Patents by Inventor Toshinori Satou

Toshinori Satou 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: 9933108
    Abstract: A table device including: a first member; a second member; a first guide device guiding the second member; a table supported by the second member; a first movable member connected to the table; a second movable member connected to the table; a first bearing member movably supporting the first movable member; a second bearing member movably supporting the second movable member; an actuator; and a gravity compensation device that includes a first supply portion supplying a gas to a first space facing the first movable member, a first adjustment portion adjusting an amount of the gas from the first supply portion, a second supply portion supplying a gas to a second space facing the second movable member, and a second adjustment portion adjusting an amount of the gas from the second supply portion, and can adjust a pressure in each of the first and second spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Toshinori Satou
  • Patent number: 9877576
    Abstract: A table device including a first member; a second member; a first guide device guiding the second member such that the second member is moved in a direction parallel to a first axis by movement of the first member; a table supported by the second member; a third member connected to at least a part of the table; a bearing member forming a gas bearing between the bearing member and the third member with a gas supplied between the bearing member and the third member, and movably supporting the third member in the direction parallel to the first axis; and a support device including a parallel pin that is arranged such that the parallel pin becomes parallel to the first axis, and connects the second member and the table, and supporting the table. The table is supported by the second member through the support device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Toshinori Satou
  • Patent number: 9723917
    Abstract: A table device including: a first base including a first reference surface; a second base including a second reference surface, and movable on the first reference surface in a direction parallel to a first axis; a first bearing member provided to the second base, and forming a gas bearing between the first bearing member and the first reference surface; a second bearing member provided to the second base, apart from the first bearing member relative to a direction parallel to a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, and forming a gas bearing between the second bearing member and the first reference surface; and a table movable on the second reference surface. A distance between the first bearing member and the second bearing member is longer than a dimension of a moving range of the table relative to the direction parallel to the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Toshinori Satou
  • Publication number: 20160369938
    Abstract: A table device including: a first member; a second member; a first guide device guiding the second member; a table supported by the second member; a first movable member connected to the table; a second movable member connected to the table; a first bearing member movably supporting the first movable member; a second bearing member movably supporting the second movable member; an actuator; and a gravity compensation device that includes a first supply portion supplying a gas to a first space facing the first movable member, a first adjustment portion adjusting an amount of the gas from the first supply portion, a second supply portion supplying a gas to a second space facing the second movable member, and a second adjustment portion adjusting an amount of the gas from the second supply portion, and can adjust a pressure in each of the first and second spaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Toshinori SATOU
  • Publication number: 20160135587
    Abstract: A table device including a first member; a second member; a first guide device guiding the second member such that the second member is moved in a direction parallel to a first axis by movement of the first member; a table supported by the second member; a third member connected to at least a part of the table; a bearing member forming a gas bearing between the bearing member and the third member with a gas supplied between the bearing member and the third member, and movably supporting the third member in the direction parallel to the first axis; and a support device including a parallel pin that is arranged such that the parallel pin becomes parallel to the first axis, and connects the second member and the table, and supporting the table. The table is supported by the second member through the support device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Toshinori SATOU
  • Publication number: 20160135588
    Abstract: A table device including: a first base including a first reference surface; a second base including a second reference surface, and movable on the first reference surface in a direction parallel to a first axis; a first bearing member provided to the second base, and forming a gas bearing between the first bearing member and the first reference surface; a second bearing member provided to the second base, apart from the first bearing member relative to a direction parallel to a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, and forming a gas bearing between the second bearing member and the first reference surface; and a table movable on the second reference surface. A distance between the first bearing member and the second bearing member is longer than a dimension of a moving range of the table relative to the direction parallel to the second axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Toshinori SATOU
  • Publication number: 20160118855
    Abstract: Provided are a motor having a small number of parts and provided with waterproof performance in a low-cost method, and a positioning device and a conveyance device that are positioned and driven by the motor. The motor includes a columnar motor body that is formed with a center hole penetrating in an axial direction, and a housing for accommodating the motor body. The housing includes a cylindrical part that covers an outer peripheral surface of the motor body; a rotation output part provided on an upper side of the cylindrical part in the axial direction and fixed to rotary bodies of the motor body; and a fixed part provided on a lower side of the cylindrical part in the axial direction and fixed to fixed bodies of the motor body. The housing is sealed by a sealing mechanism at only one place of the cylindrical part in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki MARUYAMA, Yusuke OTA, Kazunori KOIZUMI, Hayao WATANABE, Toshinori SATOU
  • Patent number: 4851073
    Abstract: A plurality of tiles arranged as a set the same as are pasted onto a wall or floor are integrally connected with one another by pasting rectangular connecting pieces made of such sheet materials as of paper, cloth or resin film onto the back surfaces of the tiles to bridge two adjacent tiles with each other. The connecting pieces are obtained by cutting fixed lengths off the long tape-shaped materials. The connecting pieces thus cut off are sucked by suckers, are fed to a set of tiles conveyed as mounted as inverted on a conveyor and are pasted by a bonding agent onto the back surfaces of two adjacent tiles to bridge them with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Satou Kagaku Kougyou Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshinori Satou