Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Kita
Hiroaki Kita 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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Publication number: 20230125441Abstract: Voltage detection line (6) includes: first flexible printed circuit board (36) including a plurality of first conductive wires (42) and first insulating film (44) covering the plurality of first conductive wires (42); second flexible printed circuit board (38) including a plurality of second conductive wires (46) and second insulating film (48) covering the plurality of second conductive wires (46); and connection part (40) that is soldered to each of first conductive wires (42) and each of second conductive wires (46) corresponding to each other to electrically connect the plurality of first conductive wires (42) and the plurality of second conductive wires (46), in which the plurality of first conductive wires (42) and the plurality of second conductive wires (46) are electrically connected to a plurality of batteries to detect voltages of the plurality of batteries.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2020Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: HIROAKI KITA, TAKASHI INAMURA, YASUMASA KOJIMA
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Publication number: 20220190451Abstract: An overcurrent protection element includes: chip fuse; a printed circuit board configured by mounting chip fuse on a surface thereof; external connection part configured by being coupled to the printed circuit board; and insulating layer configured by being provided on the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board is provided with conductive parts on a surface of an insulating substrate. External connection part is electrically connected to the conductive parts of the printed circuit board. Chip fuse is electrically connected to the conductive parts, and chip fuse is connected to external connection part via the conductive parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2019Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: HIROYUKI MIHARA, HIROAKI KITA
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Publication number: 20220131236Abstract: To weld a bus bar and an electrode terminal with certainty by bringing the bus bar and the electrode terminal into close contact with each other without forming a gap between the bus bar and the electrode terminal, provided is a power supply device that is a power supply device including a plurality of battery cells electrically connected with each other by bus bar (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2019Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: HIROAKI KITA, TAKASHI INAMURA, YASUMASA KOJIMA
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Patent number: 11125704Abstract: A measurement system obtains its own measurement result through use of a different system's measurement result obtained by a different measurement system. The measurement system includes: an output data acquisition unit, a designated position acquisition unit configured to acquire a designated position, which is a position indicating an address at which the different system's measurement result is represented in the output data, by a user's designation, a different system's measurement result acquisition unit, a measurement result acquisition unit, and a position data storage unit configured to store position data indicating the designated position.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: RIGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Aoki, Tatsuya Inoue, Seiji Fujimura, Hiroaki Kita
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Publication number: 20210234239Abstract: Protective element-mounted flexible flat cable includes a plurality of conductive wires, insulating sheet covering the plurality of conductive wires, and protective element that is disposed in the middle of at least one of conductive wires and limits an overcurrent flowing through the at least one of conductive wires.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2019Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: HIROAKI KITA, HIROYUKI MIHARA, TISATO MAGARA
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Publication number: 20210199606Abstract: A measurement system obtains its own measurement result through use of a different system's measurement result obtained by a different measurement system. The measurement system includes: an output data acquisition unit, a designated position acquisition unit configured to acquire a designated position, which is a position indicating an address at which the different system's measurement result is represented in the output data, by a user's designation, a different system's measurement result acquisition unit, a measurement result acquisition unit, and a position data storage unit configured to store position data indicating the designated position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Yu AOKI, Tatsuya INOUE, Seiji FUJIMURA, Hiroaki KITA
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Publication number: 20210088459Abstract: An X-ray fluorescence spectrometric system includes: a job execution unit configured to execute a job; a storage unit configured to store in advance a time required for each of operations in association with the each of the operations; a calculation unit configured to calculate, when the job is generated, a time to be taken until execution of the job is completed, for each job based on the time stored in the storage unit; and a control unit configured to newly store, when the job is executed, a time taken for the operation in the storage unit in association with the operation. The calculation unit is configured to further calculate, when the job is executed, the time to be taken until the execution of the job is completed, based on the time newly stored in the storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Hiroaki KITA, Seiitsu KURITA
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Patent number: 10948438Abstract: An X-ray fluorescence spectrometric system includes: a job execution unit configured to execute a job; a storage unit configured to store in advance a time required for each of operations in association with the each of the operations; a calculation unit configured to calculate, when the job is generated, a time to be taken until execution of the job is completed, for each job based on the time stored in the storage unit; and a control unit configured to newly store, when the job is executed, a time taken for the operation in the storage unit in association with the operation. The calculation unit is configured to further calculate, when the job is executed, the time to be taken until the execution of the job is completed, based on the time newly stored in the storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: RIGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Kita, Seiitsu Kurita
