Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Kawada
Yoshihiro Kawada 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: 9118059Abstract: The electronic equipment disclosed in the present application realizes a battery attachment/detachment mechanism with the reduced number of components, by biasing a slide lever 11 to a protrusion position by a biasing force of a switch lever 13a of a switch 13. More specifically, in the electronic equipment disclosed in the present application, it is unnecessary to provide biasing means for biasing the slide lever 11 to the protrusion position in addition to the switch 13, the number of components is reduced as compared with the configuration provided with biasing means in addition to the switch. By reducing the number of components, the cost is reduced and the assembly time in assembling notebook computers is reduced, thereby improving workability in the assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2011Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawada, Masaru Furujiku
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Publication number: 20150224689Abstract: A plate-shaped casing member includes: a first member made of a metal material, the first member including a through hole, a first half-through hole having an opening in a first main-surface side around the through hole, and a second half-through hole having an opening in a second main-surface side around the through hole; and a second member made of a material, the second member extending over the first half-through hole, the through hole, and the second half-through hole in the first member, and the second member being bonded to the first member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Yoshihiro KAWADA, Kenichi SHINDO, Ryo YONEZAWA, Yoshinari MATSUYAMA, Hirofumi SASAKI
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Patent number: 9052873Abstract: Provided is an electronic device that is user-friendly in both hand-held use and table-placed use, and furthermore is highly reliable with respect to external impact. The electronic device includes a main body part and a support member. The support member connected by the connection part are attached to a pivot shaft that is disposed on the rear surface side of the main body part, such that the support member can pivot from a position at which the connection part protrudes outward beyond an outer edge of the main body part in a plan view from the front surface side of the main body part. At least a portion of the support member is at the same position as or a position more rearward than the portion of the main body part that protrudes the most rearward.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masato Murakata, Jun Sato, Kenichi Shindo, Yoshihiro Kawada, Toshiya Senoh
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Patent number: 9021792Abstract: A selective catalytic reduction catalyst capable of reducing the NOx in exhaust gas to N2 is arranged in an exhaust pipe of an engine. Fluid feed has a fluid injecting nozzle facing the exhaust pipe on the exhaust gas upstream side from the selective catalytic reduction catalyst. The fluid feed is configured such that a urea fluid that functions as a reducing agent is fed with the selective catalytic reduction catalyst from the fluid injecting nozzle to the exhaust pipe. Ozone feed includes an ozone injecting nozzle that faces the exhaust pipe on the exhaust gas upstream side from the selective catalytic reduction catalyst, and on the exhaust gas upstream side or the exhaust gas downstream side from the fluid injecting nozzle. The ozone feed is configured such that ozone is fed from the ozone injecting nozzle to the exhaust pipe.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Hino Motors, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuru Hosoya, Yoshihiro Kawada, Shinya Sato
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Publication number: 20140369890Abstract: A carrier gas supplied from a carrier gas source is injected from a carrier gas injection nozzle. Also, a fuel including a hydrocarbon-based liquid and supplied from a fuel source is supplied to a tip end of the carrier gas injection nozzle, whereby this fuel is atomized with the carrier gas injected from the carrier gas injection nozzle. Furthermore, an inlet of a reforming part that decomposes the atomized fuel and reforms the atomized fuel into a reducing gas including either or both of hydrogen and an oxygen-containing hydrocarbon is provided so as to face the carrier gas injection nozzle and the fuel supply nozzle, and a reducing gas supply nozzle that supplies the reducing gas discharged from an outlet of the reforming part is provided in an exhaust pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicants: HKT CORPORATION, HINO MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Hirabayashi, Mitsuru Hosoya, Keiichi Hayashizaki, Shinya Sato, Yoshihiro Kawada, Satoshi Sato, Hiroshi Inoue
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Patent number: 8875499Abstract: A urea solution reformer and an exhaust gas purifier is configured to heat a carrier gas supplied from a carrier gas source by a carrier gas heating unit, to inject the carrier gas heated by the carrier gas heating unit from a carrier gas injecting nozzle, and to cause a urea solution to be supplied by a first urea solution supply nozzle to a tip end of the carrier gas injecting nozzle so that the urea solution is atomized by the carrier gas injected from the carrier gas injecting nozzle. Provided to face toward the carrier gas injecting nozzle is a catalyst unit for decomposing the atomized urea solution to reform it into an ammonia gas. An ammonia gas supply nozzle is attached to an exhaust pipe of an engine so as to supply the ammonia gas discharged from an outlet of the catalyst unit into the exhaust pipe.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignees: Hino Motors Ltd., HKT CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Kawada, Shinya Sato, Mitsuru Hosoya, Kazunori Takahashi, Hiroshi Inoue
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Patent number: 8848366Abstract: A holding device includes a plurality of holding sections each including a recess or an opening through which a hand of a user can be inserted; and a connection section connecting the plurality of holding sections to each other. When the holding device is fixed to two surfaces of an electronic device which are adjacent to each other, a handle that can be held by the user with a hand and a grip belt that can be supported by the user with the hand can be connected to each other via the connection section. Thus, the number of parts can be reduced and management of parts is easy.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Kawada, Toshiya Senoh, Jun Sato
