Patents by Inventor Masao Suzuki

Masao Suzuki 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: 5400375
    Abstract: In a transuranium elements transmuting reactor core in which a reactor is charged with a plurality of fuel assemblies at a core and an amount of a transuranium element to be added is controlled so as to prevent a fuel element contained in the fuel assemblies from melting, the amount of the transuranium elements to be added to the fuel element is controlled so as to keep an excess reactivity of the reactor substantially zero through an operation of the reactor. A charging density of minor actinides is set to lessen outwards of a core central portion in a core area where a plutonium content is made even. The charging density of minor actinides is set high accordingly in an area where a plutonium is enriched high at the core of a plutonium enriched area where a plutonium content varies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masao Suzuki, Kazuo Arie, Masatoshi Kawashima, Yoshiaki Sato
  • Patent number: 5386229
    Abstract: An image pickup device capable of white balance control, independent from the color of light source or from the change in color temperature, without the influence of the object of high saturation and with adaptation to the change in color of the light source, and also capable of avoiding unpleasant color shift not matching the direction of color temperature change, is provided by detecting the luminance of external light and the presence of flicker by the microprocessing unit from the output of a photometry sensor, then accordingly varying the clipping range of a clipping circuit, also switching the method of calculating the white balance control values R.sub.CD, B.sub.CD and varying the range of color correcting direction by the amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1995
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masao Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5384197
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet coil contains a coil of superconducting wire and a cured product of a curable resin composition with which the coil has been impregnated, the cured product having a thermal shrinkage factor of 1.5-0.3%, preferably 1.0-0.3%, when cooled from the glass transition temperature to 4.2K, a bend-breaking strain of 2.9-3.9%, preferably 3.2-3.9%, at 4.2K and a modulus of 500-1,000 kg/mm.sup.2 at 4.2K, or undergoing a thermal stress of 0-10 kg/mm.sup.2 when cooled from the glass transition temperature to 4.2K and resisting to quench during superconducting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Koyama, Koo Honjo, Masao Suzuki, Akio Takahashi, Akio Mukoh, Keiji Fukushi, Seiji Numata
  • Patent number: 5374496
    Abstract: An image forming method is conducted by subjecting a dry silver salt image forming medium to imagewise exposure and heating to form a light-absorbing organic compound. Thereafter, the medium is subjected to polymerization exposure to imagewise polymerize the medium based on the formation pattern of the light-absorbing compound. The light-absorbing organic compound has specific sensitivities to light in order to maximize contrast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Kagami, Akihiro Mouri, Masato Katayama, Kazuo Isaka, Tetsuro Fukui, Susumu Nakamura, Masao Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5370987
    Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material is disclosed which has a support and a photosensitive layer containing at least an organic silver salt, a silver halide and a reducing agent, a water-soluble polymeric layer containing a water-soluble polymeric material, and a hydrophobic polymeric layer containing a hydrophobic polymeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Motokazu Kobayashi, Tetsuro Fukui, Miki Tamura, Kenji Kagami, Masao Suzuki, Katsuya Nishino
  • Patent number: 5352762
    Abstract: A multilayer printed circuit board comprising a plurality of alternately laminated layers of insulating layers and circuit conductor layers having a signal transmission delay time of 6.0 ns/m or less, excellent in heat resistance, adhesive, fire retardance, etc. can be produced by forming insulating layers using a fluorine-containing thermosetting resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Nagai, Shin Nishimura, Masahiro Suzuki, Masao Suzuki, Junichi Katagiri, Akio Takahashi, Akio Mukoh
  • Patent number: 5313277
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus having a discriminating circuit to discriminate a magnitude of an occupied area of a single object in a picture plane with respect to a video signal formed by an image pickup element from an object light when a white balance of the video signal is adjusted, wherein by controlling the white balance adjusting operation in accordance with an output of the discriminating circuit, the white balance can be preferably controlled even when the occupied area of the single object is large. Upon macro photographing as well, by making the white balance adjusting operation different from the operation in the ordinary photographing mode, the white balance can be preferably controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masao Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5299241
    Abstract: In a transuranium elements transmuting reactor core in which a reactor is charged with a plurality of fuel assemblies at a core and an amount of a transuranium element to be added is controlled so as to prevent a fuel element contained in the fuel assemblies from melting, the amount of the transuranium elements to be added to the fuel element is controlled so as to keep an excess reactivity of the reactor substantially zero through an operation of the reactor. A charging density of minor actinides is set to lessen outwards of a core central portion in a core area where a plutonium content is made even. The charging density of minor actinides is set high accordingly in an area where a plutonium is enriched high at the core of a plutonium enriched area where a plutonium content varies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masao Suzuki, Kazuo Arie, Masatoshi Kawashima, Yoshiaki Sato
  • Patent number: 5283632
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a first white balance adjusting circuit for generating a control signal for white balance adjustment by using a signal output from an image pickup element, a second white balance adjusting circuit for generating a control signal for white balance adjustment by using a signal output from a color measure sensor arranged independently of the image pickup element, and a synthesizing circuit for setting and outputting a variable synthesis ratio of the control signals from the two white balance adjusting circuits in accordance with information from an optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Suzuki, Yasuyuki Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 5283635
    Abstract: A white balance adjustment device includes an image sensor for converting light of an object into an electrical signal, an amplification circuit for amplifying the electrical signal output from the image sensor, a control voltage limiting circuit for limiting a range of a control voltage to be output to the amplification circuit, and a detection circuit for detecting a quantity of ambient light with a hysteresis characteristic. The limited range of the control voltage is arranged to be variable on the basis of an output of the detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Suzuki, Kunio Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 5266930
