Patents by Inventor Ryo Matsuoka
Ryo Matsuoka 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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Publication number: 20240109555Abstract: An attention attracting system includes an attention attracting device that transmits, to a driver, a possibility of contact between a subject vehicle and an object and that includes a risk identification section identifying a risk position which is a position having a strong possibility of contact occurring between the subject vehicle and the object and a risk level which is a degree of the possibility of the contact occurring at the risk position, and a transmission section which transmits the risk position and the risk level to the driver, which provides a tactile stimulus or an auditory stimulus to the driver through a tactile HMI device or an auditory HMI device at a remarkableness level corresponding to height of the risk level, and which transmits, to the driver through a visual HMI device, visual information indicating a direction of the risk position viewed from the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Takahiro Matsuoka, Ryo Shimoe, Tsuyoshi Nojiri, Masayuki Sato
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Patent number: 11925141Abstract: A mower deck is disclosed. The mower deck includes a housing having a top wall, at least one blade rotated downwardly of the top wall and about a vertical shaft, and a blade baffle unit extending downwards from the top wall in such a manner as to surround an outer circumferential area of a rotational path of the blade to create therein a mulching blade rotation space, the blade baffle unit having a front baffle located on an advancing side of the traveling vehicle and a rear baffle located on a reversing side of the traveling vehicle. The front baffle extends downwards from the top wall to exceed the rotational path so as to prevent discharge of cut grass pieces via a lower end of the front baffle. The rear baffle extends downwards from the top wall by such an extent to allow discharge of the cut grass pieces.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Ryo Shimada, Yusaku Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20220145546Abstract: Proposed are the welding conditions under which welds are always stably formed such that the difference in hardness between flash-butt welds and rail base metal and the deflection in a bending test are in better ranges. A plurality of pieces of rail base metal are joined via welds formed by flash-butt welding, where the rail base metal has a chemical composition containing C: 0.60 to 1.20 mass %, Si: 0.10 to 1.50 mass %, Mn: 0.10 to 1.50 mass %, and Cr: 0.10 to 1.50 mass %, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and the flash-butt welding is performed with an amount of welding heat input of 1.50×105 kA2×sec or more and 4.50×105 kA2×sec or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki IIZUKA, Ryo MATSUOKA, Minoru HONJO, Shigeo OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11049982Abstract: A solar cell element includes a semiconductor substrate, a passivation layer located on the semiconductor substrate, a protective layer located on the passivation layer, and a first electrode located on the protective layer. The protective layer includes at least one void located from a first lower surface of the first electrode close to the semiconductor substrate up to a first upper surface of the passivation layer close to the first lower surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Takanobu Yoshida, Ryo Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20180366594Abstract: A solar cell element includes a semiconductor substrate, a passivation layer located on the semiconductor substrate, a protective layer located on the passivation layer, and a first electrode located on the protective layer. The protective layer includes at least one void located from a first lower surface of the first electrode close to the semiconductor substrate up to a first upper surface of the passivation layer close to the first lower surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Takanobu Yoshida, Ryo Matsuoka
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Patent number: 10100380Abstract: A rail cooling device configured to forcibly cool a rail by jetting a coolant includes a porous plate nozzle including a plurality of nozzle holes configured to jet the coolant to an underside of the base of the rail to cool the underside of the base of the rail. Ends in a width direction of the porous plate nozzle correspond to ends of the underside of the base of the rail. Nozzle holes of the porous plate nozzle at the ends of the width direction are smaller than nozzle holes of the porous plate nozzle at a central part in the width direction, and a maximum value of a distance between centers of the nozzle holes at both ends in the width direction is 30% or more of a width of the underside of the base.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2018Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Matsuoka, Makoto Nakaseko, Rinya Kojo, Tomoo Horita, Hideki Takahashi, Yoshikazu Yoshida, Tatsumi Kimura, Mineyasu Takemasa, Yuzuru Kataoka
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Publication number: 20180251866Abstract: A rail cooling device configured to forcibly cool a rail by jetting a coolant includes a porous plate nozzle including a plurality of nozzle holes configured to jet the coolant to an underside of the base of the rail to cool the underside of the base of the rail. Ends in a width direction of the porous plate nozzle correspond to ends of the underside of the base of the rail. Nozzle holes of the porous plate nozzle at the ends of the width direction are smaller than nozzle holes of the porous plate nozzle at a central part in the width direction, and a maximum value of a distance between centers of the nozzle holes at both ends in the width direction is 30% or more of a width of the underside of the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo MATSUOKA, Makoto NAKASEKO, Rinya KOJO, Tomoo HORITA, Hideki TAKAHASHI, Yoshikazu YOSHIDA, Tatsumi KIMURA, Mineyasu TAKEMASA, Yuzuru KATAOKA
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Patent number: 9988696Abstract: A rail cooling method for forcibly cooling a rail by jetting a coolant includes jetting the coolant to a foot back part of the rail from a porous plate nozzle in which a nozzle hole at an end in a width direction is smaller than a nozzle hole at a central part in the width direction and causes a cooling capacity for the end in the width direction of the underside of the base of the rail to be lower than a cooling capacity for the central part in the width direction of the underside of the base of the rail.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2013Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Matsuoka, Makoto Nakaseko, Rinya Kojo, Tomoo Horita, Hideki Takahashi, Yoshikazu Yoshida, Tatsumi Kimura, Mineyasu Takemasa, Yuzuru Kataoka
