Patents by Inventor Takashi Hori
Takashi Hori 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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Publication number: 20130081511Abstract: A torque fluctuation absorber includes a drive plate configured to rotate integrally with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, a center plate, a side plate, an elastic member for absorbing torque fluctuations, and a block member configured to be engaged with the drive plate and attached to the side plate, wherein the side plate includes plural accommodation portions accommodating the elastic member, and at least one of a recessed portion and a first window portion which are provided at a position corresponding to a position of the block member, and the block member is attached to a portion of the side plate between adjacent accommodation portions in a circumferential direction of the side plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaru EBATA, Yasunori DOMAN, Takashi HORI, Toshiya YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20130081512Abstract: A torque fluctuation absorber includes a center plate rotatably arranged, a side plate arranged coaxially with and rotatably relative to the center plate, an elastic member accommodated in a space surrounded by the side plate and absorbing torque fluctuations generated between the side plate and the center plate, a cover member separating the space and an outside space from each other by covering a clearance between the center plate and the side plate, and a vent portion arranged inwardly in a radial direction of the side plate relative to the cover member and providing a ventilation between the space and the outside space.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaru EBATA, Toshiya YAMASHITA, Takashi HORI, Yasunori DOMAN
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Publication number: 20120176183Abstract: The present invention is directed to an MIS type semiconductor device, including a channel layer between a semiconductor body region and a gate insulating film, the channel layer having an opposite semiconductor polarity to that of the semiconductor body region. Since Vfb of the semiconductor device is equivalent to or less than a gate rated voltage Vgcc? of the semiconductor device with respect to an OFF-polarity, density of carrier charge that is induced near the surface of the semiconductor body region is kept at a predetermined amount or less with a guaranteed range of operation of the semiconductor device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2011Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Koutarou Tanaka, Takashi Hori, Kazuhiro Adachi
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Publication number: 20120090532Abstract: The present invention provides an instrument device which is enhanced a texture while creating a sense of depth by superimposing and stereoscopically disposing a light-guiding member on an indicator panel of the instrument device, and which has a good appearance and a novel visibility when illuminated. An instrument device with a good appearance and novel visibility is provided which includes an indicator panel (5), an instrument main part (2), an indicator needle (4) that is provided to the instrument main part (2), a transparent light-guiding member (6) that is disposed on the indicator panel (5), and a light source (7) that enters light beams into the light-guiding member (6).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Hori, Takeo Mizukoshi
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Patent number: 8142768Abstract: The invention relates to a cosmetic preparation containing a crosslinked (meth) acrylic acid ester resin powder having a compression strength of 0.7 to 10 kgf/mm2. The invention also relates to a cosmetic preparation, for example, in the form of a cosmetic sheet, powder spray cosmetic, gel cosmetic, two phase separable cosmetic, emulsion cosmetic or the like.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2005Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Toyoki Hagura, Keigo Kajiwara, Takashi Hori, Satoshi Tsunakawa, Tetsuji Kito
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Publication number: 20110237796Abstract: Disclosed is a metal complex that can be used as a gas absorption material with superior gas absorbing properties, a gas storage material with a high storage capacity, and a gas separation material with superior gas separation performance and high adsorption capacity. Disclosed is a metal complex, and a manufacturing method therefor, which consists of: a polycyclic aromatic dihydroxy monocarboxylic acid compound, in the structural formula of which hydroxyl groups are at the farthest locations from each other, which has carboxyl groups at the locations adjacent to the hydroxyl groups, and which has 10 or more circularly conjugated it electrons, such as 3,7-dihydorxy-2-naphtoic acid or 4,4?-dihydroxy-3-biphenylcaroxylic acid; at least one metal selected from chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, manganese, iron, ruthenium, cobalt, rhodium, nickel, palladium, copper, zinc, and cadmium; and an organic ligand, such as 4,4?-bipyridyl, capable of bidentate bonding with said metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2009Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasutaka Inubushi, Takashi Hori, Hiroyuki Ohgi
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Publication number: 20110124830Abstract: The present invention provides hydrogenated ?-pinene-based polymers with excellent heat resistance and light resistance, low absorptivity and high transparency, as well as molded articles thereof. The polymers of the present invention contain 50% by mass or more of ?-pinene units and are hydrogenated ?-pinene-based polymers where the ratio of the proton integral value at 6 to 8 ppm to the total proton integral value in a 1H-NMR spectrum is 2.3×10?5 or less or the p-phenylene group content is 0.0055% by mass or less, and the ratio of the proton integral value at 4.5 to 6 ppm to the total proton integral value is 2.8×10?4 or less or the cyclohexene-1,4-diyl group content is 0.29% by mass or less. The molded articles of the present invention contain the above hydrogenated ?-pinene-based polymers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsuhiro Nakahara, Jin Tokuyasu, Takashi Hori, Hiroyuki Ohgi
