Patents by Inventor Satoshi Kitamura
Satoshi Kitamura 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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Publication number: 20110216287Abstract: A video projector including a lamp cooling system that cools a light source lamp. The lamp cooling system includes an airflow deflection unit that varies the direction in which cooling air flows when a projection direction of the video projector changes. The airflow deflection unit uses gravitational force to automatically change the direction in which cooling air flows so that the cooling air is concentrated at an upper portion of the arc tube regardless of the changed video projector.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Kitamura, Shinya Noda
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Publication number: 20110164224Abstract: A video projector including a light source lamp and an optical component having a light transmission plane. A cooling system sends cooling air in parallel currents to the light transmission surface over a predetermined period after the light source lamp goes off to perform auto-cooling on the optical component. A shutter unit includes a planar shutter door that has a planar portion extending parallel to a direction the cooling air flows. The shutter door is moved parallel to the flow direction of the cooling air to open and close an optical path of the optical component. The shutter unit includes a current deflector formed integrally with the shutter door to deflect the flow of the cooling air toward the light transmission surface, and the current deflector directs the cooling air against the light transmission surface of the optical component during the auto-cooling.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2010Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yosuke Nishihata, Satoshi Kitamura
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Patent number: 7932122Abstract: A method of manufacturing a solid state image pickup device including photoelectric conversion elements which are two-dimensionally arranged in a semiconductor substrate, and a color filter having a plurality of color filter patterns differing in color from each other and disposed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate according to the photoelectric conversion elements. The method includes successively subjecting a plurality of filter layers differing in color from each other to a patterning process to form the plurality of color filter patterns. At least one color filter pattern to be formed at first among the plurality of color filter patterns is formed by dry etching, and the rest of the plurality of the color filter pattern is formed by photolithography.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2010Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keisuke Ogata, Kenzo Fukuyoshi, Tadashi Ishimatsu, Mitsuhiro Nakao, Satoshi Kitamura
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Patent number: 7883248Abstract: A bicycle illumination apparatus is provided with a plurality of light sources and a controller. The light sources include at least one light-emitting diode that emits light in accordance with an electrical output of a generator. The controller is configured to selectively control an electrical connection between the power generator and the light sources in accordance with a rotating state of the generator.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Shimano Inc.Inventor: Satoshi Kitamura
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Publication number: 20100261303Abstract: A method of manufacturing a solid state image pickup device including photoelectric conversion elements which are two-dimensionally arranged in a semiconductor substrate, and a color filter having a plurality of color filter patterns differing in color from each other and disposed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate according to the photoelectric conversion elements. The method includes successively subjecting a plurality of filter layers differing in color from each other to a patterning process to form the plurality of color filter patterns. At least one color filter pattern to be formed at first among the plurality of color filter patterns is formed by dry etching, and the rest of the plurality of the color filter pattern is formed by photolithography.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2010Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Ogata, Kenzo Fukuyoshi, Tadashi Ishimatsu, Mitsuhiro Nakao, Satoshi Kitamura
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Publication number: 20100198991Abstract: There is provided a duplexed field controller. The duplexed field controller includes: first and second control units between which a control authority is switchable; a first application clock that is updated based on a reference clock so as to define a timing of an application operation of the first control unit; a second application clock that is updated based on the reference clock so as to define a timing of an application operation of the second control unit; and an update control unit that bypasses the first update of the second application clock after switching of the control authority, if the first application clock is ahead of the second application clock when the control authority is switched from the first control unit to the second control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideharu Yajima, Satoshi Kitamura, Senji Watanabe, Masafumi Kisa, Kazushi Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Takizawa, Kuniharu Akabane, Yoshinori Kobayashi, Kenji Habaguchi, Kiyotaka Kozakai, Mitsuhiro Kurono, Hiroaki Nakajima
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Publication number: 20100199003Abstract: The field control system includes: a field device; a field controller which is connected to a control network and which executes a computation processing for controlling the field device according to a given control cycle while executing a data communication between the field controller and the field device, the field controller including a communication unit configured to execute the data communication with the field device, and a control computation unit configured to execute the computation processing independently from the communication unit; and an operation monitor which is connected to the control network and which operates and monitors the field device, the operation monitor including a network clock which provides a common network time to the control network. The control computation unit and the communication unit execute the computation processing and the data communication in synchronism with each other in accordance with a timer clock based on the network time.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Kitamura, Senji Watanabe, Hideharu Yajima, Masafumi Kisa, Kazushi Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Takizawa, Kuniharu Akabane, Yoshinori Kobayashi, Kenji Habaguchi, Kiyotaka Kozakai, Mitsuhiro Kurono, Hiroaki Nakajima
