Patents by Inventor Takashi Nishihara

Takashi Nishihara 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).

  • OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20090059758
    Abstract: To provide an optical information recording medium having an information layer of excellent transmittance and signal intensity, an optical information recording medium 22 includes at least one information layer. The information layer includes a recording layer on which information can be recorded and/or from which information can be reproduced by the irradiation of a laser beam 11, and a Ce containing layer containing Ce and O.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Nishihara, Akio Tsuchino, Rie Kojima, Noboru Yamada
  • Snowmobile with intercooler
    Patent number: 7497292
    Abstract: A snowmobile with an intercooler includes a four-stroke-cycle engine unit disposed in an engine room covered by an engine hood, and the engine unit includes an engine body, a turbocharger, an intercooler for cooling an intake-air, which is pressurized and heated up by the turbocharger, and an electric motor-driven cooling fan provided for the intercooler for introducing an outside air to the intercooler through which the air after cooling the intercooler is discharged toward the inside of the engine room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Suzuki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yatagai, Takashi Nishihara
  • INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20090042046
    Abstract: An information recording medium of the present invention includes recording layers 19 and 26 whose phase can change by an optical or an electrical system so as to be detectable, and interface layers 18, 20, 25 and 27, which are in contact with the recording layers 19 and 26, to serve as oxide layers. The recording layer 19 contains a Ge—Bi—Te—M material represented by a formula: Ge?Bi?Te?M100-?-?-? (atom %), where M denotes at least one element selected from Al, Ga, In and Mn, and ?, ? and ? satisfy 25???60, 0<??18, 35???55, and 82??+?+?<100. The interface layers 18, 20, 25 and 27 contain at least one oxide of the element M contained in the recording layers 19 and 26.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Sakaue, Rie Kojima, Takashi Nishihara
  • Snowmobile with intercooler
    Patent number: 7472771
    Abstract: A snowmobile with an intercooler includes a four-stroke-cycle engine unit disposed in an engine room covered by an engine hood, and the engine unit includes an engine body, a turbocharger, an intercooler for cooling an intake-air, which is pressurized and heated up by the turbocharger, and an electric motor-driven cooling fan provided for the intercooler for introducing an outside air to the intercooler through which the air after cooling the intercooler is discharged toward the inside of the engine room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Suzuki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yatagai, Takashi Nishihara
  • Information Recording Medium and Method of Manufacturing the Same
    Publication number: 20090003174
    Abstract: An information recording medium with high recording sensitivity, superior repeat overwriting capability and favorable signal storage stability during information recording is offered. For this purpose, information recording medium 15 comprising one or more information layers 16 that include a phase-change recording layer 104, wherein at least one of the information layers 16 includes, a Cr-containing layer containing Cr and O that contact with one side of a surface of the recording layer 104, and an In-containing layer containing In and O that contact with the other side of the surface of the recording layer 104.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Akio Tsuchino, Takashi Nishihara, Rie Kojima
  • Optical information recording medium, method for manufacturing the same, and initialization device
    Patent number: 7463575
    Abstract: An optical information recording medium includes a plurality of recording layers, a reflectance of at least one of the plurality of the recording layers in a non-initialized state with respect to a light beam for initialization being smaller than a reflectance of the same in an initialized state with respect to the light beam for initialization. The recording layers are initialized by irradiating, among the plurality of recording layers, the recording layer positioned farther from a light beam irradiation side with the light beam prior to irradiating the recording layer positioned closer to the light beam irradiation side, so that the initialized recording layers have no initialization irregularities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Akiyama, Naoyasu Miyagawa, Kenichi Nishiuchi, Takashi Nishihara
  • Information recording medium and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 7449225
    Abstract: An information recording medium of the present invention includes a substrate and an information layer arranged on the substrate. The information layer includes a recording layer that is changed in phase reversibly between a crystalline phase and an amorphous phase by at least one of optical means and electrical means, and at least one crystalline nucleation layer that contains at least one element selected from Bi and Te and at least one element (M1) selected from Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Yb, and Lu and is provided in contact with the recording layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nishihara, Rie Kojima, Noboru Yamada, Takeshi Sakaguchi
