Patents by Inventor Koji Hayashi

Koji Hayashi 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: 9871313
    Abstract: A receptacle connector includes: a shielding case; an insulator accommodated in the shielding case; and a first contact arranged on a terminal supporting part of the insulator. A clearance is provided between a tip of the terminal supporting part of the insulator and a tip of the first contact. The tip of the terminal supporting part has an inclined surface to provide the clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuhito Saito, Koji Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9849859
    Abstract: In a buckle device, cord portions that are pulled out from a distal end portion in a longitudinal direction of a helical portion of a curl cord are electrically and mechanically connected to a terminal of a buckle switch of a buckle. The distal end portion in the longitudinal direction of the helical portion of the curl cord is held by a holding bracket that is provided at a first cover component of a buckle cover. Consequently, even when the buckle cover is moved, excellent connections can still be maintained between the cord portions of the curl cord and the terminal of the buckle switch of the buckle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Koji Hayashi, Takuhiro Saito, Makoto Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20170275416
    Abstract: Provided are a curable resin composition capable of providing excellent heat resistance and toughness for a cured product, in which these physical properties are less deteriorated even in a case of being exposed to humidity and heat conditions, and a cured product, a fiber reinforced composite material, and a molded article thereof. The curable resin composition includes an epoxy resin and a curing agent, in which the epoxy resin is an epoxy resin obtained by the polyglycidyl-etherification of a phenol novolac resin. The phenol novolac resin contains bisphenol F having different binding sites, and in the bisphenol F components, the content of the [o, p?[ conjugate is in a range of 30% to 45% relative to the total of the [o, p?[ conjugate+the [o, o?] conjugate+the [p, p?[ conjugate in terms of the area ratio according to a liquid chromatography measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiro MORINAGA, Makoto KIMURA, Koji HAYASHI, Takamitsu NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9742958
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image processing unit configured to execute image processing that is requested, by using a parameter stored in a second storage unit included in the image processing unit; a control unit configured to store the parameter to be used by the image processing unit in a first storage unit, and generate identification information indicating a storage position of the parameter and store the identification in the first storage unit; and a transfer unit configured to acquire the parameter from the first storage unit based on the identification information stored in the first storage unit, and transfer the parameter to the second storage unit. The control unit stores the parameter in the second storage unit without storing the parameter in the first storage unit, according to the acquired parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20170232651
    Abstract: The present invention provides a molding machine that can easily detect viscosity of resin in a cylinder without advance preparations. An injection molding machine (10) includes an ultrasonic viscosity sensor (20), and the ultrasonic viscosity sensor (20) includes an ultrasonic vibration portion in contact with resin filled in a cylinder (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Morihisa OTA, Koji HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170232927
    Abstract: A reduction in the durability of a coupling member coupled to a buckle is suppressed. A lift-up buckle device includes a buckle that engages with a tongue inserted through webbing worn by an occupant, and wires that each have a portion fixed to the buckle and that are displaced to move the buckle. The lift-up buckle device also includes a wire guide that includes a guide groove that guides the wires, and a soft lower cover that engages with the wire guide and covers the wires. A dimension of an end portion on the buckle side of the guide groove is set so as to increase on progression toward the buckle side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro MURASAKI, Takuhiro SAITO, Yasunori HATA, Yusuke WATADA, Koji HAYASHI, Makoto MATSUZAKI
  • Publication number: 20170232928
    Abstract: A buckle guide formed in the shape of a cross-sectionally rectangular tube is inserted from a vehicle rear and lower end portion of a buckle cover of a buckle, and guide ribs that project from an inner surface of the buckle cover are in abutting contact with a rectangular guide surface that is an outer surface of the buckle guide. Because of this, swiveling of the buckle cover relative to the buckle guide is limited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Atsushi TATSUMA, Makoto MATSUZAKI, Nao ONODERA, Hiroto TANAKA, Koji HAYASHI, Takuhiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20170225647
