Patents by Inventor Akio Shoji
Akio Shoji 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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Patent number: 11492121Abstract: An aircraft projection device includes a projector that displays an image by projecting the image onto a floor surface of a passage in an interior of an aircraft; and a controller that controls the projector to display the image onto the floor surface of the passage in the interior of the aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeo Sawada, Akio Shoji
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Patent number: 11396381Abstract: An aircraft lamp includes a variable lamp unit in which an irradiation direction of light by a light source changes; a behavior detection unit that detects behavior of an airframe; and a controller that controls the irradiation direction of the light by the variable lamp unit based on a detection result of the behavior of the airframe.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeo Sawada, Akio Shoji, Mikio Urushibata
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Publication number: 20210394925Abstract: An aircraft lamp includes a variable lamp unit in which an irradiation direction of light by a light source changes; a behavior detection unit that detects behavior of an airframe; and a controller that controls the irradiation direction of the light by the variable lamp unit based on a detection result of the behavior of the airframe.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Shigeo SAWADA, Akio SHOJI, Mikio URUSHIBATA
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Patent number: 10935207Abstract: An aircraft lamp includes: a lamp outer case constituted by a lamp housing having an opening and a cover mounted to the lamp housing in a state where the opening is closed, an internal space being formed in the lamp outer case as an arrangement space; a light source including a light emitting diode and arranged on an arrangement surface inclined with respect to a predetermined surface to be irradiated in the arrangement space; and an inner lens arranged in the arrangement space and including a control lens configured to control an irradiation direction of light emitted from the light source. The control lens is formed in a shape having a longitudinal direction and a width direction, and the longitudinal direction and the width direction of the control lens are rotated in a direction around a light source optical axis with respect to a vertical direction and a left-right direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoyuki Mukai, Akio Shoji
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Publication number: 20200232619Abstract: An aircraft lamp includes: a lamp outer case constituted by a lamp housing having an opening and a cover mounted to the lamp housing in a state where the opening is closed, an internal space being formed in the lamp outer case as an arrangement space; a light source including a light emitting diode and arranged on an arrangement surface inclined with respect to a predetermined surface to be irradiated in the arrangement space; and an inner lens arranged in the arrangement space and including a control lens configured to control an irradiation direction of light emitted from the light source. The control lens is formed in a shape having a longitudinal direction and a width direction, and the longitudinal direction and the width direction of the control lens are rotated in a direction around a light source optical axis with respect to a vertical direction and a left-right direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Tomoyuki Mukai, Akio Shoji
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Publication number: 20200231284Abstract: An aircraft projection device includes a projector that displays an image by projecting the image onto a floor surface of a passage in an interior of an aircraft; and a controller that controls the projector to display the image onto the floor surface of the passage in the interior of the aircraft.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Shigeo Sawada, Akio Shoji
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Patent number: 5948866Abstract: A powder paint composition and application method therefor are provided which can form a paint coating which has superior mar resistance and for which the external appearance, such as its smoothness and sharpness, is excellent.This paint powder composition comprises a multi-functional vinyl-type copolymer (A) which has a glass transition temperature of 40.degree. C. and which contains functional groups which are reactable with carboxylic acid; a polycarboxylic acid (B); and a multi-functional vinyl-type copolymer (C) which has a glass transition temperature of 0.degree. C. and which contains functional groups which are reactable with carboxylic acid.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1997Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Hirofumi Takeda, Ikuo Nakaya, Michiya Sugiyama, Akio Shoji
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Patent number: 5214080Abstract: A process for the production of a nonaqueous dispersion-type resin having excellent dispersion stability and a uniform particle size, which comprises uniformly polymerizing in an aliphatic and/or alicyclic hydrocarbon-type organic solvent a vinyl monomer having a solubility parameter different by 1.1 or more from that of said organic solvent, or a vinyl monomer mixture containing at least 1% by weight of said monomer and a reactive resin soluble in said hydrocarbon-type organic solvent and having a molecular weight of 2,000 or more, and then replacing the organic solvent in the obtained uniform polymer solution with another organic solvent that does not dissolve the nonaqueous dispersion-type resin to thereby conduct phase inversion into a non-aqueous dispersion.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1991Date of Patent: May 25, 1993Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Goro Iwamura, Hidetoshi Konno, Akio Shoji
