Patents by Inventor Toshio Saito
Toshio Saito 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: 11985837Abstract: To provide a photoelectric conversion element capable of further improving performance in a photoelectric conversion element using an organic semiconductor material. The photoelectric conversion element includes a first electrode and a second electrode arranged to face each other, and a photoelectric conversion layer 17 provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the photoelectric conversion layer 17 includes a first organic semiconductor material and a second organic semiconductor material, and at least one of the first organic semiconductor material or the second organic semiconductor material is an organic molecule having a HOMO volume fraction of 0.15 or less or a LUMO volume fraction of 0.15 or less.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Shinnosuke Hattori, Hajime Kobayashi, Sae Miyaji, Masato Kanno, Miki Kimijima, Yuta Hasegawa, Toshio Nishi, Takashi Kawashima, Yosuke Saito, Yuta Inaba
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Publication number: 20240102673Abstract: A humidifier includes a housing, a humidifying rotor, and an irradiator. The housing is formed with an air passage through which air passes and a water storage tank configured to store water. The humidifying rotor extends over the air passage and the water storage tank. The humidifying rotor rotates so that a portion of the humidifying rotor having absorbed moisture from the water storage tank moves to the air passage and releases the moisture. The irradiator irradiates part of the humidifying rotor with ultraviolet light.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Chika KOYAMA, Tomoki SAITO, Toshio TANAKA, Mamoru OKUMOTO, Kiyoshi KUROI
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Publication number: 20240093891Abstract: An ultraviolet ray radiation apparatus includes a light emitter, a light receiver, and a protector. The light emitter emits ultraviolet light. The light receiver outputs a signal varying with an amount of light received. The protector protects the light receiver from ultraviolet light.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Tomoki SAITO, Kiyoshi KUROI, Toshio TANAKA, Chika KOYAMA, Mamoru OKUMOTO
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Publication number: 20240093887Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes an irradiation device including an LED configured to emit an ultraviolet ray; and includes a heat-dissipating unit configured to dissipate heat of the irradiation device into air.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tomoki SAITO, Kiyoshi KUROI, Toshio TANAKA, Chika KOYAMA, Mamoru OKUMOTO
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Patent number: 11871868Abstract: A coffee machine includes a grinder for grinding coffee beans, and collects wastes such as chaff and fine powder. The coffee machine includes a grinder to grind coffee beans; a separation unit to separate a waste from coffee beans; and a reservoir unit to store the waste separated from the coffee beans in the separation unit. The reservoir unit includes an outer case body and an inner case body inside the outer case body, and the inner case body has, in a circumferential wall thereof, an opening connected to the inside of the outer case body.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: DAITO GIKEN, INC.Inventor: Toshio Saito
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Patent number: 11864686Abstract: A coffee machine equipped with a grinder that grinds coffee beans, and a blade that grinds the coffee beans can be replaced with a blade having a different pattern. A main body includes a drive source, first power transmission portions, and a gear portion (gear of a manual setting disc dial), a grinder unit is fitted into the main body, the grinder unit includes a second power transmission portion, and interlocking portions, and is detachable from the main body, and when the grinder unit is fitted into the main body, the second power transmission portion and the like are coupled to the first power transmission portions, and the interlocking portions are coupled to the gear portion (gear of the manual setting disc dial).Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: DAITO GIKEN, INC.Inventor: Toshio Saito
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Patent number: 11805946Abstract: A coffee machine including a grinder configured to grind coffee beans, and a coffee machine made to return a grinder falling into an abnormal state to a normal state. The grinder configured to grind the coffee beans by a predetermined rotation operation in the normal state, and an operation portion are provided, when the grinder is in the abnormal state (bean clogging state) in which the predetermined rotation operation cannot be performed, if the operation portion is operated, the reverse rotation operation is executed in a direction opposite to that of the predetermined rotation operation, and in the normal state, the reverse rotation operation is not executed even if the operation portion is operated.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: DAITO GIKEN, INC.Inventors: Toshio Saito, Takayuki Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20230292951Abstract: A coffee machine equipped with a grinder that grinds coffee beans, and a blade that grinds the coffee beans can be replaced with a blade having a different pattern. A main body includes a drive source, first power transmission portions, and a gear portion (gear of a manual setting disc dial), a grinder unit is fitted into the main body, the grinder unit includes a second power transmission portion, and interlocking portions, and is detachable from the main body, and when the grinder unit is fitted into the main body, the second power transmission portion and the like are coupled to the first power transmission portions, and the interlocking portions are coupled to the gear portion (gear of the manual setting disc dial).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: DAITO GIKEN, INC.Inventor: Toshio SAITO
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Publication number: 20230255406Abstract: A coffee machine including a grinder configured to grind coffee beans, and a coffee machine made to return a grinder falling into an abnormal state to a normal state. The grinder configured to grind the coffee beans by a predetermined rotation operation in the normal state, and an operation portion are provided, when the grinder is in the abnormal state (bean clogging state) in which the predetermined rotation operation cannot be performed, if the operation portion is operated, the reverse rotation operation is executed in a direction opposite to that of the predetermined rotation operation, and in the normal state, the reverse rotation operation is not executed even if the operation portion is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2022Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: DAITO GIKEN, INC.Inventors: Toshio SAITO, Takayuki WAKABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230240469Abstract: A coffee machine including a grinder for grinding coffee beans, and provides a coffee machine that collects wastes such as chaff and fine powder. The coffee machine including: a grinder configured to grind coffee beans; a separation unit configured to separate a waste from coffee beans; and a reservoir unit configured to store the waste separated from the coffee beans in the separation unit, in which the reservoir unit includes an outer case body and an inner case body inside the outer case body, and the inner case body has, in a circumferential wall thereof, an opening connected to the inside of the outer case body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: DAITO GIKEN, INC.Inventor: Toshio SAITO
