Patents by Inventor Yuji Kubota
Yuji Kubota 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: 11892062Abstract: A screw device is provided which applies preload with a single nut and can easily detect preload. The screw device of includes: a screw shaft having an outer helical groove; a nut fitted on the screw shaft, the nut having an inner helical groove, and a return path to which a passage formed between the outer groove and the inner groove is connected; a plurality of rolling elements placed between the passage and the return path; and a strain sensor attached to an outer surface of the nut. At least one hole is provided between an attachment surface, to which the strain sensor is attached, of the nut and/or a vicinity thereof and an inner surface of the nut.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Kubota, Hirofumi Suzuki, Takamitsu Tomiyama, Yuta Tsujisawa
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Patent number: 11821497Abstract: A preload detectable screw device is provided which can detect preload with accuracy and can reduce the influence of generated heat on the output of a sensor. A screw device (1) includes a screw shaft (2), a nut member (3), a plurality of rolling elements (7, 8), at least one axial strain sensor (24) (B, D) that is attached to a surface of the nut member (3) and detects strain in an axial direction on the nut member (3), and at least one circumferential strain sensor (24) (A, C) that is attached to the surface of the nut member (3) and detects strain in a circumferential direction on the nut member (3). Preload of the screw device (1) is detected on the basis of outputs of the axial strain sensor (24) (B, D) and the circumferential strain sensor (24) (A, C).Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: THK CO., LTDInventors: Yuji Kubota, Yoshinobu Moriyuki
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Publication number: 20220302469Abstract: A carbon catalyst has a carbon structure with a crystallite size Lc falling within 0.90 nm or more and 1.20 nm or less calculated through use of a Bragg angle of a diffraction peak fbroad at a diffraction angle 2? of 24.0°±4.0° obtained by separating a diffraction peak in the vicinity of a diffraction angle 2? of 26° in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by powder X-ray diffraction using a CuK? ray, and a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 97 ?mol/g or less, a total of a carbon monoxide desorption amount and a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 647 ?mol/g or less, or a carbon monoxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 549 ?mol/g or less in a temperature programmed desorption method including measuring a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 25° C. to 1,200° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Tetsutaro SATO, Yuji KUBOTA, Takeaki KISHIMOTO, Kumi NARIZUKA, Koji KAMATA, Yoshikazu KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220285696Abstract: A metal-supported catalyst, battery electrode, and battery, each having excellent catalytic activity and durability. The metal-supported catalyst includes: a carbon carrier; and catalyst metal particles supported thereon, wherein, in a photoelectron spectrum obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the catalyst exhibits, as a peak derived from a is orbital of a nitrogen atom, a peak to be separated into peaks of first to sixth nitrogen atoms having peak tops in the following respective ranges: (1) 398.6±0.2 eV; (2) 399.5±0.3 eV; (3) 400.5±0.2 eV; (4) 401.3±0.3 eV; (5) 403.4±0.4 eV; and (6) 404.5±0.5 eV, wherein a ratio of a peak area of the second nitrogen atoms to a total peak area of the nitrogen atoms of the (1) to (6) is 0.03 or more, and wherein a ratio of a concentration of the second nitrogen atoms to a concentration of carbon atoms measured by the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is 0.0005 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Yuji KUBOTA, Ayaka FUJIMOTO, Takeaki KISHIMOTO, Takuya ISHIZUKA, Takuya ISAKA, Miki MEGURO
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Patent number: 11387466Abstract: A carbon catalyst has a carbon structure with a crystallite size Lc falling within 0.90 nm or more and 1.20 nm or less calculated through use of a Bragg angle of a diffraction peak fbroad at a diffraction angle 2? of 24.0°±4.0° obtained by separating a diffraction peak in the vicinity of a diffraction angle 2? of 26° in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by powder X-ray diffraction using a CuK? ray, and a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 97 ?mol/g or less, a total of a carbon monoxide desorption amount and a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 647 ?mol/g or less, or a carbon monoxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 549 ?mol/g or less in a temperature programmed desorption method including measuring a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 25° C. to 1,200° C.