Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Sato

Nobuyuki Sato 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: 9747060
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a display controller, an input receiver, a job management unit, and a sorting unit. The display controller performs control to display, on a display unit, a job list that is a list of one or more jobs and contains one or more setting items for each job. The input receiver receives selection of a setting item from the list. The job management unit stores, in the storage unit, arrangement orders of setting values of the setting items on the list when selection of the setting item is received. The sorting unit rearranges the jobs such that the setting values of the selected setting item are arranged in a predetermined order while keeping arrangement orders of the setting values of the setting items other than the selected setting item among the jobs in ascending or descending order as stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20170230629
    Abstract: In a high speed image capturing state, a camera signal processing circuit is not needed to perform a signal process at a high screen rate, but at a regular screen rate. In the high speed image capturing mode, raw data of 240 fps received from an image sensor 101 are recorded on a recording device 111 through a conversion processing section 201 and a recording device controlling circuit 210. Raw data that have been decimated and size-converted are supplied to a camera signal processing circuit 203 through a pre-processing circuit 202 and an image being captured is displayed on a display section 112 with a signal for which a camera process has been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Kosakai, Katsutoshi Aiki, Nobuyuki Sato, Hiroki Nagahama, Masatoshi Sase, Yutaka Yoneda
  • Patent number: 9713823
    Abstract: A continuous galvanizing line having an annealing furnace of an all radiant tube heating type includes a moisture removal device, dew-point meters, outlets through which the atmospheric gas in the furnace is collected and inlets through which the atmospheric gas from which moisture has been removed with the moisture removal device is fed into the furnace, the dew-point meters and the outlets being placed at least at two points which respectively exist on a side wall in the vicinity of the entrance of the annealing furnace and on a side wall in the vicinity of the furnace top or the furnace bottom at a position where a steel sheet has a maximum end-point temperature, the inlets being placed at two points which respectively exist on side walls on the sides opposite to the sides of the two points for the outlets in the height direction of the furnace, making it possible to steadily control the dew-point of the atmospheric gas to be ?45° C. or lower and ?80° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20170162181
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic machine including a speaker unit; a housing; and a rotating device. The rotating device rotates the speaker unit with respect to the housing, wherein the speaker unit is provided with an opening portion and a member which is supported by the housing and extends substantially in parallel to a rotational axis of the speaker unit is adapted to passing through the opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki WATANABE, Nobuyuki SATO, Takeru MIKI, Toshiya KOSAKA, Eitaro UNNO, Takahiro KUDO, Yoshihiko TAKEDA
  • Patent number: 9657366
    Abstract: Part of an atmosphere gas in a heating zone and/or a soaking zone is sucked out and is cooled through a high-temperature gas passage of a heat exchanger by heat exchange with a gas in a low-temperature gas passage, then cooled through a gas cooler, then dehumidified to a dew point of ?45° C. or less in a dryer, then heated through the low-temperature gas passage of the heat exchanger by heat exchange with a gas in the high-temperature gas passage, and returned to the heating zone and/or the soaking zone. Part of gas flowing from the dryer toward the low-temperature gas passage of the heat exchanger is returned to a cooling zone. These can achieve a low dew point of ?45° C. or less with high energy efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takamasa Fujii, Masato Iri, Nobuyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 9661291
    Abstract: In a high speed image capturing state, a camera signal processing circuit is not needed to perform a signal process at a high screen rate, but at a regular screen rate. In the high speed image capturing mode, raw data of 240 fps received from an image sensor 101 are recorded on a recording device 111 through a conversion processing section 201 and a recording device controlling circuit 210. Raw data that have been decimated and size-converted are supplied to a camera signal processing circuit 203 through a pre-processing circuit 202 and an image being captured is displayed on a display section 112 with a signal for which a camera process has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Kosakai, Katsutoshi Aiki, Nobuyuki Sato, Hiroki Nagahama, Masatoshi Sase, Yutaka Yoneda
  • Patent number: 9649829
    Abstract: The present invention provides a film for forming which exhibits both excellent dimensional stability in processing and excellent formability as well as excellent appearance of surfaces and can thus be suitably applied to a variety of forming members through forming and used in forming decoration applications. Provided is a film for forming comprising a cyclic olefin-based resin as a main component, wherein the storage modulus at 120° C. is 101 MPa to 3,000 MPa and the storage modulus at 170° C. is 100 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Inventors: Isao Manabe, Mitsutaka Sakamoto, Kozo Takahashi, Toshiya Ieki, Nobuyuki Sato, Shinji Takauchi
