Patents by Inventor Atsushi Namba
Atsushi Namba 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: 10543401Abstract: A resin composition for golf balls includes specific amounts of (A) polyurethane or polyurea and (B) an oxazoline group-containing acrylic polymer or an oxazoline group-containing styrene polymer. A golf ball having a core encased by a cover of one or more layers, wherein at least one cover layer is formed of this resin composition, exhibits a good adhesion between adjoining layers, enabling the ball to achieve a high scuff resistance without lowering the initial velocity of the ball.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsunobu Mochizuki, Masahiro Yamabe, Atsushi Namba
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Publication number: 20200001138Abstract: In a golf ball having a core of at least one layer and a paint film of at least one layer, at least one layer of the paint film includes delustering particles and the same or a differing layer of the paint film includes an effect pigment. The ball is a matte golf ball that is free of luster and gloss and moreover has a quality look.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirotaka Shinohara, Kae Iizuka, Atsushi Namba
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Publication number: 20200001139Abstract: A golf ball having a core of at least one layer is provided on the ball surface with a delustering particle-containing coating layer having an average surface roughness Ra of between 0.5 and 1.0. The golf ball is a matte ball that is free of luster and gloss and moreover can prevent a reduction in the ball spin rate on approach shots.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirotaka Shinohara, Kae Iizuka, Atsushi Namba
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Publication number: 20190388734Abstract: A matte golf ball which is free of luster and gloss has such a good ball appearance that the injection marks which form during injection molding of the cover are not visible. The golf ball includes a core of at least one layer, a cover of at least one layer, and a paint film. The outermost layer of the cover is formed of a resin composition which includes a thermoplastic resin and a colorant comprising a fluorescent dye or a fluorescent pigment, and has a visible light transmittance with an average value at wavelengths in the 380 to 780 nm spectrum of from 2.0 to 50.0%. The paint film is formed of a urethane-based paint composition containing delustering particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Namba, Hirotaka Shinohara, Kae Iizuka
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Patent number: 10226669Abstract: A golf ball resin composition includes (A) a styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer having a Shore D hardness of not more than 48 and (B) a thermoplastic resin having a Shore D hardness of at least 49 and containing either styrene monomer units or diene monomer units on the molecule, in a compounding ratio A/B therebetween of from 85/15 to 15/85. Using this resin composition as a golf ball cover material provides the ball with an excellent controllability around the green on shots with a short iron such as a sand wedge. In addition, a sufficient reduction in the spin rate of the ball on shots with a driver is achieved, enabling the distance of the ball to be increased.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.Inventor: Atsushi Namba
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Publication number: 20180369650Abstract: A resin composition for golf balls includes specific amounts of (A) polyurethane or polyurea and (B) an oxazoline group-containing acrylic polymer or an oxazoline group-containing styrene polymer. A golf ball having a core encased by a cover of one or more layers, wherein at least one cover layer is formed of this resin composition, exhibits a good adhesion between adjoining layers, enabling the ball to achieve a high scuff resistance without lowering the initial velocity of the ball.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Applicant: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsunobu MOCHIZUKI, Masahiro YAMABE, Atsushi NAMBA
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Publication number: 20170182367Abstract: A golf ball resin composition includes (A) a styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer having a Shore D hardness of not more than 48 and (B) a thermoplastic resin having a Shore D hardness of at least 49 and containing either styrene monomer units or diene monomer units on the molecule, in a compounding ratio A/B therebetween of from 85/15 to 15/85. Using this resin composition as a golf ball cover material provides the ball with an excellent controllability around the green on shots with a short iron such as a sand wedge. In addition, a sufficient reduction in the spin rate of the ball on shots with a driver is achieved, enabling the distance of the ball to be increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2016Publication date: June 29, 2017Applicant: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.Inventor: Atsushi NAMBA
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Patent number: 8536795Abstract: This control device, for a representative lamp L1, by way of a power control circuit 20, detects the cathode current Ik from a resistor TRk1, and controls a high-voltage stabilizing circuit 10, and performs drive control so that the gate voltages, which were divided from the output voltage Vgo from the high-voltage stabilizing circuit 10, become suitable voltages. Moreover, the control device, for other lamps L2, . . . , Ln, by way of the power control circuit 20, changes the voltage dividing ratio of impedance dividing by resistors R2—1, R2—2, . . . , Rn—1, Rn—2 for the output voltage Vgo using control elements Q2, . . . , Qn, and performs control so that the cathode current of each of the lamps L2, . . . , Ln becomes the same as the cathode current of the representative lamp L1.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Namba, Seiichi Anzawa
