Patents by Inventor Masaru Kato

Masaru Kato 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: 6824928
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to supply organic borates highly soluble even in a solvent of a low dielectric constant; nonaqueous electrolytes made from these organic borates and excellent in characteristics; lithium secondary batteries with improved high-temperature storage characteristics; electric appliances that can be free of protection circuits, and; various applications of the electric appliances. The present invention relates to: organic borate compounds represented by structural formula (1) where X denotes lithium or quaternary ammonium or quaternary phosphonium and R1, R2, R3, and R4 each denote an independent halogen-atom displacement alkyl group whose carbon number ranges from 1 to 4, and organic borate compounds whose R1, R2, R3, and R4 are represented by trifluoromethyl groups or pentafluoroethyl groups, in particular, can be easily dissolved to concentrations of at least 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Kanto Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Juichi Arai, Hideaki Katayama, Mitsuru Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Hideki Takahashi, Masaru Kato
  • Patent number: 6808293
    Abstract: The LED lamp includes a plurality of light emitting diodes and a cover lens arranged so that light emitted by the plurality of light emitting diodes is output through the cover lens. The cover lens has a plurality of prisms including a plurality of first prisms formed on the inner surface thereof, and a direction and shape of the incident surfaces of the first prisms are set such that the first prisms output light in first luminous intensity distribution patterns that are substantially equal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Watanabe, Masaru Kato
  • Publication number: 20040175814
    Abstract: The invention provides a novel transferase that acts on a saccharide, as a substrate, composed of at least three sugar units wherein at least three glucose residues on the reducing end are linked &agr;-1,4 so as to transfer the &agr;-1,4 lingages to a &agr;-1,&agr;-1 linkages; a process for producing the transferase; a gene coding for the same; and a process for producing an oligosaccharide by using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Applicant: KIRIN BEER KUBUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaru Kato, Yutaka Miura, Masako Kettoku, Akihiro Iwamatsu, Kazuo Kobayashi, Toshihiro Komeda
  • Publication number: 20040139479
    Abstract: A content receiving apparatus includes a television broadcast receiving circuit. The television broadcast receiving circuit turns on a power of a tuner before a start of a broadcast of a desired television program, and fetches a standard time from a broadcast signal of a television broadcast. As a result, in a case that a local time is delayed than the standard time, information on the delay is stored in a memory. Next, when the standard time is rendered a television program starting time, a switch of the tuner is turned on so as to start recording the television program. Furthermore, an after-recording reproduction is performed from a time that the local time is rendered the television program starting time. This allows a user to watch/listen to the television program while the recording is being continued. In addition, when the user has no time to watch/listen to the television program by the after-recording reproduction, the recording is continued until a television program ending time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Masaru Kato, Kazuhiro Ieda
  • Publication number: 20040095768
    Abstract: To provide an LED lamp that is capable of achieving a desired luminous intensity distribution characteristic and producing uniform planar light emission, the LED lamp comprises a plurality of light emitting diodes and a cover lens so that light emitted by the plurality of light emitting diodes is output through the cover lens, wherein the cover lens has a plurality of prisms including a plurality of first prisms formed on the inner surface thereof, and direction and shape of the incident surfaces of the first prisms are set such that the first prisms output light in first luminous intensity distribution patterns that are substantially equal to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Kazunori Watanabe, Masaru Kato
  • Publication number: 20040053139
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to supply organic borates highly soluble even in a solvent of a low dielectric constant; nonaqueous electrolytes made from these organic borates and excellent in characteristics; lithium secondary batteries with improved high-temperature storage characteristics; electric appliances that can be free of protection circuits, and; various applications of the electric appliances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicants: Hitachi, Ltd., Kanto Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Juichi Arai, Hideaki Katayama, Mitsuru Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Hideki Takahashi, Masaru Kato
  • Publication number: 20030214803
