Patents by Inventor Yutaka Nishikawa
Yutaka Nishikawa 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: 6704056Abstract: A video signal conversion part of a horizontal deflection circuit deletes a prescribed number of horizontal scanning lines from a vertical blanking interval of an input video signal and assigns a time corresponding to the deleted horizontal scanning lines to horizontal blanking intervals of the remaining horizontal scanning lines thereby extending the horizontal blanking interval of each horizontal scanning line and outputting a video signal. A synchronizing signal separation circuit extracts a horizontal synchronizing signal and a vertical synchronizing signal from the video signal output from the video signal conversion part. An output part of the horizontal deflection circuit supplies a sawtooth horizontal deflection current to a horizontal deflection yoke in synchronization with the horizontal synchronizing signal output from the synchronizing signal separation circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2001Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki Kitahara, Hideyo Uwabata, Yutaka Nishikawa, Chikara Gotanda
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Patent number: 6675753Abstract: To provide a cam phase variable apparatus, which can suppress the occurrence of play from abrasion at sliding portions of two rotatable members, which rotate relative to each other, to allow good accuracy in phase control to be kept over a long period of time without complicating the structure of the two rotatable members. A cam phase variable apparatus for varying the phase of a cam which is driven by power of a crankshaft includes a lever supported for rocking motion on a support shaft provided on an outer shaft, and a driving apparatus for rocking the lever. The driving apparatus includes a transmission member, which is driven to rotate by an electric motor, and an operation member which moves in an axial direction together with the transmission member. The lever has a first operating arm having a pin for engaging with the operation member, and a second operating arm having a roller for engaging with a cam tube on which the cam is formed.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2002Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yutaka Nishikawa
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Patent number: 6529176Abstract: A video signal processing circuit synthesizes a video signal and a graphic signal on the basis of a display switching control signal, inverts a synthesized signal on the time axis for each of a forward scanning period and a backward scanning period, and output a display signal. A speed modulating signal control circuit inverts the binarized display switching control signal on the time axis for each of the forward scanning period and the backward scanning period, expands the pulse width thereof, and feeds the display switching control signal to a speed modulating signal generating circuit. The speed modulating signal generating circuit subjects a display signal to first-order differentiation, inverts the polarity of a differentiated signal in the backward scanning signal, sets a portion, corresponding to the graphic signal, in the differentiated signal on the basis of the display switching control signal at a zero level, and generates a speed modulating signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2000Date of Patent: March 4, 2003Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoji Okumura, Hiroki Monta, Hideyo Uwabata, Yutaka Nio, Kazuto Tanaka, Yutaka Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20030029401Abstract: To provide a cam phase variable apparatus, which can suppress the occurrence of play from abrasion at sliding portions of two rotatable members, which rotate relative to each other, to allow good accuracy in phase control to be kept over a long period of time without complicating the structure of the two rotatable members. A cam phase variable apparatus for varying the phase of a cam which is driven by power of a crankshaft includes a lever supported for rocking motion on a support shaft provided on an outer shaft, and a driving apparatus for rocking the lever. The driving apparatus includes a transmission member, which is driven to rotate by an electric motor, and an operation member which moves in an axial direction together with the transmission member. The lever has a first operating arm having a pin for engaging with the operation member, and a second operating arm having a roller for engaging with a cam tube on which the cam is formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2002Publication date: February 13, 2003Inventor: Yutaka Nishikawa
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Patent number: 6453762Abstract: To enable a change spindle to be always operated as a driver wishes by providing an alternative selection of a motor change mode and a manual change mode. A change motor and a change manipulating member are arranged such that they can be connected to a change spindle of a transmission in parallel. Mode changeover means which can be changed over between a motor change mode position (A) which enables the operation of the change spindle only by the change motor and a manual change mode position (B) which enables the operation of the change spindle only by the change manipulating member is disposed between the change spindle and the change motor and the change manipulating member.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2000Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yutaka Nishikawa, Atsuo Ota, Yuichi Tawarada
