Patents by Inventor Tatsuya Sato

Tatsuya 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: 20240077015
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reservoir tank for coolant that stores the coolant for cooling an internal combustion engine. The reservoir tank includes: a tank chamber that stores the coolant; an opening, which is disposed in an upper part of the tank chamber, through which the coolant flows in and flows out, and in a circumferential wall of which a breathing hole is formed; and a first communication passage, a second communication passage, and a third communication passage that respectively communicate with the opening and the tank chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Miyo KITAMURA, Shinji SHIMOYAMA, Keijiro KOIDE, Masahiro KATO, Tatsuya KURIMOTO, Tatsuki TANAKA, Koji SATO, Takumi TOKINOYA
  • Publication number: 20240072167
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second electrode, a gate electrode, second semiconductor regions of a second conductivity type, third semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type, and a third electrode. The second electrode is provided in a plurality in second and third directions. Each second electrode opposes a portion of the first semiconductor region in the second and third directions with an insulating layer interposed. The gate electrode is provided around each second electrode. The first semiconductor region includes first regions provided respectively around the second electrodes and the second region provided around the first regions in the second and third directions. Impurity concentration of the first conductivity type in each of the first regions is higher than impurity concentration of the first conductivity type in the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kentaro ICHINOSEKI, Tatsuya Nishiwaki, Shingo Sato
  • Publication number: 20240072284
    Abstract: A fuel cell system for a load device may include a fuel cell, a battery, and a controller configured to control the fuel cell and the battery. The controller may be configured to: cumulatively calculate first accumulated electric energy generated by the fuel cell; cumulatively calculate a power generation efficiency average at the time of storage of the first accumulated electric energy; calculate required power generation efficiency to generate electric power that meets a power demand of the load device; under a first condition where the power generation efficiency average is lower than the required power generation efficiency, cause the fuel cell to generate electric power that meets the power demand; and under a second condition where the power generation efficiency average is higher, cause the fuel cell to generate electric power at a specific operating point and cause the battery to discharge deficient electric power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Tatsuya FUKAMI, Kenji SATO, Hiroaki MORI
  • Patent number: 11904574
    Abstract: Object: The present disclosure provides a film having a low gloss appearance and excellent scratch resistance, and a surface coating composition that can be used in the production of such a film. Resolution Means: The film of one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a scratch resistant surface layer containing a binder containing a urethane resin, urethane resin beads having an average particle diameter of 3 ?m to 30 ?m, hard particles having an average particle diameter of 5 ?m to 45 ?m; and nanosilica particles. The surface layer contains the hard particles in an amount of 30 parts by mass to 500 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the binder. The gloss of the surface layer is approximately 5.5 GU or less at 60 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kondo, Naota Sugiyama, Yoshihiko Takeda, Tatsuya Sato
  • Publication number: 20240048828
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an object to be cooled, a heat dissipation member, a first heat conductive sheet including a first heat absorbing part that absorbs heat from the object to be cooled and a first heat dissipating part that dissipates heat to the heat dissipation member, a second heat conductive sheet including a second heat absorbing part that absorbs heat from the object to be cooled and a second heat dissipating part that dissipates heat to the heat dissipation member, and an elastic member that biases the first heat absorbing part and the second heat absorbing part and maintains connection between the first heat absorbing part and the object to be cooled and between the second heat absorbing part and the object to be cooled. The elastic member biases the first heat absorbing part and the second heat absorbing part overlapping each other toward the object to be cooled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya SATO, Takuya AMANO, Yuuji MATSUO, Norikazu KANEDA, Shunsuke ITAYA
  • Publication number: 20240048827
    Abstract: The imaging apparatus includes a first object to be cooled, a second object to be cooled, and a heat dissipation member including a first connection part connected to the first object to be cooled, a second connection part connected to the second object to be cooled, and a first fin, The first connection part is provided at a position closer to the first fin than the second connection part, The heat dissipation member includes a cutout in a portion between the second connection part and the first fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya AMANO, Norikazu KANEDA, Yuuji MATSUO, Tatsuya SATO
  • Publication number: 20240045313
