Patents by Inventor Yo Ito

Yo 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: 8579066
    Abstract: This seat belt device of a vehicle includes a webbing, a belt reel, a motor, a clutch, detection unit, brake control unit and motor control unit. The motor control unit includes a waiting current control unit configured to conduct a current that can maintain the clutch to be in the connection state in the motor when the brake control unit outputs the operation signal and variable current control unit configured to proceed from current control performed by the waiting current control unit when a change in the movement state of the vehicle is detected by the detection unit during the current control performed by the waiting current control unit and adjusts the amount of conduction in the motor based on the movement state of the vehicle that is detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shotaro Odate, Takeshi Kojima, Yo Ito
  • Publication number: 20120325574
    Abstract: This seat belt device of a vehicle includes a webbing, a belt reel, a motor, a clutch, detection unit, brake control unit and motor control unit. The motor control unit includes a waiting current control unit configured to conduct a current that can maintain the clutch to be in the connection state in the motor when the brake control unit outputs the operation signal and variable current control unit configured to proceed from current control performed by the waiting current control unit when a change in the movement state of the vehicle is detected by the detection unit during the current control performed by the waiting current control unit and adjusts the amount of conduction in the motor based on the movement state of the vehicle that is detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro Odate, Takeshi Kojima, Yo Ito
  • Patent number: 8141806
    Abstract: A seat belt apparatus for a vehicle including: a belt reel; a emergency locking retractor which performs a mechanical locking of the belt reel so as not to rotate in a direction of unwinding a webbing when an unstable behavior of the vehicle is detected by a vehicle condition detection device, and then automatically release the locking if the belt reel rotates in a direction of winding the webbing greater than or equal to a predetermined amount; and a locking continuity determination device which determines whether or not the locking continues after the emergency locking retractor performs the locking based on the vehicle condition and variation of the rotational position of the belt reel, wherein a control device makes a driving motor rotate so as to release the locking if the locking continuity determination device determines the locking continues for greater than or equal to a predetermined amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shotaro Odate, Yo Ito, Osamu Tsurumiya, Yutaka Wakisaka
  • Patent number: 7992669
    Abstract: Vehicle seat belt apparatus includes an electric-type pretensioner that includes a motor for rotationally driving a belt reel to take up a belt. The apparatus also includes: a take-up position detection section for detecting a take-up position of the reel; a traveling condition determination section for determining that a traveling condition of the vehicle has varied to a predetermined condition; and a control section for controlling power supply to the motor, on the basis of a signal output from the determination section, to thereby control a driving amount of the motor but also for controlling the reel, in accordance with a detection signal output by the take-up position detection section, so that the reel is kept at a predetermined take-up position, to thereby hold a vehicle occupant in a seat with the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shotaro Odate, Yo Ito
  • Patent number: 7953532
    Abstract: A seatbelt device for a vehicle including: a belt reel having webbing wound thereon; a position detection device that detects a winding position of the belt reel; a motor that drives the belt reel to rotate to thereby perform winding of the webbing; and a control section that performs control of electric current conduction to the motor, wherein: the control section performs electric current conduction to the motor at a predetermined amount at the time of a rear vehicular collision or when a rear vehicular collision is predicted; and the electric current conduction amount is controlled, so that during electric current conduction at the predetermined electric current conduction amount, when a winding position detected by the position detection device reaches a predetermined position, variation in the winding position is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shotaro Odate, Osamu Tsurumiya, Yo Ito
  • Patent number: 7942448
    Abstract: A vehicular seatbelt device whereby slack in a lap belt is sufficiently eliminated according to a traveling state of a vehicle, and a comfortable ride for a vehicle occupant is maintained. A seatbelt device comprises a belt retraction part and an actuator for driving the belt retraction part. The belt retraction part pulls part of a belt in a direction opposite the direction in which the belt is wound up by a belt reel so as to restrain the vehicle occupant. A controller includes a plurality of pre-set control modes for controlling a motor and the actuator in accordance with the traveling state of the vehicle, and selects and implements one control mode corresponding to the traveling state from among the plurality of control modes. The control modes include a mode for drivably controlling both the motor and the actuator, a mode for drivably controlling only the motor, and a mode for drivably controlling only the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shotaro Odate, Yo Ito
  • Publication number: 20100207444