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a display apparatus which can display information well and does not compromise the feel of a helmet in which the display apparatus is incorporated. The helmet has a front opening formed therein and has a transparent shield mounted thereon so as to cover the front opening. The display apparatus incorporates a display unit disposed on the inner side of the helmet for displaying information thereon. Display light from the display unit is reflected toward a visual point position by an inner face of the shield so that an observer visually observes a virtual image of the display information of the display unit from within the helmet through the shield. The display unit is disposed on the inner side of a chin portion of the helmet so as to not to create any obstruction to the observer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ichikawa, Yoshiyuki Furuya, Makoto Takashima, Masao Suzuki, Kazuhiro Itami
  • Patent number: 5262295
    Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material is disclosed which has a support and provided thereon a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer contains at least an organic silver salt, a silver halide and a reducing agent represented by the formula (I). Also, an image forming method using the heat-developable photosensitive material is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromi Tanaka, Tetsuro Fukui, Kenji Kagami, Masao Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5258282
    Abstract: A dry process silver salt photosensitive member is disclosed. The photosensitive member has a heat-developable photosensitive element containing at least (1) and organic silver salt, (2) a reducing agent, and (3) at least one of a photosensitive silver halide and a photosensitive silver halide-forming component on a support. The heat-developable photosensitive element further contains a compound represented by the general formula (I) and a compound represented by the general formula (II).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Kagami, Masato Katayama, Tetsuro Fukui, Hiromi Tanaka, Masao Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5258281
    Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material which comprises an organic silver salt, a silver halide, a reducing agent and a heat development accelerator having a redox potential ranging from -1.2 V to +1.0 V on the basis of an AgCl/Ag electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromi Tanaka, Tetsuro Fukui, Motokazu Kobayashi, Kenji Kagami, Masao Suzuki, Tetsuya Higuchi
  • Patent number: 5255077
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for effecting white balance control in which an image pickup apparatus converts image light into an electrical signal using an image pickup element, and outputs a plurality of color signals corresponding to received light. A still image recorder records the color signals as a still image, and a controller effects a first exposure with the image pickup element before still image recording. Then, the controller forms a white balance control signal by using the first image pickup signals output from the image pickup element in the first exposure. Thereafter, the controller conducts a second exposure to obtained second image pickup signals, and effects white balance control of the second image pickup signals based on the white balance control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Yamazaki, Shigeo Yamagata, Tsutomu Takayama, Masao Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5239369
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus comprises, an image pickup device for inputting a subject light and converting the subject light into an electrical signal; and information input device for inputting information necessary for correcting the luminance level, color level, white balance, or the like of an output of the image pickup device, wherein an output of the information input device, which is obtained at a time earlier than the time the image pickup device inputs the subject light by a predetermined time obtained by multiplying the flicker frequency of an external light by a natural number, is averaged for the same period as the period the image pickup device inputs the subject light, and the averaged signal is used to correct a white balance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masao Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5239368
    Abstract: A device performs color balance adjustment on the basis of color temperature information obtained by adding up measured color information outputs sampled from color sensors which obtain measured color information from an object to be photographed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Suzuki, Seiji Hashimoto, Akihiko Tojo, Tsutomu Takayama, Toshio Kaji
  • Patent number: 5223594
    Abstract: A flame-retardant resin composition contains a prepolymer represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 stands for a hydrogen atom or an unreactive saturated group; R.sub.2 stands for a reactive unsaturated group; m and n each stand for a positive number of 1 to 4 and X and Y are each a copolymerization ratio and are in the range of 0.3 to 0.7 with the proviso that the sum total of X and Y is 1,as an essential component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1993
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Nagai, Junichi Katagiri, Masahiro Ono, Masao Suzuki, Akio Takahashi, Toshikazu Narahara
  • Patent number: 5178072
    Abstract: In order to produce a ground coil for a magnetically levitated railway, coils each composed of a conductor coiled in a plurality of turns are arranged in a metal mold, and a synthetic resin forming reactive liquid is injected and cured in the metal mold by reaction injection molding. Furthermore, a plurality of base coils are produced each composed of a coil conductor coiled in a plurality of turns in a desired shape, laid in two tiers and connected in series so as to form unit coils. Two unit coils are connected so that the winding directions of them are opposite to each other and guidance terminals are formed, thereby forming a pair of levitation and guidance coils. Two pairs of levitation and guidance coils are arranged on a single plane in a metal mold so that the positional relationship among the coils is constant, and a synthetic resin forming reactive liquid is injected and integrally cured by reaction injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Assignee: Railway Technical Research Institute
    Inventor: Masao Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5171657
    Abstract: An image forming method comprising;subjecting an image forming medium containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent, a polymerizable polymer precursor and a photopolymerization initiator, to imagewise exposure, followed by heating to produce a light-absorbing organic compound in said image forming medium; and subjecting said image forming medium in which said light-absorbing organic compound has been produced, to polymerization exposure to cause said polymerizable polymer precursor to polymerize; where the light-absorbing characteristics of said light-absorbing organic compound are utilized to suppress the polymerization of said polymerizable polymer precursor at the area at which said light-absorbing organic compound has been produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Oriental Photo Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Kagami, Akihiro Mouri, Masato Katayama, Kazuo Isaka, Tetsuro Fukui, Susumu Nakamura, Masao Suzuki