Patents by Inventor Kenji Honda

Kenji Honda 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).

  • Publication number: 20140256490
    Abstract: A power plant capable of suppressing loss, and attaining downsizing and enhancement of mountability of the power plant. In the power plant T, the rotational speeds of third to first sun gears S3 to S1 and a carrier member 111 are in a collinear relationship with each other, and are sequentially aligned in the mentioned order in a collinear chart indicating the relationship between the rotational speeds. Further, the third sun gear S3 and the carrier member 111 are connected to first and second torque generators 113 and 114 capable of generating positive torque and negative torque, respectively, and the second and first sun gears S2 and S1 are connected to one and the other of two rotating shafts, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Honda
  • Patent number: 8590137
    Abstract: A stator provided with annular split stator cores, formed by stacking steel plates. Each plate includes a yoke and a stator tooth. The cores include a yoke portion a stator tooth portion. The stator is manufactured by arranging an electromagnetic steel plate between a first die and a second die. The first die has a hole shaped as a steel plate. The second die has a projection inserted into the hole and shaped as a steel plate. The steel plates are formed by the first and the second dies. In a gap between an inner surface of the first die that defines the hole and an outer surface of the projection, a gap at a part that forms the stator tooth portion is larger than a gap at a part that defines a circumferential end surface of the yoke portion located in a circumferential direction of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Urano, Eiji Yamada, Kazutaka Tatematsu, Yasuhiro Endo, Yasuaki Tahara, Akihiro Tanaka, Kenji Honda
  • Patent number: 8430190
    Abstract: A driving apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes an engine shaft, a generator shaft and an idler shaft, which are arranged in parallel. The generator shaft includes at least an inner shaft and a hollow outer shaft which is attached rotatably relative to the inner shaft. The engine shaft connected to the crank shaft of an engine is engaged, through a generator driving gear, to the inner shaft which is coaxially provided with a generator. The outer shaft of the generator shaft which is coaxially provided with a motor is engaged to the idler shaft through a motor driving force transmission gear. The engine shaft and idler shaft are engaged to each other through an engine driving force transmission gear. The idler shaft and a differential device are engaged each other through a final gear. The differential device is connected to driving wheels, through a differential axles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Honda, Toshiyuki Yumoto
  • Patent number: 8430654
    Abstract: A an infusion tube misfitting detection device for an infusion pump, which can be implemented at a low cost while maintaining safety. When a door unit is to be closed with respect to a pump body in a misloaded state of an infusion tube, a mislead detection inner door is pressed by the infusion tube to operate on a handle lock part provided to a handle. Accordingly, a claw portion of the handle lock part is pushed up, so that the door unit cannot be locked with the pump body 10 by inserting the claw portion into a rectangular through-hole 11c of a base plate. Therefore, the misloaded state can be identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Namiki Seimitsu Houseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Kasai, Kenji Honda
  • Publication number: 20120317934
    Abstract: A tofu packing apparatus for packing plural tofu blocks in individual packs for sales includes a conveyor for conveying the plural tofu blocks cut to a predetermined size and arrayed at predetermined intervals, and a paired grasp plates be driven in the direction to approach each other. The tofu blocks cut to a predetermined size are grasped with the paired grasp plates, moved to predetermined positions above packaging packs conveyed to predetermined positions with the packaging pack conveyance apparatus, and dropped and packed in the packaging packs through release of grasp by the paired grasp plates. The tofu blocks may be dropped and housed in the packaging packs while at least maintaining the tofu blocks in a holding state by the paired grasp plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: TAKAI TOFU & SOYMILK EQUIPMENT CO.
