Patents by Inventor Tadashi Sano

Tadashi Sano 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: 7365654
    Abstract: In an absolute angle detection apparatus, sectors are obtained by dividing 360° by an even number, each sector having combinations of first and second code lines. The first code lines are Gray codes including third code lines that do not appear the same even when a digit from which they are read is changed and fourth code lines that appear the same when a digit from which they are read is changed. The first code lines at adjacent steps and the first code lines at the first and last steps differ from each other at one bit. Each first code line is shifted by one digit at every predetermined number of steps, and the first code line without shift is obtained when the first code line corresponding to the maximum shift is further shifted by one digit. The second code lines identify the fourth code lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Tadashi Sano
  • Patent number: 7363826
    Abstract: Three elastic member-holding units are provided along the circumference of a cylindrical guide unit, which is a supporting unit of a first code wheel to hold a ring-shaped metallic elastic member, which is made of a band-like body of stainless steel or the like, and the metallic elastic member is extended to the inner circumference of the guide unit. In addition, the metallic elastic member extended to the inner circumference of the guide unit elastically supports the shaft of the first code wheel, which is a rotating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Tadashi Sano
  • Publication number: 20080098092
    Abstract: A microorganism separation system comprising a sample solution container 34 containing microorganisms, a separator 1, and a receiver 47, designed to separate microorganisms from the sample solution; further comprising a microorganism detection sensor and a plate 49 which has a plurality of receivers 47 connected to each other and an identification indicator, wherein when the microorganism detection sensor judges that a microorganism has passed, supply of the sample solution is stopped, the detected microorganism is discharged together with the sample solution, and then the solution starts to be injected into the receiver; and, the number of times microorganisms are detected during the time period from the start of the injection to the end is recognized as separation quantity; and then as separation information, the separation quantity, number for a receiver 47 into which a microorganism was injected for each identification indicator, signal waveform sent from the microorganism detection sensor at the separ
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Tadashi Sano, Yasuhiko Sasaki, Hajime Ikuta, Kazuichi Isaka, Tatsuo Sumino, Shigenori Togashi, Tetsuro Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20080081005
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to increase the volume of production even with the use of a microreactor, and to improve the quality of reaction products. A chemical synthesis device with a microreactor having a microchannel includes a plurality of microreactors arranged in parallel; a raw material tank that stores a raw material; a pump that delivers the raw material; an inlet solenoid valve and an outlet solenoid valve disposed at the inlet and outlet sides, respectively, of each of the microreactor; a temperature sensor that detects the temperature in the microreactor; and a pressure gage installed at the outlet side of the pump. The chemical synthesis device controls, in connection with values detected by the temperature sensor and the pressure gage, the opening and closing of the inlet solenoid valve and the outlet solenoid valve as well as a rate of flow from the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Mio SUZUKI, Shigenori TOGASHI, Tetsuro MIYAMOTO, Tadashi SANO
  • Patent number: 7256713
    Abstract: An absolute angle detecting device is provided. The absolute angle detecting device is composed of a first detecting element group that outputs a Gray code string for angle detection that detects a rotating angle in one sector of the multi-rotation body at required resolution, a second detecting element group and a third detecting element group that outputs a first and a second Gray code strings for sector identification. A rotating angle within one rotation (360 degrees) is detected by the Gray code for angle detection while setting one rotation of the multi-rotation body to one sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Sano
  • Patent number: 7199356
    Abstract: First and second signal detecting element groups are respectively arranged to face first and second signal detecting tracks that are provided on a first code wheel. In addition, third and fourth signal detecting element groups are respectively arranged to face third and fourth signal detecting tracks that are provided on a second code wheel. A code string is output from the first and second signal detecting element groups to obtain a circular gray-code for detecting the rotation of the first code wheel within one revolution. Further, a code string is output from the third and fourth signal detecting element groups to obtain a circular gray-code for detecting the rotation of the first code wheel over one revolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Sano
  • Publication number: 20060283271
    Abstract: In the connecting structure of a first rotor member (rotor housing) of a rotary connector and a second rotor member (rotary member) of a steering angle sensor is provided. An intermediate elastic member is interposed between both rotor members and in a clamped state, connecting protrusions and of the first rotor member are engaged with a pair of engaging notched portions of the intermediate elastic member, and connecting protrusions of the second rotor member are engaged with another pair of engaging notched portions. A line connecting the pair of engaging notched portions is orthogonal to a line connecting the pair of engaging notched portions. In addition, the engaging notched portions are formed in an elongated hold shape, and thus the first rotor member is allowed to move in the radial direction of the intermediate elastic member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: Junji Araki, Tadashi Sano
