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).
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Patent number: 10458547Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaya Nakai, Takahiro Kokubu, Tomonari Okamoto, Kazunori Ishikawa, Susumu Kato, Kenichi Naka
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Patent number: 10213789Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 10, 2014Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Kato Biomass Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Susumu Kato
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Patent number: 10148158Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 11, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Kimura, Tsuyoshi Niwa, Takamitsu Sugimoto, Susumu Kato, Shigeru Maeda, Takeshi Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20180172154Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaya NAKAI, Takahiro KOKUBU, Tomonari OKAMOTO, Kazunori ISHIKAWA, Susumu KATO, Kenichi NAKA
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Patent number: 9948168Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 20, 2014Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Mutsumi Kawamoto, Susumu Kato, Shingo Hashimoto, Takeshi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kazuya Iwatsuki, Shingo Sato
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Patent number: 9821392Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu Kato, Akira Takagai, Masahiro Otani
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Patent number: 9670002Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.Inventor: Susumu Kato
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Patent number: 9522433Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu Kato, Akira Takagai, Masahiro Otani, Akitomo Kawanishi
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Publication number: 20160348193Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2014Publication date: December 1, 2016Inventor: Susumu Kato
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Patent number: 9469004Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu Kato, Akira Takagai, Masahiro Otani, Akitomo Kawanishi
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Publication number: 20160279642Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2014Publication date: September 29, 2016Applicant: Kata Biomass Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Susumu Kato
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Publication number: 20160236872Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2014Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: Murata Machinery, Ltd.Inventor: Susumu Kato
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Publication number: 20160136744Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTDInventors: Susumu KATO, Akira TAKAGAI, Masahiro OTANI
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Publication number: 20160126816Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki KIMURA, Tsuyoshi NIWA, Takamitsu SUGIMOTO, Susumu KATO, Shigeru MAEDA, Takeshi YOKOYAMA
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Patent number: 9240709Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 3, 2012Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu Kato, Shigeru Maeda, Takeshi Yokoyama, Takuya Ooura, Motoki Koori
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Publication number: 20150381021Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Mutsumi KAWAMOTO, Susumu KATO, Shingo HASHIMOTO, Takeshi YOKOYAMA, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Kazuya IWATSUKI, Shingo SATO
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Patent number: 9040196Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu Kato, Yasuhiko Syoji
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Patent number: 9034435Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 22, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Ishizuka, Osamu Kozuka, Ryo Sotooka, Susumu Kato
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Patent number: 8951030Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 3, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Kato, Shigeru Maeda, Takuya Ooura, Motoki Koori, Takeshi Yokoyama
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Patent number: 8733199Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignees: Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Koji Obayashi, Keita Taguchi, Susumu Kato, Shuji Kozawa, Manabu Kubota, Yuji Adachi, Hirokazu Sato