Patents by Inventor Naoki Fujimoto
Naoki Fujimoto 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: 10323294Abstract: Provided is an austenitic stainless steel foil that demonstrates a high degree of stretch formability and little deformation anisotropy with respect to stretch forming despite having a sheet thickness of 60 ?m or less. The austenitic stainless steel foil of the present invention has a sheet thickness of 5 ?m to 60 ?m, a recrystallization rate of 90% to 100%, and a texture in which the total of the area ratio of a crystal orientation in which the difference in orientation from the {112}<111> orientation is within 10°, the area ratio of a crystal orientation in which the difference in orientation from the {110}<112> orientation is within 10°, and the area ratio of a crystal orientation in which the difference in orientation from the {110}<001> orientation is within 10°, in a measuring field thereof, is 20% or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroto Unno, Naoya Sawaki, Naoki Fujimoto, Masahiro Fukuda, Tomohiro Uno, Toru Inaguma
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Patent number: 10319969Abstract: Provided is a lead-acid battery which includes: an element; an electrolyte solution; a container housing the element and the electrolyte solution; and a lid member sealing the container, wherein the lid member includes: a middle lid covering the container; an upper lid welded to an upper portion of the middle lid in an overlapping manner; and an exhaust passage arranged between the middle lid and the upper lid, through which an inside of the container is communicated with an outside, wherein a bottom surface of the exhaust passage is inclined such that the solution in the passage returns into the container, and the upper lids include: a passage wall welded to the middle lid and forming a side wall of the exhaust passage; and a transverse wall formed on a ceiling surface of the exhaust passage and traversing the exhaust passage, and a lower end portion of the transverse wall is positioned above a welded portion between the passage wall and the middle lid.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventor: Naoki Fujimoto
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Patent number: 10308313Abstract: A bicycle operating device comprises a base member and an operating member. The base member includes a hydraulic-unit attachment part to which a hydraulic unit is to be attached, and a first end portion to be mounted to a handlebar. The operating member is movably coupled to the base member. The operating member includes a first wire attachment part to which a first wire end of a control wire is to be attached.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Yoshimitsu Miki, Shun Kakehashi, Naoki Fujimoto, Shohei Yonehama, Tsuyoshi Nakamura
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Patent number: 10283283Abstract: A separator for an electric double-layer capacitor is provided having a double-layer structure made of a fibrous layer A obtained by papermaking using a Fourdrinier net or a tanmo net, and a fibrous layer B obtained by papermaking using a cylinder net. The fibrous layer A is a layer that is refined until a CSF value decreases once to 0 ml (lower limit), and further refined until it turns to rise to 10 to 600 ml, the fibrous layer B is a layer that is refined until a CSF value of 700 to 0 ml, and the fibrous layer A and the fibrous layer B contain 70% by mass or more refinable, regenerated cellulose fibers. The density of the entire double-layer structure is 0.25 to 0.65 g/cm3, and the thickness of the same is 10 to 150 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: NIPPON KODOSHI CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi Ichimura, Naoki Fujimoto, Norihiro Wada, Gaku Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20190127023Abstract: A bicycle chain guide includes a base and a chain guide. The base is configured to be mounted to a bicycle that includes a solitary sprocket having a rotational center axis. The chain guide is disposed above the solitary bicycle sprocket in a mounted state where the base is mounted to the bicycle. The chain guide includes a first guide plate, a second guide plate, and a bridge. The first guide plate has a first guiding surface. The second guide plate is closer to the base than the first guide plate and has a second guiding surface facing the first guiding surface to define a chain guiding slot between the first guiding surface and the second guiding surface. The bridge connects the first guide plate and the second guide plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: SHIMANO INC.Inventor: Naoki FUJIMOTO
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Patent number: 10259522Abstract: A bicycle operating device comprises a base member and an operating member. The base member includes a hydraulic-unit attachment part to which a hydraulic unit is to be attached, and a first end portion to be mounted to a handlebar. The operating member is movably coupled to the base member. The operating member includes a first wire attachment part to which a first wire end of a control wire is to be attached.