Patents by Inventor Naoki Sakamoto
Naoki 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: 20240154182Abstract: A lithium secondary battery includes: a power-generating element with a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode having a negative electrode current collector, where lithium metal is deposited during charging, and a solid electrolyte layer interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. A pressurizing member pressurizes the power-generating element at a predetermined pressure in a lamination direction. A part of an outer peripheral end of the positive electrode active material is located inside an outer peripheral end of the solid electrolyte layer, and a first functional layer is provided on a part of the solid electrolyte layer facing the negative electrode current collector and at least a part of a side surface of the solid electrolyte layer. The first functional layer has electronic insulation properties and lithium ion conductivity and is more stable in reductive decomposition due to contact with lithium metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Harumi Takada, Tomohisa Matsuno, Naoki Ueda, Kazuyuki Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20240082959Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a support unit that supports a wafer including a plurality of functional elements disposed adjacent to each other via a street, an irradiation unit that irradiates the street with laser light, and a control unit that controls the irradiation unit based on information about the streets so that a first region and a second region of the street are simultaneously irradiated with the laser light, and a power of the laser light for removing a surface layer of the street in the first region is higher than a power for removing the surface layer of the street in the first region. The information about the street includes information that a processing threshold value indicating a difficulty of laser processing in the first region is lower than a processing threshold value in the second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Yo SUGIMOTO, Takeshi SAKAMOTO, Takafumi OGIWARA, Naoki UCHIYAMA, Takashi KURITA, Ryo YOSHIMURA
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Publication number: 20240081564Abstract: A beverage container according to the present invention includes a bottom wall portion, and a side wall portion extending upward from a circumferential edge of the bottom wall portion, and due to an outer diameter of the bottom wall portion being formed smaller than an outer diameter of the side wall portion, a annular stepped portion is formed at a lower end of the side wall portion, a plurality of recessed portions and a plurality of protruding portions that are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction are formed on the stepped portion, and a width of the stepped portion is larger than a width of an upper end of the side wall portion at at least portions where the recessed portions are formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Kura Sushi, Inc.Inventors: Kunihiko TANAKA, Naoki SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230319211Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a separating roller that is capable of switching between a separation state in which an original document is separated and a non-separation state in which the original document is not separated, and determines whether or not the original document is fed in the separation state or the non-separation state based on the types of the original document set through a user interface for instructing a select of the types of the original document to be read and a start of reading the original document.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Tomoyuki MOKUO, Noriyuki KOYANAGI, Keiichiro FUKUMASU, Keisuke MIYAUCHI, Naoki SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230319210Abstract: A scanner includes a reading unit that reads an image of a paper, a medium feeding portion that is capable of selecting a first feeding mode in which a separation feeding for separately feeding a paper bundle in which a plurality of sheets of paper is overlapped with each other is performed and a second feeding mode in which a non-separation feeding for collectively feeding the paper bundle without separating is performed, and a pair of first transporting rollers and a pair of second transporting rollers that transport the paper fed by the medium feeding portion, in a case in which the medium feeding portion feeds the paper in the second feeding mode, a first driven roller and a second driven roller respectively constituting the pair of first transporting rollers and the pair of second transporting rollers are driven in a rotation direction where the paper is transported.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Seiji Tezuka, Noriyuki Koyanagi, Naoki Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11728500Abstract: Provided is a polymer electrolyte membrane comprising: (a) a polyelectrolyte having an ion exchange capacity of from 0.5 to 3.0 meq/g; and (b) at least one scandium compound selected from the group consisting of scandium oxide, scandium acetate, scandium sulfate, scandium nitrate, and scandium carbonate, wherein a polyethylene glycol (PEG)-derived compound in the polymer electrolyte membrane has a total content of 10 ppm or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuichi Inoue, Hitoshi Shobukawa, Naoki Sakamoto, Akihiro Kurima
