Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Sato

Tomohiro 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: 20240149890
    Abstract: An on-vehicle system includes: a control device; an in-vehicle sensor that detects whether there is a priority target among occupants in a vehicle; and a storage device that stores a learned model for feeling estimation. Further, the control device: determines whether there is a priority target among occupants in the vehicle based on a detection result of the in-vehicle sensor; acquires information on the priority target when determining that there is the priority target; estimates a feeling of the priority target based on the information that has been acquired by using the learned model; and executes vehicle control in accordance with a result of estimating the feeling of the target occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro KANEKO, Shigeki NAKAYAMA, Kotoru SATO
  • Patent number: 11976341
    Abstract: A steel sheet including a chemical composition satisfying an equivalent carbon content of 0.60% or more and less than 0.85%, and a steel microstructure with an area fraction of ferrite: less than 40%, tempered martensite and bainite: 40% or more in total, retained austenite: 3% to 15%, and ferrite, tempered martensite, bainite, and retained austenite: 93% or more in total. A 90-degree bending at a curvature radius/thickness ratio of 4.2 in a rolling (L) direction with respect to an axis extending in a width (C) direction causes a change of 0.40 or more in (a grain size in a thickness direction)/(a grain size in a direction perpendicular to the thickness) of the tempered martensite in an L cross section in a 0- to 50-?m region from a surface of the steel sheet on a compression side. The steel sheet has a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Komine, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Kentaro Sato, Tomohiro Sakaidani
  • Publication number: 20240139907
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus capable of more easily determining a maintenance timing by using event data. The information processing apparatus includes a state estimation unit that estimates a state of a grindstone by using event data supplied from an event sensor that outputs, as event data, a temporal change of an electrical signal obtained by photoelectrically converting an optical signal, and outputs a result of the estimation. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an information processing system or the like that tells a maintenance timing of a grindstone of a machine tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Tatsuya Higashisaka, Satoshi Ihara, Masaru Ozaki, Yasuyuki Sato, Tomohiro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240140454
    Abstract: An on-vehicle system includes: a control device; a monitoring device that monitors whether each of a plurality of occupants in a vehicle has grasped a behavior of the vehicle; and a storage device that stores a learned model for feeling estimation. Further, the control device determines whether there is an occupant who has not grasped a behavior of the vehicle among the plurality of occupants based on a monitoring result of the monitoring device, specifies a target occupant whose feeling is to be estimated from the plurality of occupants based on the determination result, estimates feeling of the target occupant who has been specified by using the learned model, and executes vehicle control in accordance with a result of estimating the feeling of the target occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kaneko, Shigeki Nakayama, Kotoru Sato
  • Patent number: 11970004
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a liquid discharge substrate that has a discharge-orifice row, pressure generating elements, and pressure chambers. The liquid discharge head discharges a liquid in a block-by-block manner using sequential driving. The discharge-orifice row is disposed so as to incline at an angle ?=Arctan (d1/d2) relative to a direction extending orthogonal to the conveyance direction of the medium, in which d1 (?m) is a disposition spacing of the discharge orifices in the discharge-orifice row in the conveyance direction and d2 (?m) is a disposition spacing of the discharge orifices in the discharge-orifice row in the direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction. A partition wall is formed between adjacent pressure chambers so as to separate the adjacent pressure chambers from each other. The partition wall has a communicating portion that communicates the adjacent pressure chambers with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sato, Shuzo Iwanaga, Takatsugu Moriya, Koichi Ishida, Shingo Okushima, Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Akiko Hammura
  • Patent number: 11970204
    Abstract: A steering device includes a steering column for supporting a steering shaft coupled to a steering wheel; an upper bracket fixed to a vehicle body and supports the steering column; and two lower brackets independently fixed to the vehicle body on both sides of the steering column to support the steering column in such a manner that allows the steering column to sway in a vertical direction. The lower brackets each includes a fixed portion facing the vehicle body and disposed on an outside of the steering column in a vehicle width direction, a pivot portion facing the steering column and having an attachment hole into which a pin member for coupling the steering column to the lower bracket is inserted, and a pair of rib portions each connected to the fixed portion and the pivot portion by a bent portion shaped into a bent plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sato, Tomohiro Ikuta, Suguru Sugishita, Hirotaka Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20240132090
