Patents by Inventor Masayuki Taniguchi
Masayuki Taniguchi 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: 8690676Abstract: A game machine includes: an entertainment button that can move up and down from a normal operation position to a protruding position; a display part that displays characters associated with a game; a character determining part that determines a character to be displayed on the display part; a movement determining part that determines whether or not to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position; a drive control part to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position, when the movement determining part determines to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position; a push operation detecting part that detects the entertainment button being pushed down; and an enabling determining part that determines, when the push operation detecting part detects the entertainment button being pushed, whether or not to enable the detected push operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Kyoraku Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Taniguchi, Naoyuki Watanabe
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Patent number: 8668224Abstract: Provided are a check valve for an airbag and an airbag device that can improve the reproducibility of the flow path blocking function while reducing the resistance upon inflation and deployment of the airbag and that can be applied to a place where a flow path is divided into a plurality of flow paths. A first embodiment of an airbag device according to the present invention has an airbag that is normally folded and that is inflated and deployed in an emergency, and an inflator that supplies gas to the airbag. The airbag has a plurality of inflation chambers, a duct portion disposed so as to connect the plurality of inflation chambers, and a check valve for an airbag having a tubular portion sewn to the duct portion, and tongue-shaped portions formed at the tip of the tubular portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Takata CorporationInventors: Masayuki Taniguchi, Masahiro Hasebe, Hideaki Okamoto
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Patent number: 8651551Abstract: A windshield device for saddle-ride vehicles includes a front wheel, a front suspension, a steering handlebar, a windshield, a windshield stay, and a connecting structure. The front suspension includes left and right front forks and top and bottom bridges. The left and right front forks pivotally support the front wheel. The top and bottom bridges connect the left front fork to the right front fork and are steerably supported by a head pipe in a front portion of a vehicle body. The steering handlebar is connected to the top bridge. The windshield is detachably provided forward of the steering handlebar. The windshield stay is attached to the windshield. The connecting structure connects the windshield stay to an upper surface of the front suspension.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2012Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Fukuda, Masayuki Taniguchi
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Patent number: 8608547Abstract: A game machine includes: an entertainment button that can move up and down from a normal operation position to a protruding position; an assigned object determining part that determines an assigned object that defines a result of a game; an assigned object display part that displays an assigned object symbol corresponding to the assigned object determined by the assigned object determining part; a prize determining part that determines a prize to be given to a player; a prize display part that displays a prize symbol corresponding to the prize determined by the prize determining part; a movement determining part that determines whether or not to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position; a drive control part to move the entertainment button from the normal operation position to the protruding position; and a push operation detecting part that detects the entertainment button being pushed down.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Kyoraku Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Taniguchi, Naoyuki Watanabe
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Patent number: 8578868Abstract: An oxyfuel combustion boiler plant comprising: an air separation unit for manufacturing oxygen by separating nitrogen from air, a boiler having a burner for burning the oxygen supplied from the air separation unit and pulverized coal, and a primary system pipe for supplying the pulverized coal to the burner, an exhaust gas recirculation system pipe for supplying combustion exhaust gas discharged from the boiler to the primary system pipe, and a carbon dioxide capture unit for capturing carbon dioxide in the exhaust gas discharged from the boiler, the oxyfuel combustion boiler plant is further comprising: an oxygen supply pipe for supplying the oxygen manufactured by the air separation unit to the primary system pipe in the burner, and a pipe for supplying the combustion exhaust gas discharged from the boiler to the oxygen supply pipe, wherein an injection port of the oxygen supply pipe is disposed on an upstream side of an injection portion of the burner.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Shibata, Yoshiharu Hayashi
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Publication number: 20130255547Abstract: A pulverized coal-fired boiler efficiently supplies air to a central part of a furnace and the neighborhood of a furnace wall, thereby promoting mixture with combustion gas, and reducing both NOx and CO. The main after air ports are structured so as to jet air having a large momentum for enabling arrival at the central part of the furnace, and the sub-after air ports are structured so as to jet air having a small momentum to the neighborhood of the wall face of the furnace, and a sectional center of each of the sub-after air ports is within a range from 1 to 5 times of a caliber of the main after air ports from a sectional center of each of the main after air ports.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: BABCOCK-HITACHI K.KInventors: Yuki KAMIKAWA, Masayuki TANIGUCHI, Hisayuki ORITA, Hironobu KOBAYASHI, Akira BABA, Toshihiko MINE, Shinichirou NOMURA, Noriyuki OOYATSU, Satoshi TADAKUMA, Hidehisa YOSHIZAKO, Hiroaki KANEMOTO, Kouji KURAMASHI, Akihito ORII, Shinji TSUDA, Hirofumi OKAZAKI, Takanori YANO, Katsumi SHIMOHIRA
