Patents by Inventor Hideaki Baba

Hideaki Baba 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: 20260146309
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tungsten wire includes a tungsten alloy containing rhenium. The tungsten wire includes a protrusion peak density (Spd) of 7000 or more and 11000 or less as a surface roughness parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2026
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Applicant: Niterra Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi AOYAMA, Hideaki BABA, Masanori MIZOBE, Kenji TOMOKIYO
  • Patent number: 12606890
    Abstract: A tungsten wire according to an embodiment is a tungsten wire made of a W alloy containing rhenium, and includes a mixture on at least a part of a surface thereof, the mixture contains W, C, and O as constituent elements, and taking a radial cross-sectional thickness of the mixture as A mm and a diameter of the tungsten wire as B mm, an average value of a ratio A/B of A to B is 0.3% to 0.8%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Niterra Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Aoyama, Hideaki Baba, Kenji Tomokiyo
  • Patent number: 12559823
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tungsten wire includes a tungsten alloy containing rhenium. The tungsten wire includes a protrusion peak density (Spd) of 7000 or more and 11000 or less as a surface roughness parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: Niterra Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Aoyama, Hideaki Baba, Masanori Mizobe, Kenji Tomokiyo
  • Publication number: 20260002238
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tungsten wire including a tungsten alloy containing rhenium, wherein, according to an EBSD analysis on a unit area of 40 ?m× 40 ?m in a central portion located within 100 ?m concentrically extending from a central axis in a cross section along a wire radial direction perpendicular to a wire drawing direction in a main body portion of the tungsten wire, an area ratio accounted for by crystal orientations having an orientation difference of 15 degrees or less from <101>, which is parallel to the wire drawing direction, to a measurement field is 90% or more and 99.9% or less on an IPF map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2025
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Applicant: NITERRA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi AOYAMA, Hideaki BABA
  • Publication number: 20250331423
    Abstract: A medical needle having a rhenium-tungsten wire rod made of a tungsten alloy containing rhenium is provided. The rhenium-tungsten wire rod has a rhenium content of less than 30 wt % in a unit area at each of 17 points in each of two radial cross-sections of the rhenium-tungsten wire rod, where the unit area is a circle area having 1 ?m in diameter, the 17 points comprising intersections of four equally spaced concentric circles with two axes and a center in said each of two radial cross-sections, the two axes being parallel to a diameter of said each of two radial cross-sections and intersecting each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2025
    Publication date: October 23, 2025
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi AOYAMA, Hideaki BABA, Kenji TOMOKIYO
  • Patent number: 12376492
    Abstract: The rhenium tungsten wire rod according to an embodiment is a wire rod made of a tungsten alloy containing rhenium, wherein a rhenium content is less than 30 wt % in any measurement area of a wire rod body where a unit area is 1 ?m in diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Aoyama, Hideaki Baba, Kenji Tomokiyo
  • Publication number: 20250019805
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rhenium-tungsten alloy wire which is a wire including a tungsten alloy containing rhenium. A ratio W/Re of an atomic concentration (atm %) of tungsten (W) to an atomic concentration (atm %) of rhenium (Re) according to XPS analysis is 2.5 or more in an arbitrary measurement area of a unit area having a diameter of 50 ?m at a wire surface. A medical needle according to the embodiment includes the rhenium-tungsten alloy wire according to the embodiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki BABA, Hitoshi AOYAMA, Daisuke FUKUSHI, Sachiko FUJISAWA
  • Publication number: 20250019804
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rhenium-tungsten alloy wire is a wire made of a tungsten alloy containing rhenium. The amount of NH4 at a wire surface is 10 massppm or less, and is according to a ratio of a weight of NH4 ions at a wire surface to a weight of an alloy wire (a weight of NH4 ions at a wire surface/a weight of an alloy wire). According to the embodiment, a medical needle and a probe pin include the rhenium-tungsten alloy wire according to the embodiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki BABA, Hitoshi AOYAMA, Daisuke FUKUSHI, Sachiko FUJISAWA
  • Publication number: 20240170177
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tungsten wire includes a tungsten alloy containing rhenium. According to an EBSD analysis on a unit area, crystalline orientations having an orientation difference of 15 degrees or less from <101>, which is parallel to a wire drawing direction, account for an area ratio of 70% or more and 90% or less to a measurement field on an IPF map. The unit area is a 40 ?m×40 ?m area located within a range of 100 ?m concentrically extending from a central axis in a cross-section along a wire radial direction, which is perpendicular to the wire drawing direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi AOYAMA, Hideaki BABA, Kenji TOMOKIYO
  • Publication number: 20240052461
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tungsten wire includes a tungsten alloy containing rhenium. The tungsten wire includes a protrusion peak density (Spd) of 7000 or more and 11000 or less as a surface roughness parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi AOYAMA, Hideaki BABA, Masanori MIZOBE, Kenji TOMOKIYO
  • Publication number: 20230413672
    Abstract: The rhenium tungsten wire rod according to an embodiment is a wire rod made of a tungsten alloy containing rhenium, wherein a rhenium content is less than 30 wt % in any measurement area of a wire rod body where a unit area is 1 ?m in diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi AOYAMA, Hideaki BABA, Kenji TOMOKIYO
