Patents by Inventor Kazuya Aoki
Kazuya Aoki 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: 20230331126Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a pad having an air passage, a skin material, and a skin locking clip embedded in the pad and configured to tuck in a prescribed linear portion of the skin material The pad includes a main body member in which the skin locking clip is embedded, an intermediate layer member arranged on the main body member, and a surface layer member arranged on the intermediate layer member. The main body member includes a linear bulging portion extending along the linear portion and bulging so as to define a plane substantially identical to a surface of the surface layer member, and the skin material is tucked in by the skin locking clip at a portion extending further from the surface layer member than the linear bulging portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Kazuya AOKI, Kenta KIKUCHI, Kei OKUMA
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Patent number: 11724626Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a pad having an air passage, a skin material, and a skin locking clip embedded in the pad and configured to tuck in a prescribed linear portion of the skin material. The pad includes a main body member in which the skin locking clip is embedded, an intermediate layer member arranged on the main body member, and a surface layer member arranged on the intermediate layer member. The main body member includes a linear bulging portion extending along the linear portion and bulging so as to define a plane substantially identical to a surface of the surface layer member, and the skin material is tucked in by the skin locking clip at a portion extending further from the surface layer member than the linear bulging portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Inventors: Kazuya Aoki, Kenta Kikuchi, Kei Okuma
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Publication number: 20230150410Abstract: A conveyance seat includes a large-capacity pocket formed on the rear surface of a seat back of the seat. The pocket has: a pocket forming sheet overlapping an outer surface of a back side skin material positioned on the rear surface of the seat back; and a pocket sewn portion. The pocket sewn portion has: right and left first sewn portions and right and left second sewn portions formed at positions sandwiching an opening portion in a seat width direction to form the opening portion of the pocket in an upper end portion of the pocket forming sheet; right and left third sewn portions forming right and left outer edge portions of the pocket; and a fourth sewn portion forming a lower edge portion of the pocket. The right and left second sewn portions are disposed inside the right and left third sewn portions in the seat width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Shuichi AKUTSU, Soichiro TANAKA, Takamasa SONODA, Ryosuke KOJIMA, Kazuya AOKI, Muneyuki NOGAMI
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Patent number: 11629075Abstract: A water electrolysis system includes: a water electrolyzer configured to electrolyze water to generate gas including oxygen and hydrogen; a gas-liquid separator configured to separate gas phase including hydrogen from liquid phase of the gas generated by the water electrolyzer; a water level detector configured to detect a water level in the gas-liquid separator; a pressure detector configured to detect a pressure of the gas phase in the gas-liquid separator; and a CPU and a memory coupled to the CPU. The CPU is configured to perform: calculating an error of the water level in the gas-liquid separator detected by the water level detector based on the pressure of the gas phase in the gas-liquid separator detected by the pressure detector.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Asano, Jun Takeuchi, Kazuya Aoki
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Publication number: 20230085792Abstract: A skin locking clip that is firmly supported by a pad is provided. The skin locking clip (10) is disposed in a groove (8) of a pad (5) of a vehicle seat or the like, and fixes a locked portion (6c) attached to a skin material. The skin locking clip (10) includes a base plate (11), a locking piece (12) erected on the base plate (11) to lock the locked portion (6c), and an overhanging piece (13) erected on the base plate. Since the overhanging piece (13) is supported by the pad (5), the skin locking clip (10) is firmly supported by the pad (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Yuhei CHINOMI, Kazuya AOKI, Kenta KIKUCHI, Kei OKUMA
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Publication number: 20220410775Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a pad having an air passage, a skin material, and a skin locking clip embedded in the pad and configured to tuck in a prescribed linear portion of the skin material. The pad includes a main body member in which the skin locking clip is embedded, an intermediate layer member arranged on the main body member, and a surface layer member arranged on the intermediate layer member. The main body member includes a linear bulging portion extending along the linear portion and bulging so as to define a plane substantially identical to a surface of the surface layer member, and the skin material is tucked in by the skin locking clip at a portion extending further from the surface layer member than the linear bulging portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2021Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Kazuya AOKI, Kenta KIKUCHI, Kei OKUMA
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Publication number: 20210261446Abstract: A water electrolysis system includes: a water electrolyzer configured to electrolyze water to generate gas including oxygen and hydrogen; a gas-liquid separator configured to separate gas phase including hydrogen from liquid phase of the gas generated by the water electrolyzer; a water level detector configured to detect a water level in the gas-liquid separator; a pressure detector configured to detect a pressure of the gas phase in the gas-liquid separator; and a CPU and a memory coupled to the CPU. The CPU is configured to perform: calculating an error of the water level in the gas-liquid separator detected by the water level detector based on the pressure of the gas phase in the gas-liquid separator detected by the pressure detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Yuji Asano, Jun Takeuchi, Kazuya Aoki