    Abstract: A buckle apparatus includes a buckle, a moving member, a sliding member and a guide member. A tongue of a seatbelt apparatus can be engaged with the buckle. By being moved, the moving member moves the buckle. The sliding member is provided at the moving member and moves together with the moving member. The guide member allows the sliding member to slide in accordance with movement of the moving member and guides the sliding member. Friction between the guide member and the sliding member is less than friction between the guide member and the moving member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventor: Koji HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170225645
    Abstract: In a buckle device, displacement of a buckle cover in a width direction with respect to a buckle guide is restricted by restricting grooves of the buckle cover and restricting ribs of the buckle guide that enter the restricting grooves. This enables a space to be secured between a wall portion on one side in a width direction of the buckle cover and a wall portion on one side in a width direction of the buckle guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Koji HAYASHI, Makoto MATSUZAKI
  • Publication number: 20170217149
    Abstract: A negative-working infrared radiation-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor can be imaged and developed on-press to provide a lithographic printing plate. Such precursor has an initiator composition that contains compound A of Structure (I) and one or more compounds collectively as compound B of Structure (II) or Structure (III): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are independently alkyl or alkoxy groups each having 2 to 9 carbon atoms; at least one of R3 and R4 is different from R1 or R2; the difference of total number of carbon atoms in R1 and R2 and the total number of carbon atoms in R3 and R4 is 0 to 4; the difference of total number of carbon atoms in R1 and R2 and the total number of carbon atoms in R5 and R6 is 0 to 4; and X1, X2 and X3 are the same or different anions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Koji Hayashi, James Matz, Satoshi Ishii, Yoshiaki Sekiguchi, Masamichi Kamiya
  • Patent number: 9718436
    Abstract: In a buckle device, wire ropes and a coiled cord run through the inside of a tubular buckle guide. Here, a partition wall is provided inside the buckle guide, and the inside of the buckle guide is partitioned by the partition wall into a wire rope side and a coiled cord side. Due to this, the coiled cord can be prevented from contacting the wire ropes inside the buckle guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Koji Hayashi, Takuhiro Saito, Makoto Matsuzaki, Tatsuhiro Murasaki
  • Publication number: 20170169270
    Abstract: A system including a reader and an information terminal is provided. The information terminal displays an information code, while the reader optically reads the information code. The reader includes an emission unit and an imaging unit. The emission unit emits light in a predetermined emission state when the information code is imaged by the imaging unit. The information terminal includes an imaging unit, a control unit and a display unit. The control unit of the information terminal drives/controls the display unit to display the information code only when the predetermined emission state is imaged by the imaging unit. That is, unless the predetermined emission state of the emission unit of the reader is imaged by the imaging unit of the information terminal, the information code is not displayed on the display unit of the information terminal. Thus, security in reading the information code is further improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Eiji MUTO, Koji HAYASHI, Atsushi TANO
  • Publication number: 20170121451
    Abstract: Provided is an epoxy resin which has a low viscosity and excellent impregnation capability into reinforcing fibers and provides a cured product having a high elastic modulus and excellent heat resistance when the epoxy resin is used for a fiber-reinforced resin material, and a method for producing the epoxy resin, a curable resin composition, and a cured product thereof, a fiber-reinforced composite material, and a molded article. An epoxy resin which is polyglycidyl ether that is a polycondensation product of phenol and hydroxybenzaldehyde, the resin includes the trinuclear body (X) represented by the following Structural Formula (1), in which the content of a [o,p,p] bonding body (x1) represented by the following Structural Formula (1-1) among the trinuclear body (X) is in the range of 5% to 18% in terms of an area ratio as measured by liquid chromatography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Koji Hayashi, Makoto Kimura, Kunihiro Morinaga, Shigeki Matsui
  • Publication number: 20170088236
    Abstract: Provided is a transverse metacenter height estimation device that includes: a history storage means for storing time sequence data of the roll angle of a hull; and a transverse metacenter height estimation means that estimates the transverse metacenter height of the hull on the basis of the time sequence data of the roll angle of the hull, such data stored by the history storing means. The transverse metacenter height estimation device is characterized in that the transverse metacenter height estimation means first calculates a roll natural frequency on the basis of the time sequence data of the roll angle of the hull, sets the calculated roll natural frequency as an observation model, carries out state estimation on the basis of a normal state spatial model in which the transverse metacenter height and the gyration radius of the hull are used as state variables, and thereby estimates the transverse metacenter height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro TAMASHIMA, Daisuke TERADA, Akihiko MATSUDA, Hitoshi MAENO, Koji HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170021796
