Patents Assigned to Pacific Industrial Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10316978
    Abstract: A tire valve unit includes a tire valve and a sensor unit. The tire valve includes a valve stem and a rubber body located on the periphery of the valve stem. The sensor unit includes a sensor mounted on a wheel and a housing that accommodates the sensor and is secured to the tire valve. The tire valve unit is mounted on the wheel by press-fitting the tire valve into a mounting hole in the wheel. The body includes an attaching portion. The tire valve includes an attaching projection that projects in the axial direction of the tire valve from the inside of the attaching portion toward the outside. The tire valve unit further includes a fixture that secures the attaching projection to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotake Mori
  • Patent number: 10267434
    Abstract: A motor-operated valve includes a motor, a linear-motion shaft which receives power of the motor and is linearly moved and which includes a valve member that opens and closes a valve port formed at an end of a valve body, and an elastic member which is provided in the valve body and which contacts with an outer circumferential surface of the linear-motion shaft and regulates the lateral movement of the linear-motion shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Terumasa Mitsu, Osamu Takami
  • Patent number: 10253903
    Abstract: A motor-operated valve includes a base portion which is provided at one end of a stator, a linear-motion shaft which is screwed into a rotor and which is supported by the base portion such that the linear-motion shaft can be moved linearly and cannot be rotated, and a valve member which is provided in the linear-motion shaft and which opens and closes the valve port. A first contacting portion on the rotor and a second contacting portion on the stator or an intermediate member disposed between the rotor and the stator, the first and the second contacting portions and being provided in each of the intermediate member or the stator and the rotor, and contacting with each other in the rotation axis direction of the rotor are biased by a rotor biasing means such that they are pressed onto each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Fujimoto, Terumasa Mitsu
  • Patent number: 10180192
    Abstract: Provide is a relief valve in which the flexibility of an attaching position is higher than a conventional relief valve. In the relief valve of the present invention, a discharge hole for discharging a fluid is arranged on a side surface of a cylindrical portion which protrudes from an end surface of a head portion in a bolt-type valve body. A direction change member which changes a direction in which the discharge hole is open to an arbitrary direction is provided. In this way, the relief valve is attached to a fluid device, and then with the direction change member, it is possible to direct the fluid discharge direction to a desired direction, and accordingly, the flexibility of the attaching position of the relief valve is enhanced as compared with the conventional relief valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keisuke Kojima
  • Patent number: 10166822
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of tire air pressure detectors includes an information retention portion that retains one or more pieces of timing information indicating the time at which the tire air pressure detector has rotated to a specific detector angle in a first time band for withholding transmission of a radio wave signal, and a radio wave transmission control portion that transmits one or more of the pieces of timing information retained in the information retention portion to a receiver in a second time band enabling transmission of the radio wave signal. The receiver includes an axle rotation amount reader portion that receives axle rotation amount information generated in each of a plurality of axle rotation detection portions, and a position determination portion that calculates an axle rotation amount at the point in time at which the tire air pressure detectors have rotated to the specific detector angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Kosugi, Takao Araya, Koji Okumura
  • Patent number: 10160270
    Abstract: A vehicle is mounted with a pulse detecting unit that detects rotation of a wheel as pulses, a wheel rotation number storage unit that stores the number of pulses in correspondence with time, and a wheel position specifying device that specifies on which of the plurality of wheels the tire state detecting device arranged on each wheel is arranged. The wheel position specifying device includes a reception unit that receives a transmission signal, including a time required for the wheel to make a predetermined number of rotations, transmitted from each tire state detecting device, and a specifying unit that specifies the wheel on which each tire state detecting device is arranged from a difference of the number of pulses counted during the time included in the transmission signal and the number of pulses while the wheel makes the predetermined number of rotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takao Araya
  • Publication number: 20180361801
    Abstract: A tire condition detection device includes a condition detecting section, a control section, a transmitting section, a receiving section, and battery, which is a power source for the tire condition detection device. When the receiving section continually receives information from an external device, a controller switches the state of the tire condition detection device from a responsive state to a non-responsive state. In the responsive state, the receiving section is maintained in a standby state, in which the receiving section is capable of receiving the information wirelessly transmitted from the external device, and a reception response is performed when the information is received. In the non-responsive state, the reception response by the receiving section is not performed regardless whether the receiving section is maintained in the standby state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: Pacific Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji OKUMURA, Keiyu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20180339561
