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).
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Patent number: 11923152Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Ueda, Kohei Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Kato, Takashi Umemoto
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Patent number: 11920257Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SUMCO CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Muramatsu, Hirokazu Kato
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Publication number: 20240071128Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Hirofumi KATO, Makoto UCHIDA, Takanori TSUNASHIMA, Takashi NAKAMURA, Akio TAKIMOTO, Takao SOMEYA, Tomoyuki YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20240071208Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi KASHIMURA, Takahiro KATO, Kazuyuki YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20240068925Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Takeshi Hatakeyama, Satoshi Nagae, Masanobu Nonaka, Kenji Ishida, Naomichi Kikuchi, Takashi Kato
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Publication number: 20240068888Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi KATO
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Patent number: 11913126Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Takashi Akiba, Shingo Tamaru, Shin Kato, Fumiyuki Yamane
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Patent number: 11914248Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yutaka Nozoe, Takashi Iizumi, Kazushige Nakagawa, Takahiro Kato, Miho Asahi, Hirofumi Omura, Yuki Hirai
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Publication number: 20240059065Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: TAKASHI KATO, YOSHIYUKI NAKAGAWA
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Patent number: 11893546Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: FractaInventors: Daichi Yoshikawa, Takashi Kato, Yongyang Wang, Tomohiro Kawaji, Joel Michael Weingarten
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Patent number: 11863036Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Takahiro Kobuchi, Takashi Kato
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Patent number: 11843224Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Takashi Kato
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Patent number: 11835766Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: KOHOKU KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshihisa Okubo, Takashi Kato
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Publication number: 20230388716Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi KATO, Akihiro TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20230286281Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: TAKASHI KATO, YOSHIYUKI NAKAGAWA
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Patent number: 11720816Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: FractaInventors: Daichi Yoshikawa, Takashi Kato
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Publication number: 20230212675Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicants: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC., NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGYInventors: Chiori KASHIMURA, Hiroko SUDO, Makiko YOSHIMOTO, Shumpei NIIDA, Kengo ITO, Daichi SHIGEMIZU, Takashi KATO, Akinori NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 11691912Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Masashige Tatebe, Takahiro Oshima, Jody Akana, Palaniappan Chinnakaruppan, Tushar S. Deshpande, Kenichi Nakajima, Shigehiro Sanichi, Takashi Kato, Koji Takano
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Patent number: 11682128Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin-ichi Kojima, Yuya Yamada, Shin Osuga, Koki Ueda, Yuta Kawai, Takashi Kato, Yoshiyuki Yamada
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Patent number: D1016104Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Kushita, Shunichiro Mori, Takashi Kato