Patents by Inventor Kei Maeda

Kei Maeda 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: 12136048
    Abstract: A controller is provided which is configured to perform receiving, from a terminal of a user, a request for moving a component included in a first vehicle to a second vehicle, and generating, upon receipt of the request from the terminal of the user, information for reserving a predetermined facility in which the component is moved from the first vehicle to the second vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Tone, Yukinori Ii, Tadayuki Tanaka, Naoki Ishizuka, Yuichiro Yano, Nariaki Amano, Yusuke Maeda, Kei Yazaki, Yu Hamada
  • Patent number: 12098450
    Abstract: A track link which is a tracked undercarriage component is made of a steel having a specific component composition, and includes a high hardness portion having a hardness of HRC 57 or more and HRC 60 or less, and a low hardness portion. The high hardness portion includes a first matrix including a martensite phase and a residual austenite phase, and first nonmetallic particles dispersed in the first matrix and including at least one species selected from the group consisting of MnS, TiCN, and NbCN, and it does not include a M23C6 carbide. The low hardness portion includes a second matrix including a martensite phase, and second nonmetallic particles dispersed in the second matrix and including at least one species selected from the group consisting of MnS, TiCN, and NbCN, and it does not include a M23C6 carbide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: KOMATSU LTD., NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Amada, Kazuo Maeda, Naomi Kobayashi, Takashi Noda, Mamoru Hatano, Takafumi Amata, Yutaka Neishi, Kei Miyanishi, Ryoji Nishijima
  • Publication number: 20240304514
    Abstract: A composite material has a plate shape and has a first surface and a second surface. The second surface is opposite to the first surface. The composite material includes a plurality of first layers and at least one second layer. The first layers and the second layer are alternately layered along a thickness direction of the composite material such that the first layers are located at the first surface and the second surface. Each of the first layers is a layer including copper. The second layer is a layer of a molybdenum powder compact impregnated with copper. A compressive residual stress of 50 MPa or less acts on each of the first layer located at the first surface and the first layer located at the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., A.L.M.T. Corp.
    Inventors: Toru MAEDA, Miki MIYANAGA, Daisuke KONDO, Kei HIRAI, Masayuki ITO, Shin-ichi YAMAGATA
  • Patent number: 12086824
    Abstract: A first paint color is acquired as a color of a paint of a first vehicle. A second paint color is acquired as a color of a paint including a peelable layer and to be applied over at least a part of the paint in the first paint color. A current or future valuation price of the first vehicle is acquired based on the first paint color or the second paint color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Tone, Yukinori Il, Tadayuki Tanaka, Naoki Ishizuka, Yuichiro Yano, Nariaki Amano, Yusuke Maeda, Kei Yazaki, Yu Hamada
  • Patent number: 12065383
    Abstract: An oriented ceramic sintered body production method includes (a) a step of preparing a ceramic compact before firing into an oriented ceramic sintered body; and (b) a step of obtaining an oriented ceramic sintered body by sandwiching the ceramic compact between a pair of releasing sheets, placing the ceramic compact and the releasing sheets in a hot press firing furnace, and hot press firing the ceramic compact while applying a pressure by a pair of punches through the pair of releasing sheets, wherein each of the releasing sheets is a releasing sheet such that, after the releasing sheet is sandwiched between PET films, is then placed and vacuum-packed on a stainless steel sheet, and is isostatically pressed at 200 kg/cm2, a surface of the releasing sheet on the side opposite from the stainless steel sheet has a profile curve with a total profile height Pt of 0.8 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Morimichi Watanabe, Kei Sato, Kiyoshi Matsushima, Takahiro Maeda, Jun Yoshikawa, Tsutomu Nanataki
  • Patent number: 10487002
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to glass containing, in terms of mass % on an oxide basis, 40-80% of SiO2, 1-30% of Al2O3, and 1-40% of CaO, the glass having dmisteinbergite as the crystalline phase. Such glass makes it difficult for cracks to progress and has exceptional crack resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kei Maeda, Atsuo Yasumori
  • Publication number: 20180362391
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to glass containing, in terms of mass % on an oxide basis, 40-80% of SiO2, 1-30% of Al2O3, and 1-40% of CaO, the glass having dmisteinbergite as the crystalline phase. Such glass makes it difficult for cracks to progress and has exceptional crack resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kei MAEDA, Atsuo YASUMORI
  • Patent number: 8715829
