Patents by Inventor Katsumi Kato
Katsumi Kato 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: 20050008519Abstract: The outer peripheral surface of a swing piston (28) is formed in a non-circular form. The inner peripheral surface of a cylinder chamber (25) is formed on a basis of an envelope curve of the outer peripheral surface of the swing piston (28) obtained at the time of its swing. The outer peripheral surface of the swing piston (28) and the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder chamber (25) are formed in, e.g., an ovoid shape so that as compared to the case in which such inner and outer peripheral surfaces are formed in a circular form, a shorter compression cycle and a longer discharge cycle can be obtained at the time of swing of the swing piston (28). As a result, an overcompression loss when a refrigerant is discharged in a swing compressor can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2003Publication date: January 13, 2005Inventors: Masanori Masuda, Katsumi Kato, Yoshitaka Shibamoto
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Publication number: 20040265159Abstract: An adjusting mechanism is provided to produce an anti-overturning moment to reduce an overturning moment acting on an orbiting scroll during its revolution in a revolving-angle area in which the overturning moment becomes a at least a certain value. Accordingly, revolution movement of the orbiting scroll can be made stable by changing a pressing force of the orbiting scroll against the fixed scroll according to fluctuation of the overturning moment due to the revolution of the orbiting scroll, thereby improving the compression efficiency of a scroll-type compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Inventors: Kazuhiro Furusho, Katsumi Kato, Takahiro Ohno
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Publication number: 20040156734Abstract: A lubrication path (50) to press-contact surfaces of a fixed and orbiting scrolls (21, 22) serves also as a high-level pressure introduction passageway when a difference between a high-level pressure and a low-level pressure is great. On the other hand, when the high-level pressure introduction passageway is blocked off in a state in which the high-low pressure difference is small, refrigerating machine oil is supplied to the press-contact surfaces through a low-level pressure space (S1) within the casing, for controlling the pressing force of the orbiting scroll (22) against the fixed scroll (21), and the construction for preventing a decrease in efficiency is simplified, thereby not only reducing the cost but also preventing the occurrence of a maloperation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2003Publication date: August 12, 2004Inventors: Kazuhiro Furusho, Katsumi Kato, Hiroyuki Yamaji
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Patent number: 6761315Abstract: An operation member is provided with a planar input device, and a detachable display sheet is overlaid on the surface of the planar input device. There are two types of display sheets, in which input items are different. Cutouts are formed at the respective peripheral edge portions thereof, and a determination device for detecting these cutouts is provided. Wireless communication is performed between the operation member and a host, and the display sheet is replaced according to the function performed by the host.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2001Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Kato, Tadamitsu Sato
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Patent number: 6751779Abstract: In a document image processing apparatus, a document image is inputted as image data from an image inputting section. In a layout analyzing section, the layout of the document image is analyzed on the basis of the image data to obtain layout constituents. In an image processing section, the document image is processed. The image processing section includes an editor for specifying a position to be edited in the document image and editing the document image, on the basis of position/size data on the layout constituents, in accordance with the operator's instructions from the operation data inputting section. In an image displaying section, the document image is displayed in cooperation with the image processing section.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2000Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yoshiaki Kurosawa, Katsumi Kato
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Publication number: 20040101428Abstract: A stationary scroll (40) is provided with a stationary side wrap (41) and an outer peripheral portion (42). The stationary side wrap (41) is formed into a spiral wall shape. The outer peripheral portion (42) is formed into a ring-like shape enclosing the periphery of the stationary side wrap (41). The movable scroll (50) is provided with a first flat plate (51), a movable side wrap (53), and a second flat plate (52). The movable side wrap (53) is formed into a spiral wall shape. Additionally, the movable side wrap (53) is caught between the first flat plate (51) and the second flat plate (52), with the movable side wrap (53) in mating engagement with the stationary side wrap (41). In the movable side wrap (53), the first flat plate (51) is formed integrally with the movable side wrap (53). Additionally, the second flat plate portion (52) is formed as a separate body from the first flat plate (51) and the movable side wrap (53) and is coupled to the first flat plate (51) with a bolt (62).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2003Publication date: May 27, 2004Inventors: Yoshitaka Shibamoto, Katsumi Kato
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Patent number: 6704005Abstract: An input device includes a pressure-sensitive or capacitive planar input unit with an indicator sheet which has input sections being secured to the surface of the planar input unit. A tactile feedback generator is provided at the back side of the planar input unit. The tactile feedback generator includes dome-shaped inversion plates that are separately provided at locations corresponding to the input sections and provide feedback to the operator. When an input section is pressed, an operation signal in accordance with what is indicated at the pressed input section is generated.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2001Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Kato, Yasuji Hagiwara, Masahiro Soma, Tadamitsu Sato
