Patents Assigned to F-Tech, Inc.
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Patent number: 9248522Abstract: In a friction stir welding apparatus that can control a penetrating position of a probe with respect to a processing target member to an optimum position at a time of friction stir welding by detecting a wear volume and a tip position of the probe, as a drive mechanism moves down a holder having a coefficient of thermal expansion larger than that of the probe and holding the probe, a detector can freely detect a length of a member including the holder and the probe, and a probe detection mechanism can freely detect a tip length, which is the length of the member of only the probe.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignees: F-TECH INC., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoya Saitou, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi, Yukio Shoji, Mitsuru Sayama, Tsutomu Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9193006Abstract: A friction stir welding apparatus includes a displacement detecting device that detects displacement of a welding tool caused by deformation of a fitting jig, at the time of performing friction stir welding in which an arm to which the fitting jig fitted with the welding tool is fixed is moved to move the welding tool with respect to the processing target member. The fitting jig can be deformed more than the arm at the time of performing friction stir welding. The displacement detecting device has a displacement sensor fixed to the welding tool, and a reference member fixed to a fixing portion between the fitting jig and the arm to provide a reference position for detecting the displacement to the displacement sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignees: F-TECH INC., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukio Shoji, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Mitsuru Sayama
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Patent number: 9174677Abstract: A joint part between a main body part of an automobile subframe and a suspension support member comprises a first joint part in which an upper plate is directly superimposed on and joined to the suspension support member, and a second joint part in which a lower plate is directly superimposed on and joined to the suspension support member, and since the first and second joint parts extend in the vehicle body fore-and-aft direction without overlapping each other, it becomes possible to directly transmit, to both the upper plate and the lower plate, a load that has been inputted from the suspension arm to the suspension support member, thus enhancing the joining strength of the main body part and the suspension support member. The upper plate and the lower plate are joined to the suspension support member from the same side.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., F-Tech Inc.Inventors: Hayato Takahashi, Norio Tomikuda
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Patent number: 9050688Abstract: A friction stir welding apparatus having a new cooling system that can cool a portion required to be cooled accurately and uniformly with a simple configuration, while suppressing unnecessary thermal expansion of a mounting jig includes a holding mechanism 20 having a holding member 22a movable with respect to a processing target member W so as to freely hold the processing target member W, in which the holding member 22a and a portion of a mounting jig 12 that can freely face the holding member 22a become paired, and a coolant supply source S that can freely supply a coolant to the paired holding member 22a and the portion of the mounting jig 12.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignees: F-TECH INC., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyasu Yamaguchi, Yukio Shoji, Mitsuru Sayama, Tsutomu Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20150140445Abstract: [Problem] To provide: a method for stabilizing a solution that contains LiPF6 by increasing thermal stability of LiPF6 without changing the structure thereof; an electrolyte solution for nonaqueous secondary batteries, which has increased thermal stability; and a nonaqueous secondary battery which has increased thermal stability. [Solution] To have a solution containing LiPF6 contain a phosphoric acid ester amide represented by general formula (I) in such an amount that the molar ratio of the phosphoric acid ester amide relative to LiPF6 is 0.001-2.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: TOSOH F-TECH, INC.Inventors: Masahiro Aoki, Hideyuki Mimura, Hisao Eguchi
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Patent number: 9003920Abstract: A pedal arm provided with an arm main body has a first end portion, a second end portion, a pedal pad portion, and a shaft portion. The arm main body includes a first wall portion and a second wall portion in a first direction, and a third wall portion and a fourth wall portion in a second direction. One of the first wall portion and the second wall portion includes an abutting portion where the first end portion and the second end portion contacts, and the third wall portion and the fourth wall portion include a first curved portion and a second curved portion. A first depressed wall portion and a second depressed wall portion are formed on the first curved portion and the second curved portion, which are formed in inward convex shapes, respectively, and parts of the first depressed wall portion and the second depressed wall portion contact.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2011Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: F-Tech Inc.Inventors: Katsumi Nagahori, Tohru Izu, Shuichi Inoue, Takanori Matsumura
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Publication number: 20150053901Abstract: [Problem] To provide a fluorine-containing phosphate ester-amide which has high flame retardancy such as exhibiting flame retardant effects at a small quantity of addition, and sufficient hydrolysis resistance. [Solution] A fluorine-containing phosphate ester-amide represented by general formula (1). (In the formula, R1 and R2 are the same or different and represent a branched or linear alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms in which at least one carbon bonded to a nitrogen atom is a secondary or tertiary carbon, wherein R1 and R2 may have a substituent group selected from the group consisting of an alkoxy group, a hydroxy group, an amino group, a methyl amino group, an ethyl amino group, a dimethyl amino group, diethyl amino group and a fluorine atom. In addition, R1 and R2 may be bonded together to form a five- to eight-membered cyclic structure. X and Y are the same or different and represent a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom, and n and m represent an integer of 1 to 6.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: TOSOH F- TECH, INC.Inventors: Hideyuki Mimura, Hiroaki Fujita, Hisao Eguchi
