Patents by Inventor Akira Kato

Akira Kato 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: 20220130580
    Abstract: To provide an R—Fe—B-based rare earth magnet excellent in the squareness and magnetic properties at high temperatures, and method for producing thereof. The present disclosure relates to a rare earth magnet including a main phase 10 and a grain boundary phase 20 present around the main phase 10, and a method for producing thereof. In the rare earth magnet of the present disclosure, the overall composition is represented, in terms of molar ratio, by the formula: (R1(1-x)Lax)y(Fe(1-z)Coz)(100-y-w-v)BwM1v, wherein R1 is a predetermined rare earth element, M1 is a predetermined element, 0?x?0.1, 12.0?y?20.0, 0.1?z?0.3, 5.0?w?20.0, and 0?v?2.0. The main phase 10 has an R2Fe14B-type crystal structure, the average particle diameter of the main phase 10 is less than 1 ?m, and the volume ratio of a phase having an RFe2-type crystal structure in the grain boundary phase 20 is 0.40 or less relative to the grain boundary phase 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noritsugu SAKUMA, Tetsuya SHOJI, Akihito KINOSHITA, Akira KATO
  • Patent number: 11314188
    Abstract: In an image heating device having a plurality of heating blocks which are controllable independently in a longitudinal direction of a heater, an increase of the size of the heater can be suppressed, and temperatures of a plurality of heating block can be detected. A heater has a first temperature sensor corresponding to a first heating block, a second temperature sensor corresponding to a second heating block, a first electric conductor electrically coupled to the first temperature sensor, a second electric conductor electrically coupled to the second temperature sensor, and a common electric conductor electrically coupled to the first and second temperature sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shimura, Akira Kato, Atsushi Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20220102033
    Abstract: A magnetic material according to the present disclosure includes a main phase having an R2T14B type crystal structure (R is a rare earth element and T is a transition metal element). The main phase has a composition represented by ((Nd, Pr)(1-x-y)LaxR1y))2((Fe(1-z-w)(Co, Ni)zMw))14B (where, R1 is a rare earth element other than Nd, Pr, and La, M is an element other than Fe, Co, Ni, and a rare earth element, and the like, and 0.25?x?1.00, 0?y?0.10, 0.15?z?0.40, and 0?w?0.1 are satisfied). A manufacturing method of the magnetic material according to the present disclosure includes melting a raw material containing the elements constituting the main phase and solidifying the melted raw material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: NORITSUGU SAKUMA, Tetsuya SHOJI, Akihito KINOSHITA, Akira KATO
  • Publication number: 20220098753
    Abstract: It is determined whether an imaginary component at a predetermined frequency of an alternating current impedance is equal to or more than a preliminarily set film-formable value or not. The metallic coating is formed in a state where the substrate is pressed by the solid electrolyte membrane when the imaginary component is equal to or more than the film-formable value in the determining. The metallic coating is formed in a state where the pressing of the substrate by the solid electrolyte membrane is released to separate the solid electrolyte membrane from the substrate, the solid electrolyte membrane is re-tensioned with a constant tensile force, and subsequently, the substrate is pressed by the re-tensioned solid electrolyte membrane when the imaginary component is smaller than the film-formable value in the determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Haruki KONDOH, Akira KATO, Kazuaki OKAMOTO, Keiji KURODA
  • Publication number: 20220092217
    Abstract: An information output device includes: a first output unit that outputs acquired information acquired by a sensor; and a second output unit that converts personal information included in the acquired information into attribute information from which identification of an individual is impossible, and outputs the attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Akira KATO
  • Publication number: 20220087306
    Abstract: Two genes, A622 and NBB1, can be influenced to achieve a decrease of nicotinic alkaloid levels in plants. In particular, suppression of one or both of A622 and NBB1 may be used to decrease nicotine in tobacco plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: 22nd Century Limited, LLC
    Inventors: Takashi HASHIMOTO, Akira KATO
  • Publication number: 20220081797
