Patents by Inventor Kazuya Tanigawa

Kazuya Tanigawa 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: 11338830
    Abstract: There is provided an underfloor duct which enables inspection of electric equipment to be easily performed, has a simple structure, and hardly allows water to intrude into a duct passage. An underfloor duct according to an aspect of the present invention is an underfloor duct, provided under a floor of a railcar, for storing electric equipment including a cable. The underfloor duct includes: a box having a frame that projects upward, and an opening that opens downward; and a lid that closes the opening and forms a duct passage between the lid and the box. An end portion of the box is located outside an end portion of the lid in a car width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuru Yokoyama, Kazuya Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 11198455
    Abstract: A connecting hanger bolt according to an aspect of the present invention is a hanger bolt which is inserted into a hanging groove rail having an opening narrower than the outer diameter of a bolt head and extending in a hanging groove rail longitudinal direction and from which a device is hangable. The connecting hanger bolt includes: a plurality of bolts which move in the hanging groove rail longitudinal direction in the hanging groove rail and whose shaft portions pass through the opening; and a connecting member which connects the plurality of bolts to each other, and keeps an interval in the hanging groove rail longitudinal direction between the plurality of bolts adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuru Yokoyama, Kazuya Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 11183164
    Abstract: There is provided a horn device for a railcar capable of delivering horn sound to a long distance in a traveling direction and being less likely to spread sound in a car width direction. A horn device for a railcar according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a whistle portion that is supplied with compressed air to make horn sound in a traveling direction; a duct located in the traveling direction of the whistle portion and having an opening portion at an end portion in the traveling direction; and at least one partition plate that is disposed perpendicularly to a car width direction, extends in a car longitudinal direction, and divides the interior of the duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuru Yokoyama, Kazuya Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 11173790
    Abstract: A wire supporting structure supporting an electric wire extending between a bogie and a carbody in a railcar includes: a support supported by the carbody and including a fitted portion; a carbody-side coupling device supported by the carbody; an electric wire connected to an electrical apparatus of the bogie; an electric wire-side coupling device provided at a tip end of the electric wire and connected to the carbody-side coupling device; and a bracket connected to a part of the electric wire, the part being located close to the electric wire-side coupling device, the bracket including a fitting portion fitted to the fitted portion of the support, the bracket being supported by the support with the fitting portion fitted in the fitted portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuru Yokoyama, Kazuya Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20190255951
    Abstract: A wire supporting structure supporting an electric wire extending between a bogie and a carbody in a railcar includes: a support supported by the carbody and including a fitted portion; a carbody-side coupling device supported by the carbody; an electric wire connected to an electrical apparatus of the bogie; an electric wire-side coupling device provided at a tip end of the electric wire and connected to the carbody-side coupling device; and a bracket connected to a part of the electric wire, the part being located close to the electric wire-side coupling device, the bracket including a fitting portion fitted to the fitted portion of the support, the bracket being supported by the support with the fitting portion fitted in the fitted portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuru YOKOYAMA, Kazuya TANIGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190126947
    Abstract: There is provided a hanger bolt which can reduce the burden of positioning work and which hardly corotates with a nut upon nut coupling. A connecting hanger bolt according to an aspect of the present invention is a hanger bolt which is inserted into a hanging groove rail having an opening narrower than the outer diameter of a bolt head and extending in a hanging groove rail longitudinal direction and from which a device is hangable. The connecting hanger bolt includes: a plurality of bolts which move in the hanging groove rail longitudinal direction in the hanging groove rail and whose shaft portions pass through the opening; and a connecting member which connects the plurality of bolts to each other, and keeps an interval in the hanging groove rail longitudinal direction between the plurality of bolts adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuru YOKOYAMA, Kazuya TANIGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190130884
    Abstract: There is provided a horn device for a railcar capable of delivering horn sound to a long distance in a traveling direction and being less likely to spread sound in a car width direction. A horn device for a railcar according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a whistle portion that is supplied with compressed air to make horn sound in a traveling direction; a duct located in the traveling direction of the whistle portion and having an opening portion at an end portion in the traveling direction; and at least one partition plate that is disposed perpendicularly to a car width direction, extends in a car longitudinal direction, and divides the interior of the duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuru YOKOYAMA, Kazuya TANIGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190126948
    Abstract: There is provided an underfloor duct which enables inspection of electric equipment to be easily performed, has a simple structure, and hardly allows water to intrude into a duct passage. An underfloor duct according to an aspect of the present invention is an underfloor duct, provided under a floor of a railcar, for storing electric equipment including a cable. The underfloor duct includes: a box having a frame that projects upward, and an opening that opens downward; and a lid that closes the opening and forms a duct passage between the lid and the box. An end portion of the box is located outside an end portion of the lid in a car width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuru YOKOYAMA, Kazuya TANIGAWA
  • Patent number: 8964460
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of this invention has an array of non-volatile memory cells, may operate immediately after power activation to write data on and read out the data without reading from an external portion. Further, this invention is free from the lithographic process of the phase-change layer on the manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Ishiguro, Kenichi Shimomai, Kyoko Nakajima, Tetsuo Hironaka, Kazuya Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20140071749
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of this invention has an array of non-volatile memory cells, may operate immediately after power activation to write data on and read out the data without reading from an external portion. Further, this invention is free from the lithographic process of the phase-change layer on the manufacturing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Ishiguro, Kenichi Shimomai, Kyoko Nakajima, Tetsuo Hironaka, Kazuya Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 8283945
    Abstract: FPGAs and MPLDs, which are conventional programmable semiconductor devices, have had poor cost performance and did not suitably take long signal lines into account. To solve this, a flip-flop is built into each MLUT block comprised of a plurality of MLUTs, each MLUT comprising a memory and an address-data pair. With respect to the adjacent line between adjacent MLUTs, alternated adjacent line are introduced, while in the case of interconnects between non-adjacent MLUTs, dedicated distant line and, furthermore, a torus interconnect network are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Hironaka, Kazuya Tanigawa, Hiroaki Toguchi, Naoki Hirakawa, Takashi Ishiguro, Masayuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20120007635
    Abstract: FPGAs and MPLDs, which are conventional programmable semiconductor devices, have had poor cost performance and did not suitably take long signal lines into account. To solve this, a flip-flop is built into each MLUT block comprised of a plurality of MLUTs, each MLUT comprising a memory and an address-data pair. With respect to the adjacent line between adjacent MLUTs, alternated adjacent line are introduced, while in the case of interconnects between non-adjacent MLUTs, dedicated distant line and, furthermore, a torus interconnect network are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Hironaka, Kazuya Tanigawa, Hiroaki Toguchi, Naoki Hirakawa, Takashi Ishiguro, Masayuki Sato