Patents by Inventor Masayuki Sato

Masayuki 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: 20240153656
    Abstract: To provide an electrical penetration capable of being used in nuclear power plants which are designed assuming operation under conditions of the severe accident. An electrical penetration includes: a tubular sleeve member 10; two or more insulating seal members 20A and 20B arranged inside the sleeve member 10 so as to be spaced from each other; wiring members 60, 60 disposed along the longitudinal direction of the sleeve member 10 so as to extend across two insulating seal members of the two or more insulating seal members 20A and 20B; and outer seal members provided inside the sleeve member 10 and at the outermost portions of the two insulating seal members 20A and 20B. The wiring members 60, 60 are each covered with an insulator made of the same material as those of the outer seal members 21A and 21B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Shingo ITO, Yasuyuki GOTO, Yukiharu SATO, Teppei KUBOTA, Masayuki SHIMIZU, Susumu KUMAGAI, Atsushi WARIGAYA, Masamichi IDONUMA, Kenta KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20240149904
    Abstract: An attention attracting system includes HMI devices that are mounted on a subject vehicle; and an attention attracting device that transmits, to a driver, a possibility of contact between the subject vehicle and an object through the HMI devices. The attention attracting device includes a processor that identifies a risk position at which the contact occurs and a risk level of the contact, estimates a degree of fatigue of the driver, and transmits the risk position and the risk level to the driver. The processor selects an HMI device to be used in accordance with the degree of fatigue of the driver, provides a tactile stimulus or an auditory stimulus to the driver through a tactile HMI device or an auditory HMI device at a remarkableness level corresponding to height of the risk level, and transmits visual information to the driver through a visual HMI device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki Sato, Takahiro Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11977142
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises: a transmission antenna configured to transmit transmission waves; a reception antenna configured to receive reflected waves resulting from reflection of the transmission waves; and a controller. The controller is configured to detect an object reflecting the transmission waves, based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission waves and a reception signal received as the reflected waves. The controller is configured to make a range of detection of the object by the transmission signal and the reception signal, variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Homma, Masamitsu Nishikido, Tooru Sahara, Youhei Murakami, Satoshi Kawaji, Masayuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20240144828
    Abstract: An attention calling system includes a time headway (THW) acquisition unit that repeatedly acquires THW at predetermined time intervals, the THW being a value obtained by dividing an inter-vehicle distance between own vehicle and a preceding vehicle by vehicle speed of the own vehicle, an identification unit that identifies a type of the preceding vehicle, and a notification unit that outputs to an occupant of the own vehicle an approach alarm that notifies an approach to the preceding vehicle when the THW becomes a first threshold or less. The notification unit outputs the approach alarm by using the first threshold that takes different values depending on the type of the preceding vehicle, and/or by setting a saliency level that is a degree of saliency of the approach alarm to a first level that has different magnitudes depending on the type of the preceding vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki Sato, Takahiro Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11971998
    Abstract: A data comparison device holds first and second encrypted data of first and second plaintext, respectively. The first plaintext is divided into a plurality of blocks and the first encrypted data is generated by executing encryption of each of the plurality of blocks and shuffling of the plurality of blocks. The second plaintext is divided into a plurality of blocks and the second encrypted data is generated by executing encryption of each of the plurality of blocks. In at least one of the first encrypted data and the second encrypted data, a plaintext value is embedded as a value indicating a magnitude comparison result, and the data comparison device compares blocks at the same position before shuffling of the first encrypted data and the second encrypted data based on the embedded value and determines a magnitude relationship between the first plaintext and the second plaintext.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Yoshino, Ken Naganuma, Hisayoshi Sato
  • Publication number: 20240132326
    Abstract: A remote monitoring system includes a registration accepting part and a setting part. The registration accepting part accepts registration information. The registration information represents registration of a second user as a child user of a first user being registered in a user management table. A first table associates a browsable monitoring range with each user. When the registration accepting part accepts registration information, the setting part sets a monitoring range which can be browsed by the second user as a child user of the first user to a range not exceeding a browsable monitoring range which is associated with the first user in the user management table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki SATO
  • Publication number: 20240122202
    Abstract: The invention provides a chocolate having strong aroma characteristics. The aroma characteristics may include at least one of a fruity aroma and a floral aroma, and isoamyl acetate may be contained as an aroma component. The invention also provides a novel method for producing a chocolate having strong aroma characteristics. The method includes a step of crushing at least a cacao raw material and a sugar raw material in a sealed crusher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: MEIJI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi KATAGIRI, Masayuki SATO, Keisuke KIMURA, Noriyuki MANADA
