Patents by Inventor Shigeru Sato
Shigeru 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: 5596712Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for diagnosing and system for diagnosing and analyzing fault information of a product is carried out by (a) creating a fault tree representing causal relations between faults and causes thereof base on information of past faults and information concerning the structure and characteristics of the product, and storing the fault tree in a storage unit, the fault tree having branches allocated with weighting coefficients; (b) inputting new fault information of the product into the computer; (c) searching the fault tree in accordance with the weighting coefficients based on the fault information stored in the storage unit to thereby determine the cause of the fault; (d) generating and outputting information concerning an adjustment or repair of the product suffering from the fault based on the determined cause of the fault as well as the information concerning the structure and the characteristics of the product; (e) supplying information concerning the timing of the occurrType: GrantFiled: July 8, 1992Date of Patent: January 21, 1997Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Tsuyama, Shigeru Sato, Kayo Tsunekawa, Sadao Shimoyashiro, Toshimasa Harada, Koichi Higano, Toshio Namiki, Chikaaki Yamaguchi, Mitsuzo Morito
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Patent number: 5516062Abstract: A pressure contact cable holder comprises a plurality of first holding claws spacedly arranged in a row and a plurality of second holding claws spacedly arranged in a row in parallel relation to the first holding claws. First grooves are formed between adjacent ones of the first holding claws and are adapted to hold two cables passing therethrough, and second grooves are formed between adjacent ones of the second holding claws and are adapted to hold two cables passing therethrough. The first grooves are displaced relative to the second grooves in a direction of the row. Two cables are held by one of the first grooves and are also held by two adjacent second grooves having a common second holding claw arranged opposite the first grooves. Contact receiving ports are arranged in position in conformity with the cables and between the first grooves group and the second grooves group.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1994Date of Patent: May 14, 1996Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shigeru Sato
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Patent number: 5423696Abstract: A shield connector has a metal shell fitted onto one end of a connector body. The one end of the connector body is provided with a metal grounding piece adapted to connect the metal shell to a wiring board. The metal shell is provided with a receiving port for receiving the metal grounding piece. A short claw formed on the metal grounding piece is pressure-inserted into the receiving port in order to provide an electrical connection between the metal shell and the metal grounding piece.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1993Date of Patent: June 13, 1995Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shigeru Sato
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Patent number: 5401189Abstract: A shield connector assembly comprises an electrically insulative connector body, and an electrically conductive shielding shell fitted onto the electrically insulative connector body. The shield connector assembly further comprises two electrically conductive lock blocks having engagement elements which are to be subjected to connection with mating connectors. The lock blocks are individually attached to opposite ends of the connector body onto which the electrically conductive shielding shell is fitted, thereby surely contacting the electrically conductive lock blocks to the electrically conductive shielding shell.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1993Date of Patent: March 28, 1995Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shigeru Sato
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Patent number: 5391627Abstract: A rubber composition comprising 100 parts by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene high-saturation copolymer rubber containing 20 weight % or less of conjugated diene units, and 1-100 parts by weight of an unsaturated carboxylic acid metal salt having the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R and R' represent aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon groups or a hydrogen atom, which may be the same or different from each other, Me represents a metal selected from the group consisting of Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ti, Cr, Mo, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Ag, Zn, Cd, Hg, Al, Sn, Pb and Sb, and n is an integer of 2-4.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1993Date of Patent: February 21, 1995Assignees: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Yamashita Rubber Co., Ltd, Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Araki, Masayuki Tamura, Takahiro Naka, Nobuhiro Saito, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Takeyoshi Usui, Shigeru Sato
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Patent number: 5252924Abstract: A magnetic field generating apparatus for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus, including soft ferrite disposed adjacently to a gradient magnetic field coil which is disposed in a gap and serves to form a static magnetic field. The soft ferrite has saturated magnetic flux density (Rs) more than 0.4 T, coersive force (He) less than 50 A/m, and specific resistance .rho. more than 10.sup.-5 .OMEGA..multidot.cm. The magnetic field generating apparatus thus constructed has a magnetic circuit arrangement that a pair of permanent magnetic bodies which are disposed so as to confront each other and define the gap are magnetically connected through a yoke, and pole pieces are fixedly secured to the surfaces of the respective permanent magnetic bodies facing the gap, thereby generating the magnetic field in the gap.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 1991Date of Patent: October 12, 1993Assignees: Sumitomo Special Metals Co., Ltd., Hitachi Medical Corp.Inventors: Hideya Sakurai, Junji Uzuki, Hirotaka Takeshima, Shigeru Sato
