Patents by Inventor Hideo Sano

Hideo Sano 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: 11563393
    Abstract: A control device 10 for a rotary apparatus 1 includes a driving circuit 40 configured to apply a driving voltage to a stepping motor 20 that rotates an output gear 74, and a control circuit 30 configured to output, to the driving circuit 40, driving pulses in a number corresponding to a driving target included in a driving command signal from the outside. The control circuit 30 includes a driving-pulse output unit 61 configured to output the driving pulse in the number corresponding to the driving target, a position-information acquiring unit 52 configured to acquire position information from a potentiometer 75 that reads a rotating position of the output gear 74 of the rotary apparatus 1, and a rotation-abnormality determining unit 59 configured to determine, based on the position information acquired by the position-information acquiring unit 52, whether a rotation abnormality has occurred in the rotary apparatus 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuo Takada, Takayuki Matsui, Haruka Miyaji, Hideo Sano
  • Publication number: 20210194399
    Abstract: A control device 10 for a rotary apparatus 1 includes a driving circuit 40 configured to apply a driving voltage to a stepping motor 20 that rotates an output gear 74, and a control circuit 30 configured to output, to the driving circuit 40, driving pulses in a number corresponding to a driving target included in a driving command signal from the outside. The control circuit 30 includes a driving-pulse output unit 61 configured to output the driving pulse in the number corresponding to the driving target, a position-information acquiring unit 52 configured to acquire position information from a potentiometer 75 that reads a rotating position of the output gear 74 of the rotary apparatus 1, and a rotation-abnormality determining unit 59 configured to determine, based on the position information acquired by the position-information acquiring unit 52, whether a rotation abnormality has occurred in the rotary apparatus 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuo TAKADA, Takayuki MATSUI, Haruka MIYAJI, Hideo SANO
  • Patent number: 10530283
    Abstract: A motor controller capable of more reliably starting a stepping motor even if a predetermined drive power is supplied to the stepping motor, and to a control method for the stepping motor is provided. The motor controller driving a stepping motor detects that the stepping motor is in a step-out state after a start operation of the stepping motor is performed. If predetermined determination conditions are satisfied, when it is detected that the stepping motor is in a step-out state, it is determined that a restart operation of the stepping motor is performed, and the stepping motor is restarted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventors: Ayaka Shimada, Takayuki Matsui, Kazuo Takada, Haruka Miyaji, Hideo Sano
  • Patent number: 10428180
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyamide resin comprising a unit derived from ?-caprolactam and/or ?-aminocaproic acid (to also be referred to as “Unit 1”), a unit derived from adipic acid (to also be referred to as “Unit 2”) and a unit derived from hexamethylenediamine (to also be referred to as “Unit 3”), wherein the concentration of terminal amino groups in the polyamide resin is greater than the concentration of terminal carboxyl groups in the polyamide resin, and the amount of Unit 1 is greater than 60% by weight to less than 80% by weight of the total amount of Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Sano, Keitarou Ono, Atsushi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20180287532
    Abstract: A motor controller capable of more reliably starting a stepping motor even if a predetermined drive power is supplied to the stepping motor, and to a control method for the stepping motor is provided. The motor controller driving a stepping motor detects that the stepping motor is in a step-out state after a start operation of the stepping motor is performed. If predetermined determination conditions are satisfied, when it is detected that the stepping motor is in a step-out state, it is determined that a restart operation of the stepping motor is performed, and the stepping motor is restarted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Ayaka SHIMADA, Takayuki MATSUI, Kazuo TAKADA, Haruka MIYAJI, Hideo SANO
  • Publication number: 20170198094
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyamide resin comprising a unit derived from ?-caprolactam and/or ?-aminocaproic acid (to also be referred to as “Unit 1”), a unit derived from adipic acid (to also be referred to as “Unit 2”) and a unit derived from hexamethylenediamine (to also be referred to as “Unit 3”), wherein the concentration of terminal amino groups in the polyamide resin is greater than the concentration of terminal carboxyl groups in the polyamide resin, and the amount of Unit 1 is greater than 60% by weight to less than 80% by weight of the total amount of Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo SANO, Keitarou ONO, Atsushi YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20170097697
    Abstract: An input device for use in input of data to a document screen displayed on a touch panel of a terminal device according to the present disclosure detects a touch operation performed on the touch panel in a detection unit. When the touch operation is detected, the input device transmits device information including at least a device ID of the input device to the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Go DOJO, Hideo SANO, Hitoshi NAKANO
  • Patent number: 9277175
