Patents by Inventor Tsuyoshi Sugimoto
Tsuyoshi Sugimoto 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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Patent number: 11498589Abstract: A vehicle-mounted equipment control device includes a controller configured to cause equipment of any of a headlight, a wiper, and an air-conditioning device to continue a visual securing operation for securing visibility of a driver of a vehicle even after driving control of the vehicle is switched from automated driving control to manual driving control regardless of an operation mode of the equipment specified by an operation switch for setting an operation of the equipment when an operation mode executed by the equipment immediately before driving control of the vehicle is switched from automated driving control to manual driving control is an operation mode corresponding to the visual securing operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Daigo Ishikawa, Kazuhiko Ueda
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Publication number: 20220341240Abstract: An opening-closing member controller includes a control unit that executes an initialization process to store at least a fully closed position of an opening-closing member. In the initialization process, the control unit closes the opening-closing member, executes entrapment reversing control one or more times when entrapment is detected to open the opening-closing member, and closes the opening-closing member after the entrapment reversing control to store a position where the opening-closing member locks as the fully closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2020Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki AOSHIMA, Akiyoshi OHARA, Ryo MIYAZAKI, Kenji KANEKO, Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Toshihiro GOTOU, Hideki MAEDA
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Patent number: 11391189Abstract: A link component (150) with an oil hole (150E) is attached to a crankshaft (106) of an internal combustion engine (E), and the oil hole (150E) allows communication from an outside to the crankshaft (106) side. The oil hole (150E) has an inclined surface (150F) along an opening rim on the crankshaft (106) side. A surface other than the oil hole (150E) has a carbon concentration of 0.5 wt % or more. The inclined surface (150F) has a carbon concentration within a range of 0.7 wt % or more and 0.9 wt % or less. Production cost is suppressed, and at the same time, damage is prevented by increasing resistance of the oil-hole part on which stress is liable to concentrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Takahiro Hamada
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Patent number: 11384686Abstract: A fastening structure (105) includes a pair of fastening members (105A) joined to each other, which is coupled with a bolt. The fastening member (105) is made of steel. A surface other than joint surfaces (Sa) has a Rockwell hardness of 50 HRC or more. The joint surfaces (Sa) have a Rockwell hardness of 30 HRC or more and less than 50 HRC. The joint surfaces (Sa) have an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of 0.2 ?m or more and 0.5 ?m or less. Production cost is suppressed, and at the same time, bending fatigue strength is secured and secondary damage due to abrasion powder generated by fretting is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Takahiro Hamada
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Publication number: 20220204011Abstract: A management device includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire setting information for onboard equipment used by a user in a vehicle, vehicle model information for the vehicle, and identification information for the user, convert the setting information that has been acquired into new setting information based on the vehicle model information, and provide the new setting information to onboard equipment used by the user corresponding to the identification information in a new vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Jun IKEDA
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Patent number: 11000924Abstract: A heat treatment method is provided in which a first steel component (11) formed with a coating (111) thereon is fitted in first holes (123, 124) of a second steel component (12) subjected to a quenching treatment. The heat treatment method includes a heating step of heating the second steel component to a first temperature (T1) equal to or higher than a tempering temperature (T0) of the second steel component and higher than a temperature of the first steel component by a temperature difference (?T) for achieving shrink fitting and a shrink-fitting step of shrink-fitting the first steel component in the first holes of the second steel component in a state of maintaining the temperature difference for achieving shrink fitting between the first steel component and the second steel component.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Ryosuke Hiraishi, Kenji Yasui, Yukichi Okayama, Kei Tanaka, Takeshi Oshio
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Publication number: 20210071553Abstract: A link component (150) with an oil hole (150E) is attached to a crankshaft (106) of an internal combustion engine (E), and the oil hole (150E) allows communication from an outside to the crankshaft (106) side. The oil hole (150E) has an inclined surface (150F) along an opening rim on the crankshaft (106) side. A surface other than the oil hole (150E) has a carbon concentration of 0.5 wt % or more. The inclined surface (150F) has a carbon concentration within a range of 0.7 wt % or more and 0.9 wt % or less. Production cost is suppressed, and at the same time, damage is prevented by increasing resistance of the oil-hole part on which stress is liable to concentrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Takahiro HAMADA
