Patents by Inventor Naoki Satoh
Naoki Satoh 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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Patent number: 11466249Abstract: Provided is a cell tissue producing method including: a cell adhesive portion forming step of forming a cell adhesive portion formed of a cell adhesive material and having a predetermined shape at a predetermined position over a substrate having a cell non-adhesive surface; and a cell locating step of discharging a cell suspension containing at least cells and a cell drying inhibitor onto the cell adhesive portion in the form of a liquid droplet to locate the cells.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hidekazu Yaginuma, Naoki Satoh, Tomoyuki Aratani, Chihiro Kubo, Daisuke Takagi, Momoko Shionoiri, Natsuko Iwashita
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Publication number: 20220002704Abstract: This invention is to develop a production method for a cell culture carrier comprising a hydrogel having high shape retainability, and cell culture carrier production device, and to provide a structure composed of a cell culture carrier produced using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Satoh, Hidekazu Yaginuma, Tomoyuki Aratani, Momoko Shionoiri, Natsuko Iwashita, Tatsuya Sameshima, Takehiro Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20210292709Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique for precisely arranging nerve cells on a substrate while suppressing the migration of nerve cells. A manufacturing method for a substrate on which nerve cells are arranged is provided, the method including a step of arranging, on a substrate, a plurality of liquid droplets containing nerve cells by an inkjet method to form one or a plurality of liquid pools, the substrate having a region in which a cell adhesive material is arranged and a region in which a cell non-adhesive material is arranged; and a step of incubating the liquid pool until the nerve cells sediment and temporarily adhere onto the substrate to form a cell aggregate. The diameter per one liquid pool is 500 ?m or less, and the density of nerve cells per one liquid pool is 105 cells/cm2 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Hidekazu YAGINUMA, Masayuki YUMOTO, Tatsuya SAMESHIMA, Naoki SATOH, Natsuko IWASHITA, Takahiko MATSUMOTO, Yusuke NONOYAMA, Takehiro YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20210154932Abstract: A liquid discharge head including: a film member including a discharge hole configured to discharge liquid; and a displacement member configured to displace a position of the film member to discharge the liquid from the discharge hole, wherein an edge of the film member forming the discharge hole has a curve in a cross section of the film member in a thickness direction of the film member, and a surface of the film member includes a passive film.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Tatsuya SAMESHIMA, Hidekazu YAGINUMA, Takahiko MATSUMOTO, Momoko SHIONOIRI, Natsuko IWASHITA, Chihiro KUBO, Naoki SATOH, Takehiro YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20210147795Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a layered body of cells that is used in a co-culture technique and that is capable of recognizing as paracrine effect of each cell and detecting the effect with high intensity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Natsuko IWASHITA, Hidekazu YAGINUMA, Momoko SHIONOIRI, Tatsuya SAMESHIMA, Chihiro KUBO, Naoki SATOH, Takehiro YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20190309257Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a cell locating plate, including: a step of laminating a structural layer over a plane of a base material, the structural layer being a layer that is formed of a cell non-adhesive material and in which a plurality of holes are formed; a step of coating a coating liquid in the holes and over the plane of the base material exposed through the holes; and a step of discharging a cell suspension onto the plane coated with the coating liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Tomoyuki Aratani, Chihiro Kubo, Hidekazu Yaginuma, Naoki Satoh
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Publication number: 20190284524Abstract: Provided is a cell tissue producing method including: a cell adhesive portion forming step of forming a cell adhesive portion formed of a cell adhesive material and having a predetermined shape at a predetermined position over a substrate having a cell non-adhesive surface; and a cell locating step of discharging a cell suspension containing at least cells and a cell drying inhibitor onto the cell adhesive portion in the form of a liquid droplet to locate the cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Hidekazu YAGINUMA, Naoki SATOH, Tomoyuki ARATANI, Chihiro KUBO, Daisuke TAKAGI, Momoko SHIONOIRI, Natsuko IWASHITA
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Patent number: 7667921Abstract: A suspension having a magnetic head assembly 1 mounted thereon is provided, wherein the magnetic head assembly comprises: a write head 1-2; a read head 1-1; and a resistive heating element 1-3 for controlling the flying heights of the magnetic heads, wherein the wires HTx and GTx for the resistive heating element is disposed such that they sandwich the wires RxX and RxY for the read head. The wires for the resistive heating element may be disposed between the wires for the write head and the wires for the read head. Furthermore, the waveform of the current or voltage to the resistive heating element has a time constant of 1 ?sec or more, the resistive heating element having wires disposed near the wires of the read head.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2008Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Satoh, Masayuki Kurita, Mikio Tokuyama, Juguo Xu
