Patents by Inventor Akihiko Abe

Akihiko Abe 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: 11958782
    Abstract: A cubic boron nitride sintered material comprising cubic boron nitride grains, a binder phase, and a void, in which a percentage of the cubic boron nitride grains based on the total of the cubic boron nitride grains and the binder phase is 40 vol % to 70 vol %, a percentage of the binder phase based on the total of the cubic boron nitride grains and the binder phase is 30 vol % to 60 vol %, the binder phase includes 10 vol % to 100 vol % of aluminum oxide grains, an average grain size of the aluminum oxide grains is 50 to 250 nm, the cubic boron nitride sintered material comprises 0.001 vol % to 0.100 vol % of one or more first voids, and at least one portion of each of the first voids is in contact with the aluminum oxide grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Kento Yamada, Machiko Abe, Hironari Moroguchi, Akihiko Ueda, Satoru Kukino
  • Publication number: 20240069372
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device with an optical sensor includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes first to third signal lines, an optical sensor including a photoelectric conversion element, first to third power feeding lines supplying first to third voltages to operate the optical sensor, and a sensor signal line outputting the detection signal. The first to third power feeding lines are located between the first to third signal lines and the sensor signal line in a thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ABE, Akihiko SAITOH, Masateru MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240071327
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device with an optical sensor includes a display panel and a driver IC. The display panel includes first to third signal lines, an optical sensor including a photoelectric conversion element, and a sensor signal line that is connected to the optical sensor and transmits a detection signal to the driver IC. One first wiring line drawn from one terminal of the driver IC is connected to four switching elements. Three of the four switching elements are electrically connected to one of the first to third signal lines, respectively. One of the four switching elements, different from the three switching elements, is electrically connected to the sensor signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ABE, Akihiko SAITOH, Teppei YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230398813
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire including an inner cylinder that surrounds an outer peripheral surface of a metal rim from an outside in a tire radial direction, an outer cylinder that surrounds the inner cylinder from the outside, and a plurality of elastically deformable connecting members that connects an outer peripheral surface of the inner cylinder to an inner peripheral surface of the outer cylinder. The inner cylinder is made of a synthetic resin material. A pair of holding flange portions is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the rim. The rim includes a first split body and a second split body. A size of the inner cylinder in a tire width direction is greater than a distance between inner surfaces, which face each other in the tire width direction, of the pair of holding flange portions. The inner cylinder is formed to be elastically deformable in the tire width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko ABE
  • Patent number: 11766894
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes an inner cylinder, an outer cylinder, and a connecting member. The outer cylinder and the connecting member elastically deformable, and the thickness of the thickest part of the outer cylinder is thicker than the thickness of the thickest part of the connecting member. When the outer cylinder is pushed by a protrusion and deformed toward the inside in a tire radial direction, at least a part of the connecting member, which is positioned between the protrusion and the inner cylinder, and other connecting members adjacent to the connecting member in the tire circumferential direction abut each other. When the non-pneumatic tire is mounted on a vehicle and travels on a flat contact plane, a gap is secured between the connecting member positioned between the ground plane and the inner cylinder and other connecting members adjacent to the connecting member in the tire circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko Abe
  • Patent number: 11427030
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire (1) includes three or more tubular bodies (2) and a plurality of elastically deformable connecting members (3) interconnecting the tubular bodies (2) and disposed along a tire circumferential direction in each annular space (9) provided between the tubular bodies (2) adjacent to each other in a tire radial direction. The tubular bodies (2) are provided with an inner tube (6) positioned on an innermost side in the tire radial direction and attached to an axle, an outer tube (4) positioned on an outermost side in the tire radial direction, and an elastically deformable intermediate tube (8) positioned between the inner tube (6) and the outer tube (4). The connecting member (3) is provided with a pair of connecting plates (21 and 22) having both end portions in the tire radial direction directly connected to the tubular body (2) and extending in the tire radial direction and separated in the tire circumferential direction from an outside toward an inside in the tire radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko Abe
