Patents by Inventor Masato Higuchi
Masato Higuchi 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: 11603071Abstract: A wind-up device for winding up a vehicular airbag includes a base, a bar, and a first movable member. The base has an elongated plate shape extending in a first direction and includes a housing section that extends in the first direction. The vehicular airbag is placed on the base. The bar is disposed in the housing section and has a center axis extending in the first direction. The bar is rotatable around the center axis and includes a groove that extends in the first direction and is recessed from an outer surface of the bar toward the center axis. The first movable member extends in the first direction along the bar and is movable to be closer to the bar. The first movable member includes an insertion section that is to be inserted into the groove together with a portion of the airbag that is above the housing section.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhito Higuchi, Makoto Sotokawauchi, Masato Morii
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Publication number: 20220410453Abstract: In an injection process, molten resin is successively injected from a first flow channel and a second flow channel connected with each other in order into a cavity of a metal mold. High-temperature resin existing in the first flow channel is injected in advance into the cavity as a part of a single shot of molten resin to later form a skin layer of a molded article. Other low temperature resin near a flowable limit existing in the second flow channel is subsequently injected into the cavity as another part of the single shot of molten resin to later form a core layer of the molded article. A low temperature resin remaining in the first flow channel when injection is completed is warmed to be a high-temperature resin before the next cycle, thereby allowing successive molding of molded articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tohru HIGUCHI, Masato ICHIKAWA, Tsuyoshi ARAI, Jun HASEBE, Atsushi KAWAMURA, Tomoyoshi MURATA
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Publication number: 20220332277Abstract: A wind-up device of winding up a vehicular airbag includes a base, a bar, and a first movable member. The base has an elongated plate shape extending in a first direction and includes a housing section that extends in the first direction. The vehicular airbag is placed on the base. The bar is disposed in the housing section and has a center axis extending in the first direction. The bar is rotatable around the center axis and includes a groove that extends in the first direction and is recessed from an outer surface of the bar toward the center axis. The first movable member extends in the first direction along the bar and is movable to be closer to the bar. The first movable member includes an insertion section that is to be inserted into the groove together with a portion of the airbag that is above the housing section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhito HIGUCHI, Makoto SOTOKAWAUCHI, Masato MORII
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Patent number: 11342832Abstract: A driving circuit for a semiconductor circuit which includes a pair of main terminals through which a main current is conducted and a control terminal to which a control voltage is applied to control a circulation state of the main current, includes: driving voltage switching circuitry that receives a control signal, instructs switching between driving voltages based on a change in the control signal, and outputs a driving voltage, among the driving voltages, that has been selected in the switching; low-speed control circuitry that instructs an increase-decrease change in the control voltage at a low speed; speed-increase control circuitry that executes a speed-increase control of increasing a speed of the increase-decrease change made by the low-speed control circuitry; and speed-increase switching circuitry that instructs switching between an execution and a non-execution of the speed-increase control, and instructs switching between levels of a speed-increase change caused by the speed-increase control.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKTInventors: Yu Ujita, Masato Higuchi, Daisuke Yoshimi, Heiji Kaneda
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Patent number: 11183942Abstract: A power conversion apparatus connectable in parallel to a second power conversion apparatus includes circuitry that generates a carrier wave, generates a pulse signal synchronized with the carrier wave, generates power that is based on a width of the pulse signal, obtains a monitor value corresponding to a circulating current circulating between the power conversion apparatus and the second power conversion apparatus, and based on the monitor value obtained while the power conversion circuitry is generating driving power, changes a period of the carrier wave to decrease the circulating current.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Kentaro Inomata, Akira Yamazaki, Masato Higuchi, Hidenori Hara
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Patent number: 11146179Abstract: A device includes: a first power conversion circuitry configured to convert primary-side power into secondary-side power; and a control circuitry configured to: generate a command value associated with the secondary-side power; calculate a limited command value by modifying the command value so that the command value is equal to or less than a secondary-side limit, wherein the first power conversion circuitry is controlled based on the limited command value; transmit the limited command value to a second power conversion device comprising a second power conversion circuitry connected in parallel to the first power conversion circuitry; receive, from the second power conversion device, information indicating an adjustment value, wherein the adjustment value is added to the limited command value for controlling the second power conversion circuitry; and modify the secondary-side limit based on a difference between a primary-side limit associated with the primary-side power and the adjustment value.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Inventors: Akira Yamazaki, Kentaro Inomata, Masato Higuchi
