Patents by Inventor Shinichiro Saito

Shinichiro Saito 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).

  • Patent number: 10066873
    Abstract: [Problems] A combustion gas extraction probe that is capable of preventing burnout of a head metal portion of a probe, capable of rapidly cooling a high-temperature gas in a uniform manner in a probe, and whose outer diameter can be kept small. [Means for Solving Problems] A combustion gas extraction probe (4) having a hollow-cylindrical inner tube (4a) in which a high-temperature combustion gas flows, a hollow-cylindrical outer tube (4b) surrounding the inner tube (4a), a low-temperature gas discharge hole (4c) provided in the inner tube (4a), and a low-temperature gas supply means (9) for supplying a low-temperature gas between the inner tube (4a) and the outer tube (4b) and discharging the low-temperature gas from the discharge hole (4c) into the direction that is substantially perpendicular to the sucking direction of the high-temperature combustion gas and is toward the center of the flow of said high-temperature combustion gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Taiheiyo Cement Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Saito, Takahiko Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180164558
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power; and a rear lens group which includes at least one lens unit and has a positive refractive power as a whole. Distances between the adjacent lens units change during zooming. The rear lens group includes a lens P1 that has a positive refractive power and moves at image stabilization so as to have a component perpendicular to the optical axis. The shape factor SFP1 of the lens P1, a curvature radius R1P1 of a lens surface of the lens P1 on the object side, and a curvature radius R2P1 of a lens surface of the lens P1 on the image side are appropriately determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventor: Shinichiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20180095255
    Abstract: A conversion lens having a negative refractive power includes a positive lens GP. The positive lens GP satisfies all the following conditional expressions: 30??d?40, 1.225?[nd?(14.387/?d)]?1.276, and 0.4300?[?gF?(2.9795/?d)]?0.5010, where ?d is an Abbe number of the positive lens GP, ?gF is a partial dispersion ratio of the positive lens GP for g-line and F-line, and nd is a refractive index of the positive lens GP for d-line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Shunji Iwamoto, Shinichiro Saito, Satoshi Maetaki, Takahiro Hatada, Suguru Inoue
  • Publication number: 20180095256
    Abstract: An optical system includes a negative lens satisfying the following conditional expressions: 30??d?40, 1.225?[nd?(14.387/?d)]?1.276, and 0.4300?[?gF?(2.9795/?d)]?0.5010, where ?d is an Abbe number of the negative lens, ?gF is a partial dispersion ratio of the negative lens at a g-line and an F-line, and nd is a refractive index of the negative lens at a d-line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Shunji Iwamoto, Shinichiro Saito, Satoshi Maetaki, Takahiro Hatada, Suguru Inoue
  • Publication number: 20180095254
    Abstract: An optical system includes an optical element. When the optical element is disposed on a magnification side with respect to an intersection point between an optical axis and a chief paraxial ray, the optical element is a positive lens. When the optical element is disposed on a reduction side with respect to the intersection point, the optical element is a negative lens. The optical element satisfies all of the following conditional expressions: 30??d?40 1.225?[nd?(14.387/?d)]?1.276 0.4300?[?gF?(2.9795/?d)]?0.5010 where ?d is Abbe number of the optical element, ?gF is a partial dispersion ratio of the optical element for g-line and F-line, and nd is a refractive index of the optical element for d-line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Shunji Iwamoto, Shinichiro Saito, Satoshi Maetaki, Takahiro Hatada, Suguru Inoue
  • Publication number: 20180095242
    Abstract: An optical system used in an imaging apparatus includes an optical element. In a case where the optical element is disposed on a magnification side with respect to an intersection point of an optical axis and a chief paraxial ray, the optical element is a negative lens, and in a case where the optical element is disposed on a reduction side with respect to the intersection point, the optical element is a positive lens. The optical element is configured to satisfy all of the following conditional expressions: 30??d?40 1.225?[nd?(14.387/?d)]?1.276 0.4300?[?gF?(2.9795/?d)]?0.5010, where ?d represents an Abbe number of the optical element, ?gF is a partial dispersion ratio of the optical element for g-line and F-line, and nd is a refractive index of the optical element for d-line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Shunji Iwamoto, Shinichiro Saito, Satoshi Maetaki, Takahiro Hatada, Suguru Inoue
  • Publication number: 20180000871
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition comprising: honey; bee pollen; royal jelly; and propolis, wherein the content of the honey is 70% by mass or more and less than 100% by mass relative to the whole amount of the composition; the content of the bee pollen is more than 0% by mass and 10% by mass or less in terms of solid content relative to the whole amount of the composition; the content of the royal jelly is more than 0% by mass and 10% by mass or less in terms of solid content relative to the whole amount of the composition; and the content of the propolis is more than 0% by mass and 10% by mass or less in terms of solid content relative to the whole amount of the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi ASAMA, Tomoyo KEISHI, Shinobu FUKUSHIMA, Yuka KIMURA, Tetuya SADO, Shinichiro SAITO
  • Patent number: 9180499
