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).
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Patent number: 12240529Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroaki Fujii
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Patent number: 12233699Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroshi Tanaka
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Patent number: 12233946Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Takashi Hirakawa, Hideaki Hoshuyama, Tsuneki Shimanaka
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Patent number: 12230099Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi, Muneki Shiraishi, Satoko Baba, Nobuyuki Kawarai
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Patent number: 12227229Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroaki Fujii
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Patent number: 12208759Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Mitsuru Wakabayashi, Koji Miyamoto
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Patent number: 12202548Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Mitsuru Wakabayashi, Koji Miyamoto, Masaki Motoki, Manabu Tatsuda
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Patent number: 12116736Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Sakakibara, Nobuyuki Baba
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Patent number: 12039866Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukihiro Tomita, Nobuyuki Baba
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Patent number: 11952730Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Nobuyuki Baba
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Publication number: 20220005350Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Yukihiro TOMITA, Nobuyuki BABA
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Publication number: 20210148064Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2021Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventor: Nobuyuki BABA
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Publication number: 20210009038Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Akira SAKAKIBARA, Nobuyuki BABA
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Patent number: 9995475Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuuichi Kimoto, Nobuyuki Baba, Keiichirou Kinoshita
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Patent number: 9406858Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., EYE LIGHTING SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Kuriki, Arata Shimozawa, Nobuyuki Baba, Takahiro Mikami
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Publication number: 20160161100Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuuichi KIMOTO, Nobuyuki BABA, Keiichirou KINOSHITA
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Publication number: 20160027981Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicants: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., EYE LIGHTING SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo KURIKI, Arata Shimozawa, Nobuyuki Baba, Takahiro Mikami
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Patent number: 9239151Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignees: IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., EYE LIGHTING SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Mikami, Yuuichi Kimoto, Nobuyuki Baba, Takayoshi Imanari
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Publication number: 20150292718Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicants: EYE LIGHTING SYSTEMS CORPORATION, IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro MIKAMI, Yuuichi KIMOTO, Nobuyuki BABA, Takayoshi IMANARI
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Patent number: 9097391Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignees: IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., EYE LIGHTING SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Mikami, Yuuichi Kimoto, Nobuyuki Baba, Takayoshi Imanari