Patents by Inventor Akihiro Saito

Akihiro Saito 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: 20210403323
    Abstract: The present invention provides industrially advantageous production method and production apparatus, with respect to production of a halogen oxyacid solution. There is solved by a method for producing a halogen oxyacid solution, comprising continuously supplying an organic alkaline solution and halogen to a static mixer and mixing them, to thereby continuously obtain a halogen oxyacid generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: TOKUYAMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki NEGISHI, Takafumi SHIMODA, Akihiro SAITO, Naoki MATSUDA, Kenichi KAKIZONO, Takeshi KAWANO, Masayuki MORIWAKI
  • Patent number: 11190000
    Abstract: A waterproof structure includes a first seal portion covering around an electric wire to be inserted into a mounting hole of an object to which the electric wire is mounted, the electric wire having a conductor and an insulation covering the conductor, and the first seal portion being elastic and electrically insulative, a housing provided at an end portion of the electric wire, the housing covering the first seal portion, the housing being made of an insulating resin having higher rigidity than the first seal portion and a second seal portion covering around the electric wire, being provided contiguously with an end portion of the housing, and being elastic and electrically insulative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hayato Iizuka, Yusuke Tsutagawa, Kazuma Kayo, Hajime Kato, Akihiro Saito, Kai Kiuchi
  • Patent number: 11171452
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing fitted into a mating side housing, a locking arm including a locking portion, and a slider. The locking arm is connected to the housing and extends toward a rear end and along a fitting direction into the mating side housing. The locking arm is configured to be restored after bending in a lock release direction and the locking portion is configured to be engaged with an engagement portion of the mating side housing to lock the mating side housing and the housing, when the housing is being fitted into the mating side housing. A slider is slidably attached to the housing between a main locking position on a bending end side of the locking arm and a temporary locking position deviating from the main locking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Saito
  • Patent number: 11142855
    Abstract: A fine fiber production method and a fine fiber production apparatus are provided. The fine fiber production method includes: discharging a flowable polymer compound from a discharge port provided at an extruder; forming fibers having a fiber diameter of from 50 nm to 15 ?m by spraying, in a direction intersecting with a discharge direction of the flowable polymer compound, a pressurized gas from an air nozzle to the discharged flowable polymer compound, the air nozzle including a temperature control member and a spindle-shaped nozzle or a De Laval nozzle; and collecting the fibers using a collection member provided downstream in a gas spraying direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Yamashin-Filter Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Makino, Akihiro Saito
  • Patent number: 11139647
    Abstract: A waterproof structure includes a first seal portion covering around an electric wire to be inserted into a mounting hole of an object to which the electric wire is mounted, the electric wire having a conductor and an insulation covering the conductor, and the first seal portion being elastic and electrically insulative, a housing provided at an end portion of the electric wire, the housing covering the first seal portion, the housing being made of an insulating resin having higher rigidity than the first seal portion and a second seal portion covering around the electric wire, being provided contiguously with an end portion of the housing, and being elastic and electrically insulative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hayato Iizuka, Yusuke Tsutagawa, Kazuma Kayo, Hajime Kato, Akihiro Saito, Kai Kiuchi
  • Publication number: 20210242637
    Abstract: A terminal equipped electric wire includes an electric wire including: a conductor and an insulating sheath covering the conductor, a part of the conductor extending out of an end portion of the insulating sheath being an exposed portion, a terminal fitting having an electric wire connection portion at a rear side of the terminal fitting, the electric wire connection portion being connected to the exposed portion, a water stop shrinkable tube covering the electric wire connection portion connected to the exposed portion in a watertight manner, a sensor disposed on an outer surface of the water stop shrinkable tube, the sensor contacting the outer surface of the water stop shrinkable tube and a sensor fixing shrinkable tube covering and fixing the sensor on the outer surface of the water stop shrinkable tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Akihiro Saito, Tsutomu Sawada
  • Publication number: 20210242638
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting connected to an end of an electric wire, a housing including a terminal accommodating chamber configured to accommodate the terminal fitting, a temperature sensor connected to an end of a detection line and configured to be attached to the terminal fitting, and a heat retaining cover. The heat retaining cover is configured to be attached to the housing such that the heat retaining cover covers a rear end portion of the housing and to retain heat inside the terminal accommodating chamber, the heat retaining cover having an electric wire guiding out portion through which the electric wire and the detection line drawn out from the terminal accommodating chamber are to be inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Akihiro Saito, Tsutomu Sawada, Yoshitaka Tsushima
