Patents by Inventor Masahiro Inoue

Masahiro Inoue 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: 7386294
    Abstract: A dedicated short-range communication on-vehicle apparatus easily attachable on a wind shield of the motor vehicle includes an antenna, a radio module, a data processing unit and others contained in a single box-like housing. The antenna (8) has directivity in a predetermined orientation. The radio module (10) performs transmission/reception of radio wave with road-side radio equipment through the antenna (8). The data processing unit (11) processes data transferred through the radio module (10). The box-like housing (4) houses the antenna (8), the radio module (10) and the data processing unit (11) en bloc. The box-like housing (4) is fixedly attached onto a windshield (3) of the motor vehicle at a mounting plate (4a) of the housing (4) on the antenna radiation side by an adhesive member (30). A radio wave aperture portion of the mounting plate (4a) is made of a radio wave transmissible material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 7382491
    Abstract: A scan ID, which is operation identification information having been used for selection of an image reading condition or the like, is used for selection of a communication destination from among a plurality of host PCs having network-connection to a scanner relay apparatus. Information such as an image reading condition associated with the scan ID is sent to a host PC defined as a communication destination, and a scan command sent back from the host PC, whose protocol is converted, is sent to a scanner apparatus. Furthermore, image data sent back from the scanner apparatus is sent to the host PC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunori Miyamoto, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Masakazu Suzuki, Mariko Arai, Masahiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 7377549
    Abstract: A saddle ride type all-terrain vehicle includes left and right front wheels supported independently of each other on a vehicle body such that driving power is transmitted to said front wheels by way of a pair of left and right drive shafts extending from a driving source side. The vehicle also includes universal couplings provided at opposite end portions of each of the drive shafts, covered by rubber boots. The vehicle further includes a protector for covering the rubber boots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Hasegawa, Akio Handa, Masahiro Inoue, Makoto Toda, Hiroaki Tomita, Keita Yagi
  • Publication number: 20080100098
    Abstract: In a vehicle floor structure, a subsidiary frame is provided between a front frame and a seat frame and at a position higher than a lower frame, for supporting thereon a floor section. Step support frame is provided laterally outwardly of the lower frame, for supporting thereon a boarding step so that the floor section is located at a level higher than the boarding step. Vehicle body frame structure includes, for each of left and ride side sections of the vehicle, a straight vertical frame to which are mounted the respective ones ends of an upper arm, lower arm and cushion unit, and respective mounting sections for the upper arm, lower arm and cushion unit can be provided in linear alignment with one another in the straight vertical frame along the length thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Masahiro Inoue, Kazushiro Inoue, Hiroaki Kase, Yuji Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20080089629
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicular-wheel bearing assembly that can reduce production costs, and has a raceway surface with predetermined hardness that is not affected by material of a counterpart member mounted thereto. The vehicular-wheel bearing assembly includes an inner shaft (1), an outer ring (2) provided around the inner shaft (1), and two rows of balls (3a and 3b) provided between the inner shaft (1) and the outer ring (2) in angular contact with the inner shaft (1) and the outer ring (2). An annular raceway member (4) with a curved section that is a separate member from the inner shaft (1) and the outer ring (2) and has a raceway surface for the rolling element is provided on an outer peripheral surface (11) of the inner shaft (1) and an inner peripheral surface (12) of the outer ring (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2005
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Seo, Katsura Koyagi, Masahiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20080084031
    Abstract: A pulser ring and a second seal ring are separately formed. When a multipolar magnetic rotor of the pulser ring is bonded to an outer circumferential face of an outer cylindrical portion of an annular core portion, the multipolar magnetic rotor is opposed to a magnetic sensor in the radial direction. Due to the above structure, the multipolar magnetic rotor can be strongly supported by an outer cylindrical portion of the annular core portion. Therefore, even when a rotary centrifugal force is given to the multipolar magnetic rotor, it can not be swung in the radial direction. Accordingly, an interval of the multipolar magnetic rotor and the magnetic sensor in the radial direction, which are opposed to each other, can be maintained constant irrespective of an intensity of the centrifugal force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Applicants: JTEKT Corporation, Uchiyama Manufacturing Corp.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kageyama, Katsura Koyagi, Masahiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 7347490
    Abstract: In a vehicle floor structure, a subsidiary frame is provided between a front frame and a seat frame and at a position higher than a lower frame, for supporting thereon a floor section. Step support frame is provided laterally outwardly of the lower frame, for supporting thereon a boarding step so that the floor section is located at a level higher than the boarding step. Vehicle body frame structure includes, for each of left and ride side sections of the vehicle, a straight vertical frame to which are mounted the respective ones ends of an upper arm, lower arm and cushion unit, and respective mounting sections for the upper arm, lower arm and cushion unit can be provided in linear alignment with one another in the straight vertical frame along the length thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Masahiro Inoue, Kazushiro Inoue, Hiroaki Kase, Yuji Hayashi