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Patent number: 6382368Abstract: A support member of a disc brake and a backing plate of a drum brake are formed integrally, and a pair of pin supporting portions for respectively supporting a pair of caliper slide pins are provided in the support member so that the pair of caliper slide pins supporting a caliper are passed through on a radially outward side of a rotor portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2001Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Iwata, Yutaka Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20020003067Abstract: A support member of a disc brake and a backing plate of a drum brake are formed integrally, and a pair of pin supporting portions for respectively supporting a pair of caliper slide pins are provided in the support member so that the pair of caliper slide pins supporting a caliper are passed through on a radially outward side of a rotor portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2001Publication date: January 10, 2002Applicant: Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Iwata, Yutaka Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20010048480Abstract: A video signal conversion part of a horizontal deflection circuit deletes a prescribed number of horizontal scanning lines from a vertical blanking interval of an input video signal and assigns a time corresponding to the deleted horizontal scanning lines to horizontal blanking intervals of the remaining horizontal scanning lines thereby extending the horizontal blanking interval of each horizontal scanning line and outputting a video signal. A synchronizing signal separation circuit extracts a horizontal synchronizing signal and a vertical synchronizing signal from the video signal output from the video signal conversion part. An output part of the horizontal deflection circuit supplies a sawtooth horizontal deflection current to a horizontal deflection yoke in synchronization with the horizontal synchronizing signal output from the synchronizing signal separation circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2001Publication date: December 6, 2001Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki Kitahara, Hideyo Uwabata, Yutaka Nishikawa, Chikara Gotanda
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Patent number: 6305346Abstract: A spark-ignition fuel injection internal combustion engine is provided with a sub-combustion chamber in communication with a main combustion chamber. An injecting device intermittently injects mixture gas into the sub-combustion chamber. A volumetric ratio of each of the sub-combustion chamber and the main combustion chamber is set within a range of 1:4 to 3:2.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2000Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Minoru Ueda, Yuji Tsushima, Hiroshi Yamashita, Yoshihiro Takada, Yutaka Nishikawa
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Patent number: 6095111Abstract: A fuel injection internal combustion engine is provided with a sub-combustion chamber in communication with a main combustion chamber. A volumetric ratio of the sub-combustion chamber to the main combustion chamber is set within a range of 2:8 to 6:4. A mixture switching valve is provided for injecting the mixture of the fuel and compressed air into the sub-combustion chamber, and a spark plug is arranged in the sub-combustion chamber. The sub-combustion chamber is formed of a material having a thermal conductivity which is lower than that of the material forming the main combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1998Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Minoru Ueda, Yuji Tsushima, Hiroshi Yamashita, Yoshihiro Takada, Yutaka Nishikawa
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Patent number: 6055954Abstract: A spark ignition internal combustion engine includes a sub-combustion chamber in which gas mixture with an air-fuel ratio adapted for an operating state of the engine over a wide operating range of the engine is supplied to a combustion chamber. The amount of hydrogen carbide discharged is less and a high efficiency can be attained. The sub-combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine communicates with the main combustion chamber. Gas mixture injecting apparatus intermittently injects gas mixture into the sub-combustion chamber. Ignition devices are arranged in the sub-combustion chamber. The engine is constructed such that the sub-combustion chamber is eccentric in a sideward direction from an extending line of injecting direction of the gas mixture injecting apparatus and communicated with the main combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1998Date of Patent: May 2, 2000Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihiro Takada, Yuji Tsushima, Shunji Akamatsu, Yutaka Nishikawa
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Patent number: 5838824Abstract: A signal switcher and an input/output interface for an external equipment are provided within an encoding/decoding apparatus. A display part in the encoding/decoding apparatus can be utilized by controlling a signal switcher to select either a signal from a writing/reading part or an external signal from the input/output interface for an external equipment by a control microcomputer and supplying the output of the signal switcher to a display part through a decoding processing part.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1996Date of Patent: November 17, 1998Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaya Narikawa, Haruko Ishigami, Yutaka Nishikawa, Mitsunori Ueda
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Patent number: 5699882Abstract: A pad clip for use in a disc brake in which a concave and convex fitting structure is formed in a braking support portion between each of friction pads disposed opposite to a rotor, and a support member for bearing braking force from the friction pads. The pad clip is installed between projections of the friction pads and anchor concave grooved portions of a support member in the concave and convex fitting portions to thereby support the friction pads respectively. In the pad clip, plate spring portions for urging the friction pads in the radially outward direction of the rotor are formed in one of opposite portions in the radial direction of the rotor, which are the portions following U-shaped portions in the concave and convex fitting portions. Guide projecting portions sidewise spread out are formed at side edges of the plate spring portions, and the lower edge portions of the projections are engaged with the guide projecting portions respectively so that the plate spring portions can be pushed and spread.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1996Date of Patent: December 23, 1997Assignee: Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Ikegami, Yutaka Nishikawa, Masanori Ando
