Patents by Inventor Tomoya Hirano

Tomoya Hirano 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: 7939330
    Abstract: A fluorescent probe which specifically and efficiently traps nitrogen monoxide, zinc ion etc. to emit fluorescence is provided. A compound represented by the following general formula (I): [wherein R1 and R2 represent hydrogen atom, or a group represented by the following formula (A): (wherein X1 to X4 represent hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or a protective group for amino group, and m and n represent 0 or 1); R3 and R4 represent hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group, or a C1-6 alkoxy group; R5 to R12 represent hydrogen atom, sulfo group, phospho group, a halogen atom, or a C1-6 alkyl group; R13 and R14 represent a C1-18 alkyl group; Z1 represents oxygen atom, sulfur atom, or —N(R15)— (wherein R15 represents hydrogen atom, or a C1-6 alkyl group); Y1 and Y2 represent —C(?O)—, —C(?S)—, or —C(R16)(R17) (wherein R16 and R17 represent a C1-6 alkyl group); and M? represents a counter ion in a number required for neutralizing the charge].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Inventors: Tetsuo Nagano, Eita Sasaki, Hirotatsu Kojima, Tomoya Hirano, Kazuya Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 7922237
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a cab; a front window that is capable of moving between a closed position where a window opening at a front surface of the cab is closed and an open position where the front window is housed in a ceiling portion of the cab and the window opening is open; and a guide structure for the front window that guides the front window between the closed position and the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignees: Catepillar Japan Ltd., Press Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Kazushige Tasaki, Masayoshi Nakajima, Tetsuji Takaoka, Teruyuki Yamada, Tomoya Hirano, Yusuke Harayama
  • Publication number: 20110038803
    Abstract: A fluorescent probe which specifically and efficiently traps nitrogen monoxide, zinc ion etc. to emit fluorescence is provided. A compound represented by the following general formula (I): [wherein R1 and R2 represent hydrogen atom, or a group represented by the following formula (A): (wherein X1 to X4 represent hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or a protective group for amino group, and m and n represent 0 or 1); R3 and R4 represent hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group, or a C1-6 alkoxy group; R5 to R12 represent hydrogen atom, sulfo group, phospho group, a halogen atom, or a C1-6 alkyl group; R13 and R14 represent a C1-18 alkyl group; Z1 represents oxygen atom, sulfur atom, or —N(R15)— (wherein R15 represents hydrogen atom, or a C1-6 alkyl group); Y1 and Y2 represent —C(?O)—, —C(?S)—, or —C(R16)(R17) (wherein R16 and R17 represent a C1-6 alkyl group); and M? represents a counter ion in a number required for neutralizing the charge].
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Inventors: Tetsuo NAGANO, Eita SASAKI, Hirotatsu KOJIMA, Tomoya HIRANO, Kazuya KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 7887436
    Abstract: A wood-type golf club head has a hollow structure having a specific configuration in which, in order to make it easier to rotate the club head around the clubshaft during swing while maintaining a large lateral moment of inertia, the relative positions of the club face, the center of gravity, the clubshaft center line and the heel are optimized by limiting the face progression within a range between 21 to 27 mm, and the area ratio (S1/S2) of two specific right-angle triangles (OGP and ORQ) described on a horizontal plane (HP2) within a range of from 4 to 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventor: Tomoya Hirano
  • Publication number: 20100317460
    Abstract: A golf club head having a club face for hitting a ball comprises a hollow main body provided with a front opening, and a face member disposed at the front of the main body so that a front surface thereof forms at least a major part of the club face, and a rear surface thereof faces a hollow of the main body. The peripheral edge of the face member is welded to the main body so as to form a weld bead, and the width of the weld bead is changed so that a difference (wmax-wmin) between the maximum width wmax and minimum width wmin is not less than 1 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventor: Tomoya Hirano
  • Publication number: 20100304888
    Abstract: A hollow golf club head is disclosed, wherein a front member including a face portion and a hosel portion of the club head is made of a material having a specific gravity ?1; a rear member forming a backmost point of the club head is made of a material having a specific gravity ?2; and an intermediate member extending annularly through in a crown portion, a sole portion and a sidewall portion of the head is made of a material having a specific gravity ?3; and the specific gravity ?3 is more than the specific gravity ?1 which is more than the specific gravity ?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Tomoya HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20100283290
