Patents by Inventor Shinichi Hiramatsu
Shinichi Hiramatsu 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: 11929771Abstract: A transmission system includes: an antenna; a control device including an RF circuit which transmits a first signal for controlling a radio wave to be outputted from the antenna and an external power supply which supplies direct current to the antenna; and a first transmission path which connects the antenna and the control device, and is used in transmission of the first signal and supplying of the direct current to the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Kaga, Toshihiro Nagayama, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yasunori Komukai, Shinichi Okada, Yasumichi Takai, Yoshinori Hiramatsu
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Publication number: 20230273746Abstract: A storage system comprises a plurality of controllers and a plurality of drives, is coupled to a host via a plurality of physical paths, provides the host with a volume including storage areas of the plurality of drives. One controller out of the plurality of controllers sets, to any one of the plurality of controllers, ownership which is a right to control IO to and from the volume; and notifies, to the host, one of the plurality of physical paths that is coupled to one of the plurality of controllers to which the ownership is set, as a priority path for transmitting an IO request.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro IDE, Shinichi HIRAMATSU, Masaru TSUKADA
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Patent number: 11535906Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method that ensures easily manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece having excellent soft magnetic properties. The method is a method for manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece obtained by crystallizing an amorphous alloy ribbon piece and including: increasing a temperature of the amorphous alloy ribbon piece to a crystallization starting temperature; and increasing the temperature of the amorphous alloy ribbon piece from the crystallization starting temperature to a crystallization process termination temperature equal to or less than a crystallization completion temperature.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu Yamashita, Shinichi Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 11358449Abstract: A front link shifts, based on power transmitted from a first guide shaft of a front shoe, among a full-close corresponding position that allows a movable panel to be arranged in a full-close position, a front-up corresponding position that allows the movable panel to be arranged in a front-up position, and a full-open corresponding position that allows the movable panel to be arranged in a full-open position. The front shoe check restricts power of the drive shoe from transmitting to the front shoe, when the drive shoe causes a rear link to shift between a collapsed position and a standing position.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Aisin CorporationInventor: Shinichi Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 11345221Abstract: A shade device includes: guide rails extending in parallel to each other in a first direction as one direction; a winding shaft extending in a second direction as a direction orthogonal to the first direction on one end side of both of the guide rails in the first direction; a light-shielding sheet having one end portion coupled to the winding shaft; a rod extending in the second direction and coupled to the other end portion of the light-shielding sheet; sliding members attached to both of the end portions of the rod in a longitudinal direction and slidably supported by both of the guide rails; and guide members are attached to both of the end portions of the rod in the longitudinal direction, slidably supported by both of the guide rails, and fixed in a state where both of the side edges of the light-shielding sheet are folded.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Aisin CorporationInventor: Shinichi Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 11052736Abstract: A front link of a sunroof apparatus shifts, based on power transmitted from a first guide shaft of a front shoe, among a full-close corresponding position that allows a movable panel to be arranged in a full-close position, a front-up corresponding position that allows the movable panel to be arranged in a front-up position and a full-open corresponding position that allows the movable panel to be arranged in a full-open position. In a side view from a width direction of the front link, a first guide groove, through which the first guide shaft is inserted, extends so as to intersect with a line segment connecting a front connection shaft and a front support shaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shinichi Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 10960742Abstract: A manufacturing method of a sunroof apparatus includes a panel drive unit including a first guide rail arranged at each end portion of a roof opening portion, a panel support member configured to displace a movable panel to open and close the roof opening portion in accordance with a movement of a first moving portion, and a shade unit including a second guide rail arranged inward relative to the first guide rail in the vehicle width direction. The first guide rail and the second guide rail are separately provided. The manufacturing method of the sunroof apparatus includes a first process connecting the movable panel to the panel support member, and a second process connecting the first guide rail and the second guide rail to the movable panel after the first process.