Patents by Inventor Masaaki Ono
Masaaki Ono 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: 20130316637Abstract: There is provided a packaged engine working machine including, in a lower space of a package an electrical component storage box adapted to be impervious to heat from the engine and intrusion of dust or the like. In a packaged engine working machine in which an engine and a working machine driven by the engine are disposed in a lower space of a package, a storage box for storing a non-heat-generating electrical component included in electrical components for the engine and working machine, and a ventilation duct having a ventilation fan for sucking outside air into the lower space are each disposed in the lower space, and the packaged engine working machine includes an introduction path through which the ventilation duct and the storage box are communicated with each other, and the outside air sucked by the ventilation fan is partially guided into the storage box.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2012Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuya Kawano, Masaaki Ono, Keisuke Kawakita
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Patent number: 8487457Abstract: To provide an engine system with which in a case where a power supply voltage whose specification is to be changed is higher than an expected voltage, the specification of the power supply voltage from an alternating-current power supply can be changed at low cost without providing an additional transformer. An engine system 100 includes a transformer 130, a power receiving device 140, and a switcher 150, and switcher 150 connects a switching terminal 151 connected to one power receiving terminal 141 of the power receiving device 140 to either a first terminal 152 connected to one terminal 134 of a primary 131 or a second terminal 153 connected to a branch terminal 136. The engine system 100 is configured such that the other power receiving terminal 142 of the power receiving device 140 and the other terminal 135 of the primary 131 are connected and the primary 131 and an alternating-current power supply 200 are electrically connected.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshinobu Fujisawa, Tatsuya Kawano, Masaaki Ono
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Patent number: 8361363Abstract: To provide a foam board of a polyolefin resin which has an excellent heat insulating property and sound absorption property, of which a product can be material-recycled and which can continuously be produced at a low cost; a method for producing a foam board, which comprises extrusion-foaming by ejecting a mixture of a polyolefin resin composition containing a linear polypropylene resin having a melt tension of from 5 to 30 g at 230° C. and a foaming agent containing at least carbon dioxide in the supercritical state, by means of an extruder which has a multi-hole type die having an opening diameter of from 0.1 to 1.0 mm and the number of openings of from 50 to 5,000 at an ejection amount (V) of from 0.05 to 0.45 kg/hr per one opening in the die at a melt-extrusion temperature of from 160 to 250° C., under atmosphere at a proximal resin pressure of from 7 to 20 MPa at the openings of the die.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2008Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Asahi Fiber Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Toru Itadani, Masaaki Ono, Kengo Ozaki
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Patent number: 8360014Abstract: In the context of an enclosure-housed engine in which an engine 10 is housed within an enclosure 2, the present invention is such that arranged in an intake chamber 8A, separate from one or more chambers where a radiator 18 and the engine are disposed, there is engine intake equipment comprising an air cleaner 22 and an intake silencer 23; the constitution being such that at least one wall face of said intake chamber is subjected to a cooling airstream, intake and exhaust of which are driven by a radiator fan; and the constitution being such that the radiator fan 19 is driven, regardless of whether or not engine coolant within the radiator is circulating, when outside air temperature is greater than or equal to a prescribed temperature.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2009Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Ono, Toshiyuki Hayashi, Hirotoshi Kihara, Shojiro Matsumura
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Patent number: 8222310Abstract: An extruded polypropylene type resin foam having a high expansion ratio of at least 15 times and a closed cell ratio of at least 70% and excellent in the heat insulation property, and its production process, are provided. An extruded polypropylene type resin foam, which is produced by extrusion-foaming a polypropylene type resin composition containing a linear polypropylene type resin having a melt tension at 230° C. of from 5 to 30 g, by using a blowing agent containing at least a hydrocarbon type gas, and which has an expansion ratio of at least 15 times and a closed cell ratio of at least 70%.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Asahi Fiber Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Toru Itadani, Masaaki Ono
