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Eiji Mutoh Excellent Design Award

1. Introduction

From year 2006, JSDE has given Eiji Mutoh Excellent Design Award for companies or individuals who designed outstanding products or research apparatuses. This award has been established based on the fund donated by Mr. Eiji Mutoh, ex-senior executive director of Mutoh Industries Ltd., and has been given to outstanding designers that contribute the progress of design engineering. in order to support the global spreading of research and educational outcomes and to attend to Mr. Mutoh’s will. The brief of this award is as follows.

  1. This award is given to companies or individuals who designed outstanding products or research apparatus, in order to honor their achievements.
  2. The number of awarding is limited up to five, in each year.
  3. Anyone who wish to be awarded can nominate oneself by using VP award nomination form which can be downloaded from the following link. The appliation period is from August to October in each year.
  4. “Eiji Mutoh Excellent Design Award Inquiry Committee” evaluates the followings, based on the evaluation rule:
    • Originality
    • Significant idea imprementations in the design
    • Ripple effect to the society
    • Obtaining of pattents and certifications of practical new design
  5. The announcement of the winners and award ceremony are held at general meeting in the next year. Testimonial and prize medal are given to winners.

2. Eiji Mutoh Excellent Design Award Call for Nominations 

Application guidelines for this year’s Eiji Mutoh Award for Excellent Design will be posted here as soon as they are decided.

3. Recommendation Form

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4. List of Honors

Names and titles in Italic font are generated by machine translation.

  • 2020 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2021 Spring Annual Conference
    • 山口 隆正（名古屋大学）他
      クレーター形成用独立回転型コイルばね駆動斜め衝突実験装置
    • Takamasa Yamaguchi (Nagoya University) and others
      Independent Rotating Coil Spring Drive Oblique Collision Experiment Apparatus for Crater Formation