    Abstract: A vehicular seatbelt device whereby slack in a lap belt is sufficiently eliminated according to a traveling state of a vehicle, and a comfortable ride for a vehicle occupant is maintained. A seatbelt device comprises a belt retraction part and an actuator for driving the belt retraction part. The belt retraction part pulls part of a belt in a direction opposite the direction in which the belt is wound up by a belt reel so as to restrain the vehicle occupant. A controller includes a plurality of pre-set control modes for controlling a motor and the actuator in accordance with the traveling state of the vehicle, and selects and implements one control mode corresponding to the traveling state from among the plurality of control modes. The control modes include a mode for drivably controlling both the motor and the actuator, a mode for drivably controlling only the motor, and a mode for drivably controlling only the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro Odate, Yo Ito
  • Publication number: 20100156083
    Abstract: A seat belt apparatus for a vehicle including: a belt reel; a emergency locking retractor which performs a mechanical locking of the belt reel so as not to rotate in a direction of unwinding a webbing when an unstable behavior of the vehicle is detected by a vehicle condition detection device, and then automatically release the locking if the belt reel rotates in a direction of winding the webbing greater than or equal to a predetermined amount; and a locking continuity determination device which determines whether or not the locking continues after the emergency locking retractor performs the locking based on the vehicle condition and variation of the rotational position of the belt reel, wherein a control device makes a driving motor rotate so as to release the locking if the locking continuity determination device determines the locking continues for greater than or equal to a predetermined amount of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro Odate, Yo Ito, Osamu Tsurumiya, Yutaka Wakisaka
  • Publication number: 20090024283
    Abstract: A seatbelt device for a vehicle including: a belt reel having webbing wound thereon; a position detection device that detects a winding position of the belt reel; a motor that drives the belt reel to rotate to thereby perform winding of the webbing; and a control section that performs control of electric current conduction to the motor, wherein: the control section performs electric current conduction to the motor at a predetermined amount at the time of a rear vehicular collision or when a rear vehicular collision is predicted; and the electric current conduction amount is controlled, so that during electric current conduction at the predetermined electric current conduction amount, when a winding position detected by the position detection device reaches a predetermined position, variation in the winding position is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro Odate, Osamu Tsurumiya, Yo Ito
  • Publication number: 20070284174
    Abstract: Vehicle seat belt apparatus includes an electric-type pretensioner that includes a motor for rotationally driving a belt reel to take up a belt. The apparatus also includes: a take-up position detection section for detecting a take-up position of the reel; a traveling condition determination section for determining that a traveling condition of the vehicle has varied to a predetermined condition; and a control section for controlling power supply to the motor, on the basis of a signal output from the determination section, to thereby control a driving amount of the motor but also for controlling the reel, in accordance with a detection signal output by the take-up position detection section, so that the reel is kept at a predetermined take-up position, to thereby hold a vehicle occupant in a seat with the belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shotaro Odate, Yo Ito
  • Publication number: 20020079392
    Abstract: Object of the invention is to finely granulate the granular substances with pollutants, such as the contaminated soils and incinerated ashes, adhered and to separate the pollutants from the granular substances efficiently and further to enable the unnoxious granular substances, from which pollutants as above have been separated, to be recycled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Applicant: Shinroku Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takao Tango, Yo Ito, Hirohiko Shibata, Kenji Kawaguchi, Yutaka Shida
  • Patent number: 6402064
    Abstract: Granular substances with pollutants adhered, such as contaminated soils and incinerated ashes, are finely granulated to separate the pollutants from the granular substances efficiently and to enable the granular substances, from which pollutants have been separated, to be recycled. After fine granulation of the granular substances by a coarse disintegrating treatment through a first fine granulation machine, the granular substances, which have been finely granulated by the first fine granulation machine, are subjected to, by a second fine granulation machine, mutual polishing among the granular substances by mutual rubbing forces of the substances themselves and thus the pollutants, such as heavy metals and dioxin class substances adhering strongly to the surfaces of the granular substances, are separated, and also the granular substances not containing the pollutants are classified from the granular substances which have already been finely granulated by a vibrational screen and a classification device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignees: Shinroku Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Youyu Shigen Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Kamagaigumi
    Inventors: Takao Tango, Yo Ito, Hirohiko Shibata, Kenji Kawaguchi, Yutaka Shida
  • Patent number: 5192585
    Abstract: A differential pressure sealing apparatus and method for processing a continuously moving elongated sheet through successively different stages of vacuum. A vacuum chamber is provided with an inlet and a guide roller for the incoming sheet with the sheet urged against the guide roller over a wrap contact angle of 15 to 120 degrees. To resist the entrance of air into the chamber, a sealing structure encompasses at least portions of the entrance, the guide roller and the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1993
