Patents by Inventor Masashi Aoki
Masashi Aoki 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: 8820785Abstract: An inflation portion of an airbag, which is inflated by inflation gas, is partitioned into an upstream inflation portion and a downstream inflation portion via a partition member. When being tensioned in a planar manner, the partition member has a length in a longitudinal direction that is longer than a length in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. A pressure regulating valve that is closed at an early stage of a supply period of the inflation gas to the inflation portion and is opened from the middle of the supply period includes a slit-like inner opening that is provided on the partition member and extends in the transverse direction and a pair of valve body portions that are provided around the inner opening and are selectively positioned close to and separated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Shibayama, Kensaku Honda, Yuji Sato, Michiyasu Ito, Masashi Hotta, Masashi Aoki, Daisuke Yamamura
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Patent number: 8764431Abstract: In a method for transcripting fine patterns and an apparatus for transcripting fine patterns, the ingress of bubbles is prevented and patterns are transcripted with a high throughput by a relatively compact apparatus. For this purpose, a back surface of a stamper is vacuum sucked and the stamper is brought into close contact with a target of transcription with its surfaces coated with resist and pressure is applied thereto. At this time, the stamper is deformed into a spherical shape or bent to expand the close contact face from a central area to a peripheral area to prevent the ingress of air bubbles into between the target of transcription and the stamper.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Naoaki Yamashita, Toshimitsu Shiraishi, Koji Tsushima, Masashi Aoki
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Publication number: 20140042735Abstract: An inflation portion of an airbag, which is inflated by inflation gas, is partitioned into an upstream inflation portion and a downstream inflation portion via a partition member. When being tensioned in a planar manner, the partition member has a length in a longitudinal direction that is longer than a length in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. A pressure regulating valve that is closed at an early stage of a supply period of the inflation gas to the inflation portion and is opened from the middle of the supply period includes a slit-like inner opening that is provided on the partition member and extends in the transverse direction and a pair of valve body portions that are provided around the inner opening and are selectively positioned close to and separated from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji SHIBAYAMA, Kensaku HONDA, Yuji SATO, Michiyasu ITO, Masashi HOTTA, Masashi AOKI, Daisuke YAMAMURA
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Patent number: 8608198Abstract: An inflation portion of an airbag, which is inflated by inflation gas, is partitioned into an upstream inflation portion and a downstream inflation portion via a partition member. When being tensioned in a planar manner, the partition member has a length in a longitudinal direction that is longer than a length in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. A pressure regulating valve that is closed at an early stage of a supply period of the inflation gas to the inflation portion and is opened from the middle of the supply period includes a slit-like inner opening that is provided on the partition member and extends in the transverse direction and a pair of valve body portions that are provided around the inner opening and are selectively positioned close to and separated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Shibayama, Kensaku Honda, Yuji Sato, Michiyasu Ito, Masashi Hotta, Masashi Aoki, Daisuke Yamamura
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Publication number: 20130224322Abstract: A method for removing foreign matters attaching on a surface of a fine pattern of a mold, having the fine pattern being convexo-concave, at least on one surface thereof, thereby cleaning the fine pattern surface of the mold, and an imprinting device applying that method therein, without removing, comprises the following steps of: applying a photo-curable resin on a surface of a body to be transcribed, onto which the mold is suppressed, and thereby forming a photo-curable resin layer; suppressing the mold on the photo-curable resin, which is applied on the surface of the body to be transcribed; separating the photo-curable resin cured from the mold, after curing the photo-curable resin, and whereby taking the foreign matters attaching on the surface of the fine pattern into the photo-curable resin cured to remove them, wherein the photo-curable resin to be formed on the surface of the body to be transcribed is formed with such thickness that it can remove the foreign matters attaching on the fine pattern, andType: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Noritake Shizawa, Naoaki Yamashita, Masashi Aoki, Tetsuhiro Hatogai
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Patent number: 8307935Abstract: In a vehicle pop-up hood apparatus in which a rod is extended and a hood is pushed up by the operation of an actuator at a time of collision with a collision body, collision energy is absorbed with high efficiency when a collision load of a predetermined value or greater is input to an area near a hood pushed up position. Actuator (18) operates such that rod (20) moves in an axial direction toward a hood upper side, pushes up a rear edge side of hood rocker (12) and holds it at that position and, in that state, when a collision load of a predetermined value or greater acts from a hood upper side to near the pushed up position of the hood, push portion (54) slides along pushed up surface (38) of hinge arm (30) towards a vehicle rear side, and rod (20) is made to bend in conjunction therewith.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Pacific Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Takahashi, Hitoshi Yuasa, Yukio Nakagawa, Kazuyuki Yoshiyama, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Takeki Hayashi, Hajime Kitte, Masashi Aoki, Toshikatsu Togawa, Toshinobu Tsuboi, Shinji Mori
