Patents by Inventor Osamu Fujimoto

Osamu Fujimoto 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: 11316416
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor includes forming plates each including a scrap portion that has a center hole and core plate portions that are disposed continuously with the scrap portion on an inner side of the center hole and that each defines a portion of a corresponding one of the outer cores forming a multilayer body including the outer cores by stacking the plates, setting at least a portion of the multilayer body and a portion of the inner core in a mold with a gap therebetween in the radial direction, forming a molded body by pouring a molten filling material into a gap in the mold and forming the filling section, at least a portion of the filling section being positioned between the outer cores, and separating the scrap portion and the core plate portions from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki Nakahara, Keisuke Saito, Takeshi Honda, Hirofumi Muto, Osamu Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 11056938
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core in which laminate steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis are laminated in an axial direction, and magnets are inserted into the rotor core. Each of the laminate steel plates includes a base portion positioned on a radially outer side of the central axis, and pieces separately disposed on a radially outer side of the base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and arranged side by side at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. The magnets are inserted into the penetrating portions and arranged side by side at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction. Space portions are provided between the magnets adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. A circumferential length of the pieces is shorter than a circumferential length of the magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Migita, Takeshi Honda, Hirofumi Muto, Osamu Fujimoto, Hiroshi Kitagaki, Yasuaki Nakahara
  • Patent number: 10923974
    Abstract: A rotor core includes first and second laminate steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis. The first laminate steel plate includes a first base portion positioned on a radially outer side of the central axis, and pieces separately positioned on a radially outer side of the first base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and disposed at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. The second laminated steel sheet includes a second base portion positioned on a radially outer side of the central axis, and annular portions separately disposed on a radially outer side of the second base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and extending in a circumferential direction. The rotor core is defined by the first laminate steel plates and at least one of the second laminate steel plates laminated in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Migita, Takeshi Honda, Hirofumi Muto, Osamu Fujimoto, Hiroshi Kitagaki, Yasuaki Nakahara
  • Patent number: 10833569
    Abstract: A rotor core includes laminate steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis. The laminate steel plates each include a base portion on a radially outer side of the central axis, and pieces separately disposed on a radially outer side of the base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and arranged side by side at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. The laminate steel plates are laminated in an axial direction. The laminated steel plate at an upper end in the axial direction includes at least one of an outward projection extending radially outward from an outer edge portion of the base portion and an inward projection extending radially inward from an inner edge portion of the piece, and the laminated steel plate at a lower end in the axial direction includes an intervening portion between the base portion and the piece portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Migita, Takeshi Honda, Hirofumi Muto, Osamu Fujimoto, Hiroshi Kitagaki, Yasuaki Nakahara
  • Publication number: 20190214889
    Abstract: A rotor core includes laminate steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis. The laminate steel plates each include a base portion on a radially outer side of the central axis, and pieces separately disposed on a radially outer side of the base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and arranged side by side at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. The laminate steel plates are laminated in an axial direction. The laminated steel plate at an upper end in the axial direction includes at least one of an outward projection extending radially outward from an outer edge portion of the base portion and an inward projection extending radially inward from an inner edge portion of the piece, and the laminated steel plate at a lower end in the axial direction includes an intervening portion between the base portion and the piece portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Takayuki MIGITA, Takeshi HONDA, Hirofumi MUTO, Osamu FUJIMOTO, Hiroshi KITAGAKI, Yasuaki NAKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20190214865
    Abstract: A rotor core includes first and second laminate steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis. The first laminate steel plate includes a first base portion positioned on a radially outer side of the central axis, and pieces separately positioned on a radially outer side of the first base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and disposed at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. The second laminated steel sheet includes a second base portion positioned on a radially outer side of the central axis, and annular portions separately disposed on a radially outer side of the second base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and extending in a circumferential direction. The rotor core is defined by the first laminate steel plates and at least one of the second laminate steel plates laminated in an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Takayuki MIGITA, Takeshi HONDA, Hirofumi MUTO, Osamu FUJIMOTO, Hiroshi KITAGAKI, Yasuaki NAKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20190214866
