Patents by Inventor Ichiro Sakai

Ichiro Sakai 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: 11535311
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a rear lamp, a side surface, and a rear surface. The rear lamp is disposed on a rear end and an upper end of a lower side surface and a rear end and a side end of the vehicle, and includes a lamp body extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. The side surface includes the lower side surface bulging toward a vehicle-width-direction outer side with respect to the rear lamp at a front side of a height position overlapping with the rear lamp. The rear surface includes an extending surface extending toward the vehicle-width-direction outer side with respect to the lamp body in a top view of the vehicle from a lower portion of the lamp body. A side surface airflow is directed toward a vehicle-width-direction inner side through the extending surface and the generation of a large trailing vortex is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Aburame, Shinji Miyamoto, Ichiro Sakai, Yohei Kusamoto, Masaki Hirata, Kosuke Hirayama
  • Publication number: 20210086844
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a rear lamp, a side surface, and a rear surface. The rear lamp is disposed on a rear end and an upper end of a lower side surface and a rear end and a side end of the vehicle, and includes a lamp body extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. The side surface includes the lower side surface bulging toward a vehicle-width-direction outer side with respect to the rear lamp at a front side of a height position overlapping with the rear lamp. The rear surface includes an extending surface extending toward the vehicle-width-direction outer side with respect to the lamp body in a top view of the vehicle from a lower portion of the lamp body. A side surface airflow is directed toward a vehicle-width-direction inner side through the extending surface and the generation of a large trailing vortex is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi ABURAME, Shinji MIYAMOTO, Ichiro SAKAI, Yohei KUSAMOTO, Masaki HIRATA, Kosuke HIRAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200273594
    Abstract: An electron beam irradiation device includes a vacuum chamber having an electron beam generator inside, a vacuum nozzle, and a window foil on a tip of the vacuum nozzle. The electron beam irradiation device further includes an outer pipe surrounding the vacuum nozzle, a cooling-gas supply unit that supplies cooling gas into a coolant passage formed between the vacuum nozzle and the outer pipe, and a heat-conducting transmission foil fitted to the window foil and contacting the tip of the vacuum nozzle. The heat-conducting transmission foil has a value of at least 63×10?3, which is determined by dividing a thermal conductivity [W/(m·K)] by a density [kg/m3], and a tip part of the vacuum nozzle is made of a material having at least a thermal conductivity of copper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Ryuta TANAKA, Ichiro SAKAI, Takeshi NODA
  • Patent number: 10720256
    Abstract: Provided is an electron beam irradiating device capable of emitting an electron beam from an electron beam generation source surrounded by a vacuum chamber to outside of the vacuum chamber through an electron beam exit window. The electron beam exit window includes: a grid; a window foil allowing the electron beam to pass therethrough; and a frame-shaped pressing member pressing the window foil against the grid. The surface of the grid has a groove section having an annular shape. A metal gasket is pressed between the groove section and the window foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI ZOSEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Daiku, Ichiro Sakai, Norihiro Inoue, Yohei Terasaka
  • Patent number: 10568980
    Abstract: A nozzle-type electron beam irradiation device includes a vacuum chamber, an electron beam generator disposed in the vacuum chamber, and a vacuum nozzle that is connected to the vacuum chamber so as to guide an electron beam from the electron beam generator and emit the electron beam to the outside. The nozzle-type electron beam irradiation device includes a high-vacuum pump capable of sucking gas from the vicinity of the connecting part of the vacuum nozzle in the vacuum chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI ZOSEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Noda, Ichiro Sakai, Hiroyuki Daiku
  • Publication number: 20190287693
    Abstract: Provided is an electron beam irradiating device capable of emitting an electron beam from an electron beam generation source surrounded by a vacuum chamber to outside of the vacuum chamber through an electron beam exit window. The electron beam exit window includes: a grid; a window foil allowing the electron beam to pass therethrough; and a frame-shaped pressing member pressing the window foil against the grid. The surface of the grid has a groove section having an annular shape. A metal gasket is pressed between the groove section and the window foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroyuki DAIKU, Ichiro SAKAI, Norihiro INOUE, Yohei TERASAKA
