Patents by Inventor Atsuo Takahashi

Atsuo Takahashi 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: 11959147
    Abstract: A top-blowing lance nozzle is configured to freely switch an adequate expansion condition so as to control an oxygen-blowing amount and a jetting velocity independently of each other without requiring a plurality of lance nozzles or a mechanically movable part. A lance nozzle is configured to blow refining oxygen to molten iron charged in a reaction vessel while a gas is blown from a top-blowing lance to the molten iron. One or more blowing holes for blowing a working gas are on an inner wall side surface of the nozzle, at a site where the lance nozzle has a minimum cross-sectional area in a nozzle axis direction or at a neighboring site of the site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yumi Murakami, Nobuhiko Oda, Yusuke Fujii, Goro Okuyama, Shota Amano, Shinji Koseki, Shingo Sato, Yukio Takahashi, Ryo Kawabata, Naoki Kikuchi, Atsuo Yuasa
  • Patent number: 8136424
    Abstract: Rotary support bodies which support both ends of a rod penetrating a manipulating knob body are formed by joining a first rotary support member which is arranged at one side of the manipulating knob body and supports one end of the rod and a second rotary support member which is arranged at another side of the manipulating knob body and supports another end of the rod, and one end of the rod is fixed to the second rotary support member, and another end of the rod is engaged with the first rotary support member. Accordingly, a manipulating knob can be mounted on a casing in a state the manipulating knob is mounted on the rotary support body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Alps Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Takahashi, Tatsuya Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20100200376
    Abstract: Rotary support bodies which support both ends of a rod penetrating a manipulating knob body are formed by joining a first rotary support member which is arranged at one side of the manipulating knob body and supports one end of the rod and a second rotary support member which is arranged at another side of the manipulating knob body and supports another end of the rod, and one end of the rod is fixed to the second rotary support member, and another end of the rod is engaged with the first rotary support member. Accordingly, a manipulating knob can be mounted on a casing in a state the manipulating knob is mounted on the rotary support body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Atsuo Takahashi, Tatsuya Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 7762159
    Abstract: Rotary support bodies which support both ends of a rod penetrating a manipulating knob body are formed by joining a first rotary support member which is arranged at one side of the manipulating knob body and supports one end of the rod and a second rotary support member which is arranged at another side of the manipulating knob body and supports another end of the rod, and one end of the rod is fixed to the second rotary support member, and another end of the rod is engaged with the first rotary support member. Accordingly, a manipulating knob can be mounted on a casing in a state the manipulating knob is mounted on the rotary support body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Takahashi, Tatsuya Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 7399781
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an N-substituted benzothiophenesulfonamide derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and applications thereof. Furthermore, it provides an agent for preventing or treating cardiac or circulatory disease and so on caused by abnormal increase of production of angiotensin II or endothelin I based on chymase activity, or by activation of mast cell, and an agent for preventing adhesion after surgery, wherein the agent has a selective inhibitory action on chymase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: TOA EIYO Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Satoh, Akira Tatsui, Takeshi Hasegawa, Hideki Yamada, Shin-ichi Kazayama, Takahiro Morita, Hidekazu Masaki, Atsuo Takahashi, Fumiya Yoneyama, Tetsuo Kuze, Yusuke Mizuno, Mizuo Miyazaki, Shinji Takai
  • Patent number: 7279648
    Abstract: An automotive combination switch includes a housing having an opening through which a steering shaft passes, and a stork switch having a switch box, that is inserted and mounted in the housing and a manipulating rod protruding from the switching box. Snaps protruding from the outsides of walls of the switching box are snap-fitted into locking holes formed on walls of the housing. A claw of each snap is in elastical contact with a periphery of each locking hole by providing an elastic plate in the housing, and elastically contacting the elastic plate to a front of the switch box in the inserting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsuo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20070000761
    Abstract: An automotive combination switch includes a housing having an opening through which a steering shaft passes, and a stork switch having a switch box, that is inserted and mounted in the housing and a manipulating rod protruding from the switching box. Snaps protruding from the outsides of walls of the switching box are snap-fitted into locking holes formed on walls of the housing. A claw of each snap is in elastical contact with a periphery of each locking hole by providing an elastic plate in the housing, and elastically contacting the elastic plate to a front of the switch box in the inserting direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventor: Atsuo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20060185463
