Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Sato
Kazuhiro 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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Publication number: 20200282377Abstract: Provided is a granular activated carbon which has a filtered flow rate of a predetermined value or higher, and a high water purification performance; and a method for manufacturing the same. A granular activated carbon comprises a plurality of activated carbon granules and a binder for binding the plurality of activated carbon granules, wherein the binder is composed of net-like fibers. Also, a method for manufacturing the granular activated carbon includes a step for spraying and drying slurry which is obtained by dispersing the activated carbon granules and the fibers in water.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2018Publication date: September 10, 2020Applicant: LIXIL CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro SATO, Masanari TOYAMA, Hirohito NAKAJIMA, Takeyuki YAMAMOTO, Takahisa ISHIKAWA, Hiroki MAENAMI, Naoya TAMURA, Hajime OTA
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Patent number: 10761316Abstract: The present invention provides an illumination apparatus which performs oblique illumination, the apparatus including a first optical element formed with an array of a plurality of optical components each configured to generate a point light source, and a second optical element configured to receive light from the first optical element and form an illumination region, with a power thereof in one direction being different from a power thereof in a direction perpendicular to the one direction, wherein at least one of the first optical element and the second optical element has a rotation angle about an optical axis thereof so as to perform compensate for distortion of the illumination region by the oblique illumination.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takafumi Miyaharu, Ken-ichiro Shinoda, Takahiro Matsumoto, Kazuhiro Sato
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Patent number: 10710606Abstract: An electric power supply apparatus for a vehicle includes a second switch for performing ON/OFF switching of electric power supply from a second power supply to a second control unit, a third switch for performing ON/OFF switching of a first drive signal to the second switch, and a switch control circuit for outputting a second drive signal to the second switch when predetermined conditions are satisfied. The second switch is turned on when the first drive signal or the second drive signal is input, and the second switch is turned off when the first drive signal and the second drive signal are not input.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Tsujioka, Masashi Sugita, Osamu Sato, Kazuhiro Sato
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Publication number: 20200165772Abstract: Functional agent-containing fibers according to an embodiment of the present invention, wherein a functional agent is supported by silicone fixed to the fibers. The silicone includes an acrylic-modified organopolysiloxane having two or more acrylic groups per molecule. A rate of decrease in the functional agent after the functional agent-containing fibers are washed 10 times is less than 40%. In the present invention, the functional agent-containing fibers may be produced, e.g., by irradiating fibers impregnated with a fiber treatment agent A containing silicone with an electron beam so that the silicone is fixed to the fibers, and impregnating the fibers to which the silicone has been fixed with a fiber treatment agent B containing a functional agent. The functional agent-containing fibers may be produced, e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2018Publication date: May 28, 2020Inventors: Shinji IRIFUNE, Tomoya KANAI, Masaki TANAKA, Minoru SUGIYAMA, Hidenobu MORISHIMA, Kazuhiro SATO
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Publication number: 20200116247Abstract: A gear including: a hub provided on an inner peripheral side and configured to be connected to a main shaft; a rim provided on an outer peripheral side and formed with external teeth; and a gear web connecting the hub and the rim. The gear web includes a first web extending obliquely upward from the rim to the hub; and a second web extending obliquely downward from the rim to the hub. The first web includes a plurality of first web pieces formed so as to be spaced apart in a circumferential direction, and the second web includes a plurality of second web pieces formed so as to be spaced apart in the circumferential direction. The first web pieces and the second web pieces are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction and are located at mutually different circumferential positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: KAWASAKI JOKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuji YAMAZAKI, Hirofumi Akahori, Kazuhiro Sato, Souichiro Ohsugi
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Patent number: 10612584Abstract: A fluid dynamic bearing device includes a shaft disposed along a center axis, a sleeve cylindrically extending around the shaft, a thruster that closes a lower end of the sleeve, dynamic pressure grooves in the shaft or the sleeve, and a lubricating oil present therebetween. The shaft includes a shaft main body and a shaft flange extending radially outward from a lower end of the shaft main body. An inner peripheral surface of the sleeve includes a first inner peripheral surface that faces an outer peripheral surface of the shaft main body in the radial direction and a second inner peripheral surface that faces an outer peripheral surface of the shaft flange in the radial direction. The sleeve includes a sleeve inner lower surface and a circulation hole.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Sato, Katsuya Takahashi
