Patents by Inventor Kazuo Tanabe

Kazuo Tanabe 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: 11454058
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a vehicle door switch that is capable of adjusting the amount of movement made by a rod with ease and a method for attaching a vehicle door switch. A vehicle door switch includes a rod configured to move as a door is closed, a detecting unit configured to output a detection signal when one of ends of the rod has moved by a predetermined distance or more, and a limiting unit configured to limit the amount of movement made by the rod within a range where the detecting unit outputs the detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Tanabe, Ikuo Makihira
  • Publication number: 20200208454
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a vehicle door switch that is capable of adjusting the amount of movement made by a rod with ease and a method for attaching a vehicle door switch. A vehicle door switch includes a rod configured to move as a door is closed, a detecting unit configured to output a detection signal when one of ends of the rod has moved by a predetermined distance or more, and a limiting unit configured to limit the amount of movement made by the rod within a range where the detecting unit outputs the detection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuo TANABE, Ikuo MAKIHIRA
  • Patent number: 9997320
    Abstract: The circuit breaker is fabricated by an assembly step that makes a circuit breaker assembly with a moving contact metal plate, stationary contact metal plate, and bimetallic strip disposed in prescribed locations in an external case; and an anneal step that introduces the circuit breaker assembly made in the assembly step into an anneal oven, heats the circuit breaker assembly in the anneal oven and then cools it to anneal both the moving contact metal plate and the bimetallic strip and produce a heat-treated circuit breaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: OTSUKA TECHNO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakanishi, Shiro Shibuya, Kazuo Tanabe
  • Patent number: 9816587
    Abstract: A geared motor includes a gear mechanism portion that meshes with a rotational shaft provided within a main motor unit. The gear mechanism portion has a multistage planetary gear reducing mechanism. The multistage planetary gear reducing mechanism includes a first stage gear formed helically and a final stage gear formed with spur teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: NIDEC COPAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Koike, Kazuo Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20170169978
    Abstract: The circuit breaker is fabricated by an assembly step that makes a circuit breaker assembly with a moving contact metal plate, stationary contact metal plate, and bimetallic strip disposed in prescribed locations in an external case; and an anneal step that introduces the circuit breaker assembly made in the assembly step into an anneal oven, heats the circuit breaker assembly in the anneal oven and then cools it to anneal both the moving contact metal plate and the bimetallic strip and produce a heat-treated circuit breaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakanishi, Shiro Shibuya, Kazuo Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20150377323
    Abstract: A geared motor includes a gear mechanism portion that meshes with a rotational shaft provided within a main motor unit. The gear mechanism portion has a multistage planetary gear reducing mechanism. The multistage planetary gear reducing mechanism includes a first stage gear formed helically and a final stage gear formed with spur teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: Nidec Copal Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji KOIKE, Kazuo TANABE
  • Patent number: 8866617
    Abstract: A plastic cap with IC tag storing product information provided on the upper surface of a top plate. The top plate is formed by an annular flange and a recessed portion 37, the recessed portion, including a side wall continuous to the inner circumferential edge of the annular flange and a bottom continuous to the lower end of the side wall. The tag 10 is attached to the annular flange to cover the recessed portion. A gap between the tag and the bottom is maintained to such a degree that the transmission and reception of signals to and from the tag are not interrupted when the back surface of the bottom comes in contact with water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignees: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd., Japan Crown Cork Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kurosawa, Takayuki Kikuchi, Kazuo Tanabe, Katsumi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8598300
    Abstract: The invention provides an amorphous polyester resin that can sufficiently achieve the reciprocal performance properties of hot offset resistance and cold offset resistance, which is a major issue for a toner for electrostatic image development, while allowing adequate blocking resistance to be obtained, as well as a binder resin for toner for electrostatic image development, and an amorphous polyester resin production method, the amorphous polyester resin being obtained by reaction between a polybasic carboxylic acid compound and a polyhydric alcohol, wherein the polybasic carboxylic acid compound comprises (a) the reaction product between an aromatic polybasic carboxylic acid compound and a C2-4 glycol at 60 mol % or greater based on the total amount of the polybasic carboxylic acid compound, and the amorphous polyester resin has a glass transition point of 55° C. to 75° C. and a weight-average molecular weight of 10,000 to 50,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Nicca Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro Hishida, Koji Ogawa, Yasumichi Moriyama, Masaaki Hosoda, Kazuo Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8547688
