Patents by Inventor Masahiro Sato

Masahiro 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).

  • Patent number: 11953116
    Abstract: A valve body has an inflow passage for a working fluid, an outflow passage for the working fluid, and a pressure relief passage, which connects the inflow passage and the outflow passage by bypassing a normally close valve seat. A pressure relief valve is located in the pressure relief passage. The pressure relief valve closes the pressure relief passage, if a pressure of the working fluid in the outflow passage is lower than, is equal to, and is higher by a pressure difference less than a predetermined relief pressure than a pressure of the working fluid in the inflow passage. The pressure relief valve opens the pressure relief passage, if the pressure of the working fluid in the outflow passage is higher by a pressure difference equal to or higher than the relief pressure than a pressure of the working fluid in the inflow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HAMANAKODENSO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Kaneko, Masashi Sugano, Yutaka Sato, Masahiro Hisada
  • Patent number: 11953384
    Abstract: A temperature measuring device includes an ultrasonic sensor attached to a rear surface side of the structural body having the multilayer structure, an acquisition unit configured to, through the ultrasonic sensor, acquire a signal of a reflected wave of an ultrasonic wave incident at the internal side of the structural body, an extraction unit configured to extract, from the signal of the reflected wave, a domain including a reflected wave reflected on a surface on the internal side of the structural body, and an identification unit configured to, based on a signal of the reflected wave in the extracted domain, identify the temperature of the surface on the internal side of the structural body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Kawano, Masahiro Sugihara, Tadashi Kimura, Shinsuke Sato
  • Publication number: 20240113366
    Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes forming a lid, forming a lid assembly, closing, and welding. In forming a lid, there is included forming, by forging, a protruding portion between a peripheral portion and an insertion-hole surrounding portion of the lid to block scattered light of a laser beam from being irradiated to a resin member, with a distance D from an end surface of the peripheral portion to a side surface of the protruding portion falling within 0.5t (D?0.5t) relative to a thickness t of the lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Tsuyoshi EHARA, Syoichi TSUCHIYA, Masataka ASAI, Tsuyoshi ASANO, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Yasuaki NAGANO
  • Publication number: 20240113367
    Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes placing a lid assembly that includes a lid and a terminal member integrated therewith via a resin member to close an opening portion of a case body with the lid, and laser-welding the opening portion of the case body and the peripheral portion of the lid over an entire circumference. In placing the lid assembly, a peripheral high-level region, in which a peripheral outer surface of the peripheral portion of the lid is located on the outer side relative to an opening end surface of the opening portion of the case body is provided in proximate long-side opening portions, close of the opening portion and proximate long-side peripheral portions of the peripheral portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Tsuyoshi EHARA, Syoichi TSUCHIYA, Masataka ASAI, Tsuyoshi ASANO, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Yasuaki NAGANO
  • Publication number: 20240113368
    Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes closing an opening portion of a case body with a lid of a lid assembly, and laser-welding the opening portion of the case body and a peripheral portion of the lid over their entire circumference. A resin member has an outer surface including a scattered light-reached surface to which scattered light of a laser beam directly reaches, at least a part of the scattered light-reached surface including a smoothed region having a surface roughness of 0.6 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Tsuyoshi EHARA, Syoichi TSUCHIYA, Masataka ASAI, Tsuyoshi ASANO, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Yasuaki NAGANO
  • Patent number: 11945230
    Abstract: An image-recording apparatus includes: a first tank defining a first storage chamber; a second tank defining a second storage chamber; a conveying mechanism for conveying sheets along a conveying path extending in a depthwise direction and a widthwise direction perpendicular to a vertical direction and the depthwise direction; and a recording head including a nozzle. Liquid in the first storage chamber is supplied through a communication port to the second storage chamber and then to the recording head through a liquid outlet port. The second storage chamber is positioned further in a first depthwise direction relative to the nozzle and further in a first widthwise direction relative to the conveying path. A volume of a prescribed space above a liquid level equal to a height of the communication port in the second storage chamber is greater than that of a liquid channel between the liquid outlet port and the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Hayashi, Akinari Ishibe, Yuma Tanabe, Masatake Sato, Akihito Kobayashi, Hiroaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11940520
    Abstract: For a complex image to be complexly added, appropriate phase correction is executed by a simple method to prevent occurrence of an artifact in a signal region and to reduce noise in a background region. Two or more types of smoothing processing with different smoothing degrees are executed on a phase image of the complex image to obtain two or more types of smoothed phase images having different smoothing degrees. A weight for each of these smoothed phase images is calculated based on a signal value (SNR) of an intensity image, and addition is performed by a weight for each signal value to obtain a smoothed phase image for correction. After a phase of the complex image is corrected using the smoothed phase image, a phase-corrected complex image is complexly added. As a result, phase correction equivalent to phase correction in which a smoothing degree is weakened in the signal region and a smoothing degree is strengthened in the background region is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Healthcare Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Sato, Suguru Yokosawa, Toru Shirai, Kazuho Kamba, Yoshitaka Sato, Masahiro Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20240099069
