Patents by Inventor Masaki Sugihara

Masaki Sugihara 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).

  • Publication number: 20230014434
    Abstract: A light-guiding plate includes a resin base having a parallelism P of 5 ?m or less per an area of 50×100 mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Haruki KOSHITOUGE, Kazunori UMEDA, Kazuhisa IWASO, Ayaka OGURI, Masahiko ONO, Yukio KATO, Masaki SUGIHARA, Kouji SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20220348762
    Abstract: To provide resin composition, a pellet and a powder for use in new powder additive manufacturing, as well as a shaped article using the same, and a method for manufacturing such shaped article. The resin composition comprises a polybutylene terephthalate that contains a terephthalic acid-derived structural unit and a 1,4-butanediol-derived structural unit, for use in powder additive manufacturing, the resin composition having a value (?), defined by mathematical formula [1] below, of 40 or smaller: ?=|(MVR1?MVR0)/MVR0|×100??[1] where, MVR0 is melt volume flow rate (in cm3/10 min), and MVR1 is melt volume flow rate (in cm3/10 min).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI ENGINEERING-PLASTICS CORPORATION, MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu SHOUJI, Yasushi YAMANAKA, Minoru KISHISHITA, Masaki SUGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20210323194
    Abstract: A powder for powder bed fusion has a grain size distribution where D10 is not less than 20 ?m and not more than 42 ?m, D50 is not less than 42 ?m and not more than 70 ?m, and D90 is not more than 100 ?m, and includes polybutylene terephthalate having a melting peak half width in a DSC chart of not less than 1° C. and not more than 10° C. The powder for powder bed fusion benefits from excellent crushability and is prevented from the elongation of the particles or the softening of the resin even when the resin has been pulverized with a rotary blade or the like, and can form a uniformly thick powder layer without vacancies in a printing process and thus can be built up into a desired article with high accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION, MITSUBISHI ENGINEERING-PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki SUGIHARA, Minoru KISHISHITA, Yasushi YAMANAKA
  • Patent number: 9748056
    Abstract: A push-button switch (1) is arranged such that, once a user presses an operation button (8), a switch body (20) performs an operation, and light from an LED (21) passes through a transmission plate (70) and then illuminates the operation button (8). A structure (700) is provided on a lower surface (70b) of the transmission plate (70) to refract the light from the LED (21) so that the refracted light is reflected within the transmission plate (70) and then guided to an upper circumferential wall (71) of the transmission plate (70).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignees: OMRON Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanoue, Masaki Sugihara
  • Patent number: 9698662
    Abstract: A power-generating module has a base, a power-generating unit that is placed in the base, a plunger that is placed in the base and that vertically reciprocates, and a drive section that interlocks with the reciprocation of the plunger and starts up the power-generating unit. The drive section is biased to a boost-up position where the plunger is boosted up. The drive section has at least two links that turn between the boost-up position and a press-in position where the power-generating unit is started up. Both ends of one of the links are turnably supported by the base. Both ends of another link are turnably supported by the plunger. The links turn in an interlocking manner by coupling to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Sugihara, Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Makoto Wada, Kenshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 9230734
    Abstract: A U-shaped iron core transporting/assembling tank is divided into a first leg iron core tank for housing a first leg iron core, a second leg iron core tank for housing a second leg iron core, and a lower-yoke iron core assembling tank. The first and second leg iron core tanks are integrated to constitute an erection tank. The lower-yoke iron core assembling tank has an opening portion for opening or closing which is formed in one longitudinal side surface of the lower-yoke iron core and through which the lower-yoke iron core can be carried in or out. The lower-yoke iron core assembling tank is connected at the opening portion which is opened when the lower-yoke iron core is housed in the lower-yoke iron core assembling tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masaki Sugihara, Keigo Shibata, Shin Yamada
  • Patent number: 9171682
