Patents by Inventor Tetsuo Sakurai

Tetsuo Sakurai 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: 20230235183
    Abstract: There is provided a corrosion-resistant member in which a corrosion-resistant coating film is less likely to peel off from a base material even when the corrosion-resistant member is subjected to a thermal history. The corrosion-resistant member includes: a base material (10) containing aluminum or an aluminum alloy; and a corrosion-resistant coating film (20) formed on the surface of the base material (10), in which the corrosion-resistant coating film (20) contains aluminum fluoride hydroxide AlF3?x(OH)x in which a space group belongs to R-3c, and x in the chemical formula is 0.05 or more and 1.00 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: So MIYAISHI, Masahiro OKUBO, Masayuki YOSHIMURA, Wataru SAKANE, Teppei TANAKA, Saeko NAKAMURA, Takuya IMAI, Tetsuo SAKURAI, Koyuki MESUDA
  • Publication number: 20200407579
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an active energy ray-curable inkjet ink composition that has a low viscosity such that the composition can be ejected as an inkjet ink, and can exhibit sufficient adhesion to a plastic substrate having low surface free energy. The present invention provides an active energy ray-curable inkjet ink composition comprising a polyester resin (A), wherein the polyester resin (A) contains a structural unit (a-1) derived from a polybasic acid and a structural unit (a-2) derived from a polyhydric alcohol, the structural unit (a-2) derived from a polyhydric alcohol contains 20 mol % or more and 100 mol % or less of a structural unit derived from hydrogenated bisphenol A, and the polyester resin (A) has a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 500 to 4,500 and an acid value of 5 to 300.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Hideaki UMAKOSHI, Akiho UENISHI, Naruhito IWASA, Tetsuo SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 8913115
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: an imaging module configured to have a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements corresponding to a frame composed of a plurality of lines, with start of an accumulation period of electric charge by the plural photoelectric conversion elements being different depending on each of the lines, and reading the accumulated electric charge to repeatedly output the read electric charge as an image signal; a light source configured to irradiate an imaging range of the imaging module; and a controller configured to control an irradiation time of the light source according to a motion of an image captured by the imaging module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tetsuo Sakurai, Bin Qi
  • Patent number: 8854513
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an imaging device includes a first CCD which converts a first color component into a first electric signal, a second CCD which converts a second color component different from the first color component into a second electric signal, a third CCD which converts a third color component different from the first and second color components into a third electric signal, and a heat sink having first to third radiators which radiate heat from the first to third CODs. The first to third radiators are maintained at the same temperature by the function of the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masatoshi Ookubo, Tetsuo Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8663979
    Abstract: A culture apparatus comprising: an inner box configured to form a culture chamber; an outer box configured to cover the inner box; a fan configured to circulate gas inside the culture chamber through an air passage provided in the inner box within the culture chamber; a first through hole configured to penetrate a wall configuring a part of the air passage in the inner box; a second through hole configured to penetrate the wall and disposed at a position at which a flow velocity of the gas circulated through the air passage by the fan is lower than a flow velocity of the gas around the first through hole; a connecting pipe configured to connect the first through hole and the second through hole outside of the inner box; and a sensor configured to detect a concentration of the gas flowing in the culture chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniyoshi Kobayashi, Hiroki Busujima, Yasuhiro Kikuchi, Yuichi Tamaoki, Shinji Sugimoto, Tetsuo Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8648901
    Abstract: A head separated type imaging apparatus includes a head unit and a main unit which are separated, the head unit imaging a subject and the main unit processing an imaging signal transmitted from the head unit. The head unit includes an imaging unit having a plurality of pixels and imaging the subject, and a storage unit storing correction information for pixels for which a data amount of correction information is larger than a predetermined threshold out of correction information correcting noise of the plurality of pixels and remaining correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tetsuo Sakurai, Toshiaki Utsumi, Yoshiyuki Niijima
  • Patent number: 8591656
    Abstract: When compound semiconductor layers are formed on a compound semiconductor substrate (40) by sequentially layering group III nitride semiconductor crystalline layers by metal organic chemical vapor deposition method, the compound semiconductor substrate (40) is attached inside of a reaction container with the crystal growth surface thereof facing upward, a protection member (60) having plural grooves (63) formed in a radiating manner on the side facing the crystal growth surface is attached above the compound semiconductor substrate (40), and a material gas is supplied to the inside of the reaction container through a first through hole (61) provided in the center of the protection member (60). Thereby, in the manufacture of a compound semiconductor using metal organic chemical vapor deposition method, a decrease in yield caused by adhesion of peeled-off reaction byproducts to the substrate or to the epitaxially grown film on the substrate is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuo Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8590327