    Abstract: A temperature of a mobile telephone set is detected, and when the temperature exceeds a predetermined first threshold, a video signal encoding unit (21) is changed from the predetermined normal encoding rate to a reduced encoding rate, which is lower than the predetermined normal encoding rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong)
    Inventor: Hideo Sano
  • Publication number: 20140376615
    Abstract: A temperature of a mobile telephone set is detected, and when the temperature exceeds a predetermined first threshold, a video signal encoding unit (21) is changed from the predetermined normal encoding rate to a reduced encoding rate, which is lower than the predetermined normal encoding rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Hideo SANO
  • Publication number: 20130326339
    Abstract: There is provided a document creation system comprising a document creation device and a document browsing device, wherein the document creation device has a functional layer storage that stores functional layers which are to be superposed on an image, which are transparent at least partially, and whose functions are defined in predetermined regions of the layers, a selection section that selects the functional layer to be applied, from among the functional layers stored in the functional layer storage, and a synthesis section that superposes the functional layer selected by the selection section onto the image, and wherein the document browsing device performs display processing, input acceptance processing, or output processing on the image onto which the functional layer is superposed by the synthesis section in accordance with the superposed functional layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shoichi HAGISAWA, Go DOJO, Hideo SANO
  • Publication number: 20130002798
    Abstract: A temperature of a mobile telephone set is detected, and when the temperature exceeds a predetermined first threshold, a video signal encoding unit (21) is changed from the predetermined normal encoding rate to a reduced encoding rate, which is lower than the predetermined normal encoding rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideo Sano
  • Patent number: 8298357
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength aluminum alloy extruded product exhibiting excellent corrosion resistance and secondary workability and suitably used as a structural material for transportation equipment such as automobiles, railroad vehicles, and aircrafts, and a method of manufacturing the same. The aluminum alloy extruded product has a composition containing 0.6 to 1.2% of Si, 0.8 to 1.3% of Mg, and 1.3 to 2.1% of Cu while satisfying the following conditional expressions (1), (2), (3) and (4), 3%?Si %+Mg %+Cu %?4%??(1) Mg %?1.7×Si %??(2) Mg %+Si %?2.7%??(3) Cu %/2?Mg %?(Cu %/2)+0.6%??(4) and further containing 0.04 to 0.35% of Cr, and 0.05% or less of Mn as an impurity, with the balance being aluminum and unavoidable impurities. The cross section of the extruded product has a recrystallized structure with an average grain size of 500 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignees: The Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies, Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Sano, Yasuaki Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20110155291
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength aluminum alloy extruded product exhibiting excellent corrosion resistance and secondary workability and suitably used as a structural material for transportation equipment such as automobiles, railroad vehicles, and aircrafts, and a method of manufacturing the same. The aluminum alloy extruded product has a composition containing 0.6 to 1.2% of Si, 0.8 to 1.3% of Mg, and 1.3 to 2.1% of Cu while satisfying the following conditional expressions (1), (2), (3) and (4), 3%?Si %+Mg %+Cu %?4%??(1) Mg %?1.7×Si %??(2) Mg %+Si %?2.7%??(3) Cu %/2?Mg %?(Cu %/2)+0.6%??(4) and further containing 0.04 to 0.35% of Cr, and 0.05% or less of Mn as an impurity, with the balance being aluminum and unavoidable impurities. The cross section of the extruded product has a recrystallized structure with an average grain size of 500 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Hideo Sano, Yasuaki Yoshino
  • Patent number: 7960521
    Abstract: To provide a dye capable of forming an anisotropic dye film showing high dichroism and having a high degree of molecular orientation, a composition containing the dye, an anisotropic dye film using the dye and a polarizing element. A trisazo dye, of which the free acid form is represented by the following formula (1), wherein at least one of B1 and D1 has at least one substituent as defined by the following Q1, a dye composition for an anisotropic dye film containing the dye, an anisotropic dye film and a polarizing element using the anisotropic dye film: Q1: an alkyl group or alkoxy group substituted by a hydrogen bond-forming group: wherein A1 is a phenyl group or a naphthyl group, each of B1 and D1 is a phenylene group or a naphthylene group, X1 is an amino group which may be substituted or a hydroxyl group, and m is 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Sano, Masami Kadowaki, Ryuichi Hasegawa, Wataru Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7927436
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength aluminum alloy extruded product exhibiting excellent corrosion resistance and secondary workability and suitably used as a structural material for transportation equipment such as automobiles, railroad vehicles, and aircrafts, and a method of manufacturing the same. The aluminum alloy extruded product has a composition containing 0.6 to 1.2% of Si, 0.8 to 1.3% of Mg, and 1.3 to 2.1% of Cu while satisfying the following conditional expressions (1), (2), (3) and (4), 3%?Si %+Mg %+Cu %?4%??(1) Mg %?1.7×Si %??(2) Mg %+Si %?2.7%??(3) Cu %/2?Mg %?(Cu %/2)+0.6%??(4) and further containing 0.04 to 0.35% of Cr, and 0.05% or less of Mn as an impurity, with the balance being aluminum and unavoidable impurities. The cross section of the extruded product has a recrystallized structure with an average grain size of 500 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignees: The Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies, Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Sano, Yasuaki Yoshino
