Patents by Inventor Atsushi Sato

Atsushi 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: 10895989
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-node storage system including a plurality of nodes providing a volume to a computer as a logical storage area, each node including a controller that processes an I/O request from the computer, and including a plurality of NVMe drives PCI-connected to any one of the controllers of the node and a switch that connects the controllers of the plurality of nodes to each other, in which the controller includes a plurality of processors that process the I/O request from the computer and a memory, and the memory includes, for the plurality of NVMe drives, virtual queues which are equal in number to processors of a plurality of controllers constituting the multi-node storage system and real queues that store a command in any one of the plurality of NVMe drives and that are smaller in number than the virtual queues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Ikeda, Atsushi Sato, Takafumi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10867898
    Abstract: An electroconductive substrate, including: a base material; a foundation layer disposed on the base material; a trench formation layer disposed on the foundation layer, and an electroconductive pattern layer including metal plating. A trench including a bottom surface to which the foundation layer is exposed, is formed. The trench is filled with the electroconductive pattern layer. The foundation layer includes a mixed region which is formed from a surface of the foundation layer on the electroconductive pattern layer side towards the inside thereof, and contains metal particles which contain a metal configuring the electroconductive pattern layer, and enter the foundation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Daitoku, Susumu Taniguchi, Akiko Seki, Atsushi Sato, Yuhei Horikawa, Makoto Orikasa, Hisayuki Abe
  • Publication number: 20200381266
    Abstract: A method of producing an electroconductive substrate including a base material, and an electroconductive pattern disposed on one main surface side of the base material includes: a step of forming a trench including a bottom surface to which a foundation layer is exposed, and a lateral surface which includes a surface of a trench formation layer, according to an imprint method; and a step of forming an electroconductive pattern layer by growing metal plating from the foundation layer which is exposed to the bottom surface of the trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi DAITOKU, Susumu TANIGUCHI, Akiko SEKI, Atsushi SATO, Yuhei HORIKAWA, Makoto ORIKASA, Hisayuki ABE
  • Publication number: 20200352061
    Abstract: A method of forming a metal magnetic film includes forming the metal magnetic film by a plating process, wherein the metal magnetic film comprises a permalloy and carbon atoms and a content of the carbon atoms is 0.3 to 3.0 at % based on a total amount of the carbon atoms and metal elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi YAMADA, Miyuki YANAGIDA, Atsushi SATO, Kenichi KAWABATA
  • Patent number: 10814416
    Abstract: In a power steering device equipped with a rack shaft constructed by joining a first member having rack teeth and a second member serving as a ball screw shaft on which a ball screw groove is formed, a grinding process of the ball screw groove is performed on the second member by causing a grindstone to rotate and move along a rotation axis of the second member, while causing the second member to rotate about an axis of the second member as the rotation axis. The grinding process is performed so as to satisfy a specified machining condition “g/(5×p)<w<g/p”, where w is a rotational speed of the second member during grinding of the ball screw groove, g is a rotational speed of the grindstone during grinding of the ball screw groove, and p is a circumferential length of one circumference of the ball screw groove around the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sato, Keisuke Kitamura, Mitsuaki Abe, Tetsuya Yonezawa, Tatsuyoshi Maruyama, Osamu Yoshida, Kenji Kagami
  • Publication number: 20200331522
    Abstract: An actuator that applies force to a member associated with steering, and a control device that controls the actuator, have duplex configuration. First and second control devices compute the same controlled variable as first and second controlled variables, respectively. In a normal mode, the control device controls the actuator according to the first controlled variable. The first and second control devices send and receive respectively computed controlled variables to and from each other via communications. When a discrepancy arises between the first and second controlled variables, or an abnormality occurs in communications between the first and second control devices, the operating mode is switched from the normal mode to an independent mode. In the independent mode, the first and second control devices control the first and second actuators, according to the first and second controlled variables, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, JTEKT Corporation, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Yamashita, Atsushi Sato, Masataka Okuda, Yosuke Yamashita, Shintaro Takayama, Shunsuke Hiromasa, Toshiyuki Mikida, Shoji Kubota, Yuji Fujita, Kenichi Abe, Toshimitsu Sakai
