Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Takaoka
Hiroyuki Takaoka 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: 20220153094Abstract: Provided is an opening/closing body opening/closing device capable of effectively preventing water such as rainwater flowing down from an opening/closing body carried by a carrier plate from adhering to a guide rail. The opening/closing body opening/closing device includes a carrier plate that carries an opening/closing body, and a guide rail that guides movement of the carrier plate in a lifting and lowering direction of the opening/closing body. The carrier plate includes, at an upper end portion, a water holding section that holds water reaching the upper end portion of the carrier plate from above. The water holding section includes a water receiving section that faces upward and receives the reaching water, and an outflow preventing section provided with a preventing surface that faces the water receiving section side and prevents the water from flowing out to the guide rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventor: Hiroyuki TAKAOKA
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Patent number: 11286704Abstract: A carrier plate is attached to a guide rail so as to move on the guide rail along the extending direction. An erected portion includes a first surface and a second surface which extend in an extending direction. A slit is formed by a first edge portion which is disposed on a side of the first surface of the erected portion and a second edge portion which is disposed on a side of the second surface of the erected portion. A cutout portion which includes an opening facing the erected portion is provided in at least one of the first edge portion and the second edge portion. The cutout portion includes a space portion which allows grease to be stored therein. The grease stored in the cutout portion is applied to the erected portion which slides in the slit when the carrier plate moves on the guide rail.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignees: HI-LEX CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroyuki Takaoka, Tetsuya Nagasaki
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Publication number: 20200408026Abstract: A carrier plate is attached to a guide rail so as to move on the guide rail along the extending direction. An erected portion includes a first surface and a second surface which extend in an extending direction. A slit is formed by a first edge portion which is disposed on a side of the first surface of the erected portion and a second edge portion which is disposed on a side of the second surface of the erected portion. A cutout portion which includes an opening facing the erected portion is provided in at least one of the first edge portion and the second edge portion. The cutout portion includes a space portion which allows grease to be stored therein. The grease stored in the cutout portion is applied to the erected portion which slides in the slit when the carrier plate moves on the guide rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicants: HI-LEX CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroyuki TAKAOKA, Tetsuya NAGASAKI
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Patent number: 10591960Abstract: The electronic device includes a case, an antenna element, a heat source, a heat dissipation member, a heat conduction member, a cooling fan, an exhaust port, and an exhaust duct. The case has a pair of main surfaces and side surfaces. The antenna element is used to perform wireless communication. The heat dissipation member exchanges heat with a cooling wind. The heat conduction member conducts heat of the heat source to the heat dissipation member. The cooling fan generates the cooling wind to be blown to the heat dissipation member. The exhaust port is an exhaust port from which the cooling wind is discharged to the outside. The exhaust duct guides the cooling wind to the exhaust port. The exhaust port is disposed on one of the side surfaces, and the antenna element and the exhaust duct are disposed to overlap each other at least partially in the thickness direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Tani, Kenji Nishikawa, Kazuhiro Shiraga, Hiroyuki Takaoka, Katsuya Yamamoto, Kazuya Nakano, Hiroki Yosho
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Publication number: 20190235586Abstract: The electronic device includes a case, an antenna element, a heat source, a heat dissipation member, a heat conduction member, a cooling fan, an exhaust port, and an exhaust duct. The case has a pair of main surfaces and side surfaces. The antenna element is used to perform wireless communication. The heat dissipation member exchanges heat with a cooling wind. The heat conduction member conducts heat of the heat source to the heat dissipation member. The cooling fan generates the cooling wind to be blown to the heat dissipation member. The exhaust port is an exhaust port from which the cooling wind is discharged to the outside. The exhaust duct guides the cooling wind to the exhaust port. The exhaust port is disposed on one of the side surfaces, and the antenna element and the exhaust duct are disposed to overlap each other at least partially in the thickness direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: KAZUYA TANI, KENJI NISHIKAWA, KAZUHIRO SHIRAGA, HIROYUKI TAKAOKA, KATSUYA YAMAMOTO, KAZUYA NAKANO, HIROKI YOSHO
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Patent number: 10253398Abstract: The high-strength steel for steel forgings according to the present invention has a composition that includes, as basic components, C: 0.35 mass % to 0.47 mass %; Si: 0 mass % to 0.4 mass %; Mn: 0.6 mass % to 1.5 mass %; Ni: more than 0 mass % up to 2.0 mass %; Cr: 0.8 mass % to 2.5 mass %; Mo: 0.10 mass % to 0.7 mass %; V: 0.035 mass % to 0.20 mass %; Al: 0.015 mass % to 0.050 mass %; N: 30 ppm to 100 ppm, and O: more than 0 ppm up to 30 ppm, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. The metal structure is mainly bainite, martensite or a mixed structure of bainite and martensite. Among cubic B1-type precipitates, the number of coherent precipitates having a diameter equal to or smaller than 30 nm is equal to or smaller than 50/?m2.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2014Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Takaoka, Tomonori Ikegami
