Patents by Inventor Yoshikazu Sato

Yoshikazu 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: 11958385
    Abstract: A seat includes a seat body and a sensor configured to acquired information on an occupant seated on the seat body. The seat includes a coating as a location marker that marks a location of the sensor to render the location visually recognizable from outside the seat body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kaku, Ryuichiro Hirose, Hiroyuki Numajiri, Satoshi Fujita, Takako Miyoshi, Munetaka Kowa, Atsushi Kusano, Yoshikazu Ito, Yousuke Higashi, Satoshi Suzuki, Ryosuke Sato, Kento Uetake, Yasuharu Otsuka, Satoru Kaneda
  • Publication number: 20240116349
    Abstract: A racing kart that is a travel vehicle includes a car body equipped with a seat on which a user can be seated; and a plurality of wheels which are provided to the car body. The seat is configured such that a seating face thereof is positioned lower than the top of the wheels. The car body is provided with a battery housing which is for storing a battery therein and is disposed at the rear of the seat and at a position overlapping at least a part of the seat in a rear view of the car body. The battery housing is slanted such that an upper end thereof is positioned more rearward than a lower end thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Kentaro Sugimura, Shoichi Rinzaki, Yoshikazu Sato
  • Patent number: 11932147
    Abstract: Disclosed is a seat including: sensors which includes a first cushion sensor provided at a seat cushion in a position corresponding to buttocks of an occupant, a second cushion sensor provided at the seat cushion and located farther frontward than the first cushion sensor, a first back sensor provided at a seat back and located in a lower position thereof, and a second back sensor provided at the seat back and located above the first back sensor; and a controller connected to the sensors and thereby allowed to acquire pressure values from the respective sensors. The controller is configured to identify the motion of the occupant based on outputs of at least two sensors of the first cushion sensor, the second cushion sensor, the first back sensor, and the second back sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kaku, Atsushi Kusano, Hiroyuki Numajiri, Satoshi Fujita, Takako Miyoshi, Munetaka Kowa, Ryuichiro Hirose, Yoshikazu Ito, Yosuke Higashi, Satoshi Suzuki, Ryosuke Sato, Kento Uetake, Yasuharu Otsuka, Satoru Kaneda
  • Patent number: 11919384
    Abstract: A resin filler tube includes: a tubular body; a flange having a diameter greater than an outer diameter of the tubular body, a thickness greater than a thickness of the tubular body, and a predetermined width in an axial direction, and having a first axial end face forming a weld surface to be welded to an outer circumferential edge of an opening hole of a fuel tank; and a base-end-side reverse tapered portion which connects between an end of the tubular body on the fuel tank side and an end of an outer circumferential surface of the flange on a side opposite to the fuel tank side, and which is reversely tapered so as to increase a diameter toward the flange. The base-end-side reverse tapered portion has an inner diameter that is not less than an inner diameter of the tubular body over an entire range in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: Sumitomo Riko Company Limited, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiya Mizuno, Tomoyuki Fukuyasu, Atsuo Miyajima, Yoshikazu Kaneyasu, Nao Sato, Tsubasa Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230179723
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that reduces power consumption using IEEE802.11ah connection without spoiling usability of wireless communication. The information processing apparatus includes a memory device that stores instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions to wirelessly communicate with an external apparatus by at least one of a first communication function that wireless communicates by a first wireless communication method that conforms to IEEE802.11ah and a second communication function that wirelessly communicates by a second wireless communication method of which a communication speed is higher than that of the first wireless communication method, determine whether an electric power state of the apparatus is a second electric power state in which power consumption is lower than a first electric power state, and prompt a user to set switching setting that stops the second communication function and starts the first communication function in the second electric power state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Katsunari Suzuki, Yoshikazu Sato
  • Patent number: 11550526
    Abstract: An image forming system that is capable of causing an image forming apparatus to suitably carry out communication using a mobile communication system, the image forming system including an image processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus. Control information used to carry out an image forming process in which an image is formed on a sheet based on image data generated by an image processing apparatus is output from first and second millimeter wave communication interfaces of the image processing apparatus. The output control information is received by third and fourth millimeter wave communication interfaces of the image forming apparatus. Response information that is a response to the control information is output from the third and fourth millimeter wave communication interfaces and sent to the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Arima, Ryohei Yamada, Kazuhiro Oyoshi, Yoshikazu Sato, Mizuki Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11435949
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store data, a write control unit configured to instruct the storage unit to write data, a calculation unit configured to calculate, for each of a plurality of writes of data to the storage unit, a data size estimated to be actually written to the storage unit, based on a write data size specified by the write control unit, and a notification unit configured to issue a notification based on a total of the data sizes calculated by the calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Sato
  • Patent number: 11418657
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) is made brighter when the turning-on is controlled by a central processing unit (CPU) than when the turning-on is controlled by a local area network (LAN) controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuya Hasegawa, Makoto Arima, Satoru Ikeda, Yoshikazu Sato, Kazuhiro Oyoshi
  • Patent number: 11385696
