Patents by Inventor Akira Sato

Akira 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: 20220045574
    Abstract: A driving device includes an electric motor, a drive gear, a deceleration mechanism, a driven gear, and a housing. At least either one of the drive gear and the driven gear is provided as a helical gear. The deceleration mechanism includes a plurality of reduction gear shafts, a plurality of bearings, and a biasing member provided for at least any one of the bearings. The biasing member axially biases an outer ring of the at least any one of the bearings that supports at least either one of end parts of the shaft portion of a corresponding one of the reduction gear shafts, the end parts including an end part on the large-diameter gear wheel side and an end part on the small-diameter gear wheel side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akitomo IWATA, Yoshinori SUZUKI, Keita NOMURA, Akira NAKASHIMA, Kuniko HAYASHI, Akira SATO, Yusei KONDA, Minh Phuong DAO, Yoshihide KAMIYA, Van Tinh NGUYEN
  • Publication number: 20220033024
    Abstract: A battery attaching/detaching structure for a saddle-type vehicle including: a plurality of substantially rectangular parallelepiped batteries for supplying electric power to a power source of the saddle-type vehicle; a battery case in which the batteries are stored; battery-side terminals provided on lower surfaces of the batteries; and case-side terminals engaged with the battery-side terminals, comprises terminal holders that support the case-side terminals such that the case-side terminals are movable between a connected position where the case-side terminals are connected to the battery-side terminals and a retracted position where the case-side terminals are separated from the battery-side terminals. Between the case-side terminals and the terminal holders, springs for urging the case-side terminals in a direction of pressing the battery-side terminals are disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Sadataka OKABE, Akira SATO, Shunichi NAKABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11230631
    Abstract: To provide a decorative sheet including a transparent resin layer having high transparency and excellent surface scratch resistance from the viewpoint of the design properties and a transparent resin sheet. A decorative sheet (1) according to one aspect of the present invention has a transparent resin layer (4) containing a crystalline polypropylene resin as the main component, in which a value of a peak area ratio x represented by the following expression (1) of the transparent resin layer (4) is x?0.4. Herein, S040, S130, and Sam in the following expression (1) are peak areas determined from an X-ray diffraction spectrum obtained by measuring the transparent resin layer with an X-ray diffractometer, S040 is the peak area from the Miller index (040) of polypropylene ? crystals, S130 is the peak area from the Miller index (130) of the polypropylene ? crystals, and Sam is the peak area of an amorphous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyamoto, Masashi Hattori, Masamitsu Nagahama, Akira Sato, Masatoshi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20220017309
    Abstract: To provide a method for quantitatively and stably feeding fine powder and a system for carrying out the method. The present invention is characterized in that a gas transfer type fine powder quantitative feeding method for quantitatively transferring and feeding fine powder filled in a gas transfer type fine powder quantitative feeder to a fine powder using device by a carrier gas, wherein when a mixed fluid of the fine powder and the carrier gas is transferred from the gas transfer type fine powder quantitative feeder to the fine powder using device, a water content in the carrier gas is adjusted to suppress an amount of static electricity that is generated in the mixed fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Kinboshi Inc.
