Patents by Inventor Mitsuo Suzuki
Mitsuo Suzuki 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: 20150096552Abstract: A linear solar energy collector system includes reflective lines arranged in parallel in a south-north direction, heliostats mounted on the reflective lines, respectively, each comprised of mirror segments to reflect solar radiation, a light receiving line set above the reflective lines in a east-west direction, a receiver mounted on the light receiving line, to receive light reflected from the heliostats and collect heat from the light, and an angular adjuster to adjust angles of the mirror segments individually to irradiate a same light receiving area on the receiver with the reflected light from east-west neighboring reflective lines and thereby adjust a concentration ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2013Publication date: April 9, 2015Inventors: Tatsuya Satoh, Mitsuo Suzuki, Koji Masuda, Takeshi Ueda, Kazuya Nagao, Junichi Kitabayashi, Yutaka Tamaura, Hiroshi Kaneko
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Publication number: 20140272363Abstract: The present invention aims at providing an inorganic fiber molded body that is excellent in scale resistance, thermal shock resistance and mechanical shock resistance, and prevented from suffering from shrinkage when used under high-temperature heating conditions. The inorganic fiber molded body of the present invention is produced by impregnating a needle blanket of inorganic fibers with a liquid material of a precursor of a spinel-based compound represented by the general formula: MgxAlyO4 wherein an atomic ratio (y/x) is not less than 2 (y/x?2); drying the thus impregnated needle blanket; and firing the dried needle blanket to convert the precursor into an oxide thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.Inventors: Yusaku Hata, Tsuyoshi Fukui, Toshio Ito, Mitsuo Suzuki, Hidetaka Ito
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Patent number: 8670013Abstract: A light scanning device includes a semiconductor laser which emits a laser beam in response to an image forming signal, an optical deflector which scans the laser beam emitted from the semiconductor laser in a main scanning direction, and a liquid crystal deflecting element which changes the scanning position of the laser beam emitted from the semiconductor laser while desynchronized with output of the image forming signal, thereby to correct the scanning position of the laser beam in a sub-scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2007Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Mitsuo Suzuki
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Patent number: 8610985Abstract: A disclosed optical scanning device includes a light source unit configured to emit a laser beam; an oscillating mirror configured to deflect the laser beam from the light source unit; a scanning/imaging optical system configured to focus the deflected laser beam on a target surface; and plural light-receiving elements configured to receive the laser beam in a scanning area of the laser beam, the position of the oscillating mirror being adjusted such that time intervals between output pulses in output signals of the respective light-receiving elements become substantially the same between the light-receiving elements and/or widths of the output pulses become substantially the same between the light-receiving elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Tsuchiya, Tomohiro Nakajima, Mitsuo Suzuki
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Patent number: 8451308Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an optical scanning unit, a measurement unit, a first adjustment unit and a second adjustment unit. The optical scanning unit includes a plurality of light sources to emit laser beams, a single oscillating mirror deflector to deflect the laser beams used for scan processing in a main scanning direction, and a scan-focusing member to focus the deflected laser beams onto a plurality of photoconductors. The measurement unit measures a resonance frequency of the oscillating mirror deflector. The first adjustment unit adjusts a speed of the photoconductors in a sub-scanning direction. The second adjustment unit adjusts a magnification ratio of image data in the sub-scanning direction. The first adjustment unit and the second adjustment unit adjust the image magnification ratio of image data in the sub-scanning direction depending on the resonance frequency as measured by the measurement unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuo Suzuki, Haruyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 8304393Abstract: It is intended to provide a novel oligopeptide which can be relatively easily produced, has not only a hair growth-stimulating effect but also an effect of promoting the growth of epithelial cells (for example, skin regeneration) and can easily pass through the horny layer to thereby reach the desired target cells in which its effects are to be exerted. Namely, water-soluble oligopeptides containing a proryl isoleucyl glycyl unit or an isoleucyl glycyl serine unit and having from 3 to 7 amino acids and water-soluble salts thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2010Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Patent Technology Development Inc.Inventors: Syuichi Oka, Akinori Tsuruda, Yasuhiro Kawano, Mitsuo Suzuki, Satoshi Nakazato
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Patent number: 8260388Abstract: A current terminal structure of a superconductor has a former, and a superconducting wire wound around the former in one or more layers and including a substrate and a superconducting layer formed on the substrate. A first layer superconducting wire wound around immediately above the former is arranged so that a substrate side thereof becomes outside and a superconducting layer side thereof becomes inside. A surface of the superconducting layer at an end of the first layer superconducting wire, which is directed toward the inside, and part of a surface of the superconducting layer of a connection superconducting wire, which is directed toward the outside, are faced and connected to each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignees: International Superconductivity Technology Center, Furukawa Electric Co., LtdInventors: Masashi Yagi, Hirao Hirata, Mitsuo Suzuki, Shinichi Mukoyama, Yuh Shiohara
