Patents by Inventor Takayuki Sato

Takayuki 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: 20220096088
    Abstract: An openable and closable clip for medical use includes a resin clip body, and a fastening ring to be fitted onto the clip body. Clip body includes a pair of opposing arm parts, and connecting part that connects base ends of respective arm parts. Each arm part includes curved part on a base end side, holding part on distal end side, and intermediate part between curved and holding parts. Curved part is curved in arc shape, and intermediate part has a thickness greater than that of curved part. Clip body closes in state where fastening ring is fitted onto clip body on side closer to connecting part than curved part, opens when fastening ring slides onto curved part from connecting part, and closes when fastening ring slides onto intermediate part from curved part. Openable and closable clip can be used in endoscope clip device and opens and closes stably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOCHI UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Takayuki SATO
  • Patent number: 11280024
    Abstract: The present invention suppresses anomalous growth of a Group III nitride semiconductor at the periphery of a seed substrate. The invention is directed to a method for producing a Group III nitride semiconductor including feeding a nitrogen-containing gas into a molten mixture of a Group III metal and a flux placed in a furnace, to thereby grow a Group III nitride semiconductor on a seed substrate. The oxygen concentration of the furnace internal atmosphere is elevated after the growth initiation temperature of the Group III nitride semiconductor has been achieved. In a period from the initiation of the growth to a certain timing, the oxygen concentration of the furnace internal atmosphere is controlled to 0.02 ppm or less, and thereafter, to greater than 0.02 ppm and 0.1 ppm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Sato, Miki Moriyama, Shiro Yamazaki, Yasuhide Yakushi
  • Publication number: 20220079697
    Abstract: A medical tool for fingertip of the present invention has a resin layer that emits red fluorescence or near-infrared fluorescence, and is used by putting it on a fingertip. More specifically, the medical tools for fingertip 1A to 1E have a finger cot shape and an opening portion 2 from which the ball of the finger is exposed when put on, and are formed of a resin that emits red fluorescence or near-infrared fluorescence. Alternatively, the medical tools for fingertip 1F and 1G have a globe shape, and a printing layer 8, 9 that is formed of a resin that emits red fluorescence or near-infrared fluorescence on or around the ball of the finger thereof. Further alternatively, the medical tools for fingertip 1H and 1I are a sticker-like medical tool having an adhesive layer provided to one surface of the resin layer that emits red fluorescence or near-infrared fluorescence, and have a size that allows it to be attached to the ball of the finger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOCHI UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Takayuki SATO
  • Publication number: 20220081800
    Abstract: A method for producing a Group III nitride semiconductor includes feeding a nitrogen-containing gas into a molten mixture of a Group III metal and a flux placed in a furnace, to thereby grow a Group III nitride semiconductor on a seed substrate. At least an oxidation amount of Na, serving as the flux, is controlled outside the furnace, and the controlled Na is fed into the furnace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Takayuki SATO, Miki MORIYAMA, Masateru YAMAZAKI, Taku FUJIMORI
  • Publication number: 20220057623
    Abstract: An imaging system includes a lighting controller for independently controlling emission of illumination light to be emitted by a light source in: (i) a non-all-line exposure period, which contains a reading period in which electrical signals are sequentially read out on a horizontal-line basis from an image sensor for one frame or one field period, and in which at least one horizontal line of the horizontal lines for the one frame or the one field period is not exposed to light, and (ii) in an all-line exposure period, in which all of the horizontal lines for the one frame or the one field period are exposed to light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki SATO, Satoshi TANAKA, Masahiro NISHIO
  • Publication number: 20220056833
    Abstract: A hydraulic drive fan control device is provided with a variable displacement hydraulic pump, a hydraulic motor, a hydraulic drive fan that is driven by the hydraulic motor, a flow amount control valve, a rotational speed detector that detects a rotational speed of an engine, and a controller. The controller outputs a first valve control signal to the flow amount control valve and outputs a first pump control signal to the hydraulic pump to rotate the hydraulic drive fan at a first rotational speed, and outputs a second valve control signal to the flow amount control valve and outputs a second pump control signal to the hydraulic pump, thereby stopping the rotation of the hydraulic drive fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Takaaki TANAKA, Masatsugu ARAI, Takayuki SATO, Naoki FUKUDA, Jun IKEDA, Ryuji KOUNO
  • Publication number: 20220031188
    Abstract: [Problem] To accurately check a usage status of a medical product such as a damage status of the medical product or existence or nonexistence of the medical product. [Solution] A medical product (80) is configured to include a light-emissive septum (83) (constituent member) which includes a luminescent agent emitting near-infrared fluorescence according to irradiation of excitation light on a surface thereof. Even in a case where a portion of the septum is separated as a core (83a) (separate piece) due to damage, the luminescent agent is also included on a surface of the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventor: Takayuki SATO
  • Patent number: 11224578
