Patents by Inventor Ryuichi Inoue

Ryuichi Inoue 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: 20240096925
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a first semiconductor section including a first wiring layer at one side thereof, the first semiconductor section further including a photodiode, a second semiconductor section including a second wiring layer at one side thereof, the first and second semiconductor sections being secured together, a third semiconductor section including a third wiring layer at one side thereof, the second and the third semiconductor sections being secured together such the first semiconductor section, second semiconductor section, and the third semiconductor section are stacked together, and a first conductive material electrically connecting at least two of (i) the first wiring layer, (ii) the second wiring layer, and (iii) the third wiring layer such that the electrically connected wiring layers are in electrical communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku UMEBAYASHI, Keiji TATANI, Hajime INOUE, Ryuichi KANAMURA
  • Patent number: 11912124
    Abstract: A tractor includes: a vehicle body; an engine bonnet that forms an engine compartment; an engine disposed in the engine compartment; a first exhaust-gas cleaning device that is disposed in the engine compartment and purifies exhaust gas discharged by the engine; and a second exhaust-gas cleaning device that is disposed in the engine compartment and purifies the exhaust gas, the first exhaust-gas cleaning device being disposed above the engine such that a long side of the first exhaust-gas cleaning device is substantially parallel to a vehicle-body lateral width direction, the second exhaust-gas cleaning device being disposed behind the engine such that a long side of the second exhaust-gas cleaning device is substantially parallel to the vehicle-body lateral width orientation, and a maximum vertical length of the first exhaust-gas cleaning device is shorter than a maximum longitudinal length of the first exhaust-gas cleaning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tamaki, Kyota Inoue, Ryuichi Inoue, Masaru Shinya, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20230166699
    Abstract: A tractor includes: a vehicle body; an engine compartment; a driving unit that: is disposed behind the engine compartment, and includes: a brake pedal that includes: a support shaft; and a pedal arm portion; a master cylinder that is operated by the brake pedal and disposed further toward a vehicle-body back side than the support shaft; and a return spring that biases the brake pedal to swing back to a brake off position; and a partition that: is disposed further toward a vehicle-body front side than the brake pedal, and separates the engine compartment and the driving unit from each other, the return spring being engaged to the partition and to the pedal arm portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Takemoto, Satoshi Nagata, Masaru Shinya, Ryuichi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20230159109
    Abstract: A tractor includes: a vehicle body; an engine bonnet that forms an engine compartment; a first exhaust-gas cleaning device disposed above the engine in the engine compartment and purifies exhaust gas from the engine; and a second exhaust-gas cleaning device disposed behind the engine and purifies the exhaust gas from the engine, the engine compartment including: a back engine compartment portion in which the second exhaust-gas cleaning device is disposed, and a front engine compartment portion disposed further toward a vehicle-body front side than the back engine compartment portion, the engine bonnet including: a back bonnet that covers the back engine compartment portion, and a front bonnet that is configured as a separate body from the back bonnet and covers the front engine compartment portion, and the front bonnet being swingably supported to open and close.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Ryuichi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20230158884
    Abstract: A tractor includes: a vehicle body; an engine bonnet forming an engine compartment; an engine; a first exhaust-gas cleaning device that purifies an exhaust gas and is above the engine such that its long side is substantially parallel to a vehicle-body lateral width direction; a second exhaust-gas cleaning device that purifies the exhaust gas and is behind the engine such that its long side is substantially parallel to the lateral width direction; a vehicle body frame; and a supporting tool that is supported by the vehicle body frame, supports the first and second exhaust-gas cleaning devices, and includes a support column that extends upward from the vehicle body frame along a front portion of the second exhaust-gas cleaning device, and a support arm that extends forward from an upper portion of the support column along a lower portion of the first exhaust-gas cleaning device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Ryuichi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20230129702
