Patents by Inventor Tomoya Sasaki

Tomoya Sasaki 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: 20190330832
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a deodorizer in which spray, etc. can be prevented or inhibited from entering the interior. A private part washing device 3 functioning as a deodorizer device, provided with: a case 7 provided to the rear part of a toilet bowl 4 provided to a main toilet body 2, the case having an opening part 9 opening onto the toilet bowl 4; an air duct 24 having a blowout port 28 from which airflow is blown out, the blowout port 28 opening from the opening part 9 to the outside of the case 7; and a shutter 10 for opening/closing the opening part 9, the shutter 10 forming an air outlet 38 between the shutter 10 and the case 7 when the opening part 9 is closed. When the opening part 9 is closed by the shutter 10, airflow is guided in a first direction from the air outlet 38 into the toilet bowl 4, and when the opening part 9 is opened by the shutter 10, airflow is guided in a direction different from the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: TingJian GONG, Toshihiko KOMATSU, Masashi KONNO, Motoki KAGAWA, Masato WAKABAYASHI, Tomoya SASAKI, YinTao LIU, Atsushi WAKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20190323880
    Abstract: The present invention provides a measuring device which is configured to measure a body weight of a user sitting on a toilet seat, which is installed on a toilet bowl, and on which the toilet seat is installed, the device including a plurality of load measuring units that are configured to measure a load of the user acting on the toilet seat and that are disposed to protrude upward from an upper surface. The toilet seat includes a plurality of leg portions disposed to protrude downward from a lower surface, a height from the upper surface to upper ends of the load measuring units is greater than a height from the lower surface of the toilet seat to lower ends of the leg portions, and the load measuring units are disposed at different positions from the leg portions as seen in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu SHIMASAKI, Hiroaki WATANABE, Tsunaki ITOU, Tomoya SASAKI, Hideya KOIKE
  • Patent number: 10450735
    Abstract: In a flush toilet, a base plate, in which a function unit is installed, is provided on a recessed portion formed on a rear upper surface of a toilet bowl of a toilet main body. Hole portions that are open downward are provided in the recessed portion. The base plate is provided with bottomed protrusion portions fitted into the hole portions and accommodates a part of the function unit. Flow channels are provided between the base plate and the recessed portion, so that water inside the toilet bowl is discharged to a floor surface from the flow channels from the hole portions before the water overflows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Saori Ichihara, Isato Hirasawa, Tomoya Sasaki, Takeya Ichiyanagi, Makoto Saruta
  • Patent number: 10435878
    Abstract: A flush toilet is provided with a toilet main unit and a functional unit. The toilet main unit has a toilet bowl and an upper surface portion on which a recessed portion is formed. The functional unit is provided on the rear side of the toilet bowl and offers a function different from a function for washing the toilet bowl. The functional unit is able to move between an entering position where at least a portion of the functional unit is located inside the recessed portion and a retreating position where the entire functional unit is located outside the recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Akiya Saeki, Hiroaki Watanabe, Tomoya Sasaki, Ryuichi Yokoi
  • Publication number: 20190297750
    Abstract: Effectively control the temperature of a control unit of a railway equipment inspecting and measuring apparatus, and install the control unit of the railway equipment inspecting and measuring on the roof of the passenger car. The first space is formed between the control unit and the heat insulating case. The second space is formed between the heat insulating case and the cover. In the first space, heat is conducted between the air in the first space and the heat exchange element by the first heat conducting member, and the first fan causes circulation of the air in the first space. In the second space, heat is conducted between the air in the second space and the heat exchange element by the second heat conducting member, and the air inside the second space is diffused by blowing the air from a suction port into the second space with the second fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH FINE SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyasu SUZUKI, Takeshi KUROKAWA, Tomohiko KAI, Masaki ARAKI, Tomoya SASAKI, Takeshi IGA, Tomoharu ISOZAKI, Noritake SHIZAWA, Keishin HAMAOKA, Takahiro DAIKOKU
  • Publication number: 20190265838
    Abstract: A touch sensor false detection preventing structure for use in an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing that is provided with a through-hole provided area through which a sensor sheet passes, a circuit board that is mounted inside the housing, and a touch panel that is electrically connected to the circuit board by the sensor sheet. The touch sensor false detection preventing structure includes protruding portions formed on an inner surface at both ends of the through-hole provided area in planar view so as to protrude a predetermined distance, such that movement at a part of both side ends of the sensor sheet is restricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Younghoon KIM, Tomoaki TSUCHIYA, Tomoya SASAKI, Shinya ABE, Yasunori WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190239350
    Abstract: A porous polyimide shaped article has a thickness in a range from 550 ?m to 3,000 ?m and has a relative dielectric constant of 1.8 or less and a dielectric loss tangent of 0.01 or less at 1 MHz. The porous polyimide shaped article satisfies the following formula: 1.2?A?1.6 wherein A represents a square root of a ratio of a pore size D84 where a cumulative percentage by number of pores from smaller sizes is 84% to a pore size D16 where the cumulative percentage by number of the pores from smaller sizes is 16% ((D84/D16)1/2) in a pore size distribution measured by mercury intrusion porosimetry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime SUGAHARA, Hidekazu HIROSE, Katsumi NUKADA, Tomoya SASAKI, Kosaku YOSHIMURA, Akira IMAI
  • Publication number: 20190225754
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution includes an aqueous solution that contains water; a resin particle that does not dissolve in the aqueous solution; an inorganic particle; and a polyimide precursor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi NUKADA, Tomoya SASAKI, Hidekazu HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20190225805
    Abstract: A rubber-particle-dispersed polyimide resin solution contains at least one resin selected from the group consisting of polyimide precursors and polyimides having a solubility of 1% by mass or more in an aprotic polar solvent; rubber particles; and a solvent including a poor solvent for the rubber particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya SASAKI, Hidekazu HIROSE, Katsumi NUKADA, Kosaku YOSHIMURA, Akira IMAI, Hajime SUGAHARA
