Patents by Inventor Hiroki Shimada
Hiroki Shimada 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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Patent number: 10591079Abstract: A housing includes an opening portion, which opens in one direction. At the time of assembling, the opening portion of the housing is placed to face an upper side. Then, a wave washer, an electric motor and screws for motor fixation are assembled from the upper side, and a first intermediate shaft and a second intermediate shaft are press-fitted, and a lower bearing, an output shaft, a second intermediate gear, a first intermediate gear are assembled. Thereafter, a cover is installed from the upper side to the housing. Next, an actuator lever is connected to a distal end part of the output shaft. As discussed above, the electric actuator can be assembled without inverting an orientation of the housing, and thereby productivity can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuji Yamanaka, Naoaki Kouno, Hiroki Shimada, Etsugo Yanagida
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Publication number: 20200063299Abstract: The invention addresses the problem of providing a cloth that is excellent not only in flame retardancy and antistatic properties but also in appearance quality and preferably also has protection performance against electric arcs, a method for producing the same, and a textile product. A means for resolution is a cloth including a meta-type wholly aromatic polyamide fiber and an electrically conductive fiber, wherein both the meta-type wholly aromatic polyamide fiber and the electrically conductive fiber are colored.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2017Publication date: February 27, 2020Applicant: TEIJIN LIMITEDInventors: Kengo TANAKA, Hiroki SHIMADA, Kenji IWASHITA, Kenji YOSHIHARA
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Patent number: 10451154Abstract: Positioning of a cover relative to a housing is made at two locations. i.e., fitting between a first intermediate shaft and a first recess and fitting between a second intermediate shaft and a second recess. In this way, a load of the cover is not conducted to an output shaft through a cover-side bearing. Therefore, in a state where the cover is fixed to the housing, an excessively large load is not generated between a cover-side bearing and the output shaft and a housing-side bearing and the output shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Naoaki Kouno, Hiroki Shimada, Tetsuji Yamanaka, Etsugo Yanagida
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Publication number: 20190312415Abstract: A spark plug having a metal shell and an insulator, wherein a stepped portion that includes a rear-end-side facing surface that retains an insulator either directly or via another member is provided at an inner periphery of a metal shell. The stepped portion includes a first convex portion that includes the rear-end-side facing surface, a second convex portion that is disposed on a front end side of the first convex portion and that is adjacent to the first convex portion, and a connection portion that connects the first convex portion and the second convex portion to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroki SHIMADA
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Patent number: 10389204Abstract: A plurality of reinforcing ribs, which extend from a cover-side bearing in an outer radial direction, is formed at a portion of a cover, at which a reaction force generated in response to operation of an electric actuator is applied. The reinforcing ribs can improve strength of the portion of the cover, at which the reaction force is applied. Therefore, it is possible to avoid a damage, such as deformation, a crack, at the resin cover caused by the reaction force applied to the cover.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Naoaki Kouno, Hiroki Shimada, Tetsuji Yamanaka, Etsugo Yanagida
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Publication number: 20190226122Abstract: A problem of the invention is to provide a colored organic fiber that has a deep color and excellent flame retardancy, a cloth and garments each composed of the foregoing organic fiber, and a method for producing a cloth. To solve this problem, a colored organic fiber having a content of a carrier agent of 1.8% by mass or less relative to the fiber mass is provided. A cloth or garments are obtained, if desired.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: TEIJIN LIMITEDInventors: Hiroki SHIMADA, Saori KURODA, Kenji IWASHITA
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Publication number: 20180347079Abstract: The invention addresses the problem of providing a cloth and a protective product that have lightweight properties, wearing comfort, and further protection performance against electric arcs. A means for resolution is a cloth including a spun yarn containing a meta-type wholly aromatic polyamide fiber, wherein the cloth has a lightness index L-value of 25 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: TEIJIN LIMITEDInventors: Hiroki SHIMADA, Kenji IWASHITA
