Patents by Inventor Masataka Hidai

Masataka Hidai 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: 20220266877
    Abstract: A bogie for a railway vehicle 1 includes an elastic element 20 that is arranged between a vehicle body 7 and a bogie frame 3 of a railway vehicle and elastically supports both, and the elastic element 20 is configured in such a manner that a spring constant for displacement in the longitudinal direction in the traveling direction of the vehicle body 7 is smaller than that for displacement in the vertical direction or the left-and-right direction in the traveling direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Kenjirou GOUDA, Masataka HIDAI, Katuyuki IWASAKI, Takao WATANABE
  • Patent number: 9027482
    Abstract: There is provided an economical vehicle vibration suppression device capable of efficiently reducing a vortex with a smaller number of devices and controlling the speed of movement in a vehicle longitudinal direction of the vortex. The vehicle vibration suppression device includes a pair of ducts, a pressure control device, and a control unit. The ducts, below a floor surface of a vehicle body, are mounted adjacent to at least a pair of bogies on which the vehicle body is mounted. The ducts are arranged in a direction perpendicular to a traveling direction of the vehicle body and mounted so as to penetrate through both side surfaces of the vehicle body. The pressure control device is mounted within each of the ducts and has openings, one of the openings serving as an intake port and the other opening serving as a discharge port. The pressure control device generates a pressure difference in each of the ducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masataka Hidai, Kenjiro Goda, Kiyoshi Morita
  • Publication number: 20140238261
    Abstract: There is provided an economical vehicle vibration suppression device capable of efficiently reducing a vortex with a smaller number of devices and controlling the speed of movement in a vehicle longitudinal direction of the vortex. The vehicle vibration suppression device includes a pair of ducts, a pressure control device, and a control unit. The ducts, below a floor surface of a vehicle body, are mounted adjacent to at least a pair of bogies on which the vehicle body is mounted. The ducts are arranged in a direction perpendicular to a traveling direction of the vehicle body and mounted so as to penetrate through both side surfaces of the vehicle body. The pressure control device is mounted within each of the ducts and has openings, one of the openings serving as an intake port and the other opening serving as a discharge port. The pressure control device generates a pressure difference in each of the ducts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masataka Hidai, Kenjiro Goda, Kiyoshi Morita