Patents by Inventor Masayuki Okada
Masayuki Okada 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: 8247847Abstract: A solid-state imaging device including a first transfer electrode portion and a second transfer electrode portion having a pattern area ratio higher than that of the first transfer electrode portion. The first transfer electrode portion includes a plurality of first transfer electrodes having a single-layer structure of metal material. The second transfer electrode portion includes a plurality of second transfer electrodes having a single-layer structure of polycrystalline silicon or amorphous silicon.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kaori Takimoto, Masayuki Okada, Takeshi Takeda
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Patent number: 8180233Abstract: A cooling device that cools the inside of an image forming apparatus provided with a developer carrier that carries an image developed with a developer while being rotated. The cooling device includes: a counting unit that counts an accumulative number of rotation of the developer carrier; and a fan that cools the inside of the image forming apparatus. The cooling device further includes: a calculating unit that calculates an abrasion amount of the developer carrier in which the accumulative number of rotation counted by the counting unit is used as at least one variable; and a controlling unit that actuates the fan with cooling efficiency according to the abrasion amount calculated by the calculating unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Kuroda, Yutaka Nakayama, Masayoshi Nishida, Kokichi Kasai, Akio Fukuyama, Masayuki Okada, Kazuyo Ehara, Tetsuya Kawatani
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Publication number: 20110278994Abstract: A rotating electrical machine is provided in which, even when torque from a water turbine is reduced and reverse torque is applied due to load cut off, a rotor core is not eccentric to spider arms. The rotor of a rotating machine includes a vertical rotating shaft, spider arms extending radially from the vertical rotating shaft, and a rotor core component provided to the outer circumference of the spider arms. A T key and cotters are inserted into and secured to a key way provided to an abutment surface of the inner circumference of the rotor core component and the top end of the spider arm. A plate spring is mounted to a surface of the spider arm, the surface facing a rotational direction for electrical generation. The plate spring has one side engaging the spider arm, the other side engaging the rotor core component, and a middle portion bolted from an opposite surface of the spider arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Inventors: Takeshi KUWAHARA, Yukiyoshi Yanagisawa, Koshu Hagiya, Masayuki Okada, Yosuke Omori, Shigeki Akanuma
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Patent number: 7994159Abstract: It was discovered that a compound represented by the general formula (I) shows strong c-Kit kinase inhibitory activity, and it inhibits proliferation of c-Kit kinase activated-cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. A novel anticancer agent showing c-Kit kinase inhibitory activity was discovered. The general formula (I): (wherein R1 represents methyl etc., R2 represents cyano etc., R3 represents hydrogen etc., R4 represents hydrogen etc.).Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2004Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Eisai R&D Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Yamamoto, Tatsuo Watanabe, Masayuki Okada, Akihiko Tsuruoka
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Patent number: 7977140Abstract: A method for producing a solid-state imaging device includes steps of: forming transfer electrodes on a substrate having a plurality of light-sensing portions through a gate insulating layer so that the light-sensing portions are exposed; forming a planarized insulating layer on the substrate to cover the transfer electrodes formed on the substrate; forming openings in the planarized insulating layer so that each of the transfer electrodes is partly exposed out of the planarized insulating layer at a predetermined position; forming a wiring material layer so that the openings are filled with the wiring material layer; forming a resist layer on the wiring material layer; exposing and developing the resist layer so that only the resist layer in a predetermined area covering the openings is left; and patterning the wiring material layer using the exposed and developed resist layer to form connection wirings connected to the transfer electrodes by the openings.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2009Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Takeda, Yukihiro Ando, Masaki Okamoto, Masayuki Okada, Kaori Takimoto, Katsuhisa Kugimiya, Tadayuki Kimura
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Publication number: 20110008067Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer belt having a surface onto which a toner image is transferred directly or through a transfer medium; plural image forming units that are aligned along a moving direction of the surface of the transfer belt and form the toner image; a support member that supports the transfer belt; a flow path forming member that forms a flow path along the moving direction of the surface of the transfer belt, has plural suction ports through which floating fine toner particles occurring in the plural image forming units are sucked into the flow path, and is disposed at the transfer belt side with respect to the support member; and an exhausting unit that sucks the floating fine toner particles through the suction ports into the flow path, and exhausts the sucked floating fine toner particles from the flow path.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki OKADA, Yutaka Nakayama, Kokichi Kasai, Akio Fukuyama, Yoshitaka Kuroda, Tetsuya Kawatani
