Patents by Inventor Makoto Hirai
Makoto Hirai 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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Patent number: 11942242Abstract: A wiring member includes a wiring body and a pattern. The wiring body includes a plurality of wire-like transmission members and a base material. The plurality of wire-like transmission members are fixed to the base material in an aligned state, and the pattern is provided on the wiring body. The pattern makes a two-dimensional position of at least a part of a portion related to the base material recognizable in the wiring body.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Suguru Yasuda, Haruka Nakano, Motohiro Yokoi, Kenta Ito, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Koichiro Goto, Junichi Shirakawa, Yoshitaka Kami, Yasushi Nomura, Sofia Barillaro
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Patent number: 11933022Abstract: A tractor includes a working motor, a work machine including a roller configured to rotate by an output from the working motor, a support mechanism configured to support the work machine such that a working posture and a retracting posture are achievable, and a control device. The control device executes: an adherence amount acquisition process of acquiring an estimated adherence amount as an estimated value for the amount of mud attached to the roller; and a mud removal process of, when the estimated adherence amount is equal to or more than a determination adherence amount, removing the mud from the roller by driving the working motor in a state where the work machine takes the retracting posture.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Sugo, Masaki Numakura, Makoto Hirai, Taiga Higuchi, Tomohiro Sato, Hiroyuki Azuma
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Patent number: 11912775Abstract: A monoclonal antibody is provided which binds to a human CC chemokine receptor 1 (CCR1) and inhibits activation of the human CCR1, or an antibody fragment thereof. The monoclonal antibody binds to an extracellular region of a human CCR1 and inhibits activation of the human CCR1 by a human CC chemokine ligand 15 (CCL15). An antibody fragment thereof, a hybridoma producing the antibody, a nucleic acid having a nucleotide sequence encoding the antibody or the antibody fragment, a transformant cell containing a vector containing the nucleic acid, a method for producing the antibody or the antibody fragment using the hybridoma or the transformant cell; a therapeutic agent and a diagnostic agent containing the antibody or the antibody fragment, and a method for treating and diagnosing a CCR1-related disease using the antibody or the antibody fragment are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2018Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: KYOWA KIRIN CO., LTD., KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Masayuki Kai, Shinya Ogawa, Makoto Taketo, Kenji Kawada, Hideyo Hirai, Yoshiharu Sakai, Taira Maekawa
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Patent number: 11897307Abstract: The suspension system for a trailer is disclosed. The suspension system includes a torsion axle and an air spring operating to accommodate a wide range of a load weight applied to the trailer without any change in ride comfort. The air spring can be adjusted for its pressure inside to cover a heavy load weight, while the torsion axle can have relatively softer spring materials therein to cover a light (and zero) load weight. The air spring and the torsion axle are arranged in series to provide adequate suspension based on the load weight.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Flyer Next, LLCInventors: Nicholas Brett Frey, Amit Nechushtan, Matthew Phillip Amano, Bryce Makoto Hirai
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Patent number: 11881062Abstract: Provided is a control device of a working vehicle including a prime mover and a driving mechanism that drives an implement based on power of the prime mover, wherein the control device is configured to obtain a steering angle of the working vehicle, and detect switching between tasks performed by the working vehicle in a farm field, when the steering angle is equal to or greater than a predetermined angle indicating the switching between tasks.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Sugo, Makoto Hirai, Masaki Numakura, Tomohiro Sato, Taiga Higuchi, Hiroyuki Azuma
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Publication number: 20230082480Abstract: A wing lock structure includes: a block provided to a side gate, and provided with a plurality of convex portions that are convex in a width direction of a vehicle and concave portions that are concave in the width direction of the vehicle in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle; a wing plate provided at a predetermined portion of a wing side panel facing the block in a closed state and having irregularities corresponding to the concave portions and the convex portions on a surface that comes into contact with the block; and a pressure contact portion that presses the wing plate to bring the wing plate and the block into contact by pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Makoto HIRAI, Ryota YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20220319248Abstract: Provided is a control device of a working vehicle including a prime mover and a driving mechanism that drives an implement based on power of the prime mover, wherein the control device is configured to obtain a steering angle of the working vehicle, and detect switching between tasks performed by the working vehicle in a farm field, when the steering angle is equal to or greater than a predetermined angle indicating the switching between tasks.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Yuki SUGO, Makoto HIRAI, Masaki NUMAKURA, Tomohiro SATO, Taiga HIGUCHI, Hiroyuki AZUMA
