Patents by Inventor Satoshi Kawaguchi

Satoshi Kawaguchi 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: 20170158587
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing a hydrofluoroolefin, wherein formation of an over-reduced product having hydrogen added to a material chlorofluoroolefin and an over-reduced product having not only chlorine atoms but also fluorine atoms in the chlorofluoroolefin replaced with hydrogen atoms, as by-products, is suppressed. A method for producing a hydrofluoroolefin, which comprises reacting a specific chlorofluoroolefin with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst supported on a carrier, to obtain a specific hydrofluoroolefin, wherein the catalyst is a catalyst composed of an alloy containing at least one platinum group element selected from the group consisting of palladium and platinum, and at least one second element selected from the group consisting of manganese, copper, aluminum, gold, lithium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, silver, zinc, cadmium, indium, silicon, germanium, tin, lead, arsenic, antimony and bismuth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY,LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinji TERAZONO, Xu WANG, Masahiro KANDA, Satoshi KAWAGUCHI, Mitsuga KASAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9662583
    Abstract: Provided are a portable game device and a method of controlling the portable game device capable of making improved use of an image generated by image pickup unit. A pickup object image generating unit (52) picks up an image of a pickup object and generates a pickup object image. A pickup object distance measuring unit (54) measures a distance to the pickup object. An information processing execution unit (56) executes information processing based on the pickup object image and the distance measured by the pickup object distance measuring unit (54).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawaguchi, Akihiko Sugawara, Toshiyuki Hiroi, Koji Kageyama
  • Publication number: 20170144949
    Abstract: A method for producing a hydrofluoroolefin, which comprises reacting a chlorofluoroolefin represented by the following formula (1) with hydrogen in the presence of a platinum group metal catalyst supported on a carbon carrier, to obtain a hydrofluoroolefin represented by the following formula (2), wherein the carbon carrier has acidic functional groups, and the total acidic functional group amount in the carbon carrier is at most 50 ?mol/g: CZX?CClY ??(1) wherein X is F or Cl, Y is F, Cl or H, and Z is F or CF3; CZX??CHY???(2) wherein X? is F when X is F, or X? is H when X is Cl, Y? is F when Y is F, or Y? is H when Y is Cl or H, and Z is the same as Z in the formula (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Xu WANG, Shinji TERAZONO, Masahiro KANDA, Satoshi KAWAGUCHI, Mitsugu KASAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9655295
    Abstract: A feeder installing attachment includes: a main body portion including attachment side fitting parts provided on a lower surface thereof and having an installing compatibility with first feeder side fitting parts provided on a lower surface of a first tape feeder; and second feeder installing slots formed on an upper surface of the main body portion and engaging with second feeder side fitting parts provided on a lower surface of a second tape feeder having a standard width smaller than that of the first tape feeder. In a state where the attachment is mounted, an array pitch of the second feeder installing slots is smaller than an array pitch of the base side installing slots, and becomes an array pitch corresponding to the standard width of the second tape feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawaguchi, Shigekazu Yoneyama, Tatsuo Yamamura, Kazunori Kanai
  • Patent number: 9611115
    Abstract: A tape feeder includes: a feeder bottom support that rotatably holds a sprocket; and a tape presser mechanism that presses a carrier tape toward the feeder bottom support. The tape presser mechanism includes a tape presser that is at one end pivotally supported by the feeder bottom support and swingable to the feeder bottom support and that presses the carrier tape toward the sprocket while situated at a close position where the tape presser is closed to the feeder bottom support, and a tape presser operation member that is swingably attached to the feeder bottom support and that swings between a fixed position where the tape presser operation member presses the other end of the tape presser toward the feeder bottom support and an unfixed position where the other end of the tape feeder is released from pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawaguchi, Tatsuo Yamamura, Shigeru Matsukawa
  • Publication number: 20170058171
    Abstract: To provide a working fluid for heat cycle which can be used as an alternative to R410A, which has a small composition change, which has a small temperature glide and which is excellent in the cycle performance (capacity), a composition for a heat cycle system, and a heat cycle system employing the composition. A working fluid for heat cycle containing an azeotropic-like composition consisting of HFO-1132(E) and HFC-32 and/or HFC-125.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masato FUKUSHIMA, Satoshi KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160369145