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Publication number: 20170294548Abstract: An insulating paste includes a siloxane resin and an organic solvent. The siloxane resin includes a phenyl group and an alkyl group expressed by a general formula CnH2n+1, in which n is a natural number. The number of alkyl groups is greater than the number of phenyl groups in the siloxane resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2017Publication date: October 12, 2017Inventors: Jumpei SATO, Ryo MATSUOKA, Shinya ISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 9593393Abstract: A rail heat treatment device includes a cooling header, an oscillation mechanism, and a control system including: a storage unit that stores therein at least information required for a oscillation control; and a control unit that obtains a permissible range of required cooling time for a rail that satisfies a permissible range of hardness of the rail based on a correlation expression representing a correlation between the cooling time for the rail with the cooling header and the hardness of the rail after cooling, controls a stroke and a speed of relative reciprocation of the rail and the cooling header based on the permissible range of the required cooling time, and causes the oscillation mechanism to perform the relative reciprocation of the rail and the cooling header by the stroke and at the speed.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshikazu Yoshida, Hideki Takahashi, Rinya Kojo, Ryo Matsuoka, Yuzuru Kataoka, Tomoo Horita
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Patent number: 9429374Abstract: A rail cooling method includes: calculating, based on a relation between temperatures and an amount of warp of the rail cooled to ambient temperature after the forced cooling, the temperatures including a cooling start temperature of the head, a cooling end temperature of the head, a cooling start temperature of the foot and a cooling end temperature of the foot, a target value or a target value range for each of the temperatures so that the amount of warp of the rail at ambient temperature falls within a permissive range; and setting a cooling condition in accordance with the target value or the target value range to perform the forced cooling on the head and the foot.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Rinya Kojo, Hiroyuki Fukuda, Yuta Tamura, Yoshikazu Yoshida, Hideki Takahashi, Ryo Matsuoka, Yuzuru Kataoka
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Publication number: 20150152516Abstract: A pearlite rail contains, by % by mass, 0.70 to 1.0% C, 0.1 to 1.5% Si, 0.01 to 1.5% Mn, 0.001 to 0.035% P, 0.0005 to 0.030% S, and 0.1 to 2.0% Cr by mass with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a ?+? temperature range is 100° C. or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2012Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Tatsumi Kimura, Minoru Honjo, Shinji Mitao, Mineyasu Takemasa, Ryo Matsuoka, Yuzuru Kataoka
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Publication number: 20150082611Abstract: A rail restraining method for restraining a hot-rolled rail in an upright position at a time of forced cooling of a head portion and a foot portion of the rail includes defining a predetermined position within 2 meters from each of both end faces of the rail along a longitudinal direction of the rail as a first restraining position, defining a predetermined position 3 to 10 meters from the first restraining position in a direction toward center of the rail along the longitudinal direction of the rail as a second restraining position at the time of forced cooling, and restraining displacement of the rail in a vertical direction at the first restraining position and the second restraining position by a restraining force F (kN) that satisfies following Expression (1): F?100/L2??(1) where L2 (m) is a distance between the first restraining position and the second restraining position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Rinya Kojo, Kenji Okushiro, Yuzuru Kataoka, Yoshikazu Yoshida, Hideki Takahashi, Ryo Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20150027599Abstract: A rail cooling method for forcibly cooling a rail by jetting a coolant includes jetting the coolant to a foot back part of the rail from a porous plate nozzle in which a nozzle hole at an end in a width direction is smaller than a nozzle hole at a central part in the width direction and causes a cooling capacity for the end in the width direction of the underside of the base of the rail to be lower than a cooling capacity for the central part in the width direction of the underside of the base of the rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Inventors: Ryo Matsuoka, Makoto Nakaseko, Rinya Kojo, Tomoo Horita, Hideki Takahashi, Yoshikazu Yoshida, Tatsumi Kimura, Mineyasu Takemasa, Yuzuru Kataoka
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Publication number: 20150021836Abstract: A rail heat treatment device includes a cooling header, an oscillation mechanism, and a control system including: a storage unit that stores therein at least information required for a oscillation control; and a control unit that obtains a permissible range of required cooling time for a rail that satisfies a permissible range of hardness of the rail based on a correlation expression representing a correlation between the cooling time for the rail with the cooling header and the hardness of the rail after cooling, controls a stroke and a speed of relative reciprocation of the rail and the cooling header based on the permissible range of the required cooling time, and causes the oscillation mechanism to perform the relative reciprocation of the rail and the cooling header by the stroke and at the speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshikazu Yoshida, Hideki Takahashi, Rinya Kojo, Ryo Matsuoka, Yuzuru Kataoka, Tomoo Horita
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Publication number: 20140360715Abstract: A rail cooling method includes: calculating, based on a relation between temperatures and an amount of warp of the rail cooled to ambient temperature after the forced cooling, the temperatures including a cooling start temperature of the head, a cooling end temperature of the head, a cooling start temperature of the foot and a cooling end temperature of the foot, a target value or a target value range for each of the temperatures so that the amount of warp of the rail at ambient temperature falls within a permissive range; and setting a cooling condition in accordance with the target value or the target value range to perform the forced cooling on the head and the foot.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Rinya Kojo, Hiroyuki Fukuda, Yuta Tamura, Yoshikazu Yoshida, Hideki Takahashi, Ryo Matsuoka, Yuzuru Kataoka
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Publication number: 20130153014Abstract: A photoelectric converter is disclosed. The photoelectric converter includes an electrode layer and a semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer is on the electrode layer. The semiconductor layer contains a chalcopyrite compound semiconductor. The semiconductor layer comprises a plurality of sub-layers. The plurality of sub-layers comprises a first sub-layer. The first sub-layer is located closest to the electrode layer. The first sub-layer has a first thickness smaller than an average thickness of the rest of the plurality of sub-layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Matsuoka, Manabu Kyuzo, Nobuyuki Horiuchi, Rui Kamada, Daisuke Toyota, Yoshihide Okawa