Patents by Inventor Ken Sawada
Ken Sawada 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: 20230272851Abstract: [Problem] A power transmission unit that improves quietness of a gear mechanism and prevents a size of the unit from increasing when a brake rotor is installed around an input shaft of the gear mechanism. [Solution] The power transmission unit includes an electric driving motor with a motor shaft, a gear mechanism, and an output shaft, which are accommodated in a transmission housing, wherein the power of the motor shaft is transmitted to the output shaft via the gear mechanism. The gear mechanism has a gear shaft rotatably supported on the transmission housing and a first helical gear provided on the gear shaft. The power transmission unit further includes a connecting member provided with a tubular portion fitted to the motor shaft and the gear shaft so as to allow the motor shaft and the gear shaft to synchronously rotate. The connecting member is integrally provided with a brake rotor on the outer periphery thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Koji KIYOOKA, Ryo MOTOOKA, Ken MORISHITA, Hitoshi SAWADA, Akihiro IMA
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Publication number: 20230124606Abstract: An imaging device includes an image sensing device and an image signal processor. The imaging sensing device includes a pixel array of sensing pixels comprising a first pixel for sensing incident light and having a first dynamic range and a second pixel for sensing incident light and having a second dynamic range, the pixel array of sensing pixels structured to have a ratio of a number of the first pixels to all sensing pixels to be higher than a ratio of a number of second pixels to all sensing pixels. The image signal processor is configured to receive and process pixel data from the image sensing device to generate a high dynamic range (HDR) image corresponding to a larger dynamic range than the first dynamic range or the second dynamic range, based on pixel data of the first pixels and pixel data of the second pixels in the pixel array.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Kazuhiro YAHATA, Ken SAWADA, Kunihiro YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230026792Abstract: An image sensing device includes a first substrate layer including a photoelectric conversion region for converting incident light into photocharges and a floating diffusion region for storing the photocharges therein, a first interconnect layer disposed over the first substrate layer and including a switch transistor gate overlapping at least a portion of the floating diffusion region, a second substrate layer disposed over the first interconnect layer, a second interconnect layer disposed over the second substrate layer, and a capacitor electrically coupled to the floating diffusion region by the switch transistor gate. The capacitor includes first and second electrodes that are disposed across the first interconnect layer, the second substrate layer, and the second interconnect layer, wherein a portion of the first interconnect layer, a portion of the second substrate layer, and a portion of the second interconnect layer are disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventor: Ken SAWADA
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Publication number: 20220385849Abstract: An imaging device includes an image sensing device, a private key generation unit, and an image encryption unit. The image sensing device includes an image generator configured to generate image data acquired by capturing as image, and a physical unclonable function (PUF) generator configured to generate physical unclonable function (PUF) data including information about at least one fixed pattern noise (FPN) data value and at least one random telegraph noise (RTN) data value. The private key (KEY) generation unit generates a private key based on the at least one FPN data value and the at least one RTN data value that are acquired from the PUF data. The image encryption unit encrypts the image data using the private key. A first transistor included in the PUF generator exhibits different properties from a second transistor that is included in the image generator and corresponds to the first transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventor: Ken SAWADA
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Patent number: 11018171Abstract: The present technology relates to a transistor and a manufacturing method that make it possible to reduce noise. The transistor includes a gate electrode, a source region, and a drain region. The gate electrode is formed on a semiconductor substrate. The source region is formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate and extended from the gate electrode. The drain region is positioned to oppose the source region and formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate without being brought into contact with the gate electrode. The source region and the drain region are asymmetrical. The drain region is formed at a position deeper than the source region. At a gate end of the gate electrode, the drain region is formed at a distance from the surface of the semiconductor substrate. The present technology is applicable, for example, to an amplifying transistor.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Ken Sawada, Akiko Honjo