  • Publication number: 20230366069
    Abstract: A tungsten wire according to an embodiment is a tungsten wire made of a W alloy containing rhenium, and includes a mixture on at least a part of a surface thereof, the mixture contains W, C, and O as constituent elements, and taking a radial cross-sectional thickness of the mixture as A mm and a diameter of the tungsten wire as B mm, an average value of a ratio A/B of A to B is 0.3% to 0.8%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi AOYAMA, Hideaki BABA, Kenji TOMOKIYO
  • Publication number: 20150239745
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide magnesium oxide particles which have a high aspect ratio and are loosely aggregated. The present invention is the magnesium oxide particles have an aspect ratio measured by a scanning probe microscope of 3 to 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: KYOWA CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Kobashi, Hideaki Baba, Masaya Murao
  • Publication number: 20140299536
    Abstract: A pressure vessel adapted to hold a compatible filter cartridge encased in a polymeric film is provided. The pressure vessel comprises a pressure vessel outer wall and a pressure vessel inner wall. The pressure vessel inner wall comprises an inner circumference and one or more depressions extending from the inner circumference toward the pressure vessel outer wall, the one or more depressions creating one or more fluid passages between the polymeric film and the pressure vessel when the filter cartridge is installed in the pressure vessel. The one or more depressions comprise a first depression wall joining the pressure vessel inner wall at the inner circumference such that an angle a facing away from the depression between the first depression wall and a tangent of the inner circumference is greater than or equal to ninety degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventor: Hideaki Baba
  • Publication number: 20130175212
    Abstract: A filter cartridge for installation within a compatible pressure vessel is provided. The filter cartridge comprises a filter head comprising a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a filter media attached to the filter head, the filter media being in fluid communication with the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet. The filter cartridge further comprises a polymeric film attached to the filter head and forming a fluid-tight casing around the filter media, the polymeric film comprising an inner film wall facing the filter media and an outer film wall facing the pressure vessel. One or more depressions in the outer film wall create one or more fluid passages between the polymeric film and the pressure vessel when the filter cartridge is installed in the pressure vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventor: Hideaki Baba
  • Patent number: 7147868
    Abstract: An antacid and laxative tablet comprising magnesium oxide particles as an effective component, wherein (i) the magnesium oxide particles contained in the tablet have an average secondary particle diameter measured by a laser diffraction scattering method of 0.5 to 10 ?m, (ii) the content of magnesium oxide particles in the tablet is 88 wt % or more, (iii) the tablet does not become blackish and has substantially no tableting spot, and (iv) the disintegration time is 10 sec or less. The antacid and laxative tablet of the present invention has a high content of magnesium oxide particles, a short disintegration time, does not become blackish, has no tablet trouble and no tableting spot and is suitably administered orally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Kyowa Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Sofue, Isamu Kawamura, Shigeo Yamao, Hideaki Baba, Shiro Horie, Yoko Abe, Hisae Sofue
  • Publication number: 20040022872
    Abstract: An antacid and laxative tablet comprising magnesium oxide particles as an effective component, wherein
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Sofue, Isamu Kawamura, Shigeo Yamao, Hideaki Baba, Shiro Horie, Yoko Abe, Hisae Sofue
  • Patent number: 6550621
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus is composed of: an insert portion into which the plural number of sheets are inserted in a lump; a conveying belt to convey the inserted sheets through a conveying path by one sheet at a time; a detector to detect directions of both sides and the top and bottom of sheets being conveyed through the conveying belt; a both side reversing mechanism to selectively reverse both sides of sheets conveyed by the conveying belt; a top and bottom reversing mechanism to selectively reverse the top and bottom of sheets being conveyed by the conveying belt; and stackers to sort and stack sheets that are aligned in the same direction by the both side reversing mechanism and the top and bottom reversing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kunio Fukatsu, Hiroshi Watanabe, Yasuo Tsukada, Sadao Sekine, Hideaki Baba
  • Publication number: 20010028145
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus is composed of: an insert portion into which the plural number of sheets are inserted in a lump; a conveying belt to convey the inserted sheets through a conveying path by one sheet at a time; a detector to detect directions of both sides and the top and bottom of sheets being conveyed through the conveying belt; a both side reversing mechanism to selectively reverse both sides of sheets conveyed by the conveying belt; a top and bottom reversing mechanism to selectively reverse the top and bottom of sheets being conveyed by the conveying belt; and stackers to sort and stack sheets that are aligned in the same direction by the both side reversing mechanism and the top and bottom reversing mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventors: Kunio Fukatsu, Hiroshi Watanabe, Yasuo Tsukada, Sadao Sekine, Hideaki Baba
  • Patent number: 5902719
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for processing a lithographic printing plate having a physical development nuclei layer between an aluminum support and a silver halide emulsion layer, which comprises processing the lithographic printing plate in the presence of a monocyclic azole compound having no mercapto group or a derivative thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Hideaki Baba, Makiko Oko, Toshiro Kondo