Patents by Inventor Shigeru Takahashi
Shigeru Takahashi 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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Patent number: 8093859Abstract: A charging system has a battery pack and a charging device. The battery pack has a battery cell and a plurality of identifiers that identify a configuration of the battery cell. The charging device has a charging unit, a signal transmission unit, a reading unit, and a control unit. The charging unit charges the battery pack. The signal transmission unit transmits a first signal and a second signal to the battery pack separately to read the plurality of identifiers when the battery pack is attached to the charging unit. The reading unit reads the plurality of identifiers according to the first and second signals to determine the configuration of the battery cell. The control unit controls the charging unit according to the configuration of the battery cell.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takao Aradachi, Kazuhiko Funabashi, Shigeru Takahashi
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Patent number: 8052868Abstract: A fuel filter device includes a bag-shaped filter member and is adapted to be attached to communicate an inner space of the filter member with a fuel suction opening in a fuel tank. The filter member is configured in a multilayer structure. At least one layer of the filter member is configured to serve as an inhibition layer having a structure to prevent water in a fuel tank form coming into the inner space of the filter member by a pressure applied to the filter member when the water is frozen.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2008Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Nifco Inc.Inventors: Hiroji Sato, Yasushi Ueki, Shigeru Takahashi, Takaya Ogawa
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Publication number: 20110120580Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid channel device capable of easily opening the liquid channel from the closed mode, including a base plate in which a liquid channel, through which a liquid containing at least one of a sample and a reagent, flows, and a metering chamber for holding the liquid, are formed to at least one side thereof, the metering chamber has a liquid transport section for transporting the liquid inside the chamber downstream, and this liquid transport section is operated by means of external pressing on a cover plate in the area opposite the metering chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: FUJIKURA KASEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeru Takahashi, Masaaki Sakurai, Jiro Wakamatsu
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Publication number: 20100147161Abstract: In a food transfer heat treatment apparatus using a spiral transfer belt, heat treatment gas blowing means and a heat treatment gas circulating method for enhancing the heat transfer efficiency between a heat treatment gas and food and for improving the heat treatment effect are realized to expand the degree of freedom for the layout of the apparatus and to simplify the assembly. Provided is a spiral transfer heat treatment apparatus comprising endless conveyer belts (2) for circulating the food (f) in a store room (1), and a spiral moving unit (3) for causing a heat treatment gas (c) to act on the food (f) while transferring the food (f) on the conveyer belts (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2009Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicant: MAYEKAWA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki ONOZATO, Hideki MIYANISHI, Norio ISHIWATA, Shigeru TAKAHASHI, Akira TANIYAMA, Takahiro ARAI, Akira SEKINO
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Patent number: 7719146Abstract: A power tool 1 includes a cylindrical-shaped yoke 31, magnets 32 provided in the interior of the yoke 31, an armature 41 disposed rotatably in the interior of the yoke 31, a cooling fan 7 rotatably secured to the armature 41, a fan guide 8 disposed on the periphery of the cooling fan 7, and a cylindrical-shaped housing 2 for storing the yoke 31 therein. The fan guide 8 is contacted with the axial-direction one end face of the yoke 31, and the fan guide 8 is engaged with the yoke 31 in the rotation direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2007Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Takahashi, Naoki Tadokoro, Takuma Saito
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Publication number: 20090189562Abstract: A charging system has a battery pack and a charging device. The battery pack has a battery cell and a plurality of identifiers that identify a configuration of the battery cell. The charging device has a charging unit, a signal transmission unit, a reading unit, and a control unit. The charging unit charges the battery pack. The signal transmission unit transmits a first signal and a second signal to the battery pack separately to read the plurality of identifiers when the battery pack is attached to the charging unit. The reading unit reads the plurality of identifiers according to the first and second signals to determine the configuration of the battery cell. The control unit controls the charging unit according to the configuration of the battery cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2009Publication date: July 30, 2009Inventors: Takao Aradachi, Kazuhiko Funabashi, Shigeru Takahashi
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Publication number: 20080185331Abstract: A fuel filter device includes a bag-shaped filter member and is adapted to be attached to communicate an inner space of the filter member with a fuel suction opening in a fuel tank. The filter member is configured in a multilayer structure. At least one layer of the filter member is configured to serve as an inhibition layer having a structure to prevent water in a fuel tank form coming into the inner space of the filter member by a pressure applied to the filter member when the water is frozen.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2008Publication date: August 7, 2008Applicant: NIFCO INC.Inventors: Hiroji Sato, Yasushi Ueki, Shigeru Takahashi, Takaya Ogawa
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Publication number: 20070182269Abstract: A power tool 1 includes a cylindrical-shaped yoke 31, magnets 32 provided in the interior of the yoke 31, an armature 41 disposed rotatably in the interior of the yoke 31, a cooling fan 7 rotatably secured to the armature 41, a fan guide 8 disposed on the periphery of the cooling fan 7, and a cylindrical-shaped housing 2 for storing the yoke 31 therein. The fan guide 8 is contacted with the axial-direction one end face of the yoke 31, and the fan guide 8 is engaged with the yoke 31 in the rotation direction thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2007Publication date: August 9, 2007Inventors: Shigeru Takahashi, Naoki Tadokoro, Takuma Saito
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Patent number: 7037025Abstract: An attaching structure attaches a part to a band, and includes a clip for attaching the part to the band. The clip includes a clip main member, which has a lower portion and an upper portion with a gap corresponding to a cross section of a portion of the band where the clip is attached for sandwiching the portion of the band where the clip is attached, and a part engaging portion formed below the clip main member for engaging the part.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2003Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: Nifco Inc.Inventors: Shigeru Takahashi, Chiaki Kataoka, Toru Tanaka
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Publication number: 20050269884Abstract: A shielding member is provided to cover the outer wall of the armature on a line segment connecting the inner wall at the front end of a magnet to the edge of a vent. The shielding member is ring-shaped and configured by a disk-shaped base section, a hole section formed at the center of the base portion, through which the armature can be passed, and a cylindrical section which extends forward from the base section. The shielding member is provided on the front of the yoke so that it is located apart from the magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2005Publication date: December 8, 2005Applicant: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Teranishi, Shigeru Takahashi
