Patents by Inventor Kenichi Hisamatsu

Kenichi Hisamatsu 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: 8979219
    Abstract: A roller unit is provided which includes: (i) a roller configured to roll in contact with a crawler belt; (ii) a roller shaft for rotatably supporting the roller; (iii) a seal fit in an annular space defined between the roller and the roller shaft, wherein the seal is formed such that an inner circumference side sealing portion located on an inner circumference side and an outer circumference side sealing portion located on an outer circumference side and press-fit in the roller are fit together so as to come into slidable contact with each other; and (iv) a collar mounted to the roller shaft, wherein the collar has a boss portion onto which the inner circumference side sealing portion is pressed and a flange portion disposed on an atmosphere side of the inner circumference side sealing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi Hisamatsu
  • Publication number: 20140292068
    Abstract: A crawler belt link includes a center portion, one end portion located on one end side of the center portion, and the other end portion located on the other end side of the center portion. In a second surface, the center portion has a first portion of a rail surface, the one end portion has a second portion of the rail surface, and the other end portion has a third portion of the rail surface. A first outer circumferential portion reaching the second portion of the rail surface is located closer to a second side portion with respect to a bushing hole surrounding portion. Accordingly, a crawler belt link and a crawler belt apparatus can be implemented, by which wear of the rail surface above a bushing hole can be suppressed while maintaining the width of the crawler belt link to be relatively small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Hisamatsu, Naoaki Kita
  • Publication number: 20130169034
    Abstract: To provide a crawler bushing and a crawler link device that can maintain a sealing function stably on a long-term basis and permits easy maintenance for recovery of the sealing function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Hisamatsu
  • Publication number: 20120306916
    Abstract: A wear amount measuring device includes an image display unit, an image processing unit, and a wear amount computing unit. The image display unit displays a real object image based on real object image data containing a wear amount measurement target and a reference part, and displays a plan image based on design plan data containing the wear amount measurement target and the reference part. The image processing unit executes an image processing of overlapping the real object image and the plan image at an equal scale on a corresponding positional relation when the reference parts are matched. The wear amount computing unit computes a wear amount based on a magnitude of an interval between a measurement contour line drawn along a contour of the wear amount measurement target in the real object image and a plan contour line in the plan image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeto Marumoto, Hideyuki Wakai, Yukihiro Suzaki, Daijirou Itou, Tomoyuki Tsubaki, Kenichi Hisamatsu
  • Publication number: 20120153715
    Abstract: A crawler belt and a master link for use in the crawler belt enable easy connection and disconnection of the crawler belt. The crawler belt has a track chain, in which a plurality of regular links are pivotally connected at their ends, the master link for connecting the ends of the track chain to form the crawler belt into a loop, and track shoes attached to the regular links and the master link respectively. The crawler belt has a slit aperture which leads only to a pin insertion hole formed at the other end of the master link and is configured such that a clamping force, generated by tightening a master bolt that imparts a tightening force to the master link to narrow the slit aperture, is allowed to work on only the regular pin inserted into a pin insertion hole leading to the slit aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Tsubaki, Daijirou Itou, Kenichi Hisamatsu, Shigeto Marumoto
  • Publication number: 20120146397
    Abstract: [Subject] A roller unit is provided which is improved in the service life of the seal as well as in the ease of unit assemblability. [Means for Solving the Problem] A track roller unit 10 having a roller 11 configured to roll in contact with a crawler belt 8, a roller shaft 12 for rotatably supporting the roller 11, and a seal 14 fit in an annular space 26 defined between the roller 11 and the roller shaft 12; wherein the seal 14 is formed such that an inner circumference side sealing portion 30a located on an inner circumference side and an outer circumference side sealing portion 30b located on an outer circumference side are fit together so as to come into slidable contact with each other; which further comprises a collar 15 mounted to the roller shaft 12; and wherein the collar 15 has a boss portion 62 into which the seal 14 is pressed and a flange portion 15b in contact with an outer end face of the seal 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventor: Kenichi Hisamatsu
  • Patent number: 7252835
