Patents by Inventor Akihiro Maeda

Akihiro Maeda 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: 12157048
    Abstract: The baseball or softball glove includes a thumb part, an index finger pan, and a web. The web includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion. The first protrusion has a first through hole. The second protrusion has a second through hole. At least either the first through hole or the second through hole has an inclined edge that extends obliquely upward from a base of the thumb part or the index finger part on a peripheral edge forming the through hole. The first protrusion and the second protrusion are engaged with each other in a state where the first through hole and the second through hole are connected to each other in a chain shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Mizuno Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Yamada, Kenji Maeda, Kazuhiro Kume, Akihiro Kanda, Yuya Motegi
  • Publication number: 20240380133
    Abstract: A terminal is constructed to be connected to an attachment target by a bolt, and includes a first surface, a through hole, and an asperity portion. A material for the terminal is aluminum, etc. The terminal has a Vickers hardness equal to or higher than 80 HV. A ratio S1/S2 between a first area S1 and a second area S2 while the first surface and the attachment target are connected to each other by tightening of the bolt is equal to or lower than 0.8. The first area S1 is an area of a region where the first surface is in contact with the attachment target at a pressure equal to or higher than 25 MPa. The second area S2 is an area of an annular region around the bolt. The first area S1 is equal to or larger than 5 mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryohei KOBAYASHI, Toru MAEDA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Masashi FUJIKI, Akihiro HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240375971
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing lithium hydroxide allowing increasing a purity of an obtained lithium hydroxide. The method for producing lithium hydroxide includes a lithium adsorption step, a lithium elution step, an impurity removal step, and a conversion step. The impurity removal step includes: (3A) a carbonating step of a step of adding a carbonic acid source to a second lithium containing solution to obtain rough lithium carbonate; (3B) a hydrocarbonating step of a step of blowing carbon dioxide to a slurry containing rough lithium carbonate to obtain a lithium hydrogen carbonate solution; (3C) a decarbonation step of a step of heating the lithium hydrogen carbonate solution to obtain purified lithium carbonate; and (3D) an acid solution dissolution step of a step of dissolving the purified lithium carbonate in an acid solution to obtain a third lithium containing solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi TAKANO, Satoshi ASANO, Shin-ichi HEGURI, Osamu IKEDA, Shin-ya MATSUMOTO, Yohei KUDO, Akihiro MURAKAMI, Yusuke SENBA, Kyohei MAEDA
  • Patent number: 12130182
    Abstract: A transmission type color gradation chart comprising: a color chart member including at least one color bar wherein transmitted light exhibits chromatic color; and a gray gradation chart member wherein transmitted light exhibits achromatic color, and includes a plurality of transmission regions with different brightness, wherein the color chart member and the gray gradation chart member are stacked so that there is a duplicative transmission region wherein the color bar and the plurality of transmission regions overlap in planar view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Maeda, Yoshihiko Ogino, Yoichi Kajimura
  • Publication number: 20240345515
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device to fix a toner image onto a recording material. The fixing device includes a heating unit, a pressure rotating member, a temperature detection unit, a storage unit, a reading unit, a sheet feeding unit, a conveyance unit, and a control unit. The pressure rotating member abuts the heating unit to form a nip portion. The storage unit stores information regarding a temperature rise rate of the fixing device. When the recording material is conveyed to the nip portion, the control unit controls the heating unit at a target temperature. Where a predetermined temperature lower than the target temperature is reached, the control unit controls the conveyance unit to start conveying the recording material from the sheet feeding unit to the nip portion. The control unit further determines the predetermined temperature based on the information read by the reading unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: KOICHI KAKUBARI, AKIHIRO MAEDA, HIROTO ITO, SHIGERU HIRANO, IKUO NAKAMOTO, AKIKO TOKUUE
  • Patent number: 12104228
    Abstract: The aluminum alloy in the cross-section of the surface layer region of the aluminum alloy plate contains a compound containing one or more elements selected from the group consisting of silicon, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, chromium, zinc, zirconium, and titanium, and aluminum. The number of fields of view containing the compound having an equivalent circle diameter of 5 ?m or more out of 10 fields of view extracted from the cross-section is 3 or less. In the cross-section, the number density of the compound having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.5 ?m or more and less than 5.0 ?m is 0.0010 per ?m2 or less, and the area ratio of the compound having an equivalent circle diameter of 0.5 ?m or more is 0.1% or more and less than 1.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryohei Kobayashi, Toru Maeda, Tetsuya Kuwabara, Masashi Fujiki, Akihiro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20240287350
    Abstract: A water repellent agent composition contains amino-modified silicone, a silicone resin, and alkylpolysiloxane. An amount of the alkylpolysiloxane mixed is 500 to 15,000 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of an amount of the amino-modified silicone mixed. A method for producing a water-repellent textile product includes a step of treating fibers with a treatment liquid including the water repellent agent composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro GOTOU, Kousuke MAEDA, Yoshiki TSUGE, Kazuhiko KOJIMA, Seiji HORI
