Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Tomita

Hiroaki Tomita 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: 20050167179
    Abstract: A saddle ride type all-terrain vehicle includes left and right front wheels supported independently of each other on a vehicle body such that driving power is transmitted to said front wheels by way of a pair of left and right drive shafts extending from a driving source side. The vehicle also includes universal couplings provided at opposite end portions of each of the drive shafts, covered by rubber boots. The vehicle further includes a protector for covering the rubber boots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Hasegawa, Akio Handa, Masahiro Inoue, Makoto Toda, Hiroaki Tomita, Keita Yagi
  • Publication number: 20040152111
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for diagnosing mental disorders such as mood disorders, including bipolar disorder I and II and major depression. The invention also provides methods of identifying modulators of such mental disorders as well as methods of using these modulators to treat patients suffering from such mental disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Huda Akil, William E. Bunney, Prabhakara V. Choudary, Simon J. Evans, Edward G. Jones, Jun Li, Juan F. Lopez, Robert C. Thompson, Richard Myers, Hiroaki Tomita, Marquis P. Vawter, Stanley Watson
  • Patent number: 6758297
    Abstract: A two-wheel-drive/four-wheel-drive switching system for a vehicle wherein noise is reduced and a state of drive can be securely indicated. A two-wheel-drive/four-wheel-drive switching system for a vehicle is provided with a switching unit provided to either of power transmission mechanisms connecting an engine and front wheels, and the engine and rear wheels via final reduction gear units for enabling or disabling the transmission of power in the power transmission mechanism. An indication control member is provided for detecting that the transmission of power is made in the power transmission mechanism and illuminates an indicator wherein the indication control means detects a phase difference in revolutions between a pair of final reduction gear units and illuminates or turns off the indicator when the phase difference is in a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Handa, Hiroaki Tomita, Shinji Goto, Akio Senda
  • Publication number: 20030234130
    Abstract: A two-wheel-drive/four-wheel-drive switching system for a vehicle wherein noise is reduced and a state of drive can be securely indicated. A two-wheel-drive/four-wheel-drive switching system for a vehicle is provided with a switching unit provided to either of power transmission mechanisms connecting an engine and front wheels, and the engine and rear wheels via final reduction gear units for enabling or disabling the transmission of power in the power transmission mechanism. An indication control member is provided for detecting that the transmission of power is made in the power transmission mechanism and illuminates an indicator wherein the indication control means detects a phase difference in revolutions between a pair of final reduction gear units and illuminates or turns off the indicator when the phase difference is in a predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Inventors: Akio Handa, Hiroaki Tomita, Shinji Goto, Akio Senda
  • Patent number: 6659256
    Abstract: A two-wheel and four-wheel driving change-over device for a vehicle is provided. A change-over unit intermittently performs power transmission for the power transmission mechanism. The change-over unit includes a driving shaft connected to a driving side, a driven shaft fitted to the driving shaft with an annular clearance therebetween. A plurality of engaging or disengaging members installed in a clearance between the driving shaft and driven shaft are engaged with or disengaged from the opposing surfaces for performing a connecting operation and a disconnecting operation between the driving shaft and driven shaft. A change-over mechanism is provided for selectively positioning the engaging or disengaging members between a position where the driving shaft and driven shaft are connected and a position where the driving shaft and driven shaft are disconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Bunzo Seki, Akio Handa, Hiroaki Tomita
  • Publication number: 20010030073
    Abstract: A two-wheel and four-wheel driving change-over device for a vehicle wherein the existing construction as little as possible. A change-over unit intermittently performs power transmission for the power transmission mechanism. The change-over unit includes a driving shaft connected to a driving side, a driven shaft fitted to the driving shaft with an annular clearance therebetween. A plurality of engaging or disengaging members installed in a clearance between the driving shaft and driven shaft are engaged with or disengaged from the opposing surfaces for performing a connecting operation and a disconnecting operation between the driving shaft and driven shaft. A change-over mechanism is provided for selectively positioning the engaging or disengaging members between a position where said driving shaft and driven shaft are connected and a position where said driving shaft and driven shaft are disconnected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Inventors: Bunzo Seki, Akio Handa, Hiroaki Tomita
  • Patent number: 6293374
    Abstract: A drum brake includes a brake drum attached to an axle, and a brake panel. The brake drum includes a disc portion and a cylindrical portion extending from an outer peripheral end portion of the disc portion towards the brake panel. On an outer peripheral end portion of the cylindrical portion, there is mounted a seal member. The brake panel includes an annular flat surface portion, and a cylindrical projecting portion projecting from an outer peripheral end portion of the annular flat surface portion towards the brake drum so as to surround the seal member. The seal member has plural resilient axial sealing lips and at least one resilient radial sealing lip. The axial sealing lips are in sealing contact with the annular flat surface portion, and the radial lip is in sealing contact with an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical projecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignees: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Arai Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tomita, Bunzo Seki, Akio Handa, Seiji Kurimoto, Eiji Katabami
  • Patent number: 6043355
    Abstract: A phthalocyanine compound of formula (I): ##STR1## wherein FIGS. 1 to 16 around the phthalocyanine skeleton indicate the positions of carbon atoms in each benzene ring thereof; an oxygen atom is bonded to the carbon atom with position 1 or 4, to the carbon atom with position 5 or 8, to the carbon atom with position 9 or 12, and to the carbon atom with position 13 or 16; R.sup.1 is a fluorine-atom substituted alkyl group; R.sup.2 is an unsubstituted phenyl group or an alkyl-group-substituted phenyl group; R.sup.3 is an unsubstituted alkyl group, a fluorine-atom substituted alkyl group or a hydrogen atom; and M represents Zn, Cu or Ni.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Yamada Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Yashiro, Masatoshi Taniguchi, Toshiro Narizuka, Hiroaki Tomita
  • Patent number: 5843622
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid photosensitive resin composition for use in forming a relief structure, comprising (A) an unsaturated polyurethane prepolymer comprising a plurality of diol segments comprising at least one polyester diol segment and at least one polyether diol segment, wherein the weight ratio of the at least one polyester diol segment to the at least one polyether diol segment is from 1:3 to 4:1, and wherein each of the at least one polyester diol segment is independently a polyester diol segment comprising recurring units of a unit represented by the following formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a divalent aliphatic group or a divalent aromatic group,or a polyester diol segment comprising recurring units of a unit represented by the following formula (2): ##STR2## (B) an addition-polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and (C) a photopolymerization initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Ashai Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tomita, Takashi Kobayashi, Norihiko Sakata
  • Patent number: 5813958
    Abstract: A rocking foot exerciser enables exercising of the legs by allowing the ankles to be tilted evenly in multiple directions without rotating the body. A rocking plate, which tilts accompanying rotation of a rotating disk 2; is installed on an inclined surface of the rotating disk 2; installing the horizontal surface of said rotating centering member consisting of the combination of a ring-shaped rails and grooved pulleys provided on an upper surface of a hollow stand case is disposed on a surface of the rotating disk. A motor M is mounted in the stand case and rotates the rotating disk. A central portion of the rocking plate is fixed to the upper portion of a universal joint provided upright on the stand case to prevent the rocking plate from rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Inventor: Hiroaki Tomita