Patents by Inventor Osamu Aoki
Osamu Aoki 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: 11492995Abstract: A method of manufacturing an internal combustion engine is provided. The engine includes a cylinder forming member, a piston reciprocatably accommodated in a cylinder, an injector which supplies fuel into a combustion chamber, and a heat insulating layer covering at least a part of a combustion-chamber wall surface and having a lower heat conductivity than the combustion-chamber wall surface. The method includes applying a coating material that is a material of the heat insulating layer to the combustion-chamber wall surface, assembling the piston to the cylinder forming member while the coating material is uncured, and heating the coating material to be cured by combusting the fuel injected from the injector and reciprocating the piston. The heating the coating material includes injecting the fuel from the injector at least in an early stage of the heating so that the injected fuel adhering to the surface of the coating material is suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Osamu Aoki, Kenji Uchida, Yoshihisa Nakamoto, Keisuke Okihama, Akira Kuramochi
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Patent number: 11460510Abstract: A means for detecting the generation of electrodeposition of metal lithium in an all-solid-state lithium-ion secondary battery in a real-time manner is developed even when charging the battery without depending on the specifications of the battery. A system measures alternate current impedance of an all-solid-state lithium-ion secondary battery when charging the battery, and judges whether electrodeposition of metal lithium has generated in a solid-electrolyte layer forming the battery based on the relationship between the amplitude of the response signal at discharge direction of the impedance and the amplitude of the response signal at charge direction of the impedance.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Renault S.A.S.Inventor: Osamu Aoki
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Publication number: 20220299572Abstract: A means for detecting the generation of electrodeposition of metal lithium in an all-solid-state lithium-ion secondary battery in a real-time manner is developed even when charging the battery without depending on the specifications of the battery. A system measures alternate current impedance of an all-solid-state lithium-ion secondary battery when charging the battery, and judges whether electrodeposition of metal lithium has generated in a solid-electrolyte layer forming the battery based on the relationship between the amplitude of the response signal at discharge direction of the impedance and the amplitude of the response signal at charge direction of the impedance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventor: Osamu Aoki
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Patent number: 11286850Abstract: A combustion chamber structure for an engine includes a combustion chamber that is defined by a cylinder block, a cylinder head, and a piston. The cylinder head includes: a head body that has a lower surface opposing the combustion chamber; and a coat layer that covers the lower surface. The coat layer includes: a heat-insulating layer that is arranged in a region, which opposes a cavity, in the lower surface and has a lower thermal conductivity than the head body; a heat-shielding layer that is arranged to cover the lower surface and has a lower thermal conductivity than the head body and the heat-insulating layer; and a heat diffusion layer that is arranged between the heat-insulating layer and the heat-shielding layer and has a higher thermal conductivity. The heat diffusion layer includes a side end edge and an extending portion, each of which abuts the head body.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Nou, Osamu Aoki, Yuji Harada, Kenji Uchida, Xiyao Ge
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Publication number: 20210332750Abstract: A combustion chamber is defined by a cylinder block, a cylinder head, and a piston. The cylinder block includes a block body that has a cylinder inner wall covered by a coat layer. The coat layer includes: a heat-shielding layer that covers an upper end of the cylinder inner wall, a piston ring not slidingly contacting the upper end; a heat-insulating layer arranged on a back side of the heat-shielding layer; and a heat diffusion layer arranged between the heat-insulating layer and the heat-shielding layer. Regarding thermal conductivity, the heat-insulating layer is lower than the block body, the heat-shielding layer is lower than the block body and the heat-insulating layer, and the heat diffusion layer is higher than the heat-insulating layer and the heat-shielding layer. The heat diffusion layer includes a side end edge and an extending portion, each of which abuts the block body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Yoshihisa Nou, Osamu Aoki, Yuji Harada, Kenji Uchida, Xiyao Ge
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Publication number: 20210332749Abstract: A combustion chamber structure for an engine includes a combustion chamber that is defined by a cylinder block, a cylinder head, and a piston. The cylinder head includes: a head body that has a lower surface opposing the combustion chamber; and a coat layer that covers the lower surface. The coat layer includes: a heat-insulating layer that is arranged in a region, which opposes a cavity, in the lower surface and has a lower thermal conductivity than the head body; a heat-shielding layer that is arranged to cover the lower surface and has a lower thermal conductivity than the head body and the heat-insulating layer; and a heat diffusion layer that is arranged between the heat-insulating layer and the heat-shielding layer and has a higher thermal conductivity. The heat diffusion layer includes a side end edge and an extending portion, each of which abuts the head body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Yoshihisa Nou, Osamu Aoki, Yuji Harada, Kenji Uchida, Xiyao Ge
