Patents by Inventor Satoshi Shibata

Satoshi Shibata 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: 9923182
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a structure that contributes to increasing the capacity density. A secondary cell according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of periodic unit structures that are arranged on a first surface. Each of those periodic unit structures includes a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer, each of which projects away from the first surface, and a solid electrolyte interposed between the positive electrode and negative electrode layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Miyuki Nakai, Satoshi Shibata, Emiko Igaki, Hirofumi Fujita
  • Publication number: 20180006327
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte includes an oxynitride that contains an alkaline-earth metal, phosphorus, oxygen, and nitrogen. A P2p spectrum obtained by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurement of the oxynitride contains a peak component originating from a P—N bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: SATOSHI SHIBATA, YU NISHITANI, TAKUJI TSUJITA
  • Patent number: 9809490
    Abstract: A method for producing an oxynitride film includes: (A) supplying a first precursor containing a network former into a reactor in which a substrate is placed; (B) supplying at least one of an oxygen gas and an ozone gas into the reactor; (C) supplying a second precursor containing at least one of an alkali metal element and an alkaline-earth metal element into the reactor; (D) supplying at least one of a nitrogen gas and an ammonia gas into the reactor; and (E) supplying a purge gas into the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miyuki Nakai, Satoshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9634520
    Abstract: A case for a mobile electronic device is a case for a mobile electronic device which is capable of accommodating a mobile electronic device with a display surface, and supplying electric power to the mobile electronic device, the case including: a holder section having a first face which comes in contact with at least a portion of the mobile electronic device and a second face opposite from the first face; a protection cover to cover the display surface; a solar cell module provided on the protection cover to generate electric power, the solar cell module being externally exposed when the display surface is covered by the protection cover; and a moving mechanism capable of moving the protection cover over to the second face side while maintaining the solar cell module in an externally exposed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamanaka, Satoshi Shibata, Mehdi Shibahara
  • Publication number: 20170005358
    Abstract: A method for producing an oxynitride film includes: (A) supplying a first precursor containing a network former into a reactor in which a substrate is placed; (B) supplying at least one of an oxygen gas and an ozone gas into the reactor; (C) supplying a second precursor containing at least one of an alkali metal element and an alkaline-earth metal element into the reactor; (D) supplying at least one of a nitrogen gas and an ammonia gas into the reactor; and (E) supplying a purge gas into the reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: MIYUKI NAKAI, SATOSHI SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20170005365
    Abstract: An oxynitride film contains a metal element and a network former. An XPS spectrum of the oxynitride film exhibits a first peak component originating from triply coordinated nitrogen and a second peak component originating from doubly coordinated nitrogen. An intensity of the first peak component is less than or equal to a half of an intensity of the second peak component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: MIYUKI NAKAI, SATOSHI SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 9524831
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a hybrid negative plate for a lead-acid storage battery which is improved in the production working efficiency and the productivity and enhances the quick charge and discharge characteristics and the discharge characteristics at a low temperature under PSOC of a lead-acid storage battery. A carbon mixture sheet produced by such a way that a carbon mixture prepared by mixing two types of carbon materials consisting of a first carbon material having electroconductivity and a second carbon material having capacitor capacitance and/or pseudocapacitor capacitance, and at least a binder, is adhered by pressure to the surface of a negative plate in a wet state, so that a hybrid negative plate is produced. The lead-acid storage battery provided with the hybrid negative plate is improved in the discharge characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: THE FURUKAWA BATTERY CO., LTD., COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: Jun Furukawa, Daisuke Momma, Toshimichi Takada, Yuichi Akasaka, Satoshi Shibata, Lan Trieu Lam, Rosalie Louey, Nigel Peter Haigh
  • Publication number: 20160351220
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a head including a read head and a write head, a disk including a plurality of tracks amounts of eccentricity of which periodically vary in a radial direction, and a controller configured to refer to information about the amounts of eccentricity in the radial direction, acquire a first amount of eccentricity at a first position of the read head at the time when data is written on a track, and a second amount of eccentricity at a second position of read head positioned at the track, calculate a difference value between the first amount and the second amount of eccentricity, and control the read head on the basis of the difference value and the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventor: Satoshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20160308570