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Patent number: 7659726Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes two AC power input cords to be connected to an AC power source. The image forming apparatus can detect if at least one of the two AC power input cords is not connected to the AC power source. An input voltage detector or a zero-cross signal detector receives an input from the one AC input power cord, and detects a voltage state of connection to the AC power input cord. A controller utilizes signals from the input voltage detector or zero-cross signal detector to detect whether the one AC input power cord is connected to the AC power source. An operator can also be provided an indication if it is determined that the one AC power input cord is not connected to the AC power source.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2007Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Satoh, Keiichi Sanada, Takeshi Sano, Yoshihisa Ashikawa, Tomonori Maekawa
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Patent number: 7612960Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention efficiently format long sectors, without decreasing the performance, in a magnetic disk drive in which servo sectors are radially formed at regular intervals, and make full use of the ECC performance that is enhanced by the long sectors. In one embodiment, a data format in each zone on a magnetic disk is completed by a plurality of tracks N (N is an integer, which is 2 or more). The storage capacity per track of the outermost radius zone Z#1 is 150 kB. In this zone, long sectors each having a length of 32 kB are formatted with the number of tracks per format N#1=3. The storage capacity per track of the innermost radius zone Z#m is 80 kB. In this zone, long sectors each having a length of 32 kB are formatted with the number of tracks per format N#m=2.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2005Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Naoki Satoh, Terumi Takashi, Hitoshi Ogawa, Hiroyuki Tsuchinaga
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Patent number: 7486460Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a disk drive that is capable of enhancing the storage capacity increase ratio while reducing the processing load for read/write operations. In one embodiment, a disk drive comprises a recording medium and a control section. The recording medium includes concentric or spiral data tracks. Each of the data tracks is provided with a plurality of circumferentially arranged sectors. The control section receives instructions for writing into a plurality of sectors, rearranges the data to be written into each sector into groups of N pieces of write data, and writes the data into N data tracks.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2006Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsuchinaga, Naoki Satoh, Terumi Takashi
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Publication number: 20090015960Abstract: Embodiments of the invention increase the convenience of a magnetic disk drive for portable use by shortening a period of time required to record a large amount of data, and by increasing the reproduction time, in the magnetic disk drive. In one embodiment, an area between servo data parts is interpolated by servo data parts, each of which stores a burst signal, so that the allocation density of a burst signal is made k times. At the time of write operation in which data is written, only the servo data parts are made use of to perform the servo control while a disk is driven at high rotational speed so as to reduce the recording time. At the time of read operation in which data is reproduced, the servo data parts are made use of to ensure the required precision of the servo control at low rotational speed that is 1/k of the rotational speed at the time of write operation. The reproduction at low rotational speed enables the reduction in power consumption.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Naoki Satoh, Yoshiteru Ishida, Yoshiju Watanabe, Terumi Takashi
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Publication number: 20080212236Abstract: A suspension having a magnetic head assembly 1 mounted thereon is provided, wherein the magnetic head assembly comprises: a write head 1-2; a read head 1-1; and a resistive heating element 1-3 for controlling the flying heights of the magnetic heads, wherein the wires HTx and GTx for the resistive heating element is disposed such that they sandwich the wires RxX and RxY for the read head. The wires for the resistive heating element may be disposed between the wires for the write head and the wires for the read head. Furthermore, the waveform of the current or voltage to the resistive heating element has a time constant of 1 ?sec or more, the resistive heating element having wires disposed near the wires of the read head.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2008Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Satoh, Masayuki Kurita, Mikio Tokuyama, Junguo Xu
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Patent number: 7408733Abstract: Embodiments of the invention increase the convenience of a magnetic disk drive for portable use by shortening a period of time required to record a large amount of data, and by increasing the reproduction time, in the magnetic disk drive. In one embodiment, an area between servo data parts is interpolated by servo data parts, each of which stores a burst signal, so that the allocation density of a burst signal is made k times. At the time of write operation in which data is written, only the servo data parts are made use of to perform the servo control while a disk is driven at high rotational speed so as to reduce the recording time. At the time of read operation in which data is reproduced, the servo data parts are made use of to ensure the required precision of the servo control at low rotational speed that is 1/k of the rotational speed at the time of write operation. The reproduction at low rotational speed enables the reduction in power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2006Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Naoki Satoh, Yoshiteru Ishida, Yoshiju Watanabe, Terumi Takashi
