Patents by Inventor Akira Kasahara
Akira Kasahara 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: 20180187435Abstract: A binding machine includes a feeding unit configured to feed a wire and pull back the wire after winding the wire around an object to be bound, a binding unit configured to grip and twist the wire wound around the object with the feeding unit, a motor configured to rotatively drive the feeding unit, and a binding machine main body configured to accommodate therein the binding unit and the motor. The motor is arranged such that at least a part of the motor overlaps the binding unit, as seen from a side of the binding machine main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2017Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Osamu ITAGAKI, Akira KASAHARA
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Publication number: 20180170708Abstract: The reel which can mount substantial amounts of information for identifying the type of a wire wound thereon without increasing the hub size. The reel includes a hub that includes a winding part, a pair of flanges that face each other with the winding part interposed therebetween, first information display portions that are disposed on a first circumference about a shaft center of the hub of at least a surface of the flange, and a second information display portion that is disposed on a second circumference having a smaller diameter than that of the first circumference. The second information display portion is disposed in a region surrounded, in a circumferential direction, by both inner ends of the adjacent first information display portions and the shaft center of the hub.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.Inventor: Akira KASAHARA
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Publication number: 20180161848Abstract: A reinforcing bar binding machine includes a magazine in which two wires are housed in a drawable manner; a curl guide unit that winds the juxtaposed wires around the reinforcing bars and a wire feeding unit that winds the wires around the reinforcing bars with the curl guide unit in an operation of juxtaposing and feeding the wires so that the wires are wound around the reinforcing bars. In addition, the binding machine includes a binding unit that twists crossing portions of one end side and the other end side of each of the wires wound around the reinforcing bars. The binding unit further includes a bending portion that bends the one end side and the other end side of each of the wires, which are wound around the reinforcing bars, toward the reinforcing bars.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2016Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Osamu ITAGAKI, Akira KASAHARA, Takahiro NAGAOKA
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Publication number: 20180155183Abstract: Low friction coating of the present invention includes a boron-doped zinc oxide thin film, wherein piezoelectric polarization in a vertical direction perpendicular to a film surface and a lateral direction horizontal to the film surface occurs and a magnitude of the piezoelectric polarization in the vertical direction is within 150 pm and a magnitude of the piezoelectric polarization in the lateral direction is within 100 pm at 90% or more of measurement points. This makes it possible to greatly decrease the friction in a nanometer order.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2016Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Michiko SASAKI, Masahiro GOTO, Akira KASAHARA, Masahiro TOSA
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Publication number: 20180155940Abstract: A reinforcing bar binding machine includes a first movable gripping member that is displaced in a direction to come in contact with and separate from one side of a fixed gripping member. A second movable gripping member is displaced in a direction to come in contact with and separate from the other side of the fixed gripping member; and a bending portion brings the first movable gripping member and the second movable gripping member into and out of contact with the fixed gripping member. The fixed gripping member includes a shaft that rotatably supports the first movable gripping member and the second movable gripping member. In addition, the bending portion includes an opening and closing pin that pushes an opening and closing guide hole provided in the first movable gripping member and an opening and closing guide hole provided in the second movable gripping member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2016Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro NAGAOKA, Akira KASAHARA
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Patent number: 9957371Abstract: Provided is a polymer nanowire which contains nanoparticles so as to have new functionalities. A thin film is formed on a substrate and includes functional nanoparticles and polymers, and further includes a photosensitive pigment as required. The thin film is irradiated with a pulsed laser. This causes a polymer nanowire containing the functional nanoparticles to grow from a surface of the thin film.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2012Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Michiko Sasaki, Masahiro Goto, Akira Kasahara, Toyohiro Chikyo, Masahiro Tosa
