Patents by Inventor Masashi Kato
Masashi 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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Patent number: 9260819Abstract: A felt that further equalizes a pressure state under pressurization by a press so as to smooth the surface of a wet paper web without causing marking on the surface thereof and allow water to be uniformly squeezed out from the wet paper web without crushing the wet paper web is provided by a papermaking press felt wherein a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of an interval between an upper knuckle portion and an upper knuckle portion, an interval between upper and lower knuckle portions, or an interval between a lower knuckle portion and a lower knuckle portion is arranged to be a value corresponding to 1.0 piece or less of an upper warp yarn in a base fabric.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Oouchi, Shigeyuki Okamoto, Yasuhiko Kobayashi, Yasuyuki Ogiwara, Masashi Kato
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Patent number: 9210283Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: an operation unit; a setting unit configured to set one of a plurality of operation modes, in which different processing is executed for a document, in accordance with an operation content of the operation unit; a reading unit configured to read the document in response to a reading execution request from the operation unit; and a control unit configured to control the reading unit whether or not to execute a reading preparation operation before the reading execution request is made depending on the set operation modes set by the setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masashi Kato
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Publication number: 20150219920Abstract: An image stabilizing device and system for a binocular telescope having a pair of telescopic optical systems each comprising an objective lens, a gimbal mounted erecting prism and an eyepiece lens which is capable of compensating for deterioration in quality of an observed image due to user hand shake or other external vibrations.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2015Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: KAMAKURA KOKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Kunio ANDO, Masashi KATO, Haruo ITOH, Kazuya MIYAJI
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Patent number: 9074675Abstract: In a strength gate of a shift lever device, a shift hole is provided with an automatic transmission hole, a manual transmission hole, and a communication hole. The strength gate is provided with a peninsular portion that is adjacent to the automatic transmission hole, the manual transmission hole and the communication hole, and an opposing portion that is on the opposite side of the manual transmission hole to the peninsular portion. The peninsular portion is disposed to a front side with respect to the opposing portion. A reduction in the size of the peninsular portion along the vehicle left-right direction can accordingly be suppressed even if the strength gate is reduced in size along the vehicle left-right direction, thereby enabling a reduction in the strength of the peninsular portion to be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Masashi Kato, Kenichi Kako, Hayato Mori, Kenji Nakanishi, Reiji Higuchi, Yoshifumi Iwasaki, Kenta Goto
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Publication number: 20150171412Abstract: A collector terminal of a secondary battery includes a base portion, a terminal leg portion, and a connecting portion that connects to a current interrupting mechanism. The base portion is a plate member facing the current interrupting mechanism, and including a cutout portion and a connecting portion that connects to the current interrupting mechanism. The terminal leg portion protrudes from the base portion, and extends to a side of the base portion opposite the current interrupting mechanism side. The cutout portion is provided between the connecting member and the terminal leg portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mizuho Matsumoto, Masashi Kato
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Publication number: 20150111013Abstract: Provided is an a aramid-resin film laminate comprising an aramid paper comprising an aramid fibrid and an aramid short fiber, and a resin film laminated on each other. The aramid-resin film laminate is obtained by conducting a plasma treatment on a surface of the aramid paper, the surface having a skin layer portion whose heat of fusion measured with a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) is 25 cal/g or less, and bonding the aramid paper and the resin film to each other by heating, pressing, or heating under pressure, with the plasma treated surface of the aramid paper and a plasma treated surface of the resin film facing each other. This laminate is an aramid-resin film laminate in which the aramid paper and the resin film are laminated on each other without using any adhesive agent and without impairing characteristics of both the aramid paper and the resin film, and is excellent in heat resistance, electrical characteristics, chemical resistance, mechanical characteristics, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Tatsushi Fujimori, Shinji Naruse, Chihiro Kondo, Yoshihiko Kagetani, Hisashi Katsumata, Masashi Kato
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Publication number: 20150105415Abstract: The present invention relates to the compound represented by formula (I): (wherein, all the symbols have the same meaning as that of the specification), a salt thereof, a solvate thereof or a prodrug thereof. Since the compound of the present invention has an anti stress action, it is useful for preventive and/or therapeutic agent for a disease caused by stress, especially a digestive system disease caused by stress and is superior to oral absorption.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuyuki OHMOTO, Masashi KATO, Yoshifumi KAGAMIISHI, Junichiro MANAKO
