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).
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Patent number: 8273291Abstract: A controlled combustion synthesis apparatus comprises an ignition system, a pressure sensor for detecting internal pressure, a nitrogen supply, a gas pressure control valve for feeding nitrogen and exhausting reaction gas, means for detecting the internal temperature of the reaction container, a water cooled jacket, and a cooling plate. A temperature control system controls the temperature of the reaction container by controlling the flow of cooling water supplied to the jacket and the cooling plate in response to the detected temperature. By combustion synthesizing, while controlling the internal pressure and temperature, the apparatus can synthesize a silicon alloy including 30-70 wt. % silicon, 10-45 wt. % nitrogen, 1-40 wt. % aluminum, and 1-40 wt % oxygen.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2009Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Sumikin Bussan CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Watanabe, Masafumi Matsushita, Toshitaka Sakurai, Kazuya Sato, Yoko Matsushita
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Patent number: 8262558Abstract: This treatment tool having: an inserted part that can be inserted and passed through an endoscope, in which a treatment part for carrying out a specific treatment on a tissue is provided to the distal end of the inserted part which is passed through the endoscope and disposed inside the body. The treatment part being provided to the inserted part so as to be freely projecting and retracting; and provided with: an operator portion at the base end portion of the inserted part which is pulled out from the endoscope, for manipulating the projection and retraction of the treatment part.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems CorpInventor: Kazuya Sato
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Publication number: 20120203063Abstract: A treatment tool for endo scope includes a pair of forceps members supported by a forceps rotation axis such that they can rotate relatively, an operation part for performing an open-close operation of the pair of forceps members, an operation wire that connects the pair of forceps members and the operation part, an insertion part which the operation wire is inserted into, a cover member that secures the forceps rotation axis to the insertion part, a connection member including a link rotation axis, provided at a distal-end part of the operation wire, and a pair of link members, first end parts of each being rotatably connected via respective rotation axis members to a proximal-end part of each of the pair of forceps members, and second end parts of each being rotatably connected to the link rotation axis. The cover member includes restricting parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Keita SUZUKI, Megumi KIMURA, Kazuya SATO
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Patent number: 8186981Abstract: There is disclosed a scroll compressor having an object of stabilizing the moving of an orbit scroll while suppressing the start load of the scroll compressor. In the scroll compressor, a slide bush having a slide face forming a predetermined angle with respect to the direction of gas load of a gas in a compression chamber is interposed on an eccentric shaft of a shaft for driving the orbit scroll, so that when the load of the gas in the compression chamber is applied, the eccentric amount of the eccentric shaft increases. The scroll compressor includes a spring member interposed between the slide bush and the eccentric shaft and configured to constantly urge the eccentric shaft to decrease the eccentric amount of the eccentric shaft, and this spring member urges the eccentric shaft to press the eccentric shaft onto the slide face of the slide bush.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Sugimoto, Kazuya Sato
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Publication number: 20120100610Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of safely and simply inducing differentiation of mononuclear cells into cells that promote neovascular stabilization and maturation, and lead to recovering from ischemia or tissue repair. The cells according to the present invention are obtained by inducing differentiation of a mononuclear cell by culturing the mononuclear cell in a medium (particularly a serum-free medium) containing one or more selected from vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), thrombopoietin (TPO), granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) and FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 ligand (FLT3L), and collecting a cell population expressing CD11b.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: National University Corporation Asahikawa MedicalInventors: Yusuke Mizukami, Junpei Sasajima, Yoshiaki Sugiyama, Kazuya Sato, Yutaka Kohgo
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Patent number: 8118646Abstract: A carrier for a double-side polishing apparatus, including at least: a carrier base placed between upper and lower turn tables, the carrier base having a holding hole therein, the holding hole holds the wafer sandwiched between the upper and lower turn tables. A ring-shaped resin ring disposed along an inner circumference of the holding hole, the resin ring protecting a chamfered portion by making contact with the chamfered portion of the held wafer, wherein the resin ring has a concave groove on an inner circumference thereof, upper and lower tapered surfaces are formed in the concave groove. A double-side polishing apparatus using the carrier and a double-side polishing method that can reduce the generation of taper in a polished surface and improve the flatness while suppressing the generation of an outer peripheral sag of the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Shin-Etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuya Sato, Junichi Ueno, Syuichi Kobayashi, Hideo Kudo
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Publication number: 20110236245Abstract: Provided is a rotary compressor capable of reducing oil exiting a refrigerant discharge pipe by regulating positions of a discharge hole and an opening of the refrigerant discharge pipe to be predetermined positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Sato, Takashi Sato