    Abstract: To provide a lighting apparatus that includes a simple and small moving mechanism capable of changing the light emanation direction and that has superior heat dissipation properties, the lighting apparatus includes a light-emitting unit, and a heat dissipation unit for dissipating heat generated by the light-emitting unit during light emission, wherein a heat transfer unit is connected between the light-emitting unit and the heat dissipation unit, and the light-emitting unit is in surface contact with the heat transfer unit and is connected with the heat transfer unit to be rotatable with one point or one line in the center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: Masato Ono, Kazunori Watanabe, Masaru Kato
  • Publication number: 20030150353
    Abstract: An electroless gold plating solution is provided in which an amount of gold deposited by a displacement reaction is at least 15 &mgr;g/cm2, and the electroless gold plating solution includes a reducing agent that is oxidized by gold, and a reducing agent that is of the same type as or is a different type from the above reducing agent and is oxidized by a substrate metal. The solution can form a uniform gold coating having good adhesion and low porosity in one step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: Kanto Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaru Kato, Ryota Iwai
  • Patent number: 6592984
    Abstract: Electrophotographic transfer paper comprising base paper having provided on at least one side thereof a coating layer mainly comprising a pigment and a binder at a solids content of 2 to 12 g/m2, which has an Oken's smoothness of 60 to 300 seconds on each side thereof, an air permeability of 10 to 90 seconds, and a coefficient of paper-to-paper friction of 0.5 to 0.9 at 28° C. and 85% RH. The transfer paper has excellent running properties on a digital full-color copying machine or printer of indirect dry electrophotographic system irrespective of the environment of use, especially in a high humidity environment, while proving a satisfactory image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Matsuda, Kunio Sakurai, Tsutomu Kurihara, Masaru Kato, Harumi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6558866
    Abstract: An electrophotographic transfer sheet having a coating layer on at least one surface of a base material made of pulp fibers as a main body is provided. The elongation of the sheet in the cross direction when the humidity is changed from 25% RH to 90% RH at 20° C. is not higher than about 0.65% and the water content of the sheet at opening its package as measured according to JIS P8127 is approximately in the range from 3.5 to 6.5%. A method of forming a color image using color toners each containing a polyester binder resin having Mn in the range of from about 1,000 to 9,000 and using the above-described electrophotographic transfer sheet is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Hosoi, Ryosuke Nakanishi, Tomofumi Tokiyoshi, Masaru Kato
  • Publication number: 20030058641
    Abstract: An LED indication lamp having desired luminous intensity distribution characteristics without need for any light-emitting diode of special shape. The LED indication lamp comprising a plurality of light-emitting diodes and having specified luminous intensity distribution characteristics is further provided with a condenser lens. The light-emitting diodes are arranged in a pattern corresponding to a luminous intensity distribution pattern determined according to the luminous intensity distribution characteristics. The light-emitting diodes thus arranged and the condenser lens are arranged so that the light emitted from the light-emitting diodes in the luminous intensity distribution pattern through the condenser lens satisfies the luminous intensity distribution characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Kazunori Watanabe, Masaru Kato
  • Publication number: 20030036014
    Abstract: An electrophotographic transfer sheet having a coating layer on at least one surface of a base material made of pulp fibers as a main body is provided. The elongation of the sheet in the cross direction when the humidity is changed from 25% RH to 90% RH at 20° C. is not higher than about 0.65% and the water content of the sheet at opening its package as measured according to JIS P8127 is approximately in the range from 3.5 to 6.5%. A method of forming a color image using color toners each containing a polyester binder resin having Mn in the range of from about 1,000 to 9,000 and using the above-described electrophotographic transfer sheet is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Hosoi, Ryosuke Nakanishi, Tomofumi Tokiyoshi, Masaru Kato
  • Patent number: 6500562
    Abstract: An electrophotographic transfer sheet having a coating layer on at least one surface base material made of pulp fibers as a main body provided. The elongation of the sheet in the cross direction when the humidity is changed from 25% RN to 90% RH at 20° C. is not higher than about 0.65% and the water content of the sheet at opening its package as measured according to JIS P8127 is approximately in the range from 3.5 to 6.5%. A method of forming a color image using color toners each containing a polyester resin having Mn in the range of from about 1,000 to 9,000 and using the above-described electrophotographic transfer sheet is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Hosoi, Ryosuke Nakanishi, Tomofumi Tokiyoshi, Masaru Kato