    Abstract: A working fluid for heat cycle which has a low global warming potential and which has self-decomposition property suppressed, a composition for a heat cycle system comprising it, and a heat cycle system employing the composition. A working fluid for heat cycle, which contains trifluoroethylene and 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, wherein the proportion of the total amount of trifluoroethylene and 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene based on the entire amount of the working fluid is higher than 90 mass % and at most 100 mass %, and the proportion of trifluoroethylene based on the total amount of trifluoroethylene and 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene is at least 21 mass % and at most 39 mass %, a composition for a heat cycle system, which comprises the working fluid for heat cycle, and a heat cycle system, which employs the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Masato FUKUSHIMA, Satoshi KAWAGUCHI, Katsuya UENO, Toshiyuki TANAKA, Hidekazu OKAMOTO, Tetsuo OTSUKA, Yoshinobu KADOWAKI, Tatsuhiro NOGAMI
  • Publication number: 20160347979
    Abstract: To provide a working fluid for heat cycle which has a small temperature glide, a sufficiently low discharge temperature, high durability and less influence over global warming, and with which a heat cycle system excellent in the system maintenance properties and the cycle performance (capacity) is achieved, a composition for a heat cycle system, and a heat cycle system. A working fluid for heat cycle, which contains trifluoroethylene and difluoromethane, wherein the proportion of the total amount of trifluoroethylene and difluoromethane based on the entire amount of the working fluid for heat cycle is higher than 90 mass % and at most 100 mass %, and the mass ratio represented by trifluoroethylene/difluoromethane in the working fluid for heat cycle is from 41/59 to 59/41, a composition for a heat cycle system, and a heat cycle system employing the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hidekazu OKAMOTO, Masato Fukushima, Satoshi Kawaguchi, Yoshinobu Kadowaki, Tetsuo Otsuka, Katsuya Ueno, Kazuyoshi Kurashima
  • Publication number: 20160347693
    Abstract: To provide a method for purifying trifluoroethylene, by which from a fluid containing trifluoroethylene, a C1-5 alkane or alkene (excluding trifluoroethylene) in which at least one hydrogen atom may be substituted with a chlorine atom or a fluorine atom can be efficiently removed, and a method for producing trifluoroethylene by which trifluoroethylene can be efficiently produced. A fluid containing trifluoroethylene is brought into contact with at least one type of synthetic zeolite selected from synthetic zeolites 3A, 4A and 5A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Masato FUKUSHIMA, Satoshi KAWAGUCHI, Maki SHIGEMATSU, Yoshinobu KADOWAKI, Yukio TANAAMI
  • Publication number: 20160340565
    Abstract: To provide a working fluid for heat cycle, which has less influence over the ozone layer and has less influence over global warming, and which has favorable cycle performance. A working fluid for heat cycle, which contains trifluoroethylene and difluoroethylene, wherein the proportion of the content of difluoroethylene is less than 1.5 mass % based on the working fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Mai TASAKA, Masato Fukushima, Satoshi Kawaguchi, Tomoaki Taniguchi, Yu Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20160333243
    Abstract: To provide a working fluid which has cycle performance sufficient as an alternative to R410A while the influence over global warming is sufficiently suppressed, which does not significantly increase the load to an apparatus as compared with a case where R410A is used, and which can be stably used continuously without any special measures, a composition for a heat cycle system comprising the working fluid, and a heat cycle system employing the composition. A working fluid for heat cycle, wherein the global warming potential is less than 300; the product of the relative coefficient of performance and the relative refrigerating capacity is at least 0.820 relative to R410A in a standard refrigerating cycle under conditions of an evaporation temperature of 0° C., a condensing temperature of 40° C., a supercoiling degree of 5° C. and a degree of superheat of 5° C.; the relative compressor discharge gas pressure is at most 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masato FUKUSHIMA, Hiroaki MITSUOKA, Mai TASAKA, Satoshi KAWAGUCHI, Katsuya UENO, Toshiyuki TANAKA, Hidekazu OKAMOTO, Tetsuo OTSUKA, Yoshinobu KADOWAKI, Tatsuhiro NOGAMI, Daisuke SHIRAKAWA, Hirokazu TAKAGI, Takeaki ARAI
  • Publication number: 20160333242
    Abstract: To provide a method for stably and efficiently producing a working fluid which has less influence over global warming and which can be stably used by a usual operation even though it contains trifluoroethylene (HFO-1123) excellent in the cycle performance. A method for producing a working fluid containing HFO-1123 in a proportion of at most 70 mol %, which comprises mixing a first component containing HFO-1123 in a proportion of higher than 70 mol % stored in a first container, and a second component having no self-decomposition property stored in a second container, by supplying the first component to the second container, by supplying the second component to the first container, or by supplying both the first component and the second component to a separate third container, respectively under the predetermined conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masato FUKUSHIMA, Satoshi Kawaguchi, Mai Tasaka, Katsuya Ueno
  • Patent number: 9457977
    Abstract: A gear unit 40 includes: a sprocket 32 including pins 31 provided on a periphery thereof and a final gear 42; and one or more transmission gears disposed between a drive motor 33 and the final gear 42. The pins 31 engage with feed holes provided at equal pitches in a carrier tape. A sensor 48 which detects an angle is provided to face a transmission gear, of the one or more transmission gears, of which a rotation ratio to the final gear 42 is 1:N (N is a positive integer).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: PANASONIC CORPORATION, NIDEC COPAL ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawaguchi, Shigekazu Yoneyama, Tatsuo Yamamura, Kazunori Kanai, Yuuki Nakada, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Toshiaki Numata
