Patents by Inventor Masaki Sugimoto
Masaki Sugimoto 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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Publication number: 20220371518Abstract: A vehicle slope apparatus includes a slope plate configured to be moved in a deployment direction so as to be deployed at a lower end of a door opening portion and configured to be moved in a housing direction so as to be housed in a housing portion provided in a vehicle body, and a position holding device configured to hold a position of the slope plate against an external force.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Isao HONDA, Tomoyuki KATO, Yuta MURAKAMI, Masaki SUGIMOTO, Takanori SATO
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Patent number: 11378245Abstract: A light source unit provided with a light-emitting element as a light source is attached to a rear wall section of a housing. The light source unit is attached to the housing, in the state where a socket is inserted in an opening formed in the rear wall section and an elastic seal member attached to the front end of the socket is pressed against the rear wall section. A rib extending toward a lamp rear side so as to surround at least the upper half section of the opening is formed on the rear wall section of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuhiko Harada, Yasuhisa Ogawa, Takahiro Totsuka, Kazuma Nagase, Naoki Kawauchi, Masaki Sugimoto, Koji Doke
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Publication number: 20210222850Abstract: A light source unit provided with a light-emitting element as a light source is attached to a rear wall section of a housing. The light source unit is attached to the housing, in the state where a socket is inserted in an opening formed in the rear wall section and an elastic seal member attached to the front end of the socket is pressed against the rear wall section. A rib extending toward a lamp rear side so as to surround at least the upper half section of the opening is formed on the rear wall section of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2019Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuhiko Harada, Yasuhisa Ogawa, Takahiro Totsuka, Kazuma Nagase, Naoki Kawauchi, Masaki Sugimoto, Koji Doke
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Patent number: 10369858Abstract: A suspension controller includes a target current setting unit, a current limitation setting unit, a current outputting unit, a current detector, and an estimated temperature calculator. The target current setting unit sets a target current value. The current limitation setting unit sets a current limitation value. The current outputting unit supplies a solenoid with a current that is based on the target current value, the current limitation value, and a power supply voltage. The solenoid controls a damping force of a suspension. The current detector detects a current value of the current supplied to the solenoid. The estimated temperature calculator calculates an estimated temperature of the solenoid based on the current value detected by the current detector so that the current limitation setting unit changes the current limitation value based on the estimated temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: SHOWA CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi Morita, Hiroaki Kurihara, Masaki Sugimoto
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Patent number: 10328761Abstract: A suspension controller includes a target current setting unit configured to set a target current value, a current limitation setting unit configured to set a current limitation value, a current detector configured to detect a current value of a first current supplied to a solenoid that is configured to control a damping force of a suspension, a duty ratio setting unit configured to set a duty ratio based on the target current value, based on the current limitation value, and based on the current value detected by the current detector; and a current outputting unit configured to supply the solenoid with a second current that corresponds to the duty ratio set by the duty ratio setting unit and to a power supply voltage. The current limitation setting unit is configured to change the current limitation value based on the duty ratio set by the duty ratio setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: SHOWA CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Sugimoto, Hiroaki Kurihara
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Patent number: 10160351Abstract: A vehicle seat sliding apparatus includes a lower rail, an upper rail, a slide-lock mechanism that pivots the lock member to a slide-lock position and holds the upper rail in a slide-lock state, and a slide-lock cancellation unit moved by operation of an operation member in a longitudinal direction of the upper rail to cancel an action of the slide-lock mechanism. The slide-lock cancellation unit includes a drive unit and an inclined surface arranged in the drive unit. The drive unit is supported by the upper rail so as to be slidable in the longitudinal direction of the upper rail. Operation of the operation member slides the drive unit. The inclined surface pivots the lock member to a slide-lock cancellation position when sliding.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki Sugimoto, Makoto Sakai, Naoaki Hoshihara, Yasuhiro Kojima, Satoshi Kimura
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Publication number: 20180251046Abstract: A vehicle seat sliding apparatus includes a lower rail, an upper rail, a slide-lock mechanism that pivots the lock member to a slide-lock position and holds the upper rail in a slide-lock state, and a slide-lock cancellation unit moved by operation of an operation member in a longitudinal direction of the upper rail to cancel an action of the slide-lock mechanism. The slide-lock cancellation unit includes a drive unit and an inclined surface arranged in the drive unit. The drive unit is supported by the upper rail so as to be slidable in the longitudinal direction of the upper rail. Operation of the operation member slides the drive unit. The inclined surface pivots the lock member to a slide-lock cancellation position when sliding.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2016Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki SUGIMOTO, Makoto SAKAI, Naoaki HOSHIHARA, Yasuhiro KOJIMA, Satoshi KIMURA