    Abstract: A turn signal switch device includes a control lever having a base section and a lever section; a holder which has a housing in which the base section is housed and pivotably supports the control lever so as to be inclined along one plane; and a case that supports the holder so as to turn along the other plane substantially orthogonal to the one plane. A boring hole passing through both sides of the base section is provided to the control lever, shaft holes facing the boring hole are provided to a pair of opposing side plates of the housing of the holder respectively, and a shaft having rigidity is inserted into the shaft holes and the boring hole, so that retaining sections are formed at both ends of the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventor: Atsuo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7071220
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an N-substituted benzothiophenesulfonamide derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and applications thereof. Furthermore, it provides an agent for preventing or treating cardiac or circulatory disease and so on caused by abnormal increase of production of angiotensin II or endothelin I based on chymase activity, or by activation of mast cell, and an agent for preventing adhesion after surgery, wherein the agent has a selective inhibitory action on chymase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Toa Eiyo Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Satoh, Akira Tatsui, Takeshi Hasegawa, Hideki Yamada, Shin-ichi Kazayama, Takahiro Morita, Hidekazu Masaki, Atsuo Takahashi, Fumiya Yoneyama, Tetsuo Kuze, Yusuke Mizuno, Mizuo Miyazaki, Shinji Takai
  • Publication number: 20060116408
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an N-substituted benzothiophenesulfonamide derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and applications thereof. Furthermore, it provides an agent for preventing or treating cardiac or circulatory disease and so on caused by abnormal increase of production of angiotensin II or endothelin I based on chymase activity, or by activation of mast cell, and an agent for preventing adhesion after surgery, wherein the agent has a selective inhibitory action on chymase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Applicant: TOA EIYO Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Satoh, Akira Tatsui, Takeshi Hasegawa, Hideki Yamada, Shin-ichi Kazayama, Takahiro Morita, Hidekazu Masaki, Atsuo Takahashi, Fumiya Yoneyama, Tetsuo Kuze, Yusuke Mizuno, Mizuo Miyazaki, Shinji Takai
  • Patent number: 7038580
    Abstract: A turn signal switch device capable of being miniaturized and of improving a degree of freedom of design is provided. First and second shafts 4a and 4b are formed in a housing 4. A first lever 5 is provided in the first shaft 4a to be rotatable and to proceed to and recede from the rotation orbit of a canceling protrusion 20. A second lever 6 is rotatably provided in the second shaft 4b. The first lever 5 and the second lever 6 are rotatably connected to each other. Furthermore, a second elastic member 8 is provided in the housing 4 together with a first elastic member 7. When an operating lever 3 is in a neutral position, the first lever 5 is maintained in the rotation neutral position by the first elastic member 7 and the second lever 6 is maintained in the rotation neutral position by the second elastic member 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsuo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20050029079
    Abstract: A turn signal switch device capable of being miniaturized and of improving a degree of freedom of design is provided. First and second shafts 4a and 4b are formed in a housing 4. A first lever 5 is provided in the first shaft 4a to be rotatable and to proceed to and recede from the rotation orbit of a canceling protrusion 20. A second lever 6 is rotatably provided in the second shaft 4b. The first lever 5 and the second lever 6 are rotatably connected to each other. Furthermore, a second elastic member 8 is provided in the housing 4 together with a first elastic member 7. When an operating lever 3 is in a neutral position, the first lever 5 is maintained in the rotation neutral position by the first elastic member 7 and the second lever 6 is maintained in the rotation neutral position by the second elastic member 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventor: Atsuo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6727448
    Abstract: A plurality of switchable contacts are provided on a relaying printed circuit board for centralized relaying of signals between a vehicle per se and a switch unit; a plurality of contact change-over members for connecting and disconnecting the switchable contacts are mounted on this printed circuit board; a drive member oscillatable from outside to inside of a box-shaped housing is fitted to each end of the housing in a lengthwise direction; the printed circuit board is fixed to an outer part of an under face of the housing to cause the contact change-over members to face the inside of the housing; the drive members and the contact change-over members are engaged with each other to oscillate the drive members; and the switchable contacts on the printed circuit board are thereby changed over.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Takahashi, Takehiko Ito
  • Publication number: 20040050673