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Patent number: 7896512Abstract: The vehicle headlamp is provided with a main lamp unit fixed and arranged inside a lamp chamber and sub-lamp units as an auxiliary lamp capable of changing and forming light distribution patterns by using semiconductor light emitting elements as light sources. The sub-lamp units are respectively equipped with a vertically changing mechanism for changing the illuminating direction in a vertical direction, a laterally changing mechanism for changing the illuminating direction in a lateral direction and a pattern changing mechanism for changing a light distribution pattern.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2008Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naohisa Tatara, Takashi Hori, Kiyotaka Mochizuki
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Patent number: 7877045Abstract: There is provided a charging device having high durability, of which controllability of charged potential of a photoreceptor is hardly impaired even with a some amount of contaminants such as a toner so that control of charged potential of a photoreceptor can be stably carried out to fall in an appropriate range over a long period of time, and moreover which is inexpensive. As a grid electrode, one prepared by forming a composite plated layer composed of three layers of an Sn plated layer, an Sn—Co plated layer and a Ni plated layer is used. More preferably, an upper layer is an Sn plated layer, an intermediate layer is an Sn—Co plated layer and a lower layer is a Ni plated layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2009Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takashi Hori
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Patent number: 7758218Abstract: A vehicular headlamp including a light amount control device that controls the amount of light from at least two of a plurality of light source units each having a light-emitting element as the light source. The light amount control device performs a contrasting control of the lamp to increase the amount of light from at least one of the light source units and decrease the amount of light from the other light source unit, thus enhancing the visibility by increasing the amount of light from one light source unit and enhancing the brightness in an area that the unit illuminates, and decreasing the amount of light from the other light source unit that illuminates an area where visibility is required less, lowering the power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2007Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyotaka Mochizuki, Takashi Hori, Naohisa Tatara
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Patent number: 7728180Abstract: A method for producing ethers comprises the following steps: initiating telomerization process of a conjugated diene compound with an hydroxyl compound represented by the following formula (I): R1OH??(I) in the presence of a palladium compound, a tertiary isocyanide represented by the following formula (II): R2NC??(II), and a base; and adding halfway through the telomerization process a tertiary phosphine represented by the following formula (III): PR3R4R5??(III) (the respective symbols are defined in the description).Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2005Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Kuraray Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Tokuyasu, Taketoshi Okuno, Takashi Hori, Hideharu Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20090325446Abstract: An organic damping material which by itself has excellent damping properties without being combined with other material(s), need not have a certain thickness or volume for ensuring sufficient damping performance, and is easy to process. It is characterized by comprising a polymer matrix phase and a phase dispersed therein comprising one or two or more compounds selected among-(p-toluenesulfonylamido)diphenylamine, 4,4?-bis(?,?-dimethylbenzyl)diphenylamine, octylated diphenylamine, 2,2?-methylenebis(4-ethyl-6-tert-butylphenol, 4,4?-thiobis(3-methyl-6-tert-butylphenol.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: As R&D LLCInventors: Mitsuo Hori, Akira Saitou, Takashi Hori
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Publication number: 20090263160Abstract: There is provided a charging device having high durability, of which controllability of charged potential of a photoreceptor is hardly impaired even with a some amount of contaminants such as a toner so that control of charged potential of a photoreceptor can be stably carried out to fall in an appropriate range over a long period of time, and moreover which is inexpensive. As a grid electrode, one prepared by forming a composite plated layer composed of three layers of an Sn plated layer, an Sn—Co plated layer and a Ni plated layer is used. More preferably, an upper layer is an Sn plated layer, an intermediate layer is an Sn—Co plated layer and a lower layer is a Ni plated layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2009Publication date: October 22, 2009Inventor: Takashi HORI
