Patents by Inventor Chihiro Sato

Chihiro Sato 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: 20190166784
    Abstract: A New Guinea Impatiens plant designated SAKIMP054 is disclosed. Embodiments include seeds of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP054, plants of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP054, to plant parts of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP054, and methods for producing an impatiens plant produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP054 with itself or with another impatiens variety. Embodiments include methods for producing an impatiens plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and transgenic impatiens plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to impatiens varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP054, methods for producing other impatiens lines or plant parts derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP054, and the impatiens plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventor: Chihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 10258005
    Abstract: A New Guinea Impatiens plant designated SAKIMP045 is disclosed. Embodiments include seeds of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP045, plants of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP045, to plant parts of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP045, and methods for producing an impatiens plant produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP045 with itself or with another impatiens variety. Embodiments include methods for producing an impatiens plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and transgenic impatiens plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to impatiens varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP045, methods for producing other impatiens lines or plant parts derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP045, and the impatiens plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventor: Chihiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20190108987
    Abstract: A particle generation preventing method for preventing particle generation in a vacuum apparatus including an alumite-treated component is provided. The particle generation preventing method includes an evacuation step of evacuating the vacuum apparatus to reduce a pressure within the vacuum apparatus to less than or equal to 1.3×10?1 Pa (1 mTorr), a pressure increasing step of increasing the pressure within the vacuum apparatus to atmospheric pressure after the evacuation step, and a moisture adhesion step of causing moisture to be adhered to the alumite-treated component after the pressure increasing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Takashi TETSUKA, Hiroshi NAGAIKE, Masatomo KITA, Chihiro SATO, Naoya SUENAGA
  • Patent number: 10238067
    Abstract: A New Guinea Impatiens plant designated SAKIMP046 is disclosed. Embodiments include seeds of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP046, plants of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP046, to plant parts of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP046, and methods for producing an impatiens plant produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP046 with itself or with another impatiens variety. Embodiments include methods for producing an impatiens plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and transgenic impatiens plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to impatiens varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP046, methods for producing other impatiens lines or plant parts derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP046, and the impatiens plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventor: Chihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 10219478
    Abstract: A New Guinea Impatiens plant designated SAKIMP043 is disclosed. Embodiments include seeds of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP043, plants of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP043, to plant parts of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP043, and methods for producing an impatiens plant produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP043 with itself or with another impatiens variety. Embodiments include methods for producing an impatiens plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and transgenic impatiens plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to impatiens varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP043, methods for producing other impatiens lines or plant parts derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP043, and the impatiens plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Publication number: 20190045732
    Abstract: A New Guinea Impatiens plant designated SAKIMP047 is disclosed. Embodiments include seeds of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP047, plants of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP047, to plant parts of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP047, and methods for producing an impatiens plant produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP047 with itself or with another impatiens variety. Embodiments include methods for producing an impatiens plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and transgenic impatiens plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to impatiens varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP047, methods for producing other impatiens lines or plant parts derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP047, and the impatiens plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventor: Chihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 10197037
    Abstract: The invention, while reducing noise, suppresses a load increase in a processor and a delay in drive control. An engine control unit includes a processor, a driving circuit including a switching element to drive a load such as a fuel injector and an ignition device, and a communication circuit that transmits control signals from the processor to the driving circuit via serial communication. The control signals each include a command frame for controlling the driving circuit and a data frame for driving the load. If a predetermined bits in each of the data frames received from the processor at predetermined time intervals are determined to be the same twice in succession, the engine control unit changes a state of a driving signal ‘Drive’ for driving the load and thereby changes an operating state of the switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Oyama, Chihiro Sato, Mitsuhiko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10154641
    Abstract: A New Guinea Impatiens plant designated SAKIMP040 is disclosed. Embodiments include seeds of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP040, plants of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP040, to plant parts of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP040, and methods for producing an impatiens plant produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP040 with itself or with another impatiens variety. Embodiments include methods for producing an impatiens plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and transgenic impatiens plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to impatiens varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP040, methods for producing other impatiens lines or plant parts derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP040, and the impatiens plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Patent number: 10149452
    Abstract: A New Guinea Impatiens plant designated SAKIMP044 is disclosed. Embodiments include seeds of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP044, plants of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP044, to plant parts of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP044, and methods for producing an impatiens plant produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP044 with itself or with another impatiens variety. Embodiments include methods for producing an impatiens plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and transgenic impatiens plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to impatiens varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP044, methods for producing other impatiens lines or plant parts derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP044, and the impatiens plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Patent number: 10149453
    Abstract: A New Guinea Impatiens plant designated SAKIMP042 is disclosed. Embodiments include seeds of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP042, plants of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP042, to plant parts of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP042, and methods for producing an impatiens plant produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP042 with itself or with another impatiens variety. Embodiments include methods for producing an impatiens plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and transgenic impatiens plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to impatiens varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP042, methods for producing other impatiens lines or plant parts derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP042, and the impatiens plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Publication number: 20180106232
    Abstract: The invention, while reducing noise, suppresses a load increase in a processor and a delay in drive control. An engine control unit includes a processor, a driving circuit including a switching element to drive a load such as a fuel injector and an ignition device, and a communication circuit that transmits control signals from the processor to the driving circuit via serial communication. The control signals each include a command frame for controlling the driving circuit and a data frame for driving the load. If a predetermined bits in each of the data frames received from the processor at predetermined time intervals are determined to be the same twice in succession, the engine control unit changes a state of a driving signal ‘Drive’ for driving the load and thereby changes an operating state of the switching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya OYAMA, Chihiro SATO, Mitsuhiko WATANABE
  • Patent number: 9932003
    Abstract: An in-vehicle power supply apparatus for supplying operating power to a microcomputer is configured such that the microcomputer can securely enter into a standby state in a case where a voltage supplied from an in-vehicle power source is interrupted. The in-vehicle power supply apparatus according to the invention generates a second voltage to be supplied to a control IC and the like other than the microcomputer and a third voltage to be supplied to the microcomputer, and, in a case where the second voltage is reduced, the in-vehicle power supply apparatus transmits a reset signal and bypasses the second voltage to an input of the third voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Hirofumi Kurimoto, Yoshitaka Tokunaga
  • Publication number: 20170307639
    Abstract: The invention relates to in vitro methods for measuring the in vivo metabolism of tau in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Washington University
    Inventors: Randall Bateman, Chihiro Sato, Kwasi Mawuenyega, Tim Miller, David Holtzman
  • Patent number: 9783138
    Abstract: In a vehicle control device in which a driver circuit which does not have a computing function and a computing device communicate with each other, there is provided a technology which can efficiently diagnose that both the driver circuit and the computing device normally communicate with each other by a simple technique. The vehicle control device according to the present invention transmits diagnosis data as a control command from a computing portion to the driver circuit, and the driver circuit sends inverted diagnosis data in which the diagnosis data is bit-inverted back to the computing portion. The computing portion diagnoses whether or not the communication between the computing portion and the driver circuit is normally performed, by using the diagnosis data and the inverted diagnosis data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yoneoka, Yasuhiko Okada, Chihiro Sato, Koji Yuasa, Masahiro Toyohara, Yasushi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20170290232
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having orange-red flowers, and a spreading habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Publication number: 20170290231
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having light coral-pink flowers, and green leaves, is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Patent number: PP28562
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having orange-red flowers, and green leaves with yellow variegation, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Patent number: PP28590
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having red flowers with red-purple eyes, and a compact plant habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Patent number: PP28610
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having orange-red flowers, and a spreading habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Patent number: PP28611
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having light coral-pink flowers, and green leaves, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura