Patents by Inventor Koji Terada

Koji Terada 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: 9228637
    Abstract: A power unit includes a cam damper mechanism having a cam member reciprocally and unrotatably provided on one of a pair of bevel gears, and rotatably provided on an extended shaft; a lifter member slidably and unrotatably provided on the extended shaft in an axial direction; a damper spring configured such that one end portion thereof is supported on a first flange portion of the extended shaft, and the other end portion thereof biases the lifter member toward the cam member in an axial direction by abutting on the lifter member, and the biasing force is supported by the one bevel gear. The extended shaft has the one of the bevel gears and the cam damper mechanism between the first flange portion and a first bearing, and is accommodated in the bevel gear case so as to be fixed to a bevel gear holder along with the first bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Murao, Koji Terada, Junya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9122265
    Abstract: A numerical control device including tapping spindle (S1, S2) time constant selecting means that compares acceleration and deceleration time constants of the S1 and S2 axes and selects the larger time constant, drilling axis (X1) acceleration and deceleration processing means that calculates an acceleration and deceleration movement amount of the X1 axis based on the selected spindle time constant and a commanded spindle rotation number and moves the drilling axis to the calculated position, synchronized tapping interpolation processing means that synchronizes the tapping spindle with the drilling axis based on the movement amount output from the drilling axis (X1) acceleration and deceleration processing means and a pitch, and tapping spindle synchronization processing means that transfers the rotation amount of the tapping spindle output from tapping spindle (S1)-drilling axis (X1) synchronization processing means to the synchronized side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Terada, Masakazu Sagasaki
  • Publication number: 20150240918
    Abstract: In a hydraulic tensioner device in which a high hydraulic pressure chamber is configured between a plunger accommodation hole of a tensioner body accommodating a plunger and the plunger to attenuate reactive force acting on the plunger, the tensioner body includes, in a discharge oil passage for discharging oil leaked from the high hydraulic pressure chamber, a pressure maintenance valve for opening and closing the discharge oil passage, air release passages are formed inside the pressure maintenance valve, and an air release valve for releasing air and preventing air from back flowing is provided in the air release passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Osamu Emizu, Takayuki Osako, Koji Terada
  • Publication number: 20150227130
    Abstract: A numerical control device controls a machine tool having an X axis for moving a turret to which tools are attached, a Z axis for moving work, and a B axis for rotating the turret and having at least one of an H axis for rotating the turret around a center line perpendicular to the center line of rotation of the B axis and a C axis for rotating the work around a center line parallel to the Z axis. The numerical control device includes a unit that performs, during an virtual Y-axis inclined surface machining mode, virtual Y inclined surface machining for moving the tool along the Y axis relatively to the inclined surface in a state in which the tool is inclined such that a center axis is perpendicular to an inclined surface inclined from the X axis and the Z axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Terada, Masakazu Sagasaki
  • Publication number: 20150100194
    Abstract: A trajectory generation device includes a storage unit that stores a plurality of trajectories; a trajectory acquisition unit that acquires a trajectory, corresponding to an environment similar to a current environment, from the plurality of trajectories stored in the storage unit; and a trajectory generation unit that calculates a longest trajectory part, which is present in a moving object moving area in the trajectory acquired by the trajectory acquisition unit, and generates a trajectory by connecting both ends of the calculated longest trajectory part to a predetermined start point and a predetermined end point respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Terada
  • Patent number: 8910598
    Abstract: A vehicle internal combustion engine wherein the vertical height of a crankcase is made short in addition to making short the anteroposterior (front to back) length of the crankcase. A vehicle internal combustion engine is configured such that a crankshaft, a main shaft, a counter shaft and an output shaft are arranged in parallel in a crankcase with the main shaft being disposed to the rear of the crankshaft and the counter shaft is disposed to the rear of the main shaft. The output shaft is disposed below and forward of the counter shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Terada, Kenichiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8893682
    Abstract: A multi-cylinder internal combustion engine includes a one-side crank chamber and an other-side crank chamber formed by partitioning a lower crankcase by a plurality of lower support walls which are provided integrally with the lower crankcase and support a crankshaft. A plurality of oil outflow holes respectively communicate with the one-side crank chamber and the other-side crank chamber through which oil is discharged from the one-side crank chamber and the other-side crank chamber. An oil discharge port is provided along a lower support wall of the one-side crank chamber and the other-side crank chamber. A suction port of a scavenging pump for discharging the oil present in the one-side crank chamber and the other-side crank chamber is provided in an outer wall in the manner of straddling the lower support wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Terada, Kenichiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140334831
