Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Kato

Hiroaki Kato 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: 20020139988
    Abstract: A vibration isolator includes a vibration isolation platform, a vibration sensor installed on the vibration isolation platform, and an angle sensor for sensing an inclination angle of the vibration isolation platform. A detection signal from the vibration sensor is corrected based upon an output from the angle sensor, and the corrected detection signal is used in order to suppress vibration of the vibration isolation platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroaki Kato
  • Patent number: 6434623
    Abstract: A data file recording medium stores data files which are an object of transmission and reception. A data file includes data, information as to data volume of the data, and a program having a data volume comparison processing and a data integration processing. The program may include additionally a data expanding processing, in the event that the data is a compression format of data. Such a data file is transferred between a data transmission apparatus and a data receiving apparatus. At the receiving end, a data volume comparison processing is effected to compare data volume as to received data of the data to be transmitted with data volume represented by the data volume information. If the data is in short supply, an amount of missing data is informed to the data transmission apparatus. The data transmission apparatus transmits a data file including data involved in only the missed out portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kenichi Sasaki, Tatsuro Matsumoto, Takayuki Hasebe, Hiroaki Kato, Morito Yamamoto, Takashi Matsushima
  • Patent number: 6407070
    Abstract: A one-pack solid pharmaceutical composition for dialysate containing sodium bicarbonate which can prevent the reactions between sodium bicarbonate and acetic acid and between sodium bicarbonate and electrolytes, and is excellent in long term storage stability is provided. The solid pharmaceutical composition for dialysate containing sodium bicarbonate is a mixture of an agent A containing sodium chloride, calcium chloride, magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium acetate and acetic acid and an agent B containing sodium bicarbonate coated with sodium acetate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Nipro Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiya Kai, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Kazutaka Fujiki, Hiroaki Kato, Makoto Sato
  • Publication number: 20020060545
    Abstract: An electric motor such as a driving source of an electric vehicle is controlled by the microcomputer 7. The microcomputer 7 calculates a target torque Req_trq according to a throttle opening degree &agr;, and outputting induction values (a current instruction value I and a angle instruction value &thgr;) obtained referring to a map MP based on the target torque Req_trq (a motor rotational number Nm and a battery voltage Vb), the microcomputer 7 performs a torque control of an SR motor 3. The motor rotational number Nm detected from the SR motor 3 is passed through a band pass filter 51. Passing by the band pass filter 51, a signal data of the extracted 0.1-50 Hz is executed a PD calculation process 52, the calculated corrected amount PD_out is subtracted from the target torque Req_trq.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Inagaki, Hideki Kuzuya, Hiroaki Kato, Noboru Sebe
  • Publication number: 20020056750
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide an optical reader which is compatible with every environment irrespective of installation and usage environments, thereby enabling uniform manufacturing, satisfactory reading reliance, and operative safety and user-friendliness. The optical unit is mounted on the stage, and there is provided an inclination apparatus which inclines the stage at a desired angle. Thereby, without changing a preset optimal scanning pattern, only its emitting direction becomes changeable freely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kato, Mitsuharu Ishii, Toshitaka Aoki
  • Publication number: 20020033300
    Abstract: In a control unit for an electrical-motor-driven power steering apparatus, there are provided an assist current command value calculated based upon a steering torque of a steering wheel, an assist current control value calculated based upon a motor current value of a motor and the assist current command value. A motor outputs an assist force based upon the assist current control value. Further, the control unit provides an estimation means for estimating a road surface &mgr; based upon at least one of the motor current value and the steering torque. To the control unit, there are further inputted a vehicle speed obtained based upon rotation of a wheel, and a steering angle obtained based upon rotation of the steering wheel. Therefore, the estimation means estimates the road surface &mgr; by comparing with a previously memorized standard value corresponding to the vehicle speed and the steering angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Applicant: TOYODA KOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Takeuchi, Toshihiro Takahashi, Hirotsune Suzuki, Hiroshi Suzuki, Hiroaki Kato
  • Patent number: 6185931
