Patents by Inventor Nobuo Yoshioka

Nobuo Yoshioka 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: 6880712
    Abstract: A crane provided with a trolley, a hanging member, a rope member, and a hoisting device. The crane includes a horizontal position displacement detection unit which detects a horizontal positional displacement between at least two corners of the cargo and a landing place of the two corners; and a horizontal position displacement correction unit which corrects a horizontal positional displacement between the at least two corners of the cargo and the landing place of the two corners when the two corners have landed based on a detection signal from the horizontal position displacement detection unit. The horizontal position displacement correction unit corrects the position of a corner of the cargo so that the corner lands at the landing place of the corner, and then corrects the position of another corner so that the corner lands at the landing place of the corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Uchida, Nobuo Yoshioka, Kanji Obata, Noriaki Miyata, Masaki Nishioka, Tadaaki Monzen
  • Publication number: 20030015489
    Abstract: A crane provided with a trolley, a hanging member, a rope member, and a hoisting device. The crane includes a horizontal position displacement detection unit which detects a horizontal positional displacement between at least two corners of the cargo and a landing place of the two corners; and a horizontal position displacement correction unit which corrects a horizontal positional displacement between the at least two corners of the cargo and the landing place of the two corners when the two corners have landed based on a detection signal from the horizontal position displacement detection unit. The horizontal position displacement correction unit corrects the position of a corner of the cargo so that the corner lands at the landing place of the corner, and then corrects the position of another corner so that the corner lands at the landing place of the corner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventors: Koji Uchida, Nobuo Yoshioka, Kanji Obata, Noriaki Miyata, Masaki Nishioka, Tadaaki Monzen
  • Patent number: 6404084
    Abstract: A geared electric motor for driving, for example, a window glass or a sunroof lid of the motor vehicle, which is provided with a armature shaft, reduction gears for reducing rotational speed of the armature shaft, an output shaft connected with the final section of the reduction gears through a damper, speed increasing gears connected with the output shaft, a rotor connected with the final section of the speed increasing gears, and a rotation sensor for generating a signal according to rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Jidosha Denki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Niki, Nobuo Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 6320342
    Abstract: A sunroof controlling device for controlling a sunroof lid in sliding and tilting directions without using a mechanical position switch, which is possible to automatically reset count value of the position counter of the sunroof lid according to an appearance of the error in the count value and comprises first and second switches, an actuator having an electric motor and an output shaft to be connected with the sunroof lid, and a control unit including first and second rotation signal generating means for generating first and second signals in response to rotation of an armature shaft of the electric motor, an output shaft rotation signal generating means and a roof position counting means for counting the signals generated from the first, second and output shaft rotation signal generating means, and the control unit executes an initial mode for resetting count value of the roof position counter when the count value is not a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Jidosha Denki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuo Yoshioka, Hiroyuki Funaki, Kenichi Niki, Tokuhiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6297606
    Abstract: A sunroof controlling device for controlling a sunroof lid in sliding and tilting directions without using a mechanical position switch, which comprises and actuator having an electric motor and an output shaft to be connected with the sunroof lid, a switch for generating a command signal, and a control unit including an armature shaft rotation signal generating means, an output shaft rotation signal generating means, and a counting means for counting the signals generated from the armature shaft rotation signal generating means and the output shaft rotation signal generating means, and the control unit starts current supply to the electric motor of the actuator in response to the command signal and interrupts the current supply according to the count value of the counting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Jidosha Denki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuo Yoshioka, Hiroyuki Funaki, Kenichi Niki, Tokuhiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6028407
    Abstract: A wiper control device is provided with a wiper motor rotatable in the forward and reverse directions and a motor control circuit comprising a first and a second relay connected with the wiper motor, a first drive circuit connected to the first relay and a first position detecting circuit in series, a second drive circuit connected to the second relay and a second position detecting circuit in series, a first turning time delaying circuit connected with the second drive circuit in series, and a second turning time delaying circuit connected with the first drive circuit in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Jidosha Denki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuo Yoshioka, Junichi Takao, Yasuki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 5786675
    Abstract: A sunroof control circuit for controlling a sunroof lid in a sliding and a tilting mode, which comprises an electric motor, a first and a second motor driving circuit for driving the electric motor in the forward and reverse direction, a position detecting switch provided with a contactor, and an arc-shaped first and a second contact plate disposed on a circle with the same radius, a switch means for generating signals to actuate the sunroof lid in respective directions, a first, a second and a third prohibition circuit for prohibiting or permitting signals to be supplied to the respective motor driving circuits in accordance with the position of the sunroof lid detected through the position detecting switch, and a motor-lock detecting circuit for detecting the motor to be locked and stopping current supply to the motor according to the detection of the motor locking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: Jidosha Denki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenich Niki, Nobuo Yoshioka, Hiroyuki Funaki
  • Patent number: 5184050
    Abstract: A sunroof motor having a roof lid position detector which comprises a motor part, a roof lid detective disc to be turned as much as an angle in proportion to an amount of movement of a roof lid driven by the motor part, a contact plate having contacts and disposed on the roof lid detective disc, a printed wiring board mounted with a relay to supply or shut off the electric power to the motor part and formed with a motor driving circuit which is provided with board-side contacts to be in contact electrically with the contacts of the contact plate for detecting the roof lid to arrive at the full-opened position, full-closed position and so on, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: Jidosha Denki Kogyo K.K.
    Inventors: Naoto Harada, Shuji Sekine, Takeo Furuya, Nobuo Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 4392286
    Abstract: A method of taking up a bundle of filaments is disclosed wherein the bundle of filaments is ejected together with a compressed fluid toward a container and coils of the bundle of filaments are formed when the bundle of filaments is received in the container. Before arriving at the container, the above-mentioned compressed fluid is deviated from a passage of the bundle of filaments having a spiral shape. The apparatus for effectively carrying out this method comprises a rotary member rotating around the central line of the upstream portion of a guide passage for feeding the bundle of filaments toward the container and means, which ejects the bundle of filaments being conveyed into the rotary member in the above-mentioned upstream portion by means of a compressed fluid. The rotary member has a guide passage that expands gradually toward the outlet end of the guide passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1983
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Yakushiji, Atsushi Yamamoto, Yukio Kitamura, Nobuo Yoshioka