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Yoshimitsu Miki, Shun Kakehashi, Naoki Fujimoto, Shohei Yonehama, Tsuyoshi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20190088416Abstract: Provided is an electrochemical device separator that can reduce the amount of gas produced within a casing and can suppress an increase in pressure after said electrochemical device has been manufactured. The electrochemical device separator, which is interposed between a pair of electrodes and is capable of retaining an electrolytic solution containing an electrolyte, is configured such that the total chlorine content according to quartz tube combustion gas absorption ion chromatography is 10 ppm or less, the total sulfur content according to the abovementioned ion chromatography is 100 ppm or less, and the R18 value according to TAPPI T 235 cm-09 is 90% or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2016Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: NIPPON KODOSHI CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya MURAOKA, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Kosuke TANAKA, Kazuyuki SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 10189532Abstract: A bicycle operating device comprises a base member, an operating unit, and a support shaft. The operating unit includes a rotatable member rotatable relative to the base member about a first rotational axis to control a bicycle component. The operating unit has a first operating unit end supported by the base member and a second operating unit end opposite to the first operating unit end along the first rotational axis. The support shaft extends in a direction non-parallel to the first rotational axis and couples the second operating unit end to the base member. The support shaft has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. The first end and the second end are supported by the base member.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Kentaro Kosaka, Shinji Kawamura, Yoshimitsu Miki, Naoki Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20190013146Abstract: A surge voltage reduction member includes a tubular magnetic body having a through-hole and at least one coil wire. The coil wire is inserted through the through-hole and has a winding portion which is winded around a portion of the magnetic body. The coil wire is formed by connecting a bent coil element wire and a straight coil element wire. Where the coil wire has two or more bent coil element wires, the winding portion is formed by connecting the through-hole passing portion of one of adjacent bent coil element wires to the outside passing portion of the other of the adjacent bent coil element wires and connecting the outside passing portion of the one of the adjacent bent coil element wires to the straight coil element wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Yasuhiro YAMAGUCHI, Hayato IIZUKA, Hiroaki IMAI, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Hiroshi AIHARA
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Patent number: 10173746Abstract: A bicycle operating device comprises a base member and an operating member. The operating member includes an adapter, an operating lever, and an operating shaft. The adapter includes a center cross sectional area and a first cross sectional area. The center cross sectional area is defined on a center cross sectional plane perpendicular to the pivot axis. The first cross sectional area is defined on a first cross sectional plane perpendicular to the pivot axis. The first cross sectional area is offset from the center cross sectional area in a second direction parallel to the pivot axis. The first cross sectional area is larger than the center cross sectional area.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Naoki Fujimoto, Kentaro Kosaka
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Patent number: 10135048Abstract: Provided is a lead-acid battery which includes: a power generating element; an electrolyte solution; a container which houses the power generating element and the electrolyte solution; and a lid member which is configured to seal the container and in which an exhaust space and a sleeve member are formed, the exhaust space communicating with an outside, an inside of the container being communicated with the exhaust space through the sleeve member. A bottom surface of the exhaust space is inclined such that a solution in the space returns to the inside of the container. The sleeve member has blocking elements arranged in a spaced-apart manner in an extending direction of the sleeve member. The inside of the container is communicated with the exhaust space through a space formed between the blocking elements.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: GS Yuasa Internationl Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Fujimoto, Kenji Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20180315551Abstract: Provided is a separator having excellent tearing strength, denseness, and impedance performance, and an aluminum electrolytic capacitor provided with the separator. The present invention constitutes a separator including beatable regenerated cellulose fibers, the separator having a CSF value X[ml] and tear index Y[mN·m2/g] within the ranges satisfying the following formulae. The present invention also constitutes an aluminum electrolytic capacitor in which at least one of the separators is used, the capacitor feeing formed by interposing the separator between an anode and a cathode. 0?X?300 ??Formula 1 15?Y?100 ??Formula 2 Y?0.175 X?2.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2016Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: NIPPON KODOSHI CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi IGAWA, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Akiyoshi TAKEUCHI, Norihiro WADA
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Patent number: 10115936Abstract: A lead-acid battery including: a power generating element; and a container accommodating the power generating element and having a narrowed portion that is partially provided at an outer wall and reduces an internal space, wherein the container has a corner of a thick portion that is thickened inward within a range not inwardly beyond the narrowed portion to be thicker than the outer wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Fujimoto, Sosuke Fujita
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Publication number: 20180309025Abstract: A light-emitting device of the present disclosure includes: at least one first semiconductor layer of one conductivity type; a plurality of active layers laminated on the first semiconductor layer; a plurality of second semiconductor layers of another conductivity type, the plurality of second semiconductor layers being laminated on the plurality of active layers; and a plurality of electrodes connected to the at least one first semiconductor layer and the plurality of second semiconductor layers. Some electrodes of the plurality of electrodes are opposed to each other, with the plurality of active layers lying in between, and the other electrodes of the plurality of electrodes are located in a region between the some electrodes of the plurality of electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2016Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Tatsuya KISHIMOTO, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Toshihiro ANZAKI, Kenji UEHARA