    Abstract: Provided is a molecular assembly (for example, a polymeric micelle nanoparticle) which is capable of efficiently encapsulating a fat-soluble drug. A molecular assembly comprising: an amphiphilic block polymer A1 comprising a hydrophilic block having a sarcosine unit and a hydrophobic block having a lactic acid unit; a hydrophobic polymer A2 having a lactic acid unit; a fatty acid triglyceride; and a fat-soluble drug. Examples of the fat-soluble drug include miriplatin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignees: SHIMADZU CORPORATION, KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Isao Hara, Eiichi Ozeki, Shunsaku Kimura, Takayuki Sato
  • Patent number: 11211280
    Abstract: Described herein is a technique capable of preventing a susceptor made of quartz from being damaged by contacting a reflector deformed by thermal expansion. A substrate support according to the technique may include an upper susceptor made of quartz; a lower susceptor made of quartz; and a reflector reflecting heat and made of a metal in a planar shape. A lower surface of the upper susceptor is bonded with an upper surface of the lower susceptor such that the reflector is interposed therebetween, a first recess accommodating the reflector is provided at the upper surface of the lower susceptor, and a portion of the lower surface of the upper susceptor facing the first recess is roughened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Kokusai Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Sato, Naoya Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11179058
    Abstract: An apparatus to determine if a constituent member has been damaged. The constituent member can be a medical product comprising a coating, or a substance kneaded into the product, which emits a fluorescence in the near-infrared region. The apparatus to determine if this constituent member has been damaged includes an irradiation light source, an optical filter, an imaging unit, a display unit and a control unit connected to the light source, the optical filter and the imaging unit to determine and inform that damage has occurred in the constituent member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOCHI UNIVERSITY, DIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Sato
  • Patent number: 11104316
    Abstract: An autonomous traveling vehicle, equipped with autonomous traveling function on a standard machine, has a high-pressure selector valve placed on a flow path in which pressure-oil is supplied from a standard brake valve (SBV) installed in the standard machine to a hydraulic brake. A flow path is installed to connect the high-pressure selector valve and an autonomous brake control valve (ABCV) that is supplied with pressure-oil delivered by a hydraulic pump. Further, an autonomous traveling controller is installed to perform control for autonomous travel, and an autonomous brake controller is installed to perform open or close control on the ABCV in response to a braking instruction from the autonomous traveling controller. When the brake pedal is stepped on, the pressure-oil flows from the SBV to the hydraulic brake, and when the autonomous traveling controller outputs a stop instruction, the pressure-oil flows from the ABCV to the hydraulic brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Sato, Takaaki Tanaka, Hidefumi Ishimoto
  • Publication number: 20210119577
    Abstract: In-package temperature is controlled with higher accuracy. To this end, a temperature control circuit includes a temperature sensor arranged in a package and detecting temperature in the package, a heater current detection circuit detecting a driving amount of a heater, a target temperature generation circuit generating a target temperature from an intended temperature of a resonator and a detection value of the driving amount detected by the heater current detection circuit, a heater current driver controlling the heater so that the detection temperature detected by the temperature sensor coincides with the target temperature, and an Nth-order correction circuit receiving the detection value of the driving amount detected by the heater current detection circuit or a signal based on the target temperature and cancelling influence of a second or higher order fluctuation component generated in the heater current detection circuit on temperature of the resonator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI MICRODEVICES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki SATO
  • Publication number: 20210030895
    Abstract: The invention contains a resin and a near infrared fluorescent material which is one type or two or more types of compounds selected from General Formulas (I1) to (I4) and has a maximum fluorescence wavelength of 650 nm or longer. In Formulas, Ra and Rb, Rc and Rd, Rh and Ri, and Rj and Rk form rings together with the nitrogen atom to which Ra, Rc, Rh, and Rj are bonded; Re and Rf represent a halogen atom or an oxygen atom; each of Rl, Rm, Rn, and Ro independently represents a halogen atom, a C1-20 alkyl group, a C1-20 alkoxy group, an aryl group, or a heteroaryl group; Rg, Rr, and Rs represent a hydrogen atom or an electron withdrawing group; and each of Rp and Rq independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a C1-20 alkyl group, a C1-20 alkoxy group, an aryl group, or a heteroaryl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicants: DIC Corporation, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOCHI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Naoto Sakurai, Takeo Ikeda, Yoshinobu Sakurai, Yasuyuki Watanabe, Takayuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20210024821