  • Patent number: 11312178
    Abstract: The present invention includes: an elastically deformable tire part (7) which includes an inner cylinder, an outer cylinder (4) configured to surround the inner cylinder from the outside in a tire radial direction, and a linking member (3) configured to link the inner cylinder to the outer cylinder (4) and a tread member (5) externally fitted onto the outer cylinder (4), wherein an elastic modulus of a material forming the tread member (5) is smaller than an elastic modulus of a material forming a tire part (7), an outer circumferential surface of the tread member (5) is formed in a curved shape in which the outer circumferential surface thereof protrudes outward in the tire radial direction when viewed in a vertical cross-sectional view in both a tire width direction and the tire radial direction, the outer cylinder (4) includes an outer circumferential section (41) positioned on a tire equatorial section, side sections (42) positioned on both sides in the tire width direction with respect to the outer circu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko Abe
  • Publication number: 20220024252
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes an inner cylinder, an outer cylinder, and a connecting member. The outer cylinder and the connecting member elastically deformable, and the thickness of the thickest part of the outer cylinder is thicker than the thickness of the thickest part of the connecting member. When the outer cylinder is pushed by a protrusion and deformed toward the inside in a tire radial direction, at least a part of the connecting member, which is positioned between the protrusion and the inner cylinder, and other connecting members adjacent to the connecting member in the tire circumferential direction abut each other. When the non-pneumatic tire is mounted on a vehicle and travels on a flat contact plane, a gap is secured between the connecting member positioned between the ground plane and the inner cylinder and other connecting members adjacent to the connecting member in the tire circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko ABE
  • Publication number: 20210394559
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire including an inner cylinder, an outer cylinder, and a connecting member. The outer cylinder and the connecting member elastically deformable. A thickness of a thickest part of the outer cylinder is thicker than a thickest part of the connecting member. The connecting member includes a vertical base portion that extends toward the inside in the tire radial direction from the outer cylinder's inner peripheral surface. A horizontal base portion extends along the tire circumferential direction from an inner end portion in the tire radial direction of the vertical base portion toward one side in the tire circumferential direction. An inclined portion gradually extends toward one side in the tire circumferential direction from an end portion on one side in the tire circumferential direction of the horizontal base portion toward the inside in the tire radial direction and is connected to the inner cylinder's outer peripheral surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko ABE
  • Publication number: 20210138836
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire (1) includes three or more tubular bodies (2) and a plurality of elastically deformable connecting members (3) interconnecting the tubular bodies (2) and disposed along a tire circumferential direction in each annular space (9) provided between the tubular bodies (2) adjacent to each other in a tire radial direction. The tubular bodies (2) are provided with an inner tube (6) positioned on an innermost side in the tire radial direction and attached to an axle, an outer tube (4) positioned on an outermost side in the tire radial direction, and an elastically deformable intermediate tube (8) positioned between the inner tube (6) and the outer tube (4). The connecting member (3) is provided with a pair of connecting plates (21 and 22) having both end portions in the tire radial direction directly connected to the tubular body (2) and extending in the tire radial direction and separated in the tire circumferential direction from an outside toward an inside in the tire radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko ABE
  • Patent number: 10836211
    Abstract: According to the present invention, when a first point (P1) is set on an end edge on an outer end portion (15a) side of a coupling member (15) and a fifth point (P5) is set on an end edge on an inner end portion (15b) side of the coupling member (15), and when a distance (H1) from the fifth point (P5) to the second point (P2) along a reference straight line (RL) passing through the first point (P1) and a tire axis is set to 0.80 times a reference distance (H) from the fifth point (P5) to the first point (P1) along the reference straight line, a distance (H2) from the fifth point (P5) to the third point along the reference straight line is set to 0.65 times the reference distance (H), and a distance (H3) from the fifth point (P5) to the fourth point (P4) along the reference straight line is set to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko Abe
  • Patent number: 10744821
