Patents by Inventor Kazuo Matsuda
Kazuo Matsuda 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: 20050167165Abstract: To measure the loaded weight of a dump truck, accurately and inexpensively. In a dump truck comprising a set of equalizer bars respectively provided rotatably on the left and right-hand sides of a vehicle body; first vehicle wheels supported respectively by means of first suspension devices on one side of each equalizer bar; second vehicle wheels supported respectively by means of second suspension devices on the other side of each equalizer bar; and third vehicle wheels provided respectively on the left and right-hand sides of the vehicle body separately from the equalizer bars, and being supported respectively by means of third suspension devices; a first load applied to the second suspension device is detected; a second load applied to the third suspension device is detected; the angle of inclination of the vehicle body is detected; and a loaded weight is calculated on the basis of the first and second loads, and the angle of inclination.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2005Publication date: August 4, 2005Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Shu Takeda, Kazuo Matsuda
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Publication number: 20050155509Abstract: A squib for bus connection includes a communication and ignition unit which is connected via a pin to a bus line and is received within an inner cap, along with a quantity of a first explosive which does not emit corrosive gas. Furthermore, between this inner cap and an outer cap in which it is received, there is charged a quantity of a second explosive which is of a different type from the first explosive, the second explosive being of a type which is used in a squib in a conventional inflator.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2004Publication date: July 21, 2005Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuo Matsuda, Kazutaka Saito, Etsuya Miyake, Junichi Nishimura, Hiromi Aida
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Publication number: 20050132919Abstract: A squib includes a heat-generating portion that has an energizing portion and a fuel portion, and that is formed such that heat that is generated by supplying current to the energizing portion can be transmitted to the fuel portion to ignite same. The squib includes a noise removal device that is connected in parallel with the heat generating portion, and a circuit element that temporally scatters noise such that the noise is more completely removed by the noise removal device. In this manner, the heat-generating portion is protected from all typed of noise, including momentary noise, increasing reliability of the squib.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2004Publication date: June 23, 2005Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi NISHIMURA, Hiromi AIDA, Kazuo MATSUDA, Kazutaka SAITO, Etsuya MIYAKE
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Publication number: 20050121893Abstract: A squib associated with a supplemental restraint system includes an igniting agent positioned above a first pin that is a connecting terminal providing a connection with a two-wire system bus wire, which is an external signal wire, and above a header that is provided with a second pin that is a connecting terminal. The squib also includes an IC substrate that controls communications and ignitions, and is positioned above the igniting agent, an ignition element between the igniting agent and the IC substrate, and joining portions provided in two locations bridging the igniting agent so as to connect the IC substrate with the first pin and the header. The IC substrate, the igniting agent, the pin, and the header are covered by a circular cylinder shaped cap whose top portion is closed off. Furthermore, these are formed integrally by being covered by a resin mold that is made to extend across the portions of the pins using a molding process.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2004Publication date: June 9, 2005Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Nishimura, Hiromi Aida, Kazuo Matsuda, Kazutaka Saito, Etsuya Miyake, Yoshitaka Suzuki
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Publication number: 20050115438Abstract: A squib that is used by being connected to a bus is formed by assembling an explosive unit and a communication/ignition unit that have been constructed as separate components. The communication/ignition unit is provided with an IC substrate for ignition and communication that is electrically connected to a bus wire. The explosive unit is provided with explosive, an ignition element, and a header that is interposed between the ignition element and the IC substrate, and that electrically connects the two. In this IC integrated type of squib that is used for communication and ignition, it is possible to prevent the explosive and the IC from mutually interfering with the performances of each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2004Publication date: June 2, 2005Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Nishimura, Hiromi Aida, Kazuo Matsuda, Kazutaka Saito, Takeshi Kai, Etsuya Miyake
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Patent number: 6728613Abstract: The error determination section determines whether or not an acceleration data set has been received properly with no error. Received data memories store a plurality of the received acceleration data sets. Collision judgment control unit judges a possibility of a collision on the basis of a latest error-free proper data of the received acceleration data sets stored in the received data memories. Further, in case of occurrence of a data deficiency, an error-free proper data set is constantly stored in memory.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2002Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuya Ishizaki, Kazuo Matsuda
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Publication number: 20040002815Abstract: A collision determination system of the present invention includes a plurality of acceleration sensors provided in a bumper face of a vehicle for detecting the acceleration of deformation of the bumper face when the vehicle collides with an object. The system also includes an actuation permitter which, even when one of the acceleration sensors detects an acceleration equal to or more than a set value and it is determined that a collision occurs, refers to another acceleration sensor for operation. Under the AND conditions that an actuation permitting signal is supplied from the actuation permitter and a collision detection signal is supplied from a collision detector, an actuating signal output outputs an actuating signal for actuating collision mitigating devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2003Publication date: January 1, 2004Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuya Ishizaki, Kazuo Matsuda
