Patents by Inventor Atsushi Goto

Atsushi Goto 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: 20250112291
    Abstract: A battery module comprising: a plurality of battery cells; and a container containing the battery cells, wherein the container includes a housing containing the battery cells; and a plate-shaped member thermally connected to the housing and partitioning a space in which the battery cells of the housing are accommodated into a plurality of spaces, wherein the plate-shaped member includes a thermally conductive elastic body and a thermally conductive plate disposed on one or both sides of the thermally conductive elastic body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Yamanaka, Masato Ono, Shintaro Utsumi, Kazuhito Kato, Yusuke Kintsu, Takaaki Goto, Hiroki Awano
  • Publication number: 20250112295
    Abstract: A case constituting an outer shape of a second cooler disposed between the battery cells and containing a second fluid having a lower thermal conductivity than the first fluid therein is constituted by a buffer member capable of expanding and contracting in accordance with a flow rate of the second fluid in the case, and the control unit increases a flow rate of the second fluid to be supplied to the second cooler when the temperature of the battery cell is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value than when the temperature of the battery cell is lower than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shintaro UTSUMI, Masato Ono, Kazuhito Kato, Yusuke Kintsu, Atsushi Yamanaka, Takaaki Goto, Hiroki Awano
  • Publication number: 20250112292
    Abstract: A battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells each including a metal layer and a heat seal layer, the plurality of battery cells having a laminate film in which an electrode body is accommodated and a heat seal layer in a peripheral edge portion is joined; a case in which the battery cells are accommodated in a state of being laminated in a thickness direction; and a heat conductive member provided on an inner wall of the case so as to be in contact with the metal layer exposed from the peripheral edge portion and configured to dissipate heat from the battery cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhito Kato, Atsushi Yamanaka, Shintaro Utsumi, Masato Ono, Yusuke Kintsu, Takaaki Goto, Hiroki Awano
  • Patent number: 12259162
    Abstract: A processing liquid temperature control apparatus includes a block body with an integral structure made of a silicon carbide sintered body, the block body having a flow path through which a semiconductor processing liquid flows, and a temperature adjustment portion provided at the block body to adjust a temperature of the semiconductor processing liquid flowing through the flow path. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce the number of parts and achieve compactness and cost reduction. In addition, it is possible to enhance heat conduction between the processing liquid and the temperature adjustment portion, and improve heat exchange efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: KELK LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Goto, Atsushi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20250038292
    Abstract: A battery module includes a battery cell and a heat dissipation member that is in contact with a battery cell case. The battery cell includes an electrode body including plural layered structures layered one on another, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and the battery cell case that hermetically encloses the electrode body inside the battery cell case. The battery cell case includes at least a metal layer and a fusion resin layer disposed at the inner face side of the metal layer and has an exposed portion, at which the metal layer is exposed, at at least part of the outer face of the battery cell case. The heat dissipation member is in contact with the exposed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhito KATO, Masato ONO, Yusuke KINTSU, Atsushi YAMANAKA, Takaaki GOTO, Shintaro UTSUMI, Hiroki AWANO
  • Publication number: 20250030033
    Abstract: A battery cell includes: an electrode body including plural layered structures, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a battery cell case that hermetically encloses the electrode body inside the battery cell case. At least one of the current collector in the positive electrode or the current collector in the negative electrode has, on a peripheral portion of a surface thereof, an uncoated portion at which the mix is not coated. A current collector of which the distance from the surface of the battery cell case is the greatest among current collectors each having an uncoated portion has a first uncoated portion, and the first uncoated portion extends to the outside of the battery cell case, thereby forming a first exposed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato ONO, Shintaro UTSUMI, Kazuhito KATO, Yusuke KINTSU, Atsushi YAMANAKA, Takaaki GOTO, Hiroki AWANO
  • Publication number: 20250018692
    Abstract: A co-extruded sheet reduces swelling and/or cracking of the surface occurring during thermal shaping such as vacuum forming and provides improved mechanical strength. A co-extruded sheet contains a polycarbonate resin, and includes a core layer formed from a foam resin and skin layers formed from a non-foaming resin. The skin layer is laminated to one major surface of the core layer, while the skin layer is laminated to the other major surface of the core layer. The core layer has an expansion ratio of 1.6 to 3. The co-extruded sheet has a thickness of 1 to 5 mm and satisfies expression (1): 0.10? (t1+t2)/T?0.5. In expression (1), t1 indicates the thickness of the skin layer, t2 indicates the thickness of the second skin layer, and T indicates the thickness of the co-extruded sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoki TANIGUCHI, Atsushi YUSA, Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Toshiharu GOTO, Kei MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 12162276
