Patents by Inventor Takuya Hara

Takuya 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: 7695141
    Abstract: A stimulus light from a stimulus light source is projected to the retina of an ocular fundus under examination to stimulate the retina in localized fashion to generate a bioelectric signal from the retina. The stimulus light source is mounted on a movable block, and an operating lever is used to move the stimulus light source to change the stimulus light on the retina. The size of the stimulus light can also be varied using a panel having a plurality of openings with different diameters for allowing the stimulus light to pass through. This assures a reliable local ERG examination because the bioelectrical signal can be produced in a wider area of the retina. The operating lever is further fixed by inserting a cap to keep the projected stimulus light unchanged. This allows the burden on the examiner to be reduced remarkably, assuring a reliable local ERG examination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Kowa Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Hara, Kazunori Matsumura, Tatsuya Fujii, Masaharu Mizuochi
  • Publication number: 20100084054
    Abstract: The present invention provides high strength hot rolled steel plate for line-pipes superior in low temperature toughness, and a method of production of the same, containing, by mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.1%, Si: 0.05 to 0.5%, Mn: 1 to 2%, P: ?0.03%, S: ?0.005%, O: ?0.003%, Al: 0.005 to 0.05%, N: 0.0015 to 0.006%, Nb: 0.005 to 0.08%, and Ti: 0.005 to 0.02%, where N?14/48×Ti>0% and Nb—93/14×(N?14/48×Ti)>0.005%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, said steel plate characterized in that its microstructure is a continuously cooled transformed structure, a reflected X-ray intensity ratio {211}/{111} of the {211} plane and {111} plane parallel to the plate surface in the texture at the center of plate thickness is 1.1 or more, and an in-grain precipitate density of the precipitates of Nb and/or Ti carbonitrides is 1017 to 1018/cm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Tatsuo Yokoi, Masanori Minagawa, Takuya Hara, Osamu Yoshida, Hiroshi Abe
  • Publication number: 20100003535
    Abstract: The present invention provides high strength thick welded steel pipe for line pipe superior in low temperature toughness, and a method of production of the same. A base material steel plate containing C: 0.010 to 0.050%, Si: 0.01 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.50 to 2.00%, Al: 0.020% or less, Ti: 0.003 to 0.030%, and Mo: 0.10 to 1.50%, having a carbon equivalent Ceq of 0.30 to 0.53, having a crack susceptability parameter Pcm of 0.10 to 0.20, satisfying formula 3, comprised an area ratio of 20% or less of polygonal ferrite and an area ratio of 80% or more of bainite, and having an effective crystal grain size of 20 ?m or less is formed into a pipe shape, then seam welded to make the effective crystal grain size of the heat affected zone 150 ?m or less: 10C+100Al+5Mo+5Ni<3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Takuya Hara, Hitoshi Asahi
  • Publication number: 20100002192
    Abstract: A perimeter has fixation state judging means for individually judging a fixation state of an examinee in connection with each presented stimulus, and the fixation state judging means individually judges the fixation state whenever the stimulus is presented. Even if defective fixation is judged, retest is conducted on only a point where the stimulus was presented, which was judged to be defective fixation. Then, examiner's burden and examinee's burden can be lightened, the test time can be made shorter and test efficiency can be improved in comparison with a case where the whole test is retried from the first as a conventional way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventor: Takuya HARA
  • Patent number: 7601231
    Abstract: A high-strength steel pipe excellent in weldability on site and a method for producing the steel pipe by improving the reliability of the low temperature toughness of a steel are provided. For example, the steel pipe includes elements to enhance hardenability for furthering high-strengthening and also improving toughness at a weld heat affected zone subjected to double or more layer welding. In the method, the steel is made to consist of a structure composed of bainite and/or martensite by containing prescribed amounts of C, Si, Mn, P, S, Ni, Mo, Nb, Ti, Al and N, and, as occasion demands, one or more of B, V, Cu, Cr, Ca, REM, and Mg, and regulating C, Si, Mn, Cr, Ni, Cu, V and Mo. Such elements enhancing hardenability, by a specific relational expression. The diameter of prior austenite grains may be regulated in a prescribed range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hara, Hitoshi Asahi