    Abstract: An agent for preventing and/or treating sinusitis, comprising, as an active ingredient, a compound of the formula (I): or a salt and/or hydrate thereof. The pranlukast hydrate is useful as an agent for preventing and/or treating sinusitis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: KenIchi Hisamatsu, Keisuke Masuyama
  • Publication number: 20050182115
    Abstract: An agent for preventing and/or treating sinusitis, comprising, as an active ingredient, a compound of the formula (I): or a salt and/or hydrate thereof. The pranlukast hydrate is useful as an agent for preventing and/or treating sinusitis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Kenichi Hisamatsu, Keisuke Masuyama
  • Publication number: 20050164624
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, an electronic apparatus includes a housing and an air-blowing unit. The housing has a first wall on which a first ventilation portion is provided, and a second wall on which a second ventilation portion is provided. The second wall intersects the first wall. The housing can be installed in a first state allowing the first wall to face upward or a second state allowing the second wall to face upward. The air-blowing unit can blow air in a first air-blowing direction from a side of the second ventilation portion to a side of the first ventilation portion when the housing is in the first state. The air-blowing unit further blows air in a second air-blowing direction from a side of the first ventilation portion to a side of the second ventilation portion, when the housing is in the second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventor: Kenichi Hisamatsu
  • Publication number: 20020198246
    Abstract: An agent for preventing and/or treating sinusitis, comprising, as an active ingredient, a compound of the formula (I): 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Applicant: ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Hisamatsu, Keisuke Masuyama
  • Patent number: 6270173
    Abstract: In a travelling crawler belt in which a pair of left and right links are connected by pins respectively press-fitted into the corresponding links, a fixing end surface of the pin or the links is continuously and locally pressed and deformed in an axial direction of the pin from the fixing end surface, along an inner or outer peripheral portion of an opening of a pin-press-fit hole. Then, a part of the opening peripheral portion of the end of the pin or the link is enlarged or reduced in diameter, so that the diametrically increased or reduced portion is retained and fixed to a mating retaining space. With this fixing method, it is possible to easily and strongly couple the links and the pin, and to obtain a fixing structure of the links and the pin for a crawler belt capable of sufficiently securing a holding force of the pin in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Komatsu Limited
    Inventors: Akira Hashimoto, Teiji Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Nakaishi, Kenichi Hisamatsu, Seiji Miyaura
  • Patent number: 6206491
    Abstract: As well as a torsional rigidity of right and left crawler links is secured, a seal is prevented from damaging so as to restrict a leakage of a lubricating oil, so that a durability of a crawler device is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi Hisamatsu
  • Patent number: 5242224
    Abstract: A temperature monitoring unit has a high degree of sensitivity and reliability even when monitoring the temperature of a relatively large rotary heating element. The temperature monitoring unit includes a mirror which is provided in the vicinity of the rotary heating element and is oriented to reflect infrared rays from the heating element in the radial direction thereof, the mirror being reciprocated linearly in the radial direction, a condenser lens provided radially outwardly of the heating element for converging the infrared rays reflected by the mirror, an infrared sensor on which the converged rays impinge, a plate provided between the mirror and the lens and which has a slit therein that is elongate in a direction approximately perpendicular to the surface of the heating element, and an image processor receiving the output of the infrared sensor. The sensitivity is high because infrared rays from around the thermal point of the heating element are blocked by the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shunsuke Yoshioka, Kenichi Hisamatsu, Keiji Yoshikawa, Shozo Kaneko, Nobuya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4686158
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte fuel cell with various improved features has been described. The cell comprises many unit cells each having a structure in which there are laminated a gas-permeable oxygen electrode made from an electron-conducting material, a solid electrolyte consisting of a (CeO.sub.2).sub.1-x (CaO).sub.x (x=0.05 to 0.8) binary system or a third component-containing (CeO.sub.2).sub.1-x (CaO).sub.x (x=0.05 to 0.8) system and a gas-permeable fuel electrode made from an electron-conducting material on a gas-permeable support, many unit cells being connected to each other in series with interconnectors by subjecting end portions of the electrolytes to a masking treatment or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1987
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiro Nishi, Nobuaki Murakami, Kenji Ueda, Seiichi Shirakawa, Akira Notomi, Kenichi Hisamatsu, Shozo Kaneko