Patents by Inventor Naoya Kato

Naoya Kato 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: 20160163494
    Abstract: To provide a magnetron improved in high efficiency and load stability while suppressing costs. By shortening the height of vane Vh so that the ratio of the height of vane Vh to a gap between end hats EHg (EHg/Vh) satisfies a condition 1.12?EHg/Vh?1.26, an input side pole piece-vane gap IPpvg becomes larger than an output side pole piece-vane gap OPpvg, and an input side end hat-vane gap IPevg becomes larger than an output side end hat-vane gap OPevg, load stability at high efficiency can be improved while shortening the height of vane Vh. Therefore, it is possible to provide a magnetron improved in high efficiency and load stability while suppressing costs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: Toshiba Hokuto Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Naoya Kato
  • Publication number: 20160086150
    Abstract: A payment management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a purchase request receiving unit, a payment candidate selecting unit, a list information notifying unit, a selected information acquiring unit, and a payment unit. The purchase request receiving unit receives a purchase request transmitted from a user terminal. The payment candidate selecting unit selects payment candidates as candidates for a payer who pays a price for a purchasing object corresponding to the purchase request on behalf of a user who holds the user terminal. The list information notifying unit notifies the user terminal of information on a list of the payment candidates. The selected information acquiring unit acquires, from the user terminal, information on a payment candidate selected from the list of the payment candidates as information on a selected candidate. The payment unit performs a payment process on the purchasing object based on the information on the selected candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Hidehito GOMI, Yusuke KONDO, Shuji YAMAGUCHI, Shinya AOKI, Naoya KATO
  • Publication number: 20150123537
    Abstract: A plasma emission device in an embodiment includes: an electromagnetic wave generator; a waveguide transmitting an electromagnetic wave emitted from the electromagnetic wave generator, an antenna receiving the electromagnetic wave transmitted through the waveguide; an electromagnetic wave focuser which is irradiated with the electromagnetic wave from the antenna; and an electrodeless bulb disposed in the electromagnetic wave focuser. A light-emitting material filled in the electrodeless bulb is excited by the electromagnetic wave focused by the electromagnetic wave focuser to perform plasma emission. The electromagnetic wave generator includes a cathode part and an anode part. A maximum output efficiency of the electromagnetic wave to be generated with an input power of 700 W or less is 70% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: TOSHIBA HOKUTO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoya KATO
  • Publication number: 20140116190
    Abstract: A bicycle cable is configured to be inserted in a hollow member of a bicycle. The bicycle cable basically includes a cable body and a pair of plastic tape pieces. The plastic tape pieces are attached to the cable body such that the cable body is interposed between the plastic tape pieces with a thermal adhesive layer sealing the plastic tape pieces to together with thermal adhesion. The plastic tape pieces form a pair of longitudinal extending fins projecting outwardly on both sides of the cable main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Yoko SUGII, Naoya KATO, Satoru SASAKI, Takashi SAKAMOTO, Yoshihisa KOBAYASHI, Yuichi MORISHITA
  • Patent number: 8284260
    Abstract: Improving color calibration, and similar operations, by generating an optimal raw RGB color chart, in the raw RGB domain, for an imaging device with a given type of image sensor, such as for a digital still camera. Calibration is performed in response to a constraint which takes into account the spectral sensitivity of the image sensor used on the camera as well as spectral reflectance and spectral radiance of multiple illuminants. Calibration is performed using the raw RGB color chart which is illuminant independent and image sensor specific and which can match the calibration performance of known calibration standards, such as Macbeth 24.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaoling Wang, Farhan Baqai, Takami Mizukura, Naoya Kato
  • Patent number: 8139224
    Abstract: A particulate concentration detector including a detection mechanism having a light emission unit and light reception unit. The particulate concentration detector detects the concentration of particulates suspended in a liquid from the light amount detected by the detection mechanism. The detection mechanism includes a first light guide, a second light guide, a liquid chamber, and a third light guide. The first light guide is arranged at a location facing toward a light emission surface of the light emission unit. The second light guide is arranged at a location facing toward a light reception surface of the light reception unit. The liquid chamber is formed between the first light guide and second light guide and allows the liquid to flow therein. The third light guide is arranged in an oscillatable manner in the liquid chamber so as to face toward the first light guide and the second light guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Amano, Rie Osaki, Kazuki Matsuo, Naoya Kato, Hitoshi Uda
  • Publication number: 20100208269
    Abstract: A particulate concentration detector including a detection mechanism having a light emission unit and light reception unit. The particulate concentration detector detects the concentration of particulates suspended in a liquid from the light amount detected by the detection mechanism. The detection mechanism includes a first light guide, a second light guide, a liquid chamber, and a third light guide. The first light guide is arranged at a location facing toward a light emission surface of the light emission unit. The second light guide is arranged at a location facing toward a light reception surface of the light reception unit. The liquid chamber is formed between the first light guide and second light guide and allows the liquid to flow therein. The third light guide is arranged in an oscillatable manner in the liquid chamber so as to face toward the first light guide and the second light guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NIPPON SOKEN, INC
