Patents by Inventor Takao Tsuboi

Takao Tsuboi 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: 20250060119
    Abstract: The air conditioner includes an indoor unit including a main body having formed therein a blow-out port and a microphone element that accepts a voice instruction. The blow-out port is formed to extend with a longitudinal direction thereof corresponding to a second direction. The indoor unit includes a fan and an inverter fan motor that drives the fan. The fan is accommodated in the main body and a rotational axis of the fan extends in the second direction, and the fan motor is disposed on one side of an inside of the main body in the second direction and is disposed on one side of the fan in the second direction. The voice capturing portion is disposed on an opposite side of the main body as the side on which the fan motor is disposed in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Kousuke TSUBOI, Takao SONODA, Makoto IKEDA, Tetsushi TSUDA, Yu OTA, Yuuichi KITA, Kenji AMANO, Atsushi MATSUBARA, Tomomi KUKITA, Naoko KURIYAMA, Tomoyoshi ASHIKAGA, Gen KUMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12215880
    Abstract: An infrared output device is installed in a fixed apparatus whose position is fixed in a predetermined space. An input receiving device is configured to receive, through voice input, a control command to a first-type apparatus controllable by infrared ray. Upon the input receiving device receiving the control command, the infrared output device is configured to output infrared ray to the first-type apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Ikeda, Kousuke Tsuboi, Takao Sonoda
  • Patent number: 7594871
    Abstract: A variable flywheel mechanism is capable of varying the moment of inertia is disclosed. The wheel mechanism includes a sun gear, planetary gears, pivotable arms swung by the planetary gears, and weights mounted on the pivotable arms. The positions of the weights are controlled by rotation of the sun gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunari Kimura, Takao Tsuboi, Tsuneo Endoh
  • Patent number: 7367305
    Abstract: A connecting rod of an internal combustion engine, and an internal combustion engine including the connecting rod, a piston, a crankshaft and a float bearing as main moving parts. A piston is connected to a connecting rod by a spherical joint and has radial ribs on a rear face of a crown part; a connecting rod is of an integrated, one-piece type having integrally a spherical small end part to be connected to the piston and an annular big end part; the crankshaft is of an assembly type, and a float bearing is interposed between the big end part and a crank pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuneo Endoh, Kengo Ishimitsu, Tsutomu Inoue, Takao Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20070179012
    Abstract: A variable flywheel mechanism is capable of varying the moment of inertia is disclosed. The wheel mechanism includes a sun gear, planetary gears, pivotable arms swung by the planetary gears, and weights mounted on the pivotable arms. The positions of the weights are controlled by rotation of the sun gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Yasunari Kimura, Takao Tsuboi, Tsuneo Endoh
  • Publication number: 20050268879
    Abstract: Joint section is provided in a connection between a journal section and one of two arms supporting a crankpin and between the crankpin and the other of the arms. In each of the joint sections, a plurality of bolts are arranged along an imaginary circle substantially concentric to the axis of the journal section or crankpin, for fastening together the components. Radius of at least one of the journal section and crankpin is greater than a distance between axis lines of the journal section and crankpin. Blanks of shaft components are worked to provide thereon positioning sections, and the components are provisionally attached together to provide a crankshaft blank. The crankshaft blank is worked and then diassembled to attach thereto float bearings and a connecting rod integrally having a big end. Then, the crankshaft is re-assembled to make a crankshaft assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Inventors: Tsuneo Endoh, Takao Tsuboi, Tsutomu Inoue
  • Publication number: 20050098140
    Abstract: A connecting rod of an internal combustion engine, and an internal combustion engine including the connecting rod, a piston, a crankshaft and a float bearing as main moving parts. A piston is connected to a connecting rod by a spherical joint and has radial ribs on a rear face of a crown part; a connecting rod is of an integrated, one-piece type having integrally a spherical small end part to be connected to the piston and an annular big end part; the crankshaft is of an assembly type, and a float bearing is interposed between the big end part and a crank pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Inventors: Tsuneo Endoh, Kengo Ishimitsu, Tsutomu Inoue, Takao Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 5106701
    Abstract: A copper alloy wire has a composition composed of no less than 0.01% by weight of Ag and balance Cu and unavoidable impurities. The copper alloy wire has been prepared by drawing a wire stock having the composition at a reduction ratio of no lower than 40% and subjecting the wire stock to heat treatment for half annealing to have a tensile strength of no lower than 27 kg.multidot.f/mm.sup.2 and an elongateion of 5%. An insulated elecric wire includes the copper alloy wire as a conductor and an insulation layer covering the wire. Also, a multiple core parallel bonded wire includes two or more such insulated electric wires bonded parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Kurosaka, Sueji Chabata, Haruo Tominaga, Kenichi Miyauchi, Michio Koike, Takashi Nishida, Hirohito Takemura, Toshihito Watanabe, Kazumichi Kasai, Takao Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 4960641
    Abstract: A stranded insulated wire and a method of producing the same. The stranded insulated wire is produced by applying a coating material containing polyvinyl butyral and a stabilized polyisocyanate to an enameled strands assembly and then by baking the assembly. The coating material contains about 1 to about 1000 parts by weight of the stabilized polyisocyanate per 100 parts by weight of the polyvinyl butyral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Hanaoka, Sueji Chabata, Michio Koike, Takao Tsuboi