Patents by Inventor Noboru Saito

Noboru 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: 20140000330
    Abstract: A chamber having a water jet generation apparatus and a mesh installed inside is pushed against a surface of a peening object. A rotary vane of the water jet generation apparatus, disposed in a region in the chamber between the mesh and the chamber, is rotated to generate a water jet flowing toward the peening object in one region in the chamber, the one region is a region closer to the peening object than the mesh. A plurality of shots 4 put in the region 30A moves toward the peening object along with the water jet and collides with the surface of the peening object. After the collision, the shots move toward the mesh along with the water jet. Compression residual stress is given to the surface of the peening object with which the shots have collided. Thus, spreading of contaminants peeled off from a peening object can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Hisamitu HATOU, Noboru SAITO, Ren MORINAKA, Fujio YOSHIKUBO, Masashi FUKAYA, Yuji MATSUI, Ryuji KIMURA
  • Patent number: 8608121
    Abstract: A reactor metering pipe fixing device fixes a reactor metering pipe disposed in a reactor to a cylindrical outer surface of a jet pump diffuser and reduces stress that may be induced in a weld zone in the reactor metering pipe. An outer holding member 41 is held on the cylindrical outer surface 18a of a jet pump diffuser 18 by a C-shaped holding member 30. The reactor metering pipe 19 is clamped from radial directions by the outer holding member 41 and inner holding members 42 and 43. Wedges 44 and 45 are wedged into a gap between the cylindrical outer surface 18a and the inner holding member 42 and a gap between the cylindrical outer surface 18a and the inner holding member 43 to fix the reactor metering pipe 19 firmly to the cylindrical outer surface 18a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeshi Maehara, Hideshi Iwasa, Yuusuke Watanabe, Kunihiko Kinugasa, Hajime Mori, Kiyofumi Saiki, Ken Okuda, Tsuyoshi Hagiwara, Noboru Saito, Masanobu Watanabe, Shigeru Kasai
  • Patent number: 8523938
    Abstract: A stent includes a stent body in which struts are joined mutually while intersecting and which is formed tubularly as a whole, and a drug coat layer on the outer surface of the struts. The strut has a bend which is deformed as the stent body expands/contracts in the radial direction, and the drug coat layer with which the bend is coated is formed in such a manner that the drug coat layer is mountain-shaped in a cross-section perpendicular to the axis of the strut and the ridgeline of the mountain shape extends in a wavy shape along the longitudinal direction of the strut. The drug coat layer deforms relatively easily without using plasticizer as the stent deforms and is not so susceptible to causing problems such as peeling, destruction, damage or falling off of the drug coat later.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryohei Takeuchi, Kazuhiro Maruyama, Noboru Saito
  • Publication number: 20130023982
    Abstract: A stent is configured to facilitate directional proliferation of cells on the inner surface of the stent to relatively quickly coat the stent surface with the cells so that the onset of late stent thrombosis or restenosis can be reduced or prevented. The stent includes a cylindrical stent main body having openings at both ends and extending along the longitudinal direction between the openings at both ends. A coating layer is provided on the inner surface of the stent main body and contains a substance having a cell adhesion ability to promote the adhesion of cells. The coating layer is formed by arranging multiple linear coating parts, each extending linearly in a striped manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sayaka UCHIYAMA, Noboru SAITO, Hiroaki NAGURA
  • Publication number: 20120165923
    Abstract: A stent able to minimize occurrences of strain and stress concentration in a drug coat layer upon expansive deformation of the stent in a radial direction to avoid the possibility of the drug separating from the stent, includes a stent body and a drug coating layer coated on the outside surface of the stent body so that the thickness of the drug coating layer gradually decreases toward a bent portion of the stent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro MARUYAMA, Noboru SAITO, Hiroki GOTO
  • Publication number: 20110303469
    Abstract: A vehicle seat load sensor which is attached under a vehicle seat, and is configured to detect a load acting on the vehicle seat includes a seat support configured to support a vehicle seat, and a flexible body configured to receive the load from the seat support, the seat support including a seat support surface configured to support the vehicle seat and a projection which is formed on the seat support surface and is configured to have contact with the vehicle seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Inventors: Noboru Saito, Shunji Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20110202122
    Abstract: A stent includes a stent body in which struts are joined mutually while intersecting and which is formed tubularly as a whole, and a drug coat layer on the outer surface of the struts. The strut has a bend which is deformed as the stent body expands/contracts in the radial direction, and the drug coat layer with which the bend is coated is formed in such a manner that the drug coat layer is mountain-shaped in a cross-section perpendicular to the axis of the strut and the ridgeline of the mountain shape extends in a wavy shape along the longitudinal direction of the strut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryohei TAKEUCHI, Kazuhiro Maruyama, Noboru Saito
  • Patent number: 7839139