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Tetsutaro Sato, Yuji Kubota, Takeaki Kishimoto, Kumi Narizuka, Koji Kamata, Yoshikazu Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11344867Abstract: A carbon catalyst has: a carbon structure that exhibits a nitrogen desorption temperature range from 800° C.-1,000° C. of 0.75×10?5 mol/g or more or a nitrogen desorption amount in the range from 600° C. to 1,000° C. of 1.20×10?5 mol/g or more in a temperature programmed desorption method including measuring nitrogen desorption amount temperature range from 600° C.-1,000° C.; a carbon structure exhibits a zeta potential isoelectric point of pH 9.2 or more; or a carbon structure exhibits a ratio of an intensity of a first nitrogen peak within a range of a binding energy of 398.0±1.0 eV, to an intensity of a second nitrogen peak having a peak top within a range of a binding energy of 400.5±1.0 eV, of 0.620 or more, the first and second nitrogen peaks obtained by separating a peak derived from a 1s orbital of a nitrogen atom in a photoelectron spectrum obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Yuji Kubota, Takeaki Kishimoto, Kumi Narizuka, Tetsutaro Sato
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Patent number: 11320028Abstract: In a screw device where a shim is disposed between two nuts, a screw device that can detect preload is provided. The preload detectable screw device includes: two nuts; a shim sandwiched and compressed between the two nuts; a coupling portion configured to couple the two nuts in such a manner as to be incapable of relative rotation to each other; and a force sensor for detecting preload. A contact surface of at least one of the two nuts with the shim is provided with a recess, spaced apart from the coupling portion, in such a manner as to reduce the contact area. The force sensor is attached near the recess on an outer surface of the shim.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Kubota, Hirofumi Suzuki, Takamitsu Tomiyama
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Publication number: 20220128136Abstract: A screw device is provided which applies preload with a single nut and can easily detect preload. The screw device of includes: a screw shaft having an outer helical groove; a nut fitted on the screw shaft, the nut having an inner helical groove, and a return path to which a passage formed between the outer groove and the inner groove is connected; a plurality of rolling elements placed between the passage and the return path; and a strain sensor attached to an outer surface of the nut. At least one hole is provided between an attachment surface, to which the strain sensor is attached, of the nut and/or a vicinity thereof and an inner surface of the nut.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Yuji KUBOTA, Hirofumi SUZUKI, Takamitsu TOMIYAMA, Yuta TSUJISAWA
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Publication number: 20220042583Abstract: A preload detectable screw device is provided which can detect preload with accuracy and can reduce the influence of generated heat on the output of a sensor. A screw device (1) includes a screw shaft (2), a nut member (3), a plurality of rolling elements (7, 8), at least one axial strain sensor (24) (B, D) that is attached to a surface of the nut member (3) and detects strain in an axial direction on the nut member (3), and at least one circumferential strain sensor (24) (A, C) that is attached to the surface of the nut member (3) and detects strain in a circumferential direction on the nut member (3). Preload of the screw device (1) is detected on the basis of outputs of the axial strain sensor (24) (B, D) and the circumferential strain sensor (24) (A, C).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Yuji KUBOTA, Yoshinobu MORIYUKI
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Patent number: 11145876Abstract: A carbon catalyst, a battery electrode, and a battery each having excellent catalytic activity and excellent durability. The carbon catalyst includes iron, exhibits a weight reduction ratio in the temperature range from 200° C. to 1,200° C. of 12.0 wt % or less measured by thermogravimetric analysis in a nitrogen atmosphere, and has a carbon structure that exhibits, in X-ray absorption fine structure analysis of a K absorption edge of the iron, the following (a) and/or (b): (a) a ratio of a normalized absorbance at 7,130 eV to a normalized absorbance at 7,110 eV is 7.0 or more; and (b) a ratio of a normalized absorbance at 7,135 eV to a normalized absorbance at 7,110 eV is 7.0 or more.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Yoshikazu Kobayashi, Yuji Kubota, Tetsutaro Sato, Takeaki Kishimoto
