Patents by Inventor Kotaro Ishii

Kotaro Ishii 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).

  • Patent number: 11851764
    Abstract: The plated steel material is a plated steel material including a steel material and a plating layer provided on the surface of the steel material, wherein the plating layer has a predetermined average chemical composition, when the amount of Mg is % Mg and the amount of Al is % Al, % Mg/% Al is 0.80 or more, and a metal structure in a total field of view of 25,000 ?m2 in a vertical cross section which is a cross section in a thickness direction of the plating layer includes 10 to 40 area % of a MgZn2 phase, 10 to 30 area % of an Al—Zn phase with a Zn content of 10% or more, 0 to 15 area % of an Al phase with a Zn content of less than 10%, and 25 area % or more of an Al/MgZn2/Zn ternary eutectic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kotaro Ishii, Kohei Tokuda, Yoshinari Ishida, Yasuto Goto, Mamoru Saito
  • Publication number: 20230304136
    Abstract: The plated steel material is a plated steel material including a steel material and a plating layer provided on the surface of the steel material, wherein the plating layer has a predetermined average chemical composition, when the amount of Mg is % Mg and the amount of Al is % Al, % Mg/% Al is 0.80 or more, and a metal structure in a total field of view of 25,000 ?m2 in a vertical cross section which is a cross section in a thickness direction of the plating layer includes 10 to 40 area % of a MgZn2 phase, 10 to 30 area % of an Al—Zn phase with a Zn content of 10% or more, 0 to 15 area % of an Al phase with a Zn content of less than 10%, and 25 area % or more of an Al/MgZn2/Zn ternary eutectic structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kotaro ISHII, Kohei TOKUDA, Yoshinari ISHIDA, Yasuto GOTO, Mamoru SAITO
  • Patent number: 8545404
    Abstract: A non-contact tonometer of the present invention quantitatively measures characteristic vibration of the cornea of an eyeball and measures a true ocular pressure utilizing this vibration, and comprises: an air flow spray unit (200) spraying an air flow (F) to a cornea (C) of an eye (E) to be examined and deforming the cornea; a cornea deformation amount measurement unit (300) measuring deformation of the cornea caused by the air flow spray unit along with elapsed time from the start of the air flow spray; a Fourier analysis unit (401) performing Fourier analysis on a relationship between a deformation amount of the cornea obtained by a cornea deformation detection unit and the elapsed time; an eyeball tissue characteristic frequency operation unit (402) obtaining an characteristic frequency of each constituent tissue of the eyeball based on a Fourier analysis result obtained by the Fourier analysis unit; and an ocular pressure operation unit (403) calculating an ocular pressure based on the characteristic fre
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: University of Tsukuba
    Inventors: Kotaro Ishii, Toshihiro Kameda
  • Publication number: 20110118585
    Abstract: A non-contact tonometer of the present invention quantitatively measures characteristic vibration of the cornea of an eyeball and measures a true ocular pressure utilizing this vibration, and comprises: an air flow spray unit (200) spraying an air flow (F) to a cornea (C) of an eye (E) to be examined and deforming the cornea; a cornea deformation amount measurement unit (300) measuring deformation of the cornea caused by the air flow spray unit along with elapsed time from the start of the air flow spray; a Fourier analysis unit (401) performing Fourier analysis on a relationship between a deformation amount of the cornea obtained by a cornea deformation detection unit and the elapsed time; an eyeball tissue characteristic frequency operation unit (402) obtaining an characteristic frequency of each constituent tissue of the eyeball based on a Fourier analysis result obtained by the Fourier analysis unit; and an ocular pressure operation unit (403) calculating an ocular pressure based on the characteristic fre
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA
    Inventors: Kotaro Ishii, Toshihiro Kameda
  • Patent number: 4147332
    Abstract: Molten slag discharged from a metallurgical furnace and flowing down from a slag trough is atomized by air jet into a primary heat-exchanger of rotary cylindrical type and hot slag granules thus obtained and air are caused to pass in a co-current therethrough so as to exchange the heat of the slag to the air flow to obtain a primary hot blast, then the hot slag granules discharged from the primary heat-exchanger are supplied to a secondary heat-exchanger connected to the primary heat-exchanger where the hot slag granules are brought into contact with a counter flow of cold air supplied from outside the system, or with a counter flow of a mixture of the above cold air and a part of the primary hot blast exhausted from the primary heat exchanger to effect heat-exchange and to recover a secondary hot blast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1979
    Assignee: Pacific Metals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Ishii, Masahiko Mitsutsuka, Tomoyuki Osada
  • Patent number: 3996045
    Abstract: A method for producing high-grade ferro-nickel containing 0.4 to 5% of sulfur directly from nickel-containing oxide ores which comprises adding at least one member selected from the group consisting of high-sulfur fuels, elemental sulfur, gypsum, pyrites, nickel sulfide ores, and high-sulfur waste material produced during desulfurization of steels and ferro alloys to the nickel-containing oxide ore to provide a sulfur addition of 0.1 - 3 kilogram per one ton of dry ore, treating the resultant mixture in a pre-reducing furnace or calcining furnace, and smelting the thus treated mixture in an electric furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1976
    Assignee: Pacific Metals Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kotaro Ishii