    Abstract: A refrigerating apparatus for keeping an inside of a storage at a predetermined low-temperature state includes first and second refrigerant circuits including compressors, condensers, decompressors, and evaporators, connected circularly with pipings to form refrigerating cycles, the circuit having a first or second refrigerant sealed therein as a working refrigerant, a first sensor which detects a temperature of a cascade condenser constituted by integrating the evaporator of the first refrigerant circuit and the condenser of the second refrigerant circuit in a heat exchangeable manner, first and second controllers which control operation performances of the first and second compressors in a variable manner based on first and second sensor detected temperatures in order that the first and second sensor detected temperatures are first and second temperatures, respectively, and a second sensor which detects a temperature inside the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuzo Tobe, Tetsuo Sakurai, Ryuichi Tsuruma
  • Patent number: 8580592
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor light emitting element, which has a step wherein a substrate composed of a material different from that of a semiconductor layer is used and a III compound semiconductor layer is formed on the substrate, and can reduce the emission wavelength distribution (?) of the obtained semiconductor light emitting layer. The method for manufacturing the semiconductor light emitting element having the III compound semiconductor layer is characterized in having: a compound semiconductor substrate forming step wherein at least one compound semiconductor layer is formed on the substrate and a compound semiconductor substrate having an amount of warpage (H) within the range of 50 ?m?H?250 ?m is formed; and a light emitting layer forming step wherein the light emitting layer composed of a plurality of III compound semiconductor layers is formed on the compound semiconductor substrate which has been formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuo Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8557572
    Abstract: A culture apparatus comprising: a fan configured to circulate air inside a culture chamber in a predetermined direction in the culture chamber; a duct configured to guide air circulating inside the culture chamber along a wall face inside the culture chamber from an upper part to a lower part of the culture chamber; and a gas generator detachable from a predetermined position at a lower part of the duct, the gas generator being configured to take in air discharged from a lower part of the duct and discharge together with the air taken in a hydrogen peroxide gas to sterilize the inside of the culture chamber generated from a hydrogen peroxide solution into the culture chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniyoshi Kobayashi, Hiroki Busujima, Yasuhiro Kikuchi, Yuichi Tamaoki, Shinji Sugimoto, Tetsuo Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20130061556
    Abstract: A solid preparation packaging apparatus includes a solid preparation accommodating unit, a transfer mechanism unit and a solid preparation packaging mechanism unit each individually accommodated in a main body so as to be capable of being pulled out or pushed back in the back-and-forth direction; an electrical component chamber containing a CPU circuit board and a power supply at the lowest portion of the solid preparation packaging apparatus, and a flexible wiring cover mounted across the electrical component chamber and the solid preparation packaging mechanism unit in order to pass, through the flexible wiring cover, a wiring of the solid preparation accommodating unit, the transfer mechanism unit and the solid preparation packaging mechanism unit to the CPU circuit board and the power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akinori HATSUNO, Tetsuo SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20130050456
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: an imaging module configured to have a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements corresponding to a frame composed of a plurality of lines, with start of an accumulation period of electric charge by the plural photoelectric conversion elements being different depending on each of the lines, and reading the accumulated electric charge to repeatedly output the read electric charge as an image signal; a light source configured to irradiate an imaging range of the imaging module; and a controller configured to control an irradiation time of the light source according to a motion of an image captured by the imaging module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Tetsuo Sakurai, Bin Qi
  • Patent number: 8320631
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a movement detection apparatus includes an arithmetic module, an edge-storing filter, a determination module, and a control module. The arithmetic module calculates a difference signal between an input image signal and an image signal of the previous frame. The filter performs smoothing processing for a signal falling within a level range provided as threshold value, among difference signals calculated by the arithmetic module. The determination module determines levels of a movement component and a noise component of the signal output from the filter. The control module controls a level range supplied as threshold value to the filter in accordance with an amplitude level of the noise component overlying the input image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshiaki Utsumi, Tetsuo Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20120264201
