Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Saito

Mitsuru Saito 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: 20030178497
    Abstract: An ID of the time card TK is divided to a plurality of ID marks in the form of at least two ID marks VN and VN′. Eeach of the divided IDs is provided to a front face T1 and a rear face T2. The divided ID marks VN and VN′ are read by mark sensors 12 and 13 of the time recorder TK. The read ID codes are combined as one ID code by reading of the sensors 12 and 13 and a working infomation such as attendace and leaving informations corresponding to the combined ID code is stored in a memory 21 and are printed to a predetermined printing column R of the time card TK. Accodingly,it is possible to provide a time card enabling to draw up a large numbers of ID codes and a time recorder system which makes the processing speed to fast and enables to fabricate a smoll sized time recorder, by constituting the time recorder enabling the reading of an ID and the printing of the ID during movement of the time card toward a inserting direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Hirosada Watanabe, Mitsuru Saito, Masayuki Mochizuki, Hiroaki Yamagishi, Yuichi Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 6612222
    Abstract: A pump swash plate is assembled in a swash plate hydraulic pump in a hydrostatic continuously variable transmission. In a hydrostatic continuously variable transmission having a hydraulic closed circuit constituted between a swash plate hydraulic pump P and a swash plate hydraulic motor M and including a high pressure oil passage for sending hydraulic oil to the hydraulic motor M side from the hydraulic pump P side and a low pressure oil passage for sending hydraulic oil to the hydraulic pump P side from the hydraulic motor M side, a cutaway portion with which an engaging part of a positioning jig fitted in a casing is put into contact when assembling the pump swash plate is provided on the back surface of the plate of the hydraulic pump P.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuru Saito, Yoshihiro Yoshida, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Yasushi Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 6532987
    Abstract: A relief valve having a cylindrical case with one side thereof communicated with a fluid-pressure source, a relief piston accommodated in the cylindrical case and slidable therein, a return spring for pressing the relief piston against the fluid-pressure source, a damper chamber provided on a rear-surface side of the relief piston, said damper chamber communicated with the fluid-pressure source through an orifice of the relief piston and used for displaying a buffer action against an operation of the relief piston, and a relief hole bored through a wall of the cylindrical case, the relief hole communicated with the fluid-pressure source when the relief piston retreats due to an increase in pressure generated by the fluid-pressure source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Itoh, Mitsuru Saito, Masataka Eguchi, Hideyuki Tawara
  • Patent number: 6530218
    Abstract: A pressure regulating valve is provided in a hydrostatic, continuously variable transmission having a hydraulic closed circuit including a hydraulic pump, a hydraulic motor, and a high pressure oil passage and a low pressure oil passage disposed between the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor. The pressure regulating valve is provided for relieving the hydraulic pressure in the low pressure oil passage into the high pressure oil passage when the hydraulic pressure in the low pressure oil passage exceeds a predetermined value. The present invention prevents excessive pressure in the oil passages, particularly in the normally low pressure passage that serves as a high pressure side during a speed reducing operation, e.g. an engine braking or reverse load situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuru Saito, Yoshihiro Yoshida, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Yasushi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20020195933
    Abstract: An insulating portion formed to insulate a transparent electrode and a reverse side electrode from each other, in order to form an electrode terminal for applying a voltage between the transparent electrode and the reverse side electrode, wherein the transparent electrode is formed by a thin film producing technique such as vapor deposition or sputtering, is composed by partly removing the transparent electrode, which removal is performed by irradiation with a laser beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: Mitsuru Saito, Takahiro Shikamo, Masaharu Takenaka
  • Patent number: 6474218
    Abstract: A swash plate type hydraulic pump and a swash plate type hydraulic motor in formed in combination to reduce the amount of oil leakage and to increase efficiency in a hydrostatic continuously variable transmission. A hydrostatic continuously variable transmission including a swash plate type hydraulic pump, a swash plate type hydraulic motor, and a hydraulic closed circuit disposed between the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor. The hydraulic pump is integrally combined with the hydraulic motor by an output shaft press-fitted in a cylinder block B in which pump cylinder bores and motor cylinder bores are formed in parallel to the output shaft. The diameters of back portions of the pump cylinder bore and the motor cylinder bore are larger relative to the diameters of entry portions to the pump cylinder bore and the motor cylinder bore. Wherein a press-fitting portion is not provided at the contact portions inside the entry portions with the output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuru Saito, Yoshihiro Yoshida, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Yasushi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20020056918
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic pressure-sensitive device which has a long service life and which is capable of detecting with high accuracy loads of various magnitudes including values in proximity to zero. In the electronic pressure-sensitive device, first and second resistive element layers 2b and 6b are formed on the outermost surfaces of first and second contact portions 2 and 6, and the first and second resistive element layers 2b and 6b are constantly maintained in an electrical contact state, the force bringing the first and second resistive element layers 2b and 6b into press contact with each other being detected as the electrical resistance between the first and second contact portions 2 and 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Applicant: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuru Saito
