Patents by Inventor Morihiro Matsuda
Morihiro Matsuda 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: 9326525Abstract: The present invention provides a kneading device including a hopper having a hopper body that stores raw powder, and a mixer that kneads material to be kneaded, which contains the raw powder, wherein the hopper includes a stirring device that stirs the raw powder in the hopper body, and a temperature-controlled air supply device 6 that supplies temperature-controlled air into the hopper body. This kneading device can stably prepare high-quality kneaded dough.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: TSUKASA INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Morihiro Matsuda, Shinsaku Kamimura
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Publication number: 20150138908Abstract: The present invention provides a kneading device including a hopper having a hopper body that stores raw powder, and a mixer that kneads material to be kneaded, which contains the raw powder, wherein the hopper includes a stirring device that stirs the raw powder in the hopper body, and a temperature-controlled air supply device 6 that supplies temperature-controlled air into the hopper body. This kneading device can stably prepare high-quality kneaded dough.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2015Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Morihiro MATSUDA, Shinsaku KAMIMURA
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Patent number: 8974110Abstract: The present invention provides a kneading device 1 including a hopper 2 having a hopper body 4 that stores raw powder, and a mixer 3 that kneads material to be kneaded, which contains the raw powder, wherein the hopper 2 includes a stirring device 5 that stirs the raw powder in the hopper body, and a temperature-controlled air supply device 6 that supplies temperature-controlled air into the hopper body 4. This kneading device can stably prepare high-quality kneaded dough.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Tsukasa Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Morihiro Matsuda, Shinsaku Kamimura
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Patent number: 7926613Abstract: A vehicle steering system including: (a) a steering operation member; (b) a movement-amount variably transmitting device including: (b-1) a housing fixed to a vehicle body; (b-2) a differential mechanism including (i) a first element connected to the steering operation member, (ii) a second element movable relative to the first element, and (iii) a third element engaged with the first and second elements; and (b-3) a drive source for moving the third element, such that an amount of relative movement of the first and second elements is changeable depending on an amount of movement of the third element; and (c) a wheel turning device connected to the second element to turn a vehicle wheel. The movement-amount variably transmitting device further includes (b-4) a third-element-movement inhibiting device for inhibiting movement of the third element. The steering system further includes (d) a third-element-movement inhibition cancelling device for cancelling inhibition of the movement of the third element.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2006Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Morihiro Matsuda
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Publication number: 20110085407Abstract: The present invention provides a kneading device 1 including a hopper 2 having a hopper body 4 that stores raw powder, and a mixer 3 that kneads material to be kneaded, which contains the raw powder, wherein the hopper 2 includes a stirring device 5 that stirs the raw powder in the hopper body, and a temperature-controlled air supply device 6 that supplies temperature-controlled air into the hopper body 4. This kneading device can stably prepare high-quality kneaded dough.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2009Publication date: April 14, 2011Inventors: Morihiro Matsuda, Shinsaku Kamimura
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Publication number: 20090283354Abstract: A vehicle steering system including: (a) a steering operation member; (b) a movement-amount variably transmitting device including: (b-1) a housing fixed to a vehicle body; (b-2) a differential mechanism including (i) a first element connected to the steering operation member, (ii) a second element movable relative to the first element, and (iii) a third element engaged with the first and second elements; and (b-3) a drive source for moving the third element, such that an amount of relative movement of the first and second elements is changeable depending on an amount of movement of the third element; and (c) a wheel turning device connected to the second element to turn a vehicle wheel. The movement-amount variably transmitting device further includes (b-4) a third-element-movement inhibiting device for inhibiting movement of the third element. The steering system further includes (d) a third-element-movement inhibition cancelling device for cancelling inhibition of the movement of the third element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2006Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Morihiro Matsuda
