Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Shimada

Hiroshi 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).

  • Publication number: 20040154278
    Abstract: A mid-mount mower having a front frame unit including a pair of right and left front longitudinal frames, a first cross frame interconnecting the front longitudinal frames in forward positions thereof longitudinally of the vehicle body, and a second cross frame interconnecting the front longitudinal frames in rearward positions thereof longitudinally of the vehicle body, the front frame unit supporting the front wheel unit and also supporting a lift mechanism for vertically movably suspending the mower unit; a rear frame unit including a pair of right and left rear longitudinal frames, the rear frame unit being connected to the front frame unit; and a rear wheel drive unit interconnecting the rear longitudinal frames. The second cross frame has a downwardly opening recess disposed adjacent a middle position thereof, the recess allowing entry thereto of an upwardly protruding portion of the mower unit without interference when the mower unit is raised by the lift mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Samejima, Masato Asahara, Hiroshi Shimada, Akira Minoura, Yoshikazu Togoshi, Osami Fujiwara, Yoshiyuki Esaki
  • Patent number: 6769860
    Abstract: A tractor has a vehicle frame with a pair of right and left elongate frame members spaced from each other and extending in a longitudinal direction and interconnected in intermediate positions by a cross member, an engine supported by the elongate frame members in a front region of the vehicle frame, a rear axle unit connected to rear axle connecting members fixed to the elongate frame members in a rear region of the vehicle frame, and a drive transmitting mechanism for transmitting drive from the engine to the rear axle unit. A front loader and/or a backhoe are/is attachable to a front and a rear of the tractor as supported by the vehicle frame. A reinforcing frame unit is provided for reinforcing the vehicle frame. The reinforcing frame unit is connected to the vehicle frame by reinforcing frame connecting members spaced horizontally and/or vertically from the rear axle connecting members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yoshii, Masashi Osuga, Hiroshi Shimada
  • Patent number: 6729431
    Abstract: A frame type tractor having an engine mounted in a front region of a main frame extending longitudinally of a tractor body, and a transmission case mounted in a rear region of the main frame. A backhoe mounting frame is attached to a rear end of the main frame. Rollover protection system mounts are arranged in upper portions of the backhoe mounting frame for fixedly supporting a rollover protection system. The backhoe mounting frame has a frame structure defining an inside space therein and including a pair of right and left side walls, a top wall interconnecting upper ends of the side walls, and a bottom wall interconnecting lower ends of the side walls. The right and left side walls have the rollover protection system mounts and backhoe attaching portions for engaging and connecting a backhoe unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Osuga, Hiroshi Shimada, Takashi Shibata, Hiroshi Oshima, Eriya Harada, Hiroshi Kawabata, Yoshio Tomiyama
  • Publication number: 20040025271
    Abstract: In a cleaning device (9) comprising a cleaning portion (10) having a cleaning surface (13) and an opposing surface opposite the cleaning surface (13), a support arm (11) having a handle portion (16), and a pivot (12) for pivotally supporting the support arm (11) on the opposing surface, the cleaning surface (13) of the cleaning portion (16) comprises an adhesive surface (17) and a cleaning cloth surface (18), and wherein the adhesive surface (17) and the cleaning cloth surface (18) can individually come into surface contact with a surface to be cleaned, and a stopper (19) for restricting movement of the handle portion (16) relative to the pivot (12), wherein the cleaning cloth surface (18) can contact wherein the surface to be cleaned when the support arm (11) is tilted within a predetermined angle range relative to the surface having the pivot (12), and the adhesive surface (17) can contact the surface to be cleaned when the support arm (11) is tilted beyond the predetermined angle range relative to the surf
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimada, Tomohiro Ohki
  • Patent number: 6672509
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a library apparatus for accommodating different types of recording medium, such as magnetic tapes, in combination. By a method for reading markers, in which the type of the recording medium and its volume label are recorded, by moving a reader, and a construction for sorting and accommodating the different types of recording medium, the markers can be read at a high speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimada, Noriaki Matsuzaki, Takahiro Asahara
  • Patent number: 6659209
    Abstract: A tractor having a mid-mount type mower includes a pair of frames extending in a fore and aft direction, and a transmission case extending and supported between the pair of frames. The transmission case houses a power take off clutch disposed above a rear wheel differential. A change speed gearing mechanism is disposed between a front surface of the transmission case and the rear wheel differential. With such an arrangement of the components, the transmission case has a reduced length in the fore and aft direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Osuga, Takashi Yoshii, Hiroshi Shimada
