Patents by Inventor Yasuyuki Kodama

Yasuyuki Kodama 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: 11927225
    Abstract: A sliding spline shaft device of the present invention includes a male spline and a female spline that is fitted to the male spline in an axially slidable manner, and at least one of the splines has a surface processed layer. The surface processed layer includes an undercoat layer, an intermediate layer containing phosphate, and a topcoat layer containing solid lubricant, in this order. The undercoat layer contains iron nitride and/or iron carbide. Thus, the surface of a base material has high hardness. As a result, microscopic deformation of the sliding surface is reduced, and increase in a real contact area is suppressed, whereby stick-slip is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., NIHON PARKERIZING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Kashiwabara, Kunio Katada, Shunsuke Hiraiwa, Akihumi Kawaguchi, Takeo Nishijima, Shinichi Suzuki, Yasuyuki Katsumada, Makoto Nakajima, Tokunori Kodama, Masato Ito, Aiki Iwasa
  • Patent number: 10096191
    Abstract: A first payout slide delivers a coin at a bottom in a coin tube, and a second payout slide delivers at least one coin located on the coin at the bottom in the coin tube. A selection mechanism including a change lever, solenoid, etc. performs a selection such that the first payout slide is activated alone or the first and second payout slides are activated together. A single coin is delivered through the first payout slide having been activated alone, whereas at least two coins are delivered through the first and second payout slides having been activated together. The coin delivering device may further be provided with a change slide that selectively regulates the delivery of the coin from the corresponding coin tube so that the delivery of the coin is not to be carried out regardless of an activation of the first payout slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON CONLUX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kodama, Nobutaka Takefuta
  • Publication number: 20170352220
    Abstract: A first payout slide delivers a coin at a bottom in a coin tube, and a second payout slide delivers at least one coin located on the coin at the bottom in the coin tube. A selection mechanism including a change lever, solenoid, etc. performs a selection such that the first payout slide is activated alone or the first and second payout slides are activated together. A single coin is delivered through the first payout slide having been activated alone, whereas at least two coins are delivered through the first and second payout slides having been activated together. The coin delivering device may further be provided with a change slide that selectively regulates the delivery of the coin from the corresponding coin tube so that the delivery of the coin is not to be carried out regardless of an activation of the first payout slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON CONLUX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki KODAMA, Nobutaka TAKEFUTA
  • Patent number: 9691209
    Abstract: A coin delivering device includes plural coin tubes, a coin base, a payout slide, a payout link, and a change slide. At least one of the coin tubes is a multiple-coin delivering coin tube from which plural coins are pulled out in one time of pulling out the payout slide. A recess portion sized for housing a coin is provided at a position corresponding to the multiple-coin delivering coin tube, on the coin base. A vertical wall portion is provided around a coin housing hole corresponding to the multiple-coin delivering coin tube, on the payout slide, protrudes to the side of the coin base, and, in a standby mode, is positioned in the recess portion of the coin base. An upper surface of the change slide corresponding to the multiple-coin delivering coin tube is positioned similar to a bottom surface of the recess portion of the coin base in height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON CONLUX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kodama, Takahiro Hayashi, Masashi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20160321850
    Abstract: A coin delivering device includes plural coin tubes, a coin base, a payout slide, a payout link, and a change slide. At least one of the coin tubes is a multiple-coin delivering coin tube from which plural coins are pulled out in one time of pulling out the payout slide. A recess portion sized for housing a coin is provided at a position corresponding to the multiple-coin delivering coin tube, on the coin base. A vertical wall portion is provided around a coin housing hole corresponding to the multiple-coin delivering coin tube, on the payout slide, protrudes to the side of the coin base, and, in a standby mode, is positioned in the recess portion of the coin base. An upper surface of the change slide corresponding to the multiple-coin delivering coin tube is positioned similar to a bottom surface of the recess portion of the coin base in height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: NIPPON CONLUX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kodama, Takahiro Hayashi, Masashi Kondo
  • Patent number: 6918826
    Abstract: A coin treating device, wherein a key cylinder type locking means for limiting the release of the latch of the latch means is disposed in a coin storage unit so that the coin storage unit cannot easily be removed from a device main body other than in some specific cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Kenji Nakajima, Yasuyuki Kodama, Takahiro Hayashi, Masato Yagi, Shinichi Kosugi, Takeshi Ishida, Tsunehiro Aso, Kenji Koyama
  • Patent number: 6708889
    Abstract: A bank-note processing device (51), which prevents bank-notes received in a stacker from projecting into a bank-note transfer passage interfering with the next processing and which has a bank-note reverse-flowing preventive lever (80) that includes, at least, a first lever (25) turnably supported through a first shaft (26) and having a length smaller than the outer diameter (21a) of a bank-note guide drum (21), a first urging device (28) for constantly urging the first lever (25) toward a bank-note transfer passage (4), a first stop (32) for preventing the first lever (25) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than at a predetermined angel of rotation, a second lever (79) turnably supported on the front end (25c) of the first lever (25) through a second shaft (74), a second stop (76) for preventing the second lever (79) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than a predetermined angle of rotation, and a second urging device (77) for constantly urgin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
  • Patent number: 6702092
    Abstract: A coin assorter (1), wherein a particular coin route (32) having a coin retaining mechanism (100) disposed therein is formed, meanderingly generally in S-shape, on the upstream side of the coin retaining mechanism (100) to set longer the route length of the particular coin route (32) having the coin retaining mechanism (100) disposed therein in order to increase the number of coins (C) temporarily retained in the route length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Kenji Nakajima, Yasuyuki Kodama, Takahiro Hayashi, Masato Yagi, Shinichi Kosugi
  • Patent number: 6698568