  • Publication number: 20200332914
    Abstract: A fluid control valve includes: a valve main body including a circulation hole through which a fluid flows and a yoke that has a valve seat provided in the circulation hole and has magnetism; a valve body controlling flow of the fluid by abutting on the valve seat when the valve body is seated and separating from the valve seat when the valve is opened, and having magnetism; an electromagnetic coil provided on the valve main body, and generating a magnetic field to attract the valve body to the valve seat; and a buffer member that abuts on the valve body that moves in a valve closing direction to reduce a moving speed of the valve body after a valve closing operation is started and before the valve body is seated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi SATO, Ryota OGATA
  • Patent number: 10784122
    Abstract: A method of producing an electroconductive substrate including a base material, and an electroconductive pattern disposed on one main surface side of the base material includes: a step of forming a trench including a bottom surface to which a foundation layer is exposed, and a lateral surface which includes a surface of a trench formation layer, according to an imprint method; and a step of forming an electroconductive pattern layer by growing metal plating from the foundation layer which is exposed to the bottom surface of the trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Daitoku, Susumu Taniguchi, Akiko Seki, Atsushi Sato, Yuhei Horikawa, Makoto Orikasa, Hisayuki Abe
  • Patent number: 10781101
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing a solid electrolyte, which includes reacting two or more kinds of solid raw materials using a multi-axial kneading machine to give a crystalline solid electrolyte, and which can provide a crystalline solid electrolyte with excellent productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sato, Minoru Senga, Masao Aida
  • Publication number: 20200285832
    Abstract: A pulse wave detection device detects the face from a frame image and corrects the brightness of the face in accordance with the size of the face surface to appropriately detect a pulse wave even if brightness is changed due to movement of a subject with respect to lighting. The brightness of the face depends on the distance between the lighting and the face, and this is equal to indirect measurement of the distance from the lighting to the face using the size of the face. As described above, a pulse wave detecting device estimates/measures a pulse rate of the subject from a brightness signal after intensity of the brightness of the face photographed on the frame image is corrected using the size of the face, by using the correlation between the size of the face of the subject on the frame image and the brightness of the face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: EQUOS RESEARCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michael JONES, Atsushi SATO
  • Patent number: 10727373
    Abstract: Provided are a light emitting diode capable of improving contrast, a method for manufacturing a light emitting diode, a light emitting diode display device, and a method for manufacturing a light emitting diode display device. The light emitting diode according to an embodiment comprises a package substrate having an electrode provided therein; a light emitting diode chip provided on the package substrate; a power line electrically connecting the light emitting diode chip to the electrode; and a black layer covering the electrode including a part connected to the power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Yokote, Katsutoshi Sasaki, Dai Aoki, Tsubasa Fujiwara, Atsushi Sato
  • Publication number: 20200227758
    Abstract: A positive electrode grid body for lead-acid battery includes frame rib including first and second lateral frame ribs and first and second longitudinal frame ribs, an inner rib including a plurality of lateral and longitudinal crosspieces, a plurality of opening portions, and a positive electrode current collection lug connected to the first lateral frame rib. In a region having a length of at least one opening portion or more in the lateral direction of the lateral crosspieces from the first longitudinal frame rib, a cross-sectional area of the plurality of lateral crosspieces located on at least the first lateral frame rib side becomes larger from the second longitudinal frame rib side toward a portion connected to the first longitudinal frame rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: The Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaro KAWAGUCHI, Yusuke OGINO, Atsushi SATO, Shinya SUGE, Katsuya NUKUI, Akihiro NISHIMURA, Koshin TAKEMOTO, Ryo TAINAKA, Masashi MATSUSHITA, Hideki HAGIHARA, Masaki SHIMOTSUYA, Jun FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200216945
