Patents by Inventor Koichi Sugimoto

Koichi Sugimoto 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: 20240295854
    Abstract: A timepiece includes a case, a dial having a circular plate shape and accommodated in the case, an inner rotating ring formed in a ring shape along an outer peripheral edge of the dial and rotatable in a circumferential direction, a rotation operation unit configured to rotate the inner rotating ring, and a rotation restriction unit configured to restrict an operation of the rotation operation unit. The inner rotating ring includes a plurality of tooth portions. The rotation operation unit includes a rotation shaft portion rotatable around a shaft center along a radial direction of the dial, and a drive transmission gear provided in the rotation shaft portion and meshing with the tooth portions to rotate the inner rotating ring. A plurality of locking portions is formed in the drive transmission gear at different positions in a direction around a shaft. The rotation restriction unit includes a lock receiving portion biased toward the locking portion and detachably locked to the locking portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Tatsuyuki Sugimoto, Chihiro Funamoto, Yasunori Hara, Yu Ishihara, Kazuhiro Nakayashiki, Koichi Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11229718
    Abstract: An air cleaning apparatus includes: a collection filter for collecting dust; a first ultraviolet light emitter for irradiating the collection filter with ultraviolet light having a first wavelength; and a photocatalyst supporting filter which supports a photocatalyst exhibiting photocatalytic activity by the ultraviolet light having the first wavelength and collects the dust. The collection filter transmits the ultraviolet light having the first wavelength, and the ultraviolet light having the first wavelength passing through the collection filter is irradiated to the photocatalyst supporting filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: NIKKISO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Asano, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11199201
    Abstract: An impeller back surface cooling structure for cooling a back surface of a compressor impeller of a supercharger includes: a first member facing a back surface of a compressor impeller via a gap; and a second member extending in a circumferential direction of the compressor impeller and forming, between the first member and the second member, a cooling passage through which a cooling medium being a liquid flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MARINE MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Makino, Koichi Sugimoto, Fumito Hiratani, Yukihiro Iwasa, Yoshihisa Ono
  • Patent number: 10954872
    Abstract: An exhaust gas controller for an engine is equipped to appropriately regenerate a filter while restraining a deterioration in fuel efficiency. An oxidation catalyst and a filter capable of collecting particles in an exhaust passage, such that a regenerative injection in which fuel is injected for regenerating the filter is performed, even when a main injection is stopped. Under a first operating condition, in which the main injection is performed and a regeneration condition for the filter is satisfied, the regenerative injection is performed after the main injection. Under a second operating condition, in which the main injection is stopped and the regeneration condition for the filter is satisfied, a fuel injector is controlled to perform a former injection Q1 during a compression stroke and latter injections Q2, Q3 during an expansion stroke, as the regenerative injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishimura, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10933374
    Abstract: An exhaust emission control device for an engine is provided with a first purifying catalyst including an HC adsorbent that adsorbs HC at a low temperature and releases HC at a high temperature and a diesel oxidation catalyst capable of oxidizing HC, a second purifying catalyst including a NOx catalyst capable of storing NOx contained in exhaust, a NOx catalyst regenerator that regenerates the NOx catalyst while raising the temperature of the NOx catalyst, and HC controller that decides whether the amount of adsorbed HC that is HC adsorbed by the HC adsorbent is equal to or more than a preset reference amount and, when the amount of adsorbed HC is decided to be equal to or more than the reference amount, raises the temperature of the first purifying catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishimura, Koichi Sugimoto, Masanobu Kanno
  • Publication number: 20200268927
    Abstract: An air cleaning apparatus includes: a collection filter for collecting dust; a first ultraviolet light emitter for irradiating the collection filter with ultraviolet light having a first wavelength; and a photocatalyst supporting filter which supports a photocatalyst exhibiting photocatalytic activity by the ultraviolet light having the first wavelength and collects the dust. The collection filter transmits the ultraviolet light having the first wavelength, and the ultraviolet light having the first wavelength passing through the collection filter is irradiated to the photocatalyst supporting filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Hideki ASANO, Koichi SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200030473
    Abstract: A light introduction device (3) has an inner cavity allowing passage of at least one of a substance introduced into a human body or a substance discharged from the human body. Light is introduced from part of an outer surface of a section, which is arranged outside the human body, of a catheter (2) as a medical conduit having a light-permeable thick portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Koichi SUGIMOTO, Takahiro NAKAMA, Hideki ASANO
