Patents by Inventor Kazuhito Sato
Kazuhito 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: 20240118147Abstract: A detection device provided in an interior of a vehicle door handle including an inner casing includes a base portion, a displaceable member, and a sensor. The base portion has a longitudinal shape extending along a longitudinal direction of the door handle, is disposed fixedly to the inner casing, and is configured to deform in response to a pressure applied to the inner casing. The displaceable member has a longitudinal shape extending along the longitudinal direction of the door handle and is provided to face the base portion. Either or both of one end portion and the other end portion of the displaceable member are connected to the base portion. The displaceable member includes a displaceable portion configured to be displaced relatively to the base portion in accordance with deformation of the base portion. The sensor is configured to detect displacement of the displaceable portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Wataru SATO, Yuzuru KAWANA, Kazuhito OSHITA
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Patent number: 10850431Abstract: A conveyance device includes a plurality of holding mechanisms and one or more pressing mechanisms, the holding mechanisms each include a holder that holds a molding material and a holder movement mechanism that moves the holder, and the pressing mechanisms each include a pusher that comes into contact with and pushes the molding material and a pusher movement mechanism that moves the pusher.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignees: SHIBAURA MACHINE CO., LTD., TEIJIN LIMITEDInventors: Kazuhito Sato, Chiaki Shigematsu, Hodaka Yokomizo, Tetsuya Yoneda, Akihiko Obata
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Patent number: 10843387Abstract: To provide a method of manufacturing a press molding by molding a molding material comprising reinforced fibers and a thermoplastic resin by a cold press method. The method of manufacturing a press molding comprising reinforced fibers and a thermoplastic resin, includes the steps of: holding the molding material heated at a temperature not lower than the softening temperature with a plurality of grippers installed on a carrier; carrying the molding material between the upper mold and the lower mold of a mold for molding; pushing the molding material with pushers to preform it at a predetermined preforming rate; and press molding the preformed molding by closing the upper mold and the lower mold and applying pressure.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignees: TEIJIN LIMITED, SHIBAURA MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Hodaka Yokomizo, Tetsuya Yoneda, Akihiko Obata, Kazuhito Sato, Chiaki Shigematsu
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Patent number: 10543627Abstract: An injection apparatus including a plasticizing unit (2) that plasticizes a raw material resin and an injection unit (3) that injects a plasticized molten resin. The plasticizing unit includes a heating cylinder (20) having a foaming gas injection valve and a screw (21) provided inside the heating cylinder. The rotation and advance and retreat movements of the screw are controlled such that a raw material resin is plasticized by the screw and a foaming gas injected from a foaming gas injection valve is dissolved in the plasticized molten resin. After the screw retreats to a prescribed position according as the molten resin accumulates in the front end side of the heating cylinder by the screw that is rotating, the screw advances with rotating to cause the molten resin which has been accumulated in the front end side of the heating cylinder to be transferred to the injection unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignees: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD., TOSHIBA MACHINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Toyohiko Nakatani, Kentarou Ichikawa, Hideo Tanaka, Kazuhito Sato, Kishbaugh Levi
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Publication number: 20190077059Abstract: An injection apparatus including a plasticizing unit (2) that plasticizes a raw material resin and an injection unit (3) that injects a plasticized molten resin. The plasticizing unit includes a heating cylinder (20) having a foaming gas injection valve and a screw (21) provided inside the heating cylinder. The rotation and advance and retreat movements of the screw are controlled such that a raw material resin is plasticized by the screw and a foaming gas injected from a foaming gas injection valve is dissolved in the plasticized molten resin. After the screw retreats to a prescribed position according as the molten resin accumulates in the front end side of the heating cylinder by the screw that is rotating, the screw advances with rotating to cause the molten resin which has been accumulated in the front end side of the heating cylinder to be transferred to the injection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Applicants: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD., TOSHIBA MACHINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Toyohiko NAKATANI, Kentarou ICHIKAWA, Hideo TANAKA, Kazuhito SATO, Kishbaugh LEVI
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Patent number: 10160144Abstract: A plasticizing process in which a molten resin that has been plasticized and dissolved in a foaming gas is sent to the front end side of a heating cylinder (20) by means of a screw (21) that rotates in a heating cylinder (20), and the screw (21) retreats according as the molten resin accumulates in the front end side of the heating cylinder (20); a transfer process in which the screw (21) is advanced with rotating and transfers the molten resin accumulated in the front end side of the heating cylinder (20) from a plasticizing unit (2) to an injection unit (3), and an injection process in which the molten resin is injected from the injection unit (3) are conducted and repeated to produce a foamable injection molded product.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2014Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignees: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD., TOSHIBA MACHINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Toyohiko Nakatani, Kentarou Ichikawa, Hideo Tanaka, Kazuhito Sato, Kishbaugh Levi