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a resin composition which can be detected both by X-ray radiation and by fluorescence or phosphorescence, and a molded article obtained from the resin composition. The present invention provides a resin composition containing a light-emitting substance and a radiopaque substance; in which the light-emitting substance is a near-infrared fluorescent material or a phosphorescent material. a radiopaque substance of the resin composition is any one of barium sulfate, bismuth oxide, bismuth subcarbonate, calcium carbonate, aluminum hydroxide, tungsten, zinc oxide, zirconium oxide, zirconium, titanium, platinum, bismuth subnitrate, and bismuth. A molded article can be obtained by processing any one of the resin compositions described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicants: DIC Corporation, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOCHI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Naoto Sakurai, Yoshinobu Sakurai, Yasuyuki Watanabe, Takeo Ikeda, Takayuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20200358053
    Abstract: A battery pack supplies an electrically driven treatment apparatus with an electric driving power. The battery pack includes: a plurality of pouch cells, wherein the pouch cells have cell tabs and are configured and disposed in a stack such that the cell tabs are disposed on a common tab side of the stack in two tab columns, wherein averted end limits of the tab columns define an intermediate zone, and a circuit board. The circuit board is disposed within the intermediate zone and is electrically connected to the cell tabs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel SAUERTEIG, Julien SCHOLL, Kenichi OZAWA, Takayuki SATO, Daiki MISAWA, Malte VON HOFEN, Daniel WAGNER, Marcel WILKA, Martin SCHURR, Uwe BOSSMANN, Dirk LIEPOLD
  • Publication number: 20200358055
    Abstract: A battery pack supplies an electrically driven treatment apparatus with an electric driving power and includes: a plurality of accumulator cells, wherein the accumulator cells have cell contacts; at least one circuit board, wherein the at least one circuit board is electrically connected to the cell contacts; and a battery pack housing, wherein the battery pack housing has a first battery pack housing part and a second battery pack housing part, wherein the first battery pack housing part and the second battery pack housing part are closed by each other. The accumulator cells are disposed within the battery pack housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel SAUERTEIG, Julien SCHOLL, Kenichi OZAWA, Takayuki SATO, Daiki MISAWA, Daniel WAGNER, Marcel WILKA, Martin SCHURR, Uwe BOSSMANN, Dirk LIEPOLD
  • Publication number: 20200358060
    Abstract: A battery pack supplies an electrically driven treatment apparatus with an electric driving power. The battery pack includes: a stack housing, wherein the stack housing has a common housing opening defined by a housing edge, and a plurality of pouch cells, wherein the pouch cells have cell tabs and are configured and disposed in a stack within the stack housing such that the cell tabs at least with tab parts on the common housing opening project beyond at least one edge portion of the housing edge. The tab parts are directly electrically connected to each other by welded connections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel SAUERTEIG, Julien SCHOLL, Kenichi OZAWA, Takayuki SATO, Daiki MISAWA, Marcel WILKA, Martin SCHURR, Uwe BOSSMANN, Dirk LIEPOLD, Daniel WAGNER
  • Publication number: 20200358145
    Abstract: A battery pack supplies an electrically driven treatment apparatus with an electric driving power and includes: a first stack limiting structure and a second stack limiting structure, wherein the second stack limiting structure is disposed opposite and with a fixed distance to the first stack limiting structure; a plurality of pouch cells, wherein the pouch cells are disposed in a stack, wherein the stack is disposed between the first stack limiting structure and the second stack limiting structure and a height of the stack in a stack direction is limited by the first stack limiting structure and the second stack limiting structure; and a sensor arrangement. The sensor arrangement is disposed in the stack. The sensor arrangement extends across a major part of a surface of the pouch cells and is configured such that the height of the stack across the extension is approximately equal. The sensor arrangement has a pressure sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel SAUERTEIG, Julien SCHOLL, Kenichi OZAWA, Takayuki SATO, Daiki MISAWA, Yosuke KONO, Masaki KURATSUKA
  • Publication number: 20200358054
    Abstract: A battery pack supplies an electrically driven treatment apparatus with an electric driving power, and includes: a stack limiting structure; a plurality of pouch cells, wherein the pouch cells are disposed in a stack, wherein the stack is disposed within the stack limiting structure; an outer temperature sensor, wherein the outer temperature sensor is disposed and configured for measuring an outer temperature of the stack outside the stack at an edge of the stack or the stack limiting structure, and/or outside the stack limiting structure; and a control device. The control device is configured for comparison of the measured outer temperature and/or a quantity based on the measured outer temperature to at least one temperature comparative value. The at least one temperature comparative value is a function of at least one of the pouch cells. The control device is configured for controlling the battery pack in response to a result of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel SAUERTEIG, Julien SCHOLL, Takayuki SATO, Daiki MISAWA, Malte VON HOFEN, Atsushi CHINEN, Daniel WAGNER, Marcel WILKA
  • Patent number: 10819346
    Abstract: Provided is a temperature-compensated voltage generating circuit that generates a temperature-compensated voltage which is supplied to an oscillator circuit. The temperature-compensated voltage generating circuit includes a temperature detecting circuit that detects a temperature; a high frequency attenuating part that attenuates at least a part of a frequency component which is higher than a direct-current component of an output of the temperature detecting circuit; an adder that adds the output of the temperature detecting circuit and an output of the high frequency attenuating part; and a compensated voltage generating part that generates the temperature-compensated voltage based on an output of the adder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Sato, Hideaki Hirose