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Publication number: 20210310401Abstract: A combustion-chamber structure of an engine comprises a combustion chamber which is partitioned by a cylinder block, a cylinder head, a piston, an intake valve, and an exhaust valve. The intake valve (exhaust valve) comprises an intake valve body including an umbrella part having a valve head and a valve face, a heat-insulation layer provided at the valve head and having smaller heat conductivity than the valve body, a heat-barrier layer provided to cover the valve head with the heat-insulation layer and having smaller heat conductivity than the valve body and the heat-insulation layer, and a heat-diffusion layer provided between the heat-insulation layer and the heat-barrier layer and having larger heat conductivity than the heat-insulation layer and the heat-barrier layer. The heat-diffusion layer comprises a contact portion which contacts with the cylinder head when the intake valve is closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihisa NOU, Osamu AOKI, Yuji HARADA, Kenji UCHIDA, Xiyao GE
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Patent number: 11078866Abstract: A combustion-chamber structure of an engine comprises a combustion chamber which is partitioned by a cylinder block, a cylinder head, and a piston. The piston includes a piston body having an upper surface facing the combustion chamber, a heat-insulation layer provided at least in a central area, in a radial direction, of the upper surface and having smaller heat conductivity than the piston body, a heat-barrier layer provided to cover the upper surface and having smaller heat conductivity than the piston body and the heat-insulation layer, and a heat-diffusion layer provided between the heat-insulation layer and the heat-barrier layer and having larger heat conductivity than the heat-insulation layer and the heat-barrier layer. The heat-diffusion layer comprises a side end edge and an extension portion which contact with the piston body.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihisa Nou, Osamu Aoki, Yuji Harada, Kenji Uchida, Xiyao Ge
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Publication number: 20210180538Abstract: A method of manufacturing an internal combustion engine is provided. The engine includes a cylinder forming member, a piston reciprocatably accommodated in a cylinder, an injector which supplies fuel into a combustion chamber, and a heat insulating layer covering at least a part of a combustion-chamber wall surface and having a lower heat conductivity than the combustion-chamber wall surface. The method includes applying a coating material that is a material of the heat insulating layer to the combustion-chamber wall surface, assembling the piston to the cylinder forming member while the coating material is uncured, and heating the coating material to be cured by combusting the fuel injected from the injector and reciprocating the piston. The heating the coating material includes injecting the fuel from the injector at least in an early stage of the heating so that the injected fuel adhering to the surface of the coating material is suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Osamu Aoki, Kenji Uchida, Yoshihisa Nakamoto, Keisuke Okihama, Akira Kuramochi
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Patent number: 10838938Abstract: The present invention provides a process monitorer, a process monitoring system, a process monitoring method, a process monitoring program, and a recording medium for monitoring processes in real time. The process monitorer including: a process information acquirer for acquiring process information indicating a state of a process provided from an industrial device; an indexed information generator for generating the indexed information indexed by a predetermined index based on the process information; a threshold acquirer for acquiring a threshold of the indexed information; a result of the determination generator for generating the result of the determination of the indexed information based on the threshold; a result of the determination notifier for notifying the result of the determination; an indexed information recorder for recording the indexed information; and a chart generator for generating a chart based on the indexed information.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Nobuhiro Niina, Eiji Taya, Osamu Aoki
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Patent number: 10634247Abstract: Disclosed is an engine piston structure including an outer peripheral portion (6) formed along an outer shape of a piston (1), and having a predetermined thickness, a pair of piston pin supporters (7) having peripheral walls (7b) having a predetermined thickness, and couplers (8) each coupling the pair of the piston pin supporters (7) to the outer peripheral portion (6). The outer peripheral portion (6) and the peripheral walls (7b) of the piston pin supporters (7) are solid. Each of the coupler (8) is porous. The outer peripheral portion (6), the piston pin supporters (7), and the couplers (8) are made of a metal material and are integrally formed together.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuo Ichikawa, Osamu Aoki, Takashi Ikai, Kouichi Nakano, Yoshiyuki Koga, Shinichi Fujimaki
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Patent number: 10260451Abstract: An object of the present invention is to, while forming a heat insulating layer on a squish area surface of a top surface of a piston main body, prevent generation of large cracks on the heat insulating layer and suppress damages and peeling of the heat insulating layer. To achieve this object, in the present invention, a heat insulating layer on a squish area surface of a top surface of a piston main body is made thinner than a heat insulating layer on a cavity surface of the top surface of the piston main body.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Takashi Ikai, Osamu Aoki, Kazuo Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20180335140Abstract: Disclosed is an engine piston structure including an outer peripheral portion (6) formed along an outer shape of a piston (1), and having a predetermined thickness, a pair of piston pin supporters (7) having peripheral walls (7b) having a predetermined thickness, and couplers (8) each coupling the pair of the piston pin supporters (7) to the outer peripheral portion (6). The outer peripheral portion (6) and the peripheral walls (7b) of the piston pin supporters (7) are solid. Each of the coupler (8) is porous. The outer peripheral portion (6), the piston pin supporters (7), and the couplers (8) are made of a metal material and are integrally formed together.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2016Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuo ICHIKAWA, Osamu AOKI, Takashi IKAI, Kouichi NAKANO, Yoshiyuki KOGA, Shinichi FUJIMAKI
