Patents by Inventor Isao Satoh

Isao Satoh 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: 6587414
    Abstract: An information recording method has; a history determination step for determining whether or not a medium being cased and capable of being used for information recording and reproduction has previously been taken out from the case by using an identification section having historical information as to whether the medium has previously been taken out from the case or not; and a verification step for verifying correctness of information recorded always or on condition that a predetermined condition is satisfied when a result of the determination shows that the medium has previously been taken out from the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunji Ohara, Takashi Ishida, Yoshikazu Goto, Isao Satoh
  • Patent number: 6560187
    Abstract: An information recording method has; a history determination step for determining whether or not a medium being cased and capable of being used for information recording and reproduction has previously been taken out from the case by using an identification section having historical information as to whether the medium has previously been taken out from the case or not; and a verification step for verifying correctness of information recorded always or on condition that a predetermined condition is satisfied when a result of the determination shows that the medium has previously been taken out from the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunji Ohara, Takashi Ishida, Yoshikazu Goto, Isao Satoh
  • Patent number: 6553776
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a dynamic type ice cold storage method and system capable of efficiently suppressing, by an appropriate replenishment of water, an increase in concentration of an aqueous solution with the progress of freezing of the aqueous solution, thereby preventing a lowering in the coefficient of performance of a refrigerator, and hence diminishing power required for the formation of ice crystals. The temperature of an aqueous solution contained in a freezer which includes a heat exchanger for cooling is measured with a thermometer, and as the liquid temperature drops with the progress of freezing, melted water is replenished into the freezer from a melted water tank by means of a pump to keep almost constant the temperature of freezing performed by the heat exchanger for cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Isao Satoh
  • Patent number: 6549499
    Abstract: In a recording and reproducing apparatus for a disc-shaped recording medium, and a defect substitution method for a disc-shaped recording medium, whether reproduction of recorded data is good is determined by sector unit and not by product code unit, defective sector discrimination is performed by sector unit, and only sectors determined defective are alternately recorded, when using a recording format in which data that is error detection and correction coded with a product code is segmented and recorded to a plurality of sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Takagi, Takahiro Nagai, Yoshihisa Fukushima, Shunji Ohara, Isao Satoh
  • Publication number: 20030061821
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a dynamic type ice cold storage method and system capable of efficiently suppressing, by an appropriate replenishment of water, an increase in concentration of an aqueous solution with the progress of freezing of the aqueous solution, thereby preventing a lowering in the coefficient of performance of a refrigerator, and hence diminishing power required for the formation of ice crystals. The temperature of an aqueous solution contained in a freezer which includes a heat exchanger for cooling is measured with a thermometer, and as the liquid temperature drops with the progress of freezing, melted water is replenished into the freezer from a melted water tank by means of a pump to keep almost constant the temperature of freezing performed by the heat exchanger for cooling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Isao Satoh
  • Publication number: 20020191921
    Abstract: An optical connector which includes an insertion opening for inserting therein a plug section of an optical fiber cable, an optical element which is to be optically connected to said optical fiber cable as inserted in said insertion opening, and a shutter for opening and closing said insertion opening; and which is to be mounted to an apparatus and serves as a connector of said apparatus, is arranged so as to be distinguishable from an optical connector of other type by the color of the shutter which is exposed to the outside when mounting the optical connector to an apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventor: Isao Satoh
  • Patent number: 6496455
    Abstract: In a recording and reproducing apparatus for a disc-shaped recording medium, and a defect substitution method for a disc-shaped recording medium, whether reproduction of recorded data is good is determined by sector unit and not by product code unit, defective sector discrimination is performed by sector unit, and only sectors determined defective are alternately recorded, when using a recording format in which data that is error detection and correction coded with a product code is segmented and recorded to a plurality of sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Takagi, Takahiro Nagai, Yoshihisa Fukushima, Shunji Ohara, Isao Satoh
  • Publication number: 20020131360
    Abstract: The optical disk of this invention includes a read-only area in which a plurality of read-only tracks are formed and a rewritable area in which a plurality of rewritable tracks are formed, wherein each of the plurality of read-only tracks is divided into a plurality of first sectors, a signal is prerecorded in at least one of the plurality of first sectors under a predetermined reproduction format, each of the plurality of rewritable tracks is divided into a plurality of second sectors, a signal is recordable in at least one of the plurality of second sectors under a predetermined recording format including the predetermined reproduction format, and the read-only area is located on an inner portion of the optical disk, while the rewritable area is located on an outer portion of the optical disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Takemura, Takashi Ishida, Shunji Ohara, Isao Satoh
  • Patent number: 6451961
    Abstract: Provided are processes by which an ethylenimine polymer and an aqueous solution thereof can advantageously be produced at low costs in an industrial scale. The ethylenimine polymer can be produced by polymerizing crude ethylenimine obtained by a simple distilling operation from an ethylenimine-containing reaction mixture produced by subjecting ethanolamine to intermolecular dehydration reaction, preferably crude ethylenimine having impurity contents which are controlled in the specific ranges. When the above crude ethylenimine is polymerized in an aqueous medium, capable of being obtained is an aqueous solution of an ethylenimine polymer having a higher molecular weight than that produced by non-solvent polymerization. The ethylenimine polymer can be purified by, for example, adding water thereto, mixing them and then vaporizing and removing water under heating. The aqueous solution of an ethylenimine polymer can be purified by heating and condensing it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co Ltd
    Inventors: Seiichi Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Onda, Isao Satoh
  • Patent number: 6452884