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Patent number: 8430191Abstract: A clutch mechanism is provided between a drive wheel and an electric motor. In a high vehicle speed region, the electric motor is decoupled from the drive wheel to prevent the electric motor from over-speeding. In the high vehicle speed region, in which the clutch mechanism is switched to a disengaged condition, rotation speed control is executed on the electric motor when a state of charge falls below a predetermined lower limit value, and a motor rotation speed is maintained at a target rotation speed on a lower rotation side than an upper limit rotation speed. Further, the clutch mechanism is switched from the disengaged condition to a slip condition. Hence, a limited power generation torque is supplied to the electric motor, and thus the electric motor can be controlled to a regeneration condition while suppressing the motor rotation speed to or below the upper limit rotation speed.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2010Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takenori Hashimoto, Atsushi Namba
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Patent number: 8403790Abstract: A motor transmission apparatus is provided between a transmission output shaft coupled to a drive wheel and a motor shaft coupled to a motor/generator. The motor transmission apparatus includes a first power transmission path that is switched to a power transmission condition by a high clutch having a clutch oil chamber, and a second power transmission path that is switched to a power transmission condition by a low brake having a brake oil chamber. Working oil discharged from an oil pump is guided to an oil passage switching valve via an output control valve. The working oil is distributed to one of the clutch oil chamber and the brake oil chamber by the oil passage switching valve, and therefore interlocking, in which the high clutch and the low brake are engaged simultaneously, can be avoided.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2010Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takenori Hashimoto, Atsushi Namba
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Patent number: 8142054Abstract: Provided herein is a light-emitting apparatus capable of achieving both improved durability and higher brightness with an inexpensive and simple construction. A heat resistant glass substrate 51 is mounted in a vacuum chamber 5, and while an anode electrode 8 (and a light emitter 20) is mounted on the glass substrate, the glass substrate 51 is separated from a glass substrate 11. This precisely protects the vacuum chamber 5 from thermal damage due to light emission upon excitation, even when the current density between the cathode electrode 6 and the anode electrode 8 is controlled at a high level to cause the light emitter 20 to emit light at high brightness.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2008Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hisaya Takahashi, Atsushi Namba, Toshiya Arakawa, Mikio Ono
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Publication number: 20110221359Abstract: This control device, for a representative lamp L1, by way of a power control circuit 20, detects the cathode current Ik from a resistor TRk1, and controls a high-voltage stabilizing circuit 10, and performs drive control so that the gate voltages, which were divided from the output voltage Vgo from the high-voltage stabilizing circuit 10, become suitable voltages. Moreover, the control device, for other lamps L2, . . . , Ln, by way of the power control circuit 20, changes the voltage dividing ratio of impedance dividing by resistors R2—1, R2—2, . . . , Rn—1, Rn—2 for the output voltage Vgo using control elements Q2, . . . , Qn, and performs control so that the cathode current of each of the lamps L2, . . . , Ln becomes the same as the cathode current of the representative lamp L1.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2011Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: FUJI JUKYOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Namba, Seiichi Anzawa
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Publication number: 20110181170Abstract: A field emission lamp which comprises a vacuum container, and a cathode electrode, a gate electrode and anode electrode all arranged in the vacuum container. The field emission lamp is characterized in that the cathode electrode is composed of a nanocarbon composite substrate which contains a substrate having a projected portion or grooved portion in a surface, and a nanocarbon material formed on the surface of the projected portion or grooved portion of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2011Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicants: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidenori Gamo, Atsushi Namba, Toshiya Arakawa
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Patent number: 7960907Abstract: Provided herein is a light-emitting apparatus which is capable of causing the light emitted at the entire face of a fluorescent material to be exteriorly emitted with no interference and with enhanced light emission efficiency, thereby attaining an exteriorly radiated high brightness light. A cathode electrode 10 is mounted on a periphery of a transmission member 30, the anode electrode 15 is also mounted on a domain opposite to a light transmission member 30, and the surface 16a of the fluorescent material 16 to be mounted on a top layer of the anode electrode 15 is formed with a concave face.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hisaya Takahashi, Toshiya Arakawa, Atsushi Namba, Mikio Ono
