Patents by Inventor Yasunori Watanabe

Yasunori Watanabe 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: 12275223
    Abstract: A joint member according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a resin member, and a metal member which includes a base material, and a cubic lattice part formed on a surface of the base material and embedded with the resin member. The cubic lattice part includes a plurality of lattice points and a plurality of arms connecting the lattice points, respectively. Of the plurality of lattice points, an outermost lattice point far from the surface of the base material includes at least three lattice points forming an inclined surface with respect to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Tachibana, Ryouji Okabe, Masami Kamiya, Yasunori Watanabe, Koichi Hasegawa, Yuichi Yui, Akihisa Okuda
  • Patent number: 12240524
    Abstract: A vehicle rear portion structure includes: a center frame that is disposed closer to a center portion of a vehicle in a vehicle width direction than both side portions of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction, that is disposed on a rear side in the vehicle, and that extends in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; and a bumper beam that is disposed on a rear side of the center frame to be next to the center frame, that is disposed at a position which overlaps the center frame when viewed from a front-rear direction, and that is configured to be crushable due to a rear collision load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Watanabe, Satoru Kawabe, Masayasu Yoshida, Atsushi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 12206284
    Abstract: A stator of an electric compressor has a stator core configured by laminating a plurality of electromagnetic steel plates in an axial direction, the electromagnetic steel plates having a substantial ring shape as seen from the axial direction. As seen from the axial direction, a plurality of through-holes are formed through the stator core in the lamination direction of the electromagnetic steel plates, on the same circle centered around the axis line, and as seen from the axial direction, a first arc length or a second arc length longer than the first arc length is set as each arc length between through-holes adjacent in the circumferential direction. The stator is secured to a housing by a bolt inserted through the through-holes, the stator core is varnished at least in areas near the centers in the circumferential direction between through-holes where the second arc length is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Hagita, Hideo Saho, Shohei Terasaki, Yasunori Watanabe, Shunsuke Yakushiji
  • Patent number: 12110910
    Abstract: A compressor (100) comprises a compressor body (10), a pipe (20) connected to the compressor body (10), and an acoustic cover disposed so as to surround the compressor body (10). The acoustic cover (30) has an insertion hole (31) through which the pipe (20) is inserted while being in close contact with the pipe (20), and an inner surface (30A) of the acoustic cover has a shape that traces an outer surface (10A) of the compressor body (10). Due to this configuration, it is possible to reduce the size and the weight of the acoustic cover (30), and by using the acoustic cover (30) with a simpler structure, it is possible to reduce the noise of the compressor (100) of this automobile air conditioning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Watanabe, Takayuki Hagita, Shunsuke Yakushiji, Ryoji Okabe, Hideo Saho
  • Patent number: 12097902
    Abstract: A vehicle rear portion structure includes: a rear side frame extending in a front-rear direction of a vehicle; a bumper beam disposed on a rear side of the rear side frame; and a rear panel provided between the rear side frame and the bumper beam. The rear panel includes a peripheral edge frame structure which is provided at an upper part of the bumper beam, and which has a closed cross-sectional structure. An upper projection of the bumper beam is in contact with a panel of the peripheral edge frame structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Watanabe, Satoru Kawabe, Masayasu Yoshida, Atsushi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20240043069
    Abstract: A vehicle body rear structure has a rear floor panel, a rear panel, a rear bumper beam and a plurality of floor reinforcement portions. The rear bumper beam extends along a vehicle width direction in a central region in the vehicle width direction at a rear portion of the rear panel and has a length in the vehicle width direction shorter than a length of the rear floor panel and a length of the rear panel. Each of the plurality of floor reinforcement portions extends substantially along a vehicle front rear direction and reinforces a plurality of locations of the rear floor panel spaced apart in the vehicle width direction. Rear end portions of the floor reinforcement portions are disposed inner side of the rear bumper beam in the vehicle width direction than outer end portions of the rear bumper beam in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Masayasu Yoshida, Satoru Kawabe, Hiroyo Miyanaga, Yasunori Watanabe, Hisashi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240017768
