Patents by Inventor Shiro Hayashi
Shiro Hayashi 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: 11819901Abstract: A tool for a press brake includes a tool main body, an attachment portion formed on a base end side of the tool main body and configured to be detachably attached to a tool installation portion of the press brake by using a tool changer, and a bending portion formed on a distal end side of the tool main body and used to bend a plate-shaped workpiece. An engagement hole having a circular cross-sectional shape to be engaged with a bar-shaped finger of the tool changer extends through the tool main body in a thickness direction. An anti-rotation bottomed depressed portion configured to receive a distal end of an anti-rotation member of the tool changer is formed in a vicinity of the engagement hole.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Shiro Hayashi, Shingo Kamada, Hideto Yamada, Yohei Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11806774Abstract: A punch tool with an expanded portion, a movable punch provided on a fixed punch so as to be able to move up and down in a direction along an inclined portion, and an interlocking member configured to interlock with a relative ascending and descending motion of the movable punch with respect to the fixed punch. The punch tool with an expanded portion is provided with an operation member provided on the fixed punch so as to be movable in the lateral direction, configured to move in the lateral direction by means of a moving motion of an external operation member, and including an abutting element capable of being abutted with the interlocking member, and an urging member configured to urge the operation member toward the inside in the lateral direction such that the abutting element is abutted with the interlocking member.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.Inventors: Shiro Hayashi, Nobuo Oyamada, Yousuke Onagi
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Patent number: 11762035Abstract: An abnormality detection method according to one aspect of the present disclosure is a method of detecting an abnormality in an AC signal to be input from an AC power supply. The method includes, where an ideal AC signal is represented as V0 sin ?t (V0: amplitude, co: angular frequency, t: time), calculating an arithmetic value including a value represented by sin2?t+cos2?t and determining that the AC signal is abnormal when the arithmetic value is out of a threshold range.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignees: Tokyo Electron Limited, AVALDATA CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoya Bessho, Shiro Hayashi, Junichi Harada, Akitsugu Noguchi
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Publication number: 20230249117Abstract: Provided are a filter pack capable of suitably maintaining a space between pleats while suppressing an increase in pressure loss, and an air filter provided with the same. The filter pack includes a filter medium that collects fine particles in a gas and has multiple pairs of ventilation surfaces which are continuous and face each other through alternating folds due to pleating, and a space holding member that holds a space between each of the pairs of ventilation surfaces, and that is formed extending in a direction orthogonal to the fold on at least one of the pair of ventilation surfaces and has a base material layer and at least one space forming layer formed on the base material layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: NIPPON MUKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya SEKI, Shiro HAYASHI, Hitoshi NIINUMA
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Patent number: 11638947Abstract: A mold for a press brake includes an upper mold that is mountable on an upper table and a lower mold mountable on a lower table in a press brake. The upper mold and the lower mold vertically face each other and have respective pressurizing surfaces. The respective pressurizing surfaces are superposed with each other in a pressing direction so as to define a wedge shaped recess between the respective pressurizing surfaces. The respective pressurizing surfaces are configured to pressurize a workpiece positioned between the respective pressurizing surfaces. Further, one of the pressurizing surfaces is formed as a level surface and the other is formed as an inclined surface. The upper mold includes a V-shaped workpiece bending portion that can freely enter into a bending groove provided in the lower mold, and the respective pressurizing surfaces are positioned outside of the bending groove of the lower mold.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yingjun Jin, Takahiro Shibata, Shiro Hayashi, Shin Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20220401871Abstract: An air filter includes: a pleated filter material folded into a zig-zag form at folding lines along a first direction to have peak parts and valley parts arising alternately in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, trapping fine particles in a gaseous matter flowing in a gas flow direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction; a filter frame being a rectangular filter frame including one pair of first frame materials facing each other in the second direction having end parts in the first direction, and one pair of second frame materials facing each other in the first direction having end parts in the second direction, opening in the gas flow direction and housing the pleated filter material, each of the first frame materials and each of the second frame materials being combined to provide an overlap part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: NIPPON MUKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya SEKI, Shiro HAYASHI, Takeki YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20220390525Abstract: An abnormality detection method according to one aspect of the present disclosure is a method of detecting an abnormality in an AC signal to be input from an AC power supply. The method includes, where an ideal AC signal is represented as V0 sin ?t (V0: amplitude, co: angular frequency, t: time), calculating an arithmetic value including a value represented by sin2?t+cos2?t and determining that the AC signal is abnormal when the arithmetic value is out of a threshold range.