    Assignees: Kawasaki Steel Corp., Nihon Shinku Gijutsu Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukio Inokuti, Yo Ito
  • Patent number: 4698272
    Abstract: An extra-low iron loss grain oriented silicon steel sheet comprises a base metal of silicon steel and a thin coat of nitride or carbide of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Mn, Cr, Mo, W, Co, Ni, Al, B and Si and strongly adhered to a finished surface of the base metal through a mixed layer of the base metal and the thin coat, and has excellent electrical and magnetic properties as well as good compressive stress dependence of magnetostriction and lamination factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1987
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Inokuti, Yo Ito
  • Patent number: 4690855
    Abstract: A substrate for print circuit board comprising a steel sheet, a forsterite film layer formed on at least one surface of the steel sheet, and an insulating film layer formed on the forsterite film layer by baking a coating solution mainly consisting of a phosphate and colloidal silica. A print circuit board having a conductive pattern on the insulating film layer of the substrate for print circuit board, and methods of manufacturing the substrate and the print circuit board. One of typical methods of manufacturing the substrate for print circuit board comprises steps of applying an annealing separator mainly consisting of MgO on the steel sheet and annealing it to form a forsterite film layer, applying and baking a coating solution mainly consisting of the phosphate and colloidal silica onto the forsterite film layer to form an insulating film layer. The print circuit board is obtained by bonding the conductive pattern to the insulating film layer and annealing at a temperature range of not lower than 300.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Inokuti, Shigeko Ikeda, Toshihiko Funahashi, Yo Ito
  • Patent number: 4579608
    Abstract: Grain oriented silicon steel sheets having a very low iron loss W.sub.17/50 of lower than 0.90 W/kg, in which Si content is 2-4%, are produced by containing at least one of Se and S in an amount of 0.010-0.035% and at least one of Sb, As, Bi and Sn in an amount of 0.010-0.080% as inhibitor, making a final gauge to be 0.15-0.25 mm, forsterite coating formed on the steel sheet surfaces in the final annealing to be 1-4 g/m.sup.2 per one surface and a secondary crystallized grain size to be 1-6 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1986
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoh Shimizu, Hiroshi Shishido, Yo Ito, Hiroshi Shimanaka
  • Patent number: 4576658
    Abstract: A method for obtaining grain-oriented silicon steel sheet with a very high magnetic flux density and a very low core loss by setting specific conditions for the decarburization and primary recrystallization annealing step within the series of steps performed for the manufacture of the grain-oriented silicon steel sheet. This method consists of setting the rate of temperature rise in the decarburization and primary recrystallization annealing step at no less than 10.degree. C./sec, dividing the decarburization and primary recrystallization annealing step into a first half and a second half, and restricting the temperature, time, and ratio P.sub.H.sbsb.2.sub.O /P.sub.H.sbsb.2 of the partial pressure of H.sub.2 O to the partial pressure of H.sub.2 of the atmosphere for each of these two halves within certain predefined ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Inventors: Yukio Inokuti, Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Yo Ito
  • Patent number: 4565240
    Abstract: Pressure is exerted on the interior of casting rolls with a negative crown so that the rolls may maintain a true cylindrical surface without any crown when the continuous casting operation is initiated. When the cylindrical surface of the rolls is heated by molten metal as the continuous casting operation continues, the interior pressure of the rolls is decreased, whereby the rolls may maintain a true cylindrical surface without any crown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1986
    Assignees: Kawasaki Seitetsu Kabushiki Kaisha, Ishikawajima-Harima Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Shibuya, Takahiro Kan, Yo Ito, Hiroshi Shimanaka, Yoshiaki Tanaami
  • Patent number: 4546814
    Abstract: A process and an apparatus for producing rapidly solidified metallic tapes by a double-roll system are disclosed, wherein molten metal is poured into a kissing region defined between a fixed cooling roll and a movable cooling roll through a nozzle located thereabove and rapidly solidified at the kissing region to form a metallic tape. In this case, pushing forces added to the movable cooling roll by hydraulic cylinders at driving and operational sides are controlled by adding to or subtracting from a standard pushing force an adjusting quantity of the pushing force as a function of a difference between a roll gap at the driving side and a roll gap at the operational side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Shibuya, Masao Yukumoto, Takahiro Kan, Yo Ito
  • Patent number: 4518029
    Abstract: A double roll type method and apparatus for producing a thin metallic sheet by pouring a molten metal of a desired composition into a kissing region between two cooling rolls rotating in opposite directions, and rapidly cooling and solidifying the molten metal while it passes through the kissing region. The thin sheet which has come out of the kissing region is forcibly deflected by gas from a gas applying head and by a pair of pinch rolls so as to make close contact with one of the two cooling rolls over a predetermined region in the circumferential direction of the roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Shibuya, Takahiro Kan, Yo Ito