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).

  • 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
  • Patent number: 11637349
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a substrate for lithium ion battery separators which has high adhesion to an inorganic particle layer, can be made thin and is excellent in tensile strength and cuttability and a lithium ion battery separator including the substrate for lithium ion battery separators. The substrate for lithium ion battery separators which contains heat-resistant fibers and synthetic resin short fibers contains fibrillated heat-resistant fibers having a modified freeness of not more than 300 ml as the heat-resistant fibers and has a content of the fibrillated heat-resistant fibers having a modified freeness of not more than 300 ml of not less than 1.0 mass % to less than 5.0 mass % based on the total of all the fiber components contained in the substrate. The modified freeness is a value measured in accordance with JIS P8121-2:2012 except that an 80-mesh wire net having a wire diameter of 0.14 mm and an opening of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshihiro Shigematsu, Tomohiro Sato, Makoto Kato
  • Publication number: 20230101509
    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: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Tomohiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20230035812
    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: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomohiro SATO, Hideaki SAEGUSA, Makoto KATO, Noriko KASAI, Kukjin YOON
  • Patent number: 11517286
    Abstract: An ultrasonic probe according to an embodiment comprises an ultrasonic-transducer element array, an offset and an exterior member. The ultrasonic-transducer element array is formed by a plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements. The offset is provide on an ultrasonic-transmitting and receiving side of the ultrasonic-transducer element array and includes a contact portion with a subject. The exterior member supports the offset. The offset has at least a first region that is formed by a curved surface having a first curvature and arranged in the middle of the contact portion and a second region that is formed by a curved surface having a second curvature greater than the first curvature and arranged on an edge of the contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sato, Takashi Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Shikata, Kengo Okada
  • Publication number: 20220377551
    Abstract: The AP transmits a verification server certificate signed by a trusted certificate authority to the STA, transmits, upon receipt of the verification request from the STA, the content thereof to the verification server, performs encrypted communication that uses a random number included in the verification response as a seed, and encrypts and transmits the content of the verification response to the STA. The STA generates a common key, checks the content of the response, receives the verification server certificate, verifies whether or not there is a signature of a trusted certificate authority, and encrypts and transmits, to the AP information about a connection destination and the random number as the verification request. The STA decrypts the content of the verification response and checks to see whether information indicating success or failure of the verification and the random number are included, decrypts the content of the verification server certificate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomohiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20220339934
    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: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sato, Shuzo Iwanaga, Takatsugu Moriya, Koichi Ishida, Shingo Okushima, Shintaro Kasai, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Akiko Hammura
  • Publication number: 20220313212
    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: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro SATO, Yusuke KOBAYASHI, Hiroyuki SHIKATA
  • Publication number: 20220319248
    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: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki SUGO, Makoto HIRAI, Masaki NUMAKURA, Tomohiro SATO, Taiga HIGUCHI, Hiroyuki AZUMA
  • Publication number: 20220282452
    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: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki SUGO, Masaki NUMAKURA, Makoto HIRAI, Taiga HIGUCHI, Tomohiro SATO, Hiroyuki AZUMA
  • Publication number: 20220271392
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a substrate for lithium ion battery separators which has high adhesion to an inorganic particle layer, can be made thin and is excellent in tensile strength and cuttability and a lithium ion battery separator including the substrate for lithium ion battery separators. The substrate for lithium ion battery separators which contains heat-resistant fibers and synthetic resin short fibers contains fibrillated heat-resistant fibers having a modified freeness of not more than 300 ml as the heat-resistant fibers and has a content of the fibrillated heat-resistant fibers having a modified freeness of not more than 300 ml of not less than 1.0 mass % to less than 5.0 mass % based on the total of all the fiber components contained in the substrate. The modified freeness is a value measured in accordance with JIS P8121-2:2012 except that an 80-mesh wire net having a wire diameter of 0.14 mm and an opening of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshihiro SHIGEMATSU, Tomohiro SATO, Makoto KATO, Masatoshi KITO, Noriko KASAI, Kukjin YOON, Wakana AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220151707
    Abstract: A puncture information processing device of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire position information on a passage through which a puncture needle for puncturing a living body passes when an ultrasonic probe provided with the passage is inserted into the living body, and derive a body surface puncture position on a body surface of the living body to be punctured with the puncture needle passing through the passage on the basis of the acquired position information on the passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei SASAKI, Tomohiro SATO, Yasushi KAMEWADA
  • Publication number: 20220115186
    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: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Keisuke OYAMA, Tomohiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20220013779
    Abstract: A negative electrode material for a nonaqueous secondary battery which contains a graphite that contains an amorphous carbonaceous material in at least a part of the surface; has a cumulative pore volume of 0.100 mL/g or less in a pore size range of 0.01 ?m to 1 ?m; and satisfies at least one of the following conditions (1) and (2) in a DTA curve obtained by differential thermal analysis (DTA) in an air stream: (1) the negative electrode material has no exothermic peak in a temperature range of 550° C. to 650° C.; and (2) the negative electrode material has an exothermic peak in a temperature range of 550° C. to 650° C., and the area of the exothermic peak is larger than 0 ?V·s/mg but 90 ?V·s/mg or smaller; a negative electrode for a nonaqueous secondary battery, which contains the same; and a nonaqueous secondary battery are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke YAMADA, Nobuyuki ISHIWATARI, Tomohiro SATO, Hiroaki YOSHIDA, Akihiro KATO, Masakazu YOKOMIZO, Hiromitsu IKEDA, Hiroki SATO
  • Patent number: 11198758
    Abstract: Aromatic polyester particles which are formed from an aromatic polyester having a flow starting temperature of 400° C. or higher and have a circularity of a projected image of 0.80 or more and 1.00 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Ito, Tomohiro Sato, Yuzuru Saitou
  • Patent number: 11173713
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a flow passage forming member, an element substrate including a liquid discharge element and a surface on which a conductive member made from a metallic material is disposed, and an intermediate layer made from a resin material and configured to join the flow passage forming member and the surface of the element substrate to each other. The intermediate layer is disposed in a state, separated from the conductive member, where the conductive member is exposed from the intermediate layer. The conductive member is covered with the flow passage forming member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sato, Koichi Ishida, Masaki Oikawa, Yoshinori Misumi, Maki Kato, Yuzuru Ishida, Tsubasa Funabashi
  • Publication number: 20210288382
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a substrate for lithium ion battery separators which has high adhesion to an inorganic particle layer, can be made thin and is excellent in tensile strength and cuttability and a lithium ion battery separator including the substrate for lithium ion battery separators. The substrate for lithium ion battery separators which contains heat-resistant fibers and synthetic resin short fibers contains fibrillated heat-resistant fibers having a modified freeness of not more than 300 ml as the heat-resistant fibers and has a content of the fibrillated heat-resistant fibers having a modified freeness of not more than 300 ml of not less than 1.0 mass % to less than 5.0 mass % based on the total of all the fiber components contained in the substrate. The modified freeness is a value measured in accordance with JIS P8121-2:2012 except that an 80-mesh wire net having a wire diameter of 0.14 mm and an opening of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PAPER MILLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshihiro SHIGEMATSU, Tomohiro SATO, Makoto KATO, Masatoshi KITO, Noriko KASAI, Kukjin YOON, Wakana AIZAWA