Patents by Inventor Masahiro Saito
Masahiro Saito 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: 11101422Abstract: A pyroelectric infrared sensor device comprising: a pyroelectric infrared sensor part (2); and a cover member (3). The pyroelectric infrared sensor part comprises: a pyroelectric element (21); a housing (24) that the pyroelectric element is placed inside of and comprises an opening at a position facing a light receiving surface of the pyroelectric element; and an infrared transmission filter (25) that is located to cover the opening of the housing. The cover member covers at least a top surface of the pyroelectric infrared sensor part. The infrared transmission filter transmits light equal to or greater than a wavelength of 1 ?m. The cover member has a property that a transmittance of infrared light having a wavelength of from 3 ?m to 5.5 ?m is equal to or greater than 10% and has a uniform material quality in an area corresponding to the top surface of the pyroelectric infrared sensor part.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: TOKIN CORPORATIONInventors: Shigemi Fujiwara, Makoto Kaneko, Masahiro Saito
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Publication number: 20210231906Abstract: A camera actuator comprises: a fixed-side member; a movable-side member provided so as to be displaced in relation to the fixed-side member, the movable-side member holding a lens unit; and a drive unit that generates drive force to displace the movable-side member within a plane including a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the drive unit generating as drive force a combined force obtained by combining a propulsion force that displaces the movable-side member in a specified direction that is either the first direction or the second direction, and a resistance force that resists an external force acting so as to cause the movable-side member to deviate from the specified direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2019Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro SAITO, Keiichi YAMAMOTO, Hiroshi MATSUDA
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Publication number: 20210220897Abstract: In a method for producing an outer panel having a character line, a punch includes a projecting portion for forming a bent surface of the character line at a punch top portion, and a punch shoulder R portion. A contact pressure applied to a blank by at least one of the projecting portion and the punch shoulder R portion is higher than a contact pressure applied to the blank by a remaining portion of the punch which excludes the projecting portion and the punch shoulder R portion. A static friction coefficient of a first portion of the punch which includes at least one of the projecting portion and the punch shoulder R portion with respect to the blank is larger than a static friction coefficient of a second portion of the punch which excludes the first portion with respect to the blank.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2017Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori SAWA, Masahiro SAITO, Shigeru YONEMURA, Akira EGAMI, Kohki NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20210210174Abstract: Provided is a technique that allows extensively collecting genome information (specimens) from general persons other than patients, and allows effective utilization of the genome information. A server device provides a genome related service and includes a storage device that stores a program to provide the service and a processor that reads the program from the storage device and executes the program. The processor executes: a process that generates information that can be exchanged for value for predetermined settlement given to a specimen provider as a compensation for providing a specimen; and a process that associates genome information obtained through an analysis of the provided specimen and identification information of the specimen provider with the generated information that can be exchanged for value and stores the associated information in a database (see FIG. 1).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2018Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicants: Toyo Kohan Co,, Ltd., iLAC CO., LTD.)Inventors: Masahiro Saito, Hiroshi Okamura, Takaaki Sato
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Publication number: 20210172854Abstract: To provide a technique that enables the risk of contamination to be reduced. Provided is a microparticle measuring apparatus including at least: a relay unit that enables a flow path through which microparticles flow and a cleaning fluid storage unit to communicate with each other; a sheath fluid tube that causes the flow path and a sheath fluid storage unit to communicate with each other; and a cleaning fluid tube that causes the relay unit and the cleaning fluid storage unit to communicate with each other, in which the relay unit includes a first connector that can be connected to a joint portion on the sheath fluid storage unit side of the sheath fluid tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2019Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: MASAHIRO SAITO, SHINGO MOURI, MASAHIKO NAKAMURA, HIDETAKA OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11020785Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing a press component without generating cracks in a flange on an inner circumferential side of a curved portion includes press working by a free bending method on a blank consisting of an ultra-high tensile strength steel sheet. A press component is manufactured by performing cold press working on a blank of an ultra-high tensile strength steel sheet. By the press working, a material inflow facilitating portion that increases the amount by which a portion of the blank to be formed into an end portion of the press component flows into a portion of the blank to be formed into a flange on an inner circumferential side of the curved portion of the press component is provided in the vicinity of the portion of the blank to be formed into the flange on an inner circumferential side of the curved portion of the press component.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Saito, Ryuichi Nishimura, Yasuharu Tanaka, Takashi Miyagi, Takashi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20210103073Abstract: An antireflection plate has a structure in which a hard coat layer, an antireflective layer having a low refractive index layer, a protective layer, and an overcoat layer are laminated in this order on a transparent resin substrate. The low refractive index layer is a cured body of a curable composition containing 50 to 200 parts by mass of (B-2) hollow silica fine particles, and the low refractive index layer has a refractive index of 1.20 to 1.45. The protective layer is a cured body of a curable composition containing 7.5 to 35 parts by mass of (B-3) spherical silica fine particles, and the protective layer has a thickness of 10 to 15 nm and a refractive index of 1.45 to 1.50. The overcoat layer includes a polymer of a fluorine-containing silicon compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: FUKUVI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro SAITO, Daisuke HAYASHI, Yu ARAI