  • Publication number: 20060272430
    Abstract: Ae connecting structure of a first rotor member (rotor housing) of a rotary connector and a second rotor member (rotary member) of a steering angle sensor is provided. A plurality of elastic pieces are formed on the inner peripheral portion of the first rotor member and extend downward. An engaging protrusion is provided in the inner peripheral portion of the second rotor member so as to be inserted in an engaging hole of the elastic piece, and the elastic piece is combined with the engaging protrusion in a snap-in relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Junji Araki, Tadashi Sano
  • Publication number: 20060273931
    Abstract: An absolute angle detecting device is provided. The absolute angle detecting device is composed of a first detecting element group that outputs a Gray code string for angle detection that detects a rotating angle in one sector of the multi-rotation body at required resolution, a second detecting element group and a third detecting element group that outputs a first and a second Gray code strings for sector identification. A rotating angle within one rotation (360 degrees) is detected by the Gray code for angle detection while setting one rotation of the multi-rotation body to one sector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventor: Tadashi Sano
  • Patent number: 7145130
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rotation detecting device having a small size, low manufacturing costs, and excellent quietness, and an automobile equipped with the rotation detecting device. The rotation detecting device comprises a non-rotating internal gear 2b concentrically arranged with the rotation center of a rotary body (a steering shaft), a planetary gear 4 that meshes with the internal gear 2b and that rotates and revolves on the inner circumference of the internal gear 2b with the rotation of the rotary body, a rotation transmitting member 6 that is concentrically arranged with the rotation center of the rotary body and that rotates on its own axis by the rotation of the planetary gear 4, a scale plate 7 provided in the rotation transmitting member 6, and a rotation angle detecting unit 11 arranged to face the scale plate 7 for detecting the rotation angle of one or more full rotations of the rotary body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Sano
  • Patent number: 7137442
    Abstract: A vapor chamber, in which a condensable fluid, which evaporates and condenses depending on a state of input and radiation of a heat, is encapsulated in a hollow and flat sealed receptacle as a liquid phase working fluid; and in which the wick for creating the capillary pressure by moistening by the working fluid is arranged in said sealed receptacle, comprising: a wick for creating a great capillary pressure by being moistened by said working fluid, which is arranged on the evaporating part side where the heat is input from outside; and a wick having a small flow resistance against the moistening working fluid, which is arranged on the condensing part side where the heat is radiated to outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignees: Fujikura Ltd., International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Youji Kawahara, Noriyuki Takada, Masataka Mochizuki, Koichi Mashiko, Yuji Saito, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Akihiro Takamiya, Tadashi Sano, Fumitoshi Kiyooka, Hiroaki Agata
  • Publication number: 20060249665
    Abstract: In an absolute angle detection apparatus, sectors are obtained by dividing 360° by an even number, each sector having combinations of first and second code lines. The first code lines are Gray codes including third code lines that do not appear the same even when a digit from which they are read is changed and fourth code lines that appear the same when a digit from which they are read is changed. The first code lines at adjacent steps and the first code lines at the first and last steps differ from each other at one bit. Each first code line is shifted by one digit at every predetermined number of steps, and the first code line without shift is obtained when the first code line corresponding to the maximum shift is further shifted by one digit. The second code lines identify the fourth code lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Inventor: Tadashi Sano
  • Patent number: 7091474
    Abstract: A rotation angle detecting device includes a housing which is constituted by a combination of a case and a cover; a resistance board; a code wheel; a slider rotating plate; a slider; a circuit board; signal detecting elements; and a gear which transmits the rotation of the code wheel at a predetermined speed reduction ratio to the slider rotating plate, which are enclosed in the housing. Circular pin insertion holes are formed in positions where the code wheel, the case, and the cover face each other, respectively. A pin insertion hole having a circular-arc shape is formed in the slider rotating plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Sano
  • Publication number: 20060054797
    Abstract: First and second signal detecting element groups are respectively arranged to face first and second signal detecting tracks that are provided on a first code wheel. In addition, third and fourth signal detecting element groups are respectively arranged to face third and fourth signal detecting tracks that are provided on a second code wheel. A code string is output from the first and second signal detecting element groups to obtain a circular gray-code for detecting the rotation of the first code wheel within one revolution. Further, a code string is output from the third and fourth signal detecting element groups to obtain a circular gray-code for detecting the rotation of the first code wheel over one revolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventor: Tadashi Sano