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Publication number: 20030114985Abstract: The error determination section determines whether or not an acceleration data set has been received properly with no error. Received data memories store a plurality of the received acceleration data sets. Collision judgment control unit judges a possibility of a collision on the basis of a latest error-free proper data of the received acceleration data sets stored in the received data memories. Further, in case of occurrence of a data deficiency, an error-free proper data set is constantly stored in memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2002Publication date: June 19, 2003Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuya Ishizaki, Kazuo Matsuda
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Patent number: 6510914Abstract: An obstruction inference apparatus for a vehicle, for inferring the type of an obstruction which the vehicle has hit, which comprises a member deformable in correspondence with an impact force with which the vehicle hits the obstruction, deformation rate detecting means for detecting the deformation rate of this deformable member, timer starting means for starting a timer when the deformation rate detected by the deformation rate detecting means reaches a preset first reference rate in the course of increasing, second reference rate generating means for setting as a second reference rate a value equivalent to a value obtained by multiplying the maximum deformation rate by a preset constant, elapsed time calculating means for stopping the timer when the deformation rate reaches the second reference rate and obtaining the elapsed time from the timer being started to the timer being stopped, and inference signal generating means for, when the elapsed time is within a preset time range, inferring that the obstrucType: GrantFiled: July 24, 2001Date of Patent: January 28, 2003Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuya Ishizaki, Kaoru Nagatomi, Kazuo Matsuda
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Patent number: 6499555Abstract: When a vehicle collides with an object and the object is thereby thrown into impact on a hood of the vehicle, a vehicle hood apparatus detects the collision and causes actuators attached to the vehicle to operate to lift up a rear end of a hood of the vehicle so as to reduce the impact of the object thereon. The apparatus include a control unit for controlling the actuators. The control unit includes a hood lock determination means for determining whether a hood lock locks a front end of the hood in place. When the hood lock is in an unlocking state, the control unit prevents the actuators from operating. When the hood lock is in a locking state, the control unit operates the actuators.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2001Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuya Ishizaki, Kazuo Matsuda
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Publication number: 20020043417Abstract: An obstruction inference apparatus for a vehicle, for inferring the type of an obstruction which the vehicle has hit, which comprises a member deformable in correspondence with an impact force with which the vehicle hits the obstruction, deformation rate detecting means for detecting the deformation rate of this deformable member, timer starting means for starting a timer when the deformation rate detected by the deformation rate detecting means reaches a preset first reference rate in the course of increasing, second reference rate generating means for setting as a second reference rate a value equivalent to a value obtained by multiplying the maximum deformation rate by a preset constant, elapsed time calculating means for stopping the timer when the deformation rate reaches the second reference rate and obtaining the elapsed time from the timer being started to the timer being stopped, and inference signal generating means for, when the elapsed time is within a preset time range, inferring that the obstrucType: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2001Publication date: April 18, 2002Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuya Ishizaki, Kaoru Nagatomi, Kazuo Matsuda
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Publication number: 20020033294Abstract: when a vehicle collides with an object and the object is thereby thrown into impact on a hood of the vehicle, a vehicle hood apparatus detects the collision and causes actuators attached to the vehicle to operate to lift up a rear end of a hood of the vehicle so as to reduce the impact of the object thereon. The apparatus include a control unit for controlling the actuators. The control unit includes a hood lock determination means for determining whether a hood lock locks a front end of the hood in place. When the hood lock is in an unlocking state, the control unit prevents the actuators from operating. When the hood lock is in a locking state, the control unit operates the actuators.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2001Publication date: March 21, 2002Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuya Ishizaki, Kazuo Matsuda
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Publication number: 20010028363Abstract: Provided is a file storing-and-managing method and device, for receiving, storing and managing electronic files over the Internet, the method and device including an effective and easy-to-operate GUI which can be operated visually and intuitionally without causing any stress. The file-managing device sends a graphical operation page to a user-computer connected over the Internet. The operation page includes a description (5) of the structure showing how the received-files are stored in the file-managing device and a description (7) of the structure showing how local files are stored in the user-computer, so that a user can easily upload and download files through graphical and intuitional operations of this page. Further, the file-managing device creates preview image data which is provided for previewing of the received-file and which has a data-size smaller than the original received-file. This preview image data is associated to and managed with the original received-file.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2000Publication date: October 11, 2001Applicant: Mitsubishi Corporation and Starnet Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Nomoto, Ryuichi Noshiro, Akira Atsumi, Masataka Yamamoto, Kazuo Matsuda
