Patents by Inventor Hideaki Itou

Hideaki Itou 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).

  • Publication number: 20240389201
    Abstract: A film heater includes a transparent substrate and a transparent heating element, wherein a surface of the transparent substrate opposite to the transparent heating element has a water contact angle of 55° or less or 90° or more. A heater-equipped glass includes the film heater, a glass plate opposite to the surface, and an electrode in contact with the transparent heating element of the film heater, the electrode being disposed between the film heater and the glass plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shouhei HARADA, Koji MISHIMA, Yoshinori SATO, Kazushi YAMADA, Hideaki ITOU
  • Publication number: 20240376693
    Abstract: In a work machine, when on a travel plane S of crawler belts, a straight line passing through a predicted travel point P1 a given distance from the crawler belts and having a maximum climbing angle is assumed to be a first line L1, and a line connecting an installation position of a distance sensor and the predicted travel point P1 is assumed to be a second line L2. The distance sensor measures a distance to a ground surface on the second straight line L2. A controller calculates a height H1 of a predicted travel region T based on a result of the distance sensor and a detection result of a turning angle sensor, and determines whether a height difference H3 between a height H1 of the predicted travel region T and a height H2 of the travel plane S is equal to or greater than a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Teppei SAITOH, Ryu NARIKAWA, Tadashi NISHIZAWA, Hideaki ITOU, Hidefumi ISHIMOTO, Kei SATOU
  • Patent number: 12065805
    Abstract: A work machine includes a second pilot line that introduces a hydraulic fluid from a pilot hydraulic fluid source to a pilot valve bypassing a first gate lock valve, a second gate lock valve that is disposed on the second pilot line and that is configured to be switched to an open position for allowing the supply of the hydraulic fluid to the pilot valve or a closed position for interrupting the supply of the hydraulic fluid, and a controller that controls the second gate lock valve on the basis of a second remote operation signal transmitted from a remote operation apparatus and that controls the pilot valve according to a first remote operation signal transmitted from the remote operation apparatus. In a state where the first gate lock valve is at a closed position, the second gate lock valve is allowed to be controlled by the controller when stairs are in a retracted state, and is kept at the closed position irrespective of the second remote operation signal when the stairs are in an extended state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teppei Saitoh, Kouji Fujita, Hideaki Itou, Hidefumi Ishimoto, Ryu Narikawa, Tadashi Nishizawa
  • Publication number: 20240215120
    Abstract: A film heater includes: a substrate; a first hard coat layer containing a first resin component and a silica filler; a first dielectric layer; a metal layer containing one or both of silver and silver alloy; a second dielectric layer; and an ITO layer or an IZO layer in the order presented, wherein a thickness of the metal layer is 5.5 to 7.5 nm, and wherein a peak intensity indicating a K? line of silicon element detected by fluorescent X-ray analysis of a surface on the first dielectric layer side of the first hard coat layer is 15 to 35 cps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shouhei HARADA, Koji MISHIMA, Kazushi YAMADA, Kazuhisa INABA, Hideaki ITOU
  • Publication number: 20240177945
    Abstract: An electronic-component-protection structure which can protect, with a simple configuration, an electronic component from static electricity that may be charged in a case member. A ground member having conductivity is integrally formed with a circuit board or electrically connected to the circuit board, wherein the circuit board has an electronic component mounted thereon. A housing includes a base member and a case member and accommodates the circuit board and a ground member. A sealing member, which is a conductive elastic member disposed between the base member and the case member, is at least partly exposed to the outside of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Toshiyuki SHINOZAWA, Hideaki ITOU, Yoshiya SUZUKI, Kenta TANIGAWA, Hiroyuki SHIBASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230366178
    Abstract: A work machine includes a second pilot line that introduces a hydraulic fluid from a pilot hydraulic fluid source to a pilot valve bypassing a first gate lock valve, a second gate lock valve that is disposed on the second pilot line and that is configured to be switched to an open position for allowing the supply of the hydraulic fluid to the pilot valve or a closed position for interrupting the supply of the hydraulic fluid, and a controller that controls the second gate lock valve on the basis of a second remote operation signal transmitted from a remote operation apparatus and that controls the pilot valve according to a first remote operation signal transmitted from the remote operation apparatus. In a state where the first gate lock valve is at a closed position, the second gate lock valve is allowed to be controlled by the controller when stairs are in a retracted state, and is kept at the closed position irrespective of the second remote operation signal when the stairs are in an extended state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Teppei SAITOH, Kouji FUJITA, Hideaki ITOU, Hidefumi ISHIMOTO, Ryu NARIKAWA, Tadashi NISHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230358014