    Abstract: A vehicle body rear structure includes a rear wheel, a rear side frame, and a collapsing member. The rear wheel is disposed on a vehicle side portion. The rear side frame is disposed substantially along a vehicle forward/rearward direction and extends to a vehicle-rear-side than a rear wheel. The collapsing member is disposed at the vehicle-rear-side of the rear wheel so that at least a part of the collapsing member overlaps the rear wheel in the forward/rearward direction. The collapsing member is fixed to the rear side frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyo Miyanaga, Masayasu Yoshida, Yasunori Watanabe, Satoru Kawabe, Hisashi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240017772
    Abstract: A vehicle rear structure includes: a rear panel having a rear panel center member extending in a vehicle width direction and a rearward connection portion extending upward from the rear panel center member; a forward connection portion located forward of the rear panel; and a rear panel support member extending in a front rear direction above the rear panel center member and bridging between the rearward connection portion and the forward connection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Masayasu Yoshida, Hiroyo Miyanaga, Satoru Kawabe, Yasunori Watanabe, Hisashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11834099
    Abstract: To actively absorb impact energy by a bead and reduce weight. A vehicle body rear structure 1 of an embodiment includes rear floor panels 2 and 3 formed by a steel plate having a tensile strength of 440 MPa or more. The rear floor panels 2 and 3 have beads 13 and 23 extending in a predetermined direction over an entire surface, and the direction in which the beads 13 and 23 extend and the type of the beads 13 and 23 are set so as to reduce a difference between a peak load and an average load at the time of collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Watanabe, Satoru Kawabe
  • Patent number: 11809664
    Abstract: An input apparatus includes at least one operating area on an operating surface, at least one first sensing electrode corresponding to the operating area, a plurality of electrodes around the first sensing electrode, and a control unit configured to, when contact of an operating body with the operating area is detected by the first sensing electrode, make control different according to a contact operation on the one operating area according to a sum of capacitance values of electrodes of the plurality of peripheral electrodes around the operating area where the contact of the operating body is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kobayashi, Yasunori Watanabe, Shinya Abe
  • Patent number: 11679813
    Abstract: A vehicle body rear part structure includes a pair of rear side frames on left and right sides that extend substantially along a vehicle front-rear direction; and a rear floor panel to whose front part region, where a rear seat is disposed, the pair of rear side frames are combined. A rear part region of the rear floor panel is configured by a double panel structure having an upper wall and a lower wall. The rear part region of the rear floor panel extends further to a vehicle rear side than the pair of rear side frames. Each rear end part of the pair of rear side frames includes an inclined support part that inclines toward a vehicle front side toward an inner side in a vehicle width direction. The double panel structure is combined to the inclined support part of each of the rear side frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasunori Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230001988
    Abstract: A vehicle rear portion structure includes: a rear side frame extending in a front-rear direction of a vehicle; a bumper beam disposed on a rear side of the rear side frame; and a rear panel provided between the rear side frame and the bumper beam. The rear panel includes a peripheral edge frame structure which is provided at an upper part of the bumper beam, and which has a closed cross-sectional structure. An upper projection of the bumper beam is in contact with a panel of the peripheral edge frame structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yasunori Watanabe, Satoru Kawabe, Masayasu Yoshida, Atsushi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20230001987
    Abstract: A vehicle rear portion structure includes: a center frame that is disposed closer to a center portion of a vehicle in a vehicle width direction than both side portions of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction, that is disposed on a rear side in the vehicle, and that extends in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; and a bumper beam that is disposed on a rear side of the center frame to be next to the center frame, that is disposed at a position which overlaps the center frame when viewed from a front-rear direction, and that is configured to be crushable due to a rear collision load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yasunori Watanabe, Satoru Kawabe, Masayasu Yoshida, Atsushi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11161290
