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).

  • Patent number: 11101422
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: TOKIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigemi Fujiwara, Makoto Kaneko, Masahiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20210231906
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro SAITO, Keiichi YAMAMOTO, Hiroshi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20210220897
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2017
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori SAWA, Masahiro SAITO, Shigeru YONEMURA, Akira EGAMI, Kohki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210210174
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicants: Toyo Kohan Co,, Ltd., iLAC CO., LTD.)
    Inventors: Masahiro Saito, Hiroshi Okamura, Takaaki Sato
  • Publication number: 20210172854
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: MASAHIRO SAITO, SHINGO MOURI, MASAHIKO NAKAMURA, HIDETAKA OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11020785
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Saito, Ryuichi Nishimura, Yasuharu Tanaka, Takashi Miyagi, Takashi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210103073
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: FUKUVI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro SAITO, Daisuke HAYASHI, Yu ARAI
  • Publication number: 20210086282
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masahiro SAITO, Hiromasa TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10946431
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Yasutomi, Masahiro Saito, Shigeru Yonemura, Tohru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20210063354
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masahiro SAITO, Hiromasa TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10933638
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Toshiki Watanabe, Masahiro Saito, Zen Kayaba
  • Publication number: 20210058537
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro SAITO
  • Patent number: 10876952
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Fumitaka Otsuka, Masahiro Saito
  • Patent number: 10858048
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20200371404
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20200363377
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masahiro SAITO, Yasunori CHIBA, Akira USHIJIMA, Toshiyuki ONO, Atsushi MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20200354615
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Maki ITOH, Hidefumi TANAKA, Akihiro NAKAMURA, Masahiro SAITO, Michitaka SUTO
  • Patent number: 10807137
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Otsuka, Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Ryuichi Nishimura, Masahiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20200307603
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Goichi KOBAYASHI, Masahiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20200298564
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Toshiki WATANABE, Masahiro SAITO, Zen KAYABA