Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Morimoto
Tsutomu Morimoto 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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Patent number: 11939217Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnesium-recycling hydrogen generation system includes: a by-product acquisition unit that separates a by-product from a post-reaction solution, which is a solution after reacting with a hydrogen generation material containing a hydrogen-containing magnesium compound that generates hydrogen via a reaction with the solution, to acquire the by-product including more than one type of oxygen-containing magnesium compound that contains oxygen produced by the reaction, a raw material production unit that reacts the by-product with a halogen-containing substance containing halogen and other atoms than the halogen to produce a raw material containing magnesium halide, a hydrogen generation material production unit that reduces the raw material with plasma containing hydrogen to produce the hydrogen generation material, and a hydrogen generator that reacts the hydrogen generation material with the solution to generate hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SE CORPORATIONInventors: Tsutomu Takizawa, Toshihiro Oishi, Yoshiharu Sawaki, Mineo Morimoto, Yuichi Sakamoto
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Patent number: 9330834Abstract: A core member (2) of the disclosed reactor (Da) comprises a magnetic wire material and is arranged outside a plurality of coils (1). As the core member (2) in the reactor (Da) having this structure is a wire material and is arranged outside the plurality of coils (1), the core member (2) can be formed by the winding of the wire material, simplifying manufacturing.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2011Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: Kobe Steel Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Morimoto, Kenichi Inoue, Koji Inoue, Hiroshi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 8476582Abstract: A radiation intensity measuring apparatus is provided for an encapsulated sealed radioactive source for brachytherapy, which is capable of measuring radiation intensity of sources with a cartridge enclosed under sterile conditions. The radiation intensity measuring apparatus includes a radiation intensity measuring device for measuring radiation emitted from a source, a holding device for holding a cartridge, and a moving mechanism for moving the holding device to the radiation intensity measuring device. The moving device includes a guide portion for guiding the movement of the holding device so that the holding device moves along a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of a slit, and a moving portion for moving the holding device so that all the sources loaded in the cartridge pass through a position of the slit in a housing space of a housing portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: The University of TokushimaInventors: Takuya Saze, Shintaro Nakayama, Shunsuke Furutani, Yoshinori Kuwahara, Tsutomu Morimoto, Yusuke Kinoshita, Yutaka Kurosaki, Takaharu Yamada, Toshinori Shinohara
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Publication number: 20130063237Abstract: A core member (2) of the disclosed reactor (Da) comprises a magnetic wire material and is arranged outside a plurality of coils (1). As the core member (2) in the reactor (Da) having this structure is a wire material and is arranged outside the plurality of coils (1), the core member (2) can be formed by the winding of the wire material, simplifying manufacturing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Tsutomu Morimoto, Kenichi Inoue, Koji Inoue, Hiroshi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20120326035Abstract: Provided is a radiation intensity measuring apparatus for an encapsulated sealed radioactive source for brachytherapy capable of easily and accurately measuring radiation intensity of sources with a cartridge enclosed under sterile conditions. The radiation intensity measuring apparatus for sources S loaded in a cartridge C includes radiation intensity measuring means for measuring radiations emitted from the source S, holding means 30 for holding the cartridge C, and moving means for moving the holding means 30 to the radiation intensity measuring means. The moving means includes a guide portion for guiding the movement of the holding means 30 so that the holding means 30 moves along a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of a slit 15h, and a moving portion for moving the holding means 30 so that all the sources loaded in the cartridge C pass through a position of the slit 15h in housing space of a housing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2010Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMAInventors: Takuya Saze, Shintaro Nakayama, Shunsuke Furutani, Yoshinori Kuwahara, Tsutomu Morimoto, Yusuke Kinoshita, Yutaka Kurosaki, Takaharu Yamada, Toshinori Shinohara
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Patent number: 7800702Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display device capable of outputting a sound of a sufficiently large volume by use of a liquid crystal cell which displays an image. A liquid crystal display device includes a thin front glass substrate having an outer surface in which a rib is formed on a peripheral portion, a back glass substrate arranged with a predetermined gap from an inner surface of the front glass substrate, in which liquid crystal is sealed in the gap, and a sound source element provided in contact with the front glass substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2005Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kenji Tsuboi, Tsutomu Morimoto
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Patent number: 7755772Abstract: A tire shape measuring system measures a surface shape on the basis of an image of a line of light (a light section line) emitted to a surface of a relatively rotating tire using a light-section method. The shape measuring system includes a light projector for emitting a plurality of lines of light onto a tire surface in directions different from a direction in which the height of the surface is detected so as to form a plurality of separate light section lines and a camera for capturing images of the light section lines in directions in which chief rays of the lines of light are specularly reflected by the tire surface. The shape measuring system individually detects the coordinates of the light section lines from images of pre-defined independent image processing target areas for each captured image and calculates the distribution of the surface height using the detected coordinates.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2008Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Takahashi, Naokazu Sakoda, Tsutomu Morimoto