    Abstract: An electronic device testing apparatus for conducting a test by pressing input/output terminals of an IC to be tested against sockets (50), comprising a pusher (30) provided at least with a pusher base (34) provided to be able to approach and separate with respect to said sockets (50), a lead pusher base (35) fixed to said pusher base (34), a pusher block (31) for pressing against said sockets (50) by contacting said IC to be tested from an opposite face of said socket (50), a load base (32) attached with the pusher block (31), and two springs (36, 38) for giving an elastic force in the direction of pressing the IC to be tested to the pusher block (31) via the load base (32), wherein the load base (32) and the springs (36, 38) are sandwiched with the lead pusher base (35) and the pusher base (34), and the pusher block (31) is detachably attached to the load base (32) via an opening portion provided to the pusher base (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventor: Noboru Saito
  • Patent number: 7840417
    Abstract: A medical information providing apparatus is provided which can increase the number of doctor side terminals to be destinations of program distribution, acquire market information extended in detail, positively creates circumstances in which a doctor desires to make contact with an MR, and promptly transmits information about a doctor who desires to make contact with the MR to him/her. A medical information providing apparatus can communicate with a doctor side terminal and a representative side terminal, in which the representative terminal can register doctor information on the medical information providing apparatus, and a medical information program is provided to registered doctor information. Before providing a medical information providing program, a basic questionnaire is done to efficiently provide the program, and a final questionnaire is done to obtain the effect to view the program after provided. Furthermore, a contact request questionnaire is done based on the results of these questionnaires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Care Net, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoya Takuma, Yasuo Shiga, Noboru Saito, Ayaki Miyaji
  • Patent number: 7828262
    Abstract: A damping and mounting structure for a motor includes a bracket to which a motor is mounted, the bracket being provided with a plurality of through-holes; a housing having a driven element which is driven by the motor on the bracket; a plurality of threaded holes and positioning recesses coaxial to the threaded holes, provided in the housing; a plurality of cylindrical damper bushes made of an elastic material, mounted in the through-holes; a plurality of retainer bushes made of a material harder than the damper bushes and inserted in the damper bushes, the retainer bushes being provided, at the front ends thereof, with positioning projections which are inserted into the positioning recesses; and a plurality of set screws which extend through the retainer bushes from a surface of the bracket and are screwed into the threaded holes of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventor: Noboru Saito
  • Patent number: 7706083
    Abstract: A drive mechanism include a movable element which has at least one bearing arm; a linear guide shaft for linearly guiding the movable element without rotating; a driving device driving the movable element linearly along the linear guide shaft; a driven member driven, by the driving device, in a direction parallel to the linear guide shaft; a first guide hole formed on the bearing arm; a second guide hole formed on the driven member, the first and second guide holes being identical in size and in cross sectional shape; a tubular bearing member fitted into the first and second guide holes, the linear guide shaft being fitted completely through the tubular bearing member to be freely slidable therein; and a retaining device formed on the tubular bearing member and the driven member to prevent the tubular bearing member from moving relative to the driven member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventor: Noboru Saito
  • Patent number: 7676908
    Abstract: A pusher 30 is composed of a pusher base 31 and a pressing body 32 attached to the pusher base 31 in a removable way. Specifically, a base portion of the pressing body 32 is provided with a flange portion 321, and the pusher base 31 is provided with a plate 33 having a U-shape when seen two-dimensionally. By sliding the pressing body 32 with respect to the pusher base 31 with the flange portion 321 of the pressing body 32 supported by the plate 33, the pressing body 32 can be attached to and removed from the pusher 30 without using any tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Hisao Hayama, Noboru Saito, Makoto Sagawa
  • Patent number: 7562735
    Abstract: A passenger detecting device includes a plurality of weight sensors, a weight-fluctuation monitoring means and a passenger judging and data updating means. The weight sensors are arranged at different positions of a seat for respectively detecting weights acting on the seat of a motor vehicle. The weight-fluctuation monitoring means monitors weight-fluctuation amounts of the plurality of the weight sensors and sum-weight fluctuation amount. The passenger judging and data updating means judges a passenger on the seat to be a large physical-size person or a small physical-size person to update information on the passenger on the seat when the sum-weight fluctuation amount is not less than each of the weight fluctuation amounts, and prevents the information to be updated when at least one of the weight fluctuation amounts is larger than the sum-weight fluctuation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kobayashi, Takahiro Kawakami, Noboru Saito
  • Publication number: 20090032650
    Abstract: A reactor metering pipe fixing device fixes a reactor metering pipe disposed in a reactor to a cylindrical outer surface of a jet pump diffuser and reduces stress that may be induced in a weld zone in the reactor metering pipe. An outer holding member 41 is held on the cylindrical outer surface 18a of a jet pump diffuser 18 by a C-shaped holding member 30. The reactor metering pipe 19 is clamped from radial directions by the outer holding member 41 and inner holding members 42 and 43. Wedges 44 and 45 are wedged into a gap between the cylindrical outer surface 18a and the inner holding member 42 and a gap between the cylindrical outer surface 18a and the inner holding member 43 to fix the reactor metering pipe 19 firmly to the cylindrical outer surface 18a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Takeshi MAEHARA, Hideshi Iwasa, Yuusuke Watanabe, Kunihiko Kinugasa, Hajime Mori, Kiyofumi Saiki, Ken Okuda, Tsuyoshi Hagiwara, Noboru Saito, Masanobu Watanabe, Shigeru Kasai
