Patents by Inventor Susumu Kato

Susumu Kato 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: 10458547
    Abstract: A detent lever 20 and a piston rod 42 are engaged with each other through engagement between a recessed portion 26 of the detent lever 20 and a pin portion 52 of a retainer member 50 attached to the piston rod 42. With this configuration, the detent lever 20 and the piston rod 42 can be engaged with each other easily and in a short time when assembling a parking device 10. As a result, the time required for the work of assembling the parking device 10 can be shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Nakai, Takahiro Kokubu, Tomonari Okamoto, Kazunori Ishikawa, Susumu Kato, Kenichi Naka
  • Patent number: 10213789
    Abstract: Generally, described herein are milling devices. A milling device (100) includes a rotatable screw (110) in an outer periphery of which spiral grooves (110a, 110b) are formed; a barrel (120) surrounding the portion of the screw (110) where the spiral grooves (110a, 110b) are formed and in an inner periphery of which a spiral groove (120a) is formed; a loader (130) for loading cereal grains into a space (135) between the screw (110) and barrel (120); a compressor (140) attached to a distal end of the barrel (120) and accumulating and pressurizing in a nearly airtight state the cereal grains ground in the space (135) and fed therein as the screw (110) rotates; and a discharge port (150) provided in a front face of the compressor (140) and blasting the cereal grains fed in and pressurized by way of rotation of the screw (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Kato Biomass Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Susumu Kato
  • Patent number: 10148158
    Abstract: A varnish impregnation apparatus that includes a support that supports a stator, in which the stator coil is mounted to the stator core, with an axial direction of the stator directed in a horizontal direction while grasping a radially outer side of the stator, and that is rotationally driven by a rotary device to rotate the stator; a varnish dropping device that drops the varnish toward a coil end portion of the stator which is rotated while being supported by the support; and a heater disposed in a cavity portion provided at an axial center of the stator core of the stator supported by the support to heat the stator from a radially inner side of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kimura, Tsuyoshi Niwa, Takamitsu Sugimoto, Susumu Kato, Shigeru Maeda, Takeshi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20180172154
    Abstract: A detent lever 20 and a piston rod 42 are engaged with each other through engagement between a recessed portion 26 of the detent lever 20 and a pin portion 52 of a retainer member 50 attached to the piston rod 42. With this configuration, the detent lever 20 and the piston rod 42 can be engaged with each other easily and in a short time when assembling a parking device 10. As a result, the time required for the work of assembling the parking device 10 can be shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya NAKAI, Takahiro KOKUBU, Tomonari OKAMOTO, Kazunori ISHIKAWA, Susumu KATO, Kenichi NAKA
  • Patent number: 9948168
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a stator for manufacturing a stator by mounting a concentrated winding coil wound with a square wire conductor on each of a plurality of teeth in a stator core and welding end of the concentrated winding coil to corresponding end of another concentrated winding coil, characterized in that a first set of concentrated winding coils and a second set of concentrated winding coils are mounted on the teeth, and the welding of each end in the first set of concentrated winding coils and corresponding end in the second set of concentrated winding coils is started while a third set of concentrated winding coils is mounted on the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mutsumi Kawamoto, Susumu Kato, Shingo Hashimoto, Takeshi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kazuya Iwatsuki, Shingo Sato
  • Patent number: 9821392
    Abstract: A rotary machining apparatus that includes a rotary that supports and rotates a workpiece having helical teeth; a grinding wheel that grinds the helical teeth of the workpiece to be rotated by the rotary with grinding teeth; and a conveyor for carrying the workpiece in and out of the rotary, wherein the conveyor includes, around a turning center axis, a plurality of grippers for sandwiching the workpiece and a plurality of dressers for forming toothed surfaces of the grinding teeth, and turns around the turning center axis so that the grippers sequentially approach the rotary and the dressers sequentially approach the grinding wheel, and dress teeth of the dressers each have different shapes of toothed surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Kato, Akira Takagai, Masahiro Otani
  • Patent number: 9670002
    Abstract: A conveyor device includes: a first conveyor unit including a first supporting-and-conveying unit configured to convey the object; a turning unit configured to turn the first conveyor unit to change a traveling direction of the object; and a second conveyor unit including a pair of second supporting-and-conveying units provided adjacently to the first conveyor unit and configured to convey the object. The pair of the second supporting-and-conveying units and a driving-force transmitting unit configured to transmit driving force to the pair of the second supporting-and-conveying units are provided outside turning areas of the first conveyor unit in plan view. The first conveyor unit and the second conveyor unit are disposed so that a conveying area of the object in the second conveyor unit and the turning areas of the first conveyor unit overlap each other in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventor: Susumu Kato
