Patents by Inventor Seiji Kubo

Seiji Kubo 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: 20240140642
    Abstract: A packing member, a toner container, and a packing method. The packing member contains the toner container, and the packing member includes a box containing the toner container with a gap between one side of the box and a container body and between the one side of the box and a large-dimension portion of the toner container, a first pressing portion that presses the container body, and a second pressing portion that presses the large-dimension portion. In the packing member, the large-dimension portion of the toner container is disposed at one end of the container body, and the large-dimension portion has a wider dimension than the container body in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the toner container. In the packing member, the container body contacts, with first contact force, a first bearer inside the box to maintain the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Shuntaroh TAMAKI, Seiji TERAZAWA, Yosio SANO, Teruo SHIBATA, Tatsuya KUBO
  • Patent number: 11936311
    Abstract: To provide a controller for motor which can reduce a torque ripple up to high frequency, without amplifying unnecessary noise and vibration. A controller for motor estimates an interlinkage flux based on the applied voltage and the detection value of current; estimates an output torque based on the detection value of current and the estimation value of interlinkage flux; extracts a pulsation component from the estimation value of output torque; calculates a voltage command correction value based on the extraction value of pulsation component; calculates a voltage command after superimposing by superimposing the voltage command correction value on the voltage command basic value; and applies voltage to winding based on the voltage command after superimposing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Kezobo, Masahiko Orii, Tatsuya Mori, Seiji Sawada, Kenta Kubo
  • Patent number: 11732591
    Abstract: The film cooling structure includes a wall part extending forward and rearward, and a cooling hole including a tubular inner peripheral surface and inclined such that an outlet is positioned rearward of an inlet. The cooling hole includes a throat having a minimum cross section, and a diffuser part extending from the throat to the outlet. The diffuser part includes a channel cross section expanding rearward and along the wall part as it approaches the outlet. The inner peripheral surface of the cooling hole includes a flat portion extending in a direction perpendicular to the cooling hole and along the wall part at a front part of the inner peripheral surface, and a convex portion projecting from a rear part of the inner peripheral surface toward the flat portion, extending in parallel with the flat portion, and forming the throat between the flat portion and the convex portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Kubo, Hitoshi Hattori, Yoji Okita, Shu Fujimoto, Ryo Ikehara
  • Patent number: 11708762
    Abstract: The film cooling structure includes a wall part and a cooling hole inclined such that an outlet is positioned rearward of an inlet. The cooling hole includes a straight-tube part and a diffuser part. The diffuser part includes a flat surface, a curved surface curved rearward and forming, together with the flat surface, a semicircular or semi-elliptical channel cross section larger than that of the straight-tube part, a first section and a second section extending from the first section toward the outlet. In the first section, an area of the channel cross section increases as it approaches the outlet. In the second section, the area of the channel cross section increases as it approaches the outlet at an increase rate smaller than that of the first section or is constant. The diffuser part has a width equal to or twice greater than the depth of the diffuser part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Ikehara, Shu Fujimoto, Yoji Okita, Seiji Kubo, Hitoshi Hattori
  • Patent number: 11535396
    Abstract: A flying object control system includes a flying object, and a setting base that performs holding of the flying object and releasing the holding, the flying object and the setting base being communicable with each other. The flying object controls, upon receiving a takeoff instruction, thrust for taking off from a predetermined initial position, and when the thrust becomes greater than or equal to a first threshold, the flying object notifies the setting base of a start notification. Upon receiving the start notification, the setting base releases the holding of the flying object and notifies the flying object of a release completion notification. Upon receiving the release completion notification, the flying object takes off from the predetermined initial position by controlling the thrust in such a manner that the thrust becomes a second threshold smaller than the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Shimamoto, Seiji Kubo
  • Publication number: 20220034230
    Abstract: The film cooling structure includes a wall part and a cooling hole inclined such that an outlet is positioned rearward of an inlet. The cooling hole includes a straight-tube part and a diffuser part. The diffuser part includes a flat surface, a curved surface curved rearward and forming, together with the flat surface, a semicircular or semi-elliptical channel cross section larger than that of the straight-tube part, a first section and a second section extending from the first section toward the outlet. In the first section, an area of the channel cross section increases as it approaches the outlet. In the second section, the area of the channel cross section increases as it approaches the outlet at an increase rate smaller than that of the first section or is constant. The diffuser part has a width equal to or twice greater than the depth of the diffuser part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo IKEHARA, Shu FUJIMOTO, Yoji OKITA, Seiji KUBO, Hitoshi HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20220018261