  • Publication number: 20190234330
    Abstract: An exhaust gas controller for an engine is equipped to appropriately regenerate a filter while restraining a deterioration in fuel efficiency. An oxidation catalyst and a filter capable of collecting particles in an exhaust passage, such that a regenerative injection in which fuel is injected for regenerating the filter is performed, even when a main injection is stopped. Under a first operating condition, in which the main injection is performed and a regeneration condition for the filter is satisfied, the regenerative injection is performed after the main injection. Under a second operating condition, in which the main injection is stopped and the regeneration condition for the filter is satisfied, a fuel injector is controlled to perform a former injection Q1 during a compression stroke and latter injections Q2, Q3 during an expansion stroke, as the regenerative injection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishimura, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20190232225
    Abstract: An exhaust emission control device for an engine is provided with a first purifying catalyst including an HC adsorbent that adsorbs HC at a low temperature and releases HC at a high temperature and a diesel oxidation catalyst capable of oxidizing HC, a second purifying catalyst including a NOx catalyst capable of storing NOx contained in exhaust, a NOx catalyst regenerator that regenerates the NOx catalyst while raising the temperature of the NOx catalyst, and HC controller that decides whether the amount of adsorbed HC that is HC adsorbed by the HC adsorbent is equal to or more than a preset reference amount and, when the amount of adsorbed HC is decided to be equal to or more than the reference amount, raises the temperature of the first purifying catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishimura, Koichi Sugimoto, Masanobu Kanno
  • Publication number: 20180216633
    Abstract: An impeller back surface cooling structure for cooling a back surface of a compressor impeller of a supercharger includes: a first member facing a back surface of a compressor impeller via a gap; and a second member extending in a circumferential direction of the compressor impeller and forming, between the first member and the second member, a cooling passage through which a cooling medium being a liquid flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Makino, Koichi Sugimoto, Fumito Hiratani, Yukihiro Iwasa, Yoshihisa Ono
  • Patent number: 9140271
    Abstract: Interference of a leakage vortex flow generated at the tip end side of the full blade with the leading edge of the splitter blade is avoided and high pressure ratio and enhanced efficiency can be achieved. A throat of am impeller is formed so that a distance from a leading edge of a rear side full blade on the rear side of the rotation direction of the compressor to a front side full blade adjacent to the rear side full blade is minimized, and the leading edge of the splitter blade is placed in a fluid flow streaming along the flow passage between the mutually adjacent full blades, on the downstream side of a leakage vortex line formed to connect the middle location of the throat to the leading edge of the front side full blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Sugimoto, Kenichiro Iwakiri, Isao Tomita
  • Patent number: 9074272
    Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet excellent in uniform elongation, including in percent by mass: 0.10-0.28% of C; 1.0-2.0% of Si; and 1.0-3.0% of Mn, and the structures of the same having the space factors below to the entire structure: 30-65% of bainitic ferrite; 30-50% of polygonal ferrite; and 5-20% of residual austenite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Akamizu, Yoichi Mukai, Shushi Ikeda, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 8618823
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is designed to facilitate analyzing a position and a cause of the failure of an integrated circuit adopting a polyphase clock. To this end, the semiconductor device is provided with an error detecting unit that detects that a problem of the operation occurs in the integrated circuit, a clock state holding unit that holds the information of phases in a predetermined term of a two- or more-phase clock and an output unit that outputs the information of the phases in the predetermined term of the two- or more-phase clock when the error detecting unit detects that the problem of the operation occurs in the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Tada, Koki Tsutsumida, Masatoshi Kawashima, Hideki Hayashi, Tsutomu Sato, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 8597439
    Abstract: A high-strength cold rolled steel sheet contains: 0.10 to 0.28% of C, 1.0 to 2.0% of Si, 1.0 to 3.0% of Mn, and 0.03 to 0.10% of Nb in terms of % by mass, Al is controlled to 0.5 or less, P is controlled to 0.15% or less, and S is controlled to 0.02% or less, and residual austenite accounts for 5 to 20%, bainitic ferrite accounts for 50% or more, and polygonal ferrite accounts for 30% or less (containing 0%), of the entire structure, and a mean number of residual austenite blocks is 20 or more as determined when the random area (15 ?m×15 ?m) is observed by EBSP (electron back scatter diffraction pattern).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shushi Ikeda, Yoichi Mukai, Hiroshi Akamizu, Koichi Makii, Koichi Sugimoto, Shunichi Hashimoto, Kenji Saito
  • Patent number: 8454299