  • Patent number: 9522433
    Abstract: A rotation processing machine includes a rotating device supporting a cylindrical workpiece via a rotation support jig; a processing device on which a cutting tool is mounted; and a turning loader that has grippers arranged about a turning central axis and that turns so that the grippers sequentially face the rotating device. The grippers are configured to individually move up and down, and a height position of each gripper is settable to a first height position where the gripper delivers and receives the cylindrical workpiece to and from the rotating device, and a second height position where the gripper delivers and receives the rotation support jig to and from the rotating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Kato, Akira Takagai, Masahiro Otani, Akitomo Kawanishi
  • Publication number: 20160348193
    Abstract: A lignocellulosic biomass treatment device (100) includes at least one screw (110) that has spiral screw grooves (110a, 110b) formed in an outer periphery of the screw, a barrel (120) that has a spiral barrel groove (120a) formed in an inner periphery of the barrel, and surrounding a portion of the screw (110) where the screw grooves (110a, 110b) are formed, and a chute (130) to put lignocellulosic biomass into a gap (135) between the screw (110) and the barrel (120). By a rotation of the screw (110), the lignocellulosic biomass is milled while a pressure is applied thereto in the gap (135).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventor: Susumu Kato
  • Patent number: 9469004
    Abstract: A rotation processing machine, including a rotating device that holds and rotates a workpiece; a processing device on which a cutting tool is mounted to process the workpiece; and a turning loader that has grippers arranged about a turning central axis, and that turns so that the grippers sequentially face the rotating device. The turning loader is configured to deliver and receive the workpiece to and from the rotating device by turning with the workpiece being directly or indirectly held by the gripper, and to deliver and receive the cutting tool to and from the processing device by turning with the cutting tool being directly or indirectly held by the gripper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Kato, Akira Takagai, Masahiro Otani, Akitomo Kawanishi
  • Publication number: 20160279642
    Abstract: A milling device (100) comprises a rotatable screw (110) in an outer periphery of which spiral grooves (110a, 110b) are formed; a barrel (120) surrounding the portion of the screw (110) where the spiral grooves (110a, 110b) are formed and in an inner periphery of which a spiral groove (120a) is formed; a loader (130) for loading cereal grains into a space (135) between the screw (110) and barrel (120); a compressor (140) attached to a distal end of the barrel (120) and accumulating and pressurizing in a nearly airtight state the cereal grains ground in the space (135) and fed therein as the screw (110) rotates; and a discharge port (150) provided in a front face of the compressor (140) and blasting the cereal grains fed in and pressurized by way of rotation of the screw (110).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: Kata Biomass Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Susumu Kato
  • Publication number: 20160236872
    Abstract: A conveyor device includes: a first conveyor unit including a first supporting-and-conveying unit configured to convey the object; a turning unit configured to turn the first conveyor unit to change a traveling direction of the object; and a second conveyor unit including a pair of second supporting-and-conveying units provided adjacently to the first conveyor unit and configured to convey the object. The pair of the second supporting-and-conveying units and a driving-force transmitting unit configured to transmit driving force to the pair of the second supporting-and-conveying units are provided outside turning areas of the first conveyor unit in plan view. The first conveyor unit and the second conveyor unit are disposed so that a conveying area of the object in the second conveyor unit and the turning areas of the first conveyor unit overlap each other in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventor: Susumu Kato
  • Publication number: 20160136744
    Abstract: A rotary machining apparatus that includes a rotary that supports and rotates a workpiece having helical teeth; a grinding wheel that grinds the helical teeth of the workpiece to be rotated by the rotary with grinding teeth; and a conveyor for carrying the workpiece in and out of the rotary, wherein the conveyor includes, around a turning center axis, a plurality of grippers for sandwiching the workpiece and a plurality of dressers for forming toothed surfaces of the grinding teeth, and turns around the turning center axis so that the grippers sequentially approach the rotary and the dressers sequentially approach the grinding wheel, and dress teeth of the dressers each have different shapes of toothed surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD
    Inventors: Susumu KATO, Akira TAKAGAI, Masahiro OTANI
  • Publication number: 20160126816
    Abstract: A varnish impregnation apparatus that includes a support that supports a stator, in which the stator coil is mounted to the stator core, with an axial direction of the stator directed in a horizontal direction while grasping a radially outer side of the stator, and that is rotationally driven by a rotary device to rotate the stator; a varnish dropping device that drops the varnish toward a coil end portion of the stator which is rotated while being supported by the support; and a heater disposed in a cavity portion provided at an axial center of the stator core of the stator supported by the support to heat the stator from a radially inner side of the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki KIMURA, Tsuyoshi NIWA, Takamitsu SUGIMOTO, Susumu KATO, Shigeru MAEDA, Takeshi YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9240709
