Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Sugawara
Hiroyuki Sugawara 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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Publication number: 20250104991Abstract: To provide a mass spectrometer in which a mass axis deviation can be prevented by having a relatively inexpensive configuration. The mass spectrometer includes: a mass filter including rod electrodes, a holder for holding the rod electrodes, a holder support base on which the holder is placed, and a leaf spring configured to press the holder with an elastic force to fix the holder to the holder support base; a temperature sensor; and a control unit configured to control, based on a measurement signal of the temperature sensor, a voltage value of a high frequency voltage applied to the rod electrodes, in which the temperature sensor is fixed to the leaf spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Kouji ISHIGURO, Shinsuke MINATA, Hiroyuki YASUDA, Tsugunao TOMA, Yuka SUGAWARA
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Patent number: 12233653Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a liquid ejecting section, a first-valve-unit adjusting a pressure of liquid to be supplied to the liquid ejecting section, and a housing accommodating the liquid ejecting section and the first-valve-unit, in which the first-valve-unit includes a first-flow-path communicating with the liquid ejecting section, a first flexible film that has a first-inner-surface defining a part of the first-flow-path and a first-outer-surface being opposite from the first inner surface, and is configured to displace in a first-direction from the first-outer-surface toward the first-inner-surface and in a second-direction opposite to the first-direction, and a first-valve-body that is moved between an opening position and a closing position, due to displacement of the first flexible film, and the housing has a first-opening-portion facing at least a part of the first-outer-surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiki Sugawara, Hiroyuki Hagiwara, Takahiro Kanegae
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Patent number: 12227872Abstract: A single-crystal pulling apparatus includes: a pulling furnace having a heater and crucible; and a magnetic field generation device having superconducting coils, the device having four of the superconducting coils, two of the superconducting coils are in each of two regions divided by a cross section that includes an X axis being a direction of magnetic force lines at the central axis in the horizontal plane including all the coil axes of the four superconducting coils, and includes the pulling furnace central axis having line symmetry about the cross section, the four superconducting coils are all arranged so that the coil axes have an angle of more than ?30° and less than 30° relative to a Y axis, the direction of the magnetic force lines thereof have line symmetry about the cross section, and in each of the regions, the two superconducting coils generate magnetic force lines in opposite directions.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SHIN-ETSU HANDOTAI CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiyotaka Takano, Wataru Yajima, Kosei Sugawara, Hiroyuki Kamada, Tomohiko Ohta
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Patent number: 12228205Abstract: A holder has a holder engagement portion in at least a position sandwiching a pad from both sides in a third direction orthogonal to both a first direction that is an urging direction of an elastic member and a second direction that is an axial direction of a worm accommodation portion. The pad has a pad engagement portion that comes into contact with the holder engagement portion on at least one of both side portions in the third direction. Based on contact between the holder engagement portion and the pad engagement portion, displacement of the pad in the third direction with respect to the holder is regulated.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: NSK STEERING & CONTROL, INC.Inventor: Hiroyuki Sugawara
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Patent number: 12202057Abstract: According to one implementation, a drill includes the first cutting edges, the second cutting edges and a deflection reducer. The first cutting edges drill a prepared hole to a workpiece. The first cutting edges are formed in a tip side of the drill. The first point angle and each first relief angle of the first cutting edges continuously or intermittently decrease from the tip side toward a rear end side of the drill. The second cutting edges finish the prepared hole. The second cutting edges are formed at positions away in the rear end side from the first cutting edges. The second cutting edges have the second relief angles at a maximum diameter position. The deflection reducer reduces deflection of the second cutting edges. The deflection reducer is formed between the first cutting edges and the second cutting edges. The deflection reducer is inserted into the prepared hole.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Masao Watanabe, Hiroyuki Sugawara, Tatsuo Nakahata, Ryohei Ono, Shinya Matsuo, Hideharu Takahashi
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Publication number: 20240308038Abstract: A fastening tool for fastening a nut to a bolt includes a pipe and a coupling member. The nut breaks at specified torque. The pipe has a socket wrench, a detachable structure and a suction port. The detachable structure is for attaching to and detaching from a rotor of a rotational drive device. The suction port is for suctioning a piece of the nut broken by the specified torque. The coupling member has a flow path, a first coupling portion and a second coupling portion. The flow path is for suctioning the piece of the nut from the suction port. The piece of the nut is suctioned from the suction port with an ejector. The first coupling portion couples the coupling member to a casing of the rotational drive device. The second coupling portion couples the coupling member to a duct of the ejector.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki SUGAWARA