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Patent number: 8910543Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pedal device in which the pad member can be fixed to the stopper member easily at the time of mounting, and which does not tend to be degraded over the years. In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a pedal device including: a stopper member attached to a floor of a driver's seat of a vehicle; and a pad member which has a pad fitted into the stopper member and receives a depression force exerted by a driver.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2010Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., F-Tech Inc.Inventors: Hideto Nebuya, Shinji Oka, Toru Ebara, Masato Kobayashi, Teruo Kato
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Publication number: 20140312655Abstract: A joint part between a main body part of an automobile subframe and a suspension support member comprises a first joint part in which an upper plate is directly superimposed on and joined to the suspension support member, and a second joint part in which a lower plate is directly superimposed on and joined to the suspension support member, and since the first and second joint parts extend in the vehicle body fore-and-aft direction without overlapping each other, it becomes possible to directly transmit, to both the upper plate and the lower plate, a load that has been inputted from the suspension arm to the suspension support member, thus enhancing the joining strength of the main body part and the suspension support member. The upper plate and the lower plate are joined to the suspension support member from the same side.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2012Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicants: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., F-Tech Inc.Inventors: Hayato Takahashi, Norio Tomikuda
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Patent number: 8857852Abstract: In a beam member having a cylindrical beam main body with a first end portion and a second end portion in which respective end surfaces oppose and partially abut to each other in a circumferential direction of the beam main body to define a slit portion, a bracket member straddles the first end portion and the second end in the circumferential direction to be welded to an outer surface of the beam main body so as to cover the slit portion between a first welding portion and a second welding portion that weld abutting portions of the respective end surfaces of the first end portion and the second end portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: F-Tech Inc.Inventors: Eiji Yamamoto, Masamitsu Iino, Takayuki Owada
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Patent number: 8840006Abstract: Disclosed is a friction-stir joining method for joining a first member, having a base metal covered with a substance different from the base metal, with a second member with the second member placed on the first member by moving a joining tool along a joining line having thereon a joining start point and a joining finish point. The method includes steps of: inserting the joining tool into the second member at the joining start point; moving the joining tool a predetermined distance along the joining line in a direction opposite the joining finish point; causing the joining tool to turn back at a turning-back point spaced the predetermined distance from the joining start point; moving the joining tool along the joining line to the joining finish point past the joining start point; and pulling the joining tool out from the second member at the joining finish point.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2013Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., F-Tech Inc.Inventors: Mitsuru Sayama, Keisuke Tsuta, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Shosuke Ohhama, Tetsuya Miyahara, Katsumi Komori, Kazuhiro Sekine, Naoki Osada
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Patent number: 8800972Abstract: A vibration insulation damper (10, 50, 60) insertable into an internal circumferential portion of a coil spring (20) and extending in an axial direction thereof, the vibration insulation damper is provided with an elastic body (14a, 14b, 64a, 64b) having a conical or pyramid outer circumferential surface formed so as to be shortened in distance with respect to the axial direction toward an end portion thereof in the axial direction, and a rib (16a, 16b, 16c, 16d, 16e, 16f, 56a, 56b, 56c, 56d, 56e, 56f) protruding outward from the outer circumferential surface of the elastic body to be brought into pressured contact with the internal circumferential portion of the coil spring when the elastic body is inserted into the internal circumferential portion of the coil spring.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2009Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignees: F-Tech Inc., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshikiyo Sugimoto, Yoshiya Nakashima, Fumikage Yamanaka, Hidemasa Shukuri
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Publication number: 20140202937Abstract: An inspection unit of a welding inspection device includes: a striking device having a striking member that applies an impulsive force to a press molded article, a drive mechanism that applies a drive force to the striking member, and an urging member that urges the striking member; a microphone to which sound waves generated from the press molded article; and a detection device that detects a welding state of the press molded article. The striking member applies the impulsive force to the press molded article in a state in which the drive force by the drive mechanism is cut off and the striking member is urged by the urging member in the direction opposite to the application direction, and after application of the impulsive force to the press molded article, the striking member is forcibly pulled back in the direction opposite to the application direction by the urging member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: F-TECH INC.Inventors: Kenichi Ohtake, Jo Yagi