    Abstract: A vehicle controller for a vehicle includes a processor to: detect a driving state of the vehicle; determine whether a predetermined dangerous driving is included in the detected driving state; determine, when determining that the predetermined dangerous driving is included in the detected driving state, whether a mood of a driver of the vehicle is elevated; and perform, when determining that the mood of the driver is elevated, vehicle control to settle the mood of the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Nakayama, Tomohiro Kaneko, Kotoru Sato
  • Publication number: 20240131895
    Abstract: An air-conditioning control device includes a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to execute: estimating an emotion of an occupant in a vehicle interior when a spot air conditioning is performed on the occupant; and controlling the spot air conditioning based on an estimation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeki NAKAYAMA, Tomohiro KANEKO, Kotoru SATO
  • Publication number: 20240132854
    Abstract: There has been demand for an additional method for producing antibodies. The present invention provides: a polymer-coated crosslinked alginate gel fiber in which a core layer containing a crosslinked alginate gel and either antibody-producing cells (e.g., antibody-producing CHO cells) or bioactive-substance-producing cells (e.g., MIN6 cells derived from pancreatic ? cells) is coated with a cationic polymer; and a method for producing antibodies, a bioactive substance, etc., using the fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: MOCHIDA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji FURUSAKO, Naoto TSUDA, Tsutomu SATOH, Tomohiro NARUMI, Shingo SATO
  • Patent number: 11933022
    Abstract: A tractor includes a working motor, a work machine including a roller configured to rotate by an output from the working motor, a support mechanism configured to support the work machine such that a working posture and a retracting posture are achievable, and a control device. The control device executes: an adherence amount acquisition process of acquiring an estimated adherence amount as an estimated value for the amount of mud attached to the roller; and a mud removal process of, when the estimated adherence amount is equal to or more than a determination adherence amount, removing the mud from the roller by driving the working motor in a state where the work machine takes the retracting posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Sugo, Masaki Numakura, Makoto Hirai, Taiga Higuchi, Tomohiro Sato, Hiroyuki Azuma
  • Publication number: 20240090222
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a stacked body in which a first insulating layer and a first conductive layer are alternately stacked in a first direction. A columnar body includes a first insulating portion extending in the first direction in the stacked body, a first semiconductor portion provided between the first insulating portion and the stacked body, and a third insulating portion provided between a second insulating portion provided between the first semiconductor portion and the stacked body, and the second insulating portion and the stacked body, and has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. A second conductive layer is provided on the stacked body and is electrically connected to the first semiconductor portion at the first end of the columnar body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Tatsufumi HAMADA, Yosuke MITSUNO, Tomohiro KUKI, Yusuke MORIKAWA, Ryouji MASUDA, Hiroyasu SATO
  • Patent number: 11912333
    Abstract: A steering device includes a steering shaft, a steering column, a bracket, and a fastening mechanism. An upper column includes a clamp, a cylindrical part, a pair of protrusions, and contact ribs. The clamp includes a continuous clamp and a spaced clamp. The protrusions include a continuous protrusion and a spaced protrusion. The contact ribs include first contact ribs disposed each of which is disposed on the outer peripheral surface of the clamp, second contact ribs each of which is disposed on a side surface of the protrusion and disposed opposite to the first contact rib with respect to a long groove, and at least one third contact rib disposed on a side surface of the spaced protrusion and between the first contact rib and the long groove. The third contact rib has a protrusion amount greater than those of the first contact rib and the second contact rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikuta, Yoshiyuki Sato, Suguru Sugishita, Hirotaka Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11881062
    Abstract: Provided is a control device of a working vehicle including a prime mover and a driving mechanism that drives an implement based on power of the prime mover, wherein the control device is configured to obtain a steering angle of the working vehicle, and detect switching between tasks performed by the working vehicle in a farm field, when the steering angle is equal to or greater than a predetermined angle indicating the switching between tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Sugo, Makoto Hirai, Masaki Numakura, Tomohiro Sato, Taiga Higuchi, Hiroyuki Azuma
  • Publication number: 20230412056
