Patents by Inventor Akihiro Honda

Akihiro Honda 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).

  • Publication number: 20240125324
    Abstract: A collar of a fixed scroll includes a gasket contact surface with which a gasket comes into contact, and a metal contact surface that causes the collar and a compression housing to be in contact and receives the axial force of bolts. The collar has a protruding portion that protrudes in the axial direction relative to the gasket contact surface, and the metal contact surface is disposed on the protruding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Yuji HASHIMOTO, Hideharu YAMASHITA, Kazunari HONDA, Akihiro NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240107678
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a bonded substrate includes: preparing one or plurality of products to be bonded, each including a brazing material layer and a copper plate laminated on both main surfaces of a ceramic substrate, laminating, one or a plurality of products bonded and a pair of clamping members that clamp them while providing a mold releasing layer between each thereof, heating the one or the plurality of products while pressing the one or the plurality of products in the pair of clamping members to obtain the one or the plurality of bonded substrates in which the ceramic substrate and the copper plate are bonded with a bonding layer, and removing the mold releasing layer from the bonded substrate by dissolving a portion in contact with the mold releasing layer of the copper plate included in the bonded substrate by wet etching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kota KITAJIMA, Takahiko HONDA, Kazutaka NAKAO, Masayuki UETANI, Izumi MASUDA, Akihiro URANO
  • Publication number: 20240091707
    Abstract: A cartridge attachment structure includes: a cover whose one end is attached to a pivot shaft for opening and closing a storage space; a support member attached to the pivot shaft and supporting a cartridge; and a pair of lifting-up members attached to the cover such that the cartridge can be sandwiched along the side surface of the cartridge. A groove is formed on each of the opposing inner surfaces of the lifting-up members to receive a projection 16 formed on the side surface of the cartridge. The groove is curved such that the bottom surface of the cartridge moves away from the support member when the protrusion slides along the groove as the cover rotates about the pivot shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaoru HONDA, Tadashi SATO, Akihiro SUZAWA
  • Patent number: 11933725
    Abstract: A method is provided that allows the sulfur component concentration in gasoline to be estimated to high precision. The measuring method of the disclosure is a method of measuring the concentration of sulfur components in gasoline that contains sulfur components and aromatic components. The measuring method of the disclosure comprises: (A1) removing a portion of the gasoline by gasification to lower the proportion of the aromatic component concentration with respect to the sulfur component concentration in the gasoline, (A2) measuring values related to the refractive index of the gasoline, and (A3) measuring the sulfur component concentration in the gasoline based on the values related to the refractive index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, National University Corporation Okayama University
    Inventors: Akihiro Honda, Hideki Fukano
  • Publication number: 20210156797
    Abstract: A method is provided that allows the sulfur component concentration in gasoline to be estimated to high precision. The measuring method of the disclosure is a method of measuring the concentration of sulfur components in gasoline that contains sulfur components and aromatic components. The measuring method of the disclosure comprises: (A1) removing a portion of the gasoline by gasification to lower the proportion of the aromatic component concentration with respect to the sulfur component concentration in the gasoline, (A2) measuring values related to the refractive index of the gasoline, and (A3) measuring the sulfur component concentration in the gasoline based on the values related to the refractive index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, National University Corporation Okayama University
    Inventors: Akihiro HONDA, Hideki FUKANO
  • Patent number: 10564905
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image data generator, a conveyor conveying a print medium, a determiner, a print medium cutter, a printing section, and a printing controller. The image data generator performs, sequentially on a page basis, conversion of print data corresponding to pages included in a print job into image data. The determiner determines a specified number of pages. The print medium cutter cuts the print medium into media for each of the specified number of pages. The printing section performs, on the print medium, printing of an image-data-based image. The printing controller causes the printing section to start the printing of the image corresponding at least to the specified number of pages, after the conversion of the print data into the image data corresponding at least to the specified number of pages and before that into the image data corresponding to all of pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Honda
  • Patent number: 10544996
    Abstract: The waste heat recovery and dissipation apparatus incorporates a heat storage/dissipation material containing a new titanium oxide. When a pressure received by the heat storage/dissipation material from a coolant flowing through a flow channel is increased to a predetermined pressure PHR (about 60 MPa) or higher in a state where the crystal structure of the new titanium oxide is a ?-phase, the heat stored in the heat storage/dissipation material is released to the coolant. When a temperature of the heat storage/dissipation material is increased to a predetermined temperature THS (about 460 K) or higher by the heat of exhaust gas flowing a gas flow channel in a state where the crystal structure of the new titanium oxide is ?-phase, the heat of the exhaust gas is stored in the heat storage/dissipation material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Akihiro Honda, Shin-ichi Ohkoshi
  • Patent number: 10428724
