Patents by Inventor Hajime Sato

Hajime 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: 20210257625
    Abstract: A resin current collector exhibits liquid bleeding prevention properties and low resistance, suppresses the generation of an oxidation current, and exhibits moldability that enables film thinning. The resin current collector contains a polyolefin resin and two kinds of conductive carbon fillers, a first conductive carbon filler and a second conductive carbon filler, in which the first conductive carbon filler is graphite or carbon black, the second conductive carbon filler is a carbon nanotube or a carbon nanofiber having a specific surface area of 35 to 300 m2/g, a total surface area of the first conductive carbon filler contained in 1 g of the resin current collector is 0.5 to 9.0 m2, and a mass proportion of the first conductive carbon filler is 30% by mass or less with respect to a mass of the resin current collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ikeda, Ryosuke Kusano, Yasuhiro Tsudo, Yasuhiko Osawa, Yuki Kusachi, Hajime Sato, Hiroshi Akama, Hideaki Horie
  • Patent number: 11092155
    Abstract: A scroll compressor comprising a fixed scroll (15); an orbiting scroll (16) supported in a manner allowing for orbiting motion; a discharge port through which a fluid compressed by the two scrolls (15, 16) is discharged; an end plate step portion (16E) provided on an end plate of the orbiting scroll (16) formed so that a height of the end plate is higher on a center portion side in the direction of a spiral wrap and lower on an outer end side; and a wrap step portion (15E) provided on a wall portion of the fixed scroll (15) that corresponds to the end plate step portion (16E) so that a height of the wall portion is lower on the center portion side of the spiral and higher on the outer end side; wherein the orbiting scroll (16) is treated for surface hardening and the fixed scroll (15) is not treated for surface hardening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Sato, Makoto Takeuchi, Genta Yoshikawa, Kazuhide Watanabe, Katsuhiro Fujita, Takayuki Hagita, Takayuki Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 11078906
    Abstract: A scroll fluid machine that attenuates the bending stress applied to the base of a wall body having an inclined section. The scroll fluid machine is provided with a wall body inclined section in which the distance between the facing surfaces of an end plate of a fixed scroll and an end plate of a rotating scroll that face each other continuously decreases from the outer circumferential side toward the inner circumferential side. A mesh clearance that is a gap between wall bodies formed when the wall bodies mesh with each other is larger on the outer circumferential side of the inclined section than on the inner circumferential side of the inclined section. The mesh clearance is made larger by drawing the wall surface of a wall body further back toward the central side of the wall body in the thickness direction than the original wall surface profile thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata, Yohei Hotta
  • Publication number: 20210176065
    Abstract: In writing, a storage controller generates encrypted data using a data encryption key and generates an authentication code based on the encrypted data using an authentication key. A storage node verifies the authentication code received from the storage controller. If the authentication code is successfully verified, the storage node stores the encrypted data and the authentication code. In reading, the storage controller verifies the authentication code received from the storage node. If the authentication code is successfully verified, the storage controller decrypts the encrypted data and sends the decrypted data to a host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Nobuyuki OSAKI, Hajime SATO, Mioko MORIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210168301
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus obtains a plurality of processing steps concerning a work in installation or operation of a system including a plurality of apparatuses, and progress statuses of the plurality of processing steps, and causes a display unit to display a screen including information representing the plurality of processing steps and the progress statuses of the plurality of processing steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshiki Iwakiri, Hajime Sato
  • Publication number: 20210156382
    Abstract: Provided is a tip seal that makes it possible to improve the durability of a tip seal installed on the tooth tip of a wall even when a continuously inclined section is provided to the wall. The tip seal is provided with: a tip seal inclined section (7A) installed in a groove section of a wall in which the height changes continuously in a spiral direction; and a tip seal flat section (7B) that is installed in a groove section of the wall in which the height is fixed in the spiral direction and that is adjacent to the tip seal inclined section (7A). A recess (8) is formed at a position away from the adjacent area between the tip seal inclined section (7A) and the tip seal flat section (7B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime SATO, Yohei HOTTA, Yoshiyuki KIMATA, Takuma YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 11015601
