Patents by Inventor Eiji Suzuki

Eiji Suzuki 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).

  • Game device, program, and method for sequentially changing game images over time
    Patent number: 7044856
    Abstract: A game device for adjusting the progress rate of simulation with the use of a conventional program module for environmental processing is provided. In the game device, a microprocessor (14) selectively performs, in accordance with a game operation provided by a player of a game, either a process for producing environment information which is a basis for a game image of the subsequent predetermined update cycle, and producing a main game image based on the environment information, or a process for repeatedly producing the environment information plural times, and producing a sub game image based on the last produced environment information among the information produced plural times in a shorter time than the main game image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignees: Konami Corporation, Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, Inc.
    Inventor: Eiji Suzuki
  • Image forming apparatus having flash lamp and image forming method using the same
    Patent number: 6999711
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units for forming an image on a printing medium such as a sheet of paper. A plurality of color types of toner are arranged on a transport path of the printing medium. Toner images corresponding to the color types of toner are color-by-color transferred onto the printing medium. Light emitted from a flash lamp melts and fixes the toner images. The fixing order of the toner images corresponding to the color types of toner is decided so that the toner images are fixed in ascending order of toner's absorptivity of the light emitted from the flash lamp or in descending order of toner's reflectivity of the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Suzuki, Masatoshi Kimura
  • Light assembly for vehicle
    Publication number: 20060007544
    Abstract: A light assembly for a vehicle is provided with a light source capable of emitting rays including a visible ray and an infrared ray, a main reflector disposed so as to reflect the rays emitted by the light source forward, and a filter being reflective of the infrared ray and transparent to the visible ray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventor: Eiji Suzuki
  • Vehicle lighting apparatus
    Publication number: 20060002128
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting apparatus includes a bulb having a front end and a rear end; a reflector including an insertion hole for inserting the front end and a mounting portion to which the rear end is detachably mounted; and a reflective surface provided on the reflector, to reflect light from the bulb in a predetermined direction. The bulb is inserted in a direction intersecting with an optical axis so that a bulb axis intersects with the optical axis. The bulb axis is inclined in such a manner that the front end is declined towards a direction of reflection of the light by the reflective surface with respect to the rear end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Eiji Suzuki, Yasuhiro Ohkubo
  • Two-light headlamp
    Patent number: 6981790
    Abstract: A shade is moved to a high-beam position by a driving force of a solenoid and held in that position. The shade is switched to a low-beam position by a spring force of a plate spring and held in that position. The solenoid is the pull-type solenoid. The shade is thin and therefore light in weight. As a result, low-cost and light-weight headlamp is obtained. Moreover, switching of the beams can be performed accurately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiji Suzuki
  • Bolt structure for use with a magnesium alloy member for tightening magnesium alloy members with each other or with a heterogenenous material
    Patent number: 6979161
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a bolt structure for use with a magnesium alloy member that can insulate between magnesium alloy members and steel or other bolts without lowering the bolt shaft power, and prevent occurrence of electrolytic corrosion with an electrolyte such as water. A cationic electrodeposition coating is also provided for the bolts structure, said coating having a film thickness of 15 ?m or more is provided at least on the surface of the magnesium alloy member contacting with a bolt head, a powder coating having a film thickness of 40 to 150 ?m is provided on the surface of the cationic electrodeposition coating, zinc-nickel plating and then cosmer treatment are carried out on the bolt, and an alumite-treated aluminum washer is interposed between the bolt head and the magnesium alloy member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Ando, Eiji Suzuki, Kenichi Kitayama, Yoichiro Inaba
  • Vehicle headlight
    Publication number: 20050270792
    Abstract: A main reflector has a main reflection-surface based on an ellipsoid of revolution. A light source is arranged substantially at a first focal-point of the main reflection-surface. A shade arranged substantially at a second focal-point of the main reflection-surface cuts off a part of reflected light from the main reflection-surface to form a predetermined main light-distribution-pattern. A projection lens projects the main light-distribution-pattern ahead of a vehicle. A sub reflector reflects a light from the light source to irradiate the light on outer sides of the main light-distribution-pattern as a predetermined sub-light distribution pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Inventor: Eiji Suzuki
  • Vehicle headlamp
