Patents by Inventor Akihiko Fujita

Akihiko Fujita 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: 10304642
    Abstract: A switch device for a vehicle includes an emergency notification switch, an operation switch other than the emergency notification switch, and a cover that is movable between a closed position at which the emergency notification switch and the operation switch are covered and an open position at which the emergency notification switch and the operation switch are exposed. In the switch device, an operating surface of the emergency notification switch is located at a position lower than an operating surface of the operation switch, and the cover is provided with an opening through which the operating surface of the operation switch is exposed at the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko Fujita, Hirokazu Sato
  • Publication number: 20180308648
    Abstract: A switch device for a vehicle includes an emergency notification switch, an operation switch other than the emergency notification switch, and a cover that is movable between a closed position at which the emergency notification switch and the operation switch are covered and an open position at which the emergency notification switch and the operation switch are exposed. In the switch device, an operating surface of the emergency notification switch is located at a position lower than an operating surface of the operation switch, and the cover is provided with an opening through which the operating surface of the operation switch is exposed at the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko FUJITA, Hirokazu SATO
  • Publication number: 20080145174
    Abstract: A channel fastener, which is capable of preventing or suppressing the plastic deformation of a leaf spring when the other device such as a fuel assembly and a tool is brought into contact therewith from the upper side, is provided. The channel fastener (6) comprises a leaf spring guard (9) having a leg body (13) formed in a roughly L-shape in horizontal cross section and extending vertically and a flat upper plate (12) connected to the leg body (13) at the upper end of the leg body (13) and extending horizontally, and a leaf spring (8) having an upper plate part (15) fixed to the leaf spring guard flat upper plate (12) and extending along the leaf spring guard flat upper plate (12) and at least two legs (17) connected to the upper plate part (15) and extending downward along the leaf spring guard leg body (13). One or a plurality of projected parts (21) projected upward are formed on the leaf spring guard fiat upper plate (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Shunichi Suzuki, Yoshio Takagi, Yoshiaki Ishii, Akihiro Miyazaki, Tadashi Teramatsu, Akihiko Fujita, Masatake Taguchi, Shingo Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 6610638
    Abstract: The present invention No. I is to obtain a high purity 3-alkoxy-1-propanol having the content of alcoholic impurities of not more than 0.3% by weight by allowing to react acrolein with a linear or branched alcohol having a carbon number of 1-4 using acrolein having the content of propionaldehyde of not more than 1% by weight as a raw material, a 3-alkoxy-1-propanol is produced by a hydrogenation reaction using hydrogen of a reaction mass under the presence of a catalyst, followed by recovering through a distillation of the 3-alkoxy-1-propanol having the content of alcoholic impurities of not more than 0.3% by weight from a crude solution in the hydrogenation reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroto Tanigawa, Hiroto Miyake, Hiroshi Koyama, Akihiko Fujita, Katsuya Maruo
  • Patent number: 6563579
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an internal quality measuring apparatus for measuring an internal quality of an object, and the apparatus has a conveying device, a detecting device, a light projecting device, a light receiving device, an analyzing device and a pseudo-object member interposing device, and the analyzing device compares light received with a pseudo-object member, with reference data preliminarily stored, and correct a result of the analysis, based thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Kimura, Toyohiko Aoki, Hirotsugu Hashimoto, Takeshi Ota, Akihiko Fujita
  • Patent number: 6252230
    Abstract: The refraction type non-destruction measuring apparatus of the present invention has a prism having a predetermined refractive index, projecting means for projecting near infrared light onto an object to be examined through the prism, a contact material filling the space between the object to be examined and the prism and having a refractive index set in conformity with the characteristic of the object to be examined, and light receiving means for receiving the internal reflected light of the light having entered the interior of the object to be examined through the contact material and the prism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Kimura, Akihiko Fujita
  • Patent number: 6233051
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an internal quality measuring apparatus for measuring an internal quality of an object, and the apparatus has a conveying device, a detecting device, a light projecting device, a light receiving device, an analyzing device and a pseudo-object member interposing device, and the analyzing device compares light received with a pseudo-object member, with reference data preliminarily stored, and correct a result of the analysis, based thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Kimura, Toyohiko Aoki, Hirotsugu Hashimoto, Takeshi Ota, Akihiko Fujita
  • Patent number: 6137581
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an internal quality measuring apparatus for measuring an internal quality of an object, and the apparatus has a conveying device, a detecting device, a light projecting device, a light receiving device, an analyzing device and a pseudo-object member interposing device, and the analyzing device compares light received with a pseudo-object member, with reference data preliminarily stored, and correct a result of the analysis, based thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Kimura, Toyohiko Aoki, Hirotsugu Hashimoto, Takeshi Ota, Akihiko Fujita
  • Patent number: 5138117
    Abstract: A watertight sealing lip for a grommet is disclosed which tightly seals a gap between a wall of a panel or the like and an electric wire extending through a hole of the wall. The lip is annular and obliquely extends from an end of a cylindrical portion of the grommet toward the wall so that the tip of the lip comes into contact with said wall. An inside surface facing the wall is provided with a plurality of watertight sealing projections which extend in the circumferential direction of the lip and whose cross sections are sequentially enlarged from the tip of said lip toward the end of the cylindrical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1992
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuetsu Oikawa, Akihiko Fujita
  • Patent number: 4928349
    Abstract: A grommet comprises a soft grommet body including a supporting portion arranged such that an electric wire insertion hole is formed in an inner peripheral portion of a hollow disc-like base, a peripheral wall is clookedly formed along an outer periphery thereof, and a tip portion thereof is further bent inwards. The grommet has a square pillar. The pillar having a substrate fitted in an annular recess defined by the substrate, the peripheral wall and the supporting portion. A plurality of angular portions are each fitted in a hole of a pannel. The grommet has a hard resinous lock member having stop members for providing a locking force in the hole. An inner periphery of the supporting portion assumes an angular configuration having a plurality of corners close to the plurality of angular portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuetsu Oikawa, Akihiko Fujita
  • Patent number: 4839937
    Abstract: A grommet comprises a soft grommet body, including a supporting portion, arranged such that an electric wire insertion hole is formed in an inner peripheral portion of a hollow disc-like base at one end of said soft grommet body, a peripheral wall is crookedly formed along an outer periphery of said hollow disc-like base, and a tip portion of said peripheral wall is further bent inwards to provide said supporting portion. The grommet has an angular pillar. The pillar has a substrate fitted in an annular recess defined by the substrate, the peripheral wall and the supporting portion. The pillar also has a plurality of angular portions each fitted in a hole of a panel. The grommet has a hard resinous lock member having stop members for providing a locking force in the hole. An inner periphery of the supporting portion assumes an angular configuration having a plurality of corners contiguous to the plurality of angular portions of the angular pillar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuetsu Oikawa, Akihiko Fujita
  • Patent number: 4782301
    Abstract: A fuse inspection device having receiving terminals which are arranged in a longitudinal direction of a fuse box body and with which a plurality of band fuses are held in fit engagement. Windows are provided in side walls of accommodating chambers for the respective receiving terminals, and a slide knob slides along the band fuses. A sensing terminal moves together with the slide knob and has one end electrically connected with the receiving terminals through the window and has the other end brought into contact with a common conductive member. Electric conduction states of the band fuses are successively sensed by electrically connecting the sensing terminal and the receiving terminals through the movement of the slide knob.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1988
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hikoo Dohi, Akihiko Fujita, Ryuetsu Oikawa