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).

  • Publication number: 20140285036
    Abstract: A galvanoscanner including: a rotor including a shaft as a rotational center, and permanent magnets disposed around the shaft and polarized to a plurality of poles in a circumferential direction of the shaft; and a stator disposed in the outside of the rotor through a clearance and including coils, a yoke, and an outer casing so that the rotor swings in a predetermined angle range; wherein: the permanent magnets are provided with grooves which are formed in a direction of the rotation shaft so as to straddle circumferentially adjacent magnetic poles of the permanent magnets; and the permanent magnets are parted into at least two parts per pole by parting lines. Thus, the ratio of the torque constant to the moment of inertia can be improved so that the current required for driving can be reduced and reduction of power consumption at driving time can be attained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Akihiro YAMAMOTO, Akira DOI, Daisuke MATSUKA, Souichi TOYAMA, Hiroyuki SUGAWARA
  • Publication number: 20140285037
    Abstract: A galvanoscanner including: a rotor including a shaft as a rotational center, and permanent magnets disposed around the shaft and polarized to a plurality of poles in a circumferential direction of the shaft; and a stator disposed in the outside of the rotor through a clearance and including coils, a yoke, and an outer casing so that the rotor swings in a predetermined angle range; wherein: the permanent magnets are provided with grooves which are formed in a direction of the rotation shaft so as to straddle circumferentially adjacent magnetic poles of the permanent magnets; and the permanent magnets are parted into at least two parts per pole by parting lines. Thus, the ratio of the torque constant to the moment of inertia can be improved so that the current required for driving can be reduced and reduction of power consumption at driving time can be attained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Akihiro YAMAMOTO, Akira DOI, Daisuke MATSUKA, Souichi TOYAMA, Hiroyuki SUGAWARA
  • Publication number: 20140197036
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a moth-eye mold of an embodiment of the present invention employs a mold base including a metal base, an organic insulating layer provided on the metal base, and an aluminum alloy layer provided on the organic insulating layer, the aluminum alloy layer containing aluminum and a non-aluminum metal element M, an absolute value of a difference between a standard electrode potential of the metal element M and a standard electrode potential of aluminum being not more than 0.64 V, and a content of the metal element M in the aluminum alloy layer not exceeding 10 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicants: GEOMATEC CO., LTD., SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akinobu Isurugi, Kiyoshi Minoura, Hiroyuki Sugawara
  • Patent number: 8780429
    Abstract: A galvanoscanner including: a rotor including a shaft as a rotational center, and permanent magnets disposed around the shaft and polarized to a plurality of poles in a circumferential direction of the shaft; and a stator disposed in the outside of the rotor through a clearance and including coils, a yoke, and an outer casing so that the rotor swings in a predetermined angle range; wherein: the permanent magnets are provided with grooves which are formed in a direction of the rotation shaft so as to straddle circumferentially adjacent magnetic poles of the permanent magnets; and the permanent magnets are parted into at least two parts per pole by parting lines. Thus, the ratio of the torque constant to the moment of inertia can be improved so that the current required for driving can be reduced and reduction of power consumption at driving time can be attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Via Mechanics, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamamoto, Akira Doi, Daisuke Matsuka, Souichi Toyama, Hiroyuki Sugawara
  • Patent number: 8278594
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for perforating a printed circuit board are provided so that the processing efficiency and the board densification can be improved. In test processing, a conductor layer 50i is irradiated with a pulsed laser beam 4a whose energy density is set at a value high enough to process the conductor layer 50i while emission 23a from a processed portion is monitored. Thus, the number of pulses of irradiation required for processing a window in the conductor layer 50i is obtained. An insulating layer 51i is irradiated with a pulsed laser beam 5a whose energy density is set at a value high enough to process the insulating layer 51i but low enough not to process a conductor layer 50i+1 under the insulating layer 51i. Thus, the number of pulses of irradiation required for processing a window in the insulating layer 51i is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Via Mechanics, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Arai, Hiroyuki Sugawara, Hiroaki Ashizawa, Hiromi Nishiyawa
  • Publication number: 20120105930
    Abstract: A galvanoscanner including: a rotor including a shaft as a rotational center, and permanent magnets disposed around the shaft and polarized to a plurality of poles in a circumferential direction of the shaft; and a stator disposed in the outside of the rotor through a clearance and including coils, a yoke, and an outer casing so that the rotor swings in a predetermined angle range; wherein: the permanent magnets are provided with grooves which are formed in a direction of the rotation shaft so as to straddle circumferentially adjacent magnetic poles of the permanent magnets; and the permanent magnets are parted into at least two parts per pole by parting lines. Thus, the ratio of the torque constant to the moment of inertia can be improved so that the current required for driving can be reduced and reduction of power consumption at driving time can be attained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi Via Mechanics, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamamoto, Akira Doi, Daisuke Matsuka, Souichi Toyama, Hiroyuki Sugawara
  • Patent number: 7831359
