Patents by Inventor Masahiro Abe
Masahiro Abe 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: 12040128Abstract: Provided are molds for polar anisotropic ring-shaped bonded magnet molded articles which enable the production of bonded magnet molded articles with a high degree of roundness and only slight distortion, without the need for mold modification and preparation of a test mold, and a method of preparing such molds. The present invention relates to a method of preparing a mold for a polar anisotropic ring-shaped bonded magnet molded article, the method including: 1) determining the shrinkage length (Tc) of a desired polar anisotropic ring-shaped bonded magnet molded article using the following equation: Tc=T×(?1/100??2/100); 2) determining the radius (Dm) of a magnetic pole portion of a mold cavity using the following equation: Dm=D/(1??2/100); and 3) defining the outer peripheral shape of the mold cavity from the Tc, the Dm, and the number (P) of magnetic poles of the molded article.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2023Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Abe, Kohei Ihara
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Publication number: 20240112838Abstract: A method of producing a phosphate-coated SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder, the method including stirring a slurry containing a raw material SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder, water, a phosphate source, and an aluminum source to obtain a SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder having a surface coated with a phosphate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro ABE, Shuichi TADA, Satoshi YAMANAKA, Kenta IWAI
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Publication number: 20240047112Abstract: A cylindrical multipole magnet having an inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface and having N- and S-poles alternately and continuously in a circumferential direction. A surface magnetic flux density of the outer peripheral surface is at least 0.2 times a surface magnetic flux density of the inner peripheral surface. The cylindrical multipole magnet contains an anisotropic rare earth magnetic powder and a resin, with a filling ratio of the anisotropic rare earth magnetic powder being at least 50 vol % but not higher than 65 vol % with respect to a total volume of the anisotropic rare earth magnetic powder and the resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Rie YOSHIDA, Daichi ITAMI, Masahiro ABE, Kuniyasu KAWAMURA, Takayuki YANO, Muneo YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240013961Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a composite component, the method including: preparing a second composite by fitting a first molded body onto a first composite including a rare earth magnet and a component contacting the rare earth magnet, such that the first molded body covers at least the entire surface of the first composite corresponding to the rare earth magnet; and forming a second molded body by inserting the second composite into a mold and injection-molding a thermoplastic resin such that the thermoplastic resin covers at least the entire surface of the first composite not covered by the first molded body and also contacts the first molded body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro ABE, Rie YOSHIDA, Shuichi TADA, Michiya KUME, Kohei IHARA, Naotake FUJITA
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Publication number: 20240006101Abstract: A method for producing a phosphate-coated SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder, the method includes a phosphate treatment of adding an inorganic acid to a slurry containing an SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder, water, and a phosphate compound to adjust a pH of the slurry to a range of 1 to 4.5 to form a phosphate-coated SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder having a surface coated with a phosphate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro ABE, Satoshi YAMANAKA, Shuichi TADA, Kenta IWAI, Takayuki YANO
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Publication number: 20230415227Abstract: A method for producing a phosphate-coated SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder, the method includes: a phosphate treatment of adding an inorganic acid to a slurry containing an SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder, water, and a phosphate compound to adjust a pH of the slurry to a range from 1 to 4.5 to form an SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder having a surface on which a phosphate coating is formed; and oxidizing by heat treating the SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder having the surface on which the phosphate coating is formed, in an oxygen-containing atmosphere at a temperature in a range of 200° C. to 330° C., to form the phosphate-coated SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro ABE, Satoshi YAMANAKA, Shuichi TADA, Kenta IWAI
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Publication number: 20230386710Abstract: A coated rare earth-iron-nitrogen-based magnetic powder including: a core region; a first coating portion provided outside the core region; and a second coating portion, the core region containing R, Fe, and N, where R represents at least one selected from the group consisting of Y, Ce, Pr, Nd, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Lu, and Sm, and if Sm is present, Sm constitutes less than 50 atm % of the total R content, the powder including, in an order from the core region, the first coating portion containing P and R, an average atomic concentration of R in the first coating portion being higher than and not higher than twice an average atomic concentration of R in the core region, and the second coating portion having average atomic concentrations of P and R lower than those in the first coating portion, respectively, and containing Fe.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Jun AKAMATSU, Satoshi ABE, Nobuyoshi IMAOKA, Masahiro ABE