    Abstract: A tire state monitoring device that is able to stabilize fixing of a sensor unit is provided. A tire state monitoring device includes a tire valve mounted on a tire wheel, a cylindrical nut screwed onto the valve stem of the tire valve, and a sensor unit that detects a tire state and transmits a detection result to an external part. A nut insertion hole, into which the cylindrical nut is inserted, is formed in the sensor unit. An elastic ring member is fitted on the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical nut and elastically deforms in the radial direction of the cylindrical nut while the cylindrical nut is kept inserted in the nut insertion hole. The sensor unit is held by the cylindrical nut by a resilient force of the elastic ring member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takumi SUGINO
  • Patent number: 10124632
    Abstract: A tire condition detecting apparatus includes a condition detecting section, a transmission section, and a transmission-side control section. The transmission section is configured to transmit a signal that contains information related to the condition of the tire to a receiver, which includes a reception-side control section. The reception-side control section identifies the position of the wheel assembly in which the tire condition detecting apparatus is provided based on the received signal strength indication (RSSI) of the signal. The transmission-side control section is configured to cause a position detecting signal and an instruction signal to be transmitted from the transmission section to the receiver. The position detecting signal is configured to cause the reception-side control section to identify the position of the tire condition detecting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhisa Tsujita
  • Publication number: 20180313240
    Abstract: In an oil pan, an outer surface of an oil pan body is covered with urethane foam material. The outer surface of the oil pan body is cation treated to be a surface-treated layer, and the urethane foam material is adhered to the outer surface of the oil pan body by the surface-treated layer without any gaps therebetween. The oil pan further includes an undulating portion formed on the outer surface of the oil pan body and undulating in an inward and outward direction. The surface-treated layer is formed on the undulating portion and the urethane foam material is adhered to the undulating portion without any gaps therebetween. The undulating portion includes a bowl-shaped recess recessed into a bowl shape toward an inner side of the oil pan body and the urethane foam material is adhered to an entire inner surface of the bowl-shaped recess without any gaps therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki SATO, Tomonari INOUE, Takahiro SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 10086661
    Abstract: A tire condition detecting apparatus includes a transmitting section, a receiving section, a control section, a property detecting section, and a battery, which is a power source for the apparatus. The control section operates in a control mode that is selected from a normal mode and a power saving mode. In the power saving mode, power consumption associated with reception of the wirelessly transmitted signal from the external device is less than that in the normal mode. When the amount of change in the electrical property of a valve stem detected by the property detecting section exceeds a reference change amount, the control section switches the control mode to the normal mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhisa Tsujita
  • Publication number: 20180274690
    Abstract: A valve core capable of suppressing manufacturing costs, including: a first core cylinder body, a second core cylinder body having a valve opening on an opposite side to the first, a movable member having a valve body which opens and closes the valve opening at the front end of a shaft section linearly movably extending through the insides of the core cylinder bodies, an elastic member in contact with the movable member and the first body and biasing to sandwich the second body between the first and valve body, and a pair of fitting sections including a first and a second fitting section on the core cylinder bodies and which are rotatably fitted and are separable from each other without interfering. The fitting sections have cylindrical shapes that are detachably fitted to each other, and the first section has a stepped surface with which the second section is in contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko YAMAMOTO, Masatoshi AIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9959189
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a server monitoring device capable of grasping the state of a server more rapidly than conventional ones, and a server monitoring system. [Solution] This server monitoring device has a configuration in which a plurality of optical fibers are optically coupled to a plurality of light-emitting elements each showing the operating state of a server by a lighting mode, and the end surfaces of the plurality of optical fibers on the opposite side to the light-emitting elements are secured in a predetermined arrangement. An image of a light emission pattern of the end surfaces of the optical fibers is captured by a camera, and the image is transmitted to a monitoring person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michiya Katou, Zenichirou Hara, Katsushi Miwa
