Patents by Inventor Noritaka Sato
Noritaka Sato 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: 8461248Abstract: A resin composition includes: a polylactic acid resin; an impact-resistant resin which is superior in impact resistance to the polylactic acid resin and is incompatible with or hardly compatible with the polylactic acid resin; and a nucleating agent which promotes crystallization of the polylactic acid resin; the nucleating agent existing at least in the phase of the impact-resistant resin.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Noritaka Sato, Yuya Aoki, Tsutomu Noguchi
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Patent number: 8320100Abstract: A varactor element, includes: a dielectric layer; a pair of signal electrodes, each disposed on one face of the dielectric layer and facing each other; and a pair of control electrodes, each disposed on another face of the dielectric layer and facing each other parallel to a direction intersecting a direction of the pair of signal electrodes facing each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2010Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masayoshi Kanno, Kazutaka Habu, Noritaka Sato
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Publication number: 20120193995Abstract: A voltage generation circuit includes: a resistor circuit which includes a plurality of resistors connected to each other in series or in parallel; a plurality of input ports which are connected in parallel to the resistor circuit and to which a control signal for controlling a potential state of the input port to one of a high state, a low state, and an open state is input; and an output port which is connected to the resistor circuit and outputs voltage signals with voltage values corresponding to combinations of the potential states of the plurality of input ports.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masayoshi Kanno, Noritaka Sato
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Publication number: 20120112855Abstract: To provide a capacitative device capable of accurately securing a capacitance value, a variable capacitative device capable of sufficiently securing a capacity variability rate, and a resonance circuit that uses the capacitative devices. A capacitative device according to the present invention includes a capacitative device body constituted of a dielectric layer and at least a pair of capacitative device electrodes that sandwich the dielectric layer and cause a desired electric field in the dielectric layer; and stress adjustment portions to adjust a stress caused in the dielectric layer of the capacitative device body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Noritaka Sato, Masayoshi Kanno, Masakazu Yajima
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Patent number: 8003712Abstract: A polyester resin component having crystallization improved and including a cyclic compound shown by a below-described formula and polyester capable of having a crystal structure: In the formula, each of ring A and a ring B is a benzene ring, and the hydrogen bonded to the benzene rings be substituted with other groups. Additionally, Y is —CONH— or —NHCO— and X is a heterocyclic group or a condensed heterocyclic group including one or more NH or CO.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2010Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Noritaka Sato, Tsutomu Noguchi, Hiroyuki Mori
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Publication number: 20110163827Abstract: To suppress changes in capacitance due to displacement between electrodes opposing each other across a dielectric layer, thereby allowing stable manufacturing of a capacitance device having a desired capacitance. The capacitance device according to the present invention is of a configuration including a dielectric layer (10), a first electrode (11) formed on a predetermined surface (10a) of the dielectric layer (10), and a second electrode (12) formed on a surface (10b) on the opposite side of the dielectric layer (10) from the predetermined surface (10a). The forms of the first and second electrodes (11, 12) are set so that even in the event that the first electrode (11) is relatively displaced regarding position in a predetermined direction as to the second electrode (12), the area of the opposing-electrode region between the first electrode (11) and to the second electrode (12) is unchanged.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2009Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masayoshi Kanno, Toshiaki Yokota, Kazutaka Habu, Makoto Watanabe, Noritaka Sato
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Publication number: 20110037536Abstract: A capacitance element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a fourth electrode, a first dielectric portion, a second dielectric portion, and a third dielectric portion. To the first electrode, a signal having a first polarity is applied. To the second electrode, a signal having a second polarity is applied. The second polarity is opposite to the first polarity. To the third electrode, the signal having the second polarity is applied. The third electrode is disposed on a position opposed to the second electrode. To the fourth electrode, the signal having the first polarity is applied. The first dielectric portion is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The second dielectric portion is provided between the second electrode and the third electrode. The third dielectric portion is provided between the third electrode and the fourth electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masayoshi Kanno, Noritaka Sato
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Publication number: 20100259864Abstract: A varactor element, includes: a dielectric layer; a pair of signal electrodes, each disposed on one face of the dielectric layer and facing each other; and a pair of control electrodes, each disposed on another face of the dielectric layer and facing each other parallel to a direction intersecting a direction of the pair of signal electrodes facing each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2010Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masayoshi Kanno, Kazutaka Habu, Noritaka Sato
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Publication number: 20100240820Abstract: A resin composition includes: a polylactic acid resin; an impact-resistant resin which is superior in impact resistance to the polylactic acid resin and is incompatible with or hardly compatible with the polylactic acid resin; and a nucleating agent which promotes crystallization of the polylactic acid resin; the nucleating agent existing at least in the phase of the impact-resistant resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Noritaka Sato, Yuya Aoki, Tsutomu Noguchi
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Patent number: 7790782Abstract: A resin composition for molding, added with a nucleating agent suitable for promoting crystallization of a polyester capable of having a crystal structure, and in particular of a biodegradable polyester, and a molded product containing, the resin composition for molding thus improved in the crystallinity has either a cyclic compound expressed by general formula (I): (where each of A1, A2, A4 and A5 commonly or independently expresses —CO— or —NH—, each of A3 and A6 commonly or independently expresses hydrogen, halogen, optionally-substituted aliphatic group or optionally-substituted aromatic group) and having both of —CO— and —NH— in the molecule, or a mixture of (i) a cyclic compound having —CO— but no NH in the molecule and (ii) a cyclic compound having no —CO— but NH in the molecule, together with the polyester capable of having a crystal structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2003Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Noritaka Sato, Tsutomu Noguchi, Hiroyuki Mori