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core in which laminate steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis are laminated in an axial direction, and magnets are inserted into the rotor core. Each of the laminate steel plates includes a base portion positioned on a radially outer side of the central axis, and pieces separately disposed on a radially outer side of the base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and arranged side by side at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. The magnets are inserted into the penetrating portions and arranged side by side at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction. Space portions are provided between the magnets adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. A circumferential length of the pieces is shorter than a circumferential length of the magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Takayuki MIGITA, Takeshi HONDA, Hirofumi MUTO, Osamu FUJIMOTO, Hiroshi KITAGAKI, Yasuaki NAKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20190190360
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor includes forming plates each including a scrap portion that has a center hole and core plate portions that are disposed continuously with the scrap portion on an inner side of the center hole and that each defines a portion of a corresponding one of the outer cores forming a multilayer body including the outer cores by stacking the plates, setting at least a portion of the multilayer body and a portion of the inner core in a mold with a gap therebetween in the radial direction, forming a molded body by pouring a molten filling material into a gap in the mold and forming the filling section, at least a portion of the filling section being positioned between the outer cores, and separating the scrap portion and the core plate portions from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuaki NAKAHARA, Keisuke SAITO, Takeshi HONDA, Hirofumi MUTO, Osamu FUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8812810
    Abstract: A memory control apparatus includes: a plurality of setting output units each configured to output setting information for setting operation of each of a plurality of memory cells; and a plurality of selection units each configured to select operation or stop of the operation of each of the plurality of memory cells in accordance with the setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Akira Yoshida, Osamu Fujimoto, Hideyuki Ochi
  • Patent number: 8697757
    Abstract: A hydrophobic organic solvent-dispersed sol of anhydrous zinc antimonate colloidal particles and a method for producing the same. The hydrophobic organic solvent-dispersed sol includes surface-modified anhydrous zinc antimonate colloidal particles dispersed in a hydrophobic organic solvent having a water solubility of 0.002 to 12% by mass. The surface-modified anhydrous zinc antimonate colloidal particles are formed by: coating outer surfaces of anhydrous zinc antimonate colloidal particles (A) serving as cores with at least one substance (B) of colloidal particles of a composite oxide containing silica and stannic oxide or silica and antimony pentoxide at a silica/stannic oxide or silica/antimony pentoxide ratio of 0.1 to 10, an oligomer of the colloidal particles, or a mixture of the colloidal particles and the oligomer to form modified anhydrous zinc antimonate colloidal particles (C); and bonding an organosilicon compound and an amine compound to surfaces of the colloidal particles (C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Koyama, Tomonari Shinji, Osamu Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20130143035
    Abstract: There is provided a hydrophobic-organic-solvent dispersion containing colloidal particles of anhydrous zinc antimonate having high transparency which has not been attained hitherto, a coating composition containing the hydrophobic-organic-solvent dispersion and a member coated with the coating composition. A hydrophobic-organic-solvent dispersion comprising colloidal particles of anhydrous zinc antimonate having a primary particle diameter of 5 to 500 nm, which are surface-modified with azi alkylamine and a surfactant having an acid group is used. The surfactant has a carboxylic acid group, a sulfonic acid group, or a phosphoric acid group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Fujimoto, Tomonari Shinji, Yoshinari Koyama
  • Patent number: 8360530
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a pad that is made of resin foam, and that forms a seat cushion or a seatback. The pad has a layered structure formed of a surface layer pad that forms a seating surface-side portion of the pad and a back layer pad that is provided on the back side of the surface layer pad. The back layer pad is higher in hardness and lower in density than the surface layer pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Onoda, Kenji Hattori, Haruo Gotou, Osamu Fujimoto, Teiji Mabuchi
  • Patent number: 8193253
    Abstract: There is provided an organosol of surface-modified fluoride colloid particles obtained by coating the surface of a fluoride colloid particle as a core with an organophosphorus compound and a method for producing the organosol. An organosol of a surface-modified fluoride colloid particle comprising: a fluoride colloid particle as a core; and at least one type of an organophosphorus compound selected from a group consisting of organophosphorus compounds represented by the following general formula (1), (2), and (3): (R—O)nP(?O)(OM)3-n??(1) (R—O)nP(OM)3-n??(2) (R)nP(?O)(OM)3-n??(3) where R represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, alkenyl group or aryl group, M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal or NZ4 (Z represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group); and n represents an integer of 1 or 2, the organophosphorus compound coating a surface of the fluoride colloid particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Koyama, Motoko Asada, Osamu Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 8182014
