Patents by Inventor Masakazu Andou
Masakazu Andou 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: 10443746Abstract: A main spool (24) has a throttle passage (30) that, when the main spool (24) moves to an axial other side against a first return spring (27) in a main spool insertion hole (13), communicates a pilot pressure chamber (25) with a first tank port (15) and limits a flow amount of hydraulic oil to be discharged to the first tank port (15) from the pilot pressure chamber (25). When the main spool (24) moves to the axial other side along the main spool insertion hole (13), the throttle passage (30) communicates the pilot pressure chamber (25) with the first tank port (15) before a state where a first pump port (17) is communicated with an output port (16) and a state where the output port (16) is blocked from the first tank port (15).Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Okamura, Takeshi Kobayashi, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Kazuo Takiguchi, Masakazu Andou, Yoshifumi Takimoto
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Publication number: 20180245700Abstract: A main spool (24) has a throttle passage (30) that, when the main spool (24) moves to an axial other side against a first return spring (21) in a main spool insertion hole (13), communicates a pilot pressure chamber (25) with a first tank port (15) and limits a flow amount of hydraulic oil to be discharged to the first tank port (15) from the pilot pressure chamber (25). When the main spool (24) moves to the axial other side along the main spool insertion hole (13), the throttle passage (30) communicates the pilot pressure chamber (25) with the first tank port (15) before a state where a first pump port (17) is communicated with an output port (16) and a state where the output port (16) is blocked from the first tank port (15).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2017Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Jun OKAMURA, Takeshi KOBAYASHI, Mitsuhiro YOSHIMOTO, Kazuo TAKIGUCHI, Masakazu ANDOU, Yoshifumi TAKIMOTO
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Patent number: 9440570Abstract: In a vehicle seat, beads are formed to a SC panel, and the beads extend along the seat front-rear direction adjacent to joint portions at seat width direction insides of the joint portions. When repeated load in the seat up-down direction is input to a seat width direction intermediate portion of the SC panel, for example, the SC panel is displaced by the input load in the seat up-down direction, and tensile load in the seat width direction acts on the beads as a result. The beads extend or contract in the seat width direction due to the tensile load. Load input to the SC panel is thereby absorbed by the extension and contraction of the beads, and load in the seat up-down direction input to the joint portions is reduced. This enables concentration of stress at the joint portions to be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.Inventors: Motohiro Fushikida, Shinichi Kobayashi, Tomo Ishibashi, Masakazu Andou
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Publication number: 20150183354Abstract: In a vehicle seat (10), beads (42) are formed to a SC panel (30), and the beads (42) extend along the seat front-rear direction adjacent to joint portions (40) at seat width direction insides of the joint portions (40). When repeated load in the seat up-down direction is input to a seat width direction intermediate portion of the SC panel (30), for example, the SC panel (30) is displaced by the input load in the seat up-down direction, and tensile load in the seat width direction acts on the beads (42) as a result. The beads (42) extend or contract in the seat width direction due to the tensile load. Load input to the SC panel (30) is thereby absorbed by the extension and contraction of the beads (42), and load in the seat up-down direction input to the joint portions (40) is reduced. This enables concentration of stress at the joint portions (40) to be suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2013Publication date: July 2, 2015Applicant: NHK SPRINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Motohiro Fushikida, Shinichi Kobayashi, Tomo Ishibashi, Masakazu Andou
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Patent number: 7291848Abstract: A cassette to record a radiation image of an object to be radiographed includes a sheet-shaped recording medium including a layer of needle imaging plate, formed by a deposition method, having a thickness of 20 ?m to 2 mm. The sheet-shaped recording medium is accommodated in a space between a front member and a back member of the cassette, such that the recording medium receives the radiation image of the object through the front member, and the back member is positioned opposite and attached to the front member. The back and front members are attachable to each other and detachable from each other along a direction that is substantially the same as a growing direction of the needle imaging plate. The recording medium is coupled to the back member such that the recording medium and the base member move with respect to each other when the back member deforms.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2006Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Inc.Inventors: Masakazu Andou, Mamoru Umeki
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Patent number: 7274033Abstract: A method for reading radiation image information in which a cassette is lowered while keeping each short side of the cassette extending vertically, and then inserted into a radiation image reading apparatus which has a cassette loading inlet in its upper surface and the inserted cassette is taken into the apparatus, and next the front base and the back base are disengaged in the apparatus and both are separated, and after the radiation image information is read from the stimulable phosphor sheet of the back base which are separated from the front base, and then the front base and the back base are joined and ejected from the insertion opening of the apparatus. The apparatus height is smaller than in the method in which the stimulable phosphor sheet is pulled downward from the cassette and is read, and the operation of lifting the cassette against the force of gravity up to the height of the upper surface of the apparatus becomes unnecessary at the time of inserting the cassette.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2005Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.Inventors: Hisashi Yonekawa, Masakazu Andou