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Publication number: 20100185981Abstract: A display controlling apparatus displays images divided into a plurality of groups on a screen. A computer of the display controlling apparatus displays, in each region corresponding to each group in a storing region to store the images within the screen, the image belonging to the group, and selects any one of the plurality of groups. Then, when any one of the groups is selected, the image belonging to the selected group is displayed in an operating region to allow the user to operate the images within the screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2009Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryuichi NAKADA, Masayuki Okada, Takeshi Ando, Tomomi Fujisawa, Sachiko Shima
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Publication number: 20100158557Abstract: A cooling device that cools the inside of an image forming apparatus provided with a developer carrier that carries an image developed with a developer while being rotated. The cooling device includes: a counting unit that counts an accumulative number of rotation of the developer carrier; and a fan that cools the inside of the image forming apparatus. The cooling device further includes: a calculating unit that calculates the abrasion amount of the developer carrier in which the accumulative number of rotation counted by the counting unit is used as at least one variable; and a controlling unit that actuates the fan with cooling efficiency according to the abrasion amount calculated by the calculating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Yoshitaka Kuroda, Yutaka Nakayama, Masayoshi Nishida, Kokichi Kasai, Akio Fukuyama, Masayuki Okada, Kazuyo Ehara, Tetsuya Kawatani
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Publication number: 20100140667Abstract: Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device including a first transfer electrode portion and a second transfer electrode portion having a pattern area rate higher than that of the first transfer electrode portion. The first transfer electrode portion includes a plurality of first transfer electrodes having a single-layer structure of metal material. The second transfer electrode portion includes a plurality of second transfer electrodes having a single-layer structure of polycrystalline silicon or amorphous silicon.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2009Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kaori TAKIMOTO, Masayuki OKADA, Takeshi TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20090263929Abstract: A method for producing a solid-state imaging device includes steps of: forming transfer electrodes on a substrate having a plurality of light-sensing portions through a gate insulating layer so that the light-sensing portions are exposed; forming a planarized insulating layer on the substrate to cover the transfer electrodes formed on the substrate; forming openings in the planarized insulating layer so that each of the transfer electrodes is partly exposed out of the planarized insulating layer at a predetermined position; forming a wiring material layer so that the openings are filled with the wiring material layer; forming a resist layer on the wiring material layer; exposing and developing the resist layer so that only the resist layer in a predetermined area covering the openings is left; and patterning the wiring material layer using the exposed and developed resist layer to form connection wirings connected to the transfer electrodes by the openings.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2009Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Takeda, Yukihiro Ando, Masaki Okamoto, Masayuki Okada, Kaori Takimoto, Katsuhisa Kugimiya, Tadayuki Kimura
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Patent number: 7584188Abstract: A method of searching and matching non-phonetic or ideogrammatic input data to stored data, including the steps of receiving input data comprising a search string having a plurality of elements, converting a subset of the elements into a set of terms, generating an optimized plurality of keys from the set of terms, retrieving stored data based on the optimized keys corresponding to most likely candidates for match, and selecting a best match from the plurality of candidates. At least some of the ideogrammatic elements form part of an ideogrammatic writing system. The method may also include dividing the search string into a plurality of overlapping sub-segments and identifying sub-segments having inferred semantic meaning as well as sub-segments having no semantic meaning in the ideogrammatic writing system, and using the various sub-segments to generate the optimized keys.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2006Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Dun and BradstreetInventors: Anthony Scriffignano, Kevin Nedd, Peihsin Shao, Simpeng Gan, Sarah Lu, Masayuki Okada, Mayako Kasai, Julian N. N. Prower, Nicholas Teoh, Jeremy Sy, Warwick Matthews
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Publication number: 20080132334Abstract: A movement vector of an object which appears in a virtual game world is determined in accordance with an operation of a direction instruction section which is provided in a housing. The movement vector is corrected in accordance with a change in an orientation of the housing from a reference orientation or acceleration generated in the housing. Then, movement of the object in the virtual game world is controlled based on the corrected movement vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Toyokazu Nonaka, Toshiharu Izuno, Kentaro Nishimura, Kenta Tanaka, Norihito Ito, Masayuki Okada
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Publication number: 20080119269Abstract: A housing of a game controller is capable of being held with one hand of a player. A direction instruction section is provided in the housing for performing a direction instruction input. Movement detection means is means for detecting movement of the housing. Movement direction control means of a game apparatus is means for determining a movement direction of an object, which appears in a virtual game world, in accordance with an operation of the direction instruction section. Posture control means is means for determining a posture of the object in the virtual game world in accordance with detection by the movement detection means.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Toyokazu Nonaka, Toshiharu Izuno, Kentaro Nishimura, Kenta Tanaka, Norihito Ito, Masayuki Okada
