Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Kimura

Hirofumi Kimura 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).

  • Patent number: 10858993
    Abstract: The variable vane device maintenance method includes: a preparation step of preparing a ring including a first connection portion at which an attachment bracket is attached to the ring and a second connection portion at which the attachment bracket is attached at a position shifted from the first connection portion in a circumferential direction, the ring having the attachment bracket attached at the first connection portion; a release step of releasing a connection between a plurality of variable vanes and the ring and a connection between the ring and the attachment bracket at the first connection portion; a rotation step of rotating the ring by a predetermined angle; and a connection step of connecting the plurality of variable vanes to the ring at positions different from positions before the release step and connecting the ring to the attachment bracket at the second connection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10815555
    Abstract: A heat-resistant, austenitic cast steel having excellent thermal fatigue properties, comprising by mass 0.3-0.6% of C, 0.5-3% of Si, 0.5-2% of Mn, 15-30% of Cr, 6-30% of Ni, 0.6-5% of Nb, 0.01-0.5% of N, and 0.01-0.5% of S, C/N being 4-7, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; and a ratio A/B of a Cr-carbide-forming index A to a Nb-carbide-forming index B being 0.6-1.7, wherein A and B are expressed by the formula (1) of A=8.5C?Nb+0.05Cr+0.65Ni?5, and the formula (2) of B=7.8Nb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kimura, Tomonori Namito, Susumu Katsuragi, Junji Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20180015973
    Abstract: Sensing units, nut runners, and position adjusting members are provided for respective front end arms of a first position adjusting robot and a second position adjusting robot. First, the position of a vehicle body is determined by the sensing units of the first position adjusting robot and the second position adjusting robot. The first position adjusting robot and the second position adjusting robot move a front end module by the position adjusting members to a position where the front end module can move into an opening in a front part of the vehicle body, based on the positional information of the vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Nanba, Hitoe Yoshimoto, Hirofumi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20170298489
    Abstract: A heat-resistant, austenitic cast steel having excellent thermal fatigue properties, comprising by mass 0.3-0.6% of C, 0.5-3% of Si, 0.5-2% of Mn, 15-30% of Cr, 6-30% of Ni, 0.6-5% of Nb, 0.01-0.5% of N, and 0.01-0.5% of S, C/N being 4-7, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; and a ratio A/B of a Cr-carbide-forming index A to a Nb-carbide-forming index B being 0.6-1.7, wherein A and B are expressed by the formula (1) of A=8.5C?Nb+0.05Cr+0.65Ni?5, and the formula (2) of B=7.8Nb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi KIMURA, Tomonori NAMITO, Susumu KATSURAGI, Junji HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170114719
    Abstract: The variable vane device maintenance method includes: a preparation step of preparing a ring including a first connection portion at which an attachment bracket is attached to the ring and a second connection portion at which the attachment bracket is attached at a position shifted from the first connection portion in a circumferential direction, the ring having the attachment bracket attached at the first connection portion; a release step of releasing a connection between a plurality of variable vanes and the ring and a connection between the ring and the attachment bracket at the first connection portion; a rotation step of rotating the ring by a predetermined angle; and a connection step of connecting the plurality of variable vanes to the ring at positions different from positions before the release step and connecting the ring to the attachment bracket at the second connection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kimura
  • Patent number: 8721252
    Abstract: A work aligning system capable of easily altering the kind of works to be aligned. The work aligning system (1) comprises a storage device (10) in which nuts (11) are stored, a take-out base (30) on which the nuts (11) are placed, and a robot (20) for grasping and taking out the nuts from the take-out base (30) and aligning the nuts. An electromagnet (53) is provided at the tip end of the robot arm (23) of the robot (20). The storage device (10) is equipped with a plurality of buckets (131-134) in which nuts (11) of different kinds are stored, and a feed screw mechanism (14) for moving one bucket selected from the plurality of buckets (131-134) to a position near the take-out base (30). The take-out base (30) is equipped with a part (31) on which the nuts (11) are placed and a drive device (32) for discharging the nuts (11) on the part (31) to one bucket selected from the plurality of buckets (131-134).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Osada, Kenichi Asamizu, Hirofumi Kimura
  • Patent number: 8219232
