Patents by Inventor Yuji Sasaki

Yuji Sasaki 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: 10662963
    Abstract: A rotary machine is provided with: a bearing that supports a rotary shaft of an impeller; a bearing support part that supports an outer circumference of the bearing; a key groove that is formed in the bearing and the bearing support part and extends along a rotary shaft line direction of the rotary shaft; and a key member that is inserted into the key groove. The bearing support part is provided with an outer regulating part that can contact one end part of the key member inside the key groove. An outer ring of the bearing is provided with an inner regulating part that can contact another end part of the key member inside the key groove. A distance between the outer regulating part and the inner regulating part is longer than a length of the key member in the rotary shaft line direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Kuniaki Iizuka, Takashi Yoshida, Yuji Sasaki, Tatsumi Inomata, Takuya Ozasa, Ryosuke Yumoto, Takashi Mori
  • Patent number: 10632647
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure has a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having porous partition walls which defines cells which forms a passage of liquid extended from an inflow end face toward an outflow end face, a circumferential wall arranged to surround a circumference of the partition walls. The honeycomb structure body has an outermost circumference cell structure including a complete cell arranged at the outermost circumference of the honeycomb structure body, a center cell structure formed by the cells arranged at a center part at an inner side to the outermost circumference cell structure, and a boundary wall arranged at a boundary part between the outermost circumference cell structure and the center cell structure. The outermost circumference cell structure and the center cell structure are formed as different structures to each other, and a thickness of the boundary wall is set to be thicker than a thickness of the circumferential wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akifumi Kawakami, Yuji Sasaki, Mitsuhiro Ito, Yukiharu Morita
  • Patent number: 10634043
    Abstract: An electric device includes a partition wall configured to partition between a motor chamber having a relatively high pressure and an inverter chamber having a relatively low pressure; an inverter, which is provided in the inverter chamber, and is configured to supply power; a motor, which is provided in the motor chamber, and is configured to operate with supply of power from the inverter; and a bus-bar device, which is mounted to the partition wall by being inserted into a partition wall through hole formed in the partition wall, and is configured to connect the inverter and the motor to each other. The bus-bar device includes a bus bar configured to connect the inverter and the motor to each other; a plate portion into which the bus bar is inserted; and a resin portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Sasaki, Takashi Yoshida, Tatsumi Inomata, Kuniaki Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20200109719
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes: an impeller; a main flow passage which receives the impeller and extends in a rotation axis direction of the impeller; an auxiliary flow passage which includes an upstream communication portion communicating to the main flow passage and a downstream communication portion communicating to the main flow passage at closer to the impeller than the upstream communication portion, and extends in a rotation direction of the impeller; a plurality of opening/closing portions which each have an opening portion and are arranged in the auxiliary flow passage; and a drive unit configured to move at least one of the plurality of opening/closing portions in the rotation direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi FUJIWARA, Ryusuke NUMAKURA, Kengo MATSUO, Kensuke HIRATA, Yuji SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200083078
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a carrier storage rack configured to place and store a carrier that accommodates a substrate; a gas supply configured to supply an inert gas into the carrier placed on the carrier storage rack; and a controller configured to control whether to supply the inert gas into the carrier based on at least one of carrier information and substrate information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Moriyoshi Kinoshita, Yuji Sasaki, Junichi Sato, Takashi Asakawa
  • Publication number: 20200047268
    Abstract: A gear machining apparatus creates a gear on a workpiece W by moving a gear cutting tool relatively with respect to the workpiece along the direction of the rotation axis of the workpiece W while synchronously rotating the gear cutting tool and the workpiece. One of a workpiece rotation speed controlling portion and a tool rotation speed controlling portion varies the rotation speed of one of the workpiece and the gear cutting tool and the other one of the workpiece rotation speed controlling portion and the tool rotation speed controlling portion synchronizes the rotation speed of the other one of the workpiece and the gear cutting tool with one of the rotation speed of the workpiece and the gear cutting tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daichi KANDA, Takaaki HASHIMOTO, Yuji SASAKI, Yoshihiko YAMADA, Hisashi OTANI, Yoshitaro OHSAKI
  • Publication number: 20200040903
    Abstract: A bearing structure of the present disclosure includes a rotation shaft, a bearing that is attached in a housing to support the rotation shaft with respect to the housing and includes an inner race through which the rotation shaft is inserted and an outer race which includes an annular groove portion formed on an outer peripheral surface facing an inner wall surface of the housing, and an O-ring which is disposed on the groove portion of the outer race of the bearing, protrudes outward in a radial direction in relation to the outer peripheral surface, and comes into contact with the inner wall surface of the housing. A clearance is formed between the inner wall surface of the housing and the outer peripheral surface of the bearing. The clearance is larger than a radial displacement amount of the O-ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Kuniaki IIZUKA, Takashi YOSHIDA, Tatsumi INOMATA, Takuya OZASA, Kai llJIMA, Ryosuke YUMOTO, Takashi MORI, Yuji SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200037712