  • Publication number: 20090231543
    Abstract: A stimulus light from a stimulus light source is projected to the retina of an ocular fundus under examination to stimulate the retina in localized fashion to generate a bioelectric signal from the retina. The stimulus light source is mounted on a movable block, and an operating lever is used to move the stimulus light source to change the stimulus light on the retina. The size of the stimulus light can also be varied using a panel having a plurality of openings with different diameters for allowing the stimulus light to pass through. This assures a reliable local ERG examination because the bioelectrical signal can be produced in a wider area of the retina. The operating lever is further fixed by inserting a cap to keep the projected stimulus light unchanged. This allows the burden on the examiner to be reduced remarkably, assuring a reliable local ERG examination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Takuya Hara, Kazunori Matsumura, Tatsuya Fujii, Masaharu Mizuochi
  • Publication number: 20090122263
    Abstract: A virtual sensitivity value which is obtained, variously changing a pupil diameter is measured in advance for many examinees, and volume of correction which is necessary at the time when the sensitivity value is corrected into one in a standard pupil diameter is stored as correction volume database. An apparatus has measurement means for measuring the pupil diameter of the eye to be examined, computing means for computing a shape parameter rate of the measured pupil diameter to the standard pupil diameter, and judgment means for computing volume of correction by referring to the correction volume database from the shape parameter rate and correcting the virtual sensitivity value obtained by measurement of the eye to be examined and for judging a sensitivity step of the eye to be examined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventors: Takuya Hara, Satoshi Shimada
  • Publication number: 20090092514
    Abstract: The present invention provides steel plate for high strength line pipe suppressing the rise in yield strength in the longitudinal direction of expanded steel pipe due to the heating at the time of coating to prevent corrosion and superior in strain aging resistance and steel pipe for the material for the same, that is, high strength steel pipe for line pipe superior in strain aging resistance characterized in that a base material having a composition of chemical elements containing, by mass %, Mo: over 0% to less than 0.15% and Mn: 1.7 to 2.5%, satisfying Mo/Mn: over 0 to 0.08, containing C, Si, P, S, Al, Ti, N, and B, furthermore containing one or more of Ni, Cu, and Cr, having a balance of iron and unavoidable impurities, having a P value of 2.5 to 4.0 in range, and having a metallurgical structure comprised of bainite and martensite: P value=2.7C+0.4Si+Mn+0.8Cr+0.45(Ni+Cu)+2Mo. Furthermore, it may contain one or more of Nb, V, Ca, REM, and Mg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventors: Hitoshi Asahi, Takuya Hara, Naoki Doi, Yoshio Terada
  • Publication number: 20090025835
    Abstract: The present invention provides high strength steel plate and high strength welded pipe excellent in ductile fracture characteristic and methods of production of the same, that is, high strength steel plate excellent in ductile fracture characteristic, and high strength welded pipe using that steel plate as a base material, having a tensile strength corresponding to the X100 class of the API standard, containing, by mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.5%, Si: 0.01 to 3%, Mn: 0.1 to 5%, P: 0.03% or less, and S: 0.03% or less and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, having a microstructure comprised of, by area ratio, 1 to 60% of ferrite and the balance of bainite and martensite, having a maximum value of the {100} accumulation degree of the cross-section rotated 20 to 50° from the plate thickness cross-section about the rolling direction as an axis of 3 or less, and having plate thickness parallel cracks measured by ultrasonic flaw detection of less than 1 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventors: Takuya Hara, Yasuhiro Shinohara, Hitoshi Asahi, Yoshio Terada
  • Publication number: 20080257008
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high strength welded steel pipe superior in weld zone embrittlement crack characteristics and a method of production of the same, that is, a method of production of a welded steel pipe superior in hydrogen embrittlement cracking resistance of weld metal characterized by seam welding from the inner and outer surfaces by a tensile strength of 850 MPa or more, then expanding or reducing the size of the pipe for correction, which method of production of welded steel pipe characterized in that the hydrogen concentration of the preceding weld metal is 0.2 cc or less per 100 g at ordinary temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Eiji Tsuru, Takuya Hara, Hitoshi Asahi, Hiroshi Morimoto, Yoshio Terada, Tatsuya Yoshida, Kouichi Shinada