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Patent number: 7724377Abstract: A tire shape detecting apparatus includes a projector that applies a plurality line light beams in a continuously joined manner, from a direction different from the detection height direction (Z-axis direction) in one light section line, or that applies one line light beam in a condensed manner in the line length direction thereof in order that the one light section line may be formed on the one line Ls on the surface of the tire; and a camera for picking up images of the plurality of line light beams applied to the tire surface in the direction in which the principal ray of each of the plurality of line light beams performs specular reflection with respect to the tire surface, or in the direction in which the principal ray of the condensed one line light beam performs specular reflection with respect to the tire surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2007Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Naokazu Sakoda, Eiji Takahashi, Tsutomu Morimoto, Yasuhiro Matsushita, Toshikatsu Nonaka, Shiro Horiguchi
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Patent number: 7715022Abstract: A shape measuring apparatus and a shape measuring method suited for measuring an edge profile of a thin sample such as a semiconductor wafer or the like is provided. A distribution of surface angle and an edge profile of a measurement site is calculated by emitting light at sequentially different angle to the measurement site of a wafer by sequentially switching and lighting a plurality of LEDs each disposed at one of plurality of positions in one plane by an LED driving circuit, obtaining an image data showing a luminance distribution of the reflected light form the measurement site through a camera by a calculator each time light is emitted and, estimating an emitting angle of the light when the luminance of the reflected light becomes peak based on image data and emitting angle of the light corresponding to each LED by the calculator.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2007Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Tsutomu Morimoto, Eiji Takahashi, Masato Kannaka
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Patent number: 7522287Abstract: A liquid sample is irradiated with excitation light and measurement light, and a measurement position at which a traveling path of the measurement light passes through an excitation section of the excitation light in the sample is changed while the sample is being irradiated with the excitation light and the measurement light. Then, the phase change of the measurement light is measured for each measurement by optical interferometry on the basis of the measurement light after the measurement light passes through the sample. The measurement position is changed by, for example, scanning the excitation light, moving the sample, moving a lens that collects the excitation light in the sample so as to change the light-collecting position (focal position) in the sample, etc.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2006Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Takahashi, Hiroyuki Takamatsu, Masato Kannaka, Naokazu Sakoda, Tsutomu Morimoto
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Publication number: 20090040533Abstract: A tire shape measuring system measures a surface shape on the basis of an image of a line of light (a light section line) emitted to a surface of a relatively rotating tire using a light-section method. The shape measuring system includes a light projector for emitting a plurality of lines of light onto a tire surface in directions different from a direction in which the height of the surface is detected so as to form a plurality of separate light section lines and a camera for capturing images of the light section lines in directions in which chief rays of the lines of light are specularly reflected by the tire surface. The shape measuring system individually detects the coordinates of the light section lines from images of pre-defined independent image processing target areas for each captured image and calculates the distribution of the surface height using the detected coordinates.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Inventors: Eiji Takahashi, Naokazu Sakoda, Tsutomu Morimoto
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Publication number: 20080218742Abstract: A tire shape detecting apparatus includes a projector that applies a plurality line light beams in a continuously joined manner, from a direction different from the detection height direction (Z-axis direction) in one light section line, or that applies one line light beam in a condensed manner in the line length direction thereof in order that the one light section line may be formed on the one line Ls on the surface of the tire; and a camera for picking up images of the plurality of line light beams applied to the tire surface in the direction in which the principal ray of each of the plurality of line light beams performs specular reflection with respect to the tire surface, or in the direction in which the principal ray of the condensed one line light beam performs specular reflection with respect to the tire surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2007Publication date: September 11, 2008Inventors: Naokazu Sakoda, Eiji Takahashi, Tsutomu Morimoto, Yasuhiro Matsushita, Toshikatsu Nonaka, Shiro Horiguchi
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Publication number: 20070254162Abstract: An organic EL element with high luminous efficiency is manufactured by fabricating a compound substrate by forming a microscopic unevenness on a transparent substrate of glass or the like using a sol-gel material and a nanoimprinting method, applying a high refractive index material on the microscopic unevenness, and planarizing the surface, and layering a first electrode, an organic solid layer including an organic light-emitting material and a first electrode in that order on the compound substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2007Publication date: November 1, 2007Inventors: Kenji Kozaki, Tsutomu Morimoto, Shigeru Ayukawa, Naganori Tsutsui, Nobuhito Miura, Masahiro Katoh
