Patents by Inventor Katsuhiko Sakamoto
Katsuhiko Sakamoto 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).
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Publication number: 20240079643Abstract: A method for producing a compact of an electrolyte containing a sulfonyl imide compound represented by the general formula (1) includes compressing of performing compression-granulating of the electrolyte in a powder form to obtain a sheet-shaped or strip-shaped electrolyte, and pulverizing the sheet-shaped or strip-shaped electrolyte to obtain a granular electrolyte compact, or tableting the electrolyte in a powder form to obtain a tablet-shaped electrolyte compact. LiN(R1SO2)(R2SO2) (wherein R1 and R2 are identical or different from each other and each represent a fluorine atom, an alkyl group with 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or a fluoroalkyl group with 1 to 6 carbon atoms) (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro MORITA, Yasunori OKUMURA, Katsuhiko SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11549957Abstract: An automated analyzer includes an analysis operation part that causes a sample and a reagent to react and based on the reaction result performs analysis of the sample, wherein: the automated analyzer includes a plurality of units constituting the analysis operation part, a temperature adjustment mechanism that heats or cools the units, a temperature sensor that measures the temperature of the units, and a control part that controls the temperature adjustment mechanism. The control part sets the measurement startable temperature range of each unit, which is the temperature range of the operation specification thereof, and the operable temperature range, which is a temperature range that is wider than the measurement startable temperature range, and starts the analysis process of the sample when the temperature of each unit has entered the operable temperature range.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Shunsuke Sasaki, Kenta Imai, Toshiharu Suzuki, Katsuhiko Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20220250957Abstract: An automatic analyzer securely sterilizes and then discards waste liquid without interrupting operation, and includes: a measuring unit configured to perform measurement on a specimen; a first and second waste liquid tanks accommodating waste liquids discharged via first and second flow paths from the measuring unit; an electromagnetic valve disposed between the first and second flow paths, and switches the flow paths so as to discharge the waste liquid to the first or second waste liquid tanks; a first feed unit feeding a sterilizing agent into the first waste liquid tank; and a control unit controls at least the electromagnetic valve and the first feed unit. The control unit drives the first feed unit to feed the sterilizing agent into the first waste liquid tank when the waste liquid reaches a first prescribed amount, and drives the electromagnetic valve to switch to the second flow path.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Katsuhiko SAKAMOTO, Shunsuke SASAKI, Teruhiro YAMANO, Taku SAKAZUME
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Patent number: 11335936Abstract: A ceramic sheet including a principal surface having particle marks is disclosed. The average width of the particle marks is 0.2 to 50 ?m, the average depth of the particle marks along the sheet thickness direction is 0.1 to 25 ?m, and the coefficient of variation of the widths of the particle marks is 0.23 or more.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norikazu Aikawa, Katsuhiko Sakamoto, Kazuhisa Murakami
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Publication number: 20200203748Abstract: A ceramic sheet including a principal surface having particle marks is disclosed. The average width of the particle marks is 0.2 to 50 ?m, the average depth of the particle marks along the sheet thickness direction is 0.1 to 25 ?m, and the coefficient of variation of the widths of the particle marks is 0.23 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norikazu Aikawa, Katsuhiko Sakamoto, Kazuhisa Murakami
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Patent number: 10595390Abstract: The plasma torch has a nozzle and body. The nozzle has an inner nozzle and inner cap fastened to the body with the inner nozzle. Annular water passage and a plurality of independent water passages are formed between the inner nozzle and inner cap. Force applied when the inner cap is fastened to the nozzle base is transmitted via partitions. The torch body has a water supply port and drain port. At least one of the water supply port and drain port is configured as a groove extending on a plane crossing the axis and is connected to the water passage. When the nozzle is fastened to the torch body, one of the independent water passages communicates with the water supply port and another communicates with the water drain port. Rear end surface of inner nozzle is in contact with end surface of the nozzle base thereby obtaining electrical conductivity.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: KOIKE SANSO KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryosuke Kimoto, Masatoshi Motoyama, Tetsuya Iizuka, Susumu Kanda, Katsuhiko Sakamoto, Akira Hurujo, Daiji Sakai
