Patents by Inventor Manabu Takahashi

Manabu Takahashi 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: 20140326586
    Abstract: A limit switch has a housing having an opening in a front surface of the housing, and a connection hole in which a lead wire is drawn made in a bottom surface of the housing, a switch main body fixed in the housing, a front surface of which is vertically partitioned into a plurality of stages, a pair of fixed contact terminals embedded at each of the stages, an operation shaft exposed from a ceiling surface of the switch main body, a contact that is opened and closed by driving the operation shaft in a shaft center direction, and a projection provided between the fixed contact terminals embedded at the stages of the front surface of the switch main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Manabu Takahashi, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Shigenobu Fukui
  • Patent number: 8859676
    Abstract: An aqueous polyurethane resin dispersion containing a polyurethane resin obtained by reacting (A) a polyurethane prepolymer obtained by reacting (a) a polyisocyanate compound, (b) at least one polyol compound containing a polycarbonate polyol having a number average molecular weight of 400 to 3000, (c) an acidic group-containing polyol compound, and (d) a blocking agent for an isocyanate group, which dissociates at 80 to 180° C., and (B) a chain elongating agent having reactivity with the isocyanate group, being dispersed in an aqueous medium, a sum of a content of urethane bondings and a content of urea bondings is 7 to 18% by weight of solid components, a content of carbonate bondings is 15 to 40% by weight of solid components, and a content of an isocyanate group to which the above-mentioned blocking agent has bonded is 0.2 to 3% by weight of solid components and calculated on the isocyanate group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: UBE Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Morikami, Masahiro Naiki, Fumio Adachi, Manabu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140248545
    Abstract: A fuel cell system (100) includes: a fuel cell (60); a fuel processor (41) including a reformer (43) and a CO reducer (44, 45); a combustor (42); a first air supply device (46); an electric heater (50); a power supply device (200); a power outage detector (11); and a controller (10). The controller is configured such that, in a power outage state where the power outage detector has detected the power outage before the fuel cell generates electric power, the controller performs at least one of: increasing a supply amount of the combustion air to be greater than in a power supplied state where the power outage detector does not detect the power outage; and decreasing a supply amount of the combustible gas to be less than in the power supplied state, and decreases an amount of heating by the electric heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Takahashi, Motomichi Katou, Masato Kihara
  • Publication number: 20140242415
    Abstract: Provided is a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having small material anisotropy and excellent formability with an ultimate tensile strength of 980 MPa or more. The hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes a hot-dip galvanized layer formed on a surface of a base steel plate. The base steel plate contains, by mass %, C: 0.1 to less than 0.40%, Si: 0.5 to 3.0%, Mn: 1.5 to 3.0%, O: limited to 0.006% or less, P: limited to 0.04% or less, S: limited to 0.01% or less, Al: limited to 2.0% or less, N: limited to 0.01% or less, and a balance including Fe and inevitable impurities. A microstructure of the base steel sheet contains ferrite of 40% or more, residual austenite of 8 to less than 60%, by volume fraction, and a balance being bainite or martensite. In a sheet thickness range of ? to ? from the surface of the base steel sheet, a pole density of specific crystal orientation is within a predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Masafumi Azuma, Chisato Wakabayashi, Takayuki Nozaki, Nobuhiro Fujita, Manabu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140234657
    Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes: a steel sheet; and a plated layer on a surface of the steel sheet, a microstructure contains, by volume fraction, equal to or more than 20% and equal to or less than 99% in total of one or two of martensite and bainite, a residual structure contains one or two of ferrite, residual austenite of less than 8% by volume fraction, and pearlite of equal to or less than 10% by volume fraction, tensile strength is equal to or greater than 980 MPa, the plated layer is a hot-dip galvanized layer which contains oxides including one or two or more of Si, Mn, and Al, contains equal to or less than 15 mass % of Fe, and a remainder including Zn, Al, and unavoidable impurities, and when a cross section including the steel sheet and the hot-dip galvanized layer is seen in a sheet thickness direction, a projected area ratio is equal to or more than 10% and equal to or less than 90%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Masafumi Azuma, Chisato Wakabayashi, Takayuki Nozaki, Manabu Takahashi, Nobuhiro Fujita
  • Publication number: 20140234658
