Patents by Inventor Hiroki Kitagawa
Hiroki Kitagawa 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: 20230398669Abstract: A nailing machine is a work machine, including: an ejection part to which a fastener is supplied; a striking part, striking the fastener supplied to the ejection part; a magazine part, having one end in a first direction attached to the ejection part, and movably supporting the fastener in the first direction; and a feeder part, supported by the magazine part while being movable in the first direction, and pushing the fastener toward one side in the first direction. The feeder part includes a contact part that contacts the fastener. The magazine part includes a first and a second guide rail arranged apart in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and facing each other with a feeder member therebetween. A gap between the first and second guide rails in the second direction is smaller than a width of the contact part in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yen-ting Lee, Souki Hoshina, Keiki Nakaniwa, Hiroki Kitagawa
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Publication number: 20230144494Abstract: An audio signal processing device includes a first input terminal which receives an audio signal from a record player, a memory which stores a correction parameter for audio signal processing and characteristic information indicating the characteristic of an audio signal for measurement, a signal processing circuit which performs the audio signal processing on the audio signal received based on the correction parameter, and a microcomputer. The microcomputer measures the sound characteristic of the audio signal received when the audio signal for measurement recorded on a phonograph record for measurement are reproduced, generates the correction parameter based on a result of comparison between the result of the measurement and the characteristic information, and stores, in the memory, setting information and the correction parameter generated, in association with each other, the setting information indicating a setting on the audio signal processing when the measurement is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Hiroki KITAGAWA, Masaaki TOMODA
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Patent number: 11469540Abstract: A molding method of a waterproof member is provided. The waterproof member is molded by molds and is for a coated electric wire. The molds include mold division surfaces including molding portions and electric wire mold clamping portions. The electric wire mold clamping portions are to sandwich the coated electric wire at sides of the molding portions. One of the electric wire mold clamping portions includes a convex portion and a side wall erected on an end of the convex portion. The other of the electric wire mold clamping portions includes a concave portion. One of the molding portions includes a side wall entering groove into which the side wall enters. The method includes molding the waterproof member accommodated in the concave portion with the waterproof member being pressed by the convex portion toward a direction in which one of the mold is attached to the other.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Masanobu Higashitani, Madoka Ooishi, Masayuki Tamano, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Yusuke Tsutagawa, Masatoshi Yamada
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Patent number: 11358574Abstract: In this brake control device for a motorcycle, a deceleration threshold value calculation unit limits target wheel deceleration to a threshold value or less on the basis of a bank angle estimated by a bank angle calculation unit. Thus, the behavior of the vehicle body during turning of the motorcycle can be made more stable so as not to cause discomfort to a driver.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Hitachi Astemo Ltd.Inventors: Chikashi Iizuka, Makoto Toda, Hiroki Kitagawa, Tetsuya Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Kodaira
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Patent number: 11362460Abstract: There is provided a connector including: a housing; and a terminal-equipped electric wire assembled to the housing. The terminal-equipped electric wire includes: a terminal; an electric wire; and a flexible conductor provided between the terminal and the electric wire. The flexible conductor is divided into a plurality of divided conductor portions along an axial direction of the flexible conductor. The divided conductor portions are bent in different directions from each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Kitagawa, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Masanobu Higashitani, Yusuke Tsutagawa, Masatoshi Yamada
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Patent number: 11355887Abstract: A connector applied to a wire harness includes a housing housing a terminal, a front holder assembled to an end portion in an axial direction of the housing, and a restriction member assembled to the housing. One of the housing and the front holder has a latch claw portion that latches the housing and the front holder. The other of the housing and the front holder has a latch arm portion extending along the axial direction and latched to the latch claw portion. The restriction member has a restriction piece that is located adjacent to the latch arm portion that is in a state of being latched to the latch claw portion, the restriction piece restricting displacement of the latch arm portion toward a latch release side.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada
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Patent number: 11331779Abstract: The disclosure discloses a driving machine includes a trigger, a first switch turned on or off by an operation of the trigger, a push lever that moves in response to an operation of pressing an ejection port of a fastener against a driven material, and a second switch turned on or off by movement of the push lever. The driving machine drives the fastener when the first switch and the second switch are both in the ON state. The trigger includes a switching mechanism to switch between a single-shot driving mode and a continuous-shot driving mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimitsu Iijima, Hiroki Kitagawa
