Patents by Inventor Masao Sakamoto

Masao Sakamoto 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).

  • Publication number: 20140300231
    Abstract: An electric submersible pump is provided which has improved vibrational characteristics relative to conventional electric submersible pumps. The improved electric submersible pumps comprise an electric motor mechanically coupled to a pumping section. The improved vibrational characteristics of the electric submersible pump are attributed to the presence of one or more rotor bearings selected from the group consisting of herringbone patterned rotor bearings, pressure dam rotor bearings, circumferential groove rotor bearings, and combinations of two or more of any of the foregoing rotor bearings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Adolfo Delgado Marquez, Jeremy Daniel Van Dam, Ken Ivcar Salas Nobrega, Stephen Masao Sakamoto, Robert Lee Marvel, III
  • Publication number: 20140039673
    Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus includes: a first winding storage unit; a second storage unit; a transport unit; a recognition unit; and a control unit. The first storage unit stores the banknotes, while providing a mark associated with inventory amount information of the first storage unit. To perform a reconciliation process for the first storage unit, the control unit allows some of the banknotes stored in the first storage unit to be fed from the first storage unit, based on the mark, for recognition by the recognition unit, and determines an inventory amount of the first storage unit based on a result of the recognition and the inventory amount information associated with the mark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Masao SAKAMOTO, Youhei KAMADA, Yuya KATAOKA, Masao OKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140027241
    Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus recognizes and handles banknotes. The banknote handling apparatus includes a depositing unit, a dispensing unit, a plurality of banknote storing units, a transport unit, a recognition unit, and a control unit. The banknote handling apparatus further includes a portion for an optional attachment to which an escrow unit temporarily storing the banknotes in a process of the handling is selectively attachable. The control unit includes an option control unit performing control corresponding to an attached state of the escrow unit and control corresponding to an unattached state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: GLORY LTD.
    Inventor: Masao SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20120273321
    Abstract: To provide a banknote handling apparatus (1) capable of reducing a waiting time of a customer, as compared with a case in which a general banknote replenishing operation is performed when a banknote to be dispensed falls short in a dispensing process. The banknote handling apparatus (1) includes a memory unit (32) configured to record the stored-number of banknotes stored in the banknote handling apparatus (1) by denomination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Isao Miki, Masao Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20120241283
    Abstract: A money handling apparatus includes: a storage unit; a recognition unit; a dispensing unit; and a control unit configured to allow dispensing of money which is fed from the storage unit and is recognized in a dispensing process. The control unit allows dispensing of at least the money rejected in the dispensing process to the dispensing unit, and then goes into standby for a counting process to count the money dispensed to the dispensing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Masao SAKAMOTO, Toshimitsu KOZUKI, Tadashi MORI, Ichiro KAWASHITA, Masao OKAMURA
  • Patent number: 8251197
    Abstract: A printed note deposit machine, comprises: a user recognition unit identifying a user with an authenticated person; an inlet unit serving as a receiving teller in which printed notes are deposited; a dispensing unit receiving printed notes deposited in the inlet unit to dispense them in sequence; an identifying unit classifying the dispensed printed notes into four categories of authenticated notes, counterfeit notes, unidentifiable notes, and rejected notes, and identified them with the four categories; a temporary money holder temporarily storing the authenticated, counterfeit, and unidentified notes but the rejected ones therein; a plurality of storage cells storing the printed notes after they are temporarily stored in the previous stage; and a rejection unit accumulating the printed notes identified with the rejected notes by the identifying unit to return them to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Glory Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Takeuchi, Yoshiaki Ikuta, Masao Sakamoto, Hirokazu Goto, Masaru Hayasako
  • Publication number: 20120014832
    Abstract: The Ni-based single crystal alloy disclosed here is a single crystal and has a chemical composition containing, as % by mass, Co: 8 to 12%, Cr: 5 to 7.5%, Mo: 0.2 to 1.2%, W: 5 to 7%, Al: 5 to 6.5%, Ta: 8 to 12%. Hf: 0.01 to 0.2%, Re: 2 to 4%, Si: 0.005 to 0.1%, with the balance of Ni and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Hiroshi Harada, Tadaharu Yokokawa, Yutaka Koizumi, Toshiharu Kobayashi, Masao Sakamoto, Kyoko Kawagishi, Ikuo Okada, Hidataka Oguma, Tøiji Torigoe, Masaki Taneike, Eisaku Ito, Junichiro Masada, Keizo Tsukagoshi, Hidemichi Koyabu
  • Publication number: 20110262299
