Patents by Inventor Koji Sugano

Koji Sugano 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: 12060057
    Abstract: An automated parking system is equipped with an estimation unit that estimates a state of a target vehicle, and a setting unit that sets a running mode of the target vehicle as a low-risk running mode in which a risk regarding the target vehicle is reduced, on condition that the target vehicle be in a low-temperature state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Morita, Tatsuya Sugano
  • Patent number: 11530758
    Abstract: In a vacuum ejector provided with a seal valve mechanism between a vacuum generation mechanism and a break flow path, the seal valve mechanism includes a valve plug that is biased toward a sealing opening from the break flow path side to block the seal opening, and is configured to open the seal opening by moving the valve plug away from the seal opening using a piston portion that operates according to supply air supplied from the vacuum generation mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Nakayama, Koji Sugano, Yasuhiro Ushijima
  • Patent number: 11428342
    Abstract: In a vacuum ejector provided with a seal valve mechanism between a vacuum generation mechanism and a break flow path, the seal valve mechanism includes a valve plug that is biased toward a sealing opening from the break flow path side to block the seal opening, and is configured to open the seal opening by moving the valve plug away from the seal opening using a piston portion that operates according to supply air supplied from the vacuum generation mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Nakayama, Koji Sugano, Yasuhiro Ushijima
  • Publication number: 20220089382
    Abstract: In a vacuum ejector provided with a seal valve mechanism between a vacuum generation mechanism and a break flow path, the seal valve mechanism includes a valve plug that is biased toward a sealing opening from the break flow path side to block the seal opening, and is configured to open the seal opening by moving the valve plug away from the seal opening using a piston portion that operates according to supply air supplied from the vacuum generation mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru NAKAYAMA, Koji SUGANO, Yasuhiro USHIJIMA
  • Patent number: 11266280
    Abstract: A needle screw fitted to a compressed fluid supply part that is provided on a nozzle main body of a dust removing device adjusts the jet flow rate of a first compressed fluid from a jet nozzle by adjusting the flow path area of a first fluid supply path. Meanwhile, the suction flow rate of a second compressed fluid to be discharged into a discharge flow path is adjusted by adjusting the flow path area of a second fluid supply path by turning a nozzle main body-side adjustment screw that is provided on the nozzle main body and a suction nozzle-side adjustment screw that is provided on a suction nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Ohtsu, Toru Nakayama, Shigeyuki Eguchi, Koichi Konno, Junichi Inaba, Akio Saitoh, Koji Sugano, Yosuke Shirai, Masayoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11225889
    Abstract: A silencer is equipped with a hollow tubular portion in which a discharge flow passage is formed that communicates on one end side thereof with a discharge port of a fluid pressure device (ejector) through which a pressure fluid is discharged, a cap member attached to another end part of the tubular portion, a sound absorbing member attached to an inner wall surface of the tubular portion, and a plurality of discharge ports adapted to discharge the pressure fluid, which has passed through the discharge flow passage in an axial direction of the tubular portion, in radial directions perpendicular to the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Nakayama, Koji Sugano, Masayuki Enomoto, Masayoshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20200069123
    Abstract: A needle screw fitted to a compressed fluid supply part that is provided on a nozzle main body of a dust removing device adjusts the jet flow rate of a first compressed fluid from a jet nozzle by adjusting the flow path area of a first fluid supply path. Meanwhile, the suction flow rate of a second compressed fluid to be discharged into a discharge flow path is adjusted by adjusting the flow path area of a second fluid supply path by turning a nozzle main body-side adjustment screw that is provided on the nozzle main body and a suction nozzle-side adjustment screw that is provided on a suction nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi OHTSU, Toru NAKAYAMA, Shigeyuki EGUCHI, Koichi KONNO, Junichi INABA, Akio SAITOH, Koji SUGANO, Yosuke SHIRAI, Masayoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190382215
    Abstract: In a vacuum ejector provided with a seal valve mechanism between a vacuum generation mechanism and a break flow path, the seal valve mechanism includes a valve plug that is biased toward a sealing opening from the break flow path side to block the seal opening, and is configured to open the seal opening by moving the valve plug away from the seal opening using a piston portion that operates according to supply air supplied from the vacuum generation mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru NAKAYAMA, Koji Sugano, Yasuhiro Ushijima
