Patents by Inventor Masanori Endo

Masanori Endo 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: 20170361280
    Abstract: A separation membrane element of the present invention includes: a separation membranes each having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face and forming a separation membrane pair by being arranged so that the permeate-side faces face each other; and a permeate-side channel material provided between the permeate-side faces of the separation membranes, the permeate-side channel material includes a sheet and a plurality of projections formed on the sheet, the sheet is a porous sheet having pores on a surface thereof, and has densely fused parts, coarsely fused parts and non-fused parts on the surface, and the projections contain a resin, and a part of the resin is impregnated into the pores of the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroho Hirozawa, Hiroshi Ogawa, Kenji Hayashida, Masanori Endo, Masashi Ito
  • Patent number: 9484572
    Abstract: An electrode active material for an all solid state secondary battery, which is able to have the controlled orientation of a crystal face at the interface between an electrode layer and an electrolyte layer in order to enhance the battery performance, and an all solid state secondary battery including the electrode active material. The electrode active material includes a carbon material having an intensity ratio (P002/P100) of 600 or less between the X-ray diffraction peak intensity P002 in the (002) plane and the X-ray diffraction peak intensity P100 in the (100) plane, which are obtained when a surface of a compact prepared by compression molding of a powder of the carbon material at a pressure of 110 MPa is irradiated with X-ray. The all solid state secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte, and the negative electrode contains the electrode active material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sayaka Okuda, Kazuhiro Yamada, Masanori Endo
  • Publication number: 20150217545
    Abstract: Provided is an aluminum-resin bonded body that expresses excellent bonding strength and does not show a reduction in the strength after a durability test, thus being able to keep the excellent bonding strength over a long period of time. The aluminum-resin bonded body includes: an aluminum substrate formed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy; an oxygen-containing film containing oxygen, the oxygen-containing film being formed on a surface of the aluminum substrate; and a resin molded body formed of a thermoplastic resin composition containing a thermoplastic resin and an additive, the resin molded body being bonded onto the oxygen-containing film, in which the thermoplastic resin composition contains any one or both of: a thermoplastic resin containing an element having an unshared electron pair in a repeat unit and/or at an end; and an additive containing an element having an unshared electron pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Endo, Reiko Takasawa, Miyuki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9050883
    Abstract: A clutch for a transmission is provided in which a transmission case includes a first wall portion and a second wall portion that define a clutch housing chamber for housing a clutch outer, a clutch inner, a friction member, and an extension portion of a first gear shaft that extends from a shaft end portion of a second gear shaft, the clutch outer is supported on the first wall portion via a first bearing, and the clutch inner is supported on the through hole of the second wall portion, through which the first gear shaft extends, via a second bearing, and therefore, it is possible to enhance the coaxiality of the clutch outer and the clutch inner by supporting them on the transmission case independently from the first and second gear shafts, prevent the torque transmission capacity of the clutch from decreasing, and avoid the occurrence of judder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Machida, Masanori Endo
  • Publication number: 20140234631
    Abstract: Provided is an aluminum-resin bonded body that expresses excellent bonding strength and does not show a reduction in the strength after a durability test, thus being able to keep the excellent bonding strength over a long period of time. The aluminum-resin bonded body includes: an aluminum substrate formed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy; an oxygen-containing film containing oxygen, which is formed on a surface of the aluminum substrate; and a molded resin formed of a thermoplastic resin, which is bonded onto the oxygen-containing film. The thermoplastic resin is a thermoplastic resin containing an element having an unshared electron pair in a repeat unit and/or at an end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Masaki Iino, Masanori Endo, Miyuki Yoshida, Masashi Isobe
  • Patent number: 8808926
    Abstract: An all-solid-state secondary battery that includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte, and which has good moldability and favorable battery characteristics. In the all-solid-state secondary battery, a carbon material having carbon particles with a fracture strength of 100 MPa or less is used for an electrode active material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Masanori Endo
  • Publication number: 20140212744