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Patent number: 5055514Abstract: A paint resin composition which does not appreciably attack an old coated film or a substrate to be coated, said composition consisting essentially of(A) a copolymer having a glass transition point of from -30.degree. C. to +50.degree. C., a number average molecular weight of from 4,000 to 20,000 and a weight average molecular weight/number average molecular weight ratio of from 1.8 to 10 and obtained by copolymerizing (a-1) 1 to 50% by weight of a vinyl monomer having a hydroxyl group, (a-2) 0 to 5% by weight of a vinyl monomer having a carboxyl group, (a-3) 0 to 80% by weight of a polyester resin having a copolymerizable unsaturated bond, (a-4) 10 to 80% by weight of a vinyl monomer having a side-chain alkyl group with 4 to 8 carbon atoms, and (a-5) 4 to 49% by weight of another vinyl monomer copolymerizable with the monomers (a-1) to (a-4), the total proportion of these monomers being 100% by weight, in the presence of a radical initiator in a nonpolar organic solvent having an aniline point of 7.degree.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1990Date of Patent: October 8, 1991Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Hajime Kumada, Akio Shoji
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Patent number: 5047467Abstract: A process for producing a grafted alkyd resin, which comprises graft-copolymerizing an alkyd resin with 0.01 to 5.0% by weight of at least one vinyl monomer selected from the group consisting of nitrogen-containing vinyl monomers and phosphorus-containing vinyl monomers.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1989Date of Patent: September 10, 1991Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Masahide Amemoto, Hikaru Watanabe, Akio Shoji
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Patent number: 5019623Abstract: A process for producing a grafted alkyd resin, which comprises graft-copolymerizing an alkyd resin with 0.01 to 5.0% by weight of at least one vinyl monomer selected from the group consisting of nitrogen-containing vinyl monomers and phosphorus-containing vinyl monomers.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 1989Date of Patent: May 28, 1991Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Mashide Amemoto, Hikaru Watanabe, Akio Shoji
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Patent number: 4499239Abstract: A resin composition for powder coating, said composition consisting essentially of(A) 60 to 97% by weight of a polyester resin having an acid value of 15 to 200 mgKOH/g and a softening point of 80.degree. to 150.degree. C., and(B) 3 to 40% by weight of a glycidyl-containing acrylic polymer unmodified or modified with a monobasic acid.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1981Date of Patent: February 12, 1985Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Yoichi Murakami, Akio Shoji, Shoichiro Takezawa, Noboru Ishikawa, Toshiaki Morita
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Patent number: 4321335Abstract: A powder coating resin composition comprising (A) a phosphorus-containing vinyl polymer containing a curable functional group and having a softening point, determined by the ring and ball method, of 70.degree. to 150.degree. C. and a number average molecular weight of 1500 to 30000, and (B) a curing agent.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1980Date of Patent: March 23, 1982Assignee: Dainippon Ink & Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Shunji Arimoto, Akio Shoji, Shoichiro Takezawa, Noboru Ishikawa, Hirofumi Takeda
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Patent number: 4130601Abstract: A resin composition for powder paints, said composition comprising (I) 70 to 97% by weight of a polyester resin containing free carboxyl groups in the molecule and having an acid value of 20 to 100 KOH mg/g and a softening point of 70.degree. to 150.degree. C and (II) 3 to 30% by weight of glycidyl p-glycidyloxybenzoate.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1978Date of Patent: December 19, 1978Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Masataka Ohoka, Mitsuko Yamada, Akio Shoji, Shunji Arimoto
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Patent number: 4051194Abstract: A thermosetting resin composition for powder paints, which comprisesI. a polymer having a softening point, as measured by a ring-and-ball method, of 80.degree. to 150.degree. C. and a number average molecular weight of 3,000 to 15,000 and derived from (1) 10 to 40% by weight of .beta.-methylglycidyl (meth)acrylate or a mixture of it with glycidyl (meth)acrylate, (2) 20 to 80% by weight of styrene, (3) 3 to 40% by weight of a dialkyl ester of an aliphatic unsaturated dibasic acid and (4) 0 to 30% by weight of an alkyl (meth)acrylate, andIi. an aliphatic saturated dibasic acid.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1975Date of Patent: September 27, 1977Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Noboru Ishikawa, Hidehisa Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Maruyama, Akio Shoji
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Patent number: 3989767Abstract: A powder coating resin composition comprising (A) 10 to 90% by weight of a glycidyl- or methyl glycidyl-containing copolymer and (B) 90 to 10% by weight of a polycarboxylic compound, said copolymer (A) being prepared by polymerizing (1) 5 to 40% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer selected from the group consisting of glycidyl-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomers and methyl glycidyl-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomers and (2) 20 to 90% by weight of at least one other ethylenically unsaturated monomer in the presence of (3) 5 to 40% by weight of a polyester resin containing an ethylenically unsaturated bond and having an acid number of not more than 10 KOH mg/g and a hydroxyl number of 20 to 300 KOH mg/g, said polyester resin being derived from 0.1-10 equivalent percent of an ethylenically unsaturated polycarboxylic acid, 30 to 49.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1975Date of Patent: November 2, 1976Assignee: Dainippon Ink & Chemicals, IncorporatedInventors: Minoru Homma, Akio Shoji, Hidehisa Nakamura