Patents by Inventor Tomoya Sasaki

Tomoya Sasaki 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).

  • TOILET DEVICE AND TOILET SEAT UNIT
    Publication number: 20210015315
    Abstract: A toilet device is configured to be capable of performing toilet seat reverse face washing, in which a cleaning liquid is supplied onto a reverse face of a toilet seat and the reverse face is washed. When the toilet seat is placed in a non-closed state, the toilet device does not perform the toilet seat reverse face washing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki KOGA, Hiroaki WATANABE, Hirokazu SHIMASAKI, Tomoya SASAKI, Tsunaki ITOU, Atsushi WAKAMATSU
  • TOILET SEAT DEVICE AND TOILET DEVICE
    Publication number: 20210017752
    Abstract: A toilet seat device includes a toilet seat, a casing provided in rear of the toilet seat, and a functional component that ejects liquid or that blows out or suctions gas. The functional component is a private part cleaning device that cleans a private part of a sitting person, a blower device that provides warm air into a toilet bowl, or a deodorizing device that deodorizes an inner portion of the toilet bowl, for example. At least part of the functional component is provided in the toilet seat, and the other part of the functional component is provided in the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki KOGA, Hiroaki WATANABE, Tomoya SASAKI, Tsunaki ITOU
  • SMALL-DIAMETER DRILL AND SMALL-DIAMETER DRILL MANUFACTURING METHOD
    Publication number: 20200384551
    Abstract: A small-diameter drill in which is a double margin having a diameter of 2 mm or less and a ratio of a margin length to a diameter of 3 or more, in which the margin length L in an axial direction from an outer peripheral end of a cutting edge to the rear ends of first and second margin parts and a ratio L/D to a diameter D are 3 or more, in which at least a surface of a chip discharge groove is provided with a hard coating made of nitride, in which a surface of the hard coating in the chip discharge groove has skewness (Ssk) defined in ISO25178 of less than 0, and in which the number of droplets having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 ?m or more is 5 or less per 100 ?m2 in cross-section observation of the hard coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Shogo Yoshioka, Tomoya Sasaki
  • Touch sensor false detection preventing structure and electronic device having same
    Patent number: 10838552
    Abstract: A touch sensor false detection preventing structure for use in an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing that is provided with a through-hole provided area through which a sensor sheet passes, a circuit board that is mounted inside the housing, and a touch panel that is electrically connected to the circuit board by the sensor sheet. The touch sensor false detection preventing structure includes protruding portions formed on an inner surface at both ends of the through-hole provided area in planar view so as to protrude a predetermined distance, such that movement at a part of both side ends of the sensor sheet is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Younghoon Kim, Tomoaki Tsuchiya, Tomoya Sasaki, Shinya Abe, Yasunori Watanabe
  • Toilet device
    Patent number: 10837162
    Abstract: A toilet device includes a toilet main body, a base plate-which is provided on an upper portion of the toilet main body and on which a functional unit is mounted, and a cover which covers the base plate from an upper side such that the functional unit is accommodated. The cover has a protrusion portion that protrudes further downward than the base plate and that is positioned closer to a toilet bowl of the toilet main body than the base plate. A recess portion, which communicates with the toilet bowl and is open to the upper side, is formed in the toilet main body. The base plate is arranged on the recess portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Isato Hirasawa, Saori Ichihara, Kentarou Tsuji, Hiroto Kutsuzawa, Tomoya Sasaki, Hiroaki Watanabe, Yuji Nakayama, Tsunaki Itou, Miyoko Tateishi
  • COATED CUTTING TOOL
    Publication number: 20200298316
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a coated cutting tool having a hard coating film on a surface of the tool. The hard coating film is a nitride, the content ratio of titanium (Ti) with respect to a total amount of metal elements (including semimetal elements) is in a range of 70 at % to 95 at %, the content ratio of silicon (Si) with respect to the total amount of metal elements (including semimetal elements) is in a range of 5 at % to 30 at %, and the content ratio of argon (Ar) with respect to the total amount of metal elements (including semimetal elements) and non-metal elements is 0.1 at % or less. The hard coating film has a NaCl type crystal structure and has an average crystal grain size in a range of 5 nm to 30 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Tomoya Sasaki, Shuho Koseki, Kana Morishita, Saleh Abusuilik, Kenichi Inoue, Denis Kurapov, Wolfgang Kalss
  • ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY
    Publication number: 20200274126
    Abstract: An all-solid-state battery includes a positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode active material layer containing a negative electrode active material; and a solid electrolyte layer containing a solid electrolyte and a porous polyimide film which holds the solid electrolyte. The porous polyimide film has a void ratio of 60% or more and 80% or less and a pore diameter of 0.1 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime SUGAHARA, Hidekazu HIROSE, Tomoya SASAKI, Kosaku YOSHIMURA, Yasunobu KASHIMA
  • DATA GENERATION DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200258485
    Abstract: A data generation device includes: an acquisition part configured to acquire measurement data that corresponds to measurement values, obtained in chronological order, corresponding to a behavior of a key or a member coordinating with the key for each of a plurality of keys; and a data generation part configured to generate display data for displaying a screen showing the measurement values corresponding to each of the plurality of keys along a time axis based on the acquired measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Tetsuo OTA, Yoshimasa ISOZAKI, Yasuhiko OBA, Tomoya SASAKI
  • COATED CUTTING TOOL
    Publication number: 20200230705
    Abstract: Provided is a coated cutting tool that has a nitride hard coating that contains Ti at 70 at % to 95 at % and Si at 5 at % to 30 at % with respect to the total amount of metallic elements, and Ar at 0.05 at % to 0.20 at % with respect to the total amount of metallic and non-metallic elements, has a NaCl-type crystalline structure, exhibits maximum diffraction peak intensity in the (200) plane, and has an average grain size of 5 nm to 30 nm. When 100 at % is defined as the total of content rates of the metallic elements, nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon in a composition at intervals of 20 nm from a depth of 20 nm to 200 nm from a surface of the hard coating, the content rate of nitrogen is 50.0 at % or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventor: Tomoya Sasaki
  • Porous film and method of forming porous film
    Patent number: 10696808
    Abstract: A porous film includes at least one porous polyimide film that includes a polyimide resin, an organic amine compound and a resin other than a polyimide resin, and that does not include a polar aprotic solvent, wherein a content of the organic amine compound is 0.001% by weight or higher with respect to a total weight of the porous polyimide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi Nukada, Tomoya Sasaki, Kana Miyazaki, Kenji Kajiwara, Masashige Watanabe
  • COATED CUTTING TOOL
    Publication number: 20200198017
    Abstract: A hard coating film of a coated cutting tool contains Al within a range of 70 at % to 80 at % and Ti within a range of 20 at % to 30 at % with respect to a total amount of metallic (including metalloid) elements, and contains Ar of 0.50 at % or less with respect to a total amount of the metallic elements (including metalloid) and nonmetallic elements. The film has a diffraction peak due to each of a TiN (111) plane, a TiN (200) plane, and a TiN (220) plane of an fcc structure and an AlN (100) plane and an AlN (002) plane of a hcp structure, in which the diffraction peak of the TiN (200) plane indicates a maximum intensity and an intensity of the diffraction peak due to the TiN (111) plane is next thereafter. The average crystal grain size is within a range of 5 nm to 50 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventor: Tomoya Sasaki
  • POLYIMIDE PRECURSOR SOLUTION AND POLYIMIDE FILM
    Publication number: 20200181353
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution contains resin particles and a polyimide precursor. The resin particles in the polyimide precursor solution have a volume particle size distribution with one or more peaks. The volume frequency of a peak having the highest volume frequency of the one or more peaks accounts for 90% to 100% of the total volume frequency of all peaks of the volume particle size distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi NUKADA, Tomoya SASAKI, Takashi IMAI
  • Porous film and method of forming porous film
    Patent number: 10654983
    Abstract: A porous film includes at least one porous polyimide film that includes a polyimide resin, an organic amine compound and a resin other than a polyimide resin, and that does not include a polar aprotic solvent, wherein a content of the organic amine compound is 0.001% by weight or higher with respect to a total weight of the porous polyimide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi Nukada, Tomoya Sasaki, Kana Miyazaki, Kenji Kajiwara, Masashige Watanabe
