Patents by Inventor Osamu Ishikawa

Osamu Ishikawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20130289855
    Abstract: Provided is an engine starting device, including: starter control means for causing, when the restart condition is established during a period in which a meshing inhibition condition for a ring gear and a pinion gear is established, the pinion gear and the ring gear to mesh with each other after the meshing inhibition condition is released, thereby restarting the engine. The starter control means determines the meshing permission condition and the meshing inhibition condition based on at least an engine rotation speed, and determines the release of the meshing inhibition condition before the engine completely stops based on at least one of the engine rotation speed and an elapsed time after the establishment of the meshing inhibition condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kitano, Daisuke Mizuno, Yuhei Tsukahara, Osamu Ishikawa, Takeru Okabe, Koichiro Kamei
  • Patent number: 8566007
    Abstract: The automatic/stop restart device includes a restart control module for performing restart control for the internal combustion engine by pushing out a pinion gear (17) by a pinion-gear push-out device (18) to bring the pinion gear into meshing engagement with a ring gear (16) when the restart requirement is satisfied before the rotation of the internal combustion engine is stopped after an automatic stop requirement is satisfied. The pinion gear is pushed out when the restart requirement is satisfied when a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine is equal to or lower than a predetermined rotation speed. At the same time, a starter motor (19) is driven by a starter-motor waiting-time adjustment module for adjusting a driving waiting time for the starter motor (19) according to the rotation speed of the internal combustion engine obtained when the restart requirement is satisfied. In this manner, the restart is quickly performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohisa Shoda, Osamu Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130220541
    Abstract: A pressing apparatus associated with an absorbent article, including: a pair of rollers that are driven and rotate with outer circumferential surfaces thereof facing each other, when a fibrous continuous sheet overlapped with an article to be overlapped with a thermoplastic adhesive therebetween is passed in a continuous direction of the fibrous continuous sheet through a roller gap between the pair of rollers, the pressing apparatus sandwiching and pressing the article to be overlapped and the fibrous continuous sheet between the outer circumferential surfaces, and a heating mechanism that heats at least a roller of the pair of rollers that is positioned on a side of the fibrous continuous sheet, the heating mechanism heating the roller so as to keep a temperature of the outer circumferential surface of the roller within a range from 70° C. to 120° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventors: Tomohiro Fujiwara, Osamu Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130221558
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent body of an absorbent article by depositing a liquid absorbent material on an air-permeable member by passing an air that contains the liquid absorbent material in a thickness direction of the air-permeable member, the apparatus including: a plurality of plates that are stacked in the thickness direction, that constitutes the air-permeable member, each of which includes a plurality of air holes that penetrate the plate in the thickness direction and that allow the air to pass, and each of which includes a joining portion for joining to an adjacent plate in the thickness direction in a portion of the plate in which the air holes are not formed, the plurality of air holes of each of the plates being arranged so as to communicate with corresponding air holes of an adjacent plate in the thickness direction, corresponding air holes of all the plates stacked in the thickness direction having a same shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroshi Isshiki, Osamu Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130213570
    Abstract: There is provided a manufacturing method for a composite body of a continuous sheet associated with an absorbent article, the composite body being manufactured by attaching a single-cut sheet to the continuous sheet at a predetermined attachment pitch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventors: Miwa Iida, Osamu Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8504279
    Abstract: When an engine automatic stop judgment unit (101) judges that an engine automatic stop condition is satisfied so that a fuel injection control unit (105) stops fuel supply to an engine and an ignition control unit (106) stops ignition of the engine, and when an engine restart judgment unit (102) judges that an engine restart condition is satisfied before the engine stops, the pinion gear is driven to rotate. Then, engagement between the ring gear and the pinion gear is started when a deviation between an rpm of the engine detected by an engine rpm calculation unit (104) and an rpm of the pinion gear becomes smaller than a predetermined threshold value. Ignition by an ignition control unit (106) is inhibited during a period from start of the engagement until an engagement completion judgment unit (103) judges that the engagement is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Ishikawa, Tomohisa Shoda
  • Patent number: 8494758
    Abstract: In an engine automatic-stop/restart system according to the present invention, in the case where an engine self-restoration determination unit determines that an engine can autonomously be restored, fuel supply by a fuel injection control unit is resumed so that the engine is autonomously restored; and in the case where the engine self-restoration determination unit determines that the engine cannot autonomously be restored, the fuel supply by the fuel injection control unit is resumed, and based on an engine rotation speed detected by the engine rotation speed detection unit, a pinion gear rotation speed detected by the pinion gear rotation speed detection unit, and the result of determination by the engine self-restoration determination unit, there is performed the energization or de-energization of the pinion gear driving unit and the starter motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Ishikawa, Tomohisa Shoda
