Patents by Inventor Kazuki Abe

Kazuki Abe 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: 11932189
    Abstract: An airbag for a driver seat is provided with: a steering wheel of a vehicle; an inflator stored in the steering wheel; and a cushion stored in the steering wheel along with the inflator that expands and deploys to restrain a passenger. The cushion contains: a steering side panel positioned on a steering wheel side; an occupant side panel positioned on an occupant side; and a side panel connecting an edge of the steering side panel to an edge of the occupant side panel to configure a side portion of the cushion. The occupant side panel has a larger area than the steering side panel, and an upper portion of the expanded and deployed cushion is thicker in the vehicle front-rear direction than a lower portion of the cushion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Kazuki Morita, Kazuhiro Abe
  • Publication number: 20240089572
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus comprises a third substrate including a third connector; a third shield portion configured to cover a side surface of at least portions of the third substrate; a leg portion formed at an end of the third shield portion on the side of a direction away from the third substrate; a fourth connector configured to be able to be fitted to the third connector; a third metal plate configured to abut the leg portion; and a second housing including the fourth connector and the third metal plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ABE, Kazuki SHIRATO
  • Publication number: 20230193986
    Abstract: A differential mechanism includes: a rotating frame rotatably provided in a main body frame; an inner worm gear formed in a cylindrical shape, covering the outer periphery of the rotating frame, and rotatably provided coaxially with the rotating frame, and having a spiral tooth formed on the cylindrical inner side; and a worm wheel rotatably provided on the rotating frame in a direction orthogonal to an axis of the rotating frame and meshing with the inner worm gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Riichiro TADAKUMA, Kazuki ABE
  • Patent number: 11566766
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a light source provided on one surface of a board and a light guide body that guides light emitted from the light source, the light guide body has an incidence section located on a side of the light guide body facing the one surface of the board, an emitting section located on a side opposite to the side facing the one surface of the board, and a light guide section located between the incidence section and the emitting section, and the light guide section has a portion that extends across inside and outside a region where the light guide body overlaps with the board when seen in a plan view, that extends at an outer side of the region, and that extends from one side toward the other side of the board in at least a thickness direction of the board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuki Abe
  • Patent number: 11493206
    Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine combustor that can achieve improvement of the combustion stability. A gas turbine combustor includes a pilot burner of the diffusion combustion type, a pilot flow control valve that regulates a flow rate of fuel to be supplied to the pilot burner, a main burner of the premix combustion type arranged on an outer circumference side of the pilot burner, main flow control valves that regulate flow rates of fuel to be individually supplied to burner sectors into which the main burner is sectioned in a circumferential direction, and a controller configured to control the pilot flow control valve and the main flow control valves. The controller controls the main flow control valves such that, when fuel is to be supplied to all the burner sectors, a difference in fuel flow rate occurs between at least one burner sector and the other burner sectors among the burner sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Wada, Kazuki Abe, Akinori Hayashi, Keita Naito
  • Publication number: 20220290831
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a light source provided on one surface of a board and a light guide body that guides light emitted from the light source, the light guide body has an incidence section located on a side of the light guide body facing the one surface of the board, an emitting section located on a side opposite to the side facing the one surface of the board, and a light guide section located between the incidence section and the emitting section, and the light guide section has a portion that extends across inside and outside a region where the light guide body overlaps with the board when seen in a plan view, that extends at an outer side of the region, and that extends from one side toward the other side of the board in at least a thickness direction of the board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: Kazuki ABE
  • Patent number: 11209163
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor that mixes fuel with compressed air guided from a compressor to burn the fuel mixed with the compressed air to generate a combustion gas and supplies the generated combustion gas to a turbine is provided with: an inner cylinder forming a combustion chamber thereinside; an outer cylinder that covers the inner cylinder and forms, between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder, a cylindrical outer peripheral flow path through which the compressed air flows; an end cover closing the end of the outer cylinder on an opposite side from a side the turbine is located; and a turn guide provided at the end on the end cover side of the inner cylinder, protruding from the outer peripheral surface of the inner cylinder toward the outer cylinder and smoothly connected to the inner peripheral surface of the inner cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki Uruno, Keita Yunoki, Kazuki Abe, Tomohiro Asai, Mitsuhiro Karishuku, Tatsuya Hagita, Shohei Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20210341147