  • Patent number: 9615166
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic machine that is provided with a speaker and that enables a direction of the speaker to be appropriately and arbitrarily changed. The electronic machine includes a speaker unit, housings, and a rotating device. The speaker unit is supported by the housing. The rotating device includes a first rotating device configured to rotate the speaker unit with respect to the housings about a direction intersecting with an axis of the housings serving as a rotational axis, and a second rotating device configured to rotate the speaker unit with respect to the housings about the axis of the housings serving as a rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Nobuyuki Sato, Takeru Miki, Toshiya Kosaka, Eitaro Unno, Takahiro Kudo, Yoshihiko Takeda
  • Patent number: 9593401
    Abstract: Provided is a vertical annealing furnace, in which a heating zone and a soaking zone are communicated with each other in the upper part of the furnace, in which a part of the furnace other than the communicated parts is separated by a dividing wall, in which part of the furnace gas is suctioned into a refiner having a deoxidation device and a dehumidification device which is placed outside the furnace to decrease the dew point of the gas by removing oxygen and moisture from the gas and such that the resultant gas having a decreased dew point is returned into the furnace, in which a gas suction port into the refiner is located in the lower part of the connection part between the soaking zone and the cooling zone and in which one or more gas suction ports are located in the parts of the heating zone and/or the soaking zone outside of an area within 6 m in the vertical direction and 3 m in the longitudinal direction of the furnace from the steel strip entrance in the lower part of the heating zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Takahashi, Nobuyuki Sato, Kazuki Nakazato, Motoki Takada
  • Publication number: 20170069747
    Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of suppressing current collapse is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a nitride semiconductor layer on the substrate, and including a first region and a second region having a thickness greater than that of the first region, a source electrode on the first region, a drain electrode on the second region, and a gate electrode on the first region between the source electrode and the drain electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Yasunobu SAITO, Toshiyuki NAKA, Nobuyuki SATO
  • Publication number: 20170019650
    Abstract: In a high speed image capturing state, a camera signal processing circuit is not needed to perform a signal process at a high screen rate, but at a regular screen rate. In the high speed image capturing mode, raw data of 240 fps received from an image sensor 101 are recorded on a recording device 111 through a conversion processing section 201 and a recording device controlling circuit 210. Raw data that have been decimated and size-converted are supplied to a camera signal processing circuit 203 through a pre-processing circuit 202 and an image being captured is displayed on a display section 112 with a signal for which a camera process has been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Kosakai, Katsutoshi Aiki, Nobuyuki Sato, Hiroki Nagahama, Masatoshi Sase, Yutaka Yoneda
  • Patent number: 9538153
    Abstract: In a high speed image capturing state, a camera signal processing circuit is not needed to perform a signal process at a high screen rate, but at a regular screen rate. In the high speed image capturing mode, raw data of 240 fps received from an image sensor 101 are recorded on a recording device 111 through a conversion processing section 201 and a recording device controlling circuit 210. Raw data that have been decimated and size-converted are supplied to a camera signal processing circuit 203 through a pre-processing circuit 202 and an image being captured is displayed on a display section 112 with a signal for which a camera process has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Kosakai, Katsutoshi Aiki, Nobuyuki Sato, Hiroki Nagahama, Masatoshi Sase, Yutaka Yoneda
  • Patent number: 9518141
    Abstract: A resol-type para-octylphenol-formaldehyde co-condensation resin and a method for producing the same are provided, the resol-type para-octylphenol-formaldehyde co-condensation resin having a content of a para-octylphenol monomer of 1 wt. % or less, having a total content of an aliphatic hydrocarbon, a halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an aromatic hydrocarbon, a halogenated aromatic hydrocarbon, and an alcohol having 1 to 8 carbon atoms of 1 wt. % or less, the aliphatic hydrocarbon, the halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbon, the aromatic hydrocarbon, the halogenated aromatic hydrocarbon, and the alcohol having a boiling point of 60° C. or more, having a softening point of 70 to 105° C., and having an acid value of 20 to 28 KOHmg/g. The resol-type para-octylphenol-formaldehyde co-condensation resin can be used as a resin cross-linking agent for a rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: TAOKA CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiya Ozaki, Hiroyuki Kashimoto, Nobuyuki Sato, Takafumi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20160265079