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Publication number: 20040105723Abstract: An attaching structure attaches a part to a band, and includes a clip for attaching the part to the band. The clip includes a clip main member, which has a lower portion and an upper portion with a gap corresponding to a cross section of a portion of the band where the clip is attached for sandwiching the portion of the band where the clip is attached, and a part engaging portion formed below the clip main member for engaging the part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2003Publication date: June 3, 2004Applicant: NIFCO INC.Inventors: Shigeru Takahashi, Chiaki Kataoka, Toru Tanaka
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Patent number: 6662683Abstract: A damper is provided having an assist grip into which the damper is built. The damper includes a housing having an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder which disposed concentrically with each other and an annular space formed between the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder containing a viscous fluid; a cylindrical rotor accommodated in the housing and which receives a damping action from the viscous fluid; a ring-shaped sealing member for preventing viscous fluid leakage; and an annular cap provided independently of the rotor and mounted to the housing, and which retains the rotor and the sealing member in the housing. Another damper is provided that includes a housing which has an annular space containing a viscous fluid, the cylindrical rotor the annular cap, a ring-shaped first sealing member disposed between the rotor and the cap, and another ring-shaped second sealing member disposed between the rotor and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2002Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: NIFCO Inc.Inventors: Shigeru Takahashi, Naoto Jinbo
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Patent number: 6630616Abstract: Flowering regulating genes of plants and methods for controlling plant flowering are provided. The flowering time can be modified in comparison with wild type plants by enhancing or inhibiting the expression of the flowering regulating gene. Transgenic plants in which the expression of the flowering regulating gene is regulated is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1999Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Nobumasa Yoshida, Yukihiro Yanai, Yoshihiro Kato, Junzo Hiratsuka, Shigeru Takahashi, Tatsushi Miwa
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Patent number: 6501012Abstract: A musical apparatus which controls a variety of parameters of musical tones by detecting motion of an object in a space adjacent to the musical apparatus. More specifically, the musical apparatus may comprise a musical tone signal generator which generates a musical tone signal, at least one light source which radiates light beams into a space adjacent to the musical apparatus, at least one light detector which detects at least two light beams reflected from an object in the space and generates a detection value for each of said at least two light beams, a computing element which receives the detection values and generates a synthesized value; and a controller which controls parameters of musical tones based on the synthesized value. For example, the synthesized value may be the sum of the detection values, the difference between the detection values, the ratio between the detection values, or some other relationship between the detection values.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2000Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: Roland CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Toba, Shigeru Takahashi
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Patent number: 6489550Abstract: A musical apparatus which outputs music under the control of various musical control instructions where the desired musical control instructions are reliably determined by the movement of an object in an operation space, and where the musical control instructions are varied by changing the state of motion of the object in space. The musical apparatus performs musical control instructions whose contents are based on the state of motion of an object in motion within a specified operation space.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2000Date of Patent: December 3, 2002Assignee: Roland CorporationInventors: Shigeru Takahashi, Akira Matsui
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Patent number: 6279356Abstract: A warp-knitted fabric comprising a dark-colored base weave and an insertion weave of a lighter color than the base weave, wherein the base weave has formed therein mesh-like gaps with a maximum length of 0.5-15 mm which are present at 5-200 per square inch. The knitted fabric exhibits coloring effects such as enhanced luster and an iridescent effect, just as if interference colors were being expressed.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Teijin LimitedInventors: Shigeru Takahashi, Fumio Hirota
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Patent number: 6194648Abstract: Embodiments of the instant invention include a plurality of first operators which, together with the assignment of each of the musical tones being possible, designate the start of reproduction of the musical tones that have been assigned in accordance with their operation and a first control means with which any of the first operators are selected from among the plurality of the first operators and together with the cancellation of the assignment to the first operators that have been selected of the musical tones that had previously been assigned to the selected first operators, the musical tones themselves that had previously been assigned to the selected first operators or the pointers that indicate the musical tones that had previously been assigned to the selected first operators are stored and a second control means in which the musical tones themselves or the pointers that indicate the musical tones which have been stored in the first control means and any of the first operators from among the pluralityType: GrantFiled: January 27, 1999Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: Roland CorporationInventors: Shigeru Takahashi, Hiromu Katayama
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Patent number: 6175074Abstract: A musical apparatus which outputs music under the control of various musical control instructions where the desired musical control instructions are reliably determined by the movement of an object in an operation space, and where the musical control instructions are varied by changing the state of motion of the object in space. The musical apparatus performs musical control instructions whose contents are based on the state of motion of an object in motion within a specified operation space.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1999Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: Roland Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigeru Takahashi, Akira Matsui
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Patent number: D474445Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2001Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Assignee: Hiatchi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Matsuoka, Yoshio Iimura, Shigeru Takahashi
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Patent number: D607814Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2008Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hitoshi Tsuzuki, Kenichi Yamada, Takeshi Taniguchi, Hiroyuki Hanawa, Shigeru Takahashi