Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Matsuoka

Hiroshi Matsuoka 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: 11680514
    Abstract: This liquid injection nozzle atomizes and sprays liquid, while reducing loss of kinetic energy, thereby promoting mixing between the liquid and a gas and thus promoting the reaction between the liquid and the gas. In the liquid injection nozzle, a plurality of distal end tips each having an injection hole are provided on a distal end portion of a nozzle body. Each distal end tip has a conical swirling flow chamber. A communication thin hole is formed in the distal end portion. The communication thin hole extends from a hollow chamber to the conical swirling flow chamber of the distal end tip. When the valve needle is lifted, liquid flows through the communication thin hole into the swirling flow chamber in a tangential direction and generates a vortex flow, and the vortex flow is sprayed from the injection hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: ACR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsuoka, Hiroshi Noguchi, Keiji Kishishita
  • Publication number: 20220120211
    Abstract: This liquid injection nozzle atomizes and sprays liquid, while reducing loss of kinetic energy, thereby promoting mixing between the liquid and a gas and thus promoting the reaction between the liquid and the gas. In the liquid injection nozzle, a plurality of distal end tips each having an injection hole are provided on a distal end portion of a nozzle body. Each distal end tip has a conical swirling flow chamber. A communication thin hole is formed in the distal end portion. The communication thin hole extends from a hollow chamber to the conical swirling flow chamber of the distal end tip. When the valve needle is lifted, liquid flows through the communication thin hole into the swirling flow chamber in a tangential direction and generates a vortex flow, and the vortex flow is sprayed from the injection hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi MATSUOKA, Hiroshi NOGUCHI, Keiji KISHISHITA
  • Patent number: 11165315
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for obtaining an interior permanent magnet-type inner rotor without thermal demagnetization due to shrink fitting to a rotating shaft includes: a shrink fitting step of heating a rotor core having slots and inserting a rotating shaft into a shaft hole to shrinkfit the rotor core; and a filling step of filling the rotor core slots in a residual heat state after the shrink fitting step with a flowable mixture of a binder resin heated to a flowable state and anisotropic magnet particles, in oriented magnetic fields This allows, in similar manufacturing steps, an inner rotor of which the magnetic poles are anisotropic bond magnets formed by solidifying the flowable mixture in the slots and a conventional inner rotor of which the magnetic poles are sintered magnets. This allows both the inner rotors concurrently and in parallel (mixed flow production) in an already existing IPM motor manufacturing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Fujimaki, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Yoji Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10721848
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing apparatus that manufactures a high-quality manufacturing object by using component information per unit of individual electronic component or per unit of package in a plurality of electronic components that have been packaged. The manufacturing apparatus is a manufacturing apparatus that manufactures a product by taking out each electronic component from packaged components in which a plurality of electronic components are packaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignees: Fukuoka University, Zuken, Inc., Fuji Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Tomokage, Yoshihisa Katoh, Hidemichi Kawase, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Hirohiko Matsuzawa, Kazuhiro Kusunoki, Hiroshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10488317
    Abstract: Acquiring sets of test data on amounts of foreign matter passed through a recirculation sump screen when different amounts of foreign matter are input; forming a passed foreign matter amount approximate line that approximates the amounts of passed foreign matter with respect to the amounts of input foreign matter on the basis of the sets of test data on the amounts of passed foreign matter; forming a passed foreign matter amount envelope tangent to the passed foreign matter amount approximate line; and estimating a total passed foreign matter amount with respect to the amounts of input foreign matter on the basis of the passed foreign matter amount envelope to evaluate the recirculation sump screen are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Sakata, Hiroyuki Kojima, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Yuji Momose
  • Patent number: 10454353