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Tomoya BESSHO, Shiro HAYASHI, Junichi HARADA, Akitsugu NOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20220379361Abstract: A punch tool with an expanded portion, a movable punch provided on a fixed punch so as to be able to move up and down in a direction along an inclined portion, and an interlocking member configured to interlock with a relative ascending and descending motion of the movable punch with respect to the fixed punch. The punch tool with an expanded portion is provided with an operation member provided on the fixed punch so as to be movable in the lateral direction, configured to move in the lateral direction by means of a moving motion of an external operation member, and including an abutting element capable of being abutted with the interlocking member, and an urging member configured to urge the operation member toward the inside in the lateral direction such that the abutting element is abutted with the interlocking member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Shiro HAYASHI, Nobuo OYAMADA, Yousuke ONAGI
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Publication number: 20220226876Abstract: An attachment base extending in a left-right direction is provided on a lower end side of a front surface of an upper table of a press brake. On the attachment base, a plurality of protruding tabs protruding downward are formed at intervals in the left-right direction. An upper tool holder is disposed between the protruding tabs adjacent to each other in the left-right direction in the front surface of the attachment base. A connecting member is attached to a back surface of each protruding tab, and the connecting member includes a distal end located on a back side of the upper table. A guide member supporting a moving body movably in the left-right direction is coupled to a distal-end face of the connecting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Masaaki SATO, Shiro HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20210387128Abstract: A filter pack includes a pleated filter medium and spacing members that maintain a distance between adjacent mountain or valley folded portions of the filter medium. The filter medium includes pairs of extension portions that extend to both sides of folds of the filter medium and face each other when filter medium is folded. The plurality of spacing members include paired spacing members that are respectively provided on the extension portions so as to linearly extend in a direction that is orthogonal to the folds. The paired spacing members are in contact with each other when the filter medium is folded. Surfaces of the paired spacing members that come into contact with each other each include a flat surface that extends in a direction that is orthogonal to a direction in which the spacing members face each other when viewed along an extending direction of the spacing members.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2019Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Hirokazu IZUMIYA, Osamu KITAGAWA, Shiro HAYASHI
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Patent number: 11199184Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate compressor includes a displacement control valve that is configured to change crank chamber pressure, and an opening adjusting valve that adjusts an amount of refrigerant sucked into a suction chamber. The opening adjusting valve includes a valve case, a first valve element, a second valve element, and an urging spring. The valve case has a valve seat on which the second valve element is seated. The valve seat regulates movement of the second valve element toward the first valve element. A sealing member is provided between an inner peripheral surface of the valve case that defines a second valve chamber and an outer peripheral surface of the second valve element to prevent refrigerant in the second valve chamber so that leakage between a bleed passage and a control passage is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Noriaki Satake, Shinichi Kakegawa, Shuhei Sekinaga, Shiro Hayashi, Akinobu Kanai
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Publication number: 20210339303Abstract: A tool for a press brake includes a tool main body, an attachment portion formed on a base end side of the tool main body and configured to be detachably attached to a tool installation portion of the press brake by using a tool changer, and a bending portion formed on a distal end side of the tool main body and used to bend a plate-shaped workpiece. An engagement hole having a circular cross-sectional shape to be engaged with a bar-shaped finger of the tool changer extends through the tool main body in a thickness direction. An anti-rotation bottomed depressed portion configured to receive a distal end of an anti-rotation member of the tool changer is formed in a vicinity of the engagement hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Masaaki SATO, Shiro HAYASHI, Shingo KAMADA, Hideto YAMADA, Yohei YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210323046Abstract: A tool changer includes a slider provided behind (or in front of) a table of a press brake, and configured to slide in a right-left direction along a tool installation part of the table, a finger provided in the slider, and configured to be inserted into an engagement hole extending through a tool and to move in a front-rear direction, and an engagement member configured to be protruded and retracted relative to an outer peripheral surface of the finger on a tip side, and to be engaged with a peripheral edge portion of the engagement hole of the tool (or an inner stepped portion formed at an intermediate position of the engagement hole).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Masaaki SATO, Shiro HAYASHI, Shingo KAMADA, Hideto YAMADA, Yohei YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210291252Abstract: A tool for a press brake includes a tool main body, an attachment portion formed on a base end side (one end side) of the tool main body and configured to be detachably attached to a tool installation portion of the press brake by using a tool changer, and a bending portion formed on a tip side (the other end side) of the tool main body and used to bend a plate-shaped workpiece. At a correspondent position, in a lateral direction, in the tool main body to a gravity-center position (the gravity-center position of the tool), an engagement hole having a circular cross-sectional shape to be engaged with a bar-shaped finger of the tool changer extends in a thickness direction (a direction of a thickness of the tool).