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: 10749102
    Abstract: A piezoelectric vibration component that includes a piezoelectric vibrator, a substrate, and a conductive adhesive that bonds the piezoelectric vibrator to the substrate. The conductive adhesive contains a silicone-based base resin, a cross-linker, a conductive filler, and an insulating filler. The silicone-based base resin has a weight-average molecular weight of 20,000 to 102,000. The cross-linker has a number-average molecular weight of 1,950 to 4,620. The conductive filler and the insulating filler have a particle size of 10 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Nagahara, Muneyuki Daidai, Masahiro Saito, Atsushi Sugimasa, Hiroki Kitayama, Shigehisa Yago
  • Patent number: 10695815
    Abstract: A press-formed product is shaped by press-working from a tailored blank made up of a plurality of metal sheets butt-welded together. The press-formed product includes a flange section, and an arc-shaped area which is an area of the flange section which is formed by stretch flange deformation, and in which an inner peripheral edge is open. A weld line of the tailored blank intersects with the inner peripheral edge and an outer peripheral edge of the arc-shaped area. An angle ? formed by the weld line and a maximum principal strain direction of the stretch flange deformation is 17 to 84°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Saito, Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Kenichiro Otsuka, Yasuhiro Ito, Masanori Yasuyama, Masatoshi Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 10687780
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technology that prevents a part of a touch panel-equipped display displaying an ultrasonic tomographic image from getting dirty with a fingerprint or scratch when using a drag operation to change the content of the ultrasonic tomographic image displayed on the touch panel-equipped display. According to this technology, the display screen is divided into an ultrasonic image area A1 which displays an ultrasonic image P and an operating part display area A2 which displays buttons (Fov, Pos, ROI, and Dop) for selecting a change to be made in the ultrasonic image P. The operating part display area A2 has a touch panel, and when a finger F selectively touches one of the displayed buttons and is dragged, the displayed image P of the ultrasonic image area A1 is changed on the apparatus side according to the selected changes and drag direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Seiichi Fukai, Masahiro Saito, Takashi Sakai, Yukiko Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20200174270
    Abstract: This camera actuator comprises: an optical path bending member; a lens unit disposed at a subsequent stage of the optical path bending member; a first actuator that is disposed near the optical path bending member and displaces the optical path bending member; and a second actuator and a third actuator that are disposed near the lens unit so as to be apart from each other in a first direction, and that respectively displace the lens unit in a second direction and a third direction that are orthogonal to the first direction and orthogonal to each other. As a result, the present invention provides a camera actuator capable of improving the degree of freedom of design around the optical path bending member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei ENTA, Masahiro SAITO, Kazutaka GOAMI, Hiroshi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20200137870
    Abstract: A printed circuit board includes a printed wiring board having a mounting surface facing a first side, an electronic element provided on the mounting surface, a heat dissipation member disposed on the first side with respect to the electronic element, and a heat conduction member disposed between the electronic element and the heat dissipation member and having a first surface facing the first side and a second surface facing a second side opposite to the first side. The heat conduction member has a high relative magnetic permeability portion and a low relative dielectric constant portion. The high relative magnetic permeability portion surrounds the low relative dielectric constant portion on at least the second surface of the heat conduction member. At least part of the low relative dielectric constant portion overlaps the electronic element in a plan view seen in a direction perpendicular to the mounting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicants: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, KITAGAWA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki ITO, Toshiyuki OMORI, Toru MATSUZAKI, Yasuhiro KAWAGUCHI, Masahiro SAITO, Kensuke MITSUYA
  • Patent number: 10631397
    Abstract: A printed circuit board includes a printed wiring board having a mounting surface facing a first side, an electronic element provided on the mounting surface, a heat dissipation member disposed on the first side with respect to the electronic element, and a heat conduction member disposed between the electronic element and the heat dissipation member and having a first surface facing the first side and a second surface facing a second side opposite to the first side. The heat conduction member has a high relative magnetic permeability portion and a low relative dielectric constant portion. The high relative magnetic permeability portion surrounds the low relative dielectric constant portion on at least the second surface of the heat conduction member. At least part of the low relative dielectric constant portion overlaps the electronic element in a plan view seen in a direction perpendicular to the mounting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, KITAGAWA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ito, Toshiyuki Omori, Toru Matsuzaki, Yasuhiro Kawaguchi, Masahiro Saito, Kensuke Mitsuya
  • Publication number: 20200022291
    Abstract: A thermally conductive composition is provided, which comprises: a base material; and at least one of a permittivity adjusting filler having a lower permittivity than the base material and a high permeability filler having a higher permeability than the base material. The entire thermally conductive composition has a relative permeability higher than 1 and a relative permittivity of 7 or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Toru MATSUZAKI, Yasuhiro KAWAGUCHI, Masahiro SAITO, Kensuke MITSUYA, Masaaki ITO, Toshiyuki OMORI
  • Publication number: 20200022259
    Abstract: A thermally conductive composition is provided, which comprises a base material, and a high magnetic permeability filler having a magnetic permeability higher than that of the base material. The thermally conductive composition further comprises an air region inside, and has a relative magnetic permeability higher than 1, and a relative dielectric constant of 7 or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Kensuke MITSUYA, Yasuhiro KAWAGUCHI, Masahiro SAITO, Toru MATSUZAKI, Masaaki ITO, Toshiyuki OMORI
  • Publication number: 20200003735
