Patents by Inventor Noboru Saitou

Noboru Saitou 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).

  • Patent number: 12160144
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a wiring board; an electric connection wiring connected to a power supply; motor connection wirings arranged on a peripheral side of the wiring board and connected to the electric motor; and semiconductor modules having semiconductor elements and a resin mold. The semiconductor modules are arranged at a position on the electric connection wiring or on the peripheral side of the electric connection wiring and on a center side of the motor connection wiring. At least a part of electrodes of the plurality of semiconductor modules is mounted on the electric connection wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Syuhei Miyachi, Atsushi Saitou, Toshihiro Fujita, Noboru Nagase
  • Patent number: 12036609
    Abstract: A search apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The processor receives a molding result of a reference sample manufactured by the additive manufacturing apparatus. The processor calculates predicted values from a predictive model. The processor determines whether the evaluation target values are achieved by the measured values. The reference sample has at least three smooth surfaces and a surface having aggregated punched holes formed by straight lines and curved lines that are involved in three types of regions to be set as the conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kawanaka, Hyakka Nakada, Noboru Saitou, Shinji Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20220203455
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus, method, and reference sample for searching for molding conditions of an additive manufacturing apparatus based on a powder bed fusion method, and provides a search apparatus, a search method, and a reference sample that are remarkably more efficient and accurate than conventional counterparts. The reference sample for searching for the molding conditions is shaped so that it has a surface having aggregated punched holes formed by straight lines and curved lines involved in a fill region of a molding region (in-skin), a region for forming an overhang (down-skin), and a region for forming an outermost surface in the direction of molding height (up-skin). Slice data of the reference sample has at least two independent regions in an optional layer at a center in a lamination direction, and includes a small region and a large region. The small region has a width of 1 mm or less and is cut off from the outer edge of the reference sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Hirotsugu KAWANAKA, Hyakka NAKADA, Noboru SAITOU, Shinji MATSUSHITA
  • Patent number: 8776565
    Abstract: An evaluation method of residual stress in water jet peening includes a step of creating an analytical model including meshes according to a water jet peening (WJP) object, the shape of a nozzle, and an injection distance, a step of inputting WJP execution conditions, a step of calculating the internal pressure pBi of a cavitation bubble and a bubble number density ngi through jet flow analysis for a jet flow jetting from the nozzle, a step of calculating cavitation energy according to the internal pressure pBi of a cavitation bubble and a bubble number density ngi (S4), a step of calculating the burst energy of cavitation bubbles from the cavitation energy C, and a step of calculating the compressive residual stress of the WJP object from the collapse pressure of cavitation bubbles. Accordingly, the residual stress of the WJP object can be evaluated precisely in a shorter time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisamitu Hatou, Noboru Saitou, Kouichi Kurosawa, Fujio Yoshikubo, Yuji Matsui, Masashi Fukaya
  • Publication number: 20110232348
    Abstract: An evaluation method of residual stress in water jet peening includes a step of creating an analytical model including meshes according to a water jet peening (WJP) object, the shape of a nozzle, and an injection distance, a step of inputting WJP execution conditions, a step of calculating the internal pressure pBi of a cavitation bubble and a bubble number density ngi through jet flow analysis for a jet flow jetting from the nozzle, a step of calculating cavitation energy according to the internal pressure pBi of a cavitation bubble and a bubble number density ngi (S4), a step of calculating the burst energy of cavitation bubbles from the cavitation energy C, and a step of calculating the compressive residual stress of the WJP object from the collapse pressure of cavitation bubbles. Accordingly, the residual stress of the WJP object can be evaluated precisely in a shorter time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Hisamitu HATOU, Noboru Saitou, Kouichi Kurosawa, Fujio Yoshikubo, Yuji Matsui, Masashi Fukaya
  • Patent number: 7716961
