Patents by Inventor Akihiro Asano

Akihiro Asano 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: 11955598
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte material according to the present disclosure is represented by the chemical formula Li6?4b+ab(Zr1?aMa)bX6 (I). M denotes at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, Bi, Sc, Sm, and Sb, X denotes at least one halogen element, and the two mathematical formulae 0<a<1 and 0<b<1.5 are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Sakaida, Yusuke Nishio, Tetsuya Asano, Akihiro Sakai, Akinobu Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11947332
    Abstract: In a CAD data-based automatic operation device of a machining center equipped with a CNC device, the CNC device is provided in a storage unit with a learned model generated by learning beforehand machining conditions including a tool used and cutting conditions, a manufacturing process including a tool trajectory, and a machining program that caused the manufacturing process to be performed in correspondence with one another with respect to each feature subjected to various cutting operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: KITAMURA MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Kitamura, Kosaku Kitamura, Takashi Asano, Seiji Amaike
  • Publication number: 20240076425
    Abstract: To provide a 4-methyl-1-pentene polymer being excellent in storage stability when dissolved in a solvent and solubility, and being excellent in at least one of heat resistance, and a coating appearance when a coating film is stretched, for example, when such a film is bended or used in a flexible application. A 4-methyl-1-pentene polymer (A) being a copolymer of 4-methyl-1-pentene and at least one selected from linear ?-olefins having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, the 4-methyl-1-pentene polymer (A) satisfying the following requirements (I) and (II): (I) an endotherm end temperature (TmE) in a melting (endothermic) curve measured by DSC is 230° C. or lower; and (II) an exotherm start temperature (TcS) in a crystallization (exothermic) curve measured by DSC is 210° C. or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro ASANO, Masakazu TANAKA, Toyoaki SASAKI, Yusuke MIZOBUCHI, Takuya IWATA
  • Patent number: 10934882
    Abstract: A wastegate is attached to a turbine housing of a turbocharger. The wastegate opens and closes a bypass passage. An actuator is coupled to the wastegate via a link mechanism. The link mechanism includes a link rod and a link arm. The longitudinal direction of the link rod in a state in which the bypass passage is fully closed is defined as a width direction of the link arm. The coupling center position in the link arm to which the link rod is coupled is located at a position offset in a direction in which the link rod moves to open the wastegate from a middle of the link arm in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kouji Nagai, Akitoshi Iwata, Akihiro Asano, Takayasu Ogasawara, Yasuko Inoue
  • Publication number: 20200088062
    Abstract: A wastegate is attached to a turbine housing of a turbocharger. The wastegate opens and closes a bypass passage. An actuator is coupled to the wastegate via a link mechanism. The link mechanism includes a link rod and a link arm. The longitudinal direction of the link rod in a state in which the bypass passage is fully closed is defined as a width direction of the link arm. The coupling center position in the link arm to which the link rod is coupled is located at a position offset in a direction in which the link rod moves to open the wastegate from a middle of the link arm in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kouji NAGAI, Akitoshi IWATA, Akihiro ASANO, Takayasu OGASAWARA, Yasuko INOUE
  • Patent number: 10458004
    Abstract: To provide a silver-bismuth powder, which includes: silver; and bismuth, wherein a mass ratio (silver:bismuth) of the silver to the bismuth is 95:5 to 40:60, wherein a cumulative 50% point of particle diameter (D50) of the silver-bismuth powder in a volume-based particle size distribution thereof as measured by a laser diffraction particle size distribution analysis is 0.1 ?m to 10 ?m, and wherein an oxygen content of the silver-bismuth powder is 5.5% by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: DOWA Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozo Ogi, Kenichi Inoue, Atsushi Ebara, Akihiro Asano, Hideyuki Fujimoto, Takahiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 9677418
    Abstract: A turbine housing for an internal combustion engine, the turbine housing includes a coolant passage and exhaust gas flow path. The exhaust gas flow path is configured to pass exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine, a turbine wheel is arranged in the exhaust gas flow path, the exhaust gas flow path include a first portion, the first portion is disposed further on the exhaust gas downstream side than the turbine wheel in the exhaust gas flow path, and the inner diameter of the first portion gradually increases toward the exhaust gas downstream side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Asano
