Patents by Inventor Kimihiko Sato

Kimihiko 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: 20140037790
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a quality improving agent useful for improving the quality of steamed buns, and a quality improving agent containing glucoamylase. The quality improving agent preferably has low protease activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: AMANO ENZYME INC.
    Inventors: Qinglong Xu, Kimihiko Sato, Shotaro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8462239
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device and an electronic device that includes the solid-state imaging device prevents shifting of a photoelectric conversion region due to long-wavelength light passing to subsurface portions of the solid-state imagine device. The device include a photo diode having an upper layer of a first conductivity type formed over a second layer having an accumulation region of a second conductivity type. The upper layer is a light-receiving portion of the photodiode. A multi-stage element isolation layer is included and has a plurality of layers of the first conductivity type, such that a first lateral side of a first stage of the multi-stage layer abuts the accumulation portion, and a second stage of the multi-stage layer is separated by a width W from the accumulation region of an intermediate portion of a second conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kaoru Fujisawa, Tetsuya Iizuka, Kimihiko Sato
  • Patent number: 8448624
    Abstract: A direct injection internal combustion engine employs a spray guided combustion method, wherein a fuel spray injected from a fuel injection valve is collected at an electrode section of a spark plug so that satisfactorily high combustion performance may be achieved even with a small amount of injected fuel. The engine includes spray control posts 30 arranged on both sides of the spark plug 5, for guiding the fuel injected from the fuel injection valve 4 to be directed toward the electrode section 10 of the spark plug 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Dai Tanaka, Koji Hata, Kazuyoshi Nakane, Kimihiko Sato, Shigeo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20130116430
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide to a compound and a pharmaceutical composition, which have excellent Syk-inhibitory activity. The present invention provides a nicotinamide derivative represented by the following formula (I) (wherein R1 represents a halogen atom; R2 represents a C1-12 alkyl group, a C2-12 alkenyl group, a C2-12 alkynyl group, a C3-8 cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, an ar-C1-6 alkyl group or a heterocyclic group, each optionally having at least one substituent; R3 represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group each optionally having at least one substituent; and R4 and R5 each independently represent a hydrogen atom; and R2 and R4 may form a cyclic amino group optionally having at least one substituent together with the nitrogen atom to which they bind) or a salt thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition for use in the treatment of a Syk-related disease which comprises the nicotinamide derivative or a salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyasu FUJIWARA, Kimihiko SATO, Shinsuke MIZUMOTO, Yuichiro SATO, Hideki KURIHARA, Yohei KUBO, Hiyoku NAKATA, Yasutaka BABA, Takashi TAMURA, Hidenobu KUNIYOSHI, Shinji HAGIWARA, Mari YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8358362
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; plural photoelectric conversion units formed side by side on the semiconductor substrate to form a light receiving unit; a peripheral circuit formed in a portion on an outside of the light receiving unit on the semiconductor substrate; a wiring section formed on the light receiving unit and formed for connecting the plural photoelectric conversion units and the peripheral circuit; and a dummy wiring section formed on an opposite side of the wiring section for at least one photoelectric conversion unit among the plural photoelectric conversion units on the light receiving unit and formed for functioning as a non-connected wiring section not connected to the photoelectric conversion units and the peripheral circuit, wherein the dummy wiring section has a predetermined potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kimihiko Sato
  • Patent number: 8310575
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; photoelectric conversion units formed in array on the semiconductor substrate and forming a light receiving unit; and wiring sections formed in positions among the photoelectric conversion units. The wiring sections include wiring bodies formed by superimposing wiring layers on the light receiving unit and including a bottom wiring body on the semiconductor substrate side, a top wiring body on an uppermost side, and an intermediate wiring body between the bottom wiring body and the top wiring body, and contacts connecting the wiring bodies in order of vertical overlap, and in at least one of the wiring sections, the wiring bodies other than the bottom wiring body are superimposed while being shifted from a position right above the bottom wiring body, and amounts of shift of the intermediate wiring body and the contacts connected to the intermediate wiring body are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kimihiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20120227706
    Abstract: A fuel injection unit of an internal combustion engine includes at least an injector, an inlet opening, and an intake stroke injection device. A controller causes the intake stroke injection device to cause the injector to inject fuel in an intake stroke so that the fuel is introduced into an interior of a cylinder from the inlet opening. The fuel is injected from the injector into a range, which spreads in a width of an inside of the inlet opening when viewed from above of the cylinder, and which spreads in a width defined in a side of a center of the cylinder from a valve shaft in a state where the inlet valve is in a maximum lift-up level within the inside of the inlet opening when viewed from a lateral of the cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: Dai TANAKA, Kazuyoshi Nakane, Kimihiko Sato, Kyohei Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7921991