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Patent number: 10926970Abstract: A post-processing apparatus includes a binding tool configured to bind a sheet bundle, a binding tool driver, and control circuitry. The binding tool driver is configured to apply a driving force to move the binding tool to a first binding position at which the binding tool executes a first binding process on the sheet bundle and a second binding position different from the first binding position. At the second binding position, the binding tool executes a second binding process on the sheet bundle. The control circuitry is configured to cause the binding tool driver to move the binding tool to the first binding position at a first movement speed to execute the first binding process, and move the binding tool from the first binding position to the second binding position at a second movement speed slower than the first movement speed to execute the second binding process.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Shinji Tanoue, Katsuji Yamaguchi, Akikazu Iwata, Ken Sawada
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Publication number: 20200172367Abstract: A post-processing apparatus includes a binding tool configured to bind a sheet bundle, a binding tool driver, and control circuitry. The binding tool driver is configured to apply a driving force to move the binding tool to a first binding position at which the binding tool executes a first binding process on the sheet bundle and a second binding position different from the first binding position. At the second binding position, the binding tool executes a second binding process on the sheet bundle. The control circuitry is configured to cause the binding tool driver to move the binding tool to the first binding position at a first movement speed to execute the first binding process, and move the binding tool from the first binding position to the second binding position at a second movement speed slower than the first movement speed to execute the second binding process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji TANOUE, Katsuji YAMAGUCHI, Akikazu IWATA, Ken SAWADA
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Patent number: 10611984Abstract: The refrigerating machine oil according to the present invention comprises a polyalkylene glycol represented by the following formula (1): R1—(OR3)n—OR2??(1) [R1 and R2 may be the same or different from each other and each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, or an acyl group having from 2 to 5 carbon atoms, R3 represents an alkylene group having from 2 to 4 carbon atoms, n represents an integer such that a number average molecular weight of the polyalkylene glycol represented by the formula (1) is from 1000 to 2500] the polyalkylene glycol having a ratio of the weight average molecular weight Mw to the number average molecular weight Mn, Mw/Mn, of from 1.00 to 1.15, the refrigerating machine oil being used with a mildly flammable hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Ken Sawada, Akira Tada, Souichirou Konno
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Publication number: 20200071118Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus that forms a folding line on a sheet includes first and second folding rollers that form a folding line on the sheet by rotating a bent sheet while pinching from sheet surfaces and a first pressing unit that presses the second folding roller against the first folding roller in an arbitrary portion in a rotating shaft direction of the second folding roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Ken Sawada, Shigeru Mizuno, Hiroyuki Kuno, Takuya Fukuhara
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Patent number: 10519000Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus that forms a folding line on a sheet includes first and second folding rollers that form a folding line on the sheet by rotating a bent sheet while pinching from sheet surfaces and a first pressing unit that presses the second folding roller against the first folding roller in an arbitrary portion in a rotating shaft direction of the second folding roller.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Ken Sawada, Shigeru Mizuno, Hiroyuki Kuno, Takuya Fukuhara
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Publication number: 20190386047Abstract: The present technology relates to a transistor and a manufacturing method that make it possible to reduce noise. The transistor includes a gate electrode, a source region, and a drain region. The gate electrode is formed on a semiconductor substrate. The source region is formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate and extended from the gate electrode. The drain region is positioned to oppose the source region and formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate without being brought into contact with the gate electrode. The source region and the drain region are asymmetrical. The drain region is formed at a position deeper than the source region. At a gate end of the gate electrode, the drain region is formed at a distance from the surface of the semiconductor substrate. The present technology is applicable, for example, to an amplifying transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2018Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Ken SAWADA, Akiko HONJO
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Patent number: 10494585Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising: an ester of a polyhydric alcohol and a fatty acid as a base oil; and an ether compound of a polyhydric alcohol, the refrigerating machine oil being used with an unsaturated hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Akira Tada, Ken Sawada
