Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Takamura

Hiroyuki Takamura 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: 8463532
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an engine which is capable of purifying NOx with high efficiency at a restart after an idle stop without deteriorating purification efficiency of HC and CO. At the restart after the idle stop, an air-fuel ratio is controlled to be rich, and an atmosphere inside of a catalyst is estimated on the basis of a required time ?T from a time point at which an output value (VO2—2) of first oxygen concentration detection means upstream of the catalyst exceeds a predetermined value A1 to a time point at which an output value (VO2—2) of second oxygen concentration detection means downstream of the catalyst exceeds a predetermined value A2, whereby an air-fuel ratio at next and subsequent restarts is corrected so that the atmosphere inside of the catalyst is optimized at the next and subsequent restarts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Nakagawa, Kazuhiko Kanetoshi, Kouzo Katougi, Takanobu Ichihara, Minoru Ohsuga, Hiroyuki Takamura
  • Patent number: 8282784
    Abstract: Provided is a paper-making machine belt (or a paper-making shoe-press belt), which is excellent in a wet-web water-squeezing property, which is stable in a paper quality (e.g., wet-web smoothness or marking property), and which has little damage (e.g., cracking or wear) of the outer circumference of the belt being used. The paper-making shoe-press belt carries a felt for accepting the squeezed water from the wet-web and has draining grooves extended in the felt-side surface. The paper-making shoe-press belt is characterized in that the draining grooves extended in the felt-side surface have at least two kinds of different groove shapes in the transverse direction (or the CMD direction) of the paper-making machine. The groove shape enables the grooves of two continuous and discontinuous kinds to share the functions thereby to satisfy the improvements in the drainage and in the paper quality and the wet-web surface smoothness at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Takano, Hiroyuki Takamura
  • Patent number: 8262864
    Abstract: This aims to provide a paper making machine belt (a shoe press belt) having excellent wet squeezability but less damages (such as cracks or wear) of the outer periphery of a belt being used. The paper making shoe press belt includes drainage conduits extended in the felt-side surface thereof. The drainage conduits are discontinuous grooves, and are made semi-arcuate on at least one of the belt ends in a belt running direction (an MD direction).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Takamura
  • Patent number: 8229647
    Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine equipped with fuel injection valves provided respectively for the cylinders including: a revolution measuring means for measuring a revolution speed for a predetermined angle for each cylinder; an inter-cylinder revolution-difference calculating means for calculating, from the measured revolution speed, a difference in revolution speed between a cylinder of current explosion and a cylinder of the previous explosion; an injection amount correcting means for adjusting the average amount of injection of the fuel injection valves of all the cylinders in accordance with the inter-cylinder differences in revolution speed after the cold start of the engine calculated by the inter-cylinder revolution-difference calculating means; an inter-cylinder revolution-difference averaging means for averaging the differences in revolution speed, calculated by the inter-cylinder revolution-difference calculating means, each between the cylinder of cu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanobu Ichihara, Kazuhiko Kanetoshi, Kozo Katogi, Hiroyuki Takamura
  • Publication number: 20110315108
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an engine which is capable of purifying NOx with high efficiency at a restart after an idle stop without deteriorating purification efficiency of HC and CO. At the restart after the idle stop, an air-fuel ratio is controlled to be rich, and an atmosphere inside of a catalyst is estimated on the basis of a required time ?T from a time point at which an output value (VO2—2) of first oxygen concentration detection means upstream of the catalyst exceeds a predetermined value A1 to a time point at which an output value (VO2—2) of second oxygen concentration detection means downstream of the catalyst exceeds a predetermined value A2, whereby an air-fuel ratio at next and subsequent restarts is corrected so that the atmosphere inside of the catalyst is optimized at the next and subsequent restarts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Nakagawa, Kazuhiko Kanetoshi, Kouzo Katougi, Takanobu Ichihara, Minoru Ohsuga, Hiroyuki Takamura
  • Publication number: 20100314065
    Abstract: This aims to provide a paper making machine belt (a shoe press belt) having excellent wet squeezability but less damages (such as cracks or wear) of the outer periphery of a belt being used. The paper making shoe press belt includes drainage conduits extended in the felt-side surface thereof. The drainage conduits are discontinuous grooves, and are made semi-arcuate on at least one of the belt ends in a belt running direction (an MD direction).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Takamura
  • Publication number: 20100101746
    Abstract: Provided is a paper-making machine belt (or a paper-making shoe-press belt), which is excellent in a wet-web water-squeezing property, which is stable in a paper quality (e.g., wet-web smoothness or marking property), and which has little damage (e.g., cracking or wear) of the outer circumference of the belt being used. The paper-making shoe-press belt carries a felt for accepting the squeezed water from the wet-web and has draining grooves extended in the felt-side surface. The paper-making shoe-press belt is characterized in that the draining grooves extended in the felt-side surface have at least two kinds of different groove shapes in the transverse direction (or the CMD direction) of the paper-making machine. The groove shape enables the grooves of two continuous and discontinuous kinds to share the functions thereby to satisfy the improvements in the drainage and in the paper quality and the wet-web surface smoothness at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: ICHIKAWA CO., LDT.
