Patents by Inventor Tomoharu Saito

Tomoharu 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).

  • Publication number: 20230412909
    Abstract: A lens system includes a lens optical system, a touch display, and at least one processor configured to control a part of a virtual screen to be displayed on the touch display in response to a user's scroll operation on the touch display, and controls the lens optical system such that a state of the lens optical system works with a part of the virtual screen to be displayed on the touch display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Tamron Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoharu SAITO
  • Publication number: 20230209175
    Abstract: A lens system includes: a lens; an operation terminal separated from the lens, the operation terminal including a touch panel; and a controller that controls the lens in accordance with a gesture command input to the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: TAMRON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoharu SAITO
  • Patent number: 10480635
    Abstract: A rotation transmission device having a high torque measurement resolution is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsuda, Daisuke Gunji, Masafumi Hikida, Kazutaka Tanaka, Tooru Ueda, Tetsu Takehara, Tomoharu Saito, Hiroyasu Yoshioka, Yuka Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20170227111
    Abstract: A rotation transmission device having a high torque measurement resolution is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Yasuyuki MATSUDA, Daisuke Gunji, Masafumi Hikida, Kazutaka Tanaka, Tooru Ueda, Tetsu Takehara, Tomoharu Saito, Hiroyasu Yoshioka, Yuka Kaneko
  • Patent number: 9625332
    Abstract: In order to implement a structure capable of improving the resolution of torque measurement while preventing the plastic deformation of a torsion bar (15), an input-side stopper (61) having an uneven shape (gear shape) in the circumferential direction is provided in a portion of an input-side rotating body (55) that includes an input shaft (13) and an input gear (7), and an output-side stopper (63) having an uneven shape (gear shape) in the circumferential direction is provided in a portion of an output-side rotating body (56) that includes an output shaft (14) and an output gear (8). The input-side stopper (61) and the output-side stopper (63) are combined so as to be engaged to be able to transmit torque only when the torsional angle within the elastic range of the torsion bar (15) reaches a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoharu Saito, Yasuyuki Matsuda, Daisuke Gunji, Masafumi Hikida, Kazutaka Tanaka, Tohru Ueda, Yuka Kaneko, Tetsu Takehara, Hiroyasu Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20160195442
    Abstract: In order to implement a structure capable of improving the resolution of torque measurement while preventing the plastic deformation of a torsion bar (15), an input-side stopper (61) having an uneven shape (gear shape) in the circumferential direction is provided in a portion of an input-side rotating body (55) that includes an input shaft (13) and an input gear (7), and an output-side stopper (63) having an uneven shape (gear shape) in the circumferential direction is provided in a portion of an output-side rotating body (56) that includes an output shaft (14) and an output gear (8). The input-side stopper (61) and the output-side stopper (63) are combined so as to be engaged to be able to transmit torque only when the torsional angle within the elastic range of the torsion bar (15) reaches a predetermined amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Tomoharu SAITO, Yasuyuki MATSUDA, Daisuke GUNJI, Masafumi HIKIDA, Kazutaka TANAKA, Tohru UEDA, Yuka KANEKO, Tetsu TAKEHARA, Hiroyasu YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20160195183
    Abstract: A rotation transmission device having a high torque measurement resolution is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Yasuyuki MATSUDA, Daisuke Gunji, Masafumi Hikida, Kazutaka Tanaka, Tooru Ueda, Tetsu Takehara, Tomoharu Saito, Hiroyasu Yoshioka, Yuka Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20150171702
    Abstract: An electric actuator includes a screw shaft that is mounted on one end of a drag bar, and that has a first helical groove on its outer peripheral surface; a rotor that has a hollow portion into which the screw shaft is arranged, wherein a second helical groove corresponding to the first helical groove is formed on a part of the inner peripheral surface of the hollow portion, and other end of the drag bar projects from the hollow portion; plural balls arranged between the first groove and the second groove; a deflector that is mounted to the rotor for circulating the balls; a stator that rotates the rotor so as to move the drag bar in its longitudinal direction; and a rotation preventing member that is engaged with a part of the drag bar so as to prevent the rotation of the drag bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsuda, Daisuke Gunji, Tomoharu Saito, Kazutaka Tanaka, Tomofumi Yamashita, Takashi Imanishi
  • Patent number: 9039288
