Patents by Inventor Masato Morimoto

Masato Morimoto 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: 11940214
    Abstract: A freeze-dried product continuously manufactured by being dried while smoothly moving in a state of receiving a mechanical force in a freeze-drying apparatus 1. The freeze-drying apparatus 1 includes a freezing unit 2 for producing a frozen substance by spraying a raw material solution; and a drying unit 3 for drying the frozen substance. The drying unit 3 has a tubular shape and includes a tubular member 31 kept in a vacuum state, and a spiral wall or groove portion is formed on an inner wall of the tubular member 31 continuously in a longitudinal direction of the tubular member 31. A heat is transferred to the inner wall of the tubular member 31 and the spiral wall or groove portion. The tubular member 31 is configured to be rotated to transfer the freeze-dried product in the longitudinal direction of the tubular member 31 and sublimate or dry the freeze-dried product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MII, LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji Morimoto, Makoto Takehara, Masato Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240085107
    Abstract: A freeze-dried product continuously manufactured by being dried while smoothly moving in a state of receiving a mechanical force in a freeze-drying apparatus 1. The freeze-drying apparatus 1 includes a freezing unit 2 for producing a frozen substance by spraying a raw material solution; and a drying unit 3 for drying the frozen substance. The drying unit 3 has a tubular shape and includes a tubular member 31 kept in a vacuum state, and a spiral wall or groove portion is formed on an inner wall of the tubular member 31 continuously in a longitudinal direction of the tubular member 31. A heat is transferred to the inner wall of the tubular member 31 and the spiral wall or groove portion. The tubular member 31 is configured to be rotated to transfer the freeze-dried product in the longitudinal direction of the tubular member 31 and sublimate or dry the freeze-dried product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Shuji MORIMOTO, Makoto TAKEHARA, Masato KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180178182
    Abstract: Coal is extracted with heated and pressurized water, and an extract is collected as microspheres without use of an organic solvent or a surfactant. By this, microspheres containing a hollow spherical particle are produced. Biomass is extracted with heated and pressurized water, and an extract is collected as microspheres without use of an organic solvent or a surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Masato Morimoto, Qingxin Zheng, Toshimasa Takanohashi
  • Publication number: 20140304979
    Abstract: A disk drive device includes a base, a hub on which a recording disk is to be mounted, and a fluid dynamic bearing unit that supports the hub in a freely rotatable manner relative to the base. The hub includes a hub protrusion to be engaged with the center hole of the recording disk, and amount portion on which the recording disk is to be mounted. A manufacturing method of this disk drive device applies electromechanical machining to the hub protrusion to form an electromechanical machined surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS JAPAN ADVANCED TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuo KODAMA, Masafumi MIZUNO, Kazuhiko NAKATANI, Masato MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140226238
    Abstract: A disk drive unit includes a base, a hub rotatably supported on the base and including a setting part on which a recording disk is to be set, and a bearing unit having one end fixed to the base and another end holding the hub. The hub includes a cut surface formed by cutting a nonferrous metal or a steel material, and the cut surface includes a surface treatment layer formed thereon and preventing peeling of micro residue adhered on the cut surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi IKEDA, Masato Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20070092171
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic bearing having a high performance and a long life and a manufacturing method for the same are provided by forming hydrodynamic grooves to have a sufficient depth with a high accuracy, and sealing remaining pores on a bearing surface. A shaft is inserted into a bearing hole of a sleeve so as to be relatively rotatable. The bearing hole has a bearing surface having hydrodynamic grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Inventors: Takafumi Asada, Tsutomu Hamada, Masato Morimoto, Katsuo Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 6214454
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electromagnetic wave absorbing material which comprises an electromagnetic wave absorbing layer comprising a hydraulic inorganic binder and a fibrous conductor. The present invention also provides an electromagnetic wave absorbing material which comprises an electromagnetic wave absorbing layer comprising a hydraulic inorganic binder, a magnetic powder and a fibrous conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignees: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd., Japan and Chiyoda Ute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Kanda, Masato Morimoto, Hada Junichi, Fujita Takumi
  • Patent number: 5841067
    Abstract: A housing for electronic apparatus which is effectively protected against electromagnetic wave leakage, the housing being equipped or lined, in an area of the conductive layer-carrying inside surface of the housing, the area adjoining, or is in the vicinity of, an opening of the housing, with a sheet molded, to a thickness of 70 to 300 .mu.m, from a magnetic material-containing resin composition comprising 7 to 60% by weight of a binder resin (a) and 40 to 93% by weight of a finely divided magnetic material (b) having a magnetic loss term, and a method of damping unwanted radiation of electromagnetic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignees: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd., K. Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Nakamura, Masato Morimoto, Mitsuyuki Oda, Kazunori Kanda, Yoshihiro Konishi
  • Patent number: 5797303
    Abstract: A sleeve bore machining apparatus has a plurality of reamers with different diameters, wherein a ball etc. is pressed in and passed through the sleeve bore after a machining with the reamer inserted in the sleeve, measures the push-in load involved in the pass-through operation to select a diameter of the reamer to be used for the next machining process in response to a magnitude of the measured load, or carries out a machining process while a reamer having an edged taper portion or taper stepped portions in a grinding portion is kept inserted in the bore of the sleeve, and controls an extent of insertion of the reamer for the next machining process in response to a magnitude of the measured load, so that the dimensional accuracy of the bore as well as the cylindricity can be successfully machined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Asada, Masato Morimoto
