Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Saito
Tetsuya 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).
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Publication number: 20130071587Abstract: A multilayer film comprising an upper layer (A), at least one intermediate layer (B), and a lower layer (C) stacked in that order, wherein the intermediate layer (B) comprises a composition (b1) or a composition (b2) below, and the upper layer (A) and the lower layer (C) each independently comprise an ethylene polymer and/or a propylene polymer: Composition (b1): a composition that comprises a propylene polymer (p1) having a melting point in the range of 140 to 165° C. measured by differential scanning calorimetry and a melt flow rate (MFR; ASTM D 1238, 230° C., 2.16 kg load) in the range of 0.1 to 20 g/10 min, a propylene·?-olefin random copolymer (r1) having a molecular weight distribution in the range of 1.0 to 3.5 determined by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and a melting point in the range of 90 to 125° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Inventors: Koichi Igarashi, Tetsuya Saito, Yasushi Nagata, Yasuyuki Kajiwara
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Publication number: 20130063174Abstract: A solar simulator in which locational unevenness of irradiance is reduced by using a small and simple optical system, having an array of light emitters 2 with a plurality of point light emitters planarly arranged in a given range 24, an effective irradiated region 4 spaced apart from a surface having the point light emitters 26 arranged thereon, and a reflection mirror 6 disposed to surround the given range 24 of the array. Preferably, a distance L between the point light emitter positioned at the outermost portion of given range 24 of the array of light emitters 2 and a light-reflecting surface of the reflection mirror is half of a pitch a of the array of the point light emitters and, more preferably, the distance L is larger than half of a width b of each point light emitter, and smaller than half of the pitch a.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanori Ooto, Ryouichi Higashi, Tetsuya Saito
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Patent number: 8282206Abstract: A display unit includes a slide mechanism slidable in a lateral or vertical direction to a housing. A maintenance opening formed in the housing can be covered and uncovered. When the opening is uncovered, a user can access at least apart of a print section in the housing from the opening and perform maintenance.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2009Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Haruyuki Yanagi, Yasuhiko Ikeda, Hiroshi Ogushi, Tetsuya Saito, Takeji Niikura, Masaaki Ishibashi, Kenichi Nishimura, Tetsuhiro Nitta, Shigeyuki Sugiyama
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Patent number: 8161762Abstract: A refrigerator includes a housing including a cooling compartment and a machine compartment, a refrigeration cycle provided in the housing and including a compressor, a condenser, a decompressor, and an evaporator which provide a refrigerant path, a refrigerant provided in the refrigeration cycle and flowing in the refrigerant path, and a blower for cooling the condenser. The condenser includes a pipe and a fin mounted on the pipe. The pipe is formed to have a helical shape with gaps. The helical shape has an inner space, a first opening, and a second opening opposite to the first opening. The inner space has a substantially cylindrical shape between the first opening and the second opening. The first opening faces the blower. A flow resistance between the second opening and the inner space is larger than a flow resistance between the gaps of the helical shape and the inner space.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2005Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shuhei Sugimoto, Tetsuya Saito, Akihiro Shirono
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Publication number: 20120014625Abstract: A multilayer film according to the present invention is a multilayer film, in which an outermost layer and an innermost layer are laminated via an intermediate layer arranged from one to three layers, with the intermediate layer including at least one layer being made of 0 to 55 weight % of a linear polyethylene having a density of 0.910 to 0.930 g/cm3, 5 to 15 weight % of a high-density polyethylene having a density of 0.950 to 0.970 g/cm3, and 35 to 85 weight % of a linear polyethylene having a density of 0.900 to 0.910 g/cm3 and polymerized using a single-site catalyst, and having a density lower than the outermost layer and the innermost layer, and each of the outermost layer and the innermost layer being formed of a polyethylene or a mixture of two or more types of polyethylene.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Inventors: Koichi Igarashi, Tetsuya Saito, Yasushi Nagata, Toshifumi Mori, Hitoshi Mori
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Patent number: 8091387Abstract: A method of manufacturing high-quality preforms from glass melt, manufacturing glass elements, such as lenses, by press molding these preforms and, manufacturing optical elements by reheating and press molding these glass gobs. In the method glass gobs are continuously separated from a glass melt flow continuously flowing out of a nozzle and the separated glass gobs are formed with glass forming members that are intermittently or continuously moving. A support member is made to approach the front end of the nozzle, the front end of the glass melt flow is received by the support member, and the support member is dropped more rapidly than the rate of flow of the glass melt flow to separate a glass gob from the glass melt flow. The separated glass gob is transferred from the support member to a stopped or moving glass forming member to mold a glass article.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2004Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Yoshinori Iguchi, Katsumi Utsugi, Atsushi Uezaki, Junichi Watanabe, Tetsuya Saito, Akira Murakami