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor is capable of uniformizing a distribution of fuel concentrations to reduce NOx emissions. The gas turbine combustor includes a main burner of the premixed combustion type and a combustion chamber for burning a fuel and air supplied from the main burner. The main burner includes a fuel nozzle for injecting a fuel supplied from a main fuel system and a premixture passageway for mixing the fuel injected from the fuel nozzle and air supplied from an air passageway and supplying the air-fuel mixture to the combustion chamber. The fuel nozzle includes a tapered portion, a flat portion extending from the tapered portion toward a distal side thereof, a fuel passageway defined in the fuel nozzle, and first and second arrays of fuel injection holes providing fluid communication between the fuel passageway and the outside of the fuel nozzle. The first array of fuel injection holes is defined in the tapered portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuhiro WADA, Tetsuma TATSUMI, Kazuki ABE, Keita YUNOKI, Akinori HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210341149
    Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine combustor that can achieve improvement of the combustion stability. A gas turbine combustor includes a pilot burner of the diffusion combustion type, a pilot flow control valve that regulates a flow rate of fuel to be supplied to the pilot burner, a main burner of the premix combustion type arranged on an outer circumference side of the pilot burner, main flow control valves that regulate flow rates of fuel to be individually supplied to burner sectors into which the main burner is sectioned in a circumferential direction, and a controller configured to control the pilot flow control valve and the main flow control valves. The controller controls the main flow control valves such that, when fuel is to be supplied to all the burner sectors, a difference in fuel flow rate occurs between at least one burner sector and the other burner sectors among the burner sectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuhiro WADA, Kazuki ABE, Akinori HAYASHI, Keita NAITO
  • Patent number: 10995679
    Abstract: A flame produced within a premixer is promptly extinguished and a reduction in output power of a gas turbine associated with extinguishment is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi, Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Abe, Akinori Hayashi, Yasuhiro Wada, Tetsuma Tatsumi, Shohei Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20210108797
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas turbine combustor configured to form a film-like airflow around a region of a combustion liner, where pressure dynamics damping holes are formed for efficiently cooling the region where the pressure dynamics damping holes are formed without increasing concentration of discharged nitrogen oxides. The gas turbine combustor includes the combustion liner that forms a combustion chamber for receiving supply of fuel and air to generate combustion gas, a liner attached to an outer circumferential surface of the combustion liner for forming space from the outer circumferential surface, and the pressure dynamics damping hole formed in the combustion liner provided with the liner for communication between the space and the combustion chamber. The gas turbine combustor includes a cooling air guide lip disposed on an inner circumferential surface of the combustion liner for forming a film-like airflow around a region where the pressure dynamics damping hole is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuhiro WADA, Shohei YOSHIDA, Akinori HAYASHI, Yoshitaka HIRATA, Hirokazu TAKAHASHI, Satoshi DODO, Shohei NUMATA, Tetsuma TATSUMI, Kazuki ABE
  • Publication number: 20200200389
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor that mixes fuel with compressed air guided from a compressor to burn the fuel mixed with the compressed air to generate a combustion gas and supplies the generated combustion gas to a turbine is provided with: an inner cylinder forming a combustion chamber thereinside; an outer cylinder that covers the inner cylinder and forms, between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder, a cylindrical outer peripheral flow path through which the compressed air flows; an end cover closing the end of the outer cylinder on an opposite side from a side the turbine is located; and a turn guide provided at the end on the end cover side of the inner cylinder, protruding from the outer peripheral surface of the inner cylinder toward the outer cylinder and smoothly connected to the inner peripheral surface of the inner cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Tomoki URUNO, Keita YUNOKI, Kazuki ABE, Tomohiro ASAI, Mitsuhiro KARISHUKU, Tatsuya HAGITA, Shohei YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 10571127
    Abstract: The gas turbine combustor includes a swirler lip on the air hole plate periphery, protruding toward a chamber, and a spring seal in an area for fitting the liner and the plate/lip. The spring seal has an air hole for passage of part of the combustion air introduced in the gap between the outer periphery of the air hole plate and the liner. The swirler lip has an air hole which introduces part of the combustion air passing through the spring seal air hole into the chamber. The liner has an air hole facing the spring seal air hole, to introduce part of air from outside the liner into the gap between the outer periphery of the air hole plate and the liner. A turn guide for rectifying a combustion air flow is provided at the liner end portion on the side for fitting the liner and air hole plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Sytems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Miura, Yasuhiro Akiyama, Tomohiro Asai, Kazuki Abe, Mitsuhiro Karishuku, Satoshi Dodo, Akinori Hayashi, Yoshitaka Hirata, Noboru Okuyama