    Abstract: To minimize titanium materials and accurately and easily fix a dental implant fixture, a housing container includes a glass housing main body, a resin cap, and a resin implant fixture holding member, the cap includes a press part at an inner surface, the implant fixture holding member fits into the bottom side of the housing main body, the implant fixture holding member has, at an upper surface side, three or more groove parts formed radially from a center to an end side, and titanium plate-like guide parts which include, at the center side, projected portions slightly projecting from the upper surface, and include, at the radial end side, erected portions extending up to at least equal to or more than ? of a height from a tip of the dental implant fixture to erect around an outer peripheral surface of the dental implant fixture are inserted in the groove parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: GC Corporation
    Inventors: Kimihiko Sato, Kinya Nihei, Makoto Michiaki
  • Publication number: 20110007194
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device and an electronic device that includes the solid-state imaging device prevents shifting of a photoelectric conversion region due to long-wavelength light passing to subsurface portions of the solid-state imagine device. The device include a photo diode having an upper layer of a first conductivity type formed over a second layer having an accumulation region of a second conductivity type. The upper layer is a light-receiving portion of the photodiode. A multi-stage element isolation layer is included and has a plurality of layers of the first conductivity type, such that a first lateral side of a first stage of the multi-stage layer abuts the accumulation portion, and a second stage of the multi-stage layer is separated by a width W from the accumulation region of an intermediate portion of a second conductivity type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kaoru Fujisawa, Tetsuya Iizuka, Kimihiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20100271535
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; plural photoelectric conversion units formed side by side on the semiconductor substrate to form a light receiving unit; a peripheral circuit formed in a portion on an outside of the light receiving unit on the semiconductor substrate; a wiring section formed on the light receiving unit and formed for connecting the plural photoelectric conversion units and the peripheral circuit; and a dummy wiring section formed on an opposite side of the wiring section for at least one photoelectric conversion unit among the plural photoelectric conversion units on the light receiving unit and formed for functioning as a non-connected wiring section not connected to the photoelectric conversion units and the peripheral circuit, wherein the dummy wiring section has a predetermined potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kimihiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20100265372
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; photoelectric conversion units formed in array on the semiconductor substrate and forming a light receiving unit; and wiring sections formed in positions among the photoelectric conversion units. The wiring sections include wiring bodies formed by superimposing wiring layers on the light receiving unit and including a bottom wiring body on the semiconductor substrate side, a top wiring body on an uppermost side, and an intermediate wiring body between the bottom wiring body and the top wiring body, and contacts connecting the wiring bodies in order of vertical overlap, and in at least one of the wiring sections, the wiring bodies other than the bottom wiring body are superimposed while being shifted from a position right above the bottom wiring body, and amounts of shift of the intermediate wiring body and the contacts connected to the intermediate wiring body are the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kimihiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20100243485
    Abstract: To minimize titanium materials and accurately and easily fix a dental implant fixture, a housing container includes a glass housing main body, a resin cap, and a resin implant fixture holding member, the cap includes a press part at an inner surface, the implant fixture holding member fits into the bottom side of the housing main body, the implant fixture holding member has, at an upper surface side, three or more groove parts formed radially from a center to an end side, and titanium plate-like guide parts which include, at the center side, projected portions slightly projecting from the upper surface, and include, at the radial end side, erected portions extending up to at least equal to or more than ? of a height from a tip of the dental implant fixture to erect around an outer peripheral surface of the dental implant fixture are inserted in the groove parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: GC Corporation
    Inventors: Kimihiko SATO, Kinya Nihei, Makoto Michiaki
  • Patent number: 7728268
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device including a number of pixels, each of which having a photoelectric converting portion, and which are arranged one-dimensionally or in a two-dimensional matrix. The solid-state imaging device includes a peripheral wiring portion with a multilayer structure provided around at least part of the photoelectric converting portion in each of the number of pixels and a light-shielding interlayer connecting material connecting layers of the multilayer structure to each other at least part of the peripheral wiring portion. The light-shielding interlayer connecting material is capable of reflecting or absorbing visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kimihiko Sato, Tetsuya Iizuka