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Publication number: 20100144936Abstract: A polyester resin component having crystallization improved and including a cyclic compound shown by a below-described formula and polyester capable of having a crystal structure: In the formula, each of ring A and a ring B is a benzene ring, and the hydrogen bonded to the benzene rings be substituted with other groups. Additionally, Y is —CONH— or —NHCO— and X is a heterocyclic group or a condensed heterocyclic group including one or more NH or CO.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2010Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Noritaka Sato, Tsutomu Noguchi, Hiroyuki Mori
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Patent number: 7691928Abstract: The present invention provides a polyester resin component having crystallization improved and including a cyclic compound shown by a below-described formula and polyester capable of having a crystal structure. (In the formula, a ring A and a ring B respectively represent benzene rings, and hydrogen bonded to the benzene rings may optionally be substituted with other groups. Y represents —CONH— or —NHCO—. X represents a heterocyclic group or a condensed heterocyclic group including one or more NH or CO respectively).Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2004Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Noritaka Sato, Tsutomu Noguchi, Hiroyuki Mori
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Publication number: 20100081766Abstract: A resin composition includes a polyester capable of forming a crystal structure, and a substance represented by the following general structural formula (1), the substance represented by the following general structural formula (1) has a dehydration-condensed structure of two molecules of natural product-derived ?-amino acids or a substitution structure thereof, and the two molecules of ?-amino acids are not simultaneously glycine. In the above general structural formula, R1, R2, R3, and R4 indicate groups or substituent groups thereof bonded to the ? carbons of the ?-amino acids.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2009Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Noritaka SATO, Tsutomu NOGUCHI
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Patent number: 7671117Abstract: Moldings made with a polyester resin which comprises a cyclic compound represented by a following formula A1-B-A2 (in the formula, A1 and A2 are the same or different and show groups represented by a below-described formula, P shows a benzene ring which may be replaced by a material, and B shows a bivalent hydrocarbon group which may be replaced by a material) and polyester capable of having a crystal structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2007Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Noritaka Sato, Tsutomu Noguchi, Hiroyuki Mori
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Patent number: 7589137Abstract: A resin composition includes a polyester capable of forming a crystal structure, at least one member selected from uracil and a uracil derivative used as a nucleating agent. A resin molding obtained from the composition is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2006Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Noritaka Sato, Tsutomu Noguchi, Hiroyuki Mori, Yuko Fujihira
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Publication number: 20090221755Abstract: A resin composition includes polylactic acid resin, a plastic resin superior in heat resistance to the polylactic acid resin, and a nucleating agent that promotes crystallization of the polylactic acid resin, with the nucleating agent being a soluble azo lake pigment. The plastic resin superior in heat resistance to the polylactic acid resin is one which has a flexural modulus of elasticity no lower than 1000 MPa at 80° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2009Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuya Aoki, Noritaka Sato
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Publication number: 20090005475Abstract: Moldings made with a polyester resin which comprises a cyclic compound represented by a following formula A1-B-A2 (In the formula, A1 and A2 are the same or different and show groups represented by a below-described formula, P shows a benzene ring which may be replaced by a material, and B shows a bivalent hydrocarbon group which may be replaced by a material) and polyester capable of having a crystal structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2007Publication date: January 1, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Noritaka Sato, Tsutomu Noguchi, Hiroyuki Mori
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Patent number: 7147828Abstract: A reactor comprising a reacting vessel 31 that contains a fluid including high temperature and high pressure water under target reaction temperature and reaction pressure condition and performs a reaction treatment to a reactant by the fluid, a first pipe 25 connected to the reacting vessel 31 to supply the reactant to the reacting vessel 31, and a first partition means 50 for partitioning between first pipe 25 and the reacting vessel 31 so as to prevent a leakage of any one of the fluid, the reactant, and a reaction product from the reacting vessel 31 side to the first pipe 25 side. The first partition means 50 is comprised of for example a valve 51, a shaft 52, a weight 53, a supporting member 54, and a pipe 55, and normally, due to the weight 53, the valve 51 closes an opening of a bottom end of the pipe 55. That is, it isolates the pipe 55 and the inside of the reacting vessel 31.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2002Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Noritaka Sato, Tsutomu Noguchi
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Publication number: 20060247340Abstract: A resin composition includes a polyester capable of forming a crystal structure, at least one member selected from uracil and a uracil derivative used as a nucleating agent. A resin molding obtained from the composition is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2006Publication date: November 2, 2006Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Noritaka Sato, Tsutomu Noguchi, Hiroyuki Mori, Yuko Fujihira
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Publication number: 20060167134Abstract: The present invention provides a polyester resin component having crystallization improved and including a cyclic compound shown by a below-described formula and polyester capable of having a crystal structure. (In the formula, a ring A and a ring B respectively represent benzene rings, and hydrogen bonded to the benzene rings may optionally be substituted with other groups. Y represents —CONH— or —NHCO—. X represents a heterocyclic group or a condensed heterocyclic group including one or more NH or CO respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2004Publication date: July 27, 2006Inventors: Noritaka Sato, Tsutomu Noguchi, Hiroyuki Mori