Patents by Inventor Atsushi Hibino

Atsushi Hibino 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: 11919579
    Abstract: A power supply system includes a system control unit, an auxiliary power supply, and an auxiliary-power-supply control unit. The system control unit and the auxiliary-power-supply control unit are configured such that information of at least one control unit of the system control unit and the auxiliary-power-supply control unit is able to be output to another control unit of the system control unit and the auxiliary-power-supply control unit. The at least one control unit is configured to output information indicating that an operation of the at least one control unit is stopped to the other control unit when the at least one control unit stops the operation of the at least one control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: JTEKT CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuma Hasegawa, Toshihiro Takahashi, Yuji Fujita, Kenichi Abe, Yugo Nagashima, Yuuta Kajisawa, Takashi Koudai, Hiroaki Hanzawa, Atsushi Satou, Yosuke Yamashita, Shintaro Takayama, Tokuaki Hibino
  • Patent number: 11046121
    Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion 2. The tread portion 2 comprises a plurality of blocks each comprising a first longitudinal edge 18 and a second longitudinal edge 19 extending in a tire circumferential direction, and a ground contacting surface defined therebetween. The blocks include a first block 20 having a first narrow groove 21 provided in the ground contacting surface thereof. The first narrow groove 21 extends from a first end 21a on the first longitudinal edge 18 toward a center 24 in a tire axial direction of the first block 20 and curves within the ground contacting surface and reaches a second end 21b on the first longitudinal edge 18 so as to extend in a laterally oriented V-shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Hibino
  • Patent number: 10926585
    Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion provided with a first middle main groove, a second middle main groove, a crown longitudinal groove disposed between the first middle main groove and the second middle main groove, first crown lateral grooves connecting between the crown longitudinal groove and second middle main groove, and second crown lateral grooves connecting between the crown longitudinal groove and the second middle main groove. The first crown lateral grooves and the second crown lateral grooves are arranged so as to be misaligned with each other in the tire circumferential direction. The crown longitudinal groove is provided with at least one crown tie bar formed by raising a groove bottom of the crown longitudinal groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Hibino
  • Patent number: 10300745
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion provided with a land portion with a plurality of lateral grooves extending across the land portion. Each lateral groove includes a main portion with a width equal to or more than 2.0 mm and a sipe portion extending radially inwardly from a bottom of the main portion. The main portion includes a first wall located on a first side in a circumferential direction and a second wall located on a second side in the circumferential direction. The sipe portion includes a first sipe wall located on the first side and a second sipe wall located on the second side. The lateral grooves include a first lateral groove having the first wall being continuous to the first sipe wall smoothly and a second lateral groove having the second wall being continuous to the second sipe wall smoothly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Hibino, Kaori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180281529
    Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion 2. The tread portion 2 comprises a plurality of blocks each comprising a first longitudinal edge 18 and a second longitudinal edge 19 extending in a tire circumferential direction, and a ground contacting surface defined therebetween. The blocks include a first block 20 having a first narrow groove 21 provided in the ground contacting surface thereof. The first narrow groove 21 extends from a first end 21a on the first longitudinal edge 18 toward a center 24 in a tire axial direction of the first block 20 and curves within the ground contacting surface and reaches a second end 21b on the first longitudinal edge 18 so as to extend in a laterally oriented V-shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi HIBINO
  • Publication number: 20180086152
    Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion provided with a first middle main groove, a second middle main groove, a crown longitudinal groove disposed between the first middle main groove and the second middle main groove, first crown lateral grooves connecting between the crown longitudinal groove and second middle main groove, and second crown lateral grooves connecting between the crown longitudinal groove and the second middle main groove. The first crown lateral grooves and the second crown lateral grooves are arranged so as to be misaligned with each other in the tire circumferential direction. The crown longitudinal groove is provided with at least one crown tie bar formed by raising a groove bottom of the crown longitudinal groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi HIBINO
  • Patent number: 9878585
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion provided with at least one zigzag main groove extending continuously in a circumferential direction of the tire with a plurality of zigzag corners. The main groove includes a groove bottom and a pair of groove edges. The groove bottom extends in a zigzag manner in the circumferential direction of the tire with a first amplitude. The groove bottom has a width varying periodically so that a maximum width portion and a minimum width portion appear in turn at the zigzag corners. Each of the groove edges extends in a zigzag manner in the circumferential direction of the tire with a second amplitude, wherein the first amplitude is greater than the second amplitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Kaori Tanaka, Atsushi Hibino
  • Publication number: 20170325485
    Abstract: A citrus-flavoured beverage comprising a beverage base, citrus flavour and a citrus flavour-enhancing proportion of a mega-fatty complex. The addition of mega-fatty complex gives a juicier, more natural flavour to the beverage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: Givaudan, S.A.
