Patents by Inventor Koichi Imamura

Koichi Imamura 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: 11965469
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine having a cylinder in which an air-fuel mixture of gaseous fuel and intake air is combusted, an intake passage connected to the cylinder, and a supercharger for supercharging the intake air, in a case where backfire is generated in a set period before supercharging is performed by the supercharger, supercharging is performed at a smaller supercharging pressure than in a case where backfire is not generated in the set period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tamachi, Yoshito Sekiguchi, Masato Nakano, Koichi Okuda, Tatsuya Imamura, Atsushi Tabata
  • Patent number: 11959545
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a processor and memory. The memory stores relation-defining data for defining a relation between a state of a vehicle and an action variable that is a variable relating to operations of a transmission installed in the vehicle. The processor is configured to execute acquisition processing, operation processing, reward calculation processing, updating processing, counting processing, and limiting processing. The processor is configured to output the relation-defining data updated so that an expected income is increased when the transmission is operated following the relation-defining data, based on an updating map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideaki Bunazawa, Atsushi Tabata, Koichi Okuda, Ken Imamura, Kota Fujii, Keita Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20240068420
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine having a cylinder in which an air-fuel mixture of gaseous fuel and intake air is combusted, an intake passage connected to the cylinder, and a supercharger for supercharging the intake air, in a case where backfire is generated in a set period before supercharging is performed by the supercharger, supercharging is performed at a smaller supercharging pressure than in a case where backfire is not generated in the set period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiaki TAMACHI, Yoshito SEKIGUCHI, Masato NAKANO, Koichi OKUDA, Tatsuya IMAMURA, Atsushi TABATA
  • Publication number: 20200381138
    Abstract: A transparent conductive laminate 100 includes a laminated substrate 50 and a transparent conductive layer 10 laminated on the laminated substrate 50. The laminated substrate 50 includes a transparent substrate 30 and a cured resin layer 20 laminated on the transparent substrate. The transparent conductive layer 10 includes a fibrous conductive material. The laminated substrate has a top peak of a transmission spectrum and a bottom peak of a reflection spectrum in a range of 385 nm to 485 nm, and the laminated substrate does not have a bottom peak of a transmission spectrum and a top peak of a reflection spectrum in a range of 385 nm to 485 nm. The refractive index of the cured resin layer is less than the refractive index of the transparent substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Haruhiko ITOH, Koichi IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 10088961
    Abstract: The present invention is an electroconductive laminate characterized in that the hard coat layer is formed from a hard coating composition which contains (A) a phenolic novolac acrylate having two or more acrylate groups, (B) a bisphenol structure-containing diacrylate having 2 to 4 moles of alkylene oxide structure with two or three carbon atoms in each molecule, (C) a polyfunctional acrylate having three or more acrylate groups, and (D) a polyfunctional urethane acrylate having three or more acrylate groups and an ester structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD., TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Koichi Imamura, Atsushi Sasaki, Kazuhito Kobayashi, Yusuke Nakata
  • Patent number: 10061461
    Abstract: Provided is a transparent electroconductive laminate which can prevent the occurrence of Newton rings between two transparent electrode substrates constituting a transparent touch panel. Also provided is a transparent touch panel which comprises the transparent electroconductive laminate. A transparent electroconductive laminate (14, 15, 16) comprises a transparent organic polymer substrate (16), and comprises an uneven-surfaced hardened resin layer (15) and a transparent electroconductive layer (14) which are successively laminated on at least one side of the transparent organic polymer substrate. The transparent electroconductive laminate is characterized in that the hardened resin layer comprises a hardening resin component and at least one of ultrafine metal oxide particles (A) and ultrafine metal fluoride particles (B), these particles having an average primary particle diameter of 100 nm or less and being dispersed in the hardening resin component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignees: TEIJIN LIMITED, TEIJIN CHEMICALS LIMITED
    Inventors: Haruhiko Itoh, Koichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 9938426
    Abstract: To provide a hard coating composition which forms a hard coat layer that has high visibility and good hardness, while having stretchability. To provide a technique which is capable of effectively preventing blocking phenomenon in a layered product such as a resin film without adversely affecting the visibility. The present invention provides a hard coating composition which contains (A) a phenolic novolac acrylate that has two or more acrylate groups and (B) an aromatic group-containing mono or poly(meth)acrylate compound that contains 1-2 mol of an alkylene oxide structure having two or three carbon atoms in each molecule. This hard coating composition contains 60-85 parts by mass of the phenolic novolac acrylate (A) and 15-30 parts by mass of the (meth)acrylate (B) per 100 parts by mass of the resin component contained in the hard coating composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignees: TEIJIN LIMITED, NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhito Kobayashi, Yusuke Nakata, Koichi Imamura, Ryuhei Kanzaki, Yohei Okada