  • Publication number: 20190283242
    Abstract: A multi-directional drive device includes a first drive motor supported by a holding portion and having a first drive shaft, a rotary member integrally connected to the first drive shaft of the first drive motor and configured to rotate together with the first drive shaft, a spherical body supported on the rotary member to be relatively rotatable and configured to rotate about a second rotation center axis different from a first rotation center axis of the first drive shaft, a second drive motor mounted on the rotary member and having a second drive shaft independent of the first drive shaft, and a transmission mechanism provided between the second drive shaft of the second drive motor and the spherical body on the rotary member and configured to transmit power of the second drive shaft to the spherical body and cause the spherical body to slidably rotate about the second rotation center axis with respect to the rotary member, wherein a body to be operated is supported by the spherical body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicants: NEC Embedded Products, Ltd., National University Corporation Yamagata University
    Inventors: Yasunori OKAZAKI, Tomomi MATSUDA, Riichiro TADAKUMA, Hiroto SAITO, Kazuki ABE, Shinnosuke HAO, Kazuki MOGI
  • Patent number: 10401711
    Abstract: A multidirectional drive device includes: a driven member that comprises a spherical surface having depressions and protrusions; a rotation driving part that is in contact with the spherical surface of the driven member and rotates the driven member; and a supporting member that is fixed to the driven member and supports an operated body. At least either one of a position and an orientation of the operated body is adjusted by rotation of the driven member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: NEC Embedded Products, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomomi Matsuda, Riichiro Tadakuma, Hiroto Saito, Kazuki Abe
  • Publication number: 20190242581
    Abstract: A flame produced within a premixer is promptly extinguished and a reduction in output power of a gas turbine associated with extinguishment is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuki ABE, Akinori HAYASHI, Yasuhiro WADA, Tetsuma TATSUMI, Shohei YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 10241370
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes: a first substrate; a TFT element provided on the first substrate with a first interlayer insulating layer interposed therebetween, and including a semiconductor layer and a gate electrode that is provided on the semiconductor layer with a gate insulating layer interposed therebetween; and a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate. The gate electrode includes a first electroconductive film and a second electroconductive film that has a light-shielding property in order from side of the semiconductor layer. The second electroconductive film extends from a side face to a bottom face of each of a pair of openings that are provided to interpose the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Abe, Shinya Inage, Nobuhiko Oda, Masahiro Kaida, Moriyasu Nagura
  • Publication number: 20180329264
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes: a first substrate; a TFT element provided on the first substrate with a first interlayer insulating layer interposed therebetween, and including a semiconductor layer and a gate electrode that is provided on the semiconductor layer with a gate insulating layer interposed therebetween; and a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate. The gate electrode includes a first electroconductive film and a second electroconductive film that has a light-shielding property in order from side of the semiconductor layer. The second electroconductive film extends from a side face to a bottom face of each of a pair of openings that are provided to interpose the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Abe, Shinya Inage, Nobuhiko Oda, Masahiro Kaida, Moriyasu Nagura
  • Patent number: 10094290
    Abstract: A two-shaft gas turbine is provided which includes: a compressor; a combustor having multiple fuel systems and generating combustion gas by combusting fuels from the fuel systems and air compressed by the compressor; a high-pressure turbine coupled coaxially with the compressor and rotated by the combustion gas; a low-pressure turbine having a shaft structure independent of the high-pressure turbine and rotated by exhaust gas from the high-pressure turbine; an air extraction channel for extracting the air compressed by the compressor; an injection flow channel for feeding the air extracted through the air extraction channel back to the combustor; and a controller for controlling the flow rate of the fuel supplied to each of the fuel systems based on the air flow rate of the compressor, on the flow rate of the fuel supplied to the combustor, and on the temperature of the air in the injection flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomomi Koganezawa, Kazuki Abe
  • Publication number: 20180284578
    Abstract: A multidirectional drive device includes: a driven member that comprises a spherical surface having depressions and protrusions; a rotation driving part that is in contact with the spherical surface of the driven member and rotates the driven member; and a supporting member that is fixed to the driven member and supports an operated body. At least either one of a position and an orientation of the operated body is adjusted by rotation of the driven member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Embedded Products, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomomi MATSUDA, Riichiro TADAKUMA, Hiroto SAITO, Kazuki ABE