Patents by Inventor Takashi Kato

Takashi Kato 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: 11923152
    Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element that includes an anode body that has a porous structure, a dielectric layer disposed on a surface of the anode body, and a solid electrolyte layer that covers at least a part of the dielectric layer. The anode body contains a first group metal including at least one selected from the group consisting of tantalum, niobium, titanium, aluminum, and zirconium. The dielectric layer contains an oxide of the first group metal and a second group metal including at least one selected from the group consisting of iron, chromium, copper, silicon, molybdenum, sodium, and nickel. A ratio X of a total number of atoms of the second group metal to a total number of atoms of the first group metal in the dielectric layer is equal to or less than 100 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ueda, Kohei Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Kato, Takashi Umemoto
  • Patent number: 11920257
    Abstract: A method of evaluating cleanliness of a member having a silicon carbide surface, the method including bringing the silicon carbide surface into contact with a mixed acid of hydrofluoric acid, hydrochloric acid and nitric acid; concentrating the mixed acid brought into contact with the silicon carbide surface by heating; subjecting a sample solution obtained by diluting a concentrated liquid obtained by the concentration to quantitative analysis of metal components by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry; and evaluating cleanliness of the member having a silicon carbide surface on the basis of a quantitative result of metal components obtained by the quantitative analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SUMCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Muramatsu, Hirokazu Kato
  • Publication number: 20240071128
    Abstract: A detection device includes a plurality of optical sensors arranged in a detection area, a light source configured to emit light that is emitted to an object to be detected and is detected by the optical sensors, and a processor configured to perform processing based on outputs from the optical sensors. The processor is configured to determine, based on the outputs of the respective optical sensors obtained at a cycle of a predetermined period, an optical sensor an output of which is to be employed from among the optical sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Hirofumi KATO, Makoto UCHIDA, Takanori TSUNASHIMA, Takashi NAKAMURA, Akio TAKIMOTO, Takao SOMEYA, Tomoyuki YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20240071208
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and being configured to: acquire a rotation angle by which a head of a user has rotated and a maintained time during which the rotation angle has been maintained, and in a case in which the rotation angle is less than a preset angle, or in a case in which the rotation angle is equal to or greater than the preset angle and the maintained time is less than a preset time, cause a notification unit to execute notification corresponding to the rotation angle and the maintained time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi KASHIMURA, Takahiro KATO, Kazuyuki YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20240068925
    Abstract: A particle analyzer (100) includes: a light source that emits excitation light (EL1) including light having a wavelength of 400 nm or less; a lens structure (41) that collects excitation light (EL1) at a predetermined position (51s) in a flow path (53); a detection unit (7) that detects light (FL) emitted from a particle as the particle (51) flowing through the predetermined position is excited by the excitation light (EL1); and a processing unit (120) that processes detection data acquired by the detection unit (7). The lens structure (41) includes a plurality of lenses (411) arranged along an optical axis of the excitation light (EL1); and a lens frame (412) holding the plurality of lenses (411). At least one (G12) of the plurality of lenses (411) is positioned in the lens frame (412) by abutting on a lens adjacent to the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Hatakeyama, Satoshi Nagae, Masanobu Nonaka, Kenji Ishida, Naomichi Kikuchi, Takashi Kato
  • Publication number: 20240068888
    Abstract: A detection device includes a base plate, a piezoelectric element disposed on the base plate with an insulating member therebetween and generating a pressing force corresponding to an electromotive force, an electrostatic capacitance sensor detecting an electrostatic capacitance of the base plate, a wiring member (first wiring member) electrically connected to the piezoelectric element, and a wiring member (second wiring member) electrically connected to the electrostatic capacitance sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi KATO
  • Patent number: 11913126
    Abstract: A hydrogen-system control device according to the present embodiment is a control system for a hydrogen system that produces hydrogen: a first setter; a second setter configured to set an actual power consumption amount obtained by reducing a reduced power amount from the first power consumption amount in advance, when the demand response for reducing the first power consumption amount in the request period is requested the device comprising: and a controller configured to control a power amount of the second power in the request period based on the actual power consumption amount. The second setter is configured to set the actual power consumption amount in a range in which the hydrogen system is able to achieve a target amount of hydrogen to be produced in a first period that includes the request period and is longer than the request period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Akiba, Shingo Tamaru, Shin Kato, Fumiyuki Yamane
  • Patent number: 11914248
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a photo-alignment copolymer which makes it possible to produce a photo-alignment film having excellent solvent resistance and liquid crystal aligning properties, and a photo-alignment film and an optical laminate produced using the photo-alignment copolymer. A photo-alignment copolymer of the invention is a photo-alignment copolymer having a repeating unit A including a photo-alignment group represented by Formula (A) and a repeating unit B including a crosslinkable group represented by Formula (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Nozoe, Takashi Iizumi, Kazushige Nakagawa, Takahiro Kato, Miho Asahi, Hirofumi Omura, Yuki Hirai
  • Publication number: 20240059065
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejection head capable of suppressing a decrease in printing quality. To this end, circulation efficiency J at an ejection orifice on a downstream side in a flow direction in a channel is set high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: TAKASHI KATO, YOSHIYUKI NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11893546
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated or computer assisted planning of pipe replacement projects includes searching a database of pipe segments each having assigned or calculated failure risk parameters. The searching algorithm looks for connected pipe segments falling within a customer's specified project size and identifies potential projects having a relatively high combined high failure risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Fracta
    Inventors: Daichi Yoshikawa, Takashi Kato, Yongyang Wang, Tomohiro Kawaji, Joel Michael Weingarten
  • Patent number: 11863036