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Patent number: 8081352Abstract: An image reading/recording apparatus which can prevent a reading unit from closing abruptly and reduce the force required to open the reading unit is to be provided. The apparatus is equipped with a damper unit which links the apparatus body and the scanner unit and the working direction of whose force is reversed on the way of the turning of the scanner unit, and a metal-made supporting member which is arranged in the apparatus body and supports the damper unit in a state in which the scanner unit is closed relative to the apparatus body.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2006Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Ogushi, Nozomu Nishiberi, Masaaki Ishihara, Tetsuya Saito, Nobuhiro Toki, Masahiro Kawanishi, Tomoko Ueno
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Publication number: 20110267396Abstract: In an inkjet printing apparatus capable of automatic duplex printing, time required to fix ink is shortened and throughput is improved without producing uneven fixing. The inkjet printing apparatus includes a printing unit that prints onto a sheet, a fixing unit that heats a sheet printed by the printing unit, a conveying unit that conveys a sheet with respect to the printing unit and the fixing unit, and a controller that controls the conveying unit such that a printing region of a sheet printed on the first side by the printing unit passes through the fixing unit, and afterwards, the conveyance direction of the sheet is reversed in order to print on the second side and the printing region once again passes through the fixing unit. The controller variably controls the conveyance speed of the sheet when the printing region once again passes through the fixing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2011Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: KOSUKE YAMAMOTO, TETSUYA SAITO, YOSHIAKI SUZUKI, KOJI FURUSAWA, HIROSHI TAJIKA, MASAHIKO WATANABE, ATSUHIKO MASUYAMA, ATSUSHI MIYAHARA, MASASHI ITO, FUMIE KAMEYAMA
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Patent number: 7886550Abstract: A refrigerating machine includes a compressor for compressing a refrigerant, a radiator for radiating heat from the refrigerant discharged from the compressor, an expander for expanding the refrigerant discharged from the radiator, and an evaporator for evaporating the refrigerant discharged from the expander, all connected in series. The refrigerating machine also includes a refrigerant flow regulator for regulating the amount of refrigerant flowing into the expander and a controller for controlling the compressor and the refrigerant flow regulator. When the compressor is stopped, the controller controls the refrigerant flow regulator to reduce the amount of refrigerant flowing into the expander.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2006Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tomoichiro Tamura, Masaya Honma, Kou Komori, Tetsuya Saito
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Patent number: 7854962Abstract: Disclosed herein is a processing system that can supply a material gas produced inside a material reservoir tank into a processing apparatus while generating almost no pressure loss. The processing system has a processing apparatus including a gas injection injector for injecting a specific material gas into a processing vessel in order to provide specific processing to an object to be processed W, the material gas being produced from a metallic compound material M with low vapor pressure; and a gas supply system for supplying the specific material gas to the gas injector, the gas injector is a shower head portion and the gas supply system provides: a gas passage extending upwardly from the showerhead portion; a material reservoir tank attached to the upper-end portion of the gas passage for containing the metallic compound material therein; and an open/close valve for opening/closing the gas passage.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2009Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Shigeru Kasai, Sum Tanaka, Tetsuya Saito, Norihiko Yamamoto, Kenichi Yanagitani
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Patent number: 7730729Abstract: A compressor, a radiator, an expander, and an evaporator are connected in series to define a refrigerating cycle. A bypass circuit that bypasses the expander, an on-off valve disposed in the bypass circuit, and a controller C1 for controlling an opening of the on-off valve are provided in the refrigerating cycle. During defrosting, the controller C1 controls the on-off valve so that a refrigerant may flow through the bypass circuit, thereby avoiding reduction in the amount of flow of the refrigerant during defrosting and preventing the defrosting operation from being prolonged.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2006Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yuuichi Yakumaru, Tetsuya Saito, Tomoichiro Tamura, Masaya Honma
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Publication number: 20100097667Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a printing section, a flatbed scanner section configured to read an original on a reading surface, and a moving mechanism configured to change the angle of the reading surface relative to an installation plane on which the apparatus is installed. The scanner section is capable of performing reading in each of a first mode where the angle of the reading surface is a first angle (vertical) and a second mode where the angle of the reading surface is a second angle (horizontal) different from the first angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2009Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiko Ikeda, Haruyuki Yanagi, Masaaki Ishibashi, Kenichi Nishimura, Sakiko Takizawa, Naofumi Sekine, Hiroshi Ogushi, Takeji Niikura, Tetsuya Saito, Tetsuhiro Nitta, Shigeyuki Sugiyama
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Patent number: 7681984Abstract: A scanner unit is revolvable disposed to a recording unit. The recording unit and the scanner unit are coupled with each other with a damper unit including a holder, a rod, and a spring. The damper unit is disposed so that the operating direction of the spring switches in process of the opening and the closing of the scanner unit. A guiding surface capable of abutting on the projection disposed on the rod is provided in the recording unit. The projection abuts on the guiding surface before the operating direction of the spring switches in process of the movement of the scanner unit from its opened position to its closed position.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2007Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Saito, Atsushi Yokomizo