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shinichi Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 10899203Abstract: A sunroof apparatus includes a link including a first guide surface configured to slide with a first guide shaft in a case where a shoe moves in a first direction and a second guide surface configured to slide with a second guide shaft, the link rotating between a standing position and an inclination position in a state of supporting a movable panel, the standing position where the movable panel is arranged at a tilt-up position, a inclination position where the movable panel is arranged at a tilt-down position. In a case where the link is arranged between a first position and a middle position, a first distance is longer than a second distance. In a case where the link is arranged between a second position and the middle position, the second distance is longer than the first distance.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shinichi Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 10889166Abstract: A roll shade device includes: a fixed shaft fixed to a roof of a vehicle and extending in a vehicle width direction; a flexible rotation shaft into which the fixed shaft is inserted; a light shielding sheet whose first terminal end portion is fixed to the rotation shaft, and which is in an unfolded state where light passing through a light transmitting portion provided to the roof is blocked or is in a winding state where light is allowed to pass; and a torsion spring which is accommodated between the fixed shaft and the rotation shaft, and which biases the rotation shaft in a rotation direction in which the light shielding sheet is wound so that twist of the rotation shaft becomes symmetrical in the vehicle width direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shinichi Hiramatsu
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Publication number: 20200385832Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method that ensures easily manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece having excellent soft magnetic properties. The method is a method for manufacturing an alloy ribbon piece obtained by crystallizing an amorphous alloy ribbon piece and including: increasing a temperature of the amorphous alloy ribbon piece to a crystallization starting temperature; and increasing the temperature of the amorphous alloy ribbon piece from the crystallization starting temperature to a crystallization process termination temperature equal to or less than a crystallization completion temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Osamu YAMASHITA, Shinichi HIRAMATSU
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Publication number: 20200276893Abstract: A front link of a sunroof apparatus shifts, based on power transmitted from a first guide shaft of a front shoe, among a full-close corresponding position that allows a movable panel to be arranged in a full-close position, a front-up corresponding position that allows the movable panel to be arranged in a front-up position and a full-open corresponding position that allows the movable panel to be arranged in a full-open position. In a side view from a width direction of the front link, a first guide groove, through which the first guide shaft is inserted, extends so as to intersect with a line segment connecting a front connection shaft and a front support shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinichi HIRAMATSU
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Publication number: 20200276892Abstract: A front link shifts, based on power transmitted from a first guide shaft of a front shoe, among a full-close corresponding position that allows a movable panel to be arranged in a full-close position, a front-up corresponding position that allows the movable panel to be arranged in a front-up position, and a full-open corresponding position that allows the movable panel to be arranged in a full-open position. The front shoe check restricts power of the drive shoe from transmitting to the front shoe, when the drive shoe causes a rear link to shift between a collapsed position and a standing position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinichi HIRAMATSU
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Publication number: 20200224286Abstract: After an first heat treatment step, an ambient temperature of a stack is held so that the stack is kept in a temperature range that allows the stack to be crystallized by heating the end of the stack to a second temperature range in the second heat treatment step; and a following expression (1) is satisfied, where Q1 represents an amount of heat required to heat the stack to the first temperature range in the first heat treatment step, Q2 represents an amount of heat that is applied to the stack when heating the end of the stack to the second temperature range in the second heat treatment step, Q3 represents an amount of heat that is released during crystallization of the stack, and Q4 represents an amount of heat required to heat the entire stack to the crystallization start temperature Q1+Q2+Q3?Q4??(1).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Yu TAKANEZAWA, Tomohiro TAKAO, Hideki MANABE, Shinichi HIRAMATSU, Kensuke KOMORI
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Publication number: 20190315204Abstract: A shade device includes: guide rails extending in parallel to each other in a first direction as one direction; a winding shaft extending in a second direction as a direction orthogonal to the first direction on one end side of both of the guide rails in the first direction; a light-shielding sheet having one end portion coupled to the winding shaft; a rod extending in the second direction and coupled to the other end portion of the light-shielding sheet; sliding members attached to both of the end portions of the rod in a longitudinal direction and slidably supported by both of the guide rails; and guide members are attached to both of the end portions of the rod in the longitudinal direction, slidably supported by both of the guide rails, and fixed in a state where both of the side edges of the light-shielding sheet are folded.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinichi HIRAMATSU
