Patents by Inventor Satoshi Koizumi
Satoshi Koizumi 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: 9200390Abstract: In a nonwoven fiber assembly which comprises a fiber comprising a thermal adhesive fiber under moisture and in which the fiber are entangled with each other, the fibers are bonded at contacting points of the fibers by melting the thermal adhesive fiber under moisture to distribute the bonded points approximately uniformly, thereby obtaining a buffer substrate. The buffer substrate may further comprises a conjugated fiber comprising a plurality of resins which are different in thermal shrinkage and form a phase separation structure, and the conjugated fibers may have an approximately uniform crimps having an average curvature radius of 20 to 200 ?m and are entangled with the fibers constituting the nonwoven fiber assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2008Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Kuraray Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoaki Kimura, Toru Ochiai, Sumito Kiyooka, Satoshi Koizumi, Kazuhiro Muraki
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Patent number: 9083194Abstract: A battery charging system includes a first battery unit for storing electric power to be supplied to a driving system of a train, and a second battery unit for storing electric power to be supplied to the first battery unit. A control unit calculates electric power consumption from the first battery unit. And a battery charging unit supplies electric power to the first battery unit from the second battery unit based on the electric power consumption calculated by the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takeru Koga, Masayuki Nogi, Hirotoshi Kawai, Satoshi Koizumi
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Publication number: 20150119360Abstract: The present invention provides a growth promoting composition capable of promoting growth of a microorganism belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium living in the intestine of mammals such as human and the like. According to the present invention, a composition for promoting growth of a microorganism belonging to the genus Bifidobacterium, comprising one or more kinds selected from the group consisting of Lacto-N-tetraose, Lacto-N-neotetraose and derivatives thereof can be provided. The aforementioned growth promoting composition is suitable for promoting growth of the aforementioned microorganism in the intestine by oral administration to, particularly, a human adult.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi
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Publication number: 20140265149Abstract: To provide a combined oil control ring with a function of preventing the separate rotation of side rails for a long period of time even under fretting fatigue, seating tabs of a spacer expander are provided with substantially longitudinal projections and recesses on their side-rail-pushing surfaces in a circumferential direction, the width m of a bottom surface being larger than the circumferential length m? of the top surface in each projection, and a surface connecting the top surface to a recess surface having a bulging shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2012Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA RIKENInventors: Masahiro Nakazawa, Tadahiko Watanabe, Satoshi Koizumi
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Patent number: 8836161Abstract: A breaker 162 is opened when a pantograph 101 is lowered. The pantograph 101 is connected to an overhead wire 200. Voltage and its phase of the overhead wire are detected by a detector 161. Power is supplied from a power storage device 150c to a tertiary winding 112c via a power converter 14c such that a primary side of the main transformer 110 has the same voltage and phase as the overhead wire so as to reversely excite the main transformer 110. When the voltage of the main transformer 110 has the same phase as the voltage of the overhead wire 200, the breaker 162 is turned on and then the pantograph 101 is raised, to connect the overhead wire 200 and the main transformer 110 to each other, thereby preventing the occurrence of an excitation inrush current to the main transformer 110.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2010Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masayuki Nogi, Katsuhisa Inagaki, Kazuaki Yuuki, Yosuke Nakazawa, Satoshi Koizumi
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Publication number: 20140070770Abstract: Frequent charging/discharging to an electric energy storage element is suppressed for energy saving and longer lifetime. A transmission-line-side power converter device converts power from a transmission line, and supplies DC power to a feeder line connected to an electric energy storage element. An output current controller connected with a line voltage detector detects the feeder line voltage, and a charging rate detector detects a charging rate of the electric energy storage element. A control table sets charging/discharging start voltages and current saturated voltages based on the detected line voltage and charging rate. The output current controller controls the electric energy storage element to discharge at a high line voltage as the charging rate increase, to suppress charging the electric energy storage element at the low line voltage, and makes discharging difficult at the low line voltage to facilitate charging at the low line voltage as the charging rate decreases.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2012Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masayuki Nogi, Ryo Takagi, Koji Ootsuji, Mitsuhiko Matsui, Satoshi Koizumi
