Patents by Inventor Kaoru Kaneko
Kaoru Kaneko 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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Patent number: 11339800Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a rotary shaft of a compressor impeller, a gas bearing structure that supports the rotary shaft, a motor that rotates the rotary shaft, a motor housing that houses the motor, a compressor housing that houses the compressor impeller and includes an intake port and a discharge port, a gas bleed port that is provided closer to the discharge port than the compressor impeller in a flow direction in the compressor housing, a bearing cooling line that connects the gas bleed port to the gas bearing structure, and a heat exchanger that is disposed on the bearing cooling line. The heat exchanger is mounted on at least one of the motor housing and the compressor housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Inventors: Koji Sakota, Nobuyuki Ikeya, Kaoru Kaneko
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Patent number: 11177489Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a rotation shaft, a compressor impeller attached to one end of the rotation shaft, and a first wall surface and a second wall surface formed inside a housing so as to face each other in an axial direction. A diffuser is formed between the first wall surface and the second wall surface in the axial direction, and a wall portion separates the diffuser from an axial space inside the housing in which the rotation shaft extends. The wall portion includes at least one extraction hole that fluidly couples the diffuser to the axial spate and that is configured to extract a gas from the diffuser.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Inventors: Koji Sakota, Nobuyuki Ikeya, Kaoru Kaneko, Naomi Sawachika
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Publication number: 20200256343Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a rotary shaft of a compressor impeller, a gas bearing structure that supports the rotary shaft, a motor that rotates the rotary shaft, a motor housing that houses the motor, a compressor housing that houses the compressor impeller and includes an intake port and a discharge port, a gas bleed port that is provided closer to the discharge port than the compressor impeller in a flow direction in the compressor housing, a bearing cooling line that connects the gas bleed port to the gas bearing structure, and a heat exchanger that is disposed on the bearing cooling line. The heat exchanger is mounted on at least one of the motor housing and the compressor housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Koji SAKOTA, Nobuyuki IKEYA, Kaoru KANEKO
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Publication number: 20200259193Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a rotation shaft, a compressor impeller attached to one end of the rotation shaft, and a first wall surface and a second wall surface formed inside a housing so as to face each other in an axial direction. A diffuser is formed between the first wall surface and the second wall surface in the axial direction, and a wall portion separates the diffuser from an axial space inside the housing in which the rotation shaft extends. The wall portion includes at least one extraction hole that fluidly couples the diffuser to the axial spate and that is configured to extract a gas from the diffuser.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Koji SAKOTA, Nobuyuki IKEYA, Kaoru KANEKO, Naomi SAWACHIKA
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Patent number: 9376929Abstract: A turbine generator includes a bearing device configured to rotatably support a rotor inside a housing. The bearing device separates an internal space of the housing from its outside. Communicating portions are formed in the bearing device. The communicating portions are formed in regions which are out of contact with lubricant. Each communicating portion establishes communication between the internal space of the housing and its outside.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2014Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: IHI CorporationInventors: Tatsumi Inomata, Kaoru Kaneko
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Publication number: 20150048618Abstract: A turbine generator includes a bearing device configured to rotatably support a rotor inside a housing. The bearing device separates an internal space of the housing from its outside. Communicating portions are formed in the bearing device. The communicating portions are formed in regions which are out of contact with lubricant. Each communicating portion establishes communication between the internal space of the housing and its outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: IHI CorporationInventors: Tatsumi INOMATA, Kaoru KANEKO
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Patent number: 7843494Abstract: Disclosed is an image taking apparatus that has functions of performing plural types of corrections on a captured image, and can continuously execute the plural types of corrections on the image. The image taking apparatus can be configured in such a way that when image data recorded in a recording medium is read and is subjected to plural types of corrections, for example, the image data once read can be saved in the recording medium after completion of the plural corrections which are continuously executed. The plural types of corrections can be configured in such a way that the combination or the order thereof is determined based on information unique to the image data.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2007Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Olympus Imaging CorporationInventors: Tatsuyuki Uemura, Mitsumasa Okubo, Kaoru Kaneko
