Patents by Inventor Shohei Masuda

Shohei Masuda 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).

  • Publication number: 20240128030
    Abstract: In a lithium-ion capacitor, the positive electrode includes a positive current collector and a positive electrode mixture layer. The positive electrode mixture layer contains a positive electrode active material. An electrostatic capacity of the positive current collector is less than or equal to 20 ?F/cm2. The negative electrode includes a negative current collector and a negative electrode mixture layer. The negative electrode mixture layer contains a negative electrode active material. The electrolyte contains a first lithium salt and a second lithium salt. The first lithium salt is a lithium salt of a fluorine-containing inorganic acid, and the second lithium salt is a lithium salt of a fluorine-containing acid imide. A proportion of a molar concentration of the first lithium salt in a total molar concentration of the first lithium salt and the second lithium salt in the electrolyte is more than 0% and less than or equal to 35%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: SHOHEI MASUDA, KENICHI NAGAMITSU, NAO MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20230292667
    Abstract: A mower (1) comprising: a blade (9) that mows grass; a power generation unit (5) that generates a driving force for rotating the blade (9); a housing (7) that covers the blade (9); and a milling unit (10) that subdivides grass mowed by the blade and discharged from the housing (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru Kawaguchi, Shohei Masuda, Takuya Mito, Kenichi Toya, Sei Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230292659
    Abstract: A work machine includes a power source, a rotation shaft that is rotated by power of the power source, a cutter blade that is rotated by the rotation shaft to cut a plant on the ground, and a housing that houses the cutter blade and has an opening through which the cutter blade is exposed to the ground. The housing has a charging port through which an object to be cut is charged to the cutter blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Takuya MITO, Sei WATANABE, Noboru KAWAGUCHI, Kenichi TOYA, Shohei MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20230268487
    Abstract: A negative electrode for an electrochemical device includes a negative electrode core material and a negative electrode material layer supported on the negative electrode core material. The negative electrode material layer contains a carbon material. A surface layer portion of the negative electrode material layer includes a first layer containing lithium carbonate and a second layer containing a solid electrolyte. At least a portion of the second layer covers at least a portion of the surface of the carbon material with the first layer interposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAMURA, Shohei MASUDA, Yasuyuki ITO
  • Publication number: 20230223206
    Abstract: An electrochemical device includes a positive electrode that includes an active layer containing a polyaniline compound. An infrared absorption spectrum of the active layer has a first peak, a second peak, a third peak, and a fourth peak that are derived from the polyaniline compound. The first peak appears at a wave number in a range from 1,100 cm?1 to 1,200 cm?1, inclusive. The second peak appears at a wave number in a range of more than 1,200 cm?1 and less than or equal to 1,400 cm?1. The third peak appears at a wave number in a range from 1,450 cm?1 to 1,550 cm?1, inclusive. And the fourth peak appears at a wave number in a range of more than 1,550 cm?1 and less than or equal to 1,650 cm?1. In a discharged state, a ratio ID3/ID0 of a height ID3 of the third peak to a total ID0 of heights of the first peak, the second peak, the third peak, and the fourth peak ranges from 0.18 to 1.42, inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: HIROKI HAYASHI, NAO MATSUMURA, HIDEKI SHIMAMOTO, SHOHEI MASUDA, HIDEO SAKATA, HIROYUKI MAESHIMA
  • Patent number: 10087791
    Abstract: A valve opening/closing timing control apparatus includes: a driving side rotational body synchronously rotating with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven side rotational body arranged in the driving side rotational body to share a rotational axis therewith and integrally rotating with a camshaft; advanced angle and retarded angle chambers defined between the driving side and driven side rotational bodies; a lock mechanism maintaining a relative rotational phase between the driving side and driven side rotational bodies by separately biasing first and second lock members to be engaged with first and second recesses; and a fluid controller releasing the locked state by supplying a hydraulic fluid to the first and second recesses, and controlling the relative rotational phase by supplying and discharging the hydraulic fluid to the advanced angle and retarded angle chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Shohei Masuda
  • Patent number: 9765654
    Abstract: A valve opening/closing timing control device includes a driving rotating body that rotates in synchronization with a crankshaft, a driven rotating body that rotates integrally with a camshaft, a phase detection mechanism that detects the relative rotation phase of the driving rotating body and the driven rotating body, a retarding chamber and an advancing chamber between the driving rotating body and the driven rotating body, a lock mechanism capable of constraining the relative rotation phase to a lock phase, a supply/discharge mechanism that supplies/discharges working fluid to/from the advancing chamber, the retarding chamber, and the lock mechanism, and a control unit that controls operation of the supply/discharge mechanism. At startup of the engine, if the detected relative rotation phase is not at the lock phase, the control unit controls the supply/discharge mechanism so as to stop successive supply of working fluid to the retarding and advancing chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Shohei Masuda, Kazuo Ueda
  • Publication number: 20170159511
