Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Matsuda

Hiroshi Matsuda 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: 20240361715
    Abstract: A heating device includes a first rotator, a second rotator, a heater, a nip formation pad, a reflector, and a shield. The second rotator faces the first rotator. The heater heats the first rotator. The nip formation pad is inside a loop of the first rotator to form a nip between the first rotator and the second rotator. The nip formation pad has a nip side face facing an inner circumferential surface of the first rotator. The reflector reflects radiant heat radiated from the heater toward the inner circumferential surface of the first rotator. The reflector contacts the nip side face of the nip formation pad. The shield contacts the reflector and shields the first rotator from the radiant heat radiated from the heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshiki YAMAGUCHI, Hiroshi YOSHINAGA, Takashi SETO, Ryohei MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240361712
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing rotator, a heater, a pressure rotator, a nip formation pad, and a slide aid sheet. The fixing rotator is rotatable in a rotation direction. The heater heats the fixing rotator. The pressure rotator contacts an outer circumferential face of the fixing rotator. The nip formation pad is inside a loop of the fixing rotator to form a nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. The slide aid sheet is on the nip formation pad and faces the fixing rotator. The slide aid sheet includes a carbon fiber extending in a width direction orthogonal to a rotation direction of the fixing rotator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi YOSHINAGA, Takashi SETO, Ryohhei SUGIYAMA, Ryohei MATSUDA, Yoshiki YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240359252
    Abstract: A steel welded member having a high LME resistance of a spot weld, i.e., a steel welded member comprised of a plurality of Zn-based plated steel materials, each comprised of a steel material and a Zn-based plating layer on its surface, joined by at least one spot weld, in which at least one of the Zn-based plated steel materials has a 780 MPa or more tensile strength, that steel material has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, sol. Al: 0.4 to 1.50%, etc. and having a balance of Fe and impurities, and, in a region of 10 to 300 ?m from an end of a pressure weld of the spot weld, a difference of a Zn penetration depth of Zn from a Zn-based plating layer penetrating a steel material minus a depth of an internal oxidation layer formed at the steel material is within 0.1 to 10.0 ?m in range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Keitaro MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240351133
    Abstract: Provided is a friction stir spot welded joint having high joint strength even in the case where a high strength steel sheet, particularly a steel sheet with a tensile strength (TS) of 980 MPa or more, is used as a material to be welded. An annular groove is formed on an upper surface of an upper sheet out of overlapping steel sheets, and a shape, microstructure, and hardness of a welded portion are appropriately controlled simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicants: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki YAMAGISHI, Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Hiroshi MATSUDA, Ryoji OHASHI, Yoshitaka MURAMATSU, Takuya FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20240352959
    Abstract: A resistance spot welded joint is formed by resistance-spot-welding two or more steel sheets including at least one high strength steel sheet. The high strength steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.6%, Si: 0.1 to 2.0%, Mn: 1.5 to 4.0%, and P: 0.10% or less, with the balance being Fe and incidental impurities. The hardness of a softest nugget region is 90% or less of the hardness of the heat-affected zone. The softest nugget region has a microstructure including tempered martensite. The average number density of carbide particles having a diameter of 100 nm or more in the softest nugget region is 10 or more per 5 ?m2 in a cross section of the steel sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reiko ENDO, Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Hiroshi MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 12122185
    Abstract: A rim portion of a vehicle wheel has an outer flange portion. In a region of the outer flange portion, a space portion between spoke portions is disposed on a radial-direction inner side, a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface are provided. The first inclined surface is provided on an axial-direction outer side of an outer flange outer circumferential portion. The second inclined surface is on an axial-direction outer side of an outer flange inner circumferential portion. The first inclined surface is formed to incline from the axial-direction outer side toward an axial-direction inner side as the first inclined surface extends from a radial-direction outer side end toward the radial-direction inner side. The second inclined surface is a surface formed to incline from the axial-direction inner side toward the axial-direction outer side as the second inclined surface extends from the radial-direction outer side toward the radial-direction inner side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Aburame, Satoshi Okamoto, Akihiro Nakata, Haruka Taniguchi, Shinji Matsuo, Hiroshi Kuninari, Takuya Matsuda
  • Patent number: 12105440