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Publication number: 20180224474Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to attain an automated analyzer that keeps the costs required for inspection to a minimum and is capable of starting measurement immediately after being turned on.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2016Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Shunsuke SASAKI, Kenta IMAI, Toshiharu SUZUKI, Katsuhiko SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 9954408Abstract: A connection member for supplying a stator winding with a current is constituted by covering a bus bar with a insulating resin. The bus bar is formed in an arc-like shape in the thickness direction of a belt-shaped conductor. Additionally, a weld zone formed on the bus bar has a projection portion projecting in the width direction, a first bent portion bent outside the arc from the projection portion in the thickness direction, and a second bent portion with the tip end thereof folded back in the width direction to allow the tip end of the second bent portion to be welded to a terminal on the stator winding.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masashi Nakamura, Shogo Okamoto, Tomohiro Bessho, Katsuhiko Sakamoto
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Patent number: 9698443Abstract: In at least one of principal surfaces of the electrolyte sheet for a solid oxide fuel cell of the present invention, (1) a burr height [?H (0-3)] in a first zone is 100 ?m or less, as measured by irradiating the principal surface of the sheet with a laser beam at a pitch of 0.01 mm using a laser optical three-dimensional shape measurement device, the first zone being a zone extending between a peripheral edge of the sheet and a position 3 mm inside the peripheral edge, and (2) a ratio [?H (0.61-3)/?H (0-0.6)] of a burr height [?H (0.61-3)] in a third zone to a burr height [?H (0-0.6)] in a second zone is 0.5 or more and 2.0 or less, as calculated from the burr heights measured by irradiating the principal surface of the sheet with a laser beam at a pitch of 0.01 mm using the laser optical three-dimensional shape measurement device, the second zone being a zone extending between the peripheral edge of the sheet and a position 0.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuo Hata, Katsuhiko Sakamoto, Norikazu Aikawa
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Patent number: 9601960Abstract: An electrical machine includes a back-yoke engagement portion including a convex portion for a back yoke portion formed on an outer-diameter surface of a pair of back yoke-side coil retaining pieces and a shoe engagement portion including a convex portion for a shoe portion. By the convex portion for the back yoke portion and the convex portion for the shoe portion, the back yoke-side coil retaining pieces and shoe-side coil retaining pieces are biased toward a stator core.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Keiji Hino, Kazuhisa Takashima, Atsushi Ichigozaki, Katsuhiko Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20160286637Abstract: [A problem to be solved] To provide a plasma torch in which a nozzle can be effectively cooled to an ejecting hole of plasm arc and which has a stable electrification properties [Measures to solve the problem] The plasma torch of the present invention has nozzle A and the torch body B. The nozzle A has the inner nozzle 2 and the inner cap 3 which is fastened to the torch body with the inner nozzle 2. The annular water passage 8 and a plurality of independent water passages 9 are formed between the inner nozzle 2 and the inner cap 3. A fastening force applied when the inner cap 3 is fastened to the nozzle base 14 is transmitted via the partitions 2f. The torch body B has the water supply port 20 and the water drain port 21. At least one of the water supply port 20 and the water drain port 21 is configured as a groove which extends on a plane which crosses the axis and which is connected to the water passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2014Publication date: September 29, 2016Applicant: Koike Sanso Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryosuke KIMOTO, Masatoshi MOTOYAMA, Tetsuya IIZUKA, Susumu KANDA, Katsuhiko SAKAMOTO, Akira HURUJO, Daiji SAKAI
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Publication number: 20150311764Abstract: A connection member for supplying a stator winding with a current is constituted by covering a bus bar with a insulating resin. The bus bar is formed in an arc-like shape in the thickness direction of a belt-shaped conductor. Additionally, a weld zone formed on the bus bar has a projection portion projecting in the width direction, a first bent portion bent outside the arc from the projection portion in the thickness direction, and a second bent portion with the tip end thereof folded back in the width direction to allow the tip end of the second bent portion to be welded to a terminal on the stator winding.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2013Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi NAKAMURA, Shogo OKAMOTO, Tomohiro BESSHO, Katsuhiko SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20150270569Abstract: In at least one of principal surfaces of the electrolyte sheet for a solid oxide fuel cell of the present invention, (1) a burr height [?H (0-3)] in a first zone is 100 ?m or less, as measured by irradiating the principal surface of the sheet with a laser beam at a pitch of 0.01 mm using a laser optical three-dimensional shape measurement device, the first zone being a zone extending between a peripheral edge of the sheet and a position 3 mm inside the peripheral edge, and (2) a ratio [?H (0.61-3)/?H (0-0.6)] of a burr height [?H (0.61-3)] in a third zone to a burr height [?H (0-0.6)] in a second zone is 0.5 or more and 2.0 or less, as calculated from the burr heights measured by irradiating the principal surface of the sheet with a laser beam at a pitch of 0.01 mm using the laser optical three-dimensional shape measurement device, the second zone being a zone extending between the peripheral edge of the sheet and a position 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: September 24, 2015Inventors: Kazuo Hata, Katsuhiko Sakamoto, Norikazu Aikawa