  • Patent number: 7393104
    Abstract: When a Landolt ring optotype is presented in a visual acuity testing unit, an examinee answers a position of a slit of the optotype through an operation of a joystick lever or the like. If an examinee gives a right answer within a standard time at a first presentation of optotype, examination at a higher visual acuity grade is executed by presenting a smaller Landolt ring optotype. In case of a right answer over the standard time, reexamination at the same visual acuity grade is executed twice at the most. If a right answer is given at least once, examination at a higher visual acuity grade is executed. In case of a wrong answer within the standard time at a first presentation of optotype, reexamination at the same visual acuity is executed only once. If the right answer is given at this reexamination, examination at a higher visual acuity grade is executed. Reexamination is thus executed, so that the result of the examination is correct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Kowa Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Hara, Yoshikatsu Suzumura
  • Patent number: 7301763
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a chamber having a chamber wall surface defining a liquid-tight sealed space; an electronic unit housed in a liquid-tight case, the case being disposed in the chamber to define an intermediate space between the case and the chamber wall surface; a biasing unit in the chamber that biases the case toward a predetermined neutral position in the intermediate space; a liquid disposed in the intermediate space; and an iris system formed in the chamber such that when the case moves toward a portion of the chamber wall surface, the iris system cooperates with the case to define a flow path through which the liquid in a portion of the intermediate space between the case and the portion of the chamber wall surface flows to another portion of the intermediate space, a cross-sectional area of the flow path decreasing as the case moves closer to the portion of the chamber wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Hara
  • Publication number: 20070193666
    Abstract: A dual phase, high strength steel having a composite microstructure of soft and hard phases providing a low yield ratio, high strain capacity, superior weldability, and high toughness is provided. The dual phase steel includes from about 10% by volume to about 60% by volume of a first phase or constituent consisting essentially of fine-grained ferrite. The first phase has a ferrite mean grain size of about 5 microns or less. The dual phase steel further includes from about 40% by volume to about 90% by volume of a second phase or constituent comprising fine-grained martensite, fine-grained lower bainite, fine-grained granular bainite, fine-grained degenerate upper bainite, or any mixture thereof. Methods for making the same are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Hitoshi Asahi, Takuya Hara, Yoshio Terada, Masaaki Sugiyama, Narasimha-Rao Bangaru, Ja-Young Koo, Hyun-Woo Jin, Adnan Ozekcin, Douglas Fairchild
  • Publication number: 20070125462
    Abstract: Ultra-high-strength linepipes having excellent low-temperature toughness manufactured by welding together the edges of steel plates comprising C of 0.03 to 0.07 mass %, Si of not more than 0.6 mass %, Mn of 1.5 to 2.5 mass %, P of not more than 0.015 mass %, S of not more than 0.003 mass %, Ni of 0.1 to 1.5 mass %, Mo of 0.15 to 0.60 mass %, Nb of 0.01 to 0.10 mass %, Ti of 0.005 to 0.030 mass %, Al of not more than 0.06 mass %, one or more of required amounts of B, N, V, Cu, Cr, Ca, REM (rare-earth metals) and Mg, with the remainder consisting of iron and unavoidable impurities and having a (Hv-ave)/(Hv-M) ratio between 0.8 and 0.9 at 2.5?P?4.0, wherein Hv-ave is the average Vickers hardness in the direction of the thickness of the base metal and Hv-M is the martensite hardness depending on C-content (Hv-M=270+1300C) and a tensile strength TS-C between 900 MPa and 1100 MPa; P=2.7C+0.4Si+Mn+0.8Cr+0.45(Ni+Cu)+(1+?)Mo?1+? (?=1 when B?3 ppm and ?=0 when B<3 ppm).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventors: Hitoshi Asahi, Takuya Hara
  • Publication number: 20070120999
