Patents by Inventor Naoki Sugimoto

Naoki Sugimoto 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: 10641308
    Abstract: A fastener to be inserted into a holding hole of a mounted member and a mounting hole of a mount member, includes a head portion disposed on the mounting hole. A leg portion extends from the head portion to be inserted into the holding hole and the mounting hole. An engaging portion is provided on the leg portion to be brought into engagement with the mounting hole. An elastic projecting portion projects outwards of the leg portion. The elastic projecting portion is disposed away from the holding hole. The elastic projecting portion is brought into abutment with an inner circumference of the mounting hole to thereby be bent, and a largest outside diameter of a portion of the elastic projecting portion which is positioned on the rear side of the mounting hole is set to be equal to or smaller than a bore diameter of the mounting hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Naoki Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20200116444
    Abstract: Mg and Bi are contained in each of a first fillet in a first braze joining portion in which a tube and a fin join, a second fillet in a second braze joining portion in which the tube and a header plate join, and a third fillet in a third braze joining portion in which the header plate and a tank body join. A concentration of Mg of each of the first to third fillets is from 0.2% or more to 2.0% or less by mass. When the tube includes a brazing material layer, a concentration of Mg of the tube at its plate thickness center is from 0.1% or more to 1.0% or less by mass. When the fin includes a brazing material layer, a concentration of Mg of the fin at its plate thickness center is from 0.2% or more to 1.0% or less by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Takahiro SHINODA, Shogo YAMADA, Nobuhiro HONMA, Naoki SUGIMOTO, Taketoshi TOYAMA
  • Patent number: 10306188
    Abstract: A photographic image exchange system includes an imaging device having an imager that performs imaging, a communicator that performs communication with a server, and a controller that controls the communicator such that an image that includes a registered target among images captured by the imager is transmitted to the server, and the server provides the image received from the imaging device to a device used by a user who is related to the registration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tamotsu Kawamura, Kotaro Shigeno, Hiroshi Akiyama, Masaki Negoro, Yoshinori Matsuo, Naoki Sugimoto, Dennis Clark, John Moon
  • Publication number: 20190092397
    Abstract: There is provided a hole plug. The hole plug has a main body portion and a seal flange portion. The main body portion has a closing portion, an inner wall portion, an outer wall portion. The seal flange portion extends outwards from the outer wall portion and has an abutment portion. A first recess portion is provided on an outer surface of the seal flange portion, a thin portion whose minimum thickness is thinner than a thickness of a portion of the outer wall portion which is located closer to the other end side thereof than the engaging portion is formed on the first recess portion. The thin portion is disposed closer to a radially inner side of the seal flange portion than a position on the abutment portion which is located nearest to the outer wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Naoki SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180209464
    Abstract: A fastener to be inserted into a holding hole of a mounted member and a mounting hole of a mount member, includes a head portion disposed on the mounting hole. A leg portion extends from the head portion to be inserted into the holding hole and the mounting hole. An engaging portion is provided on the leg portion to be brought into engagement with the mounting hole. An elastic projecting portion projects outwards of the leg portion. The elastic projecting portion is disposed away from the holding hole. The elastic projecting portion is brought into abutment with an inner circumference of the mounting hole to thereby be bent, and a largest outside diameter of a portion of the elastic projecting portion which is positioned on the rear side of the mounting hole is set to be equal to or smaller than a bore diameter of the mounting hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventor: Naoki SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9816762
    Abstract: An inner fin is a wave fin having board portions extending in a pipe longitudinal direction and a top portion connecting the board portions located adjacent with each other. The wave fin has a wave-shaped cross-section perpendicularly intersecting a pipe longitudinal direction, and the board portion is bent into a waveform extending in the pipe longitudinal direction when seen from a pipe layering direction. A wave pitch WP [mm], a wave depth WD [mm], and a passage width H [mm] are set to satisfy relationships of 2.2?WP/WD?4.28 and 0.5?WD/H?1.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20170208294
