Patents by Inventor Osamu Sato
Osamu 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).
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Patent number: 7045622Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of continuously producing a lactam in high-temperature high-pressure water, and the present invention relates to a method for producing a lactam characterized by selectively synthesizing the lactam without bringing about hydrolysis by introducing an oxime into flowing high-temperature high-pressure water, wherein the lactam is continuously synthesized at a high rate from the oxime in water at a high temperature of at least 250° C. and a high pressure of at least 12 MPa.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2001Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Kiyotaka Hatakeda, Osamu Sato, Yutaka Ikushima, Kazuo Torii
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Publication number: 20060073937Abstract: A torque converter lockup capacity control device is configured to conduct coast-time lockup control during coast-running in order to prevent engine stall, shock from occurring in the output shaft of a transmission due to lockup when a driver releases an acceleration pedal and the running condition switches from a drive running condition to a coast-running condition. Torque converter lockup occurs because the engine output torque drops from a time on when the throttle opening degree becomes zero. Thus, during a period from the time on until fuel cut-in at time, the lockup capacity is lowered to a minimum capacity corresponding to a standby pressure and lockup is avoided. The lockup capacity is raised to a larger value from the predetermined time on, and ordinary coast-time lockup control is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2005Publication date: April 6, 2006Applicants: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., JATCO Ltd.Inventors: Yuzuru Tohta, Hiroyuki Takenaka, Kenichiro Murakami, Osamu Sato
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Patent number: 7022842Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for synthesizing ?-lactams and a method for manufacturing ?-lactams in water of high-temperature and under high-pressure, and the present invention relates to a ?-lactam synthesis method which is characterized in that ?-lactams are synthesized by reacting ?-amino acids in water at high-temperature and under high-pressure, this method being further characterized in that ?-lactams are synthesized at a high speed by cyclizing ?-amino acids in water at high-temperature and under high-pressure in which the temperature range is 200° C. or higher and the pressure range is 10 MPa or greater, and the present invention also relates to a method for manufacturing ?-lactams which is characterized in that ?-lactams are synthesized by reacting ?-amino acids in water at high-temperature and under high-pressure, and are then separated and purified using a column separation medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2001Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Kiyotaka Hatakeda, Osamu Sato, Mitsuhiro Kanakubo, Yutaka Ikushima, Kazuo Torii
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Patent number: 7016535Abstract: Collation can be carried out at a high speed without reducing the accuracy thereof, whereby processing of identifying documents is accurately performed at a high speed. To this end, characteristic data of a predetermined pattern is registered in advance. Characteristic data in a first area greater than an area of the predetermined pattern registered in advance in an image to be identified is compared and collated with characteristic data of the predetermined pattern. A second area smaller than the first area is cut out from the first area based on the result of comparison, so that characteristic data of an image in the second area is compared and collated with the characteristic data of the predetermined pattern, thus making it possible to identify the predetermined pattern contained in the image based on the result of comparison.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2001Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Toshiyuki Waida, Shinichi Eguchi, Kouichi Kanamoto, Maki Yabuki, Koichi Chiba, Katsutoshi Kobara, Osamu Sato, Kazunori Yamamoto, Yutaka Katsumata
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Patent number: 7007289Abstract: A CD changer mounted on a vehicle is supported in a floating manner to sufficiently damp vibrations and prevent a CD from skipping. Mounting plates and a pair of inner support plates are connected to each other at two front and two rear points by a first set of dampers, which buffer displacement of the mounting plates within a vertical plane relative to the inner support plates. The inner support plates and a pair of outer support plates opposite the inner support plates and supported on the base plates are connected to each other at two front and two rear points by a second set of dampers, which buffer displacement of the inner support plates within a vertical plane relative to the outer support plates. Suspended springs mounted between the mounting plate and the outer support plate exert a spring force to counteract the weight of the CD changer.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2003Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignees: Honda Access Corporation, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Ochiai, Takayuki Shimazaki, Osamu Sato
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Publication number: 20050280745Abstract: A display apparatus of the present invention has an optical engine (image generating unit) which has a light source, a digital micro mirror device (DMD) panel, and a color wheel having a white segment, the image generating unit projecting a white image and video lights of each color at certain time intervals, and a panel driver which outputs signals B, G and R to the DMD panel, wherein a brightness compensating circuit which performs nonlinear conversion for a brightness signal component (Y) according to the level of brightness component, to control a high brightness level portion of the brightness signal component, and a color compensating circuit which performs nonlinear conversion for two color difference signal components (Cb/Cr), to increase saturation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2005Publication date: December 22, 2005Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kazuyuki Takeda, Osamu Sato, Kohei Watanabe
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Publication number: 20050239525Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine which can obtain a position of a player's hand even with less machine power or processing ability. A gaming machine includes a game screen with which a player indicates a given position to a gaming machine with his/her hand, a sensor which detects the position which the hand of the player indicates by performing scanning above the game screen, a DVC which photographs the game screen and an image of the hand of the player and generates the whole image data, a position detecting unit which obtains a regional image data from the whole image data based on the position detected by the sensor and determines the position of the hand of the player by performing image processing of image data of the region, and a game control part which performs a control of the game based on the position detected by the position detecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2005Publication date: October 27, 2005Applicant: ARUZE CORP.Inventor: Osamu Sato