    Inventors: Toichiro TAKAI, Masahide TAKEDA, Kenji HONDA, Toshio HIRATA
  • Patent number: 8257066
    Abstract: An infusion tube misloading detection mechanism for an infusion pump is provided at a low cost with a safety feature of detecting misloading of infusion tube. When a door unit is to be closed with respect to a pump body in a misloaded state of an infusion tube, a misload detection inner door is pressed by the misloaded infusion tube. Accordingly, an interlock part is prevented from being closed with the pump body. Therefore, the misloaded state can be easily identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Namiki Seimitsu Houseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Kasai, Kenji Honda
  • Patent number: 8149540
    Abstract: In a magnetic head structure that forms a medium facing surface of a head element unit by polishing processing, a height monitor that is exposed in the vicinity of the head element unit during the polishing processing to index the height of the head element unit is provided in a planar rectangular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Daigo Aoki, Kenji Honda
  • Publication number: 20110258840
    Abstract: A stator provided with an annular stator core formed by annularly arranging split stator cores, and also with coils mounted to the stator core. The split stator cores each includes a yoke portion extending in a circumferential direction of the stator core and a stator tooth protruding from the yoke portion. On at least part of side surfaces of the stator tooth that are arranged in a circumferential direction of the stator core, a radial end surface of the stator tooth that is located radially inward of the stator core, and, of radial end surfaces of the yoke portion that are arranged in a radial direction of the stator core, the radial end surface at which the stator tooth is formed, a rough surface portion is formed having surface roughness greater than that of circumferential end surfaces of the yoke portion that are located in a circumferential direction of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Urano, Eiji Yamada, Kazutaka Tatematsu, Yasuhiro Endo, Yasuaki Tahara, Akihiro Tanaka, Kenji Honda
  • Publication number: 20110254096
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first and second MOSFETs corresponding to at least first power source voltage and second power source voltage lower than the first power source voltage, and non-silicide regions formed in drain portions of the first and second MOSFETs and having no silicide formed therein. The first MOSFET includes first diffusion layers formed in source/drain portions, a second diffusion layer formed below a gate portion and formed shallower than the first diffusion layer and a third diffusion layer formed with the same depth as the second diffusion layer in the non-silicide region, and the second MOSFET includes fourth diffusion layers formed in source/drain portions, a fifth diffusion layer formed below a gate portion and formed shallower than the fourth diffusion layer and a sixth diffusion layer formed shallower than the fourth diffusion layer and deeper than the fifth diffusion layer in the non-silicide region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takayuki Hiraoka, Kuniaki Utsumi, Tsutomu Kojima, Kenji Honda
  • Patent number: 8028779
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hybrid vehicle including a first transmission path that transmits a traction of an engine to driving wheels and a second transmission path that transmits a traction of a motor to the driving wheels, and the hybrid vehicle runs by alternatively selecting either the first or second transmission path or in combination thereof. The first transmission path has a first reduction gear ratio that is defined to be smaller than a reduction gear ratio at which a maximum vehicle speed can be achieved by the traction of the engine alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohisa Morishita, Toshiyuki Yumoto, Kazuyuki Iwata, Kenji Honda, Junji Urano
  • Patent number: 7994584
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first and second MOSFETs corresponding to at least first power source voltage and second power source voltage lower than the first power source voltage, and non-silicide regions formed in drain portions of the first and second MOSFETs and having no silicide formed therein. The first MOSFET includes first diffusion layers formed in source/drain portions, a second diffusion layer formed below a gate portion and formed shallower than the first diffusion layer and a third diffusion layer formed with the same depth as the second diffusion layer in the non-silicide region, and the second MOSFET includes fourth diffusion layers formed in source/drain portions, a fifth diffusion layer formed below a gate portion and formed shallower than the fourth diffusion layer and a sixth diffusion layer formed shallower than the fourth diffusion layer and deeper than the fifth diffusion layer in the non-silicide region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Kabsuhiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takayuki Hiraoka, Kuniaki Utsumi, Tsutomu Kojima, Kenji Honda
  • Publication number: 20110036652
    Abstract: A driving apparatus for a hybrid vehicle 100 includes an engine shaft 1, a generator shaft 2 and an idler shaft 3, which are arranged in parallel. The generator shaft 2 includes at least an inner shaft 2a and a hollow outer shaft 2b which is attached rotatably relative to the inner shaft 2a. The engine shaft 1 connected to the crank shaft 51 of an engine 50 is engaged, through a generator driving gear 10, to the inner shaft 2a which is coaxially provided with a generator 60. The outer shaft 2b of the generator shaft 2 which is coaxially provided with a motor 70 is engaged to the idler shaft 3 through a motor driving force transmission gear 20. The engine shaft 1 and idler shaft 3 are engaged to each other through an engine driving force transmission gear 30. The idler shaft 3 and a differential device 45 are engaged each other through a final gear 40. The differential device 45 is connected to driving wheels 47, 47 through a differential axles 46.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Honda, Toshiyuki Yumoto
  • Patent number: 7876596