    Abstract: A photographic image replacement system includes an imaging device having an imager that performs imaging, a communicator that performs communication with a server, and a controller that controls the communicator such that an image that includes a registered target among images captured by the imager is transmitted to the server, and the server provides the image received from the imaging device to a device used by a user who is related to the registration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Tamotsu KAWAMURA, Kotaro SHIGENO, Hiroshi AKIYAMA, Masaki NEGORO, Yoshinori MATSUO, Naoki SUGIMOTO, Dennis CLARK, John MOON
  • Patent number: 9472489
    Abstract: An inner fin is provided in a fluid pipe for dividing a fluid passage for heating medium into multiple small fluid passages, so as to facilitate heat exchange between the heating medium and an electronic part. The inner fin is formed in a wave shape in a cross section perpendicular to a flow direction of the heating medium, wherein the inner fin has projecting portions alternately projecting in one direction and in the other direction. The inner fin is composed of multiple fin portions, wherein a fin pitch of a first fin portion is made to be smaller than a fin pitch of a second fin portion, which faces to the electronic part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Nakamura, Naoki Sugimoto, Takao Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20160236975
    Abstract: A cover glass for a pen input device has a haze value of less than 1%, and a Martens hardness within a range from 2000 N/mm2 to 4000 N/mm2. When a moving member receiving a load of 150 gf (1.47 N) is moved in one direction, at 10 mm/sec, at room temperature, on the surface of the cover glass, a coefficient of kinetic friction ?k of a kinetic frictional force Fk (N) exerted by the cover glass surface within a region where an approximately linear relationship is established between the kinetic frictional force Fk (N) and the time is 0.14˜0.50, and a standard deviation ? (N) of the kinetic frictional force Fk (N) is no more than 0.03. The moving member is a pen that includes a pen tip made of polyacetal resin with a Rockwell hardness of M90 and having a radius of curvature of 700 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Naoki SUGIMOTO, Takashi SHIBUYA, Keisuke HANASHIMA, Osamu HOMMA, Katsumi SUZUKI, Kiyohisa NAKAMURA, Nobuhiko TAKESHITA
  • Patent number: 8946889
    Abstract: A semiconductor module is provided which includes a semiconductor unit which is made by a resin mold. The resin mold has formed therein a coolant path through which a coolant flows to cool a semiconductor chip embedded in the resin mold. The resin mold also includes heat spreaders, and electric terminals embedded therein. Each of the heat spreaders has a fin heat sink exposed to the flow of the coolant. The fin heat sink is welded to a surface of each of the heat spreaders through an insulator, thus minimizing an electrical leakage from the heat spreader to the coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Chikage Katou, Hiroaki Arai, Yoshiyuki Yamauchi, Yasuou Yamazaki, Naoki Sugimoto, Yasuyuki Sakai
  • Publication number: 20140160295
    Abstract: Systems and methods of detection and notification of potential road conditions are disclosed herein. One such method can include the acts of receiving a first set of data associated with the location on the road surface from a first vehicle and identifying a first subset of the first set of data. The first subset can be associated with the potential road condition. The method can also include the acts of calculating a probability associated with the potential road condition based at least in part on the first subset, determining whether the probability exceeds a threshold, and notifying at least one vehicle of the potential road condition when the probability exceeds the threshold upon the at least one vehicle approaching the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kyomitsu, Naoki Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20140091452
    Abstract: A semiconductor module is provided which includes a semiconductor unit which is made by a resin mold. The resin mold has formed therein a coolant path through which a coolant flows to cool a semiconductor chip embedded in the resin mold. The resin mold also includes heat spreaders, and electric terminals embedded therein. Each of the heat spreaders has a fin heat sink exposed to the flow of the coolant. The fin heat sink is welded to a surface of each of the heat spreaders through an insulator, thus minimizing an electrical leakage from the heat spreader to the coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chikage Katou, Hiroaki Arai, Yoshiyuki Yamauchi, Yasuou Yamazaki, Naoki Sugimoto, Yasuyuki Sakai
  • Patent number: 8461069
