Patents by Inventor Masaaki Oya

Masaaki Oya 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).

  • Patent number: 9920734
    Abstract: A starter (1) includes a motor unit (3), an output shaft (4) configured to receive a rotational force of the motor unit (3) and rotate, a pinion gear (74) (a pinion mechanism) helically engageable with a ring gear (23) of an engine, a clutch mechanism (5) configured to transmit the rotational force of the output shaft (4) to the pinion gear (74), and an electromagnetic device (9) configured to bias a pressing force toward the ring gear (23) to the clutch mechanism (5) and the pinion gear (74), wherein a plunger spring (91) (a backlash absorption mechanism) configured to bring one end (81a) (a point of action) of a plunger inner part (81) in constant elastic contact with the clutch mechanism (5) is installed at the electromagnetic device (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiko Ikemori, Hiroshi Ooka, Masaaki Oya, Shigehiro Kanbe, Masataka Odagiri, Mitsuhiro Kogure, Hiroki Yamada
  • Patent number: 9752036
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a curable organopolysiloxane antifouling composite coating film obtained by using a urethane resin anticorrosive coating film excellent in curability instead of one or two organopolysiloxane intermediate coating film layers (Tie Coats) to layer an organopolysiloxane antifouling coating film excellent in both interlayer adhesiveness with the anticorrosive coating film and antifouling performance; and an antifouling substrate coated with the composite coating film. [Solution] An antifouling composite coating film, comprising a laminated urethane resin anticorrosive coating film and antifouling coating film, (I) the urethane resin anticorrosive coating film being formed from an anticorrosive paint composition comprising a main agent selected from the group consisting of polyols and glycidyl ethers, and an isocyanate curing agent, (II) the antifouling coating film being formed from a curable polysiloxane composition comprising specific components (a), (b), and (c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: CHUGOKU MARINE PAINTS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Oya, Kiwamu Yamane, Shinichi Tashiro
  • Patent number: 9605642
    Abstract: A starter includes a motor unit, a drive shaft configured to receive a rotational force of the motor unit and rotate, a transmission pinion gear installed on the drive shaft, an idle shaft extending in a direction parallel to the drive shaft, an idle gear installed on the idle shaft and configured to mesh with the transmission pinion gear, a driving pinion gear installed on the idle shaft and configured to mesh with a ring gear of an engine, a gear cover configured to rotatably support portions of the drive shaft and the idle shaft and accommodate the transmission pinion gear and the idle gear, and a bracket section installed between the motor unit and the gear cover and configured to rotatably support a first end in an axial direction of the idle shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiko Ikemori, Masaaki Oya, Chihiro Horikoshi, Koki Honda, Ken Noguchi, Masaki Ishizeki
  • Patent number: 9482200
    Abstract: Formed in a pinion (74) are pinion-side helical external teeth (74A) that mesh with a ring gear 823), and pinion-side helical internal teeth (74a) that mesh with a pinion inner (71). Formed in the pinion inner (71) are pinion inner-side helical external teeth (73) that mesh with the pinion-side helical internal teeth (74a). The configuration is formed so that when the rotational speed of the pinion (74) is slower than that of the ring gear (23), a thrust load is generated in a direction toward the ring gear (23), and when the rotational speed of the pinion (74) is faster than that of the ring gear (23), a thrust load is generated in a direction away from the ring gear (23).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignees: Mitsuba Corporation, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiko Ikemori, Hiroshi Ooka, Masaaki Oya, Masataka Odagiri, Shigehiro Kanbe, Hiroki Yamada, Seiji Shimada, Yusuke Fukada, Takayuki Yamagata, Masahiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9188099
    Abstract: A starter includes an output shaft which rotates by a rotary force applied from the motor unit, a housing in which an end of the output shaft is rotatably supported, and an electromagnetic device configured to apply/shut off current to the motor unit, and biases a suppressing force toward the ring gear to the pinion gear through a clutch mechanism, wherein a load receiving member which abuts one end of the output shaft to receive an axial load generated from the output shaft is installed in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignees: MITSUBA CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiko Ikemori, Hiroshi Ooka, Masaaki Oya, Shigehiro Kanbe, Masataka Odagiri, Mitsuhiro Kogure, Hiroki Yamada, Masahiro Nakamura, Seiji Shimada, Yusuke Fukada, Satoshi Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20150291808
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a curable organopolysiloxane antifouling composite coating film obtained by using a urethane resin anticorrosive coating film excellent in curability instead of one or two organopolysiloxane intermediate coating film layers (Tie Coats) to layer an organopolysiloxane antifouling coating film excellent in both interlayer adhesiveness with the anticorrosive coating film and antifouling performance; and an antifouling substrate coated with the composite coating film. [Solution] An antifouling composite coating film, comprising a laminated urethane resin anticorrosive coating film and antifouling coating film, (I) the urethane resin anticorrosive coating film being formed from an anticorrosive paint composition comprising a main agent selected from the group consisting of polyols and glycidyl ethers, and an isocyanate curing agent, (II) the antifouling coating film being formed from a curable polysiloxane composition comprising specific components (a), (b), and (c).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: CHUGOKU MARINE PAINTS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Oya, Kiwamu Yamane, Shinichi Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20150047594