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Patent number: 7121378Abstract: A transfer ratio varying apparatus includes: a steering shaft configured to transmit a steering angle, an actuator connected to the steering shaft and a damper disposed between the input shaft and the steering shaft and configured to absorb vibration caused by the actuator. The actuator includes: a housing, an input shaft configured to integrally rotate with the housing and connected to the steering shaft, a motor including a rotatable shaft, an output shaft configured to transmit an angle to a wheel assembly, and a gear mechanism between the rotatable shaft and the output shaft at the housing, configured to adjust a rotational angle of the rotatable shaft and to output the adjusted rotational angle to the output shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2003Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Toyoda Koki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isao Hasegawa, Osamu Watanabe, Motoyasu Yamamori, Morihiro Matsuda, Shoichi Shono, Masatoshi Nakatsu
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Patent number: 7038139Abstract: A spiral cable device is provided with a cylindrical casing, an inner cylinder rotatable relative to the cylindrical casing, and a flexible flat cable connected to the inner cylinder at one end thereof and to the cylindrical casing at the other end thereof. The flexible flat cable has plural leads arranged in a single layer and is folded to form multiple layers of the leads, so that even where the flexible flat cable is to have many leads, the spiral cable device can be made short in the axial direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2003Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignees: Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha, The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukihiko Kanayama, Morihiro Matsuda, Junji Kawamuro, Shoichi Shono, Yasunori Okada
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Patent number: 6848535Abstract: A transmission ratio variable mechanism (100) varies a transmission ratio between a steering amount of a steering wheel (2) and a turning amount of wheels (7). The transmission ratio variable mechanism (100) includes an input shaft (3) transmitted with a rotational force of the steering wheel (2), a housing (102, 103) unitarily rotating with the input shaft (3), an output shaft (4) connected to wheels side, a motor (160) fixed in the housing for transmitting the rotation to the output shaft (4) via a speed reduction device (150), and a reverse input blocking device (180) for always transmitting a rotational output from the motor (160) to the output shaft (4) and for always blocking a rotational input from the output shaft (4) to the motor (160).Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2003Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: Toyoda Koki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Motoyasu Yamamori, Osamu Watanabe, Morihiro Matsuda, Shoichi Shono, Akihiro Yanaka
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Publication number: 20040093138Abstract: A transfer ratio varying apparatus includes: a steering shaft configured to transmit a steering angle, an actuator connected to the steering shaft and a damper disposed between the input shaft and the steering shaft and configured to absorb vibration caused by the actuator. The actuator includes: a housing, an input shaft configured to integrally rotate with the housing and connected to the steering shaft, a motor including a rotatable shaft, an output shaft configured to transmit an angle to a wheel assembly, and a gear mechanism between the rotatable shaft and the output shaft at the housing, configured to adjust a rotational angle of the rotatable shaft and to output the adjusted rotational angle to the output shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2003Publication date: May 13, 2004Applicant: TOYODA KOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Isao Hasegawa, Osamu Watanabe, Motoyasu Yamamori, Morihiro Matsuda, Shoichi Shono, Masatoshi Nakatsu
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Publication number: 20030221862Abstract: A spiral cable device is provided with a cylindrical casing, an inner cylinder rotatable relative to the cylindrical casing, and a flexible flat cable connected to the inner cylinder at one end thereof and to the cylindrical casing at the other end thereof. The flexible flat cable has plural leads arranged in a single layer and is folded to form multiple layers of the leads, so that even where the flexible flat cable is to have many leads, the spiral cable device can be made short in the axial direction thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2003Publication date: December 4, 2003Applicants: TOYODA KOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukihiko Kanayama, Morihiro Matsuda, Junji Kawamuro, Shoichi Shono, Yasunori Okada
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Publication number: 20030178242Abstract: A transmission ratio variable mechanism (100) varies a transmission ratio between a steering amount of a steering wheel (2) and a turning amount of wheels (7). The transmission ratio variable mechanism (100) includes an input shaft (3) transmitted with a rotational force of the steering wheel (2), a housing (102, 103) unitarily rotating with the input shaft (3), an output shaft (4) connected to wheels side, a motor (160) fixed in the housing for transmitting the rotation to the output shaft (4) via a speed reduction device (150), and a reverse input blocking device (180) for always transmitting a rotational output from the motor (160) to the output shaft (4) and for always blocking a rotational input from the output shaft (4) to the motor (160).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2003Publication date: September 25, 2003Applicant: TOYODA KOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Motoyasu Yamamori, Osamu Watanabe, Morihiro Matsuda, Shoichi Shono, Akihiro Yanaka
