Patents by Inventor Susumu Ichikawa
Susumu Ichikawa 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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Publication number: 20240111029Abstract: To provide an optical module that can synchronize a vibration frequency and a swing angle without complicating a system. An optical module including: a double-sided mirror that rotates or undergoes pendulum motion about at least one rotation axis; a plane mirror disposed at an angle of 45 degrees from a horizontal surface on a back surface side of the double-sided mirror; and a uniaxial retroreflective mirror disposed at an angle of 45 degrees from the horizontal surface on a front surface side of the double-sided mirror, in which an axis of retroreflective is perpendicular to the horizontal surface and a normal line of the uniaxial retroreflective mirror.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2021Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: TOMOKI ONO, SUSUMU ICHIKAWA, TSUBASA SUGIYAMA
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Patent number: 11467410Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a left eyepiece display unit including a left-eye image display device and a left eyepiece optical system guiding a displayed left-eye display image to a left eye; and a right eyepiece display unit including a right-eye image display device and a right eyepiece optical system guiding a displayed right-eye display image to a right eye, and an image magnification upon observation by both eyes is twice or more. The left eyepiece optical system and the right eyepiece optical system each include a plurality of single lenses, and at least one of the single lenses is a free-form surface lens including a resin material. At least one of the single lenses is arranged in at least one of an eccentric state or a rotated state with respect to an optical axis of the left-eye image display device or the right-eye image display device.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuharu Matsumoto, Mamoru Suzuki, Susumu Ichikawa, Takatoshi Matsuyama, Masatoshi Nakamura
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Patent number: 11255618Abstract: In this flat extruded aluminum multi-port tube, the corrosion-resistance, at inner surfaces of a plurality of flow passages independently and parallelly extending in the tube axial direction, is effectively enhanced. In a flat extruded aluminum multi-port tube 10 formed by an extrusion by employing an aluminum tube material and an aluminum sacrificial anode material having an electrochemically lower potential than the aluminum tube material, the aluminum sacrificial anode material is exposed to form a sacrificial anode portion 18 at least in a part of an inner circumferential portion in each of the plurality of flow passages 12.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignees: UACJ CORPORATION, UACJ EXTRUSION CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Naoki Yamashita, Seiichi Nagao, Satoshi Shibata, Kazuhisa Naitou, Takeshi Okinotani, Susumu Ichikawa, Akira Itoh
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Publication number: 20220003989Abstract: A virtual image display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a plurality of image forming elements (11 and 12); and a plurality of eyepiece optical systems (21 and 22). The plurality of image forming elements (11 and 12) includes a first image forming element (11) and a second image forming element (12). The first image forming element (11) outputs a first image to a front region in a visual field of a viewer. The second image forming element (12) outputs a second image to a peripheral region in the visual field of the viewer. The second image is different from the first image. The plurality of image forming elements (11 and 12) outputs a plurality of images to cause an image region of at least a portion of each of the plurality of images to overlap with the first image. The plurality of images includes the first and second images. The plurality of eyepiece optical systems (21 and 22) is provided in association with the plurality of respective image forming elements (11 and 12).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: MASATOSHI NAKAMURA, MITSUHARU MATSUMOTO, TAKATOSHI MATSUYAMA, MAMORU SUZUKI, SUSUMU ICHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20210396978Abstract: An observation optical system according to the present invention includes a reflective optical device (30), a first lens group (10), and a second lens group (20). The reflective optical device (30) includes at least one reflection surface (31). The first lens group (10) is disposed at a position closer to an entrance pupil (E.P.) than the reflective optical device (30). The first lens group (10) forms an intermediate image (40) of a virtual image on the reflection surface (31) or at a position closer to the entrance pupil (E.P.) than the reflection surface (31). The intermediate image (40) of the virtual image corresponds to an image displayed on an image display unit (2). The second lens group (20) is disposed on an optical path after light passes through the first lens group (10), the intermediate image (40), and the reflective optical device (30) in order in a case where ray tracing is performed from an entrance pupil (E.P.) side.