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Patent number: 8631900Abstract: A sound insulation floor structure comprises a floor backing member, a floor finishing layer, and an intermediate layer between the floor backing member and the floor finishing layer, the intermediate layer comprising a buffer member comprising a nonwoven structure. The nonwoven structure comprises a thermal adhesive fiber under moisture which is melt-bonded to a fiber of the nonwoven structure to fix the fibers. For example, the sound insulation floor structure may comprise, in sequence, a floor backing member 1, a buffer layer 2, an air layer 3, a hard layer 4, and a floor finishing layer 5. In the floor structure, a support member 6 is disposed between the buffer layer 2 and the hard layer 4. The support member may occupy 10 to 70% of a floor area. The sound insulation floor structure prevents subsidence of a floor member due to walking, achieves comfortableness to walk, and has improved floor impact sound insulation.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2011Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Kuraray Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noboru Miyake, Masahiko Takamatsu, Hideki Kanezako, Kazutoshi Hirata, Kohei Hayashi, Sumito Kiyooka, Atsumi Adachi, Masaru Koike, Satoshi Koizumi
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Solid state imaging using a correction parameter for correcting a cross talk between adjacent pixels
Patent number: 8619163Abstract: An image processing apparatus, for correcting a cross talk between adjacent pixels, includes: a memory unit for storing a correction parameter for reducing a cross talk signal leaked to an object pixel from an adjacent pixel, the correction parameter corresponding to a position of the object pixel; and a correcting unit for subtracting, based on the correction parameter stored in the memory unit, the cross talk signal from a pixel signal of the solid-state imaging apparatus correspondingly to a position of the pixel, wherein a number of the object pixel is at least two, and the at least two object pixels have different addresses in a horizontal direction, and different addresses in a vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Ogura, Toru Koizumi, Satoshi Koizumi -
Patent number: 8543275Abstract: A control device for an electric motor car comprising: a switch which is installed between a power supply source and a power line drawn through the electric motor car; a battery which supplies power to a main motor of the electric motor car; a step-up unit, which is installed between the power line and the battery, configured to increase a voltage; and a control unit which breaks a connection between the power supply source and the power line using the switch when braking the electric motor car, increases the power supplied from the battery using the step-up unit, and performs regenerative braking in the main motor to which the increased power is supplied.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takeru Koga, Masayuki Nogi, Hirotoshi Kawai, Satoshi Koizumi
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Publication number: 20130245868Abstract: A control device for an electric motor car comprising: a switch which is installed between a power supply source and a power line drawn through the electric motor car; a battery which supplies power to a main motor of the electric motor car; a step-up unit, which is installed between the power line and the battery, configured to increase a voltage; and a control unit which breaks a connection between the power supply source and the power line using the switch when braking the electric motor car, increases the power supplied from the battery using the step-up unit, and performs regenerative braking in the main motor to which the increased power is supplied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2012Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takeru KOGA, Masayuki Nogi, Hirotoshi Kawai, Satoshi Koizumi
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Patent number: 8529696Abstract: A method for producing hexagonal boron nitride single crystals including mixing boron nitride crystals with a solvent thereby obtaining a mixture, heating and melting the mixture under high-temperature and high-pressure thereby obtaining a melted mixture, and recrystallizing the melted mixture thereby producing hexagonal boron nitride single crystals, wherein the solvent is boronitride of alkaline earth metal, or boronitride of alkali metal and the boronitride of alkaline earth metal.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: National Institute for Materials ScienceInventors: Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Satoshi Koizumi, Hisao Kanda, Masayuki Katagiri, Takatoshi Yamada, Nesladek Milos
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Patent number: 8477221Abstract: An image sensing system comprises an image sensor having an image sensing surface, a filter arranged between the image sensing surface and an optical system which forms an image of an object on the image sensing surface, a sensor configured to detect a luminance of the object in a band in the vicinity of a cutoff wavelength of the filter relative to an average luminance of the object via the optical system, and a corrector configured to execute color shading correction of the image, sensed by the image sensor, using a color shading correction coefficient determined by the relative luminance detected by the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2010Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Satoshi Koizumi
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Patent number: 8435763Abstract: This invention relates to a process for producing a sugar nucleotide, in which a) a culture broth of a microorganism capable of producing NTP from a nucleotide precursor, or a treated product of the culture broth, and b) a culture broth of a microorganism capable of producing a sugar nucleotide from a sugar and NTP, or a treated product of the culture broth, are used as enzyme sources; a process for producing a complex carbohydrate, in which the above-described a) and b) and c) a culture broth of a microorganism, an animal cell or an insect cell capable of producing a complex carbohydrate from a sugar nucleotide and a complex carbohydrate precursor, or a treated product of the culture broth, are used as enzyme sources; a process for producing a complex carbohydrate, in which a culture broth of a microorganism, an animal cell or an insect cell capable of producing a complex carbohydrate from a sugar nucleotide and a complex carbohydrate precursor, or a treated product of the culture broth, is as an enzyme sourType: GrantFiled: September 14, 2004Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Bio Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Koizumi, Katsutoshi Sasaki, Tetsuo Endo, Kazuhiko Tabata, Akio Ozaki