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Publication number: 20210071569Abstract: A fastening structure (105) includes a pair of fastening members (105A) joined to each other, which is coupled with a bolt. The fastening member (105) is made of steel. A surface other than joint surfaces (Sa) has a Rockwell hardness of 50 HRC or more. The joint surfaces (Sa) have a Rockwell hardness of 30 HRC or more and less than 50 HRC. The joint surfaces (Sa) have an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of 0.2 ?m or more and 0.5 ?m or less. Production cost is suppressed, and at the same time, bending fatigue strength is secured and secondary damage due to abrasion powder generated by fretting is prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Takahiro HAMADA
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Patent number: 10941483Abstract: An in-line coating device includes: a coating section configured to perform coating on a workpiece; and a transport section configured to transport a plurality of the workpieces in the coating section. The coating section is provided with a plurality of coating materials which are aligned. The transport section transports the workpieces such that the workpieces face the plurality of coating materials. The in-line coating device includes a voltage applying section configured to, when the workpiece is transported and faces each coating material, apply to the workpiece, a bias voltage to attract particles emitted from the coating material toward the workpiece. The bias voltages applied to the workpiece by the voltage applying section when the workpiece faces one of the coating materials can be different from that applied when the workpiece faces another one of the coating material.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Yamamoto, Satoru Moriya, Toshihide Asano, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Motoki Yaginuma, Yasuhiro Numao
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Publication number: 20210009165Abstract: A vehicle-mounted equipment control device includes a controller configured to cause equipment of any of a headlight, a wiper, and an air-conditioning device to continue a visual securing operation for securing visibility of a driver of a vehicle even after driving control of the vehicle is switched from automated driving control to manual driving control regardless of an operation mode of the equipment specified by an operation switch for setting an operation of the equipment when an operation mode executed by the equipment immediately before driving control of the vehicle is switched from automated driving control to manual driving control is an operation mode corresponding to the visual securing operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Daigo Ishikawa, Kazuhiko Ueda
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Patent number: 10859932Abstract: A toner, including: a polyester resin, wherein the polyester resin has a structure represented by any one of formulas 1) to 3) below: 1) R1-(NHCONH-R2)n-, 2) R1-(NHCOO-R2)n-, and 3) R1-(OCONH-R2)n-, where n is 3 or more, R1 represents an aromatic organic group or an aliphatic organic group, and R2 represents a group derived from a resin that is polyester formed of polycarboxylic acid, polyol, or both thereof; or that is a modified polyester obtained by modifying polyester with isocyanate.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Shinya Nakayama, Hiroshi Yamada, Hideyuki Santo, Ryuta Chiba, Suzuka Amemori, Kohsuke Nagata
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Publication number: 20200206850Abstract: A heat treatment method is provided in which a first steel component (11) formed with a coating (111) thereon is fitted in first holes (123, 124) of a second steel component (12) subjected to a quenching treatment. The heat treatment method includes a heating step of heating the second steel component to a first temperature (T1) equal to or higher than a tempering temperature (T0) of the second steel component and higher than a temperature of the first steel component by a temperature difference (?T) for achieving shrink fitting and a shrink-fitting step of shrink-fitting the first steel component in the first holes of the second steel component in a state of maintaining the temperature difference for achieving shrink fitting between the first steel component and the second steel component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2020Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Ryosuke Hiraishi, Kenji Yasui, Yukichi Okayama, Kei Tanaka, Takeshi Oshio
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Patent number: 10670980Abstract: Provided is a toner including a crystalline polyester resin including a constitutional unit derived from saturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acid and a constitutional unit derived from saturated aliphatic diol, an amorphous hybrid resin, an amorphous polyester resin, a release agent, and a colorant, wherein the crystalline polyester resin includes a constitutional unit derived from sebacic acid as the constitutional unit derived from the saturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, and the amorphous hybrid resin is a composite resin including a polyester-based resin unit and a styrene-based resin unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Koh Ohnuma, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Shinya Nakayama, Hideyuki Santo, Shin Hasegawa, Suzuka Karato, Kohsuke Nagata