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Patent number: 9556628Abstract: A reinforcing bar binding machine is provided with a cutting die having a wire through hole which penetrates through the die along a direction in which a wire is fed out, a blade portion adapted to move along an open plane of an opening at one end of the wire through hole to cut a terminating end portion of the wire which has passed through the wire through hole and an engagement portion adapted to be brought into engagement with a portion of the wire which lies in the vicinity of the terminating end portion thereof when the blade portion is rotated so as to bend to hold the portion lying in the vicinity of the terminating end portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Ichiro Kusakari, Akira Kasahara
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Patent number: 9453352Abstract: A reinforcing bar binding machine is provided with a device for detecting a power supply voltage during a binding wire twisting step subjected to the heaviest load and comparing the power supply voltage with a predetermined CPU operation voltage, and a control device for driving a motor in a reverse direction when the voltage has dropped below the predetermined CPU operation voltage. The power supply voltage during operation is monitored, and twisting operation is suspended before the voltage drops below the CPU operation voltage, whereby the binding wire twisting mechanism is returned to the initial position. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the binding wire twisting mechanism from being stopped while grasping the binding wire, when the CPU stops.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Kasahara, Atsushi Matsuoka
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Patent number: 9447286Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a ZnO coating having low friction not only in a vacuum but in a liquid such as oil. [Solution] The low-friction ZnO coating, comprising (002) and (103) planes, and further comprising (100), (101), (102), and (104) planes in lower proportions than those of the (002) and (103) planes, has been prepared by sputtering using a zinc target in a sputter gas environment, wherein the sputter gas comprises an inert gas and oxygen gas, and the oxygen gas ratio is controlled. This coating has a specifically good low friction coefficient due to the piezoelectric effect, and this friction reduction mechanism is maintained even in oil such as n-hexadecane. Thus, this coating has been found to have excellent low-friction properties.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Masahiro Goto, Akira Kasahara, Masahiro Tosa
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Publication number: 20160222683Abstract: A reinforcing bar binding machine is provided with a cutting die having a wire through hole which penetrates through the die along a direction in which a wire is fed out a blade portion adapted to move along an open plane of an opening at one end of the wire through hole to cut a terminating end portion of the wire which has passed through the wire through hole and an engagement portion adapted to be brought into engagement with a portion of the wire which lies in the vicinity of the terminating end portion thereof when the blade portion is rotated so as to bend to hold the portion lying in the vicinity of the terminating end portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Inventors: Ichiro KUSAKARI, Akira KASAHARA
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Publication number: 20150267423Abstract: A reinforcing bar binding machine is provided with a cutting die having a wire through hole which penetrates through the die along a direction in which a wire is fed out, a blade portion adapted to move along an open plane of an opening at one end of the wire through hole to cut a terminating end portion of the wire which has passed through the wire through hole and an engagement portion adapted to be brought into engagement with a portion of the wire which lies in the vicinity of the terminating end portion thereof when the blade portion is rotated so as to bend to hold the portion lying in the vicinity of the terminating end portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Inventors: Ichiro KUSAKARI, Akira KASAHARA
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Publication number: 20150176295Abstract: A reinforcing bar binding machine is provided with a device for detecting a power supply voltage during a binding wire twisting step subjected to the heaviest load and comparing the power supply voltage with a predetermined CPU operation voltage, and a control device for driving a motor in a reverse direction when the voltage has dropped below the predetermined CPU operation voltage. The power supply voltage during operation is monitored, and twisting operation is suspended before the voltage drops below the CPU operation voltage, whereby the binding wire twisting mechanism is returned to the initial position. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the binding wire twisting mechanism from being stopped while grasping the binding wire, when the CPU stops.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2015Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventors: Akira KASAHARA, Atsushi MATSUOKA
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Publication number: 20150104662Abstract: Provided is a polymer nanowire which contains nanoparticles so as to have new functionalities. A thin film 103 is formed on a substrate 101 and includes functional nanoparticles and polymers, and further includes a photosensitive pigment as required. The thin film 103 is irradiated with a pulsed laser. This causes a polymer nanowire 109 containing the functional nanoparticles to grow from a surface of the thin film 103.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2012Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Michiko Sasaki, Masahiro Goto, Akira Kasahara, Toyohiro Chikyo, Masahiro Tosa