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device casing is provided. The casing accommodates a mobile electronic device having a display screen surface and supplies power to the device. The casing includes a solar cell module comprised of one or more cells and having a characteristic that in a case where a relationship between an illuminance and an open-circuit voltage is measured using a solar simulator under conditions that an air mass is 1.5, a solar cell module temperature is 25° C., and a light incident direction is perpendicular to each cell, when the illuminance is decreased from 100 mW/cm2 to 1 mW/cm2, a reduction amount of the open-circuit voltage is 0.2 V or less, and when the illuminance is 1 mW/cm2, the open-circuit voltage is 0.55 V or more. The module is located on an opposite side from the display screen surface and exposed outside when the device is used while accommodated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Ryohsuke Yamanaka, Atsushi Fukui, Satoshi Shibata, Mehdi Shibahara
  • Publication number: 20160278493
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus case includes a holder holding an electronic apparatus and a cover covering a display. In the holder, when taking an x1y1z1 orthogonal coordinate system where a direction orthogonal to and away from the display surface is a z1 axis, and a direction parallel to a side of the display is a y1 axis. In the cover, when taking an x2y2z2 orthogonal coordinate system where a direction coinciding with the x1 axis is an x2 axis, and a direction orthogonal to the cover, and away from an inner surface of the cover is a z2 axis, the z1 axis coincides with the ?z2 axis when the display is covered by the cover. The holder has a convex defining a rotation axis in the x1 axis direction and the cover has a track defining a gap extending in the y2 axis direction and storing the convex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Mehdi SHIBAHARA, Tomohisa YOSHIE, Satoshi SHIBATA, Ryohsuke YAMANAKA
  • Publication number: 20160285305
    Abstract: A case for a mobile electronic device is a case for a mobile electronic device which is capable of accommodating a mobile electronic device with a display surface, and supplying electric power to the mobile electronic device, the case including: a holder section having a first face which comes in contact with at least a portion of the mobile electronic device and a second face opposite from the first face; a protection cover to cover the display surface; a solar cell module provided on the protection cover to generate electric power, the solar cell module being externally exposed when the display surface is covered by the protection cover; and a moving mechanism capable of moving the protection cover over to the second face side while maintaining the solar cell module in an externally exposed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMANAKA, Satoshi SHIBATA, Mehdi SHIBAHARA
  • Publication number: 20160204293
    Abstract: In an embodiment, photoelectric conversion units (10) each include a package (12) accommodating a photoelectric conversion device (11). The package (12) has a front surface (12a) having a window (13); and a side surface (12c). The package (12) includes a first coupling portion (14) protruding from the side surface (12c) in a first direction X parallel to a light incident surface (11a) of the photoelectric conversion device (11), and a second coupling portion (15) recessed from the side surface (12c) in the first direction X. The first coupling portion (14) includes a first terminal (16) electrically connected with the photoelectric conversion device (11), and the second coupling portion (15) includes a second terminal (17) electrically connected with the photoelectric conversion device (11). The first coupling portion (14) and the second coupling portion (15) have shapes and sizes matching each other, and are coupled with each other by fitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Miyuki NAKAI, Satoshi SHIBATA, Wataru SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 9182631
    Abstract: A phosphor substrate (10) includes a substrate (1), phosphor layers (3R, 3G, and 3B) which are disposed on the substrate (1) and which emit fluorescences (L2) using incident excitation light (L1), and a partition (7) surrounding side faces of the phosphor layers (3R, 3G, and 3B), in which at least portions of the partition (7) in contact with the phosphor layers (3R, 3G, and 3B) have light-scattering properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akiko Iwata, Mitsuhiro Koden, Yuhki Kobayashi, Hisanori Bessho, Satoshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9148002
    Abstract: Provided is an electrical junction box that enables appropriate protection of a bus bar and also enables downsizing. The electrical junction box includes a terminal reception block (11) that accommodates a connection terminal, and a casing (12) that accommodates the terminal reception block (11). The terminal reception block (11) is configured such that a bus bar (19) is inserted into the terminal reception block (11) and an end portion of the bus bar (19) at the side opposite to the direction of insertion protrudes from the terminal reception block (11). The casing (12) includes a protector (20) that is configured to cover the end portion of the bus bar (19) protruding from the terminal reception block (11). Making the terminal reception block (11) accommodated in the casing (12) causes the end portion of the bus bar (19) to be covered with the protector (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Shibata, Fumikazu Naimi, Akihisa Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150226269