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Patent number: 6372225Abstract: Disclosed is a tetanus toxin functional fragment antigen (FFA), comprising at least one fragment which is substantially the same as that obtained by a process comprising the steps of splitting at least one peptide bond selected from peptide bonds individually connecting mutually adjacent amino acid residues in a partial amino acid sequence between two cysteine residues participating in forming a disulfide bridge present in the N-terminal of the entire amino acid sequence of the whole tetanus toxin molecule, splitting the disulfide bridge, and splitting non-covalent bonds between groups on the tetanus toxin molecule; wherein the tetanus toxin FFA has a molecular weight of from 90,000 to 110,000 as measured by an SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis method, and an isoelectric point of 7.25±0.5 as measured by an isoelectric focusing method.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1997Date of Patent: April 16, 2002Assignee: The Research Foundation of Microbial Diseases of Osaka UniversityInventor: Morihiro Matsuda
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Patent number: 6302441Abstract: A base transmission ratio Gbase is determined according to the vehicle speed and a compensation amount &agr; is determined for each of feed steering case and return steering case during acceleration/deceleration. Based on this, the transmission ratio G of a transmission ratio varying mechanism is set as G=Gbase+&agr;.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 1999Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Junji Kawamuro, Morihiro Matsuda, Masahiko Shindo, Takahiro Kojo
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Patent number: 6244373Abstract: Target rotational speed of servo motor 31 is set based on steering speed &thgr;hv detected by steering speed sensor and transmission ratio G set according to a running condition, and speed of servo motor is controlled so that rotational speed &thgr;pv of servo motor detected by rotational speed sensor may agree with the target rotational speed.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 1999Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takahiro Kojo, Junji Kawamuro, Masahiko Shindo, Morihiro Matsuda
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Patent number: 6199654Abstract: In a vehicle steering apparatus having a variable gear ratio unit arranged midway along a steering transmission system for connecting a steering wheel and tires to change the transmission ratio, and an ECU for variably controlling the variable gear ratio unit in accordance with the state of a vehicle, the variable gear ratio unit includes a motor controlled by the ECU, and a reducing mechanism which has a transmission ratio for allowing to maintain the steering angle of the steering wheel with respect to an RF reverse input and transmits the rotation of the motor to the output side. Even if a reverse input acts from a tire side during traveling, the relationship between the steering amount of the steering wheel and the turning amount of the tire can be kept unchanged.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1998Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takahiro Kojo, Junji Kawamuro, Morihiro Matsuda, Masahiko Shindo
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Patent number: 6164150Abstract: A vehicle steering apparatus having a variable gear ratio unit arranged midway along a steering transmission system for connecting a steering wheel and a tire to change a transmission ratio upon driving a motor includes a connecting unit for stopping actuation of the variable gear ratio unit in accordance with an external signal to connect the input side of the variable gear ratio unit which is connected to the steering wheel to the output side of the variable gear ratio unit which is connected to the tire. Even if a reverse input acts from a tire side during traveling, the relationship between the steering amount of the steering wheel and the turning amount of the tire can be kept unchanged.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1998Date of Patent: December 26, 2000Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiko Shindo, Morihiro Matsuda, Junji Kawamuro, Takahiro Kojo
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Patent number: 5478059Abstract: A torsion bar device includes a torsion bar having a torsional portion, an upper connecting portion associated with an input shaft, and a lower connecting portion associated with an output shaft; a first cylinder for encompassing the torsional portion, one end of the first cylinder being connected to one of the upper and lower connecting portions, and the other end of the first cylinder extending in the longitudinal direction of the torsion bar to the other connecting portion of the torsion bar; a second cylinder for encompassing and being connected to the other one of the upper and lower connecting portions of the torsion bar; a first supporting member for supporting the torsion bar at the other end of the first cylinder in a circumferential direction of the torsion bar; a second supporting member for supporting the torsion bar in the circumferential direction at a portion of the second cylinder where the second supporting member is aligned with the first supporting member; and an elastic member for elasticaType: GrantFiled: April 5, 1994Date of Patent: December 26, 1995Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhisa Toyoshi, Morihiro Matsuda, Tomio Okamoto, Tsuguhiro Fujita, Susumu Sukeda
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Patent number: D486622Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Inventor: Morihiro Matsuda