Patents by Inventor Wataru Kato

Wataru Kato 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: 10541084
    Abstract: There is a film capacitor capable of suppressing decrease in the electrostatic capacitance even after a self-healing phenomenon has occurred. A film capacitor includes a dielectric film; and an electrode film disposed on a principal surface of the dielectric film, the dielectric film containing an organic resin and an organic component having a higher volatility than the organic resin. The organic resin is preferably any one of a cyclic olefin-based resin, a polyarylate resin, a polyphenylene ether resin and a polyetherimide resin. The organic component is preferably at least one selected from the group consisting of cyclohexane, ethylcyclohexane, toluene, xylene, chloroform, and tetrahydrofuran.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka Maeda, Wataru Kato
  • Publication number: 20190176359
    Abstract: A horizontal multistage press apparatus 1 (multistage drying apparatus) includes conveyance paths R1 to R4 (first to fourth conveyance paths) in which the veneer sheet W1 (sheet material to be treated) is carried out in a standing state. The conveyance path R1 is positioned over between the loader device 10 and the hot press device 20, the conveyance path R2 is positioned over between the hot press device 20 and the open transpiration device 40, the conveyance path R3 is positioned over between the open transpiration device 40 and the temperature control press device 50, and the conveyance path R4 is positioned over between the temperature control press device 50 and the unloader device 60. The conveyance paths R1 to R4 are arranged in a straight line in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: MASARU ISHIGURO, KEISUKE MIZUTANI, WATARU KATO, NORIYUKI SATO, KAZUYA AOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190168976
    Abstract: A horizontal multistage press apparatus 1 (multistage conveyance apparatus, multistage press apparatus) includes: a loader unit gripping body 70A or an open transpiration unit gripping body 70C (upstream side conveyance body) for carrying out the veneer sheet W1 with the upper part of the veneer sheet W1 (sheet material to be treated) gripped and suspended from the loader device 10 or the open transpiration device 40 (first treatment device), and a hot press unit gripping body 70B or a temperature control press unit gripping body 70D (downstream side conveyance body) for carrying the veneer sheet W1 into the press position of the hot press device 20 or the temperature control press device 50 (second treatment device) with the gripping position of the veneer sheet W1 shifted from the upper part to the lower part and supported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: MASARU ISHIGURO, KEISUKE MIZUTANI, WATARU KATO
  • Publication number: 20190164692
    Abstract: There is a film capacitor capable of suppressing decrease in the electrostatic capacitance even after a self-healing phenomenon has occurred. A film capacitor includes a dielectric film; and an electrode film disposed on a principal surface of the dielectric film, the dielectric film containing an organic resin and an organic component having a higher volatility than the organic resin. The organic resin is preferably any one of a cyclic olefin-based resin, a polyarylate resin, a polyphenylene ether resin and a polyetherimide resin. The organic component is preferably at least one selected from the group consisting of cyclohexane, ethylcyclohexane, toluene, xylene, chloroform, and tetrahydrofuran.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutaka MAEDA, Wataru KATO
  • Patent number: 10147542
    Abstract: There is a film capacitor capable of suppressing decrease in the electrostatic capacitance even after a self-healing phenomenon has occurred. A film capacitor includes a dielectric film; and an electrode film disposed on a principal surface of the dielectric film, the dielectric film containing an organic resin and an organic component having a higher volatility than the organic resin. The organic resin is preferably any one of a cyclic olefin-based resin, a polyarylate resin, a polyphenylene ether resin and a polyetherimide resin. The organic component is preferably at least one selected from the group consisting of cyclohexane, ethylcyclohexane, toluene, xylene, chloroform, and tetrahydrofuran.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka Maeda, Wataru Kato
  • Publication number: 20170352480
    Abstract: There are provided a dielectric film which is excellent in heat resistance and is capable of improvement in breakdown field, a film capacitor and a combination type capacitor using the dielectric film, an inverter, and an electric vehicle. A film capacitor having excellent heat resistance and high breakdown field is obtained by producing a film capacitor that uses a dielectric film comprising an organic resin and a plurality of fine particles containing a metal element, an average of diameters of the fine particles falling in a range of 0.5 nm to 50 nm. Such a film capacitor and a combination type capacitor connected thereto via a bus bar are preferably used in an inverter and an electric vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Wataru KATO
  • Publication number: 20160372264
    Abstract: There is a film capacitor capable of suppressing decrease in the electrostatic capacitance even after a self-healing phenomenon has occurred. A film capacitor includes a dielectric film; and an electrode film disposed on a principal surface of the dielectric film, the dielectric film containing an organic resin and an organic component having a higher volatility than the organic resin. The organic resin is preferably any one of a cyclic olefin-based resin, a polyarylate resin, a polyphenylene ether resin and a polyetherimide resin. The organic component is preferably at least one selected from the group consisting of cyclohexane, ethylcyclohexane, toluene, xylene, chloroform, and tetrahydrofuran.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutaka MAEDA, Wataru KATO
  • Publication number: 20160243643