    Abstract: A resin overcap with an IC tag used as an overcap being on a metal cap and having an IC tag so that the transmission and reception of signals will not be disturbed by the metal cap, comprising a top panel and a cylindrical side wall hanging down from the circumferential edge of the top panel and in which the metal cap is fitted, wherein a step or a protrusion is formed on an upper portion on the inner surface of the cylindrical side wall to prevent the upward motion of the metal cap fitted in the cylindrical side wall, and an IC tag provided with an IC chip is mounted on the top panel to maintain a predetermined distance D to a top plate of the metal cap fitted into the cylindrical side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kikuchi, Takahiro Kurosawa, Ken Sotobayashi, Masayuki Mori, Kazuo Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8421632
    Abstract: A plastic cap with IC tag storing product information provided on the upper surface of a top plate. The top plate is formed by an annular flange and a recessed portion 37, the recessed portion, including a side wall continuous to the inner circumferential edge of the annular flange and a bottom continuous to the lower end of the side wall. The tag 10 is attached to the annular flange to cover the recessed portion. A gap between the tag and the bottom is maintained to such a degree that the transmission and reception of signals to and from the tag are not interrupted when the back surface of the bottom comes in contact with water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignees: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd., Japan Crown Cork Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kurosawa, Kazuo Tanabe, Takayuki Kikuchi, Takashi Kimura, Katsumi Hashimoto, Seiji Fukushi
  • Patent number: 8411422
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a resin overcap provided with an IC tag that can be used as an overcap being fitted onto a metal cap and having an IC tag that is so provided that the transmission and reception of signals will not be disturbed by the metal cap. [Means for Solution] A resin overcap used being fitted onto a metal cap, comprising a top panel and a cylindrical side wall hanging down from the circumferential edge of the top panel and in which the metal cap is fitted, wherein a step or a protrusion is formed on an upper portion on the inner surface of the cylindrical side wall to prevent the upward motion of the metal cap fitted in the cylindrical side wall, and an IC tag provided with an IC chip is mounted on the top panel in a manner of maintaining a predetermined distance D to a top plate of the metal cap fitted into the cylindrical side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kikuchi, Takahiro Kurosawa, Ken Sotobayashi, Masayuki Mori, Kazuo Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20130041125
    Abstract: The invention provides an amorphous polyester resin that can sufficiently achieve the reciprocal performance properties of hot offset resistance and cold offset resistance, which is a major issue for a toner for electrostatic image development, while allowing adequate blocking resistance to be obtained, as well as a binder resin for toner for electrostatic image development, and an amorphous polyester resin production method, the amorphous polyester resin being obtained by reaction between a polybasic carboxylic acid compound and a polyhydric alcohol, wherein the polybasic carboxylic acid compound comprises (a) the reaction product between an aromatic polybasic carboxylic acid compound and a C2-4 glycol at 60 mol % or greater based on the total amount of the polybasic carboxylic acid compound, and the amorphous polyester resin has a glass transition point of 55° C. to 75° C. and a weight-average molecular weight of 10,000 to 50,000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: NICCA CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro Hishida, Koji Ogawa, Yasumichi Moriyama, Masaaki Hosoda, Kazuo Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20110063786
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a resin overcap provided with an IC tag that can be used as an overcap being fitted onto a metal cap and having an IC tag that is so provided that the transmission and reception of signals will not be disturbed by the metal cap. [Means for Solution] A resin overcap used being fitted onto a metal cap, comprising a top panel and a cylindrical side wall hanging down from the circumferential edge of the top panel and in which the metal cap is fitted, wherein a step or a protrusion is formed on an upper portion on the inner surface of the cylindrical side wall to prevent the upward motion of the metal cap fitted in the cylindrical side wall, and an IC tag provided with an IC chip is mounted on the top panel in a manner of maintaining a predetermined distance D to a top plate of the metal cap fitted into the cylindrical side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN KAISHA, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kikuchi, Takahiro Kurosawa, Ken Sotobayashi, Masayuki Mori, Kazuo Tanabe
  • Patent number: 7835815
    Abstract: A processing program preparing apparatus for a numerically controlled punch press includes a processing intention data generator for generating, on the basis of product shape data, processing intention data for specifying a processing region to be processed to manufacture a product. The processing program preparing apparatus also includes a tool data adding section for adding, to the processing intention data, data for specifying a punch and a die to be used to process the processing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Amada Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takehiko Shigefuji, Shunsuke Takeuchi, Kazuo Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20100108673