  • Patent number: 10358750
    Abstract: A wear-resistant cloth has high wear resistance and is capable of exerting a long-term sliding property even under high-load environment as compared with conventional cloths. A wear-resistant multilayer fabric includes a sliding fabric and a base fabric. The sliding fabric includes polytetrafluoroethylene fibers A, the base fabric includes fibers B having creep ratio in a standard state and under 20% load of breaking strength, the creep ratio being lower than creep ratio of the polytetrafluoroethylene fibers, and the sliding fabric and the base fabric have mutual warps and/or wefts that are mutually entangled for bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuki Ninomiya, Hiroshi Tsuchikura, Koji Sugano
  • Publication number: 20180355773
    Abstract: A silencer is equipped with a hollow tubular portion in which a discharge flow passage is formed that communicates on one end side thereof with a discharge port of a fluid pressure device (ejector) through which a pressure fluid is discharged, a cap member attached to another end part of the tubular portion, a sound absorbing member attached to an inner wall surface of the tubular portion, and a plurality of discharge ports adapted to discharge the pressure fluid, which has passed through the discharge flow passage in an axial direction of the tubular portion, in radial directions perpendicular to the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru NAKAYAMA, Koji Sugano, Masayuki Enomoto, Masayoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9657608
    Abstract: A valve timing varying device includes a housing rotor (20) composed of a front side housing member (22) and a rear side housing member (21), a vane rotor (30), and an urging spring (40) for rotationally urging the vane rotor in one direction with respect to the housing rotor. The urging spring has a coil part, a first end provided outside in a radial direction with respect to the coil part, and a second end provided inside in the radial direction with respect to the coil part. The front side housing member has a first latching concave part for latching the first end on an inside wall face. The vane rotor has an accommodation concave part for accommodating at least a part of the coil part at the front end side, and a second latching concave part for latching the second end in an area facing an opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Sugano, Ryo Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 9556609
    Abstract: Provided is a high-performance sliding seismic isolation device with a slider that realizes a contact pressure of 60 MPa. The device includes an upper shoe 1 and a lower shoe (2) having sliding surfaces 1a and 2a with curvatures, respectively; and a columnar steel slider (7) disposed between the upper shoe (1) and the lower shoe (2), the slider having an upper surface 4a and a lower surface 4b that are in contact with the upper and lower shoes, respectively, and have curvatures. The upper surface 4a and the lower surface 4b of the slider (7) have double-woven fabric layers (5) and (6), respectively, each double-woven fabric layer containing PTFE fibers and fibers with higher tensile strength than that of the PTFE fibers, and the PTFE fibers being arranged on the sides of the sliding surfaces 1a and 2a of the upper shoe (1) and the lower shoe (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignees: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd, Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideji Nakamura, Koji Nishimoto, Yuki Ninomiya, Hiroshi Tsuchikura, Koji Sugano
  • Patent number: 9506132
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a heavy wall steel pipe includes a cooling step in which a steel pipe, with a wall thickness of ½ inch or more, that has been heated to the gamma range is dipped in water while supporting and rotating the steel pipe about the axis of pipe, an axial stream which is a water flow in the direction of axis of pipe is applied to the inside surface of the steel pipe under rotation in the water, and an impinging stream which is a water flow impinging on the outer surface of the pipe is applied to the outer surface of the steel pipe under rotation in the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro Katsumura, Hiroyuki Fukuda, Koji Sugano, Kazutoshi Ishikawa, Yasuhide Ishiguro
  • Patent number: D852743
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Nakayama, Koji Sugano, Yasuhiro Ushijima, Masayuki Enomoto
  • Patent number: D852744
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Nakayama, Koji Sugano, Yasuhiro Ushijima, Masayuki Enomoto
  • Patent number: D853329
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Nakayama, Koji Sugano, Yosuke Shirai
  • Patent number: D853965
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Nakayama, Koji Sugano, Yasuhiro Ushijima, Masayuki Enomoto
  • Patent number: D853966
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Nakayama, Koji Sugano, Yasuhiro Ushijima, Masayuki Enomoto
  • Patent number: D866464
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Nakayama, Koji Sugano, Yosuke Shirai
  • Patent number: D888200
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Nakayama, Koji Sugano, Yasuhiro Ushijima