    Abstract: The film cooling structure includes a wall part extending forward and rearward, and a cooling hole including a tubular inner peripheral surface and inclined such that an outlet is positioned rearward of an inlet. The cooling hole includes a throat having a minimum cross section, and a diffuser part extending from the throat to the outlet. The diffuser part includes a channel cross section expanding rearward and along the wall part as it approaches the outlet. The inner peripheral surface of the cooling hole includes a flat portion extending in a direction perpendicular to the cooling hole and along the wall part at a front part of the inner peripheral surface, and a convex portion projecting from a rear part of the inner peripheral surface toward the flat portion, extending in parallel with the flat portion, and forming the throat between the flat portion and the convex portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji KUBO, Hitoshi HATTORI, Yoji OKITA, Shu FUJIMOTO, Ryo IKEHARA
  • Publication number: 20200407078
    Abstract: A flying object control system includes a flying object, and a setting base that performs holding of the flying object and releasing the holding, the flying object and the setting base being communicable with each other. The flying object controls, upon receiving a takeoff instruction, thrust for taking off from a predetermined initial position, and when the thrust becomes greater than or equal to a first threshold, the flying object notifies the setting base of a start notification. Upon receiving the start notification, the setting base releases the holding of the flying object and notifies the flying object of a release completion notification. Upon receiving the release completion notification, the flying object takes off from the predetermined initial position by controlling the thrust in such a manner that the thrust becomes a second threshold smaller than the first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Takeshi SHIMAMOTO, Seiji KUBO
  • Patent number: 10060265
    Abstract: The cooling effectiveness of a turbine blade that a gas turbine engine or the like is provided with is further increased by providing a convex portion that is arranged in the inner portion of a cooling air hole and that is provided projecting out from the inner wall surface of the cooling air hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kozo Nita, Yoji Okita, Chiyuki Nakamata, Kazuo Yonekura, Seiji Kubo, Osamu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9759069
    Abstract: The present invention is a turbine blade (1) having a hollow blade body (2). This turbine blade (1) is provided with: cooling air holes (5) that penetrate the blade body (2) from an internal wall surface (2e) to an external wall surface (2f) thereof, and are provided with a straight tube portion (5a) that is located on the internal wall surface (2e) side of the blade body (2), and an expanded diameter portion (5b) that is located on the external wall surface (2f) side of the blade body (2); and with a guide groove (6) that is located on an internal wall of the expanded diameter portion (5b) and that guides cooling air (Y) in the expanded diameter portion (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kozo Nita, Yoji Okita, Chiyuki Nakamata, Kazuo Yonekura, Seiji Kubo, Osamu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9546553
    Abstract: The film cooling structure includes: a wall surface along which a heating medium flows; and at least one pair of film cooling holes that open at the wall surface and that blow a cooling medium. The pair of film cooling holes are arranged to be adjacent to each other in a main flow direction of the heating medium. In addition, perforation directions of the pair of film cooling holes are set such that directions of swirls of the cooling medium formed by blowing are opposite to each other, a swirl of the cooling medium on a downstream side in the main flow direction is mixed and merged with another swirl of the cooling medium on an upstream side in the main flow direction, and the merged cooling medium flows along the wall surface in a direction intersecting with the main flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoji Okita, Chiyuki Nakamata, Seiji Kubo, Osamu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9423935
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus operates according to manipulation by a user on a Graphical User Interface (GUI) screen. The terminal apparatus includes: a generator that generates the GUI screen, the GUI screen including an object selectable in the manipulation and a pointer for selecting the object; and a blur calculator that calculates a vertical blur amount and a horizontal blur amount of a position at which the pointer is displayed on the GUI screen. The generator changes the GUI screen in a vertical direction depending on the vertical blur amount, and changes the GUI screen in a horizontal direction depending on the horizontal blur amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Ebina, Yoshifumi Sakata, Seiji Kubo
  • Publication number: 20160034113
    Abstract: The display apparatus having a touch panel allows increased operability when performing a plurality of touch operations. The display apparatus having a touch panel includes: a display screen capable of displaying information in accordance with the touch operation, a first display region, a second display region, and a display controller. The first display region is displayed on the display screen, and displays the information in accordance with touch information acquired by an OS. The second display region is displayed on the display screen along with the first display region, and displays the information in accordance with the touch information acquired by a predetermined application without via the OS. The display controller performs a display such that the second display region does not overlap with the first display region on a periphery of the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Tomoo KIMURA, Kiyoshi NAKANISHI, Shinya KUSUHARA, Seiji KUBO, Takeshi SHIMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9132475
