Patents by Inventor Takuya Matsuda

Takuya Matsuda 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: 12173391
    Abstract: High strength steel sheet and plated steel sheet having high plateability, LME resistance, and hydrogen embrittlement resistance, that is, steel sheet containing C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, and sol. Al: 0.4 to 1.50%, having an internal oxidation layer including fine granular oxides, coarse granular oxides, and grain boundary oxides in a surface layer of the steel sheet, a number density of fine granular oxides in the internal oxidation layer being 4.0/?m2 or more, a number density of coarse granular oxides in the internal oxidation layer being 4.0/25 ?m2 or more, having a Ratio A of the length of the grain boundary oxides projected on the surface of the steel sheet to the length of the surface of the steel sheet when examining a cross-section of the surface layer of the steel sheet being 50% or more and 100% or less, and including a surface depleted layer with a steel composition not including oxides which satisfies, by mass %, Si?0.6% and Al?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keitaro Matsuda, Takuya Mitsunobu, Masaaki Uranaka, Jun Maki, Hiroshi Takebayashi
  • Publication number: 20240403266
    Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of setting an appropriate link destination when there are a plurality of link destination candidates among data files. A file management system according to the present invention determines a type of a target indicated by a character string described in a data file to determine whether the target matches among data files and assigns a link among the data files when the target matches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Takahiro MATSUDA, Shoji YAMAMOTO, Shingo HAYASHI, Takuya NAKAMICHI, Takaaki UENO, Masahiko NIIOKA, Tomoki TACHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240399747
    Abstract: A fluid ejection head includes a first member, a second member, a resin layer that bonds the first member and the second member together, and a flow channel to which at least part of the resin layer is exposed. The resin layer includes a cured product of a resin composition. The resin composition includes (A) an epoxy resin, (B) an episulfide resin, (C) a polythiol compound, and (D) at least one of hydrophobic titanium oxide or hydrophobic alumina.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Toda, Ryota Chiba, Takuya Matsuda
  • Patent number: 12151505
    Abstract: An envelope processing apparatus inserts an enclosure into an envelope and includes a first conveyor, a first ejector, a second conveyor, a second ejector, and circuitry. The first conveyor conveys the enclosure to an enclosing position. The envelope in which the enclosure is enclosed is ejected to the first ejector. The second conveyor conveys the envelope to the enclosing position via an envelope conveyance passage extended in a substantially vertical and up-and-down direction and conveys the envelope in which the enclosure is inserted to the first ejector. The second ejector is separate from the first ejector. The enclosure is ejected to the second ejector. The circuitry controls a conveyance operation of the first conveyor and the second conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Matsuda, Michitaka Suzuki, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Atsushi Shinoda, Shingo Yoshizawa, Takahiro Watanabe, Takuya Morinaga
  • Publication number: 20240359252
    Abstract: A steel welded member having a high LME resistance of a spot weld, i.e., a steel welded member comprised of a plurality of Zn-based plated steel materials, each comprised of a steel material and a Zn-based plating layer on its surface, joined by at least one spot weld, in which at least one of the Zn-based plated steel materials has a 780 MPa or more tensile strength, that steel material has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, sol. Al: 0.4 to 1.50%, etc. and having a balance of Fe and impurities, and, in a region of 10 to 300 ?m from an end of a pressure weld of the spot weld, a difference of a Zn penetration depth of Zn from a Zn-based plating layer penetrating a steel material minus a depth of an internal oxidation layer formed at the steel material is within 0.1 to 10.0 ?m in range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI, Keitaro MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 12130054
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes an outdoor unit and a relay unit. The outdoor unit includes a compressor compressing and discharging refrigerant and a heat-source-side heat exchanger performing heat exchange between the refrigerant and outside air. The relay unit and the outdoor unit forms a refrigerant circuit. The outdoor unit includes first and flow switching devices each switching an associated flow passage for the refrigerant between a plurality of flow passages, according to an operation mode. An outflow pipe and an inflow pipe through which refrigerant flows from the outdoor unit to the relay unit and from the relay unit into the outdoor unit, respectively, are between the outdoor unit and the relay unit. The first flow switching device is connected to the compressor, the second flow switching device, and the outflow pipe. The second flow switching device is connected to the first flow switching device and the inflow pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Hatomura, Satoru Yanachi, Takuya Matsuda, Hiroyuki Okano
  • Patent number: 12129145
    Abstract: An enclosing apparatus for enclosing an enclosure into an envelope at an enclosing position includes a conveyance roller that conveys the envelope to the enclosing position and an envelope conveyance path through which the envelope is conveyed. An enclosing support is disposed in the envelope conveyance path and supports enclosing of the enclosure into the envelope. The enclosing support retracts a flap of the envelope from the envelope conveyance path while the conveyance roller conveys the envelope to the enclosing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuusuke Shibasaki, Michitaka Suzuki, Shinji Asami, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Takahiro Matsuda, Makoto Hidaka, Kazuyoshi Matsuo, Shingo Yoshizawa, Akira Kunieda, Takahiro Watanabe, Takuya Morinaga, Atsushi Shinoda