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Patent number: 10668712Abstract: A printing device includes: a platen roller, a pair of bearings, and a holder. The platen roller has a rotational shaft extending in a first direction. The bearings rotatably support respective end portions of the rotational shaft. Each of the bearings includes an abutment portion. The holder includes a pair of fitting portions into which the bearings is respectively fitted. Each of the fitting portions includes: a receiving portion, an opening portion, and an engagement portion extending from the receiving portion. The receiving portion has an inner space configured to receive the corresponding bearing. The abutment portion is configured to abut against the engagement portion. In a case where an external force in a direction toward the opening portion is applied to the bearing, the engagement portion is configured to be deformed so as to reduce an area of the opening portion, thereby immovably engaging the bearing.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Kita, Yusuke Ikemoto, Hikaru Nagata, Yuichiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 10661554Abstract: A printing device includes: a platen roller having a rotational shaft, a pair of bearings, and a holder. The bearings rotatably support end portions of the rotational shaft. Each of the bearings includes: a support portion, and an engaging portion. The support portion has an outer circumferential surface. The engaging portion is provided at the outer circumferential surface of the support portion. The holder includes a pair of fitting portions. The bearings are fitted into the fitting portions, respectively. Each of the fitting portions includes: a receiving portion configured to receive the support portion, an opening portion, and an engagement portion. The engaging portion is engaged with the engagement portion, whereby an expanding deformation of the opening portion can be restrained in a case where an external force directed in a direction toward the opening portion in the first direction is applied to the bearings.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hikaru Nagata, Hiroaki Kita, Yuichiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 10421304Abstract: A printer includes two supporters disposed at a storage section, an adjuster movably supporting at least a specific supporter of the two supporters, a protrusion protruding upward from a second section, the second section being an upper portion of the specific supporter, a locking section locking a first section in a position to which the first section is moved via the adjuster, the first section being a lower portion of the specific supporter, and an engagement section having elastically-deformable engagement pieces arranged at intervals in a particular direction intersecting a vertical direction, the protrusion being configured to, when the cover is closed, engage with at least a specific engagement piece from beneath, the specific engagement piece being maintained elastically deformed upward.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Kita, Yusuke Ikemoto, Ryuichi Kanda, Yuichiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 10295711Abstract: A prototype aluminum mold for stampers that is used to manufacture stampers having a fine irregular surface structure on the surface thereof and containing aluminum and magnesium, wherein the content of magnesium is 0.1% by mass to 3% by mass, the content of silicon is 100 ppm by mass or less, the total content of elements other than aluminum and magnesium is 500 ppm by mass or less, and the number of magnesium silicide particles having an equivalent diameter of 10 nm or more on the surface of the prototype aluminum mold for stampers is 10/1000 ?m2 or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2013Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignees: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiro Kojima, Hiroshi Onomoto, Hiroaki Kita, Kota Shirai, Hiroshi Okada, Kazume Mochizuki
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Publication number: 20180222232Abstract: A printer includes two supporters disposed at a storage section, an adjuster movably supporting at least a specific supporter of the two supporters, a protrusion protruding upward from a second section, the second section being an upper portion of the specific supporter, a locking section locking a first section in a position to which the first section is moved via the adjuster, the first section being a lower portion of the specific supporter, and an engagement section having elastically-deformable engagement pieces arranged at intervals in a particular direction intersecting a vertical direction, the protrusion being configured to, when the cover is closed, engage with at least a specific engagement piece from beneath, the specific engagement piece being maintained elastically deformed upward.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Hiroaki Kita, Yusuke Ikemoto, Ryuichi Kanda, Yuichiro Suzuki
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Publication number: 20180147827Abstract: A printing device includes: a platen roller having a rotational shaft, a pair of bearings, and a holder. The bearings rotatably support end portions of the rotational shaft. Each of the bearings includes: a support portion, and an engaging portion. The support portion has an outer circumferential surface. The engaging portion is provided at the outer circumferential surface of the support portion. The holder includes a pair of fitting portions. The bearings are fitted into the fitting portions, respectively. Each of the fitting portions includes: a receiving portion configured to receive the support portion, an opening portion, and an engagement portion. The engaging portion is engaged with the engagement portion, whereby an expanding deformation of the opening portion can be restrained in a case where an external force directed in a direction toward the opening portion in the first direction is applied to the bearings.