Patents by Inventor Isamu Matsui

Isamu Matsui 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: 20250115166
    Abstract: An agricultural tractor includes a vehicle frame, and a front housing supported by the vehicle frame. The front housing includes, a fixed housing portion fixed to the vehicle frame, a movable housing portion supported by the vehicle frame or the fixed housing portion and being openable and closeable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Go TAKAKI, Takahiro TAKAKI, Kenichi IWAMI, Tomoyoshi SAKANO, Yuki MINAMIDE, Kodai AMITANI, Yosuke HAYASHI, Teppei OHNISHI, Atsushi MORITA, Isamu KAZAMA, Kenshiro MATSUI, Kenji ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20250108709
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a fuel cell power generation system, an inverter connected to the fuel cell power generation system, a motor connected to the inverter, and a vehicle frame supporting the fuel cell power generation system, the inverter, and the motor, the vehicle frame rotatably supporting left and right front wheels and left and right rear wheels. The vehicle frame includes a transmission case housing a transmission to transmit driving force from the motor to the rear wheels. The inverter is at a side of the transmission case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Go TAKAKI, Takahiro TAKAKI, Kenichi IWAMI, Tomoyoshi SAKANO, Yuki MINAMIDE, Kodai AMITANI, Yosuke HAYASHI, Teppei OHNISHI, Atsushi MORITA, Isamu KAZAMA, Kenshiro MATSUI, Kenji ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20250108705
    Abstract: An agricultural work vehicle includes a fuel cell power generation system, a first voltage conversion circuit to convert a voltage output from the fuel cell power generation system to output a first voltage, and a second voltage conversion circuit to convert the voltage output from the fuel cell power generation system to output a second voltage higher than the first voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Go TAKAKI, Takahiro TAKAKI, Kenichi IWAMI, Tomoyoshi SAKANO, Yuki MINAMIDE, Kodai AMITANI, Yosuke HAYASHI, Teppei OHNISHI, Atsushi MORITA, Isamu KAZAMA, Kenshiro MATSUI, Kenji ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20250108706
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a driver seat, a fuel cell, at least one fuel tank to store fuel to be supplied to the fuel cell, a motor connected to the fuel cell, a vehicle frame supporting the driver seat, the fuel cell, and the motor, a mounting frame fixed to the vehicle frame to support the at least one fuel tank, the mounting frame extending across the driver seat, and a front housing covering the fuel cell and being openable and closable. The mounting frame does not interfere with the front housing when a position or orientation of the front housing changes from the closed state to the open state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Go TAKAKI, Takahiro TAKAKI, Kenichi IWAMI, Tomoyoshi SAKANO, Yuki MINAMIDE, Kodai AMITANI, Yosuke HAYASHI, Teppei OHNISHI, Atsushi MORITA, Isamu KAZAMA, Kenshiro MATSUI, Kenji ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20250108704
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a fuel cell, and a fuel tank module including fuel tanks to store fuel to be supplied to the fuel cell, a valve system connected to the fuel tanks, and a tank case housing the fuel tanks and the valve system. The fuel tanks include a first fuel tank with a first length in a first direction, and second fuel tank with a second length shorter than the first length in the first direction. The first fuel tank and the second fuel tank are arranged in a second direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first direction. At least a portion of the valve system is in a space between the second fuel tank and the tank case inside the tank case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Go TAKAKI, Takahiro TAKAKI, Kenichi IWAMI, Tomoyoshi SAKANO, Yuki MINAMIDE, Kodai AMITANI, Yosuke HAYASHI, Teppei OHNISHI, Atsushi MORITA, Isamu KAZAMA, Kenshiro MATSUI, Kenji ISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 6484470
    Abstract: The present invention enables a member to be accurately fixed to a floor. With tapped holes 5 in a member mounting section 2 accurately aligned with marks formed in a grating 20 so as to correspond to through-holes 9, a bolt 14 is screwed in an internal thread cylinder 23 (fixed in a vent hole 21 in the grating 20) through a through-hole 13 in a presser plate 12 that can have its position changed relative to the member mounting plate 2, and the presser plate 12 is used to fix the member mounting plate 2 to the grating 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Matsui, Takashi Nakao, Isao Fukuda
  • Patent number: 6374748
    Abstract: A guide rail 2 having cables for non-contact power feeding is laid on a floor 22 in a clean room, and the guide rail 2 serves to guide each of guide rollers 60 of a tracking cart 4, and the cable serves to feed electrical power to a pickup coil of a tracking cart 4. This construction gives a tracking cart system that is easy to construct and easy to alter a layout thereof and is structurally compact and intrinsically clean.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tamotsu Shiwaku, Isamu Matsui, Takashi Nakao
  • Patent number: 5445334
    Abstract: An unwinding assisting device for an automatic winder. The automatic winder has a winding position at which a cop of yarn is unwound from a take-up tube supported on a tray. A lifting mechanism raises the tray at the winding position as the cop of yarn is unwound from the take-up tube. A tubular member receives the take-up tube therein. The tubular member has an inside diameter that is smaller than the outside diameter of the cop and larger than the outside diameter of the take-up tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Matsui, Yoshiyasu Maeda, Yuji Todo, Masaharu Kiriake, Takashi Nakao
  • Patent number: 5377923
    Abstract: A yarn unwinding assisting device for an automatic winder comprising a first defining member having an inner diameter defining portion covered over a yarn feed bobbin to define a lower balloon, and a second defining member having a defining member located above the yarn feed bobbin to define a yarn running area and defining an upper balloon, wherein said first defining member is separated from said second defining member to enable following the unwinding of the yarn feed bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Matsui, Yoshiyasu Maeda, Yuji Todo