  • Publication number: 20130180835
    Abstract: This distributing device for absorbent articles is provided with a main conveyor path, a branch conveyor path that branches from the main conveyor path, a main conveyor path that conveys absorbent articles along the main conveyor path, a diverting mechanism that diverts absorbent articles in the main conveyor path from the main conveyor path to the branch conveyor path, and a branch conveyor mechanism that conveys the absorbent articles diverted by the diverting mechanism along the branch conveyor path. The diverting mechanism is provided with a diverting part for diverting the absorbent articles. The diverting part moves without stopping, entering the main conveyor path from a standby position outside the main conveyor path and then, after leaving the main conveyor path, returning to the standby position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Ishikawa, Miwa IIda
  • Publication number: 20130110382
    Abstract: The engine controller includes: an engine-rpm increase amount computing section for computing an amount of increase in an engine rpm, generated by first ignition of an engine after a restart condition is satisfied; a start failure determination crank-angle change amount determination value setting section for setting a restart failure determination threshold value based on the amount of increase in the engine rpm; and a restart failure determination section for determining a restart failure when a crank-angle change amount from a first ignition timing of the engine after the satisfaction of the restart condition becomes larger than the restart failure determination threshold value although a complete combustion of the engine is not determined, interrupting a restart operation of the engine, and restarting the restart operation of the engine after elapse of a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu ISHIKAWA, Takeru OKABE, Tomohisa SHODA, Hiroaki KITANO
  • Publication number: 20130017402
    Abstract: To provide a copolymer latex having a small particle size, which has a sufficient adhesion strength as a binder and a low viscosity and excellent handling properties in a composition containing a filler and the like, a composition for coating paper using the copolymer latex, and a coated paper having a coating layer formed by the composition. A copolymer latex contains a copolymer comprising: (A) 20 to 80% by mass of a structural unit derived from an aliphatic conjugated diene monomer, (B) 4 to 15% by mass of a structural unit derived from an unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer, and (C) 5 to 76% by mass of a structural unit derived from other copolymerizable monomer, wherein the total of (A), (B) and (C) being 100% by mass, and has a number average particle size of 30 to 80 nm by measurement with a transmission electron microscope, and has a viscosity of 50 to 400 mPa·s at a solid content of 48% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: JSR Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiko Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Sakata, Tsukasa Iwamoto, Nobuhiro Matsuda, Osamu Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8340876
    Abstract: In an automatic transmission controller, a gear shift control unit has a target rotational angle position calculator for calculating a target rotational angle position of a gear shift motor, an actual rotational angle position calculator for calculating the actual rotational angle position of the gear shift motor, and an F/B gain setting unit. When a gear shift instruction from a gear shift controller is a gear shift pattern for driving at least a select motor, the F/B gain is set to be larger that of the gear shift pattern in which the select motor is not driven, and also a motor driving mode and a motor braking mode are switched to each other in accordance with the difference between the target rotational angle position and the actual rotational angle position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Ishikawa, Takeru Okabe
  • Publication number: 20120290194
    Abstract: The automatic/stop restart device includes a restart control module for performing restart control for the internal combustion engine by pushing out a pinion gear (17) by a pinion-gear push-out device (18) to bring the pinion gear into meshing engagement with a ring gear (16) when the restart requirement is satisfied before the rotation of the internal combustion engine is stopped after an automatic stop requirement is satisfied. The pinion gear is pushed out when the restart requirement is satisfied when a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine is equal to or lower than a predetermined rotation speed. At the same time, a starter motor (19) is driven by a starter-motor waiting-time adjustment module for adjusting a driving waiting time for the starter motor (19) according to the rotation speed of the internal combustion engine obtained when the restart requirement is satisfied. In this manner, the restart is quickly performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohisa SHODA, Osamu ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20120271537
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine capable of controlling an intake-pipe pressure within a range which allows restartability to be ensured. A control device for an internal combustion engine includes: an idle-stop control section for restarting the engine in response to generation of a restart request; and an intake-air amount control section for setting a control amount of an intake system so that the intake air amount becomes zero when an intake-pipe pressure of the engine upon generation of the automatic stop request is higher than a predetermined pressure and setting the control amount of the intake system so that the intake air amount becomes larger than the amount upon generation of the automatic stop request, and then becomes zero when the intake-pipe pressure is lower than the predetermined pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru OKABE, Osamu ISHIKAWA, Tomohisa SHODA, Hideaki TANI, Toru TANAKA
  • Patent number: 8290693