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Patent number: 6596968Abstract: A polyimide film favorably employable in a method of producing a through-hole in an aromatic-polyimide film having on its surface a laminated or deposited metal film by applying laser beam onto the polyimide film, preferably is composed of a high Tg aromatic polyimide layer which has a Tg of 300° C. or higher or has no noticeable Tg and is produced from a biphenyltetracarboxylic acid compound and an aromatic diamine compound and a low Tg aromatic polyimide layer which has a Tg of lower than 375° C. but higher than 200° C., provided that the Tg of the low Tg polyimide layer is lower than the Tg of the high Tg polyimide layer and the metal film is laminated or deposited on the surface of the low Tg polyimide layer on the side not facing the high Tg polyimide layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2001Date of Patent: July 22, 2003Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiko Yamamoto, Katsumi Kato, Toshinori Hosoma, Shuichi Hashiguchi
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Patent number: 6580415Abstract: The present invention relates to an input device capable of detecting an acceleration, in which a detecting section constituted by a combination of a weight, a coiled spring, and detecting means is supported by a support. The support is fixed to a tip end within a case of the input device. By applying a force having a predetermined or higher acceleration in W direction with a grip part of the input device as fulcrum, thereby causing the input device to rotate, the weight is moved by the resulting centrifugal force in a direction in which the coiled spring is compressed, and an electric signal outputted from the detecting means varies according to the amount of the movement of the weight. By detecting this variation it is possible to detect an acceleration upon rotation of the input device.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2000Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Kato, Yasuji Hagiwara
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Patent number: 6541122Abstract: A roll of a web composed of an aromatic polyimide composite film and a metal film in which the polyimide composite film is composed of a non-thermoplastic aromatic polyimide base film and a thermoplastic aromatic polyimide cover film, the polyimide composite film showing a heat shrinkage ratio of less than 0.1% at 300° C., can be produced by heating a corresponding roll of web composed of a metal film and an aromatic polyimide composite film having a heat shrinkage ratio of more than 0.1% at 300° C., at a temperature between 150° C. and a glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic aromatic polyimide cover film, for a period of at least one minute.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2001Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiko Yamamoto, Katsumi Kato, Toshinori Hosoma
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Patent number: 6533561Abstract: In a scroll type compressor (1) that includes a fixed scroll (21) fixed inside of a casing (10) and a movable scroll (22) meshed with the fixed scroll (21) and presses the movable scroll (22) against the fixed scroll (21), the pressing force of the movable scroll (22) against the fixed scroll (21) is obtained from the pressure of a high-pressure space (S2) that acts on the back face of the movable scroll (22) and the pressing force is controlled in accordance with the variation in the compression ratio with the change in the operating condition thereby preventing decrease in efficiency and mechanical loss.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2001Date of Patent: March 18, 2003Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Furusho, Masahide Higuchi, Katsumi Kato, Keiji Komori, Hiroshi Kitaura
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Publication number: 20030030628Abstract: An input apparatus includes a flat input device of a pressure-sensitive type or a capacitive type, and an indicator sheet on which indication marks are formed is fixed on the surface of the flat input device. A tactile-feel-generating unit is provided behind the flat input device. The tactile-feel-generating unit includes dome-shaped inversion plates which are disposed at positions corresponding to the indication marks. When one of the indication marks is pressed setting an input mode, an operation signal is generated in accordance with an item represented by the indication mark, and a tactile feel is generated by a reaction force of the corresponding inversion plate. When an indication mark is touched, while in an input mode, the control unit recognizes the resulting signal to be a coordinate data signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2002Publication date: February 13, 2003Applicant: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadamitsu Sato, Katsumi Kato, Yasuji Hagiwara, Masahiro Soma
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Patent number: 6466954Abstract: A document image processing apparatus. A layout analysis section analyzes a layout structure of an input image. A layout information memory section stores layout information representing a relationship between the layout structure and a corresponding area in the input image. An image display section displays the corresponding area in the input image according to the layout information. An indication input section inputs an indication to modify the corresponding area in the input image displayed. A modification section modifies the corresponding area in the input image and the layout structure of the corresponding area in the layout information according to the indication.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1999Date of Patent: October 15, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yoshiaki Kurosawa, Katsumi Kato