  • Patent number: 5374000
    Abstract: A cop changing mechanism for a winding unit, for transferring a tray supporting a cop in an upright position from a waiting position to a winding position and removing a tray supporting an empty bobbin away from the winding position is provided with a tray holder for pressing down the tray located at the winding position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Matsui, Yoshiyasu Maeda, Yuji Todo, Masaharu Kiriake, Takashi Nakao
  • Patent number: 5174102
    Abstract: A twist number setting device for a two-for-one twister constituted such that an output power shaft of a drive motor is connected to a drive pulley which is connected to a spindle and provides a turning force to the spindle and also connected to a rotary shaft of a drum which contacts with a winding package and provides a turning force to the package, and a speed change mechanism is interposed between the output power shaft of the drive motor and the rotary shaft of the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Matsui, Yutaka Ueda
  • Patent number: 5172734
    Abstract: A weft breaks monitoring system in a loom which examines the trend of the weft break, and comprises a device for measuring a winding diameter of a weft feed package and a tension meter for detecting a weft break, wherein the winding diameter is divided into plural sections and the number of times of weft break detections from the tension meter is counted every section. A yarn release device for the weft feed package which provides an adequate tension in response to a variation of a release tension resulting from a change in the winding diameter is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Matsui, Yasuo Akiyama
  • Patent number: 5142857
    Abstract: In a system for producing yarns comprising a spinning apparatus having a plurality of spinning units, each unit being provided with a winding device, and a twisting machine directly connected to said spinning apparatus to twist a package from the spinning apparatus, a method comprises feeding packages of different kinds of yarns doffed from a group of units obtained by dividing units of the spinning apparatus to the twisting machine at different timing, and supplying them onto trays discriminated by kinds in the twisting machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Isamu Matsui
  • Patent number: 5052172
    Abstract: A method of untwisting sized yarn in a yarn splicing device, which comprises applying a solution to the ends of sized yarn to dissolve a size to thereby untwist the yarn at the ends thereof when they are joined together by a whirling stream of air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Matsui, Hiroshige Maruki
  • Patent number: 5030461
    Abstract: Shoyu, a liquid seasoning, has a blackish purple or blackish brown color, however, such color peculiar to the conventional shoyu is decolored and the shoyu is colored various colors such as red, blue, yellow, green, etc., whereby the conventional shoyu can be improved into one which is available in a variety of colors while maintaining the taste, aroma and flavor peculiar to the conventional shoyu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Frontier Tochigi Co-operative
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tokita, Isamu Matsui, Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Susumu Taima, Kensuke Ohyoshi, Hisao Sugita, Shigeru Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 4998407
    Abstract: Method and Apparatus for forming a package including a steps of drafting and twisting a raw sliver to form a spun yarn, taking up at least two spun yarns in a paralleled state into the same package, and supplying the thus wound package directly to a two-for-one twister disposed in continuity with the spinning device. The spinning device and the two-for-one twister are connected to each other by a conveyor for feeding the packages from the spinning device and by a yarn supply package replacing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Matsui, Masao Uehara, Shoji Sakai, Koshi Noda, Yasuhiko Kubota
  • Patent number: 4984749
    Abstract: Various conditions for operation, in a machine frame which is constituted from a plurality of yarn processing units, of the individual yarn processing units are set by means of a memory card reading device which is electrically connected to the individual processing units over a bus line, and only by setting a memory card in which conditions suitable for a yarn to be processed are written in position into the memory card reading device, operating conditions of the individual processing units are set collectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Matsui, Shoichi Tone
  • Patent number: 4936084
    Abstract: A yarn untwisting device in a pneumatic yarn splicing apparatus which includes an untwisting nozzle for guiding an end of cut yarn; a gas feed device for feeding a gas stream into the nozzle; a liquid feed device for spraying liquid to the yarn end which has been sucked into the nozzle; and a liquid recovering device connected to the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Matsui, Hiroshige Maruki
  • Patent number: 4928475
    Abstract: A method for winding a fixed length of yarn on a yarn-supply package in an apparatus connecting an automatic winder or an innovation spinning machine having a winder with a two-for-one twister. The method comprises dividing a single yarn-supply package transferred from a winder side to form a plurality of twist-yarn packages on the two-for-one twister side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Matsui, Masao Uehara, Shinji Noshi, Tsukasa Kawarabashi
  • Patent number: 4922703
    Abstract: A twist number setting device for a two-for-one twister constituted such that an output power shaft of a drive motor is connected to a drive pulley which is connected to a spindle and provides a turning force to the spindle and also connected to a rotary shaft of a drum which contacts with a winding package and provides a turning force to the package, and a speed change means is interposed between the output power shaft of the drive motor and the rotary shaft of the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isamu Matsui, Yutaka Ueda