  • Patent number: 9886110
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a transparent electroconductive laminate having extremely high visibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Koichi Imamura, Ryuhei Kanzaki, Atsushi Sasaki, Yohei Okada, Kazuhito Kobayashi, Yusuke Nakata
  • Patent number: 9652059
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transparent electroconductive laminate which achieves the required transparency or haze characteristic while having a desirable slipperiness in terms of handleability. Further disclosed is a transparent touch panel having said transparent electroconductive laminate. The transparent laminate (10) has a transparent organic polymer substrate (1), a transparent electroconductive layer (2) on one face of the transparent organic polymer substrate, and a cured resin layer (3) with a concavo-convex surface on the other face of the transparent organic polymer substrate, and the transparent touch panel has said transparent electroconductive laminate. The cured resin layer (3) has a concavo-convex surface by being formed from a coating composition which contains two types of polymerizable components which mutually phase-separate on the basis of the physical difference therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignees: TEIJIN LIMITED, TEIJIN CHEMICALS LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Itoh, Koichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 9639227
    Abstract: The electroconductive laminate according to the present invention is obtained by laminating a hard coat layer and an electrically conducting layer on at least one surface of a polycarbonate base. This electroconductive laminate is characterized in that the hard coat layer is formed from a hard coating composition which contains (A) a phenolic novolac acrylate having two or more acrylate groups, (B) an orthophenyl phenol acrylate containing 1-2 mol of an ethylene oxide structure in each molecule and (C) a bisphenol skeleton-containing diacrylate containing 2-4 mol of an alkylene oxide structure having two or three carbon atoms in each molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignees: NIPPON AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD., TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuhito Kobayashi, Yusuke Nakata, Koichi Imamura, Atsushi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20160239122
    Abstract: The present invention is an electroconductive laminate characterized in that the hard coat layer is formed from a hard coating composition which contains (A) a phenolic novolac acrylate having two or more acrylate groups, (B) a bisphenol structure-containing diacrylate having 2 to 4 moles of alkylene oxide structure with two or three carbon atoms in each molecule, (C) a polyfunctional acrylate having three or more acrylate groups, and (D) a polyfunctional urethane acrylate having three or more acrylate groups and an ester structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicants: TEIJIN LIMITED, NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Koichi IMAMURA, Atsushi SASAKI, Kazuhito KOBAYASHI, Yusuke NAKATA
  • Publication number: 20160216804
    Abstract: The electroconductive laminate according to the present invention is obtained by laminating a hard coat layer and an electrically conducting layer on at least one surface of a polycarbonate base. This electroconductive laminate is characterized in that the hard coat layer is formed from a hard coating composition which contains (A) a phenolic novolac acrylate having two or more acrylate groups, (B) an orthophenyl phenol acrylate containing 1-2 mol of an ethylene oxide structure in each molecule and (C) a bisphenol skeleton-containing diacrylate containing 2-4 mol of an alkylene oxide structure having two or three carbon atoms in each molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicants: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD., TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuhito KOBAYASHI, Yusuke NAKATA, Koichi IMAMURA, Atsushi SASAKI
  • Patent number: 9189112
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel device which prevents a problem such as generation of Newton's rings even if an air layer between the touch panel device and a display device has a small thickness. This capacitance type touch panel device (100) includes: a protective transparent base (10) having an observation-side surface and a display device-side surface; and two polymer films with position detection electrode layers (20b, 22; 30b, 32) which are arranged on the display device-side surface of the protective transparent base. The difference between the minimum value and the maximum value of the linear expansion coefficients in the surface direction of all the polymer films (20b; 30b) arranged on the display device-side surface of the protective transparent base is 10.0×10?6 cm/cm·° C. or below. Furthermore, the display device with a touch panel device (100, 200, 300) according to the present invention has such a touch panel device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: TEIJIN CHEMICALS LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Imamura, Haruhiko Ito, Koki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9132794
    Abstract: A vehicle front body structure includes: a vehicle body structural member disposed below a front end of a hood and extends substantially along the vehicle width direction; and an energy absorbing member that protrudes toward a vehicle front side from the vehicle body structural member, extends substantially along the vehicle width direction, and deforms so as to absorb energy upon a collision. The energy absorbing member is secured to the vehicle body structural member at opposite ends of the energy absorbing member in the vehicle width direction. A clearance is defined between a central part of the energy absorbing member in the vehicle width direction and the vehicle body structural member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Nagaya, Kyohei Suwa, Hiroshi Suemune, Koichi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20150055033
