Patents by Inventor Koichi Hamada

Koichi Hamada 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: 20220176486
    Abstract: A joint structure includes a first sheet member, a second sheet member, a third sheet member, and plural joining parts formed at locations where the first sheet member, the second sheet member, and the third sheet member overlap, so as to join the first sheet member, the second sheet member, and the third sheet member together. The plural joining parts are formed at an interval along an edge of the first sheet member and an edge of the second sheet member. The third sheet member includes a fold-back portion provided at least between the plural joining parts by folding the third sheet member back around the edge of the first sheet member and the edge of the second sheet member such that the fold-back portion is disposed on an opposite side of the first sheet member from a side overlapped with the second sheet member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki FUJIMOTO, Koichi HAMADA, Atsushi ONO, Yasunori SAWA, Toshiya SUZUKI, Tohru OKADA
  • Publication number: 20220135134
    Abstract: A vehicle skeleton member 10 includes: a hat-shaped member 1; a closing plate 2; a reinforcement member 6; and a plurality of welds 31. The hat-shaped member 1 includes a first top plate 1a, two first walls 1b, and two flanges 1c. The reinforcement member 6 includes a second top plate 6a and two second walls 6b. The welds 31 join the first and second walls 1b and 6b. The welds 31 joining the first and second walls 1b and 6b are located at positions on the first walls 1b closer to the closing plate 2 than the middle surface C1 between the first top plate 1a and closing plate 2 is. Edge segments 4 of the reinforcement member 6 are located between the welds 31.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koichi HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20220126926
    Abstract: In an automobile inner panel and an automobile panel that includes the automobile inner panel, panel rigidity of the panel is secured while achieving a weight reduction. An automobile inner panel 2 has a plurality of sub-units 10 that each include a flange 11, an inclined wall 12 continuous with the flange 11, and a bottom portion 13 continuous with inclined wall 12 and separated from the flange 11. The bottom portions 13 and 13 of the sub-units 10 and 10 which are adjacent to each other are butted against each other and are directly continuous with each other. A maximum value of a distance D1 between two of the flanges 11 and 11 of two of the sub-units 10 and 10 in which the bottom portions 13 are arranged separated from each other and which are adjacent to each other is 250 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi NISHIMURA, Koichi HAMADA, Atsuo KOGA, Takeshi KAWACHI, Yasunori SAWA, Tohru YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220097773
    Abstract: In an automobile hood, sufficient panel rigidity and dent resistance are secured while achieving weight reduction. Automobile hood 1 has a panel 2, a reinforcing member 3, and a joint 4 that joins the panel 2 and the reinforcing member 3. The reinforcing member 3 includes a structure formed from a plurality of units 7 having a hexagonal annular shape disposed in a close-packed arrangement. Unit 7 has a floor 11, inclined wall 12 and top plate 13. The floor 11 is adjacent to the panel 2. Top plate 13 and panel 2 are separated from each other. The inclined wall 12 is arranged between the floor 11 and the top plate 13. A hexagonal annular first ridge line 31 of the unit 7 is located between the inclined wall 12 and the floor 11. A length L1 of one side of the first ridge line 31 is 40-75 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tohru YOSHIDA, Koichi HAMADA, Takeshi KAWACHI, Atsuo KOGA, Takuya OISHI
  • Publication number: 20220097774
    Abstract: In an automobile hood, sufficient panel rigidity and dent resistance of a panel are secured while achieving weight reduction. An automobile hood having panel, reinforcing member and joint that joins the panel and the reinforcing member such that the reinforcing member includes a structure formed from a plurality of units having hexagonal annular shape disposed in a close-packed arrangement. Floor of the unit has an annular end part. All of annular end part is located between first circle and second circle wherein first circle is inscribed within a first ridge line overlapping with an outer end part of the floor. Second circle is concentric with first circle and has a radius that is 60% of a radius of the first circle. Width of upper face of floor is 2 mm or more over the entire area of the annular end part in the circumferential direction of the annular end part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tohru YOSHIDA, Koichi HAMADA, Takeshi KAWACHI, Atsuo KOGA, Takuya OISHI
  • Publication number: 20220051868
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to reduce differences between individual electron beam observation devices accurately by means of image correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Koichi HAMADA, Megumi KIMURA, Momoyo ENYAMA, Ryou YUMIBA, Makoto SAKAKIBARA, Kei SAKAI, Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Katsumi SETOGUCHI, Masumi SHIRAI, Yasunori TAKASUGI
  • Patent number: 11235417
