Patents by Inventor Atsushi Suzuki

Atsushi Suzuki 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: 20240090543
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid egg-substitute composition that has fluidity close to that of a liquid egg and is capable of obtaining a gelation property, color tone, and flavor that are capable of reproducing a heat-coagulated egg when heated, and a heat-coagulated product thereof. [Solving Means] A liquid egg-substitute composition according to the present invention contains 6 mass % or more and 17 mass % or less of an extracted protein of a bean of the species white Phaseolus vulgaris or the species Vigna mungo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Takahisa SUZUKI, Kazuhiro ISOBE, Atsushi SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20240097547
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic strain wave gear device that makes it possible to achieve both improvement of the efficiency of assembly work and suppression of decrease in energy conversion efficiency. A magnetic strain wave gear device includes: a stator having a stator core, a stator winding, and a stator magnet; a first rotor; and a second rotor. The second rotor includes a second rotor core provided with a plurality of rotor magnet insertion holes and a plurality of rotor magnets inserted into the plurality of respective rotor magnet insertion holes. The first rotor includes a cylindrical first rotor core and a first rotor end plate. The first rotor end plate has a rotor magnet passage hole through which the rotor magnets can be inserted into the rotor insertion holes from outside in a direction of a rotation shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yosuke UCHIDA, Ryoji MIYATAKE, Atsushi YAMAMOTO, Haruyuki KOMETANI, Noboru NIGUCHI, Katsuhiro HIRATA, Kazuaki TAKAHARA, Hironori SUZUKI, Takuya ITO
  • Publication number: 20240094656
    Abstract: A charging roll includes a core, a rubber substrate arranged around the core, and a surface layer arranged around the rubber substrate. The surface layer includes a conductive matrix containing a base material formed of an insulator, and a conductive material dispersed in the base material, and particles of a surface roughness-imparting material dispersed in the conductive matrix. Each of the particles of the surface roughness-imparting material is formed of an insulator, is porous, and has a specific surface area of 8.7 m2/g or greater and 55 m2/g or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo SUZUKI, Atsushi IKEDA, Satoshi FUKUOKA, Kenji SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11932147
    Abstract: Disclosed is a seat including: sensors which includes a first cushion sensor provided at a seat cushion in a position corresponding to buttocks of an occupant, a second cushion sensor provided at the seat cushion and located farther frontward than the first cushion sensor, a first back sensor provided at a seat back and located in a lower position thereof, and a second back sensor provided at the seat back and located above the first back sensor; and a controller connected to the sensors and thereby allowed to acquire pressure values from the respective sensors. The controller is configured to identify the motion of the occupant based on outputs of at least two sensors of the first cushion sensor, the second cushion sensor, the first back sensor, and the second back sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kaku, Atsushi Kusano, Hiroyuki Numajiri, Satoshi Fujita, Takako Miyoshi, Munetaka Kowa, Ryuichiro Hirose, Yoshikazu Ito, Yosuke Higashi, Satoshi Suzuki, Ryosuke Sato, Kento Uetake, Yasuharu Otsuka, Satoru Kaneda
  • Patent number: 11932912
    Abstract: The present specification discloses a method for detecting an aneuploid of a Brassica oleracea plant, including: performing real-time PCR using DNA extracted from a sample derived from a Brassica oleracea plant to be tested as a template and DNA markers specific to each of two or more chromosomes of Brassica oleracea plant; and detecting chromosomal aneuploidy from a relative difference in amplification amount between the obtained DNA markers. According to one embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to simply, accurately, and rapidly detect an off-type (chromosomal aneuploid) that may occur in Brassica oleracea varieties, in a laboratory equipped with a general molecular biological equipment in the course of seed quality control and breeding research.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAKATA SEED CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Izumida, Takao Suzuki, Tetsuya Hiramoto
  • Patent number: 11932572
    Abstract: A glass sheet of the present invention is characterized in that: the glass sheet has a refractive index nd of from 1.55 to 2.30; an angle formed by a principal surface and an end surface is from 85° to 90°; and the end surface has a surface roughness Ra of 1 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Mushiake, Takashi Murata, Ryota Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240075767
    Abstract: An envelope processing apparatus conveys an envelope to an enclosing position and encloses an enclosure on which specific information is formed at a formation position. The enclosing device includes: an envelope conveyor to convey the enclosure to the enclosing position to insert the enclosure into the envelope; a sensor to acquire, as an image, a structure of the envelope during conveyance, and acquire transparent-portion information indicating a position of a transparent portion in the envelope; an envelope holder to hold the envelope in a state in which the enclosure is insertable; and control circuitry to output position adjustment information for adjusting a position of the envelope in a width direction of the envelope at the enclosing position or a position of the specific information in a conveyance direction of the envelope, based on relative positions between the formation position of the specific information and the position of the transparent portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo YOSHIZAWA, Michitaka SUZUKI, Nobuyoshi SUZUKI, Yuusuke SHIBASAKI, Takahiro MATSUDA, Atsushi SHINODA, Takahiro WATANABE, Takuya MORINAGA