    Abstract: Provided is an Ni-based single crystal superalloy wherein the ingredients have a composition containing, as ratio by mass, from 5.0% by mass to 7.0% by mass of Al, from 4.0% by mass to 8.0% by mass of Ta, from 0% by mass to 2.0% by mass of Mo, from 3.0% by mass to 8.0% by mass of W, from 3.0% by mass to 8.0% by mass of Re, from 0% by mass to 0.50% by mass of Hf, from 3.0% by mass to 6.0% by mass of Cr, from 0% by mass to 9.9% by mass of Co, from 1.0% by mass to 14.0% by mass of Ru, and from 0.1% by mass to 4.0% by mass of Nb, with the balance of Ni and inevitable impurities. The alloy prevents TCP phase precipitation at high temperatures, therefore having improved strength at high temperatures and having oxidation resistance at high temperatures. Specifically, the invention is to provide a high-performance Ni-based single crystal superalloy having well balanced high-temperature strength and high-temperature oxidation resistance in practical use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Hiroshi Harada, Yutaka Koizumi, Toshiharu Kobayashi, Tadaharu Yokokawa, Masao Sakamoto, Kyoko Kawagishi, Tomonori Kitashima, An-chou Yeh
  • Publication number: 20110142714
    Abstract: Provided is an Ni-based single crystal superalloy wherein the ingredients have a composition containing, as ratio by mass, from 5.0% by mass to 7.0% by mass of Al, from 4.0% by mass to 8.0% by mass of Ta, from 0% by mass to 2.0% by mass of Mo, from 3.0% by mass to 8.0% by mass of W, from 3.0% by mass to 8.0% by mass of Re, from 0% by mass to 0.50% by mass of Hf, from 3.0% by mass to 7.0% by mass of Cr, from 0% by mass to 9.9% by mass of Co and from 1.0% by mass to 10.0% by mass of Ru, with the balance of Ni and inevitable impurities. The alloy prevents TCP phase precipitation at high temperatures, therefore having improved strength at high temperatures and having oxidation resistance at high temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Hiroshi Harada, Yutaka Koizumi, Toshiharu Kobayashi, Tadaharu Yokokawa, Masao Sakamoto, Kyoko Kawagishi, Tomonori Kitashima, An-chou Yeh
  • Publication number: 20100174403
    Abstract: A printed note deposit machine, comprises: a user recognition unit identifying a user with an authenticated person; an inlet unit serving as a receiving teller in which printed notes are deposited; a dispensing unit receiving printed notes deposited in the inlet unit to dispense them in sequence; an identifying unit classifying the dispensed printed notes into four categories of authenticated notes, counterfeit notes, unidentifiable notes, and rejected notes, and identified them with the four categories; a temporary money holder temporarily storing the authenticated, counterfeit, and unidentified notes but the rejected ones therein; a plurality of storage cells storing the printed notes after they are temporarily stored in the previous stage; and a rejection unit accumulating the printed notes identified with the rejected notes by the identifying unit to return them to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: GLORY KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: HISASHI TAKEUCHI, Yoshiaki Ikuta, Masao Sakamoto, Hirokazu Goto, Masaru Hayasako
  • Patent number: 7694797
    Abstract: A printed note deposit machine, comprises: a user recognition unit identifying a user with an authenticated person; an inlet unit serving as a receiving teller in which printed notes are deposited; a dispensing unit receiving printed notes deposited in the inlet unit to dispense them in sequence; an identifying unit classifying the dispensed printed notes into four categories of authenticated notes, counterfeit notes, unidentifiable notes, and rejected notes, and identified them with the four categories; a temporary money holder temporarily storing the authenticated, counterfeit, and unidentified notes but the rejected ones therein; a plurality of storage cells storing the printed notes after they are temporarily stored in the previous stage; and a rejection unit accumulating the printed notes identified with the rejected notes by the identifying unit to return them to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Glory Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Takeuchi, Yoshiaki Ikuta, Masao Sakamoto, Hirokazu Goto, Masaru Hayasako
  • Publication number: 20100025911
    Abstract: When different types of bills stored in storage cassettes (30a to 30h) are dispensed form an outlet (17), a priority order for dispensing the bills is set according to the characteristics of the bills. By both identifying the set priority order for dispensing the bills and referencing a table indicating storage destinations of the bills, the storage cassettes (30a to 30h) from which the bills are fed according to an order based on conditions specified are changed and thus the bills are dispensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventor: Masao Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6913105
    Abstract: A shock-absorbing mechanism for a power-transmission device includes a cylindrical driven-side shaft coupled to the driving-side shaft through a constant-velocity joint to be axially relatively slidable with respect to the driving-side shaft, a center bearing for rotatably supporting the driving-side shaft to the vehicle body, and a labyrinth mechanism for sealing the inside of the center bearing. An end of the driven-side shaft on the side of the driving-side shaft is disposed axially opposite to the labyrinth mechanism. When the two shafts are slid in the direction to approach each other by an axial load input thereto, the end of the driven-side shaft collides axially with the labyrinth mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Masuda, Masao Sakamoto, Shinichi Kondo, Masao Kishi
  • Publication number: 20040205025
    Abstract: A printed note deposit machine, comprises: a user recognition unit identifying a user with an authenticated person; an inlet unit serving as a receiving teller in which printed notes are deposited; a dispensing unit receiving printed notes deposited in the inlet unit to dispense them in sequence; an identifying unit classifying the dispensed printed notes into four categories of authenticated notes, counterfeit notes, unidentifiable notes, and rejected notes, and identified them with the four categories; a temporary money holder temporarily storing the authenticated, counterfeit, and unidentified notes but the rejected ones therein; a plurality of storage cells storing the printed notes after they are temporarily stored in the previous stage; and a rejection unit accumulating the printed notes identified with the rejected notes by the identifying unit to return them to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Hisashi Takeuchi, Yoshiaki Ikuta, Masao Sakamoto, Hirokazu Goto, Masaru Hayasako
