Patents by Inventor Minoru Shibata

Minoru Shibata 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: 20240286999
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new azabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane compound that is represented by the following formula: and that is for use in treating central nervous system (CNS) disorders. In the formula, X represents —C(?)—O— or the like, and R represents H, an optionally substituted C1-C18 alkyl, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru OKADA, Nobuaki ITO, Masakazu SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20240268237
    Abstract: A magnetic domain wall motion element includes a magnetic domain wall motion layer in which a magnetic domain wall is formed, a ferromagnetic layer, and a nonmagnetic layer interposed between the magnetic domain wall motion layer and the ferromagnetic layer, wherein at least a portion of a first surface of the magnetic domain wall motion layer on a side closer to the ferromagnetic layer, at a position overlapping with the ferromagnetic layer in a plan view in a laminating direction, is curved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru OTA, Tatsuo SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20230327485
    Abstract: Provided is a power transmission device that has a simple structure and suppresses magnetic field leakage from a power transmission coil while suppressing excessive increase in the outer shape and the weight of the power transmission device. A power transmission device 1 includes: a power transmission portion 2 including a power transmission coil 20 and a housing 3 made of metal and having a peripheral wall 30 surrounding the power transmission portion 2. A shielding portion 5 protruding inward of the peripheral wall 30 is integrated with, of the peripheral wall 30, a top end 30t located on a power reception coil 90 placement side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Toru KANTO, Minoru SHIBATA, Shin-ichiro MATSUZAWA, Toshiaki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11605978
    Abstract: A wireless charging unit to be attached to a back surface of a side wall of a case in which an electronic device including internally a wireless power receiving coil is placed upright. The wireless charging unit includes a power supplying coil provided at a position facing the back surface of the side wall of the case to wirelessly supply power, circuit board connected to the power supplying coil to feed a current to the power supplying coil, and a housing that houses the circuit board. The center of the power supplying coil is located above the center of the housing in an in-plane direction of the power supplying coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Mukai, Yuhki Ichikawa, Minoru Shibata
  • Publication number: 20220001810
    Abstract: An electronic equipment holder includes a first housing part to hold an electronic equipment including a display, and a second housing part that is adjacent to the first housing part and includes a wall part including a partially notched communicating part to communicate with the first housing part. The display can be viewed from a side of the second housing part through the communicating part. The first housing part are integrally formed with the second housing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Minoru SHIBATA, Atsushi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210175746
    Abstract: A wireless charging unit to be attached to a back surface of a side wall of a case in which an electronic device including internally a wireless power receiving coil is placed upright. The wireless charging unit includes a power supplying coil provided at a position facing the back surface of the side wall of the case to wirelessly supply power, circuit board connected to the power supplying coil to feed a current to the power supplying coil, and a housing that houses the circuit board. The center of the power supplying coil is located above the center of the housing in an in-plane direction of the power supplying coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Takahiro MUKAI, Yuhki ICHIKAWA, Minoru SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20200101886
    Abstract: A cup holder includes a main body and a lid. The main body has a tubular structure with a closed end. The lid is configured to selectively open and close an upper opening of the main body. The main body has an accommodation region configured to accommodate a cup. The lid includes a power transmitter coil configured to transmit AC power to a power receiving device having a power receiver coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Minoru SHIBATA, Yuhki ICHIKAWA, Akira AZUMI, Kenji ASANO
  • Patent number: 10603979
    Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes an operation knob. The operation knob includes a knob body and a cap with its downstream end portion closed by a lens. The cap is made of a material softer than those of the knob body and the lens. The inner circumferential portion of the upstream end portion of the cap is pressed against the outer circumferential portion of the knob body with at least a part engaged with the outer circumferential portion of the knob body by a projection-recess relationship. The inner circumferential portion of the downstream end portion of the cap is pressed against the outer circumferential portion of the lens with at least a part engaged with the outer circumferential portion of the lens by a projection-recess relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Shibata, Kenji Asano, Etsuo Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20200094647