    Abstract: A coin sorter, wherein three distributing levers (30, 42, 150) are connected to each other through a link means (202) so that the number of the driving means thereof is not increased even when the number of the distributing lever is increased and driven interlockingly with each other by a single solenoid (201) operating one of the three distributing levers (30, 42, 150).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Kenji Nakajima, Yasuyuki Kodama, Takahiro Hayashi, Masato Yagi, Shinichi Kosugi
  • Patent number: 6641047
    Abstract: A bank-note processing device (51), which prevents bank-notes received in a stacker from projecting into a bank-note transfer passage interfering with the next processing and which has a bank-note reverse-flowing preventive lever (80) that includes, at least, a first lever (25) turnably supported through a first shaft (26) and having a length smaller than the outer diameter (21a) of a bank-note guide drum (21), a first urging device (28) for constantly urging the first lever (25) toward a bank-note transfer passage (4), a first stop (32) for preventing the first lever (25) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than at a predetermined angel of rotation, a second lever (79) turnably supported on the front end (25c) of the first lever (25) through a second shaft (74), a second stop (76) for preventing the second lever (79) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than a predetermined angle of rotation, and a second urging device (77) for constantly urgin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
  • Patent number: 6609661
    Abstract: A bank-note processing device (51), which prevents bank-notes received in a stacker from projecting into a bank-note transfer passage interfering with the next processing and which has a bank-note reverse-flowing preventive lever (80) that comprises, at least, a first lever (25) turnably supported through a first shaft (26) and having a length smaller than the outer diameter (21a) of a bank-note guide drum (21), a first urging means (28) for constantly urging the first lever (25) toward a bank-note transfer passage (4), a first stop (32) for preventing the first lever (25) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than at a predetermined angel of rotation, a second lever (79) turnably supported on the front end (25c) of the first lever (25) through a second shaft (74), a second stop (76) for preventing the second lever (79) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than a predetermined angle of rotation, and a second urging means (77) for constantly urging
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
  • Publication number: 20030136845
    Abstract: A bank-note processing device (51), which prevents bank-notes received in a stacker from projecting into a bank-note transfer passage interfering with the next processing and which has a bank-note reverse-flowing preventive lever (80) that comprises, at least, a first lever (25) turnably supported through a first shaft (26) and having a length smaller than the outer diameter (21a) of a bank-note guide drum (21), a first urging means (28) for constantly urging the first lever (25) toward a bank-note transfer passage (4), a first stop (32) for preventing the first lever (25) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than at a predetermined angel of rotation, a second lever (79) turnably supported on the front end (25c) of the first lever (25) through a second shaft (74), a second stop (76) for preventing the second lever (79) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than a predetermined angle of rotation, and a second urging means (77) for constantly urging
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
  • Publication number: 20030102368
    Abstract: A bank-note processing device (51), which prevents bank-notes received in a stacker from projecting into a bank-note transfer passage interfering with the next processing and which has a bank-note reverse-flowing preventive lever (80) that comprises, at least, a first lever (25) turnably supported through a first shaft (26) and having a length smaller than the outer diameter (21a) of a bank-note guide drum (21), a first urging means (28) for constantly urging the first lever (25) toward a bank-note transfer passage (4), a first stop (32) for preventing the first lever (25) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than at a predetermined angel of rotation, a second lever (79) turnably supported on the front end (25c) of the first lever (25) througn a second shaft (74), a second stop (76) for preventing the second lever (79) from rotating toward the bank-note transfer passage (4) through more than a predetermined angle of rotation, and a second urging means (77) for constantly urging
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
  • Patent number: 6543763
    Abstract: A bank-note processing device wherein disposed between a pair of rotary drums (22, 23) is a stacker lever (53) that presses that portion of the bank-note (31) inserted in bank-note guide slits (22b, 23b) which is positioned on the side of a bank-note reverse-flowing-preventive lever (32) toward a stacker (20) in operative association with the movement of a stacker chute (51), whereby even if a large number of wrinkled bank-notes are received in the stacker, jamming of bank-notes is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux
    Inventors: Yukio Ito, Yasuyuki Kodama, Noboru Yamagishi, Tadashi Hatamachi
  • Publication number: 20020168931
    Abstract: A coin treating device, wherein a key cylinder type locking means for limiting the release of the latch of the latch means is disposed in a coin storage unit so that the coin storage unit cannot easily be removed from a device main body other than some specific cases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2002
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Inventors: Kenji Nakajmima, Yasuyuki Kodama, Takahiro Hayashi, Masato Yagi, Shinichi Kosugi, Takeshi Ishida, Tsunehiro Aso, Kenji Koyama
  • Publication number: 20020162725
    Abstract: A coin assorter (1), wherein a particular coin route (32) having a coin retaining mechanism (100) disposed therein is formed, meanderingly generally in S-shape, on the upstream side of the coin retaining mechanism (100) to set longer the route length of the particular coin route (32) having the coin retaining mechanism (100) disposed therein in order to increase the number of coins (C) temporarily retained in the route length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Inventors: Kenji Nakajima, Yasuyuki Kodama, Takahiro Hayashi, Masato Yagi, Shinichi Kosugi
  • Patent number: D736857
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON CONLUX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kodama, Nobutaka Takefuta, Takahiro Hayashi, Akihiro Nobuhara, Masashi Kondo
  • Patent number: D835168
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Hoei Shokai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kodama, Hitoshi Mizuno, Shunsuke Koide
  • Patent number: D839327
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: HOEI SHOKAI CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Kodama
  • Patent number: D846610
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Hoei Shokai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kodama, Hitoshi Mizuno