Patents by Inventor Toru Harada
Toru Harada 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).
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Publication number: 20230294145Abstract: A gas cleaning method includes: (a) removing a first metal element as one of contaminants from a process chamber by supplying a chlorine-containing gas into the process chamber without supplying an oxygen-containing gas; and (b) removing a second metal element as another one of the contaminants from the process chamber by supplying the oxygen-containing gas into the process chamber, wherein (b) is performed after (a).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Kokusai Electric CorporationInventors: Takahiro KOBAYASHI, Iwao NAKAMURA, Toru HARADA, Hisashi NOMURA, Sadayoshi HORII
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Patent number: 11434791Abstract: An oil level gauge guide apparatus including a body of an internal combustion engine, a case member attached to the body so as to cover a moving part disposed on a side of the body, a passage forming member forming a gauge passage through which an oil level gauge passes between the body and the case member, and a guide portion provided at a lower part of the passage forming member to guide the oil level gauge to the gauge passage. The body and the case member include a first and second facing surfaces facing each other so as to form a space to accommodate the moving part and the guide portion is extended along the gauge passage and protruded from one of the first facing surface and the second facing surface to the other of the first facing surface and the second facing surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toru Harada, Ryosuke Hayashi, Takashi Asami
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Patent number: 11236649Abstract: An internal combustion engine unit including an internal combustion engine body, a balancer device attached to a lower portion of the internal combustion engine body, and an oil pan attached to the lower portion of the internal combustion engine body so as to surround the balancer device. The balancer device is disposed facing an outlet of an oil outflow hole, and the oil outflow hole is formed in the internal combustion engine body so as to return a lubricating oil in the internal combustion engine body to the oil pan.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toru Harada
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Publication number: 20210207504Abstract: An oil level gauge guide apparatus including a body of an internal combustion engine, a case member attached to the body so as to cover a moving part disposed on a side of the body, a passage forming member forming a gauge passage through which an oil level gauge passes between the body and the case member, and a guide portion provided at a lower part of the passage forming member to guide the oil level gauge to the gauge passage. The body and the case member include a first and second facing surfaces facing each other so as to form a space to accommodate the moving part and the guide portion is extended along the gauge passage and protruded from one of the first facing surface and the second facing surface to the other of the first facing surface and the second facing surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Toru Harada, Ryosuke Hayashi, Takashi Asami
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Patent number: 11049215Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a tilt detection unit that detects a tilt in the vertical direction, conversion data used for transforming plane coordinates into spherical coordinates, a correction unit that corrects the conversion data according to the tilt, a plurality of image capturing units, a coordinate transformation unit that transforms plane coordinates of a plurality of pixels included in images captured by the image capturing units into spherical coordinates according to the conversion data corrected by the correction unit, and a combining unit that combines the images including the pixels transformed into spherical coordinates by the coordinate transformation unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Takenaka, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Hideaki Yamamoto, Kensuke Masuda, Yoichi Ito, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara, Noriyuki Terao, Toru Harada
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Patent number: 10855919Abstract: An imaging system includes an imaging body having an optical system and an imaging element, a power supplier configured to supply power to the imaging element, and a housing configured to hold the imaging body and the power supplier, wherein the optical system includes at least one optical element projecting from the housing, and a distance AP between a gravity center A of a portion including the optical system and a gravity center P of the entire imaging system and a distance BP between a gravity center B of the power supplier and the gravity center P of the entire imaging system satisfy the following condition.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara
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Patent number: 10816778Abstract: An image capture system including two imaging systems of the same structure each having a wide-angle lens, which includes a front group, a reflection surface, and a rear group arranged in order from an object side, has a field angle larger than 180 degrees, and bends an optical axis of the front group toward the rear group by the reflection surface, and an imaging sensor, obtains an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by combining images imaged by the imaging systems. Each of the two wide-angle lenses includes the reflection surface between the front group and the rear group, the reflection surfaces are made to be common to the two imaging systems. This reduces an interval between lenses nearest to the object side in the front groups of the two wide-angle lenses, thereby reducing a distance between maximum field angles of the two wide-angle lenses.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Satoh, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Kensuke Masuda, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Makoto Shohara, Yoichi Ito, Shusaku Takasu
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Publication number: 20200332684Abstract: An internal combustion engine unit including an internal combustion engine body, a balancer device attached to a lower portion of the internal combustion engine body, and an oil pan attached to the lower portion of the internal combustion engine body so as to surround the balancer device. The balancer device is disposed facing an outlet of an oil outflow hole, and the oil outflow hole is formed in the internal combustion engine body so as to return a lubricating oil in the internal combustion engine body to the oil pan.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventor: Toru Harada
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Patent number: 10788652Abstract: An imaging device includes two imaging optical systems each of the imaging optical systems including a wide-angle lens having an angle of view wider than 180 degrees, and an imaging sensor configured to image an image by the wide-angle lens, so as to obtain an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by synthesizing the images by the respective imaging optical systems, wherein the wide-angle lens of each of the imaging optical systems includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front group having a negative power, a reflection surface and a back group having a positive power, and is configured to bend an optical axis of the front group by the reflection surface at 90 degrees toward the back group.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara
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Publication number: 20200288059Abstract: An image processor includes a first converter to convert input images into images in a different coordinate system from that of the input images according to first conversion data based on a projection model, a position detector to detect a connecting position of the images converted by the converter, a corrector to correct the first conversion data on the basis of a result of the detection by the position detector, and a data generator to generate second conversion data for image synthesis from the conversion data corrected by the corrector on the basis of coordinate conversion, the second conversion data defining the conversion of the input images.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hirokazu TAKENAKA, Noriyuki TERAO, Yoshiaki IRINO, Tomonori TANAKA, Nozomi IMAE, Toru HARADA, Hideaki YAMAMOTO, Kensuke MASUDA, Yoichi ITO, Satoshi SAWAGUCHI, Daisuke BESSHO, Hiroyuki SATOH, Makoto SHOHARA, Shusaku TAKASU
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Patent number: 10718292Abstract: Recesses are formed in edge portions of a bearing cap bridge from second fastening portions toward first fastening portions, and when seen in an orthogonal direction to the cylinder block bottom wall, third fastening portions that fasten an engine auxiliary device driven by a crankshaft to the cylinder block bottom wall are arranged in spaces R1 to R4 that are demarcated by first imaginary lines L1, which pass through the second fastening portions and are orthogonal to a crankshaft axial line A, and outlines of the recesses.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Toru Harada
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Patent number: 10666860Abstract: An image processor includes a first converter to convert input images into images in a different coordinate system from that of the input images according to first conversion data based on a projection model, a position detector to detect a connecting position of the images converted by the converter, a corrector to correct the first conversion data on the basis of a result of the detection by the position detector, and a data generator to generate second conversion data for image synthesis from the conversion data corrected by the corrector on the basis of coordinate conversion, the second conversion data defining the conversion of the input images.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Takenaka, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hideaki Yamamoto, Kensuke Masuda, Yoichi Ito, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara, Shusaku Takasu
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Patent number: 10649185Abstract: An optical system includes a central portion having a magnification per unit angle of view which increases from a center to an outside at an increase rate and a circumferential portion being outside the central portion and having a magnification per unit of view which increases from the central portion to an outside at an increase rate smaller than the increase rate of the central portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Hiroyuki Satoh
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Publication number: 20200025126Abstract: Recesses are formed in edge portions of a bearing cap bridge from second fastening portions toward first fastening portions, and when seen in an orthogonal direction to the cylinder block bottom wall, third fastening portions that fasten an engine auxiliary device driven by a crankshaft to the cylinder block bottom wall are arranged in spaces R1 to R4 that are demarcated by first imaginary lines L1, which pass through the second fastening portions and are orthogonal to a crankshaft axial line A, and outlines of the recesses.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Toru Harada
