Patents by Inventor Kosuke Maeda

Kosuke Maeda 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).

  • Publication number: 20250020409
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a plurality of heat transfer tubes, each of which extends in a first direction, arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; an upper header provided on an upper end of each of the plurality of heat transfer tubes and extending in the second direction; and a water guide covering a part of the upper header within a region of an angle formed by the first direction and a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction as viewed from a center of the upper header in the second direction, and guiding condensate generated on a surface of the upper header toward a position between the plurality of heat transfer tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Atsushi MORITA, Tsuyoshi MAEDA, Akira YATSUYANAGI, Kosuke SATO
  • Publication number: 20240247934
    Abstract: Provided is a surveying method that enables highly accurate surveying with use of a laser scanner, and, a target marker and a surveying system applicable to the surveying method, wherein the method includes marker placement in which at least one target marker, with at least a partial region formed of a retroreflective material, is placed; surveying in which a laser scanner is placed within a measurement area of the laser scanner at a position where the target marker was placed, and a surrounding space around the target marker is surveyed to acquire point cloud data; and marker identification in which a computer device detects at least one unsurveyable area in the point cloud data acquired in the surveying to create an error map, and identifies a position of placement of the target marker referring to the created error map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Fuminori YAMASAKI, Takashi KARINO, Kosuke MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20200343036
    Abstract: An example inductor comprises multiple coil parts and each formed by flatwise-winding layers of turns of a flat wire arranged in a radial direction with gaps between each of the layers, and the multiple coil parts are arranged in an axial direction with a clearance. There is provided a clearance between the multiple coil parts, through which air flows, achieving improvement in heat dissipation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Masayuki Nakahama, Kosuke Maeda, Mitsuo Ebisawa, Manabu Ishitobi
  • Patent number: 10745073
    Abstract: Provided is a straddle-type seat configured to prevent a cover member from being detached and to increase a crime prevention property. The cover member is configured to close a through hole formed on a seat surface. The seat is configured to support a seated occupant in a straddle state and includes a seat main body on which the occupant sits, and a cover member that covers the through hole formed in the seat main body. The cover member includes a lid portion that closes the through hole on a top surface of the seat main body, and a downward extension portion that downwardly extends from the lid portion. The downward extension portion is locked to a T-like shape protrusion formed on a bottom surface of the seat main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignees: TS Tech Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tsurumi, Ryuji Isobe, Kosuke Maeda, Shinichiro Motoda, Gen Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20180273125
    Abstract: Provided is a straddle-type seat configured to prevent a cover member from being detached and to increase a crime prevention property. The cover member is configured to close a through hole formed on a seat surface. The seat is configured to support a seated occupant in a straddle state and includes a seat main body on which the occupant sits, and a cover member that covers the through hole formed in the seat main body. The cover member includes a lid portion that closes the through hole on a top surface of the seat main body, and a downward extension portion that downwardly extends from the lid portion. The downward extension portion is locked to a T-like shape protrusion formed on a bottom surface of the seat main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tsurumi, Ryuji Isobe, Kosuke Maeda, Shinichiro Motoda, Gen Tanabe
  • Patent number: 10017221
    Abstract: A two-wheeled motor vehicle seat device with a backrest provided on a seat main body so as to be movable in a fore-and-aft direction is provided in which the backrest is provided on the seat main body mounted on a vehicle body so that the backrest can move in a fore-and-aft direction thereof, a heater is incorporated into the backrest, and a harness connected to the heater is passed through an interior of the seat main body and connected to a power supply. This enables the heater to be incorporated into the backrest to heat the backrest without interfering with the fore-and-aft movement of the backrest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Uemura, Minoru Takabayashi, Hideki Tokumoto, Kosuke Maeda, Kazuhiro Tsurumi
  • Publication number: 20170217523
    Abstract: A two-wheeled motor vehicle seat device with a backrest provided on a seat main body so as to be movable in a fore-and-aft direction is provided in which the backrest is provided on the seat main body mounted on a vehicle body so that the backrest can move in a fore-and-aft direction thereof, a heater is incorporated into the backrest, and a harness connected to the heater is passed through an interior of the seat main body and connected to a power supply. This enables the heater to be incorporated into the backrest to heat the backrest without interfering with the fore-and-aft movement of the backrest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuo UEMURA, Minoru TAKABAYASHI, Hideki TOKUMOTO, Kosuke MAEDA, Kazuhiro TSURUMI
  • Patent number: 9240561
    Abstract: This invention is to provide a nanodevice, which is combined with an electronic device such as a diode, tunnel device and MOS transistor, integrated circuit and manufacturing method of the nanodevice. A nanodevice includes: a first insulating layer 2; one electrode 5A and the other electrode 5B provided to have a nanogap on the first insulating layer 2; a metal nanoparticle or a functional molecule provided between the one electrode 5A and the other electrode 5B; a second insulating layer 8 provided on the first insulating layer 2, and on the one electrode 5A and the other electrode 5B to embed the metal nanoparticle or the functional molecule. The second insulating layer works as a passivating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