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Publication number: 20240175489Abstract: A holder has a holder engagement portion in at least a position sandwiching a pad from both sides in a third direction orthogonal to both a first direction that is an urging direction of an elastic member and a second direction that is an axial direction of a worm accommodation portion. The pad has a pad engagement portion that comes into contact with the holder engagement portion on at least one of both side portions in the third direction. Based on contact between the holder engagement portion and the pad engagement portion, displacement of the pad in the third direction with respect to the holder is regulated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: NSK STEERING & CONTROL, INC.Inventor: Hiroyuki SUGAWARA
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Patent number: 11969803Abstract: According to one implementation, a drill includes the first cutting edges, the second cutting edges and a deflection reducer. The first cutting edges drill a prepared hole to a workpiece. The first cutting edges are formed in a tip side of the drill. The first point angle and each first relief angle of the first cutting edges continuously or intermittently decrease from the tip side toward a rear end side of the drill. The second cutting edges finish the prepared hole. The second cutting edges are formed at positions away in the rear end side from the first cutting edges. The second cutting edges have the second relief angles at a maximum diameter position. The deflection reducer reduces deflection of the second cutting edges by being inserted into the prepared hole. The deflection reducer is formed between the first cutting edges and the second cutting edges.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Masao Watanabe, Ryohei Ono, Tatsuo Nakahata, Hiroyuki Sugawara, Shinya Matsuo, Hideharu Takahashi
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Patent number: 11965582Abstract: A worm reducer has: a housing having a wheel housing portion and a worm housing portion; a worm wheel; a worm, a support bearing having an inner ring externally fitted to the tip end portion of the worm and an outer ring; an elastic biasing means elastically biasing the outer ring toward the worm wheel side; and an elastic holding means elastically holding the outer ring from both sides in a direction orthogonal to a biasing direction by the elastic biasing means and to a center axis of the worm housing portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Ryou Oosawa, Satoshi Ishikuri, Haruhiko Kiyota, Souta Matsumoto, Toru Ishii, Hiroyuki Sugawara
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Publication number: 20240075538Abstract: A collet bush includes a tapered cylindrical outer surface, a cylindrical inner surface and a flow path. The collet bush is to be inserted into a concentric collet that is attached to a handheld tool driving device in order to position the tool driving device to a workpiece. The tool driving device holds, rotates and feeds a tool. The tool driving device has a function to suck chips. The outer surface is for expanding the concentric collet. The inner surface forms a through hole for slidably fitting the tool. The flow path is for taking in air used for sucking the chips inside the collet bush. The tool driving device includes the above-mentioned collet bush and the concentric collet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei ONO, Masao WATANABE, Hiroyuki SUGAWARA, Rei NAKAMOTO, Tatsuo NAKAHATA
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Patent number: 11400524Abstract: According to one implementation, a drill includes the first cutting edges, the second cutting edges and a deflection reducer. The first cutting edges drill a prepared hole to a workpiece. The first cutting edges are formed in a tip side of the drill. The first point angle and each first relief angle of the first cutting edges continuously or intermittently decrease from the tip side toward a rear end side of the drill. The second cutting edges ream the prepared hole. The second cutting edges are formed at positions away in the rear end side from the first cutting edges. The second cutting edges have the second relief angles at a maximum diameter position. The deflection reducer reduces deflection of the second cutting edges. The deflection reducer is formed between the first cutting edges and the second cutting edges. The deflection reducer is inserted into the prepared hole.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Masao Watanabe, Ryohei Ono, Tatsuo Nakahata, Hiroyuki Sugawara
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Publication number: 20220234121Abstract: According to one implementation, a drill includes the first cutting edges, the second cutting edges and a deflection reducer. The first cutting edges drill a prepared hole to a workpiece. The first cutting edges are formed in a tip side of the drill. The first point angle and each first relief angle of the first cutting edges continuously or intermittently decrease from the tip side toward a rear end side of the drill. The second cutting edges finish the prepared hole. The second cutting edges are formed at positions away in the rear end side from the first cutting edges. The second cutting edges have the second relief angles at a maximum diameter position. The deflection reducer reduces deflection of the second cutting edges by being inserted into the prepared hole. The deflection reducer is formed between the first cutting edges and the second cutting edges.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Masao WATANABE, Ryohei ONO, Tatsuo NAKAHATA, Hiroyuki SUGAWARA, Shinya MATSUO, Hideharu TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 11335831Abstract: An optical device case (100A) of an embodiment includes: a light-transmitting window member (20A); and a housing (10) which has a space for accommodating a light-receiving element and/or a light-emitting element (OE), wherein the window member (20A) includes a light-transmitting member (22), a polymer film (50) provided on an outer surface of the light-transmitting member (22), the polymer film (50) having a moth-eye structure at its surface, a contact angle of the surface with respect to water being not less than 140°, and a resistance heater (24) provided on an inner surface of the light-transmitting member (22).Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, GEOMATEC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidekazu Hayashi, Hiroyuki Sugawara
