Patents by Inventor Kenji Hiraku
Kenji Hiraku 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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Publication number: 20110179896Abstract: A lead screw apparatus includes a screw shaft having a spiral channel on an outer circumferential surface thereof, a plurality of rollers rotatable with contact with the spiral channel, and a cage rotatably supporting the rollers for conversion between relative rotation and linear motions between the screw shaft and the cage bi-directionally. The lead screw apparatus further includes a bearing and a holder 6 supported by the case for supporting the bearing. An inner ring of the bearing and the roller are integrally formed. An outer ring of the bearing has a protrusion on an outer circumferential surface thereof on a side closer to the screw shaft. Rollers of the bearing having a circular truncated cone shape are disposed in the bearing in a circumferential direction with substantially no gap. The outer ring has a thread part to shift the bearing and the roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2011Publication date: July 28, 2011Inventors: Kenji HIRAKU, Isao Hayase
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Publication number: 20110072928Abstract: Upon assembly of a mechanism for converting rotary motion into linear motion, since a plurality of rollers are different from one another in the tilt direction with respect to a holder, a difficulty occurs in fixing one end sides thereof to the holder and thereafter making fixation for the other end sides.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji SETO, Isamu Tsubono, Kenji Hiraku
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Patent number: 7850255Abstract: The invention provides an electro-mechanical brake system which can keep a stop state even if a malfunction is generated in a parking brake, and an electro-mechanical brake apparatus used for the electro-mechanical brake system. An electro-mechanical brake actuator presses a brake pad to a disc rotor so as to independently brake a braking force of each of wheels. A parking brake is constituted by a pawl portion attached to a motor of a motor driving the electro-mechanical actuator and a latch. A main controller detects a failure of the parking brake on the basis of a motor displacement at a time of reducing a motor current, and increases the pressing force in the remaining normal parking brake in the case that the parking brake failure in one wheel or more is detected.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinari Kawahara, Atsushi Yokoyama, Satoru Kuragaki, Hirotaka Oikawa, Kenji Hiraku
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Patent number: 7789642Abstract: In a gear pump equipped with a pump assembly formed from a driving gear supported by a driving shaft, a driven gear supported by a driven shaft, a pair of side plates disposed at both sides in an axial direction of driving and driven shafts, and a seal block that seals tips of the gears and forms a first fluid chamber by installation onto the side plates, and a casing that houses the pump assembly and forms a second fluid chamber therein, ribs are provided for at least one member of the side plates or the seal block, and fluid tightness between the first and second fluid chambers is secured by exerting pressure between the side plates and seal block and additionally plastically deforming the ribs. By this, it is possible to provide the gear pump which is capable of achieving improvement of the seal integrity while reducing the parts count.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2005Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Katsuma Tsuruoka, Keigo Kajiyama, Norihiro Saita, Takayuki Furuya, Kenji Hiraku
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Patent number: 7588423Abstract: Provided is a liquid chromatograph pump system which sucks eluent from an eluent reserving container, and which feeds pressurized high pressure eluent into a column, wherein a plunger reciprocating in a cylinder is formed on its outer peripheral surface with a stepped part along the sliding direction of the plunger in the cylinder so as to define a working chamber between the stepper part and the inner wall surface of the cylinder, the flow rate of the liquid chromatograph pump being determined by the volume of the working chamber and the traveling speed of the plunger, thereby it is possible to stably feed a liquid at an extremely low flow rate, and to satisfactorily expel air bubbles upon a start of the liquid chromatograph pump system.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2003Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Kunihiko Takao, Kenji Hiraku, Isao Hayase, Hironori Kaji, Masahito Ito
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Publication number: 20070231169Abstract: In a gear pump equipped with a pump assembly formed from a driving gear supported by a driving shaft, a driven gear supported by a driven shaft, a pair of side plates disposed at both sides in an axial direction of driving and driven shafts, and a seal block that seals tips of the gears and forms a first fluid chamber by installation onto the side plates, and a casing that houses the pump assembly and forms a second fluid chamber therein, ribs are provided for at least one member of the side plates or the seal block, and fluid tightness between the first and second fluid chambers is secured by exerting pressure between the side plates and seal block and additionally plastically deforming the ribs. By this, it is possible to provide the gear pump which is capable of achieving improvement of the seal integrity while reducing the parts count.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2005Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventors: Katsuma Tsuruoka, Keigo Kajiyama, Norihiro Saita, Takayuki Furuya, Kenji Hiraku
