Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Sato

Yasuhiro Sato 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: 20140184800
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an optical filter. The optical filter has a configuration in which a polarization filter layer and a spectral filter layer are laminated in light transmission direction. Of the polarization filter layer and the spectral filter layer, the layer on the lower side in lamination direction has an uneven top face in the lamination direction. The optical filter is formed by filling the uneven top face with a predetermined filling material so as to even out the top face and then forming other layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventors: Hideaki Hirai, Yasuhiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20140184897
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a communication control unit configured to perform an enumeration process, and a charging unit configured to charge a battery unit with power supplied from an external device. If a voltage of the battery unit is higher than a predetermined voltage, the communication control unit allows to perform the enumeration process with power supplied from the battery unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventors: Yasusaburo Degura, Yasuhiro Sato, Naoki Shimma
  • Patent number: 8734216
    Abstract: A predetermined time point is added to an accumulated value of the time point in accordance with lapse of time. A special effect and a special effect applied value set to the special effect are stored when specification of the special effect is received. When the special effect applied value is subtracted from the accumulated maximum value of the time point, the special effect is applied to the player character. When specification of action commands is received, the received action command, an action command value and a received order of the action command are stored. The action command whose received order is the earliest among the received action commands is activated in the case where the accumulated value of the time point is the action command value of the action command or more. The action command value of the activated action command is subtracted from the time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Square Enix Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20130344706
    Abstract: A rotary connector device that can certainly cut a flat cable is disclosed. The rotary connector device comprises a rotor, a stator forming an annular space between the rotor and the stator, and a flat cable provided in the annular space for establishing a connection between the side of the rotor and the side of the stator. The stator includes an annular wall surrounding the annular space, the flat cable has one end which is pulled outside of the annular space through an opening provided in the annular wall, and a first projection portion and a second projection portion are provided in a side edge portion of an opening in the annular wall to project toward the side of the side edge portion positioned at the opposite side centered on the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sato, Tomohiro Sato
  • Patent number: 8528304
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and device for producing a content filling bottle including a bottom part that is inverted between a concave shape and a convex shape to prevent a body part from being subjected to reduced pressure deformation, the method and device being capable of efficiently producing a sanitary and high-quality content filling bottle. Contents are filled into an empty bottle 1 with an inversion part 11 projecting outwardly from the body part. A cap 6 is fitted onto an opening of the bottle 1 to seal the bottle 1. An auxiliary tool 27 is then installed on the bottom part 5 of the bottle 1. Then, the bottom part of the bottle 1 with the auxiliary tool 27 installed thereon is supported via the auxiliary tool 27. The downwardly projecting inversion part 11 is pressed up so as to be inverted and recessed inwardly into the bottle 1. Subsequently, with the opening of the bottle 1 gripped, the auxiliary tool 27 is separated from the bottle 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Graham Packaging Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Shunzo Miyazaki, Yasuhiro Sato, Akio Watanabe, Masaru Kimura
  • Publication number: 20120292835
    Abstract: A pusher includes a pusher main body configured to push forward a target object; a pusher main body cylinder connected to the pusher main body and configured to move the pusher main body forward and backward; a pusher carriage connected to the pusher main body cylinder; and a pusher carriage cylinder connected to the pusher carriage and configured to move the pusher carriage forward and backward, the pusher carriage cylinder having a pushing-out direction opposite to a pushing-out direction of the pusher main body cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: JP STEEL PLANTECH CO.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20120125152
    Abstract: An electric arc melting facility includes a melting chamber configured to melt a source iron therein by an electrode, and a shaft-shaped preheating chamber directly connected to the melting chamber. The preheating chamber includes a bottom surface inclined downward toward the melting chamber. A shaft opening dimension is set to an optimum value for controlling the supply of the source iron. A pushing device is disposed at a lower side of the preheating chamber and configured to move the source iron toward the melting chamber. The supply of the source iron from the preheating chamber to the melting chamber is performed by operating the pushing device. The supply of the source iron from the preheating chamber to the melting chamber is stopped by halting the operation of the pushing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: JP Steel Plantech Co.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sato
