Patents Represented by Attorney Keating & Bennett, LLP
  • Patent number: 8317653
    Abstract: A continuously variable transmission of an engine unit. A driving side pulley is mounted on a crankshaft. A driven side pulley is mounted on a driven shaft. A belt is looped around the driving and driven side pulleys. The continuously variable transmission is housed in a transmission case. The transmission case includes a drive shaft supporting portion supporting an end portion of the crankshaft, a driven shaft supporting portion supporting an end portion of the driven shaft 27, and a support column portion bridged between the drive shaft supporting portion and the driven shaft supporting portion. The engine unit thereby has a simple structure and increaes the strength of supporting a crankshaft and a driven shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Sadao Nogi
  • Patent number: 8319763
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of display lines provided in each of blocks and extending in parallel with each other, a plurality of drive circuits provided outside a display region and connected to the display lines in the respective blocks, a plurality of first lines provided outside the display region and intersecting end portions closer to the drive circuits of the display lines in the respective blocks, the first lines being insulated from the display lines, and a second line provided outside the display region and intersecting end portions farther from the drive circuits of the display lines of all the blocks, the second line being insulated from the display lines. The second line is configured to intersect the first lines while being insulated from the first lines, and be supplied with a display signal from each of the drive circuits via an amplifier circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadatoshi Ozeki, Takaharu Yamada, Masahiro Yoshida, Kazuyori Mitsumoto
  • Patent number: 8317937
    Abstract: In order to make a sintered R-T-B-M magnet so that R2T14B phases that include a lot of Dy in the surface region of the main phase are distributed over the entire magnet, a region including a heavy rare-earth element RH at a high concentration is formed continuously beforehand at an interface between the crystals of an R2T14B compound that is the main phase of the sintered R-T-B-M magnet and the other phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventor: Futoshi Kuniyoshi
  • Patent number: 8317008
    Abstract: A clutch 44 has a clutch boss 441, a clutch housing 442, a friction plate 64, a clutch plate 65, and a pressure plate 450. The clutch boss 441 is attached to the main shaft 41 so as to be integrally rotated therewith. The clutch housing 442 encloses the periphery of the clutch boss 441 and is attached to the main shaft 41 so as to be rotated with respect to the main shaft 41. The friction plate 64 has a plate main body and a friction material and rotates together with the clutch housing 442. The clutch plate 65 faces the plate main body via the friction material and rotates together with the clutch boss 441. The pressure plate 450 rotates together with one of the clutch boss 441 the clutch housing 442 which is engaged with the friction plate 64.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshinori Inomori, Yousuke Ishida
  • Patent number: 8321103
    Abstract: In a transmission control system for a vehicle, in a torque return period at the time of up-shifting of a transmission, an engine torque and a clutch torque are increased in parallel. A target engine torque value and a target clutch torque value are set such that the clutch torque changes at a value higher than the engine torque. The target clutch torque value is set such that a difference between an amount of energy generated in a clutch and an amount of energy generated in an engine substantially coincides with an amount of energy required to reduce the rotation speed of the engine to a target rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaya Sakaue
  • Patent number: 8320101
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a multilayer electronic component, after a plating layer for forming an external electrode is formed on an end surface of a laminate, conditions for heat-treating the laminate are set such that interdiffusion layers have ends which face internal electrodes and which are spaced from the end surface of the laminate at a distance of about 0.5 ?m to about 1.9 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Takeuchi, Kenichi Kawasaki, Akihiro Motoki, Makoto Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8317556
    Abstract: A boat propulsion system includes a power source, a propulsion section, a shift position switching mechanism arranged to switch among a first shift position, a second shift position, and a neutral position, a gear ratio switching mechanism, an actuator, and a control section. When switching is to be performed from the neutral position to the first shift position and the high-speed gear ratio, the control section is arranged to cause the actuator to, maintain the low-speed gear ratio, switch to the first shift position, and then establish the high-speed gear ratio when the current gear ratio of the gear ratio switching mechanism is the low-speed gear ratio, and cause the actuator to establish the low-speed gear ratio before switching to the first shift position, switch to the first shift position, and then establish the high-speed gear ratio when the current gear ratio of the gear ratio switching mechanism is the high-speed gear ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayoshi Suzuki, Hideaki Matsushita, Daisuke Nakamura, Tsugunori Konakawa
  • Patent number: 8319585