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Patent number: 5936518Abstract: A method for judging vehicle collision in which an output signal from an acceleration sensor carried on a vehicle, which is obtained from a time of start of judgment on collision, is outputted through interval windows each having a predetermined time width of a plurality of sampling cycles and provided as those successively delayed by one sampling cycle respectively. A waveform of the output signal is Hadamard-transformed and decomposed into frequency components for each of the interval windows by using an Hadamard-transforming unit. A threshold value set for a predetermined frequency component and outputted from a threshold-outputting unit is compared with a level value of the predetermined frequency component selected from the frequency components obtained by the decomposition in the Hadamard-transforming unit, by using a collision-judging unit. Occurrence of collision of the vehicle is judged on the basis of a result of the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1996Date of Patent: August 10, 1999Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsutomu Fukui, Kazuo Matsuda
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Patent number: 5691099Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a novel and useful thermal developing type diazo copying material wherein an initial image quality and an initial image reliability are maintained, while undesired coloring can be avoided and long-term preservation characteristics can be improved. The present invention comprises a support, a photosensitive layer formed on said support, said photosensitive layer including a diazo compound, and a coupler layer formed on said support, said coupler layer including a coupler component, said coupler layer having a copolymer including a monomer having a carboxylic acid and water-soluble guanidine salt.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1995Date of Patent: November 25, 1997Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Kusakata, Masanori Rimoto, Kazuo Matsuda, Naohito Shimota
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Patent number: 5281374Abstract: An automatic purging method for an injection molding machine which is capable of injecting an arbitrary material among different kinds of materials into a mold without requiring a resin replacing block or a purging container and an additional material supply means for increasing the material supply pressure, and which has a nozzle valve in a nozzle unit. This method is used so as to enable the automatic purging to be done smoothly and speedily by operating the nozzle valve so that it behaves according to a predetermined program. This automatic purging method consists of the steps of supplying a fresh material from a hopper (7) into a screw cylinder (1), rotating a screw with a nozzle valve (4) closed, for a predetermined period of time or until the screw has been moved back a preset stroke, to plasticize the resin, and then purging the molten resin with the nozzle valve (4) set to a predetermined degree of opening.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1989Date of Patent: January 25, 1994Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu SeisakushoInventors: Kazuo Matsuda, Nobuaki Inaba, Masashi Kaminishi, Tetsuji Funabashi, Nobukazu Tanaka
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Patent number: 4952364Abstract: A method of and apparatus for controlling an injection molding machine by reproducing injection time and stability of an inspection speed to thereby improve precision, stable moldability. In the injection molding machine, a nozzle valve (4) for changing the opening of this nozzle is disposed at the tip of the nozzle for injecting a molten resin, the degree of opening of this nozzle valve (4) is controlled to a predetermined quantity of opening in accordance with a preset screw moving position and the flow rate of an operation oil for pushing a screw (6) is controlled in accordance with the degree of opening of the nozzle valve (4).Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1988Date of Patent: August 28, 1990Assignee: Kabushiki KaishaKomatsu SeisakushoInventors: Kazuo Matsuda, Nobuaki Inaba, Masashi Kaminishi, Tetsuji Funabashi, Nobukazu Tanaka
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Patent number: 4935830Abstract: A magnetic disk storage device having a magnetic shield for shielding a magnetic servo-head from noise generated by an adjacent data-head during a write operation when both magnetic heads are arranged back-to-back in a space between two magnetic disks stacked co-axially. The shield plate is secured to an inner surface of a base portion of a housing of the device, thus avoiding an increase in the weight and moment of inertia of moving members of a head positioner.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1988Date of Patent: June 19, 1990Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Sinzi Hiraoka, Kazuo Matsuda, Takeshi Ohyama
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Patent number: 4932854Abstract: A control apparatus for an injection molding machine injects a melted resin within a housing into a cavity of a mold through a nozzle section of a nozzle at a housing and by movement of a screw. A nozzle opening changing mechanism variably changes a throttled path area of the nozzle while a mold temperature sensing mechanism sensing the temperature of the mold. A control mechanism controls the nozzle opening changing mechanism in accordance with the sensed temperature of the mold temperature sensing mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1988Date of Patent: June 12, 1990Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu SeisakushoInventors: Kazuo Matsuda, Nobuaki Inaba, Masashi Kaminishi, Tetsuji Funabashi, Nobukazu Tanaka
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Patent number: 4846651Abstract: An injection molding machine of the present invention has a flow rate control device (11) located between an injection screw (2) mounted inside a housing (1) so that it may be rotated freely and reciprocated freely and an injection nozzle (12) mounted in the leading end of the housing (1) so as to inject the molten resin into a cavity (14) of a mold (13). The control device serves to control the rate of flow of the molten resin from the injection screw (2) to the injection nozzle (12). The flow rate control device (11) cooperates with an injection speed control device and a dwell pressure control device installed separately to control the flow rate and speed of the molten resin thereby making it possible to control the injection speed rapidly, and with a high accuracy and with an excellent response.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1987Date of Patent: July 11, 1989Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu SeisakushoInventors: Kazuo Matsuda, Nobuaki Inaba, Masashi Kaminishi, Tetsuji Funabashi, Nobukazu Tanaka