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: 20170290234
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having light purple flowers with white centers, and a compact habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Publication number: 20170290235
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having blush-pink flowers with darker splotches at the base of the petal, and green leaves, is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Publication number: 20170290236
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having red flowers with red-purple eyes, and a compact plant habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Publication number: 20170290233
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having orange-red flowers, and green leaves with yellow variegation, is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Publication number: 20170273262
    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: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Publication number: 20170265412
    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: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Patent number: 9719481
    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: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Oyama, Chihiro Sato, Mitsuhiko Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20170202166
    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: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Publication number: 20170202165
    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: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Patent number: 9694694
    Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle step-down switching power supply capable of obtaining a stable output while suppressing nose in a harmful frequency band even when an input voltage decreases. The in-vehicle step-down switching power supply includes a switching frequency control unit and the switching frequency control unit includes a switching frequency range setting unit that changes a switching frequency between fa and fb and a switching frequency path setting unit that skips a frequency band from fd to fe between fa and fb, via an intermediate frequency fc between fa and fb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayumu Hatanaka, Takuya Mayuzumi, Chihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 9569149
    Abstract: A job processing system includes first and second job processing apparatuses. The first job processing apparatus includes the followings. A first calculation unit calculates first estimated completion time expected if the job is processed by the first job processing apparatus. A first transmission unit transmits the job and the first estimated completion time. The second job processing apparatus includes the followings. A reception unit receives the job and the first estimated completion time. The second calculation unit calculates second estimated completion time expected if the job is processed by the second job processing apparatus. The discarding unit discards the job if the first estimated completion time is earlier than the second estimated completion time. The notification unit notifies the first job processing apparatus of start of processing if the first estimated completion time is later than the second estimated completion time. The processed job transmission unit transmits the processed job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chihiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20170017443
    Abstract: A job processing system includes first and second job processing apparatuses. The first job processing apparatus includes the followings. A first calculation unit calculates first estimated completion time expected if the job is processed by the first job processing apparatus. A first transmission unit transmits the job and the first estimated completion time. The second job processing apparatus includes the followings. A reception unit receives the job and the first estimated completion time. The second calculation unit calculates second estimated completion time expected if the job is processed by the second job processing apparatus. The discarding unit discards the job if the first estimated completion time is earlier than the second estimated completion time. The notification unit notifies the first job processing apparatus of start of processing if the first estimated completion time is later than the second estimated completion time. The processed job transmission unit transmits the processed job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chihiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20160274610
    Abstract: An electronic control device having an input processing circuit capable of arbitrarily connecting one or both of a pull-up resistor and a pull-down resistor to an input signal from outside and capable of arbitrarily setting a resistance value of the pull-up resistor and/or the pull-down resistor connected, to diagnose whether the resistance value of the pull-up/pull-down resistor is a designed value. The input processing circuit has a unit that diagnoses whether the resistance value of the pull-up resistor and/or the pull-down resistor is within an expected range. The pull-down resistor is connected to the pull-up resistor when the resistance value of the pull-up resistor is to be diagnosed, the pull-up resistor is connected to the pull-down resistor when the resistance value of the pull-down resistor is to be diagnosed, and the resistance value is diagnosed based on the voltage divided by both the pull-up resistor and the pull-down resistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: HIROSHI IWASAWA, Teppei HIROTSU, Chihiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20160205854
    Abstract: A New Guinea impatiens plant particularly distinguished by red-purple flowers with red-purple eyes and a spreading plant habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Publication number: 20160205853
    Abstract: An impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having beautiful white flowers with a white eye, a strong root system, and spreading habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Patent number: PP26886
    Abstract: An impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having beautiful white flowers with a white eye, a strong root system, and spreading habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Patent number: PP27995
    Abstract: An impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having red-purple flowers, a compact plant habit, and green leaves, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Patent number: PP28027
    Abstract: An impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having pink flowers, and green leaves with yellow variegation, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Patent number: PP28417
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having light purple flowers with white centers, and a compact habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura
  • Patent number: PP28486
    Abstract: An Impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having blush-pink flowers with darker splotches at the base of the petal, and green leaves, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Sakata Seed Corporation
    Inventors: Chihiro Sato, Shinji Minemura