Patents by Inventor Takanobu Murakami

Takanobu Murakami 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: 20240168287
    Abstract: An image projection device that can effectively curb an increase in temperature of an image projecting unit due to external light while maintaining quality of a projected image is provided. The image projection device includes an image projecting unit configured to emit projection light including an image, a first freeform curved mirror reflecting the projection light incident from the image projecting unit, an intermediate mirror reflecting the projection light incident from the first freeform curved mirror, and a second freeform curved mirror reflecting the projection light incident from the intermediate mirror and causing the projection light to reach a viewpoint. A component in at least one imaging axis direction of the projection light reflected by the first freeform curved mirror forms an image at an intermediate imaging position before the projection light reaches the second freeform curved mirror, and the intermediate mirror is arranged at the intermediate imaging position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kazuomi MURAKAMI, Takanobu TOYOSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11703235
    Abstract: An external-air conditioning apparatus and a ventilation system are provided, the external-air conditioning apparatus includes a fin tube type heat exchanger and a housing that stores this heat exchanger. The housing includes a base body that serves as a back side of the apparatus body and a cover body that serves as a front side of the apparatus body, and the base body and the cover body are dividable and detachable in structure. The base body has a base portion, a partitioning portion, a connecting pipe portion, a heat-exchanger-holding structure portion, and a water receiving portion. The cover body is a structure in which a front wall portion and a three-side peripheral wall portion are formed integrally with each other, and a part in which the peripheral wall portion is not formed is an inlet for external air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Eco Factory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takanobu Murakami
  • Publication number: 20220128245
    Abstract: A ventilation air conditioning structure including a room that has a floor portion to a fourth wall portion, a first wall portion to be a building outer wall in which an air supply opening is formed in a vicinity of a third wall portion, and an air exhaust opening that is formed in a vicinity of the fourth wall portion. The ventilation air conditioning structure also includes an air conditioner that is disposed inside the room and where at least one of air sending openings of a room interior unit is capable of sending air in a direction of a second wall portion, and an external-air conditioner that is disposed outside the room. The external-air conditioner includes heat exchangers that are incorporated in a refrigerant circuit of the air conditioner via a branched pipe that is branched from a refrigerant piping and a casing that houses the heat exchangers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventor: Takanobu MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20210404673
    Abstract: An external-air conditioning apparatus and a ventilation system are provided, the external-air conditioning apparatus includes a fin tube type heat exchanger and a housing that stores this heat exchanger. The housing includes a base body that serves as a back side of the apparatus body and a cover body that serves as a front side of the apparatus body, and the base body and the cover body are dividable and detachable in structure. The base body has a base portion, a partitioning portion, a connecting pipe portion, a heat-exchanger-holding structure portion, and a water receiving portion. The cover body is a structure in which a front wall portion and a three-side peripheral wall portion are formed integrally with each other, and a part in which the peripheral wall portion is not formed is an inlet for external air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Takanobu MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 10066844
    Abstract: A heating element cover component includes a hollow outer shell portion of a required length, having required rigidity and thermal conductivity, a substantially half-pipe shaped abutting portion formed with a required thickness on the outside of the outer shell portion in a longitudinal direction of the outer shell portion, having flexibility and thermal conductivity, and with a slit penetrating in a thickness direction formed over the entire length in the longitudinal direction, a connecting portion having flexibility and thermal conductivity, connecting opposed edges of the abutting portion in the longitudinal direction with the outer shell portion, and an engaging portion constituted with a projecting piece and a projecting piece inserting portion being engaging elements disposed at line-symmetrical positions using a longitudinal straight line located at a widthwise middle of the abutting portion as an axis of symmetry to form a pair structured to be engageable with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: ECO FACTORY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanobu Murakami
  • Publication number: 20180087787
    Abstract: A heating element cover component includes a hollow outer shell portion of a required length, having required rigidity and thermal conductivity, a substantially half-pipe shaped abutting portion formed with a required thickness on the outside of the outer shell portion in a longitudinal direction of the outer shell portion, having flexibility and thermal conductivity, and with a slit penetrating in a thickness direction formed over the entire length in the longitudinal direction, a connecting portion having flexibility and thermal conductivity, connecting opposed edges of the abutting portion in the longitudinal direction with the outer shell portion, and an engaging portion constituted with a projecting piece and a projecting piece inserting portion being engaging elements disposed at line-symmetrical positions using a longitudinal straight line located at a widthwise middle of the abutting portion as an axis of symmetry to form a pair structured to be engageable with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: Eco Factory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takanobu MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20170167749
