Patents by Inventor Shoichi Ichikawa

Shoichi Ichikawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20240151273
    Abstract: As a stopper for restricting movement of a rotary shaft 31 of a transmission device 3 and a shaft part 41 of a first drive-side joint member J11 in a direction of approaching each other, a stopper part 5 is formed separately from the shaft part 41 and a yoke body part 42 of the first drive-side joint member so that the stopper function of the first drive-side joint member J11 is guaranteed by the separately-formed stopper part 5 in the present invention. With this configuration, a change in the gravity center position of the first drive-side joint member caused due to build-up processing on the shaft part or the yoke body part is suppressed. It is possible to restrict relative movement of the first drive-side joint member and the rotary shaft while ensuring adequate machining for formation of a shaft-part-side seal surface on the first drive-side joint member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi ICHIKAWA, Daiki TSUTSUMI, Toshiyuki MASUDA, Kenichiro ISHIKURA
  • Publication number: 20240133468
    Abstract: A water-impermeable cover includes an opening part extending toward an opening part of a holding ring of a stub shaft of a propeller shaft, and is disposed to face the opening part of the holding ring. The water-impermeable cover is fixed at a position to face the opening part of the holding ring of the stub shaft, and the opening part of the water-impermeable cover extends to approach the opening part of the holding ring: therefore, even if muddy water etc. scatters obliquely toward the opening part of the holding ring, the risk of muddy water etc. entering the opening part of the holding ring is reduced, and as a result, also the risk of muddy water etc. entering an interior of a center bearing is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi ICHIKAWA, Daiki TSUTSUMI, Toshiyuki MASUDA, Kenichiro ISHIKURA
  • Patent number: 11951396
    Abstract: An object of at least one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a game program of higher interest. A game program controls the first character satisfying a predetermined condition as a result of the virtual battle to automatically execute, without moving in a virtual space together with the player character, a specific action that is an action different from before a start of the virtual battle and is advantageous for the player character, or controls the first character satisfying the predetermined condition as a result of the virtual battle to automatically generate a specific effect advantageous for the player character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11929294
    Abstract: A composite substrate includes a base layer formed of a composite material containing diamond and a metal, the base layer a first surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a flat layer having a lower surface bonded to the first surface of the base layer, and an upper surface having a surface roughness Ra of 10 nm or less; and an insulating layer directly bonded to the upper surface of the flat layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatsugu Ichikawa, Shoichi Yamada, Takeshi Kihara, Yutaka Matsusaka
  • Publication number: 20220016528
    Abstract: An object of at least one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a game program of higher interest. A game program controls the first character satisfying a predetermined condition as a result of the virtual battle to automatically execute, without moving in a virtual space together with the player character, a specific action that is an action different from before a start of the virtual battle and is advantageous for the player character, or controls the first character satisfying the predetermined condition as a result of the virtual battle to automatically generate a specific effect advantageous for the player character.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 6441081
    Abstract: A polypropylene resin composition which comprises: (1) 55 to 75% by weight of (A) a polypropylene resin consisting of a mixture of the following polymers (i) and (ii): (i) a propylene-ethylene block copolymer having a propylene homopolymer part which is the first segment and having a propylene-ethylene random copolymer part which is the second segment and (ii) a propylene homopolymer having an intrinsic viscosity [&eegr;]P of 0.8 to 1.8 dl/g as measured in tetralin at 135° C., (2) 21 to 30% by weight of (B) an ethylene-1-octene copolymer rubber having a melt flow rate (JIS-K-6758 at 190° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignees: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hajime Sadatoshi, Kenichi Ohkawa, Susumu Kanzaki, Hisayuki Iwai, Takao Nomura, Shoichi Ichikawa