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Patent number: 10126185Abstract: An input device 1 comprises a sensor circuit 91 which includes a pressure-sensitive sensor 50 and a first fixed resistor 914 which is electrically connected in series to the pressure-sensitive sensor 50. A resistance value Rf of the first fixed resistor 914 satisfies the following expression (1). In the expression (1), RsHL is a resistance value of the pressure-sensitive sensor 50 when ½ of the maximum working load of the pressure-sensitive sensor 50 is applied, and Co is a resistance correction coefficient within the range of 1/16 to 1/1.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki Watanabe, Makoto Takamatsu, Osamu Aoki, Yasuyuki Tachikawa
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Patent number: 9882561Abstract: An input device includes an insulation substrate, a switch element, and a detection portion. The switch element includes a fixed electrode portion that is provided on the substrate, and a movable electrode portion that is provided on a main surface side of the substrate, at least part of the movable electrode portion being elastically displaceable toward a direction approaching and leaving the fixed electrode portion. The movable electrode portion is displaceable toward a direction approaching the fixed electrode portion due to pressure from an object to be detected that is an electric conductor. The detection portion is capable of detecting a capacitance change caused by the object to be detected approaching and leaving the movable electrode portion and a capacitance change between the movable electrode portion and the fixed electrode portion produced by displacement of the movable electrode portion due to pressing.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2014Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Yohei Kurikawa, Wataru Kondo, Makoto Takamatsu, Yoshinori Sano, Toshimizu Tomitsuka, Yasushi Ono, Osamu Aoki, Shinsuke Aoshima, Yasuyuki Tachikawa
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Publication number: 20170328300Abstract: An object of the present invention is to, while forming a heat insulating layer on a squish area surface of a top surface of a piston main body, prevent generation of large cracks on the heat insulating layer and suppress damages and peeling of the heat insulating layer. To achieve this object, in the present invention, a heat insulating layer on a squish area surface of a top surface of a piston main body is made thinner than a heat insulating layer on a cavity surface of the top surface of the piston main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2016Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: Takashi Ikai, Osamu Aoki, Kazuo Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20170262480Abstract: The present invention provides a process monitorer, a process monitoring system, a process monitoring method, a process monitoring program, and a recording medium for monitoring processes in real time. The process monitorer including: a process information acquirer for acquiring process information indicating a state of a process provided from an industrial device; an indexed information generator for generating the indexed information indexed by a predetermined index based on the process information; a threshold acquirer for acquiring a threshold of the indexed information; a result of the determination generator for generating the result of the determination of the indexed information based on the threshold; a result of the determination notifier for notifying the result of the determination; an indexed information recorder for recording the indexed information; and a chart generator for generating a chart based on the indexed information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2017Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Nobuhiro NIIA, Eiji TAYA, Osamu AOKI
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Patent number: 9742080Abstract: A first case is integrally provided with a connection housing open to a side of the first case. A second case is integrally provided with a support base projecting toward the first case and facing inside the connection housing from a window provided in the connection housing. A bus bar included in a connection terminal disposed inside the connection housing is provided along the support base and is interposed between the support base and the first case, and is positioned in a projecting direction of the connection terminal.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignees: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiyofumi Kawaguchi, Osamu Aoki, Shunji Taga, Shunsuke Amagai
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Patent number: 9637072Abstract: An electrical connection box includes a terminal supporting wall that has a rescue terminal portion of a bus bar arranged on the front surface and is provided as a single piece with a block main body, and a cover member that exposes and covers the terminal supporting wall and the rescue terminal portion. Bearing holes are provided in the terminal supporting wall on one end side in the left-right direction, rotation support shaft portions that are rotatably fitted into the bearing holes are provided as protrusions on the cover member, the rescue terminal portion is exposed by rotating the cover member from an opening/closing end on the other end side in the left-right direction with the rotation support shaft portions serving as fulcrums, and ribs for holding the cover member in an isolating state are provided as protrusions on the opening/closing end side of the cover member and are semi-locked into latching depressions provided on the terminal supporting wall.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Aoki, Takashi Shiraki
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Publication number: 20170024049Abstract: An input device 1 includes a panel unit 10, a pressure-sensitive sensor 60 which detects a pressing force applied through the panel unit 10, a seal member 70 which is disposed outside the pressure-sensitive sensors 60, and a support member 80 which supports the panel unit 10 through the pressure-sensitive sensors 60 and the seal member 70. The thickness of the pressure-sensitive sensors 60 is relatively thinner than the thickness of the seal member 70, a space which is formed between the panel unit 10 and the support member 80 includes a first part S1 where the pressure-sensitive sensors 60 are arranged and the second part S2 where the seal member 70 is arranged, and the distance of the first part S1 is relatively narrower than the distance of the second part S2.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2014Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Yasuyuki TACHIKAWA, Toshimizu TOMITSUKA, Makoto TAKAMATSU, Osamu AOKI, Toshiaki WATANABE