    Abstract: An elastic wave filter device in which elastic wave filters and parallel resonators are provided on a piezoelectric substrate includes a plurality of ground ports. The elastic wave filters include input-side resonators and output-side resonators. The input-side resonators are connected between a reception input port and a first one of the ground ports. The output-side resonators are connected between reception output ports and the first ground port. The parallel resonators are connected in parallel to output lines and are connected to second and third ground ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Miyake
  • Patent number: 8316907
    Abstract: Substrate material processing equipment includes: a substrate material conveying section receiving a substrate material from a first line and conveying it to a second line; a first substrate material dividing section dividing the substrate material; a substrate material recovery section recovering the substrate material from its start edge formed by division; a substrate material supply section supplying a substrate material to an end edge of the substrate material which is formed by division; a first substrate material joining section joining the end edge of the substrate material to a start edge of the substrate material supplied from the substrate material supply section; a second substrate material dividing section provided between the substrate material supply section and the first substrate material joining section; a third substrate material dividing section provided between the first line and the substrate material recovery section; and a second substrate material joining section joining a start edge
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akitsugu Hatano, Yoshiki Nakatani, Hisao Ochi
  • Patent number: 8317212
    Abstract: To provide a motorcycle having a rear fender that effectively prevents a rear wheel, for example, from splashing mud and may support a light stably in accordance with various embodiments. For example, a motorcycle is disclosed for an embodiment having a rear fender that covers a rear wheel, and lights supported by the rear fender. The rear fender includes a support portion that supports the lights, and a lower mudguard extending downward from the support portion, and a dented portion is formed on a surface thereof between the support portion and the lower mudguard to extend to one edge of the rear fender in a motorcycle width direction from the other edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuuta Kobayashi, Tetsuya Hanai
  • Patent number: 8319901
    Abstract: Discharge tubes, each of which includes a glass tube and a ferrule that has a substantially cylindrical shape and is fitted to each end portion of the glass tube, are supported by a plurality of pairs of relay connectors (or supporting members) provided on the front side of a chassis having substantially a plate-shaped configuration. When a discharge tube is supported by relay connectors, stoppers provided on the relay connectors lock the ferrules so that axial movement of the discharge tube relative to the relay connectors is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiki Takata, Kenichi Iwamoto, Takaaki Kudo, Naofumi Ikenaga
  • Patent number: 8317478
    Abstract: An impeller, a fan apparatus, and a method of manufacturing the impeller are provided. The impeller includes a support portion, a plurality of rotor blades, and a joining member. The joining member is a substantially annular member provided to strengthen the rotor blades against influence of a centrifugal force, and extends in a circumferential direction along a circle centered on a central axis so as to join the rotor blades to one another. In each of the rotor blades, a point of intersection of a leading edge of the rotor blade with a radially outer end of the rotor blade is positioned forward, with respect to a rotation direction, relative to a point of intersection of the leading edge with an outside surface of the support portion. The joining member is positioned radially inwards of the radially outer end of each of the rotor blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Nidec Servo Corporation
    Inventors: Asahi Higo, Tetsuya Hioki, Taro Tanno, Mitsuru Ito, Osamu Sekiguchi, Seung-Sin Yoo
  • Patent number: 8319582
    Abstract: An elastic wave apparatus includes a balanced-unbalanced transforming function, and an elastic wave filter and a multilayer wiring board on which the elastic wave filter is mounted. The elastic wave filter includes an unbalanced terminal and first and second balanced terminals. External electrodes used are provided on the multilayer wiring board. A first internal line connects the first balanced terminal and the external electrode. A second internal line connects the second balanced terminal and the external electrode. The lengths or shapes of the first internal line and the second internal line are set so that a capacitance used for the improvement of a balance is generated in an adjacent area A where the first internal line and the second internal line are adjacent to each other. In the adjacent area A, the directions of currents passing through the first internal line and the second internal line are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayaka Yamamoto, Yuichi Takamine
  • Patent number: 8321575
    Abstract: A relay server can collectively copy a plurality of shared resources separately held by client terminals to a terminal that belongs to the relay server by performing a simple operation. The relay server includes a shared resource information registration unit. The shared resource information registration unit stores shared resource information when a resource is shared among a plurality of client terminals. The shared resource information includes resource information, hierarchical structure information regarding a hierarchical structure of the resources, and account information of a resource sharing terminal that is a client terminal that shares the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Tanimoto