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Patent number: 7220980Abstract: A substantially rectangular insertion opening is formed on the upper surface of the housing of the radiation image reading device. An L-shaped projecting portion which runs from the back side periphery to the right side periphery of the insertion opening is integrally formed with the housing and the projecting portion protrudes above the upper surface of the housing, and the top surface of the projecting portion is higher than the upper surface of the housing. When the cassette is inserted into the insertion opening, if the cassette is allowed to come in contact with the side surface of the projecting portion, positioning of the cassette at the insertion opening is simpler. As a result, quicker and easier insertion of the cassette into the insertion opening becomes possible.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2005Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphics, Inc.Inventor: Masakazu Andou
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Publication number: 20060289770Abstract: A cassette to record a radiation image of an object to be radiographed, is provided with a sheet-shaped recording medium including a layer of needle imaging plate having a thickness of 20 ?m to 2 mm, wherein the needle imaging plate are formed by a deposition method; a front member through which the recording medium receives the radiation image of the object; and a back member positioned opposite to the front member; wherein the front and back members are relatively attached to each other so as to form an accommodation space in which the sheet-shaped recording medium is accommodated or detached from each other and the attaching or detaching direction of the front and back members is substantially the same direction with a growing direction of the needle imaging plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2006Publication date: December 28, 2006Inventors: Masakazu Andou, Mamoru Umeki
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Publication number: 20060261287Abstract: A cassette to record a radiation image of an object to be radiographed, is provided with a sheet-shaped recording medium including a layer of needle imaging plate having a thickness of 20 ?m to 2 mm, wherein the needle imaging plate are formed by a deposition method; a front member through which the recording medium receives the radiation image of the object; and a back member positioned opposite to the front member; wherein the front and back members are relatively attached to each other so as to form an accommodation space in which the sheet-shaped recording medium is accommodated or detached from each other and the attaching or detaching direction of the front and back members is substantially the same direction with a growing direction of the needle imaging plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2006Publication date: November 23, 2006Applicant: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.Inventors: Masakazu Andou, Mamoru Umeki
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Patent number: 7122807Abstract: A cassette to record a radiation image of an object to be radiographed, is provided with a sheet-shaped recording medium including a layer of needle imaging plate having a thickness of 20 ?m to 2 mm, wherein the needle imaging plate are formed by a deposition method; a front member through which the recording medium receives the radiation image of the object; and a back member positioned opposite to the front member; wherein the front and back members are relatively attached to each other so as to form an accommodation space in which the sheet-shaped recording medium is accommodated or detached from each other and the attaching or detaching direction of the front and back members is substantially the same direction with a growing direction of the needle imaging plate.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2004Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Inc.Inventors: Masakazu Andou, Mamoru Umeki
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Publication number: 20060124877Abstract: A substantially rectangular insertion opening is formed on the upper surface of the housing of the radiation image reading device. An L-shaped projecting portion which runs from the back side periphery to the right side periphery of the insertion opening is integrally formed with the housing and the projecting portion protrudes above the upper surface of the housing, and the top surface of the projecting portion is higher than the upper surface of the housing. When the cassette is inserted into the insertion opening, if the cassette is allowed to come in contact with the side surface of the projecting portion, positioning of the cassette at the insertion opening is simpler. As a result, quicker and easier insertion of the cassette into the insertion opening becomes possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2005Publication date: June 15, 2006Applicant: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.Inventor: Masakazu Andou
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Publication number: 20060124875Abstract: A method for reading radiation image information in which a cassette is lowered while keeping each short side of the cassette extending vertically, and then inserted into a radiation image reading apparatus which has a cassette loading inlet in its upper surface and the inserted cassette is taken into the apparatus, and next the front base and the back base are disengaged in the apparatus and both are separated, and after the radiation image information is read from the stimulable phosphor sheet of the back base which are separated from the front base, and then the front base and the back base are joined and ejected from the insertion opening of the apparatus. The apparatus height is smaller than in the method in which the stimulable phosphor sheet is pulled downward from the cassette and is read, and the operation of lifting the cassette against the force of gravity up to the height of the upper surface of the apparatus becomes unnecessary at the time of inserting the cassette.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2005Publication date: June 15, 2006Inventors: Hisashi Yonekawa, Masakazu Andou
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Publication number: 20050072938Abstract: A cassette to record a radiation image of an object to be radiographed, is provided with a sheet-shaped recording medium including a layer of needle imaging plate having a thickness of 20 ?m to 2 mm, wherein the needle imaging plate are formed by a deposition method; a front member through which the recording medium receives the radiation image of the object; and a back member positioned opposite to the front member; wherein the front and back members are relatively attached to each other so as to form an accommodation space in which the sheet-shaped recording medium is accommodated or detached from each other and the attaching or detaching direction of the front and back members is substantially the same direction with a growing direction of the needle imaging plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2004Publication date: April 7, 2005Applicant: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.Inventors: Masakazu Andou, Mamoru Umeki