  • Patent number: 8182124
    Abstract: Light of an incorporated lamp illuminates the lower side of a side surface of a door of a vehicle. A rear end part of a lamp socket mounted with the lamp is exposed from a cylinder part of a lamp housing and projected from the lamp housing toward a holder/mirror assembly. Therefore, when replacing the lamp, the lamp socket can be found easily by simply removing the holder/mirror assembly, and the lamp can easily be extracted along with the lamp socket, to an operator side. Also, when attaching the lamp socket, high visibility of an opening part can be obtained because the opening part of the cylinder part is exposed to the holder/mirror assembly side in the lamp housing, thereby achieving a door mirror with extremely good workability of lamp replacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Murakami Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sato
  • Patent number: 8016466
    Abstract: A reflector 30 is constituted as an aspherical mirror that forms a light distribution S1 in which spread of reflected light in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle is larger than spread of reflected light in a lateral direction of the vehicle. The light distribution expanded in the longitudinal direction of a vehicle 3 makes the light less likely to impinge on a side surface of the vehicle 3, so that the rear part of the vehicle 3 can be illuminated efficiently. As a result, maximum illumination can be achieved with the minimum amount of light. In addition, because the range of illumination is long in the longitudinal direction, not only the area around an occupant's feet outside a front door 5 but also an area around the feet outside a rear door 6 can be illuminated easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Murakami Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sato
  • Patent number: 7973960
    Abstract: A document processing system is disclosed that is capable of processing both fixed-format and unfixed-format hand written paper documents. The document processing system includes an encoding unit that encodes a sheet ID for identifying a hand written first document on a sheet to generate a coded sheet ID; a decoding unit that decodes the coded sheet ID; a document-sheet ID association unit that associates the sheet ID with a document ID assigned to a computerized second document; a printing unit that acquires the sheet ID and prints the coded sheet ID on the first document; a sheet ID management unit that manages the sheet ID; an information acquisition unit that acquires the sheet ID decoded by the decoding unit, and hand-written data from the first document on which the coded sheet ID is printed; and a process-sheet ID association unit that associates the sheet ID with a process ID of a process for processing the hand-written data acquired by the information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Furuta, Tomohiko Beppu, Naoki Kozuka, Satoshi Suga, Sadao Takahashi, Yasuhiro Sato, Takashi Ohkuma, Yasuhiro Ono, Hirofumi Horikawa
  • Patent number: 7840092
    Abstract: A medium processing method is provided that includes the steps of inputting images of a first medium and a second medium, recognizing first area information of the first medium and second area information of the second medium, determining a correspondence between the first area information and the second area information based on the recognition result, adjusting one of the first area information or the second area information based on the determined correspondence between the first area information and the second area information, and compositing the adjusted one of the area information within a predetermined area defined by the other one of the area information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sato, Kunihisa Yamaguchi, Go Maruyama, Hideo Hidai
  • Publication number: 20100073949
    Abstract: Light of an incorporated lamp illuminates the lower side of a side surface of a door of a vehicle. A rear end part of a lamp socket mounted with the lamp is exposed from a cylinder part of a lamp housing and projected from the lamp housing toward a holder/mirror assembly. Therefore, when replacing the lamp, the lamp socket can be found easily by simply removing the holder/mirror assembly, and the lamp can easily be extracted along with the lamp socket, to an operator side. Also, when attaching the lamp socket, high visibility of an opening part can be obtained because the opening part of the cylinder part is exposed to the holder/mirror assembly side in the lamp housing, thereby achieving a door mirror with extremely good workability of lamp replacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: MURAKAMI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20100061113
    Abstract: A reflector 30 is constituted as an aspherical mirror that forms a light distribution S1 in which spread of reflected light in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle is larger than spread of reflected light in a lateral direction of the vehicle. The light distribution expanded in the longitudinal direction of a vehicle 3 makes the light less likely to impinge on a side surface of the vehicle 3, so that the rear part of the vehicle 3 can be illuminated efficiently. As a result, maximum illumination can be achieved with the minimum amount of light. In addition, because the range of illumination is long in the longitudinal direction, not only the area around an occupant's feet outside a front door 5 but also an area around the feet outside a rear door 6 can be illuminated easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: Murakami Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sato