    Abstract: A cooling device for an internal combustion engine includes a circulation path, a coolant temperature sensor, a coolant pump, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute processing for performing feedback control on power of the coolant pump such that the output of the coolant temperature sensor becomes a target temperature, micelle determination processing for determining whether or not micelles are added to a coolant based on pump work of the coolant pump and the flow rate of the coolant flowing through the circulation path, Toms determination processing for determining whether or not the flow rate of the coolant satisfies a Toms effect expression condition, and correction processing for increasing a relative value of the output of the coolant temperature sensor with respect to the target temperature when the micelles is added and the Toms effect expression condition is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Honda, Saki Nakayama, Masahiko Matsumura, Koichi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10233816
    Abstract: A body of an oil jet is provided with: an oil supply port; a cylinder; and an oil injection port. A piston valve is accommodated in the cylinder. The piston valve forms in the cylinder a differential pressure room which is a closed compartment. In the piston valve, an orifice which makes the differential pressure room being communicated with a side of the oil supply port is formed. The piston valve is biased toward a position at which the oil injection port is closed by a spring. A first oil injection nozzle is connected to the oil injection port. A leak hole which allows oil to be leaked outside of the cylinder from the differential pressure room is open at the side surface of the cylinder. Further, a second oil injection nozzle is connected to the leak hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Honda, Motoichi Murakami, Masahiro Kawahara, Norio Imai
  • Publication number: 20190004754
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image data generator, a conveyor conveying a print medium, a determiner, a print medium cutter, a printing section, and a printing controller. The image data generator performs, sequentially on a page basis, conversion of print data corresponding to pages included in a print job into image data. The determiner determines a specified number of pages. The print medium cutter cuts the print medium into media for each of the specified number of pages. The printing section performs, on the print medium, printing of an image-data-based image. The printing controller causes the printing section to start the printing of the image corresponding at least to the specified number of pages, after the conversion of the print data into the image data corresponding at least to the specified number of pages and before that into the image data corresponding to all of pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro HONDA
  • Publication number: 20180274430
    Abstract: A cooling device for an internal combustion engine includes a circulation path, a coolant temperature sensor, a coolant pump, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute processing for performing feedback control on power of the coolant pump such that the output of the coolant temperature sensor becomes a target temperature, micelle determination processing for determining whether or not micelles are added to a coolant based on pump work of the coolant pump and the flow rate of the coolant flowing through the circulation path, Toms determination processing for determining whether or not the flow rate of the coolant satisfies a Toms effect expression condition, and correction processing for increasing a relative value of the output of the coolant temperature sensor with respect to the target temperature when the micelles is added and the Toms effect expression condition is established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Honda, Saki Nakayama, Masahiko Matsumura, Koichi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9933007
    Abstract: Provided is a sliding bearing that has a bearing inner peripheral surface covered by a resin overlay layer configured from a binder resin and a solid lubricant and/or hard substance, reduces the running-in time during an operation start, and can obtain the effect of increasing wear resistance and the effect of reducing friction. In the sliding bearing, halved members resulting from halving a cylinder parallel to the axial direction are disposed at the top and bottom, the inner peripheral surfaces of the top and bottom halved members are covered by a resin overlay layer configured from a binder resin and a solid lubricant and/or hard substance, and a fine groove is provided to an axial-direction end of the bottom halved member in the peripheral direction from the mating surface at the downstream side in the rotational direction to a predetermined bearing angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignees: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Ashihara, Yuichiro Kajiki, Hiroki Takata, Akihiro Honda, Motoichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 9879725
    Abstract: Provided is a slide bearing with which friction can be reduced and the total amount of effluent oil can be reduced. In the slide bearing in which the halved members made by dividing the cylinder in two in the direction parallel to the axial direction are disposed vertically, the narrow grooves are provided at an end of the lower halved member in the circumferential direction from a mating surface on a downstream side of a rotation direction to a predetermined bearing angle and peripheral edge parts are provided outside the narrow grooves in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignees: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD., TOYOYTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Ashihara, Yuichiro Kajiki, Hiroki Takata, Akihiro Honda, Motoichi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20170350659
