Patents by Inventor Kaoru Kaneko

Kaoru Kaneko 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: 11339800
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a rotary shaft of a compressor impeller, a gas bearing structure that supports the rotary shaft, a motor that rotates the rotary shaft, a motor housing that houses the motor, a compressor housing that houses the compressor impeller and includes an intake port and a discharge port, a gas bleed port that is provided closer to the discharge port than the compressor impeller in a flow direction in the compressor housing, a bearing cooling line that connects the gas bleed port to the gas bearing structure, and a heat exchanger that is disposed on the bearing cooling line. The heat exchanger is mounted on at least one of the motor housing and the compressor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventors: Koji Sakota, Nobuyuki Ikeya, Kaoru Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11177489
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a rotation shaft, a compressor impeller attached to one end of the rotation shaft, and a first wall surface and a second wall surface formed inside a housing so as to face each other in an axial direction. A diffuser is formed between the first wall surface and the second wall surface in the axial direction, and a wall portion separates the diffuser from an axial space inside the housing in which the rotation shaft extends. The wall portion includes at least one extraction hole that fluidly couples the diffuser to the axial spate and that is configured to extract a gas from the diffuser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventors: Koji Sakota, Nobuyuki Ikeya, Kaoru Kaneko, Naomi Sawachika
  • Publication number: 20200256343
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a rotary shaft of a compressor impeller, a gas bearing structure that supports the rotary shaft, a motor that rotates the rotary shaft, a motor housing that houses the motor, a compressor housing that houses the compressor impeller and includes an intake port and a discharge port, a gas bleed port that is provided closer to the discharge port than the compressor impeller in a flow direction in the compressor housing, a bearing cooling line that connects the gas bleed port to the gas bearing structure, and a heat exchanger that is disposed on the bearing cooling line. The heat exchanger is mounted on at least one of the motor housing and the compressor housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Koji SAKOTA, Nobuyuki IKEYA, Kaoru KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20200259193
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a rotation shaft, a compressor impeller attached to one end of the rotation shaft, and a first wall surface and a second wall surface formed inside a housing so as to face each other in an axial direction. A diffuser is formed between the first wall surface and the second wall surface in the axial direction, and a wall portion separates the diffuser from an axial space inside the housing in which the rotation shaft extends. The wall portion includes at least one extraction hole that fluidly couples the diffuser to the axial spate and that is configured to extract a gas from the diffuser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Koji SAKOTA, Nobuyuki IKEYA, Kaoru KANEKO, Naomi SAWACHIKA
  • Patent number: 9376929
    Abstract: A turbine generator includes a bearing device configured to rotatably support a rotor inside a housing. The bearing device separates an internal space of the housing from its outside. Communicating portions are formed in the bearing device. The communicating portions are formed in regions which are out of contact with lubricant. Each communicating portion establishes communication between the internal space of the housing and its outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsumi Inomata, Kaoru Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20150048618
    Abstract: A turbine generator includes a bearing device configured to rotatably support a rotor inside a housing. The bearing device separates an internal space of the housing from its outside. Communicating portions are formed in the bearing device. The communicating portions are formed in regions which are out of contact with lubricant. Each communicating portion establishes communication between the internal space of the housing and its outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsumi INOMATA, Kaoru KANEKO
  • Patent number: 7843494
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image taking apparatus that has functions of performing plural types of corrections on a captured image, and can continuously execute the plural types of corrections on the image. The image taking apparatus can be configured in such a way that when image data recorded in a recording medium is read and is subjected to plural types of corrections, for example, the image data once read can be saved in the recording medium after completion of the plural corrections which are continuously executed. The plural types of corrections can be configured in such a way that the combination or the order thereof is determined based on information unique to the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuyuki Uemura, Mitsumasa Okubo, Kaoru Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20080036882
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image taking apparatus that has functions of performing plural types of corrections on a captured image, and can continuously execute the plural types of corrections on the image. The image taking apparatus can be configured in such a way that when image data recorded in a recording medium is read and is subjected to plural types of corrections, for example, the image data once read can be saved in the recording medium after completion of the plural corrections which are continuously executed. The plural types of corrections can be configured in such a way that the combination or the order thereof is determined based on information unique to the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Tatsuyuki Uemura, Mitsumasa Okubo, Kaoru Kaneko
  • Patent number: 7261637
    Abstract: Out of combinations of three pins(15) and bushes(16a-16c), a clearance between one of the bushes(16a) and the pin(15) is small, and a clearance between the other two bushes(16b,16c) and the pins(15) are large, whereby torque transmission is always performed by only one pin(15) and the bush(16a) during rotation to avoid a transfer phenomenon between the pins. Disposing the pins and the bushes at an equal interval allows a good balance of rotation to provide an easy assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Tokuoka, Izuho Hirano, Yoshiyuki Miyagi, Kaoru Kaneko, Yuichiro Mizuno
  • Patent number: 7166301
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an immediate release oral pharmaceutical composition which comprises as an active ingredient calcium salt of a benzylsuccinic acid derivative represented by the formula: or its hydrate, which is useful as an agent for the treatment of diabetes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyohisa Ouchi, Kaoru Kaneko, Ken Kanada
  • Patent number: 7160555
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an immediate release oral pharmaceutical composition which comprises as an active ingredient calcium salt of a benzylsuccinic acid derivative represented by the formula: or its hydrate, which is useful as an agent for the treatment of diabetes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyohisa Ouchi, Kaoru Kaneko, Ken Kanada
