Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Sugai

Hiroyuki Sugai 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: 8424356
    Abstract: A deep drawing apparatus is provided in which a sheet material is subjected to optimal heating and cooling, whereby the limiting draw ratio is increased and a product can be worked more deeply, and uniformity of the sheet thickness of the product can be controlled. This apparatus includes: a punch 2 for subjecting a sheet material 9 to deep drawing; a die 3, used along with the punch, for forming the sheet material and subject the same to deep drawing; an anti-wrinkling component 4 for preventing wrinkling around the periphery of the forming portion in the sheet material; an induction heating coil 5 for directly heating the sheet material at a portion supported by the anti-wrinkling component; a heating controller 6 for controlling the amount of heating of the sheet material by the induction heating coil; and cooling means 21 to 23 for cooling the sheet material at the portion formed by the punch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Nagaoka University of Technology
    Inventors: Ikuo Tanabe, Hiroyuki Sugai
  • Publication number: 20110302603
    Abstract: A content output system has a terminal device which includes an input unit accepting an input of a selection of content performed by a user, a determination unit determining whether the content selected in accordance with the input to the input unit performed by the user is predetermined content, and a content-information transmission unit transmitting content information which is information on the content to an output device when the determination unit determines that the content is the predetermined content, and the output device which includes a content-information reception unit receiving the content information transmitted from the content-information transmission unit, a content-reception unit receiving the content corresponding to the content information, and an output unit outputting the content received by the content-reception unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sugai
  • Publication number: 20100116015
    Abstract: A deep drawing apparatus is provided in which a sheet material is subjected to optimal heating and cooling, whereby the limiting draw ratio is increased and a product can be worked more deeply, and uniformity of the sheet thickness of the product can be controlled. This apparatus includes: a punch 2 for subjecting a sheet material 9 to deep drawing; a die 3, used along with the punch, for forming the sheet material and subject the same to deep drawing; an anti-wrinkling component 4 for preventing wrinkling around the periphery of the forming portion in the sheet material; an induction heating coil 5 for directly heating the sheet material at a portion supported by the anti-wrinkling component; a heating controller 6 for controlling the amount of heating of the sheet material by the induction heating coil; and cooling means 21 to 23 for cooling the sheet material at the portion formed by the punch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: Nagaoka University of Technology
    Inventors: Ikuo Tanabe, Hiroyuki Sugai