    Abstract: An information recording method has; a history determination stop for determining whether or not a medium being cased and capable of being used for information recording and reproduction has previously been taken out from the case by using an identification section having historical information as to whether the medium has previously been taken out from the case or not; and a verification step for verifying correctness of information recorded always or on condition that a predetermined condition is satisfied when a result of the determination shows that the medium has previously been taken out from the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunji Ohara, Takashi Ishida, Yoshikazu Goto, Isao Satoh
  • Publication number: 20020124583
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a dynamic type ice cold storage method and system capable of efficiently suppressing, by an appropriate replenishment of water, an increase in concentration of an aqueous solution with the progress of freezing of the aqueous solution, thereby preventing a lowering in the coefficient of performance of a refrigerator, and hence diminishing power required for the formation of ice crystals. The temperature of an aqueous solution contained in a freezer which includes a heat exchanger for cooling is measured with a thermometer, and as the liquid temperature drops with the progress of freezing, melted water is replenished into the freezer from a melted water tank by means of a pump to keep almost constant the temperature of freezing performed by the heat exchanger for cooling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventor: Isao Satoh
  • Patent number: 6444769
    Abstract: Provided is a process for producing an ethylenimine polymer aqueous solution which has a high concentration (high resin content) and is less changeable with the passage of time, that is, has a stabilized quality. The above process comprises polymerizing ethylenimine in a water based medium at a temperature of 80° C. or lower and then ripening it at a temperature of 100 to 150° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiichi Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Onda, Isao Satoh
  • Patent number: 6430129
    Abstract: An information recording method has; a history determination step for determining whether or not a medium being cased and capable of being used for information recording and reproduction has previously been taken out from the case by using an identification section having historical information as to whether the medium has previously been taken out from the case or not; and a verification step for verifying correctness of information recorded always or on condition that a predetermined condition is satisfied when a result of the determination shows that the medium has previously been taken out from the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunji Ohara, Takashi Ishida, Yoshikazu Goto, Isao Satoh
  • Patent number: 6421315
    Abstract: A multi-layered optical disk comprising a plurality of recording layers accumulated in the thickness direction wherein a light beam is focused on one of tracks of one of the layers thereby to record and reproduce data, the optical disk being characterized in that recording layers each have An identification section storing an address of the recording layer which the identification section belongs to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Mastushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Satoh, Yoshihisa Fukushima, Yuji Takagi, Yasushi Azumatani, Hiroshi Hamasaka
  • Patent number: 6418111
    Abstract: The optical disk of this invention includes a read-only area in which a plurality of read-only tracks are formed and a rewritable area in which a plurality of rewritable tracks are formed, wherein each of the plurality of read-only tracks is divided into a plurality of first sectors, a signal is prerecorded in at least one of the plurality of first sectors under a predetermined reproduction format, each of the plurality of rewritable tracks is divided into a plurality of second sectors, a signal is recordable in at least one of the plurality of second sectors under a predetermined recording format including the predetermined reproduction format, and the read-only area is located on an inner portion of the optical disk, while the rewritable area is located on an outer portion of the optical disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Takemura, Takashi Ishida, Shunji Ohara, Isao Satoh
  • Publication number: 20020075765
    Abstract: An information recording method has;
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: Shunji Ohara, Takashi Ishida, Yoshikazu Goto, Isao Satoh
  • Patent number: 6396798
    Abstract: An optical disc having both rewritable area and read-only area is disclosed. The rewritable area has a single spiral pattern of start track land at a leading edge, and a single spiral pattern of end track land at a trailing edge, whereby portions of the physical address area PID deviated approximately Pa/2 from the track of the rewritable area are being intruded into the start track land and the end track land.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinari Takemura, Shunji Ohara, Takashi Ishida, Isao Satoh, Kazuhiko Nakane, Masato Nagasawa, Yoshinobu Ishida
  • Publication number: 20020054562
    Abstract: A multi-layered optical disk comprising a plurality of recording layers accumulated in the thickness direction wherein a light beam is focused on one of tracks of one of the layers thereby to record and reproduce data, the optical disk being characterized in that recording layers each have an identification section storing an address of the recording layer which the identification section belongs to.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Inventors: Isao Satoh, Yoshihisa Fukushima, Yuji Takagi, Yasushi Azumatani, Hiroshi Hamasaka
  • Patent number: 6373815
    Abstract: In an optical disc, an ID field contains a plurality of address information, and is preliminarily recorded in convex and concave signals, and is composed of two sets offset by about ½ track pitch toward the internal or external track direction adjacent to the guide track, an information recording field is composed of grooves and lands oscillating at a single frequency in the radial direction, and the grooves and lands alternate in every revolution of the guide track. When w bits of information are included in one period of oscillation, an information unrecorded field between the ID field and information recording field is arranged to have a length of w/10 bits or more and/or w bits or less, and therefore, when recording continuous information data such as video data, it is possible to record continuously by generating a clock securely from the oscillating signal, and moreover, the format efficiency is improved, so that a format of a larger capacity is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Ishida, Shin-ichi Tanaka, Akira Mutoh, Yoshinari Takemura, Shunji Ohara, Isao Satoh
  • Publication number: 20020001272
    Abstract: In a recording and reproducing apparatus for a disc-shaped recording medium, and a defect substitution method for a disc-shaped recording medium (8), whether reproduction of recorded data is good is determined by sector unit and not by product code unit, defective sector discrimination is performed by sector unit, and only sectors determined defective are alternately recorded, when using a recording format in which data that is error detection and correction coded with a product code is segmented and recorded to a plurality of sectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: Yuji Takagi, Takahiro Nagai, Yoshihisa Fukushima, Shunji Ohara, Isao Satoh