Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Saitou

Kazuhiro Saitou 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: 8070138
    Abstract: A sauna apparatus includes an air blower, a blow channel and a humidifier. The air blower suctions and blows air. The blow channel conveys the suctioned air and humidified air. The humidifier has a sprayer that sprays humidifying water into the air passing through the blow channel for humidification, and a spray-water droplet splitter installed in a direction to which the sprayer sprays the water for humidification. By letting the sprayed water droplets collide with the splitter, the water droplets are split into much finer water droplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Saitou, Yoshihiro Nishizuru
  • Publication number: 20110100043
    Abstract: The ventilating air-conditioning system includes an air supply fan; an exhaust fan; a compressor; a first heat exchanger heat-exchanging between outdoor air sent from the air supply fan and a refrigerant; an expansion mechanism; a second heat exchanger heat-exchanging between air in a sanitary space sent by the exhaust fan and a refrigerant; and a refrigerant circuit piped so that a refrigerant circulates in order of the compressor, first heat exchanger, expansion mechanism, and second heat exchanger, or in order of the compressor, second heat exchanger, expansion mechanism, and first heat exchanger. The system heats or cools an indoor space while ventilating a sanitary space by transferring heat between the first heat exchanger and second heat exchanger through a refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Mitunori Matubara, Yuuji Sugata, Masafumi Tsubouchi, Kei Takeshita, Yoshimasa Katsumi, Yoshihiro Nishizuru, Kazuhiro Saitou
  • Publication number: 20100248612
    Abstract: In a bathroom ventilating air-conditioning system including a first air inlet open to a bathroom; a main body conditioning air drawn in from the first air inlet; and a first air outlet open to the bathroom, where the air is circulated in the bathroom and the main body to air-condition the bathroom, the main body is placed in an indoor space other than on the ceiling surface of the bathroom; the first air inlet is connected to the main body through a first air inlet duct; and the main body is connected to the first air outlet through a first circulating duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Tsubouchi, Mitunori Matubara, Yuuji Sugata, Kei Takeshita, Yoshimasa Katsumi, Yoshihiro Nishizuru, Kazuhiro Saitou
  • Publication number: 20100164136
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an airbag lid section for a vehicle is disclosed wherein one of a core material (11) and an inner lid (13) is molded in a molding die assembly upon which molten resin for the other one of the core material and the inner lid is injected into the molding die assembly without causing the one of the core material and the inner lid to be removed from the molding die assembly after which the molten resin is solidified, whereby the core material (11) and the inner lid (13) are continuously molded in the molding die assembly while during the step of molding the inner lid (13), molten resin is injected with the intervening of wall surfaces of slide dies and subsequently solidified for thereby forming hinge portions integrally with the inner lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Saitou
  • Publication number: 20100024106
    Abstract: A bathroom air-conditioner includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a radiator, a decompressing mechanism and a heat absorber are connected with one another through a pipe, a circulating air-course, and a ventilating air-course. In the circulating air-course, the radiator and a circulating fan for circulating the air of the bathroom are placed. In the ventilating air-course, the heat absorber and a ventilating fan for discharging the air from the bathroom to the outside are placed. The heat absorber makes the refrigerant absorb heat from the air of the bathroom, and the radiator makes the refrigerant dissipate heat to the air of the bathroom for heating the bathroom. During the heating of the bathroom, when a temperature of the bathroom becomes higher than a given temperature, a controller reduces an air-blow amount from the ventilating fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Katsumi, Yoshihiro Nishizuru, Kazuhiro Saitou, Mitunori Matubara, Masafumi Tsubouchi, Yuuji Sugata, Hiroshi Tsuihiji
  • Publication number: 20090049597
    Abstract: A sauna apparatus includes an air blower, a blow channel and a humidifier. The air blower suctions and blows air. The blow channel conveys the suctioned air and humidified air. The humidifier has a sprayer spraying humidifying water into the air passing through the blow channel for humidification, and a spray-water droplet splitter installed in a direction to which the sprayer sprays the water for humidification. By letting the sprayed water droplet collide with the splitter, the water droplet is split into much finer water droplets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Saitou, Yoshihiro Nishizuru
  • Publication number: 20080040735
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a playback apparatus for assuredly guiding a disk shape recording medium to a holder. A CD changer 1 has a main body 3, a holder 19, and a guiding mechanism 91. The main body 3 has a slot 10 for inserting or removing a CD 2. The holder 19 has a holder body 80 and a locking member 82. The holder body 80 has a C-shaped retainer 84 and a flange 85. The locking member 82 is disposed at an end 80b of the holder body 80 and locked to the CD 2. The guiding mechanism 91 has an arm main body 92 and a guiding part 94. The arm main body 92 is disposed rotatably. The guiding part 94 projects inwardly from an inner edge 85a of the flange 85 when the CD 2 is inserted. The guiding part 94 has a pair of guiding projections 96. The guiding projections 96 position an outer edge of the CD and the locking member therebetween. The guiding projections 96, or the guiding mechanism 91, guide the CD to the holder 19.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Saitou, Toru Suzuki, Hideaki Takahashi, Akihiro Muto, Ryosuke Shimosawa, Takashi Mizoguchi