    Abstract: A tractor includes: a vehicle body; an engine bonnet that forms an engine compartment; an engine disposed in the engine compartment; a first exhaust-gas cleaning device that is disposed in the engine compartment and purifies exhaust gas discharged by the engine; and a second exhaust-gas cleaning device that is disposed in the engine compartment and purifies the exhaust gas, the first exhaust-gas cleaning device being disposed above the engine such that a long side of the first exhaust-gas cleaning device is substantially parallel to a vehicle-body lateral width direction, the second exhaust-gas cleaning device being disposed behind the engine such that a long side of the second exhaust-gas cleaning device is substantially parallel to the vehicle-body lateral width orientation, and a maximum vertical length of the first exhaust-gas cleaning device is shorter than a maximum longitudinal length of the first exhaust-gas cleaning device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tamaki, Kyota Inoue, Ryuichi Inoue, Masaru Shinya, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20230118454
    Abstract: A tractor includes: a vehicle body; an engine disposed in an engine compartment; a radiator that is disposed, in the engine compartment, further toward a vehicle-body front side than the engine and cools the engine; an exhaust-gas cleaning device that purifies exhaust gas exhausted from the engine using a reducing agent; a reducing-agent tank that stores the reducing agent supplied to the exhaust-gas cleaning device; and a battery, the reducing-agent tank being disposed, in the engine compartment, side-by-side with the battery and further toward the vehicle-body front side than the radiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Tsuji, Hiroki Nakatsuka, Ryuichi Inoue
  • Patent number: 10207438
    Abstract: A composite member includes a metal sheet having a bent portion formed by bending, and a resin member joined to at least a part of the bent portion. The metal sheet includes an opening provided on an inner side of the bent portion, and a tapered recess that tapers off from an outer side of the bent portion toward the opening. The resin member includes an inner resin part filled in the recess, and an exposed resin part provided to be continuous with the inner resin part and to extend to an inner surface of the bent portion through an edge portion of the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Taisuke Tsubota, Ryuichi Inoue, Masatada Numano, Osamu Mizuno, Motoyoshi Tanaka, Nozomu Kawabe, Katsuyuki Aoki
  • Patent number: 10099728
    Abstract: A work vehicle has a cabin supported via an anti-vibration member to a bracket that extends to a vehicle body outer side from a vehicle body frame. The bracket mounts a weight member. The weight member is attached to a position in the bracket, said position being located outward of the anti-vibration member, with the weight member protruding to the vehicle body outer side from the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Shinohara, Yasunori Kobayashi, Yoshihisa Tahara, Ryuichi Inoue
  • Patent number: 9752220
    Abstract: There are provided a magnesium alloy coil stock having good flatness and a method for producing the magnesium alloy coil stock, and a magnesium alloy structural member that uses the coil stock and a method for producing the magnesium alloy structural member. The coil stock is obtained by coiling a sheet composed of a magnesium alloy in a cylindrical shape, and the internal diameter of the coil stock is 1000 mm or less. The coil stock can be produced by rolling a cast material obtained by subjecting a magnesium alloy to continuous casting, subjecting the rolled sheet to warm leveling, and coiling the worked sheet in a cylindrical shape while the temperature just before coiling is decreased to 100° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiko Kitamura, Ryuichi Inoue, Nobuyuki Mori, Yukihiro Oishi, Osamu Mizuno, Nozomu Kawabe
  • Patent number: 9598749
    Abstract: Provided are a rolled Mg alloy material whose mechanical properties are locally different in a width direction, a Mg alloy structural member produced by plastically working the rolled Mg alloy material, and a method for producing the rolled Mg alloy material. The method for producing a rolled Mg alloy material includes rolling a Mg alloy material with a reduction roll. The reduction roll has three or more regions in the width direction. The temperature is controlled in each of the regions so that a difference between a maximum temperature and a minimum temperature exceeds 10° C. in the width direction of a surface of the reduction roll. The rolled state in the width direction is varied by varying a difference in temperature over the width direction of the reduction roll. As a result, it is possible to produce a rolled Mg alloy material whose mechanical properties are locally different in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Oishi, Nobuyuki Mori, Ryuichi Inoue, Masaaki Fujii, Masahiko Ito, Nozomu Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20170036707