    Abstract: A radial compressor includes an impeller which is rotatively driven, axially introduces air taken in through an air inlet passage formed in a housing, pressurizes the introduced air, and discharges the pressurized air in a radial direction, wherein an annular concave groove is formed in a peripheral wall of the air inlet passage of the housing, a rear end portion of an opening of the annular concave groove, which rear end portion meets the housing peripheral wall, is provided in the vicinity of a blade front end surface of the impeller, and the rear end portion of the opening of the annular concave groove is formed such that an axial projecting amount X thereof relative to the blade front end surface of the impeller is set to ?1T?X?1.5T (where T denotes the thickness of the distal portion of a blade).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Higashimori, Koichi Sugimoto, Hideyoshi Isobe, Takashi Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20130094955
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor diffuser includes a shroud-side wall (58) provided downstream of a centrifugal impeller; a hub-side wall provided so as to face the shroud-side wall (58); a plurality of shroud-side blades (3) fixed at base ends thereof to the shroud-side wall (58) and hub-side blades (4) fixed at base ends thereof to the hub-side wall. The shroud-side blades (3) and the hub-side blades (4) are combined in such a state that inlet angles thereof differ from one another and that at least portions of top ends thereof in a blade height direction are abutted onto one another. In gaps where the top ends of the combined shroud-side blades (3) and hub-side blades (4) are not abutted onto one another, a connecting member (5) that connects the top ends is provided so as to fill at least portions of the gaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Inventors: Seiichi Ibaraki, Koichi Sugimoto, Keiichi Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20120328444
    Abstract: Interference of a leakage vortex flow generated at the tip end side of the full blade with the leading edge of the splitter blade is avoided and high pressure ratio and enhanced efficiency can be achieved. A throat of am impeller is formed so that a distance from a leading edge of a rear side full blade on the rear side of the rotation direction of the compressor to a front side full blade adjacent to the rear side full blade is minimized, and the leading edge of the splitter blade is placed in a fluid flow streaming along the flow passage between the mutually adjacent full blades, on the downstream side of a leakage vortex line formed to connect the middle location of the throat to the leading edge of the front side full blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Sugimoto, Kenichiro Iwakiri, Isao Tomita
  • Patent number: 8197617
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength steel sheet which has a 980 MPa class tensile strength as well as has excellent elongation, stretch flangeability and weldability, and also has excellent anti-delayed fraction property. The high-strength steel sheet comprises steel satisfying: C: 0.12 to 0.25%, Si: 1.0 to 3.0%, Mn: 1.5 to 3.0%, P: 0.15% or less, S: 0.02% or less, Al: 0.4% or less, and comprising the remnant made from iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein a ratio of the contents of Si and C (Si/C) is within the range from 7 to 14 in terms of a mass ratio, and a microstructure in a longitudinal section comprises, by an occupancy ratio based on the entire structure, 1) bainitic ferrite: 50% or more, 2) lath-type residual austenite: 3% or more, and 3) block-type residual austenite: 1% or more to ½×occupancy ratio of lath-type residual austenite, and 4) average size of block-type second phase is 10 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiharu Nakaya, Yoichi Mukai, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 8147186
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor having a wide operating range, being economically efficient and high reliability in terms of a stable operation is provided. A centrifugal compressor including a partition wall for dividing a flow channel in the diffuser section and the volute section into a plurality of channels in the direction of circulation of the fluid so as to define a hub-side flow channel and a shroud-side flow channel; and a flow rate adjusting valve for lowering the flow rate of the fluid flowing in the shroud-side flow channel to increase the flow rate in the hub-side flow channel when the flow rate of the fluid compressed by an impeller is low and not lowering the flow rate of the fluid flowing the shroud-side flow channel to allow the fluid to flow both in the shroud-side flow channel and the hub-side flow channel when the flow rate of the fluid compressed by the impeller is high is employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiichi Ibaraki, Isao Tomita, Yasuaki Jinnai, Takashi Shiraishi, Koichi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20110211804
    Abstract: The present invention provides a video display device provided with a storage mechanism that reliably holds a recording medium (HDD) with the reduced number of components. A tray integrally stores an installed HDD built in the device and a cassette HDD attachable to and detachable from the device, and is mounted on a main chassis. An HDD stopper of a hook-like shape integrated with the tray presses an end part of the installed HDD to secure its storage position. An HDD holder integrated with the tray presses a side surface at an end part of the cassette HDD to prevent it from falling off the tray. Further, a regulating plate formed by cutting and raising the main chassis suppresses deformation of the HDD stopper, and an anti-falling plate prevents the installed HDD from falling off the tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventors: Taku Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Akazawa, Ken Tsukamoto, Koichi Sugimoto