    Abstract: A battery housing structure for housing a battery body that includes a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode layer. A housing member houses the battery body and includes conductors connected to the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, respectively. An interposition member is interposed between the battery body and the housing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Shigematsu, Kazuhiro Yamada, Masanori Endo
  • Publication number: 20140109704
    Abstract: A clutch for a transmission is provided in which a transmission case includes a first wall portion and a second wall portion that define a clutch housing chamber for housing a clutch outer, a clutch inner, a friction member, and an extension portion of a first gear shaft that extends from a shaft end portion of a second gear shaft, the clutch outer is supported on the first wall portion via a first bearing, and the clutch inner is supported on the through hole of the second wall portion, through which the first gear shaft extends, via a second bearing, and therefore, it is possible to enhance the coaxiality of the clutch outer and the clutch inner by supporting them on the transmission case independently from the first and second gear shafts, prevent the torque transmission capacity of the clutch from decreasing, and avoid the occurrence of judder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Machida, Masanori Endo
  • Publication number: 20130280598
    Abstract: A mounting type solid state battery which includes a battery laminate body and a case housing the battery laminate body. The battery laminate body is formed by laminating a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer and a negative electrode layer in order. The case main body has a base part which supports the battery laminate body. The positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer are laminated in a direction in which the base part of the case main body extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Satoshi Shigematsu, Kazuhiro Yamada, Masanori Endo
  • Publication number: 20130157551
    Abstract: A high performance polishing cloth having a densified surface state with ultrafine fiber bundles uniformly dispersed therein and having excellent smoothness is provided. The polishing cloth comprises a nonwoven fabric formed by entangling the ultrafine fiber bundles formed by bundling ultrafine fibers with an average single fiber diameter of 0.05 to 2.0 ?m and a polymeric elastic material, wherein the average size of the surface fiber-napped portions constituted by the aforementioned ultrafine fiber bundles of the aforementioned nonwoven fabric in the width direction of the ultrafine fiber bundles is 50 to 180 ?M.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masanori Endo, Hajime Nishimura, Satoshi Yanagisawa, Yukihiro Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20130004858
    Abstract: An all-solid-state secondary battery that includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte, and which has good moldability and favorable battery characteristics. In the all-solid-state secondary battery, a carbon material having carbon particles with a fracture strength of 100 MPa or less is used for an electrode active material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Masanori Endo
  • Publication number: 20120308870
    Abstract: An electrode active material for an all solid state secondary battery, which is able to have the controlled orientation of a crystal face at the interface between an electrode layer and an electrolyte layer in order to enhance the battery performance, and an all solid state secondary battery including the electrode active material. The electrode active material includes a carbon material having an intensity ratio (P002/P100) of 600 or less between the X-ray diffraction peak intensity P002 in the (002) plane and the X-ray diffraction peak intensity P100 in the (100) plane, which are obtained when a surface of a compact prepared by compression molding of a powder of the carbon material at a pressure of 110 MPa is irradiated with X-ray. The all solid state secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte, and the negative electrode contains the electrode active material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sayaka Okuda, Kazuhiro Yamada, Masanori Endo
  • Patent number: 8237432
    Abstract: A rotation angle sensor providing excellent output characteristics is provided. The rotation angle sensor has a structure in which a ring-shaped permanent magnet provided so as to be rotatable integrally with a rotor connected to a member to be detected; magnetic flux gathering yokes surrounding the outer circumferential surface of the ring-shaped permanent magnet with a certain clearance being formed between the outer circumferential surface and the magnetic flux gathering yokes; and Hall ICs 30 arranged in gaps between the magnetic flux gathering yokes, are arranged inside a casing formed by a casing body and a cover. In the casing body, a guide tube surrounding the outer circumferential surface of the ring-shaped permanent magnet is formed with a certain clearance being formed between the outer circumferential surface and the guide tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Niles Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Inotsuka, Masanori Endo
  • Patent number: 8212170