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Patent number: 8141671Abstract: A hood lift-up apparatus of the invention is arranged on a lower side of a rear end of a hood panel of a vehicle and includes an actuator of a constitution of fixing a cylinder in a shape of a circular cylinder arranged by making an axial direction thereof substantially in line with a vertical direction to a body member of a vehicle by utilizing an attaching bracket. The attaching bracket is constructed by a constitution of including a holding portion of holding the cylinder by being disposed on a rear portion side constituting a side of the cylinder, and an attaching portion arranged on a front side of the cylinder by being extended to the front side from the holding portion and is fixed to a body member at a portion of the attaching portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha KabushikikaishaInventors: Masashi Aoki, Hiroyuki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20120038071Abstract: In an optical imprinting method, after pressing a mold with a mold pressing mechanism detachably holding a mold against a resist applied to a transferred body to firmly attach the mold to the transferred body and detaching the mold from the mold pressing mechanism, arranging a UV light source above the up side surface of the laminated body of the mold and irradiating UV light to cure the resist. Then, after completing the resist curing, retracting the mold and the transferred body from the UV light source and separating the mold from the transferred body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Naoaki YAMASHITA, Shinjiro ISHII, Masashi AOKI, Noritake SHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20120025499Abstract: An inflation portion of an airbag, which is inflated by inflation gas, is partitioned into an upstream inflation portion and a downstream inflation portion via a partition member. When being tensioned in a planar manner, the partition member has a length in a longitudinal direction that is longer than a length in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. A pressure regulating valve that is closed at an early stage of a supply period of the inflation gas to the inflation portion and is opened from the middle of the supply period includes a slit-like inner opening that is provided on the partition member and extends in the transverse direction and a pair of valve body portions that are provided around the inner opening and are selectively positioned close to and separated from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTDInventors: Koji SHIBAYAMA, Kensaku HONDA, Yuji SATO, Michiyasu ITO, Masashi HOTTA, Masashi AOKI, Daisuke YAMAMURA
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Publication number: 20120025419Abstract: The present invention provides an imprinting apparatus or an imprint transfer method in which uniformity of curing quality by UV light is maintained and a uniform application thickness of a UV curable resin is achieved, even if glass is contaminated with dust and/or smudges or has a flaw.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Inventors: Toshimitsu SHIRAISHI, Naoaki Yamashita, Masashi Aoki
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Patent number: 8054511Abstract: An image reading device to read an image carried on a document, including: an image reading section to read an image carried on a document; a polygonal member, mounted to face the image reading section, and spaced from the image reading section at a predetermined distance, the polygonal member includes a document feeding flat surface which faces the image reading section when the document is fed thereon, a white flat surface, and a black flat surface; a light source to emit light rays onto the image carried on the document, and onto the polygonal member when the document is not fed; and a control section to control an amount of the light rays emitted from the light source; wherein the control section corrects an amount of light rays concerning the white color and the black color, based on the amount of the light rays read by the image reading section.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2008Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Masashi Aoki, Hideyuki Umeno
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Publication number: 20110244388Abstract: There is provided a resin-coated carrier for an electrophotographic developer, including: a carrier core particle; and a coating resin layer comprising a silicone resin or a modified silicone resin formed on a surface of the carrier core particle, wherein a titanium-ethyl acetoacetate chelate or a titanium-octylene glycol chelate is contained in the coating resin layer as a titanium chelate, and wherein the content of the titanium-ethyl acetoacetate chelate or the titanium-octylene glycol chelate is 5.0 to 50.0% by weight based on coating resin solids. There is also provided an electrophotographic developer using the resin-coated carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: POWDERTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya UEMURA, Tomoaki KOBAYASHI, Masashi AOKI
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Publication number: 20110217479Abstract: In a method for transcripting fine patterns and an apparatus for transcripting fine patterns, the ingress of bubbles is prevented and patterns are transcripted with a high throughput by a relatively compact apparatus. For this purpose, a back surface of a stamper is vacuum sucked and the stamper is brought into close contact with a target of transcription with its surfaces coated with resist and pressure is applied thereto. At this time, the stamper is deformed into a spherical shape or bent to expand the close contact face from a central area to a peripheral area to prevent the ingress of air bubbles into between the target of transcription and the stamper.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Naoaki YAMASHITA, Toshimitsu SHIRAISHI, Koji TSUSHIMA, Masashi AOKI
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Publication number: 20110195183Abstract: There is provided a method for spin coating, by which a resist is coated on a surface of a circular disc with a hole formed in its center. A method for spin coating coats a film-forming material discharged from a nozzle to an upper surface of a circular disc substrate with a through hole formed in a center while rotating the substrate. At an initial discharging stage where a discharge amount fluctuates, an inner diameter center of the nozzle is located at an initial discharge radius position apart from a position corresponding to a coat boundary of the disc substrate at an outer radial side. At a subsequent stage of stabilized discharging amount, the inner diameter center of the nozzle is moved from the initial discharge radius position to a stabilized discharge radius position around the coat boundary to further discharge the film-forming material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Naoaki YAMASHITA, Kyoichi MORI, Takayuki ISHIGURO, Noritake SHIZAWA, Shinjiro ISHII, Masashi AOKI
