Patents by Inventor Akira Sasaki

Akira Sasaki 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: 20240150585
    Abstract: To further improve, even under OT bending with the use of a Zn—Al—Mg-based alloy plated steel sheet as a base sheet, corrosion resistance regarding corrosion under paint film at a OT bent portion and a periphery thereof, without causing occurrence of cracks and peeling in the paint film. A pre-coated plated steel sheet according to the present invention includes: a plating layer composed of Zn—Al—Mg-based alloy plating, the plating layer being positioned on one side or both sides of a steel sheet; a chemical treatment film layer positioned on the plating layer; and a paint film layer positioned on the chemical treatment film, in which the paint film layer includes a primer paint film layer, and an upper paint film layer positioned on the primer paint film layer, and at least any of the following is satisfied: both a condition (a-1) and a condition (a-2); a condition (b); and a condition (c).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyasu FURUKAWA, Takashi FUJII, Fumio SHIBAO, Kohei UEDA, Akira NAKAGAWA, Yuki YAMAMURA, Naoto SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11978357
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ulcer model used to practice a procedure including hemorrhage arrest, the ulcer model including a model main body which includes upper and lower surfaces facing each other and a tubular simulated blood vessel path provided between the upper surface and the lower surface and having an inlet opening and an outlet opening. The upper surface includes a ring-shaped raised surface that rises in a thickness direction of the model main body and a simulated ulcer surface that is a recessed bottom surface surrounded by the raised surface. The simulated blood vessel path extends from a part other than the upper surface of the surfaces of the model main body to the simulated ulcer surface or an area in the vicinity of the inside thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: Denka Company Limited, Tohoku University
    Inventors: Akira Miyama, Toru Arai, Takashi Sasaki, Takeshi Kanno, Yularo Arata, Atsushi Masamune
  • Publication number: 20240147616
    Abstract: In an electronic device assembly apparatus that inserts a leading end of flat and flexible cables 162 and 166 into connectors 164 and 168 on a circuit board 160, a gripping device 200 includes a first gripping mechanism 210 and a second gripping mechanism 212, a rotational mechanism 260, and a width direction open/close mechanism 240, and the width direction open/close mechanism 240 includes a first cylinder 244 and a second cylinder 270 that causes the first and the second gripping mechanism to perform a width adjustment movement in the same direction as the first cylinder, and the second cylinder has a lock function for fixing the second cylinder at a predetermined position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NACHI-FUJIKOSHI CORP.
    Inventors: Akira KUNISAKI, Shun SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240131046
    Abstract: [Problem] The present invention has as an object to provide an antiviral agent effective as a remedy for COVID-1 9 and other viral infections. [Resolution Means] Provided is an antiviral agent and the like, made of: the compound represented by general formula (1) or (2) below [R1 being —(CH2)n1—Z1—R11 2 r —CH—(—Z1—R11,)(n1 being 0 or 1; Z1 being a single bond, —O—, —NH—, —S—, —SO—, —SO2—,SO—CO—, —CO—O—, or —CH?N—O—; R11 being a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbons, —NR12 R13, —N3,—NO2,—CN, —CH2—CO—O—R14, or a five- or six-membered heterocyclic group including a nitrogen atom; R12 and R13 each independently being a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbons; and R14 being a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbons], a derivative thereof, a salt of these compounds, or a solvate thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Katsumi MAENAKA, Akira MATSUDA, Hirofumi SAWA, Yasuko ORBA, Michihito SASAKI, Kentaro UEMURA
  • Patent number: 11954624
    Abstract: A vehicle allocation system includes: an automatic driving vehicle; a mobile terminal configured to transmit a vehicle allocation request signal containing at least information on a vehicle allocation place of the automatic driving vehicle; and a server configured to allocate the automatic driving vehicle at the vehicle allocation place in response to reception of the vehicle allocation request signal, give a notification to the mobile terminal in response to arrival of the automatic driving vehicle from the vehicle allocation place within a predetermined distance range, and permit usage of the automatic driving vehicle when a user of the mobile terminal is authenticated based on authentication information transmitted from the mobile terminal in response to the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akira Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11955599
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a negative electrode material that can improve the charge-discharge efficiency of a battery. A negative electrode material includes a reduced form of a first solid electrolyte material and a conductive auxiliary. The first solid electrolyte material is denoted by Formula (1): Li60M?X?. Herein, in Formula (1), each of ?, ?, and ? is a value greater than 0, M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of metal elements except Li and semimetals, and X represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Oshima, Izuru Sasaki, Seiji Nishiyama, Akira Kawase
  • Patent number: 11954155
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present application includes a generation unit and a providing unit. The generation unit uses a model that is trained to learn a relationship between a criterion for classifying users of a first company and a criterion for classifying users of a second company to generate a criterion (common key) for classifying the users of the second company into a first category, from the criterion for classifying the users of the first company into the first category. The providing unit provides a criterion generated by the generation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Yahoo Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Sasaki, Akira Tajima, Takahiro Ishikawa, Koji Tsukamoto, Seira Nakamura, Kazuki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11949064