  • Patent number: 9260499
    Abstract: Disclosed is a peptide consisting of the identical amino acid sequence or a substantially identical amino acid sequence to the amino acid sequence depicted in SEQ ID NO:4, wherein the peptide binds to an HLA antigen and is recognized by cytotoxic T cells. The peptide of the present invention can be used in vivo or in vitro as an agent for inducing CTL, that is, cancer vaccine, and exerts therapeutic or ameliorating effects on tumors such as osteosarcoma, renal cancer, and others. The peptide of the present invention is also useful as a tumor marker directed to tumors such as sarcoma, renal cancer, and others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignees: SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, SUMITOMO DAINTPPON PHARMA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Sato, Tomohide Tsukahara, Satoshi Kawaguchi, Takuro Wada
  • Publication number: 20150376486
    Abstract: To provide a working fluid for heat cycle, which has less influence over the ozone layer and has less influence over global warming, and which has favorable cycle performance. A working fluid for heat cycle, which contains trifluoroethylene and difluoroethylene, in a proportion of the difluoroethylene of less than 1.5 mass % based on the working fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Mai HASHIMOTO, Masato FUKUSHIMA, Satoshi KAWAGUCHI, Tomoaki TANIGUCHI, Yu TAKEUCHI
  • Patent number: 9193649
    Abstract: There is provided a method and an apparatus for efficiently obtaining 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene with low contents of both organic impurities and water. The method for continuously purifying crude 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene containing water and one or more organic impurities, the method including using an apparatus having a distillation column with X stages (3?X, the stage closest to a column top is the first stage) and a unit for cooling and condensing a distillate; supplying the crude 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene to an m-th stage (n+1?m?X, 2?n?X?1) of the distillation column, recirculating at least part of the distillate cooled and condensed in the unit for cooling and condensing to an h-th stage (1?h?n?1) of the distillation column; and taking out a liquid phase part of an n-th stage of the distillation column to obtain a purified product of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawaguchi, Hirokazu Takagi, Masaaki Tsuzaki, Masato Fukushima, Hidekazu Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20150319892
    Abstract: A tape feeder includes: a feeder bottom support that rotatably holds a sprocket; and a tape presser mechanism that presses a carrier tape toward the feeder bottom support. The tape presser mechanism includes a tape presser that is at one end pivotally supported by the feeder bottom support and swingable to the feeder bottom support and that presses the carrier tape toward the sprocket while situated at a close position where the tape presser is closed to the feeder bottom support, and a tape presser operation member that is swingably attached to the feeder bottom support and that swings between a fixed position where the tape presser operation member presses the other end of the tape presser toward the feeder bottom support and an unfixed position where the other end of the tape feeder is released from pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawaguchi, Tatsuo Yamamura, Shigeru Matsukawa
  • Publication number: 20150305215
    Abstract: A gear unit 40 includes: a sprocket 32 including pins 31 provided on a periphery thereof and a final gear 42; and one or more transmission gears disposed between a drive motor 33 and the final gear 42. The pins 31 engage with feed holes provided at equal pitches in a carrier tape. A sensor 48 which detects an angle is provided to face a transmission gear, of the one or more transmission gears, of which a rotation ratio to the final gear 42 is 1:N (N is a positive integer).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Satoshi KAWAGUCHI, Shigekazu YONEYAMA, Tatsuo YAMAMURA, Kazunori KANAI, Yuuki NAKADA, Kiyoshi TANAKA, Toshiaki NUMATA
  • Publication number: 20150181776
    Abstract: A feeder installing attachment includes: a main body portion including attachment side fitting parts provided on a lower surface thereof and having an installing compatibility with first feeder side fitting parts provided on a lower surface of a first tape feeder; and second feeder installing slots formed on an upper surface of the main body portion and engaging with second feeder side fitting parts provided on a lower surface of a second tape feeder having a standard width smaller than that of the first tape feeder. In a state where the attachment is mounted, an array pitch of the second feeder installing slots is smaller than an array pitch of the base side installing slots, and becomes an array pitch corresponding to the standard width of the second tape feeder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawaguchi, Shigekazu Yoneyama, Tatsuo Yamamura, Kazunori Kanai
  • Publication number: 20150083845
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of tape feeders arranged in a component feed section includes a feeder storage part which stores information used in a control process by the tape feeder, a display part which displays setting information which is previously set and inputted and stored in the feeder storage part and an operation input part having a function as a display switching part which switches the setting information displayed in the display part. The setting information can be displayed in a flexible form and with a good working property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawaguchi, Shigekazu Yoneyama, Tatsuo Yamamura, Kazunori Kanai