  • Publication number: 20080025184
    Abstract: For providing an information recording medium playback apparatus, which can miniaturize a transporting unit to insert and eject an information recording medium for miniaturizing as a whole, the CD changer 1 includes an apparatus main body and a disk-transporting unit 4. The disk-transporting unit 4 includes a transporting roller 13 and a guide member 82. The transporting roller 13 and the guide member 82 are energized in a direction to be close to each other. The apparatus main body includes pushing members 80, 81 to separate the transporting roller 13 from the guide member 82 when the disk-transporting unit 4 is positioned in an insert/eject position for inserting and ejecting the CD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Mizoguchi, Hideaki Takahashi, Kazuhiro Saitou, Ryosuke Shimosawa, Akihiro Muto, Yasuhiro Shinkai, Toru Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20080019228
    Abstract: [problem] Providing a playback apparatus to surely play back a selected medium even when a vehicle mounting the playback apparatus is shaken. [means for solving the problem] A CD changer 1 is composed of a disk receiver and a separating mechanism 7. The disk receiver is composed of a moving chassis 18 and holders 19 having projections 29. The separating mechanism 7 is composed of a rotating member 25, a moving member 26, and a cam member 24. The moving chassis 18 is mounted on the moving member 26. Second walls 27 are mounted on the rotating member 25 and the moving member 26. The cam member 24 is movable between the moving chassis 18 and the second walls 27 along an arrow K, and is provided with a guiding groove 31 engaged with the projection 29. First and second spaced grooves 39, 40 are respectively formed between the moving chassis 18 and the cam member 24, and between the cam member 24 and the second walls 27.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Susumu Yoshida, Yasuhiro Shinkai, Kazuhiro Saitou, Toru Suzuki, Takashi Mizoguchi, Ryosuke Shimosawa, Hideaki Takahashi, Akihiro Muto, Akira Takahashi, Yasuyuki Noboribayashi
  • Publication number: 20070201320
    Abstract: A recording medium playback device, by which the number of parts can be prevented from increasing and a size of the device can be prevented from being enlarged, is provided. A CD changer includes a disk receiving part, disk carrying part, positioning part, motor, and transmission restricting part 74. The disk receiving part has a plurality of holders each for holding a CD. A plurality of the holders are arranged being piled on one another and movable along the arranging direction. The disk carrying part carries the CD. The positioning part moves the disk receiving part along the arranging direction. The motor supplies drive force to both the disk carrying part and the positioning part. The transmission restricting part 74 restricts the drive force of the motor to be transmitted to the positioning part when the disk carrying part carries the CD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Toru Suzuki, Yasuhiro Shinkai, Susumu Yoshida, Kazuhiro Saitou, Akihiro Muto, Takashi Mizoguchi, Hideaki Takahashi, Ryosuke Shimosawa
  • Publication number: 20070201319
    Abstract: A CD changer includes a plurality of holders 19, a disk playback part, and a stopper part 100. A holder 19 holds a CD. The stopper part 100 includes a first stopper 103, a second stopper 104, a swing stopper 105, an up-down stopper 106, and an auxiliary stopper 107. When the disk playback part plays back the selected CD, the first stopper 103 supports the other CDs at the arrow K1 side, and the second stopper 104 and the auxiliary stopper 107 support the other CDs at the arrow K2 side. The swing stopper 105 supports the selected CD. When the selected CD is clamped, the swing stopper 105 is saved from the selected CD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Takashi Mizoguchi, Toru Suzuki, Akihiro Muto, Ryosuke Shimosawa, Hideaki Takahashi, Kazuhiro Saitou
  • Publication number: 20070192778
    Abstract: For providing a recording medium playback apparatus, which can prevent that clamping a recording medium in playback is unlocked, a CD changer includes a movable frame 66, a clamp unit 67, a pick-up unit 69, a lock unit 70 and a clamp lock/unlock unit 71. The movable frame 66 is movable against a main body. The clamp unit 67 is arranged on the movable frame 66 and clamps a CD 2. The pick-up unit 69 can move freely between a unclamp position to move close to the clamp unit 67 so as to unlock clamping of the clamp unit 67 and a playback position apart from the unclamp position more than the clamp unit 67. The lock unit 70 can move freely between a unlock position to make the movable frame 66 movable and a lock position to fix the movable frame 66. The clamp lock/unlock unit 71 in the unlock position limits the pick-up unit 69 to move close to the clamp unit 67 until the unclamp position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Toru Suzuki, Yasuhiro Shinkai, Susumu Yoshida, Kazuhiro Saitou, Akihiro Muto, Takashi Mizoguchi, Hideaki Takahashi, Ryosuke Shimosawa
  • Patent number: 5806152
    Abstract: A latching fastener having cocking and triggering mechanisms is provided. The fastener has two flexible fastening latch arms each fixed at a proximal end of the arm and having a free distal end. The two arms are located relative to each other to cooperate in grasping a structure between them. A fastener cocking mechanism is connected to the fastening latch arms for retracting the distal ends of the arms when the cocking mechanism is activated, to thereby produce a latching gap between the distal ends of the arms. A trigger mechanism is located between the fastening latch arms such that a structure guided into the latching gap can activate the trigger, for deactivating the cocking mechanism, which in turn results in closing together of the distal ends of the fastening latch arms, to grasp the structure between them and latch the structure to the fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Saitou, Mark J. Jakiela