Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kouno
Hiroshi Kouno 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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Publication number: 20210246072Abstract: The ceramic sintered body contains Zr, Al, Y, and Mg. A Zr content is 7.5 mass % or more and 23.5 mass % or less in terms of ZrO2. An Al content is 74.9 mass % or more and 91.8 mass % or less in terms of Al2O3. A Y content is 0.41 mass % or more and 1.58 mass % or less in terms of Y2O3. A Mg content is 0.10 mass % or more and 0.80 mass % or less in terms of MgO. A ZrO2 crystal phase as a crystal phase has a monoclinic phase and a tetragonal phase as crystal structures. When a thermal aging treatment is performed for 100 hours in an environment of 180 degrees C., a ratio of a peak intensity of the monoclinic phase to a sum of peak intensities of the monoclinic phase and the tetragonal phase is 15% or less in the X-ray diffraction pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Yuji UMEDA, Hiroshi KOUNO
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Patent number: 9596893Abstract: To provide an exercise garment with crotch part that is capable of sufficiently improving performance of various types of exercises accompanied by three-dimensional movements such as rotation of the trunk and rotation/outward rotation/inward rotation of both legs. In an exercise garment with crotch part, when it is being worn, tightening forces of first tightening portions act on the muscle groups existing around the greater trochanter, so that the muscle groups are supported to broaden the extent of mobility of the pelvic band. On the other hand, on the inside of the closed-loop first tightening portions, the space between a first line and a second line gradually becomes wider toward the greater trochanter position, whereby a side hole is formed. Due to such formation of the side hole, the greater trochanter of the wearer is prevented from being pressed directly by the first tightening portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2007Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: WACOAL CORP.Inventors: Chizuru Fukuyo, Nozomu Seike, Hiroshi Kouno
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Patent number: 8486536Abstract: Disclosed is a glass material for press forming providing an optical element having a sufficient optical performance without surface cracks, cloudiness, scratches, and the like even when the glass material contains a highly reactive component. Also disclosed are an optical element having a sufficient optical performance without surface cracks, cloudiness, scratches, and the like and a method for manufacturing the same. Specifically disclosed is a glass material for press forming which comprises a core portion composed of multicomponent optical glass and a surface glass layer covering at least a region serving as an optical functional surface of the core portion. The surface glass layer contains more than 90 mass % of SiO2, and the thickness of the layer is less than five nanometers. Also specifically disclosed is a method for manufacturing a glass optical element by heating the glass material and by press forming the softened glass material using a forming die.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Xuelu Zou, Hiroshi Kouno, Kouichiroh Shiraishi
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Patent number: 8378152Abstract: Propylene glycol is produced by a method of producing propylene glycol, the method including: obtaining propylene glycol by performing catalytic hydrogenation of glycerol in the presence of a catalyst, the catalyst containing zinc oxide and at least one of copper and copper oxide, and the catalyst, after being reduced at 180° C. to 230° C. in the presence of hydrogen, showing a half width of from 0.4 to 1.1 of a peak having a peak top at a position at which a diffraction angle (2?±0.2°) is 43.1° in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained using CuK? as a radiation source.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2009Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Kouno, Shuji Ozawa, Naritoshi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20120134027Abstract: Disclosed is a glass material for press forming providing an optical element having a sufficient optical performance without surface cracks, cloudiness, scratches, and the like even when the glass material contains a highly reactive component. Also disclosed are an optical element having a sufficient optical performance without surface cracks, cloudiness, scratches, and the like and a method for manufacturing the same. Specifically disclosed is a glass material for press forming which comprises a core portion composed of multicomponent optical glass and a surface glass layer covering at least a region serving as an optical functional surface of the core portion. The surface glass layer contains more than 90 mass % of SiO2, and the thickness of the layer is less than five nanometers. Also specifically disclosed is a method for manufacturing a glass optical element by heating the glass material and by press forming the softened glass material using a forming die.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: HOYA CORPORATIONInventors: Xuelu Zou, Hiroshi Kouno, Kouichiroh Shiraishi
