Patents by Inventor Norio Matsumoto

Norio Matsumoto 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: 11947294
    Abstract: A fixing device includes: a first roller on which an elastic layer is formed; and a second roller that forms a clamping portion at which a recording medium is clamped between the first roller and the second roller, a groove extending in an axial direction being formed in an outer peripheral surface of the second roller, and the second roller not including an elastic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Norio Ogawahara, Yoshiki Shimodaira, Masato Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11932696
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for cancer treatment comprising an antibody against CCR8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: SHIONOGI & CO., LTD., OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yoshida, Yujiro Kidani, Mitsunobu Matsumoto, Takayuki Kanazawa, Satomi Shinonome, Kanji Hojo, Naganari Ohkura, Shimon Sakaguchi, Atsushi Tanaka, Hisashi Wada, Atsunari Kawashima, Norio Nonomura
  • Patent number: 10840844
    Abstract: To provide a controller for a rotary electric machine capable of suppressing occurrence of an angle interval when the rotary electric machine cannot output torque, even if the ON angle interval of the switching devices is set smaller than 120 degrees in the rectangular wave control. A controller for a rotary electric machine performs a rectangular wave control to a rotary electric machine which has 2 groups of three-phase windings, with a phase difference between groups; and switches a first control mode and a second control mode according to a switching condition; wherein the first control mode is a mode which sets an ON angle interval to an angle within a range from 120 degrees to 180 degrees; and wherein the second control mode is a mode which sets the ON angle interval to an angle within a range from 90 degrees to 120 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Akita, Masahiko Fujita, Norio Matsumoto, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Mitsunori Tabata
  • Publication number: 20190372499
    Abstract: To provide a controller for a rotary electric machine capable of suppressing occurrence of an angle interval when the rotary electric machine cannot output torque, even if the ON angle interval of the switching devices is set smaller than 120 degrees in the rectangular wave control. A controller for a rotary electric machine performs a rectangular wave control to a rotary electric machine which has 2 groups of three-phase windings, with a phase difference between groups; and switches a first control mode and a second control mode according to a switching condition; wherein the first control mode is a mode which sets an ON angle interval to an angle within a range from 120 degrees to 180 degrees; and wherein the second control mode is a mode which sets the ON angle interval to an angle within a range from 90 degrees to 120 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi AKITA, Masahiko Fujita, Norio Matsumoto, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Mitsunori Tabata
  • Patent number: 8979509
    Abstract: A screw compressor includes a casing and a compression mechanism accommodated in the casing. The compression mechanism has a screw rotor, a gate rotor and a communication mechanism. The gate rotor has a flat plate shape. A rotational axis of gate rotor is orthogonal to a rotational axis of the screw rotor. The communication mechanism is arranged to communicate a high pressure space and a low pressure space in the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Matsumoto, Hiromichi Ueno, Shigeharu Shikano
  • Patent number: 8883060
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a weight-reduced FRP cylinder which can attain high strength, and also such an FRP cylinder is provided. This FRP cylinder producing method, in which a plurality of prepregs formed by impregnating reinforced fibers with thermosetting resin sheets are wound into a cylinder and thermally cured to be formed as a plurality of FRP layers, includes a simultaneous multilayer winding process in which a torsional rigidity retaining prepreg and a buckling prevention prepreg are continuously wound a plurality of turns with being layered on each other when the plurality of prepregs are wound into a cylinder, wherein the torsional rigidity retaining prepreg includes a layer of fibers oblique to a cylindrical axis direction of the FRP cylinder, and wherein the buckling prevention prepreg includes a layer of fibers orthogonal to the cylindrical axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Fujikura Rubber Ltd.
    Inventors: Takato Nakamura, Norio Matsumoto, Naoki Kimoto
  • Patent number: 8882950
    Abstract: A prepreg winding method includes the steps of preparing a plate, a mandrel movable toward and away from the plate, and a press roll movable toward and away from the mandrel and having an axis parallel to the mandrel; mounting a prepreg on the plate, the prepreg being formed by impregnating reinforced fibers with a thermosetting resin sheet; winding a leading end of the prepreg mounted on the plate around the mandrel, and making a pressing force act on the plate and the mandrel therebetween with the prepreg sandwiched between the plate and the mandrel and making a pressing force act on the mandrel and the press roll therebetween with the prepreg sandwiched between the mandrel and the press roll; and winding the prepreg around the mandrel by rotating the mandrel and the press roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Fujikura Rubber Ltd.
