Patents by Inventor Ryo Hamada

Ryo Hamada 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: 20240123782
    Abstract: A suspension arm includes a main body. The main body includes a curved portion curved along a longitudinal direction and has a closed section. The main body includes an inner side wall, an outer side wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall. The inner side wall corresponds to an inner side of a curve of the curved portion. The outer side wall corresponds to an outer side of the curve of the curved portion. A thickness of the inner side wall is larger than a thickness of the outer side wall. In sectional view of the main body perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, each of a length of the first side wall and a length of the second side wall is longer than each of a length of the inner side wall and a length of the outer side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro OTSUKA, Masafumi AZUMA, Koichi HAMADA, Ryo TABATA, Ryo URUSHIBATA, Yuki KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20240100583
    Abstract: Provided is a burring processing method, which is a method for forming a buffing processed portion including a raised portion and a curved portion in a metal component having a pilot hole formed therein, the method being characterized by including: a preforming step of enlarging a diameter of the pilot hole, moving an edge portion of the pilot hole relative to the metal component in a first direction of a thickness direction of the metal component in a first range around the pilot hole of the metal component, and forming the whole first range into a preformed portion raised from the metal component in the first direction; and a main forming step of deforming the preformed portion in a second direction opposite to the first direction, forming a second range on an outer diameter side of the preformed portion to have the same height as the first range in the first direction, and forming part of a third range on an inner diameter side of the preformed portion from the second range to be part of the curved portion
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro OTSUKA, Masafumi AZUMA, Koichi HAMADA, Ryo TABATA, Ryo URUSHIBATA, Yuuki KITAHARA
  • Patent number: 11784445
    Abstract: A joint connector includes one or more connecting units, in which one of the connecting units includes: a plurality of conductors; and a housing that holds the plurality of conductors, the conductor includes: trunk portions each of which having first ends and second ends; and branch portions each of which diverging from the trunk portion, the branch portion includes an output terminal portions, the housing includes: a first coupling portion disposed on a side of the first end; and a second coupling portion disposed on a side of the second end, and the first coupling portion of one of the housings and the second coupling portion of another one of the housings are coupled each other, causing the first end of the conductor and the second end of another one of the conductors to be connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Hamada, Minoru Kubota
  • Patent number: 11721925
    Abstract: A terminal-equipped electric wire, a connector including the terminal-equipped electric wire and a manufacturing method of the connector are provided. The terminal-equipped electric wire includes an electric wire including a conductor core wire formed of a conductor material and a terminal formed of a composite metal material in which a plurality of types of metal materials are clad-bonded with each other. The terminal includes a first connection portion and a second connection portion, each of which is formed of a metal material of respective one of the plurality of types of metal materials. The conductor core wire is electrically connected to one of the first and second connection portions, the one corresponding to the conductor material forming the conductor core wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku Furuta, Ryo Hamada
  • Publication number: 20230071595
    Abstract: A joint connector includes one or more connecting units, in which one of the connecting units includes: a plurality of conductors; and a housing that holds the plurality of conductors, the conductor includes: trunk portions each of which having first ends and second ends; and branch portions each of which diverging from the trunk portion, the branch portion includes an output terminal portions, the housing includes: a first coupling portion disposed on a side of the first end; and a second coupling portion disposed on a side of the second end, and the first coupling portion of one of the housings and the second coupling portion of another one of the housings are coupled each other, causing the first end of the conductor and the second end of another one of the conductors to be connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo HAMADA, Minoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20230074499
    Abstract: A joint connector includes: busbars; and a housing, in which the busbar includes: output terminal portions extending in a first direction; main bodies extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and connecting the output terminal portions to each other; and input terminal portions connected to the main body, the output terminal portions include: distal end portions positioned at a distal end of the output terminal portions; and a proximal end portion connecting the distal end portions and the main bodies to each other, the housing holds the busbars in a state where the main bodies are arranged in parallel in the first direction and the distal end portions are arranged in parallel in the second direction on a same plane, and proximal end portions of one of the busbars respectively have crossing portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo HAMADA, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20220213601