    Abstract: A galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet and a plating layer on the surface of the steel sheet, in which the steel sheet includes, as a steel chemical composition, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.5 to 3.0% and Mn: 1.5 to 3.0%, a microstructure of the steel sheet includes ferrite, bainite, by volume fraction, 30% or more of a tempered martensite, and 8% or more of an austenite, and tensile strength of the steel sheet is 980 MPa or more, and the plating layer includes an oxide including at least one chemical element selected from Si, Mn and Al, and when seen at a cross section including the steel sheet and the plating layer in a plate thickness direction, a projection area fraction of the oxide is 10% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Takayuki Nozaki, Manabu Takahashi, Nobuhiro Fujita, Masafumi Azuma, Chisato Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 8802241
    Abstract: In an embodiment of a steel sheet having high Young's modulus, the steel can include in terms of mass %, e.g., C: 0.0005 to 0.30%, Si: 2.3% or less, Mn: 2.7 to 5.0%, P: 0.15% or less, 0.015% or less, Mo: 0.15 to 1.5%, B: 0.0006 to 0.01%, and Al: 0.15% or less, with the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities. One or both of {110}<223> pole density and {110}<111> pole density in the ? sheet thickness layer can be 10 or more, and a Young's modulus in a rolling direction can be more than 230 GPa. Other embodiments can include, e.g., Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, N: 0.01% or less, and one or more of Mo: 0.005 to 1.5%, Nb: 0.005 to 0.20%, Ti: at least 48/14×N (mass %) and 0.2% or less, and B: 0.0001 to 0.01%, at a total content of 0.015 to 1.91 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Natsuko Sugiura, Naoki Yoshinaga, Shunji Hiwatashi, Manabu Takahashi, Koji Hanya, Nobuyoshi Uno, Ryoichi Kanno, Akihiro Miyasaka, Takehide Senuma
  • Publication number: 20140088246
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an aqueous polyurethane resin dispersion in which a polyurethane resin s dispersed in an aqueous medium, wherein the polyurethane resin is obtained by reacting (A) a polyurethane prepolymer which is obtained by reacting (a) a polyisocyanate compound, (b) a polyol compound containing a polycarbonate polyol having a number average molecular weight of 800 to 3500, and (c) an acidic group-containing polyol compound, and (B) a chain extender, being dispersed in an aqueous medium, (B) the chain extender contains a polyamine compound having three or more in total of an amino group(s) and/or an imino group(s) per molecule, and the polyurethane resin has, each based on a solid content, a content of urethane bonds of 5 to 10% by weight, a content of urea bonds of 2 to 7% by weight, a content of carbonate bonds of 15 to 40% by weight, has neither ether bond nor ester bond, has a density of cross-linking points of 1.0×10?4 to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Morikami, Masahiro Naiki, Fumio Adachi, Manabu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140030619
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel processor; a fuel cell stack; a first water tank; a combustor; a water discharge passage connected to a water drain port formed in the first water tank to discharge the water from inside of the first water tank; a water filling detector configured to detect that at least one of the water drain port and the water discharge passage is filled with water; a water supply unit for supplying the water to the first water tank; and a controller configured to execute a water filling step of supplying the water to the first water, supply the combustible gas to the combustor via the first water tank and cause the combustor to combust the combustible gas, when the water filling detector detects that at least one of the water drain port and the water discharge passage is filled with water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Takahashi, Motomichi Katou
  • Publication number: 20140014236
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hot-rolled steel sheet including, by mass %, C:0.02% to 0.5% of C, and the sum of the content of Si and the content of Al is 1.0% to 4.0%. An average pole density of an orientation group from {100}<011> to {223}<110> is 1.0 to 6.5, and a pole density of a crystal orientation {332}<113> is 1.0 to 5.0. A microstructure includes, by of an area ratio, 2% to 30% of retained austenite, 20% to 50% of ferrite, and 10% to 60% of bainite. rC that is a Lankford value in a direction orthogonal to a rolling direction is 0.70 to 1.10, and r30 that is a Lankford value in a direction forming an angle of 30° with the rolling direction is 0.70 to 1.10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Nozaki, Manabu Takahashi, Nobuhiro Fujita, Hiroshi Yoshida, Shinichiro Watanabe, Takeshi Yamamoto, Chisato Wakabayashi, Riki Okamoto, Kohichi Sano
  • Publication number: 20140000409
