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).

  • Patent number: 11929771
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kaga, Toshihiro Nagayama, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yasunori Komukai, Shinichi Okada, Yasumichi Takai, Yoshinori Hiramatsu
  • Publication number: 20230273746
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro IDE, Shinichi HIRAMATSU, Masaru TSUKADA
  • Patent number: 11535906
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Yamashita, Shinichi Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 11358449
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Aisin Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 11345221
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Aisin Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 11052736
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinichi Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 10960742
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinichi Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 10899203
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinichi Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 10889166
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinichi Hiramatsu
  • Publication number: 20200385832
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu YAMASHITA, Shinichi HIRAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20200276893
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi HIRAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20200276892
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi HIRAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20200224286
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yu TAKANEZAWA, Tomohiro TAKAO, Hideki MANABE, Shinichi HIRAMATSU, Kensuke KOMORI
  • Publication number: 20190315204
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi HIRAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20190299761
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi HIRAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20190299762
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi HIRAMATSU
  • Patent number: 10427506
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Hiramatsu, Shinji Sakai
  • Patent number: 10427513
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Hiramatsu, Shinji Sakai
  • Publication number: 20190291549
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya MATSUI, Shinichi HIRAMATSU, Satoshi KONO
  • Publication number: 20190225059
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinichi HIRAMATSU