Patents by Inventor Kenji Abe
Kenji Abe 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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Patent number: 9573207Abstract: A jigsaw includes a motor, a rod having a blade attached thereto, a power transmission portion that converts rotation transmitted from the motor to vertical movement of the rod to vertically move the blade, and a counterweight that moves vertically in a direction of the vertical movement of the rod outside a range of the vertical, movement of the rod and the blade. At least a part of the counterweight is disposed so as to cross an extended line of a trajectory of the vertical movement of the rod. The counterweight moves vertically independently of the vertical movement of the rod which is produced by the power transmission portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Fumihide Sugita, Toshiyuki Kani, Kenji Abe, Kenta Niwa
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Patent number: 9495025Abstract: According to an aspect, a device includes: a display unit for displaying a screen; a sensor for detecting an inclination of the display unit; an operating unit for detecting an operation; and a controller. The controller changes an orientation of the screen depending upon the inclination detected through the sensor and the operation detected through the operation unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Ishikawa, Natsuhito Honda, Atsuo Chiba, Mitsutoshi Kobayashi, Nayu Nomachi, Hiroshi Tsuruta, Mitsutaka Hata, Hiroto Yahagi, Kenji Abe, Yoshiyuki Shinoda
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Patent number: 9475140Abstract: A wind shielding portion is provided in a front side of an exhaust port for cooling air from a motor such that it crosses over a lateral width with respect to a cutting direction. The cooling air which is blown to the wind shielding portion is effectively blown through a ventilation portion having a small ventilating resistance force and towards a marking line guide. Even when the cutting device main body is set at an incline, the cooling air is blown to the wind shielding portion, and is effectively blown through the ventilation portion to the marking line guide.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Sho Kume, Kenji Abe
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Patent number: 9475571Abstract: An aircraft reaction link includes a head portion and a link body portion that is made of fiber reinforced plastic and formed integrally. The link body portion has a pair of leg portions, and a connecting portion that connects one end portion of each of the pair of leg portions to each other. The other end portion of each of the pair of leg portions is provided pivotably with respect to a second end side of the actuator. The head portion has a plurality of head constituent members that are fixed to the connecting portion in a state of being arranged so as to surround the outer periphery of the connecting portion, one of the head constituent members being provided with a bearing, and the head portion is provided pivotably with respect to the moving surface via the bearing.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Saito, Kenji Abe
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Publication number: 20160291532Abstract: An image forming apparatus and a lock mechanism including a toggle mechanism capable of eliminating the problem of abnormal noise before and after a lock member passes a neural point are provided. A lock mechanism includes a toggle spring that rotationally biases a toggle lever toward a standby position when the lever is between a standby position and a neural point, and implements switching in a direction of the rotational biasing toward a locking position after the lever passes the neural point. A projection and a locked portion of an engagement member are sandwiched by a toggle base and the toggle lever to maintain a contact state before and after the toggle lever passes the neural point.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Kenji Abe, Takashi Yano
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Patent number: 9454113Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feed unit which feeds a sheet to an image forming unit forming an image on the sheet, a re-transport roller which reverses the sheet with a toner image fixed on the sheet and re-transports the sheet to the image forming unit, and a control unit which controls a sheet feed operation of the sheet feed unit for feeding the sheet. As the temperature of the re-transport roller sensed by the temperature sensing unit is decreased, the control unit retards the timing at which the sheet feed unit starts the sheet feed operation when a duplex image formation in which the image is formed on both sides of the sheet is performed after a one-side image formation is completed.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Kuwata, Kenji Abe, Hideki Ohta, Takamichi Matsuo, Youhei Suzuki, Takuro Mita
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Patent number: 9375979Abstract: When removing a wheel cover from a wheel, force in an inner peripheral direction is applied to one end portion of an engaging member. The engaging member pivots (including elastically deforms) about the other end portion, such that an engaging protruding portion pivots and comes away from an engagable protruding portion. As a result, a center attaching portion is able to be removed from an ornament receiving hole, thus enabling the wheel cover to be removed from the wheel.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PLAMAC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuta Karashima, Kenji Abe, Masatsugu Sasagawa, Toshiyuki Tetsuda, Satoru Tsurubuchi, Tomoaki Kume, Yasuo Noji, Yasuhiro Kuraoka
