Patents by Inventor Yutaka Masuda

Yutaka 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: 20050110797
    Abstract: A paint color is specified from a computer graphics picture characterized by displaying a computer graphics picture suitable for the impression of a desired paint color on a display unit, obtaining color informations on displayed colors in two or more designated regions on the displayed picture, and searching and selecting a paint color having color information approximate to the color informations on the display colors from a database previously storing color informations on a plurality of paint colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Yutaka Masuda, Tsukasa Fujieda
  • Publication number: 20050104004
    Abstract: A reflected ultraviolet light measuring device, a measuring method for measuring ultraviolet light reflection intensity by using the reflected ultraviolet light measuring device, and a valuation method for evaluating ultraviolet light absorbability of an object by using measuring results by the method, said device comprising an irradiating unit comprising a at least one light emitting diode for irradiating ultraviolet light on an object, and a light receiving unit for receiving a reflected light from the object, wherein the light receiving unit is arranged at an angle in which a regular reflected light from the object does not enter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Applicant: KANSAI PAINT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tohru Takeuchi, Yutaka Masuda
  • Publication number: 20050044111
    Abstract: The following are included: a material information database constituted by accumulating names of a plurality of blending materials and property information codes constituted by a plurality of identification codes to which a plurality of property informations on the blending materials are respectively related, a blending composition database constituted by accumulating names of compositions, names, property information codes, and blending quantities of the blending materials constituting the compositions, prospective composition search means for approximately searching a corresponding composition from the blending composition data base in accordance with the measurement data input from the input means and/or at least one or more identification codes of the property information codes in an optical blending material, and means for displaying an obtained search result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventors: Yutaka Masuda, Tsukasa Fujieda, Toru Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20040239928
    Abstract: To provide a modified-color generation and display method using computer graphic, including measuring the spectral reflectance of an original color by using a spectrophotometer, obtaining the modified spectral reflectance of a modified color by changing the measured spectral reflectance, and displaying the computer graphic of the modified color on a monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventor: Yutaka Masuda
  • Publication number: 20040179023
    Abstract: Metallic paint colors are classified and arranged by determining the representative color of any metallic paint color; calculating the hue-tone value of said representative color; generating coating color computer graphics indicating optical properties of said metallic paint color in a prescribed range of angles of observation; and preparing a coating color map by arranging said coating color computer graphics over the hue-tone value of said representative color in a hue-tone chart on the monitor screen of a computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Yutaka Masuda, Yukiyo Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 6755673
    Abstract: A lever fitting type power supply circuit breaking apparatus includes: a first connector provided with a terminal; a second connector provided with a terminal; a lever movably provided on the first connector. In a connector temporary-fitting position, the first connector is fitted to the second connector and the terminal of the first connector is separated from the terminal of the second connector by 0.5 mm or more. In a connector fitting position, the first connector is fitted to the second connector and the terminal of the first connector is electrically connected to the terminal of the second connector. The first and second connector are shifted from the connector temporary-fitting position to the connector fitting position as the lever is shift from a movement start position to a fitting completion position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Fukushima, Yutaka Masuda, Satoru Oshita, Hidehiko Kuboshima
  • Patent number: 6750970
    Abstract: The following procedures are included: a procedure (1) for measuring a metallic paint color by a multi-angle spectrophotometer and storing the multi-angle colorimetric value Lab* of the paint color, a color classification code to which the paint color belongs, and a computer graphic image in a memory of a computer and a procedure (2) for calling a metallic paint color to be retrieved (this is referred to as the metallic paint color concerned) from the memory by using a paint color name as a keyword. Moreover, in the case of a new color not stored in the memory, the color is measured by a multi-angle spectrophotometer and stored in the memory in accordance with the procedure (1). A screening function (3) is included which previously narrows down paint colors whose approximate colors will be computed by using color classification codes when computing an approximate color of the metallic color concerned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yutaka Masuda
