Patents by Inventor Yasushi Watanabe

Yasushi Watanabe 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: 10571190
    Abstract: A liquefied gas cooling apparatus including: a gas flow path for carrying a liquefied gas that is liquefied by cooling; and a refrigeration unit including a refrigerating cycle formed by an evaporator for cooling the liquefied gas flowing through the gas flow path, a compressor, a condenser, and a throttle expansion unit. The compressor is driven through an electric motor contained in a sealed housing together with a compressor mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toyotaka Hirao, Kenji Ueda, Yasushi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200032793
    Abstract: Variable displacement pump has first control hydraulic chamber 21 giving force to cam ring 5 in direction that decreases volume variation of each pump chamber 13 by internal pressure, second control hydraulic chamber 22 giving force to cam ring in direction that increases volume variation of each pump chamber by internal pressure, first seal surface 44 formed on both end surfaces of cam ring, which are in sliding-contact with both opposing inside surfaces of pump body 1 and cover member 2, and sealing gap between each pump chamber and first control hydraulic chamber, and second seal surface 45 sealing gap between each pump chamber and second control hydraulic chamber at outlet section side. Radial direction width W2 of second seal surface is greater than that W1 of first seal surface. Increase in weight of the pump can be suppressed while suppressing increase in pump control pressure against intention of control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji SAGA, Hideaki OHNISHI, Yasushi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190345852
    Abstract: Oil pump and oil pump-integrated balancer device each have a pump housing formed by housing body 31 and cover member 32, pump shaft 33 having driven side helical gear 43 at which thrust force occurs when transmitting rotation force and rotating a rotor by the rotation force provided from drive side helical gear 13 that is engaged with driven side helical gear 43, first and second thrust receiving portions 47, 46 formed close to hole edges of bearing holes 32a, 31a of the cover member and the housing body, and first and second thrust limiting portions 49, 48 provided at the driven side helical gear and the pump shaft, contacting the thrust receiving portions from axis direction and limiting thrust movement of the pump shaft. With this configuration, oil pump and oil pump-integrated balancer device which are capable of securing stable support of the pump shaft are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke KATO, Atsushi NAGANUMA, Yasushi WATANABE, Hideaki OHNISHI
  • Publication number: 20190291399
    Abstract: A housing included in a home appliance and used as a decorative housing is shaped like an inverted tray and includes a figure layer, a non-woven cloth layer bonded to the figure layer via a bonding resin layer, and a substrate resin layer fixed to the figure layer while infiltrating gaps between fibers in the non-woven cloth layer. A predetermined cutout pattern is formed on a colored coating film applied to a front surface of the non-woven cloth layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Yasushi WATANABE, Hideharu JOHNO, Yasuhide FUKADA
  • Publication number: 20190232738
    Abstract: A connecting device 1 of a towing vehicle 2 includes a connecting pin 13, a locking arm 22, and an actuator 23. The connecting pin 13 is provided to be rotatable between a connection position where the connecting pin 13 is brought into fitting engagement with a connecting plate 3a of a wheeled platform 3 and a disconnection position where the connecting pin 13 is taken out of the fitting engagement with the connecting plate 3a. The locking arm 22 is driven by the actuator 23 between a locking position where locking arm 22 is locked with the connecting pin 13 such that the connecting pin 13 cannot rotate out of the connection position toward the disconnection position and an unlocking position where the connecting pin 13 is unlocked in the connection position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Takuya Furuno, Yoshito Otake, Sumio Noguchi, Yasushi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190226479
    Abstract: Provided is a variable capacity pump where ease of control can be improved. A variable capacity pump includes a control chamber and a control mechanism. The control chamber is disposed between a pump accommodating chamber and a movable member, and the volume of the control chamber is variable with the movement of the movable member. Working oil discharged from a discharge portion is introduced into the control chamber. The control mechanism includes a spool, a biasing member, and a solenoid. The spool is provided in a passage, and is configured to control introduction of working oil into the control chamber by moving in a cylindrical portion. The spool is biased to one side in an axial direction by a pressure of working oil introduced into the cylindrical portion from the discharge portion. The biasing member biases the spool to an opposite side in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi WATANABE, Atsushi NAGANUMA, Koji SAGA, Hideaki OHNISHI
  • Publication number: 20190219053
    Abstract: Provided is a variable capacity pump where ease of control can be improved. A variable capacity pump includes a control chamber and a control valve. The control chamber is disposed between a pump accommodating chamber and a movable member, and the volume of the control chamber is variable with the movement of the movable member. Working oil discharged from a discharge portion is introduced into the control chamber. The control valve is provided in a passage and, with the movement of a valve element, the control valve varies the cross-sectional area of a flow passage, through which working oil in the control chamber is drained to a low pressure portion, while making the discharge portion and the control chamber communicate with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi NAGANUMA, Hideaki OHNISHI, Yasushi WATANABE, Koji SAGA
