Patents by Inventor Toru Fujii

Toru Fujii 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: 9188177
    Abstract: A brake disc is provided capable of effectively reducing the generation of noise such as brake noise by making specifications relating to lightening holes different from each other between two brake disc plates. In the brake disc, two brake disc plates are laminated so as to slide on each other by vibration during braking, and specifications relating to one or more selected from lightening holes, plate thickness, diameter, and warpage are made different from each other between the brake disc plates. In addition, lightening holes are formed on at least one of the brake disc plates, and one or more specifications selected from the number of lightening holes, the shapes of the lightening holes, the sizes of the lightening holes, and the arrangement positions of the lightening holes are made different from each other between the brake disc plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignees: SUNSTAR ENGINEERING INC., THE DOSHISHA
    Inventors: Toru Fujii, Kazuya Okubo, Kiyotaka Obunai, Yoshihisa Kubota, Hideaki Okada, Tsuyoshi Nakatsuji
  • Publication number: 20150261008
    Abstract: A refractive Fresnel lens used for an optical system including an image plane, which includes a plurality of zone lens surfaces disposed concentrically and a plurality of side wall surfaces each formed between adjacent zone lens surfaces, is characterized in that the side wall surfaces are modulated so as to spatially spread in the image plane noise light due to reflection and/or refraction at the side wall surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Toru Fujii, Alain Goulet
  • Publication number: 20150241332
    Abstract: An evaluation subject formed by a cut sample of a conveyor belt is mounted on a flat substrate with an inner periphery-side cover rubber layer located on the upper side, a support roller mounted in a frame is horizontally pulled and rolled in the longitudinal direction of the evaluation subject by pulling the frame by a wire while the support roller is pressed vertically downward against the upper surface of the evaluation subject at a preset pressure using a pneumatic cylinder without substantial deformation of the outer peripheral surface thereof, and tensile force in a horizontal direction measured at this time by a tensile force sensor connected to the wire is evaluated as resistance to moving over the support roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehiko Amano, Gang Hou, Toru Fujii, Kazuya Okubo
  • Publication number: 20150013912
    Abstract: A microwave plasma processing apparatus includes an inner slow-wave plate installed above a first slot in an inner waveguide which transmits microwaves to the first slot by transmitting the microwaves in a center side space, which is positioned closer to the center than the convex portion in the space between the slot plate and the intermediate metal body, through the space between the inner conductor and the intermediate conductor. An outer slow-wave plate is installed above a second slot in an outer waveguide which transmits microwaves to the second slot by transmitting the microwaves in an outer periphery side space, which is positioned closer to an outer periphery than the convex portion in the space between the slot antenna plate and the intermediate metal body, sequentially through the space between the intermediate conductor and the outer conductor, and the space between the intermediate metal body and cooling plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Toru FUJII, Toshihiko IWAO
  • Publication number: 20150013907
    Abstract: Disclosed is a microwave plasma processing apparatus. The microwave plasma processing apparatus includes a cooling plate. In addition, the microwave plasma processing apparatus includes an intermediate metal body installed on a processing container side of the cooling plate to be spaced apart from the cooling plate so that a spacing between the intermediate metal body and the cooling plate forms a waveguide of microwaves. The intermediate metal body is in contact with the cooling plate at one or plural convex portions arranged to block a portion of the waveguide. Further, the microwave plasma processing apparatus includes a coaxial waveguide configured to supply microwaves to the waveguide, a slot antenna plate configured to radiate microwaves via the waveguide, a dielectric window installed on the processing container side of the slot antenna plate, and a processing container installed to be sealed by the dielectric window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Toru FUJII, Toshihiko IWAO, Takahiro SENDA
  • Publication number: 20140326550
    Abstract: A brake disc is provided capable of effectively reducing the generation of noise such as brake noise by making specifications relating to lightening holes different from each other between two brake disc plates. In the brake disc, two brake disc plates are laminated so as to slide on each other by vibration during braking, and specifications relating to one or more selected from lightening holes, plate thickness, diameter, and warpage are made different from each other between the brake disc plates. In addition, lightening holes are formed on at least one of the brake disc plates, and one or more specifications selected from the number of lightening holes, the shapes of the lightening holes, the sizes of the lightening holes, and the arrangement positions of the lightening holes are made different from each other between the brake disc plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicants: THE DOSHISHA, SUNSTAR ENGINEERING INC.