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Publication number: 20210086282Abstract: According to one embodiment, a processing system includes a processing device. The processing device performs at least a first determination of determining whether or not a detector contacts a welding object. The detector includes a plurality of detection elements arranged in a first direction. The detector transmits an ultrasonic wave toward the welding object and detects a reflected wave. The first determination is based on a detection result when the reflected wave is detected by the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masahiro SAITO, Hiromasa TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 10946431Abstract: The present invention provides a method for shear processing whereby a sheared surface having a small residual stress and excellent surface properties is formed and the service life of a punch is prolonged in a shear processing for shearing, by a shear line that crosses a weld zone, a workpiece with a large thickness of level difference of a weld zone and/or obtained by welding together a steel sheet having a strength of 1000 MPa or more and another steel sheet. The shearing for shear processing method according to the present invention is a method for shearing a workpiece having a weld zone using a punch and a die, the method characterized in that two protrusions are provided to a cutting edge of the punch, all or part of the weld zone of the workpiece is flanked from the two sides by the two protrusions, and the workpiece is sheared by a shear line that crosses the weld zone.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Yasutomi, Masahiro Saito, Shigeru Yonemura, Tohru Yoshida
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Publication number: 20210063354Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display control system acquires a tilt of a detector with respect to a weld portion. The detector includes a plurality of detection elements arranged along a first arrangement direction and a second arrangement direction. The first arrangement direction and the second arrangement direction cross each other. The tilt is calculated based on a detection result of a reflected wave obtained by transmitting an ultrasonic wave from the plurality of detection elements. The system displays a user interface, displays a symbol and a tolerance range in a region included in the user interface, and updates the display of the symbol in the region according to the acquiring of the tilt. The region spreads two-dimensionally. The symbol indicates the tilt. The tolerance range is of a target value of the tilt.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masahiro SAITO, Hiromasa TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 10933638Abstract: An inkjet head includes: an ink ejector in which an opening of a nozzle is provided in an ink ejection surface, and which includes an actuating element that performs an operation for ejecting ink; a wiring board that is provided with a circuit wiring electrically connected to the actuating element, and is disposed in a direction crossing the ink election surface on a side opposite to the ink ejection surface of the ink ejector; an exterior member that covers the ink ejector and the wiring board while exposing the ink ejection surface of the ink ejector and a part of the wiring board; and a wiring cable that is attached to a connection terminal disposed in an area exposed front the exterior member on one surface of the wiring board so as to be electrically connected to the circuit wiring.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Toshiki Watanabe, Masahiro Saito, Zen Kayaba
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Publication number: 20210058537Abstract: A camera actuator comprises: a fixed-side member; a movable-side member disposed separated from the fixed-side member in a direction orthogonal to a light axis, the movable-side member holding a lens unit; a first lens drive actuator that displaces the movable-side member in at least a prescribed direction; an elastic support member that extends in the direction orthogonal to the light axis, and supports the movable-side member in relation to the fixed-side member so as to allow the displacement in at least the prescribed direction; and a gel-like first damping member provided to the elastic support member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Masahiro SAITO
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Patent number: 10876952Abstract: There is provided a droplet sorting device including a detector configured to detect a state of droplets ejected from an orifice that generates a fluid stream and of satellite droplets existing between the droplets, and a controller configured to control a frequency of a driving voltage supplied to a vibration element that applies vibration to the orifice on the basis of positions where the satellite droplets exist.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Fumitaka Otsuka, Masahiro Saito
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Patent number: 10858048Abstract: A structural member of an integral shaped article using steel sheet having a tensile strength of 590 MPa or more improved in formability, produced using a die or blank holder provided with a space at least at part of a position contacting a blank at the time of pressing it. The structural member comprises a top sheet part including at least one recessed part at an outside edge part in a plan view, a first vertical wall part extending bent from a part or all of an outside edge part including the recessed part in the top sheet part, a first flange part extending bent from an edge of the first vertical wall part at an opposite side to the top sheet part, and a second vertical wall part extending bent from an edge of the top sheet part different from the outside edge part including the recessed part, and at least one projecting part on the top sheet part, the first vertical wall part, or the first flange part.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro Saito