    Inventors: Yutaka Majima, Toshiharu Teranishi, Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Kenzo Maehashi, Yasuo Azuma, Yasuhide Ohno, Kosuke Maeda, Guillaume Hackenberger
  • Publication number: 20150014624
    Abstract: This invention is to provide a nanodevice, which is combined with an electronic device such as a diode, tunnel device and MOS transistor, integrated circuit and manufacturing method of the nanodevice. A nanodevice includes: a first insulating layer 2; one electrode 5A and the other electrode 5B provided to have a nanogap on the first insulating layer 2; a metal nanoparticle or a functional molecule provided between the one electrode 5A and the other electrode 5B; a second insulating layer 8 provided on the first insulating layer 2, and on the one electrode 5A and the other electrode 5B to embed the metal nanoparticle or the functional molecule. The second insulating layer works as a passivating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
    Inventors: Yutaka Majima, Toshiharu Teranishi, Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Kenzo Maehashi, Yasuo Azuma, Yasuhide Ohno, Kosuke Maeda, Guillaume Hackenberger
  • Publication number: 20140020577
    Abstract: A rotary screen apparatus includes: a hollow cylinder having multiple holes formed therein and configured to come into contact, at its outer peripheral surface, with the surface of a sheet held on an impression cylinder; a rotary screen including a squeegee configured to extrude ink delivered to the inner peripheral surface of the hollow cylinder through the holes by coming into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the hollow cylinder; and a restricting plate, disposed on the downstream side of the squeegee in the moving direction thereof in relative movement of the hollow cylinder and the squeegee performed when the ink is extruded through the holes in the hollow cylinder, for restricting movement of the ink such that the ink is kept within a space present on a downstream side of the portion of the squeegee in contact with the hollow cylinder in the moving direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: KOMORI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tasuku KONDO, Isao KOMURO, Kosuke MAEDA
  • Patent number: 8203859
    Abstract: A high frequency device for supplying a high frequency power to a load, the high frequency device includes: an oscillating unit that can vary an oscillation frequency; a high frequency power supplying unit that serves as a power source by amplifying an oscillation signal output from the oscillating unit for supplying the high frequency power to the load; a reflected-wave information calculating unit that calculates reflected wave information on a reflected wave power, and outputs the reflected wave information; a frequency control unit that controls the oscillation frequency of the oscillating unit so as to lower the reflected wave information; an impedance adjusting unit that is disposed at a downstream of the high frequency power supplying unit in a power supplying direction, and that has at least one variable reactance element which can be controlled; and an element control unit that controls the variable reactance element of the impedance adjusting unit so as to lower the reflected wave information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Daihen Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Omae, Kosuke Maeda, Ryohei Tanaka, Hideo Ito
  • Patent number: 7495524
    Abstract: An impedance matching apparatus has: a storing portion 70 for previously storing, for plural positions which can be taken by a movable portion of a variable impedance element, allowable power values respectively corresponding to the plural positions of the movable portion; and an abnormality determining portion 80 for determining an allowable power value based on the present positions of the movable portion supplied from position detecting portions 41, 42 and the allowable power values stored in the storing portion 70, for comparing the allowable power value with an input power value, and for determining that it is abnormal when the input power value is larger than the allowable power value. Accordingly, the calculation load during the matching operation can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Daihen Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Omae, Shinichi Negi, Kosuke Maeda
  • Publication number: 20080158927
    Abstract: A high frequency device for supplying a high frequency power to a load, the high frequency device includes: an oscillating unit that can vary an oscillation frequency; a high frequency power supplying unit that serves as a power source by amplifying an oscillation signal output from the oscillating unit for supplying the high frequency power to the load; a reflected-wave information calculating unit that calculates reflected wave information on a reflected wave power, and outputs the reflected wave information; a frequency control unit that controls the oscillation frequency of the oscillating unit so as to lower the reflected wave information; an impedance adjusting unit that is disposed at a downstream of the high frequency power supplying unit in a power supplying direction, and that has at least one variable reactance element which can be controlled; and an element control unit that controls the variable reactance element of the impedance adjusting unit so as to lower the reflected wave information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: DAIHEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji OMAE, Kosuke MAEDA, Ryohei TANAKA, Hideo ITO
  • Publication number: 20070229181
    Abstract: An impedance matching apparatus has: a storing portion 70 for previously storing, for plural positions which can be taken by a movable portion of a variable impedance element, allowable power values respectively corresponding to the plural positions of the movable portion; and an abnormality determining portion 80 for determining an allowable power value based on the present positions of the movable portion supplied from position detecting portions 41, 42 and the allowable power values stored in the storing portion 70, for comparing the allowable power value with an input power value, and for determining that it is abnormal when the input power value is larger than the allowable power value. Accordingly, the calculation load during the matching operation can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: Daihen Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji OMAE, Shinichi NEGI, Kosuke MAEDA