    Abstract: A coil holding apparatus for laying a concentrated wound cassette coil in which a wire is laminated in multi layers, including a plurality of supporting parts configured to support the concentrated wound cassette coil, in which the plurality of the supporting parts include a first supporting part having a first height in the vertical direction and a second supporting part having a second height different from the first height in the vertical direction. The concentrated wound cassette coil includes an upper surface and a lower surface, each of the plurality of the supporting parts includes a supporting surface that is brought into contact with the lower surface and that supports the concentrated wound cassette coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Akihiro TOKUYAMA, Hironari ADACHI, Shuai ZHANG, Masashi KAWAI, Masato ISOBE, Tomohiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20230405663
    Abstract: To provide a processing apparatus for a flat wire adapted to suppress adhesion of a shaft and improve durability. A processing apparatus includes: a holder including a rotation axis for rotating in a bending direction of a flat wire; and a clamp including the rotation axis for rotating in the bending direction and configured to restrain the flat wire by clamping it with the holder, in which the clamp includes: a flange that restrains the flat wire between it and the holder; a shaft connected to the flange and disposed so as to pass through a penetrating hole formed in the holder; and a coating film formed on a surface of the shaft, and in which a hardness of the shaft and a hardness of the coating film are greater than a hardness of the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Akihiro TOKUYAMA, Tomohiro SATO, Masato ISOBE, Hironari ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20230378705
    Abstract: A terminal crimping apparatus clamps a barrel portion of a terminal between an anvil and a crimper and caulks the barrel portion so as to enclose a core wire of a cable with the barrel portion. The terminal crimping apparatus comprising: a pressing part which is provided adjacent to the crimper side by side, is capable of separating from and approaching to the cable by movement of at least one of the anvil and the crimper, and prior to caulking of the barrel portion, pushes the cable outward while coming into contact with the cable and being applied with pressing force so as to bring the core wire into contact with a base surface of the barrel portion; and a regulating part which interferes with the pressing part which brings the core wire into contact with the base surface, and regulates pushing out the cable by the pressing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: Tomohiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11779305
    Abstract: A puncture adapter of an embodiment holds a puncture needle and is attached to an ultrasonic probe having an ultrasonic probe group. The puncture adapter has a puncture bracket that can be fixed to the ultrasonic probe and a puncture needle guide that is attached to the puncture bracket. The puncture bracket is not fixed to the ultrasonic probe when the puncture needle guide is not attached. The puncture bracket is fixed to the ultrasonic probe when the puncture needle guide is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sato, Yusuke Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Shikata
  • Patent number: 11735797
    Abstract: A coating solution for lithium ion battery separators which comprises inorganic particles, an organic polymer binder and carboxymethyl cellulose having an etherification rate of 1.10 to 2.00 or a salt thereof, or a coating solution for lithium ion battery separators comprising inorganic particles containing magnesium hydroxide having a linseed oil absorption of 30 to 80 (g/100 g), and a separator having a coating layer formed from the coating solution on a substrate and high safety and low internal resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sato, Hideaki Saegusa, Makoto Kato, Noriko Kasai, Kukjin Yoon
  • Patent number: 11721492
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a solid electrolytic capacitor separator configured such that thickness non-uniformity is reduced, internal short-circuit is less likely to occur, an impedance is not too high, and a high heat resistance is exhibited. In a solid electrolytic capacitor separator including non-woven fabric, the non-woven fabric contains fibrillated heat-resistant fibers and synthetic short fibers as essential components, the fiber length of the fibrillated heat-resistant fiber is 0.30 to 0.75 mm, and the percentage of fibrillated heat-resistant fibers with a fiber width of 12 to 40 ?m is equal to or higher than 55% and lower than 75%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Keisuke Oyama, Tomohiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20230132970
    Abstract: The electric tractor is equipped with a battery, a transmission unit, a machine body frame, a rear axle unit, and a front axle unit. The transmission unit shifts the input power and outputs the shifted input power. The machine body frame is fixed to the transmission unit. The rear axle unit supports the rear wheels, and transmits, to the rear wheels, the power output from the transmission unit. The front axle unit supports the front wheels. The rear axle unit and the front axle unit support chassis including the machine body frame and transmission unit. The battery is supported by the chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicants: Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd., Toyota Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Hashimoto, Taihei Daiyakuji, Masashi Matsumoto, Tomohiko Miyamoto, Hirotsugu Iwamoto, Tomohiro Sato