Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Baba

Nobuyuki Baba 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: 12240529
    Abstract: To increase an effect of absorbing an impact load from a vehicle front side. A vehicle-body structure includes a left-side suspension support member supporting a front suspension, a center frame disposed higher than and away from a floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of an occupant space and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, a left-side front frame connected to a front portion of the center frame and extending to the left-side suspension support member, a right-side front frame connected to the front portion of the center frame and extending to a right-side suspension support member, and a connection member that connects the floor panel and at least one of a rear portion of the left-side front frame, a rear portion of the right-side front frame, and the front portion of the center frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 12233699
    Abstract: A vehicle-body structure increases comfort inside a vehicle cabin and improves vehicle-body stiffness. A battery housing portion in which a battery is housed and a battery non-housing portion in which the battery is not housed are provided alongside in a vehicle front-rear direction below the vehicle cabin. A second frame portion disposed at the battery non-housing portion is larger than a first frame portion disposed at the battery housing portion in a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12233946
    Abstract: To sufficiently improve the distortion stiffness of a vehicle body in a case in which no floor tunnel largely bulging upward from a floor panel is provided. A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space including a seat on which a passenger is to sit, a cross member provided at a rear portion of the floor panel and extending in a vehicle width direction, a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, and a connecting member connecting the cross member and a rear portion of the center frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Takashi Hirakawa, Hideaki Hoshuyama, Tsuneki Shimanaka
  • Patent number: 12230099
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing system and a game management program that can improve a game continuation rate in a game in which any one of a plurality of game contents is executable by satisfying a predetermined condition. The information processing system includes: an information processing device in which any one of a plurality of game contents is executable by satisfying a predetermined condition; and a server communicably connected to the information processing device and configured to manage the game content executed in the information processing device, in which the server includes a control unit configured to perform control, based on information transmitted from the information processing device, such that any one of the plurality of game contents is executable in the information processing device that is a transmission source of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi, Muneki Shiraishi, Satoko Baba, Nobuyuki Kawarai
  • Patent number: 12227229
    Abstract: To decrease the retraction amount of a traveling motor at front collision. A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space including a seat on which a passenger sits, a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, and a connecting member extending upward from the floor panel, having an upper portion fixed to the center frame, and connecting the center frame to the floor panel. A traveling motor is arranged on a vehicle front side of the connecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 12208759
    Abstract: To improve protection performance for a pedestrian colliding with a front portion of a traveling vehicle, a front bumper includes a bumper fascia, a front grill, and decorative member. The disposition position and shape of a bumper reinforcement are set such that the bumper reinforcement is positioned inside an opening of the bumper fascia in a front view. Cross members are arranged at higher and lower positions than the decorative member and extend toward a vehicle-width-direction outer side beyond the bumper reinforcement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Mitsuru Wakabayashi, Koji Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 12202548
    Abstract: To suppress damage on a bonnet at light collision, a vehicle-body structure includes rear-portion crush cans that perform compressive deformation when a first predetermined load is applied, and front-portion crush cans that perform compressive deformation when a second predetermined load smaller than the first predetermined load is applied. A front portion of a bonnet is positioned on a vehicle rear side of front portions of the rear-portion crush cans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Mitsuru Wakabayashi, Koji Miyamoto, Masaki Motoki, Manabu Tatsuda
  • Patent number: 12116736
    Abstract: A road machine includes a hopper, a screed, a measuring unit configured to measure an amount of pavement material inside the hopper or pavement material held in front of the screed, and a display device disposed in an operator's seat and configured to display the amount of pavement material measured by the measuring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Sakakibara, Nobuyuki Baba
  • Patent number: 12039866
    Abstract: A display unit for a road machine includes a display and processing circuitry. The road machine includes a tractor, a hopper installed in front of the tractor to receive a paving material, a conveyor configured to feed the paving material in the hopper to the back side of the tractor, a screw configured to lay and spread the paving material fed by the conveyor behind the tractor, a screed configured to lay and level the paving material laid and spread by the screw behind the screw, and an information obtaining device configured to obtain information on road pavement. The processing circuitry of the display unit is configured to predict a future event based on the information on the road pavement obtained by the information obtaining device, and to display information on the event on a road map on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Tomita, Nobuyuki Baba
  • Patent number: 11952730
    Abstract: An asphalt finisher includes a tractor, a hopper provided on a front side of the tractor and configured to receive a pavement material, a conveyor configured to supply the pavement material in the hopper to a rear side of the tractor, a screw configured to place and spread the pavement material supplied by the conveyor on a rear side of the tractor, a screed configured to lay and spread the pavement material placed and spread by the screw on a rear side of the screw, and a distance measuring device configured to include a region including a road surface placed and spread by the screed, and a planimetric feature that is used as a reference for a height of the road surface, within a measuring range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Baba
  • Publication number: 20220005350
    Abstract: A display unit for a road machine includes a display and processing circuitry. The road machine includes a tractor, a hopper installed in front of the tractor to receive a paving material, a conveyor configured to feed the paving material in the hopper to the back side of the tractor, a screw configured to lay and spread the paving material fed by the conveyor behind the tractor, a screed configured to lay and level the paving material laid and spread by the screw behind the screw, and an information obtaining device configured to obtain information on road pavement. The processing circuitry of the display unit is configured to predict a future event based on the information on the road pavement obtained by the information obtaining device, and to display information on the event on a road map on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Yukihiro TOMITA, Nobuyuki BABA