    Abstract: A structural member is provided that includes a steel sheet with a tensile strength of 980 MPa or higher overlying another metal plate and joined thereto by welding, where a break initiating near a welded portion is less likely to be produced. A structural member (10, 10a, 10b, 10c) includes: a first member (1), the first member being a steel sheet with a tensile strength of 980 MPa or higher; a second member (2) overlying the first plate (1), the second member being a metal plate; a plurality of welded portions (3, 31, 32); a plurality of heat-affected zones (5, 51, 52) each formed to surround the corresponding one of the welded portions (3, 31, 32), the heat-affected zones having a Vickers hardness lower than that of the first member by 50 HV or more. A pair of edge sections (4) of the first member (1) are provided between adjacent heat-affected zones (5, 51, 52).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Hirose, Koichi Hamada, Hiroki Fujimoto, Tohru Okada
  • Patent number: 11170969
    Abstract: Provided is an electron beam observation device that includes: an electron source; an objective lens concentrating an electron beam emitted from the electron source; and a control unit configured to perform control such that a plurality of images is generated by capturing images of a reference sample having a specific pattern, and a frequency characteristic is calculated for each of the plurality of images, in which an image is generated based on a secondary signal generated from a sample due to irradiation of the sample with the electron beam, and the control unit holds the plurality of frequency characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Hamada, Megumi Kimura, Momoyo Enyama, Ryou Yumiba, Makoto Sakakibara, Kei Sakai, Satoru Yamaguchi, Katsumi Setoguchi
  • Patent number: 11078550
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a quenched molding according to the present disclosure is a method including a first heat treatment process of heating a blanked steel material to a temperature higher than its Ac3 transformation point to perform austenite transformation, and then cooling to induce martensite transformation or bainite transformation, and a second heat treatment process of heating the steel material that has undergone the first heat treatment process to a temperature higher than the Ac3 transformation point to perform austenite transformation, and then cooling to induce martensite transformation. After the steel material has been heated to a temperature higher than the Ac3 transformation point in at least one process from out of the first heat treatment process or the second heat treatment process, molding is completed at a temperature higher than an Ar3 transformation point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Shinichiro Tabata, Kazuo Hikida, Toshiya Suzuki, Atsuo Koga, Koichi Hamada
  • Publication number: 20210205915
    Abstract: This spot welded joint includes a first steel sheet having tensile strength of 1100 MPa or higher and hard martensitic structure as main structure, a second steel sheet stacked on the first steel sheet, a nugget having diameter D at an interface between the first and second steel sheets and formed between the first and second steel sheets, and a hardness control region occupying, in a cross section of the first steel sheet in sheet thickness direction that passes a nugget center, a region that is the first steel sheet in sheet thickness direction and is from 0.5×D to 1.0×D from the nugget center in sheet surface direction and in which difference between maximum value and minimum value in hardness in the region is 80 HV or less, and the maximum hardness value in the region is lower than the maximum hardness value of the first steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tasuku ZENIYA, Satoshi HIROSE, Atsuo KOGA, Koichi HAMADA, Masanori YASUYAMA
  • Patent number: 11011346
    Abstract: To acquire a correction image by performing a sub-pixel shift process for shifting an image using a pixel interpolation filter by a pixel shift amount between pixels and a frequency correction process for correcting a frequency characteristic of the image after shifted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Hamada, Kei Sakai, Satoru Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20210125806
    Abstract: Provided is an electron beam observation device that includes: an electron source; an objective lens concentrating an electron beam emitted from the electron source; and a control unit configured to perform control such that a plurality of images is generated by capturing images of a reference sample having a specific pattern, and a frequency characteristic is calculated for each of the plurality of images, in which an image is generated based on a secondary signal generated from a sample due to irradiation of the sample with the electron beam, and the control unit holds the plurality of frequency characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Koichi HAMADA, Megumi KIMURA, Momoyo ENYAMA, Ryou YUMIBA, Makoto SAKAKIBARA, Kei SAKAI, Satoru YAMAGUCHI, Katsumi SETOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210120303
    Abstract: An information processing method in a content viewing system that includes: a first display apparatus and a second display apparatus configured to communicate with each other via a home network, receive and reproduce contents of a content distribution service from a server on a network; and a mobile terminal configured to communicate with each of the display apparatus, includes: a first step of obtaining account information, which the mobile terminal has, from the mobile terminal by the first display apparatus, the account information being associated with the content distribution service; a second step of transferring the account information to the second display apparatus by the first display apparatus; and a third step of receiving the contents from the server by using the account information by the second display apparatus to reproduce the contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Koichi HAMADA, Nobuaki KABUTO, Junji SHIOKAWA, Takashi MATSUBARA
  • Patent number: 10956757