  • Publication number: 20020160273
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to supply organic borates highly soluble even in a solvent of a low dielectric constant; nonaqueous electrolytes made from these organic borates and excellent in characteristics; lithium secondary batteries with improved high-temperature storage characteristics; electric appliances that can be free of protection circuits, and; various applications of the electric appliances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Juichi Arai, Hideaki Katayama, Mitsuru Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Hideki Takahashi, Masaru Kato
  • Patent number: 6444167
    Abstract: To provide a method for forming undercuts of a metal injection molded product by simple processes and metal injection molded products having undercuts formed by the forming method thereof, steps are included of injection-molding a feed stock containing metal powder and binding resin, forming undercuts to an injection green body obtained by the injection-molding, and sintering after debinding the injection green body formed with undercuts. It is preferable that undercuts are formed by deforming at least one part of an injection green body; it is more preferable that they are deformed by pressing with a pressing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Injex Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Shimodaira, Junichi Hayashi, Masaru Kato
  • Patent number: 6426604
    Abstract: A power window controlling device, which detects an obstruction-caught state without misunderstanding even if the electric potential at the power source drops abruptly, which comprises switches, an electric motor, a drive system, a drive controller, a rotation sensor, a motor speed calculating device, a source voltage detecting circuit, a data signal generating device and a motor torque calculator. The motor torque calculator calculates correcting data of motor torque on basis of a correcting data signal given from the data signal generating device and a rotational speed signal of the motor given from the motor speed calculator, and compares the correcting data of the motor torque with the predetermined criterion value in a case where the electric potential of the power source changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: Jidosha Denki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Ito, Masaru Kato
  • Patent number: 6391595
    Abstract: The invention provides a novel transferase that acts on a saccharide, as a substrate, composed of at least three sugar units wherein at least three glucose residues on the reducing end are linked &agr;-1,4 so as to transfer the &agr;-1,4 lingages to a &agr;-1,&agr;-1 linkages; a process for producing the transferase; a gene coding for the same; and a process for producing an oligosaccharide by using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaru Kato, Yutaka Miura
  • Patent number: 6335601
    Abstract: A wiper control device suitable used for controlling the wiper apparatus possible to solve a difference in the wiping range caused by the difference in the operation speed (inertial force) of the wiper blade by using the wiper linkage provided with an eccentric mechanism and changing the rotational direction of a wiper motor according to the operation speed, the wiper control device is provided with a wiper switch, the wiper motor, a position switch, a controller and a motor driving circuit, and the controller executes control to change the rotational direction of the wiper motor at the time when the wiper blade arrives in the upper or lower turning position in response to switching operation of the wiper mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Jidosha Denki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaru Kato, Yasuki Matsumoto, Haruo Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 6280830
    Abstract: An electrophotographic transfer paper comprising a substrate and coating layers formed on both sides of the substrate mainly including a pigment and an adhesive, wherein the paper has a glossiness of not less than 55% (corresponding to 75 degree white paper glossiness in accordance with JIS P-8142) and satisfies the following condition when the paper packed in a package is unpacked and allowed to stand at a temperature of 28° C. in an atmosphere of 85%RH for 5 minutes: 0.8≦CA/D≦3.5 wherein CA (&mgr;m) is the difference calculated by subtracting a thickness of paper before allowed to stand from a thickness of paper after allowed to stand and D (g/cm3) is the density of the transfer paper (JIS P-8118).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Nakanishi, Kiyoshi Hosoi, Tomofumi Tokiyoshi, Masaru Kato
  • Patent number: D464744
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Nichia Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Kato, Kazunori Watanabe