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).

  • Publication number: 20170259378
    Abstract: Ejection and stop of a powder flow are switched while maintaining a once generated steady flow without stopping it. A processing nozzle includes a supply source of a fluid containing a powder, a first channel through which the fluid supplied from the supply source passes, a second channel that supplies the fluid to an ejection port of the nozzle, a third channel that releases the fluid outside the nozzle, and a switch that causes the first channel and the second channel to communicate with each other when supplying the fluid to the ejection port, and causes the first channel and the third channel to communicate with each other when not supplying the fluid to the ejection port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Inventors: Hiroshi OHNO, Mitsuo SASAKI, Yuji SASAKI, Satoshi TSUNO, Go OBARA, Tomohiko YAMADA, Yasutomo SHIOMI, Takashi OBARA
  • Publication number: 20170259377
    Abstract: A powder convergence improves without varying the flow velocity and powder density of a powder flow. A processing nozzle includes an inner cone including a beam path that passes light from a light source, an outer cone arranged outside the inner cone, a fluid ejection channel formed by a gap between the inner cone and the outer cone, and including an ejection port that opens toward a process surface, and a fluid guide channel having a flow inlet for a fluid. The fluid guide channel guides the fluid toward the fluid ejection channel in a direction away from the beam path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Inventors: Hiroshi OHNO, Satoshi TSUNO, Yuji SASAKI, Go OBARA, Naotada OKADA
  • Patent number: 9670893
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with: an injection timing detection unit; an engine rotation speed detection unit; an engine load detection unit; and a storing unit for storing control data of the variation in optimal ignition timing with respect to engine speed and engine load, and control data of correction coefficient pertaining to optimal ignition timing with respect to the engine load at a specific fuel injection timing. Referring to the control data, the variation in the optimal ignition timing is determined based on the detected fuel injection timing and the detected engine rotation speed; and, referring to the control data, the variation in the optimal ignition timing is determined based on the specific fuel injection timing and the detected engine speed, and the deviation between the respective variation in the optimal injection timing is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20170045462
    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: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Inventors: Hiroshi OHNO, Yuji SASAKI, Mitsuo SASAKI, Takashi OBARA, Kazuyuki MASUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160375521
    Abstract: A machining apparatus that need not exchange a processing nozzle when changing a shaping condition, and increases the use efficiency of a material is disclosed. The processing nozzle that performs processing by ejecting a processing material toward 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, 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, and a slide mechanism that changes, along the energy line, the relative position of the outer housing with respect to the inner housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Inventors: Yuji SASAKI, Hiroshi OHNO, Mitsuo SASAKI, Takashi OBARA, Kazuyuki MASUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160368087
    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: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Inventors: Hiroshi OHNO, Tetsuo SAKAI, Mitsuo SASAKI, Kazuyuki Masukawa, Takashi OBARA, Yuji SASAKI, Satoshi TSUNO
  • Publication number: 20160368097
    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: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Inventors: Hiroshi OHNO, Yuji SASAKI, Mitsuo SASAKI, Takashi OBARA, Kazuyuki MASUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160331088
    Abstract: There is provided a fastener tape. The 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: May 9, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Go Takani, Yuji Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20160288674
    Abstract: An armrest structure for door trim has an armrest lower, an armrest upper, and a ioining component that loins the armrest upper and the armrest lower together, wherein the ioining component is provided with a strap portion, and an anchor portion, and wherein the attachment hole has a wider portion through which the anchor portion can be inserted, and a narrower portion through which the anchor portion cannot be inserted, and during a process to assemble the armrest upper and the armrest lower together, the anchor portion is inserted through the wider portion, and once the armrest upper and the armrest lower are in an assembled state, the anchor portion is located at a position underneath the narrower portion of the attachment hole that is formed in the armrest lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Kanako MIZUNO, Yuji SASAKI, Fumitaka HIROSE, Kazumi KOJIMA, Hironori AKABANE, Yasuo SAIDA, Yuji ITO, Iwao UDATSU
  • Patent number: 9317084
    Abstract: In a thermal displacement compensating device and a thermal displacement compensating method for a machine tool, a block temperature obtaining section obtains temperatures of respective blocks based on temperature information detected by temperature sensors wherein temperatures in each of the respective blocks into which a column is divided to be pluralized are defined as a uniform value. An FEM analysis section performs a structural analysis by a finite element method based on the temperatures of the respective blocks obtained by the block temperature obtaining section and infers thermal displacement amounts of the column. A compensation value calculation section calculates a compensation value for a machining command position based on the thermal displacement amounts of the column inferred by the FEM analysis section. A compensation section compensates the machining command position by the compensation value obtained by the compensation value calculation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Sasaki, Hideki Iwai, Yasumasa Sakurai, Kimihiro Onishi, Yoshio Wakazono, Yoshiji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9309858
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine control device, a predetermined margin torque is set such that it is possible to maintain a predetermined engine idling speed by adjusting ignition timing with respect to load fluctuations during idling operation. The margin torque is set to decrease, as a load, acting on the internal combustion engine during idling operation, increases. Accordingly, the margin torque can be set to an appropriate value, and thus it is possible to improve a fuel economy performance during idling operation of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Yamano, Yuji Sasaki, Takao Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 9248720
