Patents by Inventor Masashi Konno
Masashi Konno 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: 20190330832Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a deodorizer in which spray, etc. can be prevented or inhibited from entering the interior. A private part washing device 3 functioning as a deodorizer device, provided with: a case 7 provided to the rear part of a toilet bowl 4 provided to a main toilet body 2, the case having an opening part 9 opening onto the toilet bowl 4; an air duct 24 having a blowout port 28 from which airflow is blown out, the blowout port 28 opening from the opening part 9 to the outside of the case 7; and a shutter 10 for opening/closing the opening part 9, the shutter 10 forming an air outlet 38 between the shutter 10 and the case 7 when the opening part 9 is closed. When the opening part 9 is closed by the shutter 10, airflow is guided in a first direction from the air outlet 38 into the toilet bowl 4, and when the opening part 9 is opened by the shutter 10, airflow is guided in a direction different from the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2017Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: LIXIL CorporationInventors: TingJian GONG, Toshihiko KOMATSU, Masashi KONNO, Motoki KAGAWA, Masato WAKABAYASHI, Tomoya SASAKI, YinTao LIU, Atsushi WAKAMATSU
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Patent number: 7338273Abstract: A cutter machine has a knife holder 13 mounted onto a cutter shaft 6 at the center portion, wherein a material to be cut is cut with knives 15 mounted onto the outer circumference of the knife holder 13 by rotating the knife holder 13 around the cutter shaft 6. The knife holder 13 is separated into a fixing member 17 mounted onto the cutter shaft 6 and a mounting member 18 onto which the knives 15 are mounted. The mounting member 18 is pivotally supported around two axes with respect to the fixing member 17. In the cutter machine, the knives and a die plate come into contact with each other by a small press force of the knives, thereby enabling a satisfactory cutting to be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2003Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Masashi Konno, Nobuki Nagami, Yasuo Yoshii, Osamu Ikeda, Yoshiaki Nakata, Kazuo Iritani
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Patent number: 7311514Abstract: In a die plate having a hardened surface for sliding a knife, a plurality of WC alloy plates 1b are diffusion-bonded to a base metal 2b, whereby the hardened surface h is formed. A plurality of nozzle holes 4a, 4a . . . are formed on each of the WC alloy plates 1b. Each of the WC alloy plates 1b is formed into a shape having a thickness of 2.5 mm or more and two adjacent edges 20 mm or more in length, wherein each edge is 200 mm or less in length. The die plate has high freedom in an arrangement of nozzle holes to enable a close arrangement of a number of nozzle holes, has an extended life with hardly causing dropping-off of a member constituting a hardened surface, and can be produced with a minimized number of processes.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2005Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Tatsuda, Atsushi Shigeno, Nobuki Nagami, Masashi Konno, Hiroyuki Takeda
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Publication number: 20050221102Abstract: In a die plate having a hardened surface for sliding a knife, a plurality of WC alloy plates 1b are diffusion-bonded to a base metal 2b, whereby the hardened surface h is formed. A plurality of nozzle holes 4a, 4a . . . are formed on each of the WC alloy plates 1b. Each of the WC alloy plates 1b is formed into a shape having a thickness of 2.5 mm or more and two adjacent edges 20 mm or more in length, wherein each edge is 200 mm or less in length. The die plate has high freedom in an arrangement of nozzle holes to enable a close arrangement of a number of nozzle holes, has an extended life with hardly causing dropping-off of a member constituting a hardened surface, and can be produced with a minimized number of processes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2005Publication date: October 6, 2005Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Osamu Tatsuda, Atsushi Shigeno, Nobuki Nagami, Masashi Konno, Hiroyuki Takeda
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Publication number: 20030213352Abstract: A cutter machine having a knife holder 13 mounted onto a cutter shaft 6 at the center portion, wherein a material to be cut is cut with knives 15 mounted onto the outer circumference of the knife holder 13 by rotating the knife holder 13 around the cutter shaft 6, characterized in that the knife holder 13 is separated into a fixing member 17 mounted onto the cutter shaft 6 and a mounting member 18 onto which the knives 15 are mounted, wherein the mounting member 18 is pivotally supported around more than two axes with respect to the fixing member 17. In the cutter machine, the knives and a die plate come into contact with each other by a small press force of the knives without any usage of the resilient effect resulting from a gum bush, a metal plate or the like, thereby enabling a satisfactory cutting to be obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2003Publication date: November 20, 2003Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Masashi Konno, Nobuki Nagami, Yasuo Yoshii, Osamu Ikeda, Yoshiaki Nakata, Kazuo Iritani
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Patent number: 6298723Abstract: The invention relates to an angular velocity sensor used in posture control of a moving element or navigation system, and is intended to realize higher sensitivity, lower offset, lower offset drift, lower translation acceleration sensitivity, and higher impact resistance in a small size and at low cost.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2000Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masashi Konno, Sumio Sugawara, Nobuhisa Atoji, Jiro Terada, Masami Tamura
