Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Ito

Yasuhiro Ito 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: 11731392
    Abstract: A panel structure includes: a panel made of metal; and a reinforcement joined to the panel and made of a plurality of FRP layers including continuous fibers, in which each of the plurality of FRP layers has a single fiber direction, at least one layer out of the plurality of FRP layers has a fiber direction different from that of another layer, in the plurality of FRP layers, a proportion of layers having an angular difference in the fiber direction of 30° or more is 15% or more of all of the layers, and when calculating, by defining a long side direction being a long direction of a long edge of the panel as a 90° direction and a direction orthogonal to the 90° direction as a 0° direction, each of a 90° direction component and a 0° direction component regarding the fiber direction of each FRP layer of the reinforcement joined to the panel, by using a trigonometric function, an expression (1) is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Aitoh, Yasuhiro Ito
  • Patent number: 11718351
    Abstract: An automobile structural member has a first wall part, a second wall part that faces the first wall part, and a third wall part that connects the first wall part and the second wall part. At least one of the first wall part and the second wall part has a main wall part in which two through-holes are formed, and at least two auxiliary wall parts that are provided so as to rise from the main wall part. Each auxiliary wall part is provided so as to rise in the thickness direction of the main wall part from an edge of a through-hole. The distance between two auxiliary wall parts in the longitudinal direction of the main wall part is 1.4 times or less the width of the main wall part at a portion between the two auxiliary wall parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20230241662
    Abstract: A burring processing method including increasing a diameter of a prepared hole provided in a metal component and bending a part of the metal component to form a burring processed portion (110) including an upright portion (120) and a curved portion (130), wherein in a cross-section that passes through an axis (cb) of the burring processed portion (110) and is parallel to the axis (cb) of the buffing processed portion (110), a cross-sectional shape of the curved portion (130) on an inner surface of the curved portion consists of a curve, and a length of the curved portion (130) in a direction perpendicular to the axis (cb) of the burring processed portion (110) is at least 1.2 times a height of the curved portion in a direction parallel to the axis (cb) of the burring processed portion (110).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro OTSUKA, Masafumi AZUMA, Yasuhiro ITO, Toru YONEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11712730
    Abstract: This manufacturing method of a structural member includes an intermediate step and a bending step. A height difference is provided on a bottom wall of a groove part between an intermediate position and both end positions sandwiching the intermediate position therebetween in a longitudinal sectional view in an extending direction of the groove part by the pressing in the intermediate step, and thereby at least one of a first curved part which has a concave curved shape in a plan view and a convex curved shape in the longitudinal sectional view and a second curved part which has a convex curved shape in the plan view and a concave curved shape in the longitudinal sectional view is formed on the bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Tabata, Yasuhiro Ito
  • Patent number: 11699305
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a maintenance-necessity detector and an automatic driving controller. The maintenance-necessity detector is configured to determine whether maintenance of the vehicle is necessary. The automatic driving controller is configured to cause the vehicle to move to a maintenance facility at which the maintenance of the vehicle is to be performed, on the basis of automatic driving that is independent of driving to be performed by an occupant of the vehicle, in a case where the maintenance is determined by the maintenance-necessity detector as being necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukimune Kaneda, Takuya Kishimoto, Konosuke Muramatsu, Yasuhiro Ito, Yuta Suzuki, Ikuo Hirose
  • Patent number: 11657709
    Abstract: A safety confirmation support system includes: a moving object detector which detects a moving object in each of detection regions set around the vehicle; display units each associated with a different one of the detection regions; a line-of-sight detector which detects a line of sight of the driver; and a display controller which controls the display units based on detection results from the moving object detector and the line-of-sight detector. When the moving object is detected in a specified detection region, the display controller (i) displays moving object information on a specified display unit associated with the specified detection region when the line of sight is away from the specified detection region, and (ii) stops display of the moving object information on the specified display unit when the line of sight is towards the specified detection region while the moving object information is displayed on the specified display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Nakazawa, Kyoko Ueda, Nobutaka Kitajima, Mutsumi Kawagoe, Tadashi Yoshida, Yasuhiro Ito, Kenji Oga
  • Publication number: 20230138581
    Abstract: A production method for a steel component includes preparing a patchwork material including steel sheets that are laid one on another, at least one of overlap surfaces of the steel sheets including a zinc-based plating layer, heating the patchwork material, and performing hot stamping on the patchwork material heated to form the steel component in which a joint part between the steel sheets is disposed in a bent area. When tout denotes a sheet thickness of a steel sheet located on an outer side in the bent area, and tin denotes a sheet thickness of a steel sheet located on an inner side, tout/tin?1.1 is satisfied. The joint part is disposed in a ridge portion or at a position in a vicinity of the ridge portion, and the position satisfies d/tin<8.2, where d denotes a distance from the ridge portion to the joint part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro ITO
