Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Saso

Mitsuhiro Saso 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).

  • Publication number: 20230313387
    Abstract: This is a system for generating and supplying a hydrogen gas from water by water splitting using a carbon electrode containing ethylidyne without any external electric power, which system comprises A) a carbon electrode containing ethylidyne, B) an alkaline electrolyte water solution and C) a metal electrode selected from group consisting of a typical metal including zinc, aluminum and magnesium and a transition metal including copper, wherein the carbon electrode containing ethylidyne and the metal electrode are brought into contact with or opposed to each other in the alkaline electrolyte water solution, and the water is decomposed by the effect of ethylidyne to generate a hydrogen gas according to the following reaction. CH3C+O?CH3CO++e? 2H++2e??H2? as shown in FIG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicants: CROSS TECHNOLOGY LABO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro SASO
  • Patent number: 10518140
    Abstract: This invention provides a golf club with a club-head configured so as to decrease air resistance of the head by avoiding the air flows from retouching on the head surface. The club-head is provided with a ridge structure which contains a first ridge and a second ridge arranged at intervals in a downward direction of the air flows on at least the sole part of the head, wherein each of the ridges has the height of 0.2 mm to 3 mm and the breadth of 1 mm to 5 mm, the ridge structure being configured by plural ridges so as to displace the inclined angle of the ridges in a clockwise direction, resulting in generation of air vortex or whirls between the head surface and the surrounding air flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: CROSS TECHNOLOGY LABO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Saso
  • Publication number: 20190275385
    Abstract: This invention provides a golf club with a club-head configured so as to decrease air resistance of the head by avoiding the air flows from retouching on the head surface. The club-head is provided with a ridge structure which contains a first ridge and a second ridge arranged at intervals in a downward direction of the air flows on at least the sole part of the head, wherein each of the ridges has the height of 0.2 mm to 3 mm and the breadth of 1 mm to 5 mm, the ridge structure being configured by plural ridges so as to displace the inclined angle of the ridges in a clockwise direction, resulting in generation of air vortex or whirls between the head surface and the surrounding air flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: CROSS TECHNOLOGY LABO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro SASO
  • Patent number: 9975010
    Abstract: This invention provides a golf club with a club-head configured so as to decrease air resistance of the head by avoiding the air flows from retouching on the head surface. The club-head is provided with a ridge structure which contains a first ridge and a second ridge arranged at intervals in a downward direction of the air flows on at least the sole part of the head, wherein each of the ridges has the height of 0.2 mm to 3 mm and the breadth of 1 mm to 5 mm, the ridge structure being configured by plural ridges so as to displace the inclined angle of the ridges in a clockwise direction, resulting in generation of air vortex or whirls between the head surface and the surrounding air flows as shown in FIG. 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: CROSS TECHNOLOGY LABO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Saso
  • Publication number: 20170312591
    Abstract: This invention provides a golf club with a club-head configured so as to decrease air resistance of the head by avoiding the air flows from retouching on the head surface. The club-head is provided with a ridge structure which contains a first ridge and a second ridge arranged at intervals in a downward direction of the air flows on at least the sole part of the head, wherein each of the ridges has the height of 0.2 mm to 3 mm and the breadth of 1 mm to 5 mm, the ridge structure being configured by plural ridges so as to displace the inclined angle of the ridges in a clockwise direction, resulting in generation of air vortex or whirls between the head surface and the surrounding air flows as shown in FIG. 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro SASO
  • Patent number: 9421423
    Abstract: Non-circular dimples such as oval form dimples are provided on the spherical surface of a ball body. A golf ball includes a spherical land surface of the ball body and a dimple pattern of a plurality of dimples formed on the spherical land surface, the spherical surface of the ball body being divided into a plurality of spherical surface parts (land surfaces) with each polygon faces of polyhedron which is virtually inscribed in said spherical surface of ball body, by a projection method from each polygon faces of the inscribed polyhedron, on each spherical surface parts some or all of the dimples being formed as non-circular dimple having a width of more than 1.5 mm and a length of more than 2 times of the width and the dimple pattern is disposed so as to make vortices generated in the non-circular dimples flow out in at least two different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: HANABI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sunao Umemura, Mitsuhiro Saso
  • Publication number: 20130267349
