Patents by Inventor Kenta Sato

Kenta 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: 20190331491
    Abstract: A vibration rectification error correction circuit includes a first correction circuit that obtains a digital value based on a signal to be measured output from a sensor element configured to measure a physical quantity and corrects a vibration rectification error of the digital value by a correction function based on a product of values obtained by biasing the digital value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Masayoshi TODOROKIHARA, Kenta SATO
  • Patent number: 10459841
    Abstract: A first information-processing-apparatus includes a buffer to have entries to store a first request-data received and transmitted to a second information-processing-apparatus, a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to transmit, to the second information-processing-apparatus, the first request-data and a second request-data to be transmitted to second or third information-processing-apparatus, when a state where a number of entries in which data is stored in the buffer is equal to or larger than a first threshold is continued for a time longer than a first time, and a state where transmissions of first and second request-data to the second information-processing-apparatus are suppressed is continued for a time longer than a second time, change a number of entries usable in the buffer into a second threshold larger than the first threshold, and when the number of entries usable is the second threshold, suppress a transmission of the second request-data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kenta Sato
  • Publication number: 20190324052
    Abstract: A physical quantity sensor module includes: a resonant frequency shift based physical quantity sensor whose frequency adjusts with a adjust in physical quantity; a reference signal oscillator which outputs a reference signal; a frequency delta-sigma modulator which performs frequency delta-sigma modulation of the reference signal, using an operation signal based on a measurement target signal as an output from the resonant frequency shift based physical quantity sensor, and generates a frequency delta-sigma modulated signal; a first low-pass filter provided on an output side of the frequency delta-sigma modulator and operating synchronously with the measurement target signal as the output from the resonant frequency shift based physical quantity sensor; and a second low-pass filter provided on an output side of the first low-pass filter and operating synchronously with the reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Kenta SATO, Masayoshi TODOROKIHARA
  • Publication number: 20190316903
    Abstract: A sensor unit includes acceleration sensors as physical quantity sensors, a control IC as a processor electrically coupled to the acceleration sensors, a circuit board as a board on which the acceleration sensors and the control IC are installed, and a container accommodating the circuit board. The acceleration sensors and the control IC are disposed on the circuit board such that the acceleration sensors and the control IC do not overlap each other in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Kenta SATO, Yasushi YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190320526
    Abstract: A sensor unit includes a physical quantity sensor, a connecter to be coupled to the outside, a board on which the physical quantity sensor and the connecter are installed, and a container accommodating the board. The board is provided with a first region in which the connecter is installed, a second region in which the physical quantity sensor is installed, and a coupling region disposed between the first and second regions and having a sectional area S3 that is smaller than a sectional area S1 of the first region and a sectional area S2 of the second region in a sectional view as seen in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the first region and the second region are arranged, and a region in the second region of the board on the coupling region side is attached to the container via a fixation member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Kenta Sato, Yasushi Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20190277871
    Abstract: A physical quantity sensor device includes a physical quantity sensor and a storage. The storage stores a first constant used as a constant of each term in an approximate polynomial to obtain a first secondary frequency temperature characteristic approximated to the actual frequency temperature characteristic, in a first temperature region less than the first boundary temperature, and a second constant used as a constant of each term in the approximate polynomial to obtain a second secondary frequency temperature characteristic approximated to the actual frequency temperature characteristic, in a second temperature region equal to or greater than the first boundary temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Kenta SATO
  • Publication number: 20190277876
    Abstract: A physical quantity sensor includes a base, at least two arms, a movable plate, a hinge, and a physical quantity measurement element. Four quadrants of the sensor are defined by first and second orthogonal lines. The first line passes through the center of the sensor and crosses the hinge. The second line extends along the hinge. Fixed regions of the sensor are located in the first and second quadrants. No fixed regions are located in at least one of the third and fourth quadrants. The third and fourth quadrants are closer to the base than the first and second quadrants in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Kenta SATO
  • Publication number: 20190277873
    Abstract: A sensor module includes a sensor, a first substrate on which the sensor is mounted, a second substrate coupled to an external connector, conductive members that couple the first substrate and the second substrate, an accommodator that accommodates the first substrate, the second substrate, and a conductive member therein, a lid that closes an opening of the accommodator, a first elastic member in contact with a first main surface of the first substrate and the accommodator, and a second elastic member in contact with a second main surface of the first substrate and the lid. A resonance frequency f1 of the sensor, a resonance frequency f2 of the conductive member, a resonance frequency f3 of the first elastic member, and a resonance frequency f4 of the second elastic member satisfy f2<f3<f1 and f2<f4?f1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Kenta SATO
  • Publication number: 20190261508
    Abstract: An electronic circuit board includes a substrate having a multilayer structure including a ground layer, has at least one configuration in which, in a ground layer closest to a signal terminal of an oscillator, a region overlapping a signal terminal in a plan view is a non-forming region of a ground electrode, in a ground layer closest to a first wiring connecting the signal terminal of the oscillator and an input portion of an amplifier, a region overlapping the first wiring in the plan view is a non-forming region of a ground electrode, and in a ground layer closest to a second wiring connecting the signal terminal of the oscillator and an output portion of the amplifier, a region overlapping the second wiring in the plan view is a non-forming region of a ground electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Kenta SATO, Yasushi YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190018776