  • Patent number: 6747662
    Abstract: Metallic paint colors are classified and arranged by determining the representative color of any metallic paint color; calculating the hue-tone value of said representative color; generating coating color computer graphics indicating optical properties of said metallic paint color in a prescribed range of angles of observation; and preparing a coating color map by arranging said coating color computer graphics over the hue-tone value of said representative color in a hue-tone chart on the monitor screen of a computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Masuda, Yukiyo Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 6739888
    Abstract: When one shielded connector is engaged with the other shielded connector, a conductive connector housing of the one connector is electrically connected to a conductive connector housing of the other connector to establish shield connection. Either one of the connectors has a conductive rotating lever, while the other connector has an engaging portion for engaging with the rotating lever to connect the shielded connectors by rotation of the rotating lever. A conductive resilient abutting member, which abuts on the rotating lever and/or the other connector housing to be resiliently deformed when the connectors are connected with each other by rotation of the rotating lever, is provided on the rotating lever and/or the other connector housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Kato, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Yutaka Masuda
  • Patent number: 6714100
    Abstract: In a monolithic LC filter, bent portions of external electrodes are formed by applying and firing a conductive paste in the areas of first to eighth bent segments that are formed by pattern printing, photolithography, or a thin-film forming method. The third, fourth, seventh, and eighth bent segments, which are used to form ground external electrodes, cover openings disposed between extensions of shield electrodes in the composite of the monolithic LC filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Matsumura, Noboru Kato, Yutaka Masuda
  • Patent number: 6680433
    Abstract: In the case where a braid (14) is used as a shielding sheet covering wires (10) over their entire length, a distal end portion of the braid (14) is connected to a mounting member (B) connected to the ground (G), thereby achieving an electromagnetic shielding conduction. At this time, the distal end portion (14a) of the braid (14) is spread outward, and is engaged in an annular groove (20b) of a channel-shaped cross-section in a housing (20), and a braid retaining band (22) is wound on an outer surface of the distal end portion (14a) of the braid (14), and is tightened to fasten this distal end portion. As a result, the distal end portion (14a) can be positively and firmly connected to the mounting member (B), and the effective electromagnetic shielding effect can be expected, and the stable electrical characteristics can be obtained, so that the reliability of the connection can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shigemi Hashizawa, Hirotaka Fukushima, Yutaka Masuda, Hidehiko Kuboshima
  • Patent number: 6677531
    Abstract: A conductor crimping part is crimped onto a terminal metal fitting onto a conductor exposed at a terminal part of an electric wire. A crimped part of the conductor is intimately contacted with a rubber cap seal in such a way as not to be exposed to the outside. Thus, the conductor of the crimped part is sealed in such a manner as to prevent insulation performance from being degraded by infiltration of water contents and oil contents into a connecting part and permeation of the water contents and the oil contents among the wires, which respectively include the conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Fukushima, Yutaka Masuda, Hidehiko Kuboshima
  • Publication number: 20030216072
    Abstract: When one shielded connector is engaged with the other shielded connector, a conductive connector housing of the one connector is electrically connected to a conductive connector housing of the other connector to establish shield connection. Either one of the connectors has a conductive rotating lever, while the other connector has an engaging portion for engaging with the rotating lever to connect the shielded connectors by rotation of the rotating lever. A conductive resilient abutting member, which abuts on the rotating lever and/or the other connector housing to be resiliently deformed when the connectors are connected with each other by rotation of the rotating lever, is provided on the rotating lever and/or the other connector housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Kato, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Yutaka Masuda
