Patents by Inventor Haruo Machida
Haruo Machida 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: 9801963Abstract: Provided is a steam sterilizer capable of performing water vapor sterilization without using a vacuum pump as a mechanism for bringing the inside of a pressure vessel into vacuum. The steam sterilizer includes a pressure vessel (32) which stores an object to be sterilized and in which sterilization is performed with water vapor supplied from a steam piping, and vacuum-generating means (34) which is connected to the pressure vessel (32) and brings the inside of the pressure vessel (32) into a vacuum state. The vacuum-generating means (34) includes a water ejector (48), a tank (50) for storing supply water supplied from an outside, and a pump (52) for supplying the supply water inside the tank (50) to the water ejector (48).Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2012Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: SAKURA SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Chihiro Kinebuchi, Eiichi Minemura, Satoshi Tanaka, Haruo Machida, Akihiro Miyamoto, Kouji Tanaka, Hiroshi Karasawa
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Patent number: 9381264Abstract: A steam sterilizer includes a sterilization tank configured to house an object to be sterilized and perform sterilization on the object to be sterilized by maintaining supplied steam at a predetermined temperature and under a predetermined pressure; a steam-supplying pipe configured to supply the steam into the sterilization tank; a steam-supplying pipe valve configured to control an amount of steam flow flowing through the steam-supplying pipe, wherein the steam-supplying pipe is provided so as to have a diameter that allows a pressure-increase rate of 100 kPa/min or more in the sterilization tank; and a control unit configured to control the steam-supplying pipe valve to be fully opened, in a conditioning process for repeatedly performing introduction and discharge of the steam in and from the sterilization tank and to control the steam-supplying pipe valve so as to supply a predetermined amount of steam, in a sterilization process after the conditioning process.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Sakura Seiki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eiichi Minemura, Haruo Machida, Hiroshi Karasawa
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Publication number: 20150023841Abstract: A steam sterilizer includes a sterilization tank configured to house an object to be sterilized and perform sterilization on the object to be sterilized by maintaining supplied steam at a predetermined temperature and under a predetermined pressure; a steam-supplying pipe configured to supply the steam into the sterilization tank; a steam-supplying pipe valve configured to control an amount of steam flow flowing through the steam-supplying pipe, wherein the steam-supplying pipe is provided so as to have a diameter that allows a pressure-increase rate of 100 kPa/min or more in the sterilization tank; and a control unit configured to control the steam-supplying pipe valve to be fully opened, in a conditioning process for repeatedly performing introduction and discharge of the steam in and from the sterilization tank and to control the steam-supplying pipe valve so as to supply a predetermined amount of steam, in a sterilization process after the conditioning process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: Sakura Seiki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eiichi Minemura, Haruo Machida, Hiroshi Karasawa
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Publication number: 20140363339Abstract: Provided is a steam sterilizer capable of performing water vapor sterilization without using a vacuum pump as a mechanism for bringing the inside of a pressure vessel into vacuum. The steam sterilizer includes a pressure vessel (32) which stores an object to be sterilized and in which sterilization is performed with water vapor supplied from a steam piping, and vacuum-generating means (34) which is connected to the pressure vessel (32) and brings the inside of the pressure vessel (32) into a vacuum state. The vacuum-generating means (34) includes a water ejector (48), a tank (50) for storing supply water supplied from an outside, and a pump (52) for supplying the supply water inside the tank (50) to the water ejector (48).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2012Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: SAKURA SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Chihiro Kinebuchi, Eiichi Minemura, Satoshi Tanaka, Haruo Machida, Akihiro Miyamoto, Kouji Tanaka, Hiroshi Karasawa
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Patent number: 8468698Abstract: A workpiece having a first constant diameter portion, a tapered reduced-diameter portion, a concave portion, a tapered increased-diameter portion, and a second constant diameter portion is formed by machining the tapered reduced-diameter portion, and then machining the tapered increased-diameter portion and the concave portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsunenari Futagi, Nobuyuki Kakiya, Tadahisa Akiyama, Ikuo Kato, Akitoshi Uchiumi, Shinichi Ohnaka, Toshimasa Koshimizu, Haruo Machida, Yuji Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8431858Abstract: The seam welding apparatus welds a workpiece held by a robot while delivering the workpiece between a pair of electrode rolls. The seam welding apparatus includes a load cell mounted on the robot, for detecting a load imposed along a Y direction which is perpendicular to a pressing direction Z along which the electrode rolls press the workpiece at a weld point and a delivering direction X along which the robot delivers the workpiece at the weld point, a robot controller and an arithmetic unit, a turning mechanism for turning the electrode rolls about the pressing direction Z, and a control device for controlling the turning mechanism to operate depending on the magnitude of the load in the Y direction detected by the load cell.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kohei Kanaya, Haruo Machida, Naoji Yamaoka, Tsutomu Asaina
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Patent number: 8402477Abstract: An information processing apparatus can easily delete drivers which become unnecessary as a result of removal of a peripheral device shared on a network or cancellation of a sharing setting. A driver deletion notification including the designation of a driver is input via an external network. In response to the deletion notification, the designated driver is deleted.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2009Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Haruo Machida
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Patent number: 8019853Abstract: The present invention allows a structure of an entire system including various peripheral devices to be visually confirmable, allows a user to easily grasp or see the entire system, and allows the entire system to be effectively used. Thus, a CPU acquires a resource information structure and a status of each peripheral device by communicating with these devices, and a virtual system configuration display unit causes a display unit to display a system configuration based on the acquired resource information structure and each peripheral device status such that specific icons capable of being discriminated for respective functions are displayed to be connected on a virtual network path.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2004Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Haruo Machida