    Abstract: A utility part assembly includes a vehicular interior part and a utility part. The vehicular interior part has a first surface and a second surface that is opposite to the first surface and has a first mounting hole and a second mounting hole. The utility part includes a first member provided on the first surface and a second member provided on the second surface. The first member has a first coupling pin and one of a second coupling pin and a first coupling hole, and the second member has a coupling portion that is coupled to the first coupling pin and another one of the second coupling pin and the first coupling hole. The first coupling pin is inserted through the first mounting hole and coupled to the coupling portion, and the second coupling pin is inserted through the second mounting hole and coupled to the first coupling hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NIFCO INC.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Hirano, Yuji Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20150346765
    Abstract: A portable information apparatus of an embodiment includes a display unit having a display portion and a panel, a housing having a front frame and a rear frame, and a mounting substrate arranged therein. The display portion has a display surface and a back surface. The panel is arranged on the display surface of the display portion and has a back surface, a display surface and a side surface. The back surface of the panel is formed at a display surface side of the display portion. The front frame is formed to surround the side surface of the panel. The rear frame is arranged at a back surface side of the display portion, contacts the front frame, and opposes to the display unit. The rear frame has a first rear frame and a second rear frame, and the first rear frame has rigidity larger than the second rear frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takuya MATSUDA, Jun Morimoto, Yuji Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9200610
    Abstract: There is provided a valve timing varying mechanism (VTC) to vary a valve timing. An estimated VTC conversion angle VTCNFS is calculated in accordance with a sensed VTC conversion angle VTCNOW (S15˜S19). At the time of conversion of the VTC conversion angle to the advance side or retard side, a fastest response value is calculated by conversion of the VTC conversion angle from the previous sensed value with a fastest response speed, and the sensed value (estimated value) is limited to or below the fastest response value when the current value of the sensed valve timing exceeds the fastest response value (S20, S21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20150211471
    Abstract: There is provided a valve timing varying mechanism (VTC) to vary a valve timing. An estimated VTC conversion angle VTCNFS is calculated in accordance with a sensed VTC conversion angle VTCNOW (S15˜S19). At the time of conversion of the VTC conversion angle to the advance side or retard side, a fastest response value is calculated by conversion of the VTC conversion angle from the previous sensed value with a fastest response speed, and the sensed value (estimated value) is limited to or below the fastest response value when the current value of the sensed valve timing exceeds the fastest response value (S20, S21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20150012126
    Abstract: A thermal displacement correction method for a machine tool includes: estimating a thermal displacement of a support and a thermal displacement of the movable body independently of each other; acquiring a displacement of an attachment position of a scale that detects a position of the movable body; a movable body actual position acquiring step of acquiring an actual position of the movable body relative to the support after thermal deformation of the movable body; computing a degree of inclination of the movable body at the actual position; acquiring a resultant displacement that is a resultant of the thermal displacement of the support and the thermal displacement of the movable body; computing a correction value based on the resultant displacement; correcting a command position of the movable body based on the correction value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji SASAKI, Hideki IWAI, Yasumasa SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 8926244
    Abstract: A member fastening structure has an installation member (for example, grommet) and a leg member (for example, pin). A projecting part, having at least one inclined surface, and a projecting wall, for contacting with the inclined surface of the projecting part and guiding in a direction of removing the leg member (for example, pin) from the installation member (for example, grommet) in a case when the leg member (for example, pin) is rotated in a state where elastic leg pieces are spread open, are provided between the installation member (for example, grommet) and the leg member (for example, pin).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventor: Yuji Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20140360464
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine control device, a predetermined margin torque is set such that it is possible to maintain a predetermined engine idling speed by adjusting ignition timing with respect to load fluctuations during idling operation. The margin torque is set to decrease, as a load, acting on the internal combustion engine during idling operation, increases. Accordingly, the margin torque can be set to an appropriate value, and thus it is possible to improve a fuel economy performance during idling operation of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Kentaro Yamano, Yuji Sasaki, Takao Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 8882421
    Abstract: A fastening member has a head part, a shaft part, a thinly formed flange extending in a straight shape from an outer perimeter of the head part, and a coupling device (for example, head part of a grommet). A part has a through-hole, and a wall part positioned on an outer perimeter of the through hole and extending toward the direction of insertion of the shaft part. A base has an installation hole allowing insertion of the shaft part. When the base and the part are bound by insertion of the shaft part, the flange is pressed against the wall part and becomes in a bent-back state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventor: Yuji Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8800397
    Abstract: Temperatures of a base, a support member, and a support member are measured, and amounts of linear expansion of the base, the support member, and the support member due to temperature differences from a reference temperature are computed. An amount of linear expansion of a ball screw with respect to the support member is measured. An amount of linear expansion of a lead of the ball screw is computed based on the sum of the aforementioned amounts of linear expansion, and an amount of rotation of the ball screw is adjusted from an amount of rotation of the ball screw at the reference temperature, to an amount of rotation of the ball screw, which corresponds to the amount of linear expansion of the lead at a predetermined temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Sasaki, Hideki Iwai, Kimihiro Onishi, Yasumasa Sakurai