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Publication number: 20120160805Abstract: A substrate processing method comprises: an execution step of executing the first processing for the plurality of substrates, and executing the second processing for the substrates having undergone the first processing; a recovery step of recovering the plurality of substrates having undergone the first processing and the second processing to the retraction chamber; a conditioning step of, after completion of the first processing for the last substrate among the plurality of substrates, loading a dummy substrate into the first processing chamber, executing the third processing for the dummy substrate, and unloading the dummy substrate from the first processing chamber; and a second execution step of, after the dummy substrate is unloaded from the first processing chamber in the conditioning step, loading the substrates recovered in the recovery step into the first processing chamber, and executing the third processing for the substrates loaded into the first processing chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: CANON ANELVA CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyoshi Ehara, Mitsuo Suzuki
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Patent number: 8147961Abstract: A metal material that is, without using expensive apparatus, carburized in a low temperature region where crystal grains do not grow so much, and a producing method of the metal material are provided. A metal material mainly containing iron, wherein a surface of the metal material is subjected to a carburization treatment by a treatment using fullerenes as a carbon source.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2006Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, MEC International Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyosuke Yoshimi, Takeshi Matsuo, Mitsuo Suzuki, Takaaki Niinomi, Yuichi Furukawa, Setsuyu Hayakawa
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Patent number: 8130435Abstract: An optical scanner is disclosed that has an optical source unit that emits a laser beam; a vibration mirror by which the laser beam from the optical source unit is deflected to scan; a driving circuit that vibrates the vibration mirror based on a driving signal generated from a reference clock; a light-receiving element that receives the laser beam within the scanning area of the laser beam; and a controlling unit that corrects the driving signal so as to make a phase deviation between the reference phase clock and the output signal of the light-receiving element constant.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2008Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuo Suzuki, Masaki Satoh, Haruyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 8111276Abstract: An optical scanning device deflects a light beam emitted from a light source device by a vibrating mirror, scans a scanning surface with deflected light beam, and focuses the light beam onto the scanning surface by a scanning imaging optical system. The optical scanning device includes an offset detecting unit that detects an offset that is a deviation between a center of vibration amplitude of the vibrating mirror and a center of an optical scanning area and an adjusting unit that adjusts the center of the vibration amplitude when the offset detected by the offset detecting unit is larger than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2009Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Mitsuo Suzuki
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Publication number: 20120015816Abstract: A current terminal structure of a superconductor has a former, and a superconducting wire wound around the former in one or more layers and including a substrate and a superconducting layer formed on the substrate. A first layer superconducting wire wound around immediately above the former is arranged so that a substrate side thereof becomes outside and a superconducting layer side thereof becomes inside. A surface of the superconducting layer at an end of the first layer superconducting wire, which is directed toward the inside, and part of a surface of the superconducting layer of a connection superconducting wire, which is directed toward the outside, are faced and connected to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2011Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicants: INTERNATIONAL SUPERCONDUCTIVITY TECHNOLOGY CENTER, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTDInventors: Masashi Yagi, Hirao Hirata, Mitsuo Suzuki, Shinichi Mukoyama, Yuh Shiohara
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Patent number: 8072667Abstract: An optical scanning device includes a deflecting unit that deflects a laser beam from a light source in a main-scanning direction; a scanning imaging unit that focuses the laser beam deflected by the deflecting unit on a scanning surface and scans the scanning surface with focused laser beam; and a light receiving unit that detects optical intensity of the laser beam and a synchronous timing in the main-scanning direction and that includes a plurality of photodetecting elements arranged on a substrate in the main-scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2009Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuo Suzuki, Atsufumi Omori
