Patents by Inventor Yasuo Kotani
Yasuo Kotani 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: 7762654Abstract: A liquid container includes a housing, a flexible film, a liquid reservoir configured to directly store liquid therein and defined by the housing on one side and the flexible film on the other side, a liquid supply port provided in the liquid reservoir and configured to supply liquid to a recording head, and an overhang protruding from the housing and located in the liquid reservoir and substantially near the liquid supply port. The absorbing member is configured to absorb the inertial force of liquid, the inertial force being generated in liquid in the liquid reservoir by an external force applied to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2006Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shogo Kawamura, Yasuo Kotani, Hideki Ogura, Ryoji Inoue, Tetsuya Ohashi
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Patent number: 7588328Abstract: An ink jet cartridge including a case, in which the bottom portion where an ink jet recording head is disposed projects, and a lid for covering the top surface thereof. In an ink containing chamber defined by the these case and the lid, there is provided an absorber. The lid is configured so that ribs provided directly over the projecting bottom are higher than the other ribs, and so that the lid can be used for different types of cartridge. In a black cartridge, the pertinent ribs perform the function of effectively bringing the absorber into pressure contact with an ink introducing section. In a color cartridge, the pertinent ribs perform the function of restraining the height of the top surface of the absorber disposed on the projecting bottom portion to a position lower than that of the top surface of each of the other absorbers.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromasa Amma, Wataru Takahashi, Masashi Ogawa, Yasuo Kotani
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Patent number: 7189942Abstract: The car power source apparatus is provided with a car driving battery, a heater which heats the driving battery, a control circuit which controls power to the heater, and a temperature sensor to detect battery temperature and issue a detected temperature signal to the control circuit. The control circuit is provided with a timer which stores a warming-time to maintain the driving battery in a warmed-up condition via the heater after the car ignition switch has been turned off. During the warming-time, which is until the timer times-out with the ignition switch turned to the off state, the control circuit controls power to the heater to maintain the driving battery in a warmed-up condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2005Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Kotani, Yoshihiko Ninomiya, Masaki Yugo
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Publication number: 20050218136Abstract: The car power source apparatus is provided with a car driving battery, a heater which heats the driving battery, a control circuit which controls power to the heater, and a temperature sensor to detect battery temperature and issue a detected temperature signal to the control circuit. The control circuit is provided with a timer which stores a warming-time to maintain the driving battery in a warmed-up condition via the heater after the car ignition switch has been turned off. During the warming-time, which is until the timer times-out with the ignition switch turned to the off state, the control circuit controls power to the heater to maintain the driving battery in a warmed-up condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2005Publication date: October 6, 2005Inventors: Yasuo Kotani, Yoshihiko Ninomiya, Masaki Yugo
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Patent number: 5382560Abstract: A color developer is provided comprising a polyvalent metal salt of a salicylic derivative. The salicylic derivative is made up of ring-substituted salicylic compounds having one, two and three styrene units bonded to salicylic core where at least 25% of the salicylic derivatives are polyvalent metal salts.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1992Date of Patent: January 17, 1995Assignee: Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuo Hisada, Yasushi Nishigakiuchi, Yoshiyuki Ueno, Yasuo Kotani, Tadao Yagyu
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Patent number: 4863493Abstract: High purity acetylene gas is provided by discharging high purity acetylene gas from a metallic bomb in which a porous material to accommodate high purity acetylene gas and a solvent to selectively dissolve the acetylene gas are charged and passing the gas through an adsorber containing an adsorbent for adsorbing the solvent contained in the gas. Superfine powders of impurities are removed by passing the gas through a filter. Acetylene is purified by adsorbing acetylene into a solvent having a temperature of -20.degree. to -81.8.degree. C. in an absorbing tower, stripping the acetylene from the solvent at a temperature of -10.degree. to +20.degree. C. in a stripping tower and passing the stripped acetylene through a packed bed filled with a porous material for removing impurities from the acetylene and through a filter for removing superfine powders of impurities. The inside of a bomb for dissolved acetylene is purified by heating the bomb and evacuating the bomb.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1988Date of Patent: September 5, 1989Assignee: Nichigo Acetylene Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuo Kotani, Kengi Yamawaki, Minoru Nishida