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Patent number: 8534236Abstract: An oxyfuel combustion boiler plant comprising: a boiler having an air separation unit for manufacturing oxygen by separating nitrogen from air, a burner for burning the oxygen supplied from the air separation unit and pulverized coal, and a primary system pipe for supplying the pulverized coal to the burner, exhaust gas recirculation system pipe for supplying combustion exhaust gas discharged from the boiler to the primary system pipe, a carbon dioxide capture unit for capturing carbon dioxide in the exhaust gas discharged from the boiler, the oxyfuel combustion boiler plant is further comprising: an oxygen buffer tank disposed on a downstream side of the air separation unit; an oxygen supply pipe for supplying oxygen to the primary system pipe of the burner from the oxygen buffer tank; and a nitrogen supply pipe for supplying a part of nitrogen generated from the air separation unit or an air supply pipe for supplying air from outside which is connected to the oxygen supply pipe on a downstream side of theType: GrantFiled: September 29, 2010Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Shibata, Yoshiharu Hayashi
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Patent number: 8505472Abstract: A pulverized coal-fired boiler efficiently supplies air to a central part of a furnace and the neighborhood of a furnace wall, thereby promoting mixture with combustion gas, and reducing both NOx and CO. The main after air ports are structured so as to jet air having a large momentum for enabling arrival at the central part of the furnace, and the sub-after air ports are structured so as to jet air having a small momentum to the neighborhood of the wall face of the furnace, and a sectional center of each of the sub-after air ports is within a range from 1 to 5 times of a caliber of the main after air ports from a sectional center of each of the main after air ports.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2007Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi K.K.Inventors: Yuki Kamikawa, Masayuki Taniguchi, Hisayuki Orita, Hironobu Kobayashi, Akira Baba, Toshihiko Mine, Shinichirou Nomura, Noriyuki Ooyatsu, Satoshi Tadakuma, Hidehisa Yoshizako, Hiroaki Kanemoto, Kouji Kuramashi, Akihito Orii, Shinji Tsuda, Hirofumi Okazaki, Takanori Yano, Katsumi Shimohira
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Patent number: 8500881Abstract: The present invention discloses a carbon dioxide capture power generation system provided with a boiler to combust a fuel in the oxygen atmosphere, a carbon dioxide capture equipment to remove carbon dioxide in the wake flow of the boiler, a piping branching from the wake flow of the boiler to recycle the combustion exhaust gas to the boiler, and a desulfurization equipment to remove sulfur oxides and a sulfuric acid removal equipment to remove a sulfuric acid gas in the upstream of carbon dioxide capture equipment and in the wake flow of the boiler.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hisayuki Orita, Masaaki Mukaide, Nobuyuki Hokari, Tsuyoshi Shibata, Masayuki Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20130143659Abstract: An entertainment button device includes an entertainment button that a player can push. The entertainment button device configured to allow the entertainment button to move up and down between a predetermined normal operation position and a protruding position in which the entertainment button protrudes upward from the normal operation position. The entertainment button including: a button body including a cylindrical peripheral wall and an upper wall; a button cover configured to cover the button body from above and to be able to rotate around a central axis relative to the button body; and an annular member configured to be able to move up and down between the normal operation position and the protruding position, the annular member being attached to a lower end of the button body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: Kyoraku Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masayuki Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20130139624Abstract: An entertainment button device includes: an entertainment button that a player can push; and a button-up-and-down mechanism configured to move the entertainment button up and down from a predetermined normal operation position to a protruding position in which the entertainment button protrudes upward from the normal operation position. The button-up-and-down mechanism includes: a shaft member extending in a moving direction of the entertainment button; a rotating mechanism configured to rotate the shaft member; an engagement part configured to move up and down together with the entertainment button; a convex portion having an inverted trapezoid shape and a concave portion having a traperized shape that are formed on an outer periphery of the shaft member; a spiral guide part formed in a spiral manner on one end of the convex portion in a circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventor: Masayuki Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20130139623Abstract: An entertainment button device includes: an entertainment button; and a button-up-and-down mechanism including: a bias member to bias the entertainment button in a moving-up direction; a shaft member extending in a moving direction of the entertainment button; a rotating mechanism to rotate the shaft member; an engagement part to move up and down with the entertainment button; a convex portion having an inverted trapezoid shape and a concave portion having a trapezoid shape formed on an outer periphery of the shaft member; a spiral guide part on one end of the convex portion in a circumferential direction; a straight part formed on the other end of the convex portion in the circumferential direction. The straight part extends in parallel with a direction of a central axis of the shaft member; and a smoothing guide part extending in a direction orthogonal to the central axis of the shaft member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventor: Masayuki Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20130139625Abstract: An entertainment button device includes: an entertainment button that a player can push; a button-up-and-down mechanism configured to move the entertainment button up and down from a predetermined normal operation position to a protruding position in which