    Abstract: An object detecting actuator and an object detecting switch with increased durability. The actuator in one embodiment includes a roller that receives a load of an external force; and a roller lever to which the roller is rotatably attached by means of a rotary shaft, the actuator being a displacement member that is displaced in accordance with the load of the force received by the roller, wherein the roller is constituted by a sintered body of stainless steel material impregnated with lubricating oil, and a density of the sintered body of stainless steel material is in a range of 6.45 to 6.7 g/cm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Hayase, Kokichi Tobita, Manabu Takahashi, Junya Mishima
  • Publication number: 20140000765
    Abstract: This is a cold-rolled steel sheet includes, by mass %, C: 0.02% to 0.4%, Si: 0.001% to 2.5%, Mn: 0.001% to 4.0%, and Al: 0.001% to 2.0%. The sum of the Si content and the Al content is 1.0% to 4.5%. An average pole density of an orientation group from {100}<011> to {223}<110> is 1.0 to 6.5, and a pole density of a crystal orientation {332}<113> is 1.0 to 5.0. A microstructure includes, by an area ratio %, 5% to 80% of ferrite, 5% to 80% of bainite, and 2% to 30% of retained austenite. In the microstructure, by an area ratio %, martensite is limited to 20% or less, pearlite is limited to 10% or less, and tempered martensite is limited to 60% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Takayuki Nozaki, Manabu Takahashi, Nobuhiro Fujita, Hiroshi Yoshida, Shinichiro Watanabe, Takeshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20130323112
    Abstract: In a hot-rolled sheet, an average value of pole densities of an orientation group {100}<011> to {223}<110>, which is represented by an arithmetic mean of pole densities of orientations {100}<011>, {116}<110>, {114}<110>, {112}<110>, and {223}<110> in a thickness center portion of a thickness range of ? to ? from a surface of the steel sheet, is 1.0 to 6.5 and a pole density of a crystal orientation {332}<113> is 1.0 to 5.0; and a Lankford value rC in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 0.70 to 1.10 and a Lankford value r30 in a direction that forms 30° with respect to the rolling direction is 0.70 to 1.10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riki Okamoto, Nobuhiro Fujita, Manabu Takahashi, Kunio Hayashi, Tetsuo Kishimoto, Kazuaki Nakano, Takeshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20130317167
    Abstract: An aqueous polyurethane resin dispersion exhibits excellent drying properties of coating films and gives coating films having high water resistance and on the other hand showing a high rate of swelling with respect to aqueous cleaning liquids to permit new application. The aqueous polyurethane resin dispersion is a dispersion of a polyurethane resin in an aqueous medium, the polyurethane resin being obtained by reacting (A) a polyurethane prepolymer obtained from (a) a polyisocyanate compound, (b) a polycarbonate polyol with a number average molecular weight of 400 to 3000, (c) an acidic group-containing polyol compound and (d) a blocking agent, with (B) a chain extender, the total content of urethane bonds and urea bonds being 7 to 15 wt %, the content of carbonate bonds being 15 to 40 wt %, the content of ether bonds being 0 wt %, the content of isocyanate groups bonded to the blocking agent being 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Morikami, Masahiro Naiki, Fumio Adachi, Manabu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20130317171
    Abstract: An aqueous polyurethane resin dispersion is a dispersion of a polyurethane resin in an aqueous medium, the polyurethane resin being obtained by reacting (A) a polyurethane prepolymer obtained by reacting (a) a polyisocyanate compound, (b) a polyol compound including a polycarbonate polyol with a number average molecular weight of 400 to 3000, (c) an acidic group-containing polyol compound and (d) a blocking agent, with (B) a chain extender, the total content of urethane bonds and urea bonds being 7 to 15 wt %, the content of carbonate bonds being 15 to 40 wt %, the content of ether bonds being 0.5 to 5 wt %, the content of isocyanate groups bonded to the blocking agent being 0.2 to 2.0 wt %, each of these contents being based on solid contents, the acid value being 10 to 16 mg KOH/g. The aqueous polyurethane resin dispersion can form coating films which permit new application while exhibiting excellent water resistance and solvent resistance. A coating composition includes the dispersion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Morikami, Masahiro Naiki, Fumio Adachi, Manabu Takahashi
  • Patent number: D692395
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Takahashi, Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Shigenobu Fukui
  • Patent number: D694194
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Takahashi, Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Shigenobu Fukui, Yuichi Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Shinya Katsube
  • Patent number: D703153
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Takahashi, Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Shigenobu Fukui
  • Patent number: D703620
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Takahashi, Kazuyki Tsukimori, Shigenbu Fukui, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Shinya Katsube
  • Patent number: D718257
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Manabu Takahashi, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Shigenobu Fukui, Shinya Katsube