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide an assembly system capable of reducing the equipment space while various kinds of automotive parts are assembled on one production line. The assembly system assembles plural kinds of automotive parts consisting of a main body and a part to be installed to the main body. This assembly system comprises an operator area at which an operator is assigned, a plurality of travel carts on which a main body of each of automotive parts is placed, traveling along the operator area, a part pallet on which a part to be installed to each of the automotive parts is placed, a belt conveyer conveying this part pallet along the operator area, and a control device controlling thereof. The control device drives the travel carts and the belt conveyer so as to convey the travel carts and the part pallet synchronously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20110018291
    Abstract: A work aligning system capable of easily altering the kind of works to be aligned. The work aligning system (1) comprises a storage device (10) in which nuts (11) are stored, a take-out base (30) on which the nuts (11) are placed, and a robot (20) for grasping and taking out the nuts from the take-out base (30) and aligning the nuts. An electromagnet (53) is provided at the tip end of the robot arm (23) of the robot (20). The storage device (10) is equipped with a plurality of buckets (131-134) in which nuts (11) of different kinds are stored, and a feed screw mechanism (14) for moving one bucket selected from the plurality of buckets (131-134) to a position near the take-out base (30). The take-out base (30) is equipped with a part (31) on which the nuts (11) are placed and a drive device (32) for discharging the nuts (11) on the part (31) to one bucket selected from the plurality of buckets (131-134).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co Ltd
    Inventors: Atsushi Osada, Kenichi Asamizu, Hirofumi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20090234487
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide an assembly system capable of reducing the equipment space while various kinds of automotive parts are assembled on one production line. The assembly system assembles plural kinds of automotive parts consisting of a main body and a part to be installed to the main body. This assembly system comprises an operator area at which an operator is assigned, a plurality of travel carts on which a main body of each of automotive parts is placed, traveling along the operator area, a part pallet on which a part to be installed to each of the automotive parts is placed, a belt conveyer conveying this part pallet along the operator area, and a control device controlling thereof. The control device drives the travel carts and the belt conveyer so as to convey the travel carts and the part pallet synchronously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirofumi KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20090158250
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for operation history management for high performance computing programs optimization. Exemplary embodiments include a method including in response to saving an operation history creating a pseudo-change file that includes marks above and below an operation area in order to specify an operation object, creating a change history by storing context differences between contents of a file before an operation and the pseudo-change file, including the context differences in an operation history list, in response to applying the operation history applying the context differences to an objective operation file to acquire the pseudo-change file, determining the application area based on a position of the marks above and below the operation area from the pseudo-change file; and acquiring edited results by applying the context differences from the operation history to the objective application file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kimura, Hiroki Murata, Yasushi Negishi
  • Publication number: 20090064670
    Abstract: An exhaust manifold made of heat-resistant cast steel comprising pluralities of flanges each having a hole connected to each exhaust port of a cylinder head of an engine with bolts, pluralities of ports connected to the flanges, and a convergence portion in which the ports are converging, the thickness of the flanges being 80-150% of that of the ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2007
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kimura, Tomomi Souda, Masanao Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6885260
    Abstract: A transmission band filter (110) having a series of elements (111, 113, 115) each composed of a film bulk acoustic resonator and grounded shunt elements (112, 114) each composed of a film bulk acoustic resonator is connected between a transmission port (102) and an antenna port (106). A reception band filter (130) having a series of elements (131, 133, 135) each composed of a film bulk acoustic resonator and grounded shunt elements (132, 134, 136) each composed of a film bulk acoustic resonator is connected between a reception port (104) and the antenna port (106). A film bulk acoustic resonator (150) for adjustment is connected between the antenna port (106) and the ground. The resonance frequency of the adjusting film bulk acoustic resonator (150) lies between the upper limit frequency of the transmission frequency pass band of the transmission band filter (110) and the lower limit frequency of the reception frequency pass band of the reception band filter (130).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: UBE Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosuke Nishimura, Keigo Nagao, Chisen Hashimoto, Eiji Masui, Hirofumi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20040130410
