Patents by Inventor Katsutoshi Sato
Katsutoshi Sato 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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Patent number: 7564745Abstract: An optical pickup includes a first optical system for collecting first laser light emitted from a first laser light source onto a first disk, and guiding reflected light from the first disk to a photoreceptor; a second optical system for collecting second laser light emitted from a second laser light source onto a second disk, and guiding reflected light from the second disk to a photoreceptor; a second objective lens for collecting the second laser light onto the second disk and receiving the reflected light from the second disk, the second objective lens being movable in a radial direction passing through the center of the second disk, and a first objective lens for collecting the first laser light onto the first disk and receiving the reflected light from the first disk, the first objective lens being disposed offset from the radial direction and adjacently to the second objective lens.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2005Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Midori Kanaya, Katsutoshi Sato, Kenji Yamamoto, Noriaki Nishi, Noriyuki Mori
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Patent number: 7483357Abstract: An optical pickup housing an optical system including a collimator lens for converting laser light incident on the collimator lens into an approximately parallel light beam, and an objective lens for receiving the laser light converted into the approximately parallel light beam and focusing the laser light onto a recording medium, the optical pickup having a light source configured to emit a plurality of laser beams of different wavelengths; a magnification conversion element arranged between the collimator lens and the objective lens; a bypass optical path configured to bypass the magnification conversion element; and optical path selection unit configured to select, according to a wavelength of each of the plurality of laser beams, whether each of the plurality of laser beams is to pass through an optical path passing through the magnification conversion element or through the bypass optical path.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2005Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Katsutoshi Sato, Noriaki Nishi, Midori Kanaya
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Publication number: 20080270190Abstract: Object It is to provide a measured vital data preserving and providing system for healthcare, making it unnecessary to have an independent data base which requires a lot of time and a lot of cost for its preparation, and on the other hand, enabling to construct a unique website for healthcare in a short time and at a low cost. Means for Achieving the Object A data providing side server 30 comprises a measured vital data DB50 composed of measured vital data records including user's IDs and user's measured vital data, and an API library 60 for processing the measured vital data DB50.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: TANITA CORPORATIONInventors: Katsutoshi Sato, Yasunobu Sakai, Hiroki Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20080135673Abstract: Disclosed is a printer including a paper feeder for accommodating a rolled paper to be pulled out and recorded thereon. The feeder has a container section to set the roll, in which first and second support walls are arranged to rotatably support the roll. While paper from the roll is taken out, a contact force produced by the roll against the first support wall is kept larger than that in a stationary state, and a contact force produced by the roll against second support wall is kept smaller than that in the stationary state. A friction coefficient between the second support wall and the roll is larger than one between first support wall and the roll, the roll being in slidable contact with the first and second support walls. Therefore, when the recording is started, an impact force to the roll can be alleviated, resulting in reducing unevenness in image in a feeding direction of the paper.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2007Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: KATSUTOSHI SATO, KIKUO MIZUTANI
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Publication number: 20070165500Abstract: The present invention is directed to an optical pick-up device in which two object lenses are mounted to optimally correct comatic aberration with respect to the respective object lenses, which comprises: a first optical system for converging, by a first object lens (31), either one of light beams having first, second and third wavelengths to irradiate the light beams thus converged onto an optical disc (1); a second optical system for converging, by a second object lens (32), either one of light beams having first, second and third wavelengths to irradiate the light beams thus converged onto the optical disc (1); an object lens drive unit (75) including a bobbin (26) for holding the first and second object lenses, and serving to allow the bobbin to undergo drive displacement in three axes directions of a focusing direction which is a direction perpendicular to the recording surface of the optical disc, a tracking direction which is a substantially radial direction of the optical disc, and either one of a radType: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2005Publication date: July 19, 2007Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Katsutoshi Sato
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Publication number: 20070074864Abstract: To provide a water-cooled constant temperature liquid circulating device in which the stability in temperature of circulating liquid can be improved by optimizing a flow channel of radiating water and a method of controlling the temperature of circulating liquid in the same device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2006Publication date: April 5, 2007Applicant: SMC CorporationInventors: Takeo Ichinose, Katsutoshi Sato
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Publication number: 20070074865Abstract: In a constant temperature liquid circulating device having a conduit for delivering a temperature controlled constant temperature circulating liquid with a pump, which is used with an external device connected thereto, the pressure of the circulating liquid in a piping in the external device is controlled so as not to exceed a preset maximum pressure value to protect the piping in the external device. In a constant temperature liquid circulating device having a conduit for delivering constant temperature circulating liquid controlled in temperature and delivering the circulating liquid at a constant temperature to an external device, a control function is provided to the controller for controlling the operation of the constant temperature liquid circulating device so that the detected pressure does not exceed the preset maximum pressure on the basis of outputs from an arbitrary number of pressure sensors for detecting the pressure at a predicted pressure rising point of the piping in the external device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2006Publication date: April 5, 2007Applicant: SMC CorporationInventors: Takeo Ichinose, Katsutoshi Sato