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Publication number: 20110118072Abstract: A motor transmission apparatus is provided between a transmission output shaft coupled to a drive wheel and a motor shaft coupled to a motor/generator. The motor transmission apparatus includes a first power transmission path that is switched to a power transmission condition by a high clutch having a clutch oil chamber, and a second power transmission path that is switched to a power transmission condition by a low brake having a brake oil chamber. Working oil discharged from an oil pump is guided to an oil passage switching valve via an output control valve. The working oil is distributed to one of the clutch oil chamber and the brake oil chamber by the oil passage switching valve, and therefore interlocking, in which the high clutch and the low brake are engaged simultaneously, can be avoided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takenori Hashimoto, Atsushi Namba
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Publication number: 20110115318Abstract: A clutch mechanism is provided between a drive wheel and an electric motor. In a high vehicle speed region, the electric motor is decoupled from the drive wheel to prevent the electric motor from over-speeding. In the high vehicle speed region, in which the clutch mechanism is switched to a disengaged condition, rotation speed control is executed on the electric motor when a state of charge falls below a predetermined lower limit value, and a motor rotation speed is maintained at a target rotation speed on a lower rotation side than an upper limit rotation speed. Further, the clutch mechanism is switched from the disengaged condition to a slip condition. Hence, a limited power generation torque is supplied to the electric motor, and thus the electric motor can be controlled to a regeneration condition while suppressing the motor rotation speed to or below the upper limit rotation speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takenori Hashimoto, Atsushi Namba
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Patent number: 7834536Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus of the present invention maintains an anode electrode 5 at a higher positive electric potential than a cathode electrode 15, applies an electric field to a cold-cathode electron emission source 16 by controlling a gate voltage applied to the cathode electrode 15 with a gate electrode 10, and emits excitation light from a phosphor 6 irradiated by an electron beam released from the cold-cathode electron emission source 16. The light-emitting apparatus of this invention emits the excitation light not only from the opposite side of the electron beam-irradiated surface of the phosphor 6 through a glass substrate 2, but also from the electron bean-irradiated surface of the phosphor 6 by reflecting the excitation light with a gate reflection surface 12 on the gate electrode 10 and emitting it through an unobstructed area Ro of the glass substrate 2.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hisaya Takahashi, Atsushi Namba
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Publication number: 20090121601Abstract: Provided herein is a light-emitting apparatus which is capable of causing the light emitted at the entire face of a fluorescent material to be exteriorly emitted with no interference and with enhanced light emission efficiency, thereby attaining an exteriorly radiated high brightness light. A cathode electrode 10 is mounted on a periphery of a transmission member 30, the anode electrode 15 is also mounted on a domain opposite to a light transmission member 30, and the surface 16a of the fluorescent material 16 to be mounted on a top layer of the anode electrode 15 is formed with a concave face.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hisaya TAKAHASHI, Toshiya ARAKAWA, Atsushi NAMBA, Mikio ONO
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Publication number: 20090097256Abstract: Provided herein is a light-emitting apparatus capable of achieving both improved durability and higher brightness with an inexpensive and simple construction. A heat resistant glass substrate 51 is mounted in a vacuum chamber 5, and while an anode electrode 8 (and a light emitter 20) is mounted on the glass substrate, the glass substrate 51 is separated from a glass substrate 11. This precisely protects the vacuum chamber 5 from thermal damage due to light emission upon excitation, even when the current density between the cathode electrode 6 and the anode electrode 8 is controlled at a high level to cause the light emitter 20 to emit light at high brightness.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicant: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisaya TAKAHASHI, Atsushi NAMBA, Toshiya ARAKAWA, Mikio ONO
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Publication number: 20090051266Abstract: An electron emitting source 6 is covered with a cathode mask 20 whose opening areas are substantially the same as those in a grid electrode 10, so that the areas for which the electrons are emitted from the electron emitting source 6 can substantially be the same as the opening areas in the grid electrode 10. Thus, substantially all the electrons emitted from these areas can be ensured to pass through opening portions 11 in the grid electrode 10 so as to be effective electrons that can contribute to light emission. In this way, power loss at the grid electrode 10 can be reduced. At the same time, harmful metallic sputtering caused at the grid electrode 10 toward a cathode electrode 5 can be reliably prevented, whereby damages on the cathode electrode can be avoided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2006Publication date: February 26, 2009Inventors: Hisaya Takahashi, Atsushi Namba, Miyuki Kobayashi