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Patent number: 11322880Abstract: A packing mounting structure includes a casing having a passage part on a wall part facing a power detection terminal; packing including a seal part and an portion to be held; and a cover installed on the casing in a state in which the portion to be held is held by a hole part, and closing the passage part by the packing. The portion to be held includes a shaft part and a first flange part. The hole part includes a narrow part; an insertion hole part through which the first flange part is capable of passing; and a holding hole part configured to hold the shaft part in a state in which a gap is formed between the holding hole part and the shaft part.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada, Junya Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20210336376Abstract: A packing mounting structure includes a casing having a passage part on a wall part facing a power detection terminal; packing including a seal part and an portion to be held; and a cover installed on the casing in a state in which the portion to be held is held by a hole part, and closing the passage part by the packing. The portion to be held includes a shaft part and a first flange part. The hole part includes a narrow part; an insertion hole part through which the first flange part is capable of passing; and a holding hole part configured to hold the shaft part in a state in which a gap is formed between the holding hole part and the shaft part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro TANAKA, Hiroki KITAGAWA, Masanobu HIGASHITANI, Kengo MACHIDA, Maho SHINOHARA, Masatoshi YAMADA, Junya YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210336377Abstract: A molding method of a waterproof member is provided. The waterproof member is molded by molds and is for a coated electric wire. The molds include mold division surfaces including molding portions and electric wire mold clamping portions. The electric wire mold clamping portions are to sandwich the coated electric wire at sides of the molding portions. One of the electric wire mold clamping portions includes a convex portion and a side wall erected on an end of the convex portion. The other of the electric wire mold clamping portions includes a concave portion. One of the molding portions includes a side wall entering groove into which the side wall enters. The method includes molding the waterproof member accommodated in the concave portion with the waterproof member being pressed by the convex portion toward a direction in which one of the mold is attached to the other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Masanobu HIGASHITANI, Madoka OOISHI, Masayuki TAMANO, Yasuhiro TANAKA, Hiroki KITAGAWA, Yusuke TSUTAGAWA, Masatoshi YAMADA
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Publication number: 20210288436Abstract: There is provided a connector including: a housing; and a terminal-equipped electric wire assembled to the housing. The terminal-equipped electric wire includes: a terminal; an electric wire; and a flexible conductor provided between the terminal and the electric wire. The flexible conductor is divided into a plurality of divided conductor portions along an axial direction of the flexible conductor. The divided conductor portions are bent in different directions from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki KITAGAWA, Yasuhiro TANAKA, Masanobu HIGASHITANI, Yusuke TSUTAGAWA, Masatoshi YAMADA
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Patent number: 11121501Abstract: A connector includes a housing member having a fitting part that houses a terminal and is fitted to a counterpart connector provided in a connection target and a fixed part that is fixed to a fixed wall surface of the connection target together with the fitting part in the state in which the fitting part has been fitted to the counterpart connector. The fixed part has through holes, which communicate with fastening holes formed in the fixed wall surface along a fitting direction between the fitting part and the counterpart connector and into which fastening bolts fastened to the fastening holes are inserted along the fitting direction, in the state in which the fitting part has been fitted to the counterpart connector, and a screw hole into which a separation member is screwed.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada, Toshiaki Nozawa, Noboru Hayasaka
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Patent number: 11005208Abstract: A connector applied to a wire harness includes: a housing main body including a housing space part for housing a terminal along an axial direction, and an insertion port provided at one side of the housing space part in the axial direction and into which a counterpart terminal connected to the terminal is inserted; a lance that faces the housing space part, that is elastically deformably supported by the housing main body in a cantilever manner, that extends toward the insertion port side along the axial direction, and that engages the terminal housed in the housing space part; and a regulating contact part that comes into contact with the lance and that regulates excessive displacement of the lance toward the housing space part side.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada, Toshiaki Nozawa, Noboru Hayasaka, Takeaki Kaneko
