Patents by Inventor Kazuya Sato

Kazuya 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).

  • Publication number: 20030090193
    Abstract: Disclosed are a phosphor pattern which comprises a substrate having unevenness and a phosphor layer formed on the inner surface of a concave portion of the substrate, wherein the phosphor pattern thickness ratio (x)/(y) satisfies a range of 0.1 to 1.5, where when the length from the bottom of the concave portion to the top of a convex portion is L (&mgr;m), (x) is a thickness of the phosphor pattern formed on an uneven wall surface at a position of 0.9×L from the bottom of the concave portion toward the top of the convex portion, and (y) is a thickness of the phosphor pattern formed on the uneven wall surface at a position of 0.4×L from the bottom of the concave portion toward the top of the convex portion, and processes for preparing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventors: Takeshi Nojiri, Hideyasu Tsuiki, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yumiko Wada, Seiji Tai, Seikichi Tanno, Hajime Kakumaru, Kazuya Sato, Naoki Kimura, Ikuo Mukai
  • Publication number: 20030082058
    Abstract: There is disclosed a high-pressure compressor comprising a compression mechanism for reciprocating/driving a piston with respect to a conventional cylinder by rotation of a motor and compressing an operating fluid sucked by this driving to generate the high-pressure operating fluid according to improvements in a piston shape, positions of a cylinder operation surface and the piston, specifics shapes of the cylinder and piston, and connecting constitution of the piston to a connecting rod, which solves problems such as occurrence of wear on a cylinder inner surface by displacement of the piston, size enlargement by an increase of a removal capacity, difficulty in processing the piston and connecting rod, and a large top clearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Sakamoto, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Makoto Aida, Takahiro Nishikawa, Kazuya Sato, Takayuki Mizuno, Aritomo Sato
  • Patent number: 6554196
    Abstract: The controller 70 of the brine supply device 10 performs the PID calculation of the manipulated variable MV of the valve 14, calculates the compensated manipulated variable MV′ by compensating the manipulated value MV, and controls the operation of the valve 14 based on the compensated manipulated variable MV′. The variation &Dgr;MV of the manipulated variable MV becomes proportional to the variation &Dgr;PV of the brine supply temperature Pt1 as the operation of the valve 14 is controlled with the compensated manipulated variable MV′. This makes it possible to control temperature with a high accuracy using only one set of PID constants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignees: Nishiyama Corporation, AQUAtech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuboyuki Sasayama, Kazuya Sato, Masahiro Kawai
  • Publication number: 20030076435
    Abstract: According to an image sensing apparatus and an image display method therefor of this embodiment, since a preview image to be photographed and a viewing thumbnail image can be simultaneously displayed on one screen, and the display form can be arbitrarily changed by a simple selection operation on the screen, the visibility and operability of the image sensing apparatus can be largely improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventor: Kazuya Sato
  • Patent number: 6546738
    Abstract: A Stirling refrigerator, which prevents oil rising, makes oil seal bellows have long-life, and includes a housing, cylinder, piston, piston rod and an oil seal bellows. The oil seal bellows seals a space between the housing and the cylinder, wherein a tip end of the oil seal bellows is sealed and fixed on the piston or on the piston rod inside the cylinder, and a base end of the oil seal bellows is installed on the housing. The oil seal bellows reciprocates with a stroke, wherein the tip end of the oil seal bellows is compressed to a compression side from a position of free length then returns to the position of free length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sekiya, Takahiro Nakamura, Itsuo Nakazaki, Takashi Inoue, Ryousuke Tuihiji, Takeo Komatsubara, Hiroshi Kanai, Kazuya Sato, Takayuki Mizuno, Eiji Fukuda, Yasuo Sakamoto, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Denji Mashimo
  • Patent number: 6547534
    Abstract: There is disclosed a high-pressure compressor comprising a compression mechanism for reciprocating/driving a piston with respect to a conventional cylinder by rotation of a motor and compressing an operating fluid sucked by this driving to generate the high-pressure operating fluid according to improvements in a piston shape, positions of a cylinder operation surface and the piston, specifics shapes of the cylinder and piston, and connecting constitution of the piston to a connecting rod, which solves problems such as occurrence of wear on a cylinder inner surface by displacement of the piston, size enlargement by an increase of a removal capacity, difficulty in processing the piston and connecting rod, and a large top clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Sakamoto, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Makoto Aida, Takahiro Nishikawa, Kazuya Sato, Takayuki Mizuno, Aritomo Sato
  • Publication number: 20030068236
    Abstract: There is provided a rotary compressor capable of preventing deterioration of performance following plug fixing carried out to prevent falling-off of a spring member. The rotary compressor comprises a cylinder constituting a rotary compression element, a roller engaged with an eccentric portion formed in a rotary shaft of an electric element, and eccentrically rotated in the cylinder, a vane abutted on the roller to divide an inside of the cylinder into a low pressure chamber side and a high pressure chamber side, a spring member for always pressing the vane to the roller side, a housing portion of the spring member, formed in the cylinder, and opened to the vane side and a hermetically sealed container side, a plug positioned in the hermetically sealed container side of the spring member, and inserted into the housing portion to fit into a gap, and an O ring attached around the plug to seal a part between the plug and the housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kenzo Matsumoto, Dai Matsuura, Kazuya Sato, Takayasu Saito, Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Oda, Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Matsumori