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Publication number: 20170282666Abstract: A suspension controller includes a target current setting unit configured to set a target current value, a current limitation setting unit configured to set a current limitation value, a current detector configured to detect a current value of a first current supplied to a solenoid that is configured to control a damping force of a suspension, a duty ratio setting unit configured to set a duty ratio based on the target current value, based on the current limitation value, and based on the current value detected by the current detector; and a current outputting unit configured to supply the solenoid with a second current that corresponds to the duty ratio set by the duty ratio setting unit and to a power supply voltage. The current limitation setting unit is configured to change the current limitation value based on the duty ratio set by the duty ratio setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Applicant: Showa CorporationInventors: Masaki SUGIMOTO, Hiroaki KURIHARA
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Publication number: 20170282668Abstract: A suspension controller includes a target current setting unit, a current limitation setting unit, a current outputting unit, a current detector, and an estimated temperature calculator. The target current setting unit sets a target current value. The current limitation setting unit sets a current limitation value. The current outputting unit supplies a solenoid with a current that is based on the target current value, the current limitation value, and a power supply voltage. The solenoid controls a damping force of a suspension. The current detector detects a current value of the current supplied to the solenoid. The estimated temperature calculator calculates an estimated temperature of the solenoid based on the current value detected by the current detector so that the current limitation setting unit changes the current limitation value based on the estimated temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Applicant: Showa CorporationInventors: Takumi MORITA, Hiroaki KURIHARA, Masaki SUGIMOTO
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Patent number: 9682602Abstract: A control apparatus for a damping force varying damper includes a target current determining section, an upper limit setting section, and a supplied current determining section. The target current determining section determines a target current supplied to a solenoid valve that controls a damping force. The upper limit setting section sets an upper limit value for a current supplied to the solenoid valve. The supplied current determining section determines a supplied current, from the target current and the upper limit value. The upper limit setting section determines a coefficient that increases or reduces the upper limit value based on an already determined supplied current and then determines the upper limit value from the coefficient. The upper limit setting section determines a coefficient that increases or reduces the upper limit value based on an already determined supplied current and then determines the upper limit value from the coefficient.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: SHOWA CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi Morita, Atsushi Sakuma, Masaki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20160214454Abstract: A control apparatus for a damping force varying damper includes a target current determining section, an upper limit setting section, and a supplied current determining section. The target current determining section determines a target current supplied to a solenoid valve that controls a damping force. The upper limit setting section sets an upper limit value for a current supplied to the solenoid valve. The supplied current determining section determines a supplied current, from the target current and the upper limit value. The upper limit setting section determines a coefficient that increases or reduces the upper limit value based on an already determined supplied current and then determines the upper limit value from the coefficient. The upper limit setting section determines a coefficient that increases or reduces the upper limit value based on an already determined supplied current and then determines the upper limit value from the coefficient.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2015Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: Showa CorporationInventors: Takumi MORITA, Atsushi SAKUMA, Masaki SUGIMOTO
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Patent number: 8408630Abstract: A slide member is slidable along a slide rail provided at a vehicle-body side portion. When lock pawls provided at the slide member are engaged with the slide rail, the slide member is locked. The slide member is unlocked by operating an operation cable connected to the lock pawls. The operation cable is fitted to a fitting portion of an attachment bracket connected to the slide rail. A portion from a fixed portion fixed to the fitting portion to a movable portion (one end portion) extends through a region where a non-contact portion is disposed, and does not contact the non-contact portion. The movable portion is connected to the slide member and moved integrally with the slide member.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignees: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takao Saito, Toshinao Wada, Masaki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20120039767Abstract: A sensing element for cyclic saturated hydrocarbons, which can optically detect in a short time the volatilized organic hydride at comparatively low sensing element temperature, and a detector which uses the sensing element are disclosed. The sensing element for cyclic saturated hydrocarbons has a transparent substrate made of ceramics such as quartz; a tungsten trioxide thin film having columnar structure on the transparent substrate, and a platinum layer formed to the thickness of 15 nm or less on the surface of the thin film by deposition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCYInventors: Kimio YOSHIMURA, Teruyuki HAKODA, Shunya YAMAMOTO, Atsumi MIYASHITA, Masaki SUGIMOTO, Masahito YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: 8052898Abstract: A hydrogen gas detecting material, which changes in light absorption characteristics when exposed to an atmosphere containing hydrogen, and the coating method are characterized in that (1) the principal component of the hydrogen gas detecting material is tungsten oxide, (2) palladium is deposited on the surface of the tungsten oxide, (3) the tungsten oxide is coated on a substrate by a sputtering method involving a controlled oxygen pressure, and (4) the temperature of the substrate during coating with the tungsten oxide is room temperature (20° C.).Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2007Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Japan Atomic Energy AgencyInventors: Katsuyoshi Takano, Shunya Yamamoto, Aichi Inouye, Masaki Sugimoto, Masahito Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 7964171Abstract: An improved process for producing a silicon carbide ceramic micro tubes (SiC micro tube) from a silicon-based polymer fiber by applying an ionizing radiation such that the surface part of the fiber selectively undergoes oxidative crosslinking, extracting the uncrosslinked core part of the fiber with an organic solvent to form a hollow fiber, and firing it in an inert gas is characterized by using a polymer blend of polycarbosilane and polyvinylsilane as the silicon polymer or applying the ionizing radiation to the silicon-based polymer fiber as it is cooled. The two methods may be performed either individually or in combination to produce tubes with their wall thickness controlled at a desired value in the range of 2-10 ?m although this has been impossible to achieve in the prior art.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2005Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Japan Atomic Energy AgencyInventors: Masaki Sugimoto, Akira Idesaki
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Publication number: 20110042994Abstract: A slide member is slidable along a slide rail provided at a vehicle-body side portion. When lock pawls provided at the slide member are engaged with the slide rail, the slide member is locked. The slide member is unlocked by operating an operation cable connected to the lock pawls. The operation cable is fitted to a fitting portion of an attachment bracket connected to the slide rail. A portion from a fixed portion fixed to the fitting portion to a movable portion (one end portion) extends through a region where a non-contact portion is disposed, and does not contact the non-contact portion. The movable portion is connected to the slide member and moved integrally with the slide member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takao SAITO, Toshinao WADA, Masaki SUGIMOTO
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Publication number: 20100234481Abstract: A method of manufacturing porous ceramics, for example, thin film used for gas separation is disclosed. In this method, a silicon based mixture polymeric material which is the ceramics precursor is applied on a ceramics substrate, crosslinked by using ionizing radiation under oxygen free conditions; and pyrolyzed under an inert gas after that.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicants: JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, OSAKA PREFECTURE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki SUGIMOTO, Masahito YOSHIKAWA, Akinori TAKEYAMA, Ken'ichiro KITA, Masaki NARISAWA, Hiroshi Mabuchi
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Publication number: 20100222207Abstract: A method of synthesizing SiC materials comprising the step of making a blend which consists of a silicon based polymer and a metal complex by blending a silicon based polymer solution and a metal complex solution and drying, and firing the blend in an inert gas at 700° C. or more; and a SiC ceramic material which has catalyst performance in which a CO gas is oxidized to generate a CO2 gas, made by blending a polycarbosilane solution and a palladium acetate solution, and firing the blend in an inert gas at 700° C. or more after drying.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: Japan Atomic Energy AgencyInventors: Akira IDESAKI, Masaki SUGIMOTO, Ryoji TANAKA, Masahito YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: 7731927Abstract: A method by which ceramic nanowires with diameters ranging from several to several tens of nanometers can be synthesized with improvements in the shape retention of the nanowires and the yield of conversion to ceramic, which method comprises the steps of forming a thin film of a silicon-containing polymer usable as a ceramic precursor, irradiating the thin film with ion beams to form cylindrical crosslinked portions, extracting the un-crosslinked portions with a solvent to produce nanowires of the silicon-containing polymer, irradiating the nanowires with an ionizing radiation so that they are crosslinked again, and firing the re-crosslinked nanowires.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2006Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Japan Atomic Energy Research InstituteInventors: Masaki Sugimoto, Masahito Yoshikawa, Shuhei Seki, Satoshi Tsukuda, Seiichi Tagawa
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Publication number: 20100111805Abstract: A method by which ceramic nanowires with diameters ranging from several to several tens of nanometers can be synthesized with improvements in the shape retention of the nanowires and the yield of conversion to ceramic, which method comprises the steps of forming a thin film of a silicon-containing polymer usable as a ceramic precursor, irradiating the thin film with ion beams to form cylindrical crosslinked portions, extracting the un-crosslinked portions with a solvent to produce nanowires of the silicon-containing polymer, irradiating the nanowires with an ionizing radiation so that they are crosslinked again, and firing the re-crosslinked nanowires.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2006Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: Japan Atomic Energy AgencyInventors: Masaki Sugimoto, Masahito Yoshikawa, Shuhei Seki, Satoshi Tsukuda, Seiichi Tagawa