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a cab; a front window that is capable of moving between a closed position where a window opening at a front surface of the cab is closed and an open position where the front window is housed in a ceiling portion of the cab and the window opening is open; and a guide structure for the front window that guides the front window between the closed position and the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicants: CATERPILLAR JAPAN LTD., PRESS KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Kazushige Tasaki, Masayoshi Nakajima, Tetsuji Takaoka, Teruyuki Yamada, Tomoya Hirano, Yusuke Harayama
  • Patent number: 7775907
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hollow golf club head is disclosed, wherein a metallic main frame provided with a top opening and a bottom opening, a metallic crown plate and a metallic sole plate are prepared. The sole plate is placed in the bottom opening. A die is inserted into the inside of the main frame through the top opening. A protrusion of the sole plate is crushed onto the edge portion of the main frame around the bottom opening, by the use of the inserted die. Then the top opening is closed by the crown plate. The specific gravity SGm and proof stress YSm of the main frame, the specific gravity SGs and proof stress YSs of the sole plate, and the specific gravity SGf of the face plate satisfy: SGf=<SGm<SGs and YSs<YSm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventor: Tomoya Hirano
  • Patent number: 7775904
    Abstract: A wood-type golf club head has a hollow structure comprising a face portion having a back surface and a front surface defining a club face for striking a ball, a crown portion, a sole portion, and a side portion between the crown portion and sole portion. The hollow structure is provided with a hollow and a solid part. The solid part extends forward from the backmost point of the club head by a distance of from 0.08 to 0.20 times the maximum size of the club head in the back-and-forth direction, the hollow extends between the front surface of the solid part and the back surface of the face portion. The main frame of the hollow structure integrally includes the solid part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventor: Tomoya Hirano
  • Publication number: 20100154196
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a golf club head composed of a metal main body and a non-flat metal face member which are welded each other is disclosed. In order to make the non-flat metal face member, an in-process face material is cut out from a rolled metal plate having a constant thickness. And a turnback is formed around the in-process face material by press working. Before making the press working, the region of the in-process face material corresponding to the turnback is decreased in the thickness by a cutting work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventor: Tomoya HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20100127513
    Abstract: A locking device includes a lock body that includes an engagement groove with or from which the closing-side and opening-side lock receivers are engaged or disengaged, the lock body being variable between a neutral posture in which the closing-side and opening-side lock receivers are allowed to be engaged with or disengaged from the engagement groove; a closing-side locking posture in which the closing-side lock receiver that is engaged with the engagement groove is regulated so as not to be disengaged from the engagement groove; or an opening-side locking posture in which the opening-side lock receiver that is engaged with the engagement groove is regulated so as not to be disengaged from the engagement groove; a holding member and a release operation lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Caterpillar Japan Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Akahane, Teruyuki Yamada, Tomoya Hirano, Yusuke Harayama
  • Patent number: 7696245
    Abstract: A compound represented by the following general formula (IA) or (IB) or a salt thereof which specifically traps a zinc ion and emits fluorescence, and is useful as a fluorescent probe for zinc: wherein R1 and R2 represent a hydrogen atom or a group represented by the following formula (A): wherein X1 to X4 represent a hydrogen atom, a 2-pyridylmethyl group, a 2-pyridylethyl group, a 2-methyl-6-pyridylmethyl group, or a 2-methyl-6-pyridylethyl group, provided that at least one is the group except a 2-pyridylmethyl group, and m and n represent 0 or 1, provided that they are not simultaneously 0; provided that R1 and R2 are not simultaneously hydrogen atoms; R3 and R4 represent a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; R5 and R6 represent a hydrogen atom, an alkylcarbonyl group, or an alkylcarbonyloxymethyl group; and R7 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignees: Sekisui Medical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Komatsu, Tomoya Hirano, Kazuya Kikuchi, Tetsuo Nagano
  • Patent number: 7658687
    Abstract: A hollow wood-type golf club head with improved directional stability having, in head periphery region Ao including head contour line OL defined by crown portion 4 when viewed from above as a plane view of the head in the standard state, thick wall portion 9 extending along the contour line and expanding toward the hollow portion side to have an increased thickness, wherein the thick wall portion 9 comprises crown thick wall portion 9c which forms a part of crown portion 4 and has a thickness of 1.2 to 2.0 mm, and side thick wall portion 9s which is continuous with the crown thick wall portion 9c and forms a part of side portion 6 and has a thickness of 1.2 to 3.0 mm, and wherein the thick wall portion 9 has a width along the head outer surface of 6 to 16 mm in a vertical section passing through the head center of gravity G in the standard state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventor: Tomoya Hirano