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Publication number: 20140286827Abstract: An oxidation catalyst, an ozone injection nozzle, a urea-based fluid injection nozzle, and a selective reduction catalyst are arranged in an exhaust pipe of an engine in this order towards its outlet. An exhaust gas purifier includes an air flow sensor that detects an air intake amount of the engine, a NOx sensor that detects a NOx concentration in the exhaust pipe, and first and second temperature sensors that detect inlet temperatures of the catalysts. An ozone generation device to which the ozone injection nozzle is connected includes a compressor, a dryer that dries compressed air, a flow rate sensor that detects a flow rate of this air, an ozone generator that converts this air into ozone, and an ozone concentration sensor that detects a concentration of the ozone. A controller controls the compressor and the ozone generator based on respective detection outputs of the respective sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2012Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: HINO MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawada, Asahiko Shimizu
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Publication number: 20140260208Abstract: A first selective reduction catalyst including a silver-based catalyst is provided in an exhaust pipe of an engine. An ozone generation device generates ozone by using oxygen in the atmosphere, and a hydrocarbon-based liquid supply device supplies a hydrocarbon-based liquid. A part of NO in the exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust pipe is oxidized to NO2 with the ozone generated by the ozone generation device, and said NO2 is supplied to the first selective reduction catalyst. Also, a part of the hydrocarbon-based liquid supplied by the hydrocarbon-based liquid supply device is partially oxidized, with ozone generated by the ozone generation device, to an active reducing agent including an oxygen-containing hydrocarbon such as aldehyde, and this active reducing agent is supplied to the first selective reduction catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2012Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: HINO MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Shinya Sato, Hiroshi Hirabayashi, Keiichi Hayashizaki, Yoshihiro Kawada, Mitsuru Hosoya
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Patent number: 8767396Abstract: A main device includes fixing portions that fix a holding device to one principal surface thereof and project from the one principal surface. An extension device includes a placement portion on which the main device is placed and a wall portion on which the placement portion is provided in a standing manner. The wall portion that faces the one principal surface, to which the holding device is fixed, in a parallel relation, has such a shape as to not interfere with the fixing portions that fix the holding device of the main device, when the main device is placed on the placement portion. The main device can be mounted on the extension device with the holding device mounted thereon, and time and effort to remove the holding device can be saved when the main device is mounted on the extension device.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kenichi Shindo, Jun Sato, Yoshihiro Kawada, Toshiya Senoh, Ryo Yonezawa, Masashi Toyota
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Publication number: 20140085786Abstract: An electronic device 100 includes a casing 101 configured to accommodate electronic components. The casing 101 includes an outer layer member 131 formed by a metal and exposed to an outside, and an inner layer member 132 formed by a metal and spaced from an inner surface of the outer layer member 131. Conductive projections 140a and 140b are each formed between the inner layer member 132 and the outer layer member 131, and are each configured to extend like a line on a surface of one of the inner layer member 132 and the outer layer member 131 and have a top end that contacts with the other of the inner layer member 132 and the outer layer member 131, to electrically connect between the inner layer member 132 and the outer layer member 131.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Inventors: Yoshihiro KAWADA, Kenichi SHINDO, Ryo YONEZAWA, Yoshinari MATSUYAMA, Hirofumi SASAKI, Haruka KANEKO
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Publication number: 20140070680Abstract: A plate-shaped casing member is a plate-shaped casing having a front surface and a rear surface, wherein the rear surface includes a first surface, and a second surface having a height different from a height of the first surface and having a meandering contour line, and the plate-shaped casing member has a thickness from the meandering contour line in the second surface to the front surface which is different from a thickness from the first surface to the front surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro KAWADA, Kenichi SHINDO, Ryo YONEZAWA, Yoshinari MATSUYAMA, Hirofumi SASAKI, Yoshiaki NAGAMURA
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Publication number: 20140071649Abstract: There is provided a display device comprising: a plate-type display section with a display surface; a front-surface plate placed on a front surface of the display surface; and a supporting portion for supporting the display section and the front-surface plate. The supporting portion includes a first surface adapted to support the front-surface plate, and a second surface which is formed in such a way as to rise up substantially vertically from the first surface such that the second surface faces a side surface of the display portion and, further, includes at least a rising base end portion thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro KAWADA, Kenichi SHINDO, Ryo YONEZAWA, Yoshinari MATSUYAMA, Hirofumi SASAKI