  • Publication number: 20240351133
    Abstract: Provided is a friction stir spot welded joint having high joint strength even in the case where a high strength steel sheet, particularly a steel sheet with a tensile strength (TS) of 980 MPa or more, is used as a material to be welded. An annular groove is formed on an upper surface of an upper sheet out of overlapping steel sheets, and a shape, microstructure, and hardness of a welded portion are appropriately controlled simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicants: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiki YAMAGISHI, Katsutoshi TAKASHIMA, Hiroshi MATSUDA, Ryoji OHASHI, Yoshitaka MURAMATSU, Takuya FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 12122185
    Abstract: A rim portion of a vehicle wheel has an outer flange portion. In a region of the outer flange portion, a space portion between spoke portions is disposed on a radial-direction inner side, a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface are provided. The first inclined surface is provided on an axial-direction outer side of an outer flange outer circumferential portion. The second inclined surface is on an axial-direction outer side of an outer flange inner circumferential portion. The first inclined surface is formed to incline from the axial-direction outer side toward an axial-direction inner side as the first inclined surface extends from a radial-direction outer side end toward the radial-direction inner side. The second inclined surface is a surface formed to incline from the axial-direction inner side toward the axial-direction outer side as the second inclined surface extends from the radial-direction outer side toward the radial-direction inner side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Aburame, Satoshi Okamoto, Akihiro Nakata, Haruka Taniguchi, Shinji Matsuo, Hiroshi Kuninari, Takuya Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20240338009
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an information processing portion configured to obtain setting information set for a shaping apparatus for causing the shaping apparatus to form a plurality of layers. The plurality of layers include an (n?1)-th layer, and an n-th layer formed subsequently to the (n?1)-th layer. The n-th layer includes a first region overlapping with the (n?1)-th layer in a lamination direction, and a second region that is continuous with the first region and that does not overlap with the (n?1)-th layer in the lamination direction. The setting information includes information for setting an energy radiated by an irradiation portion of the shaping apparatus in formation of the first region to first intensity, and information for setting the energy radiated by the irradiation portion in formation of the second region to second intensity lower than the first intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: TAKUYA SHIMIZU, KENJI MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240326523
    Abstract: An air pressure monitoring apparatus includes an air pressure acquisition unit, a pressure-adjustment determination unit, and a determination unit. The air pressure acquisition unit acquires data on the air pressure in a tire attached to a vehicle. The pressure-adjustment determination unit determines whether the air pressure in the tire has been adjusted. The determination unit determines whether the tire has a slow puncture based on time-course changes in the data on the air pressure. When the pressure-adjustment determination unit has determined that the air pressure in the tire has been adjusted, the determination unit corrects lastly acquired data on the air pressure and determines whether the tire has a slow puncture based on the corrected data on the air pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240318288
    Abstract: High strength plated steel sheet excellent in LME resistance, that is, plated steel sheet comprising steel sheet and a plating layer containing Zn on the same, in which the steel sheet has a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more, the steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, sol. Al: 0.4 to 1.50%, etc. and having a balance of Fe and impurities, and, in any vertical cross section of the steel sheet, ferrite phases with a circle equivalent diameter of 1 ?m or less are contained in a region from a surface layer down to a depth of 2 ?m in a number density of 2 to 30/?m2 and the ferrite phases include internal oxides with a circle equivalent diameter of 2 to 100 nm in a number density of 3/?m2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Keitaro MATSUDA, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240310092
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a compressor, a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, a third heat exchanger, an expansion device, a gas-liquid separator, a first flow rate control device, and a switch device configured to switch a route in which refrigerant circulates between a first route and a second route. In the first route, the refrigerant flows in order of the compressor, the first heat exchanger, the expansion device, the second heat exchanger, and the gas-liquid separator, and then, the refrigerant in liquid state discharged from the gas-liquid separator flows into the third heat exchanger. In the second route, the refrigerant flows in order of the compressor, the second heat exchanger, and the gas-liquid separator, and then, the refrigerant in gaseous state discharged from the gas-liquid separator flows through the first flow rate control device into the third heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Soichiro KOSHI, Takuya MATSUDA, Hiroki ISHIYAMA, Yusuke TASHIRO