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a negative electrode material that can improve the cycle characteristics of a battery. The negative electrode material according to the present disclosure contains a reduced form of a solid electrolyte material. The solid electrolyte material is denoted by Formula (1): Li?M?X?. Herein, in Formula (1), each of ?, ?, and ? is a value greater than 0, M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of metal dements except Li and semimetals, and X represents at least one dement selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br, and I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Oshima, Izuru Sasaki, Yuta Sugimoto, Seiji Nishiyama, Masashi Sakaida, Akira Kawase
  • Publication number: 20240093639
    Abstract: This gas turbine plant is provided with a gas turbine and a fuel supply facility. The fuel supply facility is provided with: a liquid ammonia line; a warm water line through which warm water can flow; a vaporizer which can perform the heat exchange between the warm water coming from the warm water line and liquid ammonia coming from the liquid ammonia line to heat and vaporize the liquid ammonia; a heat exchanger which can perform the heat exchange between the warm water in the warm water line and a medium; a heat exchange amount controller which can control the amount of heat exchange between the warm water and the medium to control the temperature of the warm water flowing into the vaporizer; and a gaseous ammonia line which can introduce gaseous ammonia that is ammonia vaporized by the vaporizer into the gas turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Ryo IKEDA, Hiromi ISHII, Akira HATTORI, Michio SASAKI, Takahiro SUGAWARA
  • Patent number: 11932281
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for configuring and controlling an automated vehicle to perform user specified operations. User vehicle control programs are loaded in an unmanned vehicle to control the unmanned vehicle to perform a user specified operation. The loading the user vehicle control programs replaces base vehicle control programs in the unmanned vehicle. There is communication with the unmanned vehicle to execute the user vehicle control programs to control the unmanned vehicle to perform the user specified operation. The base vehicle control programs are loaded into the unmanned vehicle to replace the user vehicle control programs to return control of the unmanned vehicle to a vehicle provider after performing the user specified operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sanehiro Furuichi, Akira Saito, Yohkichi Sasatani, Kenichi Takasaki, Taku Sasaki, Hirotaka Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20240022523
    Abstract: In a smartphone or a personal computer, when there is an application which performs communication which a user is unconscious of, a communication volume increases unintentionally, and there arise problems in that a maximum communication volume is exceed, a network bandwidth of a base station is compressed, or communication being intentionally performed is disturbed. In order to solve the above problems, provided is a communication control method used in a communication control device capable of performing communication using an application via a communication line, and includes an application control step of switching a plurality of applications between a foreground state and a background state and a communication control step of changing an allocation amount of a network bandwidth of an application in accordance with whether the switched application is in the foreground state or the background state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: Akira SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11820225
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes: a display part having a front-side display part, a rear-side display part and an upper-side display part provided inside a vehicle cabin, each of the front-side display part, the rear-side display part and the upper-side display part having a display face; a detection part that detects an orientation and a posture of an occupant; and a control part that selects a display face in accordance with the orientation and the posture of the occupant detected by the detection part, and controls display by the display part such that information is displayed at the selected display face. The display face of the upper-side display part is provided at a roof head lining inside the vehicle cabin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sasaki, Eisuke Ando, Misako Hayashima, Saki Kitoh, Masahiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11761934
    Abstract: An accommodation unit includes a plurality of accommodation positions, each of the plurality of accommodation positions being capable of accommodating one of the plurality of samples. A detection unit detects identification information of each of the plurality of samples in the accommodation unit. A control unit holds the identification information of each of the plurality of samples received from the detection unit as detected identification information. The control unit is configured to receive identification information of each of a plurality of samples designated as analysis targets, and hold the received identification information as designated identification information. The control unit includes a notification means configured to output a warning before analysis is started by the analysis unit, when the control unit makes a comparison between the designated identification information and the detected identification information and determines that there is a mismatch therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru Shibata, Akira Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11760269
