Patents by Inventor Akira Kitajima
Akira Kitajima 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: 9352645Abstract: The in-wheel motor for installation inside a wheel disk of a wheel includes: a cylindrical coil body; a coil body support member fixed to a shaft; an outer yoke that is disposed on an outer circumferential side of the coil body, and is fixed to a wheel disk; a cylindrical inner yoke that is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the coil body, and is rotatable around the shaft; and a magnet that is fixed on one of an inner circumferential face of the outer yoke and an outer circumferential face of the inner yoke, the magnet disposed to face a circumferential face of the coil body.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: M-Link Co., Ltd.Inventors: Manabu Shiraki, Akira Kitajima
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Patent number: 9267591Abstract: Among first and second stators of a torque converter supported on a fixed part by a one-way clutch corresponding to the stators, the number of second stator blades of the second stator on the downstream side in the direction of flow of oils larger than the number of first blades of the first stator on the upstream side, and the maximum value t2 for blade thickness of the second stator blade is smaller than the minimum value t1 for blade thickness of the first stator blade. Therefore, it is possible to ensure that there is a sufficient gap (?) between a trailing edge of the first stator blade and a leading of the second stator blade, thus preventing the flow of oil from being stopped by the gap (?), and it is possible to align effectively the flow of oil by means of the second stator blades.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., YUTAKA GIKEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoya Okaji, Hiroya Abe, Yoshitaka Mishima, Tomohiko Usui, Akira Kitajima, Tomohiko Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20150367721Abstract: The in-wheel motor for installation inside a wheel disk of a wheel includes: a cylindrical coil body; a coil body support member fixed to a shaft; an outer yoke that is disposed on an outer circumferential side of the coil body, and is fixed to a wheel disk; a cylindrical inner yoke that is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the coil body, and is rotatable around the shaft; and a magnet that is fixed on one of an inner circumferential face of the outer yoke and an outer circumferential face of the inner yoke, the magnet disposed to face a circumferential face of the coil body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Manabu SHIRAKI, Akira KITAJIMA
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Patent number: 9150093Abstract: The in-wheel motor for installation inside a wheel disk of a wheel includes: a cylindrical coil body; a coil body support member fixed to a shaft; an outer yoke that is disposed on an outer circumferential side of the coil body, and is fixed to a wheel disk; a cylindrical inner yoke that is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the coil body, and is rotatable around the shaft; and a magnet that is fixed on one of an inner circumferential face of the outer yoke and an outer circumferential face of the inner yoke, the magnet disposed to face a circumferential face of the coil body.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2014Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: M-Link Co., Ltd.Inventors: Manabu Shiraki, Akira Kitajima
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Publication number: 20140368092Abstract: The in-wheel motor for installation inside a wheel disk of a wheel includes: a cylindrical coil body; a coil body support member fixed to a shaft; an outer yoke that is disposed on an outer circumferential side of the coil body, and is fixed to a wheel disk; a cylindrical inner yoke that is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the coil body, and is rotatable around the shaft; and a magnet that is fixed on one of an inner circumferential face of the outer yoke and an outer circumferential face of the inner yoke, the magnet disposed to face a circumferential face of the coil body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Manabu SHIRAKI, Akira KITAJIMA
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Patent number: 8820448Abstract: The in-wheel motor of the present invention includes: a cylindrical coil body; a coil body support member fixed to a shaft; an outer yoke that is disposed on an outer circumferential side of the coil body, and is fixed to a wheel disk; a magnet fixed on an inner circumferential face of the outer yoke; an inner yoke that is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the coil body, and is disposed to face the coil body. The outer yoke and the inner yoke are fixed, and are rotatable around the shaft; and a caliper is provided on an inner circumferential side of the inner yoke.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: M-Link Co., Ltd.Inventors: Manabu Shiraki, Akira Kitajima
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Publication number: 20140123637Abstract: Among first and second stators of a torque converter supported on a fixed part by a one-way clutch corresponding to the stators, the number of second stator blades of the second stator on the downstream side in the direction of flow of oil is larger than the number of first blades of the first stator on the upstream side, and the maximum value t2 for blade thickness of the second stator blade is smaller than the minimum value t1 for blade thickness of the first stator blade. Therefore, it is possible to ensure that there is a sufficient gap (?) between a trailing edge of the first stator blade and a leading edge of the second stator blade, thus preventing the flow of oil from being stopped by the gap (?), and it is possible to align effectively the flow of oil by means of the second stator blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicants: YUTAKA GIKEN CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoya Okaji, Hiroya Abe, Yoshitaka Mishima, Tomohiko Usui, Akira Kitajima, Tomohiko Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20120001521Abstract: The in-wheel motor of the present invention includes: a cylindrical coil body; a coil body support member fixed to a shaft; an outer yoke that is disposed on an outer circumferential side of the coil body, and is fixed to a wheel disk; a magnet fixed on an inner circumferential face of the outer yoke; an inner yoke that is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the coil body, and is disposed to face the coil body. The outer yoke and the inner yoke are fixed, and are rotatable around the shaft; and a caliper is provided on an inner circumferential side of the inner yoke.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: Shicoh, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Manabu SHIRAKI, Akira KITAJIMA
