Patents by Inventor Masanori Sakamoto
Masanori Sakamoto 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).
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Publication number: 20240098901Abstract: A light-emitting module includes one or more light-emitting devices, and a wiring substrate. Each of the light-emitting devices includes light-emitting elements, and a package including a lower surface having a wiring region. The wiring substrate includes a metal portion, an electrode portion, and an insulating portion, and defines one or more first through holes. The mounting surface of the wiring substrate includes a first region where the metal portion defines an uppermost surface, a second region where the electrode portion defines an uppermost surface, and a third region where the insulating portion defines an uppermost surface. The first region and the second region are separated from each other by the third region. A boundary of each of the first through holes is defined in the first region. The wiring region of each of the light-emitting devices is bonded to the electrode portion of the wiring substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Shota TAKASE, Masanori UEMURA, Masakazu SAKAMOTO, Yosuke NODA
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Patent number: 11849799Abstract: A shock absorber includes a three-dimensional structure composed of a unit structure repeatedly, regularly and continuously arranged in at least one direction, the unit structure being a three-dimensional shape formed by a wall having an external shape defined by a pair of parallel planes or curved surfaces. In the shock absorber, a differently shaped portion which does not correspond to the wall defining the unit structure is locally provided in a shock absorbing region which is a region in which the three-dimensional structure has the unit structure disposed.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: ASICS CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaro Iwasa, Masanori Sakamoto, Norihiko Taniguchi, Koji Shimomura
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Patent number: 11832683Abstract: A shock absorber includes a three-dimensional structure composed of a unit structure repeatedly, regularly and continuously arranged in at least one direction, the unit structure being a three-dimensional shape formed by a wall having an external shape defined by a pair of parallel planes or curved surfaces. When the unit structure occupies a cuboidal space representing a unit space and defined by mutually orthogonal three sides having a first side extending in an axial direction in which the shock absorber exhibits a shock absorbing function as the shock absorber receives a load and second and third sides each extending from one end of the first side in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction, and the first side has a length L1 and a longer one of the second and third sides has a length L2, the shock absorber satisfies 1.1?L1/L2?4.0.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: ASICS CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Sakamoto, Yutaro Iwasa, Norihiko Taniguchi, Koji Shimomura
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Publication number: 20230361235Abstract: The present disclosure is a heat blocking device 101 that includes a heat blocking film 10 including: a particle that absorbs an infrared ray and generates an electron and a hole; and an acceptor that receives the electron or the hole from the particle. A charge carrier selected from the electron and the hole is released from the heat blocking film 10 to an outside of the device. The heat blocking device 101 can function as a “heat removing” device. The heat blocking film 10 may be a single-layer film or a multilayer film.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventor: Masanori SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230309652Abstract: A shoe sole includes a shock absorber that buckles when the shock absorber receives compressive force applied in a normal direction to a ground contact surface. When a load is applied to the shoe sole, the shock absorber starts to buckle in a state in which a stress occurring in the shock absorber is within a range from 0.15 MPa to 0.80 MPa and a strain of the shock absorber is within a range from 10% to 60%. When a time point at which a strain energy density of the shock absorber reaches 0.157 J/cm3 is defined as a specific time point, a maximum value of the stress occurring in the shock absorber until the specific time point is 0.80 MPa or less, and a tangential elastic modulus of the shock absorber at the specific time point is 5.00 MPa or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: ASICS CORPORATIONInventor: Masanori SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230245797Abstract: Provided is a conductive film that can be formed without using a vacuum deposition method and includes a material that is neither a noble metal nor a special carbon material as a conductive element for exhibiting conductivity. The conductive film provided includes an arrangement portion of semiconductor nanoparticles. When a cross section including the arrangement portion is observed, the semiconductor nanoparticles are arranged in line apart from each other in the arrangement portion. A conductivity C1 measured along at least one direction is 7 S/cm or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2020Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventor: Masanori SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230225452Abstract: A shoe sole includes a resilient member, and has a bottom surface as a ground contact surface and a top surface. The resilient member has a three-dimensional shape formed by a wall having an outer shape defined by a pair of parallel flat or curved surfaces, and may buckle when the resilient member receives a compressive stress applied in a normal direction to the bottom surface. In the shoe sole, when a load is applied to the shoe sole in a gradually increasing manner such that a compressive stress is applied to the resilient member in the normal direction, the resilient member starts to