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Publication number: 20180301585Abstract: A light receiving and emitting element module includes a wiring substrate; a light emitting element and a light receiving element which are disposed on the wiring substrate; and a lens member having a lens portion, a support portion configured to support the lens portion disposed above the light emitting element and the light receiving element and a column disposed on a lower surface of the support portion, wherein a tip end of the column is in contact with an upper surface of the wiring substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventor: Naoki FUJIMOTO
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Patent number: 10096946Abstract: A wire connection structure includes a ring-shaped magnetic body, a first wire having a first wire end portion which is inserted through the ring-shaped magnetic body from a first direction, a second wire having a second wire end portion which is inserted through the ring-shaped magnetic body from a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a conductive member which is disposed outside the ring-shaped magnetic body and has two end portions that are electrically connected to a conductor of the first wire end portion and a conductor of the second wire end portion respectively.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Hayato Iizuka, Naoki Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20180282834Abstract: The present invention provide a ferritic stainless steel foil high in stretch-expand formability and further small in anisotropy of deformation with respect to stretch-expand forming even with ultrathin steel foil with a thickness of 60 ?m or less. The present invention is a ferritic stainless steel foil having a thickness of 5 ?m to 60 ?m, wherein a recrystallization rate of said stainless steel foil is 90% to 100%, and in an orientation distribution function obtained by analysis of a crystalline texture of said stainless steel foil, when a Euler angle ?2 is 45°±10°, at the plane expressed by a Euler angle ? of 53.4°±10°, the maximum peak strength ratio in the peak strength ratios shown by orientations corresponding to the Euler angle ?1 is 25 or less, where the Euler angle ?1 is 0 to 90°.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2016Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroto UNNO, Naoya SAWAKI, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Masahiro FUKUDA, Tomohiro UNO, Toru INAGUMA
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Publication number: 20180237882Abstract: Provided is an austenitic stainless steel foil that demonstrates a high degree of stretch formability and little deformation anisotropy with respect to stretch forming despite having a sheet thickness of 60 ?m or less. The austenitic stainless steel foil of the present invention has a sheet thickness of 5 ?m to 60 ?m, a recrystallization rate of 90% to 100%, and a texture in which the total of the area ratio of a crystal orientation in which the difference in orientation from the {112}<111> orientation is within 10°, the area ratio of a crystal orientation in which the difference in orientation from the {110}<112> orientation is within 10°, and the area ratio of a crystal orientation in which the difference in orientation from the {110}<001> orientation is within 10°, in a measuring field thereof, is 20% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2016Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroto UNNO, Naoya SAWAKI, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Masahiro FUKUDA, Tomohiro UNO, Toru INAGUMA
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Publication number: 20180229476Abstract: The present invention provide a ferritic stainless steel foil having a high thickness precision even with a thickness 60 ?m or less ultrathin stainless steel foil and simultaneously having a plastic deformation ability and good elongation at break, that is, having a good press-formability (deep drawing ability). The present invention is a stainless steel foil having a thickness of 5 ?m to 60 ?m, wherein a recrystallization ratio of said stainless steel foil is 90% to 100%, a surface layer of said stainless steel foil has a nitrogen concentration of 1.0 mass % or less, three or more crystal grains are contained in the thickness direction of said stainless steel foil, an average crystal grain diameter “d” of said crystal grains is 1 ?m to 10 ?m, and, when said thickness is “t” (?m), an area ratio of crystal grains having a crystal grain diameter of t/3 (?m) or more is 20% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2016Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroto UNNO, Naoya SAWAKI, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Masahiro FUKUDA, Tomohiro UNO, Toru INAGUMA
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Publication number: 20180215439Abstract: A bicycle operating device comprises a base member and an operating member. The operating member includes an adapter, an operating lever, and an operating shaft. The adapter includes a center cross sectional area and a first cross sectional area. The center cross sectional area is defined on a center cross sectional plane perpendicular to the pivot axis. The first cross sectional area is defined on a first cross sectional plane perpendicular to the pivot axis. The first cross sectional area is offset from the center cross sectional area in a second direction parallel to the pivot axis. The first cross sectional area is larger than the center cross sectional area.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Naoki FUJIMOTO, Kentaro KOSAKA