  • Patent number: 6614063
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor includes an anode element made of a valve action metal, a dielectric oxide film formed on a surface of the anode element, a solid electrolytic layer formed on a surface of the dielectric oxide film, and a cathode layer formed on a surface of the solid electrolytic layer. The solid electrolytic layer has an iron concentration not greater than 100 ppm. Alternatively or in combination therewith, a weight fraction of residues in the solid electrolytic layer is smaller than 5 wt %. The polymerization residue is an oxidizing agent and a monomer that is produced when such solid electrolytic layer is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chiharu Hayashi, Yasunobu Tsuji, Hisataka Kato, Kazuo Kawahito, Yoshiki Hashimoto, Emiko Igaki, Hiroshi Shimada, Mitsuo Terada
  • Publication number: 20030099534
    Abstract: A tractor has a vehicle frame with a pair of right and left elongate frame members spaced from each other and extending in a longitudinal direction and interconnected in intermediate positions by a cross member, an engine supported by the elongate frame members in a front region of the vehicle frame, a rear axle unit connected to rear axle connecting members fixed to the elongate frame members in a rear region of the vehicle frame, and a drive transmitting mechanism for transmitting drive from the engine to the rear axle unit. A front loader and/or a backhoe are/is attachable to a front and a rear of the tractor as supported by the vehicle frame. A reinforcing frame unit is provided for reinforcing the vehicle frame. The reinforcing frame unit is connected to the vehicle frame by reinforcing frame connecting members spaced horizontally and/or vertically from the rear axle connecting members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Yoshii, Masashi Osuga, Hiroshi Shimada
  • Publication number: 20030019673
    Abstract: A tractor having a mid-mount type mower includes a pair of frames extending in a fore and aft direction, and a transmission case extending and supported between the pair of frames. The transmission case houses a power take off clutch disposed above a rear wheel differential. A change speed gearing mechanism is disposed between a front surface of the transmission case and the rear wheel differential. With such an arrangement of the components, the transmission case has a reduced length in the fore and aft direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Masashi Osuga, Takashi Yoshii, Hiroshi Shimada
  • Publication number: 20030010563
    Abstract: A frame type tractor having an engine mounted in a front region of a main frame extending longitudinally of a tractor body, and a transmission case mounted in a rear region of the main frame. A backhoe mounting frame is attached to a rear end of the main frame. Rollover protection system mounts are arranged in upper positions of the backhoe mounting frame for fixedly supporting a rollover protection system. The backhoe mounting frame has a frame structure defining an inside space therein and including a pair of right and left side walls, a top wall interconnecting upper ends of the side walls, and a bottom wall interconnecting lower ends of the side walls. The right and left side walls have the rollover protection system mounts and backhoe attaching portions for engaging and connecting a backhoe unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Osuga, Hiroshi Shimada, Takashi Shibata, Hiroshi Oshima, Eriya Harada, Hiroshi Kawabata, Yoshio Tomiyama
  • Publication number: 20020154900
    Abstract: An apparatus for reproducing digital information coded in a coding system, the coded digital information and a decoding program describing a decoding algorithm to decode the digital information recorded in an information recording medium, includes: a reading unit configured to read out the coded digital information and the decoding program recorded in the information recording medium; a program memory configured to store the decoding program read out from the reading unit; a signal processing unit configured to decode the digital information read out from the reading unit by the decoding algorithm of the decoding program stored in the program memory; and a conversion unit configured to convert the digital information decoded in the digital signal processing unit into a predetermined format, and to output the converted digital information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shimada
  • Publication number: 20020145034
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a library apparatus for accommodating different types of recording medium, such as magnetic tapes, in combination. By a method for reading markers, in which the type of the recording medium and its volume label are recorded, by moving a reader, and a construction for sorting and accommodating the different types of recording medium, the markers can be read at a high speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2002
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimada, Noriaki Matsuzaki, Takahiro Asahara
  • Patent number: 6460886