    Inventors: Noriyasu Amano, Rie Osaki, Kazuki Matsuo, Naoya Kato, Hitoshi Uda
  • Patent number: 7441527
    Abstract: An air suction device is provided with an air suction system having at least one capacity-enlarged portion, a compression pump compressing air in synchronization with operation of an engine, a compression air control unit, and a vibration plate which is vibration-excited by air compressed by the compression pump and disposed in a connection passage connecting a discharge side of the compression pump with the capacity-enlarged portion. The compression air control unit controls the phase and amplitude of a pressure variation of compression air discharged from the compression pump, to provide compression air with the pressure variation having the phase opposite to a pressure variation of suction air sucked into the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Hayashi, Toshiaki Nakayama, Masakazu Ozawa, Hideaki Itakura, Naoya Kato, Takanobu Kawano
  • Patent number: 7370642
    Abstract: A CPU measures an actual air-fuel ratio based on the signals detected by the air-fuel ratio sensor. When the difference between the actual air-fuel ratio and a target air-fuel ratio is larger than a predetermined value, the computer determines that a fuel vapor amount purged into the intake passage deviates from a target value due to an incorrectness of a reference flow quantity of the purge valve. The computer calculates an actual reference flow quantity based on a measured actual air-fuel ratio, and rewrites the reference flow quantity corresponding to a current intake pressure into the calculated the reference flow quantity. Thereby, the difference between the actual air-fuel ratio and the target air-fuel ratio can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Amano, Naoya Kato, Masao Kano, Shinsuke Takakura
  • Publication number: 20070296515
    Abstract: At an oscillation frequency of 2450 MHz band, number of the vanes constituting the anode part of the magnetron being, the diameter 2ra of the circle inscribing tip portions of the vanes on the cathode side being 8.0 to 8.8 mm, the diameter 2rc of the outer periphery of the filament constituting the cathode part being 3.5 to 3.9 mm, the height A3 of the vane in the direction of the tube axis is 7.0 to 8.0 mm, the mutual distance A1 between the bases of the pair of funnel-shaped pole pieces fixed to both sides of the anode part being 21.5 to 23.5 mm, the mutual distance A2 between the bottom portions of the pair of pole pieces being 10.2 to 11.2 mm, the inner diameter P1 of the through-hole of the pole piece being 8.3 to 8.5 mm, and the outer diameter P2 of the bottom portion being 11.0 to 16.0 mm are set up.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: TOSHIBA HOKUTO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya KATO, Masatoshi HIGASHI, Toshio KAWAGUCHI, Shinji HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20070089721
    Abstract: A CPU measures an actual air-fuel ratio based on the signals detected by the air-fuel ratio sensor. When the difference between the actual air-fuel ratio and a target air-fuel ratio is larger than a predetermined value, the computer determines that a fuel vapor amount purged into the intake passage deviates from a target value due to an incorrectness of a reference flow quantity of the purge valve. The computer calculates an actual reference flow quantity based on a measured actual air-fuel ratio, and rewrites the reference flow quantity corresponding to a current intake pressure into the calculated the reference flow quantity. Thereby, the difference between the actual air-fuel ratio and the target air-fuel ratio can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, NIPPON SOKEN, INC.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Amano, Naoya Kato, Masao Kano, Shinsuke Takakura
  • Publication number: 20070074708
    Abstract: A PCV valve is arranged in an outflow passage. An ECU controls rotation of a motor such that an opening degree of the PCV valve increases in response to an increase in an opening degree of a throttle valve. The outflow passage connects an interior of a head cover of an engine to a portion of an intake air passage located on a downstream side of the throttle valve. The outflow passage recirculates blow-by gas leaked from a combustion chamber into an interior of a crankcase to the portion of the intake air passage located on the downstream side of the throttle valve. An inflow passage connects the interior of the head cover to a portion of the intake air passage located on an upstream side of the throttle valve. The inflow passage conducts intake air from the intake air passage to the interior of the head cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, NIPPON SOKEN, INC.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Amano, Hideaki Itakura, Naoya Kato, Kazuhiro Hayashi, Hidetoshi Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 7158673
    Abstract: An image-processing apparatus for processing the image data input from an image-handling device and then outputting the image data to another image-handling device. The apparatus comprises a black-adaptation correction device. The black-adaptation correction device corrects the image data in consideration of the fact that adaptation to black varies from person to person, if the darkest points of the image-handling devices differ from each other. Since the image is so corrected, the colors of the images produced by the image-handling devices look almost the same in spite of the fact that the darkest points of the image-handling devices differ from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Nakabayashi, Naoya Kato
  • Publication number: 20060159563
