Patents by Inventor Koji Yamaguchi
Koji Yamaguchi 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: 20230158952Abstract: An image capture device is mounted in a vehicle. The image capture device includes: an image capture unit; and a setting unit that sets an image capture condition for each region of the image capture unit each having a plurality of pixels, or for each pixel, based upon at least one of a state exterior to the vehicle and a state of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2023Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Akiko SHIGA, Toru Miyakoshi, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Akira Kinoshita, Kaoru Yoshino, Hitomi Naganuma, Takashi Kuriyama, Koichi Fukuda, Yuki Kita, Koji Nagaoka, Tomoya Nakagawa, Masakazu Sekiguchi, Takashi Shionoya
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Publication number: 20230132776Abstract: A wiring module includes a base member including an attachment surface on which an attachment target portion is formed, a plurality of wiring members arranged on the attachment surface, and a holding member attached to the attachment target portion while holding the plurality of wiring members. The holding member includes a holding portion formed by a plurality of grooves arranged side by side, and an attachment portion that is capable of being detachably attached to the attachment target portion. The attachment target portion is provided at each of the plurality of attachment locations along paths of the plurality of wiring members on the attachment surface, and at each of the plurality of attachment locations, the plurality of wiring members are divided, housed and held in the plurality of grooves.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventor: Koji YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230115337Abstract: An object is to provide a technique capable of fixing a plurality of wiring members to the attachment surface as close as possible. A wiring module includes: base member having an attachment surface; a plurality of wiring members disposed on the attachment surface; and a holding member holding the plurality of wiring members in an arranged state on the attachment surface. The holding member includes at least one sheet portion in which at least one hole is formed. The plurality of wiring members are passed through the at least one hole and held in the arranged state. The sheet portion is joined to the attachment surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Koji YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki HIRAI, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Housei MIZUNO, Koichiro GOTO, Junichi SHIRAKAWA
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Patent number: 11614240Abstract: The ceiling concealed air-conditioning apparatus includes: a body containing a heat exchanger, a fan and an opening port; a decorative panel disposed below the body and configured to cover a periphery of the opening port; and a suction grille including, a rotary shaft attachable to the decorative panel and being configured to cover the opening port, wherein the suction grille includes: a locking element mounted on the suction grille so that it can slide and configured to be locked with the decorative panel; plate springs on respective sides of the locking element perpendicular to a sliding direction of the locking element and extending vertically in opposite directions; and spring supports configured to support both end faces of the respective plate springs at different positions, the plate springs include a long plate spring and a short plate spring placed such that the long plate spring engages the decorative panel first.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Tazawa
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Publication number: 20230085125Abstract: An air-conditioning system includes an outdoor unit, a plurality of indoor units, and one or more refrigerant leak sensors. The outdoor unit is configured to exchange heat between outdoor air and refrigerant in a refrigerant circuit in which the refrigerant is circulated. The plurality of indoor units are each configured to exchange heat between the refrigerant and air inside a room in the refrigerant circuit and to perform air-conditioning inside the room. The one or more refrigerant leak sensors are each configured to detect a leak of the refrigerant from the refrigerant circuit. The one or more refrigerant leak sensors are each arranged separately from the outdoor unit and the plurality of indoor units.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventor: Koji YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 11565634Abstract: A door wiring module includes: a door functional planar member; a wiring member wired on and held by the door functional planar member; and an exterior member in which a part of the wiring member extending to an outer side from the door functional planar member and incorporated into the door is wired and held. The door wiring module is provided to be able to be folded so that the exterior member overlaps with the door functional planar member before being incorporated into the door, and is incorporated into the door in a state where the exterior member is developed.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Makoto Higashikozono, Housei Mizuno
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Publication number: 20230001510Abstract: In a manufacturing method of a tailored blank including a first steel plate and a second steel plate to be joined by butt welding, the first and second steel plates are butt welded with a laser beam. The laser beam has a power density q1 in a first region, a power density q2 in a second region, a power density q3 in a third region, and a power density q4 in a fourth region. The power density q1, the power density q2, the power density q3, and the power density q4 satisfy a relationship of q1>q2>q3>q4.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Shota Muto, Shinya Azuchi, Koji Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11472352Abstract: A door wiring module includes a door functional planar member and a wiring member. The door functional planar member is incorporated between a door panel and a design trim in a door of a vehicle. The wiring member is wired on a planar part of a main surface of the door functional planar member where a groove is not formed, and fixed to the door functional planar member.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Housei Mizuno
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Patent number: 11453085Abstract: Firstly, an upper base material is disposed above a lower base material. Secondly, a laser beam is irradiated so that an area irradiated with a laser beam at a time of melting start is formed on only an upper surface of the upper base material or on only both the upper surface and an end surface of the upper base material, whereby the end surface of the upper base material and the lower base material are fillet welded. With the end surface as a reference, a side the upper surface and the lower surface are positioned is a first side, and an opposite side of the first side is a second side. The laser beam is set such that an intensity of the laser beam is lower toward the second side from the first peak area within the irradiation area of the laser beam.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Keigo Yasuda, Koji Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11451024Abstract: A wiring member integrated door resin component includes a built-in component (for example, a door resin component) and a wiring member. The built-in component is a component having a wiring member housing groove in one main surface and incorporated into a box-like member to partition an inner side and outer side of the box-like member. The wiring member is held by the built-in component in a state where at least a part thereof in an extension direction is housed in the wiring member housing groove.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Housei Mizuno
