Patents by Inventor Masaaki Hashimoto
Masaaki Hashimoto 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: 20240118101Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to, upon acquiring travel request information indicating a travel request of a user from a terminal apparatus of the user, select at least one candidate service from among a plurality of mobility services based on at least one piece of information from among physical condition information on the user, schedule information on the user, weather information for a scheduled travel date and time, and day of week information for the scheduled travel date, acquire a result of a route search using the at least one candidate service, and transmit the result to the terminal apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Kenta NOSE, Masaaki HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240087060Abstract: An information processing method includes receiving first information indicating a travel plan of a user, acquiring, for each on-demand vehicle service, second information indicating boarding/alighting points and operation status of a vehicle, determining and presenting, based on the first and second information, a recommended route for transferring bet ween first and second vehicles belonging to first and second on-demand vehicle services, and making a reservation with the first and second on-demand vehicle services in accordance with the recommended route.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Taiki YOSHIDA, Kenta NOSE, Masaaki HASHIMOTO, Yoshihiro YAMADA, Tomohiro SHIN
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Patent number: 11332182Abstract: A vehicle steering apparatus includes a shaft member, a moving portion, a support member, and a stop portion. The moving portion includes a first abutting surface that faces the stop portion in a circumferential direction of the shaft member. The first abutting surface is inclined with respect to an axial direction of the shaft member to face a shaft support portion side when the moving portion is viewed in a radial direction of the shaft member. The stop portion includes a first abutted surface that abuts the first abutting surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Shoji Ishimura, Masaaki Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Naohiro Oosono
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Publication number: 20200130725Abstract: A vehicle steering apparatus includes a shaft member, a moving portion, a support member, and a stop portion. The moving portion includes a first abutting surface that faces the stop portion in a circumferential direction of the shaft member. The first abutting surface is inclined with respect to an axial direction of the shaft member to face a shaft support portion side when the moving portion is viewed in a radial direction of the shaft member. The stop portion includes a first abutted surface that abuts the first abutting surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Shoji ISHIMURA, Masaaki HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiro WATANABE, Naohiro OOSONO
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Patent number: 8272785Abstract: A bearing mechanism 1 includes a housing 3 having a cylindrical inner peripheral surface 2, a rack shaft 5 inserted and secured in the housing 3 and having a cylindrical outer peripheral surface 4, and a sliding bearing 6 interposed between the inner peripheral surface 2 of the housing 3 and the outer peripheral surface 4 of the rack shaft 5.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2008Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignees: Jtekt Corporation, Oiles CorporationInventors: Masahiko Hirose, Yoshihide Ohara, Masaaki Hashimoto, Takahiro Tanaka, Hidetoshi Kaida, Eiji Oki
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Patent number: 7926376Abstract: A rack and pinion steering device has a pinion rotatable in the R-direction, a rack bar having rack teeth meshing with the pinion and rectilinearly movable in the A-direction, a housing for rotatably supporting the pinion, a rack guide for slidably supporting the rack bar, and an elastic means for pressing the rack guide toward the pinion.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2006Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignees: Oiles Corporation, JTEKT CorporationInventors: Masahiko Hirose, Masaaki Hashimoto, Nobuyuki Sato, Masao Shimura, Yoshiro Kuzumi
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Publication number: 20100278467Abstract: A bearing mechanism 1 includes a housing 3 having a cylindrical inner peripheral surface 2, a rack shaft 5 inserted and secured in the housing 3 and having a cylindrical outer peripheral surface 4, and a sliding bearing 6 interposed between the inner peripheral surface 2 of the housing 3 and the outer peripheral surface 4 of the rack shaft 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2008Publication date: November 4, 2010Inventors: Masahiko Hirose, Yoshihide Ohara, Masaaki Hashimoto, Takahiro Tanaka, Hidetoshi Kaida, Eiji Oki
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Patent number: 7798504Abstract: A bush bearing includes a synthetic resin-made bush having a circumferential groove on its outer peripheral surface; an endless annular elastic member fitted in the circumferential groove of the bush; and a positioning structure for determining the position of the bush in a B direction with respect to an inner peripheral surface of a gear housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2007Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignees: JTEKT Corporation, OILES CorporationInventors: Masahiko Hirose, Masaaki Hashimoto, Yoshihide Ohara, Takahiro Tanaka, Hidetoshi Kaida, Masao Shimura