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an interior permanent magnet-type inner rotor and manufacturing method using the same. The apparatus including: a mold having a three-layer structure; the method including a shrink fitting step of heating a rotor core having slots; and a filling step of filling the rotor core slots in a residual heat state after the shrink fitting step with a flowable mixture of a binder resin heated to a flowable state and having anisotropic magnet particles, in oriented magnetic fields. This allows, in similar manufacturing steps, an inner rotor of which magnetic poles are anisotropic bond magnets formed by solidifying the flowable mixture in the slots and a conventional inner rotor of which the magnetic poles are sintered magnets. This allows both the inner rotors concurrently and in parallel (mixed flow production) in an already existing IPM motor manufacturing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Fujimaki, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Yoji Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20190280576
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for obtaining an interior permanent magnet-type inner rotor without thermal demagnetization due to shrink fitting to a rotating shaft includes: a shrink fitting step of heating a rotor core having slots and inserting a rotating shaft into a shaft hole to shrinkfit the rotor core; and a filling step of filling the rotor core slots in a residual heat state after the shrink fitting step with a flowable mixture of a binder resin heated to a flowable state and anisotropic magnet particles, in oriented magnetic fields This allows, in similar manufacturing steps, an inner rotor of which the magnetic poles are anisotropic bond magnets formed by solidifying the flowable mixture in the slots and a conventional inner rotor of which the magnetic poles are sintered magnets. This allows both the inner rotors concurrently and in parallel (mixed flow production) in an already existing IPM motor manufacturing line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi FUJIMAKI, Hiroshi MATSUOKA, Yoji HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9799446
    Abstract: A production method for an anisotropic bonded magnet includes: filling the annular cavity with a magnet raw material including one or more types of rare-earth anisotropic magnet powder and a binder resin; applying aligning magnetic fields to the magnet raw material being aligned in the softened or molten binder resin, the aligning magnetic fields are applied from an even number of aligning magnetic pole bodies arranged around outer periphery of the annular cavity such that directions of magnetic fields are alternated; subjecting the magnet raw material to a molding to form a compact; rotating the aligning magnetic pole bodies in circumferential direction for a predetermined angle; and applying demagnetization magnetic fields to the compact from the aligning magnetic pole bodies during the alignment step. The demagnetization magnetic fields are in directions for cancelling magnetization of the compact caused by the aligning magnetic fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Hironari Mitarai, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Masayuki Kato, Ikuzou Okumura
  • Patent number: 9769125
    Abstract: An information administration system configured of: a component information management apparatus (4) including a component information storing unit (41) storing component information after sectionalizing the component information into public information and non-public information, and also sectionalizing the non-public information into information for designing and information for manufacturing, and an encryption processing unit (42) encrypting the non-public information; a designing information management apparatus (2) including a first component information receiving unit (24) receiving the component information, a first decryption unit (25) decrypting non-public component information for designing, and a designing information storing unit (22) storing designing information that is designed by adding the received component information thereto; and a manufacturing apparatus (3) including a second decryption unit (33) decrypting the received non-public component information for manufacturing, and a drive cont
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignees: ZUKEN INC., FUJI MACHINE MFG CO LTD, FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hajime Tomokage, Hidemichi Kawase, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Hirohiko Matsuzawa, Kazuhiro Kusunoki, Hiroshi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20170221631
    Abstract: A production method for an anisotropic bonded magnet includes: filling the annular cavity with a magnet raw material including one or more types of rare-earth anisotropic magnet powder and a binder resin; applying aligning magnetic fields to the magnet raw material being aligned in the softened or molten binder resin, the aligning magnetic fields are applied from an even number of aligning magnetic pole bodies arranged around outer periphery of the annular cavity such that directions of magnetic fields are alternated; subjecting the magnet raw material to a molding to form a compact; rotating the aligning magnetic pole bodies in circumferential direction for a predetermined angle; and applying demagnetization magnetic fields to the compact from the aligning magnetic pole bodies during the alignment step. The demagnetization magnetic fields are in directions for cancelling magnetization of the compact caused by the aligning magnetic fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Hironari Mitarai, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Masayuki Kato, Ikuzou Okumura