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Patent number: 8952158Abstract: The present invention relates to the compound represented by formula (I): (wherein, all the symbols have the same meaning as that of the specification), a salt thereof, a solvate thereof or a prodrug thereof. Since the compound of the present invention has an anti stress action, it is useful for preventive and/or therapeutic agent for a disease caused by stress, especially a digestive system disease caused by stress and is superior to oral absorption.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyuki Ohmoto, Masashi Kato, Yoshifumi Kagamiishi, Junichiro Manako
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Publication number: 20140320962Abstract: An optical image stabilizer for a telescopic instrument having an objective lens, an erect prism, and an eyepiece lens arranged in this order which is capable of compensating for image deteriorations of an observed image due to external vibrations. The optical image stabilizer has a gimbal device mounted on a telescope housing, an external gimbal frame rotatably mounted on the gimbal casing, and an internal gimbal frame with the erect prism fixed thereto. Voice coil motors are provided for rotating the external and the internal gimbal frames. One of the voice coil motors has a coil disposed on the circuit board and a permanent magnet disposed on either one of the external and the internal gimbal frames oppositely to the coil. The remaining voice coil motor has a coil disposed on the circuit board and a permanent magnet disposed on the other gimbal frame oppositely to the coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: KAMAKURA KOKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Kunio ANDO, Masashi KATO, Haruo ITOH, Kazuya MIYAJI
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Patent number: 8820354Abstract: A liquid flow rate control valve is provided in which since a distributor (38) is rotated relative to a sleeve (37) by a first drive source (46) only through a predetermined angle, the total area of overlapping sections of a first opening (37a) of the sleeve (37) and the second opening (38c) of the distributor (38) changes, and a rotor (42) having a third opening (42c 42d) is rotated by a second drive source (47), it is possible to carry out PWM control of the liquid input from an input port (61e) and output it from an output port (61f).Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2010Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiichiro Ishikawa, Yuki Shibahata, Yasunari Kimura, Masashi Kato
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Patent number: 8804181Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a first designation portion which designates a directory from plural directories stored in a storage medium; a first printing portion which index prints images on a first print medium based on files stored in the directory designated by the first designation portion, the files including at least one of an image data file and a sub-directory; a display portion; a first display control portion which controls the display portion to display information for designating the files after the images are index-printed by the first printing portion; a second designation portion which designates one of the files based on the information displayed on the display portion; and a second printing portion which prints an image on a second print medium based on the designated one of the files.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Toru Tsuzuki, Masashi Kato, Kazuma Aoki
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Publication number: 20140202649Abstract: A felt that further equalizes a pressure state under pressurization by a press so as to smooth the surface of a wet paper web without causing marking on the surface thereof and allow water to be uniformly squeezed out from the wet paper web without crushing the wet paper web is provided by a papermaking press felt wherein a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of an interval between an upper knuckle portion and an upper knuckle portion, an interval between upper and lower knuckle portions, or an interval between a lower knuckle portion and a lower knuckle portion is arranged to be a value corresponding to 1.0 piece or less of an upper warp yarn in a base fabric.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi OOUCHI, Shigeyuki Okamoto, Yasuhiko Kobayashi, Yasuyuki Ogiwara, Masashi Kato
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Patent number: 8780371Abstract: A printing apparatus to make a number of copies of a printed material on which an image is formed according to print data stored in a removable memory medium is provided. The printing apparatus includes an interface to which the removable memory medium is connected so that the print data stored in the removable memory medium is inputted to the printing apparatus, a printable number detecting system, which is configured to detect a number of copies of the printed material to be made being stored in the removable memory medium, a printing system, which is configured to make the printed material, and a controlling system, which is configured to control a total of the number of copies of the printed material to be made by the printing system.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2007Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuma Aoki, Masashi Kato, Toru Tsuzuki, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20140144273Abstract: In a shift lever device, a first engagement portion or a second engagement portion of a shift lever is inserted into a first stopping hole or a second stopping hole of a strength gate when the shift lever is turned along a manual transmission hole, thereby stopping the shift lever from turning towards an automatic transmission hole side. In the shift lever, the first engagement portion and the second engagement portion are disposed at the vehicle front side and the vehicle rear side of a support body. An increase in size of the shift lever in the vehicle left-right direction due to the first engagement portion and the second engagement portion can accordingly be suppressed, and the turning rage of the shift lever in the vehicle left-right direction can be made smaller, thereby enabling a reduction in size of the shift lever device in the vehicle left-right direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-SeisakushoInventors: Masashi KATO, Kenichi KAKO, Hayato MORI, Kenji NAKANISHI, Reiji HIGUCHI, Yoshifumi IWASAKI, Kenta GOTO
