Patents by Inventor Nobuo Otsuka

Nobuo Otsuka 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: 10046383
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing Cu—Sn coexisting steel produces a good quality surface even after hot rolling. The steel is manufactured by continuous casting a molten steel that contains C: 0.04 to 0.20%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.20 to 2.50%, P: no more than 0.05%, S: no more than 0.02%, Cu: 0.20 to 1.50%, Sn: 0.06 to 0.50%, Al: 0.06 to 1.00% and Ni: 0.05 to 1.00% by mass, and Fe and impurities as the remainder. The composition of the molten steel is defined as [Al]/(3[Si]+[Mn])?0.050, [Ni]/([Cu]+5[Sn])?0.10 and [Al]/[Ni]?0.20 if the content of an element X in the molten steel is represented as [X], an internal oxidation layer is formed in a process of cooling a slab, and Al2O3 is contained by the internal oxidation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotsugu Yoshida, Hirofumi Nakamura, Takayuki Kamimura, Nobuo Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20160201171
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing Cu—Sn coexisting steel produces a good quality surface even after hot rolling. The steel is manufactured by continuous casting a molten steel that contains C: 0.04 to 0.20%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.20 to 2.50%, P: no more than 0.05%, S: no more than 0.02%, Cu: 0.20 to 1.50%, Sn: 0.06 to 0.50%, Al: 0.06 to 1.00% and Ni: 0.05 to 1.00% by mass, and Fe and impurities as the remainder. The composition of the molten steel is defined as [Al]/(3[Si]+[Mn])?0.050, [Ni]/([Cu]+5[Sn])?0.10 and [Al]/[Ni]?0.20 if the content of an element X in the molten steel is represented as [X], an internal oxidation layer is formed in a process of cooling a slab, and Al2O3 is contained by the internal oxidation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Naotsugu YOSHIDA, Hirofumi NAKAMURA, Takayuki KAMIMURA, Nobuo OTSUKA
  • Patent number: 9150947
    Abstract: An austenitic stainless steel having excellent resistance to scale peeling which can suppress peeling of a protective oxide scale which is formed on the steel surface even when the steel undergoes repeated cycles of high temperature heating and cooling and which is suitable for use in a high temperature, humidified gas environment at a high temperature and particularly at 1023 K or above has a steel composition consisting essentially of C: 0.01-0.15%, Si: 0.01-3%, Mn: 0.01-2%, Cu: 0.1-2.5%, Cr: 23-30%, Ni: 16-25%, Al: 0.005-0.20%, N: 0.001-0.40%, P: at most 0.04%, S: at most 0.01%, at least one of Y and Ln series elements: a total of 0.005-0.1%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, with the number of inclusions containing Y and Ln series elements in the steel surface being at most 5×10?3/?m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Nishiyama, Nobuo Otsuka
  • Patent number: 7729899
    Abstract: An automated system and method is provided for debugging training data used to train an automated language identifier. The system and method collects texts written in a particular language, generates an occurrence count for words in each text by counting the number of times each of the words is found within the text, and generates an occurrence ratio (OR) of each of the words by dividing the occurrence count by the total number of words in each text. Words are then filtered from the texts in which their occurrence ratios are substantially higher than their occurrence ratios in at least one of the other texts, to generate a clean text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Basis Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuo Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20080279716
    Abstract: [Objective] To provide a metal material having excellent metal dusting resistance which is suited for using cracking furnaces, reforming furnaces, heating furnaces or heat exchangers, in petroleum refining, petrochemical plants, etc. [Means for Solution] A metal material having excellent metal dusting resistance, characterized in comprising, by mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.4%, Si: 0.01 to 2.5%, Mn: 0.01 to 2.5%, Cr: 15 to 35%, Ni: 20 to 65%, Cu: 0.05 to 20%, S: not more than 0.1%, N: not more than 0.25% and O (oxygen): not more than 0.02% and the balance Fe and impurities, and also containing, by mass %, one or more selected among the elements of P: more than 0.05% and not more than 0.3%, Sb: 0.001 to 1% and Bi: 0.001 to 0.5. It may further contain one or more selected among the elements of Nd: 0.001 to 0.15%, Co: not more than 10%, Mo: not more than 3%, W: not more than 6%, Ti: not more than 1%, Nb: not more than 2%, B: not more than 0.1%, Zr: not more than 1.2%, Hf: not more than 0.5%, Mg: not more than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Nishiyama, Nobuo Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20080189316
    Abstract: An automated system and method is provided for debugging training data used to train an automated language identifier. The system and method collects texts written in a particular language, generates an occurrence count for words in each text by counting the number of times each of the words is found within the text, and generates an occurrence ratio (OR) of each of the words by dividing the occurrence count by the total number of words in each text. Words are then filtered from the texts in which their occurrence ratios are substantially higher than their occurrence ratios in at least one of the other texts, to generate a clean text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventor: Nobuo Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20080107559
