Patents by Inventor Koichi Murata
Koichi Murata 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: 20190252940Abstract: A stator structure of a rotary electric machine includes a stator, a motor power distribution component installed in the stator, and a casing that houses the stator and the motor power distribution component. The motor power distribution component has a terminal block inserted into an opening formed in a side wall of the casing. A lead wire connects a sensor installed in the stator to a connector electrically connecting the sensor to an external component. The lead wire is inserted into a gap between an edge of the opening and the terminal block.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2016Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichi Murata, Tatsuya Imai, Seiji Hoshika
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Publication number: 20190237547Abstract: On a front surface of an n+-type starting substrate containing silicon carbide, a pin diode is configured having silicon carbide layers constituting an n+-type buffer layer, an n?-type drift layer, and a p+-type anode layer sequentially formed by epitaxial growth. The n+-type buffer layer is formed by so-called co-doping of nitrogen and vanadium, which forms a recombination center, together with an n-type impurity. The n+-type buffer layer includes a first part disposed at a side of a second interface of the buffer layer with the substrate and a second part disposed at side of a first interface of the buffer layer with the drift layer. The vanadium concentration in the second part is lower than that in the first part. The vanadium concentration in the second part is at most one tenth of the maximum value Vmax of the vanadium concentration in the n+-type buffer layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi TAWARA, Hidekazu TSUCHIDA, Koichi MURATA
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Patent number: 10358795Abstract: Provided is a work machine which is capable of accurately preventing a work device from interfering with a load receiving member without separately using a dedicated device. A work machine includes a controller which at least controls rotating of an upper rotating body and vertical movement of a boom in accordance with operation by an operator. The controller controls either a boom-up operation and a rotating operation of the upper rotating body such that a work device is prevented from interfering with a load receiving member in operation of an operator at subsequent lifting and rotating, operation based on part of a locus at a distal end side of the work device at least for one lifting and rotating operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Caterpillar SARLInventors: Shota Hoshaku, Koichi Murata, Masashi Shibata
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Publication number: 20190135310Abstract: A wheel load adjusting apparatus used in a railcar, and the railcar includes: first and second air springs arranged between a carbody and a first bogie so as to be spaced apart from each other in a car width direction; third and fourth air springs arranged between the carbody and a second bogie so as to be spaced apart from each other in the car width direction; and first to fourth automatic level controlling valves provided upstream of the first four air springs and configured to adjust heights of the four air springs to maintain constant height of the air springs, wherein when the railcar passes through a curve, the wheel load adjusting apparatus limits an air supply/air discharge operation of at least one of the four automatic level controlling valves to suppress an increase in a pressure difference between at least two of the four air springs.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2017Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta YOSHIMATSU, Takafumi OKAMOTO, Takehiro NISHIMURA, Yoshi SATO, Keiichiro KAMURA, Koichi MURATA, Hirohide MATSUSHIMA
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Patent number: 10243664Abstract: An optical modulator driver circuit (1) includes an amplifier (50, Q10, Q11, R10-R13), and a current amount adjustment circuit (51) capable of adjusting a current amount of the amplifier (50) in accordance with a desired operation mode. The current amount adjustment circuit (51) includes at least two current sources (IS10) that are individually ON/OFF-controllable in accordance with a binary control signal representing the desired operation mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2014Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Munehiko Nagatani, Hideyuki Nosaka, Toshihiro Itoh, Koichi Murata, Hiroyuki Fukuyama, Takashi Saida, Shin Kamei, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Nobuhiro Kikuchi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Masafumi Nogawa, Hiroaki Katsurai, Hiroyuki Uzawa, Tomoyoshi Kataoka, Naoki Fujiwara, Hiroto Kawakami, Kengo Horikoshi, Yves Bouvier, Mikio Yoneyama, Shigeki Aisawa, Masahiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 10232864Abstract: There is provided a three-axle truck for a railcar having three wheelsets in a truck frame of the one truck, in which in each of the wheelsets, axle boxes are supported by the truck frame through axle springs, the truck frame has a structure for supporting a carbody whose weight is variable, and making variations in axle loads on the respective wheelsets be maintained at a preset value or less in spite of change of the carbody weight, and in this structure, spring constants of the both-end axle springs in the respective wheelsets located at both ends of three axles are set to be larger than a spring constant of the middle axle spring of the wheelset located in the middle.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2013Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshi Sato, Masahiro Hamada, Junichi Sakamoto, Koichi Murata
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Publication number: 20190016354Abstract: A railcar steering bogie includes a bogie frame, a wheelset, an axle box suspension, a steering mechanism configured to steer the wheelset, a brake unit, and a brake unit support link. The brake unit includes: a main body frame; a brake shoe supported by the main body frame and pressed against a wheel tread of the wheel during braking. The brake unit support link couples the axle box suspension and the brake unit and transmits displacement of the axle box in a car longitudinal direction to the brake unit at least during steering performed by the steering mechanism. The brake unit support link restricts the brake unit from being displaced outward in a car width direction by a predetermined distance or more during the braking. At least one of a side surface of the brake unit support link and a side surface of the brake unit includes a sliding surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2016Publication date: January 17, 2019Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takehiro NISHIMURA, Yoshi SATO, Yukitaka TAGA, Yousuke TSUMURA, Keiichiro KAMURA, Fumikazu KOUNOIKE, Koichi MURATA, Francois Olivier UCHIDA, Yuta YOSHIMATSU
