Patents by Inventor Minoru Imai

Minoru Imai 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).

  • Patent number: 9063233
    Abstract: An exposure management system includes dosimeters, wireless relay devices that wirelessly communicate with the dosimeters, and a monitoring device. The dosimeters are carried by workers for measuring exposure doses in a radiation management facility. The wireless relay devices transmit a monitor indication message that requests the dosimeters to provide respective responses that include information of measured exposure doses. The wireless relay devices receive the responses from the dosimeters by using allocated respective communication channels that are different from each other. Each dosimeter receives the monitoring indication message and generates a designated number of response times for providing a response to the monitor indication message, and determines a communication channel corresponding to each of the generated response times. The monitoring device is connected to the wireless relay devices for monitoring an exposure state of each of the workers through the wireless relay devices and dosimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Matsumoto, Tetsuo Shibata, Minoru Imai
  • Patent number: 8815062
    Abstract: A plating pretreatment apparatus for a multi-cylinder block includes a plurality of cylinders that performs a plating pretreatment of a cylinder inner wall surface of each of the cylinders using an electrode disposed so as to oppose to the cylinder inner wall surface by sealing one end of the cylinder inner wall surface and introducing a treatment liquid to the cylinder inner wall surface. In such plating pretreatment apparatus, at least one of a power supply device that supplies electricity to the cylinder block and the electrode and a liquid feed pump that feeds the treatment liquid into a gap between the cylinder inner wall surface and the electrode is provided for each of the cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Asou, Seiya Kunioka, Hitoshi Muramatsu, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Naoyuki Suda, Akira Ishibashi, Minoru Imai, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8585876
    Abstract: A cylinder block plate processing apparatus in which one end side of an inner peripheral surface of a cylinder of a cylinder block is sealed to circulate a process liquid to perform pre-plating or plating processing of the cylinder inner peripheral surface. The apparatus includes: an apparatus body having a workpiece mount table on which the cylinder block is placed; a workpiece holding tool that is provided on the workpiece mount table so as to be vertically movable; an electrode support member including an electrode cylinder mounted to the apparatus body; a processing solution supply member that supplies a processing solution to the electrode support member; an electrode operated by the electrode cylinder; a sealing jig provided to one end of the electrode; a driving mechanism that drives the sealing jig; and a control circuit that controls operations of the processing solution supply member and the driving mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Muramatsu, Seiya Kunioka, Naoyuki Suda, Akira Ishibashi, Tomohiro Asou, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa, Minoru Imai
  • Patent number: 8554448
    Abstract: A fuel injection detecting device computes an actual fuel-injection-end timing based on a rising waveform of the fuel pressure detected by a fuel sensor during a period in which the fuel pressure increases due to a fuel injection rate decrease. The rising waveform is modeled by a modeling formula. A reference pressure Ps(n) is substituted into the modeling formula, whereby a timing “te” is obtained as the fuel-injection-end timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Imai, Naoyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8449753
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for plating pretreatment of a cylinder block that includes an electrode performing a plating pretreatment of the cylinder inner wall surface. A gap flow channel communicates with an in-electrode flow channel at a position closest to a seal jig, the gap flow channel being adapted to introduce a treatment liquid to the cylinder inner wall surface, the in-electrode flow channel being adapted to receive the treatment liquid having passed through a communicating hole. The present invention is provided a method for pretreating before plating a cylinder block including disposing an electrode to face the cylinder inner wall surface so as to form a gap flow channel, and introducing a treatment liquid to the gap flow channel thereby flowing through the treatment liquid toward a seal jig and then into an in-electrode flow channel through a communicating hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Muramatsu, Seiya Kunioka, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Naoyuki Suda, Akira Ishibashi, Tomohiro Asou, Minoru Imai, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8257574
    Abstract: A plating method for pre-plating or plating a cylinder inner peripheral surface to be treated of a cylinder block by introducing treatment liquid to the cylinder inner peripheral surface by using a plating apparatus provided with a sealing jig having a sealing member and an electrode to which the seal jig is mounted includes the steps, which are performed successively: sealing the cylinder inner peripheral surface by bringing the sealing jig into contact with the cylinder inner peripheral surface; introducing the treatment liquid to the cylinder inner peripheral surface; and treating the cylinder inner peripheral surface by applying predetermined charge to the electrode of the plating apparatus and the cylinder block to thereby perform pre-plating or plating process in a state that a liquid to be treated fills a space including the cylinder inner peripheral surface. In the method, the treatment liquid introducing step is performed after confirmation of sealing by the sealing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Muramatsu, Seiya Kunioka, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Akira Ishibashi, Minoru Imai, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8110077