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: SUSUMU ICHIKAWA, TAKATOSHI MATSUYAMA, MASATOSHI NAKAMURA, MAMORU SUZUKI, MITSUHARU MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20210302627Abstract: An eyepiece according to the present disclosure includes a first lens and a second lens that are opposed to each other. The first lens includes a first Fresnel lens surface formed at least in a peripheral region of a lens surface that is opposed to the second lens. The second lens includes a second Fresnel lens surface formed at least in a peripheral region of a lens surface that is opposed to the first lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2019Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Mamoru SUZUKI, Takatoshi MATSUYAMA, Susumu ICHIKAWA, Masatoshi NAKAMURA, Mitsuharu MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20210294091Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure includes an eyepiece display unit including an image display device and an eyepiece optical system that guides a display image displayed on the image display device to an eye point, in which an image magnification by the eyepiece optical system is twice or more, the eyepiece optical system is a coaxial system including a plurality of single lenses, at least one of the plurality of single lenses is an aspherical lens including a resin material, and the image display device displays, as the display image, an image for correction of distortion and chromatic aberration of magnification generated in the eyepiece optical system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: MITSUHARU MATSUMOTO, MAMORU SUZUKI, SUSUMU ICHIKAWA, TAKATOSHI MATSUYAMA, MASATOSHI NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20210199975Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a left eyepiece display unit including a left-eye image display device and a left eyepiece optical system guiding a displayed left-eye display image to a left eye; and a right eyepiece display unit including a right-eye image display device and a right eyepiece optical system guiding a displayed right-eye display image to a right eye, and an image magnification upon observation by both eyes is twice or more. The left eyepiece optical system and the right eyepiece optical system each include a plurality of single lenses, and at least one of the single lenses is a free-form surface lens including a resin material. At least one of the single lenses is arranged in at least one of an eccentric state or a rotated state with respect to an optical axis of the left-eye image display device or the right-eye image display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Mitsuharu MATSUMOTO, Mamoru SUZUKI, Susumu ICHIKAWA, Takatoshi MATSUYAMA, Masatoshi NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 10928611Abstract: Disclosed herein is a lens module for a projector of laser scanning type which is focus-free and has a short throw distance. In one example, a lens module includes a first optical member including a free-curved lens that passes a beam light reflected by a minute vibrating mirror; and a second optical member including a free-curved mirror to reflect the beam light which has passed through the first optical member, or a free-curved lens to pass the beam light which has passed through the first optical member. The beam light, which has been reflected by or has passed through the second optical member, has at the same position beam waists in horizontal and vertical directions perpendicular to a propagating direction of the beam light and also has beam radii coinciding in the horizontal and vertical directions.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Susumu Ichikawa, Takashi Kobayashi, Fumihiko Hanzawa, Masami Sato, Yusuke Ogawa
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Publication number: 20200124362Abstract: In this flat extruded aluminum multi-port tube, the corrosion-resistance, at inner surfaces of a plurality of flow passages independently and parallelly extending in the tube axial direction, is effectively enhanced. In a flat extruded aluminum multi-port tube 10 formed by an extrusion by employing an aluminum tube material and an aluminum sacrificial anode material having an electrochemically lower potential than the aluminum tube material, the aluminum sacrificial anode material is exposed to form a sacrificial anode portion 18 at least in a part of an inner circumferential portion in each of the plurality of flow passages 12.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicants: UACJ CORPORATION, UACJ EXTRUSION CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi NAKAMURA, Naoki YAMASHITA, Seiichi NAGAO, Satoshi SHIBATA, Kazuhisa NAITOU, Takeshi OKINOTANI, Susumu ICHIKAWA, Akira ITOH