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Publication number: 20140144274Abstract: In a strength gate of a shift lever device, a shift hole is provided with an automatic transmission hole, a manual transmission hole, and a communication hole. The strength gate is provided with a peninsular portion that is adjacent to the automatic transmission hole, the manual transmission hole and the communication hole, and an opposing portion that is on the opposite side of the manual transmission hole to the peninsular portion. The peninsular portion is disposed to a front side with respect to the opposing portion. A reduction in the size of the peninsular portion along the vehicle left-right direction can accordingly be suppressed even if the strength gate is reduced in size along the vehicle left-right direction, thereby enabling a reduction in the strength of the peninsular portion to be suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Masashi KATO, Kenichi KAKO, Hayato MORI, Kenji NAKANISHI, Reiji HIGUCHI, Yoshifumi IWASAKI, Kenta GOTO
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Patent number: 8720293Abstract: A shift lever device for operating a vehicle mounted transmission by pivoting operation of a shift lever about a predetermined axis is disclosed, and in this shift lever device, a housing is configured by a first housing member that is disposed on one side of the shift lever in a predetermined direction and a second housing member that assemblable to the first housing member along the predetermined direction from the side of the shift lever opposite to the side facing the first housing member with the shift lever therebetween, and the shift lever is axially supported inside the housing such that the shift lever is pivotable about an axis whose axial direction is the predetermined direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2005Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-SeisakushoInventors: Masashi Kato, Yoshinobu Yokoyama
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Patent number: 8709193Abstract: A low-temperature plasma treatment is applied to a surface of an aramid paper so as to allow the surface to have a compositional atomic ratio X (O/C) of the number of oxygen atoms (O) to the number of carbon atoms (C) ranging from 110% to 220% of a theoretical atomic ratio. The treatment is performed at an intensity ranging from 120 to 1500 W·min/m2 with a low-temperature plasma treatment apparatus of internal electrode system. The aramid paper is superposed with a nonhydrolyzable resin film and the resulting article is pressurized to give an aramid-resin film laminate. The laminate is inexpensive, has both superior electrical properties and high mechanical strength, excels in elasticity, and is useful as an insulation material.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignees: Hitachi Engineering & Services Co., Ltd., Kawamura Sangyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichirou Tada, Satoru Nakanishi, Taku Yamaga, Shun Ito, Kenichi Watanabe, Miyoshi Yokura, Masashi Kato, Hisashi Katsumata
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Patent number: 8707307Abstract: When there is a job activation request accompanied with variable information in which an execution attribute and an identifier of a job are associated, a job definition in which an execution attribute is described with an arbitrary identifier is referred, and based on the variable information, an identifier within the job definition is replaced with the execution attribute to create a job. Then, the job created in this manner is activated.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2008Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Masashi Kato, Masahiro Fukuda
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Publication number: 20140092476Abstract: An image stabilizer applicable to a monocular or binocular optical system. The stabilizer includes an erecting prism placed between an objective lens and an eyepiece to compensate for deterioration in a quality of an observed image caused by hands movement. The image stabilizer includes a gimbal suspension system having pivot shafts respectively extending to left and right sides of the optical axis of the optical system. The pivot shafts have a common pivot axis perpendicular to the optical axis. The gimbal suspension system has an erecting-prism holder supported by the pivot shafts, an angular velocity detector for detecting an angular displacement of the erecting prism, and a voice coil motor for pivoting the erecting-prism holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicants: Al Systems, Ltd., Kamakura Koki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kunio ANDO, Masashi KATO, Haruo ITOH
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Publication number: 20130252993Abstract: The present invention relates to the compound represented by formula (I): (wherein, all the symbols have the same meaning as that of the specification), a salt thereof, a solvate thereof or a prodrug thereof. Since the compound of the present invention has an anti stress action, it is useful for preventive and/or therapeutic agent for a disease caused by stress, especially a digestive system disease caused by stress and is superior to oral absorption.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuyuki OHMOTO, Masashi KATO, Yoshifumi KAGAMIISHI, Junichiro MANAKO