Patents by Inventor Yoshiki Sakamoto

Yoshiki 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: 20020002412
    Abstract: In a digital audio system, a first audio unit has its audio decoder adapted to decode coded digital audio data to get coding parameters including information of frame borders of the audio data and release decoded digital audio data and coding parameters. A second audio unit which receives the digital audio data and coding parameters has its audio encoder adapted to re-encode the digital audio data by using the coding parameters. The re-encoding process by use of the best or highly optimized coding parameters, which have been used for original coding, restores the same state of audio data, and the reduction of coding errors can be expected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Gunji, Yoshiki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6217991
    Abstract: A resin laminated metallic sheet having excellent adhesion during forming, corrosion resistance, and impact resistance is continuously manufactured at high speed with consistent properties is constantly kept at a selected and variable traveling speed of the metallic sheet by controlling the orientation of resin film after lamination, heating the continuously traveling metallic sheet, laminating resin films on both sides of the heated metal sheet using laminating rolls, and thereafter deflecting the traveling direction of the resin laminated metallic sheet using a deflector roll disposed movably in a direction perpendicular to the direction at a right angle from traveling direction of the metallic sheet, and further, differentiating a contacting period of time in which each surface of the resin laminated metallic sheet is contacting each of the laminating rolls, or differentiating an amount of the heat of each surface portion of the resin laminated metallic sheet lost by the cooling effect due to the contact o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Tanaka, Yoshiki Sakamoto, Noriaki Kaguma
  • Patent number: 6200409
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of and an apparatus for manufacturing a resin coated metal sheet, in which it is possible to reduce bubbles included between a laminated resin film and a metal sheet even when a thermoplastic resin film is laminated onto a web-shaped metal sheet even at high speed, and the laminated resin film is excellent in formable adhesion. The method of manufacturing a resin coated metal sheet comprises the steps of heating a web-shaped metal sheet (1), which advances continuously, supplying a thermoplastic resin film (5), which is heated to below a softening temperature of the thermoplastic resin film and to at least a surface temperature of a lamination roll (7), to a nip of the lamination rolls while maintaining the thermoplastic resin film at a higher temperature than the surface temperature of the lamination roll (7), and pressure-welding the metal sheet (1) and the thermoplastic resin film (5) against each other to laminate them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuo Tanaka, Yoshiki Sakamoto, Noriaki Kaguma
  • Patent number: 6164358
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide equipment for manufacturing a laminated metal sheet, which eliminates bubbles even in high speed lamination of 200 m/min or more and is excellent in productivity. In the equipment for manufacturing a laminated metal sheet according to the present invention, a metal sheet (1) is laminated with a resin film (3) on one or both side of it by lamination rolls (2), and a support roll (5) is disposed on projected beyond a straight line between the lamination roll (2) and a film roll (6) so as to impart tension to the film (3) when the film (3) is fed to the lamination rolls (2) from the film roll (6). Further, the support roll (5) is provided directly before the lamination roll (2) so as to satisfy the relation of L.times.V.ltoreq.600 when the lamination speed is V (m/min) and the length of the resin film between the lamination rolls and the support roll is L (m).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriaki Kaguma, Yoshiki Sakamoto, Atsuo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6106658
    Abstract: A method of producing a laminate board (10) involves the steps of heating a continuous belt-like metallic sheet (2) by a heating furnace (1), laminating a thermoplastic resin film (3) on at least one of the surfaces of the metallic sheet, pressing and passing both of them between a pair of laminate rolls (4 and 5), and thermally bonding the film (3) to the metallic sheet (2), wherein the laminate sheet (10) coming out from between the pair of laminate rolls (4 and 5) is pushed by a deflector roll (6) in a transverse direction so as to bias the travelling direction towards the laminate roll (4) in contact with the film (3). The invention also discloses an apparatus (A) used for his method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriaki Kaguma, Atsuo Tanaka, Hiroyuki Iwashita, Yoshiki Sakamoto, Hiroshi Inazawa
  • Patent number: 6017599
    Abstract: A laminate of an oriented resin film and a metal sheet substrate is used in the manufacture of can stock, the intensity of orientation of the resin film being greater along the bottom of the can and lesser along the can side wall. This construction is obtained by locally cooling, during lamination, that part of the heated metal substrate which will become the bottom wall of the resultant can.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Sakamoto, Kenji Yasunaka, Atsuo Tanaka, Satoshi Iketaka