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Patent number: 7976058Abstract: The occupant protection system includes a catching body that is housed in a housing located between a near-by seat and a distant seat for upward deployment and a support body that supports the catching body. The catching body covers the impact side of a distant-side occupant to catch the occupant moving toward the impacted lateral and includes a distal end acting as a free end swingable in a left and right direction. The support body is located on a side of the near-by seat close to the impacted lateral for deployment to support the catching body when the catching body swings toward the impacted lateral after receiving the distant-side occupant.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2009Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeyuki Suzuki, Takaki Fukuyama, Kenji Hayakawa, Tsukasa Sugiyama, Michio Inoue, Hirokazu Matsuura, Hajime Kitte, Takeki Hayashi, Masashi Aoki, Hitoshi Ida
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Patent number: 7975797Abstract: In a configuration in which a rod is extended by an actuator and raises a hood at a time of a collision with a collision body, when a collision load greater than a predetermined value is input to near a hood pushed up area, the collision energy is efficiently absorbed. In a state in which a hood (12) is maintained in a pushed up position, when a collision load equal to or greater than a predetermined value is input from a hood upper side, a distal end portion (54) of a rod (20) slides towards a vehicle rear side along a pushed up surface (38) of a hood rear portion, while deforming the rod (20) by bending, thereby absorbing collision energy. At this time, before a base of a hinge arm (30) contacts a cowl top side (22), distal end portion (54) of rod (20) catches against a bending portion (60) such that rod (20) is bent further.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2009Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Pacific Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Yuasa, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Hajime Kitte, Masashi Aoki, Toshikatsu Togawa, Toshinobu Tsuboi
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Patent number: 7946376Abstract: When activated, an actuator causes a piston rod in a cylinder to move forwards so as to support a receiving member for receiving an object to be protected. A lock mechanism for restricting a backward movement of the piston rod includes a lock ring which is accommodated in an accommodating groove on a piston portion and a locking stepped portion on the cylinder side. The locking stepped portion includes a locking and restricting surface and an outer circumferential restricting surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2009Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeki Hayashi, Masashi Aoki, Hirokazu Matsuura, Hajime Kitte
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Publication number: 20110097875Abstract: A wafer processing method for dividing a wafer into individual devices along a plurality of crossing streets formed on the front side of the wafer, the individual devices being respectively formed in a plurality of regions partitioned by the streets. The wafer processing method includes the steps of attaching the front side of the wafer to a dicing tape supported to an annular dicing frame, grinding the back side of the wafer to reduce the thickness of the wafer to a predetermined thickness, forming a break start point along each street from the back side of the wafer, applying an external force to the wafer to break the wafer along each street where the break start point is formed, thereby dividing the wafer into the individual devices, attaching the back side of the wafer to a front side of an adhesive tape supported to an annular frame and next removing the adhesive tape from the front side of the adhesive tape, and peeling off and picking up each device from the adhesive tape.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: DISCO CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Gokita, Takashi Yamaguchi, Masashi Koyama, Masashi Aoki, Masaaki Suzuki, Katsuhiko Sekiya, Ye Chen, Keiichi Kajiyama, Toshiharu Daii
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Publication number: 20110031056Abstract: In a vehicle pop-up hood apparatus in which a rod is extended and a hood is pushed up by the operation of an actuator at a time of collision with a collision body, collision energy is absorbed with high efficiency when a collision load of a predetermined value or greater is input to an area near a hood pushed up position. Actuator (18) operates such that rod (20) moves in an axial direction toward a hood upper side, pushes up a rear edge side of hood rocker (12) and holds it at that position and, in that state, when a collision load of a predetermined value or greater acts from a hood upper side to near the pushed up position of the hood, push portion (54) slides along pushed up surface (38) of hinge arm (30) towards a vehicle rear side, and rod (20) is made to bend in conjunction therewith.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2009Publication date: February 10, 2011Inventors: Hiroyuki Takahashi, Hitoshi Yuasa, Yukio Nakagawa, Kazuyuki Yoshiyama, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Takeki Hayashi, Hajime Kitte, Masashi Aoki, Toshikatsu Togawa, Toshinobu Tsuboi, Shinji Mori
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Publication number: 20100294584Abstract: In a configuration in which a rod is extended by an actuator and raises a hood at a time of a collision with a collision body, when a collision load greater than a predetermined value is input to near a hood pushed up area, the collision energy is efficiently absorbed. In a state in which a hood (12) is maintained in a pushed up position, when a collision load equal to or greater than a predetermined value is input from a hood upper side, a distal end portion (54) of a rod (20) slides towards a vehicle rear side along a pushed up surface (38) of a hood rear portion, while deforming the rod (20) by bending, thereby absorbing collision energy. At this time, before a base of a hinge arm (30) contacts a cowl top side (22), distal end portion (54) of rod (20) catches against a bending portion (60) such that rod (20) is bent further.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2009Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventors: Hitoshi Yuasa, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Hajime Kitte, Masashi Aoki, Toshikatsu Togawa, Toshinobu Tsuboi