    Abstract: Disclosed is a work vehicle in which a cabin is supported via an anti-vibration member to a bracket that extends to a vehicle body outer side from a vehicle body frame. The bracket mounts a weight member. The weight member is attached to a position in the bracket which position is on more outer vehicle body side than the anti-vibration member, with the weight member protruding to the vehicle body outer side from the bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Makoto Shinohara, Yasunori Kobayashi, Yoshihisa Tahara, Ryuichi Inoue
  • Patent number: 9499887
    Abstract: The invention offers a magnesium alloy sheet having excellent warm plastic formability, a production method thereof, and a formed body produced by performing warm plastic forming on this sheet. The magnesium alloy sheet is produced by giving a predetermined strain to a rolled sheet RS that is not subjected to a heat treatment aiming at recrystallization. The sheet is not subjected to the foregoing heat treatment even after the giving of a strain. The strain is given through the process described below. A rolled sheet RS is heated in a heating furnace 10. The heated rolled sheet RS is passed between rollers 21 to give bending to the rolled sheet RS. The giving of a strain is performed such that the strain-given sheet has a half peak width of 0.20 deg or more and 0.59 deg or less in a (0004) diffraction peak in monochromatic X-ray diffraction. The alloy sheet exhibits high plastic deformability by forming continuous recrystallization during warm plastic forming through the use of the remaining strain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Inoue, Nozomu Kawabe, Nobuyuki Mori, Masatada Numano, Junichi Matsumoto, Motonori Nakamura, Masayuki Nishizawa, Atsushi Kimura, Yukihiro Oishi
  • Publication number: 20160207236
    Abstract: A composite member includes a metal sheet having a bent portion formed by bending, and a resin member joined to at least a part of the bent portion. The metal sheet includes an opening provided on an inner side of the bent portion, and a tapered recess that tapers off from an outer side of the bent portion toward the opening. The resin member includes an inner resin part filled in the recess, and an exposed resin part provided to be continuous with the inner resin part and to extend to an inner surface of the bent portion through an edge portion of the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Taisuke TSUBOTA, Ryuichi INOUE, Masatada NUMANO, Osamu MIZUNO, Motoyoshi TANAKA, Nozomu KAWABE, Katsuyuki AOKI
  • Patent number: 9222161
    Abstract: The magnesium alloy sheet disclosed herein has dispersed therein particles of an intermetallic compound containing an additive element (e.g., Al) and Mg (a typical example of which is Mg17Al12), and the ratio obtained by dividing the diffraction intensity of the main diffraction plane (4,1,1) of the intermetallic compound by the diffraction intensity of the c plane (0,0,2) of the Mg alloy phase in an XRD analysis of the surface of the sheet is 0.040 or more. The method includes: a casting step of producing a cast material composed of a magnesium alloy containing an additive element by continuous casting; a heat treatment step of holding the cast material at 400° C. or higher and then cooling the cast material at a cooling rate of 30° C/min or less to produce a heat-treated material; and a rolling step of subjecting the heat-treated material to warm rolling to produce a rolled sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Inoue, Kohji Inokuchi, Yukihiro Oishi, Nozomu Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20150152527
    Abstract: Provided are a magnesium alloy sheet having excellent formability in plastic forming, such as press forming, and a magnesium alloy structural member. The magnesium alloy sheet is obtained by subjecting a magnesium alloy to rolling and has a cross section parallel to the thickness direction of the magnesium alloy sheet, in which, when the length of the major axis and the length of the minor axis of each of crystal grains in the cross section are determined, an aspect ratio is defined as the ratio of the length of the major axis to the length of the minor axis (length of major axis/length of minor axis), and crystal grains having an aspect ratio of 3.85 or more are defined as elongated grains, the area fraction of the elongated grains in the cross section is 3% to 20%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Ryuichi Inoue, Takahiko Kitamura, Nobuyuki Mori, Yukihiro Oishi, Nozomu Kawabe, Motonori Nakamura, Mitsutaka Tsubokura, Hiroyuki Fujioka, Mari Sogabe