    Abstract: The present invention improves performance of a scroll fluid machine by effectively exhibiting a function of a tip seal installed at a tooth tip of a wall body even when a continuous slope is provided to the wall body. A slope in which the distance between opposing surfaces of opposing end plates continuously reduces from the outer peripheral surface toward the inner peripheral surface is provided, and a tip seal (7) that comes into contact with an opposing tooth bottom so as to seal a fluid is provided to a tip seal groove (3d) formed at a tooth tip of a wall body (3b) corresponding to the slope. A groove bottom (3d1) of the tip seal groove (3d) is formed into a shape in which the center portion (3d2) in the groove width direction deepest. The tip seal (7) is formed such that the center portion (7a1), in the width direction, of the bottom (7a) of the tip seal (7) facing the groove bottom (3d1) projects farther than both side portions (7a2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata, Yohei Hotta
  • Publication number: 20210148361
    Abstract: A scroll compressor comprising a fixed scroll (15); an orbiting scroll (16) supported in a manner allowing for orbiting motion; a discharge port through which a fluid compressed by the two scrolls (15, 16) is discharged; an end plate step portion (16E) provided on an end plate of the orbiting scroll (16) formed so that a height of the end plate is higher on a center portion side in the direction of a spiral wrap and lower on an outer end side; and a wrap step portion (15E) provided on a wall portion of the fixed scroll (15) that corresponds to the end plate step portion (16E) so that a height of the wall portion is lower on the center portion side of the spiral and higher on the outer end side; wherein the orbiting scroll (16) is treated for surface hardening and the fixed scroll (15) is not treated for surface hardening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime SATO, Makoto TAKEUCHI, Genta YOSHIKAWA, Kazuhide WATANABE, Katsuhiro FUJITA, Takayuki HAGITA, Takayuki KUWAHARA
  • Patent number: 11002274
    Abstract: Provided is a scroll fluid machine which can appropriately set a tip clearance between a tooth base and a tooth crest having an inclined portion and can achieve desired performance. An inclined portion in which a distance between opposing surfaces of an end plate of a fixed scroll and an end plate of an orbiting scroll facing each other gradually decreases from an outer peripheral side toward an inner peripheral side is provided. A tip clearance between a tooth crest of a wall of the orbiting scroll and a tooth base of the end plate of the fixed scroll facing the tooth crest at normal temperature is greater on the inner peripheral side than on the outer peripheral side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata, Takahide Ito
  • Patent number: 10975866
    Abstract: Provided is a scroll fluid machine capable of effectively achieving performance of a tip seal installed in a tooth crest of a wall including an inclined portion. The inclined portion in which a distance between opposing surfaces of end plates facing each other gradually decreases from an outer peripheral side toward an inner peripheral side is provided. A tip seal (7) configured to make contact with a tooth base facing the tip seal (7) to perform sealing against fluid is provided in tip seal groove (3d) formed in a tooth crest of a wall (3b) corresponding to the inclined portion. In a stop state where a scroll (3) does not perform compression of fluid, an inclination height (Ls?) of the tip seal (7) is smaller than an inclination height (Ls) of the wall (3b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata, Yohei Hotta
  • Patent number: 10968908
    Abstract: Provided is a scroll fluid machine which is capable of inhibiting contact between tooth tip corners and tooth bottom corners. The present invention is provided with: a wall inclined portion (3b1) of which a facing surface has a distance to an end plate which continuously decreases from the outer circumferential side to the inner circumferential side; and an end plate inclined portion (5a1). Chamfered portions (8a) are provided to tooth tip corners (8) of a tooth tip of a wall (3b) which face tooth bottom corners (9) of bases of mating walls (5b). The chamfered portions (8a) have a shape which avoids contact with step parts (9a) which are formed at the tooth bottom, and which are adjacent to the tooth bottom corners (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata, Masashi Hamano, Takahide Ito
  • Publication number: 20210071662
    Abstract: In a scroll compressor (1) provided with a fixed scroll (3) and an orbiting scroll (5), an inclined portion is provided in which the inter-facing surface distance (L) between an end plate (3a) and an end plate (5a) that face each other decreases continuously from the outer peripheral side towards the inner peripheral side. The inclined portion is configured from wall inclined portions (3b1, 5b1) in which the height of a wall (3b, 5b) decreases continuously from the outer peripheral side towards the inner peripheral side, and end plate inclined portions (3a1, 5a1) in which a tooth bottom surface is inclined in accordance with the incline of the wall inclined portions (3b1, 5b1). The inclined portion is provided across a range of no less than 180° around the center of the spiral.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime SATO, Yoshiyuki KIMATA, Takahide ITO
  • Patent number: 10935956
    Abstract: A positioning control device mounted on an industrial machine including a driver including a motor, a movable body movable by the driver, a first detector that detects a position of the movable body based on the amount of driving of the driver, a servo amplifier that performs first feedback control of feedback-controlling driving of the motor based on a first detection value by the first detector, and a second detector that detects a position of the movable body when the movable body comes closer to a target position within a distance or shorter. The positioning control device is configured to position the movable body at the target position and includes a controller that controls the servo amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Sato, Atsuo Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20200370556