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Patent number: 7535406Abstract: A vehicular lamp 1 including a lamp unit 13 provided inside a lamp chamber 7 so that the optical axis direction of lamp unit 13 is adjustable with the use of a tilting movement adjustment mechanism 15. The lamp chamber 7 is formed by a lamp body 3 and a transparent front cover 5 attached to the front opening of the lamp body 3, while the lamp unit 13 is formed by a reflector 9 and a light source 11. A millimeter wave radar device 25 is installed in the vehicular lamp, and it is composed of a controlling unit 25B and an antenna unit 25A that are provided separately from each other so that the controlling unit is attached to the lamp body and the antenna unit is attached to the lamp unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2007Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Teranishi, Nobutaka Tezuka, Toshinao Daicho, Takashi Hori
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Publication number: 20090086500Abstract: The vehicle headlamp is provided with a main lamp unit fixed and arranged inside a lamp chamber and sub-lamp units as an auxiliary lamp capable of changing and forming light distribution patterns by using semiconductor light emitting elements as light sources. The sub-lamp units are respectively equipped with a vertically changing mechanism for changing the illuminating direction in a vertical direction, a laterally changing mechanism for changing the illuminating direction in a lateral direction and a pattern changing mechanism for changing a light distribution pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Naohisa TATARA, Takashi HORI, Kiyotaka MOCHIZUKI
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Patent number: 7512355Abstract: An ozone exhaust system in an image forming apparatus having a multiple number of process printing units, includes: exhaust ducts for exhausting ozone arising in the process printing units. In the ozone exhaust system, the exhaust ducts are mainly constituted of process printing unit's side exhaust ducts provided respectively along multiple charger cases and a main exhaust duct to which the process printing unit's side exhaust ducts are connected, and the process printing unit's side exhaust ducts are constructed so that the air current that flows into the charger cases and the air current that flows from the process printing unit's side exhaust ducts into the main exhaust duct are directed in the same direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2005Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomohiko Fujii, Susumu Murakami, Takashi Hori
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Publication number: 20080262272Abstract: A method for producing ethers comprises the following steps: initiating telomerization process of a conjugated diene compound with an hydroxyl compound represented by the following formula (I): R1OH ??(I) in the presence of a palladium compound, a tertiary isocyanide represented by the following formula (II): R2NC ??(II) , and a base; and adding halfway through the telomerization process a tertiary phosphine represented by the following formula (III): PR3R4R5 ??(III) (the respective symbols are defined in the description).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2005Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: Kuraray Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Tokuyasu, Taketoshi Okuno, Takashi Hori, Hideharu Iwasaki
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Patent number: 7415218Abstract: In an image forming apparatus that uses a charging unit to charge a photosensitive drum, forms an electrostatic latent image by carrying out image exposure according to image information, and transfers to a paper the electrostatic latent image by developing the electrostatic latent image into a visible image using a developer so that the image information is presented, an exhaust duct 33 for exhausting air that contains ozone produced within a drum unit 30, which includes a photosensitive drum 3 and a charging unit 5, and a duct 32 for taking in air, which draws in fresh air, are provided within the drum unit 30 so that ventilation of the drum unit 30 can be carried out with excellent efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2005Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Hori, Kuniaki Nakano, Tomohiko Fujii, Yoshie Iwakura
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Publication number: 20080158045Abstract: A vehicular lamp 1 including a lamp unit 13 provided inside a lamp chamber 7 so that the optical axis direction of lamp unit 13 is adjustable with the use of a tilting movement adjustment mechanism 15. The lamp chamber 7 is formed by a lamp body 3 and a transparent front cover 5 attached to the front opening of the lamp body 3, while the lamp unit 13 is formed by a reflector 9 and a light source 11. A millimeter wave radar device 25 is installed in the vehicular lamp, and it is composed of a controlling unit 25B and an antenna unit 25A that are provided separately from each other so that the controlling unit is attached to the lamp body and the antenna unit is attached to the lamp unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2007Publication date: July 3, 2008Inventors: Yasuo Teranishi, Nobutaka Tezuka, Yoshinao Daicho, Takashi Hori
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Publication number: 20080007961Abstract: A vehicular headlamp including a light amount control device that controls the amount of light from at least two of a plurality of light source units each having a light-emitting element as the light source. The light amount control device performs a contrasting control of the lamp to increase the amount of light from at least one of the light source units and decrease the amount of light from the other light source unit, thus enhancing the visibility by increasing the amount of light from one light source unit and enhancing the brightness in an area that the unit illuminates, and decreasing the amount of light from the other light source unit that illuminates an area where visibility is required less, lowering the power consumption.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2007Publication date: January 10, 2008Inventors: Kiyotaka Mochizuki, Takashi Hori, Naohisa Tatara