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an inspection system includes a probe and a controller. The probe includes a plurality of ultrasonic sensors arranged in a first direction. The probe contacts a weld portion by moving in a second direction crossing the first direction. Each of the plurality of ultrasonic sensors transmits an ultrasonic wave toward the weld portion and receives a reflected wave. The controller detects a joint and a non-joint at a plurality of points along the first direction of the weld portion based on the plurality of reflected waves. The controller adjusts an angle of the probe around a third direction based on a number of the joints or the non-joints detected for the plurality of points. The third direction is perpendicular to the first direction and crosses the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akira USHIJIMA, Masahiro SAITO, Yasunori CHIBA, Shin MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10508909
    Abstract: Provided is a line displacement evaluation method of evaluating line displacement occurring in a press-formed article in press forming of forming a character line. This method includes acquiring a cross section profile of the press-formed article measured so as to traverse the character line formed in the press-formed article; calculating a 4th order differential coefficient of the acquired cross section profile; and evaluating the line displacement, on the basis of the calculated 4th order differential coefficient of the cross section profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Saito, Tohru Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20190324173
    Abstract: A transparent resin substrate composed of a light-transmitting resin base sheet, and an underlying layer, a hard coat layer, and an antireflection coating formed sequentially on the base sheet. The antireflection coating includes a medium refractive index layer on the hard coat layer, and a low refractive index layer on the medium refractive index layer. The underlying layer is a cured product of a hexa- or higher functional urethane acrylate monomer. The hard coat layer is a cured product of a hard coat layer composition containing a polymerizable monomer containing 50% by mass or more of a tri- or lower functional urethane acrylate monomer, silica particles, a silane coupling agent, and a metal chelate compound. The medium refractive index layer is a cured product of a medium refractive index layer composition. The low refractive index layer is a particle-free cured product of a low refractive index layer composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: FUKUVI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro SAITO, Teppei ITAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190271633
    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: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Fumitaka Otsuka, Masahiro Saito
  • Patent number: 10386287
    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: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Fumitaka Otsuka, Masahiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20190240715
    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: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi YASUTOMI, Masahiro SAITO, Shigeru YONEMURA, Tohru YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20190219799
    Abstract: An image-pickup optical system includes: a first lens provided near an aperture stop and configured to correct aberration; and a second lens arranged between the first lens and an image sensor and configured to collect light, the first lens being a gradient index lens. The degree of freedom of design of a gradient index lens is higher than that of a lens having a constant refractive index, and a gradient index lens thus has a high potential as a device for a lens. Because such a gradient index lens is employed, it is possible to correct aberration without performing expensive processing such as polishing for example. In other words, as a result, costs may be reduced and image-forming properties may not be reduced at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: MASAHIRO SAITO, HIDETOSHI KABASAWA
  • Publication number: 20190168822
    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: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20190107712
    Abstract: Provided is a single-axis rotary actuator that is suitable for rotationally driving an optical element, such as a diffraction grating, in a single-axis direction and that is suitable for forming light having a wide wavelength band. An actuator (500) includes a holder (550) having a mounting surface on which a diffraction grating (401) is attached and a rotary shaft (552); a fixed unit (520) having a bearing that holds the rotary shaft (552) of the holder (550); an elastic member (530) formed of an outer circumferential section fixed on the fixed unit (520), an inner circumferential section fixed on the holder (550), and an arm section interconnecting the outer circumferential section and the inner circumferential section and having elasticity; and a driving unit having a coil (540) provided on the holder (550) and a magnet (510) provided on the fixed unit (520).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro SAITO
  • Patent number: 10215970
    Abstract: An image-pickup optical system includes: a first lens provided near an aperture stop and configured to correct aberration; and a second lens arranged between the first lens and an image sensor and configured to collect light, the first lens being a gradient index lens. The degree of freedom of design of a gradient index lens is higher than that of a lens having a constant refractive index, and a gradient index lens thus has a high potential as a device for a lens. Because such a gradient index lens is employed, it is possible to correct aberration without performing expensive processing such as polishing for example. In other words, as a result, costs may be reduced and image-forming properties may not be reduced at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Saito, Hidetoshi Kabasawa
  • Patent number: 10023238
    Abstract: A front pillar lower outer includes a bent portion, and a first region and a second region, and is a skeletal component for automobile that is assumed to receive a collision load along the extending direction of the first region. The outer is constituted by attaching a first member that is arranged on a first region side, and a second member that is arranged on a second region side. An attachment line of the both members is arranged in a predetermined zone between a first boundary and a second boundary. The plate thickness of the first member is larger than the plate thickness of the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Saito, Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Kenichiro Otsuka, Yasuhiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20180185899
    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: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Masahiro SAITO, Ryuichi NISHIMURA, Yasuharu TANAKA, Takashi MIYAGI, Takashi YAMAMOTO