  • Publication number: 20160305843
    Abstract: A balance of a rotating body is measured by a balance measuring device while the rotating body is rotated. The balance of the rotating body is corrected by irradiating a laser with a laser radiation device at a first processing portion of the rotating body that is set based on the measurement result and removing that processing portion. After the first processing portion of the rotating body is removed, the balance of the rotating body is measured again. If the measurement result is a result in which the balance correction is insufficient, the rotating body is rotated at a speed lower than a rotation speed of the rotating body when the first processing portion is removed, and the laser is irradiated by the laser irradiating portion at a second processing portion of the rotating body set based on the result of measuring the balance again, and the second processing portion is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji NOMURA, Osamu MAEDA, Akihiro ASANO
  • Publication number: 20160040271
    Abstract: To provide a silver-bismuth powder, which includes: silver; and bismuth, wherein a mass ratio (silver:bismuth) of the silver to the bismuth is 95:5 to 40:60, wherein a cumulative 50% point of particle diameter (D50) of the silver-bismuth powder in a volume-based particle size distribution thereof as measured by a laser diffraction particle size distribution analysis is 0.1 ?m to 10 ?m, and wherein an oxygen content of the silver-bismuth powder is 5.5% by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Kozo OGI, Kenichi INOUE, Atsushi EBARA, Akihiro ASANO, Hideyuki FUJIMOTO, Takahiro YAMADA
  • Patent number: 9211587
    Abstract: There are provided a cuprous oxide powder having a smaller particle diameter than that of conventional cuprous oxide powders, and a method for producing the cuprous oxide powder by a chemical reducing process. In a method for producing a cuprous oxide powder by adding a reducing agent, such as a reducing sugar, to a solution containing copper hydroxide, which is formed by adding one of an alkali solution and a copper ion containing solution to the other thereof, to deposit cuprous oxide particles by reduction, 0.00001 to 0.04 moles (10 to 40000 ppm) of ferrous ions with respect to the amount of copper ions in the copper ion containing solution are added to the copper ion containing solution before forming copper hydroxide, to produce a cuprous oxide powder which has a mean primary particle diameter of not greater than 0.5 micrometers when it is measured by a scanning electron microscope (SEM), the cuprous oxide powder having a 50% particle diameter (D50 diameter) of not greater than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kaneshiro, Shinichi Suenaga, Akihiro Asano
  • Publication number: 20150292354
    Abstract: A turbine housing for an internal combustion engine, the turbine housing includes a coolant passage and exhaust gas flow path. The exhaust gas flow path is configured to pass exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine, a turbine wheel is arranged in the exhaust gas flow path, the exhaust gas flow path include a first portion, the first portion is disposed further on the exhaust gas downstream side than the turbine wheel in the exhaust gas flow path, and the inner diameter of the first portion gradually increases toward the exhaust gas downstream side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventor: Akihiro ASANO
  • Publication number: 20140199204
    Abstract: There are provided a cuprous oxide powder having a smaller particle diameter than that of conventional cuprous oxide powders, and a method for producing the cuprous oxide powder by a chemical reducing process. In a method for producing a cuprous oxide powder by adding a reducing agent, such as a reducing sugar, to a solution containing copper hydroxide, which is formed by adding one of an alkali solution and a copper ion containing solution to the other thereof, to deposit cuprous oxide particles by reduction, 0.00001 to 0.04 moles (10 to 40000 ppm) of ferrous ions with respect to the amount of copper ions in the copper ion containing solution are added to the copper ion containing solution before forming copper hydroxide, to produce a cuprous oxide powder which has a mean primary particle diameter of not greater than 0.5 micrometers when it is measured by a scanning electron microscope (SEM), the cuprous oxide powder having a 50% particle diameter (D50 diameter) of not greater than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kaneshiro, Shinichi Suenaga, Akihiro Asano