Patents by Inventor Akira Kitagawa

Akira Kitagawa 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: 10948018
    Abstract: A bearing device for a wheel includes: an outer ring including a leg portion protruding radially on an outer periphery; an inner shaft provided on a shaft end; rolling elements; a sealing device which seals an opening portion on the flange side; and a slinger fixed to the inner shaft and extending axially at a radial outer side of the sealing device. The sealing device includes an elastic lip and a cylindrical cover portion in elastic contact with an outer peripheral surface of the outer ring. The slinger is opposed to at least a part of an outer periphery of the cover portion in a radial direction via a clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20200224716
    Abstract: A bearing device for a wheel includes: an outer ring including a leg portion protruding radially on an outer periphery; an inner shaft provided on a shaft end; rolling elements; a sealing device which seals an opening portion on the flange side; and a slinger fixed to the inner shaft and extending axially at a radial outer side of the sealing device. The sealing device includes an elastic lip and a cylindrical cover portion in elastic contact with an outer peripheral surface of the outer ring. The slinger is opposed to at least a part of an outer periphery of the cover portion in a radial direction via a clearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190353206
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a bearing device includes a first coating process of applying a coating all over an outer ring member solely, a removal process of, after the first coating process, removing part of the coating by machining the outer ring member for forming an outer raceway surface with which rolling elements come into rolling contact, an assembling process of assembling the coated outer ring member, an inner shaft member, the rolling elements, and a cage into an assembly, and a second coating process of applying a coating to a required portion of the inner shaft member in the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20110157233
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display that is adapted to display an image, a first storage device that stores first data in which each of a plurality of reference distances is associated with at least one application of a plurality of applications, a detection device that detects a target distance that is a distance from a user to the display apparatus, a selection device that refers to the first data and selects, from among the plurality of applications, the at least one application associated with one of the plurality of reference distances corresponding to the target distance detected by the detection device, and a display control device that activates the at least one application selected by the selection device and displays the at least one application on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akira Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 7746253
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to reduce offset error voltage in a signal source impedance of analog input signal voltage supplied to an input terminal due to input offset voltage of an operational amplifier in a sampling circuit or a multiplexer coupled to an input terminal of an A/D converter. A semiconductor integrated circuit has an A/D converter and a sampling circuit. The sampling circuit samples an analog input signal in first and second sample modes. The A/D converter converts the sampled analog signal to a digital signal in a conversion mode. By switching of an internal circuit of an operational amplifier between the first and second sample modes, the functions of a non-inverting input terminal (+) and an inverting input terminal (?) realized by first and second input terminals are switched. Synchronously with the switching, supply of an analog signal to the non-inverting input terminal by input switches is also switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Akira Kitagawa, Akihiro Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20090140802
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to reduce offset error voltage in a signal source impedance of analog input signal voltage supplied to an input terminal due to input offset voltage of an operational amplifier in a sampling circuit or a multiplexer coupled to an input terminal of an A/D converter. A semiconductor integrated circuit has an A/D converter and a sampling circuit. The sampling circuit samples an analog input signal in first and second sample modes. The A/D converter converts the sampled analog signal to a digital signal in a conversion mode. By switching of an internal circuit of an operational amplifier between the first and second sample modes, the functions of a non-inverting input terminal (+) and an inverting input terminal (?) realized by first and second input terminals are switched. Synchronously with the switching, supply of an analog signal to the non-inverting input terminal by input switches is also switched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventors: Akira KITAGAWA, Akihiro Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 4965434
    Abstract: (1) a composition for forming a far-infrared-emitting layer, the composition comprising (i) a liquid composition which contains a ceramics-forming material and which is capable of forming a ceramics layer by gelation induced by polymerization and (ii) at least one pigment capable of emitting far-infrared radiation; and(2) a far-infrared heater comprising a heat source, and a protective means which has a far-infrared-emitting layer formed thereon by applying thereto the composition as defined above in (1) to cause gelation of the coating layer by polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Shima Trading Co., Ltd., Parker Kako Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Nomura, Akira Kitagawa, Hidekata Kawanishi, Tsuneo Shibata