    Abstract: An air conditioning device 1A includes a support frame 21, a heat generating portion 22 having flow pipes for a flowable heating medium which are respectively laterally laid at an interval in an up-and-down direction across an intermediate region of the support frame and outer shell bodies covering the flow pipes, each showing a flat shape or elliptical shape as an outer shape of a cross-section of a peripheral wall, having a structure capable of dissipating to the outside heat transmitted from the flow pipe, and attached so that long axis directions perpendicular to a longitudinal direction are inclined in the same direction, a reflector 23 having a reflecting surface that reflects radiant heat from the heat generating portion and is not permeable to water, and disposed on the back side of the air conditioning device 1A and a gutter-shaped receiving portion 24 disposed under the reflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Eco Factory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takanobu MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20170082306
    Abstract: Provided is a large-capacity ultrasonic space-sterilizing humidifier using an aqueous hypochlorous acid solution, wherein contaminants in humidified air are prevented from becoming included in humidifying water, the hypochlorous acid concentration, in the humidified air is sufficiently maintained and a space-sterilizing effect is adequately exhibited. The ultrasonic space-sterilizing humidifier comprises a storage tank 2 storing an aqueous solution of hypochlorous acid, an ultrasonic generator 3 installed inside the storage tank 2, generating a hypochlorous acid-containing mist, an air duct 8 extending upwards from the ultrasonic generator 3, blowing means 4 for blowing the mist into the air duct 8, water-catching means 9 provided near the bottom end of the air duct 8, for collecting water droplets that have become adsorbed onto the inside wall of the air duct 8, and a discharge tube 11 mounted on the water-catching means 9, by which adsorbed waiter droplets are discharged to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventor: Takanobu MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20160047577
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an air conditioning system which includes a convective indoor machine and a radiant indoor machine to prevent separation of lubricating oil in refrigerant and consequently prevent damage to a compressor, and can prevent lowering in reliability of the compressor. [Solution] The air conditioning system includes: an air conditioner having a compressor 3, an outdoor heat exchanger 4, an expansion valve 5, a convective indoor machine 2 and a refrigerant piping connecting them; and a radiant indoor machine 10 which is arranged between the convective indoor machine 2 and the compressor 3 and has a refrigerant pipe having an inner diameter smaller than that of the refrigerant piping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: Eco Factory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takanobu Murakami
  • Publication number: 20150338108
    Abstract: An air conditioning system, combining an air conditioner and a radiant heat exchanger, is provided with which convection of indoor air is promoted by the radiant heat exchanger to suppress air blowing by a fan of the air conditioner and thereby reduce a draft sensation. An air conditioning system A1 includes an air conditioner, having an outdoor machine and an indoor machine incorporated in a refrigeration cycle, and a radiant heat exchanger, having a heating element, including and arranged from piping through which a refrigerant passes, and having the respective piping making up the heating element connected to a piping connecting the outdoor machine and the indoor machine and passing the refrigerant, the radiant heat exchanger has rectifier plates that are vertically disposed with gaps, through which air passes, provided with respect to the heating element at the front surface side and rear surface side of the heating element, and each rectifier plate has a plurality of radiant heat passing pores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: ECO FACTORY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanobu MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 8746985
    Abstract: A rolling bearing device for a wheel includes a fixed bearing ring in a tubular shape which is fixed to a vehicle side, and a rotary bearing ring which is rotatably passed through the fixed bearing ring, and includes a plurality of flange portions for mounting the wheel formed on an outer periphery at one end side thereof in an axial direction, and a spigot joint portion in an annular shape protruding in the axial direction formed in a one end part thereof in the axial direction. A circular recess is formed in the one end part of the rotary bearing ring in the axial direction. Thick wall parts for reinforcement are formed on an inner peripheral surface of the spigot joint portion at positions corresponding to regions between a part between the respective flange portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Jtekt Corporation
    Inventors: Takanobu Murakami, Takaaki Onizuka
  • Publication number: 20100210369
    Abstract: A wheel bearing device of the invention includes a flanged shaft member that includes a shaft portion to which a rolling bearing is assembled, a fitting shaft portion that is formed on one end side of the shaft portion and that is fitted to a center hole of a wheel, and a plurality of flange portions that extend radially outward on an outer peripheral surface located between the shaft portion and the fitting shaft portion and each of which has a bolt hole in which a hub bolt for fastening the wheel is arranged. Each flange portion is formed by side extrusion when a forged recess is formed at a center of an end surface of the fitting shaft portion by cold forging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Masuda, Tatsuya Yokota, Nobuyuki Seo, Takanobu Murakami, Tsuyoshi Okumura, Yoshito Takada
