Patents by Inventor Chikako Katano

Chikako Katano 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: 8976558
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power supply device includes a rectifying circuit configured to rectify an alternating-current power supply, a first capacitor configured to smooth a voltage after rectification, and a falling voltage chopper circuit configured to supply electric power to a load. The first capacitor is set to a capacity in which a section where a voltage after smoothing drops to an output voltage to the load is provided in a rectified half period of the alternating-current power supply. The falling voltage chopper circuit includes at least one switching element configured to receive an input of the voltage after smoothing, operate in a section where the voltage after smoothing exceeds the output voltage, and pause in a section of the output voltage and a second capacitor provided on an output side and having a capacity larger than the capacity of the first capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Go Kato, Takuro Hiramatsu, Kenji Sakai, Chikako Katano, Hiroshi Takenaga, Tomoaki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20140178666
    Abstract: A vinylidene chloride-based resin composition enables continuous extrusion molding over a long period of time and has excellent thermal stability. A vinylidene chloride-based resin composition includes particles (A) which are solid at room temperature; a plasticizer (B) which is liquid at room temperature; and a vinylidene chloride-based copolymer, wherein, in an area of 0.4 cm2 observed with a transmission optical microscope, a ratio of the particles (A) which have a projected area of 1000 ?m2 or more and 3000 ?m2 or less to the particles (A) which have a projected area of 10 ?m2 or more and 3000 ?m2 or less is 20% or less; and a ratio of the particles (A) which have a projected area of 10 ?m2 or more and less than 100 ?m2 to the particles (A) which have a projected area of 10 ?m2 or more and 3000 ?m2 or less is 40% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Izumiyama, Chikako Katano
  • Publication number: 20130010509
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power supply device includes a rectifying circuit configured to rectify an alternating-current power supply, a first capacitor configured to smooth a voltage after rectification, and a falling voltage chopper circuit configured to supply electric power to a load. The first capacitor is set to a capacity in which a section where a voltage after smoothing drops to an output voltage to the load is provided in a rectified half period of the alternating-current power supply. The falling voltage chopper circuit includes at least one switching element configured to receive an input of the voltage after smoothing, operate in a section where the voltage after smoothing exceeds the output voltage, and pause in a section of the output voltage and a second capacitor provided on an output side and having a capacity larger than the capacity of the first capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Go KATO, Takuro HIRAMATSU, Kenji SAKAI, Chikako KATANO, Hiroshi TAKENAGA, Tomoaki SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20120175956
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of a DC power supply feeding system, the system includes a DC voltage power supply that outputs a specified voltage by using a commercial AC power supply, a varying voltage power supply that generates power by using natural energy and outputs a varying voltage, and a reverse flow preventing elements that connects the DC voltage power supply and the varying voltage power supply in parallel while output sides are made to have same polarity, and supplies powers obtained from the DC voltage power supply and the varying voltage power supply to a load. When an amount of power generation of the varying voltage power supply is small, the power is intermittently supplied to the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki KITAMURA, Fumihiko Nagasaki, Toshiaki Takahashi, Koji Migita, Toshihiko Sasai, Chikako Katano