  • 2019 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2020 Genral meeting
    • 田中 英一郎（早稲田大学）
      持ち上げ動作補助スーツe.z.UP® （イージーアップ）
      Eiichiro Tanaka (Waseda University)
      Lifting motion assistance suit e.z.UP® (easy up)
    • 野口 昭治（東京理科大学）
      電動射出成型機を用途とした非対称ねじ溝ボールねじ
      Shoji Noguchi (Tokyo University of Science)
      Asymmetric groove ball screw for electric injection molding machine
  • 2018 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2019 Spring Annual Conference
    • 金子 英二（関東鉄工株式会社）
      電動ハンドガイドローラー
      Eiji Kaneko (Kanto Tekko Co., Ltd.)
      Electric hand guide roller
  • 2017 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2018 Spring Annual Conference
    • 田中 英一郎（早稲田大学），弓削 類（広島大学），山崎 文敬（株式会社イクシスリサーチ）， 池原 忠明（東京都立産業技術高等専門学校），河原 裕美（株式会社スペース・バイオ・ラボラトリーズ）
      片麻痺患者向け歩行補助装置 Re-Gait
      Eiichiro Tanaka (Waseda University), Rui Yuge (Hiroshima University), Fumitaka Yamazaki (Ichthys Research, Inc.), Tadaaki Ikehara (Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology), Hiromi Kawahara (Space Bio Laboratories, Inc.)
      Walking aid for hemiplegic patients Re-Gait
    • 石塚 禎氏，内野 悟志，古田 英甲，横山 太祐，小幡 直人，永嶋 貴幸（三和工機株式会社）
      自動瓶飾り装置
      Tadashi Ishizuka, Satoshi Uchino, Hideko Furuta, Taisuke Yokoyama, Naoto Obata, Takayuki Nagashima (Sanwa Koki Co., Ltd.)
      Automatic bottle dressing machine
  • 2016 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2017 Spring Annual Conference
    • Ko MASUDA (NHK SPRING Co.,Ltd.)，Motohiro FUSHIKIDA (NHK SPRING Co.,Ltd.），Yoshiyuki MATSUOKA (Keio University）
      Development of thin suspension seat for automobiles
    • Hidenori HIRAI (Chikusui Canycom Inc.)，Tsukasa OHKAWA (Chikusui Canycom Inc.），Keiji SONODA (HSU)
      Development of hydraulic motor integrated type eccentric planetary gear reducer for small crawler type transportation
  • 2015 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2016 Spring Annual Conference
    • Keiichi WATANUKI（Saitama University），Jun OHSHIMO（Tsubakimoto Chain Co.），Kazunori KAEDE（Saitama University）
      Development of Mericlone System
  • 2014 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2015 Spring Annual Conference
    • Hiromu HASHIMOTO (Tokai Univ.), Yasumasa TOMINAGA (Fuji Kikai Kogyo Co. Ltd.), Takahiro NISHIMURA (Fuji Kikai Kogyo Co. Ltd.), Ryo MORIKAWA (Fuji Kikai Kogyo Co. Ltd.)
      Development of intelligent functional plastic film winding machine, “WindStar”
  • 2013 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2014 Spring Annual Conference
    • Manabu SWADA (Nakamura-Tome Precision Industry)
      Development of turret-type super multitasking machine NTJ-100
    • Eita GOFUKU (Yanmar Co, Ltd.), Masayoshi MURAKI (Shonan Inst, of Tech.)
      Development of a multiple vane type compressor with high efficiency and reliablity
  • 2012 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2013 Spring Annual Conference
    • Hagino FUJITA(Toyo Seikan Co., Ltd.), Hiromu HASHIMOTO (Tokai University)
      Cooking pot having fire defence usable on IH cooking equipments
  • 2011 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2012 Spring Annual Conference
    • Masaharu KOMORI(Kyoto University), Jungchul KANG(Kyoto University), Fumi TAKEOKA(Kyoto University)
      Uninterruputed ratio variable system for low fuel consumption and high acceleration to realize zero driving force loss, acceleration, and precise rotation transmission during ratio variation process
  • 2010 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2011 Spring Annual Conference
    • Yoshiki YOSHIDA(Kikuchiseisakusyo Co., Ltd.), Ken ICHIRYU (Kikuchiseisakusyo Co., Ltd.), Kazuya HIROSE(Kikuchiseisakusyo Co., Ltd.), Yukio TAKEDA(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)
      High Precision Stage For Vacuum Environment Using Parallel Mechanism With Double Ball Joints
  • 2009 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2010 Spring Annual Conference
    • Hideaki YAMATO (Future Robotics Techology Center, Chiba Institute of Technology), Yu OKUMURA (Future Robotics Techology Center, Chiba Institute of Technology) and Takayuki FURUTA (Future Robotics Techology Center, Chiba Institute of Technology)
      Leg/wheel Mobile Mode Variable Vehicle Robot : Halluc II
  • 2008 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2009 Spring Annual Conference
    • Nobuyuki KUME (Saiken Graphics Inc.), Mikio TADA (Saiken Graphics Inc.) and Hidetoshi ARAKI (Araki System)
      Numerically Controlled Electric Upsetter
  • 2007 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2008 Spring Annual Conference
    • Mineo HIGUCHI (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.), Michio MURAI (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.) and Masaki HARUNA (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.)
      To designing of “Human symbiotic assist arm: PAS-Arm”
    • Satoshi MATSUMOTO (Technoeight Co. Ltd.) and Shigeo HIRANO (Musashi Institute of Technology)
      Ultrasonic tube sealing device
  • 2006 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2007 Spring Annual Conference
    • Tohachi ODA (Kanazawa University), Shinobu SAKAI (Kanazawa University) and Saburo HORIKAWA (KINKI CRESCO, Inc.)
      Intelligent pitching machine and its controller
    • Keiichi WATANUKI (Saitama University)
      Cyber-assist meister robot with annotation display and force-feedback device in virtual environment (CAMRobot)
    • Shoji NOUCHI (Tokyo University of Science), Toru KANADA (Kanto Gakuin University) and Shunji TAJIMA (NSK Inc.)
      Pivot bearing with multiple degrees of freedom