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Masaaki SATO, Shiro HAYASHI, Shingo KAMADA, Hideto YAMADA, Yohei YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210252578Abstract: In an installing method for installing divided upper tools to upper tool holders disposed to be spaced at an appropriate interval in a left-right direction in a lower portion of an upper table of a press brake, by using a tool changer, a round bar-shaped finger provided in the tool changer is engaged in a circular engagement hole provided at a central portion in the lateral direction of each divided upper tool. The divided upper tool is temporarily positioned in a gap between an upper tool holder to which the divided upper tool is to be installed, and an adjacent upper tool holder. The temporarily positioned divided upper tool is moved in the left-right direction to be installed to the upper tool holder to which the divided upper tool is to be installed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Masaaki SATO, Shiro HAYASHI, Shingo KAMADA, Hideto YAMADA, Yohei YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210252582Abstract: An upper tool stocker for detachably supporting a plurality of divided upper tools in a press brake includes a stocker main body extending in a left-right direction, and provided with a left-right directional installing groove, attachment portions provided in upper portions of the divided upper tools being detachably installed in the installing groove, wherein the stocker main body includes a front-back directional cutout communicated with the installing groove to remove the divided upper tools downward or in the front-back direction from the installing groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Masaaki SATO, Shiro HAYASHI, Shingo KAMADA, Hideto YAMADA, Yohei YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 10815980Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate type compressor includes a first and a second valve body, and a suction and a bleed window. An open degree of the suction window is minimized by the first valve body and an open degree of the bleed window is maximized by the second valve body when a suction pressure is lower than a predetermined suction pressure and a crank chamber pressure is higher than a control pressure. The open degree of the suction window is increased and the open degree of the bleed window is maximized when the suction pressure is higher than the predetermined suction pressure and the crank chamber pressure is higher than the control pressure. The open degree of the suction window and the open degree of the bleed window are decreased when the crank chamber pressure is lower than the control pressure.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Noriaki Satake, Shiro Hayashi, Akinobu Kanai, Kenji Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20200309106Abstract: A variable displacement swash plate compressor includes a displacement control valve that is configured to change crank chamber pressure, and an opening adjusting valve that adjusts an amount of refrigerant sucked into a suction chamber. The opening adjusting valve includes a valve case, a first valve element, a second valve element, and an urging spring. The valve case has a valve seat on which the second valve element is seated. The valve seat regulates movement of the second valve element toward the first valve element. A sealing member is provided between an inner peripheral surface of the valve case that defines a second valve chamber and an outer peripheral surface of the second valve element to prevent refrigerant in the second valve chamber so that leakage between a bleed passage and a control passage is prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Kenji YAMAMOTO, Noriaki SATAKE, Shinichi KAKEGAWA, Shuhei SEKINAGA, Shiro HAYASHI, Akinobu KANAI
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Publication number: 20200156135Abstract: A mold for a press brake includes an upper mold that is mountable on an upper table and a lower mold mountable on a lower table in a press brake. The upper mold and the lower mold vertically face each other and have respective pressurizing surfaces. The respective pressurizing surfaces are superposed with each other in a pressing direction so as to define a wedge shaped recess between the respective pressurizing surfaces. The respective pressurizing surfaces are configured to pressurize a workpiece positioned between the respective pressurizing surfaces. Further, one of the pressurizing surfaces is formed as a level surface and the other is formed as an inclined surface. The upper mold includes a V-shaped workpiece bending portion that can freely enter into a bending groove provided in the lower mold, and the respective pressurizing surfaces are positioned outside of the bending groove of the lower mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2020Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yingjun JIN, Takahiro SHIBATA, Shiro HAYASHI, Shin KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 10576522Abstract: To provide a mold for a press brake in which an ascending and descending member that is relatively pressed and lowered by an upper table in a press brake is provided vertically movably with respect to a mold base mountable on a lower table in the press brake, an upper surface of a workpiece supporting member provided in the mold base and a lower surface of a workpiece pressing member provided in the ascending and descending member vertically face each other, and the upper surface of the workpiece supporting member is inclined so that a front side thereof becomes relatively lower than the lower surface of the workpiece pressing member.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yingjun Jin, Takahiro Shibata, Shiro Hayashi, Shin Kobayashi