  • Patent number: 6373373
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic pressure-sensitive device which has a long service life and which is capable of detecting with high accuracy loads of various magnitudes including values in proximity to zero. In the electronic pressure-sensitive device, first and second resistive element layers 2b and 6b are formed on the outermost surfaces of first and second contact portions 2 and 6, and the first and second resistive element layers 2b and 6b are constantly maintained in an electrical contact state, the force bringing the first and second resistive element layers 2b and 6b into press contact with each other being detected as the electrical resistance between the first and second contact portions 2 and 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuru Saito
  • Patent number: 6357413
    Abstract: A oil supply system supplies the same oil for lubricating an engine and for driving a hydrostatic infinitely variable transmission. The hydrostatic infinitely variable transmission is built into a crankcase of the engine, resulting in an overall compact configuration. A drive shaft of the hydrostatic infinitely variable transmission is provided parallel with a crankshaft of the engine. Axial centers of the drive shaft and crankshaft can be made hollow and serve as oilways. Further, an axial center of a counter shaft of the hydrostatic infinitely variable transmission can be made hollow and serve as an oilway. By the present oil supply system, engine oil is used in common as drive oil for the hydro-static infinitely variable transmission, and as oil supplied to parts of a cylinder head, a stepped transmission, and other various parts of the engine and transmission, thereby elimating the duplication of oil pumps and filters and reducing the maintanance associated with servicing independent oil systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Ito, Mitsuru Saito, Hideyuki Tawara
  • Publication number: 20020020289
    Abstract: A swash plate type hydraulic pump and a swash plate type hydraulic motor in formed in combination to reduce the amount of oil leakage and to increase efficiency in a hydrostatic continuously variable transmission. A hydrostatic continuously variable transmission including a swash plate type hydraulic pump, a swash plate type hydraulic motor, and a hydraulic closed circuit disposed between the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor. The hydraulic pump is integrally combined with the hydraulic motor by an output shaft press-fitted in a cylinder block B in which pump cylinder bores and motor cylinder bores are formed in parallel to the output shaft. The diameters of back portions of the pump cylinder bore and the motor cylinder bore are larger relative to the diameters of entry portions to the pump cylinder bore and the motor cylinder bore. Wherein a press-fitting portion is not provided at the contact portions inside the entry portions with the output shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Mitsuru Saito, Yoshihiro Yoshida, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Yasushi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20020007630
    Abstract: A pressure regulating valve is provided in a hydrostatic, continuously variable transmission having a hydraulic closed circuit including a hydraulic pump, a hydraulic motor, and a high pressure oil passage and a low pressure oil passage disposed between the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor. The pressure regulating valve is provided for relieving the hydraulic pressure in the low pressure oil passage into the high pressure oil passage when the hydraulic pressure in the low pressure oil passage exceeds a predetermined value. The present invention prevents excessive pressure in the oil passages, particularly in the normally low pressure passage that serves as a high pressure side during a speed reducing operation, e.g. an engine braking or reverse load situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Mitsuru Saito, Yoshihiro Yoshida, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Yasushi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20020007633
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to simplify a structure for supporting a distributor valve and to reduce the weight thereof in a hydrostatic continuously variable transmission. A U-shaped clip is placed into a groove made on the head portion of a distributor valve and the distributor valve is passed in this state through the elongated hole of an expansion ring and the clip ring is engaged with the expansion ring whereas the inner peripheral surface of a slip ring is engaged with the head portion of the distributor valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Mitsuru Saito, Yoshihiro Yoshida, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Yasushi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20020007632
    Abstract: A pump swash plate is assembled in a swash plate hydraulic pump in a hydrostatic continuously variable transmission. In a hydrostatic continuously variable transmission having a hydraulic closed circuit constituted between a swash plate hydraulic pump P and a swash plate hydraulic motor M and including a high pressure oil passage for sending hydraulic oil to the hydraulic motor M side from the hydraulic pump P side and a low pressure oil passage for sending hydraulic oil to the hydraulic pump P side from the hydraulic motor M side, a cutaway portion with which an engaging part of a positioning jig fitted in a casing is put into contact when assembling the pump swash plate is provided on the back surface of the plate of the hydraulic pump P.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Mitsuru Saito, Yoshihiro Yoshida, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Yasushi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20020003439
