Patents by Inventor Satoshi Kitao

Satoshi Kitao 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: 20240113485
    Abstract: A rotary connector device includes a stator, a rotator, an electrical cable, an electrical connector, and a connector coupling portion. The stator includes a first stator and a second stator. The connector coupling portion is configured to couple the electrical connector to the first stator. The connector coupling portion is configured to support the electrical connector in a cantilever manner with respect to the first stator such that a second surface becomes a free end in a state where the electrical connector is positioned in a first position and where the second stator is detached from the first stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi KITAO, Tomohiro KITAMURA, Kenji YOSHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11909149
    Abstract: A rotary connector device includes a fixed body, a rotation body, and a connector. The rotation body is rotatable about a rotation axis with respect to the fixed body. The connector includes a cover, a conductor, and a holding member. The cover includes a first wall and a space therein. The first wall extends from the rotation body in an axial direction substantially parallel to the rotation axis. The holding member is attached to the cover in the space and holds the conductor. The holding member includes, in the first wall, an exposed portion exposed to an outside of the space. The cover and the holding member include a restriction structure to restrict foreign matter from entering the space through the exposed portion. The restriction structure includes a first protrusion that protrudes in a direction substantially orthogonal to the first wall and a first recess in which the first protrusion is fitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kitao, Shingo Nambu, Kenji Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20230170656
    Abstract: A rotary connector device includes a first case, a second case, an electrical cable, and a stopper structure. The stopper structure includes a movable member, a rotation restricting portion, and a guide portion. The movable member is movable relative to the second case between a first radial position and a second radial position in a radial direction. The rotation restricting portion is provided at the first case and contactable with the movable member in a circumferential direction to restrict a relative rotation of the first case and the second case in a state where the movable member is at the second radial position. The guide portion is provided at the first case and contactable with the movable member to guide the movable member toward the first radial position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Masaya ARAKI, Satoshi KITAO
  • Patent number: 11444422
    Abstract: A rotary connector device includes a fixed body and a rotation body. The fixed body includes an internal space. The rotation body is rotatably assembled to the fixed body about a rotational axis with respect to the fixed body. The fixed body includes an inserted portion into which a fixing tool is to be inserted to restrict the fixed body and the rotation body from rotating relative to each other. The inserted portion includes an inner space isolated from the internal space of the fixed body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kitao, Shingo Nambu, Kenji Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11196225
    Abstract: A rotary connector device includes a fixed body, a rotation body, and an inhibiting structure. The fixed body includes a first fixed body portion and a second fixed body portion disposed facing each other with a space being defined between the first fixed body portion and the second fixed body portion. The first fixed body portion and the second fixed body portion are coupled at a coupling portion. The rotation body rotatably is assembled to the fixed body. The inhibiting structure is configured to inhibit foreign matter from entering the space through the coupling portion. The coupling portion is exposed to an outer surface of the fixed body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Fujimoto, Satoshi Kitao, Shingo Nambu, Kenji Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20210091525
    Abstract: A rotary connector device includes a fixed body and a rotation body. The fixed body includes an internal space. The rotation body is rotatably assembled to the fixed body about a rotational axis with respect to the fixed body. The fixed body includes an inserted portion into which a fixing tool is to be inserted to restrict the fixed body and the rotation body from rotating relative to each other. The inserted portion includes an inner space isolated from the internal space of the fixed body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi KITAO, Shingo NAMBU, Kenji YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210066872