  • Patent number: 11639313
    Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition contains dielectric particles containing a main component represented by a composition formula (Ba1-x-ySrxCay)m(Ti1-zZrz)O3 and grain boundaries present between the dielectric particles. The values of m, x, y, and z in the composition formula are all molar ratios. In the composition formula, 0.9?m?1.4, 0?x<1.0, 0<y?1.0, 0.9?(x+y)?1.0, and 0.9?z?1.0 are satisfied. The dielectric particles contain specific structural particles having a predetermined intragranular structure, and each of the specific structural particles intragranularly includes a first region and a second region having different Ca concentrations from each other. C2/C1 is less than 0.8 in which C1 is an average value of the Ca concentration in the first region and C2 is an average value of the Ca concentration in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dan Sakurai, Yasuhiro Ito, Nobuto Morigasaki, Toshihiko Kaneko, Toshihiro Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11597441
    Abstract: An automobile structural member being a hollow automobile structural member having: a top wall part; a bottom wall part facing the top wall part; and a first heightwise wall part and a second heightwise wall part being a pair of heightwise wall parts that connect to the top wall part and the bottom wall part, the automobile structural member including: a first reinforcing part having one end portion joined to the top wall part and the other end portion joined to the bottom wall part; and a second reinforcing part having one end portion joined to either the first heightwise wall part or the second heightwise wall part, and the other end portion joined to the first reinforcing part, in which a plurality of the second reinforcing parts are provided along a height direction of the heightwise wall part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Urushibata, Yasuhiro Ito
  • Patent number: 11566914
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus includes an acquisition section that acquires position information from a terminal device, a specifying section that specifies a target publication from plural publications on which maps have been posted, by performing processing with the position information, and a providing section that provides the terminal device with information indicating a correspondence relationship between a map posted on the target publication and a position indicated by the position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Ito, Junko Murakami
  • Patent number: 11507536
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is able to access a file storage region which is formed in accordance with job defining information that defines tasks of a job and a file to be created in each of the tasks. The file storage region is formed for each job or each job and each task. A file related to a job or a task is stored in a corresponding file storage region. The information processing apparatus includes a processor which is configured to: obtain job status information concerning a status of each job for which a file storage region is formed; and select, a display element indicating files stored in a first file storage region, a file as a subject file to be displayed, from among the files stored in the first file storage region, in accordance with the status of a first job corresponding to the first file storage region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Junko Murakami, Yasuhiro Ito, Tomoyuki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20220347794
    Abstract: A first workpiece and a second workpiece respectively include a first joint portion and a second joint portion which extend linearly. Among the first joint portion and the second joint portion, the second joint portion includes a seating portion that abuts the first joint portion, and an overlapping portion inclined in a direction that moves away from the first joint portion. When joining is to be performed, first the seating portion is butted against the first joint portion, and then the overlapping portion is pressed toward the first joint portion by means of a pressing force applying means. In addition, laser light is radiated at parts of the first joint portion and the overlapping portion that are in proximity to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Ito, Naoki Takahashi, Jun Kitagawa, Akihiro Nemoto
  • Patent number: 11465687
    Abstract: An automobile structural member being a hollow automobile structural member having: a top wall part; a bottom wall part facing the top wall part; and a pair of heightwise wall parts that connect to the top wall part and the bottom wall part, the automobile structural member including a first corrugated reinforcing member being inside the automobile structural member, wherein: a bottom portion and a top portion of the first corrugated reinforcing member extend in a direction from the top wall part toward the bottom wall part; and the bottom portion of the first corrugated reinforcing member is joined to an inner surface of the heightwise wall part of either of a pair of the heightwise wall parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Urushibata, Yasuhiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20220306541
    Abstract: A ferrite composition comprises a main component and a subcomponent. The main component includes 32.0 to 46.4 mol % of iron oxide in terms of Fe2O3, 4.4 to 14.0 mol % of copper oxide in terms of CuO, and 8.4 to 56.9 mol % of zinc oxide in terms of ZnO. The subcomponent includes 0.53 to 11.00 parts by weight of a silicon compound in terms of SiO2, 0.1 to 12.8 parts by weight of a tin compound in terms of SnO2, and 0.5 to 7.0 parts by weight of a bismuth compound in terms of Bi2O3, with respect to 100 parts by weight of the main component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi KAKUDA, Takashi SUZUKI, Yukio TAKAHASHI, Kunihiko KAWASAKI, Hiroyuki TANOUE, Takehiro ISHII, Takuya NIIBORI, Takahiro SATO, Akihiko OIDE, Yasuhiro ITO, Takashi ENDO, Kunio ODA