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Publication number: 20230374257Abstract: A method, including: preparing at least one magnetic powder having an average particle size that is at least 1 ?m but not more than 10 ?m, at least one thermosetting resin, and at least one curing agent, wherein at least one of the thermosetting resin and the curing agent includes at least one monomer having a melting point that is higher than 70° C. but not higher than 140° C., and wherein an amount of the monomer having the melting point that is higher than 70° C. but not higher than 140° C. is at least 33% by volume but not more than 100% by volume of a combined amount of the thermosetting resin and the curing agent; and obtaining a magnetic powder-containing resin composition by kneading the magnetic powder, the thermosetting resin, and the curing agent at a temperature of higher than 70° C. but not higher than 140° C. and then lowering the temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi TADA, Takashi ASADA, Masahiro ABE
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Patent number: 11763930Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a purpose setting unit configured to set an examination purpose of radiography, a selection setting unit configured to select processing of a radiation image corresponding to the examination purpose and set the processing in an editing area of a display unit, and a generation unit configured to generate a processing procedure corresponding to the examination purpose based on the set processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masahiro Abe
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Publication number: 20230245820Abstract: Provided are molds for polar anisotropic ring-shaped bonded magnet molded articles which enable the production of bonded magnet molded articles with a high degree of roundness and only slight distortion, without the need for mold modification and preparation of a test mold, and a method of preparing such molds. The present invention relates to a method of preparing a mold for a polar anisotropic ring-shaped bonded magnet molded article, the method including: 1) determining the shrinkage length (Tc) of a desired polar anisotropic ring-shaped bonded magnet molded article using the following equation: Tc=T×(?1/100??2/100); 2) determining the radius (Dm) of a magnetic pole portion of a mold cavity using the following equation: Dm=D/(1??2/100); and 3) defining the outer peripheral shape of the mold cavity from the Tc, the Dm, and the number (P) of magnetic poles of the molded article.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro ABE, Kohei IHARA
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Publication number: 20230207166Abstract: A method of producing a phosphate-coated SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder, the method including performing a phosphate treatment including adding an inorganic acid to a slurry containing a raw material SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder, water, a phosphate compound, and a rare earth compound so that the slurry is adjusted to have a pH of at least 1 and not higher than 4.5 to obtain a phosphate-coated SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder having a surface coated with a phosphate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Abe, Satoshi Yamanaka, Shuichi Tada, Kenta Iwai
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Patent number: 11651893Abstract: Provided are molds for polar anisotropic ring-shaped bonded magnet molded articles which enable the production of bonded magnet molded articles with a high degree of roundness and only slight distortion, without the need for mold modification and preparation of a test mold, and a method of preparing such molds. The present invention relates to a method of preparing a mold for a polar anisotropic ring-shaped bonded magnet molded article, the method including: 1) determining the shrinkage length (Tc) of a desired polar anisotropic ring-shaped bonded magnet molded article using the following equation: Tc=T×(?1/100??2/100); 2) determining the radius (Dm) of a magnetic pole portion of a mold cavity using the following equation: Dm=D/(1??2/100); and 3) defining the outer peripheral shape of the mold cavity from the Tc, the Dm, and the number (P) of magnetic poles of the molded article.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Abe, Kohei Ihara
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Publication number: 20230143920Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a dissimilar metal-doped cerium oxide including cerium oxide and a dissimilar metal other than the cerium oxide, in which a relationship of the following formula (1) is satisfied: 0.8?|(D90)?(D10)|/D50?2.0??(1) (in the formula (1), D10, D50, and D90 respectively represent the following: D10: particle diameter at which cumulative volume fraction is 10% D50: particle diameter at which cumulative volume fraction is 50% D90: particle diameter at which cumulative volume fraction is 90%).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoyuki KAWAMURA, Takanori NAKANO, Masahiro ABE
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Patent number: 11646154Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite component including a metal component having a substantially cylindrical shape or a substantially annular shape, and a ring-shaped bonded magnet disposed on the outer periphery of the metal component, the ring-shaped bonded magnet containing a thermoplastic resin, magnetic particles, and rubber particles.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Rie Yoshida, Masahiro Abe, Michiya Kume, Kohei Ihara, Shuichi Tada