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Publication number: 20070114843Abstract: The invention provides an electro-mechanical brake system which can keep a stop state even if a malfunction is generated in a parking brake, and an electro-mechanical brake apparatus used for the electro-mechanical brake system. An electro-mechanical brake actuator presses a brake pad to a disc rotor so as to independently brake a braking force of each of wheels. A parking brake is constituted by a pawl portion attached to a motor of a motor driving the electro-mechanical actuator and a latch. A main controller detects a failure of the parking brake on the basis of a motor displacement at a time of reducing a motor current, and increases the pressing force in the remaining normal parking brake in the case that the parking brake failure in one wheel or more is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2006Publication date: May 24, 2007Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinari Kawahara, Atsushi Yokoyama, Satoru Kuragaki, Hirotaka Oikawa, Kenji Hiraku
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Patent number: 7063513Abstract: In a pump for feeding a liquid for chromatography, first and second plungers form first and second volumes respectively together with first and second chambers, the first plunger is prevented from changing the first volume sufficiently for feeding the liquid between the first and second volumes when the second plunger decreases the second volume to discharge the fluid from the second volume to an outlet path of the pump for the chromatography.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2004Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Kenji Hiraku, Kunihiko Takao, Hironori Kaji, Masahito Ito
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Patent number: 7063785Abstract: The invention provides a pump for liquid chromatography excellent in feeding liquid stably at an extremely low flow rate with high accuracy and in discharging bubbles at startup. At startup, a first plunger feeds solvent at a large flow rate to discharge bubbles in a pump and to fill the solvent into the pump in a short time and in a normal operation, the first plunger is stopped and the second plunger is pushed into a second pressure chamber at a low speed to feed the solvent at a low flow rate. When the second plunger reaches full stroke, the second plunger is pulled back at a high speed and at the same time the first plunger is pushed into a first pressure chamber in synchronization with the pullback of the second plunger to control the flow rate passing a discharge passage to a constant value at all times by a controller.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2004Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Kenji Hiraku, Kunihiko Takao, Hironori Kaji, Masahito Ito
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Patent number: 6923916Abstract: In a pump for feeding a liquid for chromatography, first and second plungers form first and second volumes respectively together with first and second chambers, the first plunger is prevented from changing the first volume sufficiently for feeding the liquid between the first and second volumes when the second plunger decreases the second volume to discharge the fluid from the second volume to an outlet path of the pump for the chromatography.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2003Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Kenji Hiraku, Kunihiko Takao, Hironori Kaji, Masahito Ito
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Publication number: 20050095145Abstract: In a pump for feeding a liquid for chromatography, first and second plungers form first and second volumes respectively together with first and second chambers, the first plunger is prevented from changing the first volume sufficiently for feeding the liquid between the first and second volumes when the second plunger decreases the second volume to discharge the fluid from the second volume to an outlet path of the pump for the chromatography.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2004Publication date: May 5, 2005Inventors: Kenji Hiraku, Kunihiko Takao, Hironori Kaji, Masahito Ito
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Publication number: 20050023205Abstract: The invention provides a pump for liquid chromatography excellent in feeding liquid stably at an extremely low flow rate with high accuracy and in discharging bubbles at startup. At startup, a first plunger feeds solvent at a large flow rate to discharge bubbles in a pump and to fill the solvent into the pump in a short time and in a normal operation, the first plunger is stopped and the second plunger is pushed into a second pressure chamber at a low speed to feed the solvent at a low flow rate. When the second plunger reaches full stroke, the second plunger is pulled back at a high speed and at the same time the first plunger is pushed into a first pressure chamber in synchronization with the pullback of the second plunger to control the flow rate passing a discharge passage to a constant value at all times by a controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Inventors: Kenji Hiraku, Kunihiko Takao, Hironori Kaji, Masahito Ito
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Publication number: 20040164013Abstract: Provided is a liquid chromatograph pump system which sucks eluent from an eluent reserving container, and which feeds pressurized high pressure eluent into a column, wherein a plunger reciprocating in a cylinder is formed on its outer peripheral surface with a stepped part along the sliding diretion of the plunger in the cylinder so as to define a working chamber between the stepper part and the inner wall surface of the cylinder, the flow rate of the liquid chromatograph pump being determined by the volume of the working chamber and the traveling speed of the plunger, thereby it is possible to stably feed a liquid at an extremely low flow rate, and to satisfactorily expel air bubbles upon a start of the liquid chromatograph pump system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2003Publication date: August 26, 2004Inventors: Kunihiko Takao, Kenji Hiraku, Isao Hayase, Hironori Kaji, Masahito Ito