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Publication number: 20190024200Abstract: A high strength forged steel comprises composition which comprises predetermined amounts of predetermined chemical elements and a balance being Fe and inevitable purities. A major constituent of a metallographic structure of the steel comprises bainite, martensite or a combination thereof. An average crystal grain size in steel microstructures between a near-surface level below a surface of the steel at a distance of 5 mm and a mid level below the surface at a distance of one quarter of the thickness of the steel is less than or equal to 50 ?m. A difference between peak values of crystal grain size distributions at the near-surface level and the mid level is greater than or equal to 10 ?m and less than or equal to 30 ?m. The total index as determined in accordance with DIN 50602-1985, method K0 for evaluating non-metallic inclusions is preferably less than or equal to 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventor: Hiroyuki TAKAOKA
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Publication number: 20190010589Abstract: Provided is a large crankshaft comprising a pin fillet portion, wherein: an average initial compression stress in a surface layer region from a surface of the pin fillet portion to a depth of 500 ?m is 500 Mpa or more; an average Vickers hardness of the surface of the pin fillet portion is 600 or more; an arithmetic average roughness Ra of the surface of the pin fillet portion is 1.0 ?m or less; and an average prior austenite grain size of a metallographic structure is 100 ?m or less. The large crankshaft has composition comprising C: 0.2% by mass to 0.4% by mass, Si: 0% by mass to 1.0% by mass, Mn: 0.2% by mass to 2.0% by mass, Al: 0.005% by mass to 0.1% by mass, N: 0.001% by mass to 0.02% by mass, and a balance being Fe and inevitable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Hiroyuki TAKAOKA, Mariko YAMADA
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Publication number: 20170268083Abstract: The high-strength steel for steel forgings according to the present invention has a composition that includes, as basic components, C: 0.35 mass % to 0.47 mass %; Si: 0 mass % to 0.4 mass %; Mn: 0.6 mass % to 1.5 mass %; Ni: more than 0 mass % up to 2.0 mass %; Cr: 0.8 mass % to 2.5 mass %; Mo: 0.10 mass % to 0.7 mass %; V: 0.035 mass % to 0.20 mass %; Al: 0.015 mass % to 0.050 mass %; N: 30 ppm to 100 ppm, and O: more than 0 ppm up to 30 ppm, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. The metal structure is mainly bainite, martensite or a mixed structure of bainite and martensite. Among cubic B1-type precipitates, the number of coherent precipitates having a diameter equal to or smaller than 30 nm is equal to or smaller than 50/?m2.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2014Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Hiroyuki TAKAOKA, Tomonori Ikegami
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Patent number: 9368894Abstract: A socket for electronic components includes a case that includes through holes of which inner wall surfaces have conductivity, and a ground contact unit that is disposed in one of the through holes and is electrically connected to an inner wall surface of the through hole. The ground contact unit includes a holding member that holds a conductive member and is fixed in the through hole. The conductive member has elasticity, and includes an intermediate portion held by the holding member, an upper extension portion extending upward from the intermediate portion, and a lower extension portion extending downward from the intermediate portion. The lower extension portion includes a ground extension portion that comes into elastic contact with the inner wall surface of the through hole, a fixed portion that is fixed to a substrate, and an impact absorbing portion that is formed between the fixed portion and the intermediate portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigetomo Chiba, Takeshi Murayama, Hiroyuki Takaoka, Takeki Uozumi, Nobuyuki Okuda
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Patent number: 9297056Abstract: A forged steel for components for nuclear power plants meets a specific chemical composition. The grain size number of a metal structure thereof is 4.5 to 7.0 in terms of ASTM grain size number. It is preferred that the content of N is 0.0100 mass % or more when the mass ratio (Al/N) of the content of Al to the content of N is 1.93 or more, and that the content of Al is 0.022 mass % or more when the mass ratio (Al/N) of the content of Al to the content of N is less than 1.93. The forged steel for components for nuclear power plants exhibits excellent strength, toughness and hydrogen cracking resistance even after being subjected to a stress relief heat treatment subsequent to welding.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Takaoka, Nobuyuki Fujitsuna
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Publication number: 20160006183Abstract: A socket for electronic components includes a case that includes through holes of which inner wall surfaces have conductivity, and a ground contact unit that is disposed in one of the through holes and is electrically connected to an inner wall surface of the through hole. The ground contact unit includes a holding member that holds a conductive member and is fixed in the through hole. The conductive member has elasticity, and includes an intermediate portion held by the holding member, an upper extension portion extending upward from the intermediate portion, and a lower extension portion extending downward from the intermediate portion. The lower extension portion includes a ground extension portion that comes into elastic contact with the inner wall surface of the through hole, a fixed portion that is fixed to a substrate, and an impact absorbing portion that is formed between the fixed portion and the intermediate portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Shigetomo CHIBA, Takeshi MURAYAMA, Hiroyuki TAKAOKA, Takeki UOZUMI, Nobuyuki OKUDA