    Inventors: So KIMURA, Akira SATO
  • Publication number: 20220010859
    Abstract: A flexible flywheel includes: a shaft fastening portion fixed to an end portion of an engine crankshaft; an annular inertia ring provided around the shaft fastening portion; a plurality of elastic spoke portions which extend in the radial direction between the shaft fastening portion and the inertia ring and connect the shaft fastening part and the inertia ring to each other, and that absorb vibration acting on the crankshaft by undergoing deflection; and weight portions provided between adjacent ones of the elastic spoke portions. The fastening portion, inertial ring, elastic spoke portions, and weight portions are formed integrally by casting or forging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: AISIN TAKAOKA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi OTA, Akira SATO
  • Patent number: 11195651
    Abstract: An inductance element includes a magnetic core and a coil having a portion embedded in the magnetic core. This portion includes a wound portion formed by winging a wire-shaped coil material including a wire-shaped conductive material and an insulating coating. The insulating coating includes a thin-walled portion reduced in thickness. A biting ratio R is defined by formula: R=ds/B, which is from 0.4 to 0.85 inclusive, where B is the average thickness of inter-coil insulating coatings, and ds is an upper biting limit obtained by measuring a biting depth, approximating a frequency distribution of the results by a normal distribution, and computing, as the upper biting limit, the sum of the mean da of the normal distribution and the product of 3.99 and the standard deviation ?. The biting depth is obtained by subtracting, from the average thickness B, the thickness of the thin-walled portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinori Kojima, Seisaku Imai, Akira Sato, Keiichiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11148403
    Abstract: The present invention provides a decorative sheet having higher designability and weatherability over a long period of time by adding an organic ultraviolet absorbent and an inorganic ultraviolet absorbent each provided as organic ultraviolet absorbent vesicles and inorganic ultraviolet absorbent vesicles, respectively, to at least one of a top coat layer and a transparent resin layer. A decorative sheet of an aspect of the present invention includes a top coat layer as an outermost layer, and a transparent resin layer as an underlayer of the top coat layer, wherein an organic ultraviolet absorbent and an inorganic ultraviolet absorbent are added to at least one of the top coat layer and the transparent resin layer, and the organic ultraviolet absorbent and the inorganic ultraviolet absorbent are each encapsulated in vesicles having a monolayer outer membrane and provided as organic ultraviolet absorbent vesicles and inorganic ultraviolet absorbent vesicles, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mami Kudo, Eiichi Higashikawa, Masamitsu Nagahama, Akira Sato, Masatoshi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210226378
    Abstract: A connector includes: a housing of a resin material; a buffer member of a material having a higher flexibility than the resin material of the housing and being embedded in the housing; and a metal conductor having a bent portion and being held in the housing so as for the bent portion being covered by the buffer member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Akira Sato, Hisaya Shibata
  • Publication number: 20210226105
    Abstract: Provided is a silica glass member for hermetic sealing of an ultraviolet SMD LED element to be suitably used for hermetic sealing of, and as a transmission window material for, a surface mount-type package (SMD) having an ultraviolet LED mounted thereon and configured to emit ultraviolet light in a wavelength range of from 200 nm to 350 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Akira FUJINOKI, Hiroyuki NISHIMURA, Akira SATO, Yuya YOKOSAWA, Tatsuya MORI
  • Patent number: 11047333
    Abstract: A cylinder liner that is casted in a block and defines a cylinder bore for one cylinder includes: a cylindrical liner body; a projection part including a plurality of projections on an outer peripheral surface of a part of the liner body; and a bore adjacent part inclined at a predetermined angle to an axial direction of the body and extending in the inclination direction, at a predetermined part between an upper side end and a lower side end of the body, of the outer peripheral surface of the body, which faces another cylinder bore to be adjacent when casted in the block. The outer peripheral surface of the bore adjacent part is positioned more on an inner side of the body than the outer peripheral surface above and below, and is formed such that the projections are absent on at least a part of the outer peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignees: TPR Co., Ltd., TPR Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Sato, Koichi Hatakeyama
  • Publication number: 20210190686
    Abstract: Provided is a spectroscopic analysis apparatus including: an optical probe; and a spectroscopic analysis portion to which the optical probe is attached. The optical probe includes an optical fiber that guides illumination light coming from a light source and signal light coming from an observation target and an optical member that is disposed at least at a distal end of the optical fiber. The spectroscopic analysis portion includes an information separation portion that generates wavelength dependent characteristics by optically dispersing the signal light and that separates, from information about the signal light, information about first return light returning from the optical member and information about second return light returning from the optical fiber, a problem determining portion that determines a problem occurring at the optical probe based on the separated first return light and second return light, and a notification portion that notifies information about the determined problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichi KANEKO, Akira SATO, Chikashi OTA
  • Publication number: 20210173299