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Patent number: 8053608Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a process for producing propylene glycol from glycerol as a raw material without the necessity for a step of gasifying glycerol. The process for producing propylene glycol of the present invention comprises a step of subjecting glycerol to catalytic hydrogenation in the presence of a catalyst A containing zinc oxide, silica, and at least one of copper and copper oxide.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2008Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Kouno, Shuji Ozawa, Naritoshi Yoshimura
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Patent number: 7908670Abstract: An exercise garment according to which the exercise performance in various types of exercise accompanied by rotation of the trunk and movement of the arms can be sufficiently improved. The exercise garment includes first tightening portions exerting tightening forces on the scapulae and scapula-surrounding muscle groups, so that the scapulae and the scapula-surrounding muscle groups are supported such that the extent of mobility of the scapulae is broadened. The tightening force due to one of the first tightening portions is transmitted to the other first tightening portion via second tightening portions. As a result, movement of one scapula linked to the movement of the other scapula is promoted, and the extent of mobility of the scapulae is further broadened. Consequently, the flexibility around the shoulders during exercise in which the left and right shoulders are working together can be effectively increased.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2006Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Wacoal Corp.Inventors: Takayuki Semba, Chizuru Fukuyo, Nozomu Seike, Hiroshi Kouno
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Publication number: 20110040131Abstract: Propylene glycol is produced by a method of producing propylene glycol, the method including: obtaining propylene glycol by performing catalytic hydrogenation of glycerol in the presence of a catalyst, the catalyst containing zinc oxide and at least one of copper and copper oxide, and the catalyst, after being reduced at 180° C. to 230° C. in the presence of hydrogen, showing a half width of from 0.4 to 1.1 of a peak having a peak top at a position at which a diffraction angle (2?±0.2°) is 43.1° in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained using CuK? as a radiation source.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2009Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Kouno, Shuji Ozawa, Naritoshi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20100256425Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a process for producing propylene glycol from glycerol as a raw material without the necessity for a step of gasifying glycerol. The process for producing propylene glycol of the present invention comprises a step of subjecting glycerol to catalytic hydrogenation in the presence of a catalyst A containing zinc oxide, silica, and at least one of copper and copper oxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Kouno, Shuji Ozawa, Naritoshi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20100162466Abstract: To provide an exercise garment with crotch part that is capable of sufficiently improving performance of various types of exercises accompanied by three-dimensional movements such as rotation of the trunk and rotation/outward rotation/inward rotation of both legs. In an exercise garment with crotch part, when it is being worn, tightening forces of first tightening portions act on the muscle groups existing around the greater trochanter, so that the muscle groups are supported to broaden the extent of mobility of the pelvic band. On the other hand, on the inside of the closed-loop first tightening portions, the space between a first line and a second line gradually becomes wider toward the greater trochanter position, whereby a side hole is formed. Due to such formation of the side hole, the greater trochanter of the wearer is prevented from being pressed directly by the first tightening portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2007Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: WACOAL CORP.Inventors: Chizuru Fukuyo, Nozomu Seike, Hiroshi Kouno
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Publication number: 20090265828Abstract: There is provided an exercise garment according to which the exercise performance in various types of exercise accompanied by rotation of the trunk and movement of the arms can be sufficiently improved. With the exercise garment 1, when the exercise garment 1 is being worn, tightening forces due to first tightening portions 21 act on the scapulae and the scapula-surrounding muscle groups, so that the scapulae and the scapula-surrounding muscle groups are supported such that the extent of mobility of the scapulae is broadened when the wearer cares out rotation of the trunk or movement of the arms. Moreover, the tightening force due to one of the first tightening portions 21 is transmitted to the other first tightening portion 21 via second tightening portions 22. As a result, movement of one scapula linked to the movement of the other scapula is promoted, and hence the extent of mobility of the scapulae is further broadened.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2006Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: WACOAL CORP.Inventors: Takayuki Semba, Chizuru Fukuyo, Nozomu Seike, Hiroshi Kouno