  • Publication number: 20170176315
    Abstract: Acquiring sets of test data on amounts of foreign matter passed through a recirculation sump screen when different amounts of foreign matter are input; forming a passed foreign matter amount approximate line that approximates the amounts of passed foreign matter with respect to the amounts of input foreign matter on the basis of the sets of test data on the amounts of passed foreign matter; forming a passed foreign matter amount envelope tangent to the passed foreign matter amount approximate line; and estimating a total passed foreign matter amount with respect to the amounts of input foreign matter on the basis of the passed foreign matter amount envelope to evaluate the recirculation sump screen are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Sakata, Hiroyuki Kojima, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Yuji Momose
  • Patent number: 9666341
    Abstract: A method for production of an anisotropic bonded magnet includes: aligning magnetic pole bodies which include an even number of permanent magnets arranged uniformly around an outer periphery of an annular cavity filled with magnetic raw material, aligning magnetic fields to cause rare-earth anisotropic magnet powder to be semi-radially aligned; compressively molding the semi-radially aligned magnet raw material to obtain an annular compact; discharging the compact from the annular cavity; demagnetizing causing the aligning magnetic pole bodies to relatively move only in circumferential direction with respect to the compact after the molding step thereby to apply demagnetization magnetic fields to the compact; The demagnetization magnetic fields are applied from the aligning magnetic pole bodies with opposite poles to those during the alignment step, and the demagnetization magnetic fields are in directions for cancelling the magnetization of the compact caused by the aligning magnetic fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Hironari Mitarai, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Masayuki Kato, Ikuzou Okumura
  • Patent number: 9594321
    Abstract: A binder resin for toner includes a carboxy group-containing vinyl resin (C), a glycidyl group-containing vinyl resin (E), a reactant thereof, and a fatty acid metal salt (M), in which the carboxy group-containing vinyl resin (C) includes a high molecular weight vinyl resin (H) having a peak in a region in which the molecular weight is equal to or more than 2.5×104 and equal to or less than 1.2×106 in the molecular weight distribution of a THF soluble content and a low molecular weight vinyl resin (L) having a peak in a region in which the molecular weight is equal to or more than 2×103 and equal to or less than 2×104 in the molecular weight distribution of a THF soluble content. The reactant of the carboxy group-containing vinyl resin (C) and the glycidyl group-containing vinyl resin (E) is formed in the presence of the fatty acid metal salt (M).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsuoka, Hiroyuki Takei
  • Publication number: 20170025933
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for obtaining an interior permanent magnet-type inner rotor without thermal demagnetization due to shrink fitting to a rotating shaft includes: a shrink fitting step of heating a rotor core having slots and inserting a rotating shaft into a shaft hole to shrink-fit the rotor core; and a filling step of filling the rotor core slots in a residual heat state after the shrink fitting step with a flowable mixture of a binder resin heated to a flowable state and anisotropic magnet particles, in oriented magnetic fields This allows, in similar manufacturing steps, an inner rotor of which the magnetic poles are anisotropic bond magnets formed by solidifying the flowable mixture in the slots and a conventional inner rotor of which the magnetic poles are sintered magnets. This allows both the inner rotors concurrently and in parallel (mixed flow production) in an already existing IPM motor manufacturing line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi FUJIMAKI, Hiroshi MATSUOKA, Yoji HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9551436
    Abstract: A protective guide internally holds long members including at least one of flexible cable and duct to move in harmonization with the movement needed by the long members. The guide includes a flexible long plate-shaped base made of a synthetic resin and having a longitudinal direction, flexible sectioning members made of a synthetic resin, and two brackets. The sectioning members uprise from ends of the base, spaced apart from each other by gaps in the longitudinal direction, the ends facing in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and cooperatively define a space for accommodating the long members along the base. The brackets detachably connect ends of the base to fixed and movable members of a machine installing the guide. Each bracket has a first engaging means detachably engaging the bracket with the gaps and a second engaging means detachably connecting the bracket to the fixed or movable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignees: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED, TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN CO.