  • Publication number: 20210242620
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal, a housing to accommodate the terminal and a retainer including a locking portion to lock the terminal when the terminal is accommodated in the housing. The housing includes a front housing having a terminal accommodating chamber and a rear housing to be attached to the front housing from a rear side of an insertion direction of the terminal, the rear housing including a lance to, when the terminal is accommodated in the terminal accommodating chamber, lock a rear portion of the terminal. The retainer is to be attached between the front housing and the rear housing and to be displaceable along a direction perpendicular to the insertion direction between a locking position and a non-locking position. The retainer moves from the non-locking position to the locking portion and the locking portion locks the rear portion of the terminal in the insertion direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Akihiro Saito, Tsutomu Sawada
  • Patent number: 11077532
    Abstract: A contact spring holding jig for grease application includes a spring placement portion on which a connector terminal contact spring is to be placed, and a spring position restricting wall. The connector terminal contact spring includes a plurality of spring pieces and a connecting portion positioning at an end portion of the connector terminal contact spring. The plurality of spring pieces include a gap with adjacent spring pieces are connected to be arranged side by side by the connecting portion. The connector terminal contact spring is placed with the connecting portion facing downward, on the spring placement portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20210226383
    Abstract: A connector includes a sensing member inserted into the second housing along the first direction, and a sensing mechanism allowing the sensing member to advance to a predetermined engaged position along the first direction when the first housing and the second housing are completely fitted, and locking the sensing member at a position before the engaged position when the first housing and the second housing are not completely fitted. The sensing member includes an exposed portion exposed to an outer space when the sensing member is in the engaged position. In the exposed portion, a first surface exposed to a side opposite to a side of a central axis of the second housing is an inclined surface or an arc-shaped surface extending in a direction inclined with respect to the first direction and facing a side opposite to a side of the first housing in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventor: Akihiro Saito
  • Patent number: 10985510
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing having a fitting portion fitted into a mounting hole, a conductor held by the housing, and a sealing member mounted on the fitting portion and sealing between the housing and the mounting hole. The sealing member includes an annular sealing portion formed in an annular shape fitted into the fitting portion, and a band portion connected to the annular sealing portion at both ends and disposed along an end surface of the fitting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Saito, Kai Kiuchi
  • Publication number: 20210079573
    Abstract: A fine fiber production method and a fine fiber production apparatus are provided. The fine fiber production method includes: discharging a flowable polymer compound from a discharge port provided at an extruder; forming fibers having a fiber diameter of from 50 nm to 15 ?m by spraying, in a direction intersecting with a discharge direction of the flowable polymer compound, a pressurized gas from an air nozzle to the discharged flowable polymer compound, the air nozzle including a temperature control member and a spindle-shaped nozzle or a De Laval nozzle; and collecting the fibers using a collection member provided downstream in a gas spraying direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi Makino, Akihiro Saito
  • Patent number: 10940229
    Abstract: A material for adhesion prevention can be adhered to biological tissue with certainty and has improved tissue adhesiveness and biodegradability. Such material for adhesion prevention is composed of: a 1- to 1,000-?m-thick water-soluble support layer comprising a water-soluble polymer; and a 1- to 1,000-?m-thick adhesion prevention layer comprising a biodegradable polymer. The biodegradable polymer has a structure in which a branched polyalkylene glycol comprising 3 to 8 terminal hydroxyl groups per molecule is bound to a polyhydroxy alkanoic acid, and a mass ratio of the branched polyalkylene glycol relative to the total mass is 1% to 30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: Toray Industries, Inc., Nanotheta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Saito, Megumi Nakanishi, Kazuhiro Tanahashi, Toru Arakane, Motonori Hochi, Ai Suzuki, Koji Okabayashi, Shinji Takeoka, Toshinori Fujie, Yuya Ishiduka, Shinya Ohtsubo
  • Publication number: 20200388187
    Abstract: The rehabilitation training system includes: an evaluation unit configured to evaluate rehabilitation training performed by a trainee; a storage unit configured to store a plurality of evaluation comments regarding the evaluation; a reception unit configured to receive, from an authorized training assistant, designation of an evaluation comment that is restricted from being presented to a specific trainee among the plurality of evaluation comments; a selection unit configured to select an evaluation comment to be presented to the specific trainee from the plurality of evaluation comments based on the evaluation for the rehabilitation training of the specific trainee that is performed by the evaluation unit and the designation; and a presentation unit configured to present the evaluation comment selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