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Publication number: 20120153637Abstract: To provide an engine system with which in a case where a power supply voltage whose specification is to be changed is higher than an expected voltage, the specification of the power supply voltage from an alternating-current power supply can be changed at low cost without providing an additional transformer. An engine system 100 includes a transformer 130, a power receiving device 140, and a switcher 150, and switcher 150 connects a switching terminal 151 connected to one power receiving terminal 141 of the power receiving device 140 to either a first terminal 152 connected to one terminal 134 of a primary 131 or a second terminal 153 connected to a branch terminal 136. The engine system 100 is configured such that the other power receiving terminal 142 of the power receiving device 140 and the other terminal 135 of the primary 131 are connected and the primary 131 and an alternating-current power supply 200 are electrically connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshinobu Fujisawa, Tatsuya Kawano, Masaaki Ono
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Publication number: 20120146465Abstract: According to the present invention, even in the case of addition of a transformer for using an engine system with an AC power supply different from the expected voltage of an electrical device, there is substantially no change in the thermal balance in a package due to the presence or absence of the transformer. In the present invention, an engine 2 and an electrical device for driving the engine system are housed in a package 1. In order for a transformer 20 whose primary side is an AC power supply and whose secondary side is the expected voltage of the electrical device for driving the engine system to be housed in the package, an intake port, an exhaust port, and a ventilation fan for cooling the transformer are provided in a ventilation path that is independent from other devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keisuke Kawakita, Toshinobu Fujisawa, Tatsuya Kawano, Masaaki Ono
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Publication number: 20120147512Abstract: In a surge protection circuit in a three-phase four-wire circuit, a first three-phase three-wire surge module includes terminals respectively coupled to a first phase R, a second phase S, a third phase T, and a fifth phase E. A single-phase two-wire surge module includes terminals respectively coupled to one phase R among the first phase R, the second phase S, and the third phase T, to a fourth phase N, and to the fifth phase E. The second three-phase three-wire surge module includes terminals respectively coupled to the two phases S and T among the first phase R, the second phase S, and the third phase T, to the fourth phase N, and to the fifth phase E. The two phases S and T are not coupled to the single-phase two-wire surge module.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshinobu Fujisawa, Masaaki Ono, Kenji Ogata, Keisuke Kawakita
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Publication number: 20120091612Abstract: A die plate for a die block can have a coat-hanger-shaped flow path for extruding a molten foamable thermoplastic resin in a form of a sheet. The die plate can be on a downstream side of the coat-hanger-shaped flow path to make a flow rate of the molten foamable thermoplastic resin uniform in a width direction. The die plate can have a multiplicity of delivery apertures. The delivery apertures in opposite side regions can have a diameter greater than a diameter which the delivery apertures in a center region have. A die unit can include a die block, which has a multiple bifurcated manifold terminating in plural coat-hanger-shaped flow paths at downward ends thereof, and a like plural number of similar die plates as described above. A process for producing a wide thermoplastic resin foam can use the die unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Inventors: Toru Itadani, Masaaki Ono
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Publication number: 20110056453Abstract: In the context of an enclosure-housed engine in which an engine 10 is housed within an enclosure 2, the present invention is such that arranged in an intake chamber 8A, separate from one or more chambers where a radiator 18 and the engine are disposed, there is engine intake equipment comprising an air cleaner 22 and an intake silencer 23; the constitution being such that at least one wall face of said intake chamber is subjected to a cooling airstream, intake and exhaust of which are driven by a radiator fan; and the constitution being such that the radiator fan 19 is driven, regardless of whether or not engine coolant within the radiator is circulating, when outside air temperature is greater than or equal to a prescribed temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2009Publication date: March 10, 2011Applicant: Yanmar co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Ono, Toshiyuki Hayashi, Hirotoshi kihara, Shojiro Matsumura
