Patents by Inventor Toshio Sakamoto

Toshio 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).

  • Publication number: 20240124109
    Abstract: An operation assistance system for a small watercraft includes: a position specification unit that specifies an abnormality occurrence position, which is a position where an abnormality has occurred, when the abnormality has occurred in a small watercraft; a transmission unit that transmits information on the abnormality occurrence position specified by the position specification unit; and a processing circuit, in which the processing circuit includes a storage unit that stores information on the abnormality occurrence position transmitted from the transmission unit, and an information provision unit that creates predetermined operation assistance information based on information on the abnormality occurrence position stored in the storage unit and transmits the created operation assistance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Kawasaki Motors, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio ARAKI, Kazumasa HISADA, Daisuke KAWAI, Shohei TERAI, Takuya SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11920733
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for diagnosing a failure of a flowmeter in a measuring machine, includes calculating a filling amount at an end of filling of the hydrogen gas into a tank from the measuring machine by using a pressure, a temperature, and a volume of the tank; and determining whether or not the flowmeter fails by using a plurality of error values between a metering filling amount at the end of filling measured using the flowmeter and a calculated filling amount at the end of filling calculated using the pressure, the temperature, and the volume of the tank, the plurality of error values being based on a plurality of past performance data stored in a storage device, and an error value at the end of filling of the hydrogen gas at a present time, and outputting a result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio Tezuka, Tatsuya Rembutsu, Koki Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20220379965
    Abstract: A vehicle front body structure includes a duct member that surrounds a radiator on an inner side in a vehicle width direction of a right and left pair of crash cans. The duct member is a member that completely surrounds the radiator and includes side duct sections and an upper duct section. The side duct sections and the upper duct section are connected such that, when the duct member receives a specified load from a bumper member of a body during a frontal collision, the side duct sections and the upper duct section are disengaged from each other in the engagement sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio SAKAMOTO, Kazuto ISHII, Yusaku YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11420576
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a vehicle body lower structure capable of preventing a backflow component from flowing outside the vehicle from a rear wheel housing at the shortest distance. The vehicle body lower structure of a vehicle comprising a rear wheel housing 12, and a mud guard 71 integrally attached to an inner surface of a rear portion of the rear wheel housing 12, wherein the mud guard 71 has a plate-shaped shielding portion 71b extending from a vehicle width directional inner side of a rear edge of the rear wheel housing 12 toward a front side of the vehicle, and wherein the shielding portion 71b has an up-down directional length extending from a bottom portion of the mud guard 71 to a position above at least a tail pipe 33 whose outlet portion 33a is oriented toward a rear surface of a vehicle body adjacent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuhei Nishida, Yoshiatsu Kuga, Toshio Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20210170967
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a vehicle body lower structure capable of preventing a backflow component from flowing outside the vehicle from a rear wheel housing at the shortest distance. The vehicle body lower structure of a vehicle comprising a rear wheel housing 12, and a mud guard 71 integrally attached to an inner surface of a rear portion of the rear wheel housing 12, wherein the mud guard 71 has a plate-shaped shielding portion 71b extending from a vehicle width directional inner side of a rear edge of the rear wheel housing 12 toward a front side of the vehicle, and wherein the shielding portion 71b has an up-down directional length extending from a bottom portion of the mud guard 71 to a position above at least a tail pipe 33 whose outlet portion 33a is oriented toward a rear surface of a vehicle body adjacent thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuhei NISHIDA, Yoshiatsu KUGA, Toshio SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200405136