    Abstract: Provided is a work machine that allows assisting a loading work without giving uncomfortable feeling to an operator. The control device 40 of the work machine 1 includes an allowable range calculation section 46 that calculates an allowable range indicating a range in which the front work device 2 is movable in a height direction allowed in a swing operation; an operation determining section 45 that determines whether the work machine 1 is under a convey operation; and an operation control section 4 that controls a turn operation of a boom 8 such that the position of the front work device 2 in the height direction remains within the allowable range when the work machine 1 is determined to be under the convey operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Ryu NARIKAWA, Kouji FUJITA, Hideaki ITOU, Hidefumi ISHIMOTO, Teppei SAITOH, Tadashi NISHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11385431
    Abstract: The coated optical fiber (10) includes: an optical fiber (11) including a core (111) and a cladding (112); a first buffer layer (121) covering the optical fiber (11), and having a refractive index lower than that of the cladding (112) and a Shore D hardness of D/20.0/1 or higher; a second buffer layer (122) covering the first buffer layer (121), and having a higher Shore D hardness than the first buffer layer (121); and a jacket (13) covering the second buffer layer (122).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Mitshishi Cable Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Tanaka, Yoshiki Yamakawa, Hideaki Itou, Daiki Tabei
  • Publication number: 20190346649
    Abstract: The coated optical fiber (10) includes: an optical fiber (11) including a core (111) and a cladding (112); a first buffer layer (121) covering the optical fiber (11), and having a refractive index lower than that of the cladding (112) and a Shore D hardness of D/20.0/1 or higher; a second buffer layer (122) covering the first buffer layer (121), and having a higher Shore D hardness than the first buffer layer (121); and a jacket (13) covering the second buffer layer (122).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Masatoshi TANAKA, Yoshiki YAMAKAWA, Hideaki ITOU, Daiki TABEI
  • Publication number: 20180330850
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide technology for making it possible to manufacture a wire harness without using an assembly jig board, and to manufacture a wire harness with improved dimensional accuracy. The wire harness is manufactured in the following manner. First, an electrical wire group that extends from each connector is provisionally tied together by winding a piece of provisional binding tape around a portion of the electrical wire group at a binding position that is distant from the connector. Next, electrical wire groups that are each tied together at a binding position are ultimately tied together by winding a piece of ultimate binding tape around the pieces of provisional binding tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki ITOU, Shigeto KATO
  • Publication number: 20170361788
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to further stabilize the fixed state of a protection member and an electrical wire in a wire module that includes a protection member having a hollow structure. The wire module includes an electrical wire portion and a protection member. The electrical wire portion includes at least one electrical wire. The protection member covers at least a portion of the electrical wire portion in the circumferential direction thereof, and is formed by a hollow plate member that includes a plurality of plate-shaped portions and interposing portions that are arranged between the plate-shaped portions and form hollow spaces between the plate-shaped portions. Also, among the plate-shaped portions of the protection member, an innermost plate-shaped portion that comes into contact with the electrical wire portion is entirely curved in a shape that conforms to the outer circumferential surface of the electrical wire portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventor: Hideaki Itou
  • Patent number: 9774109
    Abstract: A grounding terminal unit (A) is sandwiched between a seating surface (S) of a bolt (B) and a grounding part (E) with first connecting plates (13) of a first grounding terminal fitting (10) and second connecting plates (43) of a second grounding terminal fitting (40) placed one over the other in a plate thickness direction. The first grounding terminal fitting (10) is configured by uniting two divided fittings (20, 30) including tabs (19) connectable to first conductive paths (Wa) and the two divided fittings (20, 30) are formed with uniting locking portions (25, 33) for holding the two divided fittings (20, 30) in a united state by being locked to each other at a position different from the first connecting plates (13). The first connecting plates (13) are in the form of single plates with the two divided fittings (20, 30) united.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Tabata, Yasuo Oomori, Hajime Matsui, Hideaki Itou, Kenta Ito
  • Publication number: 20170090248
    Abstract: Provided is manufacturing method of a quantum dot-containing laminated body including: forming a coating film by applying a quantum dot-containing composition which contains quantum dots, a curable compound, and a thixotropic agent and has a viscosity in a case of a shear rate of 500 s?1 of 3 to 100 mPa·s and a viscosity in a case of a shear rate of 1 s?1 of equal to or greater than 300 mPa·s, onto a first base material; laminating a second base material onto the coating film; and applying external stimuli to the coating film sandwiched between the first base material and the second base material for hardening, and forming a quantum dot-containing layer. The manufacturing method realizes high productivity, obtains a quantum dot-containing layer without coating streaks, and has slight film thickness unevenness of the quantum dot-containing laminated body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YONEYAMA, Hideaki ITOU, Tomonari OGAWA, Satoshi KUNIYASU
  • Publication number: 20160329644