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Patent number: 11716432Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a separating roller that is capable of switching between a separation state in which an original document is separated and a non-separation state in which the original document is not separated, and determines whether or not the original document is fed in the separation state or the non-separation state based on the types of the original document set through a user interface for instructing a select of the types of the original document to be read and a start of reading the original document.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki Mokuo, Noriyuki Koyanagi, Keiichiro Fukumasu, Keisuke Miyauchi, Naoki Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11711478Abstract: A scanner includes a reading unit that reads an image of a paper, a medium feeding portion that is capable of selecting a first feeding mode in which a separation feeding for separately feeding a paper bundle in which a plurality of sheets of paper is overlapped with each other is performed and a second feeding mode in which a non-separation feeding for collectively feeding the paper bundle without separating is performed, and a pair of first transporting rollers and a pair of second transporting rollers that transport the paper fed by the medium feeding portion, in a case in which the medium feeding portion feeds the paper in the second feeding mode, a first driven roller and a second driven roller respectively constituting the pair of first transporting rollers and the pair of second transporting rollers are driven in a rotation direction where the paper is transported.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Seiji Tezuka, Noriyuki Koyanagi, Naoki Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11445079Abstract: When a transport section transports be a media, a controller of an image reading apparatus determines the lengths of the media in the transport direction, based on detection results of a medium detector. When determining that a length of a medium is equal to or more than a threshold and then determining that a length of a subsequent medium is equal to or more than the threshold, the controller decreases an ejection speed of the subsequent medium to a second speed by the transport section. When determining that a length of a medium is equal to or more than the threshold and then determining that a length of a subsequent medium is less than the threshold, the controller decreases the ejection speed from the first speed to a third speed that is lower than the second speed by the transport section.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Noriyuki Koyanagi, Kosuke Nomoto, Akira Anami, Naoki Sakamoto, Wataru Beppu
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Publication number: 20220238902Abstract: Provided is a polymer electrolyte membrane comprising: (a) a polyelectrolyte having an ion exchange capacity of from 0.5 to 3.0 meq/g; and (b) at least one scandium compound selected from the group consisting of scandium oxide, scandium acetate, scandium sulfate, scandium nitrate, and scandium carbonate, wherein a polyethylene glycol (PEG)-derived compound in the polymer electrolyte membrane has a total content of 10 ppm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuichi INOUE, Hitoshi SHOBUKAWA, Naoki SAKAMOTO, Akihiro KURIMA
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Patent number: 11388306Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a separating roller that is capable of switching between a separation state in which an original document is separated and a non-separation state in which the original document is not separated, and determines whether or not the original document is fed in the separation state or the non-separation state based on the types of the original document set through a user interface for instructing a select of the types of the original document to be read and a start of reading the original document.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki Mokuo, Noriyuki Koyanagi, Keiichiro Fukumasu, Keisuke Miyauchi, Naoki Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20220210289Abstract: A scanner includes a reading unit that reads an image of a paper, a medium feeding portion that is capable of selecting a first feeding mode in which a separation feeding for separately feeding a paper bundle in which a plurality of sheets of paper is overlapped with each other is performed and a second feeding mode in which a non-separation feeding for collectively feeding the paper bundle without separating is performed, and a pair of first transporting rollers and a pair of second transporting rollers that transport the paper fed by the medium feeding portion, in a case in which the medium feeding portion feeds the paper in the second feeding mode, a first driven roller and a second driven roller respectively constituting the pair of first transporting rollers and the pair of second transporting rollers are driven in a rotation direction where the paper is transported.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Seiji Tezuka, Noriyuki Koyanagi, Naoki Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20220174173Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a separating roller that is capable of switching between a separation state in which an original document is separated and a non-separation state in which the original document is not separated, and determines whether or not the original document is fed in the separation state or the non-separation state based on the types of the original document set through a user interface for instructing a select of the types of the original document to be read and a start of reading the original document.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Tomoyuki MOKUO, Noriyuki KOYANAGI, Keiichiro FUKUMASU, Keisuke MIYAUCHI, Naoki SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11310388Abstract: A scanner includes a reading unit that reads an image of a paper, a medium feeding portion that is capable of selecting a first feeding mode in which a separation feeding for separately feeding a paper bundle in which a plurality of sheets of paper is overlapped with each other is performed and a second feeding mode in which a non-separation feeding for collectively feeding the paper bundle without separating is performed, and a pair of first transporting rollers and a pair of second transporting rollers that transport the paper fed by the medium feeding portion, in a case in which the medium feeding portion feeds the paper in the second feeding mode, a first driven roller and a second driven roller respectively constituting the pair of first transporting rollers and the pair of second transporting rollers are driven in a rotation direction where the paper is transported.