Patents by Inventor Makoto Saitou
Makoto Saitou 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: 11402793Abstract: A rotating body to be inserted with a shaft includes a holding portion on an end portion of the rotating body to hold the rotating body on the shaft. The holding portion includes a hook to be elastically deformable and detachably hook on a recess of an end portion of the shaft. The holding portion is rotatingly movable, with elastic deformation of the hook, over a convex portion of the shaft that is outside the recess in an axial direction of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Makoto Saitou, Naoki Okazaki
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Publication number: 20210397120Abstract: A rotating body to be inserted with a shaft includes a holding portion on an end portion of the rotating body to hold the rotating body on the shaft. The holding portion includes a hook to be elastically deformable and detachably hook on a recess of an end portion of the shaft. The holding portion is rotatingly movable, with elastic deformation of the hook, over a convex portion of the shaft that is outside the recess in an axial direction of the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Makoto SAITOU, Naoki OKAZAKI
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Patent number: 11126205Abstract: A control device is provided which forms a communication area on a ground to control an aircraft having an antenna for providing a radio communication service to a user terminal in the communication area. The control device includes a control unit that makes a plurality of aircrafts fly in formation, and controls the plurality of aircrafts such that the communication area of each of the plurality of aircrafts moves while covering a part of a preset target area and the entire target area is covered by a plurality of the communication areas of the plurality of aircrafts.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: HAPSMobile Inc.Inventors: Junichi Miyakawa, Yoshihito Shimazaki, Makoto Saitou, Yuta Miwa
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Publication number: 20210072772Abstract: A control device is provided which forms a communication area on a ground to control an aircraft having an antenna for providing a radio communication service to a user terminal in the communication area. The control device includes a control unit that makes a plurality of aircrafts fly in formation, and controls the plurality of aircrafts such that the communication area of each of the plurality of aircrafts moves while covering a part of a preset target area and the entire target area is covered by a plurality of the communication areas of the plurality of aircrafts.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Junichi MIYAKAWA, Yoshihito SHIMAZAKI, Makoto SAITOU, Yuta MIWA
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Patent number: 9522985Abstract: There is provided a polyester elastomer foam having a micro and uniform cell structure. The polyester elastomer foam is formed by allowing a polyester elastomer composition containing a polyester elastomer and a surface-treated inorganic substance (except hydroxides) to expand. A residue on a 166 mesh sieve in the surface-treated inorganic substance (except hydroxides) is preferably not more than 0.01%.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyoaki Kodama, Makoto Saitou, Kazumichi Kato, Itsuhiro Hatanaka
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Publication number: 20160121576Abstract: An electroconductive pressure-sensitive adhesive cushioning member includes an electroconductive resin foam layer, an electroconductive composite layer, and an electroconductive intermediate layer disposed between the electroconductive resin foam layer and the electroconductive composite layer. The electroconductive composite layer includes an electroconductive base layer and an electroconductive attachment layer disposed on a surface of the electroconductive base layer and having an attachment surface to be attached to an obstacle. Thus, the electroconductive cushioning member is excellent in conductivity, an electromagnetic waves shieling property, and a cushioning property.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2015Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Shu SASAKI, Makoto SAITOU, Kiyoaki KODAMA, Masato FUJITA
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Patent number: 9156959Abstract: There is provided a polyester elastomer which is excellent in compression set characteristics and has a micro cell structure. The polyester elastomer foam is formed by allowing a polyester elastomer composition containing a polyester elastomer having a melting point of 180 to 240° C. and an epoxy-modified polymer to expand. The epoxy-modified polymer is an epoxy-modified polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 5,000 to 100,000 and an epoxy equivalent of 100 to 3000 g/eq.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumichi Kato, Makoto Saitou, Kiyoaki Kodama, Itsuhiro Hatanaka
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Patent number: 9150716Abstract: There is provided a resin foam excellent in dustproof performance, particularly dustproof performance in a dynamic environment. The resin foam of the present invention has a thickness recovery ratio of 65% or more, wherein the thickness recovery ratio is defined as a ratio of a thickness 1 second after releasing a compressed state to an initial thickness, when the resin foam is compressed for 1 minute in the thickness direction so as to give a thickness equal to 20% of the initial thickness in a 23° C. atmosphere; and then the compressed state is released in a 23° C. atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2011Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Saitou, Itsuhiro Hatanaka, Kazumichi Kato, Kiyoaki Kodama
