Patents by Inventor Koji Ota
Koji Ota 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: 20170317268Abstract: A polymeric piezoelectric film including an optically active helical chiral polymer (A) having a weight average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000, wherein: a crystallinity obtained by a DSC method is from 20% to 80%; a standardized molecular orientation MORc measured by a microwave transmission-type molecular orientation meter based on a reference thickness of 50 ?m is from 3.5 to 15.0; and in a waveform measured with an inline film thickness meter and representing a relationship between a position in a width direction on the film and a thickness of the film, a number of peaks A is 20 or less per 1,000 mm of a film width, wherein the peaks A have a peak height of 1.5 ?m or more and a peak slope of 0.000035 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Keisuke SATO, Kazuhiro TANIMOTO, Koji OTA, Katsutoshi OZAKI, Katsuki ONISHI
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Patent number: 9769879Abstract: A radiation heater apparatus has a plurality of heat radiation parts and a plurality of heating parts. A low thermal conductive part is formed between adjacent two of the heat radiation parts. The low thermal conductive part is provided with resin material which mainly forms a substrate part. The low thermal conductive part thermally isolates the heat radiation part by surrounding a periphery of the heat radiation part. As a body contacts with the surface of the apparatus, the thermal energy of specific heat radiation part directly under the body dissipates heat to the body. Furthermore, heat transfer from the periphery of the specific heat radiation part to the specific heat radiation part is reduced by the low thermal conductive part.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2013Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Ota, Manabu Maeda, Yasuhiro Sagou, Kouji Kondoh, Gentaro Masuda, Hidetada Kajino, Yoshihiko Shiraishi
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Publication number: 20170198926Abstract: A humidity control apparatus includes a housing having an air passage formed therein; a humidity control unit including a first conductive electrode provided in the air passage and having an adsorbent attached thereto, a second conductive electrode provided in the air passage and disposed along the first conductive electrode, and a third conductive electrode interposed between the first conductive electrode and the second conductive electrode and having a potential intermediate between potentials of the first conductive electrode and the second conductive electrode; a power supply unit configured to apply a voltage to the first conductive electrode and the second conductive electrode; and a fan configured to supply air to the air passage to cause the air to flow through the humidity control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: July 13, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji OTA, Masahiro CHIKAISHI, Yasutaka INANAGA, Yasuhiro TANIMURA
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Patent number: 9581156Abstract: In a gear pump, an outer inner wall surface of a suction port which is located on a downstream side in a rotor rotation direction, that is, a first inner wall surface, is located inward of a bottom land between internal teeth of an outer rotor, and the suction port has a shallow portion extended inward from the first inner wall surface on the downstream side in the rotor rotation direction, and a deep portion that is formed so as to be continuous with the shallow portion and that is deeper than the shallow portion. Communication between an inter-tooth chamber and the suction port is cut off with the inter-tooth chamber facing only the shallow portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Torii, Kengo Nomura, Minoru Todo, Mikio Iwase, Koji Ota, Mitsuhiro Takeda, Naoki Okoshi, Takumi Uchida
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Patent number: 9457118Abstract: A corona discharge device includes a charging-section high-voltage electrode unit including a plurality of charging-section high-voltage electrodes, and a charging-section ground electrode unit includes a plurality of charging-section ground electrodes formed by flat plates. The plurality of charging-section high-voltage electrodes are arranged at intervals in a direction intersecting an airflow in an air path, and are connected to one another at at least one longitudinal end by a conductive frame portion. The plurality of charging-section ground electrodes are disposed between the charging-section high-voltage electrodes in an orientation such that flat surfaces thereof are substantially parallel to the airflow in the air path, and are connected at at least one longitudinal end by a conductive frame portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2013Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Ota, Yasutaka Inanaga, Akira Morikawa, Takahiro Sakai, Yasuhiro Tanimura
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Patent number: 9404410Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a cylinder-head-passage through which an engine coolant flows toward a water jacket when a water pump is operated. The water pump is an electric water pump utilizing the electric power charged in the battery. A radiator is provided in the cylinder-head-passage. Even after the engine is shut off, the water pump is kept driven.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Michio Nishikawa, Nobuharu Kakehashi, Koji Ota
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Patent number: 9381789Abstract: A heater apparatus includes a main body, a detecting unit, and a control part. The main body has a power supply part to which electric power is supplied and a heating portion connected to the power supply part to generate heat by electric power supplied from the power supply part. The detecting unit detects an object around the main body. The control part controls supply amount of the electric power to the power supply part. The control part controls the supply amount of electric power to the power supply part to be reduced compared with a normal state when the detecting unit detects that the object is within a predetermined range of the main body.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Ota, Takuya Kataoka, Manabu Maeda, Asami Okamoto, Yasuhiro Sagou, Keita Saitou, Yoshihiko Shiraishi, Toshihisa Taniguchi