    Abstract: A continuous annealing system and a continuous annealing method with which it is possible to achieve an annealing atmosphere having a low dew point which is suitable for annealing a steel strip containing easily oxidizable metals such as Si and Mn at low cost and with stability by preventing easily oxidizable metals such as Si and Mn in steel from being concentrated in a surface portion of a steel strip and preventing the formation of oxides of easily oxidizable metals such as Si and Mn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki TAKAHASHI, Nobuyuki SATO, Hiroyuki YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160172335
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a supporting member, a first semiconductor chip on the supporting member and including an overheating detection circuit, a second semiconductor chip on the first semiconductor chip and including a power semiconductor element, and a sealing member on the supporting member, the first semiconductor chip, and the second semiconductor chip. The overheating detection circuit is provided between the second semiconductor chip and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventor: Nobuyuki SATO
  • Publication number: 20160154611
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a display controller, an input receiver, a job management unit, and a sorting unit. The display controller performs control to display, on a display unit, a job list that is a list of one or more jobs and contains one or more setting items for each job. The input receiver receives selection of a setting item from the list. The job management unit stores, in the storage unit, arrangement orders of setting values of the setting items on the list when selection of the setting item is received. The sorting unit rearranges the jobs such that the setting values of the selected setting item are arranged in a predetermined order while keeping arrangement orders of the setting values of the setting items other than the selected setting item among the jobs in ascending or descending order as stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki SATO
  • Publication number: 20160142694
    Abstract: In a high speed image capturing state, a camera signal processing circuit is not needed to perform a signal process at a high screen rate, but at a regular screen rate. In the high speed image capturing mode, raw data of 240 fps received from an image sensor 101 are recorded on a recording device 111 through a conversion processing section 201 and a recording device controlling circuit 210. Raw data that have been decimated and size-converted are supplied to a camera signal processing circuit 203 through a pre-processing circuit 202 and an image being captured is displayed on a display section 112 with a signal for which a camera process has been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Kosakai, Katsutoshi Aiki, Nobuyuki Sato, Hiroki Nagahama, Masatoshi Sase, Yutaka Yoneda
  • Patent number: 9304453
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a heating element that generates heat, a temperature detector that detects a temperature of the heating element, a resistor that divides a detection result of the temperature detector and a predetermined reference voltage, a disconnection detector that detects a disconnection of the temperature detector, a converter that converts the divided voltage value into a digital signal and outputs the digital signal to a controller, a comparing unit that inverts its output on the basis of a predetermined threshold, a delay circuit that delays an increase in an output voltage of the comparing unit, a discharge circuit that quickly discharges the output voltage of the comparing unit, a latch circuit connected to an output of the discharge circuit, and a power supply path connecting and disconnecting unit that is connected to the latch circuit and connects and disconnects a power supply path to the heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Imahori, Nobuyuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20160046754
    Abstract: The present invention provides a co-condensate containing a structural unit derived from p-tert-butylphenol, a structural unit derived from o-phenylphenol, and a structural unit derived from resorcin, and having a softening point of 150° C. or lower; a method for producing the co-condensate including reacting a mixture of p-tert-butylphenol and o-phenylphenol with formaldehyde in the presence of an alkali, and then reacting resorcin in a 0.8-fold molar amount or more relative to a total amount of p-tert-butylphenol and o-phenylphenol; and a rubber composition containing the co-condensate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: TAOKA CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro MATSUI, Nobuyuki SATO, Yoshiteru OTA
  • Patent number: RE46204
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; a semiconductor region provided in the semiconductor substrate; a first trench formed in the semiconductor region; a second trench formed in the semiconductor substrate; a trench gate electrode provided in the first trench; and a trench source electrode provided in the second trench. The trench source electrode is shaped like a stripe and connected to the source electrode through its longitudinal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yusuke Kawaguchi, Miwako Akiyama, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki Sato, Shigeaki Hayase