  • Patent number: 11959123
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a novel method that can quantify diaminopimelic acid-containing bacteria in a test sample. The present invention relates to a method of quantifying diaminopimelic acid-containing bacteria in a test sample, including a step of quantifying the diaminopimelic acid-containing bacteria, using, as an index, the amount of diaminopimelic acid derived from the diaminopimelic acid-containing bacteria in the test sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Yosuke Sato, Naoki Kasajima, Toshihiko Fukuda, Masayuki Ida
  • Publication number: 20240118142
    Abstract: An infrared module that enables temperature regulation of an infrared sensor to be readily achieved and a method of correcting the infrared module are provided. The infrared module (10) includes an infrared sensor (11) that detects infrared radiation emitted from an object being measured, a computation and control processor (20) that includes a temperature measurement unit (22) that obtains a signal from the infrared sensor and measures a temperature of its own, the computation and control processor obtaining a temperature signal from the temperature measurement unit and performing a computation, and a heating element (60) that regulates a temperature of the infrared sensor by generating heat, wherein the infrared sensor and the computation and control processor are stacked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko KOIZUMI, Masayuki SATO
  • Patent number: 11954555
    Abstract: A sensor interface circuit includes: an RF switch having a control node; a bias circuit electrically connected to the control node and applying, to the control node, a voltage at a first level or a second level corresponding to a linear region of a reflection characteristic; a first variable oscillation circuit electrically connectable to a first sensor; a second variable oscillation circuit electrically connectable to a second sensor; and a difference circuit electrically connected between the first variable oscillation circuit and the bias circuit, and between the second variable oscillation circuit and the bias circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: NISSHINBO MICRO DEVICES INC., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Sato, Masayuki Sato, Noboru Ishihara, Shinji Murata
  • Publication number: 20240109555
    Abstract: An attention attracting system includes an attention attracting device that transmits, to a driver, a possibility of contact between a subject vehicle and an object and that includes a risk identification section identifying a risk position which is a position having a strong possibility of contact occurring between the subject vehicle and the object and a risk level which is a degree of the possibility of the contact occurring at the risk position, and a transmission section which transmits the risk position and the risk level to the driver, which provides a tactile stimulus or an auditory stimulus to the driver through a tactile HMI device or an auditory HMI device at a remarkableness level corresponding to height of the risk level, and which transmits, to the driver through a visual HMI device, visual information indicating a direction of the risk position viewed from the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Takahiro Matsuoka, Ryo Shimoe, Tsuyoshi Nojiri, Masayuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20240101031
    Abstract: An attention attracting system includes plural HMI devices notifying occupants; and an attention attracting device notifying the occupants of presence of a risk of contact between a subject vehicle and an object through the HMI devices. The attention attracting device includes a risk identification section identifying a risk level of the risk of the contact and a notification section: executing a first notification to notify a driver of the presence of the risk of the contact through a driver HMI device solely notifying the driver when the risk level exceeds a first threshold; and executing a second notification to notify a passenger of the presence of the risk of the contact through a passenger HMI device solely notifying the passenger when the risk level exceeds a second threshold greater than the first threshold or when a predetermined time passes after the first notification is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki Sato, Takahiro Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20240101093
    Abstract: A vehicle brake system includes a switching valve switchable between a first state allowing communication between a first fluid pressure generating device and a frictional brake and a second state allowing communication between a second fluid pressure generating device and the frictional brake. The second fluid pressure generating device generates a fluid pressure by moving a piston with an electric actuator, and has a fluid pressure supply port connected to the switching valve and an atmosphere opening port connected to a reservoir tank. When, due to a failure, the switching valve becomes a third state in which the switching valve makes each of the first fluid pressure generating device and the second fluid pressure generating device communicate with the frictional brake, a control device controls the second fluid pressure generating device to close the atmosphere opening port with the piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Atsuki OHIRA, Eisuke HORII, Hiroyuki IWASAKI, Masayuki UENO, Shotaro YAMAZAKI, Takashi SHIMADA, Tomoaki KOTAKI, Yohei SATO
  • Patent number: 11940523
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a transmission antenna that transmits a transmission wave, a reception antenna that receives a reflected wave that is the reflected transmission wave, and a control unit that detects an object that reflects the transmission wave, based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflected wave. The electronic device transmits, to an information processing apparatus, sensing information based on the transmission signal and the reception signal at a location of the electronic device along with location information of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masamitsu Nishikido, Tooru Sahara, Youhei Murakami, Satoshi Kawaji, Masayuki Sato, Takuya Homma