    Abstract: A valve opening/closing timing control apparatus includes: a driving side rotational body synchronously rotating with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven side rotational body arranged in the driving side rotational body to share a rotational axis therewith and integrally rotating with a camshaft; advanced angle and retarded angle chambers defined between the driving side and driven side rotational bodies; a lock mechanism maintaining a relative rotational phase between the driving side and driven side rotational bodies by separately biasing first and second lock members to be engaged with first and second recesses; and a fluid controller releasing the locked state by supplying a hydraulic fluid to the first and second recesses, and controlling the relative rotational phase by supplying and discharging the hydraulic fluid to the advanced angle and retarded angle chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki KOBAYASHI, Shohei MASUDA
  • Patent number: 9562447
    Abstract: A valve timing control device includes: a driving side rotating body rotating in synchronization with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine (E); a driven side rotating body rotating integrally with a camshaft of the internal combustion engine and capable of rotating relative to the driving side rotating body; a fluid pressure chamber formed by the driving side rotating body and the driven side rotating body; a partition portion arranged in the fluid pressure chamber and partitioned into a retard chamber and an advance chamber an intermediate lock mechanism including a concave portion a lock member; and a phase control unit controlling the supply of a fluid to the retard chamber and the discharge of the fluid from the advance chamber or the supply of the fluid to the advance chamber and the discharge of the fluid from the retard chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Sakata, Masaki Kobayashi, Kazuo Ueda, Shohei Masuda
  • Publication number: 20160024980
    Abstract: A valve timing control device includes: a driving side rotating body rotating in synchronization with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine(E); a driven side rotating body rotating integrally with a camshaft of the internal combustion engine and capable of rotating relative to the driving side rotating body; a fluid pressure chamber formed by the driving side rotating body and the driven side rotating body; a partition portion arranged in the fluid pressure chamber and partitioned into a retard chamber and an advance chamber an intermediate lock mechanism including a concave portion a lock member; and a phase control unit controlling the supply of a fluid to the retard chamber and the discharge of the fluid from the advance chamber or the supply of the fluid to the advance chamber and the discharge of the fluid from the retard chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi SAKATA, Masaki KOBAYASHI, Kazuo UEDA, Shohei MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20150377086
    Abstract: A valve opening/closing timing control device includes a driving rotating body that rotates in synchronization with a crankshaft, a driven rotating body that rotates integrally with a camshaft, a phase detection mechanism that detects the relative rotation phase of the driving rotating body and the driven rotating body, a retarding chamber and an advancing chamber between the driving rotating body and the driven rotating body, a lock mechanism capable of constraining the relative rotation phase to a lock phase, a supply/discharge mechanism that supplies/discharges working fluid to/from the advancing chamber, the retarding chamber, and the lock mechanism, and a control unit that controls operation of the supply/discharge mechanism. At startup of the engine, if the detected relative rotation phase is not at the lock phase, the control unit controls the supply/discharge mechanism so as to stop successive supply of working fluid to the retarding and advancing chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki KOBAYASHI, Shohei MASUDA, Kazuo UEDA
  • Patent number: 8991348
    Abstract: A valve timing control apparatus includes a driving-side rotation member, a driven-side rotation member, a first lock mechanism selectively achieving a first lock state in which a relative rotation phase of the driven-side rotation member relative to the driving-side rotation member is locked at an intermediate lock phase and a first lock release state, and a second lock mechanism selectively achieving a second lock state in which the relative rotation phase is locked at one of a most advanced angle phase and a most retarded angle phase and a second lock release state, the driven-side rotation member being rotatable relative to the driving-side rotation member by a first clearance angle in the first lock state, the driven-side rotation member being rotatable relative to the driving-side rotation member by a second clearance angle in the second lock state, the second clearance angle being smaller than the first clearance angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kawai, Shohei Masuda, Masaki Kobayashi, Kazuo Ueda, Hideomi Iyanaga
  • Patent number: 8967102
    Abstract: Provided is a valve timing control device, including a drive side rotating member, a driven side rotating member, and a locking mechanism, in which the locking mechanism includes a regulating body, and n stepped portions with which the regulating body engages, the relative rotation phase is regulated in steps from a most retarded phase or most advanced phase until reaching the lock phase, and the positional relationship between the stepped portions and regulating body is set so that, among relative rotations of from a first relative rotation of from the most retarded phase or most advanced phase to a first relative rotation phase regulated by a first stepped portion to a last relative rotation to a last relative rotation, a first predetermined relative rotation other than the last relative rotation is the smallest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Kenji Nonaka, Shohei Masuda
  • Publication number: 20140251248