    Abstract: There is provided a resin cage of a tapered roller bearing. The cage includes a small diameter annular portion, a large diameter annular portion, and a plurality of bar portions arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction to connect the annular portions. The bar portion has a pair of circumferentially-directed side surfaces, each having a roller guide surface, and an inner-side inner peripheral surface, a circumferential width of which is smaller on a side of the large diameter annular portion than on a side of the small diameter annular portion, and has a roller retaining region in which a radially outer side pocket width and a radially inner side pocket width between the opposed circumferentially-directed side surfaces of the adjacent bar portions are smaller than a diameter of the roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Takeuchi, Ryosuke Yamada, Kinji Yukawa, Tomoharu Saito, Hiroki Maejima, Kimiko Nakai
  • Patent number: 8998498
    Abstract: A tapered roller bearing improves durability during a state of insufficient lubrication by sufficiently lengthening the time until rotation becomes impossible due to seizure. Oil retaining concave sections, recessed outward in the radial direction, are formed in portions on the inner circumferential surface of a large-diameter rim section of the retainer whose phase in the circumferential direction coincides with the pockets. A portion of the bottom surface of each of the oil retaining concave sections, open to the inside surface of the pocket, face a concave section formed in an end surface on the large-diameter side of tapered roller that is held inside the pocket. When lubrication becomes insufficient, oil remaining in the concave sections is effectively used for lubricating areas of sliding contact between the end surfaces on the large-diameter side and the inside surface in the axial direction of a large-diameter side flange section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Mizuki, Yasuhiro Ishimori, Masahiro Kita, Hiroki Maejima, Kinji Yukawa, Tomoharu Saito, Yingyi Wen
  • Patent number: 8955225
    Abstract: In forming an actuator, a large end surface of a tapered roller of a tapered roller bearing is shot with minute particles of silicon carbide having a diameter of 0.5 to 100 ?m and having an angle formed by crushing, and such a surface is scraped concavely at a diameter within a range from 0.5 to 100 ?m to form a large number of concavities having a depth of equal to or greater than 1 ?m at a pitch of equal to or less than 200 ?m. The concavities are non-continuous and isolated from each other, and serve as a lubricant puddle. The concavities are formed by scraping and not by plastic deformation, and thus the surface is not hardened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Kobayashi, Tomoharu Saito, Shinji Fujita, Takanori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8794843
    Abstract: A rotation support device for a pinion shaft is configured such that, together with being able to sufficiently maintain axial rigidity of a rolling bearing on the side opposite from the pinion gear side, it is able to sufficiently reduce the dynamic torque during operation and the starting torque at the start of operation. Together with using a single-row angular contact ball bearing as the rolling bearing on the side opposite from the pinion gear side, the ratio of the radius of curvature Ro of the outer raceway and the diameter Bd of the balls (Ro/Bd) is regulated within the range 0.52<Ro/Bd?0.56, and the contact angle ? is regulated within the range of 35° to 40°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Tanaka, Tomoharu Saito, Yasushi Tanoue
  • Publication number: 20130255418
    Abstract: In forming an actuator, a large end surface of a tapered roller of a tapered roller bearing is shot with minute particles of silicon carbide having a diameter of 0.5 to 100 ?m and having an angle formed by crushing, and such a surface is scraped concavely at a diameter within a range from 0.5 to 100 ?m to form a large number of concavities having a depth of equal to or greater than 1 ?m at a pitch of equal to or less than 200 ?m. The concavities are non-continuous and isolated from each other, and serve as a lubricant puddle. The concavities are formed by scraping and not by plastic deformation, and thus the surface is not hardened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: NSK Ltd
    Inventors: Masato Kobayashi, Tomoharu Saito, Shinji Fujita, Takanori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20120263405
    Abstract: A tapered roller bearing improves durability during a state of insufficient lubrication by sufficiently lengthening the time until rotation becomes impossible due to seizure. Oil retaining concave sections, recessed outward in the radial direction, are formed in portions on the inner circumferential surface of a large-diameter rim section of the retainer whose phase in the circumferential direction coincides with the pockets. A portion of the bottom surface of each of the oil retaining concave sections, open to the inside surface of the pocket, face a concave section formed in an end surface on the large-diameter side of tapered roller that is held inside the pocket. When lubrication becomes insufficient, oil remaining in the concave sections is effectively used for lubricating areas of sliding contact between the end surfaces on the large-diameter side and the inside surface in the axial direction of a large-diameter side flange section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Mizuki, Yasuhiro Ishimori, Masahiro Kita, Hiroki Maejima, Kinji Yukawa, Tomoharu Saito, Yingyi Wen
  • Publication number: 20110222807