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Patent number: 6725837Abstract: The unevenness of injection rates of cylinders is reduced in a fuel supply system of a direct injection engine which uses a variable-displacement single plunger pump. The unevenness of injection rates of cylinders can be reduced by effecting a control such that the cam 100, which drives the high-pressure fuel pump 101, makes one reciprocation, while the engine makes explosions in two cylinders, and by causing the controller 55 to extend the injection time width of one of two injectors 54 which inject during one discharge of the high-pressure fuel pump and to shorten the injection time width of the other injector.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2002Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Hiraku, Kenichiro Tokuo, Tadahiko Nogami, Kunihiko Takao, Hiroyuki Yamada
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Patent number: 6701898Abstract: In a fuel supply apparatus disclosed, a variable displacement mechanism is driven once every two or more reciprocating motions of the plunger of a high-pressure fuel pump to control the delivery flow rate, so that the delivery flow rate control can be performed without having to raise the responsiveness of the variable displacement mechanism even when the reciprocating cycle of the plunger is short.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2001Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichiro Tokuo, Kenji Hiraku, Tadahiko Nogami, Kunihiko Takao, Hiroyuki Yamada
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Patent number: 6651630Abstract: In order to provide a method for high volume and high pressure operation of a variable delivery type single cylinder plunger pump, the displacement of the piezoelectric element 20 is magnified by a hydraulic displacement magnifying mechanism comprising a large-diameter bellows 204, a small diameter bellows 202 and working fluid 208, and an engaging member 201 is displaced to control the time interval of opening and closing the intake valve 5. The large-diameter bellows 204 is used at all times in the state compressed in the direction of displacement transfer, thereby ensuring that the pressure of the working fluid 208 is maintained at a positive value to prevent vapor from being generated.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2002Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Hiraku, Kenichiro Tokuo, Yuzo Kadomukai, Kunihiko Takao, Hiroyuki Yamada
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Publication number: 20030059322Abstract: In order to provide a method for high volume and high pressure operation of a variable delivery type single cylinder plunger pump, the displacement of the piezoelectric element 20 is magnified by a hydraulic displacement magnifying mechanism comprising a large-diameter bellows 204, a small diameter bellows 202 and working fluid 208, and an engaging member 201 is displaced to control the time interval of opening and closing the intake valve 5. The large-diameter bellows 204 is used at all times in the state compressed in the direction of displacement transfer, thereby ensuring that the pressure of the working fluid 208 is maintained at a positive value to prevent vapor from being generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2002Publication date: March 27, 2003Inventors: Kenji Hiraku, Kenichiro Tokuo, Yuzo Kadomukai, Kunihiko Takao, Hiroyuki Yamada
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Patent number: 6505608Abstract: A fuel supply system for a direct injection engine which has a variable capacity single cylinder plunger pump and two fuel rails. Offices are disposed at the upstream side inlets of both fuel rails, respectively. At the opposite sides to the inlet sides, the fuel rails are interconnected with each other by a connecting pipe. Using this fuel supply system, it is possible to increase a characterisitic frquency of the fuel columns, and to stabilize, suppress, and smooth out pressure pulsation in the fuel rails, thereby reducing uneven fuel injections into the cylinders. The system may have a cam which drives a plunger of a high pressure fuel pump to reciprocate once for every two combustions in two engine cylinders.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2001Date of Patent: January 14, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Hiraku, Kenichiro Tokuo, Tadahiko Nogami, Kunihiko Takao, Hiroyuki Yamada, Yukio Takahashi, Atsuji Saito
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Publication number: 20020157646Abstract: The present invention reduces the unevenness of injection rates of cylinders in a fuel supply system of a direct injection engine which uses a variable-displacement single plunger pump. The unevenness of injection rates of cylinders can be reduced by constructing so that the cam 100 which drives the high-pressure fuel pump 101 may make one reciprocation while the engine makes explosions by two cylinders and causing the controller 55 to extend the injection time width of one of two injectors 54 which inject while one discharge of the high-pressure fuel pump and to shorten the injection time width of the other injector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2002Publication date: October 31, 2002Inventors: Kenji Hiraku, Kenichiro Tokuo, Tadahiko Nogami, Kunihiko Takao, Hiroyuki Yamada
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Publication number: 20020129793Abstract: In a fuel supply apparatus disclosed, a variable displacement mechanism is driven once every two or more reciprocating motions of the plunger of a high-pressure fuel pump to control the delivery flow rate, so that the delivery flow rate control can be performed without having to raise the responsiveness of the variable displacement mechanism even when the reciprocating cycle of the plunger is short.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2001Publication date: September 19, 2002Inventors: Kenichiro Tokuo, Kenji Hiraku, Tadahiko Nogami, Kunihiko Takao, Hiroyuki Yamada