    Abstract: A two-input logic gate circuit suitable for extremely high-speed operation, which operates on two differential signal pairs expressing respective logic inputs, includes a control signal generating circuit which converts the input differential signal pairs to two sets of differential control signal pairs respectively having first and second level ranges, to be supplied to a current switching section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Publication date: January 10, 2002
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Asano, Mitsuru Saito
  • Patent number: 6170632
    Abstract: The invention relates to a moving walk which can transport users in opposite two directions. A number of pallets 3 are arranged for rounding or circulation on annular rails 11 having two linear sectors 1A and 1B. Screw rods 16 are arranged on the linear sectors 1A and 1B of the rails 11. The adjacent pallets 3 are interconnected through string members 22. The pallets 3 are moved in opposite directions on the linear sectors 1A and 1B, respectively. Each pallet 3 is inserted at its front end under a read end of its preceding pallet 3 to provide a continuous walk surface so that many users are transported safely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Ishikawajima-Harima Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshikazu Shimura, Mitsuru Saito
  • Patent number: 5617938
    Abstract: A friction clutch wherein the distance between a clutch center member on a driven shaft side and a pressure plate, between which an alternate arrangement of clutch friction plates on a driving shaft side and clutch plates on the driven shaft side is disposed, is increased or decreased to disconnect or connect transmission of power between the driving shaft side and the driven shaft side. The driven shaft is constructed so that the clutch center member and the pressure plate are disposed for relative displacement in a direction of rotation. The friction clutch includes a conversion mechanism for converting a relative displacement in the direction of rotation caused by a countertorque inputted to the friction clutch into a relative displacement in a direction of an axis of rotation to increase the distance between the clutch center member and the pressure plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Tsukada, Kazuhiko Nakamura, Mitsuru Saito, Hiroaki Kayama
  • Patent number: 5592999
    Abstract: A shock absorber link mechanism linking a rear shock absorber to a swing arm of a motorcycle is capable of varying the suspension height and the height of a vehicle. The shock absorber link mechanism includes a first link arm pivotally attached to the frame, a second link arm pivotally attached to a swing arm, a shock absorber link arm pivotally attached to the shock absorber, and an arm connecting shaft. A motor driven actuator varies the link ratio (height) and link form (load characteristic) of the shock absorber link mechanism by rotating the shock absorber link arm via a motion transmission member, pulley, sectoral gear and arm connecting shaft. Further, a sub-wire driven by the actuator compresses the shock absorber when the suspension is lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaaki Matsuura, Toichiro Hikichi, Mitsuru Saito, Takuya Tagami
  • Patent number: 5584214
    Abstract: A transmission with a static, hydraulic continuously-variable-speed transmission mechanism comprising a hydraulic circuit having a closed circuit, a hydraulic pump connected on the crankshaft of an engine, and a hydraulic motor having a motor output shaft coaxial with the axis of rotation of the hydraulic pump, and contained in a casing with its axis extended in parallel to that of the crankshaft. The static, hydraulic continuously-variable-speed transmission mechanism has a small construction and has an increased degree of freedom of selection of speed change ratio. An output shaft, i.e., the final output shaft of a transmission is supported for rotation on a casing with its axis extended in parallel to that of a static, hydraulic continuously-variable-speed transmission mechanism. A motor output shaft and the output shaft can be interlocked by a reduction mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsutomu Hayashi, Mitsuru Saito, Yoshihiro Yoshida, Hiroyuki Kikuchi, Yoshihiro Nakajima
  • Patent number: 5444614
    Abstract: The Purpose of this invention is to provide an apparatus for creating operation data with which a computer operates a machine tool, a measuring machine, or the like.The apparatus comprises a display unit, an input unit, a storage unit, an output unit, and a processing unit. The storage unit comprises a CAD data file of original drawing, a command menu data file, an operation command CAD data file, an operation command data file, and an operation data file. The processing unit comprises a first processing device for performing processes such as designing, editing, and displaying a CAD drawing, a second processing device for creating and storing operation command CAD data, a third processing device for creating and storing operation command data, a fourth processing device for creating and storing operation data, and a fifth processing device for outputting the operation data. The various other changes in the form may be included in the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Nippon Filcon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Saito, Toshiaki Nakahara
  • Patent number: 5398314
    Abstract: An apparatus for creating operation data with which a computer operates a machine tool, a measuring machine, or the like. The apparatus has a display unit, an input unit, a storage unit, an output unit, and a processing unit. The storage unit comprises a CAD data file of original drawings, a command menu data file, an operation command CAD data file, an operation command data file, and an operation data file. The processing unit has a first processing device for performing processes such as a designing, editing, and displaying a CAD drawing, a second processing device for creating and storing operation command CAD data, a third processing device for creating and storing operation command data, a fourth processing device for creating and storing operation data, and a fifth processing device for outputting the operation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: Nippon Filcon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Saito, Toshiaki Nakahara