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Patent number: 11623222Abstract: A separation apparatus for separating an unwanted substance from an extraction target includes a forming unit configured to form a separation chamber through which the extraction target passes, and a suction unit communicating with the separation chamber in a direction crossing a passage direction of the extraction target and configured to suck air in the separation chamber. The forming unit includes an inlet for the extraction target, which communicates with the separation chamber, and an outlet for the extraction target, which communicates with the separation chamber, and the air is sucked from the outlet into the separation chamber by suction of the suction unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Daito Giken, Inc.Inventors: Kaishun Kihara, Toshio Saito
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Publication number: 20200238297Abstract: A separation apparatus for separating an unwanted substance from an extraction target includes a forming unit configured to form a separation chamber through which the extraction target passes, and a suction unit communicating with the separation chamber in a direction crossing a passage direction of the extraction target and configured to suck air in the separation chamber. The forming unit includes an inlet for the extraction target, which communicates with the separation chamber, and an outlet for the extraction target, which communicates with the separation chamber, and the air is sucked from the outlet into the separation chamber by suction of the suction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Kaishun Kihara, Toshio Saito
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Patent number: 10695773Abstract: A separation apparatus for separating an unwanted substance from an extraction target includes a forming unit configured to form a separation chamber through which the extraction target passes, and a suction unit communicating with the separation chamber in a direction crossing a passage direction of the extraction target and configured to suck air in the separation chamber. The forming unit includes an inlet for the extraction target, which communicates with the separation chamber, and an outlet for the extraction target, which communicates with the separation chamber, and the air is sucked from the outlet into the separation chamber by suction of the suction unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Tree Field, Inc.Inventors: Kaishun Kihara, Toshio Saito
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Publication number: 20200178724Abstract: A beverage producing apparatus includes: a separation apparatus configured to separate an unwanted substance from an extraction target; an extracting apparatus configured to extract a beverage liquid from the extraction target from which the unwanted substance is separated by the separation apparatus; and a housing configured to form an exterior of the beverage producing apparatus. The housing includes a first transmissive portion configured to make at least a part of the separation apparatus visible from an outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Kaishun Kihara, Toshio Saito
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Patent number: 10595665Abstract: An extracting method of extracting a beverage liquid from an extraction target includes a pressure reduction step of switching an interior of an extraction container in which the extraction target and a liquid are stored from a first air pressure to a second air pressure lower than the first air pressure, and an extraction step of extracting the beverage liquid from the extraction target. The first air pressure is an air pressure at which the liquid at a predetermined temperature does not boil, and the second air pressure is an air pressure at which the liquid that does not boil at the first air pressure boils. The switching from the first air pressure to the second air pressure is done by releasing the air pressure in the extraction container.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Tree Field, Inc.Inventors: Kaishun Kihara, Kazuki Togashi, Taisuke Torizu, Nobuhiro Noake, Kazuhiro Abe, Toshio Saito
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Patent number: 10574171Abstract: An inductive load control device includes: an electric path configured to connect an external DC power supply and an inductive load drive unit; an opening and closing unit configured to connect or disconnect the electric path; a voltage detection unit configured to detect a voltage difference between ends of the opening and closing unit; and a failure detection unit configured to detect a failure of the opening and closing unit. The opening and closing unit includes: series-connected first and second switching elements; and a diode connected in series with the first switching element and in parallel with the second switching element such that an anode of the diode is disposed in a direction of the DC power supply. The failure detection unit is configured to detect that the second switching element is in a non-conduction failure, based on the voltage difference.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshio Saito, Hiromi Murata
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Publication number: 20190280638Abstract: An inductive load control device includes: an electric path configured to connect an external DC power supply and an inductive load drive unit; an opening and closing unit configured to connect or disconnect the electric path; a voltage detection unit configured to detect a voltage difference between ends of the opening and closing unit; and a failure detection unit configured to detect a failure of the opening and closing unit. The opening and closing unit includes: series-connected first and second switching elements; and a diode connected in series with the first switching element and in parallel with the second switching element such that an anode of the diode is disposed in a direction of the DC power supply. The failure detection unit is configured to detect that the second switching element is in a non-conduction failure, based on the voltage difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshio Saito, Hiromi Murata
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Patent number: 10381959Abstract: A motor control device includes: an inverter circuit including a semiconductor switching element for drive which drives a motor; a cut-off circuit including a semiconductor switching element for cut-off which cuts off an electric connection between the motor and the inverter circuit; a failure detection unit; a rotation number detection unit; and a control unit. In a case where the failure detection unit detects a failure of the semiconductor switching element for drive, the control unit turns off the semiconductor switching element for drive, and in a case where the number of rotations of the motor which is detected by the rotation number detection unit is less than a predetermined first threshold, the control unit further turns off the semiconductor switching element for cut-off.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Taiki Yamane, Toshio Saito
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Patent number: D891165Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: TREE FIELD, INC.Inventors: Kaishun Kihara, Toshio Saito, Taisuke Torizu, Naoyuki Takami, Takeo Mori
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Patent number: D916541Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: TREE FIELD, INC.Inventors: Kaishun Kihara, Toshio Saito, Taisuke Torizu, Naoyuki Takami, Takeo Mori