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Publication number: 20140072761Abstract: A plate-shaped casing member includes: a first member made of a metal material, the first member including a through hole, a first half-through hole having an opening in a first main-surface side around the through hole, and a second half-through hole having an opening in a second main-surface side around the through hole; and a second member made of a material, the second member extending over the first half-through hole, the through hole, and the second half-through hole in the first member, and the second member being bonded to the first member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro KAWADA, Kenichi SHINDO, Ryo YONEZAWA, Yoshinari MATSUYAMA, Hirofumi SASAKI
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Publication number: 20140063701Abstract: An electronic device 100 includes: a hinge mechanism 120 configured to rotate, on a portion in which a first casing 101 is connected to a second casing 102, the second casing 102 to allow the electronic device 100 to switch from a closed position through an opened position to an inverted position; and exterior components 123 and 124 each configured to rotate with the second casing 102 when switching between the opened position and the inverted position is performed, and to switch between a state where the exterior component projects from the back surface of the first casing 101 to be a leg for the electronic device 100 in the opened position, and a state where the exterior component projects from the top surface of the first casing 101 to be a leg for the electronic device 100 in the inverted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Inventors: Yoshihiro KAWADA, Kenichi SHINDO, Ryo YONEZAWA, Yoshinari MATSUYAMA, Hirofumi SASAKI, Haruka KANEKO
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Publication number: 20140063700Abstract: An electronic device 100 includes: a hinge mechanism 120 configured to rotate, on a connection portion in which a first casing 101 is connected to a second casing 102, the second casing 102 to switch the electronic device 100 from a closed position through an opened position to an inverted position, and configured to rotate according to the second casing 102 being rotated when switching between the opened position and the inverted position is performed; and a leg component 140 configured to switch, by rotating with the hinge mechanism 120 when switching between the opened position and the inverted position is performed, between a state where the leg component 140 projects from the back surface of the first casing 101 in the opened position, and a state where the leg component 140 projects from the top surface of the first casing 101 in the inverted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Inventors: Yoshihiro KAWADA, Kenichi SHINDO, Ryo YONEZAWA, Yoshinari MATSUYAMA, Hirofumi SASAKI, Haruka KANEKO
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Publication number: 20140047821Abstract: Disclosed is a urea solution reformer and an exhaust gas purifier using the same, configured to heat a carrier gas supplied from a carrier gas source by a carrier gas heating unit (16), to inject the carrier gas heated by the carrier gas heating unit from a carrier gas injecting nozzle (17), and to cause a urea solution (18) to be supplied by a first urea solution supply nozzle (21) to a tip end of the carrier gas injecting nozzle so that the urea solution is atomized by the carrier gas injected from the carrier gas injecting nozzle. Provided to face toward the carrier gas injecting nozzle is a catalyst unit (23) for decomposing the atomized urea solution to reform it into an ammonia gas. Further provided is an ammonia gas supply nozzle (24) attached to an exhaust pipe (12) of an engine so as to supply the ammonia gas discharged from an outlet of the catalyst unit into the exhaust pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicants: HKT CORPORATION, HINO MOTORS LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawada, Shinya Sato, Mitsuru Hosoya, Kazunori Takahashi, Hiroshi Inoue
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Publication number: 20140014935Abstract: A polymer compound is provided having a constitutional unit represented by the following formula (1): wherein: R1 and R2 represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, a mono-valent aromatic heterocyclic group, an alkoxy group or an aryloxy group, and Ar1 represents an arylene group or a di-valent condensed polycyclic aromatic heterocyclic group.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Daisuke Fukushima, Tomoyasu Yoshida, Yoshihiro Kawada, Takashi Kuragano, Makoto Anryu
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Publication number: 20140000246Abstract: A selective catalytic reduction catalyst capable of reducing the NOx in exhaust gas to N2 is arranged in an exhaust pipe of an engine. Fluid feed means has a fluid injecting nozzle facing the exhaust pipe on the exhaust gas upstream side from the selective catalytic reduction catalyst. The fluid feed means is configured such that a urea fluid that functions as a reducing agent is fed with the selective catalytic reduction catalyst from the fluid injecting nozzle to the exhaust pipe. Ozone feed means includes an ozone injecting nozzle that faces the exhaust pipe on the exhaust gas upstream side from the selective catalytic reduction catalyst, and on the exhaust gas upstream side or the exhaust gas downstream side from the fluid injecting nozzle. The ozone feed means is configured such that ozone is fed from the ozone injecting nozzle to the exhaust pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: HINO MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuru Hosoya, Yoshihiro Kawada, Shinya Sato
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Patent number: 8498123Abstract: In a unit holding mechanism, a first slide lever 31 and a second slide lever 32 are slidable in directions different from those of a third slide lever 41. Thus, it is possible to prevent an erroneous removal of battery units 21 and 22 and an HDD unit 23. More specifically, since the sliding directions of the slide switches vary with the type of unit to be loaded/unloaded, a user can identify the unit to be loaded/unloaded by examining only the sliding directions of the slide switches by the touch. Thus, even if the user attempts to remove the unit without viewing a bottom surface 1b of a first housing 1, it is possible to reduce the possibility of a misoperation in which a unit other than the intended unit is removed erroneously.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2011Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Kawada, Masaru Furujiku