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Publication number: 20070074863Abstract: To reduce the width of variations in temperature of circulating liquid due to a variation in a heat load of an external device to a low level to stabilize the performance of the external device in a constant temperature liquid circulating device. In a constant temperature liquid circulating device that connects a piping of circulating liquid in an external device between a discharge port and a return port of a conduit for delivering the circulating liquid at a constant temperature by a pump, a flow amount sensor and temperature sensors for detecting discharge temperature (T1) of the circulating liquid from the conduit and the return temperature (T2) of the circulating liquid are provided in the conduit, so that the flow amount and the temperature of the circulating liquid is controlled by a controller according to the heat load of the external device obtained on the basis of the outputs from the temperature sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2006Publication date: April 5, 2007Applicant: SMC CorporationInventors: Takeo Ichinose, Katsutoshi Sato
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Publication number: 20060077809Abstract: An objective lens actuator has a fixed block fixedly mounted on a movable base and a movable block movable with respect to the fixed block in focusing directions toward and away from recording surfaces of the disc-shaped recording mediums and tracking directions which are substantially radial directions of the disc-shaped recording mediums. A first objective lens is mounted on the movable block for focusing a first laser beam onto the recording surface of a digital versatile disc or a compact disc. A second objective lens is mounted on the movable block for focusing a second laser beam, which has a wavelength shorter than the first laser beam, onto the recording surface of a Blu-ray Disc. The first objective lens and the second objective lens are spaced from each in a tangential direction of recording tracks on the disc which is perpendicular to the focusing directions and the tracking directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2005Publication date: April 13, 2006Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Shinya Makita, Katsutoshi Sato, Noriyuki Mori
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Publication number: 20060077784Abstract: An optical pickup includes a first optical system for collecting first laser light emitted from a first laser light source onto a first disk, and guiding reflected light from the first disk to a photoreceptor; a second optical system for collecting second laser light emitted from a second laser light source onto a second disk, and guiding reflected light from the second disk to a photoreceptor; a second objective lens for collecting the second laser light onto the second disk and receiving the reflected light from the second disk, the second objective lens being movable in a radial direction passing through the center of the second disk, and a first objective lens for collecting the first laser light onto the first disk and receiving the reflected light from the first disk, the first objective lens being disposed offset from the radial direction and adjacently to the second objective lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2005Publication date: April 13, 2006Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Midori Kanaya, Katsutoshi Sato, Kenji Yamamoto, Noriaki Nishi, Noriyuki Mori
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Patent number: 7008344Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a shift operation in an automatic transmission includes a disengaging side controlling device for performing a feedback control so as to substantially match a slip amount calculated by a slip amount calculating device with a target slip amount calculated by a target slip amount calculating device when the calculated slip amount is judged to be in excess of the predetermined threshold value by a judging device. The target slip amount varies from a predetermined threshold value to a predetermined target value drawing an ideal trace for restraining a shift shock and is maintained at the predetermined target value. The control apparatus further includes an engaging side controlling device for increasing a torque to be transmitted to an on-coming friction engagement element in association with commencement of the feedback control.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2003Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akira Aikawa, Hiroaki Kato, Katsutoshi Sato, Yasuo Shirai, Atsumi Ohara
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Publication number: 20060023609Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus includes a semiconductor laser for emitting laser light with a wavelength of at least from 400 nm to 415 nm and of which plane parallel to an active layer is located substantially in parallel to the recording surface of an optical recording medium and a reflection surface for reflecting laser light emitted from the semiconductor laser in the direction substantially perpendicular to the recording surface of the optical recording medium, the laser light being irradiated on the optical recording medium through an objective lens to record and/or reproduce the optical recording medium, wherein an angle ? formed between the direction of rays of light introduced into the reflection surface from the semiconductor laser and the direction in which recording tracks of the optical recording medium are extended is selected so as to satisfy: 45°??<90° Then, in an optical pickup apparatus and an optical recording and reproducing apparatus that can suitably applied to an optical recording mediType: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2005Publication date: February 2, 2006Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Katsutoshi Sato, Noriaki Nishi, Midori Kanaya, Shinya Makita
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Publication number: 20050270912Abstract: The present invention provides an optical pickup in which light beams of different wavelengths, radiated from plural light sources and reflected back from a recording surface, are condensed in the same area.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2005Publication date: December 8, 2005Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Katsutoshi Sato, Hiroaki Yukawa, Kenji Yamamoto, Noriaki Nishi, Midori Kanaya
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Publication number: 20050270925Abstract: An optical pickup including a light source unit having a first radiating unit for radiating a light beam of a first wavelength, a second radiating unit for radiating a light beam of a second wavelength and a third radiating unit for radiating a light beam of a third wavelength, a collimator lens having different focal lengths dependent on the first to third wavelengths, and an objective lens for condensing light beams, radiated from the first to third radiating units, on an information recording surface of an optical disc, and a recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing the optical pickup, are disclosed. The optical pickup and the recording and/or reproducing apparatus are used for recording and/or reproducing the information for plural sorts of the information recording medium of different formats. Certain components of the optical pickup are used in common for the different light beams to reduce the size of the device as well as to correct the spherical aberration.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2005Publication date: December 8, 2005Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Katsutoshi Sato, Noriaki Nishi, Midori Kanaya, Shinya Makita
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Publication number: 20050265207Abstract: An optical pickup housing an optical system including a collimator lens for converting laser light incident on the collimator lens into an approximately parallel light beam, and an objective lens for receiving the laser light converted into the approximately parallel light beam and focusing the laser light onto a recording medium, the optical pickup having a light source configured to emit a plurality of laser beams of different wavelengths; a magnification conversion element arranged between the collimator lens and the objective lens; a bypass optical path configured to bypass the magnification conversion element; and optical path selection unit configured to select, according to a wavelength of each of the plurality of laser beams, whether each of the plurality of laser beams is to pass through an optical path passing through the magnification conversion element or through the bypass optical path.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2005Publication date: December 1, 2005Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Katsutoshi Sato, Noriaki Nishi, Midori Kanaya
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Patent number: 6760296Abstract: The disclosed invention relates to an optical integrated device, an optical pickup, and an optical disk apparatus, and is applicable to an optical disk apparatus for playing back a compact disk (CD) and a DVD (Digital Video Disk), thereby to access a plurality of types of optical disks with a simple arrangement. For dividing feedback light with a hologram 19A and detecting the divided feedback light with a light-detecting element 20, laser sources 15A, 15B having different wavelengths are spaced a predetermined distance D from each other in order to compensate for the difference between the diffraction angles &thgr;A1, &thgr;B of the hologram 19A.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2000Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomohiko Baba, Katsutoshi Sato, Satoshi Nakano, Satoshi Imai, Hiroaki Yukawa
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Patent number: 6742639Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a shift operation sets an output Mout from a reference model M(s), which is ideally changed, as a target slip amount of a feedback controller Cpi(s). The controller Cpi(s) controls torque transmitted to an off-going friction engagement element for matching a control slip amount sp with the target slip amount. The characteristics of the controller Cpi(s) is determined for optimally performing a clutch-to-clutch shift operation during a lock-up clutch being engaged. When the lock-up clutch has been disengaged, an input shaft rotation speed is filtered by a notch filter NF for removing a frequency component in a predetermined frequency domain, wherein the control slip amount sp is obtained based upon the filtered input shaft rotation speed.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2002Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akira Aikawa, Hiroaki Kato, Katsutoshi Sato, Yasuo Shirai, Atsumi Ohara
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Publication number: 20040102289Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a shift operation in an automatic transmission includes a disengaging side controlling means for performing a feedback control so as to substantially match a slip amount calculated by a slip amount calculating means with a target slip amount calculated by a target slip amount calculating means when the calculated slip amount is judged to be in excess of the predetermined threshold value by a judging means. The target slip amount varies from a predetermined threshold value to a predetermined target value drawing an ideal trace for restraining a shift shock and is maintained at the predetermined target value. The control apparatus further includes an engaging side controlling means for increasing a torque to be transmitted to an on-coming friction engagement element in association with commencement of the feedback control.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2003Publication date: May 27, 2004Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akira Aikawa, Hiroaki Kato, Katsutoshi Sato, Yasuo Shirai, Atsumi Ohara
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Publication number: 20030130078Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a shift operation sets an output Mout from a reference model M(s), which is ideally changed, as a target slip amount of a feedback controller Cpi(s). The controller Cpi(s) controls torque transmitted to an off-going friction engagement element for matching a control slip amount sp with the target slip amount. The characteristics of the controller Cpi(s) is determined for optimally performing a clutch-to-clutch shift operation during a lock-up clutch being engaged. When the lock-up clutch has been disengaged, an input shaft rotation speed is filtered by a notch filter NF for removing a frequency component in a predetermined frequency domain, wherein the control slip amount sp is obtained based upon the filtered input shaft rotation speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2002Publication date: July 10, 2003Inventors: Akira Aikawa, Hiroaki Kato, Katsutoshi Sato, Yasuo Shirai, Atsumi Ohara
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Patent number: 6480777Abstract: A hydraulic pressure control device for an automatic transmission is adapted to smoothly change the slip amount of the automatic transmission when a clutch to clutch shift control is performed. The hydraulic pressure control device uses a reference model showing a behavior with an output corresponding to a predetermined slip amount which smoothly varies over time with respect to a target slip amount which varies in a stepped manner. The hydraulic pressure is applied to a release side frictional engagement element using a controller CEMM (s) which shows a behavior such that the controller CEMM(s) and a controlled object P(s) are collaborated to correspond to the reference model. The controller CEMM(s) and the controlled object P(s) have the hydraulic pressure applied to the release side frictional engagement element of the automatic transmission as an input and the slip amount of the automatic transmission as an output.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2002Date of Patent: November 12, 2002Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsutoshi Sato, Yasuo Shirai, Akira Aikawa, Hiroaki Kato, Atsumi Ohara