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a flow path including a flow direction diverter that changes the direction of air flow, a heat dissipation member including first fins, second fins, and third fins disposed in the flow path, and an object to be cooled connected to the heat dissipation member. The first fins are pin-shaped fins disposed in the flow direction diverter in the flow path, the second fins are plate-shaped fins disposed in a section of the flow path downstream of the flow direction diverter, and the third fins are plate-shaped fins disposed in a section of the flow path upstream of the flow direction diverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki ZEMBUTSU, Norikazu KANEDA, Yuuji MATSUO, Tatsuya SATO, Takuya AMANO
  • Publication number: 20230412750
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to perform display corresponding to progress of processing accepted by an image forming apparatus only in a case where a second user having a possibility of using the image forming apparatus other than a first user who is operating an operation panel is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tatsuya SATO, Teruyuki NARUSE
  • Patent number: 11820135
    Abstract: A print head includes a head portion that includes a driving element driven by a drive signal and ejects a liquid in response to the drive of the driving element, a flow path member provided with a liquid flow path for supplying a liquid to the head portion, a circuit board provided with a supply circuit for supplying the drive signal to the driving element and disposed between the head portion and the flow path member, and a light emitting element disposed between the circuit board and the flow path member, in which the flow path member is provided with a light guide tube that guides light emitted by the light emitting element to an outside of the flow path member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Tatsuya Sato, Masahiro Toki, Shunsuke Kasai
  • Patent number: 11820134
    Abstract: A print head includes a head portion that includes a driving element driven by a drive signal and ejects a liquid in response to the drive of the driving element, a flow path member provided with a liquid flow path for supplying a liquid to the head portion, a circuit board provided with a supply circuit for supplying the drive signal to the driving element and disposed between the head portion and the flow path member, and a sound emitting element disposed between the circuit board and the flow path member, in which the flow path member is provided with a sound guide tube that guides sound emitted by the sound emitting element to an outside of the flow path member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Nakano, Tatsuya Sato, Masahiro Toki, Shunsuke Kasai
  • Publication number: 20230323144
    Abstract: Provided is a film that has high-quality low gloss appearance with a small change in appearance of texture as observed at various viewing angles and that has tactile texture. Solution means A film of an embodiment is a film including a surface layer embossed, wherein the surface layer includes a low gloss layer and a gloss printed pattern partially covering the low gloss layer, (1) 85-degree surface glossiness of the surface layer is less than or equal to 3.5 GU as an in-plane average value; (2) ?85-degree surface glossiness defined by a difference between an in-plane maximum value of the 85-degree surface glossiness and the in-plane average value of the 85-degree surface glossiness of the surface layer (= in-plane maximum value of 85-degree surface glossiness - in-plane average value of 85-degree surface glossiness) is from 0.2 to 2.5, and (3) surface roughness Ra of an embossed surface of the film is greater than or equal to 3.5 µm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kondo, Tatsuya Sato, Naota Sugiyama, Masaaki Furusawa, Koji Saito, Tomohiro Oba, Keisuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20230294967
    Abstract: A forklift includes a vehicle including a pair of straddle legs extending forward from a lower part of a vehicle body and provided at an interval in a vehicle width direction, a cargo handling device including a mast provided between the pair of straddle legs and extending in an up-down direction, a lift bracket provided at the mast such that the lift bracket is capable of being raised and lowered, and a pair of forks extending forward from the lift bracket, a reach mechanism including an advance/retract drive unit capable of performing advance/retract drive in a front-back direction on each of the pair of straddle legs, and a coupling portion coupling the mast and the advance/retract drive unit, in which the coupling portion includes a protrusion provided at one of the advance/retract drive unit and the mast and extending in the up-down direction toward the other of the advance/retract drive unit and the mast, and an accommodating portion provided at the other of the advance/retract drive unit and the mast a
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Kawauchi, Tatsuya Sato, Tetsuhei Kobayashi, Megumu Tsuruta, Kensuke Futahashi
  • Publication number: 20230271416
    Abstract: A print head that includes a drive element to be driven when a drive signal is supplied to the drive element and that ejects liquid by the driving of the drive element includes an ejecting module including the drive element and a nozzle from which the liquid is ejected, and a current detecting circuit that detects a drive current generated due to propagation of the drive signal. The current detecting circuit includes a current detector that detects the drive current as a current detection signal, and a processor that controls an operation of the current detecting circuit according to the current detection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventor: Tatsuya SATO
  • Patent number: 11740937
    Abstract: A parallel process apparatus connecting electronic controllers via buses includes: a process request acceptance section that accepts process requests to the electronic controllers; and a process execution section that, while multiple process requests are simultaneously accepted, arbitrates the multiple process requests being accepted, and parallelizes multiple processes in accordance with the multiple process requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Nakamura, Yuzo Harata, Kazuaki Hayakawa, Tatsuya Sato, Yasuo Morita
