Patents by Inventor Naoto Saito

Naoto 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: 20240116849
    Abstract: Provided are a manufacturing method and a manufacturing apparatus for efficiently manufacturing a halogen oxoacid solution with a high quality and excellent industrial properties. Specifically, a manufacturing method and a manufacturing apparatus of a halogen oxoacid are provided. The manufacturing method and the manufacturing apparatus include continuously supplying an organic alkaline solution and a halogen from a first end to a second end of a reaction tube so that liquid phase parts and/or gas phase parts are alternately and repeatedly provided in a transfer passage of the reaction tube, to perform gas-liquid mixing of the organic alkaline solution and the halogen at the liquid phase parts and/or gas phase parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: TOKUYAMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro SAITO, Naoto MOCHIZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240101391
    Abstract: A system for detecting a presence of a person in a hoistway, having: one or more controllers configured to authenticate the person in the hoistway; the one or more controllers being operationally connected to an elevator car in the hoistway and configured to determine whether the person is within a predetermined distance of the elevator car from a signal emitter on the person; wherein when the person is within the predetermined distance of the elevator car, the one or more controllers is configured to transmit a feedback request to the person and stop the elevator car unless the one or more controllers receives feedback to the feedback request within a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jayapal Reddy Gireddy, Helge Krambeck, Xinjin Zheng, Yuzhen Xue, Koji Kiyomoto, Arnaud Blanchard, Daigoro Kurokawa, Kazuya Yamamura, Hideki Arai, Terumitsu Saito, Hideaki Sasaki, Takashi Tanaka, Naoto Furuichi
  • Publication number: 20240092973
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor having a structural unit represented by the following formula (1):
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Naoto NAGAMI, Daisaku MATSUKAWA, Nobuyuki SAITO, Atsutaro YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240070937
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire three-dimensional thermographic image data by imaging a subject irradiated with infrared rays. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a plurality of items of projection data by imaging the subject with tomosynthesis. The processing circuitry is configured to execute reconstruction based on the plurality of items of projection data and the three-dimensional thermographic image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI, Daisuke SATO, Tomio MAEHAMA, Risa HAYASHI, Tamotsu INO, Katsunori KOJIMA, Yoshinori SAITO, Naoto WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240060024
    Abstract: Provided are a cell culture member having excellent cell culture performance and its long-term stability, and a method for modifying the surface thereof. The cell culture member according to the present invention is a cell culture member having at least a holding region that holds an adherent cell and contains a polymer compound, wherein at least a part of the holding region is a surface-modified region in which a functional group containing a nitrogen atom is directly chemically bonded to a part of carbon atoms and/or silicon atoms constituting the polymer compound, and the present invention can provide a cell culture member that improves adhesiveness of the adherent cell to the surface-modified region, suppresses deterioration over time of adhesiveness, and is excellent in cell culture performance and its long-term stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Naoto SAITO, Takeshi UEMURA, Kazutoshi HISANO, Yoshinori SATO, Masashi YAMAMOTO, Keiichi NII, Tetsuo NISHIDA
  • Patent number: 11909342
    Abstract: Two inverters (10) provided at respective both ends of open-end windings (8) are appropriately controlled. As control regions (R) of a rotating electrical machine (80), a first speed region (VR1) and a second speed region (VR2) in which the rotational speed of the rotating electrical machine (80) is higher than in the first speed region (VR1) for the same torque are set, and in the second speed region (VR2), a rotating electrical machine control device (1) controls both inverters (10), a first inverter (11) and a second inverter (12), by mixed pulse width modulation control in which control is performed such that a plurality of pulses with different patterns are outputted during a first period (T1) which is a half cycle of electrical angle, and an inactive state continues during a second period (T2) which is the other half cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Subrata Saha, Hiroki Iwai, Takashi Kosaka, Hiroaki Matsumori, Naoto Saito, Yoshinobu Ito, Isao Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20240052299
    Abstract: Provided are a cell culture member having excellent cell culture performance and its long-term stability, and a method for modifying the surface thereof. The cell culture member according to the present invention is a cell culture member having at least a holding region that holds an adherent cell and contains a polymer compound, wherein at least a part of the holding region is a surface-modified region in which a fluorine atom is directly chemically bonded to a part of carbon atoms and/or silicon atoms constituting the polymer compound, and the present invention can provide a cell culture member that improves adhesiveness of the adherent cell to the surface-modified region, suppresses deterioration over time of adhesiveness, and is excellent in cell culture performance and its long-term stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Naoto SAITO, Takeshi UEMURA, Kazutoshi HISANO, Yoshinori SATO, Masashi YAMAMOTO, Keiichi NII, Tetsuo NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230412018
