Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Okamoto

Hirokazu Okamoto 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: 20240139883
    Abstract: Provided is a practical method for processing a gallium oxide substrate that enables the gallium oxide substrate to be cut vertically and horizontally in a lattice shape. Mechanical scribing processing in which a cut groove is engraved on a main plane by a scribing tool along a planned cutting line parallel to an X direction, which is defined as a direction parallel to an intersection line between the main plane and a plane (100), is performed using a gallium oxide substrate of which the main plane is the plane (001), laser scribing processing to be altered by scanning with a laser beam along a planned cutting line parallel to the Y direction is performed, and cutting is performed by break along planned cutting lines in the X direction and the Y direction after the mechanical scribing processing and after the laser scribing processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DIAMOND INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru KITAICHI, Yoshiyuki ASAI, Hirokazu OKAMOTO, Yuki TSUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11939004
    Abstract: A steering device includes: a housing; and a spring configured to urge the retainer toward the rack bar in the second axis direction, and the rack bar, the retainer, the spring, and the spring holding member being disposed in this order in the second axis direction; the retainer chamfering portion provided on the retainer second end portion near the spring holding member, on a retainer second end portion outer circumference portion, and the retainer chamfering portion formed at a portion which is nearest the spring holding member abutment surface in the retainer second end portion outer circumference portion in a section that passes through the second axis, and that is perpendicular to the first axis, when the retainer main body portion is inclined with respect to the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Okamoto, Yoshiaki Kido
  • Publication number: 20240086783
    Abstract: A vehicle management device includes one or more processors configured to: manage a plurality of vehicles to be provided for users in a car sharing service; manage, as a plurality of first vehicles, a part of the vehicles to be allocated to an on-demand use in which the users use the car sharing service without reservation; manage, as a plurality of second vehicles, a part of the vehicles to be allocated to a reservation use in which the users use the car sharing service with the reservation; and change at least one of the second vehicles to the first vehicles when the number of the first vehicles is less than a first predetermined number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuka TAKIGUCHI, Tetsushi OKAMOTO, Hirokazu KOBAYASHI, Minoru NAKADORI, Daiki KANEICHI
  • Patent number: 11915164
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus manages a vehicle used for a car-sharing service. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to acquire, from a user, as application information for using the vehicle, one of application information for reservation use for making a reservation in advance and application information for on-demand use for accepting use of a vehicle stopped at an on-demand stand-by station. The same vehicle can be used for both the reservation use and the on-demand use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuka Takiguchi, Tetsushi Okamoto, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Minoru Nakadori, Daiki Kaneichi
  • Patent number: 11491505
    Abstract: Provided is an application tool that allows reduction of an amount of waste by using no masking sheets, and can easily form a coated portion such as an antislip protrusion with reduced variation in a short time period. The application tool includes a support plate and a plurality of application bodies disposed at the support plate so as to protrude with height positions of the tips aligned with each other. A tip recess is disposed at the tip portion of each of the plurality of the application bodies as a holding recess for holding coating liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SUNSTAR ENGINEERING INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Furuhashi, Hirokazu Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20220055681
    Abstract: A steering device includes: a housing; and a spring configured to urge the retainer toward the rack bar in the second axis direction, and the rack bar, the retainer, the spring, and the spring holding member being disposed in this order in the second axis direction; the retainer chamfering portion provided on the retainer second end portion near the spring holding member, on a retainer second end portion outer circumference portion, and the retainer chamfering portion formed at a portion which is nearest the spring holding member abutment surface in the retainer second end portion outer circumference portion in a section that passes through the second axis, and that is perpendicular to the first axis, when the retainer main body portion is inclined with respect to the second axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu OKAMOTO, Yoshiaki KIDO
  • Publication number: 20210386665