    Publication number: 20050213340
    Abstract: A headlamp includes a sub-reflector between a main reflector and a projection lens. The sub-reflector has a sub-reflection surface in a form of a paraboloid of revolution. The sub-reflector is movable between a low-beam posture and a high-beam posture. The sub-reflector forms a diffused light distribution pattern superposes the pattern on a low-beam light distribution pattern produced by the main reflector when the sub-reflector is in the low-beam posture and forms a condensed light distribution pattern and superposes the pattern on a high-beam light distribution pattern formed by the main reflector when the sub-reflector is in the high-beam posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Eiji Suzuki, Yasuhiro Ohkubo
  • Pattern-variable headlamp
    Patent number: 6948837
    Abstract: A pattern-variable headlamp includes a light source, a reflector, a movable shade that switches a position between a first position, a second position, and a third position to form a first light distribution pattern, a second light distribution pattern, and a third light distribution pattern, respectively, from the light reflected from the reflector, a projection lens that irradiates the light distribution pattern to a road surface, a first solenoid that moves the movable shade to switch from the first position to the second position, a second solenoid that moves the movable shade to switch from the first position to the third position, and an elastic returning unit that returns the movable shade to switch from the second position to either of the first position and the third position, or from the third position to the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiji Suzuki
  • Control system for vehicle
    Patent number: 6945906
    Abstract: There is provided a control system for a vehicle, which is capable of increasing the service life of a transmission belt while preventing slippage thereof, and at the same time improving fuel economy and drivability. The control system for a vehicle sets a transmission transfer torque to be transmitted from a drive pulley of a continuously variable transmission to a driven pulley of the same, and a clutch transfer torque to be transferred by a clutch. When it is determined that the vehicle is traveling on a bad road, the clutch transfer torque is reduced, and the transmission transfer torque is set to a larger value as the clutch transfer torque is larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Eguchi, Hirohiko Totsuka, Eiji Suzuki, Satoru Miyata
  • Wheel balance weight and process for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 6874856
    Abstract: A wheel balance weight includes a weight and an installation member. The weight is composed of at least one member selected from the group consisting of zinc and a zinc-based alloy, is formed as a substantially strip shape having a substantially uniform thickness, and has opposite surfaces and at least a groove. The groove is formed in at least one of the opposite surfaces of the weight, and crosses in the width-wise direction of the weight. The installation member is adapted for installing the weight to a rim in a wheel. Since the weight is composed of zinc or a zinc-based alloy, environments are inhibited from being polluted when the wheel balance weight is abolished. Moreover, it is possible to manufacture the wheel balance weight at reduced costs and install it to wheels with ease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignees: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Toho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Yoshimura, Eiji Suzuki, Yoshihiro Ichimura, Yoichiro Inaba, Yutaka Yamaguchi
  • Method of sterilizing a radiation-resistant medical adhesive product
    Patent number: 6830726
    Abstract: This invention relates to a radiation-resistant acrylic adhesive composition with less reduction in the adhesion thereof upon irradiation with radiations, which composition comprises an acrylic polymer and a radiation-resistant agent, and a radiation-resistant adhesive product comprising the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Lintec Corporation
    Inventors: Rui Saito, Eiji Suzuki, Hideaki Okabe
  • Pattern-variable headlamp
    Publication number: 20040228138
    Abstract: A pattern-variable headlamp includes a light source, a reflector, a movable shade that switches a position between a first position, a second position, and a third position to form a first light distribution pattern, a second light distribution pattern, and a third light distribution pattern, respectively, from the light reflected from the reflector, a projection lens that irradiates the light distribution pattern to a road surface, a first solenoid that moves the movable shade to switch from the first position to the second position, a second solenoid that moves the movable shade to switch from the first position to the third position, and an elastic returning unit that returns the movable shade to switch from the second position to either of the first position and the third position, or from the third position to the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Applicant: Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiji Suzuki
  • Control system for vehicle
    Publication number: 20040209732