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Publication number: 20220282452Abstract: A tractor includes a working motor, a work machine including a roller configured to rotate by an output from the working motor, a support mechanism configured to support the work machine such that a working posture and a retracting posture are achievable, and a control device. The control device executes: an adherence amount acquisition process of acquiring an estimated adherence amount as an estimated value for the amount of mud attached to the roller; and a mud removal process of, when the estimated adherence amount is equal to or more than a determination adherence amount, removing the mud from the roller by driving the working motor in a state where the work machine takes the retracting posture.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Yuki SUGO, Masaki NUMAKURA, Makoto HIRAI, Taiga HIGUCHI, Tomohiro SATO, Hiroyuki AZUMA
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Patent number: 11273896Abstract: To simplify the structure of a holding fixture which holds the shape of the aircraft panel and conveys the aircraft panel, an object is to ensure shape accuracy required in the manufacturing process and hold an aircraft panel in an appropriate shape, in combination with a holding fixture. A shape holding fixture includes: a plurality of support units configured to be positioned on a lower surface side of an aircraft panel, and provided at intervals along a one-axis direction, the aircraft panel being held by a holding fixture configured to grip an edge portion of the aircraft panel; and a shape holding unit provided to each of the plurality of support units, including a rod which supports the aircraft panel from the lower surface side of the aircraft panel, and configured to adjust a position where the rod comes into contact with the aircraft panel to support the aircraft panel, corresponding to the shape of the aircraft panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Makoto Hirai, Hiroki Azuma, Takuya Goto, Sachio Takeyama
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Patent number: 11117184Abstract: An aircraft panel production method has: a step in which a holding jig holds a body panel, which has a plurality of plate-like members having a curved cross-sectional shape, such that the cross section of the body panel has an upwardly bulging curved shape; a step in which the plate-like members of the body panel held by the holding jig are overlapped with each other and the overlapping portions are joined by a rivet; a step in which the holding jig, which is holding the body panel of which the plate-like members have been joined to each other, is moved; and a step in which a frame that follows the curved shape of the body panel is joined, by a rivet, to the plate-like members of the body panel which is held by the holding jig which has been moved.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Makoto Hirai, Hiroshi Taneda, Takuya Goto, Tsuyoshi Kaneko
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Patent number: 11034464Abstract: An object is to provide a holding fixture fixing apparatus which can ensure positioning accuracy and shape accuracy of a moving holding fixture, thus allowing an aircraft panel to be assembled with high accuracy. A holding fixture fixing apparatus includes a plurality of fixing units configured to support and fix a holding fixture, which holds a fuselage panel having a curved shape in cross section, from a lower surface of the holding fixture, the fixing units being provided on an installation surface, wherein the plurality of fixing units are provided corresponding to at least four corners of the lower surface of the holding fixture.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Makoto Hirai, Hiroki Azuma, Michinobu Takahagi
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Publication number: 20210171181Abstract: To simplify the structure of a holding fixture which holds the shape of the aircraft panel and conveys the aircraft panel, an object is to ensure shape accuracy required in the manufacturing process and hold an aircraft panel in an appropriate shape, in combination with a holding fixture. A shape holding fixture includes: a plurality of support units configured to be positioned on a lower surface side of an aircraft panel, and provided at intervals along a one-axis direction, the aircraft panel being held by a holding fixture configured to grip an edge portion of the aircraft panel; and a shape holding unit provided to each of the plurality of support units, including a rod which supports the aircraft panel from the lower surface side of the aircraft panel, and configured to adjust a position where the rod comes into contact with the aircraft panel to support the aircraft panel, corresponding to the shape of the aircraft panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2016Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Makoto HIRAI, Hiroki AZUMA, Takuya GOTO, Sachio TAKEYAMA
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Patent number: 10913134Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an assembly manufacturing device and an assembly manufacturing method capable of reducing error when the actual position of a long member is detected, and precisely setting a reference point and a coordinates system. The long member assembly apparatus provides a plurality of hand parts for gripping a long member, a touch plate for securing the first end of the long member and restricting the movement of the long member in the longitudinal direction, a laser tracker for detecting the installation position of the touch plate, and a reference determining part for determining reference coordinates or reference point to be used in for adjusting the position of the hand parts, based on the installation position of the touch plate detected by the laser tracker.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Toshihiro Tombe, Naoki Goto, Makoto Hirai
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Patent number: 10843820Abstract: An object is to simplify a structure of a holding fixture which holds the shape of an aircraft panel, and to hold the aircraft panel in an appropriate shape. A holding fixture includes: a plurality of gripping units configured to grip edge portions on two opposite sides of a fuselage panel including a skin; and a support body configured to integrally support the plurality of gripping units, the support body being provided corresponding to the fuselage panel to be gripped by the plurality of gripping units, wherein the plurality of gripping units hold the fuselage panel such that the gripping units grip the edge portions of the fuselage panel, and the fuselage panel has a curved shape in cross section taken in a direction perpendicular to a one axis direction, and the holding fixture is configured to be conveyable in a state of holding the fuselage panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Makoto Hirai, Hiroki Azuma, Takuya Goto, Sachio Takeyama
