihisa Shinogi, Yoshinori Maekawa
  • Patent number: 8692652
    Abstract: In an antitheft system for preventing an equipment comprising moving objects such as electric vehicles or operating machine such as lawnmower from theft, an electronic key is prepared to be carried by an operator of the equipment and stores authenticating data for identifying the operator who carries the electronic key. An authenticator is installed at the equipment and performs authentication check as to whether the electronic key is an authorized key using stored key-checking data, when the authenticating data is outputted from the electronic key, whereas an electronic key copier is provided separately from the equipment and copies the electronic key, thereby enabling to make a copy of the electronic key without activating equipment, while ensuring to prevent the equipment from theft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Takeda, Yoshihisa Shinogi, Kosei Yamashita, Kenji Kuroiwa, Masashi Manita, Yoshinori Maekawa, Makoto Yamamura
  • Patent number: 8515603
    Abstract: In an apparatus for preventing theft of equipment such as outboard motor having a prime mover (engine), a prime mover controller and an authenticator (26) that acquires ID information from an electronic key when the key is brought close thereto by an operator and gives a permission to the prime mover controller to start the prime mover when acquired ID information is determined to correspond with authentication ID information, the permission was given is stored, and the authenticator determines whether the information is stored each time when activated (S12), and gives the permission to the prime mover controller immediately when it is determined that it is stored (S32), thereby enabling to easily restart the prime mover without authentication operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Shinogi, Masato Takeda, Kosei Yamashita, Makoto Yamamura, Masashi Manita, Yoshinori Maekawa
  • Patent number: 8357018
    Abstract: In an apparatus for preventing theft of plural, such as two, outboard motors (12F, 12S) adapted to be mounted on a boat, each of the outboard motors having an engine (16F, 16S), an engine controller (24F, 24S), and an authenticator (26F, 26S) that acquires ID information (A, B) from an electronic key (30F, 30S) when the key is brought close thereto by an operator, and gives permission to the engine controller to start the engine when the acquired ID information corresponds with the authentication ID information, and communicates with the engine controller of other outboard motor to notify that the permission to start the engine was given, thereby enabling the operator to easily start the outboard motors installed on one boat and having their respective authenticators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Takeda, Yoshihisa Shinogi, Masashi Manita, Kosei Yamashita, Makoto Yamamura, Yoshinori Maekawa
  • Patent number: 8302725
    Abstract: In an apparatus for preventing theft of equipment (electric wheelchair) having a prime mover (electric motor), a prime mover controller, and an authenticator that acquires ID information from an electronic key when the key is brought close thereto by an operator, determines whether the acquired ID information corresponds with authentication ID information, and permits the controller to start the prime mover when the acquired ID information is determined to correspond with authentication ID information, the controller stores operating history of the equipment, and the authenticator acquires the history from the controller when the key is brought close thereto and transmits the acquired history to the key when the key is brought close thereto, thereby making it easy to acquire the operating history of the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Yamamura, Kosei Yamashita, Yoshihisa Shinogi, Yoshinori Maekawa, Masato Takeda, Masashi Manita
  • Patent number: 8305202
    Abstract: In an apparatus for preventing theft of equipment having a prime mover, an prime mover controller, and an authenticator that acquires ID information from an electronic key when the key is brought close thereto by an operator, and permits the prime mover controller to start the prime mover when the acquired ID information is determined to correspond with authentication ID information, data indicating a number of times the key is updated is included in the ID information, and the authenticator determines whether the number of times indicated in the data is greater than that in the authentication ID information, and when the number of times indicated in the data is greater than that in the authentication ID information, updates the authentication ID information such that it is equal to the number of times indicated in the data, thereby enabling to easily update authentication ID information of the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosei Yamashita, Masato Takeda, Makoto Yamamura, Yoshihisa Shinogi, Masashi Manita, Yoshinori Maekawa
  • Patent number: 8299892
    Abstract: In a system for preventing an equipment such as lawnmower from theft, there are equipped with an internal combustion engine that is mounted on the equipment and is equipped with a generator that generates electric operating power when the engine is operated, a recoil starter to be manipulatable by an operator to operate the engine, an electronic key that is adapted to be carried by the operator and stores authenticating data for identifying the operator who carries the electronic key; and an authenticator that is installed at the equipment and performs authentication check as to whether the electronic key is an authorized key using stored key-checking data, when the authenticating data is outputted from the electronic key. In the system, the authenticator performs the authentication check when the electric operating power is supplied from the generator, thereby enabling to be installed in battery-less equipment and ensure to prevent the equipment from theft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Manita, Yoshihisa Shinogi, Kosei Yamashita, Kenji Kuroiwa, Makoto Yamamura, Masato Takeda, Yoshinori Maekawa
  • Patent number: 8032954