    Abstract: Provided is a film formation device and a film formation method for a metallic coating that allow forming a metallic coating with a uniform film thickness. The film formation device of the present disclosure includes an anode, a solid electrolyte membrane, a power supply device, a solution container, and a pressure device. The solid electrolyte membrane is disposed between the anode and a substrate that serves as a cathode. The power supply device applies a voltage between the anode and the cathode. The solution container contains a solution between the anode and the solid electrolyte membrane. The solution contains metal ions. The pressure device pressurizes the solid electrolyte membrane to the cathode side with a fluid pressure of the solution. The film formation device further includes a shielding member disposed to surround an outer peripheral surface of the anode. The shielding member shields a line of electric force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Kato, Haruki Kondoh, Soma Higashikozono
  • Publication number: 20220066392
    Abstract: An electronic time piece includes a dial, a sub dial provided to the dial, a control circuit that controls operation of a function hand disposed on the sub dial, a plurality of terminal portions, a wire that electrically connects the plurality of terminal portions with the control circuit, a push button that receives operation by a user and switches an electrical connection state between one terminal portion of the plurality of terminal portions and the control circuit. The one terminal portion of the plurality of terminal portions and other terminal portion are electrically connected to the control circuit by a common wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Shoichiro MORITA, Akira KATO
  • Publication number: 20220061165
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wiring board in which the adhesion between an underlayer and a seed layer is improved. A diffusion layer in which an element forming the underlayer and an element forming a coating layer are mutually diffused is formed between the underlayer and a wiring portion of the coating layer by irradiating the wiring portion with a laser beam. A seed layer is formed by removing a portion excluding the wiring portion of the coating layer from the underlayer. A metal layer is formed by disposing a solid electrolyte membrane between an anode and the seed layer and applying voltage between the anode and the underlayer. An exposed portion without the seed layer of the underlayer is removed from an insulating substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Keiji KURODA, Rentaro MORI, Hiroshi YANAGIMOTO, Haruki KONDOH, Kazuaki OKAMOTO, Akira KATO
  • Patent number: 11227061
    Abstract: An information output device includes: a first output unit that outputs acquired information acquired by a sensor; and a second output unit that converts personal information included in the acquired information into attribute information from which identification of an individual is impossible, and outputs the attribute information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Kato
  • Patent number: 11208105
    Abstract: An engine ECU includes a traveling control unit configured to bring a clutch device into a disconnection state to perform inertial traveling of a vehicle according to satisfaction of predetermined inertial traveling implementation conditions and configured to bring the clutch device into a connection state to cancel an inertial traveling state and perform regenerative power generation according to satisfaction of predetermined regenerative power generation implementation conditions during the inertial traveling, and a required power calculation unit configured to calculate required power of the vehicle; and the traveling control unit selectively performs the inertial traveling or the regenerative power generation an ISG based on the required power calculated in a state in which the inertial traveling implementation conditions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Tada, Akira Kato
  • Patent number: 11150612
    Abstract: A portable radio-controlled watch includes a watch glass, an antenna that is formed on a backside of a circumference of the watch glass so as to be along the circumference, a feeder electrode adjacent to the antenna, a receiving circuit, an antenna connecting line that is at least a part of a connection circuit connecting the feeder electrode with the receiving circuit, where the antenna connecting line is directly connected to a back surface of the feeder electrode and extends in a direction away from the watch glass, and a dielectric that is disposed below the antenna and covers at least a part of the antenna in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji Naka, Ken Kitamura, Akira Kato, Yohsuke Noma
  • Patent number: 11135922
    Abstract: A system includes a rotary electric machine, wiring, a battery that is connected to the rotary electric machine by the wiring, and an upper limit value setting section which sets an output upper limit value that is an upper limit of an output command for the rotary electric machine. A control apparatus which controls the rotary electric machine is provided with a temperature acquisition section which acquires the temperature of at least one of the battery and the wiring, an allowable output value calculation section which calculates an allowable output value that is the upper limit allowed for the output command of the rotary electric machine, based on the temperature that is acquired by the temperature acquisition section, and a transmitting section which transmits the allowable output value calculated by the allowable value calculation section to the upper limit value setting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kawazu, Akira Kato, Takashi Senda