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Publication number: 20160176064Abstract: Two batteries (B1, B2) may be attached to a cutting tool (1), so that the total of the voltages of the two batteries connected in series with each other may be supplied to an electric motor (11) of the cutting tool. The electric motor may have a rated voltage that may be the same as the total of the voltages of the two batteries.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2016Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Katsumi OKOUCHI, Kenji ABE, Yuki WADA, Yohei OGINO, Anupong PHONHAN, Atsushi KANOU
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Patent number: 9364906Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes a motor having a stator and a rotor, the motor being configured to rotate the rotor at a speed of at least 40,000 rpm, an output shaft directly driven by the rotor, a tool accessory shaft configured to support a tool accessory, and a two-stage speed reducing transmission operably connecting the output shaft to the tool accessory shaft. The two-stage speed reducing transmission is configured to drive the tool accessory shaft at a rate less than the rotor speed, for example, at a rate less than or equal to 37.5% of the rotor speed.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Abe, Masayoshi Okumi, Hidenori Nagasaka, Motohiro Omura, Masaaki Fukumoto, Kenji Shibata, Nobuyasu Furui, Masanori Higashi, Kiyoshi Aoyama
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Patent number: 9228215Abstract: A method is described for producing a target substance utilizing a microorganism by culturing the microorganism in a medium to produce and accumulate the target substance in the medium, and then collecting the target substance from culture. The microorganism is imparted with isomaltase activity, or modified to increase isomaltase activity.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.Inventors: Ryo Takeshita, Naoki Kadotani, Kenji Abe
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Publication number: 20150328796Abstract: Two batteries (B1, B2) may be attached to a cutting tool (1), so that the total of the voltages of the two batteries connected in series with each other may be supplied to an electric motor (11) of the cutting tool. The electric motor may have a rated voltage that may be the same as the total of the voltages of the two batteries.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Katsumi OKOUCHI, Kenji ABE, Yuki WADA, Yohei OGINO, Anupong PHONHAN, Atsushi KANOU
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Patent number: 9060413Abstract: The installation posture adjustable leg body includes a foot fixed on a bottom surface of a case body, and a lever rotatably supported by the foot so as to selectively move to one of a sheltered state and an advanced state. The lever includes a lever main body inserted between the foot and an installation surface in the advanced state, and a rotating mechanism rotatably supporting the lever main body with respect to the foot. The lever main body includes a main body supporting surface of advanced state contacting the foot and a lever installation surface of advanced state contacting the installation surface, in the advanced state. A part of the lever installation surface of advanced state is located in a virtual pillar body using the main body supporting surface of advanced state as a bottom surface and extending perpendicular to the main body supporting surface of advanced state.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2013Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATIONInventor: Kenji Abe
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Publication number: 20150043933Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feed unit which feeds a sheet to an image forming unit forming an image on the sheet, a re-transport roller which reverses the sheet with a toner image fixed on the sheet and re-transports the sheet to the image forming unit, and a control unit which controls a sheet feed operation of the sheet feed unit for feeding the sheet. As the temperature of the re-transport roller sensed by the temperature sensing unit is decreased, the control unit retards the timing at which the sheet feed unit starts the sheet feed operation when a duplex image formation in which the image is formed on both sides of the sheet is performed after a one-side image formation is completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Takashi Kuwata, Kenji Abe, Hideki Ohta, Takamichi Matsuo, Youhei Suzuki, Takuro Mita
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Patent number: 8948682Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a sheet feed unit that feeds a sheet to an image forming unit forming a toner image on the sheet; a fixing unit that fixes the toner image formed in the image forming unit to the sheet; and a control unit that controls the sheet feed unit, when starting duplex image formation for forming both sides of the sheet after an one-side image formation, the control unit retards a timing to cause the sheet feed unit to start the sheet feed operation as the number of sheet with an image formed on one side thereof in the one-side image formation is greater.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Abe, Hideki Ohta, Takashi Kuwata, Youhei Suzuki, Takamichi Matsuo, Toshiaki Sako