    Abstract: An operation switch where a switch unit can be separated from an operation unit in a simple manner even when the operation switches are densely fitted is disclosed herein. The operation switch of the invention includes an operation unit that is disposed on a front surface side of a panel and operated by external pressing force, a switch unit that can be separated from a rear surface side of the panel from the operation unit, a latching unit formed on an external circumferential surface of the operation unit along an axial center direction, a latching receiving unit which is formed along an external circumferential surface of the switch unit and to which the latching unit is latched, and a release lever that releases a latching state of the latching unit and the latching receiving unit so that the switch unit is separated from the operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Sugihara, Hiroshi Tsugawa, Hiroyuki Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20150235786
    Abstract: A push button switch has a box-shaped base, a first operating lever and a second operating lever, wherein each of the first operating lever and the second operating lever has a substantially U shape in a plan view, wherein the first operating lever and the second operating lever are arranged on the box-shaped base pivotally about middle parts of both arms as fulcra, and wherein the first operating lever and the second operating lever connect the tips of the both arms mutually pivotally and support the tips of the both arms in a vertically movable manner, an operating cover that has a planar shape covering the connected first and second operating levers and forms an operating hole at nearly the center thereof, and a plunger, wherein the plunger has a sectional shape capable of fitting into the operating hole of the operating cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Sugihara, Eiji Yuasa
  • Publication number: 20150114810
    Abstract: A push-button switch (1) is arranged such that, once a user presses an operation button (8), a switch body (20) performs an operation, and light from an LED (21) passes through a transmission plate (70) and then illuminates the operation button (8). A structure (700) is provided on a lower surface (70b) of the transmission plate (70) to refract the light from the LED (21) so that the refracted light is reflected within the transmission plate (70) and then guided to an upper circumferential wall (71) of the transmission plate (70).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanoue, Masaki Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20140306554
    Abstract: A power-generating module has a base, a power-generating unit that is placed in the base, a plunger that is placed in the base and that vertically reciprocates, and a drive section that interlocks with the reciprocation of the plunger and starts up the power-generating unit. The drive section is biased to a boost-up position where the plunger is boosted up. The drive section has at least two links that turn between the boost-up position and a press-in position where the power-generating unit is started up. Both ends of one of the links are turnably supported by the base. Both ends of another link are turnably supported by the plunger. The links turn in an interlocking manner by coupling to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Sugihara, Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Makoto Wada, Kenshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20130326869
    Abstract: Provided is a U-shaped iron core transfer/assembling method, by which a first leg iron core, a second-leg iron core and a lower-yoke iron core are housed in a first leg iron core tank, a second leg iron core tank and a lower-yoke iron core tank, respectively, and those iron cores are individually transported in sideways attitude. Next, the lower-yoke iron core is transferred into a lower-yoke iron core assembling tank. While the first leg iron core, the second leg iron core and the lower-yoke iron core being kept in the tilted postures, the first leg iron core tank, the second leg iron core tank and the lower-yoke iron core assembling tank are individually opened at their openings and are jointed to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masaki Sugihara, Keigo Shibata, Shin Yamada
  • Patent number: 8528191
    Abstract: Provided is a U-shaped iron core transfer/assembling method, by which a first leg iron core, a second-leg iron core and a lower-yoke iron core are housed in a first leg iron core tank, a second leg iron core tank and a lower-yoke iron core tank, respectively, and those iron cores are individually transported in sideways attitude. Next, the lower-yoke iron core is transferred into a lower-yoke iron core assembling tank. While the first leg iron core, the second leg iron core and the lower-yoke iron core being kept in the tilted postures, the first leg iron core tank, the second leg iron core tank and the lower-yoke iron core assembling tank are individually opened at their openings and are jointed to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masaki Sugihara, Keigo Shibata, Shin Yamada
  • Patent number: 8358217