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Patent number: 5155436Abstract: Method and apparatus of stabilizing uniformity of a static magnetic field in a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, wherein before adjustment of uniformity of the static magnetic field and before each actual imaging operation, pulse-like gradient magnetic fields are applied to a static magnetic field generating magnetic circuit at a maximum output level of power supplies for generation of gradient magnetic fields so as to magnetize the static magnetic field generating magnetic circuit to constant magnetization intensity.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 1991Date of Patent: October 13, 1992Assignee: Hitachi Medical CorporationInventors: Katsunori Suzuki, Tsuneo Maeda, Motonari Nasuhara, Shigeru Sato
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Patent number: 5139099Abstract: An excavation tool, in which a device is provided which receives the striking force of a hammer and the rotational force of a hammer cylinder, in a bottom surface of which at least three axle holes are provided displaced from a center of the device and at equivalent angular intervals in the circumferential direction, block axles are inserted in the axle holes in a freely rotatable manner, blocks which are roughly fan-shaped and have bits embedded in the lead end surfaces thereof are provided at lead end parts of the block axles, so that left- and right-side faces of said blocks are in mutual opposition and arc parts of all blocks together form roughly a circle shape; and when said device is rotated in the direction of excavation, said blocks rotate as a result of the resistance to excavation of the bottom part of the excavation hole, one intersection part of the side faces and the arc part of each block protrudes beyond the outer circumferential surface of the device by a predetermined excavation amount, andType: GrantFiled: July 26, 1991Date of Patent: August 18, 1992Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials CorporationInventors: Takeshi Hayashi, Shigeru Sato, Katsuaki Tsujimoto, Daishiro Miyazaki, Yoneo Hiwasa, Toshiki Ishimatsu, Kimiyo Wada
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Patent number: 5113954Abstract: An excavation tool, having a pair of insertion holes placed in the bottom surface of a device, which receives the impact force of a hammer and the rotational force of a hammer cylinder, at positions separated in a radial direction from the center of the device and symmetrical around this center as a center of rotation, also having block axles, one end of each of which is freely rotatably inserted into one of the insertion holes, and having blocks, which have a roughly semicircular shape with a diameter roughly equal to that of the device, into the lead end surfaces of which are set bits, and which have straight edge surfaces which are flat surfaces vertical with respect to the lead end surfaces, provided at the other end of the block axles and with the straight edge surfaces in mutual opposition; in an extended diameter state of the blocks, the blocks are moved in opposite directions along a radius of the device by rotating the blocks around the block axles, and the distance between the centers of the insertiType: GrantFiled: February 25, 1991Date of Patent: May 19, 1992Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials CorporationInventors: Takeshi Hayashi, Shigeru Sato, Katsuaki Tsujimoto, Daishiro Miyazaki, Yoneo Hiwasa, Toshiki Ishimatsu
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Patent number: 5106909Abstract: A modified polyolefin-polyester graft copolymer includes (a) 10-90 parts by weight of a polyester having an intrinsic viscosity [.eta.] of 0.30-1.20 and an end carboxyl group content of 15-200 milliequivalent/kg, and (b) 90-10 parts by weight of a modified polyolefin having 0.2-5 mol % of an epoxy group or carboxyl group content and a weight-average molecular weight of 8,000-140,000.A thermoplastic resin composition includes (a) 5-95 weight % of an aromatic polycarbonate, (b) 95-5 weight % of a polyolefin, and (c) 1-30 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of (a)+(b), of the graft copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1989Date of Patent: April 21, 1992Assignee: Tonen Sekiyukagaku Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tadahi Sezume, Shigeru Sato, Masahiro Oosawa, Yasuhiko Haraguchi, Takashi Mikami, Takeyoshi Nishio, Toshio Yokoi, Takao Nomura, Nobuya Kawamura
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Patent number: 5043199Abstract: The present invention provides a resin tablet for plastic encapsulation molding by the transfer molding process. A tablet body is obtained by compressing powdered thermosetting resin and is covered by a covering membrane. A method of manufacturing a plastic encapsulation using such a resin tablet includes exposing the surface of tablet body by breaking the covering membrane in a pot and pressing the thermosetting resin of exposed tablet body with the plunger for encapsulated molding.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1989Date of Patent: August 27, 1991Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Akihiro Kubota, Shitoshi Yoshida, Shigeru Sato, Kiyoshi Tunoda, Osamu Yamauchi
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Patent number: 5021504Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition having well-balanced properties which comprises 95-5 weight % of polycarbonate, 5-95 weight % of polyolefin and a particular combination of additional components selected from a styrene-ethylene.propylene copolymer, a styrene-ethylene. butyrene-styrene block copolymer, an AES resin, a styrene-olefin block copolymer, an unsaturated carboxylic acid-modified polyolefin, polybutylene terephthalate, a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer, an oxazoline ring-containing styrene copolymer a saponified olefin-vinyl ester copolymer and an epoxy group-containing styrene copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1988Date of Patent: June 4, 1991Assignees: Tonen Sekiyukagaku Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuuji Fujita, Tadashi Sezume, Kitsusho Kitano, Kiyotada Narukawa, Takashi Mikami, Tetsuya Kawamura, Shigeru Sato, Takeyoshi Nishio, Toshio Yokoi, Takao Nomura