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Publication number: 20080036882Abstract: Disclosed is an image taking apparatus that has functions of performing plural types of corrections on a captured image, and can continuously execute the plural types of corrections on the image. The image taking apparatus can be configured in such a way that when image data recorded in a recording medium is read and is subjected to plural types of corrections, for example, the image data once read can be saved in the recording medium after completion of the plural corrections which are continuously executed. The plural types of corrections can be configured in such a way that the combination or the order thereof is determined based on information unique to the image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2007Publication date: February 14, 2008Applicant: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventors: Tatsuyuki Uemura, Mitsumasa Okubo, Kaoru Kaneko
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Patent number: 7261637Abstract: Out of combinations of three pins(15) and bushes(16a-16c), a clearance between one of the bushes(16a) and the pin(15) is small, and a clearance between the other two bushes(16b,16c) and the pins(15) are large, whereby torque transmission is always performed by only one pin(15) and the bush(16a) during rotation to avoid a transfer phenomenon between the pins. Disposing the pins and the bushes at an equal interval allows a good balance of rotation to provide an easy assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2004Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takamitsu Tokuoka, Izuho Hirano, Yoshiyuki Miyagi, Kaoru Kaneko, Yuichiro Mizuno
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Patent number: 7166301Abstract: The present invention relates to an immediate release oral pharmaceutical composition which comprises as an active ingredient calcium salt of a benzylsuccinic acid derivative represented by the formula: or its hydrate, which is useful as an agent for the treatment of diabetes.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1999Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyohisa Ouchi, Kaoru Kaneko, Ken Kanada
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Patent number: 7160555Abstract: The present invention relates to an immediate release oral pharmaceutical composition which comprises as an active ingredient calcium salt of a benzylsuccinic acid derivative represented by the formula: or its hydrate, which is useful as an agent for the treatment of diabetes.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2004Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyohisa Ouchi, Kaoru Kaneko, Ken Kanada
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Patent number: 7160556Abstract: The present invention relates to an immediate release oral pharmaceutical composition which comprises as an active ingredient calcium salt of a benzylsuccinic acid derivative represented by the formula: or its hydrate, which is useful as an agent for the treatment of diabetes.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2004Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyohisa Ouchi, Kaoru Kaneko, Ken Kanada
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Publication number: 20060262214Abstract: A camera includes a first lens unit on which a light beam is incident from a subject, a reflective mirror for reflecting the light beam through the first lens unit, in a direction substantially perpendicular to the optical axis of the first lens unit, a first diaphragm member arranged on a surface of a lens of the first lens unit closest to the reflective mirror with the surface of the lens facing the reflective mirror, and which blocks unwanted rays of light other than the light beam that forms the image of the subject, a second lens unit on which the light beam reflected from the reflective mirror is incident, a second diaphragm member arranged between the first lens unit and the second lens unit blocks unwanted rays of light that travel outside the outermost periphery at which the light beam traveling from the first lens unit to the reflective member intersects the light beam traveling from the reflective mirror to the second lens unit, and an unwanted ray-of-light reflection prevention member arranged onType: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2006Publication date: November 23, 2006Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventors: Takashi Koyama, Takeshi Ito, Takashi Inoue, Kaoru Kaneko, Yoichi Washizu, Atsushi Nakamae, Takeshi Abe, Hiroyuki Ando, Kenichi Aoki
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Publication number: 20050179783Abstract: An electronic image pickup apparatus includes a housing which houses an electronic image pickup unit, an image display unit, and a memory unit, and which has an opening for the pickup unit. A barrier is mounted on the housing to be movable between a closed position for covering the opening and an open position for opening the opening, and turns on an electric power of the apparatus by its movement from the closed position to the opening position. At least one operating member for at least one of cancelling an image in the memory unit and an image display on the display unit is mounted on the housing. The operating member is configured to turn on the power and to be operable to at least one of cancel the image and display the image when the operating member is operated while the barrier is arranged at the closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2005Publication date: August 18, 2005Applicant: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Toyofuku, Hiroki Onda, Kaoru Kaneko, Takashi Inoue, Yu Sato