    Abstract: A stationary induction apparatus has: a winding to which AC current is supplied; an electrostatic shield which includes an electrostatic shield member having a hollow and an electrically conductive film wound around the electrostatic shield member, and which is configured to suppress the electric field of the winding; a housing which contains the winding, the electrostatic shield and the insulating fluid; an IC tag which has a sensor arranged in the hollow of the electrostatic shield member and configured to detect position of the electrostatic shield member, and a transmitter unit configured to transmit, by radio, information acquired by the sensor as a high-frequency signal having a frequency much higher than the frequency of the AC current; and a receiver unit which is arranged in the housing, receives the high-frequency signal transmitted by radio from the IC tag and transmits, by wire, the signal outside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Haruhisa Wada, Masaki Sugihara, Masahiro Hanai
  • Patent number: 8225490
    Abstract: A transformer transporting/assembling method comprises a transportation step of transporting a U-shaped iron core with an iron plate horizontally extending to a place near an installation site and an erection step of erecting the U-shaped iron core together with an erection tank from a state that the iron plate extends horizontally to a state that the iron plate extend vertically, with the U-shaped iron core contained in the erection tank. The erection step includes a sub-step in which a portal lifter composed of two booms which are vertically expandable and parallel movable with a predetermined distance therebetween and between which the erection tank is disposed and a beam horizontally connecting the two booms and vertically moved as the booms expands or contracts is used, the beam supports the erection tank through a flexible member at predetermined support portions, and the beam is vertically moved by expanding/contracting the booms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Keigo Shibata, Masaki Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20100154202
    Abstract: A transformer transporting/assembling method comprises a transportation step of transporting a U-shaped iron core with an iron plate horizontally extending to a place near an installation site and an erection step of erecting the U-shaped iron core together with an erection tank from a state that the iron plate extends horizontally to a state that the iron plate extend vertically, with the U-shaped iron core contained in the erection tank. The erection step includes a sub-step in which a portal lifter composed of two booms which are vertically expandable and parallel movable with a predetermined distance therebetween and between which the erection tank is disposed and a beam horizontally connecting the two booms and vertically moved as the booms expands or contracts is used, the beam supports the erection tank through a flexible member at predetermined support portions, and the beam is vertically moved by expanding/contracting the booms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Keigo SHIBATA, Masaki Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20100146775
    Abstract: Provided is a U-shaped iron core transfer/assembling method, by which a first leg iron core, a second-leg iron core and a lower-yoke iron core are housed in a first leg iron core tank, a second leg iron core tank and a lower-yoke iron core tank, respectively, and those iron cores are individually transported in sideways attitude. Next, the lower-yoke iron core is transferred into a lower-yoke iron core assembling tank. While the first leg iron core, the second leg iron core and the lower-yoke iron core being kept in the tilted postures, the first leg iron core tank, the second leg iron core tank and the lower-yoke iron core assembling tank are individually opened at their openings and are jointed to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Masaki SUGIHARA, Keigo Shibata, Shin Yamada
  • Publication number: 20080197977
    Abstract: A stationary induction apparatus has: a winding to which AC current is supplied; an electrostatic shield which includes an electrostatic shield member having a hollow and an electrically conductive film wound around the electrostatic shield member, and which is configured to suppress the electric field of the winding; a housing which contains the winding, the electrostatic shield and the insulating fluid; an IC tag which has a sensor arranged in the hollow of the electrostatic shield member and configured to detect position of the electrostatic shield member, and a transmitter unit configured to transmit, by radio, information acquired by the sensor as a high-frequency signal having a frequency much higher than the frequency of the AC current; and a receiver unit which is arranged in the housing, receives the high-frequency signal transmitted by radio from the IC tag and transmits, by wire, the signal outside the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventors: Haruhisa Wada, Masaki Sugihara, Masahiro Hanai
  • Patent number: D725050
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsugawa, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Masaki Sugihara
  • Patent number: D753070
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsugawa, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Masaki Sugihara
  • Patent number: D753611
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsugawa, Hiroyuki Moriyama, Masaki Sugihara