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Publication number: 20220099159Abstract: A worm reducer has: a housing having a wheel housing portion and a worm housing portion; a worm wheel; a worm, a support bearing having an inner ring externally fitted to the tip end portion of the worm and an outer ring; an elastic biasing means elastically biasing the outer ring toward the worm wheel side; and an elastic holding means elastically holding the outer ring from both sides in a direction orthogonal to a biasing direction by the elastic biasing means and to a center axis of the worm housing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Ryou OOSAWA, Satoshi ISHIKURI, Haruhiko KIYOTA, Souta MATSUMOTO, Toru ISHII, Hiroyuki SUGAWARA
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Publication number: 20220063004Abstract: According to one implementation, a drill includes the first cutting edges, the second cutting edges and a deflection reducer. The first cutting edges drill a prepared hole to a workpiece. The first cutting edges are formed in a tip side of the drill. The first point angle and each first relief angle of the first cutting edges continuously or intermittently decrease from the tip side toward a rear end side of the drill. The second cutting edges finish the prepared hole. The second cutting edges are formed at positions away in the rear end side from the first cutting edges. The second cutting edges have the second relief angles at a maximum diameter position. The deflection reducer reduces deflection of the second cutting edges. The deflection reducer is formed between the first cutting edges and the second cutting edges. The deflection reducer is inserted into the prepared hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Masao WATANABE, Hiroyuki SUGAWARA, Tatsuo NAKAHATA, Ryohei ONO, Shinya MATSUO, Hideharu TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 11091830Abstract: To provide a moth-eye transfer mold and a method of manufacturing a moth-eye transfer mold that provide a simple and inexpensive manufacturing process. A moth-eye transfer mold 1 is characterized by including a base 10, an underlayer 20 formed on the base 10, and a glassy carbon layer 30 formed on the underlayer 20, the glassy carbon layer 30 has an inverted moth-eye structure RM over a surface 30a, and the inverted moth-eye structure RM is randomly arranged cone-shaped pores.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignees: Tokyo University of Science Foundation, GEOMATEC CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Taniguchi, Hiroyuki Sugawara
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Publication number: 20210031277Abstract: According to one implementation, a drill includes the first cutting edges, the second cutting edges and a deflection reducer. The first cutting edges drill a prepared hole to a workpiece. The first cutting edges are formed in a tip side of the drill. The first point angle and each first relief angle of the first cutting edges continuously or intermittently decrease from the tip side toward a rear end side of the drill. The second cutting edges ream the prepared hole. The second cutting edges are formed at positions away in the rear end side from the first cutting edges. The second cutting edges have the second relief angles at a maximum diameter position. The deflection reducer reduces deflection of the second cutting edges. The deflection reducer is formed between the first cutting edges and the second cutting edges. The deflection reducer is inserted into the prepared hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Masao WATANABE, Ryohei ONO, Tatsuo NAKAHATA, Hiroyuki SUGAWARA
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Publication number: 20200406509Abstract: To provide a moth-eye transfer mold and a method of manufacturing a moth-eye transfer mold that provide a simple and inexpensive manufacturing process. A moth-eye transfer mold 1 is characterized by including a base 10, an underlayer 20 formed on the base 10, and a glassy carbon layer 30 formed on the underlayer 20, the glassy carbon layer 30 has an inverted moth-eye structure RM over a surface 30a, and the inverted moth-eye structure RM is randomly arranged cone-shaped pores.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Jun TANIGUCHI, Hiroyuki SUGAWARA
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Patent number: 10675788Abstract: A manufacturing method of a mold, the mold having at its surface a plurality of recessed portions whose two-dimensional size is not less than 10 nm and less than 500 nm when viewed in a direction normal to the surface, the method including: (a) providing a mold base, (b) partially anodizing an aluminum alloy layer, thereby forming a porous alumina layer which has a plurality of minute recessed portions; and (c) after step (b), bringing the porous alumina layer into contact with a first etching solution, thereby enlarging the plurality of minute recessed portions of the porous alumina layer. Step (a) of providing the mold base includes (a1) providing a metal base, (a2) forming an aluminum alloy layer on the metal base, and (a3) forming a surface protection layer on the aluminum alloy layer. Step (a2) and step (a3) are performed in a same chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, GEOMATEC CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuaki Yamada, Kiyoshi Minoura, Miho Yamada, Hidekazu Hayashi, Takashi Satoh, Hiroyuki Sugawara
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Publication number: 20200144456Abstract: An optical device case (100A) of an embodiment includes: a light-transmitting window member (20A); and a housing (10) which has a space for accommodating a light-receiving element and/or a light-emitting element (OE), wherein the window member (20A) includes a light-transmitting member (22), a polymer film (50) provided on an outer surface of the light-transmitting member (22), the polymer film (50) having a moth-eye structure at its surface, a contact angle of the surface with respect to water being not less than 140°, and a resistance heater (24) provided on an inner surface of the light-transmitting member (22).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2018Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: Hidekazu HAYASHI, Hiroyuki SUGAWARA