    Abstract: A light emitting diode element having a light emitting diode; and a glass covering sealing the light emitting diode is provided. The glass of the covering consists essentially of from 30 to 70 mol% of SnO, from 15 to 50 mol% of P2O5, from 0.1 to 20 mol% of ZnO, from 0 to 10 mol% of SiO2+GeO2, from 0 to 30% of Li2O+Na2O+K2O, and from 0 to 20% of MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO. In an embodiment, a refractive index of the glass of the covering is at least 1.6 at a wavelength of 400nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Syuji Matsumoto, Tomoyuki Kobayashi, Naoki Sugimoto, Satoshi Fujimine, Nobuhiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130063336
    Abstract: A driver can point at a vehicle display using a hand on the steering wheel. The vehicle display may be located in the dashboard behind the steering wheel. The location on the display at which the driver is pointing is determined using sensors, and a cursor is displayed at this location. Finger movement is detected by the sensors and a user interface function is performed in response. The performed user interface functions may include the movement of the displayed cursor on the vehicle display, the display of additional vehicle information, the launching of an application, the interaction with an application, and the scrolling of displayed information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Sugimoto, Fuminobu Kurosawa, Tatsuya Kyomitsu
  • Patent number: 8365809
    Abstract: An integrated heat exchanger has a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger. The first heat exchanger has a first bracket and a second bracket on header parts thereof, respectively. The first bracket and the second bracket are connected to header parts of the second heat exchanger with a first bolt and a second bolt, respectively, for integrating the first heat exchanger with the second heat exchanger. The header parts of the second heat exchanger are provided with a first bolt-receiving portion and a second bolt-receiving portions for receiving the first bolt and the second bolt therein, respectively. The first bolt-receiving portion and the second bolt-receiving portion define a first axis and a second axis, respectively. The first axis and the second axis are nonparallel to each other. Thus, the first bolt and the second bolt are disposed nonparallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Sugimoto, Kaoru Tsuzuki
  • Publication number: 20120205086
    Abstract: An inner fin is provided in a fluid pipe for dividing a fluid passage for heating medium into multiple small fluid passages, so as to facilitate heat exchange between the heating medium and an electronic part. The inner fin is formed in a wave shape in a cross section perpendicular to a flow direction of the heating medium, wherein the inner fin has projecting portions alternately projecting in one direction and in the other direction. The inner fin is composed of multiple fin portions, wherein a fin pitch of a first fin portion is made to be smaller than a fin pitch of a second fin portion, which faces to the electronic part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Nakamura, Naoki Sugimoto, Takao Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20120074447
    Abstract: A light emitting diode element having a light emitting diode; and a glass covering sealing the light emitting diode is provided. The glass of the covering consists essentially of from 30 to 70 mol % of SnO, from 15 to 50 mol % of P2O5, from 0.1 to 20 mol % of ZnO, from 0 to 10 mol % of SiO2+GeO2, from 0 to 30% of Li2O+Na2O+K2O, and from 0 to 20% of MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO. In an embodiment, a refractive index of the glass of the covering is at least 1.6 at a wavelength of 400 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Syuji Matsumoto, Tomoyuki Kobayashi, Naoki Sugimoto, Satoshi Fujimine, Nobuhiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110316143
    Abstract: A semiconductor module is provided which includes a semiconductor unit which is made by a resin mold. The resin mold has formed therein a coolant path through which a coolant flows to cool a semiconductor chip embedded in the resin mold. The resin mold also includes heat spreaders, and electric terminals embedded therein. Each of the heat spreaders has a fin heat sink exposed to the flow of the coolant. The fin heat sink is welded to a surface of each of the heat spreaders through an insulator, thus minimizing an electrical leakage from the heat spreader to the coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chikage NORITAKE, Hiroaki Arai, Yoshiyuki Yamauchi, Yasuou Yamazaki, Naoki Sugimoto, Yasuyuki Sakai
  • Publication number: 20110284197
    Abstract: An inner fin is a wave fin having board portions extending in a pipe longitudinal direction and a top portion connecting the board portions located adjacent with each other. The wave fin has a wave-shaped cross-section perpendicularly intersecting a pipe longitudinal direction, and the board portion is bent into a waveform extending in the pipe longitudinal direction when seen from a pipe layering direction. A wave pitch WP[mm], a wave depth WD[mm], and a passage width H[mm] are set to satisfy relationships of 2.2?WP/WD?4.28 and 0.5?WD/H?1.8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: D763066
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Piolax, Inc.
    Inventor: Naoki Sugimoto