    Abstract: An optical receiver receives coherent light. The optical receiver includes an amplitude adjuster, a signal processor, and a controller. The amplitude adjuster adjusts amplitude of an input signal to output an analog signal. The signal processor receives a digital signal generated from the analog signal output from the amplitude adjuster, extracts clock components from the digital signal, and after establishing synchronization between the clock components and data components, extracts the data components from the digital signal to process the data components. The controller sets amplitude of the analog signal to first amplitude before establishment of synchronization by the digital signal, and changes the set amplitude to second amplitude that is smaller than the first amplitude after the establishment of synchronization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU OPTICAL COMPONENTS LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenichi KAWAZOE, Yuji ISHII, Tamotsu AKASHI, Koji TERADA
  • Publication number: 20140236340
    Abstract: To execute machining for a front surface while rotating a work and, at the same time, apply machining to an eccentric position on an end face, according to an embodiment of the present invention, an NC device includes an arc-superimposition-interpolation control unit configured to rotate a work rotating shaft based on a command of a base axis program for controlling rotation of the work rotating shaft while performing front surface machining using a first cutter holder and, at the same time, subject a second cutter holder to position control on a second machining route obtained by superimposing the rotation of the work rotating shaft on a first machining route based on a command of a superimposition axis program for performing position control for the second cutter holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Terada, Masakazu Sagasaki
  • Publication number: 20140114465
    Abstract: A numerical control apparatus controls a machine tool including an X axis for moving a turret to which a plurality of tools are attached, a H axis for rotating the turret, and a C axis for rotating a work and not including a Y axis orthogonal to the X axis. The numerical control apparatus includes a unit configured to independently rotate the H axis according to an independent rotation command for the H axis and perform tool replacement during an imaginary Y-axis control mode, the imaginary Y-axis control mode being a mode for converting an X-Y axes movement command in a machining program into a command in an X-H-C coordinate system and for driving the X axis, the H axis, and the C axis in association with one another according to the converted command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Terada, Masakazu Sagasaki
  • Patent number: 8662253
    Abstract: A lubricating oil feeding structure that permits an adequate amount of lubricating oil to be fed to those parts around the transmission while avoiding an excess supply of lubricating oil to the lubricating oil passage in the shaft of the transmission. The transmission has a space (as a recess to hold the shaft therein) in which is arranged the oil guide part. The oil guide part has the bottomed cylinder, with its one end opened, the flange that flares outward at the open end of the bottomed cylinder, and the oil holes that communicate between the inside and the outside of the bottomed cylinder. The oil guide part is arranged in the space in such a way that the flange comes into contact with the outer race of the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Terada, Hiroshi Yokota, Kenichi Nakano
  • Patent number: 8639125
    Abstract: A light reception device includes: an interferometer that outputs a signal obtained by making an optical phase modulated signal interfere with a reference signal after shifting an optical phase of the optical phase modulated signal by a given amount; a light reception element that receives an output signal from the interferometer and converts the output signal into a light reception current; and a phase controller that controls a control amount in controlling the given amount so that a value of a function, which is calculated based on an amount relating to the light reception current and a change amount of an amount relating to the light reception current against the control amount, becomes an extreme value or 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Optical Components Limited
    Inventor: Koji Terada
  • Publication number: 20130317641
    Abstract: A numerical control device that controls a machine tool that includes an X-axis for moving a turret, an H-axis for rotating the turret, and a C-axis for rotating a workpiece and that does not have a Y-axis orthogonal to the X-axis, including an analyzer that analyzes a virtual-Y-axis rapid-traverse command in a virtual-Y-axis interpolation mode in which an X-Y-axis movement command in a machining program is converted, and the X-axis, the H-axis, and the C-axis are cooperatively driven; a C-axis interpolation processor that interpolates a C-axis angle in response to the analyzed virtual-Y-axis rapid-traverse command; and an X-axis interpolation processor that interpolates an X-axis position based on the interpolated C-axis angle. The numerical control device controls an X-axis position so as to rotate the C-axis while keeping a C-axis velocity to a constant velocity and to enable a virtual Y-axis to move substantially linearly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Terada, Masakazu Sagasaki
  • Publication number: 20130255417