    Abstract: A laminated core of this rotor core includes one side magnet hole provided on one side in a circumferential direction with respect to a d-axis, an other side magnet hole provided on the other side, an intermediate magnet hole, a first outer bridge portion, a second outer bridge portion, a first inner bridge portion, and a second inner bridge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto SAITO, Ami IIJIMA, Teppei TSUDA, Toshinori OKOCHI
  • Publication number: 20230282823
    Abstract: The initial capacity and cycle durability are improved in a secondary battery which uses a sulfide solid electrolyte containing sulfur and phosphorus and high nickel-type positive electrode active material. In the secondary battery having a power generating element containing, laminated in this order, a positive electrode with a positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material composed of a so-called high nickel-type lithium-containing composite oxide, an electrolyte layer which contains a sulfide solid electrolyte containing sulfur and phosphorus, and a negative electrode with a negative electrode active material layer containing a negative electrode active material, one or more added element selected from the group consisting of B, P, S and Si is made to be present in a molar concentration larger than that of Ni, into a surface layer region having a depth within 100 nm from the surface of a particle of the lithium-containing composite oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Harumi Takada, Kazuyuki Sakamoto, Naoto Saito
  • Publication number: 20230216045
    Abstract: Suppression of the destruction of particles of positive electrode active material due to the pressing pressure at the time of producing a positive electrode which constitutes an all-solid battery such as an all-solid lithium-ion secondary battery is achieved with a positive electrode active material, thereby inhibiting decrease in a battery capacity. In the positive electrode which contains the positive electrode active material layer containing the positive electrode active material consisting of secondary particles and a solid electrolyte, the average particle diameter of the secondary particles is controlled into 4.9 ?m or less, the average particle diameter of the primary particles which constitute the secondary particles is controlled into 1.2 ?m or more, and the average particle diameter of the primary particles of the solid electrolyte is controlled into 0.8 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Naoto Saito, Harumi Takada
  • Publication number: 20230203791
    Abstract: Information on a work machine is more accurately obtained through simplified works. An information obtaining system includes a hydraulic excavator, a target portion, a position measurement unit, and an information obtaining unit. The hydraulic excavator includes a revolving unit and a work implement movable relatively to the revolving unit. The target portion is attached to the work implement. The position measurement unit continuously measures positions of the target portion that moves with movement of the work implement relative to the revolving unit. The information obtaining unit obtains three-dimensional information on the hydraulic excavator based on a track of the target portion obtained by measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto SAITO, Shunsuke GOTO, Keisuke TSUBOI
  • Publication number: 20230198324
    Abstract: The rotor includes: rotor core provided with first magnet hole on an outer side in radial direction and second magnet hole on inner side wherein radial direction for each of the magnetic poles; and plurality of permanent magnets provided in first and second magnet holes and forming magnetic poles. Rotor core includes first section provided radially outside of first magnet hole, second section extending between first and second magnet holes and having opposite ends in circumferential direction that extend to outer peripheral surface of rotor core, third section extending radially inside of second magnet hole and having opposite ends in circumferential direction that extend to outer peripheral surface of rotor core, a first bridge portion that connects second and first sections form part of outer peripheral surface of rotor core, and second bridge portion that connects third and second sections and forms part of outer peripheral surface of rotor core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto SAITO, Ami IIJIMA, Teppei TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20230028358
    Abstract: Two inverters (10) provided at respective both ends of open-end windings (8) are appropriately controlled. As control regions (R) of a rotating electrical machine (80), a first speed region (VR1) and a second speed region (VR2) in which the rotational speed of the rotating electrical machine (80) is higher than in the first speed region (VR1) for the same torque are set, and in the second speed region (VR2), a rotating electrical machine control device (1) controls both inverters (10), a first inverter (11) and a second inverter (12), by mixed pulse width modulation control in which control is performed such that a plurality of pulses with different patterns are outputted during a first period (T1) which is a half cycle of electrical angle, and an inactive state continues during a second period (T2) which is the other half cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Subrata SAHA, Hiroki IWAI, Takashi KOSAKA, Hiroak MATSUMORI, Naoto SAITO, Yoshinobu ITO, Isao FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20220176016