  • Patent number: 10398794
    Abstract: An internal surface electron beam-irradiating device sterilizes the internal surface of a vial by irradiation with an electron beam. The internal surface electron beam-irradiating device includes an electron beam generator that generates the electron beam, a vacuum chamber containing the electron beam generator, an output window that emits the electron beam to the outside of the vacuum chamber, and an extension nozzle that guides an electron cloud formed by extending the electron beam emitted from the output window. The extension nozzle includes a leaking section that leaks the electron cloud. The leaking section includes empty portions that discharge part of the electron cloud to the outside, and a component portion that guides the electron cloud into the leaking section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI ZOSEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Daiku, Takeshi Noda, Ichiro Sakai
  • Publication number: 20190134241
    Abstract: A nozzle-type electron beam irradiation device includes a vacuum chamber, an electron beam generator disposed in the vacuum chamber, and a vacuum nozzle that is connected to the vacuum chamber so as to guide an electron beam from the electron beam generator and emit the electron beam to the outside. The nozzle-type electron beam irradiation device includes a high-vacuum pump capable of sucking gas from the vicinity of the connecting part of the vacuum nozzle in the vacuum chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Takeshi NODA, Ichiro SAKAI, Hiroyuki DAIKU
  • Publication number: 20190015535
    Abstract: An internal surface electron beam-irradiating device sterilizes the internal surface of a vial by irradiation with an electron beam. The internal surface electron beam-irradiating device includes an electron beam generator that generates the electron beam, a vacuum chamber containing the electron beam generator, an output window that emits the electron beam to the outside of the vacuum chamber, and an extension nozzle that guides an electron cloud formed by extending the electron beam emitted from the output window. The extension nozzle includes a leaking section that leaks the electron cloud. The leaking section includes empty portions that discharge part of the electron cloud to the outside, and a component portion that guides the electron cloud into the leaking section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroyuki DAIKU, Takeshi NODA, Ichiro SAKAI
  • Patent number: 9601224
    Abstract: An electron beam irradiation apparatus that emits an electron beam into a container, the electron beam irradiation apparatus including: a vacuum housing constituting a vacuum chamber; an electron generator provided in the vacuum housing; a cylindrical nozzle member that is extended from the vacuum housing so as to be inserted into the container and has exit windows on the distal end of the nozzle member, the exit windows being provided for emission of an electron beam generated by the electron generator into the container; and a magnetic shield member for the vacuum chamber and a magnetic shield member for the nozzle member, the magnetic shield members being respectively provided for the vacuum housing and the nozzle member so as to block variable magnetism generated around an electron beam trajectory extended from the electron generator to the exit windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Zosen Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro Sakai, Takayasu Yokobayashi
  • Patent number: 9434495
    Abstract: Provided is a shield used for container sterilization equipment that inserts, from the mouth of a container (B), an irradiation nozzle (En) having an exit window (Ew) on the distal end of the irradiation nozzle (En) and sterilizes the inner surface of the container (B), the irradiation nozzle (En) being surrounded by composite shields (Wi, Wo). A composite shield block (21) forming the composite shields (Wi, Wo) includes a magnetic shield (24) and an X-ray shield (25) that are disposed in the hollow section of a board-shaped shell (22) made of a corrosion resistant material, and an insulating layer (26) that is interposed between one surface of the board-shaped shell (22) and the magnetic shield (24), between the magnetic shield (24) and the X-ray shield (25), and between the X-ray shield (25) and one surface of the board-shaped shell (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Zosen Corporation
    Inventors: Takayasu Yokobayashi, Ichiro Sakai
  • Patent number: 9431571
