Patents by Inventor Daisuke Araki

Daisuke Araki 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: 12139008
    Abstract: A fuel tank cap includes: a cap body which opens and closes a fuel supply port of a fuel tank; a ring member which is disposed around the fuel supply port and is shaped so as to surround the cap body; and a hinge member which is coupled to the ring member to support the cap body in a turnable manner between a closed position and an open position. A first peripheral part of the ring member, which is opposed to an outer periphery of the cap body, has a larger dimension in a circumferential direction than a dimension of a second peripheral part of the hinge member, which is opposed to the outer periphery of the cap body. The ring member and the hinge member are made of mutually different materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: Kawasaki Motors, Ltd., Sankyo Kinzoku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Takahashi, Daisuke Saeki, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Keiichi Araki
  • Publication number: 20240320848
    Abstract: A pollution level estimation system is a system that estimates a pollution level at a location to be estimated, the system including an image acquisition unit that acquires an image of the location to be estimated, a detection unit that detects a garbage portion showing garbage and a non-garbage portion not showing garbage at the location to be estimated in the acquired image, and a pollution level estimation unit that calculates areas of the detected garbage portion and non-garbage portion and estimates a pollution level at the location to be estimated on the basis of the calculated area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
    Inventors: Daisuke SUGIYAMA, Mitsuko HIDAKA, Daisuke MATSUOKA, Fumiaki ARAKI
  • Publication number: 20240318011
    Abstract: Provided is a coating composition set capable of achieving both a metallic design and coating film performance. A coating composition set including: a colored coating composition (a), a luster coating composition (b), and a clear coating composition (c), wherein the colored coating composition (a) includes a hydroxy group-containing resin (a1), a first curing agent (a2), and a coloring pigment (a3); the hydroxy group-containing resin (a1) includes a first hydroxy group-containing resin (a11) having a number average molecular weight of 3000 or less and a second hydroxy group-containing resin (a12) having a number average molecular weight of 100000 or more; the luster coating composition (b) includes a scaly pigment (b1), a cellulose ester derivative (b2), a cellulose nanofiber (b3), a phosphoric acid group-containing compound (b4), and an aqueous solvent (b5); the luster coating composition (b) has a solid content of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi KIYONAGA, Kenji MARUO, Daisuke SEGAWA, Kohei YAMAGUCHI, Yoshito ARAKI
  • Publication number: 20240278893
    Abstract: A jet propulsion boat includes: a boat body; a propulsion device that imparts propulsion force to the boat body to propel the boat body; an engine and an electric motor that drive the propulsion device; and a control device that determines which of an engine mode and an electric mode is to be used as an operation mode of driving the propulsion device in accordance with a condition, the engine mode configured to drive the propulsion device with the engine and the electric mode configured to drive the propulsion device with the electric motor while stopping the engine, and controls the engine and the electric motor to drive the propulsion device in the determined operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio ARAKI, Kazumasa HISADA, Daisuke KAWAI, Shohei TERAI, Takuya SAKAMOTO, Yoshihito UCHINO
  • Publication number: 20240278891
    Abstract: A jet propulsion boat includes a boat body, an operation part operated by a driver on the boat body, a turning posture detector that detects a turning posture of the boat body when a driver performs operation of turning the boat body, a behavior adjustment actuator that adjusts a behavior of the boat body, and a controller that controls the behavior adjustment actuator based on the turning posture detected by the turning posture detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio ARAKI, Kazumasa HISADA, Daisuke KAWAI, Shohei TERAI, Takuya SAKAMOTO, Yoshihito UCHINO
  • Patent number: 11933525
    Abstract: Described is a stopper including a filtering unit housed in an interior of a liquid receiver main body through which a refrigerant passes, a fixed portion that includes a screw portion that is screwed into an inner peripheral face of the liquid receiver main body, a sealing member in contact with the inner peripheral face of the liquid receiver main body, thereby preventing a leakage of a refrigerant to the fixed portion, and a movable connection portion provided between the filtering unit and the fixed portion for linking the filtering unit to the fixed portion in such a way that the filtering unit is not caused to follow a rotation of the fixed portion, and in such a way that the filtering unit is caused to follow an axial direction movement of the fixed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Araki, Noriaki Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20220402325
