Patents by Inventor Hajime Kato

Hajime 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: 20240389295
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with a large storage capacity per unit area is provided. A semiconductor device includes a memory cell. The memory cell includes a first conductor; a first insulator over the first conductor; a first oxide over the first insulator and including a first region, a second region, and a third region positioned between the first region and the second region; a second insulator over the first oxide; a second conductor over the second insulator; a third insulator positioned in contact with a side surface of the first region; and a second oxide positioned on the side surface of the first region, with the third insulator therebetween. The first region includes a region overlapping the first conductor. The third region includes a region overlapped by the second conductor. The first region and the second region have a lower resistance than the third region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hajime Kimura, Takayuki Ikeda, Kiyoshi Kato, Yuta Endo, Junpei Sugao
  • Publication number: 20240381005
    Abstract: An imaging element includes a first semiconductor substrate having a pixel unit having disposed therein a plurality of pixels that each include a photoelectric conversion unit configured to convert light to an electric charge, and to output signals based on the electric charge converted by the photoelectric conversion unit and a second semiconductor substrate having an exposure processing unit configured to use the signals read from the pixels to calculate an accumulation time for accumulating the electric charge yielded by the conversion performed by the photoelectric conversion units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime YONEMOCHI, Tomoki HIRATA, Shutaro KATO
  • Publication number: 20240339259
    Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element assembly that has a first surface and second surfaces extending in a direction orthogonal to the first surface, and terminal electrodes that has first electrode parts extending in a direction orthogonal to the first surface along the second surfaces. At least a portion of the first electrode parts of the terminal electrodes is disposed inside the element assembly. The element assembly is present between imaginary lines extending in a direction parallel to the first surface toward the second surfaces from a position farthest from the first surface in a direction orthogonal to the first surface in the first electrode parts positioned inside the element assembly and the first surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Youichi KAZUTA, Hajime Kato, Makoto Yoshino, Kazuya Tobita, Yuto Shiga, Noriaki Hamachi
  • Publication number: 20240309913
    Abstract: A sliding member includes a metal substrate and a sliding layer formed on one surface of the metal substrate. The sliding layer has a matrix phase containing Cu and Sn and hard particles dispersed in the matrix phase and containing a Laves phase constituted of a composition of Co, Mo and Si.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Naoki Sato, Toshio HAKUTO, Takashi AKAGAWA, Yuji KAWAMATA, Ryoichi SUZUKI, Takashi SAITO, Tadashi OSHIMA, Hajime KATO
  • Patent number: 12080471
    Abstract: In a coil 5 of a multilayer coil component 1, an end portion 6a of a turn 6 closest to a side surface 2e in the facing direction of the side surface 2e and a side surface 2f is connected to a first external electrode 3 and an end portion 11a of a turn 11 closest to the side surface 2f in the facing direction is connected to a second external electrode 4. When viewed from the facing direction, the area of the region where the turn 6 and the second external electrode 4 face each other and the area of the region where the turn 11 and the first external electrode 3 face each other are larger than the area of the region where turns other than the turn 6 and the turn 11 and the first external electrode 3 or the second external electrode 4 face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichiro Urabe, Hajime Kato, Yuto Shiga, Kazuya Tobita, Youichi Kazuta, Noriaki Hamachi, Toshinori Matsuura, Yuichi Takubo, Asami Takahashi, Munehiro Takaku
  • Publication number: 20240284674
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with a large storage capacity per unit area is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulator including a first opening, a first conductor that is over the first insulator and includes a second opening, a second insulator that is over the first insulator and includes a third opening, and an oxide penetrating the first opening, the second opening, and the third opening. The oxide includes a first region at least in the first opening, a second region at least in the second opening, and a third region at least in the third opening. The resistances of the first region and the third region are lower than the resistance of the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Hajime KIMURA, Takanori MATSUZAKI, Kiyoshi KATO, Satoru OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240274964
    Abstract: A bus-bar module include an electrical-wire routing body to be assembled with a battery module configured of plural battery cells, plural bus-bars that are stored in the electrical-wire routing body and are to be electrically connected between electrodes of the battery cells, respectively, and plural electrical-wires to be connected with the battery cells via the bus-bars. The electrical-wire routing body includes a pair of electrical-wire routing passages that are divided by a slit and in which the electrical-wires are routed. Each of the electrical-wire routing passages is provided with a pair of side walls. In at least one of the pair of electrical-wire routing passages that are divided by the slit, a cut-off is formed at an upper-end corner, which faces to the slit, of one of the pair of side walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki SAITO, Hiroyuki KATO, Hajime NAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20240267202