  • Publication number: 20210148064
    Abstract: An asphalt finisher includes a tractor, a hopper provided on a front side of the tractor and configured to receive a pavement material, a conveyor configured to supply the pavement material in the hopper to a rear side of the tractor, a screw configured to place and spread the pavement material supplied by the conveyor on a rear side of the tractor, a screed configured to lay and spread the pavement material placed and spread by the screw on a rear side of the screw, and a distance measuring device configured to include a region including a road surface placed and spread by the screed, and a planimetric feature that is used as a reference for a height of the road surface, within a measuring range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventor: Nobuyuki BABA
  • Publication number: 20210009038
    Abstract: A road machine includes a hopper, a screed, a measuring unit configured to measure an amount of pavement material inside the hopper or pavement material held in front of the screed, and a display device disposed in an operator's seat and configured to display the amount of pavement material measured by the measuring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Akira SAKAKIBARA, Nobuyuki BABA
  • Patent number: 9995475
    Abstract: An illumination device that can obtain high withstanding voltage performance while making heat transfer to a casing from a light-emitting element favorable is provided. In a sports illumination device including a COB type LED as a light source in a casing, a base plate that has the COB type LED mounted thereon and is formed from a high thermoconductive material, to which heat of the COB type LED is transferred, is included, the casing is provided with an engaging hole with which the base plate is engaged in a state in which a part of the base plate is exposed outside the casing, and an insulation packing is provided at a site of contact of the base plate and the engaging hole in the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Kimoto, Nobuyuki Baba, Keiichirou Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 9406858
    Abstract: An object is to provide an LED module that eliminates the need for providing electrodes between each device and allows LEDs to be arrayed with high density. An LED module includes a substrate, a first frame member, a second frame member disposed outside the first frame member, a plurality of LEDs for producing white light disposed within the first frame member, a phosphor resin disposed within the first frame member, a plurality of LEDs for producing colored light disposed between the first frame member and the second frame member, and electrodes for applying a voltage to the plurality of LEDs for producing the white light, wherein a metal wire to connect the plurality of LEDs for producing the colored light to one another is disposed so as to straddle a part of each of the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., EYE LIGHTING SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Kuriki, Arata Shimozawa, Nobuyuki Baba, Takahiro Mikami
  • Publication number: 20160161100
    Abstract: An illumination device that can obtain high withstanding voltage performance while making heat transfer to a casing from a light-emitting element favorable is provided. In a sports illumination device including a COB type LED as a light source in a casing, a base plate that has the COB type LED mounted thereon and is formed from a high thermoconductive material, to which heat of the COB type LED is transferred, is included, the casing is provided with an engaging hole with which the base plate is engaged in a state in which a part of the base plate is exposed outside the casing, and an insulation packing is provided at a site of contact of the base plate and the engaging hole in the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuichi KIMOTO, Nobuyuki BABA, Keiichirou KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20160027981
    Abstract: An object is to provide an LED module that eliminates the need for providing electrodes between each device and allows LEDs to be arrayed with high density. An LED module includes a substrate, a first frame member, a second frame member disposed outside the first frame member, a plurality of LEDs for producing white light disposed within the first frame member, a phosphor resin disposed within the first frame member, a plurality of LEDs for producing colored light disposed between the first frame member and the second frame member, and electrodes for applying a voltage to the plurality of LEDs for producing the white light, wherein a metal wire to connect the plurality of LEDs for producing the colored light to one another is disposed so as to straddle a part of each of the electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicants: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., EYE LIGHTING SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo KURIKI, Arata Shimozawa, Nobuyuki Baba, Takahiro Mikami
  • Patent number: 9239151
    Abstract: A lamp achieves high output power like an HID lamp by using a light emitting element(s) as a light source. A mount board having LED mounted thereon is provided on the surface of a base member, and there are provided plural flat plate type light source units arranged around an axial line while the back surfaces thereof faces inwards, and a support member provided on the axial line. The plural light source units are supported on the support member, and a space through which air flows is provided at the back surface side of each base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignees: IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., EYE LIGHTING SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Mikami, Yuuichi Kimoto, Nobuyuki Baba, Takayoshi Imanari
  • Publication number: 20150292718
    Abstract: A lamp achieves high output power like an HID lamp by using a light emitting element(s) as a light source. A mount board having LED mounted thereon is provided on the surface of a base member, and there are provided plural flat plate type light source units arranged around an axial line while the back surfaces thereof faces inwards, and a support member provided on the axial line. The plural light source units are supported on the support member, and a space through which air flows is provided at the back surface side of each base member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicants: EYE LIGHTING SYSTEMS CORPORATION, IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro MIKAMI, Yuuichi KIMOTO, Nobuyuki BABA, Takayoshi IMANARI
  • Patent number: 9097391
    Abstract: A lamp achieves high output power like an HID lamp by using a light emitting element(s) as a light source. A mount board having LED mounted thereon is provided on the surface of a base member, and there are provided plural flat plate type light source units arranged around an axial line while the back surfaces thereof faces inwards, and a support member provided on the axial line. The plural light source units are supported on the support member, and a space through which air flows is provided at the back surface side of each base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignees: IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., EYE LIGHTING SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Mikami, Yuuichi Kimoto, Nobuyuki Baba, Takayoshi Imanari