    Abstract: A failure detecting system of an exhaust purification apparatus includes, a catalyst unit including an electrically heated catalyst and intervened in an engine exhaust path, an air pump supplying a secondary air to the engine exhaust path, a first electric current sensor detecting electric current value for the electrically heated catalyst, and a second electric current sensor detecting electric current value for the air pump. The electrically heated catalyst and air pump are supplied with current upon a cold start of an engine. Presence of failures in the electrically heated catalyst and air pump is discerned on the basis of the electric current value each of the first and second electric current sensors, and the detection of the current value of the first electric current sensor starts prior to the detection of the current value of the second electric current sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichi Shimasaki, Hiroaki Kato
  • Patent number: 6176081
    Abstract: In a heating device for an exhaust gas purification catalytic converter, an insulating coating or an insulating material is provided between a tubular electrode receiving member of a power relay means and an electrode received in this electrode receiving member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignees: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, NGK Insulators, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Shimasaki, Hironao Fukuchi, Hiroaki Kato, Kazutomo Sawamura, Yasushi Kato
  • Patent number: 6170622
    Abstract: An anti-vibration apparatus is equipped with a plurality of active support legs which support an anti-vibration table and which are able to actively operate to control the motion of the anti-vibration table in a horizontal plane. The apparatus is further equipped with a pressure feedback loop for detecting the internal pressure of an air spring provided in each of the plurality of active support legs and for feeding a signal, which is based on the detected internal pressure of the air spring, back to the control system of the anti-vibration apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Wakui, Takehiko Mayama, Hiroaki Kato
  • Patent number: 6155542
    Abstract: A vibration damping apparatus includes a plurality of actuators for removing vibration of a table as an object of vibration damping, a detection device for detecting a vibration status of the table, an acquisition device for acquiring compensation amounts for a plurality of directional elements, from the vibration status detected by the detection device, and an allocation device for allocating an actuator-driving force corresponding to a compensation amount for a predetermined directional element, among the compensation amounts acquired by the acquisition device, to an actuator having a small amount of driving force, allocated based on a compensation amount for another directional element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kato, Takehiko Mayama
  • Patent number: 6129992
    Abstract: Provided are a high strength cold rolled steel sheet and a high strength plated steel sheet possessing improved geomagnetic shielding properties, that is, having a high relative permeability in a d.c. magnetic field around 0.3 Oe, a process for producing the same, and an explosion-proof band or an outer magnetic shielding material, for television cathode-ray tubes, using the steel sheet. An ultra low carbon steel, which has a carbon content of not more than 0.0060% and has been subjected to solid solution strengthening utilizing silicon and magnesium without relying upon precipitation strengthening, is deoxidized with silicon so that aluminum is substantially absent in the steel. Alternatively, when the ultra low carbon steel is deoxidized with aluminum, boron is added to inhibit the precipitation of AlN. Next, the deoxidized steel is finish rolled at 750 to 980.degree. C., cold rolled with a reduction ratio of 60 to 90%, and then annealed in the temperature range of 750.degree. C. to the Ac.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuharu Sakuma, Satoru Tanaka, Kazuo Koyama, Yujiro Miyauchi, Takeshi Kubota, Atsushi Itami, Hiroaki Kato, Chohachi Sato, Teruo Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 6112519
    Abstract: A foreign matter-removing filter is provided upstream of an electrically-heated heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignees: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Shimasaki, Hironao Fukuchi, Hiroaki Kato, Kazutomo Sawamura, Yasushi Kato
  • Patent number: 6031213
    Abstract: An electrode structure includes: a metallic electrode; a case for accommodating and holding the electrode, and one end of a lead wire connecting to the electrode; and an insulating member interposed between the electrode and the case in order to ensure insulation between the electrode and the case, in which structure a waterproof member is interposed between the case and the lead wire in order to prevent the incoming of water from between the case and the lead wire, and an electric heater havinging the above electrode structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignees: NGK Insulators, Ltd., Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeharu Hashimoto, Tadato Ito, Yuichi Shimasaki, Hiroaki Kato, Takashi Komatsuda, Akihisa Saito, Takuya Aoki, Tetsu Teshirogi
  • Patent number: 6021991
    Abstract: An active anti-vibration apparatus includes an anti-vibration mount, which has an actuator and a vibration sensor, for supporting an anti-vibration table, and a control unit for driving the actuator on the basis of output from the vibration sensor. The control unit separates the output from the vibration sensor into high frequency components and low frequency components, applies proper compensation calculation for the respective separated frequency components, and drives the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takehiko Mayama, Hiroaki Kato