  • Publication number: 20030185993
    Abstract: A laminate film having heat shielding property and jet blackness with clearness can be obtained by the steps of: applying a heat shielding coating (I) containing a compound which does not absorb infrared radiation and having a heat shielding function to form the corresponding heat cured or uncured film; applying thereto a black base coating (A) containing a perylene black pigment, and/or an azomethine pigment, and/or an azo dye to form the corresponding film; applying a color clear coating (B) containing a black dye onto the heat cured or uncured film of the black base coating (A) to form the corresponding film; applying thereto a clear coating (C) to form the corresponding film; and heat curing a laminate film having the films of the heat shielding coating (I), the black base coating (A), the color clear coating (B) and the clear coating (C) stacked one after another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventors: Isao Kamimori, Yutaka Masuda, Takaaki Kato, Hiroyuki Nagano
  • Patent number: 6619970
    Abstract: In a lever fitting-type manual disconnector 1A, first and second connector housing 1 and 3 are provided with terminals 9 and 35, respectively. A lever 2 is provided in rotatable and linearly movable manners on the first connector housing 1. A cam groove 21 is provided on the lever 2 and a cam pin 36 is provided on the second connector housing 3. When the lever 2 is rotated, the lever fitting-type manual disconnector 1A is set in a rotation completive position where the terminals 9 and 35 on the both connector housings 1 and 3 connect to one another. When the lever 2 is moved linearly from the rotation completive position, the lever fitting-type manual disconnector 1A is set in a fitting completive position where a fitting-state detective switch is turned on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Fukushima, Satoru Ohshita, Yutaka Masuda, Hidehiko Kuboshima, Yasuyoshi Fukao, Shigemi Hashizawa
  • Patent number: 6617409
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a phosphate group-containing resin obtained by copolymerizing: (a) a polymerizable monomer having a phosphate group represented by a formula [—OPO(OR)(OH)] (wherein R represents a hydrocarbon group having 4 to 10 carbon atoms), (b) a polymerizable monomer having a phosphoric acid group represented by a formula [—OPO(OH)2] and (c) a (meth)acrylate base polymerizable monomer having two tertiary alkyl groups in a molecule and to a water based metallic coating material composition comprising the above phosphate group-containing resin and a metallic pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yukawa, Yutaka Masuda
  • Patent number: 6583352
    Abstract: An electric shielding structure includes: a structure-attached body; an insulating housing, through which an electric wire is passed, watertightly held by the structure-attached body; an elastic sealing member held by the housing and being in watertight contact with an outer periphery of the wire; a flexible and electrically conductive shielding sheet for covering the wire; a shielding terminal electrically conducted with the structure-attached body in a state in which an outer surface thereof is covered by and contacted with a skirt portion of the shielding sheet; a band-like clamp tightly fasten the skirt portion of the shielding sheet from the outside and to cause the end part of the skirt portion to be in intimate contact with the outer surface of the shielding terminal; and a protector for covering the clamp from the outside thereof and for accommodating and protecting the members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Fukushima, Yutaka Masuda, Hidehiko Kuboshima
  • Publication number: 20030114617
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a phosphate group-containing resin obtained by copolymerizing:
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yukawa, Yutaka Masuda
  • Publication number: 20030104105
    Abstract: A cold confectionery and a method of preparing the same are provided. A mixture is foamed to have an overrun in the range of 150% to 500%, and frozen to a temperature of not higher than −10° C. The cold confectionery provides desirable extra-light and crisp-rich feelings in mouth with a light-snow-like softness as well as a desirable smooth spoonability. The final product also exhibits an apparent bulk-up upon sterilization with spoon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Yutaka Masuda, Kiyoyasu Tsukada, Masakatsu Usui, Kenichi Okura
  • Publication number: 20030080830
    Abstract: In a monolithic LC filter, bent portions of external electrodes are formed by applying and firing a conductive paste in the areas of first to eighth bent segments that are formed by pattern printing, photolithography, or a thin-film forming method. The third, fourth, seventh, and eighth bent segments, which are used to form ground external electrodes, cover openings disposed between extensions of shield electrodes in the composite of the monolithic LC filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventors: Sadayuki Matsumura, Noboru Kato, Yutaka Masuda