    Abstract: A power unit includes a cam damper mechanism having a cam member reciprocally and unrotatably provided on one of a pair of bevel gears, and rotatably provided on an extended shaft; a lifter member slidably and unrotatably provided on the extended shaft in an axial direction; a damper spring configured such that one end portion thereof is supported on a first flange portion of the extended shaft, and the other end portion thereof biases the lifter member toward the cam member in an axial direction by abutting on the lifter member, and the biasing force is supported by the one bevel gear. The extended shaft has the one of the bevel gears and the cam damper mechanism between the first flange portion and a first bearing, and is accommodated in the bevel gear case so as to be fixed to a bevel gear holder along with the first bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya MURAO, Koji TERADA, Junya WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20130257340
    Abstract: A numerical control apparatus includes an imaginary-Y-axis control unit configured to execute an imaginary Y-axis control mode which is a mode for converting an X-Y axes movement command in a machining program described in a program coordinate system into a command in a machine coordinate system including X-H-C axes and for driving the X axis, the H axis, and the C axis in association with one another according to the converted command, an acquiring unit configured to acquire, when an emergency stop occurs during the imaginary Y-axis control mode, present positions of the X axis, the C axis, and the H axis at the time when the emergency stop is released, and a restoring unit configured to restore a present X-axis coordinate position and a present Y-axis coordinate position in the program coordinate system from the acquired present positions of the X axis, the C axis, and the H axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Sagasaki, Koji Terada
  • Publication number: 20130204427
    Abstract: A numerical control device including tapping spindle (S1, S2) time constant selecting means that compares acceleration and deceleration time constants of the S1 and S2 axes and selects the larger time constant, drilling axis (X1) acceleration and deceleration processing means that calculates an acceleration and deceleration movement amount of the X1 axis based on the selected spindle time constant and a commanded spindle rotation number and moves the drilling axis to the calculated position, synchronized tapping interpolation processing means that synchronizes the tapping spindle with the drilling axis based on the movement amount output from the drilling axis (X1) acceleration and deceleration processing means and a pitch, and tapping spindle synchronization processing means that transfers the rotation amount of the tapping spindle output from tapping spindle (S1)-drilling axis (X1) synchronization processing means to the synchronized side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Terada, Masakazu Sagasaki
  • Publication number: 20130166059
    Abstract: A numerical control device that controls a machine in which a main set including an X1 axis, a Z1 axis and a first turret axis and a sub-set including an X2 axis, a Z2 axis and a second turret axis are arranged to be point-symmetric with respect to a C axis, wherein each of the turret axis of the main set and the turret axis of the sub-set are selectively designated as a reference side and a synchronized side and a simultaneous D-cut control mode command for selecting a mode in which both turret axes are simultaneously actuated in synchronization using the output of the turret axis of one of the sets is set; wherein the numerical control device comprises, simultaneous D-cut command processing means, X1/Y1/C axis interpolation processing means, X2/Y2 axis interpolation processing means, and H axis command selecting means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Terada, Masakazu Sagasaki
  • Patent number: 8448620
    Abstract: An ignition device attachment structure for an internal combustion engine includes an ignition plug tube inserted between a cylinder head cover and an ignition device insertion hole formed in a cylinder head of the internal combustion engine. The ignition plug tube bulges from an upper end of the ignition plug tube to an intermediate portion of the ignition plug tube on a lateral surface of the ignition plug tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Terada, Toru Kisaichi, Shinsuke Kawakubo
  • Patent number: 8270850
    Abstract: A demodulator includes: a splitter that branches a differential phase shift keying optical signal into a first branched optical signal passing through a first optical path and a second branched optical signal passing through a second optical path; a multiplexer that multiplexes the first branched optical signal having passed through the first optical path and the second branched optical signal having passed through the second optical path and makes interference between the first branched optical signal and the second branched optical signal; and a double refraction medium that reduces difference between phase differences between each polarized wave between the first branched optical signal and the second branched optical signal multiplexed by the multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Koji Terada, Kiyomi Narita, Kazuyuki Mori
  • Publication number: 20120157899
    Abstract: A massager in which a backrest and side walls holding massage members have a unified form, is provided. The massager has: a backrest including, in an integrated fashion, a backrest section in which a massage mechanism for massaging a user's back is provided, and a pair of projecting sections which project to the left and right-hand sides from at least the upper part of the backrest section; side walls which respectively project forwards from front surfaces of the pair of projecting sections; and air bags which are provided respectively on inner side faces of the pair of side walls and used for massaging the sides of the user leaning against the backrest section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Terada, Akihiro Takaya, Tomohiko Watanabe, Taichi Hamatsuka, Yoshimi Takahashi