  • Patent number: 8319594
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body, a first external electrode, and a second external electrode. The first and second external electrodes are disposed on a principal surface, which is directed to the mounting surface side, of the ceramic body so as to face each other with a predetermined gap region therebetween. The external electrodes each include a base layer and a Cu plating layer which covers the base layer. In each of the first and second external electrodes, an expression 0.1?t/d?0.5 is satisfied, where t is a thickness of the Cu plating layer at an end of the base layer on a gap region side, and d is a distance from the end of the base layer on the gap region side to an end of the Cu plating layer on the gap region side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Sato, Yukio Sanada, Makoto Ogawa, Yasuhiro Nishisaka
  • Patent number: 8316639
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine capable of improving cleaning efficiency by preventing an increase in the temperature of the exhaust gas to lessen the deterioration of the catalyst. The internal combustion engine includes a convergent section, a divergent section, and a branch section. The branch section branches a shock wave, propagating in a downstream direction at a higher velocity than exhaust gas flowing into an exhaust path from a combustion chamber when an exhaust valve is opened, from a portion of the exhaust path which is upstream with respect to the divergent section, and propagates the shock wave back to the exhaust path. The exhaust gas is caused to pass the convergent section and to collide against the shock wave between the branch section and the divergent section, so as to increase the pressure of the exhaust gas in the convergent section. Such exhaust gas is caused to pass the divergent section to generate a new shock wave and to decrease the temperature of the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yusuke Takahashi, Tsugunori Konakawa
  • Patent number: 8314528
    Abstract: An armature includes an insulator component with a wiring member arranged in a wiring fixing groove positioned outside of an outer wall portion of the insulator component. When a lead wire is wound around the insulator component, a winding start portion and a winding end portion of the lead wire are arranged to intersect with each other in a radial direction to define an intersection portion. The winding start portion is pressed by the winding end portion toward the outer wall portion. A lead wire escape portion spaced from a radially outer end portion of a coil is defined in the outer wall portion. This contributes to preventing the outer wall portion from being deformed by being pressed by the lead wire at the intersection portion, thereby preventing difficulty in arranging the wiring member on the insulator component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventor: Toshinobu Shinohara
  • Patent number: 8314531
    Abstract: In a piezoelectric-actuator driving circuit for driving a piezoelectric actuator, an amplifier circuit amplifies a signal output from a feedback circuit and supplies the amplified signal to a non-inverting amplifier circuit and an inverting amplifier circuit. The non-inverting amplifier circuit amplifies the output voltage of the amplifier circuit with a predetermined gain and applies the amplified voltage to a first terminal of the piezoelectric actuator. The inverting amplifier circuit inverts and amplifies the output voltage of the amplifier circuit with the same gain as that of the non-inverting amplifier circuit and then applies the amplified voltage to a second terminal of the piezoelectric actuator through resistors. The feedback circuit amplifies a difference between voltages at respective ends of the resistor and supplies the amplified difference to the amplifier circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Midori Sunaga, Toshinari Tabata, Gaku Kamitani
  • Patent number: 8313207
    Abstract: A support unit (11) includes a support pin (12) passing through both a sheet opening (21H) and a chassis opening (63H) which are superposed on each other and making contact with a diffusion plate (64), a shield section (13) for covering the sheet opening (21H), and members, such as a latch body (14) and the shield section (13), making the support unit (11) unmovable relative to a backlight chassis (63).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasumori Kuromizu
  • Patent number: 8315033
    Abstract: In a capacitor body, a single second capacitor unit is interposed between two first capacitor units. The width direction dimension of each of extended portions of first and second internal electrodes included in the first capacitor unit is larger than the width direction dimension of each of extended portions of third and fourth internal electrodes included in the second capacitor unit. The area of each of the respective portions of a first opposed portion of the first internal electrode and a second opposed portion of the second internal electrode, the respective portions being opposed to each other, is smaller than the area of each of respective portions of opposed portions of the third and fourth internal electrodes, the respective portions being opposed to each other. Thus, a multilayer capacitor has a characteristic that is a combination of a low-ESL characteristic of the first capacitor unit and a high-ESR characteristic of the second capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Takashima, Hiroshi Ueoka, Yoshikazu Takagi