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Publication number: 20110021650Abstract: An extruded polypropylene type resin foam having a high expansion ratio of at least 15 times and a closed cell ratio of at least 70% and excellent in the heat insulation property, and its production process, are provided. An extruded polypropylene type resin foam, which is produced by extrusion-foaming a polypropylene type resin composition containing a linear polypropylene type resin having a melt tension at 230° C. of from 5 to 30 g, by using a blowing agent containing at least a hydrocarbon type gas, and which has an expansion ratio of at least 15 times and a closed cell ratio of at least 70%.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2008Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: Asahi Fiber Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Toru Itadani, Masaaki Ono
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Publication number: 20100324162Abstract: To provide a foam board of a polyolefin resin which has an excellent heat insulating property and sound absorption property, of which a product can be material-recycled and which can continuously be produced at a low cost. A method for producing a foam board, which comprises extrusion-foaming by ejecting a mixture of a polyolefin resin composition containing a linear polypropylene resin having a melt tension of from 5 to 30 g at 230° C. and a foaming agent containing at least carbon dioxide in the supercritical state, by means of an extruder which has a multi-hole type die having an opening diameter of from 0.1 to 1.0 mm and the number of openings of from 50 to 5,000 at an ejection amount (V) of from 0.05 to 0.45 kg/hr per one opening in the die at a melt-extrusion temperature of from 160 to 250° C., under atmosphere at a proximal resin pressure of from 7 to 20 MPa at the openings of the die.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2008Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: Asahi Fiber Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Toru Itadani, Masaaki Ono, Kengo Ozaki
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Patent number: 7608349Abstract: A polyester film for recording medium, having one major surface thereof provided with a coating layer containing fine particles of 5 to 60 nm diameter and an organic compound, wherein the number of fine surface projections existing on the surface of the coating layer is in the range of 3 million to 100 million/mm2, and the number of surface defects of 120 nm or greater height attributed to foreign matter contained in the film is 30/100 cm2 or less, and wherein the polyester contains a titanium compound substantially not having any particle diameter. Thus, there are provided a magnetic recording tape for digital data recording that can reduce dropouts and excels in durability, and further provided a polyester film that is suitable as a base film thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2004Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Masaaki Ono, Kazuyoshi Fukata, Masahiro Yagi
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Publication number: 20090098237Abstract: Disclosed is a die plate for a die block having a coat-hanger-shaped flow path for extruding a molten foamable thermoplastic resin in a form of a sheet. The die plate is for arrangement on a downstream side of the coat-hanger-shaped flow path to make a flow rate of the molten foamable thermoplastic resin uniform in a width direction. The die plate is provided with a multiplicity of delivery apertures. In the delivery apertures, the delivery apertures in opposite side regions have a diameter greater than a diameter which the delivery apertures in a center region have. A die unit composed of a die block, which has a multiple bifurcated manifold terminating in plural coat-hanger-shaped flow paths at downward ends thereof, and a like plural number of similar die plates as described above; a process for producing a wide thermoplastic resin foam by using the die unit; and the wide thermoplastic resin foam are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: Toru ITADANI, Masaaki ONO
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Patent number: 7472611Abstract: The present invention provides the stress detection method for force sensor device with multiple axis sensor device and force sensor device employing this method, whose installation angle is arbitrary. The stress detection method includes, first and second force sensors whose detection axes are orthogonal to each other. When the detection axis of first force sensor forms angle ? with direction of detected stress Ax, and the stress component of direction perpendicular to direction of the detected stress Ax is Az, output Apx of the axis direction of first force sensor is found as Apx=?x (Ax×cos ?+Az×sin ?), and output Apz of the axis direction of the second force sensor is found as Apz=?z (Ax×sin ?+Az×cos ?), and, when ?x and ?z are detection sensitivity coefficients of first and second force sensors respectively, the detection sensitivity coefficient ?z of second force sensor is set as ?z=?x tan ?, and the detected stress Ax is found as Ax=(Apx?Apz)/?x(cos ??tan ?×sin ?).Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2007Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Media DevicesInventors: Toshio Hanazawa, Masaaki Ono, Tsutomu Miyashita, Hiroshi Tokunaga, Hiroshi Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20080173106Abstract: The present invention provides the stress detection method for force sensor device with multiple axis sensor device and force sensor device employing this method, whose installation angle is arbitrary. The stress detection method includes, first and second force sensors whose detection axes are orthogonal to each other. When the detection axis of first force sensor forms angle ? with direction of detected stress Ax, and the stress component of direction perpendicular to direction of the detected stress Ax is Az, output Apx of the axis direction of first force sensor is found as Apx=?x (Ax×cos ?