    Abstract: A first information-processing-apparatus includes a buffer to have entries to store a first request-data received and transmitted to a second information-processing-apparatus, a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to transmit, to the second information-processing-apparatus, the first request-data and a second request-data to be transmitted to second or third information-processing-apparatus, when a state where a number of entries in which data is stored in the buffer is equal to or larger than a first threshold is continued for a time longer than a first time, and a state where transmissions of first and second request-data to the second information-processing-apparatus are suppressed is continued for a time longer than a second time, change a number of entries usable in the buffer into a second threshold larger than the first threshold, and when the number of entries usable is the second threshold, suppress a transmission of the second request-data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: KENTA SATO
  • Publication number: 20190008034
    Abstract: A printed circuit board comprises a board main body, a sensor, an external connection pad, and a hollow-structured electrical conductor. The board main body has a top face and a bottom face opposite the top face. The sensor is mounted on one of the top face and the bottom face of the board main body. The external connection pad is provided on the top face or the bottom face of the board main body opposite the sensor. The hollow-structured electrical conductor extends through the board main body and electrically connects the sensor to the external connection pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Kenta Sato, Heewon Jeong
  • Publication number: 20180267078
    Abstract: A physical quantity detector according to the invention includes a substrate section including a base section, a movable part connected to the base section, a support section extending from the base section, an extending part extending from the support section, and a physical quantity detection element fixed to the base section and the movable part, and a weight fixed to the movable part, and the extending part and the weight overlap each other in a planar view from the thickness direction of the extending part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Kenta SATO
  • Publication number: 20180218844
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor which exhibits excellent characteristics for high voltage applications of 80 WV or more and a method for manufacturing this solid electrolytic capacitor are provided. This solid electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element 10 which is obtained by winding an anode foil 1 and a cathode foil 2, with a separator 3 interposed therebetween, the capacitor element 10 includes a solid electrolyte layer, and a void part in the capacitor element 10 is filled with an electrolyte solution, the electrolyte solution contains an ammonium salt of an aliphatic carboxylic acid as a solute and a polyhydric alcohol as a solvent, and the addition amount of the acid serving as the solute relative to the solvent is 0.6 mol/kg or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Kenta SATO, Masao SAKAKURA, Kazuya KOSEKI
  • Patent number: 9925460
    Abstract: An example image processing system and method uses a control device including a movement detector. Gesture inputs corresponding to a gesture made by moving the control device are used for animation. An animation begins based on at least one gesture input received prior to completion of the gesture and the animation is modified based on at least one gesture input received after the beginning of the animation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Rabin, Keizo Ohta, Kenta Sato
  • Patent number: 9841992
    Abstract: Information processing device includes: a first storage unit for storing processing information indicative of predetermined processing and for sequentially outputting the stored processing information; a second storage unit for storing the processing information; a request management unit operative to receive and to store the received processing information in the first storage unit when available, and to store the received processing information in the second storage unit when the first storage unit is unavailable; a request acquisition unit operative to sequentially acquire the processing information output by the first storage unit when the processing information is present in the first storage unit, and search the second storage unit so as to detect and acquire the processing information when the processing information is absent in the first storage unit; and a processing execution unit to perform the predetermined processing according to the acquired processing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kenta Sato
  • Patent number: 9776085
    Abstract: An example system includes: a plurality of information processing devices each having a game processing unit for performing processing involved in a game, a reproduction data generating unit for generating reproduction data to be used for reproducing game play, a relevant information accepting unit for accepting input of relevant information concerning the reproduction data, and a post transmitting unit for transmitting reproduction data and relevant information; and a server machine having a post receiving unit for receiving reproduction data and relevant information transmitted from the information processing device, a storage unit for storing reproduction data and relevant information in association with each other, and a relevant information transmitting unit for transmitting relevant information stored in the storage unit to the information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Shiraiwa, Kenta Sato, Shoichi Obayashi, Ryuhei Matsuura
  • Patent number: 9682312
    Abstract: An example system includes: a reproduction processing unit for displaying reproduction of game play at a display unit on the basis of reproduction data to be used for reproducing game play; a relevant information accepting unit for accepting input of relevant information, which is relevant to game play by the reproduction processing unit, during reproduction of the game play; and a post transmitting unit for transmitting the relevant information accepted by the relevant information accepting unit to a predetermined server machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Shiraiwa, Kenta Sato
  • Publication number: 20170136356
    Abstract: An example image processing system and method uses a control device including a movement detector. Gesture inputs corresponding to a gesture made by moving the control device are used for animation. An animation begins based on at least one gesture input received prior to completion of the gesture and the animation is modified based on at least one gesture input received after the beginning of the animation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Steven RABIN, Keizo OHTA, Kenta SATO
  • Patent number: 9605989
    Abstract: A liquid level meter includes: an exterior portion having an internal space which a liquid to be measured flows in; and a pressure sensitive portion provided inside the exterior portion and having a pressure sensitive surface; wherein the exterior has holes that it is arranged on each of a vertically lower side and a vertically upper side relative to the pressure sensitive surface, and the holes connect an inside and outside of the internal space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta Sato, Kentaro Yoda, Hisao Motoyama
  • Patent number: 9504917
    Abstract: An example image processing system and method uses a control device including a movement detector. Gesture inputs corresponding to a gesture made by moving the control device are used for animation. An animation begins based on at least one gesture input received prior to completion of the gesture and the animation is modified based on at least one gesture input received after the beginning of the animation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Rabin, Keizo Ohta, Kenta Sato