  • Patent number: 7336067
    Abstract: Balls are interposed between respective raceway surfaces of inner and outer ring members, and a seal apparatus is provided between shoulder portions of the inner and outer ring members. The seal apparatus comprises an outer ring-side seal ring fixed to the outer ring member, and an inner ring-side seal ring fixed to the inner ring member. A pulser ring is fixed to a ring-shaped core metal of the inner ring-side seal ring. In an outer diameter side of the ring-shaped core metal of the outer ring-side seal ring, a magnetic sensor is molded with resin by an external member to be integrated therein. A connector connected to the magnetic sensor is formed consecutive with the external member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Inoue, Shunichi Matsui, Yoshifumi Shige, Minoru Sentoku, Katsura Koyagi
  • Publication number: 20080035835
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion sensor according to the invention comprises: a substrate; a plurality of organic photoelectric conversion pixel parts arranged on the substrate for converting incident light to an electric signal; a light transmissive substrate for transmitting incident light; an optical filter arranged on the light transmissive substrate for limiting the wavelength range of incident light to the plurality of organic photoelectric conversion pixel parts; and a support part for supporting the substrate and the light transmissive substrate in a state where the organic photoelectric conversion pixel parts are separated from the optical filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro KOMATSU, Masakazu MIZUSAKI, Shinichiro KANEKO, Masahiro INOUE, Takashi KITADA
  • Patent number: 7330449
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to decrease a care-of address update duration in switching of a link used for connection to an IP network by a mobile node (MN). MN acquires a list of access routers (ARs) existing on neighboring links to the link used for connection by the mobile node and creates a list of care-of addresses (CoAs) corresponding to the respective ARs entered in the list, each CoA being used as a destination of MN at a link on which an AR corresponding thereto exists. After the change of the connected link, MN acquires a data link layer address of AR existing on the link after the change and detects a default router on the basis of the address with reference to the access node list. Furthermore, MN detects a CoA with a network prefix corresponding with a subnet prefix of the default router, as a primary CoA and requests MAP to register a binding between the primary CoA and HoA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Koji Omae, Masahiro Inoue, Ichiro Okajima, Narumi Umeda
  • Patent number: 7318589
    Abstract: A pulser ring and a second seal ring are separately formed. When a multipolar magnetic rotor of the pulser ring is bonded to an outer circumferential face of an outer cylindrical portion of an annular core portion, the multipolar magnetic rotor is opposed to a magnetic sensor in the radial direction. Due to the above structure, the multipolar magnetic rotor can be strongly supported by an outer cylindrical portion of the annular core portion. Therefore, even when a rotary centrifugal force is given to the multipolar magnetic rotor, it can not be swung in the radial direction. Accordingly, an interval of the multipolar magnetic rotor and the magnetic sensor in the radial direction, which are opposed to each other, can be maintained constant irrespective of an intensity of the centrifugal force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignees: Jtekt Corporation, Uchiyama Manufacturing Corp.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kageyama, Katsura Koyagi, Masahiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 7305902
    Abstract: A ball screw device comprises a screw shaft, a nut externally mounted on the screw shaft, and a multiplicity of balls interposed between thread grooves of the screw shaft and the nut. The screw shaft has a ball circulation groove for coupling downstream and upstream sides of the thread groove so that the balls are returned from the downstream side to the upstream side and thereby circulated in the thread groove of the screw shaft. The ball circulation groove has such a curved shape as to sink radially inward in an intermediate region in a rolling direction of the balls and has a curved shape protruding radially outward in both end regions, and is configured in the manner that the centrodes of the balls rolling in the both end regions and the balls rolling in the thread groove of the screw shaft satisfy predetermined conditions with respect to circulation of the balls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Inoue, Isao Usuki
  • Patent number: 7304993
    Abstract: The invention provides an Internet system which can carry out communications among a plurality of clients having terminal computers 1 via intermediate servers while making the locations of transmission sources or receivers secret, wherein specific terminal computers 1 are provided with address converters 2 and transmitting and receiving are carried out by using addresses converted from original addresses that said specific terminal computers 1 have, whereby the Internet system can adapt to various purposes such as to conceal the existence of a transmission source or a receiver, to selectively use a plurality of addresses at a transmission source or receiver side, to use a common converted address at a receiver or transmission source side, to convert information units as necessary, to reject transmission or receiving, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Sap Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20070257535
