Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Masuda

Yoshinori Masuda 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).

  • Publication number: 20120256342
    Abstract: A method of producing a seal member includes: a mixing step of mixing an elastic material and fine particles using a kneading device, so as to form a mixed material; a molding step of charging the mixed material into a molding die, and forming an elastic molded piece having a shape corresponding to that of a molded seal of the seal member; and a particle removing step of removing the fine particles present on a surface of the elastic molded piece, so as to form the molded seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinori MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20120238883
    Abstract: An optical measurement system having a main and a portable optical measurement devices. The portable optical measurement device is provided with a second case portable by the subject, C second light sending means for illuminating the subject, D second light receiving means receiving light emitted from the subject, a second holder worn on the head of the subject and having at least (C+D) through holes therein, a control unit acquiring measurement data relating to a brain activity while controlling the second light sending and receiving means, and a communication unit communicating with the main optical measurement device, that (C+D)>(A+B) is satisfied, and that the communication unit of the portable optical measurement device transmits the measurement data acquired by the control unit of the portable optical measurement device to the main optical measurement device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Inoue, Takashi Amita, Satoru Kohno, Akihiro Ishikawa, Yoshinori Masuda, Haruhide Udagawa
  • Publication number: 20120230624
    Abstract: An outer ring and rolling elements are fitted to a shaft portion of a shaft member for a wheel rolling bearing device from a shaft end portion of the shaft member, an inner ring and rolling elements are fitted to the shaft portion, and then the shaft end portion is clinched to form a clinched portion to thereby fix the inner ring. At this time, the shaft end portion to be clinched has a solid columnar shape, and a clinching jig is pressed against the shaft end portion, and the clinching jig is oscillated while being pressed in a direction toward one end side of the shaft portion to thereby increase the diameter of the shaft end portion to clinch the shaft end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinori MASUDA
  • Patent number: 8136994
    Abstract: An annular member is mounted on an outer ring, and a sensor is fixed to the annular member. The annular member includes a fixing portion, and a cover portion. The sensor is fixed to the fixing portion by a bolt and a nut. The fixing portion is fixed to the cover portion by bolts. The cover portion is separate from the fixing portion, and therefore does not have an opening extending in a circumferential direction, and covers a magnet rotor fitted on an inner ring in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: 8123410
    Abstract: In a rolling bearing provided with an outer ring connected to a mounting opening of a knuckle, an inner ring connected to a wheel through a hub, a rolling element intervening between the outer ring and the inner ring and a sealing device for sealing the space between the inner and outer rings from the outside, the rolling bearing is provided with a sealing member for limiting the foreign substance invading the rolling bearing side from a clearance existing between a drive shaft provided rotatably with the inner ring and the knuckle, the sealing member including a ring-shaped cover including a cylinder press-fit in the outer ring and a ring-shaped upstanding wall extended radially inwardly from the cylinder and an outer lip provided at an inner diameter end of the ring-shaped upstanding wall, the outer lip serving to show the sealing function in cooperation with the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Masuda
  • Publication number: 20100209034
    Abstract: A wheel bearing device of the invention includes a flanged shaft member that includes a shaft portion to which a rolling bearing is assembled, a fitting shaft portion that is formed on one end side of the shaft portion and that is fitted to a center hole of a wheel, and a plurality of flange portions that extend radially outward on an outer peripheral surface located between the shaft portion and the fitting shaft portion and each of which has a through bolt hole in which a hub bolt for fastening the wheel is arranged. Each flange portion of the wheel bearing device is formed by side extrusion when a forged recess is formed at a center of an end surface of the fitting shaft portion by cold forging. An edge portion of a cross-sectional shape taken perpendicularly to a longitudinal direction of each flange portion is formed in an R-chamfered shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori MASUDA, Tatsuya YOKOTA, Motonori NAKAO
  • Publication number: 20100209032
    Abstract: An annular recess is formed in a vehicle inner side of a wheel rolling bearing device. A protective cover is attached to an inner ring disposed in a bottom side of the recess to protect an annular magnetic encoder. A cover body of the protective cover is formed with an annular first disk portion covering the magnetic encoder, a cylindrical portion extending from a radial outer end of the first disk portion and fitted into an inner circumferential wall of the recess, and a second disk portion extending radially outward from an upper end of the cylindrical portion and covering the end portion of the outer ring located around the recess. The cover body is formed with a to-be-separated portion constituted by at least one of half-cut grooves and perforations extending in a radial direction of the cover body. The cover body is formed with lugs which are projected from the second disk portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Seo, Yoshinori Masuda