  • Patent number: 12048415
    Abstract: A color conversion section for an imaging device carries out conversion to imaging data imaged by each medical imaging device for eliminating differences in color property of each imaging device, and generates standard color graphic data. To this standard color graphic data, a color conversion section for highlighting a specific tissue carries out color conversion for highlighting a designated specific biotissue, such as a blood vessel, to generate specific tissue highlighted graphic data. To this specific tissue highlighted graphic data, a color conversion section for a monitor carries out conversion for eliminating differences in color property of each monitor to generate display data. Color monitors display graphics based on this display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogino, Tohru Sugiyama, Yusuke Murayama, Kiyoko Tateishi, Akihiro Maeda, Yoichi Kajimura, Yutaka Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20240208583
    Abstract: A vehicle-body front structure includes a motor unit, main frames, a strut tower reinforcement, a motor support beam, and a support beam bracket. The motor unit drives a vehicle. The main frames are provided on vehicle-widthwise opposite sides and extend in a vehicle front-rear direction. The strut tower reinforcement extends in a vehicle up-down direction on a vehicle front side of a strut tower. The motor support beam is fixed, on its vehicle lower side, with the motor unit. The support beam bracket fixes the motor support beam to the main frames and the strut tower reinforcement. The support beam bracket is fixed to the motor support beam through a first fastening part, is fixed, on its vehicle lower side, to the main frames through a second fastening part, and is fixed, on its vehicle upper side, to the strut tower reinforcement through a third fastening part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventor: Akihiro MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20240208582
    Abstract: A vehicle-body front structure includes: a toe board including an upper toe board and a lower toe board joined to each other with a vehicle lower-side edge of the upper toe board overlapping a vehicle upper-side edge of the lower toe board; main frames provided on opposite sides of the vehicle-body front part in a vehicle width direction and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; and front pillars extending in a vehicle up-down direction on opposite outer sides of the toe board in the vehicle width direction. The toe board has a closed cross section at a position where the upper and lower toe boards are overlapped. The closed cross section includes opposite ends joined to the front pillars in the vehicle width direction. The main frames are joined to the toe board at positions overlapping the closed cross section in a vehicle front view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventor: Akihiro MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20240190512
    Abstract: A vehicle-body front structure includes a bulkhead front, a toe board, and a strut tower. The bulkhead front extends vehicle-widthwise, receives water droplets, and guides the water droplets to an outside in a vehicle width direction. The toe board extends vehicle-widthwise on a vehicle front side of a vehicle compartment and separates the vehicle compartment from a vehicle-body front part where a front-wheel suspension is accommodated. The strut tower is constituted by members joined to each other and supports the front-wheel suspension. The bulkhead front includes a vehicle-widthwise outer part having a first drainage port. The first drainage port communicates with a drainage channel in a closed cross section defined by the bulkhead front, the toe board, and the members constituting the strut tower. The drainage channel has, on its vehicle lower side, a second drainage port opened toward a wheel house where a tire is housed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventor: Akihiro MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20240069472
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device, first and second fans, and a reciprocating portion to reciprocate the fixing device in a widthwise direction of the fixing device. The fixing device includes a fixing film, a pressing roller to form a nip portion where a recording material on which a toner image is carried is nipped and conveyed between the fixing film and the pressing roller and the toner image is fixed on the recording material. The first and second fans send an air from openings thereof toward first and second areas of the fixing film on both end sides in the widthwise direction. A controller changes at least one opening width of the first and second fans depending on a position with respect to the widthwise direction of the fixing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: KOICHI KAKUBARI, IKUO NAKAMOTO, AKIHIRO MAEDA
  • Patent number: 11911933
    Abstract: A molding provided with a sheet-shaped composite material section formed from a fiber-reinforced composite material containing reinforcing fibers and a matrix resin, and protruding ribs formed directly on a first surface of the composite material section and containing a thermoplastic resin, wherein the ribs intersect with each other on the first surface, and the mean width t, mean height H and the proportion occupied on the first surface are within specified ranges. A manufacturing method for the molding including a composite material section-forming step for forming the composite material section, and a rib-forming step for forming the ribs so as to satisfy the above conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Maeda, Masao Tomioka
  • Publication number: 20230369180
    Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a substrate, a signal conductor, and a ground conductor. The substrate has a first surface and an opening provided in a first surface and being a mounting region for an electronic component. The signal conductor is on the first surface and extends in a first direction from the opening toward an outer edge of the substrate. The ground conductor is on the first surface and extends in the first direction, with the signal conductor being sandwiched between portions of the ground conductor. The signal conductor includes first, second and third sections in sequence in the first direction. The width of first section and the third section are wider than the second section. The ground conductor includes a protrusion extending toward the first section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro MAEDA, Shinji NAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11701961
    Abstract: An assembly includes multiple structures and a first bracket. The multiple structures include at least a first structure, a second structure, and a third structure located between the first structure and the second structure. The first bracket is configured to fix the second structure to the first structure and support the third structure. The first structure, the second structure, and the third structure are arranged in a first direction. The first bracket includes a second structure supporting portion supporting the second structure and a third structure supporting portion supporting the third structure. The second structure supporting portion is located on a first side of the first bracket and the third structure supporting portion is located on a second side of the first bracket. The first side and the second side are opposite to each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio Shidara, Akihiro Maeda
  • Publication number: 20220390283
    Abstract: A transmission type color gradation chart comprising: a color chart member including at least one color bar wherein transmitted light exhibits chromatic color; and a gray gradation chart member wherein transmitted light exhibits achromatic color, and includes a plurality of transmission regions with different brightness, wherein the color chart member and the gray gradation chart member are stacked so that there is a duplicative transmission region wherein the color bar and the plurality of transmission regions overlap in planar view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro MAEDA, Yoshihiko OGINO, Yoichi KAJIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220185097
    Abstract: A shutter device for a vehicle includes a frame, a plurality of blades and a cushion member. The frame is placed between two heat exchangers. The blades are configured to open and close an inner space of the frame through rotation of the blades. The cushion member is configured to project from the frame toward an adjacent one of the one or more heat exchangers which is placed adjacent to the frame. A direction, in which the cushion member projects from the frame, is defined as a predetermined direction. The cushion member has an elastic property that a repulsive force of the cushion member exponentially changes in response to a change in an amount of shrinkage deformation of the cushion member in the predetermined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Akihiro MAEDA, Yukio SHIDARA, Takuya HARA, Masafumi YAMAGUCHI, Tokuhisa TAKEUCHI, Daiken IWAKAWA, Eisaku TAKEUCHI, Kouichi HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220144077
    Abstract: A shutter device includes a frame, an opening-closing portion, and a protrusion. The frame is disposed between a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger and defines an inner space through which air introduced from a grill opening of a vehicle flows in an airflow direction. Each of the first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger has a core and a remaining portion other than the core. The opening-closing portion is configured to selectively open and close the inner space of the frame. The protrusion protrudes, in a direction parallel to the airflow direction, from the frame toward the remaining portion of at least one of the first heat exchanger or the second heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Akihiro MAEDA, Yukio SHIDARA
  • Publication number: 20220095891
    Abstract: A color conversion section for an imaging device carries out conversion to imaging data imaged by each medical imaging device for eliminating differences in color property of each imaging device, and generates standard color graphic data. To this standard color graphic data, a color conversion section for highlighting a specific tissue carries out color conversion for highlighting a designated specific biotissue, such as a blood vessel, to generate specific tissue highlighted graphic data. To this specific tissue highlighted graphic data, a color conversion section for a monitor carries out conversion for eliminating differences in color property of each monitor to generate display data. Color monitors display graphics based on this display data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko OGINO, Tohru SUGIYAMA, Yusuke MURAYAMA, Kiyoko TATEISHI, Akihiro MAEDA, Yoichi KAJIMURA, Yutaka MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11052010
    Abstract: A training device suppresses unintended operation of an operation rod when executing an operation mode in which operation of the operation rod is controlled based on a force applied to the operation rod. The training device includes the operation rod, a motor, a force detector, a rotation information output sensor, a first command calculator, and a force corrector. The operation rod moves a limb. The motor operates the operation rod in a direction of degree of freedom. The force detector detects a force component and outputs a force component signal. The rotation information output sensor detects an operation position of the operation rod in a corresponding direction of degree of freedom. The force corrector calculates a corrected force component value based on operation positions of the operation rod and force component signal. The first command calculator calculates a first motor control command based on the corrected force component value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignees: Murata Machinery, Ltd., Teijin Pharma Limited
    Inventors: Osamu Oshima, Hiroaki Ohmatsu, Fumi Fujita, Akihiro Maeda, Jun Takeda