  • Publication number: 20100046876
    Abstract: A rolling bearing device for a wheel includes a fixed bearing ring in a tubular shape which is fixed to a vehicle side, and a rotary bearing ring which is rotatably passed through the fixed bearing ring, and includes a plurality of flange portions for mounting the wheel formed on an outer periphery at one end side thereof in an axial direction, and a spigot joint portion in an annular shape protruding in the axial direction formed in a one end part thereof in the axial direction. A circular recess is formed in the one end part of the rotary bearing ring in the axial direction. Thick wall parts for reinforcement are formed on an inner peripheral surface of the spigot joint portion at positions corresponding to regions between a part between the respective flange portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Takanobu Murakami, Takaaki Onizuka
  • Patent number: 6524207
    Abstract: An inter-axle differential capable of preventing a skid to achieve stable travel is provided. For this purpose, the inter-axle differential apparatus includes an inter-axle differential (13), an inter-axle differential lock (21), at least one rotation detector of a first rotation detector (27) for detecting rotational frequency of a transmission output shaft (24), a second rotation detector (28) for detecting rotational frequency of a front output shaft (25) of the inter-axle differential, and a third rotation detector (29) for detecting rotational frequency of a rear output shaft (26) of the inter-axle differential, and a controller (20) for detecting a sign of a skid occurring to driving wheels (2, 4) based on at least any one of the rotational frequency detected by the rotational detector and a rate of change with time of the detected rotational frequency and for outputting a differential lock signal to the inter-axle differential lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanobu Murakami, Yukio Sugano
  • Patent number: 6347267
    Abstract: Even if a power source is cut OFF while a failure is present and then the power source is turned back ON with the failure uncorrected, the details of the same failure will not be recorded as failure history data, thus permitting correct failure history data to be stored. In an on-vehicle controller failure diagnosing method in which, if a vehicle failure happens, the time at which the failure happened and the details of the failure are stored as failure history data, the details of a detected failure are stored as failure history data only if the details of the failure which existed when the power source of the on-vehicle controller was cut OFF are different from the details of the failure detected during a failure diagnosis carried out when the power source is turned back ON.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Takanobu Murakami
  • Publication number: 20010027144
    Abstract: An inter-axle differential capable of preventing a skid to achieve stable travel is provided. For this purpose, the inter-axle differential apparatus includes an inter-axle differential (13), an inter-axle differential lock (21), at least one rotation detector of a first rotation detector (27) for detecting rotational frequency of a transmission output shaft (24), a second rotation detector (28) for detecting rotational frequency of a front output shaft (25) of the inter-axle differential, and a third rotation detector (29) for detecting rotational frequency of a rear output shaft (26) of the inter-axle differential, and a controller (20) for detecting a sign of a skid occurring to driving wheels (2, 4) based on at least any one of the rotational frequency detected by the rotational detector and a rate of change with time of the detected rotational frequency and for outputting a differential lock signal to the inter-axle differential lock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanobu Murakami, Yukio Sugano
  • Patent number: 6052644
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for limiting the vehicle speed of a working vehicle which can provide a smooth traveling condition during vehicle speed limit, and which can set a vehicle speed limit suited to environmental conditions. To this end, a vehicle speed control device (10) judges a vehicle speed limit traveling period when a vehicle speed signal is equal to or greater than a vehicle speed limit value, to calculate a corrected depressing stroke signal by a control gain based on a deviation value between the vehicle speed signal and the vehicle speed limit value so that the deviation value becomes smaller to output to an engine control device (40), and judges an accelerated traveling period, when the vehicle speed signal is smaller than the vehicle speed limit value and the corrected depressing stroke signal is larger than a depressing stroke signal, to output the depressing stroke signal to the engine control device (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanobu Murakami, Nobuki Hasegawa, Susumu Sato
  • Patent number: 3979041
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a round-like housing having two assemblies therein. In one assembly there is a group of extending members each having affixed thereto metal backing members, which are alternatively either segment-like or inverted segment-like and have mounted a pair of rollers facing each other across a weld backing strip, the extending members being movable and workable in alternative shifts. In the other assembly the extending members each have affixed thereto a roller, the extending members being movable and workable all in one movement. There are fluid cylinder mechanisms in the assemblies for moving the members in the above-mentioned manner. The aligning, the expanding and the welding of pipes are easily and stably accomplished by such apparatus performed without need of any tack welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1976
    Assignee: Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kaneyama, Masashi Nakamura, Takanobu Murakami