    Abstract: A film-forming apparatus is connected to a carbon steel cleanup system pipe of a BWR plant. Formic acid and hydrogen peroxide are injected into the circulation pipe of the film-forming apparatus. An iron elution accelerator aqueous solution containing 3000 ppm of formic acid and 1500 ppm of hydrogen peroxide is brought into contact with the inner surface of the cleanup system pipe, and Fe2+ is eluted from the cleanup system pipe by formic acid, and hydroxyl radicals generated from hydrogen peroxide. The film-forming aqueous solution produced from the iron elution accelerator aqueous solution by injecting the nickel formate aqueous solution is brought into contact with the inner surface of the cleanup system pipe, and the Ni ions incorporated into the inner surface by the substitution reaction are reduced by the electrons generated at the time of elution of Fe2+ to form a Ni metal film on the inner surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Ryo HAMADA, Tsuyoshi ITO, Hideyuki HOSOKAWA, Nobuyuki OTA, Mayu SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220200187
    Abstract: A terminal-equipped electric wire, a connector including the terminal-equipped electric wire and a manufacturing method of the connector are provided. The terminal-equipped electric wire includes an electric wire including a conductor core wire formed of a conductor material and a terminal formed of a composite metal material in which a plurality of types of metal materials are clad-bonded with each other. The terminal includes a first connection portion and a second connection portion, each of which is formed of a metal material of respective one of the plurality of types of metal materials. The conductor core wire is electrically connected to one of the first and second connection portions, the one corresponding to the conductor material forming the conductor core wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Taku Furuta, Ryo Hamada
  • Publication number: 20220102019
    Abstract: A chemical decontamination method capable of improving the decontamination efficiency of chemical decontamination of a steam dryer in the RPV is provided. In particular, the decontamination method includes feeding a chemical decontamination aqueous solution into a reactor pressure vessel in which a steam dryer is arranged, and after chemical decontamination of the steam dryer, the water level of the chemical decontamination aqueous solution existing in the reactor pressure vessel is lowered to a first water level below the lower end of the steam dryer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Oohira, Shintaro Yanagisawa, Satoshi Oouchi, Nobuyuki Ota, Ryo Hamada, Hideyuki Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 11254194
    Abstract: A vehicle door structure includes an outer panel, an inner panel assembled to a vehicle width direction inner side surface of the outer panel so as to form a panel space with the outer panel, a cover assembled to the inner panel so as to close a service hole, which is a through hole formed in the inner panel in order to facilitate a work in the panel space, a control box assembled to the cover and configured to control input/output of electric power and/or control signal to/from at least one of electric components disposed on a vehicle door; and a door trim assembled to a vehicle width direction inner side surface of the inner panel so as to cover the cover and the control box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryo Hamada
  • Publication number: 20210296019
    Abstract: Provided are a chemical decontamination method and a chemical decontamination apparatus capable of preventing deterioration of a metal ion exchange resin and performing decontamination at a low cost in a short time. The chemical decontamination method of the invention includes: a reduction decontamination step of supplying a reduction decontamination solution to a decontamination target portion and performing reduction decontamination on a surface of a member constituting the decontamination target portion; a hydrogen peroxide decomposition step of decomposing hydrogen peroxide contained in the reduction decontamination solution after the reduction decontamination step; and a metal ion removing step of removing a metal ion contained in the reduction decontamination solution after the hydrogen peroxide decomposition step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi OOHIRA, Satoshi OOUCHI, Motohiro AIZAWA, Nobuyuki OTA, Hideyuki HOSOKAWA, Ryo HAMADA, Hiroo YOSHIKAWA, Naobumi TSUBOKAWA, Masahiko KAZAMA
  • Patent number: 11072514
    Abstract: A flat cable winding device includes: a base plate in which a central shaft for holding one end side of the flat cable is erected on the center of the upper surface; a rotation table disposed on an upper surface of the base plate and rotatably supported around the central shaft; a spiral spring for rotationally energizing the rotation table in the winding direction of the flat cable since the energizing member is interposed between the base plate and the rotation table; and a tubular wall body mounted on the base plate while the spiral spring and the rotation table are accommodated therein, wherein a rib is formed on an inner periphery wall surface of the tubular wall body for preventing the rotation table from popping out of the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryo Hamada
  • Publication number: 20210114441
    Abstract: A vehicle door structure includes an outer panel, an inner panel assembled to a vehicle width direction inner side surface of the outer panel so as to form a panel space with the outer panel, a cover assembled to the inner panel so as to close a service hole, which is a through hole formed in the inner panel in order to facilitate a work in the panel space, a control box assembled to the cover and configured to control input/output of electric power and/or control signal to/from at least one of electric components disposed on a vehicle door; and a door trim assembled to a vehicle width direction inner side surface of the inner panel so as to cover the cover and the control box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventor: Ryo Hamada