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Publication number: 20110010940Abstract: A workpiece having a first constant diameter portion, a tapered reduced-diameter portion, a concave portion, a tapered increased-diameter portion, and a second constant diameter portion is formed by machining the tapered reduced-diameter portion, and then machining the tapered increased-diameter portion and the concave portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2010Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsunenari FUTAGI, Nobuyuki KAKIYA, Tadahisa AKIYAMA, Ikuo KATO, Akitoshi UCHIUMI, Shinichi OHNAKA, Toshimasa KOSHIMIZU, Haruo MACHIDA, Yuji MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 7845544Abstract: In a friction stir welding method for friction stirring and welding a material by using a rotating tool having a shoulder and a pin at a front portion of a shaft portion and ejecting a cooling agent from a cooling nozzle to the tool to be cooled thereby, the cooling agent is ejected to a middle portion in an axial direction of the tool to thereby prevent thermal expansion in an axial direction of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2006Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Honda Motor., Ltd.Inventors: Haruo Machida, Tadashi Goto
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Patent number: 7815094Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cylindrical body, comprising the step of forming the cylindrical body by bending a plate-like work having first projected finger to fourth projected finger at four corned parts and allowing the end faces thereof to abut on each other, wherein the main surface of the cylindrical body on the side where sags are present is formed in an outer peripheral wall surface and the rear surface thereof on the side where the burrs are present is formed in an inner peripheral wall surface, and a first projected part is formed of the first projected finger and the third projected finger and a second projected part is formed of the second projected finger and the fourth projected finger. After the cylindrical body is held by friction stir welding devices, the probe of a friction stir welding tool is buried from the direction of either of the first projected part and the second projected part, and scanned in the direction of the other of the second projected part and the first projected part.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2003Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunsuke Sunahara, Haruo Machida, Yuu Igarashi, Tadashi Goto, Toshimasa Koshimizu, Hideo Nakamura, Satoru Morita, Taisei Wakisaka, Kei Kuriyama
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Publication number: 20100170879Abstract: The seam welding apparatus welds a workpiece held by a robot while delivering the workpiece between a pair of electrode rolls. The seam welding apparatus includes a load cell mounted on the robot, for detecting a load imposed along a Y direction which is perpendicular to a pressing direction Z along which the electrode rolls press the workpiece at a weld point and a delivering direction X along which the robot delivers the workpiece at the weld point, a robot controller and an arithmetic unit, a turning mechanism for turning the electrode rolls about the pressing direction Z, and a control device for controlling the turning mechanism to operate depending on the magnitude of the load in the Y direction detected by the load cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2009Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei KANAYA, Haruo Machida, Naoji Yamaoka, Tsutomu Asaina
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Publication number: 20100154193Abstract: Positions of predetermined spots in a frame of a motorcycle are determined by sensing all the predetermined spots in one direction from a front side or a rear side of the frame of the motorcycle by a sensing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaoru Kitamura, Shinichi Ohnaka, Chiyoko Nemoto, Haruo Machida, Shin Koiwa, Tadashi Goto, Naoji Yamaoka, Kotaro Fujikura
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Patent number: 7743034Abstract: In a network system including a server apparatus, client apparatus, and database, when a registration request of catalog data of a catalog is received from the client apparatus, the catalog data is registered in the database as one file of the catalog. When a registration request of merchandise information to be associated with the catalog data is received from the client apparatus, the merchandise information is registered as one page of the catalog data. Hence, the merchandise information of the catalog can be associated with catalog data of each page.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2005Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Haruo Machida
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Patent number: 7743374Abstract: There is a problem of making it possible to set up a driver with a simple operation when a driver for a peripheral device on the network is not installed. When a driver setup instruction is given, an instruction is sent to the specified PC to perform an operation to set up the driver specified by the user, and the information processing unit performs the operation to set up the driver based on the instruction. For example, when the peripheral device is a printer, the information processing unit determines whether or not the setup operation has been completed normally, and if the driver has been correctly installed, test printing is executed.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2001Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Haruo Machida
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Patent number: 7689618Abstract: A PC server, connected with a client PC, extracts from a database content satisfying a condition designated from the client PC, and content that does not directly satisfy the designated condition. A pamphlet including the extracted content is output.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2004Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Haruo Machida, Takahiro Shimizu
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Patent number: 7606874Abstract: Property information of a driver is newly set or updated via a simple operation on a network. First, property information is created. When a driver is installed or updated, the created property information associated with the driver is transmitted from a server device to a client device, which in turn sets the property information of the driver.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2006Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Haruo Machida
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Patent number: 7593983Abstract: To flexibly configure an operation environment capable of easily and efficiently setting data processing in accordance with settings of expansion functions for a composite function while visually confirming the expansion functions of devices, a system configuration is displayed on a CRT in accordance with function information, connection information and status information of each device acquired via a network. When a user designates a set of icons of devices for realizing desired composite function processing, a CPU operates to display a combination function setting screen for the composite function processing, and displays on this setting screen a configuration image including the designated expansion functions of devices. A combination operation of corresponding devices is controlled in accordance with the settings on the setting screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2003Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Haruo Machida
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Publication number: 20090219568Abstract: Property information of a driver is newly set or updated via a simple operation on a network. First, property information is created. When a driver is installed or updated, the created property information associated with the driver is transmitted from a server device to a client device, which in turn sets the property information of the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2009Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Haruo Machida
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Publication number: 20090204979Abstract: An information processing apparatus can easily delete drivers which become unnecessary as a result of removal of a peripheral device shared on a network or cancellation of a sharing setting. A driver deletion notification including the designation of a driver is input via an external network. In response to the deletion notification, the designated driver is deleted.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Haruo Machida