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Publication number: 20070195314Abstract: A shape measuring apparatus and a shape measuring method suited for measuring an edge profile of a thin sample such as a semiconductor wafer or the like is provided. A distribution of surface angle and an edge profile of a measurement site is calculated by emitting light at sequentially different angle to the measurement site of a wafer by sequentially switching and lighting a plurality of LEDs each disposed at one of plurality of positions in one plane by an LED driving circuit, obtaining an image data showing a luminance distribution of the reflected light form the measurement site through a camera by a calculator each time light is emitted and, estimating an emitting angle of the light when the luminance of the reflected light becomes peak based on image data and emitting angle of the light corresponding to each LED by the calculator.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2007Publication date: August 23, 2007Inventors: Tsutomu Morimoto, Eiji Takahashi, Masato Kannaka
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Publication number: 20060181708Abstract: A liquid sample is irradiated with excitation light and measurement light, and a measurement position at which a traveling path of the measurement light passes through an excitation section of the excitation light in the sample is changed while the sample is being irradiated with the excitation light and the measurement light. Then, the phase change of the measurement light is measured for each measurement by optical interferometry on the basis of the measurement light after the measurement light passes through the sample. The measurement position is changed by, for example, scanning the excitation light, moving the sample, moving a lens that collects the excitation light in the sample so as to change the light-collecting position (focal position) in the sample, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2006Publication date: August 17, 2006Inventors: Eiji Takahashi, Hiroyuki Takamatsu, Masato Kannaka, Naokazu Sakoda, Tsutomu Morimoto
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Patent number: 7060749Abstract: A polyester composition includes a ligand capable of coordinating to a metal or metal ion, wherein the ligand includes at least one donor atom selected from the group consisting of a nitrogen atom, a sulfur atom, and an oxygen atom. Consequently, it is possible to inactivate a metal catalyst which adversely affects heat resistance. As a result, it is possible to obtain polyester compositions and films having excellent heat resistance, colorability, and weathering resistance. Moreover, in the process of producing a polyester, by separating and recovering a catalyst by adding a ligand which is capable of coordinating to a metal or metal ion and which includes at least one donor atom selected from the group consisting of a nitrogen atom, a sulfur atom, and an oxygen atom, it is possible to improve the heat resistance of the polyester composition.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2001Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yoshihiro Honma, Tsutomu Morimoto, Minoru Yoshida
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Publication number: 20050174525Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display device capable of outputting a sound of a sufficiently large volume by use of a liquid crystal cell which displays an image. A liquid crystal display device includes a thin front glass substrate having an outer surface in which a rib is formed on a peripheral portion, a back glass substrate arranged with a predetermined gap from an inner surface of the front glass substrate, in which liquid crystal is sealed in the gap, and a sound source element provided in contact with the front glass substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2005Publication date: August 11, 2005Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Tsuboi, Tsutomu Morimoto
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Publication number: 20050140383Abstract: In an electric-connection testing device of the present invention, a base and a rigid body, to which a substrate provided with a plurality of contacts are secured, are integrated and sandwich a leaf spring. The leaf spring has a spring structure with two or more independent elastic degrees of freedom. Such a small, simple, and adjustment-free structure can uniformize a pressing force applied from the contacts to electrodes of an object to be tested.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2004Publication date: June 30, 2005Inventors: Kenichi Inoue, Akashi Yamaguchi, Takayuki Hirano, Tsutomu Morimoto, Hiroshi Gotoh
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Patent number: 6716521Abstract: A polyester film containing 0.1 to 2.0% by weight of a wax compound formed from an aliphatic carboxylic acid and an aliphatic alcohol or a constituent of the wax compound, and having thereon large protuberances having a maximum diameter of not smaller than 2 &mgr;m at a density of 20 protuberances/mm2.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2001Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Tsutomu Morimoto, Toshihiro Tsuzuki, Tai Sasamoto
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Publication number: 20030045649Abstract: A polyester composition includes a ligand capable of coordinating to a metal or metal ion, wherein the ligand includes at least one donor atom selected from the group consisting of a nitrogen atom, a sulfur atom, and an oxygen atom. Consequently, it is possible to inactivate a metal catalyst which adversely affects heat resistance. As a result, it is possible to obtain polyester compositions and films having excellent heat resistance, colorability, and weathering resistance. Moreover, in the process of producing a polyester, by separating and recovering a catalyst by adding a ligand which is capable of coordinating to a metal or metal ion and which includes at least one donor atom selected from the group consisting of a nitrogen atom, a sulfur atom, and an oxygen atom, it is possible to improve the heat resistance of the polyester composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2002Publication date: March 6, 2003Inventors: Yoshihiro Honma, Tsutomu Morimoto, Minoru Yoshida