    Inventors: Satoshi Takano, Hiroyuki Takamura
  • Publication number: 20090292440
    Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine equipped with fuel injection valves provided respectively for the cylinders including: a revolution measuring means for measuring a revolution speed for a predetermined angle for each cylinder; an inter-cylinder revolution-difference calculating means for calculating, from the measured revolution speed, a difference in revolution speed between a cylinder of current explosion and a cylinder of the previous explosion; an injection amount correcting means for adjusting the average amount of injection of the fuel injection valves of all the cylinders in accordance with the inter-cylinder differences in revolution speed after the cold start of the engine calculated by the inter-cylinder revolution-difference calculating means; an inter-cylinder revolution-difference averaging means for averaging the differences in revolution speed, calculated by the inter-cylinder revolution-difference calculating means, each between the cylinder of cu
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanobu ICHIHARA, Kazuhiko Kanetoshi, Kozo Katogi, Hiroyuki Takamura
  • Patent number: 7494571
    Abstract: A belt for a shoe-press of a paper machine having water drain grooves which are resistant to the occurrence of cracks in side walls of the water drain grooves. The surface condition of the water drain grooves side wall is arranged to be a pear-skin state having minute unevenness. Preferably the surface has an average surface roughness in a range of 10 to 50 micrometers in at least the upper two thirds of the total distance (depth) of the side walls of the water drain grooves between the top of the groove and the bottom thereof. The water drain grooves can be manufactured by rotary cutting blades disposed in a position in contact with a roll around which a belt is wound. The roll and the rotary cutting blades rotate simultaneously and a groove cutting device is shifted in the width direction of the belt so that water drain grooves are formed in the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Takamura
  • Publication number: 20090014143
    Abstract: In order to provide a smoothing press apparatus suitable to be applied to a closed draw type paper machine for allowing the surface of the wet paper to be smoothed and papermaking to be performed in a high speed, [Means for Achieving the Object] the smoothing press apparatus 100 is mounted on a last stage of the press part 11 of the closed draw type paper machine, and includes a smoothing press 17 having a pair of press rolls 23 and 25, a smoothing belt 27 interposed between the smoothing press 17 together with the wet paper W to smooth the surface of the wet paper, and a wet paper conveyer felt 21 for conveying the wet paper W and passing over it to the smoothing belt 27.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Takamura, Akira Onikubo
  • Publication number: 20080276753
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cam shaft that prevents cracks during the joining of a cam lobe to a shaft, and improves the degree of freedom of design of the cam lobe is provided. By a method of manufacturing a cam shaft that after an inner circumferential surface 13 of a cam lobe 1 is subjected to treatment for residual compressive stress addition treatment, the cam lob 1 is joined to a shaft, above problem is solved. It is preferred that the residual compressive stress on the inner circumferential surface 13 of the cam lobe 1 is not less than 100 MPa. In addition, an outer peripheral surface 14 of the cam lobe 1 can be also subjected to treatment for residual compressive stress addition treatment. As the treatment for residual compressive stress addition treatment, shot-peening treatment, induction hardening treatment, barrel polishing treatment, carburizing and quenching treatment or carbonitriding treatment is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Takamura
  • Patent number: 7285185
    Abstract: A wet paper web transfer belt comprises a base body, a wet paper web side layer, and a machine side layer. The wet paper web side layer is formed of a high molecular weight elastic section, and fibers and filler particles are exposed at its surface. The fibers and filler particles are exposed in the form of an island-sea structure comprising islands section where the fibers are exposed, and a sea section where the filler particles are exposed. The fibers and the filler particles, both exposed at the wet paper web side layer, hold water at different times in the papermaking process as the wet paper web moves out of the press part of the papermaking machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: IchikawaCo., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Inoue, Hiroyuki Takamura
  • Patent number: 7166255