  • Publication number: 20190225768
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution includes an aqueous solution that contains water; a resin particle that does not dissolve in the aqueous solution; inorganic particles that have a volume average particle diameter within a range of 0.001 ?m to 0.2 ?m; and a polyimide precursor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi NUKADA, Tomoya SASAKI, Hidekazu HIROSE
  • Patent number: 10358808
    Abstract: A toilet device includes a private part cleaning device, a warm air dying device, and a shutter and, when drying a private part using the warm air drying device, the shutter is configured to rotate such that a rear surface is directed toward an upper side and open an outlet, and the warm air drying device is configured to blow out warm air from the outlet to the rear surface of the shutter directed to the upper side and to cause the warm air guided by the shutter to be blown out to the private part side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiko Komatsu, Hiroaki Watanabe, Yasuyuki Furutani, Ryosuke Nakamura, Tomoya Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20190198935
    Abstract: The battery is provided. The battery includes an electrode. The electrode includes a current collector and an active material layer provided on an inside surface of the current collector. The active material layer includes a first region and a second region, where the second region includes an area density lower than the first region, and the second region is provided in a winding-back portion of the active material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoya SASAKI, Makoto FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190153712
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes: a toilet main body; a rim which is provided on an upper portion of a toilet bowl of the toilet main body and which flows a flush water into the toilet bowl; and a water level detection sensor which is provided inside the rim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Saori ICHIHARA, Isato HIRASAWA, Tomoya SASAKI, Takeya ICHIYANAGI, Sou OKUIZUMI, Makoto SARUTA
  • Publication number: 20190112797
    Abstract: A toilet device includes a toilet main body, a base plate-which is provided on an upper portion of the toilet main body and on which a functional unit is mounted, and a cover which covers the base plate from an upper side such that the functional unit is accommodated. The cover has a protrusion portion that protrudes further downward than the base plate and that is positioned closer to a toilet bowl of the toilet main body than the base plate. A recess portion, which communicates with the toilet bowl and is open to the upper side, is formed in the toilet main body. The base plate is arranged on the recess portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Isato HIRASAWA, Saori ICHIHARA, Kentarou TSUJI, Hiroto KUTSUZAWA, Tomoya SASAKI, Hiroaki WATANABE, Yuji NAKAYAMA, Tsunaki ITOU, Miyoko TATEISHI
  • Patent number: 10208470
    Abstract: A method for removing odors produced in a toilet main unit of a toilet is made available. Specifically, a deodorizing unit having an air expulsion port and an air suctioning port is provided in a rear portion of the toilet main unit, and air is circulated by expelling air through the expulsion port such as to laterally swirl the air along an inner surface of the toilet's bowl, and by suctioning swirled returning air via the suctioning port. Deodorization is carried out in the course of circulating the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Lixil Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiko Komatsu, Hiroaki Watanabe, Yasuyuki Furutani, Dai Goto, Takuma Uchiyama, Kensaku Hiraoka, Tomoya Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10195794
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a porous polyimide film, including a first step of forming a coating film containing a polyimide precursor solution where a polyimide precursor and an organic amine compound are dissolved in an aqueous solvent, and a resin particle incapable of dissolving in the polyimide precursor solution, followed by drying of the coating film to form a coat containing the polyimide precursor and the resin particle, and a second step of heating the coat to imidize the polyimide precursor and form a polyimide film, the second step including a treatment for removing the resin particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi Nukada, Tsuyoshi Miyamoto, Tomoya Sasaki, Kana Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20190032319
    Abstract: In a flush toilet, a base plate, in which a function unit is installed, is provided on a recessed portion formed on a rear upper surface of a toilet bowl of a toilet main body. Hole portions that are open downward are provided in the recessed portion. The base plate is provided with bottomed protrusion portions fitted into the hole portions and accommodates a part of the function unit. Flow channels are provided between the base plate and the recessed portion, so that water inside the toilet bowl is discharged to a floor surface from the flow channels from the hole portions before the water overflows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Saori ICHIHARA, Isato HIRASAWA, Tomoya SASAKI, Takeya ICHIYANAGI, Makoto SARUTA
  • Publication number: 20190001644
    Abstract: A polyimide laminated film includes a porous polyimide layer that has a porosity of from 30% to 90% and pores having a spherical shape and a non-porous polyimide layer that has a porosity of 5% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi NUKADA, Tomoya SASAKI, Takashi IMAI
  • Patent number: 10156010
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a coated cutting tool having a base material and a hard coating, in which: the hard coating is formed from a nitride or a carbonitride having an Al content of from 50 at. % to 68 at. %, a Cr content of from 20 at. % to 46 at. %, and an Si content of from 4 at. % to 15 at. %, relative to the total amount of metal (including semimetal) elements, and when the total of metal (including semimetal) elements, nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon is designated as 100 at. %, the atomic percentage (at. %) A of metal (including semimetal) elements and the atomic percentage (at. %) B of nitrogen satisfy the relationship 1.03?B/A?1.07; and, in an intensity profile obtained from an X-ray diffraction pattern or a selected area diffraction pattern of a transmission electron microscope, an intensity of a peak from the (200) plane or the (111) plane of a face-centered cubic lattice structure exhibits the maximum intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignees: HITACHI METALS, LTD., Mitsubishi Hitachi Tool Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoya Sasaki, Kenichi Inoue
  • Patent number: D868011
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON CHEMI-CON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Yajima, Yoshiki Chikyu, Tomoya Sasaki, Satoru Tsumeda