    Abstract: A seat support structure for facilitating assembly of a frame support member. The seat support structure includes a seat support portion mounted on a seat rail of a vehicle, the seat support portion having an opening portion; a mount rubber having an engaging groove portion on an outer peripheral portion thereof, an insertion portion arranged closer to a distal end side than the engaging groove portion, and a through hole penetrating through the mount rubber. Upon mounting the seat, the insertion portion of the mount rubber is inserted into the opening portion of the seat support portion, the portion of the seat to be supported is inserted into the through hole, and the mount rubber is moved in the radial direction in an inside of the opening portion, and a portion of a groove wall of the engaging groove portion is brought into pressure contact with the opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yasuda, Hideaki Suzuki, Seiji Hanafusa, Masahiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20070246651
    Abstract: The present invention provides a charged particle beam apparatus capable of preventing the charging-up of the specimen without using a large-scale facility. A scanning electron microscope 100 illuminates a specimen 21 with a charged particle beam via a charged particle optical system arranged in a column. According to the present invention, the scanning electron microscope 100 has a charge preventive member 110 disposed between the objective lens 14 and the specimen 21. The charge preventive member 110 has an electrically conductive portion and an opening 113 to transmit the charged particle beam. The charge preventive member 110 is formed so as to partly cover the charged particle optical system when viewed from the charged particle beam irradiation spot on the specimen. In addition, the charge preventive member 110 has gas inflow paths 114 and 115 formed therein. These gas inflow paths have gas injection outlets 116 formed to inject gas toward the charged particle beam irradiation spot on the specimen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Inventors: Hirotami Koike, Shinichi Okada, Akira Higuchi, Masahiro Inoue, Masahiro Yamamoto, Sumio Sasaki
  • Patent number: 7282907
    Abstract: An outer ring is provided with the stator of a resolver, and a ring member with the rotor of the resolver. The stator comprises an annular core and a winding provided around the core. The ring member is provided at a position opposed to the stator with an eccentric cylindrical face serving as the rotor and eccentric with respect to other outer peripheral surface of the ring member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Inoue, Katsura Koyagi
  • Publication number: 20070236037
    Abstract: A body cover structure for a seat type vehicle provides a non-slip portion that can be formed integrally on a floor surface located between the tire housings. In a body cover structure for a seat type vehicle in which a body cover made of resin that covers a body frame is split into a front cover, a center cover, and a rear cover, and in which tire housings are formed in the front cover, a floor panel portion extends between tire housings and is formed integrally in the center cover. Non-slip portions are integrally formed on the floor surface of the floor panel portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kobayashi, Yukinori Kawaguchi, Masahiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20070227793
    Abstract: To provide an intake structure for a seat type vehicle which makes it possible to shorten the air intake path and to prevent the taken-in air from being heated with the heat of an engine. An intake structure for a seat type vehicle is provided in which an engine and a fuel tank are mounted side by side in the lateral direction of the vehicle under the occupant seats attached onto a frame. An air cleaner is arranged to the rear of the engine with an intake port for the air cleaner being provided under the occupant seats and above the fuel tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Naoki Nozaki, Takeshi Kobayashi, Masahiro Inoue, Katsumi Kanai
  • Publication number: 20070217728
    Abstract: A rolling bearing adapted to prevent crack formation in a caulking portion is provided. A rolling bearing assembly includes: a hub shaft having the caulking portion at an axial end thereof, the caulking portion bendably deformed in a radially outward direction; the rolling bearing mounted on an outside surface of the hub shaft; and an annular member spline-engaged with the hub shaft and caulk-fixed to place by the caulking portion. An inner-side axial end of a second male spline formed on the hub shaft is shifted from an inner-side end of the hub shaft toward an outer side far enough to ensure that the second male spline is not susceptible to the plastic deformation of the caulked caulking portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventors: Shinichirou Kashiwagi, Shinnosuke Takasaki, Yuichi Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi Kamikawa, Masaru Deguchi, Masahiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20070177834
    Abstract: A seal device with sensor (7) is configured by a fixed side seal member (8) fixed to a vehicle body side raceway member (3) and a rotating side seal member (9) fixed to a wheel side raceway member (4). The fixed side seal member (8) includes a core metal (21), a resin member (22) integrated with the core metal (21) through insert molding, a sensor (11) resin molded to the core metal (21), and an elastic seal (65) adhered to the core metal (21). The core metal (21) of the fixed side seal member (8) includes a fitting cylindrical part (61) fitted and fixed to the vehicle body side raceway member (3), a coupling part (62) extending towards the cylindrical part (31) of the rotating side seal member (9) and a moisture entering prevention cylindrical part (65) extending outward in the axial direction in continuation with the coupling part (62), and the outer end part in the axial direction of the fitting cylindrical part (61) is positioned in the resin (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicants: JTEKT Corporation, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Uchiyama Manufacturing Corp.
    Inventors: Katsura Koyagi, Tetsuaki Numata, Masahiro Inoue, Syunichi Matsui, Yoshifumi Shige, Tooru Kuwajima, Masahiro Kimura, Eiichiro Iwase, Takeshi Kageyama