    Inventor: Atsushi HIBINO
  • Publication number: 20160318352
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion provided with a land portion with a plurality of lateral grooves extending across the land portion. Each lateral groove includes a main portion with a width equal to or more than 2.0 mm and a sipe portion extending radially inwardly from a bottom of the main portion. The main portion includes a first wall located on a first side in a circumferential direction and a second wall located on a second side in the circumferential direction. The sipe portion includes a first sipe wall located on the first side and a second sipe wall located on the second side. The lateral grooves include a first lateral groove having the first wall being continuous to the first sipe wall smoothly and a second lateral groove having the second wall being continuous to the second sipe wall smoothly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi HIBINO, Kaori TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20150343849
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion provided with at least one zigzag main groove extending continuously in a circumferential direction of the tire with a plurality of zigzag corners. The main groove includes a groove bottom and a pair of groove edges. The groove bottom extends in a zigzag manner in the circumferential direction of the tire with a first amplitude. The groove bottom has a width varying periodically so that a maximum width portion and a minimum width portion appear in turn at the zigzag corners. Each of the groove edges extends in a zigzag manner in the circumferential direction of the tire with a second amplitude, wherein the first amplitude is greater than the second amplitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kaori TANAKA, Atsushi HIBINO
  • Publication number: 20150010131
    Abstract: In order to provide an X-ray apparatus and an X-ray image diagnostic apparatus that reduce uncomfortable feeling due to exhaust heat generated when air-cooling an X-ray tube device, the X-ray image diagnostic apparatus is comprised of an X-ray tube, the X-ray tube device 102 including the X-ray tube device housing that accommodates the X-ray tube, the X-ray detector 103 that detects an X-ray generated from the X-ray tube device, and the arm 101 that supports the X-ray tube device 102 and the X-ray detector 103 with them facing each other, the X-ray tube device 102 and the X-ray detector 103 are located respectively on an end side and the other end side of the arm 101, and the first air flow path 104 where air passed through the outer surface of the X-ray tube device housing 402 flows inside the arm 101 is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Kimitaka Arisaka, Atsushi Hibino, Tetsuji Sairaiji
  • Patent number: 8804908
    Abstract: A mobile X-ray apparatus is provided with an X-ray source, an X-ray planar detector being arranged in such a manner as opposed to the X-ray source, a support (C-shaped arm) for linking and supporting the X-ray source and the X-ray planar detector, an angle input part for inputting a rotation angle at which the X-ray planar detector is rotated within a plane including the X-ray incidence plane, a rotation controller and a rotation mechanism for rotating the X-ray planar detector according to the rotation angle being inputted, an image generator for generating an image of the test subject based on the transmitted X-rays being detected, displays for displaying the image, and an image rotor for subjecting the image being displayed on the displays to a rotation process according to an amount of the rotation of the X-ray planar detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Hibino, Toshikazu Kita, Tetsuji Sairaiji
  • Publication number: 20130287171
    Abstract: A mobile X-ray apparatus is provided with an X-ray source, an X-ray planar detector being arranged in such a manner as opposed to the X-ray source, a support (C-shaped arm) for linking and supporting the X-ray source and the X-ray planar detector, an angle input part for inputting a rotation angle at which the X-ray planar detector is rotated within a plane including the X-ray incidence plane, a rotation controller and a rotation mechanism for rotating the X-ray planar detector according to the rotation angle being inputted, an image generator for generating an image of the test subject based on the transmitted X-rays being detected, displays for displaying the image, and an image rotor for subjecting the image being displayed on the displays to a rotation process according to an amount of the rotation of the X-ray planar detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Hibino, Toshikazu Kita, Tetsuji Sairaiji
  • Patent number: 8118951