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Patent number: 10323208Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil containing an ester base oil obtained from pentaerythritol and mixed fatty acids of a fatty acid having 8 carbon atoms and a fatty acid having 9 carbon atoms, wherein a ratio of a weight average molecular weight Mw to a number average molecular weight Mn, Mw/Mn, of the ester base oil is 1.06 to 1.20, and used with a mildly flammable hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Hiroko Shimpo, Souichirou Konno, Ken Sawada, Kentaro Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20180370751Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus that forms a folding line on a sheet includes first and second folding rollers that form a folding line on the sheet by rotating a bent sheet while pinching from sheet surfaces and a first pressing unit that presses the second folding roller against the first folding roller in an arbitrary portion in a rotating shaft direction of the second folding roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Ken SAWADA, Shigeru Mizuno, Hiroyuki Kuno, Takuya Fukuhara
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Publication number: 20180337791Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal processing circuit and method for the same capable of generating a stable physical unclonable function (PUF) being less susceptible to environmental changes and having less characteristic deterioration. Two VDDs are voltages alternately inverted. The two VDDs perform charge and discharge such that one is turned on while the other is turned off, and a current flows by a difference at an edge during switching (inversion). The output I1 is proportional to a capacitance value difference between the pair of DUTs, and the capacitance value difference between the pair of DUTs can be obtained by ?C=?I/(VDD*f). The present technology is applicable to a signal processing circuit on which a differential pair is mounted, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2016Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: HIROAKI AMMO, KEN SAWADA
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Patent number: 10124981Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus that forms a folding line on a sheet includes first and second folding rollers that form a folding line on the sheet by rotating a bent sheet while pinching from sheet surfaces and a first pressing unit that presses the second folding roller against the first folding roller in an arbitrary portion in a rotating shaft direction of the second folding roller.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Ken Sawada, Shigeru Mizuno, Hiroyuki Kuno, Takuya Fukuhara
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Publication number: 20180265801Abstract: The refrigerating machine oil according to the present invention comprises a polyalkylene glycol represented by the following formula (1): R1—(OR3)n—OR2??(1) [R1 and R2 may be the same or different from each other and each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, or an acyl group having from 2 to 5 carbon atoms, R3 represents an alkylene group having from 2 to 4 carbon atoms, n represents an integer such that a number average molecular weight of the polyalkylene glycol represented by the formula (1) is from 1000 to 2500] the polyalkylene glycol having a ratio of the weight average molecular weight Mw to the number average molecular weight Mn, Mw/Mn, of from 1.00 to 1.15, the refrigerating machine oil being used with a mildly flammable hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Ken Sawada, Akira Tada, Souichirou Konno
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Patent number: 10053647Abstract: The present invention provides a working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine, comprising a refrigerating machine oil that comprises an ester of a polyhydric alcohol and a fatty acid, an epoxy compound, and a phosphorus compound, and a fluoropropene refrigerant, wherein the polyhydric alcohol constituting the ester comprises pentaerythritol and dipentaerythritol, the fatty acid constituting the ester comprises at least one selected from fatty acids having 4 to 9 carbon atoms, and the epoxy compound and the phosphorus compound satisfy a condition represented by the following formula (1). [ Formula ? ? 1 ] ? 0.10 ? ( N E M E · W E ) ( N P M P · W P ) ? 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignees: Denso Corporation, Kabushki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki, JX Nippon Oil & Energy CorporationInventors: Masataka Muto, Hajime Mukawa, Takekazu Kano, Genki Hayashi, Kazuki Yamamoto, Takahiro Hoshida, Hitoshi Takahashi, Ken Sawada, Akira Tada, Souichirou Konno
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Patent number: 10023823Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising, as a base oil, at least one oxygen-containing oil having a carbon/oxygen molar ratio of 2.5 or more and 5.8 or less, wherein the refrigerating machine oil is used with a refrigerant comprising 15% by mass or more of difluoromethane, 15% by mass or more of pentafluoroethane, 15% by mass or more of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and 15% by mass or more of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane based on the total amount of the refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: JXTG NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Takahashi, Hiroko Shimpo, Souichirou Konno, Ken Sawada, Kentaro Yamaguchi
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Patent number: D876919Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignees: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC., KOMAZAWA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Sawada, Shuji Kobayashi