Patents by Inventor Tadashi Higuchi

Tadashi Higuchi 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: 11982368
    Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric actuator that can reduce a risk of air leakage due to weakening of pressing force of a valve element against a valve seat surface and airtightness. The piezoelectric actuator is used for a piezoelectric valve that opens and closes a valve utilizing displacement of a laminated piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric actuator includes: a valve element; a laminated piezoelectric element that generates a driving force, required for operation of the valve element, as a displacement; and a displacement enlargement mechanism that enlarges a displacement of a laminated piezoelectric element and causes the enlarged displacement to act on the valve element. In the piezoelectric actuator, a surface of the valve element to be in contact with a valve seat of the piezoelectric valve is made flat and smooth in a state in which a tensile load is applied to the laminated piezoelectric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: SATAKE CORPORATION, MECHANO TRANSFORMER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Ito, Tadashi Matsushita, Toshiro Higuchi, Sze Keat Chee, Kunio Ebihara, Toshitada Hirata
  • Patent number: 11921245
    Abstract: A photon counting device includes a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element configured to convert input light to charge, and an amplifier configured to amplify the charge converted by the photoelectric conversion element and convert the charge to a voltage, an A/D converter configured to convert the voltages output from the amplifiers of the plurality of pixels to digital values; and a conversion unit configured to convert the digital value output from the A/D converter to the number of photons by referring to reference data, for each of the plurality of pixels, and the reference data is created based on a gain and an offset value for each of the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Tadashi Maruno, Eiji Toda, Mao Nakajima, Teruo Takahashi, Takafumi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 7679252
    Abstract: A magnet embedded motor includes a rotor, a plurality of magnets embedded in the rotor, and a yoke provided with the plurality of magnets for forming a magnetic path. The rotor is formed with the plurality of magnets and the yoke in a single member by means of a resin molding by making the plurality of magnet and the yoke as an insertion body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shogo Iwase, Motohisa Ishiguro, Mitsuru Terayama, Tadashi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 7404424
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire using an inner liner layer comprising a film of a thermoplastic resin, or a blend of a thermoplastic resin and an elastomer, having an air permeation coefficient of not more than 25×10?12 cc·cm/cm2·sec·cmHg and a Young's modulus of 1 to 1000 MPa, wherein a buffer rubber layer containing short fibers is arranged between the inner liner layer and a carcass layer in bead directions from two ends of a widest width belt layer in ranges of at least 20 mm, whereby a problem of trouble during production is solved and the durability of the inner liner layer is improved, without causing a problem of an increase in tire weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Higuchi, Daisuke Kanenari
  • Publication number: 20070018521
    Abstract: An electric pump includes a rotor including a magnet portion formed of a ring shaped structure and having a polar anisotropic ring magnet, and an impeller portion pressure-supplying a fluid and formed integrally with the magnet portion, and a stator rotating the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Applicant: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Motohisa Ishiguro, Naoki Kamiya, Tadashi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20060273679
    Abstract: A magnet embedded motor includes a rotor, a plurality of magnets embedded in the rotor, and a yoke provided with the plurality of magnets for forming a magnetic path. The rotor is formed with the plurality of magnets and the yoke in a single member by means of a resin molding by making the plurality of magnet and the yoke as an insertion body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Shogo Iwase, Motohisa Ishiguro, Mitsuru Terayama, Tadashi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20060254695
    Abstract: A method of producing a pneumatic radial tire has a step of forming a tire casing, where, in the step, at least an inner liner, a left and right pair of narrow adhesion sheets, and a carcass layer are wound, in that order from the inside, in a hollow-cylindrical shape on the outer periphery of a shape-forming drum while being pressed by a pressing/adhering roller, and a bead core and a bead filler are set at both left and right end portions of the outermost periphery. The shape-forming drum has circumferential belt-like grooves formed in its outer periphery, at positions corresponding to the positions of the adhesion sheets. A shape-forming drum having an elastic layer coated on its outer periphery can also be used as the shape-forming drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2004
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventors: Tadashi Higuchi, Yoshiaki Hashimura
  • Publication number: 20060144495
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire using an inner liner layer comprising a film of a thermoplastic resin, or a blend of a thermoplastic resin and an elastomer, having an air permeation coefficient of not more than 25×10?12 cc·cm/cm2·sec·cmHg and a Young's modulus of 1 to 1000 MPa, wherein a buffer rubber layer containing short fibers is arranged between the inner liner layer and a carcass layer in bead directions from two ends of a widest width belt layer in ranges of at least 20 mm, whereby a problem of trouble during production is solved and the durability of the inner liner layer is improved, without causing a problem of an increase in tire weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2004