  • Information recording medium and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 7407697
    Abstract: An information recording medium is provided that has high recording sensitivity for recording information and superior repeated rewriting performance. The information recording medium has at least a recording layer that is changeable between a crystalline phase and an amorphous phase by applying a laser beam or electric current and a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer contains at least C, Si, Sn and O. Alternatively, the information recording medium includes at least two information layers with at least one of the information layer including at least a recording layer that is changeable between a crystalline phase and an amorphous phase by applying a laser beam or electric current and a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer contains at least C, Si, Sn and O.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Nishihara, Yukako Doi, Rie Kojima, Noboru Yamada
  • Information recording medium and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 7390381
    Abstract: An information recording medium that is excellent in repeated-rewriting performance and is deteriorated less in crystallization sensitivity with time is provided, with respect to which high density recording can be carried out. A method of manufacturing the same also is provided. The information recording medium includes a substrate and a recording layer disposed above the substrate. The recording layer contains, as constituent elements, Ge, Sb, Te, Sn, and at least one element M selected from Ag, Al, Cr, Mn, and N and is transformed in phase reversibly between a crystal phase and an amorphous phase by an irradiation of an energy beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rie Kojima, Noboru Yamada, Takashi Nishihara
  • Gap adjusting mechanism of a wet brake
    Publication number: 20080121471
    Abstract: By rotating a regulating bolt about an axis thereof to move forward/backward with respect to a protrusion portion, a lever is rotated about a shaft portion of an adjusting member. Therefore, the shaft portion of an adjusting member is rotated together with the lever to adjust a gap formed between a disk and a piston. After the gap is adjusted, the regulating bolt is fastened owing to a lock nut and a screw hole of the protrusion portion to thereby fix an forward/backward position of the regulating bolt with respect to the protrusion portion. In addition, a fixing bolt is screwed into a screw hole of a second housing portion to thereby fix a rotational position of the lever. Accordingly, the rotational position of the lever is double-locked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Nishihara, Teruo Sanada
  • Bulk diffuser, and polarizing plate and liquid crystal display apparatus comprising the same
    Publication number: 20080123031
    Abstract: A bulk diffuser including: a base material; and a diffusion layer which has a forming material and inner diffusion particles dispersed in the forming material, and is formed on the base material, wherein the inner diffusion particles include two or more types of spherical particles having different refraction indexes, and variations of cross-sectional area of scattering per unit volume of the bulk diffuser owing to a variation of a refraction index of the forming material are mutually cancelled by a combination of the inner diffusion particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Homma, Takashi Nishihara, Yusuke Tochigi, Shigetomo Sakakibara
  • Optical device, polarizing plate, diffuser, diffusing film, polarizing film and liquid crystal image display apparatus
    Publication number: 20080055523
    Abstract: An optical device includes a plastic-based film and a diffusing layer. The diffusing layer includes inner scattering elements that selectively scatter visible light having a wavelength range, and has pencil hardness of more than 2H under a 500 g-load specified in ISO/DIS 15184. When the optical device is arranged at a front side of a liquid crystal display apparatus that displays color near 8 test colors specified in CIE 1974, as a test color, chrominance ?u?v? of less than 0.05 is obtained based on a chromaticity coordinate (u0?, v0?) of CIE1976UCS observed in the front surface 100A1 of the liquid crystal display apparatus and a chromaticity coordinate (u?, v?) observed at an observation angle of ±60 degrees in horizontal and vertical directions of a screen of the liquid crystal display apparatus when a direction perpendicular to the screen is assumed to be 0 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Nishihara, Hideaki Homma, Yusuke Tochigi, Shigetomo Sakakibara
  • Information Recording Medium And Method For Manufacturing Same
    Publication number: 20080032156
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to obtain a low-cost information recording medium that has fewer layers and has high signal quality and excellent repeated re-write characteristics, without using sulfur as a material for the dielectric layers. Thus, an information recording medium for recording or reproducing information, said information recording medium comprises a layer that contains Ce—F.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: Akio Tsuchino, Takashi Nishihara, Rie Kojima
  • SNOWMOBILE WITH INTERCOOLER