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Patent number: 4938276Abstract: A molten lead alloy is supplied from a melting furnace to a casting machine through a feed pipe having a pair of ends connected with the furnace and the machine, respectively, and an intermediate portion situated at a level which is higher than the higher of the two levels of the molten alloy located adjacent to the ends, respectively, of the feed pipe by a distance exceeding the height of a column of the molten alloy which atmospheric pressure can support. An apparatus for supplying the molten alloy in such a way is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1990Date of Patent: July 3, 1990Assignee: Yuasa Battery Company LimitedInventors: Kenji Noguchi, Shigeru Sato
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Patent number: 4746386Abstract: A method of producing a continuous fiber reinforced bent resin pipe, including winding a continuous reinforcing fiber on the outer surface of a tube-like flexible core mold while such core mold is straight in shape, the flexible core mold which is straight when unloaded being capable of keeping a cross section defined in radial direction when the core mold is bent. The core mold on which the continuous fiber has been wound is then bent and placed into a cavity defined by an outer mold formed of split molds each having an inner surface forming the predetermined outer configuration of a bent pipe. A liquefied synthetic resin is caused to be cured between the outer and the core molds to integrate both the fiber and resin. Thereafter the molded product is removed from the outer mold and the core mold is removed from the molded product.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1986Date of Patent: May 24, 1988Assignee: Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Sato, Fumiko Sato, Toshihiro Ichijo
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Patent number: 4727407Abstract: In a sandwich type image sensor having a photoelectric converting portion comprising a photoelectric conductive layer interposed between an upper electrode and a lower electrode, a light-shielding means is provided for selectively covering an end portion of the photoelectric conductive layer so as to be excluded from a light-receiving area of the converting portion. Alternatively, an insulating layer partly blocking the contact between the photoelectric conductive layer and the lower electrode is provided for effectively defining the light-receiving area of the converting portion. In an example where the photoelectric is divided so that it is operable as those of a plurality of sensor elements arranged in a row, a light-shielding means is provided for defining light-receiving areas of the sensor elements, while overlapping areas of the upper and lower electrodes are adjusted for equalizing the stray capacitances of the sensor elements inclusive of their connecting portions.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1985Date of Patent: February 23, 1988Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mamoru Nobue, Sadahiro Tei, Shigeru Sato, Takashi Ozawa
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Patent number: 4720506Abstract: Phenylacetic acid derivatives of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or ##STR2## wherein R.sup.5 is an alkyl group of 1-6 carbon atoms or an aryl group; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are independently hydrogen or an alkyl group of 1-4 carbon atoms; R.sup.4 is hydrogen or an alkyl group of 1-4 carbon atoms, have been found to possess immunomodulating activity.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1987Date of Patent: January 19, 1988Assignees: Nippon Shinyaku Company, Limited, Mitsubishi Chemical Industries LimitedInventors: Hiroaki Munakata, Makio Kobayashi, Kazuo Wagatsuma, Shigeru Sato, Makoto Tsurufuji, Hiroshi Enomoto, Makoto Sugiyama, Yoshihisa Shibata, Iwao Morita
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Patent number: 4706187Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer system which can store assembly information and component information for components to be automatically inserted by an insertion machine into a printed board, which can perform required operations based upon the information stored, and which can display and output results of the processings.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1985Date of Patent: November 10, 1987Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinao Arai, Shino Takahashi, Eigo Oikawa, Shigeru Sato, Hideaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: H517Abstract: A recoil starter device for starting an internal combustion engine has a recoil case attached at its one end to a portion of the internal combustion engine and opened at its other end, a shaft having one end rotatably supported by and extended through a wall of the recoil case and the other end fixedly carrying a recoil pulley on which is wound a rope, and a recoil cover detachably secured to the recoil case so as to cover the opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 1987Date of Patent: September 6, 1988Assignee: Kioritz CorporationInventors: Shigeru Sato, Tsuneo Araki
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Patent number: D301888Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1986Date of Patent: June 27, 1989Assignee: Janome Sewing Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobufusa Kuroki, Shigeru Sato
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Patent number: D326473Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1990Date of Patent: May 26, 1992Assignee: Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Kishi, Shigeru Sato