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Patent number: 9290078Abstract: An air conditioner for a vehicle includes an electric heater arranged downstream of a heat exchanger in an air flow direction, a defroster air outlet, a driver-foot air outlet through which air is blown toward a foot area of a driver, a knee air outlet through which air is blown toward a knee area of the driver, a door device which controls an air amount blown into a vehicle compartment by opening or closing the air outlets. When an immediate heating operation is performed by an operation of an immediate heating switch, the door device opens the defroster air outlet and at least one of the driver-foot air outlet and the knee air outlet, and the electric heater heats a total amount of air that is to be blown through the at least one of the driver-foot air outlet and the knee air outlet.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Ota, Manabu Maeda, Yuji Kawazoe, Shinji Iwama
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Publication number: 20160068044Abstract: A radiant heater air-conditioning system includes: a heater main body having a heating portion energized to generate heat so as to radiate a radiant heat into a vehicle interior; an energization setting unit that sets an energization enable state for enabling energization of the heating portion and an energization disable state for disabling the energization of the heating portion; and an air-conditioning control apparatus that controls an air-conditioning output of a heating operation in the vehicle interior. The air-conditioning control apparatus reduces the air-conditioning output when the energization enable state is set, compared with when the energization disable state is set.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Yasuhiro SAGOU, Koji OTA, Asami OKAMOTO, Manabu MAEDA, Takuya KATAOKA
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Publication number: 20160059669Abstract: A radiant heater device has an electrode embedded in a substrate part and a plurality of heating parts. The electrodes are formed by material that has low specific resistance. An area occupied by the electrode is restricted. The heating parts are formed by material having high specific resistance in order to generate heat so that radiation is produced. The electrode and the heating part are electrically connected within the substrate part. The plurality of heating parts are arranged in parallel between a pair of electrodes. The electrodes and the heating parts are formed in a film-like shape, and the thermal capacity is reduced. As a result, a temperature of the heating parts rises promptly in response to a turning on of power. In addition, the temperature of the heating parts promptly decreases when an object comes into contact therewith.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2014Publication date: March 3, 2016Inventors: Yasuhiro SAGOU, Takuya KATAOKA, Asami OKAMOTO, Manabu MAEDA, Koji OTA, Masayuki AOYAMA, Kouji KONDOH, Motoki SHIMIZU, Yoshihiko SHIRAISHI, Yoshitarou YAZAKI, Keita SAITOU
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Publication number: 20160046174Abstract: A radiant heater device includes: a heater main body having a heating portion that generates heat by being supplied with electric power to radiate radiation heat due to the heat supplied from the heating portion; an output control unit that controls an output of the heating portion; and a maximum output determination unit that determines an upper limit of the output of the heating portion depending on a heat load around the heater main body. The output control unit controls the output of the heating portion depending on the heat load not to exceed the upper limit of the output determined by the maximum output determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2014Publication date: February 18, 2016Inventors: Yasuhiro SAGOU, Takuya KATAOKA, Asami OKAMOTO, Manabu MAEDA, Koji OTA, Hiroyuki SAKANE, Akira OGA, Masatoshi NAKASHIMA, Hiroshi TAKEDA, Masataka KINOSHITA, Hideaki KAKO, Kimitake ISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20160039265Abstract: A heater apparatus includes a main body, a detecting unit, and a control part. The main body has a power supply part to which electric power is supplied and a heating portion connected to the power supply part to generate heat by electric power supplied from the power supply part. The detecting unit detects an object around the main body. The control part controls supply amount of the electric power to the power supply part. The control part controls the supply amount of electric power to the power supply part to be reduced compared with a normal state when the detecting unit detects that the object is within a predetermined range of the main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2014Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Koji OTA, Takuya KATAOKA, Manabu MAEDA, Asami OKAMOTO, Yasuhiro SAGOU, Keita SAITOU, Yoshihiko SHIRAISHI, Toshihisa TANIGUCHI
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Patent number: 9228752Abstract: A humidifier includes a first electrode that is a porous metal body having a three-dimensional porous structure, a second electrode that is a conductor electrode arranged opposite to the first electrode with a space of a predetermined distance from the first electrode, a power supply that forms an electric field in the space between the first electrode and the second electrode, a water supply unit that supplies water to the first electrode, and a fan that sends air to the space to evaporate and disperse the water that is supplied from the water supply unit to the first electrode and retained by the first electrode.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Mitsbuishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takahiro Sakai, Akira Morikawa, Koji Ota, Yasutaka Inanaga, Yasuhiro Tanimura, Hiroshi Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 9216233Abstract: An apparatus 100 includes an air path housing 10, a charging-unit high-voltage electrode 2 to charge airborne microorganisms introduced in the air path housing 10, a charging-unit ground electrode 3 disposed so as to face the charging-unit high-voltage electrode 2, a hydrophilic filter 6 to capture the airborne microorganisms charged by the charging-unit high-voltage electrode 2, a capturing/inactivating-unit high-voltage electrode 5 to polarize the hydrophilic filter 6, and a capturing/inactivating-unit ground electrode 7 disposed so as to face the capturing/inactivating-unit high-voltage electrode 5.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2012Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Ota, Yasutaka Inanaga, Akira Morikawa, Takahiro Sakai