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a main system configured to perform first authentication processing and a subsystem configured to perform second authentication processing. The main system includes an authentication control unit configured to control the main system or the subsystem to perform authentication processing for connecting to a network. The main system includes a power saving control unit configured to control the main system to transition to a power saving state from a normal state, in which the main system performs the first authentication processing. The subsystem includes a communication unit configured to transmit and receive data through the network. The subsystem includes an event processing unit configured to, in response to occurrence of a predetermined event relating to connection to the network when the main system is in the power saving state, process the predetermined event without controlling the main system to transition to the normal state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke UGAJIN, Hiroshi KATO, Hajime TAKAYAMA, Shu YANAI
  • Patent number: 12052853
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with a large storage capacity per unit area is provided. A semiconductor device includes a memory cell. The memory cell includes a first conductor; a first insulator over the first conductor; a first oxide over the first insulator and including a first region, a second region, and a third region positioned between the first region and the second region; a second insulator over the first oxide; a second conductor over the second insulator; a third insulator positioned in contact with a side surface of the first region; and a second oxide positioned on the side surface of the first region, with the third insulator therebetween. The first region includes a region overlapping the first conductor. The third region includes a region overlapped by the second conductor. The first region and the second region have a lower resistance than the third region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hajime Kimura, Takayuki Ikeda, Kiyoshi Kato, Yuta Endo, Junpei Sugao
  • Patent number: 12040122
    Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element assembly that has a first surface and second surfaces and extending in a direction orthogonal to the first surface, and terminal electrodes that has first electrode parts extending in a direction orthogonal to the first surface along the second surfaces. At least a portion of the first electrode parts of the terminal electrodes is disposed inside the element assembly. The element assembly is present between imaginary lines extending in a direction parallel to the first surface toward the second surfaces from a position farthest from the first surface in a direction orthogonal to the first surface in the first electrode parts positioned inside the element assembly and the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youichi Kazuta, Hajime Kato, Makoto Yoshino, Kazuya Tobita, Yuto Shiga, Noriaki Hamachi
  • Publication number: 20240230693
    Abstract: An automatic chemical analyzer, maintenance kit, and maintenance method capable of, even in a case where a problem of the automatic chemical analyzer occurs, clarifying a cause of the problem in a user site and coping with the problem without collecting a device or a component. The automatic chemical analyzer maintenance kit is connectable to an automatic chemical analyzer including a reaction vessel for accommodating at least a pipetted specimen and a reagent, and a stirring mechanism including a piezoelectric element that irradiates the reaction vessel with ultrasonic waves. The piezoelectric element includes a plurality of divided electrodes. The automatic chemical analyzer maintenance kit measures, for each of the divided electrodes, an absolute value of an impedance of the piezoelectric element and a phase difference between a voltage applied to the divided electrode and a current, and determines if there is an abnormality an electrode based on a measurement result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime KATO, Yoichiro SUZUKI, Tetsuji KAWAHARA, Gorou YOSHIDA, Hisashi YABUTANI
  • Patent number: 12031579
    Abstract: A sliding member includes a metal substrate and a sliding layer formed on one surface of the metal substrate. The sliding layer has a matrix phase containing Cu and Sn and hard particles dispersed in the matrix phase and containing a Laves phase constituted of a composition of Co, Mo and Si.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SENJU METAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Sato, Toshio Hakuto, Takashi Akagawa, Yuji Kawamata, Ryoichi Suzuki, Takashi Saito, Tadashi Oshima, Hajime Kato
  • Publication number: 20240221415
    Abstract: Described herein is an information processing apparatus, including: a graph image acquisition unit configured to acquire a graph image; a graph classification unit configured to classify the graph image acquired by the graph image acquisition unit by graph type; a probability map generation unit configured to generate, from the graph image, a probability map that is of a different type by the graph type using a single neural network; a component extraction unit configured to extract a component in the graph image based on the probability map generated by the probability map generation unit; a value extraction unit configured to extract a value of the component of the graph image extracted by the component extraction unit; and an output unit configured to output the value of the component extracted by the value extraction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Group Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Hajime KATO, Mitsuru NAKAZAWA, Bjorn STENGER