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Patent number: 11114672Abstract: A carbon catalyst, a battery electrode, and a battery, each exhibits excellent catalytic performance. A carbon catalyst contains two kinds of transition metals and has such a carbon structure that an interplanar spacing d002, which is determined from a Bragg angle of one of three diffraction peaks fbroad, fmiddle, and fnarrow obtained by separating a diffraction peak around a diffraction angle (2?) of 26° in an X-ray diffraction pattern of powder X-ray diffraction with a CuK? ray, the one diffraction peak being the diffraction peak fbroad, is 0.374 nm or more.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignees: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION GUNMA UNIVERSITYInventors: Yoshikazu Kobayashi, Yuji Kubota, Jun-ichi Ozaki, Takafumi Ishii, Takuya Maie
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Publication number: 20210190186Abstract: In a screw device where a shim is disposed between two nuts, a screw device that can detect preload is provided. The preload detectable screw device includes: two nuts; a shim sandwiched and compressed between the two nuts; a coupling portion configured to couple the two nuts in such a manner as to be incapable of relative rotation to each other; and a force sensor for detecting preload. A contact surface of at least one of the two nuts with the shim is provided with a recess, spaced apart from the coupling portion, in such a manner as to reduce the contact area. The force sensor is attached near the recess on an outer surface of the shim.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2018Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Yuji KUBOTA, Hirofumi SUZUKI, Takamitsu TOMIYAMA
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Patent number: 10935116Abstract: A seal member for a ball screw device, which is fixed to an axial end surface of a nut member of the ball screw device and is configured to seal a gap between the nut member and the screw shaft, the seal member including: a plurality of base plates which each have a through hole having an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the screw shaft; a spacer plate, which is sandwiched between two base plates adjacent to each other, and has a seal accommodation hole having an inner diameter larger than an inner diameter of a through hole of the base plates; and a seal plate, which has a shaft-fitting hole corresponding to a sectional shape of the screw shaft in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction, and is arranged in the seal accommodation hole of the spacer plates.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Kubota, Futoshi Nakamura, Tetsuhiro Nishide, Kotaro Kawai, Bin Zhao, Tomoyuki Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20200408290Abstract: A seal member for a ball screw device, which is fixed to an axial end surface of a nut member of the ball screw device and is configured to seal a gap between the nut member and the screw shaft, the seal member including: a plurality of base plates which each have a through hole having an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the screw shaft; a spacer plate, which is sandwiched between two base plates adjacent to each other, and has a seal accommodation hole having an inner diameter larger than an inner diameter of a through hole of the base plates; and a seal plate, which has a shaft-fitting hole corresponding to a sectional shape of the screw shaft in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction, and is arranged in the seal accommodation hole of the spacer plates.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2018Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Kubota, Futoshi Nakamura, Tetsuhiro Nishide, Kotaro Kawai, Bin Zhao, Tomoyuki Sugiyama
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Patent number: 10821905Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for mounting interchangeably mounting a module to a vehicle seat. The module may include a mounting portion. The docking apparatus may include a mounting receiving portion selectively engageable with the mounting portion of the module. The docking apparatus may further include one or more seat anchor fastening members that are selectively engageable with one or more child seat anchors of the vehicle seat. The docking apparatus may further include a support member operatively connected to an adjustment portion. The support member abut a portion of the vehicle seat, and the adjustment portion may be capable of altering the position of the docking apparatus with relation to the vehicle seat.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTDInventor: Yuji Kubota