    Abstract: A sealing jig comes into contact with a cylinder inner peripheral surface as a surface to be processed of a cylinder block and seals the cylinder inner peripheral surface in introducing treatment liquid to the cylinder inner peripheral surface. The sealing jig includes: a sealing member made of an expandable material and having a ring-buoy shape; a lower plate for supporting a lower side of the sealing member; and a seal base disposed so as to face the lower plate and to support an upper side of the sealing member. The sealing member is regulated by the lower plate and the seal base and expanded only in a radial direction to come into contact with the cylinder inner peripheral surface when air is introduced inward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Muramatsu, Seiya Kunioka, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Akira Ishibashi, Minoru Imai, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8010277
    Abstract: A fuel injection controller (incorporated in an engine control ECU) for controlling an injection operation of an injector has a program for executing injections in plural injection patterns including an injection pattern of a multiple injection in a certain order into a certain cylinder of the engine during non-injection operation and a program for obtaining sums of fluctuation degrees of an engine operating condition due to all the injections in a first injection unit composed of one (single stage injection) of the plural patterns and all the injections in a second injection unit composed of a different one (multiple injection of two stages) of the plural patterns which are executed by the former program, with an injection condition (cylinder number and data number N).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Kouji Ishizuka, Yuuki Tarusawa, Minoru Imai
  • Publication number: 20110162961
    Abstract: A cylinder block plate processing apparatus in which one end side of an inner peripheral surface of a cylinder of a cylinder block is sealed to circulate a process liquid to perform pre-plating or plating processing of the cylinder inner peripheral surface. The apparatus includes: an apparatus body having a workpiece mount table on which the cylinder block is placed; a workpiece holding tool that is provided on the workpiece mount table so as to be vertically movable; an electrode support member including an electrode cylinder mounted to the apparatus body; a processing solution supply member that supplies a processing solution to the electrode support member; an electrode operated by the electrode cylinder; a sealing jig provided to one end of the electrode; a driving mechanism that drives the sealing jig; and a control circuit that controls operations of the processing solution supply member and the driving mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Muramatsu, Seiya Kunioka, Naoyuki Suda, Akira Ishibashi, Tomohiro Asou, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa, Minoru Imai
  • Patent number: 7917281
    Abstract: In an apparatus, a shift quantity calculating unit tentatively shifts a reference fuel spray characteristic to an obtained actual fuel spray characteristic in a phase direction and in a magnitude offset direction while monitoring a distance between the reference fuel spray characteristic and the obtained actual fuel spray characteristic therebetween. The shift quantity calculating unit calculates a shift quantity between the reference fuel spray characteristic and the obtained actual fuel spray characteristic in the phase direction when the monitored distance is minimized. A phase correcting unit shifts the reference fuel spray characteristic by the calculated shift quantity in the phase direction to thereby correct the reference fuel spray characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Yamada, Minoru Imai, Kouji Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20110063127
    Abstract: An exposure management system includes dosimeters, wireless relay devices that wirelessly communicate with the dosimeters, and a monitoring device. The dosimeters are carried by workers for measuring exposure doses in a radiation management facility. The wireless relay devices transmit a monitor indication message that requests the dosimeters to provide respective responses that include information of measured exposure doses. The wireless relay devices receive the responses from the dosimeters by using allocated respective communication channels that are different from each other. Each dosimeter receives the monitoring indication message and generates a designated number of response times for providing a response to the monitor indication message, and determines a communication channel corresponding to each of the generated response times. The monitoring device is connected to the wireless relay devices for monitoring an exposure state of each of the workers through the wireless relay devices and dosimeters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Matsumoto, Tetsuo Shibata, Minoru Imai
  • Patent number: 7845343
    Abstract: A fuel injection control device for performing injection control of an injector has a program for performing fuel injection of a predetermined injection quantity (a small quantity) with an injector based on establishment of a first permission condition during fuel cut of the engine and for acquiring a fuel injection quantity indicating a fuel injection characteristic of the injector and a program for performing fuel injection of a predetermined injection quantity (a small quantity) with the injector based on establishment of a second permission condition during idling of the engine and for acquiring a fuel injection quantity indicating the fuel injection characteristic of the injector. Thus, the fuel injection control device and an engine control system including the fuel injection control device can suitably sense the fuel injection characteristic of the injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Imai
  • Publication number: 20100250102
    Abstract: A fuel injection detecting device computes an actual fuel-injection-end timing based on a rising waveform of the fuel pressure detected by a fuel sensor during a period in which the fuel pressure increases due to a fuel injection rate decrease. The rising waveform is modeled by a modeling formula. A reference pressure Ps(n) is substituted into the modeling formula, whereby a timing “te” is obtained as the fuel-injection-end timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Imai, Naoyuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20100104738
