Patents by Inventor Ken Sato

Ken 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: 20230071591
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a secondary battery and a circuit board, in which the secondary battery includes a metal exterior part, a first external terminal disposed at a center part of an end surface of the metal exterior part, and a second external terminal disposed so as to surround a periphery of the first external terminal, and the circuit board includes a first connection part connected to the first external terminal and a second connection part connected to the second external terminal; the battery pack including an insulating part that insulates the first connection part from the second connection part, the first connection part and the second connection part being disposed in an identical plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Ken SATO, Kenichi OZAWA, Masashi SATO
  • Publication number: 20230057110
    Abstract: A base plate has one surface and the other surface opposite to the one surface. An electrostatic chuck is capable of being mounted on the one surface. The base plate includes a refrigerant flow path provided therein. An inner wall of the refrigerant flow path has an upper surface convex toward the one surface in a longitudinal sectional view in a direction intersecting with a direction in which refrigerant flows. An unevenness is formed on the upper surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Ken Sato, Keiichi Takemoto, Tatsuya Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20230005779
    Abstract: An electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic plate, an adsorption electrode, a ground electrode, and a wiring. The adsorption electrode is built-in near one surface of the ceramic plate. The ground electrode is arranged in the ceramic plate between the other surface of the ceramic plate and the adsorption electrode, and can be connected to a ground potential. The wiring is connected to the ground electrode in the ceramic plate and extends to the one surface of the ceramic plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro Sunohara, Ken Sato, Tatsuya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11512128
    Abstract: The present invention relates to VEGF-binding agents, DLL4-binding agents, VEGF/DLL4 bispecific binding agents, and methods of using the agents for treating diseases such as cancer. The present invention provides antibodies that specifically bind human VEGF, antibodies that specifically bind human DLL4, and bispecific antibodies that specifically bind human VEGF and/or human DLL4. The present invention further provides methods of using the agents to inhibit tumor growth. Also described are methods of treating cancer comprising administering a therapeutically effect amount of an agent or antibody of the present invention to a patient having a tumor or cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: MEREO BIOPHARMA 5, INC.
    Inventors: Austin L. Gurney, Aaron Ken Sato, Christopher John Bond
  • Patent number: 11478305
    Abstract: A bend information computation apparatus includes a generation unit and a bend information arithmetic operator. The generation unit generates suppression information that suppresses first information representing a variation in spectrum not derived from a bend of a detection target provided in a light guide on the basis of light source spectrum information. The bend information arithmetic operator operates second information representing a variation in spectrum derived from the bend on the basis of a spectrum of light guided by the light guide, operates third information representing a variation in spectrum derived only from the bend on the basis of the second information and the suppression information, and operates bend information on the basis of the third information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ken Sato
  • Patent number: 11399697
    Abstract: Bend information computation apparatus includes: an input unit having detected light quantity information representing a relation between a wavelength in a predetermined wavelength band and a light quantity, the detected light quantity information being acquired using a light guide having at least one light absorber for changing a light quantity of light transmitted through the light guide according to a bent state of the light absorber to detect a light quantity after a change; and an arithmetic operator for computing bend information representing a bend direction and a bend magnitude of each light absorber based on the detected light quantity information, an absorption spectrum of each light absorber, a bend coefficient of each light absorber that varies according to a bend direction and a bend magnitude of each light absorber, and a unique characteristic value of each light absorber including a value for a correction relating to the bend coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ken Sato
  • Publication number: 20220209356
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a circuit board, a battery cell, an exterior case having a cylindrical shape, and a pair of external terminals respectively provided at both ends of the exterior case, in which each of the external terminals includes an inserted portion to be inserted into the exterior case and an uninserted portion not to be inserted into the exterior case, at least a part of the circuit board is disposed between the battery cell and the external terminals, and an elastic resin is provided so as to be in contact with the battery cell, the at least part of the circuit board, and the external terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Ken SATO, Madoka HAMANO, Kenichi OZAWA, Masashi SATO, Mikio YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki ITO
  • Publication number: 20210363411
    Abstract: A diverting agent of the present invention contains a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin, wherein when the diverting agent is added to a 0.48 mass % aqueous solution of guar gum to prepare a mixed solution having a concentration of 12 mass %, a dispersion liquid obtained by dispersing the mixed solution at 30° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Shusaku MANDAI, Yasuhiro HIRANO, Ryosuke TANIGUCHI, Chizuko FURO, Kenji FURUI, Kenji SHINOHARA, Ken SATO
  • Patent number: 11037495
    Abstract: A display driver comprises drive circuitry and emission control circuitry. The display driver is configured to drive a display panel. The display panel may be a self-luminous display panel. The emission control circuitry is configured to generate a control signal to control the display panel during a first frame period to successively move a plurality of non-light-emitting areas successively inserted at an end of a display area of the display panel in a predetermined direction, the plurality of non-light-emitting areas having gradually changing widths in the predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Masao Orio, Hirobumi Furihata, Takashi Nose, Ken Sato, Nobuhiro Nagato
  • Publication number: 20210116867