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Patent number: 10971844Abstract: A connector includes: a casing that has a housing space, a through hole communicating the housing space with an external space, and an electric wire insertion hole, and that holds a connection terminal connected to a counterpart device; a wiring material that has a distal end part inserted into the housing space via the electric wire insertion hole and a conductor part exposed from a covering at the distal end part, the exposed conductor part being curved at a curved part and connected to the connection terminal; and a conductive voltage detection terminal that has a connection part connected to the exposed conductor part at a position closer to the covering than a curved part and a voltage detection part facing the through hole, and that is provided by branching from a conduction path between the connection terminal and the conductor part.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Takayoshi Hirakawa, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida
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Publication number: 20200381861Abstract: A connector applied to a wire harness includes a housing housing a terminal, a front holder assembled to an end portion in an axial direction of the housing, and a restriction member assembled to the housing. One of the housing and the front holder has a latch claw portion that latches the housing and the front holder. The other of the housing and the front holder has a latch arm portion extending along the axial direction and latched to the latch claw portion. The restriction member has a restriction piece that is located adjacent to the latch arm portion that is in a state of being latched to the latch claw portion, the restriction piece restricting displacement of the latch arm portion toward a latch release side.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada
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Patent number: 10791660Abstract: A connection structure of a shield terminal (30) is electrically connected and fixed to an opening end part of a tubular braided wire (20) covering a covered wire (10) along the long direction. The shield terminal (30) has: a tubular caulked part (33) for which the part folded back outwardly at the opening end part of the braided wire (20) is fixed by caulking to the outer peripheral surface by a caulking sleeve (40); and a pressure energizing part (35) provided near the caulked part (33) and pressed and energized so that the braided wire (20) does not move in relation to the covered wire (10).Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Kitagawa, Yuya Yamada, Kenta Yasuda, Ryuta Fujii
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Patent number: 10756473Abstract: A connection terminal includes a female connection body having a housing space, a male connection body inserted into the housing space to a fitting completion position, and an elastic member supported by an inner wall surface of the female connection body surrounding the housing space, having contact point portions contacting an outer wall surface of the male connection body, and pressing the male connection body by the contact point portions. The female connection body has far-side protruding portions and inlet-side protruding portions. The outer wall surface of the male connection body has at least one of first recessed portions formed at portions facing the inlet-side protruding portions when the male connection body is inserted into the housing space and a second recessed portion formed at a portion facing the contact point portion when the male connection body is inserted into the housing space.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Kengo Machida
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Publication number: 20200212613Abstract: A connector includes: a casing that has a housing space, a through hole communicating the housing space with an external space, and an electric wire insertion hole, and that holds a connection terminal connected to a counterpart device; a wiring material that has a distal end part inserted into the housing space via the electric wire insertion hole and a conductor part exposed from a covering at the distal end part, the exposed conductor part being curved at a curved part and connected to the connection terminal; and a conductive voltage detection terminal that has a connection part connected to the exposed conductor part at a position closer to the covering than a curved part and a voltage detection part facing the through hole, and that is provided by branching from a conduction path between the connection terminal and the conductor part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Takayoshi Hirakawa, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida
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Publication number: 20200203882Abstract: A connector includes a housing member having a fitting part that houses a terminal and is fitted to a counterpart connector provided in a connection target and a fixed part that is fixed to a fixed wall surface of the connection target together with the fitting part in the state in which the fitting part has been fitted to the counterpart connector. The fixed part has through holes, which communicate with fastening holes formed in the fixed wall surface along a fitting direction between the fitting part and the counterpart connector and into which fastening bolts fastened to the fastening holes are inserted along the fitting direction, in the state in which the fitting part has been fitted to the counterpart connector, and a screw hole into which a separation member is screwed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada, Toshiaki Nozawa, Noboru Hayasaka
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Publication number: 20200189079Abstract: The disclosure discloses a driving machine includes a trigger, a first switch turned on or off by an operation of the trigger, a push lever that moves in response to an operation of pressing an ejection port of a fastener against a driven material, and a second switch turned on or off by movement of the push lever. The driving machine drives the fastener when the first switch and the second switch are both in the ON state. The trigger includes a switching mechanism to switch between a single-shot driving mode and a continuous-shot driving mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2020Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimitsu IIJIMA, Hiroki KITAGAWA