    Abstract: It is an object to provide an endoscope having high chemical resistance and easy wiring. The endoscope includes: an imaging device provided at a distal end portion of an insertion part to be inserted into a subject. The imaging device includes a solid-state imaging element having an image receiving surface which is disposed to intersect with a longitudinal direction of the insertion part and photoelectrically converting an optical image formed on the image receiving surface, a cable bundle including one or more coaxial cables respectively connected to one or more connection terminals provided on a surface of the solid-state imaging element opposite to the image receiving surface, and a collective shield wire that covers an outer periphery of the one or more coaxial cables, and a metallic pipe-shaped member into which the cable bundle is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20200385347
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pyrrole compound represented by the following formula (1):
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Seiichi MATSUGOU, Toshio SAKAMOTO, Ayaka NISHIDA, Naoki WADA, Tetsuya KONISHI
  • Patent number: 10770274
    Abstract: A copper alloy sputtering target is formed by a copper alloy including the content of Ca being 0.3 to 1.7% by mass, the total content of Mg and Al being 5 ppm or less by mass, the content of oxygen being 20 ppm or less by mass, and the remainder is Cu and inevitable impurities. A manufacturing method of a copper alloy sputtering target comprises steps of: preparing a copper having purity of 99.99% or more by mass; melting the copper so as to obtain a molten copper; controlling components so as to obtain a molten metal having a predetermined component composition by the addition of Ca having a purity of 98.5% or more by mass into the molten copper and by melting the Ca; casting the molten metal so as to obtain an ingot; and performing stress relieving annealing after performing hot rolling to the ingot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Mori, Toshio Sakamoto, Kiyoyuki Ookubo
  • Patent number: 10584400
    Abstract: This copper alloy wire is a copper alloy wire which is made of a precipitation hardening-type copper alloy containing Co, P, and Sn and is manufactured using a continuous cast-rolling method or cold working of a continuous cast wire rod manufactured using a continuous casting method, in which the copper alloy wire has a composition including Co: more than or equal to 0.20 mass % and less than or equal to 0.35 mass %, P: more than 0.095 mass % and less than or equal to 0.15 mass %, and Sn: more than or equal to 0.01 mass % and less than or equal to 0.5 mass % with a balance being Cu and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tsugawa, Toshio Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20200060514
    Abstract: Provided are an endoscope and a method of manufacturing an endoscope capable of positioning an imaging element and a lens assembly with high accuracy, forming an optical image with high accuracy on an image reception surface of the imaging element to obtain a high-quality image with little loss of to image, defocusing, and the like, performing easy assembling, and firmly joining members. The endoscope has an imaging element; a lens assembly that forms an optical image on an image reception surface of an imaging element; a cable that is connected to a connecting terminal provided on a surface opposite to the image reception surface of the imaging element; a case that protects a joined part between the connecting terminal of the imaging element and the cable; and a holder that holds the lens assembly and is joined to the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10544495
    Abstract: A casting mold material of the present invention includes, as a composition: 0.3 mass % to less than 0.5 mass % of Cr, 0.01 mass % to 0.15 mass % of Zr, and a balance consisting of Cu and inevitable impurities, and the casting mold material has acicular precipitates or plate-like precipitates containing Cr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichiro Yano, Toshio Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20190144974
    Abstract: A copper alloy has a composition including 0.05 mass % or more and 0.70 mass % or less of Co; 0.02 mass % or more and 0.20 mass % or less of P; 0.005 mass % or more and 0.70 mass % or less of Sn, one or more of B, Cr, and Zr; and furthermore, a Cu balance containing inevitable impurities, wherein X, Y, and Z satisfy the following Expression (1): 1?(X/5)+(Y/50)+(Z/100) and Expression (2): X+Y+Z?1,000, in case where an amount of B is represented by X (massppm), an amount of Cr is represented by Y (massppm), and an amount of Zr is represented by Z (massppm).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Yuusuke Enami, Toshio Sakamoto, Hitoshi Nakamoto, Keiichiro Oishi, Atsushi Sugahara, Chikara Yamashita, Takuya Ohara
  • Publication number: 20190062874
    Abstract: A copper alloy material has a composition including: 0.3 mass % or more and less than 0.5 mass % of Cr; 0.01 mass % or more and 0.15 mass % or less of Zr; and a Cu balance including inevitable impurities, wherein an average of crystal grain sizes is in a range of 0.1 mm or more and 2.0 mm or less, and a standard deviation of the crystal grain sizes is 0.6 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichiro YANO, Kanta DAIRAKU, Toshio SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180297109