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Publication number: 20150218422Abstract: A resin foam having a repulsive stress when compressed by 80% of 1.0 to 9.0 N/cm2, a maximum breaking strength of 1.0 to 10.0 MPa, and a ratio of the maximum breaking strength to a breaking strength in a direction orthogonal to a maximum breaking strength direction (maximum breaking strength/breaking strength in the direction orthogonal to the maximum breaking strength direction) of 1.0 to 5.0. The maximum breaking strength is defined as: a resin foam in a sheet form is measured for a breaking strength in an arbitrary direction in the horizontal direction of the sheet; next, the arbitrary direction is rotated about an axis by 10° intervals to measure a breaking strength in each direction; a direction where the highest breaking strength is measured is defined as the maximum breaking strength direction; and a breaking strength in the maximum breaking strength direction is defined as the maximum breaking strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2013Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumichi Kato, Makoto Saitou, Itsuhiro Hatanaka, Kiyoaki Kodama
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Publication number: 20150140315Abstract: A resin foam having excellent dustproofness not only at ordinary temperatures but also particularly at high temperatures as well as having excellent flexibility. The resin foam has a thickness recovery ratio at high temperatures as defined below of not less than 25%, an average cell diameter of 10 to 200 ?m, and a maximum cell diameter of not more than 300 ?m, wherein the thickness recovery ratio at high temperatures is defined as follows: a resin foam in a sheet form is compressed, in an atmosphere of 80° C., for 22 hours in a thickness direction so as to have a thickness of 20% of the initial thickness; then, the compression state is released in an atmosphere of 23° C.; and a ratio of a thickness 24 hours after the release of the compression state to the initial thickness is defined as the thickness recovery ratio at high temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumichi Kato, Makoto Saitou, Kiyoaki Kodama
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Publication number: 20150118481Abstract: The present invention has the object of providing a resin foam and a foam material that exhibits superior dust resistance characteristics in a dynamic environment at the same time as having excellent light shielding characteristics, and is a resin foam having a repulsive force during an 80% compression at 23 degrees C. of 0.1 to 5.0 N/cm2, a surface coverage rate of a foam surface of at least 50%, and a thickness recovery rate as defined below of at least 50%, the thickness recovery rate is defined as the ratio to an initial thickness of the thickness one second after release of a compressed state that is obtained by releasing a compressed state after compressing resin foam for one minute to a thickness of 20% relative to the initial thickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyoaki Kodama, Makoto Saitou, Itsuhiro Hatanaka, Kazumichi Kato
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Publication number: 20150099112Abstract: There is provided a resin foam excellent in deformation recovery performance after compressive deformation. The resin foam of the present invention has a stress retention to be defined below of not less than 70%: stress retention (%)=(compressive stress after 60 seconds)/(compressive stress after 0 seconds)×100 wherein a resin foam in a sheet form having a thickness of 1.0 mm is compressed in the thickness direction so that the resin foam has a thickness of 20% of the initial thickness, and the compression state is held; and the compressive stress immediately after compression is defined as “compressive stress after 0 seconds,” and the compressive stress 60 seconds after holding the compression state is defined as “compressive stress after 60 seconds.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2013Publication date: April 9, 2015Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Saitou, Kazumichi Kato, Kiyoaki Kodama, Naohiro Kato
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Patent number: 8899058Abstract: Heating equipment, including a first heat exchanger, a compressor, a second heat exchanger, and a first expansion valve that decompresses a refrigerant flowing from the second heat exchanger to the first heat exchanger, are connected so as to circulate the refrigerant. A third heat exchanger provides heat of the refrigerant flowing from the second heat exchanger to the first heat exchanger to the refrigerant flowing from the first heat exchanger toward the compressor. An injection circuit merges part of the refrigerant flowing from the second heat exchanger to the first heat exchanger with the refrigerant that is sucked by the compressor. An injection expansion valve is installed in the injection circuit and decompresses the refrigerant flowing in the injection circuit. A fourth heat exchanger is installed in the injection circuit to supply heat of the refrigerant flowing from the second heat exchanger toward the first heat exchanger to the refrigerant flowing in the injection circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2006Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Fumitake Unezaki, Makoto Saitou, Tetsuji Saikusa, Masanori Aoki, Masato Yosomiya