    Inventors: Takato Nakamura, Norio Matsumoto, Naoki Kimoto
  • Patent number: 8858192
    Abstract: A screw compressor includes a casing, a screw rotor, an oil sump containing lubricant oil, a lubrication passage and a flow rate controller. The screw rotor is inserted in a cylinder portion of the casing to form a fluid chamber. The screw rotor rotates to suck a fluid into the fluid chamber for compression. The lubrication passage supplies the lubricant oil in the oil sump to the fluid chamber due to a difference in pressure between the oil sump and the fluid chamber. The flow rate controller reduces a flow rate of the lubricant oil supplied to the fluid chamber in accordance with a decrease in operating capacity of the screw compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeharu Shikano, Nozomi Gotou, Norio Matsumoto, Hideyuki Gotou, Harunori Miyamura
  • Patent number: 8852021
    Abstract: A golf club shaft in which the isotropy of the prepregs configuring a torsion rigidity holding layer is high and in which sufficient torsional rigidity can be secured with fewer plies of fewer prepregs. The golf club shaft includes a torsional rigidity holding layer made of a thermosetting resin which contains reinforced fibers extending obliquely to a longitudinal direction of the shaft. The torsional rigidity holding layer includes a multilayer set prepreg, in which at least two layers of prepregs made of reinforced fibers are impregnated with a thermosetting resin. A plurality of prepregs in the multilayer set prepreg include reinforced fibers extending in mutually different directions. The multilayer set prepreg is continuously wound by at least two turns with the plurality of prepregs layered on each other. A golf club uses the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Fujikura Rubber Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Matsumoto, Takato Nakamura, Masaki Wakabayashi, Tomonobu Kanno
  • Patent number: 8562319
    Abstract: A screw compressor includes a screw rotor, a casing, a low pressure space, a bypass passage and a slide valve. The screw rotor is provided with a plurality of helical grooves forming fluid chambers. The casing includes a cylinder portion with the screw rotor disposed in the cylinder portion. The low pressure space is formed in the casing to receive a flow of uncompressed, low pressure fluid. The bypass passage is opened in an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder portion to communicate the fluid chamber with the low pressure space. The slide valve is slideable in an axial direction of the screw rotor to change an area of an opening of the bypass passage in the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder portion. An end face of the slide valve facing the bypass passage is inclined along an extending direction of the helical grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Matsumoto, Nozomi Gotou, Shigeharu Shikano, Hideyuki Gotou, Harunori Miyamura
  • Publication number: 20120295735
    Abstract: A golf club shaft and a golf club using such a golf club shaft are achieved in which the isotropy of the prepregs configuring a torsion rigidity holding layer is high and in which sufficient torsional rigidity can be secured with a lesser number of plies of prepregs. The golf club shaft is characterized by a torsional rigidity holding layer made of a thermosetting resin which contains reinforced fibers extending obliquely to a longitudinal direction of the shaft. The torsional rigidity holding layer includes a multilayer set prepreg, in which at least two layers of prepregs made of reinforced fibers are impregnated with a thermosetting resin. A plurality of prepregs in the multilayer set prepreg include reinforced fibers extending in mutually different directions; and the multilayer set prepreg is continuously wound by at least two turns with the plurality of prepregs layered on each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Fujikura Rubber Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Matsumoto, Takato Nakamura, Masaki Wakabayashi, Tomonobu Kanno
  • Publication number: 20120247652
    Abstract: A prepreg winding method includes the steps of preparing a plate, a mandrel movable toward and away from the plate, and a press roll movable toward and away from the mandrel and having an axis parallel to the mandrel; mounting a prepreg on the plate, the prepreg being formed by impregnating reinforced fibers with a thermosetting resin sheet; winding a leading end of the prepreg mounted on the plate around the mandrel, and making a pressing force act on the plate and the mandrel therebetween with the prepreg sandwiched between the plate and the mandrel and making a pressing force act on the mandrel and the press roll therebetween with the prepreg sandwiched between the mandrel and the press roll; and winding the prepreg around the mandrel by rotating the mandrel and the press roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIKURA RUBBER LTD.