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Hikaru NAGATA, Hiroaki KITA, Yuichiro SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20180117899Abstract: A printing device includes: a platen roller, a pair of bearings, and a holder. The platen roller has a rotational shaft extending in a first direction. The bearings rotatably support respective end portions of the rotational shaft. Each of the bearings includes an abutment portion. The holder includes a pair of fitting portions into which the bearings is respectively fitted. Each of the fitting portions includes: a receiving portion, an opening portion, and an engagement portion extending from the receiving portion. The receiving portion has an inner space configured to receive the corresponding bearing. The abutment portion is configured to abut against the engagement portion. In a case where an external force in a direction toward the opening portion is applied to the bearing, the engagement portion is configured to be deformed so as to reduce an area of the opening portion, thereby immovably engaging the bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Hiroaki KITA, Yusuke IKEMOTO, Hikaru NAGATA, Yuichiro SUZUKI
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Patent number: 9205686Abstract: A printer includes a first case and a second case, a paper containing portion is formed in the first case and contains a paper roll, a paper holder is provided in the paper containing portion and hold the paper roll, a pair of supporting members are provided in the paper holder and hold both ends of the paper roll, with each of the supporting members holding one of the ends, a contacting portion is provided in the paper holder and is thicker than are the supporting members, and a first projection projects in the paper containing portion from the first case toward the paper holder and is positioned, in the axial direction of the paper roll, between the contacting portion and a wall surface of the first case located on the side of the contact portion and is able to come into contact with the contacting portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2012Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki Kita, Minoru Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9138936Abstract: The invention relates to a stamper in which an oxide film having a fine concave-convex structure made up of a plurality of fine pores having an aspect ratio represented by [the depth of the fine pores/the average interval between the fine pores] of 1 to 4 is formed on the surface of an aluminum base material which is made of aluminum having a content of Ti of 150 ppm to 500 ppm, a content of B or C of 1 ppm to 50 ppm and a purity of 99.9% or more. According to the invention, it is possible to provide a low-cost stamper in which the emergence of a pattern derived from the traces of crystal grains on the surface of the oxide film is suppressed, an article having a favorable appearance, which is manufactured using the above stamper, and a method for manufacturing the above.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignees: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd., Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Kita, Kota Shirai, Katsuhiro Kojima
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Patent number: 9057143Abstract: The present invention relates to an aluminum die base material for a stamper having a component composition that contains 0.5% by weight to 3.0% by weight of Mg, the total amount of elements other than Mg, including unavoidable impurities, is 500 ppm or less, and the remainder is composed of Al, and a forged structure in which the average crystal grain size is 1000 ?m or less and the surface area ratio of second phase particles is 0.10% or less. According to the present application, a stamper can be provided in which, together with the crystal grain size of the aluminum being refined, the formation of second phase particles is inhibited, surface irregularities attributable to mirrored surface polishing are reduced, and a uniform relief pattern is formed by anodic oxidation treatment.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2010Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignees: Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd., Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Kita, Kota Shirai, Hisakazu Ito
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Publication number: 20150053566Abstract: Disclosed herein are a stamper which has anodized alumina formed on the surface thereof and which will not cause macroscopic unevenness or color unevenness on the transcribed surface; a method for producing the same; and a method for producing a molded material without macroscopic unevenness or color unevenness on the transcribed surface thereof by using such a stamper. The stamper includes alumina which has a microasperity structure and which is formed by anodization on the surface of a prototype aluminum mold having an aluminum purity of 99.5% or more, an average crystal-grain diameter of 1 mm or less, and an arithmetic mean surface roughness Ra of 0.05 ?m or less. The use of this stamper enables the production of a molded material which does not have macroscopic unevenness or color unevenness on the transcribed surface thereof and which is suitable for use as an antireflection article and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicants: MITSUBISHI RAYON CO., LTD., NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD., KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Katsuhiro KOJIMA, Eiko OKAMOTO, Yoshihiro UOZU, Seiji TONE, Hideki Masuda, Takashi YANAGISHITA, Hiroaki KITA, Hisakazu ITO, Kota SHIRAI, Masayuki SAEKI
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Publication number: 20150050455Abstract: A prototype aluminum mold for stampers that is used to manufacture stampers having a fine irregular surface structure on the surface thereof and containing aluminum and magnesium, wherein the content of magnesium is 0.1% by mass to 3% by mass, the content of silicon is 100 ppm by mass or less, the total content of elements other than aluminum and magnesium is 500 ppm by mass or less, and the number of magnesium silicide particles having an equivalent diameter of 10 nm or more on the surface of the prototype aluminum mold for stampers is 10/1000 ?m2 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventors: Katsuhiro Kojima, Hiroshi Onomoto, Hiroaki Kita, Kota Shirai, Hiroshi Okada, Kazume Mochizuki