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing, by a method in which an expensive manufacturing apparatus is not required, an implant material having osteoconductivity superior to that of an implant material containing an aromatic polyether ketone. The present invention pertains to: said method including immersing an aromatic polyether ketone in a strong base solution in the absence of a calcium ion, and immersing an aromatic polyether ketone, which is obtained by the immersing, in a liquid containing a phosphorus-containing compound; and an implant material obtained by said method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY, SHINSHU UNIVERSITY, FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takumi Okihara, Yoshiki Takada, Naoto Saito, Kaoru Aoki, Naoyuki Nishimura, Hisao Haniu, Shigeaki Moriyama, Katsuya Ueda
  • Patent number: 11316390
    Abstract: A transverse flux machine includes a stator assembly consisting of a plurality of shaped cores, each having a base with a plurality of legs with a corresponding gap between each leg and each leg having a winding. A rotor assembly is positioned adjacent the stator assembly and includes a rotor disc, and a rotor ring with a plurality of rotor poles interleaved with a plurality of interpoles. The plurality of rotor poles and plurality of interpoles are radially disposed around the rotor disc. The plurality of rotor poles include a plurality of focused rotor poles interleaved with a plurality of diffused rotor poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: The University of Akron
    Inventors: Yilmaz Sozer, Anik Chowdhury, Shuvajit Das, Naoto Saito, Subrata Saha, Takamasa Takeuchi, Yasunobu Shiotsuki, Teppei Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11190070
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electrical machine, the rotor including: a rotor core having a plurality of magnetic poles; and a plurality of permanent magnets arranged in the rotor core, wherein: in each of the plurality of magnetic poles, the rotor core has a plurality of holes including a first hole and a second hole in each of which a respective permanent magnet of the plurality of permanent magnets having a planar magnetic pole surface is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Saito, Masayuki Ikemoto, Tsuyoshi Miyaji
  • Patent number: 11056939
    Abstract: A rotor that includes a permanent magnet; and a rotor core that has a magnet placement hole in which the permanent magnet is disposed, wherein the stress relaxation magnetic flux suppression hole is formed such that a total width of a minimum width of a first magnetic flux passage between a portion of the stress relaxation magnetic flux suppression hole on a first side in the longitudinal direction and the magnet placement hole and a minimum width of a second magnetic flux passage between a portion of the stress relaxation magnetic flux suppression hole on a second side in the longitudinal direction and the magnet placement hole is less than a total length of a length of the first magnetic flux passage in the longitudinal direction and a length of the second magnetic flux passage in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukiyasu Sugiura, Masayuki Ikemoto, Naoto Saito, Suguru Gangi, Shinya Sano
  • Publication number: 20210075276
    Abstract: A transverse flux machine includes a stator assembly consisting of a plurality of shaped cores, each having a base with a plurality of legs with a corresponding gap between each leg and each leg having a winding. A rotor assembly is positioned adjacent the stator assembly and includes a rotor disc, and a rotor ring with a plurality of rotor poles interleaved with a plurality of interpoles. The plurality of rotor poles and plurality of interpoles are radially disposed around the rotor disc. The plurality of rotor poles include a plurality of focused rotor poles interleaved with a plurality of diffused rotor poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Yilmaz SOZER, Anik CHOWDHURY, Shuvajit DAS, Naoto SAITO, Subrata SAHA, Takamasa TAKEUCHI, Yasunobu SHIOTSUKI, Teppei TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20200136484
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor portions provided by circumferentially dividing the rotor. The rotor portions are each movable radially outward. The rotating electric machine is structured such that the rotor portions each move radially outward so as to increase a radial gap between the rotor and the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi MIYAJI, Naoto SAITO
  • Publication number: 20200021153
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electrical machine, the rotor including: a rotor core having a plurality of magnetic poles; and a plurality of permanent magnets arranged in the rotor core, wherein: in each of the plurality of magnetic poles, the rotor core has a plurality of holes including a first hole and a second hole in each of which a respective permanent magnet of the plurality of permanent magnets having a planar magnetic pole surface is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto SAITO, Masayuki IKEMOTO, Tsuyoshi MIYAJI