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Tadashi Higuchi, Daisuke Kanenari
  • Publication number: 20050279957
    Abstract: A solenoid valve comprises a plunger provided in a case so as to be magnetically moved, a coil provided in the case for generating a magnetic force, a yoke provided in the case for transmitting the magnetic force to the plunger, a sleeve, and a valve provided in the sleeve so as to be slidable within the sleeve in accordance with a movement of the plunger in order to switch a flow path, wherein the yoke and the sleeve are formed so as to be fitted together, and after the sleeve is fitted to the yoke, the sleeve is fixed from outside of a portion at which the sleeve and either one of the case or the yoke are overlapped each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventors: Madoka Inami, Tadashi Higuchi, Masanao Fujita, Yoshinobu Kamidate
  • Publication number: 20040036560
    Abstract: A coaxial tube elbow has an external electric conductor tube (10) housing an internal electric conductor (20) inside and bend sections (12, 21D) formed by bending the external electric conductor tube and the internal electric conductor at a predetermined angle. The vertical section of the external electric conductor tube (10) is an arc shape at the bend section (12). The vertical section of the bend section (21D) of the internal electric conductor (20) is preferably of a partially notched arc shape. In the manufacturing of the external electric conductor tube (10), low melting point metal is filled into the external electric conductor tube of a straight shape and then the tube is bent in a metal mold. After the bending, low melting point metal is melt and removed by heating, whereby a bent external electric conductor tube (10) can be obtained. Thus the coaxial tube elbow with fewer parts allowing assembly without the use of brazing can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Tadashi Higuchi, Yoshio Tsuchizaki, Toyohisa Takano, Motokazu Nagasawa, Masao Ryoma, Hiroshi Harima
  • Publication number: 20030099816
    Abstract: An ink jet recording material having a high gloss and capable of recording thereon ink images having high color density and clarity, has an ink-receiving layer formed on a substrate and including a binder and secondary particle having an average size of 10 to 300 nm and including a plurality of primary particles of silica prepared by wet method and/or aluminosilicate agglomerated with each other without binder, and can be produced by forming the ink-receiving layer on a shaping base, bonding the substrate to the ink-receiving layer on the shaping base and separating the resultant laminate from the shaping base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Applicant: Oji Paper Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Liu, Masami Kubota, Hiroyuki Nemoto, Shun-Ichiro Mukoyoshi, Tadashi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20030062106
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire constituting part or all of the part members constituting the pneumatic tire by a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a rubber containing at least 70 parts by weight of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene-based highly saturated rubber having a content of conjugated diene units of not more than 30 percent by weight, 0 to 120 parts by weight of zinc methacrylate and 0 to 60 parts by weight of carbon black and having a total formulations of zinc methacrylate and carbon black of 10 to 120 parts by weight, and providing, between the above part members and the adjoining diene-based rubber layer, a bonding rubber layer comprising of a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a predetermined diene-based rubber and acrylonitrile butadiene copolymer rubber, 5 to 80 parts by weight of a predetermined aromatic petroleum resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Yoshiaki Hashimura, Zenichiro Shida, Tadashi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20030062104
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire constituting part or all of the part members constituting the pneumatic tire by a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a rubber containing at least 70 parts by weight of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene-based highly saturated rubber having a content of conjugated diene units of not more than 30 percent by weight, 0 to 120 parts by weight of zinc methacrylate and 0 to 60 parts by weight of carbon black and having a total formulations of zinc methacrylate and carbon black of 10 to 120 parts by weight, and providing, between the above part members and the adjoining diene-based rubber layer, a bonding rubber layer comprising of a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a predetermined diene-based rubber and acrylonitrile butadiene copolymer rubber, 5 to 80 parts by weight of a predetermined aromatic petroleum resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Yoshiaki Hashimura, Zenichiro Shida, Tadashi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20030062105
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire constituting part or all of the part members constituting the pneumatic tire by a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a rubber containing at least 70 parts by weight of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene-based highly saturated rubber having a content of conjugated diene units of not more than 30 percent by weight, 0 to 120 parts by weight of zinc methacrylate and 0 to 60 parts by weight of carbon black and having a total formulations of zinc methacrylate and carbon black of 10 to 120 parts by weight, and providing, between the above part members and the adjoining diene-based rubber layer, a bonding rubber layer comprising of a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a predetermined diene-based rubber and acrylonitrile butadiene copolymer rubber, 5 to 80 parts by weight of a predetermined aromatic petroleum resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Yoshiaki Hashimura, Zenichiro Shida, Tadashi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 6495976