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Publication number: 20140182411Abstract: In a pedal device that can recede a pedal arm from a passenger side such as a driver reliably and can recede a retainer as a control member for realizing a receding posture of the pedal arm from a vehicle body side reliably at the time of a frontal collision or the like of a vehicle, a first guide hole provided in a pedal bracket attached to the vehicle body includes a leading end hole portion, a terminal end hole portion, and a connecting hole portion that connects the leading end hole portion and the terminal end hole portion, and a second guide hole provided in a retainer engaged and attached to the pedal bracket by engaging portions includes a first hole portion and a second hole portion connected to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: F-TECH INC.Inventors: Jun Sato, Kazuo Ogawa
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Publication number: 20140183245Abstract: A friction stir welding apparatus having a new cooling system that can cool a portion required to be cooled accurately and uniformly with a simple configuration, while suppressing unnecessary thermal expansion of a mounting jig includes a holding mechanism 20 having a holding member 22a movable with respect to a processing target member W so as to freely hold the processing target member W, in which the holding member 22a and a portion of a mounting jig 12 that can freely face the holding member 22a become paired, and a coolant supply source S that can freely supply a coolant to the paired holding member 22a and the portion of the mounting jig 12.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., F-TECH INC.Inventors: Hiroyasu Yamaguchi, Yukio Shoji, Mitsuru Sayama, Tsutomu Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20140183246Abstract: In a friction stir welding apparatus that can control a penetrating position of a probe with respect to a processing target member to an optimum position at a time of friction stir welding by detecting a wear volume and a tip position of the probe, as a drive mechanism moves down a holder having a coefficient of thermal expansion larger than that of the probe and holding the probe, a detector can freely detect a length of a member including the holder and the probe, and a probe detection mechanism can freely detect a tip length, which is the length of the member of only the probe.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., F-TECH INC.Inventors: Tomoya Saitou, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi, Yukio Shoji, Mitsuru Sayama, Tsutomu Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8703969Abstract: A trifluoromethylthiophenium derivative salt useful as synthetic intermediates for pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, a method for producing the same, and a method for producing trifluoromethyl-containing compounds using the same are provided. An S-(trifluoromethyl)-benzo[b]thiophenium derivative salt is represented by the following general formula (1): wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, an ethyl group, a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, a methoxy group, an ethoxy group, a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyloxy group having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, a fluorine atom, a chlorine atom, a bromine atom, a nitro group, or a cyano group, R5 is a methyl group, an ethyl group, a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl group having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, a phenyl group, or a substituted phenyl group, and X? represents an anion.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignees: Nagoya Institute of Technology, Tosoh F-Tech, Inc.Inventors: Norio Shibata, Takumi Kagawa
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Publication number: 20140076957Abstract: Disclosed is a friction-stir joining method for joining a first member, having a base metal covered with a substance different from the base metal, with a second member with the second member placed on the first member by moving a joining tool along a joining line having thereon a joining start point and a joining finish point. The method includes steps of inserting the joining tool into the second member at the joining start point; moving the joining tool a predetermined distance along the joining line in a direction opposite the joining finish point; causing the joining tool to turn back at a turning-back point spaced the predetermined distance from the joining start point; moving the joining tool along the joining line to the joining finish point past the joining start point; and pulling the joining tool out from the second member at the joining finish point.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicants: F-TECH INC., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuru SAYAMA, Keisuke TSUTA, Tsutomu KOBAYASHI, Shosuke OHHAMA, Tetsuya MIYAHARA, Katsumi KOMORI, Kazuhiro SEKINE, Naoki OSADA
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Publication number: 20140080690Abstract: A replacement device of a processing apparatus includes a gripping device having a single first support member positionally fixed, a first gripping portion provided on the first support member to grip a holder not to rotate in a releasing direction when the processing member is removed from the holder, and a second gripping portion provided on the first support member apart from the first gripping portion to grip the holder not to rotate in a restricting direction when the processing member is attached to the holder, and a holding device having a single movable second support member, plural first holding portions provided on the second support member to respectively accommodate the processing member removed from the holder, and plural second holding portions provided on the second support member apart from the first holding portions to respectively accommodate the processing member that is to be attached to the holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., F-TECH INC.Inventors: Naohiro Noma, Yukio Shoji, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Mitsuru Sayama
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Publication number: 20140061283Abstract: A friction stir welding apparatus includes a displacement detecting device that detects displacement of a welding tool caused by deformation of a fitting jig, at the time of performing friction stir welding in which an arm to which the fitting jig fitted with the welding tool is fixed is moved to move the welding tool with respect to the processing target member. The fitting jig can be deformed more than the arm at the time of performing friction stir welding. The displacement detecting device has a displacement sensor fixed to the welding tool, and a reference member fixed to a fixing portion between the fitting jig and the arm to provide a reference position for detecting the displacement to the displacement sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., F-TECH INC.Inventors: Yukio SHOJI, Tsutomu KOBAYASHI, Mitsuru SAYAMA