    Abstract: A cooling structure of an on-vehicle projector, includes: a projector including: a light source; an image projection part configured to project an image based on the light emitted from the light source and an image signal; and first and second vent holes configured to ventilate the internal space, in which the light source is arranged, with the outside; and an air introduction part configured to introduce conditioned air, sent from an air conditioner mounted in a vehicle, to the internal space through the first vent hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Minoru SHIBATA, Hirotaka OKADA, Renge ASAKAWA, Yuhki ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10486615
    Abstract: Provided is a storage holder including: a case body having a peripheral wall portion forming a rectangular-parallelepiped-shaped storage space by two short-side side wall portions and two long-side side wall portions, a bottom wall portion closing a lower end of the storage space, and an opening for keeping an upper end of the storage space opened; a support mechanism that includes first and second support members which advance/retract and project into inside of the storage space through side wall openings formed in the short-side side wall portions, respectively, so as to oppose each other, and a support urging member for urging the support members into inside of the storage space; a power feeding coil disposed outside one long-side side wall portion; and a contact auxiliary unit for assisting in contacting the mobile device held in the storage space with an inner surface of the one long-side side wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Shibata, Yuhki Ichikawa, Akira Azumi, Kenji Asano
  • Patent number: 10414246
    Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes a downstream fin, upstream fins, a coupling rod, a shut-off damper, an operation knob, a transmission shaft, an upstream universal joint, a downstream universal joint, and a transmission mechanism portion. The operation knob includes a rotation member. The upstream universal joint couples an upstream end of the transmission shaft to the shut-off damper. The downstream universal joint couples a downstream end of the transmission shaft to the rotation member. The transmission mechanism portion transmits swinging motion of the transmission shaft caused by sliding of the operation knob to the central upstream fins, and prevents swinging motion of the transmission shaft caused by operation of the operation knob to tilt the downstream fin from being transmitted to the central upstream fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Shibata, Nobuhiro Terai, Kenji Asano
  • Patent number: 10239385
    Abstract: An air conditioning register includes: a retainer, fins, a connecting plate and a drive mechanism; wherein: connecting pins of the fins are engaged with cam grooves provided in the connecting plate so that all fins are connected to the connecting plate, wherein: each of the cam grooves has a parallel blowing zone for bring adjacent fins into a parallel blowing mode, and has a diffusion blowing zone for bringing adjacent fins into a diffusion blowing mode; and the drive mechanism is provided with an allowing part which allows the connecting plate to move in the arrangement direction of the fins, while maintaining the zone where each connecting pin is positioned in each cam chamber in the parallel blowing zone, when the operation of tilting the fins is performed with the fin shafts as a fulcrum, and only when each connecting pin is in the parallel blowing zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Shibata, Hiromi Nagai, Nobuhiro Terai, Kenji Asano
  • Publication number: 20190030982
    Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes an operation knob. The operation knob includes a knob body and a cap with its downstream end portion closed by a lens. The cap is made of a material softer than those of the knob body and the lens. The inner circumferential portion of the upstream end portion of the cap is pressed against the outer circumferential portion of the knob body with at least a part engaged with the outer circumferential portion of the knob body by means of a projection-recess relationship. The inner circumferential portion of the downstream end portion of the cap is pressed against the outer circumferential portion of the lens with at least a part engaged with the outer circumferential portion of the lens by means of a projection-recess relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Minoru SHIBATA, Kenji ASANO, Etsuo OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20180278094
    Abstract: Provided is a console box that realizes power feeding to a power receiving device (that allows a power receiving device to receive power). A console box 1 of the present invention includes: a box body 2 having a bottom portion 20, and a tubular wall portion 21 standing from a surface of the bottom portion 20; and a coil 3 provided at the box body 2, implemented by a conductive wire 30 wound along a peripheral direction of the wall portion 21, and forming an electromagnetic resonance field when being energized according to a predetermined condition. In the console box 1 of the present invention, power feeding of a resonance type is performed, and thus, wireless power feeding is realized in a console box where, in the case of a conventional electromagnetic-induction-type wireless power feeding, a power feeding device is difficult to be installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Toru KANTO, Shinichiro FUKI, Minoru SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 10076948
