Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Itoh

Hiroshi Itoh 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: 20010028439
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes a measuring system for measuring a blood vessel in fundus of an eye to be examined, an image pickup system for performing image pickup of the eye fundus together with information representing a measurement position in the measuring system, a switch for allowing an operator to operate, and a control system. The control system controls to start measurement by the measuring system by operation of the switch as a trigger. Then, when the operator operates extra operation for the switch, the control system controls to execute the image pickup, otherwise the control system controls not to execute the image pickup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventor: Hiroshi Itoh
  • Publication number: 20010013927
    Abstract: A stage apparatus includes a base having a reference plane, a stage mounted on the base, a plurality of static-pressure bearings forming a gap between the reference plane and the stage, a plurality of preloading mechanisms producing a preload between the stage and the reference plane, a guideless motor for driving the stage and a controller for controlling driving of the stage in (i) at least one of a direction at perpendicular to the reference plane and in a tilting direction by controlling at least one of the static-pressure bearings and the preloading mechanism, and (ii) in a direction within the reference plane by the guideless motor. Positioning of the stage in a Z-direction and in tilting directions can be carried out by electromagnets and air pads. Positioning in directions (X, Y, &thgr;) within a plane parallel to the reference plane of the base can be accomplished by guideless motors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 1998
    Publication date: August 16, 2001
    Inventors: HIROSHI ITOH, NOBUSHIGE KORENAGA
  • Publication number: 20010007166
    Abstract: The mold-in fastening member, that can be molded into a resin article, of the present invention comprises (a) a substrate having a front surface and a back surface; (b) a plurality of engaging elements provided on the front surface; (c) a plurality of anchoring elements provided on the back surface, the anchoring elements being embedded into the resin article to fix the mold-in fastening member thereto; (d) a ferrite-containing layer formed on the front surface; (e) marginal portions continuously extending along respective lengthwise edges of the substrate; and (f) grooves formed on the substrate, which extend along the respective marginal portions to render the marginal portions easily bending relative to the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2001
    Publication date: July 12, 2001
    Applicant: Kuraray Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Shimamura, Hiroshi Itoh, Tooru Tanokura, Shiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 6255400
    Abstract: A polymer (B) is prepared by polymerizing one or more vinyl monomers (c) in the presence of a polymer (A) prepared by polymerizing one or more vinyl monomers (a) selected from the group consisting of vinyl monomers represented by the general formula (1): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl with 1 to 3 carbon atoms and n is an integer of 1 to 8 and their salts with one or more vinyl monomers (b) which are co-polymerizable with the vinyl monomer components (a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Itoh, Susumu Oyama, Takashi Yodoya, Kenji Tsuboi, Tsugio Matsubara, Kenichi Nakamura, Hirotoshi Doki, Shinya Yamagami, Toshiki Oyanagi, Kenzo Seita
  • Patent number: 6232862
    Abstract: In a method of magnetizing a material of a permanent magnet portion provided in a rotor for a permanent-magnet motor, the material of the permanent magnet portion is embedded inside the rotor body, while the permanent magnet material has anisotropy in a direction penetrating the permanent magnet portion in section, and then the rotor is incorporated in a magnetizing unit and held in a rotatable manner, and the permanent magnet material is magnetized by flowing a magnetizing current through windings under the condition that the rotor is rotatably held in the magnetizing unit. Thus, the permanent magnet material is completely magnetized in a normalized direction, and even if the rotor is shifted from the normalized position, the rotor is retained back to the normalized position by a magnetic torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Masayuki Shinto, Hiroshi Itoh
  • Patent number: 6193372
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus which has namer for naming and designating an eye to be examined and the fundus portion of the eye to be examined, an examiner device for examining the fundus portion, a memory for storing therein a set state regarding the examination by the examining means of the named fundus portion, and a controller for controlling the examiner device to assume the set state on the basis of the stored set state when the fundus portion is designated by the namer, thereby being capable of effecting the next examination of the fundus of the eye within a short time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiaki Okumura, Hiroshi Itoh
  • Patent number: 6187968