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Patent number: 9630235Abstract: A roller hemming processing apparatus adapted to perform a hemming processing has a hemming die, on which a panel-like workpiece having a hemming flange portion on a periphery portion thereof, is positioned and supported, a roller hemming processing tool that is moved along a longitudinal direction of the hemming flange portion to bend the hemming flange portion at a root portion thereof while pressing the hemming flange portion toward the hemming die, and a nesting block disposed at a part of the periphery of the hemming die. The nesting block performs positioning of the workpiece by being brought into contact with the root portion of the hemming flange portion with which the workpiece is formed. The nesting block is elastically supported to be retractable in the pressing direction and to be swingably displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the hemming flange portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryoji Takai, Kazuya Aoki
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Publication number: 20160074924Abstract: A roller hemming processing apparatus adapted to perform a hemming processing has a hemming die, on which a panel-like workpiece having a hemming flange portion on a periphery portion thereof, is positioned and supported, a roller hemming processing tool that is moved along a longitudinal direction of the hemming flange portion to bend the hemming flange portion at a root portion thereof while pressing the hemming flange portion toward the hemming die, and a nesting block disposed at a part of the periphery of the hemming die. The nesting block performs positioning of the workpiece by being brought into contact with the root portion of the hemming flange portion with which the workpiece is formed. The nesting block is elastically supported to be retractable in the pressing direction and to be swingably displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the hemming flange portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2014Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryoji Takai, Kazuya Aoki
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Patent number: 8650007Abstract: When a manager uses an input device to input the inspected states of the degrees of soundness of a plurality of objects, a data receiving unit receives them as inspection data. A deterioration characteristic calculating unit calculates the average value of the deterioration characteristics of the objects based on data related to the degrees of soundness of the plurality of objects that is received by the data receiving unit. A heterogeneous parameter calculating unit calculates a heterogeneous parameter for each heterogeneous factor that cannot be observed or is difficult to observe, and causes a variation in the deterioration characteristics. A benchmarking unit evaluates the influence of the heterogeneous factors on the deterioration characteristics based on the heterogeneous parameters, and an output unit outputs the evaluation result.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2009Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignees: Kyoto University, Pasco CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Kazuya Aoki
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Patent number: 8540308Abstract: A stowable vehicle seat with improved operability is configured so that a stowing and restoring operation can be performed by rotating seat support parts and provided on the rear end part of a seat cushion in the front and rear direction around the rotating center. The seat support part is provided with a rotating shaft provided on the seat cushion side, a rotating shaft bracket pivotally supporting the rotating shaft on the vehicle body floor side, and spiral springs one end part side of which is always locked to the rotating shaft side and which urges in the restoration rotating direction. The other end part side of the spiral springs is locked to the vehicle body floor side at different predetermined angles of the seat cushion.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuya Aoki, Tatsuo Sayama
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Publication number: 20130102230Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a method of manufacturing a glass substrate for an information recording medium, which suppresses an increase in the number of foreign matter adhering to the surface of the glass substrate or damages on the surface of the glass substrate in suckingly holding the glass substrate by a suctorial holding portion, and to provide a suction instrument which makes it easy to dismount a glass substrate from a polishing pad of a polishing device. A suction instrument 1 of the invention has a suction pad 32. The suction pad 32 is provided with a center hole 32a, and a groove 32b extending from the center hole 32a to an end of an outer periphery of the contacting pad 32.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2011Publication date: April 25, 2013Inventors: Takafumi Komatsu, Ryota Ushijima, Kazuya Aoki
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Patent number: 8235446Abstract: A folding vehicle seat is adapted to be stored on a first portion of a vehicle body floor and retained on the first portion by a retaining belt arrangement which includes a belt attached at its lower end to a vertical wall extending upward from the floor and a hook attached to an upper end of the belt. The upper end is inserted through a ring attached to the wall. The seat includes a seat cushion pivotally supported on a second portion of the floor and a seat back pivotally supported by the cushion, the cushion and back being adapted to be put together as a single body which is adapted to be pivoted from the second portion toward the first portion and has an engagement mechanism with which the hook is adapted to be engaged at the time when the body is stored on the first portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2010Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: TS TECH Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuya Aoki
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Patent number: 7998633Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a branch anode gas supply pipe in which hydrogen before supplied to a fuel cell flows; and a branch cathode gas supply pipe in which air before supplied to the fuel cell flows. One end on the upstream side of the branch anode gas supply pipe is connected to the upstream side of a regulator in an anode gas supply pipe, and the other end thereof is connected to the branch cathode gas supply pipe via a hydrogen injector. The branch anode gas supply pipe is provided with a hydrogen regulator, which detects a pressure in the branch cathode gas supply pipe as a signal pressure.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2006Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuya Aoki, Tadashi Nomura, Rieko Okada, Kiyoshi Kasahara, Hiromoto Ikada