    Abstract: A casting mold material used in casting a metal material has a composition including 0.3 mass % or more and less than 0.5 mass % of Cr, 0.01 mass % or more and 0.15 mass % or less of Zr, 0.1 mass % or more and less than 2.0 mass % of Al; and a Cu balance including inevitable impurities and has precipitates in a needle shape or precipitates in a plate shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichiro YANO, Shinobu SATOU, Toshio SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180291490
    Abstract: A copper alloy material has a composition including: 0.1 mass % or more and 1.5 mass % or less of Cr; 0.05 mass % or more and 0.25 mass % or less of Zr; 0.005 mass % or more and 0.10 mass % or less of P; and a Cu balance including inevitable impurities. The copper alloy material includes a Cr—Zr—P compound containing Cr, Zr and P and an area ratio of the Cr—Zr—P compound is in a range of 0.5% or more and 5.0% or less in a structure observation, and the Cr—Zr—P compound is in a form of a needle shape or a granular shape and a length a longest side of the needle shape or the granular shape is 100 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichiro YANO, Shinobu SATOU, Toshio SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10062552
    Abstract: A copper alloy sputtering target is formed by a copper alloy including the content of Ca being 0.3 to 1.7% by mass, the total content of Mg and Al being 5 ppm or less by mass, the content of oxygen being 20 ppm or less by mass, and the remainder is Cu and inevitable impurities. A manufacturing method of a copper alloy sputtering target comprises steps of: preparing a copper having purity of 99.99% or more by mass; melting the copper so as to obtain a molten copper; controlling components so as to obtain a molten metal having a predetermined component composition by the addition of Ca having a purity of 98.5% or more by mass into the molten copper and by melting the Ca; casting the molten metal so as to obtain an ingot; and performing stress relieving annealing after performing hot rolling to the ingot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Mori, Toshio Sakamoto, Kiyoyuki Ookubo
  • Publication number: 20170292181
    Abstract: A casting mold material of the present invention includes, as a composition: 0.3 mass % to less than 0.5 mass % of Cr, 0.01 mass % to 0.15 mass % of Zr, and a balance consisting of Cu and inevitable impurities, and the casting mold material has acicular precipitates or plate-like precipitates containing Cr.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichiro YANO, Toshio SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170213711
    Abstract: A copper alloy sputtering target is formed by a copper alloy including the content of Ca being 0.3 to 1.7% by mass, the total content of Mg and Al being 5 ppm or less by mass, the content of oxygen being 20 ppm or less by mass, and the remainder is Cu and inevitable impurities. A manufacturing method of a copper alloy sputtering target comprises steps of: preparing a copper having purity of 99.99% or more by mass; melting the copper so as to obtain a molten copper; controlling components so as to obtain a molten metal having a predetermined component composition by the addition of Ca having a purity of 98.5% or more by mass into the molten copper and by melting the Ca; casting the molten metal so as to obtain an ingot; and performing stress relieving annealing after performing hot rolling to the ingot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Satoru Mori, Toshio Sakamoto, Kiyoyuki Ookubo
  • Patent number: 9573634
    Abstract: In a front air-flow streamlining structure of an automotive vehicle comprising a cover front portion of an under cover of a vehicle front portion and an air dam provided at a front bumper, a deflector is provided between the air dam and a front wheel house to be spaced rearward apart from the air dam, to project downward, and to extend in a vehicle width direction, an outward end portion, in the vehicle width direction, of the air dam is provided substantially continuously to the deflector, a pocket portion enclosed by the cover front portion, the air dam, and the deflector is provided such that an inward side, in the vehicle width direction, thereof opens, and a traveling-air intake portion which opens so as to take in traveling air toward the pocket portion is provided at the air dam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Ohira, Masanori Minamisawa, Eiji Yoshimura, Toshio Sakamoto, Takanori Tsubaki
  • Patent number: 9518320
    Abstract: A copper alloy sputtering target is made of a copper alloy having a composition containing Ca in a range of 0.3 mass % to 1.7 mass % with a remainder of Cu and inevitable impurities, a Ca-segregated phase (10) in which Ca is segregated is dispersed in a matrix phase, and the Ca-segregated phase contains a Cu-dispersed phase (11) made of Cu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Mori, Toshio Sakamoto, Kiyoyuki Ookubo