    Abstract: An internal-combustion-engine automatic stop and restart system performs restarting control by making the pinion pushing unit push out the pinion gear so as to engage with the ring gear, when the restarting condition is satisfied in a time period from a time when the automatic stopping condition is satisfied to a time when the rotation of the internal combustion engine stops. A throttle valve control unit opens the throttle valve even when the restarting condition has not been satisfied and stops control of the throttle valve in a time period from when the rotation of the internal combustion engine stops to when the restarting condition is satisfied, when the rotation speed of the internal combustion engine becomes lower than a predetermined value in a time period from when the automatic stopping condition is satisfied to when the rotation of the internal combustion engine stops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohisa Shoda, Osamu Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8229635
    Abstract: A control device of a transmission is capable of instantaneously correcting a torque shortly after starting a motor, and properly correcting a gear operation shortly after starting (at transient time) even in case of coil temperature change. The device includes a gear change end determination unit, a motor stop determination unit, and a coil resistance estimation unit of estimating a coil resistance of the motor alternately by repeating at regular intervals a state of application of a predetermined voltage to the motor during stop before start of gear change and a state of no application; and when the motor is determined stop by the determination units, an initial value of a command voltage to be applied to the motor after start of gear change is corrected in a predetermined time period in accordance with a coil resistance value having been calculated by the coil resistance estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Horii, Shiro Yonezawa, Takeru Okabe, Osamu Ishikawa, Tomohisa Shoda, Nozomu Kamioka, Yasufumi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8219290
    Abstract: When a gear change has been decided, the coil resistance value of a motor which manipulates the transmission is measured. The coil temperature of the motor is estimated from the measured coil resistance value of the motor. In a case where the estimated coil temperature of the motor has been decided to be a predetermined temperature or above, the speed change inhibition time period of the transmission is calculated, and the speed change of the transmission is inhibited during the calculated speed change inhibition time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yasufumi Ogawa, Shiro Yonezawa, Takeru Okabe, Osamu Ishikawa, Tomohisa Shoda, Nozomu Kamioka, Masaki Horii
  • Patent number: 8204658
    Abstract: An automatic transmission control apparatus secures the safe operation of a motor drive through the use of a voltage determination unit that determines which one of a voltage detected by a control apparatus voltage detection unit and a voltage detected by a motor voltage detection unit is to be utilized as a duty reference voltage. The motor control apparatus controls the motor, based on a motor drive duty that a drive duty calculation unit calculates by use of the voltage selected by the voltage determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohisa Shoda, Shiro Yonezawa, Takeru Okabe, Osamu Ishikawa, Nozomu Kamioka, Masaki Horii, Yasufumi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20120109502
    Abstract: When an engine automatic stop judgment unit (101) judges that an engine automatic stop condition is satisfied so that a fuel injection control unit (105) stops fuel supply to an engine and an ignition control unit (106) stops ignition of the engine, and when an engine restart judgment unit (102) judges that an engine restart condition is satisfied before the engine stops, the pinion gear is driven to rotate. Then, engagement between the ring gear and the pinion gear is started when a deviation between an rpm of the engine detected by an engine rpm calculation unit (104) and an rpm of the pinion gear becomes smaller than a predetermined threshold value. Ignition by an ignition control unit (106) is inhibited during a period from start of the engagement until an engagement completion judgment unit (103) judges that the engagement is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu ISHIKAWA, Tomohisa SHODA
  • Patent number: 8113450
    Abstract: In a pulverization/dispersion processing system using a medium agitating type wet pulverization/dispersion machine, a system capable of judging the progress of pulverization/dispersion processing successively and objectively during the pulverization/dispersion processing is provided. A pulverization/dispersion processing system 10 including a medium agitating type wet pulverization/dispersion machine 20, a holding tank 40 of a material to be processed, a circulating pump 30, and circulating lines 50 connecting these components to each other is equipped with a particle size distribution measuring instrument and/or a zeta potential measuring instrument 60 in one of the circulating lines 50. These measuring instruments 60 perform measurement by means of an ultrasonic wave, and can use an ultrasonic attenuation method or an electronkinetic sonic amplitude method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Coke & Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Shiina, Osamu Ishikawa, Hiroaki Kezuka
  • Patent number: 8095283
    Abstract: A transmission control apparatus detects a drop in power transmission performance of a clutch actuator, and prevents a failure thereof. When power transmission performance drop detecting means detects a drop in power transmission performance of a first clutch even if a power transmission instruction is given to a first clutch actuator, power transmission in a power transmission path through a first geared transmission mechanism is inhibited, and power transmission in a power transmission path through a second geared transmission mechanism is carried out. When the power transmission performance drop detecting means detects a drop in power transmission performance of a second clutch even if the power transmission instruction is given to a second clutch actuator, power transmission in the power transmission path through the second geared transmission mechanism is inhibited, and power transmission in the power transmission path through the first geared transmission mechanism is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomu Kamioka, Shiro Yonezawa, Takeru Okabe, Tomohisa Shoda, Masaki Horii, Yasufumi Ogawa, Osamu Ishikawa