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row, and a control unit configured to control ejection of liquid, the control unit is configured to cause the nozzle row to perform scan of ejecting the liquid while moving, and when recording a first pattern including a first overlapping region and a first normal region by controlling the first nozzle row and recording a second pattern including a second overlapping region and a second normal region by controlling the second nozzle row, the first overlapping region is formed at a position overlapping the second normal region as viewed in a longitudinal direction, the first overlapping region being an overlapping region where a raster line is formed by performing the scan m times, the first normal region being where the raster line is formed by performing the scan n times, n being smaller than m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Goto, Eiichi Ohara
  • Patent number: 12128680
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head that has a plurality of nozzles that eject liquid onto a medium and a control section that controls an ejection of liquid by the recording head, wherein the control section controls the recording head to record a plurality of first patterns having mutually different densities on the medium in a intersecting direction that intersects a nozzle alignment direction in which the nozzles are arranged, and to record a plurality of second patterns for identifying positions of the nozzles in the nozzle alignment direction on the medium in the intersecting direction such that each of the plurality of first patterns is adjacent to the second patterns on at least one of one end side and the other end side in the intersecting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Goto, Eiichi Ohara
  • Publication number: 20240326408
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing head, a control unit, a reading unit, and a storage unit, forms a test pattern for correcting a printing characteristic onto a medium, and corrects the printing characteristic based on a reading result of the test pattern by the reading unit. The reading unit reads a density of a printing surface on the medium in units of reading resolution in a first reading direction and a second reading direction intersecting the first reading direction. The storage unit stores an inclination angle ? (0°<?<90°) along the printing surface of a reading direction that serves as a reference of inclination from a scanning direction intersecting an alignment direction of a plurality of nozzles of the first reading direction and the second reading direction and the scanning direction. The control unit causes the reading unit to read the test pattern in a state where the reading direction is inclined by the inclination angle ? from the scanning direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Atsushi GOTO, Takashi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240309124
    Abstract: Described herein are a composition and its application in controlled living water-based emulsion polymerization. The composition includes at least one organic water-soluble iodine compound, optionally at least one organic-solvent-soluble iodide salt and/or optionally at least one water-soluble iodide salt. When applied in controlled living water-based emulsion polymerization, the resulting polymer shows low PDI and the polymer particle also has a low size PDI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Bo PENG, Atsushi GOTO, Weijia MAO, Jit SARKAR
  • Publication number: 20240198657
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing head, a control unit, and a reading unit, and the printing apparatus forms a test pattern for correcting printing characteristics on the medium and corrects the printing characteristics based on a reading result of the test pattern obtained by the reading unit. The control unit acquires moire characteristics information for determining whether moire of a reading density due to an interference between an arrangement of a plurality of dots included in the test pattern and the reading resolution at the reading unit occurs. The control unit controls the ejection of the droplet such that when the moire characteristics information does not indicate occurrence of the moire, the test pattern is formed on the medium N1 times and when the moire characteristics information indicates occurrence of the moire, the test pattern is formed on the medium N2 times, N2 being an integer greater than N1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi KOBAYASHI, Atsushi GOTO
  • Patent number: 12013716
    Abstract: In an operating device, a brake setting unit sets a target braking torque based on a braking torque pattern, and a rotational torque setting unit sets a target rotational torque based on a rotational torque pattern in accordance with information detected by a rotation detecting portion at reference time intervals. A control unit includes a time change adjustment unit. For at least one of the braking torque and the rotational torque, the time change adjustment unit changes the braking torque so that a current braking torque reaches the target braking torque and/or changes the rotational torque so that a current rotational torque reaches the target rotational torque in a predetermined time period greater than the reference time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuichiro Yasuhara, Atsushi Goto
  • Patent number: 11970563
