Patents by Inventor Takahiro Yamashita

Takahiro Yamashita 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: 9994282
    Abstract: A bicycle hydraulic operating system is basically provided with first and second actuating devices and a hydraulic operated device. The first actuating device includes a first operating member, a first master cylinder and a first master piston. The first master piston moves in the first master cylinder in response to operation of the first operating member. The second actuating device includes a second operating member, a second master cylinder and a second master piston. The second master piston moves in the second master cylinder in response to operation of the second operating member. The hydraulic operated device includes a slave cylinder and a slave piston that is movably arranged in the slave cylinder. The slave cylinder has a slave fluid port that is connected to first and second fluid ports of the first and second master cylinders. Operation of either of the first and second operating members moves the slave piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Osamu Kariyama, Takahiro Yamashita, Masahiro Nakakura
  • Publication number: 20180099653
    Abstract: A protective cap is provided for protecting an end portion of a hydraulic hose of a hydraulic bicycle component. The protective cap is configured to be removably coupled to the end portion of the hydraulic hose. The protective cap comprises a head portion and a cord attachment portion. The cord attachment portion has a through hole for attaching a cord to the protective cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Osamu KARIYAMA, Masahiro NAKAKURA, Takahiro YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 9931868
    Abstract: A recording apparatus which includes a transport belt which transports a medium; a pressing roller which presses the medium to the transport belt; and a support unit which can support the transport belt, in which at least a part of a portion of the support unit, which faces the pressing roller through the transport belt is subjected to friction relief processing. By setting to a recording apparatus with such a configuration, it is possible to suppress an increase in friction force between the transport belt and the support unit which can support the transport belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20180087560
    Abstract: A bicycle end cap has a first end and a second end that is opposite to the first end for attaching to a bicycle line shape member. The bicycle end cap includes a tubular portion and an attachment structure. The tubular portion is arranged at the first end and defining a receiving space that is dimensioned to axially receive the line shape member from the first end. The attachment structure is configured to attach a pulling member having a cable portion and a head portion that has larger diameter than the cable portion. The attachment structure is configured to position the head portion relative to the tubular portion as the cable portion is pulled toward the second end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Osamu KARIYAMA, Masahiro NAKAKURA, Takahiro YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 9915325
    Abstract: A chain transmission device includes chain guides capable of guiding a chain. The chain guides include a plurality of spaced apart rollers for guiding the chain, and a distance L (m) between contact points of a trained portion of the chain is set to satisfy the following inequality: L < 1 2 ? ? MAX ? T ? , where ?MAX is a maximum excitation frequency (Hz) from a crankshaft, ? is a mass of the chain per unit length (kg/m), and T is a time-average tension of the chain (N).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Kato, Takahiro Yamashita, Hisataka Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 9909652
    Abstract: A chain transmission device for driving camshafts includes a chain including a loose side chain portion, and the chain is trained around the crank sprocket and the cam sprockets. A chain guide is mounted on the outer side of the loose side chain portion so as to be pivotable about one of the two end portions of the chain guide, and the chain guide has a plurality of rotatable rollers. An adjustment force is applied to the other of the two end portions of the chain guide by a chain tensioner such that the chain guide is biased toward the chain, so that the rollers of the chain guide can guide the chain by rolling. The winding angle of the portion of the chain located on the outer periphery of the roller located closest to the crank sprocket is set to be 170 degrees or greater so as to reduce noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Kato, Takahiro Yamashita, Hisataka Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 9903522
    Abstract: A bicycle hydraulic hose cap comprises a hose attachment to be detachably attached to an end of a hydraulic hose, and a reservoir including a fluid chamber having a variable internal volume. The fluid chamber is connected to a fluid passageway of the hydraulic hose in an attachment state where the hose attachment is attached to the end of the hydraulic hose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Etsuyoshi Watarai, Osamu Kariyama, Nobuyoshi Fujii, Shinya Hirotomi, Takahiro Yamashita, Masahiro Nakakura, Hideki Ikemoto
  • Patent number: 9885401
    Abstract: A chain guide includes a guide base pivotable about a fulcrum shaft. The fulcrum shaft is between a roller bearing located at an end portion of the guide base, which is closer to the fulcrum shaft, and the center of the guide base in the longitudinal direction of the guide base such that the roller bearing is outside of the fulcrum shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Kato, Takahiro Yamashita, Hisataka Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 9879763
    Abstract: A chain guide includes a curved guide base extending along the direction in which a torque transmitting chain moves. The guide base includes, on its surface opposed to the chain, a rolling guide portion including a plurality of roller element bearings which are rotatable and configured to guide the chain while kept in rolling contact with the chain, and a sliding guide portion in the form of a curved surface. The rolling guide portion reduces a loss in torque transmission, while the sliding guide portion reduces flapping of the chain, thus reducing noise and vibrations of the chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignees: NTN CORPORATION, BORGWARNER MORSE SYSTEMS JAPAN K.K.