  • Publication number: 20230267932
    Abstract: A dialogue system that dialogues with a user includes an execution device configured to execute a detection process and a recognition process. The recognition process is a process of recognizing that the user talks to the dialogue system when a predetermined state is detected by the detection process. The detection process is a process of detecting the predetermined state using, as an input, an output signal of a camera that images the user. The predetermined state includes a state in which a mouth of the user moves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin OSUGA, Godai TANAKA, Ayana NABEKURA, Ryota NAKANO, Ryota WATANABE, Tatsuya SATO, Norihide KITAOKA, Ryota NISHIMURA, Sunao HARA, Kengo OHTA, Teruyuki ISHIKAWA, Yuka ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230267930
    Abstract: A dialogue system includes a storage device and an execution device. Scenario data stored in the storage device define a response sentence corresponding to a state and a transition condition for transition to a different state. The execution device executes a text data generation process, a determination process, a scenario response process, a chat process, a storage process, and a return process. The text data generation process is a process of converting a voice of a user into text data. The determination process is a process of determining whether the transition condition is satisfied. The scenario response process is a process of operating a speaker so as to make a response when the transition condition is satisfied. The chat process is a process of operating the speaker so as to make a different response when the transition condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin OSUGA, Godai TANAKA, Ayana NABEKURA, Ryota NAKANO, Ryota WATANABE, Tatsuya SATO, Norihide KITAOKA, Ryota NISHIMURA, Sunao HARA, Kengo OHTA
  • Publication number: 20230264934
    Abstract: A forklift includes a vehicle and a cargo handling device. The cargo handling device includes a mast, a lift bracket, and a pair of forks that includes claw portions, the forks being separated from each other in a vehicle width direction. The vehicle includes a vehicle main body, and a pair of straddle legs that is provided such that the straddle legs extend to the front side from a lower portion of the vehicle main body and the cargo handling device is interposed between the straddle legs in the vehicle width direction and that supports the mast such that the cargo handling device is movable forward and backward between an advance position and a retreat position, and front ends of the claw portions are positioned behind front ends of the straddle legs when the cargo handling device is at the retreat position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Okuda, Megumu Tsuruta, Tatsuya Sato, Naoto Kawauchi, Mitsuhisa Kawabe, Masayuki Ishikawa, Noriyuki Hasegawa, Keitaro Kamata, Yusuke Otaki, Yu Shibata, Sho Onodera, Kensuke Nishiura, Ei Onogawa
  • Publication number: 20230229795
    Abstract: In a distributed ledger system including nodes of a plurality of organizations, a smart contract of a distributed ledger node of each of the organizations refers to information made open to the public in a public area, the information being related to an evidence held in a private area of each of the plurality of organizations, and in response to a trigger event of the information's meeting a given condition, executes a process of making the evidence open to the public in the public area, the evidence being held in the private area of an organization to which the smart contract belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsuya SATO, Taku SHIMOSAWA
  • Patent number: 11701879
    Abstract: A print head having an ejection portion that ejects a liquid includes a determination portion that executes a first determination process of determining whether or not a first error occurs in which replacement of the print head or replacement of a hardware coupled to the print head is required and a second determination process of determining whether or not a second error occurs in which neither the replacement of the print head nor the replacement of the hardware coupled to the print head is required, and a light emitting portion that emits light according to a result of determination in the determination portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sato, Shuichi Nakano, Masahiro Toki, Shunsuke Kasai
  • Publication number: 20230185107
    Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes: a first image display that outputs linearly polarized first image light; a second image display that outputs linearly polarized second image light; a first retardation plate that modulates and converts the first image light output from the first image display to first elliptically polarized light; a second retardation plate that modulates and converts the second image light output from the second image display to second elliptically polarized light that rotates in a direction identical to a rotation direction of the first elliptically polarized light; and a half mirror that transmits the first elliptically polarized light, converts the first elliptically polarized light to first circularly polarized light that rotates in a direction identical to the rotation direction of the first elliptically polarized light, reflects the second elliptically polarized light, and coverts the second elliptically polarized light to second circularly polarized light that rotates in a
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Arisawa MFG. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehiko Kon, Yasuaki Umezawa, Kazuhiro Ura, Tatsuya Sato