  • Patent number: 7846546
    Abstract: Silicon carbide-based fine particles containing an electrically conducting inorganic substance and a electromagnetic wave absorbing material, which are fine particles comprising a particle inner portion of a silicon carbide-based material and a surface layer formed of an electrically conducting inorganic substance mainly comprising carbon, wherein a gradient layer with the compositional ratio of the electrically conducting inorganic substance gradiently increasing toward the particle surface is present and the thickness of the electrically conducting inorganic substance gradient layer is from 1 to 500 nm. The electromagnetic wave absorbing material of the present invention can selectively absorb a electromagnetic wave of 1 to 300 GHz in a wide band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Shibata, Takeshi Kita, Koji Shiba, Takashi Kino, Hideo Sano, Yoichi Okubo, Shigeru Yao
  • Patent number: 7713363
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a high-strength aluminum alloy extruded product which excels in corrosion resistance and stress corrosion cracking resistance, and is suitably used in applications as structural materials for transportation equipment such as automobiles, railroad carriages, and aircrafts. The method includes extruding a billet of an aluminum alloy containing 0.5% to 1.5% of Si, 0.9% to 1.6% of Mg, 0.8% to 2.5% of Cu, while satisfying the following equations (1), (2), (3), and (4), 3?Si%+Mg%+Cu%?4??(1) Mg%?1.7×Si%??(2) Mg%+Si%?2.7??(3) Cu%/2?Mg%?(Cu%/2)+0.6??(4) and further containing 0.5% to 1.2% of Mn, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, into a solid product by using a solid die, or into a hollow product by using a porthole die or a bridge die, thereby obtaining the solid product or the hollow product in which a fibrous structure accounts for 60% or more of an area-fraction of the cross-sectional structure of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Sano, Shinichi Matsuda, Yasushi Kita
  • Publication number: 20100100803
    Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium stores therein a spreadsheet generating program that causes a computer to execute acquiring information related to layout positions of items in a form; column-sorting the items in ascending order, according to column-related coordinate values of the items; determining a column width for each of the items, based on a distance to the previous item in the column-sorted items; row-sorting the items in ascending order, according to row-related coordinate values of the items; determining a row height for each of the items, based on a distance to the previous item in the row-sorted items; designating, for each of the items and from among cells having the determined column widths and the determined row heights, a cell corresponding to a layout position indicated in the acquired information; and outputting a spreadsheet related to layout of the form by a provision of the items to the designated cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicants: FUJITSU LIMITED, PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Okushiro, Masahiro Kurishima, Kouji Tachibana, Hideaki Matsui, Takayoshi Mizuma, Kenji Ura, Michiyo Yamashita, Hideo Sano
  • Publication number: 20100051147
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength aluminum alloy extruded product exhibiting excellent corrosion resistance and secondary workability and suitably used as a structural material for transportation equipment such as automobiles, railroad vehicles, and aircrafts, and a method of manufacturing the same. The aluminum alloy extruded product has a composition containing 0.6 to 1.2% of Si, 0.8 to 1.3% of Mg, and 1.3 to 2.1% of Cu while satisfying the following conditional expressions (1), (2), (3) and (4), 3%?Si %+Mg %+Cu %?4% ??(1) Mg %?1.7×Si % ??(2) Mg %+Si %?2.7% ??(3) Cu %/2?Mg %?(Cu %/2)+0.6% ??(4) and further containing 0.04 to 0.35% of Cr, and 0.05% or less of Mn as an impurity, with the balance being aluminum and unavoidable impurities. The cross section of the extruded product has a recrystallized structure with an average grain size of 500 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Hideo Sano, Yasuaki Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20090275742
    Abstract: It is to provide a dye for an anisotropic dye film to be formed by a wet system film-forming method, which is achromatic and has high dichroism and a high degree of molecular orientation, an anisotropic dye film containing the dye and a polarizing element employing the film. A dye for an anisotropic dye film to be formed by a wet system film-forming method, of which the free acid form is represented by the following formula (I), a composition for an anisotropic dye film containing the dye, an anisotropic dye film and a polarizing element employing the anisotropic dye film: wherein A11: a (substituted) phenyl group, a (substituted) naphthyl group or a (substituted) aromatic heterocyclic group; B11: a bivalent aromatic hydrocarbon group or aromatic hydrocyclic group; R11, R22: H, OH, a (substituted) alkyl group, a (substituted) phenyl group or a (substituted) acyl group; n?: 1 or 2; m: 0 or 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo Sano, Tomio Yoneyama, Masaaki Nishimura, Wataru Shimizu, Ryuichi Hasegawa, Masami Kadowaki, Junichi Oizumi