    Abstract: A timepiece includes a first motor having a rotor for rotating a hour hand, and a first train wheel group having a wheel gear rotating based on rotation of the rotor. The first train wheel group includes a third intermediate hour pinion, a first intermediate hour pinion, a twenty four hour wheel gear having a first reference load unit disposed to mesh with the third intermediate hour pinion so that a load received by the rotor fluctuates in a case where the twenty four hour wheel gear meshes with the third intermediate hour pinion, and rotating at a first reduction ratio with respect to the rotor, and a second intermediate hour wheel gear having a second reference load unit disposed to mesh with the first intermediate hour pinion so that the load received by the rotor fluctuates in a case where the second intermediate hour wheel gear meshes with the first intermediate hour pinion, and rotating at a second reduction ratio lower than the first reduction ratio with respect to the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Masayuki KAWATA, Katsuya MUGISHIMA, Ken SATO, Yuya TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210087280
    Abstract: The present invention provides anti-Fzd monoclonal antibodies and related compositions, which may be used in any of a variety of therapeutic methods for the treatment of diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Yang LI, Tom Zhiye YUAN, Aaron Ken SATO, Wen-Chen YEH, Chenggang LU, Parthasarathy SAMPATHKUMAR, Claudia Yvonne JANDA
  • Publication number: 20210079089
    Abstract: The present invention provides anti-LRP5/6 monoclonal antibodies and related compositions, which may be used in any of a variety of therapeutic methods for treating diseases and disorders associated with Wnt pathway signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Yang LI, Tom Zhiye YUAN, Aaron Ken SATO, Wen-Chen YEH, Parthasarathy SAMPATHKUMAR
  • Publication number: 20210061903
    Abstract: The present invention relates to VEGF-binding agents, DLL4-binding agents, VEGF/DLL4 bispecific binding agents, and methods of using the agents for treating diseases such as cancer. The present invention provides antibodies that specifically bind human VEGF, antibodies that specifically bind human DLL4, and bispecific antibodies that specifically bind human VEGF and/or human DLL4. The present invention further provides methods of using the agents to inhibit tumor growth. Also described are methods of treating cancer comprising administering a therapeutically effect amount of an agent or antibody of the present invention to a patient having a tumor or cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: AUSTIN L. GURNEY, Aaron Ken Sato, Christopher John Bond
  • Patent number: 10842359
    Abstract: Sensing parts are formed in different directions in a circumferential direction in substantially a same position in the longitudinal direction thereof. Each sensing part is configured to include an optical characteristic changing member which generates the optical signals having absorption wavelength characteristic regions that vary from sensing part to sensing part by giving an optical characteristic change, which differs from that of other sensing parts, to the sensor light incident thereon in accordance with an amount of bending in a specific direction. A light detector detects the optical signals included in sensor light from a light source, which has passed through the sensing parts and undergone the optical characteristic change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Fujita, Ken Sato
  • Patent number: 10833184
    Abstract: A semiconductor device substrate including: a substrate; a buffer layer which is provided on the substrate and made of a nitride semiconductor; and a device active layer which is formed of a nitride semiconductor layer provided on the buffer layer, the semiconductor device substrate in that the buffer layer includes: a first region which contains carbon and iron; a second region which is provided on the first region and has average concentration of iron lower than that in the first region and average concentration of carbon higher than that in the first region, and the average concentration of the carbon in the second region is lower than the average concentration of the iron in the first region. The semiconductor device substrate which can suppress a transverse leak current in a high-temperature operation of a device while suppressing a longitudinal leak current and can inhibit a current collapse phenomenon is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignees: SANKEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD., SHIN-ETSU HANDOTAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken Sato, Hiroshi Shikauchi, Masaru Shinomiya, Keitaro Tsuchiya, Kazunori Hagimoto
  • Patent number: 10813701
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present invention relate to systems methods and computer program products for bend estimation. The system comprises a first and second light absorbers disposed at a substantially same position along an axis of a light guide and enabled to absorb first and second respective amounts of a plurality of wavelengths of a light transmitted along the light guide, a light detector enabled to detect respective intensities of the plurality of wavelengths of the light not absorbed by the first and second light absorbers, and a processor enabled to calculate a bend state of the light guide according to the detected intensities of the plurality of wavelengths of the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Sato, Hiromasa Fujita
  • Patent number: 10806231
    Abstract: A drawing apparatus includes a processor generating data for drawing according to a type of a target on which drawing is performed. The target is placed in a drawable area. The drawing apparatus further includes a drawing head drawing on the target placed in the drawable area on a basis of the data for drawing generated by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ken Sato
  • Publication number: 20200308287
    Abstract: The present invention provides Wnt pathway agonists and related compositions, which may be used in any of a variety of therapeutic methods for the treatment of diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Yang LI, Tom Zhiye YUAN, Aaron Ken SATO, Wen-Chen YEH, Claudia Yvonne JANDA, Tristan William FOWLER, Helene BARIBAULT, Kuo-Pao LAI, Liqin XIE, Randall J. BREZSKI, Chenggang LU
  • Publication number: 20200286429
    Abstract: A display driver comprises drive circuitry and emission control circuitry. The display driver is configured to drive a display panel. The display panel may be a self-luminous display panel. The emission control circuitry is configured to generate a control signal to control the display panel during a first frame period to successively move a plurality of non-light-emitting areas successively inserted at an end of a display area of the display panel in a predetermined direction, the plurality of non-light-emitting areas having gradually changing widths in the predetermined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Masao ORIO, Hirobumi FURIHATA, Takashi NOSE, Ken SATO, Nobuhiro NAGATO
  • Patent number: 10729313
    Abstract: A bend information computation apparatus is to compute bend information representing a direction and a magnitude of bend of a target group including targets disposed at an identical position along a light guide. Each target modulates the intensity of guided light in accordance with the direction and magnitude of bend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Sato, Yasuo Sasaki, Hiromasa Fujita