  • Publication number: 20210301139
    Abstract: Provided is a filler for a metallic paint capable of providing high brightness and radio wave transparency at the same time. The present disclosure relates to a filler for a metallic paint and a method for producing the same. The filler for the metallic paint comprises a plate-shaped substrate formed of an inorganic insulation material; and a plurality of metal particles disposed on a surface of the substrate, wherein the metal particles are disposed at intervals, and an average particle size of the metal particles is 5 nm to 200 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Akira KATO, Daiki KUBOYAMA, Jyunya MURAI
  • Publication number: 20210299702
    Abstract: A present disclosure relates to a metallic film manufacturing method including a first step of forming a layer which has functional groups ion-exchangeable with metal ions on a surface of a resin substrate made of an insulating material, a second step of treating the resin substrate having the layer with a metal ion solution such that metal ions are introduced into the layer by ion exchange, and a third step of treating the resin substrate with a reducing agent such that metal particles are precipitated on a surface of the layer. The present disclosure relates to a metallic film manufacturing method a metallic film in which there are voids between metal particles precipitated on a surface of the metallic film, and the average particle diameter of the metal particles is 5 nm to 200 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KONAN GAKUEN
    Inventors: Daiki Kuboyama, Akira Kato, Junya Murai, Kensuke Akamatsu
  • Patent number: 11109617
    Abstract: Two genes, A622 and NBB1, can be influenced to achieve a decrease of nicotinic alkaloid levels in plants. In particular, suppression of one or both of A622 and NBB1 may be used to decrease nicotine in tobacco plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: 22nd Century Limited, LLC
    Inventors: Takashi Hashimoto, Akira Kato
  • Publication number: 20210253539
    Abstract: A method for producing a nitroso compound of the following formula (3), comprising reacting a compound of the following formula (1) with a compound of the following formula (2) by using a tertiary alcohol and a base. wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a (C1-C4) alkyl, or a (C1-C4) alkoxy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Ryuji Tamai, Yukio Uchida, Fumiaki Takabe, Akira Kato, Ryo Maruyama, Ryo Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210217571
    Abstract: An electromagnet device moves two moving contacts from one of a closed position or an open position to the other position when an electric current flows through a coil. A regenerative current coming from the coil flows through a regeneration unit when the coil makes a transition from an energized state where the coil is supplied with an electric current from a power supply to a non-energized state where the coil is supplied with no electric current from the power supply. The control unit causes the regenerative current to flow through a load by controlling a switch when the coil makes the transition from the energized state to the non-energized state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Akira KATO, Kazuyuki SAKIYAMA, Takehiko YAMAKAWA, Motohiko FUJIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210213530
    Abstract: Composite particles sinterable at a low temperature and allow forming a sintered body that exhibits a large extension are provided. The composite particles include microparticles having an average crystallite diameter of 0.6 to 10 ?m and containing a metal, and nanoparticles adhered to a surface of the microparticle, having an average crystallite diameter of 3 to 100 nm, and containing a metal of a same kind as the metal contained in the microparticle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Daiki KUBOYAMA, Akira KATO, Jyunya MURAI
  • Publication number: 20210214356
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a compound that is useful for the treatment and prophylaxis of rabies. The present disclosure provides a compound represented by formula XXIF or formula XXIB: wherein R1, R2A, R2B, R3, and R4 are defined in the specification, a solvent, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, use of such a compound, solvate, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for the treatment or prophylaxis of rabies and cancer, a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a compound, solvate, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a method for the treatment or prophylaxis of rabies and cancer using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kouji, Kentaro Yamada, Akira Kato, Toshimasa Ishizaki, Shigeru Matsuoka, Akira Nishizono, Tadashi Mishina, Atsushi Yoshimori