    Abstract: There is provided a control system for a vehicle, which is capable of increasing the service life of a transmission belt while preventing slippage thereof, and at the same time improving fuel economy and drivability. The control system for a vehicle sets a transmission transfer torque to be transmitted from a drive pulley of a continuously variable transmission to a driven pulley of the same, and a clutch transfer torque to be transferred by a clutch. When it is determined that the vehicle is traveling on a bad road, the clutch transfer torque is reduced, and the transmission transfer torque is set to a larger value as the clutch transfer torque is larger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Takahiro Eguchi, Hirohiko Totsuka, Eiji Suzuki, Satoru Miyata
  • Game device, game control method and program
    Publication number: 20040204211
    Abstract: A game device for adjusting the progress rate of simulation with the use of a conventional program module for environmental processing is provided. In the game device, a microprocessor (14) selectively performs, in accordance with a game operation provided by a player of a game, either a process for producing environment information which is a basis for a game image of the subsequent predetermined update cycle, and producing a main game image based on the environment information, or a process for repeatedly producing the environment information plural times, and producing a sub game image based on the last produced environment information among the information produced plural times in a shorter time than the main game image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicants: KONAMI COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT TOKYO, INC., KONAMI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eiji Suzuki
  • Headlamp
    Publication number: 20040145907
    Abstract: When a position of an adjustable shade is switched from a low beam position to a high beam position, a spring acts so as to attenuate an repulsion force or attraction force of the solenoid rapidly due to a sudden increase in an elastic force of the spring at the end of the movement of the adjustable shade toward the high beam position. As a result, the operating noise at the time of switching the position of the adjustable shade is considerably reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: ICHIKOH INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Eiji Suzuki
  • Image forming apparatus and image forming method
    Publication number: 20040126159
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units for forming an image on a printing medium such as a sheet of paper. A plurality of color types of toner are arranged on a transport path of the printing medium. Toner images corresponding to the color types of toner are color-by-color transferred onto the printing medium. Light emitted from a flash lamp melts and fixes the toner images. The fixing order of the toner images corresponding to the color types of toner is decided so that the toner images are fixed in ascending order of toner's absorptivity of the light emitted from the flash lamp or in descending order of toner's reflectivity of the light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Suzuki, Masatoshi Kimura
  • Air-driven dental vibratory instrument with a replaceable vibrator module
    Patent number: 6752629
    Abstract: An air-driven dental instrument (10) includes a replaceable vibrator module (16) detachably accommodated in an axial lodgment defined by an elongated outer casing (14) comprised of a frontal cap (22A) and a main body (26A) coupled with each other. When the cap (22A) is coupled, the module (16) is axially positioned against the cap (22A) by a positioning sleeve (90A) and is rotationally locked against the sleeve (90A) by a hexagonal formation (128) engaging into cutouts (136) formed on a housing (134). When the cap (22A) is disconnected from the main body (26A), the module (16) is retained by the housing (134) but is partly exposed therefrom. This permits a user to grip the module to thereby facilitate replacement of the module (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Micron Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Suzuki, Yutaka Kadota
  • Laser apparatus in which laser diodes and corresponding collimator lenses are fixed to block, and fiber module in which laser apparatus is coupled to optical fiber
    Publication number: 20040027631
    Abstract: A laser apparatus includes: a plurality of laser diodes respectively having light-emission points and being fixed to a block so that the light-emission points are aligned along a direction; and a collimator-lens array integrally formed to contain a plurality of collimator lenses which are arranged along a direction and respectively collimate laser beams emitted from the plurality of laser diodes. The block has a lens-setting surface which is flat, perpendicular to optical axes of the plurality of laser diodes, and located on the forward side of the plurality of laser diodes at a predetermined distance from the light-emission points, and the collimator-lens array is fixed to the block so that an end surface of the collimator-lens array is in contact with the lens-setting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Nagano, Yoji Okazaki, Teruhiko Kuramachi, Takashi Yoshida, Satoshi Mino, Eiji Suzuki
  • Liquid hammer prevention device
    Patent number: 6688335
    Abstract: A liquid hammer prevention device has a casing led to a fluid channel via passage hole, an elastic cushion made of foamed material incorporated in the casing; and a diaphragm partitioning the inside of the into an area led to the fluid channel and another area incorporating the elastic cushion. The elastic cushion is “Asker C 30 and 85” according to Japanese Industrial Standard S 6050 measured by the level gauge of a durometer “Asker C,” and is 0.30-0.70 of apparent specific gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Suzuki Sogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kobayashi, Eiji Suzuki