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Publication number: 20110112807Abstract: When a manager uses an input device to input the inspected states of the degrees of soundness of a plurality of objects, a data receiving unit receives them as inspection data. A deterioration characteristic calculating unit calculates the average value of the deterioration characteristics of the objects based on data related to the degrees of soundness of the plurality of objects that is received by the data receiving unit. A heterogeneous parameter calculating unit calculates a heterogeneous parameter for each heterogeneous factor that cannot be observed or is difficult to observe, and causes a variation in the deterioration characteristics. A benchmarking unit evaluates the influence of the heterogeneous factors on the deterioration characteristics based on the heterogeneous parameters, and an output unit outputs the evaluation result.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicants: KYOTO UNIVERSITY, PASCO CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Kazuya Aoki
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Publication number: 20110057470Abstract: A folding vehicle seat is adapted to be stored on a first portion of a vehicle body floor and retained on the first portion by a retaining belt arrangement which includes a belt attached at its lower end to a vertical wall extending upward from the floor and a hook attached to an upper end of the belt. The upper end is inserted through a ring attached to the wall. The seat includes a seat cushion pivotally supported on a second portion of the floor and a seat back pivotally supported by the cushion, the cushion and back being adapted to be put together as a single body which is adapted to be pivoted from the second portion toward the first portion and has an engagement mechanism with which the hook is adapted to be engaged at the time when the body is stored on the first portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2010Publication date: March 10, 2011Applicant: TS TECH COL, LTD.Inventor: Kazuya Aoki
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Publication number: 20100320824Abstract: A stowable vehicle seat with improved operability is configured so that a stowing and restoring operation can be performed by rotating seat support parts and provided on the rear end part of a seat cushion in the front and rear direction around the rotating center. The seat support part is provided with a rotating shaft provided on the seat cushion side, a rotating shaft bracket pivotally supporting the rotating shaft on the vehicle body floor side, and spiral springs one end part side of which is always locked to the rotating shaft side and which urges in the restoration rotating direction. The other end part side of the spiral springs is locked to the vehicle body floor side at different predetermined angles of the seat cushion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2009Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: TS TECH CO., LTDInventors: Kazuya Aoki, Tatsuo Sayama
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Publication number: 20070128488Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a branch anode gas supply pipe in which hydrogen before supplied to a fuel cell flows; and a branch cathode gas supply pipe in which air before supplied to the fuel cell flows. One end on the upstream side of the branch anode gas supply pipe is connected to the upstream side of a regulator in an anode gas supply pipe, and the other end thereof is connected to the branch cathode gas supply pipe via a hydrogen injector. The branch anode gas supply pipe is provided with a hydrogen regulator, which detects a pressure in the branch cathode gas supply pipe as a signal pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2006Publication date: June 7, 2007Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Aoki, Tadashi Nomura, Rieko Okada, Kiyoshi Kasahara, Hiromoto Ikada
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Patent number: 6670067Abstract: A fuel supply device is provided capable of supplying a necessary amount of fuel while ensuring predetermined stoichiometric characteristics over a wide range of flow rates. The body unit of the fuel supply device includes the first ejector, the second ejector, and a switching valve. The switching valve has a function to select either one of a first passage or a second passage for communicating with the valve chamber and to block the other passage. The first passage is communicated with a nozzle of the first ejector, and the second passage is communicated with a nozzle of the second ejector. The first ejector has a diffuser passage communicated with the reflux chamber, the second ejector has a diffuser passage communicated with the reflux chamber, and the diffuser passage 43 and the diffuser passage are connected with a hydrogen outlet through a merging passage.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2001Date of Patent: December 30, 2003Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katumi Sato, Kazuya Aoki, Kazunori Fukuma, Tatsuya Sugawara
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Publication number: 20020022171Abstract: A fuel supply device is provided capable of supplying a necessary amount of fuel while ensuring predetermined stoichiometric characteristics over a wide range of flow rates. The body unit of the fuel supply device includes the first ejector, the second ejector, and a switching valve. The switching valve has a function to select either one of a first passage or a second passage for communicating with the valve chamber and to block the other passage. The first passage is communicated with a nozzle of the first ejector, and the second passage is communicated with a nozzle of the second ejector. The first ejector has a diffuser passage communicated with the reflux chamber, the second ejector has a diffuser passage communicated with the reflux chamber, and the diffuser passage 43 and the diffuser passage are connected with a hydrogen outlet through a merging passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2001Publication date: February 21, 2002Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katumi Saito, Kazuya Aoki, Kazunori Fukuma, Tatsuya Sugawara