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Publication number: 20180370550Abstract: A railcar steering bogie includes: a bogie frame including a cross beam; pair of axles; axle boxes accommodating bearings; axle box suspensions each including a coupling member coupling the corresponding axle box and bogie frame while allowing relative displacement in a car longitudinal direction; plate spring extending in the car longitudinal direction and including car longitudinal direction end portions extending obliquely upward along the car longitudinal direction and supported above the respective axle boxes and a car longitudinal direction middle portion unfixedly arranged under the cross beam; support seats including respective inclined upper surfaces and supporting the both respective longitudinal direction end portions of the plate spring; and gap bodies each provided between an upper surface of the corresponding axle box suspension and a lower surface of the corresponding support seat and configured to allow displacement of the axle box suspension and the support seat in the car longitudinal directType: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2016Publication date: December 27, 2018Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takehiro NISHIMURA, Yoshi SATO, Yukitaka TAGA, Yousuke TSUMURA, Keiichiro KAMURA, Fumikazu KOUNOIKE, Koichi MURATA, Francois Olivier UCHIDA, Yuta YOSHIMATSU
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Publication number: 20180327003Abstract: A railcar steering bogie includes: a bogie frame supporting a bolster such that the bolster is swingable relative to the bogie frame about a vertical axis; two wheelsets each including an axle and a pair of wheels; and a steering mechanism configured to steer at least one of the two wheelsets in accordance with the swinging of the bolster relative to the bogie frame. The steering mechanism includes: a steering lever configured to turn relative to the bogie frame about a fulcrum axis; a coupling link coupling the bolster and the steering lever and configured to operate in conjunction with the swinging of the bolster relative to the bogie frame; and a steering link coupled to the steering lever and configured to steer the wheelset in conjunction with the turning of the steering lever. The steering link is coupled to the steering lever by a pin member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takehiro NISHIMURA, Yoshi SATO, Yukitaka TAGA, Yousuke TSUMURA, Keiichiro KAMURA, Fumikazu KOUNOIKE, Koichi MURATA, Francois Olivier UCHIDA, Yuta YOSHIMATSU
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Publication number: 20180319411Abstract: A railcar steering bogie includes: a bogie frame supporting a bolster such that the bolster is swingable relative to bogie frame about a vertical axis; two wheelsets; axle box suspensions including respective axle beams coupling corresponding axle boxes to bogie frame, the axle boxes accommodating respective bearings supporting corresponding axles; and a steering mechanism steering at least one of the two wheelsets in accordance with the bolster's swinging relative to the bogie frame. The steering mechanism includes: a steering lever configured to turn relative to the bogie frame about fulcrum axis; a coupling link coupling the bolster and steering lever and configured to operate in conjunction with the bolster's swinging relative to the bogie frame; and at least one steering link coupling steering lever and axle beam and configured to steer the corresponding wheelset by displacing corresponding axle box through the corresponding axle beam in conjunction with steering lever's turning.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2016Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takehiro NISHIMURA, Yoshi SATO, Yukitaka TAGA, Yousuke TSUMURA, Keiichiro KAMURA, Fumikazu KOUNOIKE, Koichi MURATA, Francois Olivier UCHIDA, Yuta YOSHIMATSU
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Publication number: 20180312176Abstract: An axle box suspension includes: an axle beam including an axle beam main body portion extending from the axle box in a car longitudinal direction and a pin portion projecting from a tip end of the axle beam main body portion in the car longitudinal direction; a tubular elastic bushing including an inner tube portion, an outer tube portion, and an elastic portion interposed between the inner tube portion and the outer tube portion, the inner tube portion being fitted to the pin portion; an adapter attached to the outer tube portion and coupling the axle beam and the bogie frame; and a first stopper attached to the pin portion and configured to, when the axle box is displaced relative to the bogie frame toward one side in the car longitudinal direction by a predetermined distance, contact the adapter to restrict displacement of the axle box.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2016Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takehiro NISHIMURA, Yoshi SATO, Yukitaka TAGA, Yousuke TSUMURA, Keiichiro KAMURA, Fumikazu KOUNOIKE, Koichi MURATA, Francois Olivier UCHIDA, Yuta YOSHIMATSU
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Publication number: 20180315842Abstract: The SiC-IGBT includes a p-type collector layer, an n?-type voltage-blocking-layer provided on the collector layer, p-type base regions provided on the n?-type voltage-blocking-layer, n+-type emitter regions provided in an upper portion of the p-type base region, a gate insulating film provided in an upper portion of the voltage-blocking-layer, and a gate electrode provided on the gate insulating film. The p-type buffer layer has thickness of five micrometers or more and 20 micrometers or less and is doped with Al at impurity concentration of 5×1017 cm?3 or more and 5×1018 cm?3 or less and doped with B at impurity concentration of 2×1016 cm?3 or more and less than 5×1017 cm?3.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi TAWARA, Hidekazu TSUCHIDA, Koichi MURATA