    Inventors: Takato Nakamura, Norio Matsumoto, Naoki Kimoto
  • Publication number: 20120183418
    Abstract: A screw compressor includes a casing and a compression mechanism accommodated in the casing. The compression mechanism has a screw rotor, a gate rotor and a communication mechanism. The sate rotor has a flat plate shape. A rotational axis of gate rotor is orthogonal to a rotational axis of the screw rotor. The communication mechanism is arranged to communicate a high pressure space and a low pressure space in the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Norio Matsumoto, Hiromichi Ueno, Shigeharu Shikano
  • Patent number: 8215945
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming a hollow FRP article by internal pressure molding includes a vacuum chamber, a forming die positioned in the vacuum chamber, a vacuum-chamber opening/closing mechanism, a composite-body support device for supporting a composite body without making the composite body come into contact with the forming die in a state where the forming die is opened by the vacuum-chamber opening/closing mechanism, the composite body including an airtight internal-pressure holding tube and a prepreg fitted on said airtight internal-pressure holding tube, an evacuation system for evacuating the vacuum chamber, an internal-pressure supplying device for applying pressure to an inside of the internal-pressure holding tube, and a controller for actuating the vacuum-chamber opening/closing mechanism to clamp the forming die to thereby bring the forming die and the composite body into intimate contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Fujikura Rubber Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Matsumoto, Akiyasu Higuchi, Masaki Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20120100028
    Abstract: A screw compressor includes a screw rotor, a casing, a low pressure space, a bypass passage and a slide valve. The screw rotor is provided with a plurality of helical grooves forming fluid chambers. The casing includes a cylinder portion with the screw rotor disposed in the cylinder portion. The low pressure space is formed in the casing to receive a flow of uncompressed, low pressure fluid. The bypass passage is opened in an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder portion to communicate the fluid chamber with the low pressure space. The slide valve is slideable in an axial direction of the screw rotor to chance an area of an opening of the brass passage inner peripheral surface of the cylinder portion. An end face of the slide valve facing the by bypass passage is inclined along an extending direction of the helical grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Norio Matsumoto, Nozomi Gotou, Shigeharu Shikano, Hideyuki Gotou, Harunori Miyamura
  • Publication number: 20120003113
    Abstract: A screw compressor includes a casing, a screw rotor, an oil sump containing lubricant oil, a lubrication passage and a flow rate controller. The screw rotor is inserted in a cylinder portion of the casing to form a fluid chamber. The screw rotor rotates to suck a fluid into the fluid chamber for compression. The lubrication passage supplies the lubricant oil in the oil sump to the fluid chamber due to a difference in pressure between the oil sump and the fluid chamber. The flow rate controller reduces a flow rate of the lubricant oil supplied to the fluid chamber in accordance with a decrease in operating capacity of the screw compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeharu Shikano, Nozomi Gotou, Norio Matsumoto, Hideyuki Gotou, Harunori Miyamura
  • Publication number: 20110281061
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a weight-reduced FRP cylinder which can attain high strength, and also such an FRP cylinder is provided. This FRP cylinder producing method, in which a plurality of prepregs formed by impregnating reinforced fibers with thermosetting resin sheets are wound into a cylinder and thermally cured to be formed as a plurality of FRP layers, includes a simultaneous multilayer winding process in which a torsional rigidity retaining prepreg and a buckling prevention prepreg are continuously wound a plurality of turns with being layered on each other when the plurality of prepregs are wound into a cylinder, wherein the torsional rigidity retaining prepreg includes a layer of fibers oblique to a cylindrical axis direction of the FRP cylinder, and wherein the buckling prevention prepreg includes a layer of fibers orthogonal to the cylindrical axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: FUJIKURA RUBBER LTD.
    Inventors: Takato Nakamura, Norio Matsumoto, Naoki Kimoto
  • Publication number: 20110151991
    Abstract: It is object of the present invention to provide a golf club shaft superior in accuracy, minimizing a displacement between thermosetting resin layers, capable of obtaining a feeling close to the feeling of a steel shaft, and superior in stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: Fujikura Rubber Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio MATSUMOTO, Masaki WAKABAYASHI, Hideaki SANEKATA
  • Patent number: 7935002
    Abstract: It is object of the present invention to provide a golf club shaft superior in accuracy, minimizing a displacement between thermosetting resin layers, capable of obtaining a feeling close to the feeling of a steel shaft, and superior in stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Fujikura Rubber Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Matsumoto, Masaki Wakabayashi, Hideaki Sanekata
  • Publication number: 20100116438
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming a hollow FRP article by internal pressure molding includes a vacuum chamber, a forming die positioned in the vacuum chamber, a vacuum-chamber opening/closing mechanism, a composite-body support device for supporting a composite body without making the composite body come into contact with the forming die in a state where the forming die is opened by the vacuum-chamber opening/closing mechanism, the composite body including an airtight internal-pressure holding tube and a prepreg fitted on said airtight internal-pressure holding tube, an evacuation system for evacuating the vacuum chamber, an internal-pressure supplying device for applying pressure to an inside of the internal-pressure holding tube, and a controller for actuating the vacuum-chamber opening/closing mechanism to clamp the forming die to thereby bring the forming die and the composite body into intimate contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: FUJIKURA RUBBER LTD.
    Inventors: NORIO MATSUMOTO, AKIYASU HIGUCHI, MASAKI WAKABAYASHI