  • Publication number: 20100210369
    Abstract: A wheel bearing device of the invention includes a flanged shaft member that includes a shaft portion to which a rolling bearing is assembled, a fitting shaft portion that is formed on one end side of the shaft portion and that is fitted to a center hole of a wheel, and a plurality of flange portions that extend radially outward on an outer peripheral surface located between the shaft portion and the fitting shaft portion and each of which has a bolt hole in which a hub bolt for fastening the wheel is arranged. Each flange portion is formed by side extrusion when a forged recess is formed at a center of an end surface of the fitting shaft portion by cold forging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Masuda, Tatsuya Yokota, Nobuyuki Seo, Takanobu Murakami, Tsuyoshi Okumura, Yoshito Takada
  • Publication number: 20090123101
    Abstract: In a rolling bearing provided with an outer ring connected to a mounting opening of a knuckle, an inner ring connected to a wheel through a hub, a rolling element intervening between the outer ring and the inner ring and a sealing device for sealing the space between the inner and outer rings from the outside, the rolling bearing is provided with a sealing member for limiting the foreign substance invading the rolling bearing side from a clearance existing between a drive shaft provided rotatably with the inner ring and the knuckle, the sealing member including a ring-shaped cover including a cylinder press-fit in the outer ring and a ring-shaped upstanding wall extended radially inwardly from the cylinder and an outer lip provided at an inner diameter end of the ring-shaped upstanding wall, the outer lip serving to show the sealing function in cooperation with the drive shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Masuda
  • Publication number: 20090096441
    Abstract: An annular member is mounted on an outer ring, and a sensor is fixed to the annular member. The annular member includes a fixing portion, and a cover portion. The sensor is fixed to the fixing portion by a bolt and a nut. The fixing portion is fixed to the cover portion by bolts. The cover portion is separate from the fixing portion, and therefore does not have an opening extending in a circumferential direction, and covers a magnet rotor fitted on an inner ring in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: 6966577
    Abstract: In an occupant detecting apparatus for detecting an occupant seated on a passenger seat of a vehicle with an airbag for the occupant, a load sensor is provided in a bottom part of the seat. A plurality of first electric field sensors are provided in the bottom part of the seat, and a plurality of second electric field sensors are provided in a rear part of the seat. An airbag inflating permission control unit permits inflation of the airbag in accordance with output signals of the load sensor and the first and second electric field sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Elesys Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Baba, Kazunori Jinno, Hiroshi Oikawa, Takashi Saito, Naoki Saito, Shingo Nagai, Yoshinori Masuda
  • Publication number: 20050100598
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a quick disintegrating tablet in buccal cavity, comprising: a mixture, comprising a drug, a sugar (A), and an amorphous sugar (B), and after it is forming a tablet, it is humidified and dried. In particularly, the present invention relates to a quick disintegrating tablet in buccal cavity comprising: a mixture; comprising a drug, a sugar (A), and an amorphous sugar (B) which an amorphous-forming sugar in crystalline state is dissolved in a medicinally permitted solvent, the amorphous sugar is obtained from this solution by removing the solvent, and after it is forming a tablet, and it is humidified and dried. The tablet in the present invention is to provide stability against moisture at preserved, because the amorphous sugar changed to the crystalline state in a nonreversible reaction after it is humidified and dried in a manufacturing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Applicants: Yamanouchi Pharma Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takao Mizumoto, Yoshinori Masuda, Atsushi Kajiyama, Masahiro Yanagisawa, Janaki Ram Nyshadham
  • Publication number: 20050100599
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a quick-disintegrating tablet in the buccal cavity comprising a drug, a diluent, and a saccharide with a relatively lower melting point than the drug and the diluent, which is obtained by uniformly mixing the saccharide with a low melting point in the tablet so that a bridge will be formed between said drug and/or said diluent particles by the product of melting and then solidification of this saccharide with a low melting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Applicant: Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuki Takaishi, Takao Mizumoto, Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: 6872405
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a quick-disintegrating tablet in the buccal cavity comprising a drug, a diluent, and a saccharide with a relatively lower melting point than the drug and the diluent, which is obtained by uniformly mixing the saccharide with a low melting point in the tablet so that a bridge will be formed between said drug and/or said diluent particles by the product of melting and then solidification of this saccharide with a low melting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuki Takaishi, Takao Mizumoto, Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: 6859985