    Abstract: A vehicle-use air conditioning device that supplies air to a side vent aperture portion regardless of a discharge mode, and allows a discharge of air from a defrost aperture portion when a discharge mode that maximizes a ratio of air blown to a passage communicating with a foot aperture portion is employed, is such that a change in an amount of air supplied from the defrost aperture portion is restricted using a simple structure that does not necessitate fine adjustment, even when an air passage on a downstream side of the side vent aperture portion is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ashish Sahu, Daisuke Araki
  • Publication number: 20220282894
    Abstract: A stopper includes a filtering unit that is housed in an interior of a liquid receiver main body and through which a refrigerant passes, a fixed portion that includes on an outer peripheral face thereof a screw portion that is screwed into an inner peripheral face of the liquid receiver main body, a sealing member that is brought into contact with the inner peripheral face of the liquid receiver main body, thereby preventing a leakage of a refrigerant to the fixed portion from between the filtering unit and the liquid receiver main body, and a movable connection portion that is provided between the filtering unit and the fixed portion and links the filtering unit to the fixed portion in such a way that the filtering unit is not caused to follow a rotation of the fixed portion, and in such a way that the filtering unit is caused to follow an axial direction movement of the fixed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Araki, Noriaki Nemoto
  • Patent number: 9931907
    Abstract: To provide a vehicle air-conditioning unit that increases a volume of airflow delivered from a side vent opening in a foot mode, to effectively prevent fogging of windowpanes on right and left end sides. An air passage has: a first passage that guides hot air to a center vent opening, a side vent opening, and a defrost opening; and a second passage that is branched from the first passage and guides the hot air to a foot opening. A first door is arranged at a branched position of the air passage to the second passage, and a second door is arranged between the center vent opening and the defrost opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: VALEO JAPAN CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Shichiken, Daisuke Araki, Takao Koike
  • Publication number: 20150306935
    Abstract: To provide a vehicle air-conditioning unit that increases a volume of airflow delivered from a side vent opening in a foot mode, to effectively prevent fogging of windowpanes on right and left end sides. An air passage has: a first passage that guides hot air to a center vent opening, a side vent opening, and a defrost opening; and a second passage that is branched from the first passage and guides the hot air to a foot opening. A first door is arranged at a branched position of the air passage to the second passage, and a second door is arranged between the center vent opening and the defrost opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Shichiken, Daisuke Araki, Takao Koike
  • Patent number: 8968062
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner provided with an airflow structure for an intake box, wherein, in an HVAC comprising, in an intake box, a control device for controlling the number of rotation, the control device is reliably cooled by airflow regardless of the ratio of mixing between internal air and external air. A vehicle air conditioner of center-concentrated type, wherein a control device (6) for controlling the number of rotation is mounted to a vehicle interior-side wall surface inside an intake box (2) and wherein an air delivery guide (22) is provided in the intake box (2), the air delivery guide (22) delivering to the control device (6) a part of air introduced from a direction crossing the direction of opening of a suction opening (7) of a blower (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Valeo Thermal Systems Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tsutsumi, Takayuki Arai, Masayuki Murase, Daisuke Araki
  • Patent number: 8830216
    Abstract: For solving a problem that it cannot measure illuminance level around user interface correctly, an illuminance detection method includes a first step of detecting an open operation of a flip-type electronic device having the user interface located at an inner side in a closed state, and a second step of measuring illuminance level in a vicinity of an area where the user interface is exposed in an opened state of the flip-type electronic device when the open operation is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke Araki
  • Publication number: 20110273414
    Abstract: For solving a problem that it cannot measure illuminance level around user interface correctly, an illuminance detection method includes a first step of detecting an open operation of a flip-type electronic device having the user interface located at an inner side in a closed state, and a second step of measuring illuminance level in a vicinity of an area where the user interface is exposed in an opened state of the flip-type electronic device when the open operation is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventor: Daisuke Araki
  • Patent number: 8036699
    Abstract: It is possible to surely protect the user's ear from a sudden large volume and enable the user to surely and clearly hear a sound as information to be alarmed. In case an incoming call signal is received when the user holds a mobile telephone (1) at the speaking position and listens to a message output from an audio output unit (8), a control unit (17) makes a vibrator (27) generate a vibration as an alarm to call user's attention. At the timing when the user has sufficiently separated the mobile telephone (1) from his/her ear, the control unit (17) makes the audio output unit (8) output a ringtone of large volume. Thus, it is possible to surely protect the user's ear from a sudden large volume. Even when a music composition to notify the receipt of incoming call signal is used as a ringtone, the user can surely and clearly hear the sound as information to be alarmed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke Araki