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Patent number: 10814488Abstract: To hold a long member in the original shape of the long member at a precise position, a long member assembling device has: a plurality of hand parts configured to grip a long member; arm parts and trunk parts configured to move the hand parts to adjust the positions of the plurality of hand parts gripping the long member; a storage unit in which the original shape of the long member is stored; and a control unit configured to, on the basis of the original shape of the long member stored in the storage unit, drive the arm parts and the trunk parts to adjust the positions of the plurality of hand parts gripping the long member such that the shape of the long member gripped by the plurality of hand parts matches the original shape of the long member stored in the storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Toshihiro Tombe, Takuya Goto, Takahiro Inagaki, Makoto Hirai, Naoki Goto, Masanobu Mizukami, Katsumi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20200324532Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to provide an interior member for an aircraft, a manufacturing method of the member and a replacement method of the member in which replacement cost can be reduced. An interior member for an aircraft according to the present disclosure includes a substrate, a decorative layer that covers the surface of the substrate, and an adhesive layer that adheres to the decorative layer to the substrate, and the decorative layer is peelably pasted to the surface of the substrate via the adhesive layer in a range that meets a required adhesive strength and that does not affect the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2019Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Makoto HIRAI, Hiroshi TANEDA, Toshio KOZASA, Masayuki KANEMASU, Yukari SAKURAGI, Kensuke SAKAKI, Kazuhiro OKADA
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Patent number: 10668583Abstract: In order to hold a long member without using a fixing jig and without deforming the long member in holding the long member, a long member assembling device is provided with: multiple hand parts for gripping a long member; and arm parts and trunk parts for moving the hand parts to adjust the positions of the hand parts gripping the long member. The hand parts have a configuration such that, when the positions thereof are adjusted by the arm parts and the trunk parts, the hand parts are capable of moving in the longitudinal direction of the long member while gripping the long member.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Inagaki, Toshihiro Tombe, Takuya Goto, Makoto Hirai, Naoki Goto, Masanobu Mizukami, Katsumi Nakamura
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Patent number: 10654138Abstract: A production facility is provided with: an AGV for transporting a plurality of fuselage panels of multiple types having different shapes in a mixed state on a previously determined transport path; a plurality of A/Rs for riveting the fuselage panels; work areas set so as to correspond to the respective A/Rs in which the A/Rs move to rivet the fuselage panels; and a buffer area, set beforehand in the transport path adjacent to the work area, to which the A/R corresponding to the adjacent work area moves so as to rivet the fuselage panel. When there is no fuselage panel to be riveted in the work area adjacent to the buffer area and the fuselage panel to be riveted is present in the buffer area, a control device moves the A/R corresponding to the work area adjacent to the buffer area to the buffer area to rivet the fuselage panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Makoto Hirai, Takuya Goto, Tsuyoshi Kaneko, Katsumi Nakamura
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Patent number: 10556350Abstract: A long member assembling device has hand parts configured to grip a long member, arm parts and trunk parts configured to adjust a position of each of the hand parts, a hand part configured to grip the long member, the hand part numbering less than the hand parts, an arm part and a trunk part configured to move the hand part and adjust a position of the hand part gripping the long member, the arm part and the trunk part having higher positioning accuracy than the hand parts, and a control unit configured to, on the basis of an original shape of the long member stored in a memory, drive the arm parts and the trunk parts to adjust the positions of the hand parts and the hand part such that the shape of the long member gripped by the hand parts matches the original shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Toshihiro Tombe, Naoki Goto, Makoto Hirai, Takuya Goto, Takahiro Inagaki
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Publication number: 20190030588Abstract: An aircraft panel production method has: a step in which a holding jig holds a body panel, which has a plurality of plate-like members having a curved cross-sectional shape, such that the cross section of the body panel has an upwardly bulging curved shape; a step in which the plate-like members of the body panel held by the holding jig are overlapped with each other and the overlapping portions are joined by a rivet; a step in which the holding jig, which is holding the body panel of which the plate-like members have been joined to each other, is moved; and a step in which a frame that follows the curved shape of the body panel is joined, by a rivet, to the plate-like members of the body panel which is held by the holding jig which has been moved.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2016Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Makoto HIRAI, Hiroshi TANEDA, Takuya GOTO, Tsuyoshi KANEKO