Patents by Inventor Hiroto Sato

Hiroto Sato 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).

  • Patent number: 6278118
    Abstract: Light-receiving devices are two-dimensionally arranged on a substrate, bonding pads electrically connected to the light-receiving devices in the respective rows or columns via signal lines are arranged on the outer periphery of the substrate, and a protective passivation film is disposed on the light-receiving devices and signal lines, thereby forming a light-receiving device array. A scintillator made of columnar crystals of CsI is deposited on the light-receiving surface of the light-receiving device array, whereas a protective film in which an Al inorganic film is held between organic films, made of Parylene is laminated thereon. The outer periphery of the protective film is cut at a position where the bonding pads are exposed, and is brought into close contact with the passivation film with the aid of the coating resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Takuya Homme, Toshio Takabayashi, Hiroto Sato
  • Patent number: 6271628
    Abstract: A high pressure mercury lamp in which formation and spreading of milky opacification in the fused silica glass forming the discharge vessel can be advantageously prevented, and thus a rapid decrease of screen illuminance prevented, when it is used as the light source of a liquid crystal projector and the like by, in a high pressure mercury lamp in which a discharge vessel of fused silica glass contains a pair of opposed tungsten electrodes, mercury in an amount that is at least equal to 0.16 mg/mm3, rare gas, and at least one halogen, and in which the wall load is at least equal to 0.8 W/mm2, the amount of mercury added being fixed in a range from 2×10−4 to 7×10−3 &mgr;mole/mm3, and/or the at least one halogen being in the form of a carbonless halogen compound, and/or the average OH radical concentration in an area of a wall of the discharge vessel at a depth of 0.2 mm from an inner surface of the wall of the discharge vessel being at most 20 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiko Sugitani, Hiroto Sato, Takashi Ito, Yoshihiro Horikawa
  • Patent number: 6262422
    Abstract: Light-receiving devices are two-dimensionally arranged on a substrate, bonding pads electrically connected to the light-receiving devices in the respective rows or columns via signal lines are arranged on the outer periphery of the substrate, and a protective passivation film is disposed on the light-receiving devices and signal lines, thereby forming a light-receiving device array. On the light-receiving surface of the light-receiving device array, a scintillator made of columnar crystals of CsI is deposited. On the other hand, a resin frame formed like an elongated frame is disposed inside the bonding pads. Inside this frame, a protective film in which an inorganic film is held between organic films made of Parylene is laminated. The outer periphery of the protective film is in close contact with the resin frame with the aid of the coating resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
    Inventors: Takuya Homme, Toshio Takabayashi, Hiroto Sato
  • Publication number: 20010005017
    Abstract: A scintillator having a columnar structure adapted to convert incident radiation into visible light is formed on one surface of a substrate made of Al in a scintillator panel. All surfaces of the substrate and scintillator are covered with a first polyparaxylylene film, whereas an SiO2 film is formed on the surface of polyparaxylylene film on the scintillator side. Further, a second polyparaxylylene film is formed on the surface of SiO2 film and the surface of polyparaxylylene film on the substrate side, so that all surfaces are covered with the second polyparaxylylene film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Publication date: June 28, 2001
    Inventors: Hiroto Sato, Takuya Homme, Toshio Takabayashi
  • Patent number: 6091059
    Abstract: A low cost, compact heat roller device is provided which includes a heat generating resistance for increasing the temperature of the heat roller wherein the heat generating resistance is divided into two parts in order to correspond to passage widths of different recording materials. The heating power of one of these heat generating resistances is changed and the temperature increase of a non-paper transport area of the heat roller is suppressed. Specifically, the heat roller device includes a heat roller and a press roller opposite the heat roller, two heat generating resistances formed on an outer surface of the heat roller which generate heat independently of one another, a common electrode for supplying current and separately arranged additional supply electrodes. The time during which the respective heat generating resistance is on, is changed, in relative terms, according to the object to be heated, and thus the heating power is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroto Sato, Kazuhiro Akiyama
  • Patent number: 6060830
    Abstract: A high pressure mercury lamp with an extremely high mercury vapor pressure and extremely high tube wall load in which the arc during operation is advantageously stabilized is achieved in a high pressure mercury lamp having a discharge vessel of fused silica glass which contains a pair of opposed tungsten electrodes, mercury in an amount at least equal to 0.16 mg/mm.sup.3 and a rare gas, and in which the discharge tube has a tube wall load at least equal to 0.8 W/mm.sup.2, by at least one metal halide with a metal having an ionization potential that is at most 0.87 times as high as the mercury ionization potential being added to the discharge tube in a range of from 2.times.10.sup.-4 to 7.times.10.sup.-2 .mu.mole/mm.sup.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiko Sugitani, Hiroto Sato, Takashi Ito, Yoshihiro Horikawa
  • Patent number: 5794258
    Abstract: A system for transmitting map data between a parent station and a child station. The child station extracts figure data from an optical disk, specifies the retrieval range and transmits it as data for extraction to the parent station. Upon receipt, the parent station extracts the figure data including the retrieval range from the database. Then the date and/or time of update of the figure data and also of the data for extraction are checked. When the date and/or time of the update of the data for extraction is earlier, the figure data is transmitted to the child station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi Ishikawa, Hiroto Sato, Kiyoshi Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 5535316
    Abstract: A computer program product for searching line data to be transmitted to a terminal which demands an output map. The line data is obtained by selecting line segments within an output domain from the entire line data included in an object map read from a graphic file. The selection of the line segments is performed by obtaining the coordinates of intersections of lines specifying the output domain and line segment specified by any two adjacent characteristic points on a line associated with line data read out from the graphic file, and then by arranging the intersections and the characteristic points within the output domain sequentially along the line. This makes it possible to shorten the response time between a demand from the terminal and the actual output of the line data within the output domain to that terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sakura Shinoaki, Hiroto Sato, Kyozo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5519817
    Abstract: A method for searching line data to be transmitted to a terminal which demands an output map. The line data is obtained by selecting line segments within an output domain from the entire line data included in an object map read from a graphic file. The selection of the line segments is performed by obtaining the coordinates of intersections of lines specifying the output domain and line segment specified by any two adjacent characteristic points on a line associated with line data read out from the graphic file, and then by arranging the intersections and the characteristic points within the output domain sequentially along the line. This makes it possible to shorten the response time between a demand from the terminal and the actual output of the line data within the output domain to that terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sakura Shinoaki, Hiroto Sato, Kyozo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5416902
    Abstract: A graphic editing system and method uses a terminal for editing line graphic data stored in a host computer. The graphic data of a drawing to be edited is retrieved from a common file and is loaded onto the host computer's work area. The graphic data is then loaded onto the terminal's memory and displayed on the terminal. A line of the drawing to be edited is selected on the terminal. The line to be edited is then searched in the host computer's work area and stored in the host computer's edit area, where it is edited. The edited line is then loaded into the terminal's memory from the edit area and displayed on the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroto Sato, Sakura Shinoaki, Kyozo Tanaka