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).

  • Publication number: 20050167165
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Shu Takeda, Kazuo Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20050155509
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Matsuda, Kazutaka Saito, Etsuya Miyake, Junichi Nishimura, Hiromi Aida
  • Publication number: 20050132919
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi NISHIMURA, Hiromi AIDA, Kazuo MATSUDA, Kazutaka SAITO, Etsuya MIYAKE
  • Publication number: 20050121893
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Nishimura, Hiromi Aida, Kazuo Matsuda, Kazutaka Saito, Etsuya Miyake, Yoshitaka Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20050115438
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Nishimura, Hiromi Aida, Kazuo Matsuda, Kazutaka Saito, Takeshi Kai, Etsuya Miyake
  • Patent number: 6728613
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ishizaki, Kazuo Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20040002815
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ishizaki, Kazuo Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20030114985
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ishizaki, Kazuo Matsuda
  • Patent number: 6510914
    Abstract: 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 obstruc
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ishizaki, Kaoru Nagatomi, Kazuo Matsuda
  • Patent number: 6499555
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ishizaki, Kazuo Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20020043417
    Abstract: 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 obstruc
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ishizaki, Kaoru Nagatomi, Kazuo Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20020033294
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ishizaki, Kazuo Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20010028363
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Corporation and Starnet Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Nomoto, Ryuichi Noshiro, Akira Atsumi, Masataka Yamamoto, Kazuo Matsuda
  • Patent number: 5936518
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsutomu Fukui, Kazuo Matsuda
  • Patent number: 5691099
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Kusakata, Masanori Rimoto, Kazuo Matsuda, Naohito Shimota
  • Patent number: 5281374
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1994
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho
    Inventors: Kazuo Matsuda, Nobuaki Inaba, Masashi Kaminishi, Tetsuji Funabashi, Nobukazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4952364
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Assignee: Kabushiki KaishaKomatsu Seisakusho
    Inventors: Kazuo Matsuda, Nobuaki Inaba, Masashi Kaminishi, Tetsuji Funabashi, Nobukazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4935830
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Sinzi Hiraoka, Kazuo Matsuda, Takeshi Ohyama
  • Patent number: 4932854
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho
    Inventors: Kazuo Matsuda, Nobuaki Inaba, Masashi Kaminishi, Tetsuji Funabashi, Nobukazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4846651
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho
    Inventors: Kazuo Matsuda, Nobuaki Inaba, Masashi Kaminishi, Tetsuji Funabashi, Nobukazu Tanaka