    Abstract: An austenitic stainless steel having excellent resistance to scale peeling which can suppress peeling of a protective oxide scale which is formed on the steel surface even when the steel undergoes repeated cycles of high temperature heating and cooling and which is suitable for use in a high temperature, humidified gas environment at a high temperature and particularly at 1023 K or above has a steel composition consisting essentially of C: 0.01-0.15%, Si: 0.01-3%, Mn: 0.01-2%, Cu: 0.1-2.5%, Cr: 23-30%, Ni: 16-25%, Al: 0.005-0.20%, N: 0.001-0.40%, P: at most 0.04%, S: at most 0.01%, at least one of Y and Ln series elements: a total of 0.005-0.1%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, with the number of inclusions containing Y and Ln series elements in the steel surface being at most 5×10?3/?m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Nishiyama, Nobuo Otsuka
  • Patent number: 6623869
    Abstract: A metallic material of the invention which comprises, in mass %, C: not more than 0.2%, Si: 0.01-4%, Mn: 0.05-2%, P: not more than 0.04%, S: not more than 0.015%, Cr: 10-35%, Ni: 30-78%, Al: not less than 0.005% but less than 4.5%, N: 0.005-0.2%, and one or both of Cu: 0.015-3% and Co: 0.015-3%, with the balance substantially being Fe, and of which the value of 40Si+Ni+5Al+40N+10 (Cu+Co), wherein the symbols of elements represent the contents of the respective elements, is not less than 50 and has excellent corrosion resistance in an environment in which metal dusting is ready to occur and, therefore, can be utilized as or in heating furnace pipes, piping systems, heat exchanger pipes and so forth to be used in a petroleum refinery or in petrochemical plants, and can markedly improve the equipment durability and safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Nishiyama, Nobuo Otsuka
  • Patent number: 5824264
    Abstract: A high-temperature austenitic stainless steel having improved weldability is disclosed. The steel consists essentially, by weight, of:C: 0.05%-0.15%, Si: less than 1.0%, Mn: 2.0% or less,P: 0.04% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Cr: 20%-30%,Ni: 10%-15%, N: 0.10%-0.30%,B: 0.0010%-0.01%,one or two of La and Ce: 0.01%-0.10% in total,Al: 0.01%-0.20%, anda balance of Fe and incidental impurities, wherein the contents of N and Al satisfy the following inequality:% N+2.times.% Al.ltoreq.0.500%and the value for Ni balance (Ni bal.) of the steel calculated by the following formula is in the range of from -1.0% to +3.0%:Ni bal. (%)=% Ni+0.5.times.% Mn+30.times.(% C+% N)-1.1.times.(% Cr+1.5.times.% Si)+8.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Uno, Yoshitaka Nishiyama, Yoshiatsu Sawaragi, Nobuo Otsuka, Kazuhiro Ogawa, Toshiro Anraku
  • Patent number: 5471948
    Abstract: A doped or undoped photoresponsive material having metallic precipitates, and a PiN photodiode utilizing the material for detecting light having a wavelength of 1.3 micrometers. The PiN photodiode includes a substrate having a first compound semiconductor layer disposed thereon. The PiN photodiode further includes an optically responsive compound semiconductor layer disposed above the first compound semiconductor layer. The optically responsive layer includes a plurality of buried Schottky barriers, each of which is associated with an inclusion within a crystal lattice of a Group III-V material. The PiN device also includes a further compound semiconductor layer disposed above the optically responsive layer. For a transversely illuminated embodiment, waveguiding layers may also be disposed above and below the PiN structure. In one example the optically responsive layer is comprised of GaAs:As.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jeremy Burroughes, Rodney T. Hodgson, David T. McInturff, Michael R. Melloch, Nobuo Otsuka, Paul M. Solomon, Alan C. Warren, Jerry M. Woodall
  • Patent number: 5378427
    Abstract: A corrosion-resistant austenitic alloy suitable for use in heat transfer tubes for heat-recovery boilers which withstands uniform corrosion, intergranular corrosion, and stress corrosion cracking in refuse-fired boilers and black-liquor combustion boilers. The alloy consists essentially, on a weight basis, of C: not more than 0.05%, Si: not more than 4%, Mn: not more than 7.5%, Ni: 25-55%, Cr: more than 20% and not more than 35%, Mo: an amount satisfying the following inequality (1) when Mn(%).ltoreq.2.5 or inequality (2) when 2.5.ltoreq.Mn(%).ltoreq.7.5,Mo(%).ltoreq.5.8--[Ni(%)/10] (1)Mo(%).ltoreq.7.5--[Ni(%)/10] (2)optionally one or more of Nb, Ti, Zr, and V: 0.1-3% in total, one or more of Cu, Co, and W: 0.1-5% in total, N: 0.1-0.3%, Al: not more than 0.5%, and at least one rare earth metal: 0.01-0.1% in total, and the balance of Fe and incidental impurities in which the content of P is not more than 0.030% and that of S is not more than 0.010%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Otsuka, Takeo Kudo
  • Patent number: 5371399