    Abstract: This invention provides a process for preparing cyclohexanedimethanol comprising hydrogenating a cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid dialkyl ester by a fixed-bed continuous reaction in the presence of a preformed copper-containing catalyst under the conditions of reaction temperature of 200 to 280° C., hydrogen pressure of 185 to 300 kgf/cm2 and hydrogen gas feed rate of 1 to 40 cm/s in terms of superficial linear velocity, the cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid dialkyl ester being prepared, typically, by ring hydrogenating of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid dialkyl ester in the presence of a preformed supported ruthenium catalyst by a fixed-bed continuous reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: SK NJC Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Itoh, Yasuhisa Yoshida, Taiichiro Iwamura, Mikio Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 6177544
    Abstract: An auxiliary agent for ophthalmic surgery is based on collagen and, after the completion of surgery, undergoes a lowering in viscosity, and thus can be easily removed. This agent is a neutral solution of collagen which is transparent at a neutral pH and has a denaturation temperature below the intraocular temperature, or a derivative thereof. The agent has a visual light transmission at 400 nm of at least 90% of that before the denaturation, when solution is heated to cause denaturation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignees: Koken Co Ltd, Japan Science & Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kanai, Teruo Miyata, Hiroshi Itoh, Akiko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6160612
    Abstract: A position control apparatus which controls a position of a stage. The apparatus includes an input device for inputting a reference locus for the stage, the reference locus including a group of scanning sections, each of which includes an acceleration section, a settling section associated with a provisional settling time, and a section for constant speed scanning, the stage settling to a constant speed in each settling section, a storage medium storing information regarding actual settling times, each of which corresponds to each scanning section, a correction device for correcting the reference locus on the basis of the information on the actual settling times, and a driving device for moving the stage in accordance with the reference locus corrected by the correction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Itoh, Masahiro Morisada
  • Patent number: 6100315
    Abstract: Addition of a compound, selected from the group consisting of water-soluble hydroxypyridine derivatives, chain or cyclic amide compounds, imidazole derivatives, hydroxycyclic amine compounds, azole compounds, azine compounds, amidine derivatives, and purine derivatives, as a clogging preventive to an ink composition containing a cationic, water-soluble polymer enables the ink composition to yield an image having good waterfastness and to be less likely to cause nozzle clogging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kitamura, Hiroshi Itoh, Hitosi Ohta
  • Patent number: 6084496
    Abstract: In a method of magnetizing a material of a permanent magnet portion provided in a rotor for a permanent-magnet motor, the material of the permanent magnet portion is embedded inside the rotor body, while the permanent magnet material has anisotropy in a direction penetrating the permanent magnet portion in section, and then the rotor is incorporated in a magnetizing unit and held in a rotatable manner, and the permanent magnet material is magnetized by flowing a magnetizing current through windings under the condition that the rotor is rotatably held in the magnetizing unit. Thus, the permanent magnet material is completely magnetized in a normalized direction, and even if the rotor is shifted from the normalized position, the rotor is retained back to the normalized position by a magnetic torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Asano, Masayuki Shinto, Hiroshi Itoh
  • Patent number: 6057412
    Abstract: An amphipathic compound represented by any of the following Formulas: ##STR1## (R.sub.1 is a linear or branched, saturated hydrocarbon group having 6 to 48 carbon atoms, or a linear or branched, unsaturated hydrocarbon group containing 1 to 12 unsaturated double bond and having 6 to 48 carbon atoms; Y is NH, N--(CH.sub.2 --CH.dbd.CH.sub.2), or O; Q is --CH.sub.2 --C(R.sub.2).dbd.CH.sub.2 or --R.sub.4 --O--CO--C(R.sub.2).dbd.CH.sub.2 ; and M is alkali metal, an ammonium group, or --(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.m H), a copolymer of the amphipatic compound with a copolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated compound and, a paper making additive containing a water soluble or dispersible high molecular compound as an active ingredient and processes for producing these high molecular compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Takaki, Masaru Tanabe, Hiroshi Itoh, Masayuki Yanagi, Shoko Oyanagi, Hiroyoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6005616