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Patent number: 6951386Abstract: An adsorbent for ink jet use arranged in a position to be in contact with ink, having the higher capability of adsorption with respect to hydrophobic substance contained in ink than colorant therein. Then, an ink retaining container comprises an ink retaining portion for retaining ink to be supplied to an ink jet head, an ink supply opening which becomes the ink supply portion from the ink retaining portion to the head, an atmospheric communication opening for communicating the ink retaining portion with the air outside. This ink retaining container is provided with the above-mentioned adsorption member arranged in a position to be in contact with ink in it. With the adsorbent and the ink retaining container thus arranged, it is made possible to perform ink jet recording with excellent print characteristics by effectively removing the hydrophobic substance eluted form the ink absorbent in the ink retaining container.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2002Date of Patent: October 4, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masako Shimomura, Kazuaki Masuda, Osamu Sato, Hiromichi Noguchi
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Publication number: 20050195127Abstract: It is disclosed the image display system having a projecting device 30 for projecting a first image; a transparent screen device 10 on a rear plane of which the first image projected by the projecting device 30 is focused and on a front plane of which a second image near the first image indicated by an indication portion P is reflected; an image taking device 40 for taking a rear plane image of the screen device 10 and outputting image data thereof including the second image of the indication portion P; and a position detection device 50 for detecting a position indicated by the indication portion P based on the rear plane image included in the image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2005Publication date: September 8, 2005Inventor: Osamu Sato
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Publication number: 20050192093Abstract: The present invention allows a player to advance a game by actually performing an indication over an image display which constitutes a table screen using his/her hand. The gaming machine includes an image display which displays an image relevant to the game, a position detector which detects a position indicated by the player's hand by scanning a whole indication reception region which receives an indication of the player and also is a region including a display region of the image display, and a controller which performs a control of the game based on the position detected by the position detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2005Publication date: September 1, 2005Applicant: Aruze Corp.Inventor: Osamu Sato
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Publication number: 20050187210Abstract: A method for treating severe heart failure, comprising administering to a patient an effective amount of a benzazepine compound (1): wherein R1 is H or halogen, R2 is OH, or —NR5R6 (R5 and R6 are H or lower alkyl, R3 is H, halogen, lower alkyl, or lower alkoxy, R4 is halogen, lower alkyl or lower alkoxy, or a salt thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the benzazepine compound (1) or a salt thereof and use of the compound (1) or a salt thereof for preparing a medicament for treatment of severe heart failure.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2004Publication date: August 25, 2005Inventors: Atsushi Ozaki, Yosuke Maki, Osamu Sato, Yoshitaka Yamamura
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Publication number: 20050187018Abstract: The present invention provides, in a gaming machine which uses a game table, an information input device which can detect positions indicated by player's hands or the like without relying on the detection of touching of the game table by players. An information input device includes a table which has one or a plurality of input regions which are preset, a position detector which detects a position of an object on the table and outputs positional information on the object, and a positional information determining unit which determines whether the position of the object is in any one of the input regions for a given period based on the positional information on the object from the position detector and treats the positional information valid when the positional information determining unit determines that the object is in the input region for the given period.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2005Publication date: August 25, 2005Applicant: Aruze Corp.Inventors: Kengo Takeda, Osamu Sato, Jun Haishima, Junpei Sato
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Patent number: 6896359Abstract: An ink jet recording head has a plurality of discharge energy generating devices for discharging recording liquid; a recording element base plate arranged on the face opposite the surface where the devices are arranged, having a plurality of recording liquid supply ports for supplying recording liquid to the devices; and a supporting member that holds and fixes the recording element base plate. For the supporting member, a plurality of recording liquid supply paths are arranged to supply recording liquid to the supply ports of the recording element base plate, respectively, and the width of the supply paths is formed to be smaller than the opening width of the inlet portions of the supply ports. Further, stepped portions created between the respective supply paths and supply ports are buried by a bonding agent forced out from the bonding face of the recording element base plate and the supporting member.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2003Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kyota Miyazaki, Toshiaki Hirosawa, Osamu Morita, Osamu Sato, Kenta Udagawa, Shuzo Iwanaga