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Publication number: 20100198363Abstract: There is provided a distributed control system including a plurality of field controllers which are connected through a control network. Each of the field controllers includes: a control clock that defines a control timing of the field controller; and an adjustment unit that adjusts a control time of the control clock depending on a network time obtained through the control network.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideharu Yajima, Satoshi Kitamura, Senji Watanabe, Masafumi Kisa, Kazushi Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Takizawa, Kuniharu Akabane, Yoshinori Kobayashi, Kenji Habaguchi, Kiyotaka Kozakai, Mitsuhiro Kurono, Hiroaki Nakajima, Takeshi Hongo
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Publication number: 20100182262Abstract: In a monitoring and control device for use in a remote monitoring and control system, a device housing has a socket located behind a display panel and an external storage medium including a rewritable memory is removably mounted in the socket. The device housing is attached in an attachment hole formed in a wall in a state that the external storage medium is mounted in the socket. A control unit performs a setting operation for a graphic image displayed on the display panel and for the load control in accordance with setting information stored in the external storage medium. The external storage medium is inserted in the socket through an insertion slot formed in a side portion of the device housing, at least a portion of the insertion slot being received in the attachment hole in a state that the device housing is attached to the wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2010Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keisuke Yoshikawa, Tomoaki Sasaki, Katsuhiko Kimura, Kei Miura, Akihiro Hiroishi, Satoshi Kitamura, Yulchiro Naoi, Mototsugu Kawamata, Yuichi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20100180279Abstract: A field control device is provided. The field control device includes: a task executing unit configured to selectively and sequentially execute a control task relating to a field control and other tasks in a same control period; and a priority switching unit configured to switch a relative priority of the control task relative to the other tasks in the control period, wherein the priority is a priority of an execution sequence of tasks in the task executing unit. The priority switching unit is configured to: i) set the priority higher than a certain priority, before the control task is started; and ii) set the priority lower than the certain priority, after the control task is ended.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2010Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideharu Yajima, Satoshi Kitamura, Senji Watanabe, Masafumi Kisa, Kazushi Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Takizawa, Kuniharu Akabane, Yoshinori Kobayashi, Kenji Habaguchi, Kiyotaka Kozakai, Mitsuhiro Kurono, Hiroaki Nakajima
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Patent number: 7655834Abstract: By analyzing the causative gene of tt19 mutants and elucidating the nature of the mutants, the present inventors found a novel gene as the causative gene and gave it the name TRANSPARENT TESTA (TT19) gene. The inventors cloned this gene and analyzed its DNA nucleotide sequence as well as the protein encoded by its DNA. The inventors also provided a transformed plant utilizing the nature of the identified causative gene.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2004Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: Japan Atomic Energy Research InstituteInventors: Satoshi Kitamura, Naoya Shikazono, Atsushi Tanaka
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Patent number: 7525204Abstract: A bicycle electric power device includes a dynamo, an electrical device, a power source and a switch. The electrical device is electrically connected to the dynamo. The power source is electrically connected to the dynamo in parallel with the electrical device and configured to chargeably connect to the dynamo. The switch is connected in series with the power source and configured to controllably connect the power source to the dynamo with the dynamo producing no power of its own such that with the switch closed the dynamo is charged by the power source and with the switch opened the dynamo provides boosted voltage to the bicycle electrical device.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Shimano Inc.Inventor: Satoshi Kitamura
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Patent number: 7522033Abstract: A bicycle signal generating apparatus comprises an input unit and a signal generating unit. The input unit receives a first input signal and a second input signal, wherein the first input signal corresponds to a first operation of a bicycle device and the second input signal corresponds to a second operation of the bicycle device. The signal generating unit generates a first output signal having a first pattern from the first input signal, and the signal generating unit generates a second output signal having a second pattern from the second input signal. The first pattern is different from the second pattern.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2005Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: Shimano, Inc.Inventors: Ryuichiro Takamoto, Satoshi Kitamura, Toshikuni Suzuki