    Abstract: A valve timing control apparatus includes a driving-side rotation member, a driven-side rotation member, and a lock mechanism including a recess portion, a lock member engageable and disengageable relative to the recess portion, and a biasing member. The recess portion includes a lock groove portion with which the lock member is configured to engage to lock a relative rotation phase at a lock phase, and a restriction groove portion. The lock groove portion includes a lock bottom surface and the restriction groove portion includes a restriction bottom surface. A second depth from an opening position of the recess portion to the restriction bottom surface is smaller than a first depth from the opening position to the lock bottom surface. The second depth from the opening position to the restriction bottom surface is smaller than a third depth from the restriction bottom surface to the lock bottom surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KAWAI, Shohei Masuda, Masaki Kobayashi, Kazuo Ueda, Hideomi Iyanaga
  • Publication number: 20140251245
    Abstract: A valve timing control apparatus includes a driving-side rotation member, a driven-side rotation member, a first lock mechanism selectively achieving a first lock state in which a relative rotation phase of the driven-side rotation member relative to the driving-side rotation member is locked at an intermediate lock phase and a first lock release state, and a second lock mechanism selectively achieving a second lock state in which the relative rotation phase is locked at one of a most advanced angle phase and a most retarded angle phase and a second lock release state, the driven-side rotation member being rotatable relative to the driving-side rotation member by a first clearance angle in the first lock state, the driven-side rotation member being rotatable relative to the driving-side rotation member by a second clearance angle in the second lock state, the second clearance angle being smaller than the first clearance angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KAWAI, Shohei Masuda, Masaki Kobayashi, Kazuo Ueda, Hideomi Iyanaga
  • Patent number: 8820278
    Abstract: A valve timing control apparatus includes a driving-side rotary body, a driven-side rotary body, a fluid pressure chamber partitioned into a retard angle chamber and an advance angle chamber by a partitioning portion provided in at least one of the driving-side rotary body and the driven-side rotary body, a fluid control mechanism for controlling feeding of working fluid from a working fluid pump for feeding the working fluid to the fluid pressure chamber and controlling also discharging of the working fluid from the fluid pressure chamber, a first lock mechanism capable of restraining a relative rotational phase to a first predetermined phase between a most retarded angle phase and a most advanced angle phase, and a second lock mechanism capable of restraining the relative rotational phase to a second predetermined phase different from the first predetermined phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Kazunari Adachi, Mitsuru Uozaki, Kenji Fujiwaki, Shohei Masuda
  • Publication number: 20140033999
    Abstract: Provided is a valve timing control device, including a drive side rotating member, a driven side rotating member, and a locking mechanism, in which the locking mechanism includes a regulating body, and n stepped portions with which the regulating body engages, the relative rotation phase is regulated in steps from a most retarded phase or most advanced phase until reaching the lock phase, and the positional relationship between the stepped portions and regulating body is set so that, among relative rotations of from a first relative rotation of from the most retarded phase or most advanced phase to a first relative rotation phase regulated by a first stepped portion to a last relative rotation to a last relative rotation, a first predetermined relative rotation other than the last relative rotation is the smallest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Masaki KOBAYASHI, Kenji Nonaka, Shohei Masuda
  • Patent number: 8522734
    Abstract: A valve timing control device includes: a driving side rotational member; a driven side rotational member; a fluid pressure chamber; a partition portion; a lock member; a lock groove; and a lock release, wherein the lock release passage is in communication with the lock groove, and the rotational member formed with the accommodation portion is provided with an atmosphere open passage which is in communication with the lock groove when the relative rotational phase is at a specific phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Adachi, Masaki Kobayashi, Kenji Fujiwaki, Mitsuru Uozaki, Kenji Ikeda, Shohei Masuda
  • Publication number: 20120152190
    Abstract: A valve timing control apparatus includes a driving-side rotary body, a driven-side rotary body, a fluid pressure chamber partitioned into a retard angle chamber and an advance angle chamber by a partitioning portion provided in at least one of the driving-side rotary body and the driven-side rotary body, a fluid control mechanism for controlling feeding of working fluid from a working fluid pump for feeding the working fluid to the fluid pressure chamber and controlling also discharging of the working fluid from the fluid pressure chamber, a first lock mechanism capable of restraining a relative rotational phase to a first predetermined phase between a most retarded angle phase and a most advanced angle phase, and a second lock mechanism capable of restraining the relative rotational phase to a second predetermined phase different from the first predetermined phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Kazunari Adachi, Mitsuru Uozaki, Kenji Fujiwaki, Shohei Masuda
  • Publication number: 20100294223
    Abstract: A valve timing control device includes: a driving side rotational member; a driven side rotational member; a fluid pressure chamber; a partition portion; a lock member; a lock groove; and a lock release, wherein the lock release passage is in communication with the lock groove, and the rotational member formed with the accommodation portion is provided with an atmosphere open passage which is in communication with the lock groove when the relative rotational phase is at a specific phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari ADACHI, Masaki Kobayashi, Kenji Fujiwaki, Mitsuru Uozaki, Kenji Ikeda, Shohei Masuda