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Publication number: 20130049458Abstract: A battery charging system includes a first battery unit for storing electric power to be supplied to a driving system of a train, and a second battery unit for storing electric power to be supplied to the first battery unit. A control unit calculates electric power consumption from the first battery unit. And a battery charging unit supplies electric power to the first battery unit from the second battery unit based on the electric power consumption calculated by the control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takeru KOGA, Masayuki NOGI, Hirotoshi KAWAI, Satoshi KOIZUMI
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Publication number: 20130025965Abstract: A sound insulation floor structure comprises a floor backing member, a floor finishing layer, and an intermediate layer between the floor backing member and the floor finishing layer, the intermediate layer comprising a buffer member comprising a nonwoven structure. The nonwoven structure comprises a thermal adhesive fiber under moisture which is melt-bonded to a fiber of the nonwoven structure to fix the fibers. For example, the sound insulation floor structure may comprise, in sequence, a floor backing member 1, a buffer layer 2, an air layer 3, a hard layer 4, and a floor finishing layer 5. In the floor structure, a support member 6 is disposed between the buffer layer 2 and the hard layer 4. The support member may occupy 10 to 70% of a floor area. The sound insulation floor structure prevents subsidence of a floor member due to walking, achieves comfortableness to walk, and has improved floor impact sound insulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Noboru Miyake, Masahiko Takamatsu, Hideki Kanezako, Kazutoshi Hirata, Kohei Hayashi, Sumito Kiyooka, Atsumi Adachi, Masaru Koike, Satoshi Koizumi
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Patent number: 8338834Abstract: The diamond semiconductor device is a diamond semiconductor device where a pair of electrodes are fixed on a diamond substrate, and wherein at least one interface to the electrode on the surface of the diamond substrate has a hydrogen termination and at least the surface of the substrate between the pair of two electrodes is controlled to have a larger electric resistivity value than inside the substrate. Accordingly, a diamond semiconductor device can be realized, capable of attaining the device work stability, especially the device work stability in severe environments such as high temperature with exhibiting the function of the hydrogen termination thereof to the utmost extent.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: National Institute for Materials ScienceInventors: Tokuyuki Teraji, Satoshi Koizumi, Yasuo Koide
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Publication number: 20120291695Abstract: A method for producing hexagonal boron nitride single crystals including mixing boron nitride crystals with a solvent thereby obtaining a mixture, heating and melting the mixture under high-temperature and high-pressure thereby obtaining a melted mixture, and rectystallizing the melted mixture thereby producing hexagonal boron nitride single crystals, wherein the solvent is boronitride of alkali earth metal, or boronitride of alkali metal and the boronitride of alkali earth metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Kenji WATANABE, Takashi TANIGUCHI, Satoshi KOIZUMI, Hisao KANDA, Masayuki KATAGIRI, Takatoshi YAMADA, Nesladek MILOS
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Patent number: 8258603Abstract: A solid-state far ultraviolet light emitting element is formed by a hexagonal boron nitride single crystal, excited by electron beam irradiation to emit far ultraviolet light having a maximum light emission peak in a far ultraviolet region at a wavelength of 235 nm or shorter.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: National Institute for Materials ScienceInventors: Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Satoshi Koizumi, Hisao Kanda, Masayuki Katagiri, Takatoshi Yamada, Nesladek Milos
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Publication number: 20120000739Abstract: A breaker 162 is opened when a pantograph 101 is lowered. The pantograph 101 is connected to an overhead wire 200. Voltage and its phase of the overhead wire are detected by a detector 161. Power is supplied from a power storage device 150c to a tertiary winding 112c via a power converter 14c such that a primary side of the main transformer 110 has the same voltage and phase as the overhead wire so as to reversely excite the main transformer 110. When the voltage of the main transformer 110 has the same phase as the voltage of the overhead wire 200, the breaker 162 is turned on and then the pantograph 101 is raised, to connect the overhead wire 200 and the main transformer 110 to each other, thereby preventing the occurrence of an excitation inrush current to the main transformer 110.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2010Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masayuki Nogi, Katsuhisa Inagaki, Kazuaki Yuuki, Yosuke Nakazawa, Satoshi Koizumi
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Patent number: D660198Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Wanibuchi, Masaru Tejima, Satoshi Koizumi