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Patent number: 10588008Abstract: A control apparatus has one or more built-in functions that are selectively usable. The control apparatus includes a first communication unit conducting a first communication and a second communication unit conducting a second communication, a built-in function unit configured to execute the built-in function, and at least one control circuit. The control circuit determines which of the built-in functions is selected, determines whether there is an external device to execute an external function related to the selected built-in function based on the first communication, controls an icon display to present to a user that the selected built-in function is also executable by the external device, and causes the second communication unit to communicate with the external device through a second communication to execute the external function when the external device is selected in accordance with the icon display.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Akinobu Sato, Toshihiro Ogata, Kazuhiro Sato, Osamu Nonaka
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Patent number: 10566865Abstract: A protrusion includes a leading end to which a yoke is fixed and a connector that connects an axially lower end of a flange and the leading end. A minimum width of the connector in a direction intersecting a direction in which the protrusion protrudes is smaller than a maximum width of the leading end in a radial direction. A radial position at a radially inner end of the leading end is located radially outward with respect to a side surface in a radially inward direction of a magnet.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Takuo Miyake, Kazuhiro Sato, Katsuya Takahashi
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Patent number: 10559998Abstract: A motor includes a stationary unit and a rotary unit. The stationary unit includes a stator, a base portion having at least one hole extending in the up-down direction, and a flexible wiring substrate. The flexible wiring substrate reaches a position higher than a lower surface of the base portion through at least one hole and is arranged to supply electric power to the stator. The flexible wiring substrate includes a connection portion arranged higher than the lower surface of the base portion and connected to the stator. The connection portion includes a solder portion arranged on a lower surface thereof to cover a portion of a lead wire extending from a coil of the stator. At least a portion of the solder portion is positioned within the hole.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Sekii, Takehito Tamaoka, Kazuhiro Sato, Kazuhiko Fukushima, Hiroyuki Abe
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Publication number: 20200003254Abstract: A fluid dynamic bearing device includes a shaft disposed along a center axis, a sleeve cylindrically extending around the shaft, a thruster that closes a lower end of the sleeve, dynamic pressure grooves in the shaft or the sleeve, and a lubricating oil present therebetween. The shaft includes a shaft main body and a shaft flange extending radially outward from a lower end of the shaft main body. An inner peripheral surface of the sleeve includes a first inner peripheral surface that faces an outer peripheral surface of the shaft main body in the radial direction and a second inner peripheral surface that faces an outer peripheral surface of the shaft flange in the radial direction. The sleeve includes a sleeve inner lower surface and a circulation hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Kazuhiro SATO, Katsuya TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20190240880Abstract: The present invention provides an imprint apparatus that molds an imprint material on a shot region of a substrate by using a mold, comprising a detection unit configured to detect first light with which a first mark of the mold and a second mark of the substrate are irradiated and measure a position deviation between the first mark and the second mark, a heating unit configured to irradiate the substrate with second light for heating the substrate and deforming the shot region, and a control unit configured to control alignment between the mold and the substrate based on the position deviation, wherein a parameter of the detection unit or the heating unit is set not to detect the second light by the detection unit while the first light is detected and the substrate is irradiated with the second light.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Kazuhiro Sato, Noriyasu Hasegawa, Takahiro Matsumoto
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Patent number: 10372034Abstract: An imprint apparatus for forming a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold includes a heating unit, a generation unit, and a measurement unit. The heating unit irradiates a region to be processed on the substrate with light to heat the region to be processed. The generation unit generates irradiation amount distribution data, which indicates an irradiation amount distribution of light with which the heating unit is to irradiate the region to be processed. The measurement unit measures information about absorption of the light by the region to be processed. The generation unit generates the irradiation amount distribution data by correcting, using a result of measurement by the measurement unit, temporary irradiation amount distribution data temporarily generated based on a shape of the region to be processed taken before the region to be processed is heated by the heating unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuki Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Sato, Tsutomu Terao
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Publication number: 20190211456Abstract: A surface treated steel strip according to the present invention includes: a base steel sheet; a zinc phosphate coating film layer made of needle zinc phosphate crystals which are formed in an island shape on a surface of the base steel sheet; and a lubricating coating film layer covering the surface of the base steel sheet and a part of the zinc phosphate coating film layer, and containing at least a lubricating component, in which an area ratio of the zinc phosphate crystals exposed from a surface of the lubricating coating film layer is 25% to 90%.