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Publication number: 20110157704Abstract: It is aimed at finding out a surface pattern and physical properties required for an antireflective film having an excellent antireflective property for light, a light transmissivity, and the like, and at providing an antireflective film having such a specific surface pattern and physical properties, and a production method of the antireflective film; and provided for this object, is an antireflective film, obtained by: processing a surface of an aluminum material, by mechanical polishing, chemical polishing and/or electrolytic polishing; subsequently producing a pattern of mold having taper-shaped pores on the surface of the aluminum material, by combining a formation of an anodic oxide coating based on anodic oxidation of the surface of the aluminum material, with etching of the anodic oxide coating; and transferring the pattern of mold onto an antireflective film-forming material; wherein the antireflective film has, on a surface thereof, convexities having an average height between 100 nm inclusive and 1,Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2009Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: DNP Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuya Sato, Tsukasa Matsumoto, Yutaka Watanabe, Jun Rokuhara
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Publication number: 20110124271Abstract: A carrier for a double-side polishing apparatus, including at least: a carrier base placed between upper and lower turn tables, the carrier base having a holding hole therein, the holding hole holds the wafer sandwiched between the upper and lower turn tables. A ring-shaped resin ring disposed along an inner circumference of the holding hole, the resin ring protecting a chamfered portion by making contact with the chamfered portion of the held wafer, wherein the resin ring has a concave groove on an inner circumference thereof, upper and lower tapered surfaces are formed in the concave groove. A double-side polishing apparatus using the carrier and a double-side polishing method that can reduce the generation of taper in a polished surface and improve the flatness while suppressing the generation of an outer peripheral sag of the wafer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: SHIN-ETSU HANDOTAI CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Sato, Junichi Ueno, Syuichi Kobayashi, Hideo Kudo
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Publication number: 20110105297Abstract: A duplex eutectic silicon alloy including 30-70 weight % silicon, 10-45 weight % nitrogen, 1-40 weight % aluminum, and 1-40 weight % oxygen has a eutectic structure comprising a ??-sialon phase and an ??-sialon phase. The alloy is produced by controlling cooling at a rate of 50° C. or less per minute in combustion synthesis. A ductile sintered product capable of replacing steel in various applications can be produced by placing a compact composed of a powder of the alloy in a sintering furnace which can supply a heat quantity at least ten times the heat capacity of the compact; and sintering the compact at a pressure at least as great as atmospheric pressure, within a nitrogen atmosphere in which the silicon gas mole fraction is 10% or more, and at a temperature within the range from 1400° C. to 1700° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2010Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: ISMAN J CORPORATIONInventors: TOSHIYUKI WATANABE, MASAFUMI MATSUSHITA, TOSHITAKA SAKURAI, KAZUYA SATO, YOKO MATSUSHITA, TAKAYOSHI MISAKI, SETSUKO SHINDO, AYUMI SHINDO, YUMIKO KUBOTA, AKIKO MATSUSHITA, KUNIO SAITO, TAKUMI SHITARA, FUTOSHI YANAGINO, TAKASHI YOSHIDA, TAKASHI MIZUSHIMA, OSAMU MATSUZONO, KAZUAKI SATO, KOUKI SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20110104995Abstract: A carrier for a double-side polishing apparatus comprising at least: a metallic carrier base that is arranged between upper and lower turn tables having polishing pads attached thereto and has a holding hole formed therein to hold a wafer sandwiched between the upper and lower turn tables at the time of polishing; and a ring-like resin insert that is arranged along an inner peripheral portion of the holding hole of the carrier base and is in contact with a peripheral portion of the held wafer, wherein an inner peripheral end portion of the holding hole of the carrier base has an upwardly opening tapered surface, an outer peripheral portion of the ring-like insert has a reverse tapered surface with respect to the tapered surface of the holding hole of the carrier base, and the resin insert is fitted in the holding hole of the carrier base through the tapered surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: Shin-Etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Ueno, Kazuya Sato, Syuichi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20110066157Abstract: Provided is a treatment tool endoscopically inserted into a body cavity. The treatment tool includes a treatment part for performing a treatment within the body cavity; a connecting member connected to a proximal end of the treatment part; a sheath through which the treatment part and the connecting member are inserted so as to be able to advance or retreat in an axis direction; an operation part which is connected to the connecting member and extends and retracts the connecting member with respect to the sheath; and a coupling member, which is formed in a tubular shape, provided with a large diameter portion with substantially the same external diameter as the internal diameter of the sheath and a fixing portion with an external diameter smaller than that of the large diameter portion, and fixed to at least any one of the connecting member and the treatment part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2010Publication date: March 17, 2011Inventors: Kazuya SATO, Yuta ONODERA, Koh KIMURA