    Abstract: As an inhalation powder medicine excellent in dispersibility, pulmonary delivery, and deposition, there is provided an inhalation powder medicine, containing: an active ingredient in at least a part of the porous hollow spherical particles that are capable of being dispersed and crushed into smaller particles by inspiration and capable of swelling when the porous hollow spherical particles absorb moisture, wherein the smaller particles are also capable of swelling when the smaller particles absorb moisture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Hirokazu OKAMOTO, Tomoyuki OKUDA
  • Publication number: 20210316327
    Abstract: Provided is an application tool that allows reduction of an amount of waste by using no masking sheets, and can easily form a coated portion such as an antislip protrusion with reduced variation in a short time period. The application tool includes a support plate and a plurality of application bodies disposed at the support plate so as to protrude with height positions of the tips aligned with each other. A tip recess is disposed at the tip portion of each of the plurality of the application bodies as a holding recess for holding coating liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: Sunstar Engineering Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuki FURUHASHI, Hirokazu OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11136460
    Abstract: An anti-slip structure comprising a plurality of anti-slip projections that protrude outwardly from a floor surface and are arranged so as to be mutually isolated, the anti-slip structure being such that the anti-slip projections are of circular dome-like three-dimensional shape and are cured bodies produced by curing a composition for anti-slip treatment comprising a curable resin. This anti-slip structure causes a floor surface comprising ceramic tile, tile made of stone material, or the like to be imparted with excellent anti-slip capability without impairing the lustrousness, beauty, design characteristics, or cleanability of the floor surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SUNSTAR ENGINEERING INC.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Okamoto, Norihiro Tameno, Yoshimasu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180282546
    Abstract: An anti-slip structure comprising a plurality of anti-slip projections that protrude outwardly from a floor surface and are arranged so as to be mutually isolated, the anti-slip structure being such that the anti-slip projections are of circular dome-like three-dimensional shape and are cured bodies produced by curing a composition for anti-slip treatment comprising a curable resin. This anti-slip structure causes a floor surface comprising ceramic tile, tile made of stone material, or the like to be imparted with excellent anti-slip capability without impairing the lustrousness, beauty, design characteristics, or cleanability of the floor surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: SUNSTAR ENGINEERING INC.
    Inventors: Hirokazu OKAMOTO, Norihiro TAMENO, Yoshimasu TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10011294
    Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus according to the present invention has a biasing member arranged to bias a rack retainer toward a rack bar, wherein a biasing force of the biasing member is set such that, in a two-axis coordinate system with a rotation amount of a steering wheel on a horizontal axis and a steering torque on a vertical axis, the steering torque increases with increase in the rotation amount of the steering wheel in a region before the start of relative movement of the rack bar and the rack retainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignees: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD., SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu Okamoto, Yusuke Fukuda, Hiroyuki Oiwa, Mitsuharu Minami
  • Publication number: 20180043924
    Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus according to the present invention has a biasing member arranged to bias a rack retainer toward a rack bar, wherein a biasing force of the biasing member is set such that, in a two-axis coordinate system with a rotation amount of a steering wheel on a horizontal axis and a steering torque on a vertical axis, the steering torque increases with increase in the rotation amount of the steering wheel in a region before the start of relative movement of the rack bar and the rack retainer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicants: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD., SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu OKAMOTO, Yusuke FUKUDA, Hiroyuki OIWA, Mitsuharu MINAMI
  • Patent number: 9873025
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball showing improved durability by improving adhesion to a constituent member comprising a polyurethane in the golf ball. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a center and n envelope layers (n is a natural number of 1 or more) covering the center, wherein at least one envelope layer is a polyurethane envelope layer comprising a polyurethane as a principal component, and the polyurethane envelope layer and a constituent member adjacent to the polyurethane envelope layer are adhered with an adhesive resin composition, and wherein the adhesive resin composition comprises a base material including a urethane polyol and an epoxy resin, and a curing agent including a polyamine compound, and a content of the urethane polyol in the base material is 5 mass % or more and less than 40 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiko Matsuyama, Masatoshi Yokota, Hirokazu Okamoto, Kazuo Yagi