    Abstract: To minimize harmful effects on operation due to scale adhesion while accommodating increase in the amount of generated chlorine bypass dust and suppress facility cost and running cost including medical agent cost low when incineration ash and dust contained in extracted cement kiln combustion gas are subject to water treatment. [Means for Solving Problems] A water treatment system 1 comprising: a dissolution tank 32 for dissolving a fly ash A in a water W; a dissolution tank 22 for dissolving a dust D contained in combustion gas extracted from a kiln exhaust gas passage running from an inlet end of a cement kiln to a bottom cyclone in a water W; and a vertical filter press 11 for separately filtering a slurry S2 fed from the dissolution tank 32 and a slurry S1 fed from the dissolution tank 22 from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Taiheiyo Cement Corporation
    Inventors: Noritoshi Tamura, Shinichiro Saito, Kenzaburou Kondou
  • Patent number: 9117711
    Abstract: A solid-state image sensor includes pixel units each having a group of pixels forming a polygonal outer shape to cover an entire light receiving plane. The polygonal outer shape has at least six equilateral sides and the group of pixels includes pixels receiving light of at least four different colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Suzuki, Shinichiro Saito
  • Patent number: 9038932
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for fuelizing inflammable waste capable of efficiently fuelizing inflammable waste while reducing facility and operation costs of the overall system and maintaining stable operation, and so on. More particularly, the apparatus 1 for fuelizing inflammable waste comprises: a primary crusher 4 for crushing an inflammable waste W containing as principal component at least one selected from a group comprising plastics, sponges, fibers, rubbers and wood materials; a foreign matter removing device 7 for removing foreign matters F contained in the crushed objects W1; a secondary crusher 9 for secondarily crushing the crushed objects W3 from which foreign matters I, M are removed; and an injecting device 11 for injecting the secondarily crushed objects W4 generated by the secondary crusher 9 into a burner 10, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Taiheiyo Cement Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Saito, Hajime Wada
  • Patent number: 8978489
    Abstract: Provided is a combustion gas bleeding probe, which is elongated in lifetime and improved in chlorine removing ability and so on. The combustion gas bleeding probe (1) comprises a cold gas discharge means having a plurality of discharge ports (2b) for discharging cold gases (C) substantially perpendicularly of the suction direction (S) of a combustion gas (G) and toward the center of the combustion gas flow. A vector (A), which is composed of momentum vectors (MVs) of the cold gas (C) discharged individually from the plural discharge ports, has a vertically downward component. This vertically downward component of the synthesized vector is made the larger, as the angle between the suction direction of the combustion gas and the flow direction of the combustion gas before sucked by the probe becomes the closer to a right angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Taiheiyo Cement Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Wada, Shinichiro Saito
  • Patent number: 8896930
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit of a positive refractive power, a second lens unit of a negative refractive power, a third lens unit of a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit of a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens unit, the second and fourth lens units being moved during zooming, a distance between the first and second lens units increasing at a telephoto end in comparison with a wide-angle end, wherein the fifth lens unit includes a first lens subunit of a negative refractive power, and a second lens subunit of a positive refractive power, the first lens subunit is moved to have a component perpendicular to an optical axis to change an image-forming position, and a condition 0.5<|(1??5n)×?5p|<2.0 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinichiro Saito
  • Patent number: 8893892
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for removing unburned carbon from fly ash capable of suppressing facility cost and stably conducting performance adjustment depending on property of the fly ash. The method comprises the steps of: adding water to fly ash to produce slurry; adding collector to the slurry, feeding the slurry and the collector to a static-type mixer 4, a venturi pipe 24 or the like to add shearing force to them; adding frother to them to generate air bubbles; and adhering unburned carbon of the fly ash to the air bubbles to raise the unburned carbon. The frother and air can be fed to the static-type mixer or the like together with the slurry and the collector. Depending on the change in property of the fly ash, the number of the static-type mixers or the like used in series can be increased or decreased, and depending on required capacity, the number of the static-type mixers or the like used in parallel may be increased or decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Taiheiyo Cement Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Saito, Kazuo Abe, Kazuyoshi Matsuo
  • Patent number: 8848074
    Abstract: In a single plate type solid-state image pickup device having a color filter with primary color filters, gray filters are disposed at specific pixels of the arrangement of the primary color filters, whereby variation of the sense of resolution with respect to color can be prevented, and outline emphasis is applied to achieve an excellent image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichiro Saito
  • Patent number: 8808651