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Publication number: 20180259088Abstract: A rotation stop shape is visually recognizable through an exposing hole. A relative angle between an output shaft and an actuator lever can be freely set while the rotation stop shape, which is visually recognizable through the exposing hole, is used as the reference angle of the output shaft. Therefore, it is possible to limit disadvantageous variations in a fixation angle of the actuator lever. The fixation angle of the actuator lever relative to the output shaft can be freely changed by using the rotation stop shape, which is visually recognizable through the exposing hole, as a reference angle of the output shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2016Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Tetsuji YAMANAKA, Naoaki KOUNO, Etsugo YANAGIDA, Hiroki SHIMADA
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Publication number: 20180191221Abstract: A plurality of reinforcing ribs, which extend from a cover-side bearing in an outer radial direction, is formed at a portion of a cover, at which a reaction force generated in response to operation of an electric actuator is applied. The reinforcing ribs can improve strength of the portion of the cover, at which the reaction force is applied. Therefore, it is possible to avoid a damage, such as deformation, a crack, at the resin cover caused by the reaction force applied to the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2016Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: Naoaki KOUNO, Hiroki SHIMADA, Tetsuji YAMANAKA, Etsugo YANAGIDA
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Publication number: 20180187791Abstract: A housing includes an opening portion, which opens in one direction. At the time of assembling, the opening portion of the housing is placed to face an upper side. Then, a wave washer, an electric motor and screws for motor fixation are assembled from the upper side, and a first intermediate shaft and a second intermediate shaft are press-fitted, and a lower bearing, an output shaft, a second intermediate gear, a first intermediate gear are assembled. Thereafter, a cover is installed from the upper side to the housing. Next, an actuator lever is connected to a distal end part of the output shaft. As discussed above, the electric actuator can be assembled without inverting an orientation of the housing, and thereby productivity can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2016Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: Tetsuji YAMANAKA, Naoaki KOUNO, Hiroki SHIMADA, Etsugo YANAGIDA
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Publication number: 20180172120Abstract: Positioning of a cover relative to a housing is made at two locations. i.e., fitting between a first intermediate shaft and a first recess and fitting between a second intermediate shaft and a second recess. In this way, a load of the cover is not conducted to an output shaft through a cover-side bearing. Therefore, in a state where the cover is fixed to the housing, an excessively large load is not generated between a cover-side bearing and the output shaft and a housing-side bearing and the output shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Naoaki KOUNO, Hiroki SHIMADA, Tetsuji YAMANAKA, Etsugo YANAGIDA
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Patent number: 9580843Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a cloth that is excellent in terms of not only flame retardancy but also stretchability, and also a textile product using the cloth. As a means for resolution, a composite yarn is obtained using a spun yarn that contains a flame-retardant fiber having a limiting oxygen index of 25 or more as measured in accordance with JIS K7201 and a conjugate fiber that is made of two components put together in a side-by-side manner or an eccentric sheath-core manner, and then a cloth is obtained using the composite yarn, in which the weight proportion of the flame-retardant fiber is 75 wt % or more based on the weight of the cloth, and the weight proportion of the conjugate fiber is within a range of 5 to 15 wt % based on the weight of the cloth.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: TEIJIN LIMITEDInventors: Tomohiro Okuya, Hiroki Shimada, Saori Kuroda
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Publication number: 20170037543Abstract: A problem of the invention is to provide a colored organic fiber that has a deep color and excellent flame retardancy, a cloth and garments each composed of the foregoing organic fiber, and a method for producing a cloth. To solve this problem, a colored organic fiber having a content of a carrier agent of 1.8% by mass or less relative to the fiber mass is provided. A cloth or garments are obtained, if desired.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: TEIJIN LIMITEDInventors: Hiroki SHIMADA, Saori KURODA, Kenji IWASHITA
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Patent number: 9500162Abstract: A valve apparatus performs at least one of a first operation in which an electric motor is energized in a valve-close direction and a rotation shaft is rotated until its rotation is stopped and a second operation in which the electric motor is deenergized and a valve is fully closed by a biasing force of a return spring. Thereby, a rotation angle of the rotation shaft becomes a rotation-stop angle or the rotation angle becomes in the backlash range, so that a biasing force of the return spring is not transmitted to the rotation shaft. Then, the electric motor generates a specified torque, which is less than a valve-opening torque by which the valve starts opening. Thereby, a rotation angle of the rotation shaft can be stopped at a full-close angle. The full-close angle can be made correspond to an output of a rotational angle sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi Sasaki, Ryo Sano, Satoshi Ishigaki, Hiroki Shimada