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Publication number: 20100066796Abstract: A display unit includes a slide mechanism slidable in a lateral or vertical direction to a housing. A maintenance opening formed in the housing can be covered and uncovered. When the opening is uncovered, a user can access at least apart of a print section in the housing from the opening and perform maintenance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Haruyuki Yanagi, Yasuhiko Ikeda, Hiroshi Ogushi, Tetsuya Saito, Takeji Niikura, Masaaki Ishibashi, Kenichi Nishimura, Tetsuhiro Nitta, Shigeyuki Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20100060694Abstract: An apparatus includes a printing unit which is disposed in a housing and configured to form an image on a sheet, an lid attached to the housing by a hinge mechanism, and a camera which is attached to the lid and configured to read an image on a document while the lid is open, wherein the sheet having the image formed by the printing unit is discharged on the lid, and when the lid is opened, the camera can read the document which is placed at a reading position below the camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya Saito, Masaaki Ishibashi, Daijirou Nagasaki, Tetsuhiro Nitta, Hiroshi Ogushi, Yasuhiko Ikeda, Shigeyuki Sugiyama, Haruyuki Yanagi, Takeji Niikura
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Patent number: 7640946Abstract: A vacuum treating device, comprising a treatment container having a container body (111) and a lid (112) and allowing an internal pressure to be reduced and a lid support mechanism (130), wherein an upper opening (111a) formed in the container body can be closed airtight by the lid (112). The lid support mechanism (130) opens and closes the upper opening (111a) of the container body by moving the lid (112) so as to be translatingly moved in the vertical direction and, when the lid (112) is moved upward from the container body (111), supports the lid (112) so as to be rotated around a vertical axis disposed around the lid.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2004Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventor: Tetsuya Saito
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Publication number: 20090301115Abstract: A refrigerator includes a housing including a cooling compartment and a machine compartment, a refrigeration cycle provided in the housing and including a compressor, a condenser, a decompressor, and an evaporator which provide a refrigerant path, a refrigerant provided in the refrigeration cycle and flowing in the refrigerant path, and a blower for cooling the condenser. The condenser includes a pipe and a fin mounted on the pipe. The pipe is formed to have a helical shape with gaps. The helical shape has an inner space, a first opening, and a second opening opposite to the first opening. The inner space has a substantially cylindrical shape between the first opening and the second opening. The first opening faces the blower. A flow resistance between the second opening and the inner space is larger than a flow resistance between the gaps of the helical shape and the inner space.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2005Publication date: December 10, 2009Inventors: Shuhei Sugimoto, Tetsuya Saito, Akihiro Shirono
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Patent number: 7618494Abstract: The object of the present invention is to prevent damage due to thermal stress induced into a substrate holding table in a substrate holding structure for holding a substrate to be processed. In the substrate holding structure having the substrate holding table arranged at the top of a support column, a flanged part is defined by an inner circumferential surface and an outer circumferential surface at a joint between the support column and the substrate holding table. The inner circumferential surface is formed of an inclined surface, which is inclined such that the inner diameter of the flanged part successively increases as approaching the lower surface of the substrate holding table. On the lower surface of the substrate holding table to which the flanged part is joined, a U-shaped groove is formed so as to correspond to the outer circumferential surface of the flanged part.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2004Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignees: Tokyo Electron Limited, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Sumi Tanaka, Tetsuya Saito, Masuhiro Natsuhara, Hirohiko Nakata
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Patent number: 7566124Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes a sheet feeding tray, a sheet discharge tray, an image recording portion including an ink jet recording head and a platen, a first roller portion, disposed between the sheet feeding tray and the image recording portion, and a second roller portion, disposed at a position across the image recording portion from the first roller portion, for feeding the recording material, and a guide, positioned between the sheet feeding roller and the first roller portion, for separating the recording material fed from the sheet feeding tray and that to be fed to the sheet discharge tray. After the recording material fed from the sheet feeding tray passes between the ink jet recording head and the platen and is nipped by the second roller portion, recording is carried out when the recording material is fed in an opposite direction between the ink jet recording head and the platen.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2005Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shoichi Kan, Tetsuya Saito, Noboru Shimoyama
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Patent number: 7556330Abstract: In a recording apparatus using a recording head which can eject ink droplets having different sizes, a problem in which the recording image quality is decreased or mist is generated when the recording is performed on a predetermined area of a recording medium can be prevented. In the ink droplets having the different sizes, the size of the ink droplet used for the recording is set in accordance with the recording area to perform the recording based on the setting.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2004Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Saito, Souhei Tanaka, Keiji Tomizawa, Mineo Kaneko