Patents by Inventor Shinichi Hara

Shinichi Hara 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: 11973239
    Abstract: A protection structure for an on-board battery. The on-board battery includes a battery stack and is configured to be mounted on a vehicle. The protection structure includes a first frame, a second frame, and a fixing member. The first frame is to be coupled to an upper portion of a battery case that contains the battery stack, so as to fix the battery case to a vehicle body of the vehicle. The second frame is to be disposed above the battery case and to be coupled to the first frame. The fixing member is to be fixed to the second frame so as to suspend and support the battery stack. The second frame is to be disposed in a direction crossing a longer direction of the battery stack and at least at an approximate center in the longer direction of the battery stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Yokoyama, Toshiyuki Hara, Shinichi Kimura
  • Patent number: 11894223
    Abstract: A photoelectric tube includes a housing including a light transmitting portion, an electron emitting portion held by a recess provided in the housing, the electron emitting portion including a concave photoelectric surface facing a light transmitting portion side inside the housing, and an electron capturing portion disposed between the light transmitting portion and the photoelectric surface inside the housing. At least a part of the electron capturing portion is located inside a region on an inside of the photoelectric surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kodama, Masaki Yamada, Shinichi Hara, Naoki Umebayashi
  • Patent number: 11885879
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes a laser apparatus, a branch that branches a frequency-modulated laser beam into a reference light and a measurement light, a beat signal generator that generates a beat signal by mixing the reference light and a reflected light that is the measurement light radiated onto an object to be measured, a first analyzer that analyses a first signal component corresponding to a difference in a propagation distance between the reference light and the measurement light on the basis of the beat signal, a second analyzer that analyses a second signal component corresponding to a cavity frequency of an optical cavity on the basis of the beat signal, and calculation circuitry that calculates the difference in the propagation distance between the reference light and the measurement light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Suzuki, Shinichi Hara, Hiroki Ujihara
  • Patent number: 11867809
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes a laser apparatus, a branching part that branches a frequency-modulated laser beam output by the laser apparatus into a reference light and a measurement light; a beat signal generation part that generates a beat signal by mixing a reflected light and the reference light, a conversion part that converts the beat signal into a digital signal at a first sampling rate and frequency-analyses it, an extraction part that extracts a signal component corresponding to a cavity frequency from the frequency-modulated laser beam, a digital filter that digitally filters the extracted signal component at a second sampling rate; and a calculation part that calculates a difference in a propagation distance between the reference light and the measurement light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Suzuki, Shinichi Hara, Shinji Komatsuzaki, Ryusuke Kato, Hiroki Ujihara, Masayuki Nara, Tomotaka Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20230352285
    Abstract: A photoelectric tube includes a housing including a light transmitting portion, an electron emitting portion held by a recess provided in the housing, the electron emitting portion including a concave photoelectric surface facing a light transmitting portion side inside the housing, and an electron capturing portion disposed between the light transmitting portion and the photoelectric surface inside the housing. At least a part of the electron capturing portion is located inside a region on an inside of the photoelectric surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi KODAMA, Masaki YAMADA, Shinichi HARA, Naoki UMEBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230242401
    Abstract: High-purity gallium nitride particles having a low oxygen content suitable for a raw material or a sintered body is provided. Gallium nitride particles characterized in that the oxygen content is 0.5 at % or less and the total impurity amount of elements, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Zn and Cd, is less than 10 wtppm are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Masami MESUDA, Hideto KURAMOCHI, Shinichi HARA
  • Patent number: 11635518
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus, including: a laser apparatus that outputs a frequency-modulated laser beam with a plurality of modes; a branching part that branches the frequency-modulated laser beam into a reference light and a measurement light; a beat signal generation part that generates a plurality of beat signals by mixing the reference light and a reflected light that is reflected by radiating the measurement light onto an object to be measured; a conversion part that converts the plurality of beat signals into digital signals by sampling the beat signals at a frequency greater than or equal to four times a resonator frequency of the laser resonator; and a calculation part that calculates a distance from the measurement apparatus to the object to be measured on the basis of the digital signals is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Ujihara, Yoshimasa Suzuki, Shinichi Hara
  • Publication number: 20220266790