    Abstract: A high-resolution display device is provided. A display device with both high display quality and high resolution is provided. The display device includes a first display element including a first pixel electrode, a first EL layer, and a common electrode; a second display element including a second pixel electrode, a second EL layer, and the common electrode; a first insulating layer covering an end portion of the first pixel electrode and an end portion of the second pixel electrode; a second insulating layer over the first insulating layer; and a third insulating layer over the second insulating layer. The first EL layer is placed over the first pixel electrode and the third insulating layer. The second EL layer is placed over the second pixel electrode and the third insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Rai SATO, Masahiro KATAYAMA, Naoto GOTO, Yasutaka NAKAZAWA, Kenichi OKAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11932015
    Abstract: A print head includes a generation portion that amplifies an input signal to generate a drive signal, an ejection portion that includes a first driving element driven by a drive signal, and ejects a liquid in response to the drive of the first driving element, a supply portion that includes a first switch for switching between supply and non-supply of the drive signal to the first driving element, and a sound emitting portion that includes a second driving element driven by the drive signal, and a second switch for switching between supply and non-supply of the drive signal to the second driving element, and emits sound in response to the drive of the second driving element, in which the first switch and the second switch are turned on exclusively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Masahiro Toki, Tatsuya Sato, Shunsuke Kasai
  • Patent number: 11934623
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, an information presentation apparatus for displaying information on a display device including a display area corresponding to a visual field range of a user includes: a first storage medium that stores presentation information including content information representing a presentation content and attribute information of the content information; a detection unit that detects a gaze point within the visual field range of the user; and a presentation control unit that determines a presentation position of the content information within the visual field range of the user in accordance with the attribute information stored together with the content information to be presented and the detected gaze point and cause the content information to be displayed at a position corresponding to the determined presentation position within the display area of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Saijo, Shinichiro Eitoku, Masahiro Watanabe, Tae Sato
  • Publication number: 20240077015
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reservoir tank for coolant that stores the coolant for cooling an internal combustion engine. The reservoir tank includes: a tank chamber that stores the coolant; an opening, which is disposed in an upper part of the tank chamber, through which the coolant flows in and flows out, and in a circumferential wall of which a breathing hole is formed; and a first communication passage, a second communication passage, and a third communication passage that respectively communicate with the opening and the tank chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Miyo KITAMURA, Shinji SHIMOYAMA, Keijiro KOIDE, Masahiro KATO, Tatsuya KURIMOTO, Tatsuki TANAKA, Koji SATO, Takumi TOKINOYA
  • Publication number: 20240069467
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first unit including an image bearing member and a second unit. The second unit includes a developing roller to supply the toner to the image bearing member, a mounting portion in which the replenishing container is dismountably mounted and an accommodating portion to accommodate the toner replenished from the replenishing container. The second unit is movable between a first position where the developing roller contacts the image bearing member and a second position where the developing roller separates from the image bearing member. When a moving direction in which the second unit moves from the first position toward the second position is defined as a separating direction, the second unit is urged in the separating direction by a force which the mounting portion receives from the replenishing container when the replenishing container is mounted to the mounting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Goshi Ozaki, Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Shinichi Nishida, Sohta Sugimoto, Mitsuhiro Sato, Masahiro Suetsugu
  • Publication number: 20240070752
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing method, an information processing apparatus, and a program capable of preparing a high performance model for an unknown introduction destination facility even in a case where a domain of the introduction destination facility is unknown at a step of training a model. The information processing method includes: dividing a dataset, which indicates a behavior of a user on an item for each of combinations of a plurality of the users and a plurality of the items, into a plurality of subgroups that are robust with respect to domain shift; generating a local model for performing a prediction of the behavior of the user on the item for each of the subgroups; and combining a plurality of the local models generated for each of the subgroups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro SATO, Tomoki TANIGUCHI, Tomoko OHKUMA
