Patents by Inventor Masaru Sakamoto
Masaru 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).
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Publication number: 20200355717Abstract: The cell transfer device includes a head group including a plurality of heads to which tips are attached and which move along a first direction; a head unit in which the head group is installed and which moves in a second direction and in a third direction; and a plurality of drive motors which are mounted on the head unit and which generate driving force to cause the head to move along the first direction. The plurality of drive motors are separately arranged on one side and the other side in the third direction with the head group provided therebetween. The head group includes a first head and a second head. The first head is driven by the drive motor arranged on the one side in the third direction, and the second head is driven by the drive motor arranged on the other side in the third direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2018Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohei IZUME, Masaru SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20200341245Abstract: A lens apparatus includes zoom lens units configured to move in an optical axis direction for zooming, and a correction lens unit configured to move in the optical axis direction to correct change in a focal position due to change in an atmospheric pressure. The lens apparatus satisfies an inequality 0.4<|fair_t/fw|<6 where fair_t is a composite focal length of an air lens included in one of the zoom lens units having a smallest absolute value of the composite focal length among the zoom lens units and fw is a focal length of the lens apparatus at a wide-angle end.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventor: Masaru Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20200339935Abstract: A pretreatment method for cell transfer is a pretreatment method to be performed for transferring a required cell to a predetermined transfer destination by picking the cell, from a mass containing a plurality of cells of different sizes, using a cell transfer device including cell picking means. The pretreatment method includes a classification step of classifying the required cell, from among the plurality of cells contained in the mass, into at least two groups according to a size of the cell; and a supply step of supplying the classified cells, in a state of being individually classified, to a position where picking can be conducted by the picking means.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohei IZUME, Masaru SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 10642030Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a negative refractive power and configured not to move for zooming; a second lens unit having a positive refractive power and configured to move to an object side for zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end; and a rear lens unit arranged closest to the image side, wherein the rear lens unit includes an optical element having a positive refractive power and cemented with a lens made of a glass material, and wherein the optical element satisfies the following conditions: ?2.100×10?3×?dm+0.693<?gFm; and 0.555<?gFm<0.900, where ?dm and ?gFm are expressed by the following expressions: ?dm=(Nd?1)/(NF?NC); and ?gFm=(Ng?NF)/(NF?NC), where Ng, NF, Nd and NC respectively represent refractive indices with respect to a g-line, an F-line, a d-line, and C-line.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaru Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20200048598Abstract: The cell handling device includes a container having a section to store cells; a cell detection unit for detecting a cell stored in the section; a head device for conducting picking of cells, and transfer and release of the picked cells; a control unit; and a determination unit for making a determination of a cell state including at least one of the number, properties, and arrangement of the cells based on a detection result of the cell detection unit. The control unit causes the head device to execute, according to a state determination result obtained by the determination unit, one operation selected from among operation of picking all the cells stored in the section, operation of picking a part of the cells stored in the section, operation of picking a new cell and releasing the cell in the section, and operation of terminating processing of the section.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaru SAKAMOTO, Saburo ITO, Takahiko KUMAGAI
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Patent number: 10499537Abstract: The present invention improves heat dissipation by facilitating the flow of the surrounding air. Provided with a heat sink including: a tabular base part; a tabular protruding piece part that protrudes from the base part toward one side in a thickness direction of the base part; and a tubular protrusion which protrudes from the protruding piece part in a thickness direction of the protruding piece part, and the inside of which is bored in a protruding direction thereof, wherein a plurality of the protruding piece parts is provided along a surface of the base part, and a plurality of the tubular protrusions is provided along a surface of each of the protruding piece parts.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2016Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: KAGA, INC.Inventors: Masaaki Nozaki, Yousuke Nakamura, Masaru Sakamoto, Hidenori Kontani, Shuhei Kaneko, Shu Matsuura
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Publication number: 20190335614Abstract: The present invention improves heat dissipation by facilitating the flow of the surrounding air. Provided with a heat sink including: a tabular base part; a tabular protruding piece part that protrudes from the base part toward one side in a thickness direction of the base part; and a tubular protrusion which protrudes from the protruding piece part in a thickness direction of the protruding piece part, and the inside of which is bored in a protruding direction thereof, wherein a plurality of the protruding piece parts is provided along a surface of the base part, and a plurality of the tubular protrusions is provided along a surface of each of the protruding piece parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2016Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: KAGA, INC.Inventors: Masaaki NOZAKI, Yousuke NAKAMURA, Masaru SAKAMOTO, Hidenori KONTANI, Shuhei KANEKO, Shu MATSUURA