  • Polyimide precursor composition, method of preparing polyimide precursor composition, and method of preparing polyimide molded article
    Patent number: 10647881
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor composition in which a resin and an organic amine compound are dispersed in an aqueous solvent, wherein the aqueous solvent contains 50% by weight or more of water and at least one organic solvent selected from a solvent group A consisting of a urea solvent, an amide solvent containing an alkoxy group, and an amide solvent containing an ester group in an amount of 5% by weight or more with respect to the total amount of the aqueous solvent, and the resin has a repeating unit represented by the following formula (I): wherein A indicates a tetravalent organic group, and B indicates a bivalent organic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Miyamoto, Kana Miyazaki, Katsumi Nukada
  • Method for producing a double-layer coated cutting tool with improved wear resistance
    Patent number: 10626493
    Abstract: A method for producing a tool coated with a hard coating, the method including the following steps: applying a TiAIN coating layer onto a substrate with a first magnetron sputtering process and applying a TixSi1-xN coating layer onto the TiAIN layer with a second magnetron sputtering process, where x is smaller than or equal to 0.85 and preferably between and including 0.80 and 0.70 whereas the second magnetron sputtering process is performed with power densities greater than 100 W/cm2 and as such is a HIPIMS process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFÄFFIKON, HITACHI METALS, LTD., MITSUBISHI HITACHI TOOL ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Denis Kurapov, Tomoya Sasaki, Shuho Koseki, Kana Morishita, Saleh Breik Abusuilik, Kenichi Inoue
  • Polyimide precursor composition and method of preparing polyimide molded article
    Patent number: 10597493
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor composition includes a solvent including water and a polyimide precursor including a group having a triple bond at a terminal thereof, which is dissolved in the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kana Miyazaki, Tsuyoshi Miyamoto, Tomoya Sasaki
  • Polyimide precursor solution and polyimide film
    Patent number: 10597505
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution contains resin particles and a polyimide precursor. The resin particles in the polyimide precursor solution have a volume particle size distribution with one or more peaks. The volume frequency of a peak having the highest volume frequency of the one or more peaks accounts for 90% to 100% of the total volume frequency of all peaks of the volume particle size distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi Nukada, Tomoya Sasaki, Takashi Imai
  • Porous polyimide shaped article
    Patent number: 10542623
    Abstract: A porous polyimide shaped article has a thickness in a range from 550 ?m to 3,000 ?m and has a relative dielectric constant of 1.8 or less and a dielectric loss tangent of 0.01 or less at 1 MHz. The porous polyimide shaped article satisfies the following formula: 1.2?A?1.6 wherein A represents a square root of a ratio of a pore size D84 where a cumulative percentage by number of pores from smaller sizes is 84% to a pore size D16 where the cumulative percentage by number of the pores from smaller sizes is 16% ((D84/D16)1/2) in a pore size distribution measured by mercury intrusion porosimetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Sugahara, Hidekazu Hirose, Katsumi Nukada, Tomoya Sasaki, Kosaku Yoshimura, Akira Imai
  • Endless belt, image forming apparatus, and endless belt unit
    Patent number: 10539909
    Abstract: An endless belt includes a polyamide imide resin layer in which a content of at least one solvent selected from a solvent group A consisting of a urea solvent, an alkoxy group-containing amide solvent, and an ester group-containing amide solvent is from 0.005 parts by weight to 3 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the polyamide imide resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Miyamoto, Kana Miyazaki, Wataru Yamada
  • FLUSH TOILET
    Publication number: 20200011041
    Abstract: A flush toilet is provided with a toilet main unit and a functional unit. The toilet main unit has a toilet bowl and an upper surface portion on which a recessed portion is formed. The functional unit is provided on the rear side of the toilet bowl and offers a function different from a function for washing the toilet bowl. The functional unit is able to move between an entering position where at least a portion of the functional unit is located inside the recessed portion and a retreating position where the entire functional unit is located outside the recessed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Akiya SAEKI, Hiroaki WATANABE, Tomoya SASAKI, Ryuichi YOKOI