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Publication number: 20190033564Abstract: Disclosed herein is a lens module for a projector of laser scanning type which is focus-free and has a short throw distance. In one example, a lens module includes a first optical member including a free-curved lens that passes a beam light reflected by a minute vibrating mirror; and a second optical member including a free-curved mirror to reflect the beam light which has passed through the first optical member, or a free-curved lens to pass the beam light which has passed through the first optical member. The beam light, which has been reflected by or has passed through the second optical member, has at the same position beam waists in horizontal and vertical directions perpendicular to a propagating direction of the beam light and also has beam radii coinciding in the horizontal and vertical directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Susumu Ichikawa, Takashi Kobayashi, Fumihiko Hanzawa, Masami Sato, Yusuke Ogawa
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Publication number: 20180164052Abstract: In this flat extruded aluminum multi-port tube, the corrosion-resistance, at inner surfaces of a plurality of flow passages independently and parallelly extending in the tube axial direction, is effectively enhanced. In a flat extruded aluminum multi-port tube 10 formed by an extrusion by employing an aluminum tube material and an aluminum sacrificial anode material having an electrochemically lower potential than the aluminum tube material, the aluminum sacrificial anode material is exposed to form a sacrificial anode portion 18 at least in a part of an inner circumferential portion in each of the plurality of flow passages 12.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2018Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicants: UACJ CORPORATION, UACJ EXTRUSION CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi NAKAMURA, Naoki YAMASHITA, Seiichi NAGAO, Satoshi SHIBATA, Kazuhisa NAITOU, Takeshi OKINOTANI, Susumu ICHIKAWA, Akira ITOH
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Patent number: 7730734Abstract: A cooling apparatus of a fuel cell vehicle in which a cooling efficiency of a fuel cell cooling heat exchanger located downstream of an air conditioner external heat exchanger does not decrease. (1) In the cooling apparatus, the air conditioner external heat exchanger and the fuel cell cooling heat exchanger are partially offset from each other so that a high-temperature portion of the air conditioner external heat exchanger is not overlapped with the fuel cell cooling heat exchanger in a front view taken from a front side of the vehicle. (2) A portion of the fuel cell cooling heat exchanger extending beyond an end of the air conditioner exterior heat exchanger opposite the high-temperature portion is disposed outside a fan shroud so as to be cooled by a vehicle-running wind only.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2006Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso CorporationInventors: Jun Hoshi, Susumu Ichikawa
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Patent number: 7621142Abstract: A FC radiator in a FC cooling system, an EV radiator in a driving device cooling system, and a condenser in an air conditioning cooling system are arranged in one plane substantially perpendicular to a direction in which a fuel cell vehicle moves forward at a front portion of the fuel cell. Also, heat exchangers are arranged in order of the condenser, the EV radiator, and the FC radiator, that is, in order of an operating temperature from an upper position to a lower position. An angle of plural fins fitted to a front grille is changed according to a load of a fuel cell and a vehicle speed, each of the plural fins being formed to have an elongate rectangular plate shape extending in a horizontal direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2005Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jun Hoshi, Kazuhiro Maeda, Susumu Ichikawa
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Patent number: 7310961Abstract: A heat exchange portion is configured by arranging a condenser for air conditioning, an EV radiator, and a FC radiator in one plane substantially perpendicular to a direction in which a fuel cell vehicle moves, at a front portion of the fuel cell vehicle, in order of an operating temperature, from an upper position to a lower position. A fan is provided behind the heat exchange portion such that a center thereof is closer to the condenser than to the FC radiator. In addition, a fan shroud is provided, in which plural ram pressure holes are formed in a portion which covers the FC radiator.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2005Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jun Hoshi, Minobu Mizuno, Mitsuru Kimata, Susumu Ichikawa, Keiichi Yoshii, Akira Yamanaka, Yoshihiko Sonoda, Hiroshi Nonoyama