  • Patent number: 5991727
    Abstract: A voice reproducing apparatus for personal use is provided with a card serving as a memory-unit accommodating member incorporating therein a memory unit which stores voice as compressed codes; a player body for converting the codes to a voice signal and incorporating therein an interface, a decoding unit, and a circuit portion; and an earphone. The earphone is connected to said card, some of a plurality of contacts of a terminal portion provided in said card are formed as contacts of a terminal portion for an earphone, some of a plurality of contacts of a terminal portion provided in said interface of said player body are formed as contacts of an output terminal portion, and said terminal portion for an earphone is connectable to said output terminal portion when said card is loaded in said player body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ono, Hiroaki Kato
  • Patent number: 5930772
    Abstract: When an accounting process is performed through connectionless communications such as a WWW, etc., a retrieval CGI stores a retrieval result in a file having a file name generated from a process ID and a user ID. Then, a retrieving/accounting process is performed in units of a user ID and a process ID. A session is managed using the process ID as information to be exchanged, thereby requiring no resident combinational software. Furthermore, a volume-dependent accounting can be realized even when communications are disconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hisayuki Gomyo, Hiroshi Horiguchi, Junichi Hattori, Hiroaki Kato, Kentaro Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 5908019
    Abstract: An intake air amount control system for an internal combustion engine installed in an automotive vehicle has an intake air amount control valve arranged in a bypass passage bypassing a throttle valve arranged in an intake passage of the engine. The intake air amount control valve controls the amount of air supplied to the intake passage at a location downstream of the throttle valve. The intake air amount control valve is controlled in dependence on operatives states of electric devices including an electrically-heated catalyzer which are installed on the vehicle and supplied with electric power by an alternator installed on the vehicle and driven by the engine, when the engine is in a predetermined operating condition. The intake air amount control valve is controlled by the use of a correction amount dependent on an operative state of the electrically-heated catalyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hironao Fukuchi, Yuichi Shimasaki, Hiroaki Kato, Akihisa Saito, Hideo Furumoto, Takayoshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 5871851
    Abstract: A 0.1 to 0.5 mm-thick plated steel sheet having high coercive force and magnetic flux density is provided by hot rolling a slab comprising by weight carbon: 0.01 to 0.09%, silicon: not more than 1.0%, phosphorus: not more than 0.3%, manganese: not more than 1.5%, sulfur: not more than 0.04%, aluminum: not more than 1.0%, and nitrogen: not more than 0.01% with the balance consisting of iron and unavoidable impurities, cold rolling the hot rolled sheet, annealing the cold rolled sheet to prepare a steel sheet having an average grain diameter of 3 to 15 .mu.m, temper rolling the steel sheet with a reduction ratio of not more than 3%, and plating the temper rolled sheet with chromium or nickel. This enables the provision of a magnetic shielding material having no significant drift and very good electron beam landing properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Fukumizu, Hiroaki Kato, Teruo Takeuchi, Takahide Shimazu, Yasuo Sato, Tatsuo Amaike, Ryoichi Yoshihara, Takeshi Harada
  • Patent number: 5857325
    Abstract: An electrical load abnormality-detecting system for an automotive vehicle detects abnormality of each of a plurality of electrical load devices installed on the vehicle. A current sensor is provided commonly for the plurality of electrical load devices, for detecting a total load current flowing through the plurality of electrical load devices. The plurality of electrical load devices are separately put into operation, and abnormality of each of the plurality of electrical load devices is determined based on the total load current detected by the current sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichi Shimasaki, Hiroaki Kato, Akihisa Saito, Tetsu Teshirogi, Hideo Furumoto, Takuya Aoki
  • Patent number: 5852929
    Abstract: A failure detection system detects a failure occurring in an exhaust secondary air supply system of an internal combustion engine, and has a catalytic converter installed in an exhaust pipe of an exhaust system of the engine for reducing pollutants from exhaust gases emitted from the engine, a conduit connected, at one end, to the exhaust pipe at a location upstream of the catalytic converter and an air pump connected to an opposite end of the conduit for supplying compressed air in the conduit. The conduit is closed by the a valve which opens in response to the negative pressure and a second valve which opens in response to the conduit pressure. In the system a first prescribed level and the second prescribed level are set and two pressure switches are provided for generating output at the levels. A failure occurring in the air pump and the valve is detected based on operation of the air pump and the output of the pressure detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kato, Yuichi Shimasaki, Takashi Komatsuda, Takuya Aoki, Hiroaki Muramatsu, Hajime Uto, Toshiaki Ichitani