  • Publication number: 20240070663
    Abstract: A data circulation support apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to execute calculating a score indicating reliability of a contract condition related to circulation of data based on information indicating a sense of value related to contract compliance of each of a user of a circulation source of the data and a user of a circulation destination of the data, and to identifying a contract condition whose score is greater than or equal to a threshold; and recording the contract condition in a ledger upon receiving information indicating approval to the contract condition by the user of the circulation source or the circulation destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Shigenori OHASHI, Atsushi NAKADAIRA, Shigeru FUJIMURA, Keita SUZUKI, Honoka TODA
  • Patent number: 11912688
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by chemical formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Tohoku University
    Inventors: Akira Sugawara, Atsushi Yokoyama, Susumu Suzuki, Yoshiharu Iwabuchi, Takayuki Doi
  • Patent number: 11914125
    Abstract: A first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power, a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power, a fourth lens group (G4) having negative refractive power, and a fifth lens group (G5) having positive refractive power are arranged in order from an object, and zooming is performed by changing distances between each lens group, and the first lens group (G1) is composed of three or more lenses, the fourth lens group (G4) is composed of two or less lenses, and the fifth lens group (G5) is composed of two or less lenses and moves to an image surface side upon zooming from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state, and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied. 8.40<f1/(?f2)??(1) where, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens group (G1), and f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens group (G2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Suzuki, Kenji Ishida, Saburo Masugi
  • Publication number: 20240056697
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method, a camera module, and an electronic apparatus that are capable of detecting a failure in an imaging device having a structure in which a plurality of substrates are stacked. The timing at which a row drive unit provided in a second substrate outputs a control signal for controlling accumulation and reading of pixel signals in a pixel array provided in a first substrate is compared with the timing at which the control signal output from the row drive unit is detected after passing through the pixel array. Depending on whether or not the timings coincides with each other, a failure is detected. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus mounted on a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takumi Oka, Atsushi Suzuki, Naoki Kawazu
  • Patent number: 11902681
    Abstract: An imaging system according to the present disclosure includes: an imaging device that is mounted in a vehicle, and captures and generates an image of a peripheral region of the vehicle; and a processing device that is mounted in the vehicle, and executes processing related to a function of controlling the vehicle on the basis of the image. The imaging device includes: a first control line, a first voltage generator that applies a first voltage to the first control line, a first signal line, a plurality of pixels that applies a pixel voltage to the first signal line, a first dummy pixel that applies a voltage corresponding to the first voltage of the first control line to the first signal line in a first period, a converter including a first converter that performs AD conversion on the basis of a voltage of the first signal line in the first period to generate a first digital code, and a diagnosis section that performs diagnosis processing on the basis of the first digital code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kawazu, Atsushi Suzuki, Junichiro Azami, Yuichi Motohashi
  • Publication number: 20240018075
    Abstract: Provided is a method for storing a fluorobutene by which polymerization is unlikely to proceed during storage. A fluorobutene represented by general formula C4HxFy where x is 0 or more and 7 or less, y is 1 or more and 8 or less, and x+y is 8 contains or does not contain at least one of sodium, potassium, magnesium, and calcium as a metal impurity. The fluorobutene is stored in a container in which the total concentration of sodium, potassium, magnesium, and calcium is 1,000 ppb by mass or less when containing at least one of sodium, potassium, magnesium, and calcium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Resonac Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11869756
    Abstract: A method of optimizing a recipe for a plasma process includes (a) building a virtual metrology (VM) model that predicts a wafer characteristic resulting from the plasma process based on a plasma parameter and (b) building a control model that describes a relationship between the plasma parameter and a recipe parameter. (c) The wafer characteristic is measured after performing the plasma process according to the recipe. (d) Whether the wafer characteristic is within a predetermined range is determined. (e) The VM model and the control model are calibrated based on the wafer characteristic. (f) The recipe is optimized by updating the plasma parameter based on the wafer characteristic using the VM model and updating the recipe parameter based on the plasma parameter using the control model. (c), (d), (e) and (f) are repeated until the wafer characteristic is within the predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Jun Shinagawa, Toshihiro Kitao, Atsushi Suzuki, Megan Wooley, Alok Ranjan