    Abstract: Formed in a pinion (74) are pinion-side helical external teeth (74A) that mesh with a ring gear 823), and pinion-side helical internal teeth (74a) that mesh with a pinion inner (71). Formed in the pinion inner (71) are pinion inner-side helical external teeth (73) that mesh with the pinion-side helical internal teeth (74a). The configuration is formed so that when the rotational speed of the pinion (74) is slower than that of the ring gear (23), a thrust load is generated in a direction toward the ring gear (23), and when the rotational speed of the pinion (74) is faster than that of the ring gear (23), a thrust load is generated in a direction away from the ring gear (23).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Tomohiko Ikemori, Hiroshi Ooka, Masaaki Oya, Masataka Odagiri, Shigehiro Kanbe, Hiroki Yamada, Seiji Shimada, Yusuke Fukada, Takayuki Yamagata, Masahiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140366686
    Abstract: A starter includes a motor unit, a drive shaft configured to receive a rotational force of the motor unit and rotate, a transmission pinion gear installed on the drive shaft, an idle shaft extending in a direction parallel to the drive shaft, an idle gear installed on the idle shaft and configured to mesh with the transmission pinion gear, a driving pinion gear installed on the idle shaft and configured to mesh with a ring gear of an engine, a gear cover configured to rotatably support portions of the drive shaft and the idle shaft and accommodate the transmission pinion gear and the idle gear, and a bracket section installed between the motor unit and the gear cover and configured to rotatably support a first end in an axial direction of the idle shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Tomohiko Ikemori, Masaaki Oya, Chihiro Horikoshi, Koki Honda, Ken Noguchi, Masaki Ishizeki
  • Publication number: 20140326106
    Abstract: A starter (1) includes a motor unit (3), an output shaft (4) configured to receive a rotational force of the motor unit (3) and rotate, a pinion gear (74) (a pinion mechanism) helically engageable with a ring gear (23) of an engine, a clutch mechanism (5) configured to transmit the rotational force of the output shaft (4) to the pinion gear (74), and an electromagnetic device (9) configured to bias a pressing force toward the ring gear (23) to the clutch mechanism (5) and the pinion gear (74), wherein a plunger spring (91) (a backlash absorption mechanism) configured to bring one end (81a) (a point of action) of a plunger inner part (81) in constant elastic contact with the clutch mechanism (5) is installed at the electromagnetic device (9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Ikemori, Hiroshi Ooka, Masaaki Oya, Shigehiro Kanbe, Masataka Odagiri, Mitsuhiro Kogure, Hiroki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8846821
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a silicone-based copolymer which has excellent long-term antifouling property even in a dry-wet alternate portion of a ship and the like or a portion thereof near the surface of water, is excellent also in mechanical strength and recoatability and exhibits high antifouling performance even if an antifouling agent is not added, and an antifouling coating composition containing the copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Chugoku Marine Paints, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaharu Doumae, Yoshio Yamada, Masaaki Oya, Fumio Hamazu, Makoto Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20120258321
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a silicone-based copolymer which has excellent long-term antifouling property even in a dry-wet alternate portion of a ship and the like or a portion thereof near the surface of water, is excellent also in mechanical strength and recoatability and exhibits high antifouling performance even if an antifouling agent is not added, and an antifouling coating composition containing the copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: CHUGOKU MARINE PAINTS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaharu Doumae, Yoshio Yamada, Masaaki Oya, Fumio Hamazu, Makoto Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20100278876
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high-solid antifouling paint composition characterized by including: (A) a carboxyl group-containing copolymer that has a structural unit derived from an unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer (a1) and a structural unit derived from an other unsaturated compound monomer (a2) copolymerizable with the unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer (a1), and has a weight average molecular weight of 1,000 to 6,000 as measured with GPC, (B) a polyvalent metal compound capable of reacting with the carboxyl group of the carboxyl group-containing copolymer (A), and (C) an antifouling agent. The high-solid antifouling paint composition of the present invention provides an antifouling coating film that imposes less environmental burden, affects human bodies less, and has excellent antifouling performance, excellent persistence thereof and excellent mechanical strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: CHUGOKU MARINE PAINTS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaharu Doumae, Masaaki Oya, Junji Niimoto, Makoto Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 7664758
    Abstract: An integrated database system comprises a plurality of database systems connected to one another through a network, each of the plurality of database systems managing its own stored data independently of the other database systems and accessing the stored data in accordance with an access request, and an integrated database unit connected to the network. The integrated database unit includes a directory database which stores a correspondence between each of the data stored in the plurality of database systems and a database system in which each of the data is stored, a directory control unit which acquires, by using the directory database, directory information corresponding to target data of the accepted access request, a database identifying unit which identifies a database system, and a database control unit which issues, on the basis of the acquired directory information, an access request to the database system having the target data of the accepted access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Urano, Kenichi Yoshida, Shigeru Miyake, Toshiaki Hirata, Masaaki Oya, Atsushi Mitomi
  • Publication number: 20100013334