  • Patent number: 7160556
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an immediate release oral pharmaceutical composition which comprises as an active ingredient calcium salt of a benzylsuccinic acid derivative represented by the formula: or its hydrate, which is useful as an agent for the treatment of diabetes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyohisa Ouchi, Kaoru Kaneko, Ken Kanada
  • Publication number: 20060262214
    Abstract: A camera includes a first lens unit on which a light beam is incident from a subject, a reflective mirror for reflecting the light beam through the first lens unit, in a direction substantially perpendicular to the optical axis of the first lens unit, a first diaphragm member arranged on a surface of a lens of the first lens unit closest to the reflective mirror with the surface of the lens facing the reflective mirror, and which blocks unwanted rays of light other than the light beam that forms the image of the subject, a second lens unit on which the light beam reflected from the reflective mirror is incident, a second diaphragm member arranged between the first lens unit and the second lens unit blocks unwanted rays of light that travel outside the outermost periphery at which the light beam traveling from the first lens unit to the reflective member intersects the light beam traveling from the reflective mirror to the second lens unit, and an unwanted ray-of-light reflection prevention member arranged on
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Applicant: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Koyama, Takeshi Ito, Takashi Inoue, Kaoru Kaneko, Yoichi Washizu, Atsushi Nakamae, Takeshi Abe, Hiroyuki Ando, Kenichi Aoki
  • Publication number: 20050179783
    Abstract: An electronic image pickup apparatus includes a housing which houses an electronic image pickup unit, an image display unit, and a memory unit, and which has an opening for the pickup unit. A barrier is mounted on the housing to be movable between a closed position for covering the opening and an open position for opening the opening, and turns on an electric power of the apparatus by its movement from the closed position to the opening position. At least one operating member for at least one of cancelling an image in the memory unit and an image display on the display unit is mounted on the housing. The operating member is configured to turn on the power and to be operable to at least one of cancel the image and display the image when the operating member is operated while the barrier is arranged at the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Toyofuku, Hiroki Onda, Kaoru Kaneko, Takashi Inoue, Yu Sato
  • Publication number: 20050179813
    Abstract: A camera or an electronic apparatus according to the present invention has a waterproof function and comprises an outer casing for waterproofing the inside of main apparatus, a microphone and a speaker installed inside the main apparatus, openings used for sound input or sound output being featured in the outer casing at a position thereof corresponding to the microphone or the speaker, water proofing members each having a characteristic of passing air and blocking moisture and for sealing the opening from the inside, wherein the microphone or the speaker is mounted onto the water proofing member so as to let a space containing the microphone vibration plate or the speaker vibration plate communicate with only a part of space inside the main apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Naoki Fujii, Kaoru Kaneko, Shinya Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20050179800
    Abstract: An electronic image pickup apparatus has a housing which houses an electronic image pickup unit, an image display unit, a memory unit, and a photographic information display unit. The housing includes a photographic information display window arranged in an upper surface thereof so that information relating to photography displayed on the photographic information display unit can be seen from an outside thereof, and an image display window arranged in a back surface thereof so that an image displayed on the image display unit can be seen from the outside thereof. At least one operating member for selecting photographic information displayed on the photographic information display unit is arranged near to the photographic information display window on the housing, and at least one operating member for operating the image display unit is arranged near to the image display window on the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Toyofuku, Hiroki Onda, Kaoru Kaneko, Takashi Inoue, Yu Sato
  • Publication number: 20050119055
    Abstract: Out of combinations of three pins(15) and bushes(16a-16c), a clearance between one of the bushes(16a) and the pin(15) is small, and a clearance between the other two bushes(16b,16c) and the pins(15) are large, whereby torque transmission is always performed by only one pin(15) and the bush(16a) during rotation to avoid a transfer phenomenon between the pins. Disposing the pins and the bushes at an equal interval allows a good balance of rotation to provide an easy assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Takamitsu Tokuoka, Izuho Hirano, Yoshiyuki Miyagi, Kaoru Kaneko, Yuichiro Mizuno
  • Patent number: 6822685
    Abstract: An electronic camera has an imaging optical system for taking in a light beam from a subject along a first optical axis, deflecting the light beam along a second optical axis crossing the first optical axis, and focusing the light beam. An image-pickup element is mounted on an image-pickup board. The image-pickup element receives the light beam focused by the imaging optical system, photoelectrically converts the light beam, and thus acquires image data. The image-pickup board is disposed to extend in a plane oblique to a bottom surface of a housing. An input/output terminal for detachably attaching a cable for electrical connection with an external device is disposed in a space defined between the image-pickup board and the bottom surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kaoru Kaneko
  • Patent number: 6809773
    Abstract: An electronic camera includes a camera main body and a lens barrel arranged on the front face of the camera main body to extend forward therefrom, and to hold an image-pickup lens therein. A U-shaped protruding cover is attached to the lens barrel to extend downward therefrom. The bottoms of the camera main body and the protruding cover are level with each other. First and second windows are arranged on the front face of the protruding cover. A lamp for emitting an auto-focus assist light is arranged in the protruding cover to face the first window. A sensor for receiving a light signal from a remote control is arranged in the protruding cover to face the second window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Watarai, Koh Yokokawa, Kaoru Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20040197400
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an immediate release oral pharmaceutical composition which comprises as an active ingredient calcium salt of a benzylsuccinic acid derivative represented by the formula: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: KISSEI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyohisa Ouchi, Kaoru Kaneko, Ken Kanada