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Publication number: 20140242371Abstract: There is provided a resin foam sheet low in the apparent density and thin and flexible, and excellent in the stability in winding-up (wind-up stability). The resin foam sheet according to the present invention has an apparent density of 0.03 to 0.30 g/cm3, a compression stress at 50%-compression of not more than 5.0 N/cm2, a thickness of not less than 0.05 mm and not more than 0.40 mm, a length of not less than 5 m, and a width of not less than 300 mm. The value determined by the following expression (1) of the resin foam sheet is preferably not more than 25%.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Itsuhiro Hatanaka, Makoto Saitou, Kazumichi Kato
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Publication number: 20140162050Abstract: There is provided a polyester elastomer foam having a micro and uniform cell structure. The polyester elastomer foam is formed by allowing a polyester elastomer composition containing a polyester elastomer and a surface-treated inorganic substance (except hydroxides) to expand. A residue on a 166 mesh sieve in the surface-treated inorganic substance (except hydroxides) is preferably not more than 0.01%.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2012Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyoaki Kodama, Makoto Saitou, Kazumichi Kato, Itsuhiro Hatanaka
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Patent number: 8715450Abstract: The present invention provides a foamed member capable of inhibiting or preventing foam breakage at the time when the foam member is peeled from a carrier tape, even when the foamed member has a high expansion ratio. The foamed member has a thermoplastic resin foam layer containing a thermoplastic resin foam formed through a step of impregnating a high-pressure inert gas into a thermoplastic resin and subsequently reducing pressure, and at least one of a thermoplastic polyester-based resin layer and a thermoplastic elastomer resin layer disposed on at least one side of the thermoplastic resin foam layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Makoto Saitou, Yasuyuki Tokunaga, Hideki Nagatsu
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Publication number: 20130251979Abstract: There is provided a resin foam excellent in dustproof performance, particularly dustproof performance in a dynamic environment. The resin foam of the present invention has a thickness recovery ratio of 65% or more, wherein the thickness recovery ratio is defined as a ratio of a thickness 1 second after releasing a compressed state to an initial thickness, when the resin foam is compressed for 1 minute in the thickness direction so as to give a thickness equal to 20% of the initial thickness in a 23° C. atmosphere; and then the compressed state is released in a 23° C. atmosphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Saitou, Itsuhiro Hatanaka, Kazumichi Kato, Kiyoaki Kodama
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Publication number: 20130017391Abstract: There is provided a resin foam excellent in dustproofness and assemblability. The resin foam has a repulsive stress at 80% compression (repulsive stress when a resin foam is compressed by 80% of the initial thickness) of 1.0 to 9.0 N/cm2 and a tensile modulus of elasticity of 5.0 to 14.0 MPa. Preferably, the resin foam further has an average cell diameter of 10 to 180 ?m and an apparent density of 0.01 to 0.10 g/cm3.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumichi KATO, Makoto SAITOU, Itsuhiro HATANAKA, Kiyoaki KODAMA
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Publication number: 20130011657Abstract: There is provided a polyester elastomer which is excellent in compression set characteristics and has a micro cell structure. The polyester elastomer foam is formed by allowing a polyester elastomer composition containing a polyester elastomer having a melting point of 180 to 240° C. and an epoxy-modified polymer to expand. The epoxy-modified polymer is an epoxy-modified polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 5,000 to 100,000 and an epoxy equivalent of 100 to 3000 g/eq.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumichi KATO, Makoto SAITOU, Kiyoaki KODAMA, Itsuhiro HATANAKA
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Patent number: RE43998Abstract: Refrigeration/air conditioning equipment includes a first internal heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a refrigerant to be sucked in a compressor and a high-pressure liquid refrigerant, an injection circuit for evaporating a bypassed high-pressure liquid at intermediate pressure and injecting the vaporized refrigerant into the compressor, a second internal heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the high-pressure liquid refrigerant and the refrigerant to be injected, and a heat source for heating the refrigerant to be injected.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2010Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masanori Aoki, Masato Yosomiya, Fumitake Unezaki, Makoto Saitou, Tetsuji Saikusa