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Patent number: 6237415Abstract: The invention relates to an angular velocity sensor used in posture control of a moving element or navigation system, and is intended to realize higher sensitivity, lower offset, lower offset drift, lower translation acceleration sensitivity, and higher impact resistance in a small size and at low cost.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2000Date of Patent: May 29, 2001Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masashi Konno, Sumio Sugawara, Nobuhisa Atoji, Jiro Terada, Masami Tamura
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Patent number: 6119519Abstract: The invention relates to an angular velocity sensor used in posture control of a moving element or navigation system, and is intended to realize higher sensitivity, lower offset, lower offset drift, lower translation acceleration sensitivity, and higher impact resistance in a small size and at low cost.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1998Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masashi Konno, Sumio Sugawara, Nobuhisa Atoji, Jiro Terada, Masami Tamura
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Patent number: 5947593Abstract: A kneaded product of a desired state of kneading is available by causing a material to be kneaded to flow in tip clearances between rotor segments 1b and 1b of screw sets 1 and 1 and an inner wall surface of a chamber 4 while rotating the screw sets 1 and 1 provided to the right and the left of the chamber 4, and imparting a shearing force for dispersion. Each rotor segment 1b has a plurality of kneading blade 7 having different distances between the segment center and the top, so as to achieve a plurality of tip clearances different at least in the circumferential direction when the segment center is aligned with the chamber center.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1997Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Kimio Inoue, Katsunori Takahashi, Tatsuya Tanaka, Masahiko Kashiwa, Shigehiro Kasai, Yoshinori Kuroda, Hideo Funahashi, Yasuaki Yamane, Koichi Miyake, Masashi Konno, Akira Nishiyama
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Patent number: 5824900Abstract: The invention relates to an angular velocity sensor used in posture control of a moving element or navigation system, and is intended to realize higher sensitivity, lower offset, lower offset drift, lower translation acceleration sensitivity, and higher impact resistance in a small size and at low cost.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1997Date of Patent: October 20, 1998Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masashi Konno, Sumio Sugawara, Nobuhisa Atoji, Jiro Terada, Masami Tamura
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Patent number: 5522714Abstract: A driving mechanism for driving a gear pump of a dual drive type having two shafts comprises a reversing gear having a pair of output shafts which rotate respectively in opposite directions at the same rotating speed, and a pair of gear couplings connecting the gear pump to the reversing gear. One of the pair of gear couplings comprises: a shaft, a first coupling head disposed on one end of the shaft, and a second coupling head disposed on the other end of the shaft. The number z.sub.1 of teeth of the component external spur gears and internal spur gears of the first coupling head is not equal to the number z.sub.2 of teeth of the component external spur gears and internal spur gears of the second coupling head.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1993Date of Patent: June 4, 1996Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Taiji Orimo, Masashi Konno, Shinichi Fukumizu, Nobuki Nagami, Jun Yamanaka, Toru Yomogida
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Patent number: 5511874Abstract: A drive transmission mechanism for a biaxial extruder includes first and second output gears respectively fitted with an axial displacement on first and second output shafts which are connected to first and second screws of a biaxial extruder. A first lower gear and a first upper gear are arranged below and above the first output gear. A second lower gear and a second upper gear arranged below and above the second output gear. A reduction gear train is provided for quartering the drive force of a common drive source equally and distributing the quartered drive force to the first lower gear, the first upper gear, the second lower gear and the second upper gear.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1994Date of Patent: April 30, 1996Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Yoshio Ikegami, Masashi Konno, Koji Minagawa, Norifumi Fukano, Tatsuya Uemura, Tatsuo Yagi
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Patent number: 5435713Abstract: An underwater pelletizing apparatus for realizing and stabilizing a pressure to press a cutting knife against a die plate, for preventing shaft vibration, and for decreasing wear of the cutting knife.The die plate and a water chamber casing are removably mounted at a thermoplastic material extrusion opening section; the cutting knife is disposed at the front of the die plate; a cutter shaft with the knife mounted at the forward end thereof is rotatably and axially movably supported in the water chamber casing and a shaft supporting housing to thereby move the cutter shaft forward and backward by means of a fluid pressure cylinder; and a locking means is provided for intermittently locking the axial movement of the cutter shaft.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1993Date of Patent: July 25, 1995Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Nobuhiro Yamasaki, Shinichi Fukumizu, Masashi Konno, Osamu Ikeda, Kazuyoshi Imuta, Taiji Orimo, Hiroshi Ogasawara