  • Publication number: 20200383607
    Abstract: A walking training system includes a treadmill configured to prompt a trainee to walk, a camera system configured to image the trainee at an angle of view at which at least a part of a gait of the trainee walking on the treadmill is recognizable, a determination unit configured to determine whether abnormal walking occurs in the trainee based on a plurality of predetermined determination criteria, an image processing unit configured to clip, as a video clip, a video in a predetermined period including a timing when the determination unit determines that the abnormal walking occurs from a video captured by the camera system, and perform image processing to emphasize an abnormal part of the abnormal walking determined by the determination unit, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display the video clip subjected to the image processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Takuma NAKAMURA, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
  • Publication number: 20200384312
    Abstract: The walking training system includes: a treadmill; a determination unit configured to determine whether a walking of the trainee on the treadmill is an abnormal walking based on predetermined abnormal walking symptoms; a display unit configured to display a result of a determination of each of the abnormal walking symptoms; a reception unit configured receive a selection of at least one result of the determination from the results of the determinations, each of which displayed on the display unit, in which regarding pieces of advice about adjustment items for improving the abnormal walking symptoms in the result of the determination which the reception unit has received the selection, the display unit preferentially displays the pieces of advice that are common to pieces of advice about adjustment items for improving the abnormal walking symptoms in a result of another determination in which the determination unit determines the abnormal walking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Takuma NAKAMURA, Taiga MATSUMOTO, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
  • Publication number: 20200384342
    Abstract: A walking training system includes a treadmill configured to prompt a trainee to walk, a display device installed such that the trainee views the display device while walking on the treadmill, a camera configured to image the trainee at an angle of view at which a gait of the trainee is recognizable, a calculation unit configured to calculate a tilt of a body core of the walking trainee based on an image captured by the camera, and a display control unit configured to control the display device to display a body core line associated with the tilt, and an index indicating at least an end of a permissible range of a deflection of the body core line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Nagisa TANAKA, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
  • Patent number: 10858490
    Abstract: A porous ultra-thin polymer film has a film thickness of 10 nm-1000 nm. A method of producing the porous ultra-thin polymer film includes dissolving two types of mutually-immiscible polymers in a first solvent in an arbitrary proportion to obtain a solution; applying the solution onto a substrate and then removing the first solvent from the solution applied onto the substrate to obtain a phase-separated ultra-thin polymer film that has been phase-separated into a sea-island structure; and immersing the ultra-thin polymer film in a second solvent which is a good solvent for the polymer of the island parts but a poor solvent for a polymer other than the island parts to remove the island parts, thereby obtaining a porous ultra-thin polymer film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: Nanotheta Co, Ltd., Shinji Takeoka, Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinji Takeoka, Akihiro Saito, Hong Zhang, Natsuki Takamizawa
  • Publication number: 20200376340
    Abstract: A rehabilitation training system includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of training objective items, a first monitor installed at a position not visible from a position where a training person undergoes a training attempt and configured to display a training objective item of a first group from among the plurality of training objective items, a second monitor installed at a position visible from the position and configured to display a training objective item of a second group selected through the display on the first monitor from among the training objective items of the first group, and a control unit configured to control the training attempt to be undergone by the training person based on a specific training objective item selected through the display on the second monitor from among the training objective items of the second group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Taiga MATSUMOTO, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
  • Patent number: 10834012
    Abstract: Supporting combination decisions of virtual resources to be located in a single physical resource includes acquiring change status information indicating a change in each of a plurality of virtual resources designated as virtual resource candidates to be located in a single physical resource and determining, using a processor, whether a high correlation exists between changes in the loads of each of the plurality of virtual resources indicated in the change status information by performing statistical processing on the change status information. A suitability of locating the plurality of virtual resources in a single physical resource is determined according to the determination of whether a high correlation exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Saito