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a body, a toner container that is removably set in the body and contains toner, a toner supplier to supply the toner from the toner container to the body, a memory that stores container information that is information of the toner container, and circuitry. The circuitry is to determine, after the toner container is set in the body, based on the container information acquired from the memory, whether the toner container set in the body is same as a toner container set in the body in a past and the container information satisfies a predetermined condition, and to drive the toner supplier in a case where the toner container set in the body is determined to be same as the toner container set in the body in the past and the container information satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Ieiri, Yuuji Matsuda, Sumihiro Inokuchi, Hiroshi Okamura, Tomohide Kondoh
  • Publication number: 20240318288
    Abstract: High strength plated steel sheet excellent in LME resistance, that is, plated steel sheet comprising steel sheet and a plating layer containing Zn on the same, in which the steel sheet has a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more, the steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, sol. Al: 0.4 to 1.50%, etc. and having a balance of Fe and impurities, and, in any vertical cross section of the steel sheet, ferrite phases with a circle equivalent diameter of 1 ?m or less are contained in a region from a surface layer down to a depth of 2 ?m in a number density of 2 to 30/?m2 and the ferrite phases include internal oxides with a circle equivalent diameter of 2 to 100 nm in a number density of 3/?m2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Keitaro MATSUDA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240318734
    Abstract: A rotor is placed on one axial side relative to a passage hole forming portion at an inside of a housing. A differential pressure device is placed on the one axial side relative to the rotor and has a pressure chamber. The housing has: a one-side space that is placed on the one axial side relative to the rotor; and at least one other-side space that is placed on another axial side, which is opposite to the one axial side, relative to the passage hole forming portion. The differential pressure device generates an urging force that urges the rotor against the passage hole forming portion by a differential pressure between a pressure in the pressure chamber and a pressure in the one-side space in a case where a pressure in the at least one other-side space is higher than the pressure in the one-side space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi OGAWA, Kazuhide UCHIDA, Mikio MATSUDA, Teppei MATSUMOTO, Akira HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240317316
    Abstract: A car panel structure, which can prevent a binder in a recess on an inner panel from overflowing during a processing process after the inner panel and an outer panel are bonded to each other, is provided. The car panel structure includes the outer panel forming an exterior of the car panel structure; and the inner panel fixed on an interior of the outer panel through the binder, wherein the inner panel has the recess recessed along a direction away from the outer panel, the recess has a binder coating portion, and the binder coating portion is vertically offset relative to a bottom surface of the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta YAMAGISHI, Takeki JUNIBAYASHI, Futoshi MATSUDA, Yota EGUCHI, Mitsuhiro KANAFUKI, Akihisa MATSUDA, Arisa KANAZAWA, Hiroshi KOBORI
  • Patent number: 12071077
    Abstract: A power control unit mounting structure mounted on a vehicle includes an engine in an engine room at a front of the vehicle, an intake manifold disposed above the engine, a power control unit that is disposed above the engine, coupled to a cable, and controls power of a drive motor, and a toeboard cross member disposed on a toeboard. The engine and the toeboard cross member partly overlap in a projected plane along a fore-and-aft direction to provide a space behind the control unit in a front view of the vehicle. The intake manifold and the control unit are disposed within a contour of the engine in a plan view of the vehicle. The intake manifold is disposed ahead of the control unit, and portions of intake pipes of the intake manifold on both sides extend rearward and are partly opposed to both side surfaces of the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsuda, Hisayuki Nagatsu, Kazuya Sakaimoto
  • Patent number: 12063102
    Abstract: If reception quality of a broadcast signal of a first frequency received by a tuner satisfies setting conditions, the frequency received by the tuner is changed from the first frequency to a second frequency. It is evaluated whether or not the amount of offset between a reference frequency and the frequency of the signal, which is generated by converting the broadcast signal of the second frequency received by the tuner into an intermediate frequency is within a predetermined range. If the offset between the reference frequency and the frequency of the intermediate frequency signal is within the predetermined range, the data included in the broadcast signal of the first frequency is acquired by a demodulating the broadcast signal of the first frequency. It is evaluated whether or not the broadcast signal of the first frequency is a broadcast signal of a broadcasting station based on the acquired data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Ooshima, Hiroshi Matsuda, Takeshi Kunii, Akihiko Takada, Yuujirou Matsukura
  • Publication number: 20240257783
    Abstract: An electro-optical device is provided and includes a plurality of first signal lines extending in a first direction on a substrate; a plurality of second signal lines extending in a second direction on the substrate, the second direction intersecting the first direction; a pixel area in which a plurality of pixel electrodes are disposed; an outer peripheral edge of the pixel area having a curved portion or a bent portion; and a first circuit block, a second circuit block, and a third circuit block arranged along the outer peripheral edge, wherein the second circuit block is arranged between the first circuit block and the first circuit block, and a first gap between the first circuit bock and the second circuit block is different from a second gap between the second circuit block and the third circuit block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Katsuya ANZAI, Hideki KAWADA, Hiroshi MATSUDA, Yukitada IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240246167