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a plastic cap with an IC tag without interrupting transmission and reception of information to and from the IC tag, reliably inputting product information to the IC tag and reliably outputting product information that is input. [Means for Solution] The plastic cap has an IC tag 10 storing product information provided on the upper surface of a top plate 21. The top plate 21 is formed by an annular flange 35 and a recessed portion 37, the recessed portion 37 including a side wall 37a continuous to the inner circumferential edge of the annular flange 35 and a bottom 37b continuous to the lower end of the side wall 37a. The IC tag 10 is attached to the annular flange 35 so as to cover the recessed portion 37. A gap between the IC tag 10 and the bottom 37b is maintained to such a degree that the transmission and reception of signals to and from the IC tag 10 are not interrupted when the back surface of the bottom 37b comes in contact with water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicants: TOYO SEIKAN KAISHA, LTD., JAPAN CROWN CORK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kurosawa, Kazuo Tanabe, Takayuki Kikuchi, Takashi Kimura, Katsumi Hashimoto, Seiji Fukushi
  • Publication number: 20090069907
    Abstract: A processing program preparing apparatus for a numerically controlled punch press includes a processing intention data generator for generating, on the basis of product shape data, processing intention data for specifying a processing region to be processed to manufacture a product. The processing program preparing apparatus also includes a tool data adding section for adding, to the processing intention data, data for specifying a punch and a die to be used to process the processing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: AMADA COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takehiko SHIGEFUJI, Shunsuke TAKEUCHI, Kazuo TANABE
  • Patent number: 7437210
    Abstract: A punch press has a punch supporting member (22) for supporting a plurality of punches (26) and a die supporting member (24) for supporting a plurality of dies (28), wherein identification media (34, 36) representing a punch and a die identification information for identifying each tool are attached to each punch and die, respectively. The punch press comprises a punch identification medium reader (38) for reading out a punch identification information from the punch identification medium (34) attached to said punch; a die identification medium reader (40) for reading out a die identification information from the die identification medium (36) attached to said die; and a comparator (68) for comparing a punch identification information from said punch identification medium reader and a die identification information from said die identification medium reader with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Amada Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takehiko Shigefuji, Shunsuke Takeuchi, Kazuo Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20080014413
    Abstract: A thermally expandable sheet includes a nonwoven fabric layer and reinforcing material layers formed of inorganic fiber. The reinforcing material layers are formed on the surfaces of the nonwoven fabric layer. The thickness of each reinforcing material layer is less than the thickness of the nonwoven fabric layer. The nonwoven fabric layer and the reinforcing material layers are impregnated with thermally expandable microcapsules and resin. A molded product for vehicle is manufactured from the thermally expandable sheet and includes closed cells generated by expansion of the thermally expandable microcapsules in the nonwoven fabric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo TANABE, Tetsuya NAKAMURA, Miwa FUSE, Rintaro SENOO
  • Patent number: 7144611
    Abstract: A trimming material for an automobile includes a surface skin material, a base material, and a colored resin film interposed between the surface skin material and the base material. The surface skin material and the base material are bonded to each other via the resin film. The resin film includes a surface-side adhesion layer on the side of the surface skin material, a base-side adhesion layer on the side of the base material, and a barrier layer interposed between the surface-side adhesion layer and the base-side adhesion layer and bonded thereto. The barrier layer is made of non-gas and liquid permeable material that is not melted at a temperature that causes the surface-side adhesion layer and the base-side adhesion layer to be melted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Toyoda Boshoku Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nakamura, Kazuo Tanabe, Rintaro Senoo
  • Patent number: 6862791
    Abstract: A casing and a lid which are supplied to a casing/lid supply machine are fed to a main assembly line where a light-shielding sheet is mounted on the casing and a film cover supplied from a film cover assembly line is mounted in the casing. Pressers supplied from a presser assembly line are mounted on the lid. The casing and the lid are combined with each other, completing a film case. The film case manufacturing system is capable of efficiently manufacturing highly accurate film cases and is relatively compact in structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiro Esaki, Hideki Matsuzawa, Masami Seko, Nobuo Matsuda, Hiroki Omote, Kazuo Tanabe