    Abstract: A fastener tape includes a mounting part for mounting a fastener element and a sewing part for sewing a fabric. The mutually adjoining sides of the mounting part and sewing part are integrally connected to each other. Another side of the mounting part which is spaced distantly from the sewing part provides a fastener element mounting side for mounting the fastener element. The sewing part is constituted of a plain weave texture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Go Takani, Yuji Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10537966
    Abstract: A machining apparatus that need not exchange a processing nozzle when changing a shaping condition, and increases the use efficiency of a material. The processing nozzle that performs processing by ejecting a processing material towards a molten pool formed on a process surface by an energy line includes a cylindrical inner housing that incorporates a path through which the energy line passes, and ejects the energy line from one end. The processing nozzle also includes a cylindrical outer housing that incorporates the inner housing, and has an inner surface tapered in the ejection direction of the energy line ejected from the inner housing. The processing nozzle also includes a slide mechanism that changes, along the energy line, the relative position of the outer housing with respect to the inner housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Inventors: Yuji Sasaki, Hiroshi Ohno, Mitsuo Sasaki, Takashi Obara, Kazuyuki Masukawa
  • Patent number: 10532427
    Abstract: An optical processing head capable of reducing the energy loss at the time of optical processing is disclosed. The optical processing head includes a first optical element that converts light emitted by a light source into first parallel light, a second optical element that is arranged downstream of the first optical element and converts the first parallel light into first divergent light, a third optical element that is arranged downstream of the second optical element and converts the first divergent light into second parallel light, and a fourth optical element that is arranged downstream of the third optical element and converts the second parallel light into convergent light which is condensed on the processing surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ohno, Tetsuo Sakai, Mitsuo Sasaki, Kazuyuki Masukawa, Takashi Obara, Yuji Sasaki, Satoshi Tsuno
  • Patent number: 10512313
    Abstract: A fastener tape includes a mounting part for mounting a fastener element and a sewing part for sewing a fabric. The mutually adjoining sides of the mounting part and sewing part are integrally connected to each other. Another side of the mounting part which is spaced distantly from the sewing part provides a fastener element mounting side for mounting the fastener element. The sewing part is constituted of a plain weave texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Go Takani, Yuji Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20190352236
    Abstract: A pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body of a honeycomb structure includes a circumferential cell structure, a central cell structure and a boundary wall therebetween. On a surface orthogonal to the cells there are a circumferential reinforcing region having the partition wall thicker than a basic partition wall thickness in the circumferential cell structure and existing outside a range of a distance from a centroid of the surface; and at least one of a first boundary reinforcing region having the partition wall thicker than the basic partition wall thickness and existing in a range of a distance from the centroid within a range of the circumferential cell structure and a second boundary reinforcing region having the partition wall thicker than a basic partition wall thickness in the central cell structure and existing outside of a range of a distance from the centroid within a range of the central cell structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akifumi KAWAKAMI, Takashi KINOSHITA, Yuji SASAKI, Mitsuhiro ITO
  • Publication number: 20190345956
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a rotation shaft, a compressor impeller, a rotor portion, a stator portion, and a motor housing. The motor housing includes an inner housing which includes a first cylindrical portion surrounding and holding the stator portion and an outer housing which includes a second cylindrical portion surrounding and holding the first cylindrical portion of the inner housing. An outer peripheral surface of the stator portion is in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the first cylindrical portion of the inner housing. An outer peripheral surface of the first cylindrical portion is provided with a first groove portion disposed to turn around an axis of the rotation shaft by one turn or more and the first groove portion includes a spiral groove portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Kuniaki IIZUKA, Takashi YOSHIDA, Yuji SASAKI, Tatsumi INOMATA, Takuya OZASA, Ryosuke YUMOTO, Takashi MORI
  • Patent number: 10449560
    Abstract: An optical processing nozzle that homogeneously supplies a fluid to a processing surface in optical processing. The optical processing nozzle includes a beam path that is arranged so that a beam can pass through the beam path towards a processing surface in order to perform processing using a beam guided from a light source, and a channel structure that is arranged around the beam path and is configured to eject a fluid towards the processing surface. The channel structure includes an inflow port through which the fluid flows, at least two passage holes through which the fluid flowing from the inflow port passes, a channel that guides the fluid from the inflow port to the passage holes, and an ejection port from which the fluid having passed through the at least two passage holes is ejected toward the processing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ohno, Yuji Sasaki, Mitsuo Sasaki, Takashi Obara, Kazuyuki Masukawa