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a road surface detecting section to detect a road surface region from an input image based on a shot image obtained by shooting with a camera; a time-series verifying section to perform time-series verification to verify a result of detection of the road surface region in the input image in a time-series manner; a detection region selecting section to set a detection region for detection of an object in the input image according to the result of detection of the road surface region by the road surface detecting section and a result of the time-series verification by the time-series verifying section; and a detecting section to detect the object in the detection region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Akiyama, Yasusi Kanada, Koichi Hamada
  • Patent number: 10911820
    Abstract: An information processing method in a content viewing system that includes: a first display apparatus and a second display apparatus configured to communicate with each other via a home network, receive and reproduce contents of a content distribution service from a server on a network; and a mobile terminal configured to communicate with each of the display apparatus, includes: a first step of obtaining account information, which the mobile terminal has, from the mobile terminal by the first display apparatus, the account information being associated with the content distribution service; a second step of transferring the account information to the second display apparatus by the first display apparatus; and a third step of receiving the contents from the server by using the account information by the second display apparatus to reproduce the contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Hamada, Nobuaki Kabuto, Junji Shiokawa, Takashi Matsubara
  • Patent number: 10898938
    Abstract: This method for manufacturing a panel-like formed article has preparing a blank material made of a metal sheet having a tensile strength of 390 MPa or more and 980 MPa or less; and press-forming the blank material in a cold manner using a pressing apparatus to form the blank material into the panel-like formed article, in the press-forming, a blank holder, a first punch, and a second punch are relatively moved with respect to a die, thereby pressing the first punch and the second punch to the blank material, and pressing of the second punch to the blank material is completed before pressing of the first punch to the blank material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Otsuka, Koichi Hamada, Yoshiaki Nakazawa
  • Publication number: 20200338661
    Abstract: A structural member is provided that includes a steel sheet with a tensile strength of 980 MPa or higher overlying another metal plate and joined thereto by welding, where a break initiating near a welded portion is less likely to be produced. A structural member (10, 10a, 10b, 10c) includes: a first member (1), the first member being a steel sheet with a tensile strength of 980 MPa or higher; a second member (2) overlying the first plate (1), the second member being a metal plate; a plurality of welded portions (3, 31, 32); a plurality of heat-affected zones (5, 51, 52) each formed to surround the corresponding one of the welded portions (3, 31, 32), the heat-affected zones having a Vickers hardness lower than that of the first member by 50 HV or more. A pair of edge sections (4) of the first member (1) are provided between adjacent heat-affected zones (5, 51, 52).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Satoshi Hirose, Koichi Hamada, Hiroki Fujimoto, Tohru Okada
  • Patent number: 10804121
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a substrate treatment apparatus includes, a substrate support unit supporting a substrate, a rotary unit rotating the substrate, a treatment liquid supply unit supplying treatment liquid to a surface of the substrate, and a controller performing liquid discharge treatment to change liquid discharge velocity at which the treatment liquid is discharged from the substrate, at preset predetermined timing, during substrate treatment in which the treatment liquid is supplied while the substrate is rotated, with the treatment continued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Hamada, Nobuo Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200303159
    Abstract: To acquire a correction image by performing a sub-pixel shift process for shifting an image using a pixel interpolation filter by a pixel shift amount between pixels and a frequency correction process for correcting a frequency characteristic of the image after shifted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi HAMADA, Kei SAKAI, Satoru YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200280765
    Abstract: A television receiver 101 is connected to two or more wireless terminals via a communication line. A controller 214 and a network I/F 212 in the television receiver 101 send pieces of login information entered from the two or more wireless terminals to the content distribution server and obtain pieces of content list information each generated by the content distribution server based on the pieces of login information. An aggregated content list in which the obtained pieces of content list information are aggregated is generated. The display 210 displays the aggregated content list. The content list information includes content available for viewing on the information terminal connected to the communication line. The aggregated content list includes content available for viewing on the two or more information terminals in which the pieces of content list information are aggregated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Masahiro KAGEYAMA, Takashi MATSUBARA, Koichi HAMADA