    Abstract: With a vehicle seat arranging structure, a second-row passenger-side seat may be placed in a rearward slide position by sliding the second-row passenger-side seat toward the rear of a vehicle by 150 millimeters so that the second-row passenger-side seat is closer to the rear of the vehicle than the second-row driver-side seat. In addition, each of the second-row driver-side seat and the second-row passenger-side seat may be placed in an obliquely-inward frontward-oriented position by swiveling each of the second-row driver-side seat and the second-row passenger-side seat from the frontward-oriented position 10 degrees inward in the vehicle-width direction. In this way, the sense of distance between the occupants seated in the second-row driver-side seat and the second-row passenger-side seat is reduced. As a result, it is possible to promote communication between these occupants (to make it easier for these occupants to communicate with each other).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Teiji Mabuchi, Osamu Fujimoto, Makoto Itou, Kei Matsui, Yoshihiro Suda
  • Patent number: 8123272
    Abstract: A vehicle seat is taught that preferably include a seat cushion (10), a seat back (20) rotatably connected to the seat cushion via a reclining mechanism (30), front (40) and rear (46) legs removably connecting the seat cushion to a vehicle floor (66), a retracting link (50), an operating member capable of removing the front and rear legs from the floor, and a coupling link (54). The seat back can be rotated forwardly by unlocking the reclining mechanism, so as to be superimposed on the seat cushion. When the front and rear legs are removed from the floor, the seat can be moved from a use condition to a retracted condition depending on the motion of the retracting link. When the seat is moved from the use condition to the retracted condition, the coupling link rotates the front leg based on a displacement of the retracting link, thereby unlocking the reclining mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignees: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Ito, Yoshihiro Ooishi, Tomohiro Muramatsu, Osamu Fujimoto, Robert Day
  • Patent number: 8078364
    Abstract: A vehicle seat apparatus includes: a vehicle seat; a swiveling drive unit that swivels the vehicle seat between the frontward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat faces the front of a vehicle and at least one of the outward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat is oriented in the outward direction of the vehicle and the inward-oriented position in which the vehicle seat is oriented in the inward direction of the vehicle; a traveling route information obtainment unit that obtains information on a traveling route along which the vehicle travels; and a control unit that controls the operation of the swiveling drive unit based on the information obtained by the traveling route information obtainment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Teiji Mabuchi, Osamu Fujimoto, Kei Matsui, Yoshihiro Suda, Yoshihiko Tabuchi, Shoichiro Takehara, Daisuke Yamaguchi, Takaaki Koga
  • Patent number: 8038206
    Abstract: An operating lever is provided at one of a front face, an upper face, and a back face of a seat including a seat cushion and a seat back. The operating lever may include a first lever having a first end and a second end, and a second lever having a first end and a second end. The second end of the first lever and the first end of the second lever may be pivotably connected to each other, and the first end of the first lever may be pivotably connected to the seat such that the first lever is configured to change an attitude of the seat. In addition, the second end of the second lever may be formed as an operating portion, and when the operating portion is operated in a direction away from the seat, the first lever and the second lever pivot may away from the seat and the attitude of the seat is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignees: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Ito, Yoshihiro Ooishi, Tomohiro Muramatsu, Robert Day, Osamu Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 7976104
    Abstract: A seat includes a seat main body; first and second adjustable portions, each of which is provided on the seat main body and is placed in an adjustable state by operating force; an operating member which is displaced in a predetermined range; a first operating force transmitting portion for transmitting the operating force of the operating member to the first adjustable portion when the operating member is displaced in a first range; a second operating force transmitting portion for transmitting the operating force of the operating member to the second adjustable portion when the operating member is displaced in a second range; and an operation reaction force avoiding portion for keeping the first adjustable portion in the state that it is in when the operating member is displaced in the first range, when the operating member is displaced in the second range, by the input operating force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keita Iwasaki, Teiji Mabuchi, Osamu Fujimoto, Makoto Ito, Yoshihiro Ooishi
  • Publication number: 20110138159
    Abstract: A memory control apparatus includes: a plurality of setting output units each configured to output setting information for setting operation of each of a plurality of memory cells; and a plurality of selection units each configured to select operation or stop of the operation of each of the plurality of memory cells in accordance with the setting information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicants: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., SANYO SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yoshida, Osamu Fujimoto, Hideyuki Ochi
  • Publication number: 20110114871
    Abstract: There is provided a hydrophobic organic solvent-dispersed sol of anhydrous zinc antimonate colloidal particles and a method for producing the same. A hydrophobic organic solvent-dispersed sol of anhydrous zinc antimonate colloidal particles, wherein surface-modified anhydrous zinc antimonate colloidal particles are dispersed in a hydrophobic organic solvent having a water solubility of 0.002 to 12% by mass, the surface-modified anhydrous zinc antimonate colloidal particles being formed by coating outer surfaces of anhydrous zinc antimonate colloidal particles (A) serving as cores with at least one substance (B) of colloidal particles of a composite oxide containing silica and stannic oxide or silica and antimony pentoxide at a silica/stannic oxide or silica/antimony pentoxide mass ratio of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Koyama, Tomonari Shinji, Osamu Fujimoto