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Publication number: 20110079586Abstract: A method for manufacturing a coreless armature, which can prevent a short circuit of adjacent terminal layers when resistance-welding the terminal layers, is provided. In a method for manufacturing a coreless armature, terminals 5 of the conducting bands 3 provided to each coil base 1 are stacked to form a terminal layer 23, a welding rod 21 is pressed against a terminal positioned on an outermost periphery so as to interpose the terminal layer 23 between coil jigs 9a and 9b and the welding rod 21, and an electric current is applied thereto, thereby connecting each terminal 5 of the terminal layer 23 by way of resistance welding, in which an insulating material 25 is arranged between terminal layers 23 adjacent in a circumferential direction to resistance-weld the terminal layers 23.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2010Publication date: April 7, 2011Applicant: SHICOH CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiichi Kubota, Akira Kitajima, Tatsumune Miyazaki, Takashi Furuhata
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Patent number: 7284645Abstract: In a fluid transmission device, a male fitting surface of a periphery of a diameter-expanded portion of a pump shell is fitted to a female fitting surface of an inner circumference of a peripheral wall portion of a cylindrical transmission cover, and a fillet weld being is formed between an end surface of the peripheral wall portion and a peripheral surface of the diameter-expanded portion along an entire circumference, thereby connecting together the pump shell and the transmission cover. An annular recess is formed in an inner circumferential surface of the peripheral wall portion to adjoin the female fitting surface on the side opposite from the fillet weld. A portion of the transmission cover corresponding to the recess constitutes an annular thin-walled portion which has a thickness smaller than the portions of the transmission cover along the opposite sides of the annular thin wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2005Date of Patent: October 23, 2007Assignee: Yutaka Giken Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Tokuji Yoshimoto, Akira Kitajima
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Publication number: 20060000682Abstract: In a fluid transmission device, a male fitting surface of a periphery of a diameter-expanded portion of a pump shell is fitted to a female fitting surface of an inner circumference of a peripheral wall portion of a cylindrical transmission cover, and a fillet weld being is formed between an end surface of the peripheral wall portion and a peripheral surface of the diameter-expanded portion along an entire circumference, thereby connecting together the pump shell and the transmission cover. An annular recess is formed in an inner circumferential surface of the peripheral wall portion to adjoin the female fitting surface on the side opposite from the fillet weld. A portion of the transmission cover corresponding to the recess constitutes an annular thin-walled portion which has a thickness smaller than the portions of the transmission cover along the opposite sides of the annular thin wall portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2005Publication date: January 5, 2006Inventors: Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Tokuji Yoshimoto, Akira Kitajima
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Publication number: 20010042143Abstract: A memory access system includes a memory, a processor unit, and a memory interface unit. The processor unit includes an operation-request generating unit and an operation-request sending unit. The operation-request generating unit generates an operation request for an operation which is to be performed on the data stored in the memory, and the operation-request sending unit sends the operation request to a memory interface unit. The memory interface unit includes an operation-request storing unit, an operation performing unit, and an operation-result sending unit. The operation-request storing unit receives and stores the operation request. The operation performing unit operates independently of the processor unit so as to access the memory based on the operation request, and perform the operation on the data. The operation-result sending unit sends a result of the operation to the processor unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2001Publication date: November 15, 2001Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Yasuhiro Ooba, Masami Yamazaki, Takeshi Toyoyama, Masaharu Imai, Yoshinori Takeuchi, Akira Kitajima
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Patent number: 5332432Abstract: Disclosed is an inorganic adhesive composition comprising (a) an aqueous silica sol and (b) an inorganic refractory powder along with one or more materials selected from (c) a fine powdery silica, (d) an aqueous alkali silicate solution and (e) a silane coupling agent. After hardening, the hardened product of the composition displays noticeably improved adhesion strength and electric insulating property.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1993Date of Patent: July 26, 1994Assignee: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Ken-ichi Okubi, Akira Kitajima, Hisayuki Sato, Kiyomi Ema
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Patent number: 4884222Abstract: A fire alarm system of the present invention is adapted to compute an approximation equation based on the detection data from a detector or detectors such about a smoke density, a temperature, a gas concentration, etc. and predictively determine a fire based on the approximation equation. The system including computing section for computing an approximation equation approximating a change in the physical phenomenon related to the occurrence of a fire which is output from the detector or detectors, sequentially sampled and stored and for computing a future value of the phenomenon estimated from the approximation by using a predetermined number of the data stored in a storing section. The future vale is compared with a data value preliminarily set in association with the fire alarming and an alarm is generated when the relation therebetween is not within a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1985Date of Patent: November 28, 1989Inventors: Tetsuya Nagashima, Eiji Matsushita, Sadataka Yuchi, Akira Kitajima
