Patents by Inventor Kazuaki Hokoda

Kazuaki Hokoda 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: 8728268
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a resin molding can be provided that uses a laser beam. The method can include providing the resin molding including welded portions that can impart high level of adhesion, have excellent appearance and provide very strong bonding strength. The method can also include arranging and pressing a weld region of a light-absorbing resin member and corresponding weld region of a light-transmitting resin member that are opposed to each other, and setting a plurality of irradiation areas in the extending direction of the welded regions. The method can also include arranging a plurality of laser irradiation scanning heads corresponding to the irradiation areas. Here, the irradiation areas can include a single irradiation area which the corresponding scanning head can irradiate with the laser beam and a composite irradiation area which the adjacent scanning heads can irradiate with respective laser beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Zaitsu, Kazuaki Hokoda, Tatsuya Umeyama, Shintaro Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 8647464
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a resin molding that uses a laser beam can provide a high level of adhesion, an excellent appearance, and can include very strong welded portions. The method can include preparing a light-transmitting resin member having a protruding portion formed on a rear surface of the light-transmitting resin member and having an end surface, the protruding portion having both side surfaces having asymmetric inclination angles with respect to the normal of the end surface of the protruding portion. The method can also include arranging and pressing together the end surface of the protruding portion that is a welded region of the light-transmitting resin member, and a welded region of a corresponding light-absorbing resin member so that they are opposed to each other. A laser beam can be emitted from a laser light source to be incident on a surface of the light-transmitting resin member while the laser beam is refracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Zaitsu, Kazuaki Hokoda, Tatsuya Umeyama
  • Patent number: 8556479
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting fitting can include a housing including an opening end portion, a lens, an outer peripheral portion of which is laser-welded to the opening end portion to define a lighting chamber, and a decorative member disposed in the lighting chamber. The resin decorative member can include an outer peripheral portion on which a joint portion and a non-joint portion are alternately formed along a perimeter thereof, wherein the joint portion of the decorative member and the opening end portion of the housing are laser-welded in a state in which clearances are maintained between the non-joint portion of the decorative member and the housing, and between the lens and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Hokoda, Yoshihiro Zaitsu, Tatsuya Umeyama, Takashi Akabane
  • Patent number: 8506872
    Abstract: In manufacturing a resin mold assembly, a first weld region of a light transmitting resin member and a second weld region of a light absorbing resin member are disposed facing each other, the first weld region of the light transmitting resin member and the second weld region of the light absorbing resin member are brought into pressed state in mutually facing direction, and a laser beam is scanned to make the laser beam be incident upon the light transmitting resin member, and repetitively radiated on the second weld region to heat and melt a whole of the first and second weld regions simultaneously, thereby welding the light transmitting resin member and the light absorbing resin member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Hokoda, Yoshihiro Zaitsu, Tatsuya Umeyama
  • Publication number: 20110317443
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting fitting can include a housing including an opening end portion, a lens, an outer peripheral portion of which is laser-welded to the opening end portion to define a lighting chamber, and a decorative member disposed in the lighting chamber. The resin decorative member can include an outer peripheral portion on which a joint portion and a non-joint portion are alternately formed along a perimeter thereof, wherein the joint portion of the decorative member and the opening end portion of the housing are laser-welded in a state in which clearances are maintained between the non-joint portion of the decorative member and the housing, and between the lens and the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Kazuaki Hokoda, Yoshihiro Zaitsu, Tatsuya Umeyama, Takashi Akabane
  • Publication number: 20110298160
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a resin molding can be provided that uses a laser beam. The method can include providing the resin molding including welded portions that can impart high level of adhesion, have excellent appearance and provide very strong bonding strength. The method can also include arranging and pressing a weld region of a light-absorbing resin member and corresponding weld region of a light-transmitting resin member that are opposed to each other, and setting a plurality of irradiation areas in the extending direction of the welded regions. The method can also include arranging a plurality of laser irradiation scanning heads corresponding to the irradiation areas. Here, the irradiation areas can include a single irradiation area which the corresponding scanning head can irradiate with the laser beam and a composite irradiation area which the adjacent scanning heads can irradiate with respective laser beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Zaitsu, Kazuaki Hokoda, Tatsuya Umeyama, Shintaro Hirabayashi
  • Publication number: 20110203726
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a resin molding that uses a laser beam can provide a high level of adhesion, an excellent appearance, and can include very strong welded portions. The method can include preparing a light-transmitting resin member having a protruding portion formed on a rear surface of the light-transmitting resin member and having an end surface, the protruding portion having both side surfaces having asymmetric inclination angles with respect to the normal of the end surface of the protruding portion. The method can also include arranging and pressing together the end surface of the protruding portion that is a welded region of the light-transmitting resin member, and a welded region of a corresponding light-absorbing resin member so that they are opposed to each other. A laser beam can be emitted from a laser light source to be incident on a surface of the light-transmitting resin member while the laser beam is refracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshihiro ZAITSU, Kazuaki HOKODA, Tatsuya UMEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20100301522
    Abstract: In manufacturing a resin mold assembly, a first weld region of a light transmitting resin member and a second weld region of a light absorbing resin member are disposed facing each other, the first weld region of the light transmitting resin member and the second weld region of the light absorbing resin member are brought into pressed state in mutually facing direction, and a laser beam is scanned to make the laser beam be incident upon the light transmitting resin member, and repetitively radiated on the second weld region to heat and melt a whole of the first and second weld regions simultaneously, thereby welding the light transmitting resin member and the light absorbing resin member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Hokoda, Yoshihiro Zaitsu, Tatsuya Umeyama
  • Patent number: 4676195
    Abstract: In a capacitance coupled type plasma CVD apparatus for depositing a thin film of reaction product of gas on a substrate by glow discharge at an elevated film-forming rate without lowering the function and ability of the formed film and to ensure the CVD operation to be carried out continuously or repetitively for an extended period of time, the electrode facing the substrate is provided as a net of a metal. The substrate is a cylindrical electrode, and the net-like electrode may be formed as a cylindrical net surrounding this cylindrical substrate, or as a pair of opposing flat sheets of net movably sandwiching rotating and movable plural cylindrical substrates therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Yasui, Kazuaki Hokoda, Makoto Yoshida