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Patent number: 7375913Abstract: A suspension having a magnetic head assembly 1 mounted thereon is provided, wherein the magnetic head assembly comprises: a write head 1-2; a read head 1-1; and a resistive heating element 1-3 for controlling the flying heights of the magnetic heads, wherein the wires HTx and GTx for the resistive heating element is disposed such that they sandwich the wires RxX and RxY for the read head. The wires for the resistive heating element may be disposed between the wires for the write head and the wires for the read head. Furthermore, the waveform of the current or voltage to the resistive heating element has a time constant of 1 ?sec or more, the resistive heating element having wires disposed near the wires of the read head.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2006Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Satoh, Masayuki Kurita, Mikio Tokuyama, Junguo Xu
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Patent number: 7372656Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a disk drive that is capable of effectively controlling a side erase, which is one of the problems with the use of the perpendicular recording technology. In one embodiment, tracks on a recording medium are formed concentrically or spirally by overwriting a primary side track, which is either an inner track or outer track, onto part of a secondary side track, which is on the side away from the primary side track. A head unit is installed so that a magnetic head positioned at one end of the head unit relatively may move over the recording medium and that the yaw angle prevailing at an end track of the primary side on the recording medium may be substantially zero.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2006Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Naoki Satoh, Hiroyuki Tsuchinaga, Terumi Takashi
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Publication number: 20080054878Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes two AC power input cords to be connected to an AC power source. The image forming apparatus can detect if at least one of the two AC power input cords is not connected to the AC power source. An input voltage detector or a zero-cross signal detector receives an input from the one AC input power cord, and detects a voltage state of connection to the AC power input cord. A controller utilizes signals from the input voltage detector or zero-cross signal detector to detect whether the one AC input power cord is connected to the AC power source. An operator can also be provided an indication if it is determined that the one AC power input cord is not connected to the AC power source.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Inventors: Naoki Satoh, Keiichi Sanada, Takeshi Sano, Yoshihisa Ashikawa, Tomonori Maekawa
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Patent number: 7164870Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism and an image fixing mechanism which includes a fixing member, a capacitor, a charger, a first heater, a second heater, a sensor, and a controller. The charger charges the capacitor with a first electric power. The first heater heats-the fixing member with the first electric power from the capacitor. The second heater heats the fixing member with a second electric power. The sensor detects a temperature of the fixing member. The controller controls the second electric power to control the second heater, determines whether the temperature is needed to be increased based on the temperature, and starts supplying the first electric power to the first heater from the capacitor when the second electric power is of a greatest value and when the temperature is needed to be increased.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2004Date of Patent: January 16, 2007Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.Inventor: Naoki Satoh
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Publication number: 20060245100Abstract: A suspension having a magnetic head assembly 1 mounted thereon is provided, wherein the magnetic head assembly comprises: a write head 1-2; a read head 1-1; and a resistive heating element 1-3 for controlling the flying heights of the magnetic heads, wherein the wires HTx and GTx for the resistive heating element is disposed such that they sandwich the wires RxX and RxY for the read head. The wires for the resistive heating element may be disposed between the wires for the write head and the wires for the read head. Furthermore, the waveform of the current or voltage to the resistive heating element has a time constant of 1 ?sec or more, the resistive heating element having wires disposed near the wires of the read head.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2006Publication date: November 2, 2006Applicant: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Satoh, Masayuki Kurita, Mikio Tokuyama, Junguo Xu
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Publication number: 20060232888Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a disk drive that is capable of effectively controlling a side erase, which is one of the problems with the use of the perpendicular recording technology. In one embodiment, tracks on a recording medium are formed concentrically or spirally by overwriting a primary side track, which is either an inner track or outer track, onto part of a secondary side track, which is on the side away from the primary side track. A head unit is installed so that a magnetic head positioned at one end of the head unit relatively may move over the recording medium and that the yaw angle prevailing at an end track of the primary side on the recording medium may be substantially zero.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2006Publication date: October 19, 2006Applicant: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Naoki Satoh, Hiroyuki Tsuchinaga, Terumi Takashi