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Publication number: 20210249971Abstract: A power conversion device connected in parallel to a second power conversion device including power conversion circuitry that performs power conversion by changing a connection state between first multiple lines on a primary side and second multiple lines on a secondary side, baseline selection circuitry that selects one of the second multiple lines on the secondary side as a baseline and partial modulation control circuitry that controls the power conversion circuitry to maintain a state in which the baseline is connected to one of the first multiple lines on the primary side and to change a connection state between other second multiple lines on the secondary side and the first multiple lines on the primary side, wherein the baseline selection circuitry switches a line selected as the baseline based on a switching timing used by second baseline selection circuitry of the second power conversion device to select a second baseline.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Kentaro INOMATA, Akira YAMAZAKI, Masato HIGUCHI, Hidenori HARA
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Publication number: 20200350813Abstract: A driving circuit for a semiconductor circuit which includes a pair of main terminals through which a main current is conducted and a control terminal to which a control voltage is applied to control a circulation state of the main current, includes: driving voltage switching circuitry that receives a control signal, instructs switching between driving voltages based on a change in the control signal, and outputs a driving voltage, among the driving voltages, that has been selected in the switching; low-speed control circuitry that instructs an increase-decrease change in the control voltage at a low speed; speed-increase control circuitry that executes a speed-increase control of increasing a speed of the increase-decrease change made by the low-speed control circuitry; and speed-increase switching circuitry that instructs switching between an execution and a non-execution of the speed-increase control, and instructs switching between levels of a speed-increase change caused by the speed-increase control.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Yu UJITA, Masato HIGUCHI, Daisuke YOSHIMI, Heiji KANEDA
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Publication number: 20200280258Abstract: A device includes: a first power conversion circuitry configured to convert primary-side power into secondary-side power; and a control circuitry configured to: generate a command value associated with the secondary-side power; calculate a limited command value by modifying the command value so that the command value is equal to or less than a secondary-side limit, wherein the first power conversion circuitry is controlled based on the limited command value; transmit the limited command value to a second power conversion device comprising a second power conversion circuitry connected in parallel to the first power conversion circuitry; receive, from the second power conversion device, information indicating an adjustment value, wherein the adjustment value is added to the limited command value for controlling the second power conversion circuitry; and modify the secondary-side limit based on a difference between a primary-side limit associated with the primary-side power and the adjustment value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: Akira YAMAZAKI, Kentaro INOMATA, Masato HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200144930Abstract: A power conversion apparatus connectable in parallel to a second power conversion apparatus includes circuitry that generates a carrier wave, generates a pulse signal synchronized with the carrier wave, generates power that is based on a width of the pulse signal, obtains a monitor value corresponding to a circulating current circulating between the power conversion apparatus and the second power conversion apparatus, and based on the monitor value obtained while the power conversion circuitry is generating driving power, changes a period of the carrier wave to decrease the circulating current.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Kentaro Inomata, Akira Yamazaki, Masato Higuchi, Hidenori Hara
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Patent number: 9515575Abstract: A controller of a power conversion apparatus according to an embodiment causes a chopper and an inverter to generate an alternating-current (AC) voltage including first and second parts of an AC voltage waveform and causes the inverter to output the AC voltage. The chopper generates the first part having an absolute value higher than a voltage of a DC power supply, and the inverter generates the second part having an absolute value lower than the voltage of the DC power supply. The controller is configured to alternately turn on the first and second switching elements in a period during which the controller controls the chopper to generate the first part of the AC voltage waveform.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Tetsumi Narita, Masato Higuchi, Yasuhiko Kawanami, Hidenori Hara, Takamitsu Katsuki
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Patent number: 9484839Abstract: A power converter according to one embodiment includes a controller that switches between a boosting operation in a boost circuit and a pulse-width modulation operation in a single-phase inverter. The controller modifies an output from a voltage detection filter based on a delay compensating value for compensating a detection delay introduced by the voltage detection filter, when switching is performed the boosting operation in the boost circuit to the PWM operation in the single-phase inverter.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Seiji Fujisaki, Mamoru Takaki, Shinya Morimoto, Masato Higuchi
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Patent number: 9314833Abstract: An outer ring 6a for a shell-type radial needle bearing having a cylindrical shape with a bottom is achieved for which fatigue life of the bottom plate section 9a and the continuous section between the bottom plate section 9a and the cylindrical section 8a is improved, as well as the anti-corrosion characteristic of the outer ring 6a is improved and the outer ring 6a can be prevented from coming out of the bearing without an increase in cost. After obtaining an intermediate raw material 35 having a cylindrical section and a bottom plate section from a metal raw material, shot peening is performed on the intermediate material 35 to create residual compressive stress in the surface and surface layer section on the outer surface side of the cylindrical section 8a and the bottom plate section 9a such that the residual compressive stress in the surface layer section on the outer surface side is greater than the in the surface layer section on the inner surface side, and from the surface to a depth of 0.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Masato Higuchi, Noriyuki Takeo, Yoshiaki Komura