    Abstract: A quartz glass plate has a quartz glass plate body and a quartz glass member adhered to the quartz glass plate body through an adhesive layer, where the adhesive layer contains silica, and a sum of concentrations of Li, Na, and K ions, being alkali metal ions and Ca ions, being alkaline earth metal ions contained in the adhesive layer is 10 ppm by mass or less. Consequently, a step with a uniform thickness can be formed, and a quartz glass plate is not easily damaged by irradiation with a light containing an ultraviolet ray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Quartz Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya MORI, Akira SATO, Atsushi SHIMADA, Yuya YOKOSAWA, Nobumasa YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 10981364
    Abstract: A decorated sheet according to the present disclosure consists of a plurality of resin layers, wherein at least one of the resin layers comprises a nano-sized additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Ikeda, Tatsuhiko Furuta, Shinichi Miyamoto, Masamitsu Nagahama, Akira Sato, Masatoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10947614
    Abstract: A method for producing a metal cylinder includes preparing a metal slug having a surface adjusted so that the crystal grain diameter at a depth of 10 ?m from the surface is smaller than that at a depth of 100 ?m from the surface, and the crystal grain diameter at a depth of 10 ?m from the surface is 30 ?m or more and 120 ?m or less; and forming a cylinder by impact pressing of the metal slug having the surface as a bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Haruyama, Akira Sato, Hiroshi Tamemasa
  • Publication number: 20210074464
    Abstract: In a coil-embedded dust core constituting an inductance element, a winding body of a coil disposed inside a coil-embedded dust core and a dust core have a relationship that the inner core volume ratio RV defined below is 3 or more and 5 or less: RV=(V1/V2)/(1?V/Vp), where V1 represents a volume of a region in the dust core located on an inner side of the winding body of the coil when the coil-embedded dust core is viewed in a first direction, which is a direction along a winding axis of the coil, V2 represents a volume of a region in the dust core located on an outer side of the winding body of the coil when the coil-embedded dust core is viewed in the first direction, V represents a volume of the dust core, and Vp represents a volume of the coil-embedded dust core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Ryo NAKABAYASHI, Akinori KOJIMA, Akira SATO, Keiichiro SATO, Masahiro IIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20210040340
    Abstract: Provided is a water-based ink which has high dispersibility of a pigment and imparts high smoothness and glossiness to a coating film obtainable from the water-based ink. Water-based ink of the present invention is a water-based ink containing a pigment, a vehicle, and water, in which the vehicle contains an alkali-soluble resin (I) and a composite resin (II), and the composite resin (II) is a composite resin of a urethane polymer (e) and an acrylic polymer (f).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Etsu OU, Akira SATO, Shinsuke HARAGUCHI, Hiroshi TOKUE, Masashi SERIZAWA
  • Patent number: 10907570
    Abstract: To provide a cast iron cylindrical member capable of improving the bonding strength when metal on the outer peripheral side and the cast iron cylindrical member are integrated. For this objective, in a cast iron cylindrical member including a plurality of projections including constricted projections on the outer peripheral surface, the anchor portion index (I) represented by {(Aav2?Bav2)×?/4×Pn×Pr/100}×0.35H/2 is set in a specific range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: TPR Co., Ltd., TPR Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Sato, Takashi Sato, Mako Abe
  • Patent number: 10906280
    Abstract: To provide a decorative sheet including a transparent resin layer having excellent post-processing resistance and high transparency. A decorative sheet (1) according to one aspect of the present invention has a transparent resin layer (4) containing a crystalline polypropylene resin as the main component. A value of a peak intensity ratio x represented by the following expression (1) of the transparent resin layer (4) is x?0.65. Herein, I997, I938, and I973 in the following expression (1) are peak intensity values calculated from the absorption spectrum obtained by Fourier infrared spectrometry of the transparent resin layer, and I997 is the peak intensity value at a wavenumber of 997 cm?1, I938 is the peak intensity value at a wavenumber of 938 cm?1, and I973 is the peak intensity value at a wavenumber of 973 cm?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyamoto, Masashi Hattori, Masamitsu Nagahama, Akira Sato, Masatoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10899117
    Abstract: A decorative sheet including a substrate layer, and one or more layers of at least one of a transparent resin layer and a top coat layer provided on one surface of the substrate layer, the one or more layers being provided as a front surface layer, wherein at least one layer of the transparent resin layer and the top coat layer contains a radical scavenger, and the radical scavenger is contained in a form of radical scavenger vesicles, which encapsulate the radical scavenger within an outer membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Shibayama, Masamitsu Nagahama, Akira Sato, Masatoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10876494
    Abstract: A cylinder liner that is casted in a block and defines a cylinder bore corresponding to one cylinder includes: a cylindrical liner body; a projection part provided so as to include a plurality of projections on an outer peripheral surface of a part of the liner body; and a bore adjacent part formed such that the outer peripheral surface at an upper side end of the liner body is positioned more on an inner side of the liner body than the outer peripheral surface below the upper side end, and the projections are absent on at least a part of the outer peripheral surface at the upper side end, in a predetermined range of the outer peripheral surface of the liner body, which faces another cylinder bore to be adjacent when casted in the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: TPR Co., Ltd., TPR Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Sato, Koichi Hatakeyama