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Patent number: 10295803Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power that does not move for zooming, second to fourth lens units each having a negative refractive power that moves for zooming, and a relay lens unit having a positive refractive power and being closest to the image side that does not move for zooming. The second lens unit moves to the image side from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end. When a focal length fx determined by a focal length fw of the zoom lens at the wide-angle end and a zoom ratio Z is fx=fw×Z0.38, the zoom lens satisfies 0.05<L2 min/L2w<0.98, where L2 min is a minimum distance between the second and third lens units in a zoom range from the wide-angle end to the focal length fx, and L2w is a distance between them at the wide-angle end.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaru Sakamoto, Masakazu Kodaira
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Publication number: 20190113722Abstract: A zoom lens including, in order from an object side, a positive first unit configured not to be moved for zooming, a negative second unit configured to be moved for zooming, a positive third unit configured to be moved for zooming, a zooming lens group including a lens unit and configured to be moved for zooming, and a positive unit configured not to be moved for zooming, wherein the third unit includes positive and negative lenses, the second and third units move to an image side for zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, and focal lengths at the wide-angle end and the telephoto end, a zoom ratio, a space between the second unit third units and is maximum in a zoom range from the telephoto end to a predetermined focal length, and a space between the second third units at the telephoto end are properly set.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventors: Masakazu Kodaira, Masaru Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20180314060Abstract: Provided is a zoom lens including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a negative refractive power and configured not to move for zooming; a second lens unit having a positive refractive power and configured to move to an object side for zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end; and a rear lens unit arranged closest to the image side, wherein the rear lens unit includes an optical element having a positive refractive power and cemented with a lens made of a glass material, and wherein the optical element satisfies the following conditions: ?2.100×10?3×?dm+0.693<?gFm; and 0.555<?gFm<0.900, where ?dm and ?gFm are expressed by the following expressions: ?dm=(Nd?1)/(NF?NC); and ?gFm=(Ng?NF)/(NF?NC), where Ng, NF, Nd and NC respectively represent refractive indices with respect to a g-line, an F-line, a d-line, and C-line.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Inventor: Masaru Sakamoto
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Patent number: 10050160Abstract: A Cu—Ga alloy sintered-compact sputtering target having a Ga concentration of 40 to 50 at % and Cu as the balance, wherein the sintered-compact sputtering target is characterized in that the relative density is 80% or higher, and the compositional deviation of the Ga concentration is within ±0.5 at % of the intended composition. A method of producing a Cu—Ga alloy sintered-compact sputtering target having a Ga concentration of 40 to 50 at % and Cu as the balance, wherein the method thereof is characterized in that Cu and Ga raw materials are melted and cooled/pulverized to produce a Cu—Ga alloy raw material powder, and the obtained material powder is further hot-pressed with a retention temperature being between the melting point of the mixed raw material powder and a temperature 15° C. lower than the melting point and with a pressure of 400 kgf/cm2 or more applied to the sintered mixed raw material powder.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2011Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals CorporationInventors: Tomoya Tamura, Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, Masaru Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20180203214Abstract: A zoom lens including in order from an object side: a positive first unit configured not to move for zooming; a negative second unit configured to move to the image side for zooming to a telephoto end; and a relay lens unit configured not to move for zooming, wherein the first unit consists of five lenses including, in order from the object side, a negative lens, a positive lens, a positive lens, a positive lens and a positive lens, or six lenses including, in order from the object side, a positive lens, a negative lens, a positive lens, a positive lens, a positive lens and a positive lens, and a refractive index of the negative lens in the first unit, an Abbe number of the negative lens, a focal length of the negative lens, and a focal length of the first lens unit are appropriately set.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventor: Masaru Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20180143412Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power that does not move for zooming, second to fourth lens units each having a negative refractive power that moves for zooming, and a relay lens unit having a positive refractive power and being closest to the image side that does not move for zooming. The second lens unit moves to the image side from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end. When a focal length fx determined by a focal length fw of the zoom lens at the wide-angle end and a zoom ratio Z is fx=fw×Z0.38, the zoom lens satisfies 0.05<L2min/L2w<0.98, where L2min is a minimum distance between the second and third lens units in a zoom range from the wide-angle end to the focal length fx, and L2w is a distance between them at the wide-angle end.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventors: Masaru Sakamoto, Masakazu Kodaira
