Patents by Inventor Hironobu Saito

Hironobu 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).

  • Patent number: 11780018
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a rotary cutting tool that can divide chips at an appropriate size, suppress the incidence of edge chipping and damage attributed to chips to the cutting tool and a workpiece, extend the tool service life with regard to the machining of hard, brittle materials, and improve machining efficiency. The rotary cutting tool includes a hard coat film 3 coated onto a tip end section of a tool body 1 having a chip discharge groove 2. A rake face 6 is concavely provided in a cutting edge-side chip discharge groove formation surface 4 constituting the chip discharge groove 2 of the tool body 1, from a cutting edge 5 and along the cutting edge 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: UNION TOOL CO.
    Inventors: Hironobu Saito, Hideki Osaki, Hidehito Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210213545
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a rotary cutting tool that can divide chips at an appropriate size, suppress the incidence of edge chipping and damage attributed to chips to the cutting tool and a workpiece, extend the tool service life with regard to the machining of hard, brittle materials, and improve machining efficiency. The rotary cutting tool includes a hard coat film 3 coated onto a tip end section of a tool body 1 having a chip discharge groove 2. A rake face 6 is concavely provided in a cutting edge-side chip discharge groove formation surface 4 constituting the chip discharge groove 2 of the tool body 1, from a cutting edge 5 and along the cutting edge 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: UNION TOOL CO.
    Inventors: Hironobu SAITO, Hideki OSAKI, Hidehito WATANABE
  • Patent number: 5659870
    Abstract: A magnetic toner conveying apparatus for conveying magnetic toner, which may be used with an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, comprises a non-magnetic convey path member constituting a convey path for conveying the magnetic toner, a non-magnetic convey member arranged in the convey path member and adapted to convey the magnetic toner, and a magnetic force generating member provided on or in the convey path member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Takahara, Hironobu Saito
  • Patent number: 5563697
    Abstract: A separating apparatus for separating foreign matter from a magnetic toner includes a filter having at least one opening for allowing passage of the magnetic toner, a vibration generator for vibrating the filter, a magnetic field generator for generating a magnetic field for attracting the magnetic toner and causing it to pass through the filter, and a stop for stopping the vibration generator when a predetermined time period has elapsed after the separating apparatus has been stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hironobu Saito
  • Patent number: 5532800
    Abstract: The invention provides a separating apparatus for removing foreign matters from magnetic toner, the separating apparatus being used in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The separating apparatus comprises a filter having openings for allowing passage of the magnetic toner, a magnetic field generating means for generating a magnetic field for attracting the magnetic toner and causing it to pass through the filter, and a magnetic force decreasing means for decreasing a magnetic force generated by the magnetic field generating means to lessen the magnetic field for attracting the magnetic toner and causing it to pass through the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hironobu Saito
  • Patent number: 5486905
    Abstract: A developing agent reproducing apparatus, including a recovery device for recovering; a developing agent from a mixture of the developing agent and foreign substances, the recovery device having an attracting member for attracting the developing agent and a filter for preventing substances other than the developing agent of the mixture from passing therethrough. The filter is disposed in a region in which the developing agent is moved by the attracting member and the attracting member is disposed upstream of the filter in a gravity working direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Takeda, Michiro Koike, Hironobu Saito, Toru Katsumi
  • Patent number: 5455666
    Abstract: A developer extracting apparatus for extracting developer from a mixture of developer and foreign matter, includes a filter for permitting passage of developer and for inhibiting passage of foreign matter, protection means for protecting the filter, and a vibration applying means for applying vibration to the filter via the protection means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hironobu Saito, Masanari Shirai, Masami Maetani
  • Patent number: 5298959
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus having an image forming device for forming a non-fixed image on a recording sheet, a fixing rotary member for fixing the non-fixed image to the recording sheet, a containing portion for containing the recording sheet to which the image was fixed by the fixing rotary member, a re-feeding device for re-feeding the recording sheet contained in the containing portion to the image forming device, and a coating device for coating a parting liquid to the fixing rotary member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hironobu Saito, Mitsuhiro Mukasa, Ryusei Kominato
  • Patent number: 5153003
    Abstract: A composition comprising a polymer having dispersed therethrough a prostacyclin derivative selected from the group consisting of compounds of formula (I): ##STR1## (in which R.sup.1 represents hydrogen or lower alkyl, R.sup.2 represents a C.sub.3 -C.sub.12 alkyl group or a C.sub.3 -C.sub.12 alkenyl group; and n is an integer from 1 to 5; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof) can be used to make a medical appliance from which the prostaglandin, having antithrombotic properties, will be released gradually and in a controlled way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Sankyo Company Limited
    Inventors: Kozo Kurihara, Hironobu Saito, Yukie Misho, Takeshi Oshima
  • Patent number: 5046947
    Abstract: A fixing apparatus includes rotatable member contactable to a material carrying a toner image to fix the toner image thereon, a first contacting member in sliding contact with a surface of the rotatable member, the first contacting member is reciprocable in a direction of a generating line of the rotatable member, a second contacting member in sliding contact with the surface of the rotatable member at a position different from the first contacting member in a rotational direction, the second contacting member being reciprocable in a direction of generating line of the rotatable member, wherein the first contacting member having a reciprocable movable range without overlapping with a reciprocable movable range of the second contacting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Michiaki Endoh, Hironobu Saito