    Abstract: To provide a low price industrial salt by reducing facility and operation costs without electro-deposition and crystallization and through reduction in quantity of chemicals used. An industrial salt S obtained by the steps of: extracting a part of combustion gas from a kiln exhaust gas passage running from an inlet end 12b of a cement kiln 12 to a bottom cyclone 13; recovering dust D from the extracted gas G2 and washing recovered dust; and drying a filtrate L1 after the washing in a gas stream. The industrial salt can be obtained by removing a calcium component from the filtrate and drying the filtrate from which the calcium component is removed in a gas stream. Further, from the filtrate can be removed sulfate radical, and drying the filtrate from which the calcium component is removed in a gas stream to obtain the industrial salt. For the drying can be used an exhaust gas discharged from a clinker cooler 12a and a spray drier 43 may be used for the drying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Taiheiyo Cement Corporation
    Inventors: Noritoshi Tamura, Shinichiro Saito, Yoshinobu Tatsumi
  • Patent number: 8765066
    Abstract: A combustion exhaust gas processing device comprises: a dust collector collecting dust in a cement kiln combustion exhaust gas; a wet dust collector using sodium hypochlorite as a catalyst-poisoning-substance stripper for removing a catalyst-poisoning substance and mercury from a combustion exhaust gas which passed the dust collector; heaters downstream of the wet dust collector for heating the combustion exhaust gas from the wet dust collector; and a catalyst device from which NOx, a persistent organic pollutant, etc. in the heated combustion exhaust gas, are removed. An upstream side of the catalyst device is installed with an oxide catalyst such as titanium-vanadium and a downstream side is installed with a platinum catalyst as a noble-metal catalyst. The temperature of the combustion exhaust gas after the wet dust collector is increased up to 140° C. or more with the heaters to prevent decline in denitration efficiency of and the decomposition efficiency of a volatile organic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignees: Taiheiyo Cement Corporation, Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Saito, Yasuhiro Uchiyama, Junichi Terasaki, Hisashi Kondo, Mitsuharu Hagi, Shinyuki Masaki
  • Publication number: 20140118603
    Abstract: The zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, first, second and third lens units respectively having positive, negative and positive refractive powers, and a rear lens group. The second lens unit and a most-object side lens unit of the rear lens group are moved during zooming, and the first lens unit is not moved for zooming. The first lens unit includes one negative lens and three positive lenses. Conditions of 5.0<f1/|f2|<7.0 and ?0.2<(R1+R2)/(R1?R2)<1.1 are satisfied where f1 represents a focal length of the first lens unit, f2 represents a focal length of the second lens unit, and R1 and R2 respectively represent curvature radii of an object side lens surface and an image side lens surface of the negative lens included in the first lens unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventor: Shinichiro Saito
  • Patent number: 8692908
    Abstract: An image-pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup element that photoelectrically converts an optical image formed by an image-pickup optical system having a zoom function, and a correcting part that performs correction processing for a distortion component in image data generated based on an output from the image-pickup element, the distortion component corresponding to a distortion of the image-pickup optical system. The image-pickup optical system provides a first zoom range in which a distortion amount at a certain image height is larger than a predetermined value and a second zoom range in which a distortion amount at the certain image height is smaller than the predetermined value. The correcting part performs the correction processing so that the distortion component remains in a first corrected image data in the first zoom range is larger than the distortion component remaining in a second corrected image data in the second zoom range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinichiro Saito
  • Patent number: 8649106
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens unit (positive), a second lens unit (negative), a third lens unit (positive), and a rear lens group having one or more lens units. During zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, the distance between the first and second lens units increases, the distance between the second and third lens units decreases, and the distance between the third lens unit and the rear lens group changes. The first lens unit consists of a positive lens and a negative lens. The following conditional expressions are satisfied: 8.0<f1/fW<30.0 and 2.0<?2T/?2W<10.0, where f1 is a focal length of the first lens unit, fW is a focal length of the entire system at the wide-angle end, and ?2W and ?2T are respectively lateral magnifications of the second lens unit at the wide-angle end and the telephoto end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinichiro Saito
  • Patent number: 8623304
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provide and device and method to facilitate the treatment of chlorine bypass dust while preventing increases in chemical cost and concentrations of heavy metals in clinker, and ensuring stability in quality of cement, and to treat chlorine bypass exhaust gas while avoiding coating troubles in a cement kiln etc., and preventing heat losses in a preheater etc., without degradation of clinker production amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Taiheiyo Cement Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Saito, Junichi Terasaki