    Abstract: A plating pretreatment apparatus for a multi-cylinder block includes a plurality of cylinders that performs a plating pretreatment of a cylinder inner wall surface of each of the cylinders using an electrode disposed so as to oppose to the cylinder inner wall surface by sealing one end of the cylinder inner wall surface and introducing a treatment liquid to the cylinder inner wall surface. In such plating pretreatment apparatus, at least one of a power supply device that supplies electricity to the cylinder block and the electrode and a liquid feed pump that feeds the treatment liquid into a gap between the cylinder inner wall surface and the electrode is provided for each of the cylinders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Asou, Seiya Kunioka, Hitoshi Muramatsu, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Naoyuki Suda, Akira Ishibashi, Minoru Imai, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 7706957
    Abstract: In an apparatus, an actual fuel spray characteristic obtaining unit obtains, based on an operation of a learning fuel injection instructing unit in a learning mode, an actual fuel spray characteristic of an injector relative to a variable of a target interval period within at least one section in a usable range therefor. A phase difference calculating unit calculates a phase difference between a reference fuel spray characteristic and the obtained actual fuel spray characteristic. A phase correcting unit shifts the reference fuel spray characteristic by the calculated phase difference such that the reference fuel spray characteristic is corrected to approach the obtained actual fuel spray characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Yamada, Minoru Imai, Kouji Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20100078326
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for plating pretreatment of a cylinder block that includes an electrode performing a plating pretreatment of the cylinder inner wall surface. A gap flow channel communicates with an in-electrode flow channel at a position closest to a seal jig, the gap flow channel being adapted to introduce a treatment liquid to the cylinder inner wall surface, the in-electrode flow channel being adapted to receive the treatment liquid having passed through a communicating hole. The present invention is provided a method for pretreating before plating a cylinder block including disposing an electrode to face the cylinder inner wall surface so as to form a gap flow channel, and introducing a treatment liquid to the gap flow channel thereby flowing through the treatment liquid toward a seal jig and then into an in-electrode flow channel through a communicating hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi MURAMATSU, Seiya Kunioka, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Naoyuki Suda, Akira Ishibashi, Tomohiro Asou, Minoru Imai, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 7667036
    Abstract: The Pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine derivatives represented by formula I and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts exhibit excellent MAPKAP-K2 inhibiting activity. Drugs comprising the compounds as effective ingredients are therefore expected to be useful as therapeutic or prophylactic agents for MAPKAP-K2 mediated disorder, such as inflammatory disease, autoimmune disease, destructive bone disorder, cancer and/or tumour growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Teijin Pharma Limited
    Inventors: Tomomi Kosugi, Minoru Imai, Hiroaki Makino, Mika Takakuwa, Gen Unoki, Kenichiro Kataoka, Dale Robert Mitchell, Donald James Simpson, Clifford John Harris, Joelle Le, Yuko Yamakoshi
  • Publication number: 20090277786
    Abstract: A plating processing line or system includes a plurality of surface processing apparatus including a surface processing apparatus for processing a surface of an object to be treated by introducing a treatment liquid to the surface, and a conveyer unit for conveying the object to be treated, which is disposed between the respective surface processing apparatus linearly or in a curved manner. Each of the surface processing apparatus includes a positioning unit for positioning the object to be treated, which has been conveyed by the conveyer unit to a predetermined position, at which the object is subjected to a pre-plating process or a plating process as a surface processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro ASOU, Seiya KUNIOKA, Hitoshi MURAMATSU, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Akira ISHIBASHI, Minoru IMAI, Manabu SUZUKI, Masahiro OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20090223828
    Abstract: A plating method for pre-plating or plating a cylinder inner peripheral surface to be treated of a cylinder block by introducing treatment liquid to the cylinder inner peripheral surface by using a plating apparatus provided with a sealing jig having a sealing member and an electrode to which the seal jig is mounted includes the steps, which are performed successively: sealing the cylinder inner peripheral surface by bringing the sealing jig into contact with the cylinder inner peripheral surface; introducing the treatment liquid to the cylinder inner peripheral surface; and treating the cylinder inner peripheral surface by applying predetermined charge to the electrode of the plating apparatus and the cylinder block to thereby perform pre-plating or plating process in a state that a liquid to be treated fills a space including the cylinder inner peripheral surface. In the method, the treatment liquid introducing step is performed after confirmation of sealing by the sealing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: SUZUKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hitoshi Muramatsu, Seiya Kunioka, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Akira Ishibashi, Minoru Imai, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20090223813
    Abstract: A sealing jig comes into contact with a cylinder inner peripheral surface as a surface to be processed of a cylinder block and seals the cylinder inner peripheral surface in introducing treatment liquid to the cylinder inner peripheral surface. The sealing jig includes: a sealing member made of an expandable material and having a ring-buoy shape; a lower plate for supporting a lower side of the sealing member; and a seal base disposed so as to face the lower plate and to support an upper side of the sealing member. The sealing member is regulated by the lower plate and the seal base and expanded only in a radial direction to come into contact with the cylinder inner peripheral surface when air is introduced inward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: SUZUKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hitoshi Muramatsu, Seiya Kunioka, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Akira Ishibashi, Minoru Imai, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa