Patents by Inventor Kazuaki Sakai

Kazuaki 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).

  • Publication number: 20240092078
    Abstract: First, a correction area, which is a part of area where a second ink (typically, white ink) is to be ejected among the area on base material, is determined. Next, density data is corrected so that the second ink is ejected onto the correction area. Thereafter, actual printing on the base material is started. Then, the second ink is ejected onto the correction area, and a first ink (typically, color ink) is ejected onto the second ink that has been ejected onto the base material in the correction area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuaki YONEYA, Yusaku IKEDA, Tomoyuki SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230155095
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element, a first lead, a second lead, and a mold resin member. The light-emitting element is mounted on the first lead. The second lead is electrically connected to the light-emitting element via a conductive member, and disposed away from the first lead along a first direction. The mold resin member directly or indirectly covers the light-emitting element. The mold resin member includes a lens portion located above the light-emitting element, a fixing portion configured to fix the first lead and the second lead, and an inclined portion. The inclined portion is located between the lens portion and the fixing portion, and the inclined portion has at least a portion spreading and inclined from a boundary between the inclined portion and the lens portion toward a boundary between the inclined portion and the fixing portion. The light-emitting element is disposed inside the fixing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuaki SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230143481
    Abstract: A Cu—Ni—Si based copper alloy containing Ni and Si: in a center portion in a plate thickness direction, containing 0.4% by mass or more and 5.0% by mass or less of Ni, 0.05% by mass or more and 1.5% by mass or less of Si, and the balance Cu and inevitable impurities; where an Ni concentration on a plate surface is 70% or less of a center Ni concentration in the thickness center portion; a surface layer portion having a depth from the plate surface to be 90% of the center Ni concentration; in the surface layer portion, the Ni concentration increases from the plate surface toward the thickness center portion at 5.0% by mass/µm or more and 100% by mass/µm or less of a concentration gradient; to improve the electric connection reliability under high-temperature environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sakai, Naoki Miyashima, Kazunari Maki, Shinichi Funaki
  • Publication number: 20230106437
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a resin package including a plurality of recessed portions, a plurality of light-emitting elements, each disposed in the corresponding one of the plurality of recessed portions, a plurality of reflective members, and a mold resin portion including a first lens portion, a second lens portion, and a third lens portion. In the plan view, a maximum width of the first lens portion is less than a maximum width of an inner upper surface of the corresponding one of the plurality of recessed portions, a maximum width of the second lens portion is less than a maximum width of an inner upper surface of the corresponding one of the plurality of recessed portions, and a maximum width of the third lens portion is less than a maximum width of an inner upper surface of the corresponding one of the plurality of recessed portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki SAKAI, Kenta MITSUYAMA, Yoshio ICHIHARA
  • Patent number: 6991522
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a practical gear and gear train which can be used in an actual gear drive system. Another object of the present invention is to provide a non-circular and asymmetrical gear which is practically used in view of durability, a gear train using that gear, and a barrel finishing machine using that gear. Non-circular and asymmetrical gear 10 has a plurality of tooth profiles 20, each of which comprises a substantially semicircular top curve line 16 and a substantially semicircular bottom curved line 18. A center point 22 of the top curved line 16 is on a pitch line 24, and a center point 26 of the bottom curved line 18 lies inside the pitch line 24.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Inventors: Kazushi Yanagimoto, Takehiro Otsubo, Katsuyuki Nakayama, Kazuaki Sakai
  • Publication number: 20040064947
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a practical gear and gear train which can be used in an actual gear drive system. Another object of the present invention is to provide a non-circular and asymmetrical gear which is practically used in view of durability, a gear train using that gear, and a barrel finishing machine using that gear. Non-circular and asymmetrical gear 10 has a plurality of tooth profiles 20 in which an addendum circle 16 of a substantially semicircular shape is connected to a dedendum circle 18 of a substantially semicircular shape. A center point 22 of the addendum circle 16 is on a pitch line 24, and a center point 26 of the dedendum circle 18 lies inside the pitch line 24.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Inventors: Kazushi Yanagimoto, Takehiro Otsubo, Katsuyuki Nakayama, Kazuaki Sakai
  • Patent number: 6585880
    Abstract: In a process for producing kraft pulp, the process is made closed, the yield of pulp is improved and environmental problems are minimized. An alkaline solution containing Na2S which flows in a process of producing kraft pulp, is electrolyzed by an electrolytic oxidation method; a liquid which is formed at an anode side and contains a polysulfide type sulfur in an amount of 6 g/l or more, is added, as it is or after being causticized, to the process before a chip has the maximum temperature, and a NaOH solution formed at a cathode side, is added to at least one step of the process after the chip has the maximum temperature till a final bleaching stage; and at least chemicals in the step wherein NaOH is added, among chemicals discharged in all steps from a cooking step till the final bleaching stage, are recovered and reused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignees: Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd., Kawasaki Kasei Chemicals Ltd.
    Inventors: Keigo Watanabe, Yasunori Nanri, Kazuaki Sakai, Tatsuya Andoh, Makoto Nakao
  • Patent number: 5959971
    Abstract: In a base station controller of a cellular communication system, a center-to-base time-division multiplexed (TDM) signal from a mobile switching center is demultiplexed into multiple downlink TDM signals and forwarded via transmission lines to a cell-site base station and multiple uplink TDM signals from the base station are multiplexed into a base-to-center TDM signal and transmitted to the mobile switching center. One of the downlink TDM signals contains downlink cellular control data and one of the uplink TDM signals contains uplink cellular control data. In the base station, the downlink TDM signals are multiplexed into a base-to-mobile TDM signal for transmission to mobile stations and a mobile-to-base TDM signal is demultiplexed into multiple uplink TDM signals and transmitted to the base station controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuaki Sakai
  • Patent number: 5815621
    Abstract: An optical connector ferrule of this invention includes a holding portion arranged at a position along an inserting direction of optical fibers to constitute a front surface of the ferrule and having a plurality of first through holes for inserting the optical fibers therethrough and two second through holes for inserting guide pins, the holding portion holding portions of the optical fibers near distal ends thereof, the second through holes and the first through holes having central axes that are substantially parallel to each other, and the first through holes being arrayed in two rows in a direction connecting centers of the second through holes; and an optical fiber tape accommodating portion having an insertion opening for inserting therethrough optical fiber tapes having the optical fibers held by the holding portion, an internal space for partially accommodating the optical fiber tapes, and an injection opening for injecting therethrough an adhesive for adhering and fixing the inserted optical fiber ta
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sakai, Hidetoshi Ishida, Toshiaki Kakii
  • Patent number: 5717762
    Abstract: In a mobile communication system of the WACS type, frame formats are unified for DSL, HDSL, and DS1 channels. In addition, each novel base station (25) comprises a radio frame number processor for adding, to upward encrypted information data directed from mobile stations (27) towards a base control station (21), a radio frame number which is used in downward encrypted information data transmitted from the base control station to one or more of the mobile stations and may not necessarily be used in each mobile station on issuing the upward encrypted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Aihara, Kazuaki Sakai
  • Patent number: 5381724
    Abstract: A swash-plate, plunger-type hydraulic pressure apparatus, which may operate as a hydraulic pump or motor, includes a cylinder block, an annular array of plungers slidably held in the cylinder block, a swash plate, a plurality of shoes angularly movably coupled respectively to the ends of the plungers, and a retainer plate mounted adjacent the swash plate and holding the shoes in slidable contact with the sliding surface. The shoes have respective annular grooves defined in the outer cylindrical surfaces thereof. The retainer plate has a plurality of shoe holding holes defined therein and a like plurality of cutout openings extending from the holes. The shoe holding holes communicate with one of outer and inner circumferential edges of the retainer plate through the cutout openings, respectively. The cutout openings have a width slightly larger than the outside diameter of the annular grooves, whereby the annular grooves can be inserted into the shoe holding holes, respectively, through the cutout openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eiichiro Kawahara, Takashi Nakamura, Mitsumasa Furumoto, Kazuaki Sakai
  • Patent number: 4561935
    Abstract: A process for removing an anthraquinone type scale comprises condensing a steam evaporated from a black liquor obtained by separating pulp from a digested mixture of lignocelluloses containing an anthraquinone type digesting assistant; and contacting a heated aqueous solution of a base in the presence or absence of a reducing agent or an alkali resistant surfactant with a wall of a condenser of an evaporator on which said anthraquinone type scale is adhered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Kawasaki Kasei Chemicals Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sakai, Tuneyasu Sato, Kazuhiko Chiba
  • Patent number: 4481073
    Abstract: A process for removing an anthraquinone type scale comprises condensing a steam evaporated from a black liquor obtained by separating pulp from a digested mixture of lignocelluloses containing an anthraquinone type digesting assistant; and contacting a heated aqueous solution of a base in the presence or absence of a reducing agent or an alkali resistant surfactant with a wall of a condenser of an evaporator on which said anthraquinone type scale is adhered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1984
    Assignee: Kawasaki Kasei Chemicals Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sakai, Tuneyasu Sato, Kazuhiko Chiba
  • Patent number: 4257851
    Abstract: A crude naphthoquinone produced by an oxidation of naphthalene is purified by a reduced pressure distillation of a crude 1,4-naphthoquinone having an acid content of less than 5 equivalent % calculated as monobasic acid and the crude naphthoquinone is preferably treated by an oxidation of oxidizable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1981
    Assignee: Kawasaki Kasei Chemicals Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Matsuura, Kazuaki Sakai, Tuneyasu Sato, Yorinobu Yamada, Kowzo Bandow