    Abstract: The present invention prevents internal cracks occurring when an impeller molded using a fiber reinforced resin is manufactured by injection molding. This method for manufacturing an impeller is provided with: an injection step of filling a cavity with a molten resin containing reinforced fibers, from a gate side into which the molten resin flows, toward an opposite-gate side opposite to the gate side; and a dwell step of applying required pressure to the filled molten resin. In the injection step and the dwell step, directional cooling is performed with a temperature gradient such that the temperature becomes lower from the gate side toward the opposite-gate side. According to this method for manufacturing the impeller, the opposite-gate side shrinks with a decrease in the temperature of the molten resin since the temperature of the opposite-gate side is lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoji Okabe, Yasunori Watanabe, Kosuke Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10838552
    Abstract: A touch sensor false detection preventing structure for use in an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing that is provided with a through-hole provided area through which a sensor sheet passes, a circuit board that is mounted inside the housing, and a touch panel that is electrically connected to the circuit board by the sensor sheet. The touch sensor false detection preventing structure includes protruding portions formed on an inner surface at both ends of the through-hole provided area in planar view so as to protrude a predetermined distance, such that movement at a part of both side ends of the sensor sheet is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Younghoon Kim, Tomoaki Tsuchiya, Tomoya Sasaki, Shinya Abe, Yasunori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10746052
    Abstract: The present invention provides a casing for a radial compressor including: a scroll portion which is disposed on an outer circumferential side of an impeller and an intake portion and extends in a circumferential direction, has a discharge port opening in a circumferential direction and a scroll flow path through which the gas from the impeller flows toward the discharge port, and includes a resin material having a gradually increasing external shape dimension; and a plurality of ribs which connect an outer circumferential surface of the intake portion and an outer surface of the scroll portion. The plurality of ribs are provided at intervals in the circumferential direction, an installation interval gradually decreases toward the discharge port in the circumferential direction, and a length dimension in a radial direction on the outer surface of the scroll portion gradually decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Watanabe, Ryoji Okabe, Kenichiro Iwakiri, Tadashi Kanzaka
  • Patent number: 10683870
    Abstract: This impeller cover is provided with: a machinable abradable seal section which has a shroud surface, which faces the outer peripheral surface of an impeller rotating about its axis, and which provides a seal between the outer peripheral surface and the shroud surface; a cover body which covers the impeller from the outside and which has a seal housing section for housing the abradable seal section therein; and a filling material which is interposed between the abradable seal section and the cover body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoji Okabe, Yasunori Watanabe, Isao Tomita, Takashi Arai, Hiroyuki Arimizu
  • Patent number: 10655470
    Abstract: This impeller is provided with: an impeller body formed in a disk-like shape and having a boss hole section formed therein, the boss hole section allowing a rotating shaft to be fitted therein; and compressor blades provided on the front surface side of the impeller body so as to protrude from the hub surface of the impeller body. The impeller consists either of a first resin member and a second resin member, which are engaged with each other and which consist of a resin, or of a resin member and a metallic member, which are engaged with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoji Okabe, Yasunori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10655633
    Abstract: This impeller is equipped with: an impeller body formed from a resin and shaped as a disk with an axis as the center thereof, and having a boss hole section formed therein which a rotating shaft for rotating around the axis engages; compressor blades provided on the front-surface side of the impeller body; and a ring-shaped reinforcing ring provided inside the impeller body in the circumferential direction of the impeller body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Watanabe, Ryoji Okabe
  • Patent number: 10641276
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to improve the mechanical strength of a boss in correspondence with the direction in which the principal stress is generated in an impeller formed of fiber-reinforced resin. A hub 11 is provided with a first region ? arranged on the back surface 11b side, and a second region ? arranged on the front surface 11a side. In the first region ? the frequency with which the reinforcement fibers F dispersed at the periphery of a boss hole 12 are oriented inclined with respect to the radial direction of the hub 11 is high, and in the second region the frequency with which the reinforcement fibers dispersed at the periphery of the boss hole are oriented along the rotational axis line is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoji Okabe, Yasunori Watanabe, Kosuke Ikeda