    Abstract: An object is to provide a mold molding method which can provide a high general-purpose property and can reduce a usage quantity of molding sand. In a method for molding a mold (sand mold) by self-hardening molding sand using a caking additive, the mold is molded by disposing hollow spheres each formed to have no clearance therein among molding sand mixed with the caking additive. Preferably, the hollow sphere may be formed by working two metal plates to semispherical shapes and then connecting the semispherical-shaped metal plates to each other by welding their respective whole peripheries. A specific gravity of the hollow sphere may be 0.5 to 2.0 times a specific gravity of the molding sand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignees: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD., NIKKO MEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tomigashi, Yoshikazu Itabashi, Seiji Kubo
  • Publication number: 20140294598
    Abstract: The cooling effectiveness of a turbine blade that a gas turbine engine or the like is provided with is further increased by providing a convex portion that is arranged in the inner portion of a cooling air hole and that is provided projecting out from the inner wall surface of the cooling air hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Kozo NITA, Yoji OKITA, Chiyuki NAKAMATA, Kazuo YONEKURA, Seiji KUBO, Osamu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20140271229
    Abstract: The present invention is a turbine blade (1) having a hollow blade body (2). This turbine blade (1) is provided with: cooling air holes (5) that penetrate the blade body (2) from an internal wall surface (2e) to an external wall surface (2f) thereof, and are provided with a straight tube portion (5a) that is located on the internal wall surface (2e) side of the blade body (2), and an expanded diameter portion (5b) that is located on the external wall surface (2f) side of the blade body (2); and with a guide groove (6) that is located on an internal wall of the expanded diameter portion (5b) and that guides cooling air (Y) in the expanded diameter portion (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Kozo NITA, Yoji OKITA, Chiyuki NAKAMATA, Kazuo YONEKURA, Seiji KUBO, Osamu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20140234121
    Abstract: The film cooling structure includes: a wall surface along which a heating medium flows; and at least one pair of film cooling holes that open at the wall surface and that blow a cooling medium. The pair of film cooling holes are arranged to be adjacent to each other in a main flow direction of the heating medium. In addition, perforation directions of the pair of film cooling holes are set such that directions of swirls of the cooling medium formed by blowing are opposite to each other, a swirl of the cooling medium on a downstream side in the main flow direction is mixed and merged with another swirl of the cooling medium on an upstream side in the main flow direction, and the merged cooling medium flows along the wall surface in a direction intersecting with the main flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yoji OKITA, Chiyuki NAKAMATA, Seiji KUBO, Osamu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20140210748
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus 10a according to the present disclosure includes: a touchscreen panel 14 on which video is displayed and which accepts an operation that has been performed by a user; a detector 21 which detects the operation that has been performed by the user on the touchscreen panel 14; and a processor 20 which performs processing in response to the operation. If the user has performed the operation using a polyhedron input interface device 10b which has a plurality of sides in mutually different shapes, the detector 21 detects the shape of an area in which the input interface device 10b is in contact with the touchscreen panel to determine which side of the polyhedron has been used to perform the operation, and the processor 20 carries out processing that is associated with the side that has been used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi NARITA, Kazunari FUJIWARA, Ryuji MIKI, Masami YOKOTA, Eric CHAN, Shigeru NATSUME, Silas WARREN, Simon ENEVER, Hao HUANG, Ryoichi YAGI, Kiyoshi NAKANISHI, Takeshi SHIMAMOTO, Seiji KUBO, Tomoo KIMURA, Hiromichi NISHIYAMA, Shogo MIKAMI
  • Patent number: 8619076
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display control apparatus includes: an output unit which outputs a stereoscopic image to a display device; an input accepting unit which accepts, from a user, input of a change instruction to change a state of the stereoscopic image displayed by the display device; a change amount prediction unit which predicts amounts of change in projection and recession of the stereoscopic image in unit time to be caused when the state of the stereoscopic image is changed in accordance with the change instruction accepted by the input accepting unit; and a display control unit which decreases a change speed of the state of the stereoscopic image to be outputted from the output unit when one of the amounts of change in projection and recession in unit time predicted by the change amount prediction unit exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Kubo, Akihiro Ebina
  • Patent number: 8525936
    Abstract: A communication apparatus (100) includes: a communication unit (10) connectable to one end of a cable (50); a first detection unit (111) which detects a maximum transmission capability of an external device based on a communication standard with which the external device complies, the external device being connected to an other end of the cable (50) connected to the communication unit (10); a second detection unit (112) which detects a maximum transmission capability of the cable (50) connected to the communication unit (10); and an alert output unit (114) which outputs an alert when the maximum transmission capability of the cable (50) is smaller than the maximum transmission capability of the external device, the maximum transmission capability of the cable having been detected by the second detection unit (112), and the maximum transmission capability of the external device having been detected by the first detection unit (111).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Kubo, Taku Matsuda, Yoshifumi Sakata