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Publication number: 20020138968Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor core member provided with concave angular portions for fixing permanent magnets at both sides of the inside faces of pole piece fingers by means of only a forging technique only includes the steps of forming a segment of a material having a predetermined volume into a preliminary core blank, which includes a plurality of pole piece fingers, having an angle of 70° relative to the plane extended from the bottom face of the integral disc section, removing the forging burr produced around the periphery of the integral disc section and at the both sides of the pole piece fingers of the preliminary core blank by means of die-cutting, then, die-cutting using the punch on the upper die or cope to form a shaft aperture in the central boss section of the preliminary core blank, at the same time, while drawing the pole piece fingers by means of drawing processing using the die face of the upper die or cope for forming out side surface, bending the same until the angle relative to thType: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2002Publication date: October 3, 2002Inventors: Hirotoshi Kato, Tadayuki Ito, Katsumi Kato, Masaharu Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 6379784Abstract: An aromatic polyimide laminate composed of an aromatic polyimide composite film, a metal film, and a release film is disclosed. The aromatic polyimide composite film is composed of an aromatic polyimide substrate film and two thermoplastic aromatic polyimide layers. Each thermoplastic layer is fixed to each surface of the substrate film. The substrate film has no glass transition temperature of lower than 350° C., and the thermoplastic aromatic polyimide layer has a glass transition temperature of 190-280° C. The metal film is fixed, with no intervening adhesive layer, to one thermoplastic aromatic polyimide layer at a 90° peel strength of 0.8 kg/cm or more and the release film is fixed, with no intervening adhesive layer, to another thermoplastic aromatic polyimide layer at a 90° peel strength of 0.001-0.5 kg/cm, under such condition that the latter peel strength is one half or less of the former peel strength.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2000Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiko Yamamoto, Katsumi Kato, Toshinori Hosoma, Kazuhiko Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20020023906Abstract: A polyimide film favorably employable in a method of producing a through-hole in an aromatic-polyimide film having on its surface a laminated or deposited metal film by applying laser beam onto the polyimide film, preferably is composed of a high Tg aromatic polyimide layer which has a Tg of 300° C. or higher or has no noticeable Tg and is produced from a biphenyltetracarboxylic acid compound and an aromatic diamine compound and a low Tg aromatic polyimide layer which has a Tg of lower than 375° C. but higher than 200° C., provided that the Tg of the low Tg polyimide layer is lower than the Tg of the high Tg polyimide layer and the metal film is laminated or deposited on the surface of the low Tg polyimide layer on the side not facing the high Tg polyimide layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2001Publication date: February 28, 2002Applicant: Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiko Yamamoto, Katsumi Kato, Toshinori Hosoma, Shuichi Hashiguchi
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Publication number: 20020021280Abstract: An input device includes a pressure-sensitive or capacitive planar input unit with an indicator sheet which has input sections being secured to the surface of the planar input unit. A tactile feedback generator is provided at the back side of the planar input unit. The tactile feedback generator includes dome-shaped inversion plates that are separately provided at locations corresponding to the input sections and provide feedback to the operator. When an input section is pressed, an operation signal in accordance with what is indicated at the pressed input section is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2001Publication date: February 21, 2002Applicant: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Kato, Yasuji Hagiwara, Masahiro Soma, Tadamitsu Sato
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Publication number: 20020020749Abstract: An operation member is provided with a planar input device, and a detachable display sheet is overlaid on the surface of the planar input device. There are two types of display sheets, in which input items are different. Cutouts are formed at the respective peripheral edge portions thereof, and a determination device for detecting these cutouts is provided. Wireless communication is performed between the operation member and a host, and the display sheet is replaced according to the function performed by the host.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2001Publication date: February 21, 2002Applicant: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Kato, Tadamitsu Sato
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Publication number: 20010055691Abstract: A roll of a web composed of an aromatic polyimide composite film and a metal film in which the polyimide composite film is composed of a non-thermoplastic aromatic polyimide base film and a thermoplastic aromatic polyimide cover film, the polyimide composite film showing a heat shrinkage ratio of less than 0.1% at 300° C., can be produced by heating a corresponding roll of web composed of a metal film and an aromatic polyimide composite film having a heat shrinkage ratio of more than 0.1% at 300° C., at a temperature between 150° C. and a glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic aromatic polyimide cover film, for a period of at least one minute.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2001Publication date: December 27, 2001Applicant: Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiko Yamamoto, Katsumi Kato, Toshinori Hosoma
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Patent number: 6293614Abstract: An impact absorbing member is provided that can absorb impact energy in an upper vehicle body portion. The member may be provided in n interval between a vehicle body structural member and an interior trim spaced from the structural member. The energy absorbing member is a hybrid pipe having a metal foil core member and sheets laminated on opposite surfaces of the core member, each sheet being formed from a material other than metal. The core member and the sheets on the opposite surfaces of the core member are shaped so that the hybrid pipe has protruded portions and recessed portions that are contiguous in a direction of an axis of the hybrid pipe. Various configurations are provided to adjust and control energy absorbing characteristics of the energy absorbing member.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2000Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isamu Takahara, Katsumi Kato