    Abstract: In a buckle device, cord portions that are pulled out from a distal end portion in a longitudinal direction of a helical portion of a curl cord are electrically and mechanically connected to a terminal of a buckle switch of a buckle. The distal end portion in the longitudinal direction of the helical portion of the curl cord is held by a holding bracket that is provided at a first cover component of a buckle cover. Consequently, even when the buckle cover is moved, excellent connections can still be maintained between the cord portions of the curl cord and the terminal of the buckle switch of the buckle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Koji HAYASHI, Takuhiro SAITO, Makoto MATSUZAKI
  • Patent number: 9546927
    Abstract: An optical pulse tester includes: an OTDR measurer configured to execute an OTDR function of measuring a time distribution of a power of return light of an optical pulse input to an optical fiber; a display configured to display an OTDR measurement screen indicating information on execution of the OTDR function; and a controller configured to control the OTDR measurer and the display. The controller displays, on the OTDR measurement screen, a menu for allowing an operating person to call an auxiliary function for measurement of the optical fiber, and displays, on the OTDR measurement screen, a sub-screen indicating information on execution of the auxiliary function called by the operating person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignees: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION, YOKOGAWA METERS & INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9527500
    Abstract: A drive control device for a hybrid vehicle is provided with a differential device including four rotary elements; and an engine, first and second electric motors and an output rotary member which are respectively connected to the four rotary elements. One of the four rotary elements is constituted by a rotary component of a first differential mechanism and a rotary component of a second differential mechanism selectively connected through a clutch, and one of the rotary components is selectively fixed to a stationary member through a brake. The hybrid vehicle is selectively placed in one of drive modes including a first hybrid drive mode in which the brake is placed in an engaged state while the clutch is placed in a released state, and a second hybrid drive mode in which the brake is placed in a released state while the clutch is placed in an engaged state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Hayashi, Hiroyasu Harada, Tomohito Ono, Hiroyuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 9522574
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a shoulder land zone provided with lateral grooves arranged at variable pitches in the tire circumferential direction and extending at an angle of not more than 30 degrees with respect to the tire axial direction. The domains defined between the shoulder lateral grooves include a smallest domain having the smallest circumferential length and a largest domain having the largest circumferential length. The domains are each provided with at least one sipe extending at an angle of not more than 30 degrees with respect to the tire axial direction. The number of the sipe(s) in the smallest domain is less than the number of the sipes in the largest domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20160366304
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image processing unit configured to execute image processing that is requested, by using a parameter stored in a second storage unit included in the image processing unit; a control unit configured to store the parameter to be used by the image processing unit in a first storage unit, and generate identification information indicating a storage position of the parameter and store the identification in the first storage unit; and a transfer unit configured to acquire the parameter from the first storage unit based on the identification information stored in the first storage unit, and transfer the parameter to the second storage unit. The control unit stores the parameter in the second storage unit without storing the parameter in the first storage unit, according to the acquired parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9511402
    Abstract: The invention enhances a cooling effect on a press die for hot press. A lower die includes a first base, a second base mounted on the first base and having an opening in the center, a support table provided in the opening of the second base, and a die portion detachably mounted on the support table and including die pieces. The die portion is divided in die pieces disposed adjoining each other, and cold water pipes are provided in the die pieces respectively. The cold water pipes are bent in a U shape and inserted in the die pieces respectively, and extended downward from the lower ends of the die pieces respectively. The cold water pipes have cooling water injection ends and cooling water ejection ends in a space between the first base and the support table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: TOA Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hayashi, Taichi Shimizu, Kazumasa Nishio