    Abstract: To provide a glass plate for display devices wherein without carrying out a post treatment, the depth of a compression stress layer is increased, while the surface compression stress is prevented from being excess only by chemical tempering. A glass plate for display devices, which is obtained by chemically tempering a glass plate comprising, as represented by mol % based on the following oxides, from 50 to 74% of SiO2, from 1 to 10% of Al2O3, from 6 to 14% of Na2O, from 3 to 15% of K2O, from 2 to 15% of MgO, from 0 to 10% of CaO and from 0 to 5% of ZrO2, wherein the total content of SiO2 and Al2O3 is at most 75%, the total content of Na2O and K2O, i.e. Na2O+K2O, is from 12 to 25%, and the total content of MgO and CaO, i.e. MgO+CaO, is from 7 to 15%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shusaku Akiba, Kazutaka Hayashi, Kei Maeda
  • Patent number: 8563149
    Abstract: To provide glass for a data storage medium substrate, whereby high heat resistance can be obtained. Glass for a data storage medium substrate, which comprises, as represented by mol percentage based on the following oxides, from 55 to 70% of SiO2, from 2.5 to 9% of Al2O3, from 0 to 10% of MgO, from 0 to 7% of CaO, from 0.5 to 10% of SrO, from 0 to 12.5% of BaO, from 0 to 2.5% of TiO2, from 0.5 to 3.7% of ZrO2, from 0 to 2.5% of Li2O, from 0 to 8% of Na2O, from 2 to 8% of K2O and from 0.5 to 5% of La2O3, provided that the total content of Al2O3 and ZrO2 (Al2O3+ZrO2) is at most 12%, and the total content of Li2O, Na2O and K2O (R2O) is at most 12%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nagashima, Kensuke Nagai, Tetsuya Nakashima, Kei Maeda
  • Patent number: 8455375
    Abstract: To provide a glass plate for display panels which has a low 82O3 content and a low compaction and which can be used as a glass substrate for large TFT panels. A glass plate for display panels, which comprises, as a glass matrix composition as represented by mass % based on oxide: SiO2 50.0 to 73.0, Al2O3 6.0 to 20.0, B2O3 0 to 2.0, MgO 4.2 to 9.0, CaO 0 to 6.0, SrO 0 to 2.0, BaO 0 to 2.0, MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO 6.5 to 11.3, Li2O 0 to 2.0, Na2O 2.0 to 18.0, K2O 0 to 13.0, and Li2O+Na2O+K2O 8.0 to 18.0, and has a heat shrinkage (C) of at most 20 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Manabu Nishizawa, Yuya Shimada, Yuichi Kuroki, Kei Maeda
  • Patent number: 8377834
    Abstract: A glass composition for substrates excellent in productivity is provided by lowering the high temperature viscosity while securing characteristics and quality required for FPD substrates, particularly for PDP substrates. A glass composition for substrates, which is characterized by comprising, as represented by mass% based on oxides, from 55 to 75% of SiO2, from 5 to 15% of Al2O3, from 4 to 18% of MgO, from 3 to 12% of CaO, from 4 to 18% of SrO, from 0 to 20% of BaO, from 6 to 20% of Na2O+K2O, from 0.5 to 6% of ZrO2 and from 18 to 25% of MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO, as a glass matrix composition, and containing from 0.001 to 0.6% of SO3, and which is further characterized in that when the viscosity is represented by ?, the temperature satisfying log?=2 is at most 1,545° C. and the devitrification temperature is at most the temperature satisfying log?=4, the thermal expansion coefficient is from 75×10?7 to 90×10?7/° C., the specific gravity is at most 2.8, and the glass transition point is at least 600° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kensuke Nagai, Tetsuya Nakashima, Kei Maeda
  • Patent number: 8324124
    Abstract: A process for producing a glass substrate, which includes forming molten glass obtained by melting raw materials into a glass ribbon in a float bath, annealing the glass ribbon by a cooling apparatus, and cutting the glass ribbon to form the glass substrate, where the hydrogen concentration in the atmosphere of a float bath exceeds 3%, and the glass retention time in the float bath is from 4 to 15 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kensuke Nagai, Yuichi Kuroki, Kei Maeda
  • Publication number: 20120153807
    Abstract: An electrode for a fluorescent lamp includes a filament and an emitter provided on the filament. The emitter includes a mayenite compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shigeo Mikoshiba, Satoru Watanabe, Kazuhiro Ito, Naomichi Miyakawa, Setsuro Ito, Kei Maeda, Yutaka Kuroiwa
  • Publication number: 20120153805
    Abstract: An electrode for a discharge lamp includes an electrode body configured to emit thermal electrons. The electrode body is formed by a sintered body of a conductive mayenite compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Satoru WATANABE, Naomichi MIYAKAWA, Yutaka KUROIWA, Kazuhiro ITO, Setsuro ITO, Kei MAEDA
  • Patent number: 8119268