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Publication number: 20150020391Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes a motor having a stator and a rotor, the motor being configured to rotate the rotor at a speed of at least 40,000 rpm, an output shaft directly driven by the rotor, a tool accessory shaft configured to support a tool accessory, and a two-stage speed reducing transmission operably connecting the output shaft to the tool accessory shaft. The two-stage speed reducing transmission is configured to drive the tool accessory shaft at a rate less than the rotor speed, for example, at a rate less than or equal to 37.5% of the rotor speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji ABE, Masayoshi OKUMI, Hidenori NAGASAKA, Motohiro OMURA, Masaaki FUKUMOTO, Kenji SHIBATA, Nobuyasu FURUI, Masanori HIGASHI, Kiyoshi AOYAMA
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Publication number: 20140373366Abstract: A jigsaw includes a main body having a grasping part configured to be grasped by a user, a blade projecting downwardly from a front part of the main body and configured to reciprocate up and down, and a base coupled to a lower part of the main body and configured to make contact with a workpiece. A rear end of a contact surface that is configured to make contact with the workpiece is located at a position that coincides with or is rearward of the rear end of the grasping part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Toshiyuki Kani, Fumihide Sugita, Kenji ABE
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Publication number: 20140371262Abstract: It is intended to provide a highly safe, orally administrable preventive and/or therapeutic agent for thrombosis and/or embolism that can be applied to a thrombosis and/or embolism patient with severe renal impairment. The present inventors have found that even for a thrombosis and/or embolism patient with severe renal impairment, use of edoxaban at a dose of 15 mg once a day can effectively prevent thrombosis and/or embolism while avoiding the risk of bleeding. The present inventors have also found that even for a thrombosis and/or embolism patient with severe renal impairment, edoxaban at a dose of 15 mg once a day can effectively prevent thrombosis and/or embolism with safety over a long period.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Tetsuya Kimura, Tomohiko Kumakura, Masaya Tachibana, Chiaki Matsumoto, Kenji Abe
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Publication number: 20140360820Abstract: Provided is a disc rotor formed of graphite-containing cast iron and having high corrosion resistance. For a disc rotor formed of graphite-containing cast iron, after removal of graphite present adjacent a surface of the disc rotor through a graphite removing treatment, a nitride layer and an oxynitride layer are laminated one after another on the surface through a gas nitrocarburizing treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2013Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Harada, Masahito Mizuno, Kenji Abe, Koichi Hamasaki
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Patent number: 8909124Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feed unit which feeds a sheet to an image forming unit forming an image on the sheet, a re-transport roller which reverses the sheet with a toner image fixed on the sheet and re-transports the sheet to the image forming unit, and a control unit which controls a sheet feed operation of the sheet feed unit for feeding the sheet. As the temperature of the re-transport roller sensed by the temperature sensing unit is decreased, the control unit retards the timing at which the sheet feed unit starts the sheet feed operation when a duplex image formation in which the image is formed on both sides of the sheet is performed after a one-side image formation is completed.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Kuwata, Kenji Abe, Hideki Ohta, Takamichi Matsuo, Youhei Suzuki, Takuro Mita
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Publication number: 20140332626Abstract: An aircraft reaction link includes a head portion and a link body portion that is made of fiber reinforced plastic and formed integrally. The link body portion has a pair of leg portions, and a connecting portion that connects one end portion of each of the pair of leg portions to each other. The other end portion of each of the pair of leg portions is provided pivotably with respect to a second end side of the actuator. The head portion has a plurality of head constituent members that are fixed to the connecting portion in a state of being arranged so as to surround the outer periphery of the connecting portion, one of the head constituent members being provided with a bearing, and the head portion is provided pivotably with respect to the moving surface via the bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: NABTESCO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto SAITO, Kenji ABE