  • Publication number: 20110171897
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner provided with an airflow structure for an intake box, wherein, in an HVAC comprising, in an intake box, a control device for controlling the number of rotation, the control device is reliably cooled by airflow regardless of the ratio of mixing between internal air and external air. A vehicle air conditioner of center-concentrated type, wherein a control device (6) for controlling the number of rotation is mounted to a vehicle interior-side wall surface inside an intake box (2) and wherein an air delivery guide (22) is provided in the intake box (2), the air delivery guide (22) delivering to the control device (6) a part of air introduced from a direction crossing the direction of opening of a suction opening (7) of a blower (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: VALEO THERMAL SYSTEMS JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tsutsumi, Takayuki Arai, Masayuki Murase, Daisuke Araki
  • Patent number: 7891409
    Abstract: Noise occurring in an upright air-conditioning unit is greatly reduced. An upright air-conditioning unit 1 is disposed under a steering member support part 23, a vent opening 15 and a vent outlet port 20 are made to communicate with each other via a vent duct 25, a defrost opening 16 and a defrost outlet port 21 are made to communicate with each other via a defrost duct 26. The vent opening 15 assumes a position further frontward than the steering member support part 23 along the frontward/rearward direction relative to the vehicle body whereas the defrost opening 16 assumes a position further rearward than the steering member support part 23 along the frontward/rearward direction relative to the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Valeo Thermal Systems Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Araki, Hiroshi Tsuzuki, Yoshihiro Sekiya, Keisuke Hara
  • Patent number: 7794314
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent vibration of a sliding door within a guide groove through a fundamental review of the structures adopted in sliding door devices in the related art having a sliding door made to move along a direction intersecting an air flow path to control the flow rate or direction of air within the air flow path. The present invention is characterized in that a tension-applying means is disposed at a sliding unit of a sliding door, which is inserted at a guide groove formed on the inside of an air-conditioner case to apply tension between the sliding unit and the guide groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Thermal Systems Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sekiya, Yutaka Teruya, Toshio Tsubakida, Daisuke Araki
  • Publication number: 20090049853
    Abstract: Noise occurring in an upright air-conditioning unit is greatly reduced. An upright air-conditioning unit 1 is disposed under a steering member support part 23, a vent opening 15 and a vent outlet port 20 are made to communicate with each other via a vent duct 25, a defrost opening 16 and a defrost outlet port 21 are made to communicate with each other via a defrost duct 26. The vent opening 15 assumes a position further frontward than the steering member support part 23 along the frontward/rearward direction relative to the vehicle body whereas the defrost opening 16 assumes a position further rearward than the steering member support part 23 along the frontward/rearward direction relative to the vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2005
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Valeo Thermal Systems Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Araki, Hiroshi Tsuzuki, Yoshihiro Sekiya, Keisuke Hara
  • Publication number: 20080137883
    Abstract: It is possible to surely protect the user's ear from a sudden large volume and enable the user to surely and clearly hear a sound as information to be alarmed. In case an incoming call signal is received when the user holds a mobile telephone (1) at the speaking position and listens to a message output from an audio output unit (8), a control unit (17) makes a vibrator (27) generate a vibration as an alarm to call user's attention. At the timing when the user has sufficiently separated the mobile telephone (1) from his/her ear, the control unit (17) makes the audio output unit (8) output a ringtone of large volume. Thus, it is possible to surely protect the user's ear from a sudden large volume. Even when a music composition to notify the receipt of incoming call signal is used as a ringtone, the user can surely and clearly hear the sound as information to be alarmed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventor: Daisuke Araki
  • Patent number: 7096924
    Abstract: A casing 21 of an automotive air conditioner is formed with a hole TH for accommodating a steering member S extending in a right-left direction of a vehicle. The hole TH extends through the casing 1 in the right-left direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Zexel Valeo Climate Control Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Araki, Hideki Nagano, Eiji Yanagida, Kazuhisa Katchi, Akitoshi Noguchi, Tsutomu Nakamigawa, Katsuichi Yamamoto, Takehide Matsumoto