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Patent number: 4819733Abstract: This invention relates to an automatic fire extinguishing equipment adapted to direct a nozzle towards the position of a flame starting within a supervising zone so as to discharge a fire extinguishing liquid to extinguish the flame, which equipment comprises a flame detecting apparatus including a detecting element for detecting a flame and device for scanning and driving the detecting element in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, for searching the supervising zone and outputting data concerning the flames; a storage section for storing the detection data from the flame detecting apparatus; a fire extinguishment controlling section which decides the sizes of the distributed flames on the basis of the storage data from said storage section; a nozzle assembly including the nozzle and device for controlling the direction of the nozzle in response to a control from the fire extinguishment controlling section.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 1986Date of Patent: April 11, 1989Assignee: Hochiki Corp.Inventors: Yoshio Aria, Kouji Akiba, Akira Kitajima
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Patent number: 4800285Abstract: A flame detecting apparatus and a flame detecting method which utilizes a flame detector having a directivity and provided with a photodetector such as a photodiode or a phototransistor which produces a photo-output in response to the intensity of light incident thereupon. The flame detector is scanned sequentially in the horizontal and the vertical direction within a supervisory region. When a photo-output from said flame detector obtained in the horizontal or vertical scanning by said scanning means exceeds a predetermined threshold value, one of the horizontal and the vertical scanning is suspended, while repeating the other, vertical or horizontal, scanning at the same horizontal or vertical position several times. Flame determination is made when the changes in the photo-outputs, which is obtained through the repeated scanning, exceed a predetermined value and they last over a predetermined scanning angle.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1987Date of Patent: January 24, 1989Assignee: Hochiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kouji Akiba, Akira Kitajima, Yoshio Arai
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Patent number: 4796018Abstract: An exit guiding system comprising detectors of changes in ambient condition due to a fire, a guiding device positioned near each fire exit or exit access, instruction means controlling operation or non-operation of each guiding device based upon signal levels from said detectors, operation of each guiding device being initiated when any detector outputs a signal indicating a dangerous condition, operation of individual guiding devices being suspended when ambient conditions local to said guiding device are dangerous, except the guiding device continuing operation when local conditions inside a door are dangerous but local conditions outside the same door are acceptable.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1987Date of Patent: January 3, 1989Assignee: Hockiki Corp.Inventors: Tsutomu Nakanishi, Akira Kitajima, Yoshiaki Fuwa, Yasaburo Adachi
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Patent number: 4769075Abstract: A binder for manufacture of a precision casting mold comprising a transparent solution containing an alkyl orthosilicate or an alkyl polysilicate having a polymerization degree of 2 to 10, and an amino-alkoxide of a metal selected from a group consisting of titanium, zirconium, tin and aluminum or a mixture thereof in the mol ratio (Si/N) of 0.01 to 1.0 calculated in terms of the silicon atom contained in the silicate and the basic nitrogen atom contained in the amino-alkoxide. This binder is excellent in preservation stability and workability and does not dissolve the surface of a water-soluble pattern.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1987Date of Patent: September 6, 1988Assignees: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshitane Watanabe, Akira Kitajima, Keiko Tasaki, Yoshiro Hayashi, Isamu Yuuki
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Patent number: 4769076Abstract: Binders for manufacture of precision casting molds are provided, which are highly stable and are advantageous in that these may impart a high strength to the green molds as obtained by forming an accumulative refractory coat layer on a water-soluble pattern and then taking off the pattern from the coat layer, that no interlayer cleavage occurs in the accumulative coat layer when the pattern is taken off in the formation of the green mold, that the binders may impart a high strength to fired molds, that the castings as obtained by the use of the present fired molds are free from the surface roughness and other surface faults and that the dimension accuracy of the castings is not deteriorated at all by the use of the present binders.The binders of the present invention are characterized by containing the following components (a), (b) and (c) and optionally (d):(a) an organo-silicasol capable of providing 5-50 parts by weight of SiO.sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1986Date of Patent: September 6, 1988Assignees: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshitane Watanabe, Akira Kitajima, Keiko Tasaki, Isamu Yuuki
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Patent number: 4755687Abstract: A system and method for detecting a fire source in a supervised region by means of fire detectors which effectively scan all over such region. A plurality of reference fire sources of the same geometric shape of the minimum size to be regareded as a fire are assumed to be located in successive predetermined position on the floor of the supervised region. Vertical control means successively sets the vertical deflection angles of each detector along the respective straight lines from each detector which graze by the upper end of the respective fire sources and to the lower end of the succeeding fire source. The system also comprises horizontal control means for causing the detectors to horizontally scan the supervised region. Upon detection of a fire, the detectors provide fire detection signals to a central processor unit which then actuates a spray nozzle to direct fire extinguishing fluid on the fire.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 1985Date of Patent: July 5, 1988Assignee: Hochiki Corp.Inventors: Kouji Akiba, Akira Kitajima, Yoshio Arai