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a thin-film photovoltaic module in which a photoelectric conversion element is deposited on a substrate, includes removing the photoelectric conversion element at a frame shape area from sides of the substrate toward inside with a predetermined width by a first removing step of scanning a first photoelectric conversion element removing device at the area along the sides of the substrate to remove the photoelectric conversion element for the predetermined width, and a second removing step of scanning a second photoelectric conversion element removing device within the area along the sides of the substrate to remove the photoelectric conversion element that is not removed in the first removing step at a width narrower than the predetermined width and without superimposing a center line of a scanning path on a center line of a scanning path of the first photoelectric conversion element removing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignees: SOLAR FRONTIER K.K., HITACHI ZOSEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiya Nishijima, Tetsuo Miyano, Hideo Tanaka, Ichiro Sakai, Takuto Yamashita, Hiroki Yamada, Shigeaki Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20160083131
    Abstract: Provided is a shield used for container sterilization equipment that inserts, from the mouth of a container (B), an irradiation nozzle (En) having an exit window (Ew) on the distal end of the irradiation nozzle (En) and sterilizes the inner surface of the container (B), the irradiation nozzle (En) being surrounded by composite shields (Wi, Wo). A composite shield block (21) forming the composite shields (Wi, Wo) includes a magnetic shield (24) and an X-ray shield (25) that are disposed in the hollow section of a board-shaped shell (22) made of a corrosion resistant material, and an insulating layer (26) that is interposed between one surface of the board-shaped shell (22) and the magnetic shield (24), between the magnetic shield (24) and the X-ray shield (25), and between the X-ray shield (25) and one surface of the board-shaped shell (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI ZOSEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayasu Yokobayashi, Ichiro Sakai
  • Publication number: 20160064111
    Abstract: An electron bears irradiation apparatus that emits am electron beam into a container, the electron beam irradiation apparatus including a vacuum housing constituting a vacuum chamber; an electron generator provided in the vacuum housing; a cylindrical nozzle member that is extended from the vacuum housing so as to be inserted into the container and has exit windows on the distal end of the nozzle member, the exit windows being provided for emission of an electron beard generated by the electron generator into the container; and a magnetic shield member for the vacuum chamber and a magnetic shield member for the nozzle member, the magnetic shield members being respectively provided for the vacuum housing and the nozzle member so as to block variable magnetism generated around an electron beam, trajectory extended from the electron generator to the exit windows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI ZOSEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Sakai, Takayasu Yokobayashi
  • Publication number: 20150179871
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a thin-film photovoltaic module in which a photoelectric conversion element is deposited on a substrate, includes removing the photoelectric conversion element at a frame shape area from sides of the substrate toward inside with a predetermined width by a first removing step of scanning a first photoelectric conversion element removing device at the area along the sides of the substrate to remove the photoelectric conversion element for the predetermined width, and a second removing step of scanning a second photoelectric conversion element removing device within the area along the sides of the substrate to remove the photoelectric conversion element that is not removed in the first removing step at a width narrower than the predetermined width and without superimposing a center line of a scanning path on a center line of a scanning path of the first photoelectric conversion element removing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshiya Nishijima, Tetsuo Miyano, Hideo Tanaka, Ichiro Sakai, Takuto Yamashita, Hiroki Yamada, Shigeaki Nakayama
  • Patent number: D761703
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Siyoung Song, Ichiro Sakai, Shun Yamashita, Yasuyuki Murata
  • Patent number: D787398
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Siyoung Song, Ichiro Sakai, Hideki Nakamura
  • Patent number: D929257
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youichi Matsuda, Yusuke Nakamura, Ichiro Sakai, Yohei Kusamoto, Kazuhisa Noda, Kazuya Hamada, Daichi Miyata
  • Patent number: D958695
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutake Tsuchida, Ichiro Sakai, Masaki Hirata, Takafumi Shimada, Yasuyuki Murata
  • Patent number: D993858
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kousuke Takahashi, Ichiro Sakai, Masaki Hirata, Takafumi Shimada, Yasuyuki Murata