    Abstract: In a starter having a motor comprising a rear bracket 23 mounted to a cylindrical motor housing opening portion, flanges 23a protruding outward from the outer circumferential portion 23c of the rear bracket and set bolts mounted to the flanges 23a and located on the outside of the motor housing, the rear bracket 23 is formed sphere-like with the inner side of the motor being convex and the central portion of the rear bracket is expanded toward the inner side of the motor compared with the outer circumferential portion 23c thereof. Even if the rear bracket 23 is subjected to impact due to “Kicking back”, the influence of the impact force is relaxed by the central portion displaced inward in advance and the rear bracket 23 is effectively prevented from being lifted up due to “Kicking back” in spite of an outer bolt type configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ono, Tomohiko Ikemori, Hiroshi Ooka, Masaaki Oya
  • Patent number: 7438598
    Abstract: The connector housing 30 is formed with a pair of guide grooves 50a, 50b and a pair of side walls 60. The guide grooves 50a, 50b support the both side edges of the upper body portion 21 of the thick first card 20 and also the both side edges of the card body 11 of the thin second card 10 and guide these cards as they are inserted or extracted. The side walls 60 define, below a space between the paired guide grooves 50a, 50b, a space in which to accommodate the lower body portion 23 of the first card 20. This construction ensures that, whichever of the first and second cards is inserted, the elastic displacements of the contact terminals 40 of a card connector 1 remain the same, allowing the card to be electrically connected stably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignees: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Ito, Masaaki Oya, Kazutaka Taguchi, Takashi Torii, Hideki Kawai
  • Patent number: 7228544
    Abstract: In the prior art, a user bore a heavy burden on operating together different products having the same functions. A user 102 calls a job net managing function 105 via GUI/CLI 103, and defines a job net 106. A job net execution controlling function 109 interrupts a definition of the job net 106, and sequentially executes the defined jobs. The defined jobs call not real commands directly, but switchers 110 to 114 that define regularized interfaces. The switchers, referring to environment variables 101, select adaptors 115 and 116 properly to call real commands 117 and 118 corresponding thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Honda, Takaki Kuroda, Masaaki Oya, Masao Menjo
  • Patent number: 6984353
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a polyimide sleeve where a polyimide sleeve of a high quality can be manufactured easily with a superior yield. A sleeve of a release resin is fitted on a planished metal core or a core at least whose outer surface is made of a release resin, and a polyimide precursor solution is applied on its outer surface. Next, after generating an imide reaction of the polyimide precursor by heating to form an almost completely cured polyimide sleeve, this polyimide sleeve is removed from the core together with the sleeve of the release resin. Furthermore, the polyimide sleeve is separated from the sleeve of the release resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Showa Electric Wire & Cable Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinobu Asai, Masaaki Oya, Takayuki Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 6941309
    Abstract: An object integrated management system achieves flexibility for modifications of management targets, efficiency of integrated management processing, and reduction in system management, building, and maintenance costs. The object integrated management system manages real data managed by data management systems in an integrated manner, and comprises: a repository that stores virtual objects respectively created correspondingly to real data, virtual object metamodels defining the virtual objects, adapter objects having configuration information of the data management systems and a function of access processing for real data stored in the data management systems, and adapter object metamodels defining the adapter objects; a metamodel management part that manages the virtual object metamodels and adapter object metamodels within the repository; and an object management part that manages the virtual objects and adapter objects, and uses the adapter objects to access real data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Mitomi, Masaaki Oya, Toshiaki Hirata, Akihiro Urano
  • Patent number: 6916860
    Abstract: An antifouling coating composition comprising (A) a silyl ester copolymer containing constituent units derived from a polymerizable unsaturated carboxylic acid silyl ester; (B) a carboxylic acid; (C) a bivalent or trivalent metal compound; and (D) a dehydrating agent. It is preferred that the component (C) be contained in an amount of 1.2 equivalents or more, in terms of the number of equivalents of metal as a constituent of the component (C), per equivalent of carboxyl group of the carboxylic acid (B); that the component (C) be a bivalent metal compound; and that the component (C) be a compound of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of zinc, copper, magnesium, calcium and barium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Chugoku Marine Paints, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Oya, Naoya Nakamura, Makoto Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 6729892
    Abstract: A card connector that reliably holds an inserted card with a compact mechanism to prevent the falling of the card due to unexpected external forces. The card 10 is formed with the recess 18 to receive the locking portion. The elastic locking piece 50 is mounted to the eject member 41 that slides together with the card 10 as the card is inserted or retracted. The locking piece guide means 50b, 61 converts the motion of the eject member 41 in the card insertion/retraction direction into the motion of the locking portion 50c of the elastic locking piece 50 toward or away from the card so that the locking portion 50c is engaged in the recess 18 during the card insertion and, during the card ejection, is disengaged from the recess 18.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihumi Takada, Masaaki Oya, Minoru Igarashi