    Abstract: The present invention realizes an improvement in the moldability of a resin portion that is injection-molded to an annular stator. A plurality of collar portions formed integrally with a peripheral edge of the insulating cover so as to project beyond the outer diameter of the annular stator, and a resin pin molded integrally with one of the collar portions, wherein a collar resin portion of the collar portion and a resin pin resin portion of the resin pin are integrated with each other when seen from above, and a first outer diameter of the collar resin portion is larger than a second outer diameter of the resin pin resin portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicants: TAMAGAWA SEIKI CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., IWATAKI GIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi HARA, Kazuya KANETA, Eiji IWATAKI
  • Patent number: 11253947
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnet wire bonding method and a bonding structure, and more particularly to a new improvement for ultrasonically bonding a longitudinal outer peripheral surface of a magnet wire having no entangling part to a flat surface of a flat part of a terminal pin. A magnet wire bonding method and structure, comprising: using a terminal pin (11) having a flat plate part (40) provided in a pin part (11a) as a terminal pin holding part (3); placing a magnet wire (13) in a longitudinally spread state on a flat surface (40a) of the flat plate part (40) without being entangled; and ultrasonically bonding an outer peripheral surface (13E) of the magnet wire (13) onto the flat surface (40a) with an ultrasonic horn (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: TAMAGAWA SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kushihara, Kazuyuki Ishibashi, Hirofumi Maruyama, Shinichi Arai, Toshiki Muramatsu, Shinichi Hara, Katsutoshi Toyotake
  • Publication number: 20210063573
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes a laser apparatus, a branch that branches a frequency-modulated laser beam into a reference light and a measurement light, a beat signal generator that generates a beat signal by mixing the reference light and a reflected light that is the measurement light radiated onto an object to be measured, a first analyzer that analyses a first signal component corresponding to a difference in a propagation distance between the reference light and the measurement light on the basis of the beat signal, a second analyzer that analyses a second signal component corresponding to a cavity frequency of an optical cavity on the basis of the beat signal, and calculation circuitry that calculates the difference in the propagation distance between the reference light and the measurement light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa SUZUKI, Shinichi HARA, Hiroki UJIHARA
  • Publication number: 20210011155
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes a laser apparatus, a branching part that branches a frequency-modulated laser beam output by the laser apparatus into a reference light and a measurement light; a beat signal generation part that generates a beat signal by mixing a reflected light and the reference light, a conversion part that converts the beat signal into a digital signal at a first sampling rate and frequency-analyses it, an extraction part that extracts a signal component corresponding to a cavity frequency from the frequency-modulated laser beam, a digital filter that digitally filters the extracted signal component at a second sampling rate; and a calculation part that calculates a difference in a propagation distance between the reference light and the measurement light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Suzuki, Shinichi Hara, Shinji Komatsuzaki, Ryusuke Kato, Hiroki Ujihara, Masayuki Nara, Tomotaka Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200379112
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus, including: a laser apparatus that outputs a frequency-modulated laser beam with a plurality of modes; a branching part that branches the frequency-modulated laser beam into a reference light and a measurement light; a beat signal generation part that generates a plurality of beat signals by mixing the reference light and a reflected light that is reflected by radiating the measurement light onto an object to be measured; a conversion part that converts the plurality of beat signals into digital signals by sampling the beat signals at a frequency greater than or equal to four times a resonator frequency of the laser resonator; and a calculation part that calculates a distance from the measurement apparatus to the object to be measured on the basis of the digital signals is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki UJIHARA, Yoshimasa SUZUKI, Shinichi HARA
  • Patent number: 10669208
    Abstract: An oxide sintered body is provided which does not splash from the target surface even at the time of high power film formation, has a high film formation rate, and is used in a sputtering target capable of providing a high-refractive-index film. An oxide sintered body is used which contains zinc, niobium, aluminum and oxygen as constituent elements and in which Nb/(Zn+Nb+Al)=0.076 to 0.289 and Al/(Zn+Nb+Al)=0.006 to 0.031, where Zn, Nb and Al denote contents of zinc, niobium and aluminum, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: TOSOH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Itoh, Hiroyuki Hara, Shinichi Hara
  • Publication number: 20200061735
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnet wire bonding method and a bonding structure, and more particularly to a new improvement for ultrasonically bonding a longitudinal outer peripheral surface of a magnet wire having no entangling part to a flat surface of a flat part of a terminal pin. A magnet wire bonding method and structure, comprising: using a terminal pin (11) having a flat plate part (40) provided in a pin part (11a) as a terminal pin holding part (3); placing a magnet wire (13) in a longitudinally spread state on a flat surface (40a) of the flat plate part (40) without being entangled; and ultrasonically bonding an outer peripheral surface (13E) of the magnet wire (13) onto the flat surface (40a) with an ultrasonic horn (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi KUSHIHARA, Kazuyuki ISHIBASHI, Hirofumi MARUYAMA, Shinichi ARAI, Toshiki MURAMATSU, Shinichi HARA, Katsutoshi TOYOTAKE
