Patents by Inventor Shin Tanabe

Shin Tanabe 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).

  • Patent number: 8246776
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for manufacturing a crank for a bicycle by bonding structural members to each other with an adhesive comprising; a step for applying the adhesive in a line-like or dot-like form in correspondence with an intervention region of the adhesive; a step for disposing a fabric in correspondence with the intervention region of the adhesive; a step for expanding the adhesive applied in a line-like or dot-like form in the fabric; and a step for bonding the structural members to each other with the adhesive expanded in the fabric, and a crank for a bicycle manufactured by the method. When the crank for a bicycle is manufactured by bonding the structural members to each other with the adhesive, the adhesive can be applied easily at a high accuracy and a good repeatability, variations of application condition and amount of used adhesive can be suppressed, and variation in quality can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: Toray Industries, Inc., Shimano, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeo Iwasawa, Yukitane Kimoto, Shin Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20090165947
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for manufacturing a crank for a bicycle by bonding structural members to each other with an adhesive comprising; a step for applying the adhesive in a line-like or dot-like form in correspondence with an intervention region of the adhesive; a step for disposing a fabric in correspondence with the intervention region of the adhesive; a step for expanding the adhesive applied in a line-like or dot-like form in the fabric; and a step for bonding the structural members to each other with the adhesive expanded in the fabric, and a crank for a bicycle manufactured by the method. When the crank for a bicycle is manufactured by bonding the structural members to each other with the adhesive, the adhesive can be applied easily at a high accuracy and a good repeatability, variations of application condition and amount of used adhesive can be suppressed, and variation in quality can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Shigeo Iwasawa, Yukitane Kimoto, Shin Tanabe
  • Patent number: 6178631
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a metal member includes the steps of forming a metal body having a hollow core, wherein a side of the metal body defines a core opening exposing the hollow core; placing a filament through the core opening into the hollow core; closing the core opening around the filament; and heating the metal body so that the filament disintegrates to form a filament hole sufficient to allow gas within the hollow core to escape through the filament hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Shimano, Inc.
    Inventors: Shin Tanabe, Daisuke Sugimura
  • Patent number: 5533413
    Abstract: An equipment diagnosis system for diagnosing the functional state, the deterioration state, the remaining life time state, etc, of various equipment, and comprising an equipment state model portion for modelling the state of a diagnosis target equipment and for outputting information of the functional state, deterioration, remaining life time, etc, of the diagnosis target equipment on the basis of input information; stress information supply means for supplying the equipment stage model portion with appropriate information on stress which is applied to the diagnosis target equipment; comparison means for comparing information outputted from the equipment state model portion with information which is obtained on the basis of an actual maintenance result; and model correction means for correcting a parameter of the equipment state model portion on the basis of the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignees: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Kobayashi, Shin Tanabe, Tatsuo Fukuda, Masazumi Miyazawa, Hideki Imai, Moriyuki Wani