    Abstract: To provide a glass for an information recording media substrate, which is excellent in weather resistance. A glass for an information recording media substrate, which comprises, as represented by mol % based on oxide, from 61 to 66% of SiO2, from 11.5 to 17% of Al2O3, from 8 to 16% of Li2O, from 2 to 8% of Na2O, from 2.5 to 8% of K2O, from 0 to 6% of MgO, from 0 to 4% of TiO2 and from 0 to 3% of ZrO2, provided that Al2O3+MgO+TiO2 is at least 12%, and Li2O+Na2O+K2O is from 16 to 23%, wherein in a case of where B2O3 is contained, its content is less than 1%. The above glass for an information recording media substrate, wherein when the glass is left under steam atmosphere at 120° C. at 0.2 MPa for 20 hours, and the amount of Li, the amount of Na and the amount of K, which precipitate on a surface of the glass are represented as CLi, CNa and CK respectively, CNa is at most 0.7 nmol/cm2, and CLi+CNa+CK is at most 3.5 nmol/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nakashima, Kei Maeda, Noriaki Shimodaira, Atsuyoshi Takenaka
  • Patent number: 8071494
    Abstract: The present invention provides a glass substrate for flat panel display in which yellowing occurring in a case of forming silver electrodes on glass substrate surface is inhibited. A glass substrate for flat panel display, which is formed by a float method, which has a composition consisting essentially of, in terms of oxide amount in mass %: SiO2 50 to 72%, Al2O3 0.15 to 15%, MgO + CaO + SrO + BaO 4 to 30%, Na2O more than 0% and at most 10%, K2O 1 to 21%, Li2O 0 to 1%, Na2O + K2O + Li2O 6 to 25%, ZrO2 0 to 10%, and Fe2O3 0.0725 to 0.15%; and wherein the average Fe2+ content in a surface layer of the glass substrate within a depth of 10 ?m from the a top surface is at most 0.0725% in terms of Fe2O3 amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kensuke Nagai, Tetsuya Nakashima, Kei Maeda, Ryoji Akiyama, Akira Kondo, Daiki Akie
  • Publication number: 20110251044
    Abstract: To provide a glass substrate which has a high glass transition temperature, which has a thermal expansion coefficient close to that of soda lime glass, which has a low specific gravity, which will hardly undergo yellowing, and which further has good melting characters and is thereby produced with high productivity. A glass substrate which has a composition comprising, as represented by mass percentage based on oxides, SiO2 ??55 to 65%, Al2 O3 ??4 to 8%, MgO ??6 to 9%, CaO ?0.1 to 5%, SrO ?0.5 to 6%, BaO ??0 to 2%, MgO + CaO + SrO + BaO ?6.6 to 19%, Na2 O ??0 to 5%, K2 O ?9.5 to 21%, Na2 O + K2 O ??10 to 22%, ZrO2 ?0.5 to 5%, Fe2 O3 0.06 to 0.15%, which has a specific gravity of at most 2.7, which has an average thermal expansion coefficient from 50 to 350° C. of from 80×10?7/° C. to 90×107/° C., which has a glass transition temperature of at least 640° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kensuke NAGAI, Yuichi Kuroki, Kei Maeda
  • Publication number: 20110203645
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solar cell comprising a double tube composed of two glass tubes differing in the diameter and a photovoltaic conversion layer formed between the two glass tubes, the double tube being sealed at both ends of a part in which the photovoltaic conversion layer is formed, wherein at least one of the two glass tubes is composed of a glass comprising, in mass % based on the oxides, from 60 to 70% of SiO2, from 4 to 10% of Al2O3, from 0 to 3% of B2O3, from 0 to 4% of MgO, from 2 to 9% of CaO, from 1 to 10% of SrO, from 0 to 2% of BaO, from 10 to 16% of Na2O, from 0 to 5% of K2O, from 0 to 2% of ZrO2 and from 0 to 2% of CeO2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yuichi KUROKI, Makoto SHIRATORI, Toshinari WATANABE, Kei MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20110152058
    Abstract: To provide glass for a data storage medium substrate, whereby high heat resistance can be obtained. Glass for a data storage medium substrate, which comprises, as represented by mol percentage based on the following oxides, from 55 to 70% of SiO2, from 2.5 to 9% of Al2O3, from 0 to 10% of MgO, from 0 to 7% of CaO, from 0.5 to 10% of SrO, from 0 to 12.5% of BaO, from 0 to 2.5% of TiO2, from 0.5 to 3.7% of ZrO2, from 0 to 2.5% of Li2O, from 0 to 8% of Na2O, from 2 to 8% of K2O and from 0.5 to 5% of La2O3, provided that the total content of Al2O3 and ZrO2 (Al2O3+ZrO2) is at most 12%, and the total content of Li2O, Na2O and K2O (R2O) is at most 12%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuo NAGASHIMA, Kensuke Nagai, Tetsuya Nakashima, Kei Maeda
  • Patent number: 7923115
    Abstract: A substrate with film and a glass for forming such a film are provided, wherein the film has high gas barrier property, high transmittance in visible light region, and high productivity since the film provides effective gas barrier property even if the film is a single layer. A substrate with film having an inorganic amorphous film having a softening temperature of from 100 to 800° C. formed on at least one surface of a substrate; or a substrate with film having an inorganic amorphous film having a glass transition temperature of from 50 to 500° C. formed on at least one surface of a substrate. Further, a glass for forming film composed of a borate glass containing B2O3 as the main component, a phosphate glass containing P2O5, a tellurite type composition containing TeO2 as the main component, a bismuth oxide type composition containing Bi2O3 as the main component or a chalcogenide type composition containing at least one type of element selected from the group consisting of S, Se and Te.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kensuke Nagai, Kei Maeda