    Abstract: A passenger detecting device includes a plurality of weight sensors, a passenger judging and data updating device and an update forbidding device. The weight sensors are arranged at different positions of a seat for respectively detecting weights acting on the seat of a motor vehicle. The passenger judging and data updating device is capable of judging a passenger on the seat based on the loads detected by the weight sensors and updating information on the passenger. The update forbidding device prevents the passenger judging and data updating device from judging the passenger or prevents the information to be updated when a sum-weight fluctuation amount is not less than a first predetermined threshold value, where the sum-weight fluctuation amount is obtained by summing up weight function amounts which are absolute values of fluctuations of the loads detected by the weight sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugawara, Takahiro Kawakami, Masatoshi Kobayashi, Hitoshi Matsuo, Noriyuki Okawa
  • Patent number: 7749428
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a clad material composed of a bronze alloy and a steel is provided, including: scattering a bronze alloy powder on a steel back metal; sintering the bronze alloy powder to obtain a bilayer material having a porous bronze alloy layer on the steel; dry-rolling and a sintering the bilayer material so that the bronze alloy layer has a porosity of 3% or less; and wet-rolling the bilayer material with supplying a rolling oil to surfaces of rolling rolls. The clad manufactured according to this method can be heat-treated without an disadvantage in a conventional wet-rolling that entering rolling oil vaporizes in the bronze alloy layer during the heat treatment to form new voids. Therefore, it becomes possible to make a bronze alloy layer high in density in small times of rolling, thus enabling an increase in production efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Daido Metal Co Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugawara, Yasuo Ido, Yoshiaki Sato, Yukio Ogita, Shigemasa Hakakoshi
  • Patent number: 7569026
    Abstract: A bag connection comprises a first bag, a tube having a blood-drawing needle at the front end, a plurality of second bags, tubes for connecting the first and second bags, and tubes and branch connectors for connecting the second bags to each other. On the other hand, a filter unit includes a filter, and a tube connected at opposite ends thereof to the inlet and outlet of the filter. The tubes of the bag concatenation and the tube of the filter unit have respective markers attached thereto. With these markers used as marks, both tubes are aseptically connected by a tube aseptic connection device, thereby incorporating the filter unit into an intermediate portion of a tube of the bag concatenation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20090166340
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for perforating a printed circuit board are provided so that the processing efficiency and the board densification can be improved. In test processing, a conductor layer 50i is irradiated with a pulsed laser beam 4a whose energy density is set at a value high enough to process the conductor layer 50i while emission 23a from a processed portion is monitored. Thus, the number of pulses of irradiation required for processing a window in the conductor layer 50i is obtained. An insulating layer 51i is irradiated with a pulsed laser beam 5a whose energy density is set at a value high enough to process the insulating layer 51i but low enough not to process a conductor layer 50i+1 under the insulating layer 51i. Thus, the number of pulses of irradiation required for processing a window in the insulating layer 51i is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: Hitachi Via Mechanics, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Arai, Hiroyuki Sugawara, Hiroaki Ashizawa, Hiromi Nishiyawa
  • Patent number: 7531767
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for perforating a printed circuit board are provided so that the processing efficiency and the board densification can be improved. In test processing, a conductor layer 50i is irradiated with a pulsed laser beam 4a whose energy density is set at a value high enough to process the conductor layer 50i while emission 23a from a processed portion is monitored. Thus, the number of pulses of irradiation required for processing a window in the conductor layer 50i is obtained. An insulating layer 51i is irradiated with a pulsed laser beam 5a whose energy density is set at a value high enough to process the insulating layer 51i but low enough not to process a conductor layer 50i+1 under the insulating layer 51i. Thus, the number of pulses of irradiation required for processing a window in the insulating layer 51i is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Via Mechanics, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Arai, Hiroyuki Sugawara, Hiroaki Ashizawa, Hiromi Nishiyawa
  • Patent number: 7521650
    Abstract: A laser machining apparatus in which three or more beam splits are made incident on one machining lens so that high speed machining can be achieved, and the machining quality (shapes, dimensions, accuracy and straightness of machined holes) is excellent. The optical paths of beams A and B having the same polarization direction are aligned almost in one and the same direction by a total reflection/transmission type beam combining means 31c using a difference in incident angle. After that, the optical paths of the beams A and B and the optical path of a beam C different in polarization direction therefrom are aligned almost in one and the same direction by a polarizing type beam combining means 32. Then, the beams A, B and C are made incident on a machining lens 45.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Via Mechanics, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Mori, Hiroyuki Sugawara, Hiroshi Aoyama
  • Patent number: 7522262
    Abstract: A method for determining a position of a reference point in which there is no influence of aberration of a camera lens or the like, but an error caused by a failure in shape of an alignment mark can be reduced. An alignment mark consisting of a plurality of pattern portions (and background portions) centering at a design reference point is provided in advance. Positions of centers of border lines of the patterns are calculated. Obtained coordinate values of the centers are averaged in each axial direction. The averaged coordinate values are regarded as coordinate values of a machining reference point. Thus, even when a defect occurs in any pattern portion, an error caused by the defect is reduced so that the accuracy in machining can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Via Mechanics Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugawara, Takeshi Goto, Kounosuke Kitamura, Hiroshi Aoyama
  • Patent number: 7366739