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Publication number: 20180361632Abstract: To provide a method of manufacturing a press molding by molding a molding material comprising reinforced fibers and a thermoplastic resin by a cold press method. The method of manufacturing a press molding comprising reinforced fibers and a thermoplastic resin, includes the steps of: holding the molding material heated at a temperature not lower than the softening temperature with a plurality of grippers installed on a carrier; carrying the molding material between the upper mold and the lower mold of a mold for molding; pushing the molding material with pushers to preform it at a predetermined preforming rate; and press molding the preformed molding by closing the upper mold and the lower mold and applying pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicants: TEIJIN LIMITED, TOSHIBA MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Hodaka YOKOMIZO, Tetsuya YONEDA, Akihiko OBATA, Kazuhito SATO, Chiaki SHIGEMATSU
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Publication number: 20180169901Abstract: A conveyance device includes a plurality of holding mechanisms and one or more pressing mechanisms, the holding mechanisms each include a holder that holds a molding material and a holder movement mechanism that moves the holder, and the pressing mechanisms each include a pusher that comes into contact with and pushes the molding material and a pusher movement mechanism that moves the pusher.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2017Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicants: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha, Teijin LimitedInventors: Kazuhito Sato, Chiaki Shigematsu, Hodaka Yokomizo, Tetsuya Yoneda, Akihiko Obata
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Publication number: 20170175003Abstract: There are provided a catalyst composition for producing hydrocarbons and a method for producing hydrocarbons which exhibit a high CO conversion rate, generates minimal amount of gaseous components, and is also capable of efficiently obtaining, from a syngas, a gasoline fraction which is selective for and rich in the components having a high octane number, such as aromatic, naphthenic, olefinic and branched paraffinic hydrocarbons, by using a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst that contains at least one type of metal exhibiting activity in Fischer-Tropsch reaction and manganese carbonate and a zeolite serving as a solid acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2017Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Kazuhito SATO, Shigenori NAKASHIZU
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Patent number: 9656252Abstract: There are provided a catalyst composition for producing hydrocarbons and a method for producing hydrocarbons which exhibit a high CO conversion rate, generates minimal amount of gaseous components, and is also capable of efficiently obtaining, from a syngas, a gasoline fraction which is selective for and rich in the components having a high octane number, such as aromatic, naphthenic, olefinic and branched paraffinic hydrocarbons, by using a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst that contains at least one type of metal exhibiting activity in Fischer-Tropsch reaction and manganese carbonate and a zeolite serving as a solid acid.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2010Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: COSMO OIL CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhito Sato, Shigenori Nakashizu
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Publication number: 20160001474Abstract: A plasticizing process in which a molten resin that has been plasticized and dissolved in a foaming gas is sent to the front end side of a heating cylinder (20) by means of a screw (21) that rotates in a heating cylinder (20), and the screw (21) retreats according as the molten resin accumulates in the front end side of the heating cylinder (20); a transfer process in which the screw (21) is advanced with rotating and transfers the molten resin accumulated in the front end side of the heating cylinder (20) from a plasticizing unit (2) to an injection unit (3), and an injection process in which the molten resin is injected from the injection unit (3) are conducted and repeated to produce a foamable injection molded product.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicants: TOSHIBA MACHINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD., TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.Inventors: Toyohiko NAKATANI, Kentarou ICHIKAWA, Hideo TANAKA, Kazuhito SATO, Kishbaugh LEVI
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Patent number: 8906222Abstract: The present invention relates to a management method for a wax fraction storage tank that stores a wax fraction produced by Fischer-Tropsch synthesis until the wax fraction is hydrocracked, the management method including maintaining the temperature inside the tank at 90° C. to 130° C. and maintaining the atmosphere inside the tank to be an inert gas atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2008Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignees: Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Inpex Corporation, Nippon Oil Corporation, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd., Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd., Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigenori Nakashizu, Yutaka Miyata, Kazuhito Sato
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Patent number: 8597502Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a diesel fuel base stock improved in low-temperature flowability, including: fractionating in a first fractionator a synthetic oil obtained by Fisher-Tropsch synthesis into at least two fractions of a first middle fraction containing a component having a boiling range corresponding to diesel fuel oil, and a wax fraction containing a wax component heavier than the first middle fraction; hydroisomerizing the first middle fraction by bringing the first middle fraction into contact with a hydroisomerizing catalyst to produce a hydroisomerized middle fraction; hydrocracking the wax fraction by bringing the wax fraction into contact with a hydrocracking catalyst to produce a wax-decomposition component; and fractionating in a second fractionator a mixture of the produced hydroisomerized middle fraction and the produced wax-decomposition component, wherein rectification conditions in the first fractionator and/or rectification conditions in the second fractionator are adjustedType: GrantFiled: September 25, 2008Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignees: Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Inpex Corporation, Nippon Oil Corporation, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd., Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd., Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Tanaka, Kazuhito Sato