    Inventors: Toru Fujii, Kazuya Okubo, Kiyotaka Obunai, Yoshihisa Kubota, Hideaki Okada, Tsuyoshi Nakatsuji
  • Patent number: 8873793
    Abstract: A loudspeaker resin molding component includes resin and bamboo fibers refined to have a microfibril status and carbonized. By this configuration, such a loudspeaker resin molding component can achieve both of a high elastic modulus and a large internal loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei Jin, Yoshimich Kajihara, Toru Fujii
  • Patent number: 8855357
    Abstract: A diaphragm is formed of paper manufactured from a first fiber material and a second fiber material. The first fiber material is beaten to have a given freeness, and the second fiber material is made by carbonizing bamboo fiber that has been fibrillated into a microfibril state. This structure allows the second fiber material to increase a rigidity of the diaphragm and also increase an internal loss, so that sound quality of the speaker that employs this diaphragm can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Kajihara, Yohei Jin, Toru Fujii
  • Publication number: 20140206811
    Abstract: A conjugated diene polymer rubber is provided that includes component (A) and component (B) below, component (A) having a content, with the total amount of component (A) and component (B) as 100% by weight, of from 5% to 90% by weight, and component (B) having a content of from 95% to 10% by weight, Component (A): a conjugated diene polymer rubber component modified with a carbonyl group- and substituted amino group-containing compound Component (B): a conjugated diene polymer rubber component modified with a compound represented by formula (IIa) below (R21O)mSi(R22A)nR234-m-n??(IIa) wherein m denotes a number from 1 to 3, n denotes a number from 1 to 3, m+n is from 2 to 4, R21 and R23 denote a hydrocarbyl group, R22 denotes a hydrocarbylene group, A denotes a substituted amino group or an optionally substituted hydrocarbyloxy group, when there are a plurality of R21s the plurality of R21s may be identical to or different from each other, when there are a plurality of R22s the plurality of R22s may be i
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Toru FUJII, Takuya SUDO, Mayumi OSHIMA, Katsunari INAGAKI
  • Patent number: 8774449
    Abstract: Each of a speaker diaphragm, a dust cap, and a frame includes a resin and a plant opal that is extracted from a bamboo leaf, and is formed by injection molding or sheet molding. The configuration can enhance stiffness of each of the diaphragm, the dust cap, and the frame and implement high performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Kajihara, Yohei Jin, Toru Fujii
  • Publication number: 20130301867
    Abstract: A loudspeaker resin molding component includes resin and bamboo fibers refined to have a microfibril status and carbonized. By this configuration, such a loudspeaker resin molding component can achieve both of a high elastic modulus and a large internal loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Yohei JIN, Yoshimichi KAJIHARA, Toru FUJII
  • Publication number: 20130271580
    Abstract: The present invention is a 3-dimensional image capturing method and a 3-dimensional image capturing apparatus for capturing a 3-dimensional image including a left eye image and a right eye image that are 2-dimensional images having parallax with each other. In the invention, an optical axis of an image capturing optical system of the image capturing apparatus is shifted between a first optical axis and a second optical axis whose image capturing ranges overlap at least partly, without moving the image captuing apparatus itself, and in the shift of the optical axis, one of the left eye image and the right eye image is captured at the timing when the optical axis of the image capturing optical system is being the first optical axis, and the other of the left eye image and the right eye image is captured at the timing when the optical axis of the image capturing optical system is being the second optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEMORY WORKS CORP.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Tahara, Masaya Kosaka, Toru Fujii, Tsuneyuki Kubo
  • Patent number: 8428283
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a paper making part for a loudspeaker has freedom of adjusting a characteristic and a sound quality, and has a higher productivity. Accordingly, a fibrillating step of a paper making material is achieved by an explosive crushing step. Alternatively, the step is achieved by a mixing step of a paper making material and a liquid, a material micro-fabricating step of applying a pressure to a mixed solution obtained by the mixing step so as to pass through an orifice and thereafter run into a device wall, and a paper making step including the micro-fabricated material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Mimura, Kenichi Ajiki, Shinya Mizone, Masahide Sumiyama, Toru Fujii
  • Patent number: 8343313