    Abstract: An air suction device is provided with an air suction system having at least one capacity-enlarged portion, a compression pump compressing air in synchronization with operation of an engine, a compression air control unit, and a vibration plate which is vibration-excited by air compressed by the compression pump and disposed in a connection passage connecting a discharge side of the compression pump with the capacity-enlarged portion. The compression air control unit controls the phase and amplitude of a pressure variation of compression air discharged from the compression pump, to provide compression air with the pressure variation having the phase opposite to a pressure variation of suction air sucked into the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Applicants: Denso Corporation, NIPPON SOKEN, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Hayashi, Toshiaki Nakayama, Masakazu Ozawa, Hideaki Itakura, Naoya Kato, Takanobu Kawano
  • Patent number: 7007684
    Abstract: A controller for an engine including a fuel vapor processing mechanism. The controller determines the amount of fuel vapor drawn into an intake passage based on the concentration of fuel vapor purged into the purge passage. The controller corrects the fuel injection amount of a fuel injection valve in accordance with the determined amount of fuel vapor. The controller starts correcting the fuel injection amount from the cylinder that is undergoing an intake stroke when the crankshaft is rotated to a certain crank angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignees: Nippon Soken, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Itakura, Takanobu Kawano, Naoya Kato, Kenji Kasashima, Rihito Kaneko
  • Patent number: 6988391
    Abstract: A fuel vapor leakage inspection apparatus utilizes a fuel tank, an adsorption container which houses an adsorbent for adsorbing fuel vapor generated in the fuel tank, and an exhaust device for communicating between the adsorption container and an intake pipe. Furthermore, the apparatus utilizes a pressure means that pressurizes or depressurizes a fuel vapor path formed from the fuel tank through the adsorption container to the exhaust device. A leakage detection means detects leakage from the fuel vapor path after the fuel vapor path is pressurized or depressurized by the pressure means while a calculation means calculates an amount of fuel vapor adsorbed, and a control means determines if the pressure means should execute leakage inspection of the fuel vapor path in accordance with the amount of the fuel vapor calculated by the calculation means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignees: Nippon Soken, Inc., Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyasu Amano, Naoya Kato, Hideaki Itakura, Masao Kano
  • Publication number: 20050274368
    Abstract: A controller for an engine including a fuel vapor processing mechanism. The controller determines the amount of fuel vapor drawn into an intake passage based on the concentration of fuel vapor purged into the purge passage. The controller corrects the fuel injection amount of a fuel injection valve in accordance with the determined amount of fuel vapor. The controller starts correcting the fuel injection amount from the cylinder that is undergoing an intake stroke when the crankshaft is rotated to a certain crank angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Inventors: Hideaki Itakura, Takanobu Kawano, Naoya Kato, Kenji Kasashima, Rihito Kaneko
  • Patent number: 6966215
    Abstract: An apparatus detects leak in a fuel vapor treatment system which is referred to as an evaporation system. The apparatus measures a required time T2 that is required for decreasing pressure in the evaporation system from P0 to P1 while opening a base leak hole that provides known amount of leak. Then, a required time T1 that is required for decreasing pressure from P0 to P1 is measured while closing the base leak hole. The apparatus compares the required times T1 and T2 in order to detect a leak other than the base leak hole. In this process, a specified coefficient that is defined in accordance with the base leak hole is taken into consideration. It is possible to detect the leak of the evaporation system with high accuracy even when the amount of remaining fuel is extremely large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignees: Nippon Soken, Inc., Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyasu Amano, Hideaki Itakura, Naoya Kato, Masao Kano
  • Publication number: 20050217348
    Abstract: A fuel vapor leakage inspection apparatus utilizes a fuel tank, an adsorption container which houses an adsorbent for adsorbing fuel vapor generated in the fuel tank, and an exhaust device for communicating between the adsorption container and an intake pipe. Furthermore, the apparatus utilizes a pressure means that pressurizes or depressurizes a fuel vapor path formed from the fuel tank through the adsorption container to the exhaust device. A leakage detection means detects leakage from the fuel vapor path after the fuel vapor path is pressurized or depressurized by the pressure means while a calculation means calculates an amount of fuel vapor adsorbed, and a control means determines if the pressure means should execute leakage inspection of the fuel vapor path in accordance with the amount of the fuel vapor calculated by the calculation means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Applicants: Nippon Soken, Inc., Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyasu Amano, Naoya Kato, Hideaki Itakura, Masao Kano
  • Publication number: 20050220340
    Abstract: An image-processing apparatus for processing the image data input from an image-handling device and then outputting the image data to another image-handling device. The apparatus comprises a black-adaptation correction device. The black-adaptation correction device corrects the image data in consideration of the fact that adaptation to black varies from person to person, if the darkest points of the image-handling devices differ from each other. Since the image is so corrected, the colors of the images produced by the image-handling devices look almost the same in spite of the fact that the darkest points of the image-handling devices differ from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Nakabayashi, Naoya Kato