    Abstract: A culture apparatus comprising: an inner box configured to form a culture chamber; an outer box configured to cover the inner box; a fan configured to circulate gas inside the culture chamber through an air passage provided in the inner box within the culture chamber; a first through hole configured to penetrate a wall configuring a part of the air passage in the inner box; a second through hole configured to penetrate the wall and disposed at a position at which a flow velocity of the gas circulated through the air passage by the fan is lower than a flow velocity of the gas around the first through hole; a connecting pipe configured to connect the first through hole and the second through hole outside of the inner box; and a sensor configured to detect a concentration of the gas flowing in the culture chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniyoshi Kobayashi, Hiroki Busujima, Yasuhiro Kikuchi, Yuichi Tamaoki, Shinji Sugimoto, Tetsuo Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20120258528
    Abstract: A culture apparatus comprising: a fan configured to circulate air inside a culture chamber in a predetermined direction in the culture chamber; a duct configured to guide air circulating inside the culture chamber along a wall face inside the culture chamber from an upper part to a lower part of the culture chamber; and a gas generator detachable from a predetermined position at a lower part of the duct, the gas generator being configured to take in air discharged from a lower part of the duct and discharge together with the air taken in a hydrogen peroxide gas to sterilize the inside of the culture chamber generated from a hydrogen peroxide solution into the culture chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniyoshi Kobayashi, Hiroki Busujima, Yasuhiro Kikuchi, Yuichi Tamaoki, Shinji Sugimoto, Tetsuo Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8236103
    Abstract: A method for producing a Group III nitride semiconductor crystal includes a first step of supplying a Group III raw material and a Group V raw material at a V/III ratio of 0 to 1,000 to form and grow a Group III nitride semiconductor on a heated substrate and a second step of vapor-phase-growing a Group III nitride semiconductor crystal on the substrate using a Group III raw material and a nitrogen raw material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Hisayuki Miki, Tetsuo Sakurai, Mineo Okuyama
  • Patent number: 8216830
    Abstract: A culture apparatus includes a culture chamber in which culture is cultured, a shelf plate included in the culture chamber, on which the culture is placed, and shelf rests in a left-and-right pair configured to support the shelf plate and a plurality of shelf supports configured to support the shelf rests. The shelf rests each include one piece supporting the shelf plate and the other piece supported by the shelf supports. The shelf rests are in an L-shape in a cross-sectional manner whose angle between the one piece and the other piece is an acute angle. The one piece is in line contact with a lower face of the shelf plate at an end of the one piece extending obliquely upward from a side face of the culture chamber toward the inside of the culture chamber. The culture chamber is supplied with sterilizing gas to be sterilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniyoshi Kobayashi, Hiroki Busujima, Yasuhiro Kikuchi, Yuichi Tamaoki, Shinji Sugimoto, Tetsuo Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20120133751
    Abstract: A head separated type imaging apparatus includes a head unit and a main unit which are separated, the head unit imaging a subject and the main unit processing an imaging signal transmitted from the head unit. The head unit includes an imaging unit having a plurality of pixels and imaging the subject, and a storage unit storing correction information for pixels for which a data amount of correction information is larger than a predetermined threshold out of correction information correcting noise of the plurality of pixels and remaining correction data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventors: Tetsuo Sakurai, Toshiaki Utsumi, Yoshiyuki Niijima
  • Patent number: 8186542
    Abstract: An object is to provide a medicine supply apparatus capable of reducing a time required for charging medicines without causing any trouble during counting of the medicines, the apparatus comprises: a discharge drum which discharges the medicines from a tablet case; a medicine detecting sensor which detects the medicines discharged from the tablet case, and a control device, and this control device controls a rotating motor for rotating the discharge drum to discharge the medicines from the tablet case, counts the discharged medicines based on a detecting operation of the medicine detecting sensor, and changes a discharge speed of the medicine by the discharge drum depending on a type of medicine in the tablet case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Kobayashi, Manabu Haraguchi, Akinori Hatsuno, Toshitake Maruyama, Tetsuo Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20110293147
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a movement detection apparatus includes an arithmetic module, an edge-storing filter, a determination module, and a control module. The arithmetic module calculates a difference signal between an input image signal and an image signal of the previous frame. The filter performs smoothing processing for a signal falling within a level range provided as threshold value, among difference signals calculated by the arithmetic module. The determination module determines levels of a movement component and a noise component of the signal output from the filter. The control module controls a level range supplied as threshold value to the filter in accordance with an amplitude level of the noise component overlying the input image signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Toshiaki Utsumi, Tetsuo Sakurai