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a propeller shaft comprising: a shaft portion of a circular tube shape; and a joint assembly to be joined to a transfer gear box side or a differential gear box side of the shaft portion, the joint assembly comprising a shaft-side joint to be joined to the shaft portion and an other-member-side joint to be coupled to a transfer gear box or to a differential gear box, the method having: a press fitting step of pressing the shaft-side joint of the joint assembly into the shaft portion, in a state in which the shaft-side joint and the other-member-side joint have been assembled into the joint assembly; and a welding step of welding the shaft portion and the joint assembly, after the press fitting step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Hino Motors, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Katsuragi, Tomonori Kato, Shingo Sugamata, Satoshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9063261
    Abstract: A light-controlling element includes an illumination unit capable of controlling an amount of emitted light, and a light guide body on which the light emitted from the illumination unit is incident. The light guide body has a function of propagating the light while totally reflecting the light inside the light guide body, and the light guide body has a function of propagating the light emitted from the illumination unit at a plurality of different propagation angles inside the light guide body. The light guide body includes a plurality of light extraction regions having a function of extracting the light to the outside. At least two of the plurality of light extraction regions have different incidence angle ranges in which the light is capable of being extracted to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shohei Katsuta, Tsuyoshi Kamada, Satoshi Shibata, Tsuyoshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20150158335
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rear axle includes: a brake flange press-fitting step of press-fitting a brake flange to an outer peripheral surface of a rear axle housing; a brake flange welding step of welding the rear axle housing and the brake flange; an axle end press-fitting step of press-fitting an axle end to an inner peripheral surface of an end portion of the rear axle housing; and an axle end welding step of welding the rear axle housing and the axle end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: HINO MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Katsuragi, Tomonori Kato, Shingo Sugamata, Satoshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9047793
    Abstract: In a three dimensional video display device (1), an LED unit (10) rotates in the direction of the arrow (24) along top and bottom edges of a display section (28). The LED unit (10) has a left-eye LED array (6) and a right-eye LED array (8), each including plural LEDs (4) aligned in a column. The left-eye LED array (6) displays a left-eye image through an afterimage effect produced by displaying, while rotating, columns of pixel groups constituting the left-eye image. The right-eye LED array 8 displays a right-eye image through an afterimage effect produced by displaying, while rotating, columns of pixel groups constituting the right-eye image. Light from the left-eye image enters the left eye of a viewer, whereas light from the right-eye image enters the right eye. The viewer recognizes a three dimensional image in a range of 360° around the viewer based on binocular parallax.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidefumi Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Maeda, Satoshi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20140368766
    Abstract: A display element includes: a light source; a phosphor layer configured to absorb light from the light source as excitation light and generate light in a wavelength region different from a wavelength region of the light source; a functional optical film configured to reflect the light emitted from the phosphor layer; and a light extraction structure having a function of emitting the light emitted from the phosphor layer to a non-light source, wherein the functional optical film is a band pass filter formed of a dielectric multilayer film, and a low refractive index layer is provided between the phosphor layer and the band pass filter, the low refractive index layer having a refractive index lower than those of the phosphor layer and a medium of band pass filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Satoshi Shibata, Tomoko Nango, Makoto Yamada, Yuka Utsumi
  • Patent number: 8895336
    Abstract: To provide a method of manufacturing an infrared light-emitting element having a wavelength of 1.57 ?m, including: forming a SiO2 film on a Si substrate containing C; and performing RTA treatment in an atmosphere containing oxygen, or implanting impurity ions therein and thereafter performing RTA treatment in an atmosphere containing oxygen, thereby forming C centers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Sagara, Miori Hiraiwa, Satoshi Shibata