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Publication number: 20190255665Abstract: A heat treatment method is provided in which a first steel component (11) formed with a coating (111) thereon is fitted in first holes (123, 124) of a second steel component (12) subjected to a quenching treatment. The heat treatment method includes a heating step of heating the second steel component to a first temperature (T1) equal to or higher than a tempering temperature (T0) of the second steel component and higher than a temperature of the first steel component by a temperature difference (?T) for achieving shrink fitting and a shrink-fitting step of shrink-fitting the first steel component in the first holes of the second steel component in a state of maintaining the temperature difference for achieving shrink fitting between the first steel component and the second steel component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Ryosuke HIRAISHI, Kenji YASUI, Yukichi OKAYAMA, Kei TANAKA, Takeshi OSHIO
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Patent number: 10156801Abstract: A toner, including: a colorant; a binder resin; and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin includes a polyester resin, and the toner satisfies requirements (1) and (2) below: (1): G?(50)?3.0×107 Pa and 1.0×105 Pa?G?(60)?1.0×107 Pa, where G?(50) is a storage modulus at 50° C. of the toner and G?(60) is a storage modulus at 60° C. of the toner; and (2): a spin-spin relaxation time of the toner at 50° C. measured by solid echo method of pulse NMR is 1.0 ms or shorter.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2014Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kohsuke Nagata, Shinya Nakayama, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Daisuke Asahina, Susumu Chiba
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Publication number: 20180327874Abstract: A gas quenching method of the present invention includes a first stage (t1 to t2) at which a workpiece is subjected to a rapid cooling by forcibly circulating a cooling gas, a second stage (t2 to t3) at which the circulation of the cooling gas is stopped and pressure is reduced inside the furnace to conduct heat insulation, and a third stage (as from t3) at which the workpiece is cooled again by the cooling gas. At the second stage, the workpiece is maintained at an intermediate temperature that is higher than martensite transformation start temperature, and, during this, temperature throughout the workpiece is made uniform. Therefore, it is possible to achieve a uniform quenching and suppress distortion caused by difference of the cooling speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2015Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Yukichi OKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20180321606Abstract: Provided is a toner including a crystalline polyester resin including a constitutional unit derived from saturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acid and a constitutional unit derived from saturated aliphatic diol, an amorphous hybrid resin, an amorphous polyester resin, a release agent, and a colorant, wherein the crystalline polyester resin includes a constitutional unit derived from sebacic acid as the constitutional unit derived from the saturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, and the amorphous hybrid resin is a composite resin including a polyester-based resin unit and a styrene-based resin unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: Koh OHNUMA, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Shinya Nakayama, Hideyuki Santo, Shin Hasegawa, Suzuka Karato, Kohsuke Nagata
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Patent number: 10088766Abstract: A layered inorganic mineral including a surface treated with a fluorine-containing compound, where the layered inoganic mineral that can be favorably used for a toner that is excellent in high charging ability, charging stability, and low temperature fixing ability, and that can exhibits high reliability during cleaning.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hideyuki Santo, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Shinya Nakayama, Suzuka Amemori, Hiroshi Yamada, Ryuta Chiba, Kohsuke Nagata
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Patent number: 10073366Abstract: A toner is provided. The toner includes an amorphous resin, a crystalline resin dispersed in the amorphous resin, and a release agent. The toner satisfies the following inequality: B/A<0.8 where A represents a perimeter of the crystalline resin and B represents a length of a part of the perimeter A of the crystalline resin at which the crystalline resin is in contact with the amorphous resin, A and B being measured from a cross-sectional image of the toner observed with transmission electron microscope.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kohsuke Nagata, Ryuuta Yoshida, Shinya Nakayama, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Akinori Saitoh, Hideyuki Santo, Suzuka Karato, Koh Ohnuma, Takahiro Kadota, Shinsuke Nagai, Akihiro Takeyama
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Patent number: 9921503Abstract: A toner including: a pigment; polyester resin A that is insoluble in tetrahydrofuran (THF); and polyester resin B that is soluble in THF, wherein the toner satisfies requirements (1) to (3) below: (1) the polyester resin A includes one or more aliphatic diols including from 3 through 10 carbon atoms, as a component constituting the polyester resin A; (2) the polyester resin B includes at least an alkylene glycol in an amount of 40 mol % or more, as a component constituting the polyester resin B; and (3) a glass transition temperature (Tg1st) of the toner at first heating in differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of the toner is from 20° C. through 50° C.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamada, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Susumu Chiba, Shinsuke Nagai, Kohsuke Nagata, Shinya Nakayama, Yuka Mizoguchi, Suzuka Amemori