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Patent number: 9184528Abstract: An electronic component socket includes a shield plate set forming an opening portion, a movement member including a conductive member having a contact portion capable of contacting an electrode terminal of an electronic component, an elastic member which is electrically connectable to a wiring substrate, and includes a biasing portion having a biasing force and a base portion fixing the biasing portion. The movement member is disposed to move vertically above the elastic member in the opening portion, and the biasing portion elastically contacts the movement member. The shield plate set includes a protrusion protruding in the opening portion, the movement member includes a concave portion which engages with the protrusion, the conductive member includes an inclined surface portion which extends so as to be inclined on an opposite side of the concave portion, and the biasing portion of the elastic member elastically contacts the inclined surface portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigetomo Chiba, Takeshi Murayama, Hiroyuki Takaoka, Takeki Uozumi, Nobuyuki Okuda
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Patent number: 9057122Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength steel plate having a predetermined chemical composition, in which a microstructure of the steel plate at a depth of one-fourth to one half the thickness from a surface has an area fraction of bainite of 90% or more, an average lath width of bainite of 3.5 ?m or less, and a maximum equivalent circle diameter of martensite-austenite constituents in bainite of 3.0 ?m or less. The steel plate exhibits high strengths and good drop weight properties and is useful as structural materials for offshore structure, ships, and bridges, as well as materials for pressure vessels in nuclear power plants.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2011Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Takaoka, Eiichi Tamura
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Publication number: 20150064984Abstract: An electronic component socket includes a shield plate set forming an opening portion, a movement member including a conductive member having a contact portion capable of contacting an electrode terminal of an electronic component, an elastic member which is electrically connectable to a wiring substrate, and includes a biasing portion having a biasing force and a base portion fixing the biasing portion. The movement member is disposed to move vertically above the elastic member in the opening portion, and the biasing portion elastically contacts the movement member. The shield plate set includes a protrusion protruding in the opening portion, the movement member includes a concave portion which engages with the protrusion, the conductive member includes an inclined surface portion which extends so as to be inclined on an opposite side of the concave portion, and the biasing portion of the elastic member elastically contacts the inclined surface portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Shigetomo CHIBA, Takeshi MURAYAMA, Hiroyuki TAKAOKA, Takeki UOZUMI, Nobuyuki OKUDA
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Publication number: 20130330119Abstract: A forged steel for components for nuclear power plants meets a specific chemical composition. The grain size number of a metal structure thereof is 4.5 to 7.0 in terms of ASTM grain size number. It is preferred that the content of N is 0.0100 mass % or more when the mass ratio (Al/N) of the content of Al to the content of N is 1.93 or more, and that the content of Al is 0.022 mass % or more when the mass ratio (Al/N) of the content of Al to the content of N is less than 1.93. The forged steel for components for nuclear power plants exhibits excellent strength, toughness and hydrogen cracking resistance even after being subjected to a stress relief heat treatment subsequent to welding.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2012Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Hiroyuki Takaoka, Nobuyuki Fujitsuna
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Publication number: 20130039803Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength steel plate having a predetermined chemical composition, in which a microstructure of the steel plate at a depth of one-fourth to one half the thickness from a surface has an area fraction of bainite of 90% or more, an average lath width of bainite of 3.5 ?m or less, and a maximum equivalent circle diameter of martensite-austenite constituents in bainite of 3.0 ?m or less. The steel plate exhibits high strengths and good drop weight properties and is useful as structural materials for offshore structure, ships, and bridges, as well as materials for pressure vessels in nuclear power plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Hiroyuki Takaoka, Eiichi Tamura
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Patent number: 3994269Abstract: The multistep fluid control valve comprises a valve case having a plurality of valve seats. A valve stem is provided in the valve case and is capable of being continuously or stepwise displaced axially. At least one valve body is shiftably mounted on the valve stem it is urged toward the corresponding one of the valve seats, but normally arrested at a position clear of the valve seat. This valve body closes the valve seat when the valve stem is moved a predetermined amount. At least one further valve body is provided axially in line with the valve stem so as to cooperate with a corresponding one of the valve seats. The further valve body is actuated by a further stepwise movement of the valve stem so that the corresponding valve seat is opened or closed by the further valve body.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 1975Date of Patent: November 30, 1976Assignees: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Fuji Tomson Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Takaoka, Osamu Aki, Kazuhiro Kaneko