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Publication number: 20050179813Abstract: A camera or an electronic apparatus according to the present invention has a waterproof function and comprises an outer casing for waterproofing the inside of main apparatus, a microphone and a speaker installed inside the main apparatus, openings used for sound input or sound output being featured in the outer casing at a position thereof corresponding to the microphone or the speaker, water proofing members each having a characteristic of passing air and blocking moisture and for sealing the opening from the inside, wherein the microphone or the speaker is mounted onto the water proofing member so as to let a space containing the microphone vibration plate or the speaker vibration plate communicate with only a part of space inside the main apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2005Publication date: August 18, 2005Inventors: Naoki Fujii, Kaoru Kaneko, Shinya Suzuki
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Publication number: 20050179800Abstract: An electronic image pickup apparatus has a housing which houses an electronic image pickup unit, an image display unit, a memory unit, and a photographic information display unit. The housing includes a photographic information display window arranged in an upper surface thereof so that information relating to photography displayed on the photographic information display unit can be seen from an outside thereof, and an image display window arranged in a back surface thereof so that an image displayed on the image display unit can be seen from the outside thereof. At least one operating member for selecting photographic information displayed on the photographic information display unit is arranged near to the photographic information display window on the housing, and at least one operating member for operating the image display unit is arranged near to the image display window on the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2005Publication date: August 18, 2005Applicant: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Toyofuku, Hiroki Onda, Kaoru Kaneko, Takashi Inoue, Yu Sato
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Publication number: 20050119055Abstract: Out of combinations of three pins(15) and bushes(16a-16c), a clearance between one of the bushes(16a) and the pin(15) is small, and a clearance between the other two bushes(16b,16c) and the pins(15) are large, whereby torque transmission is always performed by only one pin(15) and the bush(16a) during rotation to avoid a transfer phenomenon between the pins. Disposing the pins and the bushes at an equal interval allows a good balance of rotation to provide an easy assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2004Publication date: June 2, 2005Inventors: Takamitsu Tokuoka, Izuho Hirano, Yoshiyuki Miyagi, Kaoru Kaneko, Yuichiro Mizuno
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Patent number: 6822685Abstract: An electronic camera has an imaging optical system for taking in a light beam from a subject along a first optical axis, deflecting the light beam along a second optical axis crossing the first optical axis, and focusing the light beam. An image-pickup element is mounted on an image-pickup board. The image-pickup element receives the light beam focused by the imaging optical system, photoelectrically converts the light beam, and thus acquires image data. The image-pickup board is disposed to extend in a plane oblique to a bottom surface of a housing. An input/output terminal for detachably attaching a cable for electrical connection with an external device is disposed in a space defined between the image-pickup board and the bottom surface of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1999Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kaoru Kaneko
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Patent number: 6809773Abstract: An electronic camera includes a camera main body and a lens barrel arranged on the front face of the camera main body to extend forward therefrom, and to hold an image-pickup lens therein. A U-shaped protruding cover is attached to the lens barrel to extend downward therefrom. The bottoms of the camera main body and the protruding cover are level with each other. First and second windows are arranged on the front face of the protruding cover. A lamp for emitting an auto-focus assist light is arranged in the protruding cover to face the first window. A sensor for receiving a light signal from a remote control is arranged in the protruding cover to face the second window.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1999Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Watarai, Koh Yokokawa, Kaoru Kaneko
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Publication number: 20040197400Abstract: The present invention relates to an immediate release oral pharmaceutical composition which comprises as an active ingredient calcium salt of a benzylsuccinic acid derivative represented by the formula: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2004Publication date: October 7, 2004Applicant: KISSEI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiyohisa Ouchi, Kaoru Kaneko, Ken Kanada