  • Patent number: 10535487
    Abstract: A first member made of an insulating material and a jig with a protrusion narrowing toward a distal end side are prepared, and at least one of the first member and the jig is heated to a temperature at which the first member can melt and deform. After the jig is brought into contact with the first member with the first member and the plurality of protrusions facing each other, the jig is removed, and an intermediate body is formed including the first member formed with a plurality of recesses, and a plurality of conductive members passing through the first member and projecting into the recesses. A second member is prepared, openings of the plurality of recesses are closed, and the second member is hermetically joined to the intermediate body to form a plurality of internal spaces where electron is emitted, and forming a joined body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kodama, Yasuyuki Kohno, Shinichi Hara, Kazuto Ohashi
  • Patent number: 10515775
    Abstract: An electron tube includes a housing having an internal space airtightly sealed, and an electrode configured to generation or detection of energy by electron emission in the internal space. The housing has a main body part made of an insulating material and formed with a recess constituting the internal space, and a lid part fixed to the main body part so as to close an opening of the recess. The recess expands toward the opening side. The main body part is fixed with a penetrating member that is electrically connected to the electrode and passes through the main body part. The penetrating member has an internal space projecting part that projects from a bottom surface of the recess into the internal space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kodama, Yasuyuki Kohno, Shinichi Hara, Hideki Shimoi, Hiroyuki Kageyama, Yusuke Hasegawa, Ryota Kakei
  • Publication number: 20190016638
    Abstract: An oxide sintered body is provided which does not splash from the target surface even at the time of high power film formation, has a high film formation rate, and is used in a sputtering target capable of providing a high-refractive-index film. An oxide sintered body is used which contains zinc, niobium, aluminum and oxygen as constituent elements and in which Nb/(Zn+Nb+Al)=0.076 to 0.289 and Al/(Zn+Nb+Al)=0.006 to 0.031, where Zn, Nb and Al denote contents of zinc, niobium and aluminum, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: Tosoh Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi ITOH, Hiroyuki HARA, Shinichi HARA
  • Patent number: 10120059
    Abstract: A laser interferometer that includes a laser interferometer, an position sensitive detector detecting an offset of an optical axis of the laser interferometer, a biaxial rotator turning the laser interferometer toward an arbitrary direction, an angle sensor detecting a rotation angle of the biaxial rotator, a retro reflector reflecting reflected light in a direction parallel to incident light, and a controller performing feedback control of the biaxial rotator so as to track the retro reflector based on signals from the position sensitive detector and the angle sensor. The tracking-type laser interferometer starts tracking control when return light from the retro reflector is returned to a detection range of the position sensitive detector, and changes gain for the feedback control in accordance with a behavior for a position of the return light on the position sensitive detector due to the tracking control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Hara
  • Publication number: 20180045806
    Abstract: A laser interferometer that includes a laser interferometer, an position sensitive detector detecting an offset of an optical axis of the laser interferometer, a biaxial rotator turning the laser interferometer toward an arbitrary direction, an angle sensor detecting a rotation angle of the biaxial rotator, a retro reflector reflecting reflected light in a direction parallel to incident light, and a controller performing feedback control of the biaxial rotator so as to track the retro reflector based on signals from the position sensitive detector and the angle sensor. The tracking-type laser interferometer starts tracking control when return light from the retro reflector is returned to a detection range of the position sensitive detector, and changes gain for the feedback control in accordance with a behavior for a position of the return light on the position sensitive detector due to the tracking control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi HARA
  • Patent number: 8931712
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fragrance device for a vehicle capable of supplying plural fragrant ingredients to the inside of the vehicle as being contained in air flow of a vehicle-use air-conditioning device with a simple structure. The fragrance device for a vehicle according to the present invention includes a main body 10 having a fragrance retention container 5, an inlet passage 6, an outlet passage 7, an inlet passage opening/closing door 8 and an outlet passage opening/closing door 9, an actuator 11 fixed to the main body 10, and a cam 14 which rotationally drives a rotary shaft 12 of the inlet passage opening/closing door and a rotary shaft 12 of the outlet passage opening/closing door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Nagano, Hisayoshi Yoshizaki, Toshio Tsubakida, Shinichi Hara, Yoshie Mizuno, Naoto Hayashi