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).

  • Power generation apparatus including internal combustion engine and rotary electric machine disposed adjacent thereto
    Patent number: 10202030
    Abstract: Provided is a power generation apparatus, which includes an internal combustion engine, and a rotary electric machine disposed adjacent to the internal combustion engine in an axial direction. The rotary electric machine includes coils to which an electric current is supplied from an external power apparatus via an electric power supply cable. Terminal parts connected to the coils and connection terminals of the electric power supply cable are connected in a predetermined connection space that is formed in part of a lower block of an engine block of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Yokoi, Yusuke Ozaki, Yoshikazu Ishigaki, Atsushi Sato, Hiroaki Sato
  • METHOD OF PRODUCING ELECTROCONDUCTIVE SUBSTRATE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190043736
    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: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi DAITOKU, Susumu TANIGUCHI, Akiko SEKI, Atsushi SATO, Yuhei HORIKAWA, Makoto ORIKASA, Hisayuki ABE
  • ELECTROCONDUCTIVE SUBSTRATE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190035719
    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: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi DAITOKU, Susumu TANIGUCHI, Akiko SEKI, Atsushi SATO, Yuhei HORIKAWA, Makoto ORIKASA, Hisayuki ABE
  • LIGHT EMITTING DIODE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIGHT EMITTING DIODE, LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190035979
    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: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro YOKOTE, Katsutoshi SASAKI, Dai AOKI, Tsubasa FUJIWARA, Atsushi SATO
  • Fluid control apparatus
    Patent number: 10180196
    Abstract: A fluid control apparatus configured to be able to reduce electric power consumption required for opening/closing operations of a fluid control valve includes a valve body and a valve seat one of which is formed of a magnetic material and the other of which includes a magnet, the valve body and the valve seat being incorporated in a fluid flow passage and movable to come into contact with or away from each other to control communication of fluid, an urging member configured to urge the valve body toward the valve seat, an electric pump for flowing the fluid in the flow passage, and a control section for effecting control to increase an output of the electric pump to a preset state when the valve body under a closed state as being in contact with the valve seat is to be opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Sato, Yasuo Ozawa
  • Shift control apparatus and shift control method
    Patent number: 10161516
    Abstract: A shift control apparatus for a vehicle which has an engine with an exhaust supercharger, and a transmission, if there is a deceleration intention of a driver, compares a target torque and an actual torque, and while the actual torque is higher than the target torque and a difference therebetween is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, controls a speed at which to cause a gear ratio of the transmission to change to the target gear ratio to be slower than at a time of normal shift control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sato, Hirofumi Akagi
  • POLYMER FILM, AND OPTICAL MEMBER, POLARIZING MEMBER, AND DISPLAY DEVICE EMPLOYING SAME
    Publication number: 20180305472
    Abstract: Provided are: a polymer film of which film strength is difficult to be degraded and which has a lower reflectance, even when an additive is used, and an optical member, a polarizing member, and a display device employing the same. A low refractive index layer (the polymer film 13) includes a binder 132 including a product obtained by photopolymerizing a mixture of a side-chain-reactive photopolymerizable fluoropolymer and a siloxane compound. Further, the low refractive index layer 13 includes hollow silica particles 131 distributed in the binder 132. Further, the low refractive index layer 13 includes a product obtained by photopolymerizing a one-end reactive-type photopolymerizable fluoropolymer, and a modified silicone, which are mainly distributed in a surface side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeto KOBORI, Tomomichi KANDA, Atsushi SATO, Dae-hee LEE
  • Agrochemical composition for foliage treatment
    Patent number: 10091999
    Abstract: Provided is an agrochemical composition for foliage treatment, which does not cause phytotoxicity to a cultivated crop due to adhesion thereto when foliage treatment of an upland field is performed with pyroxasulfone, but has a high level of safety and an herbicidal effect on a broad spectrum of weeds. The agrochemical composition for foliage treatment comprises pyroxasulfone and a masking material that masks the pyroxasulfone, wherein the pyroxasulfone is microencapsulated in or coated with the masking material such that phytotoxicity to a cultivated crop due to adhesion thereto when foliage spraying is performed is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: KUMIAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Arai, Yukiko Nakajima, Toshihiro Ikeuchi, Atsushi Sato
  • IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20180286074
    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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kapik LEE, Takashi SHIBATA, Atsushi SATO
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING THREADED SHAFT FOR POWER STEERING DEVICE, AND POWER STEERING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180272448
    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: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi SATO, Keisuke KITAMURA, Mitsuaki ABE, Tetsuya YONEZAWA, Tatsuyoshi MARUYAMA, Osamu YOSHIDA, Kenji KAGAMI
  • NOVEL IMIDAZOLE COMPOUND AND USE THEREOF AS MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR AGONIST
    Publication number: 20180258076
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel imidazole compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof having a melanocortin receptor agonistic activity, and medical use thereof. The present invention relates to an imidazole compound represented by general formula [I] [wherein: Ring A represents an optionally substituted aryl group or the like; R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted alkyl group, or the like; R2 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or the like; and R3 represents an optionally substituted alkyl group] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi SATO, Ritsuo IMASHIRO, Hidekazu TSUJISHIMA, Kouichi TANIMOTO, Yasuo YAMAMOTO, Tetsu NAKANE, Chihiro TOSHIKAWA
  • Method for producing sulfide solid electrolyte
    Patent number: 10020535