  • Publication number: 20030196846
    Abstract: A shock-absorbing mechanism for a power-transmission device includes a cylindrical driven-side shaft coupled to the driving-side shaft through a constant-velocity joint to be axially relatively slidable with respect to the driving-side shaft, a center bearing for rotatably supporting the driving-side shaft to the vehicle body, and a labyrinth mechanism for sealing the inside of the center bearing. An end of the driven-side shaft on the side of the driving-side shaft is disposed axially opposite to the labyrinth mechanism. When the two shafts are slid in the direction to approach each other by an axial load input thereto, the end of the driven-side shaft collides axially with the labyrinth mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Applicant: HITACHI UNISIA AUTOMOTIVE, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Masuda, Masao Sakamoto, Shinichi Kondo, Masao Kishi
  • Publication number: 20030118402
    Abstract: In the method of construction for draining the ground for the ground in which as shown in FIG. 11, the circumference of the surface of ground requiring draining of the ground (1) is dug to form a waterway (3). The central portion is built from the peripheral portion and leveled by a roller rolling to form a foundation bed (2). Rainwater permeated into the ground surface earth (9) covering the upper surface of the foundation bed (2) is gathered and flows into the peripheral waterway (3) from the concave portions (19) of the corrugated plate of plastics (7) to effect draining. The corrugated plate (7) on the surface has a corrugated surface in which a number of convex portions (18) and a number of concave portions (19) are alternately continuous. The corrugated plates (7) have an end shape in which the end is put on the end of other same shaped corrugated plate (7) and can be enlarged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventor: Masao Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20030118405
    Abstract: A method of construction for draining the ground in which water rarely permeates into the underground, and water is drained from the ground in a short period of time and dried. The method includes the steps of: as shown in FIG. 3, digging the circumference of the surface of ground requiring draining of the ground (1) to form a waterway (3); building up a central portion of the surface of ground within the waterway (3) and carrying out leveling by rolling with roller to form a foundation bed (2); covering the whole surface of the foundation bed (2) with corrugated plates of plastics (7) having convex portions (18) and concave portions (19); laminating crushed stones; covering the crushed stones (8) with the ground surface earth (9), and causing water permeated into the ground surface earth (9) due to rainfall or the like to flow into the peripheral waterway (3) from the concave portions (19) of the corrugated plates of plastics (7) to effect draining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventor: Masao Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6146281
    Abstract: An outer joint part includes a cup-shaped body portion having a rotation axis. The cup-shaped body portion has an inner circumferential surface having a plurality of circumferentially spaced inner grooves, and an outer circumferential surface having a plurality of outer grooves circumferentially alternately disposed relative to the inner grooves. The wall thickness of the cup-shaped body portion at the outer grooves is smaller than the wall thickness of the cup-shaped body portion in the areas between the outer grooves. A preform formed into the outer joint part includes a bowl-shaped preform portion having a center axis and inner and outer circumferential surfaces similar in shape to each other. The inner circumferential surface defines inner recesses circumferentially spaced from each other. The outer circumferential surface defines outer recesses circumferentially alternately disposed relative to the inner recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Unisia Jecs Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsumasa Iijima, Masao Sakamoto, Tadanori Baba
  • Patent number: 5970776
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming a cup-shaped cage, including a cup-shaped workpiece, an outer die having a center axis and a cavity about the center axis, an inner die coaxially disposed within the cavity of the outer die, and a mandrel adapted to move axially and radially the inner die relative to the outer die. The outer and inner dies have first and second control surfaces which are engaged with outer and inner surfaces of the workpiece, respectively, when the outer and inner dies are in the cooperative press position. The outer die includes a part allowed to be out of contact with the outer surface of the workpiece to permit the movement of the inner die relative to the outer die into the cooperative press position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Unisia Jecs Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsumasa Iijima, Masao Sakamoto, Tadanori Baba
  • Patent number: 5898176
    Abstract: A high space resolving power of the scanning type probe microscope combined with an element analysis and the chemical bond condition analyzing ability of an Auger electronic spectroscopic method, and the energy analyzing results of the Auger electron generated by the high energy electron projection are considered, whereby it is possible to determine the three dimensional coordinate of the atomic nucleus of one atom of the surface, analyze the element thereof and analyze the chemical bond condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Japan Science and Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Yuzo Mori, Masao Sakamoto