    Abstract: Provided is a scroll fluid machine which can appropriately set a tip clearance between a tooth base and a tooth crest having an inclined portion and can achieve desired performance. An inclined portion in which a distance between opposing surfaces of an end plate of a fixed scroll and an end plate of an orbiting scroll facing each other gradually decreases from an outer peripheral side toward an inner peripheral side is provided. A tip clearance between a tooth crest of a wall of the orbiting scroll and a tooth base of the end plate of the fixed scroll facing the tooth crest at normal temperature is greater on the inner peripheral side than on the outer peripheral side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime SATO, Yoshiyuki KIMATA, Takahide ITO
  • Patent number: 10844719
    Abstract: One of a pair of a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll is the scroll including a step portion provided only at a predetermined position along a spiral direction on a blade bottom surface of a spiral wrap, and the other one of the scrolls is the scroll including a step portion provided only at a predetermined position along a spiral direction on a blade tip surface of a spiral wrap. A blade bottom surface of an end plate of the fixed scroll is set as a reference surface for setting a chip gap between both the scrolls. When a wrap height of the spiral wrap of the orbiting scroll is represented by (L) (Lo, Li) and a wrap height of the spiral wrap of the fixed scroll is represented by (lo, li), L (Lo, Li)>1 (lo, li) is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Genta Yoshikawa, Hajime Sato, Takuma Yamashita, Takayuki Hagita, Takayuki Kuwahara, Katsuhiro Fujita, Kazuhide Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200309131
    Abstract: The present invention improves performance of a scroll fluid machine by effectively exhibiting a function of a tip seal installed at a tooth tip of a wall body even when a continuous slope is provided to the wall body. A slope in which the distance between opposing surfaces of opposing end plates continuously reduces from the outer peripheral surface toward the inner peripheral surface is provided, and a tip seal (7) that comes into contact with an opposing tooth bottom so as to seal a fluid is provided to a tip seal groove (3d) formed at a tooth tip of a wall body (3b) corresponding to the slope. A groove bottom (3d1) of the tip seal groove (3d) is formed into a shape in which the center portion (3d2) in the groove width direction deepest. The tip seal (7) is formed such that the center portion (7a1), in the width direction, of the bottom (7a) of the tip seal (7) facing the groove bottom (3d1) projects farther than both side portions (7a2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime SATO, Yoshiyuki KIMATA, Yohei HOTTA
  • Patent number: 10634140
    Abstract: In a scroll compressor that forms two suction volume parts by engaging paired fixed scroll and turning scroll with each other while scroll laps respectively erected on end plates of the fixed scroll and the turning scroll are opposed to each other and driving the turning scroll to revolve around the fixed scroll, out of the two suction volume parts, one of the suction volume parts that is formed close to a suction port provided in a housing is made larger than the other suction volume part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kuwahara, Katsuhiro Fujita, Takayuki Hagita, Makoto Takeuchi, Hajime Sato, Genta Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20200095993
    Abstract: In this scroll fluid machine, a tip seal (7) that is in contact with facing end plates (5a) and that is for sealing in a fluid is provided to a tip seal groove (3d) formed on the tooth tip of a wall (3b). The tooth bottoms of the end plates (5a) have a shape in which a central section is deeper than a side section (5d3) in a width direction orthogonal to the spiral direction of a wall (5b). During operation, the protrusion amount (?) when the tip seal (7) protrudes from the tooth tip of the wall (3b) in an inclined section and is in contact with the facing end plates is greater than the protrusion amount (?) when the tip seal (7) protrudes from the tooth tip of the wall (3b) in a flat section and is in contact with the facing end plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime SATO, Yohei HOTTA, Yoshiyuki KIMATA, Takuma YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20200056131
    Abstract: The wort of the present invention is obtained by using unmilled or slightly milled grain as a starch source and saccharifying starch contained in the starch source with a saccharifying enzyme derived from malt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Hajime Sato, Hideko Yomo, Toshiharu Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10541694
    Abstract: A PFD outputs a detection signal based on a phase difference or a frequency difference between a reference signal and a feedback signal, a charge pump circuit outputs a pulse signal based on the detection signal, and a loop filter outputs a control voltage based on the pulse signal. A VCO includes a ring oscillator where a plurality of delay element units, which include a plurality of delay elements (for example, inverter circuits) connected in parallel, are connected in series in a ring, controls the frequency of the output signal of the ring oscillator based on the control voltage, and controls the phase of the output signal of the ring oscillator by controlling the active number of delay elements, out of the plurality of delay elements, based on the detection signal. A frequency divider circuit generates and outputs a feedback signal by dividing the frequency of the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Hajime Sato, Kenta Aruga