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Publication number: 20150048711Abstract: An electrical machine includes a back-yoke engagement portion including a convex portion for a back yoke portion formed on an outer-diameter surface of a pair of back yoke-side coil retaining pieces and a shoe engagement portion including a convex portion for a shoe portion. By the convex portion for the back yoke portion and the convex portion for the shoe portion, the back yoke-side coil retaining pieces and shoe-side coil retaining pieces are biased toward a stator core.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2012Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Keiji Hino, Kazuhisa Takashima, Atsushi Ichigozaki, Katsuhiko Sakamoto
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Patent number: 7905730Abstract: A contact has a spring section, and a pair of contact points. The spring section is formed as a single closed loop of material, prepared from Ni alloy. The loop may be subjected to elastic deformation through force. The pair of contact points formed in such way that the contact points project outwardly at positions separated from one another, the contact points positioned by about half way around the loop of the spring section. The pair of contact points capable of meeting with and coming into with terminals.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2008Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.Inventors: Katsuhiko Sakamoto, Eiichiro Takemasa
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Publication number: 20090170349Abstract: A contact has a spring section, and a pair of contact points. The spring section is formed as a single closed loop of material, prepared from Ni alloy. The loop may be subjected to elastic deformation through force. The pair of contact points formed in such way that the contact points project outwardly at positions separated from one another, the contact points positioned by about half way around the loop of the spring section. The pair of contact points capable of meeting with and coming into with terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventors: Katsuhiko Sakamoto, Eiichiro Takemasa
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Publication number: 20060205243Abstract: A pitch converting connector is equipped with a ceramic circuit board, formed by a plurality of ceramic green sheets, which are stacked in the thickness direction thereof and sintered. A plurality of conductive paths are formed on a surface of each ceramic green sheet, such that they are provided at a narrow pitch at a first end of the ceramic green sheet, and widen to a wide pitch at a second end thereof. Electrodes are formed on the conductive paths, which are exposed at the first and second ends of the ceramic circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2006Publication date: September 14, 2006Inventors: Katsuhiko Sakamoto, Noriharu Kurokawa
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Patent number: 7001548Abstract: A method directed to manufacturing porous products by supplying a water-in-oil type high internal phase emulsion into mold elements, shaping and polymerizing the emulsion. It is characterized by a moving shaping unit provided with a lower mold element on one side having a smooth mold face furnished with a depressed part and an upper mold element on the other side having a smooth mold face furnished with a corresponding depressed part forming a cavity of a stereoscopic shape together with the depressed part of the lower mold element. Prior to the union of the two mold elements continuously supplying the emulsion into the two mold elements, transferring the shaping unit into a polymerizing device subsequent to the union of the mold elements, and shaping and polymerizing the emulsion therein.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2002Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiko Sakamoto, Masazumi Sasabe
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Patent number: 6830461Abstract: Contacts are formed by a metal injection molding method using metallic fine particle powder as the material therefor. The contacts have a substantially rectangular base portion and an elastic arm that extends upward from one end of an upper surface of the base portion, supported in a cantilever fashion. The portion where the arm is attached to the base or a fixed end portion, has a comparatively large rectangular cross section. The cross sectional area gradually decreases toward the distal end of the arm. An electrical contact tip is formed at the distal end of the arm.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Tyco Electronics, AMP, K.K.Inventors: Katsuhiko Sakamoto, Makiya Kimura, Noriharu Kurokawa
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Patent number: 6765029Abstract: A method for dehydrating a porous cross-linked polymer conveniently to a low final water content is provided. A porous cross-linked polymer sheet is produced by a method which comprises causing a porous cross-linked polymer obtained by forming and polymerizing a water-in-oil type higher internal phase emulsion to be dehydrated by the use of non-woven fabric rolls furnished with an aspiration mechanism. Properly in this case, the porous cross-linked polymer is subjected to preliminary squeezing. In accordance with the present invention, a porous cross-linked polymer abounding in a water absorbing property to be dehydrated to a low final water content with a small number of rolls.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2002Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignees: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd., The Proctor & Gamble CompanyInventors: Masazumi Sasabe, Katsuhiko Sakamoto, Kozo Nogi, Motohiro Arakawa