    Abstract: A tandem angular ball bearing is provide that prevent damage from occurring to the rolling surfaces of the balls during assembly and transport to an extent that would cause an excessive decrease in life of the balls, and that can maintain excelled durability without the occurrence of excessive vibration and noise during operation. In order to accomplish this, the entire portion of the inner peripheral surface of an outer ring (5b) from a small-diameter side outer ring raceway (11) to the continuous section (25a) that is continuous with the end surface (23) on the large inner diameter side of the outer ring (5b), and the entire portion of the outer peripheral surface of an inner ring (6b) from a large-diameter side inner ring raceway (12) to the continuous section (25g) that is continuous with the end surface (14) on the small outer-diameter side of the inner ring (6b) are polished smooth surfaces having no indifferentiable corner sections in the cross-section shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Yasushi Tanoue, Takanori Tanaka, Hiroki Maejima, Yoshitaka Hayashi, Kenichi Abe, Kinji Yukawa, Tomoharu Saito
  • Publication number: 20110142389
    Abstract: There is provided a resin cage of a tapered roller bearing. The cage includes a small diameter annular portion, a large diameter annular portion, and a plurality of bar portions arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction to connect the annular portions. The bar portion has a pair of circumferentially-directed side surfaces, each having a roller guide surface, and an inner-side inner peripheral surface, a circumferential width of which is smaller on a side of the large diameter annular portion than on a side of the small diameter annular portion, and has a roller retaining region in which a radially outer side pocket width and a radially inner side pocket width between the opposed circumferentially-directed side surfaces of the adjacent bar portions are smaller than a diameter of the roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Takeuchi, Ryosuke Yamada, Kinji Yukawa, Tomoharu Saito, Hiroki Maejima, Kimiko Nakai
  • Patent number: 6917441
    Abstract: An image recording/reproducing apparatus includes an image signal processing unit which transforms original image data with a first resolution, supplied from an image input device, into a processed image signal with a second resolution. A recording signal generating unit transforms at least one of the original image data and the processed image signal produced by the image signal processing unit, into a recording form. An image recording device stores the processed image signal in the recording form, produced by the recording signal generating unit, into a storage unit, the recording form of the processed image signal being suited to a predetermined data format on the storage unit. An image reproducing device transforms the processed image signal in the recording form, read from the storage unit, into an output-form signal, and displays an image on a display monitor in accordance with the output-form signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Suzuki, Tomoharu Saito
  • Patent number: 6635379
    Abstract: A battery which has undergone initial charging and discharging is placed inside a sealed vessel, which is evacuated by a vacuum pump. After this evacuated state has been maintained for a while, the density of hydrogen gas within the sealed vessel is measured by a hydrogen density sensor, based on which the presence or absence of a gas escape from the battery is determined. The battery may be heated instead of subjecting it to charging and discharging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masato Onishi, Michio Osawa, Katsuyuki Tomioka, Noriyuki Fujioka, Tomoharu Saito
  • Publication number: 20030072014
    Abstract: An image recording/reproducing apparatus includes an image signal processing unit which transforms original image data with a first resolution, supplied from an image input device, into a processed image signal with a second resolution. A recording signal generating unit transforms at least one of the original image data and the processed image signal-produced by the image signal processing unit, into a recording form. An image recording device stores the processed image signal in the recording form, produced by the recording signal generating unit, into a storage unit, the recording form of the processed image signal being suited to a predetermined data format on the storage unit. An image reproducing device transforms the processed image signal in the recording form, read from the storage unit, into an output-form signal, and displays an image on a display monitor in accordance with the output-form signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Inventors: Ryoichi Suzuki, Tomoharu Saito
  • Patent number: 6507412
    Abstract: An image recording/reproducing apparatus includes an image signal processing unit which transforms original image data with a first resolution, supplied from an image input device, into a processed image signal with a second resolution. A recording signal generating unit transforms at least one of the original image data and the processed image signal produced by the image signal processing unit, into a recording form. An image recording device stores the processed image signal in the recording form, produced by the recording signal generating unit, into a storage unit, the recording form of the processed image signal being suited to a predetermined data format on the storage unit. An image reproducing device transforms the processed image signal in the recording form, read from the storage unit, into an output-form signal, and displays an image on a display monitor in accordance with the output-form signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Suzuki, Tomoharu Saito