Patents by Inventor Toru Sakamoto

Toru Sakamoto 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: 7208643
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a fatty alcohol, including hydrogenating a fatty acid ester to prepare a crude fatty alcohol product, and distilling and refining the resulting crude fatty alcohol to prepare a fatty alcohol, further including recovering a part or the whole of distillation residues obtained in the distillation step and removing an alkali component from the distillation residues, adding the treated distillation residues to hydrogenation step or to a starting fatty acid ester feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Namba, Toru Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20070032686
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for producing an alcohol, including the step of hydrogenating a glyceride in the presence of a catalyst, adding water, or a process for producing an alcohol, including the step of hydrogenating a glyceride in the presence of a catalyst and in the presence of from 0.5 or more of water per mole of the starting glyceride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Inventors: Toru Sakamoto, Osamu Tabata, Hideaki Ueoka
  • Publication number: 20060205965
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a fatty alcohol and glycerin by hydrogenation reaction of fats and oils in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the reaction is carried out in the coexistence of an organic solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Sakamoto, Nobuhiro Tatsumi, Hideaki Ueoka
  • Publication number: 20050222469
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a fatty alcohol, including hydrogenating a fatty acid ester to prepare a crude fatty alcohol product, and distilling and refining the resulting crude fatty alcohol to prepare a fatty alcohol, further including recovering a part or the whole of distillation residues obtained in the distillation step and removing an alkali component from the distillation residues, adding the treated distillation residues to hydrogenation step or to a starting fatty acid ester feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Namba, Toru Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6820867
    Abstract: A fluid-sealed anti-vibration device is provided, in which a cone-shaped mounting section provided with an elastic body section which generates membrane resonance, and a cylindrical bushing section provided with an end wall and an elastic partition wall which also generate membrane resonance are integrally provided. When the fluid is filled and sealed in the cone-shaped mounting section and the cylindrical bushing section, the characteristics where a fluid is sealed in only the cone-shaped mounting section and the characteristics where the fluid is sealed in only the cylindrical busing section are coupled. Furthermore, the dynamic spring peaks and the dynamic spring bottoms, which are generated one by one in both sections, cancel each other. As a result, it is possible to realize the low dynamic spring effect in a wider frequency range by lowering the dynamic spring peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Yamashita Rubber Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Satori, Toru Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20020145240
    Abstract: A fluid-sealed anti-vibration device is provided, in which a cone-shaped mounting section provided with an elastic body section which generates membrane resonance, and a cylindrical bushing section provided with an end wall and an elastic partition wall which also generate membrane resonance are integrally provided. When the fluid is filled and sealed in the cone-shaped mounting section and the cylindrical bushing section, the characteristics where a fluid is sealed in only the cone-shaped mounting section and the characteristics where the fluid is sealed in only the cylindrical busing section are coupled. Furthermore, the dynamic spring peaks and the dynamic spring bottoms, which are generated one by one in both sections, cancel each other. As a result, it is possible to realize the low dynamic spring effect in a wider frequency range by lowering the dynamic spring peak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Satori, Toru Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6443438
    Abstract: A cone-shaped mounting (1) is provided in which a main fluid chamber (10) is formed by a first connecting member (3) a second connecting member (5), an elastic body member (7), a partition member (8) and a first orifice passage (15). A part of an elastic wall of the main fluid chamber (10) is an inner wall of the elastic body member (7). The first orifice (15) communicates with a sub-fluid chamber (11). An input direction of a main vibration is arranged to be the Z-axis direction (the vertical direction of a car body). Side fluid chambers (20) and recessed chambers (25) are alternately provided at intervals of 90° in the circumferential direction on the outer circumference of the elastic body member (7). An outer wall of the elastic body member (7) forms a part of an elastic wall of the side fluid chambers (20). A pair of side fluid chambers (20) is disposed in the longitudinal direction of the car body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Yamashita Rubber Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Satori, Toru Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20010011790
    Abstract: A cone-shaped mounting 1 is provided in which a main fluid chamber 10 is formed by a first connecting member 3, a second connecting member 5, an elastic body member 7, a partition member 8 and a first orifice passage 15. A part of an elastic wall of the main fluid chamber 10 is an inner wall of the elastic body member 7. The first orifice 15 communicates with a sub-fluid chamber 11. An input direction of a main vibration is arranged to be the Z-axis direction (the vertical direction of a car body). Side fluid chambers 20 and recessed chambers 25 are alternately provided at intervals of 90° in the circumferential direction on the outer circumference of the elastic body member 7. An outer wall of the elastic body member 7 forms a part of an elastic wall of the side fluid chambers 20. A pair of side fluid chambers 20 is disposed in the longitudinal direction of the car body. A second orifice 24 is arranged to communicate with the paired side fluid chambers to provide a cylindrical bushing section 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Publication date: August 9, 2001
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Satori, Toru Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6267362
    Abstract: A liquid chamber is arranged with a first support member 1, a second support member 2 and an elastic member 3, an inside of the liquid chamber is divided to a main liquid chamber 11 and an auxiliary liquid chamber 12 by a partition member 10 and both chambers are communicated with a damping orifice passage 14 and an idle orifice passage 15. On an inner face of a conical portion 4 of the elastic member 3, thin wall portions 7 are provided by forming recess 6 at axially symmetrical position so as to yield a minimum value for a dynamic spring characteristic against a vibration input in a designated medium frequency by a membrane resonance. A non-circular medium to high frequency device 20 projecting into the main liquid chamber 11 is provided to the first support member 1 so as to resonate by liquid column against a vibration input in a designated high frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Yamashita Rubber Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Satori, Toru Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6170810
    Abstract: A liquid sealed type bushing including an outer cylinder, an inner cylinder and an elastic member. Recesses are formed on a middle portion of the elastic member. The elastic member between the recesses is adapted to be a partition member and a thin wall portion is formed by providing a through hole in the partition member, and an outer peripheral portion of the partition member is made to contact but not combine with an inner face of the outer cylinder. Within the recess, a medium to high frequency device is supported by the inner cylinder. By overlapping a peak caused by a membrane resonance owing to the thin wall portion of the partition member, and a minimum value caused by a liquid column resonance of the medium to high frequency device, a low dynamic spring constant is attained in a medium to high frequency region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Yamashita Rubber Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Satori, Toru Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 5773126
    Abstract: A composite film that, when used as a protective film or an antireflection film for e.g., a polarizing film of a liquid crystal display, has a surface slip property good enough to be rolled and excellent mechanical and chemical resistance and optical properties. In one aspect, the composite film has a substrate film and a hard coat layer provided on the substrate film, the hard coat layer formed of an ionizing radiation-cured resin, the surface of the hard coat layer having fine irregularities serving to create a surface slip property. In another aspect, the composite film has a substrate film and a hard coat layer provided on the substrate film, the hard coat layer formed of a composition comprising an ionizing radiation-cured resin, fine particulates of inorganic and/or organic materials, and an organic silicone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yugo Noritake, Toru Sakamoto, Yasuo Nakai
  • Patent number: D516080
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Sakamoto, Yoshiya Watanabe, Yasuhisa Kaneda, Kanae Fukamatsu, Michio Deguchi
  • Patent number: D517068
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Sakamoto, Yoshiya Watanabe, Yasuhisa Kaneda, Kanae Fukamatsu, Michio Deguchi
  • Patent number: D517552
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Sakamoto, Yoshiya Watanabe, Yasuhisa Kaneda, Kanae Fukamatsu, Michio Deguchi
  • Patent number: D522013
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Sakamoto, Yoshiya Watanabe, Yasuhisa Kaneda, Kanae Fukamatsu, Michio Deguchi