    Abstract: A rotary connector device includes a fixed body, a rotation body, and a connector. The rotation body is rotatable about a rotation axis with respect to the fixed body. The connector includes a cover, a conductor, and a holding member. The cover includes a first wall and a space therein. The first wall extends from the rotation body in an axial direction substantially parallel to the rotation axis. The holding member is attached to the cover in the space and holds the conductor. The holding member includes, in the first wall, an exposed portion exposed to an outside of the space. The cover and the holding member include a restriction structure to restrict foreign matter from entering the space through the exposed portion. The restriction structure includes a first protrusion that protrudes in a direction substantially orthogonal to the first wall and a first recess in which the first protrusion is fitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi KITAO, Shingo NAMBU, Kenji YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210006022
    Abstract: A rotary connector device includes a fixed body, a rotation body, and an inhibiting structure. The fixed body includes a first fixed body portion and a second fixed body portion disposed facing each other with a space being defined between the first fixed body portion and the second fixed body portion. The first fixed body portion and the second fixed body portion are coupled at a coupling portion. The rotation body rotatably is assembled to the fixed body. The inhibiting structure is configured to inhibit foreign matter from entering the space through the coupling portion. The coupling portion is exposed to an outer surface of the fixed body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki FUJIMOTO, Satoshi KITAO, Shingo NAMBU, Kenji YOSHIMURA
  • Patent number: 8189143
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is divided into a plurality of regions and a plurality of regions extending in respective striped shapes. The plurality of regions and the plurality of regions are arranged so as to alternately align. A plurality of sub-pixels are assigned to a first group and a second group, three sub-pixels of the first group constitute a pixel, and three sub-pixels of the second group constitute a pixel. Each pair of regions adjacent to each other constitutes each set, and parallax barriers are formed in a portion on a black matrix between adjacent sets and portions on the black matrix on outer sides of the regions positioned at ends, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Machidori, Satoshi Kitao
  • Publication number: 20090279025
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is divided into a plurality of regions and a plurality of regions extending in respective striped shapes. The plurality of regions and the plurality of regions are arranged so as to alternately align. A plurality of sub-pixels are assigned to a first group and a second group, three sub-pixels of the first group constitute a pixel, and three sub-pixels of the second group constitute a pixel. Each pair of regions adjacent to each other constitutes each set, and parallax barriers are formed in a portion on a black matrix between adjacent sets and portions on the black matrix on outer sides of the regions positioned at ends, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Machidori, Satoshi Kitao
  • Publication number: 20090058778
    Abstract: An image display device gives a difference in luminance between subframes when dividing a frame into the subframes. Further, a magnification to be applied to one of an R signal, a G signal, and a B signal having the maxim signal level is also applied to the other signals. Thus, an image display device causing no color deviation between the subframes can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Kitao
  • Patent number: 6904917
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a unit which forms burn control agent coated regions on a web of a wrapping paper transferred by a wrapping paper transfer unit at a plurality of positions separated from each other in the longitudinal or in the width direction of the web, a unit which supplies chopped tobacco leaves to the wrapping paper after formation of the coated regions, a roll-up unit which rolls up the wrapping paper on which the chopped tobacco leaves are supplied, and a cigarette cutting unit which cuts the rolled-up wrapping paper together with the chopped tobacco leaves in a predetermined length of the cigarette in the longitudinal direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kitao, Keigo Miura, Sadayoshi Matsuura, Fumio Sashide, Tsuyoshi Futamura
  • Patent number: 6848449
    Abstract: A smoking article is manufactured through supplying a tobacco filler material onto a tobacco wrapping paper sheet that is transferred, wrapping the tobacco filler material supplied onto the tobacco wrapping paper sheet with the tobacco wrapping paper sheet so as to prepare a rod body, and cutting the rod body into a plurality of tobacco rods each having a prescribed length. The tobacco filler material contains at least 20% by weight of expanded tobacco material. The tobacco wrapping paper sheet is coated with the burn adjusting agent during transfer of the tobacco wrapping paper sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kitao, Keigo Miura, Takaaki Matsufuji, Takeo Tsutsumi, Fumio Sashide, Sadayoshi Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20030150466
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a unit which forms burn control agent coated regions on a web of a wrapping paper transferred by a wrapping paper transfer unit at a plurality of positions separated from each other in the longitudinal or in the width direction of the web, a unit which supplies chopped tobacco leaves to the wrapping paper after formation of the coated regions, a roll-up unit which rolls up the wrapping paper on which the chopped tobacco leaves are supplied, and a cigarette cutting unit which cuts the rolled-up wrapping paper together with the chopped tobacco leaves in a predetermined length of the cigarette in the longitudinal direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Satoshi Kitao, Keigo Miura, Sadayoshi Matsuura, Fumio Sashide, Tsuyoshi Futamura