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for an electric motor rotor includes: a stacking process in which a plurality of iron core pieces are stacked to form a laminated iron core; a magnet insertion process in which a permanent magnet is inserted into a magnet insertion hole provided in the laminated iron core; a resin filling process in which the laminated iron core is heated to fill the magnet insertion hole with a molten resin for magnet fixation; and a rotary shaft assembly process in which a rotary shaft is warm-fitted into a rotary shaft insertion hole of the laminated iron core utilizing residual heat from the heating of the laminated iron core 10 in the resin filling process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Kato, Shigeru Maeda, Takeshi Yokoyama, Takuya Ooura, Motoki Koori
  • Publication number: 20150381021
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a stator for manufacturing a stator by mounting a concentrated winding coil wound with a square wire conductor on each of a plurality of teeth in a stator core and welding end of the concentrated winding coil to corresponding end of another concentrated winding coil, characterized in that a first set of concentrated winding coils and a second set of concentrated winding coils are mounted on the teeth, and the welding of each end in the first set of concentrated winding coils and corresponding end in the second set of concentrated winding coils is started while a third set of concentrated winding coils is mounted on the teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Mutsumi KAWAMOTO, Susumu KATO, Shingo HASHIMOTO, Takeshi YOKOYAMA, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Kazuya IWATSUKI, Shingo SATO
  • Patent number: 9040196
    Abstract: An alkaline primary battery includes: a positive electrode 2 containing manganese dioxide; an alkaline electrolyte containing zinc oxide; a gelled negative electrode 3 containing zinc alloy particles, the alkaline electrolyte, and a gelling agent; and a negative electrode current collector 6 inserted in the gelled negative electrode. The gelled negative electrode 3 has a predetermined malleability such that when 4.0 g of the gelled negative electrode 3 formed into a cylindrical shape with a diameter of 15 mm is extended with 200 g of a load through 10 g of a flat plate, and then an upper surface of the extended gelled negative electrode 3 is approximated to a circle, this circle has a diameter ranging from 24 mm to 36 mm, both inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Kato, Yasuhiko Syoji
  • Patent number: 9034435
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide techniques for preparing matte coated printing papers having high opacity and brightness as well as improved brightness variation at low basis weight with good runnability. According to the present invention, a process for preparing a matte coated printing paper having a basis weight of 60 to 90 g/m2, a brightness of 75% or more, and an opacity of 95% or more is provided, comprising applying a coating solution containing calcium carbonate by curtain coating on a base paper having a brightness of 45 to 70% made from a raw material pulp containing a total of 50% or more of deinked pulp and/or mechanical pulp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Ishizuka, Osamu Kozuka, Ryo Sotooka, Susumu Kato
  • Patent number: 8951030
    Abstract: A resin filling device for a laminated iron core, the resin filling device being used when a magnet insertion hole provided in the laminated iron core of a rotor for an electric motor is filled with a molten resin for fixing a magnet. The resin filing device configured with a resin feeding mold, an opposing mold, and a pressing mechanism that applies a compression force with the laminated iron core sandwiched between the resin feeding mold and the opposing mold. The resin feeding mold includes one or more discharge outlets arranged so as to face the opening of the magnet insertion hole, and configured to include a diameter reducing part in which an inner diameter is reduced gradually along a discharge direction of the molten resin. A diameter reducing part is arranged inside of the laminated iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kato, Shigeru Maeda, Takuya Ooura, Motoki Koori, Takeshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 8733199
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a gear, and the resulting gear, the method resulting such that the surface layer portions of the tooth portions and a tooth root portion are made to be a carburized layer, the remaining portion of the tooth portions and a portion of a disk portion lying below the carburized layer be a quench-hardened layer, and a region of the disk portion lying deeper than the quench-hardened layer be an unquenched layer. The gear is manufactured using raw material steel having the following chemical composition: C: 0.1% to 0.40% (% by mass), Si: 0.35% to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1% to 3.0%, Cr: less than 0.2%, Mo: 0.1% or less, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.15% or less, Al: 0.05% or less, N: 0.03% or less, and Fe and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignees: Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Obayashi, Keita Taguchi, Susumu Kato, Shuji Kozawa, Manabu Kubota, Yuji Adachi, Hirokazu Sato