Patents by Inventor Akihiro Kuroda
Akihiro Kuroda 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).
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Publication number: 20240146045Abstract: Provided is an electrical connection box with a simple configuration that can prevent liquid from running into a housing. An electrical connection box for a vehicle provided with a case member for installing a first fuse includes a removal port formed at a front surface of the case member, the removal port enabling the first fuse to be installed and removed; and a groove formed around the removal port, the groove guiding liquid running down the front surface away from the removal port.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Atsushi KURODA, Akihiro ODA, Yuya MATSUO
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Patent number: 11525779Abstract: An object is to measure absorbance of aqueous cosmetic materials that have not heretofore been studied for absorbance measurement, and particularly to form a uniform layer of thin film in order to ensure accurate measurement without causing these aqueous cosmetic materials, which are O/W emulsions, to undergo phase separation during measurement. As a means for achieving the foregoing, an absorbance measurement method is provided, wherein an absorbent aqueous composition is applied on the surface of a substrate, which surface has been plasma treated, arc-discharge treated, or corona-discharge treated, to achieve a contact angle with pure water of 0 to 70.0 degrees, and the applied absorbent aqueous composition is measured for absorbance.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: KEIO UNIVERSITYInventors: Kouichi Asakura, Akihiro Kuroda
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Publication number: 20220349816Abstract: An object is to develop a measurement method, and a measurement substrate, for measuring SPF or other value in a single measurement, instead of having to measure it on many substrates as has been the case to date. As a solution, a substrate for UV transmittance evaluation, including a base material that allows UV rays in a range of 290 to 400 nm to transmit through, and a layer provided on one side thereof that contains at least one type of compound other than cellulose triacetate that has a sugar skeleton but is not a salt, is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2020Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventor: Akihiro KURODA
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Publication number: 20190285543Abstract: An object is to measure absorbance of aqueous cosmetic materials that have not heretofore been studied for absorbance measurement, and particularly to form a uniform layer of thin film in order to ensure accurate measurement without causing these aqueous cosmetic materials, which are O/W emulsions, to undergo phase separation during measurement. As a means for achieving the foregoing, an absorbance measurement method is provided, wherein an absorbent aqueous composition is applied on the surface of a substrate, which surface has been plasma treated, arc-discharge treated, or corona-discharge treated, to achieve a contact angle with pure water of 0 to 70.0 degrees, and the applied absorbent aqueous composition is measured for absorbance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2017Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Kouichi ASAKURA, Akihiro KURODA
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Patent number: 9739185Abstract: A supply pump includes a housing that has a tappet receiving chamber, which receives a plunger drive mechanism, and oil for lubricating respective lubricating portions of the plunger drive mechanism is temporarily retained in the tappet receiving chamber. In the housing, a communication hole opens in an inner peripheral wall surface of a tappet guide and guides the oil from a tappet upper side chamber into a tappet lower side chamber at the time of upwardly moving a tappet.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro Kuroda
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Publication number: 20160215663Abstract: A supply pump includes a housing that has a tappet receiving chamber, which receives a plunger drive mechanism, and oil for lubricating respective lubricating portions of the plunger drive mechanism is temporarily retained in the tappet receiving chamber. In the housing, a communication hole opens in an inner peripheral wall surface of a tappet guide and guides the oil from a tappet upper side chamber into a tappet lower side chamber at the time of upwardly moving a tappet.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventor: Akihiro KURODA
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Patent number: 9175987Abstract: A displacement detecting device includes an irradiation optical system, an interference optical system, a light-receiving section, and a displacement detecting section. The irradiation optical system causes two light-beams to be incident on a diffraction grating respectively at different angles with respect to a plane perpendicular to the X-direction along which grating structures of the diffraction grating are periodically arranged. The interference optical system causes two Mth-order diffracted lights of respective light-beams incident on the diffraction grating to interfere with each other, so as to generate an interference light. The light-receiving section receives the interference light and detects an interference signal. The displacement detecting section detects a vertical displacement of a surface having the diffraction grating arranged thereon based on the change of the interference signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: DMG MORI SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventor: Akihiro Kuroda
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Patent number: 9138923Abstract: The vertical injection molding machine is provided with an electric servomotor which moves an injection drive unit up and down accompanying the rotation of a driven pulley via a ball screw mechanism, a timing belt by which the drive force of the electric servomotor is transmitted, and a driven pulley on which the timing belt is rotated, wherein an arc groove is formed on the driven pulley, and an election pin is provided which is inserted to the arc groove of the driven pulley when the timing belt is disconnected. When the election pin is inserted to the arc groove, the tip of the election pin applies pressure on an inclined portion by means of elastic force of a spring, slowing the rotational speed of the driven pulley and stopping the injection drive unit by an inner wall surface of the slowed driven pulley colliding with the ejection pin.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2013Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: TOYO MACHINERY & METAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromichi Kuroda, Akihiro Kuroda