  • Publication number: 20240051237
    Abstract: Provided is a method for easily manufacturing a metal-polyolefin bonded body having high bonding strength. This method for manufacturing a metallic member-resin member bonded body comprises: preparing a film that includes at least one modified polyolefin layer selected from the group consisting of a layer containing a reaction product 1 of a maleic anhydride-modified polyolefin, a bifunctional epoxy resin, and a bifunctional phenol compound, a layer containing a reaction product 2 of a maleic anhydride-modified polyolefin and a thermoplastic epoxy resin, and a layer containing a mixture of a polyolefin and a thermoplastic epoxy resin; disposing the film on at least a part of the surface of a metallic substrate so as to expose the modified polyolefin layer, thereby forming a metallic member in which a resin coating layer is laminated on the metallic substrate; and bonding a resin member onto the resin coating layer of the metallic member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Resonac Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki TAKAHASHI, Masahiro SATO, Kazuo OTANI
  • Publication number: 20240044281
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine performs control of, when a water temperature of cooling water which cools the internal combustion engine is low, reducing load on the internal combustion engine and increasing a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine compared with a case in which the water temperature is high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Masahiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20240010147
    Abstract: Provided are: a lightweight bumper reinforcement which, with respect to the load during a collision, exhibits high rigidity against a light load and, against a heavy load, is capable of plastic deformation to absorb collision energy while effectively transferring unabsorbed energy to a crash box; a method for manufacturing the same; and a resin reinforcement member for a bumper reinforcement. The bumper reinforcement of the present disclosure comprises a body portion extending along a vehicle width direction, and a resin reinforcement portion extending along the vehicle width direction and disposed on the vehicle body side relative to the body portion. The body portion has at least one first joint portion on the vehicle body side. The resin reinforcement portion has at least one second joint portion joined to the first joint portion, and one or more reinforcement ribs projecting on the vehicle body side and extending along the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Resonac Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo OTANI, Ryota NIIBAYASHI, Naoyuki KAWATA, Nobuyuki TAKAHASHI, Masahiro SATO
  • Patent number: 11868532
    Abstract: A shape changeable apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a space forming section, a fluid controller, a signal emitter, a detector, and a generator. The space forming section forms a space, and includes a deformable member that is arranged in contact with the space. The fluid controller is capable of deforming the member by controlling a flow of fluid with respect to the space. The signal emitter emits a signal into the space. The detector is arranged out of contact with the member within the space, and detects the emitted signal. The generator generates information regarding the deformation of the member on the basis of a result of the detection performed by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Yoshida, Masahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11868529
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to operate an operation target according to a first operation mode on a basis of biological information about a user, and operate the operation target according to a second operation mode different from the first operation mode on a basis of the biological information about the user in a case where biological information about the user is being measured and the operation target is not operated according to the first operation mode on the basis of the biological information about the user for a predetermined time or longer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Agama-X Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo Tokuchi, Masahiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20230410181
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing method, an information processing system, and a program capable of generating a suggested item list that is robust against the domain shift by applying a plurality of models that are trained by using datasets of domains different from an introduction destination domain. The information processing system is configured to: acquire one or more candidate items from each of a plurality of models trained by using datasets in one or more domains different from an introduction destination domain; and select, from among a plurality of the acquired candidate items, a plurality of candidate items having different domains from each other as suggested items and generate a suggested item list that is a suggested item list including a plurality of the suggested items and that has robust performance against a domain shift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro SATO, Tomoki Taniguchi, Tomoko Ohkuma
  • Publication number: 20230401488
    Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more processors, in which the one or more processors are configured to: perform a training, by using data of each facility collected at each of a plurality of facilities, of a local model that predicts, for each of the facilities, a behavior of a user on an item; perform an evaluation of a difference between models in a parameter of the local model trained for each of the facilities; and correct the training of the local model such that the difference between the models is small based on a result of the evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro SATO, Tomoki TANIGUCHI, Tomoko OHKUMA