    Abstract: The waste heat recovery and dissipation apparatus incorporates a heat storage/dissipation material containing a new titanium oxide. When a pressure received by the heat storage/dissipation material from a coolant flowing through a flow channel is increased to a predetermined pressure PHR (about 60 MPa) or higher in a state where the crystal structure of the new titanium oxide is a ?-phase, the heat stored in the heat storage/dissipation material is released to the coolant. When a temperature of the heat storage/dissipation material is increased to a predetermined temperature THS (about 460 K) or higher by the heat of exhaust gas flowing a gas flow channel in a state where the crystal structure of the new titanium oxide is ?-phase, the heat of the exhaust gas is stored in the heat storage/dissipation material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Akihiro HONDA, Shin-ichi OHKOSHI
  • Patent number: 9657769
    Abstract: Provided is a slide bearing with which friction-reducing effects are obtained and the total volume of effluent oil is limited. In a slide bearing an end of the narrow groove on a downstream side of the rotation direction is disposed at the position which is adjacent to a mating surface on the downstream side of the rotation direction and not communicated with the mating surface on the downstream side of the rotation direction and an end of the narrow groove on an upstream side of the rotation direction is disposed at the position which is the upstream side from the end on the downstream side of the rotation direction and is rotated by an angle no more than 90 degrees from the mating surface on the downstream side of the rotation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignees: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Ashihara, Yuichiro Kajiki, Hiroki Takata, Akihiro Honda, Motoichi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20160333922
    Abstract: Provided is a sliding bearing that has a bearing inner peripheral surface covered by a resin overlay layer configured from a binder resin and a solid lubricant and/or hard substance, reduces the running-in time during an operation start, and can obtain the effect of increasing wear resistance and the effect of reducing friction. In the sliding bearing, halved members resulting from halving a cylinder parallel to the axial direction are disposed at the top and bottom, the inner peripheral surfaces of the top and bottom halved members are covered by a resin overlay layer configured from a binder resin and a solid lubricant and/or hard substance, and a fine groove is provided to an axial-direction end of the bottom halved member in the peripheral direction from the mating surface at the downstream side in the rotational direction to a predetermined bearing angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicants: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiro ASHIHARA, Yuichiro KAJIKI, Hiroki TAKATA, Akihiro HONDA, Motoichi MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 9470266
    Abstract: Provided is a slide bearing with which friction-reducing effects can be obtained and the total volume of effluent oil can be limited. A slide bearing in which halved members made by dividing a cylinder in two in a direction parallel to the axial are disposed vertically, wherein narrow grooves are provided at the ends of the slide bearing in the axial direction, the narrow grooves extending in the circumferential direction from the mating surface on the downstream side of the rotation direction to a specified bearing angle is an angle rotated in the range of ?0 degree to ?90 degrees from the mating surface on the downstream side in the rotation direction (bearing angle of 180 degrees) towards the upstream side in the rotation direction. In other words, the bearing angle is the range of 180 degrees to 270 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignees: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Ashihara, Yuichiro Kajiki, Hiroki Takata, Akihiro Honda, Motoichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 9459818
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a print processing part that executes print processing of print data on a continuous print medium; an operation part to which an instruction is input and that displays information; a storage part that stores page IDs for identifying pages of the print data and characteristic image data of the pages; and a control part that controls recovery printing after a restoration from a print processing error. When the control part executes the recovery printing, the operation part displays the page IDs of pages in a selectable manner and the characteristic image data of the page which corresponds to at least one of the page IDs, when one of the page IDs is selected, the recovery printing is initiated from the page that is designated by the selected page ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Honda
  • Publication number: 20160195127
    Abstract: Provided is a slide bearing with which friction-reducing effects are obtained and the total volume of effluent oil is limited. In a slide bearing an end of the narrow groove on a downstream side of the rotation direction is disposed at the position which is adjacent to a mating surface on the downstream side of the rotation direction and not communicated with the mating surface on the downstream side of the rotation direction and an end of the narrow groove on an upstream side of the rotation direction is disposed at the position which is the upstream side from the end on the downstream side of the rotation direction and is rotated by an angle no more than 90 degrees from the mating surface on the downstream side of the rotation direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro ASHIHARA, Yuichiro KAJIKI, Hiroki TAKATA, Akihiro HONDA, Motoichi MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20160186642
    Abstract: A body of an oil jet is provided with: an oil supply port; a cylinder; and an oil injection port. A piston valve is accommodated in the cylinder. The piston valve forms in the cylinder a differential pressure room which is a closed compartment. In the piston valve, an orifice which makes the differential pressure room being communicated with a side of the oil supply port is formed. The piston valve is biased toward a position at which the oil injection port is closed by a spring. A first oil injection nozzle is connected to the oil injection port. A leak hole which allows oil to be leaked outside of the cylinder from the differential pressure room is open at the side surface of the cylinder. Further, a second oil injection nozzle is connected to the leak hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro HONDA, Motoichi MURAKAMI, Masahiro KAWAHARA, Norio IMAI