  • Publication number: 20240003815
    Abstract: There is provided a gas analyzing method capable of analyzing impurities in a sample gas with high accuracy by reducing the influence of water present in a gas cell. The gas analyzing method is a method for analyzing the impurities contained in the sample gas, and includes: a pretreatment step of reducing the partial pressure of water in a gas cell (10) into which the sample gas is introduced to 10 Pa or less; and an analysis step of introducing the sample gas into the gas cell (10) in which the pretreatment step has been carried out and detecting the impurities by Raman spectroscopy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Resonac Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230415936
    Abstract: A load port connected to a transport part includes: a base constituting a portion of a wall of the transport part; a stage on which a storage container is mounted; a stage driving mechanism configured to move the stage in a direction toward or away from the base; a door configured to be capable of opening/closing an opening of the base at a position facing a lid of the storage container mounted on the stage and to be capable of holding the lid disposed to face the opening in a state of closing the opening; a door driving mechanism configured to move the door between an opening position and a closing position; and a movement restricting part configured to restrict a movement of the stage in the direction away from the base by abutting against the stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsuya Miura, Shinpei Kogiso, Yuki Ishihara, Tatsuru Ogawa, Atsushi Suzuki, Yuki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230405986
    Abstract: A vacuum-sealing device includes: a first roll; a second roll that contacts the first roll; a first holding member having a first space in which the first roll is held and which has an axis coincident with an axis of the first roll; and a second holding member having a second space in which the second roll is held and which has an axis coincident with an axis of the second roll. The first holding member has an inner circumferential surface that faces the outer circumferential surface of the first roll, and rotation of the first roll and the second roll in correspondence with each other causes a sheet material to pass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takemasa KONDO, Kyoji FURUKAWA, Keita SUZUKI, Yuki HAGA, Atsushi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11843881
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method, a camera module, and an electronic apparatus that are capable of detecting a failure in an imaging device having a structure in which a plurality of substrates are stacked. The timing at which a row drive unit provided in a second substrate outputs a control signal for controlling accumulation and reading of pixel signals in a pixel array provided in a first substrate is compared with the timing at which the control signal output from the row drive unit is detected after passing through the pixel array. Depending on whether or not the timings coincides with each other, a failure is detected. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus mounted on a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takumi Oka, Atsushi Suzuki, Naoki Kawazu
  • Publication number: 20230395416
    Abstract: A load port for loading and unloading substrates between a transport chamber and a storage container includes: a plate-like portion constituting a wall surface of the transport chamber and including an opening in communication with an interior of the transport chamber; a stage configured to mount the storage container thereon such that a lid of the storage container faces a door of the opening; and a controller configured to control a driving device that moves the stage forward and rearward with respect to the plate-like portion, wherein the controller is further configured to control, when moving the stage toward the plate-like portion, the driving device to: apply a first thrust directed toward the plate-like portion to the stage until immediately before the stage reaches a predetermined position; and then apply a second thrust, which is greater than the first thrust and directed toward the plate-like portion, to the stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsuru Ogawa, Yuki Ishihara, Shinpei Kogiso, Tatsuya Miura, Atsushi Suzuki, Yuki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230386850
    Abstract: An etching gas and an etching method capable of selectively etching an etching object containing silicon as compared with a non-etching object. The etching gas contains fluorobutene represented by a general formula C4HxFy, in which x is 1 or more and 7 or less, y is 1 or more and 7 or less, and x+y is 8. The etching gas contains or does not contain at least one of copper, zinc, manganese, cobalt, and silicon as metal impurities, and the sum of the concentrations of copper, zinc, manganese, cobalt, and silicon when contained is 5000 ppb by mass or less. The etching method includes an etching step of bringing the etching gas into contact with a member to be etched (12) having an etching object and a non-etching object, and selectively etching the etching object as compared with the non-etching object. The etching object contains silicon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Resonac Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi SUZUKI