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Publication number: 20200371404Abstract: A camera actuator comprises: a fixed-side member; a movable-side member disposed separated from the fixed-side member in a direction orthogonal to a light axis, the movable-side member holding a lens unit; a first lens drive actuator that displaces the movable-side member in at least a prescribed direction; an elastic support member that extends in the direction orthogonal to the light axis, and supports the movable-side member in relation to the fixed-side member so as to allow the displacement in at least the prescribed direction; and a damping member that is disposed between the movable-side member or a member fixed to the movable-side member, and the fixed-side member or a member fixed to the fixed-side member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2019Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Masahiro SAITO
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Publication number: 20200363377Abstract: According to one embodiment, an estimation device includes a processor. The processor accepts information. The information is acquired by each of a plurality of ultrasonic sensors transmitting an ultrasonic wave in a second direction toward a weld portion and receiving a reflected wave. The ultrasonic sensors are arranged in a first direction. The second direction crosses the first direction. The processor estimates a range of the weld portion in the second direction based on an intensity distribution of the reflected wave in the second direction. The processor calculates a centroid position of an intensity distribution of the reflected wave in the first direction for each of a plurality of points in the second direction, and estimates a range of the weld portion in the first direction based on a plurality of the centroid positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masahiro SAITO, Yasunori CHIBA, Akira USHIJIMA, Toshiyuki ONO, Atsushi MATSUMURA
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Publication number: 20200354615Abstract: A curing-reactive organopolysiloxane composition is provided. The composition generally forms a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer which is curable by a hydrosilylation reaction, has excellent adhesiveness and handleability, and is capable of maintaining high transparency over an extended period of time without developing problems such as discoloration or coloration, even when subjected to long-term aging at a high temperature and even when exposed to high-energy rays such as UV rays over an extended period of time. The curing-reactive organopolysiloxane composition can be cured via hydrosilylation reaction. A content of platinum-based metal among a solid content is in the range of from 0.1 to 50 ppm. An adhesive force of a cured layer with a thickness of 50 ?m obtained by curing the composition is not less than 0.02N/25 mm. A pressure-sensitive adhesive layer obtained by curing the composition, and an electronic part or a display device using the same, are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Maki ITOH, Hidefumi TANAKA, Akihiro NAKAMURA, Masahiro SAITO, Michitaka SUTO
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Patent number: 10807137Abstract: A method for producing a press-formed product that includes a pair of flat sections and a bend section that connects the flat sections, in which a bending radius of the bend section is R2 and an interior angle formed by the pair of flat sections is ?2, includes the steps bellow. In the first forming step, an intermediate formed product including a bend section in which a bending radius is R1 and an interior angle is ?1 is formed. In the second forming step, a portion of a bend section of the intermediate formed product is formed into the bend section of the press-formed product. R1, ?1, R2 and ?2 satisfy the conditions of Formulae (1) to (3) below: 1.05<A1/A2??(1); 1.0<R1/R2??(2); A1/A2<6.0/(R1/R2)??(3), where, A1, A2 represents the supplementary angle of the interior angle ?1, ?2, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichiro Otsuka, Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Ryuichi Nishimura, Masahiro Saito
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Publication number: 20200307603Abstract: A road surface determination apparatus includes an acceleration detector and a road surface determination unit. The acceleration detector is configured to detect an acceleration of a vehicle body or a vibration transmission member configured to transmit vibration from a tire to the vehicle body. The road surface determination unit is configured to determine a condition of a surface of a road, using a determination value obtained by extracting a component of a predetermined frequency band from the acceleration detected by the acceleration detector and integrating the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Goichi KOBAYASHI, Masahiro SAITO
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Publication number: 20200298564Abstract: An inkjet head includes, an ink ejector in which an opening of a nozzle is provided in an ink ejection surface, and which includes an actuating element that performs an operation for ejecting ink; a wiring board that is provided with a circuit wiring electrically connected to the actuating element, and is disposed in a direction crossing the ink election surface on a side opposite to the ink ejection surface of the ink ejector; an exterior member that covers the ink ejector and the wiring board while exposing the ink ejection surface of the ink ejector and a part of the wiring board; and a wiring cable that is attached to a connection terminal disposed in an area exposed front the exterior member on one surface of the wiring board so as to be electrically connected to the circuit wiring.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2017Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Toshiki WATANABE, Masahiro SAITO, Zen KAYABA