    Abstract: Non-circular dimples such as oval form dimples are provided on the spherical surface of a ball body. A golf ball includes a spherical land surface of the ball body and a dimple pattern of a plurality of dimples formed on the spherical land surface, the spherical surface of the ball body being divided into a plurality of spherical surface parts (land surfaces) with each polygon faces of polyhedron which is virtually inscribed in said spherical surface of ball body, by a projection method from each polygon faces of the inscribed polyhedron, on each spherical surface parts some or all of the dimples being formed as non-circular dimple having a width of more than 1.5 mm and a length of more than 2 times of the width and the dimple pattern is disposed so as to make vortices generated in the non-circular dimples flow out in at least two different directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Sunao Umemura, Mitsuhiro Saso
  • Publication number: 20120302377
    Abstract: A golf ball provided with elliptical dimples. A golf ball provided with non-circular dimples, configured by forming the dimples in the surface of a sphere or of a pseudosphere which consists of a polyhedron. The dimples have a non-circular shape which has a major axis having a length at least 1.2 times greater than that of the minor axis of the shape, are each composed of a pair of circular arcs, and have a depth which causes the peripheral edges of the dimples to generate turbulence. The configuration reduces the separation width at the separation boundary to a level less than that of a golf ball having circular dimples, and this decreases the drag. The polyhedron can be substantially composed of triangles, pentagons, or hexagons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Tomohiko Sato, Sunao Umemura, Yutaka Kawata, Mitsuhiro Saso
  • Patent number: 7713138
    Abstract: A wood type club is provided. A toe-side part and a heel-side part located between the crown part and the sole part of the head are provided with at least one concave groove opened outward in a horizontal direction and extending from the face part to the back part in a longitudinal direction to guide an air stream to the head in a swing action; and a whole or part of the concave groove has a curved part bulging outwardly so that an angle in which a concave groove bottom formed from an inlet of the concave groove to an inside thereof is inclined inward with respect to a line perpendicular to the face part is smaller than an angle in which a line connecting an inlet of the concave groove bottom and an outlet thereof is inclined inward with respect to the line perpendicular to the face part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Inventors: Tomohiko Sato, Sunao Umemura, Yutaka Kawata, Mitsuhiro Saso
  • Publication number: 20090264219
    Abstract: A wood type club is provided of which a club head is capable of being swung lightly at a high speed and which is capable of reducing and restricting a covering phenomenon or a toe-down phenomenon of the club head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Tomohiko Sato, Sunao Umemura, Yutaka Kawata, Mitsuhiro Saso
  • Publication number: 20090017936
    Abstract: The present invention improves putting performance of a golf putter by balancing a torsional moment of the putter head. Golf putter includes a weighting member (W) having a weight of 15 g or more that is positioned at a distance of 1 cm or more away from an upper face of a putter head (H) toward a shaft (S). The weighting member performs a function of shifting a center of gravity of the putter toward a heel thereof and shifting a center of impact of the shaft toward a putter grip (G). Thereby, the weighting member enables a better putting by preventing off-center hitting of a putting face of the putter and preventing off-direction moving of the putter head and grip (G) at the time of putting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Tomohiko Sato, Sunao Umemura, Yutaka Kawata, Mitsuhiro Saso
  • Patent number: 7255653
    Abstract: A golf club having a metal wood club head including a toe, a heel, a club face, a sole, a rear profile, and a top profile shape. The club head is shaped to increase the moment of inertia of the club head. In one embodiment, a rear portion of the club head is truncated such that a top profile maximum width of the toe side and a top profile maximum width of the heel side are larger than a transverse top profile centerline width of the club head. The sole of the club head may have a sole recess which extends from the truncated region and through a portion of a center of the sole. In another embodiment, the wood club head approximates an elongated rectangular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Saso
  • Publication number: 20050170907
    Abstract: A golf club having a metal wood club head including a toe, a heel, a club face, a sole, a rear profile, and a top profile shape. The club head is shaped to increase the moment of inertia of the club head. In one embodiment, a rear portion of the club head is truncated such that a top profile maximum width of the toe side and a top profile maximum width of the heel side are larger than a transverse top profile centerline width of the club head. The sole of the club head may have a sole recess which extends from the truncated region and through a portion of a center of the sole. In another embodiment, the wood club head approximates an elongated rectangular shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Saso
  • Patent number: 6620055
    Abstract: A golf club for improving the flying distance of a ball overcomes toe-down phenomenon due to pulling of the shaft particularly by a skilled player enjoying a high head speed. The golf club further improves the head speed and the directional stability of a hit ball. The golf club has a center of gravity of the head shifted from the toe end of the shaft end by modifying the head shape to decrease the volume of the head by a certain amount at the toe end on the rear side thereof and to increase the head volume at the shaft end on the rear side by an amount equal to the decreased amount. This will reduce the rotational radius of the head about a vertical line, as a rotational center line, when the golf club is suspended at the upper end of the shaft. Furthermore, with a metal wood club, a head is provided with a face which comprises a spherical face formed in such a manner that the curvature in the transverse width direction becomes substantially equal to that in the vertical width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Saso Golf, Inc.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Saso
  • Publication number: 20030092500
    Abstract: A golf club for improving the flying distance by removing phenomenon of pulling the shaft occurring as a reaction to phenomenon of prostrated toe liable to occur particularly to a skilled player enjoying a high head speed and further improving the head speed, and for improving the directional stability of a hit ball by removing phenomenon of prostrated toe and changing the design such as in the face resulting therefrom, the golf club being characterized in that the center of gravity of the head is shifted from the toe end to the shaft end by modifying the head shape by decreasing the volume of the head by a certain amount at the toe end on the rear side thereof and increasing the head volume at the shaft end on the rear side by an amount equal to the amount decreased, thereby reducing the rotational radius of the head about a vertical line, as a rotational center line, when the golf club is suspended at the upper end of the shaft thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventor: MITSUHIRO SASO
  • Patent number: 6482106
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wood-type club constituted such that the toe-down effect and the covering effects of the head can be more reliably suppressed. Attitude-correcting portions (30, 31) extending from the impact face (11) side to the back (14) side of the head are provided in at the least the toe (T) side and the heel (H) side of the head relative to a center line passing longitudinally through the head center of gravity in either the side parts (15, 16) or the sole (13) of the head (10), and are formed such that a portion of the highspeed airflow impacting the head at downswing is captured by at the least two attitude-correcting portions, either maintaining the head in a proper attitude, or correcting the head to a proper attitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Saso
  • Publication number: 20010027139
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wood-type club constituted such that the toe-down effect and the covering effects of the head can be more reliably suppressed. Attitude-correcting portions (30, 31) extending from the impact face (11) side to the back (14) side of the head are provided in at the least the toe (T) side and the heel (H) side of the head relative to a center line passing longitudinally through the head center of gravity in either the side parts (15, 16) or the sole (13) of the head (10), and are formed such that a portion of the highspeed airflow impacting the head at downswing is captured by at the least two attitude-correcting portions, either maintaining the head in a proper attitude, or correcting the head to a proper attitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Saso
  • Patent number: 5916043
    Abstract: A golf club for improving the flying distance of a ball overcomes toe-down phenomenon due to pulling of the shaft particularly by a skilled player enjoying a high head speed. The golf club further improves the head speed and the directional stability of a hit ball. The golf club has a center of gravity of the head shifted from the toe end of the shaft end by modifying the head shape to decrease the volume of the head by a certain amount at the toe end on the rear side thereof and to increase the head volume at the shaft end on the rear side by an amount equal to the decreased amount. This will reduce the rotational radius of the head about a vertical line, as a rotational center line, when the golf club is suspended at the upper end of the shaft. Furthermore, with a metal wood club, a head is provided with a face which comprises a spherical face formed in such a manner that the curvature in the transverse width direction becomes substantially equal to that in the vertical width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Saso
  • Patent number: 5645495
    Abstract: A golf club for improving the flying distance of a ball overcomes toe-down phenomenon due to pulling of the shaft particularly by a skilled player enjoying a high head speed. The golf club further improves the head speed and the directional stability of a hit ball. The golf club has a center of gravity of the head shifted from the toe end of the shaft end by modifying the head shape to decrease the volume of the head by a certain amount at the toe end on the rear side thereof and to increase the head volume at the shaft end on the rear side by an amount equal to the decreased amount. This will reduce the rotational radius of the head about a vertical line, as a rotational center line, when the golf club is suspended at the upper end of the shaft. Furthermore, with a metal wood club, a head is provided with a face which comprises a spherical face formed in such a manner that the curvature in the transverse width direction becomes substantially equal to that in the vertical width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Himeji Lodge Hakuba Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Saso