    Publication number: 20070193800
    Abstract: A snowmobile with an intercooler includes a four-stroke-cycle engine unit disposed in an engine room covered by an engine hood, and the engine unit includes an engine body, a turbocharger, an intercooler for cooling an intake-air, which is pressurized and heated up by the turbocharger, and an electric motor-driven cooling fan provided for the intercooler for introducing an outside air to the intercooler through which the air after cooling the intercooler is discharged toward the inside of the engine room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: SUZUKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuaki YATAGAI, Takashi Nishihara
  • SNOWMOBILE WITH INTERCOOLER
    Publication number: 20070175687
    Abstract: A snowmobile with an intercooler includes a four-stroke-cycle engine unit disposed in an engine room covered by an engine hood, and the engine unit includes an engine body, a turbocharger, an intercooler for cooling an intake-air, which is pressurized and heated up by the turbocharger, and an electric motor-driven cooling fan provided for the intercooler for introducing an outside air to the intercooler through which the air after cooling the intercooler is discharged toward the inside of the engine room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: SUZUKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yatagai, Takashi Nishihara
  • Information recording medium and method for manufacturing the same
    Publication number: 20070154673
    Abstract: An information recording medium with high recording sensitivity and superior repeat overwriting capability is offered. For this purpose, in a information recording medium (15) comprising at least recording layer (104) that records and/or reproduces information through irradiation with a laser beam or applyication of an electric current, and second dielectric layer (106) on substrate (14), wherein the second dielectric layer (106) comprises M1 (provided that M1 is at least one element selected from Sc, Y, La, Gd, Dy and Yb) and O.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Takashi Nishihara, Akio Tsuchino, Rie Kojima, Noboru Yamada
  • Snowmobile with intercooler
    Patent number: 7222689
    Abstract: A snowmobile with an intercooler includes a four-stroke-cycle engine unit disposed in an engine room covered by an engine hood, and the engine unit includes an engine body, a turbocharger, an intercooler for cooling an intake-air, which is pressurized and heated up by the turbocharger, and an electric motor-driven cooling fan provided for the intercooler for introducing an outside air to the intercooler through which the air after cooling the intercooler is discharged toward the inside of the engine room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Suzuki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yatagai, Takashi Nishihara
  • Optical information recording medium and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 7169455
    Abstract: An optical information recording medium on which information can be recorded and reproduced by using a laser beam is provided. The medium includes a substrate with a guide groove and a multilayered metal film including at least a first metal layer, a barrier layer and a second metal layer that are deposited on the substrate in this order, or a single layer metal film including at least a metal layer and a recording layer are deposited on the substrate in this order. The second metal layer and the metal layer of the single layer metal film are a material containing Al and a metal element (an additive) as main components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Habuta, Noboru Yamada, Ken'ichi Nagata, Takashi Nishihara
  • OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND INITIALIZATION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20060292499
    Abstract: An optical information recording medium includes a plurality of recording layers, a reflectance of at least one of the plurality of the recording layers in a non-initialized state with respect to a light beam for initialization being smaller than a reflectance of the same in an initialized state with respect to the light beam for initialization. The recording layers are initialized by irradiating, among the plurality of recording layers, the recording layer positioned farther from a light beam irradiation side with the light beam prior to irradiating the recording layer positioned closer to the light beam irradiation side, so that the initialized recording layers have no initialization irregularities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya AKIYAMA, Naoyasu MIYAGAWA, Kenichi NISHIUCHI, Takashi NISHIHARA
  • Engine structure of snowmobile
    Patent number: 7134520
    Abstract: In a snowmobile, an upper front half of a vehicle body of the snowmobile is covered to be openable by an engine hood in which an engine room is defined, an engine is disposed in the engine room, and a turbo-charger is mounted on the engine. In an engine structure of such snowmobile, a headlight is disposed above a rear portion of the engine hood, and the engine is arranged in a state inclined rearward downward so that a cylinder head of the engine is disposed below the headlight in a side view and the turbo-charger is arranged below the cylinder head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Suzuki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yatagai, Takashi Nishihara