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Patent number: 9804370Abstract: A zoom lens system including, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power that does not move for zooming, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power that moves during zooming, and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power that moves during zooming. In the zoom lens system, a distance between lens units that are adjacent to each other changes during zooming, the first lens unit includes a first a-lens unit that does not move for focusing, and a first b-lens unit that moves from the image side towards the object side during focusing from an infinite object to a near object, and the first a-lens unit comprises two positive lenses and two negative lenses.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2016Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaru Sakamoto
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Patent number: 9758860Abstract: An indium sputtering target with a short time to attain a stable film deposition rate once sputtering has begun is provided. An indium sputtering target having a surface to be sputtered with an arithmetic average roughness Ra of from 5 ?m to 70 ?m prior to sputtering.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2012Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals CorporationInventors: Yousuke Endo, Masaru Sakamoto
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Patent number: 9739988Abstract: A zoom lens including, in order from an object side: a positive first lens unit that does not move for zooming; a negative second lens unit that moves during the zooming; a negative third lens unit that moves along a locus convex to the object side during the zooming; an aperture stop; and a positive fourth lens unit that does not move for the zooming. The third lens unit includes a cemented lens formed by cementing a single negative lens and a single positive lens and a single negative lens. A focal length (fn1) of the single negative lens included in the cemented lens, a focal length (fp) of the single positive lens included in the cemented lens, and a lateral magnification (?3w) of the third lens unit at a wide angle end are each appropriately set.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaru Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20160299323Abstract: A zoom lens system including, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power that does not move for zooming, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power that moves during zooming, and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power that moves during zooming. In the zoom lens system, a distance between lens units that are adjacent to each other changes during zooming, the first lens unit includes a first a-lens unit that does not move for focusing, and a first b-lens unit that moves from the image side towards the object side during focusing from an infinite object to a near object, and the first a-lens unit comprises two positive lenses and two negative lenses.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventor: Masaru Sakamoto
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Patent number: 9456505Abstract: The present invention relates to a setup method for deciding component feeding apparatuses to be attached to each of mounting machines in a component mounting system. The setup method includes a first step of deciding component feeding apparatuses to be attached to each of the mounting machines based on substrate data defining components to be mounted by each of the mounting machines; a second step of determining whether or not there is within the components included in the substrate data a sole mounted component to be mounted by only one mounting machine among the multiple mounting machines; and a third step of deciding, when the determination is made that the sole mounted component exists, to attach component feeding apparatuses feeding the sole mounted component or an alternative component capable of replacing the sole mounted component onto at least one mounting machine other than the only one mounting machine.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2012Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaru Sakamoto
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Patent number: 9417440Abstract: A zoom lens comprising, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power which does not move for zooming, a plurality of lens units which move during zooming, and a rear lens unit having a positive refractive power which does not move for zooming, wherein the refractive index, the Abbe constant, the partial dispersion ratio and the focal length of the positive lens located closest to the image side among the positive lenses in the first lens unit and the focal length of the first lens unit, the focal length of the positive lens located closest to the image side among the positive lenses in the first lens unit, and the focal length of the first lens unit are appropriately set.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaru Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20160062092Abstract: A zoom lens including, in order from an object side: a positive first lens unit that does not move for zooming; a negative second lens unit that moves during the zooming; a negative third lens unit that moves along a locus convex to the object side during the zooming; an aperture stop; and a positive fourth lens unit that does not move for the zooming. The third lens unit includes a cemented lens formed by cementing a single negative lens and a single positive lens and a single negative lens. A focal length (fn1) of the single negative lens included in the cemented lens, a focal length (fp) of the single positive lens included in the cemented lens, and a lateral magnification (?3w) of the third lens unit at a wide angle end are each appropriately set.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2015Publication date: March 3, 2016Inventor: Masaru Sakamoto