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Publication number: 20150346243Abstract: A current load detection device is configured to detect a current load to a common power supply unit of a system in which a plurality of devices is connected to the common power supply unit. The current load detection device includes resistances provided for each of the plurality of devices and having resistance values corresponding to consumption current of each of the plurality of devices, a parallel connection unit configured to connect the resistances provided for the plurality of devices in parallel when the plurality of devices is connected to the power supply unit, and a measuring unit configured to measure a combined resistance value of the resistances connected in parallel by the parallel connection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Koji OTA
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Publication number: 20150290352Abstract: A corona discharge device includes a charging-section high-voltage electrode unit including a plurality of charging-section high-voltage electrodes, and a charging-section ground electrode unit includes a plurality of charging-section ground electrodes formed by flat plates. The plurality of charging-section high-voltage electrodes are arranged at intervals in a direction intersecting an airflow in an air path, and are connected to one another at at least one longitudinal end by a conductive frame portion. The plurality of charging-section ground electrodes are disposed between the charging-section high-voltage electrodes in an orientation such that flat surfaces thereof are substantially parallel to the airflow in the air path, and are connected at at least one longitudinal end by a conductive frame portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2013Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Ota, Yasutaka Inanaga, Akira Morikawa, Takahiro Sakai, Yasuhiro Tanimura
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Publication number: 20150219097Abstract: In a gear pump, an outer inner wall surface of a suction port which is located on a downstream side in a rotor rotation direction, that is, a first inner wall surface, is located inward of a bottom land between internal teeth of an outer rotor, and the suction port has a shallow portion extended inward from the first inner wall surface on the downstream side in the rotor rotation direction, and a deep portion that is formed so as to be continuous with the shallow portion and that is deeper than the shallow portion. Communication between an inter-tooth chamber and the suction port is cut off with the inter-tooth chamber facing only the shallow portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2013Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Torii, Kengo Nomura, Minoru Todo, Mikio Iwase, Koji Ota, Mitsuhiro Takeda, Naoki Okoshi, Takumi Uchida
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Publication number: 20150114016Abstract: When an air conditioning ECU determines that it is immediately before idling stop, the air conditioning ECU implements a front seat air conditioning mode even if the air conditioning ECU determines that an occupant intensive air-conditioning mode can be implemented. Accordingly, the air conditioning ECU controls opening and closing mechanisms so as to blow a conditioned air from driver's seat side outlet ports, and also blow the conditioned air from a passenger's seat side foot outlet port. Hence, in cooling operation, since a temperature increase of air drawn into an inside air inlet port is limited when the idling stop is carried out, temperature increase of air blown into the vehicle interior from the outlet port can be restricted. In other words, a temperature change in the vehicle interior can be limited when a travel engine stops due to the idling stop.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Ota, Yasuhiro Sagou
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Publication number: 20150110477Abstract: A radiation heater apparatus has a plurality of heat radiation parts and a plurality of heating parts. A low thermal conductive part is formed between adjacent two of the heat radiation parts. The low thermal conductive part is provided with resin material which mainly forms a substrate part. The low thermal conductive part thermally isolates the heat radiation part by surrounding a periphery of the heat radiation part. As a body contacts with the surface of the apparatus, the thermal energy of specific heat radiation part directly under the body dissipates heat to the body. Furthermore, heat transfer from the periphery of the specific heat radiation part to the specific heat radiation part is reduced by the low thermal conductive part.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Ota, Manabu Maeda, Yasuhiro Sagou, Kouji Kondoh, Gentaro Masuda, Hidetada Kajino, Yoshihiko Shiraishi
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Patent number: 8899311Abstract: When there is no occupant in seats other than a driver seat during a foot mode, an air-conditioning controller executes a single seat concentration mode to prevent blowing of warm air to a passenger seat and a backseat by closing foot outlets on a passenger seat side and a backseat side. In this case, in order to maintain an air volume blown from the foot outlet on a driver seat side when the controller changes the mode from the normal foot mode to the single seat concentration mode, the controller sets a blower level to be lower than in the case of the normal foot mode with respect to the same target blown air temperature.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2010Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Haruki Misumi, Takuya Kataoka, Koji Ota, Michio Nishikawa, Shinichirou Hirai, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Akihiro Haraguchi, Katsuji Kuwada, Yasuhiro Sagou