  • Patent number: 10319602
    Abstract: A substrate treatment apparatus which can more efficiently regenerate phosphoric acid which is able to be returned to etching treatment along with such etching treatment as much as possible without using a large facility, that is, a substrate treatment apparatus which treats a silicon substrate W on which a nitride film is formed by a liquid etchant which contains phosphoric acid, which comprises an etching treatment unit (the spin treatment unit 30) which gives a suitable quantity of liquid etchant to each substrate which is fed one at a time so as to etch the substrate and remove the nitride film, a phosphoric acid regenerating unit (the spin treatment unit 30) which mixes liquid etchant used for treatment of one substrate and a suitable quantity of liquid hydrofluoric acid for the amount of the used liquid etchant under a predetermined temperature environment to regenerate the phosphoric acid, and a phosphoric acid recovery unit (the pump 38, phosphoric acid recovery tank 50, and pump 52) which returns the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuo Kobayashi, Koichi Hamada, Yoshiaki Kurokawa, Masaaki Furuya, Hideki Mori, Yasushi Watanabe, Yoshinori Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190016102
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a fiber reinforced resin material, the method including an opening step of opening an elongated fiber bundle to be widened in a width direction thereof to be put into a flat state; and a heat setting step of heat-setting the opened fiber bundle in the flat state by heating. In addition, the present invention provides an apparatus for manufacturing a fiber reinforced resin material containing a plurality of fiber bundles and a resin, the apparatus including an opening section that opens an elongated fiber bundle to be widened in a width direction thereof to be put into a flat state; and a heat setting section that heat-sets the opened fiber bundle in the flat state by heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Tadao Samejima, Yukihiro Mizutori, Junji Kanehagi, Yasushi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20180257265
    Abstract: Provided is a fiber-reinforced resin material molding in which fluctuations of the dispersion state of the fiber bundle in the molding is small, the generation of a resin pool is suppressed, and fluctuations in physical properties such as tensile strength and modulus of elasticity are suppressed; a method for manufacturing the same; and a method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin material. Provided is a fiber-reinforced resin material molding comprising: a fiber bundle prepared by bundling a plurality of reinforcing fibers; and a matrix resin, wherein a coefficient of variation in fiber content of the reinforcing fibers per unit zone of 0.1 mm square on a cut face along a thickness direction is 40% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro MIZUTORI, Tadao Samejima, Yasushi Watanabe, Junji Kanehagi, Takayuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20180250849
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin molding material having excellent productivity at low cost for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin molded article having excellent strength properties. Provided is a method for manufacturing a sheet-shaped fiber-reinforced resin molding material containing a plurality of cut fiber bundles and a resin impregnated between filaments of the cut fiber bundles, the method comprising an integrated material manufacturing step for obtaining an integrated material by collecting a sheet-shaped fiber bundle aggregate obtained by arranging and spreading a plurality of consecutive fiber bundles in a width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Tadao Samejima, Yukihiro Mizutori, Yasushi Watanabe, Junji Kanehagi, Masatoshi Kamata
  • Publication number: 20180209076
    Abstract: One mode of the invention relates to a producing device for chopped fiber bundles comprising: cutting means including a cutting blade for cutting long fiber bundles, guide means for restricting the travel direction of the fiber bundles to be supplied to the cutting means, and widening means provided between the cutting means and the guide means and for widening the fiber bundles; and a producing method for chopped fiber bundles comprising: widening fiber bundles by widening means provided between a cutting means and guide means while restricting the travel direction of the long fiber bundles to be supplied to the cutting means by the guide means, and obtaining chopped fiber bundles by cutting the fiber bundles with the cutting means including a cutting blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Tadao SAMEJIMA, Ryuichi ISHIKAWA, Hiroshi IWATA, Yukihiro MIZUTORI, Masatoshi KAMATA, Yasushi WATANABE, Hajime OKUTSU
  • Publication number: 20180194082
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin molding material by which, when the fiber-reinforced resin molding material is manufactured, separated fiber bundles can be supplied to a cutting machine in stable condition while avoiding the influence of meandering of the fiber bundles or slanting or meandering of filaments occurring in the fiber bundles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Tadao SAMEJIMA, Yukihiro MIZUTORI, Yasushi WATANABE, Junji KANEHAGI
  • Publication number: 20180187676