  • Patent number: 10399182
    Abstract: The mobility of an optical processing apparatus is improved. There is provided an optical processing apparatus for scanning a processing region having an at least one-dimensional spread by moving a nozzle head while irradiating the processing region with an optical processing light beam via the nozzle head, including a light source that emits, to air, the optical processing light beam toward the nozzle head, a nozzle head that includes a hollow nozzle in a vertical direction and a light beam direction changing optical system which receives the light beam emitted from the light source and propagated in the air, and changes a propagation direction of the received light beam to a direction of a currently processed processing point in the processing region, and a main scanning direction moving mechanism that moves the nozzle head by causing the nozzle head to scan in a main scanning direction of the processing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ohno, Yuji Sasaki, Satoshi Tsuno, Naotada Okada, Mitsuo Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20190257234
    Abstract: An exhaust gas energy recovery device includes a power generation device driven by a turbine configured to rotate by an exhaust gas, a switching element connected to the power generation device, a first terminal connected to the power generation device via the switching element and for being connected to a first power storage device, and a second terminal connected to the power generation device and for being connected to a second power storage device, in which a terminal voltage of the first power storage device is lower than a terminal voltage of the second power storage device, and the switching element switches a destination to be charged by the power generation device to either the first power storage device or the second power storage device on the basis of magnitude of a direct current voltage output from the power generation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji SASAKI, Takashi YOSHIDA, Tatsumi INOMATA, Kuniaki IIZUKA, Takuya OZASA, Ryosuke YUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10371645
    Abstract: An optical processing head that detects a trouble of an optical processing head that will be generated at the time of optical processing before the trouble occurs is disclosed. The optical processing head that performs processing by condensing, on a process surface, a ray emitted by a light source for processing includes a cylindrical housing that surrounds a ray for processing emitted by the light source for processing, a ray emitter for inspection that is incorporated in the cylindrical housing and arranged outside the path of the ray for processing, and a light receiver that is incorporated in the cylindrical housing, arranged outside the path of the ray for processing, and receives a ray for inspection emitted by the ray emitter for inspection. The contamination of the inner surface of the cylindrical housing or the concentration of a scattering object flowing into the cylindrical housing is inspected by using a signal acquired from the light receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ohno, Yuji Sasaki, Mitsuo Sasaki, Takashi Obara, Kazuyuki Masukawa
  • Patent number: 10369661
    Abstract: An optical processing head capable of downsizing an apparatus while increasing the shaping accuracy of optical processing is disclosed. The optical processing head performs processing while moving, in a predetermined moving direction on a processing surface, an optical spot formed by condensing light emitted by a light source. The optical processing head includes an optical element that condenses light emitted by the light source to generate the optical spot of a shape elongated in the moving direction of the optical spot. Part of the optical spot is set as a processing region, the front side and/or rear side of the processing region in the moving direction is set as a pre-heating region and/or post-heating region, and a processing target object before and/or after processing in the region is heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ohno, Yuji Sasaki, Mitsuo Sasaki, Takashi Obara, Kazuyuki Masukawa
  • Publication number: 20190226486
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes: a rotary shaft to which a compressor impeller is attached; a stator portion which is disposed around the rotary shaft; and a motor housing which accommodates the stator portion. The motor housing includes an inner housing which includes a first cylindrical portion surrounding and holding the stator portion and an outer housing which includes a second cylindrical portion surrounding and holding the first cylindrical portion of the inner housing. Between an outer surface of the inner housing and an inner surface of the outer housing, a cooling jacket portion is formed in a part of a circumferential direction about the rotary shaft. The inner housing includes a first end wall portion which is formed to be continuous to the first cylindrical portion and extends inward in relation to an outer peripheral portion of the stator portion in a radial direction of the rotary shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Kuniaki IIZUKA, Takashi YOSHIDA, Yuji SASAKI, Tatsumi INOMATA, Takuya OZASA, Ryosuke YUMOTO, Takashi MORI
  • Publication number: 20190211845
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a compressor impeller attached to a rotary shaft and a housing accommodating the rotary shaft and the compressor impeller. The housing includes a suction portion formed upstream of the compressor impeller and a high pressure part formed on a rear face side of the compressor impeller and having a pressure higher than a pressure in the suction portion during rotation of the compressor impeller. The housing has a discharge passage formed for connecting the high pressure part to a low pressure part including the suction portion and a gas flow path upstream of the suction portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Kuniaki IIZUKA, Takashi YOSHIDA, Yuji SASAKI, Tatsumi INOMATA, Takuya OZASA, Ryosuke YUMOTO, Takashi MORI