  • Publication number: 20090305815
    Abstract: An iron-type golf club head 1 having excellent durability and weight distribution design and comprising a metallic head body 1A having a face 2 for hitting a golf ball and a recess portion 13, and a metallic weight member 1B having a larger specific gravity than the head body 1A, the member 1B being fitted to and welded to the recess portion to form a part of the outer surface of the head body 1A, wherein at least one closed space 14 surrounded by the weight member 1B and the surface of the recess portion 13 is formed inside the head body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventor: Tomoya Hirano
  • Publication number: 20090291775
    Abstract: A wood-type hollow golf club head has a lateral moment of inertia Ma and a vertical moment of inertia Mb which has a ratio (Mb/Ma) of not less than 0.80. The head can be provided with a hollow structure divided in the front-back direction of the head into a front member, a rear member and a middle member therebetween, wherein the middle member has a specific gravity smaller than those of the front member and rear member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Inventor: Tomoya HIRANO
  • Patent number: 7618331
    Abstract: A golf club head comprises a face portion having a front face defining the club face and a rear face facing a hollow, wherein the face portion is provided on the rear face with an upper rib, a lower rib, a toe-side groove and a heel-side groove which extend radially from a thickest central region, so as to form a toe-side upper region, a toe-side lower region, a heel-side upper region and a heel-side lower region. The thickness distribution of the face portion satisfies the following magnitude relations: (Central region>=upper rib); (central region>=Lower rib); (upper rib>Toe-side upper region>Toe-side groove); (Lower rib>Toe-side lower region>Toe-side groove); (upper rib>Heel-side upper region>Heel-side groove); and (Lower rib>Heel-side lower region>Heel-side groove).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventor: Tomoya Hirano
  • Publication number: 20090280926
    Abstract: A golf club head has a hollow structure comprising a face member and a main member. The face member is made of a first titanium alloy having a specific gravity G1 of less than 4.42. The main member is made of a second titanium alloy having a specific gravity G2 of less than 4.42, the first titanium alloy and second titanium alloy have different compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventor: Tomoya HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20090275425
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a golf club head having a hollow structure composed of a main body-member and a metal face member welded thereto, comprises the steps of: (a) preparing a rolled material having a constant thickness; (b) cutting out a face member part or blank from the rolled material; (c) making the face member by forming the turnback through press working on the face member part; and (d) reducing the thickness of a corresponding-to-turnback region by machining prior to the step (c), wherein the corresponding-to-turnback region is a region of the cutout face member part corresponding to the turnback, or a region of the rolled material corresponding to the turnback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventor: Tomoya HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20090253533
    Abstract: A golf club head is provided with a face portion comprising: a central thick part having a thickness Tc; a crown-side thick part having a thicknesses Tr; a sole-side thick part having a thicknesses Tr; a toe-side thinner part having a thickness TT; and a heel-side thinner part having a thickness TH, wherein: (1) Tc>=Tr>TT and (2) Tr>TH are satisfied; and the centroid of the central thick part is positioned on the toe-side of an extension of a widthwise center line of the crown-side thick part towards the sole and further positioned on the heel-side of an extension of a widthwise center line of the sole-side thick part towards the crown.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventor: Tomoya HIRANO
  • Patent number: 7559853
    Abstract: A golf club head and a manufacturing method therefor in which the coefficient of restitution can be easily adjusted to desirable values for example the upper limit specified by Golf the Rules without impairing the durability and the directional stability. The head comprises a face member having a ball striking club face, and a main member at the front of which the face member is disposed, wherein the face member is produced from a titanium alloy, and the main member is produced from another titanium alloy having a larger specific gravity than that of the face member's titanium alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: SRI Sports Limited
    Inventor: Tomoya Hirano