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Patent number: 8598063Abstract: A catalyst for FT synthesis which, in the FT method, is high in a CO conversion and small in the formation of a gaseous component and can stably perform an FT synthesis reaction and enhance the productivity of hydrocarbons, and a method for producing hydrocarbons using the catalyst, are provided. A catalyst for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis comprising a support containing manganese carbonate as a main component, wherein the support contains at least one metal having an activity to the Fischer-Tropsch reaction; and a method for producing hydrocarbons using this catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2009Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhito Sato, Shigenori Nakashizu
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Publication number: 20120208905Abstract: There are provided a catalyst composition for producing hydrocarbons and a method for producing hydrocarbons which exhibit a high CO conversion rate, generates minimal amount of gaseous components, and is also capable of efficiently obtaining, from a syngas, a gasoline fraction which is selective for and rich in the components having a high octane number, such as aromatic, naphthenic, olefinic and branched paraffinic hydrocarbons, by using a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst that contains at least one type of metal exhibiting activity in Fischer-Tropsch reaction and manganese carbonate and a zeolite serving as a solid acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2010Publication date: August 16, 2012Inventors: Kazuhito Sato, Shigenori Nakashizu
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Patent number: 8217898Abstract: A keyboard includes a plurality of key row holders each supporting a plurality of key elements constituting each of the plurality of key rows, a support shaft placed to be rotatable about an axial center and support the plurality of key row holders arranged to intersect the axial center, an engaging portion formed on a support surface of each of the plurality of key row holders for the support shaft, and an engaged portion formed spirally on a surface of the support shaft in a direction of the axial center so as to be engaged with the engaging portion of each of the plurality of key row holders, the engaged portion causing the plurality of key row holders to shift in the direction of the axial center by an engagement with the engaging portion upon rotation of the support shaft. The keyboard enables easy and accurate key pitch adjustment.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masatoshi Fujino, Masayoshi Koganei, Yutaka Ogasawara, Yasushi Itoshiro, Kazuhito Sato, Kazuhiko Otake
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Patent number: 8100485Abstract: A rotating door mechanism includes: a front door member having a door panel part having a nearly cylindrical side surface which is opened and closed on a side surface of a cabinet; a base member; and a rotating member, wherein the rotating member is rotatably mounted on the base member, the front door member is movably mounted on the rotating member from a direction of the door front side to a depth direction while the front door member is energized to the door front side, the base member is formed with a guiding part guiding the movement of the front door member, and the door panel part is slid to rotate the rotating member and the front door member is moved with movements in a front/depth direction and in the rotating direction by the rotating member and the guiding part, whereby the door panel part is opened and closed.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yutaka Ogasawara, Hidetoshi Kawabe, Kazuhito Sato
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Publication number: 20110112206Abstract: A catalyst for FT synthesis which, in the FT method, is high in a CO conversion and small in the formation of a gaseous component and can stably perform an FT synthesis reaction and enhance the productivity of hydrocarbons, and a method for producing hydrocarbons using the catalyst, are provided. A catalyst for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis comprising a support containing manganese carbonate as a main component, wherein the support contains at least one metal having an activity to the Fischer-Tropsch reaction; and a method for producing hydrocarbons using this catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: COSMO OIL CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhito Sato, Shigenori Nakashizu
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Patent number: 7917917Abstract: A tray ejecting mechanism includes a stationary bezel mounted to a front surface of an ejectable tray, and a movable bezel movably attached to the stationary bezel while being biased in a front-surface direction. The stationary bezel includes a detection component positionally shiftable in accordance with an open/close position of the tray, and a switch component having a pressing portion for pressing an ejection switch on the tray and being positionally shiftable in conjunction with the detection component. When the tray is closed, the switch component is positioned such that, as the movable bezel is pushed inward, a pressing rib applies a pressing force to the pressing portion to press the ejection switch. When the tray is open, the ejection switch is prevented from being pressed by the pressing portion even if the movable bezel is pushed inward toward the stationary bezel.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hidetoshi Kawabe, Yutaka Ogasawara, Kazuhito Sato
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Publication number: 20100294696Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a diesel fuel base stock improved in low-temperature flowability, including: fractionating in a first fractionator a synthetic oil obtained by Fisher-Tropsch synthesis into at least two fractions of a first middle fraction containing a component having a boiling range corresponding to diesel fuel oil, and a wax fraction containing a wax component heavier than the first middle fraction; hydroisomerizing the first middle fraction by bringing the first middle fraction into contact with a hydroisomerizing catalyst to produce a hydroisomerized middle fraction; hydrocracking the wax fraction by bringing the wax fraction into contact with a hydrocracking catalyst to produce a wax-decomposition component; and fractionating in a second fractionator a mixture of the produced hydroisomerized middle fraction and the produced wax-decomposition component, wherein rectification conditions in the first fractionator and/or rectification conditions in the second fractionator are adjustedType: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2008Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventors: Yuichi Tanaka, Kazuhito Sato