  • Patent number: 9522802
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, winding apparatus includes a bobbin, a core, a pressing section, a moving unit, a first rotating unit, a second rotating unit and a control unit. The moving unit is configured to move the pressing section relatively to the core along each of first to third axes perpendicular to each other. The first rotating unit is configured to rotate the pressing section relatively to the core around fourth and fifth axes perpendicular to each other, and set on the core. The second rotating unit is configured to rotate the pressing section relatively to the core around a sixth axis which becomes parallel to, when the core is in an initial position at which the fourth and fifth axes become parallel to any two of the first to third axes, a remaining one of the first to third axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Aisar Labibi Romas, Hirokazu Okamoto, Chiayu Lin, Yosuke Shimizu, Kei Koyanagi
  • Patent number: 9379409
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a manufacturing apparatus for a sealed secondary battery includes a chamber, pressure reduction unit, sealer transfer unit, and welding unit. The chamber accommodates therein a battery container injected with an electrolyte through an injection hole and is hermetically closed. The pressure reduction unit reduces pressure inside the chamber. The sealer transfer unit is configured to mount a sealer for sealing the injection hole on the injection hole of the battery container in the chamber decompressed by the pressure reduction unit. The welding unit is configured to laser-weld the sealer to the battery container by applying a laser beam to the peripheral edge portion of the sealer on the battery container through a laser transmission window formed in one surface of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsui, Kenta Fukatsu, Hirokazu Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20160096079
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball showing improved durability by improving adhesion to a constituent member comprising a polyurethane in the golf ball. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a center and n envelope layers (n is a natural number of 1 or more) covering the center, wherein at least one envelope layer is a polyurethane envelope layer comprising a polyurethane as a principal component, and the polyurethane envelope layer and a constituent member adjacent to the polyurethane envelope layer are adhered with an adhesive resin composition, and wherein the adhesive resin composition comprises a base material including a urethane polyol and an epoxy resin, and a curing agent including a polyamine compound, and a content of the urethane polyol in the base material is 5 mass % or more and less than 40 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiko MATSUYAMA, Masatoshi YOKOTA, Hirokazu OKAMOTO, Kazuo YAGI
  • Patent number: 9259617
    Abstract: An object of the present is to provide a golf ball having a high spin rate on approach shots under the wet condition and rough condition. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a golf ball body, and a paint film formed on a surface of the golf ball body, wherein the paint film has a martens hardness of 2.0 mgf/?m2 or less, and a ratio (50% modulus/10% modulus) of 50% modulus to 10% modulus of 1.6 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tarao, Kazuhiko Isogawa, Kuniyasu Horiuchi, Hirokazu Okamoto, Masahiko Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20150090830
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, winding apparatus includes a bobbin, a core, a pressing section, a moving unit, a first rotating unit, a second rotating unit and a control unit. The moving unit is configured to move the pressing section relatively to the core along each of first to third axes perpendicular to each other. The first rotating unit is configured to rotate the pressing section relatively to the core around fourth and fifth axes perpendicular to each other, and set on the core. The second rotating unit is configured to rotate the pressing section relatively to the core around a sixth axis which becomes parallel to, when the core is in an initial position at which the fourth and fifth axes become parallel to any two of the first to third axes, a remaining one of the first to third axes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Aisar Labibi ROMAS, Hirokazu OKAMOTO, Chiayu LIN, Yosuke SHIMIZU, Kei KOYANAGI
  • Publication number: 20140166186
    Abstract: A glass film laminate includes a glass film and a supporting glass. The glass film and the supporting glass have surfaces in contact with each other, and each of the surfaces has a surface roughness Ra of 2.0 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya TAKAYA, Masahiro TOMAMOTO, Hiroshi TAKIMOTO, Hirokazu OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8697241
    Abstract: A glass film laminate includes a glass film and a supporting glass. The glass film and the supporting glass have surfaces in contact with each other, and each of the surfaces has a surface roughness Ra of 2.0 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Takaya, Masahiro Tomamoto, Hiroshi Takimoto, Hirokazu Okamoto