    Inventors: Kouichi Kaihotsu, Hiroshi Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20160192551
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing apparatus that manufactures a high-quality manufacturing object by using component information per unit of individual electronic component or per unit of package in a plurality of electronic components that have been packaged. The manufacturing apparatus is a manufacturing apparatus that manufactures a product by taking out each electronic component from packaged components in which a plurality of electronic components are packaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Hajime TOMOKAGE, Yoshihisa KATOH, Hidemichi KAWASE, Hiroshi MATSUOKA, Hirohiko MATSUZAWA, Kazuhiro KUSUNOKI, Hiroshi YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 9323166
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing an electrophotographic toner which has excellent storage property, is excellent in offset resistance and low-temperature fixing property during printing and has few substances causing staining with time, odor or dust inside a copy machine or a printer. The present invention relates to an electrophotographic toner characterized by containing an ethylene copolymer which comprises a constituent unit (a) derived from ethylene in an amount of 80 to 99.5% by mol and a constituent unit (b) derived from a cyclic olefin of 8 or more carbon atoms in an amount of 0.5 to 20% by mol [(a)+(b)=100% by mol] and satisfies the requirements: (i) the intrinsic viscosity [?] is in the range of 0.01 to 0.50 dl/g, and (ii) the crystallinity is in the range of 50 to 90%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Kawabe, Masakazu Tanaka, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Noriko Kai, Keiichi Taki
  • Patent number: 9312055
    Abstract: A production method for a case-integrated bonded magnet includes: filling a tubular cavity with a magnet raw material that includes a rare-earth magnet powder and a thermosetting resin binder; heating the magnet raw material to cause the thermosetting resin softened or melted while compressively molding the magnet raw material to obtain a tubular compact; discharging the tubular compact from the tubular cavity while press-fitting the tubular compact into a metal tubular case having an inner peripheral surface coaxial with the tubular cavity; and heat-curing the tubular compact with the tubular case to cure the thermosetting resin. The tubular compact press-fitted into the tubular case is thermally cured thereby causing the tubular compact to transform to a tubular bonded magnet, which expands unexpectedly due to heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Hironari Mitarai, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Masayuki Kato, Ikuzou Okumura
  • Publication number: 20150200916
    Abstract: An information administration system configured of: a component information management apparatus (4) including a component information storing unit (41) storing component information after sectionalizing the component information into public information and non-public information, and also sectionalizing the non-public information into information for designing and information for manufacturing, and an encryption processing unit (42) encrypting the non-public information; a designing information management apparatus (2) including a first component information receiving unit (24) receiving the component information, a first decryption unit (25) decrypting non-public component information for designing, and a designing information storing unit (22) storing designing information that is designed by adding the received component information thereto; and a manufacturing apparatus (3) including a second decryption unit (33) decrypting the received non-public component information for manufacturing, and a drive cont
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Hajime TOMOKAGE, Hidemichi KAWASE, Hiroshi MATSUOKA, Hirohiko MATSUZAWA, Kazuhiro KUSUNOKI, Hiroshi YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 9056600
    Abstract: A motion control device for a vehicle having a braking means for applying a brake toque to a wheel of the vehicle and maintaining a traveling stability of the vehicle by controlling the braking means, the motion control for the vehicle, includes a steering angular velocity obtaining means for obtaining a steering angular velocity of the vehicle, a maximum steering angular velocity calculating means for calculating a maximum steering angular velocity on the basis of the steering angular velocity, a determining means for determining a reference turning state quantity on the basis of the maximum steering angular velocity, an actual turning state quantity obtaining means for obtaining an actual turning state quantity of the vehicle, and a control means for controlling the brake toque on the basis of the reference turning state quantity and the actual turning state quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yasui, Toshihisa Kato, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Junya Nagaya