Patents by Inventor Akira Kimura

Akira Kimura 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: 20260180267
    Abstract: A coaxial connector has a shell and a nut component. The shell has a flange and a projecting portion projecting rearward from the flange. The projecting portion is formed with an upper passing hole. The nut component has a fixable portion formed with a screw hole, a movable portion formed with a lower passing hole and a coupling portion coupling the fixable portion and the movable portion together. The nut component can be attached to the shell by screwing a screw into the screw hole through the lower passing hole, a passing hole of a board and the upper passing hole. The coupling portion has an upper connection portion and a lower connection portion. The lower connection portion is located forward of the upper connection portion. The center of the screw hole is located forward of the upper connection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2025
    Publication date: June 25, 2026
    Applicant: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Akira KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20260156917
    Abstract: A semiconductor device that is a square in a plan view, the semiconductor device including: a vertical MOS transistor; and a Schottky barrier diode in which the semiconductor layer functions as an anode or a cathode. The semiconductor device further includes: a first pad that is a portion of an upper surface of the semiconductor device; a second pad that is a portion of the upper surface; a third pad that is a portion of the upper surface; and a fourth pad that is a portion of the upper surface, the first pad to the fourth pad being circles each having an equal diameter. In the plan view, centers of the first pad and the third pad are located on one diagonal line of the semiconductor device, and centers of the second pad and the fourth pad are located on an other diagonal line of the semiconductor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2026
    Publication date: June 4, 2026
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAYAMA, Masahide TAGUCHI, Akira KIMURA
  • Patent number: 12606717
    Abstract: An object that is to be achieved by the present invention is to provide an azo pigment having excellent transparency, suitable dispersibility, and a low viscosity, an ink, and the like. An azo pigment according to the present invention has a zeta potential of ?80 to ?30 mV in isopropanol (IPA). The content of a metal element in the azo pigment is preferably 0.05 to 2.00 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the azo pigment. The metal element is preferably an iron element. The ratio (Fe/C) of the concentration Fe (atomic %) of an iron element in the surfaces of particles of the azo pigment to the concentration C (atomic %) of a carbon element in the surfaces of the particles of the azo pigment which are determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is preferably 0.20 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Yamada, Takuya Yoshida, Akira Kimura
  • Publication number: 20260100551
    Abstract: A repairable connector module includes a first receptacle connector and a second receptacle connector. The first and second receptacle connectors are configured to conform to the same shape standard. A mating orientation of the repairable connector module with respect to an enclosure plug connector is switchable between: a first mating orientation in which the second receptacle connector is mated with the enclosure plug connector and the first receptacle connector is configured to mate with an external plug connector; and a second mating orientation in which the first receptacle connector is mated with the enclosure plug connector and the second receptacle connector is configured to mate with the external plug connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2025
    Publication date: April 9, 2026
    Applicant: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Kimura
  • Publication number: 20260077243
    Abstract: Provided is a golf ball including a single-layer core and a cover, wherein the core has a hardness profile in which, letting a Shore C hardness of a core surface be H100, Shore C hardnesses of an 87.5% outer position, a 75% outer position, a 62.5% outer position, a 50% outer position, a 37.5% outer position, a 25% outer position, and a 12.5% outer position of a core radius from a core center be H87.5, H75, H62.5, H50, H37.5, H25, and H12.5, respectively, and a Shore C hardness of the core center be H0, the following two conditions are satisfied: 0 ? ( H 62.5 - H ? 50 ) < ( H ? 100 - H 87.5 ) < ( H 87.5 - H ? 75 ) < ? ( H ? 75 - H 62.5 ) ? 7. , and ( H 87.5 - H ? 50 ) / ( H ? 50 - H 12.5 ) ? 3 . 0 .
