Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Masuda

Yoshinori Masuda 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: 20030099701
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a quick-disintegrating tablet in the buccal cavity comprising a drug, a diluent, and a saccharide with a relatively lower melting point than the drug and the diluent, which is obtained by uniformly mixing the saccharide with a low melting point in the tablet so that a bridge will be formed between said drug and/or said diluent particles by the product of melting and then solidification of this saccharide with a low melting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Applicant: Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuki Takaishi, Takao Mizumoto, Yoshinori Masuda
  • Publication number: 20020038947
    Abstract: In an occupant detecting apparatus for detecting an occupant seated on a passenger seat of a vehicle with an airbag for the occupant, a load sensor is provided in a bottom part of the seat. A plurality of first electric field sensors are provided in the bottom part of the seat, and a plurality of second electric field sensors are provided in a rear part of the seat. An airbag inflating permission control unit permits inflation of the airbag in accordance with output signals of the load sensor and the first and second electric field sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2001
    Publication date: April 4, 2002
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Baba, Kazunori Jinno, Hiroshi Oikawa, Takashi Saito, Naoki Saito, Shingo Nagai, Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: 5854142
    Abstract: A harness frame of light weight manufactured from a laminated plate material is disclosed. The laminated plate material comprises (a) a composite material layer comprising a resin matrix and a reinforcing layer formed of reinforcing fibers and (b) metallic layers superposed one each on the opposite surfaces of the composite material layer. In a preferred mode, resin sheets and reinforcing layers of reinforcing fibers are alternately superposed, two metallic layers are set in place one each on the vertically opposite surfaces of the superposed layers, and the layers are heated and compressed with a pressing machine to induce thermal welding of the component layers. The laminated plate material has the metallic layers superposed with high adhesive strength on the opposite surfaces of a composite material layer having a plurality of reinforcing layers embedded in a resin matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Inoguchi, Mikiya Fujii, Haruo Matsushima, Yoshinori Masuda, Yoshiharu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5576014
    Abstract: Intrabuccally dissolving compressed moldings comprising a saccharide having low moldability having been granulated with a saccharide having high moldability. The moldings of the present invention show quick disintegration and dissolution in the buccal cavity and have an adequate hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Takao Mizumoto, Yoshinori Masuda, Muneo Fukui
  • Patent number: 4884316
    Abstract: A hinge consisting of a base, a rotating member mounted to one end of the base through a pair of link arms, the rotating member being supported by a spring in a closed or open condition. The base is formed out of a single piece of sheet metal by bending and shaping so as to have a pair of side plate portions to be fitted over projections of a member on which the hinge is mounted; a connecting plate portion formed integral with, and provided between, the link arm mounting sides of the pair of the side plate portions; and screw support plate portions bent inwardly from the pair of the side plate portions so that they face the projections of the member on which the hinge is mounted, the screw support plate portions being joined together to be shaped like a letter U, the joint part of the screw support plate portions being formed with screw insertion holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Murakoshi Seiko
    Inventor: Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: 4848673
    Abstract: A fluidized granulating and coating apparatus having a cylindrical treating vessel provided with at least one spray nozzle, at least one air supply duct and one exhaust duct, and a downwardly converging frusto-conical portion. The spray nozzle is disposed at a position below the interface of the fluidized particles within the region of the frusto-conical portion. At least one compressed air nozzle is disposed at a level below the interface of the fluidized particles and within the range of the frusto-conical portion. Disclosed also is a fluidized granulating and coating method which makes use of this apparatus. With the apparatus and the method of the invention, it is possible to produce granular products such as a slow-effecting or long-lasting pharmaceutical product with a high quality and homogeneity at a high yield, by coating cores of spherical granules with a coating composition containing the medical component of the desired property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Freund Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Masuda, Masaharu Motoi
  • Patent number: 4690994
    Abstract: A high molecular weight fluoroelastomer is provided comprising 65 to 100 wt % of vinylidene fluoride units and hexafluoropropylene units and 35 to 0 wt % of tetrafluoroethylene units exhibiting low compression set and high elongation properties and showing good processability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinori Masuda, Hiroshi Saito, Hiroshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 4605901
    Abstract: A frequency-voltage converter comprising a feedback frequency generating means associated with controlled means, a saw-tooth wave generating means, a current source for the saw-tooth wave, pulse generating means and sample-and-hold means, the frequency-voltage converter being characterized by further provision of supply voltage switching means for changing the feedback frequency of the controlled means by changing the voltage to be supplied to the current source to change the current from the current source and to thereby the slope of the saw-tooth wave from the saw-tooth wave generating means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1986
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Microcomputer & Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Kobori, Isao Fukushima, Hideo Nishijima, Yoshinori Masuda, Norihisa Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 4600953
    Abstract: In a helical scanning type video tape recorder provided with two rotary video heads for recording and reproducing a video signal supplied to the heads in the oblique direction of a magnetic tape by alternately switching the two rotary video heads, there is generated a switching signal for the heads which is stable in standard and high speed reproducing modes and thereby stable reproduction always can be obtained. For this purpose, there are provided a circuit for detecting the rotary phase of any one of the two rotary heads, a clock signal generator circuit for generating a clock signal, a counter apparatus for counting the clock signal on the basis of the output of the rotary phase detecting circuit, and a circuit for generating a switching signal for alternately switching the two heads on the basis of the counted value of the counter apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1986