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Patent number: 7780176Abstract: A center take-off rack-and-pinion steering apparatus includes a cylindrical rack housing having an elongate hole extending in a longitudinal direction, a mounting bracket for mounting ends of a pair of tie rods on a rack shaft, and a slider interposed between the mounting bracket and the rack shaft and slidable in an inner periphery of the elongate hole. The inner periphery of the elongate hole and the slider include sliding contact sections that are brought into sliding contact with each other along with the slide of the slider slides. The sliding contact sections include at least a pair of curved sliding contact surfaces that are brought into sliding contact with each other in a curved shape when seen in an axial direction of the rack shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2008Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Yoshihide Ohara, Masahiko Hirose, Masaaki Hashimoto, Mutsumi Watanabe, Takahiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 7739793Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rack guide base body wherein a cavity (40) is formed which has a pair of semicylindrical convex surfaces (44a and 44b) and a pair of flat surfaces (45) each located between the semicylindrical convex surfaces (44a and 44b), and has a recessed surface (41) located on one axial end portion side inwardly of the semicylindrical convex surfaces (44a and 44b) and the flat surfaces (45) and a cylindrical surface (42) located on the other axial end portion side inwardly of the semicylindrical convex surfaces (44a and 44b) and the flat surfaces (45); a hollow portion (9c) is formed for allowing the cavity (40) to communicate with a hollow portion (10c) at one flat surface (45) and with a hollow portion (8c) at the other flat surface (45); a rack guide base body (50) is die cast by forcing molten metal of aluminum from the hollow portion (10c) into the cavity (40); and runners (56) integrally joined to flat surfaces (55) of the rack guide base body (50) formed by the respective flat surfacesType: GrantFiled: April 26, 2005Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignees: JTekt Corporation, Oiles CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Masao Shimura, Yoshiro Kuzumi, Masahiko Hirose, Masaaki Hashimoto, Takahiro Tanaka, Katsutoshi Nishimura
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Publication number: 20090263206Abstract: Prior to engaging a male screw formed on the outer circumference of a second member with a female screw formed on the inner circumference of a hole in a first member, protruding parts which protrude outward in the radial direction and are positioned at one end side of the male screw in the axial direction are formed in a plurality of regions which are separated from each other in the circumferential direction on the outer circumference of the second member on which the male screw is formed. The male screw is then engaged with the female screw from the other end side of the male screw in the axial direction. The torque required to rotate the male screw engaged with the female screw in the loosening direction is set so as to be greater in a state where the protruding parts are interposed between the male screw and the female screw than in a state where the protruding parts are not so interposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2005Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiko Hirose, Masaaki Hashimoto, Katsutoshi Nishimura, Katsuaki Mitsuda
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Patent number: 7588258Abstract: A steering apparatus includes an attaching bracket connecting end portions of a pair of tie rods to a rack shaft. The attaching bracket includes a base which is fixed to the rack shaft and includes at least one fixing member inserting hole through which a fixing member fixing the attaching bracket to the rack shaft is provided, and a supporting stay supporting the end portions of the pair of tie rods via ball joints respectively. The supporting stay extends from an intermediate portion of the base in an axial direction of the rack shaft. A center of the ball joint supporting the end portion of each of the tie rods is positioned offset from an axial line of the fixing member by a predetermined distance when viewed along the axial direction of the rack shaft.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2007Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Masaaki Hashimoto, Masahiko Hirose, Yoshihide Ohara, Takahiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20090038429Abstract: A rack and pinion steering device has a pinion rotatable in the R-direction, a rack bar having rack teeth meshing with the pinion and rectilinearly movable in the A-direction, a housing for rotatably supporting the pinion, a rack guide for slidably supporting the rack bar, and an elastic means for pressing the rack guide toward the pinion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2006Publication date: February 12, 2009Inventors: Masahiko Hirose, Masaaki Hashimoto, Nobuyuki Sato, Masao Shimura, Yoshiro Kuzumi
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Publication number: 20090000853Abstract: A bush bearing 7 includes a synthetic resin-made bush 17 having a circumferential groove 16 on its outer peripheral surface 15; an endless annular elastic member 18 fitted in the circumferential groove 16 of the bush 17; and a positioning means 19 for determining the position of the bush 17 in a B direction with respect to an inner peripheral surface 12 of a gear housing 6.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: January 1, 2009Inventors: Masahiko Hirose, Masaaki Hashimoto, Yoshihide Ohara, Takahiro Tanaka, Hidetoshi Kaida, Masao Shimura