    Abstract: There is provided a BN-containing ferromagnetic material sputtering target which is capable of suppressing generation of particles during sputtering. A sputtering target containing from 1 to 40 at. % of B and from 1 to 30 at. % of N and comprising a structure including at least one ferromagnetic metal-containing metal phase and at least one nonmagnetic material phase, wherein an X-ray diffraction profile obtained by analyzing the structure with an X-ray diffraction method exhibits a diffraction peak derived from cubic boron nitride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventor: Atsushi Sato
  • Publication number: 20200220207
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electmlyte containing the following (A) and (B): (A) a sulfide solid electrolyte having an argyrodite-type crystal structure; and (B) a sulfide solid electrolyte having a crystal structure different from the argyrodite-type crystal structure of the above-mentioned (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi SATO, Kota TERAI, Futoshi UTSUNO
  • Publication number: 20200220208
    Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte comprising lithium, phosphorus and sulfur, wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte has a diffraction peak A at 2?=25.2±0.5 deg and a diffraction peak B at 29.7±0.5 deg in powder X-ray diffraction using CuK? rays, an area ratio of a peak derived from PS43? glass to the total area of peaks derived from glass observed in solid 31P-NMR measurement is 90% or more and 100% or less, and an area ratio of peaks derived from glass to the total area of all peaks at 60 to 120 ppm observed in solid 31P-NMR measurement is 1% or more and 45% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi UTSUNO, Toshiaki TSUNO, Kota TERAI, Atsushi SATO
  • Publication number: 20200211951
    Abstract: An electroconductive substrate, including: a base material; a foundation layer disposed on the base material; a trench formation layer disposed on the foundation layer, and an electroconductive pattern layer including metal plating. A trench including a bottom surface to which the foundation layer is exposed, is formed. The trench is filled with the electroconductive pattern layer. The foundation layer includes a mixed region which is formed from a surface of the foundation layer on the electroconductive pattern layer side towards the inside thereof, and contains metal particles which contain a metal configuring the electroconductive pattern layer, and enter the foundation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi DAITOKU, Susumu TANIGUCHI, Akiko SEKI, Atsushi SATO, Yuhei HORIKAWA, Makoto ORIKASA, Hisayuki ABE
  • Publication number: 20200174673
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-node storage system including a plurality of nodes providing a volume to a computer as a logical storage area, each node including a controller that processes an I/O request from the computer, and including a plurality of NVMe drives PCI-connected to any one of the controllers of the node and a switch that connects the controllers of the plurality of nodes to each other, in which the controller includes a plurality of processors that process the I/O request from the computer and a memory, and the memory includes, for the plurality of NVMe drives, virtual queues which are equal in number to processors of a plurality of controllers constituting the multi-node storage system and real queues that store a command in any one of the plurality of NVMe drives and that are smaller in number than the virtual queues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Hajime IKEDA, Atsushi SATO, Takafumi MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 10657672
    Abstract: The provided is an image processing technology to avoid inaccuracy of inferring a position of an object due to wrong model assumption. An image processing device according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes: a matching unit 106 that estimates similarity of input image to particle images including areas of particles at relative positions, true positions of the particles in the particle images being given; and a calculation unit 108 that calculates positions of particles in the input image based on the similarity and the true positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kapik Lee, Takashi Shibata, Atsushi Sato
  • Publication number: 20200143979
    Abstract: In a coil component, a shield layer is provided after the unevenness of the surface of an element body is smoothened by the surface being covered with an insulating layer. A Cu layer of the shield layer is provided on a smooth surface, and thus a thickness variation can be suppressed and the Cu layer can be formed with a substantially uniform thickness. In the coil component, a point where the shield layer is thin or a point lacking the shield layer is unlikely to be generated and a functional degradation of the shield layer is effectively suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi OHKUBO, Masazumi ARATA, Kenichi KAWABATA, Atsushi SATO
  • Publication number: 20200107479
    Abstract: A metal magnetic film includes a permalloy and a carbon atom, wherein a content of the carbon atom is 0.3 to 3.0 at % based on a total amount of the carbon atom and metal elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi YAMADA, Miyuki YANAGIDA, Atsushi SATO, Kenichi KAWABATA