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Patent number: 11615926Abstract: A method configured to produce a pressure-sensitive sensor composed of a cylindrical-shape body including therein a hollow portion along a longitudinal direction of that sensor, and being made of an elastic electrical insulating member, and a plurality of electrode wires arranged helically along an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical-shape body and arranged in such a manner as to have no contact with each other. The method includes, with an extruder with a head, extrusion-molding the cylindrical-shape body while running the plurality of electrode wires into that head in such a manner that a periphery of the plurality of electrode wires is coated with the cylindrical-shape body, and taking up the cylindrical-shape body and the plurality of electrode wires ejected from the extruder while rotating the cylindrical-shape body and the plurality of electrode wires in a circumferential direction of the sensor, to thereby helically arrange the plurality of electrode wires.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Sugita, Masahiro Abe
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Patent number: 11555754Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pressure-sensitive sensor includes providing an extruder that includes a cylindrical die, a mandrel arranged inside the die and having plural helical grooves on an outer circumferential surface, and an annular outlet sandwiched between the die and the mandrel, and by using the extruder, performing simultaneous extrusion-molding of an elastic insulating material and an elastic conductive material by supplying the elastic conductive material into not less than two of the grooves from the inside of the mandrel while extruding the elastic insulating material, so as to form a pressure-sensitive sensor. The sensor includes a tubular body including an elastic insulation and having a hollow portion along a longitudinal direction, and not less than two conductive ribs including an elastic conductor and helically provided along an inner circumferential surface of the hollow portion of the tubular body so as to protrude inward from the inner circumferential surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Keisuke Sugita, Masahiro Abe
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Patent number: 11501892Abstract: A wire harness includes a multi-core cable including a group of cables composed of a plurality of cables, and a sheath provided around the group of cables, and a resin mold covering the group of cables at a cable branching portion where the group of cables exposed from an end of the sheath of the multi-core cable are branched. An outermost layer of each cable constituting the group of cables includes polyolefin or thermoplastic polyurethane. When the sheath includes polyolefins, the group of cables includes at least one cable including an outermost layer including thermoplastic polyurethane. When the sheath includes thermoplastic polyurethane, the group of cables includes at least one cable having an outermost layer comprising polyolefin. The resin mold includes a resin composition of a polymer alloy of a first polymer including at least one of polyamide polymer, polyester polymer, and thermoplastic polyurethane and a second polymer including polyolefin.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Sugita, Masahiro Abe
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Patent number: 11479193Abstract: Provided is a bumper capable of improving a maneuvering stability of a vehicle. The bumper is a front bumper 7 to be attached to a front lower portion of a vehicle 1. Flow-straightening protrusions 31 each formed along a vehicular front-rear direction are provided on a lower portion of the front bumper 7 in a way such that they are aligned along a vehicular width direction across a region on an extended line 36 of a vehicular width direction inner end portion 2T of each of front wheels 2L, 2R of the vehicle 1. Thus, the occurrence of turbulent flows around the front wheels 2L, 2R can be restricted so that a vehicle stability can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: HONDA ACCESS CORP.Inventors: Ryo Shiogai, Seiko Fukuda, Takashi Yuzawa, Masahiro Abe, Jun Takada
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Publication number: 20220157520Abstract: A method of producing a compound for bonded magnets, the method including: heat-curing a thermosetting resin and a curing agent having a ratio of the number of reactive groups of the curing agent to the number of reactive groups of the thermosetting resin of at least 2 but not higher than 11 to obtain an additive for bonded magnets; and kneading the additive for bonded magnets, magnetic powder, and a thermoplastic resin to obtain a compound for bonded magnets in which a filling ratio of the magnetic powder is at least 91.5% by mass.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi YAMANAKA, Takayuki YANO, Shuichi TADA, Masahiro ABE, Kenta IWAI
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Patent number: 11295903Abstract: A pressure sensitive sensor is composed of a cylindrical shape body including therein an inner peripheral surface and a hollow portion along a longitudinal direction of that cylindrical shape body, and being made of an elastic electrical insulating member, and a plurality of electrode wires arranged in a helical shape along the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical shape body, and arranged in such a manner as to have no contact with each other. In the pressure sensitive sensor, in a cross-sectional view perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the cylindrical shape body, at least some part of the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical shape body lying between adjacent ones of the plurality of the electrode wires on the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical shape body is formed in an inner side in radial directions of a circle passing through centers of the plurality of the electrode wires.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Sugita, Masahiro Abe