    Abstract: A tractor having a mid-mount type mower includes a pair of frames extending in a fore and aft direction, and a transmission case extending and supported between the pair of frames. The transmission case houses a power take off clutch disposed above a rear wheel differential. A change speed gearing mechanism is disposed between a front surface of the transmission case and the rear wheel differential. With such an arrangement of the components, the transmission case has a reduced length in the fore and aft direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Osuga, Takashi Yoshii, Hiroshi Shimada
  • Patent number: 6409042
    Abstract: Closure opening/closing apparatus constructed that a slide hinge (43) provided with two hinge portions (43a) and (43b) parallel to each other is supported rotatably at one hinge portion by a shaft to a closure body (41) for opening/closing an opening (21c) provided in a hardware housing (21), and a spring member (46) having coil portions (46a) and (46b) as a spring energizing section, each corresponding to the two hinge portions (43a) and (43b), is attached to the slide hinge (43). The slide hinge (43) being fitted by insertion to the hinge holder (44) formed on the hardware housing (21) slidably in the opening (21c) direction, and the closure body (41) and the slide hinge (43) are energized to pivot outward of the hardware housing (21) by the spring member (46), to thereby reverse and open the closure body (41) with respect to the hardware housing (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Misao Hirano, Toshiaki Ueda, Hiroshi Shimada
  • Publication number: 20020014358
    Abstract: A tractor having a mid-mount type mower includes a pair of frames extending in a fore and aft direction, and a transmission case extending and supported between the pair of frames. The transmission case houses a power take off clutch disposed above a rear wheel differential. A change speed gearing mechanism is disposed between a front surface of the transmission case and the rear wheel differential With such an arrangement of the components, the transmission case has a reduced length in the fore and aft direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: Masashi Osuga, Takashi Yoshii, Hiroshi Shimada
  • Patent number: 6320742
    Abstract: The basic electric performance is same as or better than the prior art, and moreover occurrence of defective insulation due to the conductive high polymer layer reaching the anode lead-out part is prevented and occurrence of insulation breakdown is also prevented. Still more, the conventional productivity is not sacrificed. The solid electrolytic capacitor having such effects and its manufacturing method are obtained. It includes an anode electrode having a capacitor element part, forbidden band, and an anode lead-out part, a dielectric oxide layer disposed on the surface of the capacitor element part, a conductive high polymer layer disposed on the dielectric oxide layer, a conductor layer disposed on the conductive high polymer layer, an anode terminal electrically connected to the anode lead-out part, and a cathode terminal electrically connected to the conductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohide Wada, Hiroshi Shimada, Yasuhiro Kobatake
  • Patent number: 6318485
    Abstract: A tractor having a mid-mount type mower includes a pair of frames extending in a fore and aft direction, and a transmission case extending and supported between the pair of frames. The transmission case houses a power takeoff clutch disposed above a rear wheel differential. A change speed gearing mechanism is disposed between a front surface of the transmission case and the rear wheel differential. With such an arrangement of the components, the transmission case has a reduced length in the fore and aft direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Osuga, Takashi Yoshii, Hiroshi Shimada
  • Patent number: 6317398
    Abstract: A data reproduction apparatus includes a system controller for monitoring an amount of data in a memory and a linear velocity detected by a linear velocity detecting section, controlling a DC signal output from a DC signal generating section to a disk motor driving section as a drive signal, and controlling interruption and resumption of writing of information to the memory so as to prevent the memory from overflowing. The output DC signal of the DC signal generating section is controlled such that a velocity at which information is written to the memory means is higher than a velocity at which information is read therefrom so as to always store information in the memory, and the linear velocity detected by the linear velocity detecting section becomes close to a preset linear velocity, and the rotation of the disk is controlled by the DC signal. The power consumption required for controlling the rotation of the disk can thus be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shimada
  • Patent number: 6280883
    Abstract: Electrolyte compositions and electrochemical systems containing such compositions are described where the electrolyte includes in a matrix material a combination of a conductive salt and a bis(perfluoroalkanesulfonyl)imide surfactant salt. The compositions improve wettability of electrodes and separators while maintaining and improving conductivity, stability, and compatibility with other cell components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: William M. Lamanna, Robert B. Loch, Alan D. Fanta, Steven D. Boyd, Hiroshi Shimada, Phat T. Pham, Bryan J. Johnson
  • Patent number: D481760
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: King Jim Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimada, Naotoshi Toda, Tomohiro Yatabe