    Abstract: A grounding terminal unit (A) is sandwiched between a seating surface (S) of a bolt (B) and a grounding part (E) with first connecting plates (13) of a first grounding terminal fitting (10) and second connecting plates (43) of a second grounding terminal fitting (40) placed one over the other in a plate thickness direction. The first grounding terminal fitting (10) is configured by uniting two divided fittings (20, 30) including tabs (19) connectable to first conductive paths (Wa) and the two divided fittings (20, 30) are formed with uniting locking portions (25, 33) for holding the two divided fittings (20, 30) in a united state by being locked to each other at a position different from the first connecting plates (13). The first connecting plates (13) are in the form of single plates with the two divided fittings (20, 30) united.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Masaaki Tabata, Yasuo Oomori, Hajime Matsui, Hideaki Itou, Kenta Ito
  • Patent number: 8991429
    Abstract: A pilot valve assembly comprised of a pilot valve proper employing a spool to be displaced in a valve casing to bring a hydraulic pressure port and an output port into and out of communication with each other, an operation means having an operating lever with a cam member attached thereto, a pivoting shaft erected on an end plate of the pilot valve proper and connected with the manual operating lever through a universal joint, and a boot of a resilient material hermetically connected between the operation means and the end plate in such a way as to completely enshroud said universal joint, cam member and pusher, the end plate being detachably fixed to the mount member, and the boot having one end thereof connected to the operation means and having the other end hermetically gripped between the end plate and the mount member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Hideaki Itou, Sakurako Hirano, Masaki Takao
  • Patent number: 8861083
    Abstract: A birefringence pattern builder used in a method of producing a patterned birefringent product including a step of patterned light exposure of an optically anisotropic layer and a step of heating the layer after the light exposure to 50° C. or higher but not higher than 400° C., which include the optically anisotropic layer, a support, and a laminate film in this order, is provided. The birefringence pattern builder prevents nonuniformity of functional layers that may generate in the production process, is useful for a production method that hardly causes nonuniformity in the patterned birefringent product even after a rolling-up step in the industrial production process, and enables a production of a thinner product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Sawanobori, Hideaki Itou
  • Patent number: 8624135
    Abstract: A switch unit for detecting movement of a target object in a first direction and in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction includes a first movable body arranged to move in the first direction together with the movement of the target object in the first direction, a first substrate provided with a first detecting unit for detecting a position of the first movable body in the first direction, a second movable body arranged to move in the second direction together with the movement of the target object in the second direction, and a second substrate provided with a second detecting unit for detecting a position of the second movable body in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho
    Inventors: Yukinori Fujikawa, Hideaki Itou, Takumi Kuroki
  • Publication number: 20130308085
    Abstract: According to the present invention, provided is a birefringent transfer foil, comprising a temporary support, an orientation layer, a birefringent layer (preferably a patterned optically anisotropic layer) formed from a composition comprising a liquid-crystal compound having at least one reactive group, said orientation layer being in contact with the temporary support or a releasing layer, wherein the releasing layer being in contact with the temporary support, and said orientation layer being a layer comprising a cellulose alkyl ether or a hydroxyalkyl derivative of cellulose alkyl ether. In the birefringent transfer foil of the present invention, the above orientation layer also functions as a protective layer and a detachment layer, enabling to reduce the manufacturing cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Reona IKEDA, Yuuya YAMAMOTO, Hideaki ITOU
  • Publication number: 20130250229
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a birefringence pattern transfer foil, comprising at least one patterned optically anisotropic layer having two or more regions of differing birefringence and at least one adhesive layer on a temporary support, characterized in that a blocking prevention means is provided to the adhesive layer and/or characterized in that the retardation of the adhesive layer is 40 nm or less is provided. The birefringence pattern transfer foil of the present invention has excellent applicability and handling, and can be used on a variety of subjects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki KANEIWA, Yuuya YAMAMOTO, Reona IKEDA, Hideaki ITOU
  • Publication number: 20120061225
    Abstract: A switch unit for detecting movement of a target object in a first direction and in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction includes a first movable body arranged to move in the first direction together with the movement of the target object in the first direction, a first substrate provided with a first detecting unit for detecting a position of the first movable body in the first direction, a second movable body arranged to move in the second direction together with the movement of the target object in the second direction, and a second substrate provided with a second detecting unit for detecting a position of the second movable body in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO, PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukinori Fujikawa, Hideaki Itou, Takumi Kuroki