  • Publication number: 20240221354
    Abstract: To analyze images of more diverse graphs at higher speed and accuracy, disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus, comprising: a graph image acquisition unit configured to acquire a graph image; a graph classification unit configured to classify the graph image acquired by graph type; a probability map generation unit configured to generate, from the graph image, a probability map that is of a different type by the graph type; a component extraction unit configured to extract a plurality of components in the graph image based on the probability map generated by the probability map generation unit, and trace a graph with the plurality of components extracted; a value extraction unit configured to extract values of the components of the graph image extracted by the component extraction unit; and an output unit configured to output the values of the components extracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Hajime KATO, Mitsuru NAKAZAWA, Bjorn STENGER
  • Patent number: 12020850
    Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body, a coil disposed in the element body, and a terminal electrode disposed on the element body. The element body has a first side face and a second side face, a first end face and a second end face, and a first main face and a second main face. The terminal electrode includes a first electrode portion and a second electrode portion. The first electrode portion has a first exposed face exposed on the first main face. The second electrode portion has a second exposed face exposed on the first end face. The first exposed face and the second exposed face are adjacent to each other interposing a ridge portion. The first exposed face is separated from an outer edge of the first main face. The second exposed face is separated from an outer edge of the first end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuto Shiga, Hajime Kato, Junichiro Urabe, Kazuya Tobita, Youichi Kazuta, Noriaki Hamachi, Toshinori Matsuura, Yuichi Takubo
  • Publication number: 20240146140
    Abstract: In this stator, lead wire extended portions and a power wire extended portion are extended from a resin portion by an extended portion separating portion such that the lead wire extended portions are separated from the power wire extended portion by distances that are greater than a maximum value of the width of clearance between an end-side portion of the lead wire extended portion and a facing portion located next to the end-side portion, the resin portion being provided so as to cover lead wire portions and a power wire portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya SUGIYAMA, Munehiro TAKAHASHI, Keisuke KIMURA, Ken TAKEDA, Takahito NOZAWA, Takashi MATSUMOTO, Yoshitada YAMAGISHI, Katsuhide KITAGAWA, Hajime KATO
  • Publication number: 20240087798
    Abstract: A coil component includes a coil configured of a winding, an exterior body provided to cover the coil, and a terminal part configured to be continuous with the winding. A proximal end portion of the terminal part is buried in the exterior body. A distal end portion ahead of the proximal end portion is bent from the proximal end portion and located outside a mounting surface of the exterior body along the mounting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichiro URABE, Toshinori MATSUURA, Hajime KATO, Shintarou KOIKE, Kazushige TOHTA, Takuto KAZAMA, Masashi GOTOH
  • Publication number: 20240044368
    Abstract: A sliding member includes a metal substrate and a sliding layer formed on one surface of the metal substrate. The sliding layer has a matrix phase containing Cu and Sn and hard particles dispersed in the matrix phase and containing a Laves phase constituted of a composition of Co, Mo and Si.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Naoki SATO, Toshio HAKUTO, Takashi AKAGAWA, Yuji KAWAMATA, Ryoichi SUZUKI, Takashi SAITO, Tadashi OSHIMA, Hajime KATO
  • Patent number: 11842844
    Abstract: In a coil 5 of a multilayer coil component 1, an end portion 6a of a turn 6 closest to a side surface 2e in the facing direction of the side surface 2e and a side surface 2f is connected to a first external electrode 3 and an end portion 11a of a turn 11 closest to the side surface 2f in the facing direction of the pair of side surfaces 2e and 2f is connected to a second external electrode 4. The area at which the turn 6 faces the second external electrode 4 and the area at which the turn 11 faces the first external electrode 3 are smaller than the area at which turns 7, 8, 9, and 10 other than the turn 6 and the turn 11 face the first external electrode 3 or the second external electrode 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichiro Urabe, Hajime Kato, Yuto Shiga, Kazuya Tobita, Youichi Kazuta, Noriaki Hamachi, Toshinori Matsuura, Yuichi Takubo, Asami Takahashi, Munehiro Takaku
  • Patent number: 11830664
    Abstract: A multilayer coil component 1 includes an element body 2, a coil 8, and a terminal electrode 4 and a terminal electrode 5. Each of the terminal electrode 4 and the terminal electrode 5 is disposed over at least the end surfaces 2a and 2b and a main surface 2d. Each of the terminal electrode 4 and the terminal electrode 5 and at least a part of the coil 8 overlap when viewed from the facing direction of the pair of side surfaces 2e and 2f. Each of the terminal electrode 4 and the terminal electrode 5 and the coil 8 do not overlap when viewed from the facing direction of the pair of end surfaces 2a and 2b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Kato, Hidekazu Sato, Makoto Yoshino, Kazuya Tobita, Yuto Shiga, Youichi Kazuta, Noriaki Hamachi