    Abstract: An automotive member and a resistance spot welding method. The automotive member includes a resistance spot weld formed by resistance-spot-welding a plurality of steel sheets including at least one high strength steel sheet. The high strength steel sheet has a specific chemical composition. The microstructure in the vicinity of the edge of the nugget of the resistance spot weld is a composite microstructure containing ferrite at a volume fraction of 1 to 30%, martensite at a volume fraction of 1 to 50%, and tempered martensite at a volume fraction of 20% or more. The average number density of Nb-based precipitate grains having a grain diameter less than 0.09 ?m and Ti-based precipitate grains having a grain diameter less than 0.09 ?m is 10 or more grains per 100 ?m2 in a sheet cross section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Reiko ENDO, Lingling YANG, Hiroshi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240240278
    Abstract: A steel sheet comprising, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, and Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, wherein a surface layer of the steel sheet contains granular oxides, an average grain size of the granular oxides is 300 nm or less, a number density of granular oxides is 4.0/?m2 or more, the steel sheet comprises an Si—Mn depleted layer having a thickness of 3.0 ?m or more from the surface of the steel sheet, and Si and Mn contents of the Si—Mn depleted layer not containing oxides at the ½ position of the thickness are respectively less than 10% of the Si and Mn contents at the sheet thickness center part of the steel sheet, and a plated steel sheet using the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Keitaro MATSUDA, Jun MAKI, Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240238891
    Abstract: A resistance spot welding method in which a high strength zinc-based coated steel sheet used in a sheet set has an equivalent carbon content of 0.20% or more and a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more. The method includes performing a first energization step such that a current value at the end of the energization, a current value Is at the start of the energization, and a thickness of the thinnest steel sheet among steel sheets overlapping each other satisfy specified relationships. The method includes performing a second energization step in which a cooling step of holding a non-energization state for 10 ms or longer and shorter than 160 ms and performing energization at a current value equal to or more than the current value at the end of the first energization step for 20 ms or longer and shorter than 200 ms are repeated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nao KAWABE, Chikaumi SAWANISHI, Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Koichi TANIGUCHI, Hiroshi MATSUDA, Daiki YAMAGISHI
  • Patent number: 12037665
    Abstract: A spot welded member includes a spot weld formed by holding a sheet stack of multiple steel sheets between a pair of electrodes and spot-welding the sheet stack, in which at least one of the multiple steel sheets is a high-strength zinc-based coated steel sheet having a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more, the high-strength zinc-based coated steel sheet having a coating with an Al content of 0.5% or more by mass, and in which the heat shock region of the spot weld outwardly extending from an edge of a corona bond area includes a coated layer including an FeAl alloy layer having an average thickness of 0.3 ?m or more and a zinc-based coated layer having an average thickness of 2.0 ?m or more on the FeAl alloy layer at the interface between the base steel sheet of the high-strength zinc-based coated steel sheet and the coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Tanaka, Koichi Taniguchi, Rinta Sato, Katsutoshi Takashima, Hiroshi Matsuda, Rinsei Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20240198443
    Abstract: An arc welded joint and an arc welding method. The arc welded joint has a weld formed by arc welding of an overlap of at least two steel sheets. The throat in the weld and the sheet that is uppermost among the steel sheets satisfy a specified relationship. In a region extending 2.0 mm from a bead toe of the weld in a weld metal direction and also extending 2.0 mm from the bead toe in a base material direction, a slag-covered area ratio is 50% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyohei KONISHI, Hiroshi MATSUDA, Koichi TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240198447
    Abstract: An arc welded joint and an arc welding method. The arc welded joint has a weld formed by arc welding of an overlap of at least two steel sheets. A slag-covered area ratio is 20% or less. A Vickers hardness of a weld metal and a Vickers hardness of softened portions of a weld heat affected zone in the weld satisfy a specified relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyohei KONISHI, Hiroshi MATSUDA, Koichi TANIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 12012176
    Abstract: A bicycle control device includes an electronic controller and a gas pressure detection device. The electronic controller receives data indicative of a detected gas pressure of a tire provided to a bicycle. The tire is configured to maintain a gas in a compressed state. The gas pressure detection device is directly attached to a valve of the tire. The gas pressure detection device includes a sensor and a wireless communication device. The sensor detects the gas pressure of the tire. The wireless communication device is configured to perform wireless communication with the electronic controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tsuchizawa, Hiroshi Matsuda, Takuya Katsuki