    Abstract: Provided is a non-pneumatic tire including an attachment body attached to an axle, an outer tubular body (13) configured to surround the attachment body from the outside in a tire radial direction, and a connecting member (15) configured to connect the attachment body and the outer tubular body while allowing displacement therebetween, wherein the connecting member includes a first elastic connecting plate (21) in which a first end portion (21a) connected to the outer tubular body is disposed closer to a first side in a tire circumferential direction than a second end portion connected to the attachment body and an intermediate portion (21c) is disposed between the first end portion and the second end portion, and both of circumferential end surface (26a, 26b) directed in the tire circumferential direction among surfaces of the first end portion of the first elastic connecting plate extend in opposite directions in the tire circumferential direction to be separated from each other from the inside toward the o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Shoji, Akihiko Abe
  • Publication number: 20200207150
    Abstract: The present invention includes: an elastically deformable tire part (7) which includes an inner cylinder, an outer cylinder (4) configured to surround the inner cylinder from the outside in a tire radial direction, and a linking member (3) configured to link the inner cylinder to the outer cylinder (4) and a tread member (5) externally fitted onto the outer cylinder (4), wherein an elastic modulus of a material forming the tread member (5) is smaller than an elastic modulus of a material forming a tire part (7), an outer circumferential surface of the tread member (5) is formed in a curved shape in which the outer circumferential surface thereof protrudes outward in the tire radial direction when viewed in a vertical cross-sectional view in both a tire width direction and the tire radial direction, the outer cylinder (4) includes an outer circumferential section (41) positioned on a tire equatorial section, side sections (42) positioned on both sides in the tire width direction with respect to the outer circu
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko ABE
  • Patent number: 10576786
    Abstract: Provided is a non-pneumatic tire in which a plurality of curved sections (21d) to (21 f) and (22d) to (22f) curved inward in a tire circumferential direction are formed at elastic connecting plates (21) and (22) in an extension direction in which the elastic connecting plates (21) and (22) extend when seen in a tire side view such that curved directions are alternately opposite to each other in the extension direction, outer curved sections (21e) and (22e), inner curved sections (21d) and (22d), and extension sections (21i) (22i) extending throughout both of the curved sections and in which inflection sections (21g) and (22g) formed between both of the curved sections are disposed, are formed at the elastic connecting plates (21) and (22), and the extension sections (21i) and (22i) extend along reference lines having radii of curvature larger than that of the outer curved sections (21e) and (22e) and the inner curved sections (21d) and (22d) when seen in the tire side view and extend from first end portions (
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko Abe
  • Patent number: 10562352
    Abstract: In a non-pneumatic tire, a plurality of first to third curved sections (21d) to (21f) and (22d) to (22f) curved in a tire circumferential direction are formed at first and second elastic connecting plates (21) and (22) in an extension direction in which the first and second elastic connecting plates extend, in a tire side view when a non-pneumatic tire (1) is seen from a tire width direction (H), curved directions of the first to third curved sections neighboring in the extension direction are opposite to each other, and each of the first and second elastic connecting plates, and inflection sections (21g), (21h), (22g) and (22h) disposed between the first to third curved sections neighboring in the extension direction has a smaller cross-sectional area than other portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko Abe
  • Patent number: 10486462
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire (11), includes: a mount body (111) that is mounted on a shaft (S); an outer cylindrical body (113) encircling the mount body from outside thereof in a radial direction of the tire; connecting members (115) arranged in a circumferential direction of the tire therebetween and connecting the mount body and the outer cylindrical body such that the mount body and the outer cylindrical body are resiliently movable relative to each other; and a cylindrical tread portion (116) encircling the outer cylindrical body from outside thereof in the radial direction of the tire. In addition, the outline of a cross-section of an outer surface (116c) of a central area (129) of the tread portion taken in a width direction of the tire is a curved line bulging outward in the radial direction of the tire, and the central area includes at least a tire equator (E).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Abe, Masashi Nishida
  • Patent number: D897934
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko Abe
  • Patent number: D911920
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko Abe
  • Patent number: D922936
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko Abe
  • Patent number: D922937
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko Abe