  • Publication number: 20240092260
    Abstract: An attention calling system includes a time headway (THW) acquisition unit repeatedly acquiring THW at predetermined time intervals, the THW being a value obtained by dividing an inter-vehicle distance between an own vehicle and a preceding vehicle by vehicle speed of the own vehicle, a time to collision (TTC) acquisition unit repeatedly acquiring TTC at predetermined time intervals, the TTC being a value obtained by dividing the inter-vehicle distance by relative speed between the own vehicle and the preceding vehicle, and a notification unit outputting to an occupant of the own vehicle an approach alarm that notifies an approach to the preceding vehicle, based on the THW and the TTC. The notification unit determines a saliency level that is a degree of saliency of the approach alarm in accordance with the THW and the TTC, and outputs the approach alarm of the determined saliency level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Takahiro Matsuoka, Masayuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20240089896
    Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented method including acquiring a first pieces of observation data that include a position of a mobile object and a received signal strength of a wireless signal observed by the mobile object; and correcting each position of the mobile object included in each piece of observation data of the first pieces of observation data using one position of the mobile object at a time before the received signal strength included in the piece of observation data is observed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki Murata, Daisuke Sato
  • Publication number: 20240075915
    Abstract: A vehicle brake system includes a first fluid pressure generating device for generating a fluid pressure according to a brake operating amount, a second fluid pressure generating device for generating a fluid pressure by moving a piston with an electric actuator, and a switching valve switchable between a first state allowing communication between the first fluid pressure generating device and a vehicle behavior stabilizing device and a second state allowing communication between the second fluid pressure generating device and the vehicle behavior stabilizing device. A control device places the switching valve in the second state during execution of automatic brake control, and places the switching valve in the first state when a predetermined abnormality occurs in the vehicle, except that the control device places the switching valve in the second state when an abnormality including inability of the second fluid pressure generating device to generate the fluid pressure occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Eisuke HORII, Hiroyuki IWASAKI, Yohei SATO, Tomoaki KOTAKI, Masayuki UENO, Shotaro YAMAZAKI, Atsuki OHIRA
  • Publication number: 20240072765
    Abstract: A structure is a structure of a quartz crystal substrate having a slit. The structure includes, as an inner wall of the slit, a first side surface, a second side surface, a first end surface, and a second end surface. The first side surface extends along a first direction which is a longitudinal direction of the slit, and the second side surface extends along the first direction. The first end surface is continuous with the first side surface and extends along a first crystal plane of the quartz crystal substrate, and the second end surface is continuous with the second side surface and extends along a second crystal plane of the quartz crystal substrate. In a plan view of the quartz crystal substrate, an intersection point where a first straight line corresponding to the first end surface and a second straight line corresponding to the second end surface intersect each other is located inside the quartz crystal substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kenta Sato, Masayuki Oto
  • Patent number: 11861952
    Abstract: A driving support device is provided which can evaluate the driving skill of a driver, and improve the driving skill of the driver. A driving support device 11 includes: a peripheral information acquisition unit 40; an outside-world detection unit 201; a driving status detection unit 202; a driving evaluation unit 203 which decides a driving evaluation indicating the driving skill of the driver of the vehicle 1, based on the outside-world detection result of detecting the predetermined target and the driving status; a voice output device 91 which notifies the driver of the driving evaluation result indicating the result of driving evaluation; and a notification control unit 204 which notifies the driver by way of the notification unit of the outside-world detection result or driving status based on the driving evaluation result, when the driving evaluation improves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya Kishimoto, Takashi Nishioka, Masayuki Sato, Tomoko Nishino, Yuki Murayama, Kazuasa Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230408672
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a transmission antenna and a reception antenna. The transmission antenna is configured to transmit a transmission wave. The reception antenna is configured to receive a reflection wave generated by reflection of the transmission wave. The electronic device allows the frequency at which the transmission wave is transmitted to be variable in multiple segments and detects an object that reflects the transmission wave based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflection wave. The electronic device transmits sensing information to an information processing apparatus along with position information of the electronic device. The sensing information is based on the transmission signal transmitted at a frequency in one of the multiple segments as the transmission wave and the reception signal received as the reflection wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masamitsu NISHIKIDO, Masayuki SATO, Satoshi KAWAJI, Youhei MURAKAMI