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2025
    Publication date: March 19, 2026
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo WATANABE, Akira Kimura, Hirotaka Shinohara, Yuki Mizuno
  • Patent number: 12577420
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pigment composition that is suitable as an IJ ink and has high dispersion stability and excellent storage stability, a coloring agent containing the pigment composition, and, in particular, an IJ ink. The pigment composition of the present invention contains a quinacridone pigment and a compound represented by formula (I) below. In formula (I), n represents an integer of 1 to 8. At least C.I. Pigment Red 122 is preferably contained as the quinacridone pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: DIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Yamada, Yukiko Higuchi, Akira Kimura, Xia Yang, Wei Zhao
  • Patent number: 12567691
    Abstract: A connector includes an inner contact inserted in a recessed portion of a plug contact and composed of a bent wire spring, the inner contact having an elastically displaceable contact portion contacting the plug contact and an elastically displaceable pressing portion, part of a connection object having a flexible conductor exposed on at least one surface thereof being sandwiched between the pressing portion and an inner surface of the recessed portion, the inner surface of the recessed portion and the pressing portion contacting a front surface and a rear surface of the connection object, respectively, the plug contact being electrically connected to the flexible conductor directly when the flexible conductor is exposed on the front surface of the connection object, the plug contact being electrically connected to the flexible conductor via the inner contact when the flexible conductor is exposed on the rear surface of the connection object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Akira Kimura
  • Patent number: 12567689
    Abstract: The connector assembly includes: a sheet type conductive member including a flexible conductor; an electric wire; and a connector, in which the connector includes a first insulator including a first retaining surface and a second insulator including a second retaining surface, the sheet type conductive member includes a first sheet portion including a retained portion disposed on the first retaining surface and a second sheet portion disposed on the second retaining surface, a protrusion portion and the conductor portion of the electric wire are accommodated in a recess portion of the first insulator in a state where the conductor portion of the electric wire is disposed along a surface of the protrusion portion of the second insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Akira Kimura
  • Publication number: 20250392059
    Abstract: A busbar connection body comprises a first busbar, a second busbar, a press mechanism and a regulating member. The first busbar has a first contact portion. The second busbar has a second contact portion. The press mechanism comprises a bolt, a first member and a second member. The first member has a pressing portion and a converting surface. The second member has a force application portion. The regulating member has a receiving portion. The force application portion presses the converting surface at least in a first direction when the bolt is fastened under a state where the second contact portion is positioned between the first contact portion and the receiving portion in an accommodation space. When the force application portion presses the converting surface, the pressing portion presses the first contact portion against the second contact portion in a second direction while the receiving portion receives the second contact portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2025
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Akira KIMURA
  • Patent number: 12506313
    Abstract: A sheet type conductive member includes a tongue portion projecting in a tongue shape in a predetermined plane, a contact arrangement region in which a contact of a connector is arranged being laid out on a front surface of the sheet type conductive member, a first flexible conductor being exposed on the contact arrangement region, a second flexible conductor being exposed on a rear surface of the tongue portion, at least part of the tongue portion being folded back to a front surface side of the sheet type conductive member so that a contact connecting portion composed of part of the first flexible conductor and part of the second flexible conductor is formed in the contact arrangement region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Akira Kimura, Seiya Matsuo, Keisuke Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12489248
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a first connector having a first insulator and a first contact, a second connector having a second insulator and a second contact and fitted to the first connector along a fitting direction, a lever member rotatably held by one of the first insulator and the second insulator, a push member used to press the first contact and the second contact against each other, a first cam mechanism moving the first insulator and the second insulator relatively along the fitting direction in conjunction with rotation of the lever member, and a second cam mechanism moving the push member in conjunction with rotation of the lever member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Akira Kimura
  • Patent number: 12478651
    Abstract: An object of one present invention is to provide a food composition including, as an active ingredient thereof, Lactobacillus mucosae that has a function of improving a gut microbiota. An object of another present invention is to provide an increasing drug for the rate of bifidobacteria in the human intestine and a bifidobacteria proliferation promoting drug, including Lactobacillus mucosae as an active ingredient thereof. The one present invention provides a composition for improving the gut microbiota, including the bacterial cell or a culture of Lactobacillus mucosae as an active ingredient thereof. The other present invention provides an increasing drug for the rate of bifidobacteria in the human intestine and a bifidobacteria proliferation promoting drug, including Lactobacillus mucosae as an active ingredient thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: MEGMILK SNOW BRAND CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Kada, Takuya Tsukahara, Akira Kimura, Nana Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12482964