    Abstract: A welding assistance member with electrically-conductive properties is used for spot-welding performed by sandwiching a second member between electrically-conductive first members different in material from the second member. The welding assistance member is fitted into a hole extending through the second member so as to allow for spot-welding of the first members to each other from opposite sides in the hole. The welding assistance member includes: a main body that has a size and shape that allow a gap to be formed between the main body and an inner side surface of the hole when the main body is fitted in the hole; and a position maintaining component that is provided at an outer side of the main body, has heat , heat resisting, and electrically insulating properties, and maintains the main body in a separated state from the inner side surface. A spot-welding method uses this welding assistance member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Akiko INAMI, Keiji NAKAMURA, Noboru SAKAMOTO, Wataru KATO
  • Patent number: 9266486
    Abstract: An energy absorbing member is fixed to a vehicle body. A joint has in a state where the longitudinal direction thereof extends along the front-back direction of the vehicle. Proximal and distal ends of the joint are respectively connected to the member and a bumper beam. The joint causes a collision load from the hamper beam to the vehicle body to act upon the member while collapsing in the longitudinal direction. A distal end has an inclined shape such that a distance from the member deceases gradually from the center toward the outside in the width direction of the vehicle. The distal end has a gradual increase region where a width in the height direction of the vehicle increases gradually and a gradual decrease region where the width in the height direction of the vehicle decreases gradually, from the center toward the outside in the width direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junya Iino, Wataru Kato, Isamu Nagasawa, Satoshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9259647
    Abstract: The image generating program makes the image generating device perform: setting a number of increase or decrease objects in at least one of a plurality of regions on a field having the plurality of regions divided from each other and connected to each other; generating a display image including a display corresponding to the field and the set number of increase or decrease objects; generating the display image in which an increase or decrease number corresponding to a selected level is set in the region within a predetermined area; generating the display image in which the number of increase or decrease objects is increased or decreased on a basis of the set increase or decrease number; and ending the stage when the number of increase or decrease objects set in each of the regions becomes a predetermined value as a result of the increase or decrease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Koji Tada, Wataru Kato, Masasuke Yasumoto, Masahiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20150274103
    Abstract: An energy absorbing member is fixed to a vehicle body. A joint has in a state where the longitudinal direction thereof extends along the front-back direction of the vehicle. Proximal and distal ends of the joint are respectively connected to the member and a bumper beam. The joint causes a collision load from the hamper beam to the vehicle body to act upon the member while collapsing in the longitudinal direction. A distal end has an inclined shape such that a distance from the member deceases gradually from the center toward the outside in the width direction of the vehicle. The distal end has a gradual increase region where a width in the height direction of the vehicle increases gradually and a gradual decrease region where the width in the height direction of the vehicle decreases gradually, from the center toward the outside in the width direction of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junya IINO, Wataru KATO, Isamu NAGASAWA, Satoshi IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20150124110
    Abstract: To enable satisfactory simultaneous and widely varied pictures to be obtained, for example, by allowing a common user to obtain an overall picture while the common user performing desired image capturing, or the like. A first image capturing device image-captures a subject to record this image, and also transmits a trigger signal to a second image capturing device. The second image capturing device image-captures an image to record this image in accordance with the trigger signal. Thus, the first and second image capturing devices enable both of an overall image and a zoomed image to be obtained with simultaneous timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Kotaro KASHIWA, Kazuyuki Marukawa, Wataru Kato, Yukihiro Ozheki
  • Patent number: 8658118
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide more inexpensive high purity crystalline silicon which can satisfy not only a quality required to a raw material of silicon for a solar cell but also a part of a quality required to silicon for an up-to-date semiconductor and a production process for the same and provide high purity silicon tetrachloride used for production of high purity crystalline silicon and a production process for the same. The high purity crystalline silicon of the present invention has a boron content of 0.015 ppmw or less and a zinc content of 50 to 1000 ppbw. The production process for high purity crystalline silicon according to the present invention is characterized by that a silicon tetrachloride gas and a zinc gas are supplied to a vertical reactor to react them at 800 to 1200° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignees: JNC Corporation, JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation, Toho Titanium Co., ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayashida, Wataru Kato
  • Publication number: 20130063480
    Abstract: The image generating program makes the image generating device perform: setting a number of increase or decrease objects in at least one of a plurality of regions on a field having the plurality of regions divided from each other and connected to each other; generating a display image including a display corresponding to the field and the set number of increase or decrease objects; generating the display image in which an increase or decrease number corresponding to a selected level is set in the region within a predetermined area; generating the display image in which the number of increase or decrease objects is increased or decreased on a basis of the set increase or decrease number; and ending the stage when the number of increase or decrease objects set in each of the regions becomes a predetermined value as a result of the increase or decrease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Koji Tada, Wataru Kato, Masasuke Yasumoto, Masahiko Sato