    Abstract: A method for executing water jet peening for giving an impact force to a surface of a structure member by a crushing pressure of a water jet and cavitation and improving residual stress, or washing, or reforming said surface, wherein said water jet peening is executed so as to make a natural frequency of oscillation of said structure member and a excitation frequency of oscillation of water jet peening different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisamitu Hatou, Noboru Saitou, Ren Morinaka, Tomohiko Motoki, Tadashi Iijima, Yuichi Koide, Jun Kashiwakura
  • Publication number: 20090056399
    Abstract: A method for executing water jet peening for giving an impact force to a surface of a structure member by a crushing pressure of a water jet and cavitation and improving residual stress, or washing, or reforming said surface, wherein said water jet peening is executed so as to make a natural frequency of oscillation of said structure member and a excitation frequency of oscillation of water jet peening different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Hisamitu Hatou, Noboru Saitou, Ren Morinaka, Tomohiko Motoki, Tadashi IIjima, Yuichi Koide, Jun Kashiwakura
  • Publication number: 20060113010
    Abstract: In a method for heat treatment of an existing pipe constituting a piping system, for converting the residual stress at a welded metallic portion and a welding heat influenced portion of the inside surface of the pipe, into a compressive stress and thereby generate the compressive stress in the inside surface of the existing pipe, a coolant is retained in the pipe; an arbitrary portion of the outside surface of the pipe is heated; thereby a temperature distribution little in temperature difference is produced in the wall surface of the pipe at the heated portion; and then the coolant is allowed to flow. By converting the residual stress at the welded metallic portion and the welding heat influenced portion of the inside surface of the pipe, into the compressive stress, stress corrosion cracking generated from the welded metallic portion and the welding heat influenced portion can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Noboru Saitou, Nobuyoshi Yanagida, Shoji Hayashi, Satoshi Kanno, Kunio Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20060104784
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for picking up a defective portion replica that can pick up a replica with high accuracy and positively even from a surface of a structure in the water. Within a container part provided at a leading end of a replica pickup part is displaced a deformable member, such as a porous expansion member, which is excellent in adhesion with a replica and which deforms when a replica material is poured into a gap between a surface of a structure and the deformable member. The replica material from the replica material supply nozzle is poured into the gap between the surface of a structure and the porous expansion member and the replica is recovered by making use of adhesion with the porous expansion member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventors: Akihiko Hirano, Noahito Sato, Hiroshi Sakata, Satoshi Kanno, Takao Shimura, Hirokazu Adachi, Noboru Saitou
  • Patent number: 5523473
    Abstract: A method of producing naphthalenedicarboxylic acids by the oxidation of dialkyl-substituted naphthalene with a gas containing molecular oxygen in an organic solvent and in the presence of a catalyst comprising copper and bromine, or a catalyst comprising copper, bromine and at least one kind of element/compound selected from the group of consisting of amine compounds and heavy metallic elements which are vanadium, manganese, iron, nickel, palladium and cerium. And a method of producing diaryldicarboxylic acids by the oxidation of dialkyl-substituted diaryl compounds with a gas containing molecular oxygen in an organic solvent and in the presence of the same catalyst. These methods permit high yields of naphthalenedicarboxylic acids of high purity and of diaryldicarboxylic acids of high purity with the use of small amounts of catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Saitou, Koichi Hirota, Ren Hasebe, Norimasa Okuda, Ikuyo Katsumi
  • Patent number: 5144066
    Abstract: A method of producing naphthalenedicarboxylic acids by the oxidation of dialkyl-substituted naphthalene with a gas containing molecular oxygen under liquid phase conditions in an organic solvent and in the presence of a catalyst comprising copper and bromine, or a catalyst comprising copper, bromine and at least one kind of element/compound selected from the group of consisting of amine compounds and heavy metallic elements which are vanadium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, palladium and cerium. And a method of producing diaryldicarboxylic acids by the oxidation of dialkyl-substituted diaryl compounds with a gas containing molecular oxygen in an organic solvent and in the presence of the same catalyst. These methods permit high yields of naphthalenedicarboxylic acids of high purity and of diaryldicarboxylic acids of high purity with the use of small amounts of catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Saitou, Koichi Hirota, Ren Hasebe, Norimasa Okuda, Ikuyo Katsumi
  • Patent number: D487900
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Nitto Kohki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshio Mikiya, Kuniaki Shibuya, Takashi Chiba, Noboru Saitou