    Abstract: The temporary compacting of the powder for use in sintering is carried out, the temporary sintering is carried out, the main compacting is carried out, the main sintering is carried out, and the thickness of the radius direction of the base part of the cam before the heat-treatment is set to 3.0 mm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Nippon Piston Ring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Takeguchi, Hiroyuki Takamura
  • Publication number: 20070006828
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cam lobe material that is excellent in sliding characteristics, such as wear resistance, scuffing resistance and pitting resistance, and can be advantageously used in engines to which high loads are applied, and a method of manufacturing the cam lobe material. The above-described task is fulfilled by providing a cam lobe material that is formed from an iron-based sintered alloy that contains 0.3 to 5.0 mass % Ni, 0.5 to 1.2 mass % C, 0.02 to 0.3 mass % of at least either of B and P, and incidental impurities as the balance, and has a hardness of a peripheral surface of not less than HRC 50 and a density of not less than 7.5 g/cm3. The iron-based sintered alloy can further contain not more than 2.5 mass % Mo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Applicant: Nippon Piston Ring Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Takamura, Shunsuke Takeguchi
  • Publication number: 20060266489
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved]To provide a belt for shoe-press of paper machine having water drain grooves which is usable for long time by preventing occurrence of cracks in side walls of the water drain grooves. [Solving Means]The surface condition of the water drain grooves side wall is arranged to be pear-skin state having minute unevenness, preferably to have an average surface roughness in a range of 10 to 50 micrometers in at least upper two thirds of the total distance (depth) of side wall of the water drain grooves between the top of a groove and a bottom thereof. The water drain grooves having such roughness can be manufactured in the following arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Takamura
  • Publication number: 20060207739
    Abstract: [Problem to be solved] To provide a paper machine that can recover function of a belt being deteriorated in wet paper peeling performance while running the conveying belt without stopping the paper machine operation, and also can suitably modify or recondition the belt surface roughness according to operative condition of the paper machine, and to provide a method to recondition the paper conveying belt using such a paper machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Takamura, Kenji Inoue
  • Patent number: 7080507
    Abstract: In order to improve the decrease of the catalytic action and the deterioration of the exhaust purification performance, a catalyst installed in the exhaust pipe of an engine and a secondary air pump for supplying secondary air into the exhaust pipe are provided, and the secondary air pump is operated even after the engine has stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozo Katogi, Masami Nagano, Hiroshi Sekine, Hiroyuki Takamura, Shinji Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20060118261
    Abstract: To provide a shoe press belt that is more excellent in the properties such as abrasion resistance, bending fatigue, crack resistance, and compression fatigue resistance. The shoe press belt has polyurethane and a substrate, wherein the polyurethane contains a non-reactive polydimethylsiloxane liquid substance and has a JIS A hardness of 93° to 96°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Jun Ishino, Hiroyuki Takamura
  • Publication number: 20060042081
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a high-precision sintered cam lobe part which has high dimensional accuracy even when producing a cam lobe having a complicated shape and needs no grinding processing after fabricated while it has high wear resistance and pitting resistance. In order to attain the above object, the high-precision sintered cam lobe part of the present invention is a sintered cam lobe part obtained by subjecting a sintering powder to compression-molding and sintering one time only or two or more times repetitively to make the powder into a predetermined form and by carrying out thermal refining of the resulting body as required, wherein the cam lobe part is made of an iron-based sintered alloy comprising one or both of 0.3 to 5.0% by weight of Ni and 0.2 to 4.0% by weight of Cu, 0.5 to 1.2% by weight of C and unavoidable impurities, which is balanced with Fe, and has a density of 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2003
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Takamura
  • Publication number: 20050287373
    Abstract: A papermaking machine belt has a polyurethane and a substrate. The polyurethane is obtained by curing a mixture of an urethane prepolymer, a curing agent, and a non-reactive liquid poly(dimethyl siloxane) in which an amount ratio thereof with respect to a sum of the amount of the urethane prepolymer and the curing agent is from 0.5 to 25% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishino, Hiroyuki Takamura, Tsutomu Ishii