    Abstract: A doped or undoped photoresponsive material having metallic precipitates, and a PiN photodiode utilizing the material for detecting light having a wavelength of 1.3 micrometers. The PiN photodiode includes a substrate having a first compound semiconductor layer disposed thereon. The PiN photodiode further includes an optically responsive compound semiconductor layer disposed above the first compound semiconductor layer. The optically responsive layer includes a plurality of buried Schottky barriers, each of which is associated with an inclusion within a crystal lattice of a Group III-V material. The PiN device also includes a further compound semiconductor layer disposed above the optically responsive layer. For a transversely illuminated embodiment, waveguiding layers may also be disposed above and below the PiN structure. In one example the optically responsive layer is comprised of GaAs:As.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jeremy Burroughes, Rodney T. Hodgson, David T. McInturff, Michael R. Melloch, Nobuo Otsuka, Paul M. Solomon, Alan C. Warren, Jerry M Woodall
  • Patent number: 5076346
    Abstract: A duct type of air conditioner wherein temperature in a plurality rooms are controlled independently, and which after having controlled opening and closing of dampers for the rooms, is capable of controlling air volume, controlling the opening and closing of each damper depending on the temperature in the room with the corresponding damper, or determining atuomatically whether to select heating and cooling, depending on each room temperature and an external air, thereby realizing an optimum and effective operation control. When the total opening degree of the dampers becomes less than a predetermined amount the opening degree of the damper feeding air to the room with the greatest heat load is revised to be open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobuo Otsuka
  • Patent number: 4997029
    Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus of a VAV system has a main controller which comprises an operation mode changing means, a temperature schedule inputting means for inputting data for warming or cooling each of the rooms in accordance with a program, and a room controller having a set room temperature changing means for changing a set room temperature for each of the rooms. The program can be easily changed by operating the controllers so as to meet the life pattern of a resident. The air conditioning apparatus provides advantages of saving energy and comfortableness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuo Otsuka, Peter F. Thompson, Toyohiro Kobayashi, Yasuo Sato
  • Patent number: 4948040
    Abstract: A duct type air conditioning system with a variable capacity blower in which the maximum blower capacity is established at initialization of the system at the optimum blower capacity. The optimum capacity is established by varying the capacity of the blower and measuring the air flow volume and air flow noise. The optimum capacity is inputted into the control system through a central thermostat which has a liquid crystal display associated therewith. The system installer interfaces with the control system by a dialog which occurs through the liquid crystal display. The optimum capacity of the blower is stored in a memory device, and the control system variably controls the capacity of the blower so as not to exceed the optimum capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toyohiro Kobayashi, Nobuo Otsuka, Peter Thompson, Larry J. Stratton
  • Patent number: 4821526
    Abstract: The air conditioning apparatus comprises a heat source apparatus, an air blower, a damper disposed in each of branch duct to regulate warm air or cool air to be supplied to each of rooms, a room thermostat placed in each of the rooms, a heat load measuring means and a damper control means. The heat load measuring means controls the degree of opening of the dampers through the damper control means on the basis of output signals of an established temperature and the current room temperature from the room thermostats. Further, the capacity of the heat source apparatus and the capacity of the air blower are determined in accordance with the value of the heat load, and the pressure and the temperature of the air in the air duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuo Otsuka, Hideo Igarashi, Peter Thompson
  • Patent number: 4819714
    Abstract: A controlling system for an air conditioning apparatus includes a controlling apparatus, a main controller and room controller provided in each room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuo Otsuka, Peter F. Thompson, Seiji Wada
  • Patent number: 4811897
    Abstract: An air conditioning system provided with a variable capability blower and heat source unit is configured such that individual room dampers 9 and controllers 14 can be subsequently added to a central control device as options to convert from an all room simultaneous air conditioning mode to a variable air volume mode with separate temperature control for each room. The utilization of existing power lines to transmit the various information and control signals simplifies the conversion and reduces its cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toyohiro Kobayashi, Nobuo Otsuka, Peter Thompson
  • Patent number: D309268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1990
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Wada, Nobuo Otsuka, Toyohiro Kobayashi, Peter Thompson
  • Patent number: D310340
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Wada, Nobuo Otsuka, Toyohiro Kobayashi, Peter Thompson