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a chamber having a chamber wall surface defining a liquid-tight sealed space; an electronic unit housed in a liquid-tight case, the case being disposed in the chamber to define an intermediate space between the case and the chamber wall surface; a biasing unit in the chamber that biases the case toward a predetermined neutral position in the intermediate space; a liquid disposed in the intermediate space; and an iris system formed in the chamber such that when the case moves toward a portion of the chamber wall surface, the iris system cooperates with the case to define a flow path through which the liquid in a portion of the intermediate space between the case and the portion of the chamber wall surface flows to another portion of the intermediate space, a cross-sectional area of the flow path decreasing as the case moves closer to the portion of the chamber wall surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Hara
  • Publication number: 20070013870
    Abstract: When a Landolt ring optotype is presented in a visual acuity testing unit, an examinee answers a position of a slit of the optotype through an operation of a joystick lever or the like. If an examinee gives a right answer within a standard time at a first presentation of optotype, examination at a higher visual acuity grade is executed by presenting a smaller Landolt ring optotype. In case of a right answer over the standard time, reexamination at the same visual acuity grade is executed twice at the most. If a right answer is given at least once, examination at a higher visual acuity grade is executed. In case of a wrong answer within the standard time at a first presentation of optotype, reexamination at the same visual acuity is executed only once. If the right answer is given at this reexamination, examination at a higher visual acuity grade is executed. Reexamination is thus executed, so that the result of the examination is correct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Inventors: Takuya Hara, Yoshikatsu Suzumura
  • Patent number: 7133277
    Abstract: A miniaturized electronic device including a battery storing container having an opening for placing a battery in and out, a recording medium storing part for storing a recording medium detachably, and a plurality of circuit boards constituting predetermined circuits, wherein the recording medium storing part and the plurality of circuit boards are placed so as to surround the outside of the battery storing container except at its opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Ikari, Atsushi Hoshi, Takuya Hara
  • Publication number: 20060237175
    Abstract: A second attaching portion 8, in which a shroud 20 is attached to a radiator 1, is formed at a position shifted from a first attaching portion 17, at which a condenser 10 is attached to the radiator 1, at predetermined intervals in a vehicle width direction. As a result, it is possible to prevent the weights of the condenser 10 and the shroud 20 from concentrating upon a root portion of a specific tube 2 via the first and the second attaching portion 17, 8. Therefore, damage to tube 2 can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya Hara
  • Publication number: 20060061951
    Abstract: A system includes a computer main unit (3) for performing data processing, a cradle (5) for a display device that is connected to the computer main unit so that signals or data can be communicated between them, a wireless display (6) that is detachably connected to the cradle and is capable of communicating signals or data with the cradle or the computer main unit via wireless communication, a connector, a resistor or the like as a detecting portion for detecting a connected or detached state of the wireless display with respect to the cradle, and a NOR circuit (35) or a power control portion (33, 33B) as a control portion for inhibiting power control by an operation in the computer main unit when the wireless display is detached from the cradle and the computer main unit is working.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Takuya Hara
  • Publication number: 20050016980
    Abstract: The present invention, in a welded joint of steel sheets and a steel pipe body having a tensile strength of 800 MPa or more (over X100 in API Standards), provides: the welded joint of the steel sheets and the steel pipe produced by forming a steel sheet into a cylindrical shape and welding both the ends thereof, both excellent in cold cracking resistance; and methods for producing them. The present invention includes an ultrahigh strength welded joint and an ultrahigh strength welded steel pipe excellent in the cold cracking resistance of a weld metal, characterized in that the amount of non-diffusible hydrogen in the inner side weld metal is 0.01 ppm or more. It is preferable that the ratio of the non-diffusible hydrogen amount to the total hydrogen amount in said inner side weld metal is 0.5% or more. Further, it is preferable that Mo carbide is contained by not less than 1 piece/?m2 in said inner side weld metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Takuya Hara, Hitoshi Asahi