  • Patent number: 12085542
    Abstract: For providing a method capable of physically and objectively evaluating the consistency and state of a stool, provided is a method for measuring a stool consistency with a texture analyzer provided with a probe, the probe having a shape capable of measuring a consistency of a stool in a liquid form and in a solid form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Takuya Akiyama, Kazunori Matsuda, Junji Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20240288202
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a first heat transfer portion having a plurality of first heat transfer tubes; and a zeotropic refrigerant flowing through the plurality of first heat transfer tubes of the first heat transfer portion. The plurality of first heat transfer tubes are arranged in a line. The first heat transfer portion has the plurality of first heat transfer tubes arranged to allow flow of the zeotropic refrigerant flowing through the plurality of first heat transfer tubes to be orthogonal to flow of air flowing across the first heat transfer portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventor: Takuya MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 12044444
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a first heat exchanger, a first expansion device, a second expansion device, and a second heat exchanger are connected by refrigerant pipes and through which refrigerant circulates, an accumulator provided to the refrigerant circuit, formed to store liquid refrigerant, and from which gas refrigerant is caused to be sucked into the compressor, a liquid-level sensing device provided to the accumulator and sensing a liquid level of the liquid refrigerant stored in the accumulator, and a controller performs, in a case in which the liquid level sensed by the liquid-level sensing device is higher than a threshold, a limiting operation of reducing an amount of suction of the gas refrigerant that is sucked from the accumulator into the compressor and, in a case in which the liquid level is lower than or equal to the threshold, a normal operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Matsuda, Hiroaki Asanuma
  • Publication number: 20240240278
    Abstract: A steel sheet comprising, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, and Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, wherein a surface layer of the steel sheet contains granular oxides, an average grain size of the granular oxides is 300 nm or less, a number density of granular oxides is 4.0/?m2 or more, the steel sheet comprises an Si—Mn depleted layer having a thickness of 3.0 ?m or more from the surface of the steel sheet, and Si and Mn contents of the Si—Mn depleted layer not containing oxides at the ½ position of the thickness are respectively less than 10% of the Si and Mn contents at the sheet thickness center part of the steel sheet, and a plated steel sheet using the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MITSUNOBU, Keitaro MATSUDA, Jun MAKI, Takehiro TAKAHASHI, Hiroshi TAKEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12000636
    Abstract: A liquid level detector includes: a vertically-mounted accumulator that stores refrigerant; a heater that heats the accumulator; a temperature detector that detects a surface temperature of the accumulator; a pressure detector that detects a pressure of the refrigerant in the accumulator; and a controller. The controller detects a position of a liquid surface of the refrigerant in the accumulator based on a surface temperature of the accumulator detected by the temperature detector when the accumulator is heated by the heater, and a pressure of the refrigerant in the accumulator detected by the pressure detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Maruyama, Takuya Matsuda, Hiroyuki Okano, Naomichi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20240167717
    Abstract: An air-conditioner is provided with a flow path including a portion through which a gas distributor, a second part, a first part, and a gas-liquid two-phase distributor are sequentially connected. The air-conditioner is provided with another flow path including a portion through which a gas distributor, a third part, a fourth part, and a gas-liquid two-phase distributor are sequentially connected. The flow path and another flow path are connected in parallel with respect to a refrigeration cycle circuit in such a manner that the gas-liquid two-phase distributor and the gas-liquid two-phase distributor are connected and the gas distributor and the gas distributor are connected. The first part is arranged on a windward side and the second part is arranged on a leeward side. The third part is arranged on the windward side and the fourth part is arranged on the leeward side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventor: Takuya MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240151442
    Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a compressor, a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, a third heat exchanger, a flow path switching valve, a first expansion valve, a second expansion valve, a third expansion valve, a refrigerant container, a first check valve, and a second check valve. The flow path switching valve switches a circulation direction of a non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture between a first circulation direction and a second circulation direction. A first port of the third expansion valve communicates with the refrigerant container through the third heat exchanger. A second port of the third expansion valve communicates through the first check valve with a first flow path between the first heat exchanger and the first expansion valve, and communicates through the second check valve with a second flow path between the second heat exchanger and the second expansion valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Soichiro KOSHI, Hiroki ISHIYAMA, Takuya MATSUDA, Yusuke TASHIRO