  • Cap
    Patent number: 9908365
    Abstract: A cap has a plurality of engaging portions elastically engageable with a wheel for holding a tire. The cap is configured to partly cover the wheel. Each of the plurality of engaging portions has a spring member formed of metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., CENTRAL MOTOR WHEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ishikawa, Hirotaka Terai, Kenichi Mikamo, Kiichiro Kunishima, Hideyo Nehyo, Naoki Tanimura
  • Patent number: 9913005
    Abstract: A wheel assembly position identifying apparatus includes transmitters, each of which is provided in one of wheel assemblies, and a receiver, which is provided in a body of a vehicle. Each transmitter includes a transmission section, an acceleration sensor, and a transmission-side control section. The receiver includes a reception section, which is configured to receive the signals, and a reception-side control section, which is configured to execute a first identifying process and a second identifying process. In the first identifying process, the positions of the wheel assemblies, in which the corresponding transmitters are provided, are identified based on variations of the rotational positions of the wheel assemblies at the time when the constant position signals are received. In the second identifying process, the positions of the wheel assemblies, in which the corresponding transmitters are provided, are identified based on the received signal strength indications (RSSIs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhisa Tsujita
  • Publication number: 20180038512
    Abstract: A motor-operated valve includes a motor, a linear-motion shaft which receives power of the motor and is linearly moved and which includes a valve member that opens and closes a valve port formed at an end of a valve body, and an elastic member which is provided in the valve body and which contacts with an outer circumferential surface of the linear-motion shaft and regulates the lateral movement of the linear-motion shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Terumasa MITSU, Osamu TAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20170370499
    Abstract: A motor-operated valve includes a base portion which is provided at one end of a stator, a linear-motion shaft which is screwed into a rotor and which is supported by the base portion such that the linear-motion shaft can be moved linearly and cannot be rotated, and a valve member which is provided in the linear-motion shaft and which opens and closes the valve port. A first contacting portion on the rotor and a second contacting portion on the stator or an intermediate member disposed between the rotor and the stator, the first and the second contacting portions and being provided in each of the intermediate member or the stator and the rotor, and contacting with each other in the rotation axis direction of the rotor are biased by a rotor biasing means such that they are pressed onto each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicants: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi FUJIMOTO, Terumasa MITSU
  • Patent number: 9835477
    Abstract: A wheel assembly rotational position identifying apparatus includes an acceleration detector, a control section, and a battery. The control section identifies the rotational position of the wheel assembly based on an acceleration detected by the acceleration detector. The control section operates in a control mode that is a selected one of a normal mode and a power saving mode, in which a power consumption associated with identification of the rotational position of the wheel assembly is smaller than that in the normal mode. The control section switches the control mode to the normal mode when an initiation condition is met in accordance with an input from outside. The control section also switches the control mode to the power saving mode when a termination condition is met in the normal mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhisa Tsujita
  • Patent number: 9788087
    Abstract: A wheel assembly position identifying apparatus includes transmitters, each of which is provided in one of wheel assemblies and includes a transmission section and a control section, and a receiver, which includes a receiving section, a measuring section, and a wheel assembly position identifying section. The wheel assembly position identifying section is configured to detect, more than once, a rotational position of each wheel assembly at which the RSSI has an extreme value, for each position detecting signal received during one rotation of the wheel assembly, and identify the position of the wheel assembly in which the corresponding transmitter is provided based on variation of the rotational position of the wheel assembly at which the RSSI has the extreme value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhisa Tsujita
  • Publication number: 20170284552
    Abstract: Provide is a relief valve in which the flexibility of an attaching position is higher than a conventional relief valve. In the relief valve of the present invention, a discharge hole for discharging a fluid is arranged on a side surface of a cylindrical portion which protrudes from an end surface of a head portion in a bolt-type valve body. A direction change member which changes a direction in which the discharge hole is open to an arbitrary direction is provided. In this way, the relief valve is attached to a fluid device, and then with the direction change member, it is possible to direct the fluid discharge direction to a desired direction, and accordingly, the flexibility of the attaching position of the relief valve is enhanced as compared with the conventional relief valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keisuke KOJIMA