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Publication number: 20080224434Abstract: A center take-off rack-and-pinion steering apparatus includes a cylindrical rack housing having an elongate hole extending in a longitudinal direction, a mounting bracket for mounting ends of a pair of tie rods on a rack shaft, and a slider interposed between the mounting bracket and the rack shaft and slidable in an inner periphery of the elongate hole. The inner periphery of the elongate hole and the slider include sliding contact sections that are brought into sliding contact with each other along with the slide of the slider slides. The sliding contact sections include at least a pair of curved sliding contact surfaces that are brought into sliding contact with each other in a curved shape when seen in an axial direction of the rack shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Yoshihide Ohara, Masahiko Hirose, Masaaki Hashimoto, Mutsumi Watanabe, Takahiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20080163711Abstract: A center-takeoff rack-and-pinion steering apparatus includes a connecting unit arranged to connect respective ends of a pair of tie rods for steering a pair of vehicle wheels to an axially intermediate portion of a rack shaft. The connecting unit includes a slider slidably movable on an inner periphery of an elongate hole of a rack housing. A sliding contact surface on the inner periphery of the elongate hole and a sliding contact surface of the slider, which slide on each other, are inclined in both a widthwise direction of the elongate hole which is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the elongate hole and a depthwise direction of the elongate hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2008Publication date: July 10, 2008Applicant: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Yoshihide Ohara, Masahiko Hirose, Masaaki Hashimoto, Mutsumi Watanabe, Takahiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20080149140Abstract: A drainpipe cleaning apparatus prevents leakage of cleaning fluid from the drainpipe while cleaning the drainpipe. The drainpipe cleaning apparatus 1 has a cleaning fluid tank 10 for storing the cleaning fluid, a fluid delivery line 15, fluid drain line 23, gas-liquid separation tank 24, gas exhaust line 26, circulation line 28, gas recovery line 31, cleaning fluid return line 33, and control device 45. The control device 45 runs a cleaning process by driving a gas discharge pump 36 to create negative pressure inside the wastewater drainpipe 2 in a transit vessel and driving a cleaning fluid pump 16 to cause the cleaning fluid to flow backwards through the wastewater pipe 2. The control device 45 also monitors the pressure detected by a inlet-side pressure detector 20 during the cleaning process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2005Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicants: Japan Airlines International Co., Ltd., Seiwa Pro Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Ono, Masaaki Okuda, Masaaki Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20080121457Abstract: A steering apparatus includes an attaching bracket connecting end portions of a pair of tie rods to a rack shaft. The attaching bracket includes a base which is fixed to the rack shaft and includes at least one fixing member inserting hole through which a fixing member fixing the attaching bracket to the rack shaft is provided, and a supporting stay supporting the end portions of the pair of tie rods via ball joints respectively. The supporting stay extends from an intermediate portion of the base in an axial direction of the rack shaft. A center of the ball joint supporting the end portion of each of the tie rods is positioned offset from an axial line of the fixing member by a predetermined distance when viewed along the axial direction of the rack shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2007Publication date: May 29, 2008Applicant: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Masaaki Hashimoto, Masahiko Hirose, Yoshihide Ohara, Takahiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20070228682Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rack guide base body wherein a cavity (40) is formed which has a pair of semicylindrical convex surfaces (44a and 44b) and a pair of flat surfaces (45) each located between the semicylindrical convex surfaces (44a and 44b), and has a recessed surface (41) located on one axial end portion side inwardly of the semicylindrical convex surfaces (44a and 44b) and the flat surfaces (45) and a cylindrical surface (42) located on the other axial end portion side inwardly of the semicylindrical convex surfaces (44a and 44b) and the flat surfaces (45); a hollow portion (9c) is formed for allowing the cavity (40) to communicate with a hollow portion (10c) at one flat surface (45) and with a hollow portion (8c) at the other flat surface (45); a rack guide base body (50) is die cast by forcing molten metal of aluminum from the hollow portion (10c) into the cavity (40); and runners (56) integrally joined to flat surfaces (55) of the rack guide base body (50) formed by the respective flat surfacesType: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2005Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Masao Shimura, Yoshiro Kuzumi, Masahiko Hirose, Masaaki Hashimoto, Takahiro Tanaka, Katsutoshi Nishimura
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Patent number: 6820951Abstract: With a tag holding member and a device including the tag holding member, a commodity product can be detected by a detector even if the product is taken out of a packaging case. A holding member with a tag member includes a holding part having a groove for engaging with an upper end part of a chassis and a projection for engaging in an opening of the chassis, whereby the engaging part is engaged with and held by the upper side face and the opening of the chassis with high precision. The tag member is provided at a higher position than the upper end part of the chassis, and a distance from the outer cover can be set optionally. The holding member is held at the side face part of the chassis and covered with the outer cover, therefore the member can be held inside the commodity product.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2003Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukihiro Fukushima, Masaaki Hashimoto, Yoshitsugu Morimoto