    Abstract: In this armature, between the first segment conductor and the second segment conductor that are joined to each other in the joint portion, a first clearance portion is provided between the tip end portion of the first leg portion and the second leg portion body portion in the axial direction, and a second clearance portion is provided between the tip end portion of the second leg portion and the first leg portion body portion in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Takahiro Kobuchi, Takashi Kato
  • Patent number: 11843224
    Abstract: A quantum cascade laser includes a substrate having a group III-V compound semiconductor and a core region that is provided on the substrate and that includes a group III-V compound semiconductor. The core region includes a plurality of unit structures that are stacked on top of one another. Each of the plurality of unit structures includes an active layer and an injection layer. The injection layer includes at least one strain-compensated layer including a first well layer and a first barrier layer and at least one lattice-matched layer including a second well layer and a second barrier layer. The first well layer has a lattice constant larger than a lattice constant of the substrate. The first barrier layer has a lattice constant smaller than the lattice constant of the substrate. The second well layer and the second barrier layer each have a lattice constant that is lattice-matched to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Kato
  • Patent number: 11835766
    Abstract: A slope gain equalizer that corrects a slope of a gain characteristic of an optical signal in a predetermined wavelength bandwidth. An interference filter, which allows insertion losses in a predetermined wavelength region to be inclined in opposite directions between a transmitting direction and a reflecting direction from a short wavelength side to a long wavelength side, is arranged between a dual-core fiber collimator and a single-core fiber collimator facing each other on an optical axis. An optical signal of a predetermined bandwidth inputted from a first or second optical fiber held by the dual-core fiber collimator is reflected by the interference filter and outputted from the second or the first optical fiber. An optical signal inputted from a third optical fiber held by the first optical fiber or the single-core fiber collimator is transmitted through the interference filter and outputted from the third or the first optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: KOHOKU KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihisa Okubo, Takashi Kato
  • Publication number: 20230388716
    Abstract: An acoustic device includes: a first vibrating body having a first vibration frequency; a second vibrating body having a second vibration frequency; and a base material having a disposition surface on which the second vibrating body is disposed. In a plan view of the base material, the first vibrating body and the second vibrating body are arranged in an in-plane direction of the disposition surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi KATO, Akihiro TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230286281
    Abstract: The liquid ejection head includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface which is a back surface of the first surface, a plurality of individual channels provided on the first surface, communicating with the ejection port, and recirculating the liquid, and a circulation channel communicating with the plurality of individual channels and recirculating the liquid. The circulation channel is provided on the first surface and has a connection region communicating with the outlet ports of the plurality of individual channels, a supply through-hole penetrating the substrate and supplying the liquid to the connection region, and a correct through-hole penetrating the substrate and correcting the liquid from the connection region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: TAKASHI KATO, YOSHIYUKI NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11720816
    Abstract: An improved solution accurately predicts of an underground pipe's likelihood of leaking. A data-driven approach uses a combination of information acquisition, classification, regression and/or machine learning. The replacement of underground pipes can be prioritized. Pipe data is inputted and processed. Potential features within the cleaned data is used in pipe life of failure prediction models. The importance of the potential features is ranked. The most important features are extracted and applied to a likelihood of failure model that is created based on historical data and machine learning. Future likelihood of failure for each pipe in the network of pipes can be predicted using the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Fracta
    Inventors: Daichi Yoshikawa, Takashi Kato
  • Publication number: 20230212675
    Abstract: This invention relates to a kit or device for detection of hippocampal atrophy comprising a nucleic acid(s) capable of specifically binding to particular hippocampal atrophy marker miRNA(s) or to complementary strand(s) thereof, and a method for detecting hippocampal atrophy comprising measuring such miRNA(s) in vitro.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicants: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC., NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY
    Inventors: Chiori KASHIMURA, Hiroko SUDO, Makiko YOSHIMOTO, Shumpei NIIDA, Kengo ITO, Daichi SHIGEMIZU, Takashi KATO, Akinori NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11691912
    Abstract: A glass member for a housing of an electronic device may include an aluminosilicate glass substrate defining a first surface of the glass member, the first surface having a first surface roughness, a fused composite coating bonded to a portion of the aluminosilicate glass substrate and defining a second surface of the glass member, the second surface having a second surface roughness greater than the first surface roughness, a first ion-exchanged layer extending into the glass member and through the fused composite coating, and a second ion-exchanged layer extending into the glass member from the first surface. The fused composite coating may include an amorphous glass matrix and a crystalline material dispersed in the amorphous glass matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Masashige Tatebe, Takahiro Oshima, Jody Akana, Palaniappan Chinnakaruppan, Tushar S. Deshpande, Kenichi Nakajima, Shigehiro Sanichi, Takashi Kato, Koji Takano
  • Patent number: 11682128
    Abstract: A face image processing device, includes: an image coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit detecting an x-coordinate value and a y-coordinate value in an image coordinate system at a feature point of an organ of a face of a person in an image, and estimating a z-coordinate value, so as to derive three-dimensional coordinate values in the image coordinate system; a camera coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit deriving three-dimensional coordinate values in a camera coordinate system from the three-dimensional coordinate values in the image coordinate system derived by the image coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit; and a parameter derivation unit applying the three-dimensional coordinate values in the camera coordinate system derived by the camera coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit to a predetermined three-dimensional face shape model to derive a model parameter of the three-dimensional face shape model in the camera coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Kojima, Yuya Yamada, Shin Osuga, Koki Ueda, Yuta Kawai, Takashi Kato, Yoshiyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: D1016104
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kushita, Shunichiro Mori, Takashi Kato