    Abstract: A trunk structure for a vehicle is provided which can house both a spare tire and a tonneau cover below a floor board in a trunk, and has high operability in housing, removing, and replacing the spare tire and the tonneau cover. A trunk of a vehicle has a spare tire housing and a tonneau cover housing below a floor board. A tonneau cover has a tube portion, a sheet portion, and an extension plate portion. The tonneau cover housing has a portion located between the spare tire and a rear end of the trunk, in which the tube portion of the tonneau cover is stored in a rolled state. The housing also has a portion above a part of the spare tire where the extension plate portion, extending outward from the tube portion when the sheet portion is rolled in the tube portion, is horizontally disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keishi Nishimura, Akira Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11762395
    Abstract: A server includes a controller configured to control operation of a vehicle, and a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus held by a first user. The communication interface acquires, from the terminal apparatus, a list including a vehicle designation condition designated by the first user when the first user reserves boarding of a vehicle. The controller determines a vehicle to be boarded by the first user based on the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Tatsumoto, Saori Matsumoto, Keigo Yamada, Akira Sasaki, Mitsuhiro Miura
  • Patent number: 11750529
    Abstract: In a smartphone or a personal computer, when there is an application which performs communication which a user is unconscious of, a communication volume increases unintentionally, and there arise problems in that a maximum communication volume is exceed, a network bandwidth of a base station is compressed, or communication being intentionally performed is disturbed. In order to solve the above problems, provided is a communication control method used in a communication control device capable of performing communication using an application via a communication line, and includes an application control step of switching a plurality of applications between a foreground state and a background state and a communication control step of changing an allocation amount of a network bandwidth of an application in accordance with whether the switched application is in the foreground state or the background state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20230258491
    Abstract: A liquid level sensor 1 comprises a sleeve 2 disposed so as to extend in the vertical direction, a float 3 configured so as to move along said sleeve according to fluctuation of liquid level, a resistor string 4, a plurality of grounding means 5 disposed inside the sleeve 2 and a liquid level signal output means 6 to take out an electric signal detected between a positive electrode side end part 4a and a junction part grounded by the grounding means 5 as a liquid level signal that is a signal corresponding to the liquid level, and further comprises a warning signal output means 7 to output a warning signal when the float 3 is located within a predetermined distance from a warning position that is a predetermined position within a movable range of the float 3. Thereby, a compact and reliable liquid level sensor is realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventor: Akira Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11694485
    Abstract: An information processing device mounted on a vehicle includes a processor configured to: send abnormality occurrence information to a predetermined server through a first communication unit when an occurrence of an abnormality is detected in the vehicle, the abnormality occurrence information indicating the occurrence of the abnormality, the first communication unit being mounted on the vehicle and configured to perform communication via a base station using a first communication method; and send a proxy sending request to a terminal around the vehicle through a second communication unit when communication with the predetermined server cannot be performed through the first communication unit, the proxy sending request being a request to send the abnormality occurrence information to the predetermined server in proxy mode, the second communication unit being mounted on the vehicle and configured to perform communication using a second communication method that allows for terminal-to-terminal direct communicat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sasaki, Jun Hioki, Kazuki Matsumoto, Fumio Wada
  • Patent number: 11643046
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to, upon determining, based on behavior classification, that a behavior of a passenger detected from a captured image or a sound of inside of a vehicle is threatening, transmit a first instruction to increase tension of a seat belt worn by the passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Tatsumoto, Toshiki Kashiwakura, Manabu Ishihara, Akira Sasaki, Sachin Ahire
  • Publication number: 20230136617
    Abstract: A sensor comprises a protecting tube fixed to a through hole formed in a partition of a container, a detection part arranged inside the protecting tube, conducting wires connected with the detection part in the inside of the protecting tube, and a fixing member fixed to the partition, and the conducting wires are detachably fixed to the fixing member outside the protecting tube. In a preferred embodiment, the container is an airtight container, and the protecting tube is fixed to the partition indivisibly and integrally. Thereby, a sensor which comprises a detection part and conducting wires in the inside of a protecting tube fixed to a partition of a container and makes it possible to easily exchange a part of members at the time of malfunction and easily adjust a position of the detection part, etc., by a simple structure can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventor: Akira Sasaki