  • Publication number: 20150017057
    Abstract: The invention offers a magnesium alloy sheet having excellent warm plastic formability, a production method thereof, and a formed body produced by performing warm plastic forming on this sheet. The magnesium alloy sheet is produced by giving a predetermined strain to a rolled sheet RS that is not subjected to a heat treatment aiming at recrystallization. The sheet is not subjected to the foregoing heat treatment even after the giving of a strain. The strain is given through the process described below. A rolled sheet RS is heated in a heating furnace 10. The heated rolled sheet RS is passed between rollers 21 to give bending to the rolled sheet RS. The giving of a strain is performed such that the strain-given sheet has a half peak width of 0.20 deg or more and 0.59 deg or less in a (0004) diffraction peak in monochromatic X-ray diffraction. The alloy sheet exhibits high plastic deformability by forming continuous recrystallization during warm plastic forming through the use of the remaining strain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Ryuichi INOUE, Nozomu KAWABE, Nobuyuki MORI, Masatada NUMANO, Junichi MATSUMOTO, Motonori NAKAMURA, Masayuki NISHIZAWA, Atsushi KIMURA, Yukihiro OISHI
  • Patent number: 8852363
    Abstract: The invention offers a magnesium alloy sheet material having excellent plastic processibility and rigidity and a magnesium alloy formed body having excellent rigidity. The sheet material has magnesium alloy that forms the matrix containing hard particles. The region from the surface of the sheet material to a position away from the surface by 40% of the thickness of the sheet material is defined as the surface region, and the remaining region as the center region. Hard particles existing in the center region have a maximum diameter of more than 20 ?m and less than 50 ?m, and hard particles existing in the surface region have a maximum diameter of 20 ?m or less. Because the hard particles existing at the surface side are fine particles, they are less likely to become the starting point of cracking or another defect at the time of plastic processing. Because the hard particles existing in the center region are coarse, they can increase the rigidity of the sheet material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatada Numano, Nozomu Kawabe, Yukihiro Oishi, Nobuyuki Mori, Nobuyuki Okuda, Ryuichi Inoue
  • Patent number: 8828158
    Abstract: The invention offers a magnesium alloy sheet having excellent warm plastic formability, a production method thereof, and a formed body produced by performing warm plastic forming on this sheet. The magnesium alloy sheet is produced by giving a predetermined strain to a rolled sheet RS that is not subjected to a heat treatment aiming at recrystallization. The sheet is not subjected to the foregoing heat treatment even after the giving of a strain. The strain is given through the process described below. A rolled sheet RS is heated in a heating furnace 10. The heated rolled sheet RS is passed between rollers 21 to give bending to the rolled sheet RS. The giving of a strain is performed such that the strain-given sheet has a half peak width of 0.20 deg or more and 0.59 deg or less in a (0004) diffraction peak in monochromatic X-ray diffraction. The alloy sheet exhibits high plastic deformability by forming continuous recrystallization during warm plastic forming through the use of the remaining strain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Inoue, Nozomu Kawabe, Nobuyuki Mori, Masatada Numano, Junichi Matsumoto, Motonori Nakamura, Masayuki Nishizawa, Atsushi Kimura, Yukihiro Oishi
  • Patent number: 8820614
    Abstract: The method of producing a magnesium alloy joined part has the following steps: a joining step of joining a reinforcing material made of metal to a plate material made of magnesium alloy without allowing an organic material to remain at the joined portion and a plastic-working step of performing plastic working on the plate material to which the reinforcing material is joined. A desirable means of joining the reinforcing material to the plate material can be to use an inorganic adhesive. Because the magnesium alloy joined part is formed by a structure in which the reinforcing material is joined to the plate material, in comparison with the case where the reinforcing material is formed by machining or the like, the magnesium alloy structural member can be obtained with high production efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatada Numano, Ryuichi Inoue, Nobuyuki Okuda, Nozomu Kawabe, Koji Mori, Nobuyuki Mori, Yukihiro Oishi, Takahiko Kitamura