    Abstract: A data storage system is disclosed having a plurality of terminal apparatuses of users connected with a data storage unit of a service provider via a computer network, the data storage unit storing data from inside the terminal apparatuses so that the stored data are subsequently used by the users. The data storage unit includes a connecting element, a file storing element, a file managing element, and a data format converting element. In response to a use request from any one of the users, the data format converting element converts stored data in the file storing element into a format compatible with the type of the terminal apparatus used by the requesting user for connection to the system. The converted data is used by the terminal apparatus through which the requesting user has sent the use request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugawara, Junichi Kurihara
  • Publication number: 20080012276
    Abstract: A passenger detecting device includes a plurality of weight sensors, a passenger judging and data updating means and an update forbidding means. The weight sensors are arranged at different positions of a seat for respectively detecting weights acting on the seat of a motor vehicle. The passenger judging and data updating means is capable of judging a passenger on the seat based on the loads detected by the weight sensors and updating information on the passenger. The update forbidding means prevents the passenger judging and data updating means from judging the passenger or prevents the information to be updated when a sum-weight fluctuation amount is not less than a first predetermined threshold value, where the sum-weight fluctuation amount is obtained by summing up weight function amounts which are absolute values of fluctuations of the loads detected by the weight sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugawara, Takahiro Kawakami, Masatoshi Kobayashi, Hitoshi Matsuo, Noriyuki Okawa
  • Publication number: 20070224074
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a clad material composed of a bronze alloy and a steel is provided, including: scattering a bronze alloy powder on a steel back metal; sintering the bronze alloy powder to obtain a bilayer material having a porous bronze alloy layer on the steel; dry-rolling and a sintering the bilayer material so that the bronze alloy layer has a porosity of 3% or less; and wet-rolling the bilayer material with supplying a rolling oil to surfaces of rolling rolls. The clad manufactured according to this method can be heat-treated without an disadvantage in a conventional wet-rolling that entering rolling oil vaporizes in the bronze alloy layer during the heat treatment to form new voids. Therefore, it becomes possible to make a bronze alloy layer high in density in small times of rolling, thus enabling an increase in production efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: Daido Metal Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugawara, Yasuo Ido, Yoshiaki Sato, Yukio Ogita, Shigemasa Hakakoshi
  • Publication number: 20070043317
    Abstract: A bag connection comprises a first bag, a tube having a blood-drawing needle at the front end, a plurality of second bags, tubes for connecting the first and second bags,.and tubes and branch connectors for connecting the second bags to each other. On the other hand, a filter unit includes a filter, and a tube connected at opposite ends thereof to the inlet and outlet of the filter. The tubes of the bag concatenation and the tube of the filter unit have respective markers attached thereto. With these markers used as marks, both tubes are aseptically connected by a tube aseptic connection device, thereby incorporating the filter unit into an intermediate portion of a tube of the bag concatenation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicant: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20060211158
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for perforating a printed circuit board are provided so that the processing efficiency and the board densification can be improved. In test processing, a conductor layer 50i is irradiated with a pulsed laser beam 4a whose energy density is set at a value high enough to process the conductor layer 50i while emission 23a from a processed portion is monitored. Thus, the number of pulses of irradiation required for processing a window in the conductor layer 50i is obtained. An insulating layer 51i is irradiated with a pulsed laser beam 5a whose energy density is set at a value high enough to process the insulating layer 51i but low enough not to process a conductor layer 50i+1 under the insulating layer 51i. Thus, the number of pulses of irradiation required for processing a window in the insulating layer 51i is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Applicant: Hitachi Via Mechanics, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Arai, Hiroyuki Sugawara, Hiroaki Ashizawa, Hiromi Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20060180526
    Abstract: A blood treating set, including a blood collecting device and a blood treating device, the blood collecting device further including a first bag for storing collected blood, a tube for guiding blood into the first bag, and a tube for discharging blood from the first bag. The blood treating device further includes a connected bag body having three bags, that are, a second bag for storing haematosis, a third bag, and a fourth bag. These bags are connected to each other through the tubes and a branch connector. Also, the tube connected to the second bag includes a filter installed midway in the tube. On the tube connected to the first bag and the tube connected to the filter, indications (markers) are placed at positions to show where these portions must be connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugawara, Noboru Taguchi, Masahide Murakoshi
  • Publication number: 20050270518
    Abstract: A method for determining a position of a reference point in which there is no influence of aberration of a camera lens or the like, but an error caused by a failure in shape of an alignment mark can be reduced. An alignment mark consisting of a plurality of pattern portions (and background portions) centering at a design reference point is provided in advance. Positions of centers of border lines of the patterns are calculated. Obtained coordinate values of the centers are averaged in each axial direction. The averaged coordinate values are regarded as coordinate values of a machining reference point. Thus, even when a defect occurs in any pattern portion, an error caused by the defect is reduced so that the accuracy in machining can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Applicant: Hitachi Via Mechanics Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sugawara, Takeshi Goto, Kounosuke Kitamura, Hiroshi Aoyama