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Patent number: 5292237Abstract: A melt pump comprises a pump housing having an intake port and a discharge port and a pair of gear rotors. Each of the pair of gear rotors having a gear part and a shaft part integrated with each other, which are arranged within the pump housing in such a manner as to be rotatable in mutually meshing condition. The melt pump further comprises a recovering passage for guiding resin leaking through a clearance between the pump housing and each of the pair of gear rotors into the intake port, a cooling hole drilled inside each of the gear rotors while facing to each clearance forming region; and a pipe inserted into the cooling hole for supplying cooling liquid. A sleeve for lining the internal periphery of the cooling hole is located in the hole so as to utilize the inside of the sleeve as a cooling liquid passage.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1992Date of Patent: March 8, 1994Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Taii Orimo, Shinichi Fukumizu, Hideki Uota, Masashi Konno, Nobuki Nagami
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Patent number: 5166571Abstract: A vibration gyro having a substantially H-shaped vibrator, driving piezo-electric elements, detecting piezo-electric elements which detects Corioli's force generated when an angular velocity is applied to said vibration gyro during the vibration by the driving elements, and a supporting member supporting the vibrator, characterized in that the detecting elements are formed of a torsional piezo-electric material.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1990Date of Patent: November 24, 1992Assignees: NEC Home Electronics, Ltd., NEC CorporationInventors: Masashi Konno, Hiroaki Yamada, Takeshi Yano, Seiichi Fujimura, Toru Kumasaka
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Patent number: 4823041Abstract: A transducer is comprised of a piezoelectric ceramic cylindrical vibrator vibrating radially, and a sheet provided on an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical vibrator and including a fiber reinforced composite material with fibers oriented only in the direction of central axis of the cylindrical vibrator. Non-piezoelectric cylinder consisting of Al alloy or Mg alloy may be useable instead of the sheet. Another type of transducer includes a cylindrical piezo-transducer vibrating radially, a cylindrical sound radiator with the central axis coincident with the cylindrical piezo-transducer, and a bending coupler provided at a predetermined interval on end surfaces of the two cylinders and coupling the cylindrical piezo-transducer and the cylindrical sound radiator.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1987Date of Patent: April 18, 1989Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Takeshi Inoue, Masashi Konno
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Patent number: 4779020Abstract: A front mass and a rear mass are respectively provided at both ends of a piezoelectric vibrator. The piezoelectric vibrator, front mass and rear mass are firmly cramped and are contained in a cylindrical resonator. Either the rear mass or the front mass and the cylindrical resonator are connected by a coupler.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1987Date of Patent: October 18, 1988Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Masashi Konno, Takeshi Inoue
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Patent number: 4703655Abstract: A gyro apparatus having a tuning fork and a detecting portion for detecting the moment generated by Coriolis force in the tuning fork is disclosed, in which the detecting portion is formed of a rectangular-shaped hinge, a base portion to which both ends of the rectangular-shaped hinge are fixed and a pair of detection piezo-electric elements fixed to the rectangular-shaped hinge spaced apart from each other in its up and down direction and in which the tuning fork is fixed to the central portion of the rectangular-shaped hinge between the pair of detection piezo-electric elements such that the tuning fork axis becomes substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the rectangular-shaped hinge portion and parallel to the plane of the rectangular-shaped hinge and the center of mass of the tuning fork coincides with the center of the rectangular-shaped hinge.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1986Date of Patent: November 3, 1987Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo KeikiInventors: Masashi Konno, Takeshi Hojo, Kazuteru Sato
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Patent number: 4633204Abstract: A mechanical filter having as its major part at least one longitudinal vibration mode vibrator, includes a piezoelectric ceramic plate an electrode pair attached to top and bottom surfaces thereof. The piezoelectric ceramic plate is polarized in its thickness direction to form at least two polarized regions, the polarization directions being different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1985Date of Patent: December 30, 1986Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Takashi Gounji, Shinichi Yamamoto, Teruo Kawatsu, Yoshiro Tomikawa, Masashi Konno, Toshiharu Ogasawara
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Patent number: 4416605Abstract: In an extruder of the type including an extruding cylinder with an outlet at one end thereof and an extruding screw rotatably disposed in the cylinder and circumferentially formed with a feed flight member for forwarding a plasticized material through the outlet of said cylinder for extrusion through a screen located at the fore end of the extruding cylinder, a screen/diverter changing mechanism including a retainer box fixed to the fore outlet end of the extruding cylinder and internally defining a flow passage of the plasticized material to be extruded; a slide body movable transversely in a guide bore of the retainer box across the flow passage thereof; a screen unit detachably fitted in the slide body and having a screen and a plurality of nozzles; a diverter unit detachably fitted in the slide body and having a diverting flow passage for diverting the flow of the plasticized material from the cylinder; a drive mechanism linked to the slide body for selectively positioning either the screen unit or divertType: GrantFiled: May 4, 1982Date of Patent: November 22, 1983Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Masashi Konno, Osamu Ikeda