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Patent number: 4529488Abstract: A process for depositing a salt by applying an electric current or voltage to at least one pair of electrodes placed in a supersaturated aqueous solution or supercooled molten liquid of an inorganic or organic salt, whereby the supersaturation or supercooling can be broken or prevented and the crystallization or solidification of the salt can be efficiently made. The process of the invention is advantageously utilized in an air-conditioning system.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1982Date of Patent: July 16, 1985Assignee: Nippon Gohsei Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuo Kotani, Tokio Hashimoto
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Patent number: 4303668Abstract: An antibacterial and antifungal composition comprising (A) at least one member selected from the group consisting of dehydroacetic acid, sorbic acid and their alkali metal salts and (B) at least one member selected from the group consisting of o-phenylphenol and its alkali metal salts, p-chloro-m-xylenol, 2-(4-thiazolyl)-1H-benzimidazole, 8-hydroxyquinoline and its salts and chelates, methyl 1-(butylcarbamoyl)-2-benzimidazolecarbamate, tetrachloroisophthalonitrile and N-(fluorodichloromethylthio)phthalimide. The antibacterial and antifungal effects can be synergistically increased when the component (A) is employed in combination with the component (B).Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1980Date of Patent: December 1, 1981Assignee: Nippon Gohsei Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayasu Hasegawa, Hideo Nishikawa, Yasuo Kotani
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Patent number: 4302467Abstract: An antibacterial and antifungal composition comprising (A) at least one member selected from the group consisting of dehydroacetic acid, sorbic acid and their alkali metal salts and (B) at least one member selected from the group consisting of o-phenylphenol and its alkali metal salts, p-chloro-m-xylenol, 2-(4-thiazolyl)-1H-benzimidazole, 8-hydroxyquinoline and its salts and chelates, methyl 1-(butylcarbamoyl)-2-benzimidazolecarbamate, tetrachloroisophthalonitrile and N-(fluorodichloromethylthio)phthalimide. The antibacterial and antifungal effects can be synergistically increased when the component (A) is employed in combination with the component (B).Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1980Date of Patent: November 24, 1981Assignee: Nippon Gohsei Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayasu Hasegawa, Hideo Nishikawa, Yasuo Kotani
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Patent number: 4242356Abstract: An antibacterial and antifungal composition comprising (A) at least one member selected from the group consisting of dehydroacetic acid, sorbic acid and their alkali metal salts and (B) at least one member selected from the group consisting of o-phenylphenol and its alkali metal salts, p-chloro-m-xylenol, 2-(4-thiazolyl)-1H-benzimidazole, 8-hydroxyquinoline and its salts and chelates, methyl 1-(butylcarbamoyl)-2-benzimidazolecarbamate, tetrachloroisophthalonitrile and N-(fluorodichloromethylthio)phthalimide. The antibacterial and antifungal effects can be synergistically increased when the component (A) is employed in combination with the component (B).Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1979Date of Patent: December 30, 1980Assignee: Nippon Gohsei Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayasu Hasegawa, Hideo Nishikawa, Yasuo Kotani
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Patent number: 4122187Abstract: A sorbic acid composition having improved quality which comprises (a) sorbic acid or a double salt thereof and (b) 0.05 to 5 parts by weight of glycerin to 100 parts by weight of (a). The incorporation of glycerin restrains the offensive odor and the scattering of the fine powders of sorbic acid and double salts thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1977Date of Patent: October 24, 1978Assignee: Nippon Gohsei Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuo Kotani, Masayasu Hasegawa
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Patent number: 4002486Abstract: A non-fluid glyoxal composition prepared by admixing glyoxal, a water-soluble starch and water, in which the ratio of glyoxal and the water-soluble starch is in the range of about 1 : 2 to about 10 : 1 and water content is in the range of about 5 to about 40 % by weight in the composition, which is useful as a deodorant.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 1975Date of Patent: January 11, 1977Assignee: Nippon Gohsei Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuo Kotani, Kunio Kageyama