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Patent number: 9097511Abstract: A displacement detecting device includes: a diffraction grating having a relief shape; an irradiation optical system adapted to irradiate two beams onto the diffraction grating as p-polarized light; a reflection optical system adapted to reflect two first diffracted lights generated when the two beams is diffracted by the diffraction grating, and cause the first diffracted lights to be incident again on the diffraction grating as p-polarized light so as to generate two second diffracted lights; an interference optical system adapted to cause the two second diffracted lights to interfere with each other to obtain interference light; a light receiving section adapted to receive the interference light; and a position information detecting section adapted to detect position information of the diffraction grating based on an interference signal. The period of the relief of the diffraction grating is no more than 1.5 times the wavelength of coherent light.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: DMG MORI SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventor: Akihiro Kuroda
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Patent number: 8780357Abstract: An optical displacement measurement device in which variations in interference light by stray light are suppressed to improve interpolation accuracy and detection accuracy. The surface of diffraction grating 11 is coated with protective layer 12 of thickness L and refractive index n. The protective layer has thickness L such that, with angle ? between a line normal to the protective layer and an incident light beam and an angle ?? between diffracted light generated by diffraction grating and reflected by boundary surface of protective layer to become stray light to be re-incident on diffraction grating and a line normal to diffraction grating, interference light is of an intensity of interference such that an optical path difference between stray light and light interfering with stray light represented by ?=2L(n/cos ??+tan ??·sin ?) will amount to not higher than 2% of intensity of interference of interference light with optical path length difference ?=0.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: DMG Mori Seike Co., LtdInventor: Akihiro Kuroda
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Publication number: 20130330436Abstract: The vertical injection molding machine is provided with an electric servomotor which moves an injection drive unit up and down accompanying the rotation of a driven pulley via a ball screw mechanism, a timing belt by which the drive force of the electric servomotor is transmitted, and a driven pulley on which the timing belt is rotated, wherein an arc groove is formed on the driven pulley, and an election pin is provided which is inserted to the arc groove of the driven pulley when the timing belt is disconnected. When the election pin is inserted to the arc groove, the tip of the election pin applies pressure on an inclined portion by means of elastic force of a spring, slowing the rotational speed of the driven pulley and stopping the injection drive unit by an inner wall surface of the slowed driven pulley colliding with the ejection pin.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: TOYO MACHINERY & METAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromichi Kuroda, Akihiro Kuroda
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Patent number: 8446594Abstract: A position detection device in which 2nd-order or higher order diffracted light as well as stray light is suppressed from being generated to improve the S/N ratio of a position detection signal as well as to improve detection accuracy. With a pitch d of a diffraction grating 11, whose grating surface 11a is covered with a protective layer 12 of a refractive index n, and with a wavelength ?0 in vacuum of coherent light illuminated, d<2?0/n is set. An angle of incidence ?0 of the coherent light on the diffraction grating 11 is set to satisfy the following relationship: |sin ?0|<(2?0/dn)?1. The 1st order diffracted light is used for position detection.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2011Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Mori Seiki & Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akihiro Kuroda
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Publication number: 20120287441Abstract: A displacement detecting device includes: a diffraction grating having a relief shape; an irradiation optical system adapted to irradiate two beams onto the diffraction grating as p-polarized light; a reflection optical system adapted to reflect two first diffracted lights generated when the two beams is diffracted by the diffraction grating, and cause the first diffracted lights to be incident again on the diffraction grating as p-polarized light so as to generate two second diffracted lights; an interference optical system adapted to cause the two second diffracted lights to interfere with each other to obtain interference light; a light receiving section adapted to receive the interference light; and a position information detecting section adapted to detect position information of the diffraction grating based on an interference signal. The period of the relief of the diffraction grating is no more than 1.5 times the wavelength of coherent light.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: MORI SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventor: Akihiro Kuroda
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Publication number: 20120257214Abstract: An optical displacement measurement device in which variations in interference light by stray light are suppressed to improve interpolation accuracy and detection accuracy. The surface of diffraction grating 11 is coated with protective layer 12 of thickness L and refractive index n. The protective layer has thickness L such that, with angle ? between a line normal to the protective layer and an incident light beam and an angle ?? between diffracted light generated by diffraction grating and reflected by boundary surface of protective layer to become stray light to be re-incident on diffraction grating and a line normal to diffraction grating, interference light is of an intensity of interference such that an optical path difference between stray light and light interfering with stray light represented by ?=2L(n/cos ??+tan ??·sin ?) will amount to not higher than 2% of intensity of interference of interference light with optical path length difference ?=0 (FIG. 2).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: MORI SEIKI CO. LTDInventor: Akihiro Kuroda
