Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Asanoma

Toshiaki Asanoma 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: 10895043
    Abstract: A track includes a travel path including a travel face with which travel wheels of a vehicle come into contact while rolling. The travel path includes a plurality of travel path forming units that are arranged to be adjacent to each other in a travel direction of the vehicle and of which each includes a unit travel face forming part of the travel face and a positioning unit that fixes a relative position between travel path forming units adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Asanoma, Yukihide Yanobu, Hiroyuki Kono, Koji Uchida, Akihisa Kawauchi, Yoshinobu Murakami, Yasuyuki Mukai
  • Publication number: 20180298562
    Abstract: A track includes a travel path including a travel face with which travel wheels of a vehicle come into contact while rolling. The travel path includes a plurality of travel path forming units that are arranged to be adjacent to each other in a travel direction of the vehicle and of which each includes a unit travel face forming part of the travel face and a positioning unit that fixes a relative position between travel path forming units adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Toshiaki ASANOMA, Yukihide YANOBU, Hiroyuki KONO, Koji UCHIDA, Akihisa KAWAUCHI, Yoshinobu MURAKAMI, Yasuyuki MUKAI
  • Patent number: 9376033
    Abstract: In an insulating section, a power feeding rail, and a track transportation system, the insulating section extending along a travel direction of a vehicle and connecting electric train lines coming into contact with a pantograph of the vehicle at a contact surface facing the vehicle is characterized by including: a main surface portion formed on a surface which follows a current-conducting surface coming into contact with the pantograph in the electric train line, and having a portion in which a width in an up-down direction orthogonal to the travel direction is larger than the width of the pantograph; and inclined surface portions provided on both sides in the up-down direction on at least the near side in the travel direction of the main surface portion, inclined so as to gradually approach the vehicle as it goes toward the far side from the near side in the travel direction, and connected to the main surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihide Yanobu, Toshiaki Asanoma, Yasuyuki Mukai, Hiroyuki Kono, Katsuaki Morita
  • Patent number: 9353485
    Abstract: A vehicle pick-up and delivery device includes: two mainline tracks including a pair of first guide portions which guide a pair of first guide wheels provided on a vehicle on an outer side of each of the first guide wheels; a pick-up and delivery travel path on which the vehicle is capable of traveling and which is provided between the two mainline tracks and is configured to pick up and deliver the vehicle between the two mainline tracks; a second guide portion which is provided inside the pick-up and delivery travel path and guides a second guide wheel disposed below the vehicle; and a switching unit which is provided on the mainline tracks and is capable of switching a direction of the vehicle between a direction along the mainline tracks and a direction along the pick-up and delivery travel path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Mukai, Toshiaki Asanoma, Yoshinobu Murakami, Hiroyuki Maeyama, Akihiro Kubo, Kousuke Katahira
  • Patent number: 9302680
    Abstract: A transportation system includes a vehicle, a track having a traveling road surface on which the vehicle travels and guide parts which extend to both sides in a width direction of the traveling road surface. The track has a first section in which the vehicle is guided by the guide parts and travels on the track, and a second section in which the vehicle travels on the track by steering of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Maeyama, Toru Kanemori, Mitsuaki Hoshi, Takahiro Suzuki, Masahisa Masukawa, Toshiaki Asanoma, Kousuke Katahira
  • Patent number: 9212454
    Abstract: A main line movable rail is disposed between a near-side main line rail and a forward-side main line rail which are disposed as a center guide rail so as to sandwich a branching section. The main line movable rail is supported so as to swing at the center of a first end at a position at which the first end is continuous to the forward-side main line rail. A locking action mechanism allows a second end of the main line movable rail to be engaged with an engagement member, thereby locking the second end so as not to undergo displacement at a guide position at which the second end of the main line movable rail is continuous to the near-side main line rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihide Yanobu, Hiroyuki Kono, Toshiaki Asanoma, Yoshinobu Murakami
  • Publication number: 20150114778
    Abstract: In an insulating section, a power feeding rail, and a track transportation system, the insulating section extending along a travel direction of a vehicle and connecting electric train lines coming into contact with a pantograph of the vehicle at a contact surface facing the vehicle is characterized by including: a main surface portion formed on a surface which follows a current-conducting surface coming into contact with the pantograph in the electric train line, and having a portion in which a width in an up-down direction orthogonal to the travel direction is larger than the width of the pantograph; and inclined surface portions provided on both sides in the up-down direction on at least the near side in the travel direction of the main surface portion, inclined so as to gradually approach the vehicle as it goes toward the far side from the near side in the travel direction, and connected to the main surface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihide Yanobu, Toshiaki Asanoma, Yasuyuki Mukai, Hiroyuki Kono, Katsuaki Morita
  • Publication number: 20140339040
    Abstract: This insulating section is an insulating section that extends to a side of a vehicle and connects train lines, which are in contact with a pantograph of the vehicle, to each other on a contact surface facing the vehicle. The contact surface has a groove formed from the upper edge to the lower edge in a vertical direction perpendicular to a traveling direction. The groove is formed such that the cross-section in the vertical direction becomes a part of the contact surface in the vertical direction at any position in the traveling direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Mukai, Toshiaki Asanoma
  • Publication number: 20140290525
    Abstract: A transportation system includes a vehicle, a track having a traveling road surface on which a vehicle travels and guide parts which extend to both sides in a width direction of the traveling road surface. The track has a first section in which the vehicle is guided by the guide parts and travels on the track, and a second section in which the vehicle travels on the track by the steering of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Maeyama, Toru Kanemori, Mitsuaki Hoshi, Takahiro Suzuki, Masahisa Masukawa, Toshiaki Asanoma, Kousuke Katahira
  • Publication number: 20140190366
    Abstract: A vehicle pick-up and delivery device includes: two mainline tracks including a pair of first guide portions which guide a pair of first guide wheels provided on a vehicle on an outer side of each of the first guide wheels; a pick-up and delivery travel path on which the vehicle is capable of traveling and which is provided between the two mainline tracks and is configured to pick up and deliver the vehicle between the two mainline tracks; a second guide portion which is provided inside the pick-up and delivery travel path and guides a second guide wheel disposed below the vehicle; and a switching unit which is provided on the mainline tracks and is capable of switching a direction of the vehicle between a direction along the mainline tracks and a direction along the pick-up and delivery travel path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Mukai, Toshiaki Asanoma, Yoshinobu Murakami, Hiroyuki Maeyama, Akihiro Kubo, Kousuke Katahira
  • Publication number: 20130193278
    Abstract: A main line movable rail is disposed between a near-side main line rail and a forward-side main line rail which are disposed as a center guide rail so as to sandwich a branching section. The main line movable rail is supported so as to swing at the center of a first end at a position at which the first end is continuous to the forward-side main line rail. A locking action mechanism allows a second end of the main line movable rail to be engaged with an engagement member, thereby locking the second end so as not to undergo displacement at a guide position at which the second end of the main line movable rail is continuous to the near-side main line rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Yukihide Yanobu, Hiroyuki Kono, Toshiaki Asanoma, Yoshinobu Murakami