  • Publication number: 20030031574
    Abstract: A reciprocating compressor is provided with a plurality of gas compression means having a cylinder and a piston, the piston of each gas compression means is cooperated with the compressor by converting a rotating motion of a crankshaft provided on an electric drive source to a reciprocating motion by a scotch yoke mechanism, wherein an increase of the volume of discharged gas can be achieved without designing a gas compression means to be wide or without increasing the number thereof, a pulsation of discharged gas can be decreased by an attachment of an expansion muffler on the cylinder head so as to decrease a vibration and noise of the compressor, an attachment of the fly wheel to the crankshaft and an adjustment of the shaft with the crankshaft can be improved easily, further compressed gas flows are joined and discharged in concentration, thereby the pulsation of discharged gas can be restrained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Takahiro Nishikawa, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Takashi Harako, Takayuki Mizuno, Kazuya Sato, Yasuo Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20030026710
    Abstract: A reciprocating compressor is provided with a plurality of gas compression means having a cylinder and a piston, the piston of each gas compression means is cooperated with the compressor by converting a rotating motion of a crankshaft provided on an electric drive source to a reciprocating motion by a scotch yoke mechanism, wherein an increase of the volume of discharged gas can be achieved without designing a gas compression means to be wide or without increasing the number thereof, a pulsation of discharged gas can be decreased by an attachment of an expansion muffler on the cylinder head so as to decrease a vibration and noise of the compressor, an attachment of the fly wheel to the crankshaft and an adjustment of the shaft with the crankshaft can be improved easily, further compressed gas flows are joined and discharged in concentration, thereby the pulsation of discharged gas can be restrained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Takahiro Nishikawa, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Takashi Harako, Takayuki Mizuno, Kazuya Sato, Yasuo Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20030026709
    Abstract: A reciprocating compressor is provided with a plurality of gas compression means having a cylinder and a piston, the piston of each gas compression means is cooperated with the compressor by converting a rotating motion of a crankshaft provided on an electric drive source to a reciprocating motion by a scotch yoke mechanism, wherein an increase of the volume of discharged gas can be achieved without designing a gas compression means to be wide or without increasing the number thereof, a pulsation of discharged gas can be decreased by an attachment of an expansion muffler on the cylinder head so as to decrease a vibration and noise of the compressor, an attachment of the fly wheel to the crankshaft and an adjustment of the shaft with the crankshaft can be improved easily, further compressed gas flows are joined and discharged in concentration, thereby the pulsation of discharged gas can be restrained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Takahiro Nishikawa, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Takashi Harako, Takayuki Mizuno, Kazuya Sato, Yasuo Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6515704
    Abstract: According to an image sensing apparatus and an image display method therefor of this embodiment, since a preview image to be photographed and a viewing thumbnail image can be simultaneously displayed on one screen, and the display form can be arbitrarily changed by a simple selection operation on the screen, the visibility and operability of the image sensing apparatus can be largely improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuya Sato
  • Publication number: 20030019217
    Abstract: A Stirling refrigerator, which prevents oil rising, makes oil seal bellows have long-life, and includes a housing, cylinder, piston, piston rod and an oil seal bellows. The oil seal bellows seals a space between the housing and the cylinder, wherein a tip end of the oil seal bellows is sealed and fixed on the piston or on the piston rod inside the cylinder, and a base end of the oil seal bellows is installed on the housing. The oil seal bellows reciprocates with a stroke, wherein the tip end of the oil seal bellows is compressed to a compression side from a position of free length then returns to the position of free length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sekiya, Takahiro Nakamura, Itsuo Nakazaki, Takashi Inoue, Ryousuke Tuihiji, Takeo Komatsubara, Hiroshi Kanai, Kazuya Sato, Takayuki Mizuno, Eiji Fukuda, Yasuo Sakamoto, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Denji Mashimo
  • Publication number: 20020159049
    Abstract: There is disclosed a measuring method of illuminance unevenness of an exposure apparatus in which the illuminance unevenness resulting from a projection optical system, to project the light passed through the photomask onto the finite area on the photosensitive substrate via the projection optical system and to expose the photomask to the light, the method comprising calculating an average value of transmittance of the projection optical system of each path of the light emitted from one point of the photomask and reaching an imaging point for each of a plurality of imaging points in the finite area on the photosensitive substrate, and calculating the illuminance unevenness in the finite area on the photosensitive substrate from the average value of the transmittance obtained for each imaging point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuya Sato, Soichi Inoue, Satoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6472289