  • Publication number: 20080246464
    Abstract: An electronic device testing apparatus for conducting a test by pressing input/output terminals of an IC to be tested against sockets (50), comprising a pusher (30) provided at least with a pusher base (34) provided to be able to approach and separate with respect to said sockets (50), a lead pusher base (35) fixed to said pusher base (34), a pusher block (31) for pressing against said sockets (50) by contacting said IC to be tested from an opposite face of said socket (50), a load base (32) attached with the pusher block (31), and two springs (36, 38) for giving an elastic force in the direction of pressing the IC to be tested to the pusher block (31) via the load base (32), wherein the load base (32) and the springs (36, 38) are sandwiched with the lead pusher base (35) and the pusher base (34), and the pusher block (31) is detachably attached to the load base (32) via an opening portion provided to the pusher base (34).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: ADVANTEST Corporation
    Inventor: Noboru Saito
  • Patent number: 7400161
    Abstract: An electronic device testing apparatus for conducting a test by pressing input/output terminals of an IC to be tested against sockets (50), comprising a pusher (30) provided at least with a pusher base (34) provided to be able to approach and separate with respect to said sockets (50), a lead pusher base (35) fixed to said pusher base (34), a pusher block (31) for pressing against said sockets (50) by contacting said IC to be tested from an opposite face of said socket (50), a load base (32) attached with the pusher block (31), and two springs (36, 38) for giving an elastic force in the direction of pressing the IC to be tested to the pusher block (31) via the load base (32), wherein the load base (32) and the springs (36, 38) are sandwiched with the lead pusher base (35) and the pusher base (34), and the pusher block (31) is detachably attached to the load base (32) via an opening portion provided to the pusher base (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventor: Noboru Saito
  • Patent number: 7362117
    Abstract: A device testing apparatus including a connection terminal to which an electronic device under test is detachably attached, a pusher for pushing the electronic device in the direction of the connection terminal so as to connect the electronic device to the connection terminal, and a cooling unit for cooling the electronic device. As the cooling unit, an element cooling the device using electricity is for example used. The cooling unit includes a cooling medium blower for blowing a cooling medium around the electronic device and heat exchange projections or depressions for raising the cooling efficiency by blowing a cooling medium. In the device testing apparatus, even if the electronic device generates heat on its own during testing, the electronic device is cooled through the pusher, connection terminals, or socket, so the effect of the heat generated by the electronic device is canceled out and the electronic device can be tested at the predetermined temperature as prescribed in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Saito, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Noriyuki Igarashi, Keiichi Fukumoto, Hiroto Nakamura, Yutaka Watanabe, Kenichi Shimada
  • Publication number: 20080048158
    Abstract: A pusher 30 is composed of a pusher base 31 and a pressing body 32 attached to the pusher base 31 in a removable way. Specifically, a base portion of the pressing body 32 is provided with a flange portion 321, and the pusher base 31 is provided with a plate 33 having a U-shape when seen two-dimensionally. By sliding the pressing body 32 with respect to the pusher base 31 with the flange portion 321 of the pressing body 32 supported by the plate 33, the pressing body 32 can be attached to and removed from the pusher 30 without using any tools.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisao Hayama, Noboru Saito, Makoto Sagawa
  • Publication number: 20070228251
    Abstract: A damping and mounting structure for a motor includes a bracket to which a motor is mounted, the bracket being provided with a plurality of through-holes; a housing having a driven element which is driven by the motor on the bracket; a plurality of threaded holes and positioning recesses coaxial to the threaded holes, provided in the housing; a plurality of cylindrical damper bushes made of an elastic material, mounted in the through-holes; a plurality of retainer bushes made of a material harder than the damper bushes and inserted in the damper bushes, the retainer bushes being provided, at the front ends thereof, with positioning projections which are inserted into the positioning recesses; and a plurality of set screws which extend through the retainer bushes from a surface of the bracket and are screwed into the threaded holes of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: PENTAX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noboru SAITO
  • Patent number: 7277237
    Abstract: An AF control apparatus for a zoom lens system includes a movable lens group serving as a zooming lens group and a focusing lens group in the zoom lens system; a focusing table which stores focusing data for the movable lens group; a zooming table which stores zooming data for the movable lens group, the zooming table having different data from the focusing table; and a driving device for moving the movable lens group in an optical axis direction of the zoom lens system according to data stored in the focusing table and the zooming table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: PENTAX Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Saito, Takamitsu Sasaki, Hideyuki Yamamoto