  • Patent number: 7667587
    Abstract: A data communications apparatus for communicating with another apparatus is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Sato
  • Patent number: 7644641
    Abstract: A rotor and a seat mounted on a first shell is disposed between an annular first shell and an annular second shell both constituting a damper case, thereby forming a rotary damper device. A damper lever on which the rotor is mounted is hooked on a fixing pin fixed to a body. Viscous fluid such as highly viscous oil is charged into a damper chamber formed between the rotor and the seat, and a viscous resistance is applied to the rotor and the seat. In a state in which a rotation center of the rotary damper device is deviated from a rotation center of the shaft which is rotated by the operating lever, the damper case is fixed to a flange portion of the shaft, the rotor and the seat are allowed to rotate relatively to each other by an inclining operation of the operating lever, and a resistance force from the rotary damper device is applied to the operating lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Mototani, Shuuji Hori, Daisuke Kozuka, Yasuhiro Sato, Koichi Miyake
  • Patent number: 7634906
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas after-treatment apparatus (30) including a particulate filter (32) that receives an exhaust gas having passes through a catalyst converter (31) and traps particulates in an exhaust, injectors (6 through 9) used for a post fuel injection to activate the catalyst converter (31), and a filter control unit (36) that performs post fuel injection control, the filter control unit (36) includes a determination portion that determines whether a post fuel injection operation should be started, and a calculation portion that calculates an integration value of a fuel injection amount after the post fuel injection operation is started in a case where the post fuel injection operation is started in responding to the determination portion. The post fuel injection operation is stopped when the integration value has reached a specified value. It is thus possible to appropriately perform the post fuel injection control to activate the catalyst converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Bosch Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Hirano, Yasuhiro Sato, Kazuhiro Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20090293436
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and device for producing a content filling bottle including a bottom part that is inverted between a concave shape and a convex shape to prevent a body part from being subjected to reduced pressure deformation, the method and device being capable of efficiently producing a sanitary and high-quality content filling bottle. Contents are filled into an empty bottle 1 with an inversion part 11 projecting outwardly from the body part. A cap 6 is fitted onto an opening of the bottle 1 to seal the bottle 1. An auxiliary tool 27 is then installed on the bottom part 5 of the bottle 1. Then, the bottom part of the bottle 1 with the auxiliary tool 27 installed thereon is supported via the auxiliary tool 27. The downwardly projecting inversion part 11 is pressed up so as to be inverted and recessed inwardly into the bottle 1. Subsequently, with the opening of the bottle 1 gripped, the auxiliary tool 27 is separated from the bottle 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: HOKKAI CAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunzo Miyazaki, Yasuhiro Sato, Akio Watanabe, Masaru Kimura
  • Publication number: 20090218003
    Abstract: A method and device for manufacturing a content-filled bottle having an inversion part at its bottom. In producing the bottle, the inversion part is inverted to prevent deformation of a body part caused by a pressure reduction in the bottle, and as a result, inappropriate deformation and buckling of the bottle are prevented, enabling efficient manufacturing of the bottle with high quality. The bottle (3) is held from the outside by an empty-bottle chuck (41) of auxiliary device mounting means in such a way that the bottle (3) is held at its a mouth part (4) by the chuck along the upper surface of a flange part (10) of the bottle (3). Next, an empty-bottle support table (42) on which an assistance device (24) is placed is raised, the assistance device (24) is mounted on a bottom part (7) of the bottle (3), and the bottle (3) is placed on the empty-bottle support table (42).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Shunzo Miyazaki, Yasuhiro Sato, Hiroyuki Nakane, Akio Watanabe, Masaru Kimura, Tomoya Oosaka
  • Patent number: 7579480
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing an alkoxy-(tetrazol-1-yl)benzaldehyde compound represented by Formula (2): wherein A1 is an alkoxy group, and A2 is a hydrogen atom, alkyl group or fluorine-substituted alkyl group, the process comprising reacting a 1-(alkoxyphenyl)-1H-tetrazole compound represented by Formula (1): wherein A1 and A2 are as defined above, with hexamethylenetetramine in a sulfonic acid solvent, followed by hydrolysis. According to the present invention, an alkoxy-(tetrazol-1-yl)benzaldehyde compound can be safely and efficiently produced by formylating a 1-(alkoxyphenyl)-1H-tetrazole compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Toyo Kasei Kogyo Company Limited
    Inventors: Kazutake Hagiya, Yasuhiro Sato
  • Patent number: D700869
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sato, Edward Birtulescu, Daisuke Nagao, Eric Chin, Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Takao Mikami