    Abstract: A dielectrically separated wafer and a fabrication method of the same makes it possible to expand the device fabrication surface area of the dielectrically separated silicon islands by laminating a low concentration impurity layer including a dopant of the same conductivity on a high concentration impurity layer formed on the bottom of the island. A dielectrically separated wafer and a fabrication method for the same which can grow a polysilicon layer without producing voids in the dielectrically separating oxide layer includes forming a seed polysilicon layer at low temperature and under low pressure and by forming, on the seed polysilicon layer, a high temperature polysilicon layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Silicon Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Oi, Kazuya Sato, Hiroshi Shimamura
  • Publication number: 20020155006
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a multi-cylinder compressor permitting to increase a gas inflow into the housing without enlarging the intake ports of the bearing plate. The bearing plate 12 bearing the crankshaft 9 is provided with plural intake ports 12a at regular intervals in the circumferential direction. The substantially inversely-dished cover member 14 is mounted on the top of the bearing plate 12, and it not only covers the plural intake ports 12a, but also forms a sealed space S between the cover member and the bearing plate 12, and is further provided with an introducing opening 14a larger than the intake port 12a at the center top of the cover member 14. The introducing opening 14a is fitted with the gas supply pipe 15 to be connected to the gas supply source (not illustrated).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Inventors: Takashi Harako, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Takahiro Nishikawa, Tetsuya Kato, Eiji Fukuda, Takayuki Mizuno, Kazuya Sato
  • Patent number: 6431840
    Abstract: There is provided a multistage high pressure compressor in which a rotor is supported with respect to a rotating shaft of an electric motor and which can suppress a torque fluctuation of the electric motor and achieve a stable operation of the electric motor. A fly wheel is attached to a lower end of the rotating shaft of the electric motor, and the fly wheel supports the rotor of the electric motor with respect to the rotating shaft. The fly wheel is connected to the lower end of the rotating shaft of the electric motor by a bolt, and an extension of a detent key between the rotating shaft of the electric motor and the rotor of the electric motor is inserted into the fly wheel. Moreover, there is provided a multistage high pressure compressor achieving improved sealing between a cylinder and members surrounding the periphery thereof, which is capable of realizing a simplified processing of the cylinder and an easy assembly process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Denji Mashimo, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Takahiro Nishikawa, Yasuo Sakamoto, Takayuki Mizuno, Kazuya Sato, Makoto Aida
  • Patent number: 6423445
    Abstract: An alkaline battery separator comprising a gas-permeable sheet which contains a hydrophilic portion carrying a methacrylic/ethylene copolymer component having a crystallinity of 25% or more on at least a part of a surface of said hydrophilic portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Japan Vilene Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Kato, Kazuya Sato, Masanao Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6416931
    Abstract: Disclosed are a phosphor pattern which comprises a substrate having unevenness and a phosphor layer formed on the inner surface of a concave portion of the substrate, wherein the phosphor pattern thickness ratio (x)/(y) satisfies a range of 0.1 to 1.5, where when the length from the bottom of the concave portion to the top of a convex portion is L (&mgr;m), (x) is a thickness of the phosphor pattern formed on an uneven wall surface at a position of 0.9×L from the bottom of the concave portion toward the top of the convex portion, and (y) is a thickness of the phosphor pattern formed on the uneven wall surface at a position of 0.4×L from the bottom of the concave portion toward the top of the convex portion, and processes for preparing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Nojiri, Hideyasu Tsuiki, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Yumiko Wada, Seiji Tai, Seikichi Tanno, Hajime Kakumaru, Kazuya Sato, Naoki Kimura, Ikuo Mukai
  • Patent number: 6389782
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for wrapping an elongated article with using a tranfer printing film are provided. A transfer printing film comprising a substrate film and a pattern-decorated transfer layer on the substrate film is drawn out from a roll thereof, and fed to a surface of the article which is conveyed horizontally by the convey rollers. The printing film is subject to an adhesive application during the travel to the article on the rollers. A hot melt type adhesive is employed as the adhesive, which type of adhesive can be easily regulated in thickness by an applicator. The printing film adheres to the article by the thick hot melt type adhesive to the article surface, and pressed with heat to transfer the decorated transfer layer with adhesive together integrally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Kurz Japan Limited and Navitas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Kinugawa, Kazuya Sato
  • Publication number: 20020045329
    Abstract: A dielectrically separated wafer and a fabrication method of the same are provided according to the first, second and third embodiments of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Materials Silicon Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Oi, Kazuya Sato, Hiroshi Shimamura