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Patent number: 9482160Abstract: A cam full close stopper defines a cam full close position that is a limit position of a rotatable range of a cam. A sensor element outputs a signal corresponding to a rotation angle of the cam. A signal processor changes the signal output from the sensor element into a sensor output. A storage part memorizes a data table representing a correspondence relationship between the rotation angle of the cam and the sensor output of the signal processor in a predetermined form, characteristics of the sensor output being adjustable at a plurality of points with respect to the rotation angle of the cam. The storage part memorizes the sensor output of the signal processor when the cam is fully closed at the cam full close position.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi Sasaki, Hiroki Shimada, Ryo Sano
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Publication number: 20160222350Abstract: Provided is a factor capable of inducing enucleation, which is a final stage of erythrocyte differentiation, within a short time. More particularly, provided are a method of inducing enucleation, which is a final stage of erythrocyte differentiation, within a short time by adding a compound derived from proopiomelanocortin (POMC) to an undifferentiated (nucleated) erythrocyte, and an enucleation inducer including the compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: Kanazawa Medical UniversityInventors: Toshihisa Hatta, Eriko Shimamura, Hiroki Shimada
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Patent number: 9404444Abstract: In an exhaust system for an internal combustion engine, an output member is configured to transmit power generated by a motor to a valving element via a valve stem. An output shaft is disposed on a rotation central axis of an output gear and coupled with the output gear to be rotatable integrally therewith. A follower is disposed eccentrically relative to a rotation central axis of the output shaft and connected to the output shaft to be rotatable integrally therewith. A first accommodating chamber accommodates at least the valve stem and the follower. A second accommodating chamber accommodates at least the motor and the output gear. A housing includes a housing wall that divides the first chamber from the second chamber. The housing wall includes a first bearing slidably supporting the output shaft in its rotation direction, and a cylindrical first bearing holder holding outer periphery of the first bearing.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Sano, Satoshi Ishigaki, Hiroki Shimada, Osamu Sato
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Patent number: 9290737Abstract: Provided is a factor capable of inducing enucleation, which is a final stage of erythrocyte differentiation, within a short time. More particularly, provided are a method of inducing enucleation, which is a final stage of erythrocyte differentiation, within a short time by adding a compound derived from proopiomelanocortin (POMC) to an undifferentiated (nucleated) erythrocyte, and an enucleation inducer including the compound.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Kanazawa Medical UniversityInventors: Toshihisa Hatta, Eriko Shimamura, Hiroki Shimada
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Publication number: 20160040326Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a cloth that is excellent in terms of not only flame retardancy but also stretchability, and also a textile product using the cloth. As a means for resolution, a composite yarn is obtained using a spun yarn that contains a flame-retardant fiber having a limiting oxygen index of 25 or more as measured in accordance with JIS K7201 and a conjugate fiber that is made of two components put together in a side-by-side manner or an eccentric sheath-core manner, and then a cloth is obtained using the composite yarn, in which the weight proportion of the flame-retardant fiber is 75 wt % or more based on the weight of the cloth, and the weight proportion of the conjugate fiber is within a range of 5 to 15 wt % based on the weight of the cloth.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2014Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: TEIJIN LIMITEDInventors: Tomohiro OKUYA, Hiroki SHIMADA, Saori KURODA
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Publication number: 20150330335Abstract: In an exhaust device for an internal combustion engine, a control device controls a motor based on an output signal of a sensor. The control device has a first valve position detector detecting a first valve position when a valve unit is biased to close using only a biasing force of a spring. The control device has a second valve position detector detecting a second valve position when the valve unit is biased to close using a driving force of the motor that is larger than the biasing force of the spring. The control device detects a foreign object between a valve object and a valve seat and detects a size of the foreign object based on a comparison result between the first valve position and the second valve position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Hiroki SHIMADA, Kazushi SASAKI, Satoshi ISHIGAKI