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Publication number: 20190299761Abstract: A manufacturing method of a sunroof apparatus includes a panel drive unit including a first guide rail arranged at each end portion of a roof opening portion, a panel support member configured to displace a movable panel to open and close the roof opening portion in accordance with a movement of a first moving portion, and a shade unit including a second guide rail arranged inward relative to the first guide rail in the vehicle width direction. The first guide rail and the second guide rail are separately provided. The manufacturing method of the sunroof apparatus includes a first process connecting the movable panel to the panel support member, and a second process connecting the first guide rail and the second guide rail to the movable panel after the first process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinichi HIRAMATSU
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Publication number: 20190299762Abstract: A sunroof apparatus includes a link including a first guide surface configured to slide with a first guide shaft in a case where a shoe moves in a first direction and a second guide surface configured to slide with a second guide shaft, the link rotating between a standing position and an inclination position in a state of supporting a movable panel, the standing position where the movable panel is arranged at a tilt-up position, a inclination position where the movable panel is arranged at a tilt-down position. In a case where the link is arranged between a first position and a middle position, a first distance is longer than a second distance. In a case where the link is arranged between a second position and the middle position, the second distance is longer than the first distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinichi HIRAMATSU
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Patent number: 10427506Abstract: A sunroof device includes support members, which are attached to a movable panel, sliding members, which are slidable along guide rails, movable members, rotating bodies, two front-side rack gears, and two rear-side rack gears. Each movable member is fixed to one of the sliding members and supported by the corresponding one of the support members to be movable. Front and rear-side rotating bodies are respectively supported by front and rear portions of the movable panel. The front-side rack gears are coupled to the front-side rotating body such that the distances from the center of the movable panel to the front ends of the two movable members are equal. The rear-side rack gears are coupled to the rear-side rotating body such that distances from the center of the movable panel to the rear ends of the two movable members are equal.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichi Hiramatsu, Shinji Sakai
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Patent number: 10427513Abstract: A sunroof device includes a sunroof unit, a looped first seal, and a second seal. The sunroof unit supports a panel capable of closing an opening of a roof of a vehicle. The sunroof unit includes a frame provided with two guide rails placed on two edges of the opening in a vehicle widthwise direction and two housings placed on two edges of the opening in a vehicle front-to-rear direction to connect front ends of the two guide rails to each other and rear ends of the two guide rails to each other in the vehicle widthwise direction. The first seal is arranged between an entire periphery of the opening and the frame. The second seal is arranged between opposing surfaces of the guide rails and the housings at portions where the guide rails are coupled to the housings. The second seal is butt against the first seal.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichi Hiramatsu, Shinji Sakai
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Publication number: 20190291549Abstract: A sunroof apparatus includes a movable panel including a panel body, a reinforcing member, and a joining layer joining the panel body and the reinforcing member, and an opening and closing mechanism including a connection member connected to the reinforcing member and a drive portion, the reinforcing member including a first flange, a second flange to define a housing groove relative to the first flange, a first extending portion, and a second extending portion, the connection member being connected to at least one of the first extending portion and the second extending portion in a state of being housed in a housing void formed between the first extending portion and the second extending portion, the movable panel including a shielding member covering the housing groove and including a thickness smaller than a thickness of the first flange and the second flange.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuya MATSUI, Shinichi HIRAMATSU, Satoshi KONO
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Publication number: 20190225059Abstract: A manufacturing method of a roller shade device including a fixed shaft, a winding cylinder which has flexibility, and within which the fixed shaft is inserted to be positioned so as to be rotatable therewith, a shade sheet, and a torsion spring applying a rotary force to the winding cylinder includes a process of inhibiting an axial end portion of the winding cylinder from rotating relative to the fixed shaft in a state where the torsion spring applies the rotary force to the winding cylinder, the axial end portion being away in an axial direction from a position where the torsion spring is connected to the winding cylinder, and a process of bonding the shade sheet to the winding cylinder in a state where the axial end portion is inhibited from rotating.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinichi HIRAMATSU