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nanoparticulate composition comprising nanoparticles formed from an amphipathic block copolymer comprising a hydrophilic block and a hydrophobic block, where the nanoparticles are provided in the form of micelles, cylindrical worm structures or vesicles and the size of the nanoparticles is from 25 to 500 nm, wherein: the composition is substantially free of heavy metals and compounds comprising sulfur. Also disclosed herein is a method of forming said nanoparticulate composition by polymerization induced self-assembly (PISA) via non-transition-metal catalysed controlled radical polymerization (NTMC-CRP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: Nanyang Technological University, Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Atsushi Goto, Jit Sarkar, Longqiang Xiao, Feifei Li, Alexander M. Van Herk, Alexander William Jackson
  • Patent number: 11919986
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antifouling ability-imparting agent that adheres well to a variety of water treatment membranes such as reverse osmosis membranes and imparts excellent antifouling ability to the water treatment membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: Nanyang Technological University, Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Goto, Rong Wang, Miao Tian, Yasuyuki Miyoshi, Hirotaka Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 11763437
    Abstract: An analyzing apparatus extracts, from a food image, food information relating to types and served states of foods included in the food image and an edible portion of each food, calculates an area ratio between the edible portion of the same kind of food extracted from a plurality of food images acquired at different timings, stores conversion information for converting the area ratio into a volume ratio corresponding to each type and served state of food, and converts the area ratio of each food into a volume ratio using the stored conversion information corresponding to the food whose area ratio is to be converted from among the stored conversion information based on the food information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Goto
  • Patent number: 11642901
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a head configured to discharge liquid to a printing medium, a carriage configured to move the head back and forth to one side and another side in a scanning direction with respect to the printing medium, and a control unit configured to perform printing of a printing image with the liquid by controlling driving of the head and the carriage. When performing printing of an end portion of the printing image on the one side, the control unit performs the printing by a first scan in which the head is moved from the one side to the other side, and when performing printing of an end portion of the printing image on the other side, the control unit performs the printing by a second scan in which the head is moved from the other side to the one side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Goto, Masaya Usui, Yasutoshi Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20230105968
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head that has a plurality of nozzles that eject liquid onto a medium and a control section that controls an ejection of liquid by the recording head, wherein the control section controls the recording head to record a plurality of first patterns having mutually different densities on the medium in a intersecting direction that intersects a nozzle alignment direction in which the nozzles are arranged, and to record a plurality of second patterns for identifying positions of the nozzles in the nozzle alignment direction on the medium in the intersecting direction such that each of the plurality of first patterns is adjacent to the second patterns on at least one of one end side and the other end side in the intersecting direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi GOTO, Eiichi OHARA
  • Publication number: 20230101942
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row, and a control unit configured to control ejection of liquid, the control unit is configured to cause the nozzle row to perform scan of ejecting the liquid while moving, and when recording a first pattern including a first overlapping region and a first normal region by controlling the first nozzle row and recording a second pattern including a second overlapping region and a second normal region by controlling the second nozzle row, the first overlapping region is formed at a position overlapping the second normal region as viewed in a longitudinal direction, the first overlapping region being an overlapping region where a raster line is formed by performing the scan m times, the first normal region being where the raster line is formed by performing the scan n times, n being smaller than m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi GOTO, Eiichi OHARA
  • Patent number: 11604488
    Abstract: An input device includes a fixed unit, a rotary member rotatably supported by the fixed unit, a rotation-detecting unit that detects a rotation angle of the rotary member, a brake-applying unit that applies a braking force to the rotary member, a torque-applying unit that applies a driving torque to the rotary member, and a control unit that controls the brake-applying unit and the torque-applying unit. The brake-applying unit includes magnetorheological fluid, a brake-applying coil that applies a magnetic field to the magnetorheological fluid, a shaft to which braking torque that changes with viscosity of the magnetorheological fluid is applied, and a transmission gear provided on the shaft and that is in mesh with a gear provided on the rotary member. The shaft is positioned on an outer side with respect to the rotary member in a radial direction of the rotary member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Inventors: Asuka Koike, Takeaki Maehata, Ryuichiro Yasuhara, Kazunari Takahashi, Atsushi Goto