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Patent number: 10102636Abstract: When the position of a target moving in a monitoring region is intermittently detected, the position of the target is predicted in a higher precision. The prediction precision of the position of the target can be improved by calculating an existence probability distribution of the target and by accumulating the data of the intermittent detection by use of the Bayes' theorem.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Koichi Murata
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Publication number: 20180251956Abstract: Provided is a work machine which is capable of accurately preventing a work device from interfering with a load receiving member without separately using a dedicated device. A work machine includes a controller which at least controls rotating of an upper rotating body and vertical movement of a boom in accordance with operation by an operator. The controller controls either a boom-up operation and a rotating operation of the upper rotating body such that a work device is prevented from interfering with a load receiving member in operation of an operator at subsequent lifting and rotating, operation based on part of a locus at a distal end side of the work device at least for one lifting and rotating operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2016Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: Caterpillar SARLInventors: Shota Hoshaku, Koichi Murata, Masashi Shibata
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Publication number: 20180173038Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device that has excellent visibility while using a protective film comprising a polyester film. The liquid crystal display device comprises a backlight light source, and a liquid crystal cell disposed between two polarizers; the backlight light source being a white light-emitting diode; each of the polarizers comprising a polarizing film and protective films laminated on both sides of the polarizing film; and at least one of the protective films being a polyester film having a retardation of 3,000 to 30,000 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2018Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: Toyobo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi MURATA, Yasushi SASAKI
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Publication number: 20180162419Abstract: A carbody support device of a railway vehicle, including support mechanisms installed between a front bogie and a carbody and between a rear bogie and the carbody in a traveling direction, and supporting the carbody against the respective bogies. The support mechanisms regulate both the front bogie and the rear bogie inclining in the same vehicle width direction with respect to the carbody when the railway vehicle travels through a curve, while the support mechanisms permit the front bogie and the rear bogie inclining in different vehicle width directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2018Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshi SATO, Yukitaka TAGA, Shunichi NAKAO, Kazuo ISOMURA, Makoto TAMAKI, Junichi SHIRAKAWA, Koichi MURATA
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Publication number: 20180162418Abstract: A carbody support device of a railway vehicle, including support mechanisms installed between a front bogie and a carbody and between a rear bogie and the carbody in a traveling direction, and supporting the carbody against the respective bogies. The support mechanisms regulate both the front bogie and the rear bogie inclining in the same vehicle width direction with respect to the carbody when the railway vehicle travels through a curve, while the support mechanisms permit the front bogie and the rear bogie inclining in different vehicle width directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2018Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshi SATO, Yukitaka TAGA, Shunichi NAKAO, Kazuo ISOMURA, Makoto TAMAKI, Junichi SHIRAKAWA, Koichi MURATA
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Publication number: 20180135274Abstract: Provided is an automatic swing device for a work machine which is capable of performing sieve operation in the posture where a work device is always at a posture suitable for sieve operation. An automatic swing device includes a posture sensor (15) which detects a posture of a work device. The automatic swing device also includes a controller (37) which outputs signals to operate at least a stick cylinder (12st) and a bucket cylinder (12bk) of the work device. The controller (37) has an automatic swing mode in which the work device is automatically swung while the posture detected by the posture sensor (15) is maintained to be in the range of a predetermined posture.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2016Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicant: Caterpillar SARLInventors: Shota Hoshaku, Koichi Murata, Masashi Shibata
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Patent number: 9932050Abstract: A carbody support device of a railway vehicle, including support mechanisms installed between a front bogie and a carbody and between a rear bogie and the carbody in a traveling direction, and supporting the carbody against the respective bogies. The support mechanisms regulate both the front bogie and the rear bogie inclining in the same vehicle width direction with respect to the carbody when the railway vehicle travels through a curve, while the support mechanisms permit the front bogie and the rear bogie inclining in different vehicle width directions.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshi Sato, Yukitaka Taga, Shunichi Nakao, Kazuo Isomura, Makoto Tamaki, Junichi Shirakawa, Koichi Murata
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Patent number: 9912205Abstract: A rotor structure for a rotary electric machine in which an inner surface of a hollow rotor core and an outer surface of a shaft inserted into a hole of the rotor core are fitted together by mutual engagement between a projection and a recess to compose a rotor, the rotor structure including: a first retainer brought into contact with one end of the rotor core; and a second retainer brought into contact with a surface of the first retainer opposite to a surface in contact with the rotor core so as to fix the first retainer and the rotor core to the shaft, wherein a coefficient of static friction of a first sliding surface between the first retainer and the second retainer is smaller than any other sliding surface provided in the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuma Kinoto, Tatsuya Imai, Masahide Kimura, Hideo Sakuyama, Koichi Murata, Makoto Abe