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Publication number: 20070240431Abstract: The present invention provides a cooling apparatus of a fuel cell vehicle in which a cooling efficiency of a fuel cell cooling heat exchanger located downstream of an air conditioner external heat exchanger does not decrease. (1) In the cooling apparatus, the air conditioner external heat exchanger and the fuel cell cooling heat exchanger are partially offset from each other so that a high-temperature portion of the air conditioner external heat exchanger is not overlapped with the fuel cell cooling heat exchanger in a front view taken from a front side of the vehicle. (2) A portion of the fuel cell cooling heat exchanger extending beyond an end of the air conditioner exterior heat exchanger opposite the high-temperature portion is disposed outside a fan shroud so as to be cooled by a vehicle-running wind only.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2006Publication date: October 18, 2007Inventors: Jun Hoshi, Susumu Ichikawa
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Patent number: 7267160Abstract: In order to provide a heat exchanger with casing having a multiplicity of tubes through the interiors of which a high-temperature gas for heating flows, wherein the thermal stress is smoothly accommodated and wherein a fluid to be heated or a heating fluid flows uniformly through the outsides of the tubes, a multiplicity of flat tubes are joined at their opposed ends to a pair of discoidal tube plates, the outer periphery of the flat tubes being enclosed by an inner cylinder having a rectangular cross-section except the opposed end portions of the flat tubes, with a pair of baffle plates being disposed at the opposed ends of the inner cylinder. The pair of baffle plates are covered with an circular outer cylinder having a corrugated portion that is thermally expandable, with an inlet and an outlet for the fluid to be heated or the heating fluid positioned between the pair of baffle plates and the tube plates.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2003Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignee: T.RAD Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuko Shincho, Susumu Ichikawa, Masaki Saito, Tadamichi Aoyama
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Publication number: 20060102321Abstract: In order to provide a heat exchanger with casing having a multiplicity of tubes through the interiors of which a high-temperature gas for heating flows, wherein the thermal stress is smoothly accommodated and wherein a fluid to be heated or a heating fluid flows uniformly through the outsides of the tubes, a multiplicity of flat tubes are joined at their opposed ends to a pair of discoidal tube plates, the outer periphery of the flat tubes being enclosed by an inner cylinder having a rectangular cross-section except the opposed end portions of the flat tubes, with a pair of baffle plates being disposed at the opposed ends of the inner cylinder. The pair of baffle plates are covered with an circular outer cylinder having a corrugated portion that is thermally expandable, with an inlet and an outlet for the fluid to be heated or the heating fluid positioned between the pair of baffle plates and the tube plates.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2003Publication date: May 18, 2006Inventors: Shuko Shincho, Susumu Ichikawa, Masaki Saito, Tadamichi Aoyama
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Patent number: 7027705Abstract: An optical-fiber feedthrough formed of a metallic sleeve 1 and an optical fiber 2 fastened thereto. The the metallic sleeve 1 has i) a sleeve main body having a first hollow portion 9 which has an inner diameter larger than the outer diameter of the optical-fiber bare fiber uncovered portion 3 in the optical fiber 2 and into which the optical-fiber bare fiber uncovered portion is inserted, and a second hollow portion 8 which communicates with the first hollow portion and has an inner diameter larger than the outer diameter of the resin-covered portion 5 in the optical fiber and in which an inserted portion of the resin-covered portion and an optical-fiber bare fiber uncovered portion standing uncovered from the resin-covered portion to lead to the first hollow portion are held and ii) a first conical recessed portion 10 which is provided on the first hollow portion side of the sleeve main body and to which the leading end portion of the optical-fiber bare fiber uncovered portion is uncovered.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2003Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoichi Onosato, Susumu Ichikawa, Akio Watanabe
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Publication number: 20050279113Abstract: A heat exchange portion is configured by arranging a condenser for air conditioning, an EV radiator, and a FC radiator in one plane substantially perpendicular to a direction in which a fuel cell vehicle moves, at a front portion of the fuel cell vehicle, in order of an operating temperature, from an upper position to a lower position. A fan is provided behind the heat exchange portion such that a center thereof is closer to the condenser than to the FC radiator. In addition, a fan shroud is provided, in which plural ram pressure holes are formed in a portion which covers the FC radiator.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2005Publication date: December 22, 2005Inventors: Jun Hoshi, Minobu Mizuno, Mitsuru Kimata, Susumu Ichikawa, Keiichi Yoshii, Akira Yamanaka, Yoshihiko Sonoda, Hiroshi Nonoyama