    Abstract: Rotary support bodies which support both ends of a rod penetrating a manipulating knob body are formed by joining a first rotary support member which is arranged at one side of the manipulating knob body and supports one end of the rod and a second rotary support member which is arranged at another side of the manipulating knob body and supports another end of the rod, and one end of the rod is fixed to the second rotary support member, and another end of the rod is engaged with the first rotary support member. Accordingly, a manipulating knob can be mounted on a casing in a state the manipulating knob is mounted on the rotary support body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Takahashi, Tatsuya Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 6677543
    Abstract: The turn signal switch device is provided with: a housing; an operating lever rotatably supported by the housing; a first cancel lever which is rotated by abutting a cancel protrusion on a steering wheel side; and a second cancel lever rotatable in interlock with the first cancel lever, wherein a protrusion shaft or an elongated hole of the second cancel lever is inserted in an elongated hole or the protrusion shaft provided in a bottom plate of the housing, and wherein in order that both ends may be exposed in the elongated hole, the protrusion shaft is caught between both ends of the second spring mounted to the bottom plate or the second cancel lever to be held at a central position of the elongated hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Takahashi, Takehiko Ito
  • Publication number: 20030229126
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an N-substituted benzothiophenesulfonamide derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and applications thereof. Furthermore, it provides an agent for preventing or treating cardiac or circulatory disease and so on caused by abnormal increase of production of angiotensin II or endothelin I based on chymase activity, or by activation of mast cell, and an agent for preventing adhesion after surgery, wherein the agent has a selective inhibitory action on chymase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Applicant: TOA EIYO Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Satoh, Akira Tatsui, Takeshi Hasegawa, Hideki Yamada, Shin-Ichi Kazayama, Takahiro Morita, Hidekazu Masaki, Atsuo Takahashi, Fumiya Yoneyama, Tetsuo Kuze, Yusuke Mizuno, Mizuo Miyazaki, Shinji Takai
  • Publication number: 20030075426
    Abstract: A plurality of switchable contacts are provided on a relaying printed circuit board for centralized relaying of signals between a vehicle per se and a switch unit; a plurality of contact change-over members for connecting and disconnecting the switchable contacts are mounted on this printed circuit board; a drive member oscillatable from outside to inside of a box-shaped housing is fitted to each end of the housing in a lengthwise direction; the printed circuit board is fixed to an outer part of an under face of the housing to cause the contact change-over members to face the inside of the housing; the drive members and the contact change-over members are engaged with each other to oscillate the drive members; and the switchable contacts on the printed circuit board are thereby changed over.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventors: Atsuo Takahashi, Takehiko Ito
  • Publication number: 20030075425
    Abstract: The turn signal switch device is provided with: a housing; an operating lever rotatably supported by the housing; a first cancel lever which is rotated by abutting a cancel protrusion on a steering wheel side; and a second cancel lever rotatable in interlock with the first cancel lever, wherein a protrusion shaft or an elongated hole of the second cancel lever is inserted in an elongated hole or the protrusion shaft provided in a bottom plate of the housing, and wherein in order that both ends may be exposed in the elongated hole, the protrusion shaft is caught between both ends of the second spring mounted to the bottom plate or the second cancel lever to be held at a central position of the elongated hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Applicant: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Takahashi, Takehiko Ito
  • Patent number: 6501035
    Abstract: The switching unit has the switching member on the front side and the switching member on the back side which are mutually mechanically and electrically connected when mounted on the spoke portion of the steering wheel, and is designed such that when the switching members are assembled in one unit, the elastic electrode portion on one side comes into elastic contact with the electrode pattern portion on the other side. The switching members, therefore, are not required to be assembled into one unit prior to installation on the steering wheel. In addition it is possible to dispense with such a complicated operation as electrically connecting the switching members by a wiring harness after installation to the steering wheel, therefore improving the ease of installation. Furthermore, since there is no necessity to form a through hole in the spoke portion of the steering wheel, the steering wheel will not be deteriorated in mechanical strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsuo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6495776
    Abstract: There is provided a stalk lever in which its assembling can be easily carried out and a degree of freedom in its design can be improved. The present invention is constructed such that when the longitudinal hole formed at the connecting section of the lever main body R is closed by the lid, the engaging sections formed to be protruded at the lid are fitted to the fitting sections formed to be indented at the holders and then the holder members are fixed to the holder engaging sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Takahashi, Yasuo Takii