  • Publication number: 20060000969
    Abstract: A rotation angle detecting device includes a housing which is constituted by a combination of a case and a cover; a resistance board; a code wheel; a slider rotating plate; a slider; a circuit board; signal detecting elements; and a gear which transmits the rotation of the code wheel at a predetermined speed reduction ratio to the slider rotating plate, which are enclosed in the housing. Circular pin insertion holes are formed in positions where the code wheel, the case, and the cover face each other, respectively. A pin insertion hole having a circular-arc shape is formed in the slider rotating plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventor: Tadashi Sano
  • Publication number: 20050279179
    Abstract: Three elastic member-holding units are provided along the circumference of a cylindrical guide unit, which is a supporting unit of a first code wheel to hold a ring-shaped metallic elastic member, which is made of a band-like body of stainless steel or the like, and the metallic elastic member is extended to the inner circumference of the guide unit. In addition, the metallic elastic member extended to the inner circumference of the guide unit elastically supports the shaft of the first code wheel, which is a rotating member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventor: Tadashi Sano
  • Patent number: 6966118
    Abstract: The present invention provides an absolute angle detecting device capable of achieving a resolution of 1.5 degrees or less by which 360 degrees can be divided without a remainder, using two code pattern rows and eight detecting elements. The absolute angle detecting device comprises a rotary disk 1; a first code pattern row 2 and a second code pattern row 3, each provided on the circumference whose center is the center of rotation O of the rotary disk 1; a first detecting element group 10 consisting of five detecting elements 4 to 8 that are arranged at equal intervals opposite to the first code pattern row 2; and a second detecting element group 14 consisting of three detecting elements 11 to 13 that are arranged at equal intervals opposite to the second code pattern row 3. Both a gray code obtained by combining five codes supplied from the first detecting element group 10 and a gray code obtained by combining three codes supplied from the second detecting element group 14 are cyclic codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Inventor: Tadashi Sano
  • Publication number: 20050155745
    Abstract: A vapor chamber, in which a condensable fluid, which evaporates and condenses depending on a state of input and radiation of a heat, is encapsulated in a hollow and flat sealed receptacle as a liquid phase working fluid; and in which the wick for creating the capillary pressure by moistening by the working fluid is arranged in said sealed receptacle, comprising: a wick for creating a great capillary pressure by being moistened by said working fluid, which is arranged on the evaporating part side where the heat is input from outside; and a wick having a small flow resistance against the moistening working fluid, which is arranged on the condensing part side where the heat is radiated to outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventors: Yuji Kawahara, Noriyuki Takada, Masataka Mochizuki, Koichi Mashiko, Yuji Saito, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Akihiro Takamiya, Tadashi Sano, Fumitoshi Kiyooka, Hiroaki Agata
  • Publication number: 20050022617
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rotation detecting device having a small size, low manufacturing costs, and excellent quietness, and an automobile equipped with the rotation detecting device. The rotation detecting device comprises a non-rotating internal gear 2b concentrically arranged with the rotation center of a rotary body (a steering shaft), a planetary gear 4 that meshes with the internal gear 2b and that rotates and revolves on the inner circumference of the internal gear 2b with the rotation of the rotary body, a rotation transmitting member 6 that is concentrically arranged with the rotation center of the rotary body and that rotates on its own axis by the rotation of the planetary gear 4, a scale plate 7 provided in the rotation transmitting member 6, and a rotation angle detecting unit 11 arranged to face the scale plate 7 for detecting the rotation angle of one or more full rotations of the rotary body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventor: Tadashi Sano
  • Publication number: 20050022396
    Abstract: The present invention provides an absolute angle detecting device capable of achieving a resolution of 1.5 degrees or less by which 360 degrees can be divided without a remainder, using two code pattern rows and eight detecting elements. The absolute angle detecting device comprises a rotary disk 1; a first code pattern row 2 and a second code pattern row 3, each provided on the circumference whose center is the center of rotation O of the rotary disk 1; a first detecting element group 10 consisting of five detecting elements 4 to 8 that are arranged at equal intervals opposite to the first code pattern row 2; and a second detecting element group 14 consisting of three detecting elements 11 to 13 that are arranged at equal intervals opposite to the second code pattern row 3. Both a gray code obtained by combining five codes supplied from the first detecting element group 10 and a gray code obtained by combining three codes supplied from the second detecting element group 14 are cyclic codes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventor: Tadashi Sano