  • Publication number: 20220297406
    Abstract: A panel structure includes: a panel made of metal; and a reinforcement joined to the panel and made of a plurality of FRP layers including continuous fibers, in which each of the plurality of FRP layers has a single fiber direction, at least one layer out of the plurality of FRP layers has a fiber direction different from that of another layer, in the plurality of FRP layers, a proportion of layers having an angular difference in the fiber direction of 30° or more is 15% or more of all of the layers, and when calculating, by defining a long side direction being a long direction of a long edge of the panel as a 90° direction and a direction orthogonal to the 90° direction as a 0° direction, each of a 90° direction component and a 0° direction component regarding the fiber direction of each FRP layer of the reinforcement joined to the panel, by using a trigonometric function, an expression (1) is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro AITOH, Yasuhiro ITO
  • Patent number: 11413919
    Abstract: A structural member includes a top sheet portion which has a first edge portion and a second edge portion facing the first edge portion, a wall portion which extends from the second edge portion in a direction intersecting the top sheet portion, and a closed cross-sectional portion which is provided in the first edge portion, in which the first edge portion is curved toward an inside of the top sheet portion in a plan view with respect to the top sheet portion, and when a distance from the first edge portion to the second edge portion of the structural member is referred to as a structural member width, the closed cross-sectional portion forms a closed cross section on a vertical cut plane of the structural member along a direction of the structural member width, the vertical cut plane of the structural member along the direction of the structural member width has an open cross section, and a shape of the vertical cut plane of the structural member including the closed cross-sectional portion is asymmetric wi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Ito, Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Takeshi Kawachi
  • Publication number: 20220250132
    Abstract: This manufacturing method of a structural member includes an intermediate step and a bending step. A height difference is provided on a bottom wall of a groove part between an intermediate position and both end positions sandwiching the intermediate position therebetween in a longitudinal sectional view in an extending direction of the groove part by the pressing in the intermediate step, and thereby at least one of a first curved part which has a concave curved shape in a plan view and a convex curved shape in the longitudinal sectional view and a second curved part which has a convex curved shape in the plan view and a concave curved shape in the longitudinal sectional view is formed on the bottom wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo TABATA, Yasuhiro ITO
  • Publication number: 20220254567
    Abstract: A dielectric composition includes a main-phase particle and segregation particles. The main-phase particle includes a main component having a perovskite crystal structure represented by a general formula of ABO3. The dielectric composition includes RA, RB, M, and Si. Each of A, B, RA, RB, and M is one or more elements selected from a specific element group. Each of an RA content CRA to the main component, an RB content CRB to the main component, an M content to the main component, and a Si content to the main component is within a predetermined range. 0.50<(?/?)/(CRA/CRB)?1.00 is satisfied, where a is an average RA content (mol %) and f3 is an average RB content (mol %) of specific segregation particles mainly including RA, RB, Si, Ba, and Ti in the segregation particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku MURAKAMI, Nobuto MORIGASAKI, Takuma ARIIZUMI, Toshihiko KANEKO, Yasuhiro ITO
  • Publication number: 20220254570
    Abstract: A dielectric composition includes a main phase, first segregation phases, and second segregation phases. The main phase includes a main component having a perovskite crystal structure of ABO3 (A is one or more selected from Ba, Sr, and Ca, and B is one or more selected from Ti, Zr, and Hf). The first segregation phases include RE (one or more selected from rare earth elements), A, Si, Ti, and O. The second segregation phases include RE, A, Ti, and O and do not substantially include Si. 0.10<S2/S1?1.50 is satisfied on a cross section of the dielectric composition, where S1 is an area ratio of the first segregation phases, and S2 is an area ratio of the second segregation phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma ARIIZUMI, Taku MURAKAMI, Nobuto MORIGASAKI, Toshihiko KANEKO, Yasuhiro ITO
  • Publication number: 20220254569
    Abstract: A dielectric composition includes a main phase and segregation phases each including RE (at least one rare earth element). The main phase includes a main component having a perovskite crystal structure of ABO3 (A is one or more selected from Ba, Sr, and Ca, and B is one or more selected from Ti, Zr, and Hf). The segregation phases are classified into first segregation phases whose atomic ratio of Si to RE is 0 or more and 0.20 or less and second segregation phases whose atomic ratio of Si to the RE is more than 0.20. 0?S1/S2?0.10 is satisfied on a cross section of the dielectric composition, where S1 is an area ratio of the first segregation phases, and S2 is an area ratio of the second segregation phases. An atomic ratio of Si to RE in the second segregation phases is 0.80 or less on average.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma ARIIZUMI, Taku MURAKAMI, Nobuto MORIGASAKI, Toshihiko KANEKO, Yasuhiro ITO