buckle when a stress applied to the resilient member is within a range of 0.05 MPa or more and 0.55 MPa or less and a strain of the resilient member in the normal direction is within a range of 10% or more and 60% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: ASICS CORPORATIONInventor: Masanori SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230184592Abstract: The present disclosure provides an infrared sensing device having a simple structure and being capable of detecting an infrared ray. A device 300 includes a variable resistance portion 13 whose electrical resistance varies in response to an infrared ray and a detection portion that detects the variation of the electrical resistance of the variable resistance portion. The variable resistance portion satisfies at least one of i) inclusion of a material potentially absorbing an infrared ray by localized surface plasmon resonance, and ii) reception of a carrier from a carrier supply portion 23 including the above material and being in contact with the variable resistance portion, the carrier being an electron and/or a hole, the carrier being generated by irradiation of the carrier supply portion with an infrared ray.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventor: Masanori SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11672304Abstract: Provided is a shoe sole, wherein ventilation grooves recessed in the thickness direction of the shoe sole are formed in the upper surface part, the shoe sole has a forefoot portion that has an air intake port formed in at least one of a medial side wall and a lateral side wall in the side wall part to be in communication with the ventilation grooves and draw air from outside into the ventilation grooves, the shoe sole has a midfoot portion that has an air outlet port formed in at least one of the medial side wall and the lateral side wall to be in communication with the air intake port through the ventilation grooves and discharge air in the ventilation groove to the outside, and at least a part of the ventilation grooves constitutes an air intake groove extending obliquely rearward from the air intake port.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: ASICS CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Sakamoto, Kenta Moriyasu, Ayu Bessho, Takayuki Ueda, Kenta Nakaya, Masaki Nakahara
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Publication number: 20230114724Abstract: The present disclosure provides an evaluation index calculation device, an evaluation index calculation method, and an evaluation index calculation program which are capable of diversifying an evaluation index representing an optical state of a light control sheet. The evaluation index calculation device acquires an evaluation image of an imaging target in a predetermined environment, captured via a light control sheet, and calculates a degree of obscuring caused by the light control sheet in the evaluation image, as an evaluation index, through image analysis of the evaluation image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: TOPPAN Inc.Inventors: Wataru OOKUBO, Masanori SAKAMOTO, Norihiko KANEKO
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Publication number: 20220202135Abstract: A shoe sole at least partially comprises a shock absorber, and the shock absorber that includes a shock absorbing portion and a cover portion that has a tread on a side opposite to the shock absorbing portion. The shock absorbing portion is provided with a plurality of pass-through portions passing through the shock absorbing portion as viewed in a direction of a normal to the tread, and the cover portion covers at least one of the plurality of pass-through portions. The cover portion is provided with a communication path having one end open to the pass-through portion and the other end open at the tread, and a condition of R<L is satisfied, where R represents a diameter of a largest virtual incircle of a contour line of an opening of the communication path located closer to the tread, and L represents a length of the communication path.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: ASICS CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori SAKAMOTO, Yutaro IWASA, Genki HATANO, Koji SHIMOMURA
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Patent number: 11347089Abstract: A light control device including a drive voltage output unit that outputs a drive voltage, a control unit that causes the drive voltage output unit to gradually increase or gradually decrease a magnitude of the drive voltage, a light control sheet including light control units connected in parallel to the drive voltage output unit and formed such that light transmittances of the light control units change according to magnitudes of voltages applied to the light control units, and a voltage dividing circuit which is connected to one of the light control units and divides the drive voltage common to each of the light control units such that the magnitude of the voltage applied to the light control unit connected to the voltage dividing circuit differs from the magnitude of the voltage applied to at least one of other light control units.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Wataru Ohkubo, Masanori Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20220087359Abstract: Provided is a shoe sole, wherein ventilation grooves recessed in the thickness direction of the shoe sole are formed in the upper surface part, the shoe sole has a forefoot portion that has an air intake port formed in at least one of a medial side wall and a lateral side wall in the side wall part to be in communication with the ventilation grooves and draw air from outside into the ventilation grooves, the shoe sole has a midfoot portion that has an air outlet port formed in at least one of the medial side wall and the lateral side wall to be in communication with the air intake port through the ventilation grooves and discharge air in the ventilation groove to the outside, and at least a part of the ventilation grooves constitutes an air intake groove extending obliquely rearward from the air intake port.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2019Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: ASICS CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori SAKAMOTO, Kenta MORIYASU, Ayu BESSHO, Takayuki UEDA, Kenta NAKAYA, Masaki NAKAHARA