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Patent number: 7155767Abstract: There is disclosed a scrub cleaning device which can reduce cleaning time and which requires no large-scaled device for transferring a substrate to the next cleaning process.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2003Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Kouno, Masahumi Kanahara
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Patent number: 6875819Abstract: The present invention is to provide a fluorine-containing polymer having excellent light transmission in the vacuum ultraviolet region of not more than 193 nm, a monomer favorably used for preparing the fluorine-containing polymer, a process for preparing the fluorine-containing polymer, and uses of the fluorine-containing polymer. The fluorine-containing polymer has at least a repeated unit structure represented by the following formula (1) and has an absorption coefficient of not more than 3.0 ?m?1 at 157 nm of ultraviolet rays. wherein R1 to R12 are each fluorine, a fluorine-containing alkyl group of 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or the like; X1 is —CRaRb—, —NRa— or —PRa— (Ra and Rb are each fluorine, a fluorine-containing alkyl group of 1 to 20 carbon atoms, hydrogen, —O—, —S—, an alkyl group of 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or the like); at least one of R1 to R12 and X1 is fluorine or a fluorine-containing group; and n is 0 or an integer of 1 to 3.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2002Date of Patent: April 5, 2005Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Tadahiro Sunaga, Hiroshi Kouno, Kazumori Kawamura, Takashi Ochiai, Shigeto Shigematsu, Takashi Nakano, Tomoyuki Morita, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Hirofumi Io
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Patent number: 6703459Abstract: This invention relates to polymerization catalysts for unsaturated monomers which are represented by the following general formula [1]: MR1kR2mR3nQh [1] wherein R1 is selected from ligands having at least one nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus or oxygen atom; R2 is selected from ligands comprising cyclic hydrocarbons having &pgr;-electrons, and R1 and R2 may be crosslinked with each other; R3 is selected from ligands comprising a hydrogen atom, alkyl groups, aryl groups, silicon-containing alkyl groups and silicon-containing aryl groups; M is a metal selected from the metals of group III of the periodic table; Q is selected from halogen atoms and electron-donating ligands, where Q may be the same or different if h is more than one; k is an integer of 1 to 4; and m, n and h are each 0 or an integer of 1 to 4.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2000Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Inventors: Tadahiro Sunaga, Hiroshi Kouno
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Publication number: 20040016451Abstract: There is disclosed a scrub cleaning device which can reduce cleaning time and which requires no large-scaled device for transferring a substrate to the next cleaning process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2003Publication date: January 29, 2004Applicant: Hoya CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Kouno, Masahumi Kanahara
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Publication number: 20030187168Abstract: The present invention is to provide a fluorine-containing polymer having excellent light transmission in the vacuum ultraviolet region of not more than 193 nm, a monomer favorably used for preparing the fluorine-containing polymer, a process for preparing the fluorine-containing polymer, and uses of the fluorine-containing polymer. The fluorine-containing polymer has at least a repeated unit structure represented by the following formula (1) and has an absorption coefficient of not more than 3.0 &mgr;m−1 at 157 nm of ultraviolet rays.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2002Publication date: October 2, 2003Inventors: Tadahiro Sunaga, Hiroshi Kouno, Kazumori Kawamura, Takashi Ochiai, Shigeto Shigematsu, Takashi Nakano, Tomoyuki Morita, Hirofumi Io, Yoshihiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 6620257Abstract: There is disclosed a scrub cleaning device which can reduce cleaning time and which requires no large-scaled device for transferring a substrate to the next cleaning process.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2000Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Kouno, Masahumi Kanahara
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Patent number: 4945432Abstract: A magnetic disk drive of the Winchester type has magnetic disks layered around the external peripheral surface of a spindle and separated mutually from one another by spacers. The substrate of the magnetic disks are made of non-metallic materials such as glass or ceramics but do not break easily by the motion of the spindle or the change in temperature because either the adhesive used to form a unistructural assembly of the magnetic disks and the spacers or elastic members inserted in annular indentations formed in the spacers serve as a buffer when the magnetic disks and the spacers are compressed together.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1988Date of Patent: July 31, 1990Assignee: Hoya Electronics CorporationInventors: Takeo Matsudaira, Hiroshi Kouno, Shinji Eda, Juuzoh Funayama