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Patent number: 10780804Abstract: A vehicle seat that can include a seat cushion and a concealing lid. The seat cushion can include a lower foam portion, an upper foam portion, and a buckle hole that extends through each of the lower foam portion and the upper foam portion. The concealing lid can be movably connected to the seat cushion to selectively close and open at least a portion of the buckle hole. The concealing lid can span at least a portion of the buckle hole when the concealing lid is in the closed position. The concealing lid can include an end portion that extends into a gap between the upper foam portion and the lower foam portion when the concealing lid is in the closed position. The end portion of the concealing lid can be spaced away from lower foam portion when the concealing lid is in the opened position.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Kubota, Derek S. Lindsay, Ross L. Burghardt, Michael C. Mraz
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Publication number: 20200243873Abstract: A carbon catalyst, a battery electrode, and a battery each having excellent catalytic activity and excellent durability. The carbon catalyst includes iron, exhibits a weight reduction ratio in the temperature range from 200° C. to 1,200° C. of 12.0 wt % or less measured by thermogravimetric analysis in a nitrogen atmosphere, and has a carbon structure that exhibits, in X-ray absorption fine structure analysis of a K absorption edge of the iron, the following (a) and/or (b): (a) a ratio of a normalized absorbance at 7,130 eV to a normalized absorbance at 7,110 eV is 7.0 or more; and (b) a ratio of a normalized absorbance at 7,135 eV to a normalized absorbance at 7,110 eV is 7.0 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Yoshikazu KOBAYASHI, Yuji KUBOTA, Tetsutaro SATO, Takeaki KISHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20200171470Abstract: A carbon catalyst has: a carbon structure that exhibits a nitrogen desorption temperature range from 800° C.-1,000° C. of 0.75×10?5 mol/g or more or a nitrogen desorption amount in the range from 600° C. to 1,000° C. of 1.20×10?5 mol/g or more in a temperature programmed desorption method including measuring nitrogen desorption amount temperature range from 600° C. -1,000° C.; a carbon structure exhibits a zeta potential isoelectric point of pH 9.2 or more; or a carbon structure exhibits a ratio of an intensity of a first nitrogen peak within a range of a binding energy of 398.0±1.0 eV, to an intensity of a second nitrogen peak having a peak top within a range of a binding energy of 400.5±1.0 eV, of 0.620 or more, the first and second nitrogen peaks obtained by separating a peak derived from a 1s orbital of a nitrogen atom in a photoelectron spectrum obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2018Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Yuji KUBOTA, Takeaki KISHIMOTO, Kumi NARIZUKA, Tetsutaro SATO
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Publication number: 20200127301Abstract: A carbon catalyst has a carbon structure with a crystallite size Lc falling within 0.90 nm or more and 1.20 nm or less calculated through use of a Bragg angle of a diffraction peak fbroad at a diffraction angle 2? of 24.0°±4.0° obtained by separating a diffraction peak in the vicinity of a diffraction angle 2? of 26° in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by powder X-ray diffraction using a CuK? ray, and a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 97 ?mol/g or less, a total of a carbon monoxide desorption amount and a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 647 ?mol/g or less, or a carbon monoxide desorption amount from 650° C. to 1,200° C. of 549 ?mol/g or less in a temperature programmed desorption method including measuring a carbon dioxide desorption amount from 25° C. to 1,200° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2018Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Tetsutaro SATO, Yuji KUBOTA, Takeaki KISHIMOTO, Kumi NARIZUKA, Koji KAMATA, Yoshikazu KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 10578010Abstract: In a control device for an internal combustion engine, when a target pre/post compressor pressure ratio calculated by a target pre/post compressor pressure ratio calculation part is more than a turbine-limit-time pre/post compressor pressure ratio calculated by a turbine-limit-time pre/post compressor pressure ratio calculation part, an upper limit of the target pre/post compressor pressure ratio is limited by the turbine-limit-time pre/post compressor pressure ratio, and a change rate of the target pre/post compressor pressure ratio is limited by a change rate limit value during a change rate limitation period after upper limit limitation processing starts, thereby preventing the target pre/post compressor pressure ratio from being suddenly fluctuated by a sudden fluctuation in a compressor passage flow rate, and suppressing the occurrence of the over rotation of the turbine and the control hunting.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshiaki Maruo, Yuji Kubota, Takahiko Ono