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Publication number: 20070162445Abstract: A method of searching and matching non-phonetic or ideogrammatic input data to stored data, including the steps of receiving input data comprising a search string having a plurality of elements, converting a subset of the elements into a set of terms, generating an optimized plurality of keys from the set of terms, retrieving stored data based on the optimized keys corresponding to most likely candidates for match, and selecting a best match from the plurality of candidates. At least some of the ideogrammatic elements form part of an ideogrammatic writing system. The method may also include dividing the search string into a plurality of overlapping sub-segments and identifying sub-segments having inferred semantic meaning as well as sub-segments having no semantic meaning in the ideogrammatic writing system, and using the various sub-segments to generate the optimized keys.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2006Publication date: July 12, 2007Inventors: Anthony Scriffignano, Kevin Nedd, Peihsin Shao, Gan Simpeng, Sarah Lu, Masayuki Okada, Mayako Kasai, Julian Prower, Nicholas Teoh, Jeremy Sy, Warwick Matthews
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Publication number: 20040253205Abstract: It was discovered that a compound represented by the general formula (I) shows strong c-Kit kinase inhibitory activity, and it inhibits proliferation of c-Kit kinase activated-cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. A novel anticancer agent showing c-Kit kinase inhibitory activity was discovered.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Yuji Yamamoto, Tatsuo Watanabe, Masayuki Okada, Akihiko Tsuruoka
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Patent number: 6512142Abstract: A granulated product of potassium sorbate (i) has an overall pore volume of 0.3 ml/g or less, (ii) has an Na content of 450 ppm or less, or (iii) has an overall pore volume of 0.4 ml/g or less, or a granule hardness of 15% or less, and an Na content of 1000 ppm or less. The granulated product is obtained, for example, (i) by granulating a potassium sorbate aqueous solution through fluidized bed granulation drying, (ii) by neutralizing sorbic acid with a potassium sorbate having a molar ratio of Na to K (Na/K) of 0.0024 or less to yield potassium sorbate, and granulating the potassium sorbate, or (iii) by neutralizing sorbic acid with a potassium sorbate having a molar ratio of Na to K (Na/K) of 0.006 or less to yield potassium sorbate, and moisture-conditioning 100 parts by weight of the potassium sorbate with 1 to 8.5 parts by weight of water and 1 to 8 parts by weight of a water-soluble organic solvent and subjecting the resulting mixture to extrusion granulation.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2000Date of Patent: January 28, 2003Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kouno, Masayuki Okada, Kazuyuki Matsuoka, Noboru Kamei
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Patent number: 6376719Abstract: An alkaline earth metal salt of &bgr;-diketo compound is produced using 1 mol of a powdery alkaline earth metal compound and 2.04 mol or more of an aliphatic &bgr;-diketo compound. The reaction may be carried out while supplying both components to a reactor continuously or intermittently, or may be carried out by adding one component to the other continuously or intermittently. The highest temperature during the reaction may be at 50° C. or higher. The reaction mixture may be aged, and then dried at a temperature of at 100 to 180° C. in an atmosphere of an inert gas. The alkaline earth metal compound may be calcium hydroxide, magnesium hydroxide, or barium hydroxide. The aliphatic &bgr;-diketo compound may be represented by the following formula, particularly an acetoacetic acid ester or acetylacetone. According to the production method as mentioned above, highly stable alkaline earth metal salts of &bgr;-diketo compounds of high quality can be produced.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2000Date of Patent: April 23, 2002Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Masayuki Okada
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Patent number: 5826455Abstract: A mechanism for simply changing the roller width of a roller straightener for straightening the warp of rolled sections, having two or more straightening rolls and a mechanism for permitting at least one straightening roll to move in a direction parallel with a spindle using the rotational force of the spindle as a drive force.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1996Date of Patent: October 27, 1998Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Kazuo Ohmori, Masayuki Okada, Toyohisa Tokumaru, Toru Takeuchi, Sumihiko Itoh
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Patent number: 4475021Abstract: The present invention describes an air circuit breaker including, in combination, a rotational shaft connected with a motor, a cam which rotates in one direction through a ratchet by a handle operation to accumulate energy in an energy accumulating spring for contact closure, an engaging part provided on the outer periphery of the rotational shaft, and a latch which slides on and along the engaging part of the rotational shaft such that the latch means remains disengaged from the engaging part when the cam is rotated by the handle operation so that the rotational shaft remains stationary, and which causes the cam to rotate together with the rotational shaft by engaging the engaging part of the rotational shaft when the rotational shaft is rotated in one and the same direction by the driving motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1983Date of Patent: October 2, 1984Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Mochizuki, Kiyoshi Eguchi, Takayoshi Ishikawa, Yasushi Genba, Shigemi Tamaru, Masayuki Okada