    Abstract: In a variable displacement type oil pump, a swing member accommodates a pump forming member, and swings to vary a quantity of change of a volumetric capacity of each pump chamber. A biasing member biases the swing member in a direction to increase the quantity of change of the volumetric capacity of each pump chamber. A first control oil chamber applies a first torque to the swing member in a direction to reduce the quantity of change of the volumetric capacity of each pump chamber. A second control oil chamber applies a second torque to the swing member in a direction to increase the quantity of change of the volumetric capacity of each pump chamber, wherein the second torque is larger than the first torque. A switching mechanism switches between supply and drain of working oil with respect to the second control oil chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji SAGA, Yasushi WATANABE, Hideaki OHNISHI, Atsushi NAGANUMA
  • Patent number: 10006457
    Abstract: A variable displacement pump includes: an urging mechanism which includes two spring members; an electromagnetic switching valve which is arranged to connect the second control chamber and the discharge portion in an energized state, and to connect the second control chamber and the low pressure chamber in a deenergized state; and a control valve which is actuated by the pressure of the discharge portion, and which is arranged to decrease the pressure within the second control chamber when the pressure of the discharge portion becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Watanabe, Atsushi Naganuma
  • Publication number: 20180154563
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a textile-like in-mold sheet that is to be integrated with a resin molded body molded by injection of a molten resin by in-molding. The textile-like in-mold sheet includes a first surface that is to be integrated with the resin molded body, and a second surface that will serve as a back side of the first surface, such that the textile-like in-mold sheet contains at least a textile material layer and a temporary surface protection layer temporarily bonded to the textile material layer, in this order from the first surface toward the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicants: ART&TECH Co., Ltd., KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi WATANABE, Hideharu JOHNO, Fumihiro YAMAGUCHI, Kohei AOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9976515
    Abstract: Provided is an exhaust nozzle and a method for changing an exhaust flowpath, whereby noise can be reduced by using a simple and light-weight mechanism without increasing the complexity and size of the structure of the exhaust nozzle, and furthermore, the efficiency during cruising at supersonic speeds can be improved. The rear end side of main nozzle pieces 110 of an exhaust nozzle 100 are provided swingably in an inward and outward direction of an exhaust flow path 101, about an open/close bend section 111 to the rear of an engine, coupling nozzle pieces 120 are coupled bendably to adjacent main nozzle pieces 110 on either side, and when the main nozzle pieces 110 are swung inside the exhaust flow path 101, the coupling nozzle pieces 120 form projecting sections 102 inside the exhaust flow path 101.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
    Inventors: Junichi Akatsuka, Yasushi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20180135625
    Abstract: A variable capacity oil pump controlling a pump discharge pressure to a two-stage characteristic includes: an electromagnetic switching valve formed to enable a switching between a state in which oil is discharged from a second control oil chamber and a state in which oil is introduced into the second control oil chamber; a pilot valve controlled by a discharge pressure by oil and a biasing force by a control spring and configured to supply a hydraulic pressure to a first control oil chamber in accordance with oil, to interrupt the supply of the hydraulic pressure, and to supply or exhaust the hydraulic pressure to or from second control oil chamber; and an intermediate passage. Oil exhausted from the first and second control oil chambers is not introduced into an inside of a control spring housing chamber in which a control spring of the pilot valve is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi NAGANUMA, Yasushi WATANABE
  • Patent number: 9926923
    Abstract: A film is sandwiched between a first plate and a second plate. Outer convex parts formed on the second plate are formed so that their protrusion height dimension is larger than that of an inner convex part. Each outer convex part is formed so that its width dimension is smaller than the inner convex part. When the first plate and second plate are face-joined together, the film is sandwiched between outer concave parts and the outer convex parts, after which the film is sandwiched between an inner concave part and an inner convex part and a tension is applied to a diaphragm part stretched in concave flow paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junko Ito, Yasushi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9903367
    Abstract: A variable displacement oil pump for an internal combustion engine includes a pump element to vary inside volumes of pumping chambers to suck and discharge an oil, a varying mechanism to vary a pumping volume variation quantity of the pumping chambers, with movement of a movable member such as a cam ring, an urging mechanism to urge the movable member in a direction to increase the pumping volume variation quantity, first and second control oil chambers to urge the movable member to vary the pumping volume variation quantity, and a control mechanism, such as a pilot valve, to control the supply/drainage of the oil to or from the second control oil chamber. An operation oil pressure of the movable member is set higher than an operation oil pressure of the control mechanism in a higher pressure region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Watanabe, Hideaki Ohnishi, Koji Saga, Atsushi Naganuma