  • Patent number: 10630020
    Abstract: A cable connection structure includes a round cable, a flat cable, a holder holding an end portion of the round cable and an end portion of the flat cable and pulling out the round cable and the flat cable to overlap each other in a same direction, a connecting portion in which a core wire exposed from the end portion of the round cable and a conductor exposed from the end portion of the flat cable held by the holder are connected to each other, and a mold resin portion collectively covering the outer circumference of the holder and the outer circumference of the round cable and the flat cable pulled out from the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryo Hamada
  • Publication number: 20200055690
    Abstract: A flat cable winding device includes: a base plate in which a central shaft for holding one end side of the flat cable is erected on the center of the upper surface; a rotation table disposed on an upper surface of the base plate and rotatably supported around the central shaft; a spiral spring for rotationally energizing the rotation table in the winding direction of the flat cable since the energizing member is interposed between the base plate and the rotation table; and a tubular wall body mounted on the base plate while the spiral spring and the rotation table are accommodated therein, wherein a rib is formed on an inner periphery wall surface of the tubular wall body for preventing the rotation table from popping out of the base plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Ryo Hamada
  • Publication number: 20190382230
    Abstract: A flat cable winding device includes: a rotation ring positioning a plurality of rollers at an inner circumferential side of the rotation ring, rotating coaxially with a shaft portion formed in a case, and including a circumferential wall portion on which a flat cable wound from outside of the case is wound. The circumferential wall portion includes a notched portion through which the flat cable is routed between an outer circumference side and an inner circumference side of the circumferential wall portion and held. At least one of the plurality of rollers is an inverting roller winding the flat cable wound on the shaft portion and inverting the flat cable toward the notched portion as a rotation table rotates with the shaft portion as a central axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20190287700
    Abstract: A wire harness to be fixed to a surface of a sheet material in which a fiber material is exposed on the surface, the wire harness includes an electric wire and a molding body made of a thermoplastic material and provided integrally with the electric wire to be exposed on an outer surface of the electric wire. The molding body includes a fusion surface which fixes the electric wire to the surface of the sheet material through heating and fusing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventor: Ryo Hamada
  • Publication number: 20190280423
    Abstract: A cable connection structure includes a round cable, a flat cable, a holder holding an end portion of the round cable and an end portion of the flat cable and pulling out the round cable and the flat cable to overlap each other in a same direction, a connecting portion in which a core wire exposed from the end portion of the round cable and a conductor exposed from the end portion of the flat cable held by the holder are connected to each other, and a mold resin portion collectively covering the outer circumference of the holder and the outer circumference of the round cable and the flat cable pulled out from the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20190120789
    Abstract: A method for identifying a target biological molecule includes a step (a) of bringing a sample containing a biological molecule into contact with a plurality of beads on which a ligand capable of binding to one of a plurality of target biological molecules, and a nucleic acid for bead identification which has a specific sequence for each type of the ligand are immobilized; a step (b) of arranging the plurality of beads which have been brought into contact with the sample in each of individual reaction vessels for each bead; a step (c) of adding a reagent necessary for a nucleic acid elongation reaction to the reaction vessel in which the bead is arranged; a step (d) of performing the nucleic acid elongation reaction in the reaction vessel in which the bead is arranged; a step (e) of measuring an amount of protons generated in each of the reaction vessels during the nucleic acid elongation reaction; a step (f) of determining the occurrence or non-occurrence of nucleic acid elongation in each of the reaction ve
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Shuhei TANAKA, Ryo Hamada
  • Patent number: 10072995
    Abstract: A coke extrusion force estimation method includes: measuring irregularities on an inner wall surface of a carbonization chamber to acquire an oven wall profile; estimating an outer shape of a coke produced in the carbonization chamber based on the oven wall profile; defining an active state for a side surface position of the coke at which a coke width is smaller than an oven width and defining a passive state for a side surface position of the coke at which a coke width is larger than an oven width based on the oven wall profile and the estimated outer shape; and calculating oven wall friction force for each side surface position of the coke using a previously set apparent Young's modulus of the coke in accordance with definition of the active state or the passive state to estimate the extrusion force based on the oven wall friction force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Hamada, Shunichi Kamezaki, Takuya Akasaki