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Furuhata, Taihei Nakama, Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: 4581659
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reproducing information at variable speeds from a magnetic tape by correcting a deviation between at least one video track of the magnetic tape and a rotating head during a tape stop state of an intermittent drive for a noiseless slow-still picture in a video tape recorder using pilot signals. A series of pulses produced by a frequency generator of a capstan for feeding the tape is counted during the tape feeding state of an intermittent drive in order to detect a timing of the stopping of the tape feeding. As the count number equals a set value corresponding to a regular amount of feeding of the tape during the intermittent drive, the tape feeding is controlled to stop. A tracking error signal is produced from the pilot signals reproduced from the tape by the rotating head within the tape stop state of the intermittent drive and the set value for the next tape feeding of the intermittent drive is adjusted in response to the tracking error signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Azuma, Kenji Satoh, Katsuo Mohri, Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: 4518901
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus for driving and controlling a motor, in which a signal frequency proportional to a rotation number of the motor is converted into a d.c. voltage by a frequency/voltage converter so as to drive and control the motor by the d.c. voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Fukushima, Yasunori Kobori, Hideo Nishijima, Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: 4440197
    Abstract: A shuttleless loom for weaving a fabric comprises a weft inserting device for inserting a pair of successive loops of weft yarns simultaneously through respective superimposed warp sheds from one side thereof, and a selvedge-forming device arranged along the other side of the warp sheds for forming a knitting selvedge at one edge of the fabric being woven. The weft inserting device reciprocates along a first arcuate path in a first plane extending substantially parallel to the fabric. The selvedge-forming device reciprocates along a second arcuate path in a second plane extending substantially perpendicularly to the first plane so as to pass through a single loop of one of the weft yarns and catch the other weft yarn projecting out of the warp sheds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1984
    Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K.K.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: 4429438
    Abstract: A slide fastener stringer comprising a woven coupling element having a plurality of first and second connecting portions interconnecting a plurality of laterally spaced scoops of the element. Each of the first connecting portions extends between adjacent two of first legs of the scoops which is disposed at one side of a tape while each of the second connecting portions extends between adjacent two of the second legs of scoops disposed at the other side of the tape, the first connecting portions being staggered relative to the second connecting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1984
    Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K. K.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Takeshima, Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: 4426271
    Abstract: In cation exchange membranes having a multi-layer structure consisting of two or three layers or more each having different equivalent weight and/or different kind of ion exchange group used for the electrolysis of alkali metal chloride according to an ion exchange membrane process, a homogeneous cation exchange membrane which comprises that at least one outer layer having a lower water content of both outer layers of said membrane has a roughened surface so that the amount of hydrogen gas bubbles generated from the cathode and attached to the membrane surface is the least whereby the electrolysis voltage is the lowest and the process for the production thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1984
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuo Yoshida, Yoshinori Masuda, Akio Kashiwada
  • Patent number: 4423157
    Abstract: There is disclosed a fluorinated cation exchange membrane having a multi-layered structure, of which one layer contains sulfonic acid groups as ion-exchange groups and the other layer contains carboxylic acid groups as principal ion-exchange groups. The membrane is treated with an acid, followed by heat treatment at an elevated temperature in an aqueous atmosphere or aqueous solution whereby improved electrolytic performance such as electrolysis voltage and current efficiency when used in electrolysis of sodium chloride for production of caustic soda is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1983
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: 4323434
    Abstract: A homogeneous cation exchange membrane having at least one roughened surface, which is assembled in an electrolytic cell with the roughened surface facing toward the cathode side of the cell, is employed in the electrolysis of an alkali chloride in an electrolytic cell divided by a cation exchange membrane into an anode compartment and a cathode compartment to produce an alkali hydroxide. The electrolysis voltage can be considerably reduced at a high current efficiency to provide a great economical advantage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1982
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuo Yoshida, Yoshinori Masuda, Akio Kashiwada
  • Patent number: 4190836
    Abstract: In a dynamic drive circuit for light-emitting diodes, at least one of the rise and fall times of the current flowing through the light-emitting diode is elongated to reduce the higher harmonic components contained in the current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1980
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kimura, Isao Fukushima, Shin-Ichi Ohashi, Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: 4123336
    Abstract: An aqueous alkali metal halide solution is electrolyzed in an electrolytic cell using a cation exchange membrane which is a fluorocarbon polymer containing sulfonic acid groups and at least one cation exchange group which is less acidic than the sulfonic acid group with higher proportion of the latter in surface stratum on the cathode side of the membrane than in the entire membrane, while controling proton concentration in the anolyte at not higher than critical proton concentration at which no substantial amount of protons in the anolyte penetrate into the membrane.This invention relates to a process for electrolysis of an aqueous alkali metal halide solution using a cation exchange membrane comprising a fluorocarbon polymer containing sulfonic acid groups and at least one cation exchange group with weaker acidity than the sulfonic acid group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1978
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Maomi Seko, Yasumichi Yamakoshi, Hirotsugu Miyauchi, Kyoji Kimoto, Yoshinori Masuda
  • Patent number: D304012
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Murakoshi Seiko
    Inventor: Yoshinori Masuda