  • Publication number: 20030145869
    Abstract: A smoking article is manufactured through supplying a tobacco filler material onto a tobacco wrapping paper sheet that is transferred, wrapping the tobacco filler material supplied onto the tobacco wrapping paper sheet with the tobacco wrapping paper sheet so as to prepare a rod body, and cutting the rod body into a plurality of tobacco rods each having a prescribed length. The tobacco filler material contains at least 20% by weight of expanded tobacco material. The tobacco wrapping paper sheet is coated with the burn adjusting agent during transfer of the tobacco wrapping paper sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventors: Satoshi Kitao, Keigo Miura, Takaaki Matsufuji, Takeo Tsutsumi, Fumio Sashide, Sadayoshi Matsuura
  • Patent number: 6060597
    Abstract: A cyclic oligosaccharide or salts thereof comprising glucoses bound cyclically via .alpha.-1,6-linkages and having at least one S-oxo acid group bound, and ana gent for preventing or treating retroviral diseases which comprises said cyclic oligosaccharide or salts thereof as an active ingredient. The novel sulfated cyclic isomaltoligosaccharide inhibits infection of host cells with various retroviruses such as AIDS virus etc. so effectively that it has a significant preventive and therapeutic effect on diseases caused by retroviruses. Accordingly, said oligosaccharide can be utilized as an agent for preventing or treating retroviral diseases in pharmaceutical industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignees: Kikkoman Corporation, Noda Institute for Scientific Research
    Inventors: Koichiro Tobe, Makoto Saito, Shoichi Tokutake, Satoshi Kitao, Tetsuya Oguma, Kahee Fujita
  • Patent number: 5877747
    Abstract: A remote control system with a pointing device which can control the computer itself also by the pointing device as well as by the key input device.The remote controller comprising a key input device, a pointing device, a first controller which is provided for encoding a key code (KC) signal to a remote control signal, a second controller provided for encoding a pointer control (PC) signal to a remote control signal, an output device outputs the remote control (RC) signal, and said receiver comprising a receive device for receiving the RC signal, a third controller outputs a control signal for controlling a computer a fourth controller outputs a coordinate signal for moving a pointer on a computer display, a first decoder decodes the RC signal to the KC signal and outputs the KC signal to the third controller, and a second decoder decodes said RC signal to the PC signal and outputs the PC signal to the fourth controller and also the third controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kitao, Youichi Ishibashi, Takayuki Kimoto
  • Patent number: 5325014
    Abstract: Both side walls in a periodic magnetic lens device which are arranged in parallel with a planar fluorescent display surface and which define therebetween electron beam paths for guiding electron beams are formed in a shape which is concave-curved, and accordingly, the guide paths have a cross-sectional shape which is substantially rotationally symmetric in order to increase the possible travel distance of an electron beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Murai, Kinzo Nonomura, Jumpei Hashiguchi, Satoshi Kitao
  • Patent number: 5289078
    Abstract: An electron source includes: linear thermionic cathodes for emitting electron beams; an electron beam lead-out electrode which is disposed substantially in a parallel relationship with the linear thermionic cathodes and is formed with apertures for passing the electron beams therethrough; and a plurality of support members for supporting the linear thermionic cathodes each of which has a contact portion held in contact with at least a portion of the linear thermionic cathodes; wherein each of the apertures of the elctron beam lead-out electrodes is disposed so as to confront the contact portion of the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kitao, Kinzo Nonomura, Jumpei Hashiguchi, Ryuichi Murai
  • Patent number: 5270617
    Abstract: In a planar type display device, deterioration of the picture quality caused by distortion of laminated electrodes due to temperature rise in use is prevented by laminating the electrodes having such a structure that each electrode plate is free from expansion and contract by thermal expansion. Securing means spacers 23 thicker slightly than electrode plates are inserted in holes of the electrode plates 21a to 21e, securing means pin 24 is passed therethrough holding electrode plate spacers 22 therebetween, forming laminated electrode group 5. Since the respective electrode plates have slight gaps in a thickness direction and the electrode plates are free from expansion and contraction and do not distorted at the time of thermal expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kinzo Nonomura, Kiyoshi Hamada, Jumpei Hashiguchi, Ryuichi Murai, Satoshi Kitao