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Patent number: 7508158Abstract: A synchronous machine regulator is provided to simplify an adjustment work of current distribution to thyristors, the synchronous machine regulator having a circuit board 32 mounting a gate drive circuit 33 for supplying a gate pulse to each of thyristor bridges constituting a plurality of thyristor rectifiers 44 connected in parallel and supplying excitation current to a field winding 2 of a synchronous machine 1, and phase control means 34 for controlling a phase angle of each gate pulse to be supplied to each thyristor, wherein the current distribution to thyristors is controlled by the phase control means 34.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2006Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoichi Kato, Satoshi Kitamura
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Patent number: 7498562Abstract: In an embodiment example of the present invention, an image sensor comprises a filter used for an extraction of a specific color component of an incident light, a light receiving element which observes the incident light via the filter, a compensating filter having a transmission restraining characteristic in a visible light wavelength range and a transmission characteristic in a wavelength range on a longer wavelength out of the visible light wavelength range, and a compensating light receiving element which observes the incident light via the compensating filter for compensating an observation result by the light receiving element.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2007Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenzo Fukuyoshi, Satoshi Kitamura
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Publication number: 20090040345Abstract: A color imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate including a plurality of photoelectric transducers, and a color filter including a plurality of coloring layers provided to associate with the photoelectric transducers of the semiconductor substrate. Each of the coloring layers of the color filter including a side surface that is erected with respect to a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and an inclined surface that is continuous from an end of the side surface located in the opposite side of the semiconductor substrate toward an end portion of the coloring layer located in the opposite side of the semiconductor substrate. The coloring layers are arranged with their side surfaces being in contact with each other without a gap therebetween, and the end portion of the coloring layer has a curved surface shape protruding toward the opposite side of the corresponding photoelectric transducer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenzo Fukuyoshi, Satoshi Kitamura, Tadashi Ishimatsu
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Patent number: 7479079Abstract: A generator for a human powered vehicle comprises a hub shaft structured to be mounted to the human powered vehicle, a hub shell mounted to rotate relative to the hub shaft, a power generating mechanism including a coil and a magnet that rotate relative to each other, and a rotating member structured to rotate relative to the hub shaft, wherein at least one of the coil or the magnet rotate together with the rotating member. A transmission communicates rotation from an input member to an output member corresponding to a plurality of gear ratios, and a switching unit couples the rotating member to the transmission so that the rotating member rotates at a plurality of speeds relative to the hub shell.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2006Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: Shimano, Inc.Inventors: Kazuhiro Takeda, Satoshi Kitamura, Takumi Onogi
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Patent number: 7459857Abstract: The bicycle lighting system includes a primary lighting circuit and at least one electrically operated component connected in parallel to a rectifying circuit that receives electricity from a hub dynamo. The electrically operated component can be a supplemental lighting circuit, an electric transmission component and/or a tail lamp. The lighting system includes a rectifying circuit configured and arranged to rectify electricity generated by a hub dynamo. The primary lighting circuit has at least one first light emitting diode that is configured and arranged to always receive electricity outputted from the rectifying circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: December 2, 2008Assignee: Shimano Inc.Inventors: Satoshi Kitamura, Masayoshi Nagae
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Publication number: 20080265668Abstract: A bicycle power supply is configured to be charged by electrical power generated by a hub dynamo. The bicycle power supply has a plurality of accumulator elements, a connection switching part, a voltage detection part and a switch control part. The accumulator elements are disposed between first and second ends of the hub dynamo. The connection switching part switches between a first state and a second state, in which the accumulator elements are connected in series and parallel, respectively, to the hub dynamo. The voltage detection part detects the voltage supplied by the hub dynamo. The switch control part controls the connection switching part to establish the first state when the voltage detected by the voltage detection part is at or above a prescribed voltage, and controls the connection switching part to establish the second state when the prescribed voltage is not reached.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: SHIMANO INC.Inventor: Satoshi KITAMURA
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Patent number: 7410278Abstract: A bicycle light assembly is electrically connected to a dynamo. The bicycle light assembly has a lamp housing mountable to a portion of the bicycle. An input portion is disposed on the lamp housing and electrically connected to the dynamo for inputting a dynamo output signal and for outputting an input signal. A regulator circuit is electrically connected to the input portion for regulating the input signal to a regulated signal. A light source is electrically connected to the regulator circuit for lighting the periphery and an output portion being disposed on the lamp housing and electrically connected to the regulator circuit for outputting the regulated signal. The output portion has at least one auxiliary electrical output connector for outputting the regulated signal to at least one auxiliary electrical device electrically connected to the at least one auxiliary electrical output connector.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Shimano Inc.Inventor: Satoshi Kitamura