+Az×sin ?), and output Apz of the axis direction of the second force sensor is found as Apz=?z (Ax×sin ?+Az×cos ?), and, when ?x and ?z are detection sensitivity coefficients of first and second force sensors respectively, the detection sensitivity coefficient ?z of second force sensor is set as ?z=?x tan ?, and the detected stress Ax is found as Ax=(Apx?Apz)/?x(cos ??tan ?×sin ?).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2007Publication date: July 24, 2008Inventors: Toshio Hanazawa, Masaaki Ono, Tsutomu Miyashita, Hiroshi Tokunaga, Hiroshi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 7320253Abstract: The present invention provides the stress detection method for force sensor device with multiple axis sensor device and force sensor device employing this method, whose installation angle is arbitrary. The stress detection method includes, first and second force sensors whose detection axes are orthogonal to each other. When the detection axis of first force sensor forms angle ? with direction of detected stress Ax, and the stress component of direction perpendicular to direction of the detected stress Ax is Az, output Apx of the axis direction of first force sensor is found as Apx=?x (Ax×cos ?+Az×sin ?), and output Apz of the axis direction of the second force sensor is found as Apz=?z (Ax×sin ?+Az×cos ?), and, when ?x and ?z are detection sensitivity coefficients of first and second force sensors respectively, the detection sensitivity coefficient ?z of second force sensor is set as ?z=?x tan ?, and the detected stress Ax is found as Ax=(Apx?Apz)/?x(cos ??tan ?×sin ?).Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2005Date of Patent: January 22, 2008Assignees: Fujitsu Media Devices Limited, Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Toshio Hanazawa, Masaaki Ono, Tsutomu Miyashita, Hiroshi Tokunaga, Hiroshi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 7296471Abstract: A structure with superior shock resistance is proposed for a parasol-type acceleration sensor. The acceleration sensor comprises a support portion the lower end of which is fixed to a substrate; a beam portion on which a detection element for applying changes to an output signal in correspondence with strain caused by acceleration acting on the detection element is formed, one end of the beam portion being connected to the top part of the support portion; a suspended weight connected to the other end of the beam portion; and a stopper substrate with a window portion through which, in order to guide an output signal of the detection element via a pad that is formed on the upper end face of the support portion, a conductor lead that is connected to the pad passes. Overswing of the weight is limited by means of the stopper substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2005Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignees: Fujitsu Media Devices Limited, Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Nobuko Ono, legal representative, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Hiroshi Tanaka, Sumio Yamada, Masaaki Ono, deceased
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Publication number: 20060147762Abstract: A polyester film for recording medium, having one major surface thereof provided with a coating layer containing fine particles of 5 to 60 nm diameter and an organic compound, wherein the number of fine surface projections existing on the surface of the coating layer is in the range of 3 million to 100 million/mm2, and the number of surface defects of 120 nm or greater height attributed to foreign matter contained in the film is 30/100 cm2 or less, and wherein the polyester contains a titanium compound substantially not having any particle diameter. Thus, there are provided a magnetic recording tape for digital data recording that can reduce dropouts and excels in durability, and further provided a polyester film that is suitable as a base film thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2004Publication date: July 6, 2006Inventors: Masaaki Ono, Kazuyoshi Fukata, Masahiro Yagi
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Patent number: 7069789Abstract: An inertial sensor such as an acceleration sensor or gyro can have superior impact resistance by regulating displacement of a weight portion in the direction of an upper limit. The sensor includes a sensor portion that has a fixing part, a weight portion the height of which is a predetermined size shorter than that of the fixing part, and a beam portion that links the weight portion and the fixing part; a plate-like first stopper portion that covers the weight portion and is bonded to the fixing part with clearance of a predetermined size from the weight portion; and a flat, plate-like second stopper portion that is connected to the fixing part via a bump of a predetermined height on the side opposite the first stopper portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignees: Fujitsu Media Devices Limited, Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Hiroshi Tokunaga, Kenji Nagata, Masaaki Ono, Toshio Hanazawa, Hiroshi Ishikawa