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Patent number: 9004114Abstract: A reinforcing bar binding machine is provided with a device for detecting a power supply voltage during a binding wire twisting step subjected to the heaviest load and comparing the power supply voltage with a predetermined CPU operation voltage, and a control device for driving a motor in a reverse direction when the voltage has dropped below the predetermined CPU operation voltage. The power supply voltage during operation is monitored, and twisting operation is suspended before the voltage drops below the CPU operation voltage, whereby the binding wire twisting mechanism is returned to the initial position. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the binding wire twisting mechanism from being stopped while grasping the binding wire, when the CPU stops.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2006Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Kasahara, Atsushi Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20140246114Abstract: A reinforcing bar binding machine is provided with a cutting die having a wire through hole which penetrates through the die along a direction in which a wire is fed out, a blade portion adapted to move along an open plane of an opening at one end of the wire through hole to cut a terminating end portion of the wire which has passed through the wire through hole and an engagement portion adapted to be brought into engagement with a portion of the wire which lies in the vicinity of the terminating end portion thereof when the blade portion is rotated so as to bend to hold the portion lying in the vicinity of the terminating end portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Ichiro KUSAKARI, Akira KASAHARA
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Patent number: 8752593Abstract: A reinforcing bar binding machine is provided with a cutting die having a wire through hole which penetrates through the die along a direction in which a wire is fed out, a blade portion adapted to move along an open plane of an opening at one end of the wire through hole to cut a terminating end portion of the wire which has passed through the wire through hole and an engagement portion adapted to be brought into engagement with a portion of the wire which lies in the vicinity of the terminating end portion thereof when the blade portion is rotated so as to bend to hold the portion lying in the vicinity of the terminating end portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2009Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Kusakari, Akira Kasahara
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Patent number: 8636038Abstract: An operation method of a reinforcing bar binding machine includes an initializing operation. During the initializing operation, a cutter of a wire cutting mechanism shuts off a wire passageway, a wire is fed by a wire feed mechanism while the wire passageway remains shut off, and the wire feed mechanism is stopped when a leading end of the wire butts against the cutter.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Kusakari, Takahiro Nagaoaka, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Akira Kasahara
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Publication number: 20120024986Abstract: The present invention relates to a hand-held type harmful insect exterminator. The present invention comprises a tube having its extremity end formed at a suction port and its rear end formed at an outlet and a handle for supporting the tube, and tube having a suction machine. A storing part for insects sucked at the suction port is removably arranged at the extremity end of a feeding passage communicated with the tube. The present invention is comprises a filter-like lid. This lid is used for closing an inlet of the feeding passage communicated with the tube and when the switch is turned on, open the inlet of the feeding passage and for closing an air flow passage within the tube to prevent the insects to flowing to the outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: HINOX SHOJI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Shouji, Akira Kasahara, Michimasa Kawaragi
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Patent number: 8033303Abstract: Two guide pins 11 and 12 formed upright in a guide plate 7 are received in guide pin fitting holes 13 and 14 formed in a guide member 8. Fixed screws 23a and 23b are screw-connected to the guide pins 11 and 12. One guide pin 12 is fitted to the corresponding guide pin fitting hole 14 with a play. Screw holes 20 and 21 are formed through the inner surface of the guide pin fitting hole 14 and the outer surface of the guide member 8. An angle of the guide member 8 with respect to the guide plate 7 is adjusted by allowing front ends of embedded screws 22a and 22b respectively screw-inserted in the screw holes 20 and 21 to respectively engage with a peripheral surface of the guide pin 12.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2007Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Kusakari, Takahiro Nagaoka, Osamu Itagaki, Akira Kasahara
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Publication number: 20110146833Abstract: An operation method of a reinforcing bar binding machine includes an initializing operation. During the initializing operation, a cutter of a wire cutting mechanism shuts off a wire passageway, a wire is fed by a wire feed mechanism while the wire passageway remains shut off, and the wire feed mechanism is stopped when a leading end of the wire butts against the cutter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Ichiro Kusakari, Takahiro Nagaoka, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Akira Kasahara