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a transparent electroconductive laminate having extremely high visibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Teijin Limited,
    Inventors: Koichi Imamura, Ryuhei Kanzaki, Atsushi Sasaki, Yohei Okada, Kazuhito Kobayashi, Yusuke Nakata
  • Publication number: 20150049261
    Abstract: To provide a hard coating composition which forms a hard coat layer that has high visibility and good hardness, while having stretchability. To provide a technique which is capable of effectively preventing blocking phenomenon in a layered product such as a resin film without adversely affecting the visibility. The present invention provides a hard coating composition which contains (A) a phenolic novolac acrylate that has two or more acrylate groups and (B) an aromatic group-containing mono or poly(meth)acrylate compound that contains 1-2 mol of an alkylene oxide structure having two or three carbon atoms in each molecule. This hard coating composition contains 60-85 parts by mass of the phenolic novolac acrylate (A) and 15-30 parts by mass of the (meth)acrylate (B) per 100 parts by mass of the resin component contained in the hard coating composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhito Kobayashi, Yusuke Nakata, Koichi Imamura, Ryuhei Kanzaki, Yohei Okada
  • Publication number: 20140284947
    Abstract: A vehicle front body structure includes: a vehicle body structural member disposed below a front end of a hood and extends substantially along the vehicle width direction; and an energy absorbing member that protrudes toward a vehicle front side from the vehicle body structural member, extends substantially along the vehicle width direction, and deforms so as to absorb energy upon a collision. The energy absorbing member is secured to the vehicle body structural member at opposite ends of the energy absorbing member in the vehicle width direction. A clearance is defined between a central part of the energy absorbing member in the vehicle width direction and the vehicle body structural member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroki NAGAYA, Kyohei SUWA, Hiroshi SUEMUNE, Koichi IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140085548
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a transparent conductive laminate that will not break by being bent. Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a transparent touch panel comprising such a transparent conductive laminate. A transparent conductive laminate of the present invention has a cured resin layer and a transparent conductive layer laminated on at least one face of a transparent organic-polymer substrate. The resin composition constituting the cured resin layer has a recovery rate (?IT), which is indicated in the following formula, of 60% or less, for a cured resin layer having a thickness of 5 ?m, in an indentation hardness test (testing load: 1 mN) conforming to ISO14577-1: 2002. ?IT=Welast/Wtotal×100(%) (wherein Welast is indentation work (Nm) generated by elastic returning deformation, and Wtotal is mechanical indentation work (Nm)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Koichi Imamura, Haruhiko Itou, Kouki Ikeda, Kazuki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20130169593
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel device which prevents a problem such as generation of Newton's rings even if an air layer between the touch panel device and a display device has a small thickness. This capacitance type touch panel device (100) includes: a protective transparent base (10) having an observation-side surface and a display device-side surface; and two polymer films with position detection electrode layers (20b, 22; 30b, 32) which are arranged on the display device-side surface of the protective transparent base. The difference between the minimum value and the maximum value of the linear expansion coefficients in the surface direction of all the polymer films (20b; 30b) arranged on the display device-side surface of the protective transparent base is 10.0×10?6 cm/cm. ° C. or below. Furthermore, the display device with a touch panel device (100, 200, 300) according to the present invention has such a touch panel device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: TEIJIN CHEMICALS LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Imamura, Haruhiko Ito, Koki Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20120032900
    Abstract: Provided is a transparent electroconductive laminate which can prevent the occurrence of Newton rings between two transparent electrode substrates constituting a transparent touch panel. Also provided is a transparent touch panel which comprises the transparent electroconductive laminate. A transparent electroconductive laminate (14, 15, 16) comprises a transparent organic polymer substrate (16), and comprises an uneven-surfaced hardened resin layer (15) and a transparent electroconductive layer (14) which are successively laminated on at least one side of the transparent organic polymer substrate. The transparent electroconductive laminate is characterized in that the hardened resin layer comprises a hardening resin component and at least one of ultrafine metal oxide particles (A) and ultrafine metal fluoride particles (B), these particles having an average primary particle diameter of 100 nm or less and being dispersed in the hardening resin component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicants: TEIJIN CHEMICALS LTD., TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Haruhiko Itoh, Koichi Imamura