    Abstract: The production equipment of paper-made components for loudspeakers includes a mixing device, a fining device, a paper-making device, and a shape processing device. The mixing device mixes material of a paper-made component for a loudspeaker into liquid to generate mixed liquid. The fining device includes a pressure unit, an orifice, and an inner wall. The pressure unit applies pressure on the mixed liquid to cause the mixed liquid to pass through the orifice, and the mixed liquid collides against the inner wall to cause the fining device to generate fined material. The paper-making device paper-makes the fined material to generate a paper-made component. The shape processing device processes the shape of the paper-made component. This structure provides production equipment of the paper-made components for loudspeakers, which prepares material for paper-making in a short time and reduces producing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Mimura, Kenichi Ajiki, Shinya Mizone, Masahide Sumiyama, Toru Fujii
  • Patent number: 8304488
    Abstract: Conjugated diene polymer is provided that comprises a constitutional unit based on a conjugated diene and a constitutional unit based on a compound represented by Formula (1) below: R1Si(—R2-A)mR33-m??(1) wherein m represents an integer of 1 to 3; R1 represents a hydrocarbyl group having a polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond; R2 represents a hydrocarbylene group, and, when there are plural R2s, R2s each may be the same or different; A represents a substituted amino group, and, when there are plural A's, A's each may be the same or different; R3 represents a hydrocarbyl group, a substituted hydrocarbyl group or a substituted amino group, and, when there are plural R3s, R3s each may be the same or different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Toru Fujii, Katsunari Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20120257781
    Abstract: Each of a speaker diaphragm, a dust cap, and a frame includes a resin and a plant opal that is extracted from a bamboo leaf, and is formed by injection molding or sheet molding. The configuration can enhance stiffness of each of the diaphragm, the dust cap, and the frame and implement high performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Kajihara, Yohei Jin, Toru Fujii
  • Publication number: 20120249989
    Abstract: An illumination optical apparatus includes a light splitting device which splits the beam into a plurality of beams with respective polarization states different from each other, a spatial light modulation device which is arranged on at least one of a first optical path in which a first beam out of the plurality of beams travels and a second optical path in which a second beam out of the plurality of beams travels, and which has a plurality of optical elements arranged two-dimensionally and driven individually and a control device which controls the spatial modulation device to combine the first beam and the second beam at least in part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toru FUJII
  • Publication number: 20120250930
    Abstract: A diaphragm is formed of paper manufactured from a first fiber material and a second fiber material. The first fiber material is beaten to have a given freeness, and the second fiber material is made by carbonizing bamboo fiber that has been fibrillated into a microfibril state. This structure allows the second fiber material to increase a rigidity of the diaphragm and also increase an internal loss, so that sound quality of the speaker that employs this diaphragm can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Kajihara, Yohei Jin, Toru Fujii
  • Publication number: 20120145345
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a paper making part for a loudspeaker has freedom of adjusting a characteristic and a sound quality, and has a higher productivity. Accordingly, a fibrillating step of a paper making material is achieved by an explosive crushing step. Alternatively, the step is achieved by a mixing step of a paper making material and a liquid, a material micro-fabricating step of applying a pressure to a mixed solution obtained by the mixing step so as to pass through an orifice and thereafter run into a device wall, and a paper making step including the micro-fabricated material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi MIMURA, Kenichi Ajiki, Shinya Mizone, Masahide Sumiyama, Toru Fujii
  • Patent number: 8199964
    Abstract: A loudspeaker of high sound quality is achieved by improving rigidity of a material used for a diaphragm, a dust cap and a sub-cone. The diaphragm, the dust cap and the sub-cone of the loudspeaker are made of a paper beaten with the material containing bamboo fibers obtained from a bamboo tree aged one year or older, of which the fibers are finely beaten to an extent of micro-fibrillated form. The diaphragm and the dust cap are also made with a beaten paper containing at least 2 wt % of “A fibers” having stems of no greater than 30 ?m in diameter, and surfaces of the stems are fibrillated into shaggy branches having diameters of 1 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Mimura, Shinya Mizone, Kenichi Ajiki, Masahide Sumiyama, Toru Fujii, Yoshiyuku Takahashi, Nobuo Nakamura, Toshihiro Shimizu, Hitoshi Satou