    Abstract: A damper opening and closing device includes an outer cylinder, an inner cylinder that is disposed inside the outer cylinder, is supported movably relative to the outer cylinder and has a fluid passage therein, and a damper group that includes a plurality of dampers disposed in the fluid passage so that the fluid passage is openable and closable. The plurality of dampers are arranged in a circumferential direction of the fluid passage and disposed in the fluid passage in such a way that inner peripheral edges of the dampers are opposed to each other. The damper opening and closing device further includes an angle control unit configured to control the tilt angle of the damper in conjunction with movement of the inner cylinder relative to the outer cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Takai, Minoru Shibata, Mitsuo Ogura, Hiroshi Sakai, Kenji Asano
  • Patent number: 9971722
    Abstract: An onboard apparatus comprising a connection portion, a control block, and a bus switch is provided. The connection portion connects with an external device mounted to a vehicle, and includes at least a data terminal to input and output a communication data and a control terminal to output a communication availability signal that indicates communication is available or not. The control block performs data communication with the external device, which is connected to the connection portion. The bus switch, according to a permission signal, changes a non-conduction state to a conduction state of a transmission path from the control block to the data terminal. A signal level of the permission signal varies when an output of the control block is stabilized after the onboard apparatus starts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Shibata, Hiromichi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 9908463
    Abstract: A storage device includes a storage body having an opening and a lid for selectively opening and closing the opening of the storage body. The storage body has a light emitter and a power receiving portion connected to the light emitter. The lid has a power supplying portion, which is configured to supply power to the power receiving portion by the direct current resonance method. The light emitter emits light to interior of the storage body at a first luminance when the opening is closed by the lid. When the lid opens the opening so that the distance between the power receiving portion and the power supplying portion is reduced, the light emitter changes the luminance to a second luminance, which is different from the first luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Shibata, Shinichiro Fuki, Jiyun Paku, Satomi Akehi
  • Patent number: 9895960
    Abstract: A front defroster nozzle apparatus includes a retainer, and a guide fin. The retainer includes an inlet opening, an outlet port, and a retainer base. The retainer base is branched into two forked elements (i.e., first and second branches having a first outlet opening and a first inlet end and a second outlet opening and a second inlet end, respectively). The outlet port involving the first and second outlet openings has an outlet width of 400 mm or less that is larger than an opening width of the inlet opening. The first and second outlet openings have first and second opening widths being larger than first and second opening widths of the first and second inlet ends. The retainer base includes a throttled portion whose flow-passage cross-sectional area accounts for from 80% or less to 60% or more of a flow-passage cross-sectional area of the inlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignees: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Asei Sato, Minoru Shibata, Kouta Kajikawa, Hidenori Uno
  • Patent number: 9879877
    Abstract: An air conditioning register is provided that includes a case, a downstream fin, a specific upstream fin extending in a direction perpendicular to the downstream fin, and an operation knob. The specific upstream fin includes a fin main body pivotally supported by the case via an upstream fin shaft and a transmission body pivotally supported by the case via a pivot located further upstream than the upstream fin shaft. The fin main body and the transmission body are coupled to each other. The operation knob is mounted slidably on the downstream fin and includes a pair of fork portions sandwiching a transmission shaft portion of the transmission body therebetween. When the operation knob is operated to slide and thereby the transmission shaft portion is moved, the fin main body of the specific upstream fin is tilted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Takai, Mitsuo Ogura, Minoru Shibata, Kenji Asano
  • Publication number: 20170334266
    Abstract: An air conditioning register includes: a retainer, fins, a connecting plate and a drive mechanism; wherein: connecting pins of the fins are engaged with cam grooves provided in the connecting plate so that all fins are connected to the connecting plate, wherein: each of the cam grooves has a parallel blowing zone for bring adjacent fins into a parallel blowing mode, and has a diffusion blowing zone for bringing adjacent fins into a diffusion blowing mode; and the drive mechanism is provided with an allowing part which allows the connecting plate to move in the arrangement direction of the fins, while maintaining the zone where each connecting pin is positioned in each cam chamber in the parallel blowing zone, when the operation of tilting the fins is performed with the fin shafts as a fulcrum, and only when each connecting pin is in the parallel blowing zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Minoru SHIBATA, Hiromi NAGAI, Nobuhiro TERAI, Kenji ASANO