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Patent number: 8014041Abstract: An optical scanning apparatus which includes: a light source unit which emits a light beam; a deflection scanning device which deflects the light beam emitted from the light source unit; an optical scanning unit having a scanning imaging lens and which scans a surface to be scanned; and a light beam detector which detects a position in a sub-scanning direction of the light beam, and is disposed in a position maintaining a correlation, in a time-varying characteristic, between an amount of change of a position in the sub-scanning direction of the light beam on the surface to be scanned and an amount of change of a position in the sub-scanning direction of the light beam detected by the light beam detector, in which a difference between the amount of change of the position in the sub-scanning direction of the light beam on the surface to be scanned and the amount of change of the position in the sub-scanning direction of the light beam detected by the light beam detector is equal to or less than a set value.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2007Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuo Suzuki, Shigeaki Imai
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Patent number: 7903134Abstract: Each light detecting sensor, which is installed corresponding to each photoconductor drum, and to which the plurality of light beams passing through the scanning optical system are incident while moving in a main scanning direction includes a light-receiving device having a first light-receiving unit and a second light-receiving unit, which have different intervals from each other in the main scanning direction depending on a position of a sub-scanning direction, all the sizes of the first and the second light-receiving units being sizes covering an overall virtual area in a quadrangular shape surrounding a plurality of light spots in the light-receiving surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Akihisa Itabashi, Satoru Itoh, Mitsuo Suzuki
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Publication number: 20110025813Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an optical scanning unit, a measurement unit, a first adjustment unit and a second adjustment unit. The optical scanning unit includes a plurality of light sources to emit laser beams, a single oscillating mirror deflector to deflect the laser beams used for scan processing in a main scanning direction, and a scan-focusing member to focus the deflected laser beams onto a plurality of photoconductors. The measurement unit measures a resonance frequency of the oscillating mirror deflector. The first adjustment unit adjusts a speed of the photoconductors in a sub-scanning direction. The second adjustment unit adjusts a magnification ratio of image data in the sub-scanning direction. The first adjustment unit and the second adjustment unit adjust the image magnification ratio of image data in the sub-scanning direction depending on the resonance frequency as measured by the measurement unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuo SUZUKI, Haruyuki Suzuki
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Publication number: 20100298235Abstract: It is intended to provide a novel oligopeptide which can be relatively easily produced, has not only a hair growth-stimulating effect but also an effect of promoting the growth of epithelial cells (for example, skin regeneration) and can easily pass through the horny layer to thereby reach the desired target cells in which its effects are to be exerted. Namely, water-soluble oligopeptides containing a proryl isoleucyl glycyl unit or an isoleucyl glycyl serine unit and having from 3 to 7 amino acids and water-soluble salts thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventors: Syuichi Oka, Akinori Tsuruda, Yasuhiro Kawano, Mitsuo Suzuki, Satoshi Nakazato
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Patent number: 7777774Abstract: An optical scanning characteristic control method is applied to an optical scanning system in which a beam is deflected, and the deflected beam is converged and directed toward a scanning surface, so that optical scanning of the scanning surface is performed by an optical spot formed thereon by the deflected beam. The method comprising the steps of a) disposing a beam deflection control device on the light path of the beam before it is incident on the scanning surface; and b) controlling a beam deflection amount of the beam deflecting device provide to an incident beam so as to control a scanning characteristic of the optical scanning.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2006Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuo Suzuki, Naoki Miyatake, Taku Amada, Seizo Suzuki, Kazuyuki Shimada, Satoru Itoh
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Patent number: 7750115Abstract: It is intended to provide a novel oligopeptide which can be relatively easily produced, has not only a hair growth-stimulating effect but also an effect of promoting the growth of epithelial cells (for example, skin regeneration) and can easily pass through the horny layer to thereby reach the desired target cells in which its effects are to be exerted. Namely, water-soluble oligopeptides containing a proryl isoleucyl glycyl unit or an isoleucyl glycyl serine unit and having from 3 to 7 amino acids and water-soluble salts thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2005Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Patent Technology Development, Inc.Inventors: Syuichi Oka, Akinori Tsuruda, Yasuhiro Kawano, Mitsuo Suzuki, Satoshi Nakazato
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Patent number: RE42865Abstract: An optical scanning characteristic control method is applied to an optical scanning system in which a beam is deflected, and the deflected beam is converged and directed toward a scanning surface, so that optical scanning of the scanning surface is performed by an optical spot formed thereon by the deflected beam. The method comprising the steps of a) disposing a beam deflection control device on the light path of the beam before it is incident on the scanning surface; and b) controlling a beam deflection amount of the beam deflecting device provide to an incident beam so as to control a scanning characteristic of the optical scanning.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2007Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuo Suzuki, Naoki Miyatake, Taku Amada, Seizo Suzuki, Kazuyuki Shimada, Satoru Itoh