    Abstract: A method for producing a sulfide glass ceramic, including reacting a lithium compound, a phosphorus compound and a halogen compound in a solvent that contains a hydrocarbon and an ether compound to produce a sulfide glass that contains a Li element, a P element, a S element and one or more halogen elements, and heating the sulfide glass to produce a sulfide glass ceramic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignees: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Sato, Takayoshi Kambara, Takumi Tanaka, Hirokazu Kawaoka, Takuo Yanagi, Takayoshi Doi, Takayuki Uchiyama, Shigenori Hama
  • SOLID ELECTROLYTE PRODUCTION METHOD
    Publication number: 20180170756
    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: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi SATO, Minoru SENGA, Masao AIDA
  • SOLID ELECTROLYTE PRODUCTION METHOD
    Publication number: 20180155198
    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 an amorphous solid electrolyte, and which can provide amorphous and crystalline solid electrolytes with excellent productivity and mass-productivity, as well as a method for producing a crystalline solid electrolyte including producing the amorphous solid electrolyte followed by heating the solid electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi SATO, Minoru SENGA, Masao AIDA
  • Pyrrolidine compound and application as melanocortin receptor agonist
    Patent number: 9981960
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel pyrrolidine compound having melanocortin receptor agonist activity or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and to pharmaceutical applications thereof. The present invention relates to a pyrrolidine derivative represented by formula [I], wherein ring A represents an optionally substituted aryl group or the like; R1 represents an optionally substituted alkyl group or the like; R2 represents a halogen atom or the like; and R3 is an alkyl group substituted with an optionally substituted aryl group or the like, and R4 is a hydrogen atom or the like; or R3 and R4 are terminally attached to each other, and together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, form an optionally substituted nitrogen-containing aliphatic heterocyclic ring that may partially contain a double bond; or to a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamamoto, Atsushi Sato, Kenji Morokuma, Hiroaki Shitama, Takashi Adachi, Masahiko Miyashiro
  • Electronic component
    Patent number: 9984822
    Abstract: An element body includes a first principal surface and a second principal surface opposing each other in a first direction. A first terminal electrode is disposed on the first principal surface side of the element body. A second terminal electrode is disposed on the second principal surface side of the element body. The first terminal electrode includes a first sintered metal layer formed on the first principal surface; and a first plating layer formed on the first sintered metal layer and including base metal. The second terminal electrode includes a second sintered metal layer formed on the second principal surface, a second plating layer formed on the second sintered metal layer and including base metal, and a solder layer formed on the second plating layer and including Sn and a metal having a higher melting point than the melting point of Sn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Iwama, Takehisa Tamura, Atsushi Sato, Tomonori Oi
  • Compact, method for producing compact
    Patent number: 9978490
    Abstract: A low-loss compact and a method for producing the compact are provided. A method for producing a compact by using coated soft magnetic powder that includes coated soft magnetic particles constituted by soft magnetic particles and insulating coatings coating outer peripheries of the soft magnetic particles includes a raw material preparation step and an irradiation step. In the raw material preparation step, a raw compact is prepared by press-forming coated soft magnetic powder. In the irradiation step, part of a surface of the raw compact is irradiated with a laser. Irradiating a part of a surface of a raw compact with laser increases the number of disrupted portions of conductive portions where constituent materials of the soft magnetic particles at the surface of the raw compact have become conductive to each other, and the loss of the compact can be decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushi Kusawake, Masato Uozumi, Atsushi Sato, Koji Yamaguchi, Mamoru Ono, Hiroyuki Murase, Kazuo Nakamae
  • Separation preventing device of fluid pipe, and pipe joint
    Patent number: 9964244
    Abstract: A separation preventing device that prevents separation of a fluid pipe in a pipe axis direction, includes a main body externally fitted to an outer peripheral surface of the fluid pipe and has a recess portion facing the outer peripheral surface; a locking member housed in the recess portion in a tiltable manner and is able to bite into the outer peripheral surface of the fluid pipe; and pressing units that are provided in the main body and press the locking member, wherein the locking member has a plurality of wedge portions in a front-back direction of a pipe axis of the fluid pipe, and is equipped with a projection portion that regulates biting of a front wedge portion of the plurality of wedge portions into the fluid pipe, when the fluid pipe moves to a separation side in the pipe axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: COSMO KOKI CO., LTD., KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Maeda, Atsushi Sato, Toshihiko Ogata
  • Fe-Pt-based sputtering target with dispersed C grains
    Patent number: 9945026
    Abstract: A sintered compact sputtering target in which a composition ratio based on atomicity is represented by a formula of (Fe100-x—Ptx)100-A—CA (provided A is a number which satisfies 20?A?50 and X is a number which satisfies 35?X?55), wherein C grains are finely dispersed in an alloy, and the relative density is 90% or higher. The production of a magnetic thin film with granular structure is provided without using an expensive simultaneous sputtering device, and a high-density sputtering target capable of reducing the amount of particles generated during sputtering is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Sato, Shin-ichi Ogino
  • LACTOFERRIN FUSION PROTEIN AND METHOD FOR PREPARATION THEREOF
    Publication number: 20180072794
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a lactoferrin fusion protein, which is configured to retain the biological activities of natural lactoferrin, to have a significantly prolonged in vivo lifetime, and to be more clinically useful than natural and gene recombinant lactoferrin, as well as a method for preparation thereof, etc. The present invention provides a fusion protein formed with a protein or peptide comprising an FcRn-binding region and lactoferrin or a biologically active fragment or peptide of lactoferrin, which is represented by: (LF-s-Y)n or (Y-s-LF)n [wherein LF represents lactoferrin or a biologically active fragment or peptide of lactoferrin, Y represents the protein or peptide comprising an FcRn-binding region, s represents any amino acid sequence of 0 to 10 residues, and n represents an integer of 1 to 10], or a variant thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: NRL PHARMA, INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi SATO, Shinji KAGAYA