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Patent number: 8192748Abstract: The present invention provides a cosmetic composition comprising the following Components (A) to (E): (A) 7 to 30% by weight of one or more kinds of non-volatile oil agents having a kinematic viscosity of 5 to 1000 mm2/s at 25° C.; (B) 0.2 to 5% by weight of one or more kinds of water-repellent resin powders whose primary particle size is in the range of 2 to 20 ?m; (C) 0.1 to 6% by weight of one or more kinds of oil-soluble silicone resins; (D) 20 to 60% by weight of a volatile solvent, excluding water, containing one or more kinds of volatile solvents whose boiling point at 1 atmosphere is 200° C. or lower; and (E) 12 to 30% by weight of one or more kinds of water-repellent surface treated pigments; and exhibiting water water-runability. The present invention provides a cosmetic composition characterized in that the water-runability is stable without showing temperature dependency, and excellent in durability and feeling, and ultraviolet ray protective effects last for a long time.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2002Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: KAO CorporationInventor: Akihiro Kuroda
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Publication number: 20120122269Abstract: A method of manufacturing a photovoltaic element (710) capable of inhibiting the thicknesses and the qualities of formed films from being nonuniform includes steps of forming a substrate-side electrode (712), forming a photoelectric conversion layer (713, 714) with a plasma processing apparatus (1) including a first electrode (3) and a second electrode (4) provided on a portion opposed to the first electrode with a plurality of gas supply ports (4a) formed along concentric circles so that the quantities of gas supplied through the gas supply ports are different from each other on an inner peripheral side and an outer peripheral side, and forming a rear electrode (715).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akihiro Kuroda
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Publication number: 20120050748Abstract: A displacement detecting device includes an irradiation optical system, an interference optical system, a light-receiving section, and a displacement detecting section. The irradiation optical system causes two light-beams to be incident on a diffraction grating respectively at different angles with respect to a plane perpendicular to the X-direction along which grating structures of the diffraction grating are periodically arranged. The interference optical system causes two Mth-order diffracted lights of respective light-beams incident on the diffraction grating to interfere with each other, so as to generate an interference light. The light-receiving section receives the interference light and detects an interference signal. The displacement detecting section detects a vertical displacement of a surface having the diffraction grating arranged thereon based on the change of the interference signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: MORI SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventor: Akihiro Kuroda
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Publication number: 20110310397Abstract: A position detection device in which 2nd-order or higher order diffracted light as well as stray light is suppressed from being generated to improve the S/N ratio of a position detection signal as well as to improve detection accuracy. With a pitch d of a diffraction grating 11, whose grating surface 11a is covered with a protective layer 12 of a refractive index n, and with a wavelength ?0 in vacuum of coherent light illuminated, d<2?0/n is set. An angle of incidence ?0 of the coherent light on the diffraction grating 11 is set to satisfy the following relationship: |sin?0|<(2?0/dn)?1. The 1st order diffracted light is used for position detection.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2011Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: MORI SEIKI CO., LTDInventor: Akihiro Kuroda
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Patent number: 7995212Abstract: An optical displacement measuring device includes a diffraction grating, a reflecting optical system configured to irradiate two one-time diffracted beams diffracted at the diffraction grating on the diffraction grating again, and the reflecting optical system includes a first imaging element, a second imaging element, a first reflector, and a second reflector, wherein the focal length of the first imaging element and the focal length of the second imaging element are the same, the diffraction grating and first reflector are disposed around the focal position of the first imaging element, and the diffraction grating and second reflector are disposed around the focal position of the second imaging element, thereby suppressing influence of displacement of the diffraction grating as to other than a direction where a movement position is detected.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2009Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideaki Tamiya, Akihiro Kuroda
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Patent number: 7808649Abstract: A fixed-point detector is provided. The fixed-point detector includes a plurality of fixed-point detecting patterns, a fixed-point detecting light source, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. The plurality of fixed-point detecting patterns each have a pair of diffraction gratings for diffracting incident light in different directions. The fixed-point detecting light source irradiates the pair of diffraction gratings with light while moving in the measurement-axis direction with respect to the plurality of fixed-point detecting patterns. The plurality of photoelectric conversion elements move together with the fixed-point detecting light source, while receiving light beams diffracted by the respective diffraction gratings of the plurality of fixed-point detecting patterns and converting the diffracted light beams into electric signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2008Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Kuroda, Hideaki Tamiya