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).

  • Patent number: 9573207
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumihide Sugita, Toshiyuki Kani, Kenji Abe, Kenta Niwa
  • Patent number: 9495025
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Ishikawa, Natsuhito Honda, Atsuo Chiba, Mitsutoshi Kobayashi, Nayu Nomachi, Hiroshi Tsuruta, Mitsutaka Hata, Hiroto Yahagi, Kenji Abe, Yoshiyuki Shinoda
  • Patent number: 9475140
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Kume, Kenji Abe
  • Patent number: 9475571
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Saito, Kenji Abe
  • Publication number: 20160291532
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Kenji Abe, Takashi Yano
  • Patent number: 9454113
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Kuwata, Kenji Abe, Hideki Ohta, Takamichi Matsuo, Youhei Suzuki, Takuro Mita
  • Patent number: 9375979
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PLAMAC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Karashima, Kenji Abe, Masatsugu Sasagawa, Toshiyuki Tetsuda, Satoru Tsurubuchi, Tomoaki Kume, Yasuo Noji, Yasuhiro Kuraoka
  • Publication number: 20160176064
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsumi OKOUCHI, Kenji ABE, Yuki WADA, Yohei OGINO, Anupong PHONHAN, Atsushi KANOU
  • Patent number: 9364906
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Abe, Masayoshi Okumi, Hidenori Nagasaka, Motohiro Omura, Masaaki Fukumoto, Kenji Shibata, Nobuyasu Furui, Masanori Higashi, Kiyoshi Aoyama
  • Patent number: 9228215
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Ryo Takeshita, Naoki Kadotani, Kenji Abe
  • Publication number: 20150328796
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Katsumi OKOUCHI, Kenji ABE, Yuki WADA, Yohei OGINO, Anupong PHONHAN, Atsushi KANOU
  • Patent number: 9060413
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Abe
  • Publication number: 20150043933
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi Kuwata, Kenji Abe, Hideki Ohta, Takamichi Matsuo, Youhei Suzuki, Takuro Mita
  • Patent number: 8948682
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Abe, Hideki Ohta, Takashi Kuwata, Youhei Suzuki, Takamichi Matsuo, Toshiaki Sako
  • Publication number: 20150020391
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji ABE, Masayoshi OKUMI, Hidenori NAGASAKA, Motohiro OMURA, Masaaki FUKUMOTO, Kenji SHIBATA, Nobuyasu FURUI, Masanori HIGASHI, Kiyoshi AOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20140373366
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kani, Fumihide Sugita, Kenji ABE
  • Publication number: 20140371262
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kimura, Tomohiko Kumakura, Masaya Tachibana, Chiaki Matsumoto, Kenji Abe
  • Publication number: 20140360820
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Harada, Masahito Mizuno, Kenji Abe, Koichi Hamasaki
  • Patent number: 8909124
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Kuwata, Kenji Abe, Hideki Ohta, Takamichi Matsuo, Youhei Suzuki, Takuro Mita
  • Publication number: 20140332626
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto SAITO, Kenji ABE