    Abstract: A movable contact point board provided with contact points is urged in a direction of being away from stationary contact points by return springs each having the same size and the same characteristic, and is arranged as opposed to the stationary contact points. Return springs have the respective ends for supporting locations in the movable contact point board which are away from each other as having the contact points in the movable contact point board therebetween and support heights of the return springs at the stationary side differ with each other by D. When a plunger equipped with a holding portion having a flat surface as a bottom surface presses the movable contact point board, the contact point in the movable contact point board gets in contact with the stationary contact point at an inclined posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Niles Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Horikoshi, Masanori Endo
  • Patent number: 8128771
    Abstract: A method of producing a clothing article including the steps of (a) joining first continuous webs 120a and 120b having stretchability in the longitudinal direction thereof both in a longitudinally stretched state along an edge portion thereof to a longitudinally substantially inextensible second continuous web 120c to make a continuous composite sheet 120, (b) joining the composite sheet 120 obtained in step (a) on its side to a member 130 of the clothing article to make a web assembly 110, and (c) cutting the web assembly 110 obtained in step (b) to length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Endo, Kenji Ando, Shinnosuke Morita, Takuo Yanashima
  • Patent number: 8022323
    Abstract: The present invention aims at achieving the object of keeping a contact housing portion liquid tight sealed and to improve the durability of a switch apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Niles Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Watada, Masanori Endo
  • Publication number: 20110111214
    Abstract: Provided are an integrally injection-molded aluminum/resin article capable of having extremely high adhesion strength and air tightness at the interface between an aluminum shape made of an aluminum alloy and a molded resin integrally bonded to each other by injection molding, retaining excellent adhesion strength and air tightness in harsh environments in terms of temperature, humidity, dust, and the like, and exhibiting excellent durability and heat resistance, and a process for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Masanori Endo, Daisuke Nagasawa, Yasumitsu Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20100224472
    Abstract: A movable contact point board provided with contact points is urged in a direction of being away from stationary contact points by return springs each having the same size and the same characteristic, and is arranged as opposed to the stationary contact points. Return springs have the respective ends for supporting locations in the movable contact point board which are away from each other as having the contact points in the movable contact point board therebetween and support heights of the return springs at the stationary side differ with each other by D. When a plunger equipped with a holding portion having a flat surface as a bottom surface presses the movable contact point board, the contact point in the movable contact point board gets in contact with the stationary contact point at an inclined posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: Niles Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Horikoshi, Masanori Endo
  • Patent number: 7771627
    Abstract: A conductive composition capable of producing a conductive coating with excellent flexibility and a high conductivity comparable to that of metallic silver, without using high temperatures as film forming conditions. The conductive composition includes a particulate silver compound and a binder, and optionally a reducing agent and a binder. Silver oxide, silver carbonate and silver acetate and the like are used as the particulate silver compound. Ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, and ethylene glycol diacetate and the like are used as the reducing agent, and a fine powder of a thermosetting resin such as a polyvalent phenol compound, phenol resin, alkyd resin or polyester resin, or a thermoplastic resin such as a styrene resin or polyethylene terephthalate, with an average particle diameter from 20 nm to 5 ?m is used as the binder. Furthermore, the average particle diameter of the particulate silver compound may be from 0.01 to 10 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignees: Fujikura Ltd., Fujikura Kasei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Takahashi, Kiwako Ohmori, Masanori Endo, Hikaru Yasuhara, Takayuki Imai, Akinobu Ono, Toshiyuki Honda, Koji Okamoto, Masafumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20100059168
    Abstract: A method of producing a clothing article including the steps of (a) joining first continuous webs 120a and 120b having stretchability in the longitudinal direction thereof both in a longitudinally stretched state along an edge portion thereof to a longitudinally substantially inextensible second continuous web 120c to make a continuous composite sheet 120, (b) joining the composite sheet 120 obtained in step (a) on its side to a member 130 of the clothing article to make a web assembly 110, and (c) cutting the web assembly 110 obtained in step (b) to length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Endo, Kenji Ando, Shinnosuke Morita, Takuo Yanashima