    Abstract: To provide a coupling member for fixing a toilet seat device with warm-water sprays on a toilet bowl that is able to prevent a bolt from being screwed too tightly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Furukawa, Tadashi Tomita, Hideki Kawai, Toshiaki Takaba, Masato Takeda
  • Publication number: 20110133911
    Abstract: In an apparatus for preventing theft of equipment having a prime mover, an prime mover controller, and an authenticator that acquires ID information from an electronic key when the key is brought close thereto by an operator, and permits the prime mover controller to start the prime mover when the acquired ID information is determined to correspond with authentication ID information, data indicating a number of times the key is updated is included in the ID information, and the authenticator determines whether the number of times indicated in the data is greater than that in the authentication ID information, and when the number of times indicated in the data is greater than that in the authentication ID information, updates the authentication ID information such that it is equal to the number of times indicated in the data, thereby enabling to easily update authentication ID information of the equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosei YAMASHITA, Masato Takeda, Makoto Yamamura, Yoshihisa Shinogi, Masashi Manita, Yoshinori Maekawa
  • Publication number: 20110137500
    Abstract: In an apparatus for preventing theft of equipment such as outboard motor having a prime mover (engine), a prime mover controller and an authenticator (26) that acquires ID information from an electronic key when the key is brought close thereto by an operator and gives a permission to the prime mover controller to start the prime mover when acquired ID information is determined to correspond with authentication ID information, the permission was given is stored, and the authenticator determines whether the information is stored each time when activated (S12), and gives the permission to the prime mover controller immediately when it is determined that it is stored (S32), thereby enabling to easily restart the prime mover without authentication operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Shinogi, Masato Takeda, Kosei Yamashita, Makoto Yamamura, Masashi Manita, Yoshinori Maekawa
  • Publication number: 20110132680
    Abstract: In an apparatus for preventing theft of equipment (electric wheelchair) having a prime mover (electric motor), a prime mover controller, and an authenticator that acquires ID information from an electronic key when the key is brought close thereto by an operator, determines whether the acquired ID information corresponds with authentication ID information, and permits the controller to start the prime mover when the acquired ID information is determined to correspond with authentication ID information, the controller stores operating history of the equipment, and the authenticator acquires the history from the controller when the key is brought close thereto and transmits the acquired history to the key when the key is brought close thereto, thereby making it easy to acquire the operating history of the equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto YAMAMURA, Kosei Yamashita, Yoshihisa Shinogi, Yoshinori Maekawa, Masato Takeda, Masashi Manita
  • Publication number: 20110133550
    Abstract: In an apparatus for preventing theft of equipment (electric motor) having a prime mover (motor), a prime mover controller, a starter switch that allows the operator to connect/disconnect power from a power source to the prime mover; and an authenticator that acquires ID information from an electronic key through a receiver when the key is brought close thereto by the operator, and permits the controller to start the prime mover when acquired ID information is determined to correspond with authentication ID information, the starter switch is made of electrode pair that is sensitive to electrostatic capacitance, and the starter switch and the receiver are installed together on an electronic circuit board, thereby achieving the smaller structure of the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Manita, Makoto Yamamura, Masato Takeda, Kosei Yamashita, Yoshihisa Shinogi, Yoshinori Maekawa
  • Publication number: 20110136398
    Abstract: In an apparatus for preventing theft of plural, such as two, outboard motors (12F, 12S) adapted to be mounted on a boat, each of the outboard motors having an engine (16F, 16S), an engine controller (24F, 24S), and an authenticator (26F, 26S) that acquires ID information (A, B) from an electronic key (30F, 30S) when the key is brought close thereto by an operator, and gives permission to the engine controller to start the engine when the acquired ID information corresponds with the authentication ID information, and communicates with the engine controller of other outboard motor to notify that the permission to start the engine was given, thereby enabling the operator to easily start the outboard motors installed on one boat and having their respective authenticators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: MASATO TAKEDA, YOSHIHISA SHINOGI, MASASHI MANITA, KOSEI YAMASHITA, MAKOTO YAMAMURA, YOSHINORI MAEKAWA
  • Publication number: 20100007459
    Abstract: In a system for preventing an equipment such as lawnmower from theft, there are equipped with an internal combustion engine that is mounted on the equipment and is equipped with a generator that generates electric operating power when the engine is operated, a recoil starter to be manipulatable by an operator to operate the engine, an electronic key that is adapted to be carried by the operator and stores authenticating data for identifying the operator who carries the electronic key; and an authenticator that is installed at the equipment and performs authentication check as to whether the electronic key is an authorized key using stored key-checking data, when the authenticating data is outputted from the electronic key. In the system, the authenticator performs the authentication check when the electric operating power is supplied from the generator, thereby enabling to be installed in battery-less equipment and ensure to prevent the equipment from theft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Manita, Yoshihisa Shinogi, Kosei Yamashita, Kenji Kuroiwa, Makoto Yamamura, Masato Takeda, Yoshinori Maekawa