    Inventors: Akio Kato, Takahiro Yamashita, Hisataka Hasegawa, Shinji Tsuruta, Hiroyuki Fukuyama, Nobuhiro Mizuno
  • Patent number: 9874238
    Abstract: A bicycle end cap has a first end and a second end that is opposite to the first end for attaching to a bicycle line shape member. The bicycle end cap includes a tubular portion and an attachment structure. The tubular portion defines a first opening that is arranged at the first end and a receiving space that is dimension to axially receive the line shape member from the first opening. The attachment structure is configured to attach a pulling member having a cable portion and a head portion that has larger diameter than the cable portion. The attachment structure is configured to position the head portion relative to the tubular portion as the cable portion is pulled toward the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Osamu Kariyama, Masahiro Nakakura, Takahiro Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20170353020
    Abstract: A circuit assembly is provided with a circuit unit that includes an electrically conducting path on which electronic components are mounted, a heat discharging member that is placed on the circuit unit, and is configured to discharge heat of the circuit unit, and a spacer that is disposed between the circuit unit and the heat discharging member. The spacer is provided with a main portion that is disposed between the circuit unit and the heat discharging member, and accommodating portions that accommodate a part of the circuit unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamashita, Yoshikazu Sasaki, Takehito Kobayashi, Yukinori Kita
  • Publication number: 20170305370
    Abstract: Provided is an electrical junction box including a main body casing accommodating a circuit, an electric-wire mounting section is disposed on the outer side of the main body casing, a terminal section of an electric wire is mounted thereto. The electric-wire mounting section includes: an accommodation section that can be opened so as to accommodate the terminal section of the electric wire, wherein a connection section is electrically connected to the terminal section; an electric-wire holding cover that can be opened and closed covers the accommodation section. When closed, the electric-wire holding cover engages the electric wire yet to be connected to the connection section, keeping the electric wire from being dislodged from the accommodation section and forming an opening area for accommodating the connection of the terminal section of the electric wire to the connection section. The main cover is configured to cover the opening area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventor: Takahiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9785224
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment is capable of transiting to a power saving state and retains a status of a resume requesting device before the information processing apparatus transits to the power saving state. When resuming from the power saving state, the information processing apparatus acquires a status of the resume requesting device. The information processing apparatus further determines a device to which power is supplied based on a result of comparison between the status of the resume requesting device retained and the status of the resume requesting device acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takahiro Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20170239958
    Abstract: A recording apparatus which includes a transport belt which transports a medium; a pressing roller which presses the medium to the transport belt; and a support unit which can support the transport belt, in which at least a part of a portion of the support unit, which faces the pressing roller through the transport belt is subjected to friction relief processing. By setting to a recording apparatus with such a configuration, it is possible to suppress an increase in friction force between the transport belt and the support unit which can support the transport belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventor: Takahiro YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20170234473
    Abstract: A bicycle hydraulic hose cap comprises a hose attachment to be detachably attached to an end of a hydraulic hose, and a reservoir including a fluid chamber having a variable internal volume. The fluid chamber is connected to a fluid passageway of the hydraulic hose in an attachment state where the hose attachment is attached to the end of the hydraulic hose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Etsuyoshi WATARAI, Osamu KARIYAMA, Nobuyoshi FUJII, Shinya HIROTOMI, Takahiro YAMASHITA, Masahiro NAKAKURA, Hideki IKEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170228008
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus having a function to omit part of initialization processing that is performed at the time of cold boot by using information held in a volatile storage device in returning from a power-saving state where power consumption is suppressed includes: a determination unit configured to determine, based on information indicating a connection state of a specific module of all the modules, whether to suspend supply of power to all modules of the electronic apparatus or to make a transition into the power-saving state where supply of power to at least the volatile storage device is maintained in response to an operation to turn off a power source by a user; and a power source control unit configured to control supply of power to each module of the electronic apparatus in accordance with the determination, and in activation processing in accordance with the function, part of initialization processing of the specific module is omitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventor: Takahiro Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20170152922
    Abstract: A chain guide includes a curved guide base extending along the direction in which a torque transmitting chain moves. The guide base includes, on its surface opposed to the chain, a rolling guide portion including a plurality of roller element bearings which are rotatable and configured to guide the chain while kept in rolling contact with the chain, and a sliding guide portion in the form of a curved surface. The rolling guide portion reduces a loss in torque transmission, while the sliding guide portion reduces flapping of the chain, thus reducing noise and vibrations of the chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Akio KATO, Takahiro YAMASHITA, Hisataka HASEGAWA, Shinji TSURUTA, Hiroyuki FUKUYAMA, Nobuhiro MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20170037942
    Abstract: A chain guide includes a guide base pivotable about a fulcrum shaft. The fulcrum shaft is arranged between a roller bearing located at the end portion of the guide base, which is closer to the fulcrum shaft, and the center of the guide base in the longitudinal direction of the guide base such that the roller is arranged outside of the fulcrum shaft. In this arrangement, since the rotation moment applied to the above roller bearing due to the pressing force from a chain acts to alleviate the rotation moment applied to the remaining roller bearings, the guise base is less likely to bend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Akio KATO, Takahiro YAMASHITA, Hisataka HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 9562593
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a chain guide superior in silence, which includes: a guide base extending in a traveling direction of a chain; a plurality of roller shafts attached to the guide base at an interval along the traveling direction of the chain; and rollers each rotatably supported by one of the roller shafts. The roller has a cylindrical outer circumferential surface for guiding the chain. The outer circumferential surface of the roller has a cylindricity not greater than 20 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Oishi, Akio Kato, Takahiro Yamashita, Katsufumi Abe
  • Patent number: 9551389
    Abstract: A bicycle disc brake caliper is basically provided with a first side caliper part, a second side caliper part, a layer of bonding material, a mating recess and a mating protrusion. The first side caliper part includes a first bonding surface. The second side caliper part includes a second bonding surface. The layer of bonding material is disposed between the first and second bonding surfaces of the first and second side caliper parts. The mating recess is disposed on one of the first and second side caliper parts. The mating protrusion is disposed on the other of the first and second side caliper parts and mated with the mating recess. The first and second bonding surfaces of the first and second side caliper parts are fixedly bonded together by the layer of bonding material with a brake disc slot being defined between the first and second side caliper parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Shinya Hirotomi, Osamu Kariyama, Takahiro Yamashita, Masahito Nakakura, Tetsu Nonoshita