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Patent number: 5657837Abstract: A caliper support mechanism for supporting a disc brake caliper is slidably supported by a slide pin. The end face 21 of the stepped portion 11 of the lug 5C of the caliper 5 is arcuately incurved in cross section such that the center of a circle defined by the arcuately incurved end face 21 is coincident with the center of the bolt hole 10 of the lug 5C, and the arcuately incurved end face 21 is directed obliquely and outwardly with respect to the horizontal line H in the lug 5C of the caliper 5. The structure reduces the squeeze of the slide pins by the support bracket as well as the drag and squeak of the brake.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1995Date of Patent: August 19, 1997Assignee: Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi Yamadera, Hiroshi Ikegami, Yutaka Nishikawa
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Patent number: 5378871Abstract: Described herein is a flux cored wire for use in stainless steel welding, the wire having a flux filled In a stainless steel sheath, the flux containing, on the basis of the total weight of the wire, 4.7-8.5% of TiO.sub.2, 0.5-3.5% of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and 0.6-3.0% of SiO.sub.2 and/or ZrO.sub.2 in proportions satisfying the following formulaTiO.sub.2 >Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 +SiO.sub.2 +ZrO.sub.2and further 0.02-0.25% of metal fluoride (in terms of F conversion value) and 0.1-1.0% of Ti. Desirably, the flux contains slag-forming components in a restricted range of 8.5-13.5% and In proportions satisfying the following formulaAl.sub.2 O.sub.3 +SiO.sub.2 +ZrO.sub.2 .ltoreq.5.0%.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 1993Date of Patent: January 3, 1995Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Yutaka Nishikawa, Tsuneshi Ogawa, Tsuyoshi Kurokawa, Toshiharu Maruyama
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Patent number: 5219425Abstract: Described herein is a flux containing wire for use in stainless steel welding, the wire having a flux filled in a stainless steel sheath, the flux containing, on the basis of the total weight of the wire, 4.7-8.5% of TiO.sub.2, 0.5-3.5% of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and 0.6-3.0% of SiO.sub.2 and/or ZrO.sub.2 in proportions satisfying the following formulaTiO.sub.2 >Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 +SiO.sub.2 +ZrO.sub.2and further 0.02-0.25% of metal fluoride (in terms of F conversion value) and 0.1-1.0% of Ti. Desirably, the flux contains slag-forming components in a restricted range of 8.5-13.5% and in proportions satisfying the following formulaAl.sub.2 O.sub.3 +SiO.sub.2 +ZrO.sub.2 .ltoreq.5.0%.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1992Date of Patent: June 15, 1993Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Yutaka Nishikawa, Tsuneshi Ogawa, Tsuyoshi Kurokawa, Toshiharu Maruyama
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Patent number: 5124529Abstract: A flux-cored wire for welding stainless steel, with the flux filled in the metal skin, which contains 5-30% (by weight) of flux, 10.5-27.0% of Cr, less than 2% of slag-forming constituents, 0.05-2.0% of Ti, 0.05-2.0% of Si, 0.01-0.1% of N, 0.01-1.0% of Al, 0.1-1.0% of Mn, and 0.003-0.5% of metal fluorides constituting the flux, in the total weight of the wire. The wire may optionally contain Ni, alkali metals, S, Nb, Zr, and V. The wire gives rise to only a small amount of slag.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1991Date of Patent: June 23, 1992Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Yutaka Nishikawa, Tsuneshi Ogawa, Ken Yamashita, Haruya Kozuki
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Patent number: 5020858Abstract: A method of transporting mud, in which mud agitated and fluidized is supplied, while being pressurized by a pressurizing vane, through a check valve to a mud supply portion, and in which pressurizing air is supplied to the mud supply portion in a mud transporting direction to transport the mud in the mud supply pipe by the air pressure. According to this method, the mud can be continuously transported without large discharge noise.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 1990Date of Patent: June 4, 1991Assignee: Toa CorporationInventor: Yutaka Nishikawa
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Patent number: 4903419Abstract: A method of and apparatus for continuously dredging sludge deposited on an underwater bed, at a high density of the sludge, according to which digging and scooping devices are placed in an airtight hood opened at its bottom, which is applied on the intended underwater bed and into which air is then introduced to obtain a condition in which water is removed out of the hood, and the digging and scooping devices are then put into operation, whereby dredging is effected at a high efficiency in that the content of water in sludge being dredged is suppressed to a minimum, the sludge being transferred under pressure in a state of containing substantially no additional water than it naturally contains.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1988Date of Patent: February 27, 1990Assignee: TOA CorporationInventor: Yutaka Nishikawa
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Patent number: 4846314Abstract: An automatic gap adjustment device for a disc brake comprising a cup-shaped piston which has a bottom in the fore end thereof and is arranged to move within a cylinder of a caliper, a sleeve which is axially disposed within the piston and is arranged to be carried by the piston when the piston is moved forward by the action of hydraulic pressure, and a spindle which is in screwed engagement with the piston and is arranged to rotate and screw out from the sleeve rearward relative to the piston. The automatic gap adjustment device is arranged to have the hydraulic pressure received as a moving force directed toward the rear part of the spindle, to have an adjuster piston arranged within a cylinder to push and cause a protruding end part of the spindle which protrudes toward the rear of the sleeve to engage an engaging part provided within the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1988Date of Patent: July 11, 1989Assignee: Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yutaka Nishikawa