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Seiji Tezuka, Noriyuki Koyanagi, Naoki Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11303775Abstract: A scanner includes a reading unit that reads an image of a paper, a medium feeding portion that is capable of selecting a first feeding mode in which a separation feeding for separately feeding a paper bundle in which a plurality of sheets of paper is overlapped with each other is performed and a second feeding mode in which a non-separation feeding for collectively feeding the paper bundle without separating is performed, and a pair of first transporting rollers and a pair of second transporting rollers that transport the paper fed by the medium feeding portion, in a case in which the medium feeding portion feeds the paper in the second feeding mode, a first driven roller and a second driven roller respectively constituting the pair of first transporting rollers and the pair of second transporting rollers are driven in a rotation direction where the paper is transported.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Seiji Tezuka, Noriyuki Koyanagi, Naoki Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20220086294Abstract: When a transport section transports he a media, a controller of an image reading apparatus determines the lengths of the media in the transport direction, based on detection results of a medium detector. When determining that a length of a medium is equal to or more than a threshold and then determining that a length of a subsequent medium is equal to or more than the threshold, the controller decreases an ejection speed of the subsequent medium to a second speed by the transport section. When determining that a length of a medium is equal to or more than the threshold and then determining that a length of a subsequent medium is less than the threshold, the controller decreases the ejection speed from the first speed to a third speed that is lower than the second speed by the transport section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Noriyuki KOYANAGI, Kosuke NOMOTO, Akira ANAMI, Naoki SAKAMOTO, Wataru BEPPU
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Patent number: 11237770Abstract: A protocol chip stores requests from a computer in a port queue, on the basis of an index indicating a slot of the port queue which allows subsequent storing. MPs each hold a CI of the slot having undergone a preceding search of the port queue by the MP, search this port queue from the slot that the pointer indicates, search for a request addressed to a logical device to which the MP corresponds, and store this request in a virtual queue corresponding to the logical device, to process the request.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Reoto Hotta, Yuta Kajiwara, Naoki Sakamoto, Kosuke Komikado, Shinjiro Shiraki, Hirokazu Ishii
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Patent number: 11130645Abstract: A medium transporting device includes a driving roller that transports a medium and that is driven to rotate, a driven roller that nips the medium between the driving roller and the driven roller and rotates in accordance with the rotation of the driving roller, a rotary shaft of the driven roller, a first pressing member that presses the rotary shaft in a direction in which the driven roller comes into contact with the driving roller, a second pressing member that presses the rotary shaft in a direction in which the driven roller comes into contact with the driving roller, and a spacer member that is integrally provided with a first spacer interposed between the rotary shaft and the first pressing member and a second spacer interposed between the rotary shaft and the second pressing member.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Akira Anami, Naoki Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20210191659Abstract: A protocol chip stores requests from a computer in a port queue, on the basis of an index indicating a slot of the port queue which allows subsequent storing. MPs each hold a CI of the slot having undergone a preceding search of the port queue by the MP, search this port queue from the slot that the pointer indicates, search for a request addressed to a logical device to which the MP corresponds, and store this request in a virtual queue corresponding to the logical device, to process the request.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Reoto HOTTA, Yuta KAJIWARA, Naoki SAKAMOTO, Kosuke KOMIKADO, Shinjiro SHIRAKI, Hirokazu ISHII
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Patent number: 11039033Abstract: A scanner includes a reading unit that reads an image of a paper, a medium feeding portion that is capable of selecting a first feeding mode in which a separation feeding for separately feeding a paper bundle in which a plurality of sheets of paper is overlapped with each other is performed and a second feeding mode in which a non-separation feeding for collectively feeding the paper bundle without separating is performed, and a pair of first transporting rollers and a pair of second transporting rollers that transport the paper fed by the medium feeding portion, in a case in which the medium feeding portion feeds the paper in the second feeding mode, a first driven roller and a second driven roller respectively constituting the pair of first transporting rollers and the pair of second transporting rollers are driven in a rotation direction where the paper is transported.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Seiji Tezuka, Noriyuki Koyanagi, Naoki Sakamoto