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Publication number: 20050049112Abstract: A shift shock reduction system comprises a first section that causes an engine to produce a normal engine torque in accordance with an existing operation condition of a vehicle; a second section that changes an output rotation of the engine to an output rotation of an automatic transmission in accordance with an existing gear ratio derived from a rate between a rotation speed of an input member of the transmission and that of an output member of the same; a third section that corrects the engine torque upon sensing start of a shift shock reduction operation; a fourth section that detects completion of the correction of the engine torque; and a fifth section that returns the corrected engine torque to the normal engine torque upon sensing the completion of the engine torque correction. The fourth section detects the completion of the engine torque correction by making reference to a change rate per time of the existing gear ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2004Publication date: March 3, 2005Inventors: Kenichiro Murakami, Hiroyuki Takenaka, Osamu Sato
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Patent number: 6844963Abstract: The present invention provides various embodiments of a double-resonance-absorption microscope which realizes a super-resolution by using double resonance absorption. In particular, a double-resonance-absorption microscope includes a light source for a pump light of a wavelength ?1 which excites a sample molecule to a first electronic excited state from a ground state, a light source for an erase light of a wavelength ?2 which excites the sample molecule to a second electronic excited state or a higher excited state from the first electronic excited state, and an overlap component for partially overlapping irradiating areas of the pump light and the erase light with each other. An emission area upon deexcitation of the sample molecule to the ground state from the first electronic excited state is partially inhibited by irradiating the pump light and the erase light through the overlap means.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2001Date of Patent: January 18, 2005Assignees: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Japan Science and Technology AgencyInventors: Yoshinori Iketaki, Mashaaki Fujii, Takeshige Omatsu, Osamu Sato, Kimiyoshi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20040252143Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit for effecting recording on a recording medium, and a conveying unit for conveying the recording medium. The recording apparatus further includes a power input terminal adapted to be switched ON/OFF by the ignition key switch of an automobile, and a controller for executing the operation sequence of the recording apparatus in accordance with the ON/OFF state of the power input terminal. In addition, a method of controlling the above-described recording apparatus includes executing the operation sequence of the recording apparatus in accordance with the ON/OFF state of the power input terminal switched ON/OFF by the ignition key switch of an automobile.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Nojima, Osamu Sato, Atsuhiro Tsuchiya, Akio Kato, Masahiko Kubota, Koichi Kuno, Hiroyuki Tamaki, Taku Higashiyama
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Patent number: 6826364Abstract: A zoom flash includes a light emitter, a zoom driver which moves the light emitter along an axis to vary an illumination angle, a detecting device which detects a zoom position of the light emitter, a calculation device which calculates a pre-flash emission level according to the detected zoom position so that illuminance on an object at a predetermined distance is substantially constant regardless of a variation of the illumination angle, and a control device which activates the light emitter to emit a preliminary flash emission, before a main flash emission, by supplying a voltage corresponding to the pre-flash emission level for the light emitter. A flash photography system is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2001Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: PENTAX CorporationInventors: Masahiro Kawasaki, Osamu Sato, Shigeru Iwamoto, Tadahisa Ohkura, Kazuhito Taneoka
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Publication number: 20040224541Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for forming a solder wicking prevention zone operating when a connector member with a connector is processed using molten solder, to hinder the solder from spreading to a contact site of the connector in a wettable manner. The apparatus includes a main forming agent tank which stores a main forming agent used to form the solder wicking prevention zone, an ejection nozzle which ejects the main forming agent stored in the main forming agent tank, and a direction control section which controls an ejection direction of the main forming agent ejected by the ejection nozzle. The direction control section controls the ejection direction of the main forming agent ejected by the ejection nozzle, so as to apply the main forming agent to a predetermined position on the connector member to form the solder wicking prevention zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2004Publication date: November 11, 2004Applicants: MURATA CO., LTD., Morimura Bros., Inc.Inventors: Kazuhiko Kato, Satoshi Yanagida, Osamu Sato, Mineo Kondo
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Publication number: 20040199030Abstract: The present invention provides a method for the production of a high-temperature high-pressure fluid which can be caused to reach specified conditions in a short time, a high-temperature high-pressure reaction method, and a reaction system for the same, and the present invention comprises a method for the production of a high-temperature high-pressure fluid in which the reactants can be caused to reach a prescribed temperature in 5 seconds or less by mixing two or more high-pressure fluids at different temperatures in a flow system, a high-temperature high-pressure reaction method which utilizes this production method of a high-temperature high-pressure fluid, and which reduces the temperature elevation time to the prescribed reaction temperature to 5 seconds or less by mixing a carrier fluid at a temperature higher than the prescribed reaction temperature with substrate solution(s) at a temperature of 100° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2004Publication date: October 7, 2004Inventors: Kiyotaka Hatakeda, Osamu Sato, Yutaka Ikushima, Kazuo Torii
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Patent number: 6789863Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit for effecting recording on a recording medium, and a conveying unit for conveying the recording medium. The recording apparatus further includes a power input terminal adapted to be switched ON/OFF by the ignition key switch of an automobile, and a controller for executing the operation sequence of the recording apparatus in accordance with the ON/OFF state of the power input terminal. In addition, a method of controlling the above-described recording apparatus includes executing the operation sequence of the recording apparatus in accordance with the ON/OFF state of the power input terminal switched ON/OFF by the ignition key switch of an automobile.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2001Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Nojima, Osamu Sato, Atsuhiro Tsuchiya, Akio Kato, Masahiko Kubota, Koichi Kuno, Hiroyuki Tamaki, Taku Higashiyama