  • Patent number: 5718155
    Abstract: A sleeve bore machining apparatus has a plurality of reamers with different diameters, wherein a ball etc. is pressed in and passed through the sleeve bore after a machining with the reamer inserted in the sleeve, measures the push-in load involved in the pass-through operation to select a diameter of the reamer to be used for the next machining process in response to a magnitude of the measured load, or carries out a machining process while a reamer having an edged taper portion or taper stepped portions in a grinding portion is kept inserted in the bore of the sleeve, and controls an extent of insertion of the reamer for the next machining process in response to a magnitude of the measured load, so that the dimensional accuracy of the bore as well as the cylindricity can be successfully machined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Asada, Masato Morimoto
  • Patent number: 5524464
    Abstract: A plurality of processing balls with different outer diameters are prepared at a slidable or rotatable upper stage. One ball, selected from the plurality of prepared balls in correspondence with the inner diameter of a bore of a workpiece, is inserted through the bore while being pressed by a pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Asada, Masato Morimoto
  • Patent number: 5247819
    Abstract: A bore processing device for processing an inner surface of a bore of an object to be processed, includes: a taper member having a taper section; a roller arranged to contact and rotate around an outer surface of the taper member; a roller guide member having a guide groove for accommodating the roller and arranged to rotate around the outer surface of the taper member; a first motor for moving the roller guide member to insert the roller into the bore of the object; a second motor for rotating one of the object and the roller guide member; and a third motor for axially moving one of the roller guide member and the taper member so that one of the roller guide member and the taper member relatively moves to the other thereof. The device further includes a detecting device for detecting an axial load applied to the object by the roller when the roller is inserted into the bore of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Morimoto, Takafumi Asada
  • Patent number: 5141338
    Abstract: A dynamic pressure type fluid bearing device includes: a shaft; a sleeve into which the shaft is fitted to be rotatable relative to the shaft; two dynamic pressure generating grooves provided on either peripheral surface of the shaft or the inner peripheral surface of the sleeve; and a lubricant held between the shaft and the sleeve. The device has a void, enclosing air, interposed between the two dynamic pressure generating grooves, wherein each of the dynamic pressure generating grooves is not less than four microns in depth and makes an acute angle of less than 20.degree. with a rotational direction of the shaft or the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Asada, Masato Morimoto, Takashi Sonoda
  • Patent number: 5112141
    Abstract: A disk driving apparatus has, a chassis, a fixed shaft having one end attached to the chassis, a hub rotatably mounted around an outer circumferential surface of the fixed shaft and at least one disk mounted on an outer circumferential surface of the hub, the other end of the fixed shaft having a stopper thereon for engaging the hub for retaining the hub on the fixed shaft, a disk fixing plate positioned over the other end of the fixed shaft and fixing the one disk to the hub and having a surface opposed to the other end of the fixed shaft, a thrust bearing element movably mounted between the disk fixing plate surface and one of the other end of the fixed shaft and the stopper, and a hydrodynamic pressure generating groove formed in one of a herringbone pattern and a helical pattern and being on one of an outer circumferential surface of the fixed shaft and an inner circumferential surface of the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Asada, Masato Morimoto, Takashi Sonoda
  • Patent number: 4601216
    Abstract: A reduction gear equipped with a wave generator nearly elliptical in shape, two circular splines with differing numbers of internal teeth, a flex spline which partially meshes with the internal teeth of each of the circular splines and which is deformable in the radial direction and a bearing deformable in the radial direction, which, placed between the wave generator and the flex spline, renders both members relatively slidable, with notches which permit partial deformation of the bearing (6) or the flex spline provided in the wave generator or circular splines at positions corresponding to the balls of the aforementioned bearing, whereby backlash is eliminated and its positive operation is assured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1986
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshitsugu Inoue, Hiromasa Ishihara, Masato Morimoto
  • Patent number: 4366519
    Abstract: In a rotary head assembly for magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus such as VTR sets, of the type comprising a stationary shaft having its one end securely joined to a stationary member, a rotor fitted over the stationary shaft for rotation, a drive means for driving or spinning the rotor and heads mounted on the rotor, the position N of a thrust support for supporting the rotor is so selected as to coincide with the center of gravity G of the rotor or as to be located between the center of gravity G and the center of gravity G.sub.1 of the rotor except an aggregate of component parts of said drive means mounted on the rotor, the center of gravity G being depending upon the center of gravity G.sub.1 and the center of gravity G.sub.2 of the aggregate of component parts mounted on the rotor, whereby the adverse effects of the precession of the rotor on the precision rotation or spinning thereof can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1982
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Masato Morimoto
  • Patent number: 4316225
    Abstract: In a rotary head assembly for a magnetic recording and reproducing device of the type in which rotary head member is engaged through a hydraulic bearing with a shaft whose one end is securely fixed to a base and the other end is free, the position of a thrust supporting member formed at the free end of the shaft is suitably selected so as to minimize the adverse effects caused by the thermal expansions of the component parts whereby the variation in relative position between the head and tape due to the temperature variation can be minimized and the high radial rigidity can be attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1982
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Minoru Koda, Masato Morimoto, Toshitsugu Inoue