    Abstract: The electronic apparatus of the present invention includes: a power source control unit allocated to each of a plurality of external interfaces and configured to control supply or shutoff of a current for an external device and to output whether or not an overcurrent is detected as an overcurrent detection signal; a control unit configured to control supply or shutoff of a current; a logical product circuit that outputs a logical product of the overcurrent detection signals as an external interrupt signal; and an interface control unit configured to, in a case where the overcurrent detection signals is asserted, output external interface information specifying an external interface at which the overcurrent has occurred, and the control unit, in a case where the external interrupt signal is asserted, controls to the power source control unit at which the overcurrent has been detected so as to shut off supply of power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Sato
  • Patent number: 11381687
    Abstract: A LAN controller performs lighting control upon LEDs, which are configured to be subjected to lighting control by the LAN controller, on the basis of the start-up status of an apparatus after communicating with an external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Ikeda, Yuya Hasegawa, Makoto Arima, Yoshikazu Sato, Kazuhiro Oyoshi
  • Publication number: 20220121407
    Abstract: An image forming system that is capable of causing an image forming apparatus to suitably carry out communication using a mobile communication system, the image forming system including an image processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus. Control information used to carry out an image forming process in which an image is formed on a sheet based on image data generated by an image processing apparatus is output from first and second millimeter wave communication interfaces of the image processing apparatus. The output control information is received by third and fourth millimeter wave communication interfaces of the image forming apparatus. Response information that is a response to the control information is output from the third and fourth millimeter wave communication interfaces and sent to the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Makoto Arima, Ryohei Yamada, Kazuhiro Oyoshi, Yoshikazu Sato, Mizuki Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11165914
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) which is turned ON by a local area network (LAN) controller, is controlled to be turned ON by a central processing unit (CPU), which executes a program, in accordance with an execution status of the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Arima, Yuya Hasegawa, Satoru Ikeda, Yoshikazu Sato, Kazuhiro Oyoshi
  • Publication number: 20210197817
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a detection unit detecting a preceding vehicle based on an image acquired by a camera, a follow-on travel control unit that can control a user's own vehicle to travel so as to follow the preceding vehicle, and can control the user's own vehicle to travel at a predetermined speed when the preceding vehicle does not exist, and an acceleration suppression unit suppressing acceleration of the user's own vehicle for a predetermined time period if a detection accuracy for the preceding vehicle is decreased in the detection unit when the user's own vehicle is following the preceding vehicle at the predetermined speed or less. The predetermined time period is a vehicle headway time previously determined for the preceding vehicle or a time required until the user's own vehicle reaches a location where the preceding vehicle was positioned when the detection accuracy was decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki YAMADA, Tadayoshi OKADA, Yoshikazu SATO
  • Patent number: 10894375
    Abstract: A color conversion film converts incident light into light with a wavelength longer than that of the incident light. The color conversion film is a laminate film including the following Layer(A) and Layer (B): Layer (A): a color conversion layer as a continuous layer containing at least one organic light-emitting material and a binder resin; and Layer (B): a transparent resin layer with an oxygen permeability of 1.0 cc/m2·day·atm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Sakaino, Daisaku Tanaka, Masaaki Umehara, Yoshikazu Sato
  • Publication number: 20200314249
    Abstract: A LAN controller performs lighting control upon LEDs, which are configured to be subjected to lighting control by the LAN controller, on the basis of the start-up status of an apparatus after communicating with an external apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Satoru Ikeda, Yuya Hasegawa, Makoto Arima, Yoshikazu Sato, Kazuhiro Oyoshi
  • Publication number: 20200314255
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) which is turned ON by a local area network (LAN) controller, is controlled to be turned ON by a central processing unit (CPU), which executes a program, in accordance with an execution status of the program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Makoto Arima, Yuya Hasegawa, Satoru Ikeda, Yoshikazu Sato, Kazuhiro Oyoshi
  • Publication number: 20200314256
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) is made brighter when the turning-on is controlled by a central processing unit (CPU) than when the turning-on is controlled by a local area network (LAN) controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Yuya Hasegawa, Makoto Arima, Satoru Ikeda, Yoshikazu Sato, Kazuhiro Oyoshi
  • Publication number: 20200264807
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store data, a write control unit configured to instruct the storage unit to write data, a calculation unit configured to calculate, for each of a plurality of writes of data to the storage unit, a data size estimated to be actually written to the storage unit, based on a write data size specified by the write control unit, and a notification unit configured to issue a notification based on a total of the data sizes calculated by the calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Sato
  • Patent number: 10737667
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for braking control of a host vehicle includes detecting a panic brake operation based on a change of a braking pressure of a braking system of the host vehicle with respect to time. The method includes detecting a second vehicle driving behind the host vehicle and in the same lane as the host vehicle, and determining a time-to-collision value between the host vehicle and the second vehicle. Further, the method includes determining a deceleration rate of the host vehicle based on a driver braking pressure provided by operation of a brake pedal of the braking system. The method includes controlling the braking system based on the time-to-collision value and the deceleration rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jovin D'sa, Shigenobu Saigusa, Yoshikazu Sato
  • Publication number: 20200189252
    Abstract: A laminate which sequentially includes, on at least one surface of a substrate film, an inorganic compound layer and a protective layer in this order from the substrate film side. This laminate is characterized in that: the protective layer contains a vinyl alcohol resin; and the vinyl alcohol resin contains a cyclic compound structure that has a carbonyl group in a cyclic structure. This laminate has excellent oxygen and water vapor barrier properties even after a high-temperature hydrothermal treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Sato, Emi Yamada