the entertainment button protrudes upward from the normal operation position; a stopper plate configured to hold the entertainment button in the protruding position; and a protruding position detector configured to detect the entertainment button being held by the stopper plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventor: Masayuki Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20130143658Abstract: An entertainment button device includes: an entertainment button that a player can push; and a button-up-and-down mechanism configured to move the entertainment button up and down from a predetermined normal operation position to a protruding position in which the entertainment button protrudes upward from the normal operation position. The button-up-and-down mechanism includes: a bias member configured to bias the entertainment button in a moving-up direction; a shaft member extending in a moving direction of the entertainment button; a rotating mechanism configured to rotate the shaft member; an engagement part configured to move up and down together with the entertainment button; and a spiral guide part formed on an outer periphery of the shaft member in a spiral manner, wherein the engagement part engages with the spiral guide part.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: Kyoraku Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masayuki Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20130143660Abstract: An entertainment button device includes: an entertainment button that a player can push; and a button case having a peripheral wall and a bottom wall configured to accommodate the entertainment button to be able to move up and down in the button case. The button case includes outlets to discharge foregin materials between an outer periphery of the entertainment button and the peripheral wall of the button case, to an outside of the button case.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: Kyoraku Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masayuki Taniguchi
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Patent number: 8393065Abstract: A method for retrofitting a pulverized coal boiler in an air combustion boiler system is disclosed, which has a plurality of burners over a plurality of stages along the vertical direction on a wall surface of a furnace of the pulverized coal boiler and an after-air port for introducing air for two-stage combustion located above the burners to retrofit into a two-stage combustion pulverized coal boiler in an oxyfuel combustion boiler system.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuma Tatsumi, Masayuki Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Shibata, Yoshiharu Hayashi
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Publication number: 20120248812Abstract: A windshield device for saddle-ride vehicles includes a front wheel, a front suspension, a steering handlebar, a windshield, a windshield stay, and a connecting structure. The front suspension includes left and right front forks and top and bottom bridges. The left and right front forks pivotally support the front wheel. The top and bottom bridges connect the left front fork to the right front fork and are steerably supported by a head pipe in a front portion of a vehicle body. The steering handlebar is connected to the top bridge. The windshield is detachably provided forward of the steering handlebar. The windshield stay is attached to the windshield. The connecting structure connects the windshield stay to an upper surface of the front suspension.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi FUKUDA, Masayuki Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20110298200Abstract: Provided are a check valve for an airbag and an airbag device that can improve the reproducibility of the flow path blocking function while reducing the resistance upon inflation and deployment of the airbag and that can be applied to a place where a flow path is divided into a plurality of flow paths. A first embodiment of an airbag device according to the present invention has an airbag that is normally folded and that is inflated and deployed in an emergency, and an inflator that supplies gas to the airbag. The airbag has a plurality of inflation chambers, a duct portion disposed so as to connect the plurality of inflation chambers, and a check valve for an airbag having a tubular portion sewn to the duct portion, and tongue-shaped portions formed at the tip of the tubular portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2011Publication date: December 8, 2011Inventors: Masayuki Taniguchi, Masahiro Hasebe, Hideaki Okamoto
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Patent number: 8012560Abstract: An optical disc (10) includes a substrate (11), which is formed from either a resin-impregnated paper produced by impregnating a paper with a resin, or a resin-coated paper produced by coating a surface of a paper with a resin, and a recording layer (13), wherein the resin contains at least one resin selected from the group consisting of polycarbonates, bisphenol A epoxy resins, copolymers of methyl methacrylate and styrene, and copolymers of acrylonitrile and styrene. Furthermore, a method of manufacturing an optical disc (20) includes: providing a recording layer sheet by forming tracks on a recording base material; and bonding the recording layer sheet to a resin-impregnated paper or a resin-coated paper, thereby providing a recording layer (13) formed from the recording layer sheet on the substrate (11).Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2005Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignees: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., Sony CorporationInventors: Toshiro Kinoshita, Masayuki Taniguchi, Hiroshi Umeyama, Takeshi Yamasaki, Tomomi Yukumoto
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Publication number: 20110094105Abstract: A method for retrofitting a pulverized coal boiler in an air combustion boiler system is disclosed, which has a plurality of burners over a plurality of stages along the vertical direction on a wall surface of a furnace of the pulverized coal boiler and an after-air port for introducing air for two-stage combustion located above the burners to retrofit into a two-stage combustion pulverized coal boiler in an oxyfuel combustion boiler system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuma TATSUMI, Masayuki Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Shibata, Yoshiharu Hayashi