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a sheet type conductive member having a flexible conductor, an electric wire and a connector, the connector having a first insulator with a first retaining surface and a second insulator with a second retaining surface, the sheet type conductive member having a first sheet portion with a retained portion, a second sheet portion joined to the retained portion via a folding-back line and disposed to face the second retaining surface with the second sheet portion being folded back onto the retained portion along the folding-back line, and at least one electric wire inserting hole penetrating the sheet type conductive member, the conductor portion of the electric wire being passed through the electric wire inserting hole and disposed between the retained portion and the second sheet portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Akira Kimura
  • Publication number: 20250351556
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer divided into a first region, a second region, and a third region that do not overlap each other in a plan view; a first vertical metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor provided in the first region; a second vertical MOS transistor provided in the second region; and a third vertical MOS transistor provided in the third region. First gate wiring of the first vertical MOS transistor and third gate wiring of the third vertical MOS transistor are electrically connected in series via a first diode, with stated order being a forward direction. Second gate wiring of the second vertical MOS transistor and the third gate wiring are electrically connected in series via a second diode, with stated order being a forward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2025
    Publication date: November 13, 2025
    Inventors: Eiji YASUDA, Tadashi SASAKI, Kouki YAMAMOTO, Yusuke ITO, Akira KIMURA
  • Patent number: 12469997
    Abstract: A connector includes a contact retained in a housing selectively in one of a first posture and a second posture inverted 180 degrees around a fitting direction, the contact including a contact portion to be contacted with a contact of a counter connector and a connection portion to be connected to a flexible conductor of a connection object, between a case where the contact is retained in the housing in the first posture and a case where the contact is retained in the housing in the second posture, the contact portion is situated at a same position with respect to the housing and the connection portion is situated at a different position with respect to the housing, the contact being retained in the housing in, of the first posture and the second posture, a posture corresponding to an orientation of a flexible conductor exposed surface of the connection object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2025
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuya Komoto, Akira Kimura, Keisuke Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12444882
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a first connector having a first insulator and a first contact, a second connector having a second insulator and a second contact and being fitted to the first connector along a fitting direction; a lever member held by one of the first insulator and the second insulator in a rotatable manner about a rotational axis, a rotational shaft member extending along the rotational axis and rotating in accordance with rotation of the lever member, the rotational shaft member having a cam surface for pressing the first contact and the second contact against each other, and a cam mechanism moving the first insulator and the second insulator relatively along the fitting direction in conjunction with rotation of the lever member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2025
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Akira Kimura
  • Publication number: 20250313700
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pigment composition capable of exhibiting good dispersibility and dispersion stability of a pigment in a polyurethane ink or the like, and a colorant and a liquid ink containing the pigment composition. Specifically, the pigment composition of the present invention contains at least one organic pigment selected from the group consisting of benzimidazolone azo pigments and quinacridone pigments, and at least one polycarboxylic acid compound represented by the following Formulae (I) to (II). (The descriptions in Formula (I), Formula (II), and Formula (II) are as described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: October 9, 2025
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Shougo Yamada, Takuya Yoshida, Akira Kimura
  • Patent number: 12370413
    Abstract: In a golf ball for professional golfers and skilled amateurs which has a single-layer core, a cover and at least one intermediate layer therebetween, the intermediate layer has a specific gravity of at least 1.05, the sphere the sphere obtained by encasing the core with the intermediate layer (intermediate layer-encased sphere) and the ball have a surface hardness relationship which satisfies the condition: (surface hardness of intermediate layer-encased sphere)>(surface hardness of ball). The core has a diameter of from 35.5 to 39.5 mm and a distinctive hardness profile that satisfies specific conditions. The ball is endowed with both an excellent flight performance and excellent durability to repeated impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Watanabe, Akira Kimura
  • Publication number: 20250239822
    Abstract: An internal lower surface of a substrate receiving portion has a first surface, a second surface, and a step between the first and the second surfaces. A ground terminal has a first spring portion, an upper contact point, a second spring portion and a lower contact point. When a ground member is attached to a shell, the upper contact point and the lower contact point are in the substrate receiving portion. Upon attaching the ground member to the shell after insertion of a substrate into the substrate receiving portion, the lower contact point is moved from on the first surface to on the second surface, and thereby moving the upper contact point upward to be brought into contact with a ground layer of the substrate and pushing the substrate upward to bring a signal line of the substrate into contact with a rear contact portion of a signal contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Akira KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20250210889
    Abstract: A connector includes a nut, a disc spring, a first terminal, and a second terminal. The disc spring is mounted on a flange part by inserting a nut part from an end into a first hole part. The first terminal is mounted on the disc spring by inserting the nut part from the end into a second hole part. The second terminal includes a third hole part having a hole shape smaller than an outer shape of the nut part and larger than a threaded hole shape of the nut and is mounted on the first terminal with the third hole part opposite to the second hole part. The connector is configured to provide a gap between the end and the second terminal, when the second terminal is mounted on the first terminal before the nut part is engaged with a threaded part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2024
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Akira KIMURA