    Abstract: A blade attaching structure including a connecting shaft on a blade side detachably supported on an attaching groove formed on a wiper arm, wherein secure fixation becomes possible while attaching and detaching operations are simplified. An attaching groove formed on a wiper arm has a dovetail groove shape having a groove entrance portion with a groove width, the connecting shaft including a fixed shaft fixed on a bracket and a spacer having a cylinder sliding portion which is incorporated in the fixed shaft to be slidable in the rotational direction of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Nakazawa, Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: 6803054
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a quick disintegrating tablet in buccal cavity, comprising: a mixture, comprising a drug, a sugar (A), and an amorphous sugar (B), and after it is forming a tablet, it is humidified and dried. In particularly, the present invention relates to a quick disintegrating tablet in buccal cavity comprising: a mixture; comprising a drug, a sugar (A), and an amorphous sugar (B) which an amorphous-forming sugar in crystalline state is dissolved in a medicinally permitted solvent, the amorphous sugar is obtained from this solution by removing the solvent, and after it is forming a tablet, and it is humidified and dried. The tablet in the present invention is to provide stability against moisture at preserved, because the amorphous sugar changed to the crystalline state in a nonreversible reaction after it is humidified and dried in a manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignees: Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Yamanouchi Pharma Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takao Mizumoto, Yoshinori Masuda, Atsushi Kajiyama, Masahiro Yanagisawa, Janaki Ram Nyshadham
  • Publication number: 20040075259
    Abstract: In an occupant detecting apparatus for detecting an occupant seated on a passenger seat of a vehicle with an airbag for the occupant, a load sensor is provided in a bottom part of the seat. A plurality of first electric field sensors are provided in the bottom part of the seat, and a plurality of second electric field sensors are provided in a rear part of the seat. An airbag inflating permission control unit permits inflation of the airbag in accordance with output signals of the load sensor and the first and second electric field sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Applicant: HONDA ELESYS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Baba, Kazunori Jinno, Hiroshi Oikawa, Takashi Saito, Naoki Saito, Shingo Nagai, Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: 6684973
    Abstract: In an occupant detecting apparatus for detecting an occupant seated on a passenger seat of a vehicle with an airbag for the occupant, a load sensor is provided in a bottom part of the seat. A plurality of first electric field sensors are provided in the bottom part of the seat, and a plurality of second electric field sensors are provided in a rear part of the seat. An airbag inflating permission control unit permits inflation of the airbag in accordance with output signals of the load sensor and the first and second electric field sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Honda Elesys Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Baba, Kazunori Jinno, Hiroshi Oikawa, Takashi Saito, Naoki Saito, Shingo Nagai, Yoshinori Masuda
  • Publication number: 20030203022
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a quick disintegrating tablet in buccal cavity, comprising: a mixture, comprising a drug, a sugar (A), and an amorphous sugar (B), and after it is forming a tablet, it is humidified and dried. In particularly, the present invention relates to a quick disintegrating tablet in buccal cavity comprising: a mixture; comprising a drug, a sugar (A), and an amorphous sugar (B) which an amorphous-forming sugar in crystalline state is dissolved in a medicinally permitted solvent, the amorphous sugar is obtained from this solution by removing the solvent, and after it is forming a tablet, and it is humidified and dried.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicants: Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Yamanouchi Pharma Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takao Mizumoto, Yoshinori Masuda, Atsushi Kajiyama, Masahiro Yanagisawa, Janaki Ram Nyshadham
  • Patent number: 6589554
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a quick disintegrating tablet in buccal cavity, comprising: a mixture, comprising a drug, a sugar (A), and an amorphous sugar (B), and after it is forming a tablet, it is humidified and dried. In particularly, the present invention relates to a quick disintegrating tablet in buccal cavity comprising: a mixture; comprising a drug, a sugar (A), and an amorphous sugar (B) which an amorphous-forming sugar in crystalline state is dissolved in a medicinally permitted solvent, the amorphous sugar is obtained from this solution by removing the solvent, and after it is forming a tablet, and it is humidified and dried. The tablet in the present invention is to provide stability against moisture at preserved, because the amorphous sugar changed to the crystalline state in a nonreversible reaction after it is humidified and dried in a manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignees: Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Yamanouchi Pharma Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takao Mizumoto, Yoshinori Masuda, Atsushi Kajiyama, Masahiro Yanagisawa, Janaki Ram Nyshadham