    Abstract: A transmission band filter (110) having a series of elements (111, 113, 115) each composed of a film bulk acoustic resonator and grounded shunt elements (112, 114) each composed of a film bulk acoustic resonator is connected between a transmission port (102) and an antenna port (106). A reception band filter (130) having a series of elements (131, 133, 135) each composed of a film bulk acoustic resonator and grounded shunt elements (132, 134, 136) each composed of a film bulk acoustic resonator is connected between a reception port (104) and the antenna port (106). A film bulk acoustic resonator (150) for adjustment is connected between the antenna port (106) and the ground. The resonance frequency of the adjusting film bulk acoustic resonator (150) lies between the upper limit frequency of the transmission frequency pass band of the transmission band filter (110) and the lower limit frequency of the reception frequency pass band of the reception band filter (130).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Kosuke Nishimura, Keigo Nagao, Chisen Hashimoto, Eiji Masui, Hirofumi Kimura
  • Patent number: 5590959
    Abstract: A continuous mixer in which the rotors used to mix the material are composed of a rotor shaft, and a plurality of rotor segments fitted onto said rotor shaft. The plurality of rotor segments can be removed from the shaft and replaced by rotor segments of differing specifications to produce a rotor of a different shape and specifications in accordance with any change in the kind of mixing conditions required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ueda, Tsugushi Fukui, Kazuyoshi Imuta, Hirofumi Kimura, Shoji Yasuda, Shin Hotani, Kimio Inoue, Ryota Minato, Yoshimitsu Tanaka, Katsunori Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5501835
    Abstract: Exhaust equipment members are made of a heat-resistant, austenitic cast steel with excellent castability and machinability having a composition consisting essentially, by weight, of 0.2-1% of C, 2% or less of Si, 2% or less of Mn, 8-20% of Ni, 15-30% of Cr, 0.5-6% of Nb, 1-6% of W, 0.01-0.3% of N, optionally 0.01-0.5% of S, C--Nb/8 being 0.05-0.6% and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Rikizou Watanabe, Norio Takahashi, Hirofumi Kimura, Toshio Fujita
  • Patent number: 5430803
    Abstract: In construction of an earphone set incorporating a vibratory membrane accompanied with a ceramic wafer, a coactive magnetic electroacoustic conversion is arranged facing the vibratory membrane in a manner such that the vibratory membrane reproduces human voices on receipt of corresponding electric acoustic signals whereas the conversion unit issues electric acoustic signals on collection of corresponding human voices at the vibratory membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1995
    Assignee: Soei Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kimura, Masakiyo Ohsako
  • Patent number: 5143448
    Abstract: A two-shaft continuous mixing apparatus includes a housing containing two rotors having substantially horizontally aligned centerlines and a material passage formed so as to communicate with a mixing chamber in which the rotors rotate, the material passage extending nearly horizontally from a discharge port of the mixing chamber. The material passage has an upper surface forming an edge with the mixing chamber, and a lower surface forming an edge with the mixing chamber. The material is thereby scraped off the edges and flows through the material passage as the rotors are rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ueda, Kazuyoshi Imuta, Hirofumi Kimura, Naoyuki Tashiro, Syouji Yasuda
  • Patent number: 4204496
    Abstract: A steel-pipe coating process and an apparatus therefor, in which molten resin is extruded through a cross-head die connected to an extruder, into a tubular shape, in a manner to cover or coat the surface of a steel pipe. In this apparatus, a resin outlet in the extruder is communicated through the medium of a resin guide member with a resin inlet of the cross head die. The extruder is secured to a fixed frame, while the cross head die is supported by the fixed frame in a reciprocating manner through the medium of a reciprocating drive member within a given stroke in the direction of the steel pipe being fed. Thus, when the cross head die is reciprocated by means of the reciprocating drive member, the relative speed of the steel pipe being fed to the cross head die being reciprocated may be intermittently varied, whereby the amount of resin being extruded through a cylindrical outlet of the cross head die around the surface of the steel pipe may be intermittently varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1980
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Ikegami, Tadashi Kohge, Masakatsu Kawahara, Hirofumi Kimura