  • Patent number: 7670118
    Abstract: A hot-gas blowing fan includes a heat resisting impeller, a bearing, a heat insulting layer, a cooling portion, first and second magnetic couplings, a non-magnetic partition wall, and a collar. The heat insulating layer is disposed between the impeller and the bearing. The impeller and bearing are attached to the rotating shaft. The cooling portion is disposed between the heat insulating layer and the bearing. The cooling portion includes a cooling fluid that does not contact the bearing or the rotating shaft. The collar is positioned between the heat insulating layer and the impeller and is positioned between the heat insulating layer and the rotating shaft. The collar is made of a different material than the heat insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Cap Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kimihiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20100012083
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a direct injection internal combustion engine employing a spray guided combustion method, wherein a fuel spray injected from a fuel injection valve is collected at an electrode section of a spark plug so that satisfactorily high combustion performance may be achieved even with a small amount of injected fuel. The engine according to the invention includes spray control posts 30 arranged on both sides of the spark plug 5, for guiding the fuel injected from the fuel injection valve 4 to be directed toward the electrode section 10 of the spark plug 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Dai Tanaka, Koji Hata, Kazuyoshi Nakane, Kimihiko Sato, Shigeo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20090306375
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing a 4(3H)-quinazolinone derivative, which is useful as a medicinal substance, with better efficiency in an industrial scale. The process comprises the steps of reacting 4-hydroxy-N-tert-butoxycarbonylpiperidine with 4-fluoro-1-nitrobenzene in the presence of sodium hydride, reacting the resulting product with cyclobutanone, reducing the resulting product to give 4-(1-cyclobutyl-4-piperidinyl)oxyaniline, and reacting this compound with 2-methyl-5-trifluoromethyl-4H-3,1-benzoxazin-4-one to give 3-{4-[(1-cyclobutyl-4-piperidinyl)oxy]phenyl}-2-methyl-5-trifluoromethyl-4(3H)-quinazolinone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: Satoshi Kii, Tsuyoshi Nagase, Kimihiko Sato, Nagaaki Sato, Naotaka Sawada, Takayuki Tsuritani
  • Publication number: 20090131664
    Abstract: This invention is related to a method for producing 3-{4-[3-(1-pyrrolidinyl)propoxy]phenyl}-5-trifluoromethyl-4(3H)-quinazolinone comprising a step for reacting 2-methyl-5-trifluoromethyl-4H-3,1-benzoxazin-4-one with 4-[3-(1-pyrrolidinyl)propoxy]aniline or an acid-addition salt thereof, or 4-(1-cyclobutyl-4-piperidinoy9oxyaniline or acid addition salt thereof in the presence of an acid catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Atsushi Akao, Takehiko Iida, Takahiro Itoh, Toshiaki Mase, Kimihiko Sato, Naotaka Sawada, Chie Kadowaki, Takayuki Tsuritani, Nobuyoshi Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20090122638
    Abstract: To provide mixing elements of a Kenix type static mixer capable of decreasing fluids remaining wastefully in a casing without elongation of the casing, the mixing elements are arranged in a casing so that end parts adjacent in an axial direction are connected to cross almost orthogonally, the mixing element includes a partition wall part (1) in a thin flat plate shape for partitioning the casing into approximately equal cross sectional areas, and plural spiral blade parts (2, . . . ) having a shape of a thin plate twisted by approximately 180 degrees, and being positioned in spaces partitioned by the partition wall part (1), wherein outer peripheries of the spiral blade parts (2, . . . ) at the partition wall part (1) side are integrally contacted with the partition wall part (1), and outer peripheries of the spiral blade parts (2, . . . ) at the casing side are contacted with an inner wall of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: GC Corporation
    Inventors: Kimihiko Sato, Masaaki Kaneko, Koichi Mamada
  • Publication number: 20090029050
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive transfer recording ink sheet, containing a base material sheet and a dye-providing layer formed, wherein at least one kind of yellow dye contained in the dye-providing layer is an arylidenepyrazolone dye represented by formula (1): wherein X represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; Y represents a halogen atom; R1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms; R2, R5 and R6 each represent a hydrogen atom, an unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an unsubstituted alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a halogen atom; and R3 and R4 each represent a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, or an allyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kimihiko SATO, Yoshihiko Fujie, Shinichi Ichikawa, Takashi Hoshimiya, Naotsugu Muro
  • Publication number: 20080099867
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device including a number of pixels each having a photoelectric converting portion and arranged one-dimensionally or in a two-dimensional matrix is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes a peripheral wiring portion with a multilayer stricture provided around at least part of the photoelectric converting portion in each of the number of pixels and a light-shielding interlayer connecting material to connect layers of the multilayer structure to each other provided to at least part of the peripheral wiring portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimihiko Sato, Tetsuya Iizuka