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Patent number: 11442404Abstract: A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a coupling member operatively connected to the photosensitive drum, with the coupling member including an arm portion and a projection projecting from the arm portion. The arm portion of the coupling member extends from a point that is upstream in the rotational direction of the photosensitive drum towards a point that is downstream in the rotation direction of the photosensitive drum.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuo Uesugi, Makoto Hayashida, Koji Yamaguchi, Takashi Yano
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Patent number: 11442405Abstract: A drum unit for a cartridge includes a cylindrical photosensitive drum having an axis L1 and a coupling member operatively connected to the photosensitive drum. The coupling member includes a first member having a cylindrical portion, a part of the first member being positioned inside of the photosensitive drum and a part of the first member being positioned outside of the photosensitive drum. The coupling member also includes a second member operatively connected to first member, the second member including a plurality of arm portions that are movable relative to the first member, with at least a part of each of the arm portions being positioned inside of the photosensitive drum and inside of the first member.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuo Uesugi, Makoto Hayashida, Koji Yamaguchi, Takashi Yano
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Patent number: 11435693Abstract: A coupling member drum unit for a cartridge includes a cylindrical photosensitive drum having an axis L1 and a coupling member operatively connected to the photosensitive drum. The coupling member includes a drum flange provided at an end of the photosensitive drum, with a part of the drum flange being positioned inside of the photosensitive drum, and a connecting part operatively connected to the drum flange. The connecting part includes a cap positioned adjacent to the drum flange, an arm portion extending from the cap in a direction of the axis L1, and a projection projecting from the arm portion in a direction perpendicular to the axis L1, with the projection being movable between a first position and a second position, and with an end of the projection being closer to the axis L1 in the first position than in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuo Uesugi, Makoto Hayashida, Koji Yamaguchi, Takashi Yano
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Patent number: 11427260Abstract: A reinforcement is formed into an elongated shape, and includes a reinforcement body in which a housing part opened toward an outer peripheral side is formed and a covering part attached to close an opening of the housing part. A module component which is an electrical component or a wiring component may be housed in the reinforcement while being attached to the covering part.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Housei Mizuno, Shinya Sadohara, Hiroki Hirai, Shinya Itou
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Publication number: 20220269201Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes, an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a sheet using printing toner and apply powder adhesive on the sheet, a fixing portion configured to heat the toner image formed on the sheet and the powder adhesive applied on the sheet by the image forming portion and fix the toner image and the powder adhesive to the sheet, and a bonding portion configured to bond the sheet with the powder adhesive by reheating the sheet having been heated by the fixing portion. The bonding portion is arranged above the image forming portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Kohei Matsuda, Hiroki Ogino, Yasushi Katsuta, Kaori Noguchi, Junko Hirata, Akira Kuroda, Yuki Nishizawa, Tsutomu Shimano, Toru Oguma
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Patent number: 11414192Abstract: A vehicle passenger cabin has a holding structure having multiple load introduction points, a multiplicity of support structure parts to be attached to the load introduction points, a lower base for delimiting a lower passenger deck, and a multiplicity of furnishing components to be fastened to the support structure parts. The holding structure has laterally on both sides one floor overhang as a lower delimitation of an upper passenger deck, extending from a laterally outer region of the holding structure radially inwards and at a distance vertically from the lower base. The structure parts are at least regionally curved or bent and are connected at an upper end and at a lower end to an upper and a lower load introduction points, respectively. The structure parts have a first receiving surface for receiving one of the furnishing components, which first receiving surface adjoins the floor overhang radially on the inside.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Inventors: Tobias-Valentin Mayer, Viljami Räisänen, Martin Engberg, Koji Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20220227317Abstract: An arrangement structure of a wiring member includes: a first member; a second member connected to the first member to be rotatable around a rotational axis; and a plurality of electrical wires having a part disposed at least between the first member and the second member, wherein the plurality of electrical wires are disposed in parallel to each other in a direction in which the rotational axis extends in the part of the plurality of electrical wires disposed between the first member and the second member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Koji YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki HIRAI, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Housei MIZUNO
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Patent number: 11378912Abstract: A drum unit for a cartridge includes a cylindrical photosensitive drum having an axis L1 and a coupling member operatively connected to the photosensitive drum. The coupling member includes a first member having a cylindrical portion, a part of the first member being positioned inside of the photosensitive drum and a part of the first member being positioned outside of the photosensitive drum. The coupling member also includes a second member operatively connected to first member, the second member including a plurality of arm portions that are movable relative to the first member, with at least a part of each of the arm portions being positioned inside of the photosensitive drum and inside of the first member.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuo Uesugi, Makoto Hayashida, Koji Yamaguchi, Takashi Yano
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Patent number: 11378911Abstract: A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a coupling member operatively connected to the photosensitive drum, with the coupling member including an arm portion and a projection projecting from the arm portion. The arm portion of the coupling member extends from a point that is upstream in the rotational direction of the photosensitive drum towards a point that is downstream in the rotation direction of the photosensitive drum.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuo Uesugi, Makoto Hayashida, Koji Yamaguchi, Takashi Yano
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Patent number: 11360416Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes, an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a sheet using printing toner and apply powder adhesive on the sheet, a fixing portion configured to heat the toner image formed on the sheet and the powder adhesive applied on the sheet by the image forming portion and fix the toner image and the powder adhesive to the sheet, and a bonding portion configured to bond the sheet with the powder adhesive by reheating the sheet having been heated by the fixing portion. The bonding portion is arranged above the image forming portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Kohei Matsuda, Hiroki Ogino, Yasushi Katsuta, Kaori Noguchi, Junko Hirata, Akira Kuroda, Yuki Nishizawa, Tsutomu Shimano, Toru Oguma