    Abstract: The invention is intended to enable the easy measurement of the amount of color purity at each of many measured points. An adjusting coil (9) is provided at a neck portion of a color cathode ray tube (1). Also, a color image pickup means (4) for photographing the screen of the color cathode ray tube (1) is provided. A monochrome signal of any one of red, green, and blue colors is input to this color cathode ray tube (1). Thereafter, while varying the electric current made to flow through the adjusting coil (9), the image pickup signal obtained by the color pickup means (4) is decomposed into red, green, and blue color signal components; and the intensity of each of them is measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20020074945
    Abstract: The invention is intended to enable the easy measurement of the amount of color purity at each of many measured points. An adjusting coil (9) is provided at a neck portion of a color cathode ray tube (1). Also, color image pickup means (4) for photographing the screen of the color cathode ray tube (1) is provided. A monochrome signal of any one of red, green, and blue colors is input to this color cathode ray tube (1). Thereafter, while varying the electric current made to flow through the adjusting coil (9), the image pickup signal obtained by the color pickup means (4) is decomposed into red, green, and blue color signal components. And the intensity of each of them is measured. Then, using the values of the electric currents that are supplied to the coil adjusting (9) and the location distances between the luminous regions of the red, green, and blue colors on the color cathode ray tube (1) there is determined the following.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventor: Tadashi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 6397913
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire constituting part or all of the part members constituting the pneumatic tire by a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a rubber containing at least 70 parts by weight of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene-based highly saturated rubber having a content of conjugated diene units of not more than 30 percent by weight, 0 to 120 parts by weight of zinc methacrylate and 0 to 60 parts by weight of carbon black and having a total of formulations of zinc methacrylate and carbon black of 10 to 120 parts by weight, and providing, between the above part members and the adjoining diene-based rubber layer, a bonding rubber layer comprising of a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a predetermined diene-based rubber and acrylonitrile butadiene copolymer rubber, 5 to 80 parts by weight of a predetermined aromatic petroleum resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Yoshiaki Hashimura, Zenichiro Shida, Tadashi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 5553371
    Abstract: A friction plate in the shape of a disc is used in a clutch device to transfer a rotational torque from a driving member to a driven member and has frictional thin films on its side surface. These films are formed by spraying particulate materials on the side surfaces of the friction plate. According to the present invention the thin films are compressed by a compression roller arranged on the way of a path for feeding the metal strip having the thin film on its side surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuichi Uchino, Tadashi Higuchi, Takaaki Nakano, Shigenobu Tara
  • Patent number: 4979608
    Abstract: A three mass, two trough feeder transfers articles on first and second troughs by vibrating the troughs. First and second leaf springs support the troughs on a base with the troughs in line with each other and with one trough overlapping the other. The ratio of the spring constant of the first leaf springs to the first trough mass equals the ratio of the spring constant of the second leaf spring to the second trough mass. An electromagnetic driver between one of the troughs and the base is excited with a signal having a frequency with an angular velocity equal to the square root of the ratio. A plurality of feeders may be positioned radially outwardly about the periphery of a conical head for distributing articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Assignee: Yamato Scale Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mikata, Tadashi Higuchi, Shogo Harada
  • Patent number: 4967856
    Abstract: A combination weighing machine of the type comprising a plurality of weighing units for weighing product fed thereto and providing weight signals indicative of the weights thereof, respectively, means for selecting an optimum combination of these weight signals which satisfies a predetermined condition, and means for discharging the product from those weighing units corresponding to the selected combination for deliver a batch of product satisfying the prescribed condition; in which, as the feature of invention, each weighing unit is provided with a plurality of weighing chambers and a single weigher or weight sensor for providing a weight signal indicative of the total weight of all weighing chambers and associated with loading means for selectively loading the weight chambers with product and means for detecting the weight of product in each weighing chamber and storing it, and the combination selecting means and the discharging means are arranged to select the optimum combination from all weighing chambers
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: Yamato Scale Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shozo Kawanishi, Tadashi Higuchi