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Publication number: 20150270787Abstract: A power converter according to one embodiment includes a controller that switches between a boosting operation in a boost circuit and a pulse-width modulation operation in a single-phase inverter. The controller modifies an output from a voltage detection filter based on a delay compensating value for compensating a detection delay introduced by the voltage detection filter, when switching is performed the boosting operation in the boost circuit to the PWM operation in the single-phase inverter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Seiji FUJISAKI, Mamoru TAKAKI, Shinya MORIMOTO, Masato HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20150244287Abstract: A controller of a power conversion apparatus according to an embodiment causes a chopper and an inverter to generate an alternating-current (AC) voltage including first and second parts of an AC voltage waveform and causes the inverter to output the AC voltage. The chopper generates the first part having an absolute value higher than a voltage of a DC power supply, and the inverter generates the second part having an absolute value lower than the voltage of the DC power supply. The controller is configured to alternately turn on the first and second switching elements in a period during which the controller controls the chopper to generate the first part of the AC voltage waveform.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Tetsumi NARITA, Masato HIGUCHI, Yasuhiko KAWANAMI, Hidenori HARA, Takamitsu KATSUKI
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Patent number: 9034789Abstract: Provided are an adsorptive carbon which can effectively adsorb vivotoxins such as advanced glycation end products (AGEs), and an adsorbent containing the adsorptive carbon as an active ingredient. The adsorptive carbon according to the present invention has a total pore volume of 0.10 to 1.0 mL/g, an average pore diameter of 1.0 to 2.0 nm, and an absorbance of an infrared absorption band at 1650-1800 cm?1 of no less than 0.005.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: DISEASE ADSORPTION SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Masato Higuchi, Takao Kimura, Masayoshi Takeuchi, Kisaburo Deguchi
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Patent number: 8939844Abstract: Cross-type universal joint and a shell-type needle bearing that is used therein. The portions on the outer surface of the shell-type outer ring for which there is a possibility of coming in sliding contact with the tip end edges of at least two seal lips of a plurality of seal lips of a seal ring are selectively covered with a corrosion resistant coating. Preferably, the entire outer surface of the shell-type outer ring is covered by a chemically treated film having anti-corrosion properties.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Masato Higuchi, Eisho Watanabe
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Publication number: 20140366379Abstract: An outer ring 6a for a shell-type radial needle bearing having a cylindrical shape with a bottom is achieved for which fatigue life of the bottom plate section 9a and the continuous section between the bottom plate section 9a and the cylindrical section 8a is improved, as well as the anti-corrosion characteristic of the outer ring 6a is improved and the outer ring 6a can be prevented from coming out of the bearing without an increase in cost. After obtaining an intermediate raw material 35 having a cylindrical section and a bottom plate section from a metal raw material, shot peening is performed on the intermediate material 35 to create residual compressive stress in the surface and surface layer section on the outer surface side of the cylindrical section 8a and the bottom plate section 9a such that the residual compressive stress in the surface layer section on the outer surface side is greater than the in the surface layer section on the inner surface side, and from the surface to a depth of 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Masato HIGUCHI, Noriyuki TAKEO, Yoshiaki KOMURA
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Patent number: 8834034Abstract: An outer ring 6a for a shell-type radial needle bearing having a cylindrical shape with a bottom is achieved for which fatigue life of the bottom plate section 9a and the continuous section between the bottom plate section 9a and the cylindrical section 8a is improved, as well as the anti-corrosion characteristic of the outer ring 6a is improved and the outer ring 6a can be prevented from coming out of the bearing without an increase in cost. After obtaining an intermediate raw material 35 having a cylindrical section and a bottom plate section from a metal raw material, shot peening is performed on the intermediate material 35 to create residual compressive stress in the surface and surface layer section on the outer surface side of the cylindrical section 8a and the bottom plate section 9a such that the residual compressive stress in the surface layer section on the outer surface side is greater than the in the surface layer section on the inner surface side, and from the surface to a depth of 0.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Masato Higuchi, Noriyuki Takeo, Yoshiaki Komura
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Patent number: RE47828Abstract: An outer ring 6a for a shell-type radial needle bearing having a cylindrical shape with a bottom is achieved for which fatigue life of the bottom plate section 9a and the continuous section between the bottom plate section 9a and the cylindrical section 8a is improved, as well as the anti-corrosion characteristic of the outer ring 6a is improved and the outer ring 6a can be prevented from coming out of the bearing without an increase in cost. After obtaining an intermediate raw material 35 having a cylindrical section and a bottom plate section from a metal raw material, shot peening is performed on the intermediate material 35 to create residual compressive stress in the surface and surface layer section on the outer surface side of the cylindrical section 8a and the bottom plate section 9a such that the residual compressive stress in the surface layer section on the outer surface side is greater than the in the surface layer section on the inner surface side, and from the surface to a depth of 0.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Masato Higuchi, Noriyuki Takeo, Yoshiaki Komura