    Abstract: In a frame-by-frame color image pickup apparatus, images of light components transmitted through red, green, and blue filters of a rotating filter are introduced to an image pickup device arranged in an optical path with rotating filter. The cells in the image pickup device are grouped into cell blocks, each block made up of four cells arranged in one horizontal row and four vertical columns. The rotational speed of the rotating filter is increased, and the cells within each block selected by switches for reading are fixed when an image is dynamic, a quarter of all the cells are read at one cycle of revolution of the rotating filter, and the remaining cells are interpolated to form one frame image. Color breakup is thus precluded. When an image is still, the cells selected are switched at each cycle of revolution of the rotating filter, and all the cells are read over four cycles of revolution of the rotating filter. Thus, a high resolution color image is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Itoh, Akihiro Kubota, Yukihiro Sugimoto, Toshiyuki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 5988797
    Abstract: In a recording head, in which a strip form resistor is arranged over comb-shaped electrode leads of common electrode leads from strip form common electrodes and individual electrode leads, a distance between electrode leads positioned at the center of the strip form resistor is shorter than at other portions. As a result of this, fluctuation of print dot size can be made smaller, fluctuation of printing color development density is reduced and improvement of tone printing performance can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Itoh
  • Patent number: 5973459
    Abstract: A linear motor apparatus includes a mover, a stator, a detector, and a driver. The mover is adapted to be shifted along a shifting direction, and has a predetermined magnetic flux distribution. The stator has a plurality of coils aligned along the shifting direction of the mover. The detector detects the relative position of the mover with respect to the stator. The driver excites two or more coils simultaneously based on a predetermined target value and the output of the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Itoh
  • Patent number: 5973104
    Abstract: A film-formable high molecular polyetherpolyester comprising structural unit (1) of formula (1) and functional group (2) of formula (2) and having a number-average molecular weight of 40,000 to 10,000,000, wherein the molar ratio of functional group (2) to R in the polyetherpolyester is in the range of 1.0 to 3.0. This polyetherpolyester can be produced by carrying out a chain extension reaction of a low molecular polyalkylene oxide of 1,000 to 30,000 in number-average molecular weight with a polyvalent acid anhydride at 0.003 MPa or higher in a molar ratio of (acid anhydride group)/(hydroxyl group)=0.8 to 1.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruki Matsushita, Hiroshi Itoh, Hiroya Kobayashi, Koji Fukuhara, Yoshinobu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 5952761
    Abstract: An inverter-driven motor which is driven by an inverter power source and includes an insulating member for insulating a winding wire and an iron core of the inverter-driven motor from each other at a groove. The insulating member is formed by not less than two insulating films and at least one of the insulating films is formed with a plurality of bores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Itoh, Hirokazu Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 5945760
    Abstract: A rotor of a motor includes a plurality of sets of permanent magnets 8a, 8b embedded in the rotor. Each includes a permanent magnet at an inner side and another permanent magnet at an outer side with a distance between them. Each permanent magnet 8a, 8b is formed like an arch projecting towards the center of the rotor. Magnetic flux flows easily through an interval between the permanent magnets at inner and outer sides, and the inductance in a q-axis is enlarged. Then, the reluctance torque is generated in addition to the magnet torque, and the motor has a high torque and a high output power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Honda, Hiroshi Murakami, Kazushige Narazaki, Hiroshi Itoh, Masayuki Shinto, Yoshinari Asano, Naoyuki Kadoya
  • Patent number: 5936710
    Abstract: In a scanning type exposure apparatus, throughput is increased by omitting an unnecessary scanning period for settling. The scanning type exposure apparatus includes an exposure unit for exposing a substrate by projecting a pattern by a strip of light, an exposure control unit which turns on and off the exposure operation by the exposure unit, a designation value generator for designating a chip to be scanned and exposed next and a scanning speed, a reference position generator for generating a reference position of the pattern and a reference position of the substrate in accordance with the designation, and a position controller for controlling the positions of the pattern and the substrate on the basis of the reference positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Itoh, Masahiro Morisada
  • Patent number: 5932631
    Abstract: An aqueous solution ink composition is provided which yields a waterfast printed image, is fast drying, and is stable under typical printing conditions in an ink-jet printer. The ink composition is excellent with regard to its stability and the waterfastness of the printed image. The aqueous solution ink composition comprises an alkali-soluble polymer resin, a basic dye or an oil-soluble salt-type dye with the color imparting portion of the salt being cationic, and an alkali in an amount sufficient to completely dissolve both the alkali-soluble polymer resin and the dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: William Alan Marritt, Hiroshi Itoh