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Publication number: 20190306423Abstract: An imaging system includes an imaging body having an optical system and an imaging element, a power supplier configured to supply power to the imaging element, and a housing configured to hold the imaging body and the power supplier, wherein the optical system includes at least one optical element projecting from the housing, and a distance AP between a gravity center A of a portion including the optical system and a gravity center P of the entire imaging system and a distance BP between a gravity center B of the power supplier and the gravity center P of the entire imaging system satisfy the following condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara
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Patent number: 10382681Abstract: An imaging system includes an imaging body having an optical system and an imaging element, a power supplier configured to supply power to the imaging element, and a housing configured to hold the imaging body and the power supplier, wherein the optical system includes at least one optical element projecting from the housing, and a distance AP between a gravity center A of a portion including the optical system and a gravity center P of the entire imaging system and a distance BP between a gravity center B of the power supplier and the gravity center P of the entire imaging system satisfy the following condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara
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Publication number: 20190243110Abstract: An imaging device includes two imaging optical systems each of the imaging optical systems including a wide-angle lens having an angle of view wider than 180 degrees, and an imaging sensor configured to image an image by the wide-angle lens, so as to obtain an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by synthesizing the images by the respective imaging optical systems, wherein the wide-angle lens of each of the imaging optical systems includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front group having a negative power, a reflection surface and a back group having a positive power, and is configured to bend an optical axis of the front group by the reflection surface at 90 degrees toward the back group.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kensuke MASUDA, Noriyuki TERAO, Yoshiaki IRINO, Tomonori TANAKA, Nozomi IMAE, Toru HARADA, Hirokazu TAKENAKA, Hideaki YAMAMOTO, Satoshi SAWAGUCHI, Daisuke BESSHO, Hiroyuki SATOH, Makoto SHOHARA
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Patent number: 10295797Abstract: An imaging device includes two imaging optical systems each of the imaging optical systems including a wide-angle lens having an angle of view wider than 180 degrees, and an imaging sensor configured to image an image by the wide-angle lens, so as to obtain an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by synthesizing the images by the respective imaging optical systems, wherein the wide-angle lens of each of the imaging optical systems includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front group having a negative power, a reflection surface and a back group having a positive power, and is configured to bend an optical axis of the front group by the reflection surface at 90 degrees toward the back group.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara
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Publication number: 20190086649Abstract: An image capture system including two imaging systems of the same structure each having a wide-angle lens, which includes a front group, a reflection surface, and a rear group arranged in order from an object side, has a field angle larger than 180 degrees, and bends an optical axis of the front group toward the rear group by the reflection surface, and an imaging sensor, obtains an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by combining images imaged by the imaging systems. Each of the two wide-angle lenses includes the reflection surface between the front group and the rear group, the reflection surfaces are made to be common to the two imaging systems. This reduces an interval between lenses nearest to the object side in the front groups of the two wide-angle lenses, thereby reducing a distance between maximum field angles of the two wide-angle lenses.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Hiroyuki SATOH, Noriyuki TERAO, Yoshiaki IRINO, Tomonori TANAKA, Nozomi IMAE, Toru HARADA, Hirokazu TAKENAKA, Hideaki YAMAMOTO, Kensuke MASUDA, Satoshi SAWAGUCHI, Daisuke BESSHO, Makoto SHOHARA, Yoichi ITO, Shusaku TAKASU
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Patent number: 10151905Abstract: An image capture system including two imaging systems of the same structure each having a wide-angle lens, which includes a front group, a reflection surface, and a rear group arranged in order from an object side, has a field angle larger than 180 degrees, and bends an optical axis of the front group toward the rear group by the reflection surface, and an imaging sensor, obtains an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by combining images imaged by the imaging systems. Each of the two wide-angle lenses includes the reflection surface between the front group and the rear group, the reflection surfaces are made to be common to the two imaging systems. This reduces an interval between lenses nearest to the object side in the front groups of the two wide-angle lenses, thereby reducing a distance between maximum field angles of the two wide-angle lenses.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Satoh, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Kensuke Masuda, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Makoto Shohara, Yoichi Ito, Shusaku Takasu