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet for a lithographic printing plate includes 0.03 to 0.15% (mass %, hereinafter the same) of Si, 0.2 to 0.7% of Fe, 0.05 to 0.5% of Mg, 0.003 to 0.05% of Ti, and 30 to 300 ppm of Ga, with the balance being aluminum and inevitable impurities, a surface area of the aluminum alloy sheet having an average recrystallized grain size of 50 ?m or less in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction, an Mg concentration that is higher than the average Mg concentration by a factor of 5 to 50, and a Ga concentration that is higher than the average Ga concentration by a factor of 2 to 20, the surface area being an area up to a depth of 0.2 ?m from the surface of the aluminum alloy sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignees: Fujifilm Corporation, Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Uesugi, Atsushi Matsuura, Hiroshi Ougi, Atsushi Hibino
  • Patent number: 8052325
    Abstract: An X-ray fluoroscope table and an X-ray fluoroscope system using this fluoroscope table with simple structure and easily ensuring an area where a person stands near the top board. An X-ray fluoroscope table (1) comprises a stand unit (10), a support arm unit (20), a support frame (30), a top board (40), an X-ray generator (60), a column unit (50), and an X-ray detector (FPD 70). The end of the column unit (50) on the support frame side (30) and the end on the X-ray generator (60) side are displaced from each other in the length direction of the support frame (30). With this constitution, the area where an operator (OP3) stands can be ensured near the column unit (50). An X-ray fluoroscope system is constituted of this fluoroscope table (1), a high-voltage generator for supplying electric power to the fluoroscope table (1), and a remote control console for integrally controlling them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Hibino, Tetsuji Sairaiji, Akio Hara
  • Patent number: 7938916
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet for a lithographic printing plate is obtained by homogenizing an ingot of an aluminum alloy at 500 to 610° C. for one hour or more, the aluminum alloy containing 0.03 to 0.15% of Si, 0.2 to 0.6% of Fe, 0.005 to 0.05% of Ti, and 2 to 30 ppm of Pb, with the balance being aluminum and unavoidable impurities, subjecting the homogenized product to rough hot rolling, a start temperature of the rough hot rolling being 430 to 500° C. and a finish temperature of the rough hot rolling being 400° C. or more, holding the product subjected to rough hot rolling for 60 to 300 seconds after the completion of the rough hot rolling to recrystallize the surface of the product, and subjecting the resulting product to finish hot rolling that is finished at 320 to 370° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignees: Fujifilm Corporation, Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Uesugi, Atsushi Matsuura, Hiroshi Ougi, Atsushi Hibino
  • Publication number: 20110104001
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet for a lithographic printing plate includes 0.03 to 0.15% (mass %, hereinafter the same) of Si, 0.2 to 0.7% of Fe, 0.05 to 0.5% of Mg, 0.003 to 0.05% of 11, and 30 to 300 ppm of Ga, with the balance being aluminum and inevitable impurities, a surface area of the aluminum alloy sheet having an average recrystallized grain size of 50 ?m or less in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction, an Mg concentration that is higher than the average Mg concentration by a factor of 5 to 50, and a Ga concentration that is higher than the average Ga concentration by a factor of 2 to 20, the surface area being an area up to a depth of 0.2 ?m from the surface of the aluminum alloy sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Akio Uesugi, Atsushi Matsuura, Hiroshi Ougi, Atsushi Hibino
  • Publication number: 20100296626
    Abstract: An X-ray fluoroscope table and an X-ray fluoroscope system using this fluoroscope table with simple structure and easily ensuring an area where a person stands near the top board. An X-ray fluoroscope table (1) comprises a stand unit (10), a support arm unit (20), a support frame (30), a top board (40), an X-ray generator (60), a column unit (50), and an X-ray detector (FPD 70). The end of the column unit (50) on the support frame side (30) and the end on the X-ray generator (60) side are displaced from each other in the length direction of the support frame (30). With this constitution, the area where an operator (OP3) stands can be ensured near the column unit (50). An X-ray fluoroscope system is constituted of this fluoroscope table (1), a high-voltage generator for supplying electric power to the fluoroscope table (1), and a remote control console for integrally controlling them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventors: Atsushi Hibino, Tetsuji Sairaiji, Akio Hara
  • Patent number: D664254
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Yokoyama, Atsushi Ninomiya, Kazuyuki Yanase, Atsushi Hibino, Takahiro Yurugi
  • Patent number: D850359
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Hibino