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Publication number: 20110052440Abstract: Dehydration and drying of a silicon alloy argil which uses water as a principal binder are carried out by a freeze-drying process, a microwave irradiation process, or a combination thereof. In the freeze-drying process, the shaped compact is put into a cooling medium within 5 minutes after completion of shape forming, retained therein for at least 5 minutes to quick-freeze water within the compact while the water is still in a finely-dispersed condition. The compact is exposed to a pressure below the triple point pressure of water. In the microwave irradiation process, the shaped compact is put into a container exposed to continuous microwave irradiation at 2.450 GHz for at least 5 minutes while under a reduced pressure below atmospheric pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: ISMAN J CORPORATIONInventors: TOSHIYUKI WATANABE, MASAFUMI MATSUSHITA, TOSHITAKA SAKURAI, KAZUYA SATO, YOKO MATSUSHITA, TAKAYOSHI MISAKI, SETSUKO SHINDO, AYUMI SHINDO, YUMIKO KUBOTA, AKIKO MATSUSHITA, KUNIO SAITO, TAKUMI SHITARA, FUTOSHI YANAGINO, TAKASHI YOSHIDA, TAKASHI MIZUSHIMA, OSAMU MATSUZONO, KOUKI SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20110026163Abstract: According to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, a production method of a fluid dynamic bearing including: a shaft arranged along a center axis; an annular portion expanding radially outwards from the shaft; a sleeve having a top surface opposed to an under surface of the annular portion, for supporting the shaft and the annular portion in a relatively rotatable manner; and a lubricating fluid interposed between the shaft and annular portion and the sleeve, includes the step of preparing the annular portion having a substantially annular edge surrounding the center axis on the under surface; the step of applying a forming liquid for forming a solid lubricating film on the radially outer side of the edge of the under surface; and the step of evaporating a solvent of the forming liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu Komori, Mitsuya Kusuhara, Kunio Sakurada, Kazuya Sato
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Patent number: 7837449Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 31, 2007Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kenzo Matsumoto, Dai Matsuura, Kazuya Sato, Takayasu Saito, Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Oda, Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Matsumori
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Patent number: 7798787Abstract: There is provided an internal intermediate pressure multistage compression type rotary compressor capable of reducing a height dimension while reducing the amount of oil to be discharged outside. An electric element and first and second rotary compression elements which are driven by a rotary shaft of the electric element disposed under the electric element are provided in a hermetic shell case. There is provided a refrigerant introduction pipe for introducing refrigerant in the hermetic shell case over the electric element into the second rotary compression element through an outside of the hermetic shell case. There is provided an oil path provided in the rotary shaft for discharging oil through an oil discharge port which is positioned at the upper end of the rotary shaft. The refrigerant introduction pipe is provided such that apart of an inlet of the refrigerant introduction pipe is positioned under the upper end of a stator of the electric element.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2006Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenzo Matumoto, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kazuya Sato, Masaya Tadano, Satoshi Imai, Akira Sugawara, Takashi Sato
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Patent number: 7762792Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 31, 2007Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kenzo Matsumoto, Dai Matsuura, Kazuya Sato, Takayasu Saito, Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Oda, Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Matsumori
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Publication number: 20100010295Abstract: This treatment tool having: an inserted part that can be inserted and passed through an endoscope, in which a treatment part for carrying out a specific treatment on a tissue is provided to the distal end of the inserted part which is passed through the endoscope and disposed inside the body. The treatment part being provided to the inserted part so as to be freely projecting and retracting; and provided with: an operator portion at the base end portion of the inserted part which is pulled out from the endoscope, for manipulating the projection and retraction of the treatment part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventor: Kazuya Sato
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Patent number: 7627199Abstract: An object processing unit divides each image frame of received image data into block areas, extracts an object from each image frame, and extracts, as metadata, the features of this object for each block area. A real-time detection processing unit compares the metadata extracted for each block area with a received real-time detection query, and detects an object which satisfies the real-time detection query. A post-retrieval processing unit compares the metadata for each block area stored in a metadata storage unit with a received post-retrieval query, and retrieves an object which satisfies the post-retrieval query.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2006Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kazuya Sato, Tetsuji Haga
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Patent number: 7600986Abstract: There is provided an internal intermediate pressure multistage compression type rotary compressor capable of reducing a height dimension while reducing the amount of oil to be discharged outside. An electric element and first and second rotary compression elements which are driven by a rotary shaft of the electric element disposed under the electric element are provided in a hermetic shell case. There is provided a refrigerant introduction pipe for introducing refrigerant in the hermetic shell case over the electric element into the second rotary compression element through an outside of the hermetic shell case. There is provided an oil path provided in the rotary shaft for discharging oil through an oil discharge port which is positioned at the upper end of the rotary shaft. The refrigerant introduction pipe is provided such that a part of an inlet of the refrigerant introduction pipe is positioned under the upper end of a stator of the electric element.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2005Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenzo Matumoto, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kazuya Sato, Masaya Tadano, Satoshi Imai, Akira Sugawara, Takashi Sato