  • Patent number: 8111263
    Abstract: A video display device that allows the color temperature of the signals in white color attributes having high luminance and low chroma saturation to be corrected with high precision is provided with a color temperature correction method so as to visually obtain a desirable white color on display. In some embodiments, the signal processing circuit can include an A/D converter to convert video signals into digitalized signals, a matrix circuit to convert the digitalized signals into luminance signals and at least two color difference signals, a hue conversion circuit to obtain hue signals from the color difference signals, a hue correction circuit to correct hue signals, a chroma saturation conversion circuit to obtain chroma saturation signals from color difference signals, a chroma saturation correction circuit to correct chroma saturation signals and a color temperature correction circuit to perform the color temperature correction on the respective hue and chroma saturation signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsunobu Kimura, Takaaki Matono, Haruki Takata, Takeshi Sakai, Wataru Kato
  • Publication number: 20110158885
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide more inexpensive high purity crystalline silicon which can satisfy not only a quality required to a raw material of silicon for a solar cell but also a part of a quality required to silicon for an up-to-date semiconductor and a production process for the same and provide high purity silicon tetrachloride used for production of high purity crystalline silicon and a production process for the same. The high purity crystalline silicon of the present invention has a boron content of 0.015 ppmw or less and a zinc content of 50 to 1000 ppbw. The production process for high purity crystalline silicon according to the present invention is characterized by that a silicon tetrachloride gas and a zinc gas are supplied to a vertical reactor to react them at 800 to 1200° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicants: Chisso Corporation, JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation, Toho Titanium Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayashida, Wataru Kato
  • Patent number: 7813757
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processor including, a first function portion including communication means for executing processing relating to communication of data, and communication managing means for controlling the communication means and for managing information representing whether or not the communication means is executing the processing relating to the communication of the data, a second function portion different from the first function portion, instructing means for issuing an instruction to stop the first function portion, determing means provided in the second function portion for, when the instructing means issues the instruction to stop the first function portion, determing based on the information managed by the communication managing means whether or not the communication means is executing the communication processing, and stopping means provided in the second function portion for, when the determing means determines that the communication means is executing the communication processing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Kato, Takashi Fukushima, Kissei Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 7805102
    Abstract: On a sliding surface of a heating support body positioned in a downstream side in a film body moving direction wherein the heating temperature is comparatively high and the fluidity of a lubricant agent is good, fluid guiding grooves which uniformly disperse the lubricant agent are provided, thereby well dispersing the lubricant agent over the entire region from a center region to both-end regions of the heating support body and the film body and maintaining good slidability of the film body over a long period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Finetech Inc.
    Inventor: Wataru Kato
  • Publication number: 20090244107
    Abstract: A video display device that allows the color temperature of the signals in white color attributes having high luminance and low chroma saturation to be corrected with high precision is provided with a color temperature correction method so as to visually obtain a desirable white color on display. In some embodiments, the signal processing circuit can include an A/D converter to convert video signals into digitalized signals, a matrix circuit to convert the digitalized signals into luminance signals and at least two color difference signals, a hue conversion circuit to obtain hue signals from the color difference signals, a hue correction circuit to correct hue signals, a chroma saturation conversion circuit to obtain chroma saturation signals from color difference signals, a chroma saturation correction circuit to correct chroma saturation signals and a color temperature correction circuit to perform the color temperature correction on the respective hue and chroma saturation signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsunobu Kimura, Takaaki Matono, Haruki Takata, Takeshi Sakai, Wataru Kato
  • Publication number: 20080187372
    Abstract: On a sliding surface of a heating support body positioned in a downstream side in a film body moving direction wherein the heating temperature is comparatively high and the fluidity of a lubricant agent is good, fluid guiding grooves which uniformly disperse the lubricant agent are provided, thereby well dispersing the lubricant agent over the entire region from a center region to both-end regions of the heating support body and the film body and maintaining good slidability of the film body over a long period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventor: Wataru Kato