    Abstract: A novel nonvolatile memory element, which can be manufactured by a simple and high yield process by using an organic material and has a high on/off ratio, and a method for manufacturing such nonvolatile memory element. A switching layer (14) made of an electrical insulating radical polymer is provided between an anode layer (12) and a cathode layer (16). Further, a hole injection transport layer (13) is provided between the switching layer (14) and the anode layer (12), and an electron injection transport layer (15), between the switching layer (14) and the cathode layer (16). An intermediate layer is provided between the switching layer and the adjacent layer. The radical polymer is preferably nitroxide radical polymer. The switching layer (14), the hole injection transport layer (13) and the electron injection transport layer (15) are formed by being stacked by a wet process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Waseda University
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishide, Kenji Honda, Yasunori Yonekuta, Takashi Kurata, Shigemoto Abe
  • Patent number: 7845444
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle is provided with a first transmission passage for transmitting driving force of an engine to driving wheels and a second transmission passage for transmitting driving force of a driving motor to the driving wheels, and driven by selectively using or in combination of the first transmission passage and the second transmission passage. The hybrid vehicle includes: a first input gear for inputting the driving force of the engine; a second input gear for inputting the driving force of the driving motor; and an idle gear meshed with the first input gear and the second input gear, and transmitting at least one of the driving force of the engine and the driving force of the driving motor toward the driving wheels. The driving force to be input from at least one of the first input gear and the second input gear is transmitted to the driving wheels via the idle gear and the final differential gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruhisa Kidokoro, Kenji Honda, Naohisa Morishita
  • Publication number: 20100269453
    Abstract: Tofu is automatically packed at high speed without damaging the tofu, and water is saved through elimination of the need for exposing the tofu to water. An automatic apparatus for packing tofu includes a pack-moving device 2 for conveying a pack P for tofu T, and a tofu-transporting device 3 disposed above the pack-moving device 2 and conveying cut tofu T having a packing size. Both the pack-moving device 2 and the tofu-transporting device 3 are used to move the tofu T and pack P in the same traveling direction, thereby placing the tofu T in a lower pack P from above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: TAKAI TOFU & SOYMILK EQUIPMENT CO.
    Inventors: Toichiro Takai, Toshiaki Shinde, Kenji Honda
  • Publication number: 20100004275
    Abstract: A medicament for suppressing development of tolerance to analgesic effect induced by administration of a narcotic analgesic such as morphine, which comprises an antagonist of the vasopressin receptor 1b as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicants: KYOTO UNIVERSITY, FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY, JAPAN HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Gozoh Tsujimoto, Yukio Takano, Kenji Honda, Akito Tanoue
  • Publication number: 20090306592
    Abstract: An infusion pump is provided with a slide clamp mechanism having a clamp member for closing or opening an infusion tube and a valve mechanism for pressing the infusion tube to stop flow of a solution in the infusion tube and has a structure where an interlocking mechanism for interlocking the slide clamp mechanism with the valve mechanism only by manipulation of a handle is disposed. During a series of manipulations of the handle, the infusion tube is always closed by one or both of the slide clamp and valves 14A and 14B, so that free flow of a solution in the infusion tube 40 can be entirely prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: NAMIKI SEIMITSU HOUSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi KASAI, Kenji HONDA
  • Patent number: 7623324
    Abstract: A magnetic sensing element including a laminate and a bias layer is provided. A first reactive-ion-etching (RIE) stop layer is disposed on a free magnetic layer. Second RIE stop layers are disposed on bias layers. The first and second RIE stop layers function as stop layers when layers on the first and second RIE stop layers are removed by reactive ion etching in a production process. Reactive ion etching is completed when the first RIE stop layer and the second RIE stop layers are exposed, the first and second RIE stop layers being disposed at almost the same height. Also provided is a process for producing the magnetic sensing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Honda, Naohiro Ishibashi, Daigo Aoki, Yasuo Hayakawa, Yoshihiro Nishiyama, Toshihiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20090275897
    Abstract: [Object]To provide an infusion tube misfitting detection means for an infusion pump, which can be implemented at a low cost with a safety maintained. [Solving Means] When a door unit 20 is to be closed with respect to a pump body 10 in a misloaded state of an infusion tube 40, a misload detection inner door 25 is pressed by the infusion tube 40 to operate on a handle lock part 23A provided to a handle 23. Accordingly, a claw portion 23Ac of the handle lock part 23A is pushed up, so that the door unit 20 cannot be locked with the pump body 10 by inserting the claw portion 23Ac into a rectangular through-hole 11c of a base plate 11. Therefore, the misloaded state can be identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: NAMIKI SEIMITSU HOUSEKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi KASAI, Kenji HONDA
  • Patent number: RE42180
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, an element-isolating region formed in the semiconductor substrate, a real element region formed in the semiconductor substrate and outside the element-isolating region and having a metal silicide layer formed on the surface thereof, and a dummy element region formed in the semiconductor substrate and outside the element-isolating region and having a metal silicide layer formed on the surface thereof. The ratio of the sum of pattern areas of the real element region and dummy element region occupied in a 1 ?m-square range of interest including the element region is 25% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hisato Oyamatsu, Kenji Honda