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2017Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi YASUI, Kazuhiro SATO, Norihisa NISHITANI, Yoshihiro KAWANISHI, Keisuke SHIMAYA, Tomoya TESHIGAWARA, Takeshi FUJIWAKI, Hiroki TAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20190214052Abstract: A yoke includes a first cylindrical unit held by a radially outside surface of a rotor base, a yoke annular unit extending radially outwardly from an axially lower end of the first cylindrical unit, and a second cylindrical unit extending axially downward from a radially outer end of the yoke annular unit, and a magnet fixed to a radially inside surface of the second cylindrical unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2018Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventors: Kazuhiro SATO, Seiji MARUOKA, Katsuya TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20190214868Abstract: A protrusion includes a leading end to which a yoke is fixed and a connector that connects an axially lower end of a flange and the leading end. A minimum width of the connector in a direction intersecting a direction in which the protrusion protrudes is smaller than a maximum width of the leading end in a radial direction. A radial position at a radially inner end of the leading end is located radially outward with respect to a side surface in a radially inward direction of a magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2018Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventors: Takuo MIYAKE, Kazuhiro SATO, Katsuya TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 10300640Abstract: The present invention provides an imprint apparatus that molds an imprint material on a shot region of a substrate by using a mold, comprising a detection unit configured to detect first light with which a first mark of the mold and a second mark of the substrate are irradiated and measure a position deviation between the first mark and the second mark, a heating unit configured to irradiate the substrate with second light for heating the substrate and deforming the shot region, and a control unit configured to control alignment between the mold and the substrate based on the position deviation, wherein a parameter of the detection unit or the heating unit is set not to detect the second light by the detection unit while the first light is detected and the substrate is irradiated with the second light.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro Sato, Noriyasu Hasegawa, Takahiro Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20190126940Abstract: An electric power supply apparatus for a vehicle includes a second switch for performing ON/OFF switching of electric power supply from a second power supply to a second control unit, a third switch for performing ON/OFF switching of a first drive signal to the second switch, and a switch control circuit for outputting a second drive signal to the second switch when predetermined conditions are satisfied. The second switch is turned on when the first drive signal or the second drive signal is input, and the second switch is turned off when the first drive signal and the second drive signal are not input.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: Takashi TSUJIOKA, Masashi SUGITA, Osamu SATO, Kazuhiro SATO
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Patent number: 10274047Abstract: In a planetary gear device including: a sun gear; a plurality of planet gears; a ring gear; and a tubular support member connected to the ring gear so as to rotate together with the ring gear; an outward flange provided at the ring gear and projecting radially outward and extend over an entire periphery thereof; an wavy inward flange provided at the tubular support member and having a plurality of projection pieces projecting radially inward over an entire periphery thereof, the outward flange and the inward flange are fastened to each other by means of bolts and nuts, and the inward flange has a plurality of recesses formed between the plurality of projection pieces and the plurality of recesses include shallow first recesses and second recesses deeper than the first recesses such that depth of the recesses becomes greater at regular intervals.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya Matsuoka, Hiroyasu Nishikawa, Takahiko Banno, Masato Asahara, Kazuhiro Sato
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Patent number: 10224682Abstract: A coaxial cable includes a coaxial wire in which an inner insulator, an outer conductor and a sheath are sequentially and coaxially provided around a center conductor, and a substrate having a surface on which a first contact pad and a second contact pad are arranged. The sheath is removed at one end portion of the coaxial wire by a predetermined length, so that the inner insulator and the outer conductor are exposed, and a tip end of the inner insulator is removed by a predetermined length, so that the center conductor is exposed. The exposed portion of the center conductor is soldered to the first contact pad with the exposed portion of the inner insulator being bent relative to the sheath, and the exposed portion of the outer conductor is soldered to the second contact pad with being bent in a direction different from the bending direction of the inner insulator. A part of the coaxial wire covered by the sheath is standing at an angle of 30° or greater relative to the surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshimasa Watanabe, Kazuhiro Sato, Hitomi Yoshida
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Patent number: 10198075Abstract: An imaging apparatus including an imaging unit, an index determining unit, a predetermined image detecting unit, and a notification unit. The imaging unit has a preset imaging range and which images a target within the imaging range. The index determining unit determines whether an image of a particular index image has intruded into the imaging range. The predetermined image detecting unit detects a predetermined image part within the imaging range. The notification unit notifies that the index determining unit determines that the index image overlaps the predetermined image part. The predetermined image detecting unit is configured to determine a change direction of a changed part of image information and a no-change direction, and the notification unit notifies in accordance with the relation between a change direction of the index image and a change direction of image information.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Sato, Sumio Kawai, Osamu Nonaka, Shinsuke Homma