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Publication number: 20210259355Abstract: A shoe includes an upper portion surrounding an internal space configured to accommodate a foot. The upper portion includes an inner foot outer surface of an inner foot portion, and an air sucking out portion from which air is capable of being sucked out from the internal space to outside of the shoe when a leg of a wearer of the shoe swings is disposed on the inner foot outer surface of the inner foot portion of the upper portion. The air sucking out portion extends in a direction which is slanted by a predetermined first angle with respect to a vertical direction when the shoe is placed on a horizontal plane and is recessed relative to the inner foot outer surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Masanori SAKAMOTO, Ayu BESSHO, Seigo NAKAYA, Kenta MORIYASU, Kenji HIRATA, Takayuki KOGURE
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Patent number: 11086160Abstract: A light control device including a light control sheet including light control units each reversibly change light transmittance and positioned according to a first arrangement that has a regularity, a detection sheet including detection units each detect external input and positioned according to a second arrangement that has a regularity same as the regularity of the first arrangement, a driving unit that outputs to each of the light control units a change signal for changing light transmittance, and a light control processing unit which associates each of the detection units with at least one of the light control units, and causes the driving unit to output the change signal to the light control unit associated with the detection unit that has detected the external input.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanori Sakamoto, Shinobu Sumi, Wataru Ookubo
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Publication number: 20210208437Abstract: A light control device including a drive voltage output unit that outputs a drive voltage, a control unit that causes the drive voltage output unit to gradually increase or gradually decrease a magnitude of the drive voltage, a light control sheet including light control units connected in parallel to the drive voltage output unit and formed such that light transmittances of the light control units change according to magnitudes of voltages applied to the light control units, and a voltage dividing circuit which is connected to one of the light control units and divides the drive voltage common to each of the light control units such that the magnitude of the voltage applied to the light control unit connected to the voltage dividing circuit differs from the magnitude of the voltage applied to at least one of other light control units.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Wataru OHKUBO, Masanori SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210195989Abstract: A shock absorber includes a three-dimensional structure composed of a unit structure repeatedly, regularly and continuously arranged in at least one direction, the unit structure being a three-dimensional shape formed by a wall having an external shape defined by a pair of parallel planes or curved surfaces. In the shock absorber, a differently shaped portion which does not correspond to the wall defining the unit structure is locally provided in a shock absorbing region which is a region in which the three-dimensional structure has the unit structure disposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: ASICS CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaro IWASA, Masanori SAKAMOTO, Norihiko TANIGUCHI, Koji SHIMOMURA
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Publication number: 20210195995Abstract: A shock absorber includes a three-dimensional structure composed of a unit structure repeatedly, regularly and continuously arranged in at least one direction, the unit structure being a three-dimensional shape formed by a wall having an external shape defined by a pair of parallel planes or curved surfaces. When the unit structure occupies a cuboidal space representing a unit space and defined by mutually orthogonal three sides having a first side extending in an axial direction in which the shock absorber exhibits a shock absorbing function as the shock absorber receives a load and second and third sides each extending from one end of the first side in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction, and the first side has a length L1 and a longer one of the second and third sides has a length L2, the shock absorber satisfies 1.1?L1/L2?4.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: ASICS CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori SAKAMOTO, Yutaro IWASA, Norihiko TANIGUCHI, Koji SHIMOMURA
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Patent number: 11008330Abstract: Provided is a ligand capable of stably bonding together interfaces composed of different types of nanoparticles, different bulk interfaces, or an interface composed of nanoparticles and a bulk interface.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Masanori Sakamoto, Toshiharu Teranishi
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Patent number: 10952494Abstract: An outsole is formed of a viscoelastic body containing a rubber component. This viscoelastic body has a loss factor measured by a dynamic viscoelasticity measurement under conditions of a temperature of 23° C., a